1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,520 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:17,520 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:23,760 NBC brings you Dragnet. 4 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:31,920 You're a detective sergeant. 5 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,200 You're assigned to homicide. 6 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:38,280 Somewhere in the tangled web of your city, there's a killer on the loose. 7 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:40,800 A young woman has been brutally murdered. 8 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,360 The weapon, a steel bludgeon. 9 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:48,280 Your job is to get him. 10 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:55,000 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime investigated and solved by the men who 11 00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:01,000 unrelentingly stand watch on the security of your home, your family, and your life. 12 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:05,200 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 13 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:09,560 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case from official police 14 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:10,920 files. 15 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:14,880 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment. 16 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:23,680 Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 17 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:25,280 It was Thursday, March 19th. 18 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:27,960 It was foggy in Los Angeles. 19 00:01:27,960 --> 00:01:31,120 We were working the night watch out of homicide detail. 20 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:32,680 My partner's Ben Romero. 21 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,240 The boss is Ed Backstrand, Chief of Detectives. 22 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:36,240 My name's Friday. 23 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:42,560 It was 9.14 p.m. when I got to the old central jail building, third floor, the crime lab. 24 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:44,280 Hi, Joe. 25 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:45,360 Hi, Common Lee. 26 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:46,360 Just ran a spectrograph. 27 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:47,480 What'd you find? 28 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:51,240 The paint flake from the victim's head matches that paint on the hunk of pipe. 29 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:52,240 Any prints? 30 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:54,400 The pipe was clean, no latent prints. 31 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:55,400 That figured. 32 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:56,400 Anything else? 33 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:57,400 Got those blood test reports. 34 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:59,840 Couple of slides for you to look at under the comparison mic. 35 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:00,840 Thanks, Lee. 36 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:01,840 Oh, hi, Joe. 37 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:03,240 Didn't hear you come in. 38 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,240 What's it look like, Ben? 39 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:06,760 Here's the blood test reports. 40 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,240 This one is blood found on the piece of pipe. 41 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:10,240 Type A. 42 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:11,900 This one's blood from the victim. 43 00:02:11,900 --> 00:02:12,900 Type A. 44 00:02:12,900 --> 00:02:13,900 They match. 45 00:02:13,900 --> 00:02:14,900 Good boy. 46 00:02:14,900 --> 00:02:15,900 Doesn't mean too much, though. 47 00:02:15,900 --> 00:02:18,080 Did you look at these slides under the microscope? 48 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:19,080 No, not yet. 49 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:20,080 Well, this is your clincher. 50 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:22,120 Wait till I get the light. 51 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,720 Okay, take a look. 52 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:26,720 Got a make? 53 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:27,960 Yeah, go ahead. 54 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:33,400 Well, this slide here on the right, that's a slice of hair from the victim's head. 55 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:35,880 On the other slide is hair found on the steel pipe. 56 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:36,880 Yeah. 57 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:37,880 She had wavy hair. 58 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:39,640 Both specimens are flat. 59 00:02:39,640 --> 00:02:40,640 Same hair, Joe. 60 00:02:40,640 --> 00:02:42,520 Got anything on that piece of pipe, Lee? 61 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:43,520 Nothing. 62 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:46,920 Just an ordinary steel pipe, 14 inches long. 63 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:48,160 What else you got? 64 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:51,880 The plaster impressions of those footprints we found by the body. 65 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,880 Here they are. 66 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:55,880 Crepes sold? 67 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,160 Tennis shoes, new ones, size nine. 68 00:02:58,160 --> 00:02:59,160 Good impression. 69 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:00,160 Ground was soft. 70 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:05,520 Man, about 150 pounds, according to the length of stride, roughly about five feet, 10 inches 71 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:06,520 tall. 72 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:07,520 Yeah, new shoes, all right. 73 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:09,520 You can still read the manufacturer's label. 74 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:10,520 That's right. 75 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:11,520 Made by the Sport King Company. 76 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:12,960 Well, that's something to follow up. 77 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:13,960 Yeah, sure. 78 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:15,400 You could start with the tennis courts. 79 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:17,880 Only about a thousand or so in L.A. 80 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:20,120 Maybe you'd rather track down the brand. 81 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:22,560 These particular tennis shoes are the biggest sellers in the country. 82 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:23,560 Yeah. 83 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:24,560 Where'd you like to start? 84 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:26,260 Minneapolis or Pullman, Washington? 85 00:03:26,260 --> 00:03:27,440 What about that glove? 86 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:29,560 Yeah, you might look for a missing glove. 87 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:30,560 Yeah. 88 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:33,240 They go well with the shoes, just about as common. 89 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:35,960 White cotton work gloves with a blue top. 90 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:36,960 Here's the right glove. 91 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:37,960 You find the left one. 92 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:38,960 Blood on a glove? 93 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:39,960 Type A. 94 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,360 Oh, that's good evidence, Jones, but where's the lead? 95 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:45,320 Now, look, I don't ask you to pay my parking tickets. 96 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:46,320 You want to see blowups? 97 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:47,320 Yeah, okay. 98 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:48,320 Right over here. 99 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:49,320 Oh, yeah. 100 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:52,880 This is the vacant lot where they found the body. 101 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:53,880 Yeah, that's right. 102 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:58,920 Here's a close-up of her showing the location of the murder weapon, the glove, and the footprints 103 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:00,880 relative to the position of the body. 104 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:02,200 Looks as bad as yesterday. 105 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:04,360 Sure did work her over, didn't it? 106 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:06,000 The rest of these are morgue shots. 