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Dragnet: The Big Children (EP4670) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 2: You're a detective sergeant. They're assigned to Juvenile Bureau. They
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  Speaker 2: receive a complaint about an eight year old boy and
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  Speaker 2: his sister. A neighbor reports they've been going from door
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  Speaker 2: to door begging for food. Supposedly the children are from
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  Speaker 2: well to do parents. Your job investigate.
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  Speaker 4: It was Tuesday, April twenty seventh. It was overcast in
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  Speaker 4: Los Angeles. We were working the daywatch out a juvenile bureau.
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  Speaker 4: My partner's Ben Romero, the boss's Captain Kinsling.
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  Speaker 5: My name's Friday.
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  Speaker 4: I was on the way back in communications. That was
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  Speaker 4: four point thirty eight PM when I got to thirteen
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  Speaker 4: thirty five Georgia Street, second floor, room fourteen. Hi, joll
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  Speaker 4: I've been waiting long. I'm just checking with the record.
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  Speaker 4: I just got here. What's this thing all about? Well,
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  Speaker 4: just what I told you on the phone. Seven year
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  Speaker 4: old boy and his sister covering the neighborhood bagan food.
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  Speaker 5: You ready to go, man, let me put this away.
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  Speaker 5: For kid's supposed to be from a wealthy family.
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  Speaker 4: Huh, wealthy enough to live in the best part of
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  Speaker 4: bell Area.
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  Speaker 5: Doesn't make much sense. It must be some kind of
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  Speaker 5: a gig, you know. No, not, according to the neighbor
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  Speaker 5: who called in.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, she says, the kids are half starved. Ben and
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  Speaker 4: I got in the car and drove out Sunset Boulevard
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  Speaker 4: at the bell Air District. They pulled up in front
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  Speaker 4: of a large, two story home near the corner of
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  Speaker 4: Brookline Avenue and Knightsbridge Drive. Was a white frame colonial
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  Speaker 4: mansion set back in the middle of well landscape, lawn
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  Speaker 4: and gardens. The other homes in the neighborhood were just
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  Speaker 4: as large. Fifty thousand dollars enough was the last place
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  Speaker 4: in the city that you'd expect to find neighborhood children
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  Speaker 4: bagging food. Five twenty PM, who went around at.
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  Speaker 5: The rear entrance of the colonial mansion.
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  Speaker 4: As we'd been instructed on the phone, we located the
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  Speaker 4: woman who had called in the complaint, a miss Janette Beijean.
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  Speaker 4: She was employed as laundress and cooked by the owners
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  Speaker 4: of the house. She was busy fixing dinner.
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  Speaker 6: They're from next door, officer.
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  Speaker 7: The children, as I explained on the phone, A boy
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  Speaker 7: about seven years a girl or five years old.
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  Speaker 5: I guess which side do they live on, Miss beiji
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  Speaker 5: on the house on the.
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  Speaker 7: Car nor the other side up here the rown and
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  Speaker 7: white house just up the street next door.
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  Speaker 5: Other children there? Now do you know that?
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  Speaker 7: No, but they were here this afternoon again, here to
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  Speaker 7: the back door, asking for something to eat.
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  Speaker 6: I don't understand it. Something must be wrong.
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  Speaker 5: Well have they been around off in this.
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  Speaker 7: Two or three days? Maybe four days? First I thought
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  Speaker 7: they were fooling, but they were not. I gave them
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  Speaker 7: some cookies sandwishes. They were very hungry. They ate them
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  Speaker 7: like they were starving. The little girl saved her cookies.
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  Speaker 7: She took them with her.
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  Speaker 5: How about their parents? Are they at home?
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  Speaker 7: Excuse me? Potash there that's there. No, I haven't seen
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  Speaker 7: the mother the last few days. I understand they are
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  Speaker 7: divorced the mother. She lives there with the children, the father.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Well, what's their name? Do you know Kessler?
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  Speaker 6: Madam?
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  Speaker 7: The woman I work for? She says there are three
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  Speaker 7: children in the Kessler family, but I don't know. I
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  Speaker 7: have only seen the two, the boy and the girl.
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  Speaker 7: I would go over and see what is wrong, but
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  Speaker 7: I do not know the Kessler. It is not my place.
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  Speaker 6: That's why I called your officer.
