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Peelbox one five nine one three, Boise, Idaho eight three seven one five.
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That's peel Box one five seven one three, Boise, Idaho eight three
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seven one five. Well, now it's time for today's episode of Dragnet.
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The original air ed eight September the twenty fourth of nineteen forty nine, and
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the title is The brick At Slayer. Here's another in NBC's great Parade of
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new shows. Ladies and Gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is
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true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. NBC brings you
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Dragnet. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a homicide. A mad killer
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is loose in the city. In every instance, he leaves the murder weapon
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behind. There are no fingerprints, no clues to the killer's identity. Your
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job get him. Drag Net the documented drama of an actual crime, investigated
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and solved by the men who unrelentingly stand watch on the security of your home,
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your family, and your life. For the next thirty minutes, in
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cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on
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the side of the law through an actual case from official police files, from
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beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Drag Net is the story of
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your police force in action. It was Tuesday, June third, was warm
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in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out a homicide. My
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partner's Ben Romero. The boss is at backstrand, Chief of Detectives. My
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name is Friday. I was off duty, reporting back in on an emergency
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call. Was three fifty seven am. When I got to the basement of
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the City Hall the car pool. Let's go Friday. Sorry to call you
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back in. Couldn't be helped, all right, Ben okays, giv what's
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up in double murder? When I don't know found out about it forty minutes
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ago? You got any ideas roughly? Samemo? Was that sixty four thirteen
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nor which giver No? Sixty four to thirty? What do you mean the
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same momo? I'm the same guy, brickbat killer. How many does this
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make counting tonight? Four? We got anything at all? Uh smug his
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fingerpinned. We can't even classify him. Sounds like a smart operator. We
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gotta get him if we have to shake down the city from one end to
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the other. Big job to kill her, big killer. At four twenty
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six am, we're pulled up in front of sixty four thirty Norwitch Drive,
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a small group of bungalow apartments facing on an oval shaped garden court. Two
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uniformed officers were stationed at the door to the apartment. Hi jeev Iathellas we
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went inside, Wellberg from Thomas side was waiting for us. This way in
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here. Well there they are, Yeah, mother daughter Joe on the floor
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beside the bend. Yeah, a red brick, mss Hafters. We know
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how you must feel about all this, but would you please try to answer
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a few more questions for it? Yes, all right, poor Margaret,
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miss Hafters. How long did you know missus Diaz and her daughter? Nine
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years? This November they moved next door. I remember it so well.
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We got along right from the start. And as far as you know,
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the only close friends mother and daughter had live right here in the apartment court.
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Yes, Margaret was a pretty girl, but she was no chaser,
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no boyfriends, very close to her mother, the two of them very close.
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Did they keep any amount of valuables in the apartment? Money, jewelry,
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things like that. No, Missus Dias and Margaret didn't have much,
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you know, very modest. Didn't come. They both worked, and you
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can think of no good reasons. No, No, poor Margaret, poor
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missus line in the shock, Wellberg, Yes, would you show him?
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His half is back to our apartment? Sure, Sar, thank him as
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half and we appreciate it. Well, Joe, let's check with Ed.
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He's back in the bedroom. You get anything from the neighbors, the usual
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Ed, No jealous boyfriends, ex husband's nothing like that boys find any evidence
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yet Skaber's still working on it. You got any theories? And we know
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the killings were all done by the same guy. Cuts the same pattern out
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of the window screen, cuts the same pattern with a glass cutter out of
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the window, reaches in and flips the locks. All right, where's that
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leaving? And before he gets inside he makes sure there are only women in
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the house. That means he probably watches the house for a few days.
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Once he gets inside, he wants only one thing to kill. He's never
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taken any valuables as far as we can tell, He's never searched for any
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What kind of a man works like that? I think the guy's killed?
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Crazy? Hey, fols, Yes, Donald, here's a break. Two
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fair prints, one thumb, one forefinger. What you get? Pete only
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got nine points? Not enough to go into court, but enough to make
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him. We'll know him when we get him. Yeah, found the prints
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on the lens of the old lady's eyeglasses. Probably knocked him off the night
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table when he went after him, and when he was done, he put
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him back on the table. Yeah, had blood on his hands. He
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Yeah, that's funny, isn't it. Why would he go to the trouble
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of picking up the woman's glasses after he killed her. We'll ask him when
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we find him. All right, man, Joe might have something for him.
