1950
May 27, 1950
The Anita Cameron Case
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July 6, 1950
Three Young Girls Murdered
July 13, 1950
The Abeyant Abnegated Alibi
July 20, 1950
Eddie Gaynor Framed For Murder
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Fingered in the line-up for shooting a gangster, Eddie swears he was framed -- he only found the body -- and Guthrie must weigh the janitor's earwitness account against his story.
July 27, 1950
UNTITLED
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August 3, 1950
Two Young Girls Killed by Hit and Run
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What first reads as a hit-and-run that killed two young girls proves, under closer investigation, to have been deliberate murder.
August 10, 1950
Man Dies of Poisoning
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A suspect collapses and dies in the middle of his own interrogation, and the detectives have to trace how poison reached him.
August 17, 1950
Death In the Bleachers
August 24, 1950
Arson Murder Case
An arson fire turns into a murder case when an unidentified victim is found in the burned-out building.
September 2, 1950
Cherchez la Femme
The squad's search for a missing woman -- the key witness to a crime -- drives the case.
September 9, 1950
Woman Murdered by Convict
September 16, 1950
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September 23, 1950
Gas Station Robbery
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September 30, 1950
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October 7, 1950
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October 14, 1950
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October 21, 1950
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October 28, 1950
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November 4, 1950
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November 9, 1950
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November 16, 1950
The Candy Store Murder
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Witnesses name John Walker as the gunman who fled a fatal candy-store hold-up in his own station wagon; the getaway car becomes the loose thread.
November 23, 1950
The Topaz Earring Case
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A cabbie's line-up pick places an angry woman at the victim's door the afternoon he died; she owns the fury -- over his affair -- but denies the killing.
November 30, 1950
The Cop Killer
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A policeman's killing cracks open when a Bowery drifter recalls seeing the corpse tipped into a dry creek bed.
December 7, 1950
The Jersey Parallel
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The detectives corner a deranged gunman holed up inside an apartment house.
December 14, 1950
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December 21, 1950
The Holsteder Case
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Five men rob a bank of nearly a hundred thousand dollars; two are identified as the Oklahoma Hostetter brothers, in far over their heads on their biggest job.
December 28, 1950
The Elsner Case
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An elderly woman is found strangled in the park, and an unusual key on her body is the only lead once the first line-up suspect clears.
1951
January 4, 1951
The Case of Frankie and Joyce
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A milkman fingers a man he saw bolt from the alley where Joyce Ronson lay dead at dawn; the suspect swears she was already dead when he passed.
January 11, 1951
The Mad Bomber
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A time-bomb attack on a man who can name no enemies leaves Guthrie with a bomber and no one to put in the line-up.
January 18, 1951
Yudo in Ypsilanti
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A gambling boss's men terrorize the neighborhood, and the killing of Abraham Goldberg puts the law onto Lester Yudo.
January 25, 1951
The Polygraph Case
A murder suspect held under guard in the hospital breaks out, taking a nurse hostage.
February 1, 1951
The Grocery Store Matter
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After a month of all-night-store robberies, a police stakeout still can't stop a grocery hold-up that leaves the manager's son dead.
February 8, 1951
Senile Slugging Case
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A run of muggings preys on the elderly, beaten from behind for whatever they carry; a victim's stolen gold watch is the one thread to pull.
February 15, 1951
The Cigar Box Boys Case
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A witness names a man she saw flee a drugstore, but with no gun, no cigar box, and no record, Guthrie must break the suspected cigar-box bandit in questioning.
February 22, 1951
The Silver Swan Case
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When dance-hall hostess Edna Hawley of the Silver Swan is strangled, a policewoman goes undercover to trap her killer.
February 27, 1951
The Molly About Seven Case
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The stabbing of Leon Crug in the park sets Guthrie after his killer.
March 6, 1951
The Check Killer Case
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March 13, 1951
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March 20, 1951
The Weeping Willie Case
March 27, 1951
The Lapinish Lighter Upper Case
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April 3, 1951
The Callow Car Stealing Case
April 10, 1951
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April 17, 1951
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April 24, 1951
The Bromell and Bellows Bloody Bullet Case
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May 1, 1951
The Michael Hunter Murder
May 8, 1951
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May 15, 1951
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May 22, 1951
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May 29, 1951
The Hiccupping Hamster Hemostatic Case
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When mob lawyer Griswold is murdered, an informant points Guthrie toward the two hit men behind it.
June 5, 1951
The Red Shirt Case
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June 12, 1951
The Harrowing Handball Haggada Case
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June 19, 1951
The Malingering Martinelli Madcap Case
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Guthrie himself is snatched by a theater-robbery gang after one of their number dies in a shootout.
June 26, 1951
The Mad Bomber
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A restaging of the January case: a time bomb wrecks George Hunter's house, and when a friend's home is bombed too, Guthrie races the bomber.
July 5, 1951
The Syncopic Sweazy Sweat Out Case
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Picked up blocks from the murdered Dr. Simpson, Everett Sweety looks good for it -- the doctor had operated on his wife, who later died, and grief may have turned to revenge.
July 12, 1951
The Flightly Fulvous Finch Case
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July 19, 1951
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July 26, 1951
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August 2, 1951
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August 9, 1951
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August 16, 1951
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August 23, 1951
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August 30, 1951
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September 5, 1951
The Pointless Pierson Polemic Palarity Case
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September 12, 1951
The Senile Slugging Case
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Another wave of attacks leaves elderly victims beaten and robbed.
September 21, 1951
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September 26, 1951
The Fur Flaunting Floozie
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Lorraine Oberhauser is shot dead, and the trail runs straight to her married lover, Claude.
