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Great Detectives dot net. Now from December sixth, nineteen fifty one,

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here is the Bake Canaries.

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Speaker 2: Wow, the story you were about to hear is true.

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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 forty

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year old mother is found murdered in the bedroom of

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her home. The body bears the marks of a savage

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attack with a knife. The killer showed no mercy. Your job, get.

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Speaker 3: Him Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. Well

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the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with 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 violence, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.

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Dragnet is the story of your police force and action.

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Speaker 4: It was Tuesday, February eighteen, was cold in Los Angeles.

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We were working the day Watch out of homicide detail.

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My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Thad Brown, Chief

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of Detective.

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Speaker 5: My name is Friday.

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Speaker 4: There was ten forty three am when we got to

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Woodview High School the vice Principal's office.

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Speaker 5: Good morning, ma'am. Yes, I'd like to see the vice principal.

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Police believe her name is Harmon, Miss Harmon, I'm miss Harmon.

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Speaker 6: What us you wanted?

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Speaker 5: Police officers? Man, there's our identification. Oh yeah, this is

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my partner's sergeant, their own. My name is Friday.

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Speaker 7: I see, how do you do?

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Speaker 5: Well? We'd like to talk to one of your girls students,

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Miss Harmon, ROBERTA Dixon. I understand she's registered here.

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Speaker 7: ROBERTA Dixon.

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Speaker 6: Oh yes, I believe I know her.

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Speaker 8: Would you mind calling her out of class please?

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Speaker 5: We'd like to talk to her.

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Speaker 7: Well, we generally don't like to do that, officer, not

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unless it's absolutely necessary.

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Speaker 5: Pretty important, man, We've got a message for the girl.

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Speaker 7: I see he couldn't wait until after school hours.

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Speaker 4: I'm afraid not, Miss Harmon. It's about the girl's mother.

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It's pretty serious.

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Speaker 6: Oh was she been taken? Ill?

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Speaker 8: Iset it? No, ma'am, she's been murdered.

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Speaker 5: Sixteen year old ROBERTA.

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Speaker 4: Dixon, the daughter of the murdered woman, was called out

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of her classroom and brought downstairs to the office of

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Miss Harmon, the girl's vice principal. She was a thin,

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dark haired girl and sweater and skirt. With the help

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of Miss Harmon, whom the girl seemed to know fairly well,

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Ben and I broke the news of her mother's death

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as gently as we could. At first, the sixteen year

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old girl seemed to take the shock with some composure,

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but suddenly she broke down, weeping and became hysterical. When

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she recovered sophiatiently, the girl agreed to come downtown with

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us to answer a few routine questions. Miss Harmon agreed

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to a company or eleven o five am. We checked

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back in at the office. Ben and I completed the

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three eleven dead body report while Miss Harmon and the

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daughter of the murdered woman waited in the adjoining room.

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Speaker 5: What was that time discovered? Joe? You got a note

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on it there? Yeah, let me look eight fifty five am. Oh,

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thank you, hi Joe?

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Speaker 9: All right?

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Speaker 5: Oh hi George, how you doing?

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Speaker 9: Ken complain? Got some checking out to day? When if

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you help me?

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Speaker 5: Well, do I give it a try? Ben? You know

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George the COVID.

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Speaker 8: Don't you report it from the Daily News?

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Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah, sure, sam Aron, I say.

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Speaker 10: I understand you too, working on that knife murder out

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on Pico the dead woman I found this morning.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 10: A few things I'd like to check with you before

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I do the story. The victim's name was Florence elenor Dixon.

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That right, that's right, George. Yeah, A couple more things here,

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stop me if I got it wrong. The victim was

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forty years old, divorced, one child, daughter sixteen. Body was

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discovered nine o'clock this morning by a next door neighbor.

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You see, your neighbor's name is Esther Fenwick.

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Speaker 5: I think the name is Fenmore. George. Oh, thanks, N

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Speaker 9: I understand you haven't got much to go on. No murder, weapons,

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Speaker 8: No, not much of anything so far. We just started

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Speaker 9: How about the husband of the dead woman, you get

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Speaker 5: Well, he divorced Missus Dixon two years ago. There's no

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line on him yet.

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Speaker 8: We're still checking him out. They might have some word

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later on the day for.

