WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.080 The story you are about to hear is true. 00:12.080 --> 00:15.280 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:15.280 --> 00:17.240 Fatima cigarettes. 00:17.240 --> 00:28.840 Best of all long cigarettes brings you dragnet. 00:28.840 --> 00:30.520 You're a detective sergeant. 00:30.520 --> 00:32.080 You're assigned to juvenile bureau. 00:32.080 --> 00:35.800 A pair of fake talent scouts are at work in your city. 00:35.800 --> 00:40.000 They're victims, young girls seeking careers in Hollywood. 00:40.000 --> 00:42.960 The criminals are vicious and relentless. 00:42.960 --> 00:49.520 Your job, get them. 00:49.520 --> 00:54.000 You will be amazed when you compare Fatima with other long cigarettes. 00:54.000 --> 00:56.720 You'll find they now cost the same. 00:56.720 --> 00:59.800 But in Fatima, the difference is quality. 00:59.800 --> 01:05.960 You see, Fatima is the quality king size cigarette because it contains the finest Turkish and 01:05.960 --> 01:09.320 domestic tobaccos superbly blended. 01:09.320 --> 01:15.060 And Fatima is extra mild with a much different, much better flavor and aroma than any other 01:15.060 --> 01:16.140 long cigarette. 01:16.140 --> 01:19.200 So try comparing Fatima yourself. 01:19.200 --> 01:23.080 Fatima's now cost the same as other long cigarettes. 01:23.080 --> 01:26.840 But your first puff will tell you. 01:26.840 --> 01:28.880 Ah, that's different. 01:28.880 --> 01:33.200 Yes, in Fatima, the difference is quality. 01:33.200 --> 01:38.700 Ask your dealer for Fatima, the quality king size cigarette. 01:38.700 --> 01:41.120 Best of all long cigarettes. 01:41.120 --> 01:45.720 Start enjoying Fatima tomorrow. 01:45.720 --> 01:52.400 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 01:52.400 --> 01:56.440 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:56.440 --> 02:00.880 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 02:00.880 --> 02:02.600 police violence. 02:02.600 --> 02:07.680 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 02:07.680 --> 02:11.960 in action. 02:11.960 --> 02:12.960 It was Tuesday, May 7th. 02:12.960 --> 02:14.920 It was mild in Los Angeles. 02:14.920 --> 02:16.960 We were working the day watch out of juvenile bureau. 02:16.960 --> 02:21.460 My partner's Ben Romero, the boss is Inspector Bowling, commander, juvenile division. 02:21.460 --> 02:22.460 My name's Friday. 02:22.460 --> 02:27.840 It was 10.13 a.m. when I got to 1335 Georgia Street, second floor. 02:27.840 --> 02:28.840 The squad room. 02:28.840 --> 02:29.840 Hi. 02:29.840 --> 02:30.840 Hi, Ben. 02:30.840 --> 02:35.520 Did you pick up that latest run the stats office made for? 02:35.520 --> 02:37.200 No, I don't think they got it ready yet. 02:37.200 --> 02:39.880 Oh, the sand in the book, it's been ready since yesterday. 02:39.880 --> 02:41.600 You were over there, you could have picked it up. 02:41.600 --> 02:42.600 Oh, yeah? 02:42.600 --> 02:44.000 What's the matter with you this morning? 02:44.000 --> 02:45.000 Don't you feel good? 02:45.000 --> 02:48.760 No, just this stinkin' cold seems to be settling in my chest. 02:48.760 --> 02:49.760 Measurable. 02:49.760 --> 02:51.760 Yes, sir? 02:51.760 --> 02:54.760 Can I help you? 02:54.760 --> 02:55.760 Yes. 02:55.760 --> 02:58.200 I'd like some information, please. 02:58.200 --> 02:59.960 This is the juvenile bureau, isn't it? 02:59.960 --> 03:00.960 Yeah, that's right, sir. 03:00.960 --> 03:01.960 What can we do for you? 03:01.960 --> 03:04.200 Oh, mind if I sit down? 03:04.200 --> 03:07.680 Climbing those stairs takes your breath away. 03:07.680 --> 03:08.680 Yeah, sure. 03:08.680 --> 03:09.680 Here you are. 03:09.680 --> 03:10.680 Thank you. 03:10.680 --> 03:17.400 My name's Wayne Kenworthy, officers out here on the convention. 03:17.400 --> 03:18.400 My home is in Minnesota. 03:18.400 --> 03:20.080 Mm-hmm. 03:20.080 --> 03:22.280 Went out last night with some of the boys at the convention. 03:22.280 --> 03:25.800 We stopped at a bar down on your Alvarado Street. 03:25.800 --> 03:26.800 Alvarado. 03:26.800 --> 03:27.800 Alvarado. 03:27.800 --> 03:31.640 Anyway, we were drinking there and the bartender got to talking to us. 03:31.640 --> 03:34.520 Finally offered us some pictures for sale. 03:34.520 --> 03:37.080 I got one of them right here. 03:37.080 --> 03:38.480 Let's see. 03:38.480 --> 03:39.920 Oh, yeah. 03:39.920 --> 03:42.440 There you are. 03:42.440 --> 03:44.560 I paid him $2 for it. 03:44.560 --> 03:45.560 Just look at that. 03:45.560 --> 03:46.560 It's filth. 03:46.560 --> 03:49.800 Do you have the address of the bar where you bought this? 03:49.800 --> 03:51.800 Yes, sir, I have. 03:51.800 --> 03:53.240 That's not the reason I'm here, though. 03:53.240 --> 03:54.840 I'm not a one-man moral squad. 