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now it's time for today's episode of Police Blotterer, and this week we
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have a substitute detective. More on that later, but here now is Police
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Blodder and Murder at the Windsor Tonight, Police featuring Joseph pulland Sergeant Sam Willebee
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standing in for Sergeant Brad Feeders, who is the kasy name Eric Babies,
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I address fifty four Jeffson Street, Shark Suspicion of Murder. Good evening,
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This is Don Daud. You're a host for Mystery Time. Tonight. History
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Time brings you live. Police Blocker aretheny dramas of police work and the constant
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fatilic goes on night and day against crime. Tonight Police Blotter brings to life
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an exciting story of police detection. So listen now as Mystery Time presents murder
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at the windsor on police Blocker. I'm Sam Willoughby, Sergeant Homicide. Everything
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inside a police station, the phone rings might see anything from disturbing the to
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murder. But whatever or whoever, rich or poor, innocent or guilty,
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sooner or later I get to know them all. Nine received a call on
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a car radio man found dead in red convertible in alley, back of windsor
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pay of it. Patrolman Becker steped on the gas, got there in less
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than five minutes. Officer on beat dispersed the crowd. I looked into the
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car. Slumped over the wheel was a man of forty, dark hair,
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well dressed, no sign of foul play man at the stage door came over.
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It must have been a hobbit pack doc. Did you see him?
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Key over? Ow? Then we'll let the coroner decide. Okay, you
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don't want to listen to me, you don't have to. I'm going back
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to the fair. Come back here. Ah, so you changed your mind?
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Who are on the stage? Door man? Eric paid me? He
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was about fifty, sandy haired, blue eyes, dot you bill, not
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the usual type of stage german. Watch the next question. So know the
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man in the car? Oh? I know that here? I used to
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work with him. He's the guy who killed my voice. Who is he?
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You don't recognize him? No, he's Sydney Lee A big Time Coming.
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We worked together in Burless. Guy was the singer. We did a
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little act where he used to choke me. One day he choked me for
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fear. He hid something to my Adam's apple and I never could sing again.
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Why did he do it? Usual stupid reason of girl? Was he
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in the theater tonight? This happened after he left. He came to see
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you. He came to see Laurna. Who is she? H? I
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guess he's never been to this theater, sargeant Rona is the burlesque queen.
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She's still as pretty us when we both made a play for her years ago.
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Did he see her tonight? Not? When he first came in,
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she was on the stage doing her act. She's up on a trapeze,
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wearing tites with four guardies on each flight. She sings and swings over the
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audience, and she takes off the guards and throws him to the bald heads
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down below, as through a fire. He waited for her to finish.
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Not fat hand walks out on stage, leans against the proscenium and starts kidding
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the act. Vanna is as mad as hops, but the audience eats it
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up. I haven't heard such lash. The acts is a riot, but
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Lorna don't appreciate it. And she finishes and leads him in the wings.
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She slaps his face. That's when he lets ah, Not Sidney. He
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followed the dressing room. I heard him yelling at each other inside, then
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came out, slammed the door and beat it. You followed him out?
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What far I'm doing the asking? Wow? I tried to give him a
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kick, but he was still passed for me. Well. Meanwhile, the
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coroner had arrived. He examined the body, called me over told me it
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was not a heart attack, extreme pressure behind the ears a judo trick.
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Sydney Lee had been murdered. I went into the theater with Eric, waited
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for the intermission, went backstage, looked for the door with a star Sergeant
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Sam Willoughby. I've got to talk to you. She received in front of
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the mirror a tall statue West Touch Dump Blog from the Distinction. Might look
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young, but up close you could tell she was about forty. Put her
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makeup on with a trowel. Well, I'm sorry, I was just you
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come in for I didn't catch Are those bluenoses complaining again? What do they
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want us to do? Where? Mother? Hubbard's in a burleised show.
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I came to tell you about Sydney Lee. What about that heel? He's
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dead? Said that again? He's dead? But I seen him a while
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ago. Was it a car smash up? It was murder? Murder who
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bumped him off? Somebody with strong thumbs? Why examine mine? I've noticed
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him. Why did Sydney come to see you? Because he's got the nerve
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of a black monkeys? What do you want? Money? Black mail?
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You got nothing on me? He want me lend him five grand. Ain't
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gotta laugh. I should lend him money after he ran out on me.
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I don't get it. Sydney and me were in the same burlest shell too
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long ago. He was the top banana. I was a sup breath.
