April 28, 2025 • 26 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Ladies and gentlemen. The story you're about to hear is true.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Drag Met. You're a detective Sergeist. You're assigned to Burglary Division.
You get a call that an important piece of religious
art has been stolen from the oldest church in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
There's no lead to its whereabouts.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Your job find it.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Drag Met the documented drama of an actual crime. For
the next thirty minutes, in cooperation of the Los Angeles
Police Department, you will travel step by step.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
On the side of the law.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Through an actual case, from official police buyer, from beginning
to end, from.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Crime to punishment.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Drag myth is the story of your police sports selection.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
It was Wednesday, December twenty fourth. It's cold in Los Angeles.
We're working today, watch out a Burglery Division. My partner's
Frank Smith.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
The bosses Captain Bernard. My name is Friday.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
I'd gone across the street to buy stamps for some
Christmas cards I was sending out. It was nine fifteen
am when I got back to Room forty five, burglaryco.
I sat out at the table in the squad room.
When I started to address the cards. When Frank walked
in carrying a stack of Christmas boxes.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Hi, Joe, h Christmas cards?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Huh A little late?
Speaker 6 (01:38):
Actually, well, I wasn't gonna send up on Monday, but
we had that stake out.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
You ought to get married, Joe.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
Yeah, laundry mails cards only says to my help, I'm
opening now. I always opened a couple of day book
Jerry point Ugi, what do you mean the comic book? No,
one of those funny ones you know, No, I don't, Frank, Well,
some of the pages have.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Holes in him you look through when.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
There's a picture on the next page.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Oh yeah, I've seen those on the news stand. They
have clock pasted in cloth in the ads.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
If you want to buy a sued sample right there?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Do you mean you can feel it?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Rea, try it out and feel it.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It was one for two hundred dollars a suit.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Sure clock comes from Scotland.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Once it's made out of solid gold.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
No, they got a special kind of goat over there.
It's reeled from a find gold. Frank a sheep. Well,
it's a special kind of sheep. Then, because the suit
gots two hundred dollars, he's gonna get one.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I throw faye, She said, where the sample? Anything doing?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Cutting and pryor right on that market.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Hold up, they come up with anythingthing else.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I hope it stays quiet. I got more shopp than
to do.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I finished. He said, that's about blots, letter binding, jure,
you'll never learn.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
No, it's a matter. No one wants to stationary set there.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
There's nothing personal.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
What's got initials on it? No? No, you want something
more sent and mandel no midache, you get fake.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
It's different in the case. Once you get fain song machine.
That's many.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Well, there's no way.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Why don't you buy that?
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Choose me.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Very right. Yes, that's what you're on a d pump
about will be around you know you can tell us
about it.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
There good the olden church. They'd left cult.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Why didn't I check out of the office.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
And rode over to the church at the corner of
Sunset Boulevard and Maine the old Mission Plaza church found
at seventeen eighty one, the year.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Los Angeles became a pueblow.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
The outside was typical early Spanish design, complete with mission arches.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Was nib Adobian paid one. They called it the Queen
of the England.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
The plot Rais from down Mexico built the dot Mexicans
of town still against service till.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Fivey and like I lost to the courtyard. Who was
to beat the ole's table?
Speaker 6 (03:40):
The pacentage priest change alid when it came mission stone
Amazon's eve. The stable floor made it the courtyard. They've
had a grapevines, trees and follows. A young priest crossed
the courtyard to meet us. He'd been sitting on a
stone bench reading his morning prayers, as priests done here
for one hundred and.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Seventy two years. We asked for Father Xavier Rojas, who
communicated with us.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
We were told he was inside.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
We entered a side door.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
The church seemed to blow with the hundreds of votive
candles flickering on both sides of the aldar, and that
the shrines throughout the church was empty except for a
few people praying. Surrounding the main order were several old
oil paintings and gold frames.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
The air was heavy with the scent of advent flowers.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
We found Father Rojas up near the sanctuary looking at
the Nativity scene.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
He told us about the crib.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
It was a seventy dollars duplication of the scene at Bethlehem.
The parishioners had taken up.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
A collection to work thirty one years ago.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Was put up every year on December twenty second, and
taken down after.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
The holy season. It was beautiful, except that one.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Of the shepherds had lost an arm, the.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Sheet was old and cracked, and the infant.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Jesus was missing.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Father Rojas led us back into the sacristy.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, I'm sorry to bother you.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Man.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Sorry, father, especially now the holiday sea with gash our.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Checks found it would and tells what happened or what
things happened.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I discovered the statue was missing the after the six
o'clock Mass, say the sixth Yes, I started over to
the rectory and stopped.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
By the crib.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Was the statue there before mass? I don't know, but
it was there last night.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
How late is the church open all night?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
We'll leave it wide open so many thief can walk in,
particularly faved sergeant. You say it was there last night?
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Father, how late ten or eleven o'clock?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
We had confessions.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
No one saw it after that.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
One of the altar boys, he says it may have
been there.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
He thinks it was cold. He see it. He's not sure.
What's his name? Pardon me? Here's the schedule.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
You'll find the names for every mask. There was there
a big crowd at the six o'clock masks.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Father, not too many.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Seven's the big one, people on their way to work.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Did everyone stay after Mass? Did you notice?
