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Speaker 1: The National Broadcasting Company presents.

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Speaker 2: Joel McCrae in Tales of the Texas Rangers. Tonight transcribe

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from Hollywood, another authentic reenactment of a case from the

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files of the Texas Rangers, Tales of the Texas Rangers,

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starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Jace Pearson. Texas more than

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two hundred and sixty thousand square miles and fifty men

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will make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement

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party in North America. Now from the files of the

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Texas Rangers come these stories based on fact only, names, dates,

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and because our fictitious for obvious reasons they advanced themselves

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are a matter of record.

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Speaker 3: Case fort Tonite the Devil Share.

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Speaker 4: It is six forty five pm October twenty sixth, nineteen

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thirty nine. Frank Wellen, a dirt farmer, is sitting down

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to a simple evening meal when the door to the

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kitchen opens and his brother Jeff Whalen comes in. Ated, Jeff,

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I thought you was going to spend a couple of

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weeks up at Big D so I changed my mind.

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Speaker 3: Come back log against it. Didn't say there was yeah,

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just fix some need get you played stop playing big brother.

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Speaker 4: I won't eat. I can rust them own grubb. You

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can call it fat back and beans grub.

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Speaker 3: What's the matter with you and it had? Jeff? Nothing?

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Just leave me alone.

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Speaker 5: You've been acting like this. Requite a spell thought, taking

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a tripp or to you some good.

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Speaker 3: Jeff?

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Speaker 4: Why'd you come back? I met Luther Riggs up in

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Big d He told me you and mark Jan was

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fixing to get married.

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Speaker 3: Ah, so that's it. Why didn't you tell me?

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Speaker 5: Because of the way you've been acting, I was going

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to tell you when you come back.

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Speaker 4: He should have had to talk with me, Frank, mar

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Speaker 3: Mama used to be eight now, Jeff.

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Speaker 4: Maybe you should ask me a few things about mar Jane.

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Speaker 3: Maybe there's a couple of things you ought to know.

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Speaker 5: Anything I want to know about mar Jan, She'll tell

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me yourself. Far as your concerning ain't nothing to tell.

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Speaker 4: No, you all learn a little about women, Frank, you

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might learn a lot if you didn't spend so many

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days looking at the rear rant of a mule, so

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many nights poking your nose into that bible.

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Speaker 3: Lell If it's hurt.

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Speaker 5: Me any, I reckon I find out when judgment comes. Meantime,

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I ain't taking your word for it.

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Speaker 4: Meantime, you ain't bringing mar John here either. Maybe you're

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forgetting it. I'm half owner.

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Speaker 3: Of this point. You're never approved by anything you grew here.

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Speaker 4: The law says I'm half owner with or thout grown anything.

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You want to bring a wife here, you better buy

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my eye. You have my share for two thousand dollars

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in good riddings, Jeff, you got yourself a deal.

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Speaker 5: I'll give you eight hundred cash in the morning, the.

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Speaker 3: Notes for the rest.

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Speaker 6: You give them a two thousand cash in the morning.

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Speaker 3: I ain't got that kind of money, and you know it.

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Speaker 4: Who do you think you're kidding? You had a good crap.

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You got that much in the bank right now?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I got it, and almost half of it belongs

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show Uncle Joe for working on shares work you wouldn't

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raise a hand to do.

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Speaker 6: I don't care about you are Uncle Joe.

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Speaker 3: Let him weag, not me. Jeff, get this and get

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it straight.

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Speaker 5: Uncle Joe is going to get everytt nickel that's.

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Speaker 3: Coming to him whenever and however he wants it.

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Speaker 4: He's worked for it, Okay, Frank, I just guess you

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and me and my Joanne.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna live here like one big, happy family.

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Speaker 8: Maybe my jan like that more you think you, Jeff,

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if you wasn't my brother, I'll get you money for

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you somehow.

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Speaker 3: I'll get it and you can clear out.

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't have my chair around dit like you for

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a million dollars.

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Speaker 6: Oh, she used to be mighty. Find a dirt like me.

