This Is Your FBI: The Continental Killer

The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents, This is your FBI. This is your FBI. The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Presented transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.

In a recent talk, Thomas I. Parkinson, president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, remarked, self-reliant citizens living in their own mortgage-free homes of the cornerstone of a free country. That is why, of all the manifold services rendered by the Equitable Society to its four million members, one which I rank near the top in importance is the Equitable's Assured Home Ownership Plan.

In about 14 minutes, I'll be back to tell you homeowners about the Equitable Society's famous Assured Home Ownership Plan that President Parkinson considers so important. Tonight, the subject of our FBI file, illegal entry, its title, the Continental Killer.

Shortly after the turn of the century, the then small city of Los Angeles, California, an experiment in law enforcement, which has since been copied by local police throughout the country. At that time, Los Angeles appointed a girl named Alice Wells to its force and gave her the rank of police woman. She was the first of her sex ever to serve in an a police

department. But the obvious advantages of the move and the fine work she did caused other cities to follow, until now there are thousands on the rolls of local police in every one of of our 48 states.

Tonight's case from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is brought to you because it tells of the exploits of one of these women who have made law enforcement their profession, a woman assigned to helping track down a dangerous hoodlum.