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was different, and I said that it was probably the least Dragnet like episode
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of Dragnet. Well, now we're going to take a listen to a program
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that was truly a step forward for the show. So here now is Production
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three, also known as Werewolf Ladies and Gentlemen Story you were about to hear
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is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. NBC
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brings you drag Net. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to robbery Detail.
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There's a potential killer on the loose in your city. Eighteen women have
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been beaten and robbed by this man. The newspapers call him the weird World.
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Your job is to get him. Drag Net the documented drama of an
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actual crime, investigated and solved by the men who unrelentingly stand watch on the
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security of your home, your family, and your life. For the next
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thirty minutes. In cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel
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step by step on the side of the law through an actual case, from
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beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Drag Nett is the story of
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your police force in action. It was Thursday morning, February two, was
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reigning in Los Angeles. We were working the early morning watch out of robbery
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detail. Detectives in Los Angeles work in pairs. My partner's Ben Romero.
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He's a sergeant and saw my name's Friday. The boss is head Backstring,
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the chief of Detectives. I was on the way back from a teletype room.
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And it was three am when I got the room. Twenty seven a
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robbery detail. Hi, Ben, what's up? Keep your coat on?
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Joe just had a hot shot call going gibber right behind you. Let's go
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Freddy? Oh what was it? Ed? Another woman ve Golm was beating
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the dead. How many does that make? About eighteen and six weeks?
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Is that right, Skipper? Yeah, eighteen two minutes. Come on down
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these stairs to the grass. You know what about that suspect we had ed?
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You mean Martin? Yeah, I had to release him this morning.
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I got a good tale on him, Henderson, and we got any report
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here, nothing definite to hold him for. Here's the grass. Let's ustle
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it right. Then. If this isn't Martin's job, Skiff, and he's
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not the right man, then we start all over again. And we worked
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night and day. They'll be fine the right man. Here's the carlets guy,
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Then you drive me. How did the victims describe this guy? Yet?
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Pretty sketchy, supposed to be tall, dark, long, black.
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The last woman said he had a face like an animal, something like a
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dog or a wolf. A wolf, Yeah, she said, something like
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a world, something like a weir wolf. We almost had to be that
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judge from the way he operated. He was either an animal or a raving
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maniac. One thing we were sure of smart when it was dangerous. For
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almost two months, he fouled the streets in a stolen car in the early
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morning, usually between three and five AM, and the victims were always lone
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women, most of them waitresses, coming to work or going home. He
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dragged them into the car, robbed them, beat them until they were unconscious,
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and then throw the body out into the street. That's just what we
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found. When we pulled up to the curb near the corner of Eighth and
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Grand, one cruiser car was already there, and so was the ambulance.
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About a dozen people were standing around looking at the crumpled figure of a woman
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sprawled out on the sidewalk. Two officers were talking to the only witness,
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a thin, sallow faced newsboy. His story didn't give us much to go
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on. Like I was telling these cops or these officers, sir. I
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was walking up eight Street on my way home as usually when I see his
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blue Chevy sit then pull up down a block there a little way and Thum
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bought the Dame's body. Actually, I don't know what to think. You
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get a look at the license plade? Well, no, I didn't.
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The truth I could hardly keep from I was just playing scared. And what
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did you do after you saw him throw the body? Asked? Huh?
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I d just stopped there for a minute, and fellow in the card rode
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right on past me. Did you get a look at him? I sure
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did. Close for you when he drew first, Well, couldn't have been
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more than well eight or ten feet away. I was right over there by
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the street light, near the curb. Would you know this man if you
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saw him again? I don't know about his hiders build or his weight,
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but mister, his face I'll never forget. Why do you say that?
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So we just like the paper says about him right right here on the front
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page. Here read it. See a woman says attacker looked like werewolf.
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That's all I knews boy could tell us. The suspect drove a blue sedan.
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He had a face like a werewolf. We covered the neighborhood for clues,
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and we questioned a dozen people, but we got nowhere. We took
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the witness's name and address, and we drove down a couple of blocks to
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an all night gas station. I'm going in here and calling the office.
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I'll see if Henderson's called in on Martin, we might still have a suspect.
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All right, skipper looks as mad as a wet horn. It does
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me. Yeah. Did you get a good look at that woman's face?
