crawling come and and you can talk all day then i've seen too much you know i've handled this accident investigation detail a good many years it's hard for me to believe that we're going to stop teenage violations by encouraging iraq if you'd only come out of the strip with  north for brothers hearing judge walker real hopped up death trap plain luck no innocent people were killed and i didn't love this car the paper is going to love this murderous teenage kid killed in the street race on his way home from your fancy drag strip give up now if you quit a lot of the others will too strips not a habit with them yet they only go because you want to leave have led them there i'm not thinking of the others i'm thinking of steve a lot of other kids end up like steve if we let them cause th  trip didn't save him being fair jeff that's the way i feel i've had it what about black time and the others they all look up to you no more but somebody else be responsible got to relax sometime you can't go on working around the clock i appreciate your calling but i just make sure  i'm worried about you i know but when you stop and listen to me a minute don't you think i have any pride do you think it's easy for me to come here and say they said what i did last thing i want is everything i do everyone i see make me think of him just when i think i can forget a little i look at you talk to flattop ben cause i'm right back where i started i thought if i could work hard enough label shutting yourself away like this and trying to kill yourself with work isn't going to bring steve back you're so busy feeling sorry for yourself you don't even know what's going on kids are starting to act  it could lead to trap and serious trouble well enough to know what they're doing but you can stop them they listened to you i told you before what they do is none of my business and it doesn't matter next time it's black top like to great to st with please leave me alone  i don't nothing about cars these kids could if you could understand what they are talking about you going to tune it up and not bring it in the marlin take care of it don't try anything fancy just because i'm new around here i know all the tricks you mechanics use strip for this kind of jogging we're going to ride on the streets if i'm driving this way and you want to have i could give you a ticket but i'm not gone to now watch your step this is your last warning thank you so don't thank me thank ben merrill i think you know what i i don't have a car can use mine just i can't drive and even if i could i would use the car to sell an argument ok then we won't have music not so fast i don't think you can stop me should try you're taking orders from this guy i know you have an artist what's your name tab i've got to go in town what do you do i'm retired i'm giving you one last chance to tell me a straight story it's a workable face you know i think you'd better go look just look at record of traffic violations in the states well let's tie a handful in we've got plenty of homegrown addicts a lot importing and i've got an idea that might work i'd like to have a little boy my  not i'm going to give you a choice let me out to the drag strip and see how some real hot rodders had like eyes or i'll take you're going to book you for reckless driving that's a choice blackmail the better break than you deserve which is going to be car all right but start you through the inspection free man well not in t why should i i didn't kill the kid forced into this even if it was his car that hit the child a circumstance on stop it then nobody's interested in circumstances that was thrown in my apartment after his brother's death with a parole banks involved in another fatal accident slap a ban on all hot  but i haven't started a swing not yet anyway i'm fine please don't carry on right by y keep lucky i was just checking the scene of the accident it's good marks a very interesting scar appears to get off the road fifty feet before the point of impact  i noticed you hadn't washed and the law against that doesn't matter what i wanted was a chemical comparison of your car's finish with the paint flakes found on the dead child bicycle i've already got my look nervous around talbot i have a feeling you'll be hearing from me soon very this is a story about what to do on the day it begins one early summer afternoon it begins with jeff first you may not have a problem about what to do on a date but nick well he has a real dating if you took a out on a date what would they do where would they go was going to i was thinking of calling or maybe after the show friday good picture wagon train well hurry up in the car and let's get going i still have to get my things yet collared now sure you know the number don't to see wagon train at the movies oh i'm sorry i'm suppose you've got your mind made up to see you you've seen it she's already seen it well i asked her about the scavengers s k you wouldn't want to help because the scavenger sale ready is the community center would you oh i've been hearing about their yes i'd like to very much your wo all ready you know you better think some more fellow about what to do on a date you think you'll have a good time we're supposed to have to do now you may not have thought of this sort of thing is a place to take a date but it looks like it ok are you really having a good time yes it was a good idea to come how does jeff get ideas like that hey what's this maybe this is where jeff gets ideas a list of coming activities a bike trip that could be a lot of fun a chance to do things with a group to get a point it does look like a good time if your partner li expense and that can be important could be a fine day if kay would like whether she'd like to go to a baseball game a date that's not too involved one you can carry through comfort and all sorts of other sports events inexpensive to most swimming meets for example good deal coming here to my double dating with jeff and phyllis when all four are good friends and enjoy the same things double dates can be lots of fun or you can ask a to go on dates what to do on your day it wasn't until sometime later that morning when i was able to account for the girl's sudden change in behavior sandra hadn't seen martinez since the day he disappeared in the desert not the mexican border close to three months ago nor anyone else is appearance now  why martinez didn't show at this particular time and place only here perhaps the girl could say or any other pair of young adults who had experience with these two and in recent months  under the circumstances there was some question as to whether cassandra would try to make a move to elect martinez so i kept a close to me she now had sufficient reason to hate markets but i still couldn't be sure of what she might do if she got close to us again cassandra's turbulent past began in the summer of one hundred forty nine several weeks