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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Alder Matter, Part Five and Manhunt: The Crystal Clue (EP1183) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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next week we'll be starting our listener support campaign. Well, we have an
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episode of Johnny Dollar for you, and then coming up next or after that,
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we have an episode of man Hunt. But first of all, let's
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go ahead and finish off the Alder matter. Here's part five from Hollywood.
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It's time now for Johnny Dellen. Good morning, Dollar. Is Lakiara Cable
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office calling. We have an answer to cables you've sent to Hartford, Connecticut.
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Good would you like me to read the message? No, I'm wanna
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telephone with extensions. Oh I see, Perhaps you prefer I haven't delivered that.
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No, no, I don't. Then you will come in for yourself.
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Yeah, just as fast as I can get there tonight and every weekday
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night. Bob Bailey in the transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed
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Expense account Erica's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator Ours Truly Johnny Dollar. From Special Investigator
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Johnny Dollar location in Caracas, Venezuela to the home office Worldwide Mutual Insurance Company,
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Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment the Alder matter expense account continued at the cable
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office. I ran into another dead end. Vic Kelly back in Hartford,
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had come up with absolutely nothing on either Dora Jansen, who called herself Dora's
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cole or Arthur's singer the little Man. She'd hurried off an incoming liner yesterday.
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Complete strikeout. I headed outside, caught a glimpse of Missus Billy Alder
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watching me from across the street. Social life changing missus order as being my
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hostess include tailing me being on Lagier Street, constitute telling you preserve me from
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amateur detectors. Good morning, mister doll. Now, come on, you
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rushed down to the house so fast you couldn't possibly have eaten. I'll buy
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you breakfast. I knew it was curiosity that made her take me up.
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She just couldn't resist the thought that maybe I'd give something away, let something
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slip. She ate warily, tentatively. We must have looked like two boxes
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and a close fight, sitting on the edge of their stools, waiting for
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the last round, the one that would decide the winner. You're staring thinking,
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you love your husband, missus older, you'd better be a reason for
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a question like that. Let's stop sparring. Huh, you know why I'm
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down here? Do I? You told me you did the other day,
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so I did. I don't be aloof lady. You're not that much in
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the clear. You've been the beneficiary several times and dropped. My daughter is
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the present one, I believe, And what exactly is your point? There's
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been no crime committed, no crime. Somebody's bullet misses your husband by inches
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and you call it no crime. Thank you for breakfast. Don't forget.
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I saw you out in the grounds of the house, searching the place that
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shot came from. I told you before you knew an automatic pistol was used,
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admitted looking for a show. You talk too much, mister dollar,
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and you talk too little. Look, why have you been tailing me.
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It's certainly not to see that I'm protecting your husband's life. So it's obviously
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to make sure that I don't find out something. Now, what is it,
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missus Alder, And why is it so terribly important? I don't find
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out about it? If you won't leave, mister Dollar, I will.
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There is this about getting someone angry enough, fearful enough, it makes them
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forget about caution. Missus Alder never once looked back, simply headed straight for
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the cheap little waterfront hotel where Arthur Singer was staying. She stayed for over
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half an hour, and once she left, she still looked frightened. Whatever
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the game was, it looked like everyone was a player but me. But
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missus Alder's move helped started in an id at me. So I headed for
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Caracas in the office of a smart cop, hefe Velisquez. I needed someone
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to talk to, and the Hefe was a good listening gome. I mean,
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go sit down, tell me where it feels wrong, eh, belly
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older. He does all that changing in his policy, so I assume he's
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scared of being knocked off, probably by one of the people who has been
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named a beneficiary of the policy. So now I'll take the other people concerned.
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Alder's wife is as much a clam as her husband is. Also she
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knows what kind of a gun was used to take that shot at him.
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Dora Jansen, a woman who uses an alas and is obviously afraid of me
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at the Singer a little man. Dora has hidden in a waterfront hotel,
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and now I find all his wife knows about the little man too. Conclusion,
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amigo, that the three of them are in on something together, but
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not to kill Alder for that policy, his daughter gets it all. Yet
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Alder he's afraid, and I think he's scared of some thing the others know.
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I suppose that shot wasn't meant to kill him, just frighten him,
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a sign that somebody meant business. That this is a nice piece of logic.
