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02:45.200 --> 02:46.200 No identification. 02:46.200 --> 02:48.200 The coroner checked the body yet? 02:48.200 --> 02:49.200 Yeah. 02:49.200 --> 02:50.200 How long has she been dead? 02:50.200 --> 02:51.200 When it started raining. 02:51.200 --> 02:53.200 About midnight, didn't it? 02:53.200 --> 02:54.200 Yeah. 02:54.200 --> 02:55.200 The ground's dry under the body. 02:55.200 --> 02:58.200 Well, been dead five or six hours, I'd say. 02:58.200 --> 02:59.200 Ben get here yet? 02:59.200 --> 03:02.200 Yeah, he's helping Claudio check the area. 03:02.200 --> 03:05.200 This park here, is this all a part of the church ground? 03:05.200 --> 03:06.200 I think so. 03:06.200 --> 03:08.200 I was stuck out of this rain for a minute. 03:08.200 --> 03:10.200 There's an alcove over there by the church. 03:10.200 --> 03:11.200 Yeah. 03:11.200 --> 03:16.200 How much we got to go on, Dave? 03:16.200 --> 03:17.200 Not much. 03:17.200 --> 03:18.200 Motive looks like robbery. 03:18.200 --> 03:19.200 Yeah. 03:19.200 --> 03:21.200 Found a woman's purse near the body. 03:21.200 --> 03:22.200 Pretty well picked over. 03:22.200 --> 03:23.200 The purse is wet. 03:23.200 --> 03:26.200 Lee Jones is dusting the contents of the prints. 03:26.200 --> 03:29.200 Coroner's checking. 03:29.200 --> 03:32.200 Any idea what the killer used in the woman's face? 03:32.200 --> 03:35.200 The coroner figures a sharp instrument of some kind. 03:35.200 --> 03:36.200 A nasty one. 03:36.200 --> 03:37.200 Yeah. 03:37.200 --> 03:39.200 Why didn't you look wet? 03:39.200 --> 03:40.200 Hi, Ali. 03:40.200 --> 03:41.200 How are you? 03:41.200 --> 03:43.200 Everything happened on Christmas. 03:43.200 --> 03:45.200 The purse was soaking wet. 03:45.200 --> 03:46.200 Ordinary black handbag. 03:46.200 --> 03:48.200 You raise any prints on the stuff inside? 03:48.200 --> 03:49.200 None of one. 03:49.200 --> 03:51.200 Here, you can check the content. 03:51.200 --> 03:53.200 Thank you, Lee. 03:53.200 --> 03:55.200 Let's see. 03:55.200 --> 03:56.200 Small comb. 03:56.200 --> 04:01.200 Boasted the teeth out of it. 04:01.200 --> 04:03.200 Three pennies. 04:03.200 --> 04:05.200 Hair pins, mirror, lipstick. 04:05.200 --> 04:06.200 That's it, Ali. 04:06.200 --> 04:07.200 A couple more things. 04:07.200 --> 04:08.200 Yeah. 04:08.200 --> 04:10.200 This fountain pen, this door key. 04:10.200 --> 04:13.200 I don't know if I found them in the grass a few feet from the body. 04:13.200 --> 04:14.200 Now have a look at those. 04:14.200 --> 04:16.200 Yeah, it's an ordinary ballpoint fountain pen. 04:16.200 --> 04:18.200 Buy them in any drugstore for 69 cents. 04:18.200 --> 04:20.200 No sign of rust on the key. 04:20.200 --> 04:22.200 Must have been dropped recently. 04:22.200 --> 04:24.200 Maybe this will explain what happened to her face. 04:24.200 --> 04:25.200 Broken beer bottle. 04:25.200 --> 04:26.200 Where'd you find that? 04:26.200 --> 04:29.200 Laughlin found it back in the bushes over there. 04:29.200 --> 04:32.200 These jagged edges here smeared with blood. 04:32.200 --> 04:33.200 Too much rain. 04:33.200 --> 04:36.200 Can't do anything about prints till it dries. 04:36.200 --> 04:39.200 Can you get enough from these smears to run a precipitant? 04:39.200 --> 04:40.200 Think so. 04:40.200 --> 04:41.200 Lee, got a minute? 04:41.200 --> 04:42.200 Yeah, man. What is it? 04:42.200 --> 04:43.200 Oh, hi, Joe. 04:43.200 --> 04:44.200 Hi. 04:44.200 --> 04:46.200 Claudio found a set of footprints over with that clump of frubbery. 04:46.200 --> 04:47.200 Rain hasn't spoiled him yet. 04:47.200 --> 04:48.200 Did you cover them? 04:48.200 --> 04:50.200 Yeah, I think you can get a pretty good cash from him. 04:50.200 --> 04:52.200 Better get a picture of them right away. 04:52.200 --> 04:53.200 Hey, Charlie. 04:53.200 --> 04:54.200 Right with you, Lee. 04:54.200 --> 04:55.200 I'll get the stuff from the car. 04:55.200 --> 04:57.200 You mind giving me a hand, Dave? 04:57.200 --> 04:58.200 Let's go. 04:58.200 --> 05:01.200 Well, this takes care of Christmas, Joe. 05:01.200 --> 05:02.200 Yeah. 05:02.200 --> 05:04.200 Did you get a chance to check the body yet? 05:04.200 --> 05:05.200 Mm-hmm. 05:05.200 --> 05:06.200 What do you think? 05:06.200 --> 05:08.200 Well, there's no sign of struggle. 05:08.200 --> 05:10.200 Could have happened after a Christmas Eve brawl, maybe. 05:10.200 --> 05:11.200 Yeah? 05:11.200 --> 05:13.200 Whoever the victim is, she was probably acquainted with the killer. 05:13.200 --> 05:15.200 The two of them came in the park, 05:15.200 --> 05:17.200 and the victim got it before she knew what was happening. 