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Dragnet: The Big Hands (EP4914) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: November twenty second, nineteen fifty one, here is today's episode,
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  Speaker 1: The Big Hands.
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  Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true. The
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  Speaker 2: names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a
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  Speaker 2: detective sergeant. You're assigned to homicide detail. An unidentified woman
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  Speaker 2: has found murdered in a hotel room cause of death strangulation.
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  Speaker 2: There's no lead to the identity of the killer.
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  Speaker 3: Your job find him.
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  Speaker 4: Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
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  Speaker 5: It was Tuesday, October twenty seventh. It was cold in
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  Speaker 5: Los Angeles. We're working the day watch out a homicide.
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  Speaker 5: My partner's Ben Romero. The boss' is Thad Brown, Chief
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  Speaker 5: of Detectives.
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  Speaker 6: My name is Friday.
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  Speaker 5: It was one thirty five pm when we got to
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  Speaker 5: the old Central Jail Building, third floor the crime lamb.
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  Speaker 7: How are you doing length, Joe?
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  Speaker 6: How's it going? Did you check the stuff yet?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 9: Most of it? Come on back here? Kay, well this
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  Speaker 9: is all of it.
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  Speaker 6: Did you find anything we can get a lead out of?
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  Speaker 9: Nothing? Too good?
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  Speaker 10: No, I don't think you could identify her from what
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  Speaker 10: we've got here the Morgue post about it yet?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah? Just this morning? How about fingerprints?
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  Speaker 4: Lead?
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  Speaker 6: They find any in that hotel?
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  Speaker 9: No farm prints, no dead end there?
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  Speaker 7: What about the woman's purse? Did you anything.
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  Speaker 10: No chance you can see the fabric here, won't take
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  Speaker 10: a print. Contents of the purse here, usual stuff, comb, lipstick,
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  Speaker 10: key chain, one key on it, half pack of chewing
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  Speaker 10: gum coin pursts are dying, two nickels in it.
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  Speaker 9: That's all it.
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  Speaker 6: According to the room truck at the hotel, she had
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  Speaker 6: a wallet weather when she checked in. There's no sign
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  Speaker 6: of that was it?
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  Speaker 9: No sign of it in the hotel room either, checked everything.
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  Speaker 2: Is that?
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  Speaker 7: The only piece of jewelry found on the body. That
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  Speaker 7: wedding ring there.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's a cheap ring, no markings on it, no
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  Speaker 10: way of tracing it. But the only thing I can
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  Speaker 10: tell you if she was pretty well dressed. That's an
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  Speaker 10: expensive bag there, Yeah, showing out a cheap dress either.
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  Speaker 10: Same for a coat and shoes. They cost the money too.
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  Speaker 6: How about labels on any of that stuff?
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  Speaker 10: One on the coat, Yeah, and can see right here.
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  Speaker 10: Ben with Department Stare Los Angeles coach fairly knew they
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  Speaker 10: might be able to give you something on it. Maybe
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  Speaker 10: the people at the hotel got anything there.
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  Speaker 5: Could have been bitterly. The woman checked in last night
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  Speaker 5: around eight o'clock. She registered as John Ross.
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  Speaker 9: And wife La didn't even see the man with.
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  Speaker 5: It, No nobody broom clerk says the woman came in alone.
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  Speaker 5: She said her husband was out parking the car, so
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  Speaker 5: she registered for both of them. Clerk said he left
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  Speaker 5: the desk a few minutes after that. Figures the man
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  Speaker 5: must have come in sometime while he was gone. Nobody
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  Speaker 5: on duty at the desk after midnight. He could have
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  Speaker 5: left the hotel anytime after that without being seen.
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  Speaker 7: She registered at eight pm the corner and says she
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  Speaker 7: died about ten thirty.
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  Speaker 9: You're not even sure there was a man with that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: The woman who was raised next door to the murdering room,
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  Speaker 7: she told her she heard a man and a woman
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  Speaker 7: arguing it was about ten o'clock.
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  Speaker 11: Could have got pretty loud.
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  Speaker 10: No idea who the woman really was, huh. I suppose
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  Speaker 10: that John Ross and wife business doesn't mean anything.
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  Speaker 6: That's pretty doubtful. But all we got to go on
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  Speaker 6: is the physical description from the corner. She's a small
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  Speaker 6: woman five foot one ninety nine quarter pounds, wasn't they been? Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: brown hair, blue eyes, about thirty one, thirty two years old.
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  Speaker 6: We got our prints off to Washington.
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  Speaker 9: Got any idea.
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  Speaker 5: We figured maybe it could be a psycho killer. How
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  Speaker 5: did you figure The corner's report listed strangulation is the
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  Speaker 5: cause of death.
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  Speaker 6: Whoever did it made sure her neck was broken.
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  Speaker 5: At approximately six o'clock that morning, in a second floor
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  Speaker 5: room of a downtown hotel, the body of an unidentified
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  Speaker 5: woman was found murdered. Preliminary investigation failed to reveal the
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  Speaker 5: true identity of the victim or the killer. As far
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  Speaker 5: as physical evidence was concerned, there wasn't much to go on.
