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Dragnet: The Big Church (EP4586) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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  Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
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  Speaker 1: Now from November second, nineteen fifty Here's the Big Church.
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  Speaker 2: The story you are 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. You're assigned to homicide detail. The life
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  Speaker 2: of a young woman is in danger. Anonymous letters and
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  Speaker 2: phone calls threaten her with murder. The notes bear the
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  Speaker 2: mark of a phonetic. Your job stop them.
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  Speaker 3: Dragnet. The document a drama of an actual crime. Well,
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  Speaker 3: the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 3: Police Department, you will travel step by step on the
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  Speaker 3: side of the law through an actual case transcribed from
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  Speaker 3: official police filence, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
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  Speaker 3: Dragnet is the story of your police force. And actually.
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  Speaker 4: It was Tuesday, March eighth. That was cold Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 4: We're working the night watch out of homicide. My partner's
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  Speaker 4: Ben Ramero. The boss's Captain Steed. My name is Friday.
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  Speaker 4: We were on the way out from the office and
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  Speaker 4: it was six forty five pm when we got to Greenwich.
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  Speaker 5: Street, number three eighteen.
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  Speaker 6: As gentlemen, police officer, I'd like to see doctor Small. Please,
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  Speaker 6: I'm Reverend Small. Won't you come in?
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  Speaker 5: Thank you? Hell, let me take your hat's officers, I've
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  Speaker 5: been waiting for you.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks. Oh, my name's Friday. This is my partner, Sergeant Romeri.
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  Speaker 5: How do you do I'm dead or not? How do
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  Speaker 5: you do? I hope we didn't interrupt your dinner. Oh no, no.
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  Speaker 6: The organist, brother Reaber, and I were just running over
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  Speaker 6: a few hymns for the service tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Or would you come this way? Plays into the parlor.
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  Speaker 6: As I mentioned on the telephone, I'm not much of
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  Speaker 6: a detective, but I think something should be done about
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  Speaker 6: this matter as soon as possible.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, we'd like to get a few more particulars. First, Reverend,
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  Speaker 4: when did you first find out about these threatening letters.
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  Speaker 6: Sister Dorothy Wilson? I think I told you about her.
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  Speaker 6: She came here to the rectory and showed them to me.
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  Speaker 6: She told me she's been getting for the last four
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  Speaker 6: days and phone calls too.
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  Speaker 5: How long have you known this, Dorothy Wilson? Is she
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  Speaker 5: one of your regular parishioners.
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  Speaker 6: Well, she first joined my congregation about a month ago.
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  Speaker 6: She's been in regular attendance at our services ever since.
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  Speaker 5: Is that the church next door joining therector here?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, that's right, Sagan second Reformed Church at the Holy Book.
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  Speaker 6: I founded it here about three years ago and I've
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  Speaker 6: been pastor ever since.
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  Speaker 7: Have you ever had this trouble before, I mean threats
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  Speaker 7: against the people who joined your church?
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  Speaker 5: No, never, never any trouble at all.
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  Speaker 4: I wonder if you have those notes that miss Wilson's
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  Speaker 4: been receiving, Reverend, Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Right here in my desk, let me see, uh? Yes,
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  Speaker 6: is here are the five Sister Wilson got. Here are
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  Speaker 6: the two that I received.
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  Speaker 5: Wonder if I could look at Yes, surely here you are. Thanks.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, would you excuse me for a moment. It's about
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  Speaker 6: time for brother Reeber to get over to the church.
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  Speaker 5: I'd better tell him, certainly, Reverend, didn't we know? Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 5: not at all. I'll be back in just a moment. Alright.
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  Speaker 5: What do they look like? You know? Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: See postmarks here March fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth come from
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  Speaker 8: different places around town, according to the postmarks, Long Beach
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  Speaker 8: couple from Azusa, Glenndale here, no return address on any
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  Speaker 8: of them.
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  Speaker 5: This notebook paper looks like to me? This one, isn't
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  Speaker 5: it to you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: There's this other one here looks like I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: wrapping paper. The writing's not too bad. We'll see. Bring
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  Speaker 4: the postmark. This is the first one they got.
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  Speaker 7: I guess, Dorothy Wilson, you are a sinner, and you
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  Speaker 7: have led a sinful life, Yet you have the nerve
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  Speaker 7: to come into our church and make believe you're a Christian.
