WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:13.520 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:13.520 --> 00:17.520 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:17.520 --> 00:23.760 NBC brings you Dragnet. 00:23.760 --> 00:31.920 You're a detective sergeant. 00:31.920 --> 00:34.200 You're assigned to homicide. 00:34.200 --> 00:38.280 Somewhere in the tangled web of your city, there's a killer on the loose. 00:38.280 --> 00:40.800 A young woman has been brutally murdered. 00:40.800 --> 00:44.360 The weapon, a steel bludgeon. 00:44.360 --> 00:48.280 Your job is to get him. 00:48.280 --> 00:55.000 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime investigated and solved by the men who 00:55.000 --> 01:01.000 unrelentingly stand watch on the security of your home, your family, and your life. 01:01.000 --> 01:05.200 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:05.200 --> 01:09.560 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case from official police 01:09.560 --> 01:10.920 files. 01:10.920 --> 01:14.880 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment. 01:14.880 --> 01:23.680 Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 01:23.680 --> 01:25.280 It was Thursday, March 19th. 01:25.280 --> 01:27.960 It was foggy in Los Angeles. 01:27.960 --> 01:31.120 We were working the night watch out of homicide detail. 01:31.120 --> 01:32.680 My partner's Ben Romero. 01:32.680 --> 01:35.240 The boss is Ed Backstrand, Chief of Detectives. 01:35.240 --> 01:36.240 My name's Friday. 01:36.240 --> 01:42.560 It was 9.14 p.m. when I got to the old central jail building, third floor, the crime lab. 01:42.560 --> 01:44.280 Hi, Joe. 01:44.280 --> 01:45.360 Hi, Common Lee. 01:45.360 --> 01:46.360 Just ran a spectrograph. 01:46.360 --> 01:47.480 What'd you find? 01:47.480 --> 01:51.240 The paint flake from the victim's head matches that paint on the hunk of pipe. 01:51.240 --> 01:52.240 Any prints? 01:52.240 --> 01:54.400 The pipe was clean, no latent prints. 01:54.400 --> 01:55.400 That figured. 01:55.400 --> 01:56.400 Anything else? 01:56.400 --> 01:57.400 Got those blood test reports. 01:57.400 --> 01:59.840 Couple of slides for you to look at under the comparison mic. 01:59.840 --> 02:00.840 Thanks, Lee. 02:00.840 --> 02:01.840 Oh, hi, Joe. 02:01.840 --> 02:03.240 Didn't hear you come in. 02:03.240 --> 02:05.240 What's it look like, Ben? 02:05.240 --> 02:06.760 Here's the blood test reports. 02:06.760 --> 02:09.240 This one is blood found on the piece of pipe. 02:09.240 --> 02:10.240 Type A. 02:10.240 --> 02:11.900 This one's blood from the victim. 02:11.900 --> 02:12.900 Type A. 02:12.900 --> 02:13.900 They match. 02:13.900 --> 02:14.900 Good boy. 02:14.900 --> 02:15.900 Doesn't mean too much, though. 02:15.900 --> 02:18.080 Did you look at these slides under the microscope? 02:18.080 --> 02:19.080 No, not yet. 02:19.080 --> 02:20.080 Well, this is your clincher. 02:20.080 --> 02:22.120 Wait till I get the light. 02:22.120 --> 02:25.720 Okay, take a look. 02:25.720 --> 02:26.720 Got a make? 02:26.720 --> 02:27.960 Yeah, go ahead. 02:27.960 --> 02:33.400 Well, this slide here on the right, that's a slice of hair from the victim's head. 02:33.400 --> 02:35.880 On the other slide is hair found on the steel pipe. 02:35.880 --> 02:36.880 Yeah. 02:36.880 --> 02:37.880 She had wavy hair. 02:37.880 --> 02:39.640 Both specimens are flat. 02:39.640 --> 02:40.640 Same hair, Joe. 02:40.640 --> 02:42.520 Got anything on that piece of pipe, Lee? 02:42.520 --> 02:43.520 Nothing. 02:43.520 --> 02:46.920 Just an ordinary steel pipe, 14 inches long. 02:46.920 --> 02:48.160 What else you got? 02:48.160 --> 02:51.880 The plaster impressions of those footprints we found by the body. 02:51.880 --> 02:54.880 Here they are. 02:54.880 --> 02:55.880 Crepes sold? 02:55.880 --> 02:58.160 Tennis shoes, new ones, size nine. 02:58.160 --> 02:59.160 Good impression. 02:59.160 --> 03:00.160 Ground was soft. 03:00.160 --> 03:05.520 Man, about 150 pounds, according to the length of stride, roughly about five feet, 10 inches 03:05.520 --> 03:06.520 tall. 03:06.520 --> 03:07.520 Yeah, new shoes, all right. 03:07.520 --> 03:09.520 You can still read the manufacturer's label. 03:09.520 --> 03:10.520 That's right. 03:10.520 --> 03:11.520 Made by the Sport King Company. 03:11.520 --> 03:12.960 Well, that's something to follow up. 03:12.960 --> 03:13.960 Yeah, sure. 03:13.960 --> 03:15.400 You could start with the tennis courts. 03:15.400 --> 03:17.880 Only about a thousand or so in L.A. 03:17.880 --> 03:20.120 Maybe you'd rather track down the brand. 03:20.120 --> 03:22.560 These particular tennis shoes are the biggest sellers in the country. 03:22.560 --> 03:23.560 Yeah. 03:23.560 --> 03:24.560 Where'd you like to start? 03:24.560 --> 03:26.260 Minneapolis or Pullman, Washington? 03:26.260 --> 03:27.440 What about that glove? 03:27.440 --> 03:29.560 Yeah, you might look for a missing glove. 03:29.560 --> 03:30.560 Yeah. 03:30.560 --> 03:33.240 They go well with the shoes, just about as common. 03:33.240 --> 03:35.960 White cotton work gloves with a blue top. 03:35.960 --> 03:36.960 Here's the right glove. 03:36.960 --> 03:37.960 You find the left one. 03:37.960 --> 03:38.960 Blood on a glove? 03:38.960 --> 03:39.960 Type A. 03:39.960 --> 03:42.360 Oh, that's good evidence, Jones, but where's the lead? 03:42.360 --> 03:45.320 Now, look, I don't ask you to pay my parking tickets. 03:45.320 --> 03:46.320 You want to see blowups? 03:46.320 --> 03:47.320 Yeah, okay. 03:47.320 --> 03:48.320 Right over here. 03:48.320 --> 03:49.320 Oh, yeah. 03:49.320 --> 03:52.880 This is the vacant lot where they found the body. 03:52.880 --> 03:53.880 Yeah, that's right. 03:53.880 --> 03:58.920 Here's a close-up of her showing the location of the murder weapon, the glove, and the footprints 03:58.920 --> 04:00.880 relative to the position of the body. 04:00.880 --> 04:02.200 Looks as bad as yesterday. 