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Dragnet - "Claude Jimmerson Child Killer" (Old Time Radio, 1950) · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Two little girls seven and eleven years old disappear, and
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  Speaker 1: the discovery of the family college sets Los Angeles detectives
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  Speaker 1: on a homicide investigation from NBC. This is Dragnet with
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  Speaker 1: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday and Barton Yarborough as
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant Ben Romero. First heard on February second, nineteen fifty
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  Speaker 1: It is episode thirty five Claude Jimmerson child killer. Friday
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  Speaker 1: and Romero follow the case from its first grim evidence
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  Speaker 1: as the search for the missing children begins, and now
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  Speaker 1: we return to the original broadcast the.
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  Speaker 2: Document the drama of the actual crimes. For the next
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  Speaker 2: thirty minutes, in the cooperation of the Los Angeles Police Department,
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  Speaker 2: you will travel step life, step on the side.
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  Speaker 3: Of the law to an actual treat from police final from.
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  Speaker 2: Beginning to end, from crime to punishment, not just the
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  Speaker 2: story of your police force. An action.
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  Speaker 4: With Monday, October twenty seven was partly in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 4: We're working at night, watch out a homicide detail. My
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  Speaker 4: partner's Ben romerol the Bosses Bad Browns to Protected. My
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  Speaker 4: day is Friday, So run the way off from the
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  Speaker 4: Central Division. That was fifteen minutes, half eight came when
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  Speaker 4: we got to South Peorias two number.
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  Speaker 2: Two sixty seven, George Gloomy. The social looks like win
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  Speaker 2: for some Marines. Yes, police officers were kind of barker,
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  Speaker 2: just want come in. Thanks. Missus started Romeril and started
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  Speaker 2: Friday Central Homicide. How my name is dog Dimmits brokers
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  Speaker 2: here on? Yeah, Alix.
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  Speaker 3: Probably going to Dennis.
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  Speaker 2: That's good. You met miss Jillison post or sit down, gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: would you like some coffee? And you have no thanks?
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  Speaker 3: You didn't one above the girl.
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  Speaker 4: Parents anymore than we had to. Gudminson is one of
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  Speaker 4: the neighbors. He's been nice enough to let her use
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  Speaker 4: his song. The kid disappeared about forty fat and the
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  Speaker 4: other day right and three forty five, and all the
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  Speaker 4: local book cast on him. Here's a missing roppoints home
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  Speaker 4: with giswal at age eleven by miss Ferry, seven year olds.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about families.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, a three thirty this afternoon, missus Griswold send a daughter.
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  Speaker 4: But the grocery store down on Sickamore Avenue about ten
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  Speaker 4: blocks from their home. The starry girl old senators he
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  Speaker 4: went with us.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody's the story.
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  Speaker 4: Remember says, calling to the grocery clerk. They were there
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  Speaker 4: about three forty five. Mother gave the kids the note
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  Speaker 4: he built a local white Brither that have found of
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  Speaker 4: Baker goes nine. Well at k Tis, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing happened to the kids. We've been neighbors to Good
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  Speaker 2: Road for years. Verry two. If you noticed this, the
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  Speaker 2: little girl was going in the direction of their home. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: they were. The last time I saw them. They were
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  Speaker 2: about a block away, heading straight for home. Still starry
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  Speaker 2: girl had a dog with a bank something called the
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  Speaker 2: college when he's listening.
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  Speaker 4: To and that's right, you know now the ta the kids,
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  Speaker 4: all the girls drivenal officers from the southern seventh Street
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  Speaker 4: have been checking your neighborhoods the factually, are you know
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  Speaker 4: the girls in the habit of wandering off like here,
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  Speaker 4: going very long for for a time.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thanks very much, missus Gimmison. I'm not at all
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  Speaker 2: times and say they won't have a cup of coffee,
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  Speaker 2: all those things.
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  Speaker 4: They don't like the body, but why they have to
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  Speaker 4: take back to the later tonight's routine questions.
