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We're going to begin today with Crime Classics.

We'll hear the Axe and the Drute family how they fared from August 10, 1953.

After that, it's Philo Vance and the Deathless Murder Case.

That's stories from October 25th, 1949.

Good evening.

This is Crime Classics.

I am Thomas Highland.

I'm going to tell you another true crime story.

Listen.

A man writing.

Listen closely because it's a quiet sound, an intimate sound.

The year is 1795, and the man who is doing this quiet, intimate thing, is named Peter Drute.

He is writing his will, making with goose quill and parchment his bequest to his children.

When he is done, unknowingly, he will have made certain the death of his two sons.

And now he is done. Now he has made certain.

And tonight, my report to you on the Axe and the Drute family,

how they fared.

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