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Dragnet: The Big Mink (EP4466) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: this week's episode of Dragnet. The original air date June
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  Speaker 1: twenty second, nineteen fifty and the title is The Big Meek.
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  Speaker 2: The story you're about to hear is true, only 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 a homicide detail. The owner of
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  Speaker 2: a first store has been shot and killed. Your only
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  Speaker 2: lead a missing fur coat. The killer is at large.
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  Speaker 3: Your job get him.
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  Speaker 4: Dragnet the document a drama of an actual crime. For
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  Speaker 4: the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 4: Police Department, you will travel step by step on the
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  Speaker 4: side of the law through an actual case transcribed from
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  Speaker 4: official police folence, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
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  Speaker 4: Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 5: It was Saturday, November twenty third, was warm.
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  Speaker 6: In Los Angeles. We're working the night Watch out homicide detail.
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  Speaker 6: My partner's Ben Romero. Boss is Blaine Steed. Keptain a homicide.
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  Speaker 6: My name is Friday. Was six thirty five PM when
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  Speaker 6: we got to the corner of Western and Lexington, A
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  Speaker 6: Western fur shop.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, Brenan, Hyeah? What happened? Frank? The owner's been shot.
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  Speaker 5: His name's Albert Kreeber. Yah. Who is that? Missus? Kreber
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  Speaker 5: haven't been able to get anything out of her? Where's
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  Speaker 5: the body in the back? Monkers is back there? Did
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  Speaker 5: you call a lamb y'all. Jones on his way, photographer
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  Speaker 5: and fingerprint men with him. All right, just take a look.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing seems to be messed up. The back room is.
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  Speaker 6: It was a small shop, A couple of fur coats
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  Speaker 6: on dummies on one side of the store, and on
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  Speaker 6: the other a tall glass case holding about fifteen more.
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  Speaker 6: Missus Kreber sat on a straight backed chair, steering at
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  Speaker 6: the floor. We went through the curtains into the back room.
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  Speaker 6: In the store, spalled out on the floor at the
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  Speaker 6: far end of the room was the body of a man.
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  Speaker 6: He had a fur coat dripped in one hand. Sergeant
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  Speaker 6: Mercury's from Hollywood Division was standing by.
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  Speaker 5: What do you think of my looks like? A couple
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  Speaker 5: of hours? Do you call a corner? Yeah? How long
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  Speaker 5: you been here? Money? Just a couple of minutes. Do
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  Speaker 5: you think missus Creber moved anything there?
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  Speaker 7: I don't think so. She was sitting in that chair
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  Speaker 7: when I got here. I don't think she's moved except
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  Speaker 7: to call in.
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  Speaker 5: What she put in the call? Yeah, empty shells on
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  Speaker 5: the floor. Uh he got a pencil? Uh yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: thirty two? Yeah, you think robbery? I don't know. Let's
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  Speaker 5: talk to the wife. Wait a minute, bottle here?
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  Speaker 6: Uh Seerra Valley Wine Company, World's finest Muscatel twenty seven
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  Speaker 6: cents of tint.
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  Speaker 5: Nobody touched this today now what I've been here though? Okay,
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  Speaker 5: let's get out front. Anything in the custom if I
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  Speaker 5: was running?
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  Speaker 8: Not so far?
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  Speaker 5: Have you tried to talk to miss Creber again? Oh?
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  Speaker 9: Pretty bad.
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  Speaker 6: Let's give it a try, Missuscriber. I'm Sorrygan Friday. This
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  Speaker 6: is Size at Romero. We'd like to talk to you
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  Speaker 6: if we could. We know how you must feel, but
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  Speaker 6: there are a few questions that we have to ask you.
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  Speaker 6: Did you telephone the police? We have to know how
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  Speaker 6: it happened to inscriber. Miss Criber, can you tell us
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  Speaker 6: what happened? M?
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  Speaker 9: Who is?
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  Speaker 5: What? Do you? Who were police officers?
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  Speaker 9: Oh? Albert, Albert's dead. Albert, someone call the police, Misscriber.
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  Speaker 9: We are the police. My husband's been married, he's dead.
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  Speaker 5: We better leave, Friday. M. There's something I found in
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  Speaker 5: the customer file.
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  Speaker 6: Miss Terry Shepherd won Oh one one three Norman the
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  Speaker 6: apartment three?
