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- 0:28Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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- 1:20Speaker 1: nineteen fifty one, here is the big Friend.
- 1:32Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true, only
- 1:35Speaker 2: the names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're
- 1:47Speaker 2: a detective sergeant. You're assigned to homicide detail. A phone
- 1:52Speaker 2: call comes into your office from a man who tells
- 1:54Speaker 2: you his wife has been murdered. He's not sure who
- 1:57Speaker 2: the killer is.
- 1:58Speaker 3: Your job find him.
- 2:10Speaker 4: Drag Net the documented drama of an actual crime for
- 2:14Speaker 4: the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles
- 2:17Speaker 4: Police Department. If you will travel step by step on
- 2:20Speaker 4: the side of the law through an actual case transcribed
- 2:23Speaker 4: from official police files, from beginning to end, from crime
- 2:27Speaker 4: to punishment, drag Net is the story of your police
- 2:30Speaker 4: force in action.
- 2:37Speaker 5: It was Tuesday, January ninth, was rainy and windy in
- 2:40Speaker 5: Los Angeles. We're working the night watch out of homicide Detail.
- 2:44Speaker 5: My partner's Ben Romero, the boss of stad Brown, Chief
- 2:47Speaker 5: of Detectives.
- 2:47Speaker 6: My name is Friday.
- 2:49Speaker 5: Was nine twenty seven PM when I got to Room
- 2:51Speaker 5: forty two, Homicide Detail.
- 2:57Speaker 7: Hi, Joe, great night. Just look out there on Spring straight.
- 3:03Speaker 6: Yeah, I know. I just came in out of it.
- 3:05Speaker 7: Really coming down. Yeah, just like I told you on
- 3:08Speaker 7: the phone this afternoon. What's that every time those seagulls
- 3:12Speaker 7: flying from the coast, it means rain.
- 3:14Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 3:18Speaker 7: Sure. As a fine coat, I've never been sorry I
- 3:20Speaker 7: bought this. Let me take another look at that, Joe.
- 3:22Speaker 7: Yeah sure, oh yeah, yeah, that's a good one.
- 3:26Speaker 8: English coat.
- 3:27Speaker 6: Huh Yeah.
- 3:28Speaker 5: They make them a little heavier over there than we
- 3:30Speaker 5: do here. Seemed to be kind of good in our business.
- 3:33Speaker 6: Do you remember that Henderson's steakeout last month?
- 3:35Speaker 8: Oh?
- 3:35Speaker 7: Yeah, really poured down that thing. This coat kept me
- 3:38Speaker 7: dry as a bone. Water just seems to roll off
- 3:40Speaker 7: of it. Yeah, that's a good one. Here you go.
- 3:44Speaker 5: Thank you have to hang it up. Supposed to keep
- 3:48Speaker 5: a good coat on a hanger, you know, especially when
- 3:50Speaker 5: they're wet.
- 3:50Speaker 7: Bitch. Trouble with mine is it leaks right up here
- 3:55Speaker 7: over the shoulders. Must be through the seams. Yeah, I
- 3:59Speaker 7: guess so, same one I've been with. And I told
- 4:01Speaker 7: you about it before.
- 4:02Speaker 6: We said you're going to get a new one, didn't you.
- 4:04Speaker 7: Yeah, but it's such a good coat. Otherwise I hain't
- 4:06Speaker 7: to throw it away.
- 4:07Speaker 8: It's no good of it leaks.
- 4:09Speaker 7: Oh, I guess you're right at dead. Maybe I can
- 4:11Speaker 7: get those seams fixed. Do you think I don't know
- 4:14Speaker 7: how long you had it? Seven years?
- 4:17Speaker 6: I got it? Homicide Friday.
- 4:21Speaker 7: This is fourteen on the lateboard right.
- 4:26Speaker 3: Hello.
- 4:27Speaker 8: Hello, my name's Lennard Gray.
- 4:30Speaker 7: Yes, sir, my wife's dead. She's getting killed.
- 4:35Speaker 9: I just went down to the garage and when I
- 4:37Speaker 9: came back, she was dead. Did you send somebody out
- 4:41Speaker 9: here right away?
- 4:41Speaker 7: Yes, sir? What's that address sixteen to twenty seven Oxford Faces.
- 4:47Speaker 6: Twenty seven Oxford Place.
- 4:48Speaker 9: Yes, that's right. I can't understand that she was all
- 4:52Speaker 9: right when I left, and then when I came back
- 4:54Speaker 9: she was dead.
- 4:56Speaker 7: I can't understand that.
- 4:57Speaker 6: We'll be right there, mister Gray.
- 4:58Speaker 7: My best friend. It's right next door, Jessie, he says,
- 5:03Speaker 7: I did it.
- 5:08Speaker 5: Sixteen twenty seven Oxford Places. On the east side of
- 5:10Speaker 5: the street was an average one story stucco home. All
- 5:14Speaker 5: the homes on the street were about the same general
- 5:16Speaker 5: style and size. Was a nice neighborhood. All the grounds
- 5:20Speaker 5: appeared to be well kept from what we could see
- 5:22Speaker 5: through the heavy rain. The porch light was burning when
- 5:25Speaker 5: we got there. Inside the house, we were met by
- 5:28Speaker 5: the two officers from UNIP thirty seven R, who filled
- 5:30Speaker 5: us in on the results of their preliminary investigation. We
- 5:33Speaker 5: asked them to stand by in front of the house.
- 5:36Speaker 5: Then we asked the husband of the murdered woman, Leonard Gray,
- 5:38Speaker 5: to show us where the body was banked.
