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Dragnet: The Big Overtime (EP4929) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty one, here is the big overtime.
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  Speaker 2: He The story you were about to hear is true.
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  Speaker 2: The names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're
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  Speaker 2: a detective sergeant. You're assigned to homicide detail. A twenty
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  Speaker 2: two year old girl has been abducted. Her family receives
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  Speaker 2: an anonymous message. The abductive demands thirty thousand dollars for
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  Speaker 2: the safe return of the girl.
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  Speaker 3: Your job get.
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  Speaker 4: Him Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. Well
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  Speaker 4: the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 4: Police Department, you will travel step by step on the
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  Speaker 4: side of the law through an actual case transcribed from
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  Speaker 4: official police violence, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
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  Speaker 4: Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 5: It was Tuesday, October eighteenth. That was cloudy in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 5: We were working the early morning watch out a homicide.
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  Speaker 5: My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Thad Brown, Chief
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  Speaker 5: of Detectives.
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  Speaker 3: My name is Friday.
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  Speaker 5: I was on the way back from the Stat's office
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  Speaker 5: and it was three twenty six am when I got
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  Speaker 5: to Room forty two homicide.
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  Speaker 3: Hi Brian, Hi, that's the mugshots you wanted. Joe Ego, Oh,
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  Speaker 3: thank you?
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  Speaker 6: The Captain Levia Hey waiting for me in the garage.
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  Speaker 3: You call back. I'm going to write now.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, I guess I better hustle it. See you
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  Speaker 5: out there right, Brian. I'm sorry to wake you.
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  Speaker 7: Ben.
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  Speaker 3: This is Joe. How are you feeling?
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  Speaker 2: Oh a hi Joe?
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  Speaker 3: What time is it? Three thirty am? How's a sore throat?
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  Speaker 2: Is it not better?
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  Speaker 3: I want to be back to work tomorrow. We need
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  Speaker 3: you now. Ben, you want to be ready about twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 3: I'll pick you up. Twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, what's a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Man by the name of Martin Sullivan official down at
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  Speaker 3: the Third National Bank.
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  Speaker 5: He's got a twenty two year old daughter, already had one.
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  Speaker 3: She's gone.
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  Speaker 5: Less than fourteen hours before at one o'clock the previous
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  Speaker 5: afternoons with Sullivan was last scene driving off in a
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  Speaker 5: car with a man who'd represented himself as a friend
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  Speaker 5: of her father's.
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  Speaker 3: About eleven o'clock.
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  Speaker 5: That night, the Sullivan family received an anonymous letter demanding
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  Speaker 5: thirty thousand dollars for the safe return of the girl.
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  Speaker 5: It had been the only contact made thus far by
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  Speaker 5: the abductor. As soon as we got word of what
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  Speaker 5: had happened from the girl's father, a broadcast and an
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  Speaker 5: APB had been gotten out. The entire force throughout the
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  Speaker 5: city had been alerted. Three forty four am. I pulled
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  Speaker 5: up in front of Ben's house.
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  Speaker 3: That good morning. Hi, you made good time. Hey, where
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  Speaker 3: are we headed?
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  Speaker 5: The Sullivan home out on Castro Boulevard. Thad Brown's out
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  Speaker 5: there now with Brian and In leeds to go on.
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  Speaker 3: No, not so far.
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  Speaker 5: The girl disappeared a little before one o'clock yesterday afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: Note from the abductor came through last night. They're asking
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  Speaker 3: thirty thousand.
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  Speaker 5: I don't get it. Sullivan hasn't got that kind of money.
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  Speaker 5: And I know that poor guys almost out of his mind.
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  Speaker 5: Missus Sullivan too, they're all broken up in How did
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  Speaker 5: it happened? Well, the girl was taken from a business
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  Speaker 5: school that she goes to. Man had her called out
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  Speaker 5: a class. He told her father was sick, said he
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  Speaker 5: was a friend of the families.
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  Speaker 3: How about the teachers, what was their story?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I said the girl didn't want to go with
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  Speaker 5: a man at first, but he finally talked her into it,
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  Speaker 5: kept telling her father was dying.
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  Speaker 3: Yea's the thing. Did he use the car?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, blue sedan, that's all we know. Witnesses didn't get
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  Speaker 5: the make of the license number. Any description on the man. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: they say about five feet nine hundred and sixty, brown
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  Speaker 5: suit and dark hair.
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  Speaker 3: You know that's it. Here's a copy of the letter
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  Speaker 3: that the Sullivan's got. You can read. It's the usual.
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  Speaker 9: All right, I have your daughter, Judy get thirty thousand
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  Speaker 9: dollars quick. If you want her back alive, don't call
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  Speaker 9: police or I'll kill her. Contact you later, signed the
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  Speaker 9: wool who's the kid?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I could think of a better name.
