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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Crystal Lake Matter, Part Five and Manhunt: The Clue of the Red Thread (EP1189) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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to today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dowler. Here now is the Crystal Like
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Matter, Part five from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar. Ansel
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Garrett, Johnny, I'm calling from a gas station up near the three mile
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Grade, ten miles north of the Lake. Trouble plenty, Johnny, seems
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like when you go looking for people, it always turns out to be bad
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luck for them. What do you mean you came up here to Crystal Lake
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looking for Edward Russell? He turned up. Did you've been looking for hiring
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the taxi driver? Don't tell me afraid. So we just fished his body
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out of a ravine Tonight and every weekday Night Bob Bailey and the Transcribed Adventures
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of the Man with the Action Pactix Bensacount America's Fabulous Freelance insurance Investigator as Truly
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Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar to Amalgamated Life Associates Home
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office, Hartford, Connecticut. Following is a final accounting of expenses and report
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of my investigation of the Crystal Lake matter. It them nine one dollar tip
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to the garage man. To get my car out in a hurry, I
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drove up to the three mile grade. Deputy Sheriff Ansel Garrett was waiting for
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me beside the highway and led the way down the ravine. Watch foot,
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Johnny, It's pretty tricky. Yeah, who discovered high on his body?
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One of my boys patrolling the highway. He spotted a glitter metal down here
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in the moonlight. Here we are, Yeah, oh, brother, Taxi
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chabinoll what a wreck? Yeah? He crashed the guard room and came down
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the slope. I doubt if it was an accident. Ants, When the
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guy's got a bullet hole in his forehead, it's no accident. Johnny looks
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like the same person who killed Russell killed Hiram to shut his mouth. I
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guess that's about the size of it. Hiram's murder opens up another keg in
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nails. Ants now so well. Betty's story is that the last she saw
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Russell the night he was murdered was when he drove away in Hiram's taxi.
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But that story depended on Hiram for confirmation. He'll never be able to confirm
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it now. Earlier tonight you were beat because you were fresh out of suspects,
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Johnny. Now you got a real live one again. Maybe, but
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trying to find a motive to fit Betty Norton as a blind alley. The
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only one who could benefit financially from Russell's death is his wife Leona, and
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she was in Denver at the time. I still think Russell's murder ties in
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with the fact that he came up here looking for somebody named Bill, and
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apparently he had it in for him and could be trouble is Johnny, We
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got too many guys by that name at Crystal Lake, Bill Cullen, the
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hotel bartender, Bill Jensen at the boathouse. Both of them are still possibilities
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ants. The bartender had a fight with Russell on the night of the murder,
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and it was one of Bill Jensen's padlocks on the cabin where the body
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was found. Yeah, it's true enough. Whoever killed Russell and hid his
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body and Bixby's vacant cabin, didn't know that Bixby was planning on selling the
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place and would bring somebody up to show it and discover the body. Sounds
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real convincing, Johnny. Now all you have to do is figure out somebody's
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name for the whoever and a good motive, and you're all sah, yeah,
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sure, real simple. You know. One thing that's been bothering me
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from the start, though, Why did the killer plant Russell's body in a
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cabin with all the wide open spaces around here? Why a cabin? Yeah?
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He could have figured dogs or animals that uncover the body was outside somewhere.
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How about the lake. The bodies have a way of coming to the
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surface. Yeah, I guess you're right. If we could only have gotten
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the hiring before this. You haven't to know where he lived. A little
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rooming house not far from the hotel you threw here. No, not yet,
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Johnny. I got a couple of my boys beating the bush around here.
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Okay, I'll head back to town and see if I can turn up
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anything of interest at Hiron's rooming house. On the way back to the village,
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I stopped at Betty Norton's Lake Shaw mentioned but she wasn't at home.
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Her housekeeper told me she'd gone to Denver for a couple of days. On
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hearing that, my interest in her as a suspect shot up again. Expencer
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contadem ten a dollar forty five long distance call to the Denver Police, requesting
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them to try to locate Betty Norton for further questioning. And I went to
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the rooming house where hirem had lived. I couldn't find anything in his room
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that would give me a lead on his killer. But as I was coming
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out, I found someone in the hall home white Well, Bill the bartender.
