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from June fourteenth, nineteen fifty one, here is the big Building.

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Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true, only

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the names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're

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a detective sergeant. You're assigned to homicide detail. A wealthy

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society woman in your city vanishes. Two months passed before

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her disappearance is reported to the police. There's suspicion of

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foul play. Your job investigate.

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Speaker 3: Drag Net, the documented drama of an actual crime. For

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the next thirty minutes, in cooperation of the Los Angeles

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Police Department, you will travel step by step on the

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side of the law through an actual case transcribed from

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official police buyos, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.

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Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.

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Speaker 4: It was Monday, February eighth, was foggy in Los Angeles.

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We're working the day watch out of homicide detail. My

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partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Thad Brown, Cheap of Detectives.

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My name is Friday. We're on the way out from

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the office and it was eleven twenty three am when

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we got to the ninth floor of the Medical Dental

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building from nine to twelve.

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Speaker 5: Doctor Marston, Yes, what is it, police officers? Doc you

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I talk to you.

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Speaker 6: Oh yes, I'm sorry, daydreaming. I guess I didn't hear

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you come in.

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Speaker 7: Well, my name is Friday. Doctor. This is my partner,

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Sarzan Romero. How do you do, gentlemen. It's about the

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missing person's report on your wife. You filed it yesterday.

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Speaker 6: Yes, that's right, sergeant. Certainly glad you came. Like to

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have this whole thing straighten out. As quickly as possible.

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I want my wife back with me.

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Speaker 4: Well, we'll do everything we can, doctor. There's a few

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things we'd like to have you straightened out for us,

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if you will. I thought I made it pretty clear

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in that report I filed yesterday. What is it you

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have a question about.

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Speaker 5: I've got a copy of the report right here, says

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says your wife disappeared December ninth.

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Speaker 6: That's a little over two months ago. Dot there, Yes,

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that's correct. December ninth, Sunday night, we were out having dinner.

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We had a little argument, and Louise left. I didn't

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hear from her until the following Friday. That's when she

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wrote me. The first letter was from New York.

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Speaker 7: We weren't you a little alarmed to find out your

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wife had left you in Gone East?

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 6: I wasn't too happy about it, but we'd had a

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few arguments before. I always figured it that both of

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us good if Louise got away for a little while. No,

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I wasn't particularly worried as friends in New York? Would

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you care for cigarette?

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Speaker 7: Not right now? Doctor light for you?

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Speaker 5: Thank you. I understand your wife didn't stay with her

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friends this trip. Doctor No.

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Speaker 6: Apparently she didn't. However, I wasn't too concerns. She wrote

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me letters twice a week, and then she wrote Stanley.

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That's her son. He's in military school. We has wrote

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to him regularly too.

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Speaker 5: And the last letter you got from your wife was

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about two weeks ago, yes, or exactly two weeks ago.

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Speaker 7: I had the same postmark on New York. Will have

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me any idea at all where she was staying back there?

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Speaker 6: That's a strange part of it. Sergeant Louise didn't put

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her return address on any of the letters. I inquired

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of some of our friends back there, but none of

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them hadn't seen her. I suppose she was staying at

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a hotel. I don't know which one, though.

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Speaker 4: Well about those letters, doctor, you know you're sure that

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they're in your wife's handwriting. You don't think they could

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be forgers doing.

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Speaker 6: It's possible, but I don't think so. Sergeant, I know

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my wife's handwriting. Do you have all the letters with you, sir? Yes,

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I'll have my secretary get them before you leave. She's

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out to lunch now. I oh, student pleense cry, yes,

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Doctor Marston, well, missus Taylor, Oh, yes, I'm glad you

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reminded me.

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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Speaker 6: I'm sorry, officers, there's a denture I have to have

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ready for one of my patients by this afternoon.

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Speaker 7: Would you mind if I.

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Speaker 6: Go ahead and work on it while we talk here? No,

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it's perfect, all right, doctor, you go right ahead. Do

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you mind sipping in the lad back here?

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Speaker 5: All right?

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Speaker 7: Go ahead, man.

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Speaker 6: I'm sorry to interrupt everything like this. I do have

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to have this denture ready, though.

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Speaker 7: We understand.

