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Dragnet: Production 8 (aka the Big Missing/Juanita Lasky) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: Now, today's episode is probably a bit of an unusual
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  Speaker 1: pick for a Christmas episode, and traditionally you can look
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  Speaker 1: at Dragnet Christmas episodes in kind of as two options.
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  Speaker 1: You've got the Big Little Jesus, which I have frequently
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  Speaker 1: replayed throughout the years, and then you have the twenty
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  Speaker 1: two Rifle for Christmas, which was the Christmas story on
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  Speaker 1: Dragnet for many years. We actually won't be playing either
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  Speaker 1: of those now. There was a class of an episodes
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  Speaker 1: that happened at Christmas, but the Christmas setting was really coincidental,
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  Speaker 1: and there's not a whole lot festive about those particular episodes,
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  Speaker 1: and for years I put one of Dragnette's earliest episodes
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  Speaker 1: into that category. It was part of the original summer
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  Speaker 1: run where Dragnet was a sustained feature over NBC during
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  Speaker 1: the summer of nineteen forty nine, and the situation to
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  Speaker 1: me appeared to be that they had a story to
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  Speaker 1: tell that happened to be a very Christmas story, and
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  Speaker 1: as the series was a summer replacement, there was no
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  Speaker 1: guarantee that they would be brought back for the fall
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  Speaker 1: and have a chance to do it at Christmas time,
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  Speaker 1: so they just did it in July. Nevertheless, I think
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  Speaker 1: this story fits with many others that are on our
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  Speaker 1: Christmas feed, and so we're going to go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: play it so here now from July twenty eighth, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: forty nine is Production eight aka Janit Alaski or The Big.
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  Speaker 3: Missy, Ladies and Gentlemen The story you were about to
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  Speaker 3: hear is true, only the names have been changed to
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  Speaker 3: protect the innocent.
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  Speaker 4: NBC brings you Dragnet.
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  Speaker 5: You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to missing persons detail.
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  Speaker 5: You've never heard of Fountain Green, Utah. You've never heard
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  Speaker 5: of Wanita, Alaski. Los Angeles is a big city, four
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  Speaker 5: hundred and fifty two square miles, three million, three hundred
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  Speaker 5: and fifty six thousand, nine hundred and sixty nine people.
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  Speaker 5: Your job find her.
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  Speaker 4: the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 6: It was Monday, December twelfth, was cold in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 6: We were working the day watch on a missing person's detail.
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  Speaker 6: My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is ed Backstrand, Chief
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  Speaker 6: of Detective. My name is Friday. I was on my
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  Speaker 6: way back from lunch, and it was twelve forty seven
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  Speaker 6: pm when I got to Room sixty seven. A person's
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  Speaker 6: detail or geez Federal Cafe? Good soup today? What kind
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  Speaker 6: corn shower? Was? Real? Good? Places jammed with Christmas shoppers.
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  Speaker 6: I had to wait.
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  Speaker 7: I haven't even started at my shopping yet.
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  Speaker 6: You. I got to pick up something for my mother.
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  Speaker 6: Prices are high. I'll send a lot of cards. Will
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  Speaker 6: you get married? Joe? Ever?
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  Speaker 8: Try to sell a Christmas card to a kid? They
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  Speaker 8: got to have something with wheels on it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, just you're right. Missing persons Friday, Salton, Green.
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  Speaker 2: Utah calling the Los Angeles Police Department. You're all a missing person's.
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  Speaker 2: My party will speak with anyone in charge.
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  Speaker 6: This is missing person's Sergeant Friday, won't please.
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  Speaker 2: Miss is LASKI ready with your calls Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Hello, Hello, here's your party.
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  Speaker 9: Go ahead, please, operator, Yes, madam? Could you please give
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  Speaker 9: me the charges for this call? I'm using my neighbor's phones, All.
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  Speaker 2: Right, madam? The signal when your call is completed, Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I'll do that. Go ahead to hello, Hello, are you
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  Speaker 2: missing persons?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am. Sergeant Friday, this missus Hanna Alaski.
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  Speaker 2: I'm calling you from Falcon Green, Utah.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am, this is in regard to my daughter, wan
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  Speaker 6: Nita Alaski.
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  Speaker 9: I haven't heard from her in well over a month,
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  Speaker 9: and I'm terribly worried.
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  Speaker 6: Where was she staying in Los Angeles, Mislaski?
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  Speaker 2: At the Chelsea Hotel for Women.
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  Speaker 9: I have the address at nine four one in South
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  Speaker 9: Melrose Street. I can't understand it. Ever since Vanita's been
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  Speaker 9: away from home, she's written twice a week regularly.
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  Speaker 6: When's the last time you heard from her?
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  Speaker 9: The last letter I have is postmark November seconds. You
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  Speaker 9: know how it is, Sergeant. We have no relatives in
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  Speaker 9: Los Angeles, and and she's trying to find work down there,
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  Speaker 9: living all alone.
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  Speaker 6: I just don't know how to do, all right, Mislaski.