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And they moved her in the ambulance? Yeah, so it does like to
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mess him up. I don't know how we're going to get him ben,
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but we better do it fast. Next time it'll probably be murdered. Here
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comes a skipper. Jam doesn't look good. What is it that just talk
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to Henderson? He telled Martin to a bar in Long Beach. Hasn't been
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out of his sight for two minutes since yesterday. Martin's clear, and we're
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right back where we started. Yeah, with one more half dead woman in
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the hospital. Well how about that? Stormy cars? Can't wait a minute?
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Wait a minute? Attack Code three ambulance dispatched Attention all units on Grand
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Avenue between Venice in Washington, a woman victim of robbery and attack Code three
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ambulance Attest three red light and starting come on Friday, Let's roll. Oh,
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we couldn't be sure but it sounded like another one. Six minutes later
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we were there, same story werewolf. For next day, the chief ordered
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the number of cruiser cars doubled in the central district. This was for the
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early morning watch, with Plaine clothesman to back them up. Then the newspapers
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played it vague. In two days the story was on the front page of
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every paper in tom Maybe that should have made the werewolf lay low, but
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it didn't, because at four o'clock that morning, while Ben and I were
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patrolling with the other cars, he got his twentieth victim. Attention all units
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Quittier between Soto and Matthews, a woman victim of two eleven an attack code
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three dispensed. Here's a report of that blue standing us here tonight. Joe
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found it out on Anahe'm telegraph road. Any lucky with it? Not one
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thing a front waking you anything else? Nothing? Well? How about the
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auto theft details, same old storage, Joe. He steals a car,
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use it once and then drops it, never leaves a thing behind. That's
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great, We're sure moving fast. How about that big guy you picked out
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of the lineups more? Oh, I checked his alibi. It's perfect.
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Now we haven't got even half a clue. Yeah, well come on,
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let's check with that. He's instructing the police woman on the plan for tonight.
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All right, I have heard the report. You understand how the suspect
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operates and what you to do. Remember, all of you, forget you
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wherever police women change the way you walk, way you carry yourselves. That's
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the part you're playing, all right, and be careful and don't take any
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chances, all right, ready, Okay, Now, just to make sure
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you look the part, we're spotting each one of you at different restaurants and
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coffee shops throughout the central district from seven o'clock tonight until daylight tomorrow. Each
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one of you is going to be await for She got that, okay,
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Ben, you want to give him the assignments? Hey, Joe, Well,
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here's where it lines up. Marge Kissel at the Top Hat Cafe ates
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on Ninth Street between Alpharad and Westley and Katie Willis George Coffee House, broke
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from Soto right rat Field and at the All Night Steakhouse and feed Or Street
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between Florida. No, the trick of using decoys to lure criminals into a
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trap wasn't exactly new, but well, it was just one of the old
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tricks that we figured might land the werewolf behind bars. At seven that night,
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Ben and I made the rounds and found each of the policewomen on her
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job as a waitress. The overall plan was simple. The girls were to
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leave the different restaurants between three and five a m. That morning and pretend
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they were walking home. We mapped different courses for each one of them to
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throw out as much bait as possible and yet not to make it look suspicious.
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Each policewoman, from the time she left the restaurant and stepped out into
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the deserted streets would be pretty much on her own. We had officers planted
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all along the way at designated intervals, but a big element of chance and
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danger was still there. All we could do was cross our fingers, hope,
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how much more time? Joe? Let me see she's doing two minutes
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and wait and gets on your nerves that it won't be long in its corner
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doorways, pretty good lookout, but yeah, wait a minute, listen,
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who is it? Joe? Can you say? Get back? What is
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it? Wait a minute, it's Marge, kiss him. There's a man
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following her. A big guy. If it's the where's his car? I
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don't know, Maybe he changed his plans to get back here they come.
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You look at him, Joe, Oh, pretty good, not too suspicious.
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Might be coincidence, and I got a pretty good lead. Come on,
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let's go. Stay back in the shadows, Joe. So where did
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guy go through? I lost a little coffee shop up on the next Cortancye.
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Take a look. Oh yeah, yeah, he's opening the door.