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Speaker 9: Any other possible suspects of mine or do you want

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Speaker 5: Oh, I don't think so. It's still wide open.

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Speaker 9: How about them on if I've been established yet?

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Speaker 5: Could have been one of a dozen things. We're gonna

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have to do some digging before we can say definitely.

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Speaker 4: Doesn't look like it was a robbery motive. That's about

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all we can tell you for sure.

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Speaker 5: George.

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Speaker 10: So, I was over at the morgue when they brought

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the buddy, and it's the worst I've seen a long time. Brutal,

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it's pretty bad. I suppose there's nothing from the crime

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light yet.

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Speaker 4: No, I think they just got back from the house

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a few minutes ago. If you want to drop by

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later on this afternoon, we might have something new for you.

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Speaker 9: Okay, thanks?

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Speaker 10: Oh say, I say you're bringing the girl in a

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few minutes ago, victim's daughter.

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Speaker 9: I like to get a couple of pictures of it.

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Speaker 4: Well, how about making a little later, huh, George. Kids

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still set pretty much of a shock for you.

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Speaker 9: Mother, Storkay, I'll be waiting out in the hall with

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a photographer. Oh can you give me a call? I

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just a couple of shots. You won't take it, you

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bet you?

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Speaker 8: George will call it.

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Speaker 9: Okay?

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Speaker 5: You about finishing that report, man? Yeah, old don I

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guess we better talk to the girl. Huh yeah? All right?

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The mark say when they're going to force the body

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sometime today. We got to have the results first thing

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tomorrow morning, Miss Harmon.

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Speaker 7: I think she's a lot better than outsigeant Roberta. The

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officers would like to talk to you a few minutes

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if you feel up to it.

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Speaker 6: All right, who killed my mother? Have you found out?

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Speaker 5: Not ched Roberta. And we think you might be able

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to help her.

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Speaker 6: So it's so hard to believe. I just saw her

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this morning. She was all right?

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Speaker 4: Then, well you try to take it easier. Roberta will

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make it as brief as possible. Now, you and your

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mother are the only people living at your house.

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Speaker 6: No one else, No me and my mother.

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Speaker 5: That's so.

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Speaker 6: My father used to live with us, he doesn't anymore.

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Speaker 5: And how long has it been since your father left.

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Speaker 6: I'm not sure. About five years. I think he and

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Mamma didn't get along. I got divorced.

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Speaker 5: Do you see your father told her anymore? I mean,

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does he ever come to your house to busy?

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Speaker 6: He did once, it was about a year ago. I

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think wasn't much good, and my mother argued all the

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time he was there, and he left. He hasn't been

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back since.

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Speaker 8: Has he been in contact at all with your mother?

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Speaker 5: You know? Does he write her letters, call her on

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the phone.

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Speaker 6: The last time was when he came to her house.

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I haven't heard anything about him since. I don't even

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know where he is. I don't care. I guess I

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hardly even knew him.

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Speaker 8: Have you think about this carefully now, Roberta.

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Speaker 4: Did your mother have any close friends who used to

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come to the house quite a bit?

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Speaker 6: Yes, two or three women friends are hers at work?

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Speaker 8: Any men friends.

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Speaker 6: Mom didn't have any men friends. She didn't like him.

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She said they were all no good. She used to

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tell me that all the time.

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Speaker 5: Do you have any relatives we can contact?

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Speaker 6: I don't know about my father's side. My mother has

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a brother and sister in West Virginia. Dresses at home.

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What am I gonna do? Why would anybody kill my mother?

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Speaker 8: You try to take it easy, ROBERTA. Thing's gonna work out,

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all right.

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Speaker 4: Look, now, do you think you can give us a

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list of most of the people your mother knew friends

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around the neighborhood, the people she knew at her work.

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Speaker 6: Yes, I think so. Most of them are in her

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dress book. I think I know where it is.

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Speaker 5: All right?

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Speaker 8: Fine?

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Speaker 5: Just before you left for school this morning, ROBERTA, was

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there anyone in the hospit beside you and your mother?

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Speaker 6: No? Just the two of us.

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Speaker 5: Was your mother expecting anyone?

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Speaker 6: Not that I know?

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Speaker 8: Your mother was all right?