03:54.840 --> 03:58.360 I'm not the type that makes a habit of buying obscene photographs of young girls, either. 03:58.360 --> 03:59.360 Yes, sir, we understand. 03:59.360 --> 04:03.520 And I bought this picture from that bartender because I know the young girl in it. 04:03.520 --> 04:06.880 She's the daughter of one of my neighbors back home in Minnesota. 04:06.880 --> 04:09.440 Known her ever since she was a baby. 04:09.440 --> 04:13.960 This girl came out here about eight months ago to live with a girlfriend. 04:13.960 --> 04:17.560 She was crazy for Holly, but thought she might break into the movies or something. 04:17.560 --> 04:19.400 She stopped writing her folks about two months ago. 04:19.400 --> 04:20.640 Hasn't been heard from since. 04:20.640 --> 04:23.760 Well, it sounds like a case for a missing persons bureau, Mr. Kenway. 04:23.760 --> 04:26.120 Well, the girls' folks have already contacted them. 04:26.120 --> 04:27.120 Nothing's been turned up. 04:27.120 --> 04:28.720 Nothing at all. 04:28.720 --> 04:33.520 Then last night, just by an accident, the bartender shows me this photograph. 04:33.520 --> 04:34.520 It's that girl, all right. 04:34.520 --> 04:35.520 No mistake. 04:35.520 --> 04:39.240 Well, we'll do everything we can to help straighten it out, see? 04:39.240 --> 04:41.240 Well, that young girl I know. 04:41.240 --> 04:42.640 Known her since she was a baby. 04:42.640 --> 04:44.840 Good family, good training. 04:44.840 --> 04:47.720 She never would have posed for a photograph like this. 04:47.720 --> 04:49.680 Rotten filth. 04:49.680 --> 04:51.680 She's just not the type, that's all. 04:51.680 --> 04:53.400 Yes, sir, we understand. 04:53.400 --> 04:55.880 What was this young girl's name, Mr. Kenway? 04:55.880 --> 04:56.880 Lois Brewster. 04:56.880 --> 04:57.880 That's her real name. 04:57.880 --> 05:01.240 Well, she wrote her folks she was using another name while she was out here. 05:01.240 --> 05:03.080 Thought it might help her movie chances. 05:03.080 --> 05:05.720 Drake, I think that's what it was. 05:05.720 --> 05:06.720 Linda Drake? 05:06.720 --> 05:08.480 Yeah, that's right. 05:08.480 --> 05:12.960 About five foot four, 115 pounds, dark hair, dark eyes. 05:12.960 --> 05:13.960 That's right. 05:13.960 --> 05:14.960 Yeah. 05:14.960 --> 05:15.960 You know where she is? 05:15.960 --> 05:16.960 Oh, yeah, we do. 05:16.960 --> 05:17.960 We had her case called to our attention. 05:17.960 --> 05:18.960 Where is she? 05:18.960 --> 05:19.960 Is she all right? 05:19.960 --> 05:20.960 No, sir, she's dead. 05:20.960 --> 05:31.040 Two days before Mr. Kenway, they walked into juvenile bureau. 05:31.040 --> 05:34.280 The body of a young girl had been washed up on the shore just below the beach town of 05:34.280 --> 05:35.280 Venice. 05:35.280 --> 05:37.440 Apparently, she'd taken her own life. 05:37.440 --> 05:40.880 The girl was a brunette, attractive, not more than 17 years old. 05:40.880 --> 05:44.960 There was no identification on the body except for a rent receipt found in one of the pockets 05:44.960 --> 05:47.800 of a cotton jacket that the girl had been wearing. 05:47.800 --> 05:50.200 The rent receipt was made out to Linda Drake. 05:50.200 --> 05:54.080 It was signed R.L. King, 876 Peoria Avenue. 05:54.080 --> 05:58.280 The address was checked out and R.L. King was found to be the girl's landlady. 05:58.280 --> 06:03.120 After identifying the body, she told investigating officers that Lois Brewster, alias Linda Drake, 06:03.120 --> 06:06.560 had lived at her rooming house with a girlfriend for about six months. 06:06.560 --> 06:09.600 That girlfriend's name was Joyce Fowler. 06:09.600 --> 06:13.000 The landlady went on to explain that the two girls had moved out about a week before without 06:13.000 --> 06:14.960 leaving a forwarding address. 06:14.960 --> 06:17.980 The Fowler girl had said that she would call back for any mail that might be delivered 06:17.980 --> 06:20.440 to the Peoria Avenue address. 06:20.440 --> 06:24.420 Had been no other leads to the dead girl's background or identity until her former neighbor 06:24.420 --> 06:28.280 from Minnesota, Mr. Wayne Kenworthy, showed up. 06:28.280 --> 06:31.360 Later that day, Ben and I met with Inspector Bowling and briefed him. 06:31.360 --> 06:32.800 Dirty rotten business. 06:32.800 --> 06:33.800 I'll buy that. 06:33.800 --> 06:34.840 How far have you gotten with it? 06:34.840 --> 06:38.200 Back the dead girl's clunts with a missing persons bill from Miss Lois Brewster. 06:38.200 --> 06:39.800 We notified the girl's parents in Minnesota. 06:39.800 --> 06:41.400 They're coming out to claim the body. 06:41.400 --> 06:42.400 It's pretty tragic. 06:42.400 --> 06:43.400 She's an only daughter. 06:43.400 --> 06:44.400 Seventeen years old. 06:44.400 --> 06:46.200 Same old story we figure, skipper. 