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Oh hello, Dolly, what are you doing here? Real sample?
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I live here all same rooming house as Hiram. Huh that's right, How
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look I'll go trying to tie me into his mortar. We was friend.
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I didn't know the news of his killing was out. How did you know
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he was dead? Bill Well? I just talked to one of Vance Garrett's
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boys at the hotel. He talked, Oh I see, No, you
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don't see, Dolly, you still fight. Look, whoever killed Hiram is
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the same one who killed Russell. You had a fight with Russell on the
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night of his death. Yeah, I explained that to you before. He
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was looking for somebody named Bill. He thought I was Doe. Got tough
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about it, but that's all I was to it. I didn't kill him.
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I didn't kill Hiram. You'll never prove it. I did. Yeah,
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going round and round on the Merry Go Round. Somewhere along the line,
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I must have missed something, but I didn't know what. I decided
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to go back and start from the beginning in this case, Bixby's cabin where
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Russell's body was discovered. I found Bixby in the hotel bar Ahi Dollar here
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for a dream. No, no thanks, Bixby. Yeah. I got
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a little good news earlier this evening. Sheriff Garrett told me he was through
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checking over my cabin so I can get it cleaned up and repainted. Now
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you're going to advertise it again. Too optimistic about my chances of selling it
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that even though the location of it's been kept out of the papers, everybody
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at Crystal Lake here knows about it. Eh. You never found out who
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put that new padlock on the door? Huh? All the lock came from
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Jensen's boathouse. But we have been able to tie in Bill Jensen with any
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of the rest of it. Look, Bixby, you mind if I take
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another look around your cabin? Not at all rally you want me to go
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with you? Now, that won't be necessary. Okay, here's the key.
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Help yourself. It was my last chance. Maybe there was something in
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the cabin that neither Ansell, Garrett nor I had noticed before. Something anything
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that would give me a lead. I spent an hour going through an inch
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by inch, and I drew a great, big blank. Everything was in
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place, nothing had been touched, even my cigarette butt on the front porch
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and Bixby's cigar wrapper twisted in a knot where we'd sat and talked after he'd
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re enacted the discovery of Russell's body inside. Only marks on the floor where
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Ansel Garrett's boys had measured the distance of the body from the door. Stuff
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like that. But as far as anything that would give me a fresh lead,
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there was nothing, nothing at all. I was licked and I knew
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it. Oh, mister Dollar, good evening, missus Russell. I just
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dropped in to say goodbye. Well, that was very thoughtful of you.
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Please come in. Thanks. When are you leaving? I'm checking out in
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the morning. What are your plans, I'm not sure, mister dollar.
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I'll probably get rid of the house in Denver and take an apartment for a
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while after that. I don't know. Have you filed your claim yet on
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your husband's insurance policy? No, not yet. My lawyer will take care
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of it for me. I'd rather not have any more to do with things
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like that personally than I can help. Mister Dollar. Have you gotten anywhere
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with your investigation? Have you found anyone at all who could have had a
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reason to kill my husband? To tell you the truth, missus Russell.
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Up to now, I've got no Then I saw it something in Leona Russell's
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room, just a little thing, but all of a sudden the whole deal
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slid neatly into place. But I had to be sure somehow. I had
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to start the ball rolling and see what happened. You were saying, mister
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Dollar. Oh, yeah, I was saying that. Up to now,
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I haven't been able to get any What time is it a quarter to ten?
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Oh? I got to make a phone call. Mind if I use
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your phone? No, not at all. I was supposed to call Deputy
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Sheriff Garrett to check on a new lead and if it's panned out. Looks
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like we're in Deputy Sheriff Garrett Johnny Dollar, Ant's how's that new lead?
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Look? What new lead? Yeah? Good? Oh, maybe putting on
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an act for somebody, Johnny. That's right. It looks like we're on
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the right track at last. Hi, you can't beat a lab test.
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Thanks Ants. Something new has developed, mister Dollar. Yeah, looks like
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we're finally closing in on the right man, Missus Russell, I got a
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run. Now I've got a date with the sheriff, but I'll keep you
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posted. I went outside a hotel cottage and waited. I could hear her
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on the phone. In a moment, she came out, started along the
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trail near the lake shore. I followed. I was sure I was finally
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getting close to Russell's killer, but then a gun barrel on my back told
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me I'd gotten a little too close. Holder Dollar, Well, mister Bixby
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surprised. As a matter of fact, no is that you, Bill?
