October 17, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Auto Light and it's ninety eight thousand dealers. Bring you,
mister Frank Lovejoy. In tonight's presentation of Suspense.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Tonight Auto Light presents one of the most terrifying half
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mad woman and what happened to them on a country
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Speaker 5 (02:19):
Relaxed, David, We're in no hurry to get home.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
We'll go relax in this message. Traffic must be a
record something up ahead.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
This keeps up. We get caught in the rain.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Yeah, yeah, it looks like a big storm building up too.
Hey remember that shortcut, which one the little tide road
that goes across through Santa Marches and comes out on the.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Other highway when we took last summer.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I'll turn off there and duck this pilot, like to
get as far as possible before that storm hits. Why
don't you put out your hand.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Don't get angry, David.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
He cut right in front of me to turn it
into that gas station.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Maybe he needed gas.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
We haven't a no, no, I have stopped to get them.
Turn on the radio. Huh see, you can get the news.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Police this afternoon issued two warnings to all residents of
Long Island to be on the lookout for Nellie Galler,
a middle aged woman described as dangerous and in safe.
She escaped this morning from Restview Metal Hospital after fatally
butchering a doctor, a nurse, and a ward attendant with
a meat cleaver. This is the same Nelly Galler who
a year ago murdered three persons on a Brooklyn street,
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also using a meat cleaver as a weapon at that time.
This station will broadcast a full description on our regular newscast,
which follows in just.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
A few moments. At least we aren't the only crazy.
Might'd you change it? I don't I hear anymore?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Why don't they just put it asleep instead of locking
her up where she can escape and kill more people?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Who?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Who woman they were talking about on the radio.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Oh, she can't help, but she dies, she's sick.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
What good does that do the people who get chopped
up with a meat cleaver?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
I don't know. The laws were made before the doctors
knew very much about the human mind.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
They still don't know much.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Oh, I see what it is. There's a roadblock up ahead.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
What's happened?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
I don't know. Cops all over the road.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Say, I'll bet they're looking for that crazy woman.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Yeah, I guess so.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
Older a minute, Please, what's up, officer?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Just to check up.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
Anything in the back seat.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Just a blanket and some fishing tackle.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
We've been surf fishing.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
Seen any hitchhikers?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
No? No, just traffic. Okay, Well right along?
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Please are you looking for the crazy woman?
Speaker 8 (04:50):
Moving along? Let's go.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
He didn't answer.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
He's busy.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
What are you doing?
Speaker 6 (05:05):
All residents and motorists on Long Island are warned to
be on the alert for the escaped insane woman, who
is somewhere on the island. She has described as tall,
broad shouldered, gray haired, and rather heavy. She may still
be armed with a meat cleaver. One hundred men are
searching the area, and they are prepared to shoot on sight.
Here's another bulletin on the case, which just came in
just a few minutes ago. The decapitated bodies of an
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elderly man and woman were found by police near Center
Morriitches on Longer. I'll repeat that some bodies of an
elderly couple have just been near Center Morriitches on a
lonely tarred road. Police are certain they were killed by
Nelly Gawer, the Usene woman now at large. Residents of
the area are warned not to open their doors to strangers.
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Motorists are cautioned to stay off lonely roads and not
to pick up any hitchhikers. All persons are asked to
be on the lookout for this woman. Here is her
description again, ta.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Turn it off, do though you wanted here? The shortcut
will save us a lot of time.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
You turned off the highway, sure.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Sure, I told you when I did it. We've come
over a mile already, save us a lot of time.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Didn't you hear what the radio is said about staying
off lonely roads.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
We just have to go across to the other highway.
Won't take long, are you sure?
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
We go past satur Marches and take the left road
and come out right by the highway bridge set of marches.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
That's that's where she just killed those two people.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Oh Dorothy, stop acting like a child. What can happen
to us while we're driving? Besides, the whole island is
full of men. Looking for this lunatic. They'll catcher. It's
just a storm, you're jumping.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Yeah, I'm silly, David. What gash gage says empty?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
There's still a couple of gallons left when the point's empty.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
How long is it s empty?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
I don't know. I don't know. I'll get gas when
we get across to the other highway, David.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
I'm scared.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Relax, honey, Rain and wynd always made you nervous as
a cat.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I wish we'd stayed on the highway.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
If I don't yet act like this, I would, But
it's not my fault. Well, it's not mine either. I'm
having trouble enough trying to see through this storm, David.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
What are we fighting about?