06:46.200 --> 06:49.120 Some phony talent scout grabbed her and showed her the bright lights, got her to pose for 06:49.120 --> 06:51.440 those pictures one way or another. 06:51.440 --> 06:54.680 That can make a teenage girl go one of a hundred directions after that. 06:54.680 --> 06:56.160 Now this one ended up on a beach. 06:56.160 --> 06:57.640 That's all I care about now. 06:57.640 --> 07:00.800 How about the girlfriend Lois Brewster was living with? 07:00.800 --> 07:01.800 Joyce Fowler? 07:01.800 --> 07:03.360 Oh, no word so far. 07:03.360 --> 07:05.560 What about it, any ideas? 07:05.560 --> 07:08.080 Well, it pretty much depends on finding this Joyce Fowler. 07:08.080 --> 07:09.360 There's no background on her. 07:09.360 --> 07:10.360 We got out on all points. 07:10.360 --> 07:11.840 How about phony talent scouts? 07:11.840 --> 07:14.440 Cheap modeling schools, photographers, check out that angle. 07:14.440 --> 07:16.880 We put four of them away in the past six months. 07:16.880 --> 07:18.000 Another half dozen are being watched. 07:18.000 --> 07:19.720 We can start double checking them tomorrow. 07:19.720 --> 07:22.240 How about that picture of that old fellow Ken where they brought in? 07:22.240 --> 07:23.360 Any lead there? 07:23.360 --> 07:25.400 We gathered a dozen samples just like it. 07:25.400 --> 07:26.880 One's as bad as the other. 07:26.880 --> 07:29.640 They're all printed on the same quality photographic paper. 07:29.640 --> 07:31.320 There's no markings of any kind on them. 07:31.320 --> 07:32.320 It's a common type of paper. 07:32.320 --> 07:34.480 All right, then get on the distribution angle. 07:34.480 --> 07:35.480 Stay on it. 07:35.480 --> 07:36.720 Every rotten bum that peddles this trash. 07:36.720 --> 07:37.720 You get them. 07:37.720 --> 07:38.720 I want them right up the line. 07:38.720 --> 07:41.480 Distributors, wholesalers, guy that prints the pictures, guy that takes them every lousy 07:41.480 --> 07:42.480 one up. 07:42.480 --> 07:43.480 I still can't figure. 07:43.480 --> 07:44.480 What's that? 07:44.480 --> 07:45.480 Oh, the Brewster girl. 07:45.480 --> 07:47.120 It was a good home there, good training. 07:47.120 --> 07:48.120 She knew right from wrong. 07:48.120 --> 07:49.480 Kids don't forget that in a hurry. 07:49.480 --> 07:50.480 That might have been her trouble. 07:50.480 --> 07:51.480 How do you mean? 07:51.480 --> 07:54.480 She remembered it. 07:54.480 --> 07:58.560 Wednesday, May 8th. 07:58.560 --> 08:02.040 Six teams of men from juvenile division working in conjunction with the detective bureau. 08:02.040 --> 08:06.200 Started the drive against the obscene literature and photography traffic. 08:06.200 --> 08:10.360 Within two weeks, more than a dozen wholesalers, distributors and small time peddlers have 08:10.360 --> 08:13.120 been apprehended and were awaiting prosecution. 08:13.120 --> 08:16.960 But we still had failed to uncover any new leads in the Lois Brewster case. 08:16.960 --> 08:21.360 The roommate, Joyce Fowler, the all important witness in the case was still missing. 08:21.360 --> 08:23.000 No trace of her. 08:23.000 --> 08:26.360 The dead girl's parents arrived in the city, claimed the body and took it back to Minnesota 08:26.360 --> 08:27.520 for burial. 08:27.520 --> 08:29.120 The drive continued. 08:29.120 --> 08:30.120 Another week passed. 08:30.120 --> 08:35.680 On May 29th, on a tip from a usually reliable informant, Ben and I checked out a small photographic 08:35.680 --> 08:39.560 studio on Sunset Boulevard operated by an Amal Joseph Martin. 08:39.560 --> 08:41.720 He was sullen and uncooperative. 08:41.720 --> 08:46.920 We checked through his files. 08:46.920 --> 08:48.920 Just what I told you, a few special shots. 08:48.920 --> 08:51.560 I keep files away just for laughs. 08:51.560 --> 08:54.560 Once in a while, a friend drops in. 08:54.560 --> 08:57.320 I print one of them up for him. 08:57.320 --> 09:02.040 Yeah, hold that one up to the life. 09:02.040 --> 09:05.080 Some of them are nice looking dolls, huh? 09:05.080 --> 09:07.680 I print one up for my friends once in a while. 09:07.680 --> 09:10.320 What kind of friends do you have? 09:10.320 --> 09:11.320 What? 09:11.320 --> 09:14.840 How about this negative here, Martin? 09:14.840 --> 09:16.960 Do you mind printing this one up for us now? 09:16.960 --> 09:18.640 Sure, officer, my compliments. 09:18.640 --> 09:20.080 How many copies you want? 09:20.080 --> 09:21.080 One's enough. 09:21.080 --> 09:22.080 If you say so. 09:22.080 --> 09:23.080 Let's see. 09:23.080 --> 09:28.440 One of the best. 09:28.440 --> 09:34.680 I'll print it up right now. 09:34.680 --> 09:47.520 This way. 09:47.520 --> 09:49.720 This one's a real collector's item, you know. 09:49.720 --> 09:50.720 They're right. 