Feb. 2, 2025

Unknown Broadcast | "The Next Murder"

Unknown Broadcast | "The Next Murder"

In this episode, we delve into a gripping narrative that invites listeners into a world shrouded in intrigue, suspense, and the ever-elusive nature of fate. Our story unfolds against the backdrop of a small town, marked by recent tragedy and permeated with a chilling sense of foreboding. The protagonist, feeling the weight of solitude, unexpectedly finds companionship in a stranger. As the plot thickens, we are drawn into a conversation that explores the complexities of human existence, the motives behind unspeakable acts, and the insatiable curiosity that drives individuals to seek answers about life and death.

The dialogue brilliantly captures the tensions between two men whose paths cross in an eerie coincidence. Engaging in a discussion centered around the recent murder of a young girl, they embark on a philosophical exploration of crime and its motivations. One character, a seemingly ordinary man, reveals a morbid fascination with murder, suggesting that far from being an act of desperation, such deeds might hold a sinister allure that connects humanity in unexpected ways. As they engage, it's clear that the protagonists share an unspoken bond over their thoughts on mortality and the macabre.

The narrative twists and turns as we glimpse the inner workings of the mind driven by intrigue and a thirst for understanding. With a looming threat that another murder may occur, the characters wrestle with the implications of their conversations. The protagonist's growing unease is palpable as he navigates his feelings toward a waitress named Amy and the darkening atmosphere surrounding their chance encounter. Their rendezvous leads to an exploration of deeper themes: loneliness, connection, and the thin line between companionship and danger.

As the tension builds, we are led down a path filled with unforeseen consequences. The protagonist’s night spirals into chaos, and he finds himself entangled in a web of suspicion and dread that challenges his very sanity. The heartbreaking realization comes when all that he feared becomes reality, and he grapples with the aftermath of actions he never anticipated. Each twist reveals layers of psychological complexity, raising questions about agency and the nature of evil.

The mind-bending conclusion leaves listeners questioning the essence of choice and predestination. The final revelations force both the protagonist and the audience to confront the unsettling truth about human nature, the inevitability of violence, and the haunting echoes of our choices. This exploration into the darkness within us all lingers long after the episode ends, prompting a reflection on what drives us to the brink of our limits. The chilling tale brings to life the philosophical musings on murder not as mere acts of violence, but as woven narratives of interconnected lives where fate often plays the cruelest of hands.

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Ah my, dear Ida, good to have you back. It's

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getting late. I thought maybe I was going to be

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all on my lonesome tonight, but no, no, no, no,

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here you are. You are with me, with me, and

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I have a good one for you tonight. I always

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have a good one for you, but this one is

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I'm quite fond white for you. See, we all live

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alive where we hope we understand what's happening to us,

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what will happen to us, and even what has happened

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to us. But the truth is truth. The future is

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always ahead of us. We never really know where we're going.

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That's why tonight's story is extra special because you see,

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it's not about talk about murder, Murdy, It's about it's

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abound the next text murder. So get comfortable while I

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make you a spot of tea and we listen to

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listen with chilling right.

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Now, right now, and now a tale well calculated to

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keep you in softspense In a moment, Act one of

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the Next Murder, darring Joseph Julian and Lawson Serbi, and

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written especially for suspense by Joseph Cochran. This first portion

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of suspense is brought to you by the makers of

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Alpine cigarettes.

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What's it like to smoke an alpine Well, it's like

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a sky full of clouds racing along.

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With the wind. That's what it's like to smoke an alpine.

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Alpine has a freshness about it, like morning dew, a

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life lively, downliding, xuberant kind of case.

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There is something long alpine.

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If this sounds good to you, try Alpine filter cigarettes. Mine,

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I said, Oh no said at the late edition you're reading.

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Yeah, yeah, Well that was.

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A terrible thing, that murder over in Springdale Off.

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I just don't understand how anybody could do a thing

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like I don't.

