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Dragnet - "Big Key" (Old Time Radio, 1950) · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On NBC with fatimas Cigarettes as sponsor, Jack Webb as
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  Speaker 1: Detective Sergeant Joe Friday, and Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben
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  Speaker 1: Romero lead this early radio case from Dragnet, first heard
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  Speaker 1: May twenty fifth, nineteen fifty, episode fifty Big Key begins
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  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles after a woman is found dead in
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  Speaker 1: a churchyard. The victim has not yet been identified, and
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  Speaker 1: Friday and Romero follow a small collection of physical evidence,
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  Speaker 1: a key, a fountain pen, and a trace of shoe polish.
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  Speaker 1: It is the Ben Romero era of Dragnet, with the
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  Speaker 1: two LAPD detectives working step by step to establish the
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  Speaker 1: woman's identity and retrace her final movements. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: we now take you back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: woman has been murdered, her identity unknown. The body shows
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  Speaker 3: the marks of a savage attack. Your job find the killer.
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  Speaker 4: Drag Net the document a drama of an actual crime.
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  Speaker 4: All the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los
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  Speaker 4: Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on
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  Speaker 4: the side of the law through an actual case transcribed
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  Speaker 4: from official police files. From beginning to end, from crime
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  Speaker 4: to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force
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  Speaker 4: in action.
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  Speaker 2: It was Sunday, December twenty fifth, was reigning in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 2: We're working a day watch out of homicide detail. My
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  Speaker 2: partner's Ben Romero. The boss is blaming speed Captain a homicide.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Friday. Was thirty nine minutes past five
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  Speaker 2: am when I got to San Andreas cathedral on First Street,
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  Speaker 2: church yard.
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  Speaker 7: That's got took away the Hi, Dave, Hi, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: My body's over here all right, Merry Christmas. H yeah,
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  Speaker 8: section from the church ground.
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  Speaker 9: It's about an hour ago.
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  Speaker 7: Have a look.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty brutal.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, I wish you no identification.
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  Speaker 7: The corner checked the body yet, Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: How long you've been dead?
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  Speaker 8: Were when it start rating about midnight?
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  Speaker 7: Didn't ye know?
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  Speaker 2: The ground's dry under the body.
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  Speaker 7: Opened dead five or six hours?
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  Speaker 2: I'd say, Ben get here yet.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, he's helping Claudia check the area. This park here
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  Speaker 8: just all a part of the church ground, and I
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  Speaker 8: think so I stuck out of this rain for a minute.
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  Speaker 8: There's an alcove over there by the church.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, but not.
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  Speaker 2: How much we got to go one day?
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  Speaker 8: Not much motive looks like robbery and find a woman's
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  Speaker 8: person in the body pretty well picked over chriss wet
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  Speaker 8: the Jones destined the contents.
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  Speaker 7: For Prince Corners checking.
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  Speaker 2: And the idea of what the killer used in the
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  Speaker 2: woman's face.
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  Speaker 8: And coroner figures a sharp instrument or sometime nasty one.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah right here, Well, hi you and everything happens on Christmas.
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  Speaker 7: Chris was soaking wet.
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  Speaker 2: An ordinary black handbag and raised any prints on the
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  Speaker 2: stuff inside.
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  Speaker 7: No one? Yeah, you can check the content.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Let's see.
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  Speaker 7: Small comb blosted the teeth out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Three fenners achirpions there lipstick, that's definitely a couple more.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks for this fountain panel this door key I'm showing.
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  Speaker 7: Found them in the grass a few feet from the body.
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  Speaker 2: Now a look at us.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's an ordinary ballpoint fountain fin buy him in
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  Speaker 7: any drug stop of sixty nine per cents. No center
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  Speaker 7: rushed on.
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  Speaker 3: The key must have been dropped recently.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe this will explain what happened to her face? Broken
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  Speaker 7: beer bottle?
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  Speaker 2: Why'd you find that?
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  Speaker 7: Laughlin found it back in the bushes over there? These
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  Speaker 7: jagged edges here smeared with blood. Too much rain. Can't
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  Speaker 7: do anything about Prince till a drive.
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  Speaker 2: You can get enough from these smears to run a precipitate.
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  Speaker 2: Think so y kind of many? Yeah?
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  Speaker 9: Man?
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  Speaker 2: What is it? Oh?