04:02.200 --> 04:04.360 Sure did work her over, didn't it? 04:04.360 --> 04:06.000 The rest of these are morgue shots. 04:06.000 --> 04:07.000 Interested? 04:07.000 --> 04:08.400 No, I checked them this morning. 04:08.400 --> 04:09.400 Once is enough, Lee. 04:09.400 --> 04:10.400 Yeah, that winds it, boy. 04:10.400 --> 04:13.000 You want to go over the stuff in her purse again? 04:13.000 --> 04:14.240 You find anything more? 04:14.240 --> 04:16.280 No, nothing you haven't seen already. 04:16.280 --> 04:17.280 The usual. 04:17.280 --> 04:18.280 Makeup, comb, barrette. 04:18.280 --> 04:19.280 It's a hair clip. 04:19.280 --> 04:22.920 A few cheap stones in it. 04:22.920 --> 04:25.560 Loose change, a quarter nickel, a few pennies. 04:25.560 --> 04:27.560 Her ID card. 04:27.560 --> 04:28.560 Yeah. 04:28.560 --> 04:33.640 Helen Corday, 33, Naomi Place, age 21. 04:33.640 --> 04:34.640 21. 04:34.640 --> 04:37.880 That's not very old, is it, Lee? 04:37.880 --> 04:39.880 Not to die. 04:39.880 --> 04:42.320 Helen Corday. 04:42.320 --> 04:48.320 Who could kill Helen Corday? 04:48.320 --> 04:49.320 Why? 04:49.320 --> 04:53.960 Why do you say that, Mr. Meyer? 04:53.960 --> 04:55.320 People kill for money. 04:55.320 --> 04:56.960 They kill for love. 04:56.960 --> 04:58.720 Helen Corday had none of these. 04:58.720 --> 04:59.720 No boyfriend? 04:59.720 --> 05:00.720 Not in here. 05:00.720 --> 05:01.720 No, she was a good worker. 05:01.720 --> 05:04.720 Five different vaders has the Union sends me. 05:04.720 --> 05:05.720 One month. 05:05.720 --> 05:06.720 Five. 05:06.720 --> 05:07.720 Did the Union send Helen to you? 05:07.720 --> 05:08.720 Sure. 05:08.720 --> 05:09.720 Sure. 05:09.720 --> 05:10.720 One like Helen. 05:10.720 --> 05:13.760 Oh, she was sweet, honest, and courteous. 05:13.760 --> 05:17.400 Mr. Meyer, did you know anything about her personal life? 05:17.400 --> 05:19.600 Only that she was a good worker. 05:19.600 --> 05:21.760 Everything else she took home with her from this place. 05:21.760 --> 05:24.840 Did she ever mention any men to you, anyone at all? 05:24.840 --> 05:26.440 No gentlemen, not one. 05:26.440 --> 05:28.400 How much money did she make here? 05:28.400 --> 05:32.760 I paid her $26.50 a week, every Tuesday. 05:32.760 --> 05:36.200 Not much salary for so much work, but the tips are very good here. 05:36.200 --> 05:37.200 Nice customers. 05:37.200 --> 05:40.000 This is her home address, 33 Naomi Place. 05:40.000 --> 05:42.480 33 Naomi, that's right. 05:42.480 --> 05:44.720 Thank you very much, Mr. Meyer, for your time. 05:44.720 --> 05:48.960 I wonder what kind of a person does things like that. 05:48.960 --> 05:52.360 Who could kill Helen Corday? 05:52.360 --> 05:55.360 Everybody liked Helen. 05:55.360 --> 05:57.600 Helen Corday? 05:57.600 --> 05:58.600 I never liked her. 05:58.600 --> 06:04.240 Come on in the office, boys, where we can talk. 06:04.240 --> 06:05.720 Never liked her because I never knew her. 06:05.720 --> 06:06.720 You the head of the Union? 06:06.720 --> 06:07.720 I'm just a steward. 06:07.720 --> 06:09.680 I know most of the girls. 06:09.680 --> 06:12.040 This Corday girl, what was she, what did she look like? 06:12.040 --> 06:14.480 Small brunette, about 5'3". 06:14.480 --> 06:15.480 Here's a picture. 06:15.480 --> 06:18.880 Yeah, pretty girl, wasn't she? 06:18.880 --> 06:20.680 Oh, sure, sure. 06:20.680 --> 06:23.680 Place Dorado's place. 06:23.680 --> 06:25.720 Nice little Dutch fella, Otto Meyer. 06:25.720 --> 06:27.520 That's right, he seemed to think quite a lot of her. 06:27.520 --> 06:30.200 Yeah, she was a fine worker. 06:30.200 --> 06:32.200 Oh, sure. 06:32.200 --> 06:34.960 Always right up on her dues, paid all the assessments right on time. 06:34.960 --> 06:36.320 I thought you said you didn't know her. 06:36.320 --> 06:40.120 Well, not right off I didn't, but when you showed me that picture there, placed her right 06:40.120 --> 06:41.120 away. 06:41.120 --> 06:42.120 You know anything about her personal life? 06:42.120 --> 06:43.120 Oh, wait a minute. 06:43.120 --> 06:45.640 Why all these questions? 06:45.640 --> 06:48.000 Helen Corday was murdered last night. 06:48.000 --> 06:50.640 Oh, who did it? 06:50.640 --> 06:51.960 You know anything about her personal life? 06:51.960 --> 06:54.160 Oh, you're going to see my position, Sergeant. 06:54.160 --> 06:56.880 Twelve hundred girls, check them in, check them out. 06:56.880 --> 06:59.580 Oh, it just names to me till I see a picture of them. 06:59.580 --> 07:03.520 You wouldn't know if she had any boyfriends here in the Union, waiters, busboys? 07:03.520 --> 07:04.520 That I wouldn't know. 07:04.520 --> 07:08.160 Like I tell you, Sergeant, I never knew Helen Corday. 07:08.160 --> 07:13.280 Sure, I knew Helen Corday. 07:13.280 --> 07:15.880 Gus plays a nice piano, huh, Sergeant? 07:15.880 --> 07:16.880 Yeah. 07:16.880 --> 07:18.720 I read about it in the paper this morning. 07:18.720 --> 07:21.360 How long you been selling pianos here at this place? 07:21.360 --> 07:23.920 About as long as I knew Helen. 07:23.920 --> 07:24.920 Three years. 07:24.920 --> 07:27.120 How'd you find me? 07:27.120 --> 07:28.720 Helen's landlady, we talked to her yesterday. 07:28.720 --> 07:30.960 She told us she worked here at this piano store. 07:30.960 --> 07:33.600 Oh, funny, isn't it? 07:33.600 --> 07:34.600 It's funny. 07:34.600 --> 07:36.640 See Gus over there? 07:36.640 --> 07:39.240 That fellow demonstrating the piano? 07:39.240 --> 07:42.080 Few weeks ago I made a deal with him to give Helen piano lessons. 07:42.080 --> 07:44.840 I figured it would help her with her singing lessons. 07:44.840 --> 07:46.720 Wanted to be a singer, you know. 07:46.720 --> 07:48.440 Did Helen know that fellow Gus? 07:48.440 --> 07:50.360 No, she never met him. 07:50.360 --> 07:52.600 Who gave her the singing lessons, Miss Olsen? 