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  Speaker 5: What about it? She took a coat out that was
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  Speaker 5: in storage, took it out today and.
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  Speaker 10: We check her out when we're finished here. Things looks
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  Speaker 10: like the only hot receipt in the file. High la
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  Speaker 10: oh yang in the back on what is it killing?
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  Speaker 10: Monkys will show you.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, that's long. I think we had to try to
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  Speaker 5: wife again.
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  Speaker 6: I can try ms cryber.
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  Speaker 5: Can we do anything for you? Oh, I'm a little better.
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  Speaker 9: Huh. I'll try to tell you what I can.
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  Speaker 5: All right. When did you get here?
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  Speaker 9: It must have been about six o'clock, a few minutes
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  Speaker 9: after I came to take him home.
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  Speaker 5: Any customers around, No, the.
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  Speaker 9: Door was empty. I stood here for a few minutes waiting,
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  Speaker 9: and then I went in the back.
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  Speaker 5: And yes, the front door open.
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  Speaker 9: No, yes, the front door yes, ma'am in front, yes open.
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  Speaker 5: Did you telephone the police?
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  Speaker 9: I think I did.
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  Speaker 5: Did you come here to pick him up?
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  Speaker 9: No? No, Usually he drives home himself. I came down
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  Speaker 9: on the street car to ride home with him.
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  Speaker 5: What kind of the car? Do you have?
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  Speaker 9: An oldest mobile? Nineteen thirty nine or forty?
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  Speaker 11: I guess it is?
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  Speaker 9: Huh?
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  Speaker 5: Where does he usually park?
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  Speaker 11: In the rear of the store of this little place there?
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  Speaker 5: I'll take a look alright, where is your home?
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  Speaker 11: Thirty or twelve? Northwestern? I thought there was something wrong.
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  Speaker 9: When I I got a telegram from me he said
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  Speaker 9: not to come down tonight.
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  Speaker 11: He said he'd be home late.
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  Speaker 5: What time is that?
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  Speaker 9: About four o'clock?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 9: I'm all mixed up? I I haven't told it two years.
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  Speaker 9: I remember it first. Yes, if first, I telephoned to
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  Speaker 9: hear to the shop.
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  Speaker 11: That was this afternoon, Yes, three thirty.
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  Speaker 9: I I'm sure of that, because I I made some
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  Speaker 9: other calls. I spoke to Albert. He didn't say he
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  Speaker 9: was gonna be late. Then at four o'clock I received
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  Speaker 9: a telegram.
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  Speaker 5: Do you have that with you?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, it's in my purse somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, Oh here it.
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  Speaker 5: Is, mum.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you don't come down and won't be home until
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  Speaker 6: late after, say a customer, Albert, Can I keep this?
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  Speaker 5: We'll return it to you. Yes. What'd you do after
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  Speaker 5: you got this wire, miss creber Well? Well?
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  Speaker 9: Nothing. I I thought it was strange, but I didn't
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  Speaker 9: think too much about it. Then I I started wondering
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  Speaker 9: why you didn't say anything over the telephone about being
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  Speaker 9: laid so uh. I came down here on the street car.
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  Speaker 5: Did you phone the store just before you left your house?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah? But there was no answer.
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  Speaker 10: Tarking not Sempty better got on APB on the car,
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  Speaker 10: Miss Creber, you said your car was nineteen thirty nine
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  Speaker 10: at forty old mobile, didn't you?
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  Speaker 9: Nineteen forty? I remember? Now?
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  Speaker 5: What model is that?
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  Speaker 9: What's the dan light blue?
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  Speaker 5: Do you remember the license number? Well?
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  Speaker 11: I have a on this chain with the extra keys here.
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  Speaker 11: It is on this little tag. The veterans make these.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, Jo.
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  Speaker 12: Can I see him?
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  Speaker 5: Man? Sure? Excuse me, miss Grammer?
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  Speaker 9: Dude, do you want me to wait? I'd like to
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  Speaker 9: go home.
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  Speaker 5: We'd like you to wait for a little while. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: do you have any relatives living here?
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  Speaker 9: A niece and a nephew and Beverly Hills. Did Jerome
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  Speaker 9: read they live on Canon Drive?
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  Speaker 5: All right, we'll call him for you. Thank you, Ley,
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  Speaker 5: just phone out here alright the handle, Yeah, it's Bendessta okay,
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  Speaker 5: enjoy coming in? Yeah right away.
