September 6, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 4 (02:14):
They dug him up on my birthday. He was six
feet tall and four feet under. It was just an accident.
They were digging in a cellar and they found the
buried packing case. They hauled it out and opened it.
Inside the case they found a steamer trunk. They opened that.
He was jammed inside, doubled up his knees against his chest.
All he had for company was a pile of quicklime.
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He was wearing a blue suit, a big smile and
two holes in his skull. The Best Dressed Skeleton, New episode.
My name Palachick Gus are Detective Lieutenant Badge number one
four one six. I've been a cop for the city
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of Cleveland for nineteen years, the last fourteen of them.
I've worked out a homicide. I'm not a child ahead
and I'm not a Sherlock Holmes. I'm strictly average. I
try to make it with what I've got. If that
doesn't do, they call for a smarter man. They should
have had one around the day they dug up the skeleton.
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We completed our preliminary investigation at the spot where the
packing case was uncovered. There wasn't much. I drove back
downtown to check with a medical examiner. Hi, Sam, how's
it going?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Oh? Hi, Gush, happy birthday?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Sure is you? But done with him?
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Just finished?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
So envy you find anything at all? No question?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
It's a homicide. Where'd they dig him up? Anyway?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Basement of an empty building out on Euclid Avenue. Hey,
by the way, how long would you say? He's been dead?
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Oo?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
About three years and.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
They had to dig him up on my birthday.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
There's a few things here that might help you. What's
that possible description of the victim? It's only partial. I
figured it out for the skeleton, size of the bones,
general structure.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Uh huh. What else?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
This piece of bridge work here? Put in a little
leg work. You might find the dentist who made it.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
You go through the clothing.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Here's the label that was sowed inside the.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Coat custon Taylor's Ince, eighteen eighty five, tenth near Parkway,
that said that at least three years.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
That's where I figured three is looks like a long
hike for you, guys.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Let's hope it's not for nothing. As I say, masterminds
don't run in our family. I have a tough enough
time figuring a homicide that's three hours, though, let alone
one that's going on for three years. With me tracking
a killer strictly hammer and soil work. I grab what
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I figured the strongest lead and start hiking from there.
The next day I checked with the custom tailors who
had their label in the suit. We find on the skeleton.
This suit here, that's right, it's got your label on it.
You remember who you sold it to?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
What's the matter?
Speaker 6 (05:15):
This is some kind of a joke.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I don't pound the pavement for lairs. What are you
talking about?
Speaker 6 (05:20):
Well, this isn't my suit.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
It's a fake.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Huh, okay, my whole life. I never made a suit
like this. It's a fake. Somebody took my label and
sewed it into a cheap store suit. You sure that, well, naturally,
I'm sure here. Look yeah, look at how it's made.
This is not hand stitching. It's stitching made by a machine,
cheap store suit.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
The label on the suit was an obvious plant, something
to kill a figure throw us off the track. This
being true, then why did he leave behind something his
telltale us a piece of bridgework in the mouth of
his victim. I had another talk with the medical examiner.
We double checked the victim's remain I.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Don't see what we're going to prove from this piece
of bridgework.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Say, uh, what's the average number of teeth a man has,
see full grown male? Thirty two? Huh? And how many
did you count in the victim's mouth?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Thirty one? Only had one extraction of molar. I could
tell that he Oh, I see what you.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Mean, only one tooth pull. Yet he had a bridge
loose in his mouth with four molars in it. That's
thirty five in my book.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Yeah, three more than any normal man could possibly have.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Why would the killer plant a piece of bridgework?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
What? Four? When I find him, I'll ask him. That
made two phony plants. The killer had made the piece
of bridgework in the suit label. I looked for one more.
I found it. The victim's hair had remained intact. It
was dark brown and gray. Took a couple of specimens
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and had them checked.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Someone's playing games.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Gush, how do you mean, doc, specimen of the dark
brown hair?
Speaker 7 (07:07):
It's fine, silky texture.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Gray hair's thick, coarse.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Possibly could have come from the same head. Not a chance. No,
three phony plants. The bridge worked, the label and the hair.
I began to wonder about the packing case and the
steamer trunk. The skeleton had been found in the trunk
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was a cheap, mass produced item, three years worth of
mildew wrecked any chance of picking some kind of a
lead from it. The packing case, which contained the trunk
was a little different. There was block lettering on one
side of it. It spelled out the name of George Gallagher.
Below that it read Harrisburg Avenue. But where the street
number would have been the surface of the packing case
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had been scraped away. I started to work on the
packing case angle. I had the manager of one of
the in town that makes them look at the case.
It wasn't standard size. It was a custom made job,
built to hold a murder trunk and nothing else. That's
when the leg worked. Began weeks of it months February
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March April May. I covered every factory that made packing
cases for one hundred miles around. It got me nothing.
I kept at it. June fifth, I checked a small
box factory about fifty miles south of town. The manager's
name was Higgins.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
Let's see now, I thought I recalled it.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Huh yeah, here it is the same dimensions I gave you,
mister Higgins.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
Exactly an odd size case. That's why I remembered it. Yeah,
this is it, all right?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Did you take the order for it?
