1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,840 The story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:16,160 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:17,920 Fatima cigarettes. 4 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:29,720 Best of all, long cigarettes brings you dragnet. 5 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:31,480 You're a detective sergeant. 6 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:34,280 You're assigned to homicide detail. 7 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:37,680 An elderly man reports the sudden death of his wife. 8 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:42,080 He claims he awoke in the morning to find her dead on the floor of their bedroom. 9 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:44,800 The cause of death is not apparent. 10 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:50,880 Your job, investigate. 11 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:53,720 In Fatima, the difference is quality. 12 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:58,120 Yes, in Fatima, the difference is quality. 13 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:04,720 Quality of tobaccos, the finest domestic and Turkish varieties, extra mild, superbly blended 14 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:09,120 to give you Fatima's much different, much better flavor and aroma. 15 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:15,660 Quality of manufacture, smooth, round, perfect Fatima cigarettes, rolled in the finest paper 16 00:01:15,660 --> 00:01:21,880 money can buy, manufactured in the newest and most modern of all cigarette factories. 17 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:26,800 Quality, even to the appearance of the bright, clean, golden yellow Fatima package. 18 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:30,080 So compare Fatima yourself today. 19 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:36,400 You'll find Fatima gives you all the advantages of extra length plus Fatima quality, which 20 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:38,720 no other king-size cigarette has. 21 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:41,160 Yes, light up a Fatima. 22 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:43,560 Your first puff will tell you. 23 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:46,600 Ah, that's different. 24 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:56,520 Because in Fatima, the difference is quality. 25 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:00,040 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 26 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:04,000 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 27 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:08,560 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 28 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:10,280 police files. 29 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:15,380 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 30 00:02:15,380 --> 00:02:18,380 in action. 31 00:02:18,380 --> 00:02:19,840 It was Friday, November 12th. 32 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:21,040 It was cold in Los Angeles. 33 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:24,160 We were working the day watch out of homicide detail. 34 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:25,400 My partner's Ben Romero. 35 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:28,000 And my boss is Thad Brown, Chief of Detectives. 36 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,000 My name's Friday. 37 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:34,600 It was 9.38 a.m. when I got back to the first floor of the Blackwell Hotel. 38 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:35,600 Room seven. 39 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:36,600 Oh, hi, Joe. 40 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:37,600 Come on. 41 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,600 You know, how's the old fella doing? 42 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:42,600 Did he tell you anything? 43 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,600 He hasn't talked at all. 44 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:47,080 He's pretty broke enough. 45 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:48,080 The woman's dead. 46 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:49,080 That's about it. 47 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:51,100 Now, how about the bruise on her forehead? 48 00:02:51,100 --> 00:02:52,100 You think that could have been it? 49 00:02:52,100 --> 00:02:53,480 No, it was just a slight bruise. 50 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:54,960 I don't think that could have killed her. 51 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:56,920 They moved the body out of the room here? 52 00:02:56,920 --> 00:02:57,920 Yeah, they just did. 53 00:02:57,920 --> 00:02:58,920 Taking it downtown for the autopsy. 54 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:02,560 Well, I guess we can take the old man back to his own room now, huh? 55 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:03,560 Yeah, I think so. 56 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:06,560 He's back here in the kitchen now. 57 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:07,560 Fixed him a cup of coffee. 58 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:08,560 He's still feeling pretty bad. 59 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:14,960 Mr. Turner, would you like to go back to your room now? 60 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:16,960 Everything's been fixed up. 61 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,400 Mr. Turner? 62 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:20,400 What happened? 63 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:22,520 You can tell me. 64 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:23,520 What happened to Gertrude? 65 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,640 I'm afraid we don't know, Mr. Turner, not yet. 66 00:03:26,640 --> 00:03:29,000 I told you about it, didn't I? 67 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:35,400 Woke up this morning about 8 o'clock, put my arm over on the pillow, and she wasn't there. 68 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,480 And I got up and I saw her laying on the floor. 69 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:39,480 My wife Gertrude. 70 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:40,480 I felt her arms. 71 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:41,480 She was cold. 72 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:42,480 Ice cold. 73 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:43,480 Somebody ought to know what happened. 74 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:50,240 Well, we'll let you know just as soon as we get the coroner's report, sir. 75 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:52,320 Would you like to go back to your own room now? 76 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:53,800 What does this coroner have to do with it? 77 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:56,120 Well, he's going to have to perform an autopsy. 78 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:57,120 We'll have the report for you tomorrow morning. 79 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:00,120 I don't want him to do that to Gertrude. 80 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:01,400 I don't want him to. 81 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:02,400 I'm sorry, sir. 82 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:03,400 I'm afraid it's necessary. 83 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:04,400 Deaths of this kind. 84 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:06,000 There was no doctor in attendance. 85 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,560 Nobody to sign the death certificate. 86 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:09,560 There's nothing I can do. 87 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:10,560 Nothing to help her. 88 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:14,160 I'm sorry, Mr. Turner. 89 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,440 Can we help you back to your room, sir? 90 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:18,440 Is she still there? 91 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:19,440 No, sir. 92 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:20,440 They've taken her body downtown. 93 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:22,240 Can I give you a hand there? 94 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:23,240 Thank you. 95 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:24,240 All right. 96 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:25,240 I'll get the door. 97 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:26,240 Where'd Mr. Parkson go? 98 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:27,240 Who's that, sir? 99 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:28,240 The hotel manager, Mr. Parkson. 100 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:29,240 Oh, yeah. 101 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:30,240 These are his rooms here. 102 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:31,240 I wanted to tell him thank you for letting me stay down here a while. 