- 5:40Speaker 7: This way in the dining room. Everything just the way
- 5:46Speaker 7: you found it, mister Gray, who didn't touch anything. Nose
- 5:49Speaker 7: there hadn't touched anything right there on the floor. It's
- 5:54Speaker 7: bry faster. Yeah, that way up there. Yes, that's sorry, Ben.
- 6:03Speaker 7: Would you like to help him? M just sit right there.
- 6:13Speaker 6: I'll be right with you.
- 6:14Speaker 8: Thank you.
- 6:16Speaker 7: You and your wife live here alone, da, Yes, it's
- 6:19Speaker 7: just two of us, our children, Ben.
- 6:22Speaker 6: Yeh.
- 6:27Speaker 7: Clothing is torn. Must have put up a struggle. Huh yeah,
- 6:32Speaker 7: some rediness there on the throat, strangle. It could be
- 6:37Speaker 7: deep gash there on the forehead, broken face there on
- 6:41Speaker 7: the floor. Do you want to call a crime ln? Yeah,
- 6:50Speaker 7: mister Gray, where's your telephone? Riding the hall out there
- 6:53Speaker 7: by the bedroom? Thank you?
- 6:56Speaker 6: You think you could tell us about it now, mister Gray?
- 6:59Speaker 7: Yes, I think so. Do you have a cigarette? Yes, sir,
- 7:06Speaker 7: thank you, Just give.
- 7:07Speaker 6: You a life.
- 7:16Speaker 7: Thanks. That's all right now. Can you tell me just
- 7:19Speaker 7: what happened here tonight? Arl Anderson, that's my friend. It's
- 7:24Speaker 7: two houses down here, and I went out after work
- 7:27Speaker 7: we usually do once or twice a week, just to
- 7:29Speaker 7: have a few beers. I don't know. I felt pretty good.
- 7:33Speaker 7: I guess I had a couple too many. Earl said
- 7:36Speaker 7: it was late and we'd better be getting home, so
- 7:38Speaker 7: he did. I had little too much to drink, so
- 7:41Speaker 7: he drove.
- 7:42Speaker 6: I see where were you and your friend drinking?
- 7:45Speaker 7: The bar right across from where we work, Earl Anderson
- 7:48Speaker 7: and me. A lot of the men go there for
- 7:50Speaker 7: a beer right after work. Were there quite a few
- 7:53Speaker 7: men from working there tonight? Yeah? Quite a few. I
- 7:56Speaker 7: wonder if the other officer found the phone? All right, Yes, sir,
- 7:59Speaker 7: I'm sure he did. Kind of hard to find sometimes.
- 8:02Speaker 7: What I've had a cupboard with little curtains. That's all right,
- 8:07Speaker 7: mister Gray. Let's try to take it easy on their way, right.
- 8:12Speaker 5: He was telling me that he and his friend, Earl
- 8:14Speaker 5: Anderson stopped after work. They had a couple of beers,
- 8:17Speaker 5: and then the two of them drove on home. I think,
- 8:19Speaker 5: is that right? So yeah, that's right.
- 8:22Speaker 7: Well, we got home and I was feeling pretty good,
- 8:24Speaker 7: so I asked Earle to come on in and have
- 8:26Speaker 7: a little nightcap. What time was that when you got home?
- 8:30Speaker 7: About half past six? Early didn't want to come in
- 8:33Speaker 7: because he said, hazeler be upset with me because we
- 8:35Speaker 7: were a little late. Anyway, I finally talked to me
- 8:38Speaker 7: in too coming in with me? Was your wife upset
- 8:41Speaker 7: a little bit?
- 8:42Speaker 8: Yeah?
- 8:43Speaker 7: She used to be unhappy when I was late because
- 8:45Speaker 7: of dinner. She was never unreasonable. I didn't make it
- 8:50Speaker 7: a habit to stay out and usually late. Anyhow, I
- 8:52Speaker 7: see I here terrible, there's terrible. We got in the house.
- 8:59Speaker 7: The first thing is So asked me, was if I'd
- 9:01Speaker 7: looked at the car?
- 9:02Speaker 6: Whose car was that?
- 9:03Speaker 7: So? Our car? DoD sit down forty two? It was
- 9:06Speaker 7: parked across the street.
- 9:08Speaker 6: Now what if we might check back here a little?
- 9:11Speaker 7: Yeah?
- 9:12Speaker 5: I thought I understood you to say that you felt
- 9:13Speaker 5: that you'd had a little too much to drink.
- 9:15Speaker 7: So your friend drove this Earl Anderson, Yes, but it
- 9:18Speaker 7: was his car. I guess I should have made that
- 9:21Speaker 7: a little clear. You see, we take turns driving home,
- 9:25Speaker 7: either his or my car. We trade off to fight
- 9:28Speaker 7: the traffic, no matter whose car I see.
- 9:31Speaker 6: What if you'd go on?
- 9:31Speaker 7: Please? I didn't know what she meant by asking if
- 9:34Speaker 7: i'd seen the car. She said someone had let all
- 9:37Speaker 7: the air out of the back tires. Do you know
- 9:39Speaker 7: why anybody'd want to do a thing like that? No,
- 9:41Speaker 7: I had no idea who'd do that to us? Hazel
- 9:44Speaker 7: said she wanted to use the car. Tonight she had
- 9:46Speaker 7: to go to a friend's house to help produce and
- 9:48Speaker 7: remodeling or something. H She didn't say a word about
- 9:52Speaker 7: my being late. I thought the car had kind of
- 9:54Speaker 7: taken her mind off it. Thought I'd go out and
- 9:57Speaker 7: look and see if I couldn't fix it or.
