October 18, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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which we call the one man Crime Wave. Our star,
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Speaker 2 (00:38):
What?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
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Speaker 2 (01:57):
These murders occurred in a city, a good sign city,
the virtual city. You'll know it. Take murder, and take
carefully into consideration the results of the crime tragedy not
perhaps so much for the victim, because to the dead
there's no further use for tears. Tragedy though for those
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who are left to mourn and fear. If it happened
to your next door neighbor, the friendly man or woman,
the ones with kids, the ones with a big hello
and the comfortable approach to living, the fear because it
was next door, it might have been you. It began
on a Tuesday night, senseless, frightful. It happened in a city,
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and the city began to live in fear for what was.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
To follow.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Sergeant Ferry.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Yeah, I'm griscal. I was told a report to you
for duty.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Oh sure you're the new man, yes, sir, okay, come on.
There's been a killing over on East Bay. Woman in
the street stabbed. We got to East Bay. The body
was still there, shrouded in an overcoat, one hand uncovered
ly in the gutter, thin stream of water washing through
(03:12):
the stiffening fingers. She had been murdered a half a
block from her house. A neighbor told what she knew,
standing white faced, frightened under the street light. It was
eight thirty pm and the temperature was thirty nine degrees.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Well.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
I saw her past my window. She waved. She had
a letter in her hand. I guess she was going
to mail it at the corner.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Did you see her after that?
Speaker 8 (03:35):
No?
Speaker 7 (03:36):
I only heard heard a scream. I ran out and
looked up and down the street. I thought there'd been
an accident, maybe, but I didn't see a car or
anything until I saw her lying here.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Was there anybody on the street, I don't know.
Speaker 9 (03:52):
What I thought.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
I saw somebody go around the corner at the end
of the block running.
Speaker 10 (03:57):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
You better go inside, missus mead. Its kind of chilly
out here.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
What'll her husband do? Gets off work at ten? What's
he gonna do when he finds out? Those nice kids?
Speaker 8 (04:13):
What are they gonna do?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
The camera work was finished, an ambulance took the dead
mother away, and the search for a murderer was begun.
I rapped out the first report and Brisco filled in
the details. They were not released to the press.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
The husband of the deceased was questioned. His replies were
all negative. No known enemies, his wife was not involved
with another man. His own movements on the night were
checked and found to be as described. Neighbors were questioned
they had seen nothing of the attack. There were fourteen
knife wounds in the deceased body, any five of which
could have caused death.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Coroner's report is attached.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
We're proceeding now with the theory that the department is
dealing with an unknown assailant privately with a criminally insane background.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
The killer, if he were criminally insane, would strike again.
He did. It was on Thursday. There'd been a light
snowfall during the day, and as evening came, the temperature
dropped lower, leaving a thin covering of crystals on the ground.
It was ten pm. The street, Washington. A woman of
thirty seven was returning to her apartment. She was a
waitress at the Gold Rushed restaurant. She was between two
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lamp posts and semi light when a man stepped out
from the doorway.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
A chance.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
She was alive when they got her to the hospital.
She was alive. When I went into the white room
to question her, she told me what she could remember.
Weekly frightened at what.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Had happened and of what was going to happen.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
You think you were strong enough to tell me a
couple of things. I'll try. Can you describe him?
Speaker 10 (05:56):
Well?
Speaker 9 (05:56):
He was about your height, maybe a little shorter, kind
of heavy set. His eyebrows grew across the middle. Funny eyes,
what complexion dark? I guess dark? Any scars I didn't see?
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Can you remember how he was dressed? Oh? I was scared.
There was an overcoat.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I don't remember.
Speaker 9 (06:33):
And he had a hat, M kind of a regular hat.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
All right?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
He said, you told him a man was coming down
the street.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
Yeah, I started scared him. He turned around. I could run.
That's funny.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yeah. Is there anything else you're gonna remember about this fellow?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
No?
Speaker 9 (07:00):
Hey, oh my hand.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Were you sure?
Speaker 9 (07:05):
Thanks?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Trying to remember something?
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Now?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
What color was the overcoat?
Speaker 9 (07:11):
I told you, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
It was maybe dark gray brown.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I was scared, I was. That's all right, it might
come to you later.
Speaker 11 (07:27):
Just one more thing, miss miss.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
She turned her head aside, the eyes were closed. I
held her hand and it was the last knowing thing
in her life as she died quietly, unprotesting. I went
back to the office and called in Driscol. We had
coffee sent up and drank it steaming. I'm going to
give it out to the papers. This guy's a nut.
