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Dragnet: The Big Bungalow (EP4909) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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  Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty one, here is the Big Bungalow.
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  Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true. The
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  Speaker 2: names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a
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  Speaker 2: detective sergeant. You're assigned to burglary detail. One of your
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  Speaker 2: informants contacts you by telephone. He says he wants to
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  Speaker 2: see you immediately. He claims knowledge of more than two
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  Speaker 2: dozen burglaries committed in your city. He offers the information
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  Speaker 2: despite threats against his own life. Your job investigate.
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  Speaker 3: Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. Will 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. Transcribed from official police violence,
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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: Was Monday, April sixteenth, was foggy in Los Angeles. We're
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  Speaker 4: working the day watch out of burglary detail. My partner's
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  Speaker 4: Ben Romero. The boss's Captain Wisdom. My name's Friday. We're
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  Speaker 4: on the way out from the office and it was
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  Speaker 4: one thirty eight pm when we got to the corner
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  Speaker 4: of North Main and Cateello Street. Oaken's Cafe.
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  Speaker 5: Pretty well filled up.
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  Speaker 4: You want to sit at the counter those booth over
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  Speaker 4: there in the corner. If people just leaving, Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I didn't see it. It's all right, and yeah fine.
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  Speaker 5: Oh it smells good. And wonder what the special is today.
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  Speaker 4: It's up there on the blackboard.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, enchilada with cheese, cold slough salad. That smell
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  Speaker 5: pretty good, doesn't I wish I hadn't had lunch. I
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  Speaker 5: should await and I keep forgetting. Monday's inch a lada
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  Speaker 5: day down here. You're like the way Johnny fixes oh.
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  Speaker 6: Ben, How are you right? Yeah? I got these dirty
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  Speaker 6: dishes out of the way. Is he going to be
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  Speaker 6: the special?
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  Speaker 5: No? We forgot today? It was Monday? We had lunch already,
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  Speaker 5: too bad.
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  Speaker 6: What'll it be? Just coffee?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's fine Friday.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, same from me, Roberta.
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  Speaker 6: Both of them black, I guess, kay, two blacks.
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  Speaker 4: So you haven't seen Smally around this afternoon? Have you
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  Speaker 4: reburted Red? Smally Red?
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  Speaker 6: No, I haven't seen him a couple of days.
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  Speaker 5: I thought he said to meet him here at one thirty,
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  Speaker 5: and he'll be alone.
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  Speaker 4: He's never been on time as long as I've known him.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I wonder what's eating? And he sounds a little
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  Speaker 5: excited on the phone.
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  Speaker 4: Did you give you any idea what it was all about? Know?
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  Speaker 5: I just said it was important you had to see it. Hey,
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  Speaker 5: I'm just thinking maybe I could handle one of those
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  Speaker 5: as a lotas after all.
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  Speaker 7: You know, there's Red alright, fellas late all right A
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  Speaker 7: long time?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I sit down, Red, good to see.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, thanks, that's snow with you anyway?
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  Speaker 4: Too much with you?
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  Speaker 6: You are too? Coffee's black?
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  Speaker 5: Are you in hungry?
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  Speaker 7: What about a Hamburger steak? Can some coffee too?
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  Speaker 6: Hamburger's taking coffee.
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  Speaker 5: Right, You're looking pretty fair shape, Red. You're working steady now.
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  Speaker 8: Oh you know how it goes on again, off again.
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  Speaker 8: Put in a full month playing bar boy at Ziggy's
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  Speaker 8: joint place down in South.
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  Speaker 5: MAINI you know, hmm what happened there?
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  Speaker 7: Business fell off and the ZIGGI he said he had
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  Speaker 7: to let me go and.
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  Speaker 8: Kind of thin ever since, I'm hustling programs out of
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  Speaker 8: the racetrack right now. It's not too bad. I can't
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  Speaker 8: afford to bet, but I get to see the races free.
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  Speaker 8: You can't have everything, I guess.
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  Speaker 4: I understand you're little worried about something, Red, anything serious.
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  Speaker 8: Well, yeah, it might be my guy's telling Ramri on
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  Speaker 8: the phone, or wouldn't do me no good if I
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  Speaker 8: got out, I mean me talking to you about it.
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  Speaker 7: You know, he'd probably tie a can of my tell
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  Speaker 7: if he knew. I told you, who's that guy by
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  Speaker 7: name of Jeff Allen? I know I am no it.
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't sound for many to me, Ben, I mean neither.
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  Speaker 2: Who is he d?
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  Speaker 7: Second story worker? Lots of savvy too.
