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Dragnet: The Big Affair (EP4919) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: November twenty ninth, nineteen fifty one, Here is the big Affair.
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  Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true. The
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  Speaker 2: names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a
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  Speaker 2: detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. An unidentified armed
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  Speaker 2: bandit starts a campaign of jewelry store hold ups in
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  Speaker 2: your city. The robberies are carefully planned, carefully executed. The
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  Speaker 2: bandit commits brutal attacks on each of the victims. Your job, get.
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  Speaker 3: Him drag meet the documented drama of an actual crime.
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  Speaker 3: Well the next thirty minutes in cooperation with the Los
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  Speaker 3: Angeles Police Department. You will travel step by step on
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  Speaker 3: the side of the law through an actual case transcribed
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  Speaker 3: from official police violence, from beginning to end, from crime
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  Speaker 3: to punishment. Dragnet is the story of your police force
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  Speaker 3: in action.
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  Speaker 4: It was Wednesday, March tenth, was cold in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 4: We're working the day watch out of robbery detail. My
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  Speaker 4: partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Bideon. My name's Friday.
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  Speaker 4: It was three twenty eight pm when I got to
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  Speaker 4: room twenty seven a robbery detail.
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  Speaker 5: Joe, Yeah, Ben, Yo, this is met and missus Gordon.
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  Speaker 5: Folks would like to have you meet my partner. Sorry, Friday,
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  Speaker 5: how do.
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  Speaker 6: You doing, glad? And how are you sent? Missus Gordon?
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  Speaker 4: Are you feeling any better now?
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  Speaker 7: Com san recontid She's a lot better now, Sergeant, thank you.
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  Speaker 7: My French isn't very good, but it's a lot better
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  Speaker 7: than her English. Cecil has only been over here a
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  Speaker 7: couple of weeks that matter, when I was on occupation
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  Speaker 7: duty over there.
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  Speaker 4: Army you know, yeah, I see. Well, we'll try not
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  Speaker 4: to keep you along, sir. We got a few questions
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  Speaker 4: about the robbery. We think your wife might be able
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  Speaker 4: to help us.
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  Speaker 7: We'll sure try so. I didn't like to help you
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  Speaker 7: any way we can.
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  Speaker 5: Your wife was the only one in the story besides
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  Speaker 5: the clerk at the time to hold up. Like to
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  Speaker 5: have her tell us everything that happened if she would.
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  Speaker 7: Play okay, She says, she saw everything that happened, Sergeant,
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  Speaker 7: what would you like to know?
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  Speaker 4: First?
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  Speaker 6: Well, how about the hold up man?
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  Speaker 4: Mister Gordon's your wife get a good look at him?
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  Speaker 4: Can she describe him for us?
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  Speaker 8: Says here?
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  Speaker 4: Good?
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  Speaker 7: She says, the fellow was wearing a blue coat, and
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  Speaker 7: you had dark hair. Wasn't a very big man?
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  Speaker 4: M Does she have any idea about how total he was?
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  Speaker 8: Cecil Tai said that deal Christo.
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  Speaker 7: She can't say exactly how to hold sergeant said he'd
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  Speaker 7: come up to about here on my shoulder, about five
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  Speaker 7: or eight. I guess she thinks maybe weighed about one
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  Speaker 7: hundred and seventy pounds.
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  Speaker 4: She's not sure he would you ask her exactly what
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  Speaker 4: happened at the store. That is as much as she
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  Speaker 4: can remember.
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  Speaker 8: Here ccil de la exact mon Sukie.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah literary director Monvan l.
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  Speaker 10: Well.
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  Speaker 7: She says she was standing by the counter sergeant when
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  Speaker 7: the hold up man came in, says, the fellow went
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  Speaker 7: over to the clerk. The man who was waiting on
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  Speaker 7: her says, the fellow had a gun in his hand.
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  Speaker 6: Would you ask her to go on?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, a prey.
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  Speaker 9: Doesn't sack the pai, she says.
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  Speaker 7: The hold up man made the clerk get up the jewelry.
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  Speaker 7: The guy took it and dumped it in a paper
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  Speaker 7: bag cecil.
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  Speaker 9: She saw his own preserve. Opting to lebem.
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  Speaker 7: Terrible, she co, well, after he got all this jeweler
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  Speaker 7: in the paper bag, the feet began beating up on
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  Speaker 7: the clerk, she says, for no reason at all. He
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  Speaker 7: began slugging the clerk with a gun. He was scaring,
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  Speaker 7: really got nasty with him. Naturally, it scared the wife
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  Speaker 7: and she let out a scream. He turned around and
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  Speaker 7: hit her, she says, that's all. She remembers. She would
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  Speaker 7: like to get my hands on the lousy.
