July 24, 2025 • 30 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger
Jase Pearson, another authentic reenactment of a case transcribed from
the files of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Names, dates, and places in.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
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Speaker 1 (02:00):
And now from the files of the Texas Rangers, the
case called Uncertain Death.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
It is shortly past ten o'clock on a Wednesday night
in July nineteen thirty six, six miles outside the town
of Cambridge in east central Texas, two elderly men approached
the shore of a lake.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Come on, come on, narie, we gotta hurry.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
I'm walking as fast as can in.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Frogs ain't gonna run away.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
That ain't the point, you know it.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Frogs for bass fishing gotta be caught and putting the
beef bupper twelve hours before they can be used.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
All that superstition, George Warner ain't gonna help it.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Then, going way over the other side of the lake heating.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
There's plenty of frogs right here.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
No, you know these frogs ain't good for bears, only
frogs and basil. He gotta be caught on the other
side where the tiles.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Oh my superstition is nothing but dolly.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Light over there. Ain't got the game warden's.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Calling, ain't never looking at her?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Right, there's two.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
I wonder what he's doing out here this time of night.
Speaker 7 (03:08):
Let's go see it and you go poking your nerves
and the people's business. He ain't nobody in it, and
it ain't the game warden's car.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
There's two.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Wait a minute, shine the light down toward the shore.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
What do you want?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Ain't there now?
Speaker 7 (03:27):
You see car belongs to that young couple sitting on
the bank.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Sorry, we disturb you, folks, That's okay. Didn't mean to
be shining a light on you.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
We thought you was a game warden.
Speaker 8 (03:39):
Yeah, how about that?
Speaker 6 (03:42):
All the young couple sparkling on the summer night witched
me and Minder when we was young and used to
bring our girls out here.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Well, here's the boat.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
You get in first, and I'll shove off our road. No,
you mean, leader, you start roll, will.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Be five minutes for your complaining about it. We'll head
for that catch of weeds. Here's a cold best frogs
in the leak. Come there nights.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
I still answer no schans and going all the way
over there at the other side.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
You'll see wall.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Louis catches some of the big mouth best tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
I here hope we get him. Ain't nothing like big
mouth bass for good eating. What's it?
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Sounds like them young people having some kind of squabble,
not shooting.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
We better get in the show, Georgie. If we're going there,
he's not. We're gon shoot us have fruit. Will come
on up here alongside of me.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
You better help roll, all right, but I still think
you'll quit thinking and roll.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
He's leaving Cheorging. He's driving away Rowan reckon he kill
that girl.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
We don't even know what's him doing.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
The shooting Jeans was someone yelling at her to come back?
Speaker 8 (05:08):
What's the heir?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Come on, Ali, pull on that all.
Speaker 9 (05:17):
When the two men reached shore, they looked briefly around
the area where they had seen the car. They found
no one there and no indication of violence. Nevertheless, they
decided to report the incident to the sheriff. After investigating
the scene of the alleged shooting, the sheriff requested assistance
from the Texas Rangers. Ranger jas Pearson was assigned and
arrived at the lake just after dawn.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
The sheriff let him wall a spot at the edge
of the water for.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
The one to show he is over here, jays first,
I thought them two old fellas must have been hearing things.
Though he's still around Sheriff over there with the crown.
Funny how excitement draws people like bees around a jam jar.
You want to talk to George and OLLI yeah, in
a few minutes there are. When I found this, I
was pretty sure there really was. I was shooting you, yeah,
(06:02):
good blood?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
All right, George and all. I think it was a
girl that was shot. Why.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
I heard the man yelling for her to come back,
and then there was three four shots. You figured she
could have got up and crawled away after she was hit.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
And that's not likely.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
Tracks indicate she was dragged, probably back the car. The
two men witnesses recognize either of the people.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
No, it was too dark. The only thing they remembered
was a car.
Speaker 8 (06:23):
A black four door should dam well, I reckon. We
just have to wait for a missing person's report.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
If the girl really was killed.
Speaker 8 (06:30):
I was a madic. Mine hand me that brand, Sheriff.
I think I see something in the water, sure, oh, thanks,
couldn't make out what it is. I think it's yeah.
I mean it is a woman's handbag. Shoulder straps broken.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
It could have happened when she fell.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
Uh the lipstick compact m Graver's license.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Water didn't smear the type too much, did it? No names?
Lucy Reagan. Lucy Reagan.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Boy, that's a kindergarten teacher here in town, a real
sweet kid. Nobody'd want to hurt a girl like that.
We're not sure it's the girl who was hurt. Let's
go find out. We drove back to town and went
to Lucy Reagan's rooming house. She wasn't there. Her landlady
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said she'd left at seven the night before and had
not returned. She was fairly sure Lucy had been out
with Ken Bowman, a young cow hand from a nearby ranch.
Sheriff and I went out to the ranch, arriving there
about ten that morning. We learned that Bowman was with
a crew setting up new fence posts about four miles
from the ranch house. We took horses and started looking
for him.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Here they are now down to the bottom of the slope.
Speaker 8 (07:46):
Uh huh, what's all the construction work over there for
the next hill, Sheriff, that's a new County Road. We've
been waiting for quite a spell. Jo be glad when
they get it finished. Looks like they're cutting through part
of this ranch, just a corner, I reckon. That's why
they're shutting up new fence posts. Which one of you
fellas is ken Bowman?
Speaker 6 (08:06):
You over head?
Speaker 8 (08:07):
Boo boo boo over?
Speaker 5 (08:11):
What's the matter?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Range or not? Like to talk to you?
Speaker 9 (08:14):
Why?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Sure? Anything wrong?
Speaker 8 (08:16):
I want to ask you some questions about Lucy Reagan?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
What about it?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Were you out with her last night?
Speaker 8 (08:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Why?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Her?