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  Speaker 8: He's fell a couple of times in Burglary Wraps knows
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  Speaker 8: his business so.
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  Speaker 7: Got a lot of moxie.
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  Speaker 5: How long has he been in town?
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  Speaker 8: You know, about six months? I think he come from
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  Speaker 8: the East, finished the stretch back in Michigan.
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  Speaker 4: It's a real pro Huh what's he doing out here?
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  Speaker 9: Rin?
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  Speaker 6: Well?
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  Speaker 7: A matter of fact, that's why I want to talk
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  Speaker 7: to you about figure. Maybe he out No, Yeah, he's
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  Speaker 7: doing real good the way I get it.
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  Speaker 8: I heard him a couple other guys talking about it
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  Speaker 8: one night, don Ziggy's having a couple of beers.
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  Speaker 7: I guess they didn't think.
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  Speaker 4: I could hear him what they had to say.
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  Speaker 8: This guy Allen was running off about how good he
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  Speaker 8: was doing, how many places he knocked over in the
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  Speaker 8: last couple of months, how much stuff he took.
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  Speaker 5: What's he looked like, Rin? Oh?
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  Speaker 7: But he average about my high, dark hair, a.
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  Speaker 8: Little scar right in his chin, about one hundred six,
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  Speaker 8: twenty seventy maybe thirty six years old.
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  Speaker 7: Usually wears leather jacket and black one.
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  Speaker 6: All right, right, here you go, burger steak Carson.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, fine, sure, got a good appetise these days working
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  Speaker 8: out there, You know it does you good?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll show you. I'm passed around ball.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, here you go.
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  Speaker 4: Oh could these burglary jobs Allan's supposed to be pulling? Red?
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  Speaker 4: Where's he working them? Do you know? Then?
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  Speaker 9: No?
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  Speaker 7: I guess are long all over town? I was bored? Sure,
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  Speaker 7: good hammer.
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  Speaker 4: When you ever heard him talking to his friends? Did
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  Speaker 4: he mention any jobs in particular that he pulled?
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  Speaker 8: No, he's working hard on all that for a part.
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  Speaker 8: The bulls are now one every week or so.
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  Speaker 5: Way, I got what about his m o. Red aren't regular.
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  Speaker 7: Second story routine?
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  Speaker 8: Usually Jimmy or a small bench bar usually goes through
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  Speaker 8: the windows.
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  Speaker 5: He worked alone? Uh huh?
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  Speaker 7: Strictly there's French breads and nice and fresh.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, where's that? I'm staying in town? Do you know Red?
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  Speaker 7: No? No, I know where I can find him?
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  Speaker 9: Though.
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  Speaker 7: With thirteen twenty two club out.
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  Speaker 8: On North Paris, they got hers out there quite a
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  Speaker 8: bit almost every night.
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  Speaker 7: I think a guy who owns the joints for final.
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  Speaker 4: Jeff Allen is that supposed to be his right name?
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  Speaker 8: Red Fire as I know, uh huh. I ain't met
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  Speaker 8: him a couple of times. He hung around Ziggy's space
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  Speaker 8: when he first come to town. Of course I didn't
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  Speaker 8: know what he was up to.
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  Speaker 4: Then you don't well enough to talk to him?
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  Speaker 8: Well just about Yeah, I have buddies with him or anything.
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  Speaker 8: That's why I don't want to get out. You know,
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  Speaker 8: he gets the word I'm on your team. I'm a
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  Speaker 8: dad duck. I don't think he waste a minute calumb me.
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  Speaker 5: You don't have to worry, Red. We'll keep it quiet.
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  Speaker 5: Why did you hear anything else? Or is that just
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  Speaker 5: about the size of him?
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  Speaker 7: No, Mar's just about that far.
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  Speaker 8: I'll keep near the ground if I get any more rumbled.
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  Speaker 8: How passer dome? Wow, I guess you know. I really
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  Speaker 8: hate to talk about it.
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  Speaker 5: What's that Red?
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  Speaker 9: Well?
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  Speaker 7: I mean how bad things have been running lately? You know,
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  Speaker 7: since I got laid off.
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  Speaker 6: He is.
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  Speaker 8: So like mad with the programs down the track and
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  Speaker 8: bring in a whole lot though, And I allows you
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  Speaker 8: land lady, had I raised my.
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  Speaker 7: Rent last week?
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  Speaker 4: How much can you use? Red? Oh?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, no, sighs. Anything and I'll just let alone. Maybe
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  Speaker 7: something helped me hold home.
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  Speaker 5: The only thing I have is a twenty Joe, you've
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  Speaker 5: got any change?
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  Speaker 7: My thanks? So I'm matter of trying to be fine.
