WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:14.960 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:14.960 --> 00:18.680 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:18.680 --> 00:34.360 Fatima cigarettes, best of long cigarettes, brings you Dragnet. 00:34.360 --> 00:36.280 You're a detective sergeant. 00:36.280 --> 00:38.880 You're assigned to homicide detail. 00:38.880 --> 00:43.440 A vicious killer has taken the life of a 62-year-old woman. 00:43.440 --> 00:46.560 Suspicion points in only one direction. 00:46.560 --> 00:50.040 The murderer was heartless, cold-blooded. 00:50.040 --> 00:55.720 Your job, get him. 00:55.720 --> 01:00.560 If you want a long cigarette, smoke the best of long cigarettes. 01:00.560 --> 01:01.560 Smoke Fatima. 01:01.560 --> 01:07.400 It's the long cigarette that contains an essential ingredient of all the very popular cigarettes, 01:07.400 --> 01:08.960 Turkish tobacco. 01:08.960 --> 01:13.840 That's why you see the Turkish symbols on the attractive golden yellow Fatima package. 01:13.840 --> 01:20.320 That's why Fatima has a much different, much better flavor and aroma than any other long 01:20.320 --> 01:21.320 cigarette. 01:21.320 --> 01:24.680 That's why Fatima doubles and redoubles its smokers. 01:24.680 --> 01:30.440 Yes, if you want a long cigarette, smoke the best of long cigarettes. 01:30.440 --> 01:32.440 Smoke Fatima. 01:32.440 --> 01:38.000 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 01:38.000 --> 01:42.320 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:42.320 --> 01:46.480 travel step-by-step on the side of the law through an actual case from official police 01:46.480 --> 01:47.480 files. 01:47.480 --> 01:54.120 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 01:54.120 --> 01:55.800 in action. 01:55.800 --> 01:59.400 It was Saturday, November 5th. 01:59.400 --> 02:01.320 It was foggy in Los Angeles. 02:01.320 --> 02:03.520 We were working the day watch out of homicide. 02:03.520 --> 02:04.680 My partner is Ben Romero. 02:04.680 --> 02:06.760 The boss is Ed Backstrand, chief of detectives. 02:06.760 --> 02:07.760 My name's Friday. 02:07.760 --> 02:11.760 It was 3.35 p.m. when I got to room 42, homicide. 02:11.760 --> 02:12.760 Long distance. 02:12.760 --> 02:13.760 This is Friday in homicide. 02:13.760 --> 02:18.760 I'd like to place a call to Mr. Frank Granard in Murphy, Idaho, the number is 761. 02:18.760 --> 02:21.760 Frank Granard, Murphy, Idaho, 761. 02:21.760 --> 02:22.760 Yeah, that's right. 02:22.760 --> 02:23.760 The call's been cleared with the business office. 02:23.760 --> 02:24.760 All right. 02:24.760 --> 02:25.760 Do you want me to call you back, Sergeant? 02:25.760 --> 02:26.760 No, I'll hang on. 02:26.760 --> 02:27.760 Okay, I'll place it for you. 02:27.760 --> 02:48.760 Long distance. 02:48.760 --> 02:58.760 To Frank Granard, Murphy, Idaho, Murphy, 761. 02:58.760 --> 02:59.760 Thank you. 02:59.760 --> 03:00.760 Your number, please. 03:00.760 --> 03:01.760 Charge the call to Madison, 7961. 03:01.760 --> 03:02.760 Thank you. 03:02.760 --> 03:05.760 The time in charge is when the call's completed, operator. 03:05.760 --> 03:06.760 Raid operator. 03:06.760 --> 03:15.760 Yes, Murphy, Idaho, rooting and person raided. 03:15.760 --> 03:19.760 I'm calling Napa. 03:19.760 --> 03:21.760 N-A-M-P-A, Napa. 03:21.760 --> 03:22.760 Hi. 03:22.760 --> 03:24.760 The number is 9. 03:24.760 --> 03:25.760 Boise. 03:25.760 --> 03:27.760 Hi. 03:27.760 --> 03:29.760 160 plus. 03:29.760 --> 03:30.760 160, thank you. 03:30.760 --> 03:33.760 You're welcome. 03:33.760 --> 03:41.760 Through Boise. 03:41.760 --> 03:42.760 Boise. 03:42.760 --> 03:50.760 I'm calling Napa. 03:50.760 --> 03:54.760 Murphy, 761. 03:54.760 --> 04:00.760 Thank you. 04:00.760 --> 04:04.760 Keep ringing, 761. 04:04.760 --> 04:05.760 They're ringing the number, Sergeant. 04:05.760 --> 04:15.760 Okay, thanks. 04:15.760 --> 04:16.760 Hello? 04:16.760 --> 04:17.760 Mr. Frank Granard, please. 04:17.760 --> 04:19.760 Los Angeles calling. 04:19.760 --> 04:20.760 Who do you want? 04:20.760 --> 04:21.760 Mr. Frank Granard, please. 04:21.760 --> 04:22.760 Los Angeles calling. 04:22.760 --> 04:23.760 I'm Frank Granard. 04:23.760 --> 04:24.760 Go ahead, please. 04:24.760 --> 04:25.760 All right, Sergeant, go ahead. 04:25.760 --> 04:26.760 Hello? 04:26.760 --> 04:27.760 Hello? 04:27.760 --> 04:28.760 Hello, Frank Granard? 04:28.760 --> 04:29.760 Yeah, who's this? 04:29.760 --> 04:34.760 This is Sergeant Friday, Los Angeles Police Department. 04:34.760 --> 04:35.760 I've got an urgent message for you. 04:35.760 --> 04:36.760 For me? 04:36.760 --> 04:37.760 What's the matter? 04:37.760 --> 04:40.760 Your wife, Dolores, asked me to call you. 04:40.760 --> 04:41.760 Something's happened to your mother. 04:41.760 --> 04:42.760 What do you mean? 04:42.760 --> 04:43.760 What's happened? 04:43.760 --> 04:45.760 I better let your wife tell you. 04:45.760 --> 04:47.760 She wants you back in Los Angeles right away. 04:47.760 --> 04:48.760 Look, what's this all about? 04:48.760 --> 04:50.760 I can't leave my job now. 04:50.760 --> 04:51.760 You better come. 04:51.760 --> 04:52.760 Your mother's been murdered. 