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  Speaker 7: Hi Joe Hi? Cardio found the stead of footprints over
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  Speaker 7: with that plump of shrobbery. Rain hasn't spoiled me? Does
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  Speaker 7: he cover them?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: I think you can get a pretty good cast from
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  Speaker 7: but get a picture of them right away. Hey Charlie,
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  Speaker 7: why will I'll get the stuff from the car. You
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  Speaker 7: mind giving me a hand day? Or this takes care
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  Speaker 7: of Christmas? Yo?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you get a chance to check the body in
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  Speaker 2: what do you think? Well, there's no sense in a struggle.
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  Speaker 2: Could have happened after a Christmas eve brawl? Maybe? Ye?
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  Speaker 2: Whoever the victim is, she was probably acquainted with the killer.
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  Speaker 2: The two of them came in the park and the
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  Speaker 2: victim got it before she knew what was happening.
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  Speaker 7: It might work easier if we find out who the
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  Speaker 7: victim is.
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  Speaker 2: We can check our prince to R and I when
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  Speaker 2: we get back to the office. What those footprints look like?
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  Speaker 7: Seem like a heavy brand, maybe work shoes or some kind.
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  Speaker 7: I want to see how he's making a Yeah, let's
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  Speaker 7: go and miss Christmas dinner again this year? What brand?
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  Speaker 7: Fading family keys? What a waste? It's a cheap pin
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  Speaker 7: the sell five and want to smoke? Thanks pose friends
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  Speaker 7: who helped him victor kill? I gotta find him very
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  Speaker 7: thank you.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we can work a switch. How's that trying the
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  Speaker 2: lock that fits the key? Nine am Christmas Day, Sergeants
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  Speaker 2: Dave Royal, Robert Claudio, Ben and I went back to
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  Speaker 2: the office and took stock of what we had to
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  Speaker 2: work with. Wasn't much. The woman had been murdered. Who
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  Speaker 2: was she? Why was she killed?
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  Speaker 9: Who was the killer?
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  Speaker 2: Dave and Claudio had the dead woman's fingerprints taken and
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  Speaker 2: they were.
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  Speaker 9: Run through the record bureau.
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  Speaker 2: Ben and I checked with Lee Jones at the crime lamp.
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  Speaker 2: The results of the precipitent test showed.
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  Speaker 7: The type of blood found on the broken beer bottle.
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  Speaker 2: Matt's that of the victim. From the cast of the
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  Speaker 2: foot impressions found at the scene of the killing, Lee
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  Speaker 2: estimated that they were made by a person approximately five
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  Speaker 2: feet nine inches tall, weighing about one hundred and sixty pounds.
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  Speaker 2: He figured the foot gear must have been of a
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  Speaker 2: heavy type, either a boot or address shoe with thick
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  Speaker 2: double souls size eleven nine am. We checked in at
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  Speaker 2: the basement of the Hall of Justice the colldi morn Doc,
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  Speaker 2: how's it going?
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  Speaker 7: Oh that at Joe It caused by monible fracture.
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  Speaker 3: The scouts classing the face for the contributing spawns centered
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  Speaker 3: close to the Jones.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah we know, no lunger remark ah, I got two
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  Speaker 7: things here. They will help me, they won't. Yeah, And
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  Speaker 7: the chemist.
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  Speaker 3: Report here in the blood analysis shows the victim of drinking.
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  Speaker 3: She was definitely under the influence at the time she
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  Speaker 3: was murdered. Twelve hundreds percent of alcohol in the blood.
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  Speaker 7: How about the leaded weapon, Doc, We're going to rule
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  Speaker 7: out that beer bottle and just coming to that step
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  Speaker 7: over here, Yeah, it's mark.
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  Speaker 3: Here in the side of her face, brown smudged.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 7: Jones says that that shoe polish he analyzed a few
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  Speaker 7: of the particles.
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  Speaker 3: Tis in the cause of death was brought about by
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  Speaker 3: severe blows in my head and face.
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  Speaker 7: Heavy shoe, huh, that's my guess. Probably a boot or
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  Speaker 7: a workshoe. It doesn't Nand you what do you mean
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  Speaker 7: they were heavy work shoes the killer was wearing? Why
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  Speaker 7: were they? Probably how many people probably say works you
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  Speaker 7: could be waterproof, you know. Jones says it was a
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  Speaker 7: brown paste polish. And it doesn't figure unless the killer
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  Speaker 7: was wearing some kind of dress, boots, cycle boots.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe hundreds of kids on motorcycles were.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's going to be about as helpful as a
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  Speaker 7: key or a cheap fountain pen.
