1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,720 The story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:15,720 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:30,640 Fatima cigarettes, best of all long cigarettes, brings you Dragnet. 4 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:31,640 You're a detective sergeant. 5 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:35,160 You're assigned a homicide detail. 6 00:00:35,160 --> 00:00:37,920 A woman is knifed to death in her home. 7 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:40,920 The body bears the mark of inhuman attack. 8 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:43,240 The killer escapes. 9 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:44,720 Your job. 10 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:49,200 You're not going to get him. 11 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:53,360 If you want a long cigarette, smoke the best of all long cigarettes. 12 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:55,240 Smoke extra mild Fatima. 13 00:00:55,240 --> 00:01:02,040 Yes, Fatima is the king size cigarette which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos 14 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:05,280 superbly blended to make it extra mild. 15 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:11,600 To give Fatima a much different, much better flavor and aroma than any other long cigarette. 16 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:15,720 That's why Fatima has more than doubled its smokers coast to coast. 17 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,960 Enjoy extra mild Fatima yourself. 18 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:21,080 Best of all long cigarettes. 19 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:24,560 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 20 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:30,040 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 21 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:37,400 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 22 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:41,680 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 23 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:45,600 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case from official police 24 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:47,040 files. 25 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:52,040 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 26 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:56,440 in action. 27 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:57,960 It was Wednesday, September 29th. 28 00:01:57,960 --> 00:01:59,680 It was warm in Los Angeles. 29 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,400 We were working the night watch out of homicide detail. 30 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:04,040 My partner is Ben Romero. 31 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:05,760 The boss is Captain Blaine Steed. 32 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:06,760 My name's Friday. 33 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,120 I was on the way back from the interrogation room. 34 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:13,120 It was 1123 p.m. when they got to room 42. 35 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:14,120 Homicide. 36 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:15,120 Hi, Lorraine. 37 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:16,120 Hello, Joe. 38 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:19,120 You'd like to type this up for me? 39 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:20,480 It's a dead body report. 40 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:21,480 Yeah, okay. 41 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:22,480 Thank you. 42 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:23,480 Joe. 43 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:24,480 How you doing? 44 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:25,480 Did they bring Palmer in yet? 45 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:26,840 He's in the interrogation room. 46 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:27,840 Captain's with him. 47 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:28,840 What's his story? 48 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:30,400 He claims he had nothing to do with it. 49 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:31,800 You contact any of the boys' relatives? 50 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:33,360 He hasn't got any in town. 51 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:34,920 It was just him and his mother. 52 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:35,920 Who called you in the hall, didn't you? 53 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:37,880 Yeah, they'll look after him for the time being. 54 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:39,560 Pretty big shock for a kid. 55 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:40,560 Yeah. 56 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:41,560 Did you get anything out of him? 57 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:43,360 Harry and I have been talking to him. 58 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:44,680 Just starting to make sense. 59 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:45,680 You want to lend a hand? 60 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:46,680 Sure. 61 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:51,680 We're going to the beach tomorrow with my mother and my... 62 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:56,680 She had the day off and we were going to the beach. 63 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:58,680 That's all I know. 64 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:00,680 That's all she knows. 65 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:01,680 Harry. 66 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:02,680 Hi. 67 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:03,680 You want to give it a try? 68 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:04,680 Yeah. 69 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:06,760 All right, Robert. 70 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:07,760 Come on, son. 71 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:10,760 It's going to be all right now. 72 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:11,760 We need your help, Robert. 73 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,000 I think you could answer a few questions for us. 74 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:15,920 How about a bite to eat, son? 75 00:03:15,920 --> 00:03:16,920 Can I get you something? 76 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:17,920 No, I'm not hungry. 77 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:18,920 I'm okay. 78 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:19,920 That's the stuff. 79 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:20,920 Here, take it. 80 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:21,920 It's clean hang at you. 81 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:22,920 Yeah. 82 00:03:22,920 --> 00:03:31,920 Well, you're the cop that drove me down here, aren't you? 83 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:32,920 That's right. 84 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:34,520 I'm not going back to the house. 85 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:35,520 You won't have to, son. 86 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:36,960 I'm never going back to that place. 87 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:37,960 All right. 88 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:38,960 What was off? 89 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:41,880 Could you start from the beginning for us, Bob, and just take it easy? 90 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:42,880 Tell us what you know. 91 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:43,880 Okay. 92 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:44,880 Think I could have a coke? 93 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:45,880 I'll pick up a couple. 94 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:46,880 Be right back. 95 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:47,880 All right, Harry. 96 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:48,880 Thanks, Harry. 97 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:55,160 Well, all I know is I left the house about half past seven. 98 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:56,400 Mom gave me the money to go to a show. 99 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:58,520 Was she alone in the house when you left? 100 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:00,100 Yeah, that's right. 101 00:04:00,100 --> 00:04:02,120 We had dinner and then I went to the show. 102 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,840 Do you usually go to the show on a school night, son? 103 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,600 No, but mom asked me if I wanted to go. 104 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:09,040 She gave me the money. 105 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:10,040 Double feature. 106 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:11,400 She told me to stay for both pictures. 