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Speaker 1: The National Broadcasting Company presents Joel McCrae Entails of the

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Texas Rangers Tonight Transcribed from Hollywood, another authentic reenactment of

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a case from the files of the Texas Rangers. Tales

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from the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson,

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Texas more than two hundred and sixty thousand square miles

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and fifty men who make up the most famous and

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oldest law enforcement body in North America. Now from the

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files of the Texas Rangers. From these stories based on

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fact only named states, places are pictationous more obvious reasons.

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The events themselves are a matter of records. Case for

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Tonight Dead Giveaway.

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Speaker 2: It is one thirty am, December fourth, nineteen forty five.

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Speaker 3: A single light glows in the living.

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Speaker 2: Room of a farmhouse four miles from the town of

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Ashton in West Texas. Inside the house, a frantic young

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woman tries to place a telephone.

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Speaker 3: Cloth operator Operator. Oh please, operator operator, give me the

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sheriff quickly.

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Speaker 4: Is that hum, missus Janise?

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Speaker 5: Yes, yes, hurry well, this is Mary Lumissus Janise.

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Speaker 4: I'm working night now.

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Speaker 2: He is on ther loom.

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Speaker 3: Stop talking and give me the sheriff.

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Speaker 4: All all rise, Ross Baker.

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Speaker 5: Jeff, this is missus Dean.

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Speaker 3: You've got to come out of my house right away,

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right away.

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Speaker 4: Take it easy, Missus Dean. What seems to be wrong?

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Speaker 2: Somebody sprowling around outside trying to get into the hole.

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Speaker 4: Is John there?

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Speaker 2: No, he went to Eppling on business.

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Speaker 3: Something woke me up. I thought a fist, it was

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a baby, and then.

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Speaker 5: I heard annoy outside.

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Speaker 3: Mister what is it? Somebody came in.

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Speaker 4: I'll be right there.

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Speaker 3: Who are you you?

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Speaker 2: It took Sheriff Ross less than fifteen minutes to get

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to the Dnean farm, but Missus Deanean and a four

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month old baby were dead when he arrived.

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Speaker 3: The sheriff call.

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Speaker 2: Over the assistance of the Texas Rangers. Ranger Jason Pearson

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was assigned. James Pearson. Yeaes, serf, you got here right quick.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, was over the next county when your call came through.

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Speaker 2: I hope you got a little sleep because you won't

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get much now. Better come in out of this cool.

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Speaker 3: How long ago did it happen? About a half hour

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ago one thirty.

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Speaker 2: Missus Deneine called me, woke me up at home, said,

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somebody was trying to bust in right in here.

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Speaker 3: Jason shot right through the chest. Huh yeah. She leave

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the phone hanging off the hook like that, I reckon.

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Speaker 2: So whoever broke in, they broke in just before I

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hung up. Nothing's been touched, Jase. I know I had

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a time getting past your deputies down the main road.

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The phone operator has been buzzing everybody. We don't want

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half the county bargain to hear messing things up, so

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I blocked them all.

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Speaker 3: Good. Where's the baby in there? The front bedroom?

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Speaker 2: You can look if you want a Jason's little more

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than I can take twice.

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Speaker 3: How only four months? Jase, little girl? Where'd you break in?

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Side door? I'll show you. Where's the husband?

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Speaker 2: I believe on business. I call the chief of police there.

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He's gonna check the hotels and notify it.

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Speaker 3: Now here's the door. It was wide open.

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Speaker 2: That's how I got in to open the front door.

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The block doesn't seem to be broken. Must have been picked.

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The Kneans keep much money around the house. There's little

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or as much as most folks, I guess, but I

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don't think any's missing. There's Miss Denan's purse on the

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kitchen table.

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Speaker 3: Till I couldn't have missed that.

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Speaker 2: You check it, Yeah, about forty dollars and it hasn't

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been touched.

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Speaker 3: Well, it wasn't robbery, then, sheriff.