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  Speaker 5: You understand how you feel, mister Gordon, Could you ask
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  Speaker 5: your wife? There's anything else about to hold up man?
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  Speaker 4: You remember, says to RAPELTI shows propos de setan abbe
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  Speaker 4: til Calcucho's deck throat in there.
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  Speaker 10: No, that's about it.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, well, how about the man's clothes? Does she remember
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  Speaker 4: anything else he was wearing besides that blue jacket?
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  Speaker 6: Hello?
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  Speaker 7: Res do sevetmo e paus don't bleet. She thinks maybe
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  Speaker 7: he had on dark trousers. She's not sure, though, says
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  Speaker 7: she was too scared to notice, says Porte Chapeau. I
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  Speaker 7: asked her if he was wearing a hat. She says no,
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  Speaker 7: she's sure of that, And I.
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  Speaker 4: Say, well, is there anything else that she can remember
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  Speaker 4: about him? Anything at all?
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  Speaker 8: He at Tilo school, at police.
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  Speaker 5: You got it all?
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  Speaker 4: Well, thank you very much, mister Gordon, missus Gordon sco.
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  Speaker 8: How's that now?
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  Speaker 4: Sis you scopa?
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  Speaker 9: Quiet on French?
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  Speaker 7: She says she can't understand how a man to do
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  Speaker 7: such a thing. She means, how he cut up the
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  Speaker 7: clerk that way?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, so hard for her. She just can't understand. Tell
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  Speaker 4: her we can't either. Two weeks before, on the twenty
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  Speaker 4: seventh of April, at two thirty in the afternoon, the
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  Speaker 4: robbery suspect had begun his campaign of downtown jewelry store
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  Speaker 4: hold ups. Since that time in the same general area,
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  Speaker 4: he'd succeeded in committing three more jewel robberies and making
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  Speaker 4: good his escape.
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  Speaker 6: Each of the hold ups netted.
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  Speaker 4: Him more than three thousand dollars in rings, diamonds, and
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  Speaker 4: other precious stones from his amo Oh.
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  Speaker 6: It was obvious that he was experienced.
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  Speaker 4: All of the robberies were committed in broad daylight, all
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  Speaker 4: of them were apparently well planned. After obtaining the loot,
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  Speaker 4: which he dumped into an ordinary paper bag, he turned
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  Speaker 4: on his victims and with no provocation, beat them viciously.
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  Speaker 4: After two weeks of investigation, we had yet to come
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  Speaker 4: up with a solid lead on either the identity of
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  Speaker 4: the suspect or his whereabouts. We had a fair description
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  Speaker 4: of the hold up man, we had a good rundown
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  Speaker 4: on his method of operation, but repeated checks on possible
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  Speaker 4: suspects through the Record bureau Cii and Sacramento and through
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  Speaker 4: our statistician's office failed to get us anything. There were
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  Speaker 4: no kickbacks on our all points bulletin. After we interviewed
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  Speaker 4: Missus Gordon, the witness to the latest jewel robbery, we
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  Speaker 4: were no further along than we were two weeks before,
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  Speaker 4: and am all in a description. Neither one of them
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  Speaker 4: were giving us much help. Four h five pm we
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  Speaker 4: met with Captain Didion, how about the mug books any
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  Speaker 4: like there? Miss Gordon's in there, noscarper with her husband
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  Speaker 4: and checking through them. Nothing yet? What else you got? Working?
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  Speaker 8: New run?
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  Speaker 5: Going through the stats office third one this week might
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  Speaker 5: get us something. The store manager on that job this afternoon.
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  Speaker 5: Did you talk to him yet?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: We did.
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  Speaker 6: He gave us the best lead we've had so far
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  Speaker 6: in the thing looks pretty good.
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  Speaker 10: Now, what's that well?
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  Speaker 4: We had him checking the rug books and he came
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  Speaker 4: up with a partial identification from one of them. Sam
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  Speaker 4: Quentin released now Jack Maynard. He's only been arrested once
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  Speaker 4: here a drunk charge. He's done time up at queue
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  Speaker 4: for robbery before Ben and I pulled the package on him.
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  Speaker 4: We figure we ought to still be serving time at Quinton.
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  Speaker 4: Couldn't tell from his record though, how's that West? Possibly
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  Speaker 4: he might have been parole the last month or so
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  Speaker 4: that had put him on line for these hold ups.
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  Speaker 2: And you check Quinton.