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Speaker 5: Was she? That didn't seem to be anything bothering her?

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Speaker 6: She acted all right to me, just like any other morning.

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We got up at four to seven. I got dressed,

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and I took a shower, I fixed breakfast, We ate,

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and then I left for school.

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Speaker 8: How about what time was that, Roberta?

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Speaker 6: Well before eight through the usual time. I have my

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first class nine o'clock. When I left, Mama, she was

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just finishing her breakfast. I said, goodbye. Who was the

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last time? Is saart? Can we talk after a while? Please?

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Maybe I'll feel better. I can't talk?

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Speaker 5: Oh sure, that's all right, would you like to rest here?

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Speaker 6: I don't know why I'm crying, do it? I don't

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care anyway, No reason to cry.

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Speaker 8: You better get some rest, youngster.

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Speaker 6: Oh reason doesn't make sense crying about mamma.

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Speaker 5: Hush.

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Speaker 6: I'm not sorry, I'm glad she's dead.

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Speaker 4: Early that afternoon, after she'd rested sufficiently and recovered herself,

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we had another interview with Roberta Dixon, the teenage daughter

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of the murdered woman, Miss Harmon.

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Speaker 5: The vice principal went back.

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Speaker 4: To the school and a policewoman was called in to

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be present during the interrogation. Again, she insisted that she

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wasn't at all sorry that her mother was dead. She

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said that privately she didn't have any love for either

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one of her parents, least of all her mother. She

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told the usual story of a broken home, a father

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who showed little interest in his daughter or providing a

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good home for a strict, overbearing mother who apparently made

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no effort to understand the girl. We continued to interview

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Roberta Dixon, but outside of what she'd already told us,

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she showed no further knowledge of the murdered Pending action

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by the court, we had the girl placed in the

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custody of the juvenile authorities. Three to ten PM, Ben

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and I drove back to the murder house on south

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peak of Boulevard, where we met police reporter George d.

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Speaker 5: Covin.

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Speaker 4: Together with Brian and Ortiz, we continued our preliminary investigation.

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We rechecked the immediate area of the Dixon home and

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talked again with the neighbors. We failed to come up

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with anything new. Four twenty five PM, along with the

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reporter George d. Covin, Ben and I went back to

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the murder house.

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Speaker 5: Well, I don't know.

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Speaker 9: It doesn't seem to jide at that time of morning.

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It's possible, though, what's that joy prowler might have been here?

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Do you think so?

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Speaker 8: No, we've already run that down.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we checked communications.

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Speaker 4: There's no recent complaints about anybody prowling the neighborhood. We

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talked to the neighbors too, no indication of it, no

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sign anybody tried to break in here.

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Speaker 5: Either, got me. I can't figure and Dick's moment short

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kept to herself, lived here eleven years and we can't

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dig up more than half a dozen neighbors who are

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running new yeah.

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Speaker 9: Business with her daughter too at cheer stacks up pretty strange.

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Didn't the crime lab crew find anything this morning?

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Speaker 5: Joe?

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Speaker 4: No, nothing, great jacket, a pair of shoes with a

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few stains on them. Took them in to run a

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benzitin test. That's about the size of it.

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Speaker 5: Sure a slow start. Yeah, I expect a little more

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from the neighbors. I die. You know, it'd be different

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if the thing happened in the middle of the night.

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Speaker 4: According to the daughter, it must have happened at least

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after eight point thirty this morning. Now, if the killer

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got in the house after that, you'd think somebody on

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the block would have noticed it.

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Speaker 8: Neighbors close by on either side.

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Speaker 5: How about checking out in the yard and back. I

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didn't get too good a look around this morning. There

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was nothing more to cover in here. Crime may have

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been all over.

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Speaker 10: And how about where this missus Dixon worked, Joe, anybody

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tag base there?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Tommy Bryan did hotel down on South Grand. She

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worked in the linen room. A couple of people she

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knew there. They couldn't tell him anything.

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Speaker 5: How about some of her other friends? No, nothing yet,

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We're still checking. Go ahead, Joey, all right, it's a

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big backyard, kept it nice, didn't I?

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Speaker 8: You want to check alongside here, Ben with the house.

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Speaker 5: I'll give the back of the yard a look. Yeah, okay,

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good size garage. Huh.

