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Now we're going 17 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:55,680 to get into this week's yours truly Johnny Dollars serial will be presenting episodes one 18 00:01:55,760 --> 00:02:01,560 and two today and the concluding episodes on Friday, so you can obviously listen 19 00:02:01,599 --> 00:02:06,359 to them all together on Friday if you want. But the original air dates 20 00:02:06,439 --> 00:02:09,960 April the twenty third and twenty fourth, nineteen fifty six. And this is 21 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:19,159 The Lonely Hearts Matter, Episodes one and two from Hollywood. It's time now 22 00:02:19,439 --> 00:02:24,599 for Johnny Dollar davel with Johnny Northwest. Surety, Oh hi you Dave. 23 00:02:24,599 --> 00:02:28,879 How's the family growing like weeds? You wouldn't even recognize? I guess not. 24 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,400 It's been a long time. Say yeah, you've freed the moment, 25 00:02:30,439 --> 00:02:34,199 Johnny. Now there's nothing going on here except the rent. What's on your 26 00:02:34,199 --> 00:02:37,280 mind? I don't know exactly. Maybe smoke, maybe a fire. I 27 00:02:37,319 --> 00:02:39,599 got a girl here, you executives really live? Well, she's pretty enough 28 00:02:39,599 --> 00:02:43,719 to say, why don't you come on over here and meet her? Social 29 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:46,560 or do I get paid for it? You get paid? Jay Dollers shallow 30 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:52,039 personal attention to Lonely Hearts specialists. Why did you say that, say what 31 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:54,520 lonely hearts? I don't know why. Is it a cold of some kind? 32 00:02:55,159 --> 00:02:59,039 You could call it that. I guess what does it mean, Johnny? 33 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:08,360 If this girl is telling the truth, it means murder tonight and every 34 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:13,000 weekday night. Bob Bailey. In the transcribed Adventures of the Man with the 35 00:03:13,039 --> 00:03:30,639 Action Packed Expense Account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator as Trulli Johnny Doller from Special 36 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:35,599 Investigator Johnny Doller to the home office Northwest Shorety Company, Hartford, Connecticut. 37 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,240 The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Lonely Hearts matter. 38 00:03:42,719 --> 00:03:45,960 Rightem one A dollar and sixty cents taxi fair from my apartment of the 39 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:50,120 Northwest Shorty Building in the office of Dave Elwood, Executive Claims Adjuster, a 40 00:03:50,159 --> 00:03:53,439 hard working little man with thinning hair, who, even after twenty years in 41 00:03:53,479 --> 00:03:57,319 the game, still couldn't help making every claim of personal matter. He met 42 00:03:57,319 --> 00:04:01,719 me in the outer office and led me off to one side. She's waiting 43 00:04:01,719 --> 00:04:04,639 inside there, Johnny, I wanted a brief you before you met her. 44 00:04:05,319 --> 00:04:09,240 Her name is Normal Wells. She's from Chicago. She flew in from there 45 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,520 this morning, hasn't had any sleep, and she's pretty upset. What about 46 00:04:12,879 --> 00:04:15,519 her father died three days ago, suddenly, unexpectedly? What did he die 47 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,720 on? Acute enter ritis? Supposedly the death certificate hasn't been signed yet. 48 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,759 Is that what you meant by murder? And his daughter thinks? So? 49 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,720 Was he insured with you? Fifty thousand dollars term life written five months ago? 50 00:04:28,959 --> 00:04:31,639 Who was the beneficiary this daughter? No? His wife, his second 51 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:35,079 wife, that is, the girl's mother died years ago. Wells remarried a 52 00:04:35,079 --> 00:04:40,040 month before the policy was issued, a woman named Mabel Burke. The insurance 53 00:04:40,079 --> 00:04:43,519 is payable to her, and the Wells girl thinks she killed him, That's 54 00:04:43,519 --> 00:04:46,639 what she says. She's pretty mixed up. Why did she come here? 55 00:04:46,079 --> 00:04:49,240 And I'm not quite sure, Johnny, I suppose you ask her. Okay, 56 00:04:49,319 --> 00:04:55,439 let's go this way. What about that lonely hearts crack you made on 57 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:58,279 the phone. Well, that's how he met this new wife, this Mabel 58 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:00,639 Burke, through a lonely hearts club. Like they say, marriage is a 59 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:03,879 lottery, in this case, it sounds more like Russian roulette. Yeah, 60 00:05:04,319 --> 00:05:10,439 in here, miss Wells, this is Johnny Dollar. He's a specialist, 61 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:12,759 an expert in this kind of thing. I'm sure he'll be able to help 62 00:05:12,759 --> 00:05:15,879 you. What did you do, mister mister dollar? Miss well Now, 63 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:17,000 I'm going to leave you two alone. I have a couple of things I 64 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,319 gotta take care of. You just punched the intercom. If you want me, 65 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:25,800 Ryan, Dave? Thanks? Would you? Would you care for a 66 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:29,079 cigarette? Miss Wells? No? Thank you? Yes, yes, I 67 00:05:29,079 --> 00:05:32,360 will too. I please forgive me. I I just can't seem to think 68 00:05:32,399 --> 00:05:45,439 straight. That's perfectly understandable. Yeah, thanks, thank you, mister Dallars. 69 00:05:46,759 --> 00:05:48,319 Forgive me for being so blunt. But when was the last time you 70 00:05:48,399 --> 00:05:55,680 had something to eat? Yesterday morning? I guess, Dave. Yes, 71 00:05:55,759 --> 00:05:58,360 Johnny, I suppose you could send out for a glass of orange usee, 72 00:05:58,399 --> 00:06:00,519 a hot roll, a pot of coffee, or I'll have one of the 73 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,800 girls go get it. No, no, please, I really you are 74 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:06,279 really going to though. You're shaking so hard you can hardly hold on to 75 00:06:06,319 --> 00:06:11,839 that cigarette. I know you're so stupid at me. You and your father 76 00:06:11,879 --> 00:06:15,000 were pretty close, I am as yes, until he married her. What 77 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:19,319 kind of a woman is she? But she's strange, it's hard to explain. 78 00:06:19,399 --> 00:06:25,040 She's she's sort of vague, fuzzy around the edges if if that makes 79 00:06:25,079 --> 00:06:29,959 any sense, it's like she isn't even there sometimes but by a way off 80 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,319 somewhere in time of space, a little batty. Is that what you're imploying? 