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Dragnet - "Big In-Laws" (Old Time Radio, 1951) · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: August 23, 1951, NBC presented Dragnet, episode 115, Big In-Laws.
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  Speaker 1: In Los Angeles, Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner, Sergeant
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  Speaker 1: Ben Romero of the Robbery Detail, are working a series
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  Speaker 1: of truck hijackings.
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  Speaker 2: The stolen loads.
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  Speaker 1: Appear unrelated and the reports, witnesses, and vehicle leads offer
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  Speaker 1: no immediate pattern. Jack Webb stars as Friday and also
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  Speaker 1: produced and directed the program with Barton Yarborough as Romero.
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  Speaker 1: For Romero, the case proceeds alongside a crowded household with
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  Speaker 1: visiting in-laws. And now, the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: ¶ ¶.
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  Speaker 1: The story you are about to hear is true. Only
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  Speaker 1: the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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  Speaker 1: You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. A
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  Speaker 1: gang of hijackers has set up operations in your city.
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  Speaker 1: Truckloads of merchandise worth thousands of dollars vanish completely.
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  Speaker 4: The criminals know their business. Their system appears foolproof. Your job,
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  Speaker 4: stop them.
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  Speaker 5: Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
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  Speaker 5: next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
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  Speaker 5: you will travel step by step on the side of
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  Speaker 5: the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files.
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  Speaker 2: From beginning to.
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  Speaker 5: End, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of
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  Speaker 5: your police force in action.
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  Speaker 7: It was Saturday, November 8th. It was foggy in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 7: We were working the day watch out a robbery detail.
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  Speaker 7: My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Didion.
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  Speaker 4: My name's Friday.
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  Speaker 7: I was on the way back from R & I
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  Speaker 7: and it was 11.23 a.m.
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  Speaker 4: When I got to room 27A.
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  Speaker 7: Robbery detail.
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  Speaker 8: Joe?
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  Speaker 7: Hi.
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  Speaker 4: Where you been, anyhow? I've been sitting here 20 minutes
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  Speaker 4: waiting for you. Oh, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 7: I've been checking a couple names through, aren't I? It
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  Speaker 7: took a little longer than I figured.
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  Speaker 4: The least you could do is leave a note in
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  Speaker 4: the book. I do the same for you. I've been
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  Speaker 4: sitting here 20 minutes. I told you, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 7: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 4: You feeling well? No, I'm all right. Just like a
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  Speaker 4: little cooperation, Joe, that's all. What's the matter with you? Oh,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: I guess I was mad when I woke up. Got
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  Speaker 7: a crazy house. Well, what's the trouble?
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  Speaker 4: Did you have an argument with your wife?
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  Speaker 2: In-laws.
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  Speaker 4: They're visiting again. Six of them. Oh, and where are
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  Speaker 4: they sleeping? All over the place. Four adults, two kids,
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  Speaker 4: and a gray fox terrier. He's not even housebroken.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: How long are they going to stay? A couple of days?
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  Speaker 4: Two weeks. I don't know how I can last a doubt, Joe.
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  Speaker 4: They're crawling all over the place. Kids screaming, dog carrying
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  Speaker 4: up the front room, no privacy. I don't know what
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to do.
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  Speaker 7: Well, why don't you just level with them? Ask them
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  Speaker 7: if they wouldn't mind staying at a motel for a
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  Speaker 7: couple of days. I suggested that to the wife this morning.
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  Speaker 4: What'd she think? That's when the argument started. Hey, I
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  Speaker 4: almost forgot to tell you that truck driver finally showed
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  Speaker 4: up at Frank Burr's. Oh, yeah, it's about time. Where
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  Speaker 4: is he? Took him across the hall to the mug room.
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  Speaker 4: Got him checking out some coming out mug books. Guess
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  Speaker 4: we better see how he's doing. All right.
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  Speaker 7: He sure took his time getting there, didn't he?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, didn't offer any excuses. He's no more help than
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  Speaker 4: he was yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 9: Certainly.
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  Speaker 4: Not very cooperative. How you doing, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Burroughs?
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  Speaker 4: You remember my partner, Sergeant Friday? Yeah, Burroughs. I got
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  Speaker 4: a headache. This is just a waste of time wading
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  Speaker 4: through all these pictures. I've been through two of these
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  Speaker 4: books already. I couldn't identify any of the guys.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, we know it's pretty tedious. We'd just like to
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  Speaker 7: have you check through a few more.
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  Speaker 4: Of our items, if you wouldn't mind. Look, I don't
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  Speaker 4: mind giving you a hand when I got time, but
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  Speaker 4: I got things to do today. I got something on
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  Speaker 4: for tonight. I have to get a haircut, my suit pressed.
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  Speaker 7: Well, this thing's pretty important to us, Burroughs. I know
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  Speaker 7: we're putting you out, but we need every lead we
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  Speaker 7: can get. We'd certainly appreciate it if you could just
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  Speaker 7: give us a little more cooperation.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what else I can do. I told
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  Speaker 4: you everything I know, just the way it happened. A
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  Speaker 4: few more things we'd like to ask you about, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Some of the details you didn't make quite clear. What details?