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We can usually hold it just one yeah, crime lamp jones, Yeah,
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yeah, all right, I'll tell him. Right ed backstrand. If
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you're through checking the victims clothes by eight o'clock, you can knock off asleep
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until noon. What if we're not through, take it up with the chaplain.
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Here's what I wanted to show you over here. A couple of casts
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bare footprint that's right, those from the Deer's place found him outside the dining
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room window in the flower bed. Take a look, good cast size nine
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ten missing toe there, huh, left foot, first toe, that's lucky.
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One of the guy took his shoes off before he went in that house.
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That's the way it looks. You leave any other princely three with his
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shoes on? Here they are here? Yeah. How would you say the
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guy is built? Lee? Oh? From the impression, pretty heavy man.
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There's no full length of stride, or I might give you an idea
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of his height. How about them bricksley here? They are all trails.
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Use this one in the first murder, this one in the second, this
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one last night, leaves him around like calling cards, and there's no way
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to check him. You'll never get a fingerprint off a common red brick like
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this pin surface is too rough. Well, I got an idea of his
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weight that the first toes missing from his left foot. That's something one we
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had yesterday. We can check that. Mission towing the amputation filego. Yeah,
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well we better get back, Pete. Ought to have those prints ready
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to thanks a lot late. Okay, fellas say they post the bodies yet,
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Yeah, they're doing it now, same as the first two. The
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brain concussion hemorrhys. They didn't have a chance. Hold at a minute time,
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laft Jones. Sure in just a minute, either one of you,
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fellas, I'll get it. Joe okay, yeah, me yeah, good,
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will be right over. They got to make on a two fingerprinks okay,
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Joe, single print file made him on the index finger. Let me
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see, Pete take a look, Ben. Yeah, doesn't look like a
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killer, does he. Joe kind a nice looking, that's right, Pete.
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They said the same thing about John Dillinger. The name at the top
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of the makesheet read Carlos Richard Monterey, male occasion, age nineteen, height
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five feet eleven inches, weight one hundred and sixty five pounds, dark brown
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haired, dark brown eyes. Last known address sixteen sixty three Naples Street,
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Los Angeles. Previous arrests one auto theft, February eighth, nineteen thirty six.
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That was all than and I had been expecting more. The information on
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the Mama sheet for Monterey was thirteen years old. So was the picture,
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So was the description, so was the address. In thirteen years. A
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man can change in a thousand ways, soaking his habits, his appearances,
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address in thirteen years. Everything can change except two things, a man's fingerprints
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and a physical to formity. I'm listening too. On the left foot,
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Carlos Richard Monterey. Here there is Joe, sixteen sixty three Naples. Yeah,
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come on, somebody's coming. Yes, what is it for police officers?
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We'd like to ask you a few questions. Oh yes, would you
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like to come in? Thank you, ma'am. Yes. Would you mind
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telling us your name? Mon today? Monday? What is it you want?
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You're married? Yes, my husband is Francisco Monterday. Would you explain
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how you are here? We thought you might be able to help us.
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We're looking for a man named Carlos Monterey. I I don't understand you.
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We're looking for him man. We'd like to talk to him. Do you
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know where he is? Yes, Carlos is dead seven years ago. He's
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dead, my husband told me. And does your husband o'carlos? Or did
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he know him? He was his brother? What about your husband's parents,
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Miss Money? Where they they both did sometime? Now? Have you ever
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met Carlos? No? Never, I have only heard of him. What
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have you heard of him? Ms? Monrae, do not ask me?
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This is important, very important. Francisco wouldn't like it if I told you
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it's important, Miss Money, believe it, Cardiness. He's sick his mind
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well eight years. Francisco has not seen him, not heard from him.
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He thinks he's dead, but he only think so, Miss Monaey. No
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one has told him his brother's dad. He just thinks. So. What
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else he did to think? What is your husband now at his work?