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Yeah, all I gotta do is make it work. Look, Hey,
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whatever this deal is, nobody's going to make a move till I'm out
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of here, So so good, bad or indifferent, I'm going to do
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a little acting. I stayed with the Lesquez another half hour, setting things
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up as best I caught. Then I drove to the airport and paid Item
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eleven three hundred and nine dollars and eighty cents for a plane ticket marked Hartford,
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Connecticut. Sure it was an expensive prop, but this was one act
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I had to be convincing him. I drove back to Caracas, pasted a
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real angry look on my face, marched into Billy Alder's sumptuous office, and
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through the airline ticket on his desk. He studied it for a long minute.
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What does this mean by that that I've had all of you? I
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can take Alder, you and you keep me alive. You are going back
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to the stage. You can read the ticket says Hartford, Connecticut. It
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also says the six o'clock plane because there's nothing earlier. But why why dollars?
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So I can get back and make my recommendations to the insurance company.
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You know what I'm going to recommend. All please wait that they cancel your
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policy because of your refusal to cooperate. Sorry dollar, please now don't do
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it. I beg there's a clause in that policy. I don't care about
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that policy. Now, don't you understand and stand? What? Listen to
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me? All that changing of beneficiaries. I only did that to make them
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send someone down here. I need protection against what I I'm in a jam.
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All I want is protection until it's peacefully settled. Do you understand,
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no Planer, I know someone wants to kill me over a business deal.
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I'm asking you to see that I stay alive until I have time to reason
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with this man. Oh is he? I can't tell you, And let
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me tell you something. He's just arrived in town. How did you don't
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you see miss a Dollar? You must stay. Sorry, goodbye, mister
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Alder. I went back to the older house, packed my bag and set
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my goodbyes. Neither missus Olden nor Dora Jensen wept. I drove to the
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airport, checked my luggage Jim. Then I slipped away. Drove back to
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Caracas the long way. A half hour later. I checked into a little
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side street hotel where hefe Velskaz had reserved a room for me. Then came
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the hardest part, the waiting. That six o'clock plane must have been way
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out over the Caribbean when the call finally came, Uh, yeah, Velaska's
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here. You started a waiting, brother, you know it. Look have
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hey your men check in? Maybe I should have taken part of the work
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be passion on mey go. Your whole idea depends on it. Thinking you
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took that plane, you must stay right where you are. But what about
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your men? Have they get a call every couple of minutes, Amigo Alder
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his wife, the Dora Johnson artist singer. I could tell you ever moved
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them back in the last three hours, but they haven't made the one I'm
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waiting for. Hum you will know it three minutes after they make if they
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make it. Thanks. Five minutes later, Alaskaez called again. He took
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only enough time to tell me he was on his way and to be down
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on the street in two minutes. I was I only beat him by seconds.
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Come on of me though, Well, it looked like your plan worked
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on it. This Dora Johnson. Yeah, as soon as she learned your
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plane leg the one you did not take, she rushed to the waterfront.
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Hote'll pick up the art the singer. Then the two of them rushed to
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the Alder house, and Alder must have seen him coming, because he jump
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in his car and race out in the direction of his oel via the Carnio.
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They see him and follow him. That's where we headed for. Now
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we better get things going, get there before singer kills Older. I don't
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know whether or not he deserves killing, but I know one thing, it'll
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cost my company a quarter a million. Well ask His men were plenty of
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going halfway the car and narrow. One of them flagged this down, told
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us both cars had definitely passed his way, and when we reached the oil
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field, another one witted at the gate. He told us Billy Alder,
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Dora Jansen, and Arthur Singer were in a little work shack across the field.
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We left the car and moved as quietly as we could toward the shack.
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It was a weird feeling. In every direction you could see the great
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oil rigs working, pumping, ignoring us. We reached the shank, peered
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cautiously through the window. An even weirdest scene was taking place, and almost
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hysterical. Dora Jensen pointed a lugur at a sweating Billy Older. A terrified
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Arthur Singer pleaded with her. Their words pushed easily through the thin wooden sledge.
