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Dragnet: The Big Plant (EP4984) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty two, here is the big plant.
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  Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true. The
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  Speaker 2: detective Sergeant you're assigned a homicide detail. A thirty nine
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  Speaker 2: year old housewife disappeared suddenly, there's no explanation for it.
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  Speaker 2: Five days later, evidence of possible foul play is uncovered.
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  Speaker 4: In action.
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  Speaker 5: Was Wednesday, September fifteenth. That was hot in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 5: We were working a day watch out a homicide. My
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  Speaker 5: partner's Ed Jacob's the bosses that Brown Chief of detectives.
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  Speaker 6: My name is Friday.
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  Speaker 5: I was on the way back from lunch and it
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  Speaker 5: was twelve fifty six pm when I got to Room
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  Speaker 5: forty two homicide.
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  Speaker 6: Hi Joe waiting fight, Hi ed Al Here you got
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  Speaker 6: something for us, m H.
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  Speaker 4: Here's the report right here.
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  Speaker 7: Guard her by the name of Abbot called in day
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  Speaker 7: before yesterday Chester. Abbot said his wife disappeared from their
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  Speaker 7: home out in the valley Thursday night. He says she
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  Speaker 7: thinks she left him. Happens every day, Not this way,
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  Speaker 7: it doesn't. Walsh and I went out to talk to
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  Speaker 7: the man yesterday. A story doesn't make too much sense,
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  Speaker 7: how I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 7: None of his wife's clothes are missing, none of her luggage.
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  Speaker 7: She even left her pocketbook behind full of money. We
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  Speaker 7: found out from the neighbors. The missing woman has a
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  Speaker 7: seventeen year old boy by a former marriage.
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  Speaker 6: Does that mean anything?
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  Speaker 7: He's an only child, mother dotes on the kids. She
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  Speaker 7: didn't even say goodbye to him.
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  Speaker 4: Well, how'd this? Chester?
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  Speaker 7: Abboit impression pretty groutchy with Walsh and made no cooperation.
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  Speaker 4: Wants to find his wife, doesn't he? I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure. He's no help. I can tell you
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  Speaker 4: that much.
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  Speaker 6: Could I see that report out?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Here you go, Thank you. Florence Trumble abbitt Age thirty nine.
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  Speaker 4: Abbot's your second husband. Persman died a little after the
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  Speaker 4: boy was born.
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  Speaker 5: Disappeared Thursday night from the home five forty six Plasco
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  Speaker 5: Road between sevente eight o'clock.
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  Speaker 6: Well, when did Abbot call in to notify you?
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  Speaker 7: Monday afternoon told us he thought his wife might have
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  Speaker 7: been spending the weekend with her sister.
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  Speaker 4: When he found out she wasn't, he called us. You
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  Speaker 4: meet the boy when you were out there? Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 4: another thing.
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  Speaker 7: How do you mean a kid came riding up on
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  Speaker 7: a bike when we were talking at one of the neighbors.
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  Speaker 7: They tried to talk to him, but the old man
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  Speaker 7: came out and hustled the boy into the house, and
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  Speaker 7: then he started chewing us out.
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  Speaker 6: What's his trouble?
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  Speaker 7: Told us it was our job to find his wife,
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  Speaker 7: not to go prying into his stepson's affairs.
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  Speaker 4: That's a new slat.
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  Speaker 6: Well, how about the woman's friends and relatives. They've been
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  Speaker 6: checked out, you know.
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  Speaker 7: Well she's on it now. I don't think he's had
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  Speaker 7: much luck contacting him so far. I'll tell you the truth.
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  Speaker 7: I don't like the looks of.
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  Speaker 5: It, Missus Abbott have any other relatives here, I mean
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  Speaker 5: besides his sister two lands?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I got the list right over here. Sure, wish
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  Speaker 7: we had a chance to talk to that boy. Noticed
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  Speaker 7: anything else out of the way about mister abbit Owl?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: There's that list, Joe, Oh, thank you. Abbot was upset
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  Speaker 7: all right. I don't know though he didn't exact me.
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  Speaker 7: Strike me as reacting way a normal man reacts when
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  Speaker 7: his wife's disappeared.
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  Speaker 6: Well, how about a copy of this report? You got
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  Speaker 6: one to spare?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, sure, just a minute now, missing person's spaghetti.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, this is spaghetti speaking.
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  Speaker 8: Was that?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, yeah? Sure about what? All right? Good? Four o'clock? Fine,
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  Speaker 4: all right? Signed, goodbye?
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  Speaker 7: Well that was the boy I was telling you about,
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  Speaker 7: mister arabbit stepson, what do you want? He wants to
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  Speaker 7: talk to a sounded worried about his mother. He thinks
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  Speaker 7: something's happened to her.
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  Speaker 5: In police work, missing persons detail is not a department
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  Speaker 5: separate in itself. It's organized is a part of homicide division.
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  Speaker 5: When the possibility of homicide arises in the course of
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  Speaker 5: handling a case, missing persons immediately turns the matter over
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  Speaker 5: to homicide officers for investigation. When we got the call
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  Speaker 5: from the Abbot boy, we automatically took over. According to
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  Speaker 5: al Barghetti, the boy said he suspected his stepfather and
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  Speaker 5: he didn't want him to know of any meeting between
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  Speaker 5: him and police officers. At three point fifteen, Ed and
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  Speaker 5: I left the office and drove to the meeting place.
