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That's at Great Detectives dot net. Now it's time for today's episode of
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the Lineup. This one is called the Twitching Twists twenty two Tweaking Case.
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gum healthful, refreshing, delicious. Hello, crime, I witness get here.
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They're right over there. I put them up front, ammon in the
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line, and quite a few perty eight Uh see you in right, Oh
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mister Sweeney. Oh hello, Lieutenant. Any word about the girlier? No,
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no yet. I'm hoping you can identify the man you saw a pick
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her up. Yeah. It sure isn't going to be easy. Like I
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told you, I didn't get a really good look at his face, just
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the car and the coat he was wearing. Mm hmm, Well there's just
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a chance you might recognize him. May I have your attention? Please?
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You people out there on the other side of the wire in the audience room,
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may I have your attention? Please? Thank you. My name is
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Corger, Sergeant Pete Carger. I'll explain the lineup to you. Each of
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the suspects you will see will be numbered. I'll call off a number their
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name in charge. If you have any questions or identifications, please remember the
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number of sign of the prisoners. I call his name. If you're sure
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not too sure of the suspect to have him mailed. The questions I asked
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these suspects are merely to get a natural tone of voice. Should not pay
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too much attention to their answers, as they often lie. All right,
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bring on the line, all right, Keep it moving right over here to
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the end of the stage. That's right. Keep it moving all right.
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Now, turn it face front, answer your side, look straight ahead out
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through the screen there and keep your heads up. I want to call your
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number. Step out and talk up to everyone out there. Can hear you?
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Okay? Number one? George Phillips Grand Theft Auto. Where do you
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live? George eighty eight seventy six North Got George eighty eight seventy six North
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Nationals. What do you do? What's your business? I don't do anything.
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I'm out of work. When was the last time you worked? Last
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time? I guess about a year ago, something like that. About a
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year. What did you do then? Radio repair man? Repaired radios.
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Who'd you work for? I don't remember the name exactly, Adams. I
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think Adams was the name of the guy who owned the shop. Name of
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the place. How long did you worked there? I don't know. A
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couple of months. I guess I didn't get along with Adams. We've had
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a lot of arguments. Were you with anybody when you were arrested? No?
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Have any weapons? Weapons? No, this is the first time I've
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been arrested. It's not what it reads here. This is the first time.
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Oh the time I got in that trouble with Adham rested in nineteen fifty
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one for assault. Yeah, I threw a radio at him, hit him.
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What kind of a car are you driving when you were picked up?
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What? That's nothing, man, I don't want the old one thirty eight
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thirty nine. I guess what color? Black? I think black at dark
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blue? You remember driving it by sixth and Lincoln at any time? Six
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and Lincoln. I don't think so. I don't remember. I was just
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trying to get out of town. Did you pick anybody up? No?
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I wasn't stopping for anyone. I mean unless it was the cops, the
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police that it was okay, George step back sure number two, Arthur Handy
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grand stept daughter. Where do you live arthor? Oh? My Shelton fifty
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five seventy seven North Shelton. You arrested with anybody? Now? I was
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alone? What kind of a car. Wasn't Chevy ninety forty? Is doc
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blue? You drive by Lincoln and six at any time? No, the
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other side of town. Wall he picked me up. Oh you are nineteen,
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you live with your family? My uncle? Ever been arrested before.
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No, I don't think he's the one to be a couple of guys.
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I don't know many people. I'm from the other side of town. Okay,
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step back on her. It's going to be awfully hard to identify him.
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Do you just keep going robbery? How many more? I'm quite a
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few? Keep your head up. Where do you live with me? No
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identifications? No, couldn't really expect him to identify any when he saw him
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at a distance, got an overcoat on, best leaders a car. Did
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he have a look at the cars? Yeah, he says, the old
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Ford looks like it, but he can't be sure. It's been three days.
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Should get something in the girl soon. Her family has been checking in
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every five minutes. I don't know. Talk to everyone on her. It
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just doesn't sound like that the type of would let a stranger pick her up.
