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Dragnet - "Sullivan Kidnapping - the Wolf" (Old Time Radio, 1949) · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A ransom demand for thirty thousand dollars arrives in the
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  Speaker 1: case of Judith Sullivan, the twenty two year old daughter
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  Speaker 1: of a bank vice president. Tonight, Detective Sergeant Joe Friday
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  Speaker 1: and Sergeant Ben Romero of the Homicide Detail follow the trail.
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  Speaker 1: In Dragnet episode fifteen, Sullivan Kidnapping the Wolf. Jack Webb
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  Speaker 1: stars as Friday, with Barton Yarborough as Romero. Raymond Burr
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  Speaker 1: is heard as Chief of Detectives Ed Bastrand. Written by
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  Speaker 1: James E. Moser and produced by Webb, this early NBC
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  Speaker 1: sustaining broadcast first aired on September tenth, nineteen forty nine.
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  Speaker 1: Settle in for a case from Radio's police Files. Now
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  Speaker 1: back to the golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: Here's another NBC's great parade of musuals.
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  Speaker 3: Gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true,
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  Speaker 3: only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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  Speaker 2: NBC brings you Dragnet. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned
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  Speaker 2: a homicide detail. A twenty two year old girl has disappeared.
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  Speaker 2: A letter has been received. It demands thirty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: for the girl's return. The letter assigned the wolf. Your job,
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  Speaker 2: get him.
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  Speaker 4: Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime, investigated him,
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  Speaker 4: solved by the men who unrelentingly stand watch on the
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  Speaker 4: security of your home, your family, and your life.
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  Speaker 5: For the next thirty minutes.
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  Speaker 4: In cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will
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  Speaker 4: travel step by step on the side of the ball
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  Speaker 4: through an actual case. Transcribe from official police spinals from
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  Speaker 4: beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Drag Net is
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  Speaker 4: the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 6: It was Tuesday, October eighteenth. It was cloudy in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 6: We're working the night watch out of Homicide. My partner's
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  Speaker 6: Ben Ramero. The boss is at backstring, Chief Detective.
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  Speaker 7: My name is Friday. I was on the way back
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  Speaker 7: from the Stacks office.
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  Speaker 6: It was three twenty six am when I got to
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  Speaker 6: room forty two Homicide.
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  Speaker 5: Got those monjassports out here.
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  Speaker 7: They are clanks.
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  Speaker 6: Herris Backstad leave ye in a minute, I'm going out
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  Speaker 6: with him. What's your address out there? The Sullivan Wood
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  Speaker 6: eight fourteen Castro Baudavad. You go straight out Santama. I
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  Speaker 6: can take a left of Castro. I remember you ready, Chief, Yeah, Friday,
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  Speaker 6: you call ramerily in right now, get on it.
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  Speaker 5: There's Northally, don't fool with Yeah, come on Herris.
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  Speaker 7: Hello, sorry to wake you, Ben. This is Joe. How
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  Speaker 7: are you feeling?
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  Speaker 8: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: All right, Joe?
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  Speaker 9: What time is it?
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  Speaker 7: Three thirty am?
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  Speaker 5: How do you feel?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 10: A lot better.
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  Speaker 7: We'll be back to work tomorrow. You'll be ready in
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  Speaker 7: twenty minutes. I'll pick you up twenty minute. Okay, what's up?
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  Speaker 7: You remember Martin Sullivan, vice president of the Third National Bank, Sullivon, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 7: what about it. He's got a twenty two year old daughter,
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  Speaker 7: he had one.
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  Speaker 8: She's gone good.
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  Speaker 5: We made good time, Joe.
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  Speaker 11: Where we're headed Sullivant home out on Castro Boulevard. He's
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  Speaker 11: out there now at Harris and he leads to work on. Oh,
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  Speaker 11: nothing's so far.
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  Speaker 6: The girl disappeared a little before one o'clock yesterday afternoon.
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  Speaker 6: At eleven last night, he got a letter. They want
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  Speaker 6: thirty thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 5: Sullivan hasn't got that kind of money.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I know it. Poor guys, almost out of his mind.
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  Speaker 5: Fill me and how did it have?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 11: The guy took the girl out of business school.
