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Dragnet: The Big Chance (EP4520) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: it is time for this week's episode of drag Net.
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  Speaker 1: The original air date August the twenty fourth, nineteen fifty
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  Speaker 1: and the title is The Big Chance.
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  Speaker 2: The story you are about to hear is true, only
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  Speaker 2: the names and locations have been changed to protect the innocent.
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  Speaker 2: You're a detective sergeant here assigned a homicide detail. You
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  Speaker 2: answer an early morning call a police officer on patrol
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  Speaker 2: duty disappears. Any attempt to contact him by car radio fails.
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  Speaker 2: Your job find him.
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  Speaker 3: Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
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  Speaker 3: next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
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  Speaker 3: you will travel step by step on the side of
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  Speaker 3: the law through an actual case, from official police finals,
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  Speaker 3: from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnet is
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  Speaker 3: the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 4: It was Monday, June fourth, was sultry in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 4: We're working in the early morning, watch out a homicide.
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  Speaker 4: My partner's Ben Romero, the boss's chief of Detective stad Brown.
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  Speaker 5: My name is Friday.
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  Speaker 4: Was six forty five am when we got the Imperial
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  Speaker 4: Highway San Pedro cut off.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Friday Ramera, Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 7: Pete Sutton and Sheriff's department, all right, How we got
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  Speaker 7: here soon as we could Inspector Bowers for the end.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he had backstraand Central Homicide told us to check
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  Speaker 4: with Bowers at the Sheriff's office. Bowers directors to come
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  Speaker 4: out here to lend you a hand.
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  Speaker 7: This thing happens with close to the county line. They
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  Speaker 7: figured both departments ought to go to.
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  Speaker 5: Work on it.
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  Speaker 8: Sure it mighty have you looks like a tough one.
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  Speaker 9: Is this the highway patrol card the missing officer signed you?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, this isn't just the way we found it. We
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  Speaker 7: turned off to the missions. Motor was running, lights were on,
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  Speaker 7: It's been idling quite a while.
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  Speaker 8: The temperature was up pretty high.
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  Speaker 7: When'd you find it this way? Forty five minutes ago?
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  Speaker 7: Missing patrolman's name is Eugene Brewer. State Highway Patrol called
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  Speaker 7: the Sheriff's department a little before six am. Told us
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  Speaker 7: the missing officer wasn't acknowledging his radio called. I talked
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  Speaker 7: to Mark Benson's radio.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 7: We checked it. In fact, it was operating normal when
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  Speaker 7: we found the car. Mike was out of the bracket,
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  Speaker 7: laying on the seat. Day any ideas, No signs of struggle,
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  Speaker 7: no blood stained, his assholed here, no footprints anywhere, nothing
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  Speaker 7: on the shoulder of the road. You said the car
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  Speaker 7: was running, that's right. That eliminates any engine trouble.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, Oh, there's more to it than that. Gotta be.
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  Speaker 5: Nobody has any idea why or when he left his car.
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  Speaker 8: You've got it all, you know, as much as we do.
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  Speaker 5: What was the check on?
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  Speaker 7: Brewer Mark Benson says he's one of their top men.
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  Speaker 7: Been with Highway Patrol for eight years, good record all
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  Speaker 7: the way. Have you talked to anybody around here? Pretty
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  Speaker 7: remote spot out here, a lot of truck gardens. It's
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  Speaker 7: about all. My partner, Dave Terry turned up one man.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe he's got something that's him over by our car.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, Dave, would you send him over here?
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  Speaker 6: Please?
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  Speaker 7: Who is the fellow one of the farmers works a
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  Speaker 7: truck garden out here. Name's Henry Tanagucci. Ten at second, Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 7: mister Tannergucci. This is surged on Friday in Ramera. Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 7: I know you filled my partner in, but would you
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  Speaker 7: mind going over it again for us?
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  Speaker 10: All right?
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  Speaker 11: I can tell you very little.
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  Speaker 10: You know.
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  Speaker 11: We start working early in the garden, Yes, sir, Conrad
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  Speaker 11: a fellow I work with Conne Ishikawa. We're started in
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  Speaker 11: a string being about five o'clock this morning, a bin
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  Speaker 11: patch near Imperial Highway. Yeah, we noticed a head I
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  Speaker 11: stop off the side of the road. This happened all
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  Speaker 11: the time along the highway, but this stayed very long.
