This Is Your FBI: Pickup

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Tonight the Sub-It-A-B-I-File kidnapping is titled Pick Up. In the field of fiction, the recurrent theme of the perfect crime almost invariably concerns the act of murder. Yet in cold fact, the murder is among all criminals, the least likely to evade apprehension and arrest.

Figures in the uniform crime reports compiled by your FBI show that in 1951, 94.9% of the murders committed in the United States were cleared within the same calendar year. Today and every day law enforcement officers throughout America are proving the truth of the old adage that though it has no tongue, yet murder will speak.

Tonight's FBI file opens on a street corner in an eastern city. It is approximately 1 a.m. A cold drenching rain has been falling intermittently for several hours. The two young women who stand beside a bus stop sign peering down the almost deserted Street old soggy newspapers over their heads and another to shield themselves