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Dragnet - "Garbage Chute" (Old Time Radio, 1949) · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On December 15th, 1949, NBC presented the 29th broadcast of Dragnet,
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: sponsored by Fatima Cigarettes. In Garbage Shoot, Sergeant Joe Friday
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  Speaker 1: and Sergeant Ben Romero investigate the killing of Laura Barkley,
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  Speaker 1: an organist found dead in her Los Angeles apartment. The
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  Speaker 1: apartment appears secure, and their inquiry turns to an unused
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  Speaker 1: garbage shoot as they reconstruct a possible route to the victim.
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  Speaker 1: Jack Webb stars as Friday with Barton Yarbrough as Romero
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  Speaker 1: in an early day watch homicide case under Chief of
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: Detectives Thad Brown. Now back to the golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to hear is true.
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  Speaker 3: Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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  Speaker 2: You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to homicide detail. A
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  Speaker 2: young woman has been murdered. The body was discovered behind
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  Speaker 2: locked doors... The assassin is still at large.
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  Speaker 5: Your job, find him.
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  Speaker 4: For the next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los
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  Speaker 4: the side of the law through an actual case from
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  Speaker 4: official police files. From beginning to end, from crime to punishment,
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  Speaker 4: Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 7: It was Tuesday, January 9th. It was stormy in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 8: We were working a day watch out of homicide detail.
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  Speaker 8: My partner's Ben Romero, and my name's Friday. I was
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  Speaker 8: on the way to work, and it was 6.45 a.m.
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  Speaker 8: when I got to the steps of the city hall,
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  Speaker 8: the main street entrance.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Joe, wait up.
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  Speaker 7: Morning, Ben.
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  Speaker 3: When did they call you?
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  Speaker 7: 5 a.m. Donahoe called you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, miserable out here. It's pretty wet.
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  Speaker 7: Feet are soaking wet.
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  Speaker 3: See the trams, Burleigh? Yeah. New chief of detectives.
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  Speaker 7: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 3: I want to get some gum. Pack a spearmint. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I heard about the new chief.
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  Speaker 7: Thad Brown.
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  Speaker 5: Good man.
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  Speaker 7: Here's gum.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks. Thanks. I wish I'd make up the minds about
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  Speaker 3: our shift. Work days, they call you back night. Work nights,
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  Speaker 3: they call you back days.
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  Speaker 7: Why don't you put in for a desk job?
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  Speaker 3: We never have to call you back. You're here all
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  Speaker 3: the time.
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  Speaker 7: You're just hard to please.
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  Speaker 3: Here we are.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great way to start off as your new chief.
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  Speaker 2: Call you back on a rotten morning like this. I'm
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  Speaker 2: glad you got the job, Thad. Yeah, congratulations, Chief. It's
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  Speaker 2: hard to follow a man like Ed Backstrand. Gonna need
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  Speaker 2: your help.
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  Speaker 3: You got it. Here's why I called you back.
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  Speaker 5: Laura Barclay.
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  Speaker 2: The dead body report nightclub entertainer.
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  Speaker 5: Landlady found the body an hour ago.
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  Speaker 3: Who's covering it?
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  Speaker 5: Burton and Anderson.
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  Speaker 3: They're out there now. Strangled, huh?
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  Speaker 5: The lamp cord.
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  Speaker 2: Still trying to figure out how the guy got in
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  Speaker 2: the house.
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  Speaker 5: Doors and windows all locked.
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  Speaker 3: Attacked.
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  Speaker 7: Is that the motive?
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  Speaker 5: For now, yeah. I just came from there. I think
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  Speaker 5: there's more.
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  Speaker 3: Any reason?
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  Speaker 5: Her room wasn't prowled. Yeah? Just a hunch. Play it
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  Speaker 5: for me.
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  Speaker 8: Ben and I left Thad Brown's office, picked up Lieutenant
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  Speaker 8: Lee Jones at the crime lab, and drove to the
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  Speaker 8: West Adams District, number 16 Imperial Place, where the body
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  Speaker 8: of Laura Barkley had been found. It was an ornate
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  Speaker 8: frame structure done in Victorian style, at least 30 to
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  Speaker 8: 40 years old.