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Speaker 5: Jeff, shut up, don't say nothing else, Jeff, don't open

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your mouth. It's only remembering when we was kids together.

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In the memory, I'm on Paul's keeping me from being too.

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Speaker 6: Bad because I ain't like you.

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Speaker 3: Memories.

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Speaker 4: Don't bother me, doll You ain't gonna do anything to me, Frank,

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and I'm gonna get.

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Speaker 6: What I want, and I'm gonna get it all.

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Speaker 3: Now, including my cha. Jeff. Put dead bread knife back

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on the table.

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Speaker 4: I took a knife to you once before, Frank. Paul

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stop me that time. Put Paul ain't around anymore me

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that nut you. I bet you sure what BA was

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here this time. Jeff Whalen waited until next morning before

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reporting the death of his brother Frank to the local sheriff.

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The sheriff asked for the assistance of a Texas Ranger.

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Ranger Jase Pearson was assigned to the case.

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Speaker 7: Well, jeez, I went all over the place earlier this

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morning when I.

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Speaker 3: Was called here.

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Speaker 7: Now you've been all over it. If you see anything

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I must have missed. It doesn't seem to be much

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to see except the body. I want to talk to

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the brother now he's still waiting in the parlor. Yeah, now,

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I'll see him in a minute. Look at the table

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where Frank Whalon was eating. I was cutting his bread

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from this whole loaf crumb. Show that there was a sharp,

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clean cut this eaton. That's the only one on the table, though,

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that's not sharp enough to slice the red that way.

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He might have cut the bread then put the knife away.

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It's possible, but it doesn't figure.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, it doesn't.

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Speaker 7: Fellus.

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Speaker 3: HiT's down to his food.

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Speaker 7: He don't put nothing the way until he's through. And

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Whalen wasn't through the looks of it. He just started

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to eat.

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Speaker 3: What you're looking at the drawers for.

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Speaker 7: Murder weapon, Maybe something like this bread knife could be.

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I guess that knife's clean, Yeah, too clean. Look at

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the blade in the handle.

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Speaker 3: Well, what about him?

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Speaker 7: The other knives in this drawer don't shine like this one.

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This one's got special treatment. Hey, I see what you're

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driving at. You figured it was rubbed with a scar

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and pad to remove blood. Maybe hunt and something. We'll

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have to find out, but it's worth a bet it's

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been cleaned up too well to help us any though,

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And we might as well put it back in the drawer.

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It seems like that knife the only thing we got

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to go on, Jason, And we're not even sure that

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I know. And we better have a talk with Whalen's

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brother right now.

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Speaker 3: Sure Jeff won't be able to help much. Why not.

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Speaker 7: He just got back from Dallas early this morning, called

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me soon as you found the body. Oh, I didn't

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know that. I alway might as well see him anyhow.

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Marjane gulfs in the parlor with him, Jason.

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Speaker 3: Oh, she and.

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Speaker 7: Margin and Frank Whalen was fixing to get married. Folks

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tried to keep her away when the news got out,

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but she came anyhow. It's just as well she might

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know something. She's broke up pretty bad. Parlor's here, sliding

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door hollow. Yeah, the ranger'd like to talk to you

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and mar Jane, now.

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Speaker 3: Nice, Frank, I want to see him now.

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Speaker 7: I think it'd be better if you didn't, ma'am, for.

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Speaker 3: Your own good Margine, this night, only last night I

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was home of soon pillowcases.

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Speaker 4: No, come on, please, ma Love, do you have to

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talk to him now? I can tell you anything you

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want to.

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Speaker 7: Know, all right, But I think she'd better come into

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the next room then. Okay, ma'am, Why don't you just

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stretch out on that sofa?

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Speaker 3: Unrest? All right?

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Speaker 7: Jeff, when did you find your brother's body?

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Speaker 4: Well, like a total sheriff by five o'clock this morning

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when I come home.

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Speaker 7: He was killed last night around dinner time. Where were

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you then.

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Speaker 3: On the road?

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Speaker 4: I reckon having up the big d for the last

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five six days, and you'd drive back, didn't have nothing

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to drive back in?

