1 00:00:28,399 --> 00:00:35,600 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This 2 00:00:35,679 --> 00:00:39,359 is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it 3 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:45,159 to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net. Follow us on Twitter at 4 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:51,280 Radio Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, 5 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:56,159 slash Great Detectives. If you are enjoying this podcast, please follow us using 6 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:02,560 your favorite podcast software. Our listener support campaign continues. You can become one 7 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:06,799 of our ongoing Patreon supporters for as little last two dollars per month by just 8 00:01:06,879 --> 00:01:11,840 going to Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. 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You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned 18 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:29,680 to robbery detail. There's a potential killer on the loose in your city. 19 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:35,680 Eighteen women have been beaten and robbed by this man. The newspapers call him 20 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:44,960 the werewolf. Your job is to get him. Drag Nets that document the 21 00:02:45,039 --> 00:02:49,960 drama of an actual crime, investigated and solved by the men who unrelentingly stand 22 00:02:50,039 --> 00:02:53,039 watch on the security of your home, your family, and your life. 23 00:02:53,879 --> 00:02:58,719 For the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 24 00:02:59,199 --> 00:03:01,639 you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual 25 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:07,560 case, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnet is the 26 00:03:07,599 --> 00:03:20,520 story of your police force in action. It was Thursday morning, February second, 27 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,919 was reigning in Los Angeles. We were working the early morning watch out 28 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:30,080 of robbery detail. Detectives in Los Angeles work in pairs. My partner's Ben 29 00:03:30,159 --> 00:03:32,759 Romero. He's a sergeant, and so am I. My name's Friday. 30 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:38,280 The boss is ed back Strength. The chief of Detectives I was on the 31 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:40,000 way back from a teletype room and it was three am when I got to 32 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:45,800 room twenty seven. A robbery detail. Hi, Ben, what's up? 33 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:47,639 Keep you quote on Joe. You've got a hot shot call, come and 34 00:03:47,759 --> 00:03:52,479 give her right behind you. Let's go, Freddy, what was it? 35 00:03:52,639 --> 00:03:57,039 Ed? Another woman rowing was beating a dead How many does that make? 36 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:00,360 About eighteen and six weeks? Is that rat? Skip? Yeah? Eighteen 37 00:04:00,439 --> 00:04:03,879 too many. Come on down these stairs to the garage. Yeah. What 38 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,840 about that suspect we had it? You mean Martin? Yeah? I had 39 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:10,680 a release him this morning, and I got a good tale on him, 40 00:04:10,719 --> 00:04:14,639 Henderson. Yeah, we've got any report, Yeah, nothing definite to hold 41 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:17,600 him for. Here's the garage. Let's hustle it right. Then If this 42 00:04:17,879 --> 00:04:20,839 isn't Martin's job, Skipper, and he's not the right man, then we 43 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:24,920 start all over again and we worked night and Day'll be fine the right man. 44 00:04:25,439 --> 00:04:32,279 Here's a car, let's go, then you drive me are How do 45 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:36,120 the victims describe this guy? Yet? Pretty sketchy, supposed to be tall, 46 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:40,680 dark, long, black man. Last woman said he had a face 47 00:04:40,759 --> 00:04:44,920 like an animal, something like a dog or a wolf wolf. Yeah, 48 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:53,879 she said something like a world, something like a world wolf. We almost 49 00:04:53,879 --> 00:04:57,199 happen to be that. Judging from the way he operated. He was either 50 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,839 an animal or a raving maniac. One thing we were sure of he was 51 00:05:00,879 --> 00:05:05,639 smart when he was dangerous. For almost two months, he followed the streets 52 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:12,120 in a stolen car in the early morning, usually between three and five AM, 53 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:15,800 and the victims were always lone women, most of them waitresses, coming 54 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:19,199 to work or going home. He dragged him into the car and robbed them, 55 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:23,399 beat them until they were unconscious, and then throw the body out into 56 00:05:23,439 --> 00:05:26,160 the street. That's just what we found. When we pulled up to the 57 00:05:26,199 --> 00:05:30,439 curb near the corner of eighth and Grand, one cruiser car was already there, 58 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:34,439 and so was the ambulance. About a dozen people were standing around looking 59 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:39,680 at the crumpled figure of a woman sprawled out on the sidewalk. Two officers 60 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:43,120 were talking to the only witness, a thin, sallow faced newsboy. His 61 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:46,040 story didn't give us much to go on. Like I was telling these cops 62 00:05:46,399 --> 00:05:48,319 or these officers, sir, I was walking up eight Street when I went 63 00:05:48,319 --> 00:05:51,399 home. He's usual when I sit his blue Chevy sit and pull up down 64 00:05:51,399 --> 00:05:56,360 to block there a little way and dumb bought the dame's body. Actually, 65 00:05:56,399 --> 00:05:59,160 I don't know what to think. You get a look at the licens blade? 66 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,879 Well, no, I didn't. The truth I could hardly keep from 67 00:06:03,199 --> 00:06:06,000 I was just plain scared. What did you do after you saw him throw 68 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:11,120 the body? After d just stepped there for a minute and fell in the 69 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:13,319 card roold right on past me? Did you get a look at him? 70 00:06:13,399 --> 00:06:16,160 I sure did. How close for you when he drew first? Well, 71 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:20,639 I couldn't have been more than well eight or ten feet away. I was 72 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:24,319 right over there by the street lightning of the curve. Would you know this 73 00:06:24,319 --> 00:06:27,120 man if you saw him again? I don't know about his height, or 74 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,480 his build or his weight, but mister, his face I'll never forget. 