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I don't know. Driving through these burned our woods in
this kind of weather's enough to give anyone the willies.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Got dark so fast. I can hardly see your head
even in the headlights.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
There's something I had.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Don't stop, David. It's only a sign that a crazy
woman could be around here.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
You know, I'm not picking up anyone. I just wanna
know where I am.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Don't get out of the car.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I'm not a calm down.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
Senna marches that way. We'll take this road, Senna marches.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
This must be the road where she killed those people.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Dorothy, Please, I'm.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Sorry, I'm jumping. Turn on the radio. What a desolate road.
Havn't passed a house yet, Just miles of woods on
both sides of us.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
So dark. We wouldn't have seen one of it were there.
This rain seems to be getting worse than the area.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Are worn not to open their.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Car door on a stop at Darth Say why the.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Police had a road blocked by this road? That crazy
woman might be anywhere in these.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Woods, but not necessarily where we are.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Oh, what's the matter?
Speaker 4 (08:58):
What a place to run out of gas?
Speaker 5 (09:04):
You mean we're stuck here?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Well for the time being.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Anyone the crazy woman is in the woods, she'll kill us.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
She's nowhere near us.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Can't David quick turn off your headlights?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Why you see something?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
David, I don't know. I don't know. I'm scared.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I should have gotten gaessed.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Don't put the headlights on. Please, she'll see us if
you do.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
I'm putting them on.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Please David, turn them off, Dorothy, I.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Don't want this silly thing to get the better of you.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Just look at the headlights pugging into darkness and nothing
but wet bushes and trees, rain falling. Please, David, all.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Right, they're off. You feel better sitting in the dark.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Only the thunder and lightening would stop rain.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Look, Dorothy, there's no sense sitting here all night. It's
only a few minutes past ten o'clock. I'm going to
walk up the road a bit. There might be a
house or something there.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
You're not gonna leave me here.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
I won't let you go, Dorothy. We can't sit here
in the middle of nowhere for the rest of the night.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
And we're safe here. They're out there, David. She's probably
hiding in these We're just waiting for a chance to
kill Oh, come.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
On, Dorothy, Why should she be right here when we've
run out again?
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Why can't you be here now? Please stay in the
car well.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
It's silly, but all right.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Quick locked the door from the inside.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Why what is it now?
Speaker 5 (10:36):
She can't get in here?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
She's nowhere nearest.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Don't be mad at me, David. I'm so scared.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
If she is out there, she can easily smash the window.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Don't scare me anymore. I know I'm acting silly, but
I can't help it all right.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
Come here, let me put my arm in one there. Oh,
put your hand on my shoulder.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Me, David, you go ahead and cry. It'll make you
feel better.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Isn't there some popular music I'll see depressing.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Their search for the escaped in SA woman who has
killed five persons since fleeing from a Long Island metal hospital.
Rain and doctors are hampering the search. Over one hundred
police are combing the wooded area near Center Morriages. It
was near there that an elderly couple was found putured
on a lonely tarred road in making her escape. This morning,
the mad woman killed a doctor, a nurse.
Speaker 10 (11:32):
And we'll leave it off for a while.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
So quiet only here, wish it one morning?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Look, Darthy, I'll I'll run up the road that might
be on No.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
David, please listen.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Do you hear that? Why? I don't hear anything.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Here?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
It is?
Speaker 10 (12:04):
I don't hear It's a dog. It's a little dog barking, David. Yeah,
I guess it's only a lost dog.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Where. Maybe there's a house nearby.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Oh, the crazy woman, David.
Speaker 8 (12:24):
She's out there.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Something hit the back of the car.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
You'll kill us.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
The door I locked on you.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Yes, what if she breaks the window. She's got a cleaver.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
In that flash of lightning, I saw somebody. I can't tell.
She's lying on the road.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Can you see you? Is she still there?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
It's still dark to see. I don't have to wait
for the lightning. I saw she's getting up there. She'll
she'll kill us. I don't know, I don't know. She
must have been running. She didn't see the car and
ran right into it.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
She's out the window, David, right next to you.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Oh my lord, look at her. Get away from that window.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
She's trying to get in the car.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Look at that face in her hair. Go away.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
I'm not a crazy.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Woman is after David. Don't let her in.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Maybe we can scare her. Go away. We've got a
gun and we'll show it.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
She's staring.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
I'm warning you while.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Shoe, David, she's coming back.
Speaker 8 (13:36):
Please don't leave me out here.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Please. That woman will tell me why, David, take your pipe.
Hold it like a gun.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
It'll look like a guy, is it Dorothy in the
glove Compart? Here is Look, I've got a gun. I'm
going to show.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
She's back in a way.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Keep going before I start shooting.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Oh, David, she's gone. She disappeared, but.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
We can't get out. Now are we gonna do to
sit here all night and wait for help?
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Can't you see her? Where'd she go?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
I don't know. She's out there though, probably planning on
how to get in the card.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
What are we going to do? She's the one I know.
