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Dragnet: The Big Partner (EP4700) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: yourself now From March the first, nineteen fifty one, Here
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  Speaker 1: is the big Partner.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. The story you're about to hear is true.
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  Speaker 2: The names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're
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  Speaker 2: a detective sergeant to assign the robbery detail. A lone
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  Speaker 2: band that robs a jewelry store in broad daylight. He
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  Speaker 2: takes five thousand dollars in precious stones. He's reckless, he's
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  Speaker 2: well armed.
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  Speaker 3: Your job get him.
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  Speaker 4: Dragman the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
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  Speaker 4: next thirty minutes in cooperational Los Angeles Police Department, you
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  Speaker 4: will travel step by step on the side of the
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  Speaker 4: law through an actual case transcribed from official police violence,
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  Speaker 4: from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnet is
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  Speaker 4: the story of your police force and action.
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  Speaker 5: It was Tuesday, December second, was Chile in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 5: We were working a day watch out of robbery detail.
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  Speaker 5: My partner's Ben Romero, the boss is Captain Diddeon. My
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  Speaker 5: name is Friday. Was one forty eight pm when I
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  Speaker 5: got to the basement of the City Hall.
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  Speaker 6: The car pool.
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  Speaker 7: Y'all over here?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: Rank h hi Joe sixth Douglas Is that right?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: Better take Beverly Boulevard out. Huh right, I want to
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  Speaker 7: get the radio. Yeah all right, no report, yeah no.
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  Speaker 7: He got away on foot.
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  Speaker 5: He headed down sixth Street after the whole up, lost
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  Speaker 5: himself in the crowd.
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  Speaker 6: Better watch it there.
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  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, sixty three w Roger Rode one thirteen.
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  Speaker 7: I'm the thief work you get the story, Roger three, Well,
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  Speaker 7: not much to tell you. Walked in the store the
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  Speaker 7: right time, pointed a gun, grabbed a tray full of
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  Speaker 7: diamond rings, and walked out five thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 5: Figure you must have had the jewelry store pretty well cased.
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  Speaker 5: Sounds like he's had practice, and it could be a
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  Speaker 5: sure one thing. He's well on attention.
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  Speaker 8: All units all units at third and Bixel, third and
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  Speaker 8: pixels trapping accident, a man with a gun. All units
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  Speaker 8: at third and Bixel. A traffic accident. A man with
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  Speaker 8: a gun. Code three KMA three six seven.
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  Speaker 7: I guess we can roll on it. Huh, all right,
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  Speaker 7: that's Bixtel just to hand. You know, I'll call him
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  Speaker 7: eighty K to control one eight OK to control.
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  Speaker 8: One, control one to eighty K, go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: Eightyk OUP for investigation third and bixel KMA three sixty
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  Speaker 5: seven Roger.
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  Speaker 8: EIGHTYK code six to third and pixel JMA three six seven.
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  Speaker 5: It must be at up ahead, Joe. Yeah, right in
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  Speaker 5: the middle of the intersection. As the car turned over,
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  Speaker 5: that's all doing. Yeah, let's go.
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  Speaker 7: Man. He stretched out on them straight over there from
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  Speaker 7: the current. You know, I wonder if we get through here.
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  Speaker 7: Police excuse me and think let us through. Please, Well,
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  Speaker 7: let's don't just stand around looking. Somebody called the police.
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  Speaker 7: You had excuse me?
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  Speaker 6: Are you involved in this?
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  Speaker 7: Make sure I was in it? Anybody call the police
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  Speaker 7: or police office. Is what happened? I'm sure glad to
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  Speaker 7: see you. Awful lot of trouble.
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  Speaker 6: You know. How about this man here? What happened?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: I slugged him? I had to What do you mean, Well,
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  Speaker 7: I don't know what happened. He went a little crazy.
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  Speaker 7: I guess he pulled this gun on.
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  Speaker 6: You don't got a bump on the head. It seems
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  Speaker 6: to be all right otherwise, what's your.
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  Speaker 7: Name's Ernie Brooks. That truck over there, that's what I
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  Speaker 7: was driving. I was coming down Third Street and I
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  Speaker 7: stopped with the red light over there, that corner over
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  Speaker 7: there now, And when the light turned green, I started
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  Speaker 7: across the intersection. This guy way in here came barreling down.
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  Speaker 7: I went right through the red light, hit the front
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  Speaker 7: of my truck, flipped his car right over on its side,
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  Speaker 7: just like you see it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, go ahead.
