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02:35.640 --> 02:36.640 Yeah. 02:36.640 --> 02:37.640 I'll get it. 02:37.640 --> 02:38.640 Homicide, Friday. 02:38.640 --> 02:39.640 This Levinson unit 113J. 02:39.640 --> 02:40.640 Got something for you. 02:40.640 --> 02:41.640 Yeah, Harry, what's doing? 02:41.640 --> 02:42.640 Dordie and I are out here on Commerce Avenue, 4656, trying to track down a nine-year-old 02:42.640 --> 02:43.640 boy. 02:43.640 --> 02:44.640 Yeah, what's the story? 02:44.640 --> 02:45.640 The kid's been shot. 02:45.640 --> 02:50.640 Suspicion of foul play. 02:50.640 --> 02:52.640 How long's he been gone? 02:52.640 --> 02:53.640 About two hours. 02:53.640 --> 02:54.640 Looks like a job for homicide. 02:54.640 --> 02:55.640 How do you figure? 02:55.640 --> 02:58.640 The kid was last seen playing in the backyard of his home. 02:58.640 --> 02:59.640 Yeah? 02:59.640 --> 03:00.640 We checked over the yard. 03:00.640 --> 03:01.640 Did you find anything? 03:01.640 --> 03:02.640 Blood stains, lots of them. 03:02.640 --> 03:07.640 They look new. 03:07.640 --> 03:11.040 Ben and I left a message for chief of detectives Thad Brown, then we went over to the crime 03:11.040 --> 03:14.760 lab and picked up Lieutenant Lee Jones and drove out the Arroyo Seco freeway to Collis 03:14.760 --> 03:17.680 Avenue, was an average neighborhood. 03:17.680 --> 03:23.320 Number 4656 was a one-story green stucco residence situated on the corner of Collis Avenue and 03:23.320 --> 03:25.440 Harrison Drive. 03:25.440 --> 03:29.480 Beyond the backyard was attractive undeveloped land covered with scrub oak. 03:29.480 --> 03:32.800 Harry Levinson from Highland Park Juvenile was waiting for us in front of the house. 03:32.800 --> 03:33.800 It's back this way, fellas. 03:33.800 --> 03:34.800 Coming, Lee. 03:34.800 --> 03:35.800 Hey, I got my bag. 03:35.800 --> 03:38.960 Who notified you that the boy was missing, Harry? 03:38.960 --> 03:39.960 The mother. 03:39.960 --> 03:43.960 Said she went out to do some Christmas shopping about 11 this morning, left the boy home. 03:43.960 --> 03:46.880 She came back about 2 this afternoon, he was gone. 03:46.880 --> 03:47.880 What's the name? 03:47.880 --> 03:48.880 Johnstone. 03:48.880 --> 03:51.360 The kid's name is Stanley, 9 years old. 03:51.360 --> 03:54.160 Was this gate open like this when you got here? 03:54.160 --> 03:55.920 Yeah, I haven't touched the thing yet. 03:55.920 --> 03:59.400 I hear the stains over here, Lieutenant Jones, along the edge of the walk. 03:59.400 --> 04:00.400 See? 04:00.400 --> 04:01.400 Yeah. 04:01.400 --> 04:02.400 Let me see. 04:02.400 --> 04:05.400 Yeah, quite a few stains, huh? 04:05.400 --> 04:06.400 Yeah. 04:06.400 --> 04:11.160 Looks like it might be blood. 04:11.160 --> 04:15.920 Try some benzidine on him. 04:15.920 --> 04:19.720 There we are. 04:19.720 --> 04:22.240 See what happened. 04:22.240 --> 04:23.680 Where's the kid's mother now, Harry? 04:23.680 --> 04:24.680 Yeah, in the house. 04:24.680 --> 04:25.680 Dirty's talking to her. 04:25.680 --> 04:27.880 Did you talk to any of the neighbors? 04:27.880 --> 04:29.920 People next door are the ones on this side. 04:29.920 --> 04:30.920 They couldn't tell us anything. 04:30.920 --> 04:31.920 There it is, fellas. 04:31.920 --> 04:32.920 Yeah, Lee. 04:32.920 --> 04:35.400 These spots I covered with benzidine, they're turning blue. 04:35.400 --> 04:36.400 Blood stains all right. 04:36.400 --> 04:38.640 You can't say definitely whether it's human or animal blood. 04:38.640 --> 04:40.720 Do you have to go back to the lab to run it through? 04:40.720 --> 04:42.480 Yeah, a biological precipitant test. 04:42.480 --> 04:45.400 Hand me one of those glass files for my bike, will you? 04:45.400 --> 04:46.400 Yeah, sure. 04:46.400 --> 04:49.400 Okay, here you go. 04:49.400 --> 04:50.400 Thanks. 04:50.400 --> 04:54.240 Scrape some flakes off for a test. 04:54.240 --> 04:56.960 There we are. 04:56.960 --> 04:59.280 How soon can you tap the blood for us, Lee? 04:59.280 --> 05:01.040 Precipitant test won't run more than 20 minutes. 