07:52.600 --> 07:54.080 She took from Ostrander. 07:54.080 --> 07:56.040 Paul Ostrander out on Melrose. 07:56.040 --> 07:58.780 A lot of movie people used to take from him. 07:58.780 --> 08:00.040 What do you know about her personal life? 08:00.040 --> 08:01.040 How do you mean? 08:01.040 --> 08:02.040 Does she have any boyfriends? 08:02.040 --> 08:05.200 Well, yes. 08:05.200 --> 08:06.560 You don't seem sure, Miss Olsen. 08:06.560 --> 08:08.560 Well, it's just that I don't know. 08:08.560 --> 08:14.160 I never asked Helen, but she did have a few dates with Paul Ostrander. 08:14.160 --> 08:16.320 I don't think she was serious. 08:16.320 --> 08:17.320 How about Ostrander? 08:17.320 --> 08:18.320 Gee, I don't know, Sergeant. 08:18.320 --> 08:21.880 I don't want to involve anybody. 08:21.880 --> 08:23.880 You want to help us find the killer, don't you? 08:23.880 --> 08:27.960 Yes, but if you're thinking Paul Ostrander did it, no. 08:27.960 --> 08:28.960 I'm sure he didn't kill her. 08:28.960 --> 08:36.680 That's all for today, Victoria. 08:36.680 --> 08:53.960 No, gentlemen, I did not kill Helen for a day. 08:53.960 --> 08:55.740 You gave her singing lessons, Mr. Ostrander. 08:55.740 --> 08:56.740 You know her pretty well. 08:56.740 --> 09:00.600 Yes, I gave her voice coaching for about a year and a half. 09:00.600 --> 09:01.600 Helen showed a little promise. 09:01.600 --> 09:02.600 Not a great voice. 09:02.600 --> 09:03.600 A bad vibrato. 09:03.600 --> 09:04.600 You knew her pretty well. 09:04.600 --> 09:05.600 Why do you say that? 09:05.600 --> 09:10.320 Mr. Ostrander, didn't you used to take her out once in a while? 09:10.320 --> 09:11.320 No. 09:11.320 --> 09:12.800 I didn't know Helen socially at all. 09:12.800 --> 09:14.120 We know you had dates with her. 09:14.120 --> 09:15.120 That's not true. 09:15.120 --> 09:17.720 The only times I saw her was when she came here to the studio for lessons. 09:17.720 --> 09:19.840 You better tell the truth, Mr. Ostrander. 09:19.840 --> 09:21.800 We can prove that you've been out with her. 09:21.800 --> 09:23.760 Afraid of the publicity, is that it? 09:23.760 --> 09:24.760 Certainly, that's it. 09:24.760 --> 09:26.480 I have a successful business here. 09:26.480 --> 09:27.800 I've spent years building it. 09:27.800 --> 09:28.960 Anything like this would ruin me. 09:28.960 --> 09:30.240 Then you have been out with her. 09:30.240 --> 09:31.240 Only a few times. 09:31.240 --> 09:32.240 Nothing serious. 09:32.240 --> 09:33.240 I had nothing to do with her murder. 09:33.240 --> 09:34.240 Now, that's the truth. 09:34.240 --> 09:37.520 Don't you know that withholding information about a thing like this can go kind of hard 09:37.520 --> 09:38.520 for you? 09:38.520 --> 09:39.520 Yes, I know that. 09:39.520 --> 09:40.520 What else could I do? 09:40.520 --> 09:44.160 Mr. Ostrander, somewhere in this city right now, there's a guy who beat a young girl to 09:44.160 --> 09:45.160 death. 09:45.160 --> 09:46.440 He crushed her skull with a piece of steel pipe. 09:46.440 --> 09:48.440 We need every bit of information we can get to track him down. 09:48.440 --> 09:49.440 I know that, son. 09:49.440 --> 09:50.520 You could have come to us. 09:50.520 --> 09:51.960 We wouldn't run to the newspapers with it. 09:51.960 --> 09:54.220 If the information's confidential, that's the way we treat it. 09:54.220 --> 09:56.800 Most of the time, it's the people who run to the newspapers first, then they come to 09:56.800 --> 09:57.800 us. 09:57.800 --> 09:58.800 That's right, Mr. Ostrander. 09:58.800 --> 09:59.800 People are their own press agents. 09:59.800 --> 10:03.480 Sergeant, I'd like to know what right you have to invade my privacy and lecture me on 10:03.480 --> 10:04.480 my civic duty. 10:04.480 --> 10:05.680 All right, I'll tell you what right, Ostrander. 10:05.680 --> 10:07.120 We want the man who murdered Helen Corday. 10:07.120 --> 10:09.600 I got as much right as he had at 1214 this morning. 10:09.600 --> 10:10.600 Come on, Joe. 10:10.600 --> 10:11.600 Yeah. 10:11.600 --> 10:12.600 Thanks, Mr. Ostrander. 10:12.600 --> 10:15.600 Sorry if I invaded your privacy. 10:15.600 --> 10:24.600 Chief of Detectives, Overs. 10:24.600 --> 10:25.600 Hannan. 10:25.600 --> 10:27.600 No, I'm sorry, ma'am. 10:27.600 --> 10:29.600 You got the wrong extension. 10:29.600 --> 10:30.600 Try 2511. 10:30.600 --> 10:31.600 You're welcome. 10:31.600 --> 10:32.600 Hi, Friday, Romero. 10:32.600 --> 10:33.600 Chief's been looking for you. 10:33.600 --> 10:34.600 Thank you, Mike. 10:34.600 --> 10:35.600 Come on, Joe. 10:35.600 --> 10:36.600 Yeah. 10:36.600 --> 10:37.600 Hello, Joe. 10:37.600 --> 10:38.600 Ben. 10:38.600 --> 10:39.600 Sit down. 10:39.600 --> 10:40.600 What'd you get? 10:40.600 --> 10:41.600 A notebook full of notes. 10:41.600 --> 10:46.600 A crime lab full of evidence, nothing to tie them together. 10:46.600 --> 10:48.600 These are some of the people you interviewed. 10:48.600 --> 10:52.600 Yeah, those and about a dozen more we didn't even take notes on. 10:52.600 --> 10:54.600 It's hard to figure, Skipper. 10:54.600 --> 10:56.600 Everybody seemed to like this girl. 10:56.600 --> 10:57.600 Helen Corday. 10:57.600 --> 10:58.600 No known relatives. 10:58.600 --> 11:01.600 Single, unattached girl, living all alone in the city. 11:01.600 --> 11:02.600 Few friends and no enemies. 11:02.600 --> 11:04.600 None we can find, anyway. 11:04.600 --> 11:08.600 Are you satisfied that all the people you interviewed are in the clear? 11:08.600 --> 11:11.600 Well, if we're gonna stick to the simple robbery motive, we are. 11:11.600 --> 11:14.600 The kind of money Helen Corday made wouldn't interest those people. 11:14.600 --> 11:16.600 How are you doing on the outside, Leeds? 11:16.600 --> 11:17.600 Nothing. 11:17.600 --> 11:19.600 If we could just find one hole someplace, anything. 11:19.600 --> 11:21.600 All right, now look. 11:21.600 --> 11:23.600 You've got a lab full of evidence across the street. 