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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.

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This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're

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going to bring you this week's episode of Dragnet. But

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But now, from June twenty one, nineteen fifty one, here

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is the vague run.

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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.

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Speaker 3: Fatima Cigarettes, best of all Long Cigarettes, brings you Dragnet.

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Speaker 2: You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to accident investigation hit

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and run detail. You receive a call that two elderly

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women have been struck down on a crosswalk by a

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hit and run driver. The women lie in Georgia Street Hospital.

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Their condition is critical. Your job find the driver.

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Speaker 3: Drag met 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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Drag Net is the story of your police force in action.

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Speaker 4: It was Saturday, September fifth, was mild in Los Angeles.

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We're working the day Watch out of accident investigation, get

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and Run detail. My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is

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Benny Caldwell, Chief of Traffic. My name's Friday. It was

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seven thirty five PM when I got to forty six

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to fifty six Collis Avenue my.

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Speaker 5: Front door.

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Speaker 2: Here?

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Speaker 6: Is that your jersey?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? Ma got both Sunday papers.

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Speaker 7: I'm good. It's nice music on the radio, isn't it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's pretty. It's your favorite song, isn't it.

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Speaker 7: Yes? See you in my dreams. Every Saturday night we

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used to get together down there were Cromwell House and

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west Adden's Boulevard Weekly dance you know, yeah, I know

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you have him a lovely old home down there, have

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a beautiful ballroom upstairs. Always that had a good time

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at the Cromwell House.

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Speaker 5: Was that before you were married?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 7: My, Yes, met your father through Mildred Cromwell. You know

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she was quite fond of him too, that's all. Yes,

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she was. Oh, nothing was serious, but cheers to think

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quite a lot of Sam.

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Speaker 5: And you broke him up.

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Speaker 7: Huh, Joseph, You know I wouldn't do a thing like that.

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Millie was only mightily interested in Sam. I wouldn't come

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between the two people that were happy.

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Speaker 5: You know that. Oh there's no way he used to

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tell it, So you just broke him up, that's all.

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Speaker 7: Yes, Well, you ever tell you about the time all

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the girls in bode of some of the fellows from

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the Royal Order of the Western Wildlife Protective Brotherhood Southern

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chiter over to the basket bappele to a what basket raffle?

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All the girls packed tasty lunches and the boys bid

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for them a douction.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, uh.

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Speaker 7: It was a warm summer evening, just like tonight. It

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was a grand affair. Annie Shellman was there with Jim Donahoe,

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and your father came with Lorenzo Fisher, the Grand Faesier

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of the wildlifeers Man.

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Speaker 5: Sounds like quite an evening.

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Speaker 7: Joseph, It really was. Samuel bid the highest for my basket,

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ten dollars and fifteen cents. I'll always think to this day,

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that's the reason Millie Cromwell's been so cool toward me.

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Speaker 5: Well could be? Do you want part of the examiner? Mark?

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Speaker 7: Thank you, son. I want to finish turning this collar

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in your shirt.

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Speaker 5: Okay.

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Speaker 7: You wouldn't think a basket lunch could come between two

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good friends, would you?

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Speaker 5: A big barn I say, we'd.

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Speaker 7: Never think a basket lunch should break up of friendship

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like me Crown.

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Speaker 5: That was n no, ma'am, you wouldn't. I'll get it.

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Speaker 8: Man Friday talking Joe. Oh yeah, man, got a bad one.

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Speaker 9: Two utterly women who struck by.

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Speaker 5: Hit and run. Well, just have been a mc McCanny. Hey, Ma,

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would you turn down the radio please? Thank you? Yeah? Man,

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go ahead, three.

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Speaker 10: Blocks west the rivers side of Lost Phelis. We have

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two traffic cars out there now for the preliminary investigation.

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Speaker 5: Better roll on it, right Mac, right away.

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Speaker 10: I've already notified Romeo. He's on his way over to

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 5: Okay, I'll be ready. Give me informed, right Mac?

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Speaker 7: May you have to go back to work?

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Speaker 5: Truth? Yeah? Where'd you put in my flashlight? Do you remember?

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Speaker 7: Right here?

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Speaker 5: Okay? Thank you?