107 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:07,000 Interested? 108 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,400 No, I checked them this morning. 109 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:09,400 Once is enough, Lee. 110 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:10,400 Yeah, that winds it, boy. 111 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:13,000 You want to go over the stuff in her purse again? 112 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:14,240 You find anything more? 113 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:16,280 No, nothing you haven't seen already. 114 00:04:16,280 --> 00:04:17,280 The usual. 115 00:04:17,280 --> 00:04:18,280 Makeup, comb, barrette. 116 00:04:18,280 --> 00:04:19,280 It's a hair clip. 117 00:04:19,280 --> 00:04:22,920 A few cheap stones in it. 118 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:25,560 Loose change, a quarter nickel, a few pennies. 119 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:27,560 Her ID card. 120 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:28,560 Yeah. 121 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:33,640 Helen Corday, 33, Naomi Place, age 21. 122 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:34,640 21. 123 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:37,880 That's not very old, is it, Lee? 124 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:39,880 Not to die. 125 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:42,320 Helen Corday. 126 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:48,320 Who could kill Helen Corday? 127 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:49,320 Why? 128 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:53,960 Why do you say that, Mr. Meyer? 129 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:55,320 People kill for money. 130 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:56,960 They kill for love. 131 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:58,720 Helen Corday had none of these. 132 00:04:58,720 --> 00:04:59,720 No boyfriend? 133 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:00,720 Not in here. 134 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:01,720 No, she was a good worker. 135 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,720 Five different vaders has the Union sends me. 136 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:05,720 One month. 137 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:06,720 Five. 138 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:07,720 Did the Union send Helen to you? 139 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:08,720 Sure. 140 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:09,720 Sure. 141 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:10,720 One like Helen. 142 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,760 Oh, she was sweet, honest, and courteous. 143 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:17,400 Mr. Meyer, did you know anything about her personal life? 144 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:19,600 Only that she was a good worker. 145 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,760 Everything else she took home with her from this place. 146 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:24,840 Did she ever mention any men to you, anyone at all? 147 00:05:24,840 --> 00:05:26,440 No gentlemen, not one. 148 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:28,400 How much money did she make here? 149 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:32,760 I paid her $26.50 a week, every Tuesday. 150 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:36,200 Not much salary for so much work, but the tips are very good here. 151 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:37,200 Nice customers. 152 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:40,000 This is her home address, 33 Naomi Place. 153 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,480 33 Naomi, that's right. 154 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:44,720 Thank you very much, Mr. Meyer, for your time. 155 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:48,960 I wonder what kind of a person does things like that. 156 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:52,360 Who could kill Helen Corday? 157 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,360 Everybody liked Helen. 158 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:57,600 Helen Corday? 159 00:05:57,600 --> 00:05:58,600 I never liked her. 160 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:04,240 Come on in the office, boys, where we can talk. 161 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:05,720 Never liked her because I never knew her. 162 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:06,720 You the head of the Union? 163 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:07,720 I'm just a steward. 164 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:09,680 I know most of the girls. 165 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:12,040 This Corday girl, what was she, what did she look like? 166 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,480 Small brunette, about 5'3". 167 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:15,480 Here's a picture. 168 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:18,880 Yeah, pretty girl, wasn't she? 169 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:20,680 Oh, sure, sure. 170 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:23,680 Place Dorado's place. 171 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:25,720 Nice little Dutch fella, Otto Meyer. 172 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:27,520 That's right, he seemed to think quite a lot of her. 173 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:30,200 Yeah, she was a fine worker. 174 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,200 Oh, sure. 175 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:34,960 Always right up on her dues, paid all the assessments right on time. 176 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:36,320 I thought you said you didn't know her. 177 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:40,120 Well, not right off I didn't, but when you showed me that picture there, placed her right 178 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:41,120 away. 179 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:42,120 You know anything about her personal life? 180 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:43,120 Oh, wait a minute. 181 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:45,640 Why all these questions? 182 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:48,000 Helen Corday was murdered last night. 183 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,640 Oh, who did it? 184 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:51,960 You know anything about her personal life? 185 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:54,160 Oh, you're going to see my position, Sergeant. 186 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:56,880 Twelve hundred girls, check them in, check them out. 187 00:06:56,880 --> 00:06:59,580 Oh, it just names to me till I see a picture of them. 188 00:06:59,580 --> 00:07:03,520 You wouldn't know if she had any boyfriends here in the Union, waiters, busboys? 189 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:04,520 That I wouldn't know. 190 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:08,160 Like I tell you, Sergeant, I never knew Helen Corday. 191 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:13,280 Sure, I knew Helen Corday. 192 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:15,880 Gus plays a nice piano, huh, Sergeant? 193 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:16,880 Yeah. 194 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:18,720 I read about it in the paper this morning. 195 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:21,360 How long you been selling pianos here at this place? 196 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:23,920 About as long as I knew Helen. 197 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:24,920 Three years. 198 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:27,120 How'd you find me? 199 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:28,720 Helen's landlady, we talked to her yesterday. 200 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:30,960 She told us she worked here at this piano store. 201 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:33,600 Oh, funny, isn't it? 202 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:34,600 It's funny. 203 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:36,640 See Gus over there? 204 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,240 That fellow demonstrating the piano? 205 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:42,080 Few weeks ago I made a deal with him to give Helen piano lessons. 206 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:44,840 I figured it would help her with her singing lessons. 207 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:46,720 Wanted to be a singer, you know. 208 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:48,440 Did Helen know that fellow Gus? 209 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:50,360 No, she never met him. 210 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:52,600 Who gave her the singing lessons, Miss Olsen? 