05:17.200 --> 05:19.200 Might work easier if we find out who the victim is. 05:19.200 --> 05:22.200 We can check her prints through R&I when we get back to the office. 05:22.200 --> 05:24.200 What'd those footprints look like? 05:24.200 --> 05:27.200 Seemed like a heavy print. Maybe work shoes of some kind. 05:27.200 --> 05:29.200 Want to see how Lee's making out? 05:29.200 --> 05:35.200 Yeah, let's go. 05:35.200 --> 05:39.200 Gonna miss Christmas dinner again this year. 05:39.200 --> 05:42.200 Footprints, family, family keys. 05:42.200 --> 05:43.200 Where do we start? 05:43.200 --> 05:46.200 That's a cheap pen. You sell five of them. 05:46.200 --> 05:47.200 Want a smoke? 05:47.200 --> 05:49.200 Oh, thanks. 05:49.200 --> 05:51.200 Footprints will help convict the killer. 05:51.200 --> 05:54.200 Got a fine in birth. 05:54.200 --> 05:56.200 Hmm. 05:56.200 --> 05:57.200 Thank you. 05:57.200 --> 05:59.200 I don't know. Maybe we can work a switch. 05:59.200 --> 06:00.200 How's that? 06:00.200 --> 06:05.200 Find the lock that fits the key. 06:05.200 --> 06:07.200 Nine a.m. Christmas day. 06:07.200 --> 06:11.200 Sergeants Dave Arroyo, Robert Claudio, Ben and I went back to the office 06:11.200 --> 06:13.200 and took stock of what we had to work with. 06:13.200 --> 06:15.200 Wasn't much. 06:15.200 --> 06:17.200 The woman had been murdered. Who was she? 06:17.200 --> 06:20.200 Why was she killed? Who was the killer? 06:20.200 --> 06:23.200 Dave and Claudio had the dead woman's fingerprints taken, 06:23.200 --> 06:25.200 and they were run through the record bureau. 06:25.200 --> 06:28.200 Ben and I checked with Lee Jones at the crime lab. 06:28.200 --> 06:31.200 The results of the precipitant test showed that the type of blood found 06:31.200 --> 06:34.200 on the broken beer bottle matched that of the victim. 06:34.200 --> 06:38.200 From the casts of the foot impressions found at the scene of the killing, 06:38.200 --> 06:42.200 Lee estimated that they were made by a person approximately five feet nine inches tall, 06:42.200 --> 06:44.200 weighing about 160 pounds. 06:44.200 --> 06:47.200 He figured the foot here must have been of a heavy type, 06:47.200 --> 06:51.200 either a boot or a dress shoe with thick double soles, size 11. 06:51.200 --> 06:55.200 At 9.40 a.m. we checked in at the basement of the Hall of Justice, the county morgue. 07:00.200 --> 07:02.200 Doc, how's it going? 07:02.200 --> 07:03.200 No limit, Joe. 07:03.200 --> 07:05.200 It's caused by multiple fractures. 07:05.200 --> 07:07.200 The skull flashing in the face was a contributing cause. 07:07.200 --> 07:08.200 I sent a close to Lee Jones. 07:08.200 --> 07:10.200 Yeah, we know. No laundry mark. 07:10.200 --> 07:12.200 Well, I got two things. 07:12.200 --> 07:13.200 Maybe they'll help me, maybe they won't. 07:13.200 --> 07:14.200 Yeah? 07:14.200 --> 07:20.200 The chemist's report here on the blood analysis shows the victim was drinking. 07:20.200 --> 07:23.200 She was definitely under the influence at the time she was murdered. 07:23.200 --> 07:25.200 Twelve hundredths of a percent alcohol in the blood. 07:25.200 --> 07:26.200 Uh-huh. 07:26.200 --> 07:27.200 How about the murder weapon, Doc? 07:27.200 --> 07:29.200 We going to rule out that beer bottle? 07:29.200 --> 07:30.200 I'm just coming to that. 07:30.200 --> 07:33.200 Step over here. 07:33.200 --> 07:34.200 Yeah? 07:34.200 --> 07:37.200 This mark here on the side of her face, brown smudge. 07:37.200 --> 07:41.200 Well, Jones says that that shoe polish he analyzed a few of the particles. 07:41.200 --> 07:45.200 Ties in, the cause of death was brought about by severe blows in the head and face. 07:45.200 --> 07:46.200 Heavy shoe, huh? 07:46.200 --> 07:47.200 That's my guess. 07:47.200 --> 07:49.200 Probably a boot or a work shoe. 07:49.200 --> 07:50.200 That doesn't add, Joe. 07:50.200 --> 07:51.200 What do you mean? 07:51.200 --> 07:54.200 If they were heavy work shoes the killer was wearing, why would they polish? 07:54.200 --> 07:56.200 How many people polish their work shoes? 07:56.200 --> 07:57.200 To be waterproofing? 07:57.200 --> 07:59.200 No, Jones says it was a brown paste polish. 07:59.200 --> 08:00.200 Then it doesn't figure. 08:00.200 --> 08:03.200 Unless the killer was wearing some kind of dress boots. 08:03.200 --> 08:06.200 Cycle boots, maybe. Hundreds of kids on motorcycles were. 08:06.200 --> 08:10.200 Yeah, that's going to be about as helpful as a key or a cheap fountain pen. 08:10.200 --> 08:12.200 Excuse me. 08:12.200 --> 08:15.200 Connie Morrick, Tyson speaking. 08:15.200 --> 08:18.200 Yeah, all right, fine. I'll tell them. 08:18.200 --> 08:21.200 Connie Amador and I want to see you right away. 08:21.200 --> 08:22.200 What's up? 08:22.200 --> 08:24.200 They made the victim's prints. 