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  Speaker 5: The deep bruises on her neck and throat, along with
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  Speaker 5: a crushed vertebrae at the base of her skull, indicated
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  Speaker 5: a savage attack one five PM. Through the label on
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  Speaker 5: the dead woman's coat, we traced the garment to a
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  Speaker 5: department store where it had been purchased, but they had
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  Speaker 5: no record on it. It was a cash purchase and
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  Speaker 5: the salesgirl couldn't remember the customer. Investigation during the next
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  Speaker 5: two days failed to turn up any leads. We showed
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  Speaker 5: a more picture of the victim to bartenders, waitresses, parking
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  Speaker 5: a lot of tendants.
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  Speaker 6: In the vicinity of the hotel. They couldn't identify her.
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  Speaker 5: We rechecked tenants and employees at the hotel that got
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  Speaker 5: us nothing. Thursday, five forty eight pm.
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  Speaker 7: One answer at your lafe to find Yeah, victim was
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  Speaker 7: a nice looking woman, well dressed, nice clothes. How comes
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  Speaker 7: she's staying in a cheap hotel down the neighborhood like that?
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  Speaker 7: It doesn't jibe from my mind? Were that's sorry to say? Sure,
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  Speaker 7: got me stop two days leg work and we're no play.
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  Speaker 5: We might be in better shape when we get that
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  Speaker 5: kickback from Washington. That's you're a hope, So go ahead.
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  Speaker 6: They excuse me, Yes, sir, can we help you?
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  Speaker 11: Well, no, I don't know. I guess it all depends.
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  Speaker 11: I'm waiting for a couple of detectives here.
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  Speaker 7: Well, who is it?
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  Speaker 11: You wanted to see a couple of detectives.
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  Speaker 7: Who are they?
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  Speaker 11: It's pretty confidential, you know, I have to talk to them.
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  Speaker 11: Told me to see Friday and Romero. Ben Friday and
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  Speaker 11: Joe Romero detectives handling the case.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, I'm Joe Friday. This is my partner, Ben Romero.
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  Speaker 5: So we're handling the case. What do you want to
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  Speaker 5: see us about?
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  Speaker 11: They said you were working on that murder case, that
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  Speaker 11: woman they found in the hotel. Yes, sir, that's right,
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  Speaker 11: that's so you see your badges. Yes, sir, here's our identification.
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  Speaker 11: Mm hmmm. Read about that murder in the paper.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 11: You better come over here. Yeah, you're going to thank
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  Speaker 11: me for this. I got all you want to know
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  Speaker 11: about that murder.
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  Speaker 7: You mind telling us your name, sir?
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  Speaker 11: I don't mind. L. P. Morgan was a good friend
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  Speaker 11: of hers. You know he used to work with him.
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  Speaker 6: You mean the dead woman, it's.
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  Speaker 11: The same one. I never forget a face. Maud McLeod
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  Speaker 11: saw that picture in the paper and I said to myself,
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  Speaker 11: there's old Maud.
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  Speaker 6: You're pretty sure that, are you? Mister Morden?
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  Speaker 11: Sure, I'm sure. I'm Maud McLeod used to work together
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  Speaker 11: in the circus. Maud was a bareback girl, you know,
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  Speaker 11: investment Andre, a real trooper.
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  Speaker 7: What makes you so sure it's the same oman, mister Morgan?
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  Speaker 7: When was the last time you saw this friend of yours?
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  Speaker 7: This Martin mccloth well. I used to see her all
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  Speaker 7: the time work the old sales photo together. Got a
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  Speaker 7: photo of her. Do you mind if we take a
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  Speaker 7: look at it.
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  Speaker 11: That's why I came down here. I want to help out.
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  Speaker 11: You's got to be identified. Let's see got here's somewhere
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  Speaker 11: so more in a circus custome. Yeah, here it just
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  Speaker 11: take a look at that. It's mord ain't it.
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  Speaker 7: Mmm, well, I don't know, sir. It doesn't seem to
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  Speaker 7: be too much resemblance.
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  Speaker 11: Here is that right?
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  Speaker 7: Grad, you've made a mistake, mister Morgan. Thanks for your
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  Speaker 7: cooperation anyhow. I appreciate you coming in.
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  Speaker 11: Sure it was Maud, I got it.
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  Speaker 6: Homicide Friday. Oh yeah, Frank, Uh huh is that right?
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  Speaker 6: What to say?
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  Speaker 5: Huh yeah, okay, fine, no, we'll pick it out. Yeah, thanks,
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  Speaker 5: anythink communications they got the kickback from Washington on the
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  Speaker 5: dead woman's fingerprints and you left. They got to identify
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  Speaker 5: she worked at an aircraft plant during the war. Names
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  Speaker 5: Doris Fraser.
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  Speaker 11: I can't help it to think you fellows are missing
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  Speaker 11: at BET. I knew that dead woman.
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  Speaker 5: Well, she's already been identified, mister Morgan. We know who
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  Speaker 5: she is, names Doris Fraser.
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  Speaker 6: That's so, yes, sir, that's right.
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  Speaker 11: Oh what do you think of that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Maud?
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  Speaker 11: She went and changed her name.
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  Speaker 5: Thursday, six thirty five pm, Ben and I went down
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  Speaker 5: the hall to Communications and got a copy of the
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  Speaker 5: kickback from Washington. The murder victim was identified as Doris
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  Speaker 5: Eileen Fraser. She applied for a position as a typist
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  Speaker 5: at the Eagle Aircraft Plant in Burbank in nineteen forty two.
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  Speaker 5: Next morning, we checked the personnel office at the plant.
