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(xxx) Murder on Impulse

Salute To The Law · June 27, 1939 · 14 min · 2,824 words

The transcript of “(xxx) Murder on Impulse”, an episode of Salute To The Law first broadcast June 27, 1939. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Gumshoe plays Salute To The Law free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Presenting Detective Nick Harris in a salute to the law. Ladies and gentlemen, we are God and take pleasure in bringing to you the eminent Los Angeles criminologist and President of the International Secret Service Association, Detective Nick Harris in another true live story proving to the youth of today the folly of committing crime.

And now, Mr. Harris. Thank you, Mr. Gibson. And good evening, everyone. Crimes in the headlines startle us when we read in the Daily Press articles concerning the activities of a certain class of criminals who prey upon sweethearts and parked cars. I have often endeavored to point out to my younger listeners on these programs the danger of parking in lonely and secluded places along

our highways. The story you're about to hear? I am sure. We'll prove in a most glaring fashion just what might happen should this warning not be heated because here's what took place not so long ago. One night in the early morning hours a car speeded up into the hills and Stop.

Shot the afterwards. There was a piercing scream, man. She's dead. She's dead. No, no, she can't be wild. Why, this is murder. There's blood. I must get away. No one must see me here. There is nothing to identify her by.

Just the girl in the woods. Dead. No. No, I'd better tell the police. For someone might have seen me come up here, yes? That's what I'll do. Tell the police. I'll come through the woods here.

That's what you bring me out on the boulevard. Maybe there'll be a policeman there. Officer. Officer. You standing over there in the corner. Well, I'm in the exhibit about Mr. There's a woman dead up there in the hills just around the bend from here. I think she's been murdered.

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