1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,760 The story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:16,040 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:17,800 Fatima cigarettes. 4 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:29,320 Best of all, long cigarettes brings you dragnet. 5 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:30,760 You're a detective sergeant. 6 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:32,560 You're assigned to homicide detail. 7 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:36,280 A wealthy society woman in your city vanishes. 8 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:40,160 Two months pass before her disappearance is reported to the police. 9 00:00:40,160 --> 00:00:42,440 There's suspicion of foul play. 10 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:47,760 Your job, investigate. 11 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:49,440 Webster's Dictionary. 12 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:51,640 Definition of the word compare. 13 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:52,640 Compare. 14 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:56,040 Examine for purpose of discovering resemblance or difference. 15 00:00:56,040 --> 00:01:00,640 Now let's compare Fatima with any other king size cigarette. 16 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:01,640 The resemblance. 17 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:06,640 Fatimas are the same length as other king size cigarettes, 85 millimeters. 18 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:10,800 Fatima has the same circumference, one and one sixty fourths inches around. 19 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:16,600 And Fatima filters the smoke exactly the same long distance as other king size cigarettes. 20 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:17,600 The difference. 21 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:20,840 In Fatima, the difference is quality. 22 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:26,720 You see, Fatima contains the finest domestic and Turkish tobacco superbly blended to make 23 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:29,000 Fatima extra mild. 24 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:35,000 You get all the advantages of extra length plus Fatima quality, which no other king size 25 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:36,120 cigarette has. 26 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,240 So compare Fatima yourself. 27 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,480 Your first puff will tell you. 28 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:43,960 Ah, that's different. 29 00:01:43,960 --> 00:01:48,200 Yes, in Fatima, the difference is quality. 30 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,000 Buy Fatima. 31 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Best of all, long cigarettes. 32 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:59,240 Dragnet. 33 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:02,040 The documented drama of an actual crime. 34 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:05,880 For the next thirty minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you 35 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:10,200 will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from 36 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:12,280 official police files. 37 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:17,400 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 38 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:18,400 in action. 39 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:24,200 It was Monday, February 8th. 40 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:26,000 It was foggy in Los Angeles. 41 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,640 We were working the day watch out of homicide detail. 42 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:29,840 My partner's Ben Romero. 43 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:32,000 The boss is Thad Brown, Chief of Detectives. 44 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,000 My name's Friday. 45 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,280 We were on the way out from the office and it was 11.23 a.m. when we got to the ninth 46 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:40,840 floor of the medical dental building, room 912. 47 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:42,840 Dr. Marston? 48 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,000 Yes, what is it? 49 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Police officers, doctor. 50 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:48,000 Like to talk to you? 51 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:49,000 Oh yes, I'm sorry. 52 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Daydreaming, I guess. 53 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,440 I didn't hear you come in. 54 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:52,440 My name's Friday, doctor. 55 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:53,880 This is my partner, Sergeant Romero. 56 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:54,880 How you doing, gentlemen? 57 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:55,880 How are you, sir? 58 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,040 It's about the missing persons report on your wife. 59 00:02:58,040 --> 00:02:59,040 You filed it yesterday. 60 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:00,040 Yes, that's right, sergeant. 61 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:01,680 I'm certainly glad you came. 62 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:03,960 Like to have this whole thing straightened out as quickly as possible. 63 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:05,360 I want my wife back with me. 64 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:06,720 Well, we'll do everything we can, doctor. 65 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:09,520 There's a few things we'd like to have you straighten out for us, if you will. 66 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:12,060 I thought I made it pretty clear in that report I filed yesterday. 67 00:03:12,060 --> 00:03:13,280 What is it you have a question about? 68 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:16,120 I've got a copy of the report right here. 69 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:20,920 It says, it says your wife disappeared December 9th. 70 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:22,640 That's a little over two months ago, doctor. 71 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:23,640 Yes, that's correct. 72 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:24,640 December 9th, Sunday night. 73 00:03:24,640 --> 00:03:28,880 We were out having dinner, and we had a little argument, and Louise left. 74 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:30,800 I didn't hear from her until the following Friday. 75 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:32,040 That's when she wrote me the first letter. 76 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:33,040 It was from New York. 77 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:36,080 Well, weren't you a little alarmed to find out your wife had left you and gone east? 78 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,360 Well, I wasn't too happy about it, but we'd had a few arguments before. 79 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:43,120 I always figured it'd both of us good if Louise got away for a little while. 80 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:44,760 No, I wasn't particularly worried. 81 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:47,480 She has friends in New York. 82 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:48,480 Would you care for a cigarette? 83 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:49,480 Not right now. 84 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:50,480 Thank you, doctor. 85 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:51,480 I'll get a light for you. 86 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:52,480 Thank you. 87 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:57,080 I understand your wife didn't stay with her friends this trip, doctor. 88 00:03:57,080 --> 00:03:58,600 No, apparently she didn't. 89 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:00,640 However, I wasn't too concerned. 90 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:03,800 She wrote me letters twice a week, and then she wrote Stanley. 