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  Speaker 7: Number 16 was on the ground floor.
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  Speaker 3: We went in.
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  Speaker 8: A narrow hallway led to the bedroom in the rear
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  Speaker 8: of the house. Two gas jet fixtures, which had been
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  Speaker 8: converted to electricity, were the only illumination.
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  Speaker 3: This place has seen better days.
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  Speaker 7: Anybody else coming out, Lee?
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  Speaker 2: I see flash bulbs down there.
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  Speaker 5: They must be here already. Lieutenant, Bridie, down this way.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Burton.
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  Speaker 7: Hi.
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  Speaker 3: Photographer's covering the body position. Peterson's dusting for prints.
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  Speaker 2: Fred, shoot a couple of overheads. Don't make them all
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  Speaker 2: angle shots. Get up high, then move in close. Chief
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  Speaker 2: was right. Room's in pretty good order. Did you talk
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  Speaker 2: to anybody, Burton?
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  Speaker 3: Landlady. Lives upstairs.
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  Speaker 5: Only two people living in the building.
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  Speaker 7: Did she tell you anything?
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  Speaker 3: Said the Barclay girl paid her rent on time. Good tenant.
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  Speaker 3: Plays the organ at the Blue Fox. Cocktail lounge. Any
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  Speaker 3: idea how the murderer got in here?
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  Speaker 7: Not yet.
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  Speaker 3: Every door and window in the place is locked. Anything else?
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  Speaker 3: That's it so far. We'll give you 15.7 on what
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  Speaker 3: we've got. Okay, Lloyd.
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  Speaker 7: You and Anderson have another detail?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm working on that Westwood thing.
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  Speaker 3: Two uniform men outside if you want anything.
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  Speaker 5: Right, thanks.
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  Speaker 3: Looks like a tough one, Joe. Whoever did it must
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  Speaker 3: have come in through the keyhole. I'll see you later.
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  Speaker 3: So long, Lloyd.
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  Speaker 6: Andy.
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  Speaker 5: Peterson is destined for Prince. Nothing yet.
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  Speaker 2: Only piece of physical evidence so far.
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  Speaker 3: The lamp cord she was strangled with. I'll run it
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  Speaker 3: through downtown. Not a sign of a struggle. Maybe she
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  Speaker 3: wanted to die. Check the bathroom, will you, Ben? I'll
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  Speaker 3: look around the kitchen. Hey, Pete, have you dusted the
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  Speaker 3: lamps yet? Not yet. Ben, come here.
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  Speaker 7: A minute, will you?
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  Speaker 5: Ben!
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: Come in the kitchen, will you? You got a pencil?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Yeah, here you are.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Take a look at this garbage chute here. Let me see.
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  Speaker 3: About eight feet to the ground. Big enough for a
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  Speaker 3: man to get through.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah. Yeah, no problem.
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  Speaker 7: Lee.
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  Speaker 5: I'll be right there.
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  Speaker 8: That could be the answer, Joe. Well, he either got
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  Speaker 8: in this way or he was in the house when
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  Speaker 8: she came home.
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  Speaker 3: What do you got? Garbage chute here. What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: Could be. Let me grab a kit. Let's see. Aluminum powder.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing on the outside of the lid. Looked pretty clean.
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  Speaker 2: Must have just been scrubbed. Abrasion's here.
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  Speaker 5: Got a pencil?
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  Speaker 3: Here, I'll get it. Hold it up there, will you? Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there we go. Large prints. Unusually large.
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  Speaker 3: Big hands. Can I look inside the chute a minute, Lee?
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead. Watch that lid.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I will.
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  Speaker 3: Looks like it's blocked off upstairs. This thing hasn't been
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  Speaker 3: used for garbage for some time. Most of them were
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  Speaker 3: condemned a few years back. I'll get Fred to shoot these.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go in the living room. That desk been dusted, Lee?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's clean. Go ahead. Take a look, Joe.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Photographs. Hundreds of them. All men. Yeah, all different.
