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02:42.840 --> 02:46.000 Yes, what is it? 02:46.000 --> 02:47.000 Police officers, doctor. 02:47.000 --> 02:48.000 Like to talk to you? 02:48.000 --> 02:49.000 Oh yes, I'm sorry. 02:49.000 --> 02:50.000 Daydreaming, I guess. 02:50.000 --> 02:51.440 I didn't hear you come in. 02:51.440 --> 02:52.440 My name's Friday, doctor. 02:52.440 --> 02:53.880 This is my partner, Sergeant Romero. 02:53.880 --> 02:54.880 How you doing, gentlemen? 02:54.880 --> 02:55.880 How are you, sir? 02:55.880 --> 02:58.040 It's about the missing persons report on your wife. 02:58.040 --> 02:59.040 You filed it yesterday. 02:59.040 --> 03:00.040 Yes, that's right, sergeant. 03:00.040 --> 03:01.680 I'm certainly glad you came. 03:01.680 --> 03:03.960 Like to have this whole thing straightened out as quickly as possible. 03:03.960 --> 03:05.360 I want my wife back with me. 03:05.360 --> 03:06.720 Well, we'll do everything we can, doctor. 03:06.720 --> 03:09.520 There's a few things we'd like to have you straighten out for us, if you will. 03:09.520 --> 03:12.060 I thought I made it pretty clear in that report I filed yesterday. 03:12.060 --> 03:13.280 What is it you have a question about? 03:13.280 --> 03:16.120 I've got a copy of the report right here. 03:16.120 --> 03:20.920 It says, it says your wife disappeared December 9th. 03:20.920 --> 03:22.640 That's a little over two months ago, doctor. 03:22.640 --> 03:23.640 Yes, that's correct. 03:23.640 --> 03:24.640 December 9th, Sunday night. 03:24.640 --> 03:28.880 We were out having dinner, and we had a little argument, and Louise left. 03:28.880 --> 03:30.800 I didn't hear from her until the following Friday. 03:30.800 --> 03:32.040 That's when she wrote me the first letter. 03:32.040 --> 03:33.040 It was from New York. 03:33.040 --> 03:36.080 Well, weren't you a little alarmed to find out your wife had left you and gone east? 03:36.080 --> 03:39.360 Well, I wasn't too happy about it, but we'd had a few arguments before. 03:39.360 --> 03:43.120 I always figured it'd both of us good if Louise got away for a little while. 03:43.120 --> 03:44.760 No, I wasn't particularly worried. 03:44.760 --> 03:47.480 She has friends in New York. 03:47.480 --> 03:48.480 Would you care for a cigarette? 03:48.480 --> 03:49.480 Not right now. 03:49.480 --> 03:50.480 Thank you, doctor. 03:50.480 --> 03:51.480 I'll get a light for you. 03:51.480 --> 03:52.480 Thank you. 03:52.480 --> 03:57.080 I understand your wife didn't stay with her friends this trip, doctor. 03:57.080 --> 03:58.600 No, apparently she didn't. 03:58.600 --> 04:00.640 However, I wasn't too concerned. 04:00.640 --> 04:03.800 She wrote me letters twice a week, and then she wrote Stanley. 04:03.800 --> 04:04.800 That's our son. 04:04.800 --> 04:05.800 He's in military school. 04:05.800 --> 04:08.840 Louise wrote to him regularly, too. 04:08.840 --> 04:12.120 And the last letter you got from your wife was about two weeks ago. 04:12.120 --> 04:13.120 Yes, sir. 04:13.120 --> 04:14.120 Exactly two weeks ago. 04:14.120 --> 04:15.120 It was a postmark on it, New York. 04:15.120 --> 04:18.960 Well, have you any idea at all where she was staying back there? 04:18.960 --> 04:20.400 That's a strange part of it, Sergeant. 04:20.400 --> 04:23.240 Louise didn't put a return address on any of the letters. 04:23.240 --> 04:27.240 I inquired of some of our friends back there, but none of them had seen her. 04:27.240 --> 04:29.520 Well, I suppose she was staying at a hotel. 04:29.520 --> 04:31.520 I don't know which one, though. 04:31.520 --> 04:34.560 About those letters, doctor, now you're sure that they're in your wife's handwriting. 04:34.560 --> 04:36.280 You don't think they could be forgeries, do you? 04:36.280 --> 04:38.160 It's possible, but I don't think so, Sergeant. 04:38.160 --> 04:39.160 I know my wife's handwriting. 04:39.160 --> 04:41.400 Do you have all the letters with you, sir? 04:41.400 --> 04:42.400 Yes. 04:42.400 --> 04:44.280 I'll ask the secretary to get them before you leave. 04:44.280 --> 04:45.280 She's out to lunch now. 04:45.280 --> 04:46.280 Oh, excuse me, please. 04:46.280 --> 04:47.280 Go right ahead. 04:47.280 --> 04:48.280 Yes, Dr. Marston. 04:48.280 --> 04:49.280 For Miss Taylor. 04:49.280 --> 04:54.200 Oh, yes, I'm glad you reminded me. 04:54.200 --> 04:55.200 Thank you. 04:55.200 --> 04:56.200 I'm sorry, officers. 04:56.200 --> 05:00.440 There's a denture I have to have ready for one of my patients by this afternoon. 05:00.440 --> 05:02.840 Would you mind if I go ahead and work on it while we talk here? 05:02.840 --> 05:03.840 No, it's perfectly all right, doctor. 05:03.840 --> 05:04.840 You go right ahead. 05:04.840 --> 05:06.840 Do you mind sipping in the lab back here? 05:06.840 --> 05:07.840 All right, fine. 05:07.840 --> 05:08.840 Go ahead, ma'am. 05:08.840 --> 05:15.320 I'm sorry to interrupt everything like this. 05:15.320 --> 05:17.160 I do have to have this denture ready, though. 