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Suspense - "The White Rose Murders" (Old Time Radio, 1943) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A serial murderer is preying on young women, leaving a
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: single white rose with each victim. In an unnamed city,
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  Speaker 1: Ginny Trowbridge learns that her police detective boyfriend, Terry Riley,
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  Speaker 1: is under pressure to solve the case. Determined to help,
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  Speaker 1: she volunteers to serve as bait. This is Suspense, The
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  Speaker 1: White Rose Murders, Episode 6, first broadcast by CBS on
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  Speaker 1: July 6, 1943, with Maureen O'Hara as Ginny. The script
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  Speaker 1: is Robert Tallman's radio adaptation of Cornell Woolrich's story, The
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  Speaker 1: Death Rose, directed by Ted Bliss and produced by William Spear.
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  Speaker 1: And now, we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Suspense.
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  Speaker 3: This is The Man in Black.
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  Speaker 4: Here again to introduce Columbia's program, Suspense. Our star this
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  Speaker 4: evening is Miss Maureen O'Hara, whom you've seen rise to
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  Speaker 4: stardom in Hollywood within the short space of a year.
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  Speaker 4: Her performances in the 20th Century Fox production, How Green
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  Speaker 4: Was My Valley, then more recently in The Immortal Sergeant,
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  Speaker 4: and now currently in the RKO production, This Land Is Mine,
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  Speaker 4: have given her an enviable place in the ranks of
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  Speaker 4: America's new film favorites. Miss O'Hara makes her first appearance
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  Speaker 4: on our suspense stage tonight as the heroine of A
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  Speaker 4: Study in Homicidal Mania, The White Rose Murders by Cornell Woolrich,
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  Speaker 4: which is tonight's tale of Suspense. If you have been
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  Speaker 4: with us before, you will know that suspense is compounded
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  Speaker 4: of mystery and suspicion and dangerous adventure. In this series
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  Speaker 4: are tales calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves,
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  Speaker 4: to offer you a precarious situation and then withhold the
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  Speaker 4: solution until the last possible moment. And so it is
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  Speaker 4: with the White Rose murders and the performance.
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  Speaker 2: Of Maureen O'Hara.
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  Speaker 4: We again hope to keep you in.
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  Speaker 5: Suspense!
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  Speaker 3: He stood there waiting.
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  Speaker 4: He knew that presently they would come out of the
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  Speaker 4: second-rate dance hall, out into the dimly lit street. He
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  Speaker 4: listened a while. and smiled as the orchestra played that
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  Speaker 4: tune inside. And then they came out, the two girls.
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  Speaker 4: And still he waited, close enough to hear what they
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  Speaker 4: were saying.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'll see you at the office tomorrow, Sally. Oh,
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  Speaker 6: I don't know how I'll get up. It's after one o'clock.
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  Speaker 6: Six hours sleep. Oh, I'll be dead tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Me too.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, gosh.
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  Speaker 6: I gotta have at least eight hours or I'm no
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  Speaker 6: good at all. I wish I had someone to walk
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  Speaker 6: me to the bus. It's four long blocks. I'll walk
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  Speaker 6: you down, Sally. Oh, don't bother. We go in different directions.
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  Speaker 6: What's no trouble? Really, I don't mind. Really, it's not necessary.
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  Speaker 4: In the narrow alley that divides the dance hall from
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  Speaker 4: an ugly office building, he stood smiling. Just a little
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  Speaker 4: inside the alley, he stood stiffly against the wall, his
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  Speaker 4: head back, eyes closed, arms straight down, and in his
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  Speaker 4: left hand, a white rose.
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  Speaker 6: Well, all right then, Sally. Good night. Good night, Joan.
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  Speaker 6: See you in the morning. Oh, I hope I don't
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  Speaker 6: have to wait long for the bus.
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  Speaker 7: Who are you?
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  Speaker 6: Keep away. Keep away from me. Let me go.
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  Speaker 3: Let me go. The girl is dead.
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  Speaker 4: Tenderly, the figure straightens her hair and gently places the
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  Speaker 4: limp body on the ground. Then he opens her clenched fist,
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  Speaker 4: and carefully, so that the thorns will not bruise her flesh,
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  Speaker 4: he places in her hand.
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  Speaker 2: The white rosebud.
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  Speaker 6: Pardon me, my good man. Is it true that you
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  Speaker 6: are the famous detective Terrence Riley?
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  Speaker 8: Huh?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Ginny. I didn't see you come in.