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Speaker 7: Where does it sound an accident?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? Bad one. It sounds like hit and run.

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Speaker 7: Who is it? They say?

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Speaker 5: A couple of elderly women struck down up on Los Veields.

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Speaker 7: That terrible.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they're all terrible.

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Speaker 4: Ten minutes after I hung up the phone, Ben arrived

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and at eight ten pm we got to the intersection

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of Lost Phelis Boulevard and Commonwealth Avenue. The bodies of

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the two victims had been removed and taken to the

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Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. One of the uniformed officers was

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taking photographs of the scene. His partner was picking up

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particles of glass and all physical evidence left by the

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hid and run driver.

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Speaker 5: He identified himself as Officer E. W. Hyde, Unit sixty one.

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Speaker 9: T A few pieces of the headlight lands and the

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chrome ring about all.

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Speaker 5: And this is the point of impact.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, that's right. It's twenty four feet south of the

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northerly pavement in about twelve feet es to the westerly

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Speaker 4: Right in the crosswalk up there. Huh yeah, and freshly painted.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's well illuminated and good street lighting up here.

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Hide with the signals in operation. No, they weren't.

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Speaker 9: Boulevard stopped here though, blinkers are all in operation.

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Speaker 5: How far were the bodies of the victims thrown Briday.

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Speaker 9: Number one was thrown seventy feet buddy number two was

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not thirty eight feet in the southwest direction. Both came

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to rest approximately at the center line of the street.

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Speaker 5: MM.

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Speaker 9: Whoever did it was going at a high rate of speed.

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skid marks, didn't they?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? You did.

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Speaker 9: Any witnesses Yeah, there's three, but only one I think

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will be helpful. That's the name in Andrew. He's right

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over there in the curb. Now, name's Richard Mortigan, runs

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the nursery there.

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Speaker 5: Well, thanks, Hide. You're gonna make the reports and book

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the evidence.

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Speaker 9: Right, yeah, I'll take care of it.

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Speaker 5: Thanks.

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Speaker 9: Mortigan over there in the ten overalls. All right, thanks

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a lot, Hide.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Uh, your name Richard Mortigan?

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Speaker 5: Is that right, sir? Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 4: Police officers. Mister Mortigan is asige at the mill or

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are you? My name is Friday. We're out of accident investigation.

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I talk to you about the accident that just happened here.

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Speaker 5: Sure was a bad one. I hope you catch those kids.

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Didn't even slow down.

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Speaker 4: Understand you witnessed the accident wonder if you'd be kind

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enough to tell us what you saw.

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Speaker 11: I would just closing up my nursery here, just unlock

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my car. ARM was about to get in when I

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saw this car come shooting up Los Phelis there fast

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clip went away with the two women. They were just

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stepping off the curve under the crosswalk over there. I

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could tell they didn't see the car. Yelled hawk my horn.

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I guess I wasn't quick enough. Just off the going

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this morning. Oh away, that car hit those women. Looked

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to me like he knocked him fifty feet at least,

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and then just like nothing at all. The car raced

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right on through the intersection on Don Los Phylis that way,

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M need you get a look at the driving, No, sir,

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not too good. But I believe he had blonde hair.

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Looked to me like he was alone in the car.

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Speaker 5: Anything more about him.

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Speaker 11: Looked like a young kid to me, I bet on

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that he was young, blond kid, about oh eighteen nineteen

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on in there.

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Speaker 5: Now, how about the car he was driving? Can he

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help us out there?

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Speaker 9: See?

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Speaker 5: I believe it was a Ford.

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Speaker 11: I don't know what year, Yeah, uh Ford sedan two door?

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Speaker 5: What color was it? Black, dark blue, I'd say black.

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Did you happen to get the license numbers? See? Oh?

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Speaker 11: Sure, everything happened so fast time. Guess there was kind

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of stunned for a minute, you know how you'd be sorry?

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Speaker 5: I wish I did.

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Speaker 12: And you're pretty sure about the car, mister Mortigan. Are

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you familiar enough with cars to be positive it was Afford?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? I think I am.

