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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Curse of Kamashek Matter, Part Five and Clue of the Masked Murderer (EP1201) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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finish up the Curse of Chemisheck Matter in just a moment and uh then coming
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up later on the program, it's another episode of Manhunt. So now it's
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time for the Curse of camashek Matter Part five from Hollywood. It's time now
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for Johnny Dillar Doctor High. Yeah, I know, listen, can you
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give me a hand? Who got poison? This time? Two of them?
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I hope it's poison and that you can prove it for me. We'll
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try made me here at the home of Very Turnbull and Stamford Connecticut. Okay,
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but give you the address in a minute. But Johnny, what do
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you mean you'll hope somebody got put because if they didn't, I'm going to
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go off my rocker, because the only other possible cause of death could be
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a curse, the Curse of Chemishek, an Egyptian king who died a couple
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of dozen centuries ago. What tonight and every weekday night? Bob Bailey in
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the transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account America's Fabulous freelance
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insurance Investigator, Yes truly, Johnny Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to
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Winter Allied Life Insurance Company, Crutchfield Square, Hertford, Connecticut assignment The Curse
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of Chemishek matter expense account continued all doctor Leonard Saint Clair, an all school
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chum, because I knew him to be one of the foremost toxicologists in the
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country, and I was telling the truth. I hoped it could be shown
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that some kind of poison killed Donald Cronin and subsequently his uncle Eric Turnbull.
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Both apparently had believed in the curse of the Old Egyptian Pharaoh, a curse
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that was to befall anyone who violated his ancient tomb on the banks of the
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Nile. Donald had done this and excavating the tomb, but his uncle here
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in Stamford had only touched the bones that Donald had airmailed to him. He
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was opening the package it Master Donald addressed his so it Master Donald had sent
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him just before he died there the tomb in Egypt. I brought them in
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here to the library for himself, go on, Haskins. Well then you
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rang the doorbell. I left him with it, and you and I came
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in here. Yeah, from the curse of Garma shik mister Donald, Oh,
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Haskins, I don't believe it. A friend of mine, doctor Saint
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Clair, will be here shortly and he'll be able to shouldn't Did we notify
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the police? No? No, no, But leave my poor employees body
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just lying there for the time being. Yes, until doctor Saint Clair examines
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it. Hey, as you wish, that's what I wish, Haskins,
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one person in this confusing mess I hadn't given a second thought to. As
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it turned out, there wasn't time. But Len Saint Clair arrived a few
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minutes later in a car equipped like a miniature laboratory, no doubt. As
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the result of the police work, he was frequently called on the duel.
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First, of course, in his capacity as an MD, made a thorough
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examination of Eric Turnbull's body for purposes of death certificate data. Well, all
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right, Johnny, I'm sure of it, at least as sure as I
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can be short of making an autopsy. But what kind of poison then,
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and how administered? What the risk of making it sound like a dime novel?
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I'd said it was an extremely rare Well, well, what come on,
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But it's something I haven't heard of in years, related to the old
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Indian Arrow poison. It's very difficult to detect. Can you make sure?
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Yes, you'll help me drag some of my equipment in from the car,
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including a cage of white mice, what on which to experiment with? Samples
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of this stuff, samples from those old bones out of the tomb. That's
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right, from what you've told me. Only two people have touched the bones
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since the minute they were discovered in the three a Native carrier, Donald Cronin
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and now the late Eric Turnbull, and they've all died. But Johnny,
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Yeah, the poison, I am thinking it would hardly have been put on
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those bones in the time of the pharaohs. And and by the way,
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I hope no one's touched them here. Oh, I've loved them just as
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they are. And that mailing wrapper good because it could be fatal. I'll
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carefully scrape them when we get the equipment in emper. We brought in Whatland
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needed for his work, including the white mice. Then I closed him in
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the library and left him to his experiments. To a bit of research too,
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for it brought in a couple of thick books on toxicology. As a
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matter of routine, I phoned a local corner and then tried to reach Dorothy
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Harkness. I number didn't answer. I was about to drive over to a
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little apartment when Lenn came out of the library. I was right, Johnny,
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who robbo orsenium at the name of the stone hu in its powder form
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absorbed into the pores of the skin and could be fatal almost immediately. And
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listen to me. Yeah, somehow between the time the bones of that old
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king were discovered and the time that Donald Cronan touched them, somebody put that
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poison on him. Now without endangering himself by keeping it an aqueous solution intil
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the bones were sprayed with sprayed with him Wait a minutes, yeah, sprayed
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with it. A doctor, an Englishman, who was on the expedition,
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told me that the bones had been sprayed with some kind of preservative even before
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the native carrier touched them. You're thinking what I'm thinking. Yeah, right,
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instead of preservative, it was the poison well who sprayed them. I've
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got a wild idea, and but if it's right, it'll sew up this
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whole case. I wonder who that is. Well, while you're finding out,
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I'm going back and recheck these tests, but only the matter of routine.
