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You're assigned to homicide detail. 00:47.000 --> 00:51.000 A confessed murderess is paroled from the state prison for women. 00:51.000 --> 00:55.000 After seven months, the parole office loses contact with her. 00:55.000 --> 00:58.000 Your job, find her. 01:01.000 --> 01:06.000 If you want a long cigarette, smoke the best of all long cigarettes. 01:06.000 --> 01:08.000 Smoke king-size Fatima. 01:08.000 --> 01:14.000 Fatima is the long cigarette which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos 01:14.000 --> 01:18.000 superbly blended to make Fatima extra mild. 01:18.000 --> 01:22.000 And that's why Fatima has a much different, much better flavor and aroma 01:22.000 --> 01:25.000 than any other long cigarette. 01:25.000 --> 01:29.000 That's why Fatima has more than doubled its smokers coast to coast. 01:29.000 --> 01:35.000 So, enjoy Fatima, the best of all long cigarettes. 01:35.000 --> 01:39.000 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 01:39.000 --> 01:42.000 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 01:42.000 --> 01:46.000 Dragnet, the document a drama of an actual crime. 01:46.000 --> 01:50.000 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 01:50.000 --> 01:53.000 you will travel step by step on the side of the law 01:53.000 --> 01:56.000 through an actual case from official police files. 01:56.000 --> 02:00.000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, 02:00.000 --> 02:04.000 Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 02:04.000 --> 02:10.000 It was Thursday, March 9th. It was foggy in Los Angeles. 02:10.000 --> 02:13.000 We were working a day watch out of homicide detail. 02:13.000 --> 02:17.000 My partner is Ben Romero. The boss is Thad Brown, chief of detectives. 02:17.000 --> 02:19.000 My name is Friday. 02:19.000 --> 02:21.000 We were on our way back from the state building 02:21.000 --> 02:27.000 and it was 2.45 p.m. when we got to the city hall, room 29, handwriting analysis. 02:27.000 --> 02:30.000 I want to have some information on the case. 02:30.000 --> 02:34.000 Handwriting analysis. Want to have a seat, Fred? 02:34.000 --> 02:38.000 Okay, thanks. I'll see if Don's around. Maybe in the back room. 02:38.000 --> 02:41.000 Don Meyer. Don, are you here? 02:41.000 --> 02:44.000 Yeah, coming. Just a minute. 02:44.000 --> 02:46.000 Oh, hi, Ben. 02:46.000 --> 02:48.000 I've got a quick job for you, Don. Can you spare a few minutes? 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 Thanks, sir. Hi, Joe. Good to see you. 02:50.000 --> 02:53.000 I'd like to have you meet Fred Galloway, State Parole. 02:53.000 --> 02:55.000 Fred, this is Don Meyer, our handwriting man. 02:55.000 --> 02:57.000 How are you? 02:57.000 --> 03:00.000 Got a couple of signatures here. I'd like to have you check them now if you can. 03:00.000 --> 03:02.000 I can try. Let's see what you got. 03:02.000 --> 03:04.000 You want to show them, Fred? Yeah. 03:04.000 --> 03:08.000 These three sheets here, Don, mark November, December, January. 03:08.000 --> 03:10.000 I'd like to know if the signatures on them 03:10.000 --> 03:14.000 compare with the signatures on these two here. They're marked February and March. 03:14.000 --> 03:17.000 Let me see. Thanks. 03:17.000 --> 03:20.000 Mm-hmm. Yeah, well, this shouldn't take long. 03:20.000 --> 03:22.000 Why don't you fellas have a seat? Okay. 03:22.000 --> 03:24.000 How's this thing shape up, Fred? 03:24.000 --> 03:26.000 You figure that the Johnson woman's jumped her parole? 03:26.000 --> 03:28.000 Got me. I don't know what to think. 03:28.000 --> 03:30.000 How long's it been since you got out of prison? 03:30.000 --> 03:32.000 Well, let me check you out on the details. I got the dope right here. 03:32.000 --> 03:34.000 All right, all right. 03:34.000 --> 03:38.000 Annie Marie Johnson. She was sent up for a life term in 1933, 03:38.000 --> 03:41.000 murdered her husband John, shot him to death. 03:41.000 --> 03:45.000 Started appealing for parole in 1940, finally won it May 14th last year, 03:45.000 --> 03:48.000 paroled into the custody of Mrs. Laura Jean Muller. 03:48.000 --> 03:50.000 Mm-hmm. Where does this Mrs. Muller live? 03:50.000 --> 03:52.000 Down Wilmington. Old friend of the Johnson woman. 03:52.000 --> 03:55.000 She fought for ten years to get her released from Tehachapi. 03:55.000 --> 03:57.000 Have you been in touch with Mrs. Muller lately, Fred? 03:57.000 --> 04:01.000 Only by mail. We've been sending her monthly report forms all along. 04:01.000 --> 04:03.000 She's the person that Annie Johnson was paroled to. 04:03.000 --> 04:07.000 So the form has to be filled out, then signed by Mrs. Muller, and mailed back to me. 04:07.000 --> 04:09.000 Yeah, I know. And that's where you figured that something was wrong. 04:09.000 --> 04:12.000 We got the February and March reports back from her on time. 04:12.000 --> 04:14.000 All the usual questions answered properly. 04:14.000 --> 04:16.000 And it was the signature. 