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Landlady says she hasn't been back to the house since
she left with you.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
That ain't true. I brought her back myself.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
What time was this? Early?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
About nine o'clock? She said she had a headache. She
was lying, though, how do you mean ah? Taking her
out five six times in the past few months. She
always makes some kind of excuse to get back early.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
What's the matter? Didn't you two get along?
Speaker 5 (08:45):
We'll get along all right, except when.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
She starts acting like a school teacher telling me how
I should talk.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
When you brought her home? Did you take her up
to the house.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
No, she got out of the car in front of
the house, said she didn't want me to come in.
She probably had another date waiting for you inside. That's
the time I'm taking her out.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
Where'd you go after you took Lucy home?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
No place special? Evening was already ruined. I drove around
a while, and I come back to the ranch.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Did you go out to the lake? I've been near the.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Lake in weeks? Look, ranger, why are you asking all
these questions?
Speaker 8 (09:16):
Were afraid Lucy might have been murdered, murdered just cause
she don't show up?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
One morning she goes over to the library and Bingham
a lot. Maybe that's where she's gonna see some of
them college fellas.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Maybe so. But you were the last person she was
seen with.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Oh, look crangy, Like I say, I took the girl
out five or six times?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
A hard to even? Noah, why'd you pick on someone else?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
What color is your car? Moment?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
My car is black?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
What's that got? CORDORSA?
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Then?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah? Why where is it? Now?
Speaker 8 (09:48):
Back to the ranch house. Suppose you stop work for
a while. We'd like to see your car.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Well, that is ain't much of a car on a
cow folks, fade as good as I can buy. And
if I look inside, go ahead. How'd you get the
blood on the back seat? Blood?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Why I don't see no blood?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Looks like you're trying to wash it off. I did
get there.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Oh yeah, yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
About a month ago, I went out shooting rabbits. I
got a couple and put him on the back seat.
Speaker 8 (10:28):
Funny, you didn't put something under him before you shut
him in the car.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
I did god him in the burlap sack. Blood must
have soaked too.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
You sleep in one of the bunk houses over.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
There, that's right, you'd like to take a look at
your bunk.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Hey, look what's this all about?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Some girl goes out of town without telling nobody's right away?
You come picking on me just cause I.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Was out with a couple of times, including last night.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Sure, including last night.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
I still ain't know it's your bunk now, all right,
you're welcome look at anything you want.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Thang, No, if you really think something happened to Lucy,
why don't you go talk to some of them college boys?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You check on them later. Where's your bone? That here?
Person one?
Speaker 8 (11:12):
Let me see what's in that suitcase under the bunk? Okay, well,
I go ahead and look this your pistol? Yeah, cleaned
it recently, haven't you?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It's morning.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
I like a clean gun.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
When was the last time you used it?
Speaker 5 (11:27):
I don't know, maybe a month ago time I shot rabbits.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
Any special reason for cleaning it this morning, No, I
just thought it needed cleaning.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
You're trying awful hard to prove I had something to
do with Lucy's murder, ain't you?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Ray?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
We're not sure she's dead, but.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
If she is, you're sure gonna try and pending on me,
ain't you?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
We'll all get along better if you'll take that chip
off your shoulder.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Woman, I ain't got a chip on my shoulder. Just
don't like to be pushed on eye. I keep telling you,
how did know Lucy Riggan?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
This suit hanging over here? Is it yours?
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
You wear it last night?
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Sure it's only suit? A guy?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Did you know there was blood on the edge of
the sleeve. What he's that? Rabbit? Blood too?
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Bowman?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
What I do?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I know blood's blood?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
An not?
Speaker 8 (12:10):
After it gets to our lab they can tell in
a hurry if it's animal or human blood. I want
to take this suit in the backseat of your car along.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Sure, take him frame me right down the line.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I bet you.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
If I wasn't a cow hand and had a lot
of money, you wouldn't treat me this way.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
Now you look just for you, the sheriff Bowman. I'm
gonna lay the cards right on the table. Lucy Riggins disappeared.
From information we have, I'd say it's a good bet
she's dead. I didn't kill her. Maybe not, but you
were with her last night, Carl like yours, was seen
at the place where we think Lucy was shot. And
there's blood in your car and on your suit.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
And I look, I know all this looks bad, But
I didn't kill Lucy. I didn't kill her.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
But to prove it to you, you know a good
way to begin.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
Well, ha, we got a machine that Austin called a polygraph,
better known as the lie detector. You can't force you
to take the test, but if you do, it could
help to put you in the clear.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Well, I'm not afraid of you, a lie detect I'm
telling the truth. You want me to take this test?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You sure like you too?
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Well?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Alright, just wall I tell a boss I have to
go to Austin.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Then I'm ready. If any test you want to give me.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
Oh, when I start the machine, again. I'm gonna ask
you some more questions. You just answer yes or no.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
All right.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
You live near Cambridge, Texas? Yeah, you know Lucy Reagan? Yeah,
Jeet Breakfastness Mooning. Yeah, you're in a black Ford arsy
then yeah, did you shoot Lucy Regan?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Did you come to Austin and the plane? Yeah? Were
you out at Brandon Lake last night?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
No?
Speaker 5 (13:49):
You know who shot Lucy Regan?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
No?
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Alright, and I think that'll be all wants to say.
They have to ask a ring about that. If he
wants to tell you, it's up to him. I got
a right to know what it says. Come on, let's
go in the next room. I don't see why he
won't tell me what it says. It's my test in it.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
I gotta right to know him all through, all through,
he won't tell me what it says. Ranking you'll know
soon enough. Sherriff take Bowman into that office across the hall.