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  Speaker 7: That's plenty. I sure appreciate that.
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  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, wow, real good Hamburger steak.
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  Speaker 7: Johnny puts out. I gotta get go, and File's got me.
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  Speaker 4: Down the track all right, Red, thanks a lot. Do
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  Speaker 4: there's anything else call us? Huh? You got our number?
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  Speaker 6: Sure?
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  Speaker 7: Anything, I'll stay right on. You want me for anything, holler?
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  Speaker 10: Huh.
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  Speaker 7: I'm still the same place, right, Zack's alot, see you there?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, think it easy? Red?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I read he's getting a little expensive. Huh.
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  Speaker 4: He's probably been having a rough time. But he looked hungry.
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  Speaker 5: I mean sure he did grab that twenty dollars bill
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  Speaker 5: like his life depended on you. I went to buy
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  Speaker 5: some new wool socks.
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  Speaker 4: Were they Well, i'll split it with you. Be worth
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  Speaker 4: more than twenty bucks if the tip pays off.
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  Speaker 5: Don't get me wrong, I didn't mind giving him a
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  Speaker 5: twenty by books is worth it. But look at this year.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, check for the food.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. I think the least he could have done was
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  Speaker 5: pay for his own line.
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  Speaker 4: By and large, the character of the informant in fact
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  Speaker 4: or fiction isn't generally regarded with too much sympathy. To
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  Speaker 4: most people, the informant's nothing more than a stool pigeon,
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  Speaker 4: a squealer, somebody who with a very active informing commits
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  Speaker 4: a sin against a supposedly popular, unwritten law. Well, it's
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  Speaker 4: obvious that this isn't always so, because in the interests
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  Speaker 4: of law enforcement and justice, which means the betterment of
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  Speaker 4: the community, the informant very often plays a major role.
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  Speaker 4: Year after year, informants are responsible for the apprehension and
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  Speaker 4: conviction of many hundreds of criminals, people who rob and
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  Speaker 4: sheet and commit murder, crimes that are obviously far deadlier
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  Speaker 4: than informing. As for the mechanics of law enforcement, at
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  Speaker 4: the level of the working detective, the informant is considered
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  Speaker 4: virtually indispensable. It's been said before by peace officers, and
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  Speaker 4: it'll probably be said again quite a few times. If
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  Speaker 4: your job is catching criminals and enforcing the law, this
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  Speaker 4: is the first rule you have to learn. The working
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  Speaker 4: detective is no better than his informants. Two twelve PM.
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  Speaker 4: Ben and I had no idea if the information we'd
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  Speaker 4: gotten from Red Smalley was authentic or not, but it
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  Speaker 4: had to be checked out. We went back to the
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  Speaker 4: office and had Frank Cunningham and R and I check
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  Speaker 4: on Jeff Allen. We also had the Stat's office make
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  Speaker 4: a run for us on suspects with similar mos. Then
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  Speaker 4: we started to page through reports of burglaries which had
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  Speaker 4: occurred throughout the city during the past three months. How
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  Speaker 4: you doing over there? Anything at know?
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  Speaker 5: Not too much? Wait a minute, maybe this might be
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  Speaker 5: one of'em.
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  Speaker 4: Here, let me see.
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  Speaker 5: Home in Holland Beck Park neighborhood. Burger's MO matches out
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  Speaker 5: in a time Element two happened six weeks ago, winnowing.
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  Speaker 5: The second floor of the house was pride open. They
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  Speaker 5: took furs and money twenty three dollars.
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  Speaker 4: Uh huh, that's the only one you found.
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  Speaker 5: Another one here it took out a minute ago. M
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  Speaker 5: was pretty much the same on this and too. The
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  Speaker 5: only thing different is the night of the week it happened,
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  Speaker 5: and this one's a Thursday. That when there's a Sunday.
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  Speaker 5: It checks out pretty close.
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  Speaker 4: Otherwise. The only one thing I can't figure, what's that? Well.
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  Speaker 4: Allan's supposed to have been in the city for at
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  Speaker 4: least six months. According to Red, he's working a job
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  Speaker 4: maybe once a week, once every ten days or so.
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  Speaker 4: Now you got two reports there. That matches them all. Here,
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  Speaker 4: I've picked out two more from that other pile. Seems
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  Speaker 4: to me if he's been working in town for a
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  Speaker 4: couple of months or ought to be more than four
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  Speaker 4: reports on him.
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  Speaker 5: So I got Burglar and Meryl. Oh yeah, Frank, m M.