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He'll keep on killing until we catch him. It's best
to warn the women about walking alone at night, Yes, sir,
what about the description, Well it's enough for a start.
We'll contact institutions, go over our files.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
You can't get to work on that now, low case.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Oh, by the way, they get any footprints in the.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Snow at the time, I got to fifty people that
tramveled it all up for the time being. Anyway, we'll
have to go on luck unless we come up with
something that's the trouble of killings like this city this size.
We have a tough time finding a murderer unless he's
got a record or a motive. Well, he's nuts, that's
his motive.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
I guess we'll have to wait for the record.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
The story broke in the papers on the next day, Friday.
The results were immediate and expected my telephone again to
ring and kept on ringing. Quackpots, people who had seen
a man they thought answered the general description of the murderer.
We'd seen him in a dozen different places at the
same time, and they knew more about him than we
did because you had nothing to go on.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
You've got a lot of patience. I don't know how
you take it.
Speaker 10 (09:08):
Well.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I look at it this way. There's always one call.
That's the real thing. Can't afford to take any chances.
This guy has done two killings on opposite sides of
the city. That makes it even worse. He's not killing
in a pattern, and he might do it again somewhere
else until we get a lead. I listen to anybody.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Who's got something to say.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
You'll get me a pack of cigarettes out of my code,
will you disco on? Yes, homicide Sergeant Faring, Yes, ma'am,
that's right man, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I'm in charge.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
The weekend passed and it was Monday Tuesday. We worked
hard sifting rumor possibility. There was nothing much to show
for it. The tension in the city mounted started to
build into panic. That was taught vigilantes college day.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Complaints as to the ineptness of the police force piled up.
We took it and waited. Then the thing we were
scared of happened Wednesday morning, a little after midnight on
the west side. A young couple, both of them ripped
to pieces dead before any help could come. And early
the next morning, Yes, sir, yes, sir, I know, but
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we may have got hold of something. A young fellow
struggled with him. He ripped off a button and some
cloth from his coat. Yes to the lad was working
on it now, Yes, sir, I will, Yes, sir, that
was the chief. We'd better if you're getting something fast,
lots of pressure. Maybe we have, sir.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Fourteenth Precinct picked up a man last night. He might
answer the description kind of crazy. Won't deny or admit anything. Oh,
they're bringing him down now. He should be here in
about fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Thing. Have they got the overcoat?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
No, he wasn't a wearing one, and he won't say
what happened to him?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
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Speaker 6 (11:36):
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Elliott Lewis's production of The One Man Crime Wave A
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Speaker 2 (12:54):
The man was brought into my office on Thursday morning.
His name was Frederick Sorensen. He'd been picked up ten
blocks from the scene of the crime, two hours after
it's been permitted. He appeared to be drunk, and although
the temperature was in the low thirties, he wore no overcoat.
In general, his features answered the vague description given by
the dead waitress. He sat with his head lord sullen,
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ignoring the coffee by his side. Well, you're not under arrests,
and this is just a routine questioning.
Speaker 10 (13:22):
Nice It's like the Germans or the Russians. Man's walking along,
he's arrested just like that.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
If you will answer a few questions, sir, you can
be on your way.
Speaker 10 (13:35):
What am I supposed to have done?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
What can you tell me where you were this morning,
a little after midnight.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
In a bar.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I guess I don't remember any particular bar.
Speaker 10 (13:47):
There were two or three. I got problems.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I was drunk classes but you try to remember the
names of the bars.
Speaker 10 (13:56):
I don't know. Oh, the Star, I guess, over on Manchester.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Oh.
Speaker 10 (14:04):
Once in a while I go into the Astor. I
guess I did last night. I was pretty drunk. Got
no right to arrest me.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
You're not under arrest, mister Sorenson. What under your overcoat?
Speaker 10 (14:17):
I don't know. I had a long one. I left
my apartment. I took it off from one of the
bars and forgot it. I was pretty drunk.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Will you describe your coat? Sure? It was a gray tweet.
Speaker 10 (14:35):
I guess not too heavy.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I don't like a heavy coat.
Speaker 10 (14:38):
It makes my back ache.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
W's if we can get it back for you. Mister Soson,
you said you were in the Star, and they asked
any other place?
Speaker 10 (14:46):
I don't think so. Oh wait a minute, Maybe the
joint over on Williams Street, opposite the hotel.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
You know the McDonald's bond girl.
Speaker 10 (14:58):
Yeah, that's the one. I think.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
So, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (15:01):
I'm not sure. Hey, look, I'm answering all these questions.
What am I supposed to have done?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Two people were killed just after midnight last night, a
few blocks from where you were picked up. It's our
job to investigate anybody who might know something about it.