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  Speaker 4: How do you mean? Details about the hijacking. Mind going
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  Speaker 4: over it again for us? I laid it out for
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  Speaker 4: you the last time you talked to me, just the
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  Speaker 4: way it went. It's the same as the rest. Well,
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  Speaker 4: how do you mean, the same as the rest? Well,
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  Speaker 4: the other hijackings are the same as those, no different.
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  Speaker 7: You're pretty familiar with the other jobs, are you?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I followed them in the paper. There was a
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  Speaker 4: bullet and the cops got out on them. It was
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  Speaker 4: up on the dispatch board in the garage. Hey, is
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  Speaker 4: that fresh water in that cooler over there? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: think so. Help yourself. Thanks. I've got to have a
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  Speaker 4: couple of aspirin for this headache. Can't take aspirin without water. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: You've been driving a couple of years for Lavelle Trucking Lines,
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  Speaker 7: is that right, Burroughs?
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  Speaker 4: That's right, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I wonder if you'd mind running it through.
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  Speaker 4: For us again, Burroughs.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe there's a few details about the thing that you
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  Speaker 7: forgot to mention, huh?
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  Speaker 4: It won't be any different than last time. I pulled
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  Speaker 4: out from the loading dock about 6 o'clock yesterday morning,
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  Speaker 4: hauling a load of Scotch whiskey over to Phoenix. Pulled
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  Speaker 4: up for the red light at Alameda and Jackson. That's
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  Speaker 4: when the guy pulled open the door and got in
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  Speaker 4: next to me. Put a gun in my ribs, told
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  Speaker 4: me to look straight ahead. First thing he did was
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  Speaker 4: hand me that pair of goggles and tell me to
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  Speaker 4: put them on. Same kind the welders use. Front of
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  Speaker 4: the lens was covered with tape. I put them on.
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't see a thing. Guy took over the wheel
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  Speaker 4: and started driving.
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  Speaker 7: Well, did you have any idea what direction you were
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  Speaker 7: heading in?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, not with the goggles on. I tried to follow
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  Speaker 4: at first, but I got all mixed up. Couldn't tell
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  Speaker 4: where he was driving. Made quite a few turns. He
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  Speaker 4: drove about 20, 25 minutes, I guess, before we pulled up. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: That's where the switching point was. Two more guys met
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  Speaker 4: us there. I could only tell by the voices. They
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  Speaker 4: pulled me out of the truck and put me in
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  Speaker 4: a car.
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  Speaker 7: Well, can you tell us anything at all about that
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  Speaker 7: transfer point? I mean, were there any sounds, anything like
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  Speaker 7: that that.
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  Speaker 4: Would give you an idea of maybe where you were? Well,
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  Speaker 4: I figure it must have been someplace out in the valley,
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  Speaker 4: pretty far out. No traffic sounds at all, just crickets,
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  Speaker 4: you know, things like that. He got me in that car,
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  Speaker 4: drove around about an hour, I figure. Then they put
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  Speaker 4: me on the side of the road, told me to
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  Speaker 4: leave the goggles on for ten minutes, and then they
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  Speaker 4: drove off.
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  Speaker 7: Well, how about those two men at the transfer point?
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  Speaker 7: If you heard their voices again, you think you could
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  Speaker 7: recognize them?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: I doubt it.
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  Speaker 4: They didn't say too much. Not that I heard, anyway.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just curious, Burroughs. How is it you thought of
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  Speaker 4: calling your company first instead of the police? Well, it's
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  Speaker 4: their cargo. A whole load of whiskey. If somebody hijacked it,
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  Speaker 4: I figured the company ought to be the first to know.
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  Speaker 7: I'd like to ask you just one more question.
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  Speaker 4: There's no offense intended here. Yeah? Have you ever been arrested?
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  Speaker 7: Why?
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  Speaker 4: What'd that have to do with it? Oh, probably nothing
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  Speaker 4: at all. Have you ever been arrested? I'd like to
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  Speaker 4: set you straight on it right now. If you think
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  Speaker 4: I was working inside on this thing, you got it wrong.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't have anything to do with it. Then there's
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  Speaker 4: nothing to worry about, is there? All right. Yeah, I've
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  Speaker 4: been arrested. When was that, Burroughs? About ten years ago.
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  Speaker 4: It was back east, West Virginia. What was the charge?
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  Speaker 7: Hijacking. Our records showed no previous arrests for Frank Burroughs.
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  Speaker 7: For the next few days, he was kept under observation.
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  Speaker 7: When we got the kickback from Washington, it showed Burroughs
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  Speaker 7: had one previous arrest, the one he told us about,
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  Speaker 7: for hijacking. We checked all his friends, relatives, and associates.
