1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,880 The story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:15,960 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:31,400 Fatima cigarettes, best of all long cigarettes, brings you dragnet. 4 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:33,520 You're a detective sergeant. 5 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:36,280 You're assigned to homicide detail. 6 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:40,800 A police officer is shot down on the front steps of his home. 7 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,560 There's no apparent motive for the shooting. 8 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:46,640 The assailant escapes in a blue sedan. 9 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:49,080 Your job, get him. 10 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:54,400 It's amazing how many long cigarette smokers are changing to Fatima. 11 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:56,240 Here is the actual report. 12 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:01,480 From coast to coast, king-sized Fatima has more than doubled its smokers. 13 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:09,000 Yes, more and more smokers every day are discovering that Fatima is the best of all long cigarettes. 14 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:15,280 Long cigarette smokers find Fatima has a much different, much better flavor and aroma. 15 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:20,960 Long cigarette smokers find that Fatima is extra mild because it's the long cigarette 16 00:01:20,960 --> 00:01:27,400 which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos superbly blended to make it extra 17 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:28,400 mild. 18 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:32,040 So enjoy extra mild Fatima. 19 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,680 Best of all long cigarettes. 20 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:39,680 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 21 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:47,840 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 22 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:51,720 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 23 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:56,080 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case from official police 24 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:57,080 files. 25 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:03,120 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 26 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:05,120 in action. 27 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,520 It was Sunday, May 23rd. 28 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:09,520 Was warm in Los Angeles. 29 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,240 We were working the day watch out of homicide. 30 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:13,400 My partner is Ben Romero. 31 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:15,440 The boss is Thad Brown, chief of detectives. 32 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:16,440 My name is Friday. 33 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:19,560 I was off duty reporting back in on an emergency call. 34 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:23,720 It was five minutes past 3 a.m. when I got to room 42. 35 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:24,720 Homicide. 36 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:25,720 Hi, Joe. 37 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:26,720 Hi. 38 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:27,720 How is he? 39 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:28,720 He's dead. 40 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:31,720 Well, went kind of fast. 41 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:33,920 I just got the call a couple of minutes ago. 42 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:34,920 He died and went to the hospital. 43 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:35,920 Friday, Ben. 44 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:36,920 Let's go. 45 00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:37,920 Thad Brown's office. 46 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:38,920 All right. 47 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:39,920 How did it happen, Skipper? 48 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:40,920 I haven't got all of the details. 49 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:41,920 This guy used a shotgun point blank. 50 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:42,920 Fillmore didn't have a chance. 51 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:43,920 Chief of detectives, office Egan. 52 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:44,920 Crime lab here. 53 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:45,920 Out there now. 54 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:46,920 Right. 55 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:47,920 Chief Brown, Egan. 56 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:48,920 Down the hall with Captain Wayne, intelligence office. 57 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:49,920 He said to have you wait. 58 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:50,920 Okay, we'll be inside. 59 00:02:50,920 --> 00:02:51,920 Right. 60 00:02:51,920 --> 00:02:52,920 You want to fill us in, sir? 61 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:53,920 I'm going to go to the office. 62 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:54,920 I'll be right back. 63 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:55,920 I'll be right back. 64 00:02:55,920 --> 00:02:56,920 I'll be right back. 65 00:02:56,920 --> 00:02:57,920 I'll be right back. 66 00:02:57,920 --> 00:02:58,920 I'll be right back. 67 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:01,920 I'll be right back. 68 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:02,920 You want to fill us in, Skipper? 69 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:03,920 I don't know much to tell. 70 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:05,960 Fillmore was working the day watch out of robbery. 71 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:09,600 He left work at six o'clock last night, drove home. 72 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:10,600 Yeah. 73 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:12,800 He had dinner and then he and his wife went to a show. 74 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,200 He got home about 1130, went to bed. 75 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:16,200 Yeah. 76 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,080 About 1 30 this morning the front doorbell rang and Fillmore answered it. 77 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:22,400 His wife said she heard him open the door and there was a gunshot. 78 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:26,380 She ran to the front door in time to see a guy jump in a car and drive away. 79 00:03:26,380 --> 00:03:29,120 Fillmore was lying on a porch, chest ripped open. 80 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,160 You see the guy used his shotgun? 81 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:32,160 Yeah. 82 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:33,720 No other information on the car he used? 83 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:35,760 Blue sedan that's all the wife could tell us. 84 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:37,640 She didn't get the license number. 85 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:39,440 Said it looked like a new model car. 86 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:40,440 No physical evidence. 87 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:41,440 I haven't found anything yet. 88 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:42,440 Here's the ball, Chief. 89 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:43,440 Elliot, you briefed Friday in Ramel? 90 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:44,440 Told him much as I know. 91 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:45,440 Any idea what the guy's motive was? 92 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:46,440 Revenge. 93 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:47,440 Any leads? 94 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:48,440 Just one. 95 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:49,440 Ben White intelligence came up with it. 96 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:50,440 Grabbing the name of Jake Carver. 97 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:51,440 Carver? 98 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:56,440 Not familiar. 99 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:58,440 Got out of Folsom three days ago. 100 00:03:58,440 --> 00:03:59,440 Served seven years armed robbery. 