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Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

S6 Ep35: Making Sense of Things

Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

Bob Ruff

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.57.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week Bob compares a home invasion that occurred in Harris County on 2/26/12 to the Melgar home invasion. The two attacks occurred about 10 months apart, and the similarities are shocking.

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0:00.0

Previously on Truth and Justice.

0:04.0

I just don't see this as something that was a last minute murder, intentional murder

0:13.0

of Jim.

0:14.0

I think it was an intentional home invasion burglary that went very much awry because Jim

0:20.8

was not easily controlled.

0:23.0

And that tells me that this was not done by experts, that they may have done this kind

0:27.5

of thing.

0:28.5

This may be a pattern that they do, however, they're not real geniuses at it.

0:33.5

And I would expect that they made other mistakes along the way in other events if they did

0:40.1

more of these kind of home invasion burglaries.

0:58.5

Today is the day where we put analysis and theories to the test.

1:05.6

When I consulted with retired FBI profiler Jim Clemente on this case, his conclusions

1:10.5

were that everything about this crime indicated to him that this was a clear case of a home

1:15.1

invasion as he put it, gone terribly awry.

1:19.4

Now a trial Colleen Barnett made it a point to compare Chelestina Rossi's education

1:23.2

and training to Billy Belks.

1:25.4

Well, if we're comparing resumes, I'd like to see how Miss Rossi stacks up to Clemente's.

1:31.0

Jim first went to law school and became a prosecutor in New York City, where he prosecuted

1:35.5

felony cases for years before deciding to try to tackle the issue of violence from the

1:39.8

front end.

1:41.2

He made a move from the courthouse to the FBI, where he became one of the world's most

1:44.8

accomplished and well-known profilers.

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