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He's turning on the light and looks like a false alarms, you know,
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but let's check him anyway. Well, I didn't think we'd beat that lucky
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on the first try, and we weren't. We asked the man a few
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questions and it didn't take him long as show as he wasn't our man,
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he owned the coffee shop. So Ben and I went back and took up
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our posts again and waited for the next decoy. We covered that ten block
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course six times that morning, back and forth following the bait, but it
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was almost as if the guy could sense a trap. Not once did we
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get a nibble. By the time our last decoy finished the route, it
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was almost daylight. Joe, I never was so glad to see that sun
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come up my whole life. My feet feel like they're puffing right up out
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of my shoe. Yeah, me too. Come on, let's get over
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to the car and check on the other squad out in boiled Heights. Hit
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the radio, would you been? Yeah, Joe, there must be some
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easier job on the force and there. Yeah, you and me both.
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Let's see what happened to the others. Huh eighty Katie, one O four
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K, come in, one oh four K A unit eighty K, Go
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ahead, one O four K. This is Friday. You do any good
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out there? This is Miller. I'll call Curtis. Stand by eighty K
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to one O four K, Roger, what do you thanks, Joe?
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Maybe you buy I don't know. This guy seems to work like a mind
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reader. Well he can't win all of them. One oh four K.
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The unit eighty K is Curtis. Go ahead, this is Friday, Al,
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how'd you do out there? Any luck? Just checked in the last
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Gal, Joe, Adie, welch not to say? Okay, Al,
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have them in check in eighty K clear kgpl Okay, let's go. Then,
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when we finally got back to the office, that morning. Both Ben
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and I were ready for some sleep, but it didn't look like we were
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going to get it. We're just about finished going through the overnight reports for
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some kind of a lead when the phone rang Robbery Friday. All right,
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Joe the Auto That Hi, Wilkie. You got something for us? Not
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much as Joe, but it might work into something. He's got a report
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in on a pair of stolen license plate. So yeah, I'm not much
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of a hawk show, but I figured there's just a chance it might be
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your werewolf for it, I'll come. I don't know, maybe just a
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hunch. After thirteen years in this business, you get to know thieves pretty
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well. Sometimes you got to even think like them. Okay, Wilkie.
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Thanks, we'll check by in a couple of minutes, Right, Joe,
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what do you have to say? Pair of license plates stolen last night?
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Wilkie's got a hunch you could have been our man. That might be an
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angle, Joe. In fact, we're wilf guy to hang on to one
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car along enough, we'd have a chance. Ad he's too smart for that.
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I don't know, Joe. Sooner or later he's going to make a
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mistake. Yeah, come on, let's check with Wilkie. Well, we
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checked with Wilkerson. We got the best piece of news we'd had in days.
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On the average, ninety five percent of stolen cars are recovered or located
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within twenty four hours. In the remaining five percent, Wilkerson, by a
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simple process of elimination, narrowed down the number of cars the suspect might be
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driving. Wilkie figured six cars. Yeah they are now. I'll bet you
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if you picked up your man tonight, he'd be in one of these cars.
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Let me see, huh, two door of black sedan, you look
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convertible, another sedan, green blue coop, black coop and a great convertible
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plus could work, will he? At least we've got something to look for
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now. Yeah, you're right, Joe. Well you've got the numbers of
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those stolen plates you're talking about right here, Ben, They're already on the
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hot sheet. Yeah. Keep us posting, know, yea as usual,
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Ben, see your lady Wilcome. That's a good break, Ben, something
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can keep us busy tonight tonight. What do you mean we're setting another trap?
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Same thing as last night, same police women, same everything. Yeah,
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only this time, that's hope. He stepped into it. You know,
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Joe, this werewolf character is getting me mad. That night we followed
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in our own footsteps. We planted the police women decoys in three separate districts,
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and a few minutes before three am, our squad of men took up
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their positions. The same police women went to their waitress jobs in the same
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restaurants, and Ben and I and the rest of the men stood in doorways
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or empty filling stations and whatever cover we could find, and we waited and
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waited. What time is it, Joe? Let me look half passed four?
