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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Voise, Idaho. This
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net to pick up the book. But now it's time for today's episode of
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Dragnet. The original air date December fifteenth of nineteen forty nine, and this
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one is the Garbage Shoe Murder Ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to
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hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to homicide Detail. A young woman has
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been murdered. The body was discovered behind locked doors. The assassin is still
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at large. Your job find him. Drag Nets the documented drama of an
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actual crime. For the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles
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Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the law
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through an actual case, from official police files, from beginning to end,
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from crime to punishment. Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
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It was Tuesday, January ninth, was stormy in Los Angeles. We
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were working a day watch out of homicide detail. My partner's Ben Romerol.
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My name's Friday. I was on the way to work and it was six
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forty five am when I got to the steps of the city hall, the
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main street enters. Hey, Joe, wait up, mollying Ben? What
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did they call you? Five am? Donaho called you, Yeah, miserable
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out and it's pretty well there's feet or something West see the transfer there?
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Yeah, new chief of detective Wait a minute. I want to get some
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gum tack experiment. Well, I heard about the new chief, Fat Brown
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put me in tih them. M dang h. I wish i'd make up
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the minds. Bought our shift work days to call you back night work nights.
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Call you back days once you put into a desk job, and we'll
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never have to call you back. You're here all the time. You just
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hired the police know we are. Thanks. That's a great way to start
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off. As your new chief called you back on a rocking morning like this.
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I'm glad you got the job then, yeah, congratulations. Gee it's
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hard to follow man like ed backstrand going to need your help. You got
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it. Here's why I called you back, Laura Barclay. It was a
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dead body report. Nightclub entertainer landlady found the body an hour ago. Who's
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covering bertand Anderson? There out there now strangled the lamp cord, still trying
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to figure out how the guy got in the house, doors and windows all
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locked. Attack at the motive for no Yeah, I just came from there.
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I think there's more and you raised me her room wasn't proud. Yeah,
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just a hunch, play it for me. Then and I left that
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Brown's office, picked up Lieutenant Lee Jones at the crime hra Abnon drove to
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the West Adams District. Number sixteen Imperial Place, where the body of Laura
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Barklay had been found, was an ornate frame structure done in Victorian style,
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at least thirty to forty years old. Number sixteen was on the ground floor.
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We went in a narrow hallway led to the bedroom. In the rear
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of the house. Two gas jet mixtures which had been converted to electricity,
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were the only illumination. This place has seen better day. Anybody else coming
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out? Leave? I see flash bulbs down there. They must be here
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already, all right, righty, honest way hye Burton Hi the darks covering
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the body position Peterson's dusty for Prince Fred. Shoot a couple of overheads.
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Don't make them all angle shots, get up high, then move in close
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and Chief was right. Rooms in pretty good order. She talked to anybody.
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Burdon Land lady lives upstairs. Only two people living in the building.
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Does she tell you anything? Said the Barclay girl paid a rent on time.
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Good tenant plays the organ at the Blue Fox cocktail line. It any
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idea how the murderer got in here? Not yet, Every door and window
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and the place is locked. Anything else? That's it so far. We'll
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give you fifteen point seven and what we've got. Okay, Lloyd, you
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and Anderson have another detail? Yeah, working on that westward thing. Two
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uniforms. Man outside if you want anything, right, Thanks, It's like
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a tough one. Joe, whoever did it much to come in through the
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keyhole? I see you later. One and he is in the dusting the
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prince nothing yet. The only piece of physical evidence so far the lamp caught
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she was strangled with. I'll run it through downtop matter a sign of the
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drug. Maybe she wanted to die. Check the bathroom when he been.
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I look around the kitchen, Pete, have you a dusted the lamp yet?
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Ben? Come here a minute, will you? Ben? Yeah,
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come in the kitchen, will you You got a pencil? Uh? Yeah?
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Yeah? Here you are? Okay, look at this garbage. Shoot
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here, let me see about eight feet to the ground, big enough for
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a man to get through. Oh yeah, yeah, no problem. Lee
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could be the answer, Joe, and he either got in this way or
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he was in the house when she came home. What do you got garbage?