107 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:13,040 Does she usually tell you that? 108 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:15,880 No, she always said to just stay for one picture. 109 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:17,400 She didn't want me coming home so late. 110 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,800 Was she expecting anybody to visit her, I mean, after you'd gone? 111 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:22,320 She didn't say so. 112 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:24,080 She just told me to stay for both pictures. 113 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:25,080 That's all. 114 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:26,080 What time did the movie let out? 115 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,720 I don't know, almost 11 o'clock. 116 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:30,640 Pretty late, so I went straight home. 117 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:32,680 Mom was in the bedroom. 118 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:34,560 She was on the floor. 119 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,520 There was this knife, this big knife. 120 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,200 What'd you do then, son? 121 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,600 I ran outside, hollered. 122 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:45,400 Wallaces came over from next door. 123 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:48,760 I went inside and looked, and they called the cops. 124 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:50,160 That knife you saw in the bedroom? 125 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,200 There was blood on it, all over it. 126 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:53,200 It was terrible. 127 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:55,200 Did you ever see the knife before? 128 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:56,200 Yeah. 129 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:58,600 Yeah, Roy gave it to my mom last year. 130 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:00,040 It's a bowler knife. 131 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:01,040 Who is this Roy? 132 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,080 Mom's boyfriend, one of them. 133 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:05,080 He's in the Navy. 134 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:06,280 Was he at your house tonight? 135 00:05:06,280 --> 00:05:08,960 I told you, it was just Mom and I. 136 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:11,520 Roy had a fight with Mom about two weeks ago. 137 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,200 He said he didn't like her having other boyfriends, and they had a fight. 138 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:15,880 They argued, is that what you mean? 139 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,200 Yeah, and once Roy slept my mother. 140 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:19,560 Want one of these, Joe? 141 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:20,560 No, no thanks, Harry. 142 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,560 There's your coke, Reming. 143 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:25,840 Oh, yeah. 144 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:29,640 Son, did you know most of your mother's friends? 145 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:32,200 Most of them, yeah. 146 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:34,720 Can you think of any of them who might have wanted to hurt your mother? 147 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:37,000 I don't know. 148 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:38,440 Roy Palmer, maybe. 149 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:39,440 He was mad at her. 150 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:43,040 He's the only one I can think of. 151 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,080 I don't know, I don't want to think about it anymore. 152 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:47,120 All right, son, we won't bother you anymore tonight. 153 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:48,120 Thanks a lot. 154 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:49,120 Yeah. 155 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:50,120 Ben. 156 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:51,120 Uh-huh. 157 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:55,040 You want to follow through with Juvenile Hall, see if the boy's taken care of. 158 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:56,920 Okay, you're going to be in the interrogation room? 159 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:58,920 Yeah, I got a few more questions for Roy Palmer. 160 00:05:58,920 --> 00:05:59,920 Right, check in later. 161 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:00,920 Okay. 162 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:05,920 Crime lab back yet, Friday? 163 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:12,960 No, not yet, Captain. 164 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:14,200 Just talked with the Reynolds boy. 165 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:15,200 Joe? 166 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:17,040 I can't believe anything that kid tells you. 167 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:18,600 He's a liar, he hates me. 168 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:20,080 You give him reason to hate you, Palmer? 169 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:21,640 The kid's a liar, that's all. 170 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:22,640 You were his mother's boyfriend. 171 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:25,600 He says two weeks ago you had a fight with her that you slapped her. 172 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:26,600 All right, I slapped her. 173 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:27,600 That don't make it murder. 174 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:29,680 I wasn't near that house last night and I didn't kill her. 175 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:31,160 We found your knife in her bag. 176 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:32,160 Huh? 177 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:33,160 A bolo knife, bone handle. 178 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:34,160 That's not mine. 179 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:36,440 I gave it to her a year ago for a present. 180 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:37,960 Didn't even know she still had it. 181 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:39,800 Look, why do you have to pick on me? 182 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:42,040 Because you had a motive and you haven't got an alibi. 183 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:44,000 What about all those bums she used to run around with? 184 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:45,480 Why don't you ask them for alibis? 185 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:46,880 When we find them, we'll ask them. 186 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:48,360 Do you know any of them, Palmer? 187 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:49,600 The other men that she went out with? 188 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:50,600 How'd I know? 189 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:53,000 The only time she ran around was when I was on sea duty. 190 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,120 Then how'd you know she was running around? 191 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:56,120 Friends of mine. 192 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:57,760 I saw her out with these guys. 193 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:00,760 I get it. 194 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:02,320 Interrogation room, Friday. 195 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:03,320 Lee Jones, Joe. 196 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:04,840 Just got back from the Dixon house. 197 00:07:04,840 --> 00:07:05,640 Anything? 198 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:06,800 Off to a fast start. 199 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:09,640 Layton Prince checked the murder weapon and that knife. 200 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:10,440 Dusted the handle. 201 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:11,040 Yeah? 202 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:12,840 Fingerprints, perfect set. 203 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:20,400 Captain Steed and I took the suspect, Roy Palmer, 204 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:22,520 down the hall and had his fingerprints taken. 205 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:24,560 At the same time, across the street in the crime lab, 206 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:26,640 a set of fingerprints were lifted from the weapon which 207 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:29,160 had taken the life of Mrs. Betty Dixon. 208 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,520 The two sets of prints were checked and rechecked. 