09:50.720 --> 09:52.440 A friend of mine got me the negative. 09:52.440 --> 09:54.000 A hundred bucks it cost me. 09:54.000 --> 09:55.000 Worth it, though. 09:55.000 --> 09:57.240 I'll make up a couple of prints for you, huh? 09:57.240 --> 09:58.240 One's good. 09:58.240 --> 09:59.240 Okay, anything you say. 09:59.240 --> 10:01.240 You want to get that light switch? 10:01.240 --> 10:04.240 Oh, yeah, I'll get it. 10:04.240 --> 10:07.240 All right. 10:07.240 --> 10:12.240 Yeah, beautiful negative. 10:12.240 --> 10:20.240 Yeah, you picked a good one, all right. 10:20.240 --> 10:27.240 Yeah, get the paper in here. 10:27.240 --> 10:35.240 Yeah, that does it. 10:35.240 --> 10:36.640 Okay, one print. 10:36.640 --> 10:37.640 That's all you want? 10:37.640 --> 10:38.640 That's all. 10:38.640 --> 10:47.640 Okay, let's put it in the soap. 10:47.640 --> 10:56.240 Yeah, I bet you get a kick out of this one. 10:56.240 --> 10:57.240 Real beautiful girl. 10:57.240 --> 11:00.240 How'd you happen to get a hold of this negative? 11:00.240 --> 11:01.240 You take the picture? 11:01.240 --> 11:03.040 No, a friend of mine got it for me. 11:03.040 --> 11:04.040 He cost me a C-note. 11:04.040 --> 11:05.040 There we go. 11:05.040 --> 11:06.040 Put it in the stubber. 11:06.040 --> 11:07.040 There we go. 11:07.040 --> 11:18.040 How about that? 11:18.040 --> 11:24.040 How about the guy you got this negative from? 11:24.040 --> 11:25.040 Did he take the picture? 11:25.040 --> 11:27.040 No, he bought it from somebody else. 11:27.040 --> 11:28.040 Don't know who. 11:28.040 --> 11:29.040 Cost him $350. 11:29.040 --> 11:30.040 Worth it, though, huh? 11:30.040 --> 11:31.040 All right. 11:31.040 --> 11:37.040 And then, you know... 11:37.040 --> 11:38.040 We've seen her before. 11:38.040 --> 11:39.040 Oh, that's so. 11:39.040 --> 11:40.040 You know her? 11:40.040 --> 11:41.040 Only from her pictures. 11:41.040 --> 11:42.040 Oh. 11:42.040 --> 11:44.040 Of course, you understand I didn't take the picture. 11:44.040 --> 11:46.040 I just bought a negative, that's all. 11:46.040 --> 11:47.040 You couldn't tag me for that, could you? 11:47.040 --> 11:48.040 We're going to try, mister. 11:48.040 --> 11:49.040 Get your coat. 11:49.040 --> 11:50.040 Oh, no. 11:50.040 --> 11:52.040 Wait a minute, how, officers. 11:52.040 --> 11:54.040 I'm small fry in this operation. 11:54.040 --> 11:55.040 You know that. 11:55.040 --> 11:57.040 You want the big fish, right? 11:57.040 --> 11:58.040 We want all of you. 11:58.040 --> 11:59.040 You know who they are? 11:59.040 --> 12:01.040 Well, some, maybe. 12:01.040 --> 12:02.040 Must be worth something to you. 12:02.040 --> 12:03.040 Well, you know better than that, Martin. 12:03.040 --> 12:05.040 If you cooperate, we'll mention it in our report. 12:05.040 --> 12:06.040 That's all we can do. 12:06.040 --> 12:07.040 No promises. 12:07.040 --> 12:08.040 Not a very good offer. 12:08.040 --> 12:09.040 You're not in a very good position. 12:09.040 --> 12:10.040 Yeah. 12:10.040 --> 12:11.040 Ah, bye. 12:11.040 --> 12:14.040 All right, I'll tell you. 12:14.040 --> 12:21.040 Amal J. Martin was booked at city jail for violation of 311 P.C. 12:21.040 --> 12:25.040 His file of lewd photographs and negatives were impounded and booked as evidence. 12:25.040 --> 12:27.040 With the help of information which the suspect had given us, 12:27.040 --> 12:32.040 we were able to round up three wholesalers and another distributor of obscene books and photographs. 12:32.040 --> 12:34.040 Each one of them was questioned thoroughly. 12:34.040 --> 12:36.040 We ran into the same old routine. 12:36.040 --> 12:41.040 They denied knowing anything about the man who was masterminding a racket or where he was operating from. 12:41.040 --> 12:43.040 The Lois Brewster case dragged on. 12:43.040 --> 12:45.040 No progress. 12:45.040 --> 12:48.040 In virtually every case of tracing the lewd pictures to the point of production, 12:48.040 --> 12:52.040 the investigating officers were able to link the small-time peddlers to their distributor 12:52.040 --> 12:54.040 and the distributor to the wholesaler. 12:54.040 --> 12:57.040 That's where it stopped, a dead end. 12:57.040 --> 13:00.040 Beyond that, nobody knew anything about the operation of the racket. 13:00.040 --> 13:05.040 Stakeouts were set up at locations where sales and deliveries of obscene material were known to have been made. 13:05.040 --> 13:07.040 Nothing happened. 13:07.040 --> 13:09.040 The drive stalled. Thursday, June 11th. 13:09.040 --> 13:10.040 Amal, Joe. 13:10.040 --> 13:12.040 Yes, Giver? 13:12.040 --> 13:14.040 First piece of news, no more than the policewoman just called it in. 13:14.040 --> 13:15.040 Yeah? 13:15.040 --> 13:17.040 Lois Brewster's girlfriend, Joyce Fowler. 13:17.040 --> 13:18.040 Yeah? 13:18.040 --> 13:19.040 She's been found. 