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  Speaker 8: Lee Jones and the crime lab crew finished up and
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  Speaker 8: went back to Central Division. Two uniformed officers remained on
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  Speaker 8: duty at the scene of the crime. Thad Brown had
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  Speaker 8: men sent out to canvass the neighborhood. Ben and I
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  Speaker 8: went upstairs and talked with.
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  Speaker 7: A landlady, a Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Emma Smith.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Police officers. You Miss Smith? Yes.
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  Speaker 11: You're not the same officers I talked with before.
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  Speaker 5: No, ma'am.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder if we could ask you a few questions.
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  Speaker 11: I told the other officers everything I knew.
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  Speaker 3: We have to double-check, Miss Mann.
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  Speaker 9: Who was the girl who lived in the apartment below,
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  Speaker 9: number 16?
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  Speaker 11: Laura Barclay.
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  Speaker 8: Is that the name she used, the mail she received?
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  Speaker 8: Was it addressed that way?
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  Speaker 11: Yes, it was. She was a very good tenant, Laura.
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  Speaker 11: No trouble with her at all.
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  Speaker 3: When did she move here?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, about four or five years ago. I have the
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  Speaker 11: rent receipts. I always save receipts.
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  Speaker 3: Did she always live by herself? Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 11: That apartment rents to one person only.
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  Speaker 7: Did she have many visitors, friends dropping in?
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  Speaker 11: None that I ever saw. Pretty much to herself, Laura.
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  Speaker 11: The men came yesterday and took the wagon.
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  Speaker 3: What's that, ma'am?
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  Speaker 11: The organ. Electric one. Laura rented it from a big
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  Speaker 11: downtown firm. Used to practice all the time. My, it
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  Speaker 11: was beautiful.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: In the gloaming. She used to play that for me.
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  Speaker 7: Mrs. Smith, when did the men come and take the
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  Speaker 7: organ away?
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  Speaker 11: Yesterday in the afternoon by 4.30.
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  Speaker 3: Was Miss Barkley at home when they came?
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  Speaker 11: No, she wasn't. She left me a note to let
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  Speaker 11: them in, so I let them in. I never allow
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  Speaker 11: anyone in the apartment without a note.
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  Speaker 3: You know the name of the company where she rented
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  Speaker 3: the organ?
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  Speaker 11: Braziers, it was called, down on South Spring.
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  Speaker 9: Well, didn't you think it was unusual that Miss Barkley
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  Speaker 9: didn't have any friends?
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  Speaker 11: Now, officer, I didn't say Laura didn't have any friends.
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  Speaker 11: What I said was that she didn't have any friends
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  Speaker 11: who came to see her here. She moved here from
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  Speaker 11: a hotel for women. That's the reference she gave me.
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  Speaker 7: I see.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder if you could give us the address of
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  Speaker 3: that hotel, please.
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  Speaker 11: I'll write it down for you.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: Miss Smith, did you hear any unusual sounds in Miss
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  Speaker 8: Barclay's flat last night?
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  Speaker 7: Anything out of the ordinary?
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  Speaker 11: If I had, I would have called the police and
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  Speaker 11: we'd have saved a girl's life.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Miss Smith. Here's a coin.
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  Speaker 9: If there's anything you think of after we've gone, don't
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  Speaker 9: hesitate to call us.
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  Speaker 11: Thank you, I will. I hope you get the dirty
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  Speaker 11: men who killed Laura.
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  Speaker 7: We didn't say it was men, Miss Smith.
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  Speaker 11: Well, isn't it always a man?
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  Speaker 8: Before we left Mrs. Emma Smith, we asked her about
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  Speaker 8: the garbage chute. She said it had not been in
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  Speaker 8: use for the last four years. We showed her the
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  Speaker 8: stack of photos. She could identify none of them. We
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  Speaker 8: drove back to Central Division. We checked Brazier's music store.