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  Speaker 7: The guy went a little crazy, I guess. Right after
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  Speaker 7: the crackup, I pulled the truck to the curb and
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  Speaker 7: got out. This fellow here was just climbing out of
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  Speaker 7: the top side of his car. It didn't seem hurt
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  Speaker 7: at all, you know. Well, when he saw me coming
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  Speaker 7: over to him, he pulled a gun and pointed it
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  Speaker 7: at me. Then he turned and started running. I couldn't
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  Speaker 7: figure it out.
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  Speaker 6: What'd you do?
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  Speaker 7: Well, as soon as he turned his back there and
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  Speaker 7: I went for him and tackled him. Felt like a tiger.
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  Speaker 7: That's why I say I slugged him. I had two officer.
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  Speaker 7: He's something awful funny about the whole thing.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean by that?
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  Speaker 7: Well, Look here, This box right here fell out of
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  Speaker 7: his coat when I slugged him.
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  Speaker 6: And take a look.
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  Speaker 7: You know here must be three four dozen in there, rings,
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  Speaker 7: all kinds.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 7: Looks like diamonds in him, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 5: The ambulance arrived and we took the unconscious jewel robbers
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  Speaker 5: suspect to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. After it was revived
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  Speaker 5: and treated for cuts and bruises, we took him back
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  Speaker 5: to the City Hall. At the interrogation room, he fitted
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  Speaker 5: the description of the jewelry store banded almost exactly and
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  Speaker 5: refused to talk. It wouldn't even give us his name.
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  Speaker 5: We had his fingerprints taken him and we had them
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  Speaker 5: checked through on and I.
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  Speaker 6: The man was.
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  Speaker 7: Identified as Bernon Albert.
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  Speaker 5: Niccoley, an ex convict out of Fulsom and a two
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  Speaker 5: time loser. He'd served one five year term for armed
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  Speaker 5: robbery in another three years for ADW.
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  Speaker 6: We checked out the wreck Carr had.
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  Speaker 5: Been driving and found out that it had been stolen
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  Speaker 5: two blocks from the scene of the hold up. We
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  Speaker 5: had the manager of the jewelry store which had been
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  Speaker 5: robed brought downtown. He identified Nicoley as the bandit. The
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  Speaker 5: suspect still refused to talk. Ben and I took him
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  Speaker 5: to the main jail where he was booked on suspension
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  Speaker 5: of two eleven BC four or fifteen pm.
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  Speaker 6: We checked back in at the office.
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  Speaker 7: Take some of them a long time to learn, you know,
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  Speaker 7: two term loser. This went out to finish him. I
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  Speaker 7: can't figure he's been out of fullsome seven months and
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  Speaker 7: going right back in again.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we can get the complaint from the day of
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  Speaker 5: mind set the arraiement for Thursday.
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  Speaker 7: Own met her check with the manager of the jewelry store.
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  Speaker 6: First.
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  Speaker 7: I wonder if Nicola could have been in on those
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  Speaker 7: gas station hold I remember last month.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we'll have him in the show up Thursday and
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  Speaker 5: see what happened. Do you want to take care of
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  Speaker 5: the arrest reports.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll get out of APB too. Can I turn
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  Speaker 7: up some outside.
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  Speaker 6: Jobs on him?
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  Speaker 7: I'm sure hung Were you still got that candy bar
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  Speaker 7: from night? I'm trying to think so somewhere here? Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: there you go. What's the matter with you lately?
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  Speaker 6: Anyway?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know. I'm eating like a horse. Can't understand, John,
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  Speaker 7: I'll get it. What do you got, Joe?
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  Speaker 6: Well, that doesn't Nicoli. He escaped.
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  Speaker 5: A broadcast and an all points bullet and were gotten
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  Speaker 5: out on running Nikola. All units in the vicinity of
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  Speaker 5: the escape were alerted an hour past. There was no
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  Speaker 5: report on the suspect.
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  Speaker 6: We checked with the main jail.
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  Speaker 5: And got the details on the escape. They told us
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  Speaker 5: that Will Nikoli was being locked up in his cell.
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  Speaker 5: He pushed his fingers into the door jam and had
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  Speaker 5: them badly mashed when the cell door closed on them.
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  Speaker 5: Both of Nikoli's wrists were then handcuffed and along with
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  Speaker 5: two other alien suspects, he was taken over to Georgia
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  Speaker 5: Street Receiving Hospital by a pair of transportation officers. Going
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  Speaker 5: up the stairs to the hospital, Niccola had turned suddenly,
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  Speaker 5: kicked one of the officers in the stomach, slugged the other.
