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But now it's time for today's episode of the Lineup the Sobbing Singer Saga.
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Ladies and gentlemen, We take you now behind the scenes of a police headquarters
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in a great American city. We're under the cold, glaring lights will pass
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before us. The innocent, the bigorant, the thief, the murderer.
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This is the lineup. Hey, hi Ball, here you look Pete,
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No, it's this coll had it a week now. Can't seem to shake
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it getting me down. Now, what's his name here? The box?
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Still? Yeah? Not you. Well, I'll be against the wall with
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Asher. When it comes in, I'll send him over. Yeah, see
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you later. That all right? What do you say, man? Not
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much tonight? How's it cool? It's the same, Just trying to keep
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my head clear. This thing does pretty well. Yeah, I have your
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attention. Please you people out there on the other side of the wire and
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they want to get through. Man, I have your attention, please,
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thank you. My name is Converer. His sergeant Pete Coger. I'll exclaim
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the lineup to each of the suspects you will see will be numbered. I'll
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call up a number the name of Shock. You have any questions right identification,
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Please remember the number of signing the prisoners. I call his name.
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If you're sure. I'm not too sure of the suspect. Have him.
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Hell the questions I asked these suspects, and merely to get a natural tone
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of voice. But do not pay too much attention to their answers, as
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they often lie. All right, bring on the line all the way to
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the end of the state. Boys, that's it more right, across.
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I'll turn and face the screen, heads up by straight ahead and hands out
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of your pocket. Step out of the circle when I call your name.
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Okay. Number one, John Carlisle, I'm robbery. Where do you live?
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John? Eleven, forty five Sherman Street? What is that rooming house?
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Apartment? Hotel? What apartment? Where you're from? John? Here?
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Live here all my life? A little straighter, son, keep your
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head up. Thanks. Right, What do you do? I'm an electrician.
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Where do you work? No place right now? Anyone arrested with him?
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Yeah? Well, A couple of guys Queen Living and Steel, Howard
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Quinn Livin and Robert Steele seventeen and eighteen. Hey, friends of yours,
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John, oh not particularly. You have the same address on Sherman Street that
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you gave. We live in the same apartment, but we weren't very friendly.
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You got a car? Yeah? Forty nine? Mark Dan to pay
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one raise the dan. Okay, step back. Number two, Claire Bernice
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Burglary over to the circle player. Step over to the circle player. You've
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done this before. Come on, come on, you live here? Yeah?
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Talk right our big room. Everybody wants to hear you. You live
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someplace, don't you. Oh yes, oh yes, yes, I'm know
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a big man. I live at the Sea Coast Hotel. Boy, I
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got me a nice seventy by sitting room there. It's you over a wrapper
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hole in twenty seven, but of course the plumbing. How long you live
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there, Claire? Oh? Three? Ods? Nice? Where'd you live
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before that? Across the street? Oh? What address fourteen in north twenty
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seven? My wife still lives there. People were breaking up. I'm sorry
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to hear that. Your business player, What do you do for a living?
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Oh? Nothing? To stand up there? You own a car?
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Oh no, no, I don't want to car. I don't know how
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to drive any weapons when you're arrested. No, no, no, nothing
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like that. What about the twenty two automatic that's a weapon? Player?
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No, no, no, they got it all. I just found that
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thing. Twenty two is no since when? Well, I found it in
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the garbage can when I was out walking. I was going to make a
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cigarette lighter out of him. Such a little gun, I look nice in
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my coffee here. It was fully loaded when the officers took it from him.
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Was that gun loading? That's what the officer's report says right here?
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Well, are you sure about it? Yeah, I wonder if I could
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just see that thing would just stay there. I just wanted to see it
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get back there and I go on. I'm going to think free, slow
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talking a good loud voice. Where do you live out? Hello? Hello,
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Ben? This is Pete. Sorry to wake you cold? Any better?
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I'm not the same. What time is it? Five thirty? Ben?
