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Dragnet: The Big Mink (EP1616) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: is time for today's episode of Dragnet. The original air
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  Speaker 1: date June the twenty second of nineteen fifty and the
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  Speaker 1: tunnel is the Big Mink.
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  Speaker 2: The story you're about to hear is true, only the
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  Speaker 2: names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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  Speaker 3: Drag Net.
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  Speaker 2: You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to homicide detail. The
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  Speaker 2: owner of a First Store has been shot and killed.
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  Speaker 2: Your only lead a missing fur coat. The killer is
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  Speaker 2: at large.
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  Speaker 4: Your job, get him.
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  Speaker 3: Drag meet the documented drama of an actual crime for
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  Speaker 3: the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with a Loss Angela's
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  Speaker 3: police departments, you will travel step by step on the
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  Speaker 3: side of the law through an actual case transcribed from
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  Speaker 3: official police violence, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
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  Speaker 3: Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 5: It was Saturday, November twenty third, was warm in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 5: We're working the night watch on a homicide detail. My
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  Speaker 5: partner's Ben Romero. Boss is Blaine Steed, Captain a homicide.
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  Speaker 5: My name is Friday. Was six thirty five PM and
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  Speaker 5: we got to the corner of Western and Lexington, the
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  Speaker 5: Western First Shop.
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  Speaker 6: Hi Broon, Hi, what happened? Frank?
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  Speaker 7: The owner's been shot. It's name's Albert Kreber. You know
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  Speaker 7: who is that missus Kreber haven't been able to get anything.
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  Speaker 6: Out of her. Where's the body in the back? Monkers
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  Speaker 6: is back there? Did you call a lamb? Yeah? Jones
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  Speaker 6: on his way, stographer and fingerprint men with him.
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  Speaker 8: All right, just take a look. Nothing seems to be
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  Speaker 8: messed up. The back room is?
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  Speaker 5: It was a small shop, A couple of fur coats
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  Speaker 5: on dummies on one side of the store, and on
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  Speaker 5: the other the tall glass case holding about fifteen more.
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  Speaker 5: Missus Kreber sat on a straight backed chair staring at
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  Speaker 5: the floor. We went through the curtains into the back
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  Speaker 5: room of the store. Spawled out on the floor at
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  Speaker 5: the far end of the room was the body of
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  Speaker 5: a man. He had a fur coat ripped in one hand.
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  Speaker 5: Sergeant Mercurys from Hollywood Division was standing by.
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  Speaker 6: What do you think of mom? Looks like a couple
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  Speaker 6: of hours. Did you call a corner? Yeah? How long
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  Speaker 6: you been here? Money?
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  Speaker 5: Just a couple of minutes. Do you think missus Kreber
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  Speaker 5: moved anything there? I don't think so. She was sitting
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  Speaker 5: in that chair when I got here. I don't think
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  Speaker 5: she's moved.
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  Speaker 8: He set to call in when she put in the call, yeah,
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  Speaker 8: empty shells on the floor.
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  Speaker 6: He got a pencil? Yeah, yeah, thirty two? Yeah. Do
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  Speaker 6: you think robbery? I don't know. Let's talk to the wife.
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  Speaker 6: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 5: Bottle here, Seerra Valley Wine Company, World's finest.
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  Speaker 8: Muscatel twenty seven cents of fine. Nobody touched this today.
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  Speaker 8: Not what hab been here though? Okay, let's get out front.
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  Speaker 7: Anything in the custom if I was running, not so far.
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  Speaker 7: Have you tried to talk to missus Creber again? Noah,
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  Speaker 7: A pretty bad h Let's give it a try, Missuscriber.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sorry on Friday. This is the size of Romero.
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  Speaker 7: We'd like to talk to you if we could. We
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  Speaker 7: know how you must feel. But there are a few
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  Speaker 7: questions that we have to ask you. Did you telephone
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  Speaker 7: the police? We have to know how it happened to
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  Speaker 7: miss Criber. Miss Criber, can you tell us what happened?
