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Speaker 1: today's episode of Dragnet. The original air date October twelfth,
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty two, and this one is the Big Lie.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. The story you were about to hear
Speaker 2: is cruel. The names have been changed to protect the innocence.
Speaker 2: You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a homicide detail. You've
Speaker 2: got a call that a man has been murdered. His
Speaker 2: pillar is unknown.
Speaker 3: Good job, get him right.
Speaker 4: The documented drama of an actual crime. For the next
Speaker 4: thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police.
Speaker 5: Department, you will travel step by step on the side
Speaker 5: of the law to an actual case transcribed from official
Speaker 5: police FIR from beginning to men, from time to punishment.
Speaker 6: Diagnest is the story of your police force and action.
Speaker 7: It was Saturday night, twelfth. It was warm in Los Angeles.
Speaker 7: We were working to.
Speaker 8: Day, watched out a homicide detail. My partner is Frank Smith,
Speaker 8: the boss of Captain Morman.
Speaker 7: My name's Friday.
Speaker 8: It was eight oh four am when I got to
Speaker 8: Room forty two.
Speaker 7: Comis side as to Joe, Yeah, I'm trying, like Frank.
Speaker 9: I got held up with driving Its okay, no problem now,
Speaker 9: Scribby guy.
Speaker 7: When I get that freeways, anything to you. And on
Speaker 7: the end of the past, this time the money. You
Speaker 7: can't go one ten miles an hour? Yeah, cars Tylis
Speaker 7: a frank old boy. When we get to night, I'm
Speaker 7: gonna go straight to bed and I've he's got to
Speaker 7: east the man. I'll trouble get the feet less. Well,
Speaker 7: I wouldn't have had any trouble if I'd had the
Speaker 7: chance to do it. What do you mean again? It
Speaker 7: my brother in law? Oh what he had to do
Speaker 7: it on a couple of weeks. He's always kind of
Speaker 7: waste one of those courses of hypnotism at home.
Speaker 9: Book got to the house yesterday, right when he's got
Speaker 9: a new career, going to go into the hypnop king
Speaker 9: and business.
Speaker 7: Book felt hard to do it right. You can have
Speaker 7: food and so well with people making the things you want.
Speaker 8: All that stuff hideaway.
Speaker 7: He's got to practice on somebody. We just finished dinner
Speaker 7: and I was all settled.
Speaker 9: Down to watch television. Comes in with a sort of book,
Speaker 9: A little bity near in the candle. First when he
Speaker 9: lights the candle, tells me to look at it. Concentrate,
Speaker 9: you know, you know, I told him to go take
Speaker 9: a run on Johnthan right away, saved yourn Jim. He says,
Speaker 9: I don't want him to get ahead, and I said
Speaker 9: something about the fact that he could use one and
Speaker 9: him hands up with me sitting there and him trying
Speaker 9: to control my will. Whether the work I don't know.
Speaker 9: Raived his hands in front of me and flashed the
Speaker 9: mirror in my eyes and I fell asleep. Yeah, right
Speaker 9: away wakes me up, wants no hot to help. But
Speaker 9: it was like when he put me under. I told
Speaker 9: him he didn't. I just went to sleep so he
Speaker 9: gets time to use with this book called post a
Speaker 9: God his suggestion. You know, when I'm asleep, he said
Speaker 9: something I'm supposed to do and I wake up. Yeah,
Speaker 9: and he woke me up and waited for me to
Speaker 9: do it what he wants you to do. I never
Speaker 9: found out.
Speaker 8: He just sat there and looked at me every time
Speaker 8: I doze off and waking me up so I could
Speaker 8: do whatever it was he suggested and run one thirty
Speaker 8: this morning.
Speaker 9: He gave up because the book wasn't any good and
Speaker 9: the kindn't get his money back. All the time, say,
Speaker 9: I just watched him if I'd known what it was.
Speaker 7: He wanted me to do it.
Speaker 8: I'd done it to get him off my back. I
Speaker 8: never did find out what it was. Morning when didn't
Speaker 8: say hello, said that I wasn't co operator.
