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For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 02:04.000 --> 02:10.000 you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files. 02:10.000 --> 02:17.000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 02:17.000 --> 02:28.000 It was Wednesday, August 4th. It was hot in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of Juvenile Bureau. 02:28.000 --> 02:32.000 My partner is Ben Romero. The boss is Inspector Bowling. My name is Fry. 02:32.000 --> 02:39.000 We were on the way out from the office and it was 2.25 p.m. when we got to Bowers Avenue, number 1218. 02:39.000 --> 02:40.000 Yes. 02:40.000 --> 02:42.000 Police officers, ma'am, would you like to see Mr. Sherman? 02:42.000 --> 02:43.000 Certainly, officers. Won't you come in? 02:43.000 --> 02:44.000 Thank you. 02:44.000 --> 02:46.000 Thank you very much. 02:46.000 --> 02:49.000 I'm Mrs. Keller from next door. I saw you around here yesterday. 02:49.000 --> 02:50.000 Yes, ma'am. 02:50.000 --> 02:53.000 Came over this morning to look after poor Mr. Sherman. 02:53.000 --> 02:55.000 Yes, ma'am. Well, how's he feeling today? 02:55.000 --> 03:02.000 Not too well. Fixed him some nice chicken broth for lunch and then I helped him in his wheelchair and took him out in the backyard out in the sun. 03:02.000 --> 03:06.000 Good hot sun. It's wonderful for his legs. He has arthritis, you know. 03:06.000 --> 03:09.000 Yes, so we understand. What if we could talk to him, Miss Keller? 03:09.000 --> 03:16.000 Yes, I guess you have to. He's still out in the back sleeping in his chair last time I looked. It seems a shame to disturb him. 03:16.000 --> 03:20.000 Well, he called us at the office and said he wanted to see us as soon as we could make it out here. 03:20.000 --> 03:23.000 Was it about his grandson, Jimmy? They found him yet? 03:23.000 --> 03:27.000 No, ma'am. Searching for it, he's combing the area. There's still no trace of the boy. 03:27.000 --> 03:30.000 Did any of the other officers who were out here covering the neighborhood talk to you, Miss Keller? 03:30.000 --> 03:34.000 Oh, yes. There was Mr. Lorman, Detective Lorman. 03:34.000 --> 03:35.000 Yes, ma'am. 03:35.000 --> 03:41.000 I told him everything I knew about Jimmy's disappearance. It was right after dinner hour on Monday. 03:41.000 --> 03:43.000 It was about 6.30 last time I saw Jimmy. 03:43.000 --> 03:45.000 I see. 03:45.000 --> 03:51.000 I came out the side door to empty the garbage and I saw Jimmy hiking up the side of the hill there, 03:51.000 --> 03:55.000 just in back of the house all by himself. Nice boy. 03:55.000 --> 03:59.000 As far as you know, Mrs. Keller, Jimmy is Mr. Sherman's only living relative. 03:59.000 --> 04:02.000 That's right. His only relative, his only grandchild. 04:02.000 --> 04:07.000 Jimmy's mother and father were killed in an auto wreck. That was three or four years ago. 04:07.000 --> 04:12.000 Sherman's had a terrible lot of tragedy. Jimmy and his grandfather are the only ones left. 04:12.000 --> 04:16.000 You can't think of any reason why the boy would want to leave his grandfather, can you? 04:16.000 --> 04:20.000 None at all. Mr. Sherman's a wonderful man. Jimmy loved him. I knew that. 04:20.000 --> 04:23.000 Mrs. Keller! Mrs. Keller! 04:23.000 --> 04:26.000 That's Mr. Sherman. He's awake. We can go through the house out the back. 04:26.000 --> 04:27.000 All right, ma'am. 04:27.000 --> 04:28.000 This way. 04:28.000 --> 04:30.000 Thank you. Go ahead, ma'am. 04:30.000 --> 04:32.000 Thank you. 04:37.000 --> 04:40.000 Visitors for you, Mr. Sherman. How are you feeling? 04:40.000 --> 04:42.000 All right, I suppose. Hello, Sergeant. 04:42.000 --> 04:43.000 How are you, Mr. Sherman? 04:43.000 --> 04:45.000 What about the boy? Have you found him yet? 04:45.000 --> 04:48.000 Well, nothing yet, Mr. Sherman. We've added more men to the searching party. 04:48.000 --> 04:50.000 We're doing everything we can. 04:50.000 --> 04:55.000 Gone two nights and two days. Tell me the truth, Sergeant. What's happened to the boy? 04:55.000 --> 04:59.000 Well, right now, we don't know any more about it than you do, sir, but that's no reason to give up hope. 04:59.000 --> 05:04.000 You told us yourself yesterday that Jimmy's been missing once before. It turned out all right that time. 05:04.000 --> 05:10.000 He wasn't gone for two nights and two days. Maybe you'll just say I'm old and I've got funny ideas, 05:10.000 --> 05:14.000 but I got a feeling, Sergeant, something's happened to Jimmy. 05:14.000 --> 05:16.000 Something's happened and I can't do anything about it. 05:16.000 --> 05:21.000 You just put those thoughts out of your head, Mr. Sherman. They're going to find Jimmy and it's going to be all right. 