Speaker 10 (15:15):
I don't know anything.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
When the officers questioned you, you refuse to answer. They
asked you if you knew about the murders, and you said,
I'm not saying yes, and I'm not saying no. I'm
not saying anything. Do you remember that, missus Sorenson, No,
I was drunk.
Speaker 10 (15:35):
Did you ever get drunk and try to remember what
you said? I didn't even know what they were talking about.
I didn't kill anybody. I got enough problems without killing somebody.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
All right, missus Sorenson, I'd like you to wait in
there for a while until we check on some of
these things.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Have you had any breakfasts? No, would have some set up.
Speaker 10 (15:54):
Hey, listen, if I'm not under arrest, how come I got.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
To stay here as a good citizen, mister Sorenson. I'm
sure you want to help in every way to catch
the murderer.
Speaker 10 (16:02):
Sure, but don't.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
You're helping them by staying in there until I get back.
We checked, they asked to Star McDonough's bar, and Grill
asked questions. Sorenson was known to them all, In particular,
he was known to mister McDonald.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
Yeah, he was in here. Kind of late, had a
good load on.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Could you say what time?
Speaker 10 (16:28):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
One?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Maybe two?
Speaker 8 (16:30):
Tell you sided there was a big night last night,
maybe the cold and snow, but everybody felt good, didn't
want to go out, you know Howadays I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Did you have to notice whether mister Sorenson was wearing
an overcoat?
Speaker 8 (16:42):
I couldn't swear, but put it this way. If he wasn't,
I would have noticed because it was too cold outside
to be with that one. Now, wouldn't you say? The
odds are he was wearing one? Possible, Freddy, there's a
couple of butts out of the table at the end.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
You missed him. He didn't find an overcoat after you closed,
Gray Tweed.
Speaker 8 (17:04):
No, Freddy, you find an overcoat of man left here
last night? I guess you're out a lout.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, well, if it does show up, mister mc donough
to be obliged that you'll give me a call.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Brett say it's none of my business, but have you arrested.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Sore ands and no routine questions? Iself? Well?
Speaker 8 (17:23):
I wondered he's not the type for that killer. I've
talked to him. He's been coming in here for five
or six years. He's a nice guy, quiet, no trouble.
As a student of human nature, i'd say he wasn't
your man.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Thanks a lot for your trouble. We checked some more
Sorens's apartment. Neighbors found nothing. The man was quiet but
well liked. The overcoat had disappeared, and since his alibi
held up, we didn't have much choice. You've been cooperating in, Sorenson.
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Thank you.
Speaker 10 (18:02):
It's okay. Hey, do you find my overcoat?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I'm afraid not, but if we do, we'll let you know.
Speaker 10 (18:07):
I'm sorry to lose it. It's all right for me
to go now.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah, I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
Speaker 10 (18:16):
That's okay. Hope you get that guy.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
We will, mister Sorenson.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
Yeah, well, so long I still match.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Thanks again, Roger. He's leaving now. Drisco get a man
to follow him. In a relief for that man, I
don't want Sorenson out of sight for a minute. Yes,
run away. They followed him for a week and the
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only thing he did to be noted was to buy
a new overcoat. I summed up our progress for the
chief and it wasn't much.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Uh, well, sir, he's a suspect.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
But he's a weak one.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
We've checked pretty carefully. He works for a lumber yard
than in nine years, no financial problems. He was married,
but he got a divorce three years ago. His ex
wife says he was all right, kind of moody sometimes,
but no big thing. Just wanted to live alone, didn't
want to be married, so she gave him a divorce.
There wasn't another woman as far as she knew. So
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as that overcoat shows up somewhere and there's a button
with some cloth missing, we haven't got much. And for
another week, no killings, no progress. We continued to have
the suspect followed for no other reason than the physical
description given by the dead waitress.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
But even that was slindly.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
On a Friday, at nine fifteen p m. It was raining.
I called enough free, just a bitter, penetrating wetness. And
that's when the overcoat showed up, the overcoat with a
missing button. There was a man in it. Two. He
been picked up in a bar, disturbing the piece. His
name was Winters, and he had a record five arrests,
three convictions. It took a couple of minutes to match
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up a shred of cloth and button to the coat,
and we had our first break. We sent for Winters.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
It doesn't have to be Sorenson's coat, Sergeant, doesn't have
to be no you think it is.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
That's what we've been working on. Come in, winners, sit down. Okay,
Now you ever see this coat before?
Speaker 8 (20:38):
Sure it's mine?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
You swear to that.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
Sure swere?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
What were you picked up for?