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  Speaker 6: He had her call out a class, told her father
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  Speaker 6: was sick. Said he was a friend of the families.
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  Speaker 7: How about the teachers? What was the story? Said?
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  Speaker 6: The girl didn't want to go with a man at first,
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  Speaker 6: but he finally talked her into it, kept telling her
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  Speaker 6: father was dying.
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  Speaker 11: That's about as law as it come. Yeah, did he
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  Speaker 11: use a car? Witness has said it was a blue Sedan.
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  Speaker 11: Didn't get the licensed number of the make.
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  Speaker 7: Did I remember what the guy looked like?
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  Speaker 6: About five nine one sixty, brown suit, dark hair. M
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  Speaker 6: Now no, here's a copy of the letter for usual.
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  Speaker 5: Read it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I have your daughter, Judy. Get uh what
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  Speaker 3: what's that? Thirty thousand, thirty thousand dollars quick? If you
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  Speaker 3: want her back alive, don't call police or I'll kill her.
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  Speaker 3: Contact you later. Signed it?
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  Speaker 7: What was it? A wolf?
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  Speaker 5: Wolf?
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  Speaker 7: I could think of a better name. Come on, here
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  Speaker 7: we are.
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  Speaker 5: He's got the original note.
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  Speaker 6: Joe Lee Jones down at the crime I was checking
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  Speaker 6: it for Prince in the handwriting, well, let's do it. Oh, Hi,
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  Speaker 6: David's right on the horse boys just waiting for it.
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  Speaker 6: I say, hi, Joe. Then in the living room, m
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  Speaker 6: thank you.
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  Speaker 5: That's the way I see it. Mister Sullivan, Now you
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  Speaker 5: understand exactly what you have to do. Yes, I'll do
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  Speaker 5: as you say.
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  Speaker 3: And here are the two men who will help you,
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  Speaker 3: Sergeant Friday and Sergeant Romel homicide.
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  Speaker 11: Yes you do, mister Bestrand. Are you sure about all this?
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  Speaker 11: He might get frightened, he might do something to Judy.
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  Speaker 11: Believe me, mister Sullivan. It's the only way I know
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  Speaker 11: how you must feel. But we can't do anything else.
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  Speaker 5: All right, I I want to see missus Sullivan.
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  Speaker 7: I'll be ready in a moment.
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  Speaker 6: Any developments, Yeah, come on back in the dining room.
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  Speaker 3: There it is on the table. Second note from the
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  Speaker 3: guy Taylor man. When this come about half an hour ago, guy.
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  Speaker 5: Phoned it into Western Union from a public booth. Couldn't
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  Speaker 5: trace it.
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  Speaker 11: I say ye, be at a Legion Park five o'clock
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  Speaker 11: this morning, near Bulk and drive. Come alone, bring thirty thousand.
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  Speaker 11: We'll return.
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  Speaker 7: Girl. Don't tell cops.
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  Speaker 11: Tell her if you do the wolf before I am now, Skipper,
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  Speaker 11: not much time, I know it. We have to do
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  Speaker 11: as he says. No other way then Sullivan's going out
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  Speaker 11: there alone.
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  Speaker 6: You're going with him, he and Romerd. He'll be hidden
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  Speaker 6: out in the trunk of the car. Any plan get him.
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  Speaker 7: That's all.
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  Speaker 11: Ben and I went out the back door and into
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  Speaker 11: the Sullivan garage. We jammed ourselves into the trunk apartment
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  Speaker 11: and Harris closed the door on us.
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  Speaker 7: A latch was fixed out of the door could be
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  Speaker 7: pushed open from the inside.
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  Speaker 6: A few minutes later, mister Sullivan came out, got in
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  Speaker 6: the car, and we drove off. At three minutes to five,
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  Speaker 6: we pulled up at the meeting place in the Lesion Park.
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  Speaker 11: We waited. Nothing happened. At five minutes past five, it
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  Speaker 11: started to thunder.
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  Speaker 12: That's so we need thunderstorm stuff. Here's trunking. Then listen,
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  Speaker 12: something must be what if you seen anything? It sounds
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  Speaker 12: like he's pacing up and down alongside the cart. That
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  Speaker 12: can you hear anything out? Can you?
