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Dead Certainty, the.
Speaker 2: Big story.
Speaker 3: You think you think because I'm an old man, I
can't hold on. Well, I'll show you.
Speaker 4: Don't hit me there again.
Speaker 2: No no doctor, Detroit, Michigan. From the pages of the
Free Press. The story of a sneaking suspicion that became
a dead Certainty Detroit, Michigan. The story is that actually happened.
Kenneth McCormick story as he lived it.
Speaker 5: You've seen it before, Ken McCormick of the Detroit Free Press.
In twenty years of reporting, you've seen it lots of times.
But somehow you've never gotten used to the look of murder,
especially violent murder. The shattered glass, the shambles of tables
and chairs, the twisted body, always the sand. And now
on this Sunday morning in the suburb of Holland Park,
as he standing in the living room of a shabby bungalow.
Now you're seeing it all over again.
Speaker 6: What a mess.
Speaker 4: I'm trying your press card.
Speaker 7: Oh hey, you are, he tried pre press. Name is
Ken McConnell. I'm Captain WALTSH Hallen Parker.
Speaker 4: Take it for you. How do you do car meke? Huh?
You're the guy that got the Pulletzer prize a few
years ago. Oh you have a good memory, Captain. What's
the dead man's name? Bradway? George F.
Speaker 3: Bradway, aged sixty nine, working in the candy factory. Looks
like he took quite a beating.
Speaker 4: What did I have?
Speaker 3: Broken ribs, probably punctured his lungs at the curt around
midnight last night, reported early this morning.
Speaker 4: Anything else you want to know where I'd like to
get an interview with his family. He can't. He hasn't
got any one of the neighbors founded party. See what
do you think the motive was robbery?
Speaker 3: What else?
Speaker 4: Look at the joint?
Speaker 7: Someone sure took it apart. But this bungalow captain of
furnishing the way it's kept what I mean it?
Speaker 4: It doesn't look like the old guy had much to
be robbed of.
Speaker 3: Somebody must have thought he had.
Speaker 4: What about all these muddy tracks on the floor. Who
knows anyone could have made them, even Radway himself. I
hate this kind of case.
Speaker 3: You know why?
Speaker 4: Why? Because the motive is too broad to him? Personal robbery.
Speaker 3: Any one of five thousand bums are Foodlum's could have
bust in beating up the occupant friends I could.
Speaker 4: Joint and cleared up. I hate this kind of it.
Who was the neighbor captain, you know, the one who
found the body?
Speaker 3: Oh, missus Florence Kemper. She and her husband were good
friends of Radway. House is on the next street. Back
to back with this when you can see a corner
of it through the trees. Well, I think I'll go
over and talk to her when you're wasting your time.
Speaker 4: We already got her style. At least I can get
her picture.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, that's what I envy about your newspaper guys.
You take a picture, you write a little copy, and
as far as you're concerned, that's the end of it.
Speaker 4: I don't know, Captain. Sometimes it's just the beginning.
Speaker 5: You wait for Frank Harmon, you're a photographer, to take
his shots of the murdency, and then the two of
you start out for missus Kemper's.
Speaker 4: You take a short cut that leads to.
Speaker 5: The back lots from Radway's bungalow, and you've only gone
about sixty yards when you see it.
Speaker 4: Frank, look over here alongside the path. How you see that? Yeah?
Speaker 8: I see it?
Speaker 4: So what I look at? The color grayish ten very
expect Genda. Well, don't you remember those tracks in the bundlow?
Speaker 3: Unless I'm color blind, this stuff matches perfectly.
Speaker 4: See you're right, and look there right in the middle
of it. Yeah, it's like maybe part of a footprint.
Speaker 5: You go on to the neighbor's house and a few
minutes later you and Frank Harmon are sitting in the
neat little kitchen talking with missus Kempler, and she feels
potatoes for Sunday dinner. You're try not to notice the
little trample.
Speaker 4: In her hands.
Speaker 9: You see, My husband and I knew the Radways for years,
ever since his wife died. George, that's mister Radways took
most of his meals with us. It's like one of
the family. Why it was such a shock, You understand, missus,
how I came to go over there this morning to
call him to breakfast.
Speaker 10: Then they used to come over with his own accord.
Speaker 9: Mostly, yes, mister Harmon, But this morning we were up
earlier than usual, mister Kemperor couldn't sleep.