209 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:33,000 They didn't match. 210 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:34,480 Every object in the murder house 211 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,480 was gone over for fingerprints and further evidence. 212 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,800 Roy Palmer's fingerprints were on none of them. 213 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,200 He was released pending further investigation. 214 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:46,520 The only suspect in one of the most savage murders 215 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:48,560 in the history of the city was free. 216 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:50,160 The next morning, Captain Steed and I 217 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:52,240 met with Chief of Detective Stad Brown. 218 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:53,440 How about the dead woman's son? 219 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:54,760 Did you talk to him again? 220 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:56,040 Well, Romero's with him now. 221 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:57,680 He's taken down a list of all the people at his mother, 222 00:07:57,680 --> 00:07:59,480 new friends, neighbors, everybody. 223 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:01,080 No luck yet with a set of fingerprints? 224 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:02,400 No, we've got no record on them. 225 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:03,280 Checking them through Washington, 226 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:04,960 we ought to get a kickback pretty soon. 227 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:07,200 A set of prints and a piece of envelope. 228 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:08,600 That's the physical evidence, huh? 229 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:09,400 Yeah. 230 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:11,280 One of the top corners off an envelope. 231 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:13,760 It had a postmark on it, Sonoma. 232 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:14,360 Sonoma. 233 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:15,360 Tie in with anything yet? 234 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:16,520 No, not so far. 235 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:19,000 Might turn up when we start checking the victim's friends. 236 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,360 They posted the body this morning. 237 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:22,920 She saw this coroner's report. 238 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:23,760 Yeah, I did. 239 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:24,880 I don't have to tell you, you're not 240 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:26,120 after an ordinary killer. 241 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:27,400 23 and iPhones. 242 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,040 Revenge motive, maybe. 243 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:29,920 Yeah. 244 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:31,520 The reaction of the dead woman's neighbors, 245 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:33,000 that's what's gotten me stopped. 246 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:34,320 No one heard a thing? 247 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:36,040 Mitchell and Didion are still covering the neighborhood 248 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:37,440 and haven't found anyone yet who saw 249 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:38,600 or heard anything unusual. 250 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:39,440 Well, I can't buy it. 251 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:40,760 A woman isn't just cut down like that 252 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:42,000 without some kind of a commotion. 253 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,200 Besides, the homes in that neighborhood 254 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:44,280 are fairly close together. 255 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:45,640 Shouldn't take much to make yourself heard 256 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:46,840 from one house to the other. 257 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:48,200 No sign of robbery or burglary? 258 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:50,200 No, according to the boy, the house is intact. 259 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:51,800 Nobody touched anything. 260 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:53,200 Lazy with a boyfriend angle. 261 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:54,040 Lovers quarrel. 262 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:56,160 We're stuck with him, yeah. 263 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:57,000 Hi, Chief. 264 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:57,840 Romero, go ahead. 265 00:08:57,840 --> 00:08:58,680 How'd you make out? 266 00:08:58,680 --> 00:08:59,520 Better than I thought. 267 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:01,640 The boy was over most of his shop this morning. 268 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:02,680 Did he talk? 269 00:09:02,680 --> 00:09:04,600 Five pages of names and addresses. 270 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:05,800 He gave me all of them. 271 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:07,280 How about that boyfriend angle? 272 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:08,800 Oh, about half a dozen names. 273 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:10,720 Seems the mother had quite a social life 274 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:12,080 since the boy's father died. 275 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:13,800 You confirmed the boy's story about going to the movies? 276 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:14,720 Yeah, it checks out. 277 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:16,640 Pretty nice kid considering the environment 278 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:17,640 he's been raised in. 279 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:18,640 How about those names, Ben? 280 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:20,600 Any of them list Sonoma as their hometown? 281 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:22,040 No, I don't think so. 282 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:24,520 Let me check here, OK? 283 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:26,360 No. 284 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:28,840 No. 285 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:30,280 No. 286 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:31,280 Huh? 287 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:32,160 Oh, none of them. 288 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:34,160 All right, you better start digging into that list. 289 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:35,200 Postmark may tie in later. 290 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:36,960 Meantime, you still have that set of fingerprints. 291 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:38,440 No chance for a mistake there. 292 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:39,720 When you reach the right man, those prints 293 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:40,960 will connect him with a killer. 294 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:42,080 That makes it simple for you. 295 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:42,840 Hm? 296 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:43,920 The prints will tell us who he is. 297 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:45,320 You've got only one answer to dig for. 298 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:45,800 Yeah. 299 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:46,960 Where he is. 300 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:53,360 Thursday, September 30th, 11 AM. 301 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:55,640 We started checking the list of the murdered woman's friends 302 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:59,200 through RNI for any possible criminal record. 303 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:01,120 It's usually the case that a major crime rates 304 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:02,520 headline space twice. 305 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:04,440 When the crime is committed, when the criminal 306 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:05,720 is apprehended. 307 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:07,320 Between the two, more than often, 308 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:10,840 there's a space of weeks and months, sometimes even years, 309 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:13,120 in which the police officer goes through the monotonous, 310 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:16,560 undramatic business of checking files, asking questions, 311 00:10:16,560 --> 00:10:18,960 sifting and sorting leads and evidence until he finally 312 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:20,960 reaches the criminal. 