Speaker 7 (05:45):
Not?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Especially?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I came back here, took off the vestments.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I suppose it was ten.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Or fifteen minutes before I went back in the church.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
It was empty then. No people were coming into the
seven o'clock Are these the older boys? James Corneen and
Joseph Heffern And that's right, Joe's the one who mentioned
it might have been there.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Did you check with the other priest.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Fouder before I called you?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
None of them knows anything about it.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Just for a check on the pawn shops. How much
the statue work in money? You know, that's the point
in pawn shop Spader only.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
A few dollars.
Speaker 8 (06:12):
We could get a new one, but it wouldn't be
the same.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
We've had children in the parish, they've grown up and married.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
It's the only Jesus they know. We understand, and we've
had children who died. It was the only Jesus they knew.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So many of the people who come here as simple
people they wouldn't understand such it. It would be like
changing the evening star. We'll do our best, Father, That's
why we'd mean so much to have it back for
the first Mass on Christmas. It's not very long, Father,
less than twenty four hours. If anything turns up here,
you know where to get in touch with us. Is
It's sad, isn't it? How's that in so.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Short a time men learn to steal? Yes, but consider us,
Father us.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
If some of them didn't, you and I'd be out
of work.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Seven fifty am, who notified lun shot detail. Mike and
I checked out the two Aller boys. The first one,
James Corneen, said he knew nothing about the missing statute.
The second one, Joseph Heffernan, was not at home.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
His father said he had a part time job, but he.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Had n't get in touch with us. Right after lunch.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
By eleven thirty am, we've run out of book procedure.
We had a man to find our only clue.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
He'd been to church.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Eleven thirty three am. We checked the phone books for
the names of religious stores.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
In the area.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Two of them were closed.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
We tried the third.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
When we got there, the only person in the store was.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
An elderly man sitting by a table.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
In front of was a large, beautifully carved chess set.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
We're police officers. My name's Friday. This small partner Frank Smith.
To see you company in the middle of a big
chess match. Where's your partner satoday? We've been planning for years.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
No, just two or three months on this one.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
But a manise.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
We've been playing different matches for years. I see you
know he do it through the mail. I send him
a move, he sends me one. Let's keep you on
your toes except during the holidays the mail gets all
fiddled up. That's no good.
Speaker 8 (08:14):
Guess not slowly say you down, That's no good.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I like to catch him off.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Duard you mister Flavan? Do you know we never met?
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Your Name's on the window out front, mister Flavan. We
checked the other two Religius stores in this neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
They're closed. It's the best one anyway, fifty percent European items.
We're checking the stores around the Mission church for what
statue of the child Jesus? Do you have what we
could look at? Sure?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
No, shore a larger one. You don't want a larger one.
Let's just play church. I told you want a larger one.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Could we see it?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Please?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
It's not I do the butt in. But unless you
live in a big place, this will make your living
room all the counter, Yes, sir to most of the
people who go to the Mission Church trade here, good,
many of them special to kids, white kids, more religious.
Take on yourself. See if kids are on more religious
than you might be.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
So that's what's wrong in the world. Oh, don't mean
you're wrong with it? And everybody, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
What if we can take to the point, mister Flavvan.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
Sure, a lot of people from the Mission Church come
in here.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Do people ever come in and sell back a religious
article like a prayer book or roderies? Yes, sir, second
hand you mean, yes, sir, not since I ever been around.
It's silly why people don't have religious articles so they
can get rid of them. They have them so they
can happen. But if a man had a statute and
wanted to sell it, he'd come to a place like.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
This, sure, But he wouldn't want to sell it.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
He would if it was stolen.
Speaker 8 (09:41):
No, sir, if a man wants to steal.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
A statue, he'd be crazy or something like that.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
The only place he'd want to go is where crazy
people are. You may be right, mister Flairan.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I don't know what you fellas are looking for, but
if it's somebody who stole the tatoo, he's crazy and
you won't find him.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
You won't find him as long as you live or
in a million years. That should cover it.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
We checked religious stores out as far as Van asked.
We asked the same questions.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
The owners gave us the same answers, but none of
them was encouraging as mister Flavin's. In fact, and I
had lunch and reported back to the office. Was one
thirty pm when we started into the squad room.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
The captain was just coming out.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I just checked Brandon lunchrum or.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
We've been down at theft of permission.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Make it some match on the poison case.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Said look, Gail, I think he's.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
Une about from Sacramento, but it means a Bakersfield police
for rega see.
Speaker 9 (10:38):
One of your fellows, says Frey, he is, I'm you happening?
Speaker 5 (10:42):
My father said you.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Wanted to see me?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
He said, down, son, you didn't have to come in
a phone call.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Would a word?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
My father said to get on over.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
He said that any kid that you resphoned is lazy.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
We want to ask you about this morning.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
You served six o'clock commands.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yes, sir, I'm seeing you.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Boy. Shall I get to six? You're a senior and
you take the early trick?
Speaker 7 (11:00):
Yes, sir, that way if you restay communion?
Speaker 5 (11:03):
It did?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
That group was sooner.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Padoa says, you think the statue was there before mass?