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Nobody does, not even the one who did it. And

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there's got to be a reason or none. The poor

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dead girl wasn't pretty, she had no men friends, she

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was too poor for robbery. Would you like some dessert? Yeah,

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cocon a custard pie, beautiful and fresh cup of coffee.

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And you no, I'm pretty thanks? Hey are you a detective? Hardly?

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How come years so interested in the murder?

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Oh, Murder's a hobby of mine.

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Look rather, cocon I costand I brought cocon I cream, coc.

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And I cream.

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Okay, yeah, that's fine. Hey.

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Look, I wasn't trying to be prescious now when I

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called you beautiful, and I don't know your name, so

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I just called you beautiful. It's a lot better.

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And hey you hey you.

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Yes, sir, Hey, you're not interested in her.

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I like to kid him alone. She's not pretty.

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I mean they're pretty. Everybody gives them the rush. Homely

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girl appreciates a little attention. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, see,

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well I'm shoving off. Thanks for letting me share your

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account of space.

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Not at all nice.

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Nice, Hey, geez, tell your friend thanks for the nice tip.

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He's not my friend. I don't even know him. He

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just sat here with me.

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Say, I know it's short notice, but would you like

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to go to a movie with me when you're through here?

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Oh I couldn't.

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Thanks, some other night, I think about it.

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Hey, thanks, thanks a lot.

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Night, beautiful. Nice you think about that movie real hard?

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Outside, the rain that had been coming down hard when

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I entered the dinner was now a light drizzle.

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He was standing there under the yawning.

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Since I had to say something, Hi, rains about stopped.

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Huh you were particularly interested.

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In the weather.

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Huh No, no, I think right, It's just just something

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that I hate something to say, man, Yeah, to cover

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up what's really on your mind?

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What's done your mind? Well? I was one day. Haven't

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we met before? No, I don't think so.

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Yeah, And yet you know, I get the feeling, the

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feeling maybe there's some sort of a bond between us. Yeah, yeah,

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something like that, you know in there when when I

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looked up and I saw you staring at ay shy

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I'm not usually rude, but now you understand why?

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No, No, I don't. I don't know what to make

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of it. It's funny.

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Maybe we met before somewhere, Maybe we brushed against each.

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Other in some crowd.

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Have you been in the crowd recently? Uh, let's see,

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I was in one the other day over at Springdale. Yeah, yeah, Springdale,

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that's where that unfortunate girl was strangled. Yeah, you didn't

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happen to be in Springdale recently.

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This strange.

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When you saw me looking at you, I was thinking

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of Springdale.

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Plus what I was thinking at that exact moment. Yeah,

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how do you come through that?

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I look up, I see a man looking at me.

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You were both thinking of the same thing. I wasn't

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thinking only of the Springdale murder.

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I don't follow you.

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What I was thinking of the next murder tool, my

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next murder. I looked at the guy hard. I saw

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he was serious. I wanted to get away from him

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as fast as I could. Yep, I wanted to stay.

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I wanted to know what was.

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On his mind.

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At the same time, I didn't want to know. I

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started away, and then I turned back. You're a stranger

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in time, and I blew him two days ago?

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How about you? Oh, I got in the ch afternoon.

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Or are you stopping? You don't have a room yet,

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he broke. I broke and badly. Bench and listen. I

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got an idea.

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I got a good sized room. I can sneak you

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in without the clerk knowing it. How do you money?

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It's the side door. I slipped the bolt and you

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can come up the backstairs. You're sure it won't inconvenience yet, No,

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it don't make you feel any better. You can pay

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half the rent? Can I accept? We can talk there? Yeah?

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Talk.

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We have a lot in common, you and I.

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I did him the room number and I went in first.

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I unlocked the door, and I went up to my

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room and waited. He was up in less than five

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minutes you posted the side door.

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Yeah, yeah, good, I remember to talk low.

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I don't want the clerk to know you're here. Well,

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we don't even know each other's name. Colter, John gott

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Fred spat cotterr and spat Or Smith and Jones.

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I'm pretty sure.

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If I see that, you're not so slow yourself.

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You know. I still can't get over how we met.