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  Speaker 12: He's pretty clear, easy to trace. I'd say he was
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  Speaker 12: standing over here by the curtains when he was shot.
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  Speaker 12: That's where the stains begin. And he must have stumbled
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  Speaker 12: along this last case. You can see the smiths here
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  Speaker 12: in the glass when he tried to grab hold of something.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I guess.
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  Speaker 12: He caught hold of that first coat and pulled it
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  Speaker 12: down with him. Then he stumbled and bumped up again
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  Speaker 12: against this coat right felt through that land up against
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  Speaker 12: the safe.
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  Speaker 5: How many times does he hit.
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  Speaker 12: Six empty casings on the floor? Looks like four through
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  Speaker 12: and through wounds?
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  Speaker 5: Thirty two?
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  Speaker 12: That's really your wife?
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  Speaker 5: No, if anything's missing, and she's in pretty bad shape.
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  Speaker 12: And it looks to me like somebody took his wrist
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  Speaker 12: watch and a ring from his left hand. He had
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  Speaker 12: a billfall that's gone, no coat, all the trouser pockets
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  Speaker 12: are turned inside out.
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  Speaker 5: What about that wine bottle? It's smear. Can't lift a thing? Okay,
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  Speaker 5: thanks Ben? Still on the phone, Okay, No, no, no
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  Speaker 5: license fifteen Boston six.
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  Speaker 13: Seven o seven No seven o seven.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Ribber might be on. Hang on a minute, while
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  Speaker 5: is it? What now? Give that DMV? What do you say?
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  Speaker 5: Not a car? Missus Cribbery? Did your husband have a wallet?
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  Speaker 11: Yes, yes, brown alligator.
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  Speaker 5: Did he keep his identification in him?
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  Speaker 9: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: They carry much cash?
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  Speaker 11: No, just a few dollars. He was always afraid of
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  Speaker 11: hold ups.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you. You wanna give that to him? Ben? Yeah?
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  Speaker 10: Okay, Hey, Well, suspect might have a brown alligator wallet
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  Speaker 10: with identification cards of Albert Kreber. Yeah, i'd cri B Boston,
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  Speaker 10: b Boston, New York three four one two Northwestern Avenue. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 10: how about well m might be here?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: Mon thenvoic'm a far north for a company? Three mint
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  Speaker 7: coats delivered here today? Looked all around, I only found two,
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  Speaker 7: one missing. Did you find the sales slip for the
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  Speaker 7: other one?
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  Speaker 5: No? Wos Creber? Would you come over here? Please?
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  Speaker 9: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: Where are they? Monk over here? Alright over this way?
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  Speaker 5: These are mink coats here, aren't they?
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  Speaker 11: Yes, it's wild mink. Albert told me he ordered.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, men, we found the invoice he ordered three only
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  Speaker 9: two years.
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  Speaker 5: Doing anything about any of his customers, No, no, I don't.
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  Speaker 9: I never met any of them. Oh I remember now.
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  Speaker 11: Just the night before last he called someone from home,
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  Speaker 11: told her to have some minks in today and she
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  Speaker 11: could come in and look them over.
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  Speaker 5: Do you know who that was? Why?
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  Speaker 9: I didn't hear any name?
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  Speaker 5: Ms Criber. Do you have any idea who might have
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  Speaker 5: wanted to shoot your husband? No?
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  Speaker 11: None at all. He was friendly with everyone.
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  Speaker 9: Everybody liked Alberty. She didn't run around.
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  Speaker 11: He was either working or at home.
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  Speaker 5: Did he drink not at all? No, I mean beer maybe? No, No,
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  Speaker 5: he never touched anything. All right, thank you? Running you
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  Speaker 5: see that. Missus Creber gets to her nephews right away.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you. Might as well go, Ben, Yeah, we can
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  Speaker 5: talk to some of the neighbors. Sick shots fire. I
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  Speaker 5: wonder why nobody heard him. It's pretty heavy traffic outside. Huh.
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  Speaker 10: Somebody wanted to mink coat? Pretty band goat like that
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  Speaker 10: cost quite a bit done there.