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  Speaker 7: I don't thank you very much, not at all, Officer. You
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  Speaker 7: understand I do not mind giving the children food. Well,
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  Speaker 7: I think only something is wrong doing to get it
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  Speaker 7: at home.
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  Speaker 5: Well, thank you very much for notifying us. We're gonna
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  Speaker 5: check you into it. I'm just a little curious, miss Beage.
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  Speaker 5: Uh what set you're making this?
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  Speaker 6: Napoleon?
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  Speaker 5: Huh?
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  Speaker 6: How's that Lapoleon?
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  Speaker 4: You know?
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  Speaker 6: Lapoleon Piastree?
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  Speaker 5: Oh oh yeah, here's me. I's good. Well, thanks again, certainly, officer.
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  Speaker 6: If there is anything I can do, you will let
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  Speaker 6: me know, Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Ma'am, we will. Goodbye, goodbye, Thank you very much. It's
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  Speaker 5: a beautiful place. Yeah. Those Swedish women make pretty good cooks,
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  Speaker 5: don't they. I don't know. She sounded French to me.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, huh, maybe so most good at cooking anyhow.
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  Speaker 5: Or yeah, they a little white house next door. That
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  Speaker 5: must be it.
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  Speaker 4: Uh that name Castler. They fairly prominent around town society.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: There's quite a few of 'em. Could be any way
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  Speaker 4: you look at it. It's hard to figure. And the
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  Speaker 4: kids has.
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  Speaker 5: Been at it for four days. It's on the level.
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  Speaker 5: They really might be in a bind. Garage door is
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  Speaker 5: opened back there no sign of a car, kid's bicycles. All.
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  Speaker 5: Let's try at the front door.
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  Speaker 4: Hu, just better try to get a yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, sir, Hello son, your name's Kessler. All right, Yes,
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  Speaker 8: I'm Richard. My mother's not home right now. Maybe you
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  Speaker 8: can come back tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: We're police officers, Richard. If you're not busy, we like
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  Speaker 4: talking for a minutes.
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  Speaker 5: That alright?
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  Speaker 8: Well, yes, sir, that'd be all right. Would you come
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  Speaker 8: in please?
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  Speaker 4: Richard Kessler was a blonde haired, wiry boy, polite, well mannered.
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  Speaker 4: He told us that he was eight years old and
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  Speaker 4: he attended the neighborhood grammar school. He showed us back
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  Speaker 4: to the kitchen where he was warming a can of
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  Speaker 4: soup that he borrowed from a neighbor. Was a large house,
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  Speaker 4: richly furnished, but it hadn't been cleaned for weeks. Dust
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  Speaker 4: was piled up thick on the furniture, and children's books
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  Speaker 4: and toys were scattered around the rooms, along with scraps
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  Speaker 4: of dried bread half eaten. The house was cold and musty.
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  Speaker 4: On a small bar in the dining room there were
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  Speaker 4: three half filled cocktail glasses and plate full of cigarette butts.
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  Speaker 4: Evidently they've been standing there for days. On the sink
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  Speaker 4: in the kitchen there were a few pieces of stale
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  Speaker 4: bread and an open bottle of milk it had turned sour.
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  Speaker 4: Next to it were a half a dozen empty whiskey bottles.
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  Speaker 4: The Kessler boy was well dressed, except for the shirt
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  Speaker 4: that he had on looked as if he'd been wearing
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  Speaker 4: it for a week.
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  Speaker 8: What did you want to talk to me about, officers,
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  Speaker 8: I haven't done anything wrong.
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  Speaker 4: Oh we know that, son. We'd just like to find
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  Speaker 4: out how you've been getting along.
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  Speaker 8: I've been getting along all right. Two ways and four
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  Speaker 8: bees on my report card last month. Where's your sister, Dick, Judy.
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  Speaker 8: She's down the street. She'll be back in a minute.
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  Speaker 5: How about your mother, Pus.
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  Speaker 8: She's out too, she'll be back.
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  Speaker 5: What do you expect hers? Huh?
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  Speaker 8: Pretty soon? He's coming back pretty soon.
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  Speaker 5: Your sister, Judy, she's younger than you, didn't she Dick?
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  Speaker 6: Uh?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, Judy's only six.
