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Private Notes
Two innocent-looking country girls are actually a clever pair of con artists who stage thefts of their own goods in order to extort money from hotels.
A grief-stricken father requests help from Captain Braddock when he becomes convinced that a medium the old man used to contact his recently deceased daughter caused him to be conned out of a valuable diamond necklace.
A girl comes to the home of the parents of a college student and asks them to give her the money she needs to free her father from prison in Mexico.
A charming stranger acquaints himself with a wealthy family.
A private Las Vegas casino operator alters his customers' checks before they are deposited.
Jim Edwards' supposedly crippled leg heals after he begins soaking it in a mineral spring located on a run-down property that he bought for a bargain price.
A local businessman is blackmailed after he is convinced that he accidentally shot and killed a man.
An old mining engineer swindles a mining company by lacing its samples with gold chloride. Just how he pulled it off is a mystery. The police set up a sting and the friendly old guy takes the bait.
A young couple who own a gas station get taken in by an escrow scam that resells their station and leaves them with nothing.
A young couple buys a used car from a slick salesman, but soon afterwards the car's brakes fail, and the resulting accident nearly causes their death. Capt. Braddock begins to suspect that this "accident" was more the result of criminal negligence than happenstance, and sets out to prove it.
Captain Braddock investigates a ruthless loanshark harassing an immigrant tailor.
Capt. Braddock tries to locate a pair of swindlers who are trying to fleece a recently widowed lady out of three thousand dollars for a worthless portrait of her late husband.
A phony lawyer takes advantage of bickering couples by encouraging divorce and then charging exorbitant fees to arrange things.
A widow is conned out of a huge sum of money by a suave playboy and his henchmen.
The Racket Squad aids farmers who were swindled.
What happens when con men try to out-con a con woman.
An elderly woman is conned out of her life savings by a dishonest rooming house lady.
Reed Hadley, as Captain Joh Braddock, reminds us that lotteries of any kind are illegal in America.
A small time crook squeals on a gangster who runs a gambling ring.
A confidence man pretends to be a fire marshall to collect fees from unsupecting businessmen.
A husband thinks his wife is being taken by a genealogical professional but is really being set up as the mark of a con game.
A phony scientist who invents a "machine" bilks a greedy investor.
A con woman uses children to cash stolen checks at neighborhood businesses.
A self-proclaimed "medium" sees a chance to take advantage of a man's grief over the death of his daughter.
An insurance fraud case is referred to the squad for investigation.
A scam operation that involves the Lost & Found department of the bus station is investigated by Capt. Braddock and the squad.
Capt. Braddock sets out to bust up an illegal gambling operation.
A struggling service station owner who has recently learned his wife is pregnant is conned into buying cut-rate health insurance from a pair bunko artists.
A confidence man sets up a pyramid sales scheme with high school teens.
Gangsters hire unsuspecting Santa's to collect money for them.
A dance instruction business blackmails its clients.
Using his smokin' hot daughter as bait, a con man sells a system for betting on horses to a man who has the hots for the daughter.
Braddock starts a crackdown on an organized begging racket.
Several businessmen get conned into participating in a phony oil deal.
Captain Braddock is asked to discreetly investigate when the new wife of an influential member becomes conspicuously and profitably successful in bridge games at an exclusive country club.
A con man uses an ex-convict accountant to swindle small town banks and businesses.
Capt. Braddock investigates the case of a man who is suspected of faking his own death to collect the life insurance money.
A man and woman team of confidence operators fake injuries in hotels in order to extort money. They use wasp stings to simulate the swelling of a real sprain, but a hotel employee helps Braddock expose the con and break the case.
Braddock looks into a possible bookmaking swindle.
Braddock investigates a suspicious charity organization.