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  Speaker 6: M Who is it? What do you who? Or police officers?
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  Speaker 9: Albert? Albert's dead, Albert, Someone call the police.
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  Speaker 6: Describe her. We are the police. My husband's been murried.
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  Speaker 6: He's dead. We better leave her. Friday. There's something I
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  Speaker 6: found in the customer file.
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  Speaker 5: Miss Terry Shepherd one O one one three Normandy Apartment three.
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  Speaker 6: What about it?
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  Speaker 7: She took her coat out that was in storage. Took
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  Speaker 7: it out today and we'll check her out when we're
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  Speaker 7: finished here. Things looks like only hot received in the
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  Speaker 7: file high light.
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  Speaker 6: Oh then my back round? What is it killing? Monkys
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  Speaker 6: will show you. Okay, that's long.
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  Speaker 5: I think we had to try to wife again. I
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  Speaker 5: can try, m missus criber. Can we do anything for you?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I'm a little better. Huh. I'll try to tell
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  Speaker 6: you what I can. All right. When did you get here?
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  Speaker 9: Must have been about six o'clock, a few minutes after.
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  Speaker 6: I came to take him home. Any customers around, No,
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  Speaker 6: the store was empty.
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  Speaker 9: I stood here for a few minutes waiting, and then
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  Speaker 9: I went in the back.
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  Speaker 6: And the front door open.
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  Speaker 9: No, yes, the front door, yes, ma'am. In the front
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  Speaker 9: yes open.
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  Speaker 6: Did you telephone the police? I think I did. Did
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  Speaker 6: you come here to pick him up?
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  Speaker 9: No? No, Usually he drives home himself. I came down
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  Speaker 9: on the street car to ride.
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  Speaker 6: Home with him. What kind of a car do you have?
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  Speaker 6: An Oldsmobile.
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  Speaker 9: Nineteen thirty nine or forty? I guess it is.
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  Speaker 6: Huh. Where does he usually park.
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  Speaker 9: In the rear of the store, this little place.
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  Speaker 6: I'll take a look, all right, Where is your home?
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  Speaker 6: Thirty four or twelve Northwestern?
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  Speaker 9: I thought there was something wrong when I got a
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  Speaker 9: telegram from him. He said not to come down tonight.
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  Speaker 9: He said he'd be home late.
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  Speaker 6: What time is that?
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  Speaker 9: At four o'clock? Oh, I'm all mixed up. I haven't
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  Speaker 9: told it to years. I remember it first. Yes, I
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  Speaker 9: telephoned here to the shop. That was this afternoon, Yes,
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  Speaker 9: three thirty. I'm sure that. Because I made some other calls.
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  Speaker 9: I spoke to Albert. He didn't say he was going
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  Speaker 9: to be late. Then at four o'clock I received a telegram.
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  Speaker 6: You have that with you? Yes, it's in my purse.
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  Speaker 9: Somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, Oh here it is.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, don't come down. I won't be home until
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  Speaker 5: late after, say a customer, Albert, Can I keep this?
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  Speaker 6: We'll return it to you. Yes. What'd you do after
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  Speaker 6: you got this wire, miss Primer?
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  Speaker 9: Well?
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  Speaker 6: Well, nothing.
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  Speaker 9: I thought it was strange, but I didn't think too
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  Speaker 9: much about it. Then I started wondering why he didn't
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  Speaker 9: say anything over the telephone about being late. So well,
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  Speaker 9: I came down here on the street car.
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  Speaker 6: Did you phone the store just before you left your house. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: but there was no answer talking not s empty. Better
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  Speaker 6: got out on APB.
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  Speaker 8: In the car, Miss Greber, you said your car was
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  Speaker 8: nineteen thirty nine and forty Oldsmobile, didn't you?
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  Speaker 9: Nineteen forty?
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  Speaker 6: I remember? Now? What model is that? What's the dan
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  Speaker 6: light blue? Do you remember the license number? Well?
