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Sherman certainly officers won't you come in thank you very much I miss this killer from next door I saw you around here yesterday yes ma'am came over this morning look after poor mr. Sherman yes ma'am well how's he feeling today not too well fixed him some nice chicken broth for lunch and I helped him in his wheelchair and took him out in the backyard out in the sun good hot sun it's wonderful for his legs as arthritis you know so we understand what if we could talk to him this killer well yes I guess you have to he's still out in the back sleeping his chair last time I looked seems a shame to disturb well he called us at the office said he wanted to see us as soon as we could make it out here was it about his grandson Jimmy they found him yet no ma'am searching parties calming the area there's still no trace of the boy did any of the other officers who are out here covering the neighborhood talk to you miss Kelly oh yes there was mr. lawerman detective lawman yes ma'am I told him everything I knew about Jimmy's disappearance it was right after dinner hour on Monday about 6 30 last time I saw Jimmy I came up the side door to empty the garbage and I saw Jimmy hiking up the side of the hill there just in back the house all by himself a nice boy for as you know Mrs. Ketter Jimmy's Mr. Sherman's only living relative that's right his only relatives only grandchild Jimmy's mother and father were killed in an auto wreck that was three or four years ago Sherman's had a terrible lot of tragedy Jimmy and his grandfather they're the only ones left you can't think of any reason why the boy would want to leave his grandfather can't not at all mr. Sherman's wonderful man Jimmy loved him I knew that Mrs. Kelly Mrs. Kelly Mrs. Kelly is awake we can go through the house out the back yeah all right ma'am this way go ahead yeah okay visitors for you mr. Sherman how you feeling all right I suppose hello sir I miss him what about the boy have you found him yet well nothing yet mr. Sherman we've added more men to the searching party we're doing everything we can gone two nights and two days tell me the truth sergeant what's happened to the boy all right now we don't know any more about it and you do sir but that's no reason to give up hope you told us yourself yesterday that Jimmy's been missing once before it turned out all right that time he wasn't gone for two nights and two days maybe you just say I'm old and I've got funny ideas but I got a feeling sergeant something's happened to Jimmy something's happened and I can't do anything about it you just put those thoughts out of your head mr. Sherman they're gonna find Jimmy it's gonna be all right why don't you pull up those lawn chairs there sergeant I'm gonna go in the house and fix some coal lemonade for you man well thank you ma'am we got your phone message at the office mr. Sherman anything special you wanted to talk to us about yes there was something when you were talking to me yesterday yes sir I told you that Jimmy had on a brown jacket when he disappeared Monday night yeah I was wrong sergeant we found the jacket in his room all he was wearing was a pair of blue jeans and this white sweatshirt you think that might help any yes sir it might we'll send out a supplementary description of his clothes we'll see that everybody's notified just wish I could be out there with the searching party that's right this is pretty bad today caught me in a terrible time don't know what I'd do if anything happened I know we've asked you this before mr. Sherman but can you think of any reason at all why your grandson would want to leave home no sir no reason at all those two collie pups over there in the pin Jimmy just bought him last week with his own money saved up to get him I see the boys crazy about dogs that's why I say just wouldn't pick up and leave everything boy and me got along fine no reason for it sergeant something's happened to the boy I just got a feeling officer yes ma'am a telephone call for either one of you I get it Ben I'll be right back you're right man said it was your office calling thank you miss Keller where's the telephone straight back there in the hall thank you very much Friday talking all did they find something kind of trousers we'll call in just before we leave here right now right bye thank you ma'am what was it sergeant something about the boy well nothing definite no sir just to report on the search party they're still up in the Elysian Park area oh I see did your grandson Jimmy do much hiking in that neighborhood up there mr. Sherman yes I think he did likes to hike up there on reservoir why the name on the 316 report missing juvenile red James Phillips Sherman WMA 10 years old he lived with his 68 year old grandfather Oscar Sherman in a small cottage in a sparsely populated section of the city shortly after 6 p.m. on Monday the boy went outside to play when darkness fell and he failed to return home his crippled grandfather went out to look for him half an hour later the neighbors joined in in the search no sign of the boy at 10 p.m. juvenile bureau was notified and throughout the night squads of men on foot and cruiser cars canvassed the area a local broadcast and an all-points bulletin was gotten out on the boy neither the grandfather or the neighbors could find any reason for his disappearance after almost 48 hours of continuous searching the only lead we had was the pair of trousers found on the edge of the upper reservoir in Elysian Park they were shown to the grandfather but he failed to give positive identification dragging operations at the reservoir began immediately meantime Ben and I together with Norman and Lopez from homicide checked out every possible lead on the missing youngster one of the tips came from a Frank