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Dragnet: The Big Key (EP1592) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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it's time for today's episode of Dragnet. The original airdate May the twenty fifth
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of nineteen fifty. In the title The Big Key, the story you're about
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to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocence.
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Drag myth. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to Homicide Detail.
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A woman has been murdered, her identity unknown. The body shows the marks
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of a savage attack. Your job find the killers. Dragnet the document a
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drama of an actual crime. For the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with
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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, transcribed from official police files, from
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beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnet is the story of your
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police force in action. It was Sunday, December twenty fifth. It was
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raining in the Los Angeles. We're working a day watch out of Homicide Detail.
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My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is blame Steed captain a homicide.
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My name is Friday. Was thirty nine minutes past five am when I got
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to San Andreas Cathedral on First Street, Churchyard. Oh that's not pot the
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way there, Hi, Dave, Hi, Joe, body's over here,
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alright, Merry Christmas. Huh yeah, section from the church founded by an
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arago remember, look pretty brutal. Yes, okay, who wish you?
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No identification? The corner checked the body in. Yeah, how long you've
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been dead? We're gonna start rating about midnight, didn't Yeah, the grounds
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dry under the body opened dead five or six hours? I'd say, Ben
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get here yet. Yeah, he's helping Claudia check the area. And this
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park here just all a part of the church grounds. And I think so
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I was stuck out of this rain for a minute. There's an alcove over
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there by the church. Yeah, what not? How much we got to
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go one day? Not much motive looks like robbery, you know. Find
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a woman's person in the body pretty well picked over Chris's wet the Jones Destiny
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contents for Prince Corner's checking and the idea of what the killer used in the
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woman's face and coroner figures a sharp instrument or sometime nasty one. Yeah fight
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here, well, Hi Lee, you and everything happens on the Christmas Chris
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was soaking wet an ordinary black handbag and raised any prints on the stuff inside,
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No, no one, Yeah you can check the content. Thanks you
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let's see small comb boasted the teeth out of it. Three pinners, hairpins,
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mirror, lipstick. That's certainly a couple more things. This fountain panel,
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this door key, and i'm swing found them in the grass a few
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feet from the body. Now have a look at us. Yeah, it's
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an ordinary ballpoint fountain pin buy him in any drug stoff of sixty nine per
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cents. No center rushed on. The key must have been dropped recently.
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Maybe this will explain what happened to her face? Broken beer bottle? Why'd
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you find that last one? Found it back in the bushes over there?
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These jagged edges here smeared with blood too much rain can't do anything about princes
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till a drive and get enough from these smears to run a precipitate. Think
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so they kind of man? Yeah, man, what is it? Oh?
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Hi Joe, Hi Cardio found stead of footprints over with that trumpets shrobbery.
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Rain hadn't spoiled me. Did you cover them? Yeah? I think
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you can get a pretty good cash pro but get a picture of them right
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away. Hey, Charlie, why will your lady? I'll get the stuff
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from the car. Mind giving me a hand? Day most off. Well,
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this takes care of Christmas. Yoh yeah, you get a chance to
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check the body in what do you think? Well, there's no sign of
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struggle. Could have happened after a Christmas Eve brawl? Maybe, Yeah,
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whoever the victim is, she was probably acquainted with the killer. The two
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of'em came in the park and the victim got it before she knew what
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was happening. Might work easy if we find out who the victim is and
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we can check our prince to R and I when we get back to the
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office. What do those footprints look like? Seem like a heavy brand,
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maybe work shoes or some kind I wanna see how he's making a Yeah,
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let's go and miss Christmas dinner again this year. M what trains farm and
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family? Key? What do it was doing? There's a cheap pin you
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sell thousands and smoke. I think those things who helped him victor killer.
