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Well, now it's time for today's episode of Dragnet. The original air
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date was September the tenth of nineteen forty nine, and the title is thus
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Soul Been Kidnapping. Here's another an NBC great praid of new shows. Ladies
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and Gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true, only the
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names have been changed to protect the innocent. NBC brings you a Dragnet.
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You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a homicide detail. A twenty two year
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old girl has disappeared. A letter has been received. It demands thirty thousand
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dollars for the girl's return. The letter has signed the Wolf. Your job
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got him. Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime, investigated and solved
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by the men who unrelentingly stand watch on the security of your home, your
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family, and your life. For the next thirty minutes. In cooperation for
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the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side
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of the law through an actual case. Transcribe from official police folence from beginning
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to end, from crime to punishment. Drag Net is the story of your
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police force in action. It was Tuesday October eighteenth was cloudy in Los Angeles.
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We were working the night watch out on homicide. My partner's Ben Romerol.
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The boss's at Backstrem, Chief the detectives. My name is Friday.
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I was on the way back from the Stat's office and it was three twenty
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six am when I got to room forty two homicide. Those mocassports and here
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they are crags. Heerris Backstairlivia. In a minute, I'm going on with
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him. What's your address? Out there? To Sullivant Clay eight fourteen Castro
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Baulevard. He goes through that Sentamura. I could take a left the Castro
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all I remember you ready? Chief? Yeah, Brandy, you call Ro
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marily In right now, get on it. This when we don't fool with
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Yeah, come on, here is hell. Sorry to wake up man.
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This is Joe. How are you feeling? Oh? All right, Joe?
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What time is it? Three thirty am? How do you feel?
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Oh a lot better. We'll be back to work tomorrow. You'll be ready
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in twenty minutes. I'll pick you up twenty minutes. Okay, what's up?
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Remember Martin Sullivan, vice president of the Third National Bank, Slim Yeah,
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yeah, what about it? Got a twenty two year old daughter already
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had one. She's gone. Look we made good time, Joe. Where
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we He had a Sullivant home out of Castro Boulevard. Ed out there now
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with hers, and he leads to work on Oh, nothing so far.
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The girl disappeared a little before one o'clock yesterday afternoon. At eleven last night,
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he got a letter. They want thirty thousand dollars. Eelivan hasn't got
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that kind of money. Yeah, I know it. Poor guys almost out
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of his mind. Tell me and I have now. The guy took the
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girl out of business school. He had her called out a class, told
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her father was sick, said he was a friend of the family. How
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about the teachers? What was her story? Said? The girl didn't want
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to go with a man at first, but he finally talked her into it,
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kept telling her her father was dying. That's about as lord as it
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come. Yeah. Did he use a car. Witnesses said it was a
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blue Sedan. They didn't get the licensed number of the make. Did they
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remember what the guy looked like? About five nine one sixty, brown suit,
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dark hair. Isn't that you know? He's a copy of the letter
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for usual. Read it. Yeah, h, I have your daughter Judy
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yet? What what's that? Thirty thousand, thirty thousand dollars? Quick?
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If you want her back alive, don't call police or I'll kill her.
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Contact you later signed what way the Wolf? Oh? I can think of
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a better name. Come on here we are. We've got the original note.
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Joe Lee Jones down at the crime I'll be checking it for Prince in
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handwriting. Well, let's do it. Oh, Hi, David right on
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the house court, she's waiting for it. Banks day, Hi, Joe
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Ben in the living room. That's the way I see Missus Sullivan. Now
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you understand exactly what you have to do. Yes, I'll do as you
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say. All right. Here are the two men who will help you,
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Sergeant Friday and Sergeant remember homicide. Don't Joe mister Beck's friend. Are you
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sure about all this? He might get frightened, he might do something to
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Judy. Believe me, mister Sullivan. It's the only way I know how
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you must feel. But you can't do anything else. All right, I
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want to see missus Sullivan Purson. I'll be ready in a moment. Any
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developments, Yeah, come on back in the dining room. That is on
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the table. Take a note from the guy Taylor glam When did this come?
