And I remember thinking, this is horrible. They have murdered an unarmed man.

Absolutely, and that's what I thought until I learned the fact. So he was reaching into

Pilates Greenco. The detective misinterpreted that as a threat and stepped away from the

scare of me towards the street.

Hello, welcome to Best Case Worst Case. I'm Jim Clementi, former New York City

prosecutor, retired FBI profiler, and writer producer for CBS's Criminal Minds. And my

co-host. Hi, I'm Francie Hakes. I'm a former state and federal prosecutor, specializing

in crimes against children. And Francie and I are going to be talking about our best cases

and our worst cases. We're going to cover a bunch of cases over the course of our careers

that have been very difficult, extremely hard to work, and the ramifications are still

felt today. No, it's crime. It is crime. It's, unfortunately, it's rape, it's murder,

it's child abduction, it's child sexual victimization. None of them are actually good cases.

But out of the cases that we've had, certain of them, we would categorize as our best

cases. And certain of them are worst. Agreed. We have lots of both, fortunately, I guess,

but most of what we dealt with or all of what we dealt with was very difficult to deal

with. So it's a matter of finding that silver lining or the pearl at the end of the road

of justice, which is what we tried to do. So Jim, you have a lot of titles, a lot of

formers. Why don't you talk a little bit about the course of your career, and then we'll

talk about your worst case. Well, when I was a kid, I definitely was drawn to detective

novels. I mean, anything from Sherlock Holmes to the Hardy Boy mysteries. I love those

things. I love solving little mysteries in my own life. So maybe I was destined to become

a detective. Although I knew I was going to go to college, I ended up majoring in chemistry

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