Speaker 7: I get it. Comic bes friend bes friend is Yeah,
Speaker 7: so what was that? Adds again, that's time, we'll do
Speaker 7: that out something for us. Yeah.
Speaker 8: A woman out on Burne Street sixty four twenty five
Speaker 8: because her son's in money. Frank and I drove out
Speaker 8: to the house. It was a typical residential neighborhood. When
Speaker 8: we got there, a crowd of gathered around the front
Speaker 8: of the house. The radio cars arrived and the officers
Speaker 8: had gotten the people back from the lawn and the
Speaker 8: entrance of the house. We went in and met the
Speaker 8: woman who had placed the call, and it was Edith Curtis.
Speaker 8: He was a woman in the late forties with graying hair.
Speaker 8: As we talked to her, she could lean her handkerchief
Speaker 8: in her.
Speaker 10: Hands, just the same the gun. The end of the week,
Speaker 10: he looked at it and said that it needed clean.
Speaker 10: He's always home on Saturday, so this morning he said
Speaker 10: he might as well get at it. After breakfast. He
Speaker 10: got out all the things that needed, put the land's
Speaker 10: table in there and started to clean the guns. I
Speaker 10: was in the bedroom, siding up the place. I heard
Speaker 10: these loud voices and then a shot. I went to
Speaker 10: the living room and I saw the men standing there.
Speaker 10: As soon as he saw me, he turned around and
Speaker 10: ran to the door. I yelled at it, but he
Speaker 10: didn't stop. I went over to chest. It was just
Speaker 10: lying there, still in quiet. I could see where he'd
Speaker 10: been shot, and it was dead. And then I called
Speaker 10: room before you got to the other men of once
Speaker 10: in the car got here, but it was too late.
Speaker 7: That boy was dead.
Speaker 8: I'll go see if my partner's finished the column, because
Speaker 8: would you like just to call your family doctor?
Speaker 10: No, there was kind to you. Put up you all U.
Speaker 10: This house has been full of press last couple of years,
Speaker 10: nothing but sadness. I used to it. I guess the
Speaker 10: good laws next used to it. If he didn't, I
Speaker 10: don't think the mother could go on. Man, my youngest daughter, Alice,
Speaker 10: who need to go this next month for twenty fourth
Speaker 10: she killed herself Stargeant. It's almost killed me to Lucy.
Speaker 10: That's why Dan used to it. I got to the
Speaker 10: point after Alice was dead, where I couldn't see any
Speaker 10: reason for going on, and I figured it a good
Speaker 10: lord must have wanted it this way, and I wasn't
Speaker 10: one to stay was wrong. Alice was going to have
Speaker 10: enough trouble.
Speaker 7: As it was.
Speaker 10: I don't even understand to a side stargant the one
Speaker 10: unforgivable spin man.
Speaker 9: Okay, so I'll tell him that's what the fellows on
Speaker 9: the side they're around the neighborhood's yeah.
Speaker 7: One if people give us a description of the man
Speaker 7: you saw, the let's get out of call on.
Speaker 10: So that started pretty good just then looking at me?
Speaker 7: How old?
Speaker 10: Was maybe thirty five or forty? Not any older than that?
Speaker 10: I'm sure?
Speaker 7: How tall is the gay? Taller than you? About how
Speaker 7: much taller? Oh?
Speaker 10: Maybe a couple of them chips?
Speaker 7: Now I'm on my sixty one or two? Is that right?
Speaker 10: Yeah? Thanking s that's pretty.
Speaker 7: Close about his weight? Howe anythink he was?
Speaker 10: I'm not very good as sad. I stared about one
Speaker 10: hundred and eighty round there.
Speaker 7: What about his clothes? What was he wearing for the moment?
Speaker 10: He had on one of those blue denimouts that you
Speaker 10: know the crowds is in the jacket slight blue and
Speaker 10: the coat had that dark blue trim knitted around the
Speaker 10: bottom and collar. Had on a white shirt. No tie
Speaker 10: that there those shoes with a real thick soles that Robert.
Speaker 7: M about him.
Speaker 10: I don't think I know what you mean.
Speaker 7: But do you have any mercy stars or anything that
Speaker 7: might make it easier for.