103 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:32,240 Well, I think he'll be back in a few minutes. 104 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:33,240 He was busy outside. 105 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:34,240 Nice of him to let me use his place. 106 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:35,240 I'm sorry, sir. 107 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:36,240 I'm sorry. 108 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:37,240 I'm sorry. 109 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:38,240 I'm sorry. 110 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:39,240 I'm sorry. 111 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:40,240 I'm sorry. 112 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:41,240 I'm sorry. 113 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:42,240 I'm sorry. 114 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:43,240 I'm sorry. 115 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:44,240 I'm sorry. 116 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:45,240 I'm sorry. 117 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:46,240 I'm sorry. 118 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:47,240 I'm sorry. 119 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:48,240 I'm sorry. 120 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:49,240 I'm sorry. 121 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:50,240 I'm sorry. 122 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:51,240 I'm sorry. 123 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:52,440 I'm sorry. 124 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:53,440 I'm sorry. 125 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:54,440 I'm so sorry. 126 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:56,640 I apologize for being those you to keep home the uncovered. 127 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:58,520 There's some influences on the way you moved in. 128 00:04:58,520 --> 00:04:59,120 You haven't applied for ailoquy, Mr. 129 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:00,060 All right. 130 00:05:00,060 --> 00:05:02,760 And feel free to come back just in case for an emergency call. 131 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:05,360 But I need you for one last 안y take care of me for a few minutes, on the way to the 132 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:06,360 cops. 133 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:07,360 All right. 134 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:08,360 Thank you, L 검찰. 135 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:09,360 I'll get the door. 136 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:10,360 Why don't you come in. 137 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:11,360 I know he's gone. 138 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:12,360 Ah, yeah. 139 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:13,360 I'll wait for him. 140 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:14,360 Do you want me to get in there right now? 141 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:15,400 Or may I? 142 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:16,400 No, I won't. 143 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:18,000 But you can't leave at all. 144 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:19,000 Why? 145 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,000 I robots of course are saying there was an emergency. 146 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,800 I have to think about it a while. 147 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:25,800 Sit down and think about it. 148 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:27,800 Yes, sir. Here we are. I'll get the door. 149 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:29,800 Go ahead, Ben. 150 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:31,800 Yeah. 151 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:37,800 Right there on the floor, officer. 152 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:39,800 That's where I found her when I woke up. 153 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:41,800 Right there by the bed. 154 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:43,800 Mm-hmm. 155 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:45,800 Where have they taken her? 156 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:47,800 Downtown, Mr. Turner, to the county morgue. 157 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:49,800 Oh. They'll let me see her, won't they? 158 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:51,800 Yes, sir, they will. 159 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:53,800 Do you feel up to answering a few questions for us now? 160 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:55,800 All right. 161 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:57,800 I'll tell you everything I know about it. 162 00:05:57,800 --> 00:05:59,800 I don't see how it's going to help anything. 163 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:01,800 I'm going to try to make it as brief as possible, sir. 164 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:03,800 Now, your wife's full name is Gertrude Agnes Turner. 165 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:05,800 Is that right? 166 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:07,800 Yes, that's right. 167 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:09,800 Her age? 168 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:11,800 Let's see, Gertrude 63. 169 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:13,800 Yeah, that's it. 170 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:15,800 I'm four years older than her. 171 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:17,800 That's how I always tell. 172 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:19,800 Was your wife in good health, Mr. Turner, 173 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:21,800 under a doctor's care, anything like that? 174 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:23,800 No. 175 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:25,800 Nothing wrong with her, I knew well. 176 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:27,800 Heart trouble, anything like that? 177 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:29,800 No, sir. 178 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:31,800 She used to have headaches every now and then. 179 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:33,800 Doctor Fendivar was back home, 180 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:35,800 he sent pills for her to take. 181 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:37,800 That's about all. 182 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:39,800 How was your wife feeling last night? Was she all right then? 183 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:41,800 Just fine. 184 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:43,800 When I woke up, I put my arm over her pillow. 185 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:45,800 She wasn't there. 186 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:47,800 Then I got up and saw her laying on the floor, 187 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:49,800 right by the bed. 188 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:51,800 Gertrude. 189 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:53,800 She was ice cold. 190 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:55,800 There was a little bruise up here on her forehead. 191 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:57,800 I thought I was dreaming. 192 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:59,800 She was dead. 193 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:01,800 We weren't even married a year. 194 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:03,800 You want to go on, sir? 195 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:05,800 You think you feel all right? 196 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:07,800 It's all right, officer. 197 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:09,800 I'm not going to lie. 198 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:11,800 I'm not going to lie. 199 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:13,800 I'm not going to lie. 200 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:15,800 It's all right, officer. 201 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:17,800 I got a little bit of brandy in that cupboard over there. 202 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:21,800 I think I could use some if you two officers don't mind. 203 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:23,800 That's perfectly all right, sir. 204 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:25,800 You'll get it, Mr. Turner. 205 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:29,800 We had it all figured out 206 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:31,800 Tuesday, November 16th. 207 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:33,800 That's her names day. 208 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:35,800 How's that, sir? 209 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:37,800 November 16th. It's my wife's names day. 210 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:39,800 You see, Gertrude's a German girl. 211 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:41,800 A lot of German people don't celebrate their birthday. 