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  Speaker 5: Spelling choice bad. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I have been coming to our church for a long time,
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  Speaker 7: and it is an outrage to have you praying in
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  Speaker 7: our temple. If you don't get out and stay out,
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to make sure you are taken care of
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  Speaker 7: it for good. Look outside, Sister and the Lord must
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  Speaker 7: be some kind of a fanatic. We'd better run away
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  Speaker 7: through the prime left this one. Maybe it's type and
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  Speaker 7: we'll hear you read it's dated March sixth. Now take
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  Speaker 7: this as a warning. Bring your sinful body to our
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  Speaker 7: church again, and your blood will run in the aisles.
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  Speaker 7: A life can be taken when God demands it. It
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  Speaker 7: could be your Sorry for.
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  Speaker 6: The interruption, officers, the things I had to remind, Brother Raebro,
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  Speaker 6: Who have you seen all the letters?
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  Speaker 5: Well, we're just checking them over, Reverend. Certainly a terrible
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  Speaker 5: thing for our church. I hope we can keep the
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  Speaker 5: matter as quiet as possible.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Sir, I noticed the two different signatures on these notes.
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  Speaker 5: Now half of them are signed A Sister and the.
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  Speaker 4: Lord Yes, and the other half are signed Brother D. R.
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  Speaker 5: Griswold.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, that's right. The first letter I got was from
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  Speaker 6: this Brother Griswold. His are the type written ones.
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  Speaker 7: Do you know anyone in your congregation with that name?
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  Speaker 5: Reverend D. R. Griswold. No.
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  Speaker 6: I checked over my list of regular parishioners twice. If
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  Speaker 6: there is such a man, I don't know of them.
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  Speaker 4: We can run that name through our and I anyway,
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  Speaker 4: I'm ben. Do you have any suspicions at all?
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  Speaker 5: Reverend? What do you mean such? Well?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, can you think of anybody in your congregation
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  Speaker 4: that might possibly resent this?
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  Speaker 5: SMIs Wilson's joining your church? Maybe? Well?
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  Speaker 6: No, I haven't had an opportunity to think it over
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  Speaker 6: in that light. But I can't imagine anybody in our
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  Speaker 6: group writing letters like this.
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  Speaker 5: What's her background, Reverend? You know much about her? No,
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  Speaker 5: she's a quiet girl. She's very religious. Works as a
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  Speaker 5: stenographer in an office downtown help support her mother. Will
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  Speaker 5: she be at church tonight? Yes, she's here already, helping
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  Speaker 5: to set up the chairs for the service. Why would
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  Speaker 5: you like to talk to her? Yes? I could could.
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  Speaker 6: All right, let's go over to the church. There's still
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  Speaker 6: half an hour before services begin.
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  Speaker 4: Fine, I'll have to take these letters along with us, Reverend,
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  Speaker 4: want our handwriting man to check them over?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 6: By all means that Manila envelope on the desk. You
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  Speaker 6: can put them in there if you're.
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  Speaker 5: Like, thank you? This one here? Yes?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, this way, obss. How many members do you have
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  Speaker 4: in your church, Reverend.
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  Speaker 6: Small, one hundred and sixty two regulars, another one hundred
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  Speaker 6: or so on the friends they attend only occasionally.
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  Speaker 7: You mentioned that this miss Wilson's had threatening phone calls too. Yes,
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  Speaker 7: that's what she told me this afternoon. A man's voice
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  Speaker 7: or a woman, My sister Wilson said both.
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  Speaker 6: The phone calls usually follow each letter, and they identify
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  Speaker 6: themself well the same way, Brother Griswold and the sister
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  Speaker 6: and the Lord. Have you received any calls by No,
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  Speaker 6: I've been half expecting them, but I haven't had any yet.
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  Speaker 5: Here should we win? Please?
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  Speaker 2: Here we are.
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  Speaker 6: Our seating arrangement is still temporary. We hope they have
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  Speaker 6: feels installed next year. Oh last church, Yes, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Oh there's sister Wilson. She is helping set up the chairs.
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  Speaker 6: If you'd like to wait in the choir's dressing room,
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  Speaker 6: I'll bring.
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  Speaker 5: Her in there to you.
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  Speaker 7: All right, thank you? Ever, let's go ben this one, Joe, Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: this is it ought to open a few winds in yours?
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  Speaker 5: Musty? Yeah? What time do you say the services start
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  Speaker 5: seven thirty?
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  Speaker 7: It's uh five minutes past seven now officers.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir officers, this is Sister Dorothy Wilson. Sister Wilson,
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  Speaker 5: Sergeant Friday, how do you deal? Man?
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  Speaker 9: Hello?