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Bum?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Rap?
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Well, us starts picking on me in a bar. I
hit him first.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
He was bigger than me, disturbing the piece. How would
you like murder added to that? Murder?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I didn't kill an old body. Where did you get
the coat?
Speaker 8 (21:00):
It's mine? What do you mean? Where did I get it?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Two weeks ago? That was Wednesday, sixteen days ago. A
man and a woman were stabbed to death. The murderer
wore this coat. We've got a bit of cloth and
a button to prove it your coat. Winters.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Listen, I never killed now listen.
Speaker 12 (21:21):
Just because I got a coat that looks.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
Like Oh I didn't.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Where did you get the coat?
Speaker 6 (21:28):
I Tooldia, Hi.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
This is discal.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Where oh what about Sarrence? For sure? Okay, I'll tell
the sergeant stabbing off Lincoln Avenue woman, she's dead. Sounds
the same.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
All right, Winters you hear me? Now you want that
to be your coat, I'll accept it. No more talk
and you're up for murder. And I'm not kidding, but
I don't think you did it. And I'm giving you
one more chance to tell me where you got it.
I look, misterke.
Speaker 10 (22:11):
Okay, I found it.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
Found it where in a bar? When, like you said,
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Ago, what bar? I don't come on, come on after
the star McDonough's, McDonald's. Okay, did you see the fellow
you got it from?
Speaker 12 (22:27):
Now I'm a loser. You're going to get me in
on a larcensary and wrap?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Do you want murder? I?
Speaker 8 (22:34):
Yeah, I saw him.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Was he wearing the coat when he came in?
Speaker 12 (22:38):
Yeah? He acted kind of strange, like it was hot,
maybe drunk.
Speaker 11 (22:44):
He sat down.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
At the table, took off the coat.
Speaker 12 (22:47):
Then he started to look at his hands for a
long time. I remember, because he looked kind of nuts.
Then he went to the men's and left his coat.
It was a good looking coat.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
So I did you hear him called by name?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Well, a couple of guys.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Youm to know him.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I guess. I don't remember what they call him. Can
you identify him? I guess, Oh, okay, I'm holding you
as a material witness.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
You're gonna book me for.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Taking the coup. I'll think about it. With a new killing,
we had another problem. The man on duty outside Sorenson's
apartment had reported that Sorenson hadn't left the place all evening.
That might mean we had still one.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
More killer working with the knife.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
But Briscol and I drove over to Sorenson's place. We
had enough to pick him up. Matson was on duty
and he came up to the apartment with us. We
had to break the door down. Sorenson wasn't answering, and
when we got inside we knew why.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
Sergeant, I swear he didn't come out.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
That's s where he went out. Fire escape leads out
the back.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I'm sorry, Sergeant, he never can't do anything about it.
Now we go after him, Sergeant, No, but I have
to call to pick him up. We'll stay here. I
think he'll come back and get back out front. If
you see him, don't make any move unless you're sure
you can get him. Yes, Sir, we turned out the
lights up, the window open, and waited. The rain kept
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falling and it got cold in the room.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
An hour went by.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
We didn't smoke for fierce sorens and would smell it
as he came up the fire escape to his window,
So we just waited.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Sergeant, Yeah, will they execute a man like that?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I don't know. They might as well.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
He'll cost to tax pay a lot of money for
the rest of his life. If they don't, he'd be
better off.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Dead for himself, he'd be better off.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
What makes him do it? You read about it, you
see him, talk to him? What makes him that way?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Don't ask me? And just the guy has to try
and catch him at it. They got their kicks carving
out somebody's life.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Boy, I'd sure like a cigarette.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Wait until he's inside.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
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Speaker 2 (25:13):
You're on a restaurantine disc.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Go come on.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
He said something wrong and he wasn't close enough for
us to get him. We followed him out to the
fire escaping up to the roof. He would row up
there and a slick was forming under foot. There was
only one place for him to be, behind the elevator
housing shaft. You could only approach it on one side,
so I stationed Brisco behind me to cut him off.
If you made a run for it, come out with
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your hands up.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
I haven't done anything.
Speaker 10 (25:46):
Let me alone.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I feel sick. Why didn't you let me alone? Get
out here where I can see you move slowly and
keep your hands high. I want to die. I want
to die. Come on, you don't know who's just gone off.
You don't care, well, I won't.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
I won't go to jail.
Speaker 10 (26:10):
I'm not gonna kill me.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Did so?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
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Speaker 3 (26:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
You all right? Sergeant? Yeah, I got my arm oarenten, oarenten.