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  Speaker 5: We got out a teletype to the wards office late
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  Speaker 5: this morning, Skipper. We have answered pretty soon, the best
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  Speaker 5: lead we've had so far. I hope it stands up.
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  Speaker 5: Excusing robbery didion? Yeah, oh yeah, I'm not here. Uh huh, No,
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  Speaker 5: you and to CADEB stay on it. Yeh, that's right
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  Speaker 5: over the weekend anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, But.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what's the answer.
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  Speaker 5: He's had three weeks, he's cleared four jobs, every one
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  Speaker 5: of them in broad daylight, more than one thousand dollars
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  Speaker 5: worth of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Now, how do we reach him? How about some extra men,
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  Speaker 4: par skipper, Kim and managing?
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  Speaker 5: What do you got in mind? Steak up seems to
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  Speaker 5: be the best angle for us with this kind of
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  Speaker 5: a said that, how many teams you figure it'll take
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  Speaker 5: oh a dozen? Anyhow you figure that? Joe?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, just about a thief seems to be concentrating on
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  Speaker 4: the downtown area. All four hold ups were in the
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  Speaker 4: same general neighborhood within a twenty block radio. We can't
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  Speaker 4: cover all the jewelry stores with a dozen teams. It
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  Speaker 4: will give us pretty good coverage, though, sure help our chances.
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  Speaker 4: You checked out all the other angles.
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  Speaker 6: Huh, everything not doing us much good?
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  Speaker 4: Rob Rid didon Yeah, I just minute through Friday. Oh thanks, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: Friday talking. Yeah, that's right, that's all. No, we'll pick
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  Speaker 4: it up, thank you. Those communications just got an answer
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  Speaker 4: in the teletype of Quentin on Jack mannon no lead,
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  Speaker 4: He's still in prison. We went back and started again
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  Speaker 4: from the beginning. With our best lead gone. There wasn't
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  Speaker 4: any alternative. The following day, Thursday, March eleventh, the steakouts
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  Speaker 4: went into effect.
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  Speaker 6: A dozen jewelry stores.
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  Speaker 4: In the immediate downtown area, all of them potential hold
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  Speaker 4: up victims, were placed under constant surveillance. Three days passed,
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  Speaker 4: nothing happened, no sign of the hold up man.
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  Speaker 6: We stayed on it.
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  Speaker 4: Tuesday, March sixteenth, eleven, a m had a small downtown
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  Speaker 4: jewelry shop three blocks from the nearest steakout team. The
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  Speaker 4: bandit committed his fifth successive robbery and made good his escape.
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  Speaker 6: The m O and description matched in almost every respect.
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  Speaker 6: Ben and I answered the call and drove.
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  Speaker 4: To the scene of the hold up to interview the
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  Speaker 4: victim of mister walder Myers.
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  Speaker 11: He came straight back this way, just where I'm welcome.
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  Speaker 11: I was at the end of the calendar there, just
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  Speaker 11: where you are. He had a brown paper bag in
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  Speaker 11: one hand, and it was just a couple of feet
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  Speaker 11: from me. He put his other hand in his coat
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  Speaker 11: pocket and he came up with a gun, pointed it
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  Speaker 11: right at me.
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  Speaker 4: The store was empty at the times or no customers around.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, that's right, just myself and my son in law,
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  Speaker 11: Herb in the back room. I guess he heard this
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  Speaker 11: thief talking to me and he came out to see
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  Speaker 11: what it.
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  Speaker 4: Was all about.
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  Speaker 6: That's when the fireworks started.
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  Speaker 11: And what happened, Well, he made Herb line up along
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  Speaker 11: the counter, right next to me. By this time he
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  Speaker 11: had all the loot he wanted in that paper bag
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  Speaker 11: he was carrying. Just when I thought he was gonna leave,
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  Speaker 11: he turned around. All of a sudden he said to Herb,
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  Speaker 11: you think you're a smart guy, don't you. Then he
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  Speaker 11: slugged her with the gun, brought it right down on
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  Speaker 11: the side of his head all his might.
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  Speaker 6: And that's when the fight started.
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  Speaker 11: Just about Yeah, Herb fell down on one knee. There
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  Speaker 11: was a great big gash on the side of his face.
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  Speaker 11: Even when he was down, the thief kept slugging Herb
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  Speaker 11: kept pounding him in the face with that gun. Herb
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  Speaker 11: wasn't doing anything.
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  Speaker 9: I got good and sore.
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  Speaker 4: What happened then, Well, I didn't care what happened.
