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The Shadow - "The Nursery Rhyme Murders" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: A disturbed patient escapes from Brookside Home, a private sanitarium,
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  Speaker 1: and becomes part of a case in which murder scenes
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  Speaker 1: echo familiar nursery rhymes. It is the Shadow the nursery
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  Speaker 1: rhyme Murders. Broadcast by Mutual on February twenty second, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: forty eight, episode number four hundred thirty six. Brett Morrison
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  Speaker 1: is Lamont Cranston, the man known as the Shadow, with
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  Speaker 1: Grace Matthews as Margot Lane. Alfred Bester wrote the script.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: As Cranston and Margo follow clues from Brookside Home to
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: nearby rural properties, the pattern points toward further danger. This
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  Speaker 1: Blue Coal sponsored Sunday broadcast now takes us into another
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  Speaker 1: case for the Shadow, and now the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: All evil.
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  Speaker 3: Men Shadow, the Shadow who these the portions of law
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  Speaker 3: and orders.
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  Speaker 4: In reality, a long.
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  Speaker 2: Times and wealthy young man about town. Years ago, the
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  Speaker 2: Orient Transon learned the strange and mysterious secrets, the hypnotic
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: power to solve men's minds so they cannot see them.
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  Speaker 2: Transom's friends and companion, the lovely Margoline, the only person
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  Speaker 2: who knows to whom The voice of the invisible Shadow,
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  Speaker 2: the Bond Today's Baba. The Nursery, Rhyme and Murder Brookside
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  Speaker 2: Home is a private sanitarium located in a densely wooded
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  Speaker 2: area in the Suburbs. It's about eight o'clock in the
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  Speaker 2: evening as Superintendent Alfred Foster walks down the corridor.
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  Speaker 5: On his way to visit one of his people. Good evening, Bert,
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  Speaker 5: how are you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm fine, thanks to doctor Foster. I've been waiting for
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  Speaker 2: you to be a sleep by now, Burn. I I've
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  Speaker 2: been waiting for you to come and read to me.
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  Speaker 2: We can't read to you every night, but you promise,
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  Speaker 2: you said, if I ate all my supper, you'd read
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  Speaker 2: a story to me, and and I eat it all,
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  Speaker 2: Dtor Foster, every bet of it, the cial and everything
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  Speaker 2: pread to me. Now please. We told you, Bert that
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  Speaker 2: after you've been here a while, we'd have to stop
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  Speaker 2: reading to you at night. You're not going to read
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  Speaker 2: to me tonight.
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  Speaker 5: A little feverish too. I think I just go to
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  Speaker 5: sleep and in the morning walk.
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  Speaker 6: You promised to read me a bedtime story.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, you broke your from, Bert.
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  Speaker 2: You mustn't get excited.
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  Speaker 4: You broke your from.
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  Speaker 2: Stay where you are. Don't don't come in there that
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  Speaker 2: you're mad and I'm going to hurt No. No, take
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  Speaker 2: your hands off my orderly orderly to read me. No
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  Speaker 2: body for get him off and quick and lose my light.
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  Speaker 2: Cut him cold, let him cold.
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  Speaker 5: I'll stay over that bird.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Andrews. That was close.
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  Speaker 3: You promised to.
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  Speaker 7: Read broke from You want me to get one.
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  Speaker 2: Of the other orderlies doctor Foker. Hello, that's all right, Andrews.
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  Speaker 2: But I just got a little excited. I can handle
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  Speaker 2: him all.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I think we ought to send him over to the
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  Speaker 5: violin ward.
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  Speaker 2: You'll better not send me away. You better not out Albert. No,
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  Speaker 2: you better not try and send me away. If you do,
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  Speaker 2: I'll hurt you all. I'll hurt you all bad. No
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  Speaker 2: orderly orderly, be quiet for it and go to sleep.
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  Speaker 2: Three o'clock. I wanna drink a water, Andrews. I wanna
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  Speaker 2: drink of water. Go to sleep or please Andrews, please
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  Speaker 2: alright for just the second.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, it's your water.
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  Speaker 2: I was awful thirsty. Now here are thanks Andrews. Thanks.
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  Speaker 3: Now give me those keys, No, you don't give.
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  Speaker 2: 'em to me. Now I got the keys, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to get out I'm going to get out.
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  Speaker 7: What's that home?
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  Speaker 2: Hello?
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  Speaker 8: This is Polly Andrews. I'm Pavey Andrews's wife.
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  Speaker 7: Oh yes, hello, missus Andrews.