04:52.760 --> 05:06.760 Talk to the skipper, Joe. 05:06.760 --> 05:07.760 He's on his way in. 05:07.760 --> 05:08.760 That's good. 05:08.760 --> 05:09.760 Did you call my husband? 05:09.760 --> 05:10.760 Did you? 05:10.760 --> 05:12.760 He's flying down from Idaho tonight. 05:12.760 --> 05:13.760 Be here in the morning. 05:13.760 --> 05:14.760 You tell him about me? 05:14.760 --> 05:15.760 The trouble I'm in? 05:15.760 --> 05:16.760 I told him his mother was murdered. 05:16.760 --> 05:17.760 That's all I told him, Mrs. Granard. 05:17.760 --> 05:20.760 What am I going to say to Frank? 05:20.760 --> 05:21.760 He always sided in with his mother. 05:21.760 --> 05:22.760 He'll never believe me. 05:22.760 --> 05:23.760 What can I tell him? 05:23.760 --> 05:25.760 Jury can give you more trouble than your husband can. 05:25.760 --> 05:26.760 What are you going to tell them? 05:26.760 --> 05:28.760 Are you stupid or something? 05:28.760 --> 05:29.760 How many times do I have to say it? 05:29.760 --> 05:30.760 I didn't kill her. 05:30.760 --> 05:31.760 I didn't kill her. 05:31.760 --> 05:32.760 It's a small room, Mrs. Granard. 05:32.760 --> 05:33.760 We can hear you. 05:33.760 --> 05:34.760 Sit down, please. 05:34.760 --> 05:35.760 I won't sit down. 05:35.760 --> 05:37.760 You're not pinning this on me because I didn't do it. 05:37.760 --> 05:39.760 Anybody could have killed the old hag, but I didn't. 05:39.760 --> 05:40.760 Will you sit down, please? 05:40.760 --> 05:41.760 I don't have to take this. 05:41.760 --> 05:42.760 I'm no tramp. 05:42.760 --> 05:45.760 Keeping me in here, asking me questions, I told you all I know. 05:45.760 --> 05:46.760 Look, you're in a bad spot. 05:46.760 --> 05:47.760 I hope you realize that. 05:47.760 --> 05:48.760 I didn't kill her. 05:48.760 --> 05:52.760 Mrs. Granard, how long have you and your mother-in-law been living together in the house on Chavez Road? 05:52.760 --> 05:55.760 Since Frank took the job up in Idaho. 05:55.760 --> 05:56.760 About six months. 05:56.760 --> 06:00.760 He said it'd be better for me while he was away living with her. 06:00.760 --> 06:03.760 Your neighbors told us you didn't get along very well with your mother-in-law. 06:03.760 --> 06:04.760 That's right, I didn't. 06:04.760 --> 06:06.760 She hated me, I hated her. 06:06.760 --> 06:07.760 You used to fight with her, is that right? 06:07.760 --> 06:08.760 You hit her. 06:08.760 --> 06:09.760 Only a couple of times. 06:09.760 --> 06:11.760 She called me dirty names. 06:11.760 --> 06:12.760 I hit her. 06:12.760 --> 06:14.760 She pulled me by the hair. 06:14.760 --> 06:15.760 I hit her. 06:15.760 --> 06:18.760 I hated her like everything. 06:18.760 --> 06:19.760 I didn't kill her. 06:19.760 --> 06:20.760 Once more, Mrs. Granard. 06:20.760 --> 06:23.760 Would you mind telling us how you spent your time since early this morning? 06:23.760 --> 06:24.760 Where you went, what you did, everything? 06:24.760 --> 06:27.760 I told you already everything. 06:27.760 --> 06:30.760 Will you tell us again, please? 06:30.760 --> 06:33.760 I got up about quarter to nine. 06:33.760 --> 06:36.760 I had a cup of coffee and then I got dressed. 06:36.760 --> 06:38.760 The old lady was on the back porch doing the washing. 06:38.760 --> 06:40.760 What did your mother-in-law do for a living? 06:40.760 --> 06:41.760 I told you. 06:41.760 --> 06:43.760 She took in washers. 06:43.760 --> 06:45.760 After I got dressed, I left the house. 06:45.760 --> 06:48.760 About ten minutes after nine, I went downtown to the dentist. 06:48.760 --> 06:50.760 He filled a tooth for me. 06:50.760 --> 06:52.760 It's right here, you can ask him. 06:52.760 --> 06:54.760 What time did you leave the dentist's office? 06:54.760 --> 06:56.760 About quarter after ten. 06:56.760 --> 06:57.760 Maybe twenty after. 06:57.760 --> 06:58.760 You can ask him. 06:58.760 --> 06:59.760 What did you do after that? 06:59.760 --> 07:01.760 I walked around window shopping. 07:01.760 --> 07:02.760 Did you buy anything, talk to anybody? 07:02.760 --> 07:03.760 I told you no. 07:03.760 --> 07:05.760 What time did you get home? 07:05.760 --> 07:07.760 Half past twelve. 07:07.760 --> 07:09.760 I went in the bedroom. 07:09.760 --> 07:11.760 The old lady was there. 07:11.760 --> 07:13.760 Blood all over. 07:13.760 --> 07:15.760 I felt her heart. 07:15.760 --> 07:17.760 It wasn't beating. 07:17.760 --> 07:19.760 Is that when you got the blood on your dress? 07:19.760 --> 07:21.760 Yeah. 07:21.760 --> 07:23.760 Now that's all I'm going to say. 07:23.760 --> 07:25.760 Three times I told you the same story already. 07:25.760 --> 07:27.760 And you still can't account for your time between ten, twenty this morning 07:27.760 --> 07:29.760 and the time you found the body and called the police at twelve thirty. 07:29.760 --> 07:30.760 I told you. 07:30.760 --> 07:31.760 I left the dentist. 07:31.760 --> 07:32.760 I went window shopping. 07:32.760 --> 07:33.760 Then I walked home. 07:33.760 --> 07:36.760 And during that time, you didn't talk to anyone and no one saw you. 07:36.760 --> 07:38.760 Lots of people saw me. 07:38.760 --> 07:39.760 People saw me. 07:39.760 --> 07:41.760 People on the street downtown. 07:41.760 --> 07:42.760 I'm no tramp. 07:42.760 --> 07:43.760 I don't talk to everybody. 