Speaker 9 (08:45):
No, Carl did? Carl Pearson, he was the other clerk.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
How do you mean he was?
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Well?
Speaker 9 (08:50):
Carl's dad, poor fellow, sick for a long time, passed
away three four months ago.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
What do you have the name of the man who
ordered the case, Miss Higgins?
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Right here?
Speaker 9 (09:02):
It was George gallagherh.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Gallagher, and you people delivered the packing case.
Speaker 9 (09:08):
Huh, that's right where Harrisburg Avenue, number sixty nine thirteen, the.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
First reel break in six months that had finally arrived.
I felt pretty good about things on our way back
to the city. The feeling didn't last long. When I
got to the right block and Harrisburg Avenue, I find
out that the delivery address for the packing case did
not exist. Sixty nine thirteen Harrisburg Avenue was a vacant lot.
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I started canvasing every house in the neighborhood. No one
had seen a packing case of any size delivered anywhere
near the vacant lot. Took a week of climbing stairs
pushing doorbills before I found a neighborhood gossip who claimed
that she had seen the packing place delivered. Her name
was Emma Mackenzie.
Speaker 10 (10:00):
Yes, of course I remember it. I remember seeing it
standing there that.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Day, standing where missus Mackenzie.
Speaker 10 (10:05):
Well, right at the front of that empty lot down
the street, large packing case, half of it blocking the sidewalk.
Oh certainly made me mad.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Well, how do you mean, man? Uh? What made you man? Well?
Speaker 10 (10:14):
There were a couple of nails sticking out of the case,
and on my way to the store that afternoon, I
happened to pass by it. My coat got caught on
one of the nails. My good black coat.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Oh, it made a terrible rip, I see. Yes.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
I turned to this young fellow standing next to the case,
and I really told him I remember very well, it
was just last year.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Excuse me, ma'am. You said last year.
Speaker 10 (10:37):
Yes, that's right, happened about a year ago. Well, maybe
a little longer.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
You sure that it wasn't two or maybe three years ago? Oh?
Speaker 10 (10:45):
No, I remember distinctly. At the most, I'd say it
couldn't have been more than well, fourteen or fifteen months ago.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Well not this young fella that was standing next to
the packing case, you remember. You happen to remember what
he looked like, ma'am?
Speaker 10 (10:58):
Well, not any detail.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Knew. He was tall, though, on.
Speaker 10 (11:02):
The thin side, and he had buff teeth. I remember
that use foul language.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
But how old would you say? Was? Oh?
Speaker 10 (11:10):
Not more than twenty eight or thicky?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Uh huh? How about his hair? You remember what color
it was?
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Why?
Speaker 10 (11:17):
Yes, it was blonde.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
When I finished talking to missus Mackenzie, I didn't know
where I stood either I was wrong about the killer's
hair being dark brown or gray, or else. There was
more than one man mixed up in the homicide, and
more important, the case was only one year old. So
somewhere along the line the medical examiner made a mistake,
a big one. Maybe it was a quicklimee that threw
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him off. I don't know. The important thing was he
was wrong. So the basement of the building wasn't vacant
at the time the body was buried. I checked back
with the owners of the building and found out that
at the time it was occupied by a laundry that
has since gone out of business, the White Star Laundry.
The owner and manager turned out to be a Myron Wagner.
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I finally located him at his home in the south
end of the city the night of the fourth of July.
It was a big gray house set well back off
the street. Wagner was an Austrian immigrant, pleasant cooperative. I
interviewed him in the dimly lighted living room. It was
a hot night outside. You could hear the kids with
their fireworks. What can I do for you, lieutenant, It's
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just a couple of questions for you, mister Wagner, trying
not to hold you up.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
Oh, that's all right, I'm not going any place. Ah,
what is it you wanted to know?
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Uh? You owned and operated a laundry in the basement
of a building downtown on Euclid Avenue.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
Is all right, Yes, that's right. We're out of business now,
though have been for some time.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
You closed down about twelve fourteen months ago. Yes, that's right.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
We didn't have much luck.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Not like a straight answer, mister Wagner. Did you ever
know a young fellow by the name of George Gallagher?
Mister Wagner, Yes, I know the boy.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
I guess I should say I knew him.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Can you tell me anything about him?
Speaker 8 (13:07):
Well, he came to me one day asking for a job,
George did. I thought he was a nice looking fellow.
He was tall and blonde and clean looking. I hired
him as a night watchman in the laundry.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
He seemed to like the job.
Speaker 8 (13:24):
We got along fine together.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Uh huh, go ahead.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Then one night I went back to the laundry to
get my briefcase. There was some textpavision that I wanted.
After I got them, I went down to the basement
to say good.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Night to George.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
He met me on the stairs, a crazy look on
his face. I didn't know what's wrong with him. I
didn't know if he was drunk or what it was.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
What did he do?
Speaker 8 (13:47):
He screened at me, go back, don't come any further.