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  Speaker 3: Here we are. Who's got the original note? Joey? I
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  Speaker 3: am lad there checking it for Prince and handwriting.
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  Speaker 6: Hi Joe Romero in living Thank you Doe.
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  Speaker 8: That's the way I see it, mister Sullivan. You understand
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  Speaker 8: exactly what.
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  Speaker 3: You have to do now.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, I'll do as you say, all right, sir. Here
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  Speaker 9: the two men will help you. Serge in Friday and
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  Speaker 9: Romero Central homicide. Alright, mister Brown, are you sure about
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  Speaker 9: all this?
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  Speaker 6: I keep thinking he might get frightened, he might do
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  Speaker 6: something to it.
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  Speaker 9: Believe me, mister Sullivan. It's the only way I know
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  Speaker 9: how you must feel. But we can't do anything else.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 9: I want to see missus Sullivan first, when you excuse me,
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  Speaker 9: be ready in a moment.
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  Speaker 6: All right, fine, what is it?
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  Speaker 3: Cheap? Any development?
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  Speaker 9: Back here in the dining room? Yeah, it's it on
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  Speaker 9: the table. Second note from the guy?
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  Speaker 3: When did it come? Half an hour ago? Guy?
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  Speaker 9: I had delivered by a special messenger. He used a
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  Speaker 9: plain envelope messenger. Kid didn't know anything about it, doesn't
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  Speaker 9: remember what the guy looked like.
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  Speaker 5: Let's see Joe, Yeah, he says, meet me an Alesioned
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  Speaker 5: park five o'clock this morning, near a bulk and drive
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  Speaker 5: come alone, Bring thirty thousand. We'll return girl. They'll tell
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  Speaker 5: the cops. I'll kill her if you do. It's the
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  Speaker 5: same signature wolf. Not much time, Chief, it's four am.
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  Speaker 9: Now I know what we'll have to do. As he says,
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  Speaker 9: there's no other way. Sullivan's going out there alone, as.
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  Speaker 8: You're going with him, You and Romera and be hidden
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  Speaker 8: in the trunk of his car.
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  Speaker 3: All right, anything else? Any plan you want us to follow?
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  Speaker 3: Got him? That's four or fifteen am.
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  Speaker 5: Ben and I went out back to the garage where
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  Speaker 5: mister Sullivan's car was parked. We jammed ourselves into the
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  Speaker 5: trunk compartment and Brian closed the door on us. The
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  Speaker 5: latch was rigged so that we could push open the
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  Speaker 5: door from the inside. A few minutes later, mister Sullivan
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  Speaker 5: came out, got in the car, and we drove off.
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  Speaker 5: At three minutes to five, we pulled up at the
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  Speaker 5: designated meeting place up in Allegian Park, We waited, nothing happened.
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  Speaker 5: Five minutes past five a m. Still nothing outside. It
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  Speaker 5: started the thunder rain starting, man, Wendy, Yeah we're here.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's kinda coming up the road toward us.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds like yeah, man, yeah, coming over this way, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: sounds that way doesn't come already? A right?
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  Speaker 5: Easy coming back here?
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  Speaker 3: Watching now.
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  Speaker 8: Right, riding imbout chiefs that you. Yeah, I'm not after meeting.
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  Speaker 3: I'm breaking m LA.
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  Speaker 9: Mister Sullivan, you want to drive back home? We'll contact
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  Speaker 9: you there, yes, sir, all right, come on, let's get.
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  Speaker 3: Over the car. Right. What's the story? Did he scare off?
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  Speaker 9: The guy had no intention of following through the league?
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  Speaker 9: How come he told us he phoned a couple of
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  Speaker 9: minutes before five am. We tried to trace the call.
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  Speaker 9: He wouldn't stay on the line long or what do
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  Speaker 9: you have to say? A couple of things. Number one,
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  Speaker 9: he wants more money. Number two, he knows we're working
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  Speaker 9: the case.
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  Speaker 8: What was the reaction? Names, he doesn't care. We'll never
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  Speaker 8: get him anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Well, how's the thing stand now?
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  Speaker 6: Fifty thousand dollars he wants it. In the next twelve hours.
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  Speaker 5: More than sixteen hours had passed since word of Judy
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  Speaker 5: Sullivan's abduction had been phoned into homicide. During that time,
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  Speaker 5: an APB containing the descriptions of the suspect, his car,
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  Speaker 5: and his victim had been dispatched to law enforcement agencies
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  Speaker 5: throughout the entire area. The same descriptions were being broadcast
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  Speaker 5: every hour. The Sullivan home had been placed under strict surveillance,
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  Speaker 5: and mister Sullivan instructed to contact the suspect without the
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  Speaker 5: knowledge of the police. The girl's father had raised almost
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  Speaker 5: ten thousand dollars in cash to buy him off, and
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  Speaker 5: the serial numbers on each one of the bills had
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  Speaker 5: been copied by a police stenographer and rechecked by a
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  Speaker 5: homicide officer. So far, the wolf, as he called himself,
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  Speaker 5: had made three separate contacts, but he'd covered his tracks well.
