1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,480 Ladies and gentlemen, this program is for you, not your children. 2 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:18,440 The story you are about to hear is true. 3 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:21,840 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 4 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:23,600 Fatima cigarettes. 5 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:34,760 First of all, long cigarettes brings you dragnet. 6 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:36,600 You're a detective sergeant. 7 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,240 You're assigned to homicide detail. 8 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:43,040 A woman and her two-year-old child disappear suddenly. 9 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,520 There's no apparent reason for it. 10 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:47,680 Five days pass. 11 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:49,600 No trace of them. 12 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:51,360 Your job? 13 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:55,320 You're a detective sergeant. 14 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:57,040 Webster's Dictionary. 15 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:59,280 Definition of the word compare. 16 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:00,280 Compare. 17 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,680 Examine for purpose of discovering resemblance or difference. 18 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:08,460 Now let's compare Fatima with any other king-size cigarette. 19 00:01:08,460 --> 00:01:09,460 The resemblance. 20 00:01:09,460 --> 00:01:14,520 Fatimas are the same length as other king-size cigarettes, 85 millimeters. 21 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:18,760 Fatima has the same circumference, 1 and 1 64 inches around. 22 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:24,640 And Fatima filters the smoke exactly the same long distance as other king-size cigarettes. 23 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:25,880 The difference. 24 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:28,960 In Fatima, the difference is quality. 25 00:01:28,960 --> 00:01:34,940 You see, Fatima contains the finest domestic and Turkish tobacco superbly blended to make 26 00:01:34,940 --> 00:01:37,220 Fatima extra mild. 27 00:01:37,220 --> 00:01:43,640 You get all the advantages of extra length plus Fatima quality, which no other king-size 28 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:44,640 cigarette has. 29 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:47,320 So compare Fatima yourself. 30 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:49,600 Your first puff will tell you. 31 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,040 Ah, that's different. 32 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:56,360 Yes, in Fatima, the difference is quality. 33 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:57,920 Bye Fatima. 34 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:02,880 Best of all, long cigarettes. 35 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:07,600 Dragnet. 36 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,400 The documented drama of an actual crime. 37 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:14,440 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 38 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:19,040 travel step-by-step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 39 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:20,800 police files. 40 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:25,960 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 41 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:28,880 in action. 42 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:30,520 Was Tuesday, April 20th. 43 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:32,640 Was overcast in Los Angeles. 44 00:02:32,640 --> 00:02:34,720 We were working the day watch out of homicide. 45 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:37,760 My partner's Ben Romero, the boss is Captain Blaine Steed. 46 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:38,760 My name's Friday. 47 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:44,160 I was on the way back from communications and it was 1.35 p.m. when I got to room 42. 48 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:45,160 Homicide. 49 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:48,480 Hi Joe, what's doing? 50 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:49,960 Well, not much, Mac. 51 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:50,960 Where'd Ben go? 52 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:51,960 Inside, Captain's office. 53 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:52,960 Be right back. 54 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:53,960 Oh, thank you. 55 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:54,960 Keeping you busy? 56 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:55,960 Well, about the same. 57 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:58,960 A little hectic around the house, though. 58 00:02:58,960 --> 00:02:59,960 Well, that's right. 59 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:00,960 Ben mentioned something about that. 60 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:02,840 You're getting ready for a wedding out there, aren't you? 61 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:04,000 Yeah, my daughter Alice. 62 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,480 She's sure getting a nice fellow. 63 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:06,480 Is that so? 64 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:08,120 Yeah, ambitious kid. 65 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:09,120 Part-time accountant. 66 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:10,600 Goes to law school at night down Loyola. 67 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:11,600 Real nice fellow. 68 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:12,600 When are you getting married? 69 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:14,280 A week from Saturday. 70 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:15,880 Gonna be a big church thing. 71 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:16,880 Sure glad doesn't happen often. 72 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:18,320 Oh, how you mean? 73 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:19,320 Big production. 74 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:21,560 Never saw so many bills in my life. 75 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:26,240 New dress for Alice, going away luggage, bridesmaids dresses, eats, drinks, new carpet for the 76 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:28,360 hall, new curtains in the living room. 77 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:29,960 Wife must think I'm made of this stuff. 78 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:31,720 You should have had all boys, Mac. 79 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:32,720 Yeah. 80 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:33,720 You're giving your daughter away, huh? 81 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:34,720 Yeah. 82 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:38,000 Well, it reminds me, I gotta be sure and send my suit to cleaners, get a good press job on 83 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,000 it. 84 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:40,000 Sure is funny. 85 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:41,000 Huh, what's that? 86 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,760 It seems for years the wife's been afraid we'd never get Alice married off. 87 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:46,800 Now it's finally in the works, the wife's still unhappy. 88 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:48,280 Oh, well how's that? 89 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:51,900 Goes around moping around the house, wiping at her eyes, keeps muttering something about 90 00:03:51,900 --> 00:03:54,360 losing her little girl, her little girl's leaving her. 91 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:55,360 I don't know. 92 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:56,360 Well, how old's your daughter? 93 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:57,360 Thirty-two. 94 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,160 Well, I'll be down in the stats office if anybody wants me. 95 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:01,160 Right, Mac. 96 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:02,160 Oh, pardon me, Ben. 97 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:03,160 Excuse me, I didn't see you. 98 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:04,160 Okay. 99 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:05,160 Hi, where you been? 100 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:06,160 Making a couple of phone calls. 101 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:07,160 I think we might have something. 102 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:08,160 Yeah, what's that? 103 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:09,160 The Gorman case. 104 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:10,160 Oh, yeah. 105 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:11,160 The Gorman case. 106 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:13,160 Had a call from one of their neighbors while you were gone. 107 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:15,680 Uh, where was that calendar of hours? 108 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:16,680 Gee, I don't know. 109 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:19,680 Well, here, I got one in my pocket here in my wallet. 110 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:20,680 Oh, good. 111 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:21,680 Here you are. 112 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:22,680 Oh, thanks. 113 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:23,680 Well, let's see now. 114 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:27,720 Mrs. Gorman and her little girl Nancy disappeared on the fifteenth, is that right? 115 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:28,720 Yeah, Thursday. 116 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:29,720 Why? 117 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,440 And the husband, Mr. Gorman, filed a missing complaint on Friday morning, right? 118 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:33,440 Yeah. 119 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:34,440 What are you getting at? 120 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,760 Well, you remember when we talked to Mr. Gorman, he couldn't think of any reason why his wife 121 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:40,000 and his little girl should disappear like he did? 122 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:41,000 No. 123 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,160 Remember me asking him the question if his wife ran around at all, if she was interested 124 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:45,160 in any other man? 125 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:46,160 That's right. 126 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:47,160 He told you no, didn't he? 127 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,080 This man who just called in, he lives out in the Gorman neighborhood. 128 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:53,280 He swears up and down that Mrs. Gorman was keeping company with another man. 129 00:04:53,280 --> 00:04:54,840 Well, who is this neighbor, anyway? 130 00:04:54,840 --> 00:04:55,840 His name's John Pearson. 131 00:04:55,840 --> 00:04:57,960 He