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Speaker 11: And you don't know what year the car went, Oh, sir,

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Speaker 5: Well, thank you very much, mister Mortigan. We may have

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to check back with you later anytime. You'd better do

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whatever I can to help you get that driver udden

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we get a hold of him this morning. Well, I'm

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right here all times.

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Speaker 11: Mortigan, Nurseries forty four oh two los Phyllis four number,

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Normandy three two two five seven. I seem thank you

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very much. It's too or woman didn't never chance a minute.

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They stepped off the curb. Crazy kid didn't even stop

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to see if you could help him.

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Speaker 5: Yes, sir, we know. Man again, maybe you didn't see him.

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Maybe it wasn't his fault. Whose fault was it? He

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didn't stop before we left the scene of the accident.

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Speaker 4: We interviewed the other two witnesses, but they could add

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nothing to Richard Mortigan's statement. Investigation disclosed that victim number

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one was on Marcella R. And Norton, aged fifty eight.

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Victim number two was identified as Elizabeth Anne Care.

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Speaker 5: Aged sixty five.

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Speaker 4: Ben and I drove over to the Hollywood station where

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we met Officer Hyde, who was just completing his reports

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and was booking the physical evidence found at the scene

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of the accident. Included in the evidence were the top

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coats worn by the victims at the time they were

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struck down.

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Speaker 5: All this was turned over to Lieutenant Lee Jones in

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the crime lab.

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Speaker 4: Ben and I compiled a small amount of information that

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we had the physical evidence found at the scene and

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the scanned information that the witnesses were able to give us.

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Not enough for us to attempt to identify the driver

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of the hid and run car. Well, it wasn't much

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to go. On nine to fifty four pm, we got

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a call from Lee Jones who said that he'd completed

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his investigation and wanted to see us right away.

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Speaker 5: We went over to the crime lab.

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Speaker 9: I think maybe I got what you need ed well,

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we haven't got much now, so almost anything will help Lee.

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I's go back then, all right. First off, your witness

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out there, what was his name?

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Speaker 5: Mortigan? Yeah?

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Speaker 9: Well Mortigan is right. The cow was black and the

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microscopic analysis and scrapings found on the victim's coats. Yeah,

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I'd say a black car previously painted tan or sand

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color under the black.

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Speaker 5: That was one of the things he's positive about. How

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about the make and the models? Anything? There is not

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too much there.

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Speaker 9: I think maybe I can help you there too. What's

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a break in Let's see, just got back from the

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lighthouse and a lens meet a test and those pieces

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of broken head light lens and the diapter reading shows

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that that particular type lens was made in nineteen thirty four.

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Speaker 5: How about the make of the car?

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Speaker 9: League The only company that used this type of lens

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was the Ford Motor Company.

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Speaker 5: Pretty positive.

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Speaker 9: Buy ran a spectrographic test on the chemical composition of

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the glass and the lens checks out. Huh, I got

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a car to work on, that said, nineteen thirty four

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Ford Black.

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Speaker 5: Oh, thanks a lotly. It's all right.

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Speaker 9: When you find the car, I can tie it in

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definitely for you.

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Speaker 5: Oh, it's fine.

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Speaker 9: Oh excuse me, Crime Lab Jones. Right here, Mac, just

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a minute there, either one of you. It's Mick Deerman.

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I'll take a gymp Okay, yeah, I'm Max from Meryl.

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Oh when yeah, I mean too? Yeah right, Mak just

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got work from Georgia Street. Yeah, both victims had just died.

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With the death of the two.

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Speaker 4: Victims, what had only been a hit and run felony

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had now become a case of manslaughter, two counts. Ben

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and I went back to the office and met with

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Lieutenant mcderman. Past experience has proven to the traffic officer

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that the quickest and surest way to a successful prosecution

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of a hit and run case is with the full

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cooperation of the average citizen. A hit and run felony

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differs from the ordinary police case in that the investigating

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officers are not dealing with a criminal suspect. In the

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case of this nature, the guilty party could well be

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the outstanding citizen of his community. In all probability, he

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had no motive for a crime, only motive and running

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from the scene of the accident. Well, the one way

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to gain citizen cooperation was to acquaint him with all

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the details of the accident. And he and all information

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that we had or would obtain as the case worked

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towards solution ten to fifteen pm Saturday, September fifth.