313 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:23,360 For a new story, it's pretty dull material, 314 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:26,120 but it proves out the contention of most working detectives. 315 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,880 You don't catch criminals with headlines. 316 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:31,680 Monday, October 4th, we checked with Miss Lucille 317 00:10:31,680 --> 00:10:34,520 Dana, a counter clerk at a little market out on Crenshaw. 318 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:37,000 That's a terrible thing. 319 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:38,320 I've been away on my vacation. 320 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:39,920 Heard about it when I got home yesterday. 321 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:42,000 You were pretty good friends with Betty Dixon. 322 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:43,240 That right, Miss Dana? 323 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,000 Yeah, pretty close. 324 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:46,560 Excuse me, I'll take care of this customer. 325 00:10:46,560 --> 00:10:47,360 Yeah, all right. 326 00:10:51,680 --> 00:10:53,160 Is that everything, sir? 327 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:55,120 No, two bags of them jelly beans, please. 328 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:55,600 All right. 329 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:01,680 OK, that's something. 330 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:13,080 That's 19, 87, 9, 87. 331 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:15,480 This is not marked, just a minute. 332 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:16,400 Tommy? 333 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:17,200 Yeah? 334 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:18,920 Number two corned beef, how much? 335 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:20,760 Just a minute. 336 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:21,600 67. 337 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:22,080 Thanks. 338 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,760 217 out of 5. 339 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:43,560 217, 220, 25, 50, $3.45. 340 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:44,560 Uh-huh. 341 00:11:53,560 --> 00:11:54,560 Thank you. 342 00:11:54,560 --> 00:11:55,040 OK. 343 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:00,040 I just can't get over it, Sergeant. 344 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:01,040 Poor Betty. 345 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:02,640 We understand that you used to go out with the Dixon 346 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:03,560 woman, Miss Dana. 347 00:12:03,560 --> 00:12:06,000 Do you know most of her close friends? 348 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,200 Well, most of her men friends. 349 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:10,000 We used to double date a lot together. 350 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:11,960 I wonder if you'd take a look at this list of names 351 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:12,960 that we have here. 352 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:13,960 All right. 353 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:14,960 Let's see. 354 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:20,960 Now, does that about cover all her boyfriends, 355 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:22,360 all that you know of anyway? 356 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:23,960 Yeah, I think so. 357 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:30,360 Let's see, Tony Morris, Galbraith, Al O'Neal. 358 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:31,960 You don't have Floyd down here. 359 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:32,480 Who was that? 360 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:33,240 Floyd who? 361 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,200 I never did know what his last name was. 362 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:37,200 He used to take both of us out, Betty and I. 363 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:38,400 Seemed to like her quite a bit. 364 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:40,560 When's the last time she was out with him, do you know? 365 00:12:40,560 --> 00:12:42,760 Oh, five or six months ago at least. 366 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:43,600 Kind of strange. 367 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:44,520 How do you mean? 368 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:45,400 Floyd. 369 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:46,560 Jealous, you know? 370 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:48,080 Hot temper. 371 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:50,440 Said he was Spanish, but he had a light complexion. 372 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:51,560 Oh, excuse me, please. 373 00:12:51,560 --> 00:12:52,960 Sure. 374 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:53,720 Yes, sir? 375 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:56,000 A pack of that mint gum and some lighter flints, please. 376 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,120 Yes, sir. 377 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:00,520 25. 378 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:01,280 Thank you. 379 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:01,760 All right. 380 00:13:07,560 --> 00:13:10,120 Could you describe this Floyd for us, Miss Dan? 381 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:13,120 Well, he was kind of fresh and conceited in some way. 382 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:14,680 He was attractive. 383 00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:15,360 A lot of fun. 384 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:18,160 How about his physical appearance, his weight and height? 385 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:19,800 About six feet, I'd say. 386 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:21,160 Nice build. 387 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:23,480 180 pounds, I guess. 388 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:26,360 Dark hair, dark brown eyes. 389 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:27,480 Good dancer. 390 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:29,320 How do you and Miss Dixon get along? 391 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:30,840 Oh, I don't think he did it. 392 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:32,320 Floyd and Betty used to fight all the time, 393 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:34,440 but she used to fight with Roy Palmer, too. 394 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:35,720 I don't think Floyd did it. 395 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:37,200 Is he in town now, do you know? 396 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:38,040 No, I don't. 397 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:40,120 As I say, last time I saw him was six months ago. 398 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:42,400 Would you know if Mrs. Dixon saw him recently? 399 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:42,760 She did. 400 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:43,760 She didn't tell me. 401 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:45,160 You have no idea then where we could 402 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:46,320 get in touch with this Floyd? 403 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:47,760 Well, no, I don't. 404 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:49,520 He's from up north originally. 405 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:50,600 Is that so? 406 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:55,720 Yeah, Sonoma. 407 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:57,040 Ben and I went back to the office 408 00:13:57,040 --> 00:13:59,120 and got off a teletype to the Sonoma Police Department, 409 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:01,920 along with a description of the suspect named Floyd. 410 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:03,760 Then we checked with the 16-year-old son 411 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:05,040 of the murdered woman. 412 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:06,560 He remembered the man called Floyd, 413 00:14:06,560 --> 00:14:08,360 and essentially his description of the suspect 414 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:10,280 checked out with that givenness by his mother's friend, 415 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:12,040 Lucille Dana. 416 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:15,320 3 PM, we met with Lieutenant Harry Didion and Captain Steve. 417 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,000 You want to fill him in, Didion? 418 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,280 Finally got in touch with a dead woman's next door neighbor. 419 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:20,320 His name's Conroy. 