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  Speaker 5: We knew he was somewhere in the city, four hundred
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  Speaker 5: and fifty square miles of it. We knew we had
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  Speaker 5: to find him. Six eighteen am we checked back into homicide.
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  Speaker 3: What's doing Broy here?
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  Speaker 10: Just copy the letter Fellas Special delivery came in about
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  Speaker 10: twenty five minutes ago.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see, huh, that's the same handwriting. It looks like.
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  Speaker 9: Check the postmarks Jill must have mailed it right after
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  Speaker 9: he grabbed a girl. Let me see, stay away from Sullivan.
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  Speaker 9: If the girl's found dead, it's your fault.
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  Speaker 3: Stay away, woolf It seemed to make up his mind.
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  Speaker 5: Huh They checking the original of this for Prince Tom Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: no word yet.
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  Speaker 3: How about that second note? Anything on that? Uh? Huh?
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  Speaker 6: Stah lifted a couple of princes running on R and I.
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  Speaker 3: Who's watching Sullivan house now?
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  Speaker 5: Gomez and Thaxter chiefs out there too. He's still afraid
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  Speaker 5: the girl's father will try to make a deal with
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  Speaker 5: the guy.
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  Speaker 3: He tried it yet? No, not yet. Well, he couldn't
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  Speaker 3: blame him if he did. He's worried, sick. I'm got it.
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  Speaker 8: Homicside from now a right?
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  Speaker 3: Try? How do you spell it? Okay? Right?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, thanks a lot, Record Bureau. Those two prints still
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  Speaker 9: lifted from a letter. Run him to the single print file.
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  Speaker 9: Any luck, they got a mink.
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  Speaker 5: The fingerprint that was lifted from the suspects letter was
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  Speaker 5: identified as belonging to a Donald Alfred Kiefer, WMA, aged
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  Speaker 5: twenty nine, five feet eight inches, one hundred and seventy pounds,
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  Speaker 5: brown eyes, dark brown hair.
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  Speaker 3: He had one.
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  Speaker 5: Previous arrest for forgery in Los Angeles ten months before.
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  Speaker 5: At the time of his arrest, Keeper's occupation was listed
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  Speaker 5: as a bank clerk at the Third National Bank. I
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  Speaker 5: went down the hall of the record bureau to pull
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  Speaker 5: the crime report. Brian checked by Layton Prince to see
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  Speaker 5: if they'd gotten anything off the last note from the suspect.
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  Speaker 5: Ben went to check with Don Meyer and handwriting. Seven
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  Speaker 5: twenty three am. Chief bad Brown got back to the office.
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  Speaker 5: I showed him Keeper's crime report.
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  Speaker 3: All right, what's the rundown on it? Well, at the.
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  Speaker 5: Time Keifer pulled the forgery job at the bank, mister
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  Speaker 5: Sullivan was one of the vice presidents. He was the
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  Speaker 5: one that preferred charges against Keifer, and he saw that
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  Speaker 5: he was prosecuted.
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  Speaker 3: Where's this Keifer? Now, let me check that it was
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  Speaker 3: placed on probation.
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  Speaker 5: On May sixteenth this year, he returned to his home
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  Speaker 5: in Omaha, Nebraska. That's thirteen eighty McK and I avenue.
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  Speaker 3: You call Omaha. I got the call in now.
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  Speaker 5: Ben took an exemplar of Keefer's handwriting from the package.
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  Speaker 3: Don Meyer's going over it.
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  Speaker 8: Now, Chief Hi, what about that last note?
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  Speaker 3: I got the report right? Here.
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  Speaker 10: How's it look well, Stallft, that's some prince off It
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  Speaker 10: brought him out with the ion fume gun. They matched
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  Speaker 10: with the first. There's something else, what's that? They examined
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  Speaker 10: the paper for watermarks and texture. Both notes are written
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  Speaker 10: on the same paper. Impressions show both pieces the paper
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  Speaker 10: from the same TABN checked the density of the carbon
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  Speaker 10: and the pencil they used. Both specimens match same pencil.
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  Speaker 3: Joe, Hi, did you catch up a down run man? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: He went over. The handwriting looks pretty good. What's the word?
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  Speaker 3: As close as you can get here.
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  Speaker 9: They're two exemplars Flanc's crosses double loops, his ale open
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  Speaker 9: as prasure on the Downstow Donald Keefer the wool, same handwriting.