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Speaker 2: No, there's no sign of any other motive, But there's

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gotta be one, Jase. Yeah, the toughest motive of all,

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because it's the easiest hidden hate, the kind of hate

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the devil wouldn't hold. We went through the rest of

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the house, but we didn't find anything that would.

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Speaker 3: Help us until we got out.

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Speaker 2: It's cold tonight, jas rounds frozen hard. Yeah, we find

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a trace, it won't be much. Keep your flasks close

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to the ground.

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Speaker 5: All right.

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Speaker 2: Why are you working back of the house here, away

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from the driveway, because I think the killer came in

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from this direction, probably on foot. Why why you said

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missus Denean told you she woke up when she heard

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somebody prowling around outside. Yeah, a horse or a car

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coming up the gravel road around front would have made

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even more noise.

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Speaker 3: Woke grow up sooner, say that's right.

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Speaker 2: I heard your car coming from White a ways off.

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That's why I was standing out in front to meet you.

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When you drove a Wait a minute, what is it, Jase?

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Speaker 3: He's a bailing wire been in the shape of a key. Well,

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that must be what he used to get here.

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Speaker 2: Maybe, or maybe that's what somebody wants us to think.

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Speaker 3: Let's take another look at that door. What makes you

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think the wire was planted there.

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Speaker 2: Jason, I'll tell you better. When we tried it in

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the lock?

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Speaker 3: Beats me. Why a killer leaves something deliberately.

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Speaker 2: That's what makes me think something's wrong. This wouldn't have

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been dropped so close to the house. And grab the

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door and hold it up high. I don't want to

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mess up any prints around the lock.

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Speaker 3: You got it. Now, let's see how this wire fits.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, goes in perfect, Jase.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Watch when I turn it, eh, Kadi, wires just

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twisted and.

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Speaker 2: Go keep on twisting. This wire isn't strong enough to

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turn the tumbler in the lock.

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Speaker 3: Then how did the killer get in? Jase?

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Speaker 2: If you ask me, Sheriff, I think he had a

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regular key. I put in a call for a fingerprint crew,

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and the sheriff called to have the bodies picked up

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for autopsy. Then we went outside and started trailing again.

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We found a few directional traces, but they petered out

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in the darkness.

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Speaker 3: I can't see anything at night on this ground.

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Speaker 2: Jase cutting back and forth a little further and we're following,

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was weaving trying to throw us off.

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Speaker 3: So it just makes it tougher to track.

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Speaker 2: He's got to be headed for someplace, some definite direction.

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We might as well establish which direction. Yeah, there's nothing

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much we can do except this until we have some daylight,

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save us an hour in the morning. Then we can

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track on horses without wasting time finding out which way

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to go. By sonup, we knew the killer's general direction

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had been west. Sheriff got his horse from town, I

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unloaded charcoal from the trailer, and we rode. He kept

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heading west, all right, but there's nothing out this way

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for miles once he got into those hills up ahead.

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Speaker 5: Any kind of a road between here and the hills?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, old wagon road just beyond the scrub on the

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rise we're coming to.

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Speaker 5: Doesn't connect with the state road.

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Speaker 3: It does, but nobody uses it.

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Speaker 2: Maybe somebody dead is in good enough condition for a

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car to run through. Reckon it is it is? You

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figure he had a car waiting for him.

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Speaker 5: I had to have a car or a horse staked

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out someplace.

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Speaker 3: Come on, let's make right for the road.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I can road lead to any other farm in

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the area.

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Speaker 2: Used to lead the Cold Mullet place that's burned out.

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Nobody living there anymore, No old folks dead, Young ted

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Mullet moved away a couple of years ago. Oh, here's

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the road, Charco had it pretty straight. Last tracks we

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saw must have reached the road right near here, and

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we'll find some mark if he crossed it and kept going.

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Speaker 3: He didn't keep killing.

