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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from

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Speaker 2: Hold.

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Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we

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are going to bring you this week's episode of Adventure Ahead.

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enjoying the podcast, please follow the podcast using your favorite

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check out our other podcast and this week I'm highlighting

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the amazing world of radio. This is a fade. It

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contains the summer series that have been voted on by

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including a recent summer series such as the Summer of

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dot info. Now this episode is being cross posted on

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particular episode really could fit in with that podcast, and

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rather than a Sunday encore on the Great Detectives feed,

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I did want to this week highlight what we're doing

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on the Great Adventurers podcast, and for the rest of

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the year, we are featuring an anthology series on Tuesday

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called Adventure Ahead. And this was a series that was

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advertised as targeted towards young people, really seem to be

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more young men, with various tales of adventure and coming

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of age stories. Some of them are still quite well known,

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while others have faded into obscurity. And we will be

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playing these until we go on our holiday break. Can

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We'll wait to start Tarzan until we get into the

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new year, since the first months of Tarzan will be

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serialized episodes, and I'm trying to minimize the number of

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breaks that I take now. This particular episode of Adventure

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Ahead is inspired by a non fiction book called Inside

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the FBI. The original air to eight August twenty sixth,

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nineteen forty four. Let's go ahead and take a.

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Speaker 3: Lesson what do you say live by the Federal Bureau

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of Investigation in solving crimes and protecting the safety of

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our nation and our home.

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Speaker 4: Okay, tell me this is it, at least one part

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of it.

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Speaker 5: FBI laboratory some pleasure, right, say, what's that fell over there?

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Speaker 6: Doing him?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 7: He's running a blood analysis, Tommy, What for? I'm going

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to hear that a hundred times this afternoon. So suppose

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we do this. Let's reconstruct an imaginary crime. Then as

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we go through the various laboratories, try to work out

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the solution from what we see.

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Speaker 4: Now, what sort of a story would you like to hear?

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Speaker 8: Well, my daddy says that now with the war on

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and all, any criminal here at home is an enemy

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of our country.

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Speaker 4: Your dad's right, Tommy.

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Speaker 8: Maybe we want to trap a couple of leterists.

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Speaker 7: Oh and you, we'd have to have at least one

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killing to satisfy you. All right, then let's start with

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this blood analysis.

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Speaker 8: What's blood analysis have to do with solving crimes?

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Speaker 7: Suppose we're trying to trap a ring of big time criminals.

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They're stealing cattle, shipping at east and selling it under cover.

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They're nationwide operators, Tommy. Since the FBI has ruined bank

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robbing and kidnapping, they've been forced to try a new.

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Speaker 8: Angles jeepers an outfit, huh, quite an outfit.

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Speaker 7: And let's suppose that the whole thing started somewhere in Texas.

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The sheriff has been out to one of the largest

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branches in his town.

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Speaker 4: Man. Oh, and they've been moved, not been moving on

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drilled right between the eye. Yep.

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Speaker 7: Ol Man didn't have a chance. Somebody pugged him just

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as he opened the door.

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Speaker 4: Any idea who might have done it? Slim Saunders was

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around this way a couple of days ago. Saunders, I

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thought he was in prison. Was but he's out now.

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Speaker 9: Mm.

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Speaker 10: Bullet went clean through the old man up around the summer.

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Let's see shots fired up front? Here, should have pot

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in the back wall?

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Speaker 4: Ah?

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Speaker 6: Here she is that?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, steel jacket from twenty five thirty five. I think

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Speaker 4: I Slim hold up?

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, oh, howdy, sheriff, what brings you up this away?

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Speaker 4: Murderer? Well that's so who you Slim?

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Speaker 2: Sure enough? Who'd I kill?

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Speaker 4: Old man Tuttle?

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Speaker 2: Now, Sheriff? Why did I want to kill the turtle?

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Speaker 4: You and him had words, didn't they?

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Speaker 2: We're sure we had words. I have words with lots

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of people, but I don't kill them.

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Speaker 4: And you're a pretty good shot, ain't you.

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Speaker 2: I guess somebody as good as the next man with

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a rifle.

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Speaker 4: Always use a wind chest of twenty five thirty.

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Speaker 2: Five for about three years. Now, I ain't use nothing else.

