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  Speaker 1: January 12, 1954 brought NBC listeners episode 230 of Dragnet,
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  Speaker 1: The Big Switch. Jack Webb is Detective Sergeant Joe Friday,
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  Speaker 1: joined by Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith. Their homicide
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  Speaker 1: detail investigation begins when Mona Fenton is found unconscious in
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: a low-cost hotel room with the gas turned on. What
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: appears at first to be an attempted suicide leads Friday
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  Speaker 1: and Smith to examine the hotel registration and the circumstances
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  Speaker 1: surrounding an unidentified man connected with the room. Virginia Gregg,
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  Speaker 1: Victor Rodman, and Gene Tatum are heard in the supporting cast.
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  Speaker 1: From Los Angeles, here is Dragnet, The Big Switch. Now,
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  Speaker 1: back to the golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear
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  Speaker 2: is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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  Speaker 2: You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a homicide detail. A
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  Speaker 2: young girl has been found in a cheap hotel room,
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  Speaker 2: apparently an attempted suicide. There's reason to suspect foul play.
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  Speaker 5: Dragnet.
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  Speaker 3: The documented drama of an actual crime. For the next
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  Speaker 3: 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
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  Speaker 3: you will travel step by step on the side of
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  Speaker 3: the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files.
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  Speaker 3: From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is
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  Speaker 3: the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 6: It was Thursday, November 19th. It was warm in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 6: We were working the day watch on a homicide detail.
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  Speaker 6: My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Lorman.
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  Speaker 6: My name's Friday. We'd just gotten a call from Georgia
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  Speaker 6: Street Receiving Hospital, and it was 9.46 a.m. when we
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  Speaker 6: got to the second floor, the treatment room.
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: Would you like to see Dr.
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  Speaker 7: Hall, please?
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  Speaker 8: Come in, Joe. Joe? Frank?
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Doc.
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  Speaker 4: This the girl?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: How's she doing?
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  Speaker 8: I'm not sure yet. Just finished the transfusion.
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  Speaker 4: And when are you going to know?
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  Speaker 9: We think she's going to live, but there's no way
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  Speaker 9: of telling right now how much damage has been done
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  Speaker 9: to the brain tissue.
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  Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 9: Bad bruise on her face. Must have received a bad blow.
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  Speaker 9: Might have gotten it when she fell.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 8: Let's go outside. I can use the smoke.
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  Speaker 10: Okay.
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  Speaker 8: Well, if there's any change, I'll be out in the hall.
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  Speaker 11: All right, doctor.
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  Speaker 8: You got a cigarette? I'm fresh on.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, here you are.
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  Speaker 12: Frank? Yeah, thanks.
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  Speaker 4: Here's a match.
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  Speaker 12: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know you gave transfusions in cases like this, Doc.
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  Speaker 8: Don't have to very often.
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  Speaker 9: You see, a thing like this, the carbon monoxide in
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  Speaker 9: the gas joins with the hemoglobin and the red cells
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  Speaker 9: won't let go. Blood takes the monoxide through the system
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  Speaker 9: and suffocates the brain tissue. We've given her some coramine,
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  Speaker 9: helps speed up the heart action. The way it looks,
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  Speaker 9: she's got a good chance of living, but we won't
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  Speaker 9: know how bad it really is until later.
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  Speaker 4: It's a rough one, isn't it?
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  Speaker 8: You find out who she is?
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  Speaker 4: Well, according to the stuff we found near Waller, her
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  Speaker 4: name's Mona Fenton. Another thing that doesn't make much sense, Doc,
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  Speaker 4: she registered into the hotel as Mrs. John Norris. Near
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  Speaker 4: as we can find out, she wasn't married.
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  Speaker 8: How'd you come up with that?
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  Speaker 6: Well, when the office got word about it, we tried
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  Speaker 6: to get in touch with her husband. We called the
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  Speaker 6: phone number on the ID that we found in her wallet,
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  Speaker 6: talked with her mother. She says the girl's single.
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  Speaker 8: How about the guy she was with? Have you been
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  Speaker 8: able to talk to him?
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  Speaker 4: No, haven't found out who he is.
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  Speaker 8: Name doesn't check out, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Not that we can find.
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  Speaker 8: How about the mother? She give you anything?
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  Speaker 4: We just talked to her for a minute. We're going
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  Speaker 4: over there when we leave here.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe she can come up with some answers.
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  Speaker 4: I sure hope so.
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  Speaker 8: Couple of more questions you can ask her.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, what's that?
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  Speaker 8: Find out if the girl's been under a doctor's care.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 8: Checked her over when she came in. Found marks.
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  Speaker 4: On her arm?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah. I think she's an.
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  Speaker 2: Addict.
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  Speaker 4: At 8.30 a.m.