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  Speaker 11: I just got sore at the lousy crook. I made
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  Speaker 11: a dive for him, grabbed him around the chest, hit
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  Speaker 11: something like this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: The two of us went down on the floor and
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  Speaker 11: I wrestled him for the gun. That's when it went off.
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  Speaker 11: A wild shot, plowed right into the wall over there.
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  Speaker 11: Herb picked himself up and piled on the guy. I
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  Speaker 11: guess the crook relief must have figured he was through.
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  Speaker 11: Fought like a wild man. I had a good hold
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  Speaker 11: of the top coat he had on, but he slipped
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  Speaker 11: right out of it. He grabbed his gun in the
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  Speaker 11: paper bag, ran out of the store, left me there
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  Speaker 11: holding an empty coat.
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  Speaker 4: And this is the coat he was wearing right here,
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  Speaker 4: is that right?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, that's you can see one of the sleeves there.
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  Speaker 11: He almost ripped it clean off trying to get away.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I see.
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  Speaker 9: I already looked through the pockets.
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  Speaker 8: Nothing in him.
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  Speaker 4: How about this description of the man, mister Myers. You're
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  Speaker 4: pretty sure of that, are you? I'm positive, Sergeant Man.
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  Speaker 6: You want to call the crime lab. And here's a
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  Speaker 6: phone booth right over there, and you.
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  Speaker 4: Might Oh yeah, I wonder if I could check that
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  Speaker 4: spot with a bullet hit mister Myers. That wild shot
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  Speaker 4: he fired, Oh yeah, right over here, back of the cash.
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  Speaker 6: Right yeah, bedded in there, pretty solid.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, lucky it was the wall, not one of us.
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  Speaker 11: Say, I got a pocket knife here if you want
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  Speaker 11: to dig it out.
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  Speaker 4: No, sir, we've got a crew on the way out
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  Speaker 4: from our crime lab ballistics man, take care of it.
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  Speaker 4: I would like to take another look at that top coat,
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  Speaker 4: the one the thief was wearing.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, yeah, sure, I already looked it over pretty good.
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  Speaker 11: Nothing in the pockets. Couldn't find anything.
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  Speaker 5: Hey here, just ordinary top coat and there's no label
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  Speaker 5: on it. No, you're right, there's nothing in the pocket.
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  Speaker 10: Oh what is to find something?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? No shirt? It feels like a hole in the
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  Speaker 4: pocket here, good size, many Yeah, prim labs on the way.
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  Speaker 4: You should be here in a couple of minutes. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: anything at all in the coat? I don't know. Here
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  Speaker 4: seems to be a hole in this pocket here as possible,
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  Speaker 4: something might have dropped down into the landing of the coat.
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  Speaker 10: Man.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, let me hold out that in for you, all right,
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  Speaker 4: thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Let me hold it up a little.
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  Speaker 4: That's fine, right like this, uh huh.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, And it feels like something down in here.
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  Speaker 10: What is it?
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  Speaker 4: Just a minute, I get my hand down in there,
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  Speaker 4: see if I can get it. Yeah. Here we are
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  Speaker 4: a scrap of paper writing what is it Jill telephone number?
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  Speaker 4: The phone number printed neatly on the scrap of paper
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  Speaker 4: was Crestview nine two oh eight five. There were no
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  Speaker 4: other notations. We checked out the number and found that
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  Speaker 4: the telephone was installed at sixty four fourteen Cordova Drive
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  Speaker 4: in the Los Veelis district. After the crime lab crew
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  Speaker 4: arrived at the store, Ben and I took the bandit's
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  Speaker 4: top coat and drove to the address listed for the
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  Speaker 4: phone number, a twelve unit apartment house on the corner
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  Speaker 4: of Franklin Avenue in Fairfax. The number turned out to
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  Speaker 4: be a public phone booth located in the lobby of
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  Speaker 4: the apartment. The manager could tell us nothing. We began
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  Speaker 4: checking with the tenants on the first floor of the building.
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  Speaker 4: We gave them the description of the jewelry store abandoned.
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  Speaker 4: We showed them the top coat. They failed to recognize
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  Speaker 4: either one. We started on the second floor at the
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  Speaker 4: end of the hall. The tenant was a Missus Iverson.
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  Speaker 4: You recognize a description of Tomas Iverson? Anything to you?
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  Speaker 10: Yes, I'd say it did, Sach. Have you tried the
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  Speaker 10: apartment next door, Miss King's apartment?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: No, ma'am, why do he asked that.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, I'm almost sure of it, ma'am. I've seen a
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  Speaker 10: man who looks like this going there several times.
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  Speaker 3: You are listening to dragnet authentic stories of your police
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  Speaker 3: force in action.
