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The Big Whiff [episode 156], Broadcast 6/5/1952 · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 3: It was Thursday, October sixteenth, was cloudy in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 3: We were working a night watch out of homicide detail.
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  Speaker 3: My partner's Frank Smith. The boss's Captain Lorman. My name's Friday.
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  Speaker 3: It was nine eight pm when I got to Georgia
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  Speaker 3: Street Receiving Hospital.
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  Speaker 4: Doctor Hall's office. Joe, how are you hi, Doc? How
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  Speaker 4: about that key she got in from seventh reunion? How
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  Speaker 4: she doing? She died about five minutes ago. Oh, I'll
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  Speaker 4: fill me in. What you got on? You talk to
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  Speaker 4: the radio car officers ones and handle the call.
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  Speaker 3: Frank's talking to him now in the lobby. Thought i'd
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  Speaker 3: check in with you while he was handling that end.
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  Speaker 5: Not an awful lot to tell you, Joe. Ambulance g
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  Speaker 5: too brought her in from the location. She was alive
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  Speaker 5: when they brought her in. Did everything I could for
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  Speaker 5: it didn't help much. Too far gone.
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  Speaker 4: Now. What's it look like?
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  Speaker 5: Chloroform poisoning? Pretty obvious, probably self administered. Looks like that anyway,
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  Speaker 5: she didn't last long. It's a little unusual, huh. Chloroform, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: under the circumstances, it sure is anything else.
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  Speaker 4: How do you mean, well, any probable causes, any marks
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  Speaker 4: on her?
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  Speaker 5: No, a little scratch on her wrist. That's about all
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  Speaker 5: where you got her? Now can we look at her?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? Back number three, come on high Ed Barrett called us,
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  Speaker 4: ask us for help. It's a rough night. Huh.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, traffic went crazy to night. A dozen cases in
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  Speaker 5: the last two hours, a couple of homicides. Too busy night.
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  Speaker 4: You got the weekend coming up there, Yeah, not looking
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  Speaker 4: forward to her. Here we go all right here? Yeah, chloroform,
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  Speaker 4: sure hangs on in it, sure strong. No, it's the
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  Speaker 4: burns around her mouth and nose. This coloration, Well, who
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  Speaker 4: is she? Any idea?
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  Speaker 5: We got her down as Jane Doe. You're gonna have
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  Speaker 5: to take it from there. Understand the radio car officers
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  Speaker 5: couldn't identify her.
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  Speaker 4: Apparently pretty well off. Uh. Nice clothes, seems to be
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  Speaker 4: well captain, I'd say so. Expensive jewelry there, rings, wristwatch.
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  Speaker 3: A little strange for a probable suicide, isn't It looks
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  Speaker 3: like you took good care of herself. Hair all done up,
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  Speaker 3: fingernails abot, How old would you say?
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  Speaker 4: Not more than thirty five? It's about that. Here's the
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  Speaker 4: chart on.
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  Speaker 5: Time arrival nine thirty eight pm from southwest corner seventh
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  Speaker 5: in Union, vacant lot. Reason for call possible drunk woman
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  Speaker 5: down Jane Doe number four, female Caucasian, approximate age thirty five,
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  Speaker 5: wait one twenty eight and one quarter high, five foot four,
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  Speaker 5: brown hair, hazel eyes, listed as Nordic descent.
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  Speaker 3: Probable suicide. That's it, okay, Doc, thanks? I better look
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  Speaker 3: up Frank. See what he's got now.
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  Speaker 5: King, I haven't notified the carman yet. You fellows want
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  Speaker 5: to take care of that?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Sure, it will call her about all we can do
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  Speaker 3: unless we find some relatives to notify her.
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  Speaker 4: Joe, Yeah, Frank? Oh hi, Jock, Oh yeah, Frank, looks
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  Speaker 4: like you're losing to weight. Yeah. Four pods in two weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Not too bad for me anyway. What'd you get yo?
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  Speaker 3: Chloroform poisoning, probably suicide. Find out who she is.
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  Speaker 5: I gotta get back to my office. If there's anything
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  Speaker 5: I can help you with, come on back.