08:24.200 --> 08:32.200 During the war years a complete file of pictures and fingerprints had been kept on all persons employed at local defense plants. 08:32.200 --> 08:35.200 Out of this file came our first major lead. 08:35.200 --> 08:42.200 The victim's fingerprints matched those of one Maria Camacho, 38 years old, formerly employed at Universal Aircraft. 08:42.200 --> 08:47.200 Her address in 1945 was listed as 9230 Sheridan Avenue. 08:47.200 --> 08:54.200 Ben and I went over to the crime lab, picked up the key and the fountain pen found near the body and drove to the Sheridan Avenue address. 08:54.200 --> 08:58.200 The house was three blocks from the churchyard where the body was found. 08:58.200 --> 09:03.200 A young woman with a baby in her arms answered the door. She identified herself as Elena Gomez. 09:03.200 --> 09:06.200 She told us Maria Camacho was her aunt. 09:06.200 --> 09:09.200 They were expecting her for Christmas dinner late that afternoon. 09:09.200 --> 09:11.200 We told her what happened. 09:11.200 --> 09:15.200 When she recovered from the shock we questioned her and her husband, the furniture worker. 09:15.200 --> 09:21.200 So hide from me please. Why anyone would do this to me? 09:21.200 --> 09:23.200 When's the last time you saw her, Mr. Gomez? 09:23.200 --> 09:29.200 She was around last night, Sarge. She brought the presents for the kids. Always brought them presents on Christmas. 09:29.200 --> 09:32.200 Did she live here? Was this her permanent address? 09:32.200 --> 09:36.200 No. She stayed with us during the war when Ray was overseas. 09:36.200 --> 09:39.200 When he came back she took a room down the street. I'll give you the address. 09:39.200 --> 09:42.200 All right. What time did Maria leave the house last night? 09:42.200 --> 09:46.200 Well, let's see. Must have been around ten o'clock. Not much later. 09:46.200 --> 09:49.200 Don't you think, Elena? About ten o'clock? 09:49.200 --> 09:52.200 Yeah, that's right. Go see what those kids are doing, huh, Ray? 09:52.200 --> 09:53.200 Yeah, yeah. All right. 09:53.200 --> 09:56.200 Did Maria have anything to drink here last night, Mrs. Gomez? 09:56.200 --> 09:59.200 Yes, we had a glass of sherry together, that's all. 09:59.200 --> 10:02.200 Could you tell if she'd been drinking before she came here? 10:02.200 --> 10:05.200 It was Christmas Eve. I guess she'd had a few. Why? 10:05.200 --> 10:07.200 Was she a pretty heavy drinker? 10:07.200 --> 10:10.200 Not usually, no. Maybe on the holidays, though. 10:10.200 --> 10:15.200 We like to get out and have fun, living alone, all that. 10:15.200 --> 10:17.200 Poor Maria. 10:17.200 --> 10:21.200 Did she drink at home, or was there some particular place she liked to go? 10:21.200 --> 10:25.200 A canteen about on Soda Street. She used to go there. 10:25.200 --> 10:26.200 Any others? 10:26.200 --> 10:30.200 A couple of bars on Brooklyn Avenue. I don't know the names. 10:30.200 --> 10:32.200 What did Maria do for a living, Mrs. Gomez? 10:32.200 --> 10:37.200 She took in some dressmaking, with herself. 10:37.200 --> 10:41.200 She wasn't poor, wasn't rich. Her landlady could tell you about her friends. 10:41.200 --> 10:44.200 The kids are hungry, Lana. Dinner's getting cold. 10:44.200 --> 10:46.200 Sorry that we had to break in on you like this. 10:46.200 --> 10:48.200 It's all right, Sergeant. It's just the kids. 10:48.200 --> 10:51.200 Ask the officers if they want some mince pie, Ray. Cup of coffee. 10:51.200 --> 10:53.200 No, no, no. That's all right, Mrs. Gomez. Thank you. 10:53.200 --> 10:58.200 Just one more thing. Would you look at these, please? This is a pen. 10:58.200 --> 11:02.200 Sure, that's Maria's. Look, Ray, Maria's pen. 11:02.200 --> 11:04.200 Now, how about this key? 11:04.200 --> 11:06.200 No, I never saw that before. 11:06.200 --> 11:08.200 Neither did I. 11:08.200 --> 11:11.200 Well, thanks very much, both of you. Sorry to hold up your dinner. 11:11.200 --> 11:13.200 Oh, that's all right. You're not hungry. 11:13.200 --> 11:15.200 Hey, maybe I could fix you a turkey sandwich. 11:15.200 --> 11:17.200 No, thank you, Dave. Same way you have to be going. 11:17.200 --> 11:19.200 We'll contact you later on. Here's our card. 11:19.200 --> 11:21.200 All right. 11:21.200 --> 11:28.200 I can't think of a reason, Sergeant, why someone would kill her. 11:28.200 --> 11:31.200 Why would they kill Maria? 11:31.200 --> 11:38.200 Poor Maria. 11:38.200 --> 11:39.200 Nice kid. 11:39.200 --> 11:41.200 It's going to be having a good Christmas. 11:41.200 --> 11:45.200 Too bad we had to spoil it. 11:45.200 --> 11:49.200 We drove down the street to the rooming house where Maria Camacho stayed. 