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  Speaker 4: March sixteenth, Tuesday, two forty eight pm, Ben and I
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  Speaker 4: went next door to the apartment where a man answering
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  Speaker 4: the description of the jewelry store Bandit reportedly had been
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  Speaker 4: seen several times.
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  Speaker 6: We rang, but there was no answer.
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  Speaker 4: We went back and checked with the manager of the building,
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  Speaker 4: who told us that the apartment was registered to a
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  Speaker 4: miss Leonora King. He told us that as far as
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  Speaker 4: he knew, Miss King worked during the day and that
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  Speaker 4: she usually returned to her apartment between seven and eight
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  Speaker 4: o'clock at night. The manager gave us the address of
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  Speaker 4: the place she worked and we checked it out. It
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  Speaker 4: was an exclusive gift shop on Locienaca Boulevard in West Hollywood.
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  Speaker 4: We located Leonor King back at the main packing desk,
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  Speaker 4: where she was employed as a gift wrapper. When we
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  Speaker 4: put the question to her that a man answering the
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  Speaker 4: description of the jewelry store of Bandit had been seen
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  Speaker 4: visiting her, she readily admitted it.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, that's right, I'd say it looks just like that.
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  Speaker 12: He drops by my apartment four or five times a month.
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  Speaker 12: His name's Marty.
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  Speaker 4: What's his last name? Miss King? Where can you find him?
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  Speaker 12: I'm sorry I never did know his last Name' afraid
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  Speaker 12: I don't know where you can find him either.
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  Speaker 4: Well, how's that, Miss King? He visit you quite a bit.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: He's a friend of yours, isn't he Not exactly?
• 16:36
  Speaker 12: I know him, that's about all. He's a friend of
• 16:38
  Speaker 12: a friend.
• 16:38
  Speaker 10: It's more like that.
• 16:39
  Speaker 9: Uh huh, excuse me.
• 16:42
  Speaker 12: Okay, I'm sorry.
• 16:44
  Speaker 10: This package has a rush on it.
• 16:46
  Speaker 12: I'll have to wrap it now, do you mind?
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: No, ma'am, you go right ahead.
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: About this man Marty, Miss King, you might explaining a
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: little more if you don't know him, Well, why should
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: he visit you so often?
• 16:58
  Speaker 10: Well, to tell you the truth, it's more of a
• 16:59
  Speaker 10: favorite than anything.
• 17:00
  Speaker 12: It's through Virginia. She's my girlfriend, and I wish I
• 17:03
  Speaker 12: never got mixed up in.
• 17:04
  Speaker 9: It to begin with.
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: Why do you mean mixed up in what?
• 17:06
  Speaker 12: Well, it's confidential, Sergeant, I just as soon not mentioned,
• 17:09
  Speaker 12: if you don't mind, would.
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: Like to have you tell us everything you know about it.
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: It's a pretty important matter.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 17:13
  Speaker 12: Well, I don't know really how it started.
• 17:15
  Speaker 10: I mean, how the two of them got together.
• 17:17
  Speaker 12: Marty and Virginia just met. I suppose Ginia fell in
• 17:20
  Speaker 12: love with him. She had to find some way out
• 17:22
  Speaker 12: how that Virginia she was crazy about Marty. I guess
• 17:25
  Speaker 12: she still is. They didn't want to get all involved, though,
• 17:28
  Speaker 12: neither one of them. It's romantic in a way.
• 17:31
  Speaker 9: Could I have the scissors there, sergeant?
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: Yes, there you go.
• 17:34
  Speaker 12: Well, the two of them want is to see each
• 17:36
  Speaker 12: other once a week. It's enough for Virginia, she says,
• 17:38
  Speaker 12: she loves him, that's all it counts. She doesn't want
• 17:40
  Speaker 12: to know where Marty lives, what he does, anything about him,
• 17:43
  Speaker 12: and I guess the same goes for Marty.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: See, so the two haven't get in touch with each
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: other through you?
• 17:47
  Speaker 8: Is that it?
• 17:48
  Speaker 10: That's right?
• 17:48
  Speaker 12: Usually once a week, maybe once every two weeks. I
• 17:51
  Speaker 12: just as soon not talk about it if you don't mind, though,
• 17:53
  Speaker 12: I can give you Virginia's address. She can tell you
• 17:55
  Speaker 12: more about Marty.
• 17:56
  Speaker 10: Than I can.
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: You have no idea where we can locate the man.
• 17:58
  Speaker 12: I'm sorry, none at all. Only contact I have is
• 18:01
  Speaker 12: when Marty Flow's mirror when he comes around, leaves a
• 18:04
  Speaker 12: message for Virginia where to meet him and win, then leaves.
