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It was windy in Los Angeles. 23 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,640 We were working the day watch out of Georgia Street Juvenile Bureau. 24 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:07,640 My partner is Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Bowling, Commander Juvenile Division. 25 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:12,640 My name is Friday. It was 2.45 p.m. when we got to Charter High School. 26 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:17,640 Main entrance. 27 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:18,640 Which way Joe? 28 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:20,640 I don't know. We can ask this boy. Hey son. 29 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:21,640 Yeah? 30 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:22,640 Where's the principal's office? 31 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:24,640 Straight down the hall. Last door on the left. 32 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:26,640 Thank you. What's all the noise about? 33 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:29,640 Football rally. We're playing Piedmont today. Probably lose. 34 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:34,640 Can't beat confidence like that. Kids are sure funny nowadays. 35 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:37,640 Man, check that sign. 36 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:41,640 Junior prom. Dollar 25 per cup. 37 00:02:41,640 --> 00:02:43,640 Makes you feel old, doesn't it? 38 00:02:43,640 --> 00:02:45,640 I never did go to those high school dances. 39 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:46,640 How come? 40 00:02:46,640 --> 00:02:53,640 Couldn't dance. Wife says I still can. 41 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:54,640 Yes sir? 42 00:02:54,640 --> 00:02:55,640 Like to see Mr. Chase? 43 00:02:55,640 --> 00:02:56,640 Could I have your names please? 44 00:02:56,640 --> 00:02:57,640 Romero and Friday. 45 00:02:57,640 --> 00:03:00,640 Oh yes, he's expecting you. You can go right in. That door there. 46 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:06,640 Thank you. 47 00:03:06,640 --> 00:03:07,640 Mr. Chase? 48 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:08,640 Yes? 49 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:10,640 My name's Friday. I talked to you on the phone. 50 00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:12,640 Oh yes, certainly Sergeant. Have a chair. 51 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:15,640 Thank you. This is my partner Ben Romero. 52 00:03:15,640 --> 00:03:16,640 How do you do sir? 53 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:17,640 How are you Mr. Chase? 54 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:19,640 Sit down. Sit down. 55 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:22,640 Certainly glad to see you gentlemen. I'm at the end of my rope. 56 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:25,640 Would you mind briefing us Mr. Chase? How did all this trouble start? 57 00:03:25,640 --> 00:03:28,640 I don't know how it started. I don't know why. 58 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:32,640 But here's the result Sergeant. This dress, blood stains on it. 59 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:34,640 What's the story? 60 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:38,640 A woman stormed in here and said her daughter came home from school yesterday wearing this dress. 61 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:42,640 And she told her mother she'd been knifed here at the school. 62 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:44,640 How many cases like this have you had? 63 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:46,640 Twenty-one in the past three weeks. 64 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:47,640 Why didn't you notify us? 65 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:49,640 Believe me Sergeant, I didn't know which way to turn. 66 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:54,640 When I first learned about these knifings, I wanted to call in the police, but some of the girls who'd been cut, 67 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:59,640 the parents didn't want it reported. The publicity, the notoriety, they didn't want it. 68 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:03,640 Hope you realize Mr. Chase that it's a pretty serious business. 69 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:06,640 Believe me I did realize. What could I do? 70 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:10,640 The knifings had to be stopped. The parents didn't want them reported. 71 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:13,640 I've tried everything humanly possible to find out who's responsible. 72 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:15,640 What have you tried Mr. Chase? 73 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:18,640 Well I called on some of the older students from the boys council. 74 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:21,640 I placed them all over the grounds of the buildings and told them to keep an eye out. 75 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:22,640 No results then? 76 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:26,640 The knifings have gone right on. This past week they've even gotten worse. 77 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:28,640 Oh that reminds me, just a moment please. 78 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:29,640 Yes Mr. Chase. 79 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:32,640 Doris, would you get Jim Travis please, have him come to my office right away. 80 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,640 Yes Mr. Chase. 81 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:37,640 Travis is head of the boys council. He helped organize the system of guards. 82 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:39,640 He might be able to give you some information. 83 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,640 You said a minute ago that the situation has been worse this past week. 84 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:44,640 You mean the knifings have gotten more frequent? 85 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:48,640 More frequent and more serious. One girl was cut very badly this morning. 86 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:49,640 She had to be sent home. 87 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,640 Are most of these girls cut in pretty much the same manner? 88 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:58,640 A school nurse treated some of them. She says it looked to her as though the girls had been slashed with a very sharp knife. 89 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:00,640 Probably a razor. 90 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:02,640 Is there any definite time pattern to these knifings? 91 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:06,640 All of them happen between periods when the students change classes. 92 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:11,640 The corridors are pretty well crowded and that's why it's so difficult to pin it down to any one person. 