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It's one in a thousand coincidences. No, no spawn, no coincidence.

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We were bound to meet. We have similar interests like murder.

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You seem to know a lot about murder.

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I've read everything I could get my hands on.

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What interests you about murder?

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The motive? Why why does one person kill another?

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Why?

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Money, raide, jealous God? The obvious doesn't interest me. I'm

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talking about the hidden motive. Half the people who commit

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murder can't give the motives more interested in the murderer

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than the victim. Definitely.

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Look, let's cough.

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Spiritually, you're dead and the foul, withering lot of murder

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has entered your mind, devouring your will to live. Look,

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you take that girl over at Springdale. I take the

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girl in Seattle or the one in Boston.

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Similar to the Seattle. There was one in Seattle.

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Yeah, it was in the papers. Two weeks after the

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Boston murdered. There was one in Buffalo, then a month

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later in Pittsburgh, then the last in Springdale. Meaning what

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one murder suggests another, especially when.

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There's so much alive, Do you think there's gonna be

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another murder?

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But killing spirit large?

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There was more than one killer.

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My point exactly crazy. The girl at Springdale was spangled

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with a man's necks.

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Let me go to say, that's fun.

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Always come back to the same thing. Why why does

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he do it?

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You always come back to it. A man can't help

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what he does.

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That's not a flattering admission.

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You know.

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Sometimes your talk is too far out for me. And

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what you're saying is you have no will of your own.

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You can't help what you do.

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I got lots of will power. I make my own world.

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I want to be No, I'll.

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Think you know how about you?

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A good looking not nothing for me? Hey?

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What's your name?

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Amy?

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Why I'm gonna.

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Think you of the movies tonight? I want to know

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your name. What time you're through here?

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Well, I'm through at nine, but on.

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Second show if you're interested, well, yeah, i'd like to

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I could go for a movie after slinging Hash and

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his bean or he gone. Then in the square you well,

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I ain't said I'm gonna go. Jane said you wouldn't

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got her and I left the diner and went back

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to the room.

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He was drizzling again. He was getting on my nerves.

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I made up my mind to tell him he got

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a blow in the morning. We didn't talk much.

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He took out a tablet and started her write. I

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sat there thinking of Amy every now and then, taking

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a look at my watch.

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He must have been a mind reader. All of a sudden,

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he put down his pen and he said to.

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Me, the wrong.

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You're going to keep your appointment with that waitress.

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What.

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With Amy? But sure, why not?

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It's not always starts out the same way. You feel

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sorry for these homely girls, no friends, not too bright, beaten,

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You feel more sorry for them than for yourself, And

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it ends up the same.

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Now you know so much you want to write a book.

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I have all but the last chapter, and that's what

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you're working on.

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Yeah, have been for ten years about murder.

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Every last word.

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I'd like to read it.

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Perhaps you can when he's finished.

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Well, it takes you ten years to write one chapter

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at him.

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Well, the last chapter will be finished soon, I think.

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Right now I can forecast it out of the one

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hundred cases I have on file ninety. We'll get at

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it in the next five years, provided, of course, they

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are not caught before. How are you going to arrest

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the man you think will commit a crime five years

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from that? My friend, you'll put your finger on it.

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And what.

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A man can't be arrested until he commits a crime. Now,

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my tables predict the crime, but they are powerless to

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stop a single homicide. How many cutter, did your charts

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tell you that there would be a murder in Springdale? Well,

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well'll be truthful, No, they didn't.

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Why not.

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Because that one I committed myself.

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I just sat there and looked at him. He looks

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sane enough.

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By that, I mean he put his picture along, as

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I have a dozen others somewhere.

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There was nothing to pick him out for.

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But I definitely was going to blow the joint. The

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rent was coming, doue. I'd move out when he was

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asleep and let him hold the bag. At first, I

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had to meet Amy. I went to the square.

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She wasn't in sight. I waited say.

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That you thought I stood Jack. I got a customer

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just before closing. Boy, I thought he'd never finished.

