1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,680 The story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:15,880 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:30,600 Fatima cigarettes, best of all long cigarettes, brings you dragnet. 4 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:31,600 You're a detective sergeant. 5 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:32,600 You're assigned a homicide detail. 6 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:39,400 A phone call comes into your office from a man who tells you his wife has been murdered. 7 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:41,840 He's not sure who the killer is. 8 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:43,320 Your job? 9 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:47,960 Find him. 10 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:52,200 You'll be amazed when you compare Fatima with other long cigarettes. 11 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,000 You'll find they now cost the same. 12 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,680 But in Fatima, the difference is quality. 13 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:04,600 You see, Fatima is the quality king-size cigarette because it contains the finest domestic and 14 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:07,680 Turkish tobacco superbly blended. 15 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:09,920 And Fatima is extra mild. 16 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:14,800 With a much different, much better flavor and aroma than any other long cigarette. 17 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,640 So compare Fatima yourself. 18 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:21,200 Fatima's now cost the same as other long cigarettes. 19 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:23,760 But your first pup will tell you. 20 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:25,960 Ah, that's different. 21 00:01:25,960 --> 00:01:30,400 Yes, in Fatima, the difference is quality. 22 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,960 Ask your dealer for Fatima. 23 00:01:32,960 --> 00:01:35,760 The quality king-size cigarette. 24 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,520 Best of all long cigarettes. 25 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:42,520 What are you enjoying Fatima tomorrow? 26 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:50,680 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 27 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:54,920 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 28 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:59,560 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 29 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:01,280 police files. 30 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:06,600 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 31 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:07,600 in action. 32 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:15,240 It was Tuesday, January 9th. 33 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:17,040 Was rainy and windy in Los Angeles. 34 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:19,920 We were working the night watch out of homicide detail. 35 00:02:19,920 --> 00:02:21,640 My partner's Ben Romero. 36 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:23,920 The boss is Thad Brown, chief of detectives. 37 00:02:23,920 --> 00:02:25,640 My name's Friday. 38 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:29,720 Was 9.27 p.m. when I got to room 42. 39 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:30,720 Homicide detail. 40 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,720 All right, Joe. 41 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:35,680 Great night, huh? 42 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:36,680 Terrible weather. 43 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:38,720 Just look out there on Spring Street. 44 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:39,720 Yeah, I know. 45 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:41,560 I just came in out of it. 46 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:42,560 Really coming down. 47 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:43,560 Yeah. 48 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,080 Just like I told you on the phone this afternoon. 49 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:47,080 What's that? 50 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,680 Every time those sea ghosts flying from the coast, it means rain. 51 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:51,680 Yeah. 52 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,880 It sure is a fine coat. 53 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:57,080 I've never been sorry I bought this. 54 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:58,640 Let me take another look at that, Joe. 55 00:02:58,640 --> 00:02:59,640 Yeah, sure. 56 00:02:59,640 --> 00:03:00,640 Here. 57 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:01,640 Oh, yeah. 58 00:03:01,640 --> 00:03:02,640 Yeah, that's a good one. 59 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:03,640 English coat, huh? 60 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:04,640 Yeah. 61 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:06,760 It's a little heavier over there than we do here. 62 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:08,960 Seemed to be kind of good in our business. 63 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:10,720 You remember that Henderson stakeout last month? 64 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:11,720 Oh, yeah. 65 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:12,720 Really poured down that thing. 66 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:13,720 Mm-hmm. 67 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:14,720 This coat kept me dry as a bone. 68 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:16,720 The water just seems to roll off of it. 69 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:17,720 Yeah. 70 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:18,720 That's a good one. 71 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:19,720 Here you go. 72 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:20,720 Thank you. 73 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:21,720 I'm going to have to hang it up. 74 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:22,720 Mm-hmm. 75 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:27,720 Supposed to keep a good coat on a hanger, you know, especially when they're wet. 76 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:28,720 I'm very sure. 77 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:33,040 The trouble with mine is it leaks right up here over the shoulders. 78 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:34,760 Must be through the seams, huh? 79 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:35,760 Yeah, I guess so. 80 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:36,760 Same one I've been wearing. 81 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:37,760 I told you about it before. 82 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:39,760 You said you were going to get a new one, didn't you? 83 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:40,760 Yeah, but it's such a good coat. 84 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:41,760 Otherwise, I'd hate to throw it away. 85 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:42,760 It's no good if it leaks. 86 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:43,760 Oh, I guess you're right at that. 87 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:44,760 Maybe I can get those seams fixed, do you think? 88 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:45,760 I don't know. 89 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:46,760 How long you had it? 90 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:47,760 Seven years. 91 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:48,760 I'll get it. 92 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:49,760 Homicide, Friday. 93 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:50,760 This is 14 on the complaint board. 94 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:51,760 Take this call. 95 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:52,760 Right. 96 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:53,760 Hello? 