WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.720 The story you are about to hear is true. 00:12.720 --> 00:15.720 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:15.720 --> 00:30.640 Fatima cigarettes, best of all long cigarettes, brings you Dragnet. 00:30.640 --> 00:31.640 You're a detective sergeant. 00:31.640 --> 00:35.160 You're assigned a homicide detail. 00:35.160 --> 00:37.920 A woman is knifed to death in her home. 00:37.920 --> 00:40.920 The body bears the mark of inhuman attack. 00:40.920 --> 00:43.240 The killer escapes. 00:43.240 --> 00:44.720 Your job. 00:44.720 --> 00:49.200 You're not going to get him. 00:49.200 --> 00:53.360 If you want a long cigarette, smoke the best of all long cigarettes. 00:53.360 --> 00:55.240 Smoke extra mild Fatima. 00:55.240 --> 01:02.040 Yes, Fatima is the king size cigarette which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos 01:02.040 --> 01:05.280 superbly blended to make it extra mild. 01:05.280 --> 01:11.600 To give Fatima a much different, much better flavor and aroma than any other long cigarette. 01:11.600 --> 01:15.720 That's why Fatima has more than doubled its smokers coast to coast. 01:15.720 --> 01:18.960 Enjoy extra mild Fatima yourself. 01:18.960 --> 01:21.080 Best of all long cigarettes. 01:21.080 --> 01:24.560 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 01:24.560 --> 01:30.040 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 01:30.040 --> 01:37.400 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 01:37.400 --> 01:41.680 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:41.680 --> 01:45.600 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case from official police 01:45.600 --> 01:47.040 files. 01:47.040 --> 01:52.040 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 01:52.040 --> 01:56.440 in action. 01:56.440 --> 01:57.960 It was Wednesday, September 29th. 01:57.960 --> 01:59.680 It was warm in Los Angeles. 01:59.680 --> 02:02.400 We were working the night watch out of homicide detail. 02:02.400 --> 02:04.040 My partner is Ben Romero. 02:04.040 --> 02:05.760 The boss is Captain Blaine Steed. 02:05.760 --> 02:06.760 My name's Friday. 02:06.760 --> 02:09.120 I was on the way back from the interrogation room. 02:09.120 --> 02:13.120 It was 1123 p.m. when they got to room 42. 02:13.120 --> 02:14.120 Homicide. 02:14.120 --> 02:15.120 Hi, Lorraine. 02:15.120 --> 02:16.120 Hello, Joe. 02:16.120 --> 02:19.120 You'd like to type this up for me? 02:19.120 --> 02:20.480 It's a dead body report. 02:20.480 --> 02:21.480 Yeah, okay. 02:21.480 --> 02:22.480 Thank you. 02:22.480 --> 02:23.480 Joe. 02:23.480 --> 02:24.480 How you doing? 02:24.480 --> 02:25.480 Did they bring Palmer in yet? 02:25.480 --> 02:26.840 He's in the interrogation room. 02:26.840 --> 02:27.840 Captain's with him. 02:27.840 --> 02:28.840 What's his story? 02:28.840 --> 02:30.400 He claims he had nothing to do with it. 02:30.400 --> 02:31.800 You contact any of the boys' relatives? 02:31.800 --> 02:33.360 He hasn't got any in town. 02:33.360 --> 02:34.920 It was just him and his mother. 02:34.920 --> 02:35.920 Who called you in the hall, didn't you? 02:35.920 --> 02:37.880 Yeah, they'll look after him for the time being. 02:37.880 --> 02:39.560 Pretty big shock for a kid. 02:39.560 --> 02:40.560 Yeah. 02:40.560 --> 02:41.560 Did you get anything out of him? 02:41.560 --> 02:43.360 Harry and I have been talking to him. 02:43.360 --> 02:44.680 Just starting to make sense. 02:44.680 --> 02:45.680 You want to lend a hand? 02:45.680 --> 02:46.680 Sure. 02:46.680 --> 02:51.680 We're going to the beach tomorrow with my mother and my... 02:51.680 --> 02:56.680 She had the day off and we were going to the beach. 02:56.680 --> 02:58.680 That's all I know. 02:58.680 --> 03:00.680 That's all she knows. 03:00.680 --> 03:01.680 Harry. 03:01.680 --> 03:02.680 Hi. 03:02.680 --> 03:03.680 You want to give it a try? 03:03.680 --> 03:04.680 Yeah. 03:04.680 --> 03:06.760 All right, Robert. 03:06.760 --> 03:07.760 Come on, son. 03:07.760 --> 03:10.760 It's going to be all right now. 03:10.760 --> 03:11.760 We need your help, Robert. 03:11.760 --> 03:14.000 I think you could answer a few questions for us. 03:14.000 --> 03:15.920 How about a bite to eat, son? 03:15.920 --> 03:16.920 Can I get you something? 03:16.920 --> 03:17.920 No, I'm not hungry. 03:17.920 --> 03:18.920 I'm okay. 03:18.920 --> 03:19.920 That's the stuff. 03:19.920 --> 03:20.920 Here, take it. 03:20.920 --> 03:21.920 It's clean hang at you. 03:21.920 --> 03:22.920 Yeah. 03:22.920 --> 03:31.920 Well, you're the cop that drove me down here, aren't you? 03:31.920 --> 03:32.920 That's right. 03:32.920 --> 03:34.520 I'm not going back to the house. 03:34.520 --> 03:35.520 You won't have to, son. 03:35.520 --> 03:36.960 I'm never going back to that place. 03:36.960 --> 03:37.960 All right. 03:37.960 --> 03:38.960 What was off? 03:38.960 --> 03:41.880 Could you start from the beginning for us, Bob, and just take it easy? 03:41.880 --> 03:42.880 Tell us what you know. 03:42.880 --> 03:43.880 Okay. 03:43.880 --> 03:44.880 Think I could have a coke? 03:44.880 --> 03:45.880 I'll pick up a couple. 03:45.880 --> 03:46.880 Be right back. 03:46.880 --> 03:47.880 All right, Harry. 03:47.880 --> 03:48.880 Thanks, Harry. 03:48.880 --> 03:55.160 Well, all I know is I left the house about half past seven. 