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  Speaker 6: That morning, a guest in a small hotel on Grand
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  Speaker 6: Avenue had thought that he detected the odor of gas
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  Speaker 6: in the halls of the building. He notified the desk clerk,
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  Speaker 6: and together they conducted a search of the premises. Finally,
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  Speaker 6: they ascertained that the escaping gas was coming from a
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  Speaker 6: room on the third floor of the hotel. When the
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  Speaker 6: desk clerk got no answer to his calls, he used
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  Speaker 6: a passkey to open the door. Sprawled across the bed
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  Speaker 6: was a girl who appeared to be in her early 20s.
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  Speaker 6: The gas heater in the room had been turned on
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  Speaker 6: full and the windows were closed, locked and.
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  Speaker 4: Stuffed with pieces of torn sheets to keep the fumes
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  Speaker 4: in the room.
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  Speaker 6: The quick action of the desk clerk had undoubtedly saved
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  Speaker 6: the girl's life. While a hotel guest called an ambulance,
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  Speaker 6: the clerk turned off the gas, opened the windows and
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  Speaker 6: administered artificial respiration to the girl until the ambulance crew arrived.
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  Speaker 6: As an attempted suicide, the homicide detail had to make
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  Speaker 6: an investigation and Frank and I.
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  Speaker 4: Were assigned to the case.
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  Speaker 6: After we talked to Doc Hall at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital,
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  Speaker 6: we drove down to the hotel.
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  Speaker 4: Where the girl had been found.
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  Speaker 10: Right in here.
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  Speaker 4: Anybody been in this room since the other officers left?
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  Speaker 8: No, sir.
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  Speaker 10: Told me to lock it until you could see it.
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  Speaker 4: All right, sir. This is just the way you found it,
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  Speaker 4: is that right?
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  Speaker 13: Well, yes.
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  Speaker 14: Of course, the gas is turned off and I opened
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  Speaker 14: the windows, but everything else is the same.
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  Speaker 4: I see. From what you said on the phone, she
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  Speaker 4: came in last night. Is that right? Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 10: At least that's what the registration book says.
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  Speaker 14: They checked in at 10.15. Did you take care of them? No,
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  Speaker 14: I was out to dinner when they got here.
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  Speaker 4: Who checked them in?
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  Speaker 10: Jeff, Jeff Christensen.
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  Speaker 4: Is he around?
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  Speaker 10: No, not right now. He'll probably be back tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Know where we can find him?
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  Speaker 10: I don't know. See, Jeff got paid last night. Got
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  Speaker 10: his week's wages.
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  Speaker 14: Last I saw him, he was on his way out
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  Speaker 14: on the town with some of his friends.
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  Speaker 10: Jeff goes out on the town. Maybe we don't see
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  Speaker 10: him in a couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: I see.
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  Speaker 4: But you figure he'll be back tonight, huh?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 10: Jeff only worked a couple of days last week, so
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  Speaker 10: he ain't gonna go on much.
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  Speaker 4: Of the town. Mm-hmm. Did you see the man Miss
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  Speaker 4: Fenton came in with?
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  Speaker 10: No, I didn't. They were already in the room when
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  Speaker 10: I got back from dinner. I checked the book. I
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  Speaker 10: got the money from Jeff before I left.
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  Speaker 14: The man must have gone out sometime earlier this morning.
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  Speaker 14: I guess I was asleep. My room's just back of
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  Speaker 14: the desk. The fellow must have got out while I
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  Speaker 14: was asleep.
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  Speaker 4: I see. Did you get any calls from the room
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  Speaker 4: at all?
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  Speaker 10: Not a one. Like I told those uniformed officers we hear,
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  Speaker 10: I didn't see them at all. Not a people. Matter
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  Speaker 10: of fact, I was thinking how nice and quiet they were.
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  Speaker 14: But the way the room looks, they sure must have
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  Speaker 14: had some sort of argument.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Would you know if they brought any baggage with them?
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  Speaker 14: Matter of fact, I know they didn't. Sure looks like
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  Speaker 14: they did some heavy drinking, don't it?
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  Speaker 10: Mm-hmm. Glasses. That bottle's almost empty. Yeah. I'd rather you
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  Speaker 10: wouldn't touch the bottle. Oh, yeah, yeah, well, I'm... Say,
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  Speaker 10: you talk to the girls' people yet?
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  Speaker 4: No, sir, we haven't.
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  Speaker 10: But you plan to see them, aren't you?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I wonder if you'd do me a favor. You
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  Speaker 10: know when you see a people?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, what's that?
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  Speaker 10: Well, I don't much mind the dirty glasses and having
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  Speaker 10: to straighten the room up.
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  Speaker 14: That's all part of the hotel business. But I wish
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  Speaker 14: you'd say something about the torn sheets. Tell the people
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  Speaker 14: about them. I don't want to cause no trouble, but
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  Speaker 14: maybe if they know how about the sheets were all
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  Speaker 14: torn up, they'd want to make good on them.