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  Speaker 6: One, and escaped.
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  Speaker 5: It happened at about four or fourteen pm. By eleven
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  Speaker 5: o'clock that night, there wasn't a trace of the suspect.
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  Speaker 5: Seven point thirty the next morning, Ben and I checked
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  Speaker 5: back in for where Nicola was still at large.
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  Speaker 7: Overnight report Joe hamb Well, look we am liquors door
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  Speaker 7: gas station, not a lequor store. All three hadn't held
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  Speaker 7: up between midnight and two am. They could look at
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  Speaker 7: the Benett description.
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  Speaker 5: Five feet nine hundred and fifty pounds, medium bill, dark
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  Speaker 5: way of you here in the dark, Eye's fair complex
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  Speaker 5: and deep sky on Chin come by. We didn't least
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  Speaker 5: time getting started again to.
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  Speaker 7: The pretty big comdown if it's Nicolay Diamond theft a
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  Speaker 7: liquor store when he.
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  Speaker 6: Had to do something. He didn't have any clothes, no money.
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  Speaker 6: How about that car he used on those.
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  Speaker 7: Jobs stolen and covered early this morning and going over
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  Speaker 7: for printing Roman Joe grit get on this one right away?
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  Speaker 7: Was he just got to call him minute ago?
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  Speaker 6: And what's that?
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  Speaker 7: He's an am address.
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  Speaker 6: Matthew Hobbs.
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  Speaker 7: He runs a candy store near one of the great
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  Speaker 7: schools over in Boil Heights. He might be able to
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  Speaker 7: tell you something, yeah, about what Nikolay saw him last night.
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  Speaker 5: We got in the car and drove over to the
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  Speaker 5: Boyle Heights district where we located.
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  Speaker 6: Matthew hobbs place of business was a small.
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  Speaker 5: Store on Delray Avenue, one block from the neighborhood grammar School.
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  Speaker 5: The site out in the front read New Geneva Candy
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  Speaker 5: Parlor and Variety store. It was the usual display in
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  Speaker 5: the window, a wind up train, a few inexpensive dolls, pencils,
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  Speaker 5: riding tablets, and some crape paper. Inside the main attraction
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  Speaker 5: was two long showcases filled with a variety of penny candy.
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  Speaker 5: It was a small soda park in the career of
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  Speaker 5: the store, topped with a slab of Warren marble. Matthew
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  Speaker 5: Hobbs was a small, thin man. He looked to be
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  Speaker 5: in his mid sixties. He sat behind one of the
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  Speaker 5: counters filling cellophane bags with Christmas candy while he.
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  Speaker 6: Talked to us. We asked him about Nicolai.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, that's try Burnham here last night, about ten o'clock
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  Speaker 7: ten fifteen, No later, you wanted me to help him?
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  Speaker 7: Did you know Nicoley that well, mister Hobbs, as well
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  Speaker 7: as I know most of the kids who grew up
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  Speaker 7: around here. Yes, I guess I knew him well. But
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  Speaker 7: what did he ask for in the way of helps?
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  Speaker 7: Their money, clothes? You got no family left? I guess
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  Speaker 7: I was the only one he thought to come to. Well,
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  Speaker 7: aw was it that you didn't notify as sooner?
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  Speaker 6: Mister Hobbs.
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  Speaker 7: I knew you'd ask like to explain if I could, Yes, sir, please,
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  Speaker 7: did you have me that strick of bags there? Sergeant? Nah? No, no, no,
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  Speaker 7: the number two?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Those?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah? Thank you? As I said, he knocked on my
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  Speaker 7: back door about ten o'clock and I let him in.
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  Speaker 7: Acted just like an animal, some kind of crazy animal.
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  Speaker 7: And see did he have handcuffs on? Yeah? But the
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  Speaker 7: chain connecting it was broken and made me file off
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  Speaker 7: each hand cut. You know, I wouldn't do it at first.
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  Speaker 7: I had an idea what was going on. He said
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  Speaker 7: he'd kill me if I didn't help him. He kept
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  Speaker 7: threatening me. I never saw gunning like that before. H
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  Speaker 7: go on, you know, sergeant, I knew that boy when
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  Speaker 7: he was in grammar school right up the street there.
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  Speaker 7: Makes you sit down, thinks sometimes? Huh the whey they
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  Speaker 7: grow up and change?
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  Speaker 6: Yes?
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  Speaker 7: Well, what happened after you took the cuffs off of
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  Speaker 7: and he got out of his jail clothes and put
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  Speaker 7: on one of my suits, took what I had my wallet,
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  Speaker 7: twelve dollars, and then he kept punning around and he
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  Speaker 7: found my gun.