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Speaker 2: Look tire track had a car staked out all right,

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turned the car around here to head back for the highway.

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Speaker 3: Could have been somebody else waiting in the car for him.

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Speaker 2: Maybe, but I don't think so. Look at the heel

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marks walked around to the driver's.

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Speaker 3: Side of the car to get in. Yeah there's something

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else here too. Dropped this cigarette button stepped on him. Yeah,

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sure didn't smoke much of.

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Speaker 2: It, didn't even burned down to the brand mark. At

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least we know what Brandy smokes about. All we do

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know Jays won't be anything to follow up the main road.

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Speaker 3: He sure won't leave a trail there. No, not up.

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Speaker 2: Let's get back to the house. We rode back to Denin's.

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As we came to the farm, we saw a couple

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of cars that hadn't been there when we left. Looks

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like company sheriff car next to mine belongs to our lab.

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Speaker 3: Then others must be the corners.

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Speaker 2: A corner o'ld have been and gone by now No, no,

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that isn't the corners car. There's blue sit down that

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belongs to Walter Danen. Husband, Yeah, must cut back to

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Maveleene Yes.

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Speaker 3: Deneen, All right, there he is sitting on the side porch.

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Speaker 2: Walter Denien sat with his face buried in his hands

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until we dismounted and walked up to an a Lab

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cruise in the house looking for layton In Prince Hardy Walter, Oh,

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how Walter right?

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Speaker 3: Can't tell you how? I don't say anything.

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Speaker 2: Please ask me anything you like, But I don't want

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anybody else telling.

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Speaker 3: Me how sorry they are?

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Speaker 2: Better let me talk to him. Share sure, mister Demean.

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It'd help us a lot to know one thing, you

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or your family have any enemies?

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Speaker 3: Enemies? Could there be an enemy as bad as this?

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We know the house wasn't robbed.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever had any trouble with anybody, no matter

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how small it seemed. Now is the time to remember it.

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Speaker 3: There was anybody, I wouldn't tell you. I take care

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of it myself. That's no way to be Walter. Don't

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go tell me how to act sheriff. You didn't come

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home to your house ten minutes ago. You didn't find

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your wife and kidd way I found that, mister Dean.

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Why don't you try to get a little rest. We'll

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talk to you later.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, anything I can do, Walder, just holler.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: We've been able to think of anybody who might have

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had it in for him. Not a soul, Jace, unless

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it was Ted Mullen. When you told me about family

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that was burned out. Yeah, but Jace, thatdd was five

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years ago. Sometimes hate doesn't die with age. What happened?

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Speaker 2: Old folks just got the brooden and died off after

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the house burned. Young Ted blamed Walter. Why windmill at

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the Mullein place was busted.

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Speaker 3: They try to borrow from Walter to get it fixed,

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but he turned him down.

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Speaker 2: Ted said, of the middle had been working, it would

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have pumped enough water for him to put the fire.

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Speaker 3: On Young mull in the kind to hold a grudge for.

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Speaker 2: After five years. Jeez, and he moved out a long

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time ago. Where who knows? Come on, I'll call my

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headquarters by radio. Maybe didn't get a line on Mullet.

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All right, they find out where he is and won't

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do any harm to check on where he was Right now,

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I won't have heard it.

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Speaker 3: I can't believe that a man after hold its share.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's only Water's car, Jase, what are you looking at.

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Speaker 3: The design of the tire?

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Speaker 6: Fair?

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Speaker 3: Look at him?

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Speaker 2: Oh, that may be the same design we saw in

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the dirt road where the killer picked up a car

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to make his getaway.

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Speaker 3: But Jess, that was hard ground.

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Speaker 2: Could barely see the tread and tires like that are standard.

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Speaker 3: Are lots of cars?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, just the same. I want to look

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this car over left his ignition keys in?

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Speaker 3: Are you going to start it?

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Speaker 2: No? I just want to take a look at the dash.

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He said he got back from Abilene ten minutes ago,

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didn't he That's what he said.