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  Speaker 10: You will mention them, won't you? Mm-hmm. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: I'll call the office, Joe, have them send out a crew,
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  Speaker 4: see what prints we can lift. All right, fine.
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  Speaker 10: Who else has a passkey to this room? Oh, you
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  Speaker 10: mean beside me?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 10: Well, ain't nobody. Where's the key kept?
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  Speaker 14: It hangs on a nail next to the desk, that
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  Speaker 14: big nail there. It hangs right on it.
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  Speaker 6: When you came into the room, did you notice if
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  Speaker 6: there was anything around the door to keep the gas inside?
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  Speaker 10: I don't follow you.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you found pieces of torn sheets around the windows,
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  Speaker 6: you say. Now, was there anything like that by the door?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, oh, yes, I'm with you now, yeah. Now, let
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  Speaker 10: me think. As I remember, no, no, there wasn't nothing there,
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  Speaker 10: just around the windows.
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  Speaker 4: Was the key in the lock when you came up here?
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  Speaker 10: You mean inside the room?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, that's right.
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  Speaker 14: No, no, the reason I know that for sure is
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  Speaker 14: that I looked through the keyhole, tried to see what
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  Speaker 14: was in the room.
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  Speaker 10: No, sir, the key wasn't in. Of course, that don't
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  Speaker 10: mean nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Sir?
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  Speaker 10: Well, only a couple of the rooms have keys anyway.
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  Speaker 10: We don't use them anymore.
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  Speaker 5: You mean you don't lock the doors? Sure, we lock
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  Speaker 5: the doors. We got them all locked all the time.
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  Speaker 5: This is a respectable hotel. Of course we lock the doors.
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  Speaker 5: But not with those keys. We got those other locks
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  Speaker 5: on the doors.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I see.
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  Speaker 10: You see? Yeah, see that? Sort of like Yale locks.
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  Speaker 10: That kind, you know. That's what locks the doors, not
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  Speaker 10: the other keys.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I see.
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  Speaker 10: Of course we lock the doors.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 10: The locks catch when the doors close, though.
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  Speaker 4: Is that right?
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  Speaker 10: Yep. Locks them tight.
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  Speaker 4: I got in touch with Lee Jones, Joe. He sent
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  Speaker 4: a crew right over.
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  Speaker 1: Good.
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  Speaker 4: I checked with Doc Hall.
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  Speaker 10: How's the girl?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, she's coming along. Doc says she's doing better.
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  Speaker 14: Oh, these fellas that you're going to have roaming around here.
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  Speaker 10: What's this all about? Is something wrong?
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  Speaker 4: We're not sure yet, sir.
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  Speaker 14: Oh, dear, dear.
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  Speaker 10: It always happens like this, don't it? What's that, sir?
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  Speaker 10: I try to run a respectable place. Goodness knows I do.
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  Speaker 10: I keep it right up to date. It's good service.
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  Speaker 14: And something like this happens. There was no reason for
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  Speaker 14: that girl to do a thing like this.
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  Speaker 10: Not in my hotel. Now you cops come in here.
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  Speaker 10: Cops are going to be all over the place. Tenants
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  Speaker 10: aren't going to like it.
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  Speaker 14: They ain't going to like it at all. Just because
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  Speaker 14: of that girl. Why'd she have to come in here
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  Speaker 14: and do a thing like this?
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  Speaker 4: Why'd she have to do it at all, sir? 11.26 a.m.
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  Speaker 4: We questioned the people in the hotel.
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  Speaker 6: None of them could remember hearing any undue noise coming
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  Speaker 6: from the room where the girl had tried to kill herself. Normally,
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  Speaker 6: the investigation would have been routine, but with the possibility
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  Speaker 6: of foul play, we had to check every angle and
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  Speaker 6: then check it again.
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  Speaker 4: The crew from the crime lab arrived and went over
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  Speaker 4: the room.
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  Speaker 6: Under the bed, they found an empty capsule, the type
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  Speaker 6: commonly used to dispense heroin. They also came up with
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  Speaker 6: a clean set of fingerprints on both glasses. They were photographed,
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  Speaker 6: and the water glasses themselves were removed to the crime
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  Speaker 6: lab to be booked as evidence. The registration card the
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  Speaker 6: couple had signed was turned over to Don Meyer in handwriting.
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  Speaker 6: The name was checked through our record bureau, through the
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  Speaker 6: phone book, and through the city directory, but when the
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  Speaker 6: leads were checked out, we were no further in knowing
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  Speaker 6: who the man was who'd taken the room with Mona Fenton.
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  Speaker 6: Word was left at the hotel for the handyman to
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  Speaker 6: contact us as soon as he returned. Word was also
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  Speaker 6: left that if the man who'd registered with the Fenton
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  Speaker 6: girl returned.