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  Speaker 5: Designated by the boy the Dairyland Fountain and Coffee Shop
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  Speaker 5: near the corner of Fairfax in Hollywood Boulevard. We got
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  Speaker 5: there at three point fifty pm. At eight minutes past five,
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  Speaker 5: the Abbot boy still had not arrived. We waited another
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  Speaker 5: fifteen minutes, and then we left and drove out to
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  Speaker 5: the valley and pulled up in front of the main
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  Speaker 5: gate to the Abbot.
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  Speaker 6: Nursery on Belasco Road. The house itself was set.
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  Speaker 5: Well back on the property, which covered about five acres
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  Speaker 5: of ground. The entire nursery was surrounded by a six
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  Speaker 5: foot chain link fence, and it looked like every available
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  Speaker 5: foot of ground inside was planted with some kind of
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  Speaker 5: flower or shrub. Mister Abbot met us at the gate.
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  Speaker 5: He had three full grown mastiffs with him. He held
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  Speaker 5: him on a chain.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, what do you want, blase officers you chesterrabbit, that's right,
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  Speaker 9: what do you want?
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  Speaker 6: Well, didn't get those dogs by if you'd asked some questions?
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  Speaker 9: Pretty bid you now if you come back tomorrow, it's important, Abbot.
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  Speaker 9: We like talking. Now, all right, you have to past
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  Speaker 9: time you down you two quiet? That's a quiet all right? Now,
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  Speaker 9: what do you want?
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  Speaker 6: Mind?
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  Speaker 4: If we come inside soon.
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  Speaker 9: He's what, dog and mind are pretty vicious. We can
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  Speaker 9: talk here at the gate, all right.
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  Speaker 5: We've been assigned to look into your wife's disappearance, Abbot.
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  Speaker 5: That's my partner, Sarge Jacobs.
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  Speaker 6: My name's Friday.
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  Speaker 9: Mm hmm. Find out anything about my wife?
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  Speaker 10: Had nothing definite, no thought. Maybe you could help us
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  Speaker 10: mine telling us exactly what happened to night she disappeared.
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  Speaker 9: What do you mean what happened?
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  Speaker 4: Well? When did you see her last? When did you
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  Speaker 4: first noticed she was gone?
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  Speaker 9: We had dinner at Thursday night, about seven o'clock. Then
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  Speaker 9: I laid down for a nap. Florence went out on
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  Speaker 9: the front port for some are I woke up a
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  Speaker 9: little four eight o'clock, went outside to look for her.
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  Speaker 9: She was gone.
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  Speaker 6: No one saw her leave, mister Rabbitt.
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  Speaker 9: Not that I know of. Maybe one of our neighbors.
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  Speaker 9: You can ask them. They seem to know everybody's business.
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  Speaker 6: How about your step son. Wasn't he on Thursday night?
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  Speaker 4: Ruce?
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  Speaker 9: No, he went out to a show with some other kid.
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  Speaker 4: When'd you get back from the show?
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  Speaker 9: You remember ten o'clock? I think, why where's the boy now?
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  Speaker 6: Abbot?
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  Speaker 9: Who are you looking for my wife or stepson, both
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  Speaker 9: of them. Where is he gone? I took him over
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  Speaker 9: to my sister's in Nelhambur. He've been feeling bad and
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  Speaker 9: his mother disappeared. Figure the chance to do him good?
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  Speaker 9: And when did you take him over to your sister's
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  Speaker 9: this afternoon? What's that got to do with It'd like
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  Speaker 9: to talk to him. No, you can't. One allowed the
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  Speaker 9: boy's to upset right now, and I can't allow it.
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  Speaker 6: Afraid you're gonna have to allow it.
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  Speaker 4: Abbot.
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  Speaker 9: Listen, mister, you can get off this property right now
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  Speaker 9: if you want to get FRESI with me. No cough,
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  Speaker 9: you're giving me any fast. He's down there, honey, quiet.
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  Speaker 6: Nobody's given you sass.
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  Speaker 5: We want to talk to your steps on that so
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  Speaker 5: all he might be able to give us a lead
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  Speaker 5: on the whereabouts of your wife.
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  Speaker 9: Now, I say, you can't see the boy. You've been
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  Speaker 9: looking for Flarge for a week and you haven't found
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  Speaker 9: a thing. I guess somebody else will look for it.
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  Speaker 9: It's my business anyway, nobody.
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  Speaker 4: Else is our business. If anything happened to her, what
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  Speaker 4: are you talking about?
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  Speaker 6: You better get your coat, Abbot, like to talk to
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  Speaker 6: you out of town.
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  Speaker 9: Come through that gate and I'll let these dogs go.
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  Speaker 6: We hate to shoot him, mister.
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  Speaker 9: What do you find to prove anyhow? But I have
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  Speaker 9: to go on tone for I'll tell.
