Director of Operations
Brian Fitzgibbons
Director of Operations | Missing Persons Investigator | U.S. Marine Corps Veteran
Brian Fitzgibbons oversees USPA's security, fire watch and executive protection operations, and leads missing-persons investigations and recovery work for Kingsman, the company's nonprofit. A Marine Corps veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, he directs field teams on cases across the United States and internationally, coordinating with law enforcement on active investigations and recoveries. He is a recurring panelist on Crime Stories with Nancy Grace and Surviving the Survivor.
Missing Persons Investigations and Humanitarian Work
Brian Fitzgibbons leads missing-persons investigations and recovery operations for Kingsman, the nonprofit arm of USPA Nationwide Security. A U.S. Marine Corps veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and a graduate of Bowdoin College, he directs field teams on cases across the United States and internationally. His work focuses on locating missing individuals, supporting families, and coordinating with law enforcement on active investigations and recoveries.
In 2022, Fitzgibbons and his team conducted a successful recovery of a missing woman in Sacramento County, California. That same year he supported Kingsman's efforts in Ukraine in 2022, assisting with rescue operations involving women and children. He also served as operational manager for Project Exodus, coordinating evacuations of U.S. allies from Afghanistan following the 2021 withdrawal. In 2023, his investigation into a missing Massachusetts teenage girl resulted in her safe recovery and subsequent criminal charges against an adult male. In 2024, his team assisted Palm Beach County Sheriff's investigators on a teenage runaway case in Florida, helping locate and safely recover the minor; the effort contributed to an arrest and weapons charges against an adult. Also in 2024, the team worked a multi-state missing-persons investigation that resulted in a federal arrest. In 2025, Fitzgibbons and his team conducted the extraction of a U.S. national from a domestic-violence situation in Türkiye. How the team takes and works cases is described on the missing persons investigators page.
Military and Security Background
He served in the United States Marine Corps, including deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, before moving into private security operations.
At USPA he oversees the company's security, fire-watch, and executive-protection operations, working with teams of former special-operations personnel and law-enforcement professionals and coordinating protective assignments and emergency response across the network.
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Fitzgibbons has appeared as a panelist on Crime Stories with Nancy Grace more than one hundred times since late 2022. His segments have addressed investigative timelines, search logistics, digital and physical evidence considerations, and case developments on high-profile missing-persons matters. These have included the Aeris Hammock recovery, the Sydney West case, the Caitlyn Case investigation, multiple discussions involving Nikki Cheng Saelee McCain, and extensive coverage of the Nancy Guthrie investigation throughout early 2026. He has also appeared on Fox & Friends and PrimeTime Crime. He has also appeared as a panelist on Surviving the Survivor, a nationally leading true crime program, joining case panels including the Lynette Hooker investigation. The appearances have focused on the operational realities of searches, coordination with public agencies, and the role of sustained public attention in difficult cases.
Watch the segments
Television and podcast appearances by Brian Fitzgibbons, covering active cases and field operations.
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Nancy Guthrie case: DNA developments
Watch on YouTubeCrime Stories with Nancy Grace
Missing mom Nikki Cheng Saelee McCain: where is Nikki?
Watch on YouTubeSurviving the Survivor
Missing boater Lynette Hooker's husband arrested
Watch on YouTubeBrian Fitzgibbons on Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Original episodes, third-party reporting and company-distributed releases are labeled for what they are. Company releases are not independent reporting.
Published research
Regulatory volumes from the record
Volume 19 · 2022 New York City Fire Code, effective April 15, 2022 under Local Law 47 of 2022, with FDNY Rules and Title 3 RCNY; FDNY Certificate of Fitness study materials for F-01 (rev. Jan 2026), F-02 (rev. Jul 2026), F-03/F-04 (rev. Jan 2026), F-60 (rev. Jan 2026), S-60 (rev. Mar 2024), F-80 (rev. Jan 2026) and S-98 (rev. Jan 2026); 2022 New York City Construction Codes; OSHA 29 CFR 1910.252 and 1926.352.
New York City FDNY Fire Guard Credentials & Life Safety Compliance Matrix
A working reference to how New York City assigns fire watch work by credential rather than by job title. It sets out the 2022 Fire Code and the FDNY certificate structure, the conditional four-hour owner-designee provision and its 50,000-square-foot boundary, the F-01 area arithmetic and hourly patrol obligation, shelter and shelter-coordination duties, place-of-assembly obligations under an approved plan and TPA permit, torch and construction watches, and the record, notification and restoration evidence that survives a departmental review.
26 pages25 cited sourcesTechnical review edition 1.0 Free field briefRead the volume
Volume 19 · 2026 NFPA 25 (publisher's current edition, with Errata No. 25-26-1 dated October 7, 2025); 2024 International Fire Code Chapter 9 including §901.7; 2025 California Fire Code Chapter 9 as an illustrative state regime; 2024 International Property Maintenance Code Chapter 7; CMS State Operations Manual Appendix A, A-0717 (Rev. 238); OSHA 29 CFR 1910.38, 1910.157, 1910.252, 1915.504 and 1926.150; New York City Fire Code §901.7.
NFPA 25 Impairment Protocols (2026): Fire Watch, the Ten-Hour Framework and System Restoration
A national reference for water-based fire protection impairment that keeps four questions separate: what protection has actually failed, which enforceable regime applies to the building, how long the exposure really runs on a rolling 24-hour ledger, and who is authorised to choose the interim measure. It treats the ten-hour provision as a decision framework rather than an automatic hiring order, covers partial isolation, pumps, standpipes, dry and preaction systems, construction and hot work overlays, and the healthcare rules that remove temporary water from the options.