11:23.600 --> 11:25.600 You've got a book full of names here. 11:25.600 --> 11:26.600 You've got the pieces. 11:26.600 --> 11:27.600 Now fit them together. 11:27.600 --> 11:29.600 They just don't add. 11:29.600 --> 11:32.600 Well, go over them and keep going over them until they do add. 11:32.600 --> 11:33.600 Anything from the informants? 11:33.600 --> 11:34.600 No, nothing so far. 11:34.600 --> 11:35.600 No tips on anybody. 11:35.600 --> 11:38.600 That's been dough heavy lately. 11:38.600 --> 11:39.600 Nobody's shooting off their mouth. 11:39.600 --> 11:41.600 The guy we want won't advertise. 11:41.600 --> 11:43.600 Figures himself a pretty smooth operator. 11:43.600 --> 11:46.600 But he probably made a mistake somewhere along the line. 11:46.600 --> 11:47.600 We'll find it. 11:47.600 --> 11:48.600 Got a hot shot, Ed? 11:48.600 --> 11:49.600 Yeah. 11:49.600 --> 11:50.600 3220 Casino. 11:50.600 --> 11:51.600 Woman. 11:51.600 --> 11:52.600 Probable attack. 11:52.600 --> 11:53.600 All right, Friday. 11:53.600 --> 11:55.600 You and Ben run it down. 11:55.600 --> 11:59.600 We ran down the hot shot call for 3220 Casino. 11:59.600 --> 11:40.240 Turned out to be a 11:40.240 --> 11:45.240 typical dead end lead. 11:45.240 --> 11:47.240 Her name was Mrs. Lillian Horn. 11:47.240 --> 12:05.240 She was a very good 12:05.240 --> 12:10.240 operator. 12:10.240 --> 12:14.240 For the past five years, Mr. Horn had been paid regularly on Wednesdays. 12:14.240 --> 12:18.240 He spent all day Thursday drinking up his paycheck and beating his wife. 12:18.240 --> 12:20.240 The call had no connection with the Corday murder. 12:20.240 --> 12:24.240 We made the usual call into communications. 12:24.240 --> 12:25.240 Unit 80K to Control 1. 12:25.240 --> 12:27.240 80K to Control 1. 12:27.240 --> 12:28.240 Entry 1 to 80K. 12:28.240 --> 12:29.240 Go ahead. 12:29.240 --> 12:32.240 On that probable attack, 3220 Casino. 12:32.240 --> 12:33.240 Code 4. 12:33.240 --> 12:35.240 80K, Roger. 12:35.240 --> 12:40.240 80K to Control 1, KMA 367. 12:40.240 --> 12:41.240 That was the beginning. 12:41.240 --> 12:46.240 For the next three days, we followed up every lead and every call, but they were all blind. 12:46.240 --> 12:50.240 All units were alerted and they had as much information on the killer of Helen Corday 12:50.240 --> 12:52.240 as we did. 12:52.240 --> 12:54.240 Ben and I cruised throughout the entire central division. 12:54.240 --> 12:59.240 We covered every probable call that might have some connection with the murder. 12:59.240 --> 13:04.240 Attention, Unit 41R. 1654 Swanson Terrace. 13:04.240 --> 13:05.240 A woman. 13:05.240 --> 13:07.240 Victim of probable attack. 13:07.240 --> 13:08.240 Code 3. 13:08.240 --> 13:11.240 Unit 41R. 13:11.240 --> 13:15.240 It didn't make any difference what the call was, but there was a possibility it might 13:15.240 --> 13:17.240 tie in with the Corday murder we ran it down. 13:17.240 --> 13:19.240 We made it a 24-hour job. 13:19.240 --> 13:25.240 So far, if the killer made a mistake, we hadn't been able to find it. 13:25.240 --> 13:27.240 The Corday funeral was on Monday. 13:27.240 --> 13:31.240 They were all there, the girl's landlady, the voice teacher Ostrander, the girlfriend 13:31.240 --> 13:36.240 Marie Olson, the man from the Union, and her boss Otto Meyer. 13:36.240 --> 13:38.240 But nobody else we hadn't checked. 13:38.240 --> 13:41.240 That was Monday afternoon. 13:41.240 --> 13:45.240 Monday night, we went back to the old routine, tracking calls during the night in the squad 13:45.240 --> 13:48.240 car, picking up small threads that led nowhere. 13:48.240 --> 13:51.240 Three more days of the same thing. 13:51.240 --> 13:55.240 Thursday morning, one week after we found Helen Corday's body, we got an anonymous phone 13:55.240 --> 13:56.240 tip. 13:56.240 --> 13:57.240 We didn't know who killed Helen Corday. 13:57.240 --> 13:59.240 His name is George Barlow. 13:59.240 --> 14:01.240 He lives at 418 White Oak Avenue. 14:01.240 --> 14:03.240 He used to date her up all the time. 14:03.240 --> 14:08.240 Get him and you've got the murderer. 14:08.240 --> 14:11.240 We checked George Barlow and about ten others just like him. 14:11.240 --> 14:13.240 None of them knew Helen Corday. 14:13.240 --> 14:18.240 Saturday night, Ben and I were back in the squad car, cruising the central division. 14:18.240 --> 14:20.240 Saturday night's a good night for robbery. 14:20.240 --> 14:24.240 By 10 p.m., we'd run down four various calls. 14:24.240 --> 14:27.240 One-twenty-three, code one. 14:27.240 --> 14:30.240 One-twenty-three, Roger. 14:30.240 --> 14:34.240 12G, call your station. 14:34.240 --> 14:37.240 Unit 13R, 1254 Tower Road. 14:37.240 --> 14:38.240 A woman screaming. 14:38.240 --> 14:39.240 Investigate the trouble. 14:39.240 --> 14:40.240 Code two. 14:40.240 --> 14:41.240 Let's handle that one, Ben. 14:41.240 --> 14:42.240 Yeah, okay. 14:42.240 --> 14:43.240 I'll notify communications. 14:43.240 --> 14:45.240 Unit 80K to Control One. 14:45.240 --> 14:48.240 80K to Control One. 14:48.240 --> 14:50.240 Control One to Unit 80K. 14:50.240 --> 14:51.240 Go ahead. 14:51.240 --> 14:54.240 I'm here, 1254 Tower Road call. We're in the vicinity. 14:54.240 --> 14:56.240 We will handle. 14:56.240 --> 14:57.240 80K, Roger. 14:57.240 --> 14:59.240 80K to Control One, CAM 8367. 14:59.240 --> 15:02.240 Let's go, Ben. 15:02.240 --> 15:05.240 Control One to 13R, disregard your last call. 15:05.240 --> 15:07.240 Handled by 80K. 15:07.240 --> 15:09.240 It should be right about here. 15:09.240 --> 15:12.240 Oh, here it is. 1254. 15:12.240 --> 15:17.240 That man had tried to kill me. 15:17.240 --> 15:18.240 He's running out of space. 15:18.240 --> 15:19.240 Where? 15:19.240 --> 15:21.240 He's getting to that guy, I think. 