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  Speaker 2: If I can help out in any way to find
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  Speaker 2: those girls, you know, yeah, we'll let you know driven
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  Speaker 2: banks again, most.
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  Speaker 4: Of maghbors we touch soos what the same answers their help.
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  Speaker 4: Some of them are not with driven of officers.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm trying to think up a leader and they kids.
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  Speaker 4: You picked a movie theater in the playgrounds of the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 3: Everything you're doing, there are some of your men from
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  Speaker 3: giving long I can.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's fire. Yeah, slats and questions yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 4: A person only got kid's dark Kelly just both tank
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  Speaker 4: to drive up and he'll help us some indication how
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  Speaker 4: he leaves dead. Colin dog was taken to a veterinarian
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  Speaker 4: on Jefferson Boulevard to be examined.
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  Speaker 2: Because of death. We put in a call to the
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  Speaker 2: office and of special detailed man was assigned to aid
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  Speaker 2: in taking in the area where the dog was discovered.
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  Speaker 2: We got out an all points bulletin.
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  Speaker 4: The fathers of the missing girls and a dozen neighbors
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  Speaker 4: joined in the church. In the native blank life, he
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  Speaker 4: stuted from the end of Santa's Drive and eventually could
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  Speaker 4: we covered the ground for almost a four mile back
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  Speaker 4: into the Sunset Hills, and fifty five to him started
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  Speaker 4: to sunder. Arch went on the hilly terrain and six
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  Speaker 4: pats of struggles didn't make the job. In the eleven fifteen,
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  Speaker 4: m started to rain.
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  Speaker 2: What's your define or up the reference? I can't Sadure's
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  Speaker 2: kind of sign, but he was going on in a
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  Speaker 2: players flasky light over here. I thought, I did, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: grapple brown paper. Who was just come that? You do? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: What's got you got? I found it down there, just
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  Speaker 2: off the fast paper fat look go for bread, few oranges?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you? The paper word defined by down there, mister
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  Speaker 2: home question. Maybe we were heading back to the cars
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  Speaker 2: and I saw the sideline to one side of the bus.
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  Speaker 2: Would take the thing, let's go it. That means that
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  Speaker 2: Bob and tomall were up there today. You haven't listen
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  Speaker 2: at you either want the girl fought it? No, I haven't.
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  Speaker 2: Goody had much part as it is Friday. The yeah, Jesus.
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  Speaker 4: Certain yeah, sports to night check of the veteran, examine
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  Speaker 4: the dog m.
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  Speaker 2: You say there's a darkness beating the death.
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  Speaker 4: We made another attempt to see similar set of the
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  Speaker 4: sun tap the all read of the submission girls.
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  Speaker 2: The heavy rain and the darkness made a job. In part.
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  Speaker 4: The rain had also destroyed the physical evidence of the
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  Speaker 4: spot where we are signed the grocery bad We went
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  Speaker 4: back to Jimmerson's house and called the office wall another
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  Speaker 4: details and then was a sign to be on hand
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  Speaker 4: to help in the stirt point of resumed the daylight
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  Speaker 4: to the Detective Sad Brown and Captain Harry Elliott of
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  Speaker 4: Thomas Side were notified of late development. At twenty five
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  Speaker 4: minutes past midnight, we started to retrace the stepth of
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  Speaker 4: the two missing girls from the time they left their
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  Speaker 4: homes at three thirty in.
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  Speaker 2: The afternoon before. We covered every foot of ground along
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  Speaker 2: the route which the girls reportedly took on their way
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  Speaker 2: to the grocery store. We got the grocery church out
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  Speaker 2: of bed and interviewed them again. We talked with two
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  Speaker 2: elderly ladies in the neighborhood who said that they had
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  Speaker 2: seen the missing children between three and four am the
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  Speaker 2: previous afternoons.
