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Best Case Worst Case

201 | Case No 84-17505

Best Case Worst Case

X-G Productions

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

A brutal cold case compels a Pennsylvania detective to pursue a little girl’s killer for decades.

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0:00.0

The circumstances where the child was last seen and the circumstances that the child was living in at the time, those things are critical to actually solving these cases.

0:16.0

Is there any other forensics or anything else that during that six years that you feel like you're able to do to progress the case at all?

0:24.0

So how many other cases do we have? Because I was really intrigued. Like I wanted to work them, I wanted to solve them.

0:37.0

Hello and welcome to the best case worst case. This is Jim Clemente, retired FBI profiler former NX, a prosecutor, writer, producer on CBS's criminal minds. And with me today is...

0:45.0

Hi everybody, it's Francie Hakes, former state and federal prosecutor. And also I have a different title than Jim. They call me producer extraordinaire at XG Productions. It's a title Jim wishes he had, but he doesn't have it.

0:58.0

How much do you pay the people that say this? Is it the person who cleans up after the office hours?

1:04.0

It's all about the baked goods. I make the baked goods and I get the cool titles. But what I'm really excited about is today we have a brand spanking new guest, someone who is new to the best case worst case family. And he is...

1:21.0

Hi, my name is Chris McMullen. I'm a detective in Ben Salem, Pennsylvania.

1:25.0

Jim, a real detective like an actual real detective right here on best case worst case.

1:30.0

There you go.

1:31.0

Current detective, this is exciting.

1:32.0

I'm sure it is for you, Francie.

1:34.0

Well, I was just thinking because I feel certain that Chris is going to uncover some wrongdoing that you've engaged in during the course of recording these podcasts and I'll be vindicated. That's what I'm hoping.

1:47.0

Well, okay. Well, you latch on to that hope, Francie.

1:51.0

I, instead, we'll talk to Chris McMullen. How are you doing, Chris? Thank you for coming on best case worst case.

1:56.0

I'm good. Thanks for having me.

1:58.0

So Ben Salem, Pennsylvania, where have we heard that before, Francie?

2:02.0

We haven't heard it before. Let's let Chris tell us.

2:05.0

Okay. Why don't you tell us, Chris? Who else we know from Ben Salem, Pennsylvania?

2:10.0

Would that be Jim Fitzgerald?

2:13.0

Jim Fitz Fitzgerald, our old friend.

2:16.0

Yes. Don't call him old, Francie. That's mean.

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