The Welcome to the great detectives of old time radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham.

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But now, from November 8th, 1951, here is

the big hit-and-run

killer.

The story you're about to hear

is true. The names have

been changed to protect the innocent.

You're a detective sergeant.

You're assigned to traffic investigation, hit-run felony detail.

An elderly woman and her nine-year-old grandson

is struck down on a pedestrian crosswalk by a speeding truck.

The woman is killed instantly.

Witnesses fail to get the license number.

The hit-run driver escapes.

Your job? Find him.

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