07:43.760 --> 07:45.760 None of your neighbors saw you come home, Miss Renard? 07:45.760 --> 07:47.760 Of course they didn't see me. 07:47.760 --> 07:49.760 I cut across the back lot from San Jose Avenue. 07:49.760 --> 07:50.760 I came in the back way. 07:50.760 --> 07:53.760 The lady who lives next door to you, she says she was in the backyard about noon time. 07:53.760 --> 07:55.760 She stayed there until after one o'clock. 07:55.760 --> 07:56.760 She didn't see you come in the back way. 07:56.760 --> 07:57.760 Then she's a liar. 07:57.760 --> 07:58.760 She's a dirty liar. 07:58.760 --> 08:01.760 You and your husband took out an insurance policy on your mother-in-law last year. 08:01.760 --> 08:02.760 Is that right, Miss Renard? 08:02.760 --> 08:04.760 Sure it is. 08:04.760 --> 08:05.760 What of it? 08:05.760 --> 08:07.760 Five thousand dollars. 08:07.760 --> 08:09.760 Five thousand dollars? 08:09.760 --> 08:10.760 Yes, so what? 08:10.760 --> 08:13.760 Do you know a man by the name of George Martino? 08:13.760 --> 08:14.760 No. 08:14.760 --> 08:16.760 You better tell the truth, Miss Renard. 08:16.760 --> 08:17.760 All right, so I do. 08:17.760 --> 08:18.760 He's a friend of mine. 08:18.760 --> 08:20.760 You've been running around with him since your husband's been away. 08:20.760 --> 08:21.760 None of your business. 08:21.760 --> 08:22.760 I do what I want. 08:22.760 --> 08:24.760 Your mother-in-law found out about Martino. 08:24.760 --> 08:25.760 That's what you fought about most of the time. 08:25.760 --> 08:27.760 Oh, she was crazy. 08:27.760 --> 08:28.760 He's a friend of mine. 08:28.760 --> 08:29.760 That's all. 08:29.760 --> 08:31.760 Are you telling the truth, Miss Renard? 08:31.760 --> 08:33.760 Martino's a boyfriend of mine. 08:33.760 --> 08:34.760 I told you. 08:34.760 --> 08:35.760 That's all. 08:35.760 --> 08:36.760 Your mother-in-law found out you were running around with him. 08:36.760 --> 08:38.760 She warned you if you didn't shake Martino, she'd write your husband. 08:38.760 --> 08:40.760 You said you'd kill her if she did. 08:40.760 --> 08:41.760 That's a lie. 08:41.760 --> 08:43.760 That's what your mother-in-law told one of the neighbor ladies. 08:43.760 --> 08:45.760 I said it just to scare her. 08:45.760 --> 08:47.760 One night I was drinking. 08:47.760 --> 08:48.760 We had a fight. 08:48.760 --> 08:50.760 She was yapping at me all night. 08:50.760 --> 08:51.760 I said it just to scare her. 08:51.760 --> 08:53.760 But she wrote the letter anyway. 08:53.760 --> 08:55.760 That's what she said. 08:55.760 --> 08:57.760 But I didn't kill her. 08:57.760 --> 09:00.760 You had the time, the motive, and the opportunity. 09:00.760 --> 09:01.760 It wasn't me. 09:01.760 --> 09:03.760 I didn't kill her. 09:04.760 --> 09:05.760 Interrogation room, Friday. 09:05.760 --> 09:06.760 This is Brennan, Joe. 09:06.760 --> 09:07.760 Yeah, Bill. Where are you? 09:07.760 --> 09:08.760 Santa Monica. 09:08.760 --> 09:10.760 Picked up George Martino. 09:15.760 --> 09:18.760 Ben and I drove Mrs. Renard to Lincoln Heights Jail, 5th floor, 09:18.760 --> 09:21.760 and had her booked on suspicion of 187 PC. 09:21.760 --> 09:23.760 When we checked back in at the office, Brennan and Wiseman, 09:23.760 --> 09:25.760 the other two men on the case with Ben and I, 09:25.760 --> 09:27.760 were questioning George Martino in the interrogation room. 09:27.760 --> 09:29.760 Ben and I stood by. 09:29.760 --> 09:31.760 Martino admitted only two things. 09:31.760 --> 09:33.760 He had been running around with Mrs. Renard since her husband left town, 09:33.760 --> 09:37.760 and he had heard Mrs. Renard express a desire to do away with her mother-in-law. 09:37.760 --> 09:42.760 After the questioning of Martino, Sergeant Brennan, Ben and I met with Chief Ed Backstrand. 09:42.760 --> 09:43.760 It was 5.15 p.m. 09:43.760 --> 09:45.760 You got everything but the murder weapon, huh? 09:45.760 --> 09:47.760 That and Mrs. Renard's confession. 09:47.760 --> 09:48.760 She ought to come through, huh, Joe? 09:48.760 --> 09:49.760 I don't know. 09:49.760 --> 09:52.760 She's scared, but she's still got a smart mouth. 09:52.760 --> 09:53.760 What about Martino, Brennan? 09:53.760 --> 09:54.760 You think he had a hand in it? 09:54.760 --> 09:55.760 I don't think so. 09:55.760 --> 09:57.760 We spent most of the afternoon talking to him. 09:57.760 --> 09:58.760 He hasn't got the guts. 09:58.760 --> 09:59.760 We took a statement. 09:59.760 --> 10:00.760 And does he have an alibi? 10:00.760 --> 10:01.760 Solid. 10:01.760 --> 10:02.760 What was the cause of death? 10:02.760 --> 10:04.760 Strangulation, multiple fractures of the skull. 10:04.760 --> 10:06.760 All the motives are with Mrs. Renard, Chief. 10:06.760 --> 10:07.760 Pretty clear-cut job. 10:07.760 --> 10:10.760 No evidence of robbery or burglary, I guess. 10:10.760 --> 10:13.760 A couple of dresser drawers in her bedroom were emptied on the floor 10:13.760 --> 10:14.760 and clothes tossed all around. 10:14.760 --> 10:16.760 Pretty obvious plan to make it look like burglary. 10:16.760 --> 10:17.760 Maybe. 10:17.760 --> 10:19.760 We found three one-dollar bills in plain sight. 10:19.760 --> 10:21.760 They were on the floor near the body. 10:21.760 --> 10:23.760 If a burglar went through this stuff, he wouldn't have missed that money. 