15:21.240 --> 15:22.240 He tried to kill me. 15:22.240 --> 15:24.240 Come on. 15:24.240 --> 15:26.240 Where'd he go, Joe? 15:26.240 --> 15:28.240 Turn right at the next corner. 15:30.240 --> 15:32.240 That's him up ahead. 15:32.240 --> 15:33.240 He's got a good lead on us. 15:33.240 --> 15:35.240 Hit the siren. 15:35.240 --> 15:37.240 He's gaining, Joe. 15:37.240 --> 15:40.240 Take a left at the next corner. 15:40.240 --> 15:41.240 Oh, he isn't gonna stop. 15:41.240 --> 15:43.240 Close in as tight as you can, Ben. 15:43.240 --> 15:44.240 Down to the floor now. 15:44.240 --> 15:45.240 Swing out to the left a little. 15:45.240 --> 15:46.240 I'm going for his tires. 15:46.240 --> 15:49.240 What? 15:49.240 --> 15:50.240 That'll slow him down. 15:50.240 --> 15:51.240 Pull up on him. 15:51.240 --> 15:54.240 Yeah. 15:54.240 --> 15:56.240 All right, Joe. 15:56.240 --> 15:57.240 Keep both hands on that wheel 15:57.240 --> 15:59.240 and get over to the curb. 15:59.240 --> 16:00.240 Cover me, Joe. 16:00.240 --> 16:01.240 Right. 16:01.240 --> 16:04.240 Out of that car, mister. 16:04.240 --> 16:05.240 Shake him down. 16:05.240 --> 16:06.240 Hey, take it easy, will you? 16:06.240 --> 16:07.240 I haven't got a gun. 16:07.240 --> 16:09.240 Put the cuffs on him. 16:09.240 --> 16:13.240 Hey, you boys work fast. 16:13.240 --> 16:15.240 What am I to do with the gas chamber? 16:15.240 --> 16:16.240 Just save that, Matthew. 16:16.240 --> 16:18.240 That's pretty rough treatment for speeding. 16:18.240 --> 16:22.240 All right, come on, you. 16:22.240 --> 16:26.240 Look, I got a right to know where you're taking me. 16:26.240 --> 16:28.240 What's the charge? 16:28.240 --> 16:30.240 We let the girl tell you. 16:30.240 --> 16:31.240 What girl? 16:31.240 --> 16:34.240 You just sit there and be quiet, huh? 16:34.240 --> 16:36.240 Oh, I know where you're going. 16:36.240 --> 16:38.240 There's a place back on Taro Road. 16:38.240 --> 16:39.240 Well, I asked to use the phone, 16:39.240 --> 16:42.240 and the girl slammed the door in my face. 16:42.240 --> 16:44.240 I don't know what your cops are trying to prove. 16:44.240 --> 16:47.240 I just wanted to use the phone, that's all. 16:47.240 --> 16:49.240 I even tried to scare her a little. 16:49.240 --> 16:50.240 I told her I'd hit her over the head 16:50.240 --> 16:54.240 if she didn't let me use the phone. 16:54.240 --> 16:56.240 That's a laugh, huh? 16:56.240 --> 16:58.240 All right, you get out. 16:58.240 --> 16:59.240 Yeah, I suppose so. 16:59.240 --> 17:00.240 Get out. 17:00.240 --> 17:02.240 Hey. 17:02.240 --> 17:06.240 I got nothing to hide. 17:06.240 --> 17:11.240 That little girl's going to lie, you know that, don't you? 17:11.240 --> 17:12.240 Who's there? 17:12.240 --> 17:15.240 Police officer. 17:15.240 --> 17:17.240 It's the man. 17:17.240 --> 17:18.240 That's him. 17:18.240 --> 17:23.240 He tried to kill me. 17:23.240 --> 17:24.240 His full name's Frank Philip Larson. 17:24.240 --> 17:26.240 They had no previous record. 17:26.240 --> 17:27.240 This the girl's report? 17:27.240 --> 17:30.240 Yeah, that's it, skipper. 17:30.240 --> 17:32.240 Judy Scott. 17:32.240 --> 17:33.240 How old is she? 17:33.240 --> 17:34.240 He's 19. 17:34.240 --> 17:35.240 He's a babysitter. 17:35.240 --> 17:37.240 Real tough boy, isn't he? 17:37.240 --> 17:39.240 Forced his way into the house, 17:39.240 --> 17:41.240 beat her about the neck and arms. 17:41.240 --> 17:43.240 That tire iron. 17:43.240 --> 17:44.240 We found it in his car. 17:44.240 --> 17:46.240 Jones is running it through the crime lab. 17:46.240 --> 17:47.240 Asked her if she had any money. 17:47.240 --> 17:48.240 She told him no. 17:48.240 --> 17:49.240 Struck her again. 17:49.240 --> 17:50.240 Where does Larson live? 17:50.240 --> 17:52.240 Hotel out near Santa Monica. 17:52.240 --> 17:53.240 He's a clothing salesman. 17:53.240 --> 17:55.240 He works for a big men's store, Burns & Company. 17:55.240 --> 17:56.240 According to the house book sales record, 17:56.240 --> 17:58.240 he bought a pair of tennis shoes two weeks ago. 17:58.240 --> 18:01.240 He weighs 158 pounds, 5 foot 11 inches. 18:01.240 --> 18:02.240 Tennis shoes are missing. 18:02.240 --> 18:03.240 They're not in his hotel room. 18:03.240 --> 18:04.240 He's not wearing them. 18:04.240 --> 18:05.240 What else did you find? 18:05.240 --> 18:06.240 A rhinestone. 18:06.240 --> 18:07.240 You mean a pin? 18:07.240 --> 18:08.240 No, just a small loose stone 18:08.240 --> 18:10.240 recovered from the rug in Larson's room. 18:10.240 --> 18:11.240 Crime lab got it. 18:11.240 --> 18:12.240 Working on it now. 18:12.240 --> 18:14.240 Ed, I think... 18:19.240 --> 18:21.240 We got the man who killed Helen Corday. 18:25.240 --> 18:28.240 A few scraps of circumstantial evidence and a hunch. 18:28.240 --> 18:30.240 That's not much to go on. 18:30.240 --> 18:33.240 Larson had gone after the little Scott girl with the tire iron. 18:33.240 --> 18:35.240 Wasn't much of a tie-in, but we had to be sure. 18:35.240 --> 18:37.240 All that day we checked Frank Larson's alibi 18:37.240 --> 18:39.240 for the night of Helen Corday's murder. 18:39.240 --> 18:41.240 We interviewed the personnel manager at Burns & Company, 18:41.240 --> 18:42.240 where he worked. 18:42.240 --> 18:44.240 We talked to all the clerks who knew him. 18:44.240 --> 18:46.240 The manager of the hotel where he lived. 18:46.240 --> 18:48.240 We found out everything we could about Frank Larson. 18:48.240 --> 18:49.240 And that night at 10 o'clock, 18:49.240 --> 18:52.240 we had the prisoner brought to the interrogation room. 18:52.240 --> 18:54.240 How are you, Larson? 18:54.240 --> 18:55.240 Fine. 18:55.240 --> 18:57.240 Just fine. I like jail. 18:57.240 --> 18:58.240 Sit down. 18:58.240 --> 19:00.240 Lousy weather. It's been foggy all over town. 19:00.240 --> 19:02.240 I wouldn't know. I've been inside all day. 19:02.240 --> 19:03.240 How old are you, Larson? 19:03.240 --> 19:06.240 31. Same as the last time you asked me. 19:06.240 --> 19:07.240 Where'd you go to school? 