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  Speaker 6: This one's going to come a little high. Yeah, seven
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  Speaker 6: oh five pm. Most of the stores along the street
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  Speaker 6: were closed, but a small shoe repair shop across the
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  Speaker 6: street was open, so we went over there. On the
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  Speaker 6: window was one word Pete's and the picture of a shoe.
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  Speaker 6: Sitting in the window was a small dark man wearing
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  Speaker 6: a leather apron who was working on a pair of shoes.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, we're police officers.
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  Speaker 13: I see you drive up across the street.
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  Speaker 5: Are you Pete?
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  Speaker 13: Sure? What happens to mister Kreiber? He's rope?
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  Speaker 5: No, he was killed.
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  Speaker 13: No, shut, I do not hear anything.
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  Speaker 5: Have you been sitting in your window all afternoon? Oh?
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  Speaker 13: Most all the time?
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  Speaker 5: You see?
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  Speaker 13: I have machinery here that way. People watch me.
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  Speaker 6: Do you remember seeing anybody going into mister Kriverers this afternoon?
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  Speaker 5: This afternoon for man.
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  Speaker 13: Two three long black cars?
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  Speaker 5: Anybody else? Some with the women?
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  Speaker 13: Officer? They are all women.
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  Speaker 6: Did any of them walk out with a new fur code?
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  Speaker 13: All that? I do not see all of them, I guess,
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  Speaker 13: but I see two.
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  Speaker 14: Any describing one beautiful young girl, tall red hair.
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  Speaker 13: If she walk out with big package?
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  Speaker 5: What time was that? Three four o'clock?
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  Speaker 13: The second woman is about the same time. Funny thing.
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  Speaker 13: I do not see the bottle.
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  Speaker 14: But Benny from liquor store and corner tell me the
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  Speaker 14: second one.
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  Speaker 13: They blonde.
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  Speaker 5: She buys bottle of wine. Call you tell you what kind?
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  Speaker 5: No reason?
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  Speaker 13: I remember?
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  Speaker 5: I laughed when he tells me, I go over to
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  Speaker 5: Benny's for kennel beer.
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  Speaker 14: He tells me she buys cheap wine, walks out of
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  Speaker 14: cribs with new fur coat.
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  Speaker 13: Me, I spent five dollars for good wine and my
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  Speaker 13: wife has no fur coat.
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  Speaker 5: I always this blonde. How was he dressed?
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  Speaker 14: She's maybe twenty five, young, you know, not too young,
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  Speaker 14: but young.
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  Speaker 13: She has on slacks gray.
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  Speaker 5: What kind of a fur coat was she wearing when
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  Speaker 5: she came out. Mean, look from here like mink I
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  Speaker 5: see do you know that's where she went?
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  Speaker 14: The blonde, gray slacks, mink coat is turned the corner
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  Speaker 14: onto Lexington and she went up the street.
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  Speaker 5: Did you see mister Kreber's card drive away?
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  Speaker 13: You know he parking back. I don't see him come in.
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  Speaker 13: I don't see him come out.
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  Speaker 5: All right, thanks a happy you know officer.
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  Speaker 13: That blonde? Something wrong there? I mean, well, she has
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  Speaker 13: got fur coat, but she drinks wrong wine.
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  Speaker 5: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 14: Why do you saying that five thousand dollars coat twenty
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  Speaker 14: seven cent wine?
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  Speaker 5: Seven five pm. Ben and I questioned Benny Davis at
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  Speaker 5: the Safety Liquor store. He remembered the blonde and said she.
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  Speaker 6: Bought a bottle of Sierra Valley muscatel from him between
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  Speaker 6: two thirty and three o'clock that afternoon.
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  Speaker 5: He'd never seen her before.
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  Speaker 6: We contacted Communications and gave a description of the blond
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  Speaker 6: to supplement the All Points Bullevard. Then we started checking
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  Speaker 6: Western Union offices to find out where missus Creber's telegram.
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  Speaker 5: Had been sent from. We finally traced it to the.
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  Speaker 6: Office at Normandy and Hollywood Boulevard. The operator who sent
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  Speaker 6: the telegram to missus. Kreiber also remembered receiving the call.
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  Speaker 6: She told us that the person who phoned in the
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  Speaker 6: message was a woman. The time three twenty two pm.