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About half an hour ago? Guy phoned it into Western Union from a
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public book. Couldn't trace it. I say, Joe, Yeah, be
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at the Allegian Park five o'clock this morning, near balk And Drive. Come
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alone, bring thirty thousand. We'll return. Girl. Don't tell cops.
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Tell her if you do, they will or I am now skipper, not
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much Dome, I know it. Not have to do as he says,
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No other way than Sullivan's going out there alone. You're going with him,
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You and Romel. You'll be hidden out in the trunk of the car.
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Any plan, get it? That's all? Then and I went out the
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back door and into the Sullivan garage. We jammed ourselves into the trunk apartment
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and Harris closed the door on us. The laxis fixed so that the door
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could be pushed open from the inside. A few minutes later, mister Sullivan
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came out, got in the car, and we drove off. At three
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minutes to five, we pulled up at the meeting place in the Lesion Park.
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We waited. Nothing happened. At five minutes past five had started to
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thunder. That's all we need now, thunderstorm stuff here in this trunk.
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Listen must be Have you seen anything? Mm hmm. I was like,
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he's pacing up and down one side of the cart and there. Can't you
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hear anything out? Can you? You better stay undercover? Yeah, I
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would reign a dark man. Wen't know what had happened to the war coold
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feet. Maybe that's waited out it, Joe. You know what time you've
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got now? Little mean by watching a little past five thirty sorgy Sergeant mister
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Sullivan. Yes, you think he's coming and sweet it's getting day. We
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better wait it out, mister Sullivan. Now look, don't come back here
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again. If he's watching, you might tip him off. All right,
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all right, you guys, thank you. Coming up the road. Tortoise
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stopping, Yeah, coming over to our car. Are you ready? Right,
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talks, I'm coming back here to watch it Friday that you en?
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Yeah? The meetings up? All right? Got cramp my leg. I'm
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cramped all over, mister Sullivan. Drab back home. We'll contact you them,
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all right? All right? Gee, Ben Joe went over the car.
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What's the story of the guy had no intention of following through this meeting,
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and then how come killing us? He's going to five o'clock trying to
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trace the call. He wouldn't stay on the line long enough. What do
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you have to say? We wanted more money, ragged about how smart he
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was, how we'd never get him. Well, he knows Sullivan's called in
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the police. Sure said he didn't care we'd never get him anyway. Yeah,
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pretty pretty smart. Take my word for it. He's no DEMI droll
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one to eighty K. I'll get him. Eighty K to control one.
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Eight, OK, to control one, Go ahead, eighty K, go
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to your office code three. You're off Cold Street? All right, room,
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my own, let's roll. More than twelve hours had passed. It's
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worth of duty. Sullivan's disappears has been pulded on officide during that time,
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and all points bullet and containing the descriptions of the suspect, of his car
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and mcgirrel had been sent out on the teletype for the law enforcement agencies throughout
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the area. The same descriptions were broadcast over the police radio every hour.
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The Sullivan home has been placed under strick surveillance and mister Sullivan instructed not to
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contact the suspect without to the police. He'd raised almost ten thousand dollars in
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cash to buy him off. The serial number on each one of the bills
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had been copied by a police stenographer and then re checked by a homicide officer.
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So far, the Wolf as he called himself, had made three separate
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contact but he covered his tracks well. We knew that he was somewhere in
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the city, five hundred square miles of it, and we know we had
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to find him fast. It was eighteen minutes past six when we got back
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to homicide. Hi, Jee, Hello, you got something pus Mike here,
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there's let a special delivery came in about twenty five minutes and I see
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that left. Stay away from Sullivan. If the kids found dead, it's
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your fault. Stay away the wolf, all right, Mike, get it
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over to the crime lab and have Lead check it for Prince write you will
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find any prints on the second note, Mike too. London crew are and
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I know from get down there and see that. They gotta make right.
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Let's go Ben, who's watching the Sullivan house beside Harry Carpenter and Davis.
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Max Frans afraid of the girl's father, try to make a deal with the
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guy. Has he tried it here? You know he has? He did?