Speaker 5 (11:07):
I didn't look, but I have a feeling that was there,
a feeling, you know how you.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Have a feeling about something.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Are you not sure? Could you stay around long after mass?
Speaker 7 (11:17):
I put out the candles and hung up my surplus?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
How long would that take?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
About five minutes?
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Did any of the people at mass stay on?
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Some moms do, especially ladies. Oh maybe they don't finishing
time or else the starting new prayers?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I don't know. So when you left there were still
some women there.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
No, sir, that was at first.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
After I went back to sacristy.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
There was only this one man.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
What, ma'am?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
He comes at six o'clock.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
All the time. Do you know his name?
Speaker 7 (11:44):
No, sir, but he works down the knrf you know,
a paint shop.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Or the paint signs.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Could you describe him?
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Short?
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Medium, word was soup that didn't match, didn't match, you know,
different pants than coat.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Talk about his age, always pretty young, take a game?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Oh forty.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
There's nothing particular about him.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
And why did you notice him? I've seen him.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Before in the bundle I guess the bundle out in front.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I saw him when he was coming out. He had
this boom. He almost drucked it.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
How larger bundle Todd say common son was a larger
small The size of the statue not.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
That big, Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
We located the sign shop.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
The suspect didn't work there anymore, but we discovered his
name was Claude Strup. We thought out where he lived.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Two twenty five pm we arrived.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
There was a hotel for men, mostly old man, mostly
down an olers.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Was called the Golden Dream.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Police officers. We're looking at cloud Struper.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
Oh, Claude didn't get any trouble.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
So the way is he in?
Speaker 8 (12:58):
H he's got room for you seven. You can check
if you'll like't.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
They'll take your word. Were you one this morning?
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Hm?
Speaker 8 (13:04):
You have the early shift? Well, we don't have shifts.
My uncle owns the.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Place on the shift the Stroop spent last night here,
came in about eleven. When did he leave this morning?
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Round six?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Maybe before to come back after.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Eight o'clock or so, then left supposed to be back.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
At ten, and pulls this trick. What trick?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
A program? He knows the other fellas need him program.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
They here at the hotel every Christmas.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
We have a program, put up a treaty and sing
and mostly old fellas singing like that makes him remember back.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
When they were kids.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
When Jimmy Finn comes on, Jimmy Finn, he shared number
four O nine. His family once had a lot of money.
So he tells the fellas about it, stories about Christmas,
how they had this big log and his grandfather used
to start it up.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
And after dinner everybody turned over his plate and there
underneath was a twenty dollar gold piece, brand new one.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
When Stroop came in this morning, did he have a bundle?
I didn't see him come in? He said, you saw him.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I saw him go out after but not come in.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
What was that eight?
Speaker 8 (13:58):
If you want to look for a bundle, I could
give you his key.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
We don't have award. It's all right.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I know about police s a right with me.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
It's not with us.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I didn't mean, man, I just fought it was all
right with me.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Jean Sir lost little on the speed. When there were
three old men. They couldn't tell how much better they
would have been with Stroop.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
So in the fourth part, but the summer you didn't care.
This was Christmas at the Golden Drool, a little studied
fine my go.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Cross cruel.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
When a man came inside going.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Wait you.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Because it's the last redhearsal.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I got most of the songs down. Pat that was
pretty good and trying.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
It's the same part isn't here? He's tenor and they
need him to make it sounds just right. The Stroop
have a job now, sure, he used to have jobs,
how much lately though? You say where he was going
now he should have. The summers need him when he
comes out.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
What you call us sure and not say anything to him.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I hope it's something serious for Claude. Troubles troubles go
to be over. Troubles way back wouldn't count tell us anyway.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
I don't know much about it as much as you know.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Was something back where he used to live and robbed
somebody or something, what else? That's all.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
It was a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
We far back.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
He forgot it all and robbing and everything.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
No, not quite hmm.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
He remembered it this morning.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
God rest Jean very janl Man.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Let not you dismay for Jesus Christ say.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Was born upon this day.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
We went back to the office of the landscroop's name
j R.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
And I if he'd been booked anywhere. We had no
record of it, at least not under that name.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Four fifteen pm.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Lawn shot detail reported back.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
No object resembling the statue of the child Jesus has
been turned in. Four eighteen pm.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I hung up the phone. Paris is on a Sacramento bus.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
I thought Bakersfield had it.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
They were supposed to confirm they did upward the station.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
What about panning and fire.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
They're still out. You know it'll be back soon.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Friends.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
The bus arrived at six o'clock. There's plenty of time
for him to make it. There's more time for you.
We're still in that theft. Get it way, No, what
is a ten fifteen dollars statue wins the price? Determine
the case? I realized it's a church statue, but that
doesn't give a priority. It's important to them.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Captain Joe and I have PROMI the other back.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
But he got on it. Nothing much. The wires a
big herder very early Friday. When no, don't say anything. No, right,
cloud's droop. He just walked into the hotel. He's our suspect.
Nobody's late to him. No, you'll keep you can run
him down tomorrow. It'll be too late to him.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I need it for the first mass in the morning, Skipper.