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  Speaker 5: You when we get there, I'll get your coat. Jester
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  Speaker 5: Rabbit turned, made his way up the path and into
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  Speaker 5: the house. A few minutes later he came out, closed
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  Speaker 5: the gate behind him, and got into our car. On
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  Speaker 5: the way back downtown, he talked pleasantly about the weather,
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  Speaker 5: the nursery business, and his dogs. When we got to
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  Speaker 5: the office, we found out the reason for his sudden
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  Speaker 5: change and temperament. His lawyer was waiting for us at
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  Speaker 5: the door. We tried to interrogate Abbot, but the lawyer
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  Speaker 5: objected to just about every question we asked. It was
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  Speaker 5: hopeless and we knew it, and so did the lawyer.
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  Speaker 5: We released Abbot, but not before we got the name
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  Speaker 5: and address of his sister in al Hambra, where the step son,
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  Speaker 5: Bruce was supposedly staying. After Abbot and his lawyer left,
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  Speaker 5: ed and I signed out of the office and drove
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  Speaker 5: to al Hambra to check on.
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  Speaker 4: The boy or get you sure had this one a
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  Speaker 4: real sleeper? Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: I like know how the step son missed that date
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  Speaker 6: with us. This afternoon, the.
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  Speaker 4: Boy called us from the house. Stepfather could over hurt him.
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  Speaker 5: That's possible. Sister's house ought to be along this block.
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  Speaker 5: Shudn't Let's see fourteen oh eight I was six?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, there at is great cottage fourteen oh two.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, let's pull up here, all.
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  Speaker 5: Right, nice looking place, well, captain.
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  Speaker 4: Nice neighborhood. Wonder how the lot prices run out here?
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  Speaker 6: I'll get the bell.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, what is it police officers, ma'am you miss Abbot, Yes,
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  Speaker 4: Helen Abbot.
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  Speaker 5: Why well, we talked to your brother earlier today, Miss Abbot.
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  Speaker 5: He said he brought his step son Bruce over here
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  Speaker 5: to stay a while, see him if we could Bruce.
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  Speaker 11: Well, yes, he was here until about an hour and
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  Speaker 11: a half ago.
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  Speaker 4: I went to the store, and when I came back
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  Speaker 4: he was gone. Any idea where we can find him
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  Speaker 4: a habit?
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  Speaker 11: Well, I tell U phone my brother Chester just before
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  Speaker 11: you came to the door.
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  Speaker 5: Bruce isn't there?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, master mind, if we came and looked around, the
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  Speaker 4: sabbath won't take long. Well, why I told you Bruce
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  Speaker 4: isn't here. It's the truth.
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  Speaker 11: There's no reason to lie about it is there.
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  Speaker 6: Well, no, ma'am, it's not that.
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  Speaker 9: Well then what is it?
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  Speaker 11: No reason for me to lie to you?
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  Speaker 5: How about your brother? We went in and looked the
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  Speaker 5: house over from one end to the other. It wasn't
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  Speaker 5: a trace of the boy. We drove back to the
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  Speaker 5: Abbot nursery and satisfied ourselves the boy wasn't there. Meantime,
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  Speaker 5: the home of Chester Rabbit's sister in al Hamber was
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  Speaker 5: kept under constant surveillance. No one came or went. The
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  Speaker 5: next morning, when Ed and I checked in for workers
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  Speaker 5: usual at eight a m. We met with Sergeant al Barghetti.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I had have an idea there might be something wrong.
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  Speaker 7: What makes you so positive.
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  Speaker 10: Though I just did it Holm, We're not positive. It's
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  Speaker 10: the whole setup, I guess, smelt Bed.
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  Speaker 4: How do you mean, for instance.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Abbit's lawyer for one thing. If a man's innocent,
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  Speaker 5: he doesn't have his lawyer sit with him and tell
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  Speaker 5: him not to answer any question.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Number two, the kid's phone call. He didn't show up
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  Speaker 6: for that date you figured.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know, could be doesn't get along with his stepfather.
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  Speaker 7: Happens you know, maybe he's trying to get back at
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  Speaker 7: him for something or other.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that could be. Why is Abbot hiding him out? Then?
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  Speaker 4: Pretty sure he's hiding him out. Well, the thing's been
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  Speaker 4: going an other way.
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  Speaker 7: To take it, Missus Abbot walked away from her home
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  Speaker 7: last Thursday night. Nobody saw her. She took nothing with her,
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  Speaker 7: No luggage, no clothes, no money.
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  Speaker 4: That's it. You check with her family.
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  Speaker 10: Doctor yesterday told us missus Abbott was in perfect health.
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  Speaker 10: Checked her bank statements, double checked the name for Wanders
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  Speaker 10: file repeaters found missing persons, couldn't find it in neither one.
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  Speaker 4: Her relatives too, How you talk to that some of them?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, got a few more to check out this morning.
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  Speaker 7: One thing's certain. No clothes, no money, no luggage. She
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  Speaker 7: couldn't have gone very far. He checked all the angles.
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  Speaker 5: Out, the sheriff's office, the jails, the hospitals. Sent out
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  Speaker 5: a teletype and an APB. She's been gone almost a week.
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  Speaker 5: Nobody's seen her. Now, how's that add up to you?
