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Best Case Worst Case

414 | Laken Riley part 3

Best Case Worst Case

X-G Productions

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.23.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Jim and Francey continue the intense conversation regarding Laken Riley.

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0:00.0

I was struck in watching this. I was struck by how calm Jose Abarro looks. He does not look nervous.

0:09.0

He doesn't look any more nervous than Diego looks. And both of them just, I'm not trying to make

0:13.6

a political name, but both of them were illegal. And they were illegally in this country.

0:17.9

But still, Jose Abarro does.

0:23.6

Hello and welcome to best case, worst case. This is Jim Clementi, retired FBI profiler, former New York City prosecutor and

0:27.8

writer-producer of criminal minds and bluebeard on Audible. And with me today is,

0:33.3

Hi, everybody. It's Francie Hakes, former state and federal prosecutor, Jim. We've been discussing the Lake and Riley case. We are right in the middle of analyzing this horrific murder and the trial and the offenders' behavior.

0:46.1

You've given some great insight into what it all means and how we can protect ourselves.

0:52.1

So let's keep talking about this case. Absolutely. Let's dive in.

0:58.1

Yeah, and we don't know whether potentially he approached her from the back. Like you had said,

1:03.2

knocked her down. Her AirPods fell out and she was still able during that struggle to call 911.

1:09.3

I mean, again, we'll never know. But so her friends go

1:12.1

to try to find her. They don't find her. So they go back to their apartment and they call the police.

1:17.3

It's now about noon. The first responding police officer gets a capture of where her phone is located

1:26.3

from their Find My Phone app. And he goes looking for her,

1:31.0

drops a pin and goes looking for her at that location. And his body cam is activated. So this was

1:39.3

played in the courtroom gym. We did not see it for obvious reasons, but we heard it. And so we saw on the video

1:46.2

monitor, we saw the officer watching his own body cam footage on the video monitor. And we hear

1:54.2

him calling out for Lakin. And then after a few minutes, we hear the police officer react. And I want to talk to you

2:03.0

about this, Jim, because I'm sure this has happened to you as a, as an FBI agent. And we hear him go,

2:09.0

shit. Ma'am, ma'am. And immediately he is frantic and running. You can hear him running

2:15.3

because he has now spotted Lakin's body. And just a couple of

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