before school started that summer cassandra worked as a stock girl in my mother's small downtown place a business across the alley there was a motorcycle repair shop it was here that cassandra first became created with russell packard and his motorcycle pounds a fast bunch of kids all suffering in various degrees from the same kind of emotional insecurity that cassandra had been afflicted with during a lifetime of being bounced from the knee of one step father to another  with the emotional stability of bo later that same day in an old abandoned stadium just outside of town sandra encountered one of the most damaging aspects of many of today's youthful gang association requires marijuana one of the lesser narcotics was used often constitutes the first harder drugs and now is the newest member of this gang of kids to home the use of marijuana had become the big time thing because sandra found herself the target of one of the most devastating social pressures existing among our teenage population today conformity by the end of the following school year cassandra's personality had undergone a gradual get drastic change to become irritable reticent and pointedly antisocial old friends that she once pals with at school now made a practice of going out of their way to avoid her that is all but one that get by the name of johnny adams the boy was always seen waiting to take a sandra home each day after school jani was the fall guy who refused to believe that she had somehow changed but then johnny was perhaps the only person in cassandra young life who had a genuine regard and affection of a girl so johnny waited and the last day of school rolled around in may of that year cassandra was still flying high but as the last to gather during the last year of high school had fallen to its all time low the possibility of college which had once counted on heavily as an avenue of escape from home and family was no completely out of the question her school days were behind sandra was frightening but there was an out johnny still waiting long ago sandra had learned that she could always run to johnny when things closed and what time was running out fast and so was johnny graduating from school with top honors young adams at a job with a future waiting for him and with the blessing of both physician cassandra had for some weeks now been riding the cr john a solution to the problem was equally supreme being based upon cassandra's a bitch will complain of boredom during the long hours of the day while he was at work novelty of owning and caring for a dog did absorb a great deal of cassandra in a period of less than two months sandra kicked over the traces and pull all stops by persistently accusing johnny of countless personal inadequacies some real some imaginary as sandra had cunningly unloaded the and responsibility for on this behavior including the possession and use of marijuana at the feet of a bewildered young has been her lies by a guilt complex young adams stood by and helplessly looked on as young wife started book on a five o two resulting from intoxication created by stimulants of an undetermined origin cassandra was held for a short period of observation in the police ward of city hospital when medical investigation proved inconclusive she was then released into the custody of her husband the parents  we tracked the girl down but across taylor from then on to sandra was officially my problem we were telling sandra in the belief that our trail might lead us back consequently into the brings operational quarters by late afternoon it began to look as though our hunch might pay off she was blazing a trail right into the east end of town the lead was just beginning to look promising that afternoon and the trail came to a dead end of one of those high type flop houses down along skid row when i saw cassandra buttonholing a couple of junkies lounging around the hotel lobby i realize is that she was trying to get a lead on packet hersel when i walked in the girl was still asking questions so i obliged by answering a few i told her i had recently bought some junk from a guy by the name a packard little joint on a third in maine offer to drive me there for a look see of course wasn't there the fake lead at trunk ascenders les bought me into her confidence when she got back into the car she told me she had a couple of hundred she'd like to run down wondered if i'd mind driving around  by the end of the week a standard turned up as a cop and i'm driving on the west side of town for a job there had been rigged by package with a big man pack it was delivering for the drive and it been staked out by the police department for the past bob on suspicion that marijuana was being sold on the food trays pitch sandra's job in the drive in was only a proving ground for bigger things a few days later stutzman set the girl up in a swank apartment in the neighborhood of park union high school and get sandra moved in we planted spotters in the apartment house across the way and kept the place under surveillance day and night had been recruited by stats one to expand his traffic in marijuana along with the apartment cassandra was given the job of holding open house and playing hostess to the teenage bob crowd from the neighboring high school but the senator was finding it hard to keep in mind  by the end of the month we had most of the necessary information we needed to pin a conviction on st have the front door someone in the kitchen flipped the switch on the garbage disposal unit pulverizing the critical evidence we needed for a conviction we'd fumbled badly but we hadn't lost the game yet we still had cassandra if she were handled the right way the league or all was a possible over state's evidence against down at headquarters that evening i could see that cassandra wasn't going to buy the reform program that i was outlining for consideration she knew the evidence we had implicating or was for the most part circumstantial but on the other hand the girl was smart enough to realize that what little we did have just enough to make things uncomfortable she finally expressed a certain willingness to cooperate assure cassandra that she would be given every consideration if she would consent to full cooperation with the department this of course meant not only giving testimony against stutzman but also any information she might possess now or in the future concerning other narcotics violations within our because sandra wasn't fooling anyone but herself addicts have but one loyalty to themselves and their all consuming drug habits when circumstances threaten their freedom to pursue those habits behavior is motivated by the most primitive of animal instinct self preservation and survival of the fittest  hundreds probation period expired on the first of may of the following year regarded now as a criminal by and sympathetic parents but no great surprise when cassandra disappeared