75 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:32,839 Why do you say that? So we just like the paper says about him, 76 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:38,519 right right here on the front page here reading see woman says attack. 77 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:46,600 I looked like whirlwolf. That's all the news boy could tell us. The 78 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:50,079 suspect drove a blue sedan. He had a face like a whirlwolf. We 79 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:54,120 covered the neighborhood for clues, and we questioned a dozen people, but we 80 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:58,240 got to nowhere. We took the witness's name and address, and we drove 81 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:05,600 down a couple of blocks to an all night YAES station. I'm going in 82 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:09,720 here and call in the office. I'll see if Henderson's called in on Martin, 83 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:15,480 we might still have a suspect of right. Skipper looks as mad as 84 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:19,399 a wet horn. It doesn't mean Yeah. Did you get a good look 85 00:07:19,439 --> 00:07:24,879 at that woman's face when they moved around the ambulance? Yeah? Sure does 86 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,879 like to mess him up. I don't know how we're going to get him 87 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:30,759 ben, but we better do it fast. Next time it'll probably be murdered. 88 00:07:30,839 --> 00:07:35,639 Oh, here it comes to skipper. Joe doesn't look good. What 89 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:41,680 is it? Ed? Just talk to Henderson, he telled Martin to a 90 00:07:41,759 --> 00:07:44,959 bar in Long Beach. Hasn't been out of a site for two minutes since 91 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:47,600 yesterday. Martin's clear, and we're right back where we started. Yeah, 92 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:51,079 with one more half dead woman in the hospital. Well how about that story? 93 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:57,000 And cars can't wait a minute? Wait a minute? Cold three Ambulance 94 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:03,839 dispatched attention all units on Grand Avenue between Venis and Washington. A woman victim 95 00:08:03,879 --> 00:08:07,480 of robbery and attack called three ambulistic tasks, three Red leg and SARN and 96 00:08:07,519 --> 00:08:18,560 come on Friday, let's roll. We couldn't be sure, but it sounded 97 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:24,240 like another one. Six minutes later we were there, same story werewolf. 98 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:31,959 For next day, the chief ordered the number of cruiser cars doubled in the 99 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:35,240 central district. This was for the early morning watch, with plainclothesman to back 100 00:08:35,279 --> 00:08:39,240 them up. Then the newspapers played at vague. In two days, the 101 00:08:39,279 --> 00:08:43,960 story was on the front page of every paper in time. Maybe that should 102 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:48,080 have made the werewolf lay low, but it didn't, because at four o'clock 103 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:50,279 that morning, while Ben and I were patrolling with the other cars, he 104 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:58,879 got his twentieth victim attention all units Whittier between Soto and Matthew's a woman victim 105 00:08:58,879 --> 00:09:05,200 of two eleven an attack CO three ambulance dispense. Here's a report on a 106 00:09:05,279 --> 00:09:09,799 Blueci Danny used the other night. Joe found it out on Anaheim Telegraph Road. 107 00:09:09,879 --> 00:09:13,080 Any lucky with it? Not one fingerprint? Week in you anything else? 108 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,840 Nothing? Well? How about the auto theft detail, same old storage 109 00:09:15,879 --> 00:09:18,559 Joe, he steals a car, use it once and in drafts it never 110 00:09:18,639 --> 00:09:20,960 leaves a thing behind. That's great, We're sure moving fast. How about 111 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:24,399 that big guy you picked out of the lineup as more. Oh, I 112 00:09:24,519 --> 00:09:26,759 checked his alibi. It's perfect. Now we haven't got even half of to 113 00:09:26,799 --> 00:09:30,320 live. Yeah, well, come on, let's check with Eddie's instructing the 114 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:33,480 policewomen on the plan for tonight. All right, I have heard the reports. 115 00:09:33,519 --> 00:09:37,159 You understand how the suspect operates and what you're to do. Remember, 116 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,960 all of you, forget you. Wherever police women change the way you walk, 117 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,200 will you carry yourselves? That's the part you're playing, all right, 118 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:48,639 and be careful and don't take any chances, all right, Freddie? Okay, 119 00:09:48,879 --> 00:09:50,600 now, just to make sure you look the part, we're spotting each 120 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:54,679 one of you a different restaurants and coffee shops throughout the central district from seven 121 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:58,399 o'clock tonight until daylight tomorrow. Each one of you is going to be a 122 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:00,960 waitress. You got there, okay, Ben? You want to give them 123 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,720 their assigments? Okay, Joe. Well, here's the way it lines up. 124 00:10:03,879 --> 00:10:07,559 March Kissel at the top had Cafe AT's on Ninth Street between alf Run 125 00:10:07,639 --> 00:10:13,559 and Westley and Katie Wills Jorge Coffeehouse broke from Soto right brat Field and at 126 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:16,039 the All Night Steakhouse from Federo street between Florida. No, the trick of 127 00:10:16,159 --> 00:10:20,799 using decoys to lure trembles into a trap wasn't exactly new, but well, 128 00:10:20,919 --> 00:10:22,639 it was just one of the old tricks that we figured might land the werewolf 129 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:26,320 behind bars. At seven that night, Ben and I made the rounds and 130 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:30,279 found each of the policewomen on her job as a waitress. Well. The 131 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:33,440 overall plan was simple. The girls were to leave the different restaurants between three 132 00:10:33,519 --> 00:10:39,360 and five am that morning and pretend they were walking home. We mapped different 133 00:10:39,399 --> 00:10:41,759 courses for each one of them to throw out as much bait as possible and 134 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:46,039 yet not to make it look suspicious. Each policewoman, from the time she 135 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:50,840 left the restaurant and stepped out into the deserted streets would be pretty much on 136 00:10:50,919 --> 00:10:56,279 her own. We had officers planted all along the way at designated intervals, 137 00:10:56,320 --> 00:11:00,519 but a big element of chance and danger was still there. All we could 138 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:05,039 do is cross our fingers and hold how much more time? Joe? Let 139 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:11,200 me see she's doing two minutes. Yeah, waiting gets on your nerves that 140 00:11:11,279 --> 00:11:13,799 it won't be long. And he's corner doorways pretty good lookout spot. Yeah, 141 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:18,600 wait a minute, listen, who is it, Joe, and you 142 00:11:18,639 --> 00:11:22,519 say you get back? What is it? Wait a minute, it's Marge 143 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:26,240 Kissel. There's a man following her, a big guy. If it's the 144 00:11:26,279 --> 00:11:28,639 World Wolf, where's his car? I don't know, maybe he changed his 145 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:37,240 plans. Get back? Here he come? You look at him? Joe? 146 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:39,120 All pretty good, not too suspicious. It might be coincidence. And 147 00:11:39,279 --> 00:11:41,399 I gotta pretty good lead. Come on, let's go. Stay back in 148 00:11:41,399 --> 00:11:46,840 the shadows. Here's Joe. So where did the guy go to? A 149 00:11:46,879 --> 00:11:50,480 lost a little coffee shop up on the next corner. See take a look. 150 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:54,679 Oh yeah, yeah, he's opening a door. He's turning on the 151 00:11:54,799 --> 00:12:00,399 lights. Looks like a false alarm, Joe. Well, let's check anyway. 152 00:12:05,279 --> 00:12:07,559 Well, I didn't think we'd be that lucky on the first try, 153 00:12:07,639 --> 00:12:11,120 and we weren't. We asked the man a few questions. It didn't take 154 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:15,759 him long to show us he wasn't our man. He owned the coffee shop. 155 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:18,879 So Ben and I went back and took up our posts again and waited 156 00:12:18,919 --> 00:12:24,879 for the next decoy. We covered that ten block course six times that morning, 157 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:28,080 back and forth following the bait. But it was almost as if the 158 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:33,039 guy could sense a trap. Not once did we get a nibble. By 159 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:35,399 the time our last decoy finished the route, it was almost daylight. Joe, 160 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:39,639 I never was so glad to see that sun come up my whole life. 161 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:41,639 My feet feel like they're puffing right up out of my shoes. Yeah, 162 00:12:41,799 --> 00:12:45,559 me too. Come on, let's get over to the car and check 163 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:52,200 on the other squad out and boil heights hit the radio. Would you been 164 00:12:52,399 --> 00:12:56,120 Yeah, Jordan must be some easier job on the force and the yeah, 165 00:12:56,159 --> 00:13:01,440 you wouldn't be both un Let's see what happened to the others. H eighty 166 00:13:01,519 --> 00:13:05,039 K to unit one oh four K. Come in, one oh four K 167 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:07,120 to Unit eight K. Go ahead, one oh four K. This is 168 00:13:07,159 --> 00:13:11,440 Friday. You do any good out there? This is Miller i'lt called Curtis. 169 00:13:11,759 --> 00:13:13,200 Stand by. Eighty K to one oh four k. Roger, what 170 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:16,279 any thanks, Joe? Maybe a buye I don't know. This guy seems 171 00:13:16,279 --> 00:13:18,720 to work like a mind reader. Well he can't win all of them. 172 00:13:20,039 --> 00:13:22,480 One oh four K to Unit eighty K. This is Curtis. Go ahead, 173 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:26,240 this is Friday, Al, how'd you do out there? Any luck? 174 00:13:26,519 --> 00:13:28,559 Just checked in the last gal Joe, dye, welch, not a 175 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:35,639 same. Okay, Al have them in check in eighty K clear kgpl Okay, 176 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:41,720 let's go Ben. When we finally got back to the office that morning, 177 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:45,159 both Ben and I were ready for some sleep, but it didn't look 178 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:48,159 like we were gonna get it. We're just about finished going through the overnight 179 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:52,120 reports for some kind of a lead when the phone rang Robbery Friday. All 180 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:56,519 right, Joe, this Wilkers at Hi. Wilkie. You got something for 181 00:13:56,639 --> 00:13:58,919 us, Joe, but it might work into something. He's got a rip 182 00:14:00,039 --> 00:14:03,000 board in in a pair of stolen license plates. Oh yeah, I'm up 183 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:05,759 much of a hawk show. But I figured there's just a chance it might 184 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:09,080 be your werewolf for it, I'll come. I don't know, maybe just 185 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:13,639 a hunch. After thirteen years in this business, you get to know thieves 186 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:16,480 pretty well. Sometimes you got to even think like them. Okay, Wilkie, 187 00:14:16,519 --> 00:14:18,799 thanks, we'll check buy in a couple of minutes, Right, Joe, 188 00:14:20,799 --> 00:14:22,639 what do you have to say peril? License plates stolen last night? 189 00:14:22,879 --> 00:14:26,320 Wilkie's got a hunch it could have been our man. That might be an 190 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:28,639 angle, Joe. In fact, werewolf g I'd hang on to one car 191 00:14:28,759 --> 00:14:33,480 long enough we'd have a change that he's too smart for that. I don't 192 00:14:33,519 --> 00:14:35,519 know, Joe, sooner or lady, he's gonna make them mistake. Yeah, 193 00:14:35,879 --> 00:14:41,799 come on, let's check with Wilkie. Well, we checked with Wilkerson. 