211 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:54,080 She took from Ostrander. 212 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:56,040 Paul Ostrander out on Melrose. 213 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:58,780 A lot of movie people used to take from him. 214 00:07:58,780 --> 00:08:00,040 What do you know about her personal life? 215 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:01,040 How do you mean? 216 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:02,040 Does she have any boyfriends? 217 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:05,200 Well, yes. 218 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:06,560 You don't seem sure, Miss Olsen. 219 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:08,560 Well, it's just that I don't know. 220 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:14,160 I never asked Helen, but she did have a few dates with Paul Ostrander. 221 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:16,320 I don't think she was serious. 222 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:17,320 How about Ostrander? 223 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:18,320 Gee, I don't know, Sergeant. 224 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:21,880 I don't want to involve anybody. 225 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:23,880 You want to help us find the killer, don't you? 226 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:27,960 Yes, but if you're thinking Paul Ostrander did it, no. 227 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:28,960 I'm sure he didn't kill her. 228 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:36,680 That's all for today, Victoria. 229 00:08:36,680 --> 00:08:53,960 No, gentlemen, I did not kill Helen for a day. 230 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:55,740 You gave her singing lessons, Mr. Ostrander. 231 00:08:55,740 --> 00:08:56,740 You know her pretty well. 232 00:08:56,740 --> 00:09:00,600 Yes, I gave her voice coaching for about a year and a half. 233 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:01,600 Helen showed a little promise. 234 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:02,600 Not a great voice. 235 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:03,600 A bad vibrato. 236 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:04,600 You knew her pretty well. 237 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:05,600 Why do you say that? 238 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:10,320 Mr. Ostrander, didn't you used to take her out once in a while? 239 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:11,320 No. 240 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:12,800 I didn't know Helen socially at all. 241 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:14,120 We know you had dates with her. 242 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:15,120 That's not true. 243 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:17,720 The only times I saw her was when she came here to the studio for lessons. 244 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:19,840 You better tell the truth, Mr. Ostrander. 245 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:21,800 We can prove that you've been out with her. 246 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:23,760 Afraid of the publicity, is that it? 247 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:24,760 Certainly, that's it. 248 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:26,480 I have a successful business here. 249 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:27,800 I've spent years building it. 250 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:28,960 Anything like this would ruin me. 251 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:30,240 Then you have been out with her. 252 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:31,240 Only a few times. 253 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:32,240 Nothing serious. 254 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:33,240 I had nothing to do with her murder. 255 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:34,240 Now, that's the truth. 256 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:37,520 Don't you know that withholding information about a thing like this can go kind of hard 257 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:38,520 for you? 258 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:39,520 Yes, I know that. 259 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:40,520 What else could I do? 260 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:44,160 Mr. Ostrander, somewhere in this city right now, there's a guy who beat a young girl to 261 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:45,160 death. 262 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:46,440 He crushed her skull with a piece of steel pipe. 263 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:48,440 We need every bit of information we can get to track him down. 264 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:49,440 I know that, son. 265 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:50,520 You could have come to us. 266 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:51,960 We wouldn't run to the newspapers with it. 267 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:54,220 If the information's confidential, that's the way we treat it. 268 00:09:54,220 --> 00:09:56,800 Most of the time, it's the people who run to the newspapers first, then they come to 269 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:57,800 us. 270 00:09:57,800 --> 00:09:58,800 That's right, Mr. Ostrander. 271 00:09:58,800 --> 00:09:59,800 People are their own press agents. 272 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:03,480 Sergeant, I'd like to know what right you have to invade my privacy and lecture me on 273 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:04,480 my civic duty. 274 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:05,680 All right, I'll tell you what right, Ostrander. 275 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:07,120 We want the man who murdered Helen Corday. 276 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:09,600 I got as much right as he had at 1214 this morning. 277 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:10,600 Come on, Joe. 278 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:11,600 Yeah. 279 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:12,600 Thanks, Mr. Ostrander. 280 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,600 Sorry if I invaded your privacy. 281 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:24,600 Chief of Detectives, Overs. 282 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:25,600 Hannan. 283 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:27,600 No, I'm sorry, ma'am. 284 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:29,600 You got the wrong extension. 285 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:30,600 Try 2511. 286 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:31,600 You're welcome. 287 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:32,600 Hi, Friday, Romero. 288 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:33,600 Chief's been looking for you. 289 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:34,600 Thank you, Mike. 290 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:35,600 Come on, Joe. 291 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:36,600 Yeah. 292 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:37,600 Hello, Joe. 293 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:38,600 Ben. 294 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:39,600 Sit down. 295 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:40,600 What'd you get? 296 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:41,600 A notebook full of notes. 297 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:46,600 A crime lab full of evidence, nothing to tie them together. 298 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:48,600 These are some of the people you interviewed. 299 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:52,600 Yeah, those and about a dozen more we didn't even take notes on. 300 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:54,600 It's hard to figure, Skipper. 301 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:56,600 Everybody seemed to like this girl. 302 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:57,600 Helen Corday. 303 00:10:57,600 --> 00:10:58,600 No known relatives. 304 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:01,600 Single, unattached girl, living all alone in the city. 305 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:02,600 Few friends and no enemies. 306 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:04,600 None we can find, anyway. 307 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:08,600 Are you satisfied that all the people you interviewed are in the clear? 308 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,600 Well, if we're gonna stick to the simple robbery motive, we are. 309 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:14,600 The kind of money Helen Corday made wouldn't interest those people. 310 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:16,600 How are you doing on the outside, Leeds? 311 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:17,600 Nothing. 312 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:19,600 If we could just find one hole someplace, anything. 