- 9:59Speaker 5: Did it's I thank you as being important that you
- 10:01Speaker 5: fix the car right away, honey mean well, sir, I
- 10:04Speaker 5: was just thinking I wouldn't want to go out and
- 10:06Speaker 5: all that rain unless it was something pretty important. Well,
- 10:08Speaker 5: I didn't want to either, but I figured all I'd
- 10:10Speaker 5: have to do was put a little air in the
- 10:12Speaker 5: tires and then drive it down to the gas station.
- 10:15Speaker 7: I see, do you want to go on? Earl said
- 10:18Speaker 7: he'd be willing to give me a hand. So we
- 10:20Speaker 7: went out to have a look at the car. Want
- 10:22Speaker 7: to look at the tires, and I knew we couldn't
- 10:24Speaker 7: fix them. Somebody had cut them with a knife or something.
- 10:27Speaker 7: They were beyond the pair. Do you have any idea
- 10:29Speaker 7: who did that? No? I couldn't figure it out. I
- 10:31Speaker 7: have no enemies that I can think of, no one
- 10:34Speaker 7: that'd do a thing like that. What did you do?
- 10:36Speaker 8: Then?
- 10:38Speaker 7: Earl and I figured that we'd better take the wheels off,
- 10:41Speaker 7: take them down to the garage, and buy some new tires.
- 10:43Speaker 7: I borrowed Earl's jack and we took off the wheels.
- 10:47Speaker 7: Arl said he'd be glad to take the wheels down
- 10:49Speaker 7: and that i'd better go back to the house with
- 10:51Speaker 7: Hazel because she might wonder what we were doing about
- 10:54Speaker 7: fixing the car. I understand. We talked back and forth
- 10:58Speaker 7: for a minute or two, and I finally said that
- 11:00Speaker 7: I go Where did your friend Earl Anderson go to
- 11:04Speaker 7: his house? I dropped him off?
- 11:05Speaker 8: There?
- 11:05Speaker 7: Where does he live? Just two houses down the street.
- 11:09Speaker 7: After I dropped them off, I went down and picked
- 11:12Speaker 7: up two new tires and two tubes, and they mounted
- 11:15Speaker 7: him on the wheels for me and I came back.
- 11:17Speaker 7: About what time was it when you got back here
- 11:19Speaker 7: to the house, you remember, I don't know, somewhere around
- 11:23Speaker 7: nine point fifteen. I guess, then what did you do?
- 11:26Speaker 7: I was gonna put the wheels on, but I thought
- 11:28Speaker 7: I'd better go back in the house and tell Hazel
- 11:30Speaker 7: lot have the car fixed. A minute, yes, and I
- 11:34Speaker 7: walked in the door. I knew something was wrong, seemed
- 11:37Speaker 7: like I could feel it. I called to her, she
- 11:40Speaker 7: didn't answer. Went through the house, and when I got
- 11:43Speaker 7: to the dining room, finally, we'll.
- 11:47Speaker 5: Have to ask you to come downtown to this. Sir,
- 11:49Speaker 5: you'll have to give us a complete statement on this.
- 11:51Speaker 5: He's necessary. Yes, sir, I'm afraid it.
- 11:53Speaker 7: Is all right. I wonder iful be all right if
- 11:56Speaker 7: I called my friend Earl Anderson to go down with me.
- 11:59Speaker 5: I haven't told him about this. Well, not if I
- 12:02Speaker 5: and this friend of yours, Earl Anderson. When you spoke
- 12:05Speaker 5: with me on the phone, didn't you say something about
- 12:08Speaker 5: your best friend saying that he thought that you killed
- 12:10Speaker 5: your wife?
- 12:11Speaker 7: Did I say that, Yes, sir, you did. I didn't
- 12:15Speaker 7: mean it that way.
- 12:17Speaker 8: How did you mean it?
- 12:18Speaker 7: I've been drinking earlier tonight, I told you. I guess
- 12:22Speaker 7: I must have gotten mixed up when he didn't say
- 12:24Speaker 7: that you killed him. No, No, he didn't.
- 12:27Speaker 5: Well, I know there's been a strain in a pretty
- 12:29Speaker 5: bad shock, mister Gray. But you told us that you
- 12:32Speaker 5: didn't say anything to Earl Anderson about this?
- 12:34Speaker 7: Now, Isn't that right? I'm so sick and upset? Is
- 12:40Speaker 7: that what I told you? Yes, sir, you asked me
- 12:42Speaker 7: if you'd be all right if you called your friend.
- 12:44Speaker 7: You said you hadn't told him anything about that. Did
- 12:46Speaker 7: I called him right after I got home. I was terrified.
- 12:50Speaker 7: I didn't know what to do. Then you did mention
- 12:52Speaker 7: your wife's dead dy Yes, sir, Well, you men are
- 12:56Speaker 7: questioning me. Your tone sounds as if you think I
- 12:58Speaker 7: might have done that.
- 13:00Speaker 5: Sure, we're just trying to get the facts straight right now,
- 13:02Speaker 5: anybody is a suspect.
- 13:04Speaker 7: I didn't do this. I swear to God, I didn't
- 13:06Speaker 7: kill my wife. Do you have any idea who might
- 13:09Speaker 7: have wanted to kill miss Gray? Oh? No, one, Hazel
- 13:13Speaker 7: and I didn't have many friends, no enemies that I
- 13:15Speaker 7: know of. I see you men have any ideas at all?