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  Speaker 6: He took that with him too. Didn't you think of
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  Speaker 6: calling for help?
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  Speaker 7: Not the way he acted, sergeant, Just like a crazy animal.
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  Speaker 7: When he'd have killed me if I'd tried anything, warned
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  Speaker 7: me not to tell anybody he was here. He said
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  Speaker 7: he'd come back and killed me if I did well.
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  Speaker 7: I waited this morning and I called the police, who
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  Speaker 7: said McCauley took a gun from I'm kind of a
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  Speaker 7: gun was thirty two automatic cold. I've had it for years.
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  Speaker 7: I haven't registered with you people. He took just bny
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  Speaker 7: please clothes, gun and money if you want the true sergeant.
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  Speaker 7: I just wasn't brave enough to try to stop him.
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  Speaker 7: But when Nicolai left here, did you notice if he
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  Speaker 7: had a car now he left on foot, walked across
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  Speaker 7: the street, and he went down that way towards the town.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know. I don't suppose you'll get too far.
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  Speaker 7: I hope not. You have any ideas we might try
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  Speaker 7: to contact some of his old friends relevant, No, he
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  Speaker 7: doesn't have any folks I know of. Terrible thing is
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  Speaker 7: the kids growing up, the way they change, Like Nicolay.
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  Speaker 7: I can understand them when they're kids. Seen hundreds of
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  Speaker 7: them come through here. Know what they're thinking, how they feel,
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  Speaker 7: kind of a hobby. I understand kids. Some trouble is
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  Speaker 7: they grow up. All of a sudden, they stopped being kids.
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  Speaker 7: I don't understand him.
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  Speaker 6: After that we left the candy store.
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  Speaker 5: We went back to the office and got out of
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  Speaker 5: supplementary APB containing a description of the suspects, clothing, and
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  Speaker 5: the gun that he'd stolen. Together with Gonzales and Penia
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  Speaker 5: from robbery, Ben and I checked all of Nikoli's known
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  Speaker 5: friends and his usual hangouts.
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  Speaker 6: Stakeouts were placed. We got nowhere.
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  Speaker 5: The late evening hold ups continued. Each of the victims
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  Speaker 5: identified Nicoli as the bandit.
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  Speaker 6: He used the same moo in each case.
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  Speaker 5: He worked only on the weekends Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights.
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  Speaker 5: He'd steal a car, pull three hold ups in the
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  Speaker 5: same general area within an hour, abandoned the car in
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  Speaker 5: the same area, and then disappear. Two weeks pass and
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  Speaker 5: then a month. The weekend robbery's went on. For the
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  Speaker 5: most recent hold up victims, we found out that Nicole
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  Speaker 5: had picked up a partner. We checked the man's description
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  Speaker 5: through the stats office. Each of the stolen cars used
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  Speaker 5: by the suspects and then abandoned.
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  Speaker 6: Were checked for prints.
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  Speaker 7: We failed to identify the second man.
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  Speaker 5: The holdups continued Nicole and his partner were still at large. Monday,
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  Speaker 5: January twenty sixth eight thirty am, Ben and I met
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  Speaker 5: with Captain Dideon.
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  Speaker 7: What's the compscare? But the usual three hold up? Friday, three, Saturday,
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  Speaker 7: three Sunday. He's proved his point, he's consistent. Now why
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  Speaker 7: do you blow the whistle on him? We're doing everything
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  Speaker 7: it can be done, steakouts, text units on duty. It's
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  Speaker 7: not enough. The corner pocket wants some results. They want
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  Speaker 7: them fast.
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  Speaker 5: Well, how about the times listed for the three stick
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  Speaker 5: ups last night?
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  Speaker 6: They've been double.
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  Speaker 7: Checked, correct, and something else for you figure it out?
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  Speaker 10: What is it?
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  Speaker 7: Jump?
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  Speaker 6: I'll look here.
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  Speaker 7: The drug store out in West Hollywood robbed at eleven
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  Speaker 7: fourteen pm.
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  Speaker 6: All right, now, this one.
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  Speaker 5: Coffee shop out in the valley robbed at eleven twenty
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  Speaker 5: one pm.
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  Speaker 6: Both of them in the same m all, the same everything.
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  Speaker 7: Well, it doesn't figure. They couldn't have made it from
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  Speaker 7: the spot in the west Tally went out to the
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  Speaker 7: valley in seven minutes.
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  Speaker 6: It's not possible.
