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It was foggy in Los Angeles. 26 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 We were working a day watch out of homicide detail. 27 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,000 My partner is Ben Romero. The boss is Thad Brown, chief of detectives. 28 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,000 My name is Friday. 29 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,000 We were on our way back from the state building 30 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:27,000 and it was 2.45 p.m. when we got to the city hall, room 29, handwriting analysis. 31 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,000 I want to have some information on the case. 32 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:34,000 Handwriting analysis. Want to have a seat, Fred? 33 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,000 Okay, thanks. I'll see if Don's around. Maybe in the back room. 34 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Don Meyer. Don, are you here? 35 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Yeah, coming. Just a minute. 36 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Oh, hi, Ben. 37 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,000 I've got a quick job for you, Don. Can you spare a few minutes? 38 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Thanks, sir. Hi, Joe. Good to see you. 39 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,000 I'd like to have you meet Fred Galloway, State Parole. 40 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Fred, this is Don Meyer, our handwriting man. 41 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,000 How are you? 42 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Got a couple of signatures here. I'd like to have you check them now if you can. 43 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,000 I can try. Let's see what you got. 44 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,000 You want to show them, Fred? Yeah. 45 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:08,000 These three sheets here, Don, mark November, December, January. 46 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,000 I'd like to know if the signatures on them 47 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:14,000 compare with the signatures on these two here. They're marked February and March. 48 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,000 Let me see. Thanks. 49 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Mm-hmm. Yeah, well, this shouldn't take long. 50 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Why don't you fellas have a seat? Okay. 51 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,000 How's this thing shape up, Fred? 52 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,000 You figure that the Johnson woman's jumped her parole? 53 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,000 Got me. I don't know what to think. 54 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,000 How long's it been since you got out of prison? 55 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Well, let me check you out on the details. I got the dope right here. 56 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,000 All right, all right. 57 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:38,000 Annie Marie Johnson. She was sent up for a life term in 1933, 58 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,000 murdered her husband John, shot him to death. 59 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:45,000 Started appealing for parole in 1940, finally won it May 14th last year, 60 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,000 paroled into the custody of Mrs. Laura Jean Muller. 61 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,000 Mm-hmm. Where does this Mrs. Muller live? 62 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,000 Down Wilmington. Old friend of the Johnson woman. 63 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,000 She fought for ten years to get her released from Tehachapi. 64 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Have you been in touch with Mrs. Muller lately, Fred? 65 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Only by mail. We've been sending her monthly report forms all along. 66 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,000 She's the person that Annie Johnson was paroled to. 67 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:07,000 So the form has to be filled out, then signed by Mrs. Muller, and mailed back to me. 68 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Yeah, I know. And that's where you figured that something was wrong. 69 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,000 We got the February and March reports back from her on time. 70 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,000 All the usual questions answered properly. 71 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,000 And it was the signature. 72 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,000 Writing didn't look like Mrs. Muller's at all. 73 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,000 You think the Johnson woman is faking the signature? 74 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Maybe. I tried to contact the Muller house half a dozen times 75 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,000 in the last couple of days, nobody home. 76 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,000 There you go, man. You got it? Yeah. 77 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,000 Let me see. These three here, November, December, January, 78 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,000 they were signed by the same person. Yeah. 79 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,000 Signatures on the February and March reports, 80 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,000 they're pretty bad imitations. 81 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:43,000 One person signed these two, another person signed these. 82 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:44,000 No match at all. 83 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Well, then the signatures on the last two reports were forged. 84 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,000 I'd say so. 85 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,000 She went up for murder. That's your department. You want to run it down? 86 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Sure. What's it end up to? 87 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,000 It could be a lot of things, could be nothing. 88 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,000 Annie Johnson ought to know. 89 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Ben and I checked out of the office and drove down to Wilmington. 90 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,000 We located the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Muller on Seaboard Drive, 91 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,000 just off Anaheim Street. 92 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,000 It was an old-fashioned two-story house, 93 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,000 set back on a big corner lot along with plenty of shrubbery. 