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Dora, don't, please, don't do it. You'll only make things
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worth your brother's right, Dora. Dora listened to me like he listened to
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you four years ago. When did it get him, mister pansy promoter,
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tell me that I'll make it right with him. A quiet gentleman, a
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bookkeeper who never did anything wrong in his life until you saw him a bill
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of goods. Listen to me, both of you. So he read your
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book for you, made false entries, made it look like he was responsible
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for the bankruptcy, and he did the three years in prison that you should
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have done. Four one hundred thousand dollars. That was the deal. And
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believe me, I'm not trying to cheat him. The money is tied up
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in my business. I need time, but I'll pay him pay It's been
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a year since he came out of jail. You'll never pay. You'll try
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to cheat him out of the money one way or another. I swear to
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you. It's a lot easier to kill him than pay him, isn't it
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all? You're crazy? Is that why you kept the luger in the house.
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Were you worried when it disappeared? When I shot at you to let
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you know I meant business. It's what you're doing. Dollar knows all about
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this. Oh yes, your bodyguard must have gotten frightened after I had him
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beat up the other day. He's on his way to the States and the
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plane. Dora, No, I'm going to kill him. No, come
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on, run it down, doah? You pull that trigger and he'll still
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come out the one air. No, and you read that door. Not
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make me fire, please, I don't care as long as he gets what
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he deserves. Stand back send you read that For a split second, she
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waved, then the hay took over all this sank to the floor. Disbelieve
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on his face. Panic. She raced down into the night, and I
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went after hold it. There's no place to go. Do what happened to
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her job? She panicked, turned the scream at me, and ran right
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into one of the protection fences around the Derek. She just passed out.
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She'll come around. How's Old there? Conscious? But I do not know.
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We better get into the hospital. Yeah, come on, she didn't
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mean to shoot a mister to my sister. Wouldn't hurt any sure, sure,
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go take care of her. She was only doing it for me.
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For me, mister Old I I would have paid. I wasn't going to
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cheat him. Oh dollar, you know, yeah, we heard it all.
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I'm glad it's over worrying. I want to tell me one thing Older,
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your wife, Where does she fit? She had nothing to do with
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it, just knew about it. I wasn't too nice to her for a
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long time. Other women her running around just the way of punishing me,
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paying me back. He knew I couldn't afford complain. Yeah, we should
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have told me a long time ago, or I couldn't. Case could always
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be reopened. I couldn't face. That would have hurt too much. Oh
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yeah, but it wouldn't have hurt as much as that bullet expense account total
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eight hundred and thirty three dollars and fourteen cents. Details Billy Older was rushed
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at the Caracas hospital, underwent some excellent surgery and relaxed claims department. He's
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going to make it as for shady business tactics, Well, that's out of
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my Bailly Wick. That's for the law boys. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
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Now here's our star to tell you about next week's story. Next week.
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A quiet cabin by a quiet lake, a place ideal for romance,
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an ideal for murder. Join us, want you, yours truly, Johnny
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Dollar. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey. Is transcribed in
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Hollywood. Written by Tony Barrett, it is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone.
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Heard in this week's cast were Gil Stratton, Harry Bartel, Barbara Fuller,
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John Dayner, Virginia Gregg, Don Diamond, Vivi Janis and Tony Barrett.
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Musical supervision by Amarigo Marino. Be sure to join us on Monday night,
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same time and station for another exciting story of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar,
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Roy Rowan speaking h Welcome Back. While on the bright side, Johnny's UH
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plan helped him break the case, on the downside, the insured almost got
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killed. To be fair to Johnny, he really was not left with much
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choice. He had to try something there with everything dead ended. This really
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just illustrates Johnny's determination to get things taken care of, not to leave things
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unresolved. And really that was best for mister Older because from a business perspective,
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probably what he should have done is just stayed there long enough to get
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a response from a wire requesting to have the policy canceled due to non cooperation.
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All right, Well, now what we're going to talk about Manhunt and
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its star Larry Haynes. This was one of Haynes's early radio performances. The
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earliest performance in existence was from Gangbusters in nineteen forty two, so this was
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just about a year after that. His career on radio was good, a
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lot of character roles in programs like Words at War and I interseanked him Columbia
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Workshop The Shadow. We heard him earlier this season on The Amazing Mister Malone
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doing a great job as Lieutenant Brooks in the nineteen fifty one summer replacement version.