10:23.760 --> 10:25.760 And it shouldn't be too much trouble tying it up. 10:25.760 --> 10:26.760 Shouldn't be skipper. 10:26.760 --> 10:29.760 Friday and Romero, you follow the case through. 10:29.760 --> 10:32.760 Just a minute. 10:32.760 --> 10:33.760 Hello. 10:33.760 --> 10:34.760 Backstrand. 10:34.760 --> 10:35.760 Yeah. 10:35.760 --> 10:37.760 What? 10:37.760 --> 10:39.760 All right, I'll send him over. 10:39.760 --> 10:41.760 Lee Jones. 10:41.760 --> 10:43.760 Just finished checking the evidence at the crime lab. 10:43.760 --> 10:44.760 Yeah. 10:44.760 --> 10:46.760 He thinks Mrs. Renard's innocent. 10:52.760 --> 10:53.760 There they are, fellas. 10:53.760 --> 10:54.760 Facts don't lie. 10:54.760 --> 10:57.760 But she had every reason in the world to kill old lady. 10:57.760 --> 10:58.760 In my book, she couldn't have killed her. 10:58.760 --> 10:59.760 All right, let's have it, Lee. 10:59.760 --> 11:00.760 How does the evidence add up? 11:00.760 --> 11:01.760 That's just it, Joe. 11:01.760 --> 11:02.760 It doesn't. 11:02.760 --> 11:03.760 Take a look. 11:03.760 --> 11:06.760 The dress Mrs. Renard was wearing when she found the body. 11:06.760 --> 11:07.760 That's it. 11:07.760 --> 11:08.760 Blood smears near the hem. 11:08.760 --> 11:09.760 Two smears, that's all. 11:09.760 --> 11:10.760 Now, if she murdered her mother-in-law, 11:10.760 --> 11:12.760 there should be more blood on this dress. 11:12.760 --> 11:13.760 It shouldn't be smeared. 11:13.760 --> 11:14.760 How do you mean? 11:14.760 --> 11:16.760 First of all, the man on which the old lady was killed, 11:16.760 --> 11:18.760 head was battered in, must have bled profusely. 11:18.760 --> 11:19.760 No question about that. 11:19.760 --> 11:20.760 All right, go ahead. 11:20.760 --> 11:23.760 Whoever murdered the old lady must have stains all over their clothes. 11:23.760 --> 11:25.760 Here's the important part. 11:25.760 --> 11:26.760 Because of the nature of the wound, 11:26.760 --> 11:29.760 it would have stained in drops, not smears. 11:29.760 --> 11:30.760 Well, how can you tell the difference? 11:30.760 --> 11:32.760 Maybe these are drop stains on her desk. 11:32.760 --> 11:33.760 They're not. 11:33.760 --> 11:34.760 I checked them with the microscope. 11:34.760 --> 11:36.760 Only the higher ribs of the cloth are stained. 11:36.760 --> 11:37.760 The smears, nothing else. 11:37.760 --> 11:39.760 But a drop forms its own definite drop pattern 11:39.760 --> 11:41.760 and permeates the cloth, soaks in. 11:41.760 --> 11:43.760 No signs of that on her dress. 11:43.760 --> 11:44.760 Not a one. 11:44.760 --> 11:46.760 Now, here's the silk scarf the old lady was strangled with. 11:46.760 --> 11:47.760 Yeah? 11:47.760 --> 11:50.760 Here's what I found in the knot tied in the scarf. 11:50.760 --> 11:52.760 A blonde hair, wavy. 11:52.760 --> 11:53.760 Old lady had dark hair. 11:53.760 --> 11:54.760 So does Mrs. Renard. 11:54.760 --> 11:55.760 So does her boyfriend. 11:55.760 --> 11:56.760 That's what I mean. 11:56.760 --> 12:00.760 This blonde hair is one of two things that didn't belong at that murder scene. 12:00.760 --> 12:01.760 What else you got? 12:01.760 --> 12:02.760 This hair. 12:02.760 --> 12:03.760 What is it, Lee? 12:03.760 --> 12:05.760 Small piece of plastic from a gun butt, I'd say. 12:05.760 --> 12:06.760 See here? 12:06.760 --> 12:08.760 Crisscross surface, then a little smooth area. 12:08.760 --> 12:09.760 Yeah? 12:09.760 --> 12:11.760 The killer could have hit the old lady with the butt of a gun. 12:11.760 --> 12:13.760 And a piece of the stock could have chipped off like this, huh? 12:13.760 --> 12:14.760 Mrs. Renard doesn't own a gun. 12:14.760 --> 12:16.760 You didn't murder no one. 12:16.760 --> 12:17.760 Where does that leave us? 12:17.760 --> 12:18.760 I don't know, Joe. 12:18.760 --> 12:19.760 There's the stuff. 12:19.760 --> 12:20.760 You can't disregard it. 12:20.760 --> 12:21.760 Maybe you can explain it. 12:21.760 --> 12:22.760 Yeah. How? 12:22.760 --> 12:26.760 You'll first prove this dress isn't the one Mrs. Renard was wearing this morning. 12:26.760 --> 12:27.760 Then find the dress she did wear. 12:27.760 --> 12:30.760 And we know she wore this when the dentist identified it, and so did two of the neighbors. 12:30.760 --> 12:31.760 That's what I mean. 12:31.760 --> 12:32.760 The dress is too clean. 12:32.760 --> 12:33.760 It doesn't belong. 12:33.760 --> 12:34.760 Yeah. 12:34.760 --> 12:36.760 And this blonde hair, this piece of gun butt, they don't belong either. 12:36.760 --> 12:38.760 Well, and you think she's innocent. 12:38.760 --> 12:39.760 You're looking at the evidence. 12:39.760 --> 12:41.760 What do you think? 12:44.760 --> 12:46.760 Six p.m. Saturday, November 5th. 12:46.760 --> 12:50.760 Ben and I went back to the office and met with Brennan Wiseman and Ed Backstrand. 12:50.760 --> 12:53.760 The open and shut case against Mrs. Renard was up in the air. 12:53.760 --> 12:57.760 But we still weren't sure that she was innocent of the murder of her mother-in-law. 12:57.760 --> 13:00.760 Ben and I drove to the Lincoln Heights jail and interviewed the suspect again. 