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Speaker 5: Doctor. You say the night your wife Louise disappeared, the

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two of you had an argument.

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Speaker 7: Yes, that's correct.

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Speaker 6: We were having dinner out at our country club and

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I guess Louise had too many cocktails. She gets in

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a nasty mood when she drinks too much. I asked

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her to stop drinking. She flared up and walked out

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of the place.

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Speaker 5: Uh huh.

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Speaker 7: Did anyone besides yourself see her leave?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 6: He has two or three couples friends of ours. When

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I found out Louise had gone off to New York,

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I thought, well, it was her way of teaching me

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a lesson. I wasn't too disturbed about it until the

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letters stopped coming.

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Speaker 4: But your son, Stanley, do you know if he's still

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getting the letters from his mother.

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Speaker 7: No, he's not.

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Speaker 6: I telephoned him, but his school he stopped getting letters

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about the same time I did.

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Speaker 7: Let's see, where did I put that cast to me? Oh,

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let's see.

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Speaker 5: We are then, as far as you know, doctor, no

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one at all has actually seen your wife since that

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night at the country club when she walked out and left.

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M hm, that's correct.

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Speaker 6: Did I say if I hadn't been getting those letters

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from her every week from New York, I would have

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called the police in long ago?

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Speaker 7: Would you excuse me me? Oh?

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Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, got a bit of oxide in this old

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crown I've cast here.

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Speaker 7: A little bit of acid should take care of that. Well,

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what's your theory on all this? Doctor?

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Speaker 4: Your wife leaves suddenly, and she goes to New York,

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she corresponds with you and your son, and then her

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letters stopped coming.

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Speaker 7: What do you think might have happened?

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Speaker 6: Frankly, Sergeant, the whole thing's a terrible family mix up.

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Get this crown here out of the acid.

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Speaker 5: Well, how do you mean, doctor, a family mixed up?

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Speaker 6: For just that, There's only one reason for Louise disappearing,

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the way she has money, money, and that stepfather of

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hers say, would you switch on that small motor there, Sergeant,

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I've got to polish up this crown and get it

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in shape.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, sure, thank you.

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Speaker 7: Well, what do you mean, doctor, how does your wife's

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stepfather fit into all this money?

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Speaker 6: Man, it's about the size of it. I don't know

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if you're aware of it, but my wife, Louise was

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left considerable amount of money by her, and well those

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are fortune. As a matter of fact, Louise's stepfather has

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always been trying to get his hands on it.

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Speaker 7: Excuse me again, sure a boy.

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Speaker 4: Well, and you think your wife's stepfather is responsible for

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her disappearance?

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Speaker 7: Is that right?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 6: I'm not making any direct accusations, Sergeant. Two days ago,

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or two days before Louise disappeared, I had eighty thousand

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dollars in bonds.

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Speaker 7: Signed over to her.

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Speaker 6: Checked around since she's been gone, haven't been able to

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locate the bonds anywhere.

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Speaker 5: You think she had the bonds with her when she left.

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Speaker 6: Because I'm sure, pardon me, just a that's a fine

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cast with yourp margins on.

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Speaker 4: Now the eighty thousand dollars worth of bonds, doctor, do

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you have any way of proving that you gave those

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to your wife.

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Speaker 6: Well, certainly, I had my wife signed receipt for them.

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You're welcome to check it over if you like.

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Speaker 4: Just how do you think your wife stepfather figures in?

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There is there any indication he might have made a

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move to get the bond.

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Speaker 6: Enough to satisfy me? Yes, my secretary told me about it.

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Leonora Dexter. That's the girl in the reception room the

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night after my wife left me at the country club,

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that would be December tenth. Miss Dexter was at the

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airport waiting for a friend to arrive on a plane.

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While she was waiting, she saw my wife and her

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stepfather cross through the waiting room and go out to

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the main gate.

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Speaker 7: Your secretary sure it was really your wife and her.

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Speaker 6: Stepfather, And that's what she told me. You are certainly

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welcome to talk to her yourself if your life.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Well, besides the bunds, do you know of anything

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else to value that your wife had with him when

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she left?

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Speaker 6: No, I don't think so. She had her first coat on.