- 13:20Speaker 7: Can you tell anything from what you've seen? We might
- 13:22Speaker 7: know a little more after the crime lab checks things over.
- 13:24Speaker 7: As soon as the lad man get hit, then you
- 13:26Speaker 7: can start on the case. No, sir, we've already started
- 13:34Speaker 7: ten fifteen pm.
- 13:36Speaker 5: But continued to question Leonard Gray, the husband of the
- 13:38Speaker 5: dead woman Hazel Gray. His answer seemed to follow the
- 13:41Speaker 5: same general pattern of hazy confusion. Ben and I a
- 13:44Speaker 5: weighed the possibilities and cause for his evident confusion. He
- 13:48Speaker 5: admitted that he'd been drinking earlier that evening the tremendous
- 13:51Speaker 5: shock of the death of his wife. The complete interrogation
- 13:54Speaker 5: necessary in the investigation. All these things could prove to
- 13:57Speaker 5: be reason enough for Leonard Gray's apparent confused. They could
- 14:01Speaker 5: all be possibilities of pretense as well. We had to
- 14:04Speaker 5: be sure. We asked him about relatives and in laws.
- 14:07Speaker 5: He told us that his parents were not living, but
- 14:10Speaker 5: his wife's mother and father resided in Los Angeles, in
- 14:12Speaker 5: the southwest section of the city. He gave us the address.
- 14:16Speaker 5: He furnished us with a list of his friends and
- 14:17Speaker 5: his acquaintances. He was feeling quite badly, but seemed to
- 14:21Speaker 5: want us to continue with the questioning. From time to
- 14:24Speaker 5: time he would add unimportant bits of his story which
- 14:26Speaker 5: he had omitted the first time. Through ten seventeen PM,
- 14:31Speaker 5: the crime lab crew arrived and went to work. Gray's
- 14:34Speaker 5: friend Earl Anderson was picked up and brought to the
- 14:36Speaker 5: murder house. Any idea who did this thing working on?
- 14:39Speaker 5: It's just one thing I want to make sure of.
- 14:42Speaker 5: You know you don't suspect Lynd.
- 14:45Speaker 7: Why do he ask? Then?
- 14:47Speaker 8: Well, I know how something like this can be. Lennon
- 14:51Speaker 8: Hazel are wonderful people, very good friends of mine. Just
- 14:54Speaker 8: wanted to go on record. Is being able to vouch
- 14:57Speaker 8: for Lynn he wouldn't do a thing like that.
- 15:00Speaker 7: Is that what you wanted to tell him?
- 15:02Speaker 8: Yes, sir, I've known Len for about five years now,
- 15:05Speaker 8: going on six. We worked the same place. Just wonder
- 15:10Speaker 8: about your farm.
- 15:10Speaker 7: That's would you know of anyone who might have a
- 15:13Speaker 7: reason to kill Missus Gray?
- 15:15Speaker 8: Not the soul in the world. It was wonderful to everybody.
- 15:19Speaker 8: Just didn't have any enemies that I know of, such
- 15:22Speaker 8: a pretty girl.
- 15:23Speaker 6: Well know that you're a close friend to Grace. Maybe
- 15:25Speaker 6: you'd be able to.
- 15:26Speaker 8: Answer a couple of questions for us anyway that can
- 15:29Speaker 8: be of help to you.
- 15:30Speaker 5: Well, how did mister and Missus Gray seem to get along?
- 15:32Speaker 5: I mean, did they have any arguments that you know of?
- 15:36Speaker 7: I really don't think I should go into their personal
- 15:38Speaker 7: life in this thing.
- 15:39Speaker 6: Do you mean you don't want to answer?
- 15:41Speaker 7: No?
- 15:42Speaker 8: Certainn't that? Well, it just seems is really not my
- 15:46Speaker 8: place to go into it.
- 15:47Speaker 7: We're going to have to question everybody that the Gray's knew,
- 15:50Speaker 7: all their friends and acquaintances.
- 15:51Speaker 8: Appreciate any help you could give us. Well, isn't that
- 15:54Speaker 8: I don't want to help? I know that if I answer,
- 15:57Speaker 8: it's going to make Lend.
- 15:58Speaker 7: Look bad At the moment, I'm gonna have to get
- 16:00Speaker 7: all the facts from one source or another.
- 16:03Speaker 8: Well, they used to have some arguments. I guess you'd
- 16:05Speaker 8: find it out from the neighbors anyway.
- 16:07Speaker 6: Where the arguments that been pretty loud?
- 16:10Speaker 8: Yes, sir, I don't mean to imply that Lenn ever
- 16:12Speaker 8: struck Hazel, but she used to get quite cut out
- 16:15Speaker 8: with him sometimes.
- 16:17Speaker 7: Why.
- 16:17Speaker 8: How do you know Lenn likes to go out with
- 16:20Speaker 8: the boys, you know, goose it up quite a bit.
- 16:23Speaker 8: She used to tell him that she wasn't going to
- 16:24Speaker 8: put up with it any longer. He said he never
- 16:26Speaker 8: struck her, not that I know ups did. Did they
- 16:30Speaker 8: have these arguments often? I don't feel right talking this
- 16:34Speaker 8: way about Lenn behind.
- 16:35Speaker 6: His back, but I know that as his friend, you
- 16:37Speaker 6: want to get this thing cleaned up.
