Herb Ellis
speaker
642 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 9 Jun
Herb Ellis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Clarify the boy's position in the case and determine one way or another if the stepfather was withholding information about the disappearance of Mrs. Abbott.
The big problem was to bring in Chester Abbott for interrogation without the knowledge of his lawyer.
As we'd found out more than once, it was impossible to get anything out of Abbott with his lawyer present.
We set up a plan to call at the Abbott home early in the morning, get the suspect out of bed, and bring him in before his lawyer could be notified.
At 3.30 the following morning, Ed and I met at the office and started for the Abbott place.
We brought along a couple of pounds of fresh horse meat to keep the dogs quiet if they raised a fuss.
At 10 minutes past 4 a.m., we parked our car a few hundred feet down the road from the Abbott nursery and made our way toward the gate.
I reached in and tried the latch.
The dogs started up
How about it, Joe?
Open?
No, it's padlocked.
We're gonna have to climb the fence.
Toss some of that meat over to him, will you?
Yeah, okay.
There.
All right, that does it.
All right, let's climb the fence.
Keep an eye on the hounds.
Looks like they can take a leg off.
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