It's kind of a big thing for them.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
You can't juggle details around so you can get a
statue back at this time.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Later on. We'll do our best, Yes, sir, you.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Better get over the station. Yes, sir, Well you call
father or lots over at commission by tell them we're
too busy to work on that statue.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
But we'll do it later tomorrow or when we get
the chance.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Look at you call.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
We'll we better go over to the station. The patterson's
on that flot so we don't want to miss him,
all right, I'll.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Call him.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Hi. Yeah, I can send finding in fire or we
might as well standin on the thing. Whenever you say, captains.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Or forty three pm we arrived at the Golden Dream Hotel.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
The desk clerk was right. Cloud Stroop looked like a
man of that his troubles at bargain rates did then
Clod Stroop, Yes, police officers would like to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I didn't do Anything's so honest. I didn't do anything.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Guess yet I'm been accused.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
I want to take you downtown.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
We'd like to talk to you.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
Oh said, I'm not going.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I'm not going anywhere. I'm not going to talk to anybody.
You're half wrong already.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Five fifteen pm we returned stooped for interrogation.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
And kept his word.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
He refused to talk. Six oh five pm Frank called
Fay totally, he'd be a little late. Stoop didn't move
for a whole hour. He sat and stared, but he
didn't talk.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
Six forty pm we got a final report from pawn
shop detail.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
The shops were closed. There was no statue. Stroop still
hadn't talked. Don't you ever want to go home?
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Stoop?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
If I was to talk, he wouldn't let me go.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Depends on what you'd say.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I'd say it wrong and I wouldn't get home. You
out this way either, I'd like to go. You can
bet on that.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
This this a seventh year we had the program, and
I never missed a one and a single one.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Why don't just tell us what happens to him?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
How would I know you'd let me go? You wouldn't.
I might as well anyway, Alright, what happened from mass On?
Speaker 8 (19:16):
Well, there was mass I came out and started down
towards the hotel back.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
I left my stuff at the.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
Hotel, and then I picked up Georgie's car.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I didn't steal it.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
He said I could have it any time I wanted.
Only this time I.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Didn't ask him.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
I took it and started out.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yep, I should have asked, but I just didn't. I
went over to Grant Avenue for the Christmas.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
Pulps for this fellow sells in the second half. It
was coming out of the lot, but I did it. Yeah,
the bumper must have caught the other car didn't leave
too big a damp, but there.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Was this long scratch.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
I got out and tried to wipe it off with
my handkerchief.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
You know, spit on it.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
Leck only didn't do nothing good. I didn't think anybody saw.
I don't know how you fellas found out about it.
I'll check auto records, right.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Stoop.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
We didn't bring you down here.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
To talk about that. You didn't. No, there's a statue
missing from the church, the statue of the Child Jesus.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
You mean I took it?
Speaker 8 (20:12):
He took a bundle out of church? Did I say
that was my other parents? For the program tonight? I
had a place sold up when there.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Was a buck long.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
You can check, and I wouldn't take a statue.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I don't think it would either. He's cleared auto.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Records going home for the program. You mean it's alright?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Good night's group.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Night, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Or two?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
We could stay him work on it tonight.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
It wouldn't do any good.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
We won't find it, I don't think, so tell you
was kidding the priest build his hopes up. I local
tell him now.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Merry Christmas. Seven twenty seven pm. We found father Rojas.
Frank told him how it was that we couldn't get
the statue back by.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
A morning, but that we'd keep trying during the week.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
He said he understood.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
We told him we had to get on s.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Frank and I started to leave the doors at the
main entrance to the church opened. It was a good
two hundred feet away.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
It was hard to be sure, but it looked.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Like a small boy drawing a bright red wagon behind him.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
When he got closer, you could see it was no
bigger than a pint of milk. It was a luminous
side little.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Chican boy with a face as young as yesterday. The
priest see in the back of the wagon was the
missing statue of the Child Jesus. He picked it up
gently and walked down to Mendoza, the boy from the parish,
ask him where he found it, Gondel and contrasting.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
He didn't find it. He took it?
Speaker 9 (22:30):
Why okay, the po un communico and new show, I
naw his stores. Your prumite, I leave is Excremato, reacts
in comus.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
He said, I wagon.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
See.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
If he got the wagon, the child Jesus would have
the first ride.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
In it, and there is the book of a.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
He want was not the devil.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Will come and take him to hell.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
That's your department.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Family, No, yeah, he says, Ama.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
We crossed over to the sanctuary the help of Father
row House.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
The young boy replace the infant Jesus in the triful place,
the crib and the Nativity scene like and I could
have been wrong, but the small plaster statue seemed to approved.
Speaker 10 (23:31):
Marry Joseph, the wise man, the gas fire, he fior wild,
as are the old shepherd, the young shepherd.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
The peasant.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
They all seemed to throw red.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
The priest told the boy to go home. He took
hold of his wagon and started the long walk out
of the church.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
There wasn't much we could say.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
There wasn't much to say.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
We just stood there and watched them go.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Halfway up, he turned to look back, and he went
on out.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
I don't understand how we got that wagon today.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Don't kids wait for Santa Claus anymore?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
It isn't from Santa Claus. The fireman fakes old toys
and gives them to new children. Piqito's family, they're poor?
Where are they?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Fine?
Speaker 4 (25:59):
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from official files. Technical advice comes from.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
The Office of Chief of Police W. H.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Parker, Los Angeles Police Department.