13:00.760 --> 13:03.760 She agreed to submit to a lie detector test. 13:03.760 --> 13:07.760 We drove back to the office, contacted Sergeant Berger, the department's polygraph man, 13:07.760 --> 13:10.760 and set up a special test for the following day. 13:10.760 --> 13:13.760 The next morning we met with Berger and formulated a list of key questions. 13:13.760 --> 13:18.760 And then we picked up Mrs. Renard and brought her to the third floor of the Old City jail building, the polygraph room. 13:18.760 --> 13:21.760 At 10.33 a.m., the test got underway. 13:21.760 --> 13:24.760 As usual, Sergeant Berger conducted the interview alone. 13:24.760 --> 13:26.760 Backstrand, Ben, and I waited outside. 13:26.760 --> 13:30.760 Well, how about Mrs. Renard's husband? Get in town yet? 13:30.760 --> 13:32.760 He's due in around noon, Skipper. 13:32.760 --> 13:34.760 Got a smoke? 13:34.760 --> 13:36.760 Yeah. Here you are, Ed. 13:42.760 --> 13:44.760 Yeah, thanks. 13:44.760 --> 13:46.760 What time is it now? 13:46.760 --> 13:48.760 10.25. 13:48.760 --> 13:50.760 Here's Berger now. 13:50.760 --> 13:51.760 That's it, Ed. 13:51.760 --> 13:52.760 What'd you get? 13:52.760 --> 13:55.760 I can study the chart a little more. 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Best of long cigarettes. 15:27.760 --> 15:29.760 8 a.m. Monday, November 7th. 15:29.760 --> 15:31.760 Mrs. Renard was released from custody. 15:31.760 --> 15:33.760 We questioned her husband, Frank Renard, briefly. 15:33.760 --> 15:35.760 He could tell us nothing more than we already knew. 15:35.760 --> 15:37.760 Brennan and Wiseman were called back on the case, 15:37.760 --> 15:40.760 and together the four of us started over again from the beginning. 15:40.760 --> 15:44.760 We had a dead body, two pieces of physical evidence to work with, 15:44.760 --> 15:47.760 no idea how to fit them together, and no suspects. 15:47.760 --> 15:49.760 We went back to the Chavez Road neighborhood, 15:49.760 --> 15:52.760 where the murdered woman lived and started pushing doorbells. 15:52.760 --> 15:54.760 We canvassed the neighborhood for three days, 15:54.760 --> 15:56.760 and we uncovered one slim lead. 15:56.760 --> 15:58.760 He was selling magazines, officer. 15:58.760 --> 16:01.760 Went door to door, right up the street here, young fellow. 16:01.760 --> 16:03.760 Could you describe the man for us, please? 16:03.760 --> 16:04.760 Nothing to talk about. 16:04.760 --> 16:07.760 Pasty face, pimply complexion, blonde hair. 16:10.760 --> 16:12.760 5.30 p.m. Wednesday, November 9th. 16:12.760 --> 16:14.760 Ben and I met with Brennan and Wiseman 16:14.760 --> 16:16.760 and head Backstrand's office to compare notes. 16:16.760 --> 16:19.760 Together we had more than a dozen reports of the magazine salesman's presence 16:19.760 --> 16:22.760 in the neighborhood just prior to the murder of Mrs. Renard's mother-in-law. 16:22.760 --> 16:24.760 The various descriptions of the man, 16:24.760 --> 16:26.760 which we obtained from the people in the neighborhood, tallied closely. 16:26.760 --> 16:31.760 About 6 feet, 170 pounds, pimply complexion, blonde hair, fast talkum. 16:31.760 --> 16:33.760 About 25 years old. 16:33.760 --> 16:36.760 As far as we know, Skipper, he was the only stranger in the neighborhood last Saturday morning. 16:36.760 --> 16:38.760 Only one the people remember, anyway. 16:38.760 --> 16:40.760 How close did you trace him to the Renard house? 16:40.760 --> 16:41.760 You got your list there, Brennan? 16:41.760 --> 16:43.760 Yeah. There you are. 16:43.760 --> 16:44.760 Thanks. Let's see. 16:44.760 --> 16:46.760 Well, he picked up his tracks down on Floresta Street, 16:46.760 --> 16:48.760 sold a couple of descriptions there, 16:48.760 --> 16:50.760 then he headed up Landers Avenue onto Chavez Road. 16:50.760 --> 16:51.760 Yeah. 16:51.760 --> 16:53.760 The Renards live at 2280 Chavez Road. 16:53.760 --> 16:56.760 That salesman talked to the woman at 2274 Chavez. 16:56.760 --> 16:58.760 That's three doors away from the Renards. 16:58.760 --> 16:59.760 When was he seen there? 16:59.760 --> 17:00.760 Let me see. 17:00.760 --> 17:02.760 Where is that, Brennan? 17:02.760 --> 17:03.760 Oh, on the 15-7 sheet, Joe. 17:03.760 --> 17:05.760 Didn't have enough room on the report. 17:05.760 --> 17:07.760 Oh. Yeah. Here it is. 17:07.760 --> 17:09.760 Mrs. John Rico, 2274 Chavez. 17:09.760 --> 17:11.760 The guy was there about 11.45 Saturday morning. 17:11.760 --> 17:13.760 Well, that puts him in the running. 17:13.760 --> 17:15.760 First time he ever showed in that neighborhood. 17:15.760 --> 17:17.760 First time, Skipper. Fresh kid. Not a very good salesman. 17:17.760 --> 17:20.760 Here's the name of the company he's working for, the Harrison News Distributors. 17:20.760 --> 17:21.760 Did you check with them? 17:21.760 --> 17:23.760 No, they're closed for the night. We'll call them the first thing tomorrow. 17:23.760 --> 17:25.760 Good. Here's something else for you. 17:25.760 --> 17:27.760 I had a call from Frank Renard this afternoon. 17:27.760 --> 17:29.760 What did he have to say? 17:29.760 --> 17:31.760 Seems in the excitement, just after the murder, 17:31.760 --> 17:33.760 Mrs. Renard overlooked a couple of things. 17:33.760 --> 17:34.760 What's that? 17:34.760 --> 17:36.760 They're missing a yellow table model radio. 