212 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:43,800 They celebrate their names day instead. 213 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:45,800 Next Tuesday is St. Gertrude's day. 214 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:47,800 Oh, I see. 215 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:49,800 There you are, Mr. Turner. 216 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:51,800 Thank you. 217 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:53,800 Either one of your officers, Kirsten and Brandy, 218 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:55,800 you're certainly welcome to them. 219 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:57,800 Thank you very much. 220 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:03,800 Do you or your wife have many friends in town, Mr. Turner? 221 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:05,800 No, no. 222 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:07,800 Just a few. 223 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:09,800 Around the hotel here. 224 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:11,800 Gertrude and I have only been in California a few months. 225 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:13,800 Come out from Indiana, you know, Fort Wayne. 226 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:15,800 Yes, sir. No relatives here? 227 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:17,800 No, sir. 228 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:19,800 Wife only had one relative living. 229 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:21,800 Sister, she's back in Indiana. 230 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:23,800 How did you and your wife get along, all right? 231 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:25,800 Oh, fine. We never had any trouble. 232 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:27,800 I loved her, officer. 233 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:29,800 Did your wife have any enemies that you know of, sir? 234 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:31,800 People she didn't get along with? 235 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:33,800 Somebody who might have wanted to hurt her? 236 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:35,800 I can't think of anybody. 237 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:37,800 I don't know. 238 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:39,800 Well, I can't think of anyone. 239 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:41,800 Well, how about some of the men your wife knew 240 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:43,800 before she married you, Mr. Turner? 241 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:45,800 Any bad feelings one of them might have had towards your wife? 242 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:47,800 No, sir. Not that I know of. 243 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:49,800 Besides, all her old friends are still back there in Indiana. 244 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:51,800 You say your marriage was working out pretty well. 245 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:53,800 Your wife didn't have any gentlemen friends 246 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:55,800 that she might have been interested in? 247 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,800 No, sir. I know that for the truth. 248 00:08:57,800 --> 00:08:59,800 Gertrude spent her time at home. 249 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:01,800 She didn't run around. 250 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:03,800 She was a good wife. 251 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:05,800 Would you know if your wife had any enemies? 252 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:07,800 No, sir. I don't know. 253 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:09,800 Would you know if your wife had any reason at all 254 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:11,800 to take her own life, maybe? 255 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:13,800 Well, that's the last thing in the world Gertrude would do. 256 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:15,800 No reason for it. 257 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:17,800 We had too many things to look forward to. 258 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:19,800 Lots of things. 259 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:21,800 You don't stop living just because you passed 65. 260 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:23,800 Yes, sir. 261 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:25,800 Tell me the truth, officer. 262 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:27,800 Don't you really know what happened to her? 263 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:29,800 No, sir. No more than you do. 264 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:31,800 I'm afraid we'll have to wait for that coroner's report. 265 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:33,800 I don't understand it, officer. 266 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:35,800 How am I supposed to understand it? 267 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:37,800 Sir? 268 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:39,800 I went to bed last night and I had a wife. 269 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:41,800 Yes, sir. 270 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:43,800 Today's Monday off. 271 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:45,800 We're going to take a car ride down the beach. 272 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:47,800 That's the dress she was going to wear 273 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:49,800 hanging up there. 274 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:51,800 Gertrude made it herself. 275 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:53,800 She was going to wear it today. 276 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:55,800 I'll try to take it easy, Mr. Turner. 277 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:57,800 I beg your pardon. 278 00:09:57,800 --> 00:09:59,800 She's all I had. 279 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:01,800 I'm afraid I'll have to wait for her. 280 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,800 She's all I had. 281 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:05,800 Why should she have to die? 282 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:07,800 She didn't have to die, did she? 283 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:09,800 I don't know, sir. Maybe she didn't have a choice. 284 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:17,800 The body of the dead woman, Mrs. Gertrude Agnes Turner, 285 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:19,800 was removed to the county morgue for autopsy. 286 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:21,800 Ben and I filled out the 311 form, 287 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:23,800 the dead body report, 288 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:25,800 and filed it pending the outcome of the autopsy. 289 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:27,800 A couple of Mr. Turner's friends 290 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:29,800 who lived upstairs from him at the Blackwell Hotel 291 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:31,800 agreed to look after the old man 292 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:33,800 until he got over the shock of his wife's sudden death. 293 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:35,800 7.45 the next morning, 294 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:37,800 I checked in for work as usual. 295 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:39,800 Morning, Joe. Morning. 296 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:41,800 What do you know? Not much. Pretty slow. 297 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:43,800 How about the Turner woman? 298 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:45,800 No word on the autopsy, huh? 299 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:47,800 No. Corner hasn't called yet. 300 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:49,800 If you've got any smokes, I left the house in a hurry this morning. 301 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:51,800 Forgot everything. Yeah. 302 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:53,800 Right here. Oh, thanks. 303 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:55,800 Here you are. Thanks. 304 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:57,800 Lousy morning. Another row with a wife. 305 00:10:57,800 --> 00:10:59,800 Oh? What's the matter? 306 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:01,800 Oh... 307 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:03,800 Another one of those church bazaars 308 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:05,800 she got herself mixed up in. 309 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:07,800 She's calling on me for help again. 