05:21.000 --> 05:23.000 Why don't you pull up those lawn chairs there, Sergeant? 05:23.000 --> 05:24.000 All right. 05:24.000 --> 05:26.000 I'm going to go in the house and fix some cold lemonade for you men. 05:26.000 --> 05:30.000 Well, thank you, ma'am. We got your phone message at the office, Mr. Sherman. 05:30.000 --> 05:32.000 Anything special you wanted to talk to us about? 05:32.000 --> 05:41.000 Yes, there was something. When you were talking to me yesterday, I told you that Jimmy had on a brown jacket when he disappeared Monday night. 05:41.000 --> 05:48.000 I was wrong, Sergeant. We found the jacket in his room. All he was wearing was a pair of blue jeans and this white sweatshirt. 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 Do you think that might help any? 05:50.000 --> 05:55.000 Yes, sir, it might. We'll send out a supplementary description of his clothes. We'll see that everybody's notified. 05:55.000 --> 06:02.000 I just wish I could be out there with the searching party. Outsiders is pretty bad today. Caught me in a terrible time. 06:02.000 --> 06:05.000 I don't know what I'd do if anything happened to the boy. 06:05.000 --> 06:11.000 I know we've asked you this before, Mr. Sherman, but can you think of any reason at all why your grandson would want to leave home? 06:11.000 --> 06:19.000 No, sir, no reason at all. Those two collie pups over there in the pen. Jimmy just bought them last week with his own money, saved up to get them. 06:19.000 --> 06:20.000 I see. 06:20.000 --> 06:28.000 The boy's crazy about dogs. That's why I say he just wouldn't pick up and leave everything. The boy and me got along fine. 06:28.000 --> 06:34.000 No reason for it, Sergeant. Something's happened to the boy. I just got a feeling. 06:34.000 --> 06:35.000 Officer? 06:35.000 --> 06:36.000 Yes, ma'am? 06:36.000 --> 06:38.000 A telephone call for either one of you. 06:38.000 --> 06:39.000 I'll get it, Ben. I'll be right back. 06:39.000 --> 06:40.000 You're right. 06:46.000 --> 06:47.000 The man said it was your office calling. 06:47.000 --> 06:49.000 Thank you, Miss Keller. Where's the phone? 06:49.000 --> 06:51.000 The telephone's straight back there in the hall. 06:51.000 --> 06:52.000 Thank you very much. 06:56.000 --> 06:57.000 Friday talking. 06:57.000 --> 07:00.000 This is Bowling Joe. Just heard from the search party up in the hills. 07:00.000 --> 07:01.000 Oh, did they find something? 07:01.000 --> 07:07.000 Yeah, in the Elysian Park area by the upper reservoir. Found a pair of kids' trousers right by the edge of the water. 07:07.000 --> 07:08.000 What kind of trousers? 07:08.000 --> 07:12.000 Blue jeans, nothing in the pockets. They'll start dragging for a body as soon as they get the equipment. 07:12.000 --> 07:17.000 Check it out with the grandfather, huh? See if the boy was in the habit of hiking up there around the reservoir. 07:17.000 --> 07:19.000 Right. We'll call in just before we leave here. 07:19.000 --> 07:20.000 Right, Joe. 07:19.000 --> 07:20.000 Right, bye. 07:31.000 --> 07:34.000 Well, there's your lemonade, Sergeant. Just poured it for you. Nicely cold. 07:34.000 --> 07:35.000 Thank you, ma'am. 07:35.000 --> 07:37.000 What was it, Sergeant? Something about the boy? 07:37.000 --> 07:41.000 Well, nothing definite, no, sir. Just a report on the search party. They're still up in the Elysian Park area. 07:41.000 --> 07:43.000 Oh, I see. 07:43.000 --> 07:47.000 Did your grandson Jimmy do much hiking in that neighborhood up there, Mr. Sherman? 07:47.000 --> 07:52.000 Yes, I think he did. Likes to hike up there around the reservoir. Why? 07:56.000 --> 08:02.000 The name on the 316 report, Missing Juvenile, read, James Philip Sherman, WMA, 10 years old. 08:02.000 --> 08:09.000 He lived with his 68-year-old grandfather, Oscar Sherman, in a small cottage in a sparsely populated section of the city. 08:09.000 --> 08:13.000 Shortly after 6 p.m. on Monday, the boy went outside to play. 08:13.000 --> 08:18.000 When darkness fell and he failed to return home, his crippled grandfather went out to look for him. 08:18.000 --> 08:22.000 Half an hour later, the neighbors joined in in the search. No sign of the boy. 08:22.000 --> 08:29.000 At 10 p.m., Juvenile Bureau was notified, and throughout the night, squads of men on foot and in cruiser cars canvassed the area. 08:29.000 --> 08:33.000 A local broadcast and an all-points bulletin was gotten out on the boy. 08:33.000 --> 08:37.000 Neither the grandfather or the neighbors could find any reason for his disappearance. 08:37.000 --> 08:45.000 After almost 48 hours of continuous searching, the only lead we had was the pair of trousers found on the edge of the upper reservoir in Elysian Park. 08:45.000 --> 08:49.000 They were shown to the grandfather, but he failed to give positive identification. 