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  Speaker 7: No?
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  Speaker 9: We better stay undercovered. Yeah, I rained this dark man?
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  Speaker 9: When what happened to the world?
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  Speaker 7: Cool feet?
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  Speaker 9: Maybe let's waited out, Joe? Yeah, what time you got now?
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  Speaker 9: Met my watch him?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 11: A little past five thirty, sergeant, Sergeant, mister Sullivan.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think he's coming?
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  Speaker 9: Sweet, he's getting daylight. We better wait it out, mister Sullivan.
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  Speaker 9: Now look, don't come back here again. If he's watching
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  Speaker 9: you might tip him off.
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  Speaker 5: Oh all right.
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  Speaker 9: All right, your guys. Ye oh here coming up the road, tortoise.
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  Speaker 5: Stopping.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, swinging over to our car. Are you ready.
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  Speaker 5: Talking with Sullivan and coming.
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  Speaker 9: Back here and I'll watch it? Fy got you in? Yeah,
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  Speaker 9: the meeting, all right?
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  Speaker 5: Cramp my leg and cramped all over, mister Sullivan.
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  Speaker 3: Drive back home. We'll contact you them, all right. Cheek
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  Speaker 3: ben Joe went over the car. What's the story of
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  Speaker 3: the guy had no intention of following through this meeting tonight? Well,
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  Speaker 3: how come he told us at five o'clock try to
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  Speaker 3: trace the call.
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  Speaker 5: He wouldn't stay on the line long enough.
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  Speaker 7: What do you have to say?
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  Speaker 3: He wanted more money, ragged about how smart he was,
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  Speaker 3: how we'd never get him.
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  Speaker 7: What he knows Sullivan's called in the police.
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  Speaker 4: Sure said he didn't care, we'd never get him anyway. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: pretty cock, pretty smart. Take my word for it. He's
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  Speaker 4: no dummy.
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  Speaker 8: A K.
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  Speaker 7: I'll get it.
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  Speaker 11: Eighty K to control one, eight OK, to control one,
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  Speaker 11: Go ahead, AHK.
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  Speaker 9: Go to your office code street.
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  Speaker 11: Go to your office code street.
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  Speaker 5: All right, from my own let's roll.
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  Speaker 7: More than twelve hours had passed since whord if Judy Sullivan's.
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  Speaker 6: Disappearance had been pulled in a homicide during that time
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  Speaker 6: in all points, bulletin containing the descriptions of the suspect,
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  Speaker 6: his car, and the girl had been sent out on
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  Speaker 6: the teletype to law enforcement agencies throughout the area.
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  Speaker 7: The same descriptions were broadcast over the police radio every hour.
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  Speaker 7: The Sullivan home had been placed under strict surveillance, and.
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  Speaker 6: Mister Sullivan instructed not to contact the suspect without knowledge
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  Speaker 6: of the police. He'd raised almost ten thousand dollars in
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  Speaker 6: cash to buy him off.
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  Speaker 7: The serial number on each one of the bills.
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  Speaker 6: Had been copied by a police stenographer and then re
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  Speaker 6: checked by a homicide officer. So far, the wolf, as
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  Speaker 6: he called himself, had made three separate contexts, but he'd
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  Speaker 6: covered his tracks well. We knew that he was somewhere
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  Speaker 6: in the city, five hundred square miles of it, and
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  Speaker 6: we knew we had to find it fast.
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  Speaker 7: It was eighteen minutes past six. One got back to homicide.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, hellosten you guns something for us?
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  Speaker 3: Mike here this letter special delivery came in about twenty
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  Speaker 3: five minutes and.
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  Speaker 7: I see that Mike. Yeah, that's him.
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  Speaker 3: And according to the post monkey, mister Meal to run
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  Speaker 3: after he grabbed the groom.
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  Speaker 11: Listen to this, Stay away from Sullivan. If the kids
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  Speaker 11: found dead, it's your fault.
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  Speaker 6: Stay away the wool, all right, Mike, get it over
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  Speaker 6: to the crime lab and happily check it.
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  Speaker 7: For Prince right you well, finally press on the second
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  Speaker 7: oe mic.