- 16:39Speaker 8: Yes, sir, that's right, I do. Yes, he used to
- 16:43Speaker 8: have quite a few arguments. Please understand these differences of
- 16:47Speaker 8: theirs may have been loud, but I know Lenn would
- 16:49Speaker 8: never think of hurting Hazel. Anyway. Did you find out
- 16:53Speaker 8: who slice the tires on Len's car?
- 16:55Speaker 7: We're checking her.
- 16:56Speaker 8: I wonder if that couldn't have some bearing on this possibly, Yeah,
- 17:01Speaker 8: so we'd like to have you go back to the
- 17:02Speaker 8: time you and mister Grey got home. Just tell us
- 17:04Speaker 8: exactly what happened was excuse me for me, sure, Friday,
- 17:10Speaker 8: see you a minute right here, I'll be right back.
- 17:12Speaker 7: Okay, we were just about through. It's old photo. Lift
- 17:18Speaker 7: some prints, corners, ready to take the body? Okay, yeah,
- 17:21Speaker 7: it's all right.
- 17:22Speaker 6: Get anything besides the prince.
- 17:24Speaker 8: A small piece of blue cloth, white button attached, looks
- 17:27Speaker 8: like it was ripped off his shirt.
- 17:28Speaker 6: Where did they find it? Here's a body.
- 17:30Speaker 8: We'll see you fellows. Back to the officer. Yeah, okay, Harris,
- 17:33Speaker 8: thank you. I was just telling your partner Sargan or
- 17:41Speaker 8: you were out of the room. Yes, and this kind
- 17:44Speaker 8: of a case that turns out to be murderer. You
- 17:47Speaker 8: have another whereabouts of everyone concerned, don't you? Yeah?
- 17:50Speaker 7: We do.
- 17:51Speaker 8: I suppose Lynne told you about it. Who's going down
- 17:52Speaker 8: and get the tires fixed on his car? Yeah?
- 17:55Speaker 7: He did you tell you that I was.
- 17:56Speaker 8: At home during that time? What were you? Yeah?
- 17:59Speaker 7: I was.
- 18:01Speaker 8: I don't mean to try to tell you your business
- 18:02Speaker 8: or anything like that, but isn't that the short of
- 18:05Speaker 8: information you have to have?
- 18:07Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right. Anything else you'd like to know, Yes, sir,
- 18:10Speaker 7: who killed Hazel Gray?
- 18:23Speaker 4: You are listening to Dragnet from beginning to end. Dragnet
- 18:27Speaker 4: is the authentic story of your police force and action.
- 18:39Speaker 5: Ten thirty pm, Tuesday, January ninth, Leonard Gray, the husband
- 18:42Speaker 5: of the murdered woman, and Earl Anderson, his friend, were
- 18:44Speaker 5: taken downtown to Homicide for further investigation. Complete statements were
- 18:49Speaker 5: taken from both men were checked them through R and I.
- 18:51Speaker 5: No record on either one. We had all problems and
- 18:54Speaker 5: burglary calls in the vicinity of the murder house rechecked.
- 18:58Speaker 7: Yeh. It's working in the area where the murderer occurred.
- 19:00Speaker 5: Had picked up two possible suspects loitering in the neighborhood,
- 19:03Speaker 5: but they were eliminated almost immediately. All of the neighbors,
- 19:07Speaker 5: friends and relatives if mister missus Gray were contacted and
- 19:09Speaker 5: questioned no leeds. All their stories tallied almost exactly with
- 19:14Speaker 5: that of Earl Anderson. The Grays had been known to
- 19:16Speaker 5: argue quite frequently. The arguments were loud, but no one
- 19:20Speaker 5: could say that they ever showed any physical violence toward
- 19:22Speaker 5: one another. Was the opinion of the relatives and in
- 19:25Speaker 5: laws that Leonard Gray drank too much. Earl Anderson, his friend,
- 19:29Speaker 5: was checked and found to be a completely reliable man.
- 19:32Speaker 5: We talked with the repairman at the garage where Gray
- 19:34Speaker 5: had his tires exchanged. His story was correct in every detail.
- 19:39Speaker 5: Earl Anderson's wife was checked. She vouched for the Grays
- 19:42Speaker 5: as well as her husband. Ben and I talked with
- 19:45Speaker 5: Captain Steed for an hour one five am.
- 19:51Speaker 7: Well, Capper seems to feel like I do Brody. Yeah,
- 19:54Speaker 7: my husband Gray sure looks that way, didn't. We've been
- 19:57Speaker 7: over that story three times with him and we get
- 19:59Speaker 7: three different versions. Yeah, it's completely sober. Now he should
- 20:02Speaker 7: be able to tell a straight story. I don't know you.
- 20:06Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not completely satisfied as far as that goes.
- 20:08Speaker 5: The Captain isn't neither.
- 20:09Speaker 7: You've heard him.
- 20:10Speaker 6: Oh, admit, Gray looks bad right now?
- 20:13Speaker 7: What do you say?
- 20:14Speaker 8: I don't know.
- 20:15Speaker 7: I'm going I'm aside from now. Yeah, No, Jee's right here.
- 20:21Speaker 7: You want to talk with him?
- 20:23Speaker 3: All?
- 20:23Speaker 7: Fine? Yeah? Go ahead? Wow, okay, thanks Rob Georgia Juvenal. Yeah,
- 20:31Speaker 7: picked up a couple of kids. They confess to slashing
- 20:33Speaker 7: the Gray's dire clears.
- 20:35Speaker 6: That up didn't seem to figure in any way.
- 20:37Speaker 8: Did it to you?