11:49.200 --> 11:53.200 We talked to the landlady and the rest of the tenants who failed to come up with a lead. 11:53.200 --> 11:57.200 They told us Maria Camacho drank a little, but she was always pleasant, easy to get along with. 11:57.200 --> 12:02.200 We checked her room. We went through stacks of Spanish-language newspapers and magazines. 12:02.200 --> 12:06.200 We went through her bills, photographs, her letters. We found nothing. 12:06.200 --> 12:09.200 There wasn't an item in the small apartment that could help us. 12:09.200 --> 12:13.200 We went through the entire rooming house, trying each door with a key that we'd found for the body. 12:13.200 --> 12:17.200 It didn't fit any of them, not even the door to the victim's room. 12:17.200 --> 12:19.200 Five p.m. There was a lull in the ring. 12:19.200 --> 12:23.200 We picked up Dave and Claudio and started to explore the only lead we had. 12:23.200 --> 12:28.200 The victim had been drinking a few hours before she'd been murdered, probably at a neighborhood tavern. 12:28.200 --> 12:31.200 For the next six hours, we canvassed every bar in the vicinity. 12:31.200 --> 12:39.200 Eleven fifteen p.m., Christmas night, the four of us met in a combination bar restaurant at Brooklyn and Soto for a bite to eat. 12:39.200 --> 12:41.200 You had as much luck as we did, huh? 12:41.200 --> 12:45.200 Nothing, Dave. Everybody we talked to knew the woman. Nobody saw her Christmas Eve. 12:45.200 --> 12:50.200 We picked up the names of a dozen friends of hers from the bartender's, checked them out, but they couldn't tell us anything. 12:50.200 --> 12:55.200 Well, we still got another dozen bars to cover at least. She must have been in one of them last night. 12:55.200 --> 12:59.200 Wish we'd find it. My wife's sure mad. You've got company, so's mine. 12:59.200 --> 13:01.200 All right, gentlemen, we'll have the grilled ham sandwich. 13:01.200 --> 13:02.200 I did. 13:02.200 --> 13:06.200 All right. And the three hamburgers. 13:06.200 --> 13:07.200 Yep. 13:07.200 --> 13:09.200 There we go. 13:09.200 --> 13:10.200 I'll take... 13:10.200 --> 13:12.200 You got some ketchup, please? 13:12.200 --> 13:17.200 Sure. Say you wouldn't like a little eggnog to go with that. It's good. I make the batter myself. 13:17.200 --> 13:18.200 No, no, no. 13:18.200 --> 13:20.200 There is something you can do for us. 13:20.200 --> 13:21.200 Yes, sir? 13:21.200 --> 13:22.200 Would you look at this picture? 13:22.200 --> 13:23.200 All right. 13:23.200 --> 13:25.200 See if you can identify this woman. 13:25.200 --> 13:29.200 She looks like Maria. Yeah, that's her. You know her? 13:29.200 --> 13:30.200 Was she in here last night, do you know? 13:30.200 --> 13:31.200 Yeah, she was. 13:31.200 --> 13:32.200 What time was she in? 13:32.200 --> 13:34.200 Oh, about 11, 11.30, why? 13:34.200 --> 13:36.200 Was she with somebody? 13:36.200 --> 13:40.200 Well, half a dozen of them at least. Maria, another woman, and four or five men. 13:40.200 --> 13:41.200 Were they drinking? 13:41.200 --> 13:45.200 Well, they were well behaved. Just had a little Christmas cheer, that's all. They liked my eggnog. 13:45.200 --> 13:47.200 And what time did Maria leave, do you remember? 13:47.200 --> 13:50.200 Well, no, not exactly, but she left before the others. They closed the place. 13:50.200 --> 13:51.200 You fill us cups? 13:51.200 --> 13:52.200 Did she leave alone? 13:52.200 --> 13:56.200 No, Tony followed her out. I think it must have been sometime around midnight. I'm not sure. 13:56.200 --> 13:57.200 Who's Tony? 13:57.200 --> 13:59.200 Tony Perez. He's busboy here. He knows Maria. 13:59.200 --> 14:00.200 Where is he now? 14:00.200 --> 14:04.200 Christmas. He's off. Lives in a hotel down the street someplace. I don't know. 14:04.200 --> 14:05.200 Time fit. 14:05.200 --> 14:06.200 Maybe the key does. 14:10.200 --> 14:15.200 Dave and Claudio started to check the neighborhood to locate the hotel where Tony Perez stayed. 14:15.200 --> 14:19.200 Ben and I continued our canvas of bars and restaurants in the area. 14:19.200 --> 14:26.200 One a.m. The rain started then again. We checked into the bar on Brooklyn Avenue near Cornwall, the Cantina Sinaloa. 14:26.200 --> 14:28.200 Yes, sir. Gentlemen? 14:28.200 --> 14:31.200 Police officers. Would you look at this picture, please, see if you can identify it? 14:31.200 --> 14:36.200 Wait till I dry my hands. I'm just getting some of these glasses out of the way. 14:37.200 --> 14:38.200 Let's see. 14:39.200 --> 14:41.200 Never see her before? 14:41.200 --> 14:46.200 Oh, yeah, that's Maria. Too bad. I read in the papers about it. 14:46.200 --> 14:48.200 Can you tell us if she was in here last night? 