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I gotta find him very thank you. I don't know. Maybe we can
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work a switch signed the lock that fits the key. Nine am Christmas Day,
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Sergeant's Dave Royo, Robert Claudio Ben and I went back to the office
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and took stock of what we had to work with wasn't much. The woman
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had been murdered. Who was she? Why was she killed? Who was
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the killer? Dave and Claudio had the dead woman's fingerprints taken and they were
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run through the record bureau. Ben and I checked with Lee Jones at the
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crime lamb. The results of the precipitate test showed that the type of blood
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found on the broken beer bottle Matt's that of the victim. From the cast
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of the foot impressions found at the scene of the killing, Lee estimated that
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they were made by a person approximately five feet nine inches tall, weighing about
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one hundred and sixty pounds. He figured the foot gear must have been of
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a heavy type, either a boot or address shoe with thick double soles size
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eleven nine AM. We checked in a basement of the Hall of Justice the
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Colli Morgue. Doc, how's it going? Oh there at Joe. It's
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caused by movable fracture. The skulls flashing the face was a contributing spar as.
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I sent her close to Lee Jones. Yeah we know, no lung
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remarks. Ah, I got two things here. They will help me,
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they won't. Yeah, and the chemist report here in the blood analysis shows
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the victim of drinking. She was definitely under the influence at the time she
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was murdered, twelve hundred percent of alcohol in the blood. How about the
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murder weapon, Doc, We're gonna rule out that beer bottle and just coming
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to that step over here, Yeah, it's mark here in the front of
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her face, brown smudge. Well, Jones says that that shoe polish.
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He analyzed a few of the particles times in the cause of death was brought
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about by severe blows in my head and face. Heavy shoe, huh,
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that's my guess. Probably a boot or a workshoe that doesn't Nand you what
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do you mean they were heavy work shoes was wearing why would they probably how
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many people probably say work for you could be waterproof, you know. Jones
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says it was a brown paste polish unless the killer was wearing some kind of
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dress, boots, cycle boots. Maybe hundreds of kids on motorcycles were Yeah,
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that's going to be about as helpful as a key or a cheap fountain
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pen. Excuse me, Connie Moore and speaking, Yeah, all right,
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fine, I'll tell them cunning amatar, and I want to see you right
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away. What's up. They made the victims prince. During the war years,
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a complete file of pictures and fingerprints had been kept on all persons employed
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at local defense plans. Out of this file came our first major lead.
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The victim's fingerprints matched those of one Maria Camacho, thirty eight years old,
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formerly employed at Universal Aircraft. Her address in nineteen forty five was listed as
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ninety two thirty Sheridan Avenue. Ben and I went over to the crime lab,
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picked up the key and the fountain pen found near the body, and
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drove to the Sheridan Avenue address. The house was three blocks from the churchyard
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where the body was found. A young woman with a baby in her arms
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answered the door. She identified herself as Elena Gomez. She told us Maria
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Camacho was her aunt. They were expecting her for Christmas dinner late that afternoon.
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We told her what happened. When she recovered from the shock, we
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questioned her and her husband, the furniture worker. So high for me,
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Why anyone do this? Tori? When's the last time you saw her?
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Mister Kilmy, She was around last night, sargat. She brought the presents
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for the kids, always bought them preasents on Christmas? Did she live here?
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Was this her permanent address? She stayed with us during the war when
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Grady was overseat. When he came back, she took a room down the
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street. I didn't you give you address? What time did Maria leave the
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house last night? Oh, let's see, m's been around ten o'clock,
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not much later, don't you think, Lenna? About ten o'clock? Yeah,
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go see what those kids are doing? A ready? Did Maria have
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anything to drink here last night? Minute man? Yes, we're glad to
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share it together that call. Could you tell if she's been drinking before she
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came here? It was Christmas eve. I guess she's had a fear.
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Why was she a pretty heavy drinker? Not usually? No, maybe on
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holidays? So I really like to get up and have fun living alone all
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that? Really? Did she drink it home? Or was there some particular
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place she liked to go? I can't he down on Souda Street she used
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to go there. Any others? Just a couple of bars on Brooklyn Avenue.