Grady an unemployed carpenter who lived five blocks from the Sherman home I don't know how much this may be worth to your sergeant I don't want to get anybody in the trouble but I figured this is a pretty important thing but what is it you want to tell us Mr. Grady well as I say I don't want to get anybody in any trouble but have you checked over everybody in this neighborhood I think we've talked just about everybody in the area don't you Joe well either us or the man from homicide what he asked Grady well as a guy who's down the street there right down the corner from this house old guy by the name of Gilby what about him they say I don't want to cause any trouble but maybe you ought to double check him one thing his next convict I know that another thing he hates everybody in the neighborhood hates the kids to wouldn't be surprised if he was your man what do you say that Grady does he have any special reason for disliking the Sherman boy oh man Gilby wouldn't need a reason real queer one say I got a couple cans cold beer in the icebox and I fix you father's up what makes you think this Gilby had anything to do with the boys disappearance Mr. Grady well number one I saw old man Gilby out walking Monday night when the Sherman kid disappeared yeah so I'm walking along the road up there the same one that goes up by the reservoir and I watched him it was dark by the time he got back to his house I'd check on him again if I were you I'm sure as you know has Gilby ever been in trouble for bothering the kids in the neighborhood my sergeant he bothers everybody in the neighborhood real queer lives by himself always complaining about something frankly I think he's your man I think he took that kid and he did something to him do you have anything at all to back up your opinion you dig around you'll find something on him no good and I'll bet on it I've had a couple of run-ins with him myself he just isn't any good that's all well all right Grady thanks for the tip we'll be sure and double check on the man he won't tell him where you got the tip though huh like I say I've had run-ins with him before it might cause trouble no he won't know where we got it thanks again okay sergeant it's a pretty important thing I didn't want to make anybody look bad but no man's just no good I understand that don't you sure Grady we understand as a matter of routine we double checked on Grady's neighbor of Mr. Harold Gilby we found out that he had no jail record and that he had been at work on Monday from 3 to 11 p.m. he could have had no direct connection with the Sherman boys disappearance no more than Grady himself could have had the so-called tip he'd offered us was like a hundred other phony leads in a hundred other cases spiteful small-minded neighbors trying to use a tragic situation to work out their jealousies and prejudice on somebody that they didn't get along with in the neighborhood the search continued so did the hot weather Friday August 6th no sign of the missing boy the temperature climbed into the mid 90s dragging operations at the reservoir went on Saturday August 7th more legwork more hot weather by noontime Ben and I had run down the last lead we had on 10-year-old Jimmy Sherman went nowhere 1 p.m. we headed back for the office to check with inspector bowling these are the days when I wish I had a little swimming pool in my backyard it'll be nice to go home to save your money it doesn't cost so much no I read in a magazine where fella built his own pool for $95 and 37 cents it can't be much of a pool count oh yeah it's good size of course he did all his own labor had all his friends in to help out we must have a lot of friends didn't he yeah he did after he finished the pool ready then I was given how'd you two make out anything I don't know luck at all it makes you unanimous you're about the old man boy's grandfather no what happened I guess the strain got too much for me collapsed they're moving into a hospital oh it's too bad our men still up there dragging that reservoir finished this morning nothing how about the search party nothing there either I suppose no I'm not a trace of the boy it's a blind alley all the way around how about the APB the radiogram that's really bad so far none of them panned out grab it juvenile bureau bowling yeah for it no good huh yeah all right check you later I heard it once I heard it 50 times no trace of the boy got me skipper something real weird about the whole thing well now look we know he didn't just disappear in the thin air kids gone there's a good reason for it there's gotta be an answer somewhere that's right you'll find it another week past and then a month two months we were no farther along than the day we started on the case in November we had a teletype from chief Earl Eau Claire of the Phoenix Arizona police department reportedly the Sherman boy had been seen in Phoenix was another false alarm the Christmas holidays wore on into a new year February came and went and March April Tuesday May 3rd 1 40 p.m. Ben and I got a call to check in with inspector bowling this telegram just came in from Dayton Ohio and look thank you let's see Joe what is it Jimmy Sherman they found him nine months had gone by almost to the day since the Sherman boy disappeared the grandfather was contacted immediately when he was told his grandson had been found and that he was safe the old man was unable to answer broke down and wept in our communications with the Dayton Ohio police they told us that the boy had been found wandering along a highway just outside that city and that he'd appeared to be in a kind of a dazed condition the boy told the Dayton officers that he'd been kidnapped a short distance from his home in Los Angeles by a man in a blue sedan he gave them detailed descriptions of both the man in the car he