97 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:54,760 Hello? 98 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:55,760 Hello? 99 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:56,760 Hello? 100 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:57,760 Hello? 101 00:03:57,760 --> 00:03:58,760 Hello? 102 00:03:58,760 --> 00:03:59,760 Hello? 103 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:00,760 Hello? 104 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:01,760 Hello? 105 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:02,760 Hello? 106 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:03,760 Hello? 107 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:04,760 My name's Leonard Gray. 108 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:05,760 Yes, sir? 109 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:06,760 My wife's dead. 110 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:07,760 She's been killed. 111 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:08,760 I just went down to the garage, and when I came back, she was dead. 112 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:09,760 Could you send somebody out here right away? 113 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:10,760 Yes, sir. 114 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:11,760 What's that address? 115 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:12,760 1627 Oxford Place. 116 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:13,760 27 Oxford Place. 117 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:14,760 Yes, sir, that's right. 118 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:23,760 I can't understand that she was all right when I left, and then when I came back, she 119 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:24,760 was dead. 120 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:25,760 I can't understand that. 121 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:26,760 What's that? 122 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:33,760 I can't understand that she was all right when I left, and then when I came back, she 123 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:34,760 was dead. 124 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:35,760 I can't understand that. 125 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:36,760 We'll be right there, Mr. Gray. 126 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:37,760 My best friend lives right next door. 127 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:38,760 Yes, sir? 128 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,760 He says I did it. 129 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:46,760 1627 Oxford Place was on the east side of the street. 130 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:49,920 It was an average one-story stucco home. 131 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:53,040 All the homes on the street were about the same general style and size. 132 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:54,880 It was a nice neighborhood. 133 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:58,720 All the grounds appeared to be well kept from what we could see through the heavy rain. 134 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:02,040 The porch light was burning when we got there. 135 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:06,760 Inside the house were met by the two officers from Unit 37R who filled us in on the results 136 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:08,880 of their preliminary investigation. 137 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:11,720 We asked them to stand by in front of the house. 138 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:14,520 Then we asked the husband of the murdered woman, Leonard Gray, to show us where the 139 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:15,520 body was. 140 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:21,120 Back this way, in the dining room. 141 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:23,000 Everything just the way you found it, Mr. Gray? 142 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:24,000 You didn't touch anything? 143 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,240 No, sir, I haven't touched anything. 144 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,720 Right there on the floor. 145 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:32,720 That's very fast. 146 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:37,320 Can I wait up there in the living room? 147 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:38,320 Yes, sir, it's all right. 148 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:41,320 Ben, would you like to help him? 149 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:42,320 Yeah. 150 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,320 Just sit right there. 151 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:50,000 I'll be right with you. 152 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:51,000 Thank you. 153 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,920 You and your wife live here alone, do you? 154 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:58,600 It's just two of us, no children. 155 00:05:58,600 --> 00:05:59,600 Ben. 156 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:00,600 Yeah? 157 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:06,480 When the clothing's torn, must have put up a struggle, huh? 158 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,360 Yeah, some redness there around the throat. 159 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:10,360 Strangle? 160 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:12,880 Yeah, could be. 161 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:18,080 Deep gash there on the floor, broken vase there on the floor. 162 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:21,080 You want to call the crime lab? 163 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,080 Yeah, okay. 164 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:27,720 Mr. Gray, where's your telephone? 165 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:29,600 Right in the hall out there by the bedroom. 166 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:30,600 Thank you. 167 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,800 You think you could tell us about it now, Mr. Gray? 168 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:34,800 Yes, I think so. 169 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:35,800 Do you have a cigarette? 170 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:36,800 Yes. 171 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:37,800 I do. 172 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:38,800 Thank you. 173 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:39,800 Mr. Menlo, give me a light. 174 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:40,800 Thanks. 175 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:41,800 It's all right. 176 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:56,480 Now, can you tell me just what happened here tonight? 177 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:58,640 Earl Anderson, that's my friend. 178 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:00,440 Lives two houses down. 179 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:02,160 He and I went out after work. 180 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:05,080 We usually do once or twice a week just to have a few beers. 181 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:08,160 I don't know why, I felt pretty good. 182 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:11,160 I guess I had a couple too many. 183 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:14,760 Earl said it was late and we better be getting home, so he did. 184 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,120 I had a little too much to drink, so he drove. 185 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:18,120 I see. 186 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,240 Where were you and your friend drinking? 187 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:24,480 The bar right across from where we were, Earl Anderson and me. 188 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:27,400 A lot of the men go there for a beer right after work. 189 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:29,200 Were there quite a few men from work in there tonight? 190 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:30,200 Yeah, quite a few. 191 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:33,440 I wonder if the other officer found the phone all right. 