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Because I'm sure I'm right. I beg your pardon, sir. Yeah,
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ask Miss Dorothy Harkness is here, sir huh and her young brother Walter.
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Ask, by all means thing that has happened? Is that really the
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way you feel about it? Dorothy? Yes? Just what do you mean
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by that? Mister Doller? I am Walter Harkness. Well, come right
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in there, because I have a sneaking suspicion you're the boy I've been looking
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for. What your conscience finally begin to hurt? You? Would you like
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to sit down and write your confession. Now, what are you talking about?
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What did you and Dorothy just come here to put on a front,
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you know, as a cover up. I told her what you're talking about,
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Johnny, what are you saying? Sit down, both of you,
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because I'm going to be saying plenty. Look here, mister soda, and
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I said, I'll sit down, all right, Dorothy, We'll begin with
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you. N I don't understand from what you told me, and I have
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no other reason for believing it except that you told me Daniel Cronin was in
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love with you. It was true. At any rate, he made you
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part beneficiary of his one hundred thousand dollars life insurance policy, half of it,
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I believe, a cool fifty thousand dollars. How can you say,
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I'll be quiet, mister, to you right now, Walter, you're working
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for the museum where your father is curator of archaeology, the museum that has
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depended quite a lot, not only on Donald Cronin's scientific contributions, but his
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monetary help as well. May be true, but the museum, the other
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beneficiary of Donald's insurance, also fifty thousand dollars. It's a dollar if you're
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implying that I had anything to do with Donald's death. You're going to shut
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up to and let me talk. This is the first chance I've had to
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begin to tie this case up, the first time any of the crazy elements
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that it made sense. No way, tell me this. Eric Turnbull was
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opposed to Donald's interest in the museum, wasn't he? Well, yes,
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sure, and I'll bet my bottom dollar that if something happened to both Donald
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and his uncle, the estate worth nearly a million was will by Donald to
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the museum. Eric Turnbull was afraid for Donald's life because he knew who would
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ultimately benefit most by his death. No wonder he hated you, Dorothy,
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Johnny. You can't mean you think that I would not. No, No,
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I think you were only being used as a tool. Dorothy. You
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told me yourself how your father opposed you're marrying him, how his only interest
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was in getting money for the museum. Is that true, Walter, Yes,
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mister Doll, that is true. But if you mean to imply that
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I or any of us was involved in Donald water, the more I think
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about it, the more I'm sure you are directly involved. It's a lie.
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I swear to what mister Dolly you're wrong. It's a lot. I'll
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see about that, because there's one thing you may have overlooked. I know
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what killed Donald Crump. Oh, yes, Walter, just as well as
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you do. But I don't. I have the least cursy Camishack, not
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by a long shot. Was at Walter. I told you. I haven't
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decided to tell me this immediately. The pile of bones was found in Chemishek's
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tomb before anyone touched them. I refused to touch and be before anybody touched
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them. Somebody sprayed those bones with a so called preservative. And I mean
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so called. I don't know why you should. Oh, let's come and
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practice these days in case you don't know it. But I failed to see
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what was supposed to be a preservative was in reality a deadly poison. Oh
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come on now, Walder, you must be wrong. It's impossible. You
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know you're very convincing. I must admit that's true. I applied that preservative,
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mister Duller. Oh you did. Yes, a queer solution, wasn't
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it, of course? And I'll bet you washed your hands very carefully immediately
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afterward, didn't you. Yes? Of course I did, because I was
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told to by home by. Oh't know, Walter, what is it?