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Shoot here? What do you think could be? Let me grab a
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kid. Let's see lotting them? Powder? No, no, nothing on
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the outside of the lid look pretty clean. Must have just been scrubbed.
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Abrasions here, had a pencil, yeah, yeah, okay, hold it
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up. Yeah yeah, yeah, there we go. Large prints, unusually
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large, big hands. Can I look inside the shoot a minutely, go
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ahead, watch that the lid yeah, well, uh, looks like it's
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blocked off upstairs. This thing hasn't been used for garbage for some time.
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Most of them will condemned a few years back. I'll get Fred to shoot
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these. Let's go in the living room at deskmindstedly, Yeah, it's clean.
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Go ahead, take a look, you know. Yeah. Photographs hmmm,
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hundreds all man, yeah, all different? Lee Jones and the crime
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lab drew and each stuff and went back to Central Division. Two uniformed officers
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remained on duty at the scene of the crimes. Bad Brown had men sent
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out to canvass the neighborhood. Ben and I went upstairs and talked with a
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landlady and missus Emma Smith. Yes, police officers you miss Smith, Yes,
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you're not the same officers I talked with before. No, ma'am,
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I wonder if we could ask you a few questions. I've told the other
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officers everything I knew. We have to double check Missmith. Who was the
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girl who lived in the apartment below number sixteen, Laura Barclay? Is that
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the name she used the mail she received? Was it address that way?
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Yes? It was. She was a very good tenant, Laura. No
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trouble with her at all. When did she move here? Oh? About
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four or five years ago. I have the rent receipts. I always save
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receipts. Did she always live by yourself? Oh? Yes, that apartment
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rents to one personally? Did she have many visitors? Friends dropping in?
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N that I ever saw? Pretty much to herself. Laura. Then came
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yesterday and took it away. What's that meant? The organ? Electric one?
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Laura rendered it from a big downtown term used to practice all the time.
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Mine was beautiful, Yeah, in the globing. She used to play
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that for me, Missus Smith. When did the men come and take the
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organ away? Yesterday in the afternoon about four thirty. Was Miss barklay at
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home when they came, No, she wasn't. She left me a note
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to let the men, so I left the men. I never allow anyone
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in the apartment without a note. You know the name of the company where
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she went into the organ, the braziers. It was called down on South
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Spring. Didn't you think it was unusual that miss Barkley didn't have any friends?
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Now, oh, sir, I didn't say Laura didn't have any friends.
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What I said was that she didn't have any friends who came to see
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her here. She moved here from a hotel for women. That's the refruit
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she gave me. I see, I wonder if you could give us the
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address of that hotel. Please write it down for you. Thank you,
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missus Smith. Did you hear any unusual sounds in miss Barclay's flat last night?
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Anything out of the ordinary? If I had, I would have called
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the police. And we have saved a girl's life. Thank you very much,
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Miss Smith. Here's her card. There's anything you think of after gone?
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Don't hesitate the car? Thank you? I will. I hope you
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get the dirty men who killed Laura. We didn't say it was a man,
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Miss Smith. Well, isn't it all? We'res the man? Before
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we left, missus Hemmer Smith. We asked her about the garbage shoe.
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She said it had not been in use for the last four years. We
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showed her the stack of photos. She could identify none of them. We
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drove back to Central Division. We checked Brazier's music store. The two men
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who moved the organ were checked out and cleared. We went to the wind
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Hotel for young ladies. They could tell us nothing. Laura Barclay's references were
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all good, and we went back to the office and met the chief detectives.
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That brown you think he got in through the garbage shop. That's where
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it looks. Gee went all over the apartment. If there's another way,
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we haven't found it. All right, you know he got in. Who
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is it? We got out on APB and his mo lating fingerprints and making
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a run on those pens we found. Got an idea about these pictures here,
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most of them theatrical still show people. Frank Lettour in his canine circus.
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So Laura, all my love, Frank, tell me what to do.
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Here's a guy at check with this morning, Bernard Carubbean theatrical booking.
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Huh yeah. Barney's office is down in the Aufian building. Athan Hill he
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booked her into the Blue Fox. See what he can tell you? Right?