19:07.240 --> 19:09.240 I didn't. I was born smart. 19:09.240 --> 19:11.240 You sell clothes, don't you, Larson? 19:11.240 --> 19:14.240 We know you work for Burns & Company. Remember? You told us. 19:14.240 --> 19:16.240 What is all this? What are you guys trying to build? 19:16.240 --> 19:18.240 Just want to know if you like selling clothes. That's all. 19:18.240 --> 19:21.240 Well, you coppers know about clothes. 19:21.240 --> 19:23.240 One blue surge a year is your speed. 19:23.240 --> 19:25.240 You know quite a bit about clothes, don't you? 19:25.240 --> 19:27.240 I've been selling them for five years. 19:27.240 --> 19:29.240 Can you tell me something I've been wondering about? 19:29.240 --> 19:30.240 What's that? 19:30.240 --> 19:32.240 Are your socks and tie always supposed to match? 19:32.240 --> 19:34.240 That's what the style books say. 19:34.240 --> 19:36.240 Bet you always know the right things to wear, don't you? 19:36.240 --> 19:39.240 You wouldn't wear black shoes with a brown suit, would you? 19:39.240 --> 19:42.240 Is that what you're keeping me here for? Style, isn't it? 19:42.240 --> 19:45.240 Oh, would you? Would you wear black shoes with a brown suit? 19:45.240 --> 19:47.240 Most people wouldn't. 19:47.240 --> 19:50.240 Bet you wouldn't wear brown shoes with a tuxedo either. 19:51.240 --> 19:53.240 I haven't smoked in too much. You got a glass of water? 19:53.240 --> 19:55.240 Oh, yeah, sure. 20:02.240 --> 20:03.240 There you are, Larson. 20:03.240 --> 20:06.240 Thanks. 20:08.240 --> 20:09.240 That's good and cold. 20:09.240 --> 20:12.240 How about it? Would you ever wear brown shoes with a tux? 20:12.240 --> 20:14.240 Nobody would. 20:14.240 --> 20:16.240 That's a navy blue flannel you got on there, isn't it? 20:16.240 --> 20:17.240 Yeah. 20:17.240 --> 20:18.240 It's a good-looking suit. 20:18.240 --> 20:20.240 Topron some time. Gets you a good deal. 20:20.240 --> 20:23.240 A suit like that flannel there you're wearing? 20:23.240 --> 20:25.240 You'd never wear tennis shoes with an outfit like that, would you? 20:25.240 --> 20:26.240 What do you think? 20:26.240 --> 20:29.240 I think you did. I think you wore them the night you killed Helen Corday. 20:29.240 --> 20:30.240 Who? 20:30.240 --> 20:31.240 Maybe you didn't have the blue suit on, 20:31.240 --> 20:33.240 but you were wearing tennis shoes, Sport King, size 9. 20:33.240 --> 20:37.240 Sell for $5.95. You picked them up at a discount. Cost you three and a quarter. 20:37.240 --> 20:38.240 Where'd you get that? 20:38.240 --> 20:40.240 Out of the house book, Burns & Company. 20:40.240 --> 20:42.240 You wouldn't have those shoes around now, would you? 20:42.240 --> 20:44.240 We couldn't find them in your hotel room. 20:44.240 --> 20:47.240 Your boss, Mr. Craig, used to think a lot of you, Larson. 20:47.240 --> 20:49.240 Before you started drinking on the job, 20:49.240 --> 20:52.240 your commission used to run pretty high up the last couple of months. 20:52.240 --> 20:54.240 What happened? That cheap ride get to you? 20:54.240 --> 20:56.240 Well, you two really nosed around, didn't you? 20:56.240 --> 20:58.240 When are you gonna tell me what I eat for breakfast? 20:58.240 --> 21:02.240 Corn flakes, cup of coffee, doughnut, sometimes two doughnuts when you're hungry. 21:02.240 --> 21:05.240 Elsie waits on you at the Royal Cafe. She gets a dime tip. 21:05.240 --> 21:07.240 And ask her more of that water. 21:07.240 --> 21:09.240 Help yourself, there's a cooler. 21:13.240 --> 21:15.240 They're good and cold. 21:19.240 --> 21:20.240 How about it, Larson? Where are the tennis shoes? 21:20.240 --> 21:21.240 They wore out. 21:21.240 --> 21:24.240 In three weeks? Ain't be very good tennis shoes. 21:24.240 --> 21:26.240 Oh, they didn't wear out. What'd you do with them? 21:26.240 --> 21:28.240 You know all the answers. You figure it out. 21:28.240 --> 21:31.240 We know you bought the tennis shoes. We don't know where they are now. 21:31.240 --> 21:33.240 We know you had them, size nine. 21:33.240 --> 21:35.240 Three feet from the body of Helen Corday, 21:35.240 --> 21:38.240 we found two size nine footprints made by a pair of Sport King tennis shoes. 21:38.240 --> 21:40.240 We figured the man weighed about 150 pounds. 21:40.240 --> 21:41.240 You weigh 158? 21:41.240 --> 21:43.240 Figured he's about 5'10". 21:43.240 --> 21:44.240 You're 5'11". 21:44.240 --> 21:48.240 You come awful close to being the same bill as the man who killed Helen Corday, don't you, Larson? 21:48.240 --> 21:50.240 Man, you wear the same size tennis shoes, same brand name. 21:50.240 --> 21:53.240 A lot of people wear nines. It's the average size. 21:53.240 --> 21:55.240 They sell a lot of Sport Kings, too. Everybody wears them. 21:55.240 --> 21:57.240 If we could find your pair, it might make a difference. 21:57.240 --> 22:00.240 Doesn't mean your tennis shoes made the prints with the body. 22:00.240 --> 22:02.240 Doesn't prove it didn't, neither. 22:02.240 --> 22:03.240 What'd you do with them, Larson? 22:03.240 --> 22:04.240 I threw them away. 22:04.240 --> 22:06.240 That's too bad. It might make a difference. 22:06.240 --> 22:08.240 Oh, what difference could it make? I threw them away, that's all. 22:08.240 --> 22:10.240 Now, how about the mate to this glove? 22:10.240 --> 22:12.240 I never saw it before. 22:12.240 --> 22:15.240 Found this right-hand glove by the body of Helen Corday. 22:15.240 --> 22:17.240 Just an ordinary cottonwork glove. Everybody wears them. 22:17.240 --> 22:21.240 If we could find the missing left glove, well, it might make a difference. 22:21.240 --> 22:23.240 Size medium. That's average, too, isn't it, Larson? 22:23.240 --> 22:25.240 I never saw work gloves. I wouldn't know. 22:25.240 --> 22:27.240 No, but you bought work gloves, haven't you? 22:27.240 --> 22:28.240 Not a pair of those. 