13:19.040 --> 13:28.040 The Lois Brewster Case 13:28.040 --> 13:35.040 You are listening to Dragnet for the solution to an actual case from official police files. 13:35.040 --> 13:40.040 Now, here's a real solution to many of your Christmas shopping problems. 13:40.040 --> 13:44.040 If your friends smoke long cigarettes, give the best of long cigarettes. 13:44.040 --> 13:46.040 Give king-size Fatima. 13:46.040 --> 13:51.040 You see, Fatimas now cost the same as other long cigarettes. 13:51.040 --> 13:54.040 But in Fatima, the difference is quality. 13:54.040 --> 13:59.040 Quality of tobaccos, the finest Turkish and domestic varieties, 13:59.040 --> 14:04.040 extra mild and superbly blended to give smokers a much different, 14:04.040 --> 14:08.040 much better flavor and aroma than any other long cigarette. 14:08.040 --> 14:12.040 Quality of manufacture, smooth, plump cigarettes, 14:12.040 --> 14:15.040 rolled in the finest paper money can buy. 14:15.040 --> 14:20.040 Quality, even to the appearance of the distinctive royal blue Fatima gift carton. 14:20.040 --> 14:27.040 Christmas wrapped and carefully sealed to ensure Fatima's rich, fresh, extra mild flavor. 14:27.040 --> 14:32.040 Remember, Fatimas now cost the same as other long cigarettes. 14:32.040 --> 14:36.040 But in Fatima, the difference is quality. 14:36.040 --> 14:39.040 So, this Christmas, give your friends the best. 14:39.040 --> 14:43.040 Give Fatima the quality king-size cigarette. 14:43.040 --> 14:46.040 Best of all, long cigarettes. 14:46.040 --> 14:53.040 Music 14:53.040 --> 14:56.040 Like most organized crime, the traffic in obscene literature and photographs 14:56.040 --> 14:59.040 is a racket jealously guarded because of its heavy profit. 14:59.040 --> 15:02.040 It's nationwide and every year it nets millions of dollars 15:02.040 --> 15:05.040 for underworld promoters and their employees. 15:05.040 --> 15:09.040 As an organized business, it's one of the most vicious and insidious rackets that exist today, 15:09.040 --> 15:13.040 despite the fact that many citizens regard it lightly. 15:13.040 --> 15:18.040 Thursday, June 11th, 10 a.m., Ben and I met with policewoman Paula Johnson. 15:18.040 --> 15:21.040 She told us that the previous evening, Joyce Fowler, 15:21.040 --> 15:24.040 the girl Lois Brewster had been living with, had gotten into a brawl 15:24.040 --> 15:27.040 with an unidentified man at a bar on Sunset Boulevard. 15:27.040 --> 15:30.040 Police officers arriving at the scene identified her as the missing girl 15:30.040 --> 15:33.040 and handed her over to juvenile authorities. 15:33.040 --> 15:37.040 At 10.30 a.m., Joyce Fowler was brought to the interrogation room. 15:37.040 --> 15:39.040 She was a tall brunette, fairly attractive. 15:39.040 --> 15:41.040 She looked older than her age. 15:41.040 --> 15:44.040 Together with policewoman Paula Johnson, Ben and I questioned her. 15:44.040 --> 15:46.040 I was out on a date with this man. We were sitting at the bar 15:46.040 --> 15:48.040 and he started saying things I didn't like. 15:48.040 --> 15:50.040 What a row that's all. 15:50.040 --> 15:52.040 The man seemed quite a bit older than you, Joyce. 15:52.040 --> 15:53.040 Was he a good friend of yours? 15:53.040 --> 15:56.040 Friend. He was about 50, I guess. 15:56.040 --> 15:58.040 I thought he was all right. He wasn't. 15:58.040 --> 16:00.040 How old are you, Joyce? 16:00.040 --> 16:01.040 21. 16:01.040 --> 16:04.040 We've checked your background, Joyce. You might as well tell the truth. 16:04.040 --> 16:07.040 All right, I'm 17. I'll be 18 next week. 16:07.040 --> 16:10.040 Look, can I go get an aspirin? I've got a terrible headache. 16:10.040 --> 16:13.040 I got something in my locker. 16:13.040 --> 16:14.040 Goodbye, Ben. 16:14.040 --> 16:16.040 Okay. 16:19.040 --> 16:21.040 I still don't know why I'm here. What do you want to know? 16:21.040 --> 16:25.040 You were a good friend of Lois Brewster's. You lived with her, is that right? 16:25.040 --> 16:27.040 Is that why I'm here? 16:27.040 --> 16:28.040 It's one of the reasons. 16:28.040 --> 16:31.040 Lois spent eight months out here before her death. 16:31.040 --> 16:35.040 As far as these officers know, you lived with her during those eight months. 16:35.040 --> 16:37.040 We want to find out what happened to her. 16:37.040 --> 16:39.040 We want to find out what's happening to you. 16:39.040 --> 16:41.040 Nothing's happening to me. I can take care of myself. 16:41.040 --> 16:43.040 That's what Lois Brewster thought, Joyce. 16:43.040 --> 16:45.040 How about her? You tell us. 16:45.040 --> 16:49.040 She didn't know what she was doing. I don't know what happened to her. 16:49.040 --> 16:52.040 I'm to blame for bringing her out here, but it's not my fault what happened to her. 16:52.040 --> 16:54.040 It's not my fault. 