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  Speaker 7: There's a report check it. I no, but how could
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  Speaker 7: they do it? There must be some way to work
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  Speaker 7: out the answer that's got to be. I can give
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  Speaker 7: you a shortcut, you know, Nicoley find.
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  Speaker 5: Them another two weeks past, and then two weeks more.
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  Speaker 5: Besides the extra men and units put in service on weekends,
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  Speaker 5: two dozen separate steakhouts were established in areas where we
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  Speaker 5: figured Nicoli and his accomplice would strike. Didn't help much.
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  Speaker 5: The holdups continued. There was only one difference the description
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  Speaker 5: of the Bandit didn't jibe anymore. We still didn't have
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  Speaker 5: an answer to the superhuman speed that the two gunmen
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  Speaker 5: seen to show and robbing victims at widely separated points,
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  Speaker 5: all within a short.
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  Speaker 7: Period of time. We stayed on it.
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  Speaker 5: Friday, February twenty first, Ben and I took our turn
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  Speaker 5: on night's steakout in a vacant store on Sunset Bullard.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: We were assigned to cover a drug store and a
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: bar directly across the street. We spent two weekends on
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: the job. Was quiet, nothing happened. The third weekend was
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: no different. One thing's for sure. We never have any
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: luck victims steakhout. No, I mean this empty store must
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: be the drafts place in town.
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: Oh no, we've had worse. What time you.
• 16:53
  Speaker 7: Got five past midnight? A little band over in the
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: brush door on your money.
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: Don't you're allowed anyway?
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Ben, have a look then, getting out of the
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: car down the street there so well, yeah, they're heading
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: for the bar. What do you think? Both got dark
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: hair about the same Bill, I'm back there in the hurry,
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: I'm going in the bar. Yeah, come on, well we
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: better hurry. That's it, Come on, all right, throw it
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: on the guns, look up, alright, hold on, hold on
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: your guns, right, come on, hands behind your head.
• 17:40
  Speaker 9: You gotta take them to.
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: All right, hold it right there, Come on on your feet.
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: You are right. Then you had a good Well, that's both.
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: I met raptor up.
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: You better look again. Huh, neither one of them is Nicoli.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: You are listening to drag Net, a series of authentic
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: case histories documented from official files.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: Saturday, February twenty second, Bet and I took the two
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: robbery suspects downtown to the City Hall of the interrogation room.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: We checked them through our and eye and found that
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: they both had records for burglary and grand theft auto.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: The car that they'd been using that night had been stolen.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: After two and a half hours of interrogation, one of
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: the suspects of Pete alban Is decided to break down
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: and cooperate one am the interrogation room.
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: I guess something, monitor, don't I helping you? You're not
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: going to forget to help you. When they get me
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: in court, we'll say they know about it. Beet we
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: mentioned our report. Now wants the story. I knew one
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: never should have went for it.
• 18:54
  Speaker 9: Believe me, all happened again, Nicollie.
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: He talked me, and we're talking to what Pete helping
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: them onto stick ups? Was his partner sparsh one after
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: he broke to him.
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right.
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: He came to me with his foolproof system. I was
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: sucker enough to go for it. How long did you
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: work with this? Couple of weekends?
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: Three? Four?
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: Maybe I didn't get along with him, No, nobody gets
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: along with him. He's a little crazy. I think who's
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: working with him now?
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 19:18
  Speaker 9: He's had two three different guys.
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: I don't know who's with him, say the size and
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: kind of drink of water.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: But I'll gets you some people, all right? There you go?
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, how about the way Nicolai works three or four
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: robberies a night all over town.
• 19:39
  Speaker 9: A lot of guys work on that, so.
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: All they mean, they all keep it the same way.
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 19:44
  Speaker 9: When I left him, I went on my own.
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: I picked up a partner, used his system, a pretty
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: good one.
• 19:50
  Speaker 9: Well it looked like a good one.
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: I him.
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: You mean working on the weekends, picking up a hot car,
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: dropping it fast, Yeah.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: You got it.
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: Must be half a dozen guys in this town working
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: the system.
• 19:58
  Speaker 9: They all got it from Nacola. He taught to him.
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: Where do we find him, Pete? You know nicolein No,
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: for sure, he's got a figure. You know, he doesn't
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: live here in town. He only comes up for the weekend,
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: works on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and then he takes off again,
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: takes off of work. We're down by a border someplace,
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: Palm City till. I'm not sure. You're not gonna forget
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: him helping you. Huh, you'll let him know. I cooperated.
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll let him know.