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Of course, it's expensive. She was wearing a diamond ring

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anniversary gift for me, large solitaire worth quite a.

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Speaker 7: Bit of money.

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Speaker 6: You can get the description from the jeweler. I'll give

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you his name, a right, doctor, your wife's stepfather. We'd

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like to have his name and address.

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Speaker 7: Too, surely.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll have my secretary check on both of them.

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Right now, Sergeant, you've got to find Louise.

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Speaker 7: I've got to have a with me. What would do

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everything we can?

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Speaker 6: Doctor, We promise you that I know my wife wouldn't

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stay away of her own free will, not this long,

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not at a time like this.

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Speaker 5: How do you mean?

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Speaker 7: Let me show you here it is.

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Speaker 6: This is the final drawing the architect made for us.

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What do you think of it?

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Speaker 7: Oh? That certainly is.

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Speaker 6: It's got to be our own building, twelve stories, fine

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as in the city, Robert A. Marston building for a

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professional man. Louise and I have looked forward to it

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for a long time.

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Speaker 7: I understand.

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Speaker 6: We settled on the final plans a week before she disappeared.

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Contractors will start construction a few weeks now. There's supposed

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to be a great day in our lives, laying the cornerstone. Yes,

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I understand, great day, Robert A. Marston building. It's funny thing,

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isn't it.

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Speaker 7: Officers?

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Speaker 5: How's that?

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Speaker 6: Nothing's very great unless there's somebody to share it with.

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Speaker 4: Before we left the office of doctor Robert Marston, we

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talked with his secretary, Miss Leonora Dexter. She confirmed the

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doctor's statement that on the night after Louise Marston had

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disappeared from the country club, she had seen both Missus

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Marston and her stepfather at the city's international airport. She

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said she did not follow them, she had no idea

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of their destination. Doctor Marston gave us the letters his

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wife had written him during her absence, and also his

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wife's signed receipt for the eighty thousand dollars with a bond.

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Each of the letters was postmarked New York, and the

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dates on them ranged from December fifteenth to March twenty fourth.

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Speaker 7: Oben and I drove back to the.

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Speaker 4: Office and put in a call to the home of

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the missing woman's stepfather, of mister William House. Then we

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went down the hall to the office of Don Meyer,

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our handwriting expert. We gave him the letters which supposedly

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had been written by Missus Marston from New York, along

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with a signed receipt for the bonds, and various other

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exemplars of her handwriting which we had obtained from her Bank.

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Two fifty pm, the missing woman's step father, William House,

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arrived at the office. He was a tall, graying man, dignified,

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well dressed.

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Speaker 8: It's about time the police started looking into this thing.

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How long does a person have to be missing before

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there's an investigation?

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Speaker 5: The missing report was only files yesterday. Mister hass If

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you knew your stepdaughter was gone, why didn't you report him?

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I've had private detectives working on this for a month,

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had him checking everything about the case. How much luck

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have they had, frankly, not much. I still got him

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working on it well.

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Speaker 4: Getting back to what we have on hand, mister House,

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how about this statement of doctor Marston's secretary. She says,

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as she saw you with missus Marston at the International

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airport the night after she disappeared.

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Speaker 5: It's a lie.

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Speaker 8: I haven't been near that airport in six months. It's

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a lie, and I can prove it. I don't know

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what Marston's up to, but he isn't going to get

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away with it.

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Speaker 5: What do you mean with that?

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Speaker 8: I think he's murdered Louise. I think he killed her

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and buried her somewhere. That's my honest opinion. You sound

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sure of it. I am sure of it. I knew

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Marsden for what he was the day I met him.

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He's a fortunate hunt, a pure and simple He's after

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Louise's money and nothing's going to stop him.

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Speaker 5: Nothing has stopped him.

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Speaker 4: Well, I was under the impression that doctor Marston was

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wealthy before he married your stepdaughter, isn't it right?

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Speaker 5: Certainly not.

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Speaker 8: He was just another poor dentist with a lot of

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big ideas. All this talk about putting up a building

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naming it after himself while Louise fought him on that constantly.

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He's some kind of crazy egotist.

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Speaker 5: What about the eighty thousand dollars in bonds he says

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he signed over to missus Marston if he told you

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that he's a bigger lad than I thought.