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  Speaker 3: Excuse me, Connie mooy Tyson speaking yeah, all right, fine,
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  Speaker 3: I'll selling cunning Amada and I want to see you
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  Speaker 3: run away.
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  Speaker 7: What's up Demanda victims Prince.
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  Speaker 2: During the war years, a complete file of pictures and
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  Speaker 2: fingerprints had been kept on all persons employed at local
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  Speaker 2: defense plans. Out of this file came our first major lead.
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  Speaker 2: The victim's fingerprints matched those of one Maria Camacho, thirty
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  Speaker 2: eight years old, formerly employed at Universal Aircraft. Her address
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen forty five was listed as ninety two thirty
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  Speaker 2: Sheridan Avenue. Ben and I went over to the crime lab,
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  Speaker 2: picked up the key and the fountain pen found near
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  Speaker 2: the body, and drove to the Sheridan Avenue address. The
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  Speaker 2: house was three blocks from the churchyard where the body
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  Speaker 2: was found. A young woman with a baby in her
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  Speaker 2: arms answered the door. She identified herself as Elena Gomez.
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  Speaker 2: She told us Maria Camacho was her aunt. They were
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  Speaker 2: expecting her for Crechristmas dinner late that afternoon.
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  Speaker 9: We told her what happened.
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  Speaker 2: When she recovered from the shock, we questioned her and
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  Speaker 2: her husband, the furnature worker.
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  Speaker 7: So high for me, bully, why anyone we do this
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  Speaker 7: to rink? When's the last time you saw her, missus films.
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  Speaker 2: She was around last night, Sargant. She brought the presents
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  Speaker 2: for the kids, always bought them presents on Christmas? Did
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  Speaker 2: she live here? Was this her permanent address?
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  Speaker 7: She stayed with us during the war when Ray was oversea.
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  Speaker 3: When he came back, she took a room down the street.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't you give you a drink?
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  Speaker 9: All right?
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  Speaker 2: What time did Maria leave the house last night? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: let's see, that's been around ten o'clock, not much later,
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  Speaker 2: don't you think, Lenna?
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  Speaker 7: About ten o'clock?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, go see what those kids are doing a ready? Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: Did Maria have anything to drink here last night? Minus Man?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, we're glad to share it together that call.
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  Speaker 7: Could you tell her she's been drinking before she came here?
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  Speaker 7: It was Christmas Eve?
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  Speaker 2: I guess she's had a fear. Why was she a
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  Speaker 2: pretty heavy drinker? Not usually?
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  Speaker 7: Not? Maybe I'm holidays so I really like to get
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  Speaker 7: out and have fun living alone all that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Did she drink it home?
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  Speaker 7: Or was there some particular place.
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  Speaker 2: She liked to go? A cantina down on Souda Street.
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  Speaker 2: She used to go there. Any others got a couple.
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  Speaker 5: Of bars on Brooklyn Avenue.
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  Speaker 2: Know the names. What Maria do for a living? Miscoms?
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  Speaker 7: She took in some dressmaking with herself.
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  Speaker 5: She wasn't poor, wasn't rich.
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  Speaker 2: Her landlady could tell you about her friends.
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  Speaker 9: Kids are hungry, n the you're gonna call.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry that we had to break in on you like that.
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  Speaker 9: I'm sorry. Sorry, it's just the kids.
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  Speaker 10: Ask the officers if they want from.
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  Speaker 2: Met pie rake.
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  Speaker 7: No, no, no, that's all right.
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  Speaker 9: I may go.
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  Speaker 2: May think just one more thing? Would you look at
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  Speaker 2: please please? Pam?
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  Speaker 7: Sure that's Maria.
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  Speaker 2: Look great?
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  Speaker 7: Maria's pen?
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  Speaker 2: Now how about this key? I never saw that near
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  Speaker 2: that well, thanks very much, both of you. Sorry to
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  Speaker 2: hold up your dinner. I's sorry, and maybe I could
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  Speaker 2: picture a turkey sandwich. Oh, thank you?
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  Speaker 7: You same. We have to be going.