17:36.760 --> 17:38.760 It was in the bedroom where the old lady was killed. 17:38.760 --> 17:40.760 Well, that ties in with the robbery motive. 17:40.760 --> 17:42.760 They're missing a ring, too. Belonged to Mrs. Renard. 17:42.760 --> 17:44.760 Topaz ring. 17:44.760 --> 17:46.760 Supposed to be worth a little money. 17:46.760 --> 17:48.760 But she didn't notice it was gone until today. 17:48.760 --> 17:49.760 That's right. 17:49.760 --> 17:50.760 You got the serial number on the radio? 17:50.760 --> 17:52.760 Yeah, let's see. Yeah, Ben, here we are. 17:52.760 --> 17:57.760 It's an Emerson model 511-180-000-277609. 17:57.760 --> 17:59.760 Not a small radio in town. 17:59.760 --> 18:01.760 There's only one with that serial number on it. 18:01.760 --> 18:03.760 Track it down. 18:06.760 --> 18:08.760 A complete description of the Topaz ring and the serial numbers 18:08.760 --> 18:10.760 and description of the yellow table model radio 18:10.760 --> 18:12.760 were sent to the pawn shop detail. 18:12.760 --> 18:14.760 The information was then placed on the stolen property list 18:14.760 --> 18:17.760 and relayed to every pawn shop operator in the city. 18:17.760 --> 18:19.760 The next morning, Ben and I interviewed the manager 18:19.760 --> 18:21.760 of the Harrison News Distributing Company. 18:21.760 --> 18:24.760 There, the suspect had given his name as Sam Bricker. 18:24.760 --> 18:26.760 We checked out his home address. 18:26.760 --> 18:28.760 Turned out to be a gas station in North Hollywood. 18:28.760 --> 18:30.760 We took the suspect's job application blank 18:30.760 --> 18:32.760 with a specimen of his handwriting, 18:32.760 --> 18:34.760 and then we drove back to the office. 18:34.760 --> 18:36.760 Sam Bricker. We were unable to get a make 18:36.760 --> 18:38.760 on the name from the record bureau. 18:38.760 --> 18:40.760 We checked the cards and every known criminal 18:40.760 --> 18:42.760 who was catalogued in the oddity file as having a pimply complexion. 18:42.760 --> 18:44.760 None of them matched. 18:44.760 --> 18:47.760 That night, we got out an APB and a radiogram. 18:47.760 --> 18:50.760 The suspect's trail led from one salesman's job to the next. 18:50.760 --> 18:53.760 On his last job, he gave his name as Albert Berry. 18:53.760 --> 18:56.760 His address is 1430 Palo Alto Drive. 18:56.760 --> 18:58.760 It was in the Echo Lake District. 18:58.760 --> 19:00.760 Ben and I drove out to check it. 19:00.760 --> 19:04.760 1428. 1430. There it is, Joe. 19:04.760 --> 19:06.760 Yeah. At least it's not a gas station, huh? 19:06.760 --> 19:08.760 Come on. 19:14.760 --> 19:16.760 Tiresome, huh? 19:16.760 --> 19:18.760 Yeah. I could stand a change. 19:18.760 --> 19:20.760 Yes, what is it? 19:20.760 --> 19:22.760 We're looking for an Albert Berry, ma'am. 19:22.760 --> 19:24.760 Does he live here? Mr. Berry, I'm sorry. 19:24.760 --> 19:26.760 He and his wife moved four days ago. 19:29.760 --> 19:31.760 We identified ourselves as police officers 19:31.760 --> 19:33.760 and had the landlady, a Mrs. Catherine Hoffman, 19:33.760 --> 19:36.760 show us the apartment which Berry and his wife had occupied. 19:36.760 --> 19:38.760 It was still vacant. 19:38.760 --> 19:40.760 In one of the closets in the apartment, we found a cheap overnight bag. 19:40.760 --> 19:43.760 The lock on it was broken and one of the seams had ripped. 19:43.760 --> 19:48.760 I forgot about that old bag and Mr. Berry told me I could throw it away. 19:48.760 --> 19:50.760 Take a look. I'm in. 19:50.760 --> 19:52.760 How long has Berry been married? Do you know Mrs. Hoffman? 19:52.760 --> 19:55.760 No, I don't. But the way they acted, lovey-dovey all the time, 19:55.760 --> 19:57.760 I don't think they've been together long. 19:57.760 --> 20:00.760 Hey, Joe. Look. Some kind of an identification tag. 20:00.760 --> 20:02.760 Yeah, let me see. Look over here. 20:02.760 --> 20:04.760 It's a tool disc. It looks like it's down here. 20:04.760 --> 20:07.760 Jameson Larrabee, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 20:07.760 --> 20:09.760 You're not after Mr. Berry, are you, officer? 20:09.760 --> 20:11.760 Yes, ma'am, we are. 20:11.760 --> 20:13.760 Did he leave a forwarding address? I wish he did. 20:13.760 --> 20:16.760 I'm holding three letters for Mrs. Berry in my apartment right now. 20:16.760 --> 20:18.760 May we see them, please? Certainly. 20:18.760 --> 20:21.760 Would you step this way, please? My apartment's just across the hall. 20:21.760 --> 20:23.760 Yes, ma'am. 20:24.760 --> 20:26.760 Would you like a bottle of beer or something? 20:26.760 --> 20:28.760 No, ma'am, thanks. 20:30.760 --> 20:32.760 Let's see. I thought I... 20:32.760 --> 20:35.760 Yes, here they are. Three of them, Sergeant. 20:35.760 --> 20:39.760 From her folks, I think. Mrs. Berry's from Fresno. 20:39.760 --> 20:42.760 Oh, that's good. I want to copy down this return address, ma'am. 20:42.760 --> 20:44.760 Yeah, go ahead. Okay. 20:44.760 --> 20:46.760 That's C.K. Ulrich, U-L-R-I-C-K. 20:46.760 --> 20:49.760 525 North Lamona, Fresno. 20:49.760 --> 20:50.760 Yeah, got it. 20:50.760 --> 20:51.760 There you are, Ms. Hoffman. 20:51.760 --> 20:53.760 By the way, did the Berry say they'd call for their mail? 20:53.760 --> 20:56.760 Mrs. Berry did. That's why I'm holding on to it. 20:56.760 --> 20:58.760 All right. Just one more question. 