05:17.160 --> 05:19.160 We understand, sir. 05:19.160 --> 05:23.640 Doctor, you say the night your wife Louise disappeared, the two of you had an argument? 05:23.640 --> 05:24.640 Yes, that's correct. 05:24.640 --> 05:29.360 We were having dinner out at our country club, and I guess Louise had too many cocktails. 05:29.360 --> 05:32.080 She gets in a nasty mood when she drinks too much. 05:32.080 --> 05:33.360 I asked her to stop drinking. 05:33.360 --> 05:35.800 She flared up and walked out of the place. 05:35.800 --> 05:37.800 Did anyone besides yourself see her leave? 05:37.800 --> 05:41.480 Oh, yes, two or three couples, friends of ours. 05:41.480 --> 05:45.560 When I found out Louise had gone off to New York, I thought, well, it was her way of teaching 05:45.560 --> 05:46.920 me a lesson. 05:46.920 --> 05:49.480 I wasn't too disturbed about it until the letters stopped coming. 05:49.480 --> 05:50.760 Well, how about your son Stanley? 05:50.760 --> 05:53.160 Do you know if he's still getting the letters from his mother? 05:53.160 --> 05:54.160 No, he's not. 05:54.160 --> 05:55.560 I telephoned him up at his school. 05:55.560 --> 05:58.200 He stopped getting letters about the same time I did. 05:58.200 --> 05:59.760 Now, let's see. 05:59.760 --> 06:02.280 Where did I put that casting ring? 06:02.280 --> 06:06.280 Oh, yes, here we are. 06:06.280 --> 06:13.480 Then, as far as you know, Doctor, no one at all has actually seen your wife since that 06:13.480 --> 06:16.680 night at the country club when she walked out and left you. 06:16.680 --> 06:18.440 Mm-hmm, that's correct. 06:18.440 --> 06:24.160 As I say, if I hadn't been getting those letters from her every week from New York, I would 06:24.160 --> 06:26.640 have called the police in long ago. 06:26.640 --> 06:27.640 Would you excuse me, please? 06:27.640 --> 06:28.640 Oh, oh, yeah. 06:28.640 --> 06:34.840 Quite a bit of oxide in this gold crown I've cast here. 06:34.840 --> 06:41.840 A little bit of acid should take care of that. 06:41.840 --> 06:43.440 What's your theory on all this, Doctor? 06:43.440 --> 06:45.760 Your wife leaves suddenly and she goes to New York. 06:45.760 --> 06:49.880 She corresponds with you and your son and then her letters stop coming. 06:49.880 --> 06:51.360 What do you think might have happened? 06:51.360 --> 06:56.000 Well, frankly, Sergeant, the whole thing's a terrible family mix-up. 06:56.000 --> 07:01.000 Get this crown here out of the acid. 07:01.000 --> 07:05.040 Uh-huh. 07:05.040 --> 07:09.800 Well, how do you mean, Doctor, a family mix-up? 07:09.800 --> 07:10.800 Just that. 07:10.800 --> 07:14.680 There's only one reason for Louise disappearing the way she has, money. 07:14.680 --> 07:16.920 Money and that stepfather of hers. 07:16.920 --> 07:20.920 Say, would you switch on that small motor there, Sergeant? 07:20.920 --> 07:23.720 I've got to polish up this crown and get it in shape. 07:23.720 --> 07:25.720 Oh, yeah, sure. 07:25.720 --> 07:27.720 Thank you. 07:27.720 --> 07:29.720 Well, what do you mean, Doctor? 07:29.720 --> 07:32.720 How does your wife's stepfather fit into all this? 07:32.720 --> 07:35.360 Money man, it's about the size of it. 07:35.360 --> 07:38.640 I don't know if you're aware of it, but my wife Louise was left a considerable amount 07:38.640 --> 07:39.640 of money by her aunt. 07:39.640 --> 07:40.640 Uh-huh. 07:40.640 --> 07:44.640 Well, it was a fortune, as a matter of fact. 07:44.640 --> 07:47.920 Louise's stepfather has always been trying to get his hands on it. 07:47.920 --> 07:48.920 Excuse me again. 07:48.920 --> 07:51.920 Sure, go ahead. 07:51.920 --> 07:59.480 Well, and you think your wife's stepfather is responsible for her disappearance. 07:59.480 --> 08:00.480 Is that right? 08:00.480 --> 08:02.840 Oh, I'm not making any direct accusations, Sergeant. 08:02.840 --> 08:08.800 But two days ago, or two days before Louise disappeared, I had $80,000 in bonds signed 08:08.800 --> 08:10.560 over to her. 08:10.560 --> 08:13.800 Checked around since she's been gone, haven't been able to locate the bonds anywhere. 08:13.800 --> 08:16.280 You think she had the bonds with her when she left? 08:16.280 --> 08:17.280 Because I'm sure of it. 08:17.280 --> 08:18.280 Pardon me just a moment. 08:18.280 --> 08:19.280 Yes, go right ahead. 08:19.280 --> 08:20.280 Uh-huh. 08:20.280 --> 08:21.280 That's a fine cast of a charcoal. 08:21.280 --> 08:34.920 Well, now, the $80,000 worth of bonds, Doctor, do you have any way of proving that you gave 08:34.920 --> 08:35.920 those to your wife? 08:35.920 --> 08:38.120 Well, certainly I had my wife sign a receipt for them. 08:38.120 --> 08:42.160 You're welcome to check it over if you like. 08:42.160 --> 08:44.360 Just how do you think your wife's stepfather figures in there? 