- 20:38Speaker 7: No, if somebody did it and draw Gray out of
- 20:40Speaker 7: the house, No, it's cutting it pretty thin. Yeah, much time,
- 20:45Speaker 7: tim inst two. I guess I better call Layton Prince,
- 20:47Speaker 7: see what they got. Okay.
- 20:51Speaker 6: Did Edward say that they were going to hold those
- 20:53Speaker 6: juveniles for us?
- 20:54Speaker 7: Yeah? I said they woul bringing them down here for interrogation.
- 20:58Speaker 7: Well hi, hi Mac? Yeah?
- 21:03Speaker 8: Oh how good? All right?
- 21:05Speaker 7: Thanks?
- 21:06Speaker 8: Yeah, you got something? What do you saying?
- 21:10Speaker 7: One of the prints? They left it out? There is
- 21:11Speaker 7: a palm print. A girlfriend says, it'll worked for lemonation,
- 21:15Speaker 7: some mass.
- 21:16Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 21:17Speaker 7: The Prince was present, spots of blood.
- 21:25Speaker 6: The killer of.
- 21:26Speaker 5: Hazel Gray had left behind him, a clue to his identity,
- 21:28Speaker 5: about which there could be no mistake his palm print.
- 21:32Speaker 5: The prints of the dead woman Hazel Gray were checked
- 21:34Speaker 5: and eliminated.
- 21:35Speaker 6: They weren't hers.
- 21:37Speaker 5: Two forty am Leonard Gray and his friend Earl Anderson
- 21:40Speaker 5: were taken down and fingerprinted. Their palm prints were also taken.
- 21:44Speaker 5: Both men were returned to the interrogation room.
- 21:47Speaker 8: Sergeant glad, we have to be fingerprinted, Yes, routine, Just
- 21:50Speaker 8: like I was telling Miss Sergeant Friday, what's it?
- 21:53Speaker 7: Lenn and I have been suspects all along, haven't we It's.
- 21:55Speaker 5: Just a matter of elimination. Anybody involved in any way
- 21:58Speaker 5: has to be checked out. Didn't the fellow the garage
- 22:00Speaker 5: verify a Lens story? Yes, it's the truth. I wouldn't
- 22:03Speaker 5: lie at a time like this. I don't believe that
- 22:05Speaker 5: anybody thinks you're lying. Then it's just they have to
- 22:08Speaker 5: be sure.
- 22:08Speaker 7: That's right. Hyeah, interrogation room, this is a male. Well yeah, right, okay,
- 22:17Speaker 7: right away, crying mab Joe Finger says he and Jones
- 22:20Speaker 7: would like to see one of us right away.
- 22:21Speaker 8: All right, you want to go, Yeah, I'll be right back. Okay, Sergeant.
- 22:27Speaker 8: Was there really any specific reason for us being fingerprinted?
- 22:30Speaker 6: Well, we already tolds it's just routine.
- 22:32Speaker 8: Wouldn't be perfectly in line to find Lens fingerprints around
- 22:34Speaker 8: his own house? Well, yes it would. Yours could be
- 22:37Speaker 8: there too, Well, yeah, I was going to say that
- 22:39Speaker 8: I'm over their house a great deal of the time.
- 22:41Speaker 6: Yeah, we knew.
- 22:42Speaker 8: You mentioned that makes you feel kind of funny getting fingerprinted.
- 22:45Speaker 8: It doesn't make any difference what I have to go through.
- 22:47Speaker 8: If you can find who did this thing. I feel
- 22:49Speaker 8: the same way, and I think you're any closer to
- 22:52Speaker 8: knowing who did it?
- 22:53Speaker 7: Well?
- 22:53Speaker 5: Possibly you men have had little time to think this over.
- 22:56Speaker 5: Do either of you have anything to add to your story?
- 22:59Speaker 5: Maybe some small y you may.
- 23:00Speaker 8: Have overlooked it.
- 23:01Speaker 7: I've been thinking about it all night. I can't think
- 23:03Speaker 7: of anything I haven't already told.
- 23:05Speaker 8: You you, mister Amerson, Is there anything that you might
- 23:09Speaker 8: have forgotten to tell us? I'm sorry, I was just thinking, Yes,
- 23:14Speaker 8: couldn't have been anyone Hazel knew? Could there?
- 23:16Speaker 5: Len?
- 23:16Speaker 8: How do they mean? Well, somebody maybe from a past,
- 23:19Speaker 8: somebody she want I have told you about. I don't
- 23:22Speaker 8: see how that could be possible. You people checked your
- 23:25Speaker 8: father and mother, didn't you?
- 23:26Speaker 7: Yes, sure we did.
- 23:27Speaker 8: Well it eliminate that possibility. Haven't found any way at
- 23:31Speaker 8: all of telling who it was it killed? Hazel? Yeah,
- 23:33Speaker 8: we have.
- 23:34Speaker 3: Oh.
- 23:34Speaker 8: I think that lend here is entitled to know. I'd
- 23:37Speaker 8: be glad to leave the room if you want to
- 23:38Speaker 8: talk to them alone. No, sure, that's not necessary. When
- 23:40Speaker 8: we work it out, you'll both be told about it.
- 23:42Speaker 8: If there's something definite that you'd tell me, wouldn't you.
- 23:45Speaker 8: I think girl's right, I'm entitled to know. Well, sir,
- 23:48Speaker 8: we're a sign of the investigation, mister Grade. We're doing
- 23:50Speaker 8: everything that we can to get to the bottom of it,
- 23:53Speaker 8: Sergeant lenn And I think you men are a great
- 23:54Speaker 8: deal more than you've been telling him.