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  Speaker 7: We found nothing suspicious. His employer said that they were
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  Speaker 7: aware of his police record, but they told us that
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  Speaker 7: Burroughs was one of the best drivers they had. There
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  Speaker 7: was nothing to link him with a series of hijackings
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  Speaker 7: which had been going on all over the city for
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  Speaker 7: the past month. Our crime lab checked the pair of
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  Speaker 7: goggles which Burroughs had been forced to wear during the hijacking.
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  Speaker 7: They were an ordinary industrial type, easily obtained and impossible
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  Speaker 7: to trace. Other than those belonging to Burroughs, there were
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  Speaker 7: no fingerprints on them. Late that afternoon, the missing truck
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  Speaker 7: and trailer was found empty in a deserted section of
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  Speaker 7: the valley. No latent fingerprints or other physical evidence. 9 a.m.
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  Speaker 7: the next morning, we met with Captain Didion.
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  Speaker 4: Cargo's gone, huh? Not a trace of it. That's it, Skipper.
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  Speaker 4: High-grade scotch whiskey, 150 cases. Got out of Bolton all
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  Speaker 4: the liquor wholesalers. Serial numbers listed. That ex-con Burroughs, nothing
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  Speaker 4: turn up on him? No, nothing.
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  Speaker 7: We double-checked everything about him.
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  Speaker 4: He's clean. You didn't get a thing off that abandoned truck?
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  Speaker 8: No prints, no physical evidence. Seems like they got it
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  Speaker 8: down to a science. Tell that to Thad Brown. He's
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  Speaker 8: getting all the kicks from the warehouse operators. 30 days
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  Speaker 8: and six hijackings. How about moving faster?
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  Speaker 4: As you know, we got 12 stakeouts running down freight loads, Skipper. Incoming, outgoing.
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  Speaker 4: Got three girls in the stats office doing nothing but
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  Speaker 4: making runs for us. No new suspect?
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  Speaker 7: We got a meeting with an informant after lunch. He
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  Speaker 7: figures he may have something. There's nothing to bank on.
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  Speaker 8: How about an inside tip-off on these jobs? Any indication
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  Speaker 8: the gang's working something like that?
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  Speaker 4: No, nothing definite, Skipper. Jobs seem to be pretty well-cased, though.
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  Speaker 4: We've checked out everybody with a record working for the
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  Speaker 4: trucking lines. No reason to think any of them had
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  Speaker 4: a hand in it. Excuse me a minute. Vivian? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Live Oak, near Trenton Avenue. Yeah, I got it right.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. We got another truck early this morning. Where?
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  Speaker 4: There's the location. Better move on it. Looks like they
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  Speaker 4: got their signals crossed.
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  Speaker 10: How do you mean?
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't make sense. The cargo they hijacked. What was it?
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  Speaker 4: A load of toothbrushes.
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  Speaker 7: 9.23 a.m. Ben and I drove to the intersection of
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  Speaker 7: Live Oak Drive and Trenton Avenue in the Hollywood Hills
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  Speaker 7: where we located the latest driver to fall victim to
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  Speaker 7: the gang of hijackers. His story was the same as
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  Speaker 7: the others. He'd stopped his truck for a red light
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  Speaker 7: at a deserted intersection when a man jumped on the
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  Speaker 7: running board and pointed a gun at his head. The
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  Speaker 7: man with the gun took over the wheel and forced
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  Speaker 7: the driver to put on a pair of blacked-out welder's goggles.
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  Speaker 7: Then the truck was moved to a remote spot where
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  Speaker 7: the driver was transferred to a car and later released
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  Speaker 7: in a remote section of the Hollywood Hills. The hijacked
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  Speaker 7: truck was found empty a day later. And again, there
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  Speaker 7: was no physical evidence, no fingerprints. The driver could add
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  Speaker 7: little to what we already knew. The only point that
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  Speaker 7: made the case any different from those that had gone
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  Speaker 7: before was the cargo that had been stolen, a load
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  Speaker 7: of toothbrushes. We began an immediate checkup. of the neighborhood where,
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  Speaker 7: according to the driver, he was first held up. It
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  Speaker 7: was a fairly remote intersection in the San Fernando Valley.
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  Speaker 7: After four hours of interviewing ranchers and gas station attendants,
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  Speaker 7: we talked to the operator of a practice driving range
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  Speaker 7: for golfers located just off the highway. His name was
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  Speaker 7: Fred Garrison.
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  Speaker 11: Matter of fact, I did notice something out of the
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  Speaker 11: ordinary this morning. A little before 6 a.m., I think.
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  Speaker 11: Spotted this big semi turning off on that dirt road
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  Speaker 11: down the highway there.
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  Speaker 4: Which dirt road is that, Mr. Garrison?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, right up the highway there.
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  Speaker 4: See it?
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  Speaker 11: It turns off by that clump of trees. Couldn't figure
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  Speaker 11: out why a big truck and trailer would be taking
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  Speaker 11: that road.
