This is Your FBI: Man Hunt (syndicated)

This is your FBI. This is your FBI. The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Sub-B-I-Fire fraudulent bankruptcy. It's title, Man Hunt.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is a carefully run organization, operated along certain well-defined lines of procedure. One of those precepts is that every unsolved case must be reported on at least once every forty-five days.

That means the search for a criminal is relentless. Another important point is that not a single fact, no matter how small, shall be overlooked in an investigation. Somewhere in every case, there is one element which prevents it from being the perfect crime.

That element may be the lack of an alibi. It may be a fingerprint, a fad or foible of the suspect. Or even such a tiny link as appeared in the case you were about to hear.

A case which saw a man disappear, saw him vanish completely, with a pile of opens in a large Midwestern city. It is late afternoon as a short conservatively dressed man walks along Main Street and enters a flower shop.

Can I help you, sir? Do you carry funeral reeds? Yes, I do. Right this way, please. The man looked at several and rejected each. He said they were too fancy. He wanted something simple and in good taste.

Perhaps this one. Exactly. That's the one I want. It's $10. Very well. I'd like it delivered to this address as quickly as possible. Madison Street? Near the river. I have to be in that neighborhood in about an hour.

Oh, could I trouble you to bring it? Surely. I'll be waiting out front for you, and here's your money. With that, he turned, left the store, and walked leisurely to his car. Then drove off through the downtown traffic.