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Something's come up? What you know? Beth Leonard the singer? No,
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yeah, wait a nightclub singer. Yeah, somebody robbed and killed her
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husband. Okay, pick me up? Hi him in Hi, he's over
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here speaking to death. Looks like somebody killed them in a car and dump
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to north Here Officers Gerard and Johnson found the body. Complained Nope. The
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team patrol and they see anything. They're covering the ground now O Hi Ben,
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Hello, diy h. Somebody sure gave him a working over. Yeah,
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hasn't been dead more than a half hour. Then nothing more I can
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do until we get him downtown. Okay, wrap it up right then?
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Okay, boys take him away, a weapon around nothing? Who identified him?
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No one? Yes? Found this empty bill called in the alley,
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had his name in driver's license. No money. Let me see that ripped
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part way over Yeah, watching ring missing too. Henry Leonard Man two two
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one six one Cherry Hills Drive about six blocks away. Anybody talked to missus
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Donarde? Yeah, Ash, she went over and got it. She's over
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there in the car. Okay. Have we hear about minds saying no?
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Yeah, I think I have it? Then she sure won't have anything to
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sing about tonight. Hello, Ben, Hi, this is Lennon. Yes,
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this is Lieutenant Guthrie. How do you do. Hello? Did you
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see Yes? I saw him? Hank? All right, Well what's left
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of him? I don't think I'm going to be able to Yeah, the
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doctor curse is still here right. I'm singing at the Doveville now. And
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Hank came by to night for the last show. We closed about two,
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and then we had something to eat. Then we went out to the house.
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What time was that about three point thirty? I guess four o'clock going
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that's all. Hank left about four. We talked a while at the house
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and then he left. Hank didn't lived here, He's been in Florida the
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last two years. He just came in town Sunday night. We're separating.
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I see when he left you at the house. This morning. Where was
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he going back to his hotel the Delvi? Was he driving? No?
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I offered him the car, but he said he'd rather walk. Why would
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anybody kill Hank? They're pretty sure the motive was robbery, Missus Monny.
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Robbery. Yes, there was no watcher ring on the body, and his
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wallet had been empty. Oh. He had a beautiful watch, just a
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beautiful watch that he loved very much. Can you describe it? It had
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Roman numerals and a white gold case. It was a jiraw any engraving arn
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his initials h H l ell. Don't happen to remember where he bought it.
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I bought it for him on his birthday four years ago. It was
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the WinCE Jewelry Company. Any other valuables he might have had on in Missus
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Roon, just his rain. It was a plain gold wedding band. He
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still wore. Anything outstanding about the ring engraving? No? Okay, anything
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else? No? May I have a cigarette? No? True? Yeah,
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thank you. We want to cover every possibility, Missus mont Dad.
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Can you think of anyone who might have had reason to want to kill your
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husband? No? Did you have any enemies in town? No? Why
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the way he looks now somebody just waylaid him and robbed him, killed him.
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But it's pretty far from your house to his hotel, missus Lemon,
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almost twenty blocks. Well, I can explain that. Hank said he felt
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like walking. He was in town to talk about our divorce. I've been
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thinking of marrying someone else, I see, And that's why he met you
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with the Doorville, Yes, to straighten out some things. It was beginning
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to drizzle when he left. I looked out the window and watched him go
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down the street. He looked kind of lonely. What about the weapon doct
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oh blunt instrument is about the best we can do for you. Then,
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any way you can narrow it down. I don't know. Maybe something to
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this. It just came from the crime lab, probably a copy on your
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desk. Now. I found some flakes in the wounds. Specimen I sent
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of the lab has been analyzed on the spectrograph. They found out it was
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a substance called Ansis prosive protective product made by Union Petroleum. What's the use
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for it? There was the spray tools and metal. It might be out
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in the weather. A lot. I got a filling station, a lot
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of tools, in the new cars, have it that might help? You'll
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pick up anything out there? Oh nothing, no tire marks, Principal Tuffy.