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Hello, Leona, are super little falling for a gig, Like just pulled
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on you. But I had to talk to you to warn you. It
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looks like you're a little stupid too, Bixby. I just spotted one of
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them and Leona's cottage. I truly I should never come to your cottage of
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the owner you insisted. I had to see that. That's what threw me
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about you. Bixby, Clarence Bixby, but a middle name of William.
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Huh, Wilfred. If it'll do you any good now, it was you
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and Leona right from the start. Her husband found out about it, but
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all he had to go on was the name Bill. Somehow he got a
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lead that brought him up here to Crystal Life. Of course I arranged for
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him to get the lead. Yeah, you wanted to be easy to find.
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You had hire him the taxi driver to Corey Russell to you, then
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killed him to shut his mouth Bill get rid of him. Then you killed
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Russell in your own cabin and left his body. I had to the people
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of the next cabin moved in that night. I was afraid they'd see me
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if I moved the body. So you played it smart. You stole a
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padlot from Bill Jensen to throw suspicion on him. Then you advertised your cabin
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and discovered the body. When a prospect wanted to see the place, a
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pretty neat cover. Bixby you had a lot of nights. I still have
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dollar enough to do what has to be done now. And sweet little Leona
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ustle the poor grieving wife in it with you right from the start. Hurry
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up and do it, Bill, then you and I can go. Oh
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no, that's for your wrong, Leona. It's not gonna be you and
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I anymore. Bill. You can't say that you engineered the whole deal right
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from the start. And I'm sick of it. I'm getting out. You
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can't get out, Bill, You hear me, You can't your in.
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This is as deep as I am. Yes, I can get out,
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all right, Leona. I know one good way. Oh yes, I've
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used it before and it works. He is for you, baby, Bill.
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No, Bill, he swung the gun, Tater. I drove out
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him, but too late. I hit him twice in the face and down.
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I've been of a leonor. But she was gone. She must have
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been dead when she hit the ground. Eleventh and final item on expense account
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one hundred and forty five dollars and twenty cents. Transportation and incidentals from Crystal
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Lake Home. Total expenses four hundred and twenty three dollars. Even remarks about
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Bixby in jail awaiting trial on three counts of murder. Edward Russell hiram Leona
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Russell about Leona whod engineered the whole deal for a payoff. Well she got
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paid off, all right. End of remarks. End of report. Yours
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truly, Johnny Dollar. Now here's our star to tell you about next week's
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story next week, beginning on Friday night, because I'm sure you'll want to
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listen to the Republican Convention Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week.
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A simple string of beads, and each bead on it a motive for
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murder. Join us, won't you? Yours truly, Johnny Dollar? Yours
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truly, Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood, written
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by Robert Rife. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard in
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this week's cast were Dick Krenner, Charlotte Lawrence, Gene Tatum, Howard mcneer
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Forres Lewis and herb Ellis. Musical supervision by Amerigo Marino. Remember, next
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week's story will start on Friday night because of the Republican Convention on Monday,
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Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. So join us Friday a week from tonight,
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same time in station for another exciting story of yours truly, Johnny Dollar Roy
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Rowan speaking, welcome back. Well, a solid ending to this story,
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though we had a few hents along the way that it was at least in
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terms of the mister Bixie b being one of the killers. The big thing
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was, I think it was part two or part three where they really called
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attention to the knots he todd with the cigar wrappers, kind of out of
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nowhere. It just buged Johnny, and we don't get a ton of physical
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details, and usually when we do, it is something that matters. And
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of course the point at the series in which he visited Missus Russell also really
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gave a clue because at that point, without a murderer, you kind of
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sense that the next person Johnny visits is probably going to be in on it.
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Now we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we had this from
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Mary regarding episode eleven twenty nine, The Indestructible Mike Matter, Part five,
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and she said, you hi, Adam, I was going to wait till
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I caught up to all episodes, but figure out I'll do it now.