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Give me the RuSHA you know, flowers and jewelry I fell from and we
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got married. Eric Davies, the door man was sweet on you too,
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wasn't he? He still got it fine off marrying again? You divorced,
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Sydney. Yeah, the other way around. You got to play the big
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time, you know, the musical comedy. He just walked out. His
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head got as big as a watermelon. I wasn't good enough for him anymore.
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Next thing I knew, I've served with divorce papers got rid of me
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fast when he got my ship. If he was doing so well, why
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did he come to you for money? Guess you don't read the saatical news.
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Didn't He ain't been working for three years, but a high price on
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his services, and he wouldn't work for less. He's sticking to his price,
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but nobody's hired him. Sounds foolish to me, Sydney Joe, I'm
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stupper, oh as I glad to get a revenge on him. He was
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begging me on his knees, said it was a matter of life for death.
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I left in his face. Yeah, my time came and I was
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enjoying every minute of us. Never realized the far much I hated him enough
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to kill him. Say, I don't like that crack the way the corner
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figured it out. Somebody sat beside him in the car was let somebody put
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their arms around. It wasn't me. Then pressed the thumb under each ear
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and killed him. You always told your cases so fast igant, you must
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be the wonder boy in the department. This time you're all wet. Why
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don't you check with Eric. You'll tell you I never left the say it
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since I came in at seven thirty. Eric would wear to anything where you're
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concerned. So you think we've brained it up. If you did, I'll
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get the proof. We won't have to see you. Get out, kid,
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Get out, hey, hey, hold it, Come on in here.
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He was a young fellow, good looking, about twenty five, in
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white ted tying tails. You were referring to Sydney, lee Olia. They
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took him away. What's your interest in Sydney? Oh? Then goest dodging.
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He opens the second half of the show. We've still got a few
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minutes. He's got to rehearse with his partner. Why are you so anxious
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to get him out of here? I don't mind him, missus. Oh
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I see the show must go on, all right? What's your name?
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Mister Eric lave Let's step outside? So we woun't annoy Lorna? Well,
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nice, stay here, I don't mind sit down Berry. Sorry, Rna,
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this is confidential. Come along, Barry. We found a corner backstage.
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Very he was nervous. He kept him shifting his weight from one foot
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to the other, ran his handkerchief under his collar. We haven't got much
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time, sorry, said Margie. Will wonder what happened to me? Who's
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Margie? My dad saying partner. Oh oh, there she is standing near
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that prop tree. Looks like a young Laura's. Laura's daughter was Sydney her
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father. Yeah, that's right. He deserted her apprate to voice Launa,
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And when Margie grew up, he suddenly took an interest in her. Wanted
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to leave the show and break off with me. I'll be a two big
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dancer. He didn't like you will The feeling was mutual, and I put
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up a big front while he was broke, making fantastic promises to Margie,
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so she give me the air. You must love Margie very much. What
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do you think You wouldn't let anyone take her away from you? No,
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never, And the surest way to keep her was to get rid of Sydney.
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What are you saying? Just repeating your words. You dashed into the
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dressing room and said we're rid of him for good. I didn't do it.
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You hated him. Lots of people hated him. You wanted him out
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of the way. Well, yeah, sure, but I didn't kill him
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back. And you need to kill alone. If you're looking for somebody that
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hated Sydney, I'll take a grand prize. They don't pick on anyone else
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along Derek. Curtain's going up in a minute. I went back to the
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stage door. Eric was killed. It back in a chair reading the newspaper.
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Hey, the kids are on now. Why didn't you watch the show?
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So I'm not here for entertainment. He shouldn't miss a great dance teament.
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The boy don't look it, but he's all solid muscle. He lifts
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her up in the ears if she didn't weigh an ounce. What time did
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he get to the theater? About seven thirty? Stay in all the time?
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No? I remember he went out once for a pack of cigarettes.
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You've got a vending machine here, Eh, we didn't carry his brand?
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Did he go out after Sydney left? I can't exactly remember that. Did
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you go out after Sydney left? Ask me that before you trying to trip
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me up? I forgot. If you want to know what I think,
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Sergeant, nobody getting heads at that job. I'm not for sure that's okay
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with me if you want to waste your god a stocky color. A six
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footer came in from the street, wore katy pants on the brown shirt,
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bushy hair, black eyes, a big grin on his face? Is he
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chewed the mouthful? Hey? Where you been? Jack? Down at the
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corner? I had a couple of beers? What a pretzel? Thanks?
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Hey? You know you ain't supposed to drink on the show's eyes. Okay,
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So I ate anybody asked me now? All right, so there's no
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harm done. I have a pretzel, Sergeant, Thanks, I'll leave it
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later, just to keep your lip button. Derek below, who's that?
