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Kindle store. Well, here now is the Matthews Murray mish Moss case.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we take you now by transcription, behind the scenes of
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the police headquarters in a great American city, or under the cold blaring lights
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will pass before us. The innocent, the vigorm, the thief, the
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murderer. This is the line up. I'm miss Fondling. Sorry, I'm
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late. Oh that's all right. I just hope that I can do some
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We had him over for dinner this season. Well, describe himself. I
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just can't have understand that he disappearing like this. Do you think something terrible
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has happened to us? You never know? Oh dear, do you think
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you see that you like have something to do with it? Because that was
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the possibility everybody would counture. Seems to be clear cleaning lady, miss Murray,
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that you took missus Matthews downtown at nineteen thirty. You saw them leave
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wave Daddy. They backed out of the driveway. Maybe Daddy had ansia or
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something. She wouldn't leave like this without a note of the hospitals. Cha.
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The only thing we can do is follow every possible lead, and that's
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going to sleep on the summer over there. Yeah, sure you the game
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something. Yes, brands really improved the police football things. Sure we're goingever
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we can. And I have people out there on the other side of the
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wire in the audience. Rul the one fisher what you're not taking much attention
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in the rations that they often lost? All right? An, okay,
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keep it moving over here to Sta. I'm gonna to come up figure hurt,
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have my mind face, answer your side, and let's straight ahead and
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straight out in the screen. You're gonna do a stand up street what's back
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normally? Book, I'm not picking on ms. Yes, when I call
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out, you're not gonna step up because you the screen and talk up to
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everybody. Canna hear you? What? All the people out there to get
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a good look at you be able to hear what you say. You stand
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up and talk all right? Number one Clive McDonald, he looks like the
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man the only thing you wasn't that short look at him in the moon.
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You hear it down. Yes, the pin of the I like if you
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get the car you picked up on the man. We're doing stone God,
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I'm gonna know what storm is. You're gonna go for ride a hot fire
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did your friend, That's what I called you. I guess you're out there.
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I was living there after the m's funny. Oh, I know what
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I told that when go you left. I'm not lest today me friend far
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pretty sextet, and we're supposed to be the gout back to God. He
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said, he looking up when you need it, And then you boys don't
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believe me. That's sometimes great. You're don't okay, I'm doing the cruise.
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You're gonna got to do some checking out. We will step back.
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Number two? How will I part describing the piece? Okay? You why
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step up? No place? Question and ask where you live? I want
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to know where your step last? Oh way you live? Hotel down on
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First Street. Nice place. Everything's real handy. Two days from Arizona,
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a little town. They like their Josh, taking the tea kind of work,
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do farm work, sergate and stuff like that. This looks fall all
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right, well enough on Arizona right where when I last saw him? Oh
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like thirty three an You know, no, I've never been much to mess
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around. Seat nails like that die when you get all the means you're doing.
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How what happened last night? Nothing much? I don't know why everybody
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gets to upsett a little high. You should have made a mess out of
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that bar. And you're right. I had to help bro how that?
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Oh, guys, now, I faly broke up some one thing. He
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doesn't do that much to me. I'll start now natural stand there. I
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feel pretty good. So I haven't hired himself. The poor guys are now
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I'm feared I had him with you guys got curious shut I'm not personal.
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God, I'm just dealing with that shot feeling okay? Umber three, if
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you take open shot. God, he looks like he's just gonna have I'm
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sure the work the man. He's the one that was around the day that
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the sergeant corgar Old Number three for interrogation. You work around Beldwood yesterday,
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King Shure, Hey, what's this all about in the five hundred block of
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Upton Road. Five hundred block. Yeah, I sold some cards to a
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Missus Roberts. What's going on here anyway? I haven't done anything. I
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got a license to selling this place. Don't you read the papers? Not
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today, I haven't. You just got your hair cut, yeah, about
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four this afternoon. It against the law to get your haircut. No,
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you had quite a bit of money on you when you were picked up,
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didn't it a little over two hundred dollars? Where'd you get him? I
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just got a commission check this morning. Where your cash, first security and
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trust fift and the logan? You can check with him? We will.