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  Speaker 2: We'll contact you later on.
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  Speaker 7: Here's our card, all right.
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  Speaker 2: I can't think of a reason surge by someone would
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  Speaker 2: kill us?
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  Speaker 10: Why would kill Maria?
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  Speaker 7: Come on, a nice kids, it's going to be having
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  Speaker 7: a good Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Too bad we had to spoil it. We drove down
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  Speaker 2: the street to the rooming house where Maria Camacho stayed.
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  Speaker 2: We talked to the landlady and the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: tenants we failed to come up with the lead. They
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  Speaker 2: told us Maria Camacho drank a little, but she was
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  Speaker 2: always pleasant, easy to get along with. We checked her room,
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  Speaker 2: We went through stacks of Spanish language newspapers and magazines.
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  Speaker 2: We went through her bills, photographs or letters. We found nothing.
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  Speaker 2: There wasn't an item in the small apartment that could
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  Speaker 2: help us. We went through the entire rooming house, trying
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  Speaker 2: each door with a key.
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  Speaker 7: That we'd found for the body.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't fit any of them, not even the door
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  Speaker 2: to the victim's room. Five pm, there was a lull
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  Speaker 2: in the ring.
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  Speaker 7: We picked up Dave and Claudio and started to explore
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  Speaker 7: the only lead we had. The victim had been drinking
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  Speaker 7: a few hours before she'd been murdered, probably in the
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  Speaker 7: neighborhood tavern. For the next six hours, we canvassed every
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  Speaker 7: bar in the vicinity. Eleven fifteen pm Christmas night, the
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  Speaker 7: four of us met in a combination bar a restaurant
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  Speaker 7: at Brooklyn and Soto for a bye. You heard as
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  Speaker 7: much luck as we did nothing, Dave, everybody we talked
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  Speaker 7: to a news a woman. Nobody saw her Christmas Eve.
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  Speaker 9: And we picked up the names of a dozen friends
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  Speaker 9: of hers from the bar down and checked them out.
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  Speaker 9: They couldn't tell us anything.
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  Speaker 7: We still got another dozen buyers to cover. At least
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  Speaker 7: it must have been in one of them last night.
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  Speaker 7: I wish we'd find if my wife's sure?
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  Speaker 2: Man, you got company?
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  Speaker 7: That was mine?
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  Speaker 2: All right? Gentlemen?
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  Speaker 7: Who had the girl? Half savage?
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  Speaker 2: I did? All right?
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  Speaker 10: And the three hamburgers?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, there we go. I played.
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  Speaker 2: We got some ketchup.
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  Speaker 7: Please chare say you wouldn't like a little leg night
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  Speaker 7: to go with that?
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  Speaker 2: It's good. I make the beat of my own.
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  Speaker 7: Here's something you can do for us. Yes, sir, would
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  Speaker 7: you look at this picture all right? See if you
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  Speaker 7: can identify this woman? She looks like Maria? Yeah, that's her.
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 9: What was you in here last night?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah? She was? What time was she all bought?
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  Speaker 9: Eleven?
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  Speaker 7: Eleven thirty? Y? Was she with somebody or half a
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  Speaker 7: dozen of them at least Maria another woman and four
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  Speaker 7: or five men? Were they drinking or they were well behaved?
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  Speaker 7: Just have a little Christmas chair?
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  Speaker 9: That so they like my eggnites? Or what time did
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  Speaker 9: Maria leave you remember?
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  Speaker 6: Well?
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  Speaker 7: No, not exactly, but she left before the others. They
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  Speaker 7: closed the place before its cuts. She leave a wom
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  Speaker 7: No Tony father out of I think it must have
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  Speaker 7: been sometime around midnight. I'm not sure who's Tony Tony Perrez.
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  Speaker 2: He's fust play here.
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  Speaker 7: He knows Marie.
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  Speaker 2: Where is he now?
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  Speaker 7: Christmas is off list in a hotel down the street, someplace.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know time fit.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe the key does. Dave and Claudio started to check
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  Speaker 2: the neighborhood to locate the hotel where Tony Perez stayed.
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  Speaker 2: Ben and I continued our canvas of bars and restaurants
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  Speaker 2: in the area. One am, the rain started in again.