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  Speaker 6: Well, now that I'm here, how about offering to buy
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  Speaker 6: a cup of coffee for the girl you're going to marry?
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  Speaker 6: You can never get up enough nerve to ask her.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's no use, Ginny. I guess we better call
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  Speaker 2: it quits. I'm just a dick on the homicide squad,
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  Speaker 2: and that's all I'll ever be.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm a rich debutante.
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  Speaker 2: We don't belong together.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, you've been reading too many of those romantic stories, Terry.
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  Speaker 6: What is it this time? What's wrong?
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  Speaker 2: They call him the White Rose Killer. He's got to
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  Speaker 2: be caught. There's a general demotion coming on if he isn't,
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  Speaker 2: and that's all I need to get back into uniform.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, don't worry, darling. You always look good in blue.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Just to match the way I feel.
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  Speaker 6: Tell me more about the White Rose Killer. What's he like?
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  Speaker 2: That's the stumble. He could be anybody. No one's ever
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  Speaker 2: seen him except the dead, and they don't talk about
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  Speaker 2: it afterwards. Just slips out of the shadows and kills
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  Speaker 2: and then slips back again.
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  Speaker 6: How many has he murdered?
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  Speaker 9: Four.
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  Speaker 7: Four?
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  Speaker 2: He's not through yet. It's going to be one of
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  Speaker 2: those chain things if he's allowed to keep on.
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  Speaker 6: Are you sure it's always the same one?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. That part of it we're sure of. The same touch.
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  Speaker 2: The same way of operating every time.
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  Speaker 6: How do you know that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a rose. A white rosebud. A death rose.
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  Speaker 2: Puts it into each victim's hand after he kills her.
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  Speaker 10: Her?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's always a woman. A young woman between 19
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  Speaker 2: and 23.
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  Speaker 6: What's behind it? Do you have any idea?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm not sure. But here's what I figured out.
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  Speaker 2: You know what a rose stands for. Symbolically, I mean.
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  Speaker 6: Why, yes. It's the flower of love. The white rose,
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  Speaker 6: the bud, has another meaning. Purity, loyalty, devotion. And especially
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  Speaker 6: it stands for a young girl.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. And that's about the way I see it.
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  Speaker 6: So maybe it's a double cross. committed against our murderer
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  Speaker 6: by some young girl whom he worshipped and who betrayed
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  Speaker 6: his faith in her.
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  Speaker 2: You ought to be a detective, not me.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks, darling. I've got a very fine teacher.
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  Speaker 2: Sweet. There's another thing. The murders were all committed near
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  Speaker 2: places where there was music, dance halls, cabarets and the like.
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  Speaker 2: There's a song that brings back the original shock that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, gives him the final push over into the darkness.
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  Speaker 2: As far as we can figure out, it's the beer
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  Speaker 2: barrel polka.
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  Speaker 6: Well, how does he commit the murder? Is it always
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  Speaker 6: the same way?
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  Speaker 2: Always. Strangulation between the hands. With the thumb into the
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  Speaker 2: windpipe to keep his victims from crying out. But isn't
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  Speaker 2: there anything else you know about him? No, that's why
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  Speaker 2: it's so hopeless. He's insane, of course. But there's only
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  Speaker 2: this one phase to his insanity. Probably perfectly normal in
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  Speaker 2: appearance and behavior. You could pass him on the street
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  Speaker 2: and even know it. Well, it's only when he sees
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  Speaker 2: someone vaguely like the girl he loved and Here's that song.
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  Speaker 2: The one defective wire in him is jangled and short circuit.
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  Speaker 6: But, Terry, the flowers. Don't the flowers tell you? He
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  Speaker 6: must get them somewhere, you could trace.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know where he gets them. Maybe he steals
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  Speaker 2: them or.
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  Speaker 6: Terry, what if you were the one to get him?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it would mean a citation and a promotion.
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  Speaker 6: And then all the things that stand between us would disappear?
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  Speaker 6: We could get married?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the chances would be a lot better anyway. But
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  Speaker 2: what chance have I? Everyone in the department has been
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  Speaker 2: working their heads off for weeks, and they've all failed.
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  Speaker 6: Uh-huh. Terry, what were the girls like, the ones he killed?
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  Speaker 2: Well, as I told you, they were all between 19
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  Speaker 2: and 23. Their heights were pretty much the same, too.