05:01.040 --> 05:05.880 It'll take three or four hours to run a blood grouping, though. 05:05.880 --> 05:07.600 That's it. 05:07.600 --> 05:09.600 Anything else you want to check? 05:09.600 --> 05:10.600 Nothing. 05:10.600 --> 05:11.600 Anything else? 05:11.600 --> 05:13.080 Yeah, right here in my handkerchief. 05:13.080 --> 05:14.640 Empty shell. 05:14.640 --> 05:16.720 That marker over there by the rose bush? 05:16.720 --> 05:17.720 That's where I found it. 05:17.720 --> 05:19.320 From a 22, huh? 05:19.320 --> 05:21.120 Yeah, might tie in, might not. 05:21.120 --> 05:24.760 Well, I'll get them dumped in this envelope, will you? 05:24.760 --> 05:25.760 Mm-hmm. 05:25.760 --> 05:26.760 There you go. 05:26.760 --> 05:27.760 There you go. 05:27.760 --> 05:30.800 Did you get out a missing broadcast on the boy here? 05:30.800 --> 05:33.080 Dordie did about a half an hour ago. 05:33.080 --> 05:34.080 Here's a description here. 05:34.080 --> 05:35.080 Thank you. 05:35.080 --> 05:36.800 Did the mother know about the blood stains? 05:36.800 --> 05:38.680 No, we didn't tell her. 05:38.680 --> 05:39.680 She's worried enough already. 05:39.680 --> 05:42.840 And she has no idea what might have happened to her boy, huh? 05:42.840 --> 05:44.480 No more than we do. 05:44.480 --> 05:46.480 She checked all her friends and relatives. 05:46.480 --> 05:48.920 We're covering the neighborhood and no trace so far. 05:48.920 --> 05:50.960 Not much to go on. 05:50.960 --> 05:52.760 Blood stains, empty cartridge. 05:52.760 --> 05:55.040 Yeah, it could mean a hundred things. 05:55.040 --> 05:56.240 Any ideas, Friday? 05:56.240 --> 06:03.640 Just one and I don't like it. 06:03.640 --> 06:06.280 4.30 p.m. Thursday, December 22nd. 06:06.280 --> 06:09.640 The neighborhood search for nine-year-old Stanley Johnstone continued. 06:09.640 --> 06:14.000 Lee Jones went back to the crime lab to start the precipitant test in the blood grouping. 06:14.000 --> 06:17.680 Levinson and his partner, Dordie, from Highland Juvenile stood by. 06:17.680 --> 06:21.080 We called Chief of Detectives Thad Brown and he ordered up a special detail to aid in the 06:21.080 --> 06:23.080 search for the missing boy. 06:23.080 --> 06:27.560 Ben and I questioned the boy's mother, Mrs. Ruth Johnstone, a woman in her early 40s. 06:27.560 --> 06:30.160 She seemed fairly calm under the circumstances. 06:30.160 --> 06:33.560 Miss Johnson, is your boy Stanley in the habit of wandering off without telling you where 06:33.560 --> 06:34.560 he's going? 06:34.560 --> 06:37.000 He's not in the habit of wandering off, but he has done it before. 06:37.000 --> 06:40.240 Well, when was the last time, Miss Johnson? 06:40.240 --> 06:41.840 You don't have any children, do you, Sergeant Friday? 06:41.840 --> 06:42.840 No, ma'am, I'm not married. 06:42.840 --> 06:47.240 Well, there comes a time in every young boy's life when he feels it is time to leave home, 06:47.240 --> 06:48.240 go out on his own. 06:48.240 --> 06:50.560 It usually happens somewhere around eight to ten. 06:50.560 --> 06:52.480 Think I know what you mean, I have a boy. 06:52.480 --> 06:54.120 Well, then you know how it is. 06:54.120 --> 06:58.280 My husband and I scolded Stanley one afternoon after school and he was quite put out about 06:58.280 --> 06:59.280 it. 06:59.280 --> 07:00.280 Thought George and I were unfair. 07:00.280 --> 07:02.360 Packed a few of his things and left. 07:02.360 --> 07:03.600 Well, how long was he gone? 07:03.600 --> 07:06.040 Oh, no time at all, about two hours. 07:06.040 --> 07:09.080 I was worried about him, but my husband said to leave him alone, said every boy had to 07:09.080 --> 07:10.080 go through that stage. 07:10.080 --> 07:13.000 Well, then you think that he's run away from home again this time? 07:13.000 --> 07:14.480 Yes, I think so. 07:14.480 --> 07:19.760 He's been gone about four hours now and I have a funny feeling about it. 07:19.760 --> 07:22.640 Did you and his father have some misunderstanding with the boy recently? 07:22.640 --> 07:25.480 Well, that's just it, we haven't. 07:25.480 --> 07:28.720 I don't mind telling you that now that we're talking about it, I am getting worried. 