81 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,480 No? No, not really. She could be as sharp as a 82 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:41,879 tech when she wanted to. But something about her, well, I was 83 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:46,279 scared of a mister Dalla, and I don't actually know why. I see 84 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:50,000 my father and I could never be alone. Somehow she always managed to be 85 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:56,399 there, separating us, driving us apart. Did she ever say anything that 86 00:06:56,399 --> 00:06:59,920 would lead you to believe that she didn't have to? Just being there was 87 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:04,079 enough to all right? I know what you're thinking. Father, vexation, 88 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:10,680 second wife, jealous daughter, neurotic imagination. It's a possibility, isn't it. 89 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:14,519 No? Don't you suppose I thought of that, made allowances for it? 90 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:16,600 Do you think I'm a fool? I don't know what to think. 91 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,240 Miss Well. As you told Dave L, would you believe your stepmother had 92 00:07:19,319 --> 00:07:24,000 murdered your father? And so far the only reason you've given is the fact 93 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:28,000 that she was around all the time. Maybe he wanted her around. Maybe 94 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,079 that's why you married her. Of course, he wanted her around. That's 95 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,680 not what made me suspicious. Then what did the fact that he took out 96 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:41,160 life insurance named her as beneficiary. Not at the time, I wasn't suspicious 97 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:46,079 at all, mister Dalla, Not until until the night he he died. 98 00:07:47,519 --> 00:07:53,399 I was hurt, yes, and I felt out of place, so I 99 00:07:53,439 --> 00:07:56,560 moved out of the house three months ago and took an apartment off the loop. 100 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,720 I didn't have the slightest idea she might be planning to kill him. 101 00:08:01,879 --> 00:08:05,319 Did he carry any insurance before they were married? Some protection for you in 102 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:09,959 case of Oh No, he didn't feel it was necessary. He'd set up 103 00:08:09,959 --> 00:08:13,560 a trust funding and there's some bonds and so on that I suppose will come 104 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:20,800 to me. No, the policy was entirely her idea. Thinking back, 105 00:08:20,839 --> 00:08:26,720 it seems to me she started talking about insurance the first week after they were 106 00:08:26,759 --> 00:08:31,919 married, and he finally gave in. If he hadn't, I think he'd 107 00:08:31,919 --> 00:08:37,720 still be alive. Just what were the circumstances of his death. I don't 108 00:08:37,759 --> 00:08:41,159 know. I wasn't there she thought of that. What do you mean, 109 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:46,919 well, he was taken ill? Suddenly in the middle of the night he 110 00:08:46,039 --> 00:08:50,399 wanted her to call me but she wouldn't do it. Why. She claims 111 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:54,120 she didn't think it was anything serious, so there was no need of it. 112 00:08:54,360 --> 00:09:00,480 Instead, she called the doctor, her doctor. A few minut after 113 00:09:00,519 --> 00:09:05,120 he arrived, my father died. Then they called me after it was all 114 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:09,679 over. This doctor is he the one who has refused so far to sign 115 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:13,039 a death certificate. Oh, he was going to sign at all right until 116 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:18,960 I got there and kicked up a scene. An obvious case of acute enterritis, 117 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:22,480 he called it. Then he backed down, decided maybe he should have 118 00:09:22,519 --> 00:09:28,799 another opinion. I went to father's doctor, but he said there was nothing 119 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:31,799 he could do because he hadn't been called in at the time. He's the 120 00:09:31,799 --> 00:09:37,720 one who suggested I come here. He said the insurance company would help me, 121 00:09:37,519 --> 00:09:43,039 since they were involved too, they'd advise me what to do. What 122 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:48,080 did he think about that diagnosis? Acute enterritis? He said? He said 123 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:52,720 it was possible, but extremely doubtful. He knew father's physical condition, he 124 00:09:52,879 --> 00:09:56,799 treated him for years. How long had your father known this, Mabel Burke? 125 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:01,759 Before they were married, less than a month. He'd answered a lonely 126 00:10:01,799 --> 00:10:07,080 heart's head in the paper. So I found out later by accident. Brows 127 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:09,720 seemed embarrassed by the way they'd met. Was it a private head or an 128 00:10:09,799 --> 00:10:15,279 organization, a club of some sort, a rendezvous club. They have an 129 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:20,080 office on Atlantic Avenue, mister Dollar, it's not just imagination. Father's own 130 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:24,799 doctor feels there's something wrong too, That's why he sent me here. I'm 131 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,600 not crazy she killed him for his insurance. I know she did. Maybe 132 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:31,039 maybe, but there's not much to go on, not at the moment anyway. 133 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:35,039 I think it's about time for coffee break. Yeah, I imagine it's 134 00:10:35,039 --> 00:10:37,200 a little past time as well. I couldn't really. Oh, yes, 135 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:39,840 you couldn't. Yes, you could go ahead now again. I'll be back 136 00:10:39,879 --> 00:10:43,720 in a few minutes. I haven't worried with your day, right, Channa, 137 00:10:46,759 --> 00:10:50,480 Well, what do you think? I think it needs some looking into. 138 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:52,519 How soon can you get miss Wells and me on a plane for Chicago? 