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  Speaker 5: By noontime, Donald Keeper's description had been broadcast throughout the
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  Speaker 5: entire area. Bulletins were dispatched to all departments, and a
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  Speaker 5: supplementary APB was gotten out. Special details were stationed at
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  Speaker 5: every post office in the city to watch for notes
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  Speaker 5: from the suspect that might come through the mail. The
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  Speaker 5: bus depots, railroad terminals, the airports, and all main roads
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  Speaker 5: leading out of the city were kept under strict surveillance.
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  Speaker 5: The entire Los Angeles area was broken down into single
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  Speaker 5: square mile districts and a house to house canvas was started.
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  Speaker 5: A squad of men were assign to cover each square mile.
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  Speaker 5: Outlying towns and cities were requested to do the same.
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  Speaker 5: By four o'clock that afternoon, one of the greatest dragnet
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  Speaker 5: operations in the history of the city was underway. We
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  Speaker 5: were sure Donald Keeper was somewhere inside. Five twelve pm,
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  Speaker 5: we got the call back from the Omaha police.
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  Speaker 3: Is that so again? Please?
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  Speaker 8: What was that six x ray four to one nine
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  Speaker 8: Nebraska plates?
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  Speaker 3: Right? Find lieutenant? Thank you, Bry They made the car.
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  Speaker 9: That and a lot more. The Omaha cops are looking
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  Speaker 9: for Keeper too, and they want him for a robbery.
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  Speaker 3: There're two months ago.
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  Speaker 9: Huh he used to stolen blue Sedanan in robbery in
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  Speaker 9: nineteen thirty nine, model Nebraska plate six x ray four
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  Speaker 9: one nine.
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  Speaker 3: What about his family and friends? They've been checked.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, they say Keifer left Omaha about six weeks ago.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know where he was heading. We better get
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  Speaker 9: that car description in the communic cases. Huh, apb in
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  Speaker 9: a radiogram?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah right?
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  Speaker 9: Friday, Mary, Yeah, what are you tied up with? Just
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  Speaker 9: got a call back from Omaha. Make on Keifer in
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  Speaker 9: the car, give it to me. You two get out
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  Speaker 9: to sell them in the house. Fat so you can't
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  Speaker 9: see Harris out there.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, what happened? Mister Sullivan has disappeared.
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  Speaker 4: You are listening to dragnet authentic stories of your police
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  Speaker 4: force in action.
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  Speaker 5: Wednesday, October nineteenth, five forty eight pm, Ben and I
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  Speaker 5: drove out to the Sullivan home where we checked with
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  Speaker 5: Bert Harris, the man who had been assigned to watch
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  Speaker 5: mister Sullivan.
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  Speaker 3: He told us that at about three o'clock.
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  Speaker 5: That afternoon, the father of the missing girl had a
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  Speaker 5: phone call.
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  Speaker 3: He said he had to go down to the bank,
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  Speaker 3: and Harris went with him.
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  Speaker 5: While he were at the bank, mister Sullivan succeeded in
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  Speaker 5: decoying Harris with a fake telephone call. While Harris was
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  Speaker 5: answering the call, Sullivan disappeared.
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  Speaker 8: Did mister Sullivan get any more money while he was
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  Speaker 8: at the bank.
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  Speaker 3: By yeah, five thousand dollars? Did you get the serial
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  Speaker 3: numbers off the bills? I shouldn't let him get out
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  Speaker 3: of my sight. I forget it right now. We've got
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  Speaker 3: to find out where he's going to meet Keifer diould
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  Speaker 3: you talk to missus Sullivan about it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: So she doesn't know anything about it. Where is she now?
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  Speaker 3: Back in the sitting room, lying down? Now, let's try
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  Speaker 3: her again how she might be able to help. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: it's back this way. What time he got, Jim, it's
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  Speaker 3: five minutes past six?
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  Speaker 4: I get it.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, how's that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Where are you? Oh? Where are you? Where are you?
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  Speaker 3: All right? We'll be right out.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, missus Sullivan he met with Keifer out and Laurel Canyon.
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  Speaker 3: Did he get his daughter back? Yeah? He did. Wrapped
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  Speaker 3: in newspaper.
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  Speaker 5: All units in the area were notified immediately that a
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  Speaker 5: contact had been made with the suspect, Donald Keefer. We
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  Speaker 5: got in the car and we drove out to Laurel Canyon.
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  Speaker 5: The entire area had been blocked off. We found Martin
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  Speaker 5: Sullivan standing in the middle of the road. At the
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  Speaker 5: end of East Winding Way. Five hundred feet down the
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  Speaker 5: hill was a private residence where Sullivan and telephoned his
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  Speaker 5: the only building in the immediate vicinity. A few yards
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  Speaker 5: beyond the point where East Winding Way ended back in
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  Speaker 5: a clump of tall grass, we found the body of
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  Speaker 5: twenty two year old Judy Sullivan. We notified the crime
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  Speaker 5: lab chief Fat Brown in the corner. Despite the severe
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  Speaker 5: emotional shock, mister Sullivan told us the story.
