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This Is Your FBI: The Redheaded Blackmailer

This Is Your FBI · January 30, 1953 · 29 min · 4,124 words

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This is your FBI in just a moment. You'll find some of the most thrilling action in sports history in the prize-fighting ring. Campable Gate of Sports presents high-tension excitement from ringside every Friday night on ABC.

Don Dunphy brings you a vivid blow-by-blow description of leather-punching home, as his eagle eye catches the lightning-lefts and rights in the fleet footwork of some of the nation's top ranking fighters. Teaming with Don is Bill Corum to give you between rounds a swift run down of the fight's progress and the history of the fighters.

Yes, listen to ABC tonight for the 10-round Vince Martinez Common Fiora welterweight belt on the cavalcade of sports. Hi, the official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation presented transcribed as a public service by the American Broadcasting Company.

Tonight, the subject of our FBI file is homicide. It's titled Thread-Headed Black Mailer. Our code of laws include penalties for every criminal category, from petty theft to murder. Each of them is an example of man's inhumanity to man, but perhaps the most inhuman crime of all these, the most fiendishly cruel crime is blackmail.

The victim of the blackmailer lives in constant fear of exposure, lives under a nervous tension that ultimately becomes unbearable, because the victim never knows when the next payment becomes due, maybe next week, maybe tomorrow, or maybe even in the middle of the night, tonight.

In this crime, the victim learns the full meaning of one word, torture. Tonight's FBI bile opens in the dingy office building located in the business section of a Midwestern city. On the door of a small suite in this dilapidated structure is a sign reading Wally Irvin, private investigator inside urban is just reading a prospective client sit down

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