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: Peena, when's the last time you saw Nicole?
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: I spent a month anyway, I never want to see
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: him again. Say this may help you though. I know
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: where his girlfriend stays. Yeah, a probably not South Rampart.
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: I can give you the address. He probably goes see
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: her once in a while. Anyone else you can think of. No,
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: that's about It won't be any pushover sergeant. Like I said,
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: I think he's a little crazy. It's being easy to
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: want to take. But we'll give it a try. Oh,
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: I mean it that way. He's wild, but you'll get him.
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: I guess it's just one thing. Yeah, he'll have to
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: kill him first.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: Three am, Pete alban Is and his accomplished with booked
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: at the Means on suspicion of two eleven PC. The
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: next morning, Ben and I checked out the address of
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: Nicole's girlfriend, which Alvin has had given us. The girlfriend's
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: name was Esther Revard. She told us that she hadn't
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: seen Nikole in more than two weeks. We asked her
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: if she knew where the suspect stayed when he was
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: in town. She gave us an address on South Peco.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: We called in and arranged for a stakeout on the
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: girl's place.
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: Then we drove over to check.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: The address that she'd given us was a small apartment
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: court on the edge of the industrial district.
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: Nicholey wasn't there, neither was the manager.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: We talked to one of the tenants, who told us
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: that the manager of missus Clara Fontaine.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: Was out of town.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: He said that while she was gone, her daughter in
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: Norma was looking after the place. The daughter was employed
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: as a secretary at the Blue Cross Hospital Plan office
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: over on Wilshire Boulevard. We called the office and the
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: arrange for another steak out at the apartment court one.
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: Twenty five pm.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: We located the landlady's daughter at the Blue Cross office
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: on Wiltshire.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: We showed her Nicoli's mugshot.
• 21:53
  Speaker 11: Yes, he's one of mama's tenants, mister Reynolds. He's in
• 21:58
  Speaker 11: Bungalow five.
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: With him one day.
• 22:02
  Speaker 11: No one's registered with him. No, he has visitors though,
• 22:06
  Speaker 11: there's something wrong.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: But when did you see this man last?
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: This morning?
• 22:11
  Speaker 11: When I was leaving for work, he was outside.
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: Working on his car. Would you excuse me please? Blue Cross?
• 22:20
  Speaker 11: Yes, sir, I see.
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: No.
• 22:25
  Speaker 11: Just address the letter to Blue Cross Hospital Plan. You
• 22:28
  Speaker 11: can send it to us here at the Wilchair office.
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: That's right. Well you're welcome.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
• 22:38
  Speaker 11: What was I going to say?
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: And who told us that you saw this man working
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: on his car this morning? Oh?
• 22:42
  Speaker 11: Yes, he was parked right outside in front. I couldn't
• 22:45
  Speaker 11: very well miss it. I'm going to tell mom about
• 22:48
  Speaker 11: it when she gets home. Well, it was certainly strange
• 22:52
  Speaker 11: because it's not that time of year. That's why I
• 22:55
  Speaker 11: noticed it. Well, he was changing the license plates on
• 22:59
  Speaker 11: his car.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: Did you get the numbers?
• 23:01
  Speaker 11: It's right here in my purse.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: One two pm where the information furnished just by the girl.
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: Ben got on the phone and called in.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: A description of the suspects car, together with the two
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: sets of license numbers, was in nineteen forty one Ford Sedan,
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: dark blue, white side wall tires. Communications got out of
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: broadcast and the supplementary apb on it. At six pm,
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Ben and I relieved the men on a steak out
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: at Nicoli's apartment. We waited, no sign of them. We
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: checked with the office on the hour, no sign of
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: the car. Ten pm, still nothing doing. Eleven o'clock nothing
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: and Zales and Penya from robbery drove out and relieved
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: us and we headed back to the office. Eleven twenty
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: six pm.
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: What are you thinging?
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: We plugged every hole I can think of things do
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: for a break? Is this overdue? I to use some
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: sleepy Where is that welcome? Right?
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: Right away?
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: Thanksgiver? Hi here's one to move on. Yeah, twelve and Beacon,
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: southeast corner. Nicole's car. They got it spotted.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: Eleven fifty six pm. Ben and I drove to the
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: vicinity of twelfth and Beacon. When we checked with the
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: men in Unit eighty K who'd spotted the.
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: Car, they had gotten out a code five on it.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: The description matched perfectly on nineteen forty one Ford sedan,
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: dark blue, white side wall tires. A license number was
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: one of those given us by the apartment manager's daughter.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: That afternoon, together with the two men in eighty six K,
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: we staked out on the suspects car at a distance
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: was parked almost exactly in the middle of the block.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: About twenty feet behind it, a red and white delivery.