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Speaker 3: Take a look at.

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Speaker 2: That temperature gauge. Let me see register's cold. Yeah, only

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it should be pretty warm. If he finished the drive

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a couple one hundred miles just ten minutes ago. Could

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have dropped back, Jase, not in ten minutes.

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Speaker 4: Share.

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Speaker 2: It's a cold morning, but not that cold. I want

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to talk to Daneen again.

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Speaker 3: You see something else? I sure do. Look at this

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on the frame.

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Speaker 2: Of the door service station lubrication sticker. Yeah, dated December,

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second day before yesterday, eighteen thousand, four.

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Speaker 3: Hundred and twelve miles.

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Speaker 2: The mileage on the dash shows he's driven less than

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two hundred miles since then.

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Speaker 3: He couldn't have been in Aballeene.

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Speaker 2: Well wait a minute, Jace, I admit that looks funny.

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But the man we were chasing he ground out a cigarette, remember,

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or what about it?

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Speaker 3: I've known Walter since he was a boy, Jace. He

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don't smoke. Si oh, Mary Lou Simmons phone operator? Who

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let you in? Mary Loo? I told the deputy I

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put Missus Dean's call through to you last night. He

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thought you might want to talk to me. Ain't it

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just awful you talk to me?

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Speaker 5: I was still on the line after you hung up, Sheriff.

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Speaker 3: I heard it, all the shots and everything.

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Speaker 5: You hear any voice beside Missus Denan.

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Speaker 3: No, no, I just heard her say, who are you?

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Speaker 7: What do you want?

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Speaker 3: And then the shots. That was all you sure? She said,

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who are you? Oh? Cross my heart? I heard it

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as plane.

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Speaker 2: I guess you don't want to talk to Walter now,

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do you, Jesse, No.

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Speaker 3: I guess not.

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Speaker 1: You are listening to Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring

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Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson, And now we continue

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with the night's case Dead giveaway, an authentic story from

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the files of the Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 2: I didn't want to question Walter Deneen until I'd had

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a chance to check on his movements.

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Speaker 3: The sheriff and I drove into town and called the

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Abilene police. The answer didn't fit.

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Speaker 4: I don't think there's any doubt about who he was.

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Speaker 3: Ranger.

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Speaker 2: Okay, thanks, thanks very much. Well, yes, that does a sheriff.

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Speaker 3: Kneen was an Abilene huh uh huh.

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Speaker 2: Checked into the House hotel yesterday about noon, checked out

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again at two ten this morning, right after the police

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notified him of the murder. Police could have spoken anybody

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on the phone, and they didn't tell him by phone.

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Police sergeant went up and told him direct description of

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Walter Tally's too. But there's something that doesn't tally though

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mileage on that car could be something wrong with this

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pedometer cable happened to MI car a few weeks back, maybe,

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and I'll be back sometime tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: Where are you going, Jase, Abilene.

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Speaker 2: As soon as I hit the highway, I put in

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a short wave called a headquarters station KTXA.

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Speaker 3: Unit ten to KTXA.

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Speaker 2: KTXA go ahead, you to tend this unit en route

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to Abilene. Request Abilene police secure names of all contacts

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made by subject.

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Speaker 3: Walter Deneen registered Harris Hotel there yesterday. Well to the

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unit ten.

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Speaker 2: Unit ten sent piece of wire back to lab for examination.

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Speaker 3: Any report yet not yet?

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Speaker 5: Why aren't think of Prince both on the.

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Speaker 2: Study will give you a call ten for Unit ten

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Claire the XI Austin.

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Speaker 3: When I reached Tambouline.

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Speaker 2: I got a complete rundown on Walter Deneen's activities. It

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was too complete, like he was making sure his time

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in the city would be accounted for. One of the

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people who'd seen him was his attorney. Well, yes, yes,

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Ranger missed Danien Spence several hours with me yesterday afternoon.