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  Speaker 2: They were all tall girls, around 5 feet 6 or 7,
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  Speaker 2: a little taller than you, and all dark-haired.
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  Speaker 6: How did they wear their hair?
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  Speaker 9: Why, they.
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  Speaker 2: Say, what is this?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, nothing, darling. Just interested. How did they wear their hair?
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  Speaker 2: Well, from what I remember, they wore it sort of
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  Speaker 2: loose and curly down the back.
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  Speaker 6: I suppose each one had a resemblance to that long
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  Speaker 6: dead love of his.
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  Speaker 2: That's probably it. Well, anyway, that's how the record stands.
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  Speaker 2: And we're all waiting for it to happen again.
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  Speaker 6: I see. Terry, I'd like to go home now.
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  Speaker 2: I shouldn't have told you all that stuff. I've given
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  Speaker 2: you the creeps.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, come on, Terry. Take me home.
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  Speaker 4: Later, Jenny stands by the window in her room, looking out, thinking.
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  Speaker 4: She doesn't move for a long time. Then suddenly, quickly,
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  Speaker 4: she goes to her closet and begins to rummage through
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  Speaker 4: her many pairs of shoes. Carefully, she picks one pair
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  Speaker 4: with three-inch heels.
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  Speaker 6: Five foot six. six or seven.
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  Speaker 4: Then she walks quickly to the dresser, opens a drawer,
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  Speaker 4: takes out a comb and starts redoing her hair.
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  Speaker 6: Worn loose and curly down the back. Well, here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Edward! Edward!
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  Speaker 5: Yes, miss?
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  Speaker 6: Is the car ready?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Miss Virginia. I've been waiting for you.
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  Speaker 6: Let's go before Mother sees me.
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  Speaker 2: Your mother's been looking for you, Miss.
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  Speaker 6: I hope you didn't tell her.
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  Speaker 2: No, Miss Virginia, I didn't. Good.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, Edwards.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you wish to go, Miss Virginia?
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  Speaker 6: The Starlight Dance Hall on Groven Second Street.
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  Speaker 2: The Starlight, Miss?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Edwards, that's the place.
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  Speaker 11: I wouldn't go there unescorted if I were you, Miss.
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  Speaker 11: It's one of the worst places in the city. It
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  Speaker 11: has a very bad reputation.
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  Speaker 6: The Starlight Dance.
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  Speaker 9: Hall, Edwards.
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  Speaker 2: Any good, miss?
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  Speaker 10: Any good?
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  Speaker 4: Ginny walks slowly around the low light of dance hall,
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  Speaker 4: trying to make herself conspicuous. A tall figure leaning against
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  Speaker 4: a pillar watches her intently as he idly smokes a cigarette.
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  Speaker 4: He doesn't seem to belong there. His clothes don't have
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  Speaker 4: the gnattiness of a dance lover. Jenny pauses not far
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  Speaker 4: from him. Deliberately, he throws his cigarette on the floor,
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  Speaker 4: steps on it, and slowly walks over to her.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 8: Oh.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, hello.
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  Speaker 2: You're not with anyone, are you?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no, I'm alone.
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  Speaker 2: I thought so. I've been watching you all the time.
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  Speaker 6: Have you?
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  Speaker 2: I haven't seen you dance yet.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know anyone here.
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  Speaker 2: How about dancing with me, then?
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Come on.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go out on the floor.
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  Speaker 6: Do you come here often?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: I never go to the same place twice.
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  Speaker 6: You don't?
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  Speaker 7: Why?
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  Speaker 2: I'm always looking for new faces. I'm restless.
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  Speaker 6: Do you find the faces you're looking for?
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  Speaker 9: Listen.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to that song. I like that. I like it
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  Speaker 2: very much.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, it is a nice song.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you remind me of someone I used to know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to think who.
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  Speaker 7: I do?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Do you mind if we stop dancing and go over
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  Speaker 2: and get a drink?
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  Speaker 6: No, let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, look. They sell flowers here.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I see.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get you some. What kind would you like?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, any kind. You pick it out.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Let's see. There's something kind of innocent and
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  Speaker 2: young about you. Different from most of the girls that
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: come here.
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  Speaker 6: Can't we stay here a little longer?
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  Speaker 2: It's intermission now. They won't play again for ten minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 6: But I like it here. Let's stay a little while longer.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then let's go down for some air. We can
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  Speaker 2: come back in a few minutes. Come on.
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  Speaker 9: But.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be back before the music starts.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, you're hurting my arm.