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Speaker 7: Well, he gave us a receipt for the bonds that

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was signed by his wife. Can you accounfid them?

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Speaker 8: Frankly, No, Either he got her signature on it by

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some kind of trick or he forged it. I'm sure

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he never had that much money. Those bards belonged to Louise.

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Speaker 5: What about the letters doctor Marston got from his wife?

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You think they were forged to I'm positive they were,

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don't you see, Officer, it's the perfect cover up for it.

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Speaker 4: Well, one way or the other, it's not going to

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take us long to find out the truth. Our handwriting

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man's checking over the letters in the bond receipt. Now,

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can you fill us in at all on doctor Marston's background,

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mister House.

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Speaker 8: Only since he's been connected with the family since he

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married Louise.

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Speaker 5: Say, would you give me a cigarette? Please? I went

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off and left mine at home. Oh, sure, here you are,

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Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 8: I can't tell you how I feel about it, Officer.

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I'm afraid of that man. I'm definitely afraid of him.

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I know he's done something terrible to Louise.

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Speaker 7: Well, how can you be so sure of it, mister House?

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You must have some basis for your opinion.

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Speaker 8: I just know, that's all, Sergeant. If Louise had just

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disappeared and there wasn't any question of money involved, I

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wouldn't be so anxious about it. But eighty thousand dollars

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worth of bonds, that'd be enough to tempt Marston to

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murder his own mother.

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Speaker 5: You don't know him like I do. Well, what do

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you know about him? There? There must be something concrete.

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Speaker 8: I can tell you this much, Officer Marston's a man

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who is capable of murder. Now, I'm a sensible man.

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I don't walk up and down the street.

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Speaker 5: Looking for murderers.

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Speaker 8: But I know when we've got one in the family

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that much, you've got to believe, you will believe it.

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Speaker 4: Ru excuse me, just some an object then, pomic side Friday,

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Yeah done, all right, callum right, thank you? Not well,

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that was our handwriting man, mister House. Yeah, he just

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finished checking the writing in those letters and on the receipt.

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Speaker 7: For the bonds. But to say full dreis no, sir.

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Speaker 4: They're genuine, every one of them. As soon as William

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House left the office, Ben and I began an immediate

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check of his whereabouts.

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Speaker 7: The night after his stepdaughter.

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Speaker 4: Louise Marston had disappeared, we talked to his friends and associates,

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members of the staff at the club where he lived.

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We found a dozen people who backed up houses claim

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that he was nowhere in the vicinity of the airport.

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The night after Missus Marston dropped from sight, we went

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back and talked with doctor Marston Secretary Leonor Dexter. She

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still insisted that she had actually seen house at the

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airport with the missing woman. Doctor Marston and the stepfather

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continued to accuse each other of murder. At our request,

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WEP efforts were made by the New York Police to

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locate missus Marston.

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Speaker 7: No luck.

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Speaker 4: We checked and rechecked with the maid at the home

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of the missing woman. All she could tell us was

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that Louise Marston never returned home after leaving the country club,

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and also that she'd been wearing a fur coat and

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an expensive diamond solitaire ring. A week passed and then

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two weeks. We stayed on it, but there wasn't much progress.

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The case of Louise Marston came to a virtual standstill Wednesday,

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February twenty fourth, Hi.

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Speaker 7: Jill, good morning. Anything new.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we got to break the Marston caze.

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Oh what do you got made out of doctor Marston's home?

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She called first thing this morning, said doctor Marston had

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a little dinner party out there last night.

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Speaker 7: What about it.

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Speaker 5: One of the people there was Marston's secretary, that Leonor Dexter. Oh, yeah,

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she was wearing a large diamond ring. You know. Maide

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got a good look at the ring, says it the

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same one missus Marston was wearing the night she disappeared.

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Speaker 3: You are listening to drag Met authentic cases from official

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police files.

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Speaker 4: Wednesday, February twenty fourth, nine fifteen am, Ben and I

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drove out to the home of doctor Robert Marston and

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talked to the maid. She told us that on the

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previous evening, the doctor had a small dinner party, and

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that one of the guests was the doctor's secretary, Leonor Dexter.

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Speaker 7: The maid told us that she'd gotten a close look at.