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  Speaker 8: Is my husband there?
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  Speaker 2: I'm Saders.
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  Speaker 8: Given all the order is off the ground time, but
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  Speaker 8: but used to see the state back national?
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  Speaker 7: Well is that just hit operator?
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  Speaker 8: Our cottage is at the north end of the ground.
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  Speaker 2: I understand.
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  Speaker 8: Useless is violence. I'm here all alone and well, I'm frightened.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know what we can do.
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  Speaker 2: I'll Thomas standard Steffania when.
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  Speaker 7: He gets back here.
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  Speaker 8: Well, all right, thanks at all the glads, then goodbye?
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  Speaker 2: Who's that? Who's there? O? Love Holly?
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  Speaker 8: You you.
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  Speaker 2: Polly Flinders sat among the sisters, warming her pretty little toes.
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  Speaker 2: Her mother came and daughter and whipped her little daughter
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  Speaker 2: for spoiling her nice new clothes my month. I know
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  Speaker 2: it's presuming an our acquaintance, but I want to thank
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  Speaker 2: you and miss Lane for coming to my office this
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  Speaker 2: morning when I phone out at all. But I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: to be of service. The fact is I need your
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  Speaker 2: help desperately. You see the mount. I'm a psychiatrist, not
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  Speaker 2: a criminologist. I don't think it's a case for the police,
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  Speaker 2: but I do need help in trying to find this escape.
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  Speaker 8: Patience and the searching part of our no traces b
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  Speaker 8: used this last night.
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  Speaker 2: Acter about it, No, Mislaane, he's still at large.
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  Speaker 5: I feel pretty badly about it too.
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  Speaker 2: Bert was showing signs of violence, in fact, he attacked
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  Speaker 2: me yesterday, but instead of sending him with the violent ward,
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  Speaker 2: I kept him here for observation.
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  Speaker 7: Then you think he's capable of being a killing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid so, mislaid condovcase was this patient but not
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  Speaker 2: fundamentally a criminal type. But I've extremely unbalanced emotionally. During
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  Speaker 2: his periods of rationality, he reverted to his childhood and
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  Speaker 2: lived in a complete juvenile world. What do you mean
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  Speaker 2: by that?
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  Speaker 5: But he went to bed when it got dark.
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  Speaker 2: He ate his serial faithfully insisted that I read bedtime story.
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  Speaker 2: The nursery rhymes to him.
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  Speaker 8: Bedtime story n rhymes.
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  Speaker 2: You been handling the case, trying to find out as
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  Speaker 2: much as I can about his background, especially as childhood.
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  Speaker 2: Any luck well, I haven't been able to get much
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  Speaker 2: out of Burt himself, but his father has given a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good lead. His father, Yes, he's a well to
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  Speaker 2: do but eccentric old man. He used to come to
• 8:00
  Speaker 2: visit his son devoted every week. Recently he's been coming
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  Speaker 2: less and less. He incort has some sort of a
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  Speaker 2: father complex. Perhaps his father has been neglecting him lately. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: he's he's become more and more unbalanced until he reached
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  Speaker 2: the breaking point and decide to escape. Yes, something like that,
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  Speaker 2: Lamon converted buck the posta. Yes, what is it? What's
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  Speaker 2: the matter? Missus Andrews Probby Andrews's wife was murdered in
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  Speaker 2: a cottage last night. Father, they just fathered strangled at dead.
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  Speaker 2: But the rest of it doesn't make sense. What does
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  Speaker 2: make sense? The killer carried a body upstairs and left
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  Speaker 2: it in the fireplace.
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  Speaker 8: More poor woman's body killed up in the past.
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  Speaker 2: Very strange resting place. Yes, notice one other thing, Fred, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: killer took the shoes off the corpse. But why why
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  Speaker 2: did he take a shoes off?
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  Speaker 8: Why did he carry a body up there and put
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  Speaker 8: it in the fireplace? It doesn't make sense.
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  Speaker 2: The contrary, Margaret, it does make sense. What do you
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  Speaker 2: mean the torture dips of Bert's mind. He acted with
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  Speaker 2: a terrible logic, and I don't think I follow you
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  Speaker 2: in the morning now, he said, this man but love
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  Speaker 2: bedtime stories and nursery rhyme.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, in my opinion, he killed this woman right out
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  Speaker 2: of a Mother Goose rhyme. What listen to this muggle?
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  Speaker 2: Little Polly Flimders sat among the cinders, warming a pretty little.