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't make sense. How do you mean, sir?
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  Speaker 11: Well, it's a dead end. No reason why a driver
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  Speaker 11: would turn off there by mistake. There's a big sign
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  Speaker 11: right there at the intersection.
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  Speaker 2: It says, not a through street. Right there.
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  Speaker 4: See it? Plain as day.
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  Speaker 7: I wonder if you could describe the truck for us, Mr. Garrison. Well,
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  Speaker 7: it's a pretty good size.
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  Speaker 11: One of those big aluminum jobs. Black lettering on the side.
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  Speaker 4: I think.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, it turned off the highway, went down the dirt
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  Speaker 11: road a little ways, and then it turned off into
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  Speaker 11: that grove of trees, and the driver cut the lights.
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  Speaker 4: Did you notice any activity going on at all?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, maybe I should have.
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  Speaker 2: Walked over and checked it.
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  Speaker 11: I figured it was just some truck driver pulling up
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  Speaker 11: to catch.
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  Speaker 4: A few winks of sleep.
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  Speaker 11: My boy Dave was with me at the time. Wanted
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  Speaker 11: to check it, but I told him to mind his
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  Speaker 11: own business. Says a couple of minutes after the truck
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  Speaker 11: pulled in, he saw a gray sedan come down the
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  Speaker 11: road and park next to the truck right in that
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  Speaker 11: same clump of trees.
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  Speaker 7: Well, now, didn't all this look a little suspicious to you, sir?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I suppose so, in a way.
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  Speaker 7: I just don't like the metal where it's not my business,
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  Speaker 7: that's all. Well, did your boy Dave get a good
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  Speaker 7: look at this gray sedan?
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  Speaker 4: Do you know that?
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  Speaker 9: You want to come in the office and sit down?
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, thanks.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, sit right there if you like.
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  Speaker 4: Fine, thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Let's see, now, where were we?
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  Speaker 4: About your boy, Dave? Oh, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: You said that he saw a gray sedan pull in
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  Speaker 7: next to the truck over in that clump of trees.
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  Speaker 7: Did he mention anything else that he noticed.
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  Speaker 4: About the car? I mean, other than the fact that
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  Speaker 4: it was a gray sedan.
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  Speaker 11: Well, yeah, I think he did say something else about it.
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  Speaker 4: No, let's see.
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  Speaker 11: Wasn't listening too close at the time. Dave's doing some
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  Speaker 11: errands downtown.
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  Speaker 9: For me right now.
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  Speaker 4: He'll be phoning in pretty soon, though.
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  Speaker 11: I could ask him about it then. He paid a
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  Speaker 11: lot more attention to the thing than I did.
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  Speaker 7: Well, how long were the truck and trailer and that
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  Speaker 7: sedan parked in the Grove of Trees?
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  Speaker 4: Do you remember that? Well, not too long.
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  Speaker 11: Maybe 15, 20 minutes. The car pulled out first and
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  Speaker 11: took off down the.
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  Speaker 2: Highway away from town.
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  Speaker 3: That way, see?
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  Speaker 11: And the truck and trailer left a few minutes after.
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  Speaker 4: What do you figure they were up to? We've got
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  Speaker 4: an idea. What time was that again, sir, when you
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  Speaker 4: saw the truck turn off the highway onto the dirt road?
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  Speaker 4: About 6 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe a few minutes one way or the other.
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  Speaker 7: I wonder if you'd show us the exact spot where
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  Speaker 7: you saw that truck park, would you?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 4: Here.
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  Speaker 9: You want to come over here with me to the window?
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 7: Now, you see the clump of trees there?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Eucalyptus.
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  Speaker 11: They boarded right on the road?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Maybe that's him now. All right.
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  Speaker 9: Garrison Fairways.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, Dave.
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  Speaker 4: How'd you make out?
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  Speaker 10: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, fine.
• 12:39
  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
• 12:40
  Speaker 11: Listen, a couple of policemen here now, they're asking about
• 12:42
  Speaker 11: that truck and that gray sedan.
• 12:43
  Speaker 4: You saw up on the road this morning.
• 12:44
  Speaker 11: Want to know what you noticed about the sedan besides
• 12:47
  Speaker 11: the color?
• 12:49
  Speaker 7: How's that?
• 12:51
  Speaker 6: Oh, you did, uh-huh.
• 12:52
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 12:53
  Speaker 4: Well, you better head back here.
• 12:54
  Speaker 7: They probably want to talk to you about it.
• 12:56
  Speaker 12: All right, Davey.
• 12:57
  Speaker 7: Bye.
• 12:57
  Speaker 11: What did he have to say? Oh, he'll be back
• 13:00
  Speaker 11: in about 20 minutes. I figured you wanted to talk
• 13:02
  Speaker 11: to him.
• 13:02
  Speaker 7: Well, how about the sedan, sir? Did he get a
• 13:03
  Speaker 7: pretty good look at it, did he say?
• 13:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess so. He got part of the license number.