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Tell me? Walter, Walter, Eh, do you know anything about a
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man who tried to intercept me on my way to Egypt to make sure I
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didn't get there until the bones of the pharaoh were sent to wherey turnbull and
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that Donald Cronan died. No, no, I don't believe it. Then
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answer me this one. Did you make up the we'll call it preservative that
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you used over there? No? Then who did? And who told you
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to be sure to wash your hands immediately after using it? Well, Walter,
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Oh no, I'm prayed, so don't know. I'm gonna tell me,
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Walter. I beg your pardon, mister Dollar. But mister Hackney Senior
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is here too, mister Dollar. I'm Adam Harkness, curator of archaeology at
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the museum. Well, well, mister Harkness, I'm really glad to see
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you, are they, Walter, mister Dollar, I've come to pick up
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the bones from the grave of Comma Scheck that I understand Donald Cronan sent to
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his uncle instead of to me through some misunderstanding. Oh yeah, sure,
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I had a notion you'd want to pick up those bones. Dot com Harkness,
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and I'll give them to you on one condition. Oh what is that?
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That you take them out of the package in which they arrived here with
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your bare hands, that you carry them out of this house also in your
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bare hands. Well that's a strange, will you, of course? Not?
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Why? Because such priceless relics are too fragile, too too full of
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a deadly poison that you had them sprayed with Coo Rabba arsenium. I believe
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it's called I don't know what your water. What have you been telling us?
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It's true? His father? Well, doctor Harkness, I don't know
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how you found out, but I'll tell you this. You won't ever believe
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what. I'm gonna put that thing down? Father, Why Anna Johnny?
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You stopped them all right, Lenn, But I think he'll live good.
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I knew all the police work I've been doing would come in handy sometime.
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Thanks for barging in at the psychological moment. I was only coming in to
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confirm the results of my tests. I guess doctor Harkness had already done it.
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Yeah, so I guess the museum will profit mightily from half the insurance
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and all of the estate of Donald Crown the museum, that is without doctor
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Adam Harkness expense account total including transportation back to Hartford nine hundred and eighty five
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dollars, remarks, well, doesn't mean a thing, I know, but
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I kind of wonder what I might have found if I'd been assigned to investigate
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the desks of the people who excavated some of those other old Egyptian tombs,
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tombs that had a curse on them. Interesting thought, is yours, tru
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Lee, Johnny Dollar. Now here's our star to tell you about next week's
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story. Next week a search for eighty thousand dollars that was never there and
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a body that was never there, yet both of them had to be found.
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Join us, won't you? Yours truly? Johnny Dollar? Yours truly?
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Johnny Dollar is starrying. Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood. It is
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produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote this week's story. Heard
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in this week's cast were Paul Dubal, Alan Reid Senior, Dick Crenner,
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Virginia, Greg ben Wright, Forres Lewis, Eric Snowden, Arnie Phillips,
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James McAllion, and lest Romaine. Musical supervision by a Marigo Marino, be
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sure to join us on Monday night, same time and station. Or another
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exciting story of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, Roy Rowan speaking welcome back. Well,
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that was actually a fairly good ending. Only the problem I had with
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it maybe was the suspect showing up at the you know, the actual murder,
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just showing up at the last minute. So none of the people we
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actually saw on the play. But that's kind of a minor issue. This
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was a pretty enjoyable show, all right. Well, now we do turn
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to some listener comments and feedback, and we have a few, so we'll
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go ahead and get into those. Some positive comments on Yours Truly Johnny Dollar
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episode eleven ninety one, which was the first part of the Cranesburg matter.
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Brian says, can't get enough a good thing, and Tanya says Johnny Dollar
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is my favorite. And then we have a few other comments here. Mark
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says, hi, Adam, Johnny spotted something and missiles Russell Russell's place,
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then he tricked her into leading him to the bad guy. It was not
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clear what Johnny saw, but I think you clear that up. You said
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it was the cigar wrapper tied into a knot. Don't think it was specifically
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said, which draws me up the drapes. Plus, Johnny asked her if
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she was the beneficiary, he should know the answer to that. Maybe he
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was looking for a reaction to the question. I think in this case,
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Johnny had been called in. He was investigating one particular policy or issue and
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this was another one. So it was kind of saving her, saving him
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a little bit of trouble. I think certainly he could have and maybe he
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should have looked it up. But yeah, that was that was on the
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Crystal Like matter and us and they didn't mention it, but they mentioned it
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after Johnny spotted it in episode five. So another listener comment from Chemo,
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who says, nice, you played Rocky Jordan, one of my favorite series
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by far. That and Johnny Doller make for a great week of podcasting.