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Speaker 4: The diamond ring that miss Dexter was wearing, and that

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she was sure it was the same ring that the

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doctor's wife, Louise Marston, had been wearing the night she disappeared.

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Ten twenty am, we left the Marston house and headed

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downtown to the doctor's office in the Medical Dental Building.

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Speaker 7: The office was closed and locked.

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Speaker 4: We got back in the car and drove out Sunset

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Boulevard to Lenar Dexter's home address. We found the secretary

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having breakfast alone in her two room apartment. She explained

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that on Wednesdays the doctor never opened his office. Before

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we questioned her about the dinner party at the doctor's

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home the night before we asked her about the diamond

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ring that she wore at the party.

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Speaker 7: She became confused and hesitant.

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Speaker 5: And what about it, Miss Dexter? Was that your diamond

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ring and were wearing at the dinner party?

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Speaker 9: No, Sergeant, it wasn't. I guess it belongs to doctor Marston,

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either him or his wife.

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Speaker 7: Or did he give it to you as a present?

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Speaker 9: No? You see, I guess the doctor had a few

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cocktails before dinner, maybe one too many. He went upstairs

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and came down with a ring. He insisted I wear it.

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He was very insistent. I didn't want to make a scene,

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so I put the ring on. I gave it back

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to the doctor just before we left the house. My

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boyfriend was with me at the party and we had

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a terrible argument over it. He's very jealous.

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Speaker 5: Tell me, Miss Dexter, did doctor Marston have any special

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reason for wanting you to wear the ring?

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Speaker 9: No? Just said he liked me, that I was pretty

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and or how to have pretty things. My boyfriend didn't

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like him at all.

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Speaker 7: We had you ever seen that particular diamond ring, miss Dexter,

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I mean before last night.

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Speaker 9: I don't know, Sergeant Knight.

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Speaker 5: I think so.

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Speaker 9: I'm not sure.

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Speaker 5: And where do you think you saw the ring before.

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Speaker 9: Missus Marston. I think I saw her wearing it once.

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Speaker 7: Was she wearing it the night you were supposed to

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have seen her at the airport?

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Speaker 9: I don't know what you mean. I didn't notice the ring,

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but I saw Missus Marsham at the airport.

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Speaker 4: I'd like to have you think this thing out for yourself,

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Miss Dexter. Missus Marston's been gone for almost three months now.

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There's a strong possibility that she might have been murdered.

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You can make up your own mind about it. Miss

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If you're not involved in that disappearance, i'd advise you

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to tell us the truth might save you a lot

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of trouble.

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Speaker 7: Miss Dexter.

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Speaker 9: You mean about my seeing mister House at the airport

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with a doctor's wife, but I after she.

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Speaker 7: Disappeared, Yes, ma'am, that's right. You sure that's the truth.

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Speaker 9: I didn't want to get involved, Sergeant. I didn't want

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any part of it.

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Speaker 5: You mean you didn't see Missus Marston and stepfather at

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the airport that night that you made it all up.

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Speaker 9: I didn't make it up, Sergeant, I swear I didn't.

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He told me what to say he said to do

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it as a favor for him.

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Speaker 4: Who's that miss Dr Marston. We continued to question the

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secretary of Leonora Dexter. She confessed that Doctor Marston had

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directed her to tell the story about seeing Louise Marston

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and her stepfather William House at the International Airport.

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Speaker 7: It was all a complete lie.

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Speaker 4: She said that Marston had explained that the whole thing

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was just a practical joke, that it didn't mean anything.

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When Missus Marston was officially reported missing, she thought of

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going to the police, but Marston had frightened her out

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of taking any such action. The only other suspicious thing

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she could recall about Missus Marston's disappearance was a conversation

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between the doctor and his architect, mister Harold Whitmore. He

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was the architect who had planned and designed the projected

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Robert A. Marston building for a professional men all. The

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secretary told us the doctor's conversation with the architect had

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taken place about a month before Missus Marston's disappearance, and

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that she had heard the doctor mentioned to the architect

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something about New York and a packet of letters. Leonara

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Dexter was taken downtown where she gave us a complete

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signed statement. Ben and I got in the car and

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drove to the offices of architect Harold Whitmore over on

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South Hope Street. He was a tall, florid faced man,

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very cooperative.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I remember that conversation with doctor Marston. He gave

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me a bunch of letters, at least a couple of dozen. Anyway,

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they were addressed to the doctor and his little boy, Stanley.