08:49.000 --> 08:53.000 Dragging operations at the reservoir began immediately. 08:53.000 --> 08:59.000 Meantime, Ben and I, together with Lorman and Lopez from homicide, checked out every possible lead on the missing youngster. 08:59.000 --> 09:05.000 One of the tips came from a Frank Grady, an unemployed carpenter who lived five blocks from the Sherman home. 09:05.000 --> 09:12.000 I don't know how much this may be worth to you, Sergeant. I don't want to get anybody in trouble, but I figured this is a pretty important thing. 09:12.000 --> 09:14.000 Well, what is it you want to tell us, Mr. Grady? 09:14.000 --> 09:20.000 Well, as I say, I don't want to get anybody in any trouble, but have you checked over everybody in this neighborhood? 09:20.000 --> 09:23.000 I think we've talked to just about everybody in the area, don't you, Joe? 09:23.000 --> 09:26.000 Well, either us or the men from homicide. Why do you ask, Grady? 09:26.000 --> 09:32.000 Well, there's a guy who's down the street there, right down the corner from this house. Old guy by the name of Gilby. 09:32.000 --> 09:33.000 What about him? 09:33.000 --> 09:40.000 As I say, I don't want to cause any trouble, but maybe you ought to double-check him. One thing, he's an ex-convict, I know that. 09:40.000 --> 09:47.000 Another thing, he hates everybody in the neighborhood. Hates the kids, too. Wouldn't be surprised if he was your man. 09:47.000 --> 09:51.000 What do you say to that, Grady? Does he have any special reason for disliking the Sherman boy? 09:51.000 --> 09:55.000 Oh, man, Gilby wouldn't need a reason. A real queer one. 09:55.000 --> 09:59.000 Say, I got a couple cans of cold beer in the icebox, can I fix you guys up? 09:59.000 --> 10:00.000 No, thank you. 10:00.000 --> 10:05.000 What makes you think this Gilby had anything to do with the boy's disappearance, Mr. Grady? 10:05.000 --> 10:10.000 Well, number one, I saw old man Gilby out walking Monday night when the Sherman kid disappeared. 10:10.000 --> 10:11.000 Yeah? 10:11.000 --> 10:17.000 Saw him walking along the road up there, the same one that goes up by the reservoir. And I watched him. 10:17.000 --> 10:22.000 It was dark by the time he got back to his house. I'd check on him again if I were you. 10:22.000 --> 10:26.000 As far as you know, has Gilby ever been in trouble for bothering the kids in the neighborhood? 10:26.000 --> 10:32.000 Well, Sergeant, he bothers everybody in the neighborhood. Real queer, lives by himself, always complaining about something. 10:32.000 --> 10:36.000 Frankly, I think he's your man. I think he took that kid and he did something to him. 10:36.000 --> 10:38.000 Do you have anything at all to back up your opinion? 10:38.000 --> 10:42.000 You dig around, you'll find something on him. He's no good, and I'll bet on it. 10:42.000 --> 10:46.000 I've had a couple of run-ins with him myself. He just isn't any good, that's all. 10:46.000 --> 10:50.000 Well, all right, Grady, thanks for the tip. We'll be sure and double-check on the man. 10:50.000 --> 10:52.000 You won't tell him where you got the tip, though, huh? 10:52.000 --> 10:56.000 Like I say, I've had run-ins with him before. It might cause trouble. 10:56.000 --> 10:58.000 No, he won't know where we got it. Thanks again. 10:58.000 --> 11:06.000 Okay, Sergeant, it's a pretty important thing. I didn't want to make anybody look bad, but the old man's just no good. 11:06.000 --> 11:08.000 Now, you understand that, don't you? 11:08.000 --> 11:10.000 Sure, Grady, we understand. 11:14.000 --> 11:18.000 As a matter of routine, we double-checked on Grady's neighbor, Mr. Harold Gilby. 11:18.000 --> 11:23.000 We found out that he had no jail record and that he had been at work on Monday from 3 to 11 p.m. 11:23.000 --> 11:28.000 He could have had no direct connection with the Sherman boy's disappearance, no more than Grady himself could have had. 11:28.000 --> 11:33.000 The so-called tip he'd offered us was like a hundred other phony leads in a hundred other cases, 11:33.000 --> 11:41.000 spiteful, small-minded neighbors trying to use a tragic situation to work out their jealousies and prejudice on somebody that they didn't get along with in the neighborhood. 11:41.000 --> 11:47.000 The search continued. So did the hot weather. Friday, August 6th, no sign of the missing boy. 11:47.000 --> 11:52.000 The temperature climbed into the mid-90s. Dragging operations at the reservoir went on. 11:52.000 --> 11:56.000 Saturday, August 7th, more legwork, more hot weather. 11:56.000 --> 12:01.000 By noontime, Ben and I had run down the last lead we had on 10-year-old Jimmy Sherman. 12:01.000 --> 12:05.000 Went nowhere. 1 p.m., we headed back for the office to check with Inspector Bowling. 