I'll be along with them, and I'm sure come on, Bowman, Look.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
You said it didn't have to take this test. Now
you won't tell me.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
How about it?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Well, I ask him all the questions.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Look at the graph.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Now here's where I ask him if he shot Lucy
Reagan and here if.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
It was out the lake last night.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
I don't know what you got on him, Jason, but
according to this, that boy's life.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
In just a moment, we will continue with Tales of
the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
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Speaker 2 (15:15):
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Speaker 2 (15:58):
And now back to the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
We continue now with tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story uncertain death.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
We kept Ken Bowman at headquarters while the lab tested
his suit in the back seat of his car. A
little after four that afternoon, the lab called and set
the blood on both the upholstery and the sleep of
his suit was human blood.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Bowman hardly batter than I when we told him the news.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
There's one thing to show it was somebody else's show,
trying to frame me.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
You know better than that. What about the lad to
take the boman That shows you weren't telling the truth.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Oh, it's a lot of hogwash. You Shore can't make
me believe that thing. Never misses me.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
There was human blood in your car and on your sleeve.
Where did it come from?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I do I know?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Maybe I cut myself.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
You sure it wasn't Lucy's blood? You sure you didn't
shoot her?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Keep on asking that range and I keep telling you
I wasn't only one who went out with Now I want.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
To go back to Cambridge as soon as the pilot
calls and says, the plane's ready.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
You had no right bringing me here in the first place.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
You didn't have to come along. I told you that.
Speaker 8 (17:08):
While we're waiting, suppose you answer a few more questions.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
But I told you everything.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
I know how many times you're gonna make Probably the
pilot you want me to get a jay?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Uh huh?
Speaker 8 (17:17):
Why'd you lie to us about the blood in your character?
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I didn't lie. Why do you keep on asking it.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Was human blood? I did get there.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
You got no one else to pick on. That's why
keep asking me questions.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
That was a lab jays. What'd they say? Said?
Speaker 8 (17:29):
They found different kinds of dust and soil particles and
Bowman suit. They'll do a detailed analysis if you want it.
That depends on you.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Bowman.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Why does it depend on me? Because we think you.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
Buried Lucy Reagan's body somewhere, and when you did, you
got soil particles on your clothes.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
What call you proved from there?
Speaker 8 (17:47):
I could lead us to wear Lucy's bodies buried?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (17:51):
How the lab asked samples of soil from every part
of Texas, thousands of samples. They'll compare them with the
particles found in your suit. They take time, but we're
not gonna to stop until we find that body. How
about it, Bowman?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
All right, I save you the trouble.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I killed her.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
I shot her last night.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Where was this at the lake?
Speaker 5 (18:15):
We had a fight, she was run away. I shot her.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Then I put a body in the cop wedge. A
barrier didn't bear. I drove down to the lake narrows,
you know share with the bridges. I waited to bot
it down.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
With rocks and threw off the bridge.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Can you show us where it is? Yeah, I can
show you, Sheriff.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
Will you go across the hall and tell them we
want Two witnesses were ready to take down ken Bowman's confession.
Bowman repeated in front of two witnesses and a sonographer
of what he'd already told us. I requested headquarters to
supply us with a diver to help locate Lucy Reagan's
body in the lake. We returned to Cambridge, arriving after midnight.
(18:56):
By five the next morning, we'd set up a diving raft.
At daylight, the diver was lowered into the water the spot.
Bowman indicated, I stayed on the raft of the telephone.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
What's taking him so long? Why can't he find.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I'm about a Joe see anything?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
I'm from here at Jase, how lout as far as
I can cool.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
You're sure this is a place you threw the body? Bowman?
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Of course, I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
What are you saying, Jase?
Speaker 8 (19:17):
Hold at the second, Joe, Bowman? Where't you get the
rocks to wait down? The body?
Speaker 5 (19:23):
I'm breaking? What's over there?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
You carry them all the way over here?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I don't know?
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Ranger was dark? Maybe gos right? I mean when I
was down the other end of the bridge.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Stand by to come up, Joe. We're gonna try another spot.
I've covered the whole area, Jase, how a thing?
Speaker 8 (19:47):
Hold on, Bowman, We've been looking around this bridge for
seven hours. So you sure you put Lucy's body in
the water here?
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Range, I thought I did. I don't know.
Speaker 8 (19:57):
Wait a minute, there's another bridge a mile further down.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Ma you made a mistake. Maybe that's the one you meant.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Yeah, Hell, maybe it is.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
It'll be dark soon, Jays. Looks like we'll have to
give it up for to day.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
That's what it must be here. Range. I remember everything, Yes,
I do. I was right on the corner of that
bridge right up there, and you hear.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Me, Je, nothing in this area. If we're going on,
we'll have to get some minds stand by to come up. Joe.
That's all for today, shareff. Put woman in the boat.
We're going back to the tar.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
How long can that divers stay with us, Jess?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
As long as we need him.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
I'll call headquarters and say we want him for at
least tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I sure hope we find that body.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Yes, sir, you've got to find Loose's body to keep
me in jail, don't you.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
We'll find it tomorrow or the next day. We're going
to keep looking til we do find it.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
It's too bad you have to look for without me. Tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
You be looking for Loose's body and I'm going.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Back to the rams.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Are you crazy?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (21:06):
But you are. If you try to home it.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
You're not forgetting You sign a confession, are you? Bowman?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Confession? What confession?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Now? I look here.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
You signed a confession in front of the two witnesses
that you killed Lucy Regan.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
I sure I did, because you made me. You made
me say I kill Lucy, but I didn't kill him.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
You're going back on your confessions. That's what you're trying
to say. Bowman, Wait a minute. I heard this boy
with moonn ears. He said he shot Lucy Reagan and
threw a body in the lake.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Did I why, buddy, there never was a body. I
don't even know what you're talking about it.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
I put Bowman back in his cell and we let
him stay there the night anyhow, And you don't want
to stay there tall He started hundling like a couch
when I told him now we were.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Holding him for obstructing justice in some wild goose chase.
He let us on the day.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
First, he says he did kill her, let us look
for the body, knows it ain't where we're looking.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Then says he didn't kill her. We're gonna let him
get away with that, not if I can help it.