Speaker 10: Us to identify? No, not that I could see, but
Speaker 10: she won't have any trouble identifying. And I'll tell you
Speaker 10: if you have the right one in us.
Speaker 7: Did he have a car? Would you know that? I
Speaker 7: don't think so.
Speaker 10: I didn't see one, thinking man.
Speaker 7: Cool, I'll call it somebody. I always jails it out
Speaker 7: the local of acc you know, mister yeah. Could you
Speaker 7: tell us exactly what time the shooting took place?
Speaker 10: Not exactly, but i'd say a god is fourty eight?
Speaker 7: Did this man say anything? No, not her words. You
Speaker 7: never saw him before? Maybe around the neighborhood. The store
Speaker 7: was in the sweet someplace.
Speaker 10: No, I never saw I might know that, but if
Speaker 10: I see him again, I'll know him.
Speaker 7: I'll be right back to I hope you won't take
Speaker 7: a sance, ma'am.
Speaker 10: What that does?
Speaker 7: Well, you don't seem too greatly concerned about your son's
Speaker 7: death here.
Speaker 10: I thought i'd explain that to you. I told you
Speaker 10: that I have to visit, that it's the lord's will.
Speaker 10: I might as well tell you, Sudge. You've probably find
Speaker 10: out anyways.
Speaker 7: What's that meant? Bill?
Speaker 10: Jeff and Dot's had a few wants and it's nothing curious.
Speaker 10: But he did have words.
Speaker 7: I know your time. Man.
Speaker 10: Well, I told you that my daughter took her own life.
Speaker 10: I am she did to hear in this house. I
Speaker 10: thought it was a happy home. I found out it wasn't.
Speaker 10: I found out too.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 10: You see, Alice, that's my daughter. So she's going to marry.
Speaker 10: She met a young man who worked in an inner
Speaker 10: press factory. She said the thinking was very nice. I
Speaker 10: couldn't see much in him.
Speaker 7: I told her so.
Speaker 10: He had quite a few rows about it. That's when
Speaker 10: he was here. And that night the row Alice's young
Speaker 10: man left, maybe quite a fuss about my trying to
Speaker 10: run the children's life. Told Alice that he'd married or
Speaker 10: right away that night. But when they were married, he
Speaker 10: didn't want to have anything to do with Jeff.
Speaker 7: On me, Well, did Jeff take any part in this world?
Speaker 10: Oh? My yes, I find a young man strong out
Speaker 10: at a house. Alice wasn't here. It just seemed to
Speaker 10: go to pieces. That night she took an overdose kicking
Speaker 10: to it. I'll never forget when I pollical practice. That's
Speaker 10: not too im as such.
Speaker 7: That's quite all right man. You said you and your
Speaker 7: son had several arguments with it about this engagement.
Speaker 10: Yes, that's Alice's funeral. Jeff seemed to stop around the
Speaker 10: house then at Nice to go out with drink quite
Speaker 10: a bit. He seemed to think that I'd called Dallas
Speaker 10: to do away with itself. I tried to tell him
Speaker 10: that I didn't, but I was just as sorry as
Speaker 10: you guys. I told him how badly I've felt. It
Speaker 10: didn't seem to do any good.
Speaker 7: Well have you heard from Alicis? Fan said he what's
Speaker 7: his name? Is it? Good?
Speaker 10: Sadly?
Speaker 7: Bruce Dudley, you know you can get in touch with him.
Speaker 10: I think Jeff had his ads. I can look for it.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 10: You don't think that Bruce had adn't need to do
Speaker 10: with this. I know it wasn't him. I know, Brooke,
Speaker 10: I know what.
Speaker 7: He looks like. It wasn't him. In the living room. Well,
Speaker 7: we just want to talk to him.
Speaker 10: Of course, he might have hired someone else. No, I'm
Speaker 10: sure Brooks had nothing to do with it. Even with
Speaker 10: what he did say that nice and he had to fight.
Speaker 10: Jeath told him that if he didn't get out of
Speaker 10: always out when less Dud said that Sunday I met
Speaker 10: leaving other people's lives was going back by that it
Speaker 10: might take some time, but it would be retained. And
Speaker 10: that look in his eyes when he rested the door,
Speaker 10: doesn't yeah naze he did to him, he looked ned
Speaker 10: in us to kill us.