Ladies and gentlemen. The story you're about to hear is true.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Drag Met. You're a detective Sergeist. You're assigned to Burglary Division.
You get a call that an important piece of religious
art has been stolen from the oldest church in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
There's no lead to its whereabouts.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Your job find it.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
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the next thirty minutes, in cooperation of the Los Angeles
Police Department, you will travel step by step.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
On the side of the law.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Through an actual case, from official police buyer, from beginning
to end, from.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Crime to punishment.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Drag myth is the story of your police sports selection.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
It was Wednesday, December twenty fourth. It's cold in Los Angeles.
We're working today, watch out a Burglery Division. My partner's
Frank Smith.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
The bosses Captain Bernard. My name is Friday.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
I'd gone across the street to buy stamps for some
Christmas cards I was sending out. It was nine fifteen
am when I got back to Room forty five, burglaryco.
I sat out at the table in the squad room.
When I started to address the cards. When Frank walked
in carrying a stack of Christmas boxes.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Hi, Joe, h Christmas cards?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Huh A little late?
Speaker 6 (01:38):
Actually, well, I wasn't gonna send up on Monday, but
we had that stake out.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
You ought to get married, Joe.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
Yeah, laundry mails cards only says to my help, I'm
opening now. I always opened a couple of day book
Jerry point Ugi, what do you mean the comic book? No,
one of those funny ones you know, No, I don't, Frank, Well,
some of the pages have.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Holes in him you look through when.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
There's a picture on the next page.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Oh yeah, I've seen those on the news stand. They
have clock pasted in cloth in the ads.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
If you want to buy a sued sample right there?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Do you mean you can feel it?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Rea, try it out and feel it.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It was one for two hundred dollars a suit.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Sure clock comes from Scotland.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Once it's made out of solid gold.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
No, they got a special kind of goat over there.
It's reeled from a find gold. Frank a sheep. Well,
it's a special kind of sheep. Then, because the suit
gots two hundred dollars, he's gonna get one.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I throw faye, She said, where the sample? Anything doing?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Cutting and pryor right on that market.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Hold up, they come up with anythingthing else.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I hope it stays quiet. I got more shopp than
to do.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I finished. He said, that's about blots, letter binding, jure,
you'll never learn.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
No, it's a matter. No one wants to stationary set there.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
There's nothing personal.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
What's got initials on it? No? No, you want something
more sent and mandel no midache, you get fake.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
It's different in the case. Once you get fain song machine.
That's many.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Well, there's no way.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Why don't you buy that?
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Choose me.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Very right. Yes, that's what you're on a d pump
about will be around you know you can tell us
about it.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
There good the olden church. They'd left cult.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Why didn't I check out of the office.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
And rode over to the church at the corner of
Sunset Boulevard and Maine the old Mission Plaza church found
at seventeen eighty one, the year.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Los Angeles became a pueblow.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
The outside was typical early Spanish design, complete with mission arches.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Was nib Adobian paid one. They called it the Queen
of the England.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
The plot Rais from down Mexico built the dot Mexicans
of town still against service till.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Fivey and like I lost to the courtyard. Who was
to beat the ole's table?
Speaker 6 (03:40):
The pacentage priest change alid when it came mission stone
Amazon's eve. The stable floor made it the courtyard. They've
had a grapevines, trees and follows. A young priest crossed
the courtyard to meet us. He'd been sitting on a
stone bench reading his morning prayers, as priests done here
for one hundred and.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Seventy two years. We asked for Father Xavier Rojas, who
communicated with us.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
We were told he was inside.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
We entered a side door.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
The church seemed to blow with the hundreds of votive
candles flickering on both sides of the aldar, and that
the shrines throughout the church was empty except for a
few people praying. Surrounding the main order were several old
oil paintings and gold frames.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
The air was heavy with the scent of advent flowers.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
We found Father Rojas up near the sanctuary looking at
the Nativity scene.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
He told us about the crib.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
It was a seventy dollars duplication of the scene at Bethlehem.
The parishioners had taken up.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
A collection to work thirty one years ago.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Was put up every year on December twenty second, and
taken down after.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
The holy season. It was beautiful, except that one.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Of the shepherds had lost an arm, the.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Sheet was old and cracked, and the infant.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Jesus was missing.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Father Rojas led us back into the sacristy.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, I'm sorry to bother you.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Man.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Sorry, father, especially now the holiday sea with gash our.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Checks found it would and tells what happened or what
things happened.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I discovered the statue was missing the after the six
o'clock Mass, say the sixth Yes, I started over to
the rectory and stopped.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
By the crib.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Was the statue there before mass? I don't know, but
it was there last night.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
How late is the church open all night?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
We'll leave it wide open so many thief can walk in,
particularly faved sergeant. You say it was there last night?
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Father, how late ten or eleven o'clock?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
We had confessions.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
No one saw it after that.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
One of the altar boys, he says it may have
been there.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
He thinks it was cold. He see it. He's not sure.
What's his name? Pardon me? Here's the schedule.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
You'll find the names for every mask. There was there
a big crowd at the six o'clock masks.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Father, not too many.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Seven's the big one, people on their way to work.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Did everyone stay after Mass? Did you notice?
