 From Hollywood. It's time now Pete codley Johnny guarantee transport. Oh, hi apiece seen the papers. No, I just got up. Why what's happened air crash for one thing Air crash where Mexico flight six Aztec Caribbean line Mexico City to Havana crashed in the mountains ten minutes after takeoff seven passengers and a crew of three survivors the way it sounds none How do you come into it Pete? We underwrite a company that handles flight insurance down there three of the passengers bought policies at the airport We're stuck for seventy five thousand dollars This is a nice time of the year in Mexico Johnny. What do you want me to do find out why it crashed? Oh, I know why it crashed somebody meant for it to what do you mean that plane blew up in mid-air? I'll get you a reservation Tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey and the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigators. Yeah, it's truly Johnny dollar Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to the home office guarantee transport insurance company Hartford, Connecticut The following is an accounting of expenditure during my investigation of the flight six matter Item one a hundred and seventy three dollars and twenty cents airline fare and incidentals Hartford, Connecticut to Mexico City I checked my baggage through customs and started making inquiries and more inquiries and then some more and after the 14th Kinsab a maybe is better you as Keem. I found the office I was looking for or at least I thought I'd found it the flowery Spanish title on the door Translated roughly into Inspector General of the Department of Civil Air Transport, but when I opened the door. I wasn't so sure Come in Jack make yourself at home. Oh, I'm sorry. I was looking for the condom That's me. Don't let the big words on the door fool you. I'm all there is there ain't no more So come in shut the door. All right. Thanks Is your name dollar that's right Johnny dollar Maclin here Mac Maclin one time mongrel from the south side of Chicago I got a wire from your office said you'd be in on Pan Am flight 12 pull up a chair and squat with you All right, what were you expecting? Spanish Grandi with a white silk shirt to black silk tie in a second cousin on the cabinet Well, maybe at least I wasn't figuring on a south side make with a 17th century desk in a cotton sweatshirt Well, here's what little dope we've got on the crash most of which you probably know already I left on 20 minute notice all I've seen is one newspaper item I can use a lot more. Well, you won't get much more out of that report We got a crew over at the wreckage around two hours ago survivors No, he didn't have a chance that crate is scattered over ten acres of mountainside Didn't catch fire though. So we might turn up something or other Well, I got a good man in charge up there Juno Romero You'll meet him later and send it another Jeep up there in a few minutes and you can go along if you want Thanks, I will my company figures sabotage any chance. They're wrong Could it have been accidental equipment failure personnel failure something like that Well, if I thought so I'd be up there at the wreck miss help that'd be my kind of job But this one's different is always detective work your kind of job and Juno Romero's Now he talks as soft as a girl out of finishing school looks a little like one in fact But underneath it he's as sharp as a tack and tougher than an old boot full of nails What actually happened when the plane went down all I've heard is that it blew up in midair That's right. Well, a few Indians were on the only ones who saw it They were burning charcoal up on a slope at about 9,000 feet They are watching the plane circle gaining altitude then one big flash with the tail blew off Pilot didn't have a chance. He wrote it straight into the side of the mountain the tail that sounds like the baggage compartment That's the way I figure it an explosive of some kind a time bomb smuggled on board before the takeoff I'm covering that angle from this end and rounding up every one of the baggage gang the maintenance crew Anybody who had a chance to get near that plane before it left to feel out there. What have you found out? Yeah, so far nothing We're trying to check back to and the individual passengers the plane crew trying to find out Who might benefit by having any one of them dead? Well, I guess that would be your angle too. Yeah Yeah, at least as far as insurance is concerned Well, there were three flight policies issued and Names are in the reports here. Yeah, I know I've got them the home office gave them to me along with the names of the beneficiaries I haven't talked to any of them yet I figured that you know how to go about it better than I would and there's another possible insurance angle and that's the cargo Do you know if there was anything valuable on board worth destroying for the insurance You mean no it was done by somebody you're deliberately set out to kill one of the ten people on board that plane And who didn't mind killing nine others to get that one. It was pre-meditated cold-blooded Well, you get them Johnny get them for me and then just leave me alone with them for about Come in One of you a senior McLean inspector general the department. Yes, that's me. What can I do for you dad? They will not give to me any information senior McLean not the police or the airline office Who are you and what information do you want? I am Ramon de Lagos, senior and I am here. I was wait a minute That's the name of one of the yes look Are you related to Maria de Lagos my wife? She was on the plane. Tell me please. What news do you have? Have you reached the scene of the crash? Yes, we have two hours ago, and what did you is that any chance? I'm sorry there. We're no