94 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:16,000 It was a faded gray with lots of Victorian gingerbread hung all over it. 95 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:20,000 Fancy carved gables, carriage driveway with hitching posts 96 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 and pieces of thick colored glass 97 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,000 set in some kind of a design in the window of the front door. 98 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Out in the harbor beyond Terminal Islands, you could hear the fog horns. 99 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,000 They sure get the fog out here, don't they? 100 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,000 It's pretty thick today. 101 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,000 My aunt used to live just above here, Grant Avenue. 102 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:41,000 Oh, uh-huh. 103 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Couldn't take the fog, so she moved out the valley. 104 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,000 The garden could stand some taking care of. 105 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Yeah, weeds are doing fine. 106 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,000 Want to try it again? 107 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:00,000 What do you think? 108 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Let's try the neighbors, huh? 109 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Yeah, all right. 110 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,000 That house across the street must be somebody there. 111 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,000 I saw a woman shaking a dust mop out the window when we drove up. 112 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,000 All right. 113 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,000 Kind of a bleak-looking spot up here on the hill, isn't it? 114 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:16,000 Not many houses around. 115 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,000 Yeah, and this fog's doing nothing for me. 116 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Chills you right down to the bone. 117 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 What's the name of the mailbox here? 118 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,000 Let's see. 119 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Miss Fora Carpenter. 120 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,000 Well, maybe she can tell us something. 121 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,000 Are you the sewing machine man? 122 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:44,000 No, ma'am, we're police officers. 123 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Like to ask you a few questions? 124 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:47,000 Oh, I'm sorry. 125 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,000 I thought you came about my singer. 126 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:50,000 No, ma'am. 127 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:55,000 I can't do any more work on my peasant skirt until the machine's fixed. 128 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,000 And it has to be done by Saturday. 129 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,000 Our folk dancing group's having a big jamboree Saturday night. 130 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 Will you step inside? 131 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:03,000 Thank you. 132 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:04,000 This is Sergeant Romero. 133 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:05,000 My name's Friday. 134 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,000 How do you do? 135 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,000 Oh, fog's so refreshing, isn't it? 136 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Very vitalizing. 137 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:13,000 Yes, ma'am. 138 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Are you acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. Mueller across the street, Miss Carpenter? 139 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,000 The Mueller's? 140 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Yes, I've known them for years. 141 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,000 And they have an Annie Johnson living with them? 142 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Yes, one of my very good friends. 143 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,000 She's employed as a housemaid for the Mueller's, is that right? 144 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,000 Well, I guess you could call it that. 145 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Actually, she's more of a companion to Mrs. Mueller since poor Mr. Mueller got sick. 146 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,000 What's his trouble? 147 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,000 His mind. 148 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,000 Poor man just lost his senses. 149 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,000 He's at the state hospital at Norwalk. 150 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,000 When did they send him there? 151 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Let me see. 152 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,000 This is March. 153 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Must have been last November. 154 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,000 Yes, became violent. 155 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,000 Do you know where Mrs. Mueller is now? 156 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,000 In the sanitarium out near Pasadena. 157 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Not well at all. 158 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,000 And Annie Johnson, is she still living at Mueller's house across the street? 159 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:06,000 Oh, yes. 160 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,000 She went downtown to do some shopping today. 161 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:10,000 Did she say when she'd be back? 162 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:17,000 No, she didn't, but we have a meeting of our book appreciation club at 8.30 tonight here at my house, 163 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:20,000 and I certainly don't think she'd miss the meeting. 164 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:21,000 I see. 165 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:25,000 Miss Carpenter, do you happen to know the name of the sanitarium where Mrs. Mueller's staying? 166 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:26,000 Garways. 167 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,000 That's what Annie told me. 168 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Garways, Rest Home, out by Pasadena. 169 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Have any of the neighbors been out to visit her? 170 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,000 Well, no, we haven't. 171 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Annie said the doctors there thought it'd be better if Mrs. Mueller didn't have visitors. 172 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:42,000 I see. 173 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,000 I wonder if you'd tell us where we could find a public telephone in the neighborhood. 