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  Speaker 5: Jeff Allen, that's all? Now you have huh okay, right, Frank,
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  Speaker 5: thank you? Yeah, Ry, And I got to make on Allen.
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  Speaker 5: He's had one arrest here four years ago in to
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  Speaker 5: veag George. He's a loser out of Michigan, go for burglary,
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  Speaker 5: never been picked up for bergery here though he didn't register,
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  Speaker 5: And that's all.
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  Speaker 4: That's It doesn't seem to jail right to me? Doesn' you?
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  Speaker 5: Not a loose? Ends to figure out?
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  Speaker 4: Wonder if Red was handing us a line on this thing,
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  Speaker 4: why would he Well, maybe he needed that twenty dollars touch.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe this Jeff Allen's an old Palais is read out
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  Speaker 4: of falling out with him. He wants to get in
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  Speaker 4: with him.
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  Speaker 5: This possible? I guess I don't got cha?
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  Speaker 4: Then, Hello, neighbor, what do you saying what's with you?
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  Speaker 4: You're still in that steakhout south in the town.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, third week?
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  Speaker 7: Sure, getting dell. You two look busy?
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  Speaker 5: What's all this? Oh, we've got a tip on some
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  Speaker 5: prowl artist funny. Get a line on.
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  Speaker 4: Take a look at this three point one wind, Jim,
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  Speaker 4: you run into any jobs recently to stack up like this?
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  Speaker 4: I say we're shooting in the dark on it so far,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if we got anything or not.
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  Speaker 5: I'd say you got it regular report in the seventy
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  Speaker 5: seven division this morning. Happened to check it when I
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  Speaker 5: was out there, same amo, Is this same everything?
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  Speaker 4: Four fifty five pm, Ben and I went down the
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  Speaker 4: hall to the record bureau and picked up a couple
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  Speaker 4: of mugshots of the suspect, Jefferson Allen. Then we drove
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  Speaker 4: out to the thirteen twenty two Club on North Ferris
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  Speaker 4: Avenue in the Silver Lake District, the neighborhood bar where
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  Speaker 4: Allen spent most of his time, according to our informant,
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  Speaker 4: read Smally. We staked out in the car down the
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  Speaker 4: where we could keep an eye on the front door
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  Speaker 4: of the bar and still not look suspicious. Between five
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  Speaker 4: and seven thirty pm, we watched at least two dozen
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  Speaker 4: customers entering or leaving the bar, but none of them
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  Speaker 4: came close to Alan's description eight pm nothing. By the
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  Speaker 4: time where we relieved on steak out at eleven pm,
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  Speaker 4: Alan still had failed to show. Late the following afternoon,
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  Speaker 4: we were back at the same spot watching for a
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  Speaker 4: sign of the suspect. Six forty eight pm.
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  Speaker 5: How are you fixed for smokes?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? I think I got a couple left. Yeah, here
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  Speaker 4: you go.
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  Speaker 8: I got a light here, yeah, six.
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  Speaker 5: Hey you have a look Joe gray hat, dark suit.
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  Speaker 5: He just came out of the bar.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's coming this way. Yeah, I'll buy it.
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  Speaker 5: That's him getting in that blue sid down.
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  Speaker 4: I don't press Himlet's gi him a good leave, right,
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  Speaker 4: just get him in. What do you think Let's wait
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  Speaker 4: a minute, Yeah, okay, we'll clear all right? You got
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  Speaker 4: him spotted?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, no trouble. That's a funny one. Huh. I wonder
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  Speaker 5: why we didn't see him go in and bore.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. It might be a delivery entrance in
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  Speaker 4: the back of the place we could have missed.
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  Speaker 5: Can you make out that Licen's number?
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  Speaker 4: Can you plod just a little? That's good? Yeah, let's
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  Speaker 4: see seven toms seven ninety seven to two. I better
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  Speaker 4: check it. Eighty K to control one, eight OK to
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  Speaker 4: control one.
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  Speaker 9: Control under eighty K, going.
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  Speaker 4: Ahead, control one, request rolling making DMV on seven times
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  Speaker 4: seven nine seven to two. That's seven times seven nine
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  Speaker 4: seven to two.
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  Speaker 6: Control under eighty K. Rogers stand by.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't seem to be in a great hurry, barely
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  Speaker 5: poking along? Or is he now?
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  Speaker 4: I can't see?
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  Speaker 5: Just turn right on to Bronson. I want to give
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  Speaker 5: him plenty of lee. Uh yeah, thatt's him up ahead,
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  Speaker 5: there's picking up speed.
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  Speaker 4: I don't lose him.
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  Speaker 1: Ride control one to eighty K, control one to eight.