I've got to find Lucy Reagan's body. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
If we don't, that confessional of his ain't worth a thing.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Why do you figure he did it? Somehow?
Speaker 8 (22:16):
I feel he stolen for time. He must have some
reason for want us to go off on a false lead.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
But why, I just don't get it.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
It's gotta be something he did with the body, something
that made him feelly be safe after a couple of
days time, and it beats me. Wait a minute, you
remember when it was? He confessed, Well, it was just
after I took that coal from the lab. Yeah, before that,
nothing faced him. The lie detector, the blood didn't even
bother him. But as soon as I started talking about
soil particles, he folded up once.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
That sound like the you, Sheriff could be.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
He didn't want the lab to go any further with
that analysis. Uh huh, that's up to us to find
out why. I'm gonna call Austin to have analyze every
grain of soil they found in that boy's suit.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
He's on the lab. They said they'd analyzed.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
The saw particles and give us an answer as quickly
as possible.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
We waited the whole night.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
At seven the next morning, we went across the street
to a restaurant to get some breakfast. We left word
to have a call transferred there. Ten minutes later it
came through. I spoke to the lab technician and walked
back to the table where the sheriff was sitting. Anything interesting, jeeh,
maybe is any granite around here? Sheriff nearest deposits marble
falls a couple hundred miles away. Why they have found
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granite dust in the weave of Bowman's coat and some
on the inside lining. Well, they do use grantite for
some of the construction work around here, like that road
they're building out there near the ranch where Bowman works. Yeah,
they used crushed granite gravel on the roadbed. That could
be how Bowman got it on his chute. Wait a minute, though,
why do you wear his good shoot around construction? Johnny
(23:49):
wouldn't unless he had some special reason for being there.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Oh, I don't fally.
Speaker 8 (23:53):
We know Bowman's been in a spot where he could
watch the progress of that road for weeks. We also
know there was some reason why he saw us for
a couple of days.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Jeeh.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
You think he buried that girl's body in the road bed.
That's the only thing that makes sense so far. But
why would he dig up the gravel be much easier
to burier in the part of the road where they
hadn't put gravel yet. That's just what I think he did,
picked the section of the road that was about to
be graveled and started as digging. Then he could have
left that courtyars or on a pile of gravel nearby
while he was working horn. Likely so that's why he
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was strong. Figured we'd never find a body once that
section was paved. Who's in charge of that construction job, sheriff,
field engineer, Come on, let's go find him. When we
spoke to the field engineer out at the job, we
got our first break. He told us that since Wednesday night,
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when Lucy Reagan had disappeared, a mile of road had
been graveled, but a machinery breaked down late Thursday had
prevented that section from being paved. He also informed us
that a man answering Bowman's description that approached him early
Thursday morning and asked a number.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Of questions about the paving schedule.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
We were fairly sure now.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
That we were on the right track.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
We had to know the exact location of the body,
and only Bowman had that answer. Our problem was to
get him to talk, and worked out a plan and
then drove back to town. When we picked up Bowman,
he thought we were taking him home. He said nothing
until we moved on to the stretch a newly paved highway.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
This ain't the way to the ranch house.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Nobody said it was.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Uh, I thought you'd take me home. We are you
taking me?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
You'll find out.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
There's a new highway. He ain't finishing it. Don't lead nowhere,
It could lead further new things. What are you talking about? Range?
But I won't get out. Stop to call him here in.
Speaker 8 (25:38):
A minute, Bowman. Almost at the end of the paved section.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Then you're crazy. Goes further than this.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
You can see those men up there, Bowman. Pavement don't
go no further than that.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
But that's just why they were Thursday morning.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (25:51):
They had a machinery breakdown. I haven't been able to
do any more pave until now.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
What's the matter, Bomen.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
I won't get out of here. I want to get
out of here.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
You're getting now? Come on?
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Are you taking me?
Speaker 8 (26:04):
Just over here in the beginning of the gravel section
bart you thought would.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Already be paved.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 8 (26:10):
Look at a woman a mile a road covered with
fresh gravel, and somewhere under that mile of gravel, Lucy
Reagan is buried.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
You buried her there.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
We're gonna find her body and give her a decent barrier.
See those men over there, Bowman. I're waiting until we
give the word to start digging if they have to.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
They got that whole mile a road.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
You can save us a lot of trouble by telling
us exactly where you're buried it.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Rangel, all right, I kill it. I kill it.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Show us where you buried her body.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
I want to bury it. She's the only girl ever
want to. I don't know crazy it was about it.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
She laughed at me. You laugh at where's the body? Bowman?
Where point out the spot?
Speaker 5 (26:52):
There's a couple of feet in misteak. I don't want
you to take me out of here. Please take me
out of here.
Speaker 8 (26:58):
Range all right, man, start working by that stake over there.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Take me on I con first time.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
We're going to make sure your confession holds up.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the case you.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Have just heard.
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Speaker 2 (28:40):
And now here are the results of the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Lucy Riggan's body was discovered at the place Bowman had indicated.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
A ballistics check of.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Three bullets found in her body proved they came from
Ken Bowman's gun. Bowman, convicted of murder, was sentenced to
life imprisonment at Huntsville.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
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Another authentic reenactment of a case from the files of
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Speaker 1 (02:00):
And now from the files of the Texas Rangers, the
case called Uncertain Death.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
It is shortly past ten o'clock on a Wednesday night
in July nineteen thirty six, six miles outside the town
of Cambridge in east central Texas, two elderly men approached
the shore of a lake.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Come on, come on, narie, we gotta hurry.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
I'm walking as fast as can in.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Frogs ain't gonna run away.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
That ain't the point, you know it.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Frogs for bass fishing gotta be caught and putting the
beef bupper twelve hours before they can be used.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
All that superstition, George Warner ain't gonna help it.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Then, going way over the other side of the lake heating.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
There's plenty of frogs right here.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
No, you know these frogs ain't good for bears, only
frogs and basil. He gotta be caught on the other
side where the tiles.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Oh my superstition is nothing but dolly.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Light over there. Ain't got the game warden's.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Calling, ain't never looking at her?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Right, there's two.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
I wonder what he's doing out here this time of night.