Speaker 7 (05:45):
Not?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Especially?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I came back here, took off the vestments.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I suppose it was ten.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Or fifteen minutes before I went back in the church.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
It was empty then. No people were coming into the
seven o'clock Are these the older boys? James Corneen and
Joseph Heffern And that's right, Joe's the one who mentioned
it might have been there.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Did you check with the other priest.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Fouder before I called you?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
None of them knows anything about it.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Just for a check on the pawn shops. How much
the statue work in money? You know, that's the point
in pawn shop Spader only.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
A few dollars.
Speaker 8 (06:12):
We could get a new one, but it wouldn't be
the same.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
We've had children in the parish, they've grown up and married.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
It's the only Jesus they know. We understand, and we've
had children who died. It was the only Jesus they knew.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So many of the people who come here as simple
people they wouldn't understand such it. It would be like
changing the evening star. We'll do our best, Father, That's
why we'd mean so much to have it back for
the first Mass on Christmas. It's not very long, Father,
less than twenty four hours. If anything turns up here,
you know where to get in touch with us. Is
It's sad, isn't it? How's that in so.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Short a time men learn to steal? Yes, but consider us,
Father us.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
If some of them didn't, you and I'd be out
of work.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Seven fifty am, who notified lun shot detail. Mike and
I checked out the two Aller boys. The first one,
James Corneen, said he knew nothing about the missing statute.
The second one, Joseph Heffernan, was not at home.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
His father said he had a part time job, but he.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Had n't get in touch with us. Right after lunch.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
By eleven thirty am, we've run out of book procedure.
We had a man to find our only clue.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
He'd been to church.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Eleven thirty three am. We checked the phone books for
the names of religious stores.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
In the area.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Two of them were closed.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
We tried the third.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
When we got there, the only person in the store was.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
An elderly man sitting by a table.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
In front of was a large, beautifully carved chess set.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
We're police officers. My name's Friday. This small partner Frank Smith.
To see you company in the middle of a big
chess match. Where's your partner satoday? We've been planning for years.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
No, just two or three months on this one.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
But a manise.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
We've been playing different matches for years. I see you
know he do it through the mail. I send him
a move, he sends me one. Let's keep you on
your toes except during the holidays the mail gets all
fiddled up. That's no good.
Speaker 8 (08:14):
Guess not slowly say you down, That's no good.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I like to catch him off.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Duard you mister Flavan? Do you know we never met?
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Your Name's on the window out front, mister Flavan. We
checked the other two Religius stores in this neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
They're closed. It's the best one anyway, fifty percent European items.
We're checking the stores around the Mission church for what
statue of the child Jesus? Do you have what we
could look at? Sure?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
No, shore a larger one. You don't want a larger one.
Let's just play church. I told you want a larger one.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Could we see it?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Please?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
It's not I do the butt in. But unless you
live in a big place, this will make your living
room all the counter, Yes, sir to most of the
people who go to the Mission Church trade here, good,
many of them special to kids, white kids, more religious.
Take on yourself. See if kids are on more religious
than you might be.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
So that's what's wrong in the world. Oh, don't mean
you're wrong with it? And everybody, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
What if we can take to the point, mister Flavvan.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
Sure, a lot of people from the Mission Church come
in here.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Do people ever come in and sell back a religious
article like a prayer book or roderies? Yes, sir, second
hand you mean, yes, sir, not since I ever been around.
It's silly why people don't have religious articles so they
can get rid of them. They have them so they
can happen. But if a man had a statute and
wanted to sell it, he'd come to a place like.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
This, sure, But he wouldn't want to sell it.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
He would if it was stolen.
Speaker 8 (09:41):
No, sir, if a man wants to steal.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
A statue, he'd be crazy or something like that.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
The only place he'd want to go is where crazy
people are. You may be right, mister Flairan.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I don't know what you fellas are looking for, but
if it's somebody who stole the tatoo, he's crazy and
you won't find him.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
You won't find him as long as you live or
in a million years. That should cover it.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
We checked religious stores out as far as Van asked.
We asked the same questions.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
The owners gave us the same answers, but none of
them was encouraging as mister Flavin's. In fact, and I
had lunch and reported back to the office. Was one
thirty pm when we started into the squad room.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
The captain was just coming out.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I just checked Brandon lunchrum or.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
We've been down at theft of permission.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Make it some match on the poison case.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Said look, Gail, I think he's.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
Une about from Sacramento, but it means a Bakersfield police
for rega see.
Speaker 9 (10:38):
One of your fellows, says Frey, he is, I'm you happening?
Speaker 5 (10:42):
My father said you.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Wanted to see me?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
He said, down, son, you didn't have to come in
a phone call.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Would a word?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
My father said to get on over.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
He said that any kid that you resphoned is lazy.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
We want to ask you about this morning.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
You served six o'clock commands.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yes, sir, I'm seeing you.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Boy. Shall I get to six? You're a senior and
you take the early trick?
Speaker 7 (11:00):
Yes, sir, that way if you restay communion?
Speaker 5 (11:03):
It did?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
That group was sooner.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Padoa says, you think the statue was there before mass?
Speaker 5 (11:07):
I didn't look, but I have a feeling that was there,
a feeling, you know how you.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Have a feeling about something.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Are you not sure? Could you stay around long after mass?