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  Speaker 9: He said, Judy was all right. I believed him. I
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  Speaker 9: wanted her back, Judy. I tricked the officer, the one
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  Speaker 9: watching me. Keifer said to come alone, no police. Did
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  Speaker 9: you see his car, mister Sullivan. I wanted her back.
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  Speaker 9: I wanted Judy back. I did as he said. I
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  Speaker 9: drove out here at six o'clock.
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  Speaker 6: I waited. I put the money on the front seat,
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  Speaker 6: like you said.
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  Speaker 3: Did he get the money, sir?
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  Speaker 9: And then I got out. I left the parking lights on.
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  Speaker 9: I stood up there by the end of the road
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  Speaker 9: and I waited, and then he drove up. He took
• 18:08
  Speaker 9: the money, and then he came up to me. He
• 18:12
  Speaker 9: had a gun. I wanted Judy back. He had a gun.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Did you see his car? He said?
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: She was up.
• 18:21
  Speaker 9: There beyond the road. She was tied to a tree.
• 18:25
  Speaker 9: He said, I wanted her back.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: Oh look, mister Sullivan, did you see his car.
• 18:32
  Speaker 9: I went to look for Judy. He drove away. She
• 18:38
  Speaker 9: wasn't there by the tree. I couldn't find her.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Not the way back.
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: I saw the bump on the way, Yes, sir, lord,
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: let me find it.
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: Although I left kill him before he collapsed completely.
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: We showed the dead girl's father a picture of Donald
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: Keefer and he identified him definitely. The information was immediately
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: relayed back to Central Division and rebroadcast over our entire
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: radio system. Teletypes were dispatched to sheriff's offices and communications
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: sent to law enforcement agencies throughout the country. Nine fifty
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: two PM, the house to house search was intensified. The
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: dragnet operation in which we hoped to trap the killer
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: was drawing slowly inward. A few minutes before midnight, Ben
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: and I drove back downtown to the crime lab to
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: check with Lieutenant Lee Jones.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Ay, Fillas, come on back, anything yealy?
• 19:48
  Speaker 11: Just checking over these tolls here, I'm rapped around the
• 19:51
  Speaker 11: girl's body inside the papers, any thing about it?
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: What's that? Oh?
• 19:55
  Speaker 11: Yesterday's papers. Every story about the girl's disappearance has been
• 19:59
  Speaker 11: clipped out.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: How about the towels, any laundry marks at all?
• 20:02
  Speaker 11: Way, nothing so far, Joe, every one of them clipped
• 20:05
  Speaker 11: off log posts the body.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Yet they're doing it now, nasty one.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, any footprints or tire marks out where? They
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: found the body.
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: Oh, lots of them.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Got two of the men checking them.
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: Now, one thing, what is it?
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Men? I don't know. Under the seam here this towel.
• 20:24
  Speaker 11: Wait a minute, give me that pair of snippers. Way jo, Yeah,
• 20:30
  Speaker 11: there you go, thanks, pressed back under the seam.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Here there it's one tag he missed. Yeah, can you
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: read the marking?
• 20:40
  Speaker 11: Greenway Apartments, Los Angeles.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Twelve thirty four am.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: We located the Greenway Apartments in the East Wiltshire district
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: and we checked with a manager. He identified Keeper's mugshot,
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: but he said he hadn't been home to the apartment
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: since the day before. We called the crime lab and
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: we went up to check the suspects apartment. One look
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: was enough. Lieutenant Lee Jones found specimens of the Sullivan
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: girl's blood in the wash basin and the bathtub drains.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: In an adjoining garage, we found.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: The car which Keefer had used, a blue Sedan Nebraska
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: plates six X ray four one nine. A cancelation of
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: the want order for the car was issued in a
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: stake out placed at the apartment in the garage in
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: case Keeper.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Decided to return.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: All that night and into the next day, the city
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: wide dragnet went on, was no sign of the killer.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: At ten minutes past two that afternoon, the first piece
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: of ransom money showed up. It was at a used
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: car lot on the corner of Beverly and Naylor Streets.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: Two hours later, another piece of the money turned up
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: at a busy downtown department store. In both cases, the
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: man who passed the stolen money was finally identified as
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: Donald Keefer. Details were strengthened in both areas where the
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: money appeared. The search went on six forty two pm.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: Then and I got a call to Meat Chief Thad
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: Brown at the Hollywood Division station. Tommy Bryant from Central
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: Homicide was within us.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: This is the way it stacks up. Now.