Speaker 7 (03:08):
Let's go see it and you go poking your nerves
and the people's business. He ain't nobody in it, and
it ain't the game warden's car.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
There's two.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Wait a minute, shine the light down toward the shore.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
What do you want?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Ain't there now?
Speaker 7 (03:27):
You see car belongs to that young couple sitting on
the bank.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Sorry, we disturb you, folks, That's okay. Didn't mean to
be shining a light on you.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
We thought you was a game warden.
Speaker 8 (03:39):
Yeah, how about that?
Speaker 6 (03:42):
All the young couple sparkling on the summer night witched
me and Minder when we was young and used to
bring our girls out here.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Well, here's the boat.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
You get in first, and I'll shove off our road. No,
you mean, leader, you start roll, will.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Be five minutes for your complaining about it. We'll head
for that catch of weeds. Here's a cold best frogs
in the leak. Come there nights.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
I still answer no schans and going all the way
over there at the other side.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
You'll see wall.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Louis catches some of the big mouth best tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
I here hope we get him. Ain't nothing like big
mouth bass for good eating. What's it?
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Sounds like them young people having some kind of squabble,
not shooting.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
We better get in the show, Georgie. If we're going there,
he's not. We're gon shoot us have fruit. Will come
on up here alongside of me.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
You better help roll, all right, but I still think
you'll quit thinking and roll.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
He's leaving Cheorging. He's driving away Rowan reckon he kill
that girl.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
We don't even know what's him doing.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
The shooting Jeans was someone yelling at her to come back?
Speaker 8 (05:08):
What's the heir?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Come on, Ali, pull on that all.
Speaker 9 (05:17):
When the two men reached shore, they looked briefly around
the area where they had seen the car. They found
no one there and no indication of violence. Nevertheless, they
decided to report the incident to the sheriff. After investigating
the scene of the alleged shooting, the sheriff requested assistance
from the Texas Rangers. Ranger jas Pearson was assigned and
arrived at the lake just after dawn.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
The sheriff let him wall a spot at the edge
of the water for.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
The one to show he is over here, jays first,
I thought them two old fellas must have been hearing things.
Though he's still around Sheriff over there with the crown.
Funny how excitement draws people like bees around a jam jar.
You want to talk to George and OLLI yeah, in
a few minutes there are. When I found this, I
was pretty sure there really was. I was shooting you, yeah,
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good blood?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
All right, George and all. I think it was a
girl that was shot. Why.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
I heard the man yelling for her to come back,
and then there was three four shots. You figured she
could have got up and crawled away after she was hit.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
And that's not likely.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
Tracks indicate she was dragged, probably back the car. The
two men witnesses recognize either of the people.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
No, it was too dark. The only thing they remembered
was a car.
Speaker 8 (06:23):
A black four door should dam well, I reckon. We
just have to wait for a missing person's report.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
If the girl really was killed.
Speaker 8 (06:30):
I was a madic. Mine hand me that brand, Sheriff.
I think I see something in the water, sure, oh, thanks,
couldn't make out what it is. I think it's yeah.
I mean it is a woman's handbag. Shoulder straps broken.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
It could have happened when she fell.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
Uh the lipstick compact m Graver's license.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Water didn't smear the type too much, did it? No names?
Lucy Reagan. Lucy Reagan.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Boy, that's a kindergarten teacher here in town, a real
sweet kid. Nobody'd want to hurt a girl like that.
We're not sure it's the girl who was hurt. Let's
go find out. We drove back to town and went
to Lucy Reagan's rooming house. She wasn't there. Her landlady
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said she'd left at seven the night before and had
not returned. She was fairly sure Lucy had been out
with Ken Bowman, a young cow hand from a nearby ranch.
Sheriff and I went out to the ranch, arriving there
about ten that morning. We learned that Bowman was with
a crew setting up new fence posts about four miles
from the ranch house. We took horses and started looking
for him.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Here they are now down to the bottom of the slope.
Speaker 8 (07:46):
Uh huh, what's all the construction work over there for
the next hill, Sheriff, that's a new County Road. We've
been waiting for quite a spell. Jo be glad when
they get it finished. Looks like they're cutting through part
of this ranch, just a corner, I reckon. That's why
they're shutting up new fence posts. Which one of you
fellas is ken Bowman?
Speaker 6 (08:06):
You over head?
Speaker 8 (08:07):
Boo boo boo over?
Speaker 5 (08:11):
What's the matter?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Range or not? Like to talk to you?
Speaker 9 (08:14):
Why?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Sure? Anything wrong?
Speaker 8 (08:16):
I want to ask you some questions about Lucy Reagan?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
What about it?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Were you out with her last night?
Speaker 8 (08:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Why?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Her?
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Landlady says she hasn't been back to the house since
she left with you.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
That ain't true. I brought her back myself.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
What time was this? Early?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
About nine o'clock? She said she had a headache. She
was lying, though, how do you mean ah? Taking her
out five six times in the past few months. She
always makes some kind of excuse to get back early.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
What's the matter? Didn't you two get along?
Speaker 5 (08:45):
We'll get along all right, except when.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
She starts acting like a school teacher telling me how
I should talk.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
When you brought her home? Did you take her up
to the house.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
No, she got out of the car in front of
the house, said she didn't want me to come in.
She probably had another date waiting for you inside. That's
the time I'm taking her out.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
Where'd you go after you took Lucy home?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
No place special? Evening was already ruined. I drove around
a while, and I come back to the ranch.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Did you go out to the lake? I've been near the.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Lake in weeks? Look, ranger, why are you asking all
these questions?