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  Speaker 6: Cool running through r and I now, Frandy room room,
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  Speaker 6: get down there and see if they got to make.
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  Speaker 6: I'll call out to Sullivan's and check with Harris.
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  Speaker 7: Right ed, Flet's go back.
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  Speaker 5: Who's watching Sullivan?
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  Speaker 7: Half the sad hair Carpenter.
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  Speaker 6: And Davis last fans a favorite girl father trying to
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  Speaker 6: make a deal with the guy.
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  Speaker 7: Has he tried it here? No, he has. It's hid.
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  Speaker 7: You couldn't blame him if he did. Words sign hyeah,
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  Speaker 7: sure are.
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  Speaker 5: All right?
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  Speaker 7: Fellas?
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  Speaker 3: Just coming down and see you. That's son, Larry. Those
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  Speaker 3: two Prince Lee Jones lifted off that letter got to
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  Speaker 3: make on him from the single print files.
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  Speaker 7: Good Larry, let's see you there it is.
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  Speaker 3: Pull the whole minkage on him. Donald Alfred Keefer looks
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  Speaker 3: like a real bad one, doesn't he.
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  Speaker 6: Donald Alfred Keifer, male, Caucasian, age twenty nine five feet
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  Speaker 6: eight inches, one hundred and seventy pounds, brown eyes dark brown.
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  Speaker 6: Here he had one previous rest for forgery in Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 6: ten months before Keeper's occupation at the time for his
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  Speaker 6: arrest was listed as a bank clerks at the Third
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  Speaker 6: National Bank.
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  Speaker 7: Then went back into the files and pulled the crime report.
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  Speaker 7: Then we called it.
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  Speaker 6: Backstram, there's an answer, Skipper. At the time Keeper pulled
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  Speaker 6: that forgery job at the bank, mister Sullivan was won.
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  Speaker 6: The vice president goh In Sullivan was the one who
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  Speaker 6: preferred charges against Keeper, and Fallowdy was prosecuted.
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  Speaker 5: Where's just keeping them?
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  Speaker 11: Let me see it was placed on probation, and on
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  Speaker 11: May sixteenth this year, he returned to his home in Omaha, Nebraska.
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  Speaker 7: That's thirteen eighty Mackinavenue.
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  Speaker 6: All right, m Own, get Omaha on the phone and
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  Speaker 6: have him check out keeping. Right Friday, take keep his
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  Speaker 6: package and this note down to Don Miz. Have him
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  Speaker 6: check the handwriting and get over to the crime lab
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  Speaker 6: and see what Jones lifted off that last letter.
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  Speaker 7: We got all right ed.
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  Speaker 5: The faster we work, the faster We'll put this guy
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  Speaker 5: behind bars. Now move it.
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  Speaker 7: How's the writing compare Don what'd you find man? That's good?
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  Speaker 3: Senior flants as crosses, w oops his als, openings, breshure
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  Speaker 3: on the Downstrom Donald Keefer woolf same and writing we
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  Speaker 3: have to train Prince off this last note. Joe brought
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  Speaker 3: him out with the idon fume gun.
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  Speaker 7: They matched for the first Thankfully, do you find anything else?
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  Speaker 7: I don know?
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  Speaker 3: It will help you much. We examined the paper for
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  Speaker 3: watermarks and texture. Both notes are written on the same
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  Speaker 3: kind of paper. The pressions show both pieces of paper
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  Speaker 3: from the same tablet checked the density of the carbon
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  Speaker 3: and the pencil are used. Both specimens match same pencil.
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  Speaker 6: By mid afternoon, Donald Keeper's description had been broadcast throughout
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  Speaker 6: the area. Bill it was were dispatched to all departments,
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  Speaker 6: and an APB was teletyped the entire state. Men were
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  Speaker 6: stationed at every post office in the city to watch
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  Speaker 6: for notes that might come to the mail. The POS
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  Speaker 6: railroad terminals, the airports, and all the main roads leading
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  Speaker 6: out of the city were under strict surveillance. The entire
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  Speaker 6: Los Angeles area was broken down into single square mile districts,
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  Speaker 6: and the house to house canvas was started. A squad
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  Speaker 6: of men were assigned to cover each square mile. Outlying
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  Speaker 6: towns and cities were requested to do the same. By
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  Speaker 6: five o'clock that afternoon, the greatest dragnet operation in the
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  Speaker 6: history of the city was underway.