139 00:10:52,639 --> 00:10:56,039 Oh and a half. I've already checked. Or I'll have her get 140 00:10:56,039 --> 00:10:58,559 a quote order for an autopsy in case the coroner hasn't already asked for one, 141 00:11:00,039 --> 00:11:01,519 and we'll take it from there. Then you think the girl is telling 142 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:09,639 the truth, I wouldn't bet on it. Expense Account Item two ninety six 143 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:13,480 dollars and forty cents transportation from Hartford and taxi tips and ins and enteals in 144 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:16,639 Chicago. I dropped normal Wells at her apartment, checked in at the hotel, 145 00:11:16,639 --> 00:11:20,679 and phoned the coroner's office. I learned that an autopsy request had been 146 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:24,200 filed but was being delayed penning a court order. I informed them that the 147 00:11:24,279 --> 00:11:28,840 daughter was available and willing now to cooperate with him. I left my name 148 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:33,080 and asked the office to keep in touch with me. Idem three two dollars 149 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:37,879 and ten cents taxi to the offices of the Rendezvous Club. Introductions arranged, 150 00:11:37,919 --> 00:11:46,519 mail forward, and lonely hearts minted and possibly the murders plan. Well, 151 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:50,080 Hello, I must be in the wrong place. What do you mean, 152 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:54,440 I mean, I can't see you as the lonely type. Oh I'm not. 153 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:58,720 I mean I'm not a client. I work here. Really for some 154 00:11:58,759 --> 00:12:01,879 reason, I'd always had they Yeah, that these clubs were run by sweet 155 00:12:01,879 --> 00:12:03,919 old ladies of seventy five or so. Oh, well, I don't exactly 156 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,519 run it, at least I don't own it. That's what you mean. 157 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:11,080 Hey, you're not a client, for God's sake, any rules against it? 158 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:15,279 Oh? No, how do I go about it? I mean becoming 159 00:12:15,279 --> 00:12:18,519 a client. Well, you either write in or come in like you are 160 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:20,279 now, and then you fill out a form, tell all about yourself and 161 00:12:20,399 --> 00:12:26,320 attach a photograph and look, buster, there's no use trying to kid you. 162 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:30,159 We don't have a woman in our files under forty five years old. 163 00:12:30,879 --> 00:12:35,120 Well maybe I got a mother complex. So I fill out a form. 164 00:12:35,399 --> 00:12:37,360 What do you do with it? Then we'll keep it on file. Then 165 00:12:37,399 --> 00:12:41,120 we send out bulletins to the active members and forward letters back and forth. 166 00:12:41,639 --> 00:12:46,679 Oh you can't come in here and be introduced and look are you serious? 167 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:52,039 A serious? Well, I don't get it. A young guy with your 168 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:56,440 looks and I bet you're selling something. No. No, As a matter 169 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:58,159 of fact, I just got in town and I'm trying to locate a certain 170 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,519 fellow. I I was told he's a member of your club. Oh, 171 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:05,320 well, why didn't you say so? What's his name? Jonathan Wells? 172 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:09,840 Probably got his address? Jonathan? Well? Yeah, have you got a 173 00:13:09,879 --> 00:13:15,320 file on him? Who are you? You're with the police? Police? 174 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:20,480 Now, what gives you that idea? Well, I don't know anything about 175 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:24,759 the man you're looking for. No, well, I suppose we check through 176 00:13:24,759 --> 00:13:28,279 the files it's not here. We don't keep the files. Where do you 177 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:33,440 keep them? They're not here? Well, maybe they're in the next office 178 00:13:33,279 --> 00:13:37,159 through that door there. No, you can't go in there. Now, 179 00:13:37,519 --> 00:13:41,919 take it easy. We have no ride in there. I won't let you 180 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:43,840 stop. You just stand right up there on that desk and stay out of 181 00:13:43,879 --> 00:13:50,519 trouble. Let me down. Who do you think you are? Anyhow? 182 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:54,480 You'll get out of here. You go get a Warren if you want to 183 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:58,480 be. Who was in here? Nobody? You smoke cigar? Of course? 184 00:13:58,519 --> 00:14:01,480 I don't smoke. Sid right there in the ash tray, still burning. 185 00:14:01,879 --> 00:14:03,559 Somebody just sneaked out through that door in the hall. Who was he? 186 00:14:05,399 --> 00:14:09,360 What's your name? Titler? Nie Titler? How long have you worked 187 00:14:09,399 --> 00:14:13,559 here? Hey? I've got a hunch you're not a police I didn't say 188 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:16,879 I was. What about Wells? Have you got a file on him? 189 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,840 Know what happened to it? I don't know what you're talking about. Mabel 190 00:14:18,879 --> 00:14:22,200 Burke, You got a file on her? Of course? Not? What 191 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:24,799 do you mean? Of course not? She and Wells met through this club. 192 00:14:26,279 --> 00:14:48,879 Lookbuster, Mabel Burke owns this club. Johnnie Deller, Max l Answer, 193 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:52,279 mister Miller, oh oh, and it tells me you're cutting yourself in 194 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:56,600 on this. Jonathan Wills, I'm representing the insurance company Wells carried a fifty 195 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:03,360 thousand dollars policy payable to his widow. What about the autopsy? Any results 196 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:07,919 understead? It was Will's daughter of college when I was in ki Yes on 197 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:11,679 the advice of her family doctor. I know I talked to. His version 198 00:15:11,759 --> 00:15:15,879 was a different slant on things. What do you mean he thought she was 199 00:15:15,879 --> 00:15:20,480 suffering from temporary hysteria. He was already trying to come. He didn't think 200 00:15:20,519 --> 00:15:24,080 she'd really fly back to Hartford and sturb a mess like this. You see 201 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:31,559 all the sudden death was they have caused her. Imagine things like murder. 202 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:35,039 Maybe it's possible. What do you think I think I'll away from the results 203 00:15:35,039 --> 00:15:54,759 of that autopsy, mister Lanser, I'll keep in touch. From Special Investigator 204 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:58,679 Johnny Doller to the home office Northwestern Surety Company, Hartford, Connecticut assignment the 205 00:15:58,799 --> 00:16:10,519 law only hearts matter location, Chicago, Illinois. Expense account continued. I 206 00:16:10,679 --> 00:16:12,639 am six two dollars and ten cents for a late lunch at my hotel. 