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  Speaker 8: To The dead woman's first name was Faw.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, she sat among the sinders. Have to mean the fireplace, maggle,
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  Speaker 2: he said, warming are pretty little toes. No wonder the
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  Speaker 2: killer took her shoes out precisely. The clues are all
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  Speaker 2: in the rhyme. I wonder if it's only the beginning.
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  Speaker 8: What do you mean them?
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if the killer is going to stop with
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  Speaker 2: this first murder, Margot, because with all the Mother Goose
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  Speaker 2: stories there are dead and rhyme many times Lamy and
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: miss Lane, I'm glad you're here.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, right o.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we got through a phone called it. What's wrong?
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  Speaker 2: We haven't been able to locate Happy Andrews, the husband
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  Speaker 2: of the dead woman.
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  Speaker 8: It's midnight now. You've been looking for him all day, yes,
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  Speaker 8: miss Lane.
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  Speaker 2: Ever since his wife's death, Andrews was out trying to
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  Speaker 2: find Bert with the rest of the searching party, and
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  Speaker 2: now he's vanished. A woman is killed and her husband disappears,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll parton alone.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, that's a park, doctor Poker. Could you come out
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  Speaker 5: of the reception room for a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, of course, Park Lamont, Miss Lane, if you'll
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  Speaker 2: excuse me for a moment, I'm going out to the
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  Speaker 2: reception room. Maybe the searching party has come in, has
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  Speaker 2: of course.
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  Speaker 8: Not. I suppose BERTI has kills the orderly as well
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  Speaker 8: as his wife.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, Margaret Streams haven't been able to relocating them.
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  Speaker 8: It's just supposed unto.
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  Speaker 2: He answered, Hello, Sleep and doctor little boy Blue, come
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  Speaker 2: fo your horn. The sheep's in the meadow, The cow's
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  Speaker 2: in the cord. Where's a boy who looks after the sheep?
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  Speaker 2: He's under they stack fast?
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  Speaker 5: Sleep?
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  Speaker 3: Who is this?
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  Speaker 2: Who is this?
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  Speaker 5: Hello?
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  Speaker 2: Hello? What's but Houston? Smuggle? Come on? I think we're
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  Speaker 2: better get outside past Where are we going? For the
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  Speaker 2: farm and back to the cemeterium.
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  Speaker 8: Who do you expect to find out there?
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't be surprised, Mogle if we found little.
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  Speaker 5: Boy Blue.
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  Speaker 8: Wandering around the ground the night.
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  Speaker 2: But I have to talk to the force to be
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  Speaker 2: very glad we live without a Margle with the flash ladder?
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  Speaker 2: Who's stacking next to the barn?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Then, who are careful? We may be walking into a trap.
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  Speaker 3: There we are.
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  Speaker 2: A pitchfork. I'm gonna start digging, am what you secon find?
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  Speaker 2: Kelly has given us a clue. Margle, Why'm not long
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  Speaker 2: cause not as a body under this sad.
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  Speaker 8: He's droid and he's wearing a blue orderly jacket.
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  Speaker 2: This mad little boy Blue.
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  Speaker 7: Only this little boy Blue isn't just fast as please?
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  Speaker 6: He's dead?
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  Speaker 8: Who about this?
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  Speaker 4: Margo and Lamarck in search of the nursery Ryan Hiller
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  Speaker 4: while at Brookside Home in the office of Superintendent, You
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  Speaker 4: say you have heard the killers laugh after you found
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  Speaker 4: the body of the month.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we ran after him but lost him in the darkness.
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  Speaker 8: For it taste, it was a little boy slimbers.
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  Speaker 2: Then it was a little boy Blue. I wonder who
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  Speaker 2: Bert will take next. I can guess his next victim,
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  Speaker 2: who myself?
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  Speaker 8: You?
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  Speaker 2: I'm very of the same thing. For it, Bert hated
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  Speaker 2: me as much as he hated Andrews. As I see it,
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  Speaker 2: he went to Andrew's house to kill him and found
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  Speaker 2: Andrews wasn't there and killed his wife instead, and.
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  Speaker 8: Cart andrews and the ground played and killed him and
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  Speaker 8: buried them under the head.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and logically, well I come next, could be right?