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He also had some pretty good parts in the nineteen fifties and I think
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we'll still hear him later on this season and one of my favorite short detective
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series, Easy Money, and he also played Mike Hammer was one of the
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voices of Mike Hammer on That Hammer Guy, which will eventually get around a
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plane, of course. His big claim to fame was through television, where
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he joined the cast of Search for Tomorrow in the eleventh episode of theies,
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playing the role of Stue Bergman, and he stayed with the series until it
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went off the air in nineteen eighty six. Though thirty five years he picked
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up two Daytime Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actor on a Daytime Drama Series and
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was first Lady Pat Nixon's favorite soap actor. Now let's see Arry Haynes at
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work in this episode of Manhunt. This is the second episode and it's called
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the Crystal Clue man Hunt, the story of the Crystal clue that led to
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mannt. No crime has been committed, yeah, no murder has been done.
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Yeah, no, manhunt has begun. Yes. Hello, Hey,
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Richards is speaking? That's your time? True? Oh gosh, and who
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are you? What do you want telling me on my private hone? What
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you want? Yeah? Yeah, I want you. I can't please,
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I can't. Very clever murderer, the sound of your voice, and a
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voice doesn't leave a clue or su who will find the clue or will start
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a man hunt? Man Hunt and the Crystal flu All right, john lad
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tell me exactly what happened now, Well, there's nothing to tell the morning
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about twenty minutes ago, I came here to mister Dars's apartment with them worthhip.
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He wanted me to bring him here. He was going to a theory,
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had told me, and he wouldn't be home for midnight that any idea
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might have done it, Johnny Boyant, I better call me s all right,
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But I still have no idea who did it? Of course we were
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working on an important formula for the War Department, and they were threatening phone
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calls, but we never paid any attention to him. I wish we had.
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I'm going to trace this rock and murder down at the last thing,
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I do it. He was very close to the working game, as close
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as a man could. Who you put me to the school, gave me
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a champion, his from diet, everything from what I say, I don't
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know when he says it's a murder that's became and Drew Hey, Richard Darcy
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a millionaire. It is John Gordon's assistant. He found the body and reported
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the murder. Johnnavis is blue Stephen the police and you do hill a lot
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of things. Examiner was here, found the bullet wounds. It's the climate
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that at eight o'clock. But that's not sure about the turn. Yes,
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maybe five minutes in the way. Say you worked for the Darcy Gordon,
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Yes, I did. I guess I more than worked for him. See
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the practically in doctor, I don't want to appear too much like the squad
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in my line, but we'll worry you at eight o'clock. You don't have
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to worry about him and then Johnny the years and he's got a too falibis
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what is it? What is it? From seven thirty to a quarter of
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ten, my son, Bill Junior and John Gordon were visiting me down a
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police headquarters. You know that that's about it? What are you looking for?
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Half of what he's broken so down on the other people? What sort
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of what it would have to do with them? I don't know that.
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I don't want you told us Gordon went to school with young Bill as a
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state tech. Is one for you? Go figure her? M hmm,
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good looking too. I'm going to go into a murder justice. He didn't
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commit this. Darcy was shot at lap and Gordon was down at Midporter,
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so he didn't need to scept maybe for a minute, what about those funerster
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Jordan said, threaten Darcy and as he came over his form, Well,
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I'll run up to the FDR in the morning, the file in any agents
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about that crazy inventor. Richard him with the medical examiner, told Bill Morton
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doctor shot lady. I think so at least you set the time of the
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dator cap and said that jat clock. But I remember the time he was
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shot blood at all and on the womb one thing. Darcy was already dead,
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and the bullet was fired into his and mister Martin, Richard Martin and
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better and uh are you my name is Stephen out in a minute thirty.
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I don't know any answers the way mister Martin. You knew Jay Richard Darcy?
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Hi, Yes, I know him. I read in the paper this
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morning. You did I killed him? You know? Oh? Yeah,
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every night for the past ten years, I've killed Gay Richard Doughty only he
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was playing Joe dosh you when he should my formula and disappeared? Who killed
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him? Every name? Every night? Sometimes I'd stangle him, sometimes I'd
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poison him, and sometimes I'd hang him and watch him stupp Well, did
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you buy any chance that the film lasting? I think you men reared to
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Darcy last night? And oh hello, Gord's starting to get you down with
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trouble pa. I don't mind telling us to see him do anything I can't
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at that time. So first, it's Saul probably really steal a. Richard
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Lordy sat awful records. Dawson was Martin's park I went Martin dispelled the former.