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Jack? Costa? One of the stage heads gets away. Was hardly does
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any work at all. Somebody's got to move the scenery. I'd swapped cat
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with him. Hey day. He makes real do kind of jealous because you
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can't sneak out for a beer. I'm tied down here, I can say
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that. But I met you outside. Why you stop mat again? He
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can't help it. It's the cop in me. You think I didn't want't
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to lock me up, That's just what I intend to do Eric. Right
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after the final curtain, I questioned Eric for hours, couldn't break him down,
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released him for lack of evidence, But I still had my doubts.
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He had two good motives. Sydney had ruined his voice and had taken Lorna
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from him. Perhaps he felt he was safe. He might betray himself.
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There was a mat made. The next day. I went back to the
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theater. Eric was on the phone. Lorna stood nearby. Yeah, yeah,
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sure, he isn't there. Yeah, well when did you see him
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last? When he came home last night and you didn't see him at all
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this morning? Yeah? Yeah, alright, goodbye? What do you make
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of it? No? What's with trouble? Nothing? Nothing at all sergeants,
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come clean, Eric, what is it? Uh? Barry is still
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a few minutes left. I was always here ahead of time, right in
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the first one, and he never missed up. A ball must have happened
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to him. Perhaps he took it on the lamb. Why should he run
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away? He might be charged with murder. Well, I'm glad you have
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picking on somebody else for change. Yeah, you had nothing to do with
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the murder. Let me have that phone call your quarters. Gave him a
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description of Verry Blithe had him send out an alarm to pick him up.
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I'd like to talk to you, sergeant, at your service. My dressing
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room is more private the way, said I'm sergeant. I'll take it standing
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up. Well, you remember I told you Sidney came to borrow five grand.
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So oh, couldn't there murder be tied up with that in some way?
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Ah, I thought of it. I want you find out why he
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needed the money. I'll get to it. Ye'll get to it when you
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do it, now, said I wasting your time hanging around here? Are
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you trying to get me off Berry's back? I'm not worried about Barries.
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Not much you get out of it yet. Cock and leave me alone?
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Right, where's pleasure? I went back to join Eric, decided to wait
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untise. The call came in. The berry had been picked up. Nothing
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happened for a while. Then hey, look what's coming in? All right?
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Right, don't make no white crack. He wants to walk in the
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two doors to get two black eyes? Oh boy, the bus and I've
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nos his points and he's worse. I told you to shut up. What
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had happened? Jack? A fight? I never guess. So you're making
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with a crack too. You don't have to tell me, Jack, I
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know just how I blessed you. It's been at the bar with a half
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a dozen bars on your belt and somebody picks on you. Hey, don't
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I get a pressil this time? By your road to think him out?
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I must have ganged up on him, Sagan, Maybe no, maybe a
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bother No. One guy could have done that to Jack. Probably caught him
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off guard. Oh, fiddlers are tuning up the shore starts soon start?
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Did you here again? Oh? Honna? Did you get him? Barricks?
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Oh? I going up in a few minutes. Looks like he won't
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make it. He never mid the performance before, always the first time I'm
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worried. I wonder where he is. Don't worry. If he hasn't left
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town, where you'll fight it. I waited an hour, then went back
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to the station house. The police couldn't find Barry, checked the hospitals and
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more. No Burry. Early the next morning, decided to make a search
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for myself. Just as I got up to leave the desh Sergeant Willoughby Homicide.
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Come on, Sam, there's the car. What's on your mind?
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Lou got another murder for you? Where seventy six place? That's not my
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priesting, but I want you to come over something very interesting to show you,
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okay. It was a fifty thousand dollars house with a swimming pool,
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metal tables with beach umbrellas. Lying on the cement walk near the pool was
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the body of a man in swimming trunks, slightly bald, had a big
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punch, could be about fifty. It's not a drowning Brad. Who is
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it? Fred Marklain own shark? What's he got to do with me?
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He was murdered. I told you this is not my preescinct, but he
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was murdered the same way Sidney Lee got it. Judo. Behind the ages
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might be some connection between the two when it just happened a couple of hours
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ago. No witnesses, I suppose, no none. He usually takes a
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morning to swim along. When he didn't come back to the house, his
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wife went on to look for him, found him like this as he called
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the police. Anyone else in the house. No, you make anything of
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it? Not just well, we'll take the body away. I just thought
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i'd give you a chance to see it, Thanks, lou No. I
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stayed after they left, went over the grounds, then back of the hedges
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that surrounded one side of the swimming pool. I found something, but wasn't
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sure it meant an it anyhow, it was worth the try. If the
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priest last. That night, I went back to the Windsor theater. Eric
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was at his post. Wow, hi, Sozean, Maybe I would have
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got through a season's past. Don't bother very short now, I guess hear
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it tires from show business, that is lord of him working on her makeup
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takes a little more time when you're older. Jack Custer show up. He
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didn't think the two black eyes would keep him from what he calls working there
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just now, sogn why don't you drop the case and here was Margot,
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So what stick to your own job? Eric? Okay, just to suggestion,
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Hey, hey, hey, where you going backstage? You won't find
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Marry There the stage hands with busy shifting scenery, getting all the props ready,
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kneeling loose pieces together. I chapped Jack Costa on the shoulder. Well
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you would, Let's get away from this noise. I've got a few questions.