Come down here in our brain, your brain new I.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Got all as fast as I could. I thought he'd
been drinking.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
You happen to see what he was doing down in
the basement.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
He had a shot in his hands.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
That's all I remember, all right. What happened to fire him?
Speaker 7 (14:03):
I didn't have the chance.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
He left that night. He never came back. Did you
read in the paper about the body that was dug
up from the basement. Yes, you think Gallagh is responsible?
Speaker 8 (14:14):
Well, I don't know what else to think.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I can never forget it.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
He came up the stairs to.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
Ward and he's screaming at me, holding that shovel, screaming
and his hands, yeah, both his hands.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Covered with blood.
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Speaker 4 (16:23):
To keep you in suspense. I talked to Myron Wagner
for another hour, but I got nowhere. He was sure
the time and date he'd seen George Gallagher in the
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basement of the laundery, and he was sure he'd seen
blood all over Gallagher's hands. He couldn't give me any
idea who the victim might have been, and he didn't
know a thing about Gallagher's possible whereabouts. I asked him
why he didn't report it at the time, and he
told me he was afraid the bad publicity might hurt
his lawn business. The next break came in early October.
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We found a pawn shop in the downtown area that
had loaned twenty dollars on a watch toward George Gallagher
almost twenty two months before. The watch had never been redeemed.
It had a name engraved on its back, Albert L. Henderson.
The city directory had an A. L. Henderson listed at
a Hanford Street address. I checked it out. A dark
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haired woman who identified herself as missus Henderson answered the door.
After the preliminaries. I showed her the watch.
Speaker 11 (17:31):
Yes, my husband's watch. Where did you get it?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Where's your husband now, missus Henderson's the home?
Speaker 11 (17:36):
No, I don't know where he is.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Well, when do you expect them? Homi? Can you tell
me that?
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Well?
Speaker 11 (17:41):
No, you see, he's gone. He's got in some trouble.
He ran me.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
When was this, ma'am? How long ago? Oh?
Speaker 11 (17:46):
About two years? Two years in November next month. He
was partnerships in business. He stole the money, he ran me.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
You any idea where he is now? Missus Henderson? You
ever hear from him?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
No?
Speaker 11 (17:57):
Never, no letters, nothing. He went away one day. He
never came back.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Uh huh uh? Who told you about your husband stealing
the money? Is business partner?
Speaker 11 (18:06):
Yes, mister Hoffman, Myron Hoffman. It's a nice man. Albert
was lucky to have him for a partner. I don't
know why he did it.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Now about this watch, missus Henderson, did your husband ever
pawn this watch at any time?
Speaker 11 (18:19):
What pawn his watch?
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (18:21):
Not Albert. That's the last thing he would do.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
One thing I can't understand. Why didn't you ever make
an attempt to find your husband while a missing person's report?
Speaker 11 (18:30):
Why should I want to find him? Tief no good.
Let him stay missing. I don't want to find him.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
This business partner of your husband, ma'am, this is mister Hoffman.
Why can I get in touch with him? You know?
Speaker 11 (18:41):
No, I guess I don't. He went away. I guess
I think you a year ago, maybe longer.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Have you any idea where am I a going?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Well?
Speaker 11 (18:49):
I don't know. He seemed to talk a lot about
New York City. I never asked him, but I thought
that's where he came from. They were always talking about
New York City. Him and John.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Who's John.
Speaker 11 (18:59):
That's mister Hoffman's nephew, John Muller. He worked for my
husband and mister Hoffman in the business.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
I see, well, I'd like to locate them if I could, ma'am.
Can you describe Hoffman and his nephew for me please?
Speaker 11 (19:11):
Well, I guess mister Hoffman was about fifty fifty two,
gray hair, about my height, five five feet six inches.
His nephew, John was tall, little ten maybe he had
blonde hair. He's a young fellow, about thirty.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Years I think, are you sure that description? I? Oh, yes.
Speaker 11 (19:30):
They came here to the house for dinner a few times.
Both John and mister Hoffman, I knew them. Would you
give me a description of your husband, Albert Well, he
was a big man, as tall as the nephew, John
dark hair, gray eyes, forty three years old. He was
a heavy man, one hundred and eighty pounds. I think,
why do you want to know?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
How about your husband's teeth, Missus Henderson At the time
he disappeared that he still have his own? Oh?
Speaker 11 (19:56):
Yes, Albert had wonderful teeth.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Strong he to have one of his teeth pulled out,
you know, yes, just one? Why I guess that? Does it?
Does it?
Speaker 5 (20:08):
What?
Speaker 11 (20:08):
This just makes no sense. I don't think I liked it.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
No, man, I don't think Albert liked that either. The
next day we got out on all points bulletin on
Myron Hoffman and his nephew John Mueller alias George Gallagher.
We finally tied in the last piece of evidence. The
day after I took a train for New York City.
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I spent the better part of a month the legwork,
phone calls, more legwork. It didn't go for nothing. December thirteenth,
I took the train back to Cleveland. Next morning, I
checked in with Captain Rogers, in charge of homicide how
to check, how to go a good trip? Eh? Tired?