23 pages22 cited sourcesTechnical review edition 1.0 Free field briefRead the volume
Volume 18 · Clark County Ordinance 5321 adopting the 2024 International Fire Code with Southern Nevada amendments at §901.7 and Appendix Q, effective January 1, 2026; City of Las Vegas Ordinance 6918 adopting the 2024 IFC with City amendments, effective January 5, 2026; Nevada Administrative Code Chapter 477, including NAC 477.281 (statewide 2018 IFC adoption) and NAC 477.626 (certified pyrotechnic operators); Clark County Fire Watch Requirements form rev. 02-21-2024; Las Vegas Fire & Rescue Hot Work and Crowd Manager sheets (2024); OSHA 29 CFR 1910.252, 1926.352; NFPA 1126 and NFPA 51B.
Las Vegas Fire Watch, System Impairment & Hot-Work Regulations
A regulatory reference for the Las Vegas valley that separates the incorporated city from unincorporated Clark County, works through the Appendix Q impairment tables that replaced the supposed four-hour grace period, sets out the published staffing and patrol-time baselines, and covers hot work, pyrotechnics, convention loads and overnight resort outages.
26 pages22 cited sourcesTechnical review edition 1.0 Free field briefRead the volume
Volume 17 · Baltimore City Building, Fire, and Related Codes 2024 Edition, Part VIII International Fire Code, adopting the 2021 IFC with City amendments at §§8-101 and 8-102, including §104.8.2.1–.4 (FLSDE), §104.11 and §901; Baltimore County Fire Prevention Code under Bill 14-21 with the county’s posted 2018 NFPA 1 and NFPA 101 editions; Maryland COMAR 29.06.01 incorporating 2024 NFPA 1 and NFPA 101 with the Baltimore City exception; OSHA 29 CFR 1910.252, 1926.352, 1915.504 and 1915.508; NFPA 51B (2024).
Baltimore Fire Watch, System Impairment & Hot-Work Regulations
The edition separates the two jurisdictions that a Baltimore mailing address hides. City property follows the 2024 City publication adopting the 2021 International Fire Code with amendments; county property follows the county’s NFPA-based Fire Prevention Code; Maryland’s COMAR 29.06.01 applies statewide with an express City exception. It then works through what an out-of-service required system actually requires, why the Fire and Life Safety Design Evaluation is a permit-stage design review rather than an impairment remedy, and how hot work, shipyard welding and record closeout run on separate decision tracks.
33 pages22 cited sourcesTechnical review edition 1.0 Free field briefRead the volume
Volume 16 · 2024 International Fire Code with Phoenix Amendments, adopted by Ordinance G-7464, effective February 17, 2026, including Sections 117, 403.11.1, 901.7, 901.7.4, 901.7.5 and 901.7.6; Arizona Department of Public Safety security licensing; OSHA 29 CFR 1910.252, 1926.352, 1910.157 and 1910.38; referenced NFPA 25 and NFPA 72 as incorporated.
Phoenix Fire Watch & System Impairment Regulations
The edition reads the 2024 Phoenix Fire Code and its amendment packet rather than a national shorthand. It keeps two instruments apart: the Section 901.7 impairment process for a required system taken out of service, and the Section 117 fire watch, with its qualifications, official-set staffing and hours, continuous rounds, log submission and release only on Phoenix Fire Department permission. It also documents what the local text does not say, so a manager can stop citing a four-hour grace period, a per-floor guard ratio or a 30-minute patrol interval as Phoenix law.
28 pages16 cited sourcesApproved edition 1.0 Free field briefRead the volume
Volume 15 · Houston Amendments to the 2021 International Fire Code, adopted by Ordinance No. 2023-907, effective January 1, 2024, including Sections 901.7, 901.12, 115.1-115.2 and Chapter 35; Harris County Fire Code 2021 amendments revised effective October 1, 2025; HFD Life Safety Bureau Standard No. 02, Revision 03, and Standard No. 07, Revision 07, effective January 1, 2024; OSHA 29 CFR 1910.252 and 1926.352; Texas Occupations Code Chapter 1702; referenced NFPA 25 and the 2021 IFC base text as adopted.
Houston Fire Watch & Standby Inspector Regulations
The edition reads Houston's own amendment document rather than a national shorthand. It fixes jurisdiction first: the city adopted a 2021 IFC-based code by Ordinance 2023-907 effective January 1, 2024, unincorporated Harris County enforces its own 2021 code as revised October 1, 2025, and a Houston postal address settles neither. From there it works Section 901.7 as the legal decision point, Section 901.12 and the HFD Office of Emergency Communications line as the notification route for emergency and unscheduled outages, and Section 115 as the separate authority to order standby inspectors rather than a private watch. It then covers planned shutdown engineering, first-hour failure response, alarm and suppression interface diagnosis, route-based patrol design without an invented citywide interval, the high-rise environment under Standard 07, sleeping, healthcare, education and assembly occupancies, construction and alteration hazards, hot work under Chapter 35 and OSHA, Ship Channel and industrial premises, qualification and command relationships, records and chain of custody, restoration and release, enforcement and procurement, a quarterly governance audit, five worked scenarios, twelve corrected misconceptions, nine field forms and every claim resolved to the sixteen-source registry.
30 pages16 cited sourcesApproved edition 1.0 Free field briefRead the volume
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