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  Speaker 5: I got an idea. Yeah, I hope I'm wrong. Eight
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  Speaker 5: forty five am ed and I left the office and
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  Speaker 5: continued making the rounds of the missing woman friends and relatives.
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  Speaker 5: We checked at the Western National bank, where missus Abbot
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  Speaker 5: maintained another account. Her saving statement showed a total balance
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  Speaker 5: of thirty one thousand, five hundred and sixty four dollars
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  Speaker 5: and seventeen cents. Her checking account had a balance of
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  Speaker 5: eight hundred and forty two dollars and seventy one cents.
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  Speaker 5: At the Farmer's mutual we found the record of an
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  Speaker 5: insurance policy issued to Florence Trumbull Abbot. There was a
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  Speaker 5: twenty pay life policy covering the insured in the amount
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  Speaker 5: of thirty thousand dollars. The beneficiary was listed as the
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  Speaker 5: insured son, Bruce Trumbull Abbot, if living upon receipt of
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  Speaker 5: such due proof, if not, the insured's husband, Chester j Abbot.
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  Speaker 5: By the time we finished checking the missing woman's financial status,
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  Speaker 5: we figured we had a fair suspect in the husband,
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  Speaker 5: Chester Abbot. From casual reports, we knew he was a
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  Speaker 5: frugal man, almost to the point of obsession. If he
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  Speaker 5: was greedy as well, if he wanted or needed money
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  Speaker 5: badly enough to kill, then he had all the motives
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  Speaker 5: necessary to murder his wife, maybe his stepson too. Six
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  Speaker 5: forty p m ed Nidrove back to the office.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead, A long day out of minage.
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  Speaker 6: Wonder fowl still around? Hey, Bargetti.
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  Speaker 3: Helt Yeah, here, that's you Friday.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: How'd you do get anything?
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  Speaker 7: A few things? Pretty predock good. I got some more
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  Speaker 7: for you. Just walked in here ten minutes ago. Bruce
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  Speaker 7: savd he's waiting in the next room.
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  Speaker 5: We went into the next room and met the Abbot boy.
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  Speaker 5: He was small for a seventeen year old, dark haired, thin,
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  Speaker 5: a little on the sickly side. He seemed nervous and upset.
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  Speaker 5: He told us that he wasn't able to keep the
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  Speaker 5: date he made with us on the phone because his
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  Speaker 5: stepfather did apparently overhear the conversation and drove the boy
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  Speaker 5: immediately to his sister's place in al Hamburg. We asked
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  Speaker 5: the boy what made him so sure that his stepfather
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  Speaker 5: was responsible for his mother's disappearance.
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  Speaker 11: Well, for one thing, all three of us usually go
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  Speaker 11: to the early show on Thursday night, Chester, Mom and me,
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  Speaker 11: but last Thursday we didn't go.
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  Speaker 4: Why was that? Son?
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  Speaker 11: Chester said he wasn't feeling too good and he wanted
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  Speaker 11: Mom to stay home and take care of him, and
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  Speaker 11: he told me to go on ahead of the show,
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  Speaker 11: So I did.
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  Speaker 6: For what times you get home, Bruce.
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  Speaker 11: About a quarter to ten ten o'clock.
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  Speaker 6: Did you know anything unusually when he got home?
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  Speaker 11: Some not so much. No, Mom wasn't there. I didn't
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  Speaker 11: think much about it. Then I thought maybe she was
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  Speaker 11: over to one of the neighbors.
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  Speaker 4: You ask your stepfather where she was?
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  Speaker 11: Uh huh? He said he didn't know. He said he
• 14:12
  Speaker 11: thought she was over at one of the neighbors too.
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: What was your stepfather doing when he got home?
• 14:16
  Speaker 11: Just sitting in the living room reading the paper. I
• 14:18
  Speaker 11: usually don't talk to him too much. I just asked
• 14:20
  Speaker 11: him where Mom was, and he told me, and then
• 14:22
  Speaker 11: I went back to my room and went to bed.
• 14:23
  Speaker 5: He noticed anything unusual about the way he acted, anything
• 14:26
  Speaker 5: different about him at all?
• 14:27
  Speaker 11: Well, I'm not too sure. He did seem a little nervous,
• 14:30
  Speaker 11: though jumpy.
• 14:31
  Speaker 6: More than usual. I think anything else.
• 14:34
  Speaker 11: Well, when I came through the front yard, I noticed
• 14:36
  Speaker 11: that dogs had mud all over their paws. Read Heimi
• 14:38
  Speaker 11: and George, all three of them. They must have been
• 14:40
  Speaker 11: out in the nursery plots.
• 14:41
  Speaker 6: Anything unusual about that.
• 14:43
  Speaker 11: In a way? Yeah, you see, the dogs don't go
• 14:45
  Speaker 11: out in the plots unless Chester's with him. He doesn't
• 14:47
  Speaker 11: want him to trample the seedlings. I noticed Chester had
• 14:50
  Speaker 11: mud on his shoes that night too.
• 14:51
  Speaker 10: When you figure your stepfather was out digging somewhere in
• 14:53
  Speaker 10: the nursery plots that night.
