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Since the Equitable Life Assurance Society was founded 90 years ago this country has changed in many ways but in one respect it is still the same in those early days people always spoke of America as the land of opportunity it still is just as much as ever in just a few minutes into tonight's middle commercial the Equitable Society will have a special message for listeners who agree with this philosophy we will describe a special life insurance plan for men and women on the way up offered by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States tonight's FBI file the fugitive bridegroom perhaps the best set of rules ever devised for human conduct is also the oldest the rules written on the two tables of stone the rules we know as the ten commandments one of those canons is thou shalt not kill the record of the number of times that commandment is broken is a matter of national concern for in the year just past there were thousands of people murdered these murders occurred in every section of the country and formed a solid core in the midst of a million and a half major crimes committed in nineteen forty eight some people were murdered in the middle of a large city almost within arms reach of help and others other murders like the one in tonight's case from the files of your fb i took place far from any crowd and far from any help tonight's file opens at a resort hotel in the snow country it is early evening and a skating rink beside the twin lakes large is crowded in one corner of the rink a young man is well, being a young man hey girls what's it going to be? a triple blister with a double reverse this i want to see okay now what? now here goes no kidding shine really flies doesn't it? now what do you adjust? all these past ten days i had wings i've loved them honest honest first call you excuse me sure hey look why don't you take off your skates and i'll beat you at this place look honey i don't want to spoil your fun but there's a phone call with a chat for you a man you're engaged to well uh-huh did you talk to me? yeah when did he get in the town? just tonight kora do me a favor what? go in and tell him you couldn't find me time tomorrow do we go skiing? skiing don't say it what time tomorrow do we go skiing? well it's still an afternoon to get away fine oh four boys well here we are you're home so soon? oh tom it's been a wonderful evening i loved it too good night good night honey see you tomorrow see you tomorrow jay boy jay get out hello joe hello i'm sorry i didn't mean to scare you here are your keys thanks i i've been waiting here for you to come home when did you get back? just tonight oh well aren't you glad to see me? sure i uh... i called you every place i didn't get any messages oh weren't you at the rink? yes well i called there it was very crowded tonight oh who was that? who was the fella you were with? a friend looked like a pretty close friend oh now ralph well he was kissing you that's right what do you give everyone that privilege? well this is all pretty pointless pointless joe we're in game i don't want to discuss it but joe... wait i've got to go to bed joe good night ralph oh well at a nearby FBI field office special agent jim taylor approaches the desk of agent leon king leon how close are you to finishing the innocent case? i'm just doing my report on it now jim well the scc said that as soon as you were finished we were to start working together on a new one came in this morning now what is it? probably murder what do you mean probably? well the body of a woman about twenty three years old was found buried in the snow up at great bare national park police were called in first they started an investigation but they couldn't find any means of identifying a woman well how long had she been dead? all about two to three weeks there was some indication she'd been struck on the back of her head but so far it hasn't been determined whether she sustained that injury when she fell or whether she was actually struck by someone was there a clothing check? now the police sent them on to our lab in washington she's wearing an old leather belt and by using the infrared they brought up some crude printing turned out to be a name mary travis well did the police learn where she was staying at great bare? no not yet i spent most of the morning checking around town here to see if i could find any of her friends or relatives why here? oh there was a small gold plated bracelet around her wrist had a tiny perfume dispenser attached to it yes well on one side of the dispenser it said mary and on the other compliments of the key club i see a nose well i checked at the club they gave out those dispensers as new year's eve souvenirs uh... did you find anybody there who knew the girl? no however i learned their parents have a hold here well did you see them? no they're traveling in europe oh fine well i contacted them i cabled in the news of their daughter's death they're flying back on a plane which makes a connection to new york with another plane that gets them out here tomorrow afternoon good leon why don't you finish your report on the innocent case tonight if you can okay jim we can start checking on the girl's background again first thing in the morning welcome back thanks how do you like my friend here? quite a snowman i'm trying to make up my mind about the nose i don't know whether to use an icicle or a carrot kora have you seen Joan? oh not this morning well did you catch up with her last night? yeah that she was surprised well you could call it that say kora who's the guy? who do you mean? the one she's been going with oh well i don't know i served them together last night who is he? well his name's tom janner he checked in at the lodge ten days ago has she seen a lot of him? look Ralph no fair i'm sorry i think i know the answer anyway Ralph i don't want to get involved but well after all you did go away well i went for only one reason to make some money to marry Joan the funny part is i made the money even bought a ring oh Ralph that's beautiful well i don't think i have much use for it now there's no way to talk get in there and fight get that other boys some competition say there's a barn dance tonight Joan's gonna be there with him? well i imagine so but that'd be a good place for you to start i've got a better place to start where? the nearest bar well that airport you've been out there all afternoon yeah the plane