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  Speaker 5: A by what time did you notice this?
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  Speaker 11: Mister Tannergucci must have been or ten minutes past five?
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  Speaker 11: I remember asking Charlie Fuchikuni cultivator man, what time was Let's.
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  Speaker 5: See did you see her hear anything out of the ordinary?
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  Speaker 6: Oh no, sir.
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  Speaker 11: We wait a while and head I do not move.
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  Speaker 11: Connor and I decided maybe somebody was in trouble. This
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  Speaker 11: highway quite deserted early morning hour.
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  Speaker 8: What do you do?
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  Speaker 11: Then we walked up to see what was wrong. When
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  Speaker 11: we get close, we could see what state highway car,
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  Speaker 11: so we know everything all right.
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  Speaker 5: Did you see the officer in the car?
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  Speaker 6: No, the door was opened on the other side.
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  Speaker 11: We thought maybe officer investigates something down in the brush.
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  Speaker 8: Did you see him down there?
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  Speaker 12: Oh no, We just think he was check up something.
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  Speaker 5: So we go back to work. You saw nothing out
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  Speaker 5: of the ordinary, nothing unusual.
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  Speaker 11: No, we don't we hear a radio play? We know everything? Okay,
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  Speaker 11: that checks after radio was functioning. When we got here.
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  Speaker 5: You didn't notice any other cars around anywhere, did.
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  Speaker 6: You well know, sir?
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  Speaker 7: Thank you very much. Mister Tana Gucci, Yeah, use my
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  Speaker 7: car I'd appreciate it. If you think of anything else,
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  Speaker 7: please let us know.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, I will.
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  Speaker 6: What happened to officer in this car?
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  Speaker 8: We don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Oh he's all right. Probably look for somebody.
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  Speaker 4: It makes us even we're looking for him. Monday, June fourth,
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  Speaker 4: eight am, according to our instructions, we headed back to
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  Speaker 4: the Hall of Justice to check in with Inspector Gordon
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  Speaker 4: Bret Bauers and Captain Garner Brown of the Sheriff's Department.
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  Speaker 4: They were coordinating a search for the missing highway patrolman
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  Speaker 4: Eugene Brewer, Inspector ed Bastrand's Central Homicide was helping out.
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  Speaker 5: To the peace officer. Cooperation with all.
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  Speaker 4: Branches of the various law enforcement agencies is essential. Each
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  Speaker 4: man on the force knows the value of a coordinated effort.
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  Speaker 4: He knows that without the aid of the many divisions
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  Speaker 4: of law enforcing bodies in his city and county, the
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  Speaker 4: task of maintaining law and order would be a total failure.
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  Speaker 4: The local officer depends on the men in the federal, state,
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  Speaker 4: and county departments as they depend on him. Without this coordination,
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  Speaker 4: no one department could survive. Eight twenty five am we
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  Speaker 4: met with Inspector Bowers and Ed Baxtrand in the Sheriff's office.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing nobody saw.
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  Speaker 9: Somebody did. We haven't found them, Inspector Bauer.
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  Speaker 13: We both figured the only thing to do is to
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  Speaker 13: ask for the cooperation of the newspapers.
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  Speaker 14: We got a pretty good layout the stories, and every
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  Speaker 14: morning edition in town they're running a picture in full
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  Speaker 14: description of the missing patrolman.
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  Speaker 5: We talked to everybody we could find in the general
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  Speaker 5: area out there. We were two hours at it. The
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  Speaker 5: spot where the.
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  Speaker 4: Patrol car was found is pretty remote, couple of gas
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  Speaker 4: stations and vegetable gardens.
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  Speaker 7: We told you about the ten and Gucca Fella checked
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  Speaker 7: all his friends who worked with him.
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  Speaker 9: They couldn't add anything.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe the newspaper will turn up something.
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  Speaker 13: I sent a special detail out there to fan out
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  Speaker 13: and search the entire area five square miles.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it'll take time. There's nothing else we can do.
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  Speaker 14: Now, there's nothing more we can do, nothing anybody can
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  Speaker 14: do until we can show them the patrol cars how
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  Speaker 14: to carry two men.