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We had dinner together last night, went to the theater.

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Speaker 3: What did you come to see you.

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Speaker 2: Abound Well, some investments. He's been doing a little speculating

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cotton good or bad. Well, it's client business, and I

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don't think I have the right to discuss it.

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Speaker 3: And find out by checking with the exchange. I'm just

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asking you to save time, all right.

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Speaker 2: His losses have been rather heavy, more than he could afford,

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much more. He carry much insurance on his wife and child.

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Speaker 5: No mother, no, nothing large.

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Speaker 3: Alright, thanks, one more thing.

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Speaker 2: Are you sure Daneen doesn't benefit financially by his wife's death?

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Speaker 3: Uh ranger.

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Speaker 2: He couldn't have gotten back to ashed And by one

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thirty last night after we'd been out.

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Speaker 3: That isn't what I asked.

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Speaker 2: Well, missus Danan had a good bit of money in

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her own rights case of her dead, though she had

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it tied up in trust for the child.

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Speaker 3: But the child is dead too. What happens now, Well,

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in that case the entire state will probably.

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Speaker 2: Go to mister Dania. I made one more stop before

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I headed back to Ashton. I made a visit to

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the garage with the hotel Harris. I keep the location

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of all guest cars on his index tracks, so we'll

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know which doors they're in.

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Speaker 3: When they want him. Was Walter Denin's car in here yesterday? Janine,

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that's d im isn't it there?

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Speaker 2: Uh huh, No, there was no record of it.

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Speaker 3: Was he a guest at the hotel? Yes?

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Speaker 2: Is there any parking lot around here he might have used?

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Not convenient to the hotel and parking is free here

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for guests or I don't think he'd choose a lot.

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Speaker 3: Neither do I?

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Speaker 2: Thanks. Before I left Abilene, I called my headquarters.

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Speaker 3: They had a report.

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Speaker 2: No strange prints had been found in Deneen's house. The

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wire key looked like a plant. I hung up and

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made another call to Sheriff Ross.

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Speaker 4: I'm beginning to wonder about Walter myself.

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Speaker 2: Jeez, why he's been kind of curious about where you are.

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Speaker 4: I told him he went to Abiline just to see

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who to draw him out?

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Speaker 3: Good? How do you react?

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Speaker 4: Kind of nervous? And he said something about flying up

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to Abiline and back.

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Speaker 2: Oh. He never did say oh, but he gave the

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impression that he drove even.

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Speaker 4: Saw he was there when the killer took place.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but the killer had the use of Daneen's car.

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Can you get your hands on the car that's over.

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Speaker 4: In the back of the future of parlor right now,

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that's where Deaneien said he's gone just a few minutes

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ago when he stopped fight to.

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Speaker 3: Ask about you.

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Speaker 2: We'll grab that car and check it for fingerprints. I'll

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be there as fast as I can roll.

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Speaker 3: Oh howdy, Jay car all worked over? Sheriff Yeah, or

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to have reports on the Prince soon sent him to Austin.

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Find any strangers. Quite a few one set that weren't Dnien's.

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Speaker 2: If they belong to a professional killer, there's a good

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chance he'll have a record. Where's Dnien's My deputies are

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out looking for him.

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Speaker 3: Why. I thought he was at the funeral, so I

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until I went in to look for him.

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Speaker 2: After we finished on the car. Undertaker said he'd left

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more than an hour ago by the front door.

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Speaker 3: It's the spotted you working over the car. Come on,

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let's find it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, not at the house, not any place in town.

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Speaker 3: There could he be if he hasn't run out trying

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to cover up for a couple of mistakes.

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Speaker 2: He won't run not yet. Why because his alibi is

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air tight. We can shake it unless we find the

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killery hired. We can't shake it enough. He took a

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big gamble, and he's got too much.

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Speaker 3: At stake to run off his wife's money. How do

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you know about that?