93 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:16,640 I see. How about the victims themselves Mr. Chase? Is there any set pattern there? 94 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:18,640 That's what has me frightened. 95 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:19,640 How do you mean? 96 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:24,640 Most of the victims are rather pretty girls. Whoever is doing this seems to have a preference for them. 97 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:28,640 It's frightening when you think of what kind of mind the person must have. 98 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:30,640 It's a little more than frightening Mr. Chase. 99 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,640 A person with a knife must be a mental case, probably a dangerous one. 100 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:36,640 I don't think he's going to be satisfied with just knifing the girls. 101 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:37,640 Killing? 102 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:39,640 Possible if we let it go much longer. 103 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:41,640 You wanted to see me Mr. Chase? 104 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:42,640 Come in Jim. 105 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:45,640 I would have come sooner. I was tied up with a rally committee. 106 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:48,640 Jim, this is Sergeant Friday and Sergeant Romero, police officers. 107 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:53,640 They're here to investigate the knifings. I thought maybe you'd be able to help out with some information. 108 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:58,640 Well, I still have the fellows on the council watching the corridors. We haven't seen anything yet. 109 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:01,640 Well, if you have any time after the rally Jim, we'd like to have you show us around. 110 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:02,640 Okay Sergeant. 111 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:05,640 Is the school nurse still in her office? She liked out for her too. 112 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:08,640 I think so. Jim, when does Miss Wesley go home? 113 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:12,640 3.30 on Thursday Mr. Chase. I'll tell her to stay on a few minutes. 114 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:15,640 That's fine. We'll meet you outside the office here. 115 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:16,640 Okay, I'll see you later then. 116 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:19,640 Right. Is the school out for the day? 117 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:22,640 Yes it is. I guess we'll have to wait a morning to interview the victims. 118 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:27,640 The first class is at 8 o'clock. I'll have the girls assemble in the classroom next to my office. 119 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,640 Alright Mr. Chase. Thank you. 120 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:37,640 I'll be right back Doris. See you gentlemen out. 121 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:40,640 Looks like the rally is just breaking up. 122 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:43,640 3 o'clock now. The game is at 3.30. 123 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:46,640 The kids are hurting Jim up the corridor. 124 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:49,640 Come on. Come on. 125 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:54,640 Let us through here. Let us through please. 126 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:59,640 Alright. The rest of you go about your business. Go on now. 127 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:01,640 What's the matter young lady? What's the trouble? 128 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:04,640 Patty, Mr. Jones. Patty Larson. She's fainted. 129 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:05,640 What's the matter with her? 130 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:08,640 Look at her dress. It's covered with blood. 131 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:19,640 An ambulance was called and the injured girl was taken to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital where she was treated for a cut on her right forearm and a deep slash across her hips. 132 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:21,640 She was not in serious condition. 133 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:27,640 It was the doctor's opinion that the wounds had been inflicted either by a very sharp knife or more probably a razor. 134 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:34,640 A detail of plain clothesmen were dispatched to Charter High School to keep the grounds and quarters under strict surveillance until further notice. 135 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:43,640 At 7.30 the next morning, policewoman Lorraine Jensen, Ben and I met at the high school with Principal Chase and Jim Travers, the head of the Boys' Council. 136 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:48,640 By 9 a.m., all of the 21 knifing victims were assembled in one of the empty classrooms. 137 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,640 Policewoman Jensen outlined our plan of questioning. 138 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:54,640 May I have your attention please? 139 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:58,640 This isn't going to take very long girls, but I will have to ask you to cooperate with us. 140 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:03,640 Try to remember every detail of the time and the place that the knifings occurred. 141 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:05,640 Do you all have a report for them to write on? 142 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:07,640 Yeah, they're all set. 143 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:10,640 We'd like to have you write three things. 144 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:14,640 First, exactly where you were when you were injured. 145 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:17,640 After that, write the date and the time. 146 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:19,640 Make that just as close as you can remember. 147 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:21,640 I don't remember, do you? You're not going to know what you're writing. 148 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:25,640 At the bottom of the page, write the name of the person you suspect might have cut you. 149 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:28,640 Your answer will be kept confidential. 150 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:30,640 Please don't compare notes of the girl next to you. 151 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:33,640 We want your version, not your neighbor's. 152 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:34,640 Sergeant. 153 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:35,640 Yeah, driver? 