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  Speaker 9: I have it on this chain with the extra keys here.
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  Speaker 9: It is on this little tag. The veterans make these,
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  Speaker 9: thank you.
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  Speaker 10: Can I see them out?
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  Speaker 6: Sure? Excuse me, Miss Creber.
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  Speaker 9: Do do you want me to wait? I'd like to
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  Speaker 9: go home.
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  Speaker 6: We'd like you to wait for a little while. Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Do you have any relatives living here?
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  Speaker 9: A niece and a nephew in Beverly Hills? Did Jerome read?
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  Speaker 9: They live on Canon Drive.
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  Speaker 6: We'll call them for you. Thank you, Ley, just phone
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  Speaker 6: out here all right, the handle?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's been justin.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, Joy coming in? Yeah right away, Pretty Claire.
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  Speaker 10: Easy to trace, I'd say he was standing over here
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  Speaker 10: by the curtains when you were shot. That's where the
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  Speaker 10: stains begin, and he must have stumbled along this last case.
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  Speaker 10: You can see the smith is here in the glass
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  Speaker 10: when he tried to grab hold of something. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 10: I guess he caught hold of that her coat and
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  Speaker 10: hold it down with him, and he stumbled and bumped
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  Speaker 10: up against this coat right, fell through that and up
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  Speaker 10: against the sight. How many times has he hit six
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  Speaker 10: empty casings on the floor? Looks like four through and
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  Speaker 10: through wounds?
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  Speaker 6: Thirty two? That's right? The wife, no, if anything's missing,
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  Speaker 6: and she's in pretty bad shape.
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  Speaker 10: And it looks to me like somebody took his wrist
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  Speaker 10: watch and a ring from his left hand. If he
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  Speaker 10: had a billfol that's gone. No coat, all the trouser
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  Speaker 10: pockets are turned inside out.
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  Speaker 6: What about that wine bottle? It's smear. Can't lift the thing?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, thanks, Then it's still on the flone okay.
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  Speaker 8: No, no, no, last AND's fifteen Boston sick seven seven
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  Speaker 8: no seven o seven?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, river might be on. Hang on a minute, while
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  Speaker 6: is it? What? Now? Give that DMV? What do you
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  Speaker 6: say another call? Miss Creber? Did your husband have a
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  Speaker 6: wallet yes, yes, brown alligator. Did he keep his identification
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  Speaker 6: in him yes? Did you carry much cash?
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  Speaker 9: No, just a few dollars. He was always afraid of
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  Speaker 9: hold ups.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you? You want to give that to him? Ben? Okay? Hey, Wallace.
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  Speaker 8: Suspect might have a brown alligator wallet with identification cards
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  Speaker 8: of Albert Kreber. Yeah, i'd cri B Boston, b Boston,
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  Speaker 8: New York three four one two Northwestern Avenue.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, yeah, by.
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  Speaker 5: The Western, the far North for a company three mint
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  Speaker 5: coachs de livered here today. O'k all around? I only
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  Speaker 5: found two, one missing. Would you find the sales slip.
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  Speaker 6: For the other one? No, miss Creber? Would you come
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  Speaker 6: over here? Please? Yes? Where are they? Oh? Yeah, all right,
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  Speaker 6: hold it this way? These are mink coats here, aren't they?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, it's wild mink. Albert told me he.
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  Speaker 6: Ordered Yes, man, we found the invoice.
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  Speaker 9: He ordered three, only two here.
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  Speaker 6: Do you know anything about any of his customers? No? No,
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  Speaker 6: I don't. I never met any of them. Oh I
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  Speaker 6: remember now.
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  Speaker 9: Just the night before last he called someone from home,
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  Speaker 9: told her he has some minks in today and she
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  Speaker 9: could come in.
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  Speaker 6: And look them over. Do you know who that was? Why?
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  Speaker 9: I didn't hear any name?