• 22:02
  Speaker 9: This pin map over here, This is where we're concentrating
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: the search in this area here.
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: How about the lead we had on him downtown? Didn't
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: it work out?
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: The last twenty minutes we picked up three possible leads
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: on the man out in this neighborhood here. He's divined
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: south of Franklin, west of Librea, north of Santamoni.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: More ransom money show up? You got it there, Brian
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: rate it off? Yeah.
• 22:22
  Speaker 10: Five thirty five Sunset and Highland newsboy thought he show
• 22:25
  Speaker 10: key for crossing the street. Twenty minutes later, a sales
• 22:28
  Speaker 10: girl in the diamond store up on Hollywood Boulevard, I
• 22:30
  Speaker 10: thought you saw him. Ten minutes after that, he was
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: reported seen near the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Lost Parmis.
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: You figure the reports were reliable and they were all
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: checked out. Didn't put too much faith in him til
• 22:41
  Speaker 10: a few minutes ago.
• 22:42
  Speaker 9: How's that five dollar bill was passed at a cigar
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: store Hollywood Boulevard and Hawthorne. Ransom money. We've already doubled
• 22:48
  Speaker 9: the number of men and cars in the area, men
• 22:50
  Speaker 9: stationed at every intersection to keep an eye on pedestrian traffic.
• 22:53
  Speaker 9: We're covering everything, streets, stores, covering the whole neighborhood.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: I'll get it, Brian, Yeah, just a minute, you chief?
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Oh that Brian?
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Where how when was that? No?
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: Stay there, We'll be right there. Goodbye. Another piece of
• 23:17
  Speaker 9: rentsom money?
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Where to turn up?
• 23:18
  Speaker 9: The theater in Hollywood Boulevard between Fairview and Hawthorne.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Who passed the money?
• 23:22
  Speaker 9: They think it was Keifer and positive they say he's
• 23:24
  Speaker 9: in the theater right now.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: The information on Keifer was phoned into communications immediately, and
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: within a few minutes men and cars converged on the neighborhood.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: The one half mile area around the theater was completely blockaded.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: Every exit and entrance to the theater was covered. Seven
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: twenty three pm, Ben and I, along with Chief Thad
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: Brown and Tom Bryan, met in the theater manager's office.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: Brown outlined our plan of operation. At seven thirty two pm,
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: a detail of fourteen men walked down the side aisles
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: on the main floor of the theater and took up
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: their posts on either side of the orchestra pit. The
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: picture was stopped and every light in the theater was
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: turned on. Chief Brown, Brian Gomez, Faxter, Ben and myself
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: went down the aisle and up onto the stage.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Chief Brown made the announcement.
• 24:13
  Speaker 12: Ladies and gentlemen, you're hold it quiet for a minute, please, We're.
• 24:17
  Speaker 13: Probably to interrupt the picture of This is a very
• 24:19
  Speaker 13: important matter.
• 24:21
  Speaker 12: We're police officers and you've read about it. To the
• 24:23
  Speaker 12: Maidens girl to the name of Judy Sullen was abducted
• 24:26
  Speaker 12: and murdered day before yesterday. We think we embraced the
• 24:30
  Speaker 12: man who murdered her to this there. We believe he's
• 24:32
  Speaker 12: in this diner. Now we've gotta search the theater.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Robi Rowan, we'd like.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: To ask your co operation.
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: Don't need to be Maggie.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: You're afraid.
• 24:40
  Speaker 13: Those who way to lead, now they do.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: So see what the man.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: Each one of you will be checked as you go out.
• 24:46
  Speaker 8: Of the door.
• 24:47
  Speaker 13: But the benefit of the man we're looking for it.
• 24:49
  Speaker 13: Don't try to escape. Every exit is covered. Hi, heard
• 24:53
  Speaker 13: you lucky. Don't place any more lives in jerim all right, ha.
• 25:03
  Speaker 9: Come on, Ben, backstage show.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: We can make it from America. All right? Come on,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: throw here down here?
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Right? Will you in here?
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Come on over here, hair conditioning unit for the theater. Yeah,
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: I don't see him to you, you can't get out.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: There's just two exits. We've got them both covered.
• 25:39
  Speaker 8: Look out there he is all right, keeper, hold it.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: Throw your gun over here, come on, throw it out.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Okay, I got it, all right. Let's take him. Yeah,
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: all right, okay, you got my gun.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: I had to be in your shoot.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Actually, your force meant the cups on him. Ben here right,
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: get your hands off of me, all right, taver got
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: the same for you too. I hold it all right, Ben,
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: You are right, all right? Try the cuffs on him.
• 26:13
  Speaker 9: Now, yeah, yeah, it's starting to rain again.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Really poorn out there.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess.
• 26:22
  Speaker 10: You better get him out of the car.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: What's the hurry? How you mean, why spoil a good rain?