• 18:07
  Speaker 12: I really think you ought to talk to Virginia about it.
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: There we are one thing I don't quite understand, ma'am. Yes,
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: this girlfriend of yours, Virginia, you say she's in love
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: with this fellow Marty.
• 18:18
  Speaker 12: Oh yeah, crazy about him?
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: And why are they're.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: Playing this hide and seek? If they're in love, why
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: don't they come out and get married. What's the problem Virginia?
• 18:25
  Speaker 12: What she's already married?
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Before we left Leonora King, we advised her what the
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: situation was in the event the suspect Marty contacted her.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: She was to get in touch with us immediately. She
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: gave us her promise that she wouldn't disclose our conversation
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: with her. We left her our card and she gave
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: us the address of her girlfriend, Virginia Brewer, who was
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: a South Argyle Street address.
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: But missus Brewer wasn't at home.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Eight fifteen pm, we drove to her place of employment,
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: a Valley nightclub out along Ventura Boulevard, where she was
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: appearing in the floor show.
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: She was a dancer. We located her backstage, waiting to
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: go on.
• 19:02
  Speaker 10: You must have some other girl in mind, actic, sir.
• 19:04
  Speaker 10: I don't know anyone by the name of Mary.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: You sure about that, missus Brewer. We got it from
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: a pretty good sort.
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: Well, I'm sure I don't know where you got it,
• 19:10
  Speaker 10: but it's wrong. Ther name isn't familiar at all. Who
• 19:12
  Speaker 10: told you this? Anyway?
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: Close friend of yours, ma'am. She seemed to know what
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: she was talking about.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Who was it?
• 19:16
  Speaker 10: I got a right to know that?
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: Leonar King leonor Why should she tell you a story
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: like that? We wouldn't know, ma'am, unless it's the truth.
• 19:23
  Speaker 10: Of course, it's not the truth. I don't know anybody.
• 19:25
  Speaker 10: I don't even know what this is all about.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: She says. You know the man, missus Brewer. She says
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: you're in love with him. She seemed to have all
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: the details. Now, is there any good reason why she
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: tell lies about you?
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: I don't know.
• 19:35
  Speaker 9: You believe what she told you?
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am, we do, unless you can prove it's a lie.
• 19:40
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry.
• 19:41
  Speaker 10: That's my introduction.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: I have to go on, all right, ma'am. We way
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: h m h.
• 20:14
  Speaker 10: M m m.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Hm m m.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Goodes have been.
• 20:35
  Speaker 10: We'll be right back. Hot take another bout.
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: Hi.
• 20:47
  Speaker 10: You wanna come back here Rousters dressing room. You can
• 20:51
  Speaker 10: talk there.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: In here, thank you.
• 20:59
  Speaker 10: Well, there's't any point trying to cover it over. Only
• 21:05
  Speaker 10: one thing I'd like to ask you. Yes, ma'am, her
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: husband doesn't have to know, does he? I mean, whatever
• 21:11
  Speaker 10: there is to this, you don't have to tell the papers.
• 21:14
  Speaker 10: Do you keep it quiet?
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: Whatever you tell us will be strictly confidential, ma'am.
• 21:17
  Speaker 10: All right. I know Marty. I've known him for six
• 21:21
  Speaker 10: months when I wasn't lying, I'm loving him.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Well, we're not prying into your personal life in his Brewer.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: We just like to locate this man, Marty, that's all.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: It's pretty important to us.
• 21:30
  Speaker 10: Why is it important? Why do you want him?
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Robbery investigation man. We'd like to get hold of him
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: for an interview.
• 21:36
  Speaker 10: Robby Marty's done something that way you want him.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: We're not sure. Do you have any idea where we
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: can find him?
• 21:42
  Speaker 10: No more than leonor yuess she told you about it.
• 21:46
  Speaker 10: I mean, Marty and I Hot Spin.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: You have no idea where he stays, where he works?
• 21:50
  Speaker 10: No, I don't. It's been that way from the beginning. Well,
• 21:53
  Speaker 10: Noor knows as much about that as I do. Only
• 21:56
  Speaker 10: one way I can get in touch with him, and
• 21:57
  Speaker 10: that's when he leaves a message at the Nor's where
• 21:59
  Speaker 10: I leave a message. When you first met Marty and
• 22:01
  Speaker 10: I am that's the way we both wanted it. You
• 22:04
  Speaker 10: didn't want to get all involved because of my husband Hide.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: And neither have you seen this mighty lately, miss Brewer, Yes,
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: about ten days ago.