Speaker 4: There is your husband around now, maybe we could talk
to him.
Speaker 9: No, no, heralds is dealer on the clock church services. Besides,
he wasn't there with me at the bungalow. Oh you
were alone, Yes, knock on the back door with many answers.
Then I looked through the window right away I knew
something terrible has happened.
Speaker 11: I could see the place all topsy turban, and mister
Redway lying there.
Speaker 7: Oh pit, and then you came back here and you
phoned the police, missus Campber, would you mind if I
took a few pictures of it, you know, just sitting
here in your kitchen sort of?
Speaker 6: Why? Yes, I wouldn't mind if you need the.
Speaker 4: Fine, Just hold it like that, all right? That?
Speaker 10: Who are then? What are they doing here?
Speaker 6: It's all right.
Speaker 4: Held away from the Detroit Free Press, mister Campbell.
Speaker 10: We just wanted what.
Speaker 12: You wants, Genie. Anyway, you've got no regard for people's feelings,
taking pictures, asking questions.
Speaker 6: It's all right, Harold. They don't mean any harm.
Speaker 10: It's all your fault to begin with. I told you, Florence.
I told you we shouldn't have reported.
Speaker 6: It, but we had to.
Speaker 10: I found the body.
Speaker 12: Someone else would have founded them, someone else could have
made the report.
Speaker 10: But no, you wouldn't listen. Now, it's just like I said,
police and report is swarming all over.
Speaker 6: I don't mind so much. Harold kind of relieved me
to talk to Maybe you'd feel better too.
Speaker 13: I don't want to talk to nobody. My best friend
just died. I got some feelings, even if you're only talk.
Speaker 4: Ah, I'm sorry. Yeah, he didn't intend to excuse me.
Speaker 6: He didn't mean he doesn't know what he's saying. You're
sure we do understand.
Speaker 5: The two of you leave, Frank goes back to the
office with his pictures, and as Captain Walks said, that's
the end of it. But somehow, Kenneth McCormick, you don't
want to drop this story, not yet, so just for
the record, you decide to check with the rest of
Redway's neighbors.
Speaker 14: Well, now, come to think of it, there why someone
looked mighty suspicious stranger hung around the neighborhood outside of
the afternoon.
Speaker 3: Help to say.
Speaker 6: I did see him. I even came here. He was
a window washer, but I knew it was funny. He
was wearing a good brown suit.
Speaker 4: That's right, a brown suit, dark hair, medium height, and
a pretty heavy boot. Was trying to get in that
bungalow in the worst way. Come back three or four times.
Speaker 3: It was dark. Thanks McCormick. But we already know about
this window washer, the dragon. It's been out for two hours.
Speaker 4: You really think he did it, Captain?
Speaker 3: How bet on it?
Speaker 4: He's our man, all right? If we can find him
with my luck.
Speaker 3: That's a question.
Speaker 5: The suspects description is fairly complete, but you wonder if
perhaps Missus Kempers saw him too and could supply a
few more details. So once again you visit the little
frame house. This time Arrow Kempus stays in the room.
He doesn't say much until his wife starts to answer
your question about the stranger.
Speaker 6: I know, mister McCormick, I don't remember it.
Speaker 10: Yes, there was someone.
Speaker 4: I saw him, You did, mister Kemper.
Speaker 12: Yes, it was late Saturday night. I was standing near
the back window here and I happened to look over
to Georgia's place. Yeah, he had the kitchen light on.
Speaker 6: I could see this guy on the back, poorch Why Harold,
you never mentioned that to me?
Speaker 10: Well, I was too upset, that's all. I didn't think
of it.
Speaker 4: What did this man look like, mister Kemper? Could you see?
Speaker 10: Well? He was He's fund a tall and thin, wearing
a lumberjacket.
Speaker 4: But the window washer wore a brownze suit. He wasn't
tall and he wasn't thin.
Speaker 6: Why Harold, that's important? How could you forget a thing
like that? You should have told the police.
Speaker 15: First off, they.
Speaker 10: Didn't ask him all right, Like I said, it slipped
my mind.
Speaker 5: While the tempers that talking. You move casually to the
back window and look out, and it's just as you thought.
