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Dragnet: The Big September Man (EP4859) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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Speaker 1: But now, from September twenty seventh, nineteen fifty one, here
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Speaker 1: is the Big September Man.
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Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true. The
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Speaker 2: names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a
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Speaker 2: detective sergeant. You're assigned a homicide detail. An attractive blonde
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Speaker 2: secretary is found beaten to death in a downtown office building.
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Speaker 2: You have only one lead to start with a length
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Speaker 2: of steel pipe wrapped in heavy paper. There's no trace
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Speaker 2: of the killer. Your job get him.
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Speaker 3: Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
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Speaker 3: from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnet is
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Speaker 3: the story of your police force in action.
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Speaker 4: It was Wednesday, September twenty eighth, was hot in Los Angeles.
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Speaker 4: We're working the night watch out of homicide detail. My
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Speaker 4: partner's Ben Romero. The boss's Thad Brown, Chief of Detective's
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Speaker 4: my names. I was on the way back from the
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Speaker 4: crime lab and it was eleven forty eight pm when
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Speaker 4: I got to Room forty two Homicide Romeo, Ben, Hey,
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Speaker 4: Rameol not here you ridy? Oh yeah, lope, how are you?
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Speaker 4: You've seen Ramero around the last half hour, supposed to
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Speaker 4: meet him here.
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Speaker 5: He's coming gone still around the building though. Got a call.
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Speaker 4: What was it about? You know?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I was on that killing the night call came
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Speaker 6: for one of the cruiser cars checking the neighborhood down
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Speaker 6: where it happened, ye know, they find something picked up
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Speaker 6: a guy about three blocks in the murder scene, acting suspicious.
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Speaker 5: Men in the cruiser car. Figured maybe you'd want to
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Speaker 5: talk to him.
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Speaker 4: They're bringing the man in now.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, even know. We're checking with the crime lab.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, not much murder weapons. About all we got so far.
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Speaker 4: It's a piece of pipe with heavy manilla paper wrapped
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Speaker 4: aro on it.
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Speaker 5: Lighting prints do any good?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they lifted a lot of fingerprints. They all belonged
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Speaker 4: to the victim. None of them are four him.
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Speaker 5: Hey you got a tooth pick Joe and corner and
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Speaker 5: the coventer.
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Speaker 4: No, I haven't want you to try the chop draw
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Speaker 4: over there in Mike Pena's desk he usually has.
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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, thanks. I understand. It wasn't much to look
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Speaker 5: at the killing.
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Speaker 4: I mean it was a pretty vicious thing. The girl
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Speaker 4: took a terrible beating.
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Speaker 5: Oh who found the body?
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Speaker 4: One of the scrub women in the building was an
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Speaker 4: office up on the ninth floora import export company. Victim
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Speaker 4: was a secretary there. She's a pretty girl.
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Speaker 5: M hm. She did long.
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Speaker 4: Must have happened around seven o'clock tonight. That's my figure.
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Speaker 4: It's just a gas.
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Speaker 5: What's the girl's name been identified yet?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Adele Prior. Her boss is out of town. She
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Speaker 4: was working in the office alone. Was no one suspicious
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Speaker 4: scene entering or leaving the office around the time of
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Speaker 4: the murder. There's no one we know of anyway.
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Speaker 6: You know, it's gonna take a lot of checking. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: any idea what the motive could have been.
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Speaker 4: Well, it wasn't robbery. They didn't keep any cash in
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Speaker 4: the office as far as we know. The girl wasn't
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Speaker 4: carrying much money. We'll start making the rounds of the
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Speaker 4: morning checking with her friends, see what we can pick up.
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Speaker 4: Joe Friday, Yeah, right here, back here, Ben.
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Speaker 7: Oh, oh, hi, Joe lovely.
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Speaker 5: Hi. They bring the guy in Ben, mm hmm.
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Speaker 7: I hope you briefly about it.
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Speaker 4: Jo. Yeah, a cruiser car picked up a suspicious looking
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Speaker 4: guy near the murder scene. That about size of it.
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Speaker 7: That they found the man beating his head against a
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Speaker 7: brick wall in the back alley about two blocks from
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Speaker 7: the office building where we found a body. Guy had
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Speaker 7: been drinking heavily and when they picked him up, he's
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Speaker 7: pretty far gone. Kept mumbling something about how he didn't
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Speaker 7: deserve to live. He was a murderer killer not too cohering.
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Speaker 5: They asked him about the dead girl, dope briar.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, but the stuff he said didn't make much sense.
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Speaker 7: He sobered up a little since he picked him up.
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Speaker 7: We might as well see what we can get out
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Speaker 7: him before we booke him in.
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Speaker 3: Huh.
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Speaker 7: Got him in the interrogation room.
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Speaker 4: Now, okay, you got to try anything. Any calls come in.
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Speaker 4: You know where to find a slope, Yeah, sure, right,
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Speaker 4: thanks a lot.
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Speaker 7: Did you check with the crime lab, Joe?
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: About all we're sure of is the murder weapon. No prints,
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Speaker 4: no other physical evidence.
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Speaker 7: Maybe it won't matter. Got half an idea we might
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Speaker 7: have the killer now. The guy they picked up, how
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Speaker 7: they figured it just too hunch. I don't think he's
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Speaker 7: a drunk as he pretends.
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Speaker 4: We're gonna have to place him a lot closer to
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Speaker 4: the murder scene than two blocks away. You can't prove
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Speaker 4: a thing the way it stands.
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Speaker 7: I was downstairs when they brought the man in and
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Speaker 7: talked to him while they would bringing up the interrogation room. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: told me he noticed the dead girl all right, said
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Speaker 7: he was with her and before she died.
