The Case Of The Tangled Clues
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Episode 219 is the first-person report of New York private detective Felix De Martini as he investigates the death of a popular and benevolent small businessman, the owner of a service station. De Martini's dogged pursuit of the culprit was told in the classic pages of True Detective Magazine, historic purveyors of sensational true crime, in April 1945.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.5 | District Attorney Edward J. Neary of Nassau County |
| 0:16.0 | looked up from a report he was reading as I entered his office in Mineola early on the afternoon of May 5, |
| 0:23.6 | 1943. I had hurried there from my home after an almost cryptic conversation with him. |
| 0:30.6 | I asked, what's this about a murder that might not be one and a case that either has too many or no suspects. |
| 0:39.3 | Neri motioned me to a seat and made a telephone call. |
| 0:43.3 | I want a friend of yours in on this, he said. |
| 0:47.3 | Several minutes later, Inspector Harold B. King, head of the County Detective Force, arrived. Together, they told me this story. |
| 0:57.0 | The True Crime Historian presents pulp nonfiction, a celebration of the pioneers of true crime. |
| 1:28.3 | Episode 219 is the first-person report of Long Island Detective Felix DiMartini, |
| 1:35.3 | as he investigates the death of a popular and benevolent small businessman, the owner of a service station. |
| 1:43.3 | DeMartini's dogged pursuit of the culprit was told in the classic pages of True |
| 1:49.6 | Detective magazine, historic purveyors of sensational true crime in April 1945. |
| 1:58.5 | I'm true crime historian Richard O. Jones, and I give you... |
| 2:03.6 | Case of the Tangled Clues. The Long Island Gas Station Murder. |
| 2:11.6 | Music Case of the Tangled Clues |
| 2:26.3 | A Snowstorm, a sea coupon, and an empty gas tank exonerates seven innocent people and trap a killer. |
| 2:47.1 | By Felix D. Martini with Earl D. Rice. |
| 3:05.5 | Almost two months earlier on Saturday, march 13th walter e nielsen 62 years old owner of a combination |
| 3:15.5 | filling station and automobile supplies and paint store on northern boulevard and fashionable manhasset |
| 3:22.2 | was found dead on the floor toward the rear of the store. |
| 3:26.0 | He had fallen face forward and his head lay on an orderly pile of tire-changing tools. |
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