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  Speaker 6: I'll take her description over the phone and make out
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  Speaker 6: a preliminary report. You'll have to send us a photograph
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  Speaker 6: your daughter and a letter to the effect that you
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  Speaker 6: want us to trace her.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get the letter on the snapshot off today.
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  Speaker 6: Now what your daughter look like? What's your full name?
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  Speaker 2: Marie Laski?
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  Speaker 6: Ask e y no, no, no, no, no? All right?
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  Speaker 6: Her age, weight, and height.
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  Speaker 9: She was twenty six last July tenth, one hundred and
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  Speaker 9: twenty eight pounds and.
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  Speaker 2: About my height.
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  Speaker 6: How tall are you Mislaski?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, oh yeah, and five seven inches. She has auburn hair,
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  Speaker 2: it is quite long, and her eyes are green.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, I got it. Any outstanding scars, birthmarks, anything, it
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  Speaker 6: might help us identifier. But what's that I say, Any
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  Speaker 6: outstanding scars, birthmarks, anything it might help us identifier?
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  Speaker 2: No one. He is a pretty girl, nice disposition. That's
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  Speaker 2: about all, Sagan.
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  Speaker 6: Where can we contact you, Mislaski, One to.
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  Speaker 9: Two Brigham Young Street, Fountain Green, Utah. When you find
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  Speaker 9: I should have her call me right away.
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  Speaker 2: I'll pay for the call.
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  Speaker 6: We'll do that, Mislaski. What's your number up there?
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  Speaker 9: This is the neighbor's phone, but you'll call me. It's
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  Speaker 9: fount Queen fourteen R two.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You will try to find her as fast as you can.
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  Speaker 6: We'll go to work on it.
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  Speaker 2: Well. Juanita always comes home for the Christmas holidays. Do
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  Speaker 2: you think she's all right?
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't worry about it, ven as Laski. We'll call
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  Speaker 6: you as soon as we get any kind of a
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  Speaker 6: lead on her.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you so much, sergeant, And if it is any.
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  Speaker 2: Charge, I'll be glad to pay it.
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  Speaker 6: No charge. If your daughter's in Los Angeles, I think
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  Speaker 6: we can find her.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, if there's anything wrong, you'll let me know right away.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am, you're very kind. Goodbye bye. What you got Jill?
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  Speaker 6: Some girls? Her mother a letter? Come on, Ben, just
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  Speaker 6: a routine call. We made the usual check the morgue,
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  Speaker 6: all the hospitals, the county jail, and then we went
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  Speaker 6: through the repeater file. We found a Janita Laski and
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  Speaker 6: the files, but the agent description didn't match. We put
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  Speaker 6: that lead in the discard. After the usual paperwork, the
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  Speaker 6: next step was to check her last known residence, the
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  Speaker 6: Chelsea Hotel for Women.
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  Speaker 7: Here it is Joe Chelsea Hotel and fifty.
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  Speaker 6: Five rooms all outside. You're home away from home. Now
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  Speaker 6: let's go in.
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  Speaker 10: Chelsea Hotel.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you?
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  Speaker 6: Here's a bell.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, sir, may I help you?
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  Speaker 6: We're looking for a miss. Want need to ask you.
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  Speaker 10: I'll ring her room. Whom shall I say? Is calling?
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  Speaker 6: Is she in?
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  Speaker 10: I believe so? I just saw her about an hour though.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, would you ring her room? Please?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir?
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  Speaker 10: And whom shall I say is calling.
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  Speaker 6: My name's Friday.
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  Speaker 11: All right, mister Friday, just a moment. Do you wish
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  Speaker 11: to speak with her on the phone? Or shall I
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  Speaker 11: have her come down?
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  Speaker 6: Ask her to come down if she doesn't mind.
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  Speaker 11: She doesn't seem to answer. That's funny, I'll ring again. No, sir,
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  Speaker 11: she doesn't seem to be in Would you like to
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  Speaker 11: leave him?
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  Speaker 6: An?
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  Speaker 7: Didn't you say you're sorry about an hour ago?
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  Speaker 6: Yes?
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  Speaker 10: I did. She must have gone out again.
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  Speaker 6: I wonder if we could check her room.
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  Speaker 10: Oh no, gentlemen are not allowed about the main lobby.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry man. We're from the police Department Missing Persons.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Sergeant Friday. This is Sergeant Romero.
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  Speaker 10: Oh you men are from missing Persons?
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  Speaker 6: Did you say yes, ma'am?
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  Speaker 11: Well, I'm sure Janit has just stepped out for a moment.
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  Speaker 11: If you'd care to wait here in the lobby, I haven't.
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  Speaker 6: Got much time, ma'am. We appreciate it. If you'd show
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  Speaker 6: us her.
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  Speaker 10: Room, certainly, I'll get to passy. That's two fifteen. The
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  Speaker 10: elevator is right this way.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 10: What seems to be the trouble. Some friend of Juanita
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  Speaker 10: is missing?
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  Speaker 7: No, ma'am, Well, Anita, Juanita.
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  Speaker 10: I don't understand her.
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  Speaker 6: Mother's a little worried about her.
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  Speaker 11: Down this way here we are.