Speaker 8: Close nine twelve am, the coroner arrived and removed the body.
Speaker 8: The men from the crime lab drew went over the place.
Speaker 8: The complete set of pictures was taken Before the body
Speaker 8: was removed. Layton Prince went over the rifle on the
Speaker 8: table and the coon operatus. Frank and I noticed that
Speaker 8: the tablecloth on the living room table had been on
Speaker 8: the floor when we got to the house. Missus Curtis
Speaker 8: had told us that her son had grabbed it as
Speaker 8: he fell to the floor.
Speaker 7: He talked with the neighbors.
Speaker 8: One of them and Missus Alvin Temper said that she
Speaker 8: had been watering the lawn between seven point thirty and
Speaker 8: eight am, but that she had seen no one enter
Speaker 8: or leave the Curtis house. She told us that she
Speaker 8: had heard frequent and loud arguments between Missus Curtis and
Speaker 8: her son. Frank and I drove out to the address
Speaker 8: of Bruce Dudman, with a modern one room apartment on
Speaker 8: river Side Drive in the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 7: We rang the buzzer a second time and waited. It's
Speaker 7: like he's not in. You know what time seventeen, He's
Speaker 7: probably gone out. Come on and checked the man.
Speaker 11: Yeah, mister Dudley, Yeah, pretty well, well police officers left.
Speaker 11: Talk to okay, come on, it just got up out
Speaker 11: like last night. I feel it all Well, all those
Speaker 11: suppose to sit down.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna put a pot of coffee that well, it
Speaker 8: feels like a troop of midas trans baft over my son.
Speaker 7: Yes, sir, right ahead. What do you want to see
Speaker 7: me about? You know what? Jeff Curterer, Yeah, I know him. Hey,
Speaker 7: won't you say your name to her? Well, my name
Speaker 7: is Friday. It's my partner, Frank Smith. He's gotten bad,
Speaker 7: something to prove at your cops. Yesha, it's my ID.
Speaker 6: Mm hm sage Joseph d Okay, what's this.
Speaker 7: About Jeff's dead mister Dudley, Yeah, yes, sir.
Speaker 6: How it happened?
Speaker 7: Accident? We're not sure I didn't kill himself, did he?
Speaker 6: Why do you ask that?
Speaker 7: I just thought he might. Man Chris had killed.
Speaker 3: Herself, thought he might have done the same thing.
Speaker 7: Do you know of any reason when he do something
Speaker 7: like that?
Speaker 6: No, not that I could name.
Speaker 7: Understand you, missus. Curtis didn't get along, so though you
Speaker 7: got a long rright, Oh, and Alice and I stood up.
Speaker 7: There were some words. Nothing serves well, well you guys
Speaker 7: do pretty caught him?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I understand he had quite an argument. He was
Speaker 7: ready to throw you out of the house.
Speaker 6: And I've been talking to his mother if he's been
Speaker 6: throwing lives around again?
Speaker 7: Well, is it true? Did you and Curtis have an argument? Yeah?
Speaker 7: I got nothing to hide. You've been out of the
Speaker 7: house this morning. No, why have any way of proving
Speaker 7: you were here all morning? Jeff got up? You know
Speaker 7: that the guy's got me out of bed? What are
Speaker 7: you trying to prove? Just want to know if you
Speaker 7: canna come to your time? And so you think I
Speaker 7: had something to do with Jeff? Jeff is at it?
Speaker 7: They didn't save that. No, but your meant excuse me,
Speaker 7: I got to get the coffee. You want some coffee?
Speaker 6: No, I don't, Fine, how about you?
Speaker 7: You don't mind if I have a top and I'll
Speaker 7: take her out of here.
Speaker 4: And thanks.
Speaker 7: That's facious. You guys really think I can do with
Speaker 7: what happened to Jeff.
Speaker 12: We're not paid to say what we think. You try
Speaker 12: to get the fact. Yeah, we had to concentrate on
Speaker 12: missus Curtis. I wouldn't put it past the old back
Speaker 12: to kill it on some check around the bars in
Speaker 12: the neighborhood.