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: You expect to see him again soon?
• 22:14
  Speaker 10: I don't know. I suppose, so you'll leave a message
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: with le Nor if he wants me so I can
• 22:17
  Speaker 10: go on.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: Could you leave a message for him with Lenoor?
• 22:20
  Speaker 10: Yes, I suppose, so I have to wait. He calls, though,
• 22:24
  Speaker 10: can't you tell me more about it? Sergeant, Why do
• 22:27
  Speaker 10: you want him? What's it about?
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: We're going to have to ask your cooperation, ma'am. Your
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: friends are robbery suspect. I think he's a pretty good one.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: Mighty yes, ma'am. And the next time he contacts you,
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: the next time he sets up a date with you,
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: we'd like to know where.
• 22:39
  Speaker 10: We'd like to know when you think he's guilty, really
• 22:42
  Speaker 10: think he's done something?
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: Well, he's a suspect, man, that's all we know.
• 22:45
  Speaker 10: I guess Leonora told you. I love him, love him
• 22:48
  Speaker 10: more than anyone. Won't make any difference, ma'am, won't make
• 22:51
  Speaker 10: any difference. I love him. Even if he is guilty.
• 22:54
  Speaker 10: It won't make any difference.
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: A will to him.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Twenty five PM, we continued questioning Virginia Brewer. Before we left,
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: we got her promise that in the event the man
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: known as Marty contacted her, she would notify us immediately.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: Nine twenty PM.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: We checked back in at the office and made arrangements
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: to keep the home of Virginia Brewer under constant surveillance,
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: as well as the apartment of her girlfriend, Leonora King.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: The following morning, we checked with the ballistics men at
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: the crime lab, who examined the slug which had been
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: taken from the wall of Walter Meyer's jewelry store, the
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: latest of the hold up man's victims. It was identified
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: as having been fired from a thirty two caliber revolver.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: The slug was marked and filed as evidence. Thorough examination
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: of the top coat which the suspect had left behind
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: at as last hold up.
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: Failed to yield any new leads.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: The jewel trays at the store which had been held
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: up were also checked for fingerprints. A week passed, no
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: sign of the jewel thief. Wednesday, March twenty fourth, I'll
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: grab it all right, robbery or Merril huh oh yes, yes, ma'am.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: Well when was that all right? Bye? Yes, ma'am, thank you,
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: bye you anything that friend Missus Brewers.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: Lenora King says, this is for the marty called a
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: few minutes ago set up a date with Missus Brewer
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: was supposed to meet Leonoi's apartment when eight o'clock tonight,
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: four forty.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Five p m. We checked with Captain Dideon and set
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: up a plan to have the apartment building where Leonora
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: King lived thoroughly covered that night. Carr and Matthews were
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: assigned to cover outside the main entrance. Micaleb and Olsen
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: would cover the lobby. Ben and I would be in
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: the apartment proper, along with Missus Brewer and Leonora King.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: By six o'clock that night, we were all in position.
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: We waited.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Six thirty seven o'clock, seven point thirty We waited. Missus
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Brewer walked the floor with a drink in her hand.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Seven forty five, seven point fifty. Ben watched at the window.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: Virginia Brewer got nervous.
• 24:54
  Speaker 10: You can't prove it. You don't know anything for sure.
• 24:57
  Speaker 10: How I know you're not trying for a frame, trying
• 24:59
  Speaker 10: to blame Marty something he didn't do.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: We're not blaming him for anything. Mammy's a suspect. We
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: want to talk to him, that's all.
• 25:05
  Speaker 12: Why don't you sit down him, Virgin?
• 25:06
  Speaker 10: You know he was getting upset. It'll be all right.
• 25:08
  Speaker 10: Come on, honey, got him all over the place on
• 25:10
  Speaker 10: our cops waiting for Marty.
• 25:12
  Speaker 9: What am I supposed to think?
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: Why don't you relax, missus Brewer. If he's not the man,
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: you got nothing.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: To worry about it.
• 25:16
  Speaker 10: He's right, honey, sit down.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: Let me fresh up that jo. Yeah, car pulling up outside,
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: he said, Dan, Yeah, let's see right in front. Hey,
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: man getting out here. He's coming in here, alright.
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: You can't see him. He must be inside, Marty.
• 25:42
  Speaker 10: Marty, why didn't you tell me you want.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: To hop downstairs?
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: Ben?
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: See what happened.