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  Speaker 4: OK, come in, please here we go eighty K to
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  Speaker 4: control one, go ahead seven.
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  Speaker 3: Tom seven nine seven two.
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  Speaker 6: The car is registered to D.
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  Speaker 1: Denver J.
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  Speaker 3: John Carpenter, thirteen twenty two, North Paris.
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  Speaker 4: Avenue, Los Angeles, eighty K to control one Roger Cam
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  Speaker 4: eight three sixty seven Carpenter.
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  Speaker 5: The same guy owns a bar, isn't it is? Adam
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  Speaker 5: must know him.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty well well enough to use his car. Wonder what
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  Speaker 4: the pitch is there? You checked on, Carpenter, didn't you?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Clean bill of health, no record? Yeah? Up ahead there
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  Speaker 5: now he's.
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: Slowing down, Yeah, turning up on the driveway, pull up
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: under that tree there. Huh right, that's fine, see him,
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: uh huh getting out, going to that bungle over there,
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: letting himself in the front door.
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: No sign of anybody else there. No house was dark
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: when we drove up, wasn't it. He couldn't be living
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: there alone.
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: He might be.
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: Doesn't make much sense to me. Why would a single
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: guy get himself.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: A house that'd be Let's wait it out. Maybe he'll
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: come up with the answer. Nine fifteen pm we continued
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: our stakeout on the bungalow on South Bronson Avenue. A
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: little more than an hour passed when we saw the
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: lights go out in the house. The suspect, Jeff Allen,
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: came out the front door, locked up, got in his
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: car and drove off. Ben and I followed him. He
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: drove directly to the bar on North Ferris Avenue, the
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: thirteen twenty two club. He parked his car and went inside.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: Ben and I drove back to the cottage on South
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: Bronson and let ourselves in through the back door. A
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: preliminary check of the house failed to give us any
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: real proof that Allan was the suspect we wanted. The
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: only possible lead we came up with was an expensive
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: hunting rifle, which we found stored away in one of
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: the closets. We copied down the serial number on the gun,
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: drove to a neighborhood's cigar store, called the office and
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: asked him to check out the number for us.
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, Marph, we'll wait for the call.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks, how'd you do?
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna check it through now that call us good.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: I'm a little hungry, aren't you? Do you like candy bar?
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: No, I'm getting a little tired of moun't mind the
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: square meal out. My back's killing me. Never been to
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: soaring my life.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: What's the matter, you fall?
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: No, nothing like that. It's my snoring.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: Again, snoring? What's that got to do with it?
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: Almost broke my back. It's a wife's idea. She claims
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: that I'm sleeping, I roll over on my back and
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: snores as he keeps your awake all night.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: There's not much you can do about it, is it?
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: Eyah? The wife sawt of something supposed to be an
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: ald home remedy. She sewed a couple of golf balls
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: right into the back of my pajamas. You get the
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: idea behind it. If you roll over on your back,
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: the golf balls dig into you and you have to
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: roll over on your side again.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: That'll see what happened to you.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: Well, I'm a sound sleeper, rolled over on my back
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: and stayed there, slept on those golf balls all night,
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: woke up in the morning and like to have died.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: But like I snapped a couple of vertebrae.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: It must be an easier way to keep you from
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: sleeping on your back.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: Uh, I wouldn't do any good anyhow, George just won't work.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: I snowed just as loud sleeping on my side.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: I get it. Hello, yahmer is Joe Friday.
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: W six three four four?
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah? That checks? That was a serial in Lamorn? When
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: was that?
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: Huh?
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Y'all camer Thanks bye. I think maybe we got
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: a break. Yeah, they got to make on the gun
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: we found, is it registered Dallen? No, it was taken
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: in a burglary two months ago.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: You are listening to dragnet authentic stories of your police
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: force in action.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Tuesday night, April seventeenth, ten thirty eight pm, we got
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: additional information from the office on the hunting rifle that
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: we'd found in the bungalow to which we trailed the suspect,
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: Jefferson Allen, a few hours earlier.
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: The gun was.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Registered to a mister Robert Lsal thirty oh eight Bush Street.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: The rifle, along with three hundred dollars in jewelry and
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: forty eight dollars in cash, had been taken from LaSalle's
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: home two months before during his family's absence. The burglar's
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: method of operation matched Allen's alleged MO. Exactly ten forty
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: five PM. After arranging for a stakeout to be placed
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: on the bungalow on Bronson Avenue, Ben and I drove
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: to the thirteen twenty two club on North Ferris, where
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: we located the suspect, jeff Allen.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, that's correct, sergeant. I'm from back in Michigan originally.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: I've been out here about six months now. I think
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna like it. Sure can't beat this weather. You've
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: been working here at the bory ever since you got
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: in town? Is that right? No, not quite. I've been
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: here for about four months. Kind of a handyman job.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: I helped the bartender when I can keep the storeroom
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: in order see everything ship shaped?