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true. The names
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: were changed to protect the innocent.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: On January nineteenth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: eighty seven, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: In a moment the results of that trial, Donald Alfred
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Keeper was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree,
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: and on the recommendation of the jury, he received the
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: death penalty. He was executed in the lethal gas chamber
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: at the State Penitentiary San Quentin, California. You have just
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police W. H. Parker,
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: Los Angeles Police Department. Bartney Arborough is Sergeant Ben Romero
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: also heard work with Connor and Vic Perrin. Script by
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Jim Mozy, music by Walter Schumann, Hell Gibney.
• 27:38
  Speaker 14: Speaking Counterspy Fights International Intrigue. Next on NBC, Welcome Back Now.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: This episode sounded familiar to me and not just in
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: the sense that I've heard it a few times already,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: but that it sounded like another episode, and indeed it was.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Uh And you actually have to go back to nineteen
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: forty nine and one of the very early episodes of Dragnett.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: This was just when the Fatima sponsorship had started, back
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: on September tenth, nineteen forty nine, in the Sullivan kidnapping. Now,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: this wasn't so much a script reuse as you often
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: hear on many detective programs, but it took the same case.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: But there were some key changes that were made, and
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: a lot of these are minor, but he added up
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: to quite a bet. One thing is that when the
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: ransom was paid, this was back when Raymond Bird was
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: playing at Backstrand, and it made the papers after she'd
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: been killed, and he said that he hoped that it
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: would stick in people's minds as a reminder we don't
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: make deals with killers, so essentially offering a bit of
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: a condemnation of the victim's father for making the payment.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: In the nineteen forty nine episode, it's established that the
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: killer had been sent to jail for forgery on the
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: basis of the actions of the father, so this was
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: a bit of revenge, and that's not in the nineteen
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: fifty one version. And there's also more of the killer
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: being like, I'm so much smarter than police. That was
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: referenced once, but it was a much bigger element in
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: the nineteen forty nine case. And there's a sense in
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: which you get a lot less melodrama and a lot
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: more just straightforward documented case of how the crime was solved. Well,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: this is kind of a testament to how Dragnet had
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: refined itself since the beginning, with these little adjustments in
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: tone and style. Obviously, the big statement about not paying
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: killers could come off as preaching, and Dragnet had kind
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: of and that was not the direction the show was going,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: particularly in comparison to many other programs on the air
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: in the same genre. Now, of course, an important announcement
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: about the launch of the Dragnet TV series. They had
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: two episodes that were already filmed and ready for air,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: and Dragnet would end up on in every other week
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: schedule for this first season alternate with the TV version
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: of Gangbusters, while still continuing the radio version. Well, now
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we have
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: some comments We start on Spotify. Regarding the Big Affair,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Mechanics sixty six rides, I disagree about how to deal
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: with the police. Politely but firmly state I want to
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: cooperate with you, officer, but first I will need to
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: consult with my attorney and also have him or her
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: present at all times. That's certainly a valid approach, probably
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: the safe approach, and again better than sitting there trying
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: to just snow the police with an obviously false story.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: And of course there are episodes of drag now where
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: with no lawyer present, the guilty person keeps giving contradictory
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: statements to the police, which is not something that you
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: would want brought up in court. And then Harrison adds, Wow,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: partial cast credits is a welcome edition. It's awes when
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: we get them. And then we have another comment for
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Mechanics sixty six. This one is regarding the Big Bungalow.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Friday should have given the informant speech to Romero when
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: he complained about paying for Red's lunch. I can understand
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the sentiment, but no explaining it to the listener as
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: the voice of the police is one thing. As he
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: is informing us as people who are outside the police
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: and have been exposed to various media myths and portrayls.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: What the situation with informants is with Ben Romero, he
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: already knows. And imagine if you're a police officer and
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: you make a complaint to your partner, he says, you
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: ought not to complain about it. The informants play this
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: vital role in the police department. We after respect them
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: and we should be glad for the services they provide.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: That is annoying. That is not Joe Friday in the
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: nineteen fifties. That's Joe Friday in the nineteen eighty seven movie.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Plus cripping about the job is practically Romero's favorite pastime. Plus,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: as we'll learn later, Romero was actually the detective who
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: helped bring Friday along on the force and really is
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: the only partner that had an equal rank with him.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: You don't pull that on a mentor unless you want
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: a very early look. And of course we should mention