He's done.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
H Gotta call the ambulance.
Speaker 10 (26:37):
M hmm.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
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Speaker 2 (01:57):
These murders occurred in a city, a good sign city,
the virtual city. You'll know it. Take murder, and take
carefully into consideration the results of the crime tragedy not
perhaps so much for the victim, because to the dead
there's no further use for tears. Tragedy though for those
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who are left to mourn and fear. If it happened
to your next door neighbor, the friendly man or woman,
the ones with kids, the ones with a big hello
and the comfortable approach to living, the fear because it
was next door, it might have been you. It began
on a Tuesday night, senseless, frightful. It happened in a city,
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and the city began to live in fear for what was.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
To follow.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Sergeant Ferry.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Yeah, I'm griscal. I was told a report to you
for duty.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Oh sure you're the new man, yes, sir, okay, come on.
There's been a killing over on East Bay. Woman in
the street stabbed. We got to East Bay. The body
was still there, shrouded in an overcoat, one hand uncovered
ly in the gutter, thin stream of water washing through
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the stiffening fingers. She had been murdered a half a
block from her house. A neighbor told what she knew,
standing white faced, frightened under the street light. It was
eight thirty pm and the temperature was thirty nine degrees.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Well.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
I saw her past my window. She waved. She had
a letter in her hand. I guess she was going
to mail it at the corner.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Did you see her after that?
Speaker 8 (03:35):
No?
Speaker 7 (03:36):
I only heard heard a scream. I ran out and
looked up and down the street. I thought there'd been
an accident, maybe, but I didn't see a car or
anything until I saw her lying here.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Was there anybody on the street, I don't know.
Speaker 9 (03:52):
What I thought.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
I saw somebody go around the corner at the end
of the block running.
Speaker 10 (03:57):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
You better go inside, missus mead. Its kind of chilly
out here.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
What'll her husband do? Gets off work at ten? What's
he gonna do when he finds out? Those nice kids?
Speaker 8 (04:13):
What are they gonna do?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
The camera work was finished, an ambulance took the dead
mother away, and the search for a murderer was begun.
I rapped out the first report and Brisco filled in
the details. They were not released to the press.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
The husband of the deceased was questioned. His replies were
all negative. No known enemies, his wife was not involved
with another man. His own movements on the night were
checked and found to be as described. Neighbors were questioned
they had seen nothing of the attack. There were fourteen
knife wounds in the deceased body, any five of which
could have caused death.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Coroner's report is attached.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
We're proceeding now with the theory that the department is
dealing with an unknown assailant privately with a criminally insane background.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
The killer, if he were criminally insane, would strike again.
He did. It was on Thursday. There'd been a light
snowfall during the day, and as evening came, the temperature
dropped lower, leaving a thin covering of crystals on the ground.
It was ten pm. The street, Washington. A woman of
thirty seven was returning to her apartment. She was a
waitress at the Gold Rushed restaurant. She was between two
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lamp posts and semi light when a man stepped out
from the doorway.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
A chance.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
She was alive when they got her to the hospital.
She was alive. When I went into the white room
to question her, she told me what she could remember.
Weekly frightened at what.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Had happened and of what was going to happen.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
You think you were strong enough to tell me a
couple of things. I'll try. Can you describe him?
Speaker 10 (05:56):
Well?
Speaker 9 (05:56):
He was about your height, maybe a little shorter, kind
of heavy set. His eyebrows grew across the middle. Funny eyes,
what complexion dark? I guess dark? Any scars I didn't see?
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Can you remember how he was dressed? Oh? I was scared.
There was an overcoat.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I don't remember.
Speaker 9 (06:33):
And he had a hat, M kind of a regular hat.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
All right?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
He said, you told him a man was coming down
the street.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
Yeah, I started scared him. He turned around. I could run.
That's funny.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yeah. Is there anything else you're gonna remember about this fellow?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
No?
Speaker 9 (07:00):
Hey, oh my hand.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Were you sure?
Speaker 9 (07:05):
Thanks?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Trying to remember something?
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Now?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
What color was the overcoat?
Speaker 9 (07:11):
I told you, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
It was maybe dark gray brown.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I was scared, I was. That's all right, it might
come to you later.
Speaker 11 (07:27):
Just one more thing, miss miss.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
She turned her head aside, the eyes were closed. I
held her hand and it was the last knowing thing
in her life as she died quietly, unprotesting. I went
back to the office and called in Driscol. We had
coffee sent up and drank it steaming. I'm going to
give it out to the papers. This guy's a nut.