16:54.040 --> 16:55.040 Well, whose fault is it? 16:55.040 --> 16:58.040 All of them. The whole rotten, dirty bunch of them. 16:58.040 --> 17:01.040 Here's your aspirin. 17:03.040 --> 17:05.040 Are two of them being enough? 17:05.040 --> 17:06.040 Thanks. 17:06.040 --> 17:08.040 I'll get some water. 17:23.040 --> 17:26.040 Is something wrong, Joyce? Did you feel well? 17:26.040 --> 17:28.040 I'll be all right. 17:28.040 --> 17:30.040 All right. Here you are. 17:30.040 --> 17:32.040 Thanks. 17:36.040 --> 17:39.040 I don't remember too well how it started. 17:39.040 --> 17:42.040 Lois came out to Hollywood to live with me for six months, you know. 17:42.040 --> 17:43.040 Yeah, we know. 17:43.040 --> 17:46.040 We tried to get modeling jobs, bid parts in the movies. 17:46.040 --> 17:48.040 We didn't have much luck. 17:50.040 --> 17:52.040 We had to eat, pay the rent. 17:52.040 --> 17:56.040 So we took jobs as waitresses at a drive-in place out on Santa Monica Boulevard. 17:56.040 --> 17:58.040 Are you still working there? 17:58.040 --> 18:01.040 No, we were only there two weeks, then we got this other job. 18:01.040 --> 18:02.040 That's when it started. 18:02.040 --> 18:03.040 What was that? 18:03.040 --> 18:08.040 One day these two men drove in with a brand new Cadillac, ordered a couple of cokes. 18:08.040 --> 18:11.040 I could tell they were watching as Lois and me. 18:11.040 --> 18:14.040 When they were leaving, they gave me a card. They said they were talent scouts. 18:14.040 --> 18:17.040 They asked us to come to their offices for interviews. 18:17.040 --> 18:19.040 You still have the card they gave you? 18:19.040 --> 18:22.040 No, I looked for it once. I guess I lost it. 18:22.040 --> 18:24.040 Would you go on, please? 18:26.040 --> 18:29.040 The older fellow's name was Fred Ramis. 18:29.040 --> 18:31.040 The other one was Mr. Gilbert. 18:31.040 --> 18:34.040 They were both very nice. We didn't think anything was wrong. 18:34.040 --> 18:36.040 Didn't you go for the interview? 18:36.040 --> 18:38.040 Yes, Lois and I both went. 18:38.040 --> 18:41.040 They talked to us a lot, had us read out of a script, walk up and down. 18:41.040 --> 18:43.040 They said both of us showed a lot of promise. 18:43.040 --> 18:46.040 They said they wanted to be our agents, so we signed a paper. 18:46.040 --> 18:49.040 Fred Ramis told us he'd see we got a break. 18:49.040 --> 18:52.040 Did either of them ever arrange any legitimate interviews for you? 18:52.040 --> 18:55.040 I mean, with the movie studios, radio, television, anything like that? 18:55.040 --> 18:58.040 No, they took us out quite a bit, restaurants, nightclubs. 18:58.040 --> 19:01.040 Told us we had to be seen around town first. 19:01.040 --> 19:05.040 Had to show us off to the producers, all the important movie people. 19:05.040 --> 19:07.040 Both of them were very nice. 19:07.040 --> 19:09.040 Did you keep on working at the drive-in? 19:09.040 --> 19:13.040 No, they had me and Lois quit the job. They said it wouldn't look right. 19:13.040 --> 19:15.040 We still had to eat, we still had to pay our rent. 19:15.040 --> 19:17.040 That's when they brought up the idea of the pictures. 19:17.040 --> 19:19.040 What pictures do you mean, Joyce? 19:19.040 --> 19:21.040 I'm sorry, could I have some more water, please? 19:21.040 --> 19:23.040 Oh, yeah? 19:25.040 --> 19:29.040 Fred Ramis and Mr. Gilbert took us out to a big nightclub one night. 19:29.040 --> 19:32.040 Fred told us that if Lois and I had some good pictures taken of ourselves, 19:32.040 --> 19:34.040 he could show them around and get us jobs as models. 19:34.040 --> 19:36.040 That is till we got a break in the movies. 19:36.040 --> 19:38.040 Here you are. Thanks. 19:39.040 --> 19:42.040 After that time, how long had you known these two men? 19:42.040 --> 19:45.040 About a month and a half. 19:45.040 --> 19:50.040 I didn't see anything wrong in it, so Lois and I went to this photographer's studio with Mr. Ramis 19:50.040 --> 19:52.040 and we had our portraits taken, regular pictures. 19:52.040 --> 19:56.040 Excuse me, Joyce, did both of these men know how old your girls were? 19:56.040 --> 19:58.040 We told them the truth. We were both 17. 19:58.040 --> 20:00.040 What happened after that? 20:00.040 --> 20:04.040 Mr. Ramis came back and said he'd found an advertising agency 20:04.040 --> 20:06.040 that wanted to buy pictures of Lois and me. 20:06.040 --> 20:09.040 He said we'd get $20 apiece every time we posed. 20:09.040 --> 20:10.040 For her portraits? 20:10.040 --> 20:14.040 No, for posing in bathing suits, pajamas, things like that. 20:14.040 --> 20:16.040 They were supposed to be for magazine ads. 20:16.040 --> 20:21.040 In about a week he brought us to his office and said the agency wanted us to pose without clothes, 20:21.040 --> 20:24.040 without anything. He said he'd pay us $40 for that. 20:26.040 --> 20:27.040 I'll go on chart. 