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  Speaker 6: Nobody seems to be able to do anything about it.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe they will now.
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  Speaker 14: Sending one officer out in the patrol cars like trying
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  Speaker 14: to run a trolley line with one man. How many
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  Speaker 14: cases can you remember? An hour department ed Dudman pulled
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  Speaker 14: the car over and Doug ten at three o'clock one morning,
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  Speaker 14: driver turned out to be a guy with the record.
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  Speaker 14: Deadman couldn't know that. While he was making out the
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  Speaker 14: traffic ticket the guy shot him down the street. Dedman
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  Speaker 14: died before he could get help.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll do a lot of griping and that he
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  Speaker 5: take the division.
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  Speaker 4: But those men in the patrol cars and the motorcycle boys,
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  Speaker 4: they get the dirty end of the deal, for sure, You.
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  Speaker 6: Bet they do.
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  Speaker 14: When a detective is sent on a job, he knows
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  Speaker 14: who he's after, what he looks like, what he can
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  Speaker 14: expect when he finds him. The boys in the patrol
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  Speaker 14: cars answer a call of three ninety or four point
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  Speaker 14: fifteen or five oh seven. Sure we know what they're
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  Speaker 14: supposed to be. But how often do they turn out
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  Speaker 14: that way prowler or peeping tom? How many times they
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  Speaker 14: have a gun in their pocket? How many cops do
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  Speaker 14: they kill every year? And we've all been through it,
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  Speaker 14: you know what it is, Yeah, but how often do
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  Speaker 14: we think about it when we're griping on steakhouts? Let
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  Speaker 14: me tell you something. This goes for me as well
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  Speaker 14: as you. Let's not forget who the real cream of
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  Speaker 14: the force is, the backbone of any police department.
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  Speaker 6: Men on wheels, no question, Thereskiver.
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  Speaker 14: Sorry, I didn't mean to make a speech, but when
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  Speaker 14: something like this happens, it gets to me. Running on
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  Speaker 14: short odds as it is, there ought to be two
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  Speaker 14: men in every patrol car.
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  Speaker 4: Or wish it had been somebody else with Brewer. The
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  Speaker 4: guy on the job just doesn't disapp here without a trace.
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  Speaker 6: It's just what he's done. He checked everywhere everything.
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  Speaker 13: Excuse me, Fowers, Oh yeah, I send him right in
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  Speaker 13: this My health truck driver by the name of Matt
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  Speaker 13: Wolf says he's got something for him. Come in, mister Wilf, Yes,
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  Speaker 13: come in, mister Wilf. Inspector Backstrand, Sergeant Friday Romero, how.
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  Speaker 6: Do you do him? I saw the story in this
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  Speaker 6: Morning's Times. I don't know if what I got is
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  Speaker 6: worth the him, but I figured i'd better pass along.
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  Speaker 9: With you guys.
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  Speaker 6: Something on the missing highway patrolman.
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  Speaker 5: Why.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know the reason I'm here. Maybe it's just
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  Speaker 6: a coincidence. But I gave a fellow hand early this
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  Speaker 6: morning out of the Imperial Highway, not far from war
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  Speaker 6: The paper here says a empty patrol cars for.
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  Speaker 5: About what time was that, mister wolf?
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  Speaker 6: All around four thirty this morning? Do you want to
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  Speaker 6: tell us about it?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm an independent trucker. I hauld top soil for
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  Speaker 6: different nurseries. Stuff out there in imperials good rich stuff.
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  Speaker 6: We did get right out of the side of the hill.
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  Speaker 5: He's him.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I just loaded up and I'm my way back
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  Speaker 6: to town. This fellow flags me down. Said he'd had
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  Speaker 6: a flat pulled out on the should of the road
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  Speaker 6: to fix it. Said he didn't know it with sand.
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  Speaker 6: After he'd fixed the flat, he found out he's stuck,
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  Speaker 6: couldn't get his car. You gave him a hand, huh?
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  Speaker 6: Not out with a flat. He already had that fixed.
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  Speaker 6: But I torened him off, and that's how it became suspiciousness.
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  Speaker 5: Fella, how do you mean?
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  Speaker 6: Well? I offered to get out, hook up the toe chain.