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: Truck was parked.
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: The street was fairly deserted.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: The only place of business open was a small corner
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: bar at the far end of the block.
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: Twelve thirty one am, no one came near the dark
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: blue sedan. We waited two am the corner bar closed up.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: A man came out, got in the red and white
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: delivery truck and drove off. Two thirty am. The dark
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: blue sedan was still sitting there.
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: We kept waiting Roger thirteen hours, code seven.
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: One way or the other. I wish you'd make up
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: his mind. It's a long way, cold ring here, and
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: it wasn't that vacance door and better check and see
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: if we're clear.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, I'll do it.
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: Eighty K to control one eight Okay to control one.
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: Control one eighty K, go ahead.
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: Eighty K to control one. A wee clear, Control one
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: to eight OK. Stand by, Oh you're smoked.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: I'm out you two.
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess we do with that.
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: Yeah, control one to eighty K, control one to eight.
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: OK.
• 25:39
  Speaker 8: Your clears, code one.
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: Eighty K to control one. Roger cant for six seven.
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: I haven't looked. Joe just turned the car where far
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: into the block opposite signe heading up this way. Yeah,
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: we make out two of them. There, there's two. They're
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: passing by the Satanic. No, no, we're getting in everything.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: Come on.
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: Card spotted this, Joe then getting out. I hold it there,
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: both of you now, Joe, get up, Nikoli, hind that car. Ah. Oh,
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: don't shoot, Joe, rot your guns, both of you. Hurry,
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: don't shoot, rot your gun, don't kill us, Get up, Harry,
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: oh kill, come on up don't shoot. Hit my gun.
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: Don't shoot. It's one of them.
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: Oh, Harry, got get up.
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: That's two. Let's go. Yeah, careful, here's the guns.
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: I'll shoot a gut my hands up. I keep him up, Okay,
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: I will just don't shoot. I didn't use my gun,
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: Harry did. I tried to tell him. You heard me,
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: You heard me, You heard me, not to shoot. Check
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: my gun. I didn't shoot it. You come on, get
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: him out in front of him. I'll get the guns.
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: Come out of officer.
• 26:57
  Speaker 9: It's the third time for me.
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: All right, save it, okay, Joey ready, let's go. Pleason,
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: give me break. You picked the wrong time to cry reson.
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: This is the third time for me. I'm no good
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: in there. When you had your chances, you kicked them away.
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: Let's make a deal. I'm no good in jail, no
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: good at all.
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: You'll know better out here. Let's go.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true, only the
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: names were changed to protect the innocent.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: On May twenty fourth, trial was held in Superior Court,
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: Department eighty seven, City and County of Los Angeles, State
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: of California. In a moment the results of that trial,
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Burnie Nicoli and his accomplices were tried and convicted on
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: several counts of first degree robbery. They received sentences as
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: prescribed by law and are now serving their terms in
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: the state penitentiary. First degree robbery is punishable by a
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: prison term of not less than five years with a
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: maximum life term.
• 28:00
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• 28:04
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• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Parker, Los Angeles Police Department.
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: David Harding Counterspy solves an exciting case next on NBC.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Welcome Back. In interesting personal dynamic here with an anti
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: asocial perpetrator who spreads his method and creates copycats because
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: while his method is great, he's just so difficult to
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: work with him be around. Also, you don't generally ask
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: the arresting officers for lee see on being a three
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: time loser. That's going to be up to the prosecutor,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: though they'll pretty much say the same thing as Joe Friday.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I imagine pork Ben Romero he just has not enjoyed
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: these assignments. You just know, even if it's a case
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: that doesn't get covered on the program, their next stakeout
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: is going to be in a walk in freezer. That's
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: the sort of lock Ben's been having.
