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I grew up with this. Oh gosh yeah I was when I was a while ago. Richard wanna go get some background information they're going to do something you know. Yes. Do you think your fellow in your charge Richard Murphy charity and your leisure shall I mean and you al vi h i l l l h m u Well he isn't Victor. O I h i l k l I'm going to think you should I'm going to Aix. I mean about two weeks later and you're going to finally start work with the FBI. Yes you're right. You know actually police department anywhere you want to don't under federal charges. Yes I want to charge with you here. Yeah he's charged here with the one count of criminal sexual contact and I
see several towns so prostitution already right. I'm ready. Yeah OK. To give me details. Well basically we're we're we have a strip of motels and hotels and up seeking that have been known to be the residence of not the places of prostitution but the residence of people involved with prostitution because of that over the years we've kind of actively sought intelligence information on those people and kept track of them we became aware of girls that appeared to be younger than the legal age we became interested started doing in it and investigation which took us about two weeks and worked very happily with the like C police department and ultimately the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Now the Boston area. And that's basically what happened to the point where we brought state charges in arson federal
charges also kind of frank you know where I'm at where we're having the switching or switching back with writer. So thank you very much for your kind if you can help me. Background them basically prostitutes and the people involved with prostitutes tend to reside sometimes in some of the motel areas and actually can we're fairly aggressive about keeping intelligence information on them. We noticed that a couple of the women that are involved appear to be under the age of consent and therefore we started investigation we ultimately led us to Mr. Anderson and led us to work cooperatively with the OIC police department in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. We're going to try to show you her mother your reaction when you hear like how did
they you that was really surprising to have 13 or 14 year olds involved. Obviously is upsetting. I'm going to go in first person. Probably the driver could have conceivably Yeah we see kids involved and that that obviously is very upsetting and one of the main focuses of the investigation was that you know we wanted to find out exactly what was going on with these girls and to get them back to their families. Right. Can you tell me where they came from and how they got the bulk of the bulk of those girls appear to come from the Lowell Massachusetts area which is basically Mr. Anderson's town and we're going to have your wife and I haven't had homework. I wonder why Abi obviously it appears the Mr. Anderson book cured these girls in one manner or another and then brought them to at least if you like said here
were the investigations continue we're looking at other areas of the country and we're also looking at other girls and we're looking at other aspects of the investigation. I think part of the larger reason we think it's an organ out we think it's somewhat organized but how large it is we don't know. All right. There is the possibility of additional rust soon are you. It's hard it's very difficult to say at this point Don right now the investigation proceeds. Anybody over three years background in how he was home and then here he he has been involved in previous contacts with law enforcement authorities most of which revolve around prostitution. I'm ovulating however is probably a pretty pretty pretty pivotal role in the exact extent of that is yet to be determined right what he like.
How would you classify him if you want to put it in terms of time his criminal activity. Pretty significant. We want to be a name for it. Great leader of all the above would you call him I would say that he he was a pimp of a pretty significant operation. Right right. And again I don't want to get your reaction. When they were young girls. Well obviously I mean beast besides the concern that we wanted to make an arrest. Our concern was to get these women back to their families and look out for their their well-being. Right I mean we're going to have. We have at least three that were involved and they want to start right there back there right away. That is yet to be determined exactly the circumstances in which they became involved with Mr. Anderson and whether they were. Here of their own free will or not. That you have to be determined.
I don't care nothing about the leader. I guess it's a possibility I don't know if it's a probability but it's a possible right. If they did either. It's quite possible that that's part of the investigation is ongoing right. Well any particular we're looking in the bottom we're looking in Florida. Right right. And I can think of that time. OK. Point 9.
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The best. You're right.
You're. Right it concerns me anyway and it's clearly part of what's driving the expansion. Expects educational value in the fact that we make it a point
that if you know what it means is that we can do. And I think that we're OK with hysteria but we can't do things that we want to do we can't. We have to get out of any of the operations and women and women in particular.
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Absecon, NJ teenage prostitution investigation
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Interview with Richard Mulvihill, Absecon, NJ police chief about teenage prostitution investigation and arrests. Both Anderson the pimp and the girls were from Lowell, MA. B-roll of Absecon motels
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Chicago: “Absecon, NJ teenage prostitution investigation ,” New Jersey Network, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 1, 2026, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-259-qv3c353j.
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APA: Absecon, NJ teenage prostitution investigation . Boston, MA: New Jersey Network, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-259-qv3c353j