91 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:04,800 That's our son. 92 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:05,800 He's in military school. 93 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,840 Louise wrote to him regularly, too. 94 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:12,120 And the last letter you got from your wife was about two weeks ago. 95 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:13,120 Yes, sir. 96 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:14,120 Exactly two weeks ago. 97 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:15,120 It was a postmark on it, New York. 98 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:18,960 Well, have you any idea at all where she was staying back there? 99 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:20,400 That's a strange part of it, Sergeant. 100 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,240 Louise didn't put a return address on any of the letters. 101 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:27,240 I inquired of some of our friends back there, but none of them had seen her. 102 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:29,520 Well, I suppose she was staying at a hotel. 103 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:31,520 I don't know which one, though. 104 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:34,560 About those letters, doctor, now you're sure that they're in your wife's handwriting. 105 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:36,280 You don't think they could be forgeries, do you? 106 00:04:36,280 --> 00:04:38,160 It's possible, but I don't think so, Sergeant. 107 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:39,160 I know my wife's handwriting. 108 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:41,400 Do you have all the letters with you, sir? 109 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:42,400 Yes. 110 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:44,280 I'll ask the secretary to get them before you leave. 111 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:45,280 She's out to lunch now. 112 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:46,280 Oh, excuse me, please. 113 00:04:46,280 --> 00:04:47,280 Go right ahead. 114 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:48,280 Yes, Dr. Marston. 115 00:04:48,280 --> 00:04:49,280 For Miss Taylor. 116 00:04:49,280 --> 00:04:54,200 Oh, yes, I'm glad you reminded me. 117 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:55,200 Thank you. 118 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:56,200 I'm sorry, officers. 119 00:04:56,200 --> 00:05:00,440 There's a denture I have to have ready for one of my patients by this afternoon. 120 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,840 Would you mind if I go ahead and work on it while we talk here? 121 00:05:02,840 --> 00:05:03,840 No, it's perfectly all right, doctor. 122 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:04,840 You go right ahead. 123 00:05:04,840 --> 00:05:06,840 Do you mind sipping in the lab back here? 124 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:07,840 All right, fine. 125 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:08,840 Go ahead, ma'am. 126 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:15,320 I'm sorry to interrupt everything like this. 127 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:17,160 I do have to have this denture ready, though. 128 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:19,160 We understand, sir. 129 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:23,640 Doctor, you say the night your wife Louise disappeared, the two of you had an argument? 130 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:24,640 Yes, that's correct. 131 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:29,360 We were having dinner out at our country club, and I guess Louise had too many cocktails. 132 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,080 She gets in a nasty mood when she drinks too much. 133 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:33,360 I asked her to stop drinking. 134 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:35,800 She flared up and walked out of the place. 135 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:37,800 Did anyone besides yourself see her leave? 136 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,480 Oh, yes, two or three couples, friends of ours. 137 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:45,560 When I found out Louise had gone off to New York, I thought, well, it was her way of teaching 138 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:46,920 me a lesson. 139 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,480 I wasn't too disturbed about it until the letters stopped coming. 140 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:50,760 Well, how about your son Stanley? 141 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,160 Do you know if he's still getting the letters from his mother? 142 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:54,160 No, he's not. 143 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:55,560 I telephoned him up at his school. 144 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:58,200 He stopped getting letters about the same time I did. 145 00:05:58,200 --> 00:05:59,760 Now, let's see. 146 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:02,280 Where did I put that casting ring? 147 00:06:02,280 --> 00:06:06,280 Oh, yes, here we are. 148 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:13,480 Then, as far as you know, Doctor, no one at all has actually seen your wife since that 149 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:16,680 night at the country club when she walked out and left you. 150 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:18,440 Mm-hmm, that's correct. 151 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:24,160 As I say, if I hadn't been getting those letters from her every week from New York, I would 152 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,640 have called the police in long ago. 153 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:27,640 Would you excuse me, please? 154 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:28,640 Oh, oh, yeah. 155 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:34,840 Quite a bit of oxide in this gold crown I've cast here. 156 00:06:34,840 --> 00:06:41,840 A little bit of acid should take care of that. 157 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:43,440 What's your theory on all this, Doctor? 158 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:45,760 Your wife leaves suddenly and she goes to New York. 159 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:49,880 She corresponds with you and your son and then her letters stop coming. 160 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:51,360 What do you think might have happened? 161 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:56,000 Well, frankly, Sergeant, the whole thing's a terrible family mix-up. 162 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Get this crown here out of the acid. 163 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,040 Uh-huh. 164 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:09,800 Well, how do you mean, Doctor, a family mix-up? 165 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:10,800 Just that. 166 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:14,680 There's only one reason for Louise disappearing the way she has, money. 167 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:16,920 Money and that stepfather of hers. 168 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,920 Say, would you switch on that small motor there, Sergeant? 169 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:23,720 I've got to polish up this crown and get it in shape. 170 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:25,720 Oh, yeah, sure. 171 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:27,720 Thank you. 172 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:29,720 Well, what do you mean, Doctor? 173 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,720 How does your wife's stepfather fit into all this? 174 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:35,360 Money man, it's about the size of it. 175 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,640 I don't know if you're aware of it, but my wife Louise was left a considerable amount 176 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:39,640 of money by her aunt. 177 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:40,640 Uh-huh. 178 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:44,640 Well, it was a fortune, as a matter of fact. 179 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:47,920 Louise's stepfather has always been trying to get his hands on it. 180 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:48,920 Excuse me again. 