194 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:45,360 We got the best piece of news we'd had in days. On the 195 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:48,639 average, ninety five percent of stolen cars are recovered or located within twenty four 196 00:14:48,679 --> 00:14:52,960 hours. In the remaining five percent, Wilkerson buy a simple process of elimination 197 00:14:54,399 --> 00:14:58,320 narrowed down the number of cars the suspect might be driving. Wilkie figured six 198 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:01,360 cars. Yeah they are now. I bet you if you've picked up your 199 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:03,759 man tonight, he'd be in one of these cars. Let me see, 200 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:07,639 huh, two door black sedan, You look confortible. Another sedan, green 201 00:15:07,919 --> 00:15:11,639 blue coop black coop and a great confortible. What's good work, Willie. 202 00:15:11,639 --> 00:15:13,679 At least we've got something to look for now. Yeah, you're right, 203 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:16,879 Joe. Look you've got the numbers, those stolen plates you're talking about right 204 00:15:16,879 --> 00:15:20,320 here, Ben, they're already on the hot sheet. Keep us posting, 205 00:15:20,399 --> 00:15:26,440 huh as usual, Ben, see your lady welcome. That's a good break, 206 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:30,480 Ben, something to keep us busy tonight tonight. What do you mean 207 00:15:30,639 --> 00:15:33,000 we're setting another trap. Same thing as last night, same police women, 208 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:37,519 same everything. Heyell, only this time let's will be steps into it, 209 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:46,279 you know, Joe, this werewolf character is getting me mad. That night 210 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:50,360 we followed in our own footsteps. We planted the police women decoys in three 211 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:54,559 separate districts, and a few minutes before three am, our squad of men 212 00:15:54,679 --> 00:15:58,679 took up their positions. The same police women went to their waitress jobs in 213 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:00,519 the same restaurants, and Ben and I and the rest of the men stood 214 00:16:00,519 --> 00:16:06,039 in darkened doorways or empty filling stations or whatever cover we could find, and 215 00:16:06,159 --> 00:16:14,919 we waited and waited. What time is it, Joe? Let me look 216 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:21,919 half past four? Thank you? Any sign? Joe? No, nothing 217 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:27,519 yet, Come on, stay in the shadows. That's the way it went 218 00:16:27,559 --> 00:16:32,360 all through the early morning, the same plan, over and over again until 219 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:34,279 daylight. Ben and I had check in at the station, go over the 220 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:38,200 late stolen car reports with Wilkie, catch a few hours sleep at home, 221 00:16:38,279 --> 00:16:41,720 and then come back and do it all over again the next night, the 222 00:16:41,799 --> 00:16:47,039 next morning, the night after that, in the morning after that. Five 223 00:16:47,159 --> 00:16:48,759 days later, Ben and I were ready to call it quits. I'll admit 224 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:52,320 it Joe. I can't figure guys either, psychic gros. He can smell 225 00:16:52,399 --> 00:16:56,519 a cup a mile away. Yeah, well, at least got that stolen 226 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:59,279 car angle left you check with Wilkie up this morning. I'll give him a 227 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:08,640 call. That otto, Wilkerson, This is Ben. Well you got anything 228 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:11,799 for us this morning? Yeah, I'm just gonna call you. You fellows, 229 00:17:12,079 --> 00:17:15,920 let me starve your cases for you. Why what'd you get? The 230 00:17:15,039 --> 00:17:18,759 boys picked up three of those six stolen cars since late yesterday. Great, 231 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,880 Now what does that leave us with? I hear the three still missing? 232 00:17:22,039 --> 00:17:27,799 Yeah? Four x Rays seven six three yeah, five six Young three four 233 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:33,680 two six one, Robert three eight five Yeah, yeah, thank you, 234 00:17:33,759 --> 00:17:37,279 welcome, check you later. Good news, Maymber. Those six missing cars, 235 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:40,400 yeah, Wilke, he says, the boys found three of them since 236 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:44,359 late yesterday. Here's what's still out, the blue coupe, the yellow convertible, 237 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:47,359 and a great CONVERTI yeah, all this feels like the right track for 238 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:49,920 a change. Ben. Lady got a minute, Jore, Thanksgaper, Come 239 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:56,119 on, Joe. What he got in woman? Nothing? Hollywood just called 240 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:59,039 in with this, she said. She walked down to the corner from her 241 00:17:59,079 --> 00:18:00,640 house last night to me the letter. On the way back, a guy 242 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:03,759 pulled up in the car and tried to drag her inside any description, big 243 00:18:03,839 --> 00:18:07,559 heavy said, dark, same thing. Well how'd you get away from him? 244 00:18:07,559 --> 00:18:10,000 Skip? She said? She started running as soon as he made a 245 00:18:10,039 --> 00:18:11,640 motion toward her, and he saw he run up the steps of her house. 246 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:15,200 He jumped back in the car and took off. How comes she didn't 247 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:18,400 call in before then? She hasn't got a poons ready to leave the house 248 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:21,359 again this morning? Sounds good? She if you got her address there? 249 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:26,680 Yeah, yeah, missus Tom Birdie one two three seven Worldcocks Apartment ten. 250 00:18:26,319 --> 00:18:37,880 Come on, Ben, this might be what we're looking for. Who is 251 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:42,799 it. Who's the Sergeant Friday? Ma'am police? Oh that's the moment. 