20:27.040 --> 20:31.040 They showed us lots of pictures of models like that. They talked about it all the time. 20:31.040 --> 20:34.040 He kept saying no, both of us, Lois and I. 20:34.040 --> 20:38.040 Did you ever agree to pose for the kind of pictures they wanted? 20:38.040 --> 20:41.040 You can't agree to something you don't know about. 20:41.040 --> 20:43.040 I don't know how it happened, but it did. 20:43.040 --> 20:46.040 Mr. Gilbert and Fred Ramis, they kept taking us out. 20:46.040 --> 20:48.040 We used to drink quite a bit with them. 20:48.040 --> 20:50.040 Went on for weeks, I guess. 20:50.040 --> 20:53.040 One night there was a big party. We drank. 20:53.040 --> 20:57.040 Lois and I got separated. I still don't know what happened. 20:57.040 --> 20:58.040 I see. 20:58.040 --> 21:01.040 Next morning we both woke up with headaches. 21:01.040 --> 21:04.040 Fred Ramis came and showed us the pictures. 21:04.040 --> 21:06.040 I felt dirty all over. 21:06.040 --> 21:08.040 I don't know how it happened, I swear it. 21:08.040 --> 21:12.040 Lois began to cry. I hit Mr. Ramis. I slapped him. 21:12.040 --> 21:14.040 What did Mr. Ramis tell you? 21:14.040 --> 21:16.040 He pretended to be very nice about it. 21:16.040 --> 21:20.040 Said he'd pay us well if we go on posing for pictures, the kind he wanted. 21:20.040 --> 21:24.040 If we didn't, he said he'd wreck any chance we might have in Hollywood. 21:24.040 --> 21:26.040 Said he'd see that the pictures got out, 21:26.040 --> 21:29.040 threaten to send copies to our families and our friends back home. 21:29.040 --> 21:31.040 Didn't you think of going to the police? 21:31.040 --> 21:33.040 We talked about it. 21:33.040 --> 21:36.040 We were afraid of the publicity, the newspapers. 21:36.040 --> 21:39.040 We just kept going on, doing what he said. 21:39.040 --> 21:41.040 It was like a nightmare. 21:41.040 --> 21:44.040 Kept getting worse, we kept getting in deeper. 21:44.040 --> 21:46.040 Sergeant, you should have that envelope. 21:46.040 --> 21:48.040 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 21:53.040 --> 21:56.040 You recognize these pictures, Joyce? 21:56.040 --> 21:58.040 Yes. 21:58.040 --> 22:01.040 Mr. Ramis and Mr. Gilbert, they have you posed for these? 22:01.040 --> 22:03.040 Yes, that's some of them. 22:03.040 --> 22:06.040 We always drank a lot so we wouldn't remember. 22:06.040 --> 22:10.040 That's not why Lois is dead, though. Those pictures aren't the reason. 22:10.040 --> 22:12.040 Well, how do you mean, Joyce? 22:12.040 --> 22:14.040 Ramis and Gilbert, they'd fix updates for us. 22:14.040 --> 22:16.040 They said the men were their friends. 22:16.040 --> 22:19.040 Three or four times a week they'd call. We had to go out with them. 22:19.040 --> 22:21.040 We had to do what they said. 22:21.040 --> 22:22.040 Hmm. 22:22.040 --> 22:25.040 One morning we got home about 5.30 in the morning. 22:25.040 --> 22:27.040 Lois changed. Said she was going for a walk. 22:27.040 --> 22:29.040 I went to bed. 22:29.040 --> 22:31.040 I didn't have to know. 22:31.040 --> 22:33.040 I never saw her again. 22:33.040 --> 22:35.040 I see. 22:37.040 --> 22:39.040 Romero. 22:39.040 --> 22:41.040 Oh, yeah, just a minute. 22:41.040 --> 22:44.040 It's that long distance call we placed at your home, Joyce. 22:44.040 --> 22:45.040 Sure am. 22:45.040 --> 22:47.040 Oh, thanks. 22:47.040 --> 22:49.040 Hello? 22:49.040 --> 22:51.040 Yeah, it's me, Joyce. 22:51.040 --> 22:53.040 Yeah, it was just a mistake. 22:53.040 --> 22:54.040 Yeah. 22:54.040 --> 22:56.040 How's Uncle Henry? 22:56.040 --> 22:58.040 It's well. 22:58.040 --> 23:00.040 No, no, it's all right. 23:00.040 --> 23:02.040 Don't you worry. 23:02.040 --> 23:04.040 Yeah, all right. I'll write you tomorrow. 23:04.040 --> 23:06.040 Yeah, bye. 23:08.040 --> 23:10.040 Thanks for placing the call, Sergeant. 23:10.040 --> 23:12.040 You're welcome. Glad to do it. 23:12.040 --> 23:14.040 Anything else you want to know? 23:14.040 --> 23:16.040 Yeah, there's just one more thing. 23:16.040 --> 23:19.040 Do you still have that note that Lois Brewster wrote before she died? 23:19.040 --> 23:22.040 No, I lost it. I remember what it said, though. 23:22.040 --> 23:23.040 Yeah. 23:23.040 --> 23:28.040 It said, I'm sorry. It was signed Lois. That's all. 23:31.040 --> 23:35.040 Joyce Fowler supplied us with the addresses of Fred Ramis and his partner, Gilbert. 23:35.040 --> 23:40.040 She gave us all the names and addresses of all their friends and employees that she knew of. 23:40.040 --> 23:43.040 She also pointed out their offices and base of operations. 23:43.040 --> 23:48.040 Inspector Bowling ordered an immediate investigation into the background and business activities of both men. 23:48.040 --> 23:53.040 Previously convicted wholesalers and distributors of obscene photographs were called back in and re-questioned. 