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Speaker 4: Hey, how about that blood on your Levi's.

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Speaker 2: It's from a wildcat I killed about a week ago. Hey,

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sureff did you get that shot?

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Speaker 10: Eh?

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Speaker 2: Now that that's a twenty five thirty five or I'll

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eat it. Let's go a heavy look, Hidio, boyn't you?

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Harry is sheriff cat the stars and wrangler for old

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Man Tuddle.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, hey there, Cacters, Hold up there, hid of sheriff.

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Speaker 10: H see a riffle cacus for sure? Twenty five thirty five?

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Speaker 4: Man? Yeah, taking in cacus.

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Speaker 10: Maybe you can tell us something about the murder the

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old man Tuttle, Old man murdered.

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Speaker 4: That's right. Well, who'd want to do a thing like that?

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Speaker 10: Slim Characters tells a pretty convincing sturry. Well, your iron

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is pretty weak. Now, there was a trail of blood

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where old man Turtle was dragged because the porge, and

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there was blood on your LEVI.

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Speaker 2: And I told you a dozen times, Sheriff it was.

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It was from a wildcat I killed about a week ago.

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Speaker 4: It's funny he didn't have no hide in your pack.

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Speaker 2: I killed him because he was stalking a yearl in

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the mine and knocked the skin. And that's a truth,

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Jerry FBI said. The whole thing I got to be

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hearing sometime today.

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Speaker 4: What's fb I got to do with it?

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Speaker 10: I sent your levis to him, along with yours and

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characters rivals, several cartridges.

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Speaker 2: Or you see, Tommy.

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Speaker 7: That brings us right back to that piece of cloth

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you were asking about. The chemist was able to tell

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us in a minute that the blood on Slim's levies

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was not human but wildcat.

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Speaker 8: Maybe so, but he could have killed oldland.

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Speaker 4: Hall, that's right.

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Speaker 7: So we had to go a little further and find

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out which gun fired the shot?

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Speaker 8: How could you do that?

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Speaker 2: With his s gadget right over here?

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Speaker 7: That microscope not an ordinary ones, but we call a

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comparison microscope.

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Speaker 8: What's it do?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I put a bullet in this side, another bullet

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Speaker 8: Alu uh huh, I see him now?

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Speaker 4: I turned this s gadget right here.

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Speaker 8: What happens now there's only one bullet.

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Speaker 7: That's where you're wrong, Tommy. It looks like one bullet.

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Actually you're seeing half of both bullets.

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Speaker 8: Both has looked the same.

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Speaker 7: How you getting it. Those bullets were fired from the

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same gun. Only bullets fired from the same gun will

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match exactly.

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Speaker 8: So that's how you knew whose gun did the killing.

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Speaker 4: That's how. Of course, as soon as we knew, we

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wired the sheriff.

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Speaker 10: All right, men, is that telegram from the FBI. Now,

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let's see what's what m hm staying pins murder bullet

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fired from.

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Speaker 4: I guess that settles it.

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Speaker 10: There was wildcat blood, A murdered gun belongs to cactus.

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Speaker 4: What's that? All right? Cactus? You can't prove nothing. I

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don't have to. The FBI has already done it. Start talking.

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It was self defense, sheriffs, so help me. It was

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about three days ago.

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Speaker 11: A couple of city fellows offered me two hundred dollars

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of outsort. I keep an eye on the old man,

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not just to make sure he kept to the ranch house.

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If the old man stirred, I was to give a

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coyote house a signal. I was just sitting in the

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saddle about fifty yards in front of the ranch house.

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Speaker 4: There wasn't no moon out.

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Speaker 2: They're not horse oh out there, big up I got.

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Speaker 4: The old man was a dead shot. I know I'd

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have to beat him to the drawer. Mighty cheap killing

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a man, but two hundred dollars, Cactus, I didn't aim

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to kill him, shelf.

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Speaker 10: Pretty good aim and just the same real tetrap between

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the eyes. I suppose that city what is was wrestling

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the old man's cattle. I guess so sure, and darn

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well I was. I got no more use for a

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murderer than I have for restless. After I lock you up, Cactus,

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I guess i'd better.

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Speaker 4: Have a look.