252 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:51,839 I'm Sergeant Rommero. Missus Birdie, he's my partner, Sergeant Friday. We 253 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:55,200 come out to check on your call about that little trouble last night. Oh 254 00:18:55,319 --> 00:18:56,799 well, I don't know if I'm going to be much help to you. 255 00:18:57,319 --> 00:19:00,680 I was so frightened about. All I could do it was just run. 256 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:03,400 Well, could you add anything to the man's description, miss Bertie, I 257 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:06,160 mean, other than what you told the chief on the phone. Well, 258 00:19:06,279 --> 00:19:10,000 now, honestly, I don't think I can. All I saw was this 259 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:12,680 tall, dark man jumping out of his car and starting for me. He 260 00:19:12,799 --> 00:19:18,759 had a heavy build and seemed to me well a large head, lots of 261 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:23,920 long black hair. Miss Bertie. Would you recognize this man if you ever 262 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:29,640 saw him again? Well, I think I might. He was such an 263 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:33,240 unusually big man. Almost frightened me to death. Just one more question, 264 00:19:33,279 --> 00:19:36,720 Miss Bertie. Could you describe the car this man was driving when he approached 265 00:19:36,759 --> 00:19:41,519 you? His car? Why? Yes, it was a great convertible, 266 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:45,279 Miss Bertie. Are you sure of that, Yes, I'm sure of it. 267 00:19:45,519 --> 00:19:48,519 A great convertible. Thank you, Miss Bertie. That's all we wanted 268 00:19:48,559 --> 00:19:55,640 to know. Sometimes when you're on a case, you can chase yourself around 269 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:57,640 in circles for weeks, trying to fit together just two little pieces of a 270 00:19:57,759 --> 00:20:03,039 yard long jigsaw, and a lot of the time you find the answer were 271 00:20:03,039 --> 00:20:06,720 you at least expected. But once you get that feeling you're after the right 272 00:20:06,799 --> 00:20:11,200 man in the right way, there's nothing that can shake you. When Ben 273 00:20:11,319 --> 00:20:12,960 and I got back to headquarters, we went straight to the chief's office with 274 00:20:14,039 --> 00:20:15,720 a story, and we had him stake out the great convertible. In other 275 00:20:15,759 --> 00:20:19,559 words. If any detective or officers spotted the car, he reported it back 276 00:20:19,599 --> 00:20:22,519 to us, but he stayed away from it. We figured that there probably 277 00:20:22,519 --> 00:20:26,119 weren't more than two of the victims who could take the witness stand and identify 278 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:30,599 the man who rob and beat them, not with a smart defense lawyer anyway, 279 00:20:30,279 --> 00:20:38,240 So there was only one way to catch this suspect red handed. Here 280 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:42,160 they are, Joe close sets the largest numbers for that great convertible. Here 281 00:20:42,279 --> 00:20:45,759 the original. Here the numbers on the stolen plan. Good. Everybody got 282 00:20:45,799 --> 00:20:49,039 a hot sheet from the chief all the way down to the Jinn. Fine. 283 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:52,480 Now let's get together with the hunt. Joe, gravit, I got 284 00:20:52,559 --> 00:20:57,720 it on the corner of California and Oakwood. Or woman badly beaten on the 285 00:20:57,799 --> 00:21:02,839 corner of California and hopeful a woman bad Come on, ben another one, 286 00:21:03,039 --> 00:21:04,920 but Joe, it's broad dayla. Yeah, doesn't figure, does it? 287 00:21:06,279 --> 00:21:18,079 Come on? And vacant? Lotto verd you. Two plane clothesmen and uniformed 288 00:21:18,079 --> 00:21:21,400 officers were keeping the crowd bank. An ambulance was drawn up at the curb, 289 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:23,160 but it was empty. When we got down to the rear of the 290 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:27,640 lot. We found out why they were waiting for the corner. The woman 291 00:21:27,759 --> 00:21:32,160 was young, not much more than thirty. Her body was half sprawled across 292 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:36,240 the muddy ground and her face was turned upward. It had been badly beaten. 293 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:40,039 They figured it happened last night. Sergeant, Have the fingerprint men been 294 00:21:40,079 --> 00:21:42,440 notified? Yeah, how about the crime lab? Just call them. That's 295 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,920 good. Now, let's keep everybody out of the area till they get here, 296 00:21:45,039 --> 00:21:48,480 right, sergeant who found the body? One of the kids in the 297 00:21:48,519 --> 00:21:52,200 neighborhood own was dead when he found her. Did she live her on here 298 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:56,960 about a half mile away? I hear she's got three kids, or she 299 00:21:56,119 --> 00:22:03,440 had three kids. You've seen enough, Ben, Yeah, let's get on 300 00:22:03,559 --> 00:22:12,000 back to headquarter. All the way back to headquarters, Ben and I planned 301 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,559 our next move, and by the time we got to ad Backstrand's office, 302 00:22:15,559 --> 00:22:18,640 we knew exactly what had to be done. When we told him about the 303 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:22,119 werewolf murder, he didn't say a thing for a minute. He just stared 304 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:26,240 across the room at the calendar on the wall, and he brought his hand 305 00:22:26,279 --> 00:22:30,480 down hard against the desk. Friday Romero, I'm only going to say this 306 00:22:30,599 --> 00:22:33,799 once, so get it straight. That guy's pulled his last job in this 307 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:37,079 city. He's through rubbing and beating women, and he's through with murder. 308 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,720 I'd given you time to track him down, and I want him in no 309 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:45,200 stalls and no excuses. I wont him. I don't care how many men 310 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,079 you used, and I don't care how you get him. But get him, 311 00:22:48,759 --> 00:22:56,160 That's all. Ben and I worked all that afternoon, right through dinner, 312 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:00,039 up until eight o'clock. By that time, the overall plan was on 313 00:23:00,279 --> 00:23:03,920 paper and already in action. It was one of the biggest things we'd ever 314 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:07,039 tackled, and well, we didn't know if what was going to work. 315 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:11,079 We only knew it had to work. We had a squad of sixty five 316 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:15,799 cars to stretch out over forty square miles of the city, and one big 317 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:19,839 dragnet. The blockade itself would be stationary most of the time, and working 318 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:26,000 inside it would be two cars fourteen policewomen as decoys with two plane clothes but 319 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:30,079 assigned to watch each policewoman. If and when the werewolf was sighted in the 320 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:33,119 great convertible, we'd automatically take over the police radio for the whole city, 321 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:40,559 and Backstrand would direct the chase from headquarters. A little after eight, we 322 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:42,839 had coffee and hamburgers, and we went to Ben's for a few hours. 