101 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:00,440 Yeah. 102 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:02,440 Fillmore was the man who got Carver and sent him up. 103 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:05,440 By the time he was sentenced, Carver swore up and down he'd get Fillmore when he got 104 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:06,440 out. 105 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:07,440 Hot-headed punk. 106 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:08,440 Where do we look for Carver? 107 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:10,440 Already checked where he's supposed to be staying. 108 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:11,440 Not there. 109 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:13,440 A list of guys he used to run with before he went to Folsom. 110 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:14,440 Thanks. 111 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:15,440 Nice to see you, Joe. 112 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:16,440 Where is this? 113 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:19,440 Ralph Danton, Ernie Travis, Jaime Flores. 114 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:21,440 Carver been seen around town since he got out? 115 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:24,440 Once that we know of in a bar out on Sunset Boulevard, Flores was with him. 116 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:26,440 Well, how about Travis and Danton? 117 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:27,440 They still around? 118 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:28,440 Let's see. 119 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:29,440 Travis went east two years ago. 120 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:30,440 Danton's around. 121 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:31,440 Still runs with Flores. 122 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:32,440 That's where you start. 123 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:33,440 Flores? 124 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:34,440 Yeah. 125 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:35,440 Okay. 126 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:36,440 Any reason? 127 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:37,440 Two. 128 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:38,440 Flores' sister used to go with Carver. 129 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:39,440 Yeah. 130 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:40,440 Flores owns a blue sedan. 131 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:41,440 3.20 a.m. 132 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:45,440 We checked Jaime Flores' last known address. 133 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:48,440 The old 76 Hotel down on South Alameda. 134 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:49,440 Flores had moved. 135 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:55,440 His forwarding address was his mother's house, 1232 Alabama Street out in Boyle Heights. 136 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:59,440 His mother told us Jaime was living on County View Avenue in Highland Park. 137 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:00,440 4.30 a.m. 138 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:01,440 We located the address. 139 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:02,440 Hmm. 140 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:03,440 No garage here. 141 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,440 I wonder where Jaime keeps his car. 142 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:07,440 Hmm. 143 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:12,440 Not parked on the street. 144 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:15,440 Yeah? 145 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:18,440 What do you want? 146 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:19,440 Police officers. 147 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:20,440 Oh. 148 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:21,440 Like to talk to Jaime Flores? 149 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:22,440 Jaime? 150 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:23,440 It's late. 151 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:24,440 We're in bed. 152 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:25,440 It's important. 153 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,440 We'd like to talk to him. 154 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:29,440 All right. 155 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:30,440 Wait. 156 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:31,440 I'll go get him up. 157 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:32,440 Jaime. 158 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:33,440 Come on. 159 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:34,440 Get up. 160 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:35,440 Hmm? 161 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:36,440 Come on, Jaime. 162 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:37,440 Cops at the door want to talk to you. 163 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:38,440 What did they say? 164 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:39,440 They want to talk to you. 165 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:40,440 What? 166 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:45,440 Okay, baby. 167 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:48,440 Yeah, officers. 168 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:53,440 What can I do for you? 169 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:54,440 You Jaime Flores? 170 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:55,440 That's right. 171 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:56,440 We're looking for Jake Carver. 172 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:57,440 You know where he is? 173 00:05:57,440 --> 00:05:58,440 I wish I did. 174 00:05:58,440 --> 00:05:59,440 I'm through with that guy. 175 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:00,440 Why? 176 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:01,440 What's the matter? 177 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:03,440 He brought my car the day before yesterday. 178 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:05,440 Said he'd only be gone a couple hours. 179 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:06,440 I'm still waiting. 180 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:08,440 You own a blue sedan, is that right? 181 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:09,440 Yeah. 182 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:10,440 I own a 48 Chevy. 183 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:11,440 Why? 184 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:12,440 Did he crack it up? 185 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:13,440 Couldn't tell you. 186 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:15,440 Do you have any idea where we can look for Carver? 187 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:16,440 If I did, I'd be looking myself. 188 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:18,440 Do you know if Carver's got a gun? 189 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:19,440 Why? 190 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:20,440 Had punk pull a job? 191 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:21,440 Does he have a gun? 192 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:22,440 No trunk of the car. 193 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:23,440 I use it on hunting trips. 194 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:24,440 What kind? 195 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:25,440 Shotgun. 196 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:26,440 4.45 a.m. 197 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:28,440 We got out of broadcast in an APB on Jake Carver, containing a complete description of the car 198 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:29,440 and its license number. 199 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:36,500 Road blocks were set up on all main roads leading out to the 200 00:06:36,500 --> 00:06:43,680 city, and police details at the airports, bus depots, and the railroad terminals were 201 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:44,680 alerted. 202 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:48,280 All of the people whom Carver was known to have run with before he was sent to Folsom 203 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:51,640 Penitentiary were rounded up and brought in for questioning. 204 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:55,760 While Captain Elliott from Homicide supervised the interrogation, Ben went across the street 205 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:57,800 to check with a coroner at the morgue. 206 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:00,400 I contacted Lee Jones at the crime lab. 207 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:01,400 6 a.m. 208 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:05,720 We met in Chief of Detective Stad Brown's office. 209 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:06,720 Crime lab. 210 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:07,720 Find anything? 