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You know what, we'll find out, Well, we'll find out she
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eloped or something stupid like that. And that's one of the first things I
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thought about. Who's gonna lope with her? Checked everyone she knows, Maybe
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she met some guy she didn't tell anyone about. Witness hadn't seen her get
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into that car. This could be just another case for missing persons. All
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right, let's take a look at it. I've taken a look at it.
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And have you've been getting enough sleep? Sorry? Okay. Mary Jane
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Cummings goes to a show three days ago the fifty right, john enright front
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of the family. Spots are getting into the car. Old car. Yeah,
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probably anywhere from thirty seven to forty four, dark black, green or
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blue. Next morning, the family reports the girl missing, and john Enwright
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comes in and describes the man he's sawing the car, medium build, wearing
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glasses in a tan top. Thoat never seen him before. Now she's been
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missing three days and that's what we got to go on. That much information,
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we could wrap it up in the next five minutes. Yeah, I
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just gotta call of from a guy at a gas station. He was with
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us girl on lake View Rod. They got out of the car to take
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a look at the lake and found a body. Man. Mary Jane Cummings
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I don't know. It's a girl. He was too excited to give me
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much lake you rowed, eh, yeah, he said he thought the girl
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had been shot to death. It's okay, ping, you're the police.
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Yeah, over here, she's down by the lake, bad way, Okay,
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show us. Okay. My girl and I were poked up there and
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took a walk. Where's your girl? And when she's up in the car,
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she's scared. Who are you? I'm at well, staying at well.
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My girl's name is Nancy Holloway. It's right over there. I mean,
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she is the body right there. You see, give me a light
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pack. Uh, we just stumbled on it. Nancy ran back to the
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car and I took a good look. She looks like she she's been shot.
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She has you ever seen anybody shot before? Yeah? Where in the
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service. It's not like this, though, I'll i'll hear. You don't
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expect to find something like that. Somebody's coming. It's quiet, and the
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lab boys take him back to his car and talk to his girl. Circle
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around that way so you don't mess up the ground up. Yeah, let's
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go say, okay, how long ago to prin Oh? I guess it,
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but down here go around that way. I got dark and the lab
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boys with me. I love it. Oh, Doc, gunshot looks like
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a small caliber. Here, we have some more lights. You're here,
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and the rest of you start backtracking. See what you can find. Take
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your time, comies go yeah, gunshot all right, small caliber twenty two
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or twenty five? Did shot twice? Twice? Hidden chest. I didn't
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see the chest. Not much blood. Yeah, carriage here shout at close
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range, powder birds, cline, stake out this area. I don't want
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anybody in that doesn't belong right, Oh yeah, why but what about a
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family? I'll go tell him right, Come in, mister Gary, I'm
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autenant. Got the hello, I have a scene. Thanks. Now you
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just go ahead and tell me all about it, mister Gary. What I
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told the other officer, Yeah please. Well I was well, first I
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read the papers and I started thinking about the other night when I was out
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near the lake. Yeah. What night was that? Thursday? The fifteen
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four days? Yeah, yeah, the fifteen Go ahead, Well, that
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night I was parked up by the lake, right at the turn off,
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you know the road before it circles around the lake for the right. Yeah,
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well, I was parked there with my girl yeah, I saw a
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car drive past. It was old Ford. Yes, go on, Well,
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I read the papers and I remember the car, and the papers said
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the girl was picked up by a man driving an old Ford just Stown by
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the lake, and the car was driving up in that direction. Yeah.
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Did you notice the driver of the car. It was a man and there
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was a girl with him. Yeah. What color was the car? Dark?
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Black? Maybe you've got a pretty good memory. Well, I thought
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at first there might be the cops. Uh, police, you got the
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license number? No, I told the other officer. I just noticed the
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first couple of numbers. I don't know why I remembered them. I'm not
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sure of them either. I think they were eight are eight are? Uh?