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  Speaker 4: You're right, Doc, thanks very much. Okay, how about it?
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  Speaker 4: Any identification? No? I talked to the fellaws who took
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  Speaker 4: the call you at one A two. It was a
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  Speaker 4: routine call. Three ninety w down.
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  Speaker 5: They couldn't find out to put the call in said
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  Speaker 5: they found her in a vacant lot, lying.
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  Speaker 4: Over against the side of the building. Yeah, they said,
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  Speaker 4: she looked like she'd been drinking.
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  Speaker 3: Then I got away with the chloroform and they found
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  Speaker 3: the empty container by her shide. Yeah, yeah, ties in
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  Speaker 3: they were careful handling it.
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  Speaker 5: Anything else well, while they're waiting for the ambulance, they
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  Speaker 5: talked to some of the people in the neighborhood. They
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  Speaker 5: couldn't tell the mem anything about the woman. Building they
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  Speaker 5: found her next to it was a vacant store. No
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  Speaker 5: identification on her at all, no nothing, no purse or wallet.
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  Speaker 5: I checked missing persons.
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  Speaker 3: No one of her description reported fellas who handled the car,
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  Speaker 3: so they went over her clothes. No marks of identification.
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  Speaker 3: Better notify latent princes. H maybe they can identify it.
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  Speaker 3: I already called him, Joe. Looks like the probos suicide.
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  Speaker 3: Sure a new twist. The chloroform room doesn't figured it out.
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  Speaker 4: What are you think? I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: No violence committed on the body, no indication of robbery.
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  Speaker 3: She had a risk watch on rings too.
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  Speaker 4: Wouldn't figure anyway. Chloroform angle, no other physical evidence out there.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, besides the cloroform containing nothing else besides the handkerchief.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, plain white handkerchief, chloroform on it. They fought it
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  Speaker 5: next to the body. So the only thing that doesn't
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  Speaker 5: fit one hundred percent, what do you mean it's a
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  Speaker 5: man's handkerchief.
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  Speaker 3: Ten twenty five pm, Frank and I took the dead
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  Speaker 3: woman's clothing, the handkerchief, and the almost empty container of
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  Speaker 3: chloroform and drove back downtown.
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  Speaker 4: To the office.
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  Speaker 3: We dropped off the clothing and the handkerchief at the
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  Speaker 3: crime lab to be processed for possible identifying marks. The
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  Speaker 3: chloroform container was taken to Latent Fingerprints for examination. The
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  Speaker 3: following morning, the body of the unidentified woman was taken
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  Speaker 3: to the county morgue for posting. As soon as the
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  Speaker 3: dead woman's prints were made available to us, they were
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  Speaker 3: checked through our record bureau and also the record bureau
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  Speaker 3: at the Sheriff's office. In addition, they also made a
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  Speaker 3: run on her description. They were unable to identify her.
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  Speaker 3: We checked with a crime lab, but they couldn't help
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  Speaker 3: us either. A detailed examination of the dead woman's clothing
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  Speaker 3: failed to yield any leads. As to her identity. Layton
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  Speaker 3: Prince didn't have any better luck with the chloroform container.
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  Speaker 3: The only prints they found on it were those of
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  Speaker 3: the dead women. Meantime, the Morning Papers had picked up
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  Speaker 3: the story and given it front page billing eleven sixteen am.
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  Speaker 5: How's that again, Doc? Yeah, I see a little unusual,
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  Speaker 5: won't you say?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? Okay, we'll pick it up after lunch, right, goodbye? Anything?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, doc Cephalo. The morgue just finished closing the body.
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  Speaker 5: What'd you say? The chloroform killed her. They even found
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  Speaker 5: traces of it in the stomach.
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  Speaker 4: Huh.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, so weird within it doesn't leave much doubt suicide.
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  Speaker 4: No indication was anything else is there? So I got it?
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  Speaker 3: I'm a side Friday talking, Yes, sir, Yeah Mitchell, that's
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  Speaker 3: so Yeah, sure be glad to Yeah, we'll be here.
