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it's time for today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar originally broadcast on My Dad's
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Birthday from October twenty seventh of nineteen fifty seven. The Three Sisters Matter,
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And Oh hi, Earl, are things down in sunny Florida? I don't
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know what I'm going from Green Mountain, Colorado? What under the sunny you're
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doing out there? Fishing? Trip hard? Because if it is, I'll
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join you. I want you to join you, all right, But no
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fishing. You've got a problem, Johnny, one of my important clients.
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I think, Okay, here, I'll grab the next Plain Sailey and The
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Exciting Adventures of the Man with the Action Fact Expense A count America's Fabulous Freelance
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Insurance Investigator or Truly Johnny Dollar now Act one of yours, Truly Johnny Dollars.
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Expense accounts submitted by a special Investigator Johnny Dollars to the Tri State Life
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and Casually Insurance Company, Attention air Former. Following is the account of expenses
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encourage during my investigation of the Three Sisters Matters expense account out of one one
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hundred and fifty one dollars eighty cents. Transportation to New York and Airfair and
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incidentals to Colorado Springs to be at Peterson Field at the Innicipal Airport. I'm
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glad to see you, Johnny. Poss in your back and pop it.
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Okay? Sure? And where's this green Mountain falls? You're called a little
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place about twelve thirteen miles equal there. I'm staying at the Lucky four Ranch,
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one of the last places Rollanov was seen rollin off Amicia Rollanov the concert
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Jane, Oh sure, yeah, I he has a little place up on
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the mountain just back of the Lucky Floor where he and his daughters live when
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he's not on concert. Dallers, how many Olga Maria Ada now here's what
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happens, Rollandov and the girls. Well they're really stepped on it, by
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the way, Oh, where's the money? She died some years back?
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Or anyhow. They arrived up here about ten days ago, right after his
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last concert wing over in Europe. And what does he do when he's up
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here and the girl's just low? Oh? He has a count in his
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cottage to keep him practice the bats all and now you say he's disappeared,
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Johnny, He was fond of taking long walks. This is pretty good hiking
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country. I have seen that, all right, if your part both ago?
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Yeah, or anyhow? Three days ago, right after Breakmas, he
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started out on his usual morning walk. He stopped in for a second cup
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of coffee with Ray sch Mischni and his wife rain Glee has run the Lucky
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four. Oh yeah, well gone, that's all. That was the last
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time Rolling Off was seen. What was any kind of a search for me?
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Yes, and that's not easy to rain the search. There's been quite
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a bit of snow too, enough to cover up any tracks he might have
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made. All right, do you know any reason he might have wanted to
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dispe No? I don't think so. I knew him very well, Johnny.
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I've known him for years of court. He occasionally got up with having
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three girls around his neck off a time well after I'm sure, especially eight
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at the youngest. She's a brilliant gannet the earl tell me how did the
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girls feel about him? Oh no, just a minute, you said himself
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on his own blood. Well, just like, will you meet them?
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And aside for yourself? Yeah, I will. The Lucky Four was on
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a level spot on the set of them up. It consisted of half a
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dozen leads modern comfortable cottages, and from the front window of the one we
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shared with a beautiful view of Pike's people. Uh, oh, come in,
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Ray, come in see us, come up to drive. I want
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you to meet the man I've been telling you about race Missie. That is
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Johnny Dollars. Hi, raight, Johnny. Only I'm afraid he got here
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too later. Oh well, what do you mean, just a few minutes
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ago before you got back here in the gully up on the West Meadow,
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way up where I dumped the trash. You know what I mean? Yes,
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remember the bear cave I pointed out to you one day when you went
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up there with me in the jeep. You mean that bear got no,
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but that's where I found well enough, yeah, d a bullet hole in
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the back of his head. Back two if you're truly Johnny Dollar in a
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moment, two of your truly twenty dollars? A question? Was Misha running
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off the eminent conscious pianist murder? I was he shot accidentally up near the
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bear cave on the mountains the back of the Lucky four ranch at Green Mountains
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Fall, Colorado. We went up there and raised cheeks, a careful inspection
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of the body and the kelly, in which he found it to deal nothing
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by way of plus one thing done? What's that? Right? Like I
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told Earl here, I was finding to shoot that bear myself, letting him
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get nice and fat on the garbage from the ranch. He used to come
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down every day regular clockwork and tip over the PALESI and Georgians. Well,
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what are you trying to get? It's been over a week now since I've
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seen him. I don't see what you're getting at right. Well, it
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could mean only one thing or somebody else got to that bear before I could,
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and it must have been some time before rullingo discipline, that's right.
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So his being killed here couldn't have been accidental by somebody gunning for that bear.
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Look here, Johnny, it's cartridge case I picked up. Oh,
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let's see. Yeah, two fifty seven robbers. What'd you find it?