14:48.200 --> 14:54.200 No, I didn't see her. I read in the papers about it, though. Terrible. Poor Maria. 14:54.200 --> 14:56.200 Impossible. She might have been in. You didn't see her? 14:56.200 --> 15:02.200 No, I always know when Maria's here. She was always full of fun. She liked to sing. 15:02.200 --> 15:04.200 I better get these glasses finished. 15:05.200 --> 15:06.200 Ben, do you want to call the office? 15:06.200 --> 15:07.200 Yeah, okay. 15:07.200 --> 15:11.200 How about a drink, Sergeant? You don't look so good. 15:11.200 --> 15:13.200 You got any coffee? 15:13.200 --> 15:16.200 It's not very fresh. It's been standing there a couple of hours. 15:16.200 --> 15:17.200 That's all right. 15:17.200 --> 15:18.200 Okay. 15:22.200 --> 15:23.200 Here. 15:28.200 --> 15:29.200 Here's the sugar. 15:29.200 --> 15:30.200 Thank you. 15:33.200 --> 15:35.200 Yeah, that's not very warm, huh? 15:35.200 --> 15:37.200 Oh, that's okay. 15:39.200 --> 15:42.200 What do you think, officer? The guy was crazy. 15:43.200 --> 15:44.200 I don't know. 15:44.200 --> 15:46.200 Ah, he must have been crazy. 15:47.200 --> 15:50.200 Lots of nice rain. Let's go for the farmers. 15:50.200 --> 15:51.200 Yeah. 15:51.200 --> 15:52.200 Sure. 15:53.200 --> 15:55.200 You ever see this key before? 15:55.200 --> 15:56.200 Let's see. 15:57.200 --> 15:58.200 I don't know. 15:58.200 --> 15:59.200 Joe. 15:59.200 --> 16:00.200 Yeah? 16:00.200 --> 16:03.200 Dave and Flory have found the hotel to pick up Tony Perez. Took him in. 16:03.200 --> 16:04.200 What'd he tell them? 16:04.200 --> 16:06.200 Dave says they're talking to him. No, he won't say much. 16:06.200 --> 16:07.200 Did they find anything on him? 16:07.200 --> 16:09.200 He's wearing a pair of dark brown boots. 16:09.200 --> 16:10.200 Yeah. 16:10.200 --> 16:11.200 Well polished. 16:21.200 --> 16:28.200 You are listening to Dragnet, the case history of a police investigation presented in the public interest by Fatima Cigarettes. 16:28.200 --> 16:35.200 If you smoke a long cigarette, it will be in your interest to listen to a typical case history of a Fatima smoker. 16:35.200 --> 16:40.200 It's the case of skater Larry Jackson, one of the stars of the Los Angeles Ice Capades. 16:40.200 --> 16:42.200 This is his actual signed statement. 16:42.200 --> 16:47.200 When the excitement of the show is over, a mild cigarette is important for smoking enjoyment. 16:47.200 --> 16:52.200 I found Fatima the most enjoyable king-sized cigarette because it's extra mild. 16:52.200 --> 16:55.200 I agree it's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 16:55.200 --> 16:58.200 And so do more and more smokers every day. 16:58.200 --> 17:03.200 Actual figures show extra mild Fatima has more than doubled its smokers coast to coast. 17:03.200 --> 17:07.200 So enjoy extra mild Fatima yourself. 17:07.200 --> 17:15.200 The king-sized cigarette, which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos, superbly blended to make it extra mild. 17:15.200 --> 17:19.200 You will prefer Fatima's much different, much better flavor. 17:19.200 --> 17:20.200 You will agree. 17:20.200 --> 17:23.200 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 17:23.200 --> 17:26.200 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 17:26.200 --> 17:29.200 The best of all, long cigarettes. 17:29.200 --> 17:38.200 Music 17:38.200 --> 17:40.200 Monday, December 26th, 9 a.m. 17:40.200 --> 17:43.200 We checked Tony Perez through RNI. 17:43.200 --> 17:45.200 He had a record of seven arrests but no convictions. 17:45.200 --> 17:49.200 During the past year, he'd been booked on suspicion of 211 PC, 17:49.200 --> 17:53.200 assault with intent to do great bodily harm, and second-degree burglary. 17:53.200 --> 17:56.200 In each instance, he'd been released for a lack of evidence. 17:56.200 --> 18:00.200 All of his shoes and clothing were brought to the crime lab for examination. 18:00.200 --> 18:02.200 9.25 a.m. 18:02.200 --> 18:04.200 We brought Perez back to the interrogation room. 18:04.200 --> 18:09.200 He admitted that he had been with Maria Camacho Christmas Eve, but he denied having anything to do with her killing. 18:09.200 --> 18:13.200 He told us that after he had left Maria, he'd gone to a party at some friend's house. 18:13.200 --> 18:16.200 Dave and Claudio went out to check his story. 18:16.200 --> 18:20.200 I gave them the key found near the body and asked them to try it on the door to Perez' hotel room. 18:20.200 --> 18:23.200 Ben and I continued to question the suspect. 18:23.200 --> 18:25.200 How well did you know Maria Camacho, Tony? 18:25.200 --> 18:27.200 I told you already. 18:27.200 --> 18:31.200 She was just some old crow who used to hang around the bars, that's all. 18:31.200 --> 18:33.200 I used to talk to her once in a while. 