03:55.160 --> 03:56.400 Mom gave me the money to go to a show. 03:56.400 --> 03:58.520 Was she alone in the house when you left? 03:58.520 --> 04:00.100 Yeah, that's right. 04:00.100 --> 04:02.120 We had dinner and then I went to the show. 04:02.120 --> 04:04.840 Do you usually go to the show on a school night, son? 04:04.840 --> 04:07.600 No, but mom asked me if I wanted to go. 04:07.600 --> 04:09.040 She gave me the money. 04:09.040 --> 04:10.040 Double feature. 04:10.040 --> 04:11.400 She told me to stay for both pictures. 04:11.400 --> 04:13.040 Does she usually tell you that? 04:13.040 --> 04:15.880 No, she always said to just stay for one picture. 04:15.880 --> 04:17.400 She didn't want me coming home so late. 04:17.400 --> 04:20.800 Was she expecting anybody to visit her, I mean, after you'd gone? 04:20.800 --> 04:22.320 She didn't say so. 04:22.320 --> 04:24.080 She just told me to stay for both pictures. 04:24.080 --> 04:25.080 That's all. 04:25.080 --> 04:26.080 What time did the movie let out? 04:26.080 --> 04:28.720 I don't know, almost 11 o'clock. 04:28.720 --> 04:30.640 Pretty late, so I went straight home. 04:30.640 --> 04:32.680 Mom was in the bedroom. 04:32.680 --> 04:34.560 She was on the floor. 04:34.560 --> 04:37.520 There was this knife, this big knife. 04:37.520 --> 04:40.200 What'd you do then, son? 04:40.200 --> 04:43.600 I ran outside, hollered. 04:43.600 --> 04:45.400 Wallaces came over from next door. 04:45.400 --> 04:48.760 I went inside and looked, and they called the cops. 04:48.760 --> 04:50.160 That knife you saw in the bedroom? 04:50.160 --> 04:52.200 There was blood on it, all over it. 04:52.200 --> 04:53.200 It was terrible. 04:53.200 --> 04:55.200 Did you ever see the knife before? 04:55.200 --> 04:56.200 Yeah. 04:56.200 --> 04:58.600 Yeah, Roy gave it to my mom last year. 04:58.600 --> 05:00.040 It's a bowler knife. 05:00.040 --> 05:01.040 Who is this Roy? 05:01.040 --> 05:04.080 Mom's boyfriend, one of them. 05:04.080 --> 05:05.080 He's in the Navy. 05:05.080 --> 05:06.280 Was he at your house tonight? 05:06.280 --> 05:08.960 I told you, it was just Mom and I. 05:08.960 --> 05:11.520 Roy had a fight with Mom about two weeks ago. 05:11.520 --> 05:14.200 He said he didn't like her having other boyfriends, and they had a fight. 05:14.200 --> 05:15.880 They argued, is that what you mean? 05:15.880 --> 05:18.200 Yeah, and once Roy slept my mother. 05:18.200 --> 05:19.560 Want one of these, Joe? 05:19.560 --> 05:20.560 No, no thanks, Harry. 05:20.560 --> 05:23.560 There's your coke, Reming. 05:23.560 --> 05:25.840 Oh, yeah. 05:25.840 --> 05:29.640 Son, did you know most of your mother's friends? 05:29.640 --> 05:32.200 Most of them, yeah. 05:32.200 --> 05:34.720 Can you think of any of them who might have wanted to hurt your mother? 05:34.720 --> 05:37.000 I don't know. 05:37.000 --> 05:38.440 Roy Palmer, maybe. 05:38.440 --> 05:39.440 He was mad at her. 05:39.440 --> 05:43.040 He's the only one I can think of. 05:43.040 --> 05:45.080 I don't know, I don't want to think about it anymore. 05:45.080 --> 05:47.120 All right, son, we won't bother you anymore tonight. 05:47.120 --> 05:48.120 Thanks a lot. 05:48.120 --> 05:49.120 Yeah. 05:49.120 --> 05:50.120 Ben. 05:50.120 --> 05:51.120 Uh-huh. 05:51.120 --> 05:55.040 You want to follow through with Juvenile Hall, see if the boy's taken care of. 05:55.040 --> 05:56.920 Okay, you're going to be in the interrogation room? 05:56.920 --> 05:58.920 Yeah, I got a few more questions for Roy Palmer. 05:58.920 --> 05:59.920 Right, check in later. 05:59.920 --> 06:00.920 Okay. 06:00.920 --> 06:05.920 Crime lab back yet, Friday? 06:05.920 --> 06:12.960 No, not yet, Captain. 06:12.960 --> 06:14.200 Just talked with the Reynolds boy. 06:14.200 --> 06:15.200 Joe? 06:15.200 --> 06:17.040 I can't believe anything that kid tells you. 06:17.040 --> 06:18.600 He's a liar, he hates me. 06:18.600 --> 06:20.080 You give him reason to hate you, Palmer? 06:20.080 --> 06:21.640 The kid's a liar, that's all. 06:21.640 --> 06:22.640 You were his mother's boyfriend. 06:22.640 --> 06:25.600 He says two weeks ago you had a fight with her that you slapped her. 06:25.600 --> 06:26.600 All right, I slapped her. 06:26.600 --> 06:27.600 That don't make it murder. 06:27.600 --> 06:29.680 I wasn't near that house last night and I didn't kill her. 06:29.680 --> 06:31.160 We found your knife in her bag. 06:31.160 --> 06:32.160 Huh? 06:32.160 --> 06:33.160 A bolo knife, bone handle. 06:33.160 --> 06:34.160 That's not mine. 06:34.160 --> 06:36.440 I gave it to her a year ago for a present. 06:36.440 --> 06:37.960 Didn't even know she still had it. 06:37.960 --> 06:39.800 Look, why do you have to pick on me? 06:39.800 --> 06:42.040 Because you had a motive and you haven't got an alibi. 06:42.040 --> 06:44.000 What about all those bums she used to run around with? 06:44.000 --> 06:45.480 Why don't you ask them for alibis? 06:45.480 --> 06:46.880 When we find them, we'll ask them. 06:46.880 --> 06:48.360 Do you know any of them, Palmer? 06:48.360 --> 06:49.600 The other men that she went out with? 06:49.600 --> 06:50.600 How'd I know? 06:50.600 --> 06:53.000 The only time she ran around was when I was on sea duty. 06:53.000 --> 06:55.120 Then how'd you know she was running around? 