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Mister Dorr asked reading him mean grocery, Monte Carlrot grocery. Here's your change?
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Thank you, missus myers. Now look, officers, you know how
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it is. You don't like to let these things get out. That's why
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I trust you can trust as mister Monterey. We just want to check on
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a few things. Oh fine, always glad to help out if I can.
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Can you tell us if your brother was ever in a mental institution in
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his life? Oh? I know there was nothing wrong. Nineteen twenty three,
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got a little bad someone. Dad had to put him away for a
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while, just till he calmed down. I remember the day. Sometimes,
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dumb stupid kid, what he know, standing there by himself in the train,
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crying in the public nurse stupid way he cried, what do you do?
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I cried too. I was only ten, such I saw him go.
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He was alone. Later on, mister money, your brother was released
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from the state institution. Yeah, he was sixteen, and he started running
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around, playing tough, carried it gun, live by himself. He never
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came around. He dropped from sight about nineteen thirty eight, and you haven't
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heard from him since. Nothing. Never seen him. Do you know of
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anybody who might have seen him. There was a girly had Anita something on
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Soteo Street, Anita Martin. Yeah, that's it, Soteo Street. Maybe
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she's seen it. Ask her, Maybe she's seen it. Carlos, Carlos
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moderee and not in a year less March. She was in when I was
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working at the Peacock Donald, South Maine. He came in. We talked
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for a while. That was all. And you haven't seen Carlos for the
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past two months or so, I tell you no. Has he reatten two
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years? He phoned once. Three weeks ago he phoned here. He left
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a message with my girlfriend, but he didn't call back again. Now that's
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it. That's all I know. Thank you, miss Martin. Here's our
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card. If he does call on, you'll let us know. Yeah,
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I'll let you know. You like Carlos? Is that anything like him?
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No? I didn't like him. It was funny, but he was nice,
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you know. I pitied him. Why did you pity him, Miss
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Martin? Well, he was a good fellow who was strange. He could
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smile, you know, he had a nice smile, but you could tell
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he was never laughing. There was something in his mind, something I don't
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know. Least a year close to the two. I haven't seen Carlos.
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No letters, not a card, nothing. It was in the ease.
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The last time I heard when was that year ago January. I was in
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here sent me a calendar. Sometimes he could get along fine, very well,
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other times terrible. He couldn't keep him down. How they managed to
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stay out of jail, won't we Vicinny? I don't know. Sometimes he
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should have been in jail five times over. When you say you don't know
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of anybody who might have a recent picture of Carlos a snapshot, no,
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no, no one I can think of. Okay, Vincentny, here's our
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card. If you do think of somebody, let us know when you'll hell
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sure glad to if I hear of anybody? What kind of a day is
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it outside? Hot? Hot? By five o'clock that afternoon, Ben and
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I were certain of one thing. Carlos Monterey was in the city of Los
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Angeles somewhere. We drove back to the office and told ed Backstrand about our
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interviews with Monterey's relatives and his friends. Inquiries and requests for further identification and
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information on him were immediately relayed to the state mental institutions. The thirteen year
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old picture of Monterey taken from the files was copied and distributed with a note
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of caution as to the age of the photograph, and APB was sent out
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stakeouts were placed at the home of Monterey's brother, at the brother's store,
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and at the apartment of Anita Martin. A special detail of three hundred men
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was ordered to join the dragon Net already in operation. The details at the
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airport and the bus terminals were alerted, as well as the details at the
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union depot and the main post office. By six o'clock that night, almost
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one thousand men were actively working at the job of tracking down Carlos Monte.
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At six thirty PM, Ben and I drew a four hour relief period.
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We drove out to Ben's place and his wife fixed us some dinner. At
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ten thirty that night, we reported into the office, picked up at Backstrand,
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and we drove out to join the man hunt. Unit thirty two are
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on the corner of Southflower lowis for three ninety W AMA three six seven,
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Unit twelve A Code one sixty six A at eighty six four of Wall Street.
