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Dragnet: The Big Set-Up (EP4809) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: dot Great Detectives dot net. Well now. From July twelfth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty one, here is the big setup.
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  Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true, only
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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.
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  Speaker 3: You're assigned to burglary detail.
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  Speaker 4: A gang of.
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  Speaker 2: Clever thieves are at work in your city. In three months,
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  Speaker 2: they've looted fashionable homes of one hundred thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 5: In furs and jewels.
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  Speaker 4: There's no clue to their identity.
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  Speaker 6: Your job get them.
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  Speaker 7: Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
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  Speaker 7: next thirty minutes, in cooperation of the Los Angeles Police Department,
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  Speaker 7: you will travel, step by a step on the side
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  Speaker 7: of the law through an actual case transcribed from official
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  Speaker 7: police by us, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
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  Speaker 7: Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 8: Was Wednesday, January tenth, was cold in Los Angeles. We're
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  Speaker 8: working the day watch out of burgery detail. My partner's
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  Speaker 8: Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Wisdom. My name's Friday.
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  Speaker 8: It was eleven fifteen am when we got back to
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  Speaker 8: the city Hall Captain Wisdom's office.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, Skipper, Hi, how'd you make eye?
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  Speaker 3: Not too good? Same old story.
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  Speaker 5: Anybody in the house and the thieves broke in?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah. The children's nurse was there. She said the burgery
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  Speaker 8: took place about midnight. She was asleep in bed at
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  Speaker 8: the time. The nurse said she woke up when she
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  Speaker 8: heard the thieves forcing their way in through a side door.
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  Speaker 8: She jumped out of bed, ran for the telephone in
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  Speaker 8: the hallway, and they grabbed her before she could reach it.
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  Speaker 8: Do her any harm, well a little? Yeah, They tied
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  Speaker 8: her up, locked her in a closet.
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  Speaker 3: Same memo as the other job, skipper. Three men each
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  Speaker 3: have the more gloves and a mask. They took all
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  Speaker 3: the furs and jewelry. They could find nothing.
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  Speaker 5: Now, nurse, give you the same general description on the
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  Speaker 5: three of them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not going to help them. I'd said. Two
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  Speaker 3: of the men were tall, medium bill and one was short,
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  Speaker 3: heavy Bill. She was so rattled she couldn't even remember
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  Speaker 3: the clothes.
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  Speaker 9: Then, or twelve jobs are the same gang in three months?
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  Speaker 9: We don't even have a good description of them. Hows local?
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  Speaker 3: We move doing everything we can give her.
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  Speaker 9: Excuse me for burgary wisdom. Uh huh, not until two o'clock. No,
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  Speaker 9: that's all right, two o'clock sharp, right bye, Just had
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  Speaker 9: an appointment, cancelot. How about a cup of coffee downstairs?
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  Speaker 9: I didn't even have a chance for breakfast this morning?
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  Speaker 8: Final with me?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, grab my hat, I'll get it here you go. Thanks.
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  Speaker 9: I guess you talked to the owners of the house
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  Speaker 9: on the place was broken into last night.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, we did mister and Ms Peterson. They got home
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  Speaker 8: a couple hours after the burglary, took a quick inventory
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  Speaker 8: where they find missing furs and jewels, same as the
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  Speaker 8: other jobs, almost twelve thousand dollars worth. It's the biggest
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  Speaker 8: fall yet.
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  Speaker 5: I don't have to spell it out for you. We
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  Speaker 5: need a break on this thing.
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  Speaker 3: We need a bad more pressure from the front office.
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  Speaker 9: Well coming from all sides. The victims are insurance companies, newspapers.
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  Speaker 9: They got a right to cry. Those thieves have.
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  Speaker 5: Been grabbing furs and jewels for three months.
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  Speaker 3: We're doing everything about it we can. New is Gibber planning, steakhouts,
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  Speaker 3: working our informants, running down every lead we can get
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  Speaker 3: our hands on, covered every angle. I thank god.
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  Speaker 5: They don't worry about the angles we cover. They want results.
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  Speaker 5: They want their property back and go ahead, Gibber. Yeah. Now,
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  Speaker 5: how about the stuff they took on the job last night?
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  Speaker 5: You get it on the stolen property list?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's all listed. That's one thing that really gets me.
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  Speaker 8: What are the thieves doing with all that stuff, the
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  Speaker 8: furs and the jewelry. We've had every pawn shop in
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  Speaker 8: the city on the alert since they started working. Checked
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  Speaker 8: on every possible outlet we know of any place they
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  Speaker 8: could use to dump this stuff. They haven't turned up
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  Speaker 8: a trace of it.
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  Speaker 5: No results in those apbs you got.
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  Speaker 8: Out, Well, yeah, a few, but none of them. Am
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  Speaker 8: panning out.
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  Speaker 3: How about trying the cafeteria here, they got pretty good coffee.
