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week's episode of Dragnet. The topic of including disclaimers before a radio program is
one that a lot of people debate. I personally use them very sparingly.
Assume that most of my audience are adults or under adult supervision, and listening
to detective stories from the Golden Age radio. There are many things that are
quite normal for that era that may not occur in a more modern drama today.
I will only generally provide a disclaimer if the content is really extraordinary and
not something that would typically hear or expect to hear. Today's episode is noteworthy
for being the only episode to come with its own disclaimer recorded at the time,
and I will definitely second what Jack Webb says here, as this is
quite a hard hitting episode. So here from February second, nineteen fifty is
The Child Killer. Ladies and gentlemen, this program is for you, not
your children. The subject is of vital importance to you as parents. This
is the story of a vicious man. The story you are about to hear
is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent Dragnet.
You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to Homicide Detail. Two small girls are
reported missing somewhere between their homes and a neighborhood grocery store. They dropped from
sight. Your job find them the dragnet to document a drama of an actual
crime. While the next thirty minutes, in co operation with the Los Angeles
Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the law
through an actual case from official police files, from beginning to end, from
crime to punishment. Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
Was Monday, October twenty seventh, was cloudy in Los Angeles. We're working
the night Watch out of Homicide Detail. My partner's Ben Romero. The boss's
Thad Brown, Chief Detectives. My name is Friday. We were on the
way out from Central Division. That was sixteen minutes past eight pm when we
got to South Peoria Street, number two sixty seven. Short, gloomy,
sultry, looks like wind for some rain. Yes, sir, police officers.
Here is Lieutenant Barker here. Yes, you want to come in?
Thank you missus. Sergeant Romero. I'm Sergeant Friday, Central Homicide. How
are you. My name's Claude Jimmerson. Lieutenant Barker's in here on the phone.
Ca Yeah, Alick Romeo. How's it going to TENA? Not good?
You met mister Jimison. Oh sure, sit down, gentlemen. Would
you like some coffee? I can have the wind. Thank you. Didn't
want to buy the girl's parents anymore than we had to. Jimmerson here is
one of the neighbors he's been nice enough to let us use his form.
The kids disappeared about four this afternoon? Is that right? At three forty
five got out a local broadcast on him. He's missing report. I think
Joe ah My Griswold, age eleven, Farmer's Sperry, seven year old.
You talked to both families. Yeah, three thirty this afternoon, missus Griswold
sent her daughter to the grocery store down on Sycamore Avenue. It's about ten
blocks from their home. The Sperry girl friend first, she went with her.
Anybody at the story remember sing calling to the grocery clerk. They were
there about three forty five. Mother gave the kids a note. They bought
a loaf of whitebread, to have pound of bacon, a dozen oranges.
Yeah, that's right, sergeant. I hope nothing's happened to the kids.
We've been neighbors to the Grizwelds for years. Sperry's too. Did you notice
if the little girls were going in the direction of their home. Yes,
they were the last time I saw them, they were about a block away,
heading straight from home. Little Sperry girl had a dog with her,
champ. I think they call him. He's a college and he's missing too.
That's right, Joe. Not a trace of the kids. All the
dog Juvenile officers from seventy seven the street. I've been checking the neighborhood for
the past three hours. The girls in the habit of wandering off like you
parents say, no it's the first time. Well, thanks very much,
mister Jimison, not at all, Serge. I'm sure you won't have a
cup of coffee on them. Thanks. I don't like to boy you,
but we may have to check back with you later tonight. Routine questions.
If I can help out in any way to find those girls, let me
know. Yeah, we'll let you know, Jivin, thanks again. Nice.
So most of the neighbors we've talked to have been the same, anxious
to help. Some of them are ouved with our Juvenile loves is now trying
to dick up a lead on the kids. You check the movie theater and
the playgrounds in the neighborhood, everything, Joe, those some of your men
from juvenile and Lieutenant Yeah it looks like it. Yeah, Schwatz and Preston.
Yeah, Preston. All you got found the kid's dog, Kelly Fire
Just to both Sanchos drive up in the hills. Hope, it's no indication.
How do you mean? Dog's dead? The Collie dog was taken to
a veterinarian on Jefferson Boulevard to be examined for cause of death. We put
in a call to the office and a special detail of men was assigned to
aid in searching the area where the dog was discovered. We got out on
all points bulletin. The fathers of the missing girls and a dozen neighbors joined
in the search with the aid of flashlights. We started from the end of
Sanch's drive and as best we could, we covered the ground for almost a
full mile back into the Sunset Hills. Ten fifty five pm started to thunder.