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That looks like it. Well, somebody's car might have a little blood
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on. Oh excuse me, one shot detail has to watch and ring in
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the hot list, but all we have to work in it now. Yeah,
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I feel ben, Thanks Gothrie. Then I'm at twenty two one seventy
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eight Cherry Hills Place, across from beth Lenet's house, about six houses down,
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twenty two seventy eight. Yeah, what's that? Checking the story about
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Leonard walking home? Lady here, missus Sheridan saw somebody pick him up when
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he left the house. Does you know who we are? She says,
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it looked like beth Lenet's boyfriend, James Brower. Okay, we'll check it
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this year. Ah, that's crazy. I was right here in bed anyway
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you can prove that, this Brewer prove I was in bed. Lord,
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No, I was here, that's all. I was home and in bed
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by eleven last night. I don't quite understand why you're here, just checking.
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You drive a fifty one catile accident, that's right, black. This
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witness said it was your car. Well, a lot of people have cars
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like that. It wasn't mine. Well, I understand, we have to
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look into all these things. Sure, I understand. You want to come
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in here. Yeah, where were you last night? Before? You came
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home working on a club out on Lincoln Highway. Anybody there so you leave?
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Sure, Charlie Monroe my manager, You came right home, went to
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bed. Yeah you knew Henry Leonard. Sure, I've known him ten or
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twelve years. You know him before he married Beth? Were on good terms
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with him? Ye mean? Oh yeah? I think so good terms you
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can be with a husband or the woman you're gonna marry. Look, Beth
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and Hank broke up two years ago. They never could work things out.
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Beth had Hank to come back in town talk about a divorce. That's why
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it was here. Beth and I want to get married. Yeah. Did
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you see him when he was in town? Yeah, Sunday night we all
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had dinner here. Did you talk about the divorce. Yeah, Hank said
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it was all right with him if that's what Beth wanted. Sunday the only
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time you saw. That's right. I know you have to look into all
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sorts of things, but I didn't kill him. If that's what you're driving
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at. You own a raincoat, mis Brewer, sure like to see it.
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I sent it to the cleaners a couple of days ago. You remember
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what cleaners windsor? Why? Just want to look at it now? Listen
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you too. I'm no criminal, I have no record. I've never been
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in trouble with a law. You have no reason to inquire into my personal
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life and the things I do. I've been pretty nice to you have to
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now, but I won't stand for this. I have a lawyer who might
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be able to make something out of your accusations. We aren't making any accusations,
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mister Bruer. Just looking for the thing. Well, I'll look for
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them someplace else. This is my home. And until you have a warrant
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or something, you have no right to come here. Whatever. Tell a
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police officer working on a homicide that he has no right to make inquiries.
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I'll contact you later. What do you think then, pretty big guy?
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Yeah, Hi, he's cause in the garage. Man, you got a
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chance to look at Yeah, the jack handles missing and miss Lennard. Yeah
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that's right. Please please, Oh certainly, but she's just finishing up now,
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can you read? Sure? How about the buy? Yeah? Sure,
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thank you, thank you very much now because you all ask for it,
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here it is again your favorite and mine. This lovely day will Lengthen
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in red we'll say goodbye you. We've never had hello where we have walt
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together. Ah, Remember April can be blessed all we consent you love me,
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one said April. Your lips were war and love on spring when you
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But I'm not a pread a lot and her soul for I remember a for
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Then the fire will dwindle in to blowations for flames of love love such a
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little while. I won't forget, but I won't be longt re No,
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I sure can do it? Can't say sure can now my kid has her
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record on that one. Yeah, all yeah, did you see this?
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What cover ten dollars per person? All? Right, here she comes,
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Yeah, hello, lieutenant. Hello. I hate to bother you again,
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miss Leonard, but we have to talk to you again. I'm sorry,
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Miss Leonard, but it's necessary. Well, not here, we can use
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mister Hanson's office. He did want to walk home. I told you that
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before we know. Was there any trouble about the divorce? Oh, no,
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trouble at all. Hank was very sweet about it. Had he taken
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any legal action? He was going to see a lawyer this morning. Do
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you know if mister Brewer and your husband had any words about this divorce situation?
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No? No, Hank and I've been separated for such a long time.