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  Speaker 4: Oh good idea.
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  Speaker 3: Why don't you too, grab a table, I'll get the coffee.
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  Speaker 5: Right then, Oh, hold the cream on mind? Will you
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  Speaker 5: ride skim?
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  Speaker 8: How's this is all right? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Fine?
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  Speaker 5: Tree chairs?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, how about it, Friday, You or Ben got
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  Speaker 9: any ideas at all?
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  Speaker 8: Well, there's one thing we wanted to talk over with you.
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  Speaker 8: We were kicking the idea around on the way back
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  Speaker 8: into the office. It's like a smoke.
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  Speaker 4: Oh thanks, there you go.
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  Speaker 8: Last night we were comparing the different stories we got
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  Speaker 8: from the burgery victims.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, life, thank you you a letter? Yeah, it's all right,
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  Speaker 5: go ahead.
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  Speaker 8: Well that's one thing that all their stories seemed to
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  Speaker 8: happen in common. Now that's counting all twelve victims.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, what's that.
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  Speaker 8: Let's see, I got a piece of paper here, I
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  Speaker 8: got it all figured out. Yeah, we know all the
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  Speaker 8: victims are fairly wealthy people. They go out quite a
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  Speaker 8: bit parties, nightclubs, things like that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, none of them were at home at the time
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  Speaker 5: the burglaries.
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  Speaker 3: You pull up, that's right, Yeah, here you go. There's
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  Speaker 3: your skipper, Joe, Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 8: I'm just telling you Captain about that idea we were
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  Speaker 8: talking about on the way back in.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, so none of the victims were home
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  Speaker 5: at the time of the burglary. Where does it go
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  Speaker 5: from there?
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  Speaker 8: Well, for one thing, we all pretty much agree that
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  Speaker 8: there must be a fingerman working with a gang, don't we.
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  Speaker 8: Somebody who knows the victims aren't home. Somebody who also
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  Speaker 8: knows the victims aren't wearing the furs or jewels on
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  Speaker 8: that particular Night's right, right.
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  Speaker 5: We've been going on that assumption. The question is who's
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  Speaker 5: the fingerman.
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  Speaker 8: Well, that's what I'm trying to get at here. Ben
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  Speaker 8: and I compared the victims' stories. We found out that
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  Speaker 8: in every case, each of the victims had been out
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  Speaker 8: in some public place from three to five days before
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  Speaker 8: the night of the burglary. Now, at that time, every
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  Speaker 8: one of them wore furs and expensive jewelry.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, why don't you read off some of those examples
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  Speaker 3: we got there Joe.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, well, here's the first one. Mister and missus Charles King. Now,
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  Speaker 8: on December tenth, they went to a nightclub out in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 8: Missus King wore a fur coat and quite a bit
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  Speaker 8: of jewelry. On December fourteenth, they went out to a theater.
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  Speaker 8: They didn't dress up at all. They left the furs
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  Speaker 8: and jewels at home. That's the night that their house
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  Speaker 8: was burgerized.
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  Speaker 5: And the same pattern shows up in every one of
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  Speaker 5: the victim's stories.
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  Speaker 8: No, no, it's not quite that close, but the same
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  Speaker 8: elements seem to be there.
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  Speaker 3: Here's another one, Skipper. Let's see mister and missus Lyons.
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  Speaker 3: November twentieth, they went to a big party to restaurant
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  Speaker 3: out on sunset. Woman wore jewelry expensive for a wrap.
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  Speaker 3: A week later, they went to a party to friend's house.
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  Speaker 3: Missus Lyons left their first and jewelry at home. The
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  Speaker 3: same night thieves broke in.
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  Speaker 4: That's a pretty good angle.
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  Speaker 5: How do you tie up all the loose ends?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I see a paper again, Ben, We got it
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  Speaker 8: half way figured right here. Just before each of the
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  Speaker 8: victims was taken, they appeared in the public place wearing
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  Speaker 8: the furs and jewelry. We've got a list of all
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  Speaker 8: the places nightclubs, restaurants. There's about six of them here.
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  Speaker 5: So the fingerman for the gag must be watching these
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  Speaker 5: six places.
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  Speaker 3: He spots the people with expensive firs and jewelry, tips
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  Speaker 3: off the gang. They watch the house next time the
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  Speaker 3: people go out, and the thiefs see the woman isn't
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  Speaker 3: wearing her furs and things, and they move in.
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  Speaker 8: It's not a sure thing. We're just guessing you in
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  Speaker 8: this tent. We think it sounds like a fair guest.
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  Speaker 4: Let's move on.
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  Speaker 3: We'll have to cover each of those nightclubs and the restaurants.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to take more men, more time. Could be
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  Speaker 3: nothing but a blind alley.
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  Speaker 4: We got the men, we got the time.
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  Speaker 5: Let's try it.