The search went on. The hilly terrain and thick patches of scrub oak
didn't make the job any easier. Eleven fifteen pm started to rain. What
you step, Joe A rocks are slipper? Yeah? I can't figure it?
Not a sign? What do you think? Wait a minute, flashy
light over here? Oh here see some I thought I did. Yeah,
scrap of brown paper? Who's this coming? Is that you Jimmerson? Yeah?
What's that? You gut? I found it hi down there, just
off the path. Papers say, look oth for bread, a few oranges,
package of bacon. Where'd you find it by down there? Mister home
question? Maybe we were heading back for the cars when I saw this bag
lying to one side of the bush. We'll take it, Jimmerson, thanks,
let's go it. That means if Barbara and Toma were up here today.
So you haven't mentioned that to either one of the girl's fathers. No,
I haven't good. They're having a hard enough time as it is.
Ridy Ben sim permanent. Yeah, excuse us, mister Timson, certainly.
Yeah, Schwartz and I checked with the veto examiner dog. What did you
say? Says a dog was beaten to death. We made another attempt to
continue the search of the Sunset Hills area for the two missing girls, but
the heavy rain and the darkness made the job impossible. The rain had also
destroyed the physical evidence at the spot where we had found the grocery bag.
We went back to Jimmerson's house and called the office again. Another detail of
men was assigned to be on hand helping them search. When it resumed at
daylight. Chief of Detectives Thad Brown and Captain Harry Elliott of Homicide were notified
of late developments. At twenty five minutes past midnight, we started to retrace
the steps of the two missing girls from the time they left their homes at
three point thirty the afternoon before. We covered every foot of ground along the
route which the girls reportedly took on their way to the grocery store. We
got the grocery clerk out of bed and interviewed him again. We talked with
two elderly ladies in the neighborhood who said that they had seen the missing children
between three and four pm the previous afternoon. They could add nothing to what
Jemmerson had already told us. Three thirty am was still raining hard. We
drove back to South Peoria Street and sat in the car. The lights were
still burning in the homes of the missing youngsters, the Griswalls and the Sperrys.
Jemmerson asked us in for coffee again. This time we accepted. We
went in and sat around the kitchen table. Glenn, Chandler and Stendall from
Homicide, Lieutenant Barker Ben and myself. Jemmerson's wife made the coffee. Wasn't
much talking. You want more coffee? Oh, oh yeah, thank you,
Miss Jimmerson. All right, thank you? You want some more?
No, thanks, it's fine. You want some more coffee? Sure,
Lieutenant tiny go ahead feel the sugar bowl? Will your Amy empty? There
isn't anymore? You never do things right. I told you to get some
at the store today. You told me. That's all right, Jimmerson,
never use it anyway, doing anything right? All right, Amy, go
to bed. She's a little upset, not feeling too well. Well.
I guess we better be going, Jefferson. Thanks, No, that's all
right, sergeant. She didn't mean you. It's this whole thing. I
guess got everybody on edge. There's still a chance'll be all right. How
do we explain the bag of grown please we found back in the hills,
and the dog. Anybody's hurt, those kids. We'll take care of him
right here in this neighborhood. You'll get what's coming to it. Somebody at
your back door? Oh, yes, a Stargant Friday here, Yes,
he's here, Come on, he's sergeant, all right, Tom, Hi,
what you got mister Griswold? Joe soo'ld like to have you come over
and talk to him figures will make his wife feel better all broken up?
Sure, come on, Ben, we'll be over to Griswalls with tenant.
Thank you for the coffee, Jammes not at all. If you get a
chance to tell griswelll I'll sorry. Everybody is We will help all we can.
Sure, I'm a bad night. Yeah. Did you checked by the
Sperry's house? Tom? Mm hm, Well, just trying to get a
little sleep. Father's still sitting up there, he is whin Yeah, uh
this the Grizzwell, go ahead time. Yeah, they're going to ask questions.
What are we going to tell them? I don't know. I could
be all right. Kids do funny things sometimes maybe, but they don't murder
their pet dog. Like a doctor, a lawyer, or an engineer.
The police officer comes to realize that there's only so much that can be learned
from his books. Time and experience make up the rest. The police manual
contains no stock answers for the grieving wife who has just lost a husband in
an auto accident. No firm but polite reply to the belligerent motorist and at
a traffic tag, no words of reassurance for distraught parents of missing girls ages
eleven and seven. Whether it's trapping criminals or comforting parents, you find the
right answer the hard way. There isn't any other way. We sat and
talked with the Grizzwoelds for a full hour. We didn't tell them about the
dog or your groceries until the fate of the two little girls was definitely decided.