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  Speaker 6: He said, no, no, just stay in a cab, and
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  Speaker 6: I figured if he could do it alone, so I
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  Speaker 6: was me. I pulled him out. Here's the funny plant.
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  Speaker 6: Here's him a chain got a kink in it from
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  Speaker 6: the way to the poor no mean job to handle
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  Speaker 6: it alone, he says, right, he'll do it himself. Seem
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  Speaker 6: to me like he didn't want me to get a
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  Speaker 6: good look at him or his car. I could be wrong,
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  Speaker 6: but well that's the way it struck me. Did you
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  Speaker 6: notice anything, Yes, sir, I did one thing. I got
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  Speaker 6: to look at him when I threw on my back
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  Speaker 6: up lights and his card. That's a real funny one.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean it was this fairly new car
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  Speaker 6: i'd seen, older than the last year's model of Plymouth.
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  Speaker 6: If the risk is sounding completely nuts, I'm gonna tell
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  Speaker 6: you that car looked like it had.
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  Speaker 9: Just been painted. There's nothing wrong, and that is well,
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  Speaker 9: there is.
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  Speaker 6: If you're off on the side of the road at
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  Speaker 6: that time of the morning throwing cheap black paint all
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  Speaker 6: over a fairly new car. He's using a spray gun.
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  Speaker 6: I could understand part of it. What's that is his
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  Speaker 6: license plate? Front one? It was all painted over here.
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  Speaker 6: You couldn't read any of the numbers.
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  Speaker 5: What led you to believe he just finished painting his car?
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  Speaker 6: Always hands and arms was always closed.
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  Speaker 5: Such kind of pain you put on the rag?
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  Speaker 6: A well, I don't know it was it worth bothering
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  Speaker 6: you guys about you really was, mister Wilf. I can't
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  Speaker 6: tell you just what it means now.
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  Speaker 13: Maybe it doesn't mean anything, but certainly it's out of
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  Speaker 13: the ordinary and worth reporting to the police.
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  Speaker 6: Wow. So I'd like to see you boys find it missing, Auficer.
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  Speaker 6: Something was pretty rotten in Denmark about that one.
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  Speaker 5: Huh.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe we found a hole.
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  Speaker 13: Maybe Bridey, I'd like to have you and remyl help
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  Speaker 13: out in the next step.
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  Speaker 5: What's that go up a roadblock? Ten thirty am.
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  Speaker 4: Before we left the Sheriff's office, the truck driver nat
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  Speaker 4: Wolf gave Inspector Bauers a description of the man and
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  Speaker 4: the flymouth sedan. Together with Lieutenant Pete Sutton and Dave Terry,
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  Speaker 4: we drove to the Imperial Highway. Gnat Wolf showed us
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  Speaker 4: the spot beside the road where he towed the man.
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  Speaker 4: The area was checked and sample scrapings of the black
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  Speaker 4: paint were taken. There was no chance of taking a
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  Speaker 4: tire impression because of the loose sand in the area.
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  Speaker 4: All physical evidence was taken back to the crime lab
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  Speaker 4: for analysis. Nat Wolf returned to the office to check
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  Speaker 4: through mug books for possible identification of.
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  Speaker 5: The man he helped out. Meantime, a special detail of
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  Speaker 5: man continued to search the area where the missing patrolman
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  Speaker 5: had disappeared. Three am. According to instructions, the roadblock was
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  Speaker 5: established at the spot.
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  Speaker 4: Where the abandoned patrol cardsman found Imperial Highway San Pedro
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  Speaker 4: cut off.
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  Speaker 5: Its play one.
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  Speaker 9: Police business. Yes, sir, I wonder if you could help
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  Speaker 9: us out.
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  Speaker 6: Certainly you travel.
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  Speaker 9: This highway every night, ma'am, Yes.
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  Speaker 6: I do. I'm in the vegetable business.
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  Speaker 9: Did you come this way last night about this time?
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  Speaker 6: I run pretty much on schedule.
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  Speaker 9: Yes I did. Did you notice anything unusual along the highway?
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  Speaker 6: I bet I know what this is about that missing
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  Speaker 6: highway patrolman.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 7: We're stopping everybody to see if they can give us
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  Speaker 7: any information that might help us out.
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  Speaker 9: Oh I wish I could, but I didn't see a thing.
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  Speaker 6: That poor fella.