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  Speaker 5: I made any other grown ups live here with you?
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  Speaker 5: Besides your mind?
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  Speaker 8: No, Mom takes care of us. She'll be back pretty soon.
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  Speaker 5: We'd like to have you tells the truth now, Dick.
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  Speaker 5: How long she been going?
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  Speaker 8: I don't know. It's probably important taking her a long time.
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  Speaker 8: You can come back tomorrow. She'll probably be here.
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  Speaker 5: Then. When was the last time you saw us? Huh? Son?
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  Speaker 5: How about that?
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  Speaker 8: A couple of days ago?
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  Speaker 5: Missus?
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  Speaker 8: Tuesday? You mean she left the house Sunday? No before that?
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  Speaker 8: Last Friday night she went out, said she'd be back.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Does your mother say where she was going, Dick?
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  Speaker 8: No, her boyfriend was here, Larry, I don't know his
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  Speaker 8: last name. Mom went out with him to a party.
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  Speaker 8: I think I don't know where she'll be back? All right?
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  Speaker 8: Did you leave anyone to take care of No, we
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  Speaker 8: can take care of ourselves. Nobody to fix the cooking, though,
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  Speaker 8: I don't know how yet.
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  Speaker 6: I'd better look at.
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  Speaker 5: The soup on the store I'll take care of us
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  Speaker 5: when you go ahead and sit down. Has your mother
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  Speaker 5: ever left you like this before?
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  Speaker 8: Sir M maybe once or twice. She never stayed away
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  Speaker 8: this long long.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: It's no matter, Dick.
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  Speaker 8: Well, it's Johnny Officer, my little brother. He hasn't eaten
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  Speaker 8: much for a while, must be hungry by now. I
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  Speaker 8: was fixing the soup for him. Now, where's Johnny. He's
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  Speaker 8: upstairs in the nursery. He's been sick with a bad cold.
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  Speaker 8: Mom knew Johnny was sick. That's why I wondered. She
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  Speaker 8: hasn't come back yet. I don't think Johnny's feeling good.
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  Speaker 5: Do you wanna take sept to see him?
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  Speaker 8: Sir?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, if you want.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Huh. How long has Johnny had this cold? Dick?
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  Speaker 8: A couple of days before Friday, before mom left.
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  Speaker 5: How old is he?
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  Speaker 8: Johnny's just a little kid. You won't be two years
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  Speaker 8: old until July. I've been wondering about him. Coughed a
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  Speaker 8: lot at first. I've been giving him milk and cookies.
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  Speaker 8: That's Judy and I had. I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Has a doctor been to see Johnny? Oh?
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  Speaker 8: No, I thought of calling him and I didn't know
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  Speaker 8: the doctor's name. I was waiting til mom got home.
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  Speaker 8: Wanted this Johnny's rom here and in the crib, Officer,
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  Speaker 8: that's my brother Johnny pretty.
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  Speaker 5: Gold in here. Yeah, what's happened like that? Yeah? Alright there,
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  Speaker 5: young fella.
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  Speaker 8: Hi Johnny, you're hungry now?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? Hug at his eyes? Yeah, I wanna get to
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  Speaker 5: a phone doctor name, but let's te him to Harry Bright.
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  Speaker 8: Oh what's the matter, officer? What about Johnny's eyes?
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  Speaker 5: And would be alright?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, he's been acting offul quiet though hardly moved around
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  Speaker 8: a tall most of the time, he's jumping up and
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  Speaker 8: down his crib like anything.
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  Speaker 5: Has anyone had all been in here to see him
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  Speaker 5: since Friday?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, sir, my sister Judy and I. We change his
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  Speaker 8: diapers and give him something to eat.
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  Speaker 5: I see she.
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  Speaker 8: I sure wish momm would get home and I'd like
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  Speaker 8: to talk to her.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so would I.
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  Speaker 4: Five forty eight pm we put in a call to
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  Speaker 4: the office for a policewoman, and then we got in
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  Speaker 4: touch with Lieutenant Lee Jones at the crime Lab and
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  Speaker 4: he sent out a man to photograph the condition of
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  Speaker 4: the Kessler home and the children. The doctor and The
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  Speaker 4: ambulance arrived and little Johnny Kessler was taken to the
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  Speaker 4: General Hospital.