174 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:49,000 Oh, you can use my phone, Sergeant, it's right back there in the hall. 175 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:50,000 Fine, thank you. 176 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:51,000 I'll call them, Joe. 177 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,000 I'll have the operator charge it to our office. 178 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,000 You sure you can find your way back there, Sergeant? 179 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:00,000 It's right under General Pershing's picture. 180 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Yes, ma'am, no trouble. 181 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:07,000 I was just thinking, Sergeant Friday. 182 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Yes, ma'am. 183 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:12,000 Would you know anything about repairing sewing machines? 184 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:13,000 No, I'm afraid not. 185 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Oh. 186 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,000 Oh, fluffy, there you are. 187 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,000 This is Annie Johnson's cat, Sergeant. 188 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,000 Isn't he simply gorgeous? 189 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,000 Look at that fur. 190 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:27,000 Yes, ma'am, he's a nice cat. 191 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,000 Genuine Pershing. 192 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:33,000 Annie brought him with her when she came to live with the Mueller's. 193 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:37,000 Did Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Mueller always seem to get along fairly well together, do you? 194 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:38,000 I mean, no arguments? 195 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,000 Oh, my, no. 196 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:43,000 Annie's the easiest person in the world to get along with. 197 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:47,000 All us girls in the neighborhood just adore her. 198 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,000 Joe, did you talk to the sanitarium? 199 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Yeah, I double-checked the name. 200 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:51,000 Yeah. 201 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,000 Mrs. Mueller's not there, they never heard of her. 202 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:57,000 Ben and I left and interviewed some of the other people in the neighborhood. 203 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:01,000 They all had the same high opinion of Annie Johnson as Miss Carpenter did. 204 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:06,000 They all had the impression that Mrs. Mueller was under doctor's care at the Garroway Rest Home in Pasadena. 205 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,000 Annie Johnson told them so. 206 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:14,000 We found out that Mrs. Mueller had one other living relative besides her husband, her niece, Lorraine Mueller. 207 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,000 She lived out on Norwich Drive in Beverly Hills. 208 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:25,000 At 5.30 p.m., Ben and I drove back to the office and made a spot check of every private rest home and sanitarium listed in the Los Angeles area. 209 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,000 Mrs. Mueller wasn't at any of them. 210 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:32,000 We called the state hospital at Norwalk and they informed us that Joseph Mueller was there, 211 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,000 having been committed the 2nd of November the previous year. 212 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,000 He was critically ill. 213 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,000 We put in another call to the Mueller home, still no answer. 214 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:47,000 6.15 p.m., we drove out to Beverly Hills to the home of Mrs. Mueller's niece, Lorraine. 215 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:51,000 She was a tall, good-looking girl with blonde hair and a bad cough. 216 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,000 I don't think I can help you, Sergeant. 217 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,000 I moved out of my aunt's house three months ago. 218 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,000 I haven't seen her since. 219 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,000 Were you staying at the house when Annie Johnson came to live there? 220 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,000 I was raised in that house. 221 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:08,000 Mother and dad died when I was a baby and Uncle Joe and Aunt Laura took care of me. 222 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:09,000 They're wonderful people. 223 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,000 Would you mind telling us why you moved? 224 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,000 I don't mind. 225 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,000 Everything was fine until Annie Johnson came. 226 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,000 I didn't get along with her. We fought all the time. 227 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,000 Oh, is that so? 228 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,000 I don't know why. I just didn't like her. 229 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,000 When Annie moved in, she took over the whole house. 230 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,000 What's the connection between your aunt and Mrs. Johnson? 231 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,000 Any blood relationship there? 232 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,000 No, no. Annie was a school child with Aunt Laura. 233 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,000 When they sent her to prison for killing her husband, she wrote for help. 234 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:38,000 And your aunt helped her? 235 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:40,000 She worked for 11 years at it. 236 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,000 I don't know how much money she spent. 237 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,000 Lawyers, you know. 238 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,000 She finally got Annie parole. 239 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,000 And then she took Mrs. Johnson on as a housekeeper, is that right? 240 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,000 Yeah. And she never did any work. 241 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,000 She acted like she owned the house. 242 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:57,000 Like my aunt and uncle owed her everything they'd done for her. 243 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,000 When's the last time you heard from your aunt? 244 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,000 It was a few months ago, around Christmas time. 245 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,000 I called her up to wish her a Merry Christmas. 