Speaker 8 (09:16):
Were afraid Lucy might have been murdered, murdered just cause
she don't show up?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
One morning she goes over to the library and Bingham
a lot. Maybe that's where she's gonna see some of
them college fellas.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Maybe so. But you were the last person she was
seen with.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Oh, look crangy, Like I say, I took the girl
out five or six times?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
A hard to even? Noah, why'd you pick on someone else?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
What color is your car? Moment?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
My car is black?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
What's that got? CORDORSA?
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Then?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah? Why where is it? Now?
Speaker 8 (09:48):
Back to the ranch house. Suppose you stop work for
a while. We'd like to see your car.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Well, that is ain't much of a car on a
cow folks, fade as good as I can buy. And
if I look inside, go ahead. How'd you get the
blood on the back seat? Blood?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Why I don't see no blood?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Looks like you're trying to wash it off. I did
get there.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Oh yeah, yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
About a month ago, I went out shooting rabbits. I
got a couple and put him on the back seat.
Speaker 8 (10:28):
Funny, you didn't put something under him before you shut
him in the car.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
I did god him in the burlap sack. Blood must
have soaked too.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
You sleep in one of the bunk houses over.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
There, that's right, you'd like to take a look at
your bunk.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Hey, look what's this all about?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Some girl goes out of town without telling nobody's right away?
You come picking on me just cause I.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Was out with a couple of times, including last night.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Sure, including last night.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
I still ain't know it's your bunk now, all right,
you're welcome look at anything you want.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Thang, No, if you really think something happened to Lucy,
why don't you go talk to some of them college boys?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You check on them later. Where's your bone? That here?
Person one?
Speaker 8 (11:12):
Let me see what's in that suitcase under the bunk? Okay, well,
I go ahead and look this your pistol? Yeah, cleaned
it recently, haven't you?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It's morning.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
I like a clean gun.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
When was the last time you used it?
Speaker 5 (11:27):
I don't know, maybe a month ago time I shot rabbits.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
Any special reason for cleaning it this morning, No, I
just thought it needed cleaning.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
You're trying awful hard to prove I had something to
do with Lucy's murder, ain't you?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Ray?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
We're not sure she's dead, but.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
If she is, you're sure gonna try and pending on me,
ain't you?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
We'll all get along better if you'll take that chip
off your shoulder.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Woman, I ain't got a chip on my shoulder. Just
don't like to be pushed on eye. I keep telling you,
how did know Lucy Riggan?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
This suit hanging over here? Is it yours?
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
You wear it last night?
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Sure it's only suit? A guy?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Did you know there was blood on the edge of
the sleeve. What he's that? Rabbit? Blood too?
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Bowman?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
What I do?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I know blood's blood?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
An not?
Speaker 8 (12:10):
After it gets to our lab they can tell in
a hurry if it's animal or human blood. I want
to take this suit in the backseat of your car along.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Sure, take him frame me right down the line.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I bet you.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
If I wasn't a cow hand and had a lot
of money, you wouldn't treat me this way.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
Now you look just for you, the sheriff Bowman. I'm
gonna lay the cards right on the table. Lucy Riggins disappeared.
From information we have, I'd say it's a good bet
she's dead. I didn't kill her. Maybe not, but you
were with her last night, Carl like yours, was seen
at the place where we think Lucy was shot. And
there's blood in your car and on your suit.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
And I look, I know all this looks bad, But
I didn't kill Lucy. I didn't kill her.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
But to prove it to you, you know a good
way to begin.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
Well, ha, we got a machine that Austin called a polygraph,
better known as the lie detector. You can't force you
to take the test, but if you do, it could
help to put you in the clear.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Well, I'm not afraid of you, a lie detect I'm
telling the truth. You want me to take this test?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You sure like you too?
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Well?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Alright, just wall I tell a boss I have to
go to Austin.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Then I'm ready. If any test you want to give me.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
Oh, when I start the machine, again. I'm gonna ask
you some more questions. You just answer yes or no.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
All right.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
You live near Cambridge, Texas? Yeah, you know Lucy Reagan? Yeah,
Jeet Breakfastness Mooning. Yeah, you're in a black Ford arsy
then yeah, did you shoot Lucy Regan?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Did you come to Austin and the plane? Yeah? Were
you out at Brandon Lake last night?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
No?
Speaker 5 (13:49):
You know who shot Lucy Regan?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
No?
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Alright, and I think that'll be all wants to say.
They have to ask a ring about that. If he
wants to tell you, it's up to him. I got
a right to know what it says. Come on, let's
go in the next room. I don't see why he
won't tell me what it says. It's my test in it.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
I gotta right to know him all through, all through,
he won't tell me what it says. Ranking you'll know
soon enough. Sherriff take Bowman into that office across the hall.
I'll be along with them, and I'm sure come on, Bowman, Look.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
You said it didn't have to take this test. Now
you won't tell me.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
How about it?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Well, I ask him all the questions.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Look at the graph.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Now here's where I ask him if he shot Lucy
Reagan and here if.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
It was out the lake last night.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
I don't know what you got on him, Jason, but
according to this, that boy's life.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
In just a moment, we will continue with Tales of
the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
An investment in boys is an investment in America's future.
The confident, trained and respected citizen of tomorrow is the restless,
untrained and eager youth of today. By pointing his footsteps
in the right direction and guiding him along the straight road.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Of healthy living.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
By wholeheartedly sponsoring and supporting boy's clubs, we can build
good citizens with strong, healthy bodies, boys who are honest
and have a respect for property and individual rights, and
we can gradually erase the social stigma of juvenile delinquency.