211 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:08,720 Single footprint, that's all. 212 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,240 Jones found it in one of the flower beds in front of Fillmore's home. 213 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:12,240 Does it tie in? 214 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:13,240 Size 10. 215 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:14,240 That's Carver's size. 216 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:15,240 That'll help. 217 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,480 Is there any indication Carver might still be in the city? 218 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:18,480 No. 219 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,360 There was a good three hours between the time Fillmore was shot and the road blocks went 220 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:22,360 up. 221 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:23,360 What about Carver's pals? 222 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:24,360 Did they help any? 223 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:27,440 Well, Flores is the only one who ever met the same since he got out. 224 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:29,240 What about Flores' sister, Dorothy? 225 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:30,680 She lives out in Long Beach. 226 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:32,560 And Senas and Burton are bringing her in now. 227 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,080 That guy Flores, did you question him again, Elliott? 228 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:36,080 Yeah. 229 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:38,600 Satisfied with everything he told you that he knows? 230 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:39,600 That's right. 231 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:40,920 He doesn't seem to be too close to Carver. 232 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,440 No record of any correspondence with him while he was in Folsom. 233 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:45,000 What about the coroner's report? 234 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,400 Shotgun, close range, hit him hard. 235 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:48,920 There's mugshots of Carver. 236 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:49,920 Are they out? 237 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:50,920 Photocopies still working on it. 238 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:51,920 Turning out 2,000. 239 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:52,920 Excuse me. 240 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:53,920 Brown speaking. 241 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:54,920 Albert. 242 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:55,920 Right. 243 00:07:55,920 --> 00:08:01,120 They got Dorothy Flores in the interrogation room. 244 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:02,120 You want to talk to her, Elliott? 245 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:04,040 Ben, you and Joe talked to her. 246 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:05,640 Gill and Senas and Burton are checking in here. 247 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:07,480 I got another angle I want them to start on. 248 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:08,480 Right. 249 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:11,480 Let's go, Joe. 250 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:16,480 He must be as mad as a hatter. 251 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:18,560 Three days out of Folsom and he kills a cop. 252 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:19,560 Yeah, if it was him. 253 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:21,560 You got any other idea? 254 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:23,040 We need more than a footprint. 255 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:25,680 We got to find the gun and we got to prove that he used it. 256 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:26,680 Hi. 257 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:28,800 You two going to take over? 258 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:29,800 Yeah, Lloyd. 259 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:31,360 You and Gill check in at the chief's office. 260 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:32,360 The captain wants to see you. 261 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:33,360 Okay. 262 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:34,360 You're the next woman to stand by. 263 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:35,360 It's fine. 264 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:36,360 Let's go, Gill. 265 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:37,360 See you guys later. 266 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:38,360 All right. 267 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:40,360 You're Dorothy Flores? 268 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:41,360 Yeah. 269 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:43,160 You know why you're here? 270 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:44,160 Jake Carver. 271 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:45,680 That's what they told me. 272 00:08:45,680 --> 00:08:46,680 That's right. 273 00:08:46,680 --> 00:08:47,680 You know where he is? 274 00:08:47,680 --> 00:08:48,680 No. 275 00:08:48,680 --> 00:08:50,360 Have you seen Carver in the past three days? 276 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,480 Look, I don't want any part of the guy. 277 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:53,480 He's nothing to me. 278 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:54,480 He never was. 279 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:56,840 You used to go around with him, didn't you? 280 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:57,840 Seven years ago. 281 00:08:57,840 --> 00:08:58,840 Before he went to Folsom. 282 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:02,240 What happened to your eye, Miss Flores? 283 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:05,280 Those bruises there on your arm. 284 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:06,280 We had a party. 285 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:09,400 I fell and bumped myself. 286 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:11,360 Looks like a pretty new black eye. 287 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:12,840 Did you have the party last night? 288 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:14,480 I told you, Jake's nothing to me. 289 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:15,640 He's a crazy hothead. 290 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:17,280 I don't want any part of him. 291 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:18,440 Was he around to see you last night? 292 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:19,600 I used to go with him. 293 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:20,600 That's all. 294 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:21,600 I don't care what happened to him. 295 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:22,600 You saw him last night. 296 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:23,600 I didn't. 297 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:27,760 This is on a murder rap, Miss Flores. 298 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:29,040 I didn't want to see him. 299 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:30,040 He came to my room. 300 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:31,040 He forced his way in. 301 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:32,600 I didn't want any part of him. 302 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:33,600 When was it? 303 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:34,600 Early this morning. 304 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:35,600 What time? 305 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:36,600 About two o'clock. 306 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:37,600 Maybe ten after. 307 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:38,600 He wanted money. 308 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:39,600 He acted like a crazy man. 309 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:41,280 I told him I didn't have any money. 310 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:42,280 He slugged me. 311 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:43,280 That's how I got his mouth. 312 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:45,080 What do you want the money for? 313 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,600 He said he got the cop who sent him up. 314 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:49,160 He had to get out of town. 315 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:50,160 He took my purse. 316 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:51,160 It's $48 in it. 317 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:53,200 Was he driving your brother's car? 318 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:54,200 Yeah. 319 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:55,880 I didn't want any part of him. 320 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:56,880 I got nothing in this. 321 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:58,680 Did he tell you where he was headed? 