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Speaker 5: In addition to the emergency.

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Speaker 4: Broadcast put out at the time of the accident, supplemental

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broadcasts and apbs were sent out.

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Speaker 5: Ben and I then started to make up a special

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police bulletin wanted fremnus laughter and hit and run felony.

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Speaker 4: Okay, uh information regarding identity of occupant of following hit

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and run vehicle.

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Speaker 5: Regarding identity of occupant.

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Speaker 4: Yeah vfl okay got it involved in accident resulting in

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death of two female pedestrians.

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Speaker 12: Accident destiny. Accident occurred September fifth, Proximen.

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Speaker 5: Day, What times Joe seven thirty pm.

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Speaker 12: Right on Rose Famous Bulletvard at intersection Commonwealth Avenue.

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Speaker 5: Okay, now I can see what we got. Thank you.

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Speaker 4: Occupant young Mail Caucasian, approximately eighteen to nineteen years of age.

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Vehicle nineteen thirty four Ford Sedan, black with tan undercoat,

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driven by Mail occupant. This car will have extensive damage

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to front end. Facsimile photographs of type of car wanted

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to appear on this bullet We got the photos right,

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here side and front and back view. Okay, this ought

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to do it. Let's get it down to the printing

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bureau right away.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, auto banks, shops, wrecking yards, garages, repair stations.

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Speaker 5: Used car lots, insurance company. The daily papers are running

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a spread on it in the next edition. That all

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to cover. Yeah, it's all there if it gets to

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the right person.

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Speaker 4: Wednesday, September ninth, ten forty five am, the inquest of

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the two hit and run victims was held and the

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jury returned a quick verdict of manslaughter two counts, naming

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it John Doe is guilty. For the next three weeks,

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we received numerous phone calls concerning the black Ford Sedan.

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All leads were checked out and failed to materialize. Cars

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fitting the description of the wated vehicle were constantly being stopped,

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and the occupant's question we got nowhere. Ben and I

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followed up on our bulletins. We checked various garages and

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paint shops. Used car lots were checked and rechecked.

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Speaker 5: No luck.

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Speaker 4: Monday, October third, two thirty pm, we were on our

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way back to the office after having canvas several wrecking

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yards and repair stations.

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Speaker 12: I never knew they made so many Black thirty four

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to Ford. Yeah, I don't see how we could have

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overlooked anything.

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Speaker 5: You.

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Speaker 4: No, I don't something ought to break on this thing soon.

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We just had a little more to go on that

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license number. If somebody could have seen any that'd help,

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wasn't it.

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Speaker 5: I'll get it. Traffic Friday.

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Speaker 10: Hello, my name is Dan Provost. I run to use

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car lots Dan's corner at five four Avenue.

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Speaker 5: Yes, sir, I like it.

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Speaker 10: Talk to somebody regarding that last bullet and you sent

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out September seventh this year.

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Speaker 5: Well, I think maybe I can help you, sir.

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Speaker 10: Then thirty four Ford you're looking for on that hit

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and run.

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Speaker 6: Thing, Yeah, that's right, young kid blonde says he's got

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some repair work for us.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I got one of my mechanics stalling him.

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Speaker 5: Now, what's the car looked like, mister provo?

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Speaker 10: Like the one you're looking for. The reason I called

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is because he says he banged up the front end

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right away.

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Speaker 5: I remember the bullet all right, So see if he

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can hold him there, will you We'll be right over.

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Speaker 10: I'll do my best.

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Speaker 5: We'll be right there.

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Speaker 10: I think I've got your man for you.

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Speaker 4: It took us fifteen minutes to get to fifty four

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to seventy three sixth Avenue Dan's corner. We crossed over

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the gravel covered lot to the rear, where we found

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a small wooden shack marked office. Dan Provost met us

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at the door.

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Speaker 9: I'm Provost you the police. Yes, sure, i'ry. I'm sorry.

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I did my best, but I couldn't hold him here

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without making him suspicious. But I'm sure he'll be back.

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Speaker 5: How do you know?