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  Speaker 5: And Sergeant Ramirez that's Romero. Oh I'm sorry, Sergeant Romeroz Wilson. Hello. No,
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  Speaker 5: I guess you want to speak with Sister Wilson alone.
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  Speaker 5: Do you why? I would like to have you stay,
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  Speaker 5: if you would, Reverend won if there's some place where
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  Speaker 5: we could sit down, Yes, certainly right over here in
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  Speaker 5: the anty room.
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  Speaker 10: But how's mister Wilson. There's no need to be afraid.
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  Speaker 10: These officers are here to help you and to protect you.
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  Speaker 10: See that nothing happens.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, brother smile little.
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  Speaker 11: Fast in the faith of the Lord than usually not fear.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, I will. You want me to tell you all
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  Speaker 9: about it? Sergeant how it started?
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  Speaker 5: Well? Please say? Is it all right? Just smoking here? Yes?
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  Speaker 5: Of course, go ahead. Uh, I won't care for second.
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  Speaker 9: No, thank you, No, thanks.
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  Speaker 11: I'm not right now.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, I wad be back there if you will. Uh.
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  Speaker 4: We've already looked over the letters that you received. The
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  Speaker 4: Reverend here told us that you got the first one
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  Speaker 4: last Friday.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, that's right, I've gotten one each day since then
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  Speaker 9: phone calls too.
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  Speaker 11: Did you recognize the voice is making me go?
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  Speaker 9: No, I didn't know that at all. A woman's voice
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  Speaker 9: was very rough, kind of like you might be old.
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  Speaker 9: You said some terrible things about me and rather small.
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  Speaker 9: She called both of us terrible names, awful.
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  Speaker 5: The same with a man who called him.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, sometimes he's even worse. None of the things they
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  Speaker 9: say are true, Sergeant, not one word.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I'd like you to think carefully before you answered this,
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  Speaker 4: Miss Wilson. Is there anyone at all that you know
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  Speaker 4: in your neighborhood, here, at church, or at your work
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  Speaker 4: who might be doing this? Maybe somebody that you knew
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  Speaker 4: a few years ago, some acquaintance.
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  Speaker 9: Ever since it's happened, I've been trying to think of someone.
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  Speaker 9: I don't think I've ever met anybody who do this
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  Speaker 9: kind of thing.
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  Speaker 4: Well, how about a former boyfriend or a girlfriend who
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  Speaker 4: might be jealous of you for some reason.
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  Speaker 11: Oh?
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  Speaker 9: I did have quite a few boyfriends, casual dates, nothing serious.
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  Speaker 9: They were always taking me out dancing and out to parties.
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  Speaker 9: We went everywhere, But I was never interested.
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  Speaker 11: In any of them. Were any of them upset stop
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  Speaker 11: going out with him?
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  Speaker 9: A few of them more angry when I wouldn't marry them.
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  Speaker 9: But I don't think any of them would write those
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  Speaker 9: kind of letters. Do you think the whole thing might
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  Speaker 9: be some kind of a joke someone's playing.
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  Speaker 11: It's a pretty grim joke to go this far. Do
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  Speaker 11: you live by yourself, Miss Wilson.
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  Speaker 9: No, with my mother, but I don't want her to
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  Speaker 9: know anything about this. Well.
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  Speaker 5: I think it'd be wiser if you told me. No.
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  Speaker 9: No, she mustn't know. Mother's been ill lately, and if
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  Speaker 9: she found out, it might upset her an awful lot.
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  Speaker 9: She's not well at all.
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  Speaker 5: I help yourself with someone A lot of that generally, book,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know that's a lesson.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, I would, all right, thank you you are anybody else?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, please?
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  Speaker 6: I don't think okay, thank you yourself.
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  Speaker 5: How about some of the church members, missus Wilson.
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  Speaker 4: Have any of them been at all unfriendly to you
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  Speaker 4: since you started coming here?
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  Speaker 9: No, I don't think so. A few were pretty hard
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  Speaker 9: to get to know. They're shy, I guess, but none
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  Speaker 9: of them have been uncharitable.
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  Speaker 11: Then you don't think the threats are coming from anyone
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  Speaker 11: in the church.
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  Speaker 9: If they are, I don't know who the person is
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  Speaker 9: the way they say all those ratten things about me.
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  Speaker 9: They call me a sinner and a bad woman. Oh,
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  Speaker 9: I guess I'm a sinner like all of us are.
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  Speaker 9: But I'm not a bad woman. I'm going to church
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  Speaker 9: because i want to be born again of the light.