310 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:09,800 Oh, yeah? What she wants you to do now? 311 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:11,800 Remember the last time, don't you? That spring bazaar 312 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:13,800 had me working on decorations down at the church 313 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:15,800 seven nights a week, 18 women 314 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:17,800 running around telling you what to do. Yeah. 315 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:19,800 It's like a madhouse, Joe. This time it's even worse. 316 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:21,800 How do you mean? 317 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:23,800 This time the ladies figured they ought to have a little more production. 318 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:25,800 They want me to dress up in some kind of funny costume. 319 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:27,800 Option of pies and cake. 320 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:29,800 You know, stovepipe hat 321 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:31,800 and false mustache will work. 322 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:33,800 You turned them down now. You won't do it with it. 323 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:35,800 Well, not exactly. 324 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:37,800 Wife kicked up such a row, I guess I'll end up doing it. 325 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:39,800 I've got an idea, though. 326 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:41,800 Wouldn't be so bad if I had somebody to work with me. 327 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:43,800 You wouldn't like to help me out, would you, Joe? 328 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:45,800 Well, I'll tell you, I'm going to be a little busy, Ben, 329 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:47,800 but if I get a chance, I'll drop out to see you, though. 330 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:49,800 I'll get it. 331 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:51,800 Yeah. 332 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:53,800 Homicide Friday. 333 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:55,800 Homicide Friday. 334 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:57,800 Oh, yeah. 335 00:11:57,800 --> 00:11:59,800 How's that? 336 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:01,800 All right. Yeah. 337 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:03,800 Okay, we'll be right over. 338 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:05,800 Was Doc Cephalu over at the morgue about Ms. Turner? 339 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:07,800 Got the autopsy report for her? 340 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:09,800 Yeah, they won't sign the death certificate. 341 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:11,800 What's the trouble? A couple of things. Looks too suspicious for him, they said. 342 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:13,800 How'd they list the cause of death? 343 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:15,800 She suffocated. 344 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:17,800 8.15 a.m. 345 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:19,800 We went across the street and talked with Dr. Cephalu. 346 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:21,800 All he could do was 347 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:23,800 tell us that Gertrude Turner had suffered severe convulsions 348 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:25,800 and that she had died of suffocation. 349 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:27,800 There was a small bruise in her forehead 350 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:29,800 and numerous other small bruises around the base of the throat. 351 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:31,800 Not enough to say that the woman had been murdered 352 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:33,800 and yet too much to dismiss the case as an accidental death. 353 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:35,800 Together with Lorman and Barrett from homicide, 354 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:37,800 Ben and I looked up some of the friends of Mr. and Mrs. Turner. 355 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:39,800 We found two points which didn't check out 356 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:41,800 with the story that Mr. Turner had told us. 357 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:43,800 According to the friends, 358 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:45,800 Turner had had some violent arguments with Ms. Turner. 359 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:47,800 He had a very strong sense of humor. 360 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:49,800 He was a very good friend of Ms. Turner's. 361 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:51,800 Turner had had some violent arguments with his wife. 362 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:53,800 On at least one occasion he'd struck her. 363 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:57,800 And secondly, the dead woman did have a gentleman friend in the neighborhood, 364 00:12:57,800 --> 00:12:59,800 but his conduct with her had been above question. 365 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:01,800 It was strictly friendship. 366 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:03,800 We decided to take it from there. 367 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:05,800 We went back to the Blackwell Hotel 368 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:07,800 and found Mr. Turner in his room. 369 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:09,800 He was wrapping up some of his wife's personal effects 370 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:11,800 and packing them in corrugated boxes. 371 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:13,800 We told him about the coroner's report. 372 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:15,800 I don't think I believe that, Sergeant. 373 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:17,800 People just don't suffocate. 374 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:19,800 There's got to be a reason for it. 375 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:21,800 Yes, sir, that's what we're looking for. 376 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:23,800 Well, don't they know? 377 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:25,800 Can't they tell you how it happened with the doctors? 378 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:27,800 Well, she had severe convulsions. 379 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:29,800 She suffocated. That's just all they could tell us. 380 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:31,800 The bruise on her head, Gertrude's forehead. 381 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:33,800 What did they say about that? 382 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:35,800 Well, that wasn't the cause of death, Mr. Turner. 383 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:37,800 She could have gotten a bump when she fell out of bed. 384 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:39,800 It might have been that. 385 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:41,800 It might not have been that. 386 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:43,800 I just don't understand. 387 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:45,800 You'd think there'd be some way of telling. 388 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:47,800 We were around talking to some of your friends 389 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:49,800 in the neighborhood this morning, friends of you and your wife. 390 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:51,800 Oh, yeah? 391 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:53,800 Oh, they've been real friends, officers. 392 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:55,800 Every one of them. 393 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:57,800 Been up to see me, brought me meals and things. 394 00:13:57,800 --> 00:13:59,800 Say, isn't that a pretty thing? 395 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:01,800 Just look at that. 396 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:03,800 Yes, sir. 397 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:05,800 Real bone china. 398 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:07,800 A cup and a saucer. 399 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:09,800 Gertrude used to collect them. 400 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:11,800 Had all kinds. 401 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:13,800 Pretty? 402 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:15,800 Yes, sir. 403 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:17,800 When we were talking to you yesterday, sir, 404 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:19,800 you told us that you and your wife got along pretty well. 405 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:21,800 No arguments? 