18:33.200 --> 18:34.200 You ever have any arguments with her? 18:34.200 --> 18:37.200 No. How many times are you going to ask me that? 18:37.200 --> 18:41.200 It would help a lot if you could tell us exactly where you left Maria Christmas Eve and when you left her. 18:41.200 --> 18:44.200 I told you already. I don't remember exactly. 18:44.200 --> 18:48.200 If it were drinking, we were all drinking. I don't remember. 18:48.200 --> 18:49.200 How'd you get to that party? 18:49.200 --> 18:52.200 I walked, placed down on Malabar Street. 18:52.200 --> 18:57.200 Maria stopped at a bar someplace along the way, and that's the last time I saw her. 18:57.200 --> 18:58.200 Did you go in with her? 18:58.200 --> 19:02.200 No, she went in alone. I went to the party. That's all I know. 19:04.200 --> 19:06.200 Interrogation room, Friday. 19:06.200 --> 19:07.200 Lee Jones, Tom. 19:07.200 --> 19:08.200 Yeah. 19:08.200 --> 19:12.200 Check the polish on Perez' boots. It matches with the smear of polish on the victim's face. 19:12.200 --> 19:14.200 The wax components are exactly the same. 19:14.200 --> 19:15.200 Good. How about the cast? 19:15.200 --> 19:19.200 Nope, they didn't match. The prints we cast out there were size 11, big heels. 19:19.200 --> 19:22.200 Perez wears a 9, pretty small heel. No match at all. 19:22.200 --> 19:23.200 What about the other stuff? 19:23.200 --> 19:27.200 Went over the rest of his shoes and his clothes. Nothing that ties in. 19:27.200 --> 19:29.200 Okay, Lee. Thank you. 19:31.200 --> 19:33.200 Do you shine your own boots, Tony? 19:33.200 --> 19:35.200 No. Why? 19:35.200 --> 19:36.200 Where do you get them shined? 19:36.200 --> 19:40.200 I go to Angelo's, Chicago Street, right near first. 19:40.200 --> 19:42.200 When's the last time you got a shine? 19:42.200 --> 19:44.200 Oh, Christmas Eve. 19:44.200 --> 19:46.200 What time Christmas Eve, Tony? 19:46.200 --> 19:49.200 When I got off work, about two and a half noon. 19:49.200 --> 19:50.200 Hi. 19:50.200 --> 19:51.200 Hi, Dave. 19:51.200 --> 19:52.200 See one of you outside a minute? 19:52.200 --> 19:53.200 Yeah. 19:59.200 --> 20:02.200 Perez is telling the truth about the party. He was there. 20:02.200 --> 20:05.200 We timed out how long it would take him to walk from the restaurant to the party. 20:05.200 --> 20:06.200 Yeah. 20:06.200 --> 20:09.200 Pretty close. His friends say he got to the party about 12, 30. 20:09.200 --> 20:11.200 Doesn't look like he had time to kill that woman. 20:11.200 --> 20:12.200 Where does that leave us? 20:12.200 --> 20:13.200 Still got those boots. 20:13.200 --> 20:16.200 No, no more. They don't match the impressions that the murder scene. 20:16.200 --> 20:17.200 Well, that makes us even. 20:17.200 --> 20:18.200 Huh? 20:18.200 --> 20:20.200 Here's your key back. Didn't fit. 20:24.200 --> 20:27.200 Tony Perez was held for further investigation. 20:27.200 --> 20:32.200 Dave and Claudio took up the canvassing of bars in the same area where we'd left off the night before. 20:32.200 --> 20:35.200 Ben and I drove down to Angelo's shine stand. 20:35.200 --> 20:41.200 It stood just outside a barbershop, four chairs with an awning full of cigarette holes over them. 20:41.200 --> 20:46.200 He identified Maria Camacho's picture immediately. We questioned him while he polished their shoes. 20:47.200 --> 20:54.200 Maria, I used to tell a sergeant, running around like that, she had so many friends, too many. 20:54.200 --> 20:57.200 Did you see Maria on Christmas Eve, Angelo? 20:57.200 --> 21:03.200 Christmas Eve? Let me see. No, no, last time was two days before Christmas. 21:03.200 --> 21:06.200 Angelo, do you know a man by the name of Tony Perez? 21:06.200 --> 21:12.200 Tony? Sure. Tony Perez. Tall fella, big shoulder. 21:12.200 --> 21:14.200 Was he one of your customers? 21:14.200 --> 21:15.200 A long time he come to see me. 21:15.200 --> 21:17.200 Was he here on Christmas Eve, Angelo? 21:17.200 --> 21:21.200 Yeah, yeah, he was here. I gave him a shine. Good customer. 21:21.200 --> 21:23.200 Remember what kind of shoes he had on? 21:23.200 --> 21:26.200 Sure. Boots. He always wears boots. 21:26.200 --> 21:28.200 What color were they, do you know? 21:28.200 --> 21:30.200 Brown. Always wears brown boots. 21:30.200 --> 21:32.200 Well, what's the matter? 21:32.200 --> 21:34.200 Tony in trouble? 21:34.200 --> 21:37.200 What kind of polish do you use on his boots, Angelo? 21:37.200 --> 21:42.200 I got the can down here. This one here. High grade polish. 21:42.200 --> 21:44.200 You got boots, I can fix them up. 21:44.200 --> 21:47.200 Do you use the same polish on all the boots you shine, Angelo? 21:47.200 --> 21:51.200 No, only the brown boots. That's brown polish. 