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Thank you? Any sign, Joe, No, nothing yet, Come
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on, stay in the shadows. That's the way it went all through the
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early morning, the same plan, over and over again until daylight. Ben
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and I had check in at the station, go over the late stolen car
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reports with Wilkie, catch a few hours sleep at home, and then come
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back and do it all over again the next night, and the next morning,
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the night after that, in the morning after that, five days later,
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Ben and I were ready to call it quits. I'll admit it,
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Joe, I can't figure guys either, Sachy Cross. He can smell a
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coup a mile away. You know, well, at least we got that
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stolen car angle left. You check with Wilkie at this morning. I'll give
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him a call. All T. Wilkerson, this is Ben Wilke. You
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got anything for us this morning? Yeah, I'm just gonna call you.
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You fellows, want to let me solve your cases for you? Why what'd
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you get? The boys picked up three of those six stolen cars since late
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yesterday? Right now? What does that leave us with? I hear the
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three still missing? Yeah? Four x Rays seven six three yeah, five
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six Young three four two uh six one Robert three eight five Yeah, got
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those? Yeah, thank you, welcome, check you later. Good news.
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Remember those six missing cars, yeah, Wilke says, the boys found
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three of them since late yesterday. Here's what's still out the blue coupe,
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the yellow convertible, and the great converted. Yeah. All this feels like
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the right track for a change. Ben. Lady got a minute, John,
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Thanksgaer, come on, Joe, what he got ed? Well?
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Nothing? Hollywood just called in with this, She said. She walked down
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to the corner from her house last night to mail the letter. On the
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way back, a guyed up in the car and tried to drag her inside
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any description, big, heavy set, dark, same thing. Well,
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how'd you get away from him, skipper? She said. She started running
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as soon as he made a motion towards her, and he saw her run
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up the steps of her house. He jumped back in the car and took
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off. How come she didn't call in before then? She hasn't got a
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phone ready to leave the house again? This morning? Sounds good? She
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if you got her address there? Yeah? Yeah, missus Tom Burdick one
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two three seven Wilcocks Apartment ten. Come on, Ben, this might be
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what we're looking for. Who is it, Sergeant Friday, ma'am police?
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Oh that's the moment. I'm Sergeant Romero, Ms Birdie. He's my partner,
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Sergeant Friday. We come out to check on your call about that little
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trouble last night. Oh well, I don't know if I'm going to be
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much help to you. I was so frightened about all I could do was
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just run. Well, because you had any to the man's description, Miss
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Bertick, I mean other than what you told the chief on the phone.
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Well, now, honestly, I don't think I can. All I saw
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was this tall, dark man jumping out of his car and starting for me.
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He had a heavy build and seemed to me well a large head,
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lots of long black hair. Mss Berdick. Would you recognize this man if
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you ever saw him again? Well, I think I might. He was
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such an unusually big man, almost frightened me to death. Well, just
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one more question, Miss Bertie. Could you describe the car this man was
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driving when he approached you? His car? Why? Yes, it was
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a gray convertible. Ms. Berdie, Are you sure of that, Yes,
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I'm sure of it. A great convertible. Thank you, Miss Bertie.
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That's all we wanted to know. Sometimes when you're on a case,
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you can chase yourself around in circles for weeks, trying to fit together just
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two little pieces of a yard long jigsaw puzzle, and a lot of that's
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time you find the answer were you at least expected. But once you get
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that feeling you're after the right man in the right way, there's nothing that
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can shake you. When Ben and I got back to headquarters, we went
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straight to the chief's office with the story, and we had him stake out
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the great invertible. In other words, if any detective or officer spotted the
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car, he reported it back to us, but he stayed away from it.
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We figured that there probably weren't more than two of the victims who could
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take the witness stand and identify the man who robbed and beat them, not
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with a smart defense lawyer anyway, So there was only one way to catch
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this suspect red handed. Here they are, Joe, both sets the largest
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numbers for that great convertible. Here the original, Here the numbers on the
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stolen play good. Everybody got a hot sheet from the chief all the way
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down to the gin. Fine. Now let's get together with the hot Joe,
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bravit, I got it. On the corner of California and Wood,
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a woman badly beacon on the corner of California and oak Wood. A woman
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Babby. Come on, Ben another one, But Joe, it's broad Dayla.
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Yeah, it doesn't figure, does it? Come on? A vacant
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latover, Joe. Two plainclothesmen and uniformed officers were keeping the crowd bank.