04:16.000 --> 04:18.000 Writing didn't look like Mrs. Muller's at all. 04:18.000 --> 04:21.000 You think the Johnson woman is faking the signature? 04:21.000 --> 04:24.000 Maybe. I tried to contact the Muller house half a dozen times 04:24.000 --> 04:26.000 in the last couple of days, nobody home. 04:26.000 --> 04:28.000 There you go, man. You got it? Yeah. 04:28.000 --> 04:32.000 Let me see. These three here, November, December, January, 04:32.000 --> 04:34.000 they were signed by the same person. Yeah. 04:34.000 --> 04:37.000 Signatures on the February and March reports, 04:37.000 --> 04:39.000 they're pretty bad imitations. 04:39.000 --> 04:43.000 One person signed these two, another person signed these. 04:43.000 --> 04:44.000 No match at all. 04:44.000 --> 04:46.000 Well, then the signatures on the last two reports were forged. 04:46.000 --> 04:48.000 I'd say so. 04:48.000 --> 04:50.000 She went up for murder. That's your department. You want to run it down? 04:50.000 --> 04:52.000 Sure. What's it end up to? 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 It could be a lot of things, could be nothing. 04:54.000 --> 04:56.000 Annie Johnson ought to know. 04:58.000 --> 05:01.000 Ben and I checked out of the office and drove down to Wilmington. 05:01.000 --> 05:05.000 We located the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Muller on Seaboard Drive, 05:05.000 --> 05:07.000 just off Anaheim Street. 05:07.000 --> 05:09.000 It was an old-fashioned two-story house, 05:09.000 --> 05:12.000 set back on a big corner lot along with plenty of shrubbery. 05:12.000 --> 05:16.000 It was a faded gray with lots of Victorian gingerbread hung all over it. 05:16.000 --> 05:20.000 Fancy carved gables, carriage driveway with hitching posts 05:20.000 --> 05:22.000 and pieces of thick colored glass 05:22.000 --> 05:25.000 set in some kind of a design in the window of the front door. 05:25.000 --> 05:29.000 Out in the harbor beyond Terminal Islands, you could hear the fog horns. 05:34.000 --> 05:36.000 They sure get the fog out here, don't they? 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 It's pretty thick today. 05:38.000 --> 05:40.000 My aunt used to live just above here, Grant Avenue. 05:40.000 --> 05:41.000 Oh, uh-huh. 05:41.000 --> 05:44.000 Couldn't take the fog, so she moved out the valley. 05:45.000 --> 05:47.000 The garden could stand some taking care of. 05:47.000 --> 05:50.000 Yeah, weeds are doing fine. 05:53.000 --> 05:55.000 Want to try it again? 05:59.000 --> 06:00.000 What do you think? 06:00.000 --> 06:02.000 Let's try the neighbors, huh? 06:02.000 --> 06:04.000 Yeah, all right. 06:04.000 --> 06:07.000 That house across the street must be somebody there. 06:07.000 --> 06:10.000 I saw a woman shaking a dust mop out the window when we drove up. 06:10.000 --> 06:12.000 All right. 06:12.000 --> 06:15.000 Kind of a bleak-looking spot up here on the hill, isn't it? 06:15.000 --> 06:16.000 Not many houses around. 06:16.000 --> 06:19.000 Yeah, and this fog's doing nothing for me. 06:19.000 --> 06:21.000 Chills you right down to the bone. 06:23.000 --> 06:25.000 What's the name of the mailbox here? 06:25.000 --> 06:27.000 Let's see. 06:27.000 --> 06:30.000 Miss Fora Carpenter. 06:30.000 --> 06:32.000 Well, maybe she can tell us something. 06:40.000 --> 06:43.000 Are you the sewing machine man? 06:43.000 --> 06:44.000 No, ma'am, we're police officers. 06:44.000 --> 06:46.000 Like to ask you a few questions? 06:46.000 --> 06:47.000 Oh, I'm sorry. 06:47.000 --> 06:49.000 I thought you came about my singer. 06:49.000 --> 06:50.000 No, ma'am. 06:50.000 --> 06:55.000 I can't do any more work on my peasant skirt until the machine's fixed. 06:55.000 --> 06:57.000 And it has to be done by Saturday. 06:57.000 --> 07:00.000 Our folk dancing group's having a big jamboree Saturday night. 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 Will you step inside? 07:02.000 --> 07:03.000 Thank you. 07:03.000 --> 07:04.000 This is Sergeant Romero. 07:04.000 --> 07:05.000 My name's Friday. 07:05.000 --> 07:07.000 How do you do? 07:07.000 --> 07:10.000 Oh, fog's so refreshing, isn't it? 07:10.000 --> 07:12.000 Very vitalizing. 07:12.000 --> 07:13.000 Yes, ma'am. 07:13.000 --> 07:16.000 Are you acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. Mueller across the street, Miss Carpenter? 07:16.000 --> 07:18.000 The Mueller's? 07:18.000 --> 07:20.000 Yes, I've known them for years. 07:20.000 --> 07:22.000 And they have an Annie Johnson living with them? 07:22.000 --> 07:25.000 Yes, one of my very good friends. 07:25.000 --> 07:28.000 She's employed as a housemaid for the Mueller's, is that right? 07:28.000 --> 07:30.000 Well, I guess you could call it that. 07:30.000 --> 07:36.000 Actually, she's more of a companion to Mrs. Mueller since poor Mr. Mueller got sick. 07:36.000 --> 07:37.000 What's his trouble? 07:37.000 --> 07:39.000 His mind. 07:39.000 --> 07:42.000 Poor man just lost his senses. 07:42.000 --> 07:45.000 He's at the state hospital at Norwalk. 07:45.000 --> 07:47.000 When did they send him there? 