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  Speaker 9: Do you think you'll find him? M you're trying off
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  Speaker 9: all right?
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, I can't help you.
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  Speaker 6: Can I go now?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, ma'am? Thank you? Did tell you?
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  Speaker 5: How'd you do?
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  Speaker 9: Nothing?
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  Speaker 6: What time?
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  Speaker 13: He got you?
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  Speaker 7: Uh?
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  Speaker 5: Almost four?
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  Speaker 8: Got a little more hot coffee than jog?
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  Speaker 9: You and some.
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  Speaker 5: It's fine with me, you know.
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  Speaker 9: Anyway.
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  Speaker 8: I cuts some lid here man, and thankfully, watch your fingers.
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  Speaker 6: It's hot.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, that's good.
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  Speaker 5: I'll take this one. I'm gonna put my coffee on
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  Speaker 5: the fender here. Don't knock it off. I was thank you. Hey,
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  Speaker 5: Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Bella, can you see
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  Speaker 5: my light? I haven't even got a cigarette, I mean
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  Speaker 5: my flashlight.
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  Speaker 10: I got a cigarette ladder. If I don't do you
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  Speaker 10: any good.
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  Speaker 5: You've been drinking, haven't you?
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  Speaker 10: Yes, I have. I'll never get drunk, but I've had
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  Speaker 10: a little drink.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, but I'm gonna have to ask you to
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  Speaker 5: pull over the side of the road.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, what happened to my car? It was broke litter.
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  Speaker 5: Let me do it. Huh, you wanna slide over a
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  Speaker 5: little bit there.
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  Speaker 10: I'll never pick up hitch hikers.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm just gonna move your car beside of the highway.
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  Speaker 9: Now, many troubles, you'll.
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  Speaker 5: No five oh two. I have to hold him a wile.
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  Speaker 10: We'll try your friend to get in too. Here's this
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  Speaker 10: the land.
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  Speaker 5: We're not going far where we're going right?
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  Speaker 10: Here is this the road to Pismo Beach?
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  Speaker 5: No, not this one.
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  Speaker 10: Well, that dirty little ernie he lied again. He hates clams.
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  Speaker 5: What's that?
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  Speaker 10: I've been trying for five months to get to Pismo
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  Speaker 10: Beach for a boll of grandchowder. I haven't made it yet.
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  Speaker 4: All right, you just sit here a while and sober
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: up with you. I'm gonna hold onto your keys and
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: getting back to you. You haven't got a bottle in
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: the car?
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: Heavy?
• 16:45
  Speaker 10: No, I never drink and drive. I'lcohol them gasoline do
• 16:49
  Speaker 10: not mix.
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: You know you drive this road every night, every night.
• 16:55
  Speaker 10: And he keeps telling me to take me to Pismo Beach.
• 16:59
  Speaker 10: I love grams.
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: You just sit here and sober hard, happy drunk. Yeah,
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: he's two drunks drive.
• 17:11
  Speaker 9: Getting along towards daylight.
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: Where'd I put my clock?
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: No, I've put it over here, joefraid we knock it
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: out all things. This one's mine, kay hm.
• 17:22
  Speaker 9: You seem to come in bunch. You should get two
• 17:24
  Speaker 9: or three and then you wait for an hour.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: You know they don't use this highway much since they
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: put through that all in it general, at least business.
• 17:29
  Speaker 8: Yes, sir, you travel this highway every night about this time.
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: Once in a while.
• 17:34
  Speaker 8: I haven't been over this way in a week.
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: You didn't drive this way last night, No, sir, I.
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: Didn't anything the matter, routine shake, Thank you very much.
• 17:41
  Speaker 8: You can go on.
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: Nothing.
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, it looks like a hopeless job, doesn't it.
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: Hmm.
• 17:53
  Speaker 9: Business is picking up. Here comes another one.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: Looks like one of your sheriff's cars. Pete.
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Reynolds homicide each sudden, Yeah, Renolds, you can pack up.
• 18:04
  Speaker 12: They found him.
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: Is he all right?