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Speaker 9: Pretty hard to find him like that anymore.

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Speaker 5: Pretty good sized lot too. He's sure must have worked

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at keeping it up. There's not a weed on the place,

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is here? Yeah?

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Speaker 9: More you can say for the neighbors.

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Speaker 5: I have a look, George. Down here, huh, flowerbed here?

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Two little mounds of dirt? You see him?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the ground looks like it's been recently turned. When

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you say fairly recent what what that's supposed to mean? Yeah,

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small wooden crosses pressed down in each one of the mounds.

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Speaker 9: Where looks like a couple of small graves, doesn't it.

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Speaker 5: You want to reach me that stick over there? George?

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Oh here you go, thank you. I have a look here,

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all right, nothing on mind? How are you? What's it?

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And we're not sure ourselves? Wait a minute? Uh huh?

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What is it? Wait a minute? All right? There you

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are a bird, the canary? How about that hasn't been buried? Long?

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Speaker 8: Look here at the breast.

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Speaker 5: What do you think a night could be?

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Speaker 8: Sharp instrument of some kind.

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Speaker 5: Just a minute, I'm gonna try this other mounder. Wait

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a minute, Joe, Yeah it's another one. Yeah, a canary,

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same thing, Look at the breast. Neither one's been buried

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for more in a few days. Anyway.

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Speaker 9: The Dixon's raise canaries, you know.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 8: I don't think so.

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Speaker 5: Surrey doesn't make any sense to me. They didn't want

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the bird, you'd think they'd give them away. Why go

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slaughter them like there? Yeah, well it works both ways.

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Deep wounds in the chest, some kind of sharp weapon. Yeah.

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The Dixon woman, she died the same way.

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Speaker 4: Four thirty five pm. We took the two canaries, wrapped

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them in paper, and brought them downtown to Lieutenant Lee

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Jones at the crime labed to be processed. He was

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still running tests on a stained jacket and pair of

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shoes which had been found in the house among the

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dead woman's personal effects. Five point fifteen pm we checked

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by the office and then we drove over to Juvenile

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Hall to see ROBERTA.

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Speaker 5: Dixon. Apparently she was in a much better frame of mind.

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Speaker 6: I talked to miss Harmon this afternoon, our vice principal.

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She wants me to come and stay with her for

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a while. Hope she can arrange it at you'll.

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Speaker 5: Be nice moving back at your house this afternoon, ROBERTA.

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We found himself something with doctor asked you, but what's that?

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Do you keep any pets in your house? I mean

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either you or your mother?

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Speaker 6: Well, no, not usually.

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Speaker 5: Why how do you mean not usually?

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Speaker 6: Well, we didn't up until a week ago. Mama didn't

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like him, she didn't want him around. Then I got

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these two canaries. I bought him with my own money.

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I work after.

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Speaker 5: School, you know, I see.

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Speaker 6: I bought a cage for him too. My mother was

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mad when I brought him home. She didn't like any

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kind of animals, kept preaching at me. She finally made

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me get rid of him, and I do that with Brett.

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Speaker 11: I got a knife and I killed him.

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Speaker 4: February eighteenth, the Dixon girl was released to the custody

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of Miss Harmon, pending action for the juvenile court.

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Speaker 5: Nine pm.

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Speaker 4: Ben and I double checked with Lieutenant Lee Jones at

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the crime lab. He showed us the school jacket and

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a pair of shoes which had been found in a

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closet in the home of the murdered woman, missus Florence Dixon.

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Apparently the clothing belonged to the daughter, Roberta. There were

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several dark stains on each of the articles. They'd been

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checked thoroughly, first a Benzandeine test to determine if they

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were blood stains, then a biological precipitent test to classify

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them further. There wasn't any doubt in Lee's mind that

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the stains were recent, that they were made by human blood,

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the same blood type as that of the murdered woman.

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It was a little hard to believe, but the evidence

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on hand pointed only one prime suspect, sixteen year old

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Robert Dixon. Early the following morning, we checked back in

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at the office. Ben went across the street to see

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if the coroner's autopsy report was ready. Eight o five am.

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I checked by communications. They had a report on the

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tracer we'd gotten out on the murder victim's husband, the

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Charles Dixon.