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  Speaker 6: We asked her to put a tracer on it and
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  Speaker 6: told her we checked back eight twenty four pm. Ben
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  Speaker 6: and I went to one one one three Normandy to
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  Speaker 6: talk to miss Terry Shepherd, whose name had appeared in
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  Speaker 6: the customer files at the first store. The receipt showed
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  Speaker 6: she had taken a coat out of stores that afternoon.
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  Speaker 10: This is something like the place the wife and I
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  Speaker 10: used to live in. Yeah, same people must have built
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  Speaker 10: it Department three. Mister Terry Sheppard.
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  Speaker 13: Alright, co man, the doors open?
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  Speaker 15: Find you stop a secret other than in a minute?
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  Speaker 5: Police officer's Mims Shepherd?
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  Speaker 13: Oh what's wrong?
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  Speaker 5: We'd like to talk to you?
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  Speaker 13: What about?
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  Speaker 5: What if you could come out here please? Well, like
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  Speaker 5: to set out of the shore, you'd have to wait
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  Speaker 5: a minute. Yeah, now this place's got the same floor
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  Speaker 5: plant his mind. Huh kind of small women? Oh not
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  Speaker 5: too bad? What what rent cheapays?
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  Speaker 13: Oh?
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  Speaker 15: You don't find if I where is Toby?
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  Speaker 13: Believe my here's it?
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, We're sorry. To bother you. What can I do
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  Speaker 5: for you if you've got a fur coat? Miss Shepard? Yeah?
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  Speaker 15: Sure?
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  Speaker 5: What if we could see it? Please?
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  Speaker 15: Yeah? Sure, but I don't think it'll throw ye it's
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  Speaker 15: only muskrat. I bought it in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 5: Where is it in no flooding?
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  Speaker 14: Yeah?
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  Speaker 15: Okay, it's uh down the hallway, first door on the right.
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  Speaker 5: I think I know where it is.
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  Speaker 15: What's it all about, Lieutenant?
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  Speaker 5: What time are you at the Western First shop today?
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  Speaker 15: I'd say three o'clock a claw?
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  Speaker 5: What'd you do while you were down there?
• 19:05
  Speaker 15: I got my coat out a hawk. I had it
• 19:06
  Speaker 15: there during the warm weather. Paid the man signed something,
• 19:10
  Speaker 15: and he put the coat in a box and I
• 19:12
  Speaker 15: took it.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: Do you know mister Kraber down there, the man that
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: owns the store.
• 19:16
  Speaker 15: You got me? The man was about fifty, his hair
• 19:20
  Speaker 15: was a little gray. I hardly even looked at him.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: She's the only fur coat yea could.
• 19:25
  Speaker 15: Have passed for mink when I first bought it.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: It's pretty sad now not mank I'll give that laws
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: at the last check.
• 19:31
  Speaker 15: What happened that somebody's steal a coat?
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: Was anybody else in the store while you were there?
• 19:35
  Speaker 15: Yeah, Yeah, there's another girl there.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: What was she doing? Nothing?
• 19:40
  Speaker 15: Just sitting.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: Do you remember how she was dressed.
• 19:43
  Speaker 15: Oh, she was wearing a gray suit, slacks, blonde. Her
• 19:47
  Speaker 15: face wasn't much, but she had a neat little figure.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: Do you remember anything else about her? Oh?
• 19:51
  Speaker 15: I didn't pay that much attention.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: Anything else in there ben not a Thingyo, Maybe.
• 19:56
  Speaker 15: I'd better take this toll off my head. It doesn't
• 19:59
  Speaker 15: look so hot when it it's wet, but it's natural.
• 20:01
  Speaker 15: It's natural red.
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Is there anything else that you might be able
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: to tell us? Hmmm?
• 20:07
  Speaker 15: I think that's about all. Give the man my claim
• 20:11
  Speaker 15: check and the money. And he got the coat and
• 20:13
  Speaker 15: put it in a box and gave me a receipt.
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: Nothing else.
• 20:18
  Speaker 15: No, When I got the receipt, I saw the blonde
• 20:21
  Speaker 15: walk over and pick up the telephone.
• 20:23
  Speaker 16: I was just leaving.
• 20:23
  Speaker 15: Then did you hear any of the conversations she asked
• 20:25
  Speaker 15: for Western Union?
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: You are listening to dragnets The case history of a
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: police investigation presented in the Public Interest.