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  Speaker 4: I think could had nothing to what Jimmerson had already
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  Speaker 4: told us. Three thirty am was still ringing high. We
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  Speaker 4: go back to town Feoria.
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  Speaker 2: Street and tackle of time.
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  Speaker 4: The life was still running in the homes of the
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  Speaker 4: missing youngsters. The good Walls in the stay. Jimmerson asked
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  Speaker 4: them for coffee again.
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  Speaker 2: This time we accept that.
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  Speaker 4: We went in and sent around the distant table blame
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  Speaker 4: Candler and spend all some homicide and kind of box
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  Speaker 4: the ben and myself Jimmas's wife made the coffee.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't much talking. You want more content?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, thanks, okay, you want the more?
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: You want more content that girl were kind of trying.
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  Speaker 2: To go ahead build a super Bowl? Was there any answer?
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  Speaker 2: There isn't anymore. You never do something that to get
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  Speaker 2: time to start again.
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  Speaker 3: Told me that's all I never used it anyway.
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  Speaker 2: All right, and we go to bed. M feel a
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  Speaker 2: little upset. I see him too. Well, well, I guess
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna be going to listen. No, that's all right, sargant.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't mean, you know, it's this whole little thing.
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  Speaker 2: I guess got.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody on there steal a chance and maybe all right,
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  Speaker 4: always blain the badge of grown we found back in
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  Speaker 4: the day.
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  Speaker 2: Dog, anybody start.
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  Speaker 3: Kid with the right here in this neighbor way.
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  Speaker 2: You'll get what's coming to somebody go back to her.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, dog, yes, all right, So.
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  Speaker 4: What we got this brig wal Jill, they like I
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  Speaker 4: had to come and talk to him, says, will make
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  Speaker 4: his why I feel better all broken up?
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  Speaker 2: Sure we'll be.
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  Speaker 3: Able to walk which back to the game, not at all?
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  Speaker 2: If you get a chance, I'll sorry. Everybody is you'll
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  Speaker 2: help all we can't sure that be set by the
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  Speaker 2: stairs house, Tom, I'm just trying to get a place.
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  Speaker 2: Are still to have? There is my windows? Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Alright ahead time?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they gonna ask question what he's gonna tell I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I could be all right. It's to do
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  Speaker 2: funny things sometimes maybe if they don't learn their pet
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  Speaker 2: dogs like a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.
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  Speaker 4: The police officer comes to realize that there's only so
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  Speaker 4: much that can be learning from his books. Time and
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  Speaker 4: spirits make up for the the police manuals and those
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  Speaker 4: no stock authors, for the greasing white who has just
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  Speaker 4: lost a.
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  Speaker 2: Husband in an auto activist, No firm but polite requires
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  Speaker 2: a deliberate motors and of the traffic tag. No words
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  Speaker 2: of your parents, but the stop parents of looking girls.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe eleven and seven.
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  Speaker 4: Whether it's trapping feminals or companying parents, you find the
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  Speaker 4: right answer the hard way.
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  Speaker 2: There's any other way. We've got and talked to the
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  Speaker 2: Griswolls for a full hour. We didn't tell them about
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  Speaker 2: the dog or the bag of grocery until a fate
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  Speaker 2: that the two little girls was definitely decided. We said,
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  Speaker 2: you're giving them the information which they have no purpose
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  Speaker 2: except to add to their words. Five minutes dance, five am,
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  Speaker 2: almost a full hour until day life was still roll.
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  Speaker 2: Sure maybe ye, some brisk fun no thanks you tell
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  Speaker 2: them is good? Well we had some family to tho.
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  Speaker 2: Now sure, I can't say.
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  Speaker 4: No trouble to thank Anyway, just a little while longer,
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  Speaker 4: we'll find the girl with the daylight them mis grizzled.
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  Speaker 2: Some of your neighbors tell us that they were two
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  Speaker 2: stages there they were this afternoon, but that was really
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  Speaker 2: the next door and I was talking about one of
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  Speaker 2: the gardeners, who's.