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Speaker 5: What do you want you to do with the letters,

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mister Whitmore.

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Speaker 8: He asked me if I had any friends in New York,

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and I said I did. Then he said he was

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playing some kind of practical joke on his wife and son.

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He gave me the letters and asked me if i'd

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send them to a friend in New York and have

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him mail them back one of a time.

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Speaker 7: You agreed to do that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 8: Letters were all sealed and stamped, all in order the

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way they were supposed to be mailed. I just sent

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him back to this friend of mine. Bob Rogers in

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New York forgot all about it.

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Speaker 7: Mister Whitmore. How long have you known him, doctor Marston?

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Very long?

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Speaker 8: No, not too long, only in a business way. He

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wants to put up this office building of his, and

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I'm handling the job for him. He's sure nuts on

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the subject, can't wait till we start construction on the job.

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I think his life depended on it. You know much

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about his personal life. What'd your first meet him?

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Speaker 5: See?

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Speaker 6: I think he was around October last year. He and

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missus Marston were building a summer place down at Maliboun

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and I helped out with the plans. The doctor was

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always hanging around there, helping out with the work whenever

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he could.

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Speaker 7: Uh huh. And that's the only previous contact that you

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had with him.

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Speaker 5: That's about all ye know.

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Speaker 7: Building the beach house.

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Speaker 6: Doctor Marston thought he had some new ideas about building

485
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a new type basement in the place. So yeah, not

486
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a bad job on a seller for an amateur. He

487
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used enough cement on it to think a battleship.

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Speaker 4: Just second or swit one? Did doctor Marston cement in

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the basement while the house is being built?

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Speaker 7: Is that?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 6: About a couple of months later, around the middle of December,

494
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I think, do.

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Speaker 7: You remember the date exactly when he did the cement work?

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Speaker 8: Not exactly about twelfth, the thirteenth of December. I think yeah,

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right after his wife disappeared.

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Speaker 4: Wednesday, February twenty fourth, one thirty pm, Ben and I

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picked up doctor Robert Marston and brought him downtown to

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the office. We questioned him for an hour and informed

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him of the evidence against him. Despite the statement of

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architect Harold Whitmore, the doctor insisted he was innocent of

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any crime connected with the disappearance of his wife. We

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contacted the New York Police Department and asked them to

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check on architect Whitmore's friend, Robert E.

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Speaker 7: Rogers.

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Speaker 4: A special detail of men was dispatched to the summer

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home at Malibu to see what they could find. Half

509
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an hour later, doctor Robert Marston was placed in the

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car and Ben and I drove.

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Speaker 7: Him to the Malibu home.

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Speaker 4: We continued question him during the drive, but he refused

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to make a statement of any kind. On our arrival

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at the beach cottage, we found Marston's young son, Stanley,

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together with a maid and the family butler. We took

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doctor Marston downstairs to the basement. The man had a

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large section of the cement flooring ripped up. They were

518
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digging in the room up above. We could hear young

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Stanley Marston playing on a toy harmonica.

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Speaker 6: I'd like to know something, sergeant, just for my information, sir,

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why do you think I'd kill my wife?

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Speaker 7: Why do you think I'd do such a thing.

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Speaker 5: We're not sure yet if you did, killer?

524
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Speaker 6: And why do you have these men doing this digging

525
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up the whole basement? Why do you think I killed her?

526
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Find anything? You might as well tell them to stop

527
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,519
now they won't find anything. I explained everything to you.

528
00:24:05,559 --> 00:24:07,079
Why can't you take my word for it?

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Speaker 4: You still haven't explained about those letters, Why you had

530
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them sent to New York? Why I had the mail

531
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:13,079
back here one at a time.

532
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Speaker 7: Got nothing to do with it. Why can't you believe me?

533
00:24:15,279 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 5: Your wife didn't disappear without a reason. Doctor, We'd like

534
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to know what the reason is.

535
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,119
Speaker 7: I told you, I told you a dozen times over.