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No. Mister Brewer told me not to answer any more questions. I
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wish she hadn't told you that, missus Lennon. He said you had no
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right to annoy me or him. I think he's right. You said you
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thought my husband had been robbed and killed. What are you trying to find
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out now? Mister Brewer is no killer thief. I'm certainly not. We
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have to check out everything. We want to find out who killed your husband,
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that's all, missus Nunning. A witness claims she saw your husband get
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into a car like the one mister Brewer drives. She says mister Brewer was
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driving her. We're here to find out if you know anything about that.
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I don't know anything about it, and I don't think I'll answer any more
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questions. Are you sure we should look at it differently? Missus Lennon,
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I told you no more. Salute Hello, thanks Guthrie. Maybe Brewer hasn't
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been able to explain the jackhandle listening from his car. We have him here
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still talking to him, but it may not be Brewer. Uh Asher just
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called it. A big guy just pawing the watch. It was taken from
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Leonard's body where Bob Baumash's pawn shop eighteenth and Curtis. We'll meet him there.
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Yeah, that's yeah, all right, Ben. He left the shop
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about four minutes ago. Bow Mash gave me a pretty good description. Six
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two brown suit, one night. You know how he must be around here
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somewhere. Yeah, what's the story. Well, la porn shop detail was
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in Boumash's place this morning. It was still fleshing Bowmash's mind. When the
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suspect came in, he signed the buy book Harry Long, he's the watch
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movement case numbers check out. Yeah, I just put the brewer in the
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clear I been. Yeah. Now we have to get this one. How
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do you want to work it, Ben? We'll lay it out every intersection
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for six blocks, every alley. Let's get some more cars down here.
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This sounds like our boy and I want and unit thirty three K goes one
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in an hour and out. Ben. I know he's in the area somewhere.
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He could be in any one of those stores. Might live around here
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too. Sixty six at two o five at six seventeen, mannings the woman.
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I'll check in. Yeah, thirteen K to unit seventeen K. Come
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in seventeen K to thirteen K. Go ahead, Ben, you do any
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good yet? Nothing, Ben, I'll check it around. Ben going in
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the market Town with the packages. That's the description. Just spotted man answering
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description of suspect now entering southeast entrance of market Town. Call it out,
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cover every entrance, every street, beat and I are going after him market
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Town, Roger, let's go that hardened me? Please pardon sorry? Are
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you pardon me? He's going for the parking lot. Yeah, come on,
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have been that forty nine caddies his? Yeah, mister Long, your
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name Harry Long. No, you've got the wrong fellow, mister police.
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What is this? It's your car? Well, yes, listen, we
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better go where we can talk. Come on, what about that you poured
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this watch a few minutes ago, mister Long. We'll talk about it for
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a starter. No, we watched all right, be smart, be smart?
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See now okay, okay, got a boy, Okay, Ben,
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I'll come with you. But I ain't done nothing. For a man who
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hasn't done anything. You fight pretty high. Yeah, Wait a minute,
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then, huh, he's looked like bloodstains to you. Yeah, betaphone in
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tell him to let ruer go. The line up, starring Bill Johnstone as
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CBS Radio network. H Welcome back, Well. I suspected the estranged wife
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until they let her sing in the show. I don't know what it is
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about most Golden Age productions, but I've never encountered one where a character sang
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a long song and turned it out to be a killer. Apparently, you
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know, singing isn't something that killers did. I did want to let you
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know that over a Great Detectives dot net this weekend. I do have an
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article posted. It's my review A Pattern of Wounds by j Mark bertrand one
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of my few reviews of modern mystery, so you can check that out Great
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Detectives dot Net. Also, I did get a question from a listener as
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to how long until we get to Dragnet. Well, the answer is twenty
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nine weeks, so should be July early August. And in the meantime we
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have nine more weeks of the Lineup, two weeks of Police Blotter, and
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eighteen weeks of Police Headquarters. But we're getting to the point where we're going
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to start Dragnet, and I know it's a bit of a wait, but
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Dragnety is just quite a lengthy series that I did want to get a few
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other procedurals in in the meantime. But we will be coming to Dragnet later
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on next summer. All right, Well, that will do it for today.
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We will be back on Monday with yours truly, Johnny Dollar, and
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then join us back here on Saturday for another episode of the Lineup. In
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the meantime, sendra comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow
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