I think we made the grade, Captain. What's the story?
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I got enough here to start a novel? Just page one? Yeah,
mister Henderson's business partner Hoffman. He's from New York. All right,
he's got a record there long as you're on bunko, forgery, narcotics,
grand theft, robbery, everything but murder. Here's a collection of
his mugshots.
Speaker 12 (21:11):
Oh, none of them.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Two recents, No, I know that's the only drawback. Last
one taken twelve years ago. It's pretty interesting though. Here.
Take a look at those profile shots. Yeah, a whole
difference from the world. He left side of his face.
How about that? Huh? It looks pious enough to pass
for a saint. Humhm. Queer put it next to his
right profile shot of him. It swear it wasn't the
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same man. Looks like the worst thief in the world.
It's not a bad advantage. Sat on one side, thief
on the other. Two one one, Well, what does it mean?
Let me lay out the rest of it now. This
Hoffman's nephew, John Miller. He used that George Gallagher areas. Yeah,
I found his sister. She told me she hasn't seen
her brother for three years. So I took a flyer.
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I got the name of Mila's Dennis from his sister,
looked him up, showed him the bridgeway we took off
the skeleton. He identified it. He made it for John
Mueller Gallagher five years ago. All right, Oh, where does
that leave I'm still guessing now nobody gives up their
bridge work, not without a struggle, anyone. I think we
got another body to look for.
Speaker 12 (22:17):
Yeah, fair guess Hoffman and his nephew killed Henderson. Then
Hoffman killed the nephew, took his bridge work, planted it
on Henderson's body, and buried it. Anything to throw ze
off the track, that's my guess. The owner of the laundry,
Maarn Wagner, that story of his about the blonde kid
the shovel of blood on his hand, kind of makes a.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Liar out of him, doesn't no big change? What do
you mean? He was a liar long before we met him.
December fifteenth, my birthday, one year right to the day
I left the office, got in the car and drove
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to the south end of the city. I pulled up
in front of the same gray house got out and
walked up the stairs to the front door. The name
of a bailed box was still the same, Myron J. Wagner.
He answered the door himself wished me into the same
dimly lighted living room. It was calm, relaxed, perfectly at ease.
Speaker 8 (23:16):
It was very good of you to comnton in Parajeck.
The early evening a good time to visit.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Well, it's not a social call, mister Wagner. A few
things I want to talk to you about. You want
to get your hat and coat? I had a night coat.
What does it you mean we want you downtown, mister Wagner.
A couple of questions. Would like to ask.
Speaker 8 (23:35):
Questions about the Gallagher boy. You mean I told you
everything the last time you were here, lietenant Pachack.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Now, look, mister Wagner, this happens to be my birthday.
I got a family. I want to get home early tonight.
I'll put it straight here, put it straight. Yeah, I'll
draw you a roadmap. Now. For a whole year, I've
been pounding my feet east, west and south in the
city and out of it. I'm not a smart cop, mister,
but I can still put one and one together as
up to you, Wagner. How about the head and code?
Speaker 8 (24:03):
It adds up to me, Lieutenant Teller Trick, I don't
think I understand.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Number one. Your name's Myron Hoffmann, not Myron Wagner. We've
got your mug shot, your prints, and exemplars of your
handwriting from New York to prove it. Number two, you
killed Albert Henderson and buried him in the basement of
that building where you had your laundry. And besides that,
it's odds on you killed your nephew too.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
You you assume this or you have proof?
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Which one? Ninety proof? Your hair, Wagner out bet on it?
Same kind that was planted on Henderson's body, same color,
same texture. There's a bum that, mister, right from the start.
Why'd you try?
Speaker 7 (24:46):
You want me to get my cook?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Yeah, I'll go with you. Hey, uh, I'm just curious, Wagner.
You want to turn on the overhead lights? Hey? Yes,
my face? Is that it? Good? Lord?
Speaker 7 (25:12):
There are two sides to a.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
Face, Lieutenant. Look at both of them. You will find
one of them is good.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
We better get your coach.
Speaker 8 (25:22):
Just one thing, my friend Henderson, my nephew John, as
you say, just as you say, A bumbit, I did.
I even Tryner, what's the matter? Wagner A w A
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corn I got there a half an hour later. He
ran a fast check on Wagner and he put his
money on a heart attack. The autopsy confirmed it later on.
I tried to explain what it was like. I mean,
standing there and watching Wagner's life suddenly drop out of him.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
He turned the stoff at the door and his hands
went up to his chest. I reached for him, but
not in time. He straightened out on the floor. That's
when I noticed his face. The left side, the side
that made him look like I say it. It was
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changing in front of my own eyes, the whole face,
the whole side of it, fading all into one, like
a thick bronze stain over the skin, the same look
as the right side. At the face, dirty, dark and twisted.
It was all there. It was frozen into his eyes
and his mouth. All the evil in the world and
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my own eyes.
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Speaker 4 (02:14):
They dug him up on my birthday. He was six
feet tall and four feet under. It was just an accident.