Speaker 7: Talk to his friends.
Speaker 6: I'll tell you his mother was scared to death that
Speaker 6: he'd marry one of these days.
Speaker 7: Walk out on it.
Speaker 13: He used to be on his back all the time
Speaker 13: about the girls he went out with. I knew some
Speaker 13: of them, Alice, and he used.
Speaker 6: To double date with him once in a while.
Speaker 7: They ever have any arguments about this? While you were
Speaker 7: around a couple of times.
Speaker 13: Yeah, you don't believe he wanted to check with Harry.
Speaker 6: He'll tell you the same story.
Speaker 7: Lord knows he went through enough of it. Harry. Yeah,
Speaker 7: Jeff's brothers.
Speaker 6: Who got married.
Speaker 14: Oh, let's see about five years ago we got out
Speaker 14: of the house lots stocking bag.
Speaker 13: If we went through a flash with his mother about it,
Speaker 13: he'll tell you about it. He used to go over
Speaker 13: and see Jeff once in a while after he got married,
Speaker 13: but the old lady caused so much trouble it just
Speaker 13: got on me.
Speaker 7: At the bar. Got to the point where Harry wouldn't
Speaker 7: go in the house.
Speaker 6: Check with him.
Speaker 7: I'll tell you you know where we can get in
Speaker 7: touch with him. No, I haven't gotten the address. Look
Speaker 7: it up in the book, Harry Curtis.
Speaker 13: I think it's out on Selma someplace in Hollywood.
Speaker 7: Where do you work?
Speaker 6: Myer Aircraft? I'm a toolmaker.
Speaker 7: He worked today's day.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm off today.
Speaker 7: What's this for this one?
Speaker 13: To know where we can we?
Speaker 6: Should? You still think I had something to do with
Speaker 6: it him?
Speaker 8: You know, we didn't say you did your name came
Speaker 8: up to check it out and oh a lot of
Speaker 8: times when Jeff and I didn't get along, I want
Speaker 8: to try to set her that there weren't.
Speaker 13: I never don't even that hurt him. Got enough in
Speaker 13: his hands with that mother, you know. So one night
Speaker 13: we came home from the date Alice Mee, Jeff and
Speaker 13: his date were staying around the kitchen having something to eat.
Speaker 13: Another came in matter than a web hand raised came
Speaker 13: told Jeff to get the woman out of the house.
Speaker 13: Jeff Tilbery wouldn't have her.
Speaker 7: Talk to a girl like that.
Speaker 14: He thought quite a bit of her. The old biddy
Speaker 14: walked right over and slapped the girl across the face.
Speaker 14: Told her to leave Jeff alone, but she'd rather see
Speaker 14: him dead and tied up with a girl like that.
Speaker 14: Two forty pm. We go back to the office.
Speaker 7: We've been no replies from the locality.
Speaker 8: ATV We checked the names of Jeffrey Curtis and Bruce
Speaker 8: Dudley through R and I. There was no record on Curtis,
Speaker 8: but Dudley had been arrested twice for lamc foreven seeds
Speaker 8: being drunk in a public place. He served sentences in
Speaker 8: the city jail and both drive me. We checked with
Speaker 8: the coroner's office and me. He told us the Curtis
Speaker 8: been killed by a thirty eight caliber bullet. It had
Speaker 8: been fired at close rings into the back of its skull.
Speaker 8: The bullet was booked for evidence and we made out
Speaker 8: a dead body report. He put him a call to
Speaker 8: the brother's house, but we were told that he was
Speaker 8: out of the city and he wouldn't return until sometime
Speaker 8: that night. We left word for him to call our.
Speaker 7: Officor Sounity returns.
Speaker 8: We checked on a suicide story given us by Missus
Speaker 8: Curtis and found that an Alice Curtis had taken our
Speaker 8: own life by an overdose of sleeping pills two years before.
Speaker 8: By twenty pm, Frank and I drove out to Sock
Speaker 8: to Missus Curtis again.
Speaker 10: You want to look at Jess's room, don't you? Yes, No,
Speaker 10: Churtis just nice.
Speaker 7: We were here this morning.
