**Emergency Flash!** A crime wave of serious proportions is spreading throughout the United States. Tonight, December 12th 1945, a serious crime is being committed every forty seconds and a murder every three hours!

Tonight's case is about one of the cruellest killers of the last decade. The facts of tonight's case are almost unbelievable. During the last year police flashes, such as the  following were crackling out over the California airwaves:-

"Simione, most dangerous gunman, at large today."