420 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:21,360 Get anything out of him? 421 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:23,200 They seem to be the only ones who heard anything 422 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:24,160 the night of the murder. 423 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:26,200 What'd they have to say? 424 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:28,360 Let's see. 425 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:30,800 Yeah, they saw Mrs. Dixon's son Robert leave the house 426 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:33,720 about 730 the night of the murder. 427 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:35,400 And nothing until 830. 428 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:36,720 Yeah. 429 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:39,080 Heard loud pounding in the back door of the Dixon home. 430 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:40,080 The door finally opened. 431 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:42,400 They heard an angry woman's voice invite the person in. 432 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:42,880 A man? 433 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:43,360 Yeah. 434 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:44,520 Any description? 435 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:45,120 Not much. 436 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:46,480 She was tall, good build. 437 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:47,240 Not much, Jack. 438 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:48,200 Go on. 439 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:50,640 Neighbors said it was quiet then for about an hour. 440 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:51,880 And they heard a woman crying. 441 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:53,400 Said it sounded like Mrs. Dixon. 442 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:54,960 They make out any of the conversation? 443 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:57,400 I got it right here. 444 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:01,120 About 930, they heard Mrs. Dixon let allowed talking. 445 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:03,400 She said, why don't you kill me then, 446 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:05,480 Floyd, put me out of my misery. 447 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:06,960 Anything else? 448 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:09,920 They said it was quiet between 930 and 10. 449 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:11,880 And they heard something that sounded like the thud 450 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:14,760 of a body falling on the floor, a piece of furniture overturned. 451 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:16,320 No screams for help. 452 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:17,640 Funny, but the neighbors say no. 453 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:20,840 The only other thing they heard was Mrs. Dixon. 454 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:22,480 Here's a quote. 455 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:24,000 She said, do a good job. 456 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:24,920 Finish me off. 457 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:26,960 None of the neighbors thought of calling the police. 458 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:28,880 They told me they didn't want to get mixed up in a family 459 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:30,120 fight, none of their business. 460 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:31,920 She had quite a few men visitors. 461 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:32,840 That's all of it, huh? 462 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:34,640 No, one more thing. 463 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:36,400 I guess this is what made the neighbors think 464 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:38,320 everything was all right. 465 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:40,480 About 10, 15, they heard a man's voice, 466 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:42,040 couldn't make out any words. 467 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:46,080 Then they heard Mrs. Dixon say, please kiss me goodbye. 468 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:47,680 A few minutes after that, they heard someone 469 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:48,880 leap at the back door. 470 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:49,800 They see him? 471 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:50,720 Not very good. 472 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:52,840 I think it was the same man they saw go in. 473 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:55,000 Pretty tall, good build. 474 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:55,840 That's it. 475 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:57,040 Where does it leave us? 476 00:15:57,040 --> 00:15:57,880 Pretty weird. 477 00:15:57,880 --> 00:15:58,720 How about that? 478 00:15:58,720 --> 00:15:59,560 I don't know. 479 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:01,000 She was supposed to be a sane woman. 480 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,000 She'd have to be pretty drunk to ask a man to kill her. 481 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:06,040 A man would have to be pretty drunk to take her up on him. 482 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:09,640 Why did the killer use that bolo knife on the victim? 483 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:11,520 That piece of envelope we found by the body. 484 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:14,440 Yeah, it was postmarked Sonoma. 485 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:17,000 There's a state mental hospital up there. 486 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:18,400 It's up to Hans. 487 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:20,040 Maybe we're dealing with a maniac. 488 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:24,360 4 PM, Monday. 489 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:26,000 R&I could give us nothing because 490 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:27,600 of the meager description. 491 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:29,240 Ben and I checked out of the office 492 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:30,320 and went over to the state building 493 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:32,120 to the Department of State Institutions. 494 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:34,320 First, we checked the name Floyd through the files, 495 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:36,040 using it as a last name. 496 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:37,240 Then as a first name. 497 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:38,800 We failed to connect. 498 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:41,200 Either the names didn't fit the description of the suspect 499 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:42,840 or they were elderly men still confined 500 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:44,880 to the institution at Sonoma. 501 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:47,600 We checked through the files using Floyd as a middle name. 502 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:50,080 We came up with two recent parolees from Sonoma. 503 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:52,160 Both matched the description almost perfectly. 504 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:54,200 Both had the middle name of Floyd. 505 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:57,520 We checked out the first one, Charles Floyd Johansson. 506 00:16:57,520 --> 00:16:59,120 We found out that he'd been returned to Sonoma 507 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:00,600 almost a month before. 508 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:02,960 The second parolee still had his freedom. 509 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:04,760 We took a set of his fingerprints back to the office 510 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:06,360 and had them checked out with a set of prints 511 00:17:06,360 --> 00:17:08,200 found on the murder weapon. 512 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:10,000 How's it shape up, Joey? 513 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:11,560 Richard Floyd Coleman. 514 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:12,480 That the right name? 515 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:13,880 Yeah, can he make? 516 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:14,920 He's your killer. 517 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:26,800 You are listening to Dragnet, 518 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:29,040 the case history of a police investigation 519 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:32,080 presented in the public interest by Fatima cigarettes. 520 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:33,760 If you smoke a long cigarette, 521 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:35,360 it will be in your interest to listen 522 00:17:35,360 --> 00:17:38,160 to a typical case history of a Fatima smoker. 