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  Speaker 3: The worst, the other one starting what's time?
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  Speaker 2: Were there around? Man m sibans here about noon?
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  Speaker 3: The guy, now he's not too possible, hollered.
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  Speaker 2: Your daughter about stage just to make friends. He not
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  Speaker 2: at all tell me about that because of the same
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  Speaker 2: why do you ask that questions?
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  Speaker 5: We have the cane.
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  Speaker 2: Think, I don't know, it's doing something happened not having
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  Speaker 2: been doing fun.
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  Speaker 5: Don't let that now.
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  Speaker 2: Stared about that place, and ye, the way what's mister good,
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  Speaker 2: What times you're doing when I here? That's I think
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  Speaker 2: carry the going.
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  Speaker 4: Will need to see the end of stance to drive
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  Speaker 4: with the griz Wald about six a m. To be
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  Speaker 4: king us by then?
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  Speaker 5: All right, oh god, the ten go all right, there's.
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  Speaker 2: A good point. You try not to worry to unde time.
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  Speaker 4: You want to check with Barker again and see if
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  Speaker 4: a man have a line on the two men here
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  Speaker 4: the neighborhoodin right, do you want to we'll be pack
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  Speaker 4: down kind right? My family is that you wanted to say.
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  Speaker 2: Getting light? Yeah, let's get out of there, frying John Louis,
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  Speaker 2: look a little west when you could stand the drive
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  Speaker 2: various learned about the dog. When the guys who grows
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  Speaker 2: you know nobody else you know, it'll be like a
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  Speaker 2: couple of minutes you start taking the hills against you
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  Speaker 2: want to up. Another detail member helped the park upon
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  Speaker 2: times to drive captain numbers for.
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  Speaker 4: Them because he need all the help. We can get
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  Speaker 4: this rough terrainsly ground to cover up. If you talk
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  Speaker 4: to everybody in the neighborhood, to their parents, to the
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  Speaker 4: healthy much they told us there were two strangers in
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  Speaker 4: the neighborhood before the girls disappeared.
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  Speaker 2: We're having him checked out goodwill places could be still
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  Speaker 2: from that time.
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  Speaker 4: As your daughter's afraid of stings. He never goes near
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  Speaker 4: some mitis and severn the hills. Last night about four
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  Speaker 4: mile time from Sancers drive straight back into the breast.
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  Speaker 2: We wasn't too served and I've left, man, I'm never
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  Speaker 2: last the fund the board right now ten minutes past
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  Speaker 2: six day two to October twenty nays the time that
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  Speaker 2: lay which hundred to put the office set out over
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  Speaker 2: each square mile area with orders to prove every fourth
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  Speaker 2: grounds with them. We're almost fifty volunteers and.
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  Speaker 4: They the range come to a cold steady down for
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  Speaker 4: the market ankle beat the thirty y fight.
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  Speaker 2: Ten said he still. They went on the neighborhood rest.
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  Speaker 2: I always set out by yelling judgment offe for members
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  Speaker 2: of the SIST continuous. I always told me the he'll still,
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  Speaker 2: he's frown. And when I went to the conference of
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  Speaker 2: a comfort a little bigger having me the those kids
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  Speaker 2: running off, they had to come in this direction. It
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  Speaker 2: couldn't have ended toward town. Somebody would have known. The computer. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'll read it all on the atvsent on too. They
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  Speaker 2: both piggled youngsters of No Hill Company. Gotta be you already?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's gone.
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  Speaker 2: Four, doesn't three?
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  Speaker 5: We sim we've been over twice, and go over it
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  Speaker 5: again and find.
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  Speaker 2: Them fell with griswold Age eleven fibers serriers seven busy.
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  Speaker 2: One of those two there were still ripple another. We
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  Speaker 2: have ammplement of pop division work. As in the hut.
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  Speaker 2: The only newspapers played the story across the frontage wire.