181 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,920 Sure, go ahead. 182 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:59,480 Well, and you think your wife's stepfather is responsible for her disappearance. 183 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:00,480 Is that right? 184 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:02,840 Oh, I'm not making any direct accusations, Sergeant. 185 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:08,800 But two days ago, or two days before Louise disappeared, I had $80,000 in bonds signed 186 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:10,560 over to her. 187 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:13,800 Checked around since she's been gone, haven't been able to locate the bonds anywhere. 188 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:16,280 You think she had the bonds with her when she left? 189 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:17,280 Because I'm sure of it. 190 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:18,280 Pardon me just a moment. 191 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:19,280 Yes, go right ahead. 192 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:20,280 Uh-huh. 193 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:21,280 That's a fine cast of a charcoal. 194 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:34,920 Well, now, the $80,000 worth of bonds, Doctor, do you have any way of proving that you gave 195 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:35,920 those to your wife? 196 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:38,120 Well, certainly I had my wife sign a receipt for them. 197 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:42,160 You're welcome to check it over if you like. 198 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:44,360 Just how do you think your wife's stepfather figures in there? 199 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:47,800 Is there any indication he might have made a move to get the bond? 200 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:52,320 Not to satisfy me, yes. 201 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:53,760 My secretary told me about it. 202 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:56,080 Lenore Dexter, that's the girl in the reception room. 203 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:57,080 Oh, well, huh. 204 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:01,560 The night after my wife left me at the country club, that'd be December 10th, Miss Dexter 205 00:09:01,560 --> 00:09:04,240 was at the airport waiting for a friend to arrive on a plane. 206 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:07,720 While she was waiting, she saw my wife and her stepfather cross through the waiting room, 207 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:09,080 go out to the main gate. 208 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:10,080 Uh-huh. 209 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:13,280 Your secretary's sure it was really your wife and her stepfather? 210 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:14,280 That's what she told me. 211 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:17,160 You're certainly welcome to talk to her yourself if you like. 212 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:18,680 Yes, and well. 213 00:09:18,680 --> 00:09:23,200 Now, besides the bonds, do you know of anything else of value that your wife had with her 214 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:24,200 when she left? 215 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:26,800 No, I don't think so. 216 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:28,080 She had her fur coat on, of course. 217 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:29,080 It was expensive. 218 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:32,480 She was wearing a diamond ring, anniversary gift from Eilard, solitary, worth quite a bit 219 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:33,480 of money. 220 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:34,960 You can get the description from the jeweler. 221 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:35,960 I'll give you his name. 222 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:36,960 All right, Doctor. 223 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:40,320 Your wife's stepfather, we'd like to have his name and address, too. 224 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:44,320 Surely I'll have my secretary check on both of them right now. 225 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:46,520 All right, fine. 226 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:48,000 Sergeant, you've got to find Louise. 227 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:49,440 I've got to have her back with me. 228 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:50,920 Well, we'll do everything we can, Doctor. 229 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:51,920 We promise you that. 230 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:56,120 I know my wife wouldn't stay away of her own free will, not this long, not at a time like 231 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:57,120 this. 232 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:58,120 How do you mean? 233 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,120 Well, let me show you. 234 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:07,480 Uh-huh, here it is. 235 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:09,720 This is the final drawing the architect made for us. 236 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:11,720 What do you think of it? 237 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:12,720 Oh, it's very nice. 238 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:13,720 It certainly is. 239 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:15,720 It's got to be our own building. 240 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:19,360 12 stories, finest in the city. 241 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:22,040 Robert A. Marston building for professional men. 242 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:25,160 Louise and I have looked forward to it for a long time. 243 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:26,160 I understand. 244 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:30,360 We settled on the final plans a week before she disappeared. 245 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:32,560 Contractors will start construction a few weeks now. 246 00:10:32,560 --> 00:10:36,200 There's supposed to be a great day in our lives, laying the cornerstone. 247 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:37,960 Yes, sir, I understand. 248 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:38,960 Great day. 249 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:40,960 Robert A. Marston building. 250 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:43,720 It's a funny thing, isn't it, officers? 251 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:44,720 How's that? 252 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:51,520 Nothing's very great unless there's somebody to share it with. 253 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:55,240 Before we left the office of Dr. Robert Marston, we talked with his secretary, Miss Lenore 254 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:56,240 Dexter. 255 00:10:56,240 --> 00:11:00,000 She confirmed the doctor's statement that on the night after Louise Marston had disappeared 256 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:04,360 from the country club, she had seen both Mrs. Marston and her stepfather at the city's 257 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:06,360 international airport. 258 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:07,760 She said she did not follow them. 259 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:09,840 She had no idea of their destination. 260 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:14,060 Dr. Marston gave us the letters his wife had written him during her absence and also his 261 00:11:14,060 --> 00:11:18,200 wife's signed receipt for the $80,000 worth of bonds. 