07:28.720 --> 07:32.240 Well, is there any place around that he might like to visit, a hobby shop, playground, some 07:32.240 --> 07:33.240 place he might be? 07:33.240 --> 07:37.760 Yes, there's Jensen's model shop, Little Shannon Burrows, but I've already called there and 07:37.760 --> 07:39.240 he hasn't been seen all day. 07:39.240 --> 07:42.800 I've called all his friends and they have no idea where he is either. 07:42.800 --> 07:45.760 We'd like a list of all of his friends and the places that he was known to frequent. 07:45.760 --> 07:48.240 Yes, all right, I'll give them to you. 07:48.240 --> 07:50.280 Where do you suppose he is? 07:50.280 --> 07:52.000 Where's your husband now, Miss Johnson? 07:52.000 --> 07:53.000 At work. 07:53.000 --> 07:54.920 George works for the city, he's a fireman. 07:54.920 --> 07:56.440 What house is he stationed at? 07:56.440 --> 07:57.440 Engine Company 12. 07:57.440 --> 07:58.440 He's working the A-platoon. 07:58.440 --> 07:59.440 He'll be home tomorrow morning. 07:59.440 --> 08:03.520 I haven't told him he's down, he's gone. 08:03.520 --> 08:06.320 Was there any chance the boy might be down at the firehouse with his father? 08:06.320 --> 08:08.720 No, he seldom goes down there anymore. 08:08.720 --> 08:12.600 No, I don't think he's there. 08:12.600 --> 08:13.600 I'm awfully worried. 08:13.600 --> 08:14.600 May I call my husband? 08:14.600 --> 08:15.600 Certainly, go right ahead. 08:15.600 --> 08:27.760 I know George will be worried. 08:27.760 --> 08:30.440 Engine Company 12, please. 08:30.440 --> 08:32.040 Stanley's been gone too long. 08:32.040 --> 08:33.040 Hello? 08:33.040 --> 08:34.800 May I please speak with George Johnstone? 08:34.800 --> 08:37.240 This is Mrs. Johnstone. 08:37.240 --> 08:38.240 Thank you. 08:38.240 --> 08:40.720 Oh, I hate to call George at his work. 08:40.720 --> 08:41.720 Yes, ma'am. 08:41.720 --> 08:43.120 Does your husband own a gun? 08:43.120 --> 08:44.540 Yes, he does. 08:44.540 --> 08:45.540 What caliber, do you know? 08:45.540 --> 08:48.360 It's a.45 automatic, he got a knife. 08:48.360 --> 08:49.360 George? 08:49.360 --> 08:50.360 This is Ruth. 08:50.360 --> 08:53.280 George, is Stanley down there with you by any chance? 08:53.280 --> 08:56.440 Oh, no, I can't find him anywhere. 08:56.440 --> 08:59.440 He wasn't here when I came home from doing my shopping. 08:59.440 --> 09:00.880 There are two policemen here. 09:00.880 --> 09:03.240 No, I said there are two policemen here. 09:03.240 --> 09:07.800 No, dear, I'll call you if we don't find him soon. 09:07.800 --> 09:08.800 All right, dear. 09:08.800 --> 09:10.800 Yes, you too. 09:10.800 --> 09:11.800 Goodbye. 09:11.800 --> 09:16.280 I didn't think he'd be with George. 09:16.280 --> 09:19.000 That.45, is that the only gun in the household? 09:19.000 --> 09:20.000 Yes. 09:20.000 --> 09:21.840 Why are you asking about guns? 09:21.840 --> 09:23.640 Has anything happened that you're not telling me about? 09:23.640 --> 09:25.040 No, ma'am, just routine checking. 09:25.040 --> 09:28.400 We'll have to take a look at that.45, if you don't mind. 09:28.400 --> 09:32.000 Maybe I should tell you we do have another gun in the house, but it's all wrapped up. 09:32.000 --> 09:33.800 George bought it for Stanley's Christmas present. 09:33.800 --> 09:35.800 What if we could see it, please? 09:35.800 --> 09:37.800 Yes, well, will you have to unwrap it? 09:37.800 --> 09:38.800 Yes, ma'am, I'm afraid so. 09:38.800 --> 09:39.800 It's in the closet. 09:39.800 --> 09:40.800 We had to hide it. 09:40.800 --> 09:41.800 Let me see. 09:41.800 --> 09:42.800 Well, here's the paper it was wrapped in. 09:42.800 --> 09:43.800 Stanley must have found it. 09:43.800 --> 09:55.280 It's gone. 09:55.280 --> 09:59.440 You see, here's the gift card and the box the gun came in, the rifle. 09:59.440 --> 10:02.440 I wonder if I could look at that box, ma'am. 10:02.440 --> 10:03.440 Thank you. 10:03.440 --> 10:06.440 How about it, Jim? 10:06.440 --> 10:09.440 22 caliber. 