Speaker 7 (11:17):
I put out the candles and hung up my surplus?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
How long would that take?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
About five minutes?
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Did any of the people at mass stay on?
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Some moms do, especially ladies. Oh maybe they don't finishing
time or else the starting new prayers?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I don't know. So when you left there were still
some women there.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
No, sir, that was at first.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
After I went back to sacristy.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
There was only this one man.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
What, ma'am?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
He comes at six o'clock.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
All the time. Do you know his name?
Speaker 7 (11:44):
No, sir, but he works down the knrf you know,
a paint shop.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Or the paint signs.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Could you describe him?
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Short?
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Medium, word was soup that didn't match, didn't match, you know,
different pants than coat.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Talk about his age, always pretty young, take a game?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Oh forty.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
There's nothing particular about him.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
And why did you notice him? I've seen him.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Before in the bundle I guess the bundle out in front.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I saw him when he was coming out. He had
this boom. He almost drucked it.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
How larger bundle Todd say common son was a larger
small The size of the statue not.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
That big, Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
We located the sign shop.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
The suspect didn't work there anymore, but we discovered his
name was Claude Strup. We thought out where he lived.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Two twenty five pm we arrived.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
There was a hotel for men, mostly old man, mostly
down an olers.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Was called the Golden Dream.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Police officers. We're looking at cloud Struper.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
Oh, Claude didn't get any trouble.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
So the way is he in?
Speaker 8 (12:58):
H he's got room for you seven. You can check
if you'll like't.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
They'll take your word. Were you one this morning?
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Hm?
Speaker 8 (13:04):
You have the early shift? Well, we don't have shifts.
My uncle owns the.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Place on the shift the Stroop spent last night here,
came in about eleven. When did he leave this morning?
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Round six?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Maybe before to come back after.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Eight o'clock or so, then left supposed to be back.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
At ten, and pulls this trick. What trick?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
A program? He knows the other fellas need him program.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
They here at the hotel every Christmas.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
We have a program, put up a treaty and sing
and mostly old fellas singing like that makes him remember back.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
When they were kids.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
When Jimmy Finn comes on, Jimmy Finn, he shared number
four O nine. His family once had a lot of money.
So he tells the fellas about it, stories about Christmas,
how they had this big log and his grandfather used
to start it up.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
And after dinner everybody turned over his plate and there
underneath was a twenty dollar gold piece, brand new one.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
When Stroop came in this morning, did he have a bundle?
I didn't see him come in? He said, you saw him.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I saw him go out after but not come in.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
What was that eight?
Speaker 8 (13:58):
If you want to look for a bundle, I could
give you his key.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
We don't have award. It's all right.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I know about police s a right with me.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
It's not with us.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I didn't mean, man, I just fought it was all
right with me.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Jean Sir lost little on the speed. When there were
three old men. They couldn't tell how much better they
would have been with Stroop.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
So in the fourth part, but the summer you didn't care.
This was Christmas at the Golden Drool, a little studied
fine my go.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Cross cruel.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
When a man came inside going.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Wait you.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Because it's the last redhearsal.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I got most of the songs down. Pat that was
pretty good and trying.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
It's the same part isn't here? He's tenor and they
need him to make it sounds just right. The Stroop
have a job now, sure, he used to have jobs,
how much lately though? You say where he was going
now he should have. The summers need him when he
comes out.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
What you call us sure and not say anything to him.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I hope it's something serious for Claude. Troubles troubles go
to be over. Troubles way back wouldn't count tell us anyway.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
I don't know much about it as much as you know.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Was something back where he used to live and robbed
somebody or something, what else? That's all.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
It was a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
We far back.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
He forgot it all and robbing and everything.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
No, not quite hmm.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
He remembered it this morning.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
God rest Jean very janl Man.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Let not you dismay for Jesus Christ say.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Was born upon this day.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
We went back to the office of the landscroop's name
j R.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
And I if he'd been booked anywhere. We had no
record of it, at least not under that name.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Four fifteen pm.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Lawn shot detail reported back.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
No object resembling the statue of the child Jesus has
been turned in. Four eighteen pm.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I hung up the phone. Paris is on a Sacramento bus.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
I thought Bakersfield had it.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
They were supposed to confirm they did upward the station.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
What about panning and fire.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
They're still out. You know it'll be back soon.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Friends.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
The bus arrived at six o'clock. There's plenty of time
for him to make it. There's more time for you.
We're still in that theft. Get it way, No, what
is a ten fifteen dollars statue wins the price? Determine
the case? I realized it's a church statue, but that
doesn't give a priority. It's important to them.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Captain Joe and I have PROMI the other back.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
But he got on it. Nothing much. The wires a
big herder very early Friday. When no, don't say anything. No, right,
cloud's droop. He just walked into the hotel. He's our suspect.
Nobody's late to him. No, you'll keep you can run
him down tomorrow. It'll be too late to him.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I need it for the first mass in the morning, Skipper.