But she didn't have a clean.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
She must have dropped it home. She ran into the car.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
He's all twisted, a hanging girl.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
She must be back there looking for the clean.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
She'll killer killers.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
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Speaker 5 (16:46):
The window, David, she brought the window.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Right away from this. Stay out of the car, Stay
out of the car. I warn you, I've got a gun.
Speaker 8 (16:53):
You wouldn't shot me.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Go away?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
You crazy? We know all about you.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
I'm not a crazy woman. Be lame me.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Let me to do with David, she's trying to trick
a lesson to me.
Speaker 8 (17:02):
Please. I've been running in this awful storm. My car
is stuck in the ditch.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Back there, how far back?
Speaker 8 (17:09):
I don't know. It seems like miles.
Speaker 11 (17:11):
I've heard about the crazy woman on the radio.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
I was afraid of staying in the car alone. Let
me in.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
No, David, go back to your own car.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
No, it's so dark and so lonely in this storm.
I locked the door, but I was afraid.
Speaker 11 (17:25):
I could see things and hear things in the darkness.
Speaker 8 (17:27):
I just couldn't stand it anymore. I got out and
ran in the rain.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
And oh, it's awful.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
That's why I look like this is the rain. I'm
not the crazy woman.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Let me in.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
Please, let me.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
In, Dorothy. Maybe she isn't a crazy woman. Maybe she
just scared me exhaust No, David, she's the.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
One I know a crazy.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Woman, had a cleaver look.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
I'm not armed. The three of us will be safer together.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
She makes sense to me, Dorothy, we would be safer
with one more person.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
David, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
Let me in, please, who I'm wet to the skin.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
No one locked the door, Dart David, all right, get him,
make one move and I'll shoot you.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
So good to sit down.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
There's a blanket on the floor back there, trying to
dry yourself off.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
The darkness and the rain there was enough to drive
me out of my mind.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Try and rest.
Speaker 11 (18:21):
I ran and ran all I could hear his feet
chasing after me, hunting me.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Just take it easy. No, you live near here?
Speaker 8 (18:31):
Her father out near Restviue.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
I used to live in Brooklyn Resue. That's the metal hospital.
I know.
Speaker 11 (18:38):
I'm used to the crazy people, but not a night
in a lonely place like this, not the kind of
killed people.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
You live at Restue.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
No, just near there, David.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
We can't sit here not knowing if we could get
to a phone, a phone, why to call the police,
get some help.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
No, don't do that.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Why not? Why don't you want the police?
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (19:00):
I do What should be killed? Do you mean the
woman should kill him? If he goes away from this car?
Speaker 5 (19:10):
There's a dog again, don't you hear it?
Speaker 8 (19:12):
Somebody's out there.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
There might be a house nearby. Maybe it's barking to
be let in.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
It's into somebody.
Speaker 11 (19:17):
There's something out there. There's somebody, that's why it's barking.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
The crazy woman is creeping around out there.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
Quick, let's get away before we're car to the god.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
David, what are you trying to do?
Speaker 11 (19:29):
Got the car quick, We'll get away.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
We're out of gas.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Out of gas.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
You don't think we parked here at the front.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Of it, do you. It's a desolate place to run
out of gas. Let's stop barking.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
What does it mean, David.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
We're so helpless. She can kill us easily.
Speaker 8 (20:07):
You can't just sit here. We gotta get away.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
I'm not a magician, lady. I can't make gasoline out
of rain.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
We can't stay here the whole night.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Do you hear me? Go of me. There's nothing I
can do.
Speaker 8 (20:20):
Try something anything. Don't just sit.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
There scaring me, David.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Stop cut it out. You'll have us all in hysterics.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
All right, all right, I'm sorry. Look, I got an idea.
Give me your gun. Why, why, I'll tell you I
want it.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Give it to me.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Hey, what's the matter with her?
Speaker 8 (20:36):
Listen to me? I'm all right, but I can't sit
here all night. I'd go crazy. Give me the gun.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I'll go.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
I won't be afraid of the dark. And the noise
is the feet following me. I'll go, I promise you,
but give me the gun.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
No, not sit down, please, I'll go.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
I promise. I can't stand sitting in.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
The dog by this.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I told you to shut up. If you don't out,
I'll make you get out of the car.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Wouldn't not unarmed?
Speaker 8 (21:01):
Not into the woods again? Oh you're nice people.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Aren't you?
Speaker 8 (21:07):
But do you want me to leave so you can
shoot me? Is that it all stuff?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
That we're not going to shoot you. We haven't got
a gun. It's only a pipe, a pipe, a smoking type.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
David.