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  Speaker 5: We found that Doris Fraser had been employed as a
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  Speaker 5: typist from nineteen forty two to nineteen forty four, and
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  Speaker 5: going over our application, we found our last known address
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  Speaker 5: listed as seventy three forty six Oakdale Avenue. Her application
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  Speaker 5: stated she was single, with no previous employment, with no
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  Speaker 5: known relatives, we could uncover no further information on the girl.
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  Speaker 5: We drove across town to the Oakdale Avenue address, a
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  Speaker 5: large apartment building in a better than average neighborhood. The
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  Speaker 5: manager told us that Doris Fraser had lived there up
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  Speaker 5: to eight months before. He said that a few weeks
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  Speaker 5: before she moved, she was married to a tall, dark
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  Speaker 5: haired man, but he was unable to remember his name.
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  Speaker 5: The manager also told us that the newly married couple
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  Speaker 5: apparently began having trouble from the day that they were married.
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  Speaker 5: We checked the next forwarding address, a boarding house for
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  Speaker 5: women in the south end of the city. Ben and
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  Speaker 5: I interviewed the woman in charge of missus, Francis Watson.
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  Speaker 5: We talked to her back in the kitchen of the
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  Speaker 5: boarding house while she polished to set a silverware.
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  Speaker 12: I saw that picture in the paper. I didn't connect
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  Speaker 12: it with Doris, though. She was a much prettier girl
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  Speaker 12: when she lived here.
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  Speaker 7: You say she left here about eighteen months agoms watching.
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  Speaker 12: Yes, maybe a little more. It might be closer to
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  Speaker 12: two years. I'd have to check my rent receipts to
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  Speaker 12: be sure.
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  Speaker 7: Did you happen to know anything about the Fraser girl
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  Speaker 7: is watching? I mean, did you know much about her
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  Speaker 7: personal life?
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  Speaker 11: Of all?
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  Speaker 12: Well, of course I always insist on references any good
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  Speaker 12: boarding house. Does you know Doris was a nice girl
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  Speaker 12: in many ways? Of course, she had her shortcomings. I
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  Speaker 12: suppose we all do. When she first came here, she
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  Speaker 12: seemed like such a nice girl, and then she started
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  Speaker 12: to go downhill. I just don't know what got into her.
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  Speaker 6: Well, what do you mean, man, Was she in some
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  Speaker 6: kind of trouble?
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  Speaker 12: Well, of course when she first came here we didn't
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  Speaker 12: know it, but she was married. This is a home
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  Speaker 12: for single girls. We have our rules and regulations, just
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  Speaker 12: like any other respectable place. This man we understand well,
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  Speaker 12: as we came to find out later, Doris wasn't only married,
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  Speaker 12: but she was fighting with her husband. I understand he
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  Speaker 12: wasn't much at all. She was thinking of getting a divorce.
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  Speaker 6: As a matter of fact, Will did you ever meet
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  Speaker 6: her husband, miss Watson?
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  Speaker 8: No?
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  Speaker 12: I never did. I suppose It's just as well. I
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  Speaker 12: didn't understand that Doris left him after they'd been married
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  Speaker 12: only a few months.
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  Speaker 7: M you know what his name is, ma'am.
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  Speaker 12: No, I have no idea. Doris always used her maiden
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  Speaker 12: name when she was with me.
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  Speaker 7: Then you never saw this man as what? And he
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  Speaker 7: never came to housh here?
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  Speaker 12: No, I didn't say I never saw him. I said
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  Speaker 12: I didn't meet him. Yes, there was once when he
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  Speaker 12: came to the house to see Doris.
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  Speaker 7: What was the occasion you mind telling us by? Oh?
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  Speaker 12: It was most unpleasant. I can tell you that, not me,
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  Speaker 12: see now, Yes, Doris, I've been here about six months.
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  Speaker 12: By that time I was beginning to see the real
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  Speaker 12: side of the girl. No character, Sergeant, no character at all.
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  Speaker 12: It shows up every time.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am, what if you'd go on please?
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  Speaker 12: Well, as I was saying, it was after about six
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  Speaker 12: months when this man brought Doris home late one night,
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  Speaker 12: about a quarter till midnight, I'd say, upset the whole house.
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  Speaker 7: How was that man?
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  Speaker 12: The two of them, this man and Doris, they stood
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  Speaker 12: right out there in the hall, had a terrible quarrel language.
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  Speaker 12: It was dreadful the top of their lungs too. My
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  Speaker 12: husband went out to quiet them down, but the man
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  Speaker 12: left before he had a chance to call him down.
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  Speaker 12: The upset the whole house.
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  Speaker 5: Now, this man, the Fraser woman was arguing with You're
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  Speaker 5: sure that that was her husband?
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  Speaker 12: Well as sure as I can be. That's what Doris
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  Speaker 12: told me. Anyway, the day after, I called her in
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  Speaker 12: and told her I just couldn't tolerate behavior like that.
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  Speaker 12: It upset her quite a bit. I remember she cried
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  Speaker 12: so it wouldn't happen again. That's when she told me
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  Speaker 12: she was trying to get a divorce.
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  Speaker 6: Is that what the big argument was about? Would you
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  Speaker 6: know that?
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  Speaker 12: Yes, she said she wanted a divorce. Her husband didn't.
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  Speaker 12: He wanted her back with him. Certainly, is sad the
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  Speaker 12: way some people mix up their lives.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am. By any chances you get a good look
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  Speaker 7: at this man husband, nummy.
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  Speaker 12: Well, he was tall and had dark hair. That's about
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  Speaker 12: all I remember. He was well dressed too.