536
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:22,079
You know what happened.

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Speaker 6: We were at the country club, Louise and I. She

538
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was drinking a lot.

539
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Speaker 7: I told her to lay off. He had an argument.

540
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She walked out, that's all.

541
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Speaker 5: She walked out.

542
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Speaker 7: I didn't see her anymore.

543
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:32,759
Speaker 5: Yeah, so we'll have it all worked out. Don't worry

544
00:24:32,759 --> 00:24:33,079
about it.

545
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Speaker 6: Why can't that maid look after the boy up there

546
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,319
making all that noise, and why can't you take him

547
00:24:39,319 --> 00:24:40,480
out somewhere down to the beach?

548
00:24:41,079 --> 00:24:46,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah, right.

549
00:24:49,519 --> 00:24:52,519
Speaker 6: Charging. What do you want me to say?

550
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:52,960
Speaker 7: What's that?

551
00:24:53,839 --> 00:24:57,000
Speaker 6: They've found her? You know that Louise right where I

552
00:24:57,039 --> 00:24:59,160
buried her. What do you want me to say? Oh,

553
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:00,000
that's up to you.

554
00:25:00,799 --> 00:25:00,960
Speaker 5: Yeah.

555
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:02,599
Speaker 7: She wouldn't understand, would you, Sergeant?

556
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Speaker 6: The only thing I ever wanted in my life, she

557
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:08,799
wouldn't let me have it, the building, Robert A. Marston

558
00:25:08,839 --> 00:25:10,559
building for a professional man.

559
00:25:11,039 --> 00:25:12,640
Speaker 7: You mean your wife wouldn't give me the money for it.

560
00:25:12,799 --> 00:25:14,079
That's why your quarreled, is that it.

561
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,039
Speaker 6: I tried to tell her one fight after another. She

562
00:25:17,039 --> 00:25:18,319
didn't know how much it meant to me.

563
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 7: And that's why you killed her.

564
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:20,000
Speaker 1: Huh.

565
00:25:20,079 --> 00:25:22,160
Speaker 6: I followed her outside the country club that night, drove

566
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:23,839
her to my office. She was pretty drunk.

567
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:25,039
Speaker 7: Uh huh.

568
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:26,920
Speaker 6: We pretended she was on a trip to New York.

569
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:28,839
I had to write the letters, had her sign the

570
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,319
receipt for the bonds. Wasn't hard to do. How'd you

571
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,359
kill her? Put my hands around her throat, didn't stop

572
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:35,240
until she was dead.

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Speaker 5: Joe, yell, men, thank Fornor. You ready to go? Doctor.

574
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 6: All right, there's a dream of a lifetime, Sergeant. I

575
00:25:44,759 --> 00:25:45,480
almost had it.

576
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:47,319
Speaker 7: The Robbert A.

577
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,440
Speaker 6: Marston Building, the finest in the city. Yeah, you want

578
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,000
to come upstairs, doctor, will get your coat. You'll try

579
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:57,279
to understand, won't you. I wanted something that would last,

580
00:25:57,559 --> 00:26:01,720
my own building, my name on it, something you'd remember. Well,

581
00:26:03,079 --> 00:26:06,119
that's the reason I killed Louise. She didn't want me

582
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:10,200
to have it, my own building, something that would last,

583
00:26:10,759 --> 00:26:12,200
make the people remember.

584
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,880
Speaker 4: Well, you made a doctor. Who I worry. You don't

585
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:16,519
need a building. I'll remember you.

586
00:26:16,799 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 6: Ah.

587
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true, only the

588
00:26:27,039 --> 00:26:29,039
names were changed to protect the innocent.

589
00:26:29,319 --> 00:26:32,440
Speaker 3: On June third, trial was held in Superior Court, Apartment

590
00:26:32,519 --> 00:26:35,480
eighty seven, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.

591
00:26:35,599 --> 00:26:46,559
In a moment the results of that trial, Robert Alexander

592
00:26:46,599 --> 00:26:49,519
Marston was charged with murder in the first degree. Ten

593
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,960
days after his trial opened in Superior Court, the suspect

594
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,559
took his own life in his jail cell by hanging.