- 23:57Speaker 7: His wife was a victim. It's his right to know
- 23:58Speaker 7: how the investigations going, isn't it.
- 24:00Speaker 5: Well?
- 24:00Speaker 6: I told you before whatever you should know.
- 24:02Speaker 7: We'll tell him anything that we withhold from has done
- 24:05Speaker 7: for a good reason. Joel, I want to take a
- 24:09Speaker 7: look at that.
- 24:10Speaker 6: Yeah, thanks, right, here's a report on it. Thank you.
- 24:27Speaker 6: This shirt belong to either of you men.
- 24:29Speaker 7: It's not mine? No?
- 24:30Speaker 8: Why what's it mean? I get it?
- 24:35Speaker 7: Carrigation on Friday, Yeadie?
- 24:40Speaker 8: Right?
- 24:41Speaker 7: Thank you?
- 24:43Speaker 3: What about that.
- 24:43Speaker 8: Shirt, sergeant? What's it mean?
- 24:45Speaker 7: This button here, little piece of cloth attached is fond
- 24:48Speaker 7: with the body? You noticed the front of the shirt here,
- 24:52Speaker 7: button ripped off, see I magic? Yeah, it's not my
- 24:56Speaker 7: shirt was found in your house. I never saw it before.
- 24:59Speaker 7: It's not mine.
- 25:00Speaker 5: The palm print was what the print of your palm
- 25:03Speaker 5: bloodstains on? It was find near the body. What's you're
- 25:06Speaker 5: talking about her? What's he mean?
- 25:10Speaker 8: I killed Hazel? What?
- 25:14Speaker 7: I killed Hazel? Why?
- 25:21Speaker 8: Because I loved her?
- 25:23Speaker 7: I think I loved her more than you did. You
- 25:27Speaker 7: don't kill someone because you love him.
- 25:30Speaker 8: You do if you love him enough.
- 25:31Speaker 5: You're ready to give us a statement? Anderson, Yeah, I'll
- 25:34Speaker 5: tell you. I can't believe all this.
- 25:38Speaker 7: I kill you. I agree, holdly, I can't believe it.
- 25:44Speaker 7: My best friend I wasn't your best friend.
- 25:48Speaker 2: Why the story you have just heard was true? Only
- 25:59Speaker 2: the names were changeans to protect the innocent.
- 26:01Speaker 4: On April fourth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department
- 26:04Speaker 4: eighty nine, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
- 26:07Speaker 4: In a moment the results of that trial, Earl Taylor
- 26:19Speaker 4: Anderson was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree.
- 26:23Speaker 7: He was executed in.
- 26:24Speaker 4: The lethal gas chamber the State Penitentiary, San Quentin, California.
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- 27:28Speaker 2: Spy next to our most NBC stations.
- 27:37Speaker 1: Welcome back. A pretty straightforward case with only two real
- 27:41Speaker 1: suspects that presented themselves, but nevertheless, it was engaging in
- 27:45Speaker 1: a way that some other programs fail to be when
- 27:48Speaker 1: they have a limited number of suspects to work with.
- 27:52Speaker 1: The episode also shows that being confused by police doesn't
- 27:57Speaker 1: actually make you guilty, which I think is an important
- 28:00Speaker 1: point to remember. Also, I'm not particularly surprised about Ben
- 28:05Speaker 1: Romero's coat. That may be one of the least surprising
- 28:08Speaker 1: facts I've ever learned about a character. Well, now we
- 28:12Speaker 1: turn to listener comments and feedback, and we have an
- 28:16Speaker 1: email from Ed in Las Vegas, who sent along a
- 28:20Speaker 1: donation and hope it helps. I'm currently in twenty fourteen
- 28:24Speaker 1: and just working my way forward. Hadn't listened much during COVID,
- 28:29Speaker 1: but started back up you had just finished The Warriors.
- 28:33Speaker 1: Sorry I missed that. Well, I will interject because it's
- 28:38Speaker 1: a bit of a long email. There were quite a
- 28:42Speaker 1: few people who used to listen when they commuted more
- 28:47Speaker 1: and as they stopped commuting during COVID, they did say
- 28:51Speaker 1: I decline in some of the downloads. It's always great
- 28:54Speaker 1: to hear people coming back. And of course, even if
- 28:58Speaker 1: you missed listening to our World War two podcasts The
- 29:01Speaker 1: War It is still available at the War Do Great Detectives,
- 29:05Speaker 1: dot net and in most podcast stores. I got started
- 29:09Speaker 1: listening to old time radio on a local program on
- 29:12Speaker 1: public radio in Peoria, Illinois. A worker at the station
- 29:17Speaker 1: had a lot of such programs and started a show.
- 29:20Speaker 1: It covered comedy, Western dramas, and more so. I had
- 29:23Speaker 1: heard of Johnny Dollar and was looking for all the
- 29:26Speaker 1: known shows when I found your program. If I may continue,
- 29:30Speaker 1: A listener had just trash Pat Novak, and I like
- 29:34Speaker 1: it for the reasons he did in great dialogue, especially
- 29:37Speaker 1: with the detective and a drunk doctor. With all the
- 29:40Speaker 1: commentary in the world that can find any information. Pat
- 29:45Speaker 1: needs crazy, but it works for me a loll I
- 29:48Speaker 1: like Pete Kelly's Blues. Also, of course Dollar, I found
- 29:52Speaker 1: the Saint boring. Also, Nick Carter seemed to lose my
- 29:55Speaker 1: interest until they changed actresses. I don't think it was her,
- 29:59Speaker 1: but the story se better. The Sherlock Homes from the
- 30:02Speaker 1: thirties was just poor quality for me to follow to
- 30:07Speaker 1: poor I like Homes, but just had to skip it.