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  Speaker 2: I am afraid, I am, but we've got to find
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  Speaker 2: this man. We've got to reserve a statewide dragging it
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  Speaker 2: up for him now. Yes, so busy covering the highways
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  Speaker 2: and terminals. I wonder if they haven't given the most
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: logical place a very fast examination. The most logical place. Yes,
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: but it's home. I think we'd better have a talk
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: with Bert's father in the month. I wouldn't be surprised
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: if he knew a great deal more about where it's
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: sun was hiding. It's a good idea. Come on, long,
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: I don't get my thing. Oh, it won't be necessary
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  Speaker 2: for what do you mean you're not going with us?
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  Speaker 2: Fraid it's not safe. Oh, but admit it yourself. You're
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: probably next on Burt's list. Yes, you're the psychiatrist, time
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: the criminal. Just remember, we'll phone you here the office
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: as soon as we've seen old man Eustace. Well, all right, thanks, Lamont,
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: I'll get it. Come on, Mark, and so mister Eustace
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: a doctor Foster's suggestion. We decided to come here to
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: see you. Let me see.
• 15:11
  Speaker 8: I know you're as anxious to find bag as we
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  Speaker 8: are to Eustace.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: They're saying, man, then if we could just step inside
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: for a moment, mister Eustace, help you all right now,
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  Speaker 2: might step and hide? Thank you thought of me.
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  Speaker 4: Enter the parlor.
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  Speaker 2: That's right? What he really isn't a uh never see
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  Speaker 2: anything like this, old muscle leam.
• 15:37
  Speaker 8: No, and I don't think anybody else has to.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: The lunch sixty year the way to the duty. I
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: haven't used the poto for some time. Sit down, thank you?
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: Uh you live here all along, mister Eustace, Yes, yes,
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: said uh. If they're all alone ever since Departrom went
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  Speaker 2: away and men.
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  Speaker 7: Some lady am I and before that, mister Houston, Oh
• 16:03
  Speaker 7: that it.
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  Speaker 2: Was just bertim and I very His mother has been
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: dead almost for days. I see. You know, of course
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  Speaker 2: that bert left at the hospital. Yes, yes, sir, Now
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: you read it in the papers. I suppose now I
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: didn't read it in the papers, but I know it.
• 16:27
  Speaker 8: I know it.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: You couldn't buy any chance tell us where Bertie is now,
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: could you, mister Eustace. And I don't know mister Dick Granston.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: I don't know what was that, Norris want to be
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: in the cat. She must have knocked something over upstairs.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: There was hardly the footsteps of a cat, mister Eustace,
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: and yeah, ain't had a must be someone else now,
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: so I think there is, and I better find out.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Go back to miss Eustace. Eustace be walking the door
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: for usast certainly it has Marco. We're locked in.
• 17:09
  Speaker 8: Less he's got away with two colons.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: That's why we're breaking out of the parlot down there
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: for mister Eustace and Burda disappeared. Come on, Marga, we'd
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: have to make sure we go down this court. Stay
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: close to me, right. I'm like, oh, it's not a dn.
• 17:21
  Speaker 8: I just ran into another little darn spider where spider
• 17:24
  Speaker 8: war won't hurt. Maybe not, but there was a spider
• 17:27
  Speaker 8: in the middle of this one. I wonder Brake was
• 17:31
  Speaker 8: unbalanced living in this little mansions.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: The quarrel duck like Ustless for her father's certainly.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Pretty.
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  Speaker 8: He got stairs in the floor office.
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  Speaker 2: Come my, Marco, down the end of this cortor. Here
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: must be a flight of stairs there.
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: God, he's up there top of the stairs.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Can work.
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  Speaker 6: How I was up there's a dolls there and my
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: lady Jaber. I met the lad who not says players
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  Speaker 6: I don't get by the last flight.
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  Speaker 7: And oh now, oh mord must be mister Eustace, poor
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: old man.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Wait a second, La, there's a flash. Stay with the
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: old boys. What's the matter, Margaret, This is mister Eustace.
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: No, it's broke, but him not old Mister Eustace couldn't
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: have just vanished in.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: The looks as if he did, Margaret, We suddenly went
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: over every into the house.
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: Do you really think we can pick up his trail
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: at doctor Parster's house.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: That's the most logical place to look for him. Now, No,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: that's writ it's place on the here here we are,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: nephew doing now if we can jump it. But I
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: saw something in the car headlines to give a man
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: back there behind the guard looked back to a man
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: who's I'm going around back. You're going to Prett's house.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Tell him I was delayed, the.