154 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:36,640 Five minute warning bell. 155 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:37,640 Yeah, okay. 156 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:38,640 All right? 157 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:39,640 Yeah, Joe. 158 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:41,640 There's a recess coming up. We want to check the quarters. 159 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:42,640 Can you make out alone for a little while? 160 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:43,640 Sure, you too. Go ahead. 161 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:45,640 We can check the slips when you get back. 162 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:46,640 All right, let's go, ma'am. 163 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:47,640 Yeah. 164 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:54,640 Top of the stairs is best, Sergeant. 165 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:55,640 Okay. 166 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:59,640 If you stand back a little from the railing, no one down below can tell if they're being watched, 167 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:00,640 either. 168 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:01,640 Okay. 169 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:05,640 I'm pretty much interested in police work. You know, the lie detector and stuff? 170 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:06,640 Uh-huh. 171 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:08,640 Will you keep on going here? 172 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:09,640 One more flight. 173 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:10,640 All right. 174 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,640 I wrote a paper once on the lie detector for our physiology class. 175 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:14,640 The teacher liked it. 176 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:15,640 Did that sell? 177 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:16,640 Yeah. 178 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:19,640 I've been reading how they take fingerprints, cloth imprints and all that. 179 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:20,640 Pretty interesting. 180 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:22,640 Here we are. 181 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:25,640 We can keep an eye on the whole corridor from here. 182 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:26,640 Okay. 183 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:29,640 What detail do you officers work on? 184 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:30,640 Georgia Street juvenile. 185 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:33,640 You know Lee Jones or Ray Pinker? 186 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:34,640 Oh, yeah. 187 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:35,640 I've read a lot about the crime lab. 188 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:38,640 Why don't you come downtown some afternoon? We'll show you around. 189 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:39,640 That'd be swell. 190 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:40,640 Okay. 191 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,640 Must be interesting, meeting all kinds of people and watching how they behave, you know. 192 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:44,640 Yeah, it's interesting. 193 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:50,640 During the recess, while the students moved from classroom to classroom, 194 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,640 we kept the main corridor under close surveillance. 195 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:56,640 The other men from juvenile bureau covered the rest of the corridors. 196 00:09:56,640 --> 00:10:01,640 We kept an eye on the main corridor during the third recess between periods at 11 a.m. 197 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:03,640 Again, no results. 198 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:08,640 At 1130, Travers went to check with the members of the boys' council to set up the noon time watch. 199 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:13,640 Ben and I went back to the classroom on the main floor to check with policewoman Jensen. 200 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:18,640 We helped her tally the results of the questioning of the girl victims that morning. 201 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:19,640 Let's see. 202 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:22,640 17, 18, 19. 203 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:24,640 Well, that takes care of the lab. 204 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:25,640 Let's see. 205 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:28,640 There it is. Now what's it mean? 206 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:32,640 Well, 12 say they were knifed on the main corridor, 207 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:38,640 three knifed outside the building, four on the stairway, two in the classroom. 208 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:41,640 The times, they list. Doesn't look like there's any pattern there. 209 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:44,640 How about the suspects that they wrote down? 210 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:45,640 That's even got me beat. 211 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:49,640 We've got more of them than we have victims here. 212 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:51,640 There's four pages of names. 213 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:53,640 Some of the girls wrote down as many as five suspects. 214 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:54,640 That's kind of helpful, huh? 215 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:56,640 How many altogether? 216 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:59,640 Let's see. 34. 217 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:00,640 Oh, hi, Mr. J. 218 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:02,640 Did you find out anything? 219 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:04,640 Oh, it didn't turn out too well. Nothing definite. 220 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:05,640 Terrible morning. 221 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:07,640 Parents calling up newspapers. 222 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:10,640 I don't know. Certainly out of my hands. 223 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:12,640 Are there any assemblies scheduled for this afternoon? 224 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:15,640 Yes, after the fifth period. Why? 225 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:16,640 I think maybe a better cancel. 226 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:19,640 It seems like every time the kids are crowded together, we just ask for trouble. 227 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:21,640 No, all right. I'll have a cancel. 228 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:23,640 Fine. Something else, Mr. Jason. 