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: that this is Barton Arborough's last episode, that we'll hear
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: him as Ben Romero, and we'll talk more about that
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: next week. Regarding the Big Hands, James says, in response
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: to one of the comments that you read I distinctly
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: remember an episode that took place after Miranda rights became
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: a thing. It made for some interesting dialogue between Joe
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Friday and the Chief. Now I thought of the Dragnet
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six TV movie, but I think James was
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: referencing an episode of the radio program, which wouldn't have
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: been referencing Miranda versus Arizona since that was decided in
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six. There was another California case in regards
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: to the admissibility of evidence that had a big impact
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: on Joe Friday, and it was one of the last
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: radio episodes, the Big Ruling and then the Butcher five
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: O three two ass you travel back in time to
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty, you have to produce a detective radio program,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: and you have an unlimited budget. Give me five cast members,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: the themes, along the showwriter, and it would be factor fiction.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Did I leave anything out? Well, No, It's tough to say,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: because it's tough to come up with an original Haunts
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: In terms of nonfiction. I don't know if there's a
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: particular thing that stands out as a story that must
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: be told. In terms of fiction, I think I would
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: probably lean on a couple of adaptations. I'm not going
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: to try to create my own noir detective. I would
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: honestly want to make a second season of the New
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Adventures of Neural Wolf with Sydney green Street, but I
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: would want them to be closer to the book in
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: terms of the tone of the story and to actually
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: adapt stories of Rex Stout, And as I said, i'd
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: want green Street back in the main role. Honestly, I'd
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: love Bob Bailey as Archie Goodwin. I think he's got
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: a great voice for it. I love Tim Hutton in
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: a Neural Wolf mystery, but the voice is very, very
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: New York and doesn't match with the profile of Archie
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Goodwin as someone who comes from the Midwest. I think
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: baileywood evoke that better. For Inspector Kramer, i'd want Ed Bagley,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: and for Fritz, I'd go with Hans Conried. And if
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: you want one that is out of this world, I
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: would produce a Martian Manhunter radio program. Now, if you're
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: aware of the Martian Man Hunter at all, you're aware
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: of him as a Justice superhero from DC. However, when
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: he was introduced in comics, he was not only a Martian,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: but he was a detective stranded on the planet who
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: solved mysteries. And I think a weekly series about a
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Martian in mid nineteen fifties America solving mysteries that would
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: be fascinating. And I think i'd have the Martian man
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Hunter played by Michael Rennie. Now, in terms of who
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: would write, if you were talking about a neuro Wolf series,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: I'd probably pair someone who had a lot of experience
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: with adaptation, like John C. Wilson or Ernest Conoy with
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: a talented mystery writer, and I'd probably want to compare
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: samples to get just the right person. And then for
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Martian Manhunter it would probably be Robert Rith and Ernest
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Conoy theme song. I would have them write an original
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: theme tune.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: I would not even.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would not pick stock music or something already existing.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: No somewhere I'll find You or anything like that. We
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: would we would have something original, but I don't know
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: what it would be since I wouldn't be the one
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: riding the music. But thanks so much, appreciate the question.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day.
• 38:23
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• 38:26
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  Speaker 1: Or where.
• 38:50
  Speaker 15: Two years ago you had Curley sent up to the
• 38:52
  Speaker 15: pen and that's right for the male department store jobby.
• 38:55
  Speaker 15: Then just a few days ago he swore that he'd
• 38:56
  Speaker 15: get you for that, that he'd kill you, didn't he?
• 38:59
  Speaker 15: So what happened when he escaped and came hit a
• 39:01
  Speaker 15: heart for a few days ago? I know all about
• 39:03
  Speaker 15: that from reading your report. Thanks to some quick thinking
• 39:05
  Speaker 15: on your part, the police nabbed him instead. Plus the
• 39:08
  Speaker 15: loot from the department store robbery. You know who deserves
• 39:11
  Speaker 15: a real credit for that, the girl I had a
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  Speaker 15: date with tonight until you spoil things with your phone.
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  Speaker 3: Call, Johnny.
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  Speaker 15: As you know, either you or the police wounded Curly Waters,
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  Speaker 15: which is why he was taken to the hospital and
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  Speaker 15: placed under guard instead of being locked up.
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  Speaker 16: So well, well, I see you managed to locate him.
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  Speaker 16: Here's lieutenant you, Okayed Dollar?
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  Speaker 15: Any reason why I shouldn't be Howie?
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  Speaker 16: Has mister Wells told you what's happened now?
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  Speaker 3: But I think I can guess.
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  Speaker 15: Curly Waters escaped from the hospital.
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  Speaker 16: Yes, I had three good men there watching over him,
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  Speaker 16: but he managed to get by them, how with help one.
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  Speaker 8: Of his old pronies, Kimpy Taylor.
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  Speaker 16: Yes, Gimpy created as turbans out in the hall, and
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  Speaker 16: when they went after him, Curly crashed out through the window.
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  Speaker 16: When they went back in after him, Gimpy took it
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  Speaker 16: on the lamb.
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  Speaker 3: Three good men, did you say you'll.
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  Speaker 1: your host, Adam Graham signing off.