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Speaker 4: Shortly before eight o'clock that night, a scrub woman in
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Speaker 4: a downtown office building near the intersection of eighth and
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Speaker 4: South Grand Avenue entered an office on the ninth floor
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Speaker 4: of the building to do her usual cleaning chores. Lying
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Speaker 4: face down behind a desk in the small office, she
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Speaker 4: found the body of twenty eight year old secretary Adele Pryor,
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Speaker 4: beaten to death. When we arrived at the scene, routine
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Speaker 4: investigation began, but almost immediately we found ourselves down a
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Speaker 4: blind alley. Repeated questioning of all persons in or about
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Speaker 4: the office building failed to turn up anything in the
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Speaker 4: way of Leeds thorough investigation of the murder scene, but
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Speaker 4: the crime lab crew met with the same kind of luck.
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Speaker 4: They knew they had the murder weapon. That was all.
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Speaker 4: The deputy corner arrived and removed the body to the
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Speaker 4: morgue for posting. At ten o'clock that night, three hours
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Speaker 4: after the approximate time of the prior girl's death, officers
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Speaker 4: in a cruiser car patrolling the area found a drunken
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Speaker 4: man butting his head against a cement wall and uttering
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Speaker 4: incoherently about a murder. He was picked up and taken
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Speaker 4: immediately to the interrogation room, where Ben and I questioned him.
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Speaker 4: We'd talked to him a full hour before he began
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Speaker 4: to make sense. He gave his name as Robert French,
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Speaker 4: aged thirty four, an unemployed electrical engineer. While we questioned him,
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Speaker 4: two men from homicide were sent to check the hotel
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Speaker 4: room where French told us he was staying.
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Speaker 9: I don't know. I guess I had three four drinks
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Speaker 9: at Dusty's place, and I went down the street to
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Speaker 9: the Blue Canario had some more drinks there. I don't
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Speaker 9: remember what happened after that. I wasn't feeling so good.
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Speaker 7: You say you were drinking at Dusty's place around seven pms? Then, right,
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Speaker 7: Frank suppose so? I wasn't watching the clock. I guess
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Speaker 7: it was around seven.
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Speaker 4: Well, did you talk to anybody while you're in the bar?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 9: Just a bartender. His name is Sarge. I don't know
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Speaker 9: his last name. He'll tell you I was there.
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Speaker 4: What time was it when you got to Dusty's place, French?
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Speaker 9: I couldn't tell you for sure, about six thirty. Maybe
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Speaker 9: Sarge could probably tell you.
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Speaker 7: The bartender when you were coming up in the elevator,
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Speaker 7: you told us you knew a Dell prize.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I knew her used to work for a husband
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Speaker 9: or ex husband, I mean, had been divorced seven eight
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Speaker 9: years now.
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Speaker 7: You said you saw Adele Pryor in her office late
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Speaker 7: this afternoon, French. What was the reason for the visit?
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Speaker 9: I bought a couple of dollars from her. She was
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Speaker 9: always pretty good that way, nice kid. Don't know why
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Speaker 9: anybody'd want to kill her like that?
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Speaker 4: Well, how about the show that you were putting on
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Speaker 4: out on the street tonight, French? Beating your head against
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Speaker 4: that wall? What was that all about?
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Speaker 9: Drunk? Really drunk, felt so low I wanted to kill myself,
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Speaker 9: just lay down.
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Speaker 4: And die from How's that you remorseful? Felt sorry for
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Speaker 4: something you'd done.
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Speaker 9: I don't know. I don't think of any special reason
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Speaker 9: for it. When I get that way, I just keep
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Speaker 9: thinking I want to die. I haven't got the nerve
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Speaker 9: for it, though, I know that, Like my old man
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Speaker 9: always used to tell me, I haven't got the nerve
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Speaker 9: to do anything right. Just wasn't born that way. I
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Speaker 9: guess that's it. Do you use narcotics, French? No, I
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Speaker 9: haven't even got the nerve for that booze. That's all.
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Speaker 9: It's good enough for me, see you think we could
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Speaker 9: go out for coffee. Maybe I could use it.
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Speaker 4: We'll have something brought up. Huh, Ben, you mind going
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Speaker 4: down the hall check with Littlepie, ask him to ask
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Speaker 4: a coffee brought up? Huh yeah? Okay, and see if
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Speaker 4: those two men are checked back in here?
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Speaker 9: Would you right? Appreciated? Sergeant? Sure can be mean when
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Speaker 9: all this boozewears off.
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Speaker 4: I'd like to ask you a little more about the
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Speaker 4: prior girl friends. Just how well did you know her?
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Speaker 9: Not too well, I guess I used to see her
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Speaker 9: maybe once a month up there at their office. Yes, right,
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Speaker 9: she was a nice girl. Whenever I was broke, I
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Speaker 9: could always depend on her for a couple of bucks.
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Speaker 5: I liked it.
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Speaker 9: Was a nice person.
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Speaker 4: Did you ever go out with her?
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Speaker 8: Oh?
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Speaker 9: No, I never did, no romance stuff. I didn't like
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Speaker 9: her that way. She was just a good person. We
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Speaker 9: got along, okay. No cigarette, No, it's not things. It's
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Speaker 9: full of cotton already.
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Speaker 4: How about this business of Adele prior lending you money?
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Speaker 4: She think quite a bit of you, boy.
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Speaker 9: I did her a couple of favors once when I
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Speaker 9: was working for her husband she was still married to him.