was two hours later did you talk to the girls parents jim? yeah wasn't too easy what did you find out? Mr. Travis told me that his daughter had written and told him he'd been going to a great bar to do some skiing uh-huh later she wrote and said that she had met someone up there and married him a man named Fred Jones and unfortunately that's about all they know about him you mean she didn't mention what he did or where he came from? no well where is he now? they didn't know that either that's pretty strange behavior jim well this is even stranger Travis told me that his daughter lived alone in an apartment here in town she must have had money yes that's right for the man well we went to her bank she kept a safe deposit box we found that they had received a visit from the girl and her husband she wanted him to be a joint owner and be able to open the box too was this arranged? yes and according to the bank's record the new husband came to the bank a week ago and emptied the box after the girl was dead that's right her father said that he knows of at least five thousand dollars in cash that his daughter had in the box in addition to various securities jim could anyone in the bank describe Fred Jones? ah not a soul well it sounds like that's her next job I'll get her there special agent Taylor speaking hello Mr. Taylor this is Lieutenant Anderson of the Great Bay oh hello Lieutenant well we've made a little progress good oh do you find out where the girl was staying? yeah she was living at the chest not in since she got married uh huh and she and her husband rented a cabin someplace up here but we haven't located that yet well thanks for calling Lieutenant just as soon as we can sign out of here Leon King and I'll be on our way to see you that's for the senator and bring your son ah well I decided to take your advice you both have been engaged in a lot more that's for the Taylor story well if I haven't seen either one of them all night when you told me she was coming here well she'll have to change her mind oh look now you'll be a good little boy and go home I knew you were trying to fool me I soon you fell as she says it was you know I think I'll go over and meet her oh wait Ralph no no I want to shake hands with my competition I don't want to shake hands with my competition I don't want to shake hands with my competition hello can I can I why not I don't think she has to get married I'm not talking to you Joan can't you give me a raise around please look I think we've had enough of this what do you mean please let's say I've had enough I get out of we will reopen tonight's FBI file in just a moment now a special message to a very special kind of person to the man or woman who can truthfully say to himself I'm on the way up yes we're talking to the kind of man who knows that someday his boss will call him and say Jim we're making you head of your department starting next Monday if you're that type of person with unshakable confidence in yourself and your future then make sure you have life insurance designed to order for you right now 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ask for full details on the equitable plan for people on the way up or send a postcard care of this station to the equitable society that's equi the equitable life insurance society of the united states and i'm back to the fbi file the fugitive right groom there are two men in tonight's case from the files of your fbi and it appears that one of them is a murderer a wanton killer for profit there are differences between them almost as great as there can possibly be between two people and yet despite those differences either one of them could be the killer for there is no mold into which people are poured and which makes one man a murderer and the other man incapable of it in its various investigations into what adds up to thousands of murders your law enforcement agencies and your fbi have learned that there are no such things as physical characteristics which can serve to identify any criminal and least of all a murderer murders have been committed by men and women in every age group of every income group of every race and creed so don't make any snap decision about which of the two men in tonight's case is the actual killer because thus far only one thing is true it could be either one night's file continues at police headquarters at great bear special agents king and taylor are being greeted by lieutenant henderson good to see you again gentlemen well thanks lieutenant well i am afraid i haven't got too much to report to you well did you locate the cabin that the onion was used not yet i got a detailed working on it we should get some words soon what have you been able to pick up on the missing husband little time well very little he called himself fred jones but the chances are that was an alias yes that's true he'd worked at a local ski shop for about a week when he married miss travis he quit his job well lieutenant could anyone around there give you a description on him yes but it was too general no outstanding features of characteristics i interviewed a dozen people around there i uh... here here are the descriptions of him thanks lieutenant uh... where did he come from where did he come from lieutenant all knows he just dropped his drifted in and got the job i think excuse me lieutenant henderson speaking hello lieutenant sergeant newton we located the onion was cabin oh good it's up at the end of prime trial the place with the double chimney yeah that's it thanks sergeant i'll get up there right away am i still welcome around here for her oh how do you feel Ralph awful how's the chin sore we'll sit down and rest it thanks sit here not right now kora yes do i remember right did jones get married yes well that's that Ralph if it's any consolation to you he seems like a pretty nice guy koro was here around here before i left no i told you he just got in 10 days ago i had a feeling i'd seen him someplace before well you might have seen his picture he's pretty social uh money too jones said he's worth half a million well me and my little 5000 did you actually go away and earn 5000 well i i didn't really earn it i got lucky i went on a trail and found a man with a broken leg he turned out to own half of Pittsburgh the 5000 was a reward where did all this happen at a place called great there hey i just remembered what did you say that guy was worth half a million what's what he told joni i've got to get a hold