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  Speaker 8: The two men who moved the organ were checked out
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  Speaker 8: and cleared. We went to the Wynn Hotel for young ladies.
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  Speaker 8: They could tell us nothing. Laura Barkley's references were all good.
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  Speaker 7: We went back to the office and met with Chief
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  Speaker 7: of Detectives Thad Brown.
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  Speaker 5: You think he got into the garbage chute? That's the
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  Speaker 5: way it looks, Gene.
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  Speaker 8: It went all over the apartment. If there's another way,
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  Speaker 8: we haven't found it.
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  Speaker 5: All right, you know how he got in. Who is he?
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  Speaker 8: We got out an APB on his M.O., latent fingerprints,
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  Speaker 8: and making a run on those prints we found.
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  Speaker 2: You got an idea about these pictures here? Most of
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: them theatrical stills, show people. Frank Latour and his canine circus.
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  Speaker 2: To Laura, all my love, Frank. Tell you what you do.
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  Speaker 2: Here's a guy I checked with this morning.
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  Speaker 7: Bernard Karubian. Theatrical booking agent, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Barney's office is down in the Orpheum building, 8th
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  Speaker 2: and Hill. He booked her into the Blue Fox. See
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  Speaker 2: what he can tell you.
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  Speaker 3: All right. I'll grab the picture. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you got more than you started with.
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  Speaker 3: Those fingerprints.
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  Speaker 9: We get a make on them, we'll be close to
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  Speaker 9: the guy. So was the Barclay girl. But he got away.
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  Speaker 7: I wonder if we could see Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Karubian.
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  Speaker 11: Who's calling, please?
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: Sergeant Romero and Sergeant Friday, police officers.
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  Speaker 11: One moment, please.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Peggy.
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  Speaker 11: Two police officers to see you, Mr. Caribbean. Sergeant Friday
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  Speaker 11: and Sergeant Romero, is that right?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 2: Send them in.
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  Speaker 3: Go right in. Thank you.
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  Speaker 12: When them rosy roses bust through the snow, I'll be.
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  Speaker 3: Coming home on parole again.
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  Speaker 12: When them General Sherman tanks are covered with ice, I'll
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  Speaker 12: be home for good.
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  Speaker 3: And won't that be nice?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, no, no.
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  Speaker 7: This guy's stuck his corndog.
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  Speaker 3: Come on.
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  Speaker 7: Sit down, fellas.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Can I help you? I understand that you
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  Speaker 3: booked Laura Barkley. Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 7: I spoke with her.
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  Speaker 12: Got his name right here.
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  Speaker 3: Chief Saddown? That's right.
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  Speaker 12: He asked me about Laura.
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  Speaker 7: Too bad about that. Any clues?
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  Speaker 3: We're working on it, Mr. Karubian.
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  Speaker 12: What makes a person pull a stunt like that? Laura
• 13:47
  Speaker 12: didn't have no enemies.
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: She had one.
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  Speaker 12: Well, I don't know much about her, except I've been
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  Speaker 12: booking her for about four years.
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  Speaker 3: Good organist. Pretty fair voice, too. Cut some pictures here.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder if you'd take a look at them. Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 7: Quite a stack.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, old Frankie Latour and those dogs.
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  Speaker 3: Great act. I'd book them.
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  Speaker 12: Ricky Rogan, King of the Tap. Gus Soronoko and that
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  Speaker 12: singing seal of his. Yeah, yeah, I know all these people.
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  Speaker 12: I book them all.
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  Speaker 9: Did Laura Barkley work with all these people?
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  Speaker 12: One time or another, yeah. During the war, USO camp shows,
• 14:18
  Speaker 12: you know. Do you know whether she was close to
• 14:20
  Speaker 12: any of them? Well, come to think of it, she was.
• 14:24
  Speaker 12: That Frankie Latour, crazy about them dogs he is.
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  Speaker 7: No, I mean the men themselves.
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  Speaker 3: Anybody that she seemed particularly interested in?