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Speaker 5: I picked it up and headed back for the office,

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worning Joe, Well, Hi, George, you got the message I

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left for you. I put it on your desk over

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the press room. Yeah, I got it. Thanks.

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Speaker 9: I was looked this morning. Anything new?

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Speaker 4: Well, this here an answer on that tracer. We got

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out on missus Dixon's husband. He's been living up north

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for the past year San Francisco.

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Speaker 9: That's so he's still up there.

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Speaker 5: No, not, According to this he died six months ago

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heart attack.

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Speaker 9: What do you figure?

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Speaker 5: Well, there's not much choice, Joe, Oh hi, do you

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autopsy report? Corner just got it out.

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Speaker 8: What's the word?

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Speaker 5: It doesn't jibe with this story. We got the Corner

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places at time of death close to seven thirty am yesterday.

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Of course, a desk what we figured chess boom, kind

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of a sharp weapon. There's something else. According to the girls,

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he had breakfast with their mother before she left for school.

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Corner says Miss Dixon hadn't eaten for at least twelve

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hours before she died.

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Speaker 9: What was that time of death?

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Speaker 5: Ben, seven thirty am? No later?

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Speaker 8: Oh, yes, we better move on it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, what's the angle?

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Speaker 8: Well, the daughter, she says she didn't leave the house

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until eight thirty.

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Speaker 4: Along with the policewoman, Ben and I drove out to

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the home of the high school vice principal, Miss Harmon,

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where the suspect, ROBERTA. Dixon, was staying. There was no

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one there. We checked at the high school. Miss Harmon

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told us that she'd brought Roberta to school that morning.

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She thought that if the girl attended classes, it had

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helped keep her mind off her troubles. Miss Harmon checked

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the classroom the Dixon girl was supposed to be in,

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but she wasn't there. Her teachers were contacted. None of

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them had seen her that morning nine forty am. We

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drove over to the Dixon home. We found Roberta in

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the back bedroom. She was sitting calmly at a sewing machine,

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stitching ruffles on a dress. In one corner of the room,

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there was an empty bird cage.

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Speaker 6: I'm pretty busy right now. I've got this sewing to do.

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What you want to talk to me about?

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Speaker 5: We've got a few more questions for your bert It's

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about your mother.

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Speaker 6: She's dead, isn't she Do we have to talk about it?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm afraid we do.

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Speaker 6: Why do we just told me she was dead? There's

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no sense in talking about dead people anyway. I've got

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this sewing to do. I have to get finished. There

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isn't that pretty? These ruffles go all the way around

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the bottom of the skirt here, like this beautiful color brown?

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You like it?

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Speaker 5: You want to tell us. What happened, Roberta, yesterday morning?

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Speaker 6: Yesterday? I already told you, didn't I we.

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Speaker 5: Don't think you were telling the truth. You want to

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go over it again for it.

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Speaker 6: I've got this sewing to do. You can see that,

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can't you. Three more rows of ruffles go on right here?

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I have to get it finished. Takes time in them.

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Speaker 5: I think you better let the sewing go. Roberta, Oh no.

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Speaker 6: I couldn't do that. I have to get finished.

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Speaker 5: I'm afraid this is a little more important. I think

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you realize that I went over.

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Speaker 6: The whole thing for you already. I told you everything

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wasn't the truth.

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Speaker 11: You know that.

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Speaker 6: Why do you say that? What do you expect me

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to say? You think I lied, don't you? That's stupid.

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I haven't got any reason to lie.

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Speaker 5: Did you kill her, Roberta?

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Speaker 8: What did you kill your mother?

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Speaker 6: I told you everything already. That's just the way it was.

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Mom and I got up and had breakfast and I

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went to school. It's all. I don't have any reason

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to lie. Oh excuse me? Hello, Well hi, fran Yeah,

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I'm working on it now. It's gonna be beautiful.

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Speaker 10: What.

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Speaker 6: Oh no, that's all right? Sure, Well thanks. Yeah, I'm

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all right. M M. Look, can you call me back later? Yeah,

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I'll be here, Okay, honey, Bye, I'm sorry. Officer's my

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girlfriend friend. He's a good friend of mine. She can

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vouch for me. She'll tell you I'm not a liar.

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Speaker 8: Do you want a pair of brown and white satell oxfords, Roberta?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 8: Why how about a school jacket green plaid?