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Speaker 6: Our hitch rides come back same way I.

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Speaker 7: Went and got here at five am. When'd you leave Dallas?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Yes, dafternoon, I guess about two o'clock. Why why are

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you asking me this? You're supposed to find out who

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kept Frank.

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Speaker 7: I don't get steaming, Jeff, Rangers got a reason for

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asking you didn't touch anything in the house when you

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got in ranger.

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Speaker 4: First thing I saw was my brother laying down to

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catching floor in a hot tail back to the high

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one called sheriff, waited right that he come thick?

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Speaker 7: Now, okay, you're they've been having trouble with anybody. You

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know of any reason why anybody might want to kill him?

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Speaker 4: No, nothing I can thank, Oh sip, go ahead, je.

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Well just something kind of my mind, sheriff. But couldn't

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be here. Couldn't be.

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Speaker 7: Who come on, Jeff, your brother's laying dead in there.

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We got to know every little thing, no matter how small. Well,

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all right, it's just far I left. Frank did have

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a little argument with Uncle Joe.

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Speaker 3: Uncle Joe, who's he old sharecropper?

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Speaker 7: Been working a good piece of this farm, per Frank.

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What was the argument between him and Frank?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 4: Oh oh, Joe claimed that Frank owed him some money

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from the crop.

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Speaker 7: Frank said it didn't. It's both pretty hot about it.

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That doesn't sound like your brother, Frank or Uncle Joe.

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Speaker 3: I know it don't.

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Speaker 4: It was probably just a misunderstanding it straight. Now, That's

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what I told you. Wasn't worth mentioning.

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Speaker 7: When it comes to murder, anything is worth mentioning. And

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this sounds like it might be plenty important, Sheriff, we

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better ask Uncle Joe to would come for his movements

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last night. I haven't seen him around, but his granddaughter

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Bell might be able to tell us something. He's been

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standing around outside the house ever since.

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Speaker 3: We got here.

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Speaker 6: Look, I'd like to go back to Marrow, John.

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Speaker 7: She needs somebody with her, all right, go ahead and

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tell Belle to come in here, will you?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 6: I sent her right in.

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Speaker 7: Oh, just a second, Jeff, Yeah, you must be pretty tired.

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You have much trouble catching rides. Last night I.

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Speaker 3: Got one long ride in a truck.

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Speaker 7: You know who owned the truck or anything about the driver?

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Speaker 6: No, I didn't talk to the driver much. A slept

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most of the time. I think it was out of

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state truck.

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Speaker 7: Truckers usually don't like sleeping rider beside them on a nighthaul.

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Speaker 4: Well, this fellow let me sleep on the shelf up

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in the back of the cab.

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Speaker 7: Oh, I see all right? Send Bell in. Okay, you've

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been asking him a lot of funny questions. Yeah, and

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he's been giving me a lot of funny answers.

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Speaker 3: What do you mean, Jason?

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Speaker 7: And stuff about sleeping on the shelf in a truck cab.

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He never slept in that suit he's wearing. It's too

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well pressed, so he changed clothes when he got home

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this morning, he said. He ran to call you the

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minute he saw his brother.

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Speaker 3: Will see me, mister Angel.

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Speaker 7: Yes, Belle, come in, Belle. You and your grandfather, uncle Joe,

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You live on this farm, Yes, sir, that little house

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down there near the medd You.

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Speaker 3: Can see it, just the two of you, Yes, sir.

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Speaker 7: Where was your grandfather last night?

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Speaker 3: Who was home? Sirck you don't never go no, please?

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Speaker 7: Was he home all night? Where was he at dinner time?

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Speaker 3: Homes? Honest? Only tell me? Left was for a few

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minutes to be He didn't leave the house at all.

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No time, he didn't leave the house all Look.

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Speaker 7: Bell, you started to say something, then you backed away

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from Bell. If you want to help us and your grandfather,

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you better talk with all this going on. Why isn't

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your grandpa around? Why do you run off?

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Speaker 4: He didn't run off.

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Speaker 3: He went to the church to pray for mister Frank.

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Speaker 7: You love mister Frank.