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  Speaker 4: Do you want to give us your address? Hello? Here
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  Speaker 4: we go. I was it Joe.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody the name of James Mitchell. He's on his way
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  Speaker 3: down to see us. Wants to talk to us about
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  Speaker 3: the dead woman. Yeah, he says he killed her. Eleven
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  Speaker 3: fifty am. While Frank and I waited around for Mitchell
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  Speaker 3: to show up, we checked his name through our and I,
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  Speaker 3: but we were unable to find anything on him. A
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  Speaker 3: few minutes before one pm, a short, blonde haired man
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  Speaker 3: in a blue serge suit entered the squadron and asked
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  Speaker 3: for us. He introduced himself as James Mitchell. Frank and
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  Speaker 3: I took him to the interrogation room, where we started
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  Speaker 3: to question him. He told us he was a steel
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  Speaker 3: worker by trade, currently unemployed. He said he was originally
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  Speaker 3: from Alabama, that he'd been in California for approximately two years.
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  Speaker 3: After that, he lapsed into silence. We tried to question
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  Speaker 3: him about the dead woman, but we made little headway.
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  Speaker 3: The only admission we could get from him was that
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  Speaker 3: he killed the woman. Outside of that, he refused to
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  Speaker 3: say anything.
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  Speaker 5: How about it, Mitchell, what's the truck? You called us
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  Speaker 5: a voluntary to confession? You said you killed the woman.
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  Speaker 5: You want to tell us a story, and I whytn't
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  Speaker 5: answer her questions?
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  Speaker 4: Jim? How about it? Aren't you feeling well? Want us
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  Speaker 4: to call a doctor? Jim?
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  Speaker 5: You're given as much of an otmistery. You volunteer to
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  Speaker 5: make yourself a suspect, and this thing you say, you
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  Speaker 5: kill the woman? I wantn't answer the questions.
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  Speaker 4: We can't keep this up forever. You ought to know that.
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  Speaker 4: You haven't answered the question almost an hour. Now. Look,
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  Speaker 4: if you're not gonna talk to Jim, there's only one
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  Speaker 4: thing we can do. We're gonna have to book you, Mitchell,
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  Speaker 4: not what you want.
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  Speaker 6: Go ahead and book me. I killed her, Go and
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  Speaker 6: book me.
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  Speaker 4: Well, why can't you tell us the story? Now? You
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  Speaker 4: admit you killed the woman? Why won't you tell us
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  Speaker 4: about it?
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  Speaker 6: Why should I? I killed her? That's all you have
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  Speaker 6: to know.
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  Speaker 3: You sat on the phone, you tell us the whole story.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't you know what made you change your mind?
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  Speaker 6: You got the story? I killed her whole ass too.
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  Speaker 4: You know better than that, Mitchell. You know the woman
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  Speaker 4: very well, No, not very well. What was your name? Mary? Mary?
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 4: Mary?
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  Speaker 6: That's all?
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  Speaker 8: I met her in a bar. I didn't know. Well,
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  Speaker 8: I killed her, That's all you got to know.
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  Speaker 4: I had to. Why'd you have to? Jim?
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  Speaker 8: I don't have to tell you I had a reason,
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  Speaker 8: good reason, robbery. I don't have to say you have
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  Speaker 8: a fight with her lover's quarrel? Maybe what's the difference.
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  Speaker 4: On this bar where you met Mary? Not in downtown La?
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  Speaker 8: Was it yes, downtown. She had it coming. I'm glad
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  Speaker 8: I did it. Not worth much h she was when
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  Speaker 8: I met her? Or what happened? She'd go out the
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  Speaker 8: deep end?
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  Speaker 4: Guess?
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  Speaker 6: So what's the difference.
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  Speaker 4: She's dead? But why'd you turn yourself in, Jim? Or
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  Speaker 4: you couldn't beat it? Maybe?
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  Speaker 8: How do you mean I could have stayed out of
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  Speaker 8: your way if I wanted to for a while anyway,
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  Speaker 8: I didn't want to.
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  Speaker 4: Why not, Jim? Good reason.
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  Speaker 6: I'm glad I killed her. She had it coming. I
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  Speaker 6: go ahead and do what you want. I know what
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  Speaker 6: the rap is.