06:55.120 --> 06:56.120 Friends of mine. 06:56.120 --> 06:57.760 I saw her out with these guys. 06:57.760 --> 07:00.760 I get it. 07:00.760 --> 07:02.320 Interrogation room, Friday. 07:02.320 --> 07:03.320 Lee Jones, Joe. 07:03.320 --> 07:04.840 Just got back from the Dixon house. 07:04.840 --> 07:05.640 Anything? 07:05.640 --> 07:06.800 Off to a fast start. 07:06.800 --> 07:09.640 Layton Prince checked the murder weapon and that knife. 07:09.640 --> 07:10.440 Dusted the handle. 07:10.440 --> 07:11.040 Yeah? 07:11.040 --> 07:12.840 Fingerprints, perfect set. 07:12.840 --> 07:20.400 Captain Steed and I took the suspect, Roy Palmer, 07:20.400 --> 07:22.520 down the hall and had his fingerprints taken. 07:22.520 --> 07:24.560 At the same time, across the street in the crime lab, 07:24.560 --> 07:26.640 a set of fingerprints were lifted from the weapon which 07:26.640 --> 07:29.160 had taken the life of Mrs. Betty Dixon. 07:29.160 --> 07:31.520 The two sets of prints were checked and rechecked. 07:31.520 --> 07:33.000 They didn't match. 07:33.000 --> 07:34.480 Every object in the murder house 07:34.480 --> 07:37.480 was gone over for fingerprints and further evidence. 07:37.480 --> 07:40.800 Roy Palmer's fingerprints were on none of them. 07:40.800 --> 07:44.200 He was released pending further investigation. 07:44.200 --> 07:46.520 The only suspect in one of the most savage murders 07:46.520 --> 07:48.560 in the history of the city was free. 07:48.560 --> 07:50.160 The next morning, Captain Steed and I 07:50.160 --> 07:52.240 met with Chief of Detective Stad Brown. 07:52.240 --> 07:53.440 How about the dead woman's son? 07:53.440 --> 07:54.760 Did you talk to him again? 07:54.760 --> 07:56.040 Well, Romero's with him now. 07:56.040 --> 07:57.680 He's taken down a list of all the people at his mother, 07:57.680 --> 07:59.480 new friends, neighbors, everybody. 07:59.480 --> 08:01.080 No luck yet with a set of fingerprints? 08:01.080 --> 08:02.400 No, we've got no record on them. 08:02.400 --> 08:03.280 Checking them through Washington, 08:03.280 --> 08:04.960 we ought to get a kickback pretty soon. 08:04.960 --> 08:07.200 A set of prints and a piece of envelope. 08:07.200 --> 08:08.600 That's the physical evidence, huh? 08:08.600 --> 08:09.400 Yeah. 08:09.400 --> 08:11.280 One of the top corners off an envelope. 08:11.280 --> 08:13.760 It had a postmark on it, Sonoma. 08:13.760 --> 08:14.360 Sonoma. 08:14.360 --> 08:15.360 Tie in with anything yet? 08:15.360 --> 08:16.520 No, not so far. 08:16.520 --> 08:19.000 Might turn up when we start checking the victim's friends. 08:19.000 --> 08:21.360 They posted the body this morning. 08:21.360 --> 08:22.920 She saw this coroner's report. 08:22.920 --> 08:23.760 Yeah, I did. 08:23.760 --> 08:24.880 I don't have to tell you, you're not 08:24.880 --> 08:26.120 after an ordinary killer. 08:26.120 --> 08:27.400 23 and iPhones. 08:27.400 --> 08:29.040 Revenge motive, maybe. 08:29.040 --> 08:29.920 Yeah. 08:29.920 --> 08:31.520 The reaction of the dead woman's neighbors, 08:31.520 --> 08:33.000 that's what's gotten me stopped. 08:33.000 --> 08:34.320 No one heard a thing? 08:34.320 --> 08:36.040 Mitchell and Didion are still covering the neighborhood 08:36.040 --> 08:37.440 and haven't found anyone yet who saw 08:37.440 --> 08:38.600 or heard anything unusual. 08:38.600 --> 08:39.440 Well, I can't buy it. 08:39.440 --> 08:40.760 A woman isn't just cut down like that 08:40.760 --> 08:42.000 without some kind of a commotion. 08:42.000 --> 08:43.200 Besides, the homes in that neighborhood 08:43.200 --> 08:44.280 are fairly close together. 08:44.280 --> 08:45.640 Shouldn't take much to make yourself heard 08:45.640 --> 08:46.840 from one house to the other. 08:46.840 --> 08:48.200 No sign of robbery or burglary? 08:48.200 --> 08:50.200 No, according to the boy, the house is intact. 08:50.200 --> 08:51.800 Nobody touched anything. 08:51.800 --> 08:53.200 Lazy with a boyfriend angle. 08:53.200 --> 08:54.040 Lovers quarrel. 08:54.040 --> 08:56.160 We're stuck with him, yeah. 08:56.160 --> 08:57.000 Hi, Chief. 08:57.000 --> 08:57.840 Romero, go ahead. 08:57.840 --> 08:58.680 How'd you make out? 08:58.680 --> 08:59.520 Better than I thought. 08:59.520 --> 09:01.640 The boy was over most of his shop this morning. 09:01.640 --> 09:02.680 Did he talk? 09:02.680 --> 09:04.600 Five pages of names and addresses. 09:04.600 --> 09:05.800 He gave me all of them. 09:05.800 --> 09:07.280 How about that boyfriend angle? 09:07.280 --> 09:08.800 Oh, about half a dozen names. 09:08.800 --> 09:10.720 Seems the mother had quite a social life 09:10.720 --> 09:12.080 since the boy's father died. 09:12.080 --> 09:13.800 You confirmed the boy's story about going to the movies? 09:13.800 --> 09:14.720 Yeah, it checks out. 09:14.720 --> 09:16.640 Pretty nice kid considering the environment 09:16.640 --> 09:17.640 he's been raised in. 09:17.640 --> 09:18.640 How about those names, Ben? 09:18.640 --> 09:20.600 Any of them list Sonoma as their hometown? 09:20.600 --> 09:22.040 No, I don't think so. 09:22.040 --> 09:24.520 Let me check here, OK? 09:24.520 --> 09:26.360 No. 09:26.360 --> 09:28.840 No. 09:28.840 --> 09:30.280 No. 09:30.280 --> 09:31.280 Huh? 09:31.280 --> 09:32.160 Oh, none of them. 09:32.160 --> 09:34.160 All right, you better start digging into that list. 09:34.160 --> 09:35.200 Postmark may tie in later. 09:35.200 --> 09:36.960 Meantime, you still have that set of fingerprints. 