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  Speaker 10: No one day. She didn't hear the phone. She's in
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  Speaker 10: the shower.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 7: Would you wrap on the bathroom door and tell you
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  Speaker 7: we'd like to talk.
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  Speaker 6: To her soon as she's through. Well, wait out here
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  Speaker 6: in the.
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  Speaker 12: Hall, Juanita, Juanita. There are two gentlemen here to see you. Juanita, Juanita.
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  Speaker 12: I'm coming in. It's miss Waters, sergeant.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, there's no one in the shower.
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  Speaker 6: What's running, isn't it?
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  Speaker 10: Yes? And I see a road and towel all laid out.
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  Speaker 6: You better take a lettle around, turn off the shower even. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: she must have left in a hurry.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, here's a fresh change of clothing on the bed.
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  Speaker 6: Where's the closet, ma'am, Miss.
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  Speaker 7: Dor Yes, that's right, lords, it's full of floor.
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  Speaker 6: There's a couple of pieces of luggage in there.
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  Speaker 10: This isn't like Oneita. Funny, isn't it you.
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  Speaker 6: Say you saw about an hour ago?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 7: I did, coming in and going out.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, coming in, I thought you have room service here. Yes,
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  Speaker 11: we have a coffee shop downstairs.
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  Speaker 6: Uh, huh. Portray of food here on the table hasn't
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  Speaker 6: been touched. Coffee's still warm. Shut that radio off when
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  Speaker 6: you've been well? Could you have gotten out of the
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  Speaker 6: building without you seeing her?
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  Speaker 10: No, we don't have a rear entrance.
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  Speaker 7: Sure you didn't see her go out the front door
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  Speaker 7: just before we got here?
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  Speaker 10: No, no, I did not.
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  Speaker 6: How about our mail? She been picking it up lately.
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  Speaker 10: I think so we can check that down at the desk.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, here's some letters postmark Utah. Return that dress, Missus
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  Speaker 8: h Laski's money.
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  Speaker 6: Let me see that only've been This is one of
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  Speaker 6: your telephone message forms.
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  Speaker 10: Let me see.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Yes, that's right, says long distance call operator, too fine, Green, Utah.
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  Speaker 6: According to this slip, this call was received at one
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  Speaker 6: twenty five to day.
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  Speaker 10: May I see that?
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  Speaker 6: Certainly?
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  Speaker 11: Yes, that said is writing. Missus Tullison took that call.
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  Speaker 11: She relieves me for lunch.
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  Speaker 7: And do you know whether she returned this call?
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  Speaker 10: Well, if she did, there'll be a record down at
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  Speaker 10: the desk.
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  Speaker 6: Uh huh. Now you're positive that you saw one need
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  Speaker 6: Laski an hour ago?
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  Speaker 10: Yayow, I'm sure just about an hour ago.
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  Speaker 6: Five feet seven, one hundred and twenty pounds, green eyes, red.
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  Speaker 10: Hair, red hair. Oh no, jan it ITA's a blonde.
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  Speaker 6: Her mother told us that Janede Alaski had red hair.
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  Speaker 6: Now we weren't too surprised. A lot of women changed
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  Speaker 6: the color of their hair. It would make identification a
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  Speaker 6: little more difficult, but not impossible. We checked down at
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  Speaker 6: the desk. Jan need Alaski had picked up all our mail,
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  Speaker 6: but she had not answered that long distance phone called
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  Speaker 6: a fountain Green. The next step was to question some
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  Speaker 6: of the people in the Chelsea Hotel who knew Jania.
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  Speaker 6: We tried room two seventeen.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, oh, Gloria, these many police officers.
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  Speaker 10: They wanted to ask you some questions. Oh yes, Is
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  Speaker 10: it all right for them to yes? Yes, of course,
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  Speaker 10: this is an exception. Won't you come in?
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  Speaker 6: Thank you? What's your name?
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  Speaker 10: Miss Gloria Edgerton.
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  Speaker 6: You know one need Alaski?
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  Speaker 10: Yes, I know her. She has the room right next.
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  Speaker 2: Door to me.
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  Speaker 6: You've seen her today?
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  Speaker 10: No, I haven't. I've been out doing my Christmas shopping.
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  Speaker 6: Why we were trying to locate her, Miss Edgington.
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  Speaker 10: Wasn't she in her room? I thought I heard her
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  Speaker 10: shower going.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah she did, but she wasn't in there. When was
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  Speaker 6: the last time you saw last night?
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  Speaker 10: At dinner? We always eat dinner together.
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  Speaker 6: Did she say anything it might lead you to believe
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  Speaker 6: that she was going anywhere today?
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  Speaker 13: No, she said she might do some Christmas shopping today.
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  Speaker 13: So I suggested she go with me. She agreed.
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  Speaker 10: She said she let me know this morning. Did she No,
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  Speaker 10: she didn't.
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  Speaker 13: I just assume that maybe she was sleeping in, so
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  Speaker 13: I went on alone. Are you sure she hasn't just
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  Speaker 13: stepped out?
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  Speaker 10: We don't know.
