449| The Great Gagliano 1

Best Case Worst Case

X-G Productions

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.2 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Jim & Maureen Interview Retired FBI Agent James Gagliano about his illustrious career with the FBI and one case in particular that has stuck with him all these years

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to best case, worst case. This is Jim Clementi, retired FBI profiler, former
0:11.5	New York City prosecutor and writer-producer of criminal minds and blue beard on Audible. And with me today is
0:16.8	Maureen O'Connell, retired FBI agent and ERT team member for 20 years.
0:23.6	And today we have a very special guest, hailing from New York City.
0:29.6	And that is?
0:30.6	Just north of New York City, but yes, Jimmy Galliano, retired FBI agent, 25-year veteran. Yeah, you may be outside of New York City right now, but you can't take New York City out of you. I know that.
0:44.5	It's hard. I claim Atlanta, Georgia is home, but I spent most of my life in New York, and the southern accent has long been gone.
0:52.1	Long gone. Yeah, I definitely new york out of that accent so
0:55.6	jimmy thank you for coming on uh moreen and i are so excited to have you on we are you're our first
1:02.4	interview of law enforcement officer in our new iteration of best case worst case so thank you so you so much for coming on. So we chose the legend, Jimmy. Well, I appreciate it. But he couldn't come, so, you know. We both did 25 years and we both retired the same year. Oh, really? Pretty parallel situation, yeah. Wow, that's great. You have a much better resume than i do i'm uh i'm appreciative
1:30.2	to join you guys it uh it definitely feels comfortable when you're you know we all do enough of
1:35.5	these podcast requests and things like that but when you know the people and you respect to people
1:40.1	you feel a better level of a sense of trust and right makes it makes it better well we feel the same way
1:46.5	so today we want to talk to you about a case that stuck with you over this of the course of your
1:54.4	career let's start with tell us a quick thumbnail of your career. Sure.
2:01.0	Well, you know, I come from a military family.
2:05.0	So my family dates all the way back to the Civil War.
2:07.5	That's the lineage.
2:08.6	And I think World War I is the only, the only war conflict that my family hasn't had
2:13.7	representation with on one side or the other.
2:16.4	So I followed my father to West Point
2:20.1	because he was my and still is to this day my only hero. I spent four years in the Army as a,
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