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The Red Rose Girl

Originally Aired: April 4, 1934 Calling All Cars #19, "The Red Rose Girl," a tale of betrayal and murder begins at an Atlantic seacoast country club ten years earlier. Bank teller Robert Sims has deliberately cultivated a friendship with wealthy...

The Spinoza Case

Originally Aired: March 28, 1934 Calling All Cars #18, "The Spinoza Case," a devastating fire tears through a Southern California Edison Company garage, destroying sixty thousand dollars worth of property in a single night. Fire Chief Ennis and...

The Dillinger Case

Originally Aired: March 21, 1934 Calling All Cars #17, "The Dillinger Case," dramatizes the nationwide manhunt for John Dillinger and his gang following their brazen escape from the Indiana State Penitentiary in September 1933. After the breakout,...

The Chloroform Murder

Originally Aired: March 14, 1934 Calling All Cars #16, "The Chloroform Murder," begins when Mrs. Maude Kennedy receives an urgent phone call during dinner from Percy Martin, insisting on meeting her alone. Despite warnings from her son Philip and...

Killer Hudson

Originally Aired: February 28, 1934 Calling All Cars #14, "Killer Hudson," begins with a robbery that turns deadly just days before Christmas. Alfred Kahn, owner of a malt and bottle shop on South Sermon Avenue, is confronted by two armed men...

The Times Bombing Case

Originally Aired: February 14, 1934 Calling All Cars #12, "The Times Bombing Case," recounts the investigation of one of Los Angeles' most devastating crimes: the 1910 dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building. At 1:07 in the morning, while...

The Smashed Windshield

Originally Aired: February 7, 1934 Calling All Cars #11, "The Smashed Windshield," takes listeners into one of Los Angeles' most outrageous crimes: the kidnapping of Mary Steele, wife of Walter Fisher Steele, dean of the music school at the...

Castor Oil Diamond Robbery

Originally Aired: January 31, 1934 Calling All Cars #10, "Castor Oil Diamond Robbery," begins when two criminals spot an opportunity while working at a radio shop near West 29th Street. A store clerk notices the expensive jewelry worn by wealthy...

Case of the Three Grooved Bullets

Originally Aired: January 24, 1934 Calling All Cars #9, "Case of the Three Grooved Bullets," begins with a chilling discovery in a canyon off Mulholland Drive. When fire department Mountain Patrol officer Burgendorf reports finding a young woman's...

The Steele Kidnapping

Originally Aired: January 17, 1934 In Calling All Cars #8, "The Steele Kidnapping," the annual police ball of 1921 comes to a devastating halt when Chief Charles E. Jones receives word that Officers Bill Brett and Harry Clester have been brutally...

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Caliente Money Car Holdup

Originally Aired: January 10, 1934 Calling All Cars #7, "Caliente Money Car Holdup," presents a terrifying hostage situation when a mysterious figure dressed in a sheepskin hood and green goggles enters Chief Sebastian's office carrying a blood-red...

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Missing Mexican Sheiks

Originally Aired: January 3, 1934 Calling All Cars #6, "Missing Mexican Sheiks," begins when three armed men, led by Bob York, storm a jewelry store on South Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles. During the robbery, York fatally shoots a customer who...

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Cookie Vejar Killing

Originally Aired: December 27, 1933 Calling All Cars #5, "Cookie Vejar Killing," takes listeners into the violent world of Prohibition-era bootleggers who turn to armed robbery when legitimate criminal enterprise dries up. Petty whiskey peddler...

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The Human Bomb

Originally Aired: December 20, 1933 Calling All Cars #4, "The Human Bomb," Two brazen criminals, Cochran and Colton, execute a carefully planned heist that begins with breaking into a San Diego Ford dealership in the dead of night. After stealing a...

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York Gang Holdup

Originally Aired: December 13, 1933 Calling All Cars #3, "York Gang Holdup," opens with Mrs. Taki Nago, a Japanese restaurant owner on Terminal Island, withdrawing $1,000 from her branch bank to cash checks for the fishermen and cannery workers who...

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Burma White Case

Originally Aired: December 6, 1933 Calling All Cars #2, "Burma White Case," a young blonde woman named Burma Adams meets the wrong kind of man at a nightclub and finds herself drawn into a violent crime spree that shocks Los Angeles. Burma's...

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