We figured giving them the information would serve no purpose except to add to
their worries. Five minutes past five am, almost a full hour until daylight
was still raining. George, maybe the officers would like some breakfast. They
no, thank you, kind of miss gris We had some sandwiches about an
hour ago. Sure I can't fix you. Something's no trouble, No sir,
thanks anyway, Thanks terrible night rain, and now Helen. Just just
a little while longer, we'll we'll find the girls. It'll be daylight soon,
Missus Griswold. Some of your neighbors tell us that there were two strangers
here in the neighborhood this afternoon. Yes, but that was earlier, Missus
Nelson next door and I were talking about it. One was a gardener looking
for work. The other one was telling books what time were they around man
books, heals one about noon, a gardener about two o'clock. How is
your daughter about strangers? Does she make friends easily? Not at all?
That alms very careful about that. She never go with a stranger. I'm
sure. Why do you ask that question, Sergian? Have you found out
something? No, sir, no, we haven't. It's just a routine
check, that's all. I can't understand girls out in all this range.
Something must have happened. I know you've been doing fine. Don't let that
now, Joe, your frownze car just pulled it outside, thanks to Ben.
Thank you very much, mister Griswold, missus Griswold, Well, thank
you, gentlemen. I here, let me show you the door. We'll
meet at the end of Sancho's drive, mister Griswold, about six am,
and should be light enough by then. All right, oh, sergiant,
There is a chance, isn't there? Girls are all right, there's a
good chance. You try not to worry. Come on, Ben, pressing,
uh, Tom, you want to check with Barker again and see if
any of his men have a line on the two men here in the neighborhood
again, right, do you want us. We'll be in Fad Brown's car.
What time you've got, Jill, well, twenty to six. It's
getting light now. Yeah, let's get out of this rain. Gentlemen,
you look a little wet. I could stand a dry pair of shoes.
Still no trace of the kids. You heard about the dog in the bag
of groceries. Yeah, nothing else sensitive. No, it'll be light in
a couple of minutes and we can start searching the hills again. I waded
up another detail of men to help their parked up on Census Drive. Captain
Udias with them. Good. I can use all the help we can get.
That's rough terrain. There's a lot of ground to cover up there.
Because you talk to everybody in the neighborhood. Yeah, parents too, they
help you much. Well. He told us there were two strangers in the
neighborhood before the girls disappeared. We're having him checked out. Yeah, Griswold
thinks the kids would be safe on that count. Says his daughter's afraid of
strangers, never goes near them. How Mataria to cover the hills last night
about a full mile and she say, Dan, I was starting from Sanchi's
drive straight back into the brush it wasn't too thorough. Not enough man,
not enough of life. You've got plenty of both right now. Ten minutes
past six am, Tuesday, October twenty eight, the search of the Sunset
Hills area was resumed. One hundred and fifty officers spread out over a two
square mile area with orders to probe every foot of ground. With them were
almost fifty volunteers from the neighborhood. The rain settled to a cold, steady
downpour. The mud was ankle deep. Eight thirty am, no sign of
the missing youngsters. Ten thirty still no sign. The search went on.
A neighborhood restaurant owner sent out five gallon jugs of hot coffee for members of
the searching party. After six continuous hours combing the hills, still no results,
Chief Brown, Ben and I went to the car for a cup of
coffee and a cigarette. Got me beat. Those kids wandered off. They
had to come in this direction. Well, they couldn't have headed toward town.
Somebody would have noticed, I'm sure. Yeah, No leads it all
on that APV you said out too. They both pizzled. Youngsters up in
those hills someplace gotta be you two ready, Yeah, let's go sure,
doesn't figure two square miles. We've been over twice, and go over it
again. Find them thell Mcgriswold at age eleven Barbara Sperry, aged seven,
Tuesday October twenty eighth to two pm. They were still missing. Another detail
of men from Metropolitan Division were dispatched to eight in the hunt. The daily
newspapers played the story across the front page. Wire services bulleted the news across
the country. Radio newscasters covered the story At the scene on South Peoria Street.
The two mothers sat in their homes and waited. The search went on
but stopped ringing. Did you cover that fat your hundred brush over there at
Joey? Watch it? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, tard. Let's swing
up this way, all right? Anything? No, not all right?