Speaker 9: He didn't say anything about his other sons.
Speaker 10: The officer Harry doesn't care much for me.
Speaker 7: I know it's hard to.
Speaker 10: Believe that a boy would desert his own mother, but
Speaker 10: that's what Harry did. He got married right away. His
Speaker 10: wife started to cause trouble between it.
Speaker 7: A rife of your son. Was saying this morning.
Speaker 10: Oh, yes, those men from this time, but I think
Speaker 10: they said they took it.
Speaker 7: Yes, sir, don't do much money.
Speaker 10: Well, it used to do. Used to do clout a
Speaker 10: bit before Harry got married. There used to be a
Speaker 10: great pal.
Speaker 7: Mother.
Speaker 10: Couldn't ask for a better. Hard's son, and when Harry
Speaker 10: left home, Jess sort of gave it up. He painted
Speaker 10: gun when he had to, but he didn't go after
Speaker 10: game anymore than to just say to leave me alone
Speaker 10: at night.
Speaker 7: Ma'am.
Speaker 10: Well, we've had a lot of trouble with palates in
Speaker 10: the neighborhood. Had to call the police a couple of times.
Speaker 10: They didn't find anybody, though.
Speaker 7: Huh did your son's closed man? Yes, this man you
Speaker 7: saw this morning. You know if he had a gun?
Speaker 10: Yes, he did it. It was a revolver. When I
Speaker 10: came into the room that was still smoking.
Speaker 6: Did your son keep.
Speaker 7: Any other firearms in the house, Oh no, just the rifle.
Speaker 10: I wouldn't have any other guns in the place. I
Speaker 10: don't like them.
Speaker 7: Had Nick Paula Love they hadn't heard of. Plus the
Speaker 7: attic man, Either you or your son had any reasons
Speaker 7: up there?
Speaker 10: No, I don't think we've been up there since we moved.
Speaker 10: Could I get to offices a couple of coffee or anything?
Speaker 10: I've got some nice gras cake, like a slice of it.
Speaker 8: No man thinks this is say, oh yeah, I'll get here, Yeah,
Speaker 8: I here on the shoulders with these suits in the back.
Speaker 7: She just stirs. I came down and I going yet, no,
Speaker 7: let me get a chair, and what happened?
Speaker 10: But it's all about I told you we haven't used
Speaker 10: that attic.
Speaker 7: Don't you believe me? Just like to take a look.
Speaker 10: If you don't mind me, well maybe I do mind.
Speaker 7: It's just gonna take a minute, man, I offices.
Speaker 10: She'll got your nerve. I tried to be nice to you.
Speaker 7: I help you out.
Speaker 10: It isn't enough that my boys did. Now you have
Speaker 10: to come in here and tear my home apart.
Speaker 7: I can reach it. Yeah, here it is.
Speaker 6: Get my pencil.
Speaker 7: Have you ever seen this?
Speaker 6: Missus? Curse?
Speaker 10: No, I haven't got any idea how that gun got
Speaker 10: there justin Belonga.
Speaker 7: I don't know thirty eight counts.
Speaker 13: You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your
Speaker 13: police force connection.
Speaker 8: We took the gun back to the city hall. It
Speaker 8: was checked for finger prints, but none were found. We
Speaker 8: checked with pawn shop records but the gun had not
Speaker 8: been registered. By checking with the manufacturer, we got the
Speaker 8: retailer's name. It had been sold to the victim, Jeff Curtis.
Speaker 8: The gun was turned over to rust Camp for the routine.
Speaker 7: Checked through ballistics.
Speaker 15: We'll hurt it out, all right, comparison right, all right? Yeah,
Speaker 15: that make for us, Oh my man.
Speaker 7: Eleven forty sixteen, Harry Curtis called the office. He was
Speaker 7: surprised to hear.
Speaker 8: Of his brother's death, but said that he would be
Speaker 8: down to see us in the morning. Frank and I
Speaker 8: checked out, and the next morning we drove out to
Speaker 8: the house on burn Sweet and picked up missus Curtis,
Speaker 8: who talked to room in the interrogation room.
Speaker 10: It is perfectly ridiculous. I don't understand what you're trying
Speaker 10: to get me to stay.