09:36.960 --> 09:38.440 No chance for a mistake there. 09:38.440 --> 09:39.720 When you reach the right man, those prints 09:39.720 --> 09:40.960 will connect him with a killer. 09:40.960 --> 09:42.080 That makes it simple for you. 09:42.080 --> 09:42.840 Hm? 09:42.840 --> 09:43.920 The prints will tell us who he is. 09:43.920 --> 09:45.320 You've got only one answer to dig for. 09:45.320 --> 09:45.800 Yeah. 09:45.800 --> 09:46.960 Where he is. 09:46.960 --> 09:53.360 Thursday, September 30th, 11 AM. 09:53.360 --> 09:55.640 We started checking the list of the murdered woman's friends 09:55.640 --> 09:59.200 through RNI for any possible criminal record. 09:59.200 --> 10:01.120 It's usually the case that a major crime rates 10:01.120 --> 10:02.520 headline space twice. 10:02.520 --> 10:04.440 When the crime is committed, when the criminal 10:04.440 --> 10:05.720 is apprehended. 10:05.720 --> 10:07.320 Between the two, more than often, 10:07.320 --> 10:10.840 there's a space of weeks and months, sometimes even years, 10:10.840 --> 10:13.120 in which the police officer goes through the monotonous, 10:13.120 --> 10:16.560 undramatic business of checking files, asking questions, 10:16.560 --> 10:18.960 sifting and sorting leads and evidence until he finally 10:18.960 --> 10:20.960 reaches the criminal. 10:20.960 --> 10:23.360 For a new story, it's pretty dull material, 10:23.360 --> 10:26.120 but it proves out the contention of most working detectives. 10:26.120 --> 10:28.880 You don't catch criminals with headlines. 10:28.880 --> 10:31.680 Monday, October 4th, we checked with Miss Lucille 10:31.680 --> 10:34.520 Dana, a counter clerk at a little market out on Crenshaw. 10:34.520 --> 10:37.000 That's a terrible thing. 10:37.000 --> 10:38.320 I've been away on my vacation. 10:38.320 --> 10:39.920 Heard about it when I got home yesterday. 10:39.920 --> 10:42.000 You were pretty good friends with Betty Dixon. 10:42.000 --> 10:43.240 That right, Miss Dana? 10:43.240 --> 10:45.000 Yeah, pretty close. 10:45.000 --> 10:46.560 Excuse me, I'll take care of this customer. 10:46.560 --> 10:47.360 Yeah, all right. 10:51.680 --> 10:53.160 Is that everything, sir? 10:53.160 --> 10:55.120 No, two bags of them jelly beans, please. 10:55.120 --> 10:55.600 All right. 11:00.040 --> 11:01.680 OK, that's something. 11:01.680 --> 11:13.080 That's 19, 87, 9, 87. 11:13.080 --> 11:15.480 This is not marked, just a minute. 11:15.480 --> 11:16.400 Tommy? 11:16.400 --> 11:17.200 Yeah? 11:17.200 --> 11:18.920 Number two corned beef, how much? 11:18.920 --> 11:20.760 Just a minute. 11:20.760 --> 11:21.600 67. 11:21.600 --> 11:22.080 Thanks. 11:27.720 --> 11:30.760 217 out of 5. 11:30.760 --> 11:43.560 217, 220, 25, 50, $3.45. 11:43.560 --> 11:44.560 Uh-huh. 11:53.560 --> 11:54.560 Thank you. 11:54.560 --> 11:55.040 OK. 11:58.040 --> 12:00.040 I just can't get over it, Sergeant. 12:00.040 --> 12:01.040 Poor Betty. 12:01.040 --> 12:02.640 We understand that you used to go out with the Dixon 12:02.640 --> 12:03.560 woman, Miss Dana. 12:03.560 --> 12:06.000 Do you know most of her close friends? 12:06.000 --> 12:08.200 Well, most of her men friends. 12:08.200 --> 12:10.000 We used to double date a lot together. 12:10.000 --> 12:11.960 I wonder if you'd take a look at this list of names 12:11.960 --> 12:12.960 that we have here. 12:12.960 --> 12:13.960 All right. 12:13.960 --> 12:14.960 Let's see. 12:18.960 --> 12:20.960 Now, does that about cover all her boyfriends, 12:20.960 --> 12:22.360 all that you know of anyway? 12:22.360 --> 12:23.960 Yeah, I think so. 12:23.960 --> 12:30.360 Let's see, Tony Morris, Galbraith, Al O'Neal. 12:30.360 --> 12:31.960 You don't have Floyd down here. 12:31.960 --> 12:32.480 Who was that? 12:32.480 --> 12:33.240 Floyd who? 12:33.240 --> 12:35.200 I never did know what his last name was. 12:35.200 --> 12:37.200 He used to take both of us out, Betty and I. 12:37.200 --> 12:38.400 Seemed to like her quite a bit. 12:38.400 --> 12:40.560 When's the last time she was out with him, do you know? 12:40.560 --> 12:42.760 Oh, five or six months ago at least. 12:42.760 --> 12:43.600 Kind of strange. 12:43.600 --> 12:44.520 How do you mean? 12:44.520 --> 12:45.400 Floyd. 12:45.400 --> 12:46.560 Jealous, you know? 12:46.560 --> 12:48.080 Hot temper. 12:48.080 --> 12:50.440 Said he was Spanish, but he had a light complexion. 12:50.440 --> 12:51.560 Oh, excuse me, please. 12:51.560 --> 12:52.960 Sure. 12:52.960 --> 12:53.720 Yes, sir? 12:53.720 --> 12:56.000 A pack of that mint gum and some lighter flints, please. 12:56.000 --> 12:58.120 Yes, sir. 12:58.120 --> 13:00.520 25. 13:00.520 --> 13:01.280 Thank you. 13:01.280 --> 13:01.760 All right. 13:07.560 --> 13:10.120 Could you describe this Floyd for us, Miss Dan? 13:10.120 --> 13:13.120 Well, he was kind of fresh and conceited in some way. 13:13.120 --> 13:14.680 He was attractive. 13:14.680 --> 13:15.360 A lot of fun. 13:15.360 --> 13:18.160 How about his physical appearance, his weight and height? 13:18.160 --> 13:19.800 About six feet, I'd say. 13:19.800 --> 13:21.160 Nice build. 13:21.160 --> 13:23.480 180 pounds, I guess. 13:23.480 --> 13:26.360 Dark hair, dark brown eyes. 13:26.360 --> 13:27.480 Good dancer. 13:27.480 --> 13:29.320 How do you and Miss Dixon get along? 