523 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:40,520 It's the case of skating star Helen Davidson 524 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:42,600 of the 1951 Ice Capades. 525 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:44,680 This is her actual signed statement. 526 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:46,560 Recently on tour with the Ice Capades, 527 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:49,200 I've noticed more and more people smoking Fatima. 528 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:50,280 You know why? 529 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:51,760 If you like king-sized cigarettes, 530 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:54,120 you're bound to prefer the one that's extra mild. 531 00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:55,160 I know I do. 532 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,880 And I agree it's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 533 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:01,040 More and more smokers are discovering this every day. 534 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:03,720 Actual figures show extra mild Fatima 535 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:06,240 has more than doubled its smokers coast to coast. 536 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:09,920 So enjoy extra mild Fatima yourself. 537 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:11,440 The king-sized cigarette, 538 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:14,680 which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos, 539 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:17,680 superbly blended to make it extra mild. 540 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:20,280 You will prefer Fatima's much different, 541 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:21,560 much better flavor. 542 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:22,440 You will agree. 543 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:25,520 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 544 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:28,480 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 545 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:31,160 The best of all long cigarettes. 546 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:34,160 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 547 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:40,360 Monday, October 4th, 7 p.m. 548 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:43,760 We got on an APB and a radiogram on Richard Floyd Coleman. 549 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:46,280 We checked DMV for possible auto ownership. 550 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:48,880 From his record, we found that he had been confined twice 551 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:51,280 to the state mental hospital at Sonoma. 552 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,120 The first time for a period of two years, 553 00:18:53,120 --> 00:18:55,240 the second time for 14 months. 554 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:57,760 Hospital files showed us that on both occasions, 555 00:18:57,760 --> 00:18:59,600 he had been committed by his older sister, 556 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:02,000 Evelyn Coleman, his only living relative. 557 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,720 Her address was listed as 5640 Upper Terrace 558 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:07,160 in the apartment court in the East Wilshire district. 559 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:09,080 We drove out to question her. 560 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:12,120 In one of her apartment windows was a hand-lettered sign, 561 00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:15,560 seamstress, dresses made to order, Evelyn Marie Coleman. 562 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,240 She turned out to be a tall, quiet girl in her 30s, 563 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:19,800 gray eyes, brown hair. 564 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:22,600 She worked on the sewing machine while we talked with her. 565 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:25,600 I'm sorry to be so rude, Sergeant, 566 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,720 but I have to have this blouse ready by two this afternoon. 567 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:30,080 This town is coming to call for it. 568 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:32,120 That's perfectly all right, Miss Coleman. 569 00:19:32,120 --> 00:19:34,400 Exactly. What was it that you wanted to know? 570 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:35,920 It's about your brother, Richard. 571 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:37,400 Oh, anything wrong? 572 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:38,520 No, we're just checking, that's all. 573 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:40,120 We'd like to talk to him. 574 00:19:40,120 --> 00:19:40,960 What about? 575 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:42,000 Routine check. 576 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,800 We understand he spent some time up at Sonoma. 577 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:46,120 Yes, he did. 578 00:19:46,120 --> 00:19:48,000 Richard's had a hard time with it. 579 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,160 Doctors don't seem to know the trouble. 580 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:51,800 Poor Richard, he's so mixed up. 581 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:53,360 You're his only living relative? 582 00:19:53,360 --> 00:19:54,600 Yes, I am. 583 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:56,520 Folk died when we were both young. 584 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:58,600 Practically raised Richard myself. 585 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:00,120 Have you seen your brother lately, Miss Coleman? 586 00:20:00,120 --> 00:20:02,360 No, not lately. Why? 587 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:04,640 Do you have any idea where we might contact him? 588 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:05,880 Well, no, I don't. 589 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:07,720 You see, he travels around the state a good deal. 590 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:08,920 Oh, is he working? 591 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,760 No, he writes from time to time. 592 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:13,520 What was it you wanted to see him about, Sergeant? 593 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:16,240 Just routine questioning. We like to talk to him. 594 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:19,040 Where was he when you last heard from him, Miss Coleman? 595 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:21,240 Well, couldn't you tell me what you wanted to see him about? 596 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:23,560 We'd just like to question him, that's all. 597 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:25,280 Well, what about? You can tell me. 598 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,080 Is your brother in the city now? 599 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:28,400 Oh, I don't know. 600 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:29,640 I just got back. 601 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,120 I haven't heard from him in two weeks. 602 00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:32,120 Almost three weeks. 603 00:20:32,120 --> 00:20:34,440 Does he usually stay here when he's in town? 604 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:36,840 Well, sometimes, yes. 605 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:38,240 Is Floyd in some kind of trouble? 606 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,800 Is that the name he usually goes by, Floyd? 607 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:43,000 Most of his friends call him Floyd. Why? 608 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,640 You think he might be staying with one of his friends here in the city? 609 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:47,880 He might be, I don't know. 610 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:51,000 Look, Sergeant, if Floyd's in trouble, you can tell me. 611 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:52,720 I've seen him through lots of trouble before. 612 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:53,880 Not this kind, Miss. 613 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:55,640 Women? 614 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:57,760 Um... 615 00:20:57,760 --> 00:20:59,160 Wish there was something I could do. 616 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,080 Where was he when you last heard from him? 617 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:04,400 He was in Santa Barbara. He wrote me. 618 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:08,320 Please, Sergeant, why do you have to see Floyd? 619 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:09,160 Excuse me. 620 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:12,640 Yeah, sure. 621 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:14,280 Hello? 622 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:16,440 Oh, yes, Miss Tyler. 