207 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:17,200 I've finished it went up to my roman started trying to fit the few facts 208 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:21,200 I had into some kind of a pattern that made sense. Max Lancer at 209 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:25,399 the DA's office might be right. Maybe it was nothing more than just hysterical 210 00:16:25,399 --> 00:16:29,639 suspicion. And she'd admitted herself that she was burt and jealous when he married 211 00:16:29,639 --> 00:16:34,600 Mabel Burke. Sudden death could still be natural death, and yet all I 212 00:16:34,639 --> 00:16:41,120 could do at the moment was waiting for the results of that autopsy. Yeah, 213 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:49,039 who is it? Oh? All right, just a minute, come 214 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:57,240 in, thank you? What's wrong? What? I don't know exactly? 215 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:06,359 Here? Whar thank you? Yeah? What do you mean? You don't 216 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:11,240 know exactly? Could I be be losing my mind? Mister Dollar, If 217 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:14,480 you were, you'd be the last one to think, So tell me what's 218 00:17:14,519 --> 00:17:19,000 happened. I went to the coroner's office to sign the authorization for the autopsy, 219 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:23,079 and then went back to my apartment. A little while later, the 220 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:26,279 phone rang, and when I answered it, there was nobody on the line. 221 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:30,720 Wrong number. Maybe no, I mean, I mean there was somebody 222 00:17:30,759 --> 00:17:37,079 on the line. They didn't say anything. I keep saying hello, and 223 00:17:37,079 --> 00:17:41,599 then there was a clicking in linement did and that's all that happened. Short 224 00:17:41,599 --> 00:17:45,599 time afterward, I heard footsteps side in the hall. He stopped at my 225 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:51,400 door, and they keep waiting for someone to ring the bell, and they 226 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:56,880 didn't. I I finally got up enough courage to open the door. Somebody 227 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:02,599 there. Two minutes after that, the phone ring again, the same thing 228 00:18:02,599 --> 00:18:06,519 as before. I couldn't stay there any longer. I ran out and got 229 00:18:06,519 --> 00:18:08,400 a taxi and came here. Who do you think might be doing a thing 230 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:14,000 like that? As I don't know what somebody is, I'm not just imagining 231 00:18:14,039 --> 00:18:17,440 things. Max l answer that DA's investigators seems to think you might be. 232 00:18:18,559 --> 00:18:21,559 He talked to me at the coroner's office. That's why I can't do you, 233 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:25,279 mister Dollar, You've got to help me. Please be glad to but 234 00:18:26,839 --> 00:18:29,960 there must be something you can do. Yeah. I can wait for that 235 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,039 autopsy report, and at the moment that's about all I can do. Now. 236 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:37,400 Some definite evidence of a crime, something stronger than mere suspicion. We 237 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:41,279 don't have a leg to stand there. I suppose the report doesn't show anything, 238 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:45,359 and I wiped the egg off my face and go back to Hartford. 239 00:18:47,599 --> 00:18:51,279 Maybe she was she was clever enough to kill my father in some way that 240 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:56,440 wouldn't show up in an autopsy. It's a chance. I don't know, 241 00:18:56,359 --> 00:19:00,640 but I do as sure as I'm sitting here. You that she married him 242 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:04,880 and got him to take off that insurance policy with the full intention of murdering 243 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:10,559 him. Such things have been known, alright, somebody using a correspondence club 244 00:19:10,599 --> 00:19:15,599 to contact wealthy pigeons. Did you know that your stepmother owns that lonely Hearts 245 00:19:15,599 --> 00:19:18,000 club? That's what the girl in charge told me, A Fanny Tetler. 246 00:19:18,039 --> 00:19:22,640 Do you know her? No, I've never heard of her. I neither 247 00:19:22,759 --> 00:19:26,680 Mabel nor my father ever mentioned that she owned the place. She apparently has 248 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,720 somebody running it for her. A man. I think any idea who he 249 00:19:29,799 --> 00:19:32,759 might be? Now? He slipped down before I got a chance to see 250 00:19:32,799 --> 00:19:36,160 him. Smokes cigars. He left one burning in the ashtray. Wait, 251 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:44,279 maybe it's her nephew. He smokes cigars. It's the first I've heard of 252 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:49,039 him. He moved in on us right after Mabel and my father were married. 253 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:53,279 He's the main reason why I left the house. I couldn't stand him. 254 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:57,160 He was always after me, bothering. Is he still living? There? 255 00:19:59,799 --> 00:20:03,279 Was in the house that night your father die? Yes? Least he 256 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:06,519 was when I got there. That was an hour afterward. As I told 257 00:20:06,559 --> 00:20:08,480 you, does he have a job work anywhere? I don't think he's ever 258 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:14,720 worked. He leaves off of her. He and your father get along all 259 00:20:14,799 --> 00:20:18,119 right. My father could get along with anyone. He always managed to see 260 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:22,640 the best in people. I mean person was careful to me to act different 261 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:27,880 around him. I suppose you think that's some more of my imagination. Frankly, 262 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:30,680 miss Wells, I don't know what to think. There was only some 263 00:20:30,759 --> 00:20:34,559 way to prove what I'm sure of. Well, let's wait for that autopsy 264 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,359 report. Meantime, I think I'll go out and talk to you. Step 265 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:41,839 what about me? Stay right where you are, don't go out of this 266 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,559 room. When I get back, I'll pick up some things from your apartment, 267 00:20:44,599 --> 00:20:45,799 and you can check in here at this hotel for a few days. 268 00:20:51,319 --> 00:20:55,319 Expense account ADEM seven taxi to Lake Shore Drive and the beachfront residence of the 269 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:59,519 late Jonathan well. I was beginning to feel more and more like a fool. 270 00:21:00,039 --> 00:21:03,680 It looked as though Max Lancer might be right. Apparently, a jealous, 271 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:07,480 hysterical girl had lost her head and stirred up a nasty mess all without 272 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:11,000 one single fact and back up her suspicions. I had a hunch of the 273 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:15,240 autopsy report was going to show death from natural causes. But two cents I 274 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,319 had a thrown the case over. In fact, I didn't even see where 275 00:21:18,319 --> 00:21:30,640 I had a case. Good afternoon, young man. How on how do 276 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:33,200 you do? Are you? Missus Wells? Yes? That's right. Is 277 00:21:33,319 --> 00:21:36,319 it something I can do for you? My name is Dollar, Johnny Dollar. 