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Hying that tree there down the slope? You know anybody around here who shoot
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the two fifty seven robbers? All the hunters in these parts use a thirty
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odd six or two seventy or a thirty thirty. Only two fifty seven?
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Well, what's the matter? Right? It looks sick. Yeah, there's
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a two fifty seven up in the rolling off cottage. One of the girls.
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She's a pretty good shot. Right, you know what you're saying?
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One right, I'll get real ada now. No, I won't do it,
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Johnny. I won't to choose law. Look, this is no guessing
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game. This is murder. Dogg Johnny, I can't believe it, not
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one of them. Look, I got to drive into Colorado Springs notify the
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coroner and the police. But if you know something that will help us,
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No, no, Gonny, because if I was wrong, I'd never forgive
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me, don't you understand? Oh all right, earl, do you know
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the way after the rolling up lake? Yes? Rode all right to my
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car. Ray, Yeah, yeah, it's so let's go. Hey,
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take it easy, you're this road is which one is in the car?
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I know it? Rolling off cottage is right up in that clearing sidle of
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that thick metal. You know those daughters that god is You figure which one
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of them might have wanted to kill a running off? No? Got who's
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the benefici Well, it's a very unusual policy. What do you mean unusual?
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There's no beneficiary specifically named? What the beneficiary or beneficiaries are to be
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the same as the heirs, But they're spent to bite and rolling off the
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will? Well who nobody knows? Is well? Answer? Well, look
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here always made it very clear that his will would show up at the proper
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time. I assume, of course his stepdaughters will be there. But if
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they are not, oh this is a well enough cottage. Had a lot
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of cottage, and just as knife on the inside as it is on the
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outside. Rollinov used to complain now and then about some of the feminine strippery
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all around him. Wow, he likes it, and you're sure they all
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got along well again, of course, every family has a little spat once
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in a while. Johnny Johnny, I listened to me what we should see.
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I know that after what Race said, the evidence kind of seems to
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point to one or all of them. But well, yeah, oh hello.
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To say the girl who stepped through that door was beautiful would be the
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understatement of the week. Fall and striking dress in something that looks like Schipperella
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or Christian the yor as though she just stepped out of Child of the Rips,
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her two sisters, or anything like this. Johnny, I said,
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this is the older sister al Gorollanov. Johnny mhm. Oh oh, hi,
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Johnny, you're the investigator I told us about. Come in sure,
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thanks. Have you found out anything about daughter? Oh no, we haven't.
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That's terrible. Oh wait a minute, Johnny you wait. Hey,
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there we have Hello Helloada. And this would looking managed Johnny dollan Hi,
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you know, Oh that's a nice, warm welcome. Ada. Why don't
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you go in and fix your hair? You look a fright that plain old
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house there? Really, what's that you're playing? Ada's the last thing Daddy
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wrote. He wrote frantically in the morning, a much as those who knew
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something was going to happen to her. Oh come now, you had to
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write it before it did happened? Where were you Ada? In the morning?
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He left right here playing this for the first song? Think she disappeared.
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I've been trying to figure to Oh Ada, that's such a silly idea.
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What did you mean by that? Oh, it's really well, it's
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like a lot of other hilly ideas. She gets over her knees a lot
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of things. It's those sheets of did these concert artists in the family and
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said his daddy maybe, now that he's gone, I will be I would
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be greater than he ever won. Oh sure, and I'll do it the
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memory of you do it for your own self glorifications. I'm sorry, that's
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wrong, this lily. Where were you that morning? Olga calling out of
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spring? I went happening right after breakfast, or rather windows shopping. I
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need some new things so badly, and well, you know, I have
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to keep up with the child. And I looked like I was poor little
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artist here. So where was your other sister, Maria? I don't know,
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oh Ada, stop that. When I left the house, he and
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Ada were doing the distrie. You weren't helping her. I told you,
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Johnny, I had to go into the spring. Where is she now,
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oh, Marie is solidly out of the hill somewhere camping or all right here,
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Olga? How well, oh, come indy it this is Johnny Daller
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the investigator. Earl said that you were Gevin. So I see well,
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investigator, I thought too, and I didn't like what I saw. Orio
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was dressed in kaki shirt, riches and honeymoon and heying the crook of her
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arm was a high powered hunting rifle. Act three of yours, truly,
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Johnny Dollar. In a moment, Act three of yours, truly Johnny Dollar
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and the three sisters matters. How about Amy and that rifle the other way,
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Marie, I'll set it down the corner. Better, let me see
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it. Huh? Are you a hundred Johnny as if you were? Dear
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I am Maria. You do a lot of shitting, shooting, yes,
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killing, dancing around these mountains, blazing way at anything that moves. That's
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for the sake of How about that, Maria, give me something to do,
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kind of a relief. What else is there to do? And is
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God's the saken plate? Have you any other guns that I use for plinking?
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We all use it? Why I want to see that one you put
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in a corner, and please don't start waving it around the way you did.