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Speaker 9: She was going out with the guy she liked on
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Speaker 9: the side. She was out with this guy once and
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Speaker 9: I saw him together. She asked me not to say anything,
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Speaker 9: so I didn't. Before she got a divorce, I used
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Speaker 9: to cover up for her all the time. She never
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Speaker 9: forgot it.
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Speaker 7: I guess how.
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Speaker 4: About when you saw her in her office tonight franchise?
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Speaker 4: She see him all right to you?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, same as ever. Asked her if she could lend
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Speaker 9: me a five, and she did.
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Speaker 4: I left.
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Speaker 9: It was about a quarter after six.
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Speaker 4: I guess anyone else in the office when you left.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, it was a guy waiting in the little reception
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Speaker 9: room there. Didn't know who he was.
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Speaker 4: Do you remember what he looked like?
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Speaker 9: Tall fella about my size, my age.
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Speaker 7: Joe, Can I see you man?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Dorothy and Brian have checked in and just got back
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Speaker 7: from going over French's hotel room. They find anything white shirt,
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Speaker 7: a pair of bronze shoes, pair of dark trousers.
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Speaker 4: What about them?
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Speaker 7: Bloodstains on all of them.
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Speaker 4: The stained pieces of clothing found in the suspect's hotel
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Speaker 4: room were delivered to Lieutenant Lee Jones at the crime
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Speaker 4: lab for detailed examination. Coffee was brought in and Ben
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Speaker 4: and I continued to question French until about four am.
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Speaker 4: He denied any knowledge or complicity in the killing of
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Speaker 4: twenty eight year old Adele Prior. He told us the
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Speaker 4: bloodstained clothing in his hotel room was the result of
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Speaker 4: an accident he'd been in two weeks before when he'd
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Speaker 4: been drinking heavily. He was checked through R and I
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Speaker 4: while we talked to him, but he had no previous
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Speaker 4: criminal record. French kept insisting that we check on the tall,
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Speaker 4: dark haired man who had been waiting in the reception
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Speaker 4: room of the prior girl's office the night before. When
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Speaker 4: French left her, We gave the description of the suspect
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Speaker 4: along with them to the Stat's office, requesting them to
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Speaker 4: furnish us with any information regarding any assaults or any
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Speaker 4: solved or unsolved murder. At four point fifteen am, we
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Speaker 4: booked in Robert French at the main jail and suspicion
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Speaker 4: of one eighty seven PC murder. The next morning, at
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Speaker 4: ten am, the legwork began. Lopez and Dougherty from Homicide
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Speaker 4: started checking on the background an alibi of the suspect,
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Speaker 4: Robert French. He didn't hold much water. None of the
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Speaker 4: people at either of the bars where French said he'd
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Speaker 4: been drinking at the time of the murder, could definitely
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Speaker 4: vouch for his presence. But they all volunteered the information
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Speaker 4: that no matter how much he drank, French was never
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Speaker 4: violent toward other people, only himself. Lopez and Doherty continued
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Speaker 4: investigating the suspect while Ben and I checked on the
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Speaker 4: background of the victim of del Pryor. At eight twenty
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Speaker 4: five pm, we got back to the office.
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Speaker 7: Hi, been waiting for you too. I'm hoping you and
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Speaker 7: Doherty do any good.
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Speaker 5: Nothing to celebrate over long day, tired feet.
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Speaker 4: What'd you find out, LOPI, anything new at all?
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Speaker 5: Oh?
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Speaker 6: Maybe French as are a man, can't prove it, but
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Speaker 6: me every place we checked, everybody we talked to the
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Speaker 6: same answer. Yeah, he's a smart guy with a good education.
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Speaker 6: He's on the bottle and he's out of work. Everybody
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Speaker 6: seems to like him. He gets drunk, but he never
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Speaker 6: bothers anybody. That's about the worst anybody can say about him.
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Speaker 5: Drinks too much?
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Speaker 4: Well, how about his being friends with the dead girl?
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Speaker 4: Did think of anything there?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it only proves he was telling you the truth.
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Speaker 6: Though, as far as we could find out, there was
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Speaker 6: nothing going between the two of them. Everything that God
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Speaker 6: only verifies what he told you. He had no interest
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Speaker 6: in the girl except the bar offer.
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Speaker 4: When he was broke. You got in touch with the
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Speaker 4: girl's ex husband, did you?
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Speaker 10: Yeah, he couldn't add anything.
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Speaker 5: All clear there? Hey, uh by the way here, Lee
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Speaker 5: Jones called from the crime light just for you. Came in.
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Speaker 7: What did he have?
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Speaker 4: Lope?
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Speaker 6: Finished testing the blood stains and those clothes they found
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Speaker 6: in French's hotel room.
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Speaker 10: None of the stands on a mass victim's blood type.
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Speaker 5: It's another dead end.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's sure hard to figure. You got anything else, Lope?
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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, he's good. A report for you from the
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Speaker 5: stats office.
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Speaker 4: Oh thank you.
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Speaker 5: He asked to make a run for you last night.
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Speaker 4: Yeah I did.
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Speaker 7: What's it looked like?
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Speaker 4: Just not? Yeah, it doesn't help much. Looks like more legwork.
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Speaker 10: What's that you we?
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Speaker 4: French told us when he left Adell prior last night,
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Speaker 4: there was a man in the reception room waiting to
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Speaker 4: see her. He gave us the guy's description and the
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Speaker 4: stats office made a run on it for us. This
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Speaker 4: is the best one they got.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: The guy's name is William Tanner wm A thirty three
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Speaker 4: years old, six foot, one hundred ninety five pounds, dark hair,
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Speaker 4: dark complexion.