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  Speaker 7: They were sure Donald Keefer was somewhere inside.
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  Speaker 11: At twelve minutes past five, Ben got the callback from
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  Speaker 11: the Omaha police.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, guy, six x ray four to one nine
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  Speaker 6: Nebraska places right, Well, thank you a lot year bye.
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  Speaker 6: They had a make on the carner lots more the
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  Speaker 6: Omaha coups looking for key for two one in for
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  Speaker 6: a Robbie are two months ago?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Matt Robbery.
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  Speaker 6: Used a stole in nineteen thirty nine. Blue sed band
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  Speaker 6: Nebraska license played six x ray four one nine. How
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  Speaker 6: about his family and his friends back there? They all
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  Speaker 6: been checked. Yeah, they said Keifer left Omaha about six
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  Speaker 6: weeks ago. Didn't know where it was hitting.
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  Speaker 11: We'll get that car description in the communications huh apb
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  Speaker 11: teletitan broadcast.
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  Speaker 7: I'll tell it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, what are you tied up with?
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  Speaker 6: Well, just got a call from Omaha. Make on keep
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  Speaker 6: her in the car, give it to me. You do,
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  Speaker 6: get out to the Sullivan on as fast as you
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  Speaker 6: can see. Harris, what's happened to give Martin Sullivan's disappeared.
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  Speaker 7: All right, Harris? How did it happened? About three to
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  Speaker 7: seventh tonoon?
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  Speaker 6: Mister Sullivan got a phone call, said he had to
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: go down to the bank and went with him. He
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: had me wait in the reception room and he went
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  Speaker 6: in his office. After waiting ten minutes, I got suspicious
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  Speaker 6: and went in he was gone, and said, did he
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  Speaker 6: get any more money this morning?
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  Speaker 7: Five thousand dollars? Did you get the serial numbers off
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  Speaker 7: the bills? Yeah? She shouldn't let him get out of
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  Speaker 7: my sight.
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  Speaker 5: Forget it right now.
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  Speaker 7: We've got to find out where he's gone to meet Keifer.
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  Speaker 11: If you talked to missus Sullivan about it, Harris, she
• 15:43
  Speaker 11: says she doesn't know anything about it.
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  Speaker 7: Let's try her again. Come on, let's go inside.
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  Speaker 11: Hi, feltas, Hi? Where's missus Sullivan? David back in the
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  Speaker 11: sitting room lying down doctors with her?
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  Speaker 7: Come on? What time he had been? Six thirty five?
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  Speaker 7: I'll get it. Hello, where are you?
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  Speaker 11: Where are you now? Where are you now? We'll be
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  Speaker 11: right out. That was Martin Sullivan. We met with Keefer
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  Speaker 11: of Morel Canyon.
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  Speaker 5: Did he get his daughter back?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah? Wrapped him newspapers. All cars in the.
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  Speaker 6: Area were notified that a contact had been made with keeper.
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  Speaker 6: We got in the car and drove out to Laurel Canyon.
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  Speaker 6: The entire area had been blocked off. We found Martin
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  Speaker 6: Sullivan standing in the middle of the road at the
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  Speaker 6: end of East Winding Way.
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  Speaker 7: Five hundred feet down the.
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  Speaker 6: Hill was a private residence where Sullivan had telephone. Us
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  Speaker 6: was the only building in the immediate vicinity. A few
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  Speaker 6: yards beyond the point where he's winding way ended back
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  Speaker 6: in a clump of tall grass, we found the body
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  Speaker 6: of Martin Sullivan's daughter.
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  Speaker 7: We notified the crime lab back stand on the corner.
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  Speaker 6: Despite a severe state of emotional shock, Martains Sullivan tried
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: to tell us the story.
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  Speaker 5: He said, Judy was all right. I believed I wanted
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  Speaker 5: to beg.
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  Speaker 7: To.