- 30:11Speaker 1: My only real complaint is every time they upgrade my phone,
- 30:15Speaker 1: I lose my place. I listen off the website. I
- 30:18Speaker 1: go down until you can enter a program number and
- 30:21Speaker 1: go from there. But I can't hold you responsible for that. Well,
- 30:25Speaker 1: I've wasted enough of your time. Thanks for the showing
- 30:28Speaker 1: your commentary well not at all. Appreciate the comments. I
- 30:31Speaker 1: would agree that a lot of the early Homes episodes
- 30:35Speaker 1: from the thirties are not in great condition. A lot
- 30:39Speaker 1: of listeners find them listenable. The good news is that
- 30:43Speaker 1: we have had a couple of episodes from that era
- 30:48Speaker 1: with Richard Gordon that have come into circulation in recent
- 30:52Speaker 1: years that sound a lot better, so we can kind
- 30:55Speaker 1: of enjoy those. And I appreciate your perspective on Pat
- 30:58Speaker 1: Novak as do the website issue. You're right, there's not
- 31:02Speaker 1: a whole lot we can do about that. I do
- 31:05Speaker 1: find it easier listening to podcast apps, which I know
- 31:09Speaker 1: not everyone has, but you're not the only person who
- 31:13Speaker 1: listened through the website. I remember a few years back
- 31:17Speaker 1: that there was a website update done and someone emailed
- 31:21Speaker 1: me because they lost their place. They were going through
- 31:24Speaker 1: it in reverse order and they were on page fifty
- 31:29Speaker 1: six and the way the website updated it just kind
- 31:35Speaker 1: of messed them up. So had to try to help
- 31:37Speaker 1: them as best I could. Of course, we are on YouTube.
- 31:42Speaker 1: One thing I do like podcast wise is we now
- 31:45Speaker 1: have the Volume one feed, which has seasons one through three,
- 31:50Speaker 1: the Volume two feed, which has seasons four, five, and six,
- 31:54Speaker 1: and the Volume three feed, which currently has season seven
- 31:59Speaker 1: and eight, and we will start adding season nine later
- 32:03Speaker 1: on this year. Currently we're posting season eight, and for
- 32:09Speaker 1: every week we post two weeks of episodes from season
- 32:14Speaker 1: eight on our Volume three feet and so those are
- 32:17Speaker 1: great options to experience those older episodes. But to each
- 32:21Speaker 1: their own. Thanks so much, appreciate the email and learning
- 32:25Speaker 1: how you got into listening to Old time radio. Well
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- 33:11Speaker 1: join us back here on Monday as we get into
- 33:14Speaker 1: the adventures of the falk and wear Glenn.
- 33:16Speaker 3: What's it all about?
- 33:18Speaker 7: First?
- 33:18Speaker 10: I should like you to beat Mario jin Tile Mario,
- 33:21Speaker 10: this is your wedding.
- 33:22Speaker 11: I am delight, Well, I'm not, Look, Lieutenant, you didn't
- 33:26Speaker 11: bring me all away from Rome to meet him.
- 33:28Speaker 7: You are familiar with his reputation.
- 33:30Speaker 11: Yeah, he's an organizer for the Communist Party.
- 33:32Speaker 10: That does not arouse your injuries.
- 33:34Speaker 11: No, the party is not Lord italy Ah.
- 33:36Speaker 10: But suppose I told you in an earlier day he
- 33:38Speaker 10: had another name prior to nineteen forty five, he was
- 33:42Speaker 10: known as Mario Tosseri. To Sally, you'll recognize.
- 33:46Speaker 7: Sure.
- 33:47Speaker 11: The Allied War Crimes Commission has been looking for him
- 33:49Speaker 11: for years. I've got a rope necktie I'd like to
- 33:52Speaker 11: try on and passan.
- 33:53Speaker 10: This is absurd.
- 33:53Speaker 11: I never even heard of themand and you're the only one,
- 33:56Speaker 11: Neal who hasn't. The Sali organized a squadro DOTZIONI them
- 34:00Speaker 11: Militsia of Ontario for shot Sisty Mussolini's personal strong arm squad.
- 34:04Speaker 10: I think of it, Michael. Today we are honored by
- 34:06Speaker 10: the presence of each found.
- 34:08Speaker 7: You are mistaken.
- 34:09Speaker 11: What were you doing in nineteen forty five?
- 34:11Speaker 7: I was fighting with the Partisans near Geneva.
- 34:14Speaker 3: Who is your commander?
- 34:15Speaker 2: You will not find any records for him.
- 34:17Speaker 11: You were a small group, and prior to forty five
- 34:19Speaker 11: I was in tried doing what That is my own affair.
- 34:22Speaker 11: But I tell you I'm not to tell, and I
- 34:24Speaker 11: should be easy enough to check. Petenant didn't Teselli come
- 34:27Speaker 11: from Asena and see and I'll take him their first
- 34:30Speaker 11: thing in the morning. In the meantime, can you put
- 34:32Speaker 11: them away on ice? I'd hate from the spoil. After
- 34:34Speaker 11: all these years, I hope.
- 34:35Speaker 1: You'll be with us then. In the meantime, send your
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- 34:55Speaker 7: Sign and off.