22:28.240 --> 22:30.240 Clean like this, don't you? We only got one. 22:30.240 --> 22:31.240 What kind of work gloves did you buy? 22:31.240 --> 22:32.240 I didn't buy any. 22:32.240 --> 22:33.240 You just said you did. 22:33.240 --> 22:34.240 I never said I bought any work gloves. 22:34.240 --> 22:36.240 You bought tennis shoes, though, didn't you? 22:36.240 --> 22:38.240 I told you I bought the tennis shoes. 22:38.240 --> 22:39.240 Didn't I tell you I bought them? 22:39.240 --> 22:40.240 No, you didn't tell us. We told you. 22:40.240 --> 22:42.240 We found out from Burns & Company where you worked. 22:42.240 --> 22:44.240 All right, you told me. I bought them. You know that. 22:44.240 --> 22:47.240 Same kind of tennis shoes that made footprints by Helen Corday's butt. 22:47.240 --> 22:48.240 It wasn't me. 22:48.240 --> 22:49.240 Then why won't you tell us what you did with these shoes? 22:49.240 --> 22:50.240 I've already told you I threw them away. 22:50.240 --> 22:53.240 They were only three weeks old. Must have worn out awful fast. 22:53.240 --> 22:55.240 I didn't say they wore out. They got too dirty. 22:55.240 --> 22:56.240 No, you told us they wore out. Remember, Larson? 22:56.240 --> 22:58.240 I don't remember what I told you, but I don't have them now. 22:58.240 --> 23:00.240 We know you don't have them now. Where are they? 23:00.240 --> 23:02.240 He told us. They got too dirty. Right, Larson? 23:02.240 --> 23:05.240 Yes. Yes, yes. That's what I said. 23:05.240 --> 23:06.240 Anyhow, you haven't got them now. 23:06.240 --> 23:07.240 No, I haven't got them now. 23:07.240 --> 23:09.240 All right, now just for the record, Larson, which was it? 23:09.240 --> 23:10.240 Did they get too dirty or did they wear out? 23:10.240 --> 23:11.240 Whatever I said before. 23:11.240 --> 23:12.240 You said both before, Larson. 23:12.240 --> 23:14.240 All right, I said both. You haven't got anything on me. 23:14.240 --> 23:16.240 We got that little scut girl statement from last night. 23:16.240 --> 23:20.240 She said you tried to kill her. She's lying. I told you she'd lie, didn't I? 23:20.240 --> 23:21.240 I only wanted to use the phone. 23:21.240 --> 23:23.240 She says you hit her with a tire iron. Did you hit her with that iron? 23:23.240 --> 23:25.240 No, I only tried to scare her. I didn't hit her with anything. 23:25.240 --> 23:27.240 Then how'd you get those marks around her neck and arm? 23:27.240 --> 23:29.240 Police doctor says they were made by that tire iron. 23:29.240 --> 23:31.240 I don't care what your doctor says. I didn't hurt her. 23:31.240 --> 23:33.240 Now what do you mean, Larson? You didn't hurt her or you didn't hit her with that tire iron? 23:33.240 --> 23:35.240 Neither one. I just wanted to use her phone. 23:35.240 --> 23:36.240 How'd you know she had a phone? 23:36.240 --> 23:38.240 I didn't know if she had a phone. I just went up to find out. 23:38.240 --> 23:40.240 To find out what? To find out if I could use her phone. 23:40.240 --> 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? 23:48.240 --> 23:53.240 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I could use that. Here's the light. 23:56.240 --> 23:59.240 Larson, where were you Wednesday night, March 18th? 23:59.240 --> 24:01.240 How many times are you going to ask me that same question? 24:01.240 --> 24:03.240 Just want to make sure we got it right. 24:03.240 --> 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. 24:07.240 --> 24:08.240 What time did you get home? 24:08.240 --> 24:09.240 About 11.30. 24:09.240 --> 24:10.240 What time did you stay home? 24:10.240 --> 24:11.240 I went to bed. 24:11.240 --> 24:12.240 What did you see at the show? 24:12.240 --> 24:13.240 I never remember the names of them. 24:13.240 --> 24:16.240 You ought to try to remember this, and it's pretty important. 24:16.240 --> 24:19.240 I was at Deluxe Theater. I was Spencer Tracy and something. 24:19.240 --> 24:21.240 What was on when you walked in? 24:21.240 --> 24:23.240 The news. I never go in in the middle of a picture. 24:23.240 --> 24:25.240 Neither do I. It spoils them for me. 24:25.240 --> 24:26.240 Yeah, yeah, that's right. 24:26.240 --> 24:28.240 The girl in the box office doesn't remember seeing you go in. 24:28.240 --> 24:31.240 What would she know? I was keen all night. There was a big crowd. 24:31.240 --> 24:32.240 Did you win anything? 24:32.240 --> 24:33.240 I never do. 24:33.240 --> 24:34.240 Anybody hit the jackpot? 24:34.240 --> 24:35.240 I don't remember. 24:35.240 --> 24:38.240 They give away a lot of money towards neighborhood theater. I always remember who hits the jackpot. 24:38.240 --> 24:40.240 All right, you do. I don't. 24:40.240 --> 24:41.240 Do you remember if anybody won the jackpot? 24:41.240 --> 24:42.240 I told you, no. 24:42.240 --> 24:43.240 Do they have a jackpot at that show? 24:43.240 --> 24:45.240 I guess they do. I don't know. 24:45.240 --> 24:47.240 You knew it was Keno Night. You should know if they had a jackpot. 24:47.240 --> 24:50.240 Maybe they had a jackpot. I don't know. I went out for a smoke. 24:50.240 --> 24:52.240 You said the cartoon was on when you walked in. 24:52.240 --> 24:54.240 Why do you always twist what I say? 24:54.240 --> 24:56.240 I told you the news was on when I went in. 24:56.240 --> 24:58.240 You remember anything about the newsreel? 24:58.240 --> 25:00.240 It was ten days ago. How do I know it was in it? 25:00.240 --> 25:01.240 I only know it was a newsreel. That's all. 25:01.240 --> 25:03.240 You're lying, Larson. We checked your alibi. 25:03.240 --> 25:06.240 The manager of the theater had to cut the newsreel Wednesday night because the show was running long with Keno Night. 25:06.240 --> 25:08.240 You didn't go to the show Wednesday night, did you? 25:08.240 --> 25:10.240 All right, maybe I didn't. I don't remember. What's the difference? 25:10.240 --> 25:13.240 The difference is you could have been in that vacant lot the same night, the night Helen Corday was murdered. 