07:47.000 --> 07:48.000 Let me see. 07:48.000 --> 07:50.000 This is March. 07:50.000 --> 07:53.000 Must have been last November. 07:53.000 --> 07:55.000 Yes, became violent. 07:55.000 --> 07:57.000 Do you know where Mrs. Mueller is now? 07:57.000 --> 08:00.000 In the sanitarium out near Pasadena. 08:00.000 --> 08:02.000 Not well at all. 08:02.000 --> 08:05.000 And Annie Johnson, is she still living at Mueller's house across the street? 08:05.000 --> 08:06.000 Oh, yes. 08:06.000 --> 08:09.000 She went downtown to do some shopping today. 08:09.000 --> 08:10.000 Did she say when she'd be back? 08:10.000 --> 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, 08:17.000 --> 08:20.000 and I certainly don't think she'd miss the meeting. 08:20.000 --> 08:21.000 I see. 08:21.000 --> 08:25.000 Miss Carpenter, do you happen to know the name of the sanitarium where Mrs. Mueller's staying? 08:25.000 --> 08:26.000 Garways. 08:26.000 --> 08:28.000 That's what Annie told me. 08:28.000 --> 08:32.000 Garways, Rest Home, out by Pasadena. 08:32.000 --> 08:34.000 Have any of the neighbors been out to visit her? 08:34.000 --> 08:36.000 Well, no, we haven't. 08:36.000 --> 08:41.000 Annie said the doctors there thought it'd be better if Mrs. Mueller didn't have visitors. 08:41.000 --> 08:42.000 I see. 08:42.000 --> 08:45.000 I wonder if you'd tell us where we could find a public telephone in the neighborhood. 08:45.000 --> 08:49.000 Oh, you can use my phone, Sergeant, it's right back there in the hall. 08:49.000 --> 08:50.000 Fine, thank you. 08:50.000 --> 08:51.000 I'll call them, Joe. 08:51.000 --> 08:53.000 I'll have the operator charge it to our office. 08:53.000 --> 08:56.000 You sure you can find your way back there, Sergeant? 08:56.000 --> 09:00.000 It's right under General Pershing's picture. 09:00.000 --> 09:02.000 Yes, ma'am, no trouble. 09:02.000 --> 09:07.000 I was just thinking, Sergeant Friday. 09:07.000 --> 09:08.000 Yes, ma'am. 09:08.000 --> 09:12.000 Would you know anything about repairing sewing machines? 09:12.000 --> 09:13.000 No, I'm afraid not. 09:13.000 --> 09:14.000 Oh. 09:15.000 --> 09:18.000 Oh, fluffy, there you are. 09:19.000 --> 09:22.000 This is Annie Johnson's cat, Sergeant. 09:22.000 --> 09:24.000 Isn't he simply gorgeous? 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 Look at that fur. 09:26.000 --> 09:27.000 Yes, ma'am, he's a nice cat. 09:27.000 --> 09:29.000 Genuine Pershing. 09:29.000 --> 09:33.000 Annie brought him with her when she came to live with the Mueller's. 09:33.000 --> 09:37.000 Did Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Mueller always seem to get along fairly well together, do you? 09:37.000 --> 09:38.000 I mean, no arguments? 09:38.000 --> 09:40.000 Oh, my, no. 09:40.000 --> 09:43.000 Annie's the easiest person in the world to get along with. 09:43.000 --> 09:47.000 All us girls in the neighborhood just adore her. 09:47.000 --> 09:49.000 Joe, did you talk to the sanitarium? 09:49.000 --> 09:50.000 Yeah, I double-checked the name. 09:50.000 --> 09:51.000 Yeah. 09:51.000 --> 09:53.000 Mrs. Mueller's not there, they never heard of her. 09:53.000 --> 09:57.000 Ben and I left and interviewed some of the other people in the neighborhood. 09:57.000 --> 10:01.000 They all had the same high opinion of Annie Johnson as Miss Carpenter did. 10:01.000 --> 10:06.000 They all had the impression that Mrs. Mueller was under doctor's care at the Garroway Rest Home in Pasadena. 10:06.000 --> 10:08.000 Annie Johnson told them so. 10:08.000 --> 10:14.000 We found out that Mrs. Mueller had one other living relative besides her husband, her niece, Lorraine Mueller. 10:14.000 --> 10:17.000 She lived out on Norwich Drive in Beverly Hills. 10:17.000 --> 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. 10:25.000 --> 10:27.000 Mrs. Mueller wasn't at any of them. 10:27.000 --> 10:32.000 We called the state hospital at Norwalk and they informed us that Joseph Mueller was there, 10:32.000 --> 10:35.000 having been committed the 2nd of November the previous year. 10:35.000 --> 10:37.000 He was critically ill. 10:37.000 --> 10:40.000 We put in another call to the Mueller home, still no answer. 10:40.000 --> 10:47.000 6.15 p.m., we drove out to Beverly Hills to the home of Mrs. Mueller's niece, Lorraine. 10:47.000 --> 10:51.000 She was a tall, good-looking girl with blonde hair and a bad cough. 10:51.000 --> 10:53.000 I don't think I can help you, Sergeant. 10:53.000 --> 10:56.000 I moved out of my aunt's house three months ago. 10:56.000 --> 10:59.000 I haven't seen her since. 10:59.000 --> 11:02.000 Were you staying at the house when Annie Johnson came to live there? 11:02.000 --> 11:04.000 I was raised in that house. 11:04.000 --> 11:08.000 Mother and dad died when I was a baby and Uncle Joe and Aunt Laura took care of me. 11:08.000 --> 11:09.000 They're wonderful people. 11:09.000 --> 11:11.000 Would you mind telling us why you moved? 