This is Your FBI: Death in the Desert

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, bank robbery, its title, Death in the Desert.

Thirty months have passed since the outbreak of the Korean War, but there is a war going on in the United States as well. A vicious, sustained battle in which the decent people of the nation are pitted against unscrupulous criminals, criminals who man an army of nine and one half million. It may not have occurred to you that there are nine and a half million persons

with arrest records in the nation, but it is a fact that out of every thirty-two people, and that includes our men, women and children, there is one person who has been convicted of crime. That fact concerns you because in almost every crime you are the victim.

You the decent law-abiding citizen. Tonight's file opens in a remote section of desert country in one of our southwestern states. A young photographer Tony Spencer and his wife are walking across the wasteland. It is twilight. There's our tent.

Yeah. I must say it looks pretty good. Tired, honey. Kind of. We shouldn't have hiked so far, I guess. I loved it. I think we got some pretty good pictures today. Yes, I'm dying to see other shots on the mazive turnout.

Oh, hey. Where those rolls are filmed? Oh, I have them right here. Oh, good. Give me a hand, huh? Okay. Oh, at last. Oh, yes. Hungry? Star. Well, you start a fire and I'll go down to the spring and get some water.