10:09.440 --> 10:12.360 Thursday, December 22nd, 5.15 p.m. 10:12.360 --> 10:13.600 Was getting dark. 10:13.600 --> 10:15.800 The search for the missing boy continued. 10:15.800 --> 10:17.840 We checked the list of Stanley Johnstone's friends. 10:17.840 --> 10:21.480 None of them or their parents had any idea of his whereabouts. 10:21.480 --> 10:23.240 We talked with Levinson again. 10:23.240 --> 10:25.400 He'd been in touch with the detail combing the neighborhood. 10:25.400 --> 10:26.760 They'd found nothing. 10:26.760 --> 10:31.840 We went down to Collis Avenue and 10th Street, service station on the corner. 10:31.840 --> 10:32.840 One nickel, you know? 10:32.840 --> 10:33.840 No, I got one. 10:33.840 --> 10:34.840 Will you watch for Thad? 10:34.840 --> 10:35.840 Yeah. 10:35.840 --> 10:36.840 OK. 10:36.840 --> 10:44.880 City Hall? 10:44.880 --> 10:52.800 2667, please. 10:52.800 --> 10:54.480 2667? 10:54.480 --> 10:57.880 Crime Lab, Jones. 10:57.880 --> 10:59.880 Hi, Ali. 10:59.880 --> 11:00.880 Joe Friday. 11:00.880 --> 11:01.880 Yeah, Joe. 11:01.880 --> 11:02.880 Any sign of the Johnson kid? 11:02.880 --> 11:03.880 No, not yet. 11:03.880 --> 11:04.880 How are you coming? 11:04.880 --> 11:05.880 Finished the precipitant test. 11:05.880 --> 11:06.880 Yeah? 11:06.880 --> 11:07.880 Working on the blood group now. 11:07.880 --> 11:09.560 Do you know what type the Johnson boy has? 11:09.560 --> 11:11.160 Well, I didn't want to upset his mother. 11:11.160 --> 11:13.960 Thought I'd wait till the last thing we're in the neighborhood. 11:13.960 --> 11:14.960 Check with the family physician. 11:14.960 --> 11:16.240 That way you won't disturb her. 11:16.240 --> 11:17.960 Yeah, I figured on that. 11:17.960 --> 11:18.960 Just a minute, Lee. 11:18.960 --> 11:19.960 Yeah? 11:19.960 --> 11:20.960 Yeah, man. 11:20.960 --> 11:21.960 Most just pulled up. 11:21.960 --> 11:22.960 OK. 11:22.960 --> 11:23.960 Thad Brown's out here now. 11:23.960 --> 11:24.960 I'll check you later, Lee. 11:24.960 --> 11:25.960 Right, Joe. 11:25.960 --> 11:26.960 Right. 11:26.960 --> 11:27.960 Bye. 11:27.960 --> 11:28.960 Right. 11:28.960 --> 11:29.960 Oh, here's William. 11:29.960 --> 11:30.960 Gentlemen, how's it going? 11:30.960 --> 11:33.960 We just checked with Lee Jones. 11:33.960 --> 11:34.960 Yeah, I know. 11:34.960 --> 11:35.960 He's got human blood. 11:35.960 --> 11:36.960 What do you think? 11:36.960 --> 11:39.640 We talked with the boy's mother, Mrs. Johnstone, found a gun missing. 11:39.640 --> 11:40.640 Yeah? 11:40.640 --> 11:42.360 Calibers are the same as the empty casing Levinson found. 11:42.360 --> 11:43.360 It's.22. 11:43.360 --> 11:44.360 You said the gun was missing? 11:44.360 --> 11:47.280 Yeah, the Johnstones were going to give it to the boys as a Christmas present. 11:47.280 --> 11:48.760 They had it hidden, but it's gone. 11:48.760 --> 11:49.760 Any idea who took it? 11:49.760 --> 11:51.720 Well, they left the Christmas wrapping behind. 11:51.720 --> 11:52.720 I think it was the kid. 11:52.720 --> 11:53.720 .22 rifle, huh? 11:53.720 --> 11:54.720 Nine-year-old boy. 11:54.720 --> 11:57.720 What are they going to learn? 11:57.720 --> 12:01.040 First, it's carbide cannons on the 4th of July. 12:01.040 --> 12:02.640 The city issued ordinance after ordinance. 12:02.640 --> 12:06.400 A few thousand kids around the country had to lose their eyes, fingers, hands before 12:06.400 --> 12:08.720 their parents would give us their full cooperation to outlaw them. 12:08.720 --> 12:09.720 I know what you mean. 12:09.720 --> 12:10.720 Sure you do. 12:10.720 --> 12:13.240 You and every other cop in the country became the heavies trying to clamp down on them. 12:13.240 --> 12:14.480 It's always the same story. 12:14.480 --> 12:15.480 This time it's guns for Christmas. 12:15.480 --> 12:17.800 Oh, I know what you're thinking, but we're not sure yet. 12:17.800 --> 12:20.920 Listen, Friday, there's a city ordinance against giving a gun to a kid. 12:20.920 --> 12:21.920 You know that. 12:21.920 --> 12:22.920 Yeah, I know that. 12:22.920 --> 12:23.920 There's a missing boy and a missing gun. 12:23.920 --> 12:25.720 There's blood on the ground and an empty shell. 