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  Speaker 11: I tricked the officers that weren't watching me, said come along,
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  Speaker 11: no police.
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  Speaker 7: Did you see his carmensa on.
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to bag I wanted you to beg.
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  Speaker 7: I.
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  Speaker 11: I did as he said. I drove here at six
• 17:37
  Speaker 11: o'clock and I waited. I put the money in front
• 17:41
  Speaker 11: to see, like you said, did he get the money?
• 17:44
  Speaker 11: Mister Sullivan and I got out of it. Let parking
• 17:51
  Speaker 11: nights on. I stood up there by the end of
• 17:55
  Speaker 11: the road waiting mister.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Sliman, and he grove up me. He took her money,
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: and then he came up to me. He had a gun.
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: I wanted to tout it back.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the gun.
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: Did you see his car?
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: He said?
• 18:21
  Speaker 11: She was up there beyond the road. Did to a tree, Solomon,
• 18:31
  Speaker 11: Did you see his car?
• 18:32
  Speaker 13: I went to look for he drove away. She wasn't
• 18:43
  Speaker 13: there basic tree. I couldn't find her. I knew, but
• 18:52
  Speaker 13: I got it.
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: Before he went into a state of complete collapse. We
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: showed Martin Sullivan a picture of Donald Alfred Keefer. He
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: definitely identified it.
• 19:28
  Speaker 11: The information was immediately relayed back to Central Division, rebroadcast to.
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: The entire police radio system. A teletype was.
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: Dispatched to sheriff's offices and communications were sent to police
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: station throughout the country.
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: The house to house searched throughout the entire.
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: City, intensifying the drag net in which we hope to
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: trap Donald.
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: Keeper was drawing slowly inwards. It was twelve midnight at.
• 19:47
  Speaker 14: Three Solid Girl Mary Extreme read all about it citizens.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: And searched for killing Ranney. Did the papers get a
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: list of the numbers on that ransom money?
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah? Got him in the final that edition, two and
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: a half pages of serial numbers, gave it a big spread.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Look at these pictures, a keeper here all over the front. Fay,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: I'm more of the better on my own. I hope
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: this town never forgets that face. Good reminder.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: You don't make deals with killers, All right, fellas, go
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: on over find anything here?
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Link you're checking over these towels here, founam wrapped around
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: the girl's body inside the papers. Only think about those
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: papers that they're all yesterdays. Every story about the girl's
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: disappearance has been clipped on. Maybe the guy's making that
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: for scrap book.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: How other towels, Jones? Any lundry Monks?
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Not on one so far, and every one of them
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: was clipped off. Pretty smart. The maug posts a body
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: in been doing it now, nasty one.
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you got any footprints or tire marks out where
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: they found the body?
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Lots of them, all carest Bossy and Taylor are checking them.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: One thing, What is it? Jones?
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: I know I'm the scene here this towel. Wait a minute, Joe,
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: that pair of snippers there yeah.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: Thanks. Just back under the scene there, that's.
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: One tagging miss Kenny markings Lee.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Green Way Apartments, Los Angeles.
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: One look at the apartment was enough.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: In an adjoining garage we found the car, which keeper
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: used a blue Sedan Nebraska license plate six x ray
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: four one nine. When we got back to the office,
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: Chief Backstran immediately issued the cancelation of the want order
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: for the blue Sedan and then he ordered a detail
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: amend to stake out the car and the event keeper
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: decided to come back for it.
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: Here's the Corners report.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: Joe, let's see it because of death strangulation. Time of
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: death Monday, October eighteenth, approximately two pm, one hour after
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: he grab me. I can't be right skiff in his office. No,
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: he's out for a.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: Minute, Hey, Joe, Ben take the call up two five
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: o three, will you?
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: Thanks? Mike Brian, would you give me a call on
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: two five oh three please? Thanks? Hello?
• 22:01
  Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, when we'll be right over some of the
• 22:07
  Speaker 11: ransom money. Ben just showed up Beverly and Highland.
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: Come on. The man's name was Ralph Donahue.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: He operated the used car lot on the corner of
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: Beverly and Highland, He told us that early that morning
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: he sold a dark blue late model.