12:07.000 --> 12:13.000 These are the days when I wish I had a little swim and pool in my backyard. Sure would be nice to go home to. 12:13.000 --> 12:14.000 Yeah, well, save your money. 12:14.000 --> 12:17.000 Oh, it doesn't cost so much. 12:18.000 --> 12:22.000 No, I read in a magazine where a fella built his own pool for $95.37. 12:22.000 --> 12:24.000 It can't be much of a pool, can it? 12:24.000 --> 12:29.000 Oh, yeah, it's a good size. Of course, he did all his own labor. Had all his friends in to help out. 12:29.000 --> 12:30.000 He must have had a lot of friends, didn't he? 12:30.000 --> 12:33.000 Yeah, he did after he finished the pool. 12:33.000 --> 12:34.000 Grady, Ben. 12:34.000 --> 12:35.000 Hi. 12:35.000 --> 12:36.000 Hi, Skipper. 12:36.000 --> 12:38.000 How'd you two make out? Anything? 12:38.000 --> 12:39.000 No, no luck at all. 12:39.000 --> 12:43.000 It makes you unanimous. Did you hear about the old man, the boy's grandfather? 12:43.000 --> 12:44.000 No, what happened? 12:44.000 --> 12:48.000 I guess the strain got too much for him. He collapsed. They're moving him to a hospital. 12:48.000 --> 12:51.000 Oh, that's too bad. Are men still up there dragging that reservoir? 12:51.000 --> 12:54.000 Finished this morning. Nothing. 12:54.000 --> 12:56.000 Well, how about the search party? Nothing there either, I suppose. 12:56.000 --> 13:00.000 No, not a trace of the boy. It's a blind alley all the way around. 13:00.000 --> 13:02.000 How about the APB, the radio grant? 13:02.000 --> 13:05.000 Had three replies so far, none of them panned out. 13:05.000 --> 13:07.000 You want to grab it? 13:07.000 --> 13:09.000 Juvenile Bureau of Bowling. 13:09.000 --> 13:11.000 Yeah, Fred? 13:11.000 --> 13:14.000 Uh-huh. No good, huh? 13:14.000 --> 13:17.000 Yeah, all right. Check you later. 13:18.000 --> 13:21.000 I heard it once. I heard it 50 times. No trace of the boy. 13:21.000 --> 13:24.000 Not me, Skipper. Something real weird about the whole thing. 13:24.000 --> 13:27.000 Well, now look, we know he didn't just disappear into thin air. 13:27.000 --> 13:29.000 Kid's gone, there's a good reason for it. 13:29.000 --> 13:31.000 There's got to be an answer somewhere. 13:31.000 --> 13:33.000 That's right. You'll find it. 13:37.000 --> 13:40.000 Another week passed, and then a month. Two months. 13:40.000 --> 13:43.000 We were no farther along than the day we started on the case. 13:43.000 --> 13:46.000 In November, we had a teletype from Chief Earl Eau Claire 13:46.000 --> 13:48.000 of the Phoenix, Arizona Police Department. 13:48.000 --> 13:51.000 Reportedly, the Sherman boy had been seen in Phoenix. 13:51.000 --> 13:53.000 It was another false alarm. 13:53.000 --> 13:56.000 The Christmas holidays wore on into a new year. 13:56.000 --> 13:59.000 February came and went, then March, April. 13:59.000 --> 14:02.000 Tuesday, May 3rd, 1.40 p.m. 14:02.000 --> 14:05.000 Ben and I got a call to check in with Inspector Bowling. 14:05.000 --> 14:08.000 Miss Telegram, just came in from Dayton, Ohio. Have a look. 14:08.000 --> 14:11.000 Thank you. Let's see, Joe, what is it? 14:11.000 --> 14:13.000 Jimmy Sherman. They found him. 14:16.000 --> 14:19.000 Nine months had gone by almost to the day 14:19.000 --> 14:21.000 since the Sherman boy had disappeared. 14:21.000 --> 14:23.000 The grandfather was contacted immediately. 14:23.000 --> 14:26.000 When he was told his grandson had been found and that he was safe, 14:26.000 --> 14:29.000 the old man was unable to answer. He broke down and wept. 14:29.000 --> 14:32.000 In our communications with the Dayton, Ohio police, 14:32.000 --> 14:35.000 they told us that the boy had been found wandering along a highway 14:35.000 --> 14:39.000 outside that city and that he'd appeared to be in a kind of a dazed condition. 14:39.000 --> 14:42.000 The boy told the Dayton officers that he'd been kidnapped a short distance 14:42.000 --> 14:45.000 from his home in Los Angeles by a man in a blue sedan. 14:45.000 --> 14:48.000 He gave them detailed descriptions of both the man and the car. 14:48.000 --> 14:52.000 He told them that for the past nine months, the man had held him prisoner, 14:52.000 --> 14:55.000 driving from state to state, never letting the boy out of his sight. 14:55.000 --> 14:59.000 He said the kidnapper told him on several occasions that he was holding him for ransom 14:59.000 --> 15:02.000 and that he was waiting to get money from his grandfather. 15:02.000 --> 15:06.000 On May 8th, the youngster was returned to Los Angeles and reunited with his grandfather. 15:06.000 --> 15:10.000 On May 10th, we got a call from the grandfather that he wanted to talk to us. 15:10.000 --> 15:12.000 Ben and I drove out to see him. 15:12.000 --> 15:15.000 Come right in, officer. Glad to see you. 15:15.000 --> 15:16.000 How are you, sir? 15:16.000 --> 15:17.000 Hi, Mr. Sherman. 