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Do you think I stole the money? Did you call on a Missus Matthews
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on up the road yesterday? Yeah? I don't know. I may have.
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I only find out the names are the ones that buy from it.
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She lived in a two story brick house five hundred block, has a white
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ticket pensil on the front yard. I think so. Oh was there one
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of those little statues like they used to tie horses still on the front lawn?
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Yeah? I was there. What time we do that? About nine?
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I guess you talk to missus Matthews? No, I guess so.
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She said she was a lady at the house. Did you see him upset
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nervous? No, she was real nice. Said she was in a hurry,
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was going downtown. She wanted me to come back later. She said
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she hadn't bought her cards yet. What's the matter? Something happened to this
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Missus Matthews. She's been missing suggested maybe she went for a crip or something.
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Oh gosh, you think I got something to do with her being missing?
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Just checking Believe me, little town, I haven't done anything. You
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better stay around town where we can get hold of him. Sure, well,
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I got nothing to run away for. The papers are still giving White
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a rough time for fading back to fifty yards in the first bars. Game
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thought, sure he could wait. But wait and when that guy ran the
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wrong way in the Rose Bowl game, Uh huh, yeah, he sure
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took a ribbing. What was his name? I used to know what.
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I'm trying to think of it all day. M Nice district. Yeah,
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Oh, Nelson called. Looks like Edward King is in the clear. The
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company works for Game, a clean bill. They'd already send him commission checks
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for one hundred and seventy five hours. They don't start in selling Christmas card.
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That's the way out for Ash. Oh, Lieutenant, he as marre
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you numberside in cargo. Yeah, is missus Matthews home. He's in the
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band. He's been in there all morning. Lieutenants, God, there inside
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in the cargo. They won't see this woman. I was just didn't read
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the corner. Nothing yet this Matthews. We wanted to ask you some more
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questions as it don't mind. Oh god on, thank you. It won't
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take long, mister Matthew's you just like to go over some things but him.
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Are you and your wife happily married? Mister Mathews? Did you have
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any serious differences? You know, nothing that it could call seriously. Only
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disagreement where they had was over our son Charles. Betty would have spoiled a
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Morocco if I hadn't put my head down. How old is Chile? This
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is thirty three? He gives on the other side of town. Betty was
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always of the mind that we had plenty, said why I shouldn't you buy
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things for Charles now while we were alive to see enjoy them? She all
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the said he to get everything that they were gone anyway. Was your wife
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ever respondent? Well knows she had no reason to be were comfortably. She
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keeps busy with their club work and we usually get along with that. Yeah,
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there's no enemies that you know. Oh no, no, how long
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has miss Murray worked for him or for you? Or this is ninety five
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comes and cleans three days a week Monday, Wednesday, Friday. This is
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dinner for on those names. She and missus Matthews get along. Before I
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got anything. You left the house about seven o'clock Monday morning. That's sir,
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your wife seemed to be in good spirits. Who's going downtown? If
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I had been going to the office, I'd have taken her as I went
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in, but I had to go over the long grool. Beddy said that
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she would have the housekeeper, Miss Murray Driver did, and then she'd come
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on over to the office and ride home with me that night. So I
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waited until Lily eight o'clock that evening at the office, and you know the
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rest. Do you know? If she had much money with him, as
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a matter of facts, quite a bit. She was going to buy a
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dress and Charles's wedding anniversaries next week, said she was going to get something
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for them. You have a gun in the house, Why yes, I
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do. It's one child's brought back from overseas. It's a Lugert. He
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gave it to me. I don't know why I took it. I've always
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hated guns. I rapped in the cloth and put it away at the bottom
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desk. Drow your wife nowhere it will chat. She didn't have done you
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still have? I guess so I know it's gone. The lineup will not
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bank. You know Pete. A woman that's afraid of a gun doesn't take
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one, then go out and get herself lost. Matthews may be lying,
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I don't think so eighty eighty's done it? Hi, Hi, Hi crying?