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Did you notice anything about the driver of the car. Well, I
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couldn't see him very well. I think maybe he was wearing a heavy coat,
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though, because it looked like he had the collar turned up, and
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it didn't look just like the collar of an ordinary coat anything else. No,
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I think that's it, just what I told the other officers. Okay,
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mister Gary, thank you very much. Sure, will you want me
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again? Well, we may. We'll give you a call, Okay,
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so long then, Yeah, a little tramp outside quit at seal. Oh
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what is it? He saw a guy throw away a gun this morning,
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But I talked to him. Sure, I come on in film. This
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is Lieutenant Gus reefilm and now I am hello philm tell a lieutenant what you
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told me? Yeah? I was flopping under a bridge, the one out
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on Oakdale. Want me to tenant, sorry, but I was flopping under
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a bridge. They went out on Oakdale when your fellows got to smoke.
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Oh oh, thank you, thank you. Ah. Well, now I
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don't much like long drawn out of the Orange, but I was flopping there,
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you see, under the bridge. They went out on Oakdale. And
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I was sleeping when I hear a car stop on the road till I get
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up, and I've seen this fellow getting out of the car. But he
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walks down to the river and throws a gun out in it, and then
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he climbs back up and he gets into his car. That's all. And
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what did the man look like? Well, he was a short fellow.
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He just made me about my side. What was he wearing clothes? What
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kind of a car was he driving? I couldn't see the car he parked
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over me on the bridge. In it you get the gun. No,
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no, no, no, I can't swim. I read the people where
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he's through the Gunyah. Oh, I'm a little hungry. I'll buy your
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lunch. I need breakfast. I buy that too. Any report on the
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gun, and I got six men out checking. It's a new one.
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I think we'll locate the celler. I don't land then, Pete, I
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don't know how much good I can do. You that the ejected shell they
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found on the road has been mashed too flat to get any markings. Guns
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the same caliber, all right, but I need the slug to compare with
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the riflings. Both slugs bashed through. Well, this is what I've got.
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The girl had been dead for about three days. I guess she was
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shot on the road and he staggered or was carried to the spot where you
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found a wound in the head. Could she have staggered? I don't think
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so, and neither is DOC not that far anyway, so you have best
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betest to figure she was carried just on a hunch. Dock checked the blood
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smear on her leg. It's not her blood type. Here's the lab reporty
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type. Baitch, Yeah, it's rare. Now Here are the samplings we
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took from her person and clothes. A lot of stuff is from the area,
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and then there are some other things. We went through our house and
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eliminated some, but there are a couple of items we can't account for.
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Might be stuff off the seats of the car. Might not you know about
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these things. We can match them, fine, but she could have picked
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them up anywhere. You think that gun could have done it? Yeah,
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so does Doc. I fired a couple of rounds in the box. And
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if you can locate the slugs that killed her. Did you see where she
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was found? No? But I just said, as if you can find
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that, that's all open country, like looking for a needle in a haystack.
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Well, if you could locate the other rejected shell, maybe it's intact.
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I could get the ejective markets and I've still got men out there.
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We're trying to find it. We made some of prints and tire tracks,
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and none of them are too good at roadless travels. Since she was killed,
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well, if we can find the guy who picked her up, and
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he's got type H blood, we've got a pretty good case. Got it
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man? Fine, Asher and I located the store where the gun was purchased
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clerk Sola to a man eight days ago. Who's the man? Names Waller
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Holt lives at ninety nine thirty two South Jefferson. Let's go talk to him.
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lineup. Maybe he's not home. I thought I heard somebody. Yeah,
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Yeah, somebody's coming just a minute. Yes, I've got dinner on the
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stove. Were the police got through, there's a sergeant cargo. Oh we'd
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like to talk to mister. Well, i'm his wife. What do you
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want with him? Can't we come in? Please? Oh? Place is
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a mess? All right? What's he done? We just want to talk
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to him. Is at work? What time is it? Five after six?