• 13:09
  Speaker 7: Fred Garrison's son, Dave, returned and gave us all the
• 13:12
  Speaker 7: pertinent facts about the truck and the gray sedan which
• 13:14
  Speaker 7: he'd noticed in the neighborhood early that morning. His description
• 13:17
  Speaker 7: of the truck and trailer, what he saw of it anyway,
• 13:19
  Speaker 7: matched closely with that of the latest vehicle to be hijacked.
• 13:22
  Speaker 7: He described the car as a gray sedan and he
• 13:24
  Speaker 7: said it looked to him like it was a late
• 13:26
  Speaker 7: model Nash, but he couldn't be sure. He said the
• 13:28
  Speaker 7: first three units on the license plate were 7T7. The
• 13:32
  Speaker 7: location in the grove of trees where the truck had
• 13:34
  Speaker 7: been spotted was checked thoroughly. Outside of some indefinite tire tracks,
• 13:38
  Speaker 7: there was no physical evidence. 4.10 p.m., we put in
• 13:41
  Speaker 7: a call to DMV and asked for a rundown on
• 13:43
  Speaker 7: the three license plate numbers. The next morning, DMV returned
• 13:46
  Speaker 7: to us a list of more than 1,000 auto registrations,
• 13:49
  Speaker 7: which began with the figure 7T7. We went down the
• 13:52
  Speaker 7: list and gradually eliminated 600 of these as not being
• 13:55
  Speaker 7: physically close in description to the car seen by Garrison's boy, Dave.
• 13:59
  Speaker 4: We kept checking.
• 14:00
  Speaker 7: Almost 300 more on the list were registered in distant
• 14:02
  Speaker 7: parts of the state. That left us with over 100
• 14:05
  Speaker 7: vehicles registered in or around Los Angeles to check out.
• 14:08
  Speaker 7: It went slow. Three weeks passed. We narrowed the list
• 14:12
  Speaker 7: down to 23 possibles. Tuesday, December 10th. We were checking
• 14:16
  Speaker 7: registrations with addresses in the east end of the city.
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: What's the name on this one again? Perry.
• 14:22
  Speaker 7: Walter R.
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: Perry. Garage is straight back to drive there. There's a
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: car park in it.
• 14:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah. Let's try the bell again, huh?
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah. What do you say? All right, let's give the
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: car a look. People sure do get careless. Nobody home,
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: garage wide open, car sitting there. Qualifies so far. You
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: want to check the steering post registration, Sam?
• 14:54
  Speaker 7: I get it.
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: Check out, all right? Just a minute. What do you
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: got there? Here.
• 15:04
  Speaker 7: Found these under the seat.
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, maybe we're home.
• 15:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a pair of goggles.
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: Take a look.
• 15:08
  Speaker 13: Yeah, both lenses covered with tape.
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: You're in the forgery division of the Metropolitan Police Department.
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: Handwriting analysis.
• 15:30
  Speaker 7: Well, let's check it against the forged letter.
• 15:33
  Speaker 11: The capitals print evenly.
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: The O's and the A's are clean.
• 15:37
  Speaker 11: No, this isn't the typewriter we're looking for.
• 15:38
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 15:51
  Speaker 7: Capitals print high.
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: A's and O's are solid. P's slanted. This is the one.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: It's the same with cigarettes. There are many king-size brands
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: to choose from. But when you know all the facts,
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: You'll make your choice Fatima.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Here are those facts. Fatimas are the same in length
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: and circumference.
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: 85 millimeters long, 1 and 1 64th inches around.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: And Fatima filters the smoke exactly the same long distance
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: as any other king size cigarette. But in Fatima, the
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: difference is quality. Remember, Fatima gives you extra mildness. A
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: much different, much better flavor and aroma. You get all
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: the advantages of extra length. plus Fatima quality, which no
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: other king-size cigarette has.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Fatima, best of all king-size cigarettes.
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: Definitely the best quality in its class, but the same
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: price as the cigarette you are now smoking.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Next time, buy Fatima.
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: Tuesday, December 10th, 2.15 p.m. The pair of goggles found
• 17:02
  Speaker 7: in the automobile registered to Walter R.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: Perry were the.
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: Same brand and style as the goggles used to black
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: out the truck drivers in all the previous hijackings. Ben
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: and I searched the car, but we failed to come
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: up with any additional physical evidence. We left the garage,
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: checked the house again to make sure that there was
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: nobody at home. Then we went down the street close
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: to the house to where we'd parked our car. We
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: put in a call to R & I and requested
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: a make on Walter R.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Perry.
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: He had no previous criminal records. A few minutes later,
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: we spotted two women loaded with grocery bags come down
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: the street, go up the stairs of the Perry house
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: and let themselves in with a key. We went up
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: to the front door, rang the bell, and the younger
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: of the two women answered. Dark brown hair, blue eyes,
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: about 5'6, 28, 29 years old. We identified ourselves and
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: she showed us into the living room. She told us
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: her name was Leona Perry and that Walter Perry was
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: her husband. They'd been married 11 years, no children. We
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: asked her where her husband was and she said he
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: was out of town on a business trip up north
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: to Monta Vista, California. We asked her what line.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Of business he was in.