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Speaker 2: Not much to go on, char I.

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Speaker 10: Don't know about that, slim. I see, I've been right

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smart interested in this. Here half the eye, for instance,

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half the eye. Man, take a close look at them

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tire tracks?

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Speaker 4: Now what kind of tracks would you say they was?

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't say now it was a cattle brand. I

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could spot it in a minute.

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Speaker 10: He's using a big truck ten wheel job. It can

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look quite a few yearlings. And one of them back

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right through a fence post too. You can see what

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a paint scraped off?

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Speaker 2: What you doing now picking up a few pieces of glass?

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I wonder where that came from.

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Speaker 10: I wouldn't be at all surprised when it comes from

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a busted tail light let's go back to car.

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Speaker 8: Why the your father was picking up a few little

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pieces of.

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Speaker 4: Glass, Those were mighty important pieces. Tommy. You see this

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display over here.

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Speaker 8: Oh my cow, look at the head white.

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Speaker 4: Lenses sample from every car made. Tommy.

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Speaker 7: See we fit pieces of broken lenses together and compare

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them with these.

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Speaker 2: When we match them up, we know the year end

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model of the car were after.

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Speaker 7: Now, let's assume that the sheriff sent us those tale

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like pieces.

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Speaker 2: We found out that they belonged to a red ten

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Ton International.

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Speaker 8: Even know the color all sure, the paint that scraped

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off on the fence post.

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Speaker 4: You see how it all fits together.

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Speaker 2: Besides, the sheriff.

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Speaker 7: Had another clue the kind of tires that truck carried. Now,

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as general rule, the FBI would have stopped there. But

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since this case we're imagining looked like rustling, we would

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have figured that the wrestlers were stealing the beef for

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transport to eastern States. So chances are a few days

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later the sheriff would Sheriff Croquett.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, David's an FBI. Oh to young fella, you find

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that truck yead? Here's we did.

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Speaker 9: We have a pretty good idea who made off of

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old Man Tuttle's kettle.

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Speaker 4: I'd you figure that this job was.

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Speaker 9: Planned by a well organized mob run by Frank O'Connell.

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Speaker 4: Used to be bootlegger in the old days.

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Speaker 9: Now he's operating in stolen beef, counterfeit and stolen Russian

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books and bootleg alcohol.

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Speaker 4: What made you so sure this O'Connell was in this

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wrestling business?

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Speaker 9: Well, the truck was driven by one of O'Connell's trigger men,

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Lympey Smith. He and another of O'Connell's robby's.

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Speaker 4: Drove the truck.

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Speaker 9: How'd you know fingerprints were plastered all over the cab

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Speaker 8: Jeebus? You mean you could have found the truck that quick?

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Speaker 9: Sure?

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Speaker 4: Tell me it wouldn't have been much job.

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Speaker 7: We knew we were looking for a nineteen thirty nine

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red ten ton internationally, and we knew exactly what kind

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of tires it had. There could have been only one

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truck that fitted our description perfectly.

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Speaker 8: But how did you find the guys that drove the truck?

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Speaker 4: Temmy, I'm afraid you're not listening very closely.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 8: I know you said their fingerprints were plastered all over

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the cab, But how could you tell whose prints they were.

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Speaker 7: We would have just sticked them against our fingerprint file

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here at FBI headquarters until we found the ones that match.

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Speaker 8: Is the file very big?

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Speaker 7: I guess there must be about ninety one million sets

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of prints on fire.

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Speaker 8: Ninety one million. Cow, you have to go through all

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of them?

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Speaker 7: Really not such a job, Tommy. Ever seen an old

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fashioned player piano?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 8: Sure, Grandma has one. I play it all the time.

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Speaker 4: You know how the rolls are punched, uh.

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Speaker 8: Huh, sort of like a conductor punches a train ticket,

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only more holes.

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Speaker 7: Fingerprint information is punched on a card, something like that.

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Then we run them through this machine.

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Speaker 8: How does this thing work?

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Speaker 4: See all those.

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Speaker 7: Little steel fingers, uh huh, hey they need that's right.

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I'm setting them to di select cards. Punch one certain way. Oh,

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I turn it on. See see how those little steel

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fingers sort of feel each other.