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  Speaker 5: Missus Criber. Do you have any idea who might have
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  Speaker 5: wanted to shoot your husband?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 9: None at all. He was friendly with everyone. Everybody liked Albert.
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  Speaker 6: She didn't run around.
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  Speaker 9: He was either working or at home.
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  Speaker 6: Did he drink not at all? No, I mean beer
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  Speaker 6: little maybe, No, No way, you'd never touched anything? All right,
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  Speaker 6: thank you? Running you see that Miss Priber gets to
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  Speaker 6: her nephews right away. Thank you. Might as well go, ben, Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: we can talk.
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  Speaker 8: To some of the neighbors. Sick shots far. I wonder
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  Speaker 8: why nobody heard him.
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  Speaker 6: Pretty heavy traffic outside. Huh.
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  Speaker 8: Somebody wanted to mink coat? Pretty bad coat like that
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  Speaker 8: courst quite a bit down there.
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  Speaker 5: This one's going to come a little high. Yeah, seven
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  Speaker 5: oh five pm. Most of the stores along the street
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  Speaker 5: were closed, but a small shoe repair shop across the
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  Speaker 5: street was open, so we went over there.
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  Speaker 6: On the window was one word piets and the picture
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  Speaker 6: of a shoe.
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  Speaker 5: Sitting in the window was a small, dark man wearing
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  Speaker 5: a leather apron who was working on.
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  Speaker 6: A pair of shoes. Hello, we're police officers. I see
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  Speaker 6: you drive up across the street. Are you sure what
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  Speaker 6: happens to mister Kreiber. He's robbed? No, he was killed. No, shut,
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  Speaker 6: I do not hear anything.
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  Speaker 8: Have you been sitting in your window all afternoon? Most
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  Speaker 8: all the time?
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  Speaker 11: You see? I have machinery here, I advertise that way.
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  Speaker 6: People watch me.
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  Speaker 5: Do you remember seeing anybody going into mister Kreiber's this afternoon.
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  Speaker 6: This afternoon before man? Two three long black cars? Anybody else?
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  Speaker 6: Some with the women? Officer? They are all women. Did
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  Speaker 6: any of them walk out with a new fur code? Eh?
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  Speaker 6: All that. I do not see all of them, I guess,
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  Speaker 6: but I see two.
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  Speaker 11: Can you describe one beautiful young girl, tall red hair,
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  Speaker 11: if she walk out with big package?
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  Speaker 6: What time was that? Three four o'clock?
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  Speaker 11: The second woman is about the same time. Funny thing.
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  Speaker 11: I do not see the bottle. But Benny from liquor
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  Speaker 11: store on corner tell me the second one, the blonde,
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  Speaker 11: she buys bottle of wine.
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  Speaker 6: Call you tell you what kind? No reason? I remember?
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  Speaker 6: I laughed when he tells me, I go over the
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  Speaker 6: bennies for kennel pier.
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  Speaker 11: He tells me she buys cheap wine, walks out of
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  Speaker 11: crivers with new fur coat.
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  Speaker 6: Me.
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  Speaker 11: I spent five dollars for good wine and my wife
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  Speaker 11: has no fur coat.
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  Speaker 6: I always this blonde. How was he dressed?
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  Speaker 11: She's maybe twenty five young, you know, not too young,
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  Speaker 11: but young.
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  Speaker 6: She has on slacks gray. What kind of a fur
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  Speaker 6: coat was she wearing when she came out.
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  Speaker 11: Mean, look from here like Minklet see do you know
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  Speaker 11: that's where she went? The blonde, gray slacks, mink coat
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  Speaker 11: is turned the corner onto Lexington and she went up
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  Speaker 11: the street.
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  Speaker 6: Did you see mister crabs Cord drive away? No? He
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  Speaker 6: parking back. I don't see him come in. I don't
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  Speaker 6: see him come out. All right, thanks a lot being off.
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  Speaker 6: He said that blonde something wrong there?
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  Speaker 11: How do you mean, well, she has got fur coat,
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  Speaker 11: but she drinks wrong wine.