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  Speaker 4: I'll pay for it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you're willing to take the rap, Jim, when
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  Speaker 3: I tell us the whole story, Huh, you got the story?
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  Speaker 6: I killed that.
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  Speaker 4: It's all you need.
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  Speaker 3: Don't you want to brief us in on the details?
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  Speaker 3: How it happened, how it came about? Might be extenuating circumstances.
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  Speaker 5: You can't well, well, how you mean different things that
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  Speaker 5: might throw a new slant on the case. Of course,
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  Speaker 5: are not gonna hand down a decision until they got
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  Speaker 5: the whole story.
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  Speaker 6: You mean about Mary.
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  Speaker 8: I'll never tell him about her loves of things she
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  Speaker 8: did to me, Never tell anybody about it.
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  Speaker 3: Must have been pretty bad, huh. I mean the way
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  Speaker 3: you took it out on me, shoes rotting all the
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  Speaker 3: way through. I had to kill her. Well, what happened
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  Speaker 3: with the chloroform, Jim? Didn't work fast enough for you?
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  Speaker 3: Chloroform yeah, huh.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't react on her fast enough for you? No, No,
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  Speaker 4: it didn't.
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  Speaker 3: I hated her, Yeah, I guess she did. Must have
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  Speaker 3: had quite a scrap with her. Struggled quite a bit,
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  Speaker 3: then't you.
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  Speaker 8: And she fought me all the way I got her though.
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  Speaker 8: I hated her out of my mind. I hated her
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  Speaker 8: so much.
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  Speaker 4: We've been trying to figure it out. Jim. What'd you
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  Speaker 4: hit her with? I mean around the head and on
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  Speaker 4: the neck. Would you use piece of metal?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah? Angle line?
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  Speaker 4: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 6: Kind of lost my head. I kept beating her.
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  Speaker 8: She tried to scream, but I had my hand over
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  Speaker 8: her mouth, and then she fell down. She'd make a
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  Speaker 8: sound after that.
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  Speaker 4: I see. Well, how come you took her jewelry?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you just wanted to kill her, house
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  Speaker 3: that you took all her valuables too, Jim?
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  Speaker 8: How about it, Mitchell, Well, I don't know, uh, spur
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  Speaker 8: of the moment, I guess I took him, but I
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  Speaker 8: didn't keep my thumb away.
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  Speaker 4: I don't remember where glad it cho heem?
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  Speaker 3: Alright, Jim, No, what's this all about. You didn't kill
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  Speaker 3: that woman? You know that as well as we do.
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  Speaker 6: Well we are you talking about? Of course I killed her?
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  Speaker 6: She's dead, ain't you how many times I have to
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  Speaker 6: admit it?
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  Speaker 5: The woman had one mark and everybody met you a
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  Speaker 5: little small scratch on the rest. Huh had a single
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  Speaker 5: wound on the head, not on the neck either.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I killed her, That's all you got to know.
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  Speaker 6: Not said anything there.
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  Speaker 4: All the women's valuables weren't taking either, Jim.
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  Speaker 3: She was found with a couple of rings on her hands,
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  Speaker 3: an expensive watch, a bracelet too. I come on, Jim,
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  Speaker 3: what's the angle here? You can't prove I didn't do it.
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  Speaker 3: You can't prove that. I think we can now.
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  Speaker 6: Why can't you just take my word for it's queer
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  Speaker 6: set up I ever saw.
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  Speaker 8: I'm willing to admit I killed her, and you won't
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  Speaker 8: believe me. What kind of cops saw you?
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  Speaker 4: Anyway? What'd you spend last night? Jim? Where were you?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't remember you'll remember. Now, how
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  Speaker 4: about it?
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  Speaker 8: I say, queer set up. I saw a whole town.
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  Speaker 8: You wouldn't believe it. Yeah, look, I come here from Alabama.
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  Speaker 8: I told you that. I've been here for twenty two months,
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  Speaker 8: a long time. It's almost two years, Queerstown. I ever
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  Speaker 8: saw thousands of people all over millions of 'em, people
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  Speaker 8: all around you, all over the place, everywhere you go.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't know any of'em, not a one. They didn't
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  Speaker 8: know me twenty two months. Couldn't get to know nobody.