192 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:34,920 Yeah, sir, I'm sure he did. 193 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:36,640 Kind of hard to find sometimes. 194 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:41,360 I would have had it covered with a little curtain. 195 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:42,360 That's all right, Mr. Gray. 196 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:43,360 Let's try to take it easy. 197 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,360 You're on your way. 198 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:47,480 Right. 199 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,520 He was telling me that he and his friend Earl Anderson stopped after work. 200 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:53,120 They had a couple of beers and then the two of them drove on home. 201 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:54,120 I see. 202 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:55,120 Is that right, sir? 203 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:56,120 Yeah, that's right. 204 00:07:56,120 --> 00:08:01,480 Well, we got home and I was feeling pretty good, so I asked Earl to come on in and have 205 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:03,560 a little nightcap. 206 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:05,040 What time was that when you got home? 207 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:06,920 About half past six. 208 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:10,280 Earl didn't want to come in because he said Hazel would be upset with me because we were 209 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:11,280 a little late. 210 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:14,800 Anyway, I finally talked him into coming in with her. 211 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:15,800 Was your wife upset? 212 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:17,760 A little bit, yeah. 213 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:23,920 She used to be unhappy when I was late because of dinner, but she was never unreasonable. 214 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:26,760 I didn't make it a habit to stay out unusually late anyhow. 215 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:27,760 I see. 216 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:28,760 I think it's terrible. 217 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:29,760 It's terrible. 218 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:36,880 When we got in the house, the first thing Hazel asked me was if I'd looked at the car. 219 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:37,880 Whose car was that? 220 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:40,640 It was our car, Dodge Sedan 42. 221 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:42,640 It's parked across the street now. 222 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:45,560 I wonder if we might check back here a little. 223 00:08:45,560 --> 00:08:46,560 Yeah. 224 00:08:46,560 --> 00:08:49,880 I thought I understood you to say that you felt that you'd had a little too much to drink, 225 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:51,920 so your friend drove this Earl Anderson? 226 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:54,640 Yes, but it was his car. 227 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:56,720 I guess I should have made that a little clearer. 228 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:01,440 You see, we take turns driving home either his or my car. 229 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:04,120 We trade off to fight the traffic no matter whose car. 230 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:05,120 I see. 231 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,080 I wonder if you'd go on, please. 232 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:10,340 I didn't know what she meant by asking if I'd seen the car. 233 00:09:10,340 --> 00:09:13,400 She said someone had let all the air out of the back tires. 234 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:15,880 Do you know why anybody would want to do a thing like that? 235 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:18,400 No, I had no idea who would do that to us. 236 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:20,280 Hazel said she wanted to use the car tonight. 237 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:24,040 She had to go to her friend's house to help produce some remodeling or something. 238 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:25,040 Uh-huh. 239 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:27,720 She didn't say a word about my being late. 240 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:30,120 I thought the car had kind of taken her mind off it. 241 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:33,440 I told her I'd go out and look, see if I couldn't fix it. 242 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:36,680 Well, did it strike you as being important that you fixed the car right away? 243 00:09:36,680 --> 00:09:37,680 How do you mean? 244 00:09:37,680 --> 00:09:41,480 Well, sir, I was just thinking, I wouldn't want to go out in all that rain unless it 245 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:42,480 was something pretty important. 246 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:46,480 Well, I didn't want to either, but I figured all I'd have to do was put a little air in 247 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:48,760 the tires and then drive it down to the gas station. 248 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:49,760 I see. 249 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:51,760 Do you want to go out? 250 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:57,080 Earl said he'd be willing to give me a hand, so we went out to have a look at the car. 251 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:59,400 Wanted to look at the tires and I knew we couldn't fix them. 252 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:01,120 Somebody had cut them with a knife or something. 253 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:02,120 They were beyond repair. 254 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:03,840 Do you have any idea who did that? 255 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:05,280 No, I couldn't figure it out. 256 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:08,080 I have no enemies that I can think of. 257 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:10,200 No one that would do a thing like that. 258 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:12,320 What did you do then? 259 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:16,440 Earl and I figured that we'd better take the wheels off, take them down to the garage and 260 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:17,680 buy some new tires. 261 00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:20,400 I borrowed Earl's jack and we took off the wheels. 262 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:21,400 Uh-huh. 263 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,920 Earl said he'd be glad to take the wheels down and that I'd better go back in the house 264 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:29,520 with Hazel because she might wonder what we were doing about fixing the car. 265 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:31,240 I understand. 266 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:35,520 We talked back and forth for a minute or two and I finally insisted that I go. 267 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:37,800 Where did your friend, Earl Anderson, go? 268 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:38,800 To his house. 269 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:39,800 I dropped him off there. 270 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:41,280 Where does he live? 271 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:42,880 Just two houses down the street. 272 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:43,880 Oh, huh. 273 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:48,960 After I dropped him off, I went down and picked up two new tires and two tubes and they mounted 274 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:52,000 them on the wheels for me and I came back. 275 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,080 About what time was it when you got back here to the house, do you remember? 