25:13.240 --> 25:15.240 I didn't kill her. You can't prove I did. 25:17.240 --> 25:19.240 Interrogation room, Friday. 25:19.240 --> 25:21.240 Hi, Jones. 25:21.240 --> 25:23.240 You're dead, huh? 25:23.240 --> 25:24.240 You're positive. 25:24.240 --> 25:26.240 Uh-huh. Yeah. Okay. Thanks, Lee. 25:26.240 --> 25:29.240 Sure you don't want to tell us what you did with those tennis shoes? 25:29.240 --> 25:31.240 I'm not going to go back over all that. 25:31.240 --> 25:33.240 I've told you guys all I'm going to tell you. 25:33.240 --> 25:35.240 You know how the Corday girl was murdered? 25:35.240 --> 25:37.240 How would I know? I don't know anything about it. 25:37.240 --> 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. 25:41.240 --> 25:43.240 But you didn't go to the show that night, Larson. 25:43.240 --> 25:47.240 On her way home, Helen Corday always took a shortcut across a vacant lot. 25:47.240 --> 25:50.240 She was about halfway through the lot when the murderer tried to grab her purse. 25:50.240 --> 25:52.240 She screamed and he struck her. 25:52.240 --> 25:55.240 Hit her several times with a piece of steel pipe, 14 inches long. 25:55.240 --> 25:57.240 He beat her to death with that piece of steel pipe. 25:57.240 --> 25:59.240 Then he dropped the pipe in a right-hand cotton work glove. 25:59.240 --> 26:01.240 He left two footprints, size 9, sport king tennis shoes. 26:01.240 --> 26:02.240 I know all that. 26:02.240 --> 26:04.240 Well, here's something you don't know. 26:04.240 --> 26:08.240 When the killer scooped the paper money out of that girl's purse, he accidentally took along a loose rhinestone. 26:08.240 --> 26:11.240 A stone that fell out of a cheap barrette in the bottom of her bag. 26:11.240 --> 26:12.240 He carried that stone home with him. 26:12.240 --> 26:15.240 When he reached in his pocket to pull out the money he stole from her, the rhinestone fell on the floor. 26:15.240 --> 26:16.240 So? 26:16.240 --> 26:18.240 We found that rhinestone on the rug in your hotel room. 26:18.240 --> 26:20.240 Well, I haven't lived in that hotel room all my life. 26:20.240 --> 26:22.240 Maybe the tenant before me dropped it there. 26:22.240 --> 26:23.240 No, not this one. 26:23.240 --> 26:26.240 We checked the cement that held it in that barrette. It matches the glue on the stone. 26:26.240 --> 26:30.240 No, Larson, that rhinestone came from the hair clip that Helen Corday wore before she was murdered. 26:30.240 --> 26:32.240 That's enough to take you to the district to turn him in. 26:32.240 --> 26:33.240 What am I supposed to say? 26:33.240 --> 26:35.240 We want you to tell us the truth. Why did you kill Helen Corday? 26:38.240 --> 26:39.240 Yeah. 26:40.240 --> 26:42.240 You want the sandwiches and coffee now, Sergeant? 26:42.240 --> 26:45.240 Bring them in, Mike. Looks like we're going to be here a long time. 26:48.240 --> 26:52.240 Yeah, I brought you ham, cheese, and liverwurst. And some fruit. 26:52.240 --> 26:54.240 Coffee's black. Cream and sugar on the side. 26:54.240 --> 26:56.240 Thank you, Mike. 26:58.240 --> 26:59.240 That looks good. 27:00.240 --> 27:01.240 What kind do you want, Larson? 27:01.240 --> 27:03.240 Ham, cheese, and liverwurst. 27:05.240 --> 27:06.240 Oh, you're not hungry? 27:07.240 --> 27:08.240 Okay. 27:09.240 --> 27:10.240 A sandwich, you? 27:10.240 --> 27:12.240 No, thanks. I think I'll have an apple. 27:12.240 --> 27:13.240 Yeah. 27:14.240 --> 27:16.240 I fixed you a place there, Larson. 27:16.240 --> 27:18.240 My coffee's right here. 27:21.240 --> 27:22.240 It's a fine apple. 27:23.240 --> 27:24.240 Nice and fresh. 27:24.240 --> 27:26.240 This a Washington apple? 27:26.240 --> 27:27.240 Yeah, I don't know. 27:27.240 --> 27:29.240 Is that coffee hot enough? 27:29.240 --> 27:31.240 Yeah, it's fine. 27:33.240 --> 27:34.240 Where'd Mike pick these up? 27:34.240 --> 27:36.240 Yeah, in Broster Street. 27:38.240 --> 27:39.240 Eddies? 27:39.240 --> 27:40.240 Yeah. 27:41.240 --> 27:42.240 They don't taste good. 27:43.240 --> 27:46.240 Well, drink your coffee anyway, Larson. It's getting cold. 27:46.240 --> 27:48.240 All right! All right! 27:49.240 --> 27:50.240 I didn't want to kill her. 27:51.240 --> 27:54.240 She screamed and I hit her. All I wanted was her purse. That's all I wanted. 27:54.240 --> 27:56.240 She...she wouldn't give to me. 27:56.240 --> 27:59.240 She had to fight back, so I hit her. I didn't want to kill her. 27:59.240 --> 28:02.240 All she had to do was give me the purse and I wouldn't have hurt her. 28:02.240 --> 28:06.240 I was drinking and I didn't know what I was doing. 28:07.240 --> 28:11.240 I was drunk. I was drunk. I didn't mean to kill her. 28:11.240 --> 28:15.240 I didn't...I didn't mean to kill her. 28:17.240 --> 28:18.240 Mike. 28:18.240 --> 28:19.240 Yeah, Joe? 28:19.240 --> 28:21.240 Stay with him. We'll call the stenographer. 28:21.240 --> 28:29.240 See you tomorrow, Joe. Good night. 28:30.240 --> 28:32.240 Yeah. Sour racket, huh? 28:40.240 --> 28:43.240 The story you have just heard is true. 28:43.240 --> 28:47.240 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 28:47.240 --> 28:51.240 Frank Philip Larson was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree. 28:51.240 --> 28:56.240 He was executed in the lethal gas chamber at the State Penitentiary. 29:01.240 --> 29:06.240 You have just heard the fifth in a new series of authentic cases from official files. 29:06.240 --> 29:11.240 Technical advice for Dragnet is furnished by the Los Angeles Police Department. 29:11.240 --> 29:18.240 Tonight's program is dedicated to police officer Charles A. Brady of the Chicago, Illinois Police Department, 29:18.240 --> 29:27.240 who on the night of September 2nd, 1945, gave his life so that yours might be more secure. 29:32.240 --> 29:35.240 Dragnet came to you from Los Angeles. 29:35.240 --> 29:41.240 This is NBC, the national broadcasting company.