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  Speaker 8: I still don't. They don't know me either, or tried
• 12:21
  Speaker 8: to get acquainted, just seemed to never could. Nobody knew me,
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  Speaker 8: nobody cared it, didn't even know who I was. What
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  Speaker 8: kind of town is that? Twenty two months right here?
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  Speaker 8: They don't even know who I am. Nobody knows. Living alone,
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  Speaker 8: you just.
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  Speaker 6: Get sick of it, get sick and tired of it.
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  Speaker 4: That's what brought all this on. Huh.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I mean, at least they'll notice me. They don't
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  Speaker 8: know I'm here. I killed a woman. They'll know who
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  Speaker 8: I am now.
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  Speaker 4: They ever spent any time in a hospital mentioned institution?
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  Speaker 8: Now, what'd you have to ask that for? Just cause
• 12:47
  Speaker 8: they want to know people wanted to notice me. That
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  Speaker 8: doesn't make me crazy. Can't be alone all the time.
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  Speaker 8: You got to have somebody notice you. Were you ever
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  Speaker 8: in an institution gym? Just once, only a couple of months.
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  Speaker 8: It wasn't anything. Look, can't you just forget what I said?
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  Speaker 8: I mean, I told y'all killed a woman. The paper's
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  Speaker 8: going to be out pretty soon, pictures and things, probably a.
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  Speaker 4: Big right up man.
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  Speaker 6: Well, can't we let it go with that? I killed it?
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  Speaker 6: Just forget the rest.
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  Speaker 4: I'm afraid not. Why not?
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  Speaker 8: We'll just make out it that way. People get to
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  Speaker 8: know me anyway. At least they'll know I'm around. I
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  Speaker 8: won't be alone.
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  Speaker 4: No, you're just worrying, Jimma, Huh, he won't be alone anymore.
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  Speaker 3: One thirty eight pm, we continued to question the self
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  Speaker 3: accused suspect, James Mitchell, and he finally told us that
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  Speaker 3: he'd been confined for a period of eighteen months in
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: a state metal hospital in Alabama that had been more
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  Speaker 3: than three years before. The questioning also left no doubt
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  Speaker 3: in our mind that Mitchell had nothing at all to
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  Speaker 3: do with the death of the unidentified woman. A sister
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  Speaker 3: of Mitchell's living in Alabama was contacted and she agreed
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  Speaker 3: to come out west as soon as possible to look
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  Speaker 3: after her brother. In the meantime, he was delivered to
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: the care of psychiatrist at the county hospital. The incident
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: of a man confessing guild of a crime of which
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: he's wholly innocent certainly wasn't anything new. Like police officers
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: all over the country, all over the world, we've come
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  Speaker 3: to accept it as almost a routine part of a
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  Speaker 3: criminal investigation. Most of the time that would be criminals
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: suffering with metal trouble. Sometimes it's a thirst for notoriety.
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: In any event, they all have to be checked, every
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: one of them. It means time, trouble and money. Hours
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: of cautious interrogation, more hours of checking stories that have
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: basis only in the imagination of a sick mind. They
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: slow the investigation, They waste hundreds of man hours. But
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: like anonymous leads or would be witnesses, they can't be ignored.
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: It's part of the job.
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: Saturday, October eighteenth, the newspapers continue to cooperate by giving
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: his front page space to the story of the unidentified woman.
• 14:40
  Speaker 5: Joe Yeah, I to do nothing identification was even close.
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: How about Brian Lopez, whether they do or not call
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: it theirs?
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: Well, they're over at the morg now with a boy,
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: sixteen year old kid was pretty wrought up when he
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: came in.
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: We sure had a parade of them all last night
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: all this morning. Well, it doesn't hurt our chances any
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: The more the better, I suppose. So I'm not going
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: to make much headway if we can't identify her. And
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: he asks on the all points we got out on, Yeah,
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: four of them. They all been checked. Nothing chewing gum,
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: Joe new Kai and tanzarine flavor. No, no thanks.
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: How about that check of the hospitals around tom anything
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: show up there yet?
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: No, not so far.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: The scar on the woman's leg was from an operation,
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: all right, Doc figures it might not have been done
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: in the hospital though it was a minor operation.