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  Speaker 5: In critical condition. The twenty two month old boy was
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  Speaker 5: in a coma.
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  Speaker 4: Richard Kessler and his sister, Judy were taken to Georgia
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  Speaker 4: Street Juvenile Bureau and then transferred to Juvenile Hall and
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  Speaker 4: placed under protective custody Section seven hundred subby Welfare and
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  Speaker 4: Institution Code. The two of them were given a bath
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  Speaker 4: and something to eat. Judy Kessler was interrogated separately by
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  Speaker 4: a policewoman.
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  Speaker 5: Ben and I talked to the boy Richard.
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  Speaker 4: After a few minutes, he broke down and admitted that
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  Speaker 4: his mother had gone off and left the three children
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  Speaker 4: alone on at least a half a dozen occasions. He
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  Speaker 4: told us his parents were divorced. He rarely saw his father,
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  Speaker 4: but his mother had had two or three boyfriends at
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  Speaker 4: the house during the past year. He also told us
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  Speaker 4: his mother drank quite a bit, but.
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  Speaker 8: She's never been gone this long before. Sergeant. She's out
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  Speaker 8: somewhere and has no way to get home.
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  Speaker 4: We'll find her, all right, cent Don't you worry about
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  Speaker 4: this boyfriend of your mother's Dick.
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  Speaker 5: His first name was Larry. Is that all you can
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  Speaker 5: tell us.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, sir, I don't know his last name. Are you
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  Speaker 8: gonna keep us here all night?
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  Speaker 6: Judy and me just for.
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  Speaker 5: A day or so? They'll take good care of us.
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  Speaker 8: Huh where'd you take Judy?
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  Speaker 5: Well, she's just next door, Dick, you can see her
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  Speaker 5: in just a minute now.
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  Speaker 8: And Uh, how about Johnny? I always take care of him.
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  Speaker 8: He's pretty fussy around strangers.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they've got him over at the hospital deck. They're
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  Speaker 4: gonna take good care of him. Now you can count
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  Speaker 4: on that.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know, Officer, I better see him. He might
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  Speaker 8: get off of fussy. All right, we'll fix that up
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  Speaker 8: for you. Do you have any relatives in Los Angeles? Son, aunt's, uncles,
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  Speaker 8: anyone like that. No, just my father, but I don't
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  Speaker 8: know where he lives. We had a nurse who used
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  Speaker 8: to take care of us, missus McIntosh.
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  Speaker 6: She was swill.
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  Speaker 8: My mom fired her though.
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  Speaker 5: Oh how'd that happened? Do you know?
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  Speaker 8: No? I'm not quite sure. Maybe my mom was drinking.
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  Speaker 8: Missus McIntosh got mad at her, had a big fight,
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  Speaker 8: Mom fight.
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  Speaker 4: Oh now this missus mac and dush you know where
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  Speaker 4: we can find No, sir, I don't how about Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Some of the other boyfriends that your mother had. They
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  Speaker 4: do you remember any of their names?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 8: One of 'em was George something. I don't remember the
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  Speaker 8: other one, Joe.
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  Speaker 5: See you a minute, Yeah, I may. You want to
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  Speaker 5: stay with the boy? How bet? Yeah? Hospital call. It's
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  Speaker 5: a lousy thing. What's that? A Kestler boy?
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  Speaker 4: Little Johnny?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he just died.
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  Speaker 4: John Albert Kessler, white male American, aged twenty two months.
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  Speaker 4: All the pertinent facts and data would be listed on
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  Speaker 4: the crime report, and if and when the case was closed,
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  Speaker 4: the report would be filed away. Wouldn't be any different
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  Speaker 4: from a thousand other dead body reports, same size, same color,
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  Speaker 4: same number up in the left hand corner, and the
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  Speaker 4: course of ten or twenty years on the job of
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  Speaker 4: police officer sees a lot of 'em. Most of 'em
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  Speaker 4: he forgets, few of 'em he never forgets. The next morning,
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  Speaker 4: the body was posted to the county morgue. It was
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  Speaker 4: found that the youngster had been suffering from malnutrition, but
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  Speaker 4: the cause of death was listed as a basal skull fracture.