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He'll keep on killing until we catch him. It's best
to warn the women about walking alone at night, Yes, sir,
what about the description, Well it's enough for a start.
We'll contact institutions, go over our files.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
You can't get to work on that now, low case.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Oh, by the way, they get any footprints in the.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Snow at the time, I got to fifty people that
tramveled it all up for the time being. Anyway, we'll
have to go on luck unless we come up with
something that's the trouble of killings like this city this size.
We have a tough time finding a murderer unless he's
got a record or a motive. Well, he's nuts, that's
his motive.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
I guess we'll have to wait for the record.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
The story broke in the papers on the next day, Friday.
The results were immediate and expected my telephone again to
ring and kept on ringing. Quackpots, people who had seen
a man they thought answered the general description of the murderer.
We'd seen him in a dozen different places at the
same time, and they knew more about him than we
did because you had nothing to go on.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
You've got a lot of patience. I don't know how
you take it.
Speaker 10 (09:08):
Well.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I look at it this way. There's always one call.
That's the real thing. Can't afford to take any chances.
This guy has done two killings on opposite sides of
the city. That makes it even worse. He's not killing
in a pattern, and he might do it again somewhere
else until we get a lead. I listen to anybody.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Who's got something to say.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
You'll get me a pack of cigarettes out of my code,
will you disco on? Yes, homicide Sergeant Faring, Yes, ma'am,
that's right man, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I'm in charge.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
The weekend passed and it was Monday Tuesday. We worked
hard sifting rumor possibility. There was nothing much to show
for it. The tension in the city mounted started to
build into panic. That was taught vigilantes college day.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Complaints as to the ineptness of the police force piled up.
We took it and waited. Then the thing we were
scared of happened Wednesday morning, a little after midnight on
the west side. A young couple, both of them ripped
to pieces dead before any help could come. And early
the next morning, Yes, sir, yes, sir, I know, but
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we may have got hold of something. A young fellow
struggled with him. He ripped off a button and some
cloth from his coat. Yes to the lad was working
on it now, Yes, sir, I will, Yes, sir, that
was the chief. We'd better if you're getting something fast,
lots of pressure. Maybe we have, sir.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Fourteenth Precinct picked up a man last night. He might
answer the description kind of crazy. Won't deny or admit anything. Oh,
they're bringing him down now. He should be here in
about fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Thing. Have they got the overcoat?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
No, he wasn't a wearing one, and he won't say
what happened to him?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
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Speaker 2 (12:54):
The man was brought into my office on Thursday morning.
His name was Frederick Sorensen. He'd been picked up ten
blocks from the scene of the crime, two hours after
it's been permitted. He appeared to be drunk, and although
the temperature was in the low thirties, he wore no overcoat.
In general, his features answered the vague description given by
the dead waitress. He sat with his head lord sullen,
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ignoring the coffee by his side. Well, you're not under arrests,
and this is just a routine questioning.
Speaker 10 (13:22):
Nice It's like the Germans or the Russians. Man's walking along,
he's arrested just like that.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
If you will answer a few questions, sir, you can
be on your way.
Speaker 10 (13:35):
What am I supposed to have done?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
What can you tell me where you were this morning,
a little after midnight.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
In a bar.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I guess I don't remember any particular bar.
Speaker 10 (13:47):
There were two or three. I got problems.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I was drunk classes but you try to remember the
names of the bars.
Speaker 10 (13:56):
I don't know. Oh, the Star, I guess, over on Manchester.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Oh.
Speaker 10 (14:04):
Once in a while I go into the Astor. I
guess I did last night. I was pretty drunk. Got
no right to arrest me.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
You're not under arrest, mister Sorenson. What under your overcoat?
Speaker 10 (14:17):
I don't know. I had a long one. I left
my apartment. I took it off from one of the
bars and forgot it. I was pretty drunk.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Will you describe your coat? Sure? It was a gray tweet.
Speaker 10 (14:35):
I guess not too heavy.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I don't like a heavy coat.
Speaker 10 (14:38):
It makes my back ache.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
W's if we can get it back for you. Mister Soson,
you said you were in the Star, and they asked
any other place?
Speaker 10 (14:46):
I don't think so. Oh wait a minute, Maybe the
joint over on Williams Street, opposite the hotel.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
You know the McDonald's bond girl.
Speaker 10 (14:58):
Yeah, that's the one. I think.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
So, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (15:01):
I'm not sure. Hey, look, I'm answering all these questions.
What am I supposed to have done?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Two people were killed just after midnight last night, a
few blocks from where you were picked up. It's our
job to investigate anybody who might know something about it.