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  Speaker 7: We checked into the bar on Brooklyn Avenue near Cornwall,
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  Speaker 7: the Cantena Sinaloa. Yes, sir, gentlemen, please help us. Did
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  Speaker 7: you look dispect you please? If you can't identify till
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  Speaker 7: I draw my hands.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just getting some.
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  Speaker 10: Of these glasses out of the way.
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  Speaker 9: Let's see.
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  Speaker 2: Never see her before?
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  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, that's Maria too bad. I read in the
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  Speaker 7: papers about it.
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  Speaker 2: Can you tell us if she was in here last night?
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  Speaker 7: No, I didn't see how I read in the papers
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  Speaker 7: about it, though terrible put them. Are its possible she
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  Speaker 7: might have been in you didn't here, No, I always
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  Speaker 7: know when.
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  Speaker 2: Maria is here.
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  Speaker 7: She was always full of fun. She'd like to sing,
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  Speaker 7: I better get these glasses.
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  Speaker 2: Then you want to.
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  Speaker 7: Call it office?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, how about a drink? Sergeant, you don't look so good.
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  Speaker 2: You got any coffee? It's not very fresh.
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  Speaker 7: He's been standing there a couple of hours.
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  Speaker 2: That's all right, okay, Here, here's the sugar any, thank you?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, that's not very warm.
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  Speaker 2: Huh, that's okay.
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  Speaker 9: What do you think of this, sir?
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  Speaker 7: The guy was crazy?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Ah, he must have been crazy. That's a nice rain.
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  Speaker 10: Let's go for the farmers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, shoes. You ever see this key before?
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  Speaker 9: Let's see I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Go Yeah, daven Flodia from the hotel.
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  Speaker 9: They picked up.
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  Speaker 7: Coming prey took him in.
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  Speaker 2: What each other? He says?
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  Speaker 2: Monday December twenty sixth nine am we checked Tony Perez
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  Speaker 2: through R and I. He had a record of seven
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  Speaker 2: arrests but no convictions. During the past year, he'd been
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: booked on suspicion of two to eleven PC assault with
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: intent to do great bodily harm and second degree burgery.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: In each instance, he'd been released for a lack of evidence.
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  Speaker 2: All of his shoes and clothing were brought to the
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  Speaker 2: crime lab for examination. Nine to twenty five am we
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: brought Perez back to the interrogation room. He admitted that
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: he had been with Maria Camacho Christmas Eve, but he
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: denied having an anything to.
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: Do with her killing. He told us that after he
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: had left Maria, he'd go into a party at some
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: friend's house.
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  Speaker 2: Dave and Padio went out to check his story. I
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  Speaker 2: gave him a key found near the body and ask
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: him to try it on the door to perez hotel room.
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  Speaker 7: Ben and I continued to question the suspect. How well
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: did you know Maria from Montretny? I told you already,
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  Speaker 7: she was just some old crow who used to hang
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: around the bars. That's all. I used to talk to
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: her once in a while.
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  Speaker 2: Did you ever have any arguments with it?
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: No, how many times you're going to ask me that, it.
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  Speaker 2: Would help a lot if you could tell us exactly
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: where you left Maria Christmas. Even when you.
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: Left it, I told you already, I don't remember exactly
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: we're drinking. We were all drinking. I don't remember. How'd
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: you get to that boy? I walked placed on Malabar Street.
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: Maria stopped at a bar someplace along the way. And
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: that's the last time I saw her.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Did you go in with her?
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: No, she went in alone. I went to the party,
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: that's all.
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  Speaker 2: I'm interrogation room Friday. Yeah.
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: Check the polish and boots.
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  Speaker 4: And matches with the smear of polish in the victim's face.
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  Speaker 9: Wax components were exactly the same. Good.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: How about the cast Nope, they.
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: Didn't match the Prince we cast out there be size eleven,
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: big heels, Prez.
• 20:11
  Speaker 9: Where's the nine?
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: Pretty small? Hi, don't match at all?
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: What about the other stuff went over? The rest of
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: the shoes was closed? Nothing? That guy in, Oh Jaylie,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: thank you? You shine your own boots? Tony?
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: No, why where do you get them?
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Shamed?
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: I go to Angelo's Chicago Street right now?
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: First, when's the last time he got a shame? Oh?
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: Christmas Eve? What time Christmas?
• 20:37
  Speaker 9: He've done?