313 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:21,600 All right, now look. 314 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:23,600 You've got a lab full of evidence across the street. 315 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:25,600 You've got a book full of names here. 316 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:26,600 You've got the pieces. 317 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:27,600 Now fit them together. 318 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:29,600 They just don't add. 319 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,600 Well, go over them and keep going over them until they do add. 320 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:33,600 Anything from the informants? 321 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:34,600 No, nothing so far. 322 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:35,600 No tips on anybody. 323 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:38,600 That's been dough heavy lately. 324 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:39,600 Nobody's shooting off their mouth. 325 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:41,600 The guy we want won't advertise. 326 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:43,600 Figures himself a pretty smooth operator. 327 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,600 But he probably made a mistake somewhere along the line. 328 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:47,600 We'll find it. 329 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:48,600 Got a hot shot, Ed? 330 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:49,600 Yeah. 331 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:50,600 3220 Casino. 332 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:51,600 Woman. 333 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:52,600 Probable attack. 334 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:53,600 All right, Friday. 335 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:55,600 You and Ben run it down. 336 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:59,600 We ran down the hot shot call for 3220 Casino. 337 00:11:59,600 --> 00:11:40,240 Turned out to be a 338 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:45,240 typical dead end lead. 339 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:47,240 Her name was Mrs. Lillian Horn. 340 00:11:47,240 --> 00:12:05,240 She was a very good 341 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:10,240 operator. 342 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:14,240 For the past five years, Mr. Horn had been paid regularly on Wednesdays. 343 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:18,240 He spent all day Thursday drinking up his paycheck and beating his wife. 344 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:20,240 The call had no connection with the Corday murder. 345 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:24,240 We made the usual call into communications. 346 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:25,240 Unit 80K to Control 1. 347 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:27,240 80K to Control 1. 348 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:28,240 Entry 1 to 80K. 349 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:29,240 Go ahead. 350 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:32,240 On that probable attack, 3220 Casino. 351 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:33,240 Code 4. 352 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,240 80K, Roger. 353 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:40,240 80K to Control 1, KMA 367. 354 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:41,240 That was the beginning. 355 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:46,240 For the next three days, we followed up every lead and every call, but they were all blind. 356 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:50,240 All units were alerted and they had as much information on the killer of Helen Corday 357 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:52,240 as we did. 358 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:54,240 Ben and I cruised throughout the entire central division. 359 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:59,240 We covered every probable call that might have some connection with the murder. 360 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:04,240 Attention, Unit 41R. 1654 Swanson Terrace. 361 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:05,240 A woman. 362 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:07,240 Victim of probable attack. 363 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:08,240 Code 3. 364 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:11,240 Unit 41R. 365 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:15,240 It didn't make any difference what the call was, but there was a possibility it might 366 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:17,240 tie in with the Corday murder we ran it down. 367 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:19,240 We made it a 24-hour job. 368 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:25,240 So far, if the killer made a mistake, we hadn't been able to find it. 369 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:27,240 The Corday funeral was on Monday. 370 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:31,240 They were all there, the girl's landlady, the voice teacher Ostrander, the girlfriend 371 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:36,240 Marie Olson, the man from the Union, and her boss Otto Meyer. 372 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:38,240 But nobody else we hadn't checked. 373 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:41,240 That was Monday afternoon. 374 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:45,240 Monday night, we went back to the old routine, tracking calls during the night in the squad 375 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:48,240 car, picking up small threads that led nowhere. 376 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:51,240 Three more days of the same thing. 377 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:55,240 Thursday morning, one week after we found Helen Corday's body, we got an anonymous phone 378 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:56,240 tip. 379 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:57,240 We didn't know who killed Helen Corday. 380 00:13:57,240 --> 00:13:59,240 His name is George Barlow. 381 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,240 He lives at 418 White Oak Avenue. 382 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,240 He used to date her up all the time. 383 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:08,240 Get him and you've got the murderer. 384 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:11,240 We checked George Barlow and about ten others just like him. 385 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:13,240 None of them knew Helen Corday. 386 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:18,240 Saturday night, Ben and I were back in the squad car, cruising the central division. 387 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:20,240 Saturday night's a good night for robbery. 388 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:24,240 By 10 p.m., we'd run down four various calls. 389 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:27,240 One-twenty-three, code one. 390 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:30,240 One-twenty-three, Roger. 391 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:34,240 12G, call your station. 392 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:37,240 Unit 13R, 1254 Tower Road. 393 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:38,240 A woman screaming. 394 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:39,240 Investigate the trouble. 395 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:40,240 Code two. 396 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:41,240 Let's handle that one, Ben. 397 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:42,240 Yeah, okay. 398 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:43,240 I'll notify communications. 399 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:45,240 Unit 80K to Control One. 400 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:48,240 80K to Control One. 401 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:50,240 Control One to Unit 80K. 402 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:51,240 Go ahead. 403 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:54,240 I'm here, 1254 Tower Road call. We're in the vicinity. 404 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:56,240 We will handle. 405 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:57,240 80K, Roger. 406 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:59,240 80K to Control One, CAM 8367. 407 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:02,240 Let's go, Ben. 408 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:05,240 Control One to 13R, disregard your last call. 409 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:07,240 Handled by 80K. 410 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:09,240 It should be right about here. 411 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:12,240 Oh, here it is. 1254. 412 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:17,240 That man had tried to kill me. 413 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:18,240 He's running out of space. 