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  Speaker 9: I've never killed anyone, and I've never been a bad woman.
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  Speaker 5: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 9: You believe me, don't you?
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  Speaker 5: Every Yes, of course I do. I don't get yourself
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  Speaker 5: on upset, Sister Wilson.
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  Speaker 9: Do you think that's why they want to murder me
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  Speaker 9: because I'm a sinner? You think that's why?
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  Speaker 5: Please, sister, willn't try and get your mind off.
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  Speaker 9: They want to kill me because I'm a sinner, then
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  Speaker 9: why don't they want to kill all the sinners.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to have a lot of homicides if they try.
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  Speaker 4: Ten PM, together with Sergeant's Reins and Bechto, retailed Dorothy
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  Speaker 4: Wilson to her home.
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  Speaker 5: She parked her card to rear and went inside. A
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  Speaker 5: steakeout was placed on our house.
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  Speaker 4: The next morning, we took the threatening letters which the
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  Speaker 4: Wilson girl had received and asked Don Meyern handwriting to
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  Speaker 4: check them over. During the next five days, we checked
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  Speaker 4: thoroughly into the background of Dorothy Wilson. We talked to
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  Speaker 4: our relatives or employers, all our friends past and present.
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  Speaker 4: We had no good reason to suspect any of them.
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  Speaker 4: We checked out the people at the church and they
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  Speaker 4: were clear. Both Reverend Small and the Wilson Girl continued
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  Speaker 4: to receive more threatening letters. Some of the language and
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  Speaker 4: the accusations were pretty foul. Still, no outward attempts were
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  Speaker 4: made on the life of the Wilson Girl. A week
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  Speaker 4: after we started on the case. We tallied up our
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  Speaker 4: findings and seemed to make sense. We talked it over
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  Speaker 4: with Rains in the squadron.
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  Speaker 12: Don Myers checking those letters the sap of the Wilson
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  Speaker 12: girls handwriting, isn't he?
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  Speaker 5: What's you get to say?
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  Speaker 7: The letters written in long hand as signed his sister
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  Speaker 7: and the Lord, and the typewritten letters to signed brother d.
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  Speaker 5: RC Grizzly M. Yeah, I know that, Don says.
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  Speaker 12: Other letters were written but the same person as you figure,
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  Speaker 12: all similarities and phrasing, same mistakes and spelling, typewritten and
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  Speaker 12: long hand. Both signatures on the Grizzwell letters matched the
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  Speaker 12: handwriting and the other letters.
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  Speaker 5: They were only dealing with one.
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  Speaker 12: Suspect, and Don Myers seems pretty sure of it. You know, well,
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  Speaker 12: how does the Wilson girls have writing?
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  Speaker 5: Check out? Who's working on there? Where does that leave us?
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  Speaker 7: You've been on steakhouts at the Wilson Girls home a
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  Speaker 7: few nights. Haven't you noticed anything peculiar?
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  Speaker 5: About to say it?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, do you mean something it didn't fit? Something, it
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  Speaker 7: didn't quite giant?
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  Speaker 5: No, I don't think so. Well, just that business about
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  Speaker 5: her car. Thought that was little out of line. I
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  Speaker 5: mean that struck us the same way. Girl always seem fighting.
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  Speaker 12: Enough about the situation when she's around us, but when
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  Speaker 12: she thinks she's alone, looks to me like she takes
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  Speaker 12: a little differently.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, every night when.
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  Speaker 12: She drives home she aar Actually car in that dark
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  Speaker 12: garage must be at least fifty.
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  Speaker 5: Or seventy five yards from her house.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I've never seen her look particularly nervous and take
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  Speaker 12: that long walk to the front door.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure the normal reaction for a frightened woman would
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  Speaker 4: be a part of the car right in front of.
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  Speaker 5: The house and hurry inside. She hadn't done that once.
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  Speaker 12: How about all those friends with her? As you guys
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  Speaker 12: checked out anything there? Well, We've been staked out of
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  Speaker 12: her house, the church, and the work. You know that
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  Speaker 12: it's not a thing. Checked with some of her ex
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  Speaker 12: boyfriends too.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing there.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the Wilson girl told us that some of the
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  Speaker 4: boys had proposed to her. We couldn't find one whould
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  Speaker 4: admit it. They all said she was a nice girl,
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  Speaker 4: but they didn't propose marriage.