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Speaker 2: You wouldn't never heard it.

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Speaker 7: Mister Frank was good to us.

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Speaker 3: Where's their church?

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Speaker 7: Chaff left Fork of the road decided town. But he

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probably ran off someplace and find out about that later.

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If he isn't at the church, let's go. Uncle Joe

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was at his church, all right. We saw him kneeling

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in the dim light.

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Speaker 3: When we opened the.

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Speaker 7: Door, Sheriff beckoned to him, and he came out into

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the sunlight. Tears were streaming down his face.

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Speaker 9: I was just saying the press, mister Frank, share, I

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didn't know you'd been needing me fay thing.

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Speaker 7: Where were you at dinner time last night? Uncle Joe?

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Speaker 6: Why are you asking me that?

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Speaker 7: Mister Church, Just answer the question, Uncle Joe.

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Speaker 3: You can't be figuring to die kill mister Frank, is you?

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Speaker 7: We just want to know where you were.

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Speaker 9: I never heard mister Frank. He's the best man I

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ever knew. Why he's even helping me so as I

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could buy my own strip of land and send my

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own you, Uncle Joe.

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Speaker 7: I want an answer and tell the truth. Bell already

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tried to lie for.

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Speaker 9: You, begging your pardon, mister Shepherd. Don't nobody never have

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to lie for me, sir. The truth ain't never hurt me.

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I ain't never hurt the truth.

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Speaker 7: But you'd better tell it just a minute, Sheriff, Uncle Joe,

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did you leave your house at supper time yesterday?

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Speaker 3: Yes, mister Ranger, I did.

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Speaker 9: Where'd you go to mister Frank's house like I did

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that the evening to bring him some of Bell's fresh

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bread first supper.

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Speaker 7: Uncle Joe, I better tell you right now that anything

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you say from here on can be used against.

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Speaker 3: You, used against me for what, sir, ain't nothing. I'm

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ashamed to tell.

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Speaker 7: How long did you stay there?

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Speaker 3: Mister Frank was cooking him some food. I just stayed long.

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Speaker 9: I'm enough to leave the bread and to fix up

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with him to meet him Friday at the bank.

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Speaker 3: So as he could give him the money. What money?

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What was mine from working on sheds?

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Speaker 7: Are you saying Frank Whalen was holding money of yours?

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You had an argument about whether or not he owed

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you that money, didn't you?

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Speaker 3: Mister Frank? And me ain't never had no arguments, sir.

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He was my good friend.

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Speaker 7: Hey, Jay, sure comes one of my deputy's, Ben Sloman.

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I thought he and the other boys were beating around

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the farm. You know, they might have found something already

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been out of Sheriff, I thought you got wrapping a newspaper.

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This what a bloody nice Where'd you get it?

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Speaker 3: Reckon?

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Speaker 7: Old Uncle Joe here could tell you as well as

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I can. We found it in the weeds out behind

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his shack on Whaling's farm.

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

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Joel mc pray as Ranger Jase Pearson. We continue now

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with tonight's case, The Devil's share an authentic story from

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the files of the Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 7: Uncle Joe stared at the bloodstained knife the deputy had

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found behind his house. The stare was a look of recognition.

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Have you ever seen this knife before?

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Speaker 3: Uncle Joe? Come on, answer me. You know we've seen

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it before. Sheriff can tell just by looking at him.

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Speaker 9: How about it, Uncle Joe? Yes, and mister Rangel, yes, mine,

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it's just Al Whitland knife. But I never used that

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and nothing else on mister Frank.

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Speaker 3: And we'll go.

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Speaker 7: You're under arrest for the murder of Frank Whalen.

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Speaker 9: Mister Sheriff, I'm telling you here outside of God's.

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Speaker 3: Own house, I've never done it.

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Speaker 7: I think maybe you better deputize a few more men, Sheriff,

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we might need him. Why what for? People around here

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thought mighty hire Frank Whalen Jace. They aren't gonna cut

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into the idea of him getting killed. But somebody took

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in a help and.

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Speaker 3: You can't blame him for that.