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  Speaker 8: Ten pm, Wednesday, January tenth. Our idea for stopping the
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  Speaker 8: burglary gang by reaching their spot or fingerman was put
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  Speaker 8: into operation. The half dozen nightclubs and restaurants where we
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  Speaker 8: thought the spotter might be checking off richly dressed couples
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  Speaker 8: as future burglary victims were placed under strict surveillance. Managers
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  Speaker 8: and employees of each of the places were questioned. It
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  Speaker 8: went slow. The first week got us four leads to
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  Speaker 8: check out. They let nowhere. Any and all suspicious looking
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  Speaker 8: persons loitering in or near the clubs and restaurants that
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  Speaker 8: we had staked out were questioned and checked out thoroughly.
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  Speaker 8: Another week passed no results in the meantime. On January
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  Speaker 8: twenty third, the burglary gang hit again, this time at
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  Speaker 8: a dentist's home in the Hollywood Hills. The maid, a
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  Speaker 8: Missilsea Bergstrom, was the only one present at the time
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  Speaker 8: of the burglary. Ben and I drove out the interviewer.
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  Speaker 10: It was soon before midnight. The mister and missus was
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  Speaker 10: gone out evasitting the television.
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  Speaker 3: The three men broke in the side doors. That'd right,
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  Speaker 3: Miss Brooks, ye had the side door, I think.
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  Speaker 11: So.
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  Speaker 12: I was sitting at the television boxing. I hear this sound.
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  Speaker 12: I turn around and the three men they're right there
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  Speaker 12: in the room with me. I thought I could scream,
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  Speaker 12: but I couldn't.
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  Speaker 8: Or do you remember what the men looked like, Miss Bergstrom,
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  Speaker 8: how they were dressed.
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  Speaker 11: I don't know.
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  Speaker 12: I was so much being frightened.
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  Speaker 10: One of them had a jacket on, I think dark jacket.
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  Speaker 10: The others I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: Anything else about them that you noticed it.
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  Speaker 10: They had mass all over their faces. I couldn't see.
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  Speaker 11: I jumped up.
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  Speaker 12: I tried to scream, but that was so much frightened.
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  Speaker 3: What did they do then, miss, Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: They put the cloth all around my mouth so I
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  Speaker 10: couldn't make noise. Then I tied my hands and my
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  Speaker 10: feet and they put me in the closet down there,
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  Speaker 10: you smiled the hollway. I was kicking and hitting at them.
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  Speaker 3: Had you ever seen any of the men before?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 12: Never before.
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  Speaker 8: Do you think you'd know any of the men if
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  Speaker 8: you saw them again.
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  Speaker 11: I shouldn't be sure.
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  Speaker 12: One of them, maybe I might know him his way,
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  Speaker 12: only it was very quick.
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  Speaker 10: Then I was putting me in the closet. I was
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  Speaker 10: hitting and kicking at them. One of the men, I
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  Speaker 10: knocked his hat off. It fell on the floor. I
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  Speaker 10: pulled at the thing on his face, the mask almost
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  Speaker 10: it came off.
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  Speaker 3: Well from what you could see, what did the man
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  Speaker 3: look like?
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  Speaker 12: Blonde hair?
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  Speaker 10: I can remember, there's not so much on top here,
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  Speaker 10: it's only on the side here, and there was right
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  Speaker 10: there by the forehead hair a scar going over that way.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah. Was he a big man, you know, as big
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  Speaker 8: as the.
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  Speaker 12: Other he has a smaller man.
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  Speaker 10: He was bigger this way, you know, feather. Yeah, he
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  Speaker 10: was so mad and I knocked his hair off. I
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  Speaker 10: thought maybe he'd kill me, only put me in the closet,
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  Speaker 10: you know. And then they closed the door. I could
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  Speaker 10: hear them upstairs going through.
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  Speaker 11: The mister and missus Ruth.
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  Speaker 3: And you're pretty sure the description you've given us, miss Worth.
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  Speaker 10: She had the scar, the blonde hair, not so much
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  Speaker 10: on top. I remember that it was well. I was
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  Speaker 10: so much frightened.
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  Speaker 11: I thought they'd.
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  Speaker 8: Killed me after they liked you in the closet. They
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  Speaker 8: didn't come back. That's the last you saw them.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, they didn't come back to me. I could hear
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  Speaker 10: the moon round upstairs, and then I could hear them
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  Speaker 10: leave after a while, like all night for the mister
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  Speaker 10: and missus came home and found me. It was so
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  Speaker 10: much frightened. This thing wouldn't happen in Sweden. That's where
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  Speaker 10: I come from, Sweden.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am, you sure there's nothing else about these minute
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  Speaker 3: You've noticed something we ought to know about.
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  Speaker 10: You know, everything I saw, Yes, I I hadden, I
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  Speaker 10: told you the way it was, this never would have
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  Speaker 10: happened in Sweden, not like this, these robbers like this
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  Speaker 10: burglars man. Yeah, these burglars, I thought I'd be dead.