October 4, 1951
The Wild, Wild Woman Case
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A man-and-woman team robs jewelry stores across the country; Guthrie likes John Tynan and his partner Irene Oldham, but a victim won't make the identification.
October 11, 1951
The Frivolous Forger Fracas
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Florian Bach is fingered as the passer behind a string of bad checks.
October 18, 1951
The Nicely Nixed Nixon Case
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Two loan offices are robbed, and one of the raids leaves a man dead.
October 25, 1951
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November 1, 1951
The Jolted Justice Job Case
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November 8, 1951
The Pixie Picker Pickle
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A rash of nighttime ice-pick stabbings has the city on edge.
November 15, 1951
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November 22, 1951
The Keenly Clipped Kenovak Case
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November 29, 1951
The Railroad Roundhouse Roundup
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December 6, 1951
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December 13, 1951
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December 20, 1951
First Bank Hold-up In Six Years
December 27, 1951
Old Women Found Strangled
1952
January 8, 1952
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January 15, 1952
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January 22, 1952
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January 29, 1952
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February 5, 1952
The Potting Peter Case
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February 12, 1952
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February 19, 1952
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February 26, 1952
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March 4, 1952
Murdering Mercer's Malingering Case
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March 11, 1952
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March 18, 1952
The Mirthless Moonshiner's Methyl Murders
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March 25, 1952
The Bakery Bandit's Bad Blooper
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April 1, 1952
Kastro's Kop Killing Karnage Kase
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April 8, 1952
The Cornered Cop Killer Case
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April 15, 1952
Nancy's Nauseating Naivete Case
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April 22, 1952
The Corny Complainant's Case
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April 29, 1952
The Big Boy's Brutish Back Bending Case
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May 6, 1952
Babs the Baggy Bungling Brunette Bombshell
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May 13, 1952
Yudo in Ypsilanti
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May 20, 1952
Wacky Williams' Wooftop Wrangle
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May 27, 1952
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June 3, 1952
The Aching Arthritics Anxious Antic
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June 10, 1952
Lobdell's Poodle Cut Tomato Case
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Mrs. Lobdell is run down and killed -- and the reason behind the hit-and-run proves a strange one.
June 17, 1952
The Pitiful Patricide Case
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June 24, 1952
The Cutie Calling Culprit Case
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Beautiful models are being terrorized by a string of obscene, threatening phone calls.
July 1, 1952
The Guided Gang Case
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Singer Beth Lennard's estranged husband is robbed, beaten, and dumped from a car after a late-night talk about their divorce -- and she was the last to see him alive.
July 8, 1952
The Lugar Lugging Laddie Case
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Two tellers are gunned down and a guard badly wounded in a bank robbery that smells like an inside job.
July 15, 1952
The Twitching Twist's Twenty Two Tweaking Case
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A witness sees young Mary Jane Cummings abducted; her body soon turns up beside a lake.
July 22, 1952
The Drinkler Kidnapping Case
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July 29, 1952
The Charles Crocked Clobbering Case
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Albert Brown is found shot dead with a shotgun in his own basement.
August 5, 1952
The Karger Kops a Klinker Case
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A burglar working a single neighborhood shoots a policeman and takes a bullet himself, and Guthrie sets a drugstore stakeout to end the spree.
September 10, 1952
The Jane Doe Case
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A prowler who preys on women with recognizable faces -- phoning each one first -- attacks Mrs. Kramer.
September 17, 1952
The Fresno Break Case
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A widow identifies the liquor-store robbers who shot her husband; one confesses that his partner Earl Bentley pulled the trigger, and Guthrie sets out to run Bentley down.
September 24, 1952
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October 1, 1952
The Poker Party Killings
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October 8, 1952
The Teacher's Pet
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A murdered narcotics dealer turns out to have been living, under a false name, with a respectable schoolteacher.
October 15, 1952
Bentley's Boo Boo Case
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A liquor-store hold-up ends with the owner dead.
October 22, 1952
The Green Cap Case
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Someone guns down a gas-station attendant.
October 29, 1952
The Sobbing Singer Saga
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A robbery leaves the husband of a nightclub singer dead.
November 5, 1952
The Be Bop Bandits Bungling Bang Bang
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Mid-line-up, word arrives that a bank has been hit -- two tellers cut down by a submachine gun.
November 12, 1952
The Buggered Bunco Boys
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Two con men prey on the grieving families of war dead, bilking one widow of $200 on a fake debt for toys her husband supposedly ordered before shipping out.
November 19, 1952
The Modern Sounds Case
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Jean Bellamy is murdered after leaving her job as a car-hop.
November 26, 1952
The Matthews Murray Mish Mosh Case
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A day after Mrs. Matthews vanishes, the line-up turns up a door-to-door greeting-card salesman worth a hard look.
December 12, 1952
The Gasoline Bandit Case
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A run of filling-station hold-ups.
December 19, 1952
The Two Tough Thugs Thing
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The canonical log records this case as the killing of a Mrs. Conway in a parking lot.
December 24, 1952
Dorothy Shelton [Rehearsal]
On a cold night the detectives recall a girl found a year earlier in a snowdrift with her throat cut -- and then Dorothy Shelton turns up murdered the same way, nearby, raising the fear of a killer who repeats.
December 26, 1952
Dorothy Shelton
1953
January 2, 1953
Cowardly Castro
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January 7, 1953
Once Upon a Snow Plow
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January 16, 1953
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January 23, 1953
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January 30, 1953
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February 6, 1953
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February 11, 1953
Good Enough to Eat
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February 18, 1953
That Takes Care of Everything
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The series' final broadcast.