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Well, I definitely hope you enjoyed it, particularly when we had Rocky Jordan
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and then the Cranesburg matter. That's a pretty good combination. So now it's
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time for Manhunt, The Clue of the Mask Murderer. Man Hunt, The
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Clue of the Mask murderer who deadly were let go? Man Hunt? Oh
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crime has been committed. Yes, no murder been done yet, no man
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hunt has begun. Yes, but I don't understand why are you here?
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Who are you? Why are you wearing that mak Because I am taking no
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chances this time. Donald Lee. Fifteen years ago you were on a jury
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which sentenced me to be hanged. My sentence was commuted through no fault of
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yours. Now it's my turn to make you pay. Why me? Why?
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The others will come later, one by one. Now you my fingers
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around your neck, jump choking me? Guy? Almost have the rope there,
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my fingers the soft I promise you just are a human being, lies
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lifeless on the floor, his murderers, safe from recognition behind his mask.
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Who will tear off that mask? Can reveal the killer's continence, Who will
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talk the man hunt? Man hunt and the clue of the mass murderer?
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Right, Stevens got here yet? Oh, serve it. I'm on my
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way down to the ground floor. I'll watch for him. Carr, watch
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for him, he says, Go get him. We'll stay in a police
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laboratory where he belongs when I sent him. He's missing. Oh no,
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it's not hell here he is in person, in person, he says,
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well, you think I expect a movie. Listen, crew, we get
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a call at homicide early this afternoon instead of body, a dead body to
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be found in apart from eight G. This is at rest sometime tonight.
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Oh why don't we open the door and see if it's there? I look
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ten minutes ago. There's nothing there. I got cops all over the building,
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on every floor, at the elevator, on the stairways, everywhere,
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and nobody has come near here with anything that looks like a dead body.
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All right, I didn't miss any the apartment right here, but nobody could
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have put anything in it since we've been here. Mind if I look?
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Mind if I look, he says, go ahead, the door isn't locked.
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Oh wait, you okay, I just want to see the room.
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Hey, it's dark in here, Belle. Where's the lights? Wait?
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I detective, that even plane of light right to the door. Oh hey,
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yea, I got it. So this is the empty room you were
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talking about, a Belle? What makes you so sure it's empty? All
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right, now let's go. What's minute you around? It to be almost
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anything that nobody could have brought a court? Then got that wrong, Belle,
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come here with you around. Somebody did bring a court there? What
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else is that on the floor but a dead body? I did? What?
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Hey, Murphy? Planagain, Kelly, that way, Murphy, find
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out who's got the apartment next to this. Tell me take the other side.
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Agack the cop on the stairway. Lead into the roof and see if
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anybody passed him. Don't check the roof. Get go. Hell, let's
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sell that building across the court. There's a window taking this room. Hey,
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Taylor, find out who's in the apartment and the next building the faces
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this window after it. I wonder who the dead guy is? Mind that?
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How did he get in here? That's what gets me. I'll send
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to the medical examiner and the photographist and we'll try and identify them. I
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want this room just as it is when they get here. So you come
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on out in the hall. Bro Okay, I wouldn't have touched anything anyway.
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Let's go. Do you think of this chase droom. It's ridiculous on
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account of it couldn't happen. Look that way, though there's no fire escapes
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the window, so you know the window was open. That doesn't mean a
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thing. That doesn't mean a thing. He says, tell me something that
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does mean something. I tell you, nobody could have been put in that
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room. It's Impocket Morton, Target Morton. Nobody holding the apartment on this
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side of the room. Use miss Kett and gee, it's stars and you
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have to go. And nobody holding the apartment on the left either, Sir,
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we checked it out our soul. Nobody pass kiss you're on the stairs,
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Sergeant Morton. Not only that, but nobody on the roof either.
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Well, all it has to happen is that there's nobody in the apartment that's
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crossed the court. And I'll agree that the thing's impossible. But I just
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came from that apartment. There's somebody home there, but they're okay. They's
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noom the guy who judges whether people are okay or not. Not you.
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Nobody's home there. Huh. Well, we're talking whoever it is. I'm
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gonna do it myself, okay, dodge Martin, but don't say I didn't
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take it. You see, the apartment across the court is occupied by the
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police commissioners, and said, who chairs, we'll run him in two?