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  Speaker 4: Homicide detailed was notified. The search for the mother, missus
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  Speaker 4: Gene Kessler, went on. We talked to her neighbors, all
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  Speaker 4: of her friends that we could locate. We checked out
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  Speaker 4: an address book that was found in missus Kessler's effects
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  Speaker 4: at her home. We got out a broadcast in an
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  Speaker 4: APB no luck, Thursday, April twenty nine. How about the
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  Speaker 4: youngster's brother and sister, Ben Do you think it could
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  Speaker 4: have happened that way?
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  Speaker 5: How do you mean?
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  Speaker 4: Well, they were taking care of the little fella. They
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  Speaker 4: might have had an accident with him. They're afraid, don't
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  Speaker 4: up to it. I don't think so, Jill, That's not
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  Speaker 4: very likely.
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  Speaker 5: Mac.
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  Speaker 4: We talked to him quite a bit last night. A
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  Speaker 4: couple of pretty honest kids. Pretty sure they wouldn't lie about.
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  Speaker 5: Something like that. Where does that leave it? The mother?
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  Speaker 4: Good possibility? We know Miss Cassler drinks quite a bit.
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  Speaker 4: She could have lost patience with a little boy. More
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  Speaker 4: chance of an accident there.
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  Speaker 5: I get a June old Friday, yep Bert Where huh right? Thanks? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Woman answering Miss Kesler's description checked in at a hotel
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  Speaker 4: down on South Hope last night, still registered as she
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  Speaker 4: checked out earlier this morning. They found a woman's sport
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  Speaker 4: coade in the room. What about bloodstains on it?
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  Speaker 3: step solution to Tonight's authentic case history.
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  Speaker 4: Friday, April thirtieth, we were still without a lead as
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: to the whereabouts of the missing mother, Missus Gene Kessler.
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: The bloodstained coat which had been found in the South
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: Hope Street hotel was shown to Missus Kessler's friends and
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: to her children, Richard and Judy. They identified it as
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: belonging to the missing woman. Routine investigation of the hotel
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: room failed to uncover any further leads. We got out
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: of Supplementary APB, and then we started rechecking with a
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: Kessler woman's friends and acquaintances.
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: Nothing.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: We rechecked a dozen taverns and cocktail lounges that she'd
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: been known to frequent, No sign of her, no sign
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: of her boyfriend. In rechecking her personal effects, we found
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: a canceled check payable to their former nurse, Missus mcintish.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: The endorsement carried her address. We checked it out she'd moved.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: We traced her to the forwarding address. There we were
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: told that she had a new job as a nurse
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: maid with a wealthy family living in the Los Phelis district.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: We called there and talked to missus McIntosh, and she
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: told us that she was just leaving the house with
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: the three children for an outing at the park and
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: the zoo. We made arrangements to meet where her out
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: there one thirty pm, Ben and I located her at
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: the head of the path leading through the main part
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: of the Griffith Park Zoo.
• 17:45
  Speaker 9: I read about it in the paper, Sergeant about Johnny.
• 17:47
  Speaker 9: I didn't know you wanted to talk to me. I
• 17:49
  Speaker 9: would have called in if I did.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: We're still trying to locate the mother, missus McIntosh. Can
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: you help us out there at all?
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: No, I don't know if you asked at those places
• 17:57
  Speaker 9: she used to go to all the time where she used.
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: To drink, Yes, ma'am, we have. They couldn't help us.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Did you know any of missus Kessler's boyfriends, the ones
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: that had come to the house.
• 18:05
  Speaker 10: Yes, I knew all of them. Donald, don't you want
• 18:08
  Speaker 10: to off now? Same for you, Patsy.
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: You stay close the boy Richard. He was telling us
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: about one of the boyfriends, man Fellow down and Larry.
• 18:15
  Speaker 10: Oh, yes, Donald, you heard what I said. You stay close? Yes,
• 18:20
  Speaker 10: I knew Larry.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: You remember what his last name was?
• 18:23
  Speaker 10: Now, Yes, Bartel some kind of an actor in the movies.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: I think Bartell anywhere he lives.
• 18:31
  Speaker 9: No, I think he had an apartment in Hollywood. I
• 18:34
  Speaker 9: wouldn't know the address.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: What kind of a man was this Bartel? I I
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: mean he's temperament and things like that.