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Speaker 9: We see he bought this car from it says he

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had a little accident and wanted us to fix it

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up for him. I told him we would if he'd

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bring it in.

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Speaker 5: Why do you think he left? It's only been about

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fifteen minutes and you called us downtown real.

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Speaker 9: He might have heard me talking to you.

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Speaker 5: Well, if he didn't, he's our man. I doubt very

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much if he'll be back.

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Speaker 9: I bet he. Well, a lot kid about nineteen years old,

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driving him black thirty four or four, just like the

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one year after.

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Speaker 5: Well, can he give us his name and the licensed

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number of the car?

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Speaker 9: Sure, it's Curly Watson license number. I got it right here,

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nine or nine seven o seven. I looked it up

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on his contract and.

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Speaker 5: His name Curly. You have his full name.

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Speaker 9: Sorry, I guess I'm a little excited. It's uh wilfred E. Watson.

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Everybody around here calls him Curly. I'm pretty sure he's

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the one you want. I know that car bought it

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from us about five months ago.

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Speaker 5: It's just too bad you couldn't have detained him just

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a little longer, mister Provos.

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Speaker 9: Well, like I say, you don't have to worry, he'll

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be back.

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Speaker 5: What makes you so sure?

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Speaker 9: And the way he described the damage to us, I'd

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say he's got about seventy five two hundred dollars worth

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of work on that front end. Yeah, I know he's

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a man you want. I'm gonna be in trouble if

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he's not. What do you mean what was the only

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thing I could do on the spur of the moment

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like that? Yeah, that's how I know for sure he'll

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be back here. Well, how's that I told him I

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fix his car free.

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Speaker 3: You are in the forgery division of a metropolitan police department.

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Handwriting analysis All right, now write the alphabet and lower

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case please. You are listening to a handwriting expert taking

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an exemplar of a suspect's handwriting.

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Speaker 5: Now write the numerals from one to ten. Please.

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Speaker 2: This handwriting sample will be compared with a Forge signature

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side by side. Two signatures may often look alike, but

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closer examination will prove a world of difference.

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Speaker 5: We call Lieutenant mcderman and filled him in.

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Speaker 4: He sent Sergeants Kill, Patrick and McLendon now to really

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Been and me and to maintain a stake out on

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Dan's corner the used carlot in the event the suspect

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should return. We went back downtown to R and I.

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Wilfredy Watson had a record and was wanted by the

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Fresno Police Department, where he had jumped bail. The charge

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was grand theft. We took Watson's mug shot back to

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the used car lot, where he was positively identified by

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Dan Provos. Ben and I went to his last known address.

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The landlady told us that Watson had moved approximately a

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month ago and had not left a forwarding address from

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his mamma's sheet, We obtained a list of his friends

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and associates. All efforts to locate him failed. The stakeout continued.

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We showed the mug shot to Richard Mortigan, the one

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good witness to the accident. He said he could not

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identify Watson as he did not get too good a

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look at him, but he stated that there was a

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possibility that he could be the man.

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Speaker 5: A week went by, the whereabouts of the suspect was

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still unknown.

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Speaker 4: Tuesday, October tenth, Ben and I were out running down

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Elite on Watson when we received a call to return

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to the office.

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Speaker 5: Lieutenant mcderman met us. As we got there, I put

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that call in for you anything doing. Then I got

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a lead. I don't know how good it'll be.

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Speaker 13: But we ought to check it out right away. What

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he got, well, we just received a call from the

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Santa Monica PD. Missus Agnes Hastings called in and gave

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him a little something. As I say, maybe there's nothing

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in it, but see what you think. The Hastings woman

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stopped in at the local soda fountain down there. Place

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is patronized by the hot rod crowd, said she overheard

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part of a conversation between a couple of the kids.

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This one dark haired boy was sitting at the counter

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when another kid walked in the front door. The kid

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that came in had red hair. The dark haired kid

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said higher, red and the redhead sat down by him.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And one of the kids made some remark about

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the boy's red hair, asked him why he died. The

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redhead said, well, they're looking for a blonde, aren't they. Yeah,

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it could be a little summer, I thought so.