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  Speaker 8: You're just going down to the corner. It's a little
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  Speaker 8: unusual to leave the shower, running, the radio on and
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  Speaker 8: let your lunch get cold?
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  Speaker 10: Did she do that?
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  Speaker 6: How long has mond'a had blonde hair?
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  Speaker 13: Well ever since I've known, about six months. We moved
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  Speaker 13: in here together. We work at the same place.
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  Speaker 6: Where's that miss Egington at.
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  Speaker 10: The Cadget Building. We're elevator operators.
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  Speaker 6: I see who's your immediate superior down there, Darling camp
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  Speaker 6: She's cheap starter? Mm M, you got that, ben m.
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  Speaker 6: She have many dates?
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  Speaker 10: No, not too many. Juanita likes to go steady.
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  Speaker 6: Who was her steady boyfriend?
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  Speaker 13: Paul Matthews. He works in the Cogitt Building too. He's
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  Speaker 13: in the dental ab for Dr. Welde, sixty floor.
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  Speaker 6: Is there anything else that you'd like to add that
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  Speaker 6: might help us find her?
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  Speaker 10: Well? Are you sure she's lost?
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  Speaker 6: The Plagett Building is in the heart of downtown Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 6: It's a business and professional building. The cornerstone says erected
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  Speaker 6: in nineteen twenty four and it stands twelve stories high.
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  Speaker 6: The main entrance is on Hill Street.
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  Speaker 14: Carpee, all right, Harry, going up, Harpy.
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  Speaker 6: Are you Darlene Camp?
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  Speaker 10: Yes, just mode pass going up?
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  Speaker 2: All right, Dora, I help you.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Sergeant Friday, Police Department. That is Sage of Romel. Yes,
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  Speaker 6: one need to last you work for you?
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  Speaker 10: Yes, she does. She's one of my operators.
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  Speaker 6: When's the last time you saw anything wrong? No? No,
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  Speaker 6: we're just trying to locate her. Well, you just.
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  Speaker 10: Missed her about forty five minutes, all right, Sylvia. She
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  Speaker 10: was in to pick up a check.
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  Speaker 6: You know where she cashes with Jack.
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  Speaker 10: Most of the girls cashing out the bank on the corner.
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  Speaker 10: There's only one around here over run eight.
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  Speaker 6: You say, about forty five minutes ago. Yes, that's right,
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  Speaker 6: Thanks very much, Miss Camp. Come on Ben going up.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Marian.
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  Speaker 6: Banks not far from here. It is kind of funny.
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  Speaker 6: And then what's that her room? The shower, the radio
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  Speaker 6: at lunch ro pulled it out in a hurry. What
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  Speaker 6: do you think? I don't know what to figure. It's
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  Speaker 6: a new one on me. She's alive, we know that,
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  Speaker 6: and she was forty five minutes ago.
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  Speaker 7: Anyway, Christmas is here, Santy closing.
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  Speaker 6: It's chimney. Yeah, no, I beg your pardon, sir. That's
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  Speaker 6: all right.
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  Speaker 15: Merry Christmas.
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  Speaker 6: Same to you here, we aren't you guess we better
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  Speaker 6: check with the manager. Huh, yeah, you the manager. I'm
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  Speaker 6: the assistant manager.
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  Speaker 7: Can I help you?
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  Speaker 6: Police department? Yes, I'd like to find out if has
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  Speaker 6: been cast here within the hour. Yes, son.
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  Speaker 7: What's the party's name?
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: Lasky Wanita hayro old check Clagett Building. Yes, I know,
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: miss LASKI.
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: If you'll step behind the counter, I'll get the check.
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: Thank you, If you'll just wait right here, okay, thanks.
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: I wonder why she stopped riding to her mother.
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: It's a good question. When we find her, we'll ask.
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: Her wonder if anything was wrong where she were.
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: No, I didn't seem to be we'll check back there
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: when we finish here.
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that boyfriend Paul Matthews too.
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well here's our man.
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: Yes, uh, here's the canceled check.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: I okay, did you sure it's the same girl.
• 17:35
  Speaker 8: Blonde girl elevator operator in the Claggett building.
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: Was she alone? I think so? Did she appear in
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: normal No?
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: No, she didn't seem to be as friendly as she
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: usually is. Huh does she have an account here? She
• 17:48
  Speaker 8: did have a small savings account here, but she closed
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: it out about a month ago.
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: I see, and here's our card.
• 17:53
  Speaker 8: If you should have him to see her again and
• 17:54
  Speaker 8: give us a call, I'll do that, Thank you very much,
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: entirely welcome.
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas.
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: We went back to the Claggett building. Ben called the
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: Chelsea Hotel from the phone booth in the lobby of
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: the building. Miss Waters, the manager was keeping a sharp lookout.
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: But Wan need A LASKI had not been heard from.
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: Paul Matthews worked in a dental lab for a doctor Wellie.
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: His office was number six thirty seven.
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: Yes, Telem Malpey, we'd like to see Paul Matthew. I'm
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: Paul Matthews. We're from Missing Person Police Department. Sergeant Friday,
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: I'm sergeant from Maryland. Yes, sir, Do you know what
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: jan need Alaski?