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Speaker 2: Just thinking back a little late, folks knew missus Denan's

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family left her well off. Walter married her not long

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after they passed on. A lot of people thought the

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money had something to do with it.

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Speaker 3: I wish you'd remember that sooner.

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Speaker 2: Well, Jace, they seemed close, and then there's the baby.

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Baby was just something extra that got into NaN's way. Oh,

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never gotten any of the money.

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Speaker 3: Of KTXA unit ten. Maybe a report on the Prince

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Unit ten go ahead, kt XA.

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Speaker 2: Have report on Prince lifted from a car at Ashton, Texas,

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once set identified as belonging to Joe Crofton. Joe Crofton

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any line on his whereabouts? Finished serving parole four months ago,

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last addressed in the Parole office with shack located western

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slope of Casket Mountain ten four Unit ten Claire ADYXA.

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Speaker 3: Austin Crofton must be the killer, then, Jase, I'll bet

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on it.

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Speaker 2: How far the Casket Mountain about twenty miles and turns

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south another five after that.

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Speaker 3: Well, we'll need horses if he's far up.

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Speaker 2: Should have brought your horse along the trailer with charcoal.

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Speaker 3: I can borrow one. Crofton's gonna be tough to take.

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You sound like you know him.

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Speaker 2: I wrote the ticket for his last trip to Huntsville

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six years ago.

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Speaker 3: That was murder too, but copped out with a man's ter.

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Please better not take any chances, Jason. He starts shooting,

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we'll have to toss it back dead center. Now.

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Speaker 2: You gotta take him alive. He'll talk to keep from

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burning once we get him. Yeah, yeah, I see if

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Walter Deanneen paid him to do the job. He's the

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only one can break the NaN's alibi. It's right, So

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no matter what happens, we gotta take him alive. Thropton's

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cabin was up all right way. Sheriff borrowed a horse

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from the man who directed us. Quite a climb, Jayson,

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I'm not so bad to following this march, though, fools.

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Speaker 3: He isn't there. I gotta hunt he will be.

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Speaker 5: I don't think Danin had enough money to pay for

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this kill him.

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Speaker 3: He was almost broke.

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Speaker 2: I mean he planned to pay off out of his

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wife's money when he got it. Yeah, I wonder how

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Walter arranged for him to get the car that night

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how much to arrange left it near the airport to

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the keys in it. Cropton brought it back and left

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it in the same spot. Probably left the house keep

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for him too. Club compartment maybe yeah. With the airport

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forty miles from Ashton. Nobody recognized the car or a

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strange driver come in at night us an abandoned row.

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Speaker 3: Look.

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Speaker 2: Huh hey, another horse left tracks here too, Yeah, and

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they're fresh. Oohoy, I must be Crofton's horse while he

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was taking the rough way. Just cut into the wash

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here to find a better trail. Grafton lives up here,

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he'd know the best trail.

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Speaker 3: Who else be coming up here? Denive to shut him up?

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Come on, Jock here, give off. Not too fast, chaser

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will spill.

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Speaker 4: You gotta risk it.

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Speaker 3: Too slow, it'll be too late.

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Speaker 2: We reached the shack and crept up on him. There

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was no horse around and no sign of life. Tried

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to draw fire.

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Speaker 3: By shit going ourselves, but none came. We had to

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go in.

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Speaker 2: All right, hold your gun ready, sheriff, and don't come

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into like car.

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Speaker 3: You all right, Jason, all right, sheriff, Come in nobody here?

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Huh oh wait.

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Speaker 2: A oh that Crawton.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's him. Deneen got here first. Jace.

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Speaker 2: This fellow looks like he shot himself. Guns in his

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own hand. No, what's his paper beside him? Let's see

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Jasey did kill himself. This note says so confesses the

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murders too.

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Speaker 3: Sure it does.

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Speaker 2: But Walter Deneen wrote that, and that note's gonna hang him.

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Speaker 3: How do you know? Have you ever seen the Niens writing? No,

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I've seen Crofton's before.

