This is Your FBI: The Innocent Thief

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.

Were you born between 1900 and 1910? Then here's a question you've probably asked yourself more than once. Will I be alive in 1975? Well, just think of all the advances in medical science since you first saw the light of day, sulfur, drugs, insulin and dozens of others.

Since 1910, there's been a 68% increase in the proportion of people over 65 years of age in this country. With this percentage growing greater all the time, there certainly is a very good chance that you will be alive in 75.

And in exactly 14 minutes, we'll have a suggestion which will show you how life insurance, with the equitable life-assurance society, can help you make the most of this long life that's ahead of you. Tonight's FBI file, the innocent thief.

1947 has not yet run through a quarter of its allotted number of months. But already there is evidence that the number of spectacular crimes in the nation is on the rise. A community fund is stolen from a strong box in the Midwest.

The schoolgirl is kidnapped from her home in the West. A bank in Virginia is robbed for the first time and at 65 years history. There is no end of the recital, but the pace of the crime wave is quickening.

A major crime is committed somewhere in the United States every 21 seconds, and in the course of those crimes innocent people are involved. Innocent people who are used as pawns by the criminals. That is why the crime wave is a problem belonging not only to your FBI But also to you The night's file opens in a roadhouse located in the outskirts of a large eastern city