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  Speaker 7: I see when Doris Fraser left your missus watching, did
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  Speaker 7: she leave her forward and addressed with you? No, she didn't.
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  Speaker 12: I haven't any idea where she moved.
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  Speaker 6: What kind of work was she doing while she was
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  Speaker 6: living here? Do you have any idea where she was employed?
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  Speaker 12: Yes, that was one of the references she gave me.
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  Speaker 12: Furniture company down on Venice Boulevard, If I remember correctly,
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  Speaker 12: I have the address my record book. Certainly is unfortunate.
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  Speaker 6: The whole thing, Yes, ma'am, it is.
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  Speaker 12: He even tried to talk to her before she left,
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  Speaker 12: sat her down and talked to her for a whole afternoon.
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  Speaker 12: I guess it was just a waste of time.
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  Speaker 7: How's that man in.
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  Speaker 12: Trouble with her husband? Terrible thing. He seemed to treat
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  Speaker 12: her so badly to have been fighting all the time.
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  Speaker 12: I believe she was actually afraid of him. She told
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  Speaker 12: me it was very jealous. He drank ran around. That's
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  Speaker 12: why I couldn't understand it.
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  Speaker 6: You couldn't understand what, ma'am Doris.
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  Speaker 12: When she moved away from here, ma'am, she said she
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  Speaker 12: was going back with her husband.
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  Speaker 5: The landlady, Francis Watson, gave us the address of the
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  Speaker 5: furniture store where the murder victim had been employed, and
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  Speaker 5: we drove down to check with a personnel manager of
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  Speaker 5: mister Collins. He said that Doris Fraser had been fired
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  Speaker 5: from her job ten months before. He said she'd been
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  Speaker 5: let go because she was constantly late for work and
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  Speaker 5: that she got into the habit of asking for salary
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  Speaker 5: advances too often. Collins also told us that he'd heard
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  Speaker 5: about the trouble between the Fraser woman and her husband.
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  Speaker 5: He said he'd seen the husband in the store several
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  Speaker 5: times when he came to call for his wife. He
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  Speaker 5: identified the husband as Steve and Arnold. The description was
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  Speaker 5: approximately the same, a tall, well dressed man, dark hair,
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  Speaker 5: heavy build. The personnel manager gave us the last known address.
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  Speaker 6: They had on the victim.
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  Speaker 5: The following morning, we checked it out, an apartment hotel
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  Speaker 5: in the East Wiltshire area. She was still registered there
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  Speaker 5: together with her husband, Steve and Arnold, but the desk
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  Speaker 5: clerk told us that Arnold hadn't been living there for
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  Speaker 5: the past three months. He had no idea where Arnold
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  Speaker 5: had moved he didn't know where he worked. While a
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  Speaker 5: desk clerk stood by, Ben and I went upstairs and
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  Speaker 5: checked the apartment.
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  Speaker 6: Anything Joe, No, nothing.
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  Speaker 7: Nothing in the bedroom, like Lee says, she goes in
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  Speaker 7: for nice clothes. About all I can figure what you
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  Speaker 7: got there?
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  Speaker 6: See it lying on the desk here, looks like she
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  Speaker 6: started to let her and didn't get to finish it.
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  Speaker 7: What's it say there?
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  Speaker 5: It's date of October twenty third. That's over a week ago,
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  Speaker 5: says dear George. I've been meaning to write to you before,
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  Speaker 5: but that's all.
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  Speaker 6: That's as far as she got.
• 15:28
  Speaker 7: George. First time we've run into that name on this
• 15:31
  Speaker 7: deal makes more than one man in her life.
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: He There's a couple more letters here. They're all addressed
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: to her, unopen. See well we can go buy her.
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: The return addresses telephone bill, ad from a woman's store, postcard,
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: another ad. Here's something Santa Monica, postmar Check the name
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: on that return, yeah, Steve and Arnold. Twelve thirty five pm.
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: We called the office and check Steven Arnold through R
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: and I. He had no criminal record. The return address,
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: which he'd listed on the envelope of a letter to
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: his wife, was one o eight to six specific Front Boulevard.
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: We located it on the beach, just below Santa Monica
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: was a small Hamburger stand owned and operated by the
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: dead woman's husband.
• 16:15
  Speaker 8: No, I haven't seen Doris for a couple of months anyway.
• 16:17
  Speaker 7: Why, I understand you had an apartment with your wife
• 16:20
  Speaker 7: in the East Wilson neighborhood. Is that right, McDonald?
• 16:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right.
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: Mind telling us why you left?
• 16:25
  Speaker 8: No, I don't mind. I want to move closer to
• 16:27
  Speaker 8: my work, that's all. That place is way too far out.
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: Well, how is your wife didn't move with you? Sir?
• 16:32
  Speaker 8: She want to stay close to town. Doesn't care for
• 16:34
  Speaker 8: the beach much bad for his sinus?
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: I guess, well, did you have an argument with your
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: wife inold some kind of a disagreement? Is that one
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: of the reasons you moved?
• 16:41
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you might call it that. We're getting a divorce.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: That's so.
• 16:44
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it was the best thing all the way around.
• 16:46
  Speaker 8: There's nothing of fighting and scrapping the last year. Anyway,
• 16:49
  Speaker 8: we decided to call it quits. You excuse me a minute.
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: I gotta put some cold drinks. It's cooler.
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I got right ahead.
