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Best Case Worst Case

187 | Points Of Ellipses

Best Case Worst Case

X-G Productions

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Dive into the secrets of forensic linguistic profiling with Jim Fitzgerald of the infamous Unabomber case as he comes out of retirement to help ID a stalker half a world away.

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0:00.0

You look for commonalities in the style, in the orthography that's

0:08.6

spelling in the various lexicon, and you put all these features together, and you look

0:13.2

for consistent idiosyncratic features in spoken or written language.

0:18.1

When I testify as an expert witness, I told the prosecutors, stop, don't tell me about

0:23.9

the case.

0:24.9

I would like to not know anything about that.

0:27.9

You write a report and you tell the police, this is the guy.

0:32.0

What happens?

0:34.0

Hello, and welcome to the best case worst case.

0:38.7

This is Jim Clemente, retired FBI profiler, former New York City prosecutor, and creator

0:43.5

of manhunt unibomber.

0:45.5

And with me today is...

0:46.6

Hi, everybody.

0:47.6

It's francey, hake's former state and federal prosecutor, creator of well stuff, but not

0:54.2

manhunt unibomber I'm sad to say.

0:57.5

And with us today we have a very special manhunt unibomber guest.

1:01.8

Not Sam Worthington, who portrayed me in manhunt unibomber.

1:05.0

This is the actual James R Fitzgerald, Jim Fitz for sure.

1:10.7

Here, glad again to be with you.

1:12.7

Way better.

1:13.7

That's way better than an actor.

1:15.4

Jim, we have a celebrity, he's not an actor, he's a real life guy who did real life cool

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