They were digging in a cellar and they found the
buried packing case. They hauled it out and opened it.
Inside the case they found a steamer trunk. They opened that.
He was jammed inside, doubled up his knees against his chest.
All he had for company was a pile of quicklime.
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He was wearing a blue suit, a big smile and
two holes in his skull. The Best Dressed Skeleton, New episode.
My name Palachick Gus are Detective Lieutenant Badge number one
four one six. I've been a cop for the city
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of Cleveland for nineteen years, the last fourteen of them.
I've worked out a homicide. I'm not a child ahead
and I'm not a Sherlock Holmes. I'm strictly average. I
try to make it with what I've got. If that
doesn't do, they call for a smarter man. They should
have had one around the day they dug up the skeleton.
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We completed our preliminary investigation at the spot where the
packing case was uncovered. There wasn't much. I drove back
downtown to check with a medical examiner. Hi, Sam, how's
it going?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Oh? Hi, Gush, happy birthday?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Sure is you? But done with him?
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Just finished?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
So envy you find anything at all? No question?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
It's a homicide. Where'd they dig him up? Anyway?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Basement of an empty building out on Euclid Avenue. Hey,
by the way, how long would you say? He's been dead?
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Oo?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
About three years and.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
They had to dig him up on my birthday.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
There's a few things here that might help you. What's
that possible description of the victim? It's only partial. I
figured it out for the skeleton, size of the bones,
general structure.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Uh huh. What else?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
This piece of bridge work here? Put in a little
leg work. You might find the dentist who made it.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
You go through the clothing.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Here's the label that was sowed inside the.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Coat custon Taylor's Ince, eighteen eighty five, tenth near Parkway,
that said that at least three years.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
That's where I figured three is looks like a long
hike for you, guys.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Let's hope it's not for nothing. As I say, masterminds
don't run in our family. I have a tough enough
time figuring a homicide that's three hours, though, let alone
one that's going on for three years. With me tracking
a killer strictly hammer and soil work. I grab what
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I figured the strongest lead and start hiking from there.
The next day I checked with the custom tailors who
had their label in the suit. We find on the skeleton.
This suit here, that's right, it's got your label on it.
You remember who you sold it to?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
What's the matter?
Speaker 6 (05:15):
This is some kind of a joke.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I don't pound the pavement for lairs. What are you
talking about?
Speaker 6 (05:20):
Well, this isn't my suit.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
It's a fake.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Huh, okay, my whole life. I never made a suit
like this. It's a fake. Somebody took my label and
sewed it into a cheap store suit. You sure that, well, naturally,
I'm sure here. Look yeah, look at how it's made.
This is not hand stitching. It's stitching made by a machine,
cheap store suit.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
The label on the suit was an obvious plant, something
to kill a figure throw us off the track. This
being true, then why did he leave behind something his
telltale us a piece of bridgework in the mouth of
his victim. I had another talk with the medical examiner.
We double checked the victim's remain I.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Don't see what we're going to prove from this piece
of bridgework.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Say, uh, what's the average number of teeth a man has,
see full grown male? Thirty two? Huh? And how many
did you count in the victim's mouth?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Thirty one? Only had one extraction of molar. I could
tell that he Oh, I see what you.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Mean, only one tooth pull. Yet he had a bridge
loose in his mouth with four molars in it. That's
thirty five in my book.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Yeah, three more than any normal man could possibly have.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Why would the killer plant a piece of bridgework?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
What? Four? When I find him, I'll ask him. That
made two phony plants. The killer had made the piece
of bridgework in the suit label. I looked for one more.
I found it. The victim's hair had remained intact. It
was dark brown and gray. Took a couple of specimens
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and had them checked.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Someone's playing games.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Gush, how do you mean, doc, specimen of the dark
brown hair?
Speaker 7 (07:07):
It's fine, silky texture.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Gray hair's thick, coarse.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Possibly could have come from the same head. Not a chance. No,
three phony plants. The bridge worked, the label and the hair.
I began to wonder about the packing case and the
steamer trunk. The skeleton had been found in the trunk
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was a cheap, mass produced item, three years worth of
mildew wrecked any chance of picking some kind of a
lead from it. The packing case, which contained the trunk
was a little different. There was block lettering on one
side of it. It spelled out the name of George Gallagher.
Below that it read Harrisburg Avenue. But where the street
number would have been the surface of the packing case
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had been scraped away. I started to work on the
packing case angle. I had the manager of one of
the in town that makes them look at the case.
It wasn't standard size. It was a custom made job,
built to hold a murder trunk and nothing else. That's
when the leg worked. Began weeks of it months February
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March April May. I covered every factory that made packing
cases for one hundred miles around. It got me nothing.
I kept at it. June fifth, I checked a small
box factory about fifty miles south of town. The manager's
name was Higgins.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
Let's see now, I thought I recalled it.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Huh yeah, here it is the same dimensions I gave you,
mister Higgins.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
Exactly an odd size case. That's why I remembered it. Yeah,
this is it, all right?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Did you take the order for it?