of her right away just put those no shoes by the door okay lieutenant you can get yours off lian yeah just a loose and the strap there we are why well let's go to the cabin and take a look around all right all right boys thanks after you jim thanks man hey better they keep our coats on this isn't going to be any too warm in here say uh lieutenant didn't i see some telephone wires outside yeah you did the phone is right in there in the bedroom lay on yes jim why don't you call the phone company see if they have any record of outgoing calls from here after the girl's death right well lieutenant suppose we look around all right i don't know what we'll find though my men have already searched the place oh yeah say did your laboratory have any word on how the girl met her death oh not yet i said that have something for me later in the day though oh good what was left behind her well that scarf hairbrush and that little box camera box camera yeah they probably took some snapshots say there could be a picture of the husband we didn't find any well they might not have had a chance to get the pictures back yet where would you go around here to have pictures developed by several places in the village camera shop drugstore now when we finish here i'm going down there it isn't necessary well thanks for calling ralph oh wait yes could i come and see you i don't think tom would like that well this is about him what do you mean kora told me that you said he was very wealthy with half a million dollars that's right of course not you really believe it yes why well that's ridiculous i'm telling you it's the truth look i have a feeling that instead of you marrying his money he's marrying your wealth i'm not going to listen to any more of this goodbye in the cabin 11 days ago to the twin lakes large at twin lakes uh how did your theory work out about the pictures well the drugger said they weren't any pictures here in the name of mrs johns but the theory paid off anyway mrs johns brought a roll of film in to be developed before she was married and they were here in the name of mary travis anyway i'll take a look at now six of them are pictures of mrs travis these last two there they are those are jones but generally he's bent over skiing can't see his face how do you know it's jones i'm here take a look here see that scarf he has around his neck or jones looked at it at the cabin when he cleared out along with a hairbrush and the camera that took these pictures left a hairbrush that's right i might be very valuable no i just called the office they've gotten a report from the lab they found some fragments of skin under the girl's fingernails must have been a struggle before she died then yes they also discovered a few blonde hairs wow we'll ask lieutenant henderson to take the airbrush in the town force and see if those blonde hairs match any that are in that airbrush okay or did you talk to the twin lakes lodge yes and there's nobody staying there with the name of fred jones but the reservation clerk remembers getting a phone call from great bear on the day the call was made from the cabin the reason he remembered was the man who called me he wanted to know if there were any rooms available he didn't want to make a reservation over the phone now that was probably jones i guess he wanted some time to assume his new name and identity i'll let's take these pictures with us and drive over to twin lakes now they're am i glad you're here wait you can't come i've got to but real tom only came all the way out to your cabin to tell you about tom i don't want to hear that story again i'll get out no this is a different story your husband's a murderer what i call great bear spoke to the ski shop i wanted to verify the fact that i'd seen him there they told me the police were looking for him he's wanted for killing his wife oh Ralph you've been drinking no i'm cold sober and this is the truth he killed his wife for her money i came out here to see that he didn't give the same treatment to you that was very considerate tom did you hear what he's been telling me yes i apologize for it he forced his way in here now and he's getting thrown out oh no i'm not i'm sober this time i think you'll find it a little harder well let's try special agency fbi looking for this man here he's my husband well i've got a warrant for his arrest he's wanted on suspicion of murder friend jones alias tom chandler was tried in federal court for murder on a government reservation found guilty and sentenced to be executed upon arriving at the twin lakes lodge special agent taylor showed the skiing picture of jones to several people at the hotel although his face was hidden his unusual ski jacket was recognized as belonging to a guest named tom chandler special agent taylor then learned that tom chandler had been a guest at the twin lakes lodge and that he had checked in the very day that fred jones left great bear piecing those bits of information together gave him enough to assume that tom chandler and fred jones were one and the same person when a sample of jones hair proved to be identical with the strands of hair found under the fingernails of the late mrs jones and also with some hair found in the hairbrush left at the cabin it proved to be sufficient evidence for a conviction by combining thorough investigation with the invaluable help they received from the local police and also from the fbi crime laboratory the two special agents were able to close another case and to close it successfully with the arrest not of the suspect but of the real criminals in just a 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adapted from the files of the federal bureau of investigation however all names used are fictitious and any similarity they love to the names of persons living or dead is accidental tonight the music was composed and conducted by frederick steiner the author was jerry d louis your narrator was william woodson and special agent taylor was played by stacey harris this is your fbi is a jerry divine production this is larry keating speaking for the equitable life assurance society of the united states and the equitable society's representative in your community and inviting you to tune in again next week at the same time when the equitable life assurance society will bring you another thrilling story from the files of the federal bureau of investigation the cut rate caravan on this is your fbi this is abc the american broadcasting company