Harold Kemper couldn't possibly have seen anyone on Bradway's porch,
because from this window the bungalow is completely obscured by trees.
Speaker 4: Then one of those little.
Speaker 5: Faithful accidents happens. The pencil you've been holding in your
hand drops and rolls under the davenport. You kneel to
retrieve it, and there before your eyes is something which,
in the breath of an instant, contracts your vaconjectures to a.
Speaker 4: Steel hard core of suspicion.
Speaker 5: This is Sy Harris, returning your narrator and the big
story of Kenneth McCormick as he lived it and wrote it. You,
Kenneth McCormick of the Detroit Free Press, are kneeling by
the davenport in the Kemper's living room, and.
Speaker 4: A wild surmise is beating inside.
Speaker 5: You know, for under that davenport, obviously kicked there in
an attempt to conceal them, are several broken clouds of
grayish tan clay. You straighten up for the realization that
somehow you've got to get a sample of that clay.
The samples you can match with the tracks and a
dead man's bungalow over the campers here in this room.
Speaker 4: It's out of the question. You'll have to get rid
of them, but only for a moment. So you take
a long chance.
Speaker 5: You turned to Harold Kemper, and you begin asking questions
about Radway, about the man in the lumberjacket, question after question,
until finally.
Speaker 10: Listen, mister ive told you all I know.
Speaker 7: Are you sure, mister Kemper you forgot about the man
on the porch until tonight? Or maybe there's something else?
Speaker 10: No, no, there's nothing else. Besides, I can't stand here
talking all night. I got work to do. I got
to fix the car.
Speaker 6: The car, there's nothing.
Speaker 10: About the cast line. What do you know about that place?
Speaker 9: I'm so worried about my husband, mister McConn taking this
thing awful bad. Now we have to go to the
morgue tomorrow night at nine o'clock and identified George's body.
Harold hasn't seen him dead yet. I don't know what
he'll do.
Speaker 7: Be kind of tough for him, I guess, missus Kemper,
could I but I trouble you for agress of water?
Speaker 6: Oh, I certainly that's no trouble, just that right there.
Speaker 4: You cross quickly to the damn car, reach under, grab
some of the clay. Stop it in your pocket, and
they're just getting up one nut. Wrap your pencil again, mister, Yes,
fix your car already.
Speaker 10: I came back for a wrench.
Speaker 3: Oh well, uh, I'll.
Speaker 7: Believing no, mister Kemper. Tell your wife to never mind
about that drink of water. I don't feel thirsty anymore.
Speaker 4: Your way out and left field. McCormick.
Speaker 3: This Kemper was right away's best friend.
Speaker 1: I know that.
Speaker 3: But you found some clay in his house last night.
What does that pro Look at the samples?
Speaker 7: Now, here's some from Kemper's, some from the murder scene,
and some from the mud patch along the path, and
they're all identical.
Speaker 3: That's grayish shield color, old things that way. McCormick. Oh,
you need a third detailed lab analysis. I'll send the
stuff in. But it doesn't make any difference anyway, because
even if it is the same, Kemper could have made
those tracks at some other times. Then why did he
kick the pieces under his sofa? Why did he try
to hide? Maybe he didn't, Maybe his wife just brush
him out of the way. Oh nuts, his wife is
as neat as a pin. She'd cleaned the dirt, oup
she wouldn't push you under the furniture. And another thing,
if Kemper was such a good friend, why wouldn't he
have gone to the bungalow and tried to help Radway
after his wife came back and told what she'd seen,
unless he already knew the old man was dead. You
can't tell about things like that. The guy gets sick
of the sight of blood. A lot of people do. Yeah, sure,
Kemper's a respectable citizen. I'm not gonna pull him in
on your hunch and leave myself open to a charge
of false arrest.
Speaker 4: No sense, Oh well, I just thought we gotta lead.
Speaker 3: Now we know the motive was robbery, and we know
why the rumor all over the neighborhood that Radway kept
money in his house.
Speaker 4: You can bet that window washer heard it cool as
soon as we roused him.
Speaker 3: The case will be in the bag.
Speaker 5: Even to yourself, you'll have to admit that Kemper would
probably not have killed his friend just to Robin. Then
your fairy gets another body blow in Radway's house under
an ironing bought cover. Walch's men find four hundred dollars
that seems to Clint the robbery motives, and then comes
the Rabbit Times. The same day, Monday, in the late afternoon,
the window.