406 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:23,800 Yes, sir, that's right. 407 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:25,800 Well, now, some of your friends tell us that you used to argue with your wife quite a bit. 408 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:27,800 Who told you that? 409 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:29,800 Some of your friends here in the neighborhood. 410 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:31,800 Is that true? 411 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:33,800 When we first got married, Gertrude and I, 412 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:35,800 I guess we had a few spats. 413 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:37,800 No different than other people. 414 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:39,800 Getting used to each other. 415 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:41,800 Things like that, you know. 416 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:43,800 Did you ever strike your wife, Mr. Turner? 417 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:47,800 Why do you ask that? 418 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:49,800 Routine question. Did you ever strike your wife? 419 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:51,800 Mr. Turner? 420 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:53,800 Yes. 421 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:55,800 One of the first arguments we had. 422 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:57,800 I don't even remember what it was about. 423 00:14:57,800 --> 00:14:59,800 That's how important it was. 424 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:01,800 I... 425 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:03,800 Well, I lost my temper, I guess. 426 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:05,800 I kind of slapped her. 427 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:07,800 I felt like a no-good bum. 428 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:09,800 Never once happened again. 429 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:11,800 Slapping Gertrude. 430 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:13,800 It's hard to remember it right now. 431 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:15,800 Well, we asked you the same question yesterday, sir. 432 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:17,800 Couldn't you have told us that then? 433 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:19,800 Oh, I'm sorry, officer. I guess I missed it. 434 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:21,800 I... 435 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:23,800 Well, I wasn't feeling too good. 436 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:25,800 I think you know what I mean. 437 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:27,800 But you remember us asking if your wife had any gentleman friends. 438 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:29,800 Yes, I remember that. 439 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:31,800 Well, now, is it true? 440 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:33,800 I don't know. 441 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:35,800 Well, there's one fellow named Clyde Warren. 442 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:37,800 Runs a drug store down the street. 443 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:39,800 I guess Gertrude knew him better than anybody, 444 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:41,800 but he was my friend, too. 445 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:43,800 Well, did you ever complain to this Clyde Warren 446 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:45,800 that he was spending too much time around your wife 447 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:47,800 that he ought to see less of her? 448 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:49,800 I think I did maybe once or twice. 449 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:51,800 It was kind of in a fooling way. 450 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:53,800 I certainly didn't mean it. 451 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:55,800 Clyde Warren's one of my best friends. 452 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:57,800 Well, did you ever complain to your wife 453 00:15:57,800 --> 00:15:59,800 that she was a good friend of yours? 454 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:01,800 No, sir. 455 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:03,800 Never even mentioned it. 456 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:05,800 Why ask me all these things? 457 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:07,800 Well, your wife's dead, Mr. Turner, 458 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:09,800 and we still haven't found out why. 459 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:11,800 But you asked me questions like I had something to do with it. 460 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:13,800 Well, you were the last one to see her alive, sir. 461 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:15,800 You were alone with her in this room the night she died. 462 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:17,800 You think I killed Gertrude? 463 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:19,800 Is that it? 464 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:21,800 You think I killed my own wife? 465 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:23,800 No, sir, we didn't say anyone killed her. 466 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:25,800 You think I killed my own wife? 467 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:27,800 You think I killed her? 468 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:29,800 Well, did you kill her? 469 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:31,800 Well, did you kill her, Mr. Turner? 470 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:33,800 You know I didn't kill Gertrude. 471 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:35,800 You know I didn't do that. 472 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:37,800 Well, sorry, sir, there's not much else we can do now. 473 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:39,800 What do you mean? 474 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:41,800 Kornor found a series of bruises on the body 475 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:43,800 right around here, base of the neck. 476 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:45,800 We know she died of suffocation. 477 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:47,800 The two things seem to fit pretty well. 478 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:49,800 I don't know what you mean. 479 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:51,800 I didn't see any bruises, not on her neck. 480 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:53,800 I don't know what you mean. 481 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:55,800 Well, I'll take you down to the hospital. 482 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:57,800 I'll take you down to the hospital. 483 00:16:57,800 --> 00:16:59,800 I don't know what you mean. 484 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:01,800 Well, I'll take you downtown, sir. 485 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:03,800 You can call your lawyer now, if you like. 486 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:05,800 I don't have a lawyer. 487 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:07,800 Why are you taking me downtown? 488 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:09,800 No alternative, we're going to have to book you. 489 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:11,800 How's that? 490 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:13,800 Suspicion of murder. 491 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:15,800 Ten twenty-five a.m. 492 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:17,800 Before we booked him at the main jail, 493 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:19,800 Mr. Turner asked us if we'd get off a telegram 494 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:21,800 to his sister-in-law, Mrs. Helen Raymond 495 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:23,800 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, informing her of what had happened. 496 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:25,800 We told him we would, and we did. 497 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:27,800 We booked him in on suspicion of 187 P.C. 498 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:29,800 and then we checked back in at the office. 499 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:31,800 We put in a call to the insurance company 500 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:33,800 that held a policy on Mrs. Turner. 501 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:35,800 Yes, sir, Gertrude Agnes Turner. 502 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:37,800 What was that? 503 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:39,800 All right. Right, thank you, sir. Goodbye. 504 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:41,800 What'd they have to say? 505 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:43,800 Mrs. Turner had three different policies on her life, 506 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:45,800 total of $5,000. 