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: Could have been done a doctor's office. Maybe I'd stop it.
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: Sure tough enough.
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: Checking hospitals for a record of the operation next time, impossible,
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: check every doctor in town for it.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: Well, even then we could miss. Don't know where the
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: woman's from. She could have had the operation done anywhere.
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: I'll get it. Homicide Friday talking yeah, Tom, Well I
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: know he did. That's so yeah, okay, fine, you're bad.
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: Thanks Tom.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: It was Brian I and LOPEI were driving that boy
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: over to Georgia Street the sixteen year old. What happened
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: When they took the boy to the morgue, they showed
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: him the body.
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: Asked him if he recognized it, What you say? It's
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: his mother?
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: Two o five Frank and I left the office and
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: drove over to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. The sixteen year
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: old boy, who had identified the dead woman as his mother,
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: was being treated for shock and hysteria. The youngster told
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: Brian and Lopez that his name was Arnold Hopkins and
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: that he'd been living with his mother at a Norwood
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: Street address. After he was given a sedative and recovered
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: himself a bit, the boy was driven to the home
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: of his aunt and uncle out near Barnesdale Park. That night,
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: Frank and I called on the boy and found him
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: sufficiently recovered to answer a few questions. He confirmed his
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: identity of the body he'd viewed that afternoon as that
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: of his mother, missus Jeanette Hopkins. He said he was
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: an only child and that his father was dead. He
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: told us his mother had been working for the past
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: six years as coast representative for an Eastern cosmetics firm.
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: We asked him what had happened the night his mother disappeared.
• 16:44
  Speaker 7: The phone just rang about. Well, when we were finishing dinner,
• 16:47
  Speaker 7: about eight o'clock, maybe quarter after m h. Well, when
• 16:50
  Speaker 7: while hung up, she said something important come up. She
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: had to go out to see somebody. She said she
• 16:54
  Speaker 7: had to see him right away. She got a coat
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: and left. This last time, I said, are well, who.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: Was she going to see? Arnold? Did she tell you? No?
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: She didn't.
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: I heard her talking on the phone though, heard her
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: say Leo. She said it a couple of times, Leo.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: Where was she going to meet this person? Arnold? Did
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: you have to overhear that?
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: No?
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: I didn't.
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: I think she said, okay, I'll meet you there Leo.
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: And she hung up, and she got her coat, kissed
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: me goodbye, and she went out.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: Did she leave on foot or was she driving? You remember?
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: On foot? My mother didn't drive. It was Leo. So
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: your mother ever talk about him?
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: Heard her talking to him on the phone a couple
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: of times. That's about all.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: Well, do you know where he lives? What he looks like.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Can he tells anything about him at all?
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: No, sir, nothing. I wouldn't know him if I saw him.
• 17:45
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• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Saturday, October eighteenth, eight thirty pm. Frank Smith and I
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: continued interviewing the dead woman's son, sixteen year old Ernold Hopkins.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: The big lead pointed in the direction of the man
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: known as Leo, who telephoned Missus Hopkins Thursday night, little
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: more than an hour before she died, and made an
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: appointment to meet her. It was a good lead, but
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: it didn't go too far. All the boy could tell
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: us was that.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: The man's name was Leo.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: He'd heard his mother address a man by that name
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: on the telephone several times, but that was the extent
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: of it. He didn't know Leo's last name. He didn't
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: know where he lived. He had no idea where his
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: mother was to meet the man the night she died.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: We talked to the boy's aunt and uncle, the dead
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: woman's brother and sister in law, but they couldn't help
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: us either. Frank Smith and I obtained a list of
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: all of Missus Hopkins' friends and business associates known to
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: the son and the aunt and the uncle. We spent
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: the rest of the weekend checking with them. Most of
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: them gave us pretty much the same story. Missus Hopkins
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: was well liked and well respected both in her business
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: and private life. She was devoted to her teenage son.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: She didn't drink, and socially her behavior was beyond question.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: She attended church regularly, She was active in several women's clubs,
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: engaged in social and religious work. None of the people
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: we talked to could think of any reason that she
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: would want to end her own life. All of them
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: denied any knowledge of the man known as Leo. Monday afternoon,
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: October twentieth, Frank and I had another meeting with the
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: victim's son, Arnold Hopkins. We had him check over the
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: personal effects found on the body.