623 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:17,880 Uh-huh. 624 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:19,800 Well, maybe just a few minutes late. 625 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:22,240 Would 2.30 be all right? 626 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:23,840 Fine, thank you. 627 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:27,200 All right, Miss Tyler, bye. 628 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:28,320 Have to hurry. 629 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:29,480 Mrs. Tyler's boss. 630 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:31,800 Sure, you go right ahead. 631 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:34,400 I really don't make much of a dressmaker, but I'm saving up. 632 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:37,280 I'm gonna buy a place for the valley, farther out. 633 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:39,240 Be fine for Floyd, I mean. 634 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:40,840 Be awfully good for him. 635 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,960 Floyd has to get away from his sight when he's awfully nervous. 636 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:45,320 Is that him, Miss Coleman? 637 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:46,160 Yes, Sergeant. 638 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,960 Are those your brother's suitcases in the alcove back there? 639 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:49,960 Yes, they are. 640 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:53,000 They've been there for a month. I keep these odds and ends for him. 641 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,280 I'm sure he hasn't been here in the past month. 642 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,760 Oh, yes, I'm sure. 643 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:00,080 Please, Sergeant, why don't you tell me the truth? 644 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:01,840 I've been through this before. 645 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:03,720 I was in trouble with Floyd. 646 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:04,720 What is it this time? 647 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:06,000 It's pretty bad. 648 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:07,040 Well, what is it? 649 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,160 We want to ask him about a murder. 650 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,880 Oh, no, he wouldn't do that. 651 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:13,080 You're... 652 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:14,520 You sure it was Floyd? 653 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:16,520 Wouldn't like to talk to him. 654 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,800 Floyd. 655 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:27,800 Floyd. 656 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:29,720 It didn't have to happen. 657 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,840 I was going to buy a place in the valley. 658 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,680 Floyd would have liked it there. 659 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:36,920 I was going to take care of him out in the valley. 660 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,880 Do you have any idea where we could find him, Miss Coleman? 661 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:41,520 No, I don't. 662 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:43,640 I don't know where he is. 663 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,840 Santa Barbara, that's the last I heard. 664 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:47,840 I've been worried about him. 665 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:50,600 If he was in the city, would he come here to stay, ma'am? 666 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:54,000 All he did before, yes, but I don't know about now. 667 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:55,640 Does he have a car? 668 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:56,680 No, not that I know of. 669 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,240 No, I don't know what he's living on. 670 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:01,720 He doesn't have any money. 671 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:03,480 Who was the woman? 672 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:05,280 Mrs. Dixon. 673 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,120 Seems to know your brother pretty well. 674 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:09,080 Oh, boy. 675 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:10,080 You better grab that, Ben. 676 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,840 Yeah, all right. 677 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:13,840 Hello. 678 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:15,320 Yes. 679 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:17,240 Yes, all right. 680 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,240 Thank you. 681 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:28,600 Mrs. Tyler, she'll pick up her blouse tomorrow. 682 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,240 Ben and I left Evelyn Coleman's place and went back to the office. 683 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,440 The stakeout was placed on her apartment. 684 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:34,760 Two days went by. 685 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:35,960 Nothing happened. 686 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:39,400 Despite the fact that the suspect's sister had promised to cooperate fully with us in 687 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:43,880 locating her brother, a team of men was assigned to follow her wherever she went as insurance 688 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:45,240 against any possible slip-up. 689 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:49,040 As far as we were concerned, no precaution was out of reason. 690 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:53,200 A maniac was on the loose in the city, the same maniac who had murdered the Dixon woman. 691 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,560 He'd done it once, and if the urge was there, he'd do it again. 692 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,080 We sweated out the next three days. 693 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:02,000 On the afternoon of the sixth day, we got an urgent call from one of the parole officers 694 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,520 in the state institution's department on Miss Gertrude Vaughn. 695 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,640 Ben and I went over and checked with her. 696 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,480 Call came in about 20 minutes ago, Sergeant. 697 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:10,480 Man's voice. 698 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:11,480 What did you have to say? 699 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:13,440 He wanted to talk to me about the Betty Dixon case. 700 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:14,440 He seemed nervous. 701 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:15,440 You're saying you knew anything about it? 702 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,440 I didn't want to frighten him off asking too many questions. 703 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,880 I got the idea he had something he wanted to get off his mind. 704 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:22,360 Well, did he mention anything specific? 705 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:24,360 I mean, names, places, anything like that? 706 00:24:24,360 --> 00:24:26,880 No, but I got the impression he knew quite a bit about the case. 707 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:27,880 What else? 708 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:29,680 He promised he'd be here by four o'clock. 709 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:31,480 Said he'd be ready to talk. 710 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:32,480 Mm-hmm. 711 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,480 Well, it's 2.45 now. 712 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:35,480 All right, Ben. 713 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:36,480 Okay. 714 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:39,480 Pull up a chair. 715 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:41,480 We waited. 716 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:45,480 3.15, 3.30, 3.45. 717 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:47,480 No sign of the anonymous caller. 718 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:48,480 4.00 p.m. 719 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,480 Still no sign. 720 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:51,480 We waited. 721 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:57,160 At 4.30, the office door opened and a tall, thin girl with brown hair came in and walked 722 00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,120 straight toward the desk of parole officer Gertrude Vaughn. 