15:17.000 --> 15:20.000 Sorry to cause you all this trouble chasing you out here like this. 15:20.000 --> 15:23.000 Not at all, sir. What is it that you want to see us about? 15:23.000 --> 15:26.000 Well, I'm not really sure about it, Sergeant. 15:26.000 --> 15:28.000 That's the whole thing of it. 15:28.000 --> 15:31.000 I don't know if it's me or what it is. 15:31.000 --> 15:33.000 What's bothering you, Mr. Sherman? 15:33.000 --> 15:37.000 It's the boy, Jimmy. I don't know what to think. 15:37.000 --> 15:39.000 Well, how do you mean, sir? He's all right, isn't he? 15:39.000 --> 15:41.000 We saw him as we drove up, playing out in the backyard, 15:41.000 --> 15:43.000 and the doctor checked him over, didn't he? 15:43.000 --> 15:45.000 No, it's not that. The boy's healthy enough. 15:45.000 --> 15:46.000 Nothing wrong with him. 15:46.000 --> 15:48.000 Well, then what is it, sir? 15:48.000 --> 15:53.000 Maybe it sounds a little weird to you, but I'm just not sure. 15:53.000 --> 15:54.000 You're not sure of what? 15:54.000 --> 16:09.000 That boy out there, Sergeant, I'm not sure he's really my grandson. 16:09.000 --> 16:12.000 You are in the communications division of a metropolitan police department, 16:12.000 --> 16:21.000 the Teletype Room. 16:21.000 --> 16:29.000 43 LOS 529-51, 1203 PMA-PB, WMA 150, 5'6", dark hair, dark eyes, 16:29.000 --> 16:31.000 wearing gray suit, no hat. 16:31.000 --> 16:35.000 Suspect is wearing glasses, heavy build, 22 years. 16:35.000 --> 16:37.000 Suspect is armed with blue steel revolver. 16:37.000 --> 16:39.000 Any information? Forward. 16:39.000 --> 16:42.000 You have just heard a Teletype description of a suspect. 16:42.000 --> 16:44.000 This information will apply to many, 16:44.000 --> 16:47.000 but careful screening will eliminate all but one. 16:47.000 --> 16:50.000 You'll find the same is true when you examine King Si cigarettes. 16:50.000 --> 16:53.000 Careful screening will eliminate all but Fatima. 16:53.000 --> 16:55.000 Compare Fatima. 16:55.000 --> 17:00.000 Fatimas are the same length as any other King Si cigarette, 85 millimeters. 17:00.000 --> 17:05.000 Fatima has the same circumference, one and one-sixty-fourths inches around. 17:05.000 --> 17:08.000 And Fatima filters the smoke exactly the same long distance 17:08.000 --> 17:13.000 as other King Si cigarettes, but in Fatima the difference is quality. 17:13.000 --> 17:19.000 Fatima gives you extra mildness, a much different, much better flavor and aroma. 17:19.000 --> 17:24.000 You get all the advantages of extra length, plus Fatima quality, 17:24.000 --> 17:27.000 which no other King Si cigarette has. 17:27.000 --> 17:31.000 So compare Fatima yourself. Your first puff will tell you... 17:31.000 --> 17:34.000 Ah, that's different. 17:34.000 --> 17:38.000 Yes, in Fatima the difference is quality. 17:38.000 --> 17:40.000 Best of all, long cigarettes. 17:40.000 --> 17:49.000 Tuesday, May 10th, 2 p.m. 17:49.000 --> 17:51.000 When the aging grandfather, Oscar Sherman, 17:51.000 --> 17:55.000 told us that he wasn't sure whether the recovered boy was really his grandson, 17:55.000 --> 17:57.000 Ben and I didn't know what to think. 17:57.000 --> 17:59.000 Our first reaction was that the shock of recovering the boy 17:59.000 --> 18:03.000 after he'd almost been given up for lost had been too much for the old man. 18:03.000 --> 18:07.000 Mr. Sherman admitted that there was no physical difference in the boy as far as he could see, 18:07.000 --> 18:12.000 but he still insisted that there was something wrong, that the boy seemed different somehow. 18:12.000 --> 18:14.000 To satisfy the grandfather, Ben and I talked to the boy, 18:14.000 --> 18:18.000 but he failed to give us any reason to believe that he was not Jimmy Sherman. 18:18.000 --> 18:21.000 We checked with the boy's friends, all the people in the neighborhood 18:21.000 --> 18:23.000 who'd known Jimmy over a period of years. 18:23.000 --> 18:24.000 They confirmed our opinion. 18:24.000 --> 18:26.000 A few thought that the youngster had changed a little, 18:26.000 --> 18:28.000 but no one had any serious doubts about it. 18:28.000 --> 18:30.000 The boy was really Jimmy Sherman. 18:30.000 --> 18:32.000 So the matter was dropped. 18:32.000 --> 18:36.000 Thursday, May 12th, Ben and I had lunch and then we checked back in at the office. 18:36.000 --> 18:39.000 Joe, want to grab that? 18:39.000 --> 18:40.000 Yeah, I'll get it. 18:42.000 --> 18:44.000 Juvenile Bureau, Friday. 18:44.000 --> 18:47.000 Sergeant, this is Mr. Sherman talking. 18:47.000 --> 18:48.000 Yes, sir. 18:48.000 --> 18:49.000 Mr. Sherman? 18:49.000 --> 18:50.000 Yes, sir, how are you? 18:50.000 --> 18:52.000 I want you to come out and take this boy, Sergeant. 