Speaker 11 (21:17):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
Then then you're unarmed.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
I'm sorry, David, it's all right.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Why did you tell me you had a gun?
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Why does it make a difference to you whether I'm
armed or not?
Speaker 8 (21:33):
I don't know you. Maybe you two are more dangerous
than the crazy woman.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Well i'll tell you what I think. I think you
are the crazy woman. The way you got David when
you wanted him to start the car.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Stop it. Don't excite her, don't excite me.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Why maybe you think I'm dangerous an old woman.
Speaker 11 (21:47):
You're talking into your car, two of you, and you're
afraid of me.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
We're not afraid of you. I sit back, on that seat,
and don't try anything. I'm watching you all the time, David.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
The storm is stopping. Maybe now is the time.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
The time for what what are you going to do?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
You'll do rrupt or something. My wife met. Now is
the time to go for help.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
I did not I met. Now is the time for
us to escape, David. Can't you see it? She's the one.
She's gonna kill it.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Let her stop it. Sit back in that seat. You
haven't got a gun, No, but I've got a knight David.
It's my jack knife, but it's sharp and strong. I
don't try any tricks, all.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Right, threaten me, watch me. While that woman is out there,
all you can do is sit and wait for her
to make the next move.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
She can kill us like that old man and woman.
It must have been on the same road that they
were in their car too. They must have let her in.
Speaker 8 (22:44):
We'll leave them, the three of us world walk. We'll
stay close together. Say you will be quiet. Anyone hiding
in the woods won't hear us.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Don't you get out of the car, David. We'll be killed.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
How would we find our way? It's too dark.
Speaker 8 (22:57):
Oh, we'll find our way.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Look out there, the road is full of shadows.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Get her hold of the car, David. She wants to kill.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Us, kill you if you want to go, Why don't
you leave? You don't need us. We're willing to stay
here until help comes.
Speaker 11 (23:10):
I'd be helpless alone if I had a gun.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Oh, why doesn't somebody come?
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Where the police? I can't stay? Nobody I'll come. There's
no one in these What does that?
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Bang? Out?
Speaker 8 (23:20):
And decided?
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Dorothy, honey, honey, plea?
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Oh it was your rightdeay?
Speaker 8 (23:24):
Was this road?
Speaker 5 (23:25):
You wouldn't listen to me?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Forget I couldn't help, but I got lost.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Why don't you do something? Not just sit there waiting
and waiting. Do something before I'm murdering?
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Help? All right, I'm going to do something. I'll go
for help.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
That's it, guess help.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
In her hand? I saw it in the moonlight. It glitted.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
What is it?
Speaker 8 (23:51):
Your wife?
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Is his? She was holding in a long piece of
broken class long and bidon see doesn't answer. She's just
watching us.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
What's she waiting for?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
It's from the broken window, that's where she got it.
Speaker 8 (24:06):
So what if I have it? I'm not gonna sit
here defenseless.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
She's gonna attack us.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
I'll be silly. It's all right for you to have
a knife. Why can't I be on for whatever may come?
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Give me that broken glass, Give it to you.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
You think I'm crazy. You couldn't protect us from anything?
Speaker 5 (24:21):
David? What are you doing?
Speaker 8 (24:23):
Why are you climbing over the seat.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
I won.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
I'm through letting my wife be terrified. Now give me
that glass.
Speaker 8 (24:28):
Air away from me.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Once i'd left the car. You were going to but
you my wife with that broken glass. Me that glass up?
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Crazy?
Speaker 8 (24:37):
Let me alone over, don't let her freeze.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Wrong, she's got my arm, you give it. Drop that glass,
she dropped.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
You both gone crazy five?
Speaker 7 (24:52):
But kill me.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
You were going to murder us.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
I was.
Speaker 8 (24:55):
I let her get freeze.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Can't hold her. She's strong.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
If you I have a knife and I'll have blood old.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I can't much longer.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
I'm not crazy place, believe me. Just give me the knife.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
That's all got my throat.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
Chok use your name.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
You killed her, David, You killed the crazy woman.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
I couldn't help it. She was choking me.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Yeah, you come with flood.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
She was going to kill us. Oh, the car is coming,
helps coming you in the car. Why are you poking it?
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I ran out of gas. The crazy one to night.
Speaker 8 (26:02):
To run out of gas.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
You couldn't have picked a better spot. What was that
woman running around loose? We wanted to bomber up the road.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Call and said his dog's been barking at something. We
caught her. Oh'd you catch that's crazy?
Speaker 5 (26:15):
She's in the backseat.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
That uhhh, she's alive, badly hurt though she was trying
to kill us before.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
I will get her to a hospital.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
You come with me. It's lucky you didn't kill her.