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: Sunday, November twenty fourth, nine am. Then and I contacted
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: the owners of all the shops in the vicinity, but
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: none of them saw or heard anything At the time
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: of the shooting. Brennan and Monkreas interviewed all the regular
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: customers of Albert Kreber's first shop. Only three had been
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: in the store on Saturday, but none of them had
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: noticed anything wrong. Eleven thirty five am, we spoke to
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: missus Kreber again, but she could add nothing to her story.
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: Her niece and nephew had been to a football game
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: at the coliseum in the afternoon and knew nothing had
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: happened until they were telephoned by Officer Brennan two fifty
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: five PM, who spoke to all the tenants of the
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: apartment house at fifty five thirteen Lexington, which is in
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: the rear of the first shop. None of them had
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: been home, but the owner told us that he had
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: some men working on the roof of the apartment house
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: at the time of the murder. Through the owner of
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: the Durable Roof company, we traced the two men who
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: had been working on the roof and they told us
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: that about four o'clock they had seen a blonde dressed
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: in gray slacks enter the parking space in the rear
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: of Kreber's first store.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: They whistled at her, but she paid no attention to him.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: She got into an oldsmobile and drove east on Lexington.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: Seven pm.
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: We checked in at the office and got word that
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: Albert Kreber's car had been located in the parking lot
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: at Vermont in eighth We drove down out of the
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: location and talked to the parking lot of Tenning.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: Well, the car must have come in sometime last night.
• 22:07
  Speaker 10: It probably came in the backway, because I don't remember
• 22:10
  Speaker 10: it coming in and it doesn't have our lot tag
• 22:12
  Speaker 10: on it.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: Did you work all last night? No? I finished at
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: midnight and started at ten this morning.
• 22:17
  Speaker 10: I kept waiting for somebody to claim this thing, and well,
• 22:20
  Speaker 10: and after supper I figured it might be stolen, so
• 22:22
  Speaker 10: I phoned the police.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: It's been sitting here all that time. Are there any
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: keys in it? No, sir, there weren't last night either.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: Have you ever seen this particular car before? No, sir.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: Have you ever seen a blonde woman about twenty five
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: wearing gray sles? You mean hanging around here? Yeah? Or
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: in the neighborhood. Yeah, but not today or yesterday? You
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: remember one? Oh? Yes, sir. Does she drink a lot? Maybe?
• 22:45
  Speaker 10: Well, there's one that hangs out in these bars around here.
• 22:48
  Speaker 10: Once in a while she comes in the lot, but
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: not lately.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: When'd you see her last? Oh, a couple of weeks ago.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: Was she with anyone? Yeah, but I don't remember him.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: I seen her with a lot of different guys. Does
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: she hang around with anybody in particular? Yeah, our husband.
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: Before leaving the parking lot, we pulled the rotor out
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: of a distributor so that nobody could drive the car away.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: Eight twelve pm.
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: We called homicide and asked for more men to canvass
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: the bars in the neighborhood. Been a nice staked out
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: on the car. We sat in our car across the
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: street from the parking lot until midnight. Nobody showed up
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: to claim the car. The streets were almost empty. Our
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: only chance was that the blonde lived in the neighborhood
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: or was in a barn, would sooner or later.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Try to claim the car. One fe am, what rent
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: do you suppose that shepherd girl pay? You got me
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: seventy five?
• 23:40
  Speaker 11: I don't know.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: I bet at pay more than she died? Was that monks? Yeah? Hi,
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: monk hi. Take a look up in the street. See
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: that couple where coming this way? Blonde, gray slacks for
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: a coke. She's pretty drunk. Porge you spot he turned
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: the corner from Liberty looking in parking lots. Moke, there's
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: a rear entrance to this lot off the alley. Do
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: you want to cover that? Yeah? Thank you? You see him?
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: All right? That ships when they walk into that light. Yeah,
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: pretty drunk. Looks like the same kind of code, isn't it. Yeah?
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: Stopping looking for another parking lot. I gain see heerra
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: valley wine world's finest muska tail and going into the
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: parking lot. She's not carrying berth. Those coats don't have
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: pockets bigger than for a thirty two auntimentic. That stuff
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: sure gets people. All right, let's go. Yeah, they're getting
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: in Kryber's car. Look, you can't even find the door.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: She's helping you take the other side of the car
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: with it. Yeah, who are you? Police officers? Can I
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: see your driver's license? Please?
• 25:05
  Speaker 9: I got a driver's license?