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  Speaker 7: Those threatening phone calls are another thing. Both the pastor
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  Speaker 7: of the church and Dorothy Wilson got letters, but only
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  Speaker 7: the girl received a phone call.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Well, logically, if the reverend got the letters the same
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  Speaker 7: time as a girl, he should have been getting.
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  Speaker 5: Phone calls too. He hadn't received the one. It could
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  Speaker 5: be accidental.
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  Speaker 12: Whoever wants to kill the girl might figure the reverend
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  Speaker 12: would recognize his voice.
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  Speaker 5: Well as possible.
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  Speaker 4: But you remember that story that the Wilson girl gave
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  Speaker 4: us about her mother, Remember that you didn't want her
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  Speaker 4: to know about the letters because.
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  Speaker 5: Their mother was sick.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we checked with their mother's doctor and missus Wilson
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  Speaker 4: hasn't been sick in five years.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, how about that? What do you figure? I think
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  Speaker 5: the girl's a fake.
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  Speaker 4: Everything we knew about the case of Dorothy Wilson everything
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  Speaker 4: we'd learned through questioning and observation seemed to point to
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  Speaker 4: one definite conclusion. Dorothy Wilson, for one reason or another,
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  Speaker 4: was writing the threatening letters to herself.
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  Speaker 5: As for the warnings that she got over the telephone,
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  Speaker 5: had her word for it. We took our findings to
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  Speaker 5: Captain Steed and laid out the case for him.
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: He directed us to stay on him for a few
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: more days until we could find enough evidence in testimony
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: to prove out our theory. The following day, Dorothy Wilson
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: received a letter more threatening than any of the previous ones.
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: Reverend Small also received a copy of the same letter. Again,
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: Don Meyer's opinion was that they were written by the
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: same person.
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: A right, what's doing? I don't know boy's got any
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: new theories? What do you mean on the Dorothy Wilson case?
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: Do we need one?
• 16:33
  Speaker 12: I don't think your old one's going to hold up.
• 16:35
  Speaker 12: Whyhow it's the manner? She's a Georgia Street somebody tried
• 16:38
  Speaker 12: to kill her.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: You are listening to dragnet authentic stories of your police
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: force in action.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: As soon as we got the report that Dorothy Wilson
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: had been attacked by an unknown assailant. We drove to
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: Georgia Street Receiving Hospital where she was being treated. Anderson
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: and Beckel from Homicide were standing by. We talked to
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: the doctor, who told us that the victim had no
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: serious injuries. She had two slight bruises on her upper
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: arms and the slight bruise on her forehead. She complained
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: of a headache. While the doctor made out his report,
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: we questioned the Wilson girl. She told us that she'd
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: gone to the Church of the Holy Book at six
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: o'clock that night after work. She told us that she
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: wanted to pray before the start of the regular service
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: at eight fifteen pm.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: We asked her exactly when and where the attack occurred.
• 17:34
  Speaker 9: About six thirty. I felt a little tired. I told
• 17:37
  Speaker 9: the officers on due to get the church. I thought
• 17:39
  Speaker 9: i'd get a little resp before services started, and then
• 17:41
  Speaker 9: I went into the ladies dressing room laid down. That's
• 17:44
  Speaker 9: what happened. It was terrible.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: Did you see the person who tried to hurt you?
• 17:48
  Speaker 9: No, I was lying down with my eyes closed, and
• 17:51
  Speaker 9: he must took him up from behind. Police hands are
• 17:54
  Speaker 9: on my throat and tired to press tight. Was awful.
• 17:57
  Speaker 9: Just awful.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: What happened then, Miss Wilson, Well.
• 18:00
  Speaker 9: I thought as hard as I could. I kicked and
• 18:03
  Speaker 9: scratched him, and I guess I heard him because he
• 18:05
  Speaker 9: let grow my throat for a minute. After that, he
• 18:08
  Speaker 9: pulled me down on the floor. I remembered that. Then
• 18:11
  Speaker 9: he put his hands around this part of my head
• 18:13
  Speaker 9: like this.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: The other officers told us that one of the choir members,
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: mister Sherman, found you unconscious in the choir rooms.
• 18:22
  Speaker 9: That yes, whoever it was, wanted to kill me. He
• 18:26
  Speaker 9: put a gag in my mouth and blindfolded me and
• 18:29
  Speaker 9: then tied my wrists together with tape. That's how mister
• 18:32
  Speaker 9: Sherman found me.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: How long did you figure you were unconscious?