262 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:22,520 Each of the letters was postmarked New York, and the dates on them ranged from December 263 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:25,760 15th to March 24th. 264 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:28,760 Ben and I drove back to the office and put in a call to the home of the missing woman's 265 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:30,800 stepfather, Mr. William House. 266 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:35,600 Then we went down the hall to the office of Don Meyer, our handwriting expert. 267 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:39,040 We gave him the letters, which supposedly had been written by Mrs. Marston from New 268 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:44,040 York, along with the signed receipt for the bonds and various other exemplars of her handwriting, 269 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:46,400 which we had obtained from her bank. 270 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:47,400 Two-fifty p.m. 271 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:50,280 The missing woman's stepfather, William House, arrived at the office. 272 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:53,040 He was a tall, graying man, dignified, well-dressed. 273 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:56,240 It's about time the police started looking into this thing. 274 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,280 How long does a person have to be missing before there's an investigation? 275 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:02,320 The missing report was only filed yesterday, Mr. House. 276 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:04,760 If you knew your stepdaughter was gone, why didn't you report it? 277 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:07,680 I've had private detectives working on this for a month. 278 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:09,320 Had them checking everything about the case. 279 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:10,320 How much luck have they had? 280 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:11,320 Frankly, not much. 281 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:12,920 But I still got them working on it. 282 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:17,240 Well, getting back to what we have on hand, Mr. House, how about this statement of Dr. 283 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:18,360 Marston's secretary? 284 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:21,800 She says that she saw you with Mrs. Marston at the International Airport the night after 285 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:22,800 she disappeared. 286 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:23,800 It's a lie. 287 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:25,160 I haven't been near that airport in six months. 288 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:26,980 It's a lie and I can prove it. 289 00:12:26,980 --> 00:12:30,240 I don't know what Marston's up to, but he isn't going to get away with it. 290 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:31,860 What do you mean by that? 291 00:12:31,860 --> 00:12:33,880 I think he's murdered Louise. 292 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:36,560 I think he killed her and buried her somewhere. 293 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:37,560 That's my honest opinion. 294 00:12:37,560 --> 00:12:39,000 You sound sure of it. 295 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:40,600 I am sure of it. 296 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,480 I knew Marston for what he was the day I met him. 297 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:45,480 He's a fortune hunter, pure and simple. 298 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:48,840 He's after Louise's money and nothing's going to stop him. 299 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:50,520 Nothing has stopped him. 300 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:54,280 Well I was under the impression that Dr. Marston was wealthy before he married your stepdaughter, 301 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:55,280 isn't that right? 302 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:56,280 Certainly not. 303 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:58,640 He was just another poor dentist with a lot of big ideas. 304 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:02,280 All this talk about putting up a building, naming it after himself. 305 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:04,640 Why Louise fought him on that constantly. 306 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:06,680 He's some kind of crazy egotist. 307 00:13:06,680 --> 00:13:10,000 What about the $80,000 in bonds he says he signed over to Mrs. Marston? 308 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,600 If he told you that, he's a bigger lad than I thought. 309 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:14,680 Well he gave us a receipt for the bonds. 310 00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:15,680 It was signed by his wife. 311 00:13:15,680 --> 00:13:17,120 Can you account for that? 312 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:18,280 Frankly no. 313 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:22,440 Either he got her signature on it by some kind of trick or he forged it. 314 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:24,680 I'm sure he never had that much money. 315 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:26,520 Those bonds belonged to Louise. 316 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:28,840 What about the letters Dr. Marston got from his wife? 317 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:30,240 You think they were forged too? 318 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:31,840 I'm positive they were. 319 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:34,800 Don't you see officer, it's the perfect cover up for it. 320 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:37,960 Well one way or the other, it's not going to take us long to find out the truth. 321 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:41,040 Our handwriting man's checking over the letters and the bond receipt now. 322 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:44,760 Can you fill us in at all on Dr. Marston's background Mr. House? 323 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:48,840 Only since he's been connected with the family, since he married Louise. 324 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:50,320 Say would you give me a cigarette please? 325 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:52,040 I went off and left mine at home. 326 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:53,040 Oh sure. 327 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:54,040 Here you are. 328 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:55,040 Thank you. 329 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:56,040 Thank you. 330 00:13:56,040 --> 00:14:01,800 I can't tell you how I feel about it officer. 331 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:03,480 I'm afraid of that man. 332 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:05,080 I'm deathly afraid of him. 333 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:07,160 I know he's done something terrible to Louise. 334 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:09,320 Well how can you be so sure of it Mr. House? 335 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:11,240 You must have some basis for your opinion. 336 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:14,040 I just know that's all sergeant. 337 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:18,080 If Louise had just disappeared and there wasn't any question of money involved, I wouldn't 338 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:20,080 be so anxious about it. 339 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:24,320 But eighty thousand dollars worth of bonds, that would be enough to tempt Marston to murder 340 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:25,760 his own mother. 341 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:27,240 You don't know him like I do. 342 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:28,920 Well what do you know about him sir? 343 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:31,160 There must be something concrete. 344 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:33,840 I can tell you this much officer. 345 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:36,120 Marston's a man who is capable of murder. 