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Speaker 6: No, I don't like green. Brown's my favorite color.

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Speaker 4: The green plaid jacket was fine in the house here.

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It was stuffed back in the hall closet. It had

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your name stancel on it.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, that old thing. I don't even wear it anymore.

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Speaker 11: Look at that.

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Speaker 6: It won't be pretty when I get finished.

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Speaker 5: That jacket to yours, Roberta. They found bloodstains on it.

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On the shoes too, Noberta.

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Speaker 6: I already told you the shoes aren't mine, the jacket is.

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Why do you keep calling me a liar? Can't you

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believe me for once? It isn't bad enough the way

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things are now.

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Speaker 4: The last time we talked to you, you said you

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left the house at eight thirty yesterday morning.

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Speaker 5: Is that right?

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Speaker 6: Yes, it was around eight thirty.

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Speaker 5: Well, we got the report on your mother this morning, ROBERTA.

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The corner says she died at seven thirty.

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Speaker 6: No waiter, that's stupid. How could he tell anyway?

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Speaker 5: He can tell?

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Speaker 6: He's a liar?

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Speaker 5: Something else, Roberta. You told the shoe and your mother

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got up and you had breakfast together.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we had breakfast together. Why are you picking on it?

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Speaker 5: You couldn't. I had breakfast together. At the time she died.

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Your mother hadn't eaten anything for twelve hours.

472
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Speaker 6: I guess you're gonna say they can tell that too.

473
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Speaker 4: That's right. You want to tell us what really happened. Now,

474
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Now tell us the truth, Roberta, it's going to work

475
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out a lot easier.

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Speaker 6: These are some of the toys I had when I

477
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was little. I saved almost all of them. My best

478
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doll had a lot of dolls. I loved them. I

479
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guess I still do. I love them more than her.

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Speaker 8: You mean your mother.

481
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Speaker 6: I wasn't fooling. I don't care if she's dead. She

482
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didn't mean anything to me. She never did mean anything.

483
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These are more my dolls here. I dressed them all myself,

484
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every one of them.

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Speaker 5: What was the matter, Roberta, between you and your mother?

486
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Speaker 6: I mean, I don't know. I guess she just didn't

487
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mean anything. Not like anybody else's mother. She didn't mean

488
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anything at all, same as my father. You're in the

489
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same house. That's all. Nobody cared for anybody else, anything

490
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but fighting, fighting, or just not saying anything at all.

491
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I'm glad she's dead.

492
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Speaker 5: You killed her.

493
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Speaker 8: Is that what you want to say.

494
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Speaker 6: Here's a little piano I had. I got one Christmas.

495
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I think, look still play.

496
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Speaker 5: You want to tell us from the beginning.

497
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Speaker 6: It took a long time. I had thought about it

498
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a lot.

499
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Speaker 12: Week ago.

500
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Speaker 11: I made up my mind, it's time to kill her.

501
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Speaker 6: She was getting worse. I couldn't do anything.

502
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Speaker 12: I was always wrong, couldn't go out, couldn't do this,

503
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I couldn't do that. She started the same way. Yesterday morning.

504
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I got the knife from the kitchen. I went in

505
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and she was sitting on the bed putting her stockings on.

506
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I don't think she knew what happened. Didn't take long.

507
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Speaker 5: Were you having an argument with her? Said west Gardener.

508
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Speaker 6: We argued every morning. I got so tired of it.

509
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She had an awful voice. Finally made up my mind,

510
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planned it all out. I even practiced it. You know

511
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the two canaries I had? Yeah, I didn't buy them

512
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:49,920
because I wanted them got to be cute, though, felt

513
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bad about killing them.

514
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Speaker 5: Why'd you kill him?

515
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Speaker 8: Roberta?

516
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Speaker 6: Practice decided to use a knife. I'm sure I knew

517
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,039
how to do it, though, So I got the canaries

518
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one day after school. I killed him. Gave me more confidence.

519
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I knew I could do it after that. Poor little things. Yes,

520
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I shouldn't have killed them, went knife.

521
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Speaker 5: You killed your mother with, Roberta. You want to show

522
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us where it is?