• 18:34
  Speaker 9: Now? I don't know. It was about six thirty five
• 18:37
  Speaker 9: when I laid down in the dressing room. Mister Sherman
• 18:39
  Speaker 9: said he found me there at twenty minutes past seven, when.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: You were out about forty five minutes? Is then suppose?
• 18:45
  Speaker 9: So I don't remember anything?
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: What makes you think the person who attacked you one
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: to kid him? Miss Wilson?
• 18:51
  Speaker 9: That's what they said in the letters, isn't it? They
• 18:54
  Speaker 9: want to kill me for coming to church?
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: Now your person. Everything that was in it was scattered
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: all over the dressing room floor. Is that correct? Yes?
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: It was my money and everything scattered all over. I
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: guess they wanted to rob me too.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: Fifty two dollars in cash that what you had with him?
• 19:06
  Speaker 9: I tried a fifty dollars bill and some change. I
• 19:09
  Speaker 9: don't know why they didn't take it. Maybe something frightened
• 19:11
  Speaker 9: them off.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: It's possible the officers found some other articles scattered around
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: the dressing room, roll of the tape, the metal box
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: that the tape came in, and a half a dozen
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: razor blades. Did you notice any of these in the
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: dressing room before you were attacked?
• 19:22
  Speaker 9: No, none of them. I never saw them before. Those
• 19:25
  Speaker 9: razor blades, officer, What do you think they wanted to
• 19:27
  Speaker 9: do with them?
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: There's no use thinking about that now it's all over.
• 19:30
  Speaker 9: I knew i'd be protected. I felt the spirit. I
• 19:34
  Speaker 9: know the Holy Light would protect me. Yes, ma'am, will
• 19:37
  Speaker 9: you find whoever?
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Did?
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: An officer?
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: Well, it was just a hunch, Miss Wilson. Yes, I
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: think we already have.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: Before we left Georgia Street, we talked to the doctor
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: in charge and got a release for the patient. Dorothy
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: Wilson agreed to drive back with us to the office
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: to make out a crime report. On the way, she
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: seemed to lose most of her nervousness. She was relaxed,
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: and she talked quite a bit.
• 20:01
  Speaker 9: Religions are great comfort to me, Sergeant. I think it's
• 20:03
  Speaker 9: a great comfort anybody, don't you.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I do.
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: Maybe I'm different from most girls, but I get an
• 20:08
  Speaker 9: awful lot out of my church. It's like Brother Small says,
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: you have to be born again of the Holy Life
• 20:12
  Speaker 9: if you really want to live, don't you think so.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: I'm sure.
• 20:15
  Speaker 9: I don't know what I'd do if it wasn't for
• 20:16
  Speaker 9: my religion.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: No.
• 20:19
  Speaker 9: I used to have a lot of boyfriends. Of course,
• 20:21
  Speaker 9: I don't care for any of them anymore, but when
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: I was younger, they were always taking me out all
• 20:25
  Speaker 9: the time.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: And that's so.
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: Yes, I had a good time when I was younger,
• 20:28
  Speaker 9: going out to dinner and dancing parties. Fellas were taking
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: me out all the time.
• 20:32
  Speaker 11: Of course, that was when I was younger, not much
• 20:34
  Speaker 11: over twenty five.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 20:35
  Speaker 9: I know. I'll be twenty seven in August. That's pretty
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: old for them. Married girl, but I'm not worried. Get
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: interested in more important things when you get older, isn't
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: it right?
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, that's right.
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: I remember when I was in junior college. How boy
• 20:46
  Speaker 9: crazy I was. I remember that junior prom I went to.
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: Seems such a long time ago.
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: I had the most beautiful white dress, sergeant with sequence.
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: The script was all white and NAT gathered in here
• 20:58
  Speaker 9: at the waist and flared out.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: Real fool.
• 21:01
  Speaker 9: I went to the dancer with one of the big
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: football players. He looks so nicely. He's blue suit. His
• 21:05
  Speaker 9: name was Stanley. I knew him for a long time.
• 21:08
  Speaker 9: He's one of the fellas who asked me to marry him.
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: I guess I was too particular. I I just couldn't
• 21:12
  Speaker 9: see any of 'em.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Uh would you mind if I light out a few
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: facts for you, Miss Wilson, Well, not at all, sir,
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: didn't go ahead.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: Please Now, I'm not trying to embarrass you in anyway.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: But since we've been on this case, we've checked with
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: just about all the friends that you've had in the
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: past few years, and that includes your boyfriends.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: And oh, none.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Of the fellas that you've mentioned say they've ever proposed
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: marriage to you, say they've been out with He once
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: or twice, but that's all.