Speaker 9 (08:45):
No, Carl did? Carl Pearson, he was the other clerk.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
How do you mean he was?
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Well?
Speaker 9 (08:50):
Carl's dad, poor fellow, sick for a long time, passed
away three four months ago.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
What do you have the name of the man who
ordered the case, Miss Higgins?
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Right here?
Speaker 9 (09:02):
It was George gallagherh.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Gallagher, and you people delivered the packing case.
Speaker 9 (09:08):
Huh, that's right where Harrisburg Avenue, number sixty nine thirteen, the.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
First reel break in six months that had finally arrived.
I felt pretty good about things on our way back
to the city. The feeling didn't last long. When I
got to the right block and Harrisburg Avenue, I find
out that the delivery address for the packing case did
not exist. Sixty nine thirteen Harrisburg Avenue was a vacant lot.
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I started canvasing every house in the neighborhood. No one
had seen a packing case of any size delivered anywhere
near the vacant lot. Took a week of climbing stairs
pushing doorbills before I found a neighborhood gossip who claimed
that she had seen the packing place delivered. Her name
was Emma Mackenzie.
Speaker 10 (10:00):
Yes, of course I remember it. I remember seeing it
standing there that.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Day, standing where missus Mackenzie.
Speaker 10 (10:05):
Well, right at the front of that empty lot down
the street, large packing case, half of it blocking the sidewalk.
Oh certainly made me mad.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Well, how do you mean, man? Uh? What made you man? Well?
Speaker 10 (10:14):
There were a couple of nails sticking out of the case,
and on my way to the store that afternoon, I
happened to pass by it. My coat got caught on
one of the nails. My good black coat.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Oh, it made a terrible rip, I see. Yes.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
I turned to this young fellow standing next to the case,
and I really told him I remember very well, it
was just last year.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Excuse me, ma'am. You said last year.
Speaker 10 (10:37):
Yes, that's right, happened about a year ago. Well, maybe
a little longer.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
You sure that it wasn't two or maybe three years ago? Oh?
Speaker 10 (10:45):
No, I remember distinctly. At the most, I'd say it
couldn't have been more than well, fourteen or fifteen months ago.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Well not this young fella that was standing next to
the packing case, you remember. You happen to remember what
he looked like, ma'am?
Speaker 10 (10:58):
Well, not any detail.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Knew. He was tall, though, on.
Speaker 10 (11:02):
The thin side, and he had buff teeth. I remember
that use foul language.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
But how old would you say? Was? Oh?
Speaker 10 (11:10):
Not more than twenty eight or thicky?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Uh huh? How about his hair? You remember what color
it was?
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Why?
Speaker 10 (11:17):
Yes, it was blonde.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
When I finished talking to missus Mackenzie, I didn't know
where I stood either I was wrong about the killer's
hair being dark brown or gray, or else. There was
more than one man mixed up in the homicide, and
more important, the case was only one year old. So
somewhere along the line the medical examiner made a mistake,
a big one. Maybe it was a quicklimee that threw
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him off. I don't know. The important thing was he
was wrong. So the basement of the building wasn't vacant
at the time the body was buried. I checked back
with the owners of the building and found out that
at the time it was occupied by a laundry that
has since gone out of business, the White Star Laundry.
The owner and manager turned out to be a Myron Wagner.
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I finally located him at his home in the south
end of the city the night of the fourth of July.
It was a big gray house set well back off
the street. Wagner was an Austrian immigrant, pleasant cooperative. I
interviewed him in the dimly lighted living room. It was
a hot night outside. You could hear the kids with
their fireworks. What can I do for you, lieutenant, It's
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just a couple of questions for you, mister Wagner, trying
not to hold you up.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
Oh, that's all right, I'm not going any place. Ah,
what is it you wanted to know?
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Uh? You owned and operated a laundry in the basement
of a building downtown on Euclid Avenue.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
Is all right, Yes, that's right. We're out of business now,
though have been for some time.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
You closed down about twelve fourteen months ago. Yes, that's right.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
We didn't have much luck.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Not like a straight answer, mister Wagner. Did you ever
know a young fellow by the name of George Gallagher?
Mister Wagner, Yes, I know the boy.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
I guess I should say I knew him.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Can you tell me anything about him?
Speaker 8 (13:07):
Well, he came to me one day asking for a job,
George did. I thought he was a nice looking fellow.
He was tall and blonde and clean looking. I hired
him as a night watchman in the laundry.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
He seemed to like the job.
Speaker 8 (13:24):
We got along fine together.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Uh huh, go ahead.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Then one night I went back to the laundry to
get my briefcase. There was some textpavision that I wanted.
After I got them, I went down to the basement
to say good.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Night to George.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
He met me on the stairs, a crazy look on
his face. I didn't know what's wrong with him. I
didn't know if he was drunk or what it was.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
What did he do?
Speaker 8 (13:47):
He screened at me, go back, don't come any further.