11:11.000 --> 11:13.000 I don't mind. 11:13.000 --> 11:16.000 Everything was fine until Annie Johnson came. 11:16.000 --> 11:19.000 I didn't get along with her. We fought all the time. 11:19.000 --> 11:20.000 Oh, is that so? 11:20.000 --> 11:22.000 I don't know why. I just didn't like her. 11:24.000 --> 11:26.000 When Annie moved in, she took over the whole house. 11:26.000 --> 11:29.000 What's the connection between your aunt and Mrs. Johnson? 11:29.000 --> 11:31.000 Any blood relationship there? 11:31.000 --> 11:34.000 No, no. Annie was a school child with Aunt Laura. 11:34.000 --> 11:37.000 When they sent her to prison for killing her husband, she wrote for help. 11:37.000 --> 11:38.000 And your aunt helped her? 11:38.000 --> 11:40.000 She worked for 11 years at it. 11:40.000 --> 11:42.000 I don't know how much money she spent. 11:42.000 --> 11:44.000 Lawyers, you know. 11:44.000 --> 11:47.000 She finally got Annie parole. 11:47.000 --> 11:50.000 And then she took Mrs. Johnson on as a housekeeper, is that right? 11:50.000 --> 11:52.000 Yeah. And she never did any work. 11:52.000 --> 11:54.000 She acted like she owned the house. 11:54.000 --> 11:57.000 Like my aunt and uncle owed her everything they'd done for her. 11:57.000 --> 11:59.000 When's the last time you heard from your aunt? 11:59.000 --> 12:01.000 It was a few months ago, around Christmas time. 12:01.000 --> 12:03.000 I called her up to wish her a Merry Christmas. 12:03.000 --> 12:06.000 You have no idea where Mrs. Muller might be now. 12:06.000 --> 12:08.000 She's got friends that she could be staying with maybe. 12:08.000 --> 12:10.000 No, Aunt Laura only has a few friends. 12:10.000 --> 12:12.000 They all live in the neighborhood. 12:12.000 --> 12:15.000 She's not in the habit of going up without telling anyone, is she? 12:15.000 --> 12:17.000 No, never anything like that. 12:17.000 --> 12:19.000 I don't understand it. 12:19.000 --> 12:21.000 Something must be wrong. 12:21.000 --> 12:25.000 Annie, do you think she's done something? 12:25.000 --> 12:26.000 Do you? 12:26.000 --> 12:28.000 No, she couldn't have. 12:28.000 --> 12:30.000 She owes everything to Aunt Laura. 12:30.000 --> 12:33.000 Her freedom, a good home, nice clothes, money. 12:33.000 --> 12:35.000 Everything my aunt could give her. 12:35.000 --> 12:36.000 Some people are like that. 12:36.000 --> 12:38.000 If it's free, they never get too much. 12:41.000 --> 12:45.000 Before we left Lorraine Muller's house, we got the name of her aunt's lawyer. 12:45.000 --> 12:47.000 We had dinner at a lunch counter on La Cienega, 12:47.000 --> 12:50.000 and then we drove back to Wilmington to the Muller house. 12:50.000 --> 12:52.000 Lights were burning in the front windows. 12:52.000 --> 12:54.000 The fog was thick now. 12:59.000 --> 13:01.000 Guess that's her sing. 13:01.000 --> 13:05.000 Yeah, you want to ring the bell? 13:05.000 --> 13:08.000 Can you see in through the curtain, Jill? 13:08.000 --> 13:11.000 Yeah, she didn't hear it. Let's ring it again. 13:17.000 --> 13:19.000 Here she comes. 13:22.000 --> 13:23.000 Yes? 13:23.000 --> 13:24.000 Are you Mrs. Johnson? 13:24.000 --> 13:26.000 Yes, that's right. What is it? 13:26.000 --> 13:28.000 Police officers, our identification. 13:28.000 --> 13:30.000 Oh, yes. Won't you come in? 13:30.000 --> 13:32.000 Thank you, ma'am. 13:33.000 --> 13:34.000 We'll go in the parlor, shall we? 13:34.000 --> 13:36.000 All right. 13:39.000 --> 13:40.000 Now... 13:40.000 --> 13:41.000 We're February and March? 13:41.000 --> 13:42.000 Yes. 13:42.000 --> 13:44.000 We think the signatures on those two reports are forged. 13:44.000 --> 13:46.000 Oh, those. 13:46.000 --> 13:47.000 Uh-huh. 13:47.000 --> 13:49.000 Oh, yes. I don't know what to say. 13:49.000 --> 13:52.000 I really didn't think it was that serious. 13:52.000 --> 13:54.000 I knew the reports had to be sent in. 13:54.000 --> 13:56.000 Did you sign Mrs. Muller's name on them? 13:56.000 --> 13:57.000 Well, yes, I did. 13:57.000 --> 14:00.000 You see, Laura Muller's at a sanitarium now, resting up. 14:00.000 --> 14:02.000 I didn't want to bother her with all this business, 14:02.000 --> 14:05.000 so I signed them and put them in the mail. 14:05.000 --> 14:08.000 But forgery, I didn't think it was that serious. 14:08.000 --> 14:10.000 Which sanitarium is Mrs. Muller staying at? 14:10.000 --> 14:11.000 Garroways. 14:11.000 --> 14:13.000 A very nice place. It's near Pasadena. 14:13.000 --> 14:15.000 She's been there about two months now. 14:15.000 --> 14:16.000 Have you been out to visit her yet? 14:16.000 --> 14:18.000 No, I haven't. 14:18.000 --> 14:19.000 I'm a little ashamed of myself. 14:19.000 --> 14:21.000 I've just been too busy keeping up the house here. 14:21.000 --> 14:22.000 It's lots of work. 14:22.000 --> 14:24.000 Yes, I understand. 14:24.000 --> 14:26.000 I suppose you drove Mrs. Muller to the sanitarium. 14:26.000 --> 14:28.000 As a matter of fact, I didn't. 14:28.000 --> 14:31.000 You see, we don't have a car, so she took a taxi cab. 14:31.000 --> 14:34.000 Have you telephoned Mrs. Muller at the sanitarium? 14:34.000 --> 14:36.000 Yes, just once the day she went in. 14:36.000 --> 14:38.000 She's there for a good rest. 14:38.000 --> 14:40.000 I don't feel that anyone should bother. 