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: Oh, well, you probably didn't talk to the right fellas.
• 21:36
  Speaker 9: You probably got the names mixed.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: Ome we did and we talked to the right people.
• 21:39
  Speaker 9: Oh, I can't understand that.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Neither can way. Miss Wilson.
• 21:42
  Speaker 9: Well, what difference doesn't make anyway? I wasn't interested in him.
• 21:45
  Speaker 9: I I wouldn't have married them anyway. Going out and
• 21:47
  Speaker 9: dancing parties, that's all they were interested in. What reason
• 21:50
  Speaker 9: did you have for lying to it? Parking and the
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: car and enacting with girls, trying to take advantage of them,
• 21:55
  Speaker 9: that's all those fellas wanted, some of the silly girls
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: they married. Well, I know you discover a lot more
• 22:00
  Speaker 9: important things when you get older.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: Sergeant, Well, I don't think that's the point. Why did
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: you lie to us about it?
• 22:05
  Speaker 9: I don't know, really, Maybe I didn't have a reason.
• 22:07
  Speaker 9: I just didn't remember, right, I guess.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Well, you're sure you remember right about what happened tonight.
• 22:12
  Speaker 9: What do you mean it just happened? Of course, I'm
• 22:13
  Speaker 9: sure about it. Someone tried to kill me.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: H might as well park on Spring Street. Fan, it's
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: pretty clear this time night.
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, sergeant, I wish you'd tell me what you're
• 22:23
  Speaker 9: getting at. What are you thinking?
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Well, there's still a few things that we're not too
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: sure of as well, so we'd like to clear them up.
• 22:28
  Speaker 9: Why aren't you too sure of? I told you everything
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: I knew I was. I was lying down the dressing
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: room and somebody tried to kill me. I told you
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: all about it.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: Well, you told us you were unconscious about forty five minutes.
• 22:38
  Speaker 9: Well, if you have forty or.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: Forty five, Well, we talked to the doctor at Georgia Street.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: From the way you described the attack it but it
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: would have been just about impossible for anybody to make
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: you unconscious that long by pressing his hands against your head.
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: What do you hit me on the head too? You
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: can see the bruise here, Well.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: You ask, ma'am, I know that's very slight. The doctor
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: says that couldn't have done it either. I just meant
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: I'll get the done hair.
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: What else aren't you sure of?
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: Well, your wrists were taped individually.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Now, if somebody wanted to restrain you, they probably would
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: have taped them together.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: Wouldn't they.
• 23:11
  Speaker 9: Well I don't know what they would have done. All
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: I know is they wanted to kill me. They said,
• 23:15
  Speaker 9: so on of those letters.
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: We're not too sure of those letters either, Miss Wilson.
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: What aren't you sure of where they're coming from and
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: who's sending We do know they were.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: All written with the same person.
• 23:24
  Speaker 9: How do you know that they're signed by two different people?
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: A handwriting man checked them over. He says, you're written
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: with the same person.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: You might as well have it straight, Miss Wilson.
• 23:33
  Speaker 9: We're gonna talk cat. We do it inside someplace, please,
• 23:35
  Speaker 9: I'm tired.
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: Oh, I'm sorry, all right, thank Joe. Yeah, I'll see
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: if the laking finger Princes is finishing.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: That's yeah, I'll bring it along. If they are, we'll
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: be in the interrogation of all right this way.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: Miss Wilson.
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: Oh, man, I know used to be on the police force.
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: Nice fellow. We used to go out all the time together.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: So what's his name?
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: Well, that's funny, I don't remember. He's not a nice
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: fellow though. We used to be dnswering every week.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Right, I started questioning Dorothy Wilson, but she wanted to
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: talk about everything except what.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Concerned the case.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: Dean Bergmann and Layton Fingerprints had already checked each article
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: that was found at the supposed scene of the crime.
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: The Wilson girls, Prince were all over them. Did you
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: write those writing letters to yourself?
• 24:27
  Speaker 9: Miss Wilson, I don't understand. Why do you ask me
• 24:29
  Speaker 9: something like that?
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: Did you write the letters to yourself?
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: You know that's not a fair question, Sergeant.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: I don't know what you consider fair, but we'd like
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: to know did you write the letters?
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: Do you know what it is to pray, Sergeant, I mean,
• 24:42
  Speaker 9: really pray?
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: What's that got to do with it.