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  Speaker 4: We were to be called.
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  Speaker 6: 11.45 a.m. The men from the crime lab finished their
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  Speaker 6: investigation and returned to the office to compile the results.
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  Speaker 6: Frank and I left the hotel and drove out to
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  Speaker 6: the address listed on the girl's identification. It was a
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  Speaker 6: large white colonial home near one of the colleges. We
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  Speaker 6: rang the doorbell and waited.
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  Speaker 14: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: Mrs. Fenton?
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  Speaker 13: Yes, that's right. What is it you want?
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  Speaker 4: Police officers would like to talk to you.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, come in.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 13: It's about Mona, isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 13: I knew something like this would happen. I knew it
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  Speaker 13: all along.
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  Speaker 4: Beg your pardon?
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  Speaker 13: When she first had this crazy idea, when she first
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  Speaker 13: told me about it, I knew. Kids, try to tell them.
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  Speaker 13: Just try and they tell you that times have changed.
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  Speaker 13: They say that you're not keeping up with the time.
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  Speaker 13: They know it all. Nobody can tell them anything.
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  Speaker 4: But what idea is this, Mrs. Fenton?
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  Speaker 13: When she wanted to quit school and take the job
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  Speaker 13: in that drive-in restaurant. The most ridiculous thing I ever
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  Speaker 13: heard of. But nobody could talk.
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  Speaker 10: Her out of it.
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  Speaker 13: Lord knows I tried. I knew something like this would happen.
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  Speaker 13: I just knew it.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 6: Do you know any reason why your daughter might want
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  Speaker 6: to take her own life?
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  Speaker 13: Are you a policeman, too?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am. I'm Frank Smith. This is my partner, Joe Friday.
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  Speaker 13: How do you do?
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  Speaker 4: How do you do? Do you know any reason why
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  Speaker 4: your daughter might want to kill herself?
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  Speaker 13: It's a little hard to say, Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Friday.
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  Speaker 4: What's that?
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  Speaker 13: Mona and I had quite an argument about her leaving school.
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  Speaker 13: It was one of those silly things that starts and
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  Speaker 13: gets all out of hand, you know. We both have pride,
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  Speaker 13: and neither one of us was going to back down.
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  Speaker 13: I haven't seen Mona to talk to for over a month.
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  Speaker 4: Does she live here, ma'am?
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  Speaker 13: Yes, she does, Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Smith.
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  Speaker 13: There's an outside entrance to her room. She comes and
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  Speaker 13: goes as she pleases. Doesn't eat her meals here, so
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  Speaker 13: I hardly ever see her.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know if she's been under a doctor's care?
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  Speaker 13: I don't think so. Why do you ask that?
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  Speaker 4: Well, is your daughter a diabetic?
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  Speaker 13: No, she isn't, Mr. Friday. Why all these questions about
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  Speaker 13: Mona and a doctor? What are you trying to find out?
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  Speaker 4: Does your daughter have any special boyfriends, Mrs. Fenton?
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  Speaker 13: She did have.
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  Speaker 4: Who was that?
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  Speaker 13: Richard Burdick.
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  Speaker 10: Nice boy.
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  Speaker 13: Mona and he were planning to get married when they
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  Speaker 13: got out of school.
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  Speaker 4: Then.
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  Speaker 13: Along with everything else that just blew up. Everything seemed
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  Speaker 13: to go all at the same time.
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  Speaker 4: Did your daughter have any trouble with this verdict?
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  Speaker 11: No.
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  Speaker 13: Nothing you could call real trouble. It's just that they
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  Speaker 13: agreed to disagree. It was Mona's idea. Richard didn't want
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  Speaker 13: anything to change. He was very much in love with her.
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  Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 13: Does he know about this?
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: I don't think so, Ms. Fenton. We haven't told him.
• 13:35
  Speaker 13: I don't know what he's going to do when he
• 13:36
  Speaker 13: hears about it. It's going to hit him awfully hard.
• 13:39
  Speaker 13: He's the sensitive type.
• 13:40
  Speaker 4: Does your daughter have any close friends that she might
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: confide in?
• 13:43
  Speaker 13: I suppose she does. She's talked about some of the
• 13:45
  Speaker 13: girls where she worked.
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: Would you give us their names, please? Oh, yes, I will.
• 13:49
  Speaker 13: I'll write them down for you, those I can remember.
• 13:51
  Speaker 4: All right, fine.
• 13:52
  Speaker 10: Has your daughter been in good spirits lately?
• 13:54
  Speaker 13: As far as I know, yes. She's always seemed happy
• 13:56
  Speaker 13: enough when I saw her. I told you, we haven't
• 13:58
  Speaker 13: said much more than hello the last month, but she's
• 14:00
  Speaker 13: seemed happy.
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: You said that she broke up with this Burdick boy,
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: is that right?