12:25.720 --> 12:26.720 That's enough for me. 12:26.720 --> 12:27.920 Well, we're going to stay with it. 12:27.920 --> 12:28.920 Something's got to break. 12:28.920 --> 12:29.920 Yeah? 12:29.920 --> 12:30.920 I hope it's not the hearts of that kid's parents. 12:30.920 --> 12:31.920 Hi, Chief. 12:31.920 --> 12:32.920 Been looking for you, Friday. 12:32.920 --> 12:33.920 What do you got, Harry? 12:33.920 --> 12:34.920 Found the gun. 12:34.920 --> 12:35.920 New.22 rifle. 12:35.920 --> 12:36.920 I'd say it's been fired recently. 12:36.920 --> 12:38.960 Where'd you find it, Levinson? 12:38.960 --> 12:41.840 Back up there in that scrub oak behind the Johnstone house. 12:41.840 --> 12:42.840 Mrs. Johnstone identified it. 12:42.840 --> 12:44.800 Buckley took it down to the crime lab. 12:44.800 --> 12:45.800 Thanks, Harry. 12:45.800 --> 12:46.800 Mrs. Johnstone okay? 12:46.800 --> 12:47.800 Pretty sick now. 12:47.800 --> 12:48.800 Daugherty came up with something else. 12:48.800 --> 12:49.800 What's that? 12:49.800 --> 12:50.800 There's another one missing. 12:50.800 --> 12:53.800 An eight-year-old boy. 12:53.800 --> 12:56.440 6.30 p.m. 12:56.440 --> 12:59.200 We talked with Officer Daugherty about the other missing boy. 12:59.200 --> 13:02.880 He told us that his name was Stephen Morheim, eight years old. 13:02.880 --> 13:04.520 His family had just moved into the neighborhood. 13:04.520 --> 13:09.120 It seemed that no one besides the Morheim family knew that the boys played together. 13:09.120 --> 13:12.920 Mrs. Morheim told us that Stephen told her that he was going out to play and he'd be 13:12.920 --> 13:14.960 home by six o'clock for dinner. 13:14.960 --> 13:19.600 She told us that he was an unusually prompt boy and almost never overstayed his playtime. 13:19.600 --> 13:22.960 We got a description of the Morheim boy and put out a missing broadcast. 13:22.960 --> 13:25.320 We called the Johnstone's family doctor. 13:25.320 --> 13:28.400 He told us that Stanley's blood was type O. 13:28.400 --> 13:30.840 At 7 p.m. we talked again with Mrs. John Morheim. 13:30.840 --> 13:35.720 Are you sure Mrs. Johnstone doesn't know where the boys are? 13:35.720 --> 13:37.440 She has no idea Mrs. Morheim. 13:37.440 --> 13:39.960 Oh this is terrible. 13:39.960 --> 13:40.960 Just awful. 13:40.960 --> 13:43.880 I feel there's more to this thing. 13:43.880 --> 13:44.880 Something you're not telling me. 13:44.880 --> 13:47.440 Well there's no use to upset you until we know a few things for sure. 13:47.440 --> 13:48.640 Then you're holding back something. 13:48.640 --> 13:50.360 Well now please try not to worry Mrs. Morheim. 13:50.360 --> 13:53.400 There are certain things that we're going to have to ask you, routine questions and 13:53.400 --> 13:54.400 any kind of investigation. 13:54.400 --> 13:56.520 Is there anything else you want to know? 13:56.520 --> 13:57.520 Yes ma'am. 13:57.520 --> 13:58.520 What is the boy's blood type? 13:58.520 --> 14:00.080 That's a funny question. 14:00.080 --> 14:03.480 Do you think anything's happened to him? 14:03.480 --> 14:05.000 Have you found him and you're not telling me? 14:05.000 --> 14:08.880 No ma'am we haven't found him and we don't think anything's happened to him. 14:08.880 --> 14:09.880 His blood type? 14:09.880 --> 14:10.880 Yes ma'am. 14:10.880 --> 14:14.480 Well I think I have it written down in Stevie's baby book. 14:14.480 --> 14:19.360 Yes here it is. 14:19.360 --> 14:20.360 It's type O. 14:20.360 --> 14:21.360 Thank you. 14:21.360 --> 14:22.720 I wonder if I might use your phone. 14:22.720 --> 14:24.520 Yes of course it's in the hall. 14:24.520 --> 14:25.520 Be right back ma'am. 14:25.520 --> 14:26.520 Okay. 14:26.520 --> 14:27.520 City Hall. 14:27.520 --> 14:28.520 Uh 2667 please. 14:28.520 --> 14:29.520 2667. 14:29.520 --> 14:30.520 Grimland, thank you. 14:30.520 --> 14:31.520 Hello Ray this is Joe Fridays. 14:31.520 --> 14:32.520 Lee there. 14:32.520 --> 14:33.520 Just a minute Joe. 14:33.520 --> 14:34.520 Take two Lee. 14:34.520 --> 14:35.520 John speaking. 14:35.520 --> 14:36.520 Checking back Lee. 14:36.520 --> 14:37.520 Did you get the blood types on the two missing bones? 