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: Coup to a man who gave his name.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: As Fred Simms. The man paid for the car in cash.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: Donahue told us that he checked the serial numbers on
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: the bills after.
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: The man had driven away.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Sarah Lemers, check out. You know, everyone, if I only
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: thought to a look officer, and you.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: Know I generally do.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: I'm a suspicious kind anyway, But oh this morning, I
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: must have been asleep.
• 22:42
  Speaker 11: We get the full description on the car. Ben, Yeah, yeah,
• 22:44
  Speaker 11: all right, let's get it in the air right away.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: I saw I was mugging the paper while I was
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: waiting for you, too late.
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: Sorry, yeah, thanks.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: At ten minutes past three that afternoon, another piece of
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: the ransom money turned up at a busy downtown department store.
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: The clerk was unable to remember who gave her the bill.
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: The detail throughout the general downtown area was strengthened. The
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: house to house search of the entire city for Judy
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: Sullivan's murderer went on.
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: The afternoon dragged into the early evening.
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: At twenty minutes to seven, Ben and I had a
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: hamburger and a cup of coffee in the drug store
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: at East Broadway in third and then we got back
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: in the car, checked with communications, and started cruising the
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: neighborhood again.
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: At nine minutes to eight, a man.
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: Answering the description of Donald Keeper was seen crossing Sunset
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: Boulevard just below Highland. Seven minutes later, the same man
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: was reported near the intersection of Hollywood Boulevarden Lost Palmus
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: Communications relayed the information. At twenty one minutes past eight,
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: our car eighty K, along with a dozen others, were
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: concentrated in the Hollywood Boulevard area from Gower Street to
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: Librea Franklin Avenue the Santa Monica Boulevard. At twenty four
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: minutes past eight, another piece of the ransom money was
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: passed at a cigar store in the corner of Hollywood
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: Boulevard and Hawthorne Street.
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: The number of men and radio cars in the area
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: was redoubled.
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: Plain clothes officers were stationed at every intersection to keep
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: an eye on pedestrican traffic.
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: At eighteen minutes to.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: Nine, the dark blue coop which Keeper had bought that morning,
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: was spotted part in an alley just below Hollywood Boulevard
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: and Conga.
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: We call that backstrand City hall to five O three
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: three Chief of Detectives always an is Friday, Mike the
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: chief there.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, wait a minute, just going out the door for you.
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: Bast Friday Ed just spotted Keeper's car when he bought
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: this morning, parked an alley off Kwena, Harris and I
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: are and.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: Are wet, and now we'll take care of the car.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: You'll take care of this call just came in. What
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: do you got? The theater on the corner of Hollywood
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: Boulevard and Fairview. The girl in the box, I was
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: just tooking a ten dollars ransom bill.
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: She got a good look at the man who passed
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: the bill.
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: She says, it's Keeper. All right, Ben, come on, yeah,
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: he's list of sea and lemons right here. Let's check
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: out the window. Yes or how many? Please please? Office
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: Sergeant Romero, Sergeant Friday, Oh.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, mister Raevern the police are you?
• 25:06
  Speaker 11: Would you step around to the side door, sergeant, Yes.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Ma'am Margie early Francis for a minute, Francis, come here,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: bring that ten dollar bill with you.
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: Sharp girl, Officer, that francis sharp.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: Here is mister Raby.
• 25:17
  Speaker 11: All right, sergeant, there you are ten dollar bill and
• 25:19
  Speaker 11: the list of serial numbers. Check out, all right, Ben,
• 25:22
  Speaker 11: that's it, Joe, good work man. The report of the
• 25:24
  Speaker 11: man came in about a half hour ago.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: You're sure it was Keeper, Yes, Sir, I had his
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: picture in the box office, just behind the change machine.
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: I recognize him right.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: Away, and as far as you know, he hasn't left
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: the theater. That's right, all right, mister Rayburn. I'm sorry,
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: Freig will have to interrupt the show. Anything you say, Sergeant, anything, Ben.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: You keep an eye on the front exit. I'll call
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: communication frid Joe, eighty K to control four eight Okay
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: to control four eighty go ahead, control for clear all frequencies.
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: The Sullivan murder suspect, Donald Keeper has been located in
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: the theater on the southeast corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Fairview.