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He couldn't blame him if he did. Words say oh yeah, sure,
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are all right, fellas just coming down to see you. That's something
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there. Those two Prince Lee Jones lifted off that letter. Got to make
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on him from the single print files. Good Larry, Let's see him there
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it is, pull the whole package on him. Donald Alfred Keeper looks like
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a real bad one, doesn't he. Donald Alfred Keeper Male, Caucasian,
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age, twenty nine, five feet eight inches, one hundred and seventy pounds,
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brown eyes dark brown here. He had one previous arrest for forgery in
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Los Angeles, ten months before Keeper's occupation. At the time his arrest was
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listed as a bank clerk at the Third National Bank. Ben went back into
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the files and pulled the crime report. Then we called it Backstram. There's
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an Andrew Skipper at the time Keeper pulled that forgery job at the bank,
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Mister Suthern was won the vice president go in. Sutherland was the one who
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preferred charges. Can't keep her and sold he is prosecuted. Where's this keeping
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them? Let's see he's placed on probation, and on May sixteenth this year,
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he returned to his home in Omaha, Nebraska. That's thirteen eighty Mckinnaia
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Avenue. Get Omaha on the phone and have him check out. Keep him
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right Friday. Take keep his package in this note down to down myes.
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Have him check the handwriting and get over to the crime lab and see what
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Jones lifted off that last letter. We got all the faster we work,
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the faster. We'll put this guy behind buys. Now move how's the writing?
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Compare it down? What'd you find? Yeah, that's good. See
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here slaps as crosses double oops his l's open ears brush on the downstroke.
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Donald Keeper woolf same man writing, we have to tree prints off this last
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note. Joe brought him out with the I don fume gun. They match
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with the first. Thanks Lee, do you find anything else? I don't
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know it will help you much. We examined the paper for watermarks and texture.
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Both notes are written on the same kind of paper. The pressions show
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both pieces of paper from the same tablet. Check the density of the carbon
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and the pencil he used. Both specimens match same pencil. By mid afternoon,
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Donald Keeper's description had been broadcast throughout the area. Will it was were
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dispatched to all departments, and an APB was teletyped the entire state. Men
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were stationed at every post office in the city to watch for notes that might
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come to the mail. The bus depots, railroad terminals, the airports,
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and all the main roads leading out of the city were under strict surveillance.
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The entire Los Angeles area was broken down in the single square mile districts,
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and a house to house canvas was started. A squad of men were assigned
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to cover each square mile. Outlying towns and cities were requested to do the
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same. By five o'clock that afternoon, the greatest dragnet operation in the history
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of the city was underway. We were sure Donald Keeper was somewhere inside.
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At twelve minutes past five, Ben got the callback from the Omaha beliefe.
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Yeah, yeah, I got it six x ray four to one nine abrist
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the place right, Well, thank you a lot, yerebye. They had
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a make on the corner. Lots more the Omaha cups looking for Keeper went
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in for a Robbie I had two months ago Matt robbery. He used to
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stole in nineteen thirty nine bluesed Dan Nebraska license plate six six ray four one
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nine. How about his family and his friends back there? They all been
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checked. Yeah, I'll get that car description, the communications huh apb teletypan
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blodcast. I'll tell him, yeah right, yeah, what do you tied
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up with? Well, just got a call from Omaha. Make on keep
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her in the car, give it to me. You do, get up
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to the Sullivant as fast as you can see, Harris. Sports happens Kevin
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mon Sullivan's disappeared? All right, Harri's howd it happened? About three the
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sefth tonoon, mister Sullivan got a phone call, said he had to go
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down to the bank and went with him. He had me waiting the reception
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room, and he went in his office waiting ten minutes. I got suspicious
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and went in. He was gone. That's it. Did he get any
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more money this morning? Five thousand dollars? Did get the serial numbers off
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the bills? Yeah? I shouldn't let him get out of my sight.
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Forget it right now. We've got to find out where he's gone to meet
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You talk to missus Sullivan about it, Harris, She says, she doesn't
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know anything about it. Let's try her again. Come on, let's go
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in side a Hi, fellas, all right, where's miss Sullivan? David
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back in the sitting room, lying down, doctors with it. Come on
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the time he got bent six thirty five, I'll get it. Hello,
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Where are you? Where are you now? Where are you now? We'll
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be right out. That was Martin Sullivan. He met with Keefer Um Laurel
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Canyon. Did he get his daughter back? Yeah? Wrapped in newspapers.