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: And what's going on? What's your name anymore?
• 25:09
  Speaker 9: What's it?
• 25:09
  Speaker 15: Two years?
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: The registration slip on the steering column, says Albert Kreber.
• 25:13
  Speaker 15: No matter if this car anyway?
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: Who is Albert Creber? Oh?
• 25:16
  Speaker 11: I know who he is.
• 25:17
  Speaker 13: Nice guy here?
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Who's this man? Huh? What you say? He's a friend?
• 25:21
  Speaker 11: That's satisfy you friend?
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: Something matter? Take a look at the glove department? Ben, Okay,
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: come on high, that's go on high. Yeah, it's locks.
• 25:32
  Speaker 15: What do you want them there for?
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: Let me have those keys?
• 25:34
  Speaker 12: Hi?
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: Here are Ben?
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: How about gone?
• 25:36
  Speaker 15: There's nothing in there?
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: Let's go. Here's a purse, give me that. You keep
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: your hands in the wheel. It's a gun thirty.
• 25:46
  Speaker 15: Two chis empty anyway? Nothing wrong in that.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: Do you have a permit to carry it? Yeah?
• 25:51
  Speaker 15: I got a permit.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: Can I see it?
• 25:53
  Speaker 15: I lost it?
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: Give me those Keep your hands on that wheel. There's
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: a water identification cars Albert Kreber. Where'd you get these?
• 26:01
  Speaker 15: I don't know?
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: Man's watch Albert Kreber engraving on the back. Who's Albert Kreber?
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: I told you all right, let's get out of the car.
• 26:07
  Speaker 15: I'm not car start.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: Come on, stand up? You get over there? Where'd you
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: get the fur coat? Square?
• 26:14
  Speaker 15: I don't know.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: Joe, no slack.
• 26:18
  Speaker 9: Wine kings.
• 26:19
  Speaker 15: I spilled wine on them.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: What kind of one must musketail in the red wine?
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: It's a wide one. Who's Albert Kreber?
• 26:25
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: This is his wallet, this is his car. Where'd you
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: get him?
• 26:28
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 26:28
  Speaker 15: I don't know.
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: This the gun you shot him with. This the gun
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: you shot him with.
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: I was going over there. He said, give me a purkle.
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: He promised me a watch, and he never gave me watch.
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: Set a telegraph to his wife. But everything, Give me
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: a furkle and take me out.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: So you shot him?
• 27:05
  Speaker 16: Sure I did.
• 27:07
  Speaker 9: He promised me.
• 27:08
  Speaker 13: The court, I could have any court, the shop.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: What are you crying for? You got the code.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true, only the
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: names were changed to protect the innocent.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: On February twenty seventh, trial was held in Superior Court
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Department eighty sixth, City and County of Los Angeles, State
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: of California. In a moment the results of that trial,
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: Betty Moore was tried and convicted of second degree murder
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: and received sentence as prescribed by law. She is now
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: serving her term in the state penitentiary at Tahtchipee. You
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: official files. Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the Office
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: of Chief of police w a Wharton Los Angeles Police Department.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: Next here Sarah Berner in Sarah's Private Keeper on NBC.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Welcome Back. An interesting episode. Probably the biggest mistake Our
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Killer made was having a very distinctive style of dress.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: A woman wearing slacks wasn't unheard of or scandalous in
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty, but it definitely stood out as different from
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the norm. And apparently she was known for wearing slacks regularly,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: which made it easily for the police to follow or trail.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: As a criminal, you don't want to stand out. I'm
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: always amazed to see booking photos of how criminals have
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: got these distinctive haircuts or facial tattoos, and some of
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: them must be like, how'd you know it was me?
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: But I guess that's the criminal mind in her case,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: To be fair, it wasn't like she was planning to
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: commit a crime when she went to the first shop.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Also love the portrayal of random conversations you get to
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: when spending long hours in a police car is a
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: nice realistic touch. When you've reached the point of, hey,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: do you think I'm paying more rent than the witness?