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  Speaker 10: Never would happen in Sweden like this.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have burglars.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, we had burglars.
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  Speaker 8: Well just how do you mean he had burglars?
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  Speaker 10: But I don't break in the house when somebody's there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 10: they they'd tell everybous going from the house. Then they
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  Speaker 10: break it, even burglar, said the angleman. A little bit.
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  Speaker 8: Before we left the house, we checked with the owners,
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  Speaker 8: took their crime report and a list of their stolen property,
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  Speaker 8: some six thousand dollars in jewelry and fur coats. The
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  Speaker 8: maid's description of one of the three men in the
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  Speaker 8: gang wasn't complete, but it was the best that we'd
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  Speaker 8: had on him in three months. Frank Cunningham and the
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  Speaker 8: Eye Bureau had the description of the scar on the
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  Speaker 8: suspect's forard checked through the oddity file. Meantime, Ben and
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  Speaker 8: I paired up the additional facts about the suspect, the scar,
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  Speaker 8: the color and condition of his hair, along with his
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  Speaker 8: general description is approximate weight and height. We had the
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  Speaker 8: Stat's office make a run for us and all ex
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  Speaker 8: cons with burglary records who fitted the overall description. They
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  Speaker 8: came up with a list of ten names and we
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  Speaker 8: started checking them out. One of the first listed was
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  Speaker 8: a Russell Snow. We checked his last known address, but
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  Speaker 8: he'd moved. His mail was being forwarded in care of
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  Speaker 8: his brother, George Snow, who managed the Neptune Plunge, a
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  Speaker 8: public indoor swimming pool in the East Hollywood neighborhood. We
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  Speaker 8: drove out the interview of the brother.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty good size for an indoor pool. Huh, yeah it is.
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  Speaker 8: It's a nice layout.
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  Speaker 3: They got, must be the office way ahead, Dan, Thanks, Joe, Jot.
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  Speaker 8: What's that that girl over there? Look at that baby
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  Speaker 8: and so that she's got a real They keep getting smaller,
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  Speaker 8: don't They.
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  Speaker 3: Makes you embarrass just to look at him? Yeah, maybe
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  Speaker 3: I'm just getting old. Yes, sir, we're looking for George Snow.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm here.
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  Speaker 3: Police officers met the Snow. Like talk to you a
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  Speaker 3: few minutes if we could.
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  Speaker 13: Oh yeah, let me grab a towel over and get
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  Speaker 13: right off though, for sure, come on over, pull up
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  Speaker 13: one of these deck chairs here.
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  Speaker 3: All right, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 8: Well, what is it, officers?
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  Speaker 4: What can I do for you?
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  Speaker 8: You have a brother, Is that right, sir or Russell Snow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 4: Russ is my brother.
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  Speaker 8: You know, we'd like to locate him if we could.
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  Speaker 8: Do you know where we can find him?
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't think I can.
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  Speaker 4: Last I heard from Russ was about six months ago.
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  Speaker 5: He said he was going to take a job in Minneapolis.
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  Speaker 4: Not in trouble again, is he not?
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  Speaker 3: That we know? I would like to locate him, man, So.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think I can help you much. Russ is
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  Speaker 4: much of a letter writer.
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  Speaker 5: Only time I hear from when he's in town.
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  Speaker 4: We've checked.
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  Speaker 8: At the last place your brother was staying, he told
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  Speaker 8: us he left word to forward all his mail here
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  Speaker 8: to you.
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  Speaker 4: Is that right? Yeah, that's right. Russ asked me to
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  Speaker 4: take care of it. No letters have come through so far, though.
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  Speaker 8: Were you to hang onto his mail or send it
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  Speaker 8: on to him in Minneapolis?
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  Speaker 4: Now, I was going to hang on to him.
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  Speaker 13: I said he'd picked up his mail next time he
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  Speaker 13: was through. Did I say that was six months ago?
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  Speaker 13: I haven't seen or heard from him since then.
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  Speaker 3: You wouldn't know if he was actually in Minneapolis or nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Well, no, I wouldn't. Yes, you know, my brother Russell
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  Speaker 4: had a police record. Yes, there we do.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, the trouble a couple of years ago that burglary wrapped.
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  Speaker 13: I think Russe learned his lesson.
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  Speaker 3: Are you your brother's only living relative? I mean, is
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: there anyone else in town who might have heard from him?
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: No?
• 15:01
  Speaker 13: I don't know, olser, excuse me just a minute, all right, kids,
• 15:04
  Speaker 13: No running around the side of the pool.
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: You here he slip and break your neck.
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: No more running.
• 15:09
  Speaker 13: Sorry, you gotta watch him like the hawk. Yes, like
• 15:12
  Speaker 13: I was saying, I can't think of anybody who might
• 15:14
  Speaker 13: have heard from Russ. I'm his only relation. But he
• 15:17
  Speaker 13: does have a few friends around time. I mean legitimate
• 15:19
  Speaker 13: fellas you know. Yeah, he'd come around.