229 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:26,640 The girls that we had in this room this morning, the victims, 230 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:29,640 we'd like to have every one of them brought back here after the next class, can't we? 231 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:32,640 All right, Sergeant. I'll have excuse slips sent to each one of them. 232 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:34,640 Thank you, sir. 233 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:36,640 Gives you the chills. 234 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:38,640 Those kids getting cut up in broad daylight. 235 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:40,640 Wherever it is, the guy's got a stomach for it. 236 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:42,640 How do you know it's a guy? 237 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:44,640 It's as good a guess as any. 238 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,640 How about the school employees, the janitors, the rest of them? 239 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:49,640 Checked them all out this morning. 240 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:52,640 When we get the girls back here, we'll go through the same routine. 241 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:55,640 One thing we missed the last time we talked to them. 242 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:57,640 We asked them to pick suspects. 243 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:00,640 We might have more luck if we have a bigger choice. 244 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:01,640 How do you mean? 245 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:04,640 Well, instead of asking to pick out somebody, 246 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:08,640 we'll tell them to list the names of every person who was around them or near them when they were cut. 247 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:11,640 It might work if we can spot a couple of repeats on the way. 248 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:13,640 Sergeant, they want you downstairs. Hurry. 249 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:14,640 Come on, Ben. What's the matter? 250 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:16,640 It's terrible, terrible. I found her. 251 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:17,640 You found who? 252 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:18,640 Nabeti Price. 253 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:18,640 Where? 254 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:19,640 Downstairs, unconscious. I'm afraid. 255 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:20,640 What do you mean you're afraid? 256 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:22,640 I'm not sure she's alive. 257 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:30,640 We located the unconscious girl in a corner of the basement near the rear entrance to the girl's locker room. 258 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:32,640 She'd been cut severely about the face and arms. 259 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:36,640 At Georgia Street Receiving Hospital, she was given an immediate blood transfusion. 260 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:39,640 In addition to her wounds, she was also treated for shock. 261 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:44,640 We questioned the victim. She stated that she did not see the person who attacked her. 262 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:49,640 Later that afternoon, she was removed to her own home upon the advice of her family physician. 263 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:54,640 1.35 p.m. Ben and I got back to the high school and checked in with policewoman Lorraine Jensen. 264 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:58,640 How did the last station turn out, Lorraine? 265 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:00,640 Way a lot better. It was a good idea, Joe. 266 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:02,640 Yeah? How'd we come out? 267 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:03,640 Pretty good. 268 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,640 You have the list they made out. 21 of them. 269 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:10,640 Each girl listed an average of eight persons around her at the time she was knifed. 270 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:11,640 Yeah. 271 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:14,640 There's one name that occurs on 19 of these 21 lists. 272 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:16,640 Here, Joe. 273 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:19,640 Jim Travers. 274 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:21,640 The Police Investigation 275 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:37,640 You are listening to Dragnet, the case history of a police investigation presented in the public interest by Fatima Cigarettes. 276 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:44,640 If you smoke a long cigarette, it will be in your interest to listen to a typical case history of a Fatima smoker. 277 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:49,640 It's the case of Mr. Frank Fenton, well-known author and Hollywood screenwriter. 278 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:51,640 This is his actual signed statement. 279 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:56,640 When a writer gets absorbed in his work, he loses track of time, smokes more than usual. 280 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:58,640 And this happens often to me. 281 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:02,640 As a result, I appreciate a mild cigarette. 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He was a fine athlete. He was from a well-to-do family. 295 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:08,640 His father was the head of an engineering firm. His mother was from one of the oldest families in the city. 296 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:14,640 During his three and a half years at Charter High, Jim Travers had maintained close to an A average in his studies. 297 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:19,640 He'd been president of his class since freshman year, and he'd held numerous other class offices. 298 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:22,640 We interviewed his teachers. They had nothing but praise for Travers. 299 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:26,640 They tabbed him as a brilliant young man with an excellent future. 300 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:29,640 We asked about Travers' friends, who we palled around with. 301 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:36,640 We picked up a small Lee. We were told that he had very few, if any, close personal friends among the students, 302 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:40,640 but he did have one girl at the high school he was especially fond of. 303 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:45,640 Her name was Barbara Ferris, a tall, dark-haired girl, exceptionally pretty. 304 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:48,640 Her scholastic record was almost as high as Travers'. 