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I know the names. What Maria do for a living in this domas?
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She took int some dressmaking with herself. She wasn't poor and rich.
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Her landlady could tell you about her friend. Kids are hungry one you're gonna
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call. Sorry that we had to break in on you like it? What's
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all right? Sorry, that's just the kids. Ask the officers if they
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want some mets pie rake, No, no, no, that's all right.
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May may thank you? Just one more thing? Would you look at
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please? Please pen? Sure that's Maria. Look great, Maria's pen?
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Now how about this key? Well, thanks very much, both of you.
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Sorry to hold up your dinner. That's all right. Hey maybe I
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could picture a turkey sandwich. Oh, thank you same. We have to
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be going. We'll contact you later on. Here's our card, all right.
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I can't think of a reason, sarge Hi, someone would kill us.
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I would kill Maria. Come on, nice kid, it's going to
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be having a good Christmas. Too bad we had to spoil it. We
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go down the street to the rooming house where Maria Camacho's stave. We talked
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to the land lady and the rest of the tenants and failed to come up
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with a lead. They told us Maria Camacho drank a little, but she
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was always pleasant, easy to get along with. We checked her room,
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we went through stacks of Spanish language newspapers and magazines. We went through her
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bills, photographs or letters. We found nothing. There wasn't an item in
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the small apartment that could help us. We went through the entire rooming house,
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trying each door with a key that we'd found for the body. Didn't
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fit any of them out, even the door to the victim's room. Five
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p m. There was a lull in the ring. We picked up Dave
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and Claudio and started to explore the only lead we had. The victim had
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been drinking a few hours before she'd been murdered, probably in the neighborhood tavern.
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For the next six hours, we canvassed every bar in the vicinity.
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Eleven fifteen p m. Christmas night, the four of us met in a
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combination bar a restaurant at Brooklyn and Soto for a byee. You had as
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much luck as we did. Nothing, Dave. Everybody we talked to knew
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the woman. Nobody saw at Christmas Eve, and we picked up the names
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of a dozen friends of hers from the bar down and checked them out.
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They couldn't tell us any well. We still got another dozen bars to cover.
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At least she must have been in one of them last night, I
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wish we'd find if my wife's sure, man, you've got company? Those
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mine? All right? Gentlemen, we had the girl hand sandwich I did
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all right, and three hamburgers. Yeah, there we go. I played.
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We got some ketchup. Please sure say you wouldn't like a little leg
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night to go with that? It's good. I make the battle man.
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Here's something you can do for her, Yes, sir? Would you look
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at this? Bet you all right? See if you've identify this woman?
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Sure looks like Maria? Yeah, that's her. You know it was you
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in here last night? You know? Yeah? She was. What time
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was she all about? Eleven eleven thirty? Y? Was she with somebody
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or half a dozen then at least Maria another woman and four or five men.
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Were they drinking? Well they were well behaved, just had a little
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Christmas chair that so they like my ignites? Or what time did Maria leave?
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You remember? Well? No, not exactly, but she left before
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the others they closed the place before it cuts she leave alone, Tony father
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at I think it must have been sometime around midnight. I'm not sure who's
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coney Tony Perez's he knows marine where's he now? Christmas is off lives in
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a hotel down the street someplace. I don't know. I'm fit. Maybe
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the key does. David Claudio started to check the neighborhood to locate the hotel
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where Tony Perez stayed. Ben and I continued our canvas of bars and restaurants
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in the area. One am, the rain started in again. We checked
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into the bar on Brooklyn Avenue near Cornwall. The cantenas and a loa,
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yes, sir, gentlemen, please helpers. Did you look at this picture?
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Please? If you can identify till I dry my hands. Let's just
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getting some of these glasses out of the way. Let's see. Did you
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never see her before? Oh? Yeah, that's my yea, too bad.
