This is Your FBI: The Careless Killer

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finest plan for home ownership. Tonight's FBI file, the careless killer. The normity of the crime wave now engulfing the United States. Cannot be fully realized unless you know some figures.

Figures which are the result of crime surveys made by your FBI. The number of people arrested and fingerprinted in this country in the past year is almost 25% higher than the number arrested 10 years ago in 1937. The number of crimes committed in the past year total more than a million six hundred thousand. During

the average day, 36 people were slain. Every 24 hours, an average of almost 400 people were fallow meously assaulted or robbed. In addition, there were more than 4,000 other last needs of various types being committed every day.

Those are the shocking proportions of the current crime wave. The crime wave about which something must be done immediately before it's too late. Tonight's FBI file opens in an apartment in a large Midwestern city.

The occupants of this flat or a young married couple named Rockford. This is Rockford, is at the front door, just admitting the visitor. Hi, Pigg. Come on in. Okay. Well, see, you'll have to excuse how the house looks, Mom.