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: Well, I think he was kind of lazy. I think
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: Missus Kesler was giving him money.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: Did the two of them ever argue or have any fights.
• 18:48
  Speaker 10: All the time? He had a terrible temper.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: Do you ever strike miss Kessler?
• 18:52
  Speaker 10: Yes?
• 18:53
  Speaker 9: I saw it happen several times, not too close to
• 18:55
  Speaker 9: the cage.
• 18:56
  Speaker 10: Donald back a little.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: How did this Bartail act? Children? Missus mcintie indifferent?
• 19:03
  Speaker 10: I guess they annoyed him sometimes.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: Well that was after that you had the argument with
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: miss Casser.
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: Yes, it was about her drinking and the boyfriends and
• 19:11
  Speaker 9: all the rest. I just got sick of it and
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: I told her what I thought. She didn't want to
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: admit she was getting old, not caring for the children,
• 19:20
  Speaker 9: pretending she was still in the twenties.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: Well, do you have any idea where he might look
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: keep the father? Well they're divorced.
• 19:27
  Speaker 9: You know, he's a head salesman for a lumber concern downtown.
• 19:31
  Speaker 9: He inherited most of his money. I have the name
• 19:34
  Speaker 9: of the company at home.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: You can have it if you're like, yes, mam, we'd
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: appreciate that.
• 19:39
  Speaker 10: You know.
• 19:39
  Speaker 9: It's the children I feel sorry for, yes, ma'am. Three
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: beautiful children. That poor little Johnny. I just can't understand.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: What's that?
• 19:49
  Speaker 10: How could anyone deserve a helpless.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: Baby like that? We'll ask his mother.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: Friday, five pm, Missus mcintie called us at the offic
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: us and gave us the business address of the missing
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: woman's ex husband, Richard Lane Kessler. We called there, but
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: they told us Kessler was away on a week's vacation.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: They had no idea where to contact him, but he
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: was expected back in a few days. We called Central
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Casting and asked them to check their talent list for
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: a bit player by the name of Larry Bartel.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: They had no such name listed.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Saturday eight am, the Kessler children, Richard and Judy, remained
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: in the custody of juvenile authorities. The search for their
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: mother continued all day Saturday. Ben and I ran down
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: what few leads we had.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: They went nowhere.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Checks of the moor and of the city hospitals and
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: the drunk tank at the main jail still failed to
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: turn up the missing woman. We checked again at the
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: different drinking places she used to patronize. No one had
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: seen her. Five point thirty pm we went back to
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: the office. A lot of mileage today. Man, there's not
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: much to show for it. Not going to be much
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: fun for us, Cassel the kids. Is Sunday. What do
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: you mean, first Sunday in May.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: It's mother Day.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Hi, mic Hi, got a piece of news
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: for you. Yeah, Cassler woman's boyfriend, Larry Bartel, What about him?
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: He's been located. When he'd seen his name mentioned the
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: previous night in the newspaper stories concerning the case, Larry
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Bartel had contacted the office to let us know that
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: he didn't consider himself a fugitive.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: At least that was his story. He called just a.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Few minutes before we got back to the office. He
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: left word that he could be found at a Wilshire
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: address all day Sunday. In the meantime, he'd be at
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: the Spotlight Club. It was a club for theatrical people
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: located in West Hollywood. Six twenty five pm, Ben and
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: I located him at the club. Back in the billiard's room.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: He was tall, dark haired, dressed expensively.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: I told the cup when I called in, you weren't
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: supposed to contact me here. This was important.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: That little Kessler boy's dead, Bartel, we think gets pretty important.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: I didn't know anying about that. You didn't have to
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: interrupt me. That's an important man I was playing with. Now,
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: what do you want to know?
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Where's miss Kessler? Why ask me? I don't know. You're
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: a pretty good friend of hers. You were the last
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: person seeing with him.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: Oh, it was a week ago. He went out to
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: a party last Friday night, Innocence the following Monday. Uh, yeah,
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: last Monday. I'm through with her anyway. What do you mean, Well,
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: I just got sick of her, that so pawing all
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: over me, asking me to marry. I just got sick
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: of it. Wasn't worth it. You accepted money for it
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: just to tide me over. She had plenty of it.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: Why not?