14:37.520 --> 14:38.520 No ma'am. 14:38.520 --> 14:39.520 I'm sorry. 14:39.520 --> 14:40.520 I'm sorry. 14:40.520 --> 14:41.520 I'm sorry. 14:41.520 --> 14:42.520 I'm sorry. 14:42.520 --> 14:43.520 I'm sorry. 14:43.520 --> 14:44.520 I'm sorry. 14:44.520 --> 14:45.520 I'm sorry. 14:45.520 --> 14:46.520 I'm sorry. 14:46.520 --> 14:47.520 I'm sorry. 14:47.520 --> 14:48.520 I'm sorry. 14:48.520 --> 14:49.520 I'm sorry. 14:49.520 --> 14:50.520 I'm sorry. 14:50.520 --> 14:51.520 I'm sorry. 14:51.520 --> 14:52.520 I'm sorry. 14:52.520 --> 14:53.520 I'm sorry. 14:53.520 --> 14:54.520 I'm sorry. 14:54.520 --> 14:55.520 I'm sorry. 14:55.520 --> 14:56.520 Did you get the blood types on the two missing boys? 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It's so cold out tonight. 17:42.520 --> 17:45.520 All he had on was a thin cotton jacket. 17:45.520 --> 17:48.520 Well, try not to worry. We're doing everything we can. He'll be all right. 17:48.520 --> 17:51.520 Stevie's father is such a sensitive man. He and the boy are so close. 17:51.520 --> 17:53.520 I know he's terribly upset. 17:53.520 --> 17:57.520 Now, are you sure there's no place that you might have forgotten, some place where the boy might be? 17:57.520 --> 17:59.520 No, no place. No. 17:59.520 --> 18:02.520 If anything's happened to the boy, it'll just kill John. 18:02.520 --> 18:07.520 You sit still. I'll get it, Miss Morhaime. 18:07.520 --> 18:08.520 Joe? 18:08.520 --> 18:09.520 Yeah, Harry? 18:09.520 --> 18:11.520 Johnstone kid. He's been found. 18:11.520 --> 18:26.520 He's home, Sergeant. He's come home. Thank God he's all right. 18:26.520 --> 18:27.520 Where's he been? Did he tell you? 18:27.520 --> 18:31.520 No. No, he didn't. His clothes are all dirty and he's acting strange. 18:31.520 --> 18:33.520 I've never seen him like this. 18:33.520 --> 18:34.520 How do you mean, Miss Johnstone? 18:34.520 --> 18:37.520 Well, he just came to the front door and said, hello, Mom. 18:37.520 --> 18:39.520 He sat down in a chair and stared at the floor. 18:39.520 --> 18:41.520 He won't talk to his father or me. 18:41.520 --> 18:43.520 Would you mind if I talked to him? 18:43.520 --> 18:47.520 No, go ahead. I asked him about the little Morhaime boy, but he wouldn't tell me a thing. 18:47.520 --> 18:48.520 Where is he now? 18:48.520 --> 18:52.520 Right over there in the living room. 18:52.520 --> 18:54.520 Looks all right. 18:54.520 --> 19:05.520 Yes. Son, this is a police officer. He wants to talk to you. 19:05.520 --> 19:10.520 Don't be afraid, dear. He only wants to ask you some questions. 19:10.520 --> 19:13.520 Son. 19:13.520 --> 19:16.520 Can I see you, Sergeant? 19:16.520 --> 19:19.520 Stanley, look at me, son. 19:19.520 --> 19:23.520 Come on, youngster. Get your head up there. That's better. 19:23.520 --> 19:25.520 Your mother was pretty worried, you know that. 19:25.520 --> 19:27.520 You want to tell us where you've been? 19:27.520 --> 19:30.520 We should try to get him to eat a little something. 19:30.520 --> 19:35.520 You hear that, son? You want something to eat? 19:35.520 --> 19:38.520 Stanley, there's another little boy up the studio who hasn't come home. 19:38.520 --> 19:41.520 You know where he is? His father and mother are worried about him, too. 19:41.520 --> 19:43.520 Just like your folks were. 19:43.520 --> 19:45.520 We're going to ask you to help us find him. 19:45.520 --> 19:50.520 I killed him. I killed Steve with the.22. 19:50.520 --> 19:53.520 We were only playing, but I killed him. 19:53.520 --> 19:56.520 How do you know you killed him? Maybe he's only hurt now, isn't that it? 19:56.520 --> 19:59.520 No, he's dead. I know he's dead. 19:59.520 --> 20:03.520 The gun went off. I forgot we put bullets in there. 20:03.520 --> 20:05.520 Where is he, Stanley? 