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Best Case Worst Case

144 | A Reckoning Part 2

Best Case Worst Case

X-G Productions

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Part 2 where Jim takes us back to his early days as a prosecutor and his first, and most personal, undercover assignment ever

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The father of one of his victims stuck a gun in a Harris face and said, if you're not

0:14.1

disappeared in 72 hours, nobody will ever find the body.

0:20.2

They're always trying to make sure that their victims feel that sense of shame as if they

0:25.3

brought it on themselves as if they participated in it.

0:37.0

Hello and welcome to Best Case Worc case.

0:39.0

This is Jim Clemente Retired FBI profiler former New York City prosecutor and writer

0:42.8

producer on CBS's Criminal Mides.

0:45.0

With me today is...

0:46.0

Hi everybody, it's franceyhakes, former state and federal prosecutor and Jim's co-host,

0:51.4

Jim, we're remote again.

0:53.8

I just want to jump in because we were really, really in the middle of an incredible tale

1:01.1

of your bravery, a New York post story about you and I just want to jump right back in

1:07.0

for our listeners so that they can hear what you did, how you did it and what you're doing

1:12.1

today to continue to fight for yourself and for victims.

1:15.9

So just as a quick recap, we were back in Jim's past as a New York City prosecutor when

1:21.7

his brother Peter called him after seeing a movie and telling Jim that they should go

1:26.4

after a camp director at a camp they both attended when they were boys and Jim revealed

1:32.8

that that camp director had sexually victimized Jim and then 10 years later we fast forward

1:39.4

and Jim gets this call from Peter and he talks to the FBI and they ask him to wear a wire.

1:47.2

So Jim, wearing a wire, you're not a trained law enforcement officer.

1:51.5

What did you think when the FBI asked you to wear a wire?

1:54.1

Well, the first time they asked me, I said, hell no, I just won't sit down and talk to

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