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I grabbed the pictures been huh oh, yeah, well you got more
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than you started with those fingerprints. You get a make on him. We'll
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be close to the gang. So was the Barclay girl, but he got
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away. I wonder if we could see mister Krubin. Who's calling? Please
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Sergeant Rome and Sergeants Friday police officers one moment, please, two police officers
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to see mister Krubyan, Sergeant Friday and Sergeant Ramero. Is that right?
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Thank you? When then Rosy loss through the snow, I'll be coming home
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on the world again. When then General Sherman same so, covered with ice,
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I'll be home more good and no thank you? I help you understand
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that you booked Laura Barklay. Yeah, that's right. I spoke with as
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got his name right here. Chief's bad Brown, that's right. He asked
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me about Laura too bad about that? Any clues we're working on it,
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mister Kruby. What makes a person pull of stuff like that? Now?
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Didn't have no enemies? She had one? Well, I don't know much
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about her except I've been booking her for about four years. Good organists,
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three Fair Voice too, got some pictures. Yeah, why don't you take
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her look can Yeah? Sure, quite a stack? Yeah. Oh,
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Frankie Latouring them dogs, great act. I book him, Ricky Rogan,
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King of the Tap, Gus saw an Ocle and that sing seala is.
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Yeah. Yeah, I know all these people. I book them all.
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Did Nora Barkley work with all these people one time or another? Yeah?
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During the war us O camp shows. You know. Do you know whether
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she was close to any of them? Well, come to think of it,
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she was that Frankie Latour crazy about them dogs he is, no,
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I mean the men themselves. Anybody that she seemed particularly interested in. Never
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heard her mention anybody, pretty girl? Did you know her very well,
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miss Cruby, only when she came in and out of town on an engagement.
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I'm a married man. Well, when you don't think there's anything to
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these pictures year of hers, I wouldn't say so. When you're on the
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road, you always collect photos of the people you work with souvenirs. Well,
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thank you very much, mister Krubian, here's our con you bet you
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sure hope you catch the guys. What do why you picked on the law
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sometimes they don't have a reason. When we left for noin Carubbean's office,
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were checked by the blue Box cocktail. Arms was still early. The sign
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said opened five pm. It was three fifteen. We went to the morgue
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in the basement of the Hall of Justice and looked at the corners report.
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The autopsy report stated that the cause of death for Laura Barclay was strangulation.
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We went to the second floor of the old City Jail building, the crime
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lab. Nothing in the lamp corn standard uel one hundred and ten line,
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but anywhere no prints? How about the shoot? Lee went back then rechecked.
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You were right, the guy got in through the garbage shoot. I'm
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more of the same prints, along with some clothed impressions in the dust ten
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anything. The guy was wearing some kind of tweed donegal fifteen to the inch.
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How about the size of a manly how big could he be to clear
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that shoot? He had a twenty inch diameter. Almost any man could squeeze
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through that. Check the ground level of the shoot cement. No footprints.
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You don't have too much for it. I got one thing for you.
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What's that? I think I found your motive and not the one listed on
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the report. Yeah, here are the blow ups of the body. It's
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thirty six by fifty four. Here, pull that in with you then,
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no, look through this magnifying glass here the right hand. Yeah, see
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where I'm pointing ring finger? Yeah, looked like ring marks. That's right,
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pretty wide. Must have been good side things. I might still be
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in that room. I called Dad Brown. He had the room rechecked.
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No sign, and you think we got a burglerary boy here? That's my
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guess. Dad had the voice check with the landlady. She didn't know anything
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about any rings. The Barclay girl out of hand. That doesn't help.
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Think I got something else here? Library book her Their cards in one of
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the pockets inside, checked out from the LA Public Library main brand. I
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think these might be your lead on the missing rings. Librarian sees a person's
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hands every time they check out a board. It makes sense. Ly,
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we'll play it that way. What do the problem with the books checked out
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a music room? Yeah, that's it. I think you've got your motive
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now on a good set of prints. Your clothes. Thanks a lot of
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LA. Let's go to the library, Ben, I'll get it crime.