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir. When's the last time you saw her?
• 18:38
  Speaker 16: Saturday night? We went to a show. Is it something wrong?
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: We're trying to locate her. Do you see a lot
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: of each other?
• 18:43
  Speaker 16: Yes, we do.
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: I don't understand Laski disappeared from a hotel a couple
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: hours ago.
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: Thought maybe you might know where she is.
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: No, I don't. Today's a day off. Maybe she's out shopping.
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: Has Onanita done anything wrong?
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: No, it's just that her mother hasn't heard from her
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: for quite some time.
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: I can explain that an elevator operator here in the building.
• 19:01
  Speaker 8: That's how I met her. They don't make much money,
• 19:03
  Speaker 8: you know. Yeah, she was having a hard time making
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: ends meet. She sends money home to a mother every
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: month or so, and besides that, she's got to pay
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: rent and buy clothes and heat.
• 19:12
  Speaker 16: Is pretty rough.
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: She seemed desponding Overallly.
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: No, I wouldn't say that, but she was kind of
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: unhappy about not getting a raise.
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: Do you have any outside Joe, No, so she didn't.
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: What kind of a girl is she What do you
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: mean cheerful, good natured? Oh sure, fine, girl, we get
• 19:29
  Speaker 8: along swell. I still don't get it. Well, maybe there's
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: nothing to it, just routine.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: Chay.
• 19:33
  Speaker 16: I hope she's all right. When did all this come.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: Up a couple of hours ago? We might have to
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: check back with you if I can help. Okay, thanks
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: for the information. Here's our card. If you hear from him,
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: what give us a ring?
• 19:45
  Speaker 16: You don't suppose anything's happened to her.
• 19:47
  Speaker 8: That's what we're trying to find out. Goodbye, Miss Matthew.
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: When we got back to Central Division, we had a
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: full description of one ed Alaski teletype to all outlines
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: stations in the metropolitan area of Los Angeles. We also
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: put out an APB. We double checked the Repeater file
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: and the Wanderer file. We made out a full report
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: in our findings to date. During the next eight days,
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: we located a missing husband for a wife in Memphis, Tennessee.
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: We picked up a runaway boy missing from his home
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: in Reno, Nevada, and a seventy nine year old veteran
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: of the Spanish American War who left his home in Bakersfield,
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: California because he didn't like his daughter in law's cooking.
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: But juan Aida A. Laski was still a mystery. For
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: eight days, we checked and rechecked all our known friends
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: and habits. We went back over the course a dozen times,
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: but no trace. It was almost as if she had
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: ceased to exist. That day in the Chelsea Hotel, the
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: letter and photograph from her mother had arrived and we
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: circulated it to cities all over the country. Her mother
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: wrote that during the war Juanita was a whack corporal.
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: We put a tracer through to the war department. That
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: way we'd have another photo and a full set of fingerprints.
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: Well, where do you want to start today?
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: I'll get it. Missing Person's Friday, Joe, This is Spencer
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: over in the Morgue. Yeah, Archie, you.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Still looking for that girl? What's your name, Ramona Laski?
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: Janita? Yeah, and just had one brought in.
• 21:11
  Speaker 16: Looks like you're a girl to me.
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: The City Morgue is located in the basement of the
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: Hall of Justice on West Temple Street, across the street
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: from the City Hall. A lot of missing person's cases
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: in right here. Archie. Spencer met us at the door.
• 21:27
  Speaker 16: Hi, Joe, how's the wife.
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: Ben. Oh fine, Archie over here, Joe Cooler twenty.
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: Three, give me a hand. Huh, that's her, isn't it?
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: When's you's going to be posted as soon as your
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: fingerprint man gets here? Yeah, that's Romona Laski, isn't it?
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: Wa one Eta?
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: I mean no, No, that's not her. Archie? You sure? Yeah?
• 21:55
  Speaker 17: I was almost positive. Sure looks like this picture in
• 21:58
  Speaker 17: your bulletin.
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, it looks a lot like the picture, but
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: it's not. One. Need to ask you.
• 22:02
  Speaker 17: Five foot seven, green eyes, blonde hair, about one to
• 22:06
  Speaker 17: thirty h how close can you get? Look at the face?
• 22:12
  Speaker 17: You sure that's not her?
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm sure. Look at her hair, the roots, Yeah,
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: they're blonde all the way down. They ought to be dark.
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: Our girls of bleachs blonde. Yeah, I see what you mean.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: Look at her right hand index and middle fingers, heavy
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: nicotine stains. Our girl didn't smoke, archy, Yeah, I see
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: what you mean. Yes, I was wrong. That's not Ramona.
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: One need to come on Ben. That afternoon, we got
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: another phone call from Fountain Green, Utah. One need tol
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: Aski's mother. We told her we hadn't found any trace
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: of her daughter. It was a hard job. We had
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: answered calls like this before, but maybe it was just
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: the season of the year. Somehow we felt that we
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: had to find one. Need to ask you by Christmas
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: for what every angle we could think of. We kept
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: close watch on all incoming reports. We stayed in close
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: contact with her friends and Miss Waters at the Chelsea Hotel.