Speaker 4: Washer is found. You're there in Walts's office when they
bring him in. His name is John Bruno, and his
story is pitifully weak. You would admit you were in
the neighborhood.
Speaker 3: You admit that I know, Captain, that's right, I was.
And you admit going to Radway's house.
Speaker 4: Hey, I went to all the house once.
Speaker 3: You went back to that house free times.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't remember. Don't lie. The neighbors
saw you. I want you to go back before Bruno.
Speaker 16: Why, I don't know. I guess because nobody was home
the first time, so I don't know where'd to go
after got dark.
Speaker 3: Where were you that night? Well, I went back to
my room. It's back to the room in house. And
you prove it, and you prove your stayed there all night.
Speaker 16: Oh no, I didn't see no one to live alone.
You gotta take my word, mister, honest. I didn't go
back to the bungalow. I didn't kill no one.
Speaker 3: Honest. You got to take my word.
Speaker 5: You'll look at that bewildered, frightened man in the brown suits,
and you know one thing.
Speaker 4: John Bruno is innocent.
Speaker 5: His story is weak. He has no alibi, no witnesses.
But how many innocent people do. Then it strikes you
there's one angle you haven't yet tried. Kemper's movements on
the night of a crime.
Speaker 11: Well, every Saturday a lot of them in the neighborhood
sneak off to some tavern or other.
Speaker 10: It's terrible.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't let my husband do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's a beer garden and six Mile Road. Kemper
and Redway usually went out there together.
Speaker 4: Oh, I ain't seen them their last Saturday, all right,
both of them pretty drunk. So I give him a
wide berth. That is that the answer.
Speaker 5: You wish you could be sure and you remember something.
At nine o'clock to night, the Kempers will be at
mog to identify the body. You check your watch, you
can make it. Maybe maybe if you're there when Harold
Kemper has to look at his dead friend, maybe you'll
see something.
Speaker 10: You grab a.
Speaker 5: Cab and at one minute of nine you walk into
the medical Examiner's office at the seton Mague.
Speaker 4: Missus Kemper is there, but she's alone. Where's your husband?
Where is he? Missus Kemper.
Speaker 6: He decided not to come in last minute. He thought
it'd be too much for him.
Speaker 9: He's waiting for me out on the streets as well.
Speaker 7: We may if it's chat mouse, I can play that
game too. Join the view, mister Kemper. Oh better than
the one inside, isn't it.
Speaker 10: What do you want?
Speaker 4: Well, I just thought i'd tell you how the case
is coming. You were his best friend. I figured you'd
like to know.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, well have they they found anything yet?
Speaker 4: Oh? They know who the murderer is.
Speaker 6: They do.
Speaker 4: They're just making sure of they're evidence.
Speaker 7: They found a patch of mud in the back lot,
you know, with a footprint in it, and now they're
checking with the tracks in the bungalow.
Speaker 4: As soon as the lab tests come through, they'll probably
make the arrest.
Speaker 10: That don't seem like much to go on.
Speaker 4: Oh they have other evidence too, onny of it?
Speaker 6: I see you found my husband, that's true.
Speaker 7: Yes, we even have a little talk, how about you,
missus Temper Hall finished in side.
Speaker 9: Yes, Yes, I made the identification all right, and Harold
you know, I'm sure it won't be long before they
catch the.
Speaker 6: Man who did it.
Speaker 4: How could you know?
Speaker 6: Because I saw something and I'm sure the police saw
it too.
Speaker 9: What do you mean, Well, on George's throat there were
three or four fingerprints, just as plain as could be.
Speaker 5: And the joke of it, the grim, grim joke of it,
is that missus Kemper has made a mistake what she
saw when that finger prints which can be traced, but
finger marks which cannot. Only Harold Kemper in the white
heat of his fear is far beyond figuring that out.
His face gives you the answer. Now you know this
man is a murderer. More than that, he's a murderer
chased by the phantom of his own fear. He's right
for the plucking if you can just get Captain Walltz
to sketch out her hand.
Speaker 4: But I told you my story, Captain, I told you
a million times. Never mind, Bruno will tell me again.
What's the use.
Speaker 3: I'm only going to say the same thing. I didn't
do it, So what's the use?
