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Best Case Worst Case

150 | Worst Case Scenario: Mexico Massacre

Best Case Worst Case

X-G Productions

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

A Mormon family is massacred just south of the US border.  What can the FBI and the US Government do to investigate and prosecute the killers?

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0:00.0

There are electronic surveillance techniques available to overhear things that are happening

0:11.6

there and see what communications were made just preceding the attack.

0:17.8

The FBI can go out and investigate crimes against American citizens wherever they happen.

0:28.9

Hello and welcome to Best Case Worc case. This is Jim Clementi, Retired FBI profiler

0:41.2

former in the Ex City prosecutor and writer-producer of CBS's Criminal Minds. And with me today is...

0:47.6

Hi everybody, it's franceyhakes, former state and federal prosecutor Jim, sadly. We are remote once

0:54.1

again. Yes, but I am sitting high atop New York City's Times Square, taking in the lights

1:02.4

and the sights and the sounds of the city. And you are at XG studios, right? I am. I'm at XG studios

1:09.2

and I have to say some of our listeners, or maybe just one, has written in and said,

1:14.2

francey please tell Jim we miss him. Well at least one person cares about me, francey.

1:21.1

I'm going to stick to the story Jim that it was only one. Okay well we're here unfortunately to

1:28.3

talk about a worst case scenario. So I wanted to tell our listeners what we're going to be speaking

1:33.3

about today. Yeah Jim unfortunately this is one of those cases that when it happens you and I both

1:39.7

just feel compelled to talk about it and what I want to do is break it down from a law enforcement

1:44.8

perspective to the extent that we can. And that is this terrible story of a large extended

1:51.1

Mormon family down in Mexico who were, I mean there's really not another word for it but mass

1:56.9

occurred earlier this week in Mexico. Jim the facts are just so awful you had three SUVs full of

2:05.4

an extended family, several mothers and a bunch of children and they were on their way apparently

2:11.7

to a wedding. Now they and their community of Mormons have lived south of the US border in

2:17.6

Mexico not very far just 70 or 80 miles south of the US border for gosh I think it's a hundred years

2:24.6

now or so and they're dual citizens so they are Americans and they're down there in this situation

2:30.2

where there's a lot of cartel activity and drug activity and some of those Mormon family members

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