• 14:29
  Speaker 12: Never heard her mention anybody.
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: Pretty girl. Did you know her very well, Mr. Groovy?
• 14:35
  Speaker 12: Only when she came in and out of town on
• 14:36
  Speaker 12: an engagement.
• 14:37
  Speaker 7: I'm a married man.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: Well, and you don't think there's anything to these pictures
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  Speaker 3: here of.
• 14:40
  Speaker 5: Hers, huh?
• 14:41
  Speaker 12: Well, I wouldn't say so. When you're on the road,
• 14:43
  Speaker 12: you always collect photos of the people you work with.
• 14:45
  Speaker 7: Souvenirs. Well, thank you very much, Mr.
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: Caribbean. Here's our card.
• 14:50
  Speaker 7: You betcha.
• 14:52
  Speaker 12: I sure hope you catch the guy. I wonder why
• 14:54
  Speaker 12: he picked on Laura.
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: Sometimes they don't have a reason.
• 15:00
  Speaker 8: When we left Bernard Karuvian's office, we checked by the
• 15:02
  Speaker 8: Blue Fox cocktail lounge.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: It was still early.
• 15:05
  Speaker 7: The sign said open 5 p.m. It was 3.15.
• 15:10
  Speaker 8: We went to the morgue in the basement of the
• 15:11
  Speaker 8: Hall of Justice and looked at the coroner's report. The
• 15:13
  Speaker 8: autopsy report stated that the cause of death for Laura
• 15:16
  Speaker 8: Barclay was strangulation. We went to the second floor of
• 15:19
  Speaker 8: the Old City Jail building, the crime lab.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: Nothing on the lamp cord. Standard URL 110 line.
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  Speaker 5: Bought anywhere. No prints.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: How about the chute, Link? Went back there and rechecked.
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: You were right.
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: The guy got in through the garbage chute. Found more
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: of the same prints along with some cloth impressions in
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: the dust. Tell you anything? The guy was wearing some
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: kind of tweed, Donegal, 15 to the inch. How about
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: the size of a man, Lee? How big could he
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: be to clear that chute? It had a 20-inch diameter.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: Almost any man could squeeze through that. Checked the ground
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: level of the chute.
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: Cement.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: No footprints. You don't have too much for us.
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: I got one thing for you.
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  Speaker 3: What's that? I think I found your motive. And not
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: the one listed on the report.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Here are the.
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  Speaker 3: Blow-ups of the body. It's 36 by 54 here.
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  Speaker 5: Hold that in, will you, then?
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  Speaker 7: No, I am.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Look through this magnifying glass here. The right hand.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: See where I'm pointing?
• 16:15
  Speaker 7: Ring finger, yeah. Looked like ring marks.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: That's right. Pretty wide. Must have been good size rings. Well,
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: they might still be in that room. I called Thad Brown.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: He had the room rechecked. No sign. Then you think
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: we got a burglary motive on our hands. That's my guess.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Stan had the boys check with the landlady. She didn't
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: know anything about any rings the Barclay girl might have had.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: That doesn't help. I think I got something else here.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: A library book, Harry. There are cards in one of
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: the pockets inside, checked out from the L.A. Public Library
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: main branch. I think these might be your lead on
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: the missing rings. A librarian sees a person's hands every
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: time they check out a book. That makes sense, Lee.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: We'll play it that way. What department were the books
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: checked out of? The music room. Well, that's it. I
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: think you've got your motive now and a good set
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: of prints. You're close. Thanks a lot, Len. Well, let's
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: go to the library, Ben. I'll get it.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: Crime lab.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: No, this is Friday.
• 17:11
  Speaker 9: Oh.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Frank. Well, we got some motive. How do you mean?
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: No make on those fingerprints.
• 17:19
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  Speaker 1: 4.30 p.m.
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: Tuesday, January 9th.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: Heavy rain.