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You get out to check on mister Matthews Sonya, yeah, just go,
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thank you. He's clean, been in bed for five days with a
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broken ankle broke at playing touch football with the neighborhood kids. Do you need
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his wife? Uh huh? Both of them were last people. Sure up,
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said wife seems to think an awful lot of miss America. When did
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he try to see his money? Well? Sunday afternoon, both mister and
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missus Matthews dropped by to see him talk to his mother Monday morning on the
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phone. She's going downtown as Murray's statements. Matthew said she had something to
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talk to him about. Let's see him later in the week. He have
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any idea what it was? Now, he said, you'd better than not
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talked about it over the phone and it wait, I'll get a pen.
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You remember the guy whose name yet been what? The one that ran the
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wrong way for California and the Rose bowls? Oh no, beached me even
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trying to think of it as yesterday. Yeah, yes, that does it.
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I was astur A woman was just finally canyon about two miles from Matthew's
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house. That answers his wife's description to bringing her in. Now she's get
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murdered. I had allow it down head. I just brought her in.
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Doc wants another look from your coming right in. Yeah, clime, not
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forgetting. Should be anybody you sure don't ending you guys at a time like
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this, So he's gotta do it. Yeah, I spoke funny what you
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wind up doing? I was gonna acquirement that then? Yeah, almost,
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masters, I sergeant, I am told you, yes, alright you okay,
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yes, all right, I can't believe that. I'm sorry, okay,
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h m hm, ok all right, I've got to Oh, Charles,
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I'm sorry, mis Matthews, sergeant quiet, go home. Oh okay,
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Yeah, I'm doing and I'm sure you haven't been fun all right,
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Frank, anybody don know? Just the usual for quarters and so forth.
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There's the weapon time for the bunny up there? Looked everywhere around there.
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Where was the bunny? Right over there? About three feet this side of
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that covid. It looks like you might have been shot up there on the
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road and fell down here. Somebody stopped the car right up there. They
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could look both ways because they could turn the road right up the road about
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a mile. Mister Reynolds, I got exact right, But you might want
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to talk one sixth Valley View Drive without exercising his dogs, got a couple
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of great dames. He usually doesn't come up this web, but it'd been
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out of time for a week and he wanted to give his dogs a good
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run. Where does this road go that ends up there about a quarter of
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a mile. This whole area was sub divided about two years ago. I'll
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put one broke on him. Linel Plach is the only house in Valevue after
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you leave Limouth Boulevards down there. Any tire march on the rown, lots
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of them. This is quite a spot for the neckers, Dark said.
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The body had been here about two and a half days. There's been a
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lot of cars up here in that then. Anybody coming out to relieve you,
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Well, don't tell me to stick around. You got here. I
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don't think you'll find anything to help. I gives the place a good going
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over. No gun, no, nothing, that's the body. You might
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as well go on in then tackle ground, okay, then figure then all
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right? Fancy called tips. Yeah, I thought I'd trying for change.
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I let the wrong end the other day, not to get quit smoking them.
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M yeah, no, I think I can't find the gun. Bullet
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you find the gun would be a luger. I thought it would be no
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change of to be What about personal effects? Nothing to wish you was really
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worthy? Really roop it? So that's something. Yeah, you know what
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happened about no Monday. The weapon was a luger. Buger is missing from
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the Matthews house. Only three, possibly four people could have known whether gun
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wasn't stolen by a common house sleep Charles, the seners, and the clear
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Mister Matthews is too, salesman is clean. Hey, I use your phone
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doctor too. Then he busy. I'll meet you in my office in ten
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minutes. Eight. Go out and pick up this Murray. You got a
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smartgrapher. Yeah, I put him up my desk. Good, he'll be
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able to hear. Okay, over the end of calm. You stay out
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there. People stay here in the office. Come in, Sorry, how
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alms Murray, Sorry to bother you right here. Okay, climb. I
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know this will be done and repetitious for you, this morney, but we'd
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like to go over everything you've told us. Anything you may have left out,
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no matter how privy or you may think it is. Please don't I
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don't know how I can possibly Do you have any help to that? Or
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every told y'all I know. Do you know Charles mister and Missus Matthew's son,
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I should say I do, spoiled rotten. Missus gave him everything under
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the sun. You come over their house and oh, a couple of times
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a week. I guess he hadn't been over for nearly a week. Brought
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his ankle. Charles get along with his mother, I suppose so, certainly
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should all she did for him. They never had any words to him,
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not but I know of but anybody that had everything given to him like he
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has, I wouldn't trust very far. How about missus? You mean them
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getting along? Miss right? They seemed to get along all right. When
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you're working for somebody you never know could have been putting up in front.