Boy's clubs are sponsored in each community by non sectarian,
non profit organizations of public spirited adults who operate the
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clubs for the benefit of the boy members. Actually, the
need today is for more boys clubs. Let's all pitch
in and help build the citizens of tomorrow. Let's provide
recreation and companionship. Let's sow our seeds on good ground,
give them root so that they spring and grow up
to full maturity.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
And now back to the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
We continue now with tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story uncertain death.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
We kept Ken Bowman at headquarters while the lab tested
his suit in the back seat of his car. A
little after four that afternoon, the lab called and set
the blood on both the upholstery and the sleep of
his suit was human blood.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Bowman hardly batter than I when we told him the news.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
There's one thing to show it was somebody else's show,
trying to frame me.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
You know better than that. What about the lad to
take the boman That shows you weren't telling the truth.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Oh, it's a lot of hogwash. You Shore can't make
me believe that thing. Never misses me.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
There was human blood in your car and on your sleeve.
Where did it come from?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I do I know?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Maybe I cut myself.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
You sure it wasn't Lucy's blood? You sure you didn't
shoot her?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Keep on asking that range and I keep telling you
I wasn't only one who went out with Now I want.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
To go back to Cambridge as soon as the pilot
calls and says, the plane's ready.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
You had no right bringing me here in the first place.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
You didn't have to come along. I told you that.
Speaker 8 (17:08):
While we're waiting, suppose you answer a few more questions.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
But I told you everything.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
I know how many times you're gonna make Probably the
pilot you want me to get a jay?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Uh huh?
Speaker 8 (17:17):
Why'd you lie to us about the blood in your character?
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I didn't lie. Why do you keep on asking it.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Was human blood? I did get there.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
You got no one else to pick on. That's why
keep asking me questions.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
That was a lab jays. What'd they say? Said?
Speaker 8 (17:29):
They found different kinds of dust and soil particles and
Bowman suit. They'll do a detailed analysis if you want it.
That depends on you.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Bowman.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Why does it depend on me? Because we think you.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
Buried Lucy Reagan's body somewhere, and when you did, you
got soil particles on your clothes.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
What call you proved from there?
Speaker 8 (17:47):
I could lead us to wear Lucy's bodies buried?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (17:51):
How the lab asked samples of soil from every part
of Texas, thousands of samples. They'll compare them with the
particles found in your suit. They take time, but we're
not gonna to stop until we find that body. How
about it, Bowman?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
All right, I save you the trouble.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I killed her.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
I shot her last night.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Where was this at the lake?
Speaker 5 (18:15):
We had a fight, she was run away. I shot her.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Then I put a body in the cop wedge. A
barrier didn't bear. I drove down to the lake narrows,
you know share with the bridges. I waited to bot
it down.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
With rocks and threw off the bridge.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Can you show us where it is? Yeah, I can
show you, Sheriff.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
Will you go across the hall and tell them we
want Two witnesses were ready to take down ken Bowman's confession.
Bowman repeated in front of two witnesses and a sonographer
of what he'd already told us. I requested headquarters to
supply us with a diver to help locate Lucy Reagan's
body in the lake. We returned to Cambridge, arriving after midnight.
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By five the next morning, we'd set up a diving raft.
At daylight, the diver was lowered into the water the spot.
Bowman indicated, I stayed on the raft of the telephone.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
What's taking him so long? Why can't he find.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I'm about a Joe see anything?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
I'm from here at Jase, how lout as far as
I can cool.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
You're sure this is a place you threw the body? Bowman?
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Of course, I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
What are you saying, Jase?
Speaker 8 (19:17):
Hold at the second, Joe, Bowman? Where't you get the
rocks to wait down? The body?
Speaker 5 (19:23):
I'm breaking? What's over there?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
You carry them all the way over here?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I don't know?
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Ranger was dark? Maybe gos right? I mean when I
was down the other end of the bridge.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Stand by to come up, Joe. We're gonna try another spot.
I've covered the whole area, Jase, how a thing?
Speaker 8 (19:47):
Hold on, Bowman, We've been looking around this bridge for
seven hours. So you sure you put Lucy's body in
the water here?
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Range, I thought I did. I don't know.
Speaker 8 (19:57):
Wait a minute, there's another bridge a mile further down.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Ma you made a mistake. Maybe that's the one you meant.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Yeah, Hell, maybe it is.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
It'll be dark soon, Jays. Looks like we'll have to
give it up for to day.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
That's what it must be here. Range. I remember everything, Yes,
I do. I was right on the corner of that
bridge right up there, and you hear.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Me, Je, nothing in this area. If we're going on,
we'll have to get some minds stand by to come up. Joe.
That's all for today, shareff. Put woman in the boat.
We're going back to the tar.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
How long can that divers stay with us, Jess?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
As long as we need him.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
I'll call headquarters and say we want him for at
least tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I sure hope we find that body.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Yes, sir, you've got to find Loose's body to keep
me in jail, don't you.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
We'll find it tomorrow or the next day. We're going
to keep looking til we do find it.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
It's too bad you have to look for without me. Tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
You be looking for Loose's body and I'm going.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Back to the rams.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Are you crazy?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (21:06):
But you are. If you try to home it.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
You're not forgetting You sign a confession, are you? Bowman?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Confession? What confession?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Now? I look here.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
You signed a confession in front of the two witnesses
that you killed Lucy Regan.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
I sure I did, because you made me. You made
me say I kill Lucy, but I didn't kill him.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
You're going back on your confessions. That's what you're trying
to say. Bowman, Wait a minute. I heard this boy
with moonn ears. He said he shot Lucy Reagan and
threw a body in the lake.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Did I why, buddy, there never was a body. I
don't even know what you're talking about it.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
I put Bowman back in his cell and we let
him stay there the night anyhow, And you don't want
to stay there tall He started hundling like a couch
when I told him now we were.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Holding him for obstructing justice in some wild goose chase.
He let us on the day.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
First, he says he did kill her, let us look
for the body, knows it ain't where we're looking.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Then says he didn't kill her. We're gonna let him
get away with that, not if I can help it.