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I reading the papers about it. Can you tell us if she was
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in here last night? No, I didn't see how I've reading the papers
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about it, though terrible put him? Are you its possible she might have
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been in you didn't hear? No? I always know when Marie is here.
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She was always full of fun. She liked to sing. I better
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get these glasses then you won't call the office. You know? How about
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a drink? Sir? You you don't look so good. You got any
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coffee? It's not very fresh. She's been standing there a couple of hours.
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I'm sorry. Okay, here, here's the sugar, any thank you?
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Yeah, that's not very warm. Huh, that's okay. What do
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you think of it? Sir? The guy was crazy? I don't know.
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Ah, he must have been crazy. That's a nice rain. That's
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good for the farmers. Yeah. Shoot, did you ever see this key
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before? Let's see. I don't know. I go. Yeah, Davin
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Toodie who found a hotel to pick up ton Pere took him in. What
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do you tell him? He says, they're talking to him. No,
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he won't. Same way to find anything on him. He's wearing a pair
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of dark brown boots. Yeah, well, punished. You are listening to
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Dragnet. Is the case history of a police investigation. Monday, December twenty
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sixth nine am. We checked Tony Perez through R and I. He had
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a record of seven arrests but no convictions. During the past year, he'd
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been booked on suspicion of two to eleven PC assault with intent to do great
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bodily harm, second degree burgery. In each instance, he'd been released for
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a lack of evidence. All of his shoes and clothing were brought to the
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crime lab for examination. Nine five am, we brought Perez back to the
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interrogation room. He admitted that he had been with Maria Camacho Christmas Eve,
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but he denied having anything to do with her killing. He told us that
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after he had left Maria, he'd gone too a party at some friend's house.
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Dave and Claudio went out to check his story. I gave him the
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key found near the body and asked him to try it on the door to
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Perez's hotel room. Ben and I continued to question the suspect. How well
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did you know Maria montre TONI I told you already. She was just some
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old crow. We used to hang around the bar, that's all. I
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used to talk to her once in a while. Do you ever have any
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arguments with him? No, how many times you're gonna ask me that,
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it would help a lot if you could tell us exactly where you left Maria
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Christmas, even when you left it. I told you already. I don't
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remember exactly. We're drinking, We were all drinking. I don't remember.
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How'd you get to that boy? Oh? Walk place? John Malabar Street.
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Maria atopped at a bar someplace along the way, and that's the last
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time I saw. Did you go in with her? No? She went
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in alone and I went to the party. That's all I deterrogation room fright.
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Yeah. Check the polish and the spirit of polish and the victim's face
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wax components exactly the same. Good. How about the cast Nope, they
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didn't matter. The prince we cast out there besides eleven big heel press nine
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pretty small hill. What about the other stuff went over? The rest of
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the shoes was closed. Nutting the kaya Oh jaylie, thank you? You
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shine your own boots, Tony, No, why where do you get them?
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Shamed? I go to Angelo's Chicago Street right now. First, when's
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the last time you got a shame? Oh? Christmas Eve? What time
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Christmas? He's gone when I got off work? Two naf all right,
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Hi dad, she went outside of men Yeah, prays telling the truth about
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the party. He was there. We timed out. How long did it
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take him to walk from the restaurant for the party? Yeah, pretty close.
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His friends say, you got to the party about twelve thirty. Doesn't
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look like you had time to kill that woman. Where does that leave us?
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You still got those boots? No, no more, they don't.
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Ma's the impressions at the murder scene. It makes us even here's your keyback
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didn't fit. Tony Perez was held for further investigation. Dave and Claudio took
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up the canvassing of bars in the same area where we had left off the
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night before. Ben and I drove down to Angelo's shine stands. It stood
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just outside a barber shop, four chairs with an awning full of cigarette holes
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over him. He identified Maria Camacho's picture immediately. We questioned him while they
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polished their shoes. Marie I used to tell a sergeant running around like that,
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she had so many friends. Did you see Maria on Christmas Eve?