507 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:47,800 Mr. Turner's a beneficiary on all three. 508 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:49,800 Well, that'll do for a motive. 509 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:51,800 There's something else here. 510 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:53,800 Newest policies for $1,000, industrial policy. 511 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:55,800 What was it taken out? 512 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:57,800 Three weeks ago. 513 00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:59,800 You are in the Scientific Investigation Division 514 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:01,800 of the Metropolitan Police Department, 515 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:03,800 the ballistics room. 516 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:21,800 You have just heard a test bullet 517 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:23,800 from a.38 caliber revolver 518 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:25,800 found in the possession of a suspect. 519 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:27,800 The test slug is removed from the ballistics box 520 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:29,800 and compared with the slug found at the scene of the crime. 521 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:31,800 There they are. 522 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:33,800 Side by side, they look alike. 523 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:35,800 But examination will prove a world of difference. 524 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:37,800 You'll find the same is true 525 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:39,800 when you compare king-size cigarettes. 526 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:41,800 Fatimas are the same length 527 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:43,800 as any other king-size cigarette, 528 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:45,800 85 millimeters. 529 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:47,800 Fatima has the same circumference, 530 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:51,800 1 and 1-64 inches around. 531 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:53,800 And Fatima filters the smoke 532 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:55,800 exactly the same long distance 533 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:57,800 as other king-size cigarettes. 534 00:18:57,800 --> 00:18:59,800 But in Fatima, 535 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:01,800 the difference is quality. 536 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:03,800 Fatima gives you extra mildness, 537 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:05,800 a much different, 538 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:07,800 much better flavor and aroma. 539 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:09,800 You get all the advantages of extra length 540 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:11,800 plus Fatima quality, 541 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:13,800 which no other king-size cigarette has. 542 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:15,800 So compare Fatima 543 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:17,800 yourself. 544 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:19,800 Your first puff will tell you... 545 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:21,800 Ah, that's different. 546 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:23,800 Yes, in Fatima, 547 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:25,800 the difference is quality. 548 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:27,800 Buy Fatima. 549 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:29,800 Best of all, 550 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:31,800 long cigarettes. 551 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:33,800 Monday, November 15th, 10 a.m. 552 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:35,800 The investigation went on. 553 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:37,800 We failed to uncover the truth. 554 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,800 We were told that 555 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:41,300 the 556 00:19:41,300 --> 00:19:45,800 case was over. 557 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:47,800 We had three main points 558 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:49,800 against the man. 559 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:51,800 The recently issued insurance policy 560 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:53,800 on his wife for a thousand dollars, 561 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:55,800 the fact that he had fought with his wife 562 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:57,800 and struck her on several occasions, 563 00:19:57,800 --> 00:19:59,800 and the series of bruises 564 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:01,800 which had been discovered at the base of the dead woman's neck. 565 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:03,800 As it stood, we weren't too sure 566 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:05,800 that the case would hold up in court. 567 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:07,800 Ben was less sure that the old man 568 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:09,800 was actually responsible for the death of his wife. 569 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:11,800 We figured if Turner was guilty, 570 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:13,800 we might try to impress him with the evidence against him 571 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:15,800 in an attempt to get a confession. 572 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:17,800 Monday, 1 p.m. 573 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:19,800 We went over to the main jail to interrogate the suspect. 574 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:29,800 You want to step aside there? They want to lock that door. 575 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:31,800 Oh, yes, sir. 576 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:36,800 This way, Mr. Turner. 577 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:41,800 I'll get the lights, will you? 578 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:44,800 Right here, Mr. Turner. 579 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:50,800 Mr. Turner, you'd like to sit down? 580 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:52,800 All right. Thank you. 581 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:54,800 Why'd you come to see me? 582 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:56,800 Have you found out something? 583 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:58,800 We've been checking a little bit further into the case, Mr. Turner. 584 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:00,800 We've got a few more questions for you, if you don't mind. 585 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:02,800 Did you send the message to my sister-in-law, Mrs. Raymond, 586 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:04,800 the one I asked you to send? 587 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:06,800 Yes, sir, we took care of it. 588 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:08,800 You got the address right, didn't you? Fort Wayne, Indiana? 589 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:10,800 That's right, sir. Sent a telegram, told her all about it. 590 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:12,800 That was two days ago. 591 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:14,800 She should have gotten it by now. 592 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:16,800 I haven't heard a word from her. 593 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:18,800 Are you sure she got the telegram all right? 594 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:20,800 Pretty sure. We'll check on it and we'll get back to the office. 595 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:22,800 A few things we got here that you might like to know about, sir. 596 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:24,800 Maybe you can help clear them up for us. 597 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:26,800 What's that, officer? 598 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:28,800 We understand that your wife, Gertrude, 599 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:30,800 had some insurance on herself. 600 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:32,800 $5,000 worth? 601 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:34,800 Yes, that's right. 602 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:36,800 Something you want to know about it? 603 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:38,800 Well, she named you as the beneficiary in each of her policies. 604 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:40,800 Is that correct? Yes, sir. 605 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:42,800 Gertrude was a great believer in insurance. 