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It's the man about A five oh seven AMA three six seven Unit forty
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two five four three oh East Grand Apartment leven KMA three six seven. We
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cruised with a Dragonet operation until five o'clock that morning. Ben and I took
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turns driving. Actually, the tremendous job of scouring five hundred square amounts of
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city for one man was only beginning. Unless there was an unexpected break,
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The search for Carlinos Mount of Ray could wear on for weeks. It did,
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night after night. The man went on him day after day. There
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was no break. Sixteen days later, on a Sunday night, I went
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to bed early. I read a while, and then I turned off the
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lamp and went to sleep. Hello Friday talking. Sorry, Joe, get
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in here as fast as you can. What's the matter that girl Monta Raye,
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the one you talked to. Yeah, she left her apartment, went
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to her girlfriends. Yeah, she's dead there it is what liarly Red Brick
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founded by the body. How long she's been dead? Scare her? And
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she was seen alive about an hour and a half ago. Got three bare
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footprints, good length of stride. Found them down in the lot beside the
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house. What do they look like? Same guy? First toe missing from
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the left foot, the same weight impression should be about five foot eleven.
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That checks out without you, God, doesn't it all right? So it's
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the same guy. What about those shoes we found? Yeah, they correspond
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they were impregnated with foreign matter. What'd you find? Articles of lettuce leave,
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dry onion skin, traces of red cabbage, maybe vegetable counter maybe?
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What about the City Wholesale Market down on Front Street? What about any market
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in Los Angeles? No, Lee, That wholesale market is big enough to
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hide anybody. Hundreds of traintions working there, some of them even sleep there.
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For a guy like Monterey to be perfect, it's a fair guess.
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Check it when it opens. They open at two am, two thirty.
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Now I'd get back to the office and pick up as many extra menags.
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You need to get down there right away, okay, Ed, And you
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know he's a rougherence to watch it. On Monday, June twenty third,
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at two minutes past three am, we pulled up at the City Wholesale Produce
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Market. With the exception of fifty four police officers in plain clothes who mingled
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with the buyers and sellers. Business went along as usual. The market itself
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covered almost three square blocks in the lower part of the downtown area, was
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divided off into hundreds of individual stalls by flimsy wooden partitions. To make the
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search even tougher. The place was crowded. For the first forty five minutes,
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we had the men circulated at random through the crowd on the chance that
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one of them might spot Carlos Monterey from the thirteen year old picture. It
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didn't happen. After that, we started the systematic canvas. We talked to
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the customers, We talked to the managers of the different booths. We gave
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them Monterey's description, We showed them his picture. Nobody recognized them. We
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checked the employment records one by one. Not a sign. Sorry, Sergeant
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Mike to hell, I've never seen the guy. Okay, mister Snyders,
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thank you. We sure picked the sweet jobs, don't we. Oh yeah,
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we could spend a year at this, oh, Sergeant Sergeant Friday,
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Yeah, comanski to find something. I had the booth over there against the
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far wall thinks he might have hired Monterey a couple of days ago. Come
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on, Ben, where over there, sergeant you showing Monterey's picture? Yeah,
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he thinks it might be him. Mister PRESIDENTI this is Sergeant Romero.
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Sergeant Friday, Yes, I told your boys, sergeant this fellow Carlos I
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hire him to help lest Thur's the day big a rush for me now,
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so I hired him. You're sure he's a man in the picture things so
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a little older maybe, but I know faces he's the man you're looking for
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him. You say you hired this man last Thursday. That's all right,
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it's a big rush for me now in the morning. I hire him a
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Thursday. He worked the tours the day Friday Saturday. But he don't show
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up this morning, so I got an oid. Use too many minutes to
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pick it from you don't show up. I let him go. What kind
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of work did he do for you? Same as he did before? Schiller
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done the heavy work moving the stores they're cleaning up. What kind of produce
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to Shiller handle? Miss Frans nanny fancy, very fancy, vegetable choice,
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no potatoes, expensive red onions. Shiller sells to the bigger hotels. Sillar
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handle brown onions, mister fans name only the best big god dealer that the
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Shiller sells it to the big hotels. How long has this Carlos been working
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around the market. I don't know. Is it just the like of the
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race? First he working for me, then Lord go Marcini, then a
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Schiller. Hey, why are you looking so harder for him. He stole
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you somebody, he murdered somebody. Yeah, my mommy murder. Do you
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have any idea where Carlos live for me? No? No, And if
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it comes it back here, I tell her to get out of it.