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Speaker 13: And the Hastings woman followed the redheaded boy outside and

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took the license number of his car. Anything there, I

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don't know yet. Ran it through DMV, but it's not

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in the file. Mark Benson's got to call him to Sacramento. Now,

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anything new on Watson, No, nothing yet.

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Speaker 5: Where can we find this, agues Hastings man.

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Speaker 9: Well, here's the address right here.

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Speaker 5: Okay, thank you.

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Speaker 9: Well that's all she had said.

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Speaker 13: She'd been following the hit and run story in the papers,

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thought this might be worth forwarding anyway.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, just a minute traffic mcdermon, oh high art. Yeah,

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well you did.

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Speaker 14: Huh m hmm, yeah, I see, uh huh yeah, yeah,

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right bye, that was our Killpatrick Ian McLendon picked up Watson.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 13: Anything, they're bringing him in now, they say this. Watson

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denies the hit and run. Jones will check his car

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over then.

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Speaker 5: We'll know a little more. There's not much we can do.

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Speaker 12: We hear from Benson on the Santa Monica think, well

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maybe there is What's that We got two leads.

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Speaker 5: We can hope one of them is right.

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Speaker 4: While waiting for the call from Mark Benson at HP

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Ben and I drove over to the police garage on

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South figure Ona. Wilfrid Watson's car had been impounded and

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Lee Jones had made his investigation. His findings eliminated Watson's

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thirty four to Ford as being the hit and run car.

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Investigations showed that Watson's car was involved in an accident,

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but this was five days prior to the killing of

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the two women pedestrians.

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Speaker 5: Wilfrid E.

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Speaker 4: Watson was booked to the Fresno authorities for prosecution on

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their warrant. This left only the one lead, the red

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headed boy who had dyed his hair. If Agnes Hastings

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observations had been correct. The fact that the boy originally

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had blonde hair made him a possible suspect.

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Speaker 5: Eleven a m.

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Speaker 4: The information from DMV came through from Sacramento. The car

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was registered to a Calvin L. Martin sixteen Boardwalk Lane,

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Santa Monica. The car was a nineteen thirty nine Dodge

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Sedan legal. The same sixteen boardwalk lane was a small

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beach house facing out on the Pacific Ocean in the

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town of Santa Monica.

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Speaker 5: Eleven twenty six a m. We arrived in front of

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the house. This is at number sixteen. Yeah, alright, let's

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go up on the porch. I don't see anybody around.

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Looks like nobody's Oh well, let's try the bell. Well,

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I guess you're right. Nobody home. Yeah, let's check the garage. Huh. Alright,

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around the side, isn't it. Yeah?

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Speaker 12: I had that's right there.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, padlock.

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Speaker 12: Uh uh, maybe there's a window around the side. Yeah,

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come in, Joe, alright, wind is kind of dirty. Uh,

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wipe it awful at all?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's better. Huh. Can you see anything? Take a look,

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you know, I see? Yeah, looks like a thirty four

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to ford to me, notice a left front fender. Uh,

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it's pretty badly dented, isn't it. Mm, looks like we're home.

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Speaker 12: Maybe I don't like to get a closer look. They

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young kid got out of a car out front. Looks

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like a red head from a clo.

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Speaker 15: Hi.

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Speaker 5: You men want something, police officers?

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Speaker 9: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Do you live here? Yes?

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Speaker 3: I do.

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Speaker 9: What's wrong?

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Speaker 5: What's your name?

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Speaker 9: Louis Martin?

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Speaker 5: Who is Calvin L. Martin? My father? Why does he

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on a nineteen thirty nine Dodge? Yeah, that's right?

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Speaker 9: Anything wrong?

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Speaker 5: Whose car is that down in the garage there?

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Speaker 9: Belongs to a friend of mine? I just let him

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keep it in there?

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Speaker 5: What's his name? Jesse? Yeah? What? Jesse? What?

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Speaker 9: Jesse Armstrong?

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Speaker 5: Where does he live?

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Speaker 9: All run Venice Boulevard?

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Speaker 5: What's the number?

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Speaker 9: I don't know offhand?

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Speaker 5: And you let him park his car here in your garage?

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You don't know where he lives?

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Speaker 15: Well, I know, but I just can't think of it.