told them that for the past nine months the man had held him prisoner driving from state to state never letting the boy out of his sight he said the kidnapper told him on several occasions that he was holding him for ransom and he was waiting to get money from his grandfather on May 8th the youngster was returned to Los Angeles and reunited with his grandfather on May 10th we got a call from the grandfather that he wanted to talk to us Ben and I drove out to see him come right in officers glad to see you how are you sir I'm it's him sorry to cause you all this trouble chasing you out here like this not at all sir what is it you want to see us about well I'm not really sure about it sergeant that's the whole thing of it I don't know if it's me or what it is well what's bothering you Mr. Chairman it's the boy Jimmy I don't know what to think how do you mean sir he's alright isn't he we saw him as we drove up playing out in the backyard and the doctor checked him over no it's not that the boys healthy enough nothing wrong with them well then what is it sir maybe it sounds a little weird to you but I'm just not sure you're not sure what that boy out there sergeant I'm not sure he's really my grandson communications division of a metropolitan police department the teletype room 43 LOS 5 2951 12 o 3 p.m. a.p.b. 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difference is quality best of all long cigarettes Tuesday May 10th 2 p.m. when the aging grandfather Oscar Sherman told us that he wasn't sure whether the recovered boy was really his grandson Ben and I didn't know what to think our first reaction was that the shock of recovering the boy after he'd almost been given up for lost had been too much for the old man Mr. Sherman admitted that there was no physical difference in the boy as far as he could see but he still insisted that there was something wrong the boy seemed different somehow to satisfy the grandfather Ben and I talked to the boy but he failed to give us any reason to believe that he was not Jimmy Sherman we checked with the boys friends all the people in the neighborhood who'd known Jimmy over a period of years they confirmed our opinion a few thought that the youngster had changed a little but no one had any serious doubts about it the boy was really Jimmy Sherman so the matter was dropped Thursday May 12th Ben and I had lunch and then we checked back in at the office you want to grab that yeah I'll get it juvenile Bureau Friday yes sir yes sir how are you well how do you mean sir yes sir before we left the office Ben and I briefed inspector bowling on the phone call from the grandfather then we drove back to the Sherman house while Oscar Sherman didn't claim that he knew his grandson's complete medical history he was certain that the boy had not had his appendix out and that he had not had an operation he told us that his neighbor Mrs. Keller could substantiate that that she had known Jimmy since he was a baby we put in a call to the Sherman's family doctor he wasn't in we left a message and then we went next door to see Mrs. Keller we found her in the kitchen washing dishes I just got a couple more to rinse me wait a minute yes no to tell you the truth sergeant I just don't know what to think about Mr. Sherman maybe the whole thing was too much for him his mind is going back up to your knowledge Mrs. Keller was a boy ever operated on no not as far as I know it's possible he did have an operation I didn't hear about it a sergeant as far as I'm concerned that boys Jimmy Sherman I don't know what his grandfather's up to with all that silly talk well if it's not really the boy we won't have too much trouble finding the truth there's no question in my mind of course it's Jimmy why when he was over here the other day he talked about the party I gave for him one Halloween he even remembered the children who were there are the other neighbors are sure about the boys you are just about as foster down the street Jimmy was in to see her yesterday talked about some changes she'd made in her living room after about some relative she has living out of town come think about it Jimmy even remarked on that new trailer rose I planted out in front besides as the boys dogs why they knew that youngster the minute he set foot in the yard yes ma'am well thank you very much music killer if we have any more questions we'll contact center all right sergeant couldn't fix a cup of coffee could I know thank you to him now Mr. Sherman I don't know what to make of it so mixed up yes ma'am so are we we left the neighbor Mrs. Keller and went back next door to the Sherman house the grandfather told us that the family doctor hadn't returned our call yet at 3 30 p.m. the boy came home from school changed his clothes and went out into the backyard to play we figured we had nothing to lose and talking to the boy again we found him in the small workshop at the rear of the garage where he was sawing on a piece of plywood with a hacksaw we talked to him for about 20 minutes was no different than the first time we interviewed him he was relaxed and talkative say would you have me that hammer their officer oh yeah thanks I ever get this thing finished it's gonna be the best coaster around here these are the wheels I'm gonna put on it pretty good aren't they yeah they look fine son do you like building things coasters and things like that oh yeah I like it all right it's fun your granddad says you've changed quite a bit since you got back Jim says you didn't like working around the shop here before well I guess I don't really you know once in a while I like to come out and fool around mm-hmm have you seen mr. Barlow down the street since you've been back mr. Barlow and no I went down to see him but he wasn't home maybe I'll go down see him tomorrow his name isn't