23:53.040 --> 23:58.040 We finally completed the missing link in the supply line from the peddler to the producer. 23:58.040 --> 24:03.040 Five former workers for Ramos and Gilbert fingered them as head men controlling the racket. 24:03.040 --> 24:07.040 Their offices and studios were raided and their files seized as evidence. 24:07.040 --> 24:11.040 On June 18th, Fred Ramis and his partner, Harold Gilbert, were placed under arrest. 24:11.040 --> 24:13.040 What's the picture, Sergeant? What's this all about? 24:13.040 --> 24:15.040 I think you know, Mr. Ramis. 24:15.040 --> 24:17.040 You can't tag me on those pictures. 24:17.040 --> 24:18.040 What do you think it is? 24:18.040 --> 24:21.040 It's a piece of art. It's a legitimate piece of art. My lawyer can prove that. 24:21.040 --> 24:22.040 He'd better be good. 24:22.040 --> 24:24.040 He better be. 24:24.040 --> 24:28.040 You know, I'm kind of surprised that you can't say you know a word to somebody like that Fowler girl. 24:28.040 --> 24:30.040 She doesn't know what she's talking about. She's a psycho. 24:30.040 --> 24:31.040 Is that right? 24:31.040 --> 24:34.040 Why, sure. I tried to do something with her and that girlfriend of hers. 24:34.040 --> 24:36.040 They signed up as their agent. They were hopeless. 24:36.040 --> 24:40.040 You've got quite a stack of negatives here. Pictures of both of them. 17 year olds. 24:40.040 --> 24:44.040 Ah, they're just candid shots, you know. Spicy for my private collection. 24:44.040 --> 24:48.040 There's nothing wrong in that. I figured I'd give the girls a break, let them earn a few bucks. 24:48.040 --> 24:52.040 Look, I couldn't have treated those girls better. I took them around, showed them the town. 24:52.040 --> 24:54.040 Both psychos. I never did trust them. 24:54.040 --> 24:57.040 Well, that's the big difference, Ramis. They trusted you. 24:57.040 --> 25:05.040 Fred Ramis and Harold Gilbert were brought downtown to Inspector Bowling's office. 25:05.040 --> 25:10.040 Joyce Fowler was seated next to the desk. Gilbert was brought in. She identified him. 25:10.040 --> 25:12.040 He was taken out and held for booking. 25:12.040 --> 25:15.040 All right, bring in the next one. 25:15.040 --> 25:22.040 All right, come on. 25:22.040 --> 25:23.040 Yeah. 25:23.040 --> 25:25.040 Can you identify this man, Miss Fowler? 25:25.040 --> 25:27.040 Yes. He's Fred Ramis. 25:27.040 --> 25:30.040 What's the trouble, Joyce? Weren't you satisfied with what I was paying you? 25:30.040 --> 25:34.040 Could have settled this between ourselves. If you had any beef, she could have come to me. 25:34.040 --> 25:37.040 You're lucky, Fred. I'd kill you now if I could. 25:37.040 --> 25:39.040 Oh, Joyce, come on now. Sit down. 25:39.040 --> 25:40.040 All right, Sloane. Take him out. 25:40.040 --> 25:42.040 Joyce, sit down. Come on, sit down. 25:42.040 --> 25:44.040 Be back in a minute, Joe. 25:44.040 --> 25:49.040 All right. 25:49.040 --> 25:53.040 I'm sorry. It doesn't do any good. Are there any more? 25:53.040 --> 25:56.040 No, that's about all. You've helped quite a lot. 25:56.040 --> 26:00.040 Yeah, I'm glad I could do it. Is that all, Sergeant? 26:00.040 --> 26:03.040 Well, for now, yeah. You'll have to testify at the trial. 26:03.040 --> 26:06.040 After that, the juvenile court's going to keep in pretty close touch with you. 26:06.040 --> 26:07.040 I see. 26:07.040 --> 26:10.040 Aren't you going back home, Joyce, to Minnesota? 26:10.040 --> 26:15.040 No, it'd be the same old thing. My aunt would be glad to see me for the first week. 26:15.040 --> 26:20.040 Then she'd start all over again, hollering at me, picking. Wouldn't be any use. 26:20.040 --> 26:22.040 What are you going to do out here, Joyce? You know? 26:22.040 --> 26:27.040 I know a nice fella in Santa Monica. He's going to get me a job at a brand new drive-in. 26:27.040 --> 26:29.040 Cute uniforms. 26:29.040 --> 26:32.040 But I don't think juvenile court's going to let you take a job like that, Joyce. 26:32.040 --> 26:38.040 I hope so. A lot of talent scouts go there, radio, movie producers. They might notice me. 26:38.040 --> 26:39.040 Yeah? 26:39.040 --> 26:42.040 Never can tell. Might lead to something. 26:49.040 --> 26:54.040 The story you have just heard was true. Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 26:54.040 --> 27:01.040 On October 4th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 91, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 27:01.040 --> 27:03.040 In a moment, the results of that trial. 27:03.040 --> 27:06.040 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 27:06.040 --> 27:11.040 Thank you. 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