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  Speaker 2: Am I? I'm sorry. Fresh air smells good, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 6: It's so dark here. Let's go back.
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  Speaker 2: You're not scared, are you? Oh, no, it's... Let's walk
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  Speaker 2: down this alley and back.
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  Speaker 6: Please.
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  Speaker 2: Please. No, you don't.
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  Speaker 10: Let me go.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks. That's a lovely necklace, beautiful.
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  Speaker 6: Why, you're just a cheap... Shut up. All you wanted
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  Speaker 6: was my necklace.
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  Speaker 2: So long, beautiful.
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  Speaker 7: Look out. What's the matter?
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  Speaker 2: Behind you, look. Holy... She's dead.
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  Speaker 9: A girl.
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  Speaker 2: Murdered.
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  Speaker 6: With a white rosebud in her hand.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Ginny, happened again last night. Just like the other times.
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  Speaker 2: The girl strangled in an alley and the white rose
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  Speaker 2: in her hand.
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  Speaker 6: Any news of the killer?
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  Speaker 11: No.
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  Speaker 2: He might just as well float through the air for
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  Speaker 2: all the trace he leaves.
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  Speaker 6: He must have bought the flower upstairs in the dance hall.
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  Speaker 6: He must have been there earlier, bought it and saved
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  Speaker 6: it under.
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  Speaker 2: No, there was only one rose sold up there all night.
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  Speaker 2: And to a man who had a different girl with him.
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  Speaker 2: We had the flower girl at... How did you know
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  Speaker 2: that they sold flowers there? I didn't tell you. Well, I.
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  Speaker 6: I must have read it somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: You couldn't have. It wasn't in any of the papers.
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  Speaker 2: No details were given, just the statement that an unidentified
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  Speaker 2: body was found.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I... Well, I just imagined that they'd sell flowers
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  Speaker 6: in a place like that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you don't go near those dance halls. Why,
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  Speaker 2: with this nut running around loose.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, don't bother about that. We'd better catch this killer.
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  Speaker 6: And fast.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you get this we stuff? To hear you talk,
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  Speaker 2: you'd think that you were on the case, too.
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  Speaker 6: Wouldn't you think so? To hear me talk?
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: Again, Jenny tours the low dives, hunting for the white
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  Speaker 4: rose killer.
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  Speaker 3: Her search carries her to the waterfront.
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  Speaker 4: And as she walks past each dingy bar, she listens
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  Speaker 4: to the jukebox music. A little after midnight... she passes
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  Speaker 4: a dirty windowed saloon. The thin music catches her ear.
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  Speaker 4: She pauses and listens... her eyes alive for some sign...
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  Speaker 4: some indication of the person she's looking for. Then suddenly
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  Speaker 4: her body becomes rigid... as her eyes fall upon a
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  Speaker 4: figure huddled in the shadows.
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  Speaker 6: Someone's watching me.
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  Speaker 3: Slowly, she starts to walk up the street.
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  Speaker 4: Behind her, the heavy tread of a man's footsteps keep
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  Speaker 4: pace with hers. It's a quiet tread, unhurried but deliberate.
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  Speaker 4: For several blocks, it keeps the exact distance.
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  Speaker 3: Jenny starts to walk faster.
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  Speaker 6: I've got to know if he's really following me.
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  Speaker 3: The man quickens his pace. Jenny starts across the street.
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  Speaker 3: The man follows.
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  Speaker 2: She's sure now.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Sure that the man is following her.
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  Speaker 2: She fumbles for something in her purse. Her hand closes
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  Speaker 2: around a gun.
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  Speaker 6: If he tries anything, I'll shoot.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: You in any trouble, lady?
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: Oh, no, officer.
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: It's all right. You scared him away.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Scared who away?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, just a man who wanted to bring me flowers.
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  Speaker 6: That's all.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he brought you one anyhow, lady.
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  Speaker 7: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: Right there on the ground, right by your feet. A
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  Speaker 2: white rose. Coffee, Mabel.
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  Speaker 6: Sure, coming right up. Here you are.
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  Speaker 2: Terry.
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: Jerry.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Jenny. Sit down.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Say, what's the matter with you?
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  Speaker 6: Look, darling, read the gossip column in this paper.
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  Speaker 2: What daughter of a socially prominent family is that way
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  Speaker 2: about a detective and waits for him outside the station
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  Speaker 2: house in her limousine every night? Private chauffeur and all,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: but Mama says no. That's not so funny.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, they held a big family war council over me
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  Speaker 6: just now. Indian powwow, feathered headdress and everything.