13:29.320 --> 13:30.840 Oh, I don't think he did it. 13:30.840 --> 13:32.320 Floyd and Betty used to fight all the time, 13:32.320 --> 13:34.440 but she used to fight with Roy Palmer, too. 13:34.440 --> 13:35.720 I don't think Floyd did it. 13:35.720 --> 13:37.200 Is he in town now, do you know? 13:37.200 --> 13:38.040 No, I don't. 13:38.040 --> 13:40.120 As I say, last time I saw him was six months ago. 13:40.120 --> 13:42.400 Would you know if Mrs. Dixon saw him recently? 13:42.400 --> 13:42.760 She did. 13:42.760 --> 13:43.760 She didn't tell me. 13:43.760 --> 13:45.160 You have no idea then where we could 13:45.160 --> 13:46.320 get in touch with this Floyd? 13:46.320 --> 13:47.760 Well, no, I don't. 13:47.760 --> 13:49.520 He's from up north originally. 13:49.520 --> 13:50.600 Is that so? 13:50.600 --> 13:55.720 Yeah, Sonoma. 13:55.720 --> 13:57.040 Ben and I went back to the office 13:57.040 --> 13:59.120 and got off a teletype to the Sonoma Police Department, 13:59.120 --> 14:01.920 along with a description of the suspect named Floyd. 14:01.920 --> 14:03.760 Then we checked with the 16-year-old son 14:03.760 --> 14:05.040 of the murdered woman. 14:05.040 --> 14:06.560 He remembered the man called Floyd, 14:06.560 --> 14:08.360 and essentially his description of the suspect 14:08.360 --> 14:10.280 checked out with that givenness by his mother's friend, 14:10.280 --> 14:12.040 Lucille Dana. 14:12.040 --> 14:15.320 3 PM, we met with Lieutenant Harry Didion and Captain Steve. 14:15.320 --> 14:17.000 You want to fill him in, Didion? 14:17.000 --> 14:19.280 Finally got in touch with a dead woman's next door neighbor. 14:19.280 --> 14:20.320 His name's Conroy. 14:20.320 --> 14:21.360 Get anything out of him? 14:21.360 --> 14:23.200 They seem to be the only ones who heard anything 14:23.200 --> 14:24.160 the night of the murder. 14:24.160 --> 14:26.200 What'd they have to say? 14:26.200 --> 14:28.360 Let's see. 14:28.360 --> 14:30.800 Yeah, they saw Mrs. Dixon's son Robert leave the house 14:30.800 --> 14:33.720 about 730 the night of the murder. 14:33.720 --> 14:35.400 And nothing until 830. 14:35.400 --> 14:36.720 Yeah. 14:36.720 --> 14:39.080 Heard loud pounding in the back door of the Dixon home. 14:39.080 --> 14:40.080 The door finally opened. 14:40.080 --> 14:42.400 They heard an angry woman's voice invite the person in. 14:42.400 --> 14:42.880 A man? 14:42.880 --> 14:43.360 Yeah. 14:43.360 --> 14:44.520 Any description? 14:44.520 --> 14:45.120 Not much. 14:45.120 --> 14:46.480 She was tall, good build. 14:46.480 --> 14:47.240 Not much, Jack. 14:47.240 --> 14:48.200 Go on. 14:48.200 --> 14:50.640 Neighbors said it was quiet then for about an hour. 14:50.640 --> 14:51.880 And they heard a woman crying. 14:51.880 --> 14:53.400 Said it sounded like Mrs. Dixon. 14:53.400 --> 14:54.960 They make out any of the conversation? 14:54.960 --> 14:57.400 I got it right here. 14:57.400 --> 15:01.120 About 930, they heard Mrs. Dixon let allowed talking. 15:01.120 --> 15:03.400 She said, why don't you kill me then, 15:03.400 --> 15:05.480 Floyd, put me out of my misery. 15:05.480 --> 15:06.960 Anything else? 15:06.960 --> 15:09.920 They said it was quiet between 930 and 10. 15:09.920 --> 15:11.880 And they heard something that sounded like the thud 15:11.880 --> 15:14.760 of a body falling on the floor, a piece of furniture overturned. 15:14.760 --> 15:16.320 No screams for help. 15:16.320 --> 15:17.640 Funny, but the neighbors say no. 15:17.640 --> 15:20.840 The only other thing they heard was Mrs. Dixon. 15:20.840 --> 15:22.480 Here's a quote. 15:22.480 --> 15:24.000 She said, do a good job. 15:24.000 --> 15:24.920 Finish me off. 15:24.920 --> 15:26.960 None of the neighbors thought of calling the police. 15:26.960 --> 15:28.880 They told me they didn't want to get mixed up in a family 15:28.880 --> 15:30.120 fight, none of their business. 15:30.120 --> 15:31.920 She had quite a few men visitors. 15:31.920 --> 15:32.840 That's all of it, huh? 15:32.840 --> 15:34.640 No, one more thing. 15:34.640 --> 15:36.400 I guess this is what made the neighbors think 15:36.400 --> 15:38.320 everything was all right. 15:38.320 --> 15:40.480 About 10, 15, they heard a man's voice, 15:40.480 --> 15:42.040 couldn't make out any words. 15:42.040 --> 15:46.080 Then they heard Mrs. Dixon say, please kiss me goodbye. 15:46.080 --> 15:47.680 A few minutes after that, they heard someone 15:47.680 --> 15:48.880 leap at the back door. 15:48.880 --> 15:49.800 They see him? 15:49.800 --> 15:50.720 Not very good. 15:50.720 --> 15:52.840 I think it was the same man they saw go in. 15:52.840 --> 15:55.000 Pretty tall, good build. 15:55.000 --> 15:55.840 That's it. 15:55.840 --> 15:57.040 Where does it leave us? 15:57.040 --> 15:57.880 Pretty weird. 15:57.880 --> 15:58.720 How about that? 15:58.720 --> 15:59.560 I don't know. 15:59.560 --> 16:01.000 She was supposed to be a sane woman. 16:01.000 --> 16:03.000 She'd have to be pretty drunk to ask a man to kill her. 16:03.000 --> 16:06.040 A man would have to be pretty drunk to take her up on him. 16:06.040 --> 16:09.640 Why did the killer use that bolo knife on the victim? 16:09.640 --> 16:11.520 That piece of envelope we found by the body. 16:11.520 --> 16:14.440 Yeah, it was postmarked Sonoma. 16:14.440 --> 16:17.000 There's a state mental hospital up there. 16:17.000 --> 16:18.400 It's up to Hans. 16:18.400 --> 16:20.040 Maybe we're dealing with a maniac. 