08:44.360 --> 08:47.800 Is there any indication he might have made a move to get the bond? 08:47.800 --> 08:52.320 Not to satisfy me, yes. 08:52.320 --> 08:53.760 My secretary told me about it. 08:53.760 --> 08:56.080 Lenore Dexter, that's the girl in the reception room. 08:56.080 --> 08:57.080 Oh, well, huh. 08:57.080 --> 09:01.560 The night after my wife left me at the country club, that'd be December 10th, Miss Dexter 09:01.560 --> 09:04.240 was at the airport waiting for a friend to arrive on a plane. 09:04.240 --> 09:07.720 While she was waiting, she saw my wife and her stepfather cross through the waiting room, 09:07.720 --> 09:09.080 go out to the main gate. 09:09.080 --> 09:10.080 Uh-huh. 09:10.080 --> 09:13.280 Your secretary's sure it was really your wife and her stepfather? 09:13.280 --> 09:14.280 That's what she told me. 09:14.280 --> 09:17.160 You're certainly welcome to talk to her yourself if you like. 09:17.160 --> 09:18.680 Yes, and well. 09:18.680 --> 09:23.200 Now, besides the bonds, do you know of anything else of value that your wife had with her 09:23.200 --> 09:24.200 when she left? 09:24.200 --> 09:26.800 No, I don't think so. 09:26.800 --> 09:28.080 She had her fur coat on, of course. 09:28.080 --> 09:29.080 It was expensive. 09:29.080 --> 09:32.480 She was wearing a diamond ring, anniversary gift from Eilard, solitary, worth quite a bit 09:32.480 --> 09:33.480 of money. 09:33.480 --> 09:34.960 You can get the description from the jeweler. 09:34.960 --> 09:35.960 I'll give you his name. 09:35.960 --> 09:36.960 All right, Doctor. 09:36.960 --> 09:40.320 Your wife's stepfather, we'd like to have his name and address, too. 09:40.320 --> 09:44.320 Surely I'll have my secretary check on both of them right now. 09:44.320 --> 09:46.520 All right, fine. 09:46.520 --> 09:48.000 Sergeant, you've got to find Louise. 09:48.000 --> 09:49.440 I've got to have her back with me. 09:49.440 --> 09:50.920 Well, we'll do everything we can, Doctor. 09:50.920 --> 09:51.920 We promise you that. 09:51.920 --> 09:56.120 I know my wife wouldn't stay away of her own free will, not this long, not at a time like 09:56.120 --> 09:57.120 this. 09:57.120 --> 09:58.120 How do you mean? 09:58.120 --> 10:01.120 Well, let me show you. 10:01.120 --> 10:07.480 Uh-huh, here it is. 10:07.480 --> 10:09.720 This is the final drawing the architect made for us. 10:09.720 --> 10:11.720 What do you think of it? 10:11.720 --> 10:12.720 Oh, it's very nice. 10:12.720 --> 10:13.720 It certainly is. 10:13.720 --> 10:15.720 It's got to be our own building. 10:15.720 --> 10:19.360 12 stories, finest in the city. 10:19.360 --> 10:22.040 Robert A. Marston building for professional men. 10:22.040 --> 10:25.160 Louise and I have looked forward to it for a long time. 10:25.160 --> 10:26.160 I understand. 10:26.160 --> 10:30.360 We settled on the final plans a week before she disappeared. 10:30.360 --> 10:32.560 Contractors will start construction a few weeks now. 10:32.560 --> 10:36.200 There's supposed to be a great day in our lives, laying the cornerstone. 10:36.200 --> 10:37.960 Yes, sir, I understand. 10:37.960 --> 10:38.960 Great day. 10:38.960 --> 10:40.960 Robert A. Marston building. 10:40.960 --> 10:43.720 It's a funny thing, isn't it, officers? 10:43.720 --> 10:44.720 How's that? 10:44.720 --> 10:51.520 Nothing's very great unless there's somebody to share it with. 10:51.520 --> 10:55.240 Before we left the office of Dr. Robert Marston, we talked with his secretary, Miss Lenore 10:55.240 --> 10:56.240 Dexter. 10:56.240 --> 11:00.000 She confirmed the doctor's statement that on the night after Louise Marston had disappeared 11:00.000 --> 11:04.360 from the country club, she had seen both Mrs. Marston and her stepfather at the city's 11:04.360 --> 11:06.360 international airport. 11:06.360 --> 11:07.760 She said she did not follow them. 11:07.760 --> 11:09.840 She had no idea of their destination. 11:09.840 --> 11:14.060 Dr. Marston gave us the letters his wife had written him during her absence and also his 11:14.060 --> 11:18.200 wife's signed receipt for the $80,000 worth of bonds. 11:18.200 --> 11:22.520 Each of the letters was postmarked New York, and the dates on them ranged from December 11:22.520 --> 11:25.760 15th to March 24th. 11:25.760 --> 11:28.760 Ben and I drove back to the office and put in a call to the home of the missing woman's 11:28.760 --> 11:30.800 stepfather, Mr. William House. 11:30.800 --> 11:35.600 Then we went down the hall to the office of Don Meyer, our handwriting expert. 11:35.600 --> 11:39.040 We gave him the letters, which supposedly had been written by Mrs. Marston from New 11:39.040 --> 11:44.040 York, along with the signed receipt for the bonds and various other exemplars of her handwriting, 11:44.040 --> 11:46.400 which we had obtained from her bank. 11:46.400 --> 11:47.400 Two-fifty p.m. 11:47.400 --> 11:50.280 The missing woman's stepfather, William House, arrived at the office. 11:50.280 --> 11:53.040 He was a tall, graying man, dignified, well-dressed. 