Come on almost two thirty. Yeah, too much coffee sours them? You
too. You've got a cigarette on my mouth. Oh, here's Friday from
Rustan. What do you got? What is it? Mother? Watch it
beIN bad spot here, Yeah, it's slippery. Thelma Griswold had brown hair
and brown eyes, about four feet six inches tall. She had a bunch
of wild flowers in her hands. Barbara's spare. He had blonde hair and
blue eyes. She held a bunch of wildflowers too. Friday Jee who found
them? Jemmerson, some of the neighbors. Wow, dear good Pruston,
Yes, sir, get something, cover him up? Yes, sir,
come on. Yeah, I've been a coup thirty two years. I've never
seen anything like that. I hope I never do again. Must have been
a maniac. Had to be the lowest kind craved. Anybody call the crime
lab. Yeah, the area has been cleared. Family has been notified.
Not yet, I'll have to tell them. Do you want to come along?
Well, that wouldn't be any good. Two lives. What can you
say? Whoever did it ran up a big bill. They're gonna pay it.
You are listening to drag met authentic stories of your police. Five minutes
after the bodies were discovered, the hunt for the psychopathic killer was underway.
Lee Jones and his crew from the crime lab arrived and took pictures of everything
that could possibly have a bearing on the crime. Physical evidence was hard to
find. The heavy rain had destroyed any possible chance there might have been a
finding footprints. When the crew from the crime lab was finished, the coroner
arrived and took the bodies to the County Morgue for autopsy. An immediate round
up of all known sexual psychopaths in the area was ordered. They were taken
into homicide for questioning, so were the people from the South Peoria Street neighborhood
whom we had talked with previously. The questioning went on all through the night.
Together with a half a dozen officers from Homicide Detail, we narrowed down
the field. Wednesday, October twenty ninth, seven am. We checked in
with Chief of Detectives that brown gentlemen, you must get charged. Got a
few hours sleeved last night and use a few more. Sorry, we have
to keep moving on this. You see the papers this morning. Yeah,
they're like everybody else, crying too late. Someday people are gonna learn.
You don't fool with these degenerates. You take precautions or you get the consequences.
There's no in between. There's usual talk going around town supposed to be
all our fault, letting the psychos run loose. We don't make the laws,
we enforce them till we get something to work with, laws with teeth
in them. These atrocities are going to go on. Nobody seems to care.
We pick them up, they serve a few days, pay a fine
on the walls, out of here. Nobody cares. It's sure. Pity
them, don't cure them. Nature played a trick on them. Peeple,
sorry for them until they kill a kid. It's not a firm law to
cover them as they are with to wait till they murder somebody. We got
a better law for mad dogs. We don't let them run loose till they
bite somebody. Those two little girls have to prove something. How's the parents
make it up? Which you might expect shocked, hysteric? Excuse me,
gon speaking? Who sent them? Man Chandler? They finished questioning that bunch
we brought in yesterday? Oh jee man, Joe? How many possibles,
Glenn, none? Or we had left, established airtight alibis and check their
registrations, gave their releases. Where does that leave us? We start from
scratch? I don't think so, Chief, You got a hunch a little
better than that, Joe, I'm sold. What do you mean you said
the parents told you the little girls were afraid of strangers, wouldn't go near
them. Yeah, we got the same reactions from some of the neighbors we
talked two day before yesterday. Yeah, now we find out that all the
known psychos in the area are clear, perfect alibis. When you figured the
killer couldn't have been a stranger to the little girls, that's right. There
were only two strangers in the whole neighborhood the day the girls disappeared, in
the gardener and the salesman, and both of them had been checked and cleared
as far as we know. The little girls wouldn't have gone that far up
on the hills alone of their own accord, and they wouldn't have gone to
the strangers. They had to be lured there and by someone they knew.
Any ideas could have been one of the neighbors. No, we checked every
possible out there. Glenn, we questioned him a half a dozen times,
So why there's one that might fit? Who's that? Claude Jammerson. Glenn
Chandler had been a veteran homicide officer before ben or Iy joined the department.
He was tall, quiet and reserved. He had a good reason for everything
he did, for everything he thought. The three of us sat down and
tried to put the pieces together. Number One Chandler uncovered a point that Ben
and I had missed completely. Jimmerson and his wife were not close friends of
either the Sperry family or the Griswalls. For a near stranger, he showed
an extraordinary interest in the welfare of the children after they disappeared. Number two,
Ben and I discovered that Jimmerson's wife had an eight year old boy by
a previous marriage. The child did not live with them. Missus Jimmerson told
Chandler that her husband had been cruel to the boy. She refused to elaborate.