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: When I got off work about two and na? No,
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: all right, my dad see where outside of it? Yeahs
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: telling the truth about the party.
• 20:53
  Speaker 9: He was there.
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: We turned out how long did it take him? The
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: walks in the restaurant of the party. You know pretty
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: close friends say to the party about twelve thirty.
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: Doesn't look like you had time to kill that woman.
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: Where does that leave us? Still got those boots?
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: No, no more, they don't mans the impressions at the
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: murder scene.
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: It makes us even here's your keyback? Didn't sit.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Tony Perez was held for further investigation. Dave and Claudio
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: took up the canvassing of fires in the same area
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: where we'd left off the night before. Then and I
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: drove down to Angelo's shine stands. It stood just outside
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: a barbershop, four chairs with an awning full of cigarette
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: holes over him. He identified Maria Camacho's picture immediately. We
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: questioned him while he polished their shoes.
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: Marie, I used to tell a sergeant running around like
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: that she had so many friends, so many Did you
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: see Maria on Christmas Eve? Angel Christmas Eve? Let me
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: see no?
• 21:53
  Speaker 10: No, last time was two days before Christmas.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Angela. Do you know a man but the name of
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Tony Perez?
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: Shure, Tony Perez talk about a big should is he.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: One of your customers? Longest time?
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: He comes to see me? Or is he here on
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: Christmas Eve? As?
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: So?
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, he was here.
• 22:12
  Speaker 10: I get him a shined A good customer.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Remember what kind of shoes he had on?
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: Shoot?
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Boots? He always wears boots. What color were they? Do
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: you know?
• 22:20
  Speaker 9: Brown?
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: I always wear brown boots.
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: Well, what's about it?
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: To in talb? What kind of police do you use
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: in his boots?
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: Things wrong? I got the cam down here.
• 22:32
  Speaker 10: Here I great polish.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: You got boots?
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: I can fix them up here?
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: Is the same polish on all the boats?
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: You shine? Angel Oh?
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: Only the brown boats. That's brown polish, your fellas.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: That's too many questions?
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: Make me go through a.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Slow there's no rush, Angelow, can you tell me this? Okay?
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Besides Tony Perez, is there anybody else with brown boots
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: who gotta shine from you Christmas Eve?
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 22:57
  Speaker 10: Lots of people get shined.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Christmas Eve was pretty busy, and.
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: Just the people with brown boot TAngelo?
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Can you remember?
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: No, No, no, I don't think so. Tony was the
• 23:06
  Speaker 10: only one with the brown boats.
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: There's no artist.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: How about heavy brown shoes? Huh? Can you remember the
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: people with heavy brown shoes that came in? For sure?
• 23:15
  Speaker 10: No, No, I don't know.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: Look, please just letting me shine your shoes. Huh that
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: canon brown polych Angelo. You say, there's the kinds you
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: use on Tony Freesi's booth.
• 23:25
  Speaker 10: Yeah, that's it's kind of right here.
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: Well, can you remember how many times you used that
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: polish on Christmas Eve?
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Hell?
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: I open this can that morning and see how much
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: is gone?
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: Maybe I use it all or maybe half a dozen times?
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Can you remember the people whose shoes call for this
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: kind of polish?
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: Lots of them brown shoes. I know the feet when
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: I see him, I don't know the faces.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Don't you remember any of them?
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: If they like the shine? Might be buying a buyer
• 23:51
  Speaker 10: to come back there.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Pretty four fellas. Maybe I see him before.
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: I don't know the names.
• 23:59
  Speaker 10: Okay, You're I gonna shine.
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, fine, see I'm gonna buy that can of
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: polish from the Angelo and we're going to check.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Back with you later.
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: Okay, fine, Public Sergeant best you can't get Yeah, but
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: it rubs off.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: December twenty sixth five pm, we drove back to the
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: crime lab and had Lee Jones analyze the can of
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: shoe polish get masked exactly with the particles of shoe
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: polh taken from the victim's body and from the boots
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: of Tony Perez. We arranged for a steak.
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: Out of Angelo's shine stand and kicks. The people with
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: heavy brown shoes returned Angelo could point them out immediately
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: to the men on duty. Five point thirty pm, Dave
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: and Claudio called in.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: I thought they had another nibble, this time from the
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: bartender at the Elsadello tavern a bar on Sodo Street.
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: We drove down to South Main and Harlem Place.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: For a meet.