323 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,680 Ben tucked his kid in bed as usual, and then he laid down for 324 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:51,440 a nap. I talked to his wife and until I dozed off in the 325 00:23:51,559 --> 00:23:55,200 chair. At eleven thirty. She woke us up. I combed my hair 326 00:23:55,240 --> 00:24:00,279 and put on my coat. Cops wives, or like everybody else's, they 327 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,640 worry. When we met at a headquarters, we did some last minute checking 328 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:07,319 on details with Backstrand for about a half an hour, and then we were 329 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:11,519 all ready to go. By five minutes past two, half the dragnet crew 330 00:24:11,599 --> 00:24:14,359 pulled out of the police garage and scattered over the city to their places. 331 00:24:17,759 --> 00:24:19,440 By two thirty five, the other half pulled out in a few minutes later. 332 00:24:19,519 --> 00:24:26,279 Ben and I followed. At three minutes to three that morning, Backstrand 333 00:24:26,319 --> 00:24:32,920 took over communications and checked every car in the operation. It was a good 334 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:36,160 start, every man in his right place, but the right time. The 335 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:38,720 trap was set. All we needed now was to find our suspect, the 336 00:24:38,759 --> 00:24:45,839 werewolf inside control for the unit ad K, control for the unit AD game 337 00:24:45,519 --> 00:24:49,519 ADI K to control four Go ahead missus. Backstrand standing by him, AD 338 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:56,160 k Roger Claire kgpl Okay, Ben, Now let's go find him. I 339 00:24:56,279 --> 00:25:00,759 gotta haunched you. Let's try the Wilshire district for sounds. It right to 340 00:25:00,839 --> 00:25:07,440 me. Let's go. For the first hour and a half we raked the 341 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:12,119 Wilshire district back and forth. Not a sign. Then about thirty eight minutes 342 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:15,319 past four, we headed back for the downtown area and parked in an alley 343 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:22,319 where we could double check on one of our police women decoys. Here comes 344 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:26,160 one of the girls, now, Joe pat feeler. But her feet are 345 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,279 almost distarred as mine. You know, do you see anything else? Ben? 346 00:25:29,599 --> 00:25:33,359 Nothing quiet is at church? No, I don't wait a minute. 347 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:38,319 Card just turned the corner, heading up in the same direction she is so 348 00:25:40,039 --> 00:25:42,359 to it's slowing down. Wait a minute, it's pulling up beside her. 349 00:25:42,759 --> 00:25:49,680 It's a great convertible. It's him, Joe, Come on, Ben, 350 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:56,319 down, he sees it. He a gun? All right, yeah, 351 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:59,119 look at that guy. Take off eighty k to control four, eighty k 352 00:25:59,279 --> 00:26:03,880 to Control four eight. We've spotted the suspect. He's driving a gray Fort 353 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:10,480 convertible license six one Robert three eight. Five suspects headed east on Olympic from 354 00:26:10,599 --> 00:26:15,559 Alameda, driving without lights. Suspect his arm. He had a vast car 355 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:19,119 and he knew how to drive it. We almost lost him twice. Two 356 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:25,559 minutes after we've sighted him Backstrand took over full radio control Fairy unit at Katy 357 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:29,039 on occation eighty K to control four. We're traveling at a high rate of 358 00:26:29,079 --> 00:26:33,599 speed, headed east on Olympic crossing Soto Street control for all units and live 359 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,960 units eleven, eight, twelve and thirteen R closed in on the intersections at 360 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:42,119 Olympic and Loreno. Units forty one, forty two, forty five and one 361 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,640 oh four K one on the next four or four six east eleventh to the 362 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,440 north and south. Units one on five K fourteen day seventy R forty three 363 00:26:49,519 --> 00:26:59,880 D lock all main arteries in the next half hour of the sixty five cars 364 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,880 in the drag got it pulled in like a noose around a five mile area. 365 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:07,119 Ben and I hope it was just a matter of time. Unit ady 366 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:12,480 K to control four. He's headed north on Fresno Street crossing. What are 367 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:21,960 your boulevard atjecting all units eighty K NO pursuing suspect Units fifteen one, five 368 00:27:22,039 --> 00:27:26,160 K, eleven or eighteen eight clock off the intersection Old Fresno and hey, 369 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:27,319 Ben up there ahead. What's he trying to do? Now? Look he's 370 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,440 turning around. Yeah yeah, and he's coming right for Wat's it ko look 371 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:37,839 out pretty close. Eighty k to control four, exchanging shots with suspect. 372 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:45,440 Watch it, Ben, Here he comes again. Their likes to use that 373 00:27:45,519 --> 00:27:48,480 gun? Done? They sure done? Hey Joe, Look look he's turning 374 00:27:48,599 --> 00:27:51,119 east. He's running for the hulland Beck Park. Yeah, eighty k to 375 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:55,799 control four. Suspect just drove up over curb and into Holland Beck Park. 376 00:28:00,519 --> 00:28:17,680 Those pectus in the works and us there he has been wa looks like a 377 00:28:17,839 --> 00:28:19,599 night fastball game. I'm only hands. Yeah, come on, let's get 378 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:23,039 him. Ye never say die, Hi, Joe joking? You get a 379 00:28:23,079 --> 00:28:32,559 shot anymore foot shoot blood. I'll give up to a shoot and step out 380 00:28:32,599 --> 00:28:33,200 on the open and get your hands in the air. All right, all 381 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:37,079 right, give up, we don't shoot. You're a brave kill Yeah, 382 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:38,640 come on, all right, to get your hands in the air. Come 383 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,599 on higher, don't look out. He's got a night I got him, 384 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:49,680 Joe. Those women were right. It does look like a world war. 385 00:28:51,640 --> 00:29:03,960 Yeah, you got your handcuffs. Yeah, okay, got a cigarette and 386 00:29:04,119 --> 