from home again on the day following her release required to live in the home of her mother and stepfather during the the young woman to whom cassandra was being the good samaritan was one michael rusty the wife of the young but serving a long term in the state penitentiary margot had once made the fatal mistake of trying to fill the vacuum in her life first with drugs in general th heroin in particular now when deprived of that drug for any length of time she was tortured by the cruel sickness of narcotic  though from an entirely different socioeconomic background these two young women had much in common and built on this common was the beginning of a new and dangerous association in the weeks that followed cassandra and margot rossi became not only the closest of friends but also partners in business margot and resorted to devious means of supporting her expensive drug habit one of these have been the retailing of marijuana on street corners  word got around town that a couple of girls were dealing and marijuana cassandra and her business partner began to realize a monopoly on the local junkies from all over town were attracted by the novelty of making their buys from w by increasing the slave dependency upon the master and  because sandra's commitment to county hospital depressed renewed their war of words against the city's ever growing narcotics problem this time with better invective so y'all collared with an appropriation to increase the manpower the narcotics details and we followed up with operation clean up it was a clean sweep all the way down to the bottom of the barrel but it wasn't the pure and simple case of cops and robbers that appeared to be on the surface to be sure the supply of dope to be had around town been it almost overnight even the pushers we didn't pick up got nervous and november the second we ran down one of the hottest dips we've gotten since really getting the big push in october our first lead on the whereabouts of spend bergmann but it didn't amount to much it would have taken something like the assistance of the state militia to have smoke bergmann out of that complicated maze of tunnels comprising the municipal storm drain it was about two thirty in the afternoon that day unforgiven gave us the slip on the other side of town about six miles away by the storm drain the rusty girl waited to keep an appointment of marcy with an old friend the late girl in the meantime i'd been transferred out of county hospital into a private sanitarium the family's choice of an institution however had been a poor one and experienced in the handling of narcotic addiction cases the sanitarium staff sadly underestimated the perverted will and determination of the addict cassandra's released from county hospital in october mago been putting the bite on bergman for some forty odd dollars worth of heroin a day was being smuggled into cassandra  in june of the following year cassandra appeared on the local scene again this page of the downtown parking lot of the narcotics detail at the seats in the house in fact it was almost a command performance  cassandra was hustled out of town by our parents in november the girl is still a confirmed heroin addict haunted by the incessant demands of a drug her search for heroin on the back streets of a new locale letter into the dangerous company of one cello martinez and consequently in the middle of what we believe to be an international concept and smuggling operat for the past three months we've been quietly observing the operation while systematically eliminating its stateside membership one at a time mightiness the ringleader and his amigo jimmy sanchez were the only two left in secular nation north of the mexican border one recent months have become cellos woman is now doubling in bras for some of the absentee members who had in recent months disappeared into the protective custody of the county sheriff's office after three months of legalized kidnapping we finally succeeded in forcing cellos hand in sanchez were trying to pull it job by themselves to this very end we had carefully deprive martinez of his organization of addicts and thieves it only a skeleton crew now composed of cassandra who at the moment was doing a masterful job of distracting the parking lot attendant and jimmy sanchez a mental defective it was almost certain that martinez would take the stolen car directly to the rendezvous point on the mexican border where it would then be sold in exchange for wholesale quantities of eleven hours later my penis cassandra levy and jimmy sanchez were racing across the open country north of the mexican border headlong into the final days about that every mile away leading into mexico within a radius of seventy mile project estimating the mileage from his last stop for gasoline we knew that martinez would have to make one more stop to refuel before from the mexico to carry out the rest of our plan of action it was mandatory that we separate sanchez for martinez at a point someone near the border the mexican police were standing by waiting for certain but only information they expected to get from sanchez cassandra hadn't seen my happy face for more than eight months it was quite a shock sold him down the river under such ideal circumstances we knew it wouldn't be hard to make  the original plan of action that bend to allow marking is to break through any one of the several road blocks at which point the sheriff's men would have taken up the chase tailing the stolen car into the rendezvous area in force but martina's i decided to make it into mexico the hard in the meantime sanjay is a given us all the information the mexican police would need to bottle up the works in mexico the rest of the show is now up to the man from the sheriff's office and well the men in the sheriff's office closed in on the old wagon road from the east and west replying themselves in small patrols of key positions along the road from the border north we backtracked a few miles to the point where markham is left the main highway and worked our way south along the same ro closing in from behind spotted what appeared to be the reflection of the sun by glass in the rocks above a dry canyon wash investigation of the light source quickly explain why none of our patrols have been able to track the stolen car into mexico by a the older dragon road in a panic of escape martina said momentarily forgotten that both he and the league girl were slaves to a needle in the glove compartment of a stolen car i found a brown paper bag containing the evidence of this potentially fatal oversight a bent spoon hypodermic needle and more than a on the morning of the following day we found ourselves confronted with a problem of too much desert and too little time using every available man the sheriff's office could muster we began the massive yet necessary task of coming every inch of desert within a fifteen mile radius of the