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: Regardless of the name on the incoming reports. We checked
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: every set of fingerprints against those we had received on
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: Wanita Laski from the War Department. Still no trace. December
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: twenty third, we checked in for work at eight thirty am.
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: Chief Ed Baxtrand wanted to see us, but a little
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: something on the Lasky girl might help you.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: What is it?
• 23:29
  Speaker 14: Kevin man by the name of Willard Harris owns a
• 23:31
  Speaker 14: bar out in Pomona. Phoned in this morning. Now found
• 23:34
  Speaker 14: a woman's handbag left in the bar, driver's license made
• 23:37
  Speaker 14: out to Juanit Alaski. Why do you think the call
• 23:40
  Speaker 14: that he's got a television set in this bar? Saw
• 23:43
  Speaker 14: the Lastki girl's picture on Sergeant Rosenquist broadcast last night.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: How about the girl says he can't place her. You
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: better hop out and pick up that purse. Willard Harris
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: owned the Mission Trail bar was in the bus terminal
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: in the heart of Pomona. The Christmas traffic was heavy
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: all the way out Garvey Boulevard. It was ten forty
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: five when we pulled up in front of the bar.
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: Willard Harris was inside taking a liquor inventory when we
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: walked in. How'd you do you missed, hare?
• 24:11
  Speaker 15: Yes, that's right, you fellas with General Liquors.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: Los Angeles Police Department. My name's Friday. Is the size romeyl.
• 24:18
  Speaker 15: Oh say let him know you boys? Yeah, I call
• 24:21
  Speaker 15: Los Angeles this morning.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: We came right out.
• 24:24
  Speaker 15: See how about a little eye opener. Got some fine
• 24:27
  Speaker 15: Irish whiskey?
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: No thanks, mister Harris. How about your partner there? No?
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: Thank you?
• 24:33
  Speaker 15: All right, boys, I guess you want that purse?
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: Huh yes? Please?
• 24:36
  Speaker 15: Yeah, Hey, are just as I found it. I opened
• 24:41
  Speaker 15: it up to get the owner's name, but that's all.
• 24:43
  Speaker 15: Didn't touch a thing.
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: Oh kay, thanks mister Harris. You said that you didn't
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: remember seeing a woman who left this.
• 24:47
  Speaker 15: No I don't HERB works with me here. He might
• 24:51
  Speaker 15: have seen her, but he didn't. I asked him to
• 24:53
  Speaker 15: night we found it.
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: How long goo did you find this purse, oh bit
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: a part of two weeks, a little closer to a week, Yeah,
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: about eight days ago.
• 25:02
  Speaker 15: I usually hold something like this for thirty days. That's
• 25:05
  Speaker 15: the lawyer, you know. Yeah, that I saw that fell
• 25:08
  Speaker 15: on the television and that Missing Person's program.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: That's how come I called you boys. Well, thanks very much,
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: mister Harris, and.
• 25:14
  Speaker 15: Door boys, he called out this morning. Sure you don't
• 25:19
  Speaker 15: want a little.
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: Nit, No, thanks, mister Harris, goodbye. We checked the personnel
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: at the bus terminal, but none of them seemed to
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: recognize one Oede Laski's photograph. We checked the contents of
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: her purse, but we found nothing unusual. Four one dollar
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: bills and some change and the normal things women carried.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: Since it was money in the bag, we felt sure
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: that one Aidea Laski had lost the purse herself. That
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: meant that she was alive eight days ago, two days
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: after she walked out of a Chelsea hotel. It's an
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: home print. That's the only print carried on a California
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: driver's license. It matched the same print on the War
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: Department record. It didn't prove anything except that all the
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: evidence tied in and belonged to the girl we were
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: looking for one aid to Laski the next morning, December
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: twenty fourth, which checked in for work at eight thirty. Warning,
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: be all right, Joe, here's a digital of course, you know,
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: and check them. Here's a mess of them. Let's get
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: at him. You look through any of them? You no, not, chet,
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: I figured it work for you, all right. I'll take
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: caf Huh. Got any shopping don no? You?
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: Thanks, lunch Y'll most on some nice cards.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: If you are to send me one, yeah, I'll hand
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: it to you in the morning. Let's trade shaven lotions
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: like we did last year. If I get any, you
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: can get some. My kid's got a bottle all picked
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: out for It's called south Pool for that cool. Yeah,
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: just like feeling whey.
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: Oh, he's only a kid. Better and he gets older,
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: we'll do it.
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: Tell him tip Proddy on the last ky case. Thanks Holmes, Ben,
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: listen to this. Yeah, Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Sacramento, here's
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: a kickback on our APB. Yeah what you said reading
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: your APB number forty three. On twelve, twelve forty eight,
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: our records disclosed that one he Alaski applied for a
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: position of civilian clerk at Marchfield, California, US Army Air
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: Base using alias Gene Davis. How about the thing print classification? Yeah,
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: let me find it. Yeah, fpc key nineteen primary thirty
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: two over thirty two in her over outer final fifteen
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: over seventeen French check.