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Speaker 7: I can blame anybody for anything that doesn't follow the law.

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You're not going to have any problem with Uncle Joe, Sheriff.

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I'm going to take him off your hand.

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Speaker 3: Now hold on, Jason.

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Speaker 7: He's my prisoner, and I'll guarantee his safety. I know

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you'd protect him. That isn't why I'm taking him. I'll

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give you a receipt for him and bring him back

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here later. We are you taking him On the radio

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for Unit eighty eight the Ranger plane to pick us

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up and fly us to Austin, and you'd better hand

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over that knife, Ben that goes with me. I put

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through my call to Camp Maybury, Austin, and the Ranger

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plane picked us up at the nearest airfield.

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Speaker 3: Uncle Joe tightened up.

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Speaker 7: As we took off, and his lips moved like he

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was praying. After that, he relaxed. When you've taken me too, sir,

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Ranger Camping Lab at Austin. Uncle Joe, you know what

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a lie detector is Austin. Well, that's a kind of

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a machine. It's called a polygraph. It can tell whether

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a man is lying or telling the truth. Now, whether

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or not you take the test is up to you.

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We can't force you.

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Speaker 3: I'm colored. Folks would have worked right on me. Yeah,

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it'll work all right now, Joe. If you say it's

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all right, mister Ranger, then I do it.

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Speaker 10: I trust you, sir. Used good folks like mister Frank was.

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We landed at Camp Maybury.

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Speaker 3: I dropped the.

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Speaker 7: Bloodstained knife at the lab and then took Temple Joe

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upstairs to the polygraph room. He wavered a little when

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we seated him in the chair and fixed the bands

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to make sure his blood pressure, pulse and respiration.

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Speaker 3: Sir, this chip say an electric chair is he? Don't worry.

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Speaker 7: It won't hurt Temple Joe. Ready to go, Jays, Okay,

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I'll be waiting in the next office.

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Speaker 3: No matter what I ask you, Uncle Joe, I want

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you to answer yes or no. That's all I understand.

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Yes is your name, Uncle Joe?

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Speaker 7: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Is Bell your granddaughter? Yes? Do you go to church? Yes? Sir.

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Speaker 7: I waited in the next office, knowing what was happening.

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The technician would go through the list of questions, the simple,

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harmless questions that would register truthful reaction on the graph,

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and then he'd start to hit the questions that mattered,

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the questions about Frank quaelon.

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Speaker 3: Yes, did you have an argument with him about money?

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Did you use a knife on him? No, sir? Did

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you kill Frank Whalen? No, sir. Was the knife with

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the blood on it yours? Yes? Do you know how

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the blood got on it? No, sir, He is not

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the truth, So help you God, Yes, sir, that's all

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I guess. Are you just stay put? Uncle Joe, I'll

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take those things off in a minute. Yes, we're all finished.

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Speaker 7: Jase, h, I was a reaction.

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Speaker 3: Looks like he's telling the truth, Jase all the way

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down the.

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Speaker 7: Line, even about not having an argument with Frank Whalen

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over money.

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Speaker 3: According to the graph, no argument.

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Speaker 7: He wasn't lying, good because that means somebody else was lying.

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I'm gonna take him back to just a second day,

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Kenny speaking. Yeah, I'll tell him. He'll be right down.

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And that was the lab on that knife you brought in,

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and they typed the blood. It isn't human blood. Jase,

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It's Chicken Blood. Unit eighty eight flew us back to

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the airfield where I had left my car and horse trailer.

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The sheriff had been notified that we were turning, and

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he met us at the jail with a couple of deputies.

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At my request, Uncle Joe agreed to spend the night

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in the cell for safe keeping, and I filled the

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sheriff in on what I'd found out at Austin Chicking Blood.

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I don't get it, Jason. Why didn't Uncle Joe say

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he'd used that knife to kill a hen? Because he

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didn't That knife was planted where it was found, and

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whoever planted it didn't expect the investigation to go any further.

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Uncle Joe kept the knife in the shed behind his house.

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Killer got it during the night after the murder, stuck

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a hen with it and tossed it in the weeds.