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  Speaker 2: Several bots across the company. Radio newscasters covered the story
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  Speaker 2: of the sorer adrop Theoria Street. The two mothers side
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  Speaker 2: of their homes avoided.
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  Speaker 3: The first went on roll Did you cover that back yonder.
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  Speaker 2: Black overgi Yeah, yeah, yeah, guard, let's going up the
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  Speaker 2: question time any no?
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  Speaker 4: Not?
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  Speaker 2: Thankmo? Almost two thirty Yeah too much?
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  Speaker 5: Go up and start down too.
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  Speaker 2: You got figuret on my mouth? Oh yeah, what then?
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  Speaker 2: What do you got? Where is it.
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  Speaker 3: That fire him?
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  Speaker 4: Almod Wald had brown hair and brown about forty successes.
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  Speaker 2: Talled had a bunch of wildflowers in the hand. Barbara
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  Speaker 2: Stays had bln hair and the right you know about
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  Speaker 2: their wildflowers so far some common jimmers and some of
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  Speaker 2: the neighbors.
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  Speaker 5: H get something coping.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, yeah, been a couple thirty three years in
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  Speaker 2: the seusing like that. I hope I never do again.
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  Speaker 2: I've been a mania, had the big lowest.
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  Speaker 4: Crime, the crazy they call the crime went there in trade.
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  Speaker 2: Family is a little faya.
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  Speaker 5: I have to come once a more.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that wouldn't be any good. Two hoss, can you say,
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: whoever didn't run up a big bill? They're going to
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  Speaker 2: pay it. You are listening to drag met authentic stories
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  Speaker 2: of your police force connection. Five minutes after the body
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  Speaker 2: who discovered the hunt of the psychopathic killer was underway.
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  Speaker 4: Lee Jones and the fool from the crime lab arrived.
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  Speaker 4: The statues and everything listed probably have a barrier on
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  Speaker 4: the crime. Physical evidence was hard to finde Your ain
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  Speaker 4: had destroyed any possible chance they might have been a
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  Speaker 4: finding footprints.
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  Speaker 2: When the crews from the crime I.
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  Speaker 4: Was sending the corner arrived and put somebody to the
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  Speaker 4: county more for our hospital and.
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  Speaker 2: I moving A ground up of all known sexual cycle
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  Speaker 2: paths in the area was ordered. They would say one
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  Speaker 2: of the homicide.
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  Speaker 4: The question, so were the people from the south to
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  Speaker 4: the Orie neighborhood when we had talked with previously.
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  Speaker 2: The question went on all through the night that it
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  Speaker 2: would half of the offters and.
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  Speaker 4: Homicides you know down the field Wednesday, October twenty ninth
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  Speaker 4: seven a m.
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  Speaker 2: He kicked in the people, he checked that ground.
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  Speaker 3: Story got a few hours leave last night.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: There's a few more repute on this. You from the
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  Speaker 2: papers this morning. You're like everybody else, clings to them
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  Speaker 2: that people are going to learn. You don't school with these.
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  Speaker 2: The generals take the costs to get the consequences. There's
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  Speaker 2: no in between.
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  Speaker 4: The usual talk going around town supposed to be all
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  Speaker 4: our fault, letting the cycles run loose.
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  Speaker 2: We don't make the law of reenforcement. So we'll get
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  Speaker 2: something to work with. Lots of peace and let me
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  Speaker 2: use the truck. We're going to go on. Nobody teams
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  Speaker 2: to care. We take them up. They save you, don't
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  Speaker 2: pay a fine, and they walk out here and nobody
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  Speaker 2: cares up. Kitty them, don't kill them. Makes the player
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  Speaker 2: tick on the people sorry for him until they kill
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  Speaker 2: a kids. Lots of couple that they are with the
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  Speaker 2: way till they murder somebody. We said, a better lot
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  Speaker 2: of mad guys.
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  Speaker 4: We don't let them un loose till they bite somebody.