276 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:57,080 I don't know. 277 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:59,080 Somewhere around 915, I guess. 278 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:00,080 Then what did you do? 279 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:04,120 I was going to put the wheels on but I thought I'd better go back in the house and tell Hazel 280 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:06,640 I'd have the car fixed in a minute. 281 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:07,640 Yes. 282 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:10,360 The minute I walked in the door, I knew something was wrong. 283 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:12,680 It seemed like I could feel it. 284 00:11:12,680 --> 00:11:13,680 I called to her. 285 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:16,240 She didn't answer. 286 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:21,080 I went through the house and when I got to the dining room, she found her. 287 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:23,000 We'll have to ask you to come downtown with us, sir. 288 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,120 You'll have to give us a complete statement on this. 289 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:26,120 Is that necessary? 290 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:27,120 Yes, sir. 291 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:28,120 I'm afraid it is. 292 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:29,120 All right. 293 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:32,760 I wonder if it'd be all right if I called my friend, Earl Anderson, to go down with 294 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:33,760 me. 295 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:34,760 I haven't told him about this. 296 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:35,760 We'll notify him. 297 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:38,680 This friend of yours, Earl Anderson. 298 00:11:38,680 --> 00:11:42,720 When you spoke with me on the phone, didn't you say something about your best friend saying 299 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:44,720 that he thought that you killed your wife? 300 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:46,440 Did I say that? 301 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:48,440 Yes, sir, you did. 302 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:50,880 I didn't mean it that way. 303 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:51,880 How did you mean it? 304 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:53,880 I've been drinking earlier tonight. 305 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:57,280 Like I told you, I guess I must have gotten mixed up. 306 00:11:57,280 --> 00:11:59,400 Well, and he didn't say that you killed your wife? 307 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:00,400 No, no, he didn't. 308 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:05,320 Well, I know there's been a strain and a pretty bad shock, Mr. Gray, but you told us that 309 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:08,160 you didn't say anything to Earl Anderson about this. 310 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:10,640 Now, isn't that right? 311 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:12,640 I'm so sick and upset. 312 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:15,040 Is that what I told you? 313 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:17,760 Yes, sir, you asked me if it'd be all right if you called your friend. 314 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:19,440 You said you hadn't told him anything about this. 315 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:20,440 I did. 316 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:22,800 I called him right after I got home. 317 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:23,800 I was terrified. 318 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:25,480 I didn't know what to do. 319 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:27,640 Then you did mention your wife's death telling. 320 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:28,640 Yes, sir. 321 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:33,080 Where you men are questioning me, your tone sounds as if you think I might have done this. 322 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:36,120 No, sir, we're just trying to get the facts straight right now. 323 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:37,120 Anybody's a suspect. 324 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:38,120 I didn't do this. 325 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:41,120 I swear to God, I didn't kill my wife. 326 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:44,160 Do you have any idea who might have wanted to kill Mrs. Gray? 327 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:45,160 No, no one. 328 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:49,760 Hazel and I didn't have many friends, no enemies that I know of. 329 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:50,760 I see. 330 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:53,080 You men have any ideas at all? 331 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:55,120 Can you tell anything from what you've seen? 332 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:57,960 We might know a little more after the crime lab checks things over. 333 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:01,320 As soon as the lab men get here, then you can start on the case. 334 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:04,320 No, sir, we've already started. 335 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:12,600 10, 15 p.m., we continued to question Leonard Gray, the husband of the dead woman, Hazel 336 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:13,600 Gray. 337 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:17,600 His answers seemed to follow the same general pattern of hazy confusion. 338 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:21,480 Ben and I weighed the possibilities and cause for his evident confusion. 339 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:25,120 He admitted that he'd been drinking earlier that evening, the tremendous shock of the 340 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:29,760 death of his wife, the complete interrogation necessary in the investigation. 341 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:34,200 All these things could prove to be reason enough for Leonard Gray's apparent confusion. 342 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:36,840 They could all be possibilities of pretense as well. 343 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:38,780 We had to be sure. 344 00:13:38,780 --> 00:13:40,960 We asked him about relatives and in-laws. 345 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:44,740 He told us that his parents were not living, that his wife's mother and father resided 346 00:13:44,740 --> 00:13:47,560 in Los Angeles in the southwest section of the city. 347 00:13:47,560 --> 00:13:49,360 He gave us the address. 348 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,160 He furnished us with a list of his friends and his acquaintances. 349 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:56,960 He was feeling quite badly, but seemed to want us to continue with the questioning. 350 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:00,360 From time to time, he would add unimportant bits of his story which he had omitted the 351 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:02,000 first time through. 352 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:06,800 Ten seventeen p.m. The crime lab crew arrived and went to work. 353 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,840 Gray's friend Earl Anderson was picked up and brought to the murder house. 354 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:11,720 Any idea who did this thing? 