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: Laura Barkley's murderer was still a free man. Ben and
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: I were sure that whoever left their fingerprints on the
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: inside of that garbage chute was the same man who
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: murdered the Barkley girl. He had no previous record. His
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: first crime, as far as we knew, was a killing.
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: And the odds were all in his favor. The fingerprints
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: gave us nothing. All we had left to lead us
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: to the killer were three library books and a stack
• 19:02
  Speaker 8: of old theatrical photos. The solution of most crimes for
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: the working detective is method and persistence.
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: When you have clues, you work with them. When you don't,
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: you work your.
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: Way to a logical conclusion as best you can. We
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: went to the Los Angeles Public Library, the main branch.
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: The librarians in the music room handled thousands of readers
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: every week.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: None of them remembered Laura Barclay. We drove over to
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: the Blue Fox Cocktail Lounge.
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: We interviewed the manager, and he knew nothing.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Of her personal life.
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: We talked to Harry Schumann, the organist who had taken
• 19:33
  Speaker 8: Laura Barclay's place.
• 19:35
  Speaker 10: What would you like to hear, fellas?
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Police officers. I'd like to talk to you, man. About Laura, huh? Yeah,
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: that's right. All right, if I keep on playing.
• 19:46
  Speaker 10: Manager wants full 15-minute sets.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: Go ahead.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: That's all right. What can I tell you?
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: How long have you known Miss Barkley?
• 19:54
  Speaker 10: Oh, four or five years Terrible thing You gotta get
• 19:59
  Speaker 10: whoever did it Yeah, we're gonna try Can you think
• 20:02
  Speaker 10: of anybody that might have killed her? I know you
• 20:04
  Speaker 10: ask that question of everybody I don't know Does anybody
• 20:08
  Speaker 10: ever know for sure?
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: Sometimes.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know.
• 20:13
  Speaker 10: When you think of a person, you never think who
• 20:15
  Speaker 10: might murder them.
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: Maybe you might know a few things about her that
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: you could fill us in on.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: I'll try.
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: She go in for jewelry much? Rings, things like that?
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Funny you should ask that. She was nuts for it.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: Good things.
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: Rings?
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Had a couple of beauties.
• 20:30
  Speaker 10: Diamonds there were, big stones. Cost 4,000. I know she
• 20:35
  Speaker 10: used to put most of her money into those rings.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: She buy them on time?
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I remember one.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Night she was overjoyed.
• 20:42
  Speaker 10: The night she paid him off.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Cost a lot of dough.
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: Can you describe those rings for us?
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Not too good. I can give you the name of
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: the jeweler she bought them from. That'll do.
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: Do you know anybody else that we might talk to?
• 20:55
  Speaker 10: Don't know any of her friends. She was an only child.
• 20:58
  Speaker 10: No living relatives that I know of. How about her landlady?
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess that's it, Harry. Thank you.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: For what?
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: I wish I could help more. If everybody had your attitude,
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: we'd be out of a job.
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: Before we left the Blue Fox, Harry Schumann gave us
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: the address of Laura Barkley's jeweler. The next morning, we
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: checked with the manager of the store, and he gave
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: us a complete description of the two diamond rings which
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: the dead girl had purchased. They were valued at $ 4, 000.
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: He gave us detailed drawings of the rings.
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: We went back to the office, gave the information to
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: burglary detail. An all-points bulletin was put out describing them.
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: Pawn shops throughout the city and state were alerted to
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: watch for the stolen rings.
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: We had lunch with Chief Thad Brown at Costas Cafe.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Never mind, O'Mara. I'll get it.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Chief. I'll get the tip.
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: The stew was good.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Could I have some change with the cigarette machine?
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: Thanks. Need any cigarettes, Joe?
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: No, no thanks, thanks.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: Let's go.
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: What do you think, San?
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: The description of the rings and the MO should help.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: We haven't turned up. Good chance he's holding on to them.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Could be his first job. Probably scared.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Anybody check back over the neighborhood there?
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: This is the afternoon and this morning.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: A lot of door-to-door salesmen through that district.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: All been checked out.