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: Yes, sir, that's hers.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: The other ring too. How about this bracelet, sir?
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: Yes, sir, she always wore that. My dad gave her
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: to her, I think when he was alive. I mean
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: she always wore.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: M now, the wristwatch, two rings, the bracelet, miss lapelp
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: in here.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: That's about it?
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: So, yes, sir, I guess so you have her necklace too?
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: How's that my mother's necklace? She was wearing it that night,
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: She had it on when she left the house. Didn't
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: you find it?
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: What kind of necklace is its?
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: Son?
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: What's it look like? What's made like? The bracelet? Is
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: that one there? See the two of 'em go together
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: to set Your mother were expensive jewelry like that every day,
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: did she.
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: No, sir, she wore the bracelet quite a bit, not
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: the necklace, so showing wore that when she was dressed up.
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: I thought about it yesterday.
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: I meant to tell you about it.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: What's that, son?
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: Well, right after she got the phone call that night,
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: when she told me she had to go out, Yeah, Well,
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: she went back and got her coat, and then she
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: came in the living room and kissed me goodbye. She
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: had the necklace in her hand.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: Are you sure she took it with her?
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: Oh, yes, sir, I'm positive. After she kissed me goodbye,
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: she went over to the mirror and I saw her
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: put the necklace on. She was wearing it when she left.
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: I didn't think much about it till later on. Most
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: of the time, she only wears it when she dresses up.
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: She wasn't very dressed up.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: That night, Jo.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Can you describe the necklace for her, son, exactly what
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: it looks like?
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: Yes, sir, I think I can.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: When you saw your mother with a necklace on, did
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: you think to ask her about it? Yeah? I did.
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: She said she was wearing it because she wanted to
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: look pretty. She was going to meet a good friend.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: And she didn't say where. No, sir, I guess she.
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: Was wrong, huh about her necklace?
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: I mean no son about her friend.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Monday three, eighteen PM, we got a description of the
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: necklace from the Hopkins confirmed it with his aunt and uncle,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: and then we double checked it at the jewelers where
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: it had been purchased. After that we contacted the Pawnshop
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Detail and Burglary Division. The necklace, in its description, was
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: put on the stolen property list and copies were sent
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: to secondhand jewelry stores and pawn shops throughout the area.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: We also got out a broadcast and an APB on it.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Four fifteen, the following afternoon, we got a reply from
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: the San Diego Police Department. A pawn shop owner down
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: there had reported taking in the necklace the friday before,
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: which matched the description of the one we were looking for.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: The man who pawned the necklace listed his name in
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: the pawn shop's buy book as Raymond Butler. San Diego
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: officers had checked out the home address that he'd given.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: It was a vacant lot.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: The necklace was sent back to Los Angeles, where it
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: was identified as Missus Hopkins. The description of the man
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: who'd pawned the necklace was forwarded from San Diego, together
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: with a photostatic copy of the suspect's signature, and we
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: got out an all points bulletin on him. Two days
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: passed nothing. Along with Brian and Lopez, we continued checking
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: all public places in the general area where the body
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: of Missus Hopkins had been found.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: You got anything, Frank, talk to a man by name Wagner.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Joey told me she should do a lot of traveling
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: business trips, most of them the San Diego h Wagner
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: says he heard she had a boyfriend down there, tall,
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: dark haired fellow. That's all no name, So I get it.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: I'm side Friday. Well oh yeah, LOPI m h, where checks?