Speaker 4: All right? Sorry? Can take him out, yes, sir, what's
the matter? Captain? You can't crag?
Speaker 7: Oh, he'll Craig him six months from now out of
sheer exhaustion. Look, Bruno was innocent, you know that, and
Kemper is guilty.
Speaker 4: You just wounded.
Speaker 3: I've got enough complications with it. I told you what
I found out about Kemper. I showed you the motive, Captain.
The lab report is here, and those three samplus of clay.
Speaker 7: What's the gist of its, sergeant? All identical, Sir, Captain,
how much proof do you want?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 7: If you don't want to pull him in, at least
go out to his house now and question him. The
guy will break, I know he will. He's on the
thin edge of nothing. It's late, it's after midnight. What
is it you really don't like, Captain? The lateness of
the hour. Are junking your pet theory? Come on, let's go.
Speaker 4: Don't pull in the driveway, sergeant, just bark out front. Yes, sir,
all right, sergeant, you wait here, Come on McCormick.
Speaker 17: Mm hmmm, Oh evening, missus, Kepper, hell, I wonder if
I could see your husband for a minute.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, he isn't here. He's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: You know when he'll be back.
Speaker 6: No, I don't.
Speaker 4: Could we come in for a minute, yes, Christmas coming
kind of late to go out, isn't it. You know
where your husband's gone.
Speaker 6: He didn't tell me. Is there any message you wanted
to leave, missus Kemper.
Speaker 4: You've been crying everything. Is it anything to do with No, No,
it's just.
Speaker 7: What you'd better tell us everything. Missus Kemper will find
out anyway. You see, we we know what your husband's doing.
Speaker 18: Yes, yes, he did it.
Speaker 4: He got George long.
Speaker 18: As you know. He just told me about an hour ago,
and we came that from the morgue.
Speaker 6: He was all ticklight.
Speaker 18: That and he told me said here and George got
into a fight that night over over who is to
buy more beer. Carol gets to the terrible rages and
he beats the old man up. Then when he saw
he was dead, he upset everything to make it look
like a robbery.
Speaker 15: I don't know.
Speaker 18: He was terribly afraid.
Speaker 11: She knew you'd be coming after him, he said, He said,
they're not going to put me in no prison. And
he rushed out to the garage to get the car.
Speaker 7: We won't get wait a minute, captain the car here
I saw in the garage as we came up the walk.
Speaker 3: Jansky, are your spotlight on that garage and come with me.
We're going in after Kemper.
Speaker 4: Wait up, Captain, I want to be on This is
a better friend. Clear, come out of that garage, Kemper.
Speaker 3: You don't stand a chance.
Speaker 4: All right, we're coming in. He went on the other
side of the car. Out from this side, Kemper. He's
not on this side, Captain. He's not here either. Wait,
we'll go with this.
Speaker 10: That's corner just off the floor.
Speaker 8: There.
Speaker 3: Use their hair, Harmon, don't let her in here here
is Comper.
Speaker 4: Don't don't go there.
Speaker 3: You're lonely, dove, you alone.
Speaker 18: Harolds, where are you?
Speaker 6: Carold?
Speaker 15: Are you.
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: We read you that telegram from Kenneth mccomick of the
Detroit Free Press.
Speaker 4: Not out of remorse, but out of pure fear.
Speaker 7: The killer in the Night's Big Story hanged himself with
a piece of clothesline. His wife's story brought the instant
release of the window washer and closed the case.
Speaker 8: And so ends another big story.
Speaker 19: In order to protect the names of people actually involved
in the Knight's authentic Big Story, the names of all
characters and the dramatization were changed with the exception of
the newspaper reporter. This is the United States Armed Forces
Radio Service, the voice of Information and Education.
Speaker 6: And.
Speaker 1: Welcome back. Let's go ahead and give you the cast information.
Kenneth McCormick was played by Bill Smith. Also in the
cast Kathleen Today, Louis van Ruten, Bob Dryden, Bill Lipton,
and Leonard Bell. Now, the original story that this was
based on occurred in nineteen thirty nine in Highland Park,
Michigan and a Glenn We're quoting from stories Behind the
Big Story by doctor Joe Webb, and the man who
was murdered was William Rogert, killed by his neighbor Walter Boss.
