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Best Case Worst Case

149 | Pursuing A Predator

Best Case Worst Case

X-G Productions

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Big John McCarthy sits his first stake out hunting a serial rapist in Hollywood. Will he catch the slippery criminal?

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0:00.0

You're putting a puzzle together. You're trying to figure things out. This is the same thing. This

0:09.5

seems to be the same type of look. All that is telling you why would he come back there a second time?

0:20.7

Why did you think that this beeping Tom might be related to this serial right?

0:30.9

Hello and welcome to Best Case Worse Case. I'm your host,

0:40.1

Francie Hakes, former state and federal prosecutor. Everyone, Jim is on a special TV assignment.

0:47.6

It's top secret, but we'll be able to tell you about it eventually. Today, though, I'm really

0:52.1

excited. I'm in the studio here in LA and I am joined in person by a very special guest. It's

0:58.9

someone you guys have not heard from before. His name is John McCarthy. John McCarthy. Who are you?

1:06.1

John McCarthy. I'm so-and-so as people know from fighting, but I used to be on LAPD for 23 years

1:12.4

and started in 1985 and had a lot of fun being a police officer. I did a lot of fun stuff and

1:19.2

got to be part of some good times, some bad times, just the way it is. Let me just say this. I'll

1:25.6

post some pictures because you guys have to see Big John McCarthy, especially I'll make sure I have

1:30.9

one with me standing next to him, which is going to make me feel like a tiny human because that's

1:35.6

your nickname, right? Big John McCarthy. At least that's the rumor.

1:39.6

Someone gave it to me long ago. I've heard that. How tall are you?

1:43.3

Now, I'm shorter after three neck surgeries and stuff. I used to be about six, four and a half,

1:48.0

six, five. Now about six, three. With the Afro six, nine, just like that.

1:52.6

Now there you go. I wish I had a good Afro. I know. I do. I can do it. I can do one.

1:57.6

My hair definitely gets big. All right. So you intrigued me though when you said people might

2:03.1

know me from fighting. Is that because you just wander around and fight people? What is that?

2:06.5

I try not to. No. I've been part of mixed martial arts from the inception when it first began here

2:13.1

in the US back in November 12th, 1993. Wow. And so I started with the UFC and was with that for

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