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: Have all units around the area.
• 26:00
  Speaker 11: ADYK Rogers ptention all units detentional units since eighty as
• 26:05
  Speaker 11: theater on the southeast corner of Hollywood Boulevard and fair Views.
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: The Sullivant murder suspects has been located in the theater.
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: Oh he had eighty K Control four.
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: Have all units converged in the general area Hollywood Boulevard
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: and Fairview. Unit sixty two are to block off the
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: intersection at Hollywood Boulevard and North Cherokee stop all pedestrian
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: and vehicular traffic.
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: Unit sixty one eight.
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: To block the intersection in Hollywood Boulevard and Hudson Street
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: stop all pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Unit seventy one and
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: seventy two are to block the alley behind the theater.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: Unit sixty six and sixty seven r who assistant main
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: entrance to the theater.
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: Within a few minutes, the.
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: One half mile area around the theater was completely blockaded.
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: Every exit and entrance to the theater was covered. At
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: nine twenty three we met Harris and ed Bax. Then
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: in the theater manager's office, backs Ran outlined our plan
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: of operation. At nine twenty eight, a detail of fourteen
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: men walk down the side aisles on the main floor
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: of the theater and took up their posts on either
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: side of the orchestra pit. The picture was stopped and
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: every light in the theater was turned on. At Backstrand, Harris,
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: Ben and I went down the island up onto the
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: stage backspen media.
• 27:06
  Speaker 14: Announcement, Ladies and gentlemen, we're sorry to interrupt the picture,
• 27:09
  Speaker 14: but this is important.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: We're police officers. We traced the murderer of Judy Sullivan
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: to this theater.
• 27:16
  Speaker 14: He's in this theater now, and we're going to search
• 27:19
  Speaker 14: the theater row by row, and we'd like to ask
• 27:21
  Speaker 14: your cooperation. There's no need to be panicky or afraid.
• 27:25
  Speaker 14: Those who wish to leave now may do so. Lead
• 27:27
  Speaker 14: by the main entrance. Each one of you will be
• 27:29
  Speaker 14: checked if you go out the door. And for the
• 27:32
  Speaker 14: benefit of the man we're looking for, don't try to escape.
• 27:36
  Speaker 14: Every exit is covered and the entire area is blockaded.
• 27:40
  Speaker 14: Don't place any more lives in jeopardy.
• 27:45
  Speaker 10: Come on, Ben, backstage show. We can make it from there, right,
• 27:53
  Speaker 10: let's go, Come on, hustle a Ben. Yeah, the next
• 27:56
  Speaker 10: building you'll probably try to jump for it, all right,
• 27:58
  Speaker 10: watch it.
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: I think it's story time of the up.
• 28:03
  Speaker 10: Her. He goes, all right, keep her holding.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: It up.
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: Show your gun down over here, don't you now?
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: Let's get him, all right, coppers, I got it. Figured
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: they won't top me for this. Didn't know what I
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: was doing on him. Get away from me, your crump.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: Shouldn't they hit him?
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: Keep her?
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: Ben?
• 28:28
  Speaker 11: Try the cuffs. Now, yeah, come on, let's get him
• 28:33
  Speaker 11: in out of the rain. What's a hurry? Why spoil
• 28:37
  Speaker 11: a good rain?
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard this pool only the
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: names were changed to protect Farmerson.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: Donald Alfred Keeper was tried and convicted of murder in
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: the first degree. He was execute it in the lethal
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: gas chamber at the State Penitentiary. You have just heard
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: the fifteenth in a new series of authentic cases transcribed
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: from official fires.
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: Technical advice for Dragnet.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: Comes from the Office of Acting Chief of Police W. A. Wharton,
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: Los Angeles Police Department.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Tonight's program is dedicated to Deputy United States Marshal John B.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Glenn at Boise, Idaho, on the morning of July thirty first,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: nineteen forty gave his life so that yours might be
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: more secure. Dragnet came to you from Los Angeles Deoter
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Guild on the Air returns tomorrow night on NBC.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: That was Dragnet Episode fifteen, Sullivan Kidnapping the Wolf. Follow
• 30:11
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