And the confusion between fingerprints and finger marks really was
the key to the killer doing himself. At One thing
that's changed in the radio episode, perhaps for the sake
of being efficient, is the location of the suicide and
the method. In addition to hanging himself, the killer slashed
his wrist and he actually went over to a friend's
house to do it and to hang himself in the basement,
which makes more sense in the garage because I was
expecting as they were going into the garage that if
he had committed suicide, it would have been by carbon
monoxide poisoning. But I can see why the writers changed
that detail just to have economy in the storytelling. It
was an interesting scene when McCormick called out the police
officer for being stuck on his pet theory. The police
officers like, eventually I can break the window washer, and
the reporters like, how about you go find the actual
killer instead? All right, well, listener comments and feedback now,
and we have a couple on Spotify reguarding pure to
morality and violent death. A random Spotify user rights, let's
not throw stones. Who among us hadn't hasn't made their
wife make lunch for ourselves and our mettrestress kiddy?
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: I think the commentor felt the need to say kiddy
because he wanted to be clear on that.
Speaker 8: And that's the thing.
Speaker 1: Those of us who are living and still married would
answer that question with a solid no, which is why
we're still married. And you know, I think this is
like the Gambling and Divorce episode a few weeks before that,
where it emphasizes something about a specific region that a
story set in, or where somebody comes from, that doesn't
have whole lot to do in the case, because what
that guy was doing, it wasn't like, oh, you have
got to be just this ultra extreme puritanical woman to
have a problem with that. Actually, no, not at all.
And then a comment from Dino who says, maybe it's
just me, but the narration of the Whistler reminds me
of the Whistler. Might be a complete coincidence, and they
are technically in different genres, but the narration sounds very
similar to me. You know, there is actually a key
similarity in the narration, and that is that these are
rare instances of the use of second person narration. Now,
typically when we get narration, it's either first person like
you'll get on something like Dragnet or Sam Spade, where
the narrator is the lead character or one of the
main characters and they're telling you what they experienced and
what happened, or you get third person narration like you
get on something like Nick Carter or Let George do It,
where the narrator is telling you, well, this is what
George Valentine.
Speaker 15: Did.
Speaker 1: What you get with the Big Story is second person
immersive narration, and this is what you also get with
the Whistler, where the narrator tells you who you are.
You are Kenneth McCormick, and then the story is told
in a way as if you are experiencing the story,
and the whistler goes the same way where you are
experiencing the story as whoever has stepped into the shadows.
And that might be what I find a little bit
unsettling about the Whistler. I love the series, but I
don't listen to it a time because I don't like
to get too many of those experiences from the perspective
of the sort of people they feature there. The big Story, though,
as someone who was ever so briefly a reporter, is
a much more enjoyable listen. But thanks so much, appreciate
the question, Dino. Well, now it's time to thank our
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my beat, where.
Speaker 15: This is what Clover Rush, I am a wologize is
shaking with them left hand sling on the right courtesy
your medical department.
Speaker 4: Are you feeling, Russ? Fit? Fit?
Speaker 15: Shoulder aches a little?
Speaker 6: That so?
Speaker 3: Russ says he hardly knows what happened last night?
Speaker 15: Danny, Oh, emotions like I told Detective Mugguman here since
I was a lad, a bundle of nerves. You know
when a doc once told me I did I reject?
Every time something large happens to me, I reject. My
mind refuses to remember, Marge.
Speaker 4: Isn't that interesting, Danny? However?
Speaker 15: Did I get here in this condition?
Speaker 4: That's what I'd like to know. I want you to
think about it, Russ. I want you to think hard,
Try to remember I talk, Russ.
Speaker 3: Just think who could have done it?
Speaker 15: What happened?
Speaker 4: Maybe I can help you, Russ. Gee I needed and.
Speaker 3: We can book out about eight counts the way I figure.
Speaker 15: Because I was shot? Oh, how do you like this
memory of mine?
Speaker 3: It's suddenly like a what happened last night? Russ as
clear as anything.
Speaker 15: I continue to the detail. I walked into this back room,
saw a gun on the table. I picked it up, and,
being cleanly by nature, I started to clean it.
Speaker 4: It went off, fired shots into the wall before it
got to you.
Speaker 15: I couldn't control it. Who was alive in my hand?
Speaker 4: There wasn't any gun in that room. Russ, where it is.
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