20:58.760 --> 21:00.760 Do you remember if Mr. and Mrs. Berry had a radio? 21:00.760 --> 21:02.760 Yes, they did. A small one. 21:02.760 --> 21:04.760 Do you remember what brand it was? 21:04.760 --> 21:09.760 No, I don't. It had a yellow case. That's all I remember. 21:12.760 --> 21:14.760 Before we left, we called Ed Backstrand, 21:14.760 --> 21:16.760 and he had an immediate stakeout placed at the apartment house 21:16.760 --> 21:19.760 in case the Berries returned to pick up their mail. 21:19.760 --> 21:21.760 Ben and I went back to the office and placed a call 21:21.760 --> 21:23.760 to the Pittsburgh Police Department. 21:23.760 --> 21:25.760 We gave them the description and the number of the tool disc 21:25.760 --> 21:27.760 which we'd found in Berry's old suitcase. 21:27.760 --> 21:30.760 They said they'd check with the Jamison Larrabee Company in the morning, 21:30.760 --> 21:32.760 and then they'd call us back. 21:32.760 --> 21:34.760 That night, Ben and I drove to Fresno 21:34.760 --> 21:36.760 and checked in at the police station up there. 21:36.760 --> 21:39.760 Two officers were assigned to stake out the Ulrich home. 21:39.760 --> 21:41.760 We interviewed Mr. Ulrich, who identified himself 21:41.760 --> 21:43.760 as Albert Berry's father-in-law. 21:43.760 --> 21:45.760 He told us his daughter had married the murder suspect 21:45.760 --> 21:47.760 eight months before, and he gave us pictures 21:47.760 --> 21:49.760 of Berry taken at the wedding. 21:49.760 --> 21:51.760 Ulrich told us that he'd catch a Santa Fe train out of Fresno 21:51.760 --> 21:53.760 the next morning. He wanted to be in Los Angeles 21:53.760 --> 21:56.760 to take his daughter home when Berry was apprehended. 21:56.760 --> 21:58.760 It was almost 2 a.m. when Ben and I left Fresno 21:58.760 --> 22:00.760 and started back for Los Angeles. 22:00.760 --> 22:03.760 We checked in at the office at 10 minutes past 8 the next morning. 22:03.760 --> 22:07.760 At 8.35, the call came through from the Pittsburgh Police Department. 22:08.760 --> 22:09.760 What did they say, Joe? 22:09.760 --> 22:11.760 It was a tool disc, all right. 22:11.760 --> 22:13.760 Jamison Larrabee Company issued 18 months ago to one of their workers. 22:13.760 --> 22:14.760 May I give a name? 22:14.760 --> 22:16.760 Albert Berry. 22:18.760 --> 22:20.760 11 a.m. Monday, December the 5th. 22:20.760 --> 22:24.760 One month to the day since the 62-year-old woman had been beaten to death. 22:24.760 --> 22:27.760 The pictures of Berry and his wife, which had been taken at their wedding, 22:27.760 --> 22:30.760 were printed up in wholesale lots and distributed to all points. 22:30.760 --> 22:34.760 Mr. Ulrich, Berry's father-in-law, arrived in town and got himself a hotel room. 22:35.760 --> 22:36.760 We waited. 22:36.760 --> 22:38.760 There was no report from the stakeout at the apartment house. 22:38.760 --> 22:41.760 We checked back in at the office at 5 minutes to 1. 22:42.760 --> 22:43.760 I'll get it. 22:46.760 --> 22:47.760 I'm a side Friday. 22:47.760 --> 22:49.760 This is Mr. Ulrich, Sergeant. 22:49.760 --> 22:52.760 I just got a call from my wife in Fresno. I thought you'd want to know. 22:52.760 --> 22:53.760 What's that? 22:53.760 --> 22:57.760 The wife got a letter from Norma. They're living in South Pasadena, an apartment. 22:57.760 --> 22:58.760 You got the address there? 22:58.760 --> 23:03.760 Yes, sir. That's what the wife called about. It's 134 Norway Terrace. 23:03.760 --> 23:04.760 When was the letter mailed, do you know? 23:04.760 --> 23:08.760 Wife said it was postmarked December 3rd, day before yesterday. 23:08.760 --> 23:10.760 Get your coat on. Ulrich will be right over. 23:14.760 --> 23:18.760 Ben and I picked up Mr. Ulrich at his hotel and drove to the South Pasadena address. 23:18.760 --> 23:22.760 Berry and his wife had the apartment on the top floor. Neither of them were at home. 23:22.760 --> 23:27.760 The landlord let us in with a passkey. In the bedroom we found a small yellow radio. 23:27.760 --> 23:32.760 We checked the serial numbers. They matched. It was the same radio stolen from the Renard house. 23:32.760 --> 23:36.760 In the bedroom closet we found two suitcases. We checked through them. 23:36.760 --> 23:38.760 Nothing in this one, Joe. 23:38.760 --> 23:40.760 Here we are. Look at these. 23:40.760 --> 23:41.760 What are they, Sergeant? 23:41.760 --> 23:43.760 A pair of plastic gun butts. 23:43.760 --> 23:44.760 Let's see, Joe. 23:44.760 --> 23:46.760 One of them's been chipped, see? 23:46.760 --> 23:49.760 Sergeant, somebody coming up the stairs. 23:49.760 --> 23:52.760 All right, let's get in the living room. Be quiet. 24:00.760 --> 24:03.760 Ben, what are you doing here? 24:03.760 --> 24:05.760 Who are these men? 24:05.760 --> 24:09.760 Police, Norma. They want Albert. He killed a woman. 24:11.760 --> 24:14.760 Oh, Dad. Dad. 24:14.760 --> 24:17.760 It's all right, Norma. It'll be all right. 24:17.760 --> 24:20.760 Did you know your husband killed a woman, Miss Berry? 24:22.760 --> 24:25.760 He told me last Saturday. 