21:51.200 --> 21:54.200 You fellas, that's too many questions. You make me go too slow. 21:54.200 --> 21:58.200 Well, there's no rush, Angelo. Can you tell me this? 21:58.200 --> 21:59.200 Yeah? 21:59.200 --> 22:04.200 Besides Tony Perez, is there anybody else with brown boots who got a shine from you Christmas Eve? 22:04.200 --> 22:08.200 Well, I don't know. Lots of people get shined. Christmas Eve is pretty busy. 22:08.200 --> 22:11.200 Just the people with brown boots, Angelo. Can you remember? 22:11.200 --> 22:16.200 No, no, no, I don't think so. Tony was the only one with the brown boots. There's no others. 22:16.200 --> 22:19.200 And how about heavy brown shoes? 22:19.200 --> 22:20.200 Huh? 22:20.200 --> 22:23.200 You remember the people with heavy brown shoes that came in for a shine? 22:23.200 --> 22:28.200 No, no, I don't know. I don't know. Look, please, just letting me shine your shoes, huh? 22:28.200 --> 22:32.200 That can of brown polish, Angelo, you say that's the kind you use on Tony Perez's boots? 22:32.200 --> 22:35.200 Yeah, that's the kind. This kind right here. 22:35.200 --> 22:39.200 Well, can you remember how many times you used that polish on Christmas Eve? 22:39.200 --> 22:43.200 Well, I opened this can that morning and see how much is going. 22:43.200 --> 22:47.200 Maybe I use it all, well, maybe half a dozen times. 22:47.200 --> 22:50.200 Can you remember the people whose shoes call for this kind of polish? 22:50.200 --> 22:55.200 Yeah, lots of them. Brown shoes. I know the feet when I see them. I don't know the faces. 22:55.200 --> 22:57.200 Don't you remember any of them? 22:57.200 --> 23:00.200 If they like the shine, they might be buying a buy to come back. 23:00.200 --> 23:03.200 There were three or four fellas, maybe. 23:03.200 --> 23:06.200 I see them before. I don't know their names. 23:06.200 --> 23:09.200 Okay, finished. You like the shine? 23:09.200 --> 23:11.200 Oh, yeah, fine. 23:14.200 --> 23:18.200 Say, I'm going to buy that can of polish from you, Angelo, and we're going to check back with you later. 23:18.200 --> 23:21.200 Okay. Here, here, this. 23:21.200 --> 23:24.200 That's fine, Polish Sergeant. Best you can get. 23:24.200 --> 23:27.200 Yeah, but it rubs off. 23:31.200 --> 23:37.200 December 26th, 5 p.m. We drove back to the crime lab and had Lee Jones analyze the can of shoe polish. 23:37.200 --> 23:42.200 It matched exactly with the particles of shoe polish taken from the victim's body and from the boots of Tony Perez. 23:42.200 --> 23:45.200 We arranged for a stakeout at Angelo's Shine Stain. 23:45.200 --> 23:50.200 In case the people with heavy brown shoes returned, Angelo could point them out immediately to the men on duty. 23:50.200 --> 23:59.200 5.30 p.m. Dave and Claudio called in. They thought they had another nibble, this time from the bartender at the El Cedello Tavern, a bar on Soto Street. 23:59.200 --> 24:03.200 We drove down to South Main and Harlem Place for a meet. 24:09.200 --> 24:12.200 Hi, Dave. Hi. I figured we'd better move on this tonight. 24:12.200 --> 24:13.200 What's the page? 24:13.200 --> 24:18.200 Bartender on Soto tipped me that Maria Camacho was in this place Christmas Eve. Said it was a little after midnight. 24:18.200 --> 24:27.200 Said she had a drink, left the place about ten minutes past 12 with a guy called Frank Talano. Nosed around from his Talano works at the Midnight Mission. Over there. 24:27.200 --> 24:29.200 All right, let's go. 24:31.200 --> 24:33.200 This it, Dave? 24:33.200 --> 24:35.200 Yeah. Good friend's mission. 24:35.200 --> 24:40.200 Come in for a nice warm spiritual bath, coffee and soup free. 24:40.200 --> 24:42.200 Watch the stairs. 24:42.200 --> 24:52.200 And now, brothers, I only hope that our meeting here has brought you close and made your souls to glow with the great and glorious light of the Spirit. 24:52.200 --> 24:58.200 And yes, brothers, if we be not born again of that light, as the book says, we'll be damned, brothers. 24:58.200 --> 25:00.200 Amen. 25:00.200 --> 25:02.200 Amen. 25:02.200 --> 25:11.200 Now, brothers, while Sister Myrtle Ferguson plays one of his stirring marches, let's join arms, brother to brother, and march into the lunch room where, through the kind graces of one of our benefactors, 25:11.200 --> 25:19.200 Pete Boudouris of the Acropolis Cafe, each one of you will be entitled to a bowl of turkey soup, some of Sister Wilson's homemade bread, and a cut of Miss Pie. 25:19.200 --> 25:22.200 Now, Sister Ferguson, in the march. 