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Where'd you last see her? Keep your voices down. I
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: would like this stuff to get around the club. Yeah,
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: there was a hotel downtown on South Fower. I could
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: give you the address.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: Were you at another hotel with miss Kessler? Last week?
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Mm yeah, yeah, on South Hope run ninth Street. I think, oh,
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: that's where you find a coat. Huh, you've got an
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: explanation for that bloodstain? Sure, Crazy Day told her. I
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: saw then she tried to hit me in the bottle?
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Can I sell boy? I tell he just wasn't worth
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: it that to him.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: I guess you can prove everything you're telling us, So.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Of course I can prove it. It's the truth. And
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: what about the little boy? How'd that happen?
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: I didn't nothing to do with it, wasn't my vote. Well,
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: how did it happened?
• 22:49
  Speaker 11: Now?
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: It was that Friday night, just before we left the house.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Alady now downstairs having a few drinks. She put the
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: little kid to bed, but he wouldn't stay there. He
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: could getting up out of bed and run it down
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: stairs crying. Yeah, go on, Ash, you finally took a
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: kid game and good spanking through him back in bed.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: I think he hit his head in one of the
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: post of the crew.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: Why didn't you do something about it? Well? I told her,
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: but she said it was nothing, didn't matter. Got our
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: coats left, that's all kids are, all right? When he left?
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: You mean all the time you and Missus Kesseley went out.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: You knew those children were being left all alone, and
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: then half.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: Oh what out of cheese? The mother? Not me? How look,
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: I gotta get back. I kept that game waiting on.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: It's just a minute. It's going to wait a little longer.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Come on.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Larry Bartel was taken downtown and held for questioning on
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: suspicion of seven o two WIC contributing to negligence of miners.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: He gave us the address of the hotel where he'd
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: last seen Missus Kessler. Ben and I checked it out.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: It was a typical cheap downtown hotel with the bar
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: opening off the lobby. The desk clerk told us a
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: woman answering Missus Kesler's description was registered.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: In a room on the second floor.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: They had an old fashioned player piano going full volume
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: in the bar. The sound followed us up the stairs.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Tenants here, sure must like their music.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it therein two sixteen. Yeah, an you better
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: try it. Yeah, let's have hello.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Who's there?
• 24:25
  Speaker 11: Who is it.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: You? Missus Jean Kessler? What is it?
• 24:31
  Speaker 11: Who are you?
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: Police officers like to talk to you.
• 24:34
  Speaker 11: I haven't done anything. What do you want with me?
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: I want to talk to you about your children, Miss Kessler.
• 24:39
  Speaker 11: But I didn't do anything. Johnny was sick, that's all.
• 24:42
  Speaker 11: I didn't do anything.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: That's not what Bardail says.
• 24:45
  Speaker 11: Larry, have you seen him? Is he coming back to me?
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: You better get up, lady, get your coat.
• 24:51
  Speaker 11: I gotta have Larry back.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: Is everything to me?
• 24:56
  Speaker 11: I love him?
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: Is he coming back?
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: You've been going over a week? Aren't you a little
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: worldorried about your children?
• 25:03
  Speaker 11: I'm too young to spend my life on children. I
• 25:06
  Speaker 11: need Larry.
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: Where is he?
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: See if you can find her code? Will you been? Yeah?
• 25:16
  Speaker 11: I've been drinking office. I felt terrible. Yeah, I need
• 25:20
  Speaker 11: Larry so bad.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: He's young like me.
• 25:23
  Speaker 11: I love him. I gave him moment love, gave him
• 25:27
  Speaker 11: every bit of it.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you gave him too much. Well, you didn't have
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: any left for your kids.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: The story you've just heard was true, only the names
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: were changed to protect the innocent.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: On July, second trial was held in Superior Court, Department
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: eighty seven, city in County of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: In a moment, the results of that trial, now here
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: is our star Jack Webb. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
• 25:58
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• 25:59
  Speaker 4: you for your very fine response to our program, Dragnet.