• 14:54
  Speaker 11: Yeah, that's right, digging somewhere he must have been. You
• 14:58
  Speaker 11: can't figure out why though what he means. My stepfather
• 15:01
  Speaker 11: never works at night.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: You are listening to dragnet authentic stories of your police
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: force and action.
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: Thursday September sixteenth, seven oh five pm, we continued talking
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: to the missing woman's seventeen year old son, Bruce Abbot.
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: As the interview went on, it became more and more
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: obvious that the boy and his stepfather, Chester Abbot didn't get.
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: Along at all.
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: Apparently the boy was jealous of him, and he was
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: jealous of the boy. Besides his prejudice, Bruce also contradicted
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: himself during the course of the Questioning seven fifteen pm,
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: the interview went on.
• 15:49
  Speaker 10: I understand that, all right, son, But you say you
• 15:51
  Speaker 10: can't think of any reason why your father would be
• 15:53
  Speaker 10: out working the nursery plots that time of night.
• 15:55
  Speaker 11: No, sir, I can't. I don't know how I'd get
• 15:57
  Speaker 11: any work done. None of the plots are even light
• 15:59
  Speaker 11: at only the greenhouse.
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: As well as possibly could have gotten that muddy and
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: his shoes working in one of the greenhouses.
• 16:04
  Speaker 11: No, sure, I don't see how all the peasant the
• 16:06
  Speaker 11: greenhouses are graveled, so my job to see they're kept gravel.
• 16:09
  Speaker 11: I know they weren't Mouddy because I fixed him the
• 16:11
  Speaker 11: day before.
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: Well what do you think it means, Bruce?
• 16:14
  Speaker 11: I don't know. I don't want to think about it.
• 16:17
  Speaker 11: I just know he's done something. He's done something to.
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: Her after your father, that is, your stepfather.
• 16:21
  Speaker 10: Give me any reason for keeping you away from the
• 16:23
  Speaker 10: police officers he came to your house?
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: I mean the first two officers we showed up.
• 16:26
  Speaker 11: No, he said people were getting nosy, that's all.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: He said.
• 16:29
  Speaker 11: It might be better for me over at my aunt
• 16:30
  Speaker 11: Helen's place.
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: Do you think your aunt Helen might know where your
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: mother is?
• 16:33
  Speaker 11: I don't think so. We hardly ever see Aunt Helen.
• 16:36
  Speaker 11: We don't know her well at all.
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: Well, do you know if your mother and stepfather argued
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: very much? Son?
• 16:40
  Speaker 11: I mean big arguments sometimes, yeah, mostly about me. What
• 16:44
  Speaker 11: do you mean Chester's pretty tight? You know, doesn't like
• 16:47
  Speaker 11: to spend money at all. He and Mom used to
• 16:50
  Speaker 11: argue about whether I ought to get paid for the
• 16:51
  Speaker 11: work I did around the nursery. Chester didn't want to
• 16:53
  Speaker 11: pay me. That's so yeah. When I started working, he
• 16:56
  Speaker 11: promised he'd pay me. I was saving up to buy
• 16:58
  Speaker 11: a thirty one model A. After a couple of weeks,
• 17:01
  Speaker 11: when he didn't pay me, I asked him about it.
• 17:03
  Speaker 11: He told me I ought to be glad to work
• 17:04
  Speaker 11: for him for nothing.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: And your mother argued with him about that.
• 17:07
  Speaker 11: Sure, she got good and mad too. She should have
• 17:09
  Speaker 11: gotten mad. It was her money that bought the nursery.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: Anyway, how'd you happen to get away from your aunt's place?
• 17:13
  Speaker 11: Bruce wasn't too hard. Helen had some shopping to do,
• 17:16
  Speaker 11: and she left me alone. She locked the door to
• 17:17
  Speaker 11: my room. Even the screen over the window was nailed down,
• 17:20
  Speaker 11: but I kicked it out and got away. I stayed
• 17:22
  Speaker 11: at a friend's house last night.
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: You thought much about where you're going to stay to night?
• 17:25
  Speaker 11: Son, Well, I don't know. Sergeant Burghetti, I was talking
• 17:29
  Speaker 11: to him. He asked me if I wanted to go
• 17:31
  Speaker 11: out and have dinner and then stay at his house
• 17:32
  Speaker 11: to night, And I don't know.
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: It sounds like a good idea.
• 17:34
  Speaker 11: To me, I don't know sure. Nice of him to
• 17:37
  Speaker 11: ask me.
• 17:37
  Speaker 10: I think it'd be a lot better for you, son.
• 17:39
  Speaker 10: Why don't you check in next offic see if Bargetti's
• 17:41
  Speaker 10: ready to leave.
• 17:41
  Speaker 12: Huh yeah, okay, Sergeant, thanks Joe, what do you think?
• 17:50
  Speaker 12: Harrd to say he might be lying. Before we signed
• 17:56
  Speaker 12: out of the office.