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: Got that's a girl, Joe.
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: The Sacramento report stated that Jean Davis had applied for
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: government work at Marsfield, California. Well, a couple of things
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: dropped into place. Her purse had been found in Pomona,
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: that's right on the main highway from Los Angeles to Riverside,
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: and the application for a job at the Army air
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: base a few miles beyond Riverside. We put through a
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: long distance phone call and they told us that Jean
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: Davis was employed there as a civilian clerk, but failed
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: to show up for work that morning.
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: It seems like we run free, shout of luck, aver
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: trip nutting.
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: We get so close and then she's gone again.
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: What do you think she's on the goal for?
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: If I could figure that I could find her, I'll
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: get it. Missing persons Friday. Yeah, we'll be right over.
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: We didn't find her, but she's been found. Want need
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: Laski just walked into the Chelsea Hotel. We went over
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: to the Chelsea Hotel. Technically our job was completed. Now
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: Wan need to Laski had been found. We went over
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: to make out a routine report. The streets were pretty
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: jammed with the last minute Christmas shoppers, so we walked
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: the last block to the hotel. What's your guests, Joe,
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: Let's ask her. Come on, let's go in. That looks
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: like her over by the desk there pretty well memorized
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: that face.
• 28:38
  Speaker 11: This is one little Laski. Sergeants fighting Sergeant Romera, Juanita, how.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Do you do?
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: Miss Lasky?
• 28:44
  Speaker 10: How do you do? I'm sorry, I'm terribly sorry. This
• 28:48
  Speaker 10: Water's told me.
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: Do you mind telling us? Where have you been?
• 28:52
  Speaker 10: Sergeant?
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 28:53
  Speaker 10: These last twelve days have been a complete loss to me.
• 28:56
  Speaker 10: This Water's told me what happened. I went over to
• 28:58
  Speaker 10: see my doctor said I had temporary amnesia.
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: I see what's your doctor's name, Miss Lasky?
• 29:04
  Speaker 10: Doctor redno gon cringehaw.
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: Oh, we're glad you're okay. You kind of had us
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: going there for a while. I'm sorry, Can I use
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: your phone? Miss Water?
• 29:12
  Speaker 10: Oh? Certainly, help yourself.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Long distance.
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: I'd like to place a person. The person called a
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: Missus Hannah Laski, Fountain Green, Utah. That number is fourteen R.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Two Fountain Green, Utah, fourteen R two.
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: That's right. You're name and number please, Joe Friday and
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: this is Hampstead eight five nine four.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Thank you raid operator, Fountain Green, Utah rout and night
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: person rate from Los Angeles, DC, Mount Pleasant, Salt Lake
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: night person one for all through Salt Lake, Salt Lake
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Mount Pleasant Mount Pleasant Fountain Green A Fountain Green fourteen
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: R two. Missus Hannah Laski, Los Angeles, California calling. Thank
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: you bringing up Hello, Missus Hannah Laski please, Los Angeles,
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: California calling.
• 30:25
  Speaker 7: Oh yes, yes, hang on, I'll get her.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Waiting on your party, sir.
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: Thanks getting through all right here, Lucky Christmas Eve?
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Hello, hello, Hello hello Ms Laski. Yes, just a minute,
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: Miss Lasky Anita, Yes, you're wanted on the phone.
• 30:43
  Speaker 10: Oh who is it?
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: Just say hello, She'll take it from there. Let's go then.
• 30:50
  Speaker 10: Hello, Yes, hello mother, come on.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Ben, I'm all right mother. It's so good to say it.
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: More Joe, Merry Christmas. Yeah it is in it.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: The story you have just heard is true, only the
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: names were changed to protect the innocent.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Upon further examination by competent medical authorities, jannied Alaski was
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: found to be suffering from periodic spells of amnesia. She
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: was given treatment and a complete cure was effected. You
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: have just heard the eighth and a new series of
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: authentic cases from official files. Technical advice for Dragnet is
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: furnished by the Los Angeles Police Department.