14:40.000 --> 14:42.000 Not even myself. 14:42.000 --> 14:44.000 Does she have any other relatives? 14:44.000 --> 14:45.000 Besides her husband, that is. 14:45.000 --> 14:46.000 None at all. 14:46.000 --> 14:48.000 Poor Mr. Muller. 14:48.000 --> 14:51.000 We had to send him away, you know, to Warwick State Hospital. 14:51.000 --> 14:52.000 Yes, ma'am. 14:52.000 --> 14:54.000 He got out of hand. Just terrible. 14:54.000 --> 14:58.000 He almost murdered poor Laura once, and those were awful days. 14:58.000 --> 15:00.000 He's much better off where he is. 15:00.000 --> 15:02.000 Yeah, it's too bad. 15:02.000 --> 15:05.000 Well, that's about all, Miss Johnson. 15:05.000 --> 15:06.000 Oh, here. 15:06.000 --> 15:07.000 Let me show you to the door. 15:07.000 --> 15:08.000 Thanks. 15:08.000 --> 15:11.000 You'd better contact your parole officer the first thing in the morning 15:11.000 --> 15:13.000 and clear up this matter of the reports. 15:13.000 --> 15:15.000 I'll do that. Thank you. 15:15.000 --> 15:17.000 Good night, Miss Johnson. Thanks again. 15:17.000 --> 15:19.000 All right. Good night. 15:19.000 --> 15:21.000 What time you got? 15:21.000 --> 15:23.000 20 minutes after 8. 15:26.000 --> 15:27.000 Hmm. 15:27.000 --> 15:29.000 The light just went on in the attic. 15:29.000 --> 15:30.000 Yeah. 15:30.000 --> 15:31.000 What do you think? 15:31.000 --> 15:33.000 We'd better go take a look around. 15:33.000 --> 15:35.000 What do you think we'll find? 15:35.000 --> 15:36.000 I don't know. 15:36.000 --> 15:38.000 Maybe a reason for some of those lies she told us. 15:41.000 --> 15:42.000 8.35 p.m. 15:42.000 --> 15:45.000 Annie Johnson left the house and crossed the street. 15:45.000 --> 15:47.000 She was in the back of the house. 15:47.000 --> 15:51.000 Annie Johnson left the house and crossed the street to Miss Carpenter's place. 15:51.000 --> 15:55.000 In the Muller house in a small desk in one of the rear bedrooms on the first floor, 15:55.000 --> 15:58.000 we found a file for Mrs. Muller's business papers. 15:58.000 --> 16:01.000 In the file, we located three of her insurance policies. 16:01.000 --> 16:04.000 It was one for 5,000 and two for 3,500. 16:04.000 --> 16:06.000 Each policy had a writer attached, 16:06.000 --> 16:10.000 changing the beneficiary from Joseph Muller, the husband, to Annie Johnson. 16:10.000 --> 16:12.000 $12,000 worth of insurance. 16:12.000 --> 16:14.000 Yeah. Let's get them back in this folder. 16:14.000 --> 16:15.000 Did you get the policy numbers? 16:15.000 --> 16:16.000 Yeah. 16:16.000 --> 16:17.000 What's this? 16:17.000 --> 16:18.000 Let's see. 16:18.000 --> 16:19.000 Phone bill. 16:19.000 --> 16:21.000 Light bill. 16:21.000 --> 16:22.000 Here's one. 16:22.000 --> 16:23.000 Labor bill. 16:23.000 --> 16:26.000 Dollar an hour paid to Tom McCray, 16:26.000 --> 16:27.000 charged Annie Johnson. 16:27.000 --> 16:28.000 Uh-huh. 16:28.000 --> 16:29.000 Let's go. 16:29.000 --> 16:31.000 Yeah, I want to get this address here. 16:31.000 --> 16:34.000 Tom McCray, East Jefferson. 16:34.000 --> 16:35.000 Hmm. 16:35.000 --> 16:37.000 There's her cat. 16:37.000 --> 16:38.000 Yeah. Let's go. 16:38.000 --> 16:40.000 See what we can find upstairs, huh? 16:40.000 --> 16:41.000 It's a pretty cat. 16:41.000 --> 16:45.000 We went upstairs to the second floor of the house and searched the rooms. 16:45.000 --> 16:48.000 We went up another flight of stairs to the attic. 16:48.000 --> 16:52.000 For a full half hour, we searched through dozens of corrugated cartons 16:52.000 --> 16:56.000 crammed with souvenirs and picture postcards. 16:56.000 --> 16:59.000 Joe, come here. 16:59.000 --> 17:00.000 Yeah. 17:00.000 --> 17:01.000 Take a look. 17:01.000 --> 17:04.000 Wrapped in newspaper. 17:04.000 --> 17:05.000 Hmm. 17:05.000 --> 17:06.000 3220 Colt. 17:06.000 --> 17:08.000 Three empty cartridges. 17:08.000 --> 17:10.000 We got a gun and we got a suspect. 17:10.000 --> 17:13.000 Those insurance policies could be the motive. 17:13.000 --> 17:15.000 Let's pray to God there's no victim. 17:15.000 --> 17:32.000 You are listening to Dragnet for the step-by-step solution to an actual police case. 17:32.000 --> 17:39.000 Here, step-by-step are the reasons why Fatima has more than doubled its smokers from coast to coast. 17:39.000 --> 17:40.000 Step one. 17:40.000 --> 17:45.000 The name Fatima has always stood for the best in cigarette quality. 17:45.000 --> 17:46.000 Step two. 17:46.000 --> 17:52.000 Long cigarette smokers discover Fatima has a much different, much better flavor and aroma. 17:52.000 --> 17:53.000 Step three. 17:53.000 --> 17:57.000 Long cigarette smokers find Fatima extra mild. 17:57.000 --> 18:03.000 Fatima is the long cigarette which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos 18:03.000 --> 18:07.000 superbly blended to make Fatima extra mild. 18:07.000 --> 18:11.000 And that's why more and more smokers every day agree, 18:11.000 --> 18:15.000 it's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 18:15.000 --> 18:18.000 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 18:18.000 --> 18:26.000 Yes, the name Fatima on that golden yellow package is your insurance of an extra mild smoke. 