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Christmas Eve? Let me see no? No, last time was two days
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before Christmas? Angelo and you know a man with the name of Tony Perez,
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Sony Shure, Tony Perez talk fella big shows. Is you want to
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hear customers? Longest time he comes to see me? Was he here on
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Christmas? Even? So? Yeah, yeah, he was here. I
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gave him a shine Remember what kind of shoes he had on shore? Boots
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he always wears boots. What color were they? You know? Brown?
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Always West brown boots. Well, what's the matter in talb? What kind
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of police do you use in his boots? As long? Well, I
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got the cam down here, Yeah, here, I great polish. You
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got boats, I can fix them up. He use the same polish on
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all the boots you shine, Angel, only the brown boats. That's brown
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polish, you fella. There's too many questions, make me go through slow.
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There's no rush, Angelo, can you tell me this? Yeah?
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Besides Tony Perez, is there anybody else with brown boots who gotta shine from
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you? Christmas Eve? I don't know. Lots of people get shined and
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see it's pretty busy, and just the people with brown boot TAngelo? Can
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you remember? No, no, no, I don't think so. Tony
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was the only one with the brown boots. There's no artist. How about
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heavy brown shoes? Huh? Can you remember the people with heavy brown shoes
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that came in for shine? No, no, I don't know. I
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don't know. Look, please just letting me shine your shoes? Huh?
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That canon brown polychangalo you say, that's the kinds you use on Tony Perez's
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booth. Yeah, this kind of right here, Well, can you remember
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how many times you used that polish on Christmas Eve? Hell, I open
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this can that morning and see how much is gone? Maybe I use it
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all or maybe half a dozen times. Can you remember the people whose shoes
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called for this kind of polysh Lots of them brown shoes. I know the
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feet when I see him, I don't know the face. Don't you remember
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any of them? They like the Shine might be buying a buy they come
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back three polls. Maybe I see him before. I don't know the names.
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Okay, finished, You're I gonna shine? Oh yeah, fine,
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say I'm gonna buy that can of polish from the Angelo and we're gonna check
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back with you later. Okay, here, fine polish dogs best you can
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get. Yeah, but it rubs off. December twenty sixth five pm,
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we drove back to the crime lab and had Lee Jones analyze the can of
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shoe polish get masked exactly what the particles of shoe polish taken from the victim's
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body and from the boots of Tony Perez. We arranged for a stakeout of
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Angelo's Shine stands who takes the people with heavy brown shoes returned Angelo could point
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them out immediately to the men on duty. Five point thirty pm, Dave
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and Claudio called him. I thought they had another nibble, this time from
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the bartender els Adela tavern bar on Soto Street. We drove down to South
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Main and Harlem Place for a meet. Hi, Dan, Hi. Figured
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we'd better move on this tonight. What's the pitch. Bartender on Soto tip
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me that Maria Camacho was in his place. Christmas Eve said it was a
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little after midnight. H said she had a drink. Left the place about
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ten minutes past twelve with a guy called Frank Tallano nosed around from his Toronto
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works at the midnight mission over there. All right, let's go just hit
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there. Yeah, good friend's mission. Come in for a nice warm,
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spiritual bath, coffee and soup free. I watched the stairs, yea,
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yea brother. I only hope that I'm meeting here at part too. Clost
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and Major, the slow, the great and glorious light of the sets.
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And yes, brothers, if we be not born again of that light,
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as the book says, we will be damn, brother, damn, and
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then my brothers will sister. Michael Ferguson plays one of his doing marches.
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Let's join our brother the brother and march into the lunch room, where,
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through the kind graces and one of our benefactors, he wills is the Acropolis
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cap. He's one of you will be intire of a bold turkey suits and
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my sister Wilson's homemade bread and a cut of his Pockerguson too much men seeing,
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Yeah, let's go sure, pack him in with you. Smells what
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I'm doing? Excuse me? Brother? What police officers? Do you have
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a Frank Tolano working here? Well? What the trouble? Does he work
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there? Well? He has? He's a very good man, Frank.