18:52.000 --> 18:54.000 He's not my grandson. I'm sure of it. 18:54.000 --> 18:56.000 Well, how do you mean, sir? 18:56.000 --> 18:58.000 This boy's got a scar on his side. 18:58.000 --> 18:59.000 He's had his appendix out. 18:59.000 --> 19:00.000 Yes, sir. 19:00.000 --> 19:03.000 My grandson never had an operation in his life. 19:03.000 --> 19:09.000 Before we left the office, Ben and I briefed Inspector Bowling on the phone call from the grandfather, 19:09.000 --> 19:11.000 then we drove back to the Sherman house. 19:11.000 --> 19:15.000 While Oscar Sherman didn't claim that he knew his grandson's complete medical history, 19:15.000 --> 19:20.000 he was certain that the boy had not had his appendix out and that he had not had an operation. 19:20.000 --> 19:24.000 He told us that his neighbor, Mrs. Keller, could substantiate that, 19:24.000 --> 19:26.000 that she had known Jimmy since he was a baby. 19:26.000 --> 19:29.000 We put in a call to the Sherman's family doctor. He wasn't in. 19:29.000 --> 19:32.000 We left a message and then we went next door to see Mrs. Keller. 19:32.000 --> 19:35.000 We found her in the kitchen washing dishes. 19:36.000 --> 19:39.000 I just got a couple more to rinse. Can you wait a minute? 19:39.000 --> 19:41.000 Yes, of course we can. 19:49.000 --> 19:52.000 Now, to tell you the truth, Sergeant, I just don't know what to think about Mr. Sherman. 19:52.000 --> 19:55.000 Maybe the whole thing was too much for him. His mind's going back on it. 19:55.000 --> 19:58.000 Well, to your knowledge, Mrs. Keller, was the boy ever operated on? 19:58.000 --> 20:02.000 No, not as far as I know. But it's possible he did have an operation. 20:02.000 --> 20:04.000 I didn't hear about it. 20:04.000 --> 20:07.000 Sergeant, as far as I'm concerned, that boy's Jimmy Sherman. 20:07.000 --> 20:10.000 I don't know what his grandfather's up to with all that silly talk. 20:10.000 --> 20:13.000 Well, if it's not really the boy, we won't have too much trouble finding the truth. 20:13.000 --> 20:16.000 There's no question in my mind. Of course it's Jimmy. 20:16.000 --> 20:20.000 Why, when he was over here the other day, he talked about the party I gave for him one Halloween. 20:20.000 --> 20:23.000 He even remembered the children who were there. 20:23.000 --> 20:25.000 Are the other neighbors as sure about the boy as you are? 20:25.000 --> 20:29.000 Just about. Mrs. Foster down the street. Jimmy was in to see her yesterday. 20:29.000 --> 20:32.000 He talked about some changes she'd made in her living room. 20:32.000 --> 20:35.000 Asked her about some relatives she has living out of town. 20:35.000 --> 20:36.000 Mm-hmm. 20:36.000 --> 20:41.000 Come to think about it, Jimmy even remarked on that new trailer rose I planted out in front. 20:41.000 --> 20:46.000 Besides, it's the boy's dogs. Why, they knew that youngster the minute he set foot in the yard. 20:46.000 --> 20:48.000 Yes, ma'am. Well, thank you very much, Mrs. Keller. 20:48.000 --> 20:50.000 If we have any more questions, we'll contact you. Is that all right? 20:50.000 --> 20:53.000 All right, Sergeant. Couldn't fix you a cup of coffee, could I? 20:53.000 --> 20:55.000 Oh, no, thank you. I'm taking time now. 20:55.000 --> 21:01.000 Poor old Mr. Sherman. I don't know what to make of it. He's so mixed up. 21:01.000 --> 21:03.000 Yes, ma'am. So are we. 21:03.000 --> 21:10.000 We left the neighbor, Mrs. Keller, and went back next door to the Sherman house. 21:10.000 --> 21:14.000 The grandfather told us that the family doctor hadn't returned our call yet. 21:14.000 --> 21:19.000 At 3.30 p.m., the boy came home from school, changed his clothes, and went out into the backyard to play. 21:19.000 --> 21:22.000 We figured we had nothing to lose in talking to the boy again. 21:22.000 --> 21:28.000 We found him in the small workshop at the rear of the garage where he was sawing on a piece of plywood with a hacksaw. 21:28.000 --> 21:32.000 We talked to him for about 20 minutes. It was no different than the first time we interviewed him. 21:32.000 --> 21:34.000 He was relaxed and talkative. 21:37.000 --> 21:39.000 Say, would you hand me that hammer there, officer? 21:39.000 --> 21:41.000 Oh, yeah. Here you go. 21:41.000 --> 21:43.000 Thanks. 21:45.000 --> 21:49.000 When I ever get this thing finished, it's going to be the best coaster around here. 21:49.000 --> 21:52.000 These are the wheels I'm going to put on it. Pretty good, aren't they? 21:52.000 --> 21:56.000 Yeah, they look fine, son. Do you like building things, coasters and things like that? 21:56.000 --> 21:59.000 Oh, yeah, I like it all right. It's fun. 22:01.000 --> 22:05.000 Your granddad says you've changed quite a bit since you got back, Jim. 22:05.000 --> 22:08.000 Says you didn't like working around the shop here before. 