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Oh look, Amy, we just met. I'm moving on tomorrow,

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and so of the movie.

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Maybe maybe we could walk along that lake in the

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park and get acquainted.

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Now.

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I don't know if I should.

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I mean, I just come movies. Make believe you and

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me we're real people. I like someone to talk to.

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I bet you do too, Yeah, I sure, do you know?

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I'm really just trying to talk to someone. You just

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don't know what it's like sitting in that one little

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room all by myself.

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Yeah. Sure, let's walk.

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I guess you're just like me.

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Huh.

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Anyway, I think I know you, Amy, I think I

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understand you.

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You're leaving town tomorrow. Yeah, it's always the way.

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Yeah, and maybe maybe you're going someplace yourself. Maybe you

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don't know it yet. Sign said no one permitted in

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the park. After nine thirty pm, the place was deserted.

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Amy and I walked about halfway around for lake stopped

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ratings or were still cloudy, with the moon breaking through

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every now and then.

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I was getting kind of excited. My color began taping okay,

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what is this color? Is choking me?

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Oh, I hear your necktie is too tight. Let me

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loosen it. I want to take it off.

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Okay, yeah, yeah, no, I'll carry it.

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One day.

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I look at a man's thigh, A man sigh around mine.

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It's muttering.

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I'm tired and cold. I got to get up early

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in the morning. I'm going on.

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Been reading the papers, haven't you?

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No, not me.

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I never read papers. There's those those.

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Terrible things about people being killed.

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People are getting killed for the next time.

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I must have flecked out.

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When I came out of it, I was stretched out

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under a tree.

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I probably ran into it knocked myself out. I got up.

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My hairt was open at the collar and my tie

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was gone. I started to look for it, but something

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kept buzzing at the back of my head, telling me

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to get out of the park. I hurried to the hotel.

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When I left the hotel, I went down the backstairs

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and I left the door on both it so I

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was able to get to my room without the clerk

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seeing me. And I had to get into my room

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without anyone hearing me. God, I was asleep his face

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to the wall. I could hear the guy next door snorish.

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I gathered my things and I stuffed them into the suitcase.

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I went to the sink to get my toothbrush and

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shaving gear.

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My razor was gone.

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I looked around and I saw something glint on the floor.

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I reached down to pick it up. It was my razor,

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and my fingers got all wet and sticky. I jumped

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back up to the fall.

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Over his chair, blood, cold and sticky. What's it doing

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on my razor?

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Okay, what's going on in here?

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I warned you guys, wears a light switch.

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I came to this stunt to get from the state.

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If you two guys, Hey, what's oh?

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What's the matter? What are you doing with that razor?

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I just came in.

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I picked it upstairs?

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Blood on your hand? Hey?

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You you you in the band?

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Wake up? Wake up? I want to know what's going

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on in.

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Here's what's the matter with him?

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I just came in.

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Yeah, what it looks in the ear is that you

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were just getting ready to leave out of my wally Chary,

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hold right where you are. Come here, please, you never

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saw this guy caught her before you meet him in

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the square.

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You get to talking to him.

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Then you sneak him into your room. Why it was broke,

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he didn't have a place to sleep.

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He felt sorry for him. Yeah, I guess I did

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so sorry you cut his throat. I didn't do it.

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That's your suitcase.

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It's packed, isn't it.

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Yeah, you go in someplace.

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I just wanted to get away from him.

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Why, because he's nuts. All he did was talk about

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people who didn't want to live, about about murder. He

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wrote a whole book about it, all about guys who

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are going to kill someone someday or some night like

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tonight around ten o'clock. Tell me where you were tonight

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between nine thirty and ten thirty.

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I was walking in the park. I was working with

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the park. Huh. Then what I walked? I walked the lab.

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I was thinking about this guy.

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I decided to slip out of the hotel without him

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knowing it and then leave town.

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And so I came back to the hotel to pack.

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Anyone see you come in? I'm not sure. What do

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you mean? You're not sure?

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You had to come through the lobby. Wasn't the clerk there?