11:53.040 --> 11:56.240 It's about time the police started looking into this thing. 11:56.240 --> 11:59.280 How long does a person have to be missing before there's an investigation? 11:59.280 --> 12:02.320 The missing report was only filed yesterday, Mr. House. 12:02.320 --> 12:04.760 If you knew your stepdaughter was gone, why didn't you report it? 12:04.760 --> 12:07.680 I've had private detectives working on this for a month. 12:07.680 --> 12:09.320 Had them checking everything about the case. 12:09.320 --> 12:10.320 How much luck have they had? 12:10.320 --> 12:11.320 Frankly, not much. 12:11.320 --> 12:12.920 But I still got them working on it. 12:12.920 --> 12:17.240 Well, getting back to what we have on hand, Mr. House, how about this statement of Dr. 12:17.240 --> 12:18.360 Marston's secretary? 12:18.360 --> 12:21.800 She says that she saw you with Mrs. Marston at the International Airport the night after 12:21.800 --> 12:22.800 she disappeared. 12:22.800 --> 12:23.800 It's a lie. 12:23.800 --> 12:25.160 I haven't been near that airport in six months. 12:25.160 --> 12:26.980 It's a lie and I can prove it. 12:26.980 --> 12:30.240 I don't know what Marston's up to, but he isn't going to get away with it. 12:30.240 --> 12:31.860 What do you mean by that? 12:31.860 --> 12:33.880 I think he's murdered Louise. 12:33.880 --> 12:36.560 I think he killed her and buried her somewhere. 12:36.560 --> 12:37.560 That's my honest opinion. 12:37.560 --> 12:39.000 You sound sure of it. 12:39.000 --> 12:40.600 I am sure of it. 12:40.600 --> 12:43.480 I knew Marston for what he was the day I met him. 12:43.480 --> 12:45.480 He's a fortune hunter, pure and simple. 12:45.480 --> 12:48.840 He's after Louise's money and nothing's going to stop him. 12:48.840 --> 12:50.520 Nothing has stopped him. 12:50.520 --> 12:54.280 Well I was under the impression that Dr. Marston was wealthy before he married your stepdaughter, 12:54.280 --> 12:55.280 isn't that right? 12:55.280 --> 12:56.280 Certainly not. 12:56.280 --> 12:58.640 He was just another poor dentist with a lot of big ideas. 12:58.640 --> 13:02.280 All this talk about putting up a building, naming it after himself. 13:02.280 --> 13:04.640 Why Louise fought him on that constantly. 13:04.640 --> 13:06.680 He's some kind of crazy egotist. 13:06.680 --> 13:10.000 What about the $80,000 in bonds he says he signed over to Mrs. Marston? 13:10.000 --> 13:12.600 If he told you that, he's a bigger lad than I thought. 13:12.600 --> 13:14.680 Well he gave us a receipt for the bonds. 13:14.680 --> 13:15.680 It was signed by his wife. 13:15.680 --> 13:17.120 Can you account for that? 13:17.120 --> 13:18.280 Frankly no. 13:18.280 --> 13:22.440 Either he got her signature on it by some kind of trick or he forged it. 13:22.440 --> 13:24.680 I'm sure he never had that much money. 13:24.680 --> 13:26.520 Those bonds belonged to Louise. 13:26.520 --> 13:28.840 What about the letters Dr. Marston got from his wife? 13:28.840 --> 13:30.240 You think they were forged too? 13:30.240 --> 13:31.840 I'm positive they were. 13:31.840 --> 13:34.800 Don't you see officer, it's the perfect cover up for it. 13:34.800 --> 13:37.960 Well one way or the other, it's not going to take us long to find out the truth. 13:37.960 --> 13:41.040 Our handwriting man's checking over the letters and the bond receipt now. 13:41.040 --> 13:44.760 Can you fill us in at all on Dr. Marston's background Mr. House? 13:44.760 --> 13:48.840 Only since he's been connected with the family, since he married Louise. 13:48.840 --> 13:50.320 Say would you give me a cigarette please? 13:50.320 --> 13:52.040 I went off and left mine at home. 13:52.040 --> 13:53.040 Oh sure. 13:53.040 --> 13:54.040 Here you are. 13:54.040 --> 13:55.040 Thank you. 13:55.040 --> 13:56.040 Thank you. 13:56.040 --> 14:01.800 I can't tell you how I feel about it officer. 14:01.800 --> 14:03.480 I'm afraid of that man. 14:03.480 --> 14:05.080 I'm deathly afraid of him. 14:05.080 --> 14:07.160 I know he's done something terrible to Louise. 14:07.160 --> 14:09.320 Well how can you be so sure of it Mr. House? 14:09.320 --> 14:11.240 You must have some basis for your opinion. 14:11.240 --> 14:14.040 I just know that's all sergeant. 14:14.040 --> 14:18.080 If Louise had just disappeared and there wasn't any question of money involved, I wouldn't 14:18.080 --> 14:20.080 be so anxious about it. 14:20.080 --> 14:24.320 But eighty thousand dollars worth of bonds, that would be enough to tempt Marston to murder 14:24.320 --> 14:25.760 his own mother. 14:25.760 --> 14:27.240 You don't know him like I do. 14:27.240 --> 14:28.920 Well what do you know about him sir? 14:28.920 --> 14:31.160 There must be something concrete. 14:31.160 --> 14:33.840 I can tell you this much officer. 14:33.840 --> 14:36.120 Marston's a man who is capable of murder. 