• 18:01
  Speaker 10: Well, right now, well, there's a jewelry salesman who works
• 18:03
  Speaker 10: for himself. Has to do quite a bit of traveling.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: Your husband's blonde, about 5'9, 160 pounds. Is that right? Yes,
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: that's right. How'd he go up north, ma'am? Do you know?
• 18:11
  Speaker 9: Well, I think he went up by train. I'm not sure.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: Do you have any idea how we might contact your
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: husband up north?
• 18:16
  Speaker 9: No, I'm afraid I don't.
• 18:17
  Speaker 10: He said he had a couple of business appointments in
• 18:19
  Speaker 10: different towns in that area up there. He didn't tell
• 18:21
  Speaker 10: me where he'd be staying.
• 18:23
  Speaker 9: What's it about, Sergeant?
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Just a routine check, Ms.
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: Perry. Is that a photograph of your husband over there
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: on the piano?
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: Yes. When's he expected back, do you know? Oh, let's see.
• 18:33
  Speaker 9: This is Tuesday. He should be home sometime Thursday.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: I see.
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: A minute ago, you said right now your husband's a
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: jewelry salesman.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: Is that his usual line of work?
• 18:40
  Speaker 10: No, Walt is a truck driver.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: He work here in Los Angeles?
• 18:43
  Speaker 10: No, he drove for a company up north in the
• 18:45
  Speaker 10: Bay Area, Oakland-Berkeley. He had that job for 10 years,
• 18:48
  Speaker 10: almost from the day we were married. And then last December,
• 18:51
  Speaker 10: he had a fight with a boss and he quit.
• 18:53
  Speaker 10: We moved down here to find work, but it just
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: couldn't seem to get placed.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: How long has he been selling jewelry, ma'am?
• 18:58
  Speaker 10: Oh, about eight months, I'd say. He's doing very good
• 19:01
  Speaker 10: at it. We have more now than when he was
• 19:03
  Speaker 10: driving a truck. A lot of money in the jewelry business.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: Well, it's just you and your husband living here. Is
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: that right?
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: No, my mother lives with us, too.
• 19:09
  Speaker 9: We just got back from doing the shopping. I guess
• 19:11
  Speaker 9: she's busy putting the groceries away.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: I see. Mom?
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: Mom?
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Say, that's all right, ma'am. I think you can give
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: us the information we need.
• 19:19
  Speaker 10: Well, I'd like to know what this is about.
• 19:20
  Speaker 9: I'd appreciate it if you'd tell me. Walter isn't in
• 19:23
  Speaker 9: any kind of trouble, is he?
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: Just a routine investigation, Miss Perry. Doesn't necessarily mean your
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: husband's involved.
• 19:28
  Speaker 9: I can tell you right now, my husband isn't involved
• 19:30
  Speaker 9: in anything. Walter's never had trouble with the police in
• 19:33
  Speaker 9: his life. Walter has trouble with the police?
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: What is it, Leona? It's nothing, Ma.
• 19:36
  Speaker 10: These policemen want to talk to Walter. They just want
• 19:37
  Speaker 10: to ask him a few questions, that's all. This is
• 19:40
  Speaker 10: my mother, Mrs.
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: Burke. Ma, this is Mr. Friday and Mr.
• 19:43
  Speaker 12: Romero.
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: I told you, Leona, I felt it all day. Something's wrong.
• 19:46
  Speaker 9: Walter's done something, hasn't he? Now, don't start on that again, Ma, please.
• 19:48
  Speaker 9: The officers told me they want to talk to Walter.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: That's all. What for?
• 19:51
  Speaker 9: If he hasn't done anything, why do they want to
• 19:52
  Speaker 9: talk to him?
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: Routine duty, ma'am. There's nothing to get excited about.
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: I knew it would happen. I felt it all the time,
• 19:56
  Speaker 9: that funny job he has, selling jewelry, going out at
• 19:59
  Speaker 9: all hours. Couldn't fool me. I knew it wasn't right.
• 20:02
  Speaker 9: What's he done?
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: We're his relatives.
• 20:03
  Speaker 9: We've got a right to know.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: Well, there's nothing we can tell you, definitely, ma'am.
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: How about these odd working hours your husband has, Ms.
• 20:08
  Speaker 10: Perry?
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: What's the reason for that? Could you tell us?
• 20:11
  Speaker 9: Well, I don't know.
• 20:12
  Speaker 10: Walter works for himself. He just has to make business
• 20:14
  Speaker 10: contacts when he can't, that's all. Sometimes it's late at night,
• 20:17
  Speaker 10: sometimes early in the morning. Why don't you stay out
• 20:20
  Speaker 10: of it, Ma? After all, it's our business. Walter's in mine.