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No, this is Friday. Oh thanks Frank, Well, we got some
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motive. How do you mean, no, making those fingerprints nothing? You
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are listening to Dragnet for the solution to an actual case from official police files
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four thirty. It wasday January ninth, heavy rain. Laura Barklay's murderer was
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still a free man. Ben and I were sure that whoever left their fingerprints
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on the inside of that garbage chue was the same man who murdered the Barkley
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girl. He had no previous record, his first crime, as far as
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we knew, was a killing, and the odds were all in his favor.
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The fingerprints gave us nothing. All we had left to lead us to
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the killer were three library books and a stack of ole theatrical photos. The
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solution of most crimes, for the working detectives is method and persistence. When
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you have clues, you work with him. When you don't, you work
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your way to a logical conclusion as best you can. We went to the
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Los Angeles Public Library, the main branch. The librarians in the music room
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handled thousands of readers every week. None of them remembered Laura Barklay. We
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drove over to the Blue Fox cocktail Lounge. We interviewed the manager, and
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he knew nothing of her personal life. We talked to Harry Schumann, the
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organist who had taken Laura Barklay's place. What would you like to hear police?
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She'd like to talk to you man about Laura. H Yeah, try
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all right? If I keep on playing. Manager wants full fifteen minute sets,
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go ahead, that's all right. What can I tell you? How
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long have you known miss Barklay? Oh? Four or five years? Terrible
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thing. You got to get to whoever did it? Yeah, we're gonna
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try. Can you think of anybody that might have killed her? You know,
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you asked a question of everybody. I don't know. Does anybody ever
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know for sure? Sometimes? Well, I don't know. When you think
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of a person, you never think who might murder her. Maybe you might
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know a few things about it that you could fill us in on. I'll
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try. She went for jewelry much, rings, things like that. Funny.
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You should ask that she was nuts for him, some good things.
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Rings, had a couple of beauties, diamonds, say we're big stones cost
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four thousand. I know she used to put most of her money into those
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rings. Did you buy him on time? Yeah? I remember one night.
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She was over joyed. The night she paid him off cost a lot
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of doubt. Can you describe those rings for us? Not too good.
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I can give you the name of the jewelers she bought him from. That'll
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do. Do you know anybody else that we might talk to? Don't know
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any of her friends. She was an only child, no living relatives that
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I know. How about her landlady? Yeah, I guess that's it.
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Harry, thank you for what I wish I could help more. Everybody had
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your attitude, we'd be out of a job. Before we left the Blue
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Fox, Harry Schumann gave us the address of Laura Barclay's jeweler. The next
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morning, we checked with the manager of the store and he gave us a
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complete description of the two diamond rings which the dead girl had purchased. They
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were valued at four thousand dollars. He gave us detailed goings of the rings.
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We went back to the office, gave the information, the burglary detail
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and all points. Bulletin was put out describing them. Pawn shops throughout the
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city and state were alerted to watch for the stolen rings. We had lunch
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with Chief Fad Brown, a costas caffette. Never mind, no, Mara,
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I'll get it. Oh, thank you, Jee, I'll get the
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tip. Stu was good. There have some change with a cigarette shoe.
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Thanks any cigarettes? Joe? No, no, thanks, Dan, let's
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go. What do you think, Fad? The description of the rings and
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the moo should help. Haven't turned up. Good chance he's holding on to
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him. Could be his first job. Probably scared anybody checked back over the
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neighborhood. Then this is the afternoon and this morning about a daughter or salesman
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through that district called been checked out. It's a dead end nowhere. Only
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those friends are checked out. Well they didn't. Got a kickback from Barrett
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and Sacramento his m o. No mate, We'll have to get him with
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what we've got. Here's the car. Sure you picked up all of those
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ends. We've been back over the course three times. Go over it again,
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keep going over it until something breaks. For the next ten days,
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we retraced our steps from the room where the crime was committed, throughout the
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neighborhood to the place where she worked, back to the same dead end.
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Then and I checked and double checked each other to make certain that neither of
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us would overlook even the smallest detail of the investigation. We've got no place
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was eight am January nineteenth, homicide Friday burglary. Joe, Yeah, Dick,
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that's some job. But last night couple of watches strand upperled. How
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are we figuring it is? M Yeah, guy got into the gargatuote.
