Crime and Punishment #43

"How They Were Trapped," written by Claude Moore, presents four real crime cases solved through unexpected clues and detective work. Larry Raymon killed an Indiana state trooper during a robbery and fled across state lines, but police radio communication and blockades across five bordering states closed in on him. Jake Webb was charged with bank robbery in Texas, but photographs of him running from the bank with money proved his innocence when a street photographer's images were discovered. Ida Exanso, a department store clerk earning $28 a week, aroused suspicion when she purchased a 1951 Buick, leading investigators to discover she had been stealing from the store for nine months. A shoe store salesman's hidden $150 in a shoe box during a holdup, and when the customer retrieved a gun and demanded the money, the salesman's quick thinking saved his life.