355 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:13,200 We're working on it. 356 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:15,640 There's just one thing I want to make sure of. 357 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:16,640 Yeah? 358 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:18,920 You don't suspect Len, do you? 359 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:19,920 Why do you ask that? 360 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:23,840 Well, I know how something like this can be. 361 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:27,880 Len and Hazel are wonderful people, very good friends of mine. 362 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:30,880 Just wanted to go on a record as being able to vouch for Len. 363 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:33,360 He wouldn't do a thing like that. 364 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:34,840 Is that what you wanted to tell her? 365 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:35,840 Well, yes, sir. 366 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:40,400 I've known Len for about five years now, going on six. 367 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:42,920 We worked at the same place. 368 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:44,920 Just wanted to vouch for him, that's all. 369 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:47,840 Would you know of anyone who might have a reason to kill Mrs. Gray? 370 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:50,640 Not a soul in the world. 371 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:51,960 Hazel was wonderful to everybody. 372 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:55,160 She didn't have any enemies that I know of. 373 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:56,160 Such a pretty girl. 374 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:58,800 We know that you're a close friend of Gray's. 375 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:01,120 Maybe you'd be able to answer a couple of questions for us. 376 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:03,800 Any way I can be of help to you. 377 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:05,520 How did Mr. and Mrs. Gray seem to get along? 378 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:08,240 I mean, did they have any arguments that you know of? 379 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:12,080 Well, I really don't think I should go into their personal life in this thing. 380 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:14,080 You mean you don't want to answer? 381 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:16,320 No, sir, it's not that. 382 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:20,320 It just seems that it's really not my place to go into it. 383 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:24,320 We're going to have to question everybody that Gray's knew, all their friends and acquaintances, 384 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:26,440 appreciate any help you could give us. 385 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,040 Well, it isn't that I don't want to help. 386 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:32,240 I know that if I answer, it's going to make Len look bad at the moment. 387 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:35,560 We're going to have to get all the facts from one source or another. 388 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:37,520 Well, they used to have some arguments. 389 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:40,120 I guess you'd find it out from the neighbors anyway. 390 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:42,440 Were the arguments that bad? 391 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:43,440 Pretty loud, yes, sir. 392 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:48,560 I don't mean to imply that Len ever struck Hazel, but she used to get quite put out with 393 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:49,560 him sometimes. 394 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:50,560 Why? 395 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:51,560 How do you know? 396 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:56,280 Len likes to go out with the boys, you know, booze it up quite a bit. 397 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:59,000 You used to tell him if she wasn't going to put up with it any longer. 398 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:00,920 You said he never struck her. 399 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:02,320 Not that I know of, Sergeant. 400 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:04,480 Do they have these arguments often? 401 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:08,360 I don't feel right talking this way about Len behind his back. 402 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:11,800 Well, I know that as his friend, you want to get this thing cleaned up. 403 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:14,320 Yes, sir, that's right, I do. 404 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:18,400 Yes, they used to have quite a few arguments. 405 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:22,000 Please understand that these differences of theirs may have been loud, but I know Len 406 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,400 would never think of hurting Hazel in any way. 407 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:25,400 I don't see. 408 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:28,040 Did you find out who sliced the tires on Len's car? 409 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:29,040 We're checking on it. 410 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:31,680 I wonder if that couldn't have some bearing on this. 411 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:32,680 Possibly. 412 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:36,720 Anderson, we'd like to have you go back to the time you and Mr. Gregg got home. 413 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:38,680 Just tell us exactly what happened, would you? 414 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:41,400 Excuse me for a minute. 415 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:42,400 Sure. 416 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:44,400 Friday, see you in a minute. 417 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:45,400 Right, Harris. 418 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:46,400 I'll be right back. 419 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:47,400 Okay. 420 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:49,840 We're just about through. 421 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:51,840 It's all photod, lifted some prints. 422 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:53,840 Karner's ready to take the body, okay? 423 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:54,840 Yeah, it's all right. 424 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:56,240 Get anything besides the prints? 425 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:59,560 Yeah, a small piece of blue cloth, white button attached. 426 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:00,560 Looks like it was ripped off his shirt. 427 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:01,560 Where'd they find it? 428 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:02,560 Near the body. 429 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,000 I'm going to see you fellas back at the office, huh? 430 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,200 Yeah, okay, Harris, thank you. 431 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:15,040 I was just telling your partner, Sergeant, while you were out of the room. 432 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:16,040 Yes, sir. 433 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:20,640 In this kind of a case, if it turns out to be murder, you have to know the whereabouts 434 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:22,240 of everyone concerned, don't you? 435 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:23,240 Yeah, we do. 436 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:27,000 I suppose Lem told you about his going down to get the tires fixed on his car. 437 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:28,000 Yeah, he did. 438 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,480 Did he tell you that I was at home during that time? 439 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:31,480 Were you? 440 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:32,480 Yeah, I was. 441 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:37,560 I don't mean to try to tell you your business or anything like that, but isn't that the 442 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:39,240 sort of information you have to have? 443 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:40,240 Yeah, that's right. 