14:36.120 --> 14:37.800 Now I'm a sensible man. 14:37.800 --> 14:41.720 I don't walk up and down the street looking for murderers. 14:41.720 --> 14:46.540 But I know when we've got one in the family, that much you've got to believe. 14:46.540 --> 14:47.540 You will believe it. 14:47.540 --> 14:49.000 Well sir, excuse me just a minute. 14:49.000 --> 14:50.000 I'll get that. 14:50.000 --> 14:51.000 Homicide Friday. 14:51.000 --> 14:52.000 Yeah Don. 14:52.000 --> 14:53.000 Am I right? 14:53.000 --> 14:54.000 All of them? 14:54.000 --> 14:55.000 Right. 14:55.000 --> 14:56.000 Thank you Don. 14:56.000 --> 15:01.880 Well that was our handwriting man Mr. House. 15:01.880 --> 15:02.880 Yeah? 15:02.880 --> 15:06.320 Did you just finish checking the writing in those letters and on the receipt for the bonds? 15:06.320 --> 15:08.000 What did he say, forgeries? 15:08.000 --> 15:09.000 No sir, they're genuine. 15:09.000 --> 15:10.000 Every one of them. 15:10.000 --> 15:16.560 As soon as William House left the office, Ben and I began an immediate check of his 15:16.560 --> 15:20.880 whereabouts the night after his stepdaughter Louise Marston had disappeared. 15:20.880 --> 15:25.320 We talked to his friends and associates, members of the staff at the club where he lived. 15:25.320 --> 15:28.960 We found a dozen people who backed up House's claim that he was nowhere in the vicinity 15:28.960 --> 15:32.960 of the airport the night after Mrs. Marston dropped from site. 15:32.960 --> 15:37.160 We went back and talked with Dr. Marston's secretary, Lenore Dexter. 15:37.160 --> 15:41.680 She still insisted that she had actually seen House at the airport with the missing woman. 15:41.680 --> 15:46.040 Dr. Marston and the stepfather continued to accuse each other of murder. 15:46.040 --> 15:50.960 At our request, repeated efforts were made by the New York police to locate Mrs. Marston. 15:50.960 --> 15:51.960 No luck. 15:51.960 --> 15:55.520 We checked and rechecked with the maid at the home of the missing woman. 15:55.520 --> 15:59.120 All she could tell us was that Louise Marston never returned home after leaving the country 15:59.120 --> 16:05.080 club and also that she'd been wearing a fur coat and an expensive diamond solitaire ring. 16:05.080 --> 16:07.600 A week passed and then two weeks. 16:07.600 --> 16:09.440 We stayed on it but there wasn't much progress. 16:09.440 --> 16:14.080 The case of Louise Marston came to a virtual standstill, Wednesday, February 24th. 16:14.080 --> 16:15.080 Hi, Jill. 16:15.080 --> 16:16.080 Good morning. 16:16.080 --> 16:17.080 Anything new? 16:17.080 --> 16:18.520 Yeah, I think we got a break. 16:18.520 --> 16:19.520 The Marston case? 16:19.520 --> 16:20.520 Oh, what do you got? 16:20.520 --> 16:22.120 The maid out of Dr. Marston's home. 16:22.120 --> 16:23.640 She called first thing this morning. 16:23.640 --> 16:26.880 Said Dr. Marston had a little dinner party out there last night. 16:26.880 --> 16:27.880 What about it? 16:27.880 --> 16:30.920 One of the people there was Marston's secretary, that uh, Lenore Dexter. 16:30.920 --> 16:31.920 Oh, yeah. 16:31.920 --> 16:33.600 She was wearing a large diamond ring. 16:33.600 --> 16:34.600 Yeah. 16:34.600 --> 16:35.920 Maid got a good look at the ring. 16:35.920 --> 16:36.920 Mm-hmm. 16:36.920 --> 16:49.840 Says it's the same one Mrs. Marston was wearing the night she disappeared. 16:49.840 --> 16:52.280 You are listening to Dragnet. 16:52.280 --> 16:55.360 The case is from official police files. 16:55.360 --> 16:59.040 Now let's look at our Fatima files. 16:59.040 --> 17:05.680 Listed under B. 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19:21.120 --> 19:23.680 Was that your diamond ring you were wearing at the dinner party? 19:23.680 --> 19:25.760 No, Sergeant, it wasn't. 19:25.760 --> 19:28.320 I guess it belongs to Dr. Marston, either him or his wife. 19:28.320 --> 19:30.600 Well, did he give it to you as a present? 19:30.600 --> 19:31.600 No. 19:31.600 --> 19:36.880 You see, I guess the doctor had a few cocktails before dinner, maybe one too many. 19:36.880 --> 19:38.720 He went upstairs and came down with the ring. 19:38.720 --> 19:40.200 He insisted I wear it. 19:40.200 --> 19:42.600 He was very insistent. 19:42.600 --> 19:45.400 I didn't want to make a scene, so I put the ring on. 19:45.400 --> 19:48.560 I gave it back to the doctor just before we left the house. 19:48.560 --> 19:51.400 My boyfriend was with me at the party and he had a terrible argument over it. 19:51.400 --> 19:52.400 He's very jealous. 19:52.400 --> 19:56.160 Tell me, Miss Dexter, did Dr. Marston have any special reason for wanting you to wear 19:56.160 --> 19:57.160 the ring? 19:57.160 --> 19:58.160 No. 19:58.160 --> 20:02.040 He just said he liked me and that I was pretty and I ought to have pretty things. 20:02.040 --> 20:03.200 My boyfriend didn't like him at all. 20:03.200 --> 20:05.360 Well, had you ever seen that particular diamond ring, Miss Dexter? 