322 00:09:58,680 --> 00:09:59,680 Mexico. 323 00:09:59,680 --> 00:10:01,280 He's got friends across the border. 324 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:02,280 Tijuana. 325 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:03,280 All right. 326 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:04,280 Stay with her, Ben. 327 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:07,280 And get us to Nogga for two, will you? 328 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:08,280 Yeah. 329 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:09,280 Righty. 330 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:12,840 The Flores girl, Skipper. 331 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:15,320 Carvasaur this morning admitted shooting Fillmore. 332 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:17,040 She says he's headed south for Tijuana. 333 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:18,200 Maybe he stopped off on the way. 334 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:19,200 How do you mean? 335 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:20,480 The drugstore in San Pedro just held up. 336 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:21,480 Owner was shot and killed. 337 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:22,480 Yeah? 338 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:26,440 The guy was driving a blue sedan. 339 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:29,640 An immediate alert was tele-typed to the coastal town south of Los Angeles. 340 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:31,600 In the vicinity of San Pedro. 341 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:35,800 The San Diego police were alerted as were the Mexican authorities in Tijuana and other 342 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:39,440 designated points of entry along the California-Mexico border. 343 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:40,440 7.50 a.m. 344 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:45,280 Ben and I, together with Lloyd Barton and Al Schamber of Homicide, drove down to San 345 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:49,160 Pedro and checked in with Lieutenant Maxwell at San Pedro Homicide. 346 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:51,360 What kind of a gun did the guy use, Lieutenant? 347 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:52,360 I checked the body. 348 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:53,360 It looks like it could have been a.45. 349 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:55,360 No chance it might have been a shotgun. 350 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:57,080 No, not that kind of a wound. 351 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:58,720 Who saw the guy make his getaway? 352 00:10:58,720 --> 00:10:59,720 My wife did. 353 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:01,320 We live right across the street from the drugstore. 354 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:03,360 Wife heard the shooting and ran to the window. 355 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:04,360 She says it was a blue sedan. 356 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:05,960 She didn't see the license plate? 357 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:06,960 No. 358 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:08,240 I got a look at the car before it disappeared. 359 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:09,600 It looked like a Chevy to me. 360 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:11,680 There's been no sign of it since the roadblocks went up? 361 00:11:11,680 --> 00:11:12,680 Not yet. 362 00:11:12,680 --> 00:11:13,680 It's pretty hard to understand. 363 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:14,680 How do you mean? 364 00:11:14,680 --> 00:11:16,680 Take a look at the map here. 365 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:19,840 Here's Palace Verde's and Clifton to the west. 366 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:20,840 Roadblocks there. 367 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:21,840 Yeah. 368 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:22,840 Here's the roadblock to the north, just this side of Harbor City. 369 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:23,840 Another one northeast, near Wilmington. 370 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:24,840 Yeah. 371 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,840 This one here outside of Long Beach. 372 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:29,320 Had four roads to pick from. 373 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:30,320 They're all blocked off, huh? 374 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:31,320 No turnoffs, no detours. 375 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:33,320 All the roads are under patrol. 376 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:36,480 You think he got south beyond Long Beach before the roadblocks went up? 377 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:37,480 Not a chance. 378 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:38,480 Yeah. 379 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:39,480 It's hard to figure. 380 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:40,480 He could be hiding out somewhere along the way. 381 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:41,480 Excuse me. 382 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:42,480 This is Lieutenant Maxwell. 383 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:43,480 Where? 384 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:44,480 Okay. 385 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:45,480 Be right there. 386 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:46,480 Anything? 387 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:48,480 I found the car off the coast highway. 388 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:49,480 Blue Chevy sedan. 389 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:50,480 How about Carver? 390 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:51,480 Blood stains in the front seat. 391 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:52,480 That's all they found. 392 00:11:52,480 --> 00:12:12,440 You are listening to Dragnet for the step-by-step solution to an actual police case. 393 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:18,160 Here, step-by-step are the reasons why Fatima has more than doubled its smokers from coast 394 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:19,160 to coast. 395 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:20,160 Step one. 396 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:24,680 The name Fatima has always stood for the best in cigarette quality. 397 00:12:24,680 --> 00:12:25,800 Step two. 398 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:31,360 Long cigarette smokers discover Fatima has a much different, much better flavor and aroma. 399 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:32,400 Step three. 400 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:35,960 Long cigarette smokers find Fatima extra mild. 401 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:42,600 Fatima is the long cigarette which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos superbly 402 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:45,640 blended to make Fatima extra mild. 403 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:53,480 And that's why more and more smokers every day agree it's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 404 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:56,480 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 405 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:57,480 Yes. 406 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:04,560 The name Fatima on that golden yellow package is your insurance of an extra mild smoke. 407 00:13:04,560 --> 00:13:07,840 So enjoy king size Fatima. 408 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:15,960 The best of all long cigarettes. 409 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:19,280 8.45 a.m. 410 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:21,000 We found the blue Chevrolet sedan. 411 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:25,320 It was lying overturned in a ditch just off a dead end road on the edge of a grove of 412 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:27,600 eucalyptus trees. 413 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:29,480 Oil was still dripping from the crankcase. 414 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:33,840 There were blood stains on the upholstery in the front seat. 415 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:38,560 In the glove compartment we found two empty shotgun shells, Ben marked them with his initials 416 00:13:38,560 --> 00:13:41,080 for evidence and wrapped them in a handkerchief. 417 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:43,280 The fingerprint men were called. 