16:20.040 --> 16:24.360 4 PM, Monday. 16:24.360 --> 16:26.000 R&I could give us nothing because 16:26.000 --> 16:27.600 of the meager description. 16:27.600 --> 16:29.240 Ben and I checked out of the office 16:29.240 --> 16:30.320 and went over to the state building 16:30.320 --> 16:32.120 to the Department of State Institutions. 16:32.120 --> 16:34.320 First, we checked the name Floyd through the files, 16:34.320 --> 16:36.040 using it as a last name. 16:36.040 --> 16:37.240 Then as a first name. 16:37.240 --> 16:38.800 We failed to connect. 16:38.800 --> 16:41.200 Either the names didn't fit the description of the suspect 16:41.200 --> 16:42.840 or they were elderly men still confined 16:42.840 --> 16:44.880 to the institution at Sonoma. 16:44.880 --> 16:47.600 We checked through the files using Floyd as a middle name. 16:47.600 --> 16:50.080 We came up with two recent parolees from Sonoma. 16:50.080 --> 16:52.160 Both matched the description almost perfectly. 16:52.160 --> 16:54.200 Both had the middle name of Floyd. 16:54.200 --> 16:57.520 We checked out the first one, Charles Floyd Johansson. 16:57.520 --> 16:59.120 We found out that he'd been returned to Sonoma 16:59.120 --> 17:00.600 almost a month before. 17:00.600 --> 17:02.960 The second parolee still had his freedom. 17:02.960 --> 17:04.760 We took a set of his fingerprints back to the office 17:04.760 --> 17:06.360 and had them checked out with a set of prints 17:06.360 --> 17:08.200 found on the murder weapon. 17:08.200 --> 17:10.000 How's it shape up, Joey? 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What was it that you wanted to know? 19:34.400 --> 19:35.920 It's about your brother, Richard. 19:35.920 --> 19:37.400 Oh, anything wrong? 19:37.400 --> 19:38.520 No, we're just checking, that's all. 19:38.520 --> 19:40.120 We'd like to talk to him. 19:40.120 --> 19:40.960 What about? 19:40.960 --> 19:42.000 Routine check. 19:42.000 --> 19:44.800 We understand he spent some time up at Sonoma. 19:44.800 --> 19:46.120 Yes, he did. 19:46.120 --> 19:48.000 Richard's had a hard time with it. 19:48.000 --> 19:50.160 Doctors don't seem to know the trouble. 19:50.160 --> 19:51.800 Poor Richard, he's so mixed up. 19:51.800 --> 19:53.360 You're his only living relative? 19:53.360 --> 19:54.600 Yes, I am. 19:54.600 --> 19:56.520 Folk died when we were both young. 19:56.520 --> 19:58.600 Practically raised Richard myself. 19:58.600 --> 20:00.120 Have you seen your brother lately, Miss Coleman? 20:00.120 --> 20:02.360 No, not lately. Why? 20:02.360 --> 20:04.640 Do you have any idea where we might contact him? 20:04.640 --> 20:05.880 Well, no, I don't. 20:05.880 --> 20:07.720 You see, he travels around the state a good deal. 20:07.720 --> 20:08.920 Oh, is he working? 20:08.920 --> 20:11.760 No, he writes from time to time. 20:11.760 --> 20:13.520 What was it you wanted to see him about, Sergeant? 20:13.520 --> 20:16.240 Just routine questioning. We like to talk to him. 20:16.240 --> 20:19.040 Where was he when you last heard from him, Miss Coleman? 20:19.040 --> 20:21.240 Well, couldn't you tell me what you wanted to see him about? 20:21.240 --> 20:23.560 We'd just like to question him, that's all. 20:23.560 --> 20:25.280 Well, what about? You can tell me. 20:25.280 --> 20:27.080 Is your brother in the city now? 20:27.080 --> 20:28.400 Oh, I don't know. 20:28.400 --> 20:29.640 I just got back. 20:29.640 --> 20:31.120 I haven't heard from him in two weeks. 20:31.120 --> 20:32.120 Almost three weeks. 20:32.120 --> 20:34.440 Does he usually stay here when he's in town? 20:34.440 --> 20:36.840 Well, sometimes, yes. 20:36.840 --> 20:38.240 Is Floyd in some kind of trouble? 20:38.240 --> 20:40.800 Is that the name he usually goes by, Floyd? 20:40.800 --> 20:43.000 Most of his friends call him Floyd. Why? 20:43.000 --> 20:45.640 You think he might be staying with one of his friends here in the city? 20:45.640 --> 20:47.880 He might be, I don't know. 20:47.880 --> 20:51.000 Look, Sergeant, if Floyd's in trouble, you can tell me. 20:51.000 --> 20:52.720 I've seen him through lots of trouble before. 20:52.720 --> 20:53.880 Not this kind, Miss. 20:53.880 --> 20:55.640 Women? 20:55.640 --> 20:57.760 Um... 20:57.760 --> 20:59.160 Wish there was something I could do. 20:59.160 --> 21:01.080 Where was he when you last heard from him? 21:01.080 --> 21:04.400 He was in Santa Barbara. He wrote me. 21:04.400 --> 21:08.320 Please, Sergeant, why do you have to see Floyd? 21:08.320 --> 21:09.160 Excuse me. 21:09.160 --> 21:12.640 Yeah, sure. 21:12.640 --> 21:14.280 Hello? 21:14.280 --> 21:16.440 Oh, yes, Miss Tyler. 21:16.440 --> 21:17.880 Uh-huh. 21:17.880 --> 21:19.800 Well, maybe just a few minutes late. 21:19.800 --> 21:22.240 Would 2.30 be all right? 21:22.240 --> 21:23.840 Fine, thank you. 21:23.840 --> 21:27.200 All right, Miss Tyler, bye. 21:27.200 --> 21:28.320 Have to hurry. 21:28.320 --> 21:29.480 Mrs. Tyler's boss. 21:29.480 --> 21:31.800 Sure, you go right ahead. 21:31.800 --> 21:34.400 I really don't make much of a dressmaker, but I'm saving up. 21:34.400 --> 21:37.280 I'm gonna buy a place for the valley, farther out. 21:37.280 --> 21:39.240 Be fine for Floyd, I mean. 21:39.240 --> 21:40.840 Be awfully good for him. 21:40.840 --> 21:43.960 Floyd has to get away from his sight when he's awfully nervous. 21:43.960 --> 21:45.320 Is that him, Miss Coleman? 