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Best Case Worst Case

447|Trauma Bonding

Best Case Worst Case

X-G Productions

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.23.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Jim and Maureen continue discussions about the traumatic effects of being a cop, firefighter, EMT, Military, or other first responder

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to best case, worst case.

0:08.8

My name is Maureen O'Connell.

0:10.3

I'm a 25-year veteran of the FBI, retired now, and I was also a 20-year member of the

0:15.5

evidence response team.

0:17.3

And with me today is...

0:18.8

Hi, it's Jim Clementi, retired FBI profiler, former New York City prosecutor,

0:22.5

Red, reducer of criminal minds, and Bluebeard on Audible.

0:26.5

And it's great to see again, Maureen.

0:29.1

You too, buddy.

0:30.1

Yeah, and we've been talking about the traumatic effects of being in law enforcement

0:36.8

and being a first responder. And I think we need to get

0:42.8

a little bit more into your family and the things that you've experienced not only in your

0:48.9

own career, but with your father and your sisters and all your family members because everybody

0:58.6

everybody in your family seems to be related to law enforcement or fire or EMT work so um why

1:08.6

you tell us a little bit about i know you've already mentioned growing up, you know,

1:13.4

your father was a fireman and the traumatic effects of that.

1:18.8

But what about your siblings?

1:21.5

My brother Jim was a deputy chief with the Chicago Fire Department over the EMS.

1:31.1

And my sister, Eileen, was a 28-year, I believe, paramedic with the city of Chicago.

1:39.5

And my brother, Michael, is a current firefighter, EMT.

1:49.2

And my husband and son are both, my husband's a retired law enforcement, and my son is currently in law enforcement. I have cousins that are firefighters,

1:56.0

uncles, police officers. My sister was Sue was a police officer. God rest her soul. And my grandfather,

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