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What's that the commissioner. I think I'm gonna have another look at apartment.
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Eh g though, Okay, go ahead, Hey, I actually says what
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a mess? All I know is nobody could have brought a body into that
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room? Head Bell? Oh what? Oh tell me there isn't a dead
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body in there? There isn't a dead body in here? Bell, Yeah,
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take a look at yourself. There's two dead bodies. Who is that?
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Who's waiting that skylight? That's ne're a fire? Who's there? Okay?
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Where you are? I want you to sub so? I don't think
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so? No, No, I'm all right. Did you say who you
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were when I called? And what the world are you doing here on this
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roof? The boy sounds a strange rune. I was scared. And where
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else should a good secretary be but with her boss? How do you know
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about what good secretaries do? Cherub Well Bill Morton said, you were up
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on the roof of the building next to the one which those two bodies were
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found. So I came up. Tell me about the same root. You
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don't know what thing excepted a couple of invisible corpses must have walked to an
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army of police and and so shape when they laid down an apartment eightee kind
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of doors op here but I brought the flash light along. Thank what's that
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over there over in the corner. Yes, it's kind of a children's playground.
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She saw swing, slides and a sort of stuff. Oh, let's
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go over. I am good on a swing since I was ten, but
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a memory. All right, let's go over and sit on that several points.
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I can think out loud and maybe you can find a missing part in
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this pubb Okay, let's you see, pad. We identified the two bodies.
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We found one of the men was a millionaire and the other a bowery
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bump. Apparently no connection between the two, but there must be some connections.
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Are they about the same age, fifteen years different, and from what
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we know their lives, one of them always had money and the other well,
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he worked god jobs till he had the bowery a couple of years ago.
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No link at all. Smart here, This is fun sitting up here
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in the dark and the swing with you, Drew, taking a fun pat
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and thinking of an absolutely ridiculous thing situation, one that couldn't happen but did.
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In addition to how the body is finally turned up in eight G.
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I don't want to know why two men who couldn't possibly have known each other
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were killed by the same murderer. So maybe the bodies were thrown from this
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roof across the court through the window. Pat don't be impossible, talking a
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body be thrown eight feet across the court and down one story and through a
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window, then an antity of second problem. A murderer doesn't have to have
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any connection between two people just because he kills them both. He didnt kill
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anybody he loves. This is a free country, good Joe. Don't make
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me ask that patna pad. But that free country idea gives me a spot.
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I know where two men who never saw each other before and bepos and
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companions for days. Yeah, that in a jury room. That's where that
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I'm going down to the municipal villa. You've got the names of the two
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murdered men, if by any chance they served on the same jury as sometimes
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that jury may be. All we need is tracks down a killer. Hello,
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this is Bill Morton, past Tom. He was down on the municipal
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file to checking records. Hey, Drew, what do you think happened?
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Well? As a guest, I think a fellow by the name of Richard
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Martin was just murdered. How could you possibly know that? Throw? We
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just found the body. Did you kill him? Bill? But he figured
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to get it. You see, fifteen years ago, a jury of three
28:29
men and nine women convicted a man named Paul Brooks with a killing. Well,
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two of the men on that jury are the ones we found dead in
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the apartment eight G. Third man was Richard Martin. Dad. I didn't
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know this sooner. I might have saved his life. Did you know that
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much? Where can we find this Paul Brooks? I know that too,
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Bill, But this is my case. He got his name and address and
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McCrow boy. He was released on Monday. I'm gonna pick him up myself.
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You'll hear from me as soon as I do. Okay, but remember
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we got three dead bodies already, Drew Mike, I had an idea.
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This is a bridge game, and invite you to make a four. Look's
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nothing going straight. It's my parole record. They're going straight, all right,
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Brooks, straight to the chair. It's stupid of you thinking you wouldn't
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face that jury to take you up fifteen years ago. Strange coincidence, isn't
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it that three of them are dead now? From for instance, Brooks going
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downtown. Don't be a stat coppair. You can't prove why not go off
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those three guys anymore than you can figure out how those bodies were able to
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walk through an army of cops and lay down on the floor for you to
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find. I don't know how you got them pass the police, but I
29:38
know you did this, and I know you did the killing. Yes,
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I know who killed three men and why they were killed. But I don't
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know how you got those bodies past the police. I know who and why.