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  Speaker 6: I don't understand. Why did you say that?
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  Speaker 11: Five thousand dollars coat, twenty seven cent wine?
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  Speaker 6: Seven pm.
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  Speaker 5: Ben and I questioned Benny Davis at the Safety Liquor store.
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  Speaker 5: He remembered the blonde and said she bought a bottle
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  Speaker 5: of Sierra Valley musquatel from him between two thirty and
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  Speaker 5: three o'clock that afternoon.
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  Speaker 6: He'd never seen her before.
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  Speaker 5: We contacted Communications and gave a description of the blonde
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  Speaker 5: to supplement the all points bullet.
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  Speaker 6: Then we started checking Western Union.
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  Speaker 5: Offices to find out where missus Kreber's telegram had been
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  Speaker 5: sent from. We finally traced it to the opposite Normandy
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  Speaker 5: and Hollywood Boulevard. The operator who sent the telegram to
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  Speaker 5: missus Kreiber also remembered receiving the call. She told us
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  Speaker 5: that the person who phoned in the message was a woman.
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  Speaker 5: The time three twenty two pm. We asked her to
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  Speaker 5: put a tracer on it, told her we checked back
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  Speaker 5: four pm. Bet and I went to one O one
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  Speaker 5: one three Normandy to talk to Miss Terry Shepherd, whose
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  Speaker 5: name had appeared in the customer files at the first story.
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  Speaker 6: The receipt showed she had taken a coat out of
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  Speaker 6: stories that afternoon.
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  Speaker 8: This is something like the place the wife and I
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  Speaker 8: used to live in. Yeah, same people must have built it,
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  Speaker 8: Apartment three, Miss Terry Sheppard, all right, command the doors.
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  Speaker 6: Find you stop a secret? I miss you met police officers,
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  Speaker 6: Miss Shepherd, Oh what's wrong? We'd like to talk to you?
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  Speaker 6: What about What if you could come out here? Please?
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  Speaker 6: I like to go out to show. You'd like to
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  Speaker 6: wait about it? Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: Now this place's got the same floor plan in his mind,
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  Speaker 8: kind of small in it?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, not too bad? Wonder what rent she pays? You
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  Speaker 6: don't find if I read yet. I'm sorry. I'm sorry
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  Speaker 6: to bother you. What can I do for you?
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  Speaker 8: If you've got a fur coat, miss Shepard, Yeah, sure,
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  Speaker 8: what if we could see it?
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  Speaker 6: Please?
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  Speaker 12: But I don't think it'll throw yet. It's only muskrat.
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  Speaker 12: I bought it in Pittsburgh. Yeah, okay, it's down the hallway.
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  Speaker 6: First store on the ride. I think I know where
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  Speaker 6: it is. What's it all about, Lieutenant? What time were
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  Speaker 6: you at the Western First shop today? I'd say three
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  Speaker 6: o'clock a claw? What'd you do while you were down there?
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  Speaker 12: I got my coat out of hawk I had it
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  Speaker 12: there during the warm weather. Paid the man signed something,
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  Speaker 12: and he put the coat in a box and I
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  Speaker 12: took it.
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  Speaker 6: Do you know mister Kraber down there, the man that
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  Speaker 6: owns the store you got me? The man was about fifty,
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  Speaker 6: his hair was a little gray. I hardly even looked
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  Speaker 6: at him. She's the only third coat Joe could.
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  Speaker 12: Have passed for mink when I first bought it. It's
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  Speaker 12: pretty sad now not mank I'll give that claws at
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  Speaker 12: the last year. What happened if somebody's steal a coat?
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  Speaker 6: Was anybody else in the store while you were there? Yeah? Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: there was another girl there. What was she doing? Nothing?
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  Speaker 6: Just sitting? Do you remember how she was dressed.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, she was wearing a gray suit, slack blonde. Her
• 20:01
  Speaker 12: face wasn't much, but she had a neat little figure.