25:27.200 --> 25:28.200 I guess that's the man to see. 25:28.200 --> 25:30.200 Yeah, let's go. 25:30.200 --> 25:32.200 Sure pack a minute, don't you? 25:32.200 --> 25:34.200 That soup smells real good. 25:36.200 --> 25:37.200 Excuse me, sir? 25:37.200 --> 25:38.200 Young brother? What is it? 25:38.200 --> 25:41.200 Police officers. Do you have a Frank Talano working here? 25:41.200 --> 25:42.200 Well, that's a trouble. 25:42.200 --> 25:43.200 Does he work here? 25:43.200 --> 25:45.200 Well, yes, he's a very good man, Frank. Anything wrong? 25:45.200 --> 25:46.200 Is he here now? 25:46.200 --> 25:47.200 No, he isn't. 25:47.200 --> 25:48.200 Where can we find him? 25:48.200 --> 25:50.200 Well, I'd like to know what the trouble is. 25:50.200 --> 25:52.200 We'd like to talk to him, Mr. Dessau. 25:52.200 --> 25:55.200 Well, he has a room at Good Friends Mission Annex that's over on San Pedro Street. 25:55.200 --> 25:58.200 Is that his permanent residence, the Mission Annex? 25:58.200 --> 26:01.200 Yes, Frank's very helpful. He works for a small salary, and we give him room and board. 26:01.200 --> 26:03.200 Is he over at the Annex now? 26:03.200 --> 26:06.200 Yeah, but maybe you'd better not see him now, Officer. 26:06.200 --> 26:07.200 Why not? 26:07.200 --> 26:12.200 Well, Frank's not at his best. He's been drinking again. That's a sure sign. 26:12.200 --> 26:13.200 How do you mean? 26:13.200 --> 26:19.200 Well, whenever Frank starts drinking, that means that he's worrying. He's one of those. He drinks to forget him. 26:19.200 --> 26:21.200 He's been drinking for three days. 26:21.200 --> 26:24.200 He must have a lot to forget. Come on. 26:28.200 --> 26:32.200 6.30 p.m. We drove over to the Good Friends Mission Annex on San Pedro Street. 26:32.200 --> 26:36.200 The man in charge told us that Talano had a small room to himself at the rear of the second floor. 26:36.200 --> 26:39.200 Dave and Claudio went around to cover the Mission Annex from the back. 26:39.200 --> 26:42.200 Ben and I went up a narrow flight of wooden stairs. 26:42.200 --> 26:46.200 Plain white plaster walls were chipped and cracked and scrawled with pencil markings. 26:46.200 --> 26:51.200 We walked down to the end of a wide hallway to a brown paneled door with a transom above it. 26:53.200 --> 26:55.200 There was a man in soiled work clothes sitting on the bed. 26:55.200 --> 27:00.200 On the table next to him there were three quart wine bottles. Two of them were empty. 27:00.200 --> 27:04.200 Get out of here. You, Frank Talano, what about it? 27:04.200 --> 27:06.200 Police officers like to talk to you. 27:09.200 --> 27:14.200 Get out of here. You're not taking me. I'll cut you to pieces. 27:14.200 --> 27:15.200 Drop the bottle, Talano. 27:15.200 --> 27:16.200 Get out of here. 27:16.200 --> 27:17.200 Drop the bottle. 27:17.200 --> 27:19.200 I'll cut you to pieces. 27:19.200 --> 27:20.200 Like you cut Maria. 27:20.200 --> 27:22.200 I'll kill you. 27:23.200 --> 27:24.200 Put it down, Talano. 27:25.200 --> 27:26.200 Drop it. 27:29.200 --> 27:30.200 Get the cups on. 27:30.200 --> 27:31.200 Yeah. 27:31.200 --> 27:32.200 Let's go. 27:34.200 --> 27:35.200 Just a minute. 27:43.200 --> 27:44.200 Yeah, it fits. 27:52.200 --> 27:54.200 The story you have just heard was true. 27:54.200 --> 27:57.200 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:57.200 --> 28:03.200 On March 7th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 94, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 28:03.200 --> 28:05.200 In a moment, the results of that trial. 28:05.200 --> 28:10.200 It's amazing how many long cigarette smokers are changing to extra mild Fatima. 28:10.200 --> 28:12.200 Here is the actual report. 28:12.200 --> 28:17.200 From coast to coast, extra mild Fatima has more than doubled its smokers. 28:17.200 --> 28:24.460 Yes, more and more smokers every day are discovering that Fatima is the king-size cigarette that is in the 28:24.460 --> 28:28.200 extra mild. 28:28.200 --> 28:35.200 Extra mild because it contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos superbly blended to make it extra mild 28:35.200 --> 28:39.200 to give it a much different, much better flavor and aroma. 28:39.200 --> 28:42.200 Enjoy extra mild Fatima yourself. 28:42.200 --> 28:44.200 Best of all, long cigarettes. 28:44.200 --> 28:47.200 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 28:47.200 --> 29:00.200 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 29:00.200 --> 29:06.200 Frank Dominic Talano was tried and convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. 29:06.200 --> 29:12.200 He is now serving his term in the state penitentiary. 29:12.200 --> 29:17.200 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 29:17.200 --> 29:23.200 Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.A. 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