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I got nothing to do with this straw. You'll tell him nothing, mister
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Presidenttie, here's our card. If you see Monterey again, call us say
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nothing to him. Sure, sure, Joe, call the chief at the
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office where your messages came in Banks now, Ben, Yeah, there's a
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phone booth. See no, I don't wear raight ahead a little laugh.
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Oh yeah, you got a nickel see. Oh yeah, there you are.
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Thanks. I'll see what Ed wants City Hall two five one one one.
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See detectives always had him. Hi, Mike, Ed there and take
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it on extension too. With you banks man talking, we'll fasten this one.
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Joe, what's up? Me? And post office Corlis Monterey picked up
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a letter there less than five minutes ago. Come on, Ben, there's
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that over there with Welberg. Yeah, traffic short jammed up around here.
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Hi, Ed Friday, you all said Wilberg. I'll set Chief Spring Street
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to San Pedro sunset. The first gotta cover good. What's the story?
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Both office detail tipped us off. Five minutes after eight, a man answering
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Carlaus Monterey's description picked up a letter at the general delivery window there was sixteen
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minutes ago. Who spotted him. Sam Lane got to look at him just
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as he was leaving the window, called to him to stop, but Monterey
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ran. Lane called me and we threw an it over the area for six
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blocks around, and Monterey is still somewhere inside this area. I don't know
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how I could have gotten out. What's next? And I'll give him an
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hour to break for it. After that we start a house to house search
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for the whole area. Stop all pedestrian and vehicular traffic for identification. If
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you're gonna jam up the depot traffic, that's cheaper than murder. Romero get
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going. The first hour we counted off in five minutes segments like Backstrand we
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felt close enough to moderate to touch him, but he still wasn't there.
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The north and south ends of the blockade started to move in, slowly,
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searching every store, every house, every conceivable place where a man might hide
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out. In the meantime, Ben and I worked the Spring Street side of
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the blockade and watching the faces of the pedestrians as they came through, one
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by one, examining all vehicles and their drivers. The morning war on,
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the sun came out and it started to get warm. By eleven o'clock that
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morning, Monterey still had not been found. The temperature was ninety three.
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In Los Angeles, it was still climbing. The search went on. At
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ten minutes past two pm. Backstrand made their rounds. How's it looks gimmer?
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Not good? Going slow? How much longer you figure? I don't
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know, and it'll go to after doc that's showing district now here is like
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events in this Yeah, nothing nothing are someplace inside this blockade. He's gonna
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be many chance getting relieved for the men in our squad. Some of them
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been working straight through since yesterday. Mmmm, we'll see check with me a
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run five this afternoon. Thank you, Skaving, keep a shop, look
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up one slip, that's all it takes. The search went on at three
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o'clock that afternoon. The temperature was ninety five. We swelltered and we waited.
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At three forty five, Backstrand sent a squad of men into the Union
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Depot to search it from top to bottom. There was one false alarm when
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one of the men thought he saw him on a race slipping out a side
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door into a taxi. It turned out to be a train conductor. At
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twenty five minutes past four, Backstrand passed along the order to our detail to
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start moving in. House by house was a tedious job, and it went
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slowly. The men were tired. At five point thirty the relief squad showed
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up. Ben and I stayed on. After another two hours of house to
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house searching, the trap was narrowed down to a three square block area a
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single block wide and three blocks long. It started to get dark. Backstrand
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ordered out batteries of floodlights. By eight pm, the courton closed in around
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the last two square blocks. Lines, drawersets, giver ready to move good,
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what do you think? Well know, pretty soon one way or the
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other. Prank, keep that traffic moving, all right, you two get
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going? Say a light us given, Joe. Let's take a look in
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here. Okay, here is an old building. Yeah what Kamanski go?