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Speaker 7: It's a description French gave us as a guy.
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Speaker 4: And the rest of it's a lot closer to home.
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Speaker 10: What do you mean?
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Speaker 4: William Tanner was a prominent suspect in the Donaldson murder
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Speaker 4: last September. Testimony of friends and relatives subsequently cleared him.
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Speaker 4: Donaldson's murder is still unsolved. What's the point, Well, the
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Speaker 4: same thing that killed Donaldson killed a Dell pryor what
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Speaker 4: do you mean? Piece of steel pipe wrapped in paper.
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Speaker 4: To the working detective assigned to examine a criminal case,
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Speaker 4: the element of coincidence, when it occurs, generally serves to
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Speaker 4: complicate any investigation towards the solution of the crime. Coincidence
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Speaker 4: may mean a lot, or it may mean nothing. In
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Speaker 4: any event, it can't be dismissed. This time we had
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Speaker 4: two examples of coincidence to deal with. A girl had
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Speaker 4: been beaten to death in an office building within two
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Speaker 4: blocks of the murder's scene. We found a man fairly
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Speaker 4: well acquainted with a victim who admitted seeing the girl
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Speaker 4: within an hour of her death. Primary investigation uncovered some
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Speaker 4: facts which tended to incriminate the man some facts which
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Speaker 4: tended to prove him innocent. Was his presence in the
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Speaker 4: immediate neighborhood of the killing only coincidental? Or was he
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Speaker 4: there at the particular time for the purpose of murder
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Speaker 4: We didn't know. By the same token, a man by
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Speaker 4: the name of William Tanner was suspected one year before
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Speaker 4: beating an elderly woman to death with an identical murder weapon,
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Speaker 4: a length of steel pipe wrapped in paper. This same person,
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Speaker 4: William Tanner, matched the description of a man reportedly seen
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Speaker 4: entering Adele Pryor's office shortly before she was murdered. Tanner
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Speaker 4: also had a criminal record of one conviction for assault.
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Speaker 4: Maybe it was a lead, maybe it was nothing. It
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Speaker 4: had to be checked out. We showed Tanner's mugshot to
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Speaker 4: our first murder suspect, Robert French, but he failed to
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Speaker 4: identify it. We went to William Tanner's last known address,
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Speaker 4: but he'd moved. We checked with his next of kin,
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Speaker 4: his brother, Martin Tanner. He was with a city fire department.
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Speaker 4: We found him on duty at the neighborhood fire station
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Speaker 4: on Norwich Avenue.
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Speaker 10: No, I'm afraid not Sergeant, I haven't seen my brother
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Speaker 10: Bill in three weeks now. If he's not at his apartment,
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Speaker 10: I couldn't tell you where to.
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Speaker 7: We tried the last address we had on him. He
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Speaker 7: wasn't there, eighty six twenty five Norman Road.
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Speaker 10: Oh no, no, he moved out of there six seven
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Speaker 10: months ago. I got his new address in my locker.
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Speaker 10: I can give it to you if you want.
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Speaker 4: We'd appreciate it.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, Okay, back this way and then upstairs. All right,
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Speaker 10: what's it about, Sergeant, My brother in some kind of
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Speaker 10: trouble again?
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Speaker 7: I guess huh, Oh, it's just a routine check. You
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Speaker 7: sound like you almost expect your brother to be in trouble.
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Speaker 7: Tanner to tell you the truth, I guess I do.
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Speaker 4: I don't know what.
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Speaker 10: Excuse me, man, No, it's not our call.
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Speaker 4: Well, how would you mean that, tenor what's happened to
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Speaker 4: your brother?
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Speaker 10: Well, tell you the truth.
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 10: Bill and I used to live together with our mother.
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Speaker 10: Ma died about two years ago. I don't think Bill
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Speaker 10: ever really got over it. He was a lot closer
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Speaker 10: to Mott than I was. After she died, he drank
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Speaker 10: quite a bit for a while, and he tried women
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Speaker 10: a lot something. After that, he turned to religion. We
16:33
Speaker 10: thought that had helped, would have too, except that he's
16:36
Speaker 10: an odd guy, even finds ways of distorting the Bible.
16:40
Speaker 10: I guess he's still pretty religious. He goes to all
16:42
Speaker 10: the revivals, the tent meetings, all that kind of thing.
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Speaker 4: Huh. Do you know any of his women friends?
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Speaker 7: Yeah?
16:46
Speaker 10: I do, two or three of them.
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Speaker 4: How about the name Adele Pryor does that mean anything
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Speaker 4: to you?
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Speaker 10: Would she be kind of a pretty girl, blonde hair,
16:54
Speaker 10: nice clothes, Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 7: Have you met her, Tanner?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 10: Bill had me meet her once. He seemed to like
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Speaker 10: her quite a bit.
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Speaker 7: Was it pretty serious about her? Or would you know that?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 10: He was serious about her, all right, He told me that.
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Speaker 10: I don't think it worked both ways though, looked to
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Speaker 10: me like she was playing the field. Bill took it
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Speaker 10: way too serious.
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Speaker 4: How do you mean?
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Speaker 10: Well, they went together steady for a while and then
17:12
Speaker 10: they broke it up cheated.
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Speaker 4: I mean, how'd your brother take that?
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Speaker 10: That's so good? I remember the night about a month ago.
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Speaker 10: Never saw a bill like that before. Real bad shake
17:21
Speaker 10: wasn't drinking either. Is that you never saw a bill
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Speaker 10: like that? In my life, like what Tanner off his head,
17:26
Speaker 10: He could have gone out and killed the girl.