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Anything wrong is he getting? No? He has? Where will we find
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him? While I like to know what the trouble is? We'd like to
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talk to him this year? So well, he has a rum a good
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friends Mission annex. That's so wuns on Peter Street. Is that his permanent
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residence, the mission annex? Yeah, Frank, very helpful. He worked
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for a small tower and we give him Roman board. Is he over at
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the Annix? Now? Yeah, maybe you'd better not see him now,
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officer. Well, well, Frank's nod at you've been drinking again? That's
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for sure signs. What do you mean. Well, whenever Frank starts drinking,
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that means that he's worrying. He's one of those thanks to forget him.
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He's been drinking for three days. He wants to have a lot to
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forget. Come on six thirty pm, we drove over to the Good Friend's
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Mission annex on San Pedro Street. The man in charge told us that Toronto
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had a small room to himself at the rear of the second floor. Dave
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and Claudio went around to cover the mission annex from the back. Ben and
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I went up a narrow flight of wooden stairs. Plain white plaster walls were
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chipped and cracked and scrawled with pencil markings. We walked down to the end
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of a wide hallway to a brown panel door with a transom above it.
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There was a man in soiled work clothes sitting on the bed. On the
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table next to them, there were three quart wine bottles, two of them
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were empty. Get out of here, you, Frank to Leno, what
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about it? Police officers like to talk to you. Get out of here
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and not taking me. I'll cut you to pieces. Drop the bottle to
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Leno, get out of here, Drop the bottle. I'll cut you to
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pieces like you cut Maria. I'll kill you. Put it down to Leno,
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drop it, get the cups on them. Yeah, let's go just
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a minute. Yeah, yeah, it fits. The story you I've just
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heard was true, only the names were changed to protect the innocent. On
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March seventh, trial was held in Superior Court Departments ninety four City and County
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of Los Angeles, State of California. In a moment the results of that
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trial, Frank Dominic Tolano was tried and convicted of first degree murder and sentenced
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to life imprisonment. He is now serving his term in the state penitentiary.
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You have just heard Dragnet a series of authentic cases from official files. Technical
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advice for Dragnet comes from the Office of Chief of Police W. A.
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Wharton, Los Angeles Police Department. Patty Page visits Jack Birch tomorrow morning on
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NBC Welcome back. Well, this would seem, having aired on May twenty
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fifth, to be about seven months early for Christmas episode. But this is
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something I talked about when we brought you the twenty two rifle for Christmas.
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Dragging It often did episodes that were set around Christmas. Even though they were
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aired nowhere around there, just to use to set a mode of the officer
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having to deal with all of this stuff in a time that's supposed to be
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about peace on earth, goodwill toward men, and kind of the effect it
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has on their family, their home life. Kind of touched on here very
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well also second straight week. In both this episode and The Big Pug,
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the real big focus of the episode is on the police taking next to nothing
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and assembling it into a case following the clues. It's not the big,
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brilliant deduction of the classic detectives or the tough guy stuff of the hard Boiled
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Bunch. Rather, it's men who are intelligent following the clues one by one
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with reasonable reasoning skills. You saw an example of that with Romero's observation about
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the boots and his rejection of the idea that these would be work boots.
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I think that is a very compelling sort of dragnet case. All right,
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on to listener comments and feedback. Marie Hoky tweets regarding episode fifteen eighty dumb
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da dumb, dumb, dumb dumb, da dumb dumb dumb dumb, This
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show rocks. Thank you. I think that was as much as the theme
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song as you could get on Twitter. Thanks so much though for the tweet,
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I do appreciate it. Marioki and Daniel chimes in regarding episode fifteen point
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eighty The Big Knife. This was a really good show, and indeed it
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was, just as I said, one of the best and very gripping and
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