Speaker 10 (15:15):
I don't know anything.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
When the officers questioned you, you refuse to answer. They
asked you if you knew about the murders, and you said,
I'm not saying yes, and I'm not saying no. I'm
not saying anything. Do you remember that, missus Sorenson, No,
I was drunk.
Speaker 10 (15:35):
Did you ever get drunk and try to remember what
you said? I didn't even know what they were talking about.
I didn't kill anybody. I got enough problems without killing somebody.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
All right, missus Sorenson, I'd like you to wait in
there for a while until we check on some of
these things.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Have you had any breakfasts? No, would have some set up.
Speaker 10 (15:54):
Hey, listen, if I'm not under arrest, how come I got.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
To stay here as a good citizen, mister Sorenson. I'm
sure you want to help in every way to catch
the murderer.
Speaker 10 (16:02):
Sure, but don't.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
You're helping them by staying in there until I get back.
We checked, they asked to Star McDonough's bar, and Grill
asked questions. Sorenson was known to them all, In particular,
he was known to mister McDonald.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
Yeah, he was in here. Kind of late, had a
good load on.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Could you say what time?
Speaker 10 (16:28):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
One?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Maybe two?
Speaker 8 (16:30):
Tell you sided there was a big night last night,
maybe the cold and snow, but everybody felt good, didn't
want to go out, you know Howadays I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Did you have to notice whether mister Sorenson was wearing
an overcoat?
Speaker 8 (16:42):
I couldn't swear, but put it this way. If he wasn't,
I would have noticed because it was too cold outside
to be with that one. Now, wouldn't you say? The
odds are he was wearing one? Possible, Freddy, there's a
couple of butts out of the table at the end.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
You missed him. He didn't find an overcoat after you closed,
Gray Tweed.
Speaker 8 (17:04):
No, Freddy, you find an overcoat of man left here
last night? I guess you're out a lout.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, well, if it does show up, mister mc donough
to be obliged that you'll give me a call.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Brett say it's none of my business, but have you arrested.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Sore ands and no routine questions? Iself? Well?
Speaker 8 (17:23):
I wondered he's not the type for that killer. I've
talked to him. He's been coming in here for five
or six years. He's a nice guy, quiet, no trouble.
As a student of human nature, i'd say he wasn't
your man.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Thanks a lot for your trouble. We checked some more
Sorens's apartment. Neighbors found nothing. The man was quiet but
well liked. The overcoat had disappeared, and since his alibi
held up, we didn't have much choice. You've been cooperating in, Sorenson.
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Thank you.
Speaker 10 (18:02):
It's okay. Hey, do you find my overcoat?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I'm afraid not, but if we do, we'll let you know.
Speaker 10 (18:07):
I'm sorry to lose it. It's all right for me
to go now.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah, I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
Speaker 10 (18:16):
That's okay. Hope you get that guy.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
We will, mister Sorenson.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
Yeah, well, so long I still match.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Thanks again, Roger. He's leaving now. Drisco get a man
to follow him. In a relief for that man, I
don't want Sorenson out of sight for a minute. Yes,
run away. They followed him for a week and the
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only thing he did to be noted was to buy
a new overcoat. I summed up our progress for the
chief and it wasn't much.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Uh, well, sir, he's a suspect.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
But he's a weak one.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
We've checked pretty carefully. He works for a lumber yard
than in nine years, no financial problems. He was married,
but he got a divorce three years ago. His ex
wife says he was all right, kind of moody sometimes,
but no big thing. Just wanted to live alone, didn't
want to be married, so she gave him a divorce.
There wasn't another woman as far as she knew. So
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as that overcoat shows up somewhere and there's a button
with some cloth missing, we haven't got much. And for
another week, no killings, no progress. We continued to have
the suspect followed for no other reason than the physical
description given by the dead waitress.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
But even that was slindly.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
On a Friday, at nine fifteen p m. It was raining.
I called enough free, just a bitter, penetrating wetness. And
that's when the overcoat showed up, the overcoat with a
missing button. There was a man in it. Two. He
been picked up in a bar, disturbing the piece. His
name was Winters, and he had a record five arrests,
three convictions. It took a couple of minutes to match
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up a shred of cloth and button to the coat,
and we had our first break. We sent for Winters.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
It doesn't have to be Sorenson's coat, Sergeant, doesn't have
to be no you think it is.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
That's what we've been working on. Come in, winners, sit down. Okay,
Now you ever see this coat before?
Speaker 8 (20:38):
Sure it's mine?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
You swear to that.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
Sure swere?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
What were you picked up for?
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Bum?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Rap?
