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Best Case Worst Case

11 | The Manhunter behind MANHUNT: Unabomber

Best Case Worst Case

X-G Productions

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.23.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

How the FBI used a serial bomber's words to catch him.

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0:00.0

The first time that the Trade Center was bombed was called Trade Bomb,

0:07.0

TR-A-D-E-P-O-M.

0:10.0

This is the kind of mind that the investigators are going up against in those early days.

0:15.0

You're talking about what might have been the most famous police,

0:19.0

and what might still be the most famous police sketch in U.S. history.

0:30.0

Hello, and welcome to Best Case, Worcestershire.

0:35.0

Is it your host, Jim Climetti, and joining us from Atlanta is my co-host.

0:41.0

Hi, Jim. It's francey Hakes.

0:43.0

How are you?

0:44.0

Good. I'm great. How are you guys?

0:47.0

Great.

0:57.0

We are here with one of our favorite Best Case Worcesters' interviews,

1:04.0

and my longtime friend and colleague and fellow FBI profiler, Jim Fitzgerald.

1:12.0

How you doing, Jim?

1:13.0

Jim, it's great to be here. I'm Francie Initlannan.

1:15.0

Great to say hi to everybody out there again.

1:17.0

Okay, great. And in order to try to minimize the confusion here,

1:22.0

I'm going to call you Fitz today, as we usually do,

1:25.0

because when Jim Fitzgerald and I joined the FBI,

1:29.0

when we were on the New York City NYPD, FBI, joint bank robbery task force,

1:36.0

we were known as the Jims.

1:38.0

So in order to avoid that kind of confusion, I'll be Jim today, and you be Fitz.

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