346 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:37,800 Now I'm a sensible man. 347 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:41,720 I don't walk up and down the street looking for murderers. 348 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:46,540 But I know when we've got one in the family, that much you've got to believe. 349 00:14:46,540 --> 00:14:47,540 You will believe it. 350 00:14:47,540 --> 00:14:49,000 Well sir, excuse me just a minute. 351 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:50,000 I'll get that. 352 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:51,000 Homicide Friday. 353 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:52,000 Yeah Don. 354 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,000 Am I right? 355 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:54,000 All of them? 356 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:55,000 Right. 357 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,000 Thank you Don. 358 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:01,880 Well that was our handwriting man Mr. House. 359 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:02,880 Yeah? 360 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:06,320 Did you just finish checking the writing in those letters and on the receipt for the bonds? 361 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:08,000 What did he say, forgeries? 362 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:09,000 No sir, they're genuine. 363 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:10,000 Every one of them. 364 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:16,560 As soon as William House left the office, Ben and I began an immediate check of his 365 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:20,880 whereabouts the night after his stepdaughter Louise Marston had disappeared. 366 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:25,320 We talked to his friends and associates, members of the staff at the club where he lived. 367 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:28,960 We found a dozen people who backed up House's claim that he was nowhere in the vicinity 368 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:32,960 of the airport the night after Mrs. Marston dropped from site. 369 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:37,160 We went back and talked with Dr. Marston's secretary, Lenore Dexter. 370 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:41,680 She still insisted that she had actually seen House at the airport with the missing woman. 371 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:46,040 Dr. Marston and the stepfather continued to accuse each other of murder. 372 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:50,960 At our request, repeated efforts were made by the New York police to locate Mrs. Marston. 373 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:51,960 No luck. 374 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:55,520 We checked and rechecked with the maid at the home of the missing woman. 375 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:59,120 All she could tell us was that Louise Marston never returned home after leaving the country 376 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:05,080 club and also that she'd been wearing a fur coat and an expensive diamond solitaire ring. 377 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:07,600 A week passed and then two weeks. 378 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:09,440 We stayed on it but there wasn't much progress. 379 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:14,080 The case of Louise Marston came to a virtual standstill, Wednesday, February 24th. 380 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:15,080 Hi, Jill. 381 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:16,080 Good morning. 382 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:17,080 Anything new? 383 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:18,520 Yeah, I think we got a break. 384 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:19,520 The Marston case? 385 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:20,520 Oh, what do you got? 386 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:22,120 The maid out of Dr. Marston's home. 387 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:23,640 She called first thing this morning. 388 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,880 Said Dr. Marston had a little dinner party out there last night. 389 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:27,880 What about it? 390 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:30,920 One of the people there was Marston's secretary, that uh, Lenore Dexter. 391 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:31,920 Oh, yeah. 392 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:33,600 She was wearing a large diamond ring. 393 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:34,600 Yeah. 394 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:35,920 Maid got a good look at the ring. 395 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:36,920 Mm-hmm. 396 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:49,840 Says it's the same one Mrs. Marston was wearing the night she disappeared. 397 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:52,280 You are listening to Dragnet. 398 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:55,360 The case is from official police files. 399 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:59,040 Now let's look at our Fatima files. 400 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:05,680 Listed under B. Borden, Mrs. Clay Borden of Palm Springs in San Francisco. 401 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:11,400 She says pleasing, distinctive, and really extra mild. 402 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:14,040 That's the way I'd describe Fatima. 403 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:17,560 It's definitely the best long cigarette. 404 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:23,280 Friends, more smokers now insist on Fatima than ever before. 405 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:26,680 Because in Fatima, the difference is quality. 406 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:27,960 Quality of tobaccos. 407 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:31,320 The finest domestic and Turkish varieties. 408 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:32,320 Extra mild. 409 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:33,320 Superbly blended. 410 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:37,920 To give you a much different, much better flavor and aroma. 411 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:39,480 Quality of manufacture. 412 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:42,760 Smooth, round, perfect cigarettes. 413 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:46,040 Rolled in the finest paper money can buy. 414 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:49,560 Sold in the newest and most modern of all cigarette factories. 415 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:54,040 Quality even to the appearance of the bright, clean, gold, and yellow package. 416 00:17:54,040 --> 00:18:00,220 Remember, Fatima gives you all the advantages of extra length plus Fatima quality, which 417 00:18:00,220 --> 00:18:02,920 no other king size cigarette has. 418 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:07,320 So if you smoke a king size cigarette, compare Fatima. 419 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:09,880 You'll find they now cost the same. 420 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:12,480 But your first puff will tell you. 421 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:14,840 Ah, that's different. 422 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:19,840 Yes, in Fatima, the difference is quality. 423 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:25,160 Wednesday, February 24th, 915 A.M. 424 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:33,080 Ben and I drove out to the home of Dr. Robert Marston and talked to the maid. 425 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:36,400 She told us that on the previous evening, the doctor had had a small dinner party and 426 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:40,240 that one of the guests was the doctor's secretary, Lenore Dexter. 