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Well, us starts picking on me in a bar. I
hit him first.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
He was bigger than me, disturbing the piece. How would
you like murder added to that? Murder?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I didn't kill an old body. Where did you get
the coat?
Speaker 8 (21:00):
It's mine? What do you mean? Where did I get it?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Two weeks ago? That was Wednesday, sixteen days ago. A
man and a woman were stabbed to death. The murderer
wore this coat. We've got a bit of cloth and
a button to prove it your coat. Winters.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Listen, I never killed now listen.
Speaker 12 (21:21):
Just because I got a coat that looks.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
Like Oh I didn't.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Where did you get the coat?
Speaker 6 (21:28):
I Tooldia, Hi.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
This is discal.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Where oh what about Sarrence? For sure? Okay, I'll tell
the sergeant stabbing off Lincoln Avenue woman, she's dead. Sounds
the same.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
All right, Winters you hear me? Now you want that
to be your coat, I'll accept it. No more talk
and you're up for murder. And I'm not kidding, but
I don't think you did it. And I'm giving you
one more chance to tell me where you got it.
I look, misterke.
Speaker 10 (22:11):
Okay, I found it.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
Found it where in a bar? When, like you said,
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Ago, what bar? I don't come on, come on after
the star McDonough's, McDonald's. Okay, did you see the fellow
you got it from?
Speaker 12 (22:27):
Now I'm a loser. You're going to get me in
on a larcensary and wrap?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Do you want murder? I?
Speaker 8 (22:34):
Yeah, I saw him.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Was he wearing the coat when he came in?
Speaker 12 (22:38):
Yeah? He acted kind of strange, like it was hot,
maybe drunk.
Speaker 11 (22:44):
He sat down.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
At the table, took off the coat.
Speaker 12 (22:47):
Then he started to look at his hands for a
long time. I remember, because he looked kind of nuts.
Then he went to the men's and left his coat.
It was a good looking coat.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
So I did you hear him called by name?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Well, a couple of guys.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Youm to know him.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I guess. I don't remember what they call him. Can
you identify him? I guess, Oh, okay, I'm holding you
as a material witness.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
You're gonna book me for.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Taking the coup. I'll think about it. With a new killing,
we had another problem. The man on duty outside Sorenson's
apartment had reported that Sorenson hadn't left the place all evening.
That might mean we had still one.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
More killer working with the knife.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
But Briscol and I drove over to Sorenson's place. We
had enough to pick him up. Matson was on duty
and he came up to the apartment with us. We
had to break the door down. Sorenson wasn't answering, and
when we got inside we knew why.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
Sergeant, I swear he didn't come out.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
That's s where he went out. Fire escape leads out
the back.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I'm sorry, Sergeant, he never can't do anything about it.
Now we go after him, Sergeant, No, but I have
to call to pick him up. We'll stay here. I
think he'll come back and get back out front. If
you see him, don't make any move unless you're sure
you can get him. Yes, Sir, we turned out the
lights up, the window open, and waited. The rain kept
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falling and it got cold in the room.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
An hour went by.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
We didn't smoke for fierce sorens and would smell it
as he came up the fire escape to his window,
So we just waited.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Sergeant, Yeah, will they execute a man like that?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I don't know. They might as well.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
He'll cost to tax pay a lot of money for
the rest of his life. If they don't, he'd be
better off.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Dead for himself, he'd be better off.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
What makes him do it? You read about it, you
see him, talk to him? What makes him that way?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Don't ask me? And just the guy has to try
and catch him at it. They got their kicks carving
out somebody's life.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Boy, I'd sure like a cigarette.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Wait until he's inside.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Okay, who's there?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
You're on a restaurantine disc.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Go come on.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
He said something wrong and he wasn't close enough for
us to get him. We followed him out to the
fire escaping up to the roof. He would row up
there and a slick was forming under foot. There was
only one place for him to be, behind the elevator
housing shaft. You could only approach it on one side,
so I stationed Brisco behind me to cut him off.
If you made a run for it, come out with
(25:43):
your hands up.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
I haven't done anything.
Speaker 10 (25:46):
Let me alone.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I feel sick. Why didn't you let me alone? Get
out here where I can see you move slowly and
keep your hands high. I want to die. I want
to die. Come on, you don't know who's just gone off.
You don't care, well, I won't.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
I won't go to jail.
Speaker 10 (26:10):
I'm not gonna kill me.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Did so?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
What up?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
You all right? Sergeant? Yeah, I got my arm oarenten, oarenten.
He's done.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
H Gotta call the ambulance.
Speaker 10 (26:37):
M hmm.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
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