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This show featured dramatizations of real criminals with the stories taken from actual fbi and police files. Penthouse march 1985 vintage magazine back issue for collectors. After the title was changed to gang busters in 1936, the show had a 21year run on network radio. The first break the police get is when a patrolman stumbles across a pair of eyeglasses in the alley behind one of the robbery scenes.
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