414 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:19,240 Where? 415 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:21,240 He's getting to that guy, I think. 416 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:22,240 He tried to kill me. 417 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:24,240 Come on. 418 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:26,240 Where'd he go, Joe? 419 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:28,240 Turn right at the next corner. 420 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:32,240 That's him up ahead. 421 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:33,240 He's got a good lead on us. 422 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:35,240 Hit the siren. 423 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:37,240 He's gaining, Joe. 424 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:40,240 Take a left at the next corner. 425 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:41,240 Oh, he isn't gonna stop. 426 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,240 Close in as tight as you can, Ben. 427 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:44,240 Down to the floor now. 428 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:45,240 Swing out to the left a little. 429 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:46,240 I'm going for his tires. 430 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:49,240 What? 431 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:50,240 That'll slow him down. 432 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:51,240 Pull up on him. 433 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:54,240 Yeah. 434 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:56,240 All right, Joe. 435 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:57,240 Keep both hands on that wheel 436 00:15:57,240 --> 00:15:59,240 and get over to the curb. 437 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:00,240 Cover me, Joe. 438 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:01,240 Right. 439 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:04,240 Out of that car, mister. 440 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:05,240 Shake him down. 441 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:06,240 Hey, take it easy, will you? 442 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:07,240 I haven't got a gun. 443 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:09,240 Put the cuffs on him. 444 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:13,240 Hey, you boys work fast. 445 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:15,240 What am I to do with the gas chamber? 446 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:16,240 Just save that, Matthew. 447 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:18,240 That's pretty rough treatment for speeding. 448 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:22,240 All right, come on, you. 449 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:26,240 Look, I got a right to know where you're taking me. 450 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:28,240 What's the charge? 451 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:30,240 We let the girl tell you. 452 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:31,240 What girl? 453 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,240 You just sit there and be quiet, huh? 454 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:36,240 Oh, I know where you're going. 455 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:38,240 There's a place back on Taro Road. 456 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:39,240 Well, I asked to use the phone, 457 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:42,240 and the girl slammed the door in my face. 458 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:44,240 I don't know what your cops are trying to prove. 459 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:47,240 I just wanted to use the phone, that's all. 460 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,240 I even tried to scare her a little. 461 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:50,240 I told her I'd hit her over the head 462 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:54,240 if she didn't let me use the phone. 463 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:56,240 That's a laugh, huh? 464 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:58,240 All right, you get out. 465 00:16:58,240 --> 00:16:59,240 Yeah, I suppose so. 466 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:00,240 Get out. 467 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:02,240 Hey. 468 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:06,240 I got nothing to hide. 469 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:11,240 That little girl's going to lie, you know that, don't you? 470 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:12,240 Who's there? 471 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:15,240 Police officer. 472 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:17,240 It's the man. 473 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:18,240 That's him. 474 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:23,240 He tried to kill me. 475 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:24,240 His full name's Frank Philip Larson. 476 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:26,240 They had no previous record. 477 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:27,240 This the girl's report? 478 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:30,240 Yeah, that's it, skipper. 479 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:32,240 Judy Scott. 480 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:33,240 How old is she? 481 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:34,240 He's 19. 482 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:35,240 He's a babysitter. 483 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:37,240 Real tough boy, isn't he? 484 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:39,240 Forced his way into the house, 485 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:41,240 beat her about the neck and arms. 486 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:43,240 That tire iron. 487 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:44,240 We found it in his car. 488 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:46,240 Jones is running it through the crime lab. 489 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:47,240 Asked her if she had any money. 490 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:48,240 She told him no. 491 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:49,240 Struck her again. 492 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:50,240 Where does Larson live? 493 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:52,240 Hotel out near Santa Monica. 494 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:53,240 He's a clothing salesman. 495 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:55,240 He works for a big men's store, Burns & Company. 496 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:56,240 According to the house book sales record, 497 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:58,240 he bought a pair of tennis shoes two weeks ago. 498 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:01,240 He weighs 158 pounds, 5 foot 11 inches. 499 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:02,240 Tennis shoes are missing. 500 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:03,240 They're not in his hotel room. 501 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:04,240 He's not wearing them. 502 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:05,240 What else did you find? 503 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:06,240 A rhinestone. 504 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:07,240 You mean a pin? 505 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:08,240 No, just a small loose stone 506 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:10,240 recovered from the rug in Larson's room. 507 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:11,240 Crime lab got it. 508 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:12,240 Working on it now. 509 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:14,240 Ed, I think... 510 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:21,240 We got the man who killed Helen Corday. 511 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:28,240 A few scraps of circumstantial evidence and a hunch. 512 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:30,240 That's not much to go on. 513 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:33,240 Larson had gone after the little Scott girl with the tire iron. 514 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:35,240 Wasn't much of a tie-in, but we had to be sure. 515 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:37,240 All that day we checked Frank Larson's alibi 516 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:39,240 for the night of Helen Corday's murder. 517 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:41,240 We interviewed the personnel manager at Burns & Company, 518 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:42,240 where he worked. 519 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:44,240 We talked to all the clerks who knew him. 520 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:46,240 The manager of the hotel where he lived. 