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Speaker 5: How about that it throws the card into this little

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That's right, No steel fingers haven't found any holes that

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match the way they're said. Fair, See that they court

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the little steel finger court right those holes? Now, hey,

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the right card went into a different slot, right.

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Speaker 2: That may be the very card we're looking for now

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we'll turn it off. It's Tommy.

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Speaker 7: This machine right here has sent thousands of criminals up

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for life just by selecting.

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Speaker 2: A fingerprint card that same way.

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Speaker 7: Every once in a while, those hulams probably looked their

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fingers and say, if you hadn't snitched on me, I

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wouldn't be here.

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Speaker 8: So that's how you found out who'd rolled the rustler's truck.

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Speaker 4: That's how we would have done it.

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Speaker 2: What happened to the cattle, Well, we'll assume that it

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was shipped east Coorse.

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Speaker 7: Couple of FBI men would have followed it, because we'd

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have known that sooner or later we'd catched the big shot.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, the big shot. You said this was gonna be

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a big king uh huh.

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Speaker 2: But of course we wouldn't want to lose track the

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guys who drove the truck, would we?

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Speaker 8: Heck, no, what you reckon? They would have done after that?

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Speaker 2: What spools?

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Speaker 7: They met up with two other characters who had also

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been step in the liquor racket back in for a

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vision days.

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Speaker 8: But what would they be up to?

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Speaker 2: We wouldn't know it first.

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Speaker 4: We just have to wait.

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Speaker 7: Maybe this time local police officials would stumble onto something

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that would give us a clue.

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Speaker 11: All right, Doc, what's the story. This man is employed

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as night watching at the Morris Building.

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Speaker 4: Morris Building night Watch, that's.

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Speaker 11: The building anywhere This man was shot while stepping in

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his car afterward? Where was his car parked in an

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alley reserved for parking space and building employees and tenants?

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Speaker 12: You got the slug that's removed it from the man's leg.

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M Nicol Jagget At twenty two. You say the man

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was struck in the inner part of his thighs right

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bullet took a shot downward courts Wow, ending shot was

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fired from above?

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Speaker 4: Is this the kind of gun you haven't mind, Captain?

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Speaker 7: Yes, mister da it was just such a gun that

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fired the bullet. I'll have a comparison shot made with this.

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Speaker 13: And save yourself the trouble, Captain. That could not possibly

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be the gun?

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Speaker 4: No, why not?

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Speaker 13: Because that gun belongs to the wounded man. We found

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it locked in the glove compartment of his car. Well,

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old man, looks like we've solved our case.

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Speaker 14: You mean you caught a man who shot me?

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Speaker 4: I think so.

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Speaker 13: But the defense is working up a pretty strong case.

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They're going to intimate that you might have carried a

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gun for your own protection.

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Speaker 14: Oh, that's ridiculous. You know, the company forbids me to

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carry a gun.

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Speaker 13: I don't say you could have carried a gun inside

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your shirt and held it in place with your belt.

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Speaker 14: But U proof, man, they can't prove a thing like that.

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Speaker 13: Well, suppose you had carried a gun that way, and

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suppose in stepping into your car, the trigger had caught

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in your clothing and was pulled, the bullet would have

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clowed down your leg.

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Speaker 15: You mean they're going to try to prove I shot myself. Oh,

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that's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard.

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Speaker 13: Ridiculous or not, it could have happened if the gun

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had a long ball like this one.

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Speaker 14: That would mastery. Hen Never that gun belost to me,

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I know.

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Speaker 13: But fear of an investigation as to why you were

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carrying a concealed weapon might have kept you from the

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circumstances of the shooting.

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Speaker 15: It might have, yes, but we would believe a crazy

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story like that.

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Speaker 13: Oh, most any jury, you see, a ballistics expert has

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proved that this is the guilty gun.

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Speaker 4: Oh you see, Tommy.

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Speaker 7: Again we turned to the comparison microscope, and again the

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microscope found the guilty man.

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Speaker 8: But why would this guy have shot himself?

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Speaker 7: Well, maybe the two fellows who drove the truck might

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have had some idea of robbing a bank, so they

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bribed this night watchman to let them into the second

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floor that building.

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Speaker 4: See Tommy's First National Banks on the ground floor.