278 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:41,759 I'm representing the company that holds the insurance policy on your late husband's life. 279 00:21:41,839 --> 00:21:45,119 Mister Mourning will Be represents that company. Matt Mister Matthew R. Morning. 280 00:21:45,599 --> 00:21:49,319 Mister Morning is the local agent. I'm from the home office in Hartford, 281 00:21:49,319 --> 00:21:53,279 Connecticuts. Oh yes, I have my credentials right here. If he 282 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:59,519 likes isn't necessarily I always judge people by their faces, and do you have 283 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:03,279 an honest face? Mister? Thank you? I wonder if I could ask 284 00:22:03,319 --> 00:22:07,440 you a few questions, missus Wells? Well, I suppose I know this 285 00:22:07,599 --> 00:22:11,559 must be painful for you, and I'll try to be as brief as pass. 286 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:15,240 Don't you worry about me? I'm all right, of course I missed 287 00:22:15,279 --> 00:22:18,799 Jonathan and all that. He was a terribly nice friend terribly. But I 288 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:22,519 think of death is just being a doorway to a greater and more glorious life. 289 00:22:25,039 --> 00:22:26,799 When we're looking at it. You'll just come right in man and ask 290 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:30,200 all the questions. You're a mind too, You'll come right in here and 291 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:34,960 we'll sit down and have a nice chat. Oh this is a very attractive 292 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:38,240 house, Missus Malls. Oh, yes, yes, I think Jonathan built 293 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,559 it years ago he and his first wife lived you know. Of course I've 294 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:45,880 changed the drapes and things, just some of the little things. It's right 295 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:48,960 down there now. And his daughter too, as she lived here in the 296 00:22:49,039 --> 00:22:53,079 first month we were married, and then she moved into town. It's strange 297 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:57,279 that being really sort of nervous and I i've met her. Missus well, 298 00:22:57,359 --> 00:23:00,240 oh well then you know what she's like. Though it's too bad too. 299 00:23:00,839 --> 00:23:06,799 Would you like some teen cookies? That's one thing Jonathan wouldn't miss for the 300 00:23:06,799 --> 00:23:11,640 world. His teen cookies at four o'clock every afternoon. Every afternoon just doesn't 301 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:15,039 seem the same without him, No, I imagine that's how I won his 302 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:19,880 heart with my cookies and cakes. But he really did adore them, and 303 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:25,000 it was such a pleasure. Theyking things for a person who appreciated them so 304 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:29,160 much. Makes you feel lonesome and lost in not having anybody to put Do 305 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:33,000 you ever feel lonesome? Well, I guess everybody doesn't. Time I met 306 00:23:33,039 --> 00:23:37,240 Jonathan, I was feeling so lonesome at the desprise. Mister Burke had died 307 00:23:37,319 --> 00:23:41,359 two years before. Mister Yes, he was my husband before Jonathan. That 308 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:49,119 was in Saint Louis Walter. Oh, handsome president, just like his name 309 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,680 sounds, and a perfect picture of health drive up to the day died. 310 00:23:53,319 --> 00:23:59,799 His death was sudden unexpected, oh yes, or complete surprise acute in the 311 00:23:59,839 --> 00:24:03,079 day, of course, I don't think he was quite a start from as 312 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:08,759 Jonathan. Jonathan was always so concerned and he was, Oh, my gracious 313 00:24:08,799 --> 00:24:12,359 girl, I go just rambling on and on. You didn't listen to my 314 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:15,000 silly little affair. No, no, no, they're very interesting. I've 315 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,519 always tried to keep busy and keep my mind occupied. That's why I started 316 00:24:18,559 --> 00:24:22,200 in business. Oh, well, you've heard about it. Well, I 317 00:24:23,039 --> 00:24:27,079 kind of foolish at first about starting it. I mean, Josh, those 318 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,720 kinds of clubs. It was Burton's idea. Really, he's my nephew, 319 00:24:30,759 --> 00:24:33,759 you know. Here I wish he would hear this afternoon so you could meet 320 00:24:33,799 --> 00:24:37,359 him. It's such a nice boy. He thought I'd do real well at 321 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:41,319 that kind of business, and he was wrong to absolutely right. Old no 322 00:24:41,519 --> 00:24:44,880 money, you understand. But it was loads of fun meeting all those nice 323 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:48,359 people, especially man. Yes, that's how I met Jonathan, I the 324 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:52,079 way it happened. He wrote him to the club and I send it my 325 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:55,200 picture, and that's what started it. I remember when Burton showed me the 326 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,519 letter. He said, and maybe this one sounds like you're kind of man, 327 00:24:57,559 --> 00:25:00,720 and he certainly was to Does Burton help you with the clob Well, 328 00:25:00,759 --> 00:25:03,720 he runs it. Really. He's such a sweet boy, and he works 329 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:07,400 so hard. I just don't know what i'd do with us. But I 330 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:10,160 don't know what I do. Yes, I imagine he's a great comfort to 331 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:14,480 have. I suppose not. Well, I guess i'd better run along, 332 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,480 missus. Wells, it's been such a pleasure talking with you. It seems 333 00:25:17,519 --> 00:25:21,039 like young folks nowadays don't often have the gift of conversation the way they didn't 334 00:25:21,079 --> 00:25:23,200 mind time. Well, things move fast today. Well, I shope that 335 00:25:23,279 --> 00:25:26,680 company of yours moves fast, young man. I have to start house hunting. 