21:45.320 --> 21:46.160 Yes, Sergeant. 21:46.160 --> 21:48.960 Are those your brother's suitcases in the alcove back there? 21:48.960 --> 21:49.960 Yes, they are. 21:49.960 --> 21:53.000 They've been there for a month. I keep these odds and ends for him. 21:53.000 --> 21:55.280 I'm sure he hasn't been here in the past month. 21:55.280 --> 21:57.760 Oh, yes, I'm sure. 21:57.760 --> 22:00.080 Please, Sergeant, why don't you tell me the truth? 22:00.080 --> 22:01.840 I've been through this before. 22:01.840 --> 22:03.720 I was in trouble with Floyd. 22:03.720 --> 22:04.720 What is it this time? 22:04.720 --> 22:06.000 It's pretty bad. 22:06.000 --> 22:07.040 Well, what is it? 22:07.040 --> 22:09.160 We want to ask him about a murder. 22:09.160 --> 22:11.880 Oh, no, he wouldn't do that. 22:11.880 --> 22:13.080 You're... 22:13.080 --> 22:14.520 You sure it was Floyd? 22:14.520 --> 22:16.520 Wouldn't like to talk to him. 22:20.800 --> 22:22.800 Floyd. 22:22.800 --> 22:27.800 Floyd. 22:27.800 --> 22:29.720 It didn't have to happen. 22:29.720 --> 22:31.840 I was going to buy a place in the valley. 22:31.840 --> 22:34.680 Floyd would have liked it there. 22:34.680 --> 22:36.920 I was going to take care of him out in the valley. 22:36.920 --> 22:39.880 Do you have any idea where we could find him, Miss Coleman? 22:39.880 --> 22:41.520 No, I don't. 22:41.520 --> 22:43.640 I don't know where he is. 22:43.640 --> 22:46.840 Santa Barbara, that's the last I heard. 22:46.840 --> 22:47.840 I've been worried about him. 22:47.840 --> 22:50.600 If he was in the city, would he come here to stay, ma'am? 22:50.600 --> 22:54.000 All he did before, yes, but I don't know about now. 22:54.000 --> 22:55.640 Does he have a car? 22:55.640 --> 22:56.680 No, not that I know of. 22:56.680 --> 22:59.240 No, I don't know what he's living on. 22:59.240 --> 23:01.720 He doesn't have any money. 23:01.720 --> 23:03.480 Who was the woman? 23:03.480 --> 23:05.280 Mrs. Dixon. 23:05.280 --> 23:07.120 Seems to know your brother pretty well. 23:07.120 --> 23:09.080 Oh, boy. 23:09.080 --> 23:10.080 You better grab that, Ben. 23:10.080 --> 23:12.840 Yeah, all right. 23:12.840 --> 23:13.840 Hello. 23:13.840 --> 23:15.320 Yes. 23:15.320 --> 23:17.240 Yes, all right. 23:17.240 --> 23:20.240 Thank you. 23:20.240 --> 23:28.600 Mrs. Tyler, she'll pick up her blouse tomorrow. 23:28.600 --> 23:31.240 Ben and I left Evelyn Coleman's place and went back to the office. 23:31.240 --> 23:33.440 The stakeout was placed on her apartment. 23:33.440 --> 23:34.760 Two days went by. 23:34.760 --> 23:35.960 Nothing happened. 23:35.960 --> 23:39.400 Despite the fact that the suspect's sister had promised to cooperate fully with us in 23:39.400 --> 23:43.880 locating her brother, a team of men was assigned to follow her wherever she went as insurance 23:43.880 --> 23:45.240 against any possible slip-up. 23:45.240 --> 23:49.040 As far as we were concerned, no precaution was out of reason. 23:49.040 --> 23:53.200 A maniac was on the loose in the city, the same maniac who had murdered the Dixon woman. 23:53.200 --> 23:56.560 He'd done it once, and if the urge was there, he'd do it again. 23:56.560 --> 23:58.080 We sweated out the next three days. 23:58.080 --> 24:02.000 On the afternoon of the sixth day, we got an urgent call from one of the parole officers 24:02.000 --> 24:05.520 in the state institution's department on Miss Gertrude Vaughn. 24:05.520 --> 24:07.640 Ben and I went over and checked with her. 24:07.640 --> 24:09.480 Call came in about 20 minutes ago, Sergeant. 24:09.480 --> 24:10.480 Man's voice. 24:10.480 --> 24:11.480 What did you have to say? 24:11.480 --> 24:13.440 He wanted to talk to me about the Betty Dixon case. 24:13.440 --> 24:14.440 He seemed nervous. 24:14.440 --> 24:15.440 You're saying you knew anything about it? 24:15.440 --> 24:18.440 I didn't want to frighten him off asking too many questions. 24:18.440 --> 24:20.880 I got the idea he had something he wanted to get off his mind. 24:20.880 --> 24:22.360 Well, did he mention anything specific? 24:22.360 --> 24:24.360 I mean, names, places, anything like that? 24:24.360 --> 24:26.880 No, but I got the impression he knew quite a bit about the case. 24:26.880 --> 24:27.880 What else? 24:27.880 --> 24:29.680 He promised he'd be here by four o'clock. 24:29.680 --> 24:31.480 Said he'd be ready to talk. 24:31.480 --> 24:32.480 Mm-hmm. 24:32.480 --> 24:34.480 Well, it's 2.45 now. 24:34.480 --> 24:35.480 All right, Ben. 24:35.480 --> 24:36.480 Okay. 24:36.480 --> 24:39.480 Pull up a chair. 24:39.480 --> 24:41.480 We waited. 24:41.480 --> 24:45.480 3.15, 3.30, 3.45. 24:45.480 --> 24:47.480 No sign of the anonymous caller. 24:47.480 --> 24:48.480 4.00 p.m. 24:48.480 --> 24:50.480 Still no sign. 24:50.480 --> 24:51.480 We waited. 24:51.480 --> 24:57.160 At 4.30, the office door opened and a tall, thin girl with brown hair came in and walked 24:57.160 --> 25:00.120 straight toward the desk of parole officer Gertrude Vaughn. 25:00.120 --> 25:03.080 We saw Miss Vaughn motion the girl across the room toward us. 25:03.080 --> 25:06.080 It was Evelyn Coleman. 25:06.080 --> 25:07.080 Sergeant. 25:07.080 --> 25:08.080 Miss Coleman? 25:08.080 --> 25:09.080 How are you? 25:09.080 --> 25:10.080 I know where Floyd is. 25:10.080 --> 25:11.080 I'll take you to him. 25:11.080 --> 25:12.080 4.35 p.m. 25:12.080 --> 25:13.080 Ben, I'm sorry. 