Highway Patrol1955

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Narrator:
In the fight against crime, law enforcement officials are aided in apprehending the lawless through knowledge of typical criminal behavior. This is known as M.O., or modus operandi. Occasionally, officials encounter a crime committed in a new manner, or in a variation of an old method. In early September, a truck driver named Buzz Larkin was putting into effect phase one of what he and his accomplices hoped would be a successful crime. [Larkin lets the air out of a spare tire on the truck he is driving] The deliberately flattened spare tire was intended to serve later as evidence of the truth of certain statements. The objective of the elaborate plot was the payroll of the Jarmin Manufacturing Company.