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Uh? Have you ever been in Los Angeles before, Allen?
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, just once before, a couple of years ago. It
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: wasn't so good. Then. Jobs were hard to get I
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: ran into a little bit of trouble. Finally went back
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: east again.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: I see, what was this trouble you had?
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: As I say, jobs were pretty hard to come by then.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: I kept checking around, but I couldn't find anything. When
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: so good. I finally got picked up on a bag
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: charge and spent a couple of weeks at the county.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: When I got out, I figured the best thing was
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: head back east again. A lot better this time though,
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: I'm doing okay. See, I couldn't get you anything. No,
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: there's something maybe you'd like to talk to me about,
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: anything I can help you with. It's a routine checkup.
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: We're on.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: Got a few more questions for you, if you don't mind,
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: for sure, let's take one of these booths back here. Huh,
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: might as well be comfortable?
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, go ahead?
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: You sure I couldn't got you anything?
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: A bottle of beer or coke? Maybe? No, you have
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: your family out here with you all and your wife. No,
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: I'm not married. Sorry, and I haven't taken the plunge yet.
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: Figure there's plenty of time for that. Hard enough to
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: keep myself going these days, let alone a family. Yeah,
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: I know what you mean.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Have you ever been arrested before, Alan, I mean, other
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: than that bag charge you mentioned, you ever served any
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: big time Yeah?
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: Matter of fact, I have back in Michigan. Pretty dumb trick.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: I got in trouble as a kid, burglary served all
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: my time, though I don't know my day. I'm washed
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: up with that stuff a long time ago. It just
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: doesn't pay that so.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: Uh. Then that last time there was any trouble was
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: that vague charge? Is that it?
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, that's it. As I say, I'm all washed
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: up with that stuff. It doesn't pay off at all.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: I got wise to that. Mm hm. Lead to hear it, Allen,
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: And you figure you're going to stay on here, then
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: make this your permanent home. Yeah, I think I might.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: It's sure like the weather job suits me too. Boss
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: even lets me use his car once in a while.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Were you nice? Huh?
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Where are you living now? You got an apartment
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: in the neighborhood here?
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I got an apartment, a nice little place. Not
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: exactly in the neighborhood, though, it's out in West Hollywood,
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: right on a bus line. No trouble getting into work.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: It's a small apartment or abouts in West Hollywood. You
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: mind giving us the address? Oh, it's on Norwich Avenue.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Why do yes, It's part of this routine check. We
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: have to make you mind very much if we drive
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: out there with you. I don't look the place over. No,
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: I don't mind. I mean if you figure I need
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: checking out, I just assume clear it up now. I
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: got nothing to hide. Do you want me to get
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: my coat?
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: No, it's all right.
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: Say I should be back here in an hour or so.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: What do you think I mean, it's just a route
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: tea check. It won't take long with.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Them, No, not too long. I suppose you can figure
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: that better than weekend.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: How do you mean he.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: Said you had nothing to hide? Eleven twenty pm we
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: drove the suspect, Jeff Allen, to his apartment on Norwich Avenue.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: It was more than two and a half miles from
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: the bungalow on South Bronson where we followed Alan earlier
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: that night, and where we located the stolen hunting rifle.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: While Ben and I made a thorough check of the apartment.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: Allan sat relaxed in an easy chair. Ben and I
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: covered everything in the apartment, but there was no evidence
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: of any loot taking in the burglaries.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: That's about it. Joe checked everything. Okay, that's about it.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: I sergeant, you fellas want a beer before we go
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: back to the club.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: Just one or two more questions, Allan than I. Anything
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: will wash this thing up.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Sure sertain.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Do you rent some other place in town? Another house
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: or an apartment?
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Maybe another place? No, why would I do that? This
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: is my apartment. This is where I live. Why do
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: you ask that?