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An ambulance was drawn up of the curb, but it was empty. When
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we got down to the rear of the lot, we found out why they
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were waiting for the coroner. The woman was young, not much more than
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thirty. Her body was half sprawled across the muddy ground and her face was
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turned upward. It had been badly beaten. They figured it happened last night,
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Sargeant. Have the fingerprint men been notified? Yeah, how about the
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crime lab? Just call them. That's good. Now, let's keep everybody
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out of the Area'll they get here right? Sergeant? Oh, who found
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the body? One of the kids in the neighborhood own was dead when you
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found her? Did she live on here about a half mile away? I
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hear she's got three kids or she had three kids. You've seen enough,
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Ben, Yeah, let's get on back to headquarter. All the way back
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to headquarters, Ben and I planned our next move, and by the time
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we got to hit Backstrand's office, we knew exactly what had to be done.
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When we told him about the werewolf murder, he didn't say a thing
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for a minute. He just stared across the room at the calendar on the
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wall, and then he brought his hand down hard against the desker. Friday
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Romero, I'm only going to say this once, so get it straight.
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That guy's pulled his last job in this city. He's through robbing and beating
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women, and he's through with murder. I'd given you time to track him
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down, and now I want him in no stalls, no excuses. I
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want him. I don't care how many men you use, and I don't
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care how you get him, but get him, That's all. Ben and
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I worked all that afternoon, right through dinner, up until eight o'clock.
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By that time, the overall plan was down on paper and already in action.
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It was one of the biggest things we'd ever tackled, and well,
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we didn't know if what group was going to work. We only knew it
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had to work. We had a squad of sixty five cars to stretch out
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over forty square miles of the city in one big drag net. The blockade
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itself would be stationary most of the time, and working inside it would be
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two cars fourteen police women as decoys, with two plain clothesmen assigned to watch
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each policewoman. If and when the werewolf was sighted in the great convertible,
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we'd automatically take over the police radio for the whole city, and the backstrand
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would direct the chase from headquarters. A little after eight, we had coffee
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and hamburgers and we went to Ben's for a few hours. Ben tucked his
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kid in bed as usual, and then he laid down for a nap.
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I talked to his wife till I dozed off in the chair. At eleven
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thirty. She woke us up. I combed my hair, put on my
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coat. Cops wives, or like everybody else's, they worry. When we
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met at a headquarters, we did some last minute checking on details with Backstrand
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for about a half an hour, and then we were all ready to go.
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By five minutes past two, half the drag net crew pulled out of
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the police garage and scattered over the city to their places. By two thirty
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five, the other half pulled out a few minutes later. Ben and I
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followed him. At three minutes to three that morning, Backstrand took over communications
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and checked every car in the operation. It was a good start. Every
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man in his right place for the right time. The trap was set.
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All we needed now was to find our suspect, the werewolf inside. Control
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for the unit eighty K. Control for the unit eighty game eighty K to
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control four. Go ahead. This is Backstrand standing by him. Eighty K
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Roger clear kgpl okay Ben now let's go find him. I got a haunts
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you. Let's try the Wilshire district for sounds are right to me, Let's
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go. For the first hour and a half we raked the Wilshire District back
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and forth. Not a sign. Then about thirty eight minutes past four,
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we headed back for the downtown area and parked in an alley where we could
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double check on one of our police women decoys. Here comes one of the
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girls. Now, Joe, fat feet, but her feet are almost as
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tarred as mine. You know, to see anything else? Been nothing quiet
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as a church. Wait a minute, cart just turned the corner, heading
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up in the same direction she so to. It's slowing down. Wait a
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minute, it's putting up aside her. It's a great convertible. It's him,
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Joe, Come then, get down. He sees it here right,
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Yeah, look at that guy. Take off eighty k to control four.
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Eighty k to control four. We've spotted the suspects. He's driving a gray
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Ford convertible license six to one Robert three eight Five suspects headed east on Olympic
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from Alameda, driving without lights. Suspect his arm. He had a fast
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car and he knew how to drive it. We almost lost him twice.