• 14:04
  Speaker 10: Yes. When was that?
• 14:06
  Speaker 13: Six weeks, two months ago.
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: You know what caused it?
• 14:09
  Speaker 13: The job, all the other things. Mona kept making dates
• 14:13
  Speaker 13: with him and then breaking them at the last minute.
• 14:15
  Speaker 13: I guess Richard just got tired of being stood up.
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: Well, did he and your daughter have any arguments that
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: you know of?
• 14:19
  Speaker 12: No.
• 14:20
  Speaker 13: They just decided that it wouldn't work out for them.
• 14:23
  Speaker 13: They just decided to stop seeing each other.
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: Did your daughter have any other steady boyfriends? Anyone that
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: she saw quite a.
• 14:28
  Speaker 10: Bit of, maybe?
• 14:29
  Speaker 13: Well, there was one boy. He was quite a bit
• 14:31
  Speaker 13: older than Mona. She saw a lot of him the
• 14:34
  Speaker 13: last couple of weeks.
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: You know who he was?
• 14:37
  Speaker 13: No, I never met him. I only saw him once.
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: What if you could describe him for us?
• 14:41
  Speaker 13: No, I'm afraid I can't. He drove by for Mona
• 14:43
  Speaker 13: one night, going to pick her up for a date.
• 14:45
  Speaker 13: Parked out in front and honked the horn.
• 14:46
  Speaker 7: I see.
• 14:47
  Speaker 13: I went to the front door to tell him to
• 14:48
  Speaker 13: come in. Mona wasn't ready yet, but he wouldn't. Just
• 14:50
  Speaker 13: sat out there and waited. I didn't get a good
• 14:52
  Speaker 13: look at him.
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: Could you describe the car for us?
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: Not good.
• 14:57
  Speaker 13: It was one of those foreign cars, a convertible. I
• 15:00
  Speaker 13: think it might have been a Jaguar. I'm not sure
• 15:01
  Speaker 13: about that, though.
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: But you're sure it wasn't an American automobile?
• 15:04
  Speaker 13: Yes, I'm sure about that.
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: How about the color of the car? Can you tell
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: us that?
• 15:08
  Speaker 13: It was awfully dark out there. I'm not sure. I'd
• 15:12
  Speaker 13: rather not say, officer, if I can't be sure. You
• 15:14
  Speaker 13: understand that. I wouldn't want to tell you something and
• 15:16
  Speaker 13: then have it turn out to be wrong. You can
• 15:17
  Speaker 13: understand that, can't you?
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am, of course.
• 15:20
  Speaker 13: Did you see Mona this morning?
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: Yes, we did.
• 15:23
  Speaker 13: Is she all right?
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: They think so, yes.
• 15:25
  Speaker 13: Aren't you sure?
• 15:26
  Speaker 6: Well, when we talked to the doctor, they were doing
• 15:28
  Speaker 6: everything they could. They seemed to think that she was
• 15:30
  Speaker 6: going to be all right.
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: Thank God.
• 15:34
  Speaker 13: It's so hard, Mr. Friday, to know that your child
• 15:36
  Speaker 13: is sick, that she tried to kill herself. to want
• 15:39
  Speaker 13: to go to her and not be able to.
• 15:44
  Speaker 12: It's so hard.
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: Try to take it easy if you can, Miss Fenton.
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: If you'll just give us the names of the girls
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: that you might know, we'll be on our way.
• 15:52
  Speaker 7: Yes, I'll write them for you.
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 15:55
  Speaker 13: Excuse me?
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: Shirley?
• 15:59
  Speaker 14: Hello? Yes, it is.
• 16:02
  Speaker 10: What?
• 16:03
  Speaker 13: Yes, they're here. Just a moment.
• 16:05
  Speaker 10: It's for you.
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: I'll get it, Jeff.
• 16:10
  Speaker 13: I'll get those names for.
• 16:11
  Speaker 10: You, Mr. Friday.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: All right, fine. Did your daughter ever refer to this
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: man in the foreign car by name?
• 16:16
  Speaker 13: No, I don't think she did. All I know is
• 16:19
  Speaker 13: that whenever she went out with him, it was the
• 16:21
  Speaker 13: big date of the bunch.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: How often did she see him?
• 16:23
  Speaker 13: Maybe a couple of times a week. Might have been more.
• 16:26
  Speaker 13: I had no way of knowing what she was doing.
• 16:28
  Speaker 13: She kept pretty much to herself when she met him,
• 16:31
  Speaker 13: but I could tell he was the big thing in
• 16:33
  Speaker 13: her life. He was it.
• 16:36
  Speaker 10: Joe? Yeah?
• 16:37
  Speaker 8: Stay a minute?
• 16:38
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: Excuse me, Miss Fenton.
• 16:40
  Speaker 13: I'll finish this list.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 16:43
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: Call was from Jack Smyers at the office.