18:26.000 --> 18:29.000 So enjoy king-size Fatima. 18:29.000 --> 18:39.000 The best of all, long cigarettes. 18:39.000 --> 18:40.000 Ten p.m. 18:40.000 --> 18:46.000 An immediate stakeout was placed on the Mueller residence in case Annie Johnson made an attempt to leave during the night. 18:46.000 --> 18:50.000 Ben and I took the gun that we'd found to the crime lab for analysis. 18:50.000 --> 18:53.000 The next morning we checked with the Mueller's family attorney. 18:53.000 --> 18:56.000 He had no ideas to the whereabouts of Mrs. Mueller, 18:56.000 --> 19:00.000 but he told us that about three months ago she'd ordered him to draw up a new will for her. 19:00.000 --> 19:05.000 Under the new provisions, Annie Johnson was to be the sole heir of the Mueller house and property, 19:05.000 --> 19:08.000 plus an additional $1,500 in bonds. 19:08.000 --> 19:11.000 Friday, March 10th, 11 a.m. 19:11.000 --> 19:15.000 While Ben checked with the insurance company, I met with Captain Elliott of Homicide. 19:15.000 --> 19:18.000 You got everything with a victim, huh? Where are you looking? 19:18.000 --> 19:22.000 We'd like to shake down the Mueller house again before we look anyplace else. 19:22.000 --> 19:24.000 Didn't have a chance to give it a thorough going over last night. 19:24.000 --> 19:26.000 You're sold on the idea it's a Johnson woman? 19:26.000 --> 19:27.000 Looks like it. 19:27.000 --> 19:29.000 Sure couldn't be a freak disappearance. 19:29.000 --> 19:33.000 No, sir, not in my book. Annie Johnson's got some big reasons for lying to us. 19:33.000 --> 19:34.000 I'd like to find him. 19:34.000 --> 19:35.000 How do you figure on doing that? 19:35.000 --> 19:38.000 Well, if we could pull her in and question her just to get her away from the Mueller place, 19:38.000 --> 19:42.000 I'd like to take a detail of men out there and shake the house from top to bottom. 19:42.000 --> 19:45.000 You checked with the insurance company that they shoot Mrs. Mueller's policies. 19:45.000 --> 19:46.000 Yeah. 19:46.000 --> 19:48.000 We got it right. Annie Johnson gets a dough if Mrs. Mueller dies. 19:48.000 --> 19:49.000 Oh. 19:49.000 --> 19:53.000 Something else. The changes in the policies were made during the last two months at her home. 19:53.000 --> 19:54.000 It doesn't jive. 19:54.000 --> 19:55.000 Why not? 19:55.000 --> 19:58.000 Well, Annie Johnson told us that Mrs. Mueller's been in the sanitarium for more than two months. 19:58.000 --> 19:59.000 Here's a cab for Joe. 19:59.000 --> 20:00.000 What's that? 20:00.000 --> 20:03.000 Gill and Sinus went out to State Hospital at Norwalk to talk to Mr. Mueller. 20:03.000 --> 20:04.000 Yeah? 20:04.000 --> 20:09.000 Joseph Mueller died at 8 o'clock last night. Death from natural causes. 20:09.000 --> 20:10.000 What's that prove? 20:10.000 --> 20:14.000 Wait a minute. When Joseph Mueller was committed to the institution, 20:14.000 --> 20:18.000 Annie Johnson figured prominently in that commitment. 20:18.000 --> 20:20.000 She had a lot to do with sending him away. 20:20.000 --> 20:22.000 Didn't take any chances, did she? 20:22.000 --> 20:25.000 Annie Johnson has left with the house, the bonds, and the insurance money. 20:25.000 --> 20:26.000 She had all the answers. 20:26.000 --> 20:28.000 Yeah, all but the right one. 20:28.000 --> 20:33.000 While Captain Elliott called in Annie Johnson and questioned her, 20:33.000 --> 20:36.000 Ben and I, together with a detail of men from homicide, 20:36.000 --> 20:38.000 and Lieutenant Lee Jones from the crime lab, 20:38.000 --> 20:41.000 drove out to Wilmington and started a thorough search of the Mueller house. 20:41.000 --> 20:44.000 We took it floor by floor, starting with the attic. 20:44.000 --> 20:48.000 By 4 o'clock that afternoon, we had searched the attic and the second floor completely 20:48.000 --> 20:51.000 without finding any additional physical evidence. 20:51.000 --> 20:53.000 5.30 p.m., still nothing. 20:53.000 --> 20:56.000 The fog was coming in thick now. 20:56.000 --> 20:59.000 Captain Elliott called and said the Johnson woman was on her way home. 20:59.000 --> 21:01.000 The search went on. 21:03.000 --> 21:05.000 Anyone check the sewer yet? 21:05.000 --> 21:07.000 Let's give it a look, huh? 21:11.000 --> 21:15.000 Joe, come on down. Lee's with me. We're checking some stains. 21:17.000 --> 21:19.000 What do you got, Lee? 21:19.000 --> 21:21.000 We picked up this line of stains here, Joe. 21:21.000 --> 21:24.000 They run down from the top of the stairs. Pretty faint. 21:24.000 --> 21:26.000 Let me see. 21:26.000 --> 21:27.000 Mm-hmm. 21:27.000 --> 21:29.000 So I'll shoot drops and benzidines, see what happens. 21:29.000 --> 21:32.000 Okay. Let's have a look around, Gil, see what we can find. 21:32.000 --> 21:35.000 There's no lights down here. You'll have to use your flash. 21:35.000 --> 21:37.000 I got one. 21:40.000 --> 21:42.000 Not much of anything, is there? 