This is Your FBI: The Phantom Hitchhiker (syndicated)

This is your FBI! This is your FBI! The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation! The subject of our FBI file!

Murder! It's title! The Phantom Hitchhiker! A special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has something in common with a good newspaper reporter. Before writing his story, the newspaperman must find the answers to five questions.

Who, what, where, when, and how. The special agent must also know that, and more. If possible, he must also learn why the crime was committed, what weapons were used, whether or not there were accomplices, and how much was gained.

It is a yardstick of their thoroughness that no case of false arrest has ever been proved against a member of your FBI. That record did not come as a result of any accident. It came because every special agent is a trained professional law enforcement officer, and also because every special agent accepts each assignment as a challenge.

Last year, for example, FBI men put in more than a million hours of overtime, with not a single penny's pay. Those facts are important to you, or they illustrate the care taken by your FBI before an arrest is made.

The scrupulous care exemplified in the case you are about to hear. Tonight's FBI file opens in a national park located in a western state. FBI Special Agent Taylor has just greeted Captain Wilson of the state police.

How far do these tire tracks run, Captain? Up the slope and rounding back of those trees. And where the body was fun? Yep. And among the trees. Where's the victim now? At the morgue. They'll hold the body to see if we get any identification.