• 19:26
  Speaker 8: Carefully doning Please, that old man is a crazy killer.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Shadows going to set a trap, Margot. This time, I
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: think the crazy killer had spoken his last nursery rhyme Yes,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: I saw the same pigular monster when I stopped to
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: pick up the mail. Yes, And he left this in
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: the mailbox a note. Listen, Doctor Foster went to Gloucester
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: in a shower of rain, He stepped in a puddle
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: up to his middle and never went there again.
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: Then old mister Houston is here, he did.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: See he must have. It must mean that that crazy
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: killer is going to creep into his house and murder
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: me in the night. Get out of his mind. None
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: of us is safe anymore. We're all why this is strange?
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: What is it?
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: The killer really hits close? There's another note here on
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: my desk. You just must have slipped in through the
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: window and left another note. Yes. And the odd part
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: about it is it's addressed to you.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: To me.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Yes, read it, see.
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: Saw Marjorie taw Jackie shall have a new master. He
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: shall have but a penny a day because he can't
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: work any faster.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: I don't understand, Marjorie Doll. It's almost like Marco. I
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: mean the killer. I mean, I'm afraid he means you
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: mis lame Marco. Marjorie's very close day, close enough for
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: all practical.
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: Purposes, Doctor Poter, Why are you look at me like that.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: It's a nice rhyme, isn't it. It has a swing
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: to Marjorie Doll. Jackie shall have a new master. He
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  Speaker 2: shall have but a penny a day because he can't
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  Speaker 2: work any faster. The nursery rhyme killing, Yes, miss Lane,
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  Speaker 2: I am. I love nursery rhymes. Oh what a Hubbert
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  Speaker 2: went to a cupboard to get a poor dog. The
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  Speaker 2: bold little jack Corners heading the corner eating gets Christmas
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  Speaker 2: pie and chill went up the hill up? But did
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  Speaker 2: he so much so I don't see him. That's the
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  Speaker 2: one I can't see. Who are you? You'd like to hear?
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  Speaker 2: A little nursery rhyme? Doctor Foster? Who are you? I
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  Speaker 2: have a little shadow that goes in and out with me.
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  Speaker 2: What can be the use of him is more than
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  Speaker 2: I can see? Stop, very very likely from the heels
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  Speaker 2: up to the head. And I see him jump before
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  Speaker 2: me when I jump into my head, start it stopping.
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm there already, Foster. Now mine has been cloded
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  Speaker 2: by the dark sellows you profess to study. Who are you?
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  Speaker 2: Who are you? A shadow? Foster? Shadow here to see
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  Speaker 2: justice done? You thought you could blame these murders on
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  Speaker 2: Burt and then I'm his father. He became so obsessed
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  Speaker 2: with his case that your own mind broke under the street.
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  Speaker 2: Let me have them here.
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  Speaker 5: I'm cutting it out, No, Usser.
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  Speaker 2: The state is a place for you, a place where
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  Speaker 2: never again will you be allowed loose among society, A
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  Speaker 2: place where you can safely recite nursery rhymes. Your heart's compemed.
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  Speaker 2: That's the whole story, Margot. Foster wasn't a doctor at all.
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  Speaker 2: He was just a clever quack who outsmarted himself.
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  Speaker 8: He became to obsessed to that normal cases that just
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  Speaker 8: berg Eustace. He became undownced himself.
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  Speaker 2: Is that that's right, Margaret. Birth's escape must have been
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: the snapping point for Foster's mind. He went on a rampage,
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  Speaker 2: blaming everything on Birth. We went to see old man Eustace.
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  Speaker 2: Foster was afraid we'd find Bert get the truth out
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  Speaker 2: of him, so he had to get rid of Burt
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  Speaker 2: and then shift the blame to the father.
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  Speaker 8: When Boston was the one poly andrus on his voice
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  Speaker 8: we heard on the phone both Burton's father was completely
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  Speaker 8: That's right, Margaret, I still don't see why he called
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  Speaker 8: you in on the case when he was guilty in
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  Speaker 8: the man.
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  Speaker 2: And that's how he outsmarted himself. He didn't want to
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: risk calling in the authorities, but he did need an
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: outsider to verify his alibis and collaborate his statements. I'm
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: a criminologist, we've met before, seemed like the logical choice.
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  Speaker 8: Well, after that case, there's one thing I'm sure no.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: What's that, Marl.
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  Speaker 8: If I ever have to read to a child again,
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: it's going to be from the Encyclopedia Britannic Win.
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  Speaker 4: A crime.
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  Speaker 2: Crime shut On.
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  Speaker 1: The Shadow concludes this evening with the nursery rhyme Murders.
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