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: Two bullet holes in the back of his head.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: You are listening to dragnet. The case history of a
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: police investigation presented in the public interest.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Five am Tuesday, the body of highway patrolman Eugene Brewer
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: was found half buried in a shallow grave approximately four
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: and a half miles from the point where his car
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: had been found standing on the highway. The scene was
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: roped off. Photographic measurements were taken in the area, carefully
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: gone over for any physical evidence. A few scattered residents
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: were again checked and asked if they'd heard gunshots.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: Since the nearest dwelling.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: To the place where the body was found was two
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: miles it was possibility that they could have not heard
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: the shots.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: No one can give us any further information.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: The corner's autopsy showed that Patrolman Brewer had been shot
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: three times in the chest, one bullet directly entering his heart.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: He'd also been shot twice through the base of the skull.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: One pm Wednesday, I get it homicide Friday, Pete Sutton, Joe.
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah, just had a call from our Hollywood substation. Woman
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: reported her car stolen on Sunday night. Thought the guy
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: was going to bring it back, That's why she didn't
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: report it sooner.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: What about it be?
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: It's a Plymouth Sedan, last year's model, same type the
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: truck driver told.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: Us about it. Sounds good.
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: We already have a broadcast hot on it. We're putting
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: out an APB.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: You want to check and see if they got it
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: on tonight's hot.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: Sheet, right any on the guy who stole a car.
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: Boyfriend of the woman who owned it. He left her
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: in a restaurant and got away with her car. Remember
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: the description of the guy the truck driver helped out
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: Monday morning? Um hm, the guy that stole this woman's car.
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: It's the same Yeah, Still doesn't prove he had anything to.
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: Do with it.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: Doesn't prove he didn't together with Pete Sutton and Dave
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: Terry from the Sheriff's office. We drove out and interviewed
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: the woman whose car had been stolen. She told us
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: that the man who had taken her car had also
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: been seen in the company of one of her girlfriends,
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: of Miss Helen.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: Farrell, who worked as a cashier at a Hollywood theater.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: The faral girl identified the man as Mike Lapino, whom
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: she gave us a snapshot of me. She also gave
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: us his last known address. We had no actual tie
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: in between the theft of the woman's car and the
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: murder of patrolman Eugene Brewer, but the circumstantial evidence obmitted
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: at least worth checking out.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: The only car known to.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Have been in the vicinity the morning of the murderer
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: was the car the truck driver Nat Wolford reported the
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: same make and model car had been stolen the night
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: before the killing. The general descriptions of the man from
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: two different people tally closely. We figured before we'd passed
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: this lead by, we check it out all the way.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Four pm Wednesday, we met with Inspector Bauers at the
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Sheriff's office.
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: We checked this lapenis apartment. Found a shirt with a
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: pair of pants, black paint on both of them.
• 20:54
  Speaker 13: All right, sent her that truck driver, that wolf to
• 20:56
  Speaker 13: identify this picture here. Do you find anything else you've found?
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: Well, his address book, there's no local places in it.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: There are all Las Vegas and the ad addresses.
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: That's it.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Uh yeah, what'd you get from the record?
• 21:07
  Speaker 13: You're on the guy the ibud pulled the package on
• 21:10
  Speaker 13: him at his Mama sheet.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like Cilipino spent some time at Santa Quentin Armed Robbery,
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Grand theft auto saw pretty good record.
• 21:23
  Speaker 13: It's still not positive he had anything to do with
• 21:25
  Speaker 13: the Brewer killing. Where he's got the training mark? Yeah,
• 21:31
  Speaker 13: send him right in Matt Wolf, im in mister.
• 21:36
  Speaker 10: Wolf back.
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: Dirty shame about that boy I read about in the papers. Yeah,
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: got a photograph. We'd like you to look at mister
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: Wolf you bet. Yeah, that's the man. Yeah, sure, sure,
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: no mistake. Hey, Uh, why do you suppose he was
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: painting that card four o'clock in the morning. Maybe that's
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: what that patrol in Lana to know.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: We waited for an answer on the APV. Two days
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: past Saturday, June ninth, received a phone call from the
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: Las Vegas, Nevada Police Department.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: The stolen black sedan had been found in the downtown
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: area of Las Vegas. We requested them to put a
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: stake out on the sedan and asked them not to
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: disturb either the car or its contents. Together with Pete
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Sutton from the Sheriff's office, Mark Benson from the Highway
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Patrol and Ray Pinker of our crime lab, which flew
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: to Las Vegas. Pinker checked the stolen car embedded in
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: the rear seat where two spent bullets. There were also
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: bloodstains on the seat and on the floor of the car.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Pinker flew back to Los Angeles, where the evidence was analyzed.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: The bullets found in the car were fired from the
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: same gun as the bullets found on the body of
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: the dead patrolman. Fingerprints lifted from the stolen car match
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: those of Mike Lapina. Saturday afternoon, we checked in the
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Chief Harry Miller, Las Vegas Police Department.