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Love the show, I put a number of podcast on hold as I catch
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up to great detectors of Old time Radio. Just finished episode eleven twenty nine
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of Johnny Doller loving the series and had a few comments. You commented that
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you didn't like how Johnny didn't have the police coming. I think there's a
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reason Cosgrove mentioned he had cased the joint. If he had seen a number
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of cops, he would have known it was a sting and wouldn't have come
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in. As to how Randy showed up quickly in part four when Johnny was
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hit right before he passed out, here the voice of the room clerk.
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Only later was Randy there. The room clerk probably was the one to chase
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off the bad guys and call the police. I'm guessing in part five Randy
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was there, probably in playing clothes, figuring Johnny would get in trouble again.
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In my humble opinion, these aren't very big plot holes compared to other
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episodes. Probably the best Jack Johnstone written one I've heard I've yet heard.
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Well, Mary, thanks so much for the comment. I guess in regards
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to not being afraid that he would scare off Cosgrove, I guess I could
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say fair enough on that it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, you
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know, when you think about it in detail, but it does happen.
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It does seem, of course that you could always have a plain clothesmen or
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to somebody undercover who was a police officer and have some intelligence and how the
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police would stake would stake things out. But as to Randy appearing, the
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problem is in that particular episode, Johnny called Randy at the police headquarters,
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so Randy couldn't also be in the lobby. But I appreciate to listening to
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the show, your efforts to catch up, and that you cared enough to
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email. Thanks so much. All right, well now it's time. Oh
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wait before we actually switch. Another thing that they didn't mention is that they
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were taking Monday through Thursday of the next week off for the Republican Convention.
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That wasn't an endorsement of President Eisenhower's re election bit or anything. It was
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just that people did watch the major political conventions. Well partially it was because
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some interesting things could happen there. The way they're arranged now there tend to
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be much more infomercialish, which I think is why they don't get the same
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degree of audience, but that will lead to a six part serial next week,
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which means we won't have a second show on Friday next week. What
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we do this week. So let's go ahead and take a listen to today's
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episode of Manhunt. And there were four lost episodes between this episode, between
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last week's episode and this one. This one comes from January eighth of nineteen
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forty four, and this is the clue of the Salt of the Red Thread
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man Hunt, the clue of the Red Thread that led to man Hunt.
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No crime has been committed yet, no murder has been done yet, No
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man Hunt as the gun yet. Getting ready to take advantag Mike Duke,
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honest, Dooke, I wasn't gonna testify against you. I only told that
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to the cops to get him to go easy on me. You ain't gonna
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testify, Mike. I'm gonna make sure of that. What are you gonna
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do, Duke, I'm got to see that you get your bad Mike.
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First, I'm gonna bang your head against the tub like you had an accident.
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You can't do that. They'll know it's you, Duke. They'll pin
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it on you, for sure. Not the way I got to figure it
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out. Your number is up, Mike, right, Oh you got it
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figured out. It looked like an accident, haven't you do? All figured
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out? Who will discover it wasn't an accident? Oh well, no,
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it was cold blooded murder. Who will start the man hunt? Man hunt
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and the clue of the red thread? Yes, I said you, Drew,
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and for a very good reason. At your service, Sergeant at your
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service s and he says, listen, Drew, you don't like it here
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in your laboratory at headquarters, do you? You're always snooping around murder cases,
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you and your secretary, aren't you. Well you know why that is,
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Bill. Sometimes I can pick up things at the scene of a crime
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that can trade the murderer. And he's done it too, Bill. And
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he's done it too, Bill, she says, sure he has. But
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there is such a thing as just a plane everyday accidental death. See,
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that's why I sent for you to show you one. Come with me.
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Okay, where are we going? I'll tell you on the way, just
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a couple of blocks from here. Ready, I'm ready? Who ask you
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you ready? Drew? Yes? Sure. If I don't get it,
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I'll explain that too. Come on, I see a guy was getting ready
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to take a bath. He slipped on a hunker soap, banged his head
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on the tub and slipped into the water unconscious. He drowned. Get that,
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yes? Good? Okay, he fell in his bedub right. I'm
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going to prove to you too that this is one death that had to be
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accidental. It couldn't have been murdered. Anything been touched, though, anything
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been touched? He says, no, nothing. Come on, get in
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the car right in. Pat Okay, I'll get in the other way.
