Wanted

Eddie Sadowski had been in trouble with the law ever since he was a kid. In his teens, green-eyed, toughly handsome Eddie served time in two Connecticut jails for breaking & entering. During World War II he earned pretty good money as a skilled mechanic. But crime still seemed to him the easiest way.

Eddie worked out a technique that made use of his sex appeal. His specialty was courting women in bars, finding out about the finances and habits of their former husbands, lovers or friends. Then, when the time looked right, he robbed the men.

A little more than a year ago Eddie was operating in & around Cleveland. He learned that Truck Driver PhilipA. Faranda, 36, often kept a lot of cash around the house. One night Eddie broke into Faranda's house, believing Faranda would be away. But the truck driver was at home and in a fighting mood. Eddie shot and killed Faranda, then disappeared.

Last week Eddie's story and description were broadcast as the third of a new NBC crime documentary series called Wanted (NBC, Fri. 10 p.m. E.D.T.).* A few minutes after Cleveland's WTAM finished airing Wanted,, the station switchboard began buzzing with phone calls from people who were sure they had seen Eddie in town in the last few months.

Captain David Kerr, chief of Cleveland's homicide squad, set a close watch on WTAM's switchboard. On Wednesday, five days after the broadcast, an anonymous phone caller reported that Eddie was hiding out in a room in a house at 3619 East 74th Street. A detective and two policemen, sent to investigate, found Eddie, fully armed, hiding under a bed. They ordered him to come out, but he decided to blast his way out. The cops shot and killed Eddie Sadowski where he lay.

* Not to be confused with CBS's Somebody Knows, a weekly dramatization of unsolved murder cases.

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