444 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:42,480 Is there anything else you'd like to know? 445 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:43,480 Yes, sir. 446 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:44,480 Who killed Hazel Gray? 447 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:58,320 You are listening to Dragnet. 448 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:03,600 From beginning to end, Dragnet is the authentic story of your police force in action. 449 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:07,520 Now from beginning to end, the Fatima story. 450 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:12,380 Actual convincing proof that in Fatima, the difference is quality. 451 00:18:12,380 --> 00:18:18,500 Quality of tobaccos, the finest domestic and Turkish varieties, extra mild and superbly 452 00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:23,560 blended to give you a much different, much better flavor and aroma. 453 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:29,680 Quality of manufacture, smooth, round, perfect cigarettes, rolled in the finest paper money 454 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:34,920 can buy, manufactured in the newest and most modern of all cigarette factories. 455 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:40,120 Quality even to the appearance of the bright, clean, golden yellow package, carefully wrapped 456 00:18:40,120 --> 00:18:46,040 and sealed to bring you Fatima's rich, fresh, extra mild flavor. 457 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:52,120 Because of its quality, its extra mildness, its better flavor and aroma, more long cigarette 458 00:18:52,120 --> 00:18:56,060 smokers are now insisting on Fatima than ever before. 459 00:18:56,060 --> 00:19:00,720 So if you smoke a long cigarette, compare Fatima. 460 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:05,680 You'll find they now cost the same, but your first puff will tell you. 461 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:07,840 Ah, that's different. 462 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:12,760 Yes, in Fatima, the difference is quality. 463 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:14,760 Insist on Fatima. 464 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:19,600 Start enjoying the quality king size cigarette, Fatima. 465 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:23,400 Best of all long cigarettes. 466 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:32,240 10.30 PM Tuesday, January 9th. 467 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:35,280 Leonard Gray, the husband of the murdered woman and Earl Anderson, his friend, were 468 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:39,040 taken downtown to homicide for further investigation. 469 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:41,240 Complete statements were taken from both men. 470 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,400 We checked them through R&I, no record on either one. 471 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:49,120 We had all prowlers and burglary calls in the vicinity of the murder house rechecked. 472 00:19:49,120 --> 00:19:52,800 Units working the area where the murder had occurred had picked up two possible suspects 473 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,760 loitering in the neighborhood, but they were eliminated almost immediately. 474 00:19:56,760 --> 00:20:01,280 All of the neighbors, friends, and relatives of Mr. and Ms. Gray were contacted and questioned. 475 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:02,600 No leads. 476 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:06,120 All their stories tallied almost exactly with that of Earl Anderson. 477 00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:09,120 The Grays had been known to argue, quite frequently. 478 00:20:09,120 --> 00:20:12,400 The arguments were loud, but no one could say that they ever showed any physical violence 479 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:14,000 toward one another. 480 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:18,240 Was the opinion of the relatives and in-laws that Leonard Gray drank too much? 481 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:22,880 Earl Anderson, his friend, was checked and found to be a completely reliable man. 482 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:27,200 We talked with the repairman at the garage where Gray had his tires exchanged. 483 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,840 His story was correct in every detail. 484 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:32,120 Earl Anderson's wife was checked. 485 00:20:32,120 --> 00:20:34,840 She vouched for the Grays as well as her husband. 486 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:39,640 Ben and I talked with Captain Steed for an hour, 1.45 a.m. 487 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:44,360 Well, Skipper seems to feel like I do about it. 488 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:46,040 Yeah, my husband Gray, huh? 489 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:47,400 Sure looks that way, doesn't it? 490 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:50,640 We've been over that story three times with him and we get three different versions. 491 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:51,640 Yeah, I know. 492 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:52,640 It's completely sober now. 493 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:54,280 He should be able to tell a straight story. 494 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:55,880 I don't know, Joe. 495 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,040 Yeah, well, I'm not completely satisfied. 496 00:20:58,040 --> 00:20:59,720 As far as that goes, the captain isn't either. 497 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:00,720 You heard him. 498 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:02,880 I'll admit Gray looks bad right now. 499 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:03,880 What are you saying? 500 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:04,880 I don't know. 501 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:05,880 I'm gonna. 502 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:06,880 All right. 503 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:07,880 Homicide Romero. 504 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:08,880 Yeah, Edwin. 505 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:09,880 No, Joe's right here. 506 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:10,880 You want to talk with him? 507 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:11,880 Oh, fine, yeah. 508 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:12,880 Yeah, go ahead. 509 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:13,880 Oh, yeah. 510 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:14,880 Okay, thanks, Bob. 511 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:15,880 George, a juvenile. 512 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:16,880 Yeah? 513 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:17,880 Picked up a couple of kids. 514 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:18,880 They confessed to slashing the Grays' tires. 515 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:19,880 Well, it clears that up. 516 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:20,880 Didn't seem to figure it anyway. 517 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:21,880 Did it to you? 518 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:22,880 No. 519 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:23,880 Somebody did it to draw Gray out of the house. 520 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:24,880 I don't know. 521 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:25,880 I don't know. 522 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:26,880 I don't know. 523 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:27,880 I don't know. 524 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:28,880 I don't know. 525 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:29,880 I don't know. 526 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:30,880 They said they'd draw Gray out of the house. 