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  Speaker 4: There's two little girls that woven as the parents make
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  Speaker 4: them money stick.
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  Speaker 2: So I think.
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  Speaker 4: Sentiments give these questions that you brought him yesterday. See
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  Speaker 4: you there, Joel, some of the possible plans.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: None before we had leftist average hair tied alibi text
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  Speaker 2: the registrations getting the reason. I don't think. So you
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: got a hunt a little better than that, Joe, I'm sold.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean he said, the parents told you
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  Speaker 2: the little girls who right as strangers wouldn't go near
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  Speaker 2: h We got the same reactions from some of the
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: neighbors we talk two days before, yes before. Now we
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  Speaker 2: find out they're all our own cycles are clear by
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  Speaker 2: the calibi. Well, we'll say we could till it couldn't
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  Speaker 2: have been a strange that a little girl. I'm try.
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  Speaker 2: There were only two strangers in my whole neighborhood the
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  Speaker 2: day the girls disappeared. The guard then say, both of
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  Speaker 2: them have been checking clears. As far as we know.
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  Speaker 2: The little girls would have gone that far up on
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  Speaker 2: the hills alone with their on the court, and they
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't have gone with the strangers had to be lower
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  Speaker 2: there and by someone they knew had abus could have
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  Speaker 2: been one of the neighbors.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we tackedn't possible out there, Glenn. We question a
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  Speaker 4: half a dozen times, so there's.
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  Speaker 2: One as might fit. Who's there? Crous Jammerson.
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  Speaker 4: Glenn's that I got to have a fight officer before
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  Speaker 4: better I had joined the department.
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  Speaker 2: It was Paul quiet way there. We had a good reason,
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  Speaker 2: if any, They had every whole thought the day that
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  Speaker 2: sat down try to put the pieces together. Number one,
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  Speaker 2: Amba uncovered a point that Ben and I have missed completely.
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  Speaker 2: Jimmerson and his wife.
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  Speaker 4: Were not close friends. But these are the very family
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  Speaker 4: or the grizwall for our near stranger. He killedness stardinary
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  Speaker 4: interest in the welfare the children after they disappeared. Number
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  Speaker 4: two Ben and I discovered that Jimmerson's wife had an
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  Speaker 4: eight year old boy by a previous marriage. The child
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: did not live with them missus Jimmerson's old Tampa, but
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  Speaker 4: her husband had been cruel with the boy, who refused
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  Speaker 4: to elaborate.
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  Speaker 2: Number three Jemmerson was the last person to see the
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  Speaker 2: children are wise. Number four the bodies of the children
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  Speaker 2: has been well hidden in the underbrush. Jimmerson found them.
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  Speaker 4: Number five Jimmerson had been over backwards to make friends
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  Speaker 4: with the investor, getting officers right from this time with
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: any second officer, and said that that's not the usual attitude.
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  Speaker 4: At eight thirty am, Taandla then and I left the office.
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  Speaker 4: We spent the baker in the best fifteen years in
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  Speaker 4: the Jimmerson's wife to get back to the officer after
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  Speaker 4: midnight seriously.
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  Speaker 2: October thirtieth, ten a m. And check him.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, thank you already?
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  Speaker 2: Thanks? Come on, bet Ma? Why oh how I do
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  Speaker 2: I kill you?
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  Speaker 4: I am all right if you again, I've had to
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  Speaker 4: help anything new turn up?
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  Speaker 2: You kill those two little girls? That's the funny thing
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: to ask, of course, not you know that when we ask.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody for saying so, I hope you're not to send
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  Speaker 4: how you're kind of surprised me.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know a little little girl. I don't understand
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  Speaker 2: that those you know, of course, not just that questions
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  Speaker 2: bout should you kill them? Now? Looks how many times
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: do I have to tell you? No? Sorry, you don't
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  Speaker 2: have any chilling? Do you know? We don't you step children? No?