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Speaker 7: Oh and maybe our friend took a gun along, just

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in case the racketeers tried to double cross him.

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Speaker 2: Then he accidentally shot himself.

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Speaker 7: Was afraid that an investigation would tie him up with

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the robber, so he might have tried to make out

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like someone else had done the shooting cheaper crooks.

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Speaker 8: You just don't have a chance, do they.

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Speaker 4: I'm afraid they don't, Tommy. Sooner or later, the law

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always catches up with them. And Tommy.

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Speaker 7: While it's true g men are especially trained to collect

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evidence and apprehend criminals, even shooting out with him when necessary,

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there are times when these g men most depend on

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their ingenuity alone the crack the case. Well, let's bring

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another stolen car in our case.

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Speaker 8: You mean a stolen car to fit into this case.

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Wehe're imagine it absolutely.

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Speaker 7: Now we've traced this stolen car across a couple of

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state lines, and we suspect that the man we want

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is in a little cabin in the mountains. But this

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time we'd have to take it easy because the regular

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raid would have.

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Speaker 2: Caused a lot of unnecessary shooting, maybe killing.

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Speaker 7: Well, that would mean we'd need a special agent was

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pretty familiar with that part of the country, a man

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who knew how to talk to people's language, so he

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might be able to get our man without firework. The

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man was strictly on his own, just had to depend

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on plain old horse sense. So early one morning, this

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ga man set out alone up the steep trail that

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led to a lonesome dwelling. Presently he came to a

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weather beaten shack.

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Speaker 4: He opened the door.

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Speaker 7: There, inside he found an old mountaineer seated near an

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ashfield fireplace.

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Speaker 6: Your god, min man, ain't you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're a judge's father, ain't you.

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Speaker 4: That's right?

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Speaker 6: I'm Judge Pepping. You ain't gonna take him?

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Speaker 2: You're right, he ain't here, so I can't take him.

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Somebody play that fiddle around here.

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Speaker 16: Sure I do myself, and folks say I'm the best fidder.

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But tricks here, nay, Phil.

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Speaker 2: You don't say. I used to feel a little bit myself,

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looks like a mighty good violin in mind, if I look.

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Speaker 6: At it, sure pick it up, love and do he plenty.

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That's pretty. I never heard that one before.

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Speaker 16: Well, strangers, that dog the first class settling. Maybe have

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to buy the viddle you play some more. I never

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know there was so much music in that old fiddle before.

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Speaker 2: Well, I gotta be getting back.

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Speaker 17: How about Jed? You want him, don't you? No, I

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don't want him. The government wants him. You know how

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it is when the government wants a man may take

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days or months or years to get him.

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Speaker 2: Longer it takes, or worse off of is.

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Speaker 6: A Let me here, a stranger, I reckon, you're all right.

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I like the way you talk, and I like the

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way your fiddle.

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Speaker 16: I'll help get at the Shere's office tomorrow noon noon tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Well, so long ago, land.

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Speaker 8: Gee, I mean you could have nabbed him use like that,

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just like that.

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Speaker 7: Thought me, without firing a shot, all because that team

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man used Blaine old horse hands. Besides, by making friends

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with Jed's father, he was able to get quite a

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bit of information.

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Speaker 8: You mean you could have got the goods on the

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whole gang.

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Speaker 7: Well, maybe not the whole gang, but not enough to

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know definitely that everything was planned by one mob.

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Speaker 4: The cattle rustling, the attempted bank robbery.

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Speaker 8: Everything Frank o'connelly could have been.

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Speaker 7: At least we'll presume that all the men we'd watched

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so far had worked for O'Connell at one time.

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Speaker 8: I mean, why didn't you nab O'Connell.

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Speaker 4: We hadn't completed our case.

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Speaker 8: Wow, this case is getting bigger and bigger.

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Speaker 4: For instance, we might have had to call on that

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gentleman over there.

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Speaker 8: Why what's he doing?

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Speaker 7: He's taking a clue under a comparison microscope. Here, take

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a look at this display.

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Speaker 6: What are they?

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Speaker 7: Here's tommy hairs from different animals, as well as a

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collection of slides showing twenty eight distinct shades of human hair.