606 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:44,800 Don't hold with it too much myself. 607 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:46,800 She used to tell me all the time... 608 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:48,800 Yes, sir? 609 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:50,800 In case she died first, 610 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:52,800 she wanted me to have a little something for old age. 611 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:54,800 Something to retire on. 612 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:56,800 And get a little ranch out in the valley. 613 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:58,800 I understand she took out a policy just lately. 614 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:00,800 $1,000 about three weeks ago. 615 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:02,800 I know about it. 616 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:04,800 I didn't want her to do it. 617 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:06,800 Clean waste of money, I told her. 618 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:08,800 Payments are pretty steep. 619 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:10,800 Well, sir, is there anybody who can back that up? 620 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:12,800 That you told your wife you didn't want her to take out that policy? 621 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:14,800 No, I don't think so. 622 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,800 We didn't talk about our business with other people. 623 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:18,800 Yeah. 624 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:20,800 Friday, Romero. 625 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,800 Yeah, what is it? 626 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:24,800 Phone call says it's important. 627 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:26,800 Do you know what it is? 628 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:28,800 You want to get it, Ben? 629 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:30,800 You can take it out to the desk here. 630 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:32,800 All right, then. 631 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:34,800 I think I know what you mean. 632 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:36,800 The insurance. 633 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:38,800 You think that's why I killed Gertrude. 634 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:40,800 Isn't that right? 635 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:42,800 Well, sir, put yourself in our place, Mr. Turner. 636 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:44,800 What would you think? 637 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:46,800 You know in your heart I didn't kill my wife. 638 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:48,800 You know that in your heart. 639 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:50,800 Well, they don't pay us for what we believe, Turner. 640 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:52,800 They pay us to get the facts, to run down evidence. 641 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:54,800 It doesn't make any difference what I believe. 642 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:56,800 But you know I didn't kill her. 643 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:58,800 You know that, don't you? 644 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:00,800 Well, sir, I know we ask you if you ever argued with your wife 645 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:02,800 and you told us no. 646 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:04,800 We found out you beat her up a couple of times. 647 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:06,800 We ask you if she was friendly with any of the men in the neighborhood 648 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:08,800 you told us no. 649 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:10,800 We found one. 650 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:12,800 We ask you about the bruises the coroner found on her neck. 651 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:14,800 You don't know? You can't explain them. 652 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:16,800 We ask if your wife had been ill, 653 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:18,800 if she had any sickness to explain her dying 654 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:20,800 the way she did, and you said no. 655 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:22,800 We ask you about the insurance. You can't explain that either. 656 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:24,800 Three weeks before she dies, 657 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:26,800 she takes out a thousand dollars on her life. 658 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:28,800 She dies in the same room with you 659 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:30,800 and you don't know how or why. 660 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:32,800 Now you tell me, mister, what are we supposed to believe? 661 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:34,800 I didn't kill her. 662 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:36,800 Somebody has to believe that somebody... 663 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:38,800 I didn't kill her. 664 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:44,800 Joe, see you in a minute. 665 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:46,800 Yeah. 666 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:48,800 Yeah. 667 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:50,800 I've got a phone call. It was long distance. 668 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:52,800 Turner's sister-in-law, Mrs. Raymond. 669 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:54,800 What'd she want? Calling from Fort Wayne. 670 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:56,800 She's flying out here tonight. Seemed pretty wrote up. 671 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:58,800 About her sister, huh? Mostly about Mr. Turner. 672 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:00,800 She claims he's innocent. Seems pretty sure of it. 673 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:02,800 She can prove that Turner didn't kill his wife? 674 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:04,800 That's what she said. She's bringing the proof with her. 675 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,800 Tuesday, November 16th. 676 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:12,800 Turner's sister-in-law, Mrs. Raymond, 677 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:14,800 was scheduled to arrive at 6 p.m. 678 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:16,800 by plane from Indiana. 679 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:18,800 At 2 p.m., one of the main points 680 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:20,800 in the case against the suspect was proven false. 681 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:22,800 A woman friend of Mrs. Turner, 682 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,800 after reading of the husband's arrest in the paper, 683 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:26,800 informed us that while Mrs. Turner 684 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:28,800 was visiting her home a few days before she died, 685 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:30,800 she complained of a severe headache. 686 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:32,800 The woman's son, who was studying to be a chiropractor, 687 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:34,800 attempted to treat Mrs. Turner's headache 688 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:36,800 by manipulating the muscles in her neck and shoulders. 689 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:38,800 The woman said that Mrs. Turner called the next day 690 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:40,800 and complained about receiving bruises on her neck 691 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:42,800 as a result of her son's experiment. 692 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:44,800 The woman's son, Mr. Turner, 693 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:46,800 was receiving bruises on her neck as a result 694 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:48,800 of her son's experimental treatment. 695 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:50,800 The son came down to the office 696 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:52,800 and signed a full statement to this effect. 697 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:54,800 At 7 p.m., Mr. Turner's sister-in-law arrived. 698 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:56,800 Wither was a Dr. John Grant, 699 00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:58,800 a Fort Wayne physician. 