• 26:03
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• 26:04
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• 26:07
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• 26:11
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• 26:14
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• 26:17
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• 26:19
  Speaker 5: Possibly, we were sure.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: That our approach to this type of presentation was a
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: sound one, but the final approval had to rest with you.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: If we may judge by your response, you've placed Dragnet
• 26:31
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• 26:32
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• 26:36
  Speaker 4: We've tried to bring you, first of all, an adult
• 26:39
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• 26:41
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• 26:44
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• 26:48
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• 26:51
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• 26:55
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• 26:57
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• 27:00
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• 27:03
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• 27:06
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• 27:09
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• 27:12
  Speaker 5: For this our thanks missus.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Geen Kessler was filed on and found guilty in superior
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: court charge of manslaughter. She was sentenced to one year
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: in the county jail and deprived of the custody of
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: her children. You have just heard Dragnets, a series of
• 27:45
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• 27:48
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• 27:51
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• 28:01
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  Speaker 2: play house on it.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. A really heartbreaking situation which is far too real,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: and it illustrates the mistake of thinking these things can
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: only happen in poor neighborhoods. And of course both the
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: mother and her boyfriend are very heartless, but these sort
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: of people are out there. The one odd note about
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: this episode is perhaps the most inappropriate case of naming
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: a character after a living person that you'll find, because
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Larry Bartell, the character is clearly named after the real
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: actor and frequent Dragnet guest star Harry Bartel, who I
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: never had the pleasure of meeting, but by all accounts
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: was a fine gentleman and nothing like the character in
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: the story. I wonder if he called Jack Webb up
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: about this, because I think in most cases actors were
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: fine with a character being named after them. You want
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: to name a room clerk or doorman, or some random
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: police officer after an actor, they wouldn't take offense. But
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: if you want to name a character who is selfishly
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: indifferent to the suffering and the fate of a baby,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: and who is also a lazy actor whose name is
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: only one letter different from yours, I think most people
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: would pick up the phone if they found out about it.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Whether Bartel called Web or even knew about it, I
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: don't know. But in the TV version the character was
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: renamed Larry Carpenter, so apparently someone saw the need to
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: make a change. Web statement on the receipt of the
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: award was very classy and very heartfelt. It showed how
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: had really made a major impact, and certainly it had
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: been a boon to NBC after the talent raids. CBS
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: had dominated them in the nineteen forty nine poll, but
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: this poll for nineteen fifty found NBC pulling even with CBS,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: and Dragnet and Jack Web were part of that, as
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: not only did Dragnet win the award for Best Mystery Program,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: but Jack Webb was given the award for Most Promising
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Star of Tomorrow. And so it illustrates what type of
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: cultural juggernaut Dragnet was and certainly what it meant for
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Jack Webb. At the time this was aired, he was
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: twenty months removed from launching a program that was sustaining
• 31:03
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• 31:08
  Speaker 1: a baby on the way, and his career had absolutely skyrocketed.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: So I think Web meant every word of that, and
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: certainly listener feedback was very important to him. One thing
• 31:20
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• 31:25
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• 31:30
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• 31:36
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• 31:40
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• 31:44
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• 31:48
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• 31:52
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• 32:34
  Speaker 6: So you are Johnny Stone?
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: That's right?
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: Well this is a great o.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: Heay, what's the idea?
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't do that again?
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: Why would you beat me up?
• 32:46
  Speaker 11: Too?
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: Looks? Who are you?
• 32:48
  Speaker 12: Lisa Dollar? Oh you recognize the name. I believe my
• 32:54
  Speaker 12: husband works for you.
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: You got your tenses wrong. He did work for me.
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: How could you do such a thing?
• 33:00
  Speaker 12: How could you hit a man half your size just
• 33:02
  Speaker 12: because they stood up to you? But you're not used
• 33:04
  Speaker 12: to that, are you, mister Stone? What you're used to
• 33:07
  Speaker 12: people falling all over themselves to cooperate in you're crooked
• 33:09
  Speaker 12: deals is that what you think? That's what I know,
• 33:14
  Speaker 12: But you don't frighten me. I've met men like you before,
• 33:18
  Speaker 12: bullies who always pick on someone weaker.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: Steve, anything else you care to say?
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: No, I think I've said enough. You Just keep away
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: from Paul.
• 33:28
  Speaker 12: You are never to go near him again.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: You understand, I understand you're going crazy or something, Johnny.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: How could you take that, especially if that's slaping a puss?
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: Forget it? Forget it.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't believe it if I didn't say it with
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: my own eyes. That Paul must have really sold her
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: a bill of goods.
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: I guess she must trust him.
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