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This is known as the heir and fiber section.

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Speaker 8: Does it have something to do with our case?

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Speaker 4: Well, let's see if it does.

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Speaker 7: Let's suppose in our crooks, like all crooks, finally ran

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up against the wrong man. A few days later, local

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police officials found a murder on their hands. It happened

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in a small filling station just on the edge of town.

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After two days of exhaustive search. The officer in charge

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of the investigation reported to his superior.

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Speaker 4: Got anything on that filling station murder sergeant.

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Speaker 15: And not a clue, Captain, No finger prints, no footprints

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worth checking.

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Speaker 14: The murderer wore rope soles for shoes.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 15: Apparently he just walked in, stuck a knife and the

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old man and cleared out.

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Speaker 7: Or it's fine, just dandy reckon. The old man was

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tied up in black market gasoline.

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Speaker 14: Not a chance.

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Speaker 15: Why just the other day he chased the fell out

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of his place and try to peddle some coupons to him.

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Speaker 4: You say someone did try to sell him coupons.

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Speaker 15: That's what I was told. The old man's a stickler

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for honesty, so he chases a guy. Hey, wait a minute,

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what didn't I think of that before?

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Speaker 4: Hello? Yes, oh, in his left hand? Huh? Nothing else?

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Speaker 7: Okay, Gardner's office found a couple of hairs in the

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old man's left hand.

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Speaker 14: He chief, I just thought of it.

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Speaker 15: The old man tossed out the last guy and tried

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to pump gas coupons on him.

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Speaker 14: Now suppose the same guy tried again.

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Speaker 7: Hey, he might have gotten pretty hot, threatened this guy

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and a guy knife's him.

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Speaker 4: It's a good guess.

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Speaker 7: Fine, who tried to sell him those gas coupons?

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Speaker 17: I tell you you, guy's got nothing on men't we Now?

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Speaker 7: Would you be interested to know you're booked for murder?

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Speaker 2: Fat chance? Where's your proof?

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Speaker 4: So it's proof you want to Anderson? Remember that filling

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station killing last week?

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Speaker 2: Why about it?

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Speaker 4: Just this about it?

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Speaker 7: The murdered man tangled with his assailant just before he

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got a knife in his ribs, and a couple of

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hairs got caught in a ring he wore on his

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left hand.

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Speaker 4: Very interesting. So now you've got a couple of hairs.

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Speaker 7: You wanted proof, Anderson, you're carrying it under your hat.

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The hairs in the hand of the murdered man match

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yours exactly. That's what the hair in fiber section has

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to do with our case, Tommy.

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Speaker 8: They pinned a murder rap on Anderson with just a

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couple of hands.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Matt would have just about sewed up our case

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except for one thing. What was that O'Connell tried to

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drop from sight entirely?

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Speaker 8: How could he do that?

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Speaker 7: He couldn't, but maybe he thought he could. Let's suppose

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that he tried to dodge fingerprint identification. You see, Tommy,

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skin corrugations on the fingers appear about three months before birth,

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and they never vary.

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Speaker 4: The criminal knows this.

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Speaker 7: O'Connell knew it, but suppose, like all criminals, he tried

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to convince himself that in his case, nature would make

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an exception.

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Speaker 4: All right, o'conna, let's remove the bandages and have a

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look at those fingers.

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Speaker 9: Now, the sweet surprise the Feds will get when they

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check my new fingerprints.

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Speaker 4: You know, kind of this works. It will be the

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first time.

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Speaker 9: What do you mean work, it's got to.

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Speaker 4: No man's fingerprints have ever been changed by an operation.

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Speaker 9: All right, come on, get those bandages off, Doc.

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Speaker 4: Oh, okay, that's a ticket.

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Speaker 9: No fingerprints, Well, can't even Hey, Doc, look at that

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finger and that one.

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Speaker 4: I told you it wouldn't work. O'Connell, Your fingerprints.

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Speaker 10: Are coming back just as they were before I operated.

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Speaker 8: Even in operation, didn't change his fingerprints.

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Speaker 7: No, Tommy fingerprints cannot be changed. Acid burns, surgery, nothing

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affects him for long. That's why the ninety one million prints.

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Speaker 4: That we have on file here at the FBI the.