305 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:56,640 2 p.m. Policewoman Lorraine Jensen and I interviewed the girl in a small room off the principal's office. 306 00:15:56,640 --> 00:16:00,640 We're not singling you out, Barbara. We're interviewing most of the girls in the upper classes. 307 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:02,640 You mean about what's been happening around school? 308 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:04,640 Yes, that's right. 309 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:07,640 Well, I don't know much about it. I was talking to Jim Travers last night. 310 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:09,640 He's a friend of mine. He told me why you were here. 311 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:11,640 How long have you known Jim Travers, Barbara? 312 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:13,640 Oh, since freshman year, I guess. 313 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:14,640 Do you go steady with him? 314 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:17,640 Well, we don't like to call it that, but I guess so. 315 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:21,640 We go to the dances together. Sometimes we go to the show on weekends. 316 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:22,640 Do you go out with him very often? 317 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:26,640 No, not very often. Jim's usually pretty busy. He studies a lot. 318 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:28,640 Does he go out with other girls? Do you know? 319 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:32,640 Well, no, I don't. Once he went out with Betty Fisher, he said he didn't like her much. 320 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:38,640 Betty's kind of a party girl. Jim likes to talk about things. You know, physiology, books, stuff like that. 321 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:39,640 Do you get along with him pretty well? 322 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:43,640 We get along fine. Sometimes he's moody, but I guess I am, too. 323 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:46,640 Could you tell us a little more about Jim? What's he like? 324 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:49,640 Well, what do you want to know that for? Is there anything wrong? 325 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:52,640 No, it's just routine questioning, Barbara. We have to check on everybody. 326 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:57,640 Oh, I see. Well, Jim's certainly all right. He's like the rest of the fellas at school, I guess. 327 00:16:57,640 --> 00:16:59,640 Only he's smarter than most of them. 328 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:04,640 Well, is there anything maybe that's odd about him that you noticed? Anything very different? 329 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:10,640 No, not that I've noticed. He's always been pretty bashful, up until this last year anyway. 330 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:13,640 He's still that way sometimes when we go out on dates. 331 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:15,640 How do you mean? How is he bashful? 332 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:22,640 You know, about girls and things. He's always nice, though. He's not always thinking about necking and stuff like most of them. 333 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:23,640 You mean he's not the romantic type? 334 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:30,640 Well, he can be romantic when he wants to. Once we parked outside my house after a dance, he's always nice. 335 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:31,640 It was just this one time. 336 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:32,640 What was that? 337 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:38,640 Well, he kissed me and then he twisted my arm behind my back. He kept twisting it for no reason. 338 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:39,640 Yeah? 339 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:42,640 I told him it hurt me, but he wouldn't let go. He kept twisting my arm. 340 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:43,640 What did he say? 341 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:48,640 That's what was so funny. He said, I like you better than any girl I know. 342 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:49,640 Yeah? 343 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:52,640 Then he said, that's why I'm hurting you. 344 00:17:55,640 --> 00:18:00,640 After talking with Barbara Ferris, we had a pretty good idea that Jim Travers was a suspect we wanted. 345 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:07,640 But because of his fine background and his record, we realized that we'd have to prove beyond any question of a doubt that he was the guilty person. 346 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:11,640 We had only one thing to go on besides the information Barbara Ferris had given us. 347 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:17,640 During the morning recesses, when Travers was with Ben and I was watching the corridors, not one knifing took place. 348 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:25,640 When we had left Travers and gone downstairs to check with Policewoman Jensen, a girl had been found slugged and cut at the rear of the girl's locker room. 349 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:28,640 Two thirty p.m., Ben and I met with the suspect. 350 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:31,640 How's it going, Sergeant? Any luck? 351 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:34,640 Not much, Jim. What's that, another rally? 352 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:35,640 No, a band practice. 353 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:37,640 Junior proms tonight, isn't it? 354 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:38,640 Yeah. 355 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:43,640 You talked to the girl who was knacked downstairs, huh? Find out anything? 356 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:48,640 No, not much. You want to stick with us this afternoon? I think you might be able to help us out. 357 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:51,640 Sure, I've got the fellows on the council standing by if you want them. 358 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:54,640 Fine. Let's go outside, huh? I've got something to tell you. 359 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:57,640 Sure, okay. We can go out this way. 360 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:06,640 I certainly appreciate your letting the tag along, hoping to help you. 361 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:08,640 I think you can, Jim. 362 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:13,640 When we talked to those girls this morning, we drew up a new list of possible suspects. 363 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:14,640 Yeah? 364 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:17,640 Funny thing, one of the names on the list was yours. 