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He should be home in a few minutes. Look, i'm cooking.
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Do you mind? Well? No, no, you go right ahead.
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We'll come along and ask you a few questions if you don't mind, all
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right? Is this serious? Maybe not? What was your husband the night
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of the fifteenth? Fifteenth, Thursday, Thursday? Why? I would like
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to know. It's important. That's a number of days ago. He's trying
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to remember. Y think he was home Thursday night. He usually doesn't go
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out on Thursday night? Was that on Wednesday? Bowling? Some amends me?
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Office? Look all these questions? What did he do? You might
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as well tell me he'll be home many minutes. Well, we're not sure
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he did anything. We're just checking. Your husband purchased a twenty two automatic
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eight days ago, a gun? Do you know anything about it? He
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done. We didn't say anything about it, but if he bought one,
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it certainly must have been a good reason. At twenty two. That's not
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a very big gun, is it. No, well, maybe it's the
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gophers. Who's been having trouble with gophers digging up the backyard. We just
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planned a new grass. I think something's gonna boil over. Oh, thank
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you, sound's good. He probably just bought the gun to kill those gophers.
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What kind of a car does he driving? See? Can't you tell
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me what this is all about? All about guns and cars? Just some
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questions. But you must suspect him of something. He threw the gun away
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this morning. He threw it in the Oakdale River here. What do you
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think he's done? You rob somebody or something? Because if you do,
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that's just playing stupid. My husband wouldn't do a thing like that. What
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do you think he's done? Missus? Hold? I've tried to explain with
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just checking thing. What you must suspect him of something? What are you
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checking on? What kind of a car does your husband driving? Missus?
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Home Podiac? What you a new one? We just got it yesterday in
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the kitchener. You please tell me what this is all about what I was
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just talking. Oh, these are police officers, dear, Please, I'm
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Lieutenant Guthriine. This is Sergeant Cargan. Hello. Is something wrong? They
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want to talk to you. They won't tell me, but what is it?
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I would like to ask you a few questions. Okay, if you
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go on and finish dinner, dear, we'll go in the other room.
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All right, thank you? Missus home? Now what's this all about?
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A way do we get the other room? Sure? Is this? It
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makes me a little nervous. Come home and find a couple of cops in
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my kitchen. Just sit down anywhere? Okay? Now what is all this?
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Mister Holt? You own a twenty two cold automatic? Well, I
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did, but it was stolen? When was it stone? Oh, a
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couple of days ago? Did you report that that? Oh? I didn't
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think it was that important. Your wife know about her? No, I
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didn't tell her. I didn't even tell her I'd bought the gun when well,
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I thought it might worry or she doesn't like guns. Anything else stolen?
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No, you mean somebody broke into your house and only took a gun.
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The gun was in the car in the blood compartment. You have a
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Pontiac. Is that right? Yes, that's right, A new one.
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Yeah, mister Holt, where were you last Thursday? Ninth? Thursday?
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Thursday? Why? I was at home? I think it let me think
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I was at home most of the evening if I remember correctly. Did you
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go out at all Thursday? Well? I'm not sure, but I think
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I did go out for a while. I think I went out to the
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bowling alley to see what I was doing. How long were you gone?
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Oh? An hour? Hour and a half. Look, what is all
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this? Do you think I've done something? We just won a few facts.
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The man was observed throwing a twenty two pistol in the Oakdale Lake early
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this morning. Well did you catch him? No, you didn't throw that
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gun away into mister Hope me, of course not. I told you it's
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stolen. You wear glasses all the time, mister Hall, Yes, most
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of the time. Why, Look, I think you should tell me you
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know a Mary Jane coming? No, when did you catch your new car?
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Meerstahole? Four or five days ago? Your wife told us you got
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it yesterday. Well you got me so nervous. What kind of recurred you
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home before you got the new one? Accord. How old, mister Hope,
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What was the year? What color was it? He was a thirty
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nine? It was black? Where'd you seven place? Old Ron Lincoln?