418 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:46,280 We fanned out and started the search of the general area. 419 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:53,800 See if we can't pick up a trail in this eucalyptus grove here. 420 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:55,640 Sure has got me beat. 421 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:56,640 What's that? 422 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:58,760 Car all smashed up back there, blood all over. 423 00:13:58,760 --> 00:13:59,760 The guy must have been hurt. 424 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:01,560 How'd he get this far away from the car? 425 00:14:01,560 --> 00:14:03,400 What makes you think he did get far? 426 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:06,880 Neither that, or he's hiding right under a nose. 427 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:10,080 No sign of a trail through here? 428 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:11,080 No, there's nothing. 429 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:12,520 There's a clearing up ahead. 430 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:15,200 Come on, let's cut through this brush here. 431 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:18,400 Ben, come here. 432 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:19,400 Yeah? 433 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:22,000 Take a look. 434 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:23,920 The trunk of this tree. 435 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:25,520 Brown smears on it. 436 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:26,520 Blood? 437 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:27,520 Maybe. 438 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:31,520 Look, higher up on the trunk there's the same thing. 439 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:33,320 Wait a minute. 440 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:34,320 Up in the tree. 441 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,600 Can you see anything up there? 442 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:39,720 No, the branches are pretty thick. 443 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:41,080 Trees go pretty high up. 444 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:44,480 Good 60 feet up there. 445 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:45,480 Come here, Joe. 446 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:46,480 Yeah? 447 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:47,480 Follow my hand. 448 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:49,480 No, just over at the left where I'm pointing. 449 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:50,480 Oh, yeah. 450 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:51,480 Cover, Ben. 451 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:52,480 You all right, Joe? 452 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:53,480 Yeah. 453 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:54,480 Can you see him? 454 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:55,480 Yeah, up near the top. 455 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:56,480 Right. 456 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:57,480 Stay off, Burton. 457 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:58,480 Don't come in the clearing. 458 00:14:58,480 --> 00:14:59,480 He's up in one of the trees. 459 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,480 Throw that gun down, then come down yourself. 460 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:03,480 All right, Ben. 461 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:04,480 Hit him, Joe. 462 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:05,480 Hold it. 463 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:06,480 It's Carla. 464 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:07,480 Shotgun's over there. 465 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:08,480 You alive? 466 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:09,480 Yeah. 467 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:12,480 It's a hard tree to climb. 468 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:27,480 I wonder how he got up there. 469 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:28,480 I don't know. 470 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:34,480 But this was the only way to get him down. 471 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:38,480 We called an ambulance and had Jake Carver taken back to Los Angeles to the county hospital, 472 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:39,760 the prison ward. 473 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:44,040 We took the shotgun and the empty shells and booked them as evidence with the property 474 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:45,040 clerk. 475 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:48,120 The wrecked blue sedan was impounded. 476 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:51,040 Two counts of murder were filed against Carver with the district attorney. 477 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:55,880 There was still one important piece of evidence missing, the.45 pistol used in the robbery 478 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:58,680 and murder of the San Pedro drug addicts. 479 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:01,040 A month passed. 480 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:04,640 While Carver recuperated in the prison ward of the county hospital, we were busy building 481 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:07,640 a case for his conviction. 482 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:11,560 We still had only enough evidence to convict him for one of the murders. 483 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:13,680 Another two months went by. 484 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:18,160 On August 30th, Jake Carver was brought to trial for the shotgun murder of police officer 485 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:20,720 Robert Fillmore. 486 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:23,760 Ten days later, the jury found him guilty of first degree murder. 487 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:27,960 He was sentenced to a life term in Folsom Penitentiary. 488 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:30,720 Knowing that we didn't have enough evidence to convict his client for the murder of the 489 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:34,880 drug addicts, Carver's lawyer demanded an immediate trial on the second charge. 490 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:37,000 Wednesday, September 12th, 10 a.m. 491 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,760 I was called to chief of detective's office. 492 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:42,400 Rodney, sit down. 493 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:43,400 Thank you. 494 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:46,520 Elliot and I have been talking about this Jake Carver thing. 495 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:49,080 Have you set the trial date yet? 496 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:52,360 Starts next Tuesday, bringing Carver down from Folsom tomorrow. 497 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:54,240 That's bum luck. 498 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:56,200 We're not going to convict him on the evidence we've got. 499 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:57,200 We don't even have the gun. 500 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:58,560 We've got to get a conviction. 501 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:00,840 He beat the death rap for killing Fillmore. 502 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:03,840 If he gets over this one, it means he's still eligible for parole. 503 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:05,840 So he serves ten years, maybe. 504 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:06,840 Good behavior. 505 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:08,840 He gets out and he's ready to start him all over again. 506 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:12,440 If we could just sew him up for killing that drug addict, we could put him away for good. 507 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:13,440 I don't know how, Skipper. 508 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:17,760 It's a pretty good bet that no jury will convict him unless we find that gun. 509 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:18,760 We've got another, Al. 510 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:19,760 Just one. 511 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:20,760 What's that? 512 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:23,520 We can get Carver to admit he killed that drug addict. 513 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:24,520 That's a neat trick. 514 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:28,720 When you and Ben got him last May, did he see you at all? 515 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,240 Did he think he could recognize you again? 