20:05.360 --> 20:06.840 I mean, before last night? 20:06.840 --> 20:08.520 I don't know, Sergeant. 20:08.520 --> 20:09.760 I think so. 20:09.760 --> 20:10.760 I'm not sure. 20:10.760 --> 20:14.520 Well, where do you think you saw the ring before? 20:14.520 --> 20:16.000 Mrs. Marston. 20:16.000 --> 20:17.560 I think I saw her wearing it once. 20:17.560 --> 20:20.640 Was she wearing it the night you were supposed to have seen her at the airport? 20:20.640 --> 20:22.440 I don't know what you mean. 20:22.440 --> 20:24.920 I didn't notice the ring, but I saw Mrs. Marston at the airport. 20:24.920 --> 20:28.680 I'd like to have you think this thing out for yourself, Miss Dexter. 20:28.680 --> 20:31.920 Mrs. Marston's been gone for almost three months now and there's a strong possibility 20:31.920 --> 20:34.040 that she might have been murdered. 20:34.040 --> 20:35.640 You can make up your own mind about it, Miss. 20:35.640 --> 20:38.720 If you're not involved in that disappearance, I'd advise you to tell us the truth. 20:38.720 --> 20:41.480 It might save you a lot of trouble. 20:41.480 --> 20:43.040 Miss Dexter? 20:43.040 --> 20:48.600 You mean about my seeing Mr. House at the airport with the doctor's wife the night 20:48.600 --> 20:49.600 after she disappeared? 20:49.600 --> 20:50.600 Yes, ma'am, that's right. 20:50.600 --> 20:52.600 You sure that's the truth? 20:52.600 --> 20:53.600 I didn't want to get involved, Sergeant. 20:53.600 --> 20:55.240 I didn't want any part of it. 20:55.240 --> 20:59.240 You mean you didn't see Mrs. Marston her stepfather at the airport that night that you made it 20:59.240 --> 21:00.240 all up? 21:00.240 --> 21:01.240 I didn't make it up, Sergeant. 21:01.240 --> 21:02.760 I swear I didn't. 21:02.760 --> 21:03.760 He told me what to say. 21:03.760 --> 21:05.120 He said to do it as a favor for him. 21:05.120 --> 21:06.120 Who's that, Miss? 21:06.120 --> 21:07.120 Dr. Marston. 21:07.120 --> 21:13.080 We continued to question the secretary, Lenore Dexter. 21:13.080 --> 21:16.880 She confessed that Dr. Marston had directed her to tell the story about seeing Louise 21:16.880 --> 21:20.280 Marston and her stepfather, William House, at the International Airport. 21:20.280 --> 21:22.760 It was all a complete lie. 21:22.760 --> 21:26.080 She said that Marston had explained that the whole thing was just a practical joke, that 21:26.080 --> 21:28.120 it didn't mean anything. 21:28.120 --> 21:32.040 When Mrs. Marston was officially reported missing, she thought of going to the police, 21:32.040 --> 21:35.440 but Marston had frightened her out of taking any such action. 21:35.440 --> 21:38.640 The only other suspicious thing she could recall about Mrs. Marston's disappearance 21:38.640 --> 21:43.120 was a conversation between the doctor and his architect, Mr. Harold Whitmore. 21:43.120 --> 21:46.960 He was the architect who had planned and designed the projected Robert A. Marston building for 21:46.960 --> 21:49.080 professional men. 21:49.080 --> 21:52.280 The secretary told us the doctor's conversation with the architect had taken place about a 21:52.280 --> 21:56.440 month before Mrs. Marston's disappearance, and that she'd heard the doctor mention to 21:56.440 --> 22:00.000 the architect something about New York and a packet of letters. 22:00.000 --> 22:03.680 Lenore Dexter was taken downtown where she gave us a complete signed statement. 22:03.680 --> 22:07.440 Then I got in the car and drove to the offices of architect Harold Whitmore over on South 22:07.440 --> 22:08.440 Hope Street. 22:08.440 --> 22:12.040 He was a tall, florid-faced man, very cooperative. 22:12.040 --> 22:14.880 Yeah, I remember that conversation with Dr. Marston. 22:14.880 --> 22:17.600 He gave me a bunch of letters, at least a couple of dozen anyway. 22:17.600 --> 22:20.360 They were addressed to the doctor and his little boy, Stanley. 22:20.360 --> 22:22.480 What did he want you to do with the letters, Mr. Whitmore? 22:22.480 --> 22:25.280 He asked me if I had any friends in New York, and I said I did. 22:25.280 --> 22:28.560 Then he said he was playing some kind of practical joke on his wife and son. 22:28.560 --> 22:32.280 He gave me the letters and asked me if I'd send them to a friend in New York and have 22:32.280 --> 22:34.000 him mail them back one at a time. 22:34.000 --> 22:35.000 You agreed to do that? 22:35.000 --> 22:36.000 Yeah, that's right. 22:36.000 --> 22:39.800 The letters were all sealed and stamped all in order the way they were supposed to be 22:39.800 --> 22:40.800 mailed. 22:40.800 --> 22:44.600 I just sent them back to this friend of mine, Bob Rogers in New York, forgot all about it. 22:44.600 --> 22:47.080 Mr. Whitmore, how long have you known Dr. Marston? 22:47.080 --> 22:48.080 Very long? 22:48.080 --> 22:51.120 No, not too long, only in a business way. 22:51.120 --> 22:54.280 He wants to put up this office building of his and I'm handling the job for him. 22:54.280 --> 22:55.880 He sure nuts on this subject. 