24:25.760 --> 24:29.760 We've been running away for a month now. 24:29.760 --> 24:34.760 Moving all the time. I wanted to know why. 24:34.760 --> 24:39.760 He told me. He said I wasn't in as much as he was. 24:39.760 --> 24:43.760 And I'm tired of running. I'm coming with you. 24:43.760 --> 24:47.760 Why did he kill her? Did he tell you that? 24:47.760 --> 24:50.760 He said he broke in the house. 24:50.760 --> 24:52.760 He didn't know anyone was home. 24:52.760 --> 24:55.760 The old woman was in the bedroom. 24:55.760 --> 24:57.760 She started to cry out. 24:57.760 --> 25:00.760 He had a gun. He hit her with it. 25:00.760 --> 25:02.760 Where's your husband now? 25:02.760 --> 25:04.760 I don't know. 25:04.760 --> 25:06.760 He said he'd come home for dinner. 25:06.760 --> 25:10.760 Bought five. Bought the groceries. 25:10.760 --> 25:12.760 What time you got, Ben? 25:12.760 --> 25:14.760 Half past three. 25:14.760 --> 25:16.760 That ring you were wearing, Miss Berry. 25:16.760 --> 25:18.760 Did your husband give you that? 25:18.760 --> 25:19.760 Yes, why? 25:19.760 --> 25:21.760 What kind of a stone is that? 25:21.760 --> 25:23.760 Topaz. 25:23.760 --> 25:25.760 Britt gave it to me. Why? 25:25.760 --> 25:27.760 Nothing. We'll wait. 25:30.760 --> 25:32.760 Five o'clock came and went. 25:32.760 --> 25:34.760 Berry failed to show. 25:34.760 --> 25:37.760 Five-thirty. Ulrich started to get nervous. 25:37.760 --> 25:40.760 Six o'clock. Six-thirty. 25:40.760 --> 25:41.760 No sign of Berry. 25:41.760 --> 25:44.760 I went to the window and kept an eye on the street below. 25:44.760 --> 25:48.760 At six-forty-five, a light green Nash sedan pulled to a stop in front of the apartment house. 25:48.760 --> 25:51.760 A man got out and went into the main floor entrance. 25:51.760 --> 25:54.760 It's Bert. I'll let him in. 25:54.760 --> 25:56.760 All right. How long have you had the new car? 25:56.760 --> 25:58.760 A couple of days. 25:58.760 --> 26:00.760 Bert got it in credit. 26:02.760 --> 26:04.760 What do you want me to do now? 26:04.760 --> 26:06.760 Does he have a key to the apartment here? 26:06.760 --> 26:07.760 He lost it. 26:07.760 --> 26:09.760 Okay, when he rings, let him in. Just act natural. 26:09.760 --> 26:12.760 Ben, you cover me. I'll get the cuffs on him. 26:12.760 --> 26:13.760 Right. 26:20.760 --> 26:21.760 Hi, Bert. 26:21.760 --> 26:22.760 Look out, Joe! 26:22.760 --> 26:24.760 All right, drop it, Berry. 26:28.760 --> 26:29.760 Okay, Ben. 26:29.760 --> 26:31.760 Yeah, he's fast with a gun. 26:33.760 --> 26:35.760 Nice looking, isn't he, Sergeant? 26:36.760 --> 26:38.760 You'd never think he'd kill anybody. 26:38.760 --> 26:40.760 Come on, let's take him in. 26:40.760 --> 26:42.760 I love him. 26:42.760 --> 26:44.760 I still love him. 26:46.760 --> 26:49.760 But you're a cop. You wouldn't understand. 26:49.760 --> 26:51.760 That's right. I wouldn't understand. I'm a cop. 26:57.760 --> 27:00.760 The story you have just heard was true. 27:00.760 --> 27:04.760 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:04.760 --> 27:08.760 On February 16, 1947, trial was held in Superior Court, 27:08.760 --> 27:12.760 Department 82, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 27:12.760 --> 27:14.760 In a moment, the results of that trial. 27:14.760 --> 27:17.760 Earlier tonight, you heard the reports of amazing increases 27:17.760 --> 27:20.760 in Fatima smokers from New York to Los Angeles. 27:20.760 --> 27:25.760 Yes, all over the country, Fatima is doubling and redoubling its sales. 27:25.760 --> 27:27.760 And here's reason one. 27:27.760 --> 27:31.760 Fatima is the long cigarette that contains an essential ingredient 27:31.760 --> 27:34.760 of all the very popular cigarettes, Turkish tobacco. 27:34.760 --> 27:35.760 Reason two. 27:35.760 --> 27:39.760 Fatima has a much different, much better flavor and aroma 27:39.760 --> 27:41.760 than any other long cigarette. 27:41.760 --> 27:42.760 Reason three. 27:42.760 --> 27:47.760 To millions of smokers, the name Fatima has always stood for the best 27:47.760 --> 27:49.760 in cigarette quality. 27:49.760 --> 28:02.760 Smoke Fatima, the best of all long cigarettes. 28:02.760 --> 28:06.760 Albert Ralph Berry was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree. 28:06.760 --> 28:10.760 His wife Norma Berry was found innocent of the charge that she harbored a criminal. 28:10.760 --> 28:12.760 She was returned home with her father. 28:12.760 --> 28:20.760 Berry was executed in the lethal gas chamber at the State Penitentiary. 28:20.760 --> 28:26.760 You have just heard Dragnet, a new series of authentic cases from official files. 28:26.760 --> 28:30.760 Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the Office of Acting Chief of Police, 28:30.760 --> 28:33.760 W.A. Wharton, Los Angeles Police Department. 28:33.760 --> 28:37.760 Tonight's program is dedicated to private Hubert W. Estes 28:37.760 --> 28:40.760 of the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department, 28:40.760 --> 28:54.760 who on the night of May 16, 1947, gave his life so that yours might be more secure. 28:54.760 --> 28:58.760 Fatima cigarettes, best of long cigarettes, has brought you Dragnet, 28:58.760 --> 29:01.760 portion transcribed from Los Angeles. 29:01.760 --> 29:10.760 Be sure to hear songs by Morton Donnie tonight on NBC. 29:10.760 --> 29:32.760 Thank you.