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Speaker 4: Before we left the fire station. We got William Tanner's
17:34
Speaker 4: new address from his brother Martin. It was the same
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Speaker 4: address as that of the murdered girl, Adele Pryor, an
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Speaker 4: apartment house close by the intersection of Wiltshire and Lobrea.
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Speaker 4: Tanner's apartment was on the third floor, just down the
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Speaker 4: hall from the prior girl's apartment, but Tanner wasn't there.
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Speaker 4: The apartment manager told us he'd moved out the night
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Speaker 4: before without leaving a forwarding address. Ben put in a
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Speaker 4: call to the suspect's place of business, an industrial chemical company,
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Speaker 4: where Tanner was employed as assistant office man.
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Speaker 7: What was the reason, sir, oh I see huh yeah,
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Speaker 7: well all right, thanks very much. We'll be checking with
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Speaker 7: you later. By what they say, Tanner left yesterday, quit
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Speaker 7: without giving any notice. Told him he had a better job.
18:13
Speaker 7: Line where South America.
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Speaker 3: You are listening to dragnet authentic stories of your police
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Speaker 3: force and action.
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Speaker 4: Saturday, October first, eight am, we got out a broadcast
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Speaker 4: and an APB on murder suspect William Tanner. We checked
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Speaker 4: with the local US state Department office, but they had
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Speaker 4: no record of granting a passport recently to a William
18:46
Speaker 4: Tanner to travel in a South American country. We talked
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Speaker 4: to the various consulates in the city representing South American nations,
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Speaker 4: but none of them had issued a visit to a
18:54
Speaker 4: William Tanner recently or anyone answering his description. Together with
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Speaker 4: Brian and Lopez from Hide, Ben and I continued the
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Speaker 4: search for the missing suspect. The deeper we checked into
19:04
Speaker 4: his background, the more we became convinced that mentally Tanner
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Speaker 4: was far from normal. Most of the people who knew
19:10
Speaker 4: the suspect told us the same story as brother had
19:12
Speaker 4: given us. In recent months, Tanner had taken strongly to religion.
19:17
Speaker 4: He attended revival meetings and similar religious exercises every night
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Speaker 4: in the week. He talked nothing but repentance. He quoted
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Speaker 4: the scriptures constantly. He adopted the habit of carrying a
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Speaker 4: Bible with him wherever he went, reading from it aloud
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Speaker 4: every chance he got. He kept urging his friends to
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Speaker 4: join him in being saved. On Monday, October third, we
19:37
Speaker 4: began a check of the various revival halls. On Wednesday,
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Speaker 4: October fifth, we found him. He was attending a gospel
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Speaker 4: revival in a meeting hall in the south end of
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Speaker 4: the city. He told us he had a room in
19:48
Speaker 4: a small hotel directly above the meeting hall, but he
19:50
Speaker 4: seemed reluctant to take us up there. While low pezant,
19:53
Speaker 4: Bryan got a pass key from the manager and went
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Speaker 4: up to check the room. Ben and I questioned Tanner
19:58
Speaker 4: downstairs in the lobby of the meeting.
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Speaker 10: I'm sorry to hear about Dell. What happened to her?
20:03
Speaker 10: It's a terrible thing, isn't it.
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Speaker 7: Yes, sir, we understand you knew Adele Prior fairly well,
20:07
Speaker 7: mister Tanner, is that Greg?
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Speaker 10: Yes, that's correct. I liked her quite a bit of
20:10
Speaker 10: one time. You see a lot of each other. I
20:12
Speaker 10: was engaged to her, you know, well, how was it
20:13
Speaker 10: you never married?
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Speaker 4: Tanner? Did she break off the engagement? No?
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Speaker 10: No, I was lucky. I found out in time I
20:18
Speaker 10: broke off with her.
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Speaker 4: What do you mean you found out in time? What'd
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Speaker 4: you find out?
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Speaker 10: I found the truth, Sergeant, the everlasting word for Know
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Speaker 10: this and understand that no unclean person or covetous one
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Speaker 10: has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
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Speaker 10: For these have given themselves up in despaired sensuality, readily
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Speaker 10: practicing every kind of uncleanness. Do not then become partakers
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Speaker 10: with them. That's the everlasting Word, Sergeant, the Holy Book.
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Speaker 7: Yes, sir, I'm not quite sure of folly.
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Speaker 10: Open your eyes and ears to the everlasting Word, and
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Speaker 10: you will know and understand all things. It's very simple, Officer.
20:52
Speaker 10: I don't want to say anything uncharitable about her. Adele
20:55
Speaker 10: wasn't for me. I'm glad I found out in time,
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Speaker 10: that's all.
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Speaker 7: When's the last time you saw it? Tanner? You remember?
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Speaker 10: No, I don't, not exactly. I think I saw her
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Speaker 10: week or so before it happened, before they found her dead.
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Speaker 10: Where was that that you saw?
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Speaker 4: How's that? I say?
21:08
Speaker 7: Where was it the last time you saw.
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Speaker 10: Her on the street? It was downtown somewhere. I passed
21:12
Speaker 10: her on the street.
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Speaker 4: Used to live in the same apartment house she did.
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Speaker 4: Isn't that right just down the hall from her?
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Speaker 10: Yes, sir, I did.
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Speaker 4: Why and for a full week you didn't happen to
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Speaker 4: see the prior girl around the apartment building at all.
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Speaker 10: No, that's right. When I broke off with Adele, that
21:24
Speaker 10: was it, I had no reason to see her anymore.
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Speaker 7: Well, it's not too clear, Tanner. It doesn't gibe with
21:28
Speaker 7: what we've been told about you and the prior girl.
