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We're going to begin this week with Stand By for Crime.

We'll hear a story from 1953 titled The Lonely Hearts Club of Doom.

After that, it's Barry Craig Confidential Investigator,

and Behold a corpse from March 1, 1953.

Thank you. corpse from March 1st, 1953. Stand by for crime.

Hi, I'm Chuck Morgan, newscaster and radio station KOP here in Los Angeles.

You know, being a newscaster with two shows daily, you sometimes have to scratch around

or dig up a yarn that's different from the run-of-the-mill stuff.

Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you care to look at it,

I came up with a couple of jackpot stories a while ago,

and now my listeners expect me to do it at least once a week.

That's why when one day last month I had nothing very exciting on the fire,

I was beginning to feel a bit desperate.

And that's why also when the phone rang and a mysterious voice said that if I'd come to a certain address, he'd give me a story

that would jack up my Hooper rating at least five points. I decided to go, even though the

address was 35 miles away in the Elizabeth Lake region.

So, Carol Curtis, my blonde secretary, and I climbed into the old jalopy and headed north along Highway 99.

Well, Glamapus, how do you like this country?

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