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  Speaker 6: Do you remember anything else about her? I didn't pay
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  Speaker 6: that much attention anything else in there bend of thing.
• 20:09
  Speaker 12: Maybe I'd better take this toll off my head. It
• 20:13
  Speaker 12: doesn't look so hot when it's wet, but it's natural.
• 20:14
  Speaker 12: It's natural red.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Is there anything else that you might be able
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  Speaker 6: to tell us? Mmm? I think that's about all. Give
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  Speaker 6: the man my claim check and the money. And he
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  Speaker 6: got the coat and put it in a box and
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  Speaker 6: gave me a receipt. Nothing else.
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  Speaker 12: No, When I got the receipt, I saw the blonde
• 20:35
  Speaker 12: walk over and pick up the tell phe I was
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  Speaker 12: just leaving.
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  Speaker 6: Then did you hear any of the conversation? She asked
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: for Western Union?
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: You are listening to drag nets. The case history of
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: a police investigation.
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  Speaker 6: Sunday, November twenty fourth, nine am.
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  Speaker 5: Then and I contacted the owners of all the shops
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: in the vicinity, but none of them saw or heard
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  Speaker 5: anything at the time of the shooting. Officers Brennan and
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: Moncree's interviewed all the regular customers.
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  Speaker 6: Of Albert Kreber's first shop.
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  Speaker 5: Only three had been in the store on Saturday, but
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: none of them had noticed anything wrong. Eleven thirty five
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  Speaker 5: am we spoke to missus Kreber again, but she could
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: add nothing to her story. Her niece and nephew had
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: been to a football game at the coliseum in the
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: afternoon and knew nothing had happened until they were telephoned
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: by Officer Brennan two fifty five PM, who spoke to
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  Speaker 5: all thettenants of the apartment house at fifty five thirteen Lexington,
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: which is in the rear of the first shop. None
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: of them had been home, but the owner told us
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: that he had some men working on the roof of
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: the apartment house at the time of the murder. Through
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: the owner of the Durable Roof company, we traced the
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: two men who had been working on the roof and
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: they told us that about four o'clock they had seen
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: a blonde dressed in gray slacks enter the parking space
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: in the rear of Kreber's fur store. They whistled at her,
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: but she paid no attention to him. She got into
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: an oldsmobile and drove east on Lexington. Seven PM we
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: checked in at the office and got word that Albert
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: Kreber's car had been located in the parking lot at
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Vermont and Eighth. We drove down to the location and
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: talked to the parking lot at ten.
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  Speaker 6: Well, the car must have come in sometime last night.
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: It probably came in the backway, because I don't remember
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: it coming in, and it.
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: Doesn't have our lot tag on it. Did you work
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: all last night?
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: No? I finished at midnight and started at ten this morning.
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: I kept waiting for somebody to claim this thing, and well,
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: and after supper, I figured it might.
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  Speaker 6: Be stolen, so I phoned the police. It's been sitting
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: here all that time. Are there any keys in it? No, sir,
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: there weren't last night either. Have you ever seen this
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: particular car before? No, sir.
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: Have you ever seen a blonde woman about twenty five
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: wearing gray flex you mean hanging around here?
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, or in the neighborhood. Yeah, but not today or yesterday?
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: Do you remember one? Well, yes, sir. Does she drink
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: a lot? Maybe? Well, there's one that hangs out in
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: these bars around here. Once in a while. She comes
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: in the lot, but not lately. When'd you see her last?
• 23:03
  Speaker 9: Oh?
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: A couple of weeks ago. Was she with anyone? Yeah,
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: but I don't remember him. I seen her with a
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: lot of different guys.
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: Does she hang around with anybody in particular? Yeah, her husband.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: Before leaving the parking lot, we pulled the rotor out
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: of a distributor so that nobody could drive the car away.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: Eight twelve pm we called homicide and asked for more
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: men to canvass the bars in the neighborhood. Been a
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: nice staked out in the car. We sat in our
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: car across the street from the parking lot until midnight.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: Nobody showed up to claim the car. The streets were
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: almost empty. Our only chance was that the blonde lived
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: in the neighborhood or was in a barn, would sooner
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: or later try to claim the car.