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Why before you knew that because the area street you're
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: in the west lived out in left La, didn't he
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: sells anadin me. But yes, how do you know you
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: would call them? Marry Gibbs out there?
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  Speaker 5: Good?
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  Speaker 2: No six year old girl? You guys with molestias. I
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: was back in nineteen forty four. They were crazy. They
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: never proved it before kills from there. And then you
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: live in Santa Monica. And since we never ye it
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: was an eight year old girl got a hun as
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: good guy toof He asked me to fix a doll by.
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  Speaker 2: I never went in there. What about your steps? Why?
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Why did your wife said a delivery sister? Amy's crazy.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: I never harmed the boys. We didn't middle all. That's
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: all I got on my name. You had four jobs
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: in the past five years. What were they? I don't
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: know what you're talking about. You then theyd A grammar
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: school down the south end of town, then a gardener,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: the children's playground when you were a sea sailed with
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: children's shoot. Then you worked at another grammar school. What
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: did all this mean? Anyway? What are you getting at?
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Have you ever been in jail or six months? There
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: was some trouble at kind of tubs.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: I didn't know what I was doing.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: I regretting. I didn't mean to bother this kid. Well,
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I'll save us a gutful question. You can go there,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: and I hope you haven't got the wrong idea about me.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I like sure that though you are, thanks for coming me,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: not at all taking anything I can do to help.
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  Speaker 3: Well about today.
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  Speaker 2: What they got there is going for all. Since you're
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: the one of the little girls, will have to have
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: you identify the body. You won't take you along you more,
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: just go up. It's great, that's the blood. But I'd
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: like to help you, but I got an appointment. Well
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: you have to do is look at him.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: We'll take you on to what.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: I'd like to help taking. But I don't think these things.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: But I guess to pay mtic friend, not just raining again.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, tager, I don't think. How better go? It's
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: identify him. It's all one a minute.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: Maybe if we had to drink before we went in,
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: you can have one man you want to every tacky
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: like you know.
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  Speaker 2: I have to wait. I need to drink. I can't
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: doing that right, I would drink. He'll be an Okay,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: let's go more except this point. I can't look at him.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: I get pick. Don't make nothing to it. You'll say.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: You look down the driveway with the goat fatly a
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: Joel you yeah, see those little girls. Tell my grid
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  Speaker 4: Wall barbar star.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah right here Joel, Yeah, tell my Gridwall. I
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: cover let me Si, Yeah yeah, I have I the
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: one you kill them? Do you? Something? Just started? A yell?
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Put my hand over now any other kid? Hi? Hit them?
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  Speaker 5: Who hid.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Some kind Let's go all right, huh, let's go wherever
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: my fault? I like it? And ten we do. So
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: you just hear only the name to person on Mark
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: JT's trial withheld in Superior Court, Department eighty seven, City
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: and County of Los Angeles, State of California. In a
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: moment the results of that trial. It's amazing how many
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: long cigarette smokers that changed in to Patima. Here is
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: the actual report. More than yes, more and more smokers
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: every day are discovering this Tatima is the best of
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: all long cigarette mostly fine. Patima has much different, much
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: better flavor and the roma than any other long cigarette.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: They find that Patima is extra mile because of the
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: long cigarette, which contains the finate that is in domestic
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: tobacco is superfly blended to make it extra mile and
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: joy extra miles. Fatima yourself best of all long cigarettes.
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  Speaker 2: Lord Willis Jimmerson was cide and convicted of murder in
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: the first degree on April twenty third, at ten am.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: He was executed in the legal guest chamber to state
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: sent a century. You're doctor Dragnet.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: There are periods of authentic rass from official files.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Technically by four drag Nets comes from the Office of
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: People Police. W. A. Whartons you are.
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  Speaker 3: Gilds of a Star.
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  Speaker 2: On MBC.
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  Speaker 1: You've been with Dragnet episode thirty five Claude Jimmerson, Child Killer.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us for this February nineteen fifty
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  Speaker 1: broadcast