336 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:30,200 You know, the estate and everything goes to Jonathan's daughter, and all 337 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:33,440 I have is the insurance. Oh it's such a bottom mister, and a 338 00:25:33,519 --> 00:25:38,960 funal and moving and all the details seems like I just have the worst luck 339 00:25:40,039 --> 00:25:48,359 with my husband's I walked out of there groggy. My head's spinning. I 340 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:52,599 wonder normal Wells was nervous and hysterical. I felt that way myself after only 341 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:56,960 a few minutes of it, and I still had no case, not one 342 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:00,799 piece of evidence. I'd had a pleasant chat with us, sweet old lady, 343 00:26:00,839 --> 00:26:03,960 a little on the duty side, maybe, but that was all dead 344 00:26:03,039 --> 00:26:07,640 end. Max Lanser from the DA's office was waiting for me in the hotel 345 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,319 lobby. Were noticed I'm holding my hat in my hand, mister Dallens. 346 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:15,640 How come it's a symbol of humility. You were right all along. According 347 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:19,599 to the Corners report, Jonathan Wells died from a dose of ground glass, 348 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,519 So it's murder after them. And in that case, do something for me, 349 00:26:23,599 --> 00:26:26,480 will you? From now on I'm your man, contact the authorities in 350 00:26:26,519 --> 00:26:30,160 Saint Louis and have them check into what death that happened there. About two 351 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,079 and a half years ago, a man named Walter Mayburly Burke, who's he 352 00:26:33,319 --> 00:26:37,519 missus Wells was married to him at the time. No, just a matter 353 00:26:37,519 --> 00:26:55,720 of bad luck. She told me so herself. Now here's our start to 354 00:26:55,799 --> 00:26:59,839 tell you about tomorrow's intriguing episode of this week's story. Tomorrow, A strange 355 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,400 tak a scared girl, a hunt in the dark, and thirteen knots make 356 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:15,519 a noose? Join us, won't you? Yours Truly Johnny Dollar? Yours 357 00:27:15,519 --> 00:27:19,200 Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood, written by Les 358 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:23,599 Crutchfield. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be sure to join 359 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:29,519 us tomorrow night at same time and station for the next exciting episode of Yours 360 00:27:29,519 --> 00:29:14,200 Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking to play play welcome back. Well, 361 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:19,240 even if the widow is not guilty, he may get herself into trouble volunteering 362 00:29:19,519 --> 00:29:26,279 way too much information that could be prejudicial against her to an insurance investigator. 363 00:29:26,559 --> 00:29:30,599 Overall, a solid start, you know, a lot of questions, Johnny 364 00:29:32,079 --> 00:29:37,279 really showing some care for the daughter and making sure that she takes care of 365 00:29:37,279 --> 00:29:44,279 herself and is safe, even while not being entirely sure of the claim. 366 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:49,920 We will have to see how this works out on Friday. Well, listener 367 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:56,519 comments and feedback. Now, and we start with a letter from John. 368 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:02,480 John writes, Adam, I listened frequently to the Great Detective Episodes podcast. 369 00:30:02,599 --> 00:30:07,920 Allow me to fit them into my schedule. Here are a couple of photos 370 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:14,400 of Burlington. You said you were through here once. A couple interesting sites, 371 00:30:14,559 --> 00:30:19,160 but basically an old Mississippi river town, lots of aging infrastruck. Now 372 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:27,119 the new Viking Mississippi boat is also making stops along with the Queens, and 373 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:33,599 here I think John is referring to river cruises. Now. John had actually 374 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:37,359 emailed me before, just kind of an informational email, and when he mentioned 375 00:30:37,359 --> 00:30:44,920 he was from Iowa, I asked if he listened on a radio station that's 376 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:51,839 actually replaying the podcast out there KWQQ. If you are listening on KWQQ, 377 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:56,079 hello, But as John said, he was a podcast listener, and he 378 00:30:56,160 --> 00:31:03,839 mentioned he was from Burlington, and I remember going through Burlington. We went 379 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:11,559 through there in nineteen ninety six. And one of the postcards he sent along 380 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:17,400 is of this bridge, and I do remember driving across it. It's a 381 00:31:17,559 --> 00:31:22,160 quite impressive bridge, and the photographer just got a beautiful picture of it, 382 00:31:22,359 --> 00:31:29,240 and he also sent along this picture of which is this really interesting curving road. 383 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:34,000 I did go ahead and post both pictures over on Instagram and you can 384 00:31:34,119 --> 00:31:40,240 check those out over there at instagram dot com slash great detectives. But thank 385 00:31:40,279 --> 00:31:45,440 you John so much for your support, as well as for the letter and 386 00:31:45,519 --> 00:31:48,920 the pictures. It was really nice to see those. And then we have 387 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:53,480 some comments on the layer Douglas Douglas of heather Scope matter. Emmett rights, 388 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,960 as soon as I heard the first few minutes, I knew it was a 389 00:31:57,079 --> 00:32:04,559 Jack Johnstone script. A few riders, with the possible exception of Blake Edwards, 390 00:32:05,079 --> 00:32:09,680 are as easy to spot just from the few lines of dialogues as John 391 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:15,480 Dixon car was to suspense Johnstone was to Johnny Dowler. Well, thanks for 392 00:32:15,519 --> 00:32:21,440 the common Emmett and I definitely agree that Johnstone's writing stands out, particularly from 393 00:32:21,519 --> 00:32:25,480 the other writers in the serial era. Plus, once you've listened to the 394 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:30,799 self contained episodes, the majority of which were written by Johnstone, you'll probably 395 00:32:30,839 --> 00:32:38,160 see those patterns even more. And then doc emails in and he writes often. 