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: Once in a while, drop and say.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: Hello, Have any of them heard from your brother?
• 15:25
  Speaker 13: He might have, but I didn't ask him. Jo Matt Garson,
• 15:28
  Speaker 13: he's a good friend of my brothers. He was in
• 15:30
  Speaker 13: the other day, but he didn't say anything about hearing
• 15:31
  Speaker 13: from Russ. Might be that he has, Maybe he didn't
• 15:35
  Speaker 13: think to mention it.
• 15:37
  Speaker 8: Where does this Matt Garson state?
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: You know, I really couldn't tell you, Officer.
• 15:41
  Speaker 13: That's a real character, kind of a fluater doesn't stay
• 15:44
  Speaker 13: with one job more than two months, like last week
• 15:46
  Speaker 13: when he was in here. He's a real pitchman. Give
• 15:49
  Speaker 13: me a big sales talk, biggest boggain on earth. Said
• 15:52
  Speaker 13: he'd tell me a couple of them, real cheap.
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: I didn't have any use fun. What's that for a coach?
• 15:58
  Speaker 8: Before we left, Snow gave us a complete description of
• 16:01
  Speaker 8: Matt Garson, together with the names of five of Garson's
• 16:04
  Speaker 8: acquaintances who might know of his whereabouts. When Ben and
• 16:07
  Speaker 8: I got back to the city Hall, we checked Garson's
• 16:09
  Speaker 8: name and description through R and I. He had a
• 16:12
  Speaker 8: record of two fairly recent arrests, but no convictions. Both
• 16:16
  Speaker 8: arrests were for suspicion of burglary. We checked on Garson's
• 16:19
  Speaker 8: last known residence. He'd moved no forwarding address. His last
• 16:24
  Speaker 8: place of employment was listed as the Parktivoli nightclub out
• 16:27
  Speaker 8: on Wiltshire Boulevard. The Park Tivoli was one of the
• 16:29
  Speaker 8: six places that we'd staked out as a possible working
• 16:32
  Speaker 8: ground for the burglary gangs. Fingerman a place where he
• 16:35
  Speaker 8: could spot expensively dressed persons, check on their home addresses
• 16:38
  Speaker 8: and line them up as future burglary victims. Ben put
• 16:41
  Speaker 8: in a call to the manager of the park, Tivoli
• 16:43
  Speaker 8: to check on Garson's employment.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: What was that you last July? I see, well, yes
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: you We'll probably be out tonight, right, thank you boy?
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: What's again?
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: Garson worked out there all right? Parking lot a tenant.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: He quit lest you lie. He's the guy checking off
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: the customer's first and jewels. He's in a explod manager
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: told me that Garden has a girlfriend. She still works
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: at the club. Might be the answer, Joe, Or how
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: do you figure she runs a hat set stand.
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: You are in the communications division of a metropolitan police department.
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: The teletype room.
• 17:30
  Speaker 9: Forty three Los five twenty nine fifty one twelve oh
• 17:34
  Speaker 9: three pm ap B WMA one fifty five six. Dark haired,
• 17:38
  Speaker 9: dark eyes, wearing gray suit, no hat. Suspect is wearing glasses,
• 17:43
  Speaker 9: heavy build, twenty two years Suspect is armed with blue
• 17:46
  Speaker 9: steel revolver. Any information forward.
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: You have just heard a teletype description of a suspect.
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: This information will apply to many, but careful screening will
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: eliminate all but one.
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: One of the biggest problems that faces a police officer
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: working the burglary detail is not only apprehending the thief,
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: but also recovering the stolen property. Dozens of criminals of
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: this type will spend five, ten or even fifteen years
• 18:16
  Speaker 8: in prison if they know that on their release they
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: will have a stake of thousands of dollars in stolen
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: property which they've hidden somewhere to start over again with.
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: Thursday January twenty sixth to five pm, we got out
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: a broadcast and an APB on the burglary suspect Matt Garson.
• 18:33
  Speaker 8: Then we began checking back on his girlfriend, Virginia Ramsey,
• 18:36
  Speaker 8: who worked as a hat check girl at the Park
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: Tivoli nightclub on Wilshire Boulevard. It was one of the
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: six probable places where we thought that the fingerman for
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: the burglary gang was lining up potential victims. Despite the
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: fact that she often associated with known criminal suspects, the
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: Ramsey girl had no previous criminal record herself. That night,
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: after she reported in for work at the club, Ben
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: and I checked her apartment. In one of the closets
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: we found three expensive fur coats. They were all identified
• 19:03
  Speaker 8: as property taken in previous burglaries by the gang. In
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: a strong box in the desk, we found a half
• 19:08
  Speaker 8: a dozen pieces of expensive jewelry, also identified on the
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: stolen property list. Ben and I got in the car
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: and drove to the Park Tavy Nightclub.