• 16:45
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: Just removed her to the general hospital.
• 16:47
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: She had a relapse. They don't think she's going to live.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: police force in action.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: There are good reasons why thousands of people are changing
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: to Chesterfield every day. Why Chesterfield is the largest selling
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: two-way cigarette in America. Why Chesterfield is best for me
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: and best for you. People these days want facts. When
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: you want people to use your product, you have to
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: tell them what effect it has on people who do
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: use it regularly. That's why a doctor has examined for
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: almost two years a large group of Chesterfield smokers. Forty-five
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: percent of them have, on the average, been smoking Chesterfields
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: for well over ten years.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: What is the effect on these people from smoking Chesterfield?
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: No adverse effects to the nose, throat, and sinuses, says
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: the doctor. Consider Chesterfield's record with these smokers, with millions
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: of other smokers throughout America. Another good reason for you
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: to change to Chesterfield. Regular or king size, Chesterfield is
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: best for me, best for you.
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: We obtained the name of the drive-in restaurant where the
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: fenton girl was employed we also got the names of
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: the girls that she worked with and the address of
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: her boyfriend richard burdick mrs fenton also gave us a
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: list of names of persons who might be able to
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: aid us in the investigation under further questioning the mother
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: was still unable to furnish us with a motive for
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: her daughter's attempt to take her own life the apparent
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: lack of a motive or any type of a suicide
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: note coupled with the bruise on the girl's chin made
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: the likelihood of foul play more than possible. 12.57 p.m.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: We left the Fenton home and drove over to the drive-in.
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: We stopped on the way and put in a call
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: to the office. There still hadn't been any report of
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: the handyman at the hotel, the only person who could
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: give us a description of the man who'd registered at
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: the place with the Fenton girl. When we got to
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: the drive-in, we asked about a Peggy Griegson, one of
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: the girls on the list. After a few minutes, the
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: girl came over to our car.
• 19:02
  Speaker 12: You want to see me?
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: You Peggy Grigson?
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah, why?
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: We'd like to ask you some questions about Mona Fenton.
• 19:06
  Speaker 13: Who are you guys?
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Police officers. We'd just like to talk to you.
• 19:09
  Speaker 12: I've got to get it okayed with the manager. I'm
• 19:10
  Speaker 12: on duty now, lunchtime.
• 19:12
  Speaker 10: Pretty busy.
• 19:12
  Speaker 12: I've got to get it okayed.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: I'll take care of it. All right, fine. I'll check
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: with the manager, Joe.
• 19:16
  Speaker 14: Right.
• 19:17
  Speaker 12: This isn't going to take long. I've got a couple
• 19:18
  Speaker 12: of customers waiting for orders.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: My partner will take care of it.
• 19:21
  Speaker 12: Why ain't the manager knowing that worries me? It's the
• 19:23
  Speaker 12: tips they're going to leave. Make what I do, and
• 19:24
  Speaker 12: the tips are important.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am.
• 19:26
  Speaker 12: It's all this about Mona, anyway. What are the cops
• 19:29
  Speaker 12: after her for?
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: Well, she tried to kill herself this morning.
• 19:32
  Speaker 12: Mona?
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:34
  Speaker 12: Why? Why'd you do a thing like that?
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Well, we thought maybe you could help us there.
• 19:37
  Speaker 12: Why me? I haven't got anything to do with it.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Well, we understand you were pretty friendly with her.
• 19:40
  Speaker 12: Well, sure, I was a friend of Mona's, but I
• 19:42
  Speaker 12: don't know anything about no suicide. I don't know anything
• 19:45
  Speaker 12: about it, and I don't want to.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Do you know any reason she might try to take
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: her own life?
• 19:48
  Speaker 12: Not a reason in the world.
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: Not Mona.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: Do you know if she was under a doctor's care
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: for any reason?
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: No.
• 19:53
  Speaker 12: I mean, I don't know. She didn't say anything about it,
• 19:55
  Speaker 12: never said a word.
• 19:57
  Speaker 13: Why is she.
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: Well, that's what we're trying to find out. Can you
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: think of any enemies she had? Anybody who might have
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: wanted to hurt her?
• 20:02
  Speaker 12: How far is this going to go?
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Well, how do you mean, miss?
• 20:05
  Speaker 12: I mean, who's going to hear about this? Who's going
• 20:06
  Speaker 12: to hear the answers I'm going to give her?
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Well, no one. Not what he got for us.
• 20:10
  Speaker 12: I'll give you this for free. If anything happened to Mona,
• 20:12
  Speaker 12: you go talk to Dick Burdick. Talk to him. He'll
• 20:14
  Speaker 12: be able to tell you.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Why'd he say that?
• 20:16
  Speaker 12: Because it's true. No other reason. He's a real bum.
• 20:19
  Speaker 12: You ask me, I think there's something wrong with him.