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I don't understand what's wrong? You got a key to

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the garage, No, Jesse's got it. You don't keep a

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key to your own garage?

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Speaker 9: No, I let Jesse keep it.

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Speaker 5: You always had red hair? Sure? Why? Red on top

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of blind at the roots? Is that it?

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Speaker 9: I wish you'd tell me what's going on?

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Speaker 5: No, ar'mstrung? You tell us, well, what's a joke?

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Speaker 10: Alright, alright, let's hold it right here?

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Speaker 7: I didn't do.

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Speaker 5: Well? How about it? Son? That's the second time you

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tried to run, now, isn't it?

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Speaker 9: How'd you find me?

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Speaker 15: Who told you you wanna tell us about it. I

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didn't mean to hit those two women. I was coming

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home from up in La. I was late, and I

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was trying to hurry to get home. I didn't see

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him until it was too late.

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Speaker 5: Why didn't you stop? Why'd you run?

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Speaker 9: I was afraid. I just couldn't face it.

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Speaker 5: I thought I could get away with it. I guess.

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Speaker 9: I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do it.

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Speaker 5: Do you know those two old women died as a

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result of you running him down?

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Speaker 9: No, I didn't know they'd die.

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Speaker 5: All right, come on, son, let's go.

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Speaker 9: I didn't really mean to do it. I'll tell everybody

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I'm sorry.

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Speaker 5: I am sorry.

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Speaker 9: That'll make a difference on it.

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Speaker 5: You kill two people? You figured.

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Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true. Only the

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names were changed to protect the innocent.

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Speaker 3: On December seventeenth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department

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eighty one, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.

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In a moment the results of that trial, the suspect,

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Lewis T. Martin, was found guilty of manslaughter. He was

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sentenced to one year in the county jail and was

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placed on probation for five years. You have just heard Dragnet,

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a series of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice

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comes from the Office of Chief of Police W. H. Parker,

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Los Angeles Police Department.

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Speaker 2: Fatima Cigarettes, best of all, Long Cigarettes, has brought you Dragnet.

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Transcribed from Los Angeles.

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Speaker 5: Stay tuned for Counterspy next over most NBC stations.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. It's an interesting episode that highlights the challenge

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of trying to be a fugitive while remaining in the

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same place. And our suspect just made so many mistakes

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that gave himself away. A boy dying his hair red

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in this era would stand out a lot more than

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a blonde boy who looked like the vague description of

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the suspect. And then, of course you had the car,

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which was a dead giveaway. And there might have been

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some things he could have done to mitigate that, like

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wait a few weeks to get it fixed, but then

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he'd have a risk of people noticing he was walking,

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and then he was probably done for as soon as

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he left the the accident and decided to try and

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go about his life as if nothing had happened, with

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a few modifications that just made him stand out like

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a sore thumb. Well, now it's time to thank our

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Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to thank

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Jim and Rachel, Patreon supporter since March twenty sixteen, currently

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support and that will do it for today. If you're

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Thursday with another episode of Dragnet. But join us back

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here tomorrow for yours truly.

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Speaker 6: Johnny Dollar ware, can you come down ahead of Lake

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City mister Dollar right away? Well, it depends.

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Speaker 2: What's it all about? I?

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Speaker 5: I Andrew.

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Speaker 6: Well, don't you know he's the man who founded Lake

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City a door. He's dead, mister Dollar.

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Speaker 10: Or rather he isn't it.

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Speaker 6: Well, that is to say, he died, mister Dollar, about

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five years ago, and well in due time, of course,

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we paid off the claim on his life insurance policy

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fifty five thousand dollars. Everything in order and perfectly all right.

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Speaker 4: Well but now, oh oh.

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Speaker 6: No, mister Dollar, you just won't believe it unless you

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come here and see for yourself.

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Speaker 9: Oh, don't believe what.

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Speaker 6: Ian McAndrews has come back, either he or his his

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ghost has come back here.

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Speaker 5: Oh no, no, it's true.

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Speaker 6: It's absolutely true. Sir, Ian McAndrews is haunting Lake City.

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So please come as quickly as you can.

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Speaker 1: Hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, send

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your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net,

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This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.