427 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:43,640 The maid told us that she'd gotten a close look at the diamond ring that Miss Dexter 428 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:47,680 was wearing and that she was sure it was the same ring that the doctor's wife, Louise 429 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,640 Marston, had been wearing the night she disappeared. 430 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:52,920 10.20 A.M. 431 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:56,600 We left the Marston house and headed downtown to the doctor's office in the medical dental 432 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:57,600 building. 433 00:18:57,600 --> 00:18:59,740 The office was closed and locked. 434 00:18:59,740 --> 00:19:04,520 We got back in the car and drove out Sunset Boulevard to Lenore Dexter's home address. 435 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:07,800 We found the secretary having breakfast alone in her two-room apartment. 436 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:11,720 She explained that on Wednesdays, the doctor never opened his office before noon. 437 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:15,100 We questioned her about the dinner party at the doctor's home the night before. 438 00:19:15,100 --> 00:19:17,960 We asked her about the diamond ring that she wore at the party. 439 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,120 She became confused and hesitant. 440 00:19:20,120 --> 00:19:21,120 What about it, Miss Dexter? 441 00:19:21,120 --> 00:19:23,680 Was that your diamond ring you were wearing at the dinner party? 442 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:25,760 No, Sergeant, it wasn't. 443 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:28,320 I guess it belongs to Dr. Marston, either him or his wife. 444 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:30,600 Well, did he give it to you as a present? 445 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:31,600 No. 446 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:36,880 You see, I guess the doctor had a few cocktails before dinner, maybe one too many. 447 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:38,720 He went upstairs and came down with the ring. 448 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:40,200 He insisted I wear it. 449 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:42,600 He was very insistent. 450 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:45,400 I didn't want to make a scene, so I put the ring on. 451 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,560 I gave it back to the doctor just before we left the house. 452 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:51,400 My boyfriend was with me at the party and he had a terrible argument over it. 453 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:52,400 He's very jealous. 454 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:56,160 Tell me, Miss Dexter, did Dr. Marston have any special reason for wanting you to wear 455 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:57,160 the ring? 456 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:58,160 No. 457 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:02,040 He just said he liked me and that I was pretty and I ought to have pretty things. 458 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:03,200 My boyfriend didn't like him at all. 459 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:05,360 Well, had you ever seen that particular diamond ring, Miss Dexter? 460 00:20:05,360 --> 00:20:06,840 I mean, before last night? 461 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:08,520 I don't know, Sergeant. 462 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:09,760 I think so. 463 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:10,760 I'm not sure. 464 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:14,520 Well, where do you think you saw the ring before? 465 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:16,000 Mrs. Marston. 466 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,560 I think I saw her wearing it once. 467 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:20,640 Was she wearing it the night you were supposed to have seen her at the airport? 468 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:22,440 I don't know what you mean. 469 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:24,920 I didn't notice the ring, but I saw Mrs. Marston at the airport. 470 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:28,680 I'd like to have you think this thing out for yourself, Miss Dexter. 471 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:31,920 Mrs. Marston's been gone for almost three months now and there's a strong possibility 472 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:34,040 that she might have been murdered. 473 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:35,640 You can make up your own mind about it, Miss. 474 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:38,720 If you're not involved in that disappearance, I'd advise you to tell us the truth. 475 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:41,480 It might save you a lot of trouble. 476 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,040 Miss Dexter? 477 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:48,600 You mean about my seeing Mr. House at the airport with the doctor's wife the night 478 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:49,600 after she disappeared? 479 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:50,600 Yes, ma'am, that's right. 480 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:52,600 You sure that's the truth? 481 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:53,600 I didn't want to get involved, Sergeant. 482 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:55,240 I didn't want any part of it. 483 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:59,240 You mean you didn't see Mrs. Marston her stepfather at the airport that night that you made it 484 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:00,240 all up? 485 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:01,240 I didn't make it up, Sergeant. 486 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:02,760 I swear I didn't. 487 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:03,760 He told me what to say. 488 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:05,120 He said to do it as a favor for him. 489 00:21:05,120 --> 00:21:06,120 Who's that, Miss? 490 00:21:06,120 --> 00:21:07,120 Dr. Marston. 491 00:21:07,120 --> 00:21:13,080 We continued to question the secretary, Lenore Dexter. 492 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,880 She confessed that Dr. Marston had directed her to tell the story about seeing Louise 493 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:20,280 Marston and her stepfather, William House, at the International Airport. 494 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:22,760 It was all a complete lie. 495 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:26,080 She said that Marston had explained that the whole thing was just a practical joke, that 496 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,120 it didn't mean anything. 497 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:32,040 When Mrs. Marston was officially reported missing, she thought of going to the police, 498 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:35,440 but Marston had frightened her out of taking any such action. 499 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:38,640 The only other suspicious thing she could recall about Mrs. Marston's disappearance 500 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:43,120 was a conversation between the doctor and his architect, Mr. Harold Whitmore. 501 00:21:43,120 --> 00:21:46,960 He was the architect who had planned and designed the projected Robert A. Marston building for 502 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:49,080 professional men. 503 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:52,280 The secretary told us the doctor's conversation with the architect had taken place about a 504 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:56,440 month before Mrs. Marston's disappearance, and that she'd heard the doctor mention to 505 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:00,000 the architect something about New York and a packet of letters. 506 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,680 Lenore Dexter was taken downtown where she gave us a complete signed statement. 507 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:07,440 Then I got in the car and drove to the offices of architect Harold Whitmore over on South 508 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:08,440 Hope Street. 