00:29:07,400 been out for an hour. Middle place across the street. Maybe we can 387 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:11,000 get somewhere. Okay, here's the crew from the forty one hour. Hey, 388 00:29:11,079 --> 00:29:15,799 fellows, take him in the robbery, will you? Okay? Thank 389 00:29:15,839 --> 00:29:27,119 You's a vending machine in there. Say you got some change for the cigarette 390 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:33,640 machine? Mister, I think so. Say who's that guy? All him? 391 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,880 Cops? Rafter or in the park a little while ago and picked up 392 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:42,000 the whirlwolf. Been reading the paper? Yeah you fellows, cops. Yeah, 393 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,680 sure made it easy for you, didn't he. All you cops had 394 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:51,519 to do was shround a little fellow in the park. Nothing to it. 395 00:29:51,680 --> 00:30:03,200 Huh, Yeah, that's right, mister, nothing to it. The story 396 00:30:03,279 --> 00:30:08,440 you have just heard was true, only the names were changed to protect the 397 00:30:08,559 --> 00:30:14,039 innocent. Walter Barton, known as the Werewolf, was tried and convicted and 398 00:30:14,279 --> 00:30:25,319 is now serving a full life sentence at the State Penitentiary. This has been 399 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:30,160 Dragnets, the third in a new series of authentic cases from official files. 400 00:30:30,759 --> 00:30:33,759 Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the office of C. B. Horrell, 401 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:41,240 Chief of Police, Los Angeles Police Department. Tonight's program is dedicated to Sergeant 402 00:30:41,319 --> 00:30:47,359 Mario Victor Dyrol of the Los Angeles Police Department, who, on the morning 403 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:52,920 of January first, nineteen forty three, gave his life so that yours might 404 00:30:52,000 --> 00:31:18,319 be more secure. Dragnett came to you from Los Angeles. This is NBC, 405 00:31:18,839 --> 00:31:33,480 the National Broadcasting Company. Welcome back. The music is the biggest change, 406 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:37,799 and really compared to last week, you can just hear how essential that 407 00:31:38,759 --> 00:31:42,599 theme is. Now there's gonna be more tweaks with the music as we go 408 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:51,039 along. There's still not quite that rhythm and the exact cadences of the incidental 409 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:56,359 music, but it's definitely come a long way from the previous week. Also, 410 00:31:56,559 --> 00:32:02,359 having the narrator explained the this position of the case I think works not 411 00:32:02,559 --> 00:32:07,920 only feels more like Dragnet, but I just think it works better. Of 412 00:32:08,079 --> 00:32:14,799 course, in many ways in the series still doesn't quite sound like Dragnet. 413 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:21,359 But I find this an interesting era to listen to because the series really is 414 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:27,160 evolving and changing, and there are some fascinating episodes. I don't think until 415 00:32:27,279 --> 00:32:34,319 either late forty nine or early fifty that the series feels like it's really the 416 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:42,000 Dragnet program that came so groundbreaking and had this great legacy. In terms of 417 00:32:42,079 --> 00:32:46,039 the story itself, I think this was an absolutely solid case and it was 418 00:32:46,319 --> 00:32:52,200 pretty well balanced. There's a lot of the leg work, quite a bit 419 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:58,720 of the tedium and the long, repetitive hours that went into the case, 420 00:32:59,079 --> 00:33:05,039 and all the ads that didn't go anywhere, and then you just have a 421 00:33:05,359 --> 00:33:14,880 fantastic climatic at realistic police chase and the citizen comment was just perfectly clothless but 422 00:33:15,039 --> 00:33:20,039 representative of what a lot of people who don't know what they're talking about on 423 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:24,960 a giving subject will say. And Friday's response was perfect. It was one 424 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:32,279 of those classic sardonic drynet lines. And the advantage of being sardonic with clueless 425 00:33:32,319 --> 00:33:37,119 people is they don't know that you're mocking them, and you can't get written 426 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:42,559 up. Listener comments and feedback. Now, I did a pull on YouTube 427 00:33:42,799 --> 00:33:47,000 for opinions on Tales of the Texas Rangers, and we had quite a few 428 00:33:47,279 --> 00:33:52,119 comments, Don Runs, I'm sad there isn't anymore. Well, thank you, 429 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:58,119 Don, And there are some lost episodes with Tales of the Texas Rangers, 430 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:02,119 so you never know they're says. I personally enjoyed the show. Joel 431 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:08,639 McCray was like other movie stars at the time playing on radio between pictures Jimmy 432 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:15,639 Stewart, Frank Sinatra, and Humphrey Bogard Old did another listener Rights loved it. 433 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:20,440 Laura Rights, I give a B. Some of the stories are very 434 00:34:20,519 --> 00:34:23,760 good, some are a bit weak. I think overall of the show struggles 435 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:29,719 a bit with consistency and at times relied very much on tropes and stereotypes. 436 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:35,559 But I appreciate Joel mccraye's commitment to jas Pearson. He always portrayed the character 437 00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:40,159 as professional and level headed and was convincing as a ranger. Keep up the 438 00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:44,559 great work, Adam, Well, thank you. And then we had a 439 00:34:44,639 --> 00:34:49,119 couple of listeners more mixed reviews. I started listening to this podcast about eight 440 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,960 or nine months ago, so that's where I picked up the series. I 441 00:34:52,079 --> 00:34:57,599 thought the violence was really graphic, needlessly in my opinions. The last couple 442 00:34:57,679 --> 00:35:00,440 of months it was obvious it was honed down quite a bit, which I 443 00:35:00,559 --> 00:35:06,760 appreciated, and I thought the last few episodes were the best of what I 444 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,840 heard. They had to get more creative and not just rely on violence. 445 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:15,960 They were able to explore different types of crimes, not just brutal murders. 