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Best Case Worst Case

113 | Dead Mountain Mystery

Best Case Worst Case

X-G Productions

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Hikers on Dead Mountain are found dead, with violent injuries all over their bodies. What happened? Murder? A dogged documentarian and New York Times bestselling author trekked all the way to Siberia for answers.


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0:00.0

In his final conclusion that what caused the death of the Diablo Pikers was an unknown compelling force.

0:15.2

Yeah, this sounds like a set up of like a murder mystery movie, doesn't it?

0:21.5

His description is just sinister.

0:30.9

Hello and welcome to the best case worse case. This is Jim Clementi, retired FBI profiler

0:41.5

former New York City prosecutor and writer producer on CBS's Criminal Minds. And with me today,

0:46.6

electronicly is. Hi everybody, it's francey haigs, former state and federal prosecutor.

0:52.0

And Jim, our listeners may notice we are once again on different coasts. And so we were talking

0:58.0

to each other over that thing I'm informed is called the interwebs. Yes, the interwebs.

1:03.2

That's a very complicated thing. But it's great to have you electronically with me today,

1:09.3

francey. And are we both excited today? Oh yes. Yes, we are. And we are our listeners,

1:16.7

you should know, because we have a really special guest, a very close friend and colleague.

1:22.0

We've worked with him before on very important shows. And he's done some amazing work

1:27.8

in the real world and on different forms of media. And that person is Donnie Eiker. Hey Donnie,

1:37.2

how you doing? I'm good. I'm good. How are you guys? Good. And can you tell our listeners, Donnie,

1:43.2

what you do for a living? Sure. I am mainly a documentarian. And I've got quite a lot of

1:51.1

experience in true crime, as well as I wrote a book called Dead Mountain, the unfold true story

1:59.8

of the deat love past incident. It's a nonfiction book. Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a

2:05.4

minute. I think this is a first. This is our first documentarian. And maybe even our first other

2:12.4

than you author. Yeah, well, maybe. But let's put it this way. Donnie is a lot easier to look at.

2:20.3

I'm sorry. I have to say it. Well, Donnie is a wonderful guy and we're so happy to have him here.

2:28.2

And we both worked with Donnie on a great show that we did together called The Case of. And

2:36.7

we were fortunate enough to have Donnie and his very calm and very thoughtful personality.

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