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Best Case Worst Case

451| FBI in Guam

Best Case Worst Case

X-G Productions

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.23.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

JIm and Maureen interview Frank "Fish" Ishizaki, a veteran FBI Agent who created the FBI's Evidence Response Team

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to best case, worst case.

0:09.2

This is Jim Clementi, retired FBI profiler, former New York City prosecutor and writer-producer

0:13.4

of criminal minds.

0:14.9

With me today is the lovely...

0:17.1

Maureen O'Connell, 25-year FBI agent, now retired.

0:20.3

I own my own security company, and I was on the FBI's forensics team for almost 20 years.

0:25.9

And with us today is my friend and former head of the ERT team in Los Angeles.

0:33.4

Hi, this is Frankicazaki in Guam.

0:36.2

Not so far away, but at a distance.

0:39.2

That's a pretty good distance. I was in Guam only once in my life because I was testifying in a trial in Camp Italy,

0:49.1

and then I had to go to a conference in the Philippines, they didn't want me instead of flying me one

0:56.9

third of the way around the world to from Italy to the Philippines they flew me from Venice to

1:03.3

Rome to DC to LA to Hawaii to Guam to the, which took me about 40 hours. And I literally, when I landed,

1:15.8

they had forgotten about the international date line that I had to cross. And so they thought

1:23.1

I had another day, but I literally had about a half hour from the time I got out of the airport to the

1:28.7

time I started that conference. It was crazy. Yeah. You know, from Italy, it would have been

1:37.2

quicker if you just flew over Russia, China, you know. Yeah. No, I know. That's what I said. They wouldn't

1:42.0

do it. They wouldn't do it. They made me go two-thirds of the way around the world instead of one-third of the way around the world.

1:49.5

We worked a bombing overseas one time and had to, it's the same thing. We had like a 40-hour day flight and then had to hit the ground running. And on the way back, my back seized up so badly halfway through, but I pushed all the way through.

2:03.6

And then to come back, I said, I'm going first class.

2:07.9

I'm going to upgrade and I'm going to get it paid for.

2:09.6

And everyone's like, there is no way in hell.

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