523
00:24:22,559 --> 00:24:25,319
Speaker 6: All right, I'll show you. I don't think you ever

524
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,000
could have found it. It's up in the attic, special

525
00:24:28,039 --> 00:24:34,079
place I hide things. Say would you like some coffee

526
00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:34,960
or coke or something?

527
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,160
Speaker 5: No, one more thing? Why'd you leave school this morning?

528
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I mean going off without telling anybody.

529
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Speaker 6: I wanted to come back here. I felt like it.

530
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:48,839
I wanted to come back to my room. It's the

531
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only place I really liked to be. I've lived in

532
00:24:52,279 --> 00:24:56,480
this house all my life, and this has always been

533
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my room.

534
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Speaker 5: I had.

535
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Speaker 6: My dolls. Everything's here, everything, I have my books, Oh,

536
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:11,000
my dolls.

537
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we better be going, Roberta.

538
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:15,279
Speaker 8: We'll have to take you downtown.

539
00:25:16,079 --> 00:25:28,119
Speaker 6: Yes, all right, I'll get my coat, then I'll show

540
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:32,920
you where the knife is. Officers, could I ask you

541
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one favorite? It probably sounds silly, will help a lot though.

542
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This doll here, could I take it with me? Just

543
00:25:46,319 --> 00:25:51,400
this one? Make me feel a lot better? Please? Do

544
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:52,079
you think I could?

545
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:53,440
Speaker 5: Yeah?

546
00:25:53,759 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 8: Sure, bring it along.

547
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Speaker 6: If you're like, thank you, you probably think I don't

548
00:25:59,519 --> 00:26:03,880
care for any thing but my dolls. There's one thing though,

549
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:04,599
I want to tell you.

550
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Speaker 5: What's that?

551
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:12,319
Speaker 6: I'm sorry now, I really am. I shouldn't have done it.

552
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:16,680
I know it was wrong. You do, Yes, I'm sorry.

553
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:17,720
I killed the canaries.

554
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Speaker 5: The story you have just heard was true.

555
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Speaker 2: The names were changed to protect the innocent.

556
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Speaker 13: On May sixth, the hearing was held in Juvenile Court,

557
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Department thirty eighth, City and County of Los Angeles, State

558
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of California. In a moment the results of that hearing.

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At the hearing in Juvenile Court, ROBERTA. Evelyn Dixon was

560
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found unfit to be handled as a juvenile and was

561
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certified to Superior Court as an adult. There, she was

562
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found to be criminally insane by three Sekaiah interists appointed

563
00:27:00,799 --> 00:27:03,200
by the state. She is now confined to a state

564
00:27:03,279 --> 00:27:15,720
mental institution where she is undergoing treatment. You have just

565
00:27:15,839 --> 00:27:19,440
heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files.

566
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,440
Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police W. H. Parker,

567
00:27:23,559 --> 00:27:27,720
Los Angeles Police Department. Bartney Yarborough is Sergeant venro Merrow.

568
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:32,640
Also heard was Joyce McCluskey. Script by Jim Mosy, music

569
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by Walter Schumann.

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Speaker 14: Hell give me speaking, counter Spy Fights, International Intrigue.

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Speaker 15: Next on NBC, Welcome Back.

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Speaker 1: A great episode, and I think it illustrates how Dragnet's

573
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:13,799
often emotional understatement can be quite powerful. Now, obviously we

574
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,960
hear a lot of shows on this podcast that dial

575
00:28:17,079 --> 00:28:22,400
it up to eleven, but when Roberta was talking honestly

576
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:30,359
before the midpoint where she stated she killed the canaries,

577
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:35,599
that was chilling. And of course if there was any

578
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,559
doubt as to what happened, you know, they had to

579
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:40,119
do the whole investigation.

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Speaker 15: But I pretty much knew who did it at that point.

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Speaker 1: And again, the sort of calm way she talks about

582
00:28:49,519 --> 00:28:53,880
it is really I think part of the strength of

583
00:28:53,960 --> 00:29:01,559
the episode and what makes it so realistic and suddenly disturbing.