396 00:32:38,279 --> 00:32:44,000 I've heard the arm dog used to refer to a performance or event that 397 00:32:44,079 --> 00:32:49,400 was subpar. However, my wife and I rescue Siberian huskies, and we 398 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:54,119 believe most dogs are fantastic animals, so I won't insult canines by calling the 399 00:32:54,680 --> 00:33:00,359 Leard Douglas Douglas, et cetera, ad nausea matter a dog, because it 400 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:06,000 was anything but a fantastic creature. From the ridiculous overreaction of the insurance company 401 00:33:06,039 --> 00:33:10,480 executive to the outrageous accent of the dog owner, I can't imagine a more 402 00:33:10,599 --> 00:33:15,599 a pitiful attempt by the rider to create a script for Johnny Dollar. I 403 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:21,000 have to wonder how difficult it was for the actors to get the timing right 404 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:27,079 for the opening scene when each one was talking over the other while a Scottish 405 00:33:27,279 --> 00:33:31,519 terror was chewing up Johnny's pants legs. There is so much more I could 406 00:33:31,559 --> 00:33:37,880 write about the five part episode, but I don't believe the Laird, or 407 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:43,559 is that Lord matter is worth the effort. Please understand that I truly enjoy 408 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,680 almost all Johnny Dollar episodes. I've listened to all of those you have broadcast 409 00:33:46,759 --> 00:33:51,440 at least once. I've heard most of them two or three times. This 410 00:33:51,519 --> 00:33:55,880 series is amazing. Unlike some listeners, I especially enjoy the five parters, 411 00:33:55,880 --> 00:34:00,000 since it allows the riders more time to develop the care Cherson plot. I 412 00:34:00,079 --> 00:34:07,280 suppose that is what makes this dog in quotation marks smells like a two week 413 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:12,920 old Red Herring. Please never stop what you're doing. Well, thank you 414 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:17,760 so much, Doc George reacts to the first two episodes. He writes, 415 00:34:19,199 --> 00:34:23,639 I just couldn't keep from commenting on the first two chapters of this program. 416 00:34:23,679 --> 00:34:28,920 This has to be one of the most poorly written Johnny Doller episodes ever, 417 00:34:29,039 --> 00:34:34,320 At least for the beginning. The entire first episode was painful to listen to, 418 00:34:34,519 --> 00:34:37,960 from the overly long, juvenile silliness in the elevator to an insurance agent 419 00:34:38,039 --> 00:34:45,760 that makes characters usually played by Howard mcneer seem like college professors and the stereotypical 420 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:51,559 clueless, rich old lady with the too long name even more annoying than Missus 421 00:34:51,559 --> 00:34:54,519 Howell on Gilligan's Island, all to tell us nothing. Most of the second 422 00:34:54,519 --> 00:35:00,800 episode was again consumed with rehashing the first, with the point the whole thing 423 00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:06,679 barely making it by the end not intriguing, as the announcer said, just 424 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,639 awful. I sure hope the remaining parts are better. Well, thanks so 425 00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:15,760 much, George. I appreciate the emails and the criticisms of the episode, 426 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:20,079 and I think they're fair enough. I think there's some valid points in there, 427 00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:27,039 and also there's just a fact of different people tend to have issues with 428 00:35:27,199 --> 00:35:32,840 different episodes. It really is fascinating. I used to or read through IMDb 429 00:35:34,079 --> 00:35:40,079 reviews of Colombo episodes and you would just see, you know, with generally 430 00:35:40,199 --> 00:35:46,639 every episode, there is this range of thought from this is the best thing 431 00:35:47,039 --> 00:35:52,960 ever in the history of Colombo, too, this was the most horrible thing 432 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:57,800 ever done. And there can be good arguments. For my part, I 433 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:04,920 tend to view the layered Douglas Douglas of Heather Scope matter as one of the 434 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:09,880 lesser cereals, but not the one that I personally dislike. That's coming up, 435 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:15,320 and doubtless it will be a different one than what some of you don't 436 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:22,880 like. Often a little more tolerant of silliness, and certainly the first episode 437 00:36:22,039 --> 00:36:28,519 had that. I think the story does have a very clever conceit at its 438 00:36:28,639 --> 00:36:35,639 core, the idea that this somewhat sweet, dotty, eccentric, old wealthy 439 00:36:35,679 --> 00:36:45,000 woman is actually a cold blooded Macavellian killer driven by greed and social position is 440 00:36:45,199 --> 00:36:52,199 a big flipped expectations, and I have to respect the sort of audacity to 441 00:36:52,199 --> 00:36:57,599 turn our expectations on their head. And more than that, I think that 442 00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:02,519 the actors did a good job of selling it. Bob Bailey Handle's comedic material 443 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:07,840 really well. I do like Harry Bartell as Harry Branson, and while the 444 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:13,920 segment and the elevator took a little bit long, I think that's it was 445 00:37:14,039 --> 00:37:21,760 fine. And then of course Jeanette Nolan really was convincing as both versions of 446 00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:27,760 the characters. So I wouldn't put this as the worst Johnny doll Or sereal. 