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: One fifty three am. What rent do you suppose that
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: shepherd girl pay? You got me seventy five? I don't know.
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: I'm bet at theme more than she did.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: That monkeys Yeah him alight.
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: Let's take a look up the street. See that couple
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: where coming this way? Von Gray slakes for a coat.
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: She's pretty drunk. Porge a spot her turn the corner
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: from the Olympic. They've been looking in parking lots. Mook,
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: there's a rear entrance to this lot off the allex.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: You want to cover that? Yeah? Thank you? You see him?
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: All right? That's it when they walk into that light. Yeah,
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: pretty drunk. Looks like the same kind of code, isn't it. Yeah?
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: Stopping looking for another parking lot. I guess.
• 24:36
  Speaker 8: See herra valley wine world's finest muska tail and going
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: into the parking lot. She's not carrying Bert. Those coats
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: don't have pockets bigger though for a thirty two automatic.
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: That stuff sure gets people.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: All right, let's go. They gotta get in Cryber's car. Look,
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: you can't even find the door. She's help window.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: Do you take the other side of the car with Yeah?
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: Who are you police officers? Can I see your driver's license? Please?
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: And got his driver's license? What's going on? What's your
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: name anymore? What's it to you?
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: The registration slipt on the steering column, says Albert Krebert.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: Matter, if this car anyway is Albert Kreber? I know
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: who he is?
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: That guy?
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: Who's this man? Say he's a friend. That's satisfy you something? Matter?
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: Take a look at the glove department. Ben, Okay, come on, huh,
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: that's going high? Yeah's locks? What do you want them
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: there for? Let me have those keys? Hire are ben?
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: How about nothing in there? Let's go. Here's a purse,
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: give me that. You keep your hands in the wheel.
• 25:55
  Speaker 12: It's a gun thirty two sis empty anyway, nothing wrong
• 25:59
  Speaker 12: in that.
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: You have a permit to carry it?
• 26:01
  Speaker 9: I got a permit?
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: Can I see it? I lost it? Give me keep
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: your hands on that wheels?
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: The wallet, identification cards Albert Kreber?
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: Where'd you get these? I don't know. Man's watch Albert
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: Kreber engraved on the back. Who's Albert Kreber? All right,
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: let's get out of the car. That car starts, Come on,
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: stand up, you get over there? Where'd you get the
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: fur coat? Square? I don't know, Joe? Another of flacks
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: wine stains? I spilled one on? What kind of one?
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: Muscatel musketail in the red wine? It's a whack one.
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: Who's Albert Kreber? I don't know. This is his wallet?
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: This is his car? Where'd you get them?
• 26:37
  Speaker 9: I don't know. I don't know.
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: This the gun you shot him with? This the gun
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: you shot him with? I was going over you give
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: me a purkle.
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: You promised me you watch, and you never gave me on.
• 27:01
  Speaker 9: That was set a telegram to his wife.
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: But everything.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: Did give me a.
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: Fur take out back, so you shut him? Sure I did.
• 27:16
  Speaker 9: He promised me the coat I could have any court
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: the shop.
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: Father, what are you crying for? You got the coat.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true, only the
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: names were changed to protect the innocent.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: On February twenty seventh, trial was held in Superior Court
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Department eighty sixth, City and County of Los Angeles, State
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: of California. In a moment the results of that trial,
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Manymore was tried and convicted of second degree murder and
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: received sentence as prescribed by law. She is now serving
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: her term in the state penitentiary at Tahtchipie. You have
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the office of Chief
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: of Police W. A. Wharton, Los Angeles Police Department. Next
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: here Sarah Berner in Sarah's Private Caper on NBC.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: This is Andrew J.