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: Hi Daan Hi. Figured we'd better move on this tonight.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: What's the pitch? Bartender on Soto tip me that.
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: Maria Camacho was in his place Christmas Eve. Say it
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: was a little after midnight.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Now said she had a drink.
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: Left the place about ten minutes past twelve with a
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: guy called Frank Tallano nosed around from his Toronto works
• 25:17
  Speaker 8: at the midnight mission over there.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: Just hid there.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, good friends missions, come in for a nice warm,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: spiritual band coffee and soup free and watch your stairs. Yeah, brother, I.
• 25:38
  Speaker 9: Only hope that I'm a meeting here as part you
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: plus the major told the flow with the great and
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: glorious light of the stirs. And yes, brothers, if we
• 25:46
  Speaker 9: be not born again of that light, as the book says,
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: we will be down, brother Dan, and then my brothers will.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: Sister Michael Fuckerson plays one of his doing march just
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: let's join on his brother.
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: The brother march into the lunch room, where through the
• 26:02
  Speaker 9: kind graces that one of our benefacts is he wors
• 26:05
  Speaker 9: is the acropolist.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: He's one of the will being tired of a boat, turkey,
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: soil and my sister Wilson's homemade bread and a cup
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: of miss pick Ferguson too much.
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: If the man see yeah, let's go sure pack him
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: in with hills.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Good excuse me, brother, what police officers? Do you have
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: a Frank Tolano working here?
• 26:33
  Speaker 9: Well, what's the trouble?
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Does he work there? Well? He has.
• 26:36
  Speaker 9: He's a very good man, Frank.
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: Anything wrong is he gonna?
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: He has worked away?
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Find him what I'd like to know what the trouble is.
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: We'd like to talk to him.
• 26:43
  Speaker 9: Mister that so well, he has a romance, good friend's mission,
• 26:46
  Speaker 9: anex that's so run down Peter Street?
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Is that his permanent residence? The Mission Anix.
• 26:50
  Speaker 9: Yeah, Frank's very helpful. He works for a small towery
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: and we give him Roman boards.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Is he over at three Annix?
• 26:55
  Speaker 9: Now, yeah, that's maybe you'd better not see him now.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Officer.
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: Well, wow, francs not at his best. Been drinking again,
• 27:03
  Speaker 9: that's for sure.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Signs what do you mean, Well, whenever Frank starts drinking,
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: that means that he's worring.
• 27:09
  Speaker 9: He's one of those He drinks to forget.
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: Yeah, he's been drinking for three days.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: He was to have a lot to forget. Come on.
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: Six thirty pm. We drove over to the Good Friend's
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: Mission annex.
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: On San Pedro Street.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: The man in charge told us that Toronto had a
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: small room to himself at the.
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: Rear of the second floor.
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: Dave and Claudio went around to cover the mission annex
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: from the back.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Ben and I went up a narrow flight of wooden stairs.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Plain white plaster walls were chipped and cracked and scrawled
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: with pencil markings. We walked down to the end of
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: a wide hallway to a brown panel door with a
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: transom above it. There was a man in soiled work
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: clothes sitting on the bed. On the table next to
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: him there were three court wine bottles. Two of them
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: were empty.
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: Get out of here, you, Frank Coletto, what about it?
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Police officers like to talk to you. Get out of here,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: and that's taken me. I'll cut you to pieces. Drop
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: the bottle, Toronto, get out of here.
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: Drop the bottle.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: I'll cut you to pieces like you cut Maria.
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: I'll kill you.
• 28:15
  Speaker 10: Put it down, Toronto, drop it. Get the cups on. Yeah,
• 28:26
  Speaker 10: let's go.
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: Just a minute.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah it fits.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: The story you've just heard was true, only the names
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: were changed to protect the innocent.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: On March seventh, trial was held in Superior Court Departments
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: ninety four City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
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  Speaker 4: Frank Dominic Tolano has tried and convicted of first degree
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  Speaker 4: murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. He is now serving
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: his term the state penitentiary. You have just heard Dragnet,
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: a series of authentic cases from official files technical advice Board.
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  Speaker 4: Dragnet comes from the Office of Chief of Police Wa Wharton,
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  Speaker 4: Los Angeles Police Department.
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  Speaker 1: This has been Dragnet Episode fifty Big Key from May
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