• 20:21
  Speaker 12: You know, in the head.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Well, do you have any reason to say that?
• 20:24
  Speaker 12: All the reason in the world. Poor girl, this bum
• 20:27
  Speaker 12: all the time coming around giving her trouble. All the
• 20:29
  Speaker 12: time telling her how he's going to kill her and
• 20:30
  Speaker 12: anybody that comes near her.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Burdick said that to Miss Fenton, did he?
• 20:33
  Speaker 12: Half a dozen times. Wasn't one a week ago. Mona
• 20:37
  Speaker 12: told me she told him off, told him to get lost.
• 20:39
  Speaker 12: She wanted any part of him to leave her alone.
• 20:41
  Speaker 12: He made a big scene. Mona told me all about it.
• 20:43
  Speaker 12: One day, this Terry drove in here. Got one of
• 20:46
  Speaker 12: those flashy foreign cars.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: The Jaguar?
• 20:48
  Speaker 12: I think so, yeah.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: All right, go ahead.
• 20:50
  Speaker 12: Well, one day, he drove into the place. Mona took
• 20:52
  Speaker 12: care of him. I guess he liked Mona. He kept
• 20:55
  Speaker 12: coming back. Always parked in her station. Anyway, this Burdick
• 20:59
  Speaker 12: kid found out about it. Wasn't anything for him to
• 21:01
  Speaker 12: worry about, but he made a big thing about it.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 21:03
  Speaker 12: Told Mona she was supposed to stop seeing Terry. Said
• 21:06
  Speaker 12: if she didn't, he was going to cause real trouble.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Did he say what he was going to do?
• 21:09
  Speaker 12: I think he was kidding. I don't think he really
• 21:11
  Speaker 12: meant it.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: He's just a kid. Well, what did he say?
• 21:13
  Speaker 12: I really don't think he meant it.
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: Well, all right.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Now, what did he say to her?
• 21:17
  Speaker 12: Said if he found them together again, he'd kill them both.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: We talked to the other girls on the drive-in.
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: From them, we got the same story about the scenes
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: that Richard Burdick had created. We got more information about
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: the threats that he'd made against the Fenton girl and
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: Terry Hamilton. From one of the girls, we got the
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: address of Hamilton. 2.45 p.m. We left the drive-in and
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: drove over to the address of the.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Girl's boyfriend, Richard Burdick. We talked to the landlady.
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: She told us that the Burdick boy had regular habits.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: He paid his rent on time. He never had any visitors.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: She told us that he wasn't in his room at
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: that time, but she said that she'd let us in.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: In her company, we went upstairs. She unlocked the door,
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: and Frank and I went in. Mom checked the bedroom.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: I'll take the kitchen.
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: Nothing out there. How'd you do? Looks like we're a
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: little late.
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: What?
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: His clothes are gone. We checked the room further.
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: Every indication was that Richard Burdick had left the apartment
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: in a hurry. We talked to the landlady again. She
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: could give us no reason for his disappearance. She gave
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: us the name of his employer. We put in a
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: call to them, but they told us that Burdick had
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: failed to show.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Up for work that day.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: 4.15 p.m. We put in a call to the hotel
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: on Grand Avenue, but the handyman still hadn't returned and
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: there'd been no.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Word from him. We went back to the office and
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: checked the name.
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: Richard Burdick through R & I, but we found no
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: criminal record for anybody answering his description.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: We put out a local and an APB on him.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: At 4.39 p.m.
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: We got a call from General Hospital telling us that
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: the Fenton girl had regained consciousness and that we could
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: talk to her. Frank and I left the office and
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: traveled Code 2 out to the hospital. The doctor on
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: duty told us that the girl was out of danger,
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: but that she was very weak. He asked us not
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: to get her excited, and he let us into her room.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: Miss Fenton?
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: Yes, who are you?
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: Police officers.
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: Why can't you leave me alone?
• 23:13
  Speaker 13: Go away.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: Just a couple of questions we'd like to ask you.
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: I don't want to talk to anybody. Why didn't you
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: leave things the way they were? Why didn't you leave
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: me alone?
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: You had a lot of people worried, miss.
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: No reason for it. It'd be better all the way
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: around if things had happened the way I planned them.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: And you did try to kill yourself?
• 23:30
  Speaker 14: Yes.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Who was with you in that hotel room?
• 23:32
  Speaker 13: You mean Mr.
• 23:33
  Speaker 10: Morris?
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: It was Terry. It was always Terry. He was going
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: to marry me, then he didn't. He said he would
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: and he didn't.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: That way you did what you did?
• 23:44
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: You used narcotics, Miss Fenton?
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: Hmm?
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: You used narcotics?
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: Yes, it was Terry's idea too. I think that's all
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: he wanted with me, just to get me hooked so
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: I'd have to do what he said. I think that
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: was the reason.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: How about this Richard Burdick?