• 16:58
  Speaker 8: Would you do you care for cold drink, no coke,
• 17:00
  Speaker 8: maybe nothing.
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: Did you get the divorce from your wife, mister Arnold.
• 17:08
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right, I'm divorcing her. Why do you want
• 17:11
  Speaker 8: to know?
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: You remember that last time you saw your wife? The
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: exact date?
• 17:15
  Speaker 8: I mean, oh, I don't think I remember that. Been
• 17:18
  Speaker 8: at least three months, I'll say that much.
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: You spend most of your time down here at the beach,
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: do you, miss Darner?
• 17:22
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right. I get into town once or twice
• 17:25
  Speaker 8: a month. They sure you were like a coke. They
• 17:28
  Speaker 8: gonna have one myself if you don't mind. Sure I
• 17:32
  Speaker 8: got cold, Well, it sure as cold.
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: How about last Tuesday night? So you happened to be
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: in town that night?
• 17:39
  Speaker 12: Oh?
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: Last time was two three weeks ago? Anyway, went in
• 17:42
  Speaker 8: to see a show. I was working here last Tuesday night.
• 17:47
  Speaker 8: Work every night except Monday. It's only night I'm closed
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: up for her.
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: Is there anyone who can votch for that?
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: I don't think I get this. Why do you want
• 17:54
  Speaker 8: to know?
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: Well, is there anybody who can votch for you?
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: Well? Sure, half a dozen people. Anyway, A fellow runs
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: a place next door. The guys in the rest of
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: the stalls up and down the way. Here they can
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: all vouch for me. I worked till one am, same
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: as usual. Just a minute, hey, beg.
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: Go Steve hop over here for a minute, so I
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: don't want to talk to you about Yeah, just a minute, hey,
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: big thank.
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: He'll be right over you. Fellows want a cup of
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: coffee or anything?
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: No, I would. I'd like to have a change for
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: that cigarette, mes, you know, if you don't mind.
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: Oh, sure.
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: There you are, think yes, Steve.
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: Hey, uh, these fellows have detective vict guess about some
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: kind of jam my wife, got it? Do they want
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: to know where I was last Tuesday night?
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: They want somebody to vouch for him.
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: Sure, did you see mister Arnold last Tuesday night?
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: I was working next door.
• 18:47
  Speaker 13: Steve was here all night.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: You are listening to dragnet authentic stories of your police
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: force in action.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: Saturday October thirty, first two pm, Ben and I checked
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: with a dozen different concession operators in the neighborhood of
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: Steven Arnold's eating place.
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: They all corroborated the fact.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: That on the night his wife had met her death
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: in a downtown hotel, Arnold had been working at his
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: stand until one am. Despite all the previous indications that
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: he might have been responsible for the murder of his wife,
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: we had to eliminate him as a possible suspect. Two
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: twenty pm, on the way back into town, we stopped
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: by the apartment hotel where Doris Fraser was living at
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: the time of her murder. After checking further with the
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: tenants and with the help in the building, we found
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: out that the victim had been in the habit of
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: eating most of her meals at restaurants in the immediate neighborhood.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: After some two hours of checking and running into six restaurants,
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: we found a small coffee shop four blocks from the
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: apartment building, where one of the waitresses identified Doris Fraser's picture.
• 19:58
  Speaker 14: Yeah, that's her offic terrible picture though she looks so
• 20:01
  Speaker 14: much older.
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: About how often would you say miss Fraser.
• 20:03
  Speaker 14: Came in here, man, Well, three or four times a week.
• 20:05
  Speaker 14: I'd say the bus stops right out there on the corner.
• 20:08
  Speaker 14: She'd usually have breakfast, then grab the bus and go
• 20:10
  Speaker 14: to work. Some nights, coming home from work, she'd stopping
• 20:13
  Speaker 14: here for dinner.
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: Nice girl.
• 20:14
  Speaker 11: Quiet.
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: Did you get to know her at all? Miss? I mean,
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: did you happen to know any of her? Friends here
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: in the neighborhood.
• 20:18
  Speaker 14: No, As I say, she was a quiet person, not
• 20:20
  Speaker 14: very talkative, usually read while she was eating, book or magazine.
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: Uh huh. Did she ever come in here with anyone else?
• 20:25
  Speaker 11: Do you know that?
• 20:26
  Speaker 12: Yeah? Quite a few times.
• 20:27
  Speaker 14: You seemed to have a boyfriend chause she was attractive, small.
• 20:30
  Speaker 12: You know, but real cute looking.
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: M Do you happen to know any of these men?
• 20:33
  Speaker 14: No, I'm sorry, I don't.
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: Anyone of them in particular. She came in with very often.
• 20:37
  Speaker 14: Let's see, I think there was one blonde, good dresser,
• 20:41
  Speaker 14: kind of tall, good looking. They usually came in together
• 20:43
  Speaker 14: for breakfast.
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: How long ago was this miss you recall?
• 20:45
  Speaker 14: Oh, say, up until a couple of weeks ago. I
• 20:48
  Speaker 14: usually waited on him in the morning.
• 20:49
  Speaker 12: That's how I happened to remember.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: I see. Did you ever happen to hear this man's name?
• 20:52
  Speaker 14: Let me see George?
• 20:54
  Speaker 12: I think that was it.
• 20:55
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: Would you happen to know if he lives in the neighborhood?
• 20:57
  Speaker 12: No, sorry, I don't.
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: Has this man been in here in the past week?