521 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,240 We found out everything we could about Frank Larson. 522 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:49,240 And that night at 10 o'clock, 523 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:52,240 we had the prisoner brought to the interrogation room. 524 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:54,240 How are you, Larson? 525 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:55,240 Fine. 526 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:57,240 Just fine. I like jail. 527 00:18:57,240 --> 00:18:58,240 Sit down. 528 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:00,240 Lousy weather. It's been foggy all over town. 529 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:02,240 I wouldn't know. I've been inside all day. 530 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:03,240 How old are you, Larson? 531 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:06,240 31. Same as the last time you asked me. 532 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:07,240 Where'd you go to school? 533 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:09,240 I didn't. I was born smart. 534 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:11,240 You sell clothes, don't you, Larson? 535 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:14,240 We know you work for Burns & Company. Remember? You told us. 536 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,240 What is all this? What are you guys trying to build? 537 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:18,240 Just want to know if you like selling clothes. That's all. 538 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:21,240 Well, you coppers know about clothes. 539 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:23,240 One blue surge a year is your speed. 540 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:25,240 You know quite a bit about clothes, don't you? 541 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:27,240 I've been selling them for five years. 542 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:29,240 Can you tell me something I've been wondering about? 543 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:30,240 What's that? 544 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:32,240 Are your socks and tie always supposed to match? 545 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,240 That's what the style books say. 546 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:36,240 Bet you always know the right things to wear, don't you? 547 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,240 You wouldn't wear black shoes with a brown suit, would you? 548 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:42,240 Is that what you're keeping me here for? Style, isn't it? 549 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:45,240 Oh, would you? Would you wear black shoes with a brown suit? 550 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:47,240 Most people wouldn't. 551 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:50,240 Bet you wouldn't wear brown shoes with a tuxedo either. 552 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:53,240 I haven't smoked in too much. You got a glass of water? 553 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:55,240 Oh, yeah, sure. 554 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:03,240 There you are, Larson. 555 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:06,240 Thanks. 556 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:09,240 That's good and cold. 557 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:12,240 How about it? Would you ever wear brown shoes with a tux? 558 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:14,240 Nobody would. 559 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:16,240 That's a navy blue flannel you got on there, isn't it? 560 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:17,240 Yeah. 561 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:18,240 It's a good-looking suit. 562 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:20,240 Topron some time. Gets you a good deal. 563 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:23,240 A suit like that flannel there you're wearing? 564 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:25,240 You'd never wear tennis shoes with an outfit like that, would you? 565 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:26,240 What do you think? 566 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:29,240 I think you did. I think you wore them the night you killed Helen Corday. 567 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:30,240 Who? 568 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:31,240 Maybe you didn't have the blue suit on, 569 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:33,240 but you were wearing tennis shoes, Sport King, size 9. 570 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:37,240 Sell for $5.95. You picked them up at a discount. Cost you three and a quarter. 571 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:38,240 Where'd you get that? 572 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,240 Out of the house book, Burns & Company. 573 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:42,240 You wouldn't have those shoes around now, would you? 574 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,240 We couldn't find them in your hotel room. 575 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:47,240 Your boss, Mr. Craig, used to think a lot of you, Larson. 576 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,240 Before you started drinking on the job, 577 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:52,240 your commission used to run pretty high up the last couple of months. 578 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:54,240 What happened? That cheap ride get to you? 579 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:56,240 Well, you two really nosed around, didn't you? 580 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:58,240 When are you gonna tell me what I eat for breakfast? 581 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:02,240 Corn flakes, cup of coffee, doughnut, sometimes two doughnuts when you're hungry. 582 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:05,240 Elsie waits on you at the Royal Cafe. She gets a dime tip. 583 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,240 And ask her more of that water. 584 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,240 Help yourself, there's a cooler. 585 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,240 They're good and cold. 586 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:20,240 How about it, Larson? Where are the tennis shoes? 587 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:21,240 They wore out. 588 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:24,240 In three weeks? Ain't be very good tennis shoes. 589 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,240 Oh, they didn't wear out. What'd you do with them? 590 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:28,240 You know all the answers. You figure it out. 591 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:31,240 We know you bought the tennis shoes. We don't know where they are now. 592 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:33,240 We know you had them, size nine. 593 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:35,240 Three feet from the body of Helen Corday, 594 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:38,240 we found two size nine footprints made by a pair of Sport King tennis shoes. 595 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:40,240 We figured the man weighed about 150 pounds. 596 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:41,240 You weigh 158? 597 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,240 Figured he's about 5'10". 598 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:44,240 You're 5'11". 599 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:48,240 You come awful close to being the same bill as the man who killed Helen Corday, don't you, Larson? 600 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:50,240 Man, you wear the same size tennis shoes, same brand name. 601 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:53,240 A lot of people wear nines. It's the average size. 602 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:55,240 They sell a lot of Sport Kings, too. Everybody wears them. 603 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,240 If we could find your pair, it might make a difference. 604 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,240 Doesn't mean your tennis shoes made the prints with the body. 605 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,240 Doesn't prove it didn't, neither. 606 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:03,240 What'd you do with them, Larson? 607 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:04,240 I threw them away. 608 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:06,240 That's too bad. It might make a difference. 609 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,240 Oh, what difference could it make? I threw them away, that's all. 610 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,240 Now, how about the mate to this glove? 611 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,240 I never saw it before. 612 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:15,240 Found this right-hand glove by the body of Helen Corday. 