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All cars in the area were notified that a contact has been made with keeper.
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We got in the car and drove out to Laurel Canyon. The entire
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area had been blocked off. We found Martin Sullivan standing in the middle of
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the road in the east winding way. Five hundred feet down the hill was
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a private residence where Sullivan and telephone was the only building in the immediate vicinity.
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A few yards beyond the point where he's winding way in and back,
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in a clump of tall grass, we found the body of Martain Sullivan's daughter.
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We notified the crime lab. She backstrand in the corner. Despite a
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severe state of emotional shock, Martain Sullivan tried to tell us the story.
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He said, Julius, all right, I believed him. What did you
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bet? Ju? I tricked the officer that when watch you be said come
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along the police. Did you see his karmass on? What is your be
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wanted you to bet? I did as she said that go for here at
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six o'clock and I waited it. I put the money in front of see
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like like you said. Did he get the money? Mister Salvion and I
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got out of parking nights on. I stood up there by the end of
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the road waiting, mister Salon, and he drove up me. It took
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the money. Then it came up to me. He had a gun.
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I wanted to shoot it back. Yeah, I had a gun. Did
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you see his car? He said, she was up there beyond the road.
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Doesn't do a tree, mister Sullivan, did you see his car?
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I went to look for h scob a wait. I agree. I couldn't
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find her before he went into a state of complete collapse. We showed Martin
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Sullivan a picture of Donald Albert Kiefer. He definitely identified it. The information
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was immediately relayed back to Central Division. Rebroadcast of the entire police radio system.
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A teletype was dispatched the Sheriff's offices, and communications were sent to police
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stations throughout the The house to house searched throughout the entire city, intensifying the
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drag nepping, which we hope the trap donald keeper was drawing slowly inward was
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twelve Midnight girl might act? We read all about it, Bennison's joint such
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for killers, right, and did the papers get a list of the numbers
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and that ransom money? Yeah got him In the final night edition two and
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a half pages of serial numbers, gave it a big spread. Look at
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these pictures a keeper here all over the front. Pay I'm more of the
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better room my own. I hope this town never forgets that face. Good
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reminder you don't make deals with killers, all right, fellas, come on
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over, find anything yet? Leek just taking over these towels here follum wrapped
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around the girl's body inside the papers. The only thing about those papers that
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they're all yesterday's. Every story about the girl's disappearance has been clipped on.
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Maybe the guy's making that for scrap. I'm o the towels, Jones any
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laundry marks nine one so far d Every one of them was clipped off.
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Pretty smart. Marg posts a body and been doing it now, nasty one.
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Yeah, you got any footprints or time rocks out where they found the
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body? Lots of them, all cast loss and Taylor checking them. Nothing
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one sink. What is it? Jones? I don't know on the scene
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here this Tye. Wait a minute, Joe, that pat of Snipper is
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there? Yeah? Hey, I think that's back under the scene. There,
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that's one Tagg he missed, Annie Markings Lee. Yeah, green Way
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apartments, Los Angle one look at the apartment was enough. In an adjoining
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garage we found the car which keeper it used a blue Sedan Nebraska license plate
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six x ray four one nine. When they got back to the office,
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Chief Backstrand immediately issued a cancelation of the water order for the blue Sedan,
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and then he ordered a detail a man to stake out the car and the
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event keeper decided to come back for it. Here's the corner of the board,
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Joe, let's see it. Cause of death, strangulation. Time of
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death, Monday, October eighteenth, approximately two pm, one hour after grabber.
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I can't be right, Skipper in his office. No, he's out
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for a minute. Hey, Joe, Ben, take the call up two
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five O three, will you thanks? Mine ride? Would you give me
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the call on two five OUTE three please? Thanks? Hello? Yeah,
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yeah, when we'll be right over. Some of the ransom money. Ben
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just showed up. Beverly and Highland. Come on. The man's name was
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Ralph Donahue. He operated the used carlot on the corner of Beverly and Highland.