509 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:12,040 He was a tall, florid-faced man, very cooperative. 510 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,880 Yeah, I remember that conversation with Dr. Marston. 511 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,600 He gave me a bunch of letters, at least a couple of dozen anyway. 512 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,360 They were addressed to the doctor and his little boy, Stanley. 513 00:22:20,360 --> 00:22:22,480 What did he want you to do with the letters, Mr. Whitmore? 514 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:25,280 He asked me if I had any friends in New York, and I said I did. 515 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:28,560 Then he said he was playing some kind of practical joke on his wife and son. 516 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:32,280 He gave me the letters and asked me if I'd send them to a friend in New York and have 517 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:34,000 him mail them back one at a time. 518 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:35,000 You agreed to do that? 519 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:36,000 Yeah, that's right. 520 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,800 The letters were all sealed and stamped all in order the way they were supposed to be 521 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:40,800 mailed. 522 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:44,600 I just sent them back to this friend of mine, Bob Rogers in New York, forgot all about it. 523 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:47,080 Mr. Whitmore, how long have you known Dr. Marston? 524 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:48,080 Very long? 525 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:51,120 No, not too long, only in a business way. 526 00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:54,280 He wants to put up this office building of his and I'm handling the job for him. 527 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:55,880 He sure nuts on this subject. 528 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:57,680 Can't wait until we start construction on the job. 529 00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:59,360 I think his life depended on it. 530 00:22:59,360 --> 00:23:00,960 You know much about his personal life? 531 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:02,440 What did you first mean? 532 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,600 Let's see, I think it was around October of last year. 533 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:09,160 He and Mrs. Marston were building a summer place down in Malibu and I helped out with 534 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:10,160 the plans. 535 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:15,000 The doctor was always hanging around there helping out with the work whenever he could. 536 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,640 That's the only previous contact that you had with him, huh? 537 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:19,800 That's about all, yeah, building a beach house. 538 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,480 Dr. Marston thought he had some new ideas about building a new type basement in the 539 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:24,480 place. 540 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:25,480 That so? 541 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:26,840 Yeah, not a bad job on a cellar for an amateur. 542 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,200 He used enough cement on it to sink a battleship. 543 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:33,080 Just a second, Mr. Whitmore, did Dr. Marston cement in the basement while the house was 544 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:34,080 being built? 545 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:37,840 No, no, about a couple of months later, around the middle of December, I think. 546 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:41,160 Do you remember the date exactly when he did the cement work? 547 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:42,160 Not exactly. 548 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:45,800 About 12th or 13th of December, I think. 549 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:50,680 Yeah, right after his wife disappeared. 550 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:55,840 Wednesday, February 24th, 1.30 p.m. Ben and I picked up Dr. Robert Marston and brought 551 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:57,400 him downtown to the office. 552 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:01,360 We questioned him for an hour and informed him of the evidence against him. 553 00:24:01,360 --> 00:24:05,020 Despite the statement of architect Harold Whitmore, the doctor insisted he was innocent 554 00:24:05,020 --> 00:24:08,360 of any crime connected with the disappearance of his wife. 555 00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:11,880 We contacted the New York Police Department and asked them to check on architect Whitmore's 556 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,160 friend, Robert E. Rogers. 557 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:17,560 A special detail of men was dispatched to the summer home at Malibu to see what they 558 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:18,560 could find. 559 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:22,520 Half an hour later, Dr. Robert Marston was placed in a car and Ben and I drove him to 560 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:24,200 the Malibu home. 561 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:28,000 We continued questioning him during the drive, but he refused to make a statement of any 562 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:29,000 kind. 563 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:33,360 On our arrival at the beach cottage, we found Marston's young son, Stanley, together with 564 00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:35,200 a maid and the family butler. 565 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,920 We took Dr. Marston downstairs to the basement. 566 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:40,620 The men had a large section of the cement flooring ripped up. 567 00:24:40,620 --> 00:24:41,620 They were digging. 568 00:24:41,620 --> 00:24:53,840 In the room up above, we could hear young Stanley Marston playing on a toy harmonica. 569 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,280 You'd like to know something, Sergeant, just for my information? 570 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:57,280 Yes, sir. 571 00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:59,080 Why do you think I'd kill my wife? 572 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:00,680 Why do you think I'd do such a thing? 573 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:02,320 We're not sure yet if you did kill her. 574 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,960 Then why do you have these men doing this? 575 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:06,120 Digging up the whole basement. 576 00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:09,560 Why do you think I killed her? 577 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:10,560 You won't find anything. 578 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:12,160 You might as well tell them to stop now. 579 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,200 They won't find anything. 580 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:15,460 I explained everything to you. 581 00:25:15,460 --> 00:25:16,960 Why can't you take my word for it? 582 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:20,440 Well, you still haven't explained about those letters, why you had them sent to New York, 583 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,960 why you had the mail back here one at a time. 584 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:23,960 Had nothing to do with it. 585 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:25,120 Why can't you believe me? 586 00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:27,160 Your wife didn't disappear without a reason, Doctor. 587 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:28,800 We'd like to know what the reason is. 588 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,000 I told you, I told you a dozen times over. 589 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:32,000 You know what happened. 