I've got to find Lucy Reagan's body. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
If we don't, that confessional of his ain't worth a thing.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Why do you figure he did it? Somehow?
Speaker 8 (22:16):
I feel he stolen for time. He must have some
reason for want us to go off on a false lead.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
But why, I just don't get it.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
It's gotta be something he did with the body, something
that made him feelly be safe after a couple of
days time, and it beats me. Wait a minute, you
remember when it was? He confessed, Well, it was just
after I took that coal from the lab. Yeah, before that,
nothing faced him. The lie detector, the blood didn't even
bother him. But as soon as I started talking about
soil particles, he folded up once.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
That sound like the you, Sheriff could be.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
He didn't want the lab to go any further with
that analysis. Uh huh, that's up to us to find
out why. I'm gonna call Austin to have analyze every
grain of soil they found in that boy's suit.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
He's on the lab. They said they'd analyzed.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
The saw particles and give us an answer as quickly
as possible.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
We waited the whole night.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
At seven the next morning, we went across the street
to a restaurant to get some breakfast. We left word
to have a call transferred there. Ten minutes later it
came through. I spoke to the lab technician and walked
back to the table where the sheriff was sitting. Anything interesting, jeeh,
maybe is any granite around here? Sheriff nearest deposits marble
falls a couple hundred miles away. Why they have found
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granite dust in the weave of Bowman's coat and some
on the inside lining. Well, they do use grantite for
some of the construction work around here, like that road
they're building out there near the ranch where Bowman works. Yeah,
they used crushed granite gravel on the roadbed. That could
be how Bowman got it on his chute. Wait a minute, though,
why do you wear his good shoot around construction? Johnny
(23:49):
wouldn't unless he had some special reason for being there.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Oh, I don't fally.
Speaker 8 (23:53):
We know Bowman's been in a spot where he could
watch the progress of that road for weeks. We also
know there was some reason why he saw us for
a couple of days.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Jeeh.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
You think he buried that girl's body in the road bed.
That's the only thing that makes sense so far. But
why would he dig up the gravel be much easier
to burier in the part of the road where they
hadn't put gravel yet. That's just what I think he did,
picked the section of the road that was about to
be graveled and started as digging. Then he could have
left that courtyars or on a pile of gravel nearby
while he was working horn. Likely so that's why he
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was strong. Figured we'd never find a body once that
section was paved. Who's in charge of that construction job, sheriff,
field engineer, Come on, let's go find him. When we
spoke to the field engineer out at the job, we
got our first break. He told us that since Wednesday night,
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when Lucy Reagan had disappeared, a mile of road had
been graveled, but a machinery breaked down late Thursday had
prevented that section from being paved. He also informed us
that a man answering Bowman's description that approached him early
Thursday morning and asked a number.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Of questions about the paving schedule.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
We were fairly sure now.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
That we were on the right track.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
We had to know the exact location of the body,
and only Bowman had that answer. Our problem was to
get him to talk, and worked out a plan and
then drove back to town. When we picked up Bowman,
he thought we were taking him home. He said nothing
until we moved on to the stretch a newly paved highway.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
This ain't the way to the ranch house.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Nobody said it was.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Uh, I thought you'd take me home. We are you
taking me?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
You'll find out.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
There's a new highway. He ain't finishing it. Don't lead nowhere,
It could lead further new things. What are you talking about? Range?
But I won't get out. Stop to call him here in.
Speaker 8 (25:38):
A minute, Bowman. Almost at the end of the paved section.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Then you're crazy. Goes further than this.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
You can see those men up there, Bowman. Pavement don't
go no further than that.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
But that's just why they were Thursday morning.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (25:51):
They had a machinery breakdown. I haven't been able to
do any more pave until now.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
What's the matter, Bomen.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
I won't get out of here. I want to get
out of here.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
You're getting now? Come on?
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Are you taking me?
Speaker 8 (26:04):
Just over here in the beginning of the gravel section
bart you thought would.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Already be paved.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 8 (26:10):
Look at a woman a mile a road covered with
fresh gravel, and somewhere under that mile of gravel, Lucy
Reagan is buried.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
You buried her there.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
We're gonna find her body and give her a decent barrier.
See those men over there, Bowman. I're waiting until we
give the word to start digging if they have to.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
They got that whole mile a road.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
You can save us a lot of trouble by telling
us exactly where you're buried it.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Rangel, all right, I kill it. I kill it.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Show us where you buried her body.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
I want to bury it. She's the only girl ever
want to. I don't know crazy it was about it.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
She laughed at me. You laugh at where's the body? Bowman?
Where point out the spot?
Speaker 5 (26:52):
There's a couple of feet in misteak. I don't want
you to take me out of here. Please take me
out of here.
Speaker 8 (26:58):
Range all right, man, start working by that stake over there.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Take me on I con first time.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
We're going to make sure your confession holds up.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the case you.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Have just heard.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Later today you will find more great entertainment all lined
up for you on this NBC station. Next, it's the
Big Show for the star studded guest list and your
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Speaker 5 (28:21):
So remember for fine entertainment all.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
The rest of the day, stay tuned to this station
of the NBC Radio Network. And now back to the
conclusion of Tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
And now here are the results of the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Lucy Riggan's body was discovered at the place Bowman had indicated.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
A ballistics check of.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Three bullets found in her body proved they came from
Ken Bowman's gun. Bowman, convicted of murder, was sentenced to
life imprisonment at Huntsville.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Next week Joel McCrae and.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Another authentic reenactment of a case from the files of
the Texas Rangers. Joel McCrae will soon be seen in
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San Francisco's.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Story, a Warner Brothers release.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
The cast included Tony Barrett, Harry Lang, Howard mcneher, Ken Christy,
and Ernie Newton.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Technical advisor was Captain M. T.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Lone Wolfkensales of the Texas Rangers. This story was transcribed
and adapted by Charles E. Israel, and the program was
produced and directed by Stacy Keach.
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