22:08.000 --> 22:12.000 Well, I guess I don't really. You know, once in a while I like to come out and fool around. 22:12.000 --> 22:16.000 Have you seen Mr. Barlow down the street since you've been back? 22:16.000 --> 22:20.000 Mr. Barlow? No, I went down to see him, but he wasn't home. 22:20.000 --> 22:22.000 Maybe I'll go down and see him tomorrow. 22:22.000 --> 22:24.000 His name isn't Barlow, is it, Ben? I thought it was Robinson. 22:24.000 --> 22:28.000 Oh, yeah, that's right. Mr. Robinson. Sometimes I forget. 22:31.000 --> 22:34.000 How do you and your grandfather get along, Jim, all right? 22:34.000 --> 22:39.000 Oh, sure. Every once in a while it looks kind of funny at me. I don't know. 22:39.000 --> 22:42.000 I guess he's still worried about that man taking me away, you know. 22:42.000 --> 22:46.000 Uh-huh. How you been feeling lately, Jim, OK? 22:46.000 --> 22:49.000 Sure, I feel fine. Hardly ever get sick. 22:52.000 --> 22:54.000 That's good. 22:54.000 --> 22:56.000 You ever been in the hospital, son? 22:56.000 --> 23:00.000 Uh-huh, just once. Had my appendix out. I hate hospitals. 23:00.000 --> 23:02.000 Can I have that kind of nails there, please? 23:02.000 --> 23:04.000 Oh, yeah. Yeah, here you are. 23:05.000 --> 23:07.000 Got to make this good and strong, you know. 23:07.000 --> 23:10.000 I'd like to ask you a question, son. Yeah? 23:10.000 --> 23:12.000 What's your real name? 23:12.000 --> 23:14.000 I'm Jimmy Sherman, you know that. 23:14.000 --> 23:16.000 No, I'd like to have the truth, son. Who are you? 23:16.000 --> 23:20.000 You must be fooling, officers. You know who I am. Jimmy Sherman. 23:20.000 --> 23:23.000 No, Jimmy Sherman never had his appendix out, son, but you did. 23:23.000 --> 23:25.000 And you've got a scar to prove it, haven't you? 23:25.000 --> 23:28.000 Sure, I had my appendix out. Ask my grandpa, he'll tell you. 23:28.000 --> 23:32.000 I'm afraid he won't, son. He says he's not your grandfather. 23:32.000 --> 23:34.000 He says you don't belong here. 23:34.000 --> 23:40.000 His grandson never had an operation in his life. 23:40.000 --> 23:43.000 How about it, son? You want to tell us about it? 23:43.000 --> 23:46.000 Oh, Grandpa isn't feeling well. He doesn't know what he's saying. 23:46.000 --> 23:50.000 Well, he knows you're not his grandson. 23:50.000 --> 23:52.000 Now, come on, what about it, son? 23:52.000 --> 23:56.000 All right. I'm not Jimmy Sherman. 24:01.000 --> 24:03.000 He told us his real name was Donald Rush. 24:03.000 --> 24:07.000 He said he'd run away from his home in Springfield, Ohio, two weeks before. 24:07.000 --> 24:09.000 He said that he'd been picked up by the police on a highway 24:09.000 --> 24:11.000 just on the outskirts of Dayton, Ohio. 24:11.000 --> 24:14.000 On returning the boy to the station, the police officers saw 24:14.000 --> 24:17.000 that he fitted the description of the missing California boy perfectly. 24:17.000 --> 24:20.000 It was almost as if the two were identical twins. 24:20.000 --> 24:23.000 Under the impression that the youngster was suffering from shock or amnesia, 24:23.000 --> 24:27.000 the police officers told him all about his home and his friends in California. 24:27.000 --> 24:31.000 They gave Donald Rush all the information that they had on the missing Sherman boy. 24:31.000 --> 24:35.000 All the newspaper stories, pictures, the dozens of teletypes and circulars 24:35.000 --> 24:39.000 which had been sent across the country in an effort to locate the missing youngster. 24:39.000 --> 24:43.000 On his way out to California on the train, the Rush boy was given dozens of newspapers to read 24:43.000 --> 24:47.000 which contained thousands of words concerning the disappearance of Jimmy Sherman. 24:47.000 --> 24:49.000 So by the time he got to Los Angeles, 24:49.000 --> 24:53.000 Donald Rush knew everything he had to know about the boy he was impersonating. 24:53.000 --> 24:55.000 We questioned the Ohio youngster further. 24:55.000 --> 25:00.000 Besides an exceptionally high IQ, he admitted to having an almost photographic memory. 25:00.000 --> 25:04.000 We took him in the house to face the grandfather of the boy that he'd been impersonating, 25:04.000 --> 25:06.000 the boy who was still missing. 25:09.000 --> 25:10.000 Mr. Sherman. 25:10.000 --> 25:13.000 Yes, Sergeant. Sit down, won't you? 25:13.000 --> 25:16.000 The boy here has a confession for you. He wants to tell you himself. 25:16.000 --> 25:20.000 I think I know. I was right all along, wasn't I, Sergeant? 25:20.000 --> 25:23.000 I didn't mean anything by it, Mr. 25:23.000 --> 25:26.000 I just thought it'd be fun to make out like somebody else for a while. 