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Besides fingerprints and photographs, one other marked by which the unknown criminal is identified
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is by his method of operation as m O. Once a thief finds a
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successful means of our operation, he seldom changes it. In our search for
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Laura Barkley's murderer, we had checked our files and found no criminals at large
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whose practice it was to gain entrance through a garbage shoe. It was reasonably
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safe to assume that this was the same man. It was two pm January
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twenty third. I was on my way back from the record girl. He
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just had a call, Joe Alma Radcliff conform it, Yeah, says two
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days ago he heard about some guy who was making the rounds trying to peddle
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a couple of diamond rings, same ones, and he's not sure, doesn't
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know what the guy looked like. Any idea where the guy is now hasn't
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been around. Sayce told I'm going to keep his eyes open. That's good.
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Come in here of you two. What he got? The poor just
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came down from Burgery plaun shop down on North Maine. Took in a watch
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and strand of pearls last night. Yeah, same stuff that Rubles called you
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about. Yeah, I remember, where's it dying? Same guy tried to
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peddle a couple of diamond rings. Ten am, January twenty fifth, Bad
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Brown arranged to have all pawn shop detail calls concerning the suspect what through to
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us on Extension two five to one homicide five days past, no further word
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homicide Friday. This is George Rose really Hubert pawnshop second in May. Yeah,
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what's the matter? Man in here trying to turn those diamond rings?
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Ones in the stolen property list again? Talk now, stall the movie right
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down? Come on, Ben move it. Yeah, the next corner there
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it is, just step the block, pull up, all right, let's
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go. Hell here we are, Hey, Collo, look out, Joey's
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got a gun. All right, Joe Yeah, I'll go back a way.
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Let's get him there. You go, step badly, can you hit
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him? He didn't stop him watching come on, Joe, he's turning on
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the spring. He ran into that cafeteria up the street. Want it's run
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where he goes, Dave? Yeah, there he goes, headed for the
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Kitchen's bunt. Stop that man. Stop here up the back door into the
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alley. There he goes stock man. All right, Joe, stop,
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he's not stopping. Stay clear. He's done a right. Come on,
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all right, get his guns. Yeah, he got him in the leg.
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Joe hit his head when he fail. All right, snap one huh.
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Look on the little finger of his right hand. Two diamond rings.
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Yeah, it doesn't make sense, does it. What's there? Four thousand
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dollars worth of diamonds and he was laying on a pilot garbage. The story
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you I've just heard was true, only the names were changed to protect the
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innocent. On April second, nineteen forty seven, trial was held in Superior
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Court, Department eighty one, City and County of Los Angeles, State of
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California. In a moment the results of that trial, Lola Barclay's murderer was
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identified as Martin Eric Swanson. He was tried and convicted of murder in the
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first degree. His case was fought through the Supreme Court of California and in
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the United States Supreme Court. In both instances, his conviction was upheld.
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Last Friday morning, after a delay of five years, Martin Eric Swanson was
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executed in the lethal gas chamber the State Penitentiary. You have just heard Dragnet,
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has brought you Dragnet from Los Angeles. Welcome back. One thing I
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have noticed is that in the twenty a lot of episodes of Dragnet we've played,
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we've already had quite a few. I think this is at least the
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second or third case where we're dealing with murder of a woman who didn't seem
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to know anyone who didn't have any close personal relationship, and I think that
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the reason these sort of cases are being highlighted at this point is you get
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more lag work in and the mystery is deeper, just because before the police
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can even set about the task of finding out who murdered the woman, they
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have to get an idea and a handle on on who she was and how
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she lived. The murders where you can easily figure out who knew the victim
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are a lot easier to solve, though they would find some interesting ones of
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the other variety as well. Well. I only turned to listener comments and
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feedback and have this from Will, who sends along Happy New Year to you
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and your family. Adam, I really do appreciate all the work you put
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into the show. It's top It is top notch entertainment. The summer will
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be two years that I've been listening daily. I've yet to convert my wife
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and son to old time radio, but I think they may come around at
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some point. Stranger things they have appened. Keep up the excellent work and
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can't wait for what new shows will be coming up when the current runs are
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app Take care well well, thanks so much, well it can definitely be
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a challenge to get people introduced to radio drama. Of course, old time
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radio is a very broad category, and if I would ever offer any suggestion
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about getting people interested is to think of the type of programs that they like
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on television and look for high quality radio versions if they like. For examples,
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some classic movies, say there's a lux radio theater adaptation, or screen
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Guild playoffs or screen directors playouts. A lot of those movies were adapted for
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the radio, often with original actors in them, or if they're into literature,
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Studio One from CBS did some fantastic book adaptations. But old time radio
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is an acquired taste, and again, I think the best way to get
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people and arrested is to search around find some programs that they might enjoy based
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on just their natural taste. And that's generally been the case with Andrew.