21:30
Speaker 10: Well the lies, of course. I suppose you know that
21:33
Speaker 10: Dell was a beautiful girl, very beautiful. A lot of
21:36
Speaker 10: men she knew were jealous of them all.
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Speaker 4: The way we understand a Tanner, you never did break
21:40
Speaker 4: off with miss Pryor. You were going around with her,
21:42
Speaker 4: and you were seen with her right up to the
21:43
Speaker 4: day of her death.
21:43
Speaker 10: Well, that's certainly a lie, and I can prove that.
21:45
Speaker 10: As soon as I found out about Adele, and that
21:48
Speaker 10: was weeks before she was scared. As soon as I
21:49
Speaker 10: found out that was the end, I broke.
21:51
Speaker 4: Off with it right away. Like to know what you're
21:53
Speaker 4: referring to, Tanner, You find out.
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Speaker 10: What Adele Adele? She was one of those huh, I'm sorry,
21:59
Speaker 10: she was the sinner. I almost went out of my
22:02
Speaker 10: mind when I found out she knew it was wrong.
22:05
Speaker 10: She must have known was right there in the book
22:07
Speaker 10: for anybody to read. Do not let sin rain and
22:10
Speaker 10: your mortal body so that you obey its.
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Speaker 4: Lusts Now, look, Tenor, what are you trying to tell us.
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Speaker 4: It was terrible.
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Speaker 10: She sinned all the time. She committed terrible sins. Will
22:21
Speaker 10: you committed a side room over here, I can tell
22:24
Speaker 10: you all about her. I justice, so you will not
22:25
Speaker 10: talk about it here.
22:26
Speaker 7: I'm sure go ahead.
22:29
Speaker 4: In here.
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Speaker 10: Huh huh.
22:32
Speaker 7: Just one question before you get started.
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Speaker 4: Tenor Yes?
22:34
Speaker 7: Did you ever visit a Dell prior to a place
22:36
Speaker 7: of business downtown at her office? No?
22:38
Speaker 4: I never did. Why did you visit a Dell Prior
22:41
Speaker 4: at her office the day she was killed?
22:42
Speaker 10: The Lord is my witness, Sergeant, I have nothing to fear.
22:45
Speaker 10: Why should you ask me that question?
22:46
Speaker 4: Oh, we have a report that you were seen going
22:48
Speaker 4: into the office less than an hour before the prior
22:50
Speaker 4: girl was murdered. Like to have you clarify that for
22:52
Speaker 4: us if you would.
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Speaker 10: Certainly it's a lie.
22:54
Speaker 7: And you're sure you weren't in that office with it
22:56
Speaker 7: just before she died.
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Speaker 10: Well, let me tell you about her sins. There was
22:59
Speaker 10: never anything as evil as this, sergeant?
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Speaker 4: Is that right?
23:02
Speaker 10: Yes? It was a terrible shock. I like to Dell.
23:05
Speaker 10: I think I loved her. We've been going out for
23:07
Speaker 10: two months. Sometimes I'd take her here so that she
23:10
Speaker 10: could learn about the everlasting words, so that she could
23:12
Speaker 10: know about the terrible sin some people commit, or drinking
23:16
Speaker 10: and parties and carryings on things no one should do,
23:19
Speaker 10: especially girls like at Deell, beautiful girl.
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Speaker 4: How can you be sure she was doing anything wrong? Tanner?
23:24
Speaker 4: Do you have any real proof of that everything?
23:26
Speaker 10: Sergeant? I knew just knowing that she was sinning against
23:29
Speaker 10: the Lord.
23:30
Speaker 7: Did you know any of the other mention what I was?
23:32
Speaker 10: They were sinful? I knew that they only liked to
23:35
Speaker 10: Dell because she was beautiful.
23:36
Speaker 4: Did you know any of the men, Tanner? Did you
23:37
Speaker 4: know for a fact that there was anything wrong?
23:39
Speaker 10: I knew everything, Sergeant. She was a beautiful girl, and
23:41
Speaker 10: I thought she was a woman of the Lord, and
23:43
Speaker 10: I wanted her from my wife, but she gave in
23:45
Speaker 10: to sin.
23:46
Speaker 4: Now I guess that's her business. Tenor how she lived,
23:49
Speaker 4: we're trying to find out how she died.
23:50
Speaker 10: Well, just let me tell you about it. I'd lie
23:54
Speaker 10: there in the dark in my room upstairs, and I'd
23:55
Speaker 10: wait to hear her come in down the hall was
23:58
Speaker 10: always late, two and three o'clock in the morning, I'd
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Speaker 10: hear it comes.
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Speaker 7: We still haven't told us, Dannan, what about the men?
24:03
Speaker 7: She went out with this program, slaves.
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Speaker 10: Of the devil, every one of them. I thought, I
24:07
Speaker 10: go out in my mind.
24:08
Speaker 4: All right, Now, come on, you want to tell us, mister,
24:10
Speaker 4: howbotch is that? What made you do it? No?
24:12
Speaker 10: Wait a minute, you don't want to wait to listen.
24:14
Speaker 10: You say, made me do it?
24:15
Speaker 9: Made me do what?
24:16
Speaker 4: I think? You know what we mean? Tannor you want
24:17
Speaker 4: to tell us now.
24:18
Speaker 10: It's a terrible thing. All is sin around us. It's
24:20
Speaker 10: a grave thing. The whole world. There is not one
24:24
Speaker 10: just man. There is none who understands. There's none who
24:28
Speaker 10: seeks after God. There is none who does good, No,
24:31
Speaker 10: not even one. The throat is an open separacher. With
24:34
Speaker 10: their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps
24:38
Speaker 10: is beneath their lips. Their mouth is full of cursing
24:40
Speaker 10: and bitterness. Destruction and misery are in their ways and
24:43
Speaker 10: the path of peace they have not known. There's no
24:46
Speaker 10: fear of God before their eyes, no fear of God.