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You're gonna ask him right here. I prefer a quieter place. Come
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along, okay, all right, what do you want? Did you kill
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Sydney Lee out of your mind? Did you kill Fred Markley? Uh?
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You want to pin to murder? Wrapped on me earth? That's right,
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Jack, And we've got to prove what kind of proof? The stuff you
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left at each murder? What are you talking about? What kind of stuff?
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Pretzel crumbs? You're always chewing pretzels. You left your trademark behind you
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do on the only one to choose pretzels. That's a laugh, I checked
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with a police laugh. The crumbs I found in Sydney's car, the crumbs
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I found behind the hedge at Markley's place, and the crumbs in my pocket
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from the pretzel you gave me. They all checked from the same jar down
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at the saloon. I'm taking you in for murder. Okay, I'll go
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alone. We want a few steps. Then suddenly brushed my hand off his
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grabbed my hand. He was gonna try to teot off me. I grabbed
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his wrist in my knee in the belleto. He fought like a WHI man,
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I'm not as easy as the other two. I put the cups on
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him, helped him to the face to the guts. If he didn't come
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up with a knee too bad. Sydney didn't know that trick. He wouldn't
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have been murdered. I didn't mean to kill him, and I said,
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I wanted to scare him, but I pressed too hard. Why scare him?
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He owed markedly five grand? Fred told me to rouugh him up a
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bit. You worked for Fred, Mark, I just ruffed up guys that
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didn't pay on time. I get the connection now, I know why you
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got those two black eyes and a broken out Markley was sor at me for
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killing Sydney. He was out five grand, so he got some goons to
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rough me up. I threatened to do morph. I didn't make good the
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five grand, so you killed Mark I knew he took that morning swim.
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I hid behind the hedges. When he came out. I finished it,
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and your own life too. You can't play around with sharks, Jack,
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especially the kind that walk around on two seats. Here's a sort the here
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it is that you and I share as Americans has been given to us by
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many great men. One of these was Eli Whitney. We generally think of
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Whitney as the inventor of the cotton gin, but his biggest contribution to history
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came when the United States Army gave him an order for muskets in the year
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seventeen ninety nine. Instead of building each gun separately, as it had always
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been done, he turned out standard parts which could be used interchangeably on any
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gun. This was the beginning of our modern day production line, a basic
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part of our economic system. Eli Whitney's idea helped to build your America.
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It is part of your American heritage. Name Jack Costa, Address eighty nine,
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Group Avenue Charge murder remarks. Jack was indicted for the murder of Sidney
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Lee, but he was tried for the more serious offense, the premeditated murder
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of Fred Marker. He was convicted and paid the Supreme penalty. Perry returned
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to the theater and gave his reason for disappearing. He had seen me enter
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the theater and was afraid I was going to arrest him for the murder of
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Sidney Lee. Signed Sergeant Sam Willoughby Homicide. You have just third police Blotter,
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featuring Joseph Pulland as Sergeant Sam Willoughby. The cast included Nancy Sheridan,
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William Redfield, and Robert Dryden. Tonight's drama Murder at the Windsor was written
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by Ed Ettinger and directed by Clark Andrews. Police Plotter came to you live
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on mister time. Police Splatter has come to you through the worldwide facilities of
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the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. Welcome Back. This was
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a somewhat confusing episode, mainly from the transcription standpoint, because they were announcing
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this as an Armed Forces Radio Services broadcast, but there were things within the
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broadcast that said it was live. What this suggests is that police laughter was
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usually broadcast live as opposed to transcribed, and really they only made the transcription
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desk when they were saying them overseas, and they didn't bother to edit out
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the parts of the show that said they were live, which I guess explains
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why the only two episodes we have of police Blodder are from the Armed Forces
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Radio Service. I did like how the stage door guy thought that Sergeant Willoughby
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should take his word on the cause of death, and you could just imagine
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how that would go. Well, the stage or guy said he died this
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way, so that must be how it happened. Well, now on the
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