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Speaker 2: He signed his name with an ex prison record show

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he's illiterate, never could read or write. Come on, Sheriff,

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gonna put out a pickup for the new We'll pick

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him up ourselves.

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Speaker 3: He can't be far off, but if he'd.

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Speaker 2: Headed back down the waters, we'd have passed him.

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Speaker 3: On our way up.

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Speaker 2: He must be going across the top of the mountain.

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Go down the other side. Come on.

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Speaker 3: We raked our horses as fast as they could move.

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He spotted a rider ahead of us as he topped

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the slope. He heard us because he looked back and

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whipped his mouth and disappeared. He knows were on him.

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Got about three hundred yards.

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Speaker 5: We'll get him.

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Speaker 3: Keep powder leather head. We're coming to the top. Now

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keep blowing the saddle.

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Speaker 5: Watch out for an ambush.

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Speaker 6: There is combing down too fast, up her parsel tumbling

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the down break. Then he was passing too hard, ain't

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he feed? Look I scrambled behind the rocks. Woo, charcoal

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head oo.

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Speaker 3: Get the turn.

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Speaker 6: That's a house.

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Speaker 5: How swawk.

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Speaker 3: He's down onto that rock shelf.

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Speaker 2: Perfect cover, not too Bullet's a ricochet back from that

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ledge behind him. See that dent and the lens. Yeah,

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draw your gun and we'll empty it on him. Hit

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right below the dent. All right, all right, let's hope

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for a billiard shot. Start firing.

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Speaker 3: I please draw your gun out to nan. Don't shoot anymore, okay, Sheriff.

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Speaker 2: Let's take you.

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Speaker 3: And I was sorry for you, Walter up until a

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few hours ago. You gotta get me into a doctor.

508
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You're not hurt badly. We'll get you to a doctor.

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All I want to know is how you met crofton.

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Come on, Walter, talk up. I'll sell his picture in

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the paper when he got out of jail. I made

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a deal with him a couple of months ago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a deal to wipe out your own wife and kid.

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It must be great to be as brave as you are,

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get af Deneen, you got a long way to go.

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Walter Deneen confessed and made a plea for clemency. It

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was not granted, and on the eleventh day of October

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nineteen forty seven he died in the electric chair at Huntsville.

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Speaker 3: And now here again is the start of our show.

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Speaker 1: Joel McCrae with another interesting antecdote about the Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 2: When the Allies invaded Normandy in World War Two, it

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an ideas to how far the fame of the Texas

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Rangers had spread. Both surrendering Nazis and liberated free French

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said they knew the war was as good as over

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because the Texas.

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Speaker 3: Rangers had landed.

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Speaker 2: Of course, it was the heroic American Ranger troops who

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made the landings, but nothing could convince the Nazi war

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prisoners that these were not the terrible Texans they had

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heard about in many American legends. Good Night, folks, see

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at the same time next week.

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Speaker 1: Next week Joel McCray and another authentic reenactment of a

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case from the piles of the Texas Rangers. Joel McCray

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is currently seen starring in The Universal International Technicolor production

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Saddle Trent.

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Speaker 3: Tonight's cast included.

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Speaker 1: Tony Barrett, Loreen Tuttle, Mike Barrett, hal Marsh, and Paul Freest.

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This story was transcribed and adapted by Joel Murcot, and

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the pro is produced and directed by Stacy Keach.

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Speaker 3: This is Hal Give Me Speaking.

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Speaker 7: Three chimes mean good Times on NBC. Monday means music,

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Fine music on NBC. Listen tomorrow for these great musical programs,

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the NBC Symphony and the Band of America. Be sure

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to listen Monday as Milton Catams conducts the NBC Symphony

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Orchestra in a full hour concert of the finest music

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on the air. And listen to for Paul Laval conducting

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the Band of America. Every Monday on NBC. Bill Harris

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reminding you that next it's Theater Guild on NBC