21:42.000 --> 21:44.000 I guess they used the attic for this storage place. 21:44.000 --> 21:45.000 Yeah. 21:45.000 --> 21:48.000 Wait a minute. Put the light over this way, will you, Gil? 21:48.000 --> 21:50.000 No, in the corner. That's it. 21:50.000 --> 21:52.000 See something? 21:52.000 --> 21:54.000 I don't know. 21:54.000 --> 21:56.000 Yeah, have a look here. 21:56.000 --> 21:58.000 New patch of cement. 21:58.000 --> 22:00.000 Looks pretty new alongside the rest. 22:00.000 --> 22:01.000 Yeah. 22:01.000 --> 22:03.000 There's a sledge and a couple of shovels back in the garage. 22:03.000 --> 22:05.000 Get them, will you? Yeah. 22:05.000 --> 22:07.000 Joe. Yeah. 22:07.000 --> 22:09.000 The stain's turned blue. 22:09.000 --> 22:11.000 It's blood. 22:11.000 --> 22:16.000 Lee Jones took some sample scrapings and went back to the crime lab 22:16.000 --> 22:21.000 to give them a precipitant test to determine if the stains were made by human or animal blood. 22:21.000 --> 22:26.000 We broke away the patch of new cement work in the cellar and we began digging. 22:26.000 --> 22:29.000 6.30 p.m. Annie Johnson came home. 22:29.000 --> 22:31.000 We met her in the living room. 22:31.000 --> 22:34.000 Sergeant, I wonder if you'd mind explaining this intrusion. 22:34.000 --> 22:36.000 No, not at all. Will you sit down? 22:36.000 --> 22:39.000 I believe I'm the one to offer hospitality here. It's my house. 22:39.000 --> 22:41.000 Is it, Miss Johnson? 22:41.000 --> 22:43.000 Well, it's in my charge. It's my responsibility. 22:43.000 --> 22:46.000 Yes, ma'am, it is. We'd just like to clear up a few things, that's all. 22:46.000 --> 22:49.000 I think the police department's taken up enough of my time. 22:49.000 --> 22:52.000 I spent half the day at the city hall answering silly questions. 22:52.000 --> 22:55.000 Now, if you'll excuse me, I have an appointment at the beauty shop at 7 o'clock. 22:55.000 --> 22:56.000 Maybe you'd better cancel it. 22:56.000 --> 22:59.000 I don't see any reason why I should. 22:59.000 --> 23:01.000 What is that noise? 23:01.000 --> 23:03.000 Coming from the cellar. 23:03.000 --> 23:04.000 Someone's down there. 23:04.000 --> 23:07.000 They're police officers, Miss Johnson. We're searching the house. 23:07.000 --> 23:09.000 Searching this house? With whose permission? 23:09.000 --> 23:11.000 Maybe they didn't make it clear to you downtown. 23:11.000 --> 23:13.000 We've got a good reason to believe that a crime's been committed. 23:13.000 --> 23:14.000 Why? 23:14.000 --> 23:16.000 Mrs. Muller. She's missing. 23:16.000 --> 23:20.000 I told your Captain Elliott this afternoon, Laura could have left the sanitarium. 23:20.000 --> 23:24.000 She might have gone east to visit some friends in Cincinnati, I think. 23:24.000 --> 23:26.000 She has some friends in Cincinnati. 23:26.000 --> 23:29.000 How could Mrs. Muller leave the sanitarium? She was never there. 23:29.000 --> 23:33.000 Maybe she didn't stay at Garaways. Could have been another rest home. 23:33.000 --> 23:36.000 But she said you phoned her at Garaways. You said you talked to her there. 23:36.000 --> 23:38.000 Those men downstairs, they... 23:38.000 --> 23:40.000 They gonna dig up the whole house? 23:40.000 --> 23:41.000 That's right. 23:41.000 --> 23:45.000 This bill, Mrs. Johnson, would you mind telling us what it was for? 23:45.000 --> 23:49.000 There was a section of this cellar floor that had never been cemented. 23:49.000 --> 23:52.000 I decided to have it done while Laura was away. 23:52.000 --> 23:54.000 The men are digging it up, Mrs. Johnson. 23:54.000 --> 23:56.000 Why are they digging it up? What right have they? 23:56.000 --> 23:59.000 Investigation. We'll see that the cement work is redone when we're finished. 23:59.000 --> 24:01.000 This is impossible. I forbid it. 24:01.000 --> 24:04.000 This house is my responsibility. 24:04.000 --> 24:07.000 No need to worry. Everything will be left exactly the way it was. 24:07.000 --> 24:09.000 We'll leave the house as soon as the men are finished. 24:09.000 --> 24:13.000 Oh. Well, then perhaps I can keep my appointment with a hairdresser. 24:13.000 --> 24:15.000 I won't be long. Should be back around nine. 24:15.000 --> 24:17.000 I'm sorry. I think you better stay. 24:17.000 --> 24:20.000 But I've told you everything I know. 24:20.000 --> 24:21.000 Did you kill Laura Muller? 24:21.000 --> 24:23.000 Did I kill... 24:23.000 --> 24:27.000 I can't take any more of this. Why would I want to kill Laura? 24:27.000 --> 24:30.000 She's done everything for me. She's given me a new life. 24:30.000 --> 24:31.000 Did you kill her? 24:31.000 --> 24:32.000 I know. Of course I didn't kill her. 24:32.000 --> 24:34.000 Oh, and there's no need to be upset. 24:37.000 --> 24:39.000 Oh, my nerves. I got the head of something. 24:39.000 --> 24:41.000 Glass of sherry? 24:41.000 --> 24:43.000 Yes. 24:46.000 --> 24:48.000 Diggy, how long is it going to take them? 24:48.000 --> 24:50.000 That all depends, ma'am. 24:50.000 --> 24:52.000 There's no reason for this. 24:52.000 --> 24:54.000 You don't know that anything's happened to Laura. 