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He told us that early that morning he sold a dark blue late model
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Coop to a man who gave his name as Fred Simms. The man paid
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for the car in cash. Donahue told us that he checked the civil numbers
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on the bills after the man had driven away. Sarah numbers, check out,
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yo, everyone. If I only thought to look officer, and you
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know I generally do. I'm a suspicious kind anyway. But oh this morning
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I must have been asleep. We'll get the pull description on the car in
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yeah, yeah, all right, let's get out in the air right away.
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I saw I was mug in the paper while I was waiting for you.
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Too late. Sorry, yeah thanks. At ten minutes past three that
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afternoon, another piece of the ransom money turned up at a busy downtown department
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store. The clerk was unable to remember who gave her the bill. The
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detail throughout the general downtown area was strengthened. The house to house search of
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the entire city for Judy Sullivan's murderer went on the afternoon dragged into the early
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evening. At twenty minutes to seven, Ben and I had a hamburger and
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a cup of coffee in the drug store at East Broadway in third and then
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we got back in the car, checked with communications, and started cruising the
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neighborhood again. At nine minutes to eight, a man answering the description of
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Donald Keeper was seen crossing Sunset Boulevard just below Highland. Seven minutes later,
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the same man was reported near the intersection of Hollywood Boulevar and the Lost Palmers.
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Communications relay the information. At twenty one minutes past eight, our car
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eighty K, along with a dozen others, were concentrated in the Hollywood Boulevard
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area from Gower Street to Librea Franklin Avenue the Santa Monica Boulevard. At twenty
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four minutes past eight, another piece of the ransom money was passed at a
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cigar store in the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Hawthorne Street. The number of
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men and radio cars in the area was redoubled. Plain clothes officers were stationed
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at every intersection to keep an eye on pedestrian traffic. At eighteen minutes to
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nine, the dark blue Coop which Keefer had bought that morning, was spotted
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parked in an alley just below Hollywood Boulevard and Coinga. We call that backstrand
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City Hall to five oh three, bottle three, Chief of Detectives. All,
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this is Friday, Mike chief there. Yeah, wait a minute,
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just going off the doors. Friday ed the spotted keeper's car, the when
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he bought this morning, parked in an alley off Conga. PRIs and I
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are on our web and now we'll take care of the car. You'll take
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care of this call just came in. What do you got corner ley?
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Would pull and fair of you? A girl in the box office just tooking
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a ten dollars ransom bill. Yeah, you got a good look at the
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man who passed the bill. She said, it's keeping all right, Ben.
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Come on, Yeah, he's got a list of serial numbers right here.
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Let's check out the window. Yes, sir, how many please please
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office, Sergeant Romeo, Sergeant Friday, Oh yes, sir, mister Ravens
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please are here. Would you step around to the side door, Sergeant,
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Yes, ma'am Margie realie Francis for a minute, Francis, come here.
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Bring that ten dollars bill with you, shop girl, Officer that Francis shop
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all right, Sergeant, there you are ten dollar bill and the list of
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serial numbers. Check out, all right, Ben, that's it, Joe,
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good work man. The report of the man came in about a half
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hour ago. You're sure it was Keeper, Yes, Sir, I had
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his picture in the box office, just behind the change machine. I recognize
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him right away. I'm as far as you know. He hasn't left the
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theater. That's right, all right, mister Rayburn. I'm saying for we'll
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have to interrupt the show. Anything you say, Sergeant, anything, Ben.
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You keep an eye on the products that I'll call communication tried Joe EIGHTYK
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to control four eight OK to control four EIGHTYK, go ahead control for clear
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all frequencies. The Sullivan murder suspect Donald Keeper has been located in the theater
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on the southeast corner of Hollywood Boulevarden Fairview. Have all units around the area.
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Adyk Roger Attention all units attentional units. This eighty K is the theater
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on the southeast corner of Hollywood Boulevards Fairview. The Sullivant murder subsect has been
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located in the theaters Olyhead eighty K control for have all units converged in the
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general area Hollywood Boulevarden Fairview. Unit sixty two are to block off the intersection
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in Hollywood Boulevarden North Cherokee Stop all Pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Unit sixty one
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to eight to block the intersection in Hollywood Bullivarden Hudson Street Stop all pedestrian and
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vehicular traffic Unit seventy one and seventy two wide to block the alley behind the
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theater. Unit sixty six and sixty seven who assisted meanings to the theater.