246 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,000 You have no idea where Mrs. Muller might be now. 247 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,000 She's got friends that she could be staying with maybe. 248 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,000 No, Aunt Laura only has a few friends. 249 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,000 They all live in the neighborhood. 250 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,000 She's not in the habit of going up without telling anyone, is she? 251 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,000 No, never anything like that. 252 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,000 I don't understand it. 253 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,000 Something must be wrong. 254 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:25,000 Annie, do you think she's done something? 255 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:26,000 Do you? 256 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,000 No, she couldn't have. 257 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,000 She owes everything to Aunt Laura. 258 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,000 Her freedom, a good home, nice clothes, money. 259 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,000 Everything my aunt could give her. 260 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:36,000 Some people are like that. 261 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,000 If it's free, they never get too much. 262 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:45,000 Before we left Lorraine Muller's house, we got the name of her aunt's lawyer. 263 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,000 We had dinner at a lunch counter on La Cienega, 264 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,000 and then we drove back to Wilmington to the Muller house. 265 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,000 Lights were burning in the front windows. 266 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,000 The fog was thick now. 267 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,000 Guess that's her sing. 268 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:05,000 Yeah, you want to ring the bell? 269 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,000 Can you see in through the curtain, Jill? 270 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,000 Yeah, she didn't hear it. Let's ring it again. 271 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,000 Here she comes. 272 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:23,000 Yes? 273 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:24,000 Are you Mrs. Johnson? 274 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,000 Yes, that's right. What is it? 275 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,000 Police officers, our identification. 276 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,000 Oh, yes. Won't you come in? 277 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,000 Thank you, ma'am. 278 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:34,000 We'll go in the parlor, shall we? 279 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,000 All right. 280 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:40,000 Now... 281 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:41,000 We're February and March? 282 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:42,000 Yes. 283 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,000 We think the signatures on those two reports are forged. 284 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Oh, those. 285 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:47,000 Uh-huh. 286 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,000 Oh, yes. I don't know what to say. 287 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,000 I really didn't think it was that serious. 288 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,000 I knew the reports had to be sent in. 289 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,000 Did you sign Mrs. Muller's name on them? 290 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:57,000 Well, yes, I did. 291 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,000 You see, Laura Muller's at a sanitarium now, resting up. 292 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,000 I didn't want to bother her with all this business, 293 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,000 so I signed them and put them in the mail. 294 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,000 But forgery, I didn't think it was that serious. 295 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,000 Which sanitarium is Mrs. Muller staying at? 296 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:11,000 Garroways. 297 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,000 A very nice place. It's near Pasadena. 298 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,000 She's been there about two months now. 299 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:16,000 Have you been out to visit her yet? 300 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,000 No, I haven't. 301 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:19,000 I'm a little ashamed of myself. 302 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,000 I've just been too busy keeping up the house here. 303 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:22,000 It's lots of work. 304 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,000 Yes, I understand. 305 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,000 I suppose you drove Mrs. Muller to the sanitarium. 306 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,000 As a matter of fact, I didn't. 307 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,000 You see, we don't have a car, so she took a taxi cab. 308 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Have you telephoned Mrs. Muller at the sanitarium? 309 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,000 Yes, just once the day she went in. 310 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,000 She's there for a good rest. 311 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,000 I don't feel that anyone should bother. 312 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,000 Not even myself. 313 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,000 Does she have any other relatives? 314 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,000 Besides her husband, that is. 315 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,000 None at all. 316 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,000 Poor Mr. Muller. 317 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,000 We had to send him away, you know, to Warwick State Hospital. 318 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:52,000 Yes, ma'am. 319 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,000 He got out of hand. Just terrible. 320 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,000 He almost murdered poor Laura once, and those were awful days. 321 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,000 He's much better off where he is. 322 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,000 Yeah, it's too bad. 323 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,000 Well, that's about all, Miss Johnson. 324 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:06,000 Oh, here. 325 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:07,000 Let me show you to the door. 326 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:08,000 Thanks. 