527 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:32,880 Well, it's cutting it pretty thin, isn't it? 528 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:33,880 Yeah. 529 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:34,880 What's the time? 530 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:35,880 10 minutes to two. 531 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,880 Guess I better call Leighton Prince and see what they got. 532 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:39,880 Okay. 533 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:43,880 Did Edward say that they were gonna hold those juveniles for us? 534 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:46,880 Yeah, I said they were bringing them down here for interrogation. 535 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:47,880 Okay. 536 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:48,880 Well, hi. 537 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:49,880 Hi, Mac. 538 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:50,880 Romero. 539 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:51,880 Yeah. 540 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:52,880 Uh-huh, good. 541 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:53,880 Yeah, right, thanks. 542 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:54,880 Yeah. 543 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:55,880 You got something? 544 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:56,880 What'd he say? 545 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,880 One of the prints they left out there is a palm print. 546 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:01,880 McGloffin says it'll work for elimination. 547 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:02,880 Something else. 548 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:03,880 Yeah. 549 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:10,880 The print was pressed in spots of blood. 550 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:15,880 The killer of Hazel Gray had left behind him a clue to his identity about which there could 551 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:18,880 be no mistake, his palm print. 552 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:21,880 The prints of the dead woman, Hazel Gray, were checked and eliminated. 553 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:22,880 They weren't hers. 554 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:27,880 2.40 a.m. Leonard Gray and his friend Earl Anderson were taken down and fingerprinted. 555 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:29,880 Their palm prints were also taken. 556 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:31,880 Both men were returned to the interrogation room. 557 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,880 Sergeant, why do we have to be fingerprinted? 558 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:35,880 Just routine. 559 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:37,880 Just like I was telling you, Sergeant, righty? 560 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:38,880 What's that? 561 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:40,880 Len and I have been suspects all along, haven't we? 562 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:42,880 Well, it's just a matter of elimination. 563 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:44,880 Anybody involved in any way has to be checked out. 564 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:46,880 Didn't the fellow down at the garage verify Len's story? 565 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:47,880 Yes, sir, he did. 566 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:48,880 It's the truth. 567 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:52,880 I wouldn't lie at a time like this. 568 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:54,880 I don't believe that anybody thinks you're lying, Len. 569 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:56,880 It's just they have to be sure. 570 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:57,880 That's right. 571 00:22:57,880 --> 00:22:58,880 Again. 572 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:00,880 Interrogation room. 573 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:02,880 This is Romero. 574 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:04,880 Oh, yeah, right. 575 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:06,880 Okay, right away. 576 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:07,880 Crime lab joke. 577 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:09,880 Finger says he and Jones would like to see one of us right away. 578 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:10,880 All right, you want to go? 579 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:11,880 Yeah, I'll be right back. 580 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:13,880 Okay. 581 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:17,880 Sergeant, was there really any specific reason for us being fingerprinted? 582 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:19,880 Well, we already told you, it's just routine. 583 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,880 Wouldn't it be perfectly in line to find Len's fingerprints around his own house? 584 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:24,880 Well, yes, it would. 585 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:26,880 Yours could be there, too, Earl. 586 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:27,880 Yeah, I was going to say that. 587 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:29,880 I'm over at their house a great deal of the time. 588 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:31,880 Yeah, we know you mentioned that. 589 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:33,880 Makes you feel kind of funny getting fingerprinted. 590 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,880 It doesn't make any difference what I have to go through if you can find who did this thing. 591 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:39,880 I feel the same way, Len. 592 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:41,880 Think you're any closer to knowing who did it? 593 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:42,880 Well, possibly. 594 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:44,880 You men have had a little time to think this over. 595 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:48,880 Do either of you have anything to add to your story, maybe some small detail you may have overlooked? 596 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:50,880 I've been thinking about it all night. 597 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,880 I can't think of anything I haven't already told you. 598 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:54,880 Mm-hmm. 599 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:55,880 You, Mr. Anderson? 600 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:56,880 Hmm? 601 00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:58,880 Is there anything that you might have forgotten to tell us? 602 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:00,880 Sorry, I was just thinking. 603 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:01,880 Yes, sir? 604 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,880 There couldn't have been anyone Hazel knew, could there, Len? 605 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:05,880 How do you mean? 606 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,880 Well, somebody maybe from her past, somebody she might not have told you about. 607 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:11,880 I don't see how that could be possible. 608 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,880 You people checked your father and mother, didn't you? 609 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:15,880 Yes, sir, we did. 610 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:17,880 Well, that eliminates that possibility. 611 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:21,880 Haven't you found any way at all to tell them who it was that killed Hazel? 612 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:22,880 Yeah, we have. 613 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:24,880 Well, I think that Len here is entitled to know. 614 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,880 I'd be glad to leave the room if you want to talk to him alone. 615 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:28,880 No, sir, that's not necessary. 