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You have a lot of company. Missus. She's always having her club meets
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their house or as and ask the party, lunching or something. She's always
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busy. He's something social. What happened Monday morning? My goodness? Do
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we have to go over that again? I've told you several times. Well,
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I'm sorry, thank you, Miss Murray. We're stump we're trying to
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uncover any possible lead, anything at all would happen, no matter what,
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mightn't somebody help us? Well, all right, I take the bus over
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their house. I'm there three days a week, Monday, Wednesday and Frider.
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I got there Monday morning about eight thirty. Mister Matthews has left for
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work by the time I got there. He usually don't leave about nine,
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but the Missus said he had to go over the long View to see about
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the contact they had over there, and they left early. Now, they
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may have had a fight before I got there, and that's why I left
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early. I don't know. Did Missus Matthews say anything to indicate there'd been
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any trouble between them that morning? No, Well, she wouldn't have told
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me if there had been. She never discussed private matters with me. Now,
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about quarter to nine, there was a phone call from Charles. They
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talked about ten minutes, and the Missus was on the way upstairs when the
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front door bell rang. She hollered me in the kitchen and told me she
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dnswered. I don't who it was at the door, probably salesman. And
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she didn't talk long at the door, because shortly after I heard her go
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on upstairs. When did she tell her she wanted to go downtown? Oh,
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no, it's about soon as I got there. She wanted to go
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and buy a childs and his wife anniversary presents. She was planning on coming
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home with mister Matthews and I have din it ready about six thirty. What
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time did you leave the house? It must have been around nine thirty.
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Oh? What what route did you take downtown? Well? I went straight
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down Pacific Boulevards. You didn't take a short cut over valley you drive?
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No, No, that's a dead end. How do you know? Well,
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I tried it once. When what did it does it make? I
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just wondered? I know when it was when I first went to work for
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them. I had my own car then, and I tried to go home
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one night that way. How long have you worked for the Matthew Four years?
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Nearly five? Do you know if they kept the gun in the house?
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No, I don't know. I suppose it did. Well, if
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every man had a gun of some kind of around. Anything happened on the
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way downtown. Nothing. What did you do after you left, missus Matthew?
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I went on back to their house. I had a lot of work
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to do. What kind of a card did you own, miss Mike?
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No, it was nosing nineteen thirty seven forward? What on earth is that
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to do with what happened? Do you have a driver's license? Well,
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of course I do. You could I see a thing? I suppose?
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So what are you trying to do? You think I did something to missus
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Matthews? Here? Thank you? Did you have a license to drive your
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car? Of course that's a renewal license you have there. I know this
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shows your original license was issued in nineteen forty nine. That's only four years
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ago. What year did you say you sold your car? I didn't say
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what possible? Good can all this do? The hot thing is upset me?
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So if you think for one minute that I had anything, I'm not
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accusing you of anything. We don't want you to help. Well, I
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don't know what more help I can be. I've gone over this so much
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I don't know what I'm saying anymore. You say you tried to take a
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short cut over valleys you drive when you first went to Once for the math?
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Yes, I just told you that. That was nearly five years ago.
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Of course, five years ago. There wasn't any subdivision in that area.
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There wasn't any such place as valets you drive. She's always given place
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to Charles. All right, that's just a bracelet for hers. Oh she
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never come right out and told me she knew. Just bet at it,
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make remarks. I heard talking to Charles about something she wants to tell him.
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I knew what it was. I found the gun in the desk drawer
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that morning while you was upstairs, when we were down on Sam May just
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turn up that road, I tried to scare. I just laughed at me.
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I didn't mean the killer, the guns in my apartment. I'm okay,
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Gwen, you got it. Okay, what? Yeah, they ran
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the wrong way in the rose ball that's just me. Oh yeah. The
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