20:05.520 --> 20:10.520 I hit him. I was scared. I didn't want anybody to find him. 20:10.520 --> 20:11.520 Where did you hide him, son? 20:11.520 --> 20:16.520 In a cave up on the hill. I didn't mean it. He was my pal. 20:16.520 --> 20:18.520 Do you want to show us where Stanley is? 20:18.520 --> 20:22.520 Yes, I'll show you. Please don't send me to jail. 20:28.520 --> 20:31.520 9.15 p.m. Thursday, December 22nd. 20:31.520 --> 20:35.520 Nine-year-old Stanley Johnstone led the way up the hill behind the backyard of his home. 20:35.520 --> 20:39.520 He showed us the wagon he moved the body in. His father came along with us. 20:39.520 --> 20:43.520 About 50 feet from the crest of the hill, the boy pointed to a thicket of scrub oak. 20:43.520 --> 20:47.520 There we found a small cave holding the body of Stephen Morrheim. 20:47.520 --> 20:50.520 There was a single bullet wound in his chest just below his heart. 20:50.520 --> 20:53.520 He was dead. He recovered the body. 20:53.520 --> 20:55.520 Stanley, how did it happen? 20:55.520 --> 20:58.520 I knew my folks were going to give me the gun for Christmas. 20:58.520 --> 21:03.520 I knew where it was, and I got it. There was a box of bullets with it. 21:03.520 --> 21:05.520 Were you pointing the gun at Stephen, son? 21:05.520 --> 21:10.520 No, sir. No, sir, I wasn't. It was Steve's turn to play with it. 21:10.520 --> 21:16.520 I was chasing him. He chipped over that stump there and he fell. 21:16.520 --> 21:19.520 The gun hit him in the stomach and it went off. 21:19.520 --> 21:22.520 Well, why do you think you killed him if you're telling us the truth? 21:22.520 --> 21:25.520 I'm telling the truth. Honest, that's the truth. 21:25.520 --> 21:28.520 Well, I believe you, son, but why do you think you killed him? 21:28.520 --> 21:33.520 It was my gun. Steve would still be alive if I didn't go and get it. 21:33.520 --> 21:38.520 I should have waited till Christmas. It's all my fault. 21:38.520 --> 21:40.520 Where have you been all this time? 21:40.520 --> 21:42.520 In the cave with Steve. 21:42.520 --> 21:45.520 What were you doing in there, son? 21:45.520 --> 21:50.520 I was praying. I was praying for God to make him alive again. 21:56.520 --> 21:59.520 After a thorough investigation, Ben and I were convinced that the shooting of Stephen 21:59.520 --> 22:03.520 Morhaime was accidental. Lieutenant Lee Jones' findings substantiated the John Stone 22:03.520 --> 22:06.520 Boy's story even to the smallest detail. 22:06.520 --> 22:10.520 We put in a call to the coroner's office and acquainted him with the facts. 22:10.520 --> 22:14.520 He designated a local mortuary to handle the body pending autopsy and granted us 22:14.520 --> 22:17.520 permission to remove the body to the Morhaime home. 22:17.520 --> 22:21.520 Mrs. Morhaime collapsed. The family doctor was called. 22:21.520 --> 22:26.520 Ben and I sat in the living room to wait for John Morhaime, the dead boy's father. 22:29.520 --> 22:32.520 Edith? Edith? 22:32.520 --> 22:34.520 Mr. Morhaime? 22:34.520 --> 22:35.520 Yeah, Hugh the police? 22:35.520 --> 22:36.520 Yes. 22:36.520 --> 22:39.520 Where's Edith? Where's my wife? 22:39.520 --> 22:42.520 Has my boy come home? 22:42.520 --> 22:44.520 Have you found him? 22:44.520 --> 22:45.520 Yes, sir. 22:45.520 --> 22:47.520 Where is he? 22:47.520 --> 22:50.520 Steve? 22:50.520 --> 22:53.520 Stevie? 22:53.520 --> 22:56.520 Where's Steve? 22:56.520 --> 22:58.520 He's hurt, isn't he? 22:58.520 --> 23:00.520 Yes, sir, he is. 23:00.520 --> 23:02.520 Where is he? I want to see him. 23:02.520 --> 23:05.520 He's hurt bad, Mr. Morhaime. 23:05.520 --> 23:09.520 Where is he? I want to see him. 23:09.520 --> 23:11.520 How bad? 23:11.520 --> 23:15.520 Pretty bad. 23:15.520 --> 23:19.520 He's dead. 23:19.520 --> 23:21.520 All right if I go in? 23:21.520 --> 23:24.520 Yes, sir, if you want to. 23:24.520 --> 23:26.520 Will you go with me? 23:26.520 --> 23:30.520 Sure. Don't make it any harder on yourself, Mr. Morhaime. 23:30.520 --> 23:37.520 I want to see my boy. 23:37.520 --> 23:43.520 Mr. Morhaime. 23:43.520 --> 23:47.520 Stevie? 23:47.520 --> 23:50.520 Listen to me, son. 23:50.520 --> 23:55.520 We got you a lot of nice things for Christmas. 23:55.520 --> 23:58.520 Everything you wanted. 23:58.520 --> 24:03.520 I got you the three new cars for the train. 