616 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:30,880 When we work it out, you'll both be told about it. 617 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,880 If there's something definite, you'd tell me, wouldn't you? 618 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:34,880 I think Earl's right. 619 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:35,880 I'm entitled to know. 620 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:37,880 Well, sir, we're assigned to the investigation, Mr. Gray, 621 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,880 and we're doing everything that we can to get to the bottom of it. 622 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:44,880 Sergeant Len and I think you men know a great deal more than you've been telling them. 623 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:45,880 His wife was a victim. 624 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,880 It's his right to know how the investigation's going, isn't it? 625 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,880 Well, I told you before, whatever he should know, we'll tell him. 626 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,880 Anything that we withhold from him is done for a good reason. 627 00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:58,880 Joe, want to take a look at this? 628 00:24:58,880 --> 00:24:59,880 Yeah, thanks. 629 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:00,880 Here you are. 630 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:03,880 Here's your report on it. 631 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:10,880 Oh, thank you. 632 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:17,880 That shirt belonged to either of you men? 633 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:18,880 It's not mine. 634 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:20,880 No, why? What's it mean? 635 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:22,880 I get it. 636 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:25,880 Terrogation Room, Friday. 637 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:26,880 Yeti. 638 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:30,880 Right, thank you. 639 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,880 What about that shirt, Sergeant? What's it mean? 640 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:37,880 This button here, a little piece of cloth attached, found by the body. 641 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,880 You notice the front of the shirt here, button ripped off? 642 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:43,880 See how it matches? 643 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:45,880 Yeah, it's not my shirt. 644 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:46,880 It was found in your house. 645 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:48,880 I never saw it before. It's not mine. 646 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:49,880 The palm print was. 647 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:50,880 What? 648 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:51,880 The print of your palm. 649 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:53,880 Blood stains on it. It was found near the body. 650 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,880 What are you talking about, Earl? What's he mean? 651 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:58,880 I killed Hazel. 652 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:00,880 What? 653 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:02,880 I killed Hazel. 654 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:05,880 Why? 655 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:09,880 Because I loved her. 656 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:11,880 I think I loved her more than you did. 657 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,880 You don't kill someone because you love them. 658 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:17,880 You do if you love them enough. 659 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:19,880 You ready to give us a statement, Anderson? 660 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:21,880 Yeah, I'll tell you. 661 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:23,880 I can't believe all this. 662 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:25,880 I can't believe all this. 663 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:27,880 I'm going to kill you. 664 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:29,880 All right, Gray, hold it. 665 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,880 I can't believe it. My best friend. 666 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:36,880 I wasn't your best friend. 667 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:46,880 The story you have just heard was true. 668 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,880 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 669 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:53,880 On April 4th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 89, 670 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:55,880 City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 671 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:57,880 In a moment, the results of that trial. 672 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:00,880 And now here is our star, Jack Webb. 673 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:01,880 Thank you. 674 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,880 Friends, let me tell you how to size up king-size cigarettes. 675 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:08,880 First, take a Fatima, and then any other king-size cigarette. 676 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:12,880 Side by side, the two may seem to look alike, but they're not. 677 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:16,880 Because no other king-size cigarette has Fatima quality. 678 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:17,880 That's right. 679 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,880 In Fatima, the difference is quality. 680 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,880 Quality that starts with a blend of the finest domestic and Turkish tobaccos, 681 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:27,880 and follows up with extra mildness, a better flavor and aroma. 682 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,880 Now, if you haven't tried Fatimas yet, take my advice. 683 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,880 Buy a pack. Compare Fatima. 684 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:37,880 You'll find, just as I have, that in Fatima, the difference is quality. 685 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,680 The 686 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,880 Earl Taylor Anderson was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree. 687 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:55,880 He was executed in the lethal gas chamber at the State Penitentiary, San Quentin, California. 688 00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:02,880 At home and overseas, in camps, hospitals, and military installations, and in battle areas, 689 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:08,880 Red Cross personnel work for the welfare, recreation, and morale of those who defend the nation. 690 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,880 Today, Red Cross is expanding these services 691 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:15,880 to keep pace with the rapid growth of our nation's defense forces. 692 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,880 Your support of Red Cross makes this expansion possible. 693 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:24,880 Remember, when you give to the Red Cross, your gift is a lift to our fighting men. 694 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:31,880 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 695 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:40,880 Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 696 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:46,880 Our thanks to Quick Magazine for this week's salute to Dragnet's Jack Webb. 697 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:50,880 Fatima cigarettes, best of all long. Cigarettes has brought you Dragnet. 698 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:55,880 Portions transcribed from Los Angeles. 699 00:28:55,880 --> 00:29:24,880 Here a gold smuggling case on Counterspy, next over most NBC stations.