Number three. Jemmerson was the last person to see the children alive.
Number four. The bodies of the children had been well hidden in the underbrush.
Jimmerson found them. Number five. Jimmerson had been over backwards to make
friends with the investigating officers right from the start. As any veteran officer can
tell you, that's not the usual attitude. At eight thirty a m.
Chandler, Ben and I left the office. We spent the day digging back
fifteen years into Jimmerson's life. We got back to the office just after midnight
Thursday, October thirty, at ten am. We checked in. Okay,
J're already. Thanks, come on Ben, Yeah, good morning, mister
Jamison. Oh how are you, sergeant? Glad to see you down,
Sorry to bother you again, out at all, Glad to help anything new
turn up. Did you kill those two little girls? That's a funny thing
to ask, of course not. You know that. We ask everybody the
same thing. Hope you're not offended. Oh you kind of surprised me.
I didn't know. Did you kill those little girl? I don't understand.
I told you no, of course not. It's just start question routine.
Did you kill him? Now? Look, sergeant, how many times do
I have to tell you? No? Sorry? You don't have any children,
do you? No? We don't know step children. No. Why
before you moved out to Southeoria Street, you and the wife lived out in
West LA, didn't you? Kilton Avenue? Or yes? How'd you know?
You recall them? Mary Gibbs out there? Gibbs, No, six
year old girl? You were charged with molesting her. That was back in
nineteen forty four. They were crazy. They never proved it before. Kilton
there knew you lived in Santa Monica on tenth Street. Is that right?
Yes? It was an eight year old girl Donna Hanrath. That kid lied
too. She asked me to fix her doll buggy. I never went nearer.
What about your stepson, Why isn't he living with you? Why did
your wife send him to live with her sister? Amy's crazy. I never
harmed the boy. We didn't get along, That's all I got on my
nerves. You've had four jobs in the past five years. What were they?
I don't know what you're talking about. You were a janitor at a
grammar school down the south end of town, then a gardener at a children's
playground, Then you were a shoe salesman, children's shoes. Then you worked
at another grammar school. What does all this mean anyway? What are you
getting at? Have you ever been in jail? Once? Six months there
was some trouble. What kind of trouble. I didn't know what I was
doing. I was drinking. I didn't mean to bother the kid. Well,
that's all Jimmerson routine question. You can go now. Oh thanks,
I hope you haven't got the wrong idea about me. I like children,
that's all. Sure. Thanks for coming in, but not at all sarching
anything I can do to help. Well, goodbye, I say Jimmerson.
I almost forgot. There is one thing all. Since you're the wine who
found the little girls, we'll have to have you identify the bodies. It
won't take long. Morgans just across the street, up the blood Well.
I'd like to help you, but I got an appointment. All you have
to do is look at them. We'll take you long. Come on,
let's go. I'd like to help, sergeant, but I don't take these
things while I get sick. We'll make it, say not this way,
raining again. I'm sorry, Sagian. I don't think I better go.
Just identify them. It's all. Won't take a minute. Maybe if we
had to drink before we went in, you can have and laughter and watch
it. A heavy trapping, you know, lots teams will have to wait.
I need to drink. I can't go in that place to start to
drink. He'll be all right, Okay, let's go. Morg's up this
way. I can't look at him. I get sick. Don't make me
nothing to it. You don't see here we are. I went down the
driveway. It's a short cut this way, Hi, Joe, can I
help you? Yeah, Archie, those little girls, Selma Griswold, Barbara
Sperry, Oh yeah, this way, please right here. Joe yeah,
Selmo griswold'cover m Jefferson Yeah, Yuma. This one Barbara, a little
one. You killed him, didn't you? Dog jumped at me. She
started to yell. Put my hand over her mouth. Then the other kid.
I hit them too hard, they cried. Joe, that's all all
right. Huh, let's go. It wasn't my fault. I like kids
in an understanding, neither do I. Mister, Come on, the story
you have just heard was true, only the names were changed to protect the
innocent. On March eighteenth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department eighty
seven, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. In a
moment the results of that trial, Claude Willis Jimmerson was tried and convicted of
murder in the first degree. On April twenty third, at ten am,
he was executed in the lethal gas chamber of the State Penitentiary. You have
just heard Dragnet a series of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice for
Dragnet comes from the Office of Chief of Police W. A. Wharton.
