Jul 15, 2026 · 59 min · 10 segments
This week on Case Closed, *The Ambitious Widow*, from This Is Your FBI is up first. That story aired August 22, 1947. (29:20) Nick Carter, Master Detective brings us our second story with, *The Body…
[ominous music] There have been many wise and practical suggestions offered to your FBI and to every other law enforcement agency on methods of curbing the current serious crime wave.
Most of those suggestions had merit.
But of them all, only one was an absolute preventative.
That one was eternal vigilance.
Law-abiding citizens have a tendency to forget that crime, like many other things, runs in cycles.
Let one crime seem to be successful and there will be a series of such crimes.
Then, because the gap has been filled, those crimes cease and another type will begin, but there's no way of knowing which new trend will begin.
That is why your FBI tells you that there's only one way for you, the citizen, to help fight the crime wave.
That way, to repeat, is eternal vigilance.
[upbeat music] Tonight's FBI file opens on a rainy day in a quiet cemetery near a large Midwestern town.
Two of the mourners are talking as, in the background, a solemn prayer is being intoned as the casket is about to be lowered.
For as much it hath pleased Almighty God, in his wise providence-
Poor Lou.
Yeah
... to take out of this world the soul of our beloved brother-
You know, Hank, I still can't believe he's dead
... we therefore commit his body-
Yeah, sure, it went quick
... to the earth-
I saw him the day before he died.
He never looked healthier to me
... and his spirit to the angels-
Uh-huh.
He was a nice guy.
[ominous music] There have been many wise and practical suggestions offered to your FBI and to every other law enforcement agency on methods of curbing the current serious crime wave.
Most of those suggestions had merit.
But of them all, only one was an absolute preventative.
That one was eternal vigilance.
Law-abiding citizens have a tendency to forget that crime, like many other things, runs in cycles.
Let one crime seem to be successful and there will be a series of such crimes.
Then, because the gap has been filled, those crimes cease and another type will begin, but there's no way of knowing which new trend will begin.
That is why your FBI tells you that there's only one way for you, the citizen, to help fight the crime wave.
That way, to repeat, is eternal vigilance.
[upbeat music] Tonight's FBI file opens on a rainy day in a quiet cemetery near a large Midwestern town.
Two of the mourners are talking as, in the background, a solemn prayer is being intoned as the casket is about to be lowered.
For as much it hath pleased Almighty God, in his wise providence-
Poor Lou.
Yeah
... to take out of this world the soul of our beloved brother-
You know, Hank, I still can't believe he's dead
... we therefore commit his body-
Yeah, sure, it went quick
... to the earth-
I saw him the day before he died.
He never looked healthier to me
... and his spirit to the angels-
Uh-huh.
He was a nice guy.
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