Speaker 7: Well, maybe if we lay it out for you.
Speaker 10: Man, Yes, that might do it. At least it would
Speaker 10: be something, all right.
Speaker 8: When we walked into your house yesterday morning, you said
Speaker 8: that nothing in the house had been tested, but everything
Speaker 8: was said.
Speaker 10: As it was when your son was tell that lad, Yes,
Speaker 10: I just said.
Speaker 7: That Tabby be sure one way or the other.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 7: What did you say?
Speaker 10: I said that I hadn't touched anything. Nobody did.
Speaker 7: Would you tell us what your son was doing when
Speaker 7: you left the room.
Speaker 10: I told you it was painting the rust on the
Speaker 10: living room table. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 7: What did you say he did after he was shot.
Speaker 10: I said he sailed down.
Speaker 7: Did he touch anything as he fell against anything?
Speaker 10: Well, when you tell grabbed the table cloth pulled it
Speaker 10: down with it, that's that well.
Speaker 8: And maybe you can explain how it was it? All
Speaker 8: the things you used to clean the rifle when the
Speaker 8: gun itself was still on the table, what how was it?
Speaker 8: Those things didn't come off the table and they pulled
Speaker 8: the cross off.
Speaker 10: I don't know what you're trying to get me to say.
Speaker 7: Were likely to tell us the group?
Speaker 10: I'm telling that all.
Speaker 7: Right, man.
Speaker 8: When the crime lab went over to your house, they
Speaker 8: found two places in the kitchen flood that had been
Speaker 8: filled in with classic wood.
Speaker 7: The job didn't look very old.
Speaker 10: Well, what's wrong with that? Jes took good care of
Speaker 10: the house. You might have tried to plug up some
Speaker 10: place where as were getting in.
Speaker 8: When the men from the lab dug up the package,
Speaker 8: they found two thirty eight caliber bullets under the moon.
Speaker 7: They checked them with a bullet that killed your son.
Speaker 7: The bullets came from the same gun.
Speaker 10: I don't know what you're talking about, but there's all
Speaker 10: this show you talked about.
Speaker 7: The college said you had trouble with them in the neighborhood.
Speaker 7: That's right. Well, act, did you take the stop this?
Speaker 10: I called? The police had then come out to try
Speaker 10: to find the person who was talking the trouble.
Speaker 7: When did you call the police?
Speaker 6: Laugh?
Speaker 10: Three weeks to go?
Speaker 8: Well checked the report, man, no record of anyone at
Speaker 8: its call. The police checked powers in that neighborhood for
Speaker 8: the past six months.
Speaker 10: Are you trying to make me out a riot? Exactly
Speaker 10: what you're trying to do.
Speaker 7: We're trying to get the truth, Joe. You want to
Speaker 7: check the offs and see if mister Scus is.
Speaker 10: Your ear Yeah, sure, you've got nice gun here.
Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am. We've got to get the truth to this.
Speaker 10: Why did you have to get him involved in it?
Speaker 7: But? As I said, man, we're trying to find the fact.
Speaker 10: You don't believe what I posed?
Speaker 7: Well, no, man, it's made it a little difficult.
Speaker 10: How can you say that?
Speaker 8: Well, first you tell us that nothing was pet get
Speaker 8: the physical setup doesn't make that possible. You deny knowing
Speaker 8: anything about the gun when we find it, but we
Speaker 8: find two bullets that have been fired from the same
Speaker 8: gun embedded in the floor of the sition.
Speaker 7: She told us about powers in the neighborhood. But there's
Speaker 7: no police record of it.
Speaker 8: Your next door neighbors says, she was out in front
Speaker 8: of our house all morning, but she didn't see anyone
Speaker 8: at he or leave your house.
Speaker 7: We find the murdered gun up in the attic. He
Speaker 7: told us she saw until her leave the house with
Speaker 7: a gun. Your son died instantly. Nothing you tell us
Speaker 7: who put the gun there? No man who much hear
Speaker 7: the doesn't yet.
Speaker 10: They got to into this, didn't say Harris. Yes, mother,
Speaker 10: they're trying to tell you that I killed death. They
Speaker 10: want me to tell them that I killed my own boy.