We captured that crazy woman and a half hour ago.
I don't know who this lady is. Come on, give
me a hand with her.
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Speaker 5 (02:19):
Relaxed, David, We're in no hurry to get home.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
We'll go relax in this message. Traffic must be a
record something up ahead.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
This keeps up. We get caught in the rain.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Yeah, yeah, it looks like a big storm building up too.
Hey remember that shortcut, which one the little tide road
that goes across through Santa Marches and comes out on the.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Other highway when we took last summer.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I'll turn off there and duck this pilot, like to
get as far as possible before that storm hits. Why
don't you put out your hand.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Don't get angry, David.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
He cut right in front of me to turn it
into that gas station.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Maybe he needed gas.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
We haven't a no, no, I have stopped to get them.
Turn on the radio. Huh see, you can get the news.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Police this afternoon issued two warnings to all residents of
Long Island to be on the lookout for Nellie Galler,
a middle aged woman described as dangerous and in safe.
She escaped this morning from Restview Metal Hospital after fatally
butchering a doctor, a nurse, and a ward attendant with
a meat cleaver. This is the same Nelly Galler who
a year ago murdered three persons on a Brooklyn street,
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also using a meat cleaver as a weapon at that time.
This station will broadcast a full description on our regular newscast,
which follows in just.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
A few moments. At least we aren't the only crazy.
Might'd you change it? I don't I hear anymore?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Why don't they just put it asleep instead of locking
her up where she can escape and kill more people?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Who?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Who woman they were talking about on the radio.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Oh, she can't help, but she dies, she's sick.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
What good does that do the people who get chopped
up with a meat cleaver?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
I don't know. The laws were made before the doctors
knew very much about the human mind.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
They still don't know much.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Oh, I see what it is. There's a roadblock up ahead.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
What's happened?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
I don't know. Cops all over the road.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Say, I'll bet they're looking for that crazy woman.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Yeah, I guess so.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
Older a minute, Please, what's up, officer?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Just to check up.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
Anything in the back seat.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Just a blanket and some fishing tackle.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
We've been surf fishing.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
Seen any hitchhikers?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
No? No, just traffic. Okay, Well right along?
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Please are you looking for the crazy woman?
Speaker 8 (04:50):
Moving along? Let's go.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
He didn't answer.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
He's busy.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
What are you doing?
Speaker 6 (05:05):
All residents and motorists on Long Island are warned to
be on the alert for the escaped insane woman, who
is somewhere on the island. She has described as tall,
broad shouldered, gray haired, and rather heavy. She may still
be armed with a meat cleaver. One hundred men are
searching the area, and they are prepared to shoot on sight.
Here's another bulletin on the case, which just came in
just a few minutes ago. The decapitated bodies of an
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elderly man and woman were found by police near Center
Morriitches on Longer. I'll repeat that some bodies of an
elderly couple have just been near Center Morriitches on a
lonely tarred road. Police are certain they were killed by
Nelly Gawer, the Usene woman now at large. Residents of
the area are warned not to open their doors to strangers.
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Motorists are cautioned to stay off lonely roads and not
to pick up any hitchhikers. All persons are asked to
be on the lookout for this woman. Here is her
description again, ta.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Turn it off, do though you wanted here? The shortcut
will save us a lot of time.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
You turned off the highway, sure.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Sure, I told you when I did it. We've come
over a mile already, save us a lot of time.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Didn't you hear what the radio is said about staying
off lonely roads.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
We just have to go across to the other highway.
Won't take long, are you sure?
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
We go past satur Marches and take the left road
and come out right by the highway bridge set of marches.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
That's that's where she just killed those two people.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Oh Dorothy, stop acting like a child. What can happen
to us while we're driving? Besides, the whole island is
full of men. Looking for this lunatic. They'll catcher. It's
just a storm, you're jumping.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Yeah, I'm silly, David. What gash gage says empty?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
There's still a couple of gallons left when the point's empty.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
How long is it s empty?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
I don't know. I don't know. I'll get gas when
we get across to the other highway, David.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
I'm scared.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Relax, honey, Rain and wynd always made you nervous as
a cat.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I wish we'd stayed on the highway.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
If I don't yet act like this, I would, But
it's not my fault. Well, it's not mine either. I'm
having trouble enough trying to see through this storm, David.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
What are we fighting about?
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I don't know. Driving through these burned our woods in
this kind of weather's enough to give anyone the willies.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Got dark so fast. I can hardly see your head
even in the headlights.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
There's something I had.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Don't stop, David. It's only a sign that a crazy
woman could be around here.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
You know, I'm not picking up anyone. I just wanna
know where I am.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Don't get out of the car.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I'm not a calm down.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
Senna marches that way. We'll take this road, Senna marches.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
This must be the road where she killed those people.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Dorothy, Please, I'm.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Sorry, I'm jumping. Turn on the radio. What a desolate road.