365 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:19,640 Well, I've got nothing to hide. 366 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:24,640 Well, we'll make a systematic check of each name on the list, most likely yours. 367 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:30,640 Well, we have to go on the line detector? I'd like to try that. I never saw one. Only pictures of them. 368 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:34,640 No, you won't have to go through that. It'll just be a couple of questions and then we're going to check your locker. 369 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:36,640 Okay, I'd be glad to show you. 370 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:38,640 Does this take us to the locker room? 371 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:40,640 Yeah, we can cut through here. 372 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:48,640 Say, when we were questioning those girls this morning, someone said that they saw you in different parts of the building when the nightings took place. 373 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:50,640 What do you mean? 374 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:54,640 Well, your location didn't exactly jive with your classroom schedule. 375 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:59,640 In other words, your class was on the third floor, but you were seen down in the main corridor. Now, how do you account for that? 376 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:05,640 Well, you see, I usually take walks between periods. Sitting in classrooms makes me nervous sometimes, you know. 377 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:07,640 Here, I'll get the door. 378 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:09,640 Okay. 379 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:13,640 Any other questions I can answer, Sergeant? 380 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:15,640 No, that's all. 381 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:19,640 How'd you happen to get into rest and police work, Jim? You said your father was an engineer, didn't you? 382 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:24,640 Yeah, that's right. I don't know how I got into it, but I just took to it, I guess. 383 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:28,640 I always like to watch people's reactions and their behavior. Fascinating. 384 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:30,640 The locker room's down this way. 385 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:32,640 Okay. 386 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:35,640 What are you planning on doing when you graduate? College? 387 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:39,640 Yeah, I guess so. Dad wants to send me to MIT. 388 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:40,640 It's good school. 389 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:49,640 Yeah. Say, if you ever have the time, I'd sure like to see some of the ballistics equipment down at the police crime lab. I've read up on ballistics quite a bit, too. 390 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:50,640 Oh, is that so? 391 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:55,640 Yeah. The polygraph light detector. That's my favorite, though. Wonderful machine. 392 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:56,640 Mm-hmm. 393 00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:00,640 Imagine, charting positive and negative reactions like that. It's marvelous. 394 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:02,640 Yeah, it is. 395 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:10,640 Say, have either one of you ever read Dawson's treatise? I think it's called The Psychology of the Criminal Mind. You ever read it? 396 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:12,640 I think we had that in training, didn't we, Ben? 397 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:14,640 Mm-hmm. Feminine, can't you? 398 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:18,640 How about Criminal Behavior and its Basis, Maxwell's book? Did you ever read that one? 399 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:20,640 No, I don't think I did. 400 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:26,640 It's a great book. I got quite a few textbooks on crime. We went on sex crimes. I just got very good. 401 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:28,640 Mm-hmm. This locker room? 402 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:35,640 Yeah, I almost went past it. My locker's down this way. 403 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:38,640 How do you shave, Jim? You use an electric razor or a safety razor? 404 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:41,640 Me? Electric razor. They're the best. 405 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:43,640 Yeah, they're a lot easier to use. 406 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:47,640 Here it is. I'll open it for you. 407 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:50,640 All right. Ben, you got those envelopes? 408 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:52,640 Oh, yeah. Yeah, here they are. 409 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,640 Okay, would you step aside there, Jim? 410 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:55,640 Yeah, sure. 411 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:58,640 All right. We'll get some dust scrapings from the shelf here. 412 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:04,640 All right, there you are. Ben, you want to mark it? 413 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:10,640 Yeah. Jim Travers' dust scrapings from the locker. 414 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:16,640 All right. Let's see here. Here's some more scrapings from the bottom of the locker this time, huh? 415 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:20,640 Okay, I'll seal these envelopes. Here's a nail file. 416 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:23,640 Okay, Jim. Now will you hold out your right hand? 417 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:26,640 Hmm? Oh, yeah. 418 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:29,640 Hold an envelope under his hand, would you, Ben? Catch the nail scrapings? 419 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,640 Yep. Yep, here we are. 420 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:34,640 Say, what's all this for, Sergeant? 421 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:37,640 Oh, it's just routine with everybody, Jim. 422 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:41,640 Just going to take some sample specimens to run through the spectrograph. 423 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,640 The spectrograph? 424 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,640 Now, let me scrape that middle fingernail a little. 425 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:47,640 Oh, okay. 426 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:51,640 That's it. Now the index finger. 427 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:53,640 What about the spectrograph? 428 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:55,640 We use it all the time. 429 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,640 Well, it won't work in a case like this, will it? 430 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:01,640 All right, that's all for the right hand, Ben. Don't forget to mark the envelope. 