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The Big Key

Maria Comacho's body is discovered in a churchyard, and investigators must work with limited evidence—just a key, a pen, and a smudge of shoe polish—to solve her murder.

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A woman named Maria Comacho turns up dead in a church graveyard. The only evidence left behind is small: one key, one pen, and a stain from shoe polish.

Dragnet is an American radio series, enacting the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show took its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.

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“The Big Key.” Dragnet. Radio broadcast, May 25, 1950.

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