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Speaker 2: Biggest man trap ever devised.

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Speaker 8: Wow, what I connall do.

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Speaker 2: After that, O'Connell went back to his old hideout. But

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we already had that spotted then to clean up the case.

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Of course, we would have planned to attack at night.

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Speaker 7: Let's imagine that shortly after midnight the lead car drew

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up a short distance from the Highland.

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Speaker 11: All right, man, we blocked all roads. There's no chance

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for him to escape. Have you guns ready? All cachhape

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were for him.

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Speaker 4: All right? You inside there, My.

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Speaker 16: House is around it.

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Speaker 2: Come out with your hands up.

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Speaker 4: They hurt your chief, looks like we left to smoke

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him out.

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Speaker 2: Come out? Well, well, come in.

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Speaker 4: All gangs in there?

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Speaker 2: All right? Right him out? Are you all ready to

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come out yet?

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Speaker 9: Get him up here?

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Speaker 4: I guess.

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Speaker 11: Here they come one, two, three, four, five, six, Only

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six of them, Chief, there should be seven.

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Speaker 4: Wells left in there.

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Speaker 2: Then it come along.

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Speaker 4: That'nsil condo. Chief, he's upstairs.

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Speaker 11: That's why the guests didn't get him.

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Speaker 2: Give him another dose.

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Speaker 4: I will bring him out. I did it here he comes,

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watch it.

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Speaker 14: He's liable to try to shoot his way out.

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Speaker 7: Oh all right, ma'am lord.

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Speaker 4: The rest of the car.

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Speaker 11: What about O'Connell, Chief, Well, I think we'd got to

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have and the mogled morgue handle app that last class

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got him.

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Speaker 8: Gee, you almost had me believe in you there for

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a while. Sometimes I forgot this was just an imaginary case.

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Speaker 7: It wasn't as imaginary as you might think, Tommy. I

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told you a story just to connect all the things

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you saw here. Blood analysis, the work of the hair

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and fiber section, ballistics, fingerprints. We changed names and places,

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But in the FBI files are actual case histories which

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parallel the very things I've been telling you.

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Speaker 8: You mean it actually could have happened.

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Speaker 7: Yes, indeed, Tommy, it happens every day. We take a

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piece of blood stained cloth and clear one man by

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proving the stains weren't from human blood, and convict another

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by proving that his gun fired the murder bullet. We

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located a criminal's truck by identifying its make.

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Speaker 2: And model, color and tires.

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Speaker 7: We discover who drove the truck by fingerprints found in

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the cab, and finally pin a murder wrap on a

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black market operator by identifying a couple of hairs.

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Speaker 2: Going on the ring of the man he killed. And

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what do you think about that?

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Speaker 8: Oh boy, I'm gonna be a g man when I

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grow up.

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Speaker 18: Today's chapter of adventurer Ahead has taken you behind the

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scenes of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. For obvious reasons, names, dates,

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and places were purely fictitious, but the entire story was

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based on actual incidents and factual material contained in the

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book Inside the FBI by John Florida. Investigative techniques for

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those which mister Florida describes, which are used daily by

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the Department of Justice in solving crimes and safeguarding America.

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Today's chapter an Adventurerhead was adapted for radio by Howard

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Callaway and was directed by Joseph Mansfield. Music was by

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Doc Whipple. Adventurerhead is presented as a public service by

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NBC at its affiliated independent stations. This is the National

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Broadcasting Company.

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Speaker 4: Welcome Back.

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Speaker 1: A really engaging episode that serves as a good introduction

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to youthful listeners about the emerging police sciences and how

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they worked in real life investigations. The way the agent

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told the story also probably illustrated the way the shows

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writers likely compiled this story from the book, mixing details

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from different cases to form a composite case, and I

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think that it did a good job for its target

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audience by maintaining a good balance for the most part

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of action in science. Also, we learned that when recruiting

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Southern FBI agents, being a good fiddler is a useful

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job skill. In all seriousness, I think that scene was

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a nice acknowledgement of the human element in criminal investigation.

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We might even call it soft skills today, and that's

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a nice counterbalance in a story that I think is

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quite rightfully dominated by science and action. Now, I do

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want to go ahead and thank our Patreon supporter of

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