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  Speaker 2: They did, huh? Well? What did they decide?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I was asked to give my word that I
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: wouldn't see you anymore. I refused, of course, so I
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: had to be exiled.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Where to?
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  Speaker 6: Our summer home. It's just a few hours out of town,
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: but I'll be there all by myself. Just with Mrs. Crosby,
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: the housekeeper.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, maybe they're right. Why don't you listen to them?
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  Speaker 6: Are you on their side, too?
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  Speaker 9: No.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: When are you leaving?
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  Speaker 7: Right away.
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: Edwards is driving me out. I just slipped out to
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: let you know. Here's the address and phone number of
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: the place in case you want to reach me. Don't
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: lose it.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: I won't.
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: Well, what's new and exciting about the white rose killer?
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Our famous lover of flowers? We're still trying to track
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: him down. I suppose I'll go looking for him at
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: the flower show that's just opened.
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: Oh, a flower show just opened?
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: Well, uh, goodbye now. I'll be seeing you.
• 19:39
  Speaker 10: What, uh.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: Floor is the flower show, please?
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Third floor, miss. Three, please. Third floor.
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: Where's the rose display, please?
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: To your left, over there. See where the man in
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: the gray coat is?
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: In the gray coat? Oh, yes, thank you. They are lovely,
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: aren't they?
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, you startled me.
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry. I was just admiring the roses.
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: Oh, yes, the nicest flowers here. I just can't keep
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: my eyes off them.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: Yes, you can feel that way about some flowers.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: That's the way I feel about... White roses.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: Have you been here long?
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: I really don't know.
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: I suppose so. You see, I've come here every day
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: since the show opened. I like to be near the roses,
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: the white roses.
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: Those big ones are nice.
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: No, I like the little ones best, the little tightly
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: curled rosebud.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: They're so little and innocent.
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: Oh, well, I really better be going. Are you going down?
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Down, please.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Here, miss.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: I took a rose for you.
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: Thank you. It's lovely.
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: Would you care to have a drink with me?
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: Why, yes.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: I know of a little place a block or two
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: down there. They have nice music.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: We'll go there. All right.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: Whatever you say.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: This is it.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: Where's the music?
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: A nickel in the jukebox, does it? Any special song
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: you'd like?
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: No.
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: Go ahead and pick one.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: There we are.
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: Oh, that's my favorite song.
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: Reminds me of a girl I used to know.
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: Oh, uh, excuse me, I, um... I want to powder
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: my nose. I'll be right back.
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: Do you mind?
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: No, of course not. 7th Police Precinct.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Sergeant Thomas speaking.
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: Hello. Is Terry Riley there?
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Just a moment.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: I'll see.
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: Please, hurry.
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: It's important.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, sorry, miss. Terry Riley's not here just now. Oh.
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: Will you tell him that I can't keep that date
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: with him? Goodbye.
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: Do you always go to the phone booth when you
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: want a pat on your nose?
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: Why, I had to make a call.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid I'll have to leave you. Oh, wait.
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: Let me come with you.
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry, miss, but I've got other things to do.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: What's the matter?
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: That car. Someone that knows me. Let's get away from here.
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: That's just what I'm going to do.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: So long, lady.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Wait, wait.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: Please don't go.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Miss Virginia. Miss Virginia. I'm sorry, Miss Virginia, but I
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: must speak to you for a minute.
• 23:30
  Speaker 9: Oh, Edwards.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: What do you want?
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, miss. You'd better come with me at once.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I've been looking for you everywhere. Your mother's been taken
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: seriously ill.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: Mother?
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Where is she?
• 23:39
  Speaker 11: She's out at the country place, miss. I drove her
• 23:41
  Speaker 11: there shortly before dinner. She wanted to pay you a
• 23:44
  Speaker 11: surprise visit.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Oh. I believe the shock of not finding you there
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: upset her, miss.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: Is she very bad?
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: She had the doctor with her when I left. Mrs.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Crosby has gone away for the day. Your mother needs you, miss.
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: Well, let's go. Hurry, Edwards, please.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Right, miss.
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: Where is Mother Edwards?
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: In her room, Miss. You'd better hurry.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: Mother?
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Mother?
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: It's Ginny. Is the doctor in there with you?
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Mother?
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: Why, there's no one here. The room's empty. The bed
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: hasn't been touched. Edwards, what are you doing?