24:54.000 --> 24:55.000 That's right. 24:55.000 --> 24:58.000 Laura's the best friend I have in the world. 24:58.000 --> 25:01.000 Eleven years. That's how long she fought to make them let me out of prison. 25:01.000 --> 25:04.000 She's the only one who believed in me. 25:04.000 --> 25:05.000 Yes, ma'am. 25:05.000 --> 25:07.000 She is. She's given me everything. 25:07.000 --> 25:10.000 She wants me to have everything. Everything I want. 25:10.000 --> 25:13.000 I wouldn't have a reason for killing her. 25:13.000 --> 25:15.000 My clothes, my home here, money. 25:15.000 --> 25:18.000 They're all Laura. She's given them to me. 25:18.000 --> 25:22.000 Would you like a glass of sherry, Sergeant Pratty? 25:22.000 --> 25:23.000 No. No, thanks. 25:23.000 --> 25:26.000 You know, Laura was much older than I, Sergeant. 25:26.000 --> 25:28.000 She could have taken her own life. 25:28.000 --> 25:30.000 She didn't have much to live for. 25:30.000 --> 25:32.000 Old and sick. 25:32.000 --> 25:34.000 But I got everything to live for. 25:34.000 --> 25:36.000 Laura used to tell me that. 25:36.000 --> 25:38.000 So she gave me everything. 25:38.000 --> 25:41.000 Laura was much older than I. 25:41.000 --> 25:44.000 Would you care for a glass of sherry, Sergeant Romero? 25:44.000 --> 25:46.000 No, thank you. 25:46.000 --> 25:48.000 This whole thing's so silly. 25:48.000 --> 25:50.000 Laura's away on a trip. 25:50.000 --> 25:53.000 She's much older than I am, you know. 25:53.000 --> 25:55.000 I'm 38. 25:55.000 --> 25:58.000 You wouldn't take me for a woman 38 years old, would you, Sergeant? 25:58.000 --> 25:59.000 No, ma'am. 25:59.000 --> 26:01.000 I know I'm not really young anymore, 26:01.000 --> 26:04.000 but I'm still attractive, don't you think? 26:04.000 --> 26:06.000 A lot of men prefer mature women. 26:06.000 --> 26:10.000 Women with experience, background. 26:10.000 --> 26:13.000 I'd know how to take care of a man. 26:18.000 --> 26:19.000 Joe. 26:19.000 --> 26:20.000 Yeah. 26:20.000 --> 26:22.000 Joe, come here, my way. 26:25.000 --> 26:26.000 Yeah? 26:26.000 --> 26:28.000 We found her. 26:29.000 --> 26:30.000 Laura! 26:30.000 --> 26:32.000 Laura, I didn't mean it! 26:32.000 --> 26:33.000 I didn't mean it! 26:33.000 --> 26:34.000 She didn't have anything to live for. 26:34.000 --> 26:35.000 She wanted to die. 26:35.000 --> 26:37.000 Call the coroner, Gil. 26:37.000 --> 26:38.000 Let's go, Miss Johnston. 26:38.000 --> 26:40.000 Laura wouldn't want this. 26:40.000 --> 26:41.000 She knows I didn't mean it. 26:41.000 --> 26:43.000 She's the only one who knows what I went through. 26:43.000 --> 26:45.000 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 26:45.000 --> 26:46.000 I'm sorry. 26:46.000 --> 26:47.000 I'm sorry. 26:47.000 --> 26:48.000 I'm sorry. 26:48.000 --> 26:50.000 She's the only one who knows what I went through. 26:50.000 --> 26:52.000 Years in prison. 26:52.000 --> 26:53.000 Laura understood me. 26:53.000 --> 26:55.000 She gave me everything, everything. 26:55.000 --> 26:56.000 Yes, she did. 26:56.000 --> 26:57.000 Ask anybody. 26:57.000 --> 26:59.000 They all know how Laura felt about me. 26:59.000 --> 27:01.000 Ask anybody. 27:01.000 --> 27:03.000 We can't ask her. 27:10.000 --> 27:13.000 The story you have just heard was true. 27:13.000 --> 27:17.000 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:17.000 --> 27:20.000 On July 14th, trial was held in Superior Court, 27:20.000 --> 27:23.000 City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 27:23.000 --> 27:25.000 In a moment, the results of that trial. 27:25.000 --> 27:31.000 It's amazing how many long cigarette smokers are changing to Fatima. 27:31.000 --> 27:33.000 Here is the actual report. 27:33.000 --> 27:38.000 From coast to coast, king-sized Fatima has more than doubled its smokers. 27:38.000 --> 27:45.000 Yes, more and more smokers every day are discovering that Fatima is the best of all long cigarettes. 27:45.000 --> 27:51.000 Long cigarette smokers find Fatima has a much different, much better flavor and aroma. 27:51.000 --> 27:58.000 Long cigarette smokers find that Fatima is extra mild because it's the long cigarette 27:58.000 --> 28:05.000 which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos superbly blended to make it extra mild. 28:05.000 --> 28:08.000 So enjoy extra mild Fatima. 28:08.000 --> 28:10.000 Best of all long cigarettes. 28:10.000 --> 28:14.000 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 28:14.000 --> 28:18.000 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 28:18.000 --> 28:31.000 Annie Marie Johnson was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree. 28:31.000 --> 28:37.000 She was executed in the lethal gas chamber at the State Penitentiary, San Quentin, California. 28:37.000 --> 28:47.000 You have just heard Dragnet, authentic cases from official files. 28:47.000 --> 28:57.000 Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.A. 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