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Speaker 7: M yes, sir, we're still like an answer to our question.
24:53
Speaker 7: Maybe we could talk a little better downtown.
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Speaker 10: The wisdom and the knowledge is here, And now I
24:58
Speaker 10: knew Adele and her terrible sin they had to be
25:00
Speaker 10: paid for. Adele had to pay for every one of them.
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Speaker 4: You want to get to the point, mister, Now, what
25:05
Speaker 4: is it? What are you trying to tell us?
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Speaker 10: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the charity
25:08
Speaker 10: of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be
25:10
Speaker 10: with you all. Amen. So she sinned, and so she
25:14
Speaker 10: died well the name of God and the name of
25:17
Speaker 10: our Lord. Amen.
25:19
Speaker 4: I killed her. William Harrold Tanner was brought downtown immediately,
25:27
Speaker 4: where he volunteered a complete statement admitting full guilt for
25:30
Speaker 4: the murder of Adele Prior. Bloodstained clothing found in his
25:33
Speaker 4: room corroborated his story. It was obvious that the man
25:37
Speaker 4: was mentally unbalanced. He gave us the details of how
25:40
Speaker 4: he murdered a Dell Prior because she spurned his attentions.
25:43
Speaker 4: We began questioning him about the Donaldson murder, which had
25:46
Speaker 4: taken place more than a year before and which was
25:48
Speaker 4: still unsolved. The victim, sixty four year old Louise Donaldson,
25:52
Speaker 4: had met death in the same manner as Adele Prior. No.
25:55
Speaker 10: I didn't know the old lady, but she had money.
25:57
Speaker 10: I'd been told that I was broken. I needed the cash,
25:59
Speaker 10: so I thought be a good thing.
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Speaker 7: This was in September a year ago that.
26:02
Speaker 10: You murdered, yes, or September. All right, she was all alone,
26:05
Speaker 10: she didn't have anybody, she was sick. I probably did
26:08
Speaker 10: her a favor.
26:08
Speaker 4: Your package here says that you figured in the investigation
26:11
Speaker 4: on the plot to blow up the Rexmore Hotel about
26:13
Speaker 4: three years ago. Homemade bomb planted in the basement of
26:15
Speaker 4: the hotel.
26:15
Speaker 10: Yes, that was mine three years ago in September. Never
26:18
Speaker 10: could have traced him, too bad the bomb didn't go off.
26:20
Speaker 10: I hated those hotel people a right, right, What was
26:22
Speaker 10: the matter? I worked at that hotel once, you know,
26:24
Speaker 10: I worked hard too. One Saturday that held up a paycheck.
26:28
Speaker 10: I didn't get it till next Tuesday. Never forgot that September.
26:32
Speaker 4: September, Now, what's that got to do with it?
26:34
Speaker 10: I don't know.
26:34
Speaker 4: Really.
26:34
Speaker 10: September has always been the time. That's all I work
26:37
Speaker 10: into some kind of trouble. Last four years, every September,
26:40
Speaker 10: I don't know what it is. Seems to be the
26:42
Speaker 10: best time to get rid of them. Yeah, September, it's
26:45
Speaker 10: always September. I didn't really want to kill Adele. Wasn't
26:50
Speaker 10: anything else I could do. She was a sinner, yeah, drinking,
26:53
Speaker 10: running around. She committed sins all the time. Worst kind
26:56
Speaker 10: of sins.
26:56
Speaker 4: Terrible. Let me tell you, maybe you better check the
26:59
Speaker 4: book tenor your way ahead of her. What do you mean,
27:01
Speaker 4: what kind of sins? Worse than murdered?
27:11
Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true. The names
27:15
Speaker 2: were changed to protect the innocent.
27:17
Speaker 3: On January tenth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department
27:20
Speaker 3: eighty seven, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
27:23
Speaker 3: In a moment the results of that trial, further investigation
27:35
Speaker 3: proved beyond the doubt that William Tanner, besides murdering Adele Prior,
27:38
Speaker 3: had also taken the life of sixty four year old
27:41
Speaker 3: Louise Donaldson the year before, and that he was responsible
27:44
Speaker 3: for the attempted bombing of the Rexmore Hotel the year
27:46
Speaker 3: before that. After examination by three psychiatrists appointed by the state,
27:51
Speaker 3: the suspect was found to be sane at the time
27:53
Speaker 3: of the murders. Tanner was convicted of first degree murder
27:57
Speaker 3: and received the death penalty. He was executed in the
27:59
Speaker 3: lethal gas chamber at the State Penitentiary San Quentin, California.
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Speaker 3: You have just heard Dragnet a series of authentic cases
28:15
Speaker 3: from official files. Technical advice comes from the Office of
28:18
Speaker 3: Chief of Police W. H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department.