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Go ahead, Drew. Check. I'll let you know better when Bill gets
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him buildin. Well. Anyhow, that's the picture. The guy dead in
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the top death by drowning. The doc says, a lump on his forehead
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and a piece of soap that caused it all on the floor. Who was
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he? I knew you'd get around of that. His name was Mike Mallory.
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Oh, but I was going to testify against Duke Britain. Oh.
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I bet Duke bumped him off to shut him up. I know one here
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would pop out with that. Now. Listen, Mike lived in a boarding
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house next block from here. If you had opened his mouth to yell a
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dozen people would have hurt him, did they? Did they? She says,
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No, nobody hurt him because he didn't yell. That's why, because
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he wasn't murdered. What makes you so sure was accidental? Though? I
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know it was an accidency. That's why I brought you here to show you
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that just because a suspicious guy gets knocked gone doesn't mean it was murdered.
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Get you on here we are. Come on, How hop is it?
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Huh? I'll help your pet, have your hand? Oh through? This
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is so stunning, mad at you too? Tell me what makes you so
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sure it was an accident? Bill? You still haven't told them? Okay?
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You see the bath tub over flowed and the water started prickling through from
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under the door. A woman saw it right the door and she found it
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locked. Somebody could have killed Mike, nowI and then locked them in.
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Come on, I'll show you why it couldn't be that way. I'm Murphy,
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that's I'm straight ahead. Well, there was a bathroom door busted in.
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See cop did that? When the woman screamed? The key is still
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in the lock on the inside. See and the lock is still turned.
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But what's more, look up here? See this hook y got those and
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a lot of whole style bathroom doors. I've seen them on screen doors too,
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Seeing them on screen door, she says, Who cares? Anyway?
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You know how they work. You close the door, then drop the hook
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through the eye. That fits it, But you gotta do it from the
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inside, eh, all right, So when the cop breaks in, he
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finds the hook dangling from the door, still through the eye. When he
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busted the door in, he tore the eye apart from the wood, and
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look at yourself. Yes, that's right, all right, all right,
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be living the bet. The hook was in its place, and the lock
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turned when the cop broke the door. All right, that's all I gotta
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tell you. Except nobody living could get through that little window up there.
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I'm seeing that nobody could have been in here to kill Mallory. Are you
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convinced it was an accident? I am? I probably am too. But
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it's an awful coincidence that this has to happen just before Duke Britain's try.
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Co incidence, he says, So it was a coincidence. Who cares?
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Are you convinced? Is what I want to know? Well, tell you
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the truth, Bill, I'm not what's this these little ashes on the floor.
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Who knows. So Mike was smoking before he slip? What's the difference?
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Just put these ashes in the temple open and take a look at him
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at the last there. Who are you smiling about, Drew? Think?
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Just take it. It's funny. Is because of these ashes? Dup Britain
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burned in the electric chair. I met microscope for an hour. I'm getting
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a little tired of sitting here watching your patience. My dear you certainly try
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mine. Have you or haven't you found out anything? I've found out something,
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but I don't know what it means yet. I know what made the
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ash we found in that bathroom. Is it a secret? It's a piece
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of red thread. But I'm going up to see Duke Britain. Am I
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going? Yes? You're stay here? Oh Duke's tough, no kidding,
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He just as soon killed you. Always kissing who who's scared? That's right,
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Drew, take care of yourself when you're tracing that red thread, will
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you? I will bet? And I've got a hunch that Duke Britain's life
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is hanging by that same thread. M Homozione, no, but I mean
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Mike Mowery case too bad about his Actually, yeah, I know how you
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mean that. Too bad? All right, So I'm not sorry. I
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came to see joke about a piece of bread. What piece of thread?
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Red thread? Would you know anything about a piece of red thread? Of
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course? Not what am I teller? No, No, you're a murderer,
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duke, and I'm gonna prove it. You left fingerprints on the thread
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you burned. I couldn't have ever burned with the thread. I think this
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is a trick, but I gotta be sure. I want to be a
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little careful with that gun. Dude. I'm not gonna bump you yet.