• 28:45
  Speaker 9: Graham, author of the web surface series Oh and a
• 28:48
  Speaker 9: Man and his Wife. You're listening to the great Detectives
• 28:50
  Speaker 9: of old time radio.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Not the last time that Dragnet would deal
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: with the theft of mink that this would of course
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: be a big season one episode a little bit more memorable.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: This one is a bit more of an ordinary Dragnet story,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: and it's still an interesting tale, which I think is
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: a bit of a challenge, since we're not dealing with
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the traditional sort of criminal that you would often hear
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: on these sort of radio dramas, particularly the detective shows.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: The clever, scheming criminal or the cold calculating fem fatale
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: is cast aside for the more realistic picture of the
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: criminal who commits murder in the heat of the moment
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: and is caught by the police walking down the street
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: in the same outfit that was worn when the murder occurred,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: and also wearing the coat that was stolen at the time,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: also trying to reclaim the dead man's car. Well, at
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: any rate, we do turn to some listener comments and feedback,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: and we begin with an email from We have an
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: email from Olivia who writes in, Hey, Adam, just thought
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: you'd like in on this little experience of mine. I've
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: been listening to your podcast sporadically for several years. Love
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: listening to your inside enthusiasm, and recently I've been dragnet
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: pinging gone on YouTube to watch some of the old
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: fifties episodes. Watch one in particular that blew me away,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: called the Big Jump. For any fellow dragnet jackweb fans
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: that think that like a little action with her old
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: time radio, this has got to be in the top ten.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Won't leave any spoilers, but trust me, go watch the thing.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: The word tedium doesn't in any way apply. And for
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: anyone who would ever think of the show as Dole
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: clearly hasn't seen this one. Keep doing what you're doing.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: This generation of American history doesn't need to be forgotten.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: God Blessed from Decatur, Alabama. Well, thanks so much, appreciate
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the note, Olivia, and I definitely do plan to start
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: offering the video theaters of Dragnet. I've had the idea
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: of doing two video theaters, one with Dragnet, one with
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: another program or movie, but have just not gone around
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: to getting that started. But I wouldn't gurage you to
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: check it. To check it out on YouTube, I have
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: not as of this recording. This is actually the big
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Jump is a newer episode that's coming too circulation, so
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that you enjoyed that. And then we also
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: have a tweet from Steven regarding episode thirteen forty six
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: production number on homicide the quick trigger Man, exciting episode.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: They really pull out all the stops for this one.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I think, particularly in the early going, this is what
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Dragnet really tended to do. There did get to a
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: point I think later on when you get into nineteen
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: fifty four fifty five where there where I think there
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: clearly was some weariness on Webb's part, not as much interest.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: But in these early years the show really is firing
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: on all cylinders and there's definitely a great effort being made. Still,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: even when he's not as enthused, Dragnet is still a
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: great show. Dragnet, even on a mediocre day, is still
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: better than most other programs out there in my humble opinion.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: And finally we do have a note from David who
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: has a question regarding the app. David rits in how
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: can I get it to play only one podcast and
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: then stop? Check the settings and it continues to play.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Switch is not on, but it plays one after the
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: other all night. I use the podcast to mask my
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: tonadas to get to sleep that I usually replayed in
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: the morning to find out who done it. Any help
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: is appreciated well. On the app in the bottom right
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: hand corner is a sleep timer and what you do
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: is you pull up the sleep timer and you set
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: it to when current episode ends, and that should do it.
• 33:50
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• 33:59
  Speaker 1: By the way, Adam, the new mix is working great,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: get another to have in reserve. Love the show, especially
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: the insightful commentary you provide. I've been a fan since
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: twenty ten. You can hear some of the shows on
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: the Amazon TV radio channels, but they do not provide
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: any comments at all. Well, glad to provide the service,
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  Speaker 1: and thanks so much for being a longtime listener of
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: the program. And yeah, I'll definitely consider getting a backup
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: maybe sometime after the next listener support campaign. All right, Well,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: that will do it for today. We will be back
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  Speaker 1: on Monday with the Saint and then join us back
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