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Yeah. Yeah, Why are you so interested in? Why? Pretty
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optick? Right, Johnny? And your only other one is a twenty two?
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That's right? Why that's about twenty two up there? Or emento?
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That's that fat thinking? Oh, get it down for you, Aria.
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Why why all these questions? Johnny? Better tell them, Johnny, Yeah,
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tell us what we found. Your father's right body. Yeah, Johnny,
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you can't be sorry. He was shot by a high powered rife.
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It's a terrible Johnny. Tell me are you crying for Alga? I suppose
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you're glad because now you can do what you see. No more of those
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boring context tips all over the world, no more of this God's taking place,
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as you call it. And I suppose you're glad because now you'll have
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money, fancy clothes, Europe, Riviera, South America. Men. Men,
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Yes, talking cry because it's because he doesn't sake stop saying that thing
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over and over and over. What are you trying to do? Drivels out
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of my mind. No, I'm trying to find out why dad he wrote
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it? What compuls in maiden Deely had you right? It before he left
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that morning. Hey, wait a minute, wait, I said, what
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is he to get back to that piano? Sit down? Play that thing
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again. I'll play it slowly. Stop, Johnny, what the son are
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you doing? Listener notes on a piano run from A to G like this.
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Let's just see the first three notes of that thing. She's been playing
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A D A listen A D A. Hey yeah, oh now, wait
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a minute, the rest of them? Ill quick your face edge c A
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G E cage c e bed ada face cage bed the connariciate right, And
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that's exactly what I'm going to do. Tear out the base of the tape.
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Well, somebody please tell me what this is all about. Look here,
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Look it has a false bottom. Yes, look what tennant is hidden
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there? Last will and testament of Misha Romanov? What use to say,
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Johnny? That note with it? What it looks like rolinof puts the finger
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on it, killing Johnny? What does it say? And my reason for
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deliberately omitting her from my will, omitting home from the glob are you talking
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about? It? Is not only because of the self centered life she's always
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not only because of her constance completely selfish extravagant, apply to all of it,
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an extravagance which finally led her to forging my name on check Oh Johnny.
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Then when I discovered that she was sneaking out and practicing with the old
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rifle, it's kept over the map, the two fifty. It was kept
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over the man who don't move. God, so he cut me out of
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his will. If I can't have what I wanted, you won't have it.
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Now call this gun. Who's five shops? I know because I reloaded
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after I killed him. Oh God, And now you all know that I
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killed him all right? One side for you, Maria, one for Ada,
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one for you, earl, and one for Johnny. That means one
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for me. When I've sin, no one will ever know. I'll have
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your mind. What difference does that make? No, that's now there's no
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other way out for him. There's nothing else. I can't stand killed fall
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us. It doesn't not for you all, Thank God. Somebody empty the
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bullets out of that gun. Yeah, really, Aiden, I we didn't
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want to believe it. We tried not to, but I guess we knew
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that when Daddy disappeared, she must have somehow, somehow, there's something like
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this might happen, and she did tell him. Oh why why cut of
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a wine be so twisted? Expensive counts total including fairback to heartspid three fifty
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one twenty remarks none yours to leave Johnny though, or sorry will return in
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just a moment to tell you about next week's story. Sorry to tell you
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about next week's story next week. A beautiful girl, a model in a
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fact and unfortunately a model of crime to go with her, Join us,
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won't you? And welcome back. This is an episode that really did suffer
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from length restrictions. I think you had the makings of a good dramatic tint
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comparison between these three characters, and you didn't have time to do it right.
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I don't think, particularly with Johnny coming in. The final clue was
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certainly clever, and my hat's off to the writers. It's tough, I
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think, to come up with a really good, convincing message if you can
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only use the letters A through G, though I guess that combination does have
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the benefit of having two vowels thrown in. And the one thing always about
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a story like this that always makes me wonder is this guy was clever enough
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to find an extremely ingenious way to hide his will, and then an extremely
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ingenious and intricate way to reveal where that was hidden, yet unable to avoid
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being killed even though he knew who was going to do it, and even
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the weapon that they were going to use. I don't know. If I
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was that clever, I would probably apply my cleverness in that direction. But
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I'm not a musical genius. So all right, Well, on to some
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listener comments and feedback. Bobby Lee writes in Hey, Adam, I've noticed
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that music at the end of the episode is longer sometimes than others. Were
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they trying to fill time and answer to question yes, sometimes this would be
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used longer. Music would be used so that they could fill in public service
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announcements later. But also they did need to get to over the Armed Forces
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radio and television service. They did need to have the shows be a certain
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length so that they would fit very neatly into the schedule. So often music
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would be used to pad it out, and we can hear that with multiple
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shows. And indeed that's where the theme music came from, was some Armed
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Forces radio service music at the end of Pat Novak for Hire. So it's
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all about making that fit and then just some general praise for Johnny Dollar.
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Diane I says Johnny Dollar is my favorite, and Kathy concurs and says,
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