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Within a few minutes, the one half mile area around the theater was completely
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blockaded. Every exit and entrance to the theater was covered. At nine twenty
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three, we met Harris and at Backstrand in the theater manager's office. Backstrand
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outlined our plan of operation. At nine twenty eight, a detail of fourteen
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men walked down the side aisles on the main floor of the theater and took
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up their posts on either side of the orchestra pit. The picture was stopped
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and every light in the theater was turned on. At Backstrand, Harris Ben
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and I went down the island up onto the stage. Backstrand made the announcement.
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Ladies and gentlemen were ties to interrupt the picture, but this is important.
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We're police officers. We've traced the murderer of Judy Sullivan's to this theater.
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He's in this theater. Now. We're going to text the theater row
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by row, and we'd like to ask your cooperations. There's no need to
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be panicky or afraid. Those who wish to leave now may do so.
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Lead by the main entrance. Each one of you will be checked as you
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go out the door. And for the benefit of the man we're looking for,
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don't try to escape. Every exit is covered in the entire area is
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blockaded. Don't place any more lives in jeopardy. Come on, man,
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backstage show. We can make it from a right Let's go, come on,
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hustle it. Ben. Yeah, the next building you'll probably try to
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jump for all right? Watch it. I think the story leads up in
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the room. Here it goes all right, keep her alto I get up?
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Oh your gun down over here, don't ju go Let's get him all
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right, coppers, I got it. Figured they won't top me for this.
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Didn't know what I was doing. The cuffs on him, Ben,
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get away from me, your crump. Shouldn't they hit him? Keep her
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all right, Ben, try the cuffs now. Yeah, come on,
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let's get him in out of the rain. What's a hurry? Why spoiler?
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Good rain. The story you have just heard is fool only. The
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names were chained to protect the innocent. Donald Alfred Keeper was tried and convicted
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of murder in the first degree. He was executed in the lethal gas chamber
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at the State Penitentiary. You have just heard the fifteenth and a new series
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of authentic cases transcribed from official fire. The technical advice for Dragnet comes from
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the Office of Acting Chief of Police wa Forton, Los Angeles Police Department.
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Tonight's program is dedicated to Deputy United States Marshal John B. Glenn Boise,
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Idaho, on the morning of July thirty first, nineteen forty, gave his
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life so that yours might be more secure. Drag that game to you from
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love Anglan He he go down the air return tomorrow night on MBC Welcome Back.
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A very interesting case and I think showed some humanity and even a bit
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of a gray area over for what the father did in trying to work with
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the kidnapperr away from the police. It's kind of you get three different things
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here. First you have Friday saying he really would not blame he really would
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not blame the father if he went to the kidnappers on his own. And
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then of course you have Backstrand, who is pretty clear that this is a
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bad idea and he helps all the publicity, teaches people not to do it.
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And then we learn that regardless of whether he went or not, the
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girl still would have been dead because she died within an hour of being kidnapped.
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Also, just because the death of the Marshall was in Boise, Idaho,
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of course I got very curious about that and looked up the story of
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what happened with Deputy US Marshall jong and according to a very good website,
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Idaho Peace Officers Memorial dot com, it says that he died on July thirty
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first, nineteen forty, I was killed by Pearl Hendrickson, who was wanted
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on a warrant for contempt of court. Deputy Glenn was shot twice to the
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upper body as he was talking with Hendrickson at the door of his cabin.
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US Marshal George Meffin was also killed by Hendrickson. Hendrickson was killed when a
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posse stormed the cabin with automatic weapons in dynamite and I guess in nineteen forties
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Idaho, that's definitely an understandable measure, particularly after they had killed two members
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of the US Marshals. I wonder why George Meffin wasn't mentioned in that piece,
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Perhaps because he was an actual US Marshals tends to be a political appointee,
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Glenn was a deputy. At any rate, that will do it for
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today. We will be back on Monday with the Saint and then join us
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back here again next Saturday for another episode of Dragon. In the meantime,
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