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Gotta find out if what you say is possible for us. If it ain't,
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I'll come back and apologize. If it is, you can bring back
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burn fingerprints. I'm gonna let you have it. But I'm supposed to hope
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is that I'm mistaken. Be awful, good boy. If you are with
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your hands in the back of that chair, I gotta tie you up.
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Get some ropes somewhere here here we are your hands back of his chip.
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You know you really don't have to bother Duke. Al wait here till you
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get back. Yeah, I know your feet. I'll tell you now,
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I know you was trying that movie to get into the phone unless you think
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you can dial with with your nose. Second thought, this gag won't be
29:17
a bad idea. Just stick the phone in this drawer. Yeah, I'll
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go away with then I I'll be back in fifteen minutes, so long I
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don't have a gag out in the second. I'm so nervous I'm shaking likely
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there. All right, Now, get to work in my hands. Will
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you tell me what you're doing here? Pat? I wanted to beat you
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out on the case just once. I got here just before you did and
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hid behind the drape. Not the toughy there. That's got it. Okay,
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I'll get my legs out myself there. Well what now, I'm glad
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this is only a one room apartment, Pat. We've got about twelve minutes
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to turn this joint inside out, and if we're lucky, we're gonna find
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a little spool of bright red thread. All right, So I brought rithon
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with me and we're back in the bathroom. This is the cleanest case.
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I'm going to show you how he murdered Mike Mawory. Bill yees, we
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should I well, that's right, Bill. Without pat I couldn't have done
30:29
it much obliged, lady, listen, what in both of them are not
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shut up? To go ahead through? Okay, Bill, here's what happened
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in here. Go get Maory's head against the bathtub, gou piece of soap
30:42
on the floor, and tossed Mike's body in the tub. Then he tied
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a piece of thread around the hook on the door like I'm doing now,
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pass it through the eyehole like this. Then pull the thread under the door
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and went out. And I come on out of every boddy. Okay,
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but I don't know what this is all about. Then he closed the door.
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Now he was all set. He took these very thin fires, like
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the ones they use on a piano to get a narrow space. My fires,
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Yes, yes, they yours. I found them in your apartment.
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I'm not lucky. Yeah, you ought to play crivage, he says,
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Come, Andrew, you're gonna show us. He is on the inside of
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the door right now, right, it was then Duke concerned the fires in
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the keyhole from the outside like this, and turn the key. Simple,
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isn't it? Now? About the thread I tied around the hook when we
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were all in the bathroom. You'll notice it leads under the door. I'm
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gonna bend down and gently pull it there. I'll listen. You're that the
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hook has been guided into place, right in the hole in which it belongs.
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Yeah, but we didn't find a thread tied around the hook, and
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a duke had yanked on it to break it off. Afterwards, the knot
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would have stayed on, Drew, sure it would, but he didn't break
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it off. This is what he did. I'm gonna like this match and
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apply it to the bottom of the thread, and the flame, which we
32:02
can't see anymore, is traveling right up the inside of the bathroom. Dawn
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is destroying the threat, but it is leading an ash on the floor right.
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That's how I was able to reconstruct the whole case, matt Ash and
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later from the school of red bread I found in your apartment, Duke.
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And oh, by the way, there's no way to bring back finger prints
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on a print bread now, he tells me, Come on, Duke,
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true, I'm so ashamed. I insisted that the Mallory death was accidental,
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like it kill myself, only I'm afraid if I did, you'd find some
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way of proven somebody murdered me, Welcome back. The execution of the murder
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and the solution to the case was actually pretty clever, this one having much
32:53
more of a how catch him? I feel, rather than a who done
32:59
it? Were told from the beginning that Duke did it. I do feel
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a little bit for a Sergeant Morton, because the setup for this episode was
33:08
really awe with Sergeant Morton taking Drew Stevens, a police scientist, to the
33:16
scene of the crime, in order to prove to Stevens that occasionally people died
33:23
by accident unless we miss something. In one of the lost episodes, Stevens
33:30
never gave a great principle that every single death was a result of foul pali.
33:36
So apparently Sergeant Morton a little desperate to be right, though, he
33:40
built up a straw man so that he could argue in favor of something that's
33:45
just complete common sense, and he still can't quite prove himself right. A
33:52
fair the good Sergeant munt need a vacation, but seriously good episode and uh
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