446 00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:20,480 What keeps it out of the great category for me was that it was a 447 00:35:20,559 --> 00:35:24,199 bit too I'm not sure what the word is. The sheriff is of the 448 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:30,840 weak sidekicks or one step above idiots most of the time to cringe for me. 449 00:35:30,079 --> 00:35:35,239 Of course, that makes a ranger jas the hero, and with a 450 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,440 movie starring the lead, I can kind of understand that. So much for 451 00:35:38,599 --> 00:35:45,239 realism though, well, I'll take the point about the sheriffs. In most 452 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:52,400 cases, I think the sheriffs had limited experience in dealing with serious crime in 453 00:35:52,519 --> 00:35:55,559 many of these rural counties, which is why the rangers were called in. 454 00:35:55,920 --> 00:36:02,519 And certainly there were and or many small counties. There are people who are 455 00:36:02,599 --> 00:36:09,400 elected sheriff who are popular, well liked, and good at certain aspects of 456 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:16,199 the job, like de escalating situations, but are not particularly good investigators and 457 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:22,559 are not called on to do that that often. So in many episodes, 458 00:36:22,639 --> 00:36:27,639 I think they're being out of their depth. Is defensible, of course, 459 00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,880 I think that there were something that took it too far. I'm thinking of 460 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:38,679 the one where the sheriff failed to check whether a robbery victim was alive and 461 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:45,159 just assumed he was dead based on the opinion of two guys driving a truck 462 00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,320 who showed up there. I mean, two guys in a truck said he 463 00:36:47,519 --> 00:36:52,599 was dead, so I'm pretty sure he's dead, that sort of thing. 464 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:58,480 And Nicholas right, it's always murders not very uplifting to me. I will 465 00:36:58,559 --> 00:37:01,400 listen to them just once in a while. Well, thank you so much, 466 00:37:01,639 --> 00:37:06,800 and I think that's fair enough. Nicholas. It's interesting to me that 467 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:15,000 so many folks come to old time radio and the show is different expectations and 468 00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:20,480 taste, even if they say similar things, Like some listeners will say that 469 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:28,239 they enjoy hearing programs that allow them to escape from the craziness of today, 470 00:37:28,519 --> 00:37:35,440 and some like programs just if it gives people a sense that at the end 471 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:39,960 of the half hour, justice is served and the natural order is restored. 472 00:37:40,199 --> 00:37:46,039 For other people, they don't want to get extreme violence or upset from their 473 00:37:46,079 --> 00:37:51,840 old time radio. And so there are folks who don't care much for hard 474 00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:58,679 boiled material or for stuff that deals more with real life violent cases. And 475 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:02,960 that's one of the things I really like about doing this podcast is we really 476 00:38:04,679 --> 00:38:08,599 try to serve a wide variety of different tastes and so people can pick and 477 00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:15,360 shows. And I like Nicholas's comment about listening every once in a while because 478 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:20,039 there are old time radio programs that are like that. Even for me, 479 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:25,119 there are programs that I know are absolutely brilliant dousand of If I spend too 480 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:30,000 much time listening to them, you're going to not be the best thing for 481 00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:36,039 my overall mode. Because there is some old time radio that is brilliantly written 482 00:38:36,119 --> 00:38:40,480 and acted, but it can also be really dark and depressing if you bange 483 00:38:40,519 --> 00:38:45,519 it. So you gotta know yourself and to make good decisions. Now it's 484 00:38:45,679 --> 00:38:51,119 time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day. Thank you to Garrick, 485 00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:58,360 Patreon supporter since January of twenty eighteen, currently supporting the podcast at the rookie 486 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,039 level of two dollars or more per month. Thanks so much for your support, 487 00:39:01,119 --> 00:39:05,159 Garrick, and that will do it for today. If you're enjoying this 488 00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:09,360 podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software and be sure to write 489 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:14,920 and review the podcast where ever you download it from. We'll be back next 490 00:39:15,039 --> 00:39:20,280 Saturday with another episode of Dragnet, but join us back here tomorrow for our 491 00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,840 next listener support special, Where and how long did you sleep? Mister Lewis. 492 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:30,119 I don't know what woke me up. Was it someone knocking on the 493 00:39:30,199 --> 00:39:38,960 door. I got up and opened it. That's all I remember. Who 494 00:39:39,159 --> 00:39:44,079 was it at the door? I don't know. It's just like like the 495 00:39:44,199 --> 00:39:47,199 lights went out. I don't remember a thing until I woke up here this 496 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:52,920 morning. I see Do you know where you are? No? This is 497 00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:58,079 a hospital for the mentally ill. This is the Flowerdale Hospital for the criminal 498 00:39:58,199 --> 00:40:04,400 insane criminals. I'm not insane, and I'm not I've had a blackout, 499 00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,280 that's all. Does that make me a criminal? Oh no, it's the 500 00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:10,679 other way around. The crime caused the blackout? Crime? What crime? 501 00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:14,039 What did I do? I can't tell you that. I hope you'll be 502 00:40:14,159 --> 00:40:17,679 with us then. In the meantime, do send your comments to Box thirteen 503 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:22,960 at Great Detectives dot net, follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and 504 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:30,800 check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com slash Great Detectives from Boise, 505 00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:34,800 Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. Sign and off.