516 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:35,800 Couldn't have gotten a very good look from where he was up in that tree. 517 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:37,160 Ben did all the testifying at the trial. 518 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:38,160 I wasn't even there. 519 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:39,880 No, he wouldn't know me. 520 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:40,880 Why? 521 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:44,280 When they bring Carver down from Folsom tomorrow, they'll put him in county jail while he's 522 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:45,280 waiting trial. 523 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:46,280 Yeah. 524 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:48,440 Chief figures that we could plant you in the same cell with him. 525 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:51,040 There's a chance he might talk if you play it right. 526 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:52,480 No, I don't know. 527 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:53,480 He's no beginner. 528 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:54,480 Neither are you. 529 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:57,000 You carve enough of the right bait at the right time, there's a chance he'll put his 530 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:58,000 foot in it. 531 00:17:58,000 --> 00:17:59,000 Maybe. 532 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:00,000 All right. 533 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:01,160 Will you set it up with the county jail? 534 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:02,520 Yeah, and remember, he's a killer. 535 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:03,520 Don't take any chances. 536 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:04,520 I suppose he gets wise. 537 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:05,520 Well, we'll know you tried. 538 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:15,640 The following day at 2 p.m., I was booked at central jail as Joe Ramis, a robbery suspect. 539 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:19,600 Ramis was the actual name of an Eastern thief whom we knew was not acquainted with Jake 540 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:20,880 Carver. 541 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:24,960 After being mugged and fingerprinted, transportation officers took me to the 12th floor of the 542 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:28,560 Hall of Justice where I was booked into the county jail. 543 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:32,400 After that, I was taken down to a cell block on the 10th floor known as the high power 544 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:36,520 tank where prisoners charged with major crimes are held. 545 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:40,560 During the day, the individual cells are left open and the prisoners are allowed to visit 546 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:42,240 with one another. 547 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:45,880 I was taken back and shown the cell I was assigned to. 548 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:46,880 Jake Carver was already there. 549 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,960 He was playing two handed poker with another inmate on the lower bunk. 550 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:53,640 Hey, guy Ramis, this cell here. 551 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:55,360 Take the top bunk. 552 00:18:55,360 --> 00:18:56,360 All right. 553 00:18:56,360 --> 00:18:57,360 How many cards you want? 554 00:18:57,360 --> 00:18:58,360 Make it two, Jake. 555 00:18:58,360 --> 00:18:59,360 Hey, move, will you? 556 00:18:59,360 --> 00:19:00,360 I want to get in my bunk. 557 00:19:00,360 --> 00:19:01,360 Come on, make your bet. 558 00:19:01,360 --> 00:19:02,360 Says two cigarettes. 559 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:03,360 You're two, bunk you six. 560 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:04,360 I said I'd like to get in my bunk. 561 00:19:04,360 --> 00:19:05,360 I'm going to get in my bunk. 562 00:19:05,360 --> 00:19:06,360 I'm going to get in my bunk. 563 00:19:06,360 --> 00:19:07,360 I'm going to get in my bunk. 564 00:19:07,360 --> 00:19:08,360 I'm going to get in my bunk. 565 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:09,360 I'm going to get in my bunk. 566 00:19:09,360 --> 00:19:10,360 I'm going to get in my bunk. 567 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:11,360 I'm going to get in my bunk. 568 00:19:11,360 --> 00:19:13,120 I said I'd like to get in my bunk. 569 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:16,120 Go on, Sam, play your game. 570 00:19:16,120 --> 00:19:18,120 OK, I'll see you. 571 00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:19,800 Maybe you didn't hear me, Sam. 572 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:21,040 I said I want to get in my bunk. 573 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:22,040 I heard you, Mac. 574 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:23,760 I don't like shoving around like this. 575 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:28,480 All right, now sit down. 576 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:29,480 What's your complaint? 577 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:32,320 Didn't they tell you when you came through the door? 578 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:34,560 They bury you in the hole for beefing in here. 579 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:37,680 Then as long as I'm in here with you, let's get it straight right now. 580 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:38,680 Don't bother me. 581 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:41,600 While you're at it, keep your rum-dum pals out of here, you understand? 582 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:42,600 I don't think I do. 583 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:46,040 You'll be around for quite a while, smart guy. 584 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:47,040 I won't forget this. 585 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:48,040 Oh, yeah. 586 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:49,040 Chow time. 587 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:50,040 Come on, here it is. 588 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:53,040 What are you doing down there, darlin'? 589 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:54,040 Nothin'. 590 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:55,040 I always sit on the floor. 591 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:57,040 Well, get back to yourself, chow. 592 00:19:57,040 --> 00:19:58,040 Yeah. 593 00:19:58,040 --> 00:19:59,040 See you, Jake. 594 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:00,040 Yeah. 595 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:06,360 What's this junk they feed you? 596 00:20:06,360 --> 00:20:07,360 Boiled beef, boiled potatoes. 597 00:20:07,360 --> 00:20:10,200 It's a habit with them here. 598 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:11,200 Junk? 599 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,600 Can you buy from the outside? 600 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:14,600 Candy? 601 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:15,600 Sometimes pie. 602 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,600 A guy comes around in the morning. 603 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:20,080 Who are you? 604 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:21,080 Joe Ramis. 605 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:22,080 Ramis, huh? 606 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:23,080 Chicago? 607 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:24,080 I've been there. 608 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:25,080 So have I. 609 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:26,080 I'm Jake Carver. 610 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:27,080 Hiya. 611 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:28,080 All right. 612 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:29,080 What are you up for? 613 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:30,080 Talk to my lawyer. 614 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:31,080 You got a smart mind. 615 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:32,080 You got a big one. 616 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:33,080 You take care of your own lawyer. 617 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:34,080 I'm not a lawyer. 618 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:35,080 I'm a lawyer. 619 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:36,080 I'm a lawyer. 620 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:37,880 You take care of your own worries, huh? 621 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:38,880 I'll take care of mine. 622 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:41,200 I ain't got any worries. 623 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:42,200 I got it made. 624 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,200 Hey, you want that piece of bread? 