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: You just marked my word, Leona. Find out about this.
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: That husband of yours has done something, and these policemen
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: are after him. I knew it wasn't right. I felt
• 20:28
  Speaker 9: it all along. No, please take me out. He's jewelry, business,
• 20:30
  Speaker 9: he's big money. I should have left and taken you
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: with me the day it started. Walter's a truck driver.
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: It's all you'll ever be. It's where he should have stayed.
• 20:36
  Speaker 10: Why are you always picking on Walter?
• 20:39
  Speaker 9: Should have married him. Eleven years ago, I told you.
• 20:41
  Speaker 9: I never should have come to stay with you.
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: You couldn't go and marry one of those nice boys
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: you met at school. It had to be Walter Perry. Well,
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: maybe you'll see now. Trouble with the police. Now you'll
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: see what kind of a man you marry.
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: Shut up, Mark.
• 20:51
  Speaker 9: Sorry, August.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm afraid that isn't helping much, Miss Burke.
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: I suppose not. What is it that can help? You
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: have kids, you try to tell them something, make it
• 21:01
  Speaker 9: easy for them, they never listen.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: Now, that gray sedan back in the garage, ma'am, does
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: anyone else drive it besides Mr. Perry, do you know?
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: No, the owner doesn't drive, Walter. He's the only one
• 21:08
  Speaker 9: who runs it.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: He drives it to all these business appointments he has
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: at odd hours? That's right.
• 21:12
  Speaker 9: The only times he doesn't take it is when he's
• 21:13
  Speaker 9: out of town.
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: Uh, you ever seen this pair of goggles before, ma'am?
• 21:18
  Speaker 9: No, I never have. What does it mean, that tape
• 21:20
  Speaker 9: all over the front of them?
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: Well, how about your son-in-law's friends?
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Do you ever bring any of them here to the house?
• 21:23
  Speaker 9: Not since I've been staying here the last six months.
• 21:25
  Speaker 9: Letters from him. You call him on the phone, he
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: goes out. Doesn't bring anyone around, though. I'm just sick
• 21:30
  Speaker 9: of it.
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: Well, can you tell us anything about this jewelry business Mr.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Perry's working in?
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: I don't even want to think about it.
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: I raised four daughters, nice girls, every one of them attractive.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: You make plans for them and you want them to
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: be happy and marry some nice fellow, have a nice
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: comfortable home, you try to tell.
• 21:42
  Speaker 9: Them and they never listen.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: About the car, ma'am.
• 21:44
  Speaker 9: They get to be 17 and.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: They know everything.
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: My girls could have married wealthy if they were smart.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: A lot of other girls have done it. They had
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: nice clothes, they got through business school, good home training,
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: all this talk about love.
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: They're also smart. They know everything and they know nothing.
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: What happens.
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: We wake up and find out. Would you finish putting
• 22:00
  Speaker 9: the groceries away? Ma told the officers. Anything you want, Leona.
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: I didn't mean to upset you. Maybe things will be
• 22:06
  Speaker 9: all right.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: Just a few more questions, Miss Perry. That's all.
• 22:08
  Speaker 9: Well, whatever it is, I know Walter hasn't done anything wrong.
• 22:10
  Speaker 9: He wouldn't do anything wrong. It doesn't make sense. There's
• 22:12
  Speaker 9: just no reason for it. I remember your father, Leona.
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: Sixteen years we were married. One night he packed up
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: and left me. There wasn't any reason for that either.
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: Wasn't there, Ma?
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: We continued questioning the wife and the mother-in-law of the suspect,
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: Walter Perry. From the wife, we got the names and
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: addresses of four close friends of Perry's who were supposed
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: to be associates of his in the jewelry business. In
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: the basement and in a loft over the garage, we
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: found more than a dozen cases of high-grade Scotch whiskey,
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: cases of expensive furs and other loot taken in the hijackings.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: Mrs.
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: Perry said her husband told her he was storing the
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: stuff for some friends. It was only a small portion
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: of the take. We called the office and got out
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: a broadcast and an APB on the suspect and arranged
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: for an immediate stakeout on the Perry house. And then,
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: together with Matthews and Gonzalez from Robbery Detail, we began
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: checking out the four close friends of the suspect. We
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: could locate only two of them, but those two paid off.
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: In the basements and garages of their homes, we found
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: another portion of the loot, along with evidence that showed
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: that both men had taken active parts in the hijackings.
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: They were booked at the main jail on suspicion of
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: 211 PC. A full week went by. The stakeout continued
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: on the Perry house.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: Still no sign of him.
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: Saturday, December 20th, 4.45 p.m.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: We checked back in at the office. This thing sure
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: dragging out, huh? Yeah, it'd be nice to wrap it
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: up before Christmas, wouldn't it? Get it out of the way.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Might work him a couple of days off. I don't
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: know if I'm too interested, Joe.
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: What?