• 24:44
  Speaker 9: I've been praying all my life. I've been praying hard
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: ever since I was a little girl.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: We'd like to have your answer our question, Miss Wilson.
• 24:51
  Speaker 9: I think you'll understand. This is the answer, Sergeant. I
• 24:55
  Speaker 9: can feel the Holy Spirit in my heart. I know
• 24:57
  Speaker 9: you'll understand.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am.
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: I been praying for an awfully long time, Sergeant. Now,
• 25:02
  Speaker 9: I was a little girl, six years old. I was
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: praying night and day. I said my prayers, but there
• 25:07
  Speaker 9: never seemed to be any answer. I never could understand
• 25:09
  Speaker 9: it because I only prayed for one thing. I didn't
• 25:12
  Speaker 9: think it was too much to ask what was that.
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: I wanted people to know me, Sergeant. I wanted people
• 25:18
  Speaker 9: to know me and like me, that's all. But it
• 25:19
  Speaker 9: never seemed to happen, even when I was a little girl.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: Don't think I quite follow you, man.
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: You've got to understand me. Nobody else does. The time
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: I was a little girl six, nobody ever seemed to
• 25:29
  Speaker 9: care if I was around or not. I always tried
• 25:32
  Speaker 9: to make friends, try to make people like me. I
• 25:34
  Speaker 9: tried very hard, but nobody seemed to care. Nobody even
• 25:37
  Speaker 9: noticed me. Nobody ever noticed me.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: You mean, that's why you wrote those threatened letters to yourself,
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: so that you'd be noticed.
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: I wanted somebody to care about me, that's all. I
• 25:46
  Speaker 9: wanted them to know who I was, Dorothy Wilson. I
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: wanted to walk down the street and have people nod
• 25:51
  Speaker 9: and have them say that's Dorothy Wilson. It was Dorothy Wilson.
• 25:55
  Speaker 9: Just for somebody to care, that's all, sergeant, Just for
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: somebody to care.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Well, And the whole thing's purely your imagination. You wrote
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: the letters to yourself, and you pretended somebody attacked you
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: and all the rest.
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: God told me to do it, sergeant. He told me
• 26:07
  Speaker 9: to make myself noticed, to stand up and make people
• 26:10
  Speaker 9: know me. I'm sorry for it now, but it didn't
• 26:13
  Speaker 9: hurt anyone, did it.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: Well, ma'am, you had an awful lot of people working
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: for nothing.
• 26:17
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry. It was so nice while it lasted, people
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: looking after me, caring about where I went, what happened
• 26:25
  Speaker 9: to me. It's the first time anybody ever really noticed me.
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: It was that important to you.
• 26:30
  Speaker 9: People knew who I was, Dorothy Wilson. They all noticed me.
• 26:35
  Speaker 9: I feel better now that it's over. Oh, there's one
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: thing I got to tell you, Sergeant. Yes, ma'am, remember
• 26:42
  Speaker 9: driving here in the car I told you about that
• 26:44
  Speaker 9: Junior Prime I went to the time. I had a
• 26:46
  Speaker 9: beautiful white night dress with a full skirt, the beautiful
• 26:49
  Speaker 9: new white dress.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: Yes, I remember what about it?
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: Well, it was really pink garden dye, an old dress.
• 26:55
  Speaker 9: I knew you'd find out. That's why I had to
• 26:57
  Speaker 9: tell you. Yeah, I didn't want you to think I would.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: The story you've just heard was true, only the names
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: were changed to protect the innocent.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: By her own admission, Dorothy Wilson was guilty of filing
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: a false crime report, a misdemeanor. She was released into
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: the custody of her mother. You adjust her dragnet. The
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: series of authentic cases transcribed from official files. Technical advice
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: comes from the Office of Chief of Police W. H.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: Parker. This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. As I was listening to this episode, I
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: was reminded of an episode of the nineteen sixties TV
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: series from season three of Dragnet Burglary d Are thirty one,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: which folks might remember as the Crimson Crusader episode, where
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: a young man dressed as this superhero committed these burglaries
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: of movie memorabilia. Now, of course, there are differences in
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: the details of what crime they committed and how that
• 28:21
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• 28:25
  Speaker 1: broke down and admitted to why they were doing what
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: they were doing, and I think the motivations were at
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: their core very similar, this sort of quest for significance
• 28:37
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• 28:43
  Speaker 1: around them. In both cases, Friday and his partner were
• 28:48
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• 28:53
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• 28:58
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• 29:02
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• 29:10
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• 29:16
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• 29:21
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• 29:26
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• 29:30
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