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: About six o'clock to night, you were seen going into
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: a bungalow over on South Bronson, the same neighborhood as
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: a club where you work. We got a pretty good idea.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: This quite a bit of loot from burglary store in
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: that house.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: I don't follow his sergeant. I don't know what you mean.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: I don't live on South Bronson. I live here. You
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: ought to be able to tell that you were seen
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: going into the bungalow alan About five minutes past six tonight,
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: we found a stolen hunting raffle in the house. It
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: was taken in a burglary. You think you want to
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: tell us about No, I can't tell you anything about it.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: I don't have any bungalow on South Bronson. I'm not
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: even sure I can tell you where this treet is.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Then you better get your hat, mister, we'll show you.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Eleven forty eight pm, we got in the car and
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: started driving down Beverly Boulevard back toward the bungalow on
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: South Bronson Avenue. When we got to the bungalow, the
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: suspect still refused to admit that he had a key
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: to the door or that he was in any way
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: concerned with the place. We had him empty his pockets,
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: and among his possessions we found a ring of keys.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: We tried them on the front door of the bungalow.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: The fourth when we tried opened it, we went inside.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Alan still would admit nothing. Ben contacted the landlady next
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: door and she said she'd be right over. I continued
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: questioning him while Ben checked through the house again.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Hey, Joel, yo, you want to come back here. I
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: think we've got some.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: All right, Ben? You want to go ahead back here?
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Ellen?
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: Sure? Okay? I still can't tell you what the score is.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: So I don't belong in this place. It ain't mine.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: What key you head? Seemed to fit the front door?
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: How do you figure that that doesn't mean anything? I
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: had that key for years. I think it's a skeleton
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: key opens almost any kind of life down here, Joe,
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: small basement here leads right down off the kitch. All right,
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: go ahead, Allen, have a look, Joe. Line of cupboards
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: all the way around here. Check them for yourself. Yeah,
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: it's a pretty good haul.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Furs, machinist tools, jewelry, quite a bit of it here,
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: A couple of radios, two more hunting rifles. Come on,
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: how about it, Alan, I want to save time for
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: all of us.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: Now, you got it wrong. Sorry, I think this isn't
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: my place. I told you when I got out of
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: that trouble back east, I made a my mind. I
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: was all washed up with this kind of stuff. This
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: house is mine. I haven't got anything to do with it.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: You're a kid and yourself, Allan, you know that. Oh
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: you got it all wrong, you got it all mixed up. Well,
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: we'll let the landlady tell.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: Us the woman who owns this house. She's on her
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: way over from next door. She ought to be able
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: to tell us who she ranted the place to. Wouldn't
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: you say so? Wouldn't you?
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: She might be wrong? It's possible now.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: Look we got you did the right to mister, why
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: not face it?
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: Can't? I won't do it. I made up my mind
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: the last time it wouldn't happen again. I was all
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: washed up with it. I won't go through it again.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: They will send me back and we'll be able to
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: take it. Maybe you should have figured that before you
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: started in. I didn't mean too. I was all washed
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: up with that stuff. I told you that the first
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: time I saw you. Didn't I know sure of it too.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't try it again, didn't pay. It's just what
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: I told you. I'm all through with it, and I
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: washed up with it. I never lied to you, did
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: I what's the difference? Humph, you lie to yourself.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true. The names
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: were changed to protect the innocent.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: On July sixth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: eighty sixth, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: In a moment, the results of that trial, the apprehension
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: of the suspect, Jefferson Herald Allan, resulted in clearing twenty
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: two cases of burglaries committed over the past four months.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Allan was indicted on twenty two counts of first degree
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: burglary and received sentence. As prescribed by law, first degree
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: burglary is punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: not less than five years.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, only two point six patients out of
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: every hundred reaching the most forward hospitals in Korea died later.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: The comparable figure in World War Two was four point five.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: According to official medical statements, The almost miraculous success in
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: saving the lives of casualties is owing in part to
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: the prompt use of blood plasma on the battle field
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: and whole blood in military hospitals. Whole blood reduces shock
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: for potential killer and replaces blood lost through bleeding in
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: the treatment of many battle casualties. There is no substitute
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: for blood. Every American who has given blood can and
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: should feel he personally has contributed directly to the saving
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: of the life of an American boy. This month, your
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: country is short three hundred thousand pints of blood. Please
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: give your blood and save a life.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: You have just heard drag met a series of authentic
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: cases from officials. Technical advice comes from the Office of
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Chief of Police W. H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Today's the silver anniversary of NBC.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Welcome Back Our suspect. Kind of got to a point
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: where I was like, oh, come on, Now. Certainly I