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Have to be somebody who knew the place pretty well

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to find that knife and do the plan.

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Speaker 3: It was somebody who knew the place.

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Speaker 7: Frank's brother, Jeff. Frank's brother, Jeff, what do you know

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about him? Have you ever been in any trouble? Not

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around here? And we better check and find out where

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he stayed in Dallas, and who saw him while.

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Speaker 3: He was there.

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Speaker 7: We don't know for sure he was Oh, he was.

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Speaker 3: There all right?

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Speaker 7: How do you know? Because Luthor Riggs saw him. Luthor

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just rode back in Dallas this morning. I met him

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about an hour ago, and he told me it seemed

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Jeff there, awlong was Rigs up in Dallas just overnight?

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Speaker 3: Quick business trip? Why?

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Speaker 7: And that seemed kind of funny that Jeff hitchhiked back

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here in such a hurry when he could have stayed

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over until this morning and gotten a sure ride with

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somebody he knew.

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Speaker 3: Didn't think of that. Where does Riggs live? Farm? Four

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mile out?

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Speaker 7: Let's drive out there. I want to see him.

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Speaker 3: How is here? Come out to give me a hand

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with my milk?

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Speaker 7: No thanks, Let go that car for a minute. Luther,

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want you to meet Ranger Pearson?

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Speaker 3: A surety? Howdy howdy?

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Speaker 7: Sheriff tells me you met Jeff Whaling up in Dallas yesterday.

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That's right when I reckon it was just about nine

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o'clock here. I'd been driving most to night to get there.

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Stopped for red light and there was Jeff just fixing

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across the street. You talk to him at all. Sure,

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told him to hop in and I'd take him wherever

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he was going. He said he was just drifting around.

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So we went and had some breakfast together. Him he'd

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tell you he was heading back for home, not right off.

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He didn't sounded at first like he was playing to

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spend quite a while. And Big D didn't say nothing

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about coming home until well until after I told him

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that mar Jan's folks had told me that mar Jan

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and Frank was getting ready to set the date. Do

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you mean he didn't know his brother was going to

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get married? Didn't seem to, matter of fact, now that

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you mentioned it, he'd right upset.

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Speaker 3: When I brought it up.

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Speaker 7: Maybe it was because of Frank not telling him, or

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maybe it was because maybe it was what go ahead.

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I think I can answer that one. Jason, mar Jen,

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and Jeff used to walk out together about a year ago.

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Then mar Jam's da broke off with him, took up

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with Frank.

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Speaker 3: Later.

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Speaker 7: I tried ranger, but Jeff never looked like it bothered

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him none. The way a man looks doesn't have anything

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to do with what goes on inside of him. Thanks

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for your help, Riggs, Come.

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Speaker 3: On, Shriff the.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, looks like you dug up a motive wish.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, if we need evidence to go with it. Jeff

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left Dallas a lot earlier than he told us. He

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did not much chance of digging up anybody who gave

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him a lift, I guess, and I didn't say no

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chance at all. There's something else we can look for, though,

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what's that? Remember my saying that his clothes didn't look

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like he'd slept in him or driven a long way

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in him. Yeah, I did. The only reason either change

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clothes would be because the things he'd been wearing might

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have gotten blood on. I'm not saying you're wrong, Javes,

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but we combed that house. There wasn't nothing there. No,

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they'll be on the farm someplace. What make you think so?

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Jeff couldn't risk being seen around any place last night.

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Any movie we'd make would have to be on foot.

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He had no other way. So it's a good bet

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he stuck close by the farm until he called you

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this morning. I got my horse in the trailer to

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pick up one for you and take another look around, Jays.

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Speaker 3: We been out here half the night.

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Speaker 7: I don't think we're gonna find anything.

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Speaker 3: Maybe not come on back to my place and let's

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hit the sect. Then we wake up. We can start

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out fresh.

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Speaker 7: And I want to wait too long. We come here

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by daylight, Jeff, we'll see us looking well.

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Speaker 3: I'm beat.

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Speaker 7: Can't we just go into the trees you're we yonder

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and rest a while? Yeah, I guess so se dawn

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in about two hours. We can move faster than with

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a little light. Good, Come on and go over to

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the trees.