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: That night, we met with Captain Warman and outlined a
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: plan to bring in the husband of the missing woman
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: for questioning alone. We figured it had served two purposes,
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: clarify the boy's position in the case and determine, one
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: way or another if the stepfather was withholding information about
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: the disappearance of missus Abbot. The big problem was to
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: bring in Chester Rabbit for interrogation without the knowledge of
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: his lawyer. As we'd found out more than once it
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: was impossible to get anything out of Abbot with his
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: lawyer present. We set up a plan to call at
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: the Abbot home early in the morning, get the suspect
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: out of bed, and bring him in before his lawyer
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: could be notified. At three point thirty the following morning,
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: Ed and I met at the office and started for
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: the Abbot place. We brought along a couple of pounds
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: of fresh horse meat to keep the dogs quiet if
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: they raised a fuss. At ten minutes past four am,
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: we parked our car a few hundred feet down the
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: road from the Abbot Nursery and made our way toward
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: the gate.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: I reached in and tried the latch. The dog started.
• 18:48
  Speaker 10: Out, how about it, joll hope, No, it's padlocks.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: We're gonna have to climb the fence. Task some of
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: that moat over them. When okay, there, that does it?
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: All right, let's climb the fence.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: Keep an eye on the hounds. Looks like to take
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: a leg off or.
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: Take it easy?
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Ed? All right, watch.
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: It comes out of the dog and get somewhere of that.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Moat right there. You're right, boy, go get it.
• 19:17
  Speaker 11: Go on?
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: All right, that's fine. Come on, let's hurry.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, have a little chalk when's alongside of the house.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: Fights just went on?
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: Come on?
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: Who who's there?
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: Who'sh it?
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: I'll take the dogs on.
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: You police officers, Abbot, Friday and Jacobs.
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: What kind of business is? What are you doing out
• 19:44
  Speaker 9: here this time of night?
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: You're under arrest, mister rabbit.
• 19:46
  Speaker 9: What are you talking about?
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: I think you heard me. You're under arrest.
• 19:48
  Speaker 9: What kind of crazy thing is this?
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: You're gonna pay for this? I'll have your job.
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: How do you want to get your coat?
• 19:52
  Speaker 9: Your cops are asking for a pack of trouble. You
• 19:53
  Speaker 9: know that I get your coat. I'd like to know
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: what you think you're doing. Where's my steps on?
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Anyway?
• 19:57
  Speaker 9: What have you done with him?
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: I got a better one for you, mister. You done
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: with your wife?
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: Four am ed and I drove the suspect chester Abbit
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: back downtown to the office.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: He was quiet and sullen. We headed down the hall
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: for the squad room.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Right still burning in the office.
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, probably by Getty's standing by all right, Abbitt in there.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: You are going to pay for these.
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: You can take my word on that head.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: You want to take him in, the officer and stay
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: with him. I'll check with al.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Okay, all right, Joe, you bring him in.
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's next door. Eds with him.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: It's tough for somebody must have seen you.
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: No, I don't think so.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: I must have. Why what do you mean Abbot's lawyer?
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: He's sitting in the next room.
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: How the lawyer had been notified? We couldn't be sure.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: Again, we tried to question Abbot and again on the
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: advice of his attorney. He refused to answer frantically every
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: question we put to him. We released him that day.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: Captain Mormon assigned two men to stake out on the
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: nursery and report on all.
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: Of Chester Abbit's movements.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: A little after sevent p just after ninth fall, we
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: tried again to bring the suspect in for questioning without
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: his lawyer's knowledge.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: It didn't work.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: The men assigned to stake out on the Abbot place
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: reported definitely that someone was tipping off the attorney. Whenever
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: unknown visitors showed up at the nursery and drove off
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: together with mister Abbot, there was nothing we could do
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: about it. The following morning, al Barghetti came up with
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: a lead.
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: Had a long talk with the boy last night. I
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: think he came up with a pretty fair lead. How's
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: that the old man's responsible. We know there's only one
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: way we'll get a conviction. Yeah, find the body and
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: enough evidence to tie him in. Where do we start looking?
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: In a new rose bed. It's next to one of
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: the greenhouses in Abbot's nursery. Boy tell you this, Yeah,
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: seems to make sense. We know all man Abbot's crazy
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: about saving a dollar. We found that out from the
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: neighbors and the relatives on the nursery trade, especially in
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: the limited area Abbot has to work in. You cultivate
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: every foot of ground you have, you plan every foot
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: of soil with something.
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: Well yeah, what's the point.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: Well, Rabbit's not the type to waste anything. He wouldn't
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: let ground lie fallow when he could plan something that
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: might bring in a few dollars next spring. Bruce tells
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: me his stepfather has every inch of the property planet
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: was something everything except a six i ate plot of
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: ground on that rose garden.
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: Well, what did the boys say? A plot been vacant
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: for a long?
• 22:04
  Speaker 11: Why?
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: He says, his stepfather got al ready for planning a
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: week and a half ago. It's still vacant. Be worth
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: checking out. How do we do it? We can order
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: up a crew from the crime lab. They can take
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: probings to the plot all around it. They ought to
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: be able to tell us how deep the ground's been
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: worked over lately.
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: Okay, what do you figure tonight?
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: I think so? Yeah, maybe eleven twelve o'clock.
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: What about old man Abbit? You think he's gonna sit
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: still for.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: The hunch pays off. He's gonna sit still a long time.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: It was ten minutes past eleven that night when we
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: got to the Abbot nursery, Lee Jones and the crime
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: lab crew Al Barghetti, Ed and two other men from Homicide.