Havn't passed a house yet, Just miles of woods on
both sides of us.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
So dark. We wouldn't have seen one of it were there.
This rain seems to be getting worse than the area.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Are worn not to open their.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Car door on a stop at Darth Say why the.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Police had a road blocked by this road? That crazy
woman might be anywhere in these.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Woods, but not necessarily where we are.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Oh, what's the matter?
Speaker 4 (08:58):
What a place to run out of gas?
Speaker 5 (09:04):
You mean we're stuck here?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Well for the time being.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Anyone the crazy woman is in the woods, she'll kill us.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
She's nowhere near us.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Can't David quick turn off your headlights?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Why you see something?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
David, I don't know. I don't know. I'm scared.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I should have gotten gaessed.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Don't put the headlights on. Please, she'll see us if
you do.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
I'm putting them on.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Please David, turn them off, Dorothy, I.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Don't want this silly thing to get the better of you.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Just look at the headlights pugging into darkness and nothing
but wet bushes and trees, rain falling. Please, David, all.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Right, they're off. You feel better sitting in the dark.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Only the thunder and lightening would stop rain.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Look, Dorothy, there's no sense sitting here all night. It's
only a few minutes past ten o'clock. I'm going to
walk up the road a bit. There might be a
house or something there.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
You're not gonna leave me here.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
I won't let you go, Dorothy. We can't sit here
in the middle of nowhere for the rest of the night.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
And we're safe here. They're out there, David. She's probably
hiding in these We're just waiting for a chance to
kill Oh, come.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
On, Dorothy, Why should she be right here when we've
run out again?
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Why can't you be here now? Please stay in the
car well.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
It's silly, but all right.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Quick locked the door from the inside.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Why what is it now?
Speaker 5 (10:36):
She can't get in here?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
She's nowhere nearest.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Don't be mad at me, David. I'm so scared.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
If she is out there, she can easily smash the window.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Don't scare me anymore. I know I'm acting silly, but
I can't help it all right.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
Come here, let me put my arm in one there. Oh,
put your hand on my shoulder.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Me, David, you go ahead and cry. It'll make you
feel better.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Isn't there some popular music I'll see depressing.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Their search for the escaped in SA woman who has
killed five persons since fleeing from a Long Island metal hospital.
Rain and doctors are hampering the search. Over one hundred
police are combing the wooded area near Center Morriages. It
was near there that an elderly couple was found putured
on a lonely tarred road in making her escape. This morning,
the mad woman killed a doctor, a nurse.
Speaker 10 (11:32):
And we'll leave it off for a while.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
So quiet only here, wish it one morning?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Look, Darthy, I'll I'll run up the road that might
be on No.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
David, please listen.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Do you hear that? Why? I don't hear anything.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Here?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
It is?
Speaker 10 (12:04):
I don't hear It's a dog. It's a little dog barking, David. Yeah,
I guess it's only a lost dog.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Where. Maybe there's a house nearby.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Oh, the crazy woman, David.
Speaker 8 (12:24):
She's out there.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Something hit the back of the car.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
You'll kill us.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
The door I locked on you.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Yes, what if she breaks the window. She's got a cleaver.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
In that flash of lightning, I saw somebody. I can't tell.
She's lying on the road.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Can you see you? Is she still there?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
It's still dark to see. I don't have to wait
for the lightning. I saw she's getting up there. She'll
she'll kill us. I don't know, I don't know. She
must have been running. She didn't see the car and
ran right into it.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
She's out the window, David, right next to you.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Oh my lord, look at her. Get away from that window.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
She's trying to get in the car.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Look at that face in her hair. Go away.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
I'm not a crazy.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Woman is after David. Don't let her in.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Maybe we can scare her. Go away. We've got a
gun and we'll show it.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
She's staring.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
I'm warning you while.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Shoe, David, she's coming back.
Speaker 8 (13:36):
Please don't leave me out here.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Please. That woman will tell me why, David, take your pipe.
Hold it like a gun.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
It'll look like a guy, is it Dorothy in the
glove Compart? Here is Look, I've got a gun. I'm
going to show.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
She's back in a way.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Keep going before I start shooting.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Oh, David, she's gone. She disappeared, but.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
We can't get out. Now are we gonna do to
sit here all night and wait for help?
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Can't you see her? Where'd she go?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
I don't know. She's out there though, probably planning on
how to get in the card.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
What are we going to do? She's the one I know.