723 00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:03,080 We saw Miss Vaughn motion the girl across the room toward us. 724 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:06,080 It was Evelyn Coleman. 725 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:07,080 Sergeant. 726 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:08,080 Miss Coleman? 727 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:09,080 How are you? 728 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:10,080 I know where Floyd is. 729 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:11,080 I'll take you to him. 730 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:12,080 4.35 p.m. 731 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:13,080 Ben, I'm sorry. 732 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:14,080 I'm sorry. 733 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:15,080 I'm sorry. 734 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:16,080 I'm sorry. 735 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:20,240 At 4.35 p.m., Ben and I left the state building with Evelyn Coleman, got in our car, and drove 736 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:24,600 north across the city according to her directions until we got on Highway 66. 737 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,800 We continued driving north out of the city. 738 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:31,080 Evelyn Coleman sat quiet in the back seat, looking at her hands folded in her lap. 739 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,280 Except for directions, she said nothing. 740 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,800 Approximately three miles out of the city, she directed us off onto a county highway. 741 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:41,240 We drove east for a few miles, then we turned north onto an unpaved road lined with eucalyptus 742 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:42,240 trees. 743 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:48,040 We'd gone a little less than a mile when she directed us to pull up. 744 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,040 We can walk the rest of the way. 745 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:51,040 Okay. 746 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:52,040 It's not far. 747 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:53,040 All right. 748 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:54,040 All right. 749 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:55,040 This way. 750 00:25:55,040 --> 00:26:00,920 Your brother been out here all this time? 751 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:01,920 He didn't tell me. 752 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:02,920 He called this morning. 753 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:04,920 He was supposed to get himself up. 754 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:05,920 What happened? 755 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:06,920 I don't know. 756 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:07,920 He's worse now, I think. 757 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:09,920 I could hardly understand him on the phone. 758 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:10,920 It doesn't make sense. 759 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:11,920 Is he alone now? 760 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:13,880 He was when I left him. 761 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,080 We'd go across this field here. 762 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:17,080 Okay. 763 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:18,080 Yeah. 764 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:21,080 Is your brother armed? 765 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:22,080 No. 766 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,080 Right here or there? 767 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:25,080 Yeah. 768 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,920 Shacked by the trees. 769 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:29,200 You'll see he's treated right. 770 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:30,200 Yes, ma'am. 771 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:35,200 We'll see to it. 772 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,200 Evelyn? 773 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:43,400 Evy? 774 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:44,400 I brought them in, Floyd. 775 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:48,360 They'll take you back. 776 00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:50,520 I'm Richard Floyd Cohen. 777 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,320 I want to tell you I killed Betty Dixon. 778 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:53,320 All right, Ben. 779 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:54,320 I wanted to marry her. 780 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:55,320 She didn't want it. 781 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:56,320 She dared me to kill her. 782 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:57,320 I grabbed a knife. 783 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:58,320 We can talk about it later, huh? 784 00:26:58,320 --> 00:26:59,320 She was lying on the floor. 785 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:00,320 She said kiss me goodbye. 786 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:01,320 I held on to her. 787 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:02,320 She seemed to go to sleep. 788 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:03,320 We have to go, Floyd. 789 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:04,320 We have to go. 790 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:05,320 We have to go. 791 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:06,320 We have to go. 792 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:07,320 You tell them, Evy, I loved her. 793 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:08,320 You tell them that. 794 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:09,320 Yeah, I will. 795 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:10,320 She dared me to kill her. 796 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:11,320 She said I didn't have the nerve. 797 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:12,320 She asked me to. 798 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:13,320 Yeah, all right. 799 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:14,320 Come on. 800 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:15,320 Try to tell them that at the hospital. 801 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:16,320 Yeah. 802 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:17,320 I'm not crazy. 803 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:18,320 The story you have just heard was true. 804 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:19,320 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 805 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:20,320 On December 4th, trial was held in Superior Court, 806 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:34,360 where the 807 00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:37,720 trial was held in Superior Court, Department 86, 808 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,240 City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 809 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,240 In a moment, the results of that trial. 810 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,880 And now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 811 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:46,000 Thank you. 812 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,080 To prove a suspect's guilt or innocence as in tonight's case, 813 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:52,880 the working detective spends many a long hour with a man in question. 814 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:57,360 In the interrogation room, the crime lab, with his friends, his enemies, gets to know 815 00:27:57,360 --> 00:27:58,640 his man well. 816 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:00,680 And so with a cigarette. 817 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,480 You're a long cigarette smoker like I am. 818 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,160 Get to know Fatima. 819 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:05,440 Live with it a while. 820 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:07,640 Pack after pack their extra mile. 821 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,400 Get to know the best of all long cigarettes. 822 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:20,680 Smoke Fatima. 823 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:24,640 Richard Floyd Coleman was examined by six psychiatrists appointed by the court 824 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,880 and was found to be criminally insane. 825 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,640 He was committed to the state mental hospital at Mendocino 826 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:35,840 for an indefinite period of time. 827 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:40,440 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 828 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:44,840 Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.A. 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