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: It's a dead end.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: Now where?
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Only those prints are checked out.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: Well, they didn't. Got a kickback from Brereton in Sacramento
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: on his M.O. No make. We'll have to get him
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: with what we've got.
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: Here's the car.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: Sure you picked up all the loose ends?
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: We've been back over the course three times.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: Go over it again. Keep going over it until something breaks.
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: For the next ten days, we retraced our steps from
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: the room where the crime was committed throughout the neighborhood
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: to the place where she worked, back to the same
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: dead end.
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: Ben and I checked and double-checked.
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: Each other to make certain that neither of us had
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: overlooked even the smallest detail of the investigation.
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: We got no place. It was 8 a.m. January 19th.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Homicide, Friday. This is Robles in burglary, Joe. Yeah, Dick.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: Got something for you.
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: Job pull last night. Couple of watches, strand of pearls.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: How do we figure in it? His M.O. Yeah?
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: Guy got in through the garbage chute.
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: Besides fingerprints and photographs, one other mark by which the
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: unknown criminal is identified is by his method of operation,
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: his M.O. Once a thief finds a successful means of operation,
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: he seldom changes it. In our search for Laura Barkley's murderer,
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: we had checked our files and found no criminals at
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: large whose practice it was to gain entrance through a
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: garbage chute. It was reasonably safe to assume that this
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: was the same man. It was 2 p.m.
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: January 23rd.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: I was on my way back from the record bureau.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: Just had a call, Joe.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Elmer Radcliffe.
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: Informant?
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 23:59
  Speaker 9: Says two days ago he heard about some guy who
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: was making the rounds trying to peddle a couple of
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: diamond rings.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Same ones? He's not sure. Doesn't know what the guy
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: looked like. Any idea where the guy is now? Hasn't
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: been around since. Told Elmer to keep his eyes open.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: That's good.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: Come in here, you two.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: What do you got, Thad?
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: This report just came down from burglary.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Pawn shop down in North Main took in a watch
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: and a strand of pearls last night.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Same stuff that Rubles called you about.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember. Where's it dying?
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Same guy tried to peddle a couple of diamond rings.
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: 10 a.m., January 25th.
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: Thad Brown arranged to have all pawn shop detail calls
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: concerning the suspect put through to us on.
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: Extension 2521, homicide. Five days passed. No further words.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Homicide Friday.
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: This is George Rose. I run the Harbor Pawn Shop,
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: second in Maine.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what's the matter?
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: A man in here trying to turn those diamond rings,
• 24:55
  Speaker 10: the ones on the stolen property list.
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: We can't talk now. Stall him or we'll be right down.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Come on, Ben.
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: Move it.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: The next corner.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: There it is.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: Just up the block.
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: Pull up. All right, let's go. Yeah. Here we.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: Are.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Hey, fella.
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: Look out, Joe.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: He's got a gun.
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: You all right, Joe?
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 25:29
  Speaker 12: Out the back way.
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: Let's get him.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: There he goes, up alley.
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: Can you hit him? You didn't stop him.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: Watch it.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Come on, Joe.
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: He's turning on the spring.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: He ran into that cafeteria up the street.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Come on, let's run.
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: Where'd he go?
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: You see him?
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: Yeah, there he goes.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: He's headed for the kitchen.
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: Come on.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Stop that man.
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: Stop him.
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: Out the back door, into the alley.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: There he goes.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: That's Ben. All right, Joe, stop.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: He's not stopping. Stay clear.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: He's down.
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: All right, come on. All right, get his guns.
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: You got him in the leg, Joe. Hit his head
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: when he fell.
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: All right, snap him on.
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: Look on the little finger of his right hand. Two
• 26:29
  Speaker 9: diamond rings.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Doesn't make sense, does it? What's that?
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: $ 4, 000 worth of diamonds and he's laying on a pile
• 26:36
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• 26:38
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• 26:48
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• 26:52
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• 26:55
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  Speaker 4: Lola Barclay's murderer was identified as Martin Eric Swanson.
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