327 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,000 You'd better contact your parole officer the first thing in the morning 328 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,000 and clear up this matter of the reports. 329 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,000 I'll do that. Thank you. 330 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,000 Good night, Miss Johnson. Thanks again. 331 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,000 All right. Good night. 332 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,000 What time you got? 333 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,000 20 minutes after 8. 334 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:27,000 Hmm. 335 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,000 The light just went on in the attic. 336 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:30,000 Yeah. 337 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:31,000 What do you think? 338 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,000 We'd better go take a look around. 339 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,000 What do you think we'll find? 340 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:36,000 I don't know. 341 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Maybe a reason for some of those lies she told us. 342 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:42,000 8.35 p.m. 343 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,000 Annie Johnson left the house and crossed the street. 344 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,000 She was in the back of the house. 345 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:51,000 Annie Johnson left the house and crossed the street to Miss Carpenter's place. 346 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:55,000 In the Muller house in a small desk in one of the rear bedrooms on the first floor, 347 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,000 we found a file for Mrs. Muller's business papers. 348 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,000 In the file, we located three of her insurance policies. 349 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,000 It was one for 5,000 and two for 3,500. 350 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,000 Each policy had a writer attached, 351 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:10,000 changing the beneficiary from Joseph Muller, the husband, to Annie Johnson. 352 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,000 $12,000 worth of insurance. 353 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,000 Yeah. Let's get them back in this folder. 354 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:15,000 Did you get the policy numbers? 355 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:16,000 Yeah. 356 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:17,000 What's this? 357 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Let's see. 358 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:19,000 Phone bill. 359 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,000 Light bill. 360 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:22,000 Here's one. 361 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:23,000 Labor bill. 362 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:26,000 Dollar an hour paid to Tom McCray, 363 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:27,000 charged Annie Johnson. 364 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:28,000 Uh-huh. 365 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Let's go. 366 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,000 Yeah, I want to get this address here. 367 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,000 Tom McCray, East Jefferson. 368 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:35,000 Hmm. 369 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,000 There's her cat. 370 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,000 Yeah. Let's go. 371 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,000 See what we can find upstairs, huh? 372 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:41,000 It's a pretty cat. 373 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:45,000 We went upstairs to the second floor of the house and searched the rooms. 374 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,000 We went up another flight of stairs to the attic. 375 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:52,000 For a full half hour, we searched through dozens of corrugated cartons 376 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,000 crammed with souvenirs and picture postcards. 377 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:59,000 Joe, come here. 378 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:00,000 Yeah. 379 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:01,000 Take a look. 380 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,000 Wrapped in newspaper. 381 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:05,000 Hmm. 382 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:06,000 3220 Colt. 383 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,000 Three empty cartridges. 384 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,000 We got a gun and we got a suspect. 385 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,000 Those insurance policies could be the motive. 386 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,000 Let's pray to God there's no victim. 387 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:32,000 You are listening to Dragnet for the step-by-step solution to an actual police case. 388 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:39,000 Here, step-by-step are the reasons why Fatima has more than doubled its smokers from coast to coast. 389 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:40,000 Step one. 390 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:45,000 The name Fatima has always stood for the best in cigarette quality. 391 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:46,000 Step two. 392 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:52,000 Long cigarette smokers discover Fatima has a much different, much better flavor and aroma. 393 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:53,000 Step three. 394 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:57,000 Long cigarette smokers find Fatima extra mild. 395 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:03,000 Fatima is the long cigarette which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos 396 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:07,000 superbly blended to make Fatima extra mild. 397 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:11,000 And that's why more and more smokers every day agree, 398 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:15,000 it's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 399 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,000 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 400 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:26,000 Yes, the name Fatima on that golden yellow package is your insurance of an extra mild smoke. 401 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,000 So enjoy king-size Fatima. 402 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:39,000 The best of all, long cigarettes. 403 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,000 Ten p.m. 404 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:46,000 An immediate stakeout was placed on the Mueller residence in case Annie Johnson made an attempt to leave during the night. 405 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:50,000 Ben and I took the gun that we'd found to the crime lab for analysis. 