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: You really need something to happen soon for your sanity
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: not to mention that of your partner. All right, well,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: listener comments and feedback now, and we have a comment
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: from George. George emails in Hi Adam, I'm really enjoying
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: rehearing the Dragonnat episodes again and the big fake was
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: a good one. I'm sure this this is indeed based
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: on what happened at the time, but is far from
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: what would likely happen today, despite many people still believing
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: that merely making a complaint to the police accusing someone
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: of a crime is all that's needed and the suspect
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: will be immediately arrested just on that accusation, as happened
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: to Officer Clark. Perhaps at that time the policy of
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: the LAPD was to act on an accusation alone and
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: let the court sort it out to avoid the appearance
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: of a cover up. But any arrest, especially one for
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: a serious charge like robbery, needs probable cause before someone
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: is holed off to jail, and that means an investigation before,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: not after an arrest. Clearly the citizen had injuries, but
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: he denied being drunk, claiming that Clark had beaten him
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: up and stolen his money, which Clark denied. Without a witness.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: It's now the old he said, she said thing, and
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: more needs to be done before the arrest is made. Yes,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: finding that doctor was crucial, but it seems Friday never
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: went to Georgia Receiving, where the staff could have confirmed
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: that the citizen was in fact drunk and may have
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: said what happened. That one point alone would have cast
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: serious doubts on the allegation. It still turned out well
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: in the end, including the arrest and conviction of the
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: citizen for his false charges, but a lot of harm
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: was suffered needlessly by officer Clark. Times du change and
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: riots were not as rigorously observed then as we see
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: in most of these old time shows, but they sure
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: are fund to listen to keep them coming, and thanks
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: as always for your hard work on these programs. Well,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: thank you so much, George. I really appreciated your email,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: and I think it was definitely a fair point regarding
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Georgia Receiving it. I don't know why they didn't check
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: with them. The stories that are aired on Dragnet at
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: this point were actually purchased from police officers and written
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: up for the radio, and I believe some of them
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: were even imported from other jurisdictions. So it's possible that
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: in the original case, the officer helped the man but
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: didn't take him to the receiving hospital because the injuries
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: didn't look that serious. But it was determined the appropriate
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: thing that they would have wanted the officer to do
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: if this were being handled in nineteen fifty Los Angeles,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: would be to take him to the receiving hospital. I'm
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: just speculating here. I can't say for certain, but that's possible.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: It also could have been from many years before. I
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: can't imagine that no one at the hospital would have
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: noticed if he was as drunk as Officer Clark said.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: So a good catch on that, and also I think
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: a good analysis of the situation in terms of officer
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Clark's rights and the state of the law. Because police
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: forces act on when they are acting properly the way
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: that constitutional law has been adjudicated through the courts and
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: the appropriate case law. And so I could say during
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: that time, a police department saying we want the trust
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: of the public, We want the public to know that
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: we don't cover up, that we don't hide things for
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: policemen who violate the public trust. And so if there
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: is even an allegation, we're just going to throw him
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: in jail. Due process is what we give him after
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: we've thrown him into lock up. And you can understand
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: the legitimate interest of the police in trying to secure
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: the public's trust. But George is absolutely right that would
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: not fly today as we've taken a more expansive view
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: of the Fourth Amendment and the requirement for probable cause.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: So you can't be thrown into jail for days because
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: somebody makes an unsubstantiated allegation against you. And that also means,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: at the same time, a policeman can't be thrown into
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: jail for days because somebody makes an unsubstantiated allegation. You
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: can certainly be suspended pending the outcome of the investigation,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: but you cannot be deprived of your freedom. And I
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: guess that comes back to something that was said in
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: one of the very last Dragnet episodes, where a lawyer
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: had to remind some folks that policemen have rights. To
• 34:58
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• 35:49
  Speaker 1: where I'm.
• 35:50
  Speaker 16: Looking for Michael wearing the falcon.
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: Come in.
• 35:55
  Speaker 17: My name is Webster Dars Webster. We Well, a very
• 36:02
  Speaker 17: dear friend of mine has been kidnapped.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: What's his dear friend's name?
• 36:06
  Speaker 16: Stuart Van Dunn.
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: You report it to the police? No? Why not?
• 36:11
  Speaker 16: Because I don't want them involved.
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: You don't want them involved. A man is kidnapped.
• 36:15
  Speaker 16: I didn't say he was kidnapped. I said he disappeared.
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: He said nothing of the sort.
• 36:22
  Speaker 17: I can see I made a big mistake in coming here. Well,
• 36:25
  Speaker 17: I do I'm sorry to have bothered you, mister Waring.
• 36:29
  Speaker 17: Believe me, it won't happen again.
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