Come down here in our brain, your brain new I.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Got all as fast as I could. I thought he'd
been drinking.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
You happen to see what he was doing down in
the basement.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
He had a shot in his hands.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
That's all I remember, all right. What happened to fire him?
Speaker 7 (14:03):
I didn't have the chance.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
He left that night. He never came back. Did you
read in the paper about the body that was dug
up from the basement. Yes, you think Gallagh is responsible?
Speaker 8 (14:14):
Well, I don't know what else to think.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I can never forget it.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
He came up the stairs to.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
Ward and he's screaming at me, holding that shovel, screaming
and his hands, yeah, both his hands.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Covered with blood.
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Speaker 4 (16:23):
To keep you in suspense. I talked to Myron Wagner
for another hour, but I got nowhere. He was sure
the time and date he'd seen George Gallagher in the
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basement of the laundery, and he was sure he'd seen
blood all over Gallagher's hands. He couldn't give me any
idea who the victim might have been, and he didn't
know a thing about Gallagher's possible whereabouts. I asked him
why he didn't report it at the time, and he
told me he was afraid the bad publicity might hurt
his lawn business. The next break came in early October.
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We found a pawn shop in the downtown area that
had loaned twenty dollars on a watch toward George Gallagher
almost twenty two months before. The watch had never been redeemed.
It had a name engraved on its back, Albert L. Henderson.
The city directory had an A. L. Henderson listed at
a Hanford Street address. I checked it out. A dark
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haired woman who identified herself as missus Henderson answered the door.
After the preliminaries. I showed her the watch.
Speaker 11 (17:31):
Yes, my husband's watch. Where did you get it?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Where's your husband now, missus Henderson's the home?
Speaker 11 (17:36):
No, I don't know where he is.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Well, when do you expect them? Homi? Can you tell
me that?
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Well?
Speaker 11 (17:41):
No, you see, he's gone. He's got in some trouble.
He ran me.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
When was this, ma'am? How long ago? Oh?
Speaker 11 (17:46):
About two years? Two years in November next month. He
was partnerships in business. He stole the money, he ran me.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
You any idea where he is now? Missus Henderson? You
ever hear from him?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
No?
Speaker 11 (17:57):
Never, no letters, nothing. He went away one day. He
never came back.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Uh huh uh? Who told you about your husband stealing
the money? Is business partner?
Speaker 11 (18:06):
Yes, mister Hoffman, Myron Hoffman. It's a nice man. Albert
was lucky to have him for a partner. I don't
know why he did it.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Now about this watch, missus Henderson, did your husband ever
pawn this watch at any time?
Speaker 11 (18:19):
What pawn his watch?
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (18:21):
Not Albert. That's the last thing he would do.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
One thing I can't understand. Why didn't you ever make
an attempt to find your husband while a missing person's report?
Speaker 11 (18:30):
Why should I want to find him? Tief no good.
Let him stay missing. I don't want to find him.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
This business partner of your husband, ma'am, this is mister Hoffman.
Why can I get in touch with him? You know?
Speaker 11 (18:41):
No, I guess I don't. He went away. I guess
I think you a year ago, maybe longer.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Have you any idea where am I a going?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Well?
Speaker 11 (18:49):
I don't know. He seemed to talk a lot about
New York City. I never asked him, but I thought
that's where he came from. They were always talking about
New York City. Him and John.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Who's John.
Speaker 11 (18:59):
That's mister Hoffman's nephew, John Muller. He worked for my
husband and mister Hoffman in the business.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
I see, well, I'd like to locate them if I could, ma'am.
Can you describe Hoffman and his nephew for me please?
Speaker 11 (19:11):
Well, I guess mister Hoffman was about fifty fifty two,
gray hair, about my height, five five feet six inches.
His nephew, John was tall, little ten maybe he had
blonde hair. He's a young fellow, about thirty.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Years I think, are you sure that description? I? Oh, yes.
Speaker 11 (19:30):
They came here to the house for dinner a few times.
Both John and mister Hoffman, I knew them. Would you
give me a description of your husband, Albert Well, he
was a big man, as tall as the nephew, John
dark hair, gray eyes, forty three years old. He was
a heavy man, one hundred and eighty pounds. I think,
why do you want to know?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
How about your husband's teeth, Missus Henderson At the time
he disappeared that he still have his own? Oh?
Speaker 11 (19:56):
Yes, Albert had wonderful teeth.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Strong he to have one of his teeth pulled out,
you know, yes, just one? Why I guess that? Does it?
Does it?
Speaker 5 (20:08):
What?
Speaker 11 (20:08):
This just makes no sense. I don't think I liked it.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
No, man, I don't think Albert liked that either. The
next day we got out on all points bulletin on
Myron Hoffman and his nephew John Mueller alias George Gallagher.
We finally tied in the last piece of evidence. The
day after I took a train for New York City.
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I spent the better part of a month the legwork,
phone calls, more legwork. It didn't go for nothing. December thirteenth,
I took the train back to Cleveland. Next morning, I
checked in with Captain Rogers, in charge of homicide how
to check, how to go a good trip? Eh? Tired?