Barlow is it been I thought it was Robinson oh yeah that's right mr. Robinson sometimes I forget how do you and your grandfather get along Jim all right sure every once in a while it looks kind of funny at me I don't know I guess he's still worried about that man taking me away and all I have been feeling lately Jim okay sure I feel fine hardly ever get sick you ever been in the hospital son uh-huh just once had my appendix out I hate hospitals I can have that kind of nails there please oh yeah yeah here you are gonna make this good and strong you know like to ask you a question son yeah what's your real name I'm Jimmy Sherman you know that no I'd like to have the truth son who are you he must be fooling officers you know who I am Jimmy Sherman no Jimmy Sherman never had his appendix out son but you did and you've got a scar to prove it haven't you sure I had my appendix out ask my grandpa he'll tell you I'm afraid he won't son he says he's not your grandfather he says you don't belong here his grandson never had an operation in his life how about it son you want to tell us about it oh grandpa isn't feeling real he doesn't know what he's seeing well he knows you're done his grandson I come on what about it son all right I'm not Jimmy Sherman he told us his real name was Donald rush he said he'd run away from his home in Springfield Ohio two weeks before he said that he'd been picked up by the police on a highway just on the outskirts of Dayton Ohio on returning the boy to the station the police officers saw that he fitted the description of the missing California boy perfectly was almost as if the two were identical twins under the impression that the youngster was suffering from shock or amnesia the police officers told him all about his home and his friends in California they gave Donald rush all the information that they had on the missing Sherman boy all the newspaper stories pictures the dozens of teletypes and circulars which had been sent across the country in an effort to locate the missing youngster on his way out to California on the train the rush boy was given dozens of newspapers to read which contained thousands of words concerning the disappearance of Jimmy Sherman so by the time he got to Los Angeles Donald rush knew everything he had to know about the boy was impersonating we questioned the Ohio youngster further besides an exceptionally high IQ he admitted to having an almost photographic memory we took him in the house to face the grandfather of the boy that he'd been impersonating the boy was still missing Mr. Sherman yes I sit down the boy here has a confession for you he wants to tell you himself I think I know I was right all along wasn't I said I didn't mean anything by it Mr. I just thought it'd be fun to make up like somebody else for a while you would know the difference which is that no sir afraid I wouldn't picture over there on the mantle and the boy here may look exactly alike to me there's only one thing I'd like to know so yeah why don't you do it why'd you try and fool me I don't know Mr. I ran away from home and the cops picked me up near Dayton he thought my name was Jimmy Sherman they said I was missing kids from California why didn't you straighten them out right then son I was kind of afraid and if I told him what my real name was they would have sent me back home so I'd just let him think I was really Jimmy Sherman they seem to be pretty sure I was how long did you think you could keep it up son pretending you were somebody else I don't know guess I never thought much about that I got here and everybody was nice to me I just didn't think about anybody finding out honest Mr. I didn't mean to do anything wrong I didn't mean to hurt anybody and you never saw my grandson you never saw Jimmy no sir I just got on the train they brought me out here you don't know where he is you don't know how you try to take it easy Mr. Sherman why would you do it boy you're a stranger why would you try to fool me about Jimmy I'm sorry Mr. I didn't mean it I didn't mean it but I had him back but I didn't want to make him cry like that Sergeant I'm sorry couldn't you just let me stay here with him no I'm afraid not son I don't do anything wrong don't you think I could just stay here with him I'll go right back in now I'm telling I'm sorry yeah I'm sorry too youngster but you're not the boys looking for story you have just heard was true only the names were changed to protect the innocent on Wednesday May 20th the meeting was held at the juvenile bureau city and county of Los Angeles state of California in a moment the results of that meeting and now here is our star Jack Webb thank you friends I hold in my hand a new pack of Fatimas all I need to prove that Fatima is the best of all long cigarettes now here on the side you'll find this statement Fatima contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos superbly blended to make Fatima extra mild Fatima gives you all the advantages of extra length plus Fatima quality which no other king-size cigarette has so tomorrow buy a pack of Fatimas I know you'll find that in Fatima the difference is quality Donald Rush who impersonated missing 10-year-old Jimmy Sherman was returned to the custody of his parents at their home in Springfield Ohio four months later the body of Jimmy Sherman was discovered buried on a farm on the outskirts of Riverside California the boy had been murdered his killer a farmer in the neighborhood was subsequently apprehended and brought to trial he was found guilty of murder in the first degree and was executed at the state penitentiary San Quentin California you have just heard dragnet a series of authentic cases from official files technical advice comes from the office of chief of police W. 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