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That's what I mean? Sure he was there? Was at

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the Despa Maybe he was busy and that he didn't

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see me going I came in. God, him was dead.

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I didn't kill him. I no, sooner got in. When

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this fellow from the next door.

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Comes running in, I must have walked them up when

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I when I came into the room, I didn't hear

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you go out, and I didn't hear you come in.

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That crash woke me up out of a south state

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the first time. Hadn't you guys come here? I came

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in and saw you holding the razor and there was

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blood on your finger.

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You gotta believe me. The racer was on the floor.

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I picked it up and I got.

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The blood plummet. I had no reason to kill her, right, all.

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Right, let's go back to this walk in the park.

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Can you prove you were there? Well? Oh, no, people

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saw me.

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You're with someone?

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No, now, I was alone.

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That's not what you started to say a minute ago

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before you changed your mind.

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Who were you with? Nobody?

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Oh? Look, Spung, you're in a jam right now. You're

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the most likely suspect for the murder of Cotter. If

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you can prove you were in the park at the time,

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you're in the clear.

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Were you with a girl? Come on, speak up. We're

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broad minded.

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There's no crime to take a girl into the park,

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but it is to cut a throat.

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I didn't kill him.

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I could believe that if you weren't stalling about who

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was with you in the park.

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Still not talk you?

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Okay, we'll just book you for the murder of Carter.

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Then maybe whoever you were with will come forward. But

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suppose that was with someone who didn't want to come forward.

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Were you with a married woman who would get in

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a jam with her husband?

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I didn't say that.

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Well, all I can say is you should be more

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careful who you take for a walk in the park.

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Come on, I'm booking you for the murder of Cotter.

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You're making a mistake.

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I'll apologize later. The person will want to see you,

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so if you'd like to put on a neck.

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Tie, that's all right with me.

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The police were very interested in Catter's book. I took

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every scrap of paper they could find. He asked me

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a lot of questions about him. I didn't mind talking

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about Carter and his crazy ideas. I wanted them to

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know why I was running away from They kept questioning

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me and fe free in the morning, and then they

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let me sleep.

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And they booked me up again. Spung, I apologize what for?

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You didn't kill Cotter? That's what Everyden was trying to

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tell you.

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We doped it out from that book. He was his

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own case study one hundred. He killed that girl at

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Springdale and he cut his own throat and he was crazy.

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Uh huh what we're interested in now? He's case ninety nine.

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Huh.

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Come on, so we're going for a walk. Look, look where.

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In the park.

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You know? No, I won't drawn.

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He wants you to retrace every step you took last night.

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Make me draw, right? All right? All right, Well you've

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told me what I wanted to know. You see, we

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found Amy.

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He says, Uh, your necktie, isn't it.

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There? Why did you kill her? Well? I liked her.

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I'm sorry for I didn't plan to kill him something

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I just did. Mm hmm.

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Just like Karda wrote it, Case ninety nine will not

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be able to give any explanation for his action.

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Saft spent.

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You've been listening to the Next Murderer, starring Joseph Julian

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and Lawsons Derby and written especially for Suspends by Joseph Cochran.

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Oh I have a nice trap, you'll forget your god

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Lanning your vacation or a weekend trip. Well, long distance

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can be a big help you decide where you want

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to go. Then just pick up your phone and call

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ahead for reservations, make sure of a good place to stay.

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And while you're away, it's so easy to keep in

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touch with home by telephone. Well, have a good trip,

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and don't forget the phone.

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That story always gives me, honest, a lot to think

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about it. But who has time for such things? Right now?

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You see, the night is beginning to fade. The sun

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will be up soon. I'll have to return to wherever

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it is I come from. You, my dear, you have

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a date wed with your warm inviting them, and I

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will admit I'm a little jealous at times, but I

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think you do deserve it. So please see head home,

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Be careful what's that? Oh no, no, no, don't even worry

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about that. Head home, Get into that big bed of

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yours and remember be thank you, thank you for what

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you have. I'll see you see right here, right here

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tomorrow