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: respect that a criminal does not have to choose to
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: incriminate him or herself, but I would have a lot
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: more respect for a criminal who plams up and takes
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: the fifth rather than continuing on with the lame denials.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, when they got to the point where they
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: were going to bring the landlady over and he was like, well,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: she could be mistaken before she even identified him, I
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, come on. And kind of the same
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: thing with his insistence that, you know, his statement that
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: he was done with that after he got out of prison,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: which they were supposed to take as something that indicated
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: his good intentions. But I have so much trouble buying that. Now.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Let's be clear, there are crimes that you can commit
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: on a whim. You know, you get back into the
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: wrong sort of environment and you make a bad choice
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: and you can find yourself committing a similar crime, re offending.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: But burglary is such a premedicated crime. You don't just
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: randomly burglarize the place. You've got to make sure that
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: it's worth burglarizing, and you've also got to make sure
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: that it's a place that you can access without being
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: easily detected. So I don't like a criminal who insults
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: our intelligence, which I kind of feel like it did.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: All right, Listener comments and feedback now, and we have
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: a couple comments on Spotify regarding the Big Lease Mechanics.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Sixty six rites after hearing Harry Bartel try a Mexican accent,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I'm glad he didn't try a French accent on that
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: escape episode with Jack Webb as an OSS agent. And
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: then Harrison says she might have been a criminal, but
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: at least she could properly pronounce Julio credit where credit
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: is due, I guess, and then Lucifer Sam says, hey, Adam,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Joe says, all we know are the facts, ma'am at
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: the twenty minute mark. I think that's the closest I've
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: heard to just the facts, man. Yeah, And of course
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: I think it's a very different context because in that case,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: he was explaining their investigation. But the framing and it
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: comes I think from the Sanfrey Bert parody, and the
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: way it gets interpreted is that that's something that Joe
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Friday says when questioning witnesses, and it's not. And I mean,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I think there are two things I hate about that idea.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Number one, it's route and second is that I think
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: it's a bad way to question witnesses because the witnesses
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: and one thing that I think you do hear from Dragnet,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: and I think it's a very good lesson, is that
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: not everyone understands what the pertinent facts are, and there
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: are details that are going to be forgotten, particularly if
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: you sit there and you rush the witness. And where
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: they tend to have some success is by questioning the witness,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: letting them tell the story as they experienced it, asking
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: follow up questions and then if and there are sometimes
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: where a witness just goes completely off the rails, where
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: we have gone so far from any sort of relevant
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: that they need to get them back on track. And
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: so what Friday will say in that instance is, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's very interesting, ma'am. But now I'd like to talk
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more about the car you saw? Could
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  Speaker 1: you tell us? And then pushes it back towards what's relevant.
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  Speaker 1: But I appreciate the comment and the opportunity to go
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  Speaker 1: on more about why I don't like that iconic phrase
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  Speaker 1: that is associated with one of my favorite programs, but
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  Speaker 1: was never actually setting it. All Right, now, let's go
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  Speaker 10: All or where it just happens that right now I
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  Speaker 10: can use a few extra Bucks's quite a few, so
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  Speaker 10: what's the deal.
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  Speaker 11: Well, as a matter of fact, I hadn't thought in
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  Speaker 11: terms of anyth on this one.
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  Speaker 9: Thoughts. Will pay whatever expenses you.
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  Speaker 10: Mean, sir, Oh, you trust me with my expense account, Fritz,
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  Speaker 10: are you kidding?
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  Speaker 9: Of course not?
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  Speaker 10: Okay, Then, now that we understand each other, what's the problem,
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  Speaker 10: a rother?
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  Speaker 9: Who's the problem? John Wakefield Edwards?
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  Speaker 4: Never hear of him?
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  Speaker 10: No, I can't say that I have retired business man
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  Speaker 10: another goose, I think it was.
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  Speaker 9: He lived just outside of Almondy in New York. So
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  Speaker 9: what's happened to him? Well, nothing that I know of.
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  Speaker 11: There's a lot of insurance with its, including a straight
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  Speaker 11: life policy worth one hundred and sixty five thousands.
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  Speaker 9: How old is you, Fritz? In his late sixties? His
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  Speaker 9: wife died well three or four years ago.
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  Speaker 10: Then who's a beneficiary?
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  Speaker 9: Is adopted daughter of Maryland? And how old is she?
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  Speaker 9: In her late twenty She's a very attractive girl. Then
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  Speaker 9: who cares about a flea?
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  Speaker 10: Let's I take you sam Andy, Johnny.
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  Speaker 9: You probably won't even see her? Oh why not? But
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  Speaker 9: she lives and works over in Troy. Uh, well, what's
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  Speaker 9: happening to me? All man?
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  Speaker 11: Well, they called me a few minutes ago and asked,
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  Speaker 11: or rather demandi, did I send you over to.
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  Speaker 9: See him immediately? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 11: He wouldn't say what he did say though, just before
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  Speaker 11: he hung up is that under no circumstances that you
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  Speaker 11: to let her know that you're coming.
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  Speaker 10: M Berlin, I was aused so M I wonder so Johnny, I.
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