This Is Your FBI: The Swampland Killer 12/13/1946
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Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
29 min
5 speakers
8 chapters
transcribed 4 hours ago
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What is the opening introduction and sponsorship message for this episode?
Welcome to Choice Classic Radio, where we bring to you the greatest old time radio shows. Like us on Facebook, subscribe to us on YouTube, and thank you for donating at choice classicradio dot com.
The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents This is your FBI.
This is your FBI, the official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, presented as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.
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Mm-hmm.
Tonight's FBI file Swampland killer.
Despite many reminders There are still those who regard the crime wave as something that is happening to someone else. as something that is foreign to their daily existence. Perhaps one single fact simply stated. We'll convince them that the crime wave is a grave concern of every citizen in this nation. That single fact is that That there are in the criminal files at FBI headquarters in Washington. The fingerprints of more than six million people. Which means that nearly five percent of the adult population of this country Have been arrested. That is a sobering figure. A figure that becomes terrifying when you learn that the number of criminals is getting not smaller. But larger.
Tonight's file opens in a fisherman's cabin located along a stream near a bleak stretch of Atlantic coast. It is late in the evening. John Perry is resting after a hearty dinner. His wife Matilda enters.
How does the narrator set the stage for the Swampland Killer crime wave?
John.
Mm.
What are you doing? Just resting. Thought you were gonna fix the aerial for my radio. Yeah, I am. Rent. I just want about ten minutes rest. Mm. Seems to me you're always resting. Tilly, please let's not have an argument. I'm not the one that argues. Okay. You're the one always starts there. All right, Silly, all right. You say I'm a nager. I'm a terrible wife. Silly, I I didn't say any of those things. You say them all the time, and I'm sick of it. sick of this old dress I'm wearing. I'm sick of living in this broken down shack. I'm sick of Where are you going? Now to fix the area. About time. Well. What is it? Motorboat. Coming up to the dock. Well, who'd be coming out here this time of night? No no. Stop it. Uh uh huh. Someone's getting up.
Who is it? I uh Can't make them out.
I had Telly. That's right. Paul, it's so good to see you. Thanks. How in the world do you ever find this place? I couldn't get lost in these streams of a tribe. Paul, you remember John? I have to. Hello? Well, can you stay a while? Sure. Uh Tilly. We only have room here for ourselves. Look, how often does my brother come to visit us? Where would he sleep? In our bedroom. Where we sleep. In the storeroom. What? Where is your bedroom, sis? Right back there. Well then I think I'll turn in. I'm tired.
Morning. Good morning.
I'm looking for Sheriff Watson.
Well, you came to the right place. You're talking to him.
Hello, Sheriff. I'm Jim Taylor, the FBI.
All right. FBI,
huh? Yes.
What tension builds between John Perry and his wife Tilly in the cabin scene?
You're my credentials,
Chair. Fine. Mm-hmm. Well I'm at your service, Mr. Taylor. What can we do for you?
Well, I'm looking for a man who committed a murder about five miles out in the Atlantic.
And you think he's around here?
Well, let me give you the whole story, Chef. Oh, sure. Remember the yacht Mermaid the Second, one that caught fire and sank about two months ago?
Yes, I remember that. Well,
the mermaid was carrying a couple of hundred thousand dollars worth of jewelry when it went to the bottom.
Uh huh.
It wasn't insured, so the owner hired a salvage outfit to see if it could come up with the jewelry.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the opening introduction and sponsorship message for this episode?
0:00–3:19
2
How does the narrator set the stage for the Swampland Killer crime wave?
3:19–5:44
3
What tension builds between John Perry and his wife Tilly in the cabin scene?
5:44–8:54
4
How does Agent Jim Taylor first present the murder case to Sheriff Watson?
8:54–13:18
5
What clues do the investigators find about the stolen motorboat and jewelry?
13:18–18:37
6
How do the agents use a small plane to locate the suspect’s boat in the swamps?
18:37–22:11
7
What is the final outcome for Paul Mitchell and his accomplice?
22:11–26:03
8
How does the episode close with the FBI’s public‑service message and preview of next week’s case?
26:03–29:13
Speakers
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