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Well, now we turn to listener comments and feedback, and
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: we start over on Facebook where regarding the episode The
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Big Crime, Dave Wright's good episode. And then we have
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: a couple of comments on Spotify and we start with
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: a comment from Prince Adam no relation and he writes,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I know dragging that and Tales of the Texas Rangers
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: are both based on actual crimes. I wonder if anyone
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: ever did research and found the crimes to see how
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: how accurate they were. Well, thanks so much, I appreciate
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: the question. Over the years, I've actually received comments from
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: listeners who looked into cases or they have heard of
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: cases that were covered in a true crime or other
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: sort of context and have shared some of the results.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: And it's interesting we did that a little while back
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: when we talked about the human bomb slash City Hall
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: bombing case. There were some of the early cases that
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: came directly from the LAPD that are better known, but
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: I think it becomes a bit harder once you get
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: past those few episodes, because what Web did for the
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: stories that they did on Dragnet is they actually got
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: these stories from policemen and they would tell their stories
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: and it would be adapted by the writer. At this point,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Jim Moser and Web paid them I think like twenty
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: dollars for their story, which was pretty good money for
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties, and of course the story would have
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: to be approved by the LAPD and the network. But
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: what that meant is that you would often have crimes
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: that were not very prominent or well covered at the
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: time that they were committed. Plus you also have to
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: keep in mind that while the crimes profiled on Dragnet
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: were based on true cases, they could be brought forward
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: in time quite a few number of years. So we
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: talked about the City Hall bombing case that one was
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: actually from the nineteen twenties, and so was the story
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: of the Big Little Jesus, which was also set in
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: San Francisco, So it would be a challenge to locate
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: them all lost. The stories told on Dragnet might not
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: have been profiled to a degree in newspaper accounts that
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: you could easily go through and say, well, this and
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: this and this was different. There are a few. There
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: was actually one case where Dragnet got sued because a
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: person alleged defamation. It was not actually all that series
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: of a case, and a whole lot fewer people would
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: know it was you, or would be reminded of it
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: if you didn't take them to court. But I'd digress. Now,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: on a related note, if you are kind of curious
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: about the sort of cases that Web was offered, he
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: did write a book. Among Jack Webb's many talents, he
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: wrote a true crime book called The Badge, subtitled The
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: True and Terrifying Crime Stories that Could Not be Presented
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: on TV, and the book was reprinted in two thousand
• 33:07
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• 33:15
  Speaker 1: that might offer some interesting insights, although not much detail
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: as to cases that were adapted for Dragnet. And then
• 33:24
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  Speaker 12: No, you don't know of any relatives he might have.
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  Speaker 10: You never talked about any, at least next.
• 34:42
  Speaker 12: To me, but you did know him pretty well. Your
• 34:44
  Speaker 12: boss says you were kind of a favor of.
• 34:45
  Speaker 9: The old man.
• 34:47
  Speaker 10: Yes, I always liked him.
• 34:49
  Speaker 12: Yeah, you got drunk every Saturday night regular, didn't they
• 34:51
  Speaker 12: real drunk?
• 34:52
  Speaker 10: Billy never heard anybody but himself, and if he did
• 34:54
  Speaker 10: take a few drinks once in a while.
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: Just answered Officer Killo's questions.
• 34:58
  Speaker 8: Can't well, Adam, it's not fair with poor Billy lying there.
• 35:01
  Speaker 12: The officer has his report to make, Kathy, and he's
• 35:04
  Speaker 12: only trying to confirm it. We all know happened, Thanks,
• 35:07
  Speaker 12: mister Sadlick. The old guy could really tie one on,
• 35:10
  Speaker 12: couldn't he? Miss Owens get those? He didn't know whether
• 35:13
  Speaker 12: he was coming or going.
• 35:15
  Speaker 10: Yes, I've seen Billy with too much, Officer, but I
• 35:18
  Speaker 10: saw him about two hours ago when I went over
• 35:19
  Speaker 10: to get something to eat, and I'm not sure he
• 35:21
  Speaker 10: was drinking at all tonight.
• 35:22
  Speaker 12: What do you mean?
• 35:23
  Speaker 10: Well, he was worried about something he'd found. He started
• 35:27
  Speaker 10: to ask me about it and then said I probably
• 35:28
  Speaker 10: wouldn't know either, with just some scrap celluloid he had
• 35:31
  Speaker 10: in a blue tobacca can.
• 35:33
  Speaker 12: A blue tobacco can like this one.
• 35:39
  Speaker 10: Yes, I'm almost sure that's the can he had, and
• 35:41
  Speaker 10: he didn't seem as if he'd been drinking.
• 35:43
  Speaker 12: Mister Sadlick here tells me the can was empty when
• 35:46
  Speaker 12: they found it on him after fishing him out of
• 35:47
  Speaker 12: the water. Are you sure the old guy wasn't just
• 35:50
  Speaker 12: kidding you, Miss Owens.
• 35:51
  Speaker 10: Of course, I don't really know whether it has anything
• 35:54
  Speaker 10: to do with it.
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: Thanks very much, kath Hey, you've confirmed with Officer Key.
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: Oh want to know.
• 35:58
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• 36:18
  Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.