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A regular dealer? Now? Now, look, i'd like to know what
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this is all about, all right, mister Holt, I'm surprised you haven't
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read about it been in all the papers. What Mary Jane Cummings, Oh
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the girl who was killed? Oh? No, you you don't think I
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had anything to do with it. We're just checking. You say the gun
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was stolen when a couple of days ago? Two days ago? That's right
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out of the new car. Yeah, your wife says, you only got
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the new car yesterday. I think you better come along with us here it
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is that's blood on the seat though, right, ah, it just about
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doesn't. Where's Hope? Pets with him? He sticks to his story about
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going to the bowling alley. They want me to check and see if anybody
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remembers his being in on Thursday night. Yeah, but before you do,
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see if you can find out Hope's blood type, ask his wife, find
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out who his doctor has asked him. Hope says he doesn't know, Okay,
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and get our witnesses in. I want to see if they can identify
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him. Right, all right, I tell you I sold it because we
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needed a new one. Oh man, you guys have been asked me questions
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now for three hours. I'm tired. Our lab found bloodstains on the seat
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of your old car. They must have been there when I bought the car.
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Weren't that old only about a week? Well, I don't know how
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they got there, mister Hope. We've got a couple of witnesses that saw
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the man who picked up Mary Jane Cummings. We've also got a witness that
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saw the man who threw your gun on the league. You were at home
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and you went to the bowling alley for about an hour, is that right?
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Yes, you didn't drive out to Lakeview Road. No, you don't
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know any Mary Jane coming. I told you no, No, I did
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not know. Have you cut yourself in the last week, mister Hall cut
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myself? No? Why take him down and have him examined? Pink.
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Okay, wait a minute, I cut my knee, but I forgot it.
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Seems I hit it on a nail in the garage. M bad.
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Can it doesn't bother me? I forgot all about it. We found a
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blood smear on the dead girl. I hurt my knee in the garage.
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Okay, mister Halk, take him back, pink, let's go. Wait
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a minute, asked mister Hall. What's the use I killed her? I
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want to tell us about it. I met her about three months ago.
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We didn't tell anybody, actually, my wife. We met him out of
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the way places usually Wednesday nights, my bowling knife. I think I met
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her, said on again. Thanks cigarette Noll. There's not much to it,
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boy, this is going to be tough on Lil. I guess maybe
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out have told you sooner if it hadn't been for Lil. Nice girl been
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married quite a while. I feel better, though, tell us all about
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it, and there's not much. I picked her up and we drove out
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on that road. We hadn't been getting along, fighting a lot. She
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was sure a funny girl, pretty, the wildest temper in the whole world.
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And I get pretty hot myself too. Lil's left me a couple of
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times. Mary was going to tell her, you know, it's hard to
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tell. It's hard to explain how much I hated her, but I couldn't
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stay away. It doesn't make sense, and it stopped making sense when I
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shot her and I knew she was dead. It was like a bad dream.
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I didn't buy the gun to kill her. We had some gophers,
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and I'm talking about killing gophers when I killed a girl. We sat there
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in the car. She hit me. I don't know what I did.
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I went wild. I guess I don't remember it too well. I just
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grabbed the gun. She laughed her stupid head off, and I shot her.
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I just wanted to stop her laughing. I can't tell you anymore.
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It's too hard. It's all mixed up. I don't think I can live
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with it. I hope they kill me. We'll need a statement everything you've
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told us with a stenographer. Can I have to sign up, mister home
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Yeah, okay, No, I haven't slept since it happened. I talked
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to you about Sure, it's okay. Take him my feet. I am
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I mistakes. I've found his doctrine, guy's blood times all all right,
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he's already confessed it should doesn't look worried about it. He's not now,
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with Jack Moyles a Sergeant Pete Carger, was written by Blake Edwards with music
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by Eddie Dunsteader. Featured in tonight's cast were High ever Back, Parley Bear
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Clayton Post, Bob Sweeney, Peter Leeds, Howard mcneer, and Virginia Gregg.