But she didn't have a clean.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
She must have dropped it home. She ran into the car.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
He's all twisted, a hanging girl.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
She must be back there looking for the clean.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
She'll killer killers.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
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Speaker 5 (16:46):
The window, David, she brought the window.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Right away from this. Stay out of the car, Stay
out of the car. I warn you, I've got a gun.
Speaker 8 (16:53):
You wouldn't shot me.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Go away?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
You crazy? We know all about you.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
I'm not a crazy woman. Be lame me.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Let me to do with David, she's trying to trick
a lesson to me.
Speaker 8 (17:02):
Please. I've been running in this awful storm. My car
is stuck in the ditch.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Back there, how far back?
Speaker 8 (17:09):
I don't know. It seems like miles.
Speaker 11 (17:11):
I've heard about the crazy woman on the radio.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
I was afraid of staying in the car alone. Let
me in.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
No, David, go back to your own car.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
No, it's so dark and so lonely in this storm.
I locked the door, but I was afraid.
Speaker 11 (17:25):
I could see things and hear things in the darkness.
Speaker 8 (17:27):
I just couldn't stand it anymore. I got out and
ran in the rain.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
And oh, it's awful.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
That's why I look like this is the rain. I'm
not the crazy woman.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Let me in.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
Please, let me.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
In, Dorothy. Maybe she isn't a crazy woman. Maybe she
just scared me exhaust No, David, she's the.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
One I know a crazy.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Woman, had a cleaver look.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
I'm not armed. The three of us will be safer together.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
She makes sense to me, Dorothy, we would be safer
with one more person.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
David, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
Let me in, please, who I'm wet to the skin.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
No one locked the door, Dart David, all right, get him,
make one move and I'll shoot you.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
So good to sit down.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
There's a blanket on the floor back there, trying to
dry yourself off.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
The darkness and the rain there was enough to drive
me out of my mind.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Try and rest.
Speaker 11 (18:21):
I ran and ran all I could hear his feet
chasing after me, hunting me.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Just take it easy. No, you live near here?
Speaker 8 (18:31):
Her father out near Restviue.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
I used to live in Brooklyn Resue. That's the metal hospital.
I know.
Speaker 11 (18:38):
I'm used to the crazy people, but not a night
in a lonely place like this, not the kind of
killed people.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
You live at Restue.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
No, just near there, David.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
We can't sit here not knowing if we could get
to a phone, a phone, why to call the police,
get some help.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
No, don't do that.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Why not? Why don't you want the police?
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (19:00):
I do What should be killed? Do you mean the
woman should kill him? If he goes away from this car?
Speaker 5 (19:10):
There's a dog again, don't you hear it?
Speaker 8 (19:12):
Somebody's out there.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
There might be a house nearby. Maybe it's barking to
be let in.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
It's into somebody.
Speaker 11 (19:17):
There's something out there. There's somebody, that's why it's barking.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
The crazy woman is creeping around out there.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
Quick, let's get away before we're car to the god.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
David, what are you trying to do?
Speaker 11 (19:29):
Got the car quick, We'll get away.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
We're out of gas.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Out of gas.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
You don't think we parked here at the front.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Of it, do you. It's a desolate place to run
out of gas. Let's stop barking.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
What does it mean, David.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
We're so helpless. She can kill us easily.
Speaker 8 (20:07):
You can't just sit here. We gotta get away.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
I'm not a magician, lady. I can't make gasoline out
of rain.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
We can't stay here the whole night.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Do you hear me? Go of me. There's nothing I
can do.
Speaker 8 (20:20):
Try something anything. Don't just sit.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
There scaring me, David.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Stop cut it out. You'll have us all in hysterics.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
All right, all right, I'm sorry. Look, I got an idea.
Give me your gun. Why, why, I'll tell you I
want it.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Give it to me.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Hey, what's the matter with her?
Speaker 8 (20:36):
Listen to me? I'm all right, but I can't sit
here all night. I'd go crazy. Give me the gun.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I'll go.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
I won't be afraid of the dark. And the noise
is the feet following me. I'll go, I promise you,
but give me the gun.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
No, not sit down, please, I'll go.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
I promise. I can't stand sitting in.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
The dog by this.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I told you to shut up. If you don't out,
I'll make you get out of the car.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Wouldn't not unarmed?
Speaker 8 (21:01):
Not into the woods again? Oh you're nice people.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Aren't you?
Speaker 8 (21:07):
But do you want me to leave so you can
shoot me? Is that it all stuff?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
That we're not going to shoot you. We haven't got
a gun. It's only a pipe, a pipe, a smoking type.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
David.
Speaker 11 (21:17):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
Then then you're unarmed.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
I'm sorry, David, it's all right.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Why did you tell me you had a gun?