613 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,240 Just an ordinary cottonwork glove. Everybody wears them. 614 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:21,240 If we could find the missing left glove, well, it might make a difference. 615 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,240 Size medium. That's average, too, isn't it, Larson? 616 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,240 I never saw work gloves. I wouldn't know. 617 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,240 No, but you bought work gloves, haven't you? 618 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:28,240 Not a pair of those. 619 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,240 Clean like this, don't you? We only got one. 620 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:31,240 What kind of work gloves did you buy? 621 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:32,240 I didn't buy any. 622 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:33,240 You just said you did. 623 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:34,240 I never said I bought any work gloves. 624 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:36,240 You bought tennis shoes, though, didn't you? 625 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,240 I told you I bought the tennis shoes. 626 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:39,240 Didn't I tell you I bought them? 627 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:40,240 No, you didn't tell us. We told you. 628 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:42,240 We found out from Burns & Company where you worked. 629 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,240 All right, you told me. I bought them. You know that. 630 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,240 Same kind of tennis shoes that made footprints by Helen Corday's butt. 631 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:48,240 It wasn't me. 632 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:49,240 Then why won't you tell us what you did with these shoes? 633 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:50,240 I've already told you I threw them away. 634 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:53,240 They were only three weeks old. Must have worn out awful fast. 635 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:55,240 I didn't say they wore out. They got too dirty. 636 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:56,240 No, you told us they wore out. Remember, Larson? 637 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,240 I don't remember what I told you, but I don't have them now. 638 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:00,240 We know you don't have them now. Where are they? 639 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,240 He told us. They got too dirty. Right, Larson? 640 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,240 Yes. Yes, yes. That's what I said. 641 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:06,240 Anyhow, you haven't got them now. 642 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:07,240 No, I haven't got them now. 643 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:09,240 All right, now just for the record, Larson, which was it? 644 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:10,240 Did they get too dirty or did they wear out? 645 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:11,240 Whatever I said before. 646 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:12,240 You said both before, Larson. 647 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:14,240 All right, I said both. You haven't got anything on me. 648 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:16,240 We got that little scut girl statement from last night. 649 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:20,240 She said you tried to kill her. She's lying. I told you she'd lie, didn't I? 650 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:21,240 I only wanted to use the phone. 651 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,240 She says you hit her with a tire iron. Did you hit her with that iron? 652 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,240 No, I only tried to scare her. I didn't hit her with anything. 653 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:27,240 Then how'd you get those marks around her neck and arm? 654 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,240 Police doctor says they were made by that tire iron. 655 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,240 I don't care what your doctor says. I didn't hurt her. 656 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,240 Now what do you mean, Larson? You didn't hurt her or you didn't hit her with that tire iron? 657 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,240 Neither one. I just wanted to use her phone. 658 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:36,240 How'd you know she had a phone? 659 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:38,240 I didn't know if she had a phone. I just went up to find out. 660 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,240 To find out what? To find out if I could use her phone. 661 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:48,240 Thought you said you didn't know if she had a phone. I don't know anything the way you twist everything around. Sorry, Larson. We only want the truth. How about a cigarette? 662 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:53,240 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I could use that. Here's the light. 663 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:59,240 Larson, where were you Wednesday night, March 18th? 664 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,240 How many times are you going to ask me that same question? 665 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,240 Just want to make sure we got it right. 666 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:07,240 I told you this morning. I went to a show. I got out about 11, had a beer, and I went home. 667 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:08,240 What time did you get home? 668 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:09,240 About 11.30. 669 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:10,240 What time did you stay home? 670 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:11,240 I went to bed. 671 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:12,240 What did you see at the show? 672 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:13,240 I never remember the names of them. 673 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,240 You ought to try to remember this, and it's pretty important. 674 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:19,240 I was at Deluxe Theater. I was Spencer Tracy and something. 675 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:21,240 What was on when you walked in? 676 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,240 The news. I never go in in the middle of a picture. 677 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,240 Neither do I. It spoils them for me. 678 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:26,240 Yeah, yeah, that's right. 679 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,240 The girl in the box office doesn't remember seeing you go in. 680 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,240 What would she know? I was keen all night. There was a big crowd. 681 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:32,240 Did you win anything? 682 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:33,240 I never do. 683 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:34,240 Anybody hit the jackpot? 684 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:35,240 I don't remember. 685 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,240 They give away a lot of money towards neighborhood theater. I always remember who hits the jackpot. 686 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:40,240 All right, you do. I don't. 687 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:41,240 Do you remember if anybody won the jackpot? 688 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:42,240 I told you, no. 689 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:43,240 Do they have a jackpot at that show? 690 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,240 I guess they do. I don't know. 691 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,240 You knew it was Keno Night. You should know if they had a jackpot. 692 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,240 Maybe they had a jackpot. I don't know. I went out for a smoke. 693 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,240 You said the cartoon was on when you walked in. 694 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,240 Why do you always twist what I say? 695 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:56,240 I told you the news was on when I went in. 696 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:58,240 You remember anything about the newsreel? 697 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,240 It was ten days ago. How do I know it was in it? 698 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:01,240 I only know it was a newsreel. That's all. 699 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,240 You're lying, Larson. We checked your alibi. 700 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,240 The manager of the theater had to cut the newsreel Wednesday night because the show was running long with Keno Night. 