Career
Voss has worked approximately 150 kidnappings worldwide, from the Middle East to Haiti, as well as the Philippines. Voss has been trained by the FBI, Scotland Yard (the London Metropolitan Police) and Harvard.
Voss was a guest speaker at the University of Virginia’s Critical Incident Analysis Group in the Spring 2005 conference which was entitled “Hostage to Terrorism: Governmental and Non-Governmental Response Strategies” and the Terrorism and Emergency Management Conference held at John Jay College in New York City in 2002.
Among the US sieges that Voss was involved in as a negotiator were the DC Sniper, The Washington, DC “Tractor Man” incident in 2003 and the Chase Manhattan Bank Robbery Hostage Taking in Brooklyn, New York in 1993, along with dozens of other smaller incidents nationwide from 2000 – 2007, while assigned to the FBI Crisis Negotiation Unit.
Prior to becoming the FBI lead international kidnapping negotiator, Voss was a member of the New York City Joint Terrorist Task Force for 14 years (1986—2000) and was co-case agent for TERRSTOP (the Blind Sheik Case – Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman) and the TWA Flight 800 Catastrophe. While in New York City, Voss was the lead Crisis Negotiator for the New York City Division of the FBI.
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