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Steve flies to Rotterdam to find ex-Nazi Rudolph Karpel...with the help of the Glutenschwitzen girls!

It is January 16, 1950, the time 6:28 p.m. A freight train just outside of a west Texas town gains speed and rolls through the gathering dust. Inside a gondola car, a hobo crouches in the corner as the brakeman comes toward him. As the brakeman tries to throw him off, a scuffle ensues and the hobo jumps off. At 2:55 a.m. on the morning following the freight train incident, a rancher named Banker noticed a small coupe parked in the shoulder of the road with Okalahoma licence plates. Banker turned his spotlights on the car and saw a man slumped down on the driver's seat dead.

It is 9:45 p.m. on a Saturday night in September 1937. The business district of central city Texas is dark, except for the office of Harry Cashman’s used car lot. Cashman is pacing the small office in agitation as a man in a leather windbreaker crosses the lot slipping between the cars for sale and knocks at the door. He is the blood father that was presumed dead of the daughter that Cashman and his wife have adopted, and now he is threatening to take the child unless Cashman pays him more money.

It is 11:30 a.m., a Monday morning in November 1939. Sheriff Ross Petsby turns his car in to a quiet residential street in Harpers Landing, Texas. Seated in the car with him is Mrs. Blackburn, a medical assistant. She becomes increasingly nervous as they approach a sign marking the home of Dr. Walter Hemet, who has not been seen over the past few days despite his car being in the garage. The sheriff breaks down his door and enters to discover that the doctor has been shot to death.