24:03.520 --> 24:08.520 The one with the searchlight on it really works, son. 24:08.520 --> 24:12.520 I got you that new switch you wanted. 24:12.520 --> 24:15.520 A lot more track. 24:15.520 --> 24:19.520 Oh, now you can have a big layout. 24:19.520 --> 24:24.520 And you know that new baseball mitt we saw? 24:24.520 --> 24:26.520 I got it for you. 24:26.520 --> 24:29.520 The cowboy outfit you bought. 24:29.520 --> 24:32.520 I got it. 24:32.520 --> 24:35.520 Mr. Morhaime. 24:35.520 --> 24:38.520 Come on, you. 24:38.520 --> 24:39.520 What happened? 24:39.520 --> 24:41.520 It was an accident. 24:41.520 --> 24:44.520 He was playing with a Johnstone boy up the street. 24:44.520 --> 24:46.520 Playing with a gun. 24:46.520 --> 24:48.520 It went off. 24:48.520 --> 24:50.520 What was the other boy's name? 24:50.520 --> 24:52.520 Stanley Johnstone. 24:52.520 --> 24:54.520 It was an accident. 24:54.520 --> 24:56.520 Mr. Morhaime, where are you going? 24:56.520 --> 25:01.520 I want to see that boy. 25:01.520 --> 25:04.520 We had no idea what the dead boy's father had in mind. 25:04.520 --> 25:06.520 We didn't feel that we should try to restrain him. 25:06.520 --> 25:09.520 We went along with him up the street to the Johnstone home. 25:15.520 --> 25:17.520 I'm Stevie's father. 25:17.520 --> 25:19.520 Where's your boy? 25:19.520 --> 25:22.520 I'm sorry. 25:22.520 --> 25:23.520 We bought the rifle. 25:23.520 --> 25:26.520 We were going to tell him not to use it unless his father was with him 25:26.520 --> 25:28.520 until he learned how to treat firearms. 25:28.520 --> 25:30.520 Where's your boy? 25:30.520 --> 25:32.520 Right here. 25:32.520 --> 25:34.520 Would you come in? 25:34.520 --> 25:36.520 It's all right, Miss Johnstone. 25:42.520 --> 25:44.520 You're the boy that was with Stevie? 25:44.520 --> 25:46.520 Yes, sir. 25:46.520 --> 25:47.520 What's your name? 25:47.520 --> 25:49.520 Stanley. 25:49.520 --> 25:53.520 I know it wasn't your fault, Stanley. 25:53.520 --> 25:55.520 I wonder if you'd do something for me. 25:55.520 --> 25:57.520 Yes, sir. 25:57.520 --> 26:01.520 I've got a lot of nice presents for Stevie. 26:01.520 --> 26:04.520 I know he'd want you to have them. 26:04.520 --> 26:07.520 I want to give them to you Christmas Eve. 26:07.520 --> 26:09.520 Mom? 26:09.520 --> 26:13.520 I think that'd be a fine idea, son. 26:13.520 --> 26:15.520 Come on, baby. 26:15.520 --> 26:19.520 Well, what's it all proved, you? 26:19.520 --> 26:22.520 You don't give a kid a gun for Christmas. 26:29.520 --> 26:32.520 The story you've just heard was true. 26:32.520 --> 26:35.520 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 26:35.520 --> 26:38.520 On December 24, 1940, 26:38.520 --> 26:19.940 the 26:19.940 --> 26:24.940 Inquest was held in the county morgue, city and county of Los Angeles, state of California. 26:24.940 --> 26:46.280 The 26:46.280 --> 26:50.280 Inquest was held in the county morgue, city and county of Los Angeles, state of California. 26:50.280 --> 26:54.280 In a moment, the results of that Inquest. 26:54.280 --> 26:57.280 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 26:57.280 --> 26:58.780 Thank you. 26:58.780 --> 27:02.280 To get year-round thanks for the gift you give this Christmas, 27:02.280 --> 27:06.280 give cartons of Fatimas to every long cigarette smoker on your list. 27:06.280 --> 27:10.280 Christmas Fatimas in the special royal blue slip-over jacket 27:10.280 --> 27:13.280 make a perfect gift just as is. 27:13.280 --> 27:19.280 And to my friends who sell Fatimas, the retail dealers and the wholesale distributors all over America, 27:19.280 --> 27:22.280 to each one of you a special season's greeting. 27:22.280 --> 27:25.280 And to everyone, a Merry Christmas. 27:34.280 --> 27:40.280 At the coroner's Inquest, it was officially recorded that Stephen Morheim's death was the result of an accident. 27:40.280 --> 27:44.280 Stanley Johnstone was absolved of any legal responsibility for his friend's death. 27:44.280 --> 28:11.280 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:11.280 --> 28:18.280 Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. 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