Speaker 10: Tell them, tell him I wouldn't do a thing like that,
Speaker 10: not my own boy.
Speaker 6: But I can't.
Speaker 7: What do you mean you can't just told them about it?
Speaker 10: Who are you going to believe the policeman?
Speaker 7: Not me?
Speaker 10: Your mother?
Speaker 6: You don't give me much stress. What I love the mother.
Speaker 6: You got to believe that. I know that whatever the
Speaker 6: ditch you thought was about, I know you didn't mean
Speaker 6: the RDT.
Speaker 7: I know that.
Speaker 10: And you think I killed him too. Don't you Parry
Speaker 10: give me an answer? You think I killed Jeff don't, yes, money,
Speaker 10: well I did. I didn't think I meant to do it.
Speaker 10: I think I just wanted to frighten him. Was running
Speaker 10: around so much those transer was seeing careful women. I
Speaker 10: had to keep him home. I had to keep him
Speaker 10: with me. He's all I had.
Speaker 7: I'm not young.
Speaker 10: Anymore, Harris. He went away with and Alice. J is
Speaker 10: all I had. I didn't want him to believe and
Speaker 10: he was going to he had an argument. He was
Speaker 10: seeing the gun. I got the revolver that way. I
Speaker 10: knew that I'd always have him with me, that he
Speaker 10: wouldn't leave. I pulled the trigger, and I knew what
Speaker 10: I've done. That Jeff is gone too. I didn't know
Speaker 10: what I was doing.
Speaker 6: I didn't know.
Speaker 10: You got to believe that officely, do.
Speaker 6: You believe me that?
Speaker 10: I just wanted my voice. I wanted to keep That's
Speaker 10: all any mother was. I tried to keep my boss.
Speaker 7: What do you mean the story you have just heard
Speaker 7: was true? The name was Jane to protect the innocence.
Speaker 4: On September fourth, trial was held in Department eighty seventh
Speaker 4: Superior Court of the State of California in and for
Speaker 4: the County of Los Angeles.
Speaker 6: In a moment of results of that trial, p.
Speaker 4: To say, Curtis was siged and convicted of murder in
Speaker 4: the first degree and was sentenced to the State Penitentiary
Speaker 4: for Women to hatch Apet, California. While serving her sentence.
Speaker 6: There, she died from natural causes.
Speaker 4: Murder in the first degree is punishable by death or
Speaker 4: confinement in the State Penitentiary for life. You have not
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Speaker 1: Welcome back, we had another one of those stories, which
Speaker 1: at its core is about Friday and Smith having to
Speaker 1: work through the wreckage of some very dysfunctional people. Although
Speaker 1: it's nice to see Frank Smith, that's the clue that
Speaker 1: really unlocked the whole case. All right, Well, now onto
Speaker 1: listener comments and feedback, and we start with Carrie, who
Speaker 1: wrote in regarding the Cloud nine episode. I enjoyed the
Speaker 1: Cloud nine episode, especially the lines about the squeaky door
Speaker 1: on Inner Sanctum being oiled by Frankster and Peter Lourie
Speaker 1: needing extra work because things were slow. It mentioned that
Speaker 1: this was a wbm FM broadcast and I was wondering
Speaker 1: how many shows of the period were broadcast over FM.
Speaker 1: After some searching, I found that wf WBBM FM was
Speaker 1: a simulcast of the AM station from nineteen forty one
Speaker 1: to fifty eight, so maybe it was not too unusual.
Speaker 1: It certainly made for a clean sounding recording. Well, I
Speaker 1: definitely I forget whether which series it was on, but
Speaker 1: I did You're a commercial where they were talking about
Speaker 1: the coming of FM radio and what that would mean.
Speaker 1: It's something we take for granted, but yeah, FAM been
Speaker 1: back then definitely had higher quality than that was one
Speaker 1: of its big selling points, and also a comment from YouTube.
Speaker 1: Wesley wrote, only discovered the old radio shows about two
Speaker 1: weeks ago, everything from X minus one to inter Sanctum.
Speaker 1: I've been going on something of a binge. Love this one.
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