431 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:13,640 Yep. Here's some Jim Travers scrapings from fingernails of right hand. 432 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:14,640 There we go. 433 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,640 All right, now the left hand, Jim. 434 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:18,640 Hmm? Yeah. 435 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:22,640 You know, we don't know if this is going to work or not. It's worth a try. 436 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:24,640 We'll know this afternoon. 437 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:25,640 This afternoon? 438 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:28,640 Yeah. We'll have to run you through on the machine. Hold the envelope a little closer, Ben. 439 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:30,640 Oh, yeah. 440 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:32,640 How's it going to help you? 441 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,640 It might tell us what you had for breakfast a week ago. 442 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,640 It might tell us what kind of clothes you wore three days ago. 443 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:41,640 What kind of objects you came in contact with. 444 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:45,640 Oh. Well, what kind of principle does it operate on? 445 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:50,640 Oh, I don't know. We can ask Lee Jones. Here, let me get the scrapings from your thumb. 446 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:52,640 All right, there it is. Now seal it and mark it, Ben. 447 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:54,640 All right. 448 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:56,640 You want to call the officers and tell them we're on our way in? 449 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,640 Yeah, I'll be in that room right next to the principal's office. 450 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,640 Okay. You can close your locker, Jim. That's all. 451 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,640 Yeah, all right. 452 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:10,640 We'll check the things in your pockets when we get to the crime line. Let's go. 453 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:15,640 That spectrograph must be a marvelous machine. 454 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:17,640 Well, it's worked for us a lot of times. 455 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:21,640 We've got evidence on the suspect that either it convicts him or it clears him. 456 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:23,640 You'll probably get a kick out of it. 457 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,640 I'd like to see it. 458 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,640 You say it tells you everything a person's come in contact with, huh? 459 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,640 Yeah, that's right. 460 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:33,640 Could it tell you how I shave? 461 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,640 Well, how do you mean? 462 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,640 I mean, with an electric razor or a safety razor. 463 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,640 Oh, yeah, sure. That's one of the primary things. 464 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:46,640 I don't know exactly how it works, but it does the job. We'll get Lee Jones to explain it to us. 465 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:50,640 How about this door? We can cut across the courtyard. 466 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,640 Oh, those are sure nice grounds. 467 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:55,640 Will they keep me long, downtown sergeant? 468 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,640 What do you think, Jim? 469 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,640 You know, the strange part about these knifings out here... 470 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,640 What's that? 471 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:06,640 Whoever's responsible probably doesn't even realize what he's doing. 472 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,640 Man, Lee's sick. He's very sick. 473 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:11,640 The best thing for him would be a doctor. 474 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:16,640 Just like any other sickness, it's not going to get better by itself. 475 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:17,640 Yeah. 476 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:21,640 The only trouble is he's just getting his appetite up with these knifings. 477 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,640 If he goes much longer... 478 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,640 How about that spectrograph, sergeant? 479 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:31,640 Say, for instance, if I happen to hold a knife in my hand or maybe a razor. 480 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,640 Oh, yeah, that'd show on the machine. 481 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:35,640 We go in here? 482 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:37,640 Yeah. 483 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,640 Terrible thing. 484 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,640 Whoever it is. 485 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:49,640 Terrible thing. 486 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:53,640 Yes, it is. 487 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,640 Here, Jim. 488 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,640 Joe, how's it going? 489 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:12,640 I think he's ready to tell us. 490 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:13,640 Hope so. 491 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:19,640 I expect a good one. 492 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:23,640 All right, son, you want to tell us about it now? 493 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:28,640 I couldn't help myself. I had to do what I had to. 494 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:32,640 I couldn't sleep, I couldn't study unless I did it. 495 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,640 I couldn't help myself. 496 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,640 You're responsible for all the knifings, are you? 497 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:42,640 Yeah. 498 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,640 You knew, didn't you? 499 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,640 Who told you? 500 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,640 You told us, Jim. 501 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,640 I'm glad you caught me. It was getting worse. 502 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:53,640 It might have been too late. 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