• 19:16
  Speaker 11: Your hat, sir, check your hat?
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Your name Virginia Ramsey.
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: Yes, that's right, police officers. Miss Ramsey, like talk to
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: you downtown.
• 19:23
  Speaker 11: I beg your pardon.
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: Say we're police officers. There's our identification. Like to talk
• 19:27
  Speaker 8: to you downtown.
• 19:28
  Speaker 11: What's it all about?
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: I haven't done anything, then, there's no reason to worry.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: We'd just like to ask you a few questions, that's all.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: What about Remember the name of Matt Garson. Understands you
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: know him quite well?
• 19:39
  Speaker 11: No, I don't know. I don't even know what you're
• 19:41
  Speaker 11: talking about.
• 19:41
  Speaker 8: I want to get your coat, Miss Ramsey. We'll talk
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: it over downtown. Huh.
• 19:45
  Speaker 11: I'm working now. Let's not be off till two o'clock.
• 19:48
  Speaker 11: I can't just walk off the chib.
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: We just talked to the manager. He's going to have
• 19:51
  Speaker 8: one of the other girls take your place. Do you
• 19:52
  Speaker 8: want to get your coat?
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: Police?
• 19:53
  Speaker 11: All right? You sure you checked with the manager. I
• 20:01
  Speaker 11: don't want to lose my job leaving like we talked
• 20:03
  Speaker 11: to him.
• 20:03
  Speaker 8: It's all right this way. Please have the side door.
• 20:10
  Speaker 11: Like to know what this whole thing's all about. I
• 20:12
  Speaker 11: think I have a right to me pulling you off
• 20:14
  Speaker 11: a job like this.
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: We told you, Miss Ramsey, it's about a friend of yours,
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: Matt Garson. He used to work here at the club,
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: didn't he?
• 20:20
  Speaker 11: I wouldn't know a lot of people work here. I
• 20:22
  Speaker 11: don't know him all. Why should you want him anyway?
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: Do you know him?
• 20:28
  Speaker 11: I think I might, yes, I'm not sure. Why do
• 20:31
  Speaker 11: you want him?
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: For interrogation? Just like to ask him a few questions?
• 20:34
  Speaker 8: Why you're ready to admit that you know Garson?
• 20:38
  Speaker 11: I think I might, Yeah, I know him.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: I want to get in, Miss Ramsey.
• 20:45
  Speaker 11: Still don't know what it's all about. Why do you
• 20:48
  Speaker 11: want Matt Garson.
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: The same reason we want you? Suspicion of burglary.
• 20:52
  Speaker 11: You don't know what you're talking about. You can't prove
• 20:54
  Speaker 11: anything against me.
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: We already have, Miss Huh. We found three fur coachs
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: in your apartment. There was some jewelry there too.
• 21:00
  Speaker 11: Those things are mine, every one of them. They're all mine.
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: Might come on, you're wasting time. They're stolen property, you
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: know that.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: How about it?
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: Miss?
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: You want to tell us about Matt Garson. Where is
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: he told?
• 21:10
  Speaker 11: You told your first time? I don't know him.
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: Ten PM we drove the suspect of Virginia Ramsey downtown
• 21:20
  Speaker 8: to the City Hall and took her to the interrogation room.
• 21:23
  Speaker 8: We questioned her continuously until well past midnight. She refused
• 21:26
  Speaker 8: to admit anything. We gave her time to rest a
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: little and set out for some food. Then we resumed
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: the interrogations. Two am. The Ramsey girls still refused to
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: admit any connection with Matt Garson, his friend Russell Snow,
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: or any members of the burglary gang. We stayed with it.
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: By four am, we'd halfway convinced her that protecting the
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: members of the gang wasn't the answer, that the best
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: thing for her to do would be to cooperate. Five
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: thirty AM.
• 21:52
  Speaker 11: I have a cigarette.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, here you.
• 22:02
  Speaker 11: I'll tell you about it. I know Matt Garson, he's
• 22:07
  Speaker 11: one of the gang.
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: You know where he is.
• 22:09
  Speaker 11: No, he got me into it, he made me do it.
• 22:13
  Speaker 11: There was anything else I can do?
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: What do you make you do?
• 22:16
  Speaker 11: Well? When I was checking coats and things at the club,
• 22:19
  Speaker 11: I was supposed to watch for customers with money, expensive
• 22:21
  Speaker 11: furs and jewels, I found out who they were, and
• 22:25
  Speaker 11: then I'd tell Matt.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: He'd tell the others.
• 22:30
  Speaker 11: One of them's Johnny Lang. There are a couple of others,
• 22:34
  Speaker 11: but I don't know their names. Believe me, Sergeant Matt
• 22:38
  Speaker 11: made me do it. He got me into it before
• 22:40
  Speaker 11: I knew what it was all about. When I found out,
• 22:43
  Speaker 11: he threatened to frame me if I didn't go along
• 22:45
  Speaker 11: with him.