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: You know?
• 21:01
  Speaker 12: Yes he has. He came in for breakfast.
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: What day was that?
• 21:03
  Speaker 11: This morning?
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: Before we left the coffee shop.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: We questioned the cashier, who came up with the information
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: that the man known as George usually left his car
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: parked at the service station across the street. We left
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: our card and asked the cashier to call us in
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: case the suspect returned. At the service station, they also
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: remembered the man known as George, but they told us
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: he hadn't been in for the past month. They'd done
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: some work in his car for him in the past,
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: so they had a record of his license number. We
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: called our DMV and found that the car was registered
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: to a car Lucy in East Hollywood four forty five pm.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: We drove out and interviewed Lucy at his home, but
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: he came nowhere near the description of the suspect. He
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: told us that he had purchased the car six weeks
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: before from a man known as George Crane. He described
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: Crane as tall, blonde, and well dressed. From the bill
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: of sale. We got Crane's address, a motel on East Manchester.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: The manager there told us that George Crane had moved
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: a week before. He said that Crane had left no
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: forwarding address, but he did remember where he worked. He
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: was a driller in one of the oil fields down
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: in Long Beach. We checked the oil company's personnel office downtown,
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: but they were closed for the day six eighteen pm.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: We went back to the office and pulled the package
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: on George Crane from R and.
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: I get anything on him.
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: He's got our record. Here's the package here.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, nothing, very heavy drunk charge two years ago, another
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: one last year, disorderly combat resisting arrest.
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: That's about all I'm seeing. Yeah, description checks out all
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: the way.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: You called the night officer of that oil company digit.
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah, they couldn't tell us anything, said call back first
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: thing in the morning. I want to Rachel, I got it.
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, onmic side Friday.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: Who how's that? Oh yeah, sure, yes sir, No it's
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: around Friday. Not yeah, thanks anyway, you beat yeah, yah goobye.
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: A alad does it? Who was that guy who was
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: any of the other day? You remember that Alfred P.
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: Morgan or whatever it was?
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: Oh one knee want wanted to buy a drink.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: He's celebrating. Huh his old friend Maud. He just found her.
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: Eight am.
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: The next morning, we checked with the personnel department of
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: the oil company's downtown offices. They told us that George
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: Crane was employed as a driller, that he'd been working
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: for the company for the past five years, and that
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: he had a good employment record. They told us he
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: was on the day shift and that he was scheduled
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: to report for work on Rigs six nineteen at the
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Long Beach Field. At eight o'clock that morning, Ben and
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: I got in the car drove down a Long Beach
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: where we located the murder suspect, George Crane at work
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: in the field.
• 23:33
  Speaker 15: Doris Frasier, I'm sorry, sor, and I don't think I
• 23:36
  Speaker 15: know anybody about that name.
• 23:37
  Speaker 13: How about Doris Arnold?
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: Mister Crane?
• 23:39
  Speaker 13: Would you know anybody by that name? Arnold? No, No,
• 23:42
  Speaker 13: I'm afraid not. What's it all about. You own a car,
• 23:45
  Speaker 13: do you, sir?
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 23:46
  Speaker 13: That's it right over there, that dark sidan.
• 23:48
  Speaker 16: Yeah. Have you had it long?
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: Oh?
• 23:50
  Speaker 15: I've had it a couple of weeks. Last thing I
• 23:52
  Speaker 15: had was giving me a lot of trouble.
• 23:54
  Speaker 16: Did you trade it in?
• 23:55
  Speaker 11: No?
• 23:55
  Speaker 13: I sold it for a private party fell out in Hollywood.
• 23:58
  Speaker 13: You mind taking a look at this picture, mister Crane? Yeah, Ah,
• 24:03
  Speaker 13: doesn't look like anybody I know.
• 24:05
  Speaker 15: Why am I supposed to we think you should. Yes, sir,
• 24:08
  Speaker 15: I don't think I follow you.
• 24:09
  Speaker 17: Do you spend any time around the East Wiltster district Crane, Eastwelter?
• 24:13
  Speaker 15: You said, yeah, Oh, I've probably been over there a
• 24:16
  Speaker 15: couple of times.
• 24:17
  Speaker 13: Not lately though.
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: How about the coffee shop on the corner of Gramercy
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: and Meringo.
• 24:22
  Speaker 13: You ever been in there? Not that I remember?
• 24:25
  Speaker 11: No.
• 24:25
  Speaker 17: Well, a waitress in that coffee shop and the cashier too.
• 24:28
  Speaker 17: They say they've got a pretty regular customer. You put
• 24:30
  Speaker 17: your description exactly sure you've.
• 24:33
  Speaker 13: Never been in there? Well, I'm not positive. I wouldn't
• 24:36
  Speaker 13: swear I've never been in the place. What's the difference anyway?
• 24:39
  Speaker 16: Well, how about that service station across the street from
• 24:41
  Speaker 16: the coffee shop? You ever parked your car there?
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: They ever do any work on it for you?
• 24:46
  Speaker 16: Oh?
• 24:46
  Speaker 15: Say, I bet I know the place you're talking about. Yeah, yeah,
• 24:50
  Speaker 15: I've been there quite a few times.
• 24:51
  Speaker 13: It's a good station. They've done some good jobs in
• 24:54
  Speaker 13: the car for me. I remember it now.