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Two minutes after we cited him Backstrand took over full radio control DRAVE thirty Unit
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EIGHTYK on location eighty K to control four. We're traveling at a high rate
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of speed, headed east on Olympic crossing Soto Street Control units and units eleven,
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eight, twelve and thirteen R close in on the intersections at Olympic and
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Loreno. Units forty one, forty two, forty five and one on four
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K run on the next and then off in south. Unit's one of five
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K four forty three D block all main hoes. In the next half hour,
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the sixty five cars in the drag net had pulled in like a noose
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around a five mile area. Ben and I hoped it was just a matter
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of time. Unit eighty K to control four. He's headed north on Presno
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Street crossing. What are your boulevard? Units eighty K are pursuing suspects eighteen
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eight o'clock off the intersection on pres and hey, Ben, up there ahead.
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What's he trying to do? Now? Look he's turning around, yeah,
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you know, and he's coming right forth. Watch you look out pretty
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close. Eighty K to control four, exchanging shots with suspect. Watch it
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Ben here he comes again, likes to use that gun. Duney sure do?
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Hey Joe, look look he's turning east. He's running for Holland Back
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Park. Yeah, eighty K to control four. Suspect just drove up over
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curb and into Holland Back Park. Suspect is in Milwaukee's you're there he has
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been watching. Looks like a nice baseball game with a new padline. Yeah,
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come on, let's get him here. Remember I say die? Huh
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Joe, Joe, can you get a shot at him? Give up?
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Shot and step out on the open and get your hands in the air.
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All right, all right, give up, don't shoot. You're a brave
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killed. Yeah, come on, all right, you get your hands in
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the air. Come on here, Joe, My god, he's got a
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knie. I got him. Sure those women were right. He does look
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like a world wool. Yeah you got your handcuffs? Yeah, okay,
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got a cigarette and been out for an hour. Middle place across the street.
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Maybe we can get somewhere. Okay, there's the crew from the forty
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one hour. Hey, fellas, take him int the robbery, will you?
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Okay? Thank You's a vending machine in there. Say you got some
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change for the cigarette machine? Mister, I think so. See who's that
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guy? All them cops wrapped or in the park A little while ago I
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picked up the word. We've been reading the paper, you fellows cops.
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Yeah, sure made it easy for you, didn't he. All you cops
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had to do was surround the little fellow in the park. Nothing to it.
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Huh, Yeah, that's right, mister, nothing to it. The
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story you have just heard was true, only the names were changed to protect
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the innocent. Walter Barton, known as the Werewolf, was tried and convicted
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and is now serving a full life sentence at the State Penitentiary. This has
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been Dragnets, the third in a new series of authorenty cases from official files.
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Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the office of C. B. Horrell,
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Chief of Police, Los Angeles Police Department. Tonight's program is dedicated to
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Sergeant Mario Victor Dyro of the Los Angeles Police Department, who, on the
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morning of January first, nineteen forty three, gave his life so that yours
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might be more secure. Drake met came to you from Los Angeles. This
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is NBC the National Broadcasting Company. Welcome back. What a difference a great
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score makes, and we really heard it here. They not only introduced new
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music, they really put it through its paces in this week's show and great
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e fact, when you get to the end in that chasing, the music
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just really sells the scene and I absolutely love it. With so many episodes
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of this program, and the Werewolf is one of them, I haven't actually
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listened to them since I first played them on the show, so it's been
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more than seven years since I heard this and was really surprised by how good
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it was and just really well done. Kind of a mix of tedium and
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excitement that Dragnet does with the very long chase or search and then that great
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chase scene at the end, again made by the music and by Jack Webb's
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acting, and I think it's I think this has definitely improved copy over what
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we used seven years ago. So just a phenomenal episode and I hope that
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you enjoyed it well. Now we turn to some listener comments and feedback,
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and I posted on on when I was recording this and got a comment from
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Carrie who says Dragnet is one of my favorites thanks. Well, I'm so
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glad to be bringing this to you again, and I hope you'll be listening
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next week as we continue on. Oh. One other key evolution I should
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comment before we go was the announcement by the announcer of the fate of a
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criminal as opposed to Joe Friday doing it and slowly but surely we're seeing this
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shape of the dragnet that we would all come to know and love. Really
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for me, well, that will do it for today. Join us back
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here on Sunday or Monday, excuse me for pursuit, and we'll be back
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here next Saturday for another episode of Dragnet. In the meanwhile, send your
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