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: Tonight's program is dedicated to Corporal Grady A. Beecham of
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: the ninth Precinct Metropolitan Police Force, Washington, DC, who, on
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: the night of December two, nineteen forty eight, gave his
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: life so that yours might be more secure.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: Dragnet came to you from Los Angeles. This is NBC,
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: the National Broadcasting Company.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. As I said at the top of the show,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: it's a Christmas episode, even if it was released in July.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: It's not quite the Christmas classic of something like The
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Big Little Jesus, but it certainly has as much atmosphere
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: as many other specials honor Christmas, feed and and Friday
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: and Romero's termination to solve the case is driven by
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: the holiday, and the ending to the episode is pure Christmas,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: with Friday delivering a Christmas miracle to Missus Laski and
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: exiting the scene. Dragnet is still dedicated to realism, and
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: so it shows us all the details of the missing
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: person's investigation and that the investigation didn't achieve anything, which
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: would have been the case in the story. This episode
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: was based on finding someone who doesn't want to be
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: found in an area as large both in population and
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: land area as the Greater Los Angeles area is a
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: huge challenge, although the episode does reference a new tool
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: in the policeman's toolkit for the time, television, which helped
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: them find the purse, But those sort of taps are
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: always shots in the dark that depend on people watching
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: the right TV shows and being able to provide the
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: information that you need. Ultimately, she had a mental health
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: issue and disappeared for reasons that we don't fully understand,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: with the only explanation being temporary amnesia and a shrug,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: which works well enough for that time and would probably
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: be as good as you could get seventy five years ago. Today,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: using the resources and psychological research we have available, they
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: would probably reach some other conclusion as to what caused
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: this sort of mental break if given the opportunity to interview,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: though I don't think a professional just listening to this
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: episode and hearing about her behavior and her brief on
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: airtime could really reach any conclusions about it. Now, if
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: you do want to hear the Big Little Jesus, I
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: want to encourage you. You can check that out. It
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: is on our Christmas feed and you can find that
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  Speaker 1: Christmas feed dot Great Detectives dot net. It's not terribly
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  Speaker 1: too far down, and of course we'll be returned to
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  Speaker 1: playing that next year. But I thought that this was
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  Speaker 1: worth playing and including our Christmas feed. All right, well,
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  Speaker 1: listener comments and feedback now, and we have some comments
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  Speaker 1: on the Big Grandma or one I should say this
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  Speaker 1: comes from the line's eye on Spotify, who writes the
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  Speaker 1: Big Grandma. That's why I don't commit a crime. They
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  Speaker 1: would call it the middle aged balding man. Not only
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  Speaker 1: would I be locked up, but my feelings would also
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  Speaker 1: be hurt. As long as it keeps you from a
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  Speaker 1: life of crime, I guess that's all that matters.
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  Speaker 6: I will say that.
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  Speaker 1: I occasionally see various mugshots online, and there are some
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  Speaker 1: people who just look very obviously memorable. And I've thought
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  Speaker 1: that that is another good reason other than all the
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  Speaker 1: moral reasons not to become a criminal, because I would
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  Speaker 1: be too easily recognized because I'm just not nondescript enough.
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  Speaker 1: And then we have some comments on The Big Quack.
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  Speaker 1: Brains Benton wrote over on Instagram, this was a fun episode.
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  Speaker 1: I used to work in a movie theater and the
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  Speaker 1: projectionist did tend to be big thinkers and big drinkers.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was because they sat up in the
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  Speaker 1: booth by themselves for hours and it was noisy in
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  Speaker 1: the booths, just like dragging that portrayed. I think new
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  Speaker 1: theaters are digital now, so not as noisy anymore. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for the insight. And then also a couple of quick
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  Speaker 1: comments over on YouTube regarding that same episode, The Big Quack.
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  Speaker 1: Betsy wrote, good episode and educational. Two Brooke wrote great
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  Speaker 1: episode and based on a true story. And I would
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  Speaker 1: add that even though it's a true story from nineteen
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  Speaker 1: forty nine or nineteen fifty, there are, you know, change
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  Speaker 1: a couple details, and the whole scenario of the Big
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  Speaker 1: Quack could happen today, and in some form or another
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  Speaker 1: probably does then we have a couple of comments regarding
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  Speaker 1: the Mystery Theater episode with Horstone of the Desk Squad.
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  Speaker 1: Frankie writes, finding the murderer through a typewriter reminds me
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: of an episode of Murder, she wrote, and Betsy writes,
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  Speaker 1: what a series I haven't heard with some of my
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: favorite voices. I was lamenting the lack of new mister
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  Speaker 1: chameleons and I found this. Thank you, well, thanks so much.
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  Speaker 1: I am to please and I hope.
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  Speaker 10: That this was a little bit of a repra for
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  Speaker 10: those who are.
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  Speaker 1: Eagerly awaiting mister Chameleon's return to our lineup. Well, now
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  Speaker 1: it is time for us to go ahead and thank
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  Speaker 1: our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and thank Russell, Patreon supporter since October twenty sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: currently supporting the podcast at the shawmus level of four
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  Speaker 1: dollars or more per month. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: your support, Russell, and that will actually do it for today.
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  Speaker 1: Saturday with another episode of Dragnet. But join us back
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  Speaker 1: here tomorrow for a yours truly Johnny Dollar on to us, swear.
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  Speaker 6: How's it going this here? Santa?
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  Speaker 18: It's better than you, but it just seems it is
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  Speaker 18: never enough to go around no matter how well blas
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  Speaker 18: you son, Thank you, Cat, I'm mention, good luck Pop,
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  Speaker 18: Thank you sir. Wow, the city got to clean the
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  Speaker 18: streets better.
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  Speaker 6: I've been waiting for you.
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  Speaker 16: Sorry, Benny, it's not my day for punks.
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  Speaker 6: Get some friends want to talk to you.
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  Speaker 7: Start walking, Johnny Downe Alley, it's dock down there, Start walking.
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  Speaker 16: This ain't just my hand in my pocket.
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  Speaker 14: Better be Benny, with two cops standing up there on
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  Speaker 14: the porch watching you talking about there, ain't.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime.
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  Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.