survivors No Oh, no, hey, I'm sorry you send your De Lagos It's just too terrible. I I didn't know you were here in the city or I'd have I'd have let you know right away I sent word to your office in Havana. I have been here for six weeks Maria came for a visit only a few days ago. No, I know that's a rough deal I am sorry. Oh This is Johnny dollar from the States Senior ladies who is here to investigate the cause of this thing. What is the use senior? It will not return life to the dead No, but I don't like to see a murderer get away with it a murderer Then the rumors are true. The plane was destroyed deliberately It is hard to believe that anyone would Senior McLean, what arrangements are being made the Parties will be brought down to the Federal District Hospital. I'll see a genotified Thank you, senior. No, no, let's see. I I believe your wife's brother Don Serrano is staying at the hotel ready Yes, he is but I am at the Monte Cassino Don Serrano, and I are not friendly. I see All right, senior then I'll contact you at the Monte Cassino as soon as I have word. You are very kind and again. I'm Well, I'm sorry. I yes That is all one can say Adios, Senores Know anything about a Mac? Well only what his wife filled out on the flight form these Cuban Residents in business address Havana in the export game And you know of course that his wife was one of the three people who took out accident policies But naming her brother Don Serrano has been a fishery. I wonder why well, that's one of the six dozen questions You can ask when you start problem Look I hit to rush you Johnny, but I ought to start that Jeep up the mountain I'm ready anytime I let Gino know you're coming and you check with me if you want anything You'll have full cooperation from the federal police and the government and to repeat just one thing Johnny I know whoever did it get him check The Jeep driver was a young Mexican boy who had been brought up in the best and wildest chauffeuring traditions of the capital He knew only one way to drive with both accelerator and horn wide open Since most of the other drivers were playing the same game It was a sheer miracle that we ever got through the narrow streets of the city and finally reached the open valley Maybe the colored postcard pasted on the dashboard a picture of the Virgin of Guadalupe had something to do with it We finally left the last cart road and bumped along a narrow woodcutters trail Cleared and widened enough now so that we could drive into the crash area and missed the mile on a half walk The first rescue party had been forced to take For some reason only a small part of the wreckage had caught fire and burned The rest was strewn piecemeal along a great raw gash through the trees and brush Men in uniforms of the Mexican army searched through the tragic debris lifting sorting and collecting And nearby a silent group of Indians were watching with the age-old sadness in their eyes You are senior dollar. Yes, Gino Romero. Oh, glad to know you Gino. It's a terrible thing. No, yeah Any ideas yet? Not of importance, but is certain now this it was caused by one explosion Which has a core in the baggage compartment Venga say come on We have find many pieces which can be identified Can be known which part of the plane they are in before the crash. I see Toilet front these pieces are more large, but in the back near the tail. They are very little Here you look these are pieces of the baggage and muy pequeño Very tiny. Oh, yeah, the crash itself wouldn't have done this. It had to be an explosion Seguro Look is burned a little each one of these pieces But these more big ones from the seats of the plane. They are not Here you smell this one Yeah, I see what you mean either dynamite or nitroglycerin was dynamite We have fine little tiny pieces of red paper from the wrappings on the sticks Was dynamite any idea how much how big a charge One of the solados Pasquale who have used much explosive is think maybe 30 or 40 pound Light enough to be put on board in a piece of luggage It's gonna be tough. You know plenty tough to The Indians set up a low wailing dirge one of them taps softly on a native drum a Wordless terror before the ancient mystery death One by one the body's past us born by the silent soldiers Then for the first time I noticed the girl standing alone some distance away watching without expression as the stretches past her She was young blonde and beautiful not conventionally so but Beautiful as a young animal is beautiful and she looked very much out of place You are observing the senorita. No, what's she doing up here? Yes, I She's strange that one always is look for danger. She's what you say the dare they will What is like she's always have the charm Death has never find her So perhaps she has come here to look on his face. You know who she is. Well, see she's American Her name is Marvel Terrence Marvel Terrence you have heard of her senior I'd heard of her all right And I'd wondered what kind of a girl would have a first name like Marvel and now I knew partly at least And I plan to find out a whole lot more Three of the people who died on that plane had taken out flight policies Maria Delagos was one of them the other two were men Both of whom had named as beneficiary Marvel Terrence Here's our star to tell you about tomorrow's intriguing episode of this week's story tomorrow a fighting girl in a lucky break And then murder cancels the score Join us. Won't you yours truly Johnny dollar or is truly Johnny dollar starring Bob Bailey is Transcribed in Hollywood written by Les Crutchfield. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone Be sure to join us tomorrow night same time and station for the next exciting episode of yours truly Johnny dollar This is Roy Rowan speaking