590 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:33,800 We were at the country club, Louise and I. 591 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:34,800 She was drinking a lot. 592 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:35,800 I told her to lay off. 593 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:36,880 We had an argument. 594 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:38,440 She walked out, that's all. 595 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:39,440 She walked out. 596 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:40,440 I didn't see her anymore. 597 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:41,440 Yes, sir. 598 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:42,440 We'll have it all worked out. 599 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,560 Don't worry about it. 600 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:48,280 Why can't that maid look after the boy up there making all that noise? 601 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,360 Why can't you take him out somewhere down to the beach? 602 00:25:50,360 --> 00:25:51,360 Romero? 603 00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:52,360 Yeah? 604 00:25:52,360 --> 00:25:53,360 Yeah, all right. 605 00:25:53,360 --> 00:26:02,520 Sergeant, what do you want me to say? 606 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:03,520 What's that? 607 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:05,360 They've found her, you know that. 608 00:26:05,360 --> 00:26:08,040 Louise, right where I buried her. 609 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:09,040 What do you want me to say? 610 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:10,040 Well, that's up to you. 611 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,800 Yes, she wouldn't understand, would you, Sergeant? 612 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:16,520 The only thing I ever wanted in my life, she wouldn't let me have it. 613 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:17,520 The building. 614 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,320 Robert A. Marston building for professional men. 615 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,440 You mean your wife wouldn't give you the money for it? 616 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:23,840 That's why you quarreled, is that it? 617 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:24,840 I tried to tell her. 618 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:26,440 It was one fight after another. 619 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:28,080 She didn't know how much it meant to me. 620 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:29,520 That's why you killed her, huh? 621 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,400 I followed her outside the country club that night, drove her to my office. 622 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:33,880 She was pretty drunk. 623 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,400 We pretended she was on a trip to New York. 624 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,560 I had her write the letters, had her sign the receipt for the bonds. 625 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:40,560 Wasn't hard to do. 626 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:41,560 How'd you kill her? 627 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,520 Put my hands around her throat. 628 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,520 Didn't stop until she was dead. 629 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:46,520 Joe? 630 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:47,520 Yeah, man. 631 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:48,520 They found her. 632 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,520 Ready to go, Doctor. 633 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:51,520 All right. 634 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,920 It was a dream of a lifetime, Sergeant. 635 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,040 I almost had it. 636 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:57,560 The Robert A. Marston building. 637 00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:58,960 Finest in the city. 638 00:26:58,960 --> 00:26:59,960 Yeah. 639 00:26:59,960 --> 00:27:00,960 You want to come upstairs, Doctor? 640 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:01,960 We'll get you coat. 641 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,360 You'll try to understand, won't you? 642 00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:06,400 I wanted something that'd last. 643 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:07,400 My own building. 644 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,320 My name on it. 645 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:10,320 Something you'd remember. 646 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:11,320 Yeah. 647 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,400 That's the reason I killed Louise. 648 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,240 She didn't want me to have it. 649 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:18,160 My own building. 650 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:19,160 Something that would last. 651 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:20,400 Make the people remember. 652 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:21,720 Well, you made it, Doctor. 653 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:22,720 Why worry? 654 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:23,720 Why? 655 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:24,720 You don't need a building. 656 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:32,720 I'll remember you. 657 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,440 The story you have just heard was true. 658 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,080 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 659 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:43,280 On June 3rd, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 87, City and County of Los Angeles, 660 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:44,280 State of California. 661 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:45,960 In a moment, the results of that trial. 662 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,000 And now here is our star, Jack Webb. 663 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,000 Thank you. 664 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,600 Friends, our latest sales figures indicate that Fatima is undoubtedly the fastest growing 665 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:55,400 long cigarette in the country. 666 00:27:55,400 --> 00:28:00,080 I'm sure you'll agree that there must be a sound reason for Fatima's ever increasing 667 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:01,080 popularity. 668 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:05,800 Well, in my way of thinking, that reason can be summed up in just two words. 669 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,160 Fatima quality. 670 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,000 You'll spot it instantly. 671 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:13,560 Fatima gives you all the advantages of extra length plus Fatima quality, which no other 672 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,760 king-size cigarette has. 673 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:29,720 So tomorrow, buy a pack of Fatimas and prove to yourself that the difference is quality. 674 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,480 Robert Alexander Marston was charged with murder in the first degree. 675 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:38,000 Ten days after his trial opened in Superior Court, the suspect took his own life in his 676 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:47,960 jail cell by hanging. 677 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:52,600 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 678 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,640 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. 679 00:28:55,640 --> 00:29:00,960 Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 680 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:06,360 Fatima cigarettes, best of all long cigarettes, has brought you Dragnet transcribed from Los 681 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:16,720 Angeles. 682 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:39,360 Stay tuned for Counterspy next over most NBC stations.