406 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,000 The next morning we checked with the Mueller's family attorney. 407 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,000 He had no ideas to the whereabouts of Mrs. Mueller, 408 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:00,000 but he told us that about three months ago she'd ordered him to draw up a new will for her. 409 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Under the new provisions, Annie Johnson was to be the sole heir of the Mueller house and property, 410 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,000 plus an additional $1,500 in bonds. 411 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:11,000 Friday, March 10th, 11 a.m. 412 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,000 While Ben checked with the insurance company, I met with Captain Elliott of Homicide. 413 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,000 You got everything with a victim, huh? Where are you looking? 414 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:22,000 We'd like to shake down the Mueller house again before we look anyplace else. 415 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,000 Didn't have a chance to give it a thorough going over last night. 416 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,000 You're sold on the idea it's a Johnson woman? 417 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:27,000 Looks like it. 418 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,000 Sure couldn't be a freak disappearance. 419 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,000 No, sir, not in my book. Annie Johnson's got some big reasons for lying to us. 420 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:34,000 I'd like to find him. 421 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:35,000 How do you figure on doing that? 422 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,000 Well, if we could pull her in and question her just to get her away from the Mueller place, 423 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:42,000 I'd like to take a detail of men out there and shake the house from top to bottom. 424 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,000 You checked with the insurance company that they shoot Mrs. Mueller's policies. 425 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:46,000 Yeah. 426 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,000 We got it right. Annie Johnson gets a dough if Mrs. Mueller dies. 427 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:49,000 Oh. 428 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:53,000 Something else. The changes in the policies were made during the last two months at her home. 429 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:54,000 It doesn't jive. 430 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:55,000 Why not? 431 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,000 Well, Annie Johnson told us that Mrs. Mueller's been in the sanitarium for more than two months. 432 00:19:58,000 --> 00:19:59,000 Here's a cab for Joe. 433 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:00,000 What's that? 434 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,000 Gill and Sinus went out to State Hospital at Norwalk to talk to Mr. Mueller. 435 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:04,000 Yeah? 436 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:09,000 Joseph Mueller died at 8 o'clock last night. Death from natural causes. 437 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,000 What's that prove? 438 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:14,000 Wait a minute. When Joseph Mueller was committed to the institution, 439 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:18,000 Annie Johnson figured prominently in that commitment. 440 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,000 She had a lot to do with sending him away. 441 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,000 Didn't take any chances, did she? 442 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,000 Annie Johnson has left with the house, the bonds, and the insurance money. 443 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:26,000 She had all the answers. 444 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,000 Yeah, all but the right one. 445 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:33,000 While Captain Elliott called in Annie Johnson and questioned her, 446 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,000 Ben and I, together with a detail of men from homicide, 447 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,000 and Lieutenant Lee Jones from the crime lab, 448 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,000 drove out to Wilmington and started a thorough search of the Mueller house. 449 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,000 We took it floor by floor, starting with the attic. 450 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:48,000 By 4 o'clock that afternoon, we had searched the attic and the second floor completely 451 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,000 without finding any additional physical evidence. 452 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,000 5.30 p.m., still nothing. 453 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,000 The fog was coming in thick now. 454 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:59,000 Captain Elliott called and said the Johnson woman was on her way home. 455 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,000 The search went on. 456 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Anyone check the sewer yet? 457 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,000 Let's give it a look, huh? 458 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:15,000 Joe, come on down. Lee's with me. We're checking some stains. 459 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,000 What do you got, Lee? 460 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,000 We picked up this line of stains here, Joe. 461 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,000 They run down from the top of the stairs. Pretty faint. 462 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,000 Let me see. 463 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,000 Mm-hmm. 464 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,000 So I'll shoot drops and benzidines, see what happens. 465 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,000 Okay. Let's have a look around, Gil, see what we can find. 466 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,000 There's no lights down here. You'll have to use your flash. 467 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,000 I got one. 468 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,000 Not much of anything, is there? 469 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,000 I guess they used the attic for this storage place. 470 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,000 Yeah. 471 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,000 Wait a minute. Put the light over this way, will you, Gil? 472 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,000 No, in the corner. That's it. 473 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,000 See something? 474 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,000 I don't know. 475 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,000 Yeah, have a look here. 476 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,000 New patch of cement. 