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Barely playing a song, miss. A favorite of mine.
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: A favorite?
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Yes, Miss Virginia.
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: Where's Mother?
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: She's in the city, miss.
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: You lied to me.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid I did, Miss Virginia.
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: Why are you locking the door?
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: You know why, Miss Virginia.
• 24:50
  Speaker 10: It.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: it can't be. You are not the.
• 24:53
  Speaker 11: The White Rose Killer? But you see, I am, Miss Virginia.
• 24:57
  Speaker 11: Driving you and your family around day after day. Sitting
• 25:01
  Speaker 11: there right in front of you all the time. It
• 25:04
  Speaker 11: was amusing to watch you hunting for me. Hunting for
• 25:07
  Speaker 11: someone you saw several times a day.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: But it can't be.
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: You're not insane.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Of course not. Who said I was?
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: Edwards, you know I'm not the girl who betrayed you.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, I know that.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: Well, then unlock the door and let me out. Please, Edwards.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: I've killed five times. I've never regretted it. I'm going
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: to kill you, Miss Virginia.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: Why, Edwards?
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 25:32
  Speaker 9: Because you've been so clever... Too clever. You made yourself
• 25:36
  Speaker 9: look like her, the girl who deceived me. I could
• 25:39
  Speaker 9: have killed you the day you first went out looking
• 25:41
  Speaker 9: for me. But I had to be careful.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 25:44
  Speaker 11: I almost caught you that night at the waterfront. The
• 25:47
  Speaker 11: night I dropped the white rose when that police car came.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Edward, I....
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: I've never done you any harm.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Your sweetheart, Terry. He loves you, doesn't he?
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: That's good.
• 26:01
  Speaker 9: Because now you won't be able to deceive him like
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: my girl deceived me.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: Keep away, Edward.
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: Keep away or I'll... You thought you'd use your gun, eh?
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Well, don't think I was fool enough to overlook that.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: I took your gun out of your purse.
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: It won't do you any good to kill me, Edward.
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: I didn't have anything to do with.
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: No, and you're not going to have a chance to
• 26:23
  Speaker 9: break another man's heart like she broke mine.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Did he?
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: Where are you?
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Terry!
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Terry!
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: It won't do you any good to call to him.
• 26:32
  Speaker 9: He can't get in here without breaking down the door.
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: Keep away from me.
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: Terry!
• 26:37
  Speaker 9: It'll be too late then, because I'm going to kill
• 26:40
  Speaker 9: you now.
• 26:40
  Speaker 10: Ginny!
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Where are you?
• 26:42
  Speaker 9: Terry!
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Let me get my hands on that pretty white throat.
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: Oh, keep away.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Keep away from me.
• 26:47
  Speaker 11: Terry!
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: Stop!
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Ginny, are you all right?
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: Yes, Terry, I... I'm all right.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Take it easy. Here. Sit down.
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: Oh, Terry, I was so scared. There was nobody here
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: but Edwards and I.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: How.
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: How did you know where I was?
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, it was simple. You were supposed to meet me
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: at the coffee shop. You never broke an appointment, and
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: when you didn't show up, I called the number you
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: gave me. You told me the housekeeper was here all
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: the time. And when there was no answer, I... Got
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: suspicious and came down. Besides, when I got a message
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: down at headquarters that you had to break a date
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: with me, I knew something was wrong. Are you sure
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: you're all right? Yes, I.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: I'm, uh....
• 27:46
  Speaker 9: Terry! Look.
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: On the floor beside Edwards.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: A white rose. Must have fallen out of his pocket.
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: That was meant for me. Oh, Terry, it's all crushed.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Crushed and dead.
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: Just like the white rose killer.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: And so closes The White Rose Murders, starring Maureen O'Hara.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Tonight's tale of....
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Suspense.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: This is your narrator, the man in black, who, speaking
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: for Columbia, hopes you have enjoyed Miss O'Hara's performance and
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: our play. Next week, because of a special broadcast of
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: the all-star baseball game, suspense will not be heard.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: But again the following week, we will be back with.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: Another play on this series and more of your Hollywood favorites.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: The producer of these broadcasts is William Spear, who with
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: Ted Bliss, the director, Bernard Herman and Lucienne Marowick, conductor
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: and composer, and Cornel Woolrich, the author, collaborated on tonight's Suspend.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: This presentation of Suspense, The White Rose Murders, is complete
• 30:12
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