• 22:57
  Speaker 9: This is all you've done on them? Gee, that's most
• 22:59
  Speaker 9: of it.
• 22:59
  Speaker 16: Yeah, since we staked out that black sedan, I've had
• 23:02
  Speaker 16: the town covered for Filpino.
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: No one saw him abandon that car, huh.
• 23:05
  Speaker 16: No one we know of no had good cooperation from
• 23:08
  Speaker 16: the newspapers. Story has been on page one since the
• 23:11
  Speaker 16: thing broke.
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: Anything come of those names we got from Lapino's address book,
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: the ones we've phoned for you.
• 23:15
  Speaker 16: Let's see, I got the list right here. Yeah, here
• 23:19
  Speaker 16: we are. These are the ones my men have checked
• 23:21
  Speaker 16: out already. George Connelly, nothing there. Harry Carlson, he and
• 23:27
  Speaker 16: his wife have been checked out.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: Nothing there.
• 23:30
  Speaker 16: William Spencer, nothing in his place. We've got them all
• 23:33
  Speaker 16: staked out, at least two to go. That's right, we're
• 23:37
  Speaker 16: checking the last two now.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: Nothing from the railroad station. Is the airline.
• 23:40
  Speaker 16: They've been covered ever since we got your phone call. Yeah,
• 23:43
  Speaker 16: I could be wrong, but I think your man's still
• 23:45
  Speaker 16: here in town. Any reports on a couple of wild ones,
• 23:48
  Speaker 16: nothing definite checked him out. Had one this morning from
• 23:51
  Speaker 16: a dealer at one of the clubs downtown about ten
• 23:53
  Speaker 16: thirty this morning. He saw Lapino playing the two bit
• 23:55
  Speaker 16: slot machine. We showed him his mugshot. He swearze it's
• 23:58
  Speaker 16: the guy.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: Well, all we can do now sweated out.
• 24:00
  Speaker 16: My men have covered everything. I don't know what else
• 24:02
  Speaker 16: we can do. Ye excuse me, suh, Chief Miller. Yeah,
• 24:09
  Speaker 16: you sure it's in. Oh, don't try to handle along.
• 24:13
  Speaker 16: Keep the place covered the best you can. We'll be
• 24:15
  Speaker 16: right out.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: They found him.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: Two Las Vegas detectives named Billings and Vans answered a
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: phone tip from a groceryman in the east end of town.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: He said a man had been buying groceries from him
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: for the past two days and lived in the apartment
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: house above the store. The two detectives showed the groceryman
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: and Lapino's mug shot.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: He gave a positive identification.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: They then checked with the apartment house manager after looking
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: at the mugshot, he had entified Lapino as the tenant
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: and Apartment ten B detectives Billings and Vans staked out
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: the place until our arrival with enough men to cover
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: the area.
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: That's got you, that's a story. Well he's in there,
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: hasn't been out of all day. Apartment ten D.
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: We'll take the front.
• 25:02
  Speaker 11: Chief manager thinks Lapino has a gun made wors cleaning
• 25:05
  Speaker 11: the apartment, funds loose slugs and the dresser.
• 25:07
  Speaker 9: Drawer he still wanted Friday.
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: It's our headache, Joe and I am going in. Chief
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: rid Fans gets the men up on the roof to.
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: Cover already, fandom out around the building.
• 25:15
  Speaker 16: I don't know what they tell you in La on
• 25:16
  Speaker 16: one of these things, but here we tell them to
• 25:18
  Speaker 16: be careful.
• 25:19
  Speaker 17: Right, chief, Let's go ten bees on the second floor.
• 25:32
  Speaker 17: Let's take the stairs.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: Set a.
• 25:43
  Speaker 15: Long way up and yeah, this way, were aware.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: You cover?
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Rap me.