477 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,000 Looks pretty new alongside the rest. 478 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,000 Yeah. 479 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,000 There's a sledge and a couple of shovels back in the garage. 480 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,000 Get them, will you? Yeah. 481 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,000 Joe. Yeah. 482 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,000 The stain's turned blue. 483 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,000 It's blood. 484 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:16,000 Lee Jones took some sample scrapings and went back to the crime lab 485 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:21,000 to give them a precipitant test to determine if the stains were made by human or animal blood. 486 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:26,000 We broke away the patch of new cement work in the cellar and we began digging. 487 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,000 6.30 p.m. Annie Johnson came home. 488 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:31,000 We met her in the living room. 489 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,000 Sergeant, I wonder if you'd mind explaining this intrusion. 490 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,000 No, not at all. Will you sit down? 491 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,000 I believe I'm the one to offer hospitality here. It's my house. 492 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,000 Is it, Miss Johnson? 493 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,000 Well, it's in my charge. It's my responsibility. 494 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,000 Yes, ma'am, it is. We'd just like to clear up a few things, that's all. 495 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,000 I think the police department's taken up enough of my time. 496 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,000 I spent half the day at the city hall answering silly questions. 497 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,000 Now, if you'll excuse me, I have an appointment at the beauty shop at 7 o'clock. 498 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,000 Maybe you'd better cancel it. 499 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,000 I don't see any reason why I should. 500 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,000 What is that noise? 501 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,000 Coming from the cellar. 502 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,000 Someone's down there. 503 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,000 They're police officers, Miss Johnson. We're searching the house. 504 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,000 Searching this house? With whose permission? 505 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,000 Maybe they didn't make it clear to you downtown. 506 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,000 We've got a good reason to believe that a crime's been committed. 507 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:14,000 Why? 508 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,000 Mrs. Muller. She's missing. 509 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:20,000 I told your Captain Elliott this afternoon, Laura could have left the sanitarium. 510 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:24,000 She might have gone east to visit some friends in Cincinnati, I think. 511 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,000 She has some friends in Cincinnati. 512 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,000 How could Mrs. Muller leave the sanitarium? She was never there. 513 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:33,000 Maybe she didn't stay at Garaways. Could have been another rest home. 514 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:36,000 But she said you phoned her at Garaways. You said you talked to her there. 515 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,000 Those men downstairs, they... 516 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,000 They gonna dig up the whole house? 517 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:41,000 That's right. 518 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:45,000 This bill, Mrs. Johnson, would you mind telling us what it was for? 519 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:49,000 There was a section of this cellar floor that had never been cemented. 520 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,000 I decided to have it done while Laura was away. 521 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,000 The men are digging it up, Mrs. Johnson. 522 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,000 Why are they digging it up? What right have they? 523 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,000 Investigation. We'll see that the cement work is redone when we're finished. 524 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,000 This is impossible. I forbid it. 525 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,000 This house is my responsibility. 526 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:07,000 No need to worry. Everything will be left exactly the way it was. 527 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,000 We'll leave the house as soon as the men are finished. 528 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,000 Oh. Well, then perhaps I can keep my appointment with a hairdresser. 529 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,000 I won't be long. Should be back around nine. 530 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,000 I'm sorry. I think you better stay. 531 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,000 But I've told you everything I know. 532 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:21,000 Did you kill Laura Muller? 533 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,000 Did I kill... 534 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:27,000 I can't take any more of this. Why would I want to kill Laura? 535 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,000 She's done everything for me. She's given me a new life. 536 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,000 Did you kill her? 537 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,000 I know. Of course I didn't kill her. 538 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,000 Oh, and there's no need to be upset. 539 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,000 Oh, my nerves. I got the head of something. 540 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,000 Glass of sherry? 541 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,000 Yes. 542 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,000 Diggy, how long is it going to take them? 543 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,000 That all depends, ma'am. 544 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,000 There's no reason for this. 545 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,000 You don't know that anything's happened to Laura. 546 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,000 That's right. 547 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,000 Laura's the best friend I have in the world. 548 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,000 Eleven years. That's how long she fought to make them let me out of prison. 