701 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,240 You didn't go to the show Wednesday night, did you? 702 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,240 All right, maybe I didn't. I don't remember. What's the difference? 703 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,240 The difference is you could have been in that vacant lot the same night, the night Helen Corday was murdered. 704 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,240 I didn't kill her. You can't prove I did. 705 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,240 Interrogation room, Friday. 706 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,240 Hi, Jones. 707 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,240 You're dead, huh? 708 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:24,240 You're positive. 709 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:26,240 Uh-huh. Yeah. Okay. Thanks, Lee. 710 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,240 Sure you don't want to tell us what you did with those tennis shoes? 711 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:31,240 I'm not going to go back over all that. 712 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:33,240 I've told you guys all I'm going to tell you. 713 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,240 You know how the Corday girl was murdered? 714 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,240 How would I know? I don't know anything about it. 715 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:41,240 She was on her way home from work, as usual, about midnight. Of course, you were home in bed about that time. 716 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,240 But you didn't go to the show that night, Larson. 717 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:47,240 On her way home, Helen Corday always took a shortcut across a vacant lot. 718 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:50,240 She was about halfway through the lot when the murderer tried to grab her purse. 719 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,240 She screamed and he struck her. 720 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:55,240 Hit her several times with a piece of steel pipe, 14 inches long. 721 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,240 He beat her to death with that piece of steel pipe. 722 00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,240 Then he dropped the pipe in a right-hand cotton work glove. 723 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,240 He left two footprints, size 9, sport king tennis shoes. 724 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:02,240 I know all that. 725 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,240 Well, here's something you don't know. 726 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:08,240 When the killer scooped the paper money out of that girl's purse, he accidentally took along a loose rhinestone. 727 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,240 A stone that fell out of a cheap barrette in the bottom of her bag. 728 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:12,240 He carried that stone home with him. 729 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:15,240 When he reached in his pocket to pull out the money he stole from her, the rhinestone fell on the floor. 730 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:16,240 So? 731 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,240 We found that rhinestone on the rug in your hotel room. 732 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,240 Well, I haven't lived in that hotel room all my life. 733 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,240 Maybe the tenant before me dropped it there. 734 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:23,240 No, not this one. 735 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:26,240 We checked the cement that held it in that barrette. It matches the glue on the stone. 736 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:30,240 No, Larson, that rhinestone came from the hair clip that Helen Corday wore before she was murdered. 737 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,240 That's enough to take you to the district to turn him in. 738 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:33,240 What am I supposed to say? 739 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:35,240 We want you to tell us the truth. Why did you kill Helen Corday? 740 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:39,240 Yeah. 741 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,240 You want the sandwiches and coffee now, Sergeant? 742 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:45,240 Bring them in, Mike. Looks like we're going to be here a long time. 743 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:52,240 Yeah, I brought you ham, cheese, and liverwurst. And some fruit. 744 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:54,240 Coffee's black. Cream and sugar on the side. 745 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,240 Thank you, Mike. 746 00:26:58,240 --> 00:26:59,240 That looks good. 747 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:01,240 What kind do you want, Larson? 748 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,240 Ham, cheese, and liverwurst. 749 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:06,240 Oh, you're not hungry? 750 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:08,240 Okay. 751 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:10,240 A sandwich, you? 752 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,240 No, thanks. I think I'll have an apple. 753 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:13,240 Yeah. 754 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,240 I fixed you a place there, Larson. 755 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:18,240 My coffee's right here. 756 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:22,240 It's a fine apple. 757 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:24,240 Nice and fresh. 758 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,240 This a Washington apple? 759 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:27,240 Yeah, I don't know. 760 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:29,240 Is that coffee hot enough? 761 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,240 Yeah, it's fine. 762 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:34,240 Where'd Mike pick these up? 763 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,240 Yeah, in Broster Street. 764 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:39,240 Eddies? 765 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:40,240 Yeah. 766 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:42,240 They don't taste good. 767 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:46,240 Well, drink your coffee anyway, Larson. It's getting cold. 768 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,240 All right! All right! 769 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:50,240 I didn't want to kill her. 770 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,240 She screamed and I hit her. All I wanted was her purse. That's all I wanted. 771 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,240 She...she wouldn't give to me. 772 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,240 She had to fight back, so I hit her. I didn't want to kill her. 773 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,240 All she had to do was give me the purse and I wouldn't have hurt her. 774 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:06,240 I was drinking and I didn't know what I was doing. 775 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:11,240 I was drunk. I was drunk. I didn't mean to kill her. 776 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:15,240 I didn't...I didn't mean to kill her. 777 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:18,240 Mike. 778 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:19,240 Yeah, Joe? 779 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,240 Stay with him. We'll call the stenographer. 780 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:29,240 See you tomorrow, Joe. Good night. 781 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,240 Yeah. Sour racket, huh? 782 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,240 The story you have just heard is true. 783 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:47,240 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 784 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:51,240 Frank Philip Larson was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree. 785 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:56,240 He was executed in the lethal gas chamber at the State Penitentiary. 786 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:06,240 You have just heard the fifth in a new series of authentic cases from official files. 787 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:11,240 Technical advice for Dragnet is furnished by the Los Angeles Police Department. 788 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:18,240 Tonight's program is dedicated to police officer Charles A. Brady of the Chicago, Illinois Police Department, 789 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:27,240 who on the night of September 2nd, 1945, gave his life so that yours might be more secure. 790 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,240 Dragnet came to you from Los Angeles. 791 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:41,240 This is NBC, the national broadcasting company.