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Why does it make a difference to you whether I'm
armed or not?
Speaker 8 (21:33):
I don't know you. Maybe you two are more dangerous
than the crazy woman.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Well i'll tell you what I think. I think you
are the crazy woman. The way you got David when
you wanted him to start the car.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Stop it. Don't excite her, don't excite me.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Why maybe you think I'm dangerous an old woman.
Speaker 11 (21:47):
You're talking into your car, two of you, and you're
afraid of me.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
We're not afraid of you. I sit back, on that seat,
and don't try anything. I'm watching you all the time, David.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
The storm is stopping. Maybe now is the time.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
The time for what what are you going to do?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
You'll do rrupt or something. My wife met. Now is
the time to go for help.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
I did not I met. Now is the time for
us to escape, David. Can't you see it? She's the one.
She's gonna kill it.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Let her stop it. Sit back in that seat. You
haven't got a gun, No, but I've got a knight David.
It's my jack knife, but it's sharp and strong. I
don't try any tricks, all.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Right, threaten me, watch me. While that woman is out there,
all you can do is sit and wait for her
to make the next move.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
She can kill us like that old man and woman.
It must have been on the same road that they
were in their car too. They must have let her in.
Speaker 8 (22:44):
We'll leave them, the three of us world walk. We'll
stay close together. Say you will be quiet. Anyone hiding
in the woods won't hear us.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Don't you get out of the car, David. We'll be killed.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
How would we find our way? It's too dark.
Speaker 8 (22:57):
Oh, we'll find our way.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Look out there, the road is full of shadows.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Get her hold of the car, David. She wants to kill.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Us, kill you if you want to go, Why don't
you leave? You don't need us. We're willing to stay
here until help comes.
Speaker 11 (23:10):
I'd be helpless alone if I had a gun.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Oh, why doesn't somebody come?
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Where the police? I can't stay? Nobody I'll come. There's
no one in these What does that?
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Bang? Out?
Speaker 8 (23:20):
And decided?
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Dorothy, honey, honey, plea?
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Oh it was your rightdeay?
Speaker 8 (23:24):
Was this road?
Speaker 5 (23:25):
You wouldn't listen to me?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Forget I couldn't help, but I got lost.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Why don't you do something? Not just sit there waiting
and waiting. Do something before I'm murdering?
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Help? All right, I'm going to do something. I'll go
for help.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
That's it, guess help.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
In her hand? I saw it in the moonlight. It glitted.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
What is it?
Speaker 8 (23:51):
Your wife?
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Is his? She was holding in a long piece of
broken class long and bidon see doesn't answer. She's just
watching us.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
What's she waiting for?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
It's from the broken window, that's where she got it.
Speaker 8 (24:06):
So what if I have it? I'm not gonna sit
here defenseless.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
She's gonna attack us.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
I'll be silly. It's all right for you to have
a knife. Why can't I be on for whatever may come?
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Give me that broken glass, Give it to you.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
You think I'm crazy. You couldn't protect us from anything?
Speaker 5 (24:21):
David? What are you doing?
Speaker 8 (24:23):
Why are you climbing over the seat.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
I won.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
I'm through letting my wife be terrified. Now give me
that glass.
Speaker 8 (24:28):
Air away from me.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Once i'd left the car. You were going to but
you my wife with that broken glass. Me that glass up?
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Crazy?
Speaker 8 (24:37):
Let me alone over, don't let her freeze.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Wrong, she's got my arm, you give it. Drop that glass,
she dropped.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
You both gone crazy five?
Speaker 7 (24:52):
But kill me.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
You were going to murder us.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
I was.
Speaker 8 (24:55):
I let her get freeze.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Can't hold her. She's strong.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
If you I have a knife and I'll have blood old.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I can't much longer.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
I'm not crazy place, believe me. Just give me the knife.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
That's all got my throat.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
Chok use your name.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
You killed her, David, You killed the crazy woman.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
I couldn't help it. She was choking me.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Yeah, you come with flood.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
She was going to kill us. Oh, the car is coming,
helps coming you in the car. Why are you poking it?
(26:00):
I ran out of gas. The crazy one to night.
Speaker 8 (26:02):
To run out of gas.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
You couldn't have picked a better spot. What was that
woman running around loose? We wanted to bomber up the road.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Call and said his dog's been barking at something. We
caught her. Oh'd you catch that's crazy?
Speaker 5 (26:15):
She's in the backseat.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
That uhhh, she's alive, badly hurt though she was trying
to kill us before.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
I will get her to a hospital.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
You come with me. It's lucky you didn't kill her.
We captured that crazy woman and a half hour ago.
I don't know who this lady is. Come on, give
me a hand with her.
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Suspense.
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