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He did take it, but he set up a trust on then the
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event of his guest that would turn over a lot of money tomorrow. He
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never would give Martin any real money while he was alive, because you'd probably
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know markham pantal condition. He couldn't have tried onto it. Martin would be
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a rich man as he died. You mean didn't know about the trust on?
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Yes, that's just one more thing that what are you making with?
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Well it's for the war Department, and I can't tell you part of them.
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Well i'll call you if I knew. And that Hello Operata, connect
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me with the medical Yes, yes, I wanted to be quite a minute.
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Hello doc, blu they doc, we did al toopy on dark He
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didn't just ye? Good? So what did the guy of doc? Oh
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that's so yeah, this is all started to make sense to Pat doc by
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Now you know what, Darcy. So then I also happen to know who
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killed him? Do you know how? I mean? I know because one
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half of a what but things missing? The kind of good to know we've
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got a murderer, raclat and put our hands on him. You've got that.
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Thanks for calling me down, students. I wanted to be in this
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thing at the Pennant. How did you know? Well, first of all,
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we know that Darcy was killed eight o'clock. The shot sometime after.
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Why should a man dead? That's the person who was fired the shot,
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didn't know Darcy was already dead. Got the plant and the body was on
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the floor right putting the police the medical examiner's reports, so that Darcy have
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been gas boys, it's poisons. Yes, your firm was making it wasn't
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affording you can tell me now? Oh, yes, it was from the
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original risted modern former. It justice like bro she was the former and he's
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murdered with it. Well, the dance killed darkly, and then the murderer
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came back later to make sure of it was shoot then the apartment. He
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should have done that all at once. I know he's goodn't see when Darcy
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was gass the murderer was nowhere in He murdered darc and he wasn't in the
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room. Oh you're over work. No, I don't think so. I
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got the what I'm kind of that the murderer had a pain, a little
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poisonous gas and he closed it in some kind of a pintastic tamer. That's
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very interesting. Yeahs Anyhow, he went to Darcy's apartment sometimes during the afternoon
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of the murder, and inserted the glass contender in the telephone box between the
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hammer and the belt. Now a phone call will clause the hammer to hit
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the glass and break it unloosing the gas. That's what happened. That's how
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Darsy died, with the murderer of himself baked mount away. Oh yeah,
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I know, I know the watch well. The killer came back to Duson's
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department later, but not only did she told him an air at the room,
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but also to remove the twenty fragments of class from the gas containers broken
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by the phone book. But he picked up one piece of glass two minutes
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one of that's been on Darcy's wrist. Last has been smashing his fut hes
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spero the first tool I had they do and I learned about the poison gas
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on that step. How do you like that? I can't even murder with
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a telephone. Yes, there's a darn meal paper crime. I still don't
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see how you need the cold Martin the ta said monastery Darky or I said,
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well, I wanted him place to cut pep his own protection to see.
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I had a hundred of killing attempt for him. Next, you mean
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hold him in a bill is our case down there. The murderer had to
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have a motor, that's first. Still, then he had to have access
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to three things were the poison gas, the Darcy apartment, and darcy private
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telephone number. Because the call at killed Doc who came over that phone.
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Only one person could still that entire picture because either Martin or any foreign at
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it could possibly get Darcy's five phone. That's why the murder had to be
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you. Let's me smart, how you're going to be staring right plugging bell?
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It's not that money for you didn't need me for Annaday a homicide prospective.
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Yay, hello, yes, uh huh yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Okay, they get rid of it. John Gordon got work to do.
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Alice Jennison the scandal comumnos on the globe, but justin Pomon quite a standard
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position herself. He's lying in the gutter on a side street in the plum
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and who their throat is cut for me to weird welcome back. I actually
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thought that was a pretty clever method. There were probably a couple things that
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could have gone wrong, but we're unlikely, so it made sense. And
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only thing was that once the how was discovered, the who was pretty easy.
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All right, Well, that will do it for today. Join us
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