• 24:55
  Speaker 16: Well, I guess you remember the coffee shop Crane, Yeah,
• 25:00
  Speaker 16: I think I do now, Right across the streets from
• 25:03
  Speaker 16: the station, I did. Yeah, that's right.
• 25:06
  Speaker 13: Well, what do you want to know about it.
• 25:08
  Speaker 17: When's the last time you were in there, Crane? Well,
• 25:11
  Speaker 17: tell you the truth. I couldn't be sure.
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: We talked to a waitress in there yesterday.
• 25:15
  Speaker 13: She said you were in that morning for breakfast.
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: Do you remember that?
• 25:19
  Speaker 15: She's way off the track on that when I could
• 25:21
  Speaker 15: tell you that I wasn't near the place yesterday morning.
• 25:23
  Speaker 16: Well, cashier remembers you too, She says you were in.
• 25:27
  Speaker 16: How about it, Crane?
• 25:28
  Speaker 13: What difference does it make? What's this thing all about?
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: Anyway?
• 25:31
  Speaker 16: I want to take another look at this picture.
• 25:32
  Speaker 13: Well, I told you once I don't know the woman.
• 25:34
  Speaker 13: I never saw her before in my life.
• 25:35
  Speaker 16: Why don't you give it some thought?
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: Huh?
• 25:37
  Speaker 16: I said, why don't you give it some thoughts?
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: You remembered East Wilshire, You remember the service station, You
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: finally remember the coffee shop.
• 25:43
  Speaker 16: Maybe you can remember her.
• 25:44
  Speaker 13: I tell you I don't know her. I never saw
• 25:46
  Speaker 13: in my Look. Let's go on the shed where we
• 25:48
  Speaker 13: can hear each other.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: Huh.
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: All right, that's a little better.
• 25:57
  Speaker 12: Huh.
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: The waitress in the place says you were there quite
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: a few times with a woman. You usually came in
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: for breakfast. You stopped going there about two weeks ago.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know her.
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: What's the matter? Clean? You figure you got something to hide.
• 26:09
  Speaker 13: I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know her.
• 26:12
  Speaker 13: What do you figures she got to do with me?
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Anyway?
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: We checked her apartment, mister, we found a letter she
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: was writing to you. You're not ready to tell us?
• 26:20
  Speaker 18: What's the letter? That doesn't mean anything, can't prove anything
• 26:22
  Speaker 18: by the letter? What are you thinking anyway?
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: We think you're lying, Crane. We think you got a
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: reason for it.
• 26:29
  Speaker 18: What do you say doesn't prove anything?
• 26:32
  Speaker 13: Maybe I know her and that doesn't mean anything at all.
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: We think it does.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we think you killed her.
• 26:38
  Speaker 18: That's the way it looks to you.
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: That's the way it looks.
• 26:41
  Speaker 13: I don't think you can prove it.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: We're going to try now, how about it?
• 26:46
  Speaker 11: Well?
• 26:47
  Speaker 18: It going easier for me in five minutes.
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: That's not up to us.
• 26:51
  Speaker 18: I don't know why I did it. What am I
• 26:53
  Speaker 18: going to give for a reason. I don't know why
• 26:55
  Speaker 18: I killed him.
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't know.
• 26:56
  Speaker 18: Crane didn't really have any reason. That sounds funny, doesn't it?
• 27:01
  Speaker 18: No reason at all? I just killed her? Am I
• 27:04
  Speaker 18: going to tell him? If I don't have a reason.
• 27:06
  Speaker 18: How can I ask him to let me off easy?
• 27:08
  Speaker 18: How can I ask?
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: I don't know, but they'll have an answer.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true. The names
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: were changed to protect the innocent.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: On February eighth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: ninety two, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: In a moment the results of that trial, and.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Now here is our star, Jack Webb.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: Thank you friends, all of us on Dragnet. Sincerely hope
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: that all of you enjoyed a happy Thanksgiving.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: George Martin Crane was tried and convicted in Superior Court
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: of murder in the first degree. He is now serving
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: a life term in the state penitentiary. You have just
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: heard drag Met a series of authentic cases from official files.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police,
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: wh Parker, Los Angeles Police Department.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Next, Counter Spy Fights, International Intrigue. Stay tuned to NBC.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Welcome Back. This episode is textbook drag Nat, but it
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: is very well realized way. Essentially, I hear them and
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: their investigative process as they followed lead after lead, beginning
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: with an unidentified woman strangled in a hotel room to
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: really get details about her and her life and at
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: last finding her killer. It was a laborious process, even
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: when they found the car and the license plate, No,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: that didn't get them there. Dragnett often bills itself as
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: taking you step by step with the police on an
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: actual case from crime to punishment. But usually there's kind
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: of a middle of the investigation that really gets emphasized,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: and we get enough to understand what's gone on before,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: and then we're kind of put you know, several steps
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: into the investigation. But here, you know, it is just
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: step by step. Okay, this didn't work well, we learned this,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: and now we do this. It's just a fascinating thing.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: It should not work as well as it does. But
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: again it's just Webb's ability to make these details and
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: each element realistic and interesting that is such a hallmark
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: of Dragnet. And I also did like the little bit
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: of comedy relief they worked in with mister Morgan, which
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I think just does help the pacing. So well, you've
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: got just like this little comedic break in the middle,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: and then on we go got two of them, actually,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: and I'm glad that at least he got good news
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: with his friend maud Well. Now we turn to listener
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: comments and feedback, and we start over on Patreon. We've
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: got quite a few comments regarding the big hit and
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: run killer. Jeff writes, the suspect Miller letting some guy
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: named Paul he seems to barely know, go off with
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: his bakery truck to supposedly move a television seems ridiculous
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: on the face of it. Also, if Miller left the
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: bakery for a few minutes to say goodbye to some
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: friends at a nearby hotel, why weren't those friends contacted
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: to back up that part of his alibi? Their questions.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: I would say that you're right that it was ridiculous
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: on the face of it, and that's why he needed
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: to prove that he done it, because if the police