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: He shot right through the door and he's got two left.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: Un he's got another gun.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: Let's take him one good kick out to get the
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: lot right. Just a minute.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: Let's go beat let it alone, Lapino, I got it
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: all right, come on, get.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: Up, all right?
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: Pe okay, I get the cuts. That's a big idea.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: He'd tell us you killed that patrol man. He got tough.
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: He didn't have to kill him, spider of the stolen car.
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: What else could I do?
• 26:49
  Speaker 10: Come on you?
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: Yeah, as much chats as I do.
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: That figures. Yeah, two bullet holes in the back of
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: his head.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true, only the
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: names and locations were changed to protect the innocent.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: On October, second trial was held in Superior Court, Department
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: ninety one, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: In a moment, the results of that trial.
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: And now here is our star Jack Webb.
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: The working detective knows that every member of his local
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: police department is a qualified man. He knows that his
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: fellow peace officers have been carefully selected to perform their
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: specific duties by trial, by examination, and by results.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Michael Everett Lupino was tried and convicted of murder in
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: the first degree. The jury failed to recommend the death penalty.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Lupino is now serving its life term in the state penitentiary.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, the Los Angeles Police Department requests the
• 28:02
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• 28:07
  Speaker 2: The Los Angeles Police Department would like every and any
• 28:10
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• 28:14
  Speaker 2: caliber Special Smith and Wesson Revolver Gold Seal model.
• 28:18
  Speaker 12: The gun has a blue steel four inch barrel. The
• 28:21
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• 28:26
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• 28:30
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• 28:33
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• 28:37
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• 28:40
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• 28:42
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• 28:45
  Speaker 3: You have just heard Dragnet a series of authentic cases
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: from official files. Technical advice comes from the Office of
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: Chief of Police W. H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department.
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: Coming up Duffy's Tavern.
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• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Welcome Back. I'd honestly forgotten they brought back Raymond Burr
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: on radio. Apparently they wanted in authoritative voice to speak
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: for the idea of having two officers to a car.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: It's weird. They brought him back as Ed Baxtrand. So
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: does this mean this is that chronologically before the retirement.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I'm probably overthinking that. I wonder if any listeners remembered
• 29:31
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• 29:35
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• 29:38
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• 29:42
  Speaker 1: on television, the character he played was Thad Brown. The
• 29:47
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• 29:50
  Speaker 1: tough one, and even within Los Angeles by the nineteen seventies,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: it wasn't fully two man teams. In the spinoff series
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Adam twelve, It's about two officers in a patrol car. However,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: that series mentioned in one episode in particular that while
• 30:07
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• 30:11
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• 30:15
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• 30:20
  Speaker 1: remember that the X Ray units had only one officer.
• 30:25
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• 30:33
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• 30:37
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• 31:35
  Speaker 12: I live and breathe.
• 31:36
  Speaker 18: If it isn't the one and only Falcon I've been
• 31:38
  Speaker 18: looking for you? Yeah, ever hear of a boy named
• 31:41
  Speaker 18: Bill Gainor? Why I'm asking the questions now?
• 31:45
  Speaker 13: Well, he was up to see me yesterday wanted some
• 31:47
  Speaker 13: information about Steve Quinn.
• 31:49
  Speaker 10: What did you tell him?
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: Only what I knew?
• 31:50
  Speaker 18: Obviously it was more than enough. What are you talking
• 31:53
  Speaker 18: about when was bumped two hours ago?
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: I don't believe it.
• 31:56
  Speaker 18: Well, if you'd like to step down to the morgue,
• 31:58
  Speaker 18: I'll be glad to show you the body.
• 32:00
  Speaker 10: Think Gaina did it?
• 32:01
  Speaker 12: I know he did.
• 32:01
  Speaker 10: You're out of your mind.
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: He couldn't have killed Quinn.
• 32:03
  Speaker 12: Why couldn't he?
• 32:05
  Speaker 10: Well, he's not the type you and your human nature?
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: But you do, yes, I listen sogon house chances me
• 32:10
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• 32:11
  Speaker 12: Do you think you can get him out?
• 32:12
  Speaker 10: I know I can.
• 32:13
  Speaker 18: Well, that's a kind of a challenge I can't resist. Okay, Mike,
• 32:18
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