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: How does it? Yeah? That's good? Fine, okay, thanks Lope, Yeah.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Right away, anything, Joe Lopez, He and Brian just checked
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: a bar out in the neighborhood where the body was found.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: They talked to the bartender in the place, showed him
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: the description of the man who pawned the necklace.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Bartender says he knows a man. He's sure pretty sure.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: He told Brian and Lope that the man's either a
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: boxer or a wrestler or something like that.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Anyway, you know the man's name, where he lives.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Says his name's Taylor, no home address? You know his
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: first name, yeah, Leo.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: One five pm.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: After interviewing four other people who were in the bar
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: the night of Missus Hopkins's death, Lopez and Brian checked
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: back in at the office. They told us that at
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: least one of the four persons they talked to, in
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: addition to the bartender, was sure that the description of
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: this suspect upawned. The necklace fitted a man known as
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Leo Taylor who was in the bar the previous Thursday night.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: He was seen in the place between eight thirty and
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: nine pm, and he was seen with a woman answering
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Missus hopkins general description. The bartender had no idea where
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: the man lived, but he seemed fairly certain of the
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: man's name, Leo Taylor, and his occupation either wrestling or boxing.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Five oh five pm we made a run on Taylor's
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: name and description through R and I, and we got
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: a make We checked his handwriting and that matched out. Also,
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: he had one previous arrest for assault and disorderly conduct.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: His residence was a West eleventh Street address. We checked
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: it out, but he'd moved six months before. The landlady
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: had no forwarding address on him, but she told us
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: one of the places he used to frequent was a
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: gym on South Olive, down near Olympic.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: We ran it down, all right, come on, I'll get rired.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Come on.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: I checked with a fell in the office over there, Joe,
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: says the man. We once taken a shower back there
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: at locker.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: Room, right out of a way? Sure in here? Yeah,
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: go ahead?
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, excuse me? Your name Leo Taylor? Ow's that I said?
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: Are you Leo Taylor?
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah? That's right?
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: What is it? Police officers? You like to talk to you? Oh?
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Taking a shower right now? You want to wait a while?
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Keep Taylor? I wanna talk to you now? All right?
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: All right? What's the rush? What's it all about? We
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: wanna talk to you downtown?
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: What do you want me downtown for a routine check?
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Like to ask a few questions about what Jeanette Hopkins
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: and so?
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: What about it? When's the last time you saw the woman? Taylor?
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: I don't know. A couple of months ago.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: At least as why, well, you can talk about it downtown. Well,
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: let's talk now. It'll take me a little time to
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: get dressed. What's the pitch?
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: You know as well as we do. You want to
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: throw me that shirt? Mac? Thanks? What do you mean?
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: I know as well as you do.
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: Know what?
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: No rush, Leo, we can talk downtown. I read about
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: it in the papers. Terrible thing. He's gonna look her
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: up one of these days. It's too bad you live
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: in Los Angeles, Taylor. Yeah, boy, I get down to
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: San Diego once in a while.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: Not too often. You don't think I had anything to
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: do with it, Da, How do you mean, Leo? With
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: what I mean?
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Jeanette, she's dead. I don't think I had a handle it, Dan.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Let's tell you I'm on a level with you.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: Leo.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: We've been on this thing a week. We've got you
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: placed in San Diego. We've got you placed here. You
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: say you haven't seen missus Hopkins for two months. We
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: can do a lot better than that. You were with
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: her in San Diego two weeks ago. We were drinking
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: wather in a bar out there last Thursday night. You're
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: weather twenty minutes before she died.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: We got all we need. Leo got my coat there,
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Graven check the pockets right, Yeah, gotta take a lot
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: of proof.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: I gues you know that. Gonna take a lot of it.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: We got it better I have. Let's see keys well
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Coln Yeah, okay, let's go. No just a minute, Leo yeah,
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: con ticket here.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: You forgot it.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: The story you have just heard was true. The names
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: were changed to protect the innocent.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: On January twenty eighth, trial was held in Superior Court,
• 27:01
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• 27:04
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• 27:07
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  Speaker 2: When confronted with the evidence and testimony against him, Leo
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Francis Taylor broke down and confessed to the murder of
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Missus Jeannette Hopkins. She'd been paying blackmail to Taylor in
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: order to keep their affairs secret, but a month before
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: her death, she refused to pay him any more. Taylor
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: threatened her again, and she agreed to give him the
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: necklace as a final payoff. At their meeting, Taylor demanded cash,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: His victim threatened him with arrest, and he administered the chloroform.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Taylor was tried and found guilty of first degree murder
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: and was sentenced to a life term in the state penitentiary.
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