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: What about him?
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: Do you have anything to do with you deciding to
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: take your own life?
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: In a lot of ways. The biggest mistake I ever
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: made was leaving Richard. I thought it was smart, real smart.
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: I was going to show him. Terry said he'd marry me.
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: He said he was in.
• 24:12
  Speaker 13: Love with me.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: Did he get you started on narcotics?
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: At first it wasn't so bad. I loved him. Really,
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: I did. Then when I had to have the fixes,
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: he changed. Told me he couldn't give it to me anymore.
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: That I was going to have to pay for it.
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: I tried to tell him to tell him that I
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: loved him. That I wanted to be with him. That's
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: why I went to the hotel to talk it over.
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: Try to come to an understanding, some kind of an understanding.
• 24:38
  Speaker 12: Mm-hmm.
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: He said that he didn't want to have anything to
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: do with me. That he wanted no.
• 24:43
  Speaker 13: Part of me anymore.
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: Said that I was going to have to pay for
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: the H from now on. I didn't have any way
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: to pay for it. He said it wasn't any of
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: his business.
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: Is he a user?
• 24:53
  Speaker 14: Yes.
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: All so stupid, all so stupid.
• 24:59
  Speaker 14: Ma'am?
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: The whole thing, I had it real good all the
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: way around. And then I went ahead and ruined everything,
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: tore it all down. Even if I'd have killed myself,
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: it would have been no answer. Not the right answer, anyway.
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: I know that. I know it real well.
• 25:17
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: Can you tell us where you can find this Terry?
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: You bet I can. I want to see him feel
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: like I do. I want him to know what it's like.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: Will you be willing to meet with him? Make a
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: buy of narcotics for us?
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: You name the time, I'll be there. I'll be there
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: if I have to crawl.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: All right. You better get some rest now.
• 25:38
  Speaker 13: I guess so.
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: I'm pretty tired. Did you see my mother?
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am.
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: Is she real mad at me?
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: No, I don't think she is.
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: Would you call her? Ask her to come and see me?
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: Tell her I'm sorry. Tell her I want to see her.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: She'll be glad to hear that.
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: I hope so. I got so much to tell her,
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: her and Richard. How much to tell them both?
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: All right, Miss Fenton. We'll get in touch with her.
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  Speaker 7: Then you tell me when you want me to call Terry.
• 26:10
  Speaker 7: You tell me.
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  Speaker 4: All right, we will.
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  Speaker 7: Terrible thing, isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: What's that?
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  Speaker 7: Terry. He's been around a long time. Must be other
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: girls in the same fix all because of him. Girls
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: who have a bad habit and have to do what
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  Speaker 7: he says. Girls like me, terrible. Nobody knows how many.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 7: Where's it gonna end?
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: When you meet him.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard is true. The names
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: were changed to protect the innocent.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: On March 10th, trial was held in Department 98, Superior
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Court of the State of California, in and for the
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: County of Los Angeles. In a moment, the results of
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: that trial.
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: Now, here is our star, Jack Webb.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Thank you, George Fenneman.
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  Speaker 6: Obviously, it would be impossible for you to question all
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: the Chesterfield smokers that you'd run into, yet we're convinced
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: that you want to know what effect a product has
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: on people who do use it regularly.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: Well, Chesterfield tells you.
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: Now, you've heard the report from the doctor who's been
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: examining Chesterfield smokers. No adverse effects to the nose, throat,
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: and sinuses from smoking Chesterfield. I think it would make
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: good sense for you to change to Chesterfield today. Smoke
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: America's most popular two-way cigarette, regular or king size.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: You'll find Chesterfield's best for you.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Terry Norris Hamilton was tried and convicted of violation of
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: the State Narcotics Act, the felony one count. He received
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: sentence as prescribed by law. Violation of the State Narcotics Act,
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: the felony is punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: for a period of from one to five years. Mona
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Irene Fenton pled guilty to the same charge and was
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: placed on probation for a period of three years with
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: the provision that she be placed under the care of
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: a competent psychiatrist.
• 28:02
  Speaker 11: The End.
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  Speaker 4: You have just heard.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. Technical
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker,
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Los Angeles Police Department. Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Brasher. Heard tonight were Ben Alexander,
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Vic Rodman, Virginia Gregg, Gene Tatum. Script by John Robinson.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Music by Walter Schumann. Hal Gibney speaking.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Watch an entirely different Dragnet case history each week on
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: your local NBC television station. Please check your newspapers for
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: the day and time. Chesterfield has brought you Dragnet, transcribed
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: from Los Angeles.
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• 29:29
  Speaker 8: Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company. Here, John Cameron.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Swayze and the news next on the NBC Radio Network.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Dragnet has concluded with The Big Switch. Good night, and
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: thank you for sharing this hour of classic radio.