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She's not really into my wife, she's not really into listening to anything.
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But there have been a few series I've found that she's enjoyed listening to with
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me, and one of them was somewhat obscure. It was like an early
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fifties radio sitcom called Young Love about two college students who Secretly got married.
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It was a silly story. There were only seven episodes of it, but
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we enjoyed it immensely. And of course, Andrea does listen to the Old
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Time Radio Superman Show every single episode, with the exception of AID we've listened
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to together. So there you go. All right, Well, now I'm
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going to talk a little bit about the new ebook, All I Needed to
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Know I Learned from Dragnet. Now, as long time listeners will know,
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I've written previously. Back in twenty eleven, I published All I Needed to
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Know I Learned from Colombo, and that's actually been a pretty successful title over
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the years in terms of raw sales. It's probably the most successful ebook I've
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done. And I was kind of testing the water with that one to see
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how well it would work. And the listener and reader responds to that book
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really drove me to go ahead and write the next one. I definitely wanted
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Dragnet to be at the center of the book, and it is there.
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It is the fourth chapter, and it's also the biggest section of the book
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and was probably the chapter that I had the most fun writing because I studied
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up so much on the program and really listened to every episode available. My
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wife, she had to ring me in a little bit on it, she
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said in a couple of spots to say, you're just showing off. But
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it does follow the same format as all I needed to know I learned from
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Colombo in that there's an introductory portion giving a freak overview of the detective from
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the chapter, a history of their career of adaptations made for dealing with a
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book character, and we're actually only doing one of those in this book.
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And the drag n history is pretty detailed and includes a lot of Jack Webb's
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story, just because I don't think you can effectively, you know, separate
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the two. And along the way we address that old miss of Joe Friday
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always said, just the facts, man, And then we take a look
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at life lessons that can be garnered from Dragnet, And in doing that,
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I really treat the whole series, the original radio and television series and the
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sixties revival series is just one unit. And so some stories are based or
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some lessons are based on the nineteen fifties a program primarily, and some are
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based on the sixties show. And that also comes into play because I also
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have three of the five books or three of the book five appendices actually addressed
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Dragnet, and I include my list of the twenty five greatest Dragnet stories ever
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and mix radio and television together and makes a comprehensive list. So it's got
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a lot of history and background on Dragnet, not just Dragnet, but we
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also do Adam twelve in the book, and there were some very good lessons
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in that chapter. Others we did Frank race yours truly, Johnny Doller,
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and also Frank Cannon. It was really an enjoyable book to work on,
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not only any chance to spend time writing about my favorite characters, but really
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analyzing what the shows were all about. And I hope you'll pick up your
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copy as an ebook if you can purchase it at Amazon dot com. This
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weekend is the last time that the book will be available at the introductory price
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of two ninety nine, and you can also during that same period pick up
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All I Needed to Know I learned from Colombo for not in nine Stans.
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I've already put out requests for auditions from narrators for the audiobook version, because
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I know that's something that people will definitely want. As All I needed to
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Know I learned from Colombo is actually the best selling audiobook I've ever published,
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so that'll be coming in the future. I want to thank you so much
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for listening, and that will do it for today. We will be back
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tomorrow with Video Theater, another episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow television program,
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and on Monday we'll be back with the same and next Saturday join us
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for another episode of Dragging It. In the meantime, sendor comments to Box
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