I think we made the grade, Captain. What's the story?
(20:53):
I got enough here to start a novel? Just page one? Yeah,
mister Henderson's business partner Hoffman. He's from New York. All right,
he's got a record there long as you're on bunko, forgery, narcotics,
grand theft, robbery, everything but murder. Here's a collection of
his mugshots.
Speaker 12 (21:11):
Oh, none of them.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Two recents, No, I know that's the only drawback. Last
one taken twelve years ago. It's pretty interesting though. Here.
Take a look at those profile shots. Yeah, a whole
difference from the world. He left side of his face.
How about that? Huh? It looks pious enough to pass
for a saint. Humhm. Queer put it next to his
right profile shot of him. It swear it wasn't the
(21:34):
same man. Looks like the worst thief in the world.
It's not a bad advantage. Sat on one side, thief
on the other. Two one one, Well, what does it mean?
Let me lay out the rest of it now. This
Hoffman's nephew, John Miller. He used that George Gallagher areas. Yeah,
I found his sister. She told me she hasn't seen
her brother for three years. So I took a flyer.
(21:56):
I got the name of Mila's Dennis from his sister,
looked him up, showed him the bridgeway we took off
the skeleton. He identified it. He made it for John
Mueller Gallagher five years ago. All right, Oh, where does
that leave I'm still guessing now nobody gives up their
bridge work, not without a struggle, anyone. I think we
got another body to look for.
Speaker 12 (22:17):
Yeah, fair guess Hoffman and his nephew killed Henderson. Then
Hoffman killed the nephew, took his bridge work, planted it
on Henderson's body, and buried it. Anything to throw ze
off the track, that's my guess. The owner of the laundry,
Maarn Wagner, that story of his about the blonde kid
the shovel of blood on his hand, kind of makes a.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Liar out of him, doesn't no big change? What do
you mean? He was a liar long before we met him.
December fifteenth, my birthday, one year right to the day
I left the office, got in the car and drove
(22:58):
to the south end of the city. I pulled up
in front of the same gray house got out and
walked up the stairs to the front door. The name
of a bailed box was still the same, Myron J. Wagner.
He answered the door himself wished me into the same
dimly lighted living room. It was calm, relaxed, perfectly at ease.
Speaker 8 (23:16):
It was very good of you to comnton in Parajeck.
The early evening a good time to visit.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Well, it's not a social call, mister Wagner. A few
things I want to talk to you about. You want
to get your hat and coat? I had a night coat.
What does it you mean we want you downtown, mister Wagner.
A couple of questions. Would like to ask.
Speaker 8 (23:35):
Questions about the Gallagher boy. You mean I told you
everything the last time you were here, lietenant Pachack.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Now, look, mister Wagner, this happens to be my birthday.
I got a family. I want to get home early tonight.
I'll put it straight here, put it straight. Yeah, I'll
draw you a roadmap. Now. For a whole year, I've
been pounding my feet east, west and south in the
city and out of it. I'm not a smart cop, mister,
but I can still put one and one together as
up to you, Wagner. How about the head and code?
Speaker 8 (24:03):
It adds up to me, Lieutenant Teller Trick, I don't
think I understand.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Number one. Your name's Myron Hoffmann, not Myron Wagner. We've
got your mug shot, your prints, and exemplars of your
handwriting from New York to prove it. Number two, you
killed Albert Henderson and buried him in the basement of
that building where you had your laundry. And besides that,
it's odds on you killed your nephew too.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
You you assume this or you have proof?
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Which one? Ninety proof? Your hair, Wagner out bet on it?
Same kind that was planted on Henderson's body, same color,
same texture. There's a bum that, mister, right from the start.
Why'd you try?
Speaker 7 (24:46):
You want me to get my cook?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Yeah, I'll go with you. Hey, uh, I'm just curious, Wagner.
You want to turn on the overhead lights? Hey? Yes,
my face? Is that it? Good? Lord?
Speaker 7 (25:12):
There are two sides to a.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
Face, Lieutenant. Look at both of them. You will find
one of them is good.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
We better get your coach.
Speaker 8 (25:22):
Just one thing, my friend Henderson, my nephew John, as
you say, just as you say, A bumbit, I did.
I even Tryner, what's the matter? Wagner A w A
(25:45):
corn I got there a half an hour later. He
ran a fast check on Wagner and he put his
money on a heart attack. The autopsy confirmed it later on.
I tried to explain what it was like. I mean,
standing there and watching Wagner's life suddenly drop out of him.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
He turned the stoff at the door and his hands
went up to his chest. I reached for him, but
not in time. He straightened out on the floor. That's
when I noticed his face. The left side, the side
that made him look like I say it. It was
(26:22):
changing in front of my own eyes, the whole face,
the whole side of it, fading all into one, like
a thick bronze stain over the skin, the same look
as the right side. At the face, dirty, dark and twisted.
It was all there. It was frozen into his eyes
and his mouth. All the evil in the world and
(26:45):
one face. I saw it happen. I saw it with
my own eyes.
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