• 25:51
  Speaker 10: It'll be all right, honey, take it easy, he'll be
• 25:53
  Speaker 10: all right. I didn't know. I didn't know, Sorrget Why
• 25:59
  Speaker 10: did you do it? You what, ma'am Marty? I didn't
• 26:03
  Speaker 10: know about it. We didn't know anything about each other,
• 26:06
  Speaker 10: and this has to happen. Why didn't he tell me?
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't know.
• 26:11
  Speaker 10: I love him. The rest I don't know, but I
• 26:13
  Speaker 10: love him. He was in trouble. He could have told
• 26:16
  Speaker 10: me he loved me, would have told me, he would
• 26:18
  Speaker 10: have told me everything.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: Well, I guess maybe you've got the answer. What he
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: didn't love you?
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true. The names
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: were changed to protect the innocent.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: On June twenty ninth, trial was held in Superior Court,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Department ninety one, City and County of Los Angeles, State
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: of California. In a moment the results of that trial,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: the suspect, Martin Arthur Kessington, was wounded, but not fatally,
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: when he attempted to resis to rest. After interrogation, he
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: dictated a signed statement admitting guilt for all five of
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: the jewelry store hold ups. He was tried and convicted
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: on five counts of first degree robbery and received a
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: sentence as prescribed by law robbery in the first degree
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: as punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: term of five years to life. Ah, you have just
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: heard Dragnet a series of authentic cases from official files.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police W. H. Parker,
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Los Angeles Police Department. Bartney Arborough is Sergeant Ben Romero.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: Also heard were Big Perron and Virginia Gray. Script by
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Jim Mosey, music by Walter Schumann. Hal Gidney speaking.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: Next Counterspy Fights International Intrigue on in VC.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. A solid episode and I think Joe Friday's
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: comment at the end was justified. If this robber had
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: actually loved her, I doubt that he could have been
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: content with a situation where they would just be together
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: for an hour, and truth be told, if she actually
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: cared as much for him as she said, she would
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: not have been content with it either. What you had
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: were two people who were using each other and at
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: least in her case, overly romanticizing the situation. Probably one
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: of the most common sound effects that you'll hear in
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Dragon at the sort of dancing shoe routine. That's something
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: that's fairly easy for the sound effects of the era
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: to recreate, but it was used to really draws into
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: that scene and believe that we were watching a dancer
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: with our ears all right. Well, listener comments and feedback,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: and we have a comment on the big bum Glow
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: over on Spotify, and doctor Who Done It wrote Adam,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: I have to disagree with you. If I'm the suspect
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: and guilty, I will deny it until my prison sentence
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: is up. If I'm going to serve time either way,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: I would rather have a shot. If I'm the suspect
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: in innocent, I will also be denying it until my
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: prison sentence is up. However, there's a lot and lighter
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: sentence and I can be released quicker than I will
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: admit it. There is something to that, and I could
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: totally go along with the idea of the burglar maintaining
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: his innocence all the way through trial and beyond as
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: a matter of trying to secure his release, And that
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: makes total sense. What I don't get, and maybe I
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: just don't understand the criminal mind is continuing to argue
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: this with the police because they're not buying your story
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: and for just wasting your energy. If you're denying a crime,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: whether you're guilty or innocent, at some point you have
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: to reach the point where you say to the police, Okay,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: well I've tried to tell you what actually happened. You're
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: not believing me, so I don't see the need to
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: continue this conversation, and continuing to engage them gives them
• 30:53
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  Speaker 1: Regarding the episode the Big Hit and Run Killer, James
• 31:03
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  Speaker 1: for yours truly. Johnny dollar Ware, he's.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: Good to dollar read'e.
• 31:50
  Speaker 10: Yes, this is his apartment.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: You said over the phone you thought you'd kill him
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: at least did.
• 31:56
  Speaker 10: All right, That's not what I meant.
• 31:59
  Speaker 9: I thought I was the one who killed him.
• 32:02
  Speaker 10: I'm not sure I had.
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: Oh I don't know, doesn't seem to matter.
• 32:10
  Speaker 9: He's dead. I guess that's all.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Get hold of yourself, Carol.
• 32:19
  Speaker 10: All right, I guess I'm not making much depense. You'll
• 32:23
  Speaker 10: start a funny, light headed.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: Let thanks.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, why don't you start at the beginning?
• 32:33
  Speaker 10: All right. I came to see you tonight about eleven o'clock.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: I guess he was a friend of yours.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: Oh, he sent for me.
• 32:45
  Speaker 10: I had to come.
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: Why I'm telling me why.
• 32:51
  Speaker 10: He insisted that I have a drink with him. Then
• 32:54
  Speaker 10: I started to feel funny.
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: I hope you'll be with.
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