625 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,200 I don't want any of it. 626 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:49,200 Take it. 627 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:50,200 Tell the truth. 628 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:52,240 I never had it so good. 629 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:53,240 No witnesses, no evidence. 630 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:55,240 You can't touch me. 631 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:56,240 Sure. 632 00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:00,720 That's why you're in here. 633 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:02,440 Three days passed. 634 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:06,040 By playing the part of the tough gunman from Chicago, I succeeded in getting close to the 635 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,080 close to Carver. 636 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:12,160 Because of the close confinement, I was with him almost constantly, but he still refused 637 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:13,160 to confide. 638 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:18,200 In a roundabout way, I pressed him as much as I could for the answer without making him 639 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:19,200 suspicious. 640 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:20,200 No results. 641 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:25,200 8.55 p.m. Sunday, two days before the trial opened. 642 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:30,680 Sam, Jake Carver, and I were playing blackjack in the aisle just outside our cell. 643 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:34,600 All right, Sam, hit me. 644 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:36,600 There you are. 645 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,600 Okay, I'm good. 646 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:39,600 Ramis? 647 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:40,600 I'll stay in. 648 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:41,600 18, pay 19. 649 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:42,600 That's all for me. 650 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:43,600 Me too. 651 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:44,600 I'm gonna hit the sack. 652 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:49,000 Yeah, just when I start to come back. 653 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:50,000 Always crying. 654 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:54,000 Hey, Ramis, seems to me I remember you. 655 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,000 Haven't I seen you around City Hall? 656 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:57,000 Sure. 657 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:58,000 I live there. 658 00:21:58,000 --> 00:21:59,000 All right, it's time. 659 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:00,000 Lock up. 660 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:05,000 Ramis? 661 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,000 What's he talking about? 662 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:09,000 I don't know. 663 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,000 I got a headache. 664 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:11,000 It's killing me. 665 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:12,000 Yeah? 666 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,000 Let me crack your neck. 667 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:14,000 It'll help it. 668 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,000 No, it's no good. 669 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,000 You got any of them brown pills? 670 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:19,000 Come on, I'll crack your neck. 671 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,000 Loosen up those nerves. 672 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:21,000 Always helps me. 673 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:22,000 Yeah? 674 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:23,000 Yeah, here, let me show you. 675 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:24,000 Come on, turn around. 676 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,000 Take it easy. 677 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Just relax. 678 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:27,000 Let yourself go. 679 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:28,000 Yeah. 680 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,000 I'm gonna get my hands around the back of your neck. 681 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:30,000 Come on, relax. 682 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,000 This one won't hurt you. 683 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:32,000 All right. 684 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,000 You gotta be careful with this stuff. 685 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,000 You could break a guy's neck, you know? 686 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,000 Take it easy, huh? 687 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,000 What's the matter? 688 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:41,000 Come on, relax. 689 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:42,000 All right. 690 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,000 Let me get a better grip on your neck. 691 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,000 Take it easy, huh? 692 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,000 All right, now. 693 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,000 Eh. 694 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,000 Always do it, how's that? 695 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:54,000 That's not bad. 696 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,000 Feels a little better. 697 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,000 I'll work something. 698 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,000 Sure. 699 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:01,000 Hey, I noticed you had a visitor today. 700 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,000 One of the boys in the East? 701 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,000 No, a friend of mine out here. 702 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,000 He just got in town. 703 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,000 The coppers are trying to pin a killing on him. 704 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,000 No, who is he? 705 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,000 Max Wesley, a good man. 706 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,000 Tried to say he pulled a job down in San Pedro. 707 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,000 Pedro? 708 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,000 What kind of job? 709 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:22,000 Stick up drugstore a couple months ago. 710 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:23,000 Yeah? 711 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,000 That's what they got me on, you know? 712 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,000 Funny. 713 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,000 I think I'll get some shut-eye. 714 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,000 What about this job they're trying to hang on him, you tell you? 715 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,000 I don't remember. 716 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:37,000 The guy who ran the store was shot up and died. 717 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,000 Max wasn't even in town when it happened. 718 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:40,000 Happened in May? 719 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:41,000 Last May? 720 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:42,000 I don't know. 721 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,000 See you in the morning. 722 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:44,000 Yeah. 723 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:50,000 Hard bed. 724 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,000 They didn't have nothing on Max, huh? 725 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,000 They let him go. 726 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,000 Oh, I bet he's out on bail. 727 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,000 I mean, no evidence on him. 728 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:58,000 No gun, huh? 729 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,000 Yeah, he's got a gun. 730 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,000 I think that's what Max said. 731 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,000 Where'd they find it, they say? 732 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,000 I don't know where they found it. 733 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,000 Go to sleep, will you? 734 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:12,000 He mentioned anything else about Pedro, like San Pedro Hills? 