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: Do you know whereny of these men live where they
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: hang out?
• 22:48
  Speaker 11: No, none of them, not even Matt. Ever since he moved,
• 22:53
  Speaker 11: he wouldn't give me his new address.
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: Do you think Garsal will try to contact you with
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: your apartment in the next few days? Maybe?
• 22:59
  Speaker 11: No, I don't think so, not till after the next job.
• 23:01
  Speaker 11: They're waiting on it. No, they've been watching the house.
• 23:04
  Speaker 11: Which else is that place out worst Hollywood wealthy people.
• 23:08
  Speaker 11: They were in the club about a week.
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: Ago, and the gang's waiting for them to go out
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: some night and leave their valuables at home, isn't it?
• 23:14
  Speaker 11: Yeah, it's right. Matt says. It's an easy house to
• 23:16
  Speaker 11: break into. He thinks it ought to be sinch.
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: Matt, I don't know better.
• 23:19
  Speaker 11: Huh.
• 23:19
  Speaker 8: It's the easy ones you trip over before we booked
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: her in on suspicion of burglary, Virginia Ramsey gave us
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: the name and address of the people in West Hollywood
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: who were supposedly the next victims on the burglary gang's list.
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: Later in the morning, we drove out to see the people.
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: A mister and missus Thomas Thornson told them the story
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: and laid out our plans, which they agreed to. That night,
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: the Thornsons left their home a few minutes before nine.
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: They were simply dressed, no furs, no jewels. At nine
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: thirty five, three men scaled a fence at the rear
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: of the Thornton's home and broke in through a side door.
• 23:54
  Speaker 8: Right behind them was a detail of a half a
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: dozen officers who moved in and made the arrest. The
• 23:59
  Speaker 8: three suspects were taken downtown, where they were identified as
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: Russell Snow, Matt Garson, and Howard Ferris. We searched their apartments,
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: their cars, and garages. There was no trace of the
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: stolen property. Each of the men were brought to the
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: interrogation room separately for questioning. Matt Garson was the first.
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: He denied any knowledge of where the loop was hidden,
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: that's the truth. I don't know where the stuff is.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: I worked for the outfit, that's all.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: And you've been working for three months without a payoff.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Is that what you're trying to tell it?
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: Or we haven't been turned over everything.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: We got hold not half of stuff, selling it on
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: the side.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: I just worked for the outfit, that's all.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: That's not the way we get at Guyson. You're supposed
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: to be the big man. You masterminded the deal. He
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: who told you that?
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: Your girlfriend, Virginia Ramsey, We picked her up yesterday. She
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: told us everything.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: What'd you tell you?
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: You're the big man? Was your idea? You ran the works?
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: What about it? Garson?
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Big joke, sergeant on both of us? What do you mean?
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: You can ask the other boys. They'll tell you the
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: same thing. We can prove it too. There's only one
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: boss in this operation, man, Virginia Ramsey.
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: For a twenty three year old girl. It seemed like
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: a new record of some kind if it was true.
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: We checked the other suspects, Russell Snow and Howard Ferris.
• 25:09
  Speaker 8: They told us substantially the same story. The Ramsey girl
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: had formulated all the plans and directed the entire operation
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: of the gang since its inception. They insisted that they
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: had no idea where the stolen property was hidden, but
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: they did know that the Ramsey girl had a safety
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: deposit box in a downtown bank. We made a canvas
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: of banks in the downtown area, and a day later
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: we located the safety deposit box listed in Miss Ramsey's name.
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: We obtained a court order and the box was opened.
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: In it, we found practically all of the stolen jewelry,
• 25:39
  Speaker 8: almost fifty thousand dollars worth. Ben and I went back
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: to the main jail where we had Virginia Ramsey signed
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: out for investigation. We brought her to the interrogation room
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: where we confronted her with the evidence.
• 25:49
  Speaker 11: I didn't think you'd find out. I didn't think you'd
• 25:52
  Speaker 11: ever find out.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: How about the first Miss Ramsey, I.
• 25:55
  Speaker 11: Got the key, you can have it. I rented a
• 25:57
  Speaker 11: private garage. I got some stored in there, all of
• 25:59
  Speaker 11: them just about Yeah, you picked up the others in
• 26:02
  Speaker 11: my apartment.
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: How'd you manage to run this whole operation? Those men
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: you had working for you, you cut them in for practically nothing.
• 26:08
  Speaker 8: They were experts, the best in the business.
• 26:10
  Speaker 11: That's why I hired them. They're the best. It's too
• 26:14
  Speaker 11: bad she had worked out too bad, didn't go You had.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: A pretty fair run.