447 00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:31,000 It certainly doesn't make my top five, and honestly, it may not 448 00:37:31,119 --> 00:37:36,239 even make my top fifty. So I've never ranked all fifty eight. I 449 00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:42,440 think that's an exercise that would require a massive amount of work and no one 450 00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,239 would much want to see, not even me. But I still think there's 451 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:51,840 enough redeeming qualities that I found it overall entertaining. But again, your mileage 452 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:58,119 may vary and other comments. We had some more comments over on YouTube regarding 453 00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:04,679 indictment Sheila Riots regarding the episode Bitter Greats another great story. I hope there 454 00:38:04,679 --> 00:38:07,320 will be more episodes another listener rots, this was a good one. I 455 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:13,480 do mis Tales of the Texas Rangers, though you should think about doing Mister 456 00:38:13,559 --> 00:38:16,760 District Attorney. That's a bit more of a detective show than this. Well, 457 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:22,559 thanks for the comment. I had looked at Mister District Attorney a few 458 00:38:22,639 --> 00:38:27,840 years back, and what I found with that series is that it felt a 459 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:32,079 lot more like a crime show than a detective show. Now, what I 460 00:38:32,199 --> 00:38:38,119 mean by that is that most of the episodes I listened to, we already 461 00:38:38,199 --> 00:38:44,760 knew the outcome of the crime, and there wasn't even a clever inverted mystery 462 00:38:45,039 --> 00:38:49,360 going on. Now, of course, there are some series that we played 463 00:38:49,599 --> 00:38:57,400 that have had episodes that felt more crime show than detective show, like mainly 464 00:38:57,519 --> 00:39:04,480 when I think of Follow Vans Boston Blackie, although Boston Blackie usually tended to 465 00:39:04,519 --> 00:39:10,199 have those as more kind of inverted mysteries where it was a question as to 466 00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:15,239 alcatch him rather than who done it. That's said, when we get into 467 00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:21,960 the adventure series, I will look at some of those programs that I chose 468 00:39:22,159 --> 00:39:28,800 not to do or great Detectives because they didn't really fit with the top of 469 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,000 series that we were wanting to do. I know, for example, we 470 00:39:31,079 --> 00:39:37,840 are going to end up doing Counterspy when we get into the adventure series, 471 00:39:37,039 --> 00:39:43,360 although we're still probably a year and a half off from that. All right, 472 00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,800 well, now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, 473 00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:49,960 and I want to go ahead and think Gary. Gary has been one of 474 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:54,800 our Patreon supporters since August twenty sixteen, currently supporting the program at the rookie 475 00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:59,440 level of two dollars or more per month. Thank you so much for your 476 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:04,039 support, and that will do it for today. If you are enjoying this 477 00:40:04,119 --> 00:40:08,559 podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software and be sure to rate 478 00:40:08,599 --> 00:40:15,480 and review the podcast wherever you download us from. We'll be back on Friday 479 00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:21,239 with the conclusion of The Lonely Hearts Matter, but join us back here tomorrow 480 00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:27,559 for Dangerous Assignment, where let two of me just stand Stillbuster, I said, 481 00:40:27,639 --> 00:40:30,679 let's goat that's the same gun you were popping away at me with a 482 00:40:30,679 --> 00:40:35,559 minute ago. We'll take it there. You'll have made their mistakes, Mitchell, 483 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:37,639 I've made a mistake. But you know my name. Don't give me 484 00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:40,159 that I know your name because I have been following you. That's what I 485 00:40:40,199 --> 00:40:43,360 mean. But I am not one of those who shout at you a moment 486 00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,800 ago. Oh look, you expect me to believe that you didn't, Mitchell, 487 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:46,880 I do not feel ablegate it to prove what I say to you. 488 00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:50,840 And yet, if you will kindly place my gun under your nose and smell 489 00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,960 of it, you will see that it has not been fired recently. Well, 490 00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:58,400 no it hasn't. Look if you didn't take that shot at me, 491 00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,800 who did? Two men were following you. They run off before I could 492 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:02,360 get to this scene. Who are you? And how come you know my 493 00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:07,239 name? I'm Alfred Goya, chief of Police. Why precisely? And now 494 00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:09,360 may I have my gun back? Why? Yeah? But I still don't 495 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:13,760 see why you are following me? The warn you, Senor Mitchell, I 496 00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:15,360 know who you are and why you are here. Oh you want me to 497 00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:19,880 keep hands off? You could not have stated it more clearly. I guess 498 00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,199 that sort of tips me as the which camp you're in you're mistaken against? 499 00:41:22,199 --> 00:41:24,960 Senior. I am in neither camp. Then what is your angle in this 500 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,239 deal? My angle, as you call it, is quite simple. Politics 501 00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,599 is not my business, but law enforcement is. I have the best police 502 00:41:31,599 --> 00:41:36,159 force in South America at present. We are engaged in the search for a 503 00:41:36,199 --> 00:41:39,559 fugit different justice artly, artly, I do not intend to let anything or 504 00:41:39,599 --> 00:41:43,840 anyone interfere without search, Senor Mitchell, And by anyone, I mean chiefly 505 00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:46,519 you. Well, you've made yourself pretty clear. Goya, what happens if 506 00:41:46,559 --> 00:41:50,920 I sort of getting your way somewhere along the line. My policemen are quite 507 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,960 zealous, Senor Mitchell, and the penalty for obstructing justice is quite severe. 508 00:41:55,039 --> 00:41:59,679 Need I say more? Hope you'll be with us then in the meantime do 509 00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:04,880 you say in your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow 510 00:42:05,039 --> 00:42:08,960 us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, 511 00:42:09,039 --> 00:42:14,880 dot com, slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. This is your 512 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:15,800 host, Adam Grahamson and all