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: The days off. I mean, we've got visitors on the
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: way again. You mean for the holidays? Who's coming? Same
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: old bunch.
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: My brother-in-law and his wife and his kids and that
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: little dog over there.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Well, they were just with you for three weeks, weren't they?
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: What's the deal? Oh, brother-in-law got home, found a notice
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: from his company. He's been transferred out here. They're going
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: to stay with us all through the holidays, and then
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: they'll start house hunting. How about that? He's got a problem.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: He's got a new rug in the living room. I've
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: got 20 to 1 on it, Joe. What's that? A
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: little Fox Terrier. Oh, hi, Skipper. Anything before we check out?
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Piece of news for you. Just talked to the Ventura
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Sheriff's Office. We owe them a favor. What do you mean?
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: They grabbed Walter Perry half an hour ago.
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: Monday, December 22nd. Suspect Walter Perry was returned to Los Angeles.
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: He was taken to the interrogation room where Captain Didion, Ben,
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: and I questioned him for almost two hours. He was
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: confronted with the evidence and testimony against him, and after
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: another hour and a half of interrogation, he broke. He
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: gave us a full signed statement describing his part in
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: the campaign of hijackings. He also gave us the names
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: of everyone in the gang, how they participated, and to
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: what extent. He said most of the property looted from
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: the hijacked trucks was stored in a rented barn located
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: at the north end of the San Fernando Valley. A
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: detail of men checked it and confirmed the information. The
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: suspect's wife, Leona, was notified of her husband's arrest. 1.35 p.m.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: We completed our interrogation. That's it, Perry. Let's go. You
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: ask me a lot of questions. How about it? Can
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: I ask you one? What's that?
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Why do you think I did it? Why I got
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: mixed up in this?
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: Well, according to your statement, you wanted the money, isn't it? Well,
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: you've been out to my house, haven't you?
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: You met my wife?
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: I guess you met her mother, too. Yeah. Well, then
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: you got it.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Nobody in the world could.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Make me go for a hijack deal, but she could.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: I even remember the morning I'd made up my mind
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: to do it.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: I was out in the kitchen. You hear yapping at
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: Leona in the other room.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Same old roasting. Lousy truck driver, that was me. Eleven
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: years the wife and I have been married. Her mother
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: lived with us, nine of them.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: Didn't get any better, didn't get any worse. Just the
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: same old yapping. Her and her four girls. Why couldn't
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: they listen to her? They were the best girls in
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: the world.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Why couldn't they marry money?
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Why did it have to be guys like truck drivers?
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Stupid truck drivers. Same thing every day. Always the same.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: Nine years of it.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: So I went out to get enough money to rub
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: in her face. Enough to make her choke on. You
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: can hate somebody for that. I don't know how many
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: years they'll give me, but I'm going to hate her
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: every one.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Matt? Oh, hi, Olsen.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: If you want to remain in jail, this one's ready
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: to go. Only be a minute, Rex.
• 25:51
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: All right, Tony.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Sergeant, my wife's been told, huh? She knows about it?
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: She's waiting outside in the hall with her mother. You
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: can see them on the way out. Oh, thanks.
• 26:06
  Speaker 9: Hold it.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, honey. I'm sorry.
• 26:10
  Speaker 10: Walter, why did you do it?
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: Ask your mother there, honey. You heard as much of
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: it as I did.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Nine years worth. I guess it finally got me sick.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: She wanted you to have money, so I went out
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: to get it. You come and see me when you can?
• 26:22
  Speaker 9: Leon, I didn't go into any jail to see you.
• 26:23
  Speaker 9: I knew it all along. I knew what you were.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: It's the truth.
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: She never should have married you.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: All right, Perry. Let's go, mister. Walter. Walter. Why? How
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: do you figure?
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: How about some coffee? Okay. Okay. Sure is funny. You
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: see other people sweating it out, your troubles look like nothing.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: I'm just thinking about it. What's that? Those in-laws of mine.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: What about them? Guess I haven't got it half bad.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: The story you have just heard was true. Only the
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: names were changed to protect the innocent.
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: On March 5th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 87,
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: In a moment, the results of that trial.
• 27:11
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• 27:14
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• 27:55
  Speaker 5: Walter Richard Perry was tried and convicted on several counts
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: of robbery in the first degree. He was sentenced to
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: the state penitentiary for the term prescribed by law. First
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: degree robbery is punishable by a term of five years
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: to life. His accomplices received similar sentences.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, as we know, thousands of people in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: and Illinois have been driven from their homes by floodwaters.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Many are being sheltered and fed by the Red Cross.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: All Americans are.
• 28:20
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• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Your contribution of just a dollar will give you a
• 28:25
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• 28:36
  Speaker 5: You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: from official files. Technical advice comes from the Office of
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department.
• 28:49
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  Speaker 4: Stay tuned for Counterspy, next on NBC.
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  Speaker 1: That was Dragnet, Big In-Laws, from August 23rd, 1951. Follow
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