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Oh, no, you're a man to go away. There's his flashlight on
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the end of the corridor. There he's sigma. Yeah, come on,
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Comanski yees down below searching the basement. Come on, Monterey, he's been
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there. I think here this way where over here? I watch the step
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that life's bad there he is, says he's a janitor. He's been slut
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All right, come on, how it happened? Can you tell us?
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Yeah, man, a big man hit me. I came down to him.
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Get the baskets. He hit me in the rain. And over to
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the new building. The new buildings at the one next door. Yeah,
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just a few minutes ago. Nobody's come out of this building for the past
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half hour. Every door in the place's guarden. Oh no, I'm at
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the doors. He went through the tunnel. I saw him over there's the
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tunnel. I'll take the look, Joe. Yeah, the tunnel next the
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two basements, same company, whole building, new building, a tunnel ton
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next to the basement. Come on, yeah, comanski, get out the
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backstrands. Tell them what's happened, right, sergeant, call an ambulance.
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All right, Ben, through the tunnel. That's where you're going. The
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right's bad here it is. M had a door up ahead the yeah,
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I think so, yeah, yeah, let's go good. There's a stairway.
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Come on, watch the doors. Joe the elevator. They're both on
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the third floor. It's head for the stairs, man, come on one
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more floor, Yeah right, come on, hurry look top of the stairs.
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There he goes. All right, hold it, you ducks from the
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elevator. Joey's going down. Well, we'll never make it on the stairs.
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Yo. Look the gun of elevators, the control levers fence. Let's
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try it anyway, Try to kick the control lever. Kick it, bam
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the good all right, Ben noted the lever back. Come on quick,
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yep, what's the matter, Joy's jim, we're going back all right,
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let's kick it here here here that doesn't can you reach the door control?
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What just now? See? Yeah, I'm pay well he's still in the
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building. Both elevators are here now yeah, down the hall, Ben,
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the office of the left, I think, yeah, okay, here we
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are. I keep there the door all right, min all right, put
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on that gun and come on out. Okay, Joe, let's take you
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watch it, maw. He's going everything he can get his hands on.
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All right, Monterey, come on you okay, then take him. Guilt
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him. Hum nice looking guy, clean cut, Yeah, doesn't figure dead?
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What's that my wife would say, he doesn't look like a killer.
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Doesn't what's the killer supposed to look like? He knows. The story you
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have just heard is true, only the names were changed to protect the innocent.
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Carlos Monterey was examined by five different psychiatrists appointed by the Superior Court and
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was found to be seen. He was tried and convicted of murder in the
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first degree. He was executed in the lethal gas chamber at the State Penitentiary.
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You have just heard the seventeenth in a new series of authentic cases from
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official files. Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the office of Wa Wharton,
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Acting Chief of Police, Los Angeles Police Department. Tonight's program is dedicated to
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motorcycle Patrolman John Kramer of the El Paso, Texas Sheriff's Department, who,
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on the afternoon of April twenty sixth, nineteen forty, gave his life so
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that yours might be more secure. Dragnet came to you from Los Angeles,
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your Tune for the Stars on NBC. Welcome back. Well a very solid
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apple and good job. I think I'm doing a whole lot of characters with
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various ethnic backgrounds and making them sound realistic rather than caricature, which a lot
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of the other full time radio shows would often be unable to do. This
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one definitely quickly became a man hunt case, and it's just it's a fascinating
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process the way that it's told here. I also had another thought on Ed
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Baxtrand in this episode. Raymond Burr's performance here reminds me of his later performance
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seven years later as another captain, Captain Lee Quince in Fort Laramie, a
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Western where he played a cavalry captain and Andrew Ryns did that over at OTR
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Westerns dot Com. Not encourage you to check that out. I'm not huge
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into westerns, but Fort Laramie and have one and have done We'll Travel are
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definitely exceptions to the rule. So great acting by Raymond Burne that and similar,
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I think to just the way he plays it here. There's a certain
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toughness and no nonsense about Backstrand that is interesting, even if it's kind of
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distracting from where Dragnet's going to go. Well, now on to some listener
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comments and feedback. Gary says, love the programs, Thanks for all the
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hard work. Well, thanks so much, Gary, I appreciate everyone listening
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out there. We'll be back on Monday with the Saint and join us next
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