472| The Hit
Best Case Worst Case
X-G Productions
4.1 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Jim and Maureen interview Merle Temple about the case in which he was set up to be killed by two hitmen.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to best case, worst case. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm your host, Maureen O'Connell, 25-year veteran with the FBI. |
| 0:13.6 | And with me today is... |
| 0:15.2 | To Clement, you retired, FBI profile, a former New York City prosecutor, writer, producer, |
| 0:18.7 | criminal minds, and Bluebeard on Audible. |
| 0:20.7 | And we have back one of my best friends and amazing author, and that is... |
| 0:27.6 | I'm Merle Temple, a friend of Jim Clemente in Tupelo, Mississippi, former state narcotics captain, wear of many hats, and now an author in my old age. |
| 0:41.5 | Well, it's great to have you back, Merle. |
| 0:43.5 | Great to see you again, Merle. |
| 0:45.0 | Yeah, last week we talked about, you know, all the prolific amount of writing that you've done. |
| 0:51.0 | I mean, what are we up to eight books now? |
| 0:54.2 | This is crazy. |
| 0:55.4 | But they're all amazing, and everybody should go back and listen to that episode and get the titles. |
| 1:00.7 | But the latest one is Crossroads and Dry Bones. |
| 1:05.3 | And the previous one to that in that series, which you should read first, is 16 coal black horses. |
| 1:12.6 | Amazing titles and amazing writing. |
| 1:16.8 | Compelling titles for sure. |
| 1:18.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.0 | So, Merle, today we'd like you to tell us a little bit about, you know, one of your incredibly |
| 1:24.8 | gritty, risky, insane cases that you worked when you were in the Georgia, |
| 1:33.2 | was it Georgia Bureau of Narcotics or Mississippi? |
| 1:36.3 | Sorry, Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics. |
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