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And I think the facts of the case reflect a

585
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:11,920
situation where you had an angry teenage girl who didn't

586
00:29:12,039 --> 00:29:15,240
know what she was doing or have a really strong

587
00:29:15,359 --> 00:29:18,799
insight into what the police figure out, which led to

588
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:23,680
her making mistakes that she got caught in. All right, well,

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listener comments and feedback, and we're going over to Spotify,

590
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where we have a comment from Vicky, who writes the

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police only knew about the wife's disappearance because the husband

592
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:40,039
called them, But yet the husband was the guilty party.

593
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Perhaps he wanted to be caught. Great episode. Well, Becky,

594
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I didn't think he wanted to be caught. I think

595
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:50,279
in that case, the fact is that his wife was

596
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:55,079
not around, and if he had at no point reported it,

597
00:29:55,279 --> 00:29:58,680
somebody was going to notice that she was missing, and

598
00:29:58,799 --> 00:30:03,880
the question would be, okay, doctor, why did you never

599
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report your wife was missing?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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00:30:06,519 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 1: He couldn't remove the mystery, but he could relocate the

602
00:30:11,519 --> 00:30:13,960
mystery to the other side of the city. Yeah, she

603
00:30:14,079 --> 00:30:16,720
went to New York and I don't know what happened

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00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,839
to her. And he thought he'd been very clever, but

605
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of course he was amateur and made some mistakes along

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the way. All right, Well, now it's time to thank

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our Patreon supporter of the day. Thank you to Joe,

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Patreon supporter since April twenty nineteen, currently supporting the podcast

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at the Master Detective level of fifteen dollars more per month.

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Thanks so much for your support, Joe.

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Speaker 15: That will do it for today.

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Speaker 1: If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your

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favorite podcast software and be sure to rate and review

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the podcast wherever you download it from. We'll be back

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next Thursday with another episode of Dragnet. But join us

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back here tomorrow for yours truly. Johnny dollarware, you were here.

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Speaker 16: To see missus Ballen.

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00:31:02,079 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 3: That's right, I'm Johnny Dollar.

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Speaker 16: I'm Hal Winters, her nephew.

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Speaker 5: Hi.

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Speaker 16: Say tell me something, yes, about this little statue that's missing?

622
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,279
You mean that little chunk of pot metal that's disappeared.

623
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 5: Oh is that what it is?

624
00:31:14,519 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 6: Oh?

625
00:31:14,759 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 16: Yes, just a piece of junk. But a couple of

626
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,640
months ago at Dora decided it looked like her grandfather

627
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:21,400
when he was a general back in the Civil War.

628
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,079
Speaker 5: Oh why does she value it so highly?

629
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Speaker 16: I expect the general was the only Ballon who had

630
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:29,119
guts enough to do anything on his own. What do

631
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,400
you mean, I mean instead of just living off the

632
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:32,680
family shipping fortune.

633
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Speaker 2: So when she.

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Speaker 16: Suddenly decided the statue looked like the General, Johnny Dollar,

635
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:40,160
did you.

636
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:41,319
Speaker 2: Say that's right?

637
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 16: The insurance investigated, Yes, Well, now why should she bother

638
00:31:48,119 --> 00:31:51,000
you with it? I don't know, truly, mister Dollar.

639
00:31:51,039 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 5: It's not worth it.

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00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 16: If I were you, i'd forget it. And now, if

641
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,039
you'll excuse me, i'd better see if the morning mail

642
00:31:56,079 --> 00:31:56,599
has arrived?

643
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 1: Helu Just when.

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Speaker 16: Did the statue disappear? Where kind of discovered it missing

645
00:32:02,519 --> 00:32:05,039
from the reception room yesterday morning? Now, if you'll pardon me.

646
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:06,079
Speaker 13: Was the house broken into?

647
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Speaker 1: Possibly?

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00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:08,519
Speaker 16: But there was no sign of it.

649
00:32:08,519 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 5: How about guests?

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00:32:09,839 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 16: No, we haven't had guests for a week or more.

651
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:16,000
How many servants are there, mister Dollar? Perhaps there's something

652
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,920
i'd better tell you about that statue, the statue.

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00:32:19,079 --> 00:32:19,799
Speaker 5: Of the General.

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Speaker 1: I tell you, mister Dolla. You are mister Dollar, aren't you?

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Speaker 16: Yes, ma'am, I tell you that if you don't find

656
00:32:27,039 --> 00:32:29,559
out who's stole it and get it back, I'll can

657
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celevery bit of my insurance.

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

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