700 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:00,800 The two of them told us their story 701 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:02,800 and gave us all the information they had concerning the case. 702 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:04,800 Ben and I went immediately to the main jail, 703 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:06,800 picked up Mr. Turner, 704 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,800 and brought him back to the office. 705 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:10,800 His sister-in-law and Dr. Grant 706 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:12,800 waited in the adjoining room. 707 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:14,800 They asked me more questions. 708 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:16,800 I told you everything. 709 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:18,800 No, sir, no more questions. 710 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:20,800 You can't take me off to prison. I haven't had a trial yet. 711 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,800 No, sir, you're not going to have a trial, Mr. Turner. 712 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:24,800 We're releasing you. 713 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:26,800 How's that? 714 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:28,800 Your sister-in-law, Mrs. Raymond, she's in the next room with her doctor. 715 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:30,800 They're going to take you home, sir. 716 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:32,800 I don't think I understand, officer. 717 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,800 How do you mean? 718 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:36,800 Your sister-in-law just got in from Fort Wayne tonight 719 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:38,800 and she has her family doctor with her. 720 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:40,800 They told us about your wife, Gertrude, 721 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:42,800 about Gertrude, 722 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:44,800 my wife. 723 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,800 What do you mean, officer? 724 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:48,800 Maybe you can understand, sir. 725 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:50,800 Your wife was afraid to let you know. 726 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:52,800 She told her sister she was afraid it might break up her marriage. 727 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:54,800 Afraid to tell me what? 728 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:56,800 Well, your wife suffered from epilepsy. 729 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,800 She had it most of her life. 730 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,800 She had epilepsy? 731 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:02,800 Yes, sir, she did. 732 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:04,800 This Dr. Grant showed us that he's been sending your wife medicine 733 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:06,800 ever since you moved out here to California. 734 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:08,800 We treated her many times for the same thing 735 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,800 but she figured it might ruin her chances of marrying you. 736 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:12,800 So she kept it a secret. 737 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:14,800 The medicine? 738 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,800 I remember that. 739 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:18,800 Used to come through the mail. 740 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:20,800 Well, that's it, sir. It counts for the headache she had the night before she died. 741 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:22,800 She probably had an attack during the night, suffocated. 742 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,800 That's how you found her in the morning. 743 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:26,800 Why didn't they know the corner they examined her? 744 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:28,800 Well, sir, that's just the point. 745 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,800 If you die of epilepsy, 746 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,800 there's just no way of telling, not even by autopsy. 747 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:34,800 Convulsions and suffocation. 748 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:36,800 That's the only way they can list it. 749 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:38,800 And she was ashamed, Gertrude. 750 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:40,800 She was afraid to tell me. 751 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:42,800 Yes, sir, that's what she wrote to your sister-in-law. 752 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:44,800 We saw the letters. 753 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:46,800 And I can leave now if I want to? 754 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:48,800 Is it all right? 755 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:50,800 We'll get you things from the property clerk first and then you can go. 756 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:52,800 Can I see Helen now? 757 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:54,800 My sister-in-law, I'd like to say hello. 758 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:56,800 Yes, sir, you can. It's right through that door. 759 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:58,800 Well, thank you kindly. 760 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:00,800 It's all right. 761 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:02,800 Officer. 762 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:04,800 Yes. 763 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:06,800 Just one thing I'd like to ask. 764 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:08,800 Yes. 765 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:10,800 You knew all the time, didn't you? 766 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:12,800 I mean in your own heart. 767 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:14,800 How's that? 768 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:16,800 I couldn't have killed Gertrude. 769 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,800 In your own heart, you knew that, didn't you? 770 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:20,800 Officer? 771 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:22,800 Yes, sir, I knew it. 772 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:24,800 I thought you did. 773 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:26,800 I'll be right back. 774 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,800 Joe. 775 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:34,800 Joe. 776 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:36,800 I wouldn't worry about him. 777 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,800 What's that? 778 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:40,800 We'll call it a white lie. 779 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,800 The story you have just heard was true. 780 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:50,800 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 781 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:56,800 On November 16th, the meeting was held in the office of Blaine Steed, captain of Homicide. 782 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,800 In a moment, the results of that meeting. 783 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:00,800 And now here is our star, Jack Webb. 784 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:02,800 Thank you. 785 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,800 Friends, the makers of Fatima do everything possible to produce the king-size cigarette that you want. 786 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,800 Just as we on Dragnet try to bring you the kind of entertainment that you want. 787 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,800 Well, in our honest opinion, Fatima is the best of all long cigarettes. 788 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:20,800 And I know from reading our Dragnet mail that more and more of you back me up on that. 789 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:24,800 If you haven't tried Fatimas yet, may I suggest you buy a pack? 790 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:32,800 You'll find Fatima gives you all the advantages of extra length plus Fatima quality, which no other king-size cigarette has. 791 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:34,800 Remember, tomorrow, first chance you get. 792 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:36,800 Buy Fatima. 793 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:48,800 The death of Gertrude Agnes Turner was proved beyond a doubt to be due to natural causes. 794 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:53,800 A 9.10 report was made which completely exonerated the husband of the dead woman. 795 00:28:53,800 --> 00:29:03,800 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 796 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:11,800 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. 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