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: The men on.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: Steakhout told us Chester Abbot, along with his attorney, had
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: left the house a half hour before.
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: In his car, a dark blue coop. They hadn't returned.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: Ed brought along another supply of fresh horse meat for
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: the dog, so we didn't have any trouble their We
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: located the vacant plot of ground in the rosebed next
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: to one of the greenhouses, as Bruce Abbott had described
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: it to Barghetti. The crime lab crew started probing the ground,
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: obviously had been working over recently, into some depth.
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: They started digging.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: Anderson, get that light over here with you. Thanks, Chelsea. Anything, No,
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: let's keep digging.
• 23:18
  Speaker 11: Try it over here.
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, this is it.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: He wasn't taking any chances down a good four or
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: five feet now, wuldn't you say?
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, at least that Anderson more light.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: Huh, All right, let's go at it.
• 23:33
  Speaker 13: Wait a minute, yeah, woman, shoe here, Yeah, come on,
• 23:45
  Speaker 13: just a matter.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's it. Shoulders there, it's a body. I look
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: paid off al the boy had it figured.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, too bad. He was right.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: Ed, and I went back to our car and notified
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: communications to broadcast a want for murder on Chester Rabbit.
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: His description, together with the description of.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: His car and license number, was rebroadcast every fifteen minutes.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: The attorney was contacted and he stated that mister Abbot
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: had dropped him off at his home more than an
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: hour before, he knew nothing of his whereabouts. Ed and
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: I went back to check the Abbot home and found
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: the front door unlocked.
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: We went inside and looked around.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: In one bedroom, we found clothes scattered over the bed
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: and on the floor. There was only one old soup
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: left in one closet. On the table next to the bed,
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: we found an airline's timetable. We got to the phone
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: and notified communications to alert all special details at railroad stations,
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: bus terminals and airports, and then to get out an APB.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: After that we checked with the airlines. One of them
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: told us a man answering Abbot's description of book passages
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: to Mexico City that night under the name of Charles
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: Frasier the plane was scheduled to leave at one fifty
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: two am at the Burbank Airport. We called the detail
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: at the airport and alerted them. Then we drove over
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: to the field to follow through on it. It was
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: one thirty two am when Ed and I took up
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: our positions just inside Gate three, where passengers were boarding
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: flight seventy two for Mexico City. There was no sign
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: of the suspect, either on the plane or in the
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: waiting room.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: I think you, sir, I don't know.
• 25:16
  Speaker 8: Walk your bag over here.
• 25:17
  Speaker 10: Where Sparghetti over there by the cocktail, I say him.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, what time he got? Now?
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: One?
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: Eight planes do to take off another four minutes? Isn't it.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Any sign him? Now?
• 25:32
  Speaker 11: No?
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: Nothing, just made the rounds check with Stevens and Cummings.
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: If he got and he came in somebody's suitcase couldn't
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: have possibly gotten through without one of us seeing.
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: It, Well, well he hasn't got much more time. Maybe
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: it's a dead end.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Huh, don't see how he could have gotten the whis
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: do you over there? No? No? By the ticket count
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: of there, assume.
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah that's him. Come on, huh right, just a minute, abbot.
• 25:54
  Speaker 9: I haven't got time now, I missed my plane. Do
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: you have anything more to say to me? If you wait, like,
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: get back? It's right, not of it and take it
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: up my lawyer. I'm in a hurry.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: We find your wife's body. I was that from the
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: rose bed next to the greenhouse.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: I don't know what you mean. You must be mistaken.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: No mistake, hands behind your back. What's it's all about?
• 26:08
  Speaker 9: I haven't done anything?
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: All right, let's go.
• 26:10
  Speaker 9: No, just a minute. You've got it wrong. I don't
• 26:12
  Speaker 9: know anything about it.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: We think you do?
• 26:14
  Speaker 9: Now, come on, wasn't my fault. I didn't know what
• 26:17
  Speaker 9: I was doing. I pleaded in sanity. She drove me
• 26:20
  Speaker 9: to it. We were allaing about the boy and you
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: slapped me. I didn't mean to do it.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: All right, let's go, Abbitt.
• 26:27
  Speaker 9: Can you wait just.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: Two minutes more?
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: What four?
• 26:30
  Speaker 9: I cleaned one from Mexico City? Funny, isn't it?
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: What's that?
• 26:36
  Speaker 9: I was so close, just missed it. I'd buy more
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: than one minute. No, you're wrong about that, Abbot, just
• 26:43
  Speaker 9: one minute, that's all.
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: You missed it before you ever bought your ticket. How
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: do you figure when you first decided to kill your wife?
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: Come on.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true. The names
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: were changed to protect the innocent.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: On December nineteenth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: eighty nine, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: In a moment the results of that trial, Chester Vernon
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Abbott was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: The jury failed to recommend clemency. Abbot was executed in
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: the lethal gas chamber at the State Penitentiary San Quentin, California.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: You have just heard Dragnet a series of authentic cases
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: from official files. Technical advice comes from the Office of
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Chief of Police W. H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Technical advisors Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynne, and Sergeant
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Vance Bracer. Heard tonight were Barney Phillips and herbella script
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: by Jim Mosic, music by Walter Schumann, Hell Gifney speaking.