• 26:20
  Speaker 11: Wasn't that bad for me? Wasn't only twenty three? First
• 26:24
  Speaker 11: time I ever tried anything like it?
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: What gave you the idea?
• 26:28
  Speaker 11: I don't know. I wanted things pretty smart setup, though,
• 26:32
  Speaker 11: don't you think so? Wouldn't you say I played the
• 26:35
  Speaker 11: whole thing pretty smart?
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: I don't know. You figured what You're in jail, aren't you.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true, only the
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: names were changed to protect the innocent. On March twenty eighth,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: the trial was held in Superior Court, Department eighty nine,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: A moment the.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Results of that trial, twenty three year old Virginia Ramsay,
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: the leader of the gang, was tried and convicted on
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: four counts of first degree burglary and four counts of
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: receiving stolen property. The three male members of the gang
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: were convicted of first degree burglary, also four counts. They
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: are now serving their terms in the state penitentiary. First
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: degree burglary is punishable by imprisonment for not less than
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: five years. Receiving stolen property is punishable by imprisonment for
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: not less than six months no more than five years.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, vacation time is here again, and a
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: great many of you will be taking trips in your automobile.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Danger is never absent from the highways of America.
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: Be careful.
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: The care you take may save a life, and that
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: life may be your own.
• 28:04
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• 28:07
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• 28:10
  Speaker 7: Chief of Police wh Parker, Los Angeles Police Department.
• 28:15
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• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Stations, Welcome back. I hate to attack the honor of
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Finnish burglars. That's one of those senses you just never
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: expect to say. But the real reasons they don't rob
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: houses when people are there is because they don't want witnesses.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: And this case illustrates why, as that one error led
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: to the police getting their big lead and ultimately prison
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: time for all involved. Well, now we turn to listener
• 28:54
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• 28:58
  Speaker 1: a comment from Harrison who Rights regarding the Big Cleft.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: I went to bed last night and I had a
• 29:07
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• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Romero's yeah, and his Joe, I wouldn't worry about it.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: We'll call it a white lie. Both caught me off
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• 29:22
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• 29:26
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  Speaker 1: restaurant called Cephalous, so I'm picturing a waiter giving an
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  Speaker 1: autopsy report. Well, thank you so much. I appreciate the comments.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I had actually look up the Traveling Willberry's and I
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  Speaker 1: thought they were really obscure, but it was actually a
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  Speaker 1: super group of musicians including Bob Dylan, George Harrison, jeff Lynn,
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  Speaker 1: that that would have been an amazing gro So thanks
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  Speaker 1: for expanding my knowledge a little bit. Marton Yarborough definitely
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  Speaker 1: brings a different dynamic, and you rarely get the sort
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  Speaker 1: of comedy sketch effectively that you got when you get
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: into the sort of Ben Alexander and Harry Morgan eras
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: as Friday's partner, but there are all these nice, little,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: understated bits of humor that really make him a believable cop.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: And Yarborough, definitely, I think is a bit underrated in
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: part because he got because of his accent, sort of
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: natural accent, he got a lot of random Texas person
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: roles that could be a bit one dimensional, but he
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  Speaker 14: Well, what's it all about, Lee, Well, the floods along
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  Speaker 14: the Ohio and pretty severe this year Johnny somewhat later
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that much.
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  Speaker 14: I did read about half a dozen of the big
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  Speaker 14: cities have been taking a real beating in spite of
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  Speaker 14: all their preparations for the big run on that's been
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  Speaker 14: through all over the country. Well, what you don't read
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  Speaker 14: about in the headlines, though, is a little place like Carterret.
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  Speaker 14: It's my old hometown, Johnny. I've sold a lot of
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  Speaker 14: policies there, particularly to the local shopkeepers.
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  Speaker 4: You know, on their.
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  Speaker 14: Stocks and merchandise. So there's been a lot of flood
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  Speaker 14: damage and your company's having to pay up a lot
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  Speaker 14: of claim Not yet. So far, the town's been lucky.
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  Speaker 14: Most of the recent bad storms have been across the
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  Speaker 14: state line up in Pennsylvania or over in West Virginia,
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  Speaker 14: the same as too.
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  Speaker 3: Last year and the year before.
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  Speaker 4: So the people.
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  Speaker 14: Gone around Cottaret farmers mostly haven't gone ahead with their
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  Speaker 14: flood control project the way they should have.
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  Speaker 4: It's kinda red right on the Ohio.
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  Speaker 14: No, it's in a valley a few miles north. It's
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  Speaker 14: on the Crooked River, and parts of the town are
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  Speaker 14: actually below the river bank. And you see what that means.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I sure can.
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  Speaker 14: Most of the year it's a quiet, lazy stream about
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  Speaker 14: fifty or sixty feet wide. But when the feeder streams
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  Speaker 14: up in the hills start pouring water down and never
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  Speaker 14: overflows half a time, will go with it and swept
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  Speaker 14: right down into the Ohio.
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