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What you don't know is and how Apart from eighty again, when I
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looked in a minute ago, it was empty again. What are we doing
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here? Said to meet him here in the hall Bill outside eight Gee,
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he had a reason, that's Bruce boys and come from I don't know,
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in the apartment. In the apartment, she says, don't be foolish.
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You couldn't have gotten in there. Hey, Cassidy, is Bruce Stevens with
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you? There we go again, that came to the apartment. We got
30:30
cops all over the building, just like yesterday passed. It's impossible nobody could
30:33
get from that apartment. I don't know if a couple of dead bodies could
30:37
get in. I guess a live one could slip past the cop I'm gonna
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look. Oh kid, hello, kids, he says, how did you
30:45
get in here? Drew? Take it easy though, Yes, smiles at
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the window with Hey, Kasey, okay, Casey, take this thing back
30:56
and hook it back on the roof. Where flow? Hey? What is
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that thing? What it is? It's the slide from the children's playground on
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the roof across the court. That's right, but right now it took down
31:04
to the railing of the roof across the way, and the bottom of the
31:07
slide rests on this window ledge. Yeah, but the Casey's on the roof
31:11
now, pulling the slide back and attaching it was placed up in the playground.
31:15
Oh, I did what the murderer did. Unhooked it first and put
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it on the railing. Yes, but he put the dead bodies on it
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and slid them across the cord and down to this open window. And I
31:25
slid down under my own power. Gone simple a figure out. I don't
31:27
know why I didn't get it before. Well after the murderer split the bodies
31:32
in here to replace the slide, nobody knew how it was done. Did
31:36
you get the guy who did it? And I did though that I did,
31:38
And I got a beautiful convicteen s fingerprint on that slide too. How
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do you like that just because you took a ride on the slide, a
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killer is going to take a walk to the chair. Um, welcome back.
31:55
This episode really leaves me scratching my head. There are quite a few
32:00
things wrong with it. I'm not mad or ranting, having some fun and
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I've just got to say this before some of the listeners. My overall thoughts
32:13
on this episode. While the murderer wore a mask, the fact that he
32:17
wore a mask actually didn't provide a clue, So clue of the mask murderer
32:22
was a bit odd. Also, why he wore the mask, Maybe it
32:28
was so he wouldn't be seen exiting the scene of the crime, because it
32:35
wasn't going to do anything for the victims. The victims were going to be
32:37
like, oh, I thought it was that guy who I was on the
32:43
jury, and thankfully it's only a guy in a mask. And then I
32:49
don't know it, maybe me and just being a little picky with this thing
32:53
with puzzle mysteries, but I get annoyed when a mystery has a killer do
32:59
something mysterious so that something mysterious is done, never mind if it makes any
33:06
sense, And that's what we have in this episode, where in order to
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dispose of the bodies, he sends them on a slide into an apartment and
33:16
then calls the police and lets them know that they're going to be there beforehand.
33:22
If he had called after the bodies had been left, the police would
33:28
wonder, first of all, particularly with Bill, they'd wonder, how did
33:34
all these people get in there? What were they doing in this apartment?
33:37
And it would take them a while to figure out the bodies had been moved.
33:39
And this could have been even worse for the killer because they could have
33:43
caught on to the juryangle a lot sooner. The only way this makes sense
33:47
is if the killer decided, you know what, I'm going to get caught,
33:52
so at least I should give the police a thoroughly memorable mystery to remember
33:58
me by. On the pad his side, I do love the irony here.
34:01
The guy goes to all this trouble to put on a mask so that
34:07
nobody recognizes him, you know, and you know, takes even the risk
34:12
of being spotted in a mask, which is something suspicious, and after all
34:15
that carefulness, he gets caught because of one fingerprint. Maybe you should have
34:22
bought gloves instead. And another thing. Positively, at least Bill didn't try
34:28
to convince Drew that the bodies coming in there were an accident or suicide.
34:37
Anyway, Now to some listener comments and feedback, one specifically regarding man hunt
34:45
Lisa emails in regarding the case of the or the clue of the accusing violin.