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: Now, It's Counterspy on NBC.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, if this episode sounds familiar, you've been
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: paying incredible attention because this is pretty close to a
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: complete reenactment of the script for the episode commonly known
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: among fans as Eric Kelby. It is the second nineteen
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: forty nine Dragonet episode to be restaged within about a
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: four month period. Well, the Big overtime made some important
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: changes from the nineteen forty nine version. This story is
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: pretty much straight up in terms of every single plot point,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the tone, everything, as far as I can tell, is
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: the same. Other than the names of the people involved.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I'd be interested to know the reason for the changing names.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bit of an odd decision. Script for uses
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: are certainly quite common, but just tweaking names when you're
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: on the same series and you're redoing a script from
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: two years ago or two and a half years ago,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: seems like an odd choice. All right, Well, listener comments
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: and feedback now, and we have some comments regarding the
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: big phone call, and we start on Patreon with Jeff,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: who writes, why is there no attorney with the alleged
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: thief during this rather hardcore interrogation? Because this episode predates
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Miranda Rights, I think that's part of it. Now, this
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: episode illustrates that you could have a lawyer present, but
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: you needed to plan for it. So in this case,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I think it's fair to say that the big phone
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: call and arrest wasn't expected. And he also didn't have
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: anybody watching out or any plan that he would ever
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: be caught, who would clue in a lawyer. As we
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: heard in this episode, it could still be quite a
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: challenge for the police, even if they don't have to
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: notify people of their constitutional rights and make sure a
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: lawyer can be present during questioning. If a suspect is prepared,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: they can have a lawyer ready to go. Dawn ask,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: do you have to call dial nine to call outside?
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: And and this is from Spotify, A random Spotify user replied,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: I'll listen to the episode again. I'm not sure that
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: he's said. Well, that was definitely a point, and I yeah,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know the reason for it. If it was,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: you know, just kind of to increase the pressure by
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: continually having that reminder. But we did learn that lesson now.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: I have never had, and hopefully never will have in
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: occasion to have to make a call from police headquarters
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. If I do, I expect I will
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: have to dial nine to get an outside line. And
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: if I don't, what are we even doing here over
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: on YouTube? I want to thank James for hitting the
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: hot button on the episode The Big Honeymoon. Truly appreciate
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: that and that's another way to help the YouTube channel
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: episodes get out there, and Cuthbert writes, Dragnet never gets old,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: indeed it doesn't. Well, now it's time to thank our
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• 32:16
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• 32:44
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• 32:47
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• 32:52
  Speaker 8: Ah, what's the big problem?
• 32:53
  Speaker 14: A little matter of a liquor star holder. Well, I'm
• 32:56
  Speaker 14: afraid this one wasn't so little. Then tell me on,
• 32:59
  Speaker 14: Yes you do, Johnny. For some reason or another, these
• 33:04
  Speaker 14: places that sell bottle goods are a pretty frequent target
• 33:07
  Speaker 14: for stick ups here in Los Angeles.
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: There have been quite a few of them over the years.
• 33:11
  Speaker 14: I'm surprised you insure them, and needless to say, premiums
• 33:14
  Speaker 14: are pretty high, and at least as far as our
• 33:16
  Speaker 14: company is concerned, the policies are somewhat limited. That is,
• 33:19
  Speaker 14: in so far as maximum allowable coverage is concerned, makes sense.
• 33:23
  Speaker 14: And the whole we've been pretty lucky. But that I mean,
• 33:25
  Speaker 14: we've had to pay off relatively few claims. But now
• 33:29
  Speaker 14: in the case of Willie Layman, whose lam his stories
• 33:32
  Speaker 14: are in West Los Angeles at one out ninety two
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  Speaker 14: to one Santa Monica Boulevard, and that's only about a
• 33:37
  Speaker 14: mile from where I'm staying. The old man opened up
• 33:40
  Speaker 14: his place late in nineteen fifty one. Huh yes, sixty one,
• 33:44
  Speaker 14: very nineteen fifty two. He had his first hold of it.
• 33:47
  Speaker 14: The bandit's got away with something over nine hundred dollars,
• 33:51
  Speaker 14: so he bought some insurance from us.
• 33:53
  Speaker 11: We'll go on.
• 33:54
  Speaker 8: Since then there have been seven more attempted stick ups
• 33:56
  Speaker 8: there a total of eight in as many years. And
• 34:00
  Speaker 8: your company must be getting of a tie of pan off. No,
• 34:03
  Speaker 8: because after the second time he know how to use it.
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: He certainly did.
• 34:08
  Speaker 14: He had a lot of metals from some germanis that
• 34:10
  Speaker 14: he was in during the last war. Anyhow, he suffered
• 34:13
  Speaker 14: no more losses, that is until last night. Ah, how
• 34:16
  Speaker 14: much good money?
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: What else?
• 34:19
  Speaker 14: Something like over four hundred dollars out of the cash
• 34:22
  Speaker 14: register as nearly as the police can figure it from
• 34:23
  Speaker 14: the register.
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: Slip or couldn't Layman tell you how much? No, because
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: you see Johnny, he also lost his life.
• 34:31
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