28:23
Speaker 4: Stay tuned for Counterspy next on NBC.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. To admit that this is one of those
28:38
Speaker 1: cases where doing video theater can present a challenge, because
28:44
Speaker 1: we played this on video theater about six months ago,
28:48
Speaker 1: and the main points I can offer would be kind
28:52
Speaker 1: of repeating themselves, as what stands out here is the
28:58
Speaker 1: need for the police to look beyond what's obvious and
29:04
Speaker 1: to dig deeper to find the truth, as well as
29:08
Speaker 1: the overall sensitivity with which the way that the suspect
29:14
Speaker 1: twisted religion was used. And that's perfectly illustrated, I think
29:20
Speaker 1: by the fact that he had committed these to other
29:25
Speaker 1: crimes before he had gotten into religion or started using
29:30
Speaker 1: religious language. This isn't a case where a suspect did
29:36
Speaker 1: something out of a religious motivation. It's a case where
29:41
Speaker 1: he used religious language to justify his own inclinations. The
29:48
Speaker 1: only other thing that I noticed here is that this
29:51
Speaker 1: is probably the only time that they had this episode
29:56
Speaker 1: air in September, and it's it's a little unusual for
30:01
Speaker 1: a dragon that episode like this to be seasonally appropriate. Now,
30:06
Speaker 1: of course you do have the Christmas episodes that aired
30:09
Speaker 1: at Christmas, but those were really an exception. There were
30:13
Speaker 1: many crimes that occurred at Christmas or Passover or New
30:19
Speaker 1: Year's and they essentially just aired whatever part of the
30:27
Speaker 1: year they aired. So to make sure that the Big
30:30
Speaker 1: September Man aired in September, that's an interesting choice, although
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Speaker 1: it wouldn't be repeated on television. Listener comments and feedback now,
30:40
Speaker 1: and we have a comment regarding the Big Waiter from
30:44
Speaker 1: Mechanics sixty six, who writes on Spotify all the talk
30:48
Speaker 1: about food made me hungry. Her Butterfield may not play
30:52
Speaker 1: Lean Jones when he plays other characters, but I've certainly
30:56
Speaker 1: heard him play multiple parts many times on different shows,
31:00
Speaker 1: and I think that's definitely true. He was one of
31:05
Speaker 1: those radio actors who was just so valuable to have
31:09
Speaker 1: around because he could double and triple up quite easily. Admittedly,
31:14
Speaker 1: I think it happens more on the shows where he
31:18
Speaker 1: doesn't have a regular role, but even on Dangerous Assignment,
31:23
Speaker 1: for example, because the commissioner was generally after the first
31:28
Speaker 1: few episodes, only in the first scene of the show.
31:32
Speaker 1: He could easily come back and provide a second voice.
31:37
Speaker 1: He was just an incredible character actor, and my appreciation
31:41
Speaker 1: for him has only grown in recent years. And then
31:45
Speaker 1: we have a comment over on YouTube from Eric regarding
31:49
Speaker 1: The Big Crazy. That was a strange one. Did this
31:53
Speaker 1: episode come from a case in the late eighteen hundreds?
31:57
Speaker 1: How else could Friday and Romero not fired after that?
32:01
Speaker 1: I really really did not like that in that story.
32:06
Speaker 1: In the very grounded world of Dragnet, are you sure
32:09
Speaker 1: you didn't accidentally play an episode of Inner Sanctum or
32:13
Speaker 1: The Whistler? Well, Eric, it was Dragnet, but I get
32:17
Speaker 1: the feeling that it was to borrow phrase from mister Spock,
32:22
Speaker 1: not Dragnet as we know it. I don't know for
32:26
Speaker 1: sure when this case, the one that the Dragnet episode
32:32
Speaker 1: was based on, actually occurred, but there are at least
32:37
Speaker 1: three episodes of Dragnet that have been traced definitively to
32:41
Speaker 1: the nineteen twenty And of course, just two days ago
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Speaker 1: we played an episode of The Big Story, which aired
32:48
Speaker 1: in nineteen forty seven but was based on an incident
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Speaker 1: that occurred in nineteen fifteen. I think that I could
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Speaker 1: buy that this occurred in the first cour century of
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Speaker 1: the twentieth century. Eric, I was thinking it had to
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Speaker 1: be sometime in the nineteenth but I think modernity creep
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Speaker 1: slowly and the difference between late nineteenth and early twentieth
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Speaker 1: century is probably not as profound as one might think.
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Speaker 4: Be very honest with you. Doctor.
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Speaker 8: His insurance company thinks your opinion of death from natural
34:15
Speaker 8: causes might be wrong. My tentative opinion, mister Dollar, Lamont
34:19
Speaker 8: Schofield suffered from well rather than boy with a lot
34:22
Speaker 8: of medical terminology. Let's say he had a heart condition,
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Speaker 8: one that required that he'd take it easy, and of
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Speaker 8: course medication, what kind of medication digitalis for the most
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Speaker 8: part to limit the frequency of his heart contractions. And
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Speaker 8: more recently he's been receiving intervening injections of sidillanid.
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Speaker 4: His nurse gave him the injections.
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Speaker 9: Yes, it's under my orders.
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Speaker 8: I understand. She's an old burlesqueen. Some years ago he
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Speaker 8: starred Mary in one of his Broadway productions. It was
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Speaker 8: a flop, But shouldn't he have had a regular license
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Speaker 8: registered nurse.
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Speaker 10: She was a registered nurse, mister Dollar.
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Speaker 7: A good looker.
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Speaker 8: Over the years, Lamart kept himself pretty well, surrounded by
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Speaker 8: well some of them were very pretty girls, but not
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Speaker 8: this Mary. So a doubt they were all after his money,
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Speaker 8: including Mary. Well, mister Dollar, I told you my tentative
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Speaker 8: opinion was death due to natural costs. So the paper's reported.
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Speaker 8: But now let's face it, doctor if she hastened his
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Speaker 8: demise by saying overdose in one of those injections I
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Speaker 8: learned and while acting under your orders by using something
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Speaker 8: that you put into her hand now justin look pretty
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Speaker 8: bad for you too, couldn't it.
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