25:13.080 --> 25:14.080 I'm sorry. 25:14.080 --> 25:15.080 I'm sorry. 25:15.080 --> 25:16.080 I'm sorry. 25:16.080 --> 25:20.240 At 4.35 p.m., Ben and I left the state building with Evelyn Coleman, got in our car, and drove 25:20.240 --> 25:24.600 north across the city according to her directions until we got on Highway 66. 25:24.600 --> 25:26.800 We continued driving north out of the city. 25:26.800 --> 25:31.080 Evelyn Coleman sat quiet in the back seat, looking at her hands folded in her lap. 25:31.080 --> 25:33.280 Except for directions, she said nothing. 25:33.280 --> 25:36.800 Approximately three miles out of the city, she directed us off onto a county highway. 25:36.800 --> 25:41.240 We drove east for a few miles, then we turned north onto an unpaved road lined with eucalyptus 25:41.240 --> 25:42.240 trees. 25:42.240 --> 25:48.040 We'd gone a little less than a mile when she directed us to pull up. 25:48.040 --> 25:50.040 We can walk the rest of the way. 25:50.040 --> 25:51.040 Okay. 25:51.040 --> 25:52.040 It's not far. 25:52.040 --> 25:53.040 All right. 25:53.040 --> 25:54.040 All right. 25:54.040 --> 25:55.040 This way. 25:55.040 --> 26:00.920 Your brother been out here all this time? 26:00.920 --> 26:01.920 He didn't tell me. 26:01.920 --> 26:02.920 He called this morning. 26:02.920 --> 26:04.920 He was supposed to get himself up. 26:04.920 --> 26:05.920 What happened? 26:05.920 --> 26:06.920 I don't know. 26:06.920 --> 26:07.920 He's worse now, I think. 26:07.920 --> 26:09.920 I could hardly understand him on the phone. 26:09.920 --> 26:10.920 It doesn't make sense. 26:10.920 --> 26:11.920 Is he alone now? 26:11.920 --> 26:13.880 He was when I left him. 26:13.880 --> 26:16.080 We'd go across this field here. 26:16.080 --> 26:17.080 Okay. 26:17.080 --> 26:18.080 Yeah. 26:18.080 --> 26:21.080 Is your brother armed? 26:21.080 --> 26:22.080 No. 26:22.080 --> 26:24.080 Right here or there? 26:24.080 --> 26:25.080 Yeah. 26:25.080 --> 26:27.920 Shacked by the trees. 26:27.920 --> 26:29.200 You'll see he's treated right. 26:29.200 --> 26:30.200 Yes, ma'am. 26:30.200 --> 26:35.200 We'll see to it. 26:35.200 --> 26:38.200 Evelyn? 26:38.200 --> 26:43.400 Evy? 26:43.400 --> 26:44.400 I brought them in, Floyd. 26:44.400 --> 26:48.360 They'll take you back. 26:48.360 --> 26:50.520 I'm Richard Floyd Cohen. 26:50.520 --> 26:52.320 I want to tell you I killed Betty Dixon. 26:52.320 --> 26:53.320 All right, Ben. 26:53.320 --> 26:54.320 I wanted to marry her. 26:54.320 --> 26:55.320 She didn't want it. 26:55.320 --> 26:56.320 She dared me to kill her. 26:56.320 --> 26:57.320 I grabbed a knife. 26:57.320 --> 26:58.320 We can talk about it later, huh? 26:58.320 --> 26:59.320 She was lying on the floor. 26:59.320 --> 27:00.320 She said kiss me goodbye. 27:00.320 --> 27:01.320 I held on to her. 27:01.320 --> 27:02.320 She seemed to go to sleep. 27:02.320 --> 27:03.320 We have to go, Floyd. 27:03.320 --> 27:04.320 We have to go. 27:04.320 --> 27:05.320 We have to go. 27:05.320 --> 27:06.320 We have to go. 27:06.320 --> 27:07.320 You tell them, Evy, I loved her. 27:07.320 --> 27:08.320 You tell them that. 27:08.320 --> 27:09.320 Yeah, I will. 27:09.320 --> 27:10.320 She dared me to kill her. 27:10.320 --> 27:11.320 She said I didn't have the nerve. 27:11.320 --> 27:12.320 She asked me to. 27:12.320 --> 27:13.320 Yeah, all right. 27:13.320 --> 27:14.320 Come on. 27:14.320 --> 27:15.320 Try to tell them that at the hospital. 27:15.320 --> 27:16.320 Yeah. 27:16.320 --> 27:17.320 I'm not crazy. 27:17.320 --> 27:18.320 The story you have just heard was true. 27:18.320 --> 27:19.320 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:19.320 --> 27:20.320 On December 4th, trial was held in Superior Court, 27:20.320 --> 27:34.360 where the 27:34.360 --> 27:37.720 trial was held in Superior Court, Department 86, 27:37.720 --> 27:40.240 City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 27:40.240 --> 27:42.240 In a moment, the results of that trial. 27:42.240 --> 27:44.880 And now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 27:44.880 --> 27:46.000 Thank you. 27:46.000 --> 27:49.080 To prove a suspect's guilt or innocence as in tonight's case, 27:49.080 --> 27:52.880 the working detective spends many a long hour with a man in question. 27:52.880 --> 27:57.360 In the interrogation room, the crime lab, with his friends, his enemies, gets to know 27:57.360 --> 27:58.640 his man well. 27:58.640 --> 28:00.680 And so with a cigarette. 28:00.680 --> 28:02.480 You're a long cigarette smoker like I am. 28:02.480 --> 28:04.160 Get to know Fatima. 28:04.160 --> 28:05.440 Live with it a while. 28:05.440 --> 28:07.640 Pack after pack their extra mile. 28:07.640 --> 28:10.400 Get to know the best of all long cigarettes. 28:10.400 --> 28:20.680 Smoke Fatima. 28:20.680 --> 28:24.640 Richard Floyd Coleman was examined by six psychiatrists appointed by the court 28:24.640 --> 28:26.880 and was found to be criminally insane. 28:26.880 --> 28:29.640 He was committed to the state mental hospital at Mendocino 28:29.640 --> 28:35.840 for an indefinite period of time. 28:35.840 --> 28:40.440 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:40.440 --> 28:44.840 Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.A. 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