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This is Your FBI: Lady of Larceny

This is Your FBI · August 9, 1946 · 29 min · 3,966 words

The transcript of “Lady of Larceny”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast August 9, 1946. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Thanksgiving Radio plays This is Your FBI free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents This is your FBI! This is your FBI, an 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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The criminal of necessity lives by his wits. But inevitably there comes the time when they no longer can protect him. For the criminal's habits and methods are almost without exception, as unchanging as the spots of a leopard.

And though he be cunning and ingenious enough to escape justice today, he leaves behind him as in tonight's case from the files of your FBI, the blueprint for his certain defeat, tomorrow. There was nothing out of the ordinary about the scene that took place that morning in the visitor's room of a county jail in a certain state along the Atlantic seaboard.

That is nothing that appeared out of the ordinary, to the stony-faced guard seated at one end of the long table, where he could watch both sides of the low wooden partition. Just a mother and her prisoner's son, conversing across the partition, talking mother and son talk.

After a while the son glances up at the clock on the wall then. Well, Mom, I guess that time's right up. Goodness. It seems like I'd only been here a minute. don't give us very much time you know anyway with some of you to come to see me uh... comas often the left next day

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