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: were able to find corroborating evidence, it's a you know,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen of the jury, my client just loaned
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: this truck. No, we don't know is his full name. No,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: we don't have any prov he actually borrowed it. As
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: to the friends in the hotel, that's like I said,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: that's another fair question. Now a lot of people can
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: use the friend thing kind of loosely, it could refer
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: to somebody he had meant a long time ago, ran
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: into again and they said, hey, before I leave town,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: why don't you come by the hotel and say goodbye.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: But he didn't have the information or could use it
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: to refer to people who were in town temporarily he
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: had met and befriended. You know, I mean, a guy
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: who loans his bakery shock to somebody is apt to
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: do these sort of things. So I can see him
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: having friends that he doesn't have their address for that
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: he met them at some point. Now you would think
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: that they could check with the hotel, but the desk
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Clark may not have even seen him going up, So
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: I tend to assume that they looked into it, but
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: just could not find any corroboration for that detail of
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: his alibi. And then Kevin comments leave it to Sergeant
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Friday to continually stomp on suspects, constitutional riots, no warrants
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: or lawyers ever present. The depth of this apppisode was
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: shockingly simple. All the information provided after one phone call
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: the ticket lady with eight minutes till she could take
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: a break and talk right inside to start questioning doctor,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: I know you're doing brain surgery right now, but we'd
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: like to ask some questions. It's really important. Apparently no
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: writer ever asked does this sound real? Well, Kevin, believe me,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: on Dragnet writers more than anywhere else asked does this
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: sound real? I think that there is a subtle distinction
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: between performing brain surgery and working as a movie theater
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: ticket taker. It's slightly less complex. And in this case,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: there weren't really people who were coming by during this time,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: which is believable because there are times where it's really
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: kind of slow. Plus, let's just be honest here, that
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: you're sitting in your ticket window and you see this
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: car come right in front of your eyes and run
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: down this elderly woman and her grandson's that's something that
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: is very upsetting, maybe even traumatic, depending on how you
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: define that, And she probably just wanted to talk about it.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I think the most unrealistic thing to say is let
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: me go ahead and just sit here and twiddle my
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: thumbs waiting for somebody to want to buy a ticket.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: You witnessed something like that, and you want to talk
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: about it, and you know, if you are minded, you
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: want to see the person who did that caught injustice. Done,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: and I think that was her mode and I didn't
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: feel that was unrealistic at all. Doctor who done it
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: observes did not see that coming over on Instagram. Brain's
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: bitten rights. What a twisty story. Daniel Miller, the truck
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: slash Deli guy, may not have been the hit and
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: riding driver, but boy is he guilty of a lot
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: of bad judgment and decisions. Lends the company truck to
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: someone he doesn't know the name of, and leaves his
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: part time job to say goodbye to some other friends,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: and changes his story constantly. I guess he was lucky
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: the real guilty party fest up. I don't know if
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: i'd say the guy fest up as much was called out,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: but yeah, I think that the incredible thing about Dragnet
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: is that you are dealing with true life stories. There
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: is every reason to disbelieve him, but it is one
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: of the greatest twists in the whole history of this
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: program that as absurd as this man's story was, he
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: was telling the truth and of course a lot of
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: bad judgment. And you can speculate on that as well
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: because you add up his hours. The guys working around
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: seventy hours a week and that can leave you burnout
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: and lead to you making less than great decisions. Or
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: you can also be needing to do that because you've
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: made some less than great decisions. Either way, definitely guilty
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: of bad judgment, but thankfully for him, that's not a crime.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, now it's time to thank our Patreon
• 36:32
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• 36:35
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• 36:41
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• 36:48
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• 37:03
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• 37:08
  Speaker 1: join us back here tomorrow for yours truly. Johnny Dollar
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Where Johnny Dollar Insurance?
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah that's right now. Look, I want you to let
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: me into his apartment?
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: Where's the right his way?
• 37:22
  Speaker 8: Something wrong, mister Dollar?
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Just a routine investigation.
• 37:26
  Speaker 19: Oh, I was sure he'd done nothing wrong.
• 37:29
  Speaker 18: Oh why do you say that?
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: Nice quiet home man like him.
• 37:33
  Speaker 19: Why should he only excitement he ever has is when
• 37:37
  Speaker 19: his niece comes to visit with him.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: His niece here's sir, names Virginia.
• 37:42
  Speaker 19: Jenny Locker, wonderful girl sort of drops in here to
• 37:47
  Speaker 19: look after him once in a while, cook him a
• 37:49
  Speaker 19: good meal.
• 37:51
  Speaker 17: Now here we are, mll It sure looks like he
• 38:00
  Speaker 17: left in a hurry.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: How's it soaping? Durspull dot Where can I find this
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: niche you mentioned? Why didn't you see her when you
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: just came in? That curl who bumped into me down
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: on the lobby, that was Jenny Lockhart.
• 38:14
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• 38:17
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• 38:31
  Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.