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Speaker 3: We'll all take a breathing.

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Speaker 7: Come on, charky. We moved into the trees, dismounted and

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hobbled the horses. The sheriff dozed off quickly, and then

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I began to nod, and an hour later I came

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out of it. There was a bright glow across the fields,

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beyond some cornstalks, and it wasn't the morning sun. To

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put my hand over the sheriff's mouth and shook him shot.

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Speaker 3: Look over there, it looks like a fire.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, just beyond the corn Come on, quick and quiet.

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Speaker 3: What do you think it is?

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Speaker 7: Jeff Whalen burning those clothes we've been looking for. Ran

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for the cornfield, and when we got into it, the

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light rustle of the morning wind and the stalks covered

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our approach. Came to the edge of the field and

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saw him, Jeff Whalen, dumping kerosene in a pile of

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smoldering cloth.

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Speaker 3: Ja. Those boys in that hole and old well covered over.

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Speaker 7: He dumped the pose in there last night, and now

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he's come back to burn him. He must have been

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some water oil.

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Speaker 3: They're smoothing.

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Speaker 7: They won't burn right, and he will if he keeps

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a corn kerosene on him long enough.

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Speaker 3: Let's get him.

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Speaker 7: Oh, Jeff, that's enough drop that can drop it, I said,

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for sure, Sure, I'll drop it what. He threw the

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can onto the fire, and a sheet of flame leaped

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up between us like a blinding flare. I dove across it,

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trying to clear my eyes. Look out, case, she's.

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Speaker 3: Got a knight was on him before I saw him.

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I played flash.

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Speaker 7: I dug for my gun, but I couldn't bring it

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up in time. The knife slashed into my shoulder and

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went to the ground. He landed on top of me,

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but as he raised his hand to strike, I got

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my gun free with my left hand and slapped the

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barrel against the side of his head. All right, case, yeah,

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I guess my shirt will need a little stitching your shoulder.

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You need a little stitchen too.

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Speaker 3: Couldn't risk a.

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Speaker 7: Shot, you were too close. Come on, gotta stamp that

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fire up before all the evidence is burned. Well, that's

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doing a kerosene on the ground burning. I kicked what

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we need out of the fire. Plenty left for your lap.

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Speaker 3: You work on, good thinking, sheriff coming to Jason.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, all right, Jeff, come out of it. Come on, what.

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Speaker 3: Did jump me for?

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Speaker 6: I was only burning some old fun.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, we know the old things you happened to be

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wearing when you killed your brother. You were right about

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that thread knife, Jason. Look here's what he used on you.

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You got nervous about that too, didn't you. Jeff decided

544
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to get rid of everything and let old uncle Joe

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ride for you.

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Speaker 3: Oh look, you're crazy. I don't know what you're talking about.

547
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Speaker 7: Yeah, and talk kind of a foreign language. But maybe

548
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the grand jury you'll understand me when they invite you

549
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from murdering your brother. Come on, get on your feet.

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Speaker 3: Move.

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Speaker 4: Jeff Wellen was tried and convicted for the brutal knife

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murder of his brother Frank on August second, nineteen forty,

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at Huntsville Penitentiary.

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Speaker 3: He died in the electric chair.

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Speaker 7: This is Joel McCrae wishing you all a very very

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happy New Year. Good night, folks, See you next week.

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

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case from the files of the Texas Rangers. Joel McCrae

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is currently seen starring in the Universal International Technicolor production

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Saddle Trend. The night's cast included Tony Barrett, Tom McKee,

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Parley Bear, Peggy Weber, Roy Glenn Wilms, Herbert and Rye Billsberry.

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This story was transcribed and adapted by Joel Murcott, and

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the program was produced and directed by Stacy Keach.

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Speaker 3: Hal Gibney speaking.

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Speaker 7: NBC wishes use season of the t a briving not

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tomorrow man, Happy New Year. Stay tuned for the sixty

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four dollars question tomorrow Remember the Cotton Bowl Game on

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NBC's