It's kind of a big thing for them.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
You can't juggle details around so you can get a
statue back at this time.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Later on. We'll do our best, Yes, sir, you.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Better get over the station. Yes, sir, Well you call
father or lots over at commission by tell them we're
too busy to work on that statue.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
But we'll do it later tomorrow or when we get
the chance.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Look at you call.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
We'll we better go over to the station. The patterson's
on that flot so we don't want to miss him,
all right, I'll.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Call him.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Hi. Yeah, I can send finding in fire or we
might as well standin on the thing. Whenever you say, captains.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Or forty three pm we arrived at the Golden Dream Hotel.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
The desk clerk was right. Cloud Stroop looked like a
man of that his troubles at bargain rates did then
Clod Stroop, Yes, police officers would like to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I didn't do Anything's so honest. I didn't do anything.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Guess yet I'm been accused.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
I want to take you downtown.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
We'd like to talk to you.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
Oh said, I'm not going.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I'm not going anywhere. I'm not going to talk to anybody.
You're half wrong already.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Five fifteen pm we returned stooped for interrogation.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
And kept his word.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
He refused to talk. Six oh five pm Frank called
Fay totally, he'd be a little late. Stoop didn't move
for a whole hour. He sat and stared, but he
didn't talk.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
Six forty pm we got a final report from pawn
shop detail.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
The shops were closed. There was no statue. Stroop still
hadn't talked. Don't you ever want to go home?
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Stoop?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
If I was to talk, he wouldn't let me go.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Depends on what you'd say.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I'd say it wrong and I wouldn't get home. You
out this way either, I'd like to go. You can
bet on that.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
This this a seventh year we had the program, and
I never missed a one and a single one.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Why don't just tell us what happens to him?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
How would I know you'd let me go? You wouldn't.
I might as well anyway, Alright, what happened from mass On?
Speaker 8 (19:16):
Well, there was mass I came out and started down
towards the hotel back.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
I left my stuff at the.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
Hotel, and then I picked up Georgie's car.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I didn't steal it.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
He said I could have it any time I wanted.
Only this time I.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Didn't ask him.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
I took it and started out.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yep, I should have asked, but I just didn't. I
went over to Grant Avenue for the Christmas.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
Pulps for this fellow sells in the second half. It
was coming out of the lot, but I did it. Yeah,
the bumper must have caught the other car didn't leave
too big a damp, but there.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Was this long scratch.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
I got out and tried to wipe it off with
my handkerchief.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
You know, spit on it.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
Leck only didn't do nothing good. I didn't think anybody saw.
I don't know how you fellas found out about it.
I'll check auto records, right.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Stoop.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
We didn't bring you down here.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
To talk about that. You didn't. No, there's a statue
missing from the church, the statue of the Child Jesus.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
You mean I took it?
Speaker 8 (20:12):
He took a bundle out of church? Did I say
that was my other parents? For the program tonight? I
had a place sold up when there.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Was a buck long.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
You can check, and I wouldn't take a statue.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I don't think it would either. He's cleared auto.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Records going home for the program. You mean it's alright?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Good night's group.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Night, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Or two?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
We could stay him work on it tonight.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
It wouldn't do any good.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
We won't find it, I don't think, so tell you
was kidding the priest build his hopes up. I local
tell him now.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Merry Christmas. Seven twenty seven pm. We found father Rojas.
Frank told him how it was that we couldn't get
the statue back by.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
A morning, but that we'd keep trying during the week.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
He said he understood.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
We told him we had to get on s.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Frank and I started to leave the doors at the
main entrance to the church opened. It was a good
two hundred feet away.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
It was hard to be sure, but it looked.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Like a small boy drawing a bright red wagon behind him.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
When he got closer, you could see it was no
bigger than a pint of milk. It was a luminous
side little.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Chican boy with a face as young as yesterday. The
priest see in the back of the wagon was the
missing statue of the Child Jesus. He picked it up
gently and walked down to Mendoza, the boy from the parish,
ask him where he found it, Gondel and contrasting.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
He didn't find it. He took it?
Speaker 9 (22:30):
Why okay, the po un communico and new show, I
naw his stores. Your prumite, I leave is Excremato, reacts
in comus.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
He said, I wagon.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
See.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
If he got the wagon, the child Jesus would have
the first ride.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
In it, and there is the book of a.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
He want was not the devil.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Will come and take him to hell.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
That's your department.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Family, No, yeah, he says, Ama.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
We crossed over to the sanctuary the help of Father
row House.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
The young boy replace the infant Jesus in the triful place,
the crib and the Nativity scene like and I could
have been wrong, but the small plaster statue seemed to approved.
Speaker 10 (23:31):
Marry Joseph, the wise man, the gas fire, he fior wild,
as are the old shepherd, the young shepherd.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
The peasant.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
They all seemed to throw red.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
The priest told the boy to go home. He took
hold of his wagon and started the long walk out
of the church.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
There wasn't much we could say.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
There wasn't much to say.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
We just stood there and watched them go.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Halfway up, he turned to look back, and he went
on out.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
I don't understand how we got that wagon today.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Don't kids wait for Santa Claus anymore?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
It isn't from Santa Claus. The fireman fakes old toys
and gives them to new children. Piqito's family, they're poor?
Where are they?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Fine?
Speaker 4 (25:59):
You have Josh Turden, You're a series of authentic cases
from official files. Technical advice comes from.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
The Office of Chief of Police W. H.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Parker, Los Angeles Police Department.
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