34:51
Adam love your podcast. But if I was some able, somehow able
34:54
to reach back in time and grab the writers of the accusing violin by their
34:59
ears and give them a good talking to, I would. As a violin
35:04
teacher, I can tell you it doesn't matter if you are left handed or
35:07
right handed. The violin will go in the left hand and the bowl will
35:12
always be in the right. The strings will always go g dae from left
35:17
to right, no matter what. Uugh, Sorry, Adam, I know
35:22
you didn't write the scripts, but it is so annoying when writers don't even
35:24
know the do the most basic of research. No excuse writers. I love
35:30
your podcast. Thanks Lisa. Well, thank you Lisa for the comma and
35:35
the clarification, and you're right, there's really not a whole lot of excuse
35:39
for that. And I think that really, if it's going to be you
35:46
know, if you get a little detail wrong, it's not important to your
35:50
plot. You know, maybe uh uh, you misread something that can kind
35:55
of be justified. But if it's the band seminal clue, you know,
36:01
you don't blow that. But thanks so much for the clarification, Lisa,
36:06
and appreciate the information. And that's what I like about having so many great,
36:13
well informed listeners, because I don't know everything, and you will catch
36:17
some errors that I wouldn't. Right well, we also had a couple of
36:22
emails from Clarissa, who donated. She sent in a note says thanks for
36:27
all the great podcast, Clarissa, loyal listener since May twenty twelve. Thanks
36:34
Clarissa, Wow, nearly two years. She also emailed in another note she
36:39
says, you might already know this, but the character played by Samuel L.
36:43
Jackson in the new RoboCop movie is named Pat Novak. Your show was
36:51
how I learned of Pat Novac for hire, so I thought of you as
36:53
far as I can tell. Samuel L. Jackson's talk show host character bears
36:59
no relation to Jack Webb's Private Eye. Thanks for all the great podcasts,
37:05
Pad Novak commenting on Modern Day Detroit. That would be interesting they not seen
37:12
either the original or remake of a robocom not really an expert on it,
37:19
but probably more likely than not, it may have been someone who liked the
37:25
show and decided to write a character by that name. I know that I've
37:34
just had my novel Slime Incorporated out, and I was a big fan of
37:39
the nineteen fifty nine series. We just played it for our last video cam
37:45
Haign the lock Up, and I actually named a character after Lieutenant Weston from
37:55
that public domain series. Oh could be, or it could have just been
38:02
as they thought of the name at random. But thanks so much for the
38:06
information and the patent Novak siding. Of course, the original pat Novak will
38:10
be coming to our program or a second run through right after we finish up
38:16
the Case Book of Gregory Hood. And we also received a comment from Mark
38:24
different than the Mark we mentioned previously. He writes, high, I don't
38:30
know a second time emailing. I just had to just finished episode ten sixty
38:34
two and had to chime on one of the comments you read this was in
38:37
regards to your voice. First, we first let me commend you on reading
38:40
comments that may come across on flattering. This unbiased response is refreshing. You
38:45
certainly have a unique voice, and that's as it should be. If we
38:50
all sounded alike, how boring life would be. While your voice is different
38:53
and for some may take some getting used to. I think it adds to
38:57
the charm of the show. To be honest, when I first started listening,
39:00
my feelings during the comments were get on with it, to quote Maudy
39:05
Python. However, now I wouldn't listen without them. Negative comments don't seem
39:09
to phase you, and I hope they never do. Once again, keep
39:13
up the good work. Thanks so much, Mark, And you know,
39:19
it seems like with negative comments, I do really try to strike a balance.
39:27
There are some negative comments I won't read just because they are such unconstructive,
39:37
and then I think the one I read in ten sixty two was kind
39:40
of borderline. And I think that what really enables me to do the show
39:49
is all of the supportive comments that I received. It's just been such,
39:53
you know, a great encouragement and blessing to have so many listeners enjoy the
40:00
show, and you know, I have to kind of take that all into
40:05
consideration, because yeah, sometimes usually I'll go six or seven months without any
40:13
really negative feedback at all, and then I will get probably for about a
40:17
month. You know, I don't know what it is, you know,
40:20
three or four really nasty comments. But I just take a look at the
40:23
perspective and just say to myself, you know, we have two hundred and
40:28
twenty two people who've rated the show on iTunes in two hundred and nine four
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or five star ratings, and people who don't enjoy the show or want the
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programs without any commentary, I just advise them all these things are downloadable somewhere
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