22:55.880 --> 22:57.680 Can't wait until we start construction on the job. 22:57.680 --> 22:59.360 I think his life depended on it. 22:59.360 --> 23:00.960 You know much about his personal life? 23:00.960 --> 23:02.440 What did you first mean? 23:02.440 --> 23:05.600 Let's see, I think it was around October of last year. 23:05.600 --> 23:09.160 He and Mrs. Marston were building a summer place down in Malibu and I helped out with 23:09.160 --> 23:10.160 the plans. 23:10.160 --> 23:15.000 The doctor was always hanging around there helping out with the work whenever he could. 23:15.000 --> 23:17.640 That's the only previous contact that you had with him, huh? 23:17.640 --> 23:19.800 That's about all, yeah, building a beach house. 23:19.800 --> 23:23.480 Dr. Marston thought he had some new ideas about building a new type basement in the 23:23.480 --> 23:24.480 place. 23:24.480 --> 23:25.480 That so? 23:25.480 --> 23:26.840 Yeah, not a bad job on a cellar for an amateur. 23:26.840 --> 23:29.200 He used enough cement on it to sink a battleship. 23:29.200 --> 23:33.080 Just a second, Mr. Whitmore, did Dr. Marston cement in the basement while the house was 23:33.080 --> 23:34.080 being built? 23:34.080 --> 23:37.840 No, no, about a couple of months later, around the middle of December, I think. 23:37.840 --> 23:41.160 Do you remember the date exactly when he did the cement work? 23:41.160 --> 23:42.160 Not exactly. 23:42.160 --> 23:45.800 About 12th or 13th of December, I think. 23:45.800 --> 23:50.680 Yeah, right after his wife disappeared. 23:50.680 --> 23:55.840 Wednesday, February 24th, 1.30 p.m. Ben and I picked up Dr. Robert Marston and brought 23:55.840 --> 23:57.400 him downtown to the office. 23:57.400 --> 24:01.360 We questioned him for an hour and informed him of the evidence against him. 24:01.360 --> 24:05.020 Despite the statement of architect Harold Whitmore, the doctor insisted he was innocent 24:05.020 --> 24:08.360 of any crime connected with the disappearance of his wife. 24:08.360 --> 24:11.880 We contacted the New York Police Department and asked them to check on architect Whitmore's 24:11.880 --> 24:14.160 friend, Robert E. Rogers. 24:14.160 --> 24:17.560 A special detail of men was dispatched to the summer home at Malibu to see what they 24:17.560 --> 24:18.560 could find. 24:18.560 --> 24:22.520 Half an hour later, Dr. Robert Marston was placed in a car and Ben and I drove him to 24:22.520 --> 24:24.200 the Malibu home. 24:24.200 --> 24:28.000 We continued questioning him during the drive, but he refused to make a statement of any 24:28.000 --> 24:29.000 kind. 24:29.000 --> 24:33.360 On our arrival at the beach cottage, we found Marston's young son, Stanley, together with 24:33.360 --> 24:35.200 a maid and the family butler. 24:35.200 --> 24:37.920 We took Dr. Marston downstairs to the basement. 24:37.920 --> 24:40.620 The men had a large section of the cement flooring ripped up. 24:40.620 --> 24:41.620 They were digging. 24:41.620 --> 24:53.840 In the room up above, we could hear young Stanley Marston playing on a toy harmonica. 24:53.840 --> 24:56.280 You'd like to know something, Sergeant, just for my information? 24:56.280 --> 24:57.280 Yes, sir. 24:57.280 --> 24:59.080 Why do you think I'd kill my wife? 24:59.080 --> 25:00.680 Why do you think I'd do such a thing? 25:00.680 --> 25:02.320 We're not sure yet if you did kill her. 25:02.320 --> 25:04.960 Then why do you have these men doing this? 25:04.960 --> 25:06.120 Digging up the whole basement. 25:06.120 --> 25:09.560 Why do you think I killed her? 25:09.560 --> 25:10.560 You won't find anything. 25:10.560 --> 25:12.160 You might as well tell them to stop now. 25:12.160 --> 25:14.200 They won't find anything. 25:14.200 --> 25:15.460 I explained everything to you. 25:15.460 --> 25:16.960 Why can't you take my word for it? 25:16.960 --> 25:20.440 Well, you still haven't explained about those letters, why you had them sent to New York, 25:20.440 --> 25:22.960 why you had the mail back here one at a time. 25:22.960 --> 25:23.960 Had nothing to do with it. 25:23.960 --> 25:25.120 Why can't you believe me? 25:25.120 --> 25:27.160 Your wife didn't disappear without a reason, Doctor. 25:27.160 --> 25:28.800 We'd like to know what the reason is. 25:28.800 --> 25:31.000 I told you, I told you a dozen times over. 25:31.000 --> 25:32.000 You know what happened. 25:32.000 --> 25:33.800 We were at the country club, Louise and I. 25:33.800 --> 25:34.800 She was drinking a lot. 25:34.800 --> 25:35.800 I told her to lay off. 25:35.800 --> 25:36.880 We had an argument. 25:36.880 --> 25:38.440 She walked out, that's all. 25:38.440 --> 25:39.440 She walked out. 25:39.440 --> 25:40.440 I didn't see her anymore. 25:40.440 --> 25:41.440 Yes, sir. 25:41.440 --> 25:42.440 We'll have it all worked out. 25:42.440 --> 25:44.560 Don't worry about it. 25:44.560 --> 25:48.280 Why can't that maid look after the boy up there making all that noise? 