549 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,000 She's the only one who believed in me. 550 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,000 Yes, ma'am. 551 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,000 She is. She's given me everything. 552 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,000 She wants me to have everything. Everything I want. 553 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,000 I wouldn't have a reason for killing her. 554 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,000 My clothes, my home here, money. 555 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,000 They're all Laura. She's given them to me. 556 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:22,000 Would you like a glass of sherry, Sergeant Pratty? 557 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:23,000 No. No, thanks. 558 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,000 You know, Laura was much older than I, Sergeant. 559 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,000 She could have taken her own life. 560 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,000 She didn't have much to live for. 561 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,000 Old and sick. 562 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,000 But I got everything to live for. 563 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,000 Laura used to tell me that. 564 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,000 So she gave me everything. 565 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,000 Laura was much older than I. 566 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,000 Would you care for a glass of sherry, Sergeant Romero? 567 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,000 No, thank you. 568 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,000 This whole thing's so silly. 569 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,000 Laura's away on a trip. 570 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,000 She's much older than I am, you know. 571 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,000 I'm 38. 572 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,000 You wouldn't take me for a woman 38 years old, would you, Sergeant? 573 00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,000 No, ma'am. 574 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,000 I know I'm not really young anymore, 575 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,000 but I'm still attractive, don't you think? 576 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,000 A lot of men prefer mature women. 577 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:10,000 Women with experience, background. 578 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,000 I'd know how to take care of a man. 579 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:19,000 Joe. 580 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:20,000 Yeah. 581 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,000 Joe, come here, my way. 582 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:26,000 Yeah? 583 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,000 We found her. 584 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:30,000 Laura! 585 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,000 Laura, I didn't mean it! 586 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:33,000 I didn't mean it! 587 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:34,000 She didn't have anything to live for. 588 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:35,000 She wanted to die. 589 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,000 Call the coroner, Gil. 590 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:38,000 Let's go, Miss Johnston. 591 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,000 Laura wouldn't want this. 592 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:41,000 She knows I didn't mean it. 593 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,000 She's the only one who knows what I went through. 594 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,000 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 595 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:46,000 I'm sorry. 596 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:47,000 I'm sorry. 597 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:48,000 I'm sorry. 598 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,000 She's the only one who knows what I went through. 599 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,000 Years in prison. 600 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:53,000 Laura understood me. 601 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,000 She gave me everything, everything. 602 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:56,000 Yes, she did. 603 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,000 Ask anybody. 604 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,000 They all know how Laura felt about me. 605 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,000 Ask anybody. 606 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,000 We can't ask her. 607 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,000 The story you have just heard was true. 608 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:17,000 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 609 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,000 On July 14th, trial was held in Superior Court, 610 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,000 City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 611 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,000 In a moment, the results of that trial. 612 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:31,000 It's amazing how many long cigarette smokers are changing to Fatima. 613 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,000 Here is the actual report. 614 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:38,000 From coast to coast, king-sized Fatima has more than doubled its smokers. 615 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:45,000 Yes, more and more smokers every day are discovering that Fatima is the best of all long cigarettes. 616 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:51,000 Long cigarette smokers find Fatima has a much different, much better flavor and aroma. 617 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:58,000 Long cigarette smokers find that Fatima is extra mild because it's the long cigarette 618 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:05,000 which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos superbly blended to make it extra mild. 619 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,000 So enjoy extra mild Fatima. 620 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,000 Best of all long cigarettes. 621 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:14,000 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 622 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:18,000 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 623 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:31,000 Annie Marie Johnson was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree. 624 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:37,000 She was executed in the lethal gas chamber at the State Penitentiary, San Quentin, California. 625 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:47,000 You have just heard Dragnet, authentic cases from official files. 626 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:57,000 Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.A. 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