120 | Hunted
Best Case Worst Case
X-G Productions
4.1 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
A woman sought help from law enforcement and tried to separate herself from an abusive ex-boyfriend, but her actions only enraged him, leading to a murderous encounter at a local laundromat.
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| 0:00.0 | So now he's hunting her. |
| 0:07.0 | There are about 12 people as far as we know in the laundromat at the time of the homicide. |
| 0:16.0 | But what you're bringing up is what we call Vicarious or Secondary Drama. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello and welcome to Best Case Worst Case. |
| 0:39.0 | This is Jim Clemente Retired FBI Profiler, former New York City prosecutor and writer producer on CBS's Criminal Minds. |
| 0:46.0 | With me today is... |
| 0:48.0 | Hi everybody, it's Francie Hakes, former state and federal prosecutor Jim. |
| 0:53.0 | This is exciting, it's only the third time we have ever taken Best Case Worst Case live on the road. |
| 1:00.0 | That's right. And we have a very special guest with us today. |
| 1:05.0 | Hi, I am Rebecca Malachar. I am a former Chiahoca County prosecutor and currently a professor of Criminal Justice at Chiahoca Community College. |
| 1:14.0 | See she can say Chiahoca Jim. |
| 1:16.0 | She's really good at it. All I'm going to say is we are at Tri-C and we are in Cleveland, Ohio. |
| 1:22.0 | With an amazing live audience. Thank you for being here. |
| 1:26.0 | Thank you so much. We're really excited to talk to you today Rebecca about your career and maybe some important case that you might want to tell us about. |
| 1:38.0 | So why don't you just give us first, give us a little bit of your background. You said you were a former state prosecutor. |
| 1:44.0 | Yes, well I began actually as an elementary school teacher. I taught sixth grade for a year, spent 12 years with the Chiahoca County Prosecutors Office. |
| 1:54.0 | My last four years were in the major trial division which is rape and homicide. And in 2003 I came to Tri-C full-time to teach criminal justice. |
| 2:04.0 | Well that's fantastic. So Rebecca and I have something in common. She doesn't know this, but I went to law school right here in Ohio at Ohio Northern University. |
| 2:13.0 | And I did an externship in one of the local prosecutors offices in Lima, Ohio. Jim would probably pronounce it Lima, but we know it's Lima, Ohio. |
| 2:23.0 | And so my very first experience in any courtroom ever was as an externship right here in Ohio. So I have Ohio roots. |
| 2:32.0 | That's wonderful. Do we have that in common? So how long were you a prosecutor there? I was a prosecutor for almost 12 years. |
| 2:39.0 | And a lot of those obviously were major felonies. Yes they were. It was all felony and the last four were homicide and rape. |
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