25:48.280 --> 25:50.360 Why can't you take him out somewhere down to the beach? 25:50.360 --> 25:51.360 Romero? 25:51.360 --> 25:52.360 Yeah? 25:52.360 --> 25:53.360 Yeah, all right. 25:53.360 --> 26:02.520 Sergeant, what do you want me to say? 26:02.520 --> 26:03.520 What's that? 26:03.520 --> 26:05.360 They've found her, you know that. 26:05.360 --> 26:08.040 Louise, right where I buried her. 26:08.040 --> 26:09.040 What do you want me to say? 26:09.040 --> 26:10.040 Well, that's up to you. 26:10.040 --> 26:12.800 Yes, she wouldn't understand, would you, Sergeant? 26:12.800 --> 26:16.520 The only thing I ever wanted in my life, she wouldn't let me have it. 26:16.520 --> 26:17.520 The building. 26:17.520 --> 26:20.320 Robert A. Marston building for professional men. 26:20.320 --> 26:22.440 You mean your wife wouldn't give you the money for it? 26:22.440 --> 26:23.840 That's why you quarreled, is that it? 26:23.840 --> 26:24.840 I tried to tell her. 26:24.840 --> 26:26.440 It was one fight after another. 26:26.440 --> 26:28.080 She didn't know how much it meant to me. 26:28.080 --> 26:29.520 That's why you killed her, huh? 26:29.520 --> 26:32.400 I followed her outside the country club that night, drove her to my office. 26:32.400 --> 26:33.880 She was pretty drunk. 26:33.880 --> 26:36.400 We pretended she was on a trip to New York. 26:36.400 --> 26:39.560 I had her write the letters, had her sign the receipt for the bonds. 26:39.560 --> 26:40.560 Wasn't hard to do. 26:40.560 --> 26:41.560 How'd you kill her? 26:41.560 --> 26:43.520 Put my hands around her throat. 26:43.520 --> 26:45.520 Didn't stop until she was dead. 26:45.520 --> 26:46.520 Joe? 26:46.520 --> 26:47.520 Yeah, man. 26:47.520 --> 26:48.520 They found her. 26:48.520 --> 26:50.520 Ready to go, Doctor. 26:50.520 --> 26:51.520 All right. 26:51.520 --> 26:53.920 It was a dream of a lifetime, Sergeant. 26:53.920 --> 26:56.040 I almost had it. 26:56.040 --> 26:57.560 The Robert A. Marston building. 26:57.560 --> 26:58.960 Finest in the city. 26:58.960 --> 26:59.960 Yeah. 26:59.960 --> 27:00.960 You want to come upstairs, Doctor? 27:00.960 --> 27:01.960 We'll get you coat. 27:01.960 --> 27:04.360 You'll try to understand, won't you? 27:04.360 --> 27:06.400 I wanted something that'd last. 27:06.400 --> 27:07.400 My own building. 27:07.400 --> 27:09.320 My name on it. 27:09.320 --> 27:10.320 Something you'd remember. 27:10.320 --> 27:11.320 Yeah. 27:11.320 --> 27:14.400 That's the reason I killed Louise. 27:14.400 --> 27:16.240 She didn't want me to have it. 27:16.240 --> 27:18.160 My own building. 27:18.160 --> 27:19.160 Something that would last. 27:19.160 --> 27:20.400 Make the people remember. 27:20.400 --> 27:21.720 Well, you made it, Doctor. 27:21.720 --> 27:22.720 Why worry? 27:22.720 --> 27:23.720 Why? 27:23.720 --> 27:24.720 You don't need a building. 27:24.720 --> 27:32.720 I'll remember you. 27:32.720 --> 27:35.440 The story you have just heard was true. 27:35.440 --> 27:38.080 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:38.080 --> 27:43.280 On June 3rd, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 87, City and County of Los Angeles, 27:43.280 --> 27:44.280 State of California. 27:44.280 --> 27:45.960 In a moment, the results of that trial. 27:45.960 --> 27:48.000 And now here is our star, Jack Webb. 27:48.000 --> 27:49.000 Thank you. 27:49.000 --> 27:53.600 Friends, our latest sales figures indicate that Fatima is undoubtedly the fastest growing 27:53.600 --> 27:55.400 long cigarette in the country. 27:55.400 --> 28:00.080 I'm sure you'll agree that there must be a sound reason for Fatima's ever increasing 28:00.080 --> 28:01.080 popularity. 28:01.080 --> 28:05.800 Well, in my way of thinking, that reason can be summed up in just two words. 28:05.800 --> 28:07.160 Fatima quality. 28:07.160 --> 28:09.000 You'll spot it instantly. 28:09.000 --> 28:13.560 Fatima gives you all the advantages of extra length plus Fatima quality, which no other 28:13.560 --> 28:15.760 king-size cigarette has. 28:15.760 --> 28:29.720 So tomorrow, buy a pack of Fatimas and prove to yourself that the difference is quality. 28:29.720 --> 28:33.480 Robert Alexander Marston was charged with murder in the first degree. 28:33.480 --> 28:38.000 Ten days after his trial opened in Superior Court, the suspect took his own life in his 28:38.000 --> 28:47.960 jail cell by hanging. 28:47.960 --> 28:52.600 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:52.600 --> 28:55.640 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. 28:55.640 --> 29:00.960 Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 29:00.960 --> 29:06.360 Fatima cigarettes, best of all long cigarettes, has brought you Dragnet transcribed from Los 29:06.360 --> 29:16.720 Angeles. 29:16.720 --> 29:39.360 Stay tuned for Counterspy next over most NBC stations.