735 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,000 Yeah. 736 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:15,000 Maybe that's what they found. 737 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,000 I think Max said that. 738 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,000 Oh. 739 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,000 I couldn't be. 740 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:26,000 I understand that. 741 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:30,000 Hey, Ramos, it wasn't the Harbor Drug Store, was it? 742 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,000 What's eating you anyway? 743 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,000 Will you go to sleep? 744 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,000 Look, Ramos, Ramos, I gotta know. 745 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,000 It's important. 746 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,000 What are you talking about? 747 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:38,000 I gotta get some sleep. 748 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,000 Will you listen a minute? 749 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,000 I ditched a gun down there in the San Pedro Hills. 750 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:43,000 All right, what are you worrying about? 751 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,000 They don't send you up for hiding guns? 752 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:47,000 Listen, I'm hot on that job. 753 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,000 They got me on one murder rap, they tagged me on another one. 754 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,000 It's for keeps. 755 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:51,000 What do you want me to do? 756 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,000 Talk to the governor? 757 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,000 Are you sure this guy Max said that they found a gun? 758 00:24:55,000 --> 00:25:00,000 Now look, Carver, Max said they found a gun in the San Pedro Hills. 759 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,000 Now you get on down in your bunk and let's talk about it in the morning, huh? 760 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,000 Wait, what kind? 761 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,000 Did he say what kind? 762 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,000 I don't know, I don't remember. 763 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,000 Was it a.45? 764 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,000 Something like that, yeah, a.45, I guess that was it. 765 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,000 Now get, listen, got that jailer barking down here. 766 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,000 Quiet down in there. 767 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,000 All right. 768 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:19,000 Can you go to sleep now? 769 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,000 I can't, it's not the same one. 770 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,000 They couldn't have found it, they haven't talked to me. 771 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,000 Ramos. 772 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,000 When did they find the gun? 773 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,000 Did Max tell you that? 774 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,000 When did they find the gun? 775 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:34,000 Wait. 776 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:35,000 I don't know. 777 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,000 He didn't say where? 778 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,000 San Pedro Hills. 779 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,000 Ramos, I gotta know. 780 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,000 Wasn't by a covert, was it? 781 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,000 On the hill road? 782 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:45,000 I don't know, I'll ask Max. 783 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:46,000 The next time I see him. 784 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,000 Is that where you ditched yours? 785 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,000 They couldn't have found it, nobody could have. 786 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,000 This covert, see back on the road. 787 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:57,000 There was a piece of cement broken off the bottom edge of the covert, kind of a hollowed out space inside. 788 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,000 I pushed the dirt all around it. 789 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,000 You gotta ask Max. 790 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,000 Ask him where they found that gun. 791 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,000 Yeah, I'll see him Wednesday, I'll ask him. 792 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,000 You gotta find out, they could put me away for good. 793 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,000 What are you worrying about? 794 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,000 They haven't paired you up yet with the gun they found. 795 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,000 Yeah. 796 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,000 Yeah, that's right. 797 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,000 Maybe they didn't figure it, maybe they forgot. 798 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,000 Maybe. 799 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:23,000 Yeah. 800 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,000 Cops are dumb. 801 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,000 They forget. 802 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,000 That's what everybody says, isn't it? 803 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,000 Yeah, that's what everybody says. 804 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,000 The story you have just heard was true. 805 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,000 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 806 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:52,000 On September 18th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 91, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 807 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,000 In a moment, the results of that trial. 808 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:59,000 It's amazing how many long cigarette smokers are changing to Fatima. 809 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,000 Here is the actual report. 810 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:06,000 From coast to coast, king-sized Fatima has more than doubled its smokers. 811 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:14,000 Yes, more and more smokers every day are discovering that Fatima is the best of all long cigarettes. 812 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:20,000 Long cigarette smokers find Fatima has a much different, much better flavor and aroma. 813 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:33,000 Long cigarette smokers find that Fatima is extra mild because it's the long cigarette which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos superbly blended to make it extra mild. 814 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:37,000 So enjoy extra mild Fatima. 815 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,000 Best of all long cigarettes. 816 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,000 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 817 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:47,000 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 818 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:05,000 The murder gun, a 45 caliber automatic pistol, was recovered from the San Pedro Hills and Jacob John Carver was brought to trial. 819 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,000 He was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree. 820 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:12,000 The jury again refused to recommend the death penalty. 821 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:18,000 Carver is now serving a life term in the state penitentiary without possibility of parole. 822 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:27,000 You have just heard Dragnet, authentic cases from official files. 823 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:34,000 Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.A. Wharton, Los Angeles Police Department. 824 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:44,000 Dragnet wishes to thank the editors of Radio Best magazine for their considerate appraisal of this program. 825 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:51,000 For those of you who may be interested, a novelized version of Dragnet appears in the April issue of Radio Best. 826 00:28:51,000 --> 00:29:04,000 Fatima cigarettes, the best of all long cigarettes, has brought you Dragnet from Los Angeles. 827 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:21,000 Tomorrow, hear Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Coleman in the halls of Ivy on NBC.