Your tune for the Stars on NBC Welcome Back the Childkiller is not a pleasant
episode, but it is a groundbreaking one that shines a light on the dangers
of those who prey on children. For a series known for being stiff,
or wrote, Dragnet could pack a punch well. The series portrayed the police
as professionals. It also portrayed those sort of things that pushed the police to
their emotional limits, and the reactions to finding the girls, particularly by Thad
Brown, really was a terrific example of that. Even though this was the
only episode to come with a warning, this doesn't mean the series was lax
or never dealt with these topics again. Dragnet dealt with these issues with sensitivity
and time and time again, and I think this is something the series doesn't
get enough credit for. There's a pop culture image of Dragnet generated by things
like the nineteen eighty seven Dragnet movie that really stereotyped the series as just Joe
Friday being a stickler for rules, when in fact, the series, particularly
in its earliest incarnations, shined the light on some really serious problems and for
the first time try to approach them in a way that showed sensitivity and started
conversations about how we were going to deal with some of these issues. I
do think that some later and more recent dramas that have dealt with these issues
have sometimes done so in sensationalistic and even titillating ways that go into various details
that you might be able to get away with on modern television, but don't
really help anyone. Dragon that left a lot to the imagination, but gave
it plenty to work with. One great example of this is in a nineteen
sixties TV episode about child abuse, where Friday met with the leader of a
women's club and showed her pictures of what parental abuse of children look like.
The audience couldn't see these pictures of abuse, but Friday describes some of these
situations. His words and her reactions brought home the horror of what was happening
in so many homes now. TV censors may have played some role in the
way this was portrayed, but to fulfill the goal of educating viewers and listeners,
you don't need to know every detail of each abuse that occurred. What
you did need to know is that there are dark things that happened to children,
and you also need to know the warning signs. On another note,
I have to say I love the Glenn Chandler character, the veteran detective who
was very quiet, didn't say much, but when he did it was worth
listening to. Obviously, he's a great person to have around, particularly on
a police force. I also think it's a bit of a nod to realism
for some episodes to help the story fit into half an hour. Friday and
his partner need to solve everything. Even if a big task force has been
assembled and we're told we're bringing in all these other guys from all these other
visions and departments to help you out, it still needs to be Friday and
his partner that solved things. So to have one of those officers, you
know, particularly an unassuming that who's just been around a long while and seeing
a lot come in and provide the solution is a really good touch. The
solution was sadly realistic, including the identity of the perpetrator. I did think
that the scene and the way that Friday and Romero obtained the confession was very
well done. Of Course, Thad Brown's hope for laws that would give solutions
to the police has met with mixed results. While there have been different enforcement
approaches. The problem continues to this day. Indeed, with a few details
changed. This is sadly a story you could imagine happening today. Well,
now we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we go to Spotify for
a couple of comments regarding the episode twenty two Rifle for Christmas FAUSTI Booboo rights
the emotion of the actor who played mister Rheim was realistic and really uttered me.
I would agree that was a superb performance there by William Johnstone and Peter
Wrights. Oh my goodness, this episode was heart wrenching. Well, I
definitely agree, and that's certainly true of this one as well. And there
are a number of quite challenging episodes of Dragnet, thankfully not ever a week
though, and really they have the goal of serving a higher purpose and not
just being sensational. I do want to also go ahead and thank James who
gave a five star rating to The Big Escape over on Good Pods, and
I also want to thank Alexis who gave a five star rating to The Elusive
Agent on Good Pods as well. Thank you so much for utilizing good Pods
and rating those episodes. Now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the
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and of course next Tuesday we'll enjoy the return of Doctor Tim Detective. But
join us back here on Monday for a start of another week on the great
Detectives of Old Time Radio with the Adventures of the Falcon where I have a
nice little business here. Well, I ain't been growing steady the past few
years. This week I drove my chief competitor, Raymond Arsatti to the wall
bankruptcy. I'll bully for you. Got a call from him this morning,
could I come right over? I went. What he offered was a merger.
I don't need him, he needs me well, well, I told
him I wasn't interested and left. An hour later, he's found shot through
the head. That's one way to get rid of competition. I didn't do
it, all right, jam all right, but the medical examiner says he
got it right around the time I was there. But he was alive when
you left. Definitely only I have no proof, but I have a theory,
welling is see what you think of it? All right, I say
suicide. Was there a note? They didn't find any. But here's the
way I see it. Orsati knew he was licked and blames me. I
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from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham, signing off.