25:26.000 --> 25:28.000 You wouldn't know the difference, would you, Sergeant? 25:28.000 --> 25:31.000 No, sir, I'm afraid I wouldn't. That picture over there on the mantle, 25:31.000 --> 25:34.000 the boy here, they look exactly alike to me. 25:34.000 --> 25:36.000 There's only one thing I'd like to know, son. 25:36.000 --> 25:37.000 Yeah? 25:37.000 --> 25:41.000 Why'd you do it? Why'd you try and fool me? 25:41.000 --> 25:45.000 I don't know, mister. I ran away from home and the cops picked me up near Dayton. 25:45.000 --> 25:49.000 They thought my name was Jimmy Sherman. They said I was a missing kid from California. 25:49.000 --> 25:51.000 Why didn't you straighten them out right then, son? 25:51.000 --> 25:55.000 I was kind of afraid and if I told them what my real name was, they would have sent me back home. 25:55.000 --> 25:58.000 So I'd just let them think I was really Jimmy Sherman. 25:58.000 --> 26:00.000 They seemed to be pretty sure I was. 26:00.000 --> 26:03.000 How long did you think you could keep it up, son, pretending you were somebody else? 26:03.000 --> 26:06.000 I don't know. I guess I never thought much about that. 26:06.000 --> 26:09.000 I got here and everybody was nice to me. 26:09.000 --> 26:11.000 I just didn't think about anybody finding out. 26:11.000 --> 26:14.000 Honest, mister, I didn't mean to do anything wrong. 26:14.000 --> 26:16.000 I didn't mean to hurt anybody. 26:16.000 --> 26:19.000 And you never saw my grandson? You never saw Jimmy? 26:19.000 --> 26:23.000 No, sir. I just got on the train and they brought me out here. 26:23.000 --> 26:26.000 You don't know where he is? You don't know how he is? 26:26.000 --> 26:29.000 All right. Try to take it easy, Mr. Sherman. 26:29.000 --> 26:33.000 Why would you do it, boy? You're a stranger. 26:33.000 --> 26:36.000 Why would you try to fool me about Jimmy? 26:36.000 --> 26:39.000 I'm sorry, mister. I didn't mean it. I didn't mean it. 26:39.000 --> 26:43.000 Huh. Thought I had him back. 26:43.000 --> 26:46.000 Thought I had him back. 26:46.000 --> 26:49.000 Jimmy. Jimmy. 26:49.000 --> 26:53.000 Come on, Ben. Let's go, son. 26:57.000 --> 27:00.000 I didn't want to make him cry like that, Sergeant. 27:00.000 --> 27:03.000 Honest, I'm sorry. Couldn't you just let me stay here with him? 27:03.000 --> 27:05.000 No, I'm afraid not, son. 27:05.000 --> 27:07.000 I won't do anything wrong. 27:07.000 --> 27:10.000 Don't you think I could just stay here with him? 27:10.000 --> 27:13.000 I'll go right back in there now and tell him I'm sorry. 27:13.000 --> 27:19.000 I'm sorry, too, youngster, but you're not the boys looking for. 27:23.000 --> 27:26.000 The story you have just heard was true. 27:26.000 --> 27:29.000 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:29.000 --> 27:32.000 On Wednesday, May 20th, the meeting was held at the Juvenile Bureau, 27:32.000 --> 27:35.000 City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 27:35.000 --> 27:37.000 In a moment, the results of that meeting. 27:37.000 --> 27:39.000 And now here is our star, Jack Webb. 27:39.000 --> 27:40.000 Thank you. 27:40.000 --> 27:43.000 Once I hold in my hand a new pack of Fatimas. 27:43.000 --> 27:48.000 All I need to prove that Fatima is the best of all long cigarettes. 27:48.000 --> 27:51.000 Now here on the side, you'll find this statement. 27:51.000 --> 27:55.000 Fatima contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos, 27:55.000 --> 27:59.000 superbly blended to make Fatima extra mild. 27:59.000 --> 28:03.000 Fatima gives you all the advantages of extra length plus Fatima quality, 28:03.000 --> 28:06.000 which no other king-size cigarette has. 28:06.000 --> 28:09.000 So tomorrow, buy a pack of Fatimas. 28:09.000 --> 28:13.000 I know you'll find that in Fatima, the difference is quality. 28:13.000 --> 28:21.000 Music 28:21.000 --> 28:24.000 Donald Rush, who impersonated missing 10-year-old Jimmy Sherman, 28:24.000 --> 28:28.000 was returned to the custody of his parents at their home in Springfield, Ohio. 28:28.000 --> 28:31.000 Four months later, the body of Jimmy Sherman was discovered 28:31.000 --> 28:34.000 buried on a farm on the outskirts of Riverside, California. 28:34.000 --> 28:35.000 The boy had been murdered. 28:35.000 --> 28:37.000 His killer, a farmer in the neighborhood, 28:37.000 --> 28:40.000 who was subsequently apprehended and brought to trial. 28:40.000 --> 28:42.000 He was found guilty of murder in the first degree 28:42.000 --> 28:46.000 and was executed at the State Penitentiary, San Quentin, California. 28:46.000 --> 28:55.000 Music 28:55.000 --> 29:00.000 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 29:00.000 --> 29:03.000 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. 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