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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
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