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The line up was transcribed in Hollywood by him Da Vayer. This is
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the CBS Radio Network, Welcome back, Well Top h I cannot find that
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blood type anywhere. It's certainly not part of the ABO system that we're familiar
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with, and there are a few possibilities. One, there may be something
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so obscure that I don't know, but maybe one of my listeners do.
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If you know what someone would be referring to top H Blood in nineteen fifty
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two, let me know. I know there are h factors in there,
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the other apost so, or maybe this is just an incredibly rare just this
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guy at the top age or you know, dragging that changes the name to
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protect the innocent, does the lot of change the blood top or they could
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have just made it up without researching in it, which would be really weird
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and kind of odd. But maybe you know, I don't know, So
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if you have any explanation of the top eh, I'd really love to hear
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it. Top ah Blood can't find anything on it anywhere. The other thing
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people might question is the gun in the car, given that the purpose was
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to get rid of gophers. But I think that was explained by his wife
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not being too keen on having a twenty two in the house. So all
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right, well we go ahead and we move on, and we have a
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comment from Mark who said that he re listened, and rewound and re listen
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to the perk number two played by Bob Bailey. As you said on the
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patter side episode, he had a Western accent, but he mispronounced organ.
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He said Oregon an Oregonian say or gun and he says it says brings to
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mine. The fancy actor host on Saturday not Live that just phone in their
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performances and read cue cards. These people are supposed to be professionals. For
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crying out loud, well, I wouldn't quite agree there a couple of things.
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First of all, oftentimes on the procedural radio dramas, particularly since everybody
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was borrowing from dragging it at this point, often understated was actually a good
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thing, so kind and very different than I think most other radio acting that
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Bob Bailey had done, which really Bailey's radio acting for most of the time
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he was left on let George do it, at least, judging by surviving
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exemplars, very few guest appearances at all. Secondly, I wouldn't say that
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that the person in the lineup number two was necessarily someone that could have been
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made one of the interesting roles in the lineup. It was partly I think
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the way it was written. And third, I think the big difference between
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Bob Bailey and the actors on Saturday Night Live is that Bob Bailey was as
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a guy just doing a brief walk in reading in the line, was probably
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getting paid scale. I doubt whoever is going to be the next host of
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Saturday Night Live will get paid scale for their appearance. That's not to say
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getting scale justifies the poor performance, but I doubt that CBS was expecting Sir
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Lawrence Olivier as suspect number two. The idea kind of reminds me of Charlton
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Heston in Wayne's World two. Put it on YouTube and search for it.
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Obviously non public domain, so I can't read it here or play it here.
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I thanks so much. Oh and he did have one other thing he
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said, By the way, didn't Howard mcneer play two parts in the episode
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perp number one and the car crash victim? I seem to remember that.
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I know mcneer has actually had more than one double, and that is something
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that you can do. In a radio you'll often see, for example,
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if you go to Radio Gold Index and you go from their program index,
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you'll see some actors they'll have an asterisk by their names saving doubles. And
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I've actually seen a few actors who have played three roles in the same radio
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drama. It's either a lot of expensive makeup or you have to work really
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hard one way or another to avoid making it look cheesy in film. But
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I think it get definitely can work on the radio, and indeed Colonial radio
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theater has had I think some actors play some doubles, as have the Harry
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Nile program. All right, well, we're going to close out the show.
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I should note that today, actually four years ago today was our first
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podcast, and this really does wrap up our fourth full year, and so
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on Monday we'll start our fifth year. So much ahead of us, and
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we've really covered just so much territory and so many fun shows and still some
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really really big, great shows still ahead. And I want to thank everybody
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so much for all your support through the past four years, and looking to
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continue on as we enjoy these programs. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. And
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of course we'll be returning to something called Dragnet later on this year, and
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excited about where we're going to go from here. All right, well,
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that will do it for now send you colemins a box thirteen at Great Detectives
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