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You have just heard Dragnet a series of authentic cases

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from official filets. Technical advice comes from the Office of

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Chief of Police wh Parker, Los Angeles Police Department.

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Speaker 2: Stay tuned for Counterspy next over most NBC stations.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, a good episode and as this is it broadways,

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my bait herb Butterfield wasn't the murderer. I do wonder

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00:27:40,279 --> 00:27:44,079
if people are a little less game today in helping

602
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:47,799
with practical jokes because the secretary, the architect, and the

603
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:51,799
architect's friend all got involved in a murder plot. That way,

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00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,160
there's a lesson in that, all right, well, listener comments

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and feedback, and we got a recent comment regarding this

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story in its first plane many years back, Mechanics sixty

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00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:06,599
six 't eight two rides. I guess psycho paths with

608
00:28:06,799 --> 00:28:11,119
money need to see their names on buildings. And then

609
00:28:11,319 --> 00:28:13,960
kind of an interesting one that sent me down a

610
00:28:14,039 --> 00:28:17,559
fun rabbit trail. And this comes from one of our

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compilations which had some of our season four episodes in it,

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which featured the Clipper clipper Craft run of Sherlock Holmes,

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00:28:30,559 --> 00:28:34,680
ryans Arise. I wonder if Friday and Romero ever shot

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for clipper Craft close well. I kind of wondered whether,

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based on the ads they were in East Coast only brand,

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but that doesn't appear to be the case, so they

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00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:53,039
might have particularly given the price point of the suits

618
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,319
and how thrifty that you had to be on the

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lapd but they would not have been the target audience.

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00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:08,039
Clipper Craft in the nineteen fifties pitched their suits to

621
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:13,400
college men, which neither Friday in Ramera were. There's a

622
00:29:13,519 --> 00:29:20,200
really fascinating article about how clipper Craft appealed very specifically

623
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:25,480
to Ivy League college men and they had a lot

624
00:29:25,519 --> 00:29:31,759
of interesting things, including ads with men with tigers heads

625
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,839
wearing the suits. They even had a mister Keene suit,

626
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,880
but it was not named after the famous investigator, the

627
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Tracer of Lost Persons. And I will try to remember

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to add a link to the article on ivydash style

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dot com from twenty nineteen. Great little blog entry. They

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are so much fun stuff, all right. Well, now it

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is time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,

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But join us back here tomorrow for yours truly, Johnny

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dollar Ware.

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Speaker 10: Great, I can't help you much, Johnny. Joe went with

644
00:30:41,119 --> 00:30:43,240
apparently told you all there is to tell about it.

645
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,519
Speaker 6: You were out looking for a taxi at the time,

646
00:30:45,599 --> 00:30:46,480
went with, got slut.

647
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Speaker 10: That's right. I feel sorry for Joe. That was a

648
00:30:50,799 --> 00:30:52,319
lot of diamond to lose.

649
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 7: Must be quite a storm.

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00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 10: I would you go for those things? I know, I

651
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,079
guess some people really have a thing about dim.

652
00:31:00,519 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 7: But don't you huh?

653
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 10: All right, just happens. There are a couple of things

654
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:06,839
I prefer like.

655
00:31:06,839 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 5: What like money and mink?

656
00:31:09,799 --> 00:31:11,079
Speaker 7: Huh?

657
00:31:11,119 --> 00:31:12,839
Speaker 2: But now according to your fiance you.

658
00:31:12,799 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 10: Wait a minute, according to my what your fiance?

659
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 3: What was it?

660
00:31:19,119 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 5: Johnny?

661
00:31:19,519 --> 00:31:21,599
Speaker 10: That may be his idea, but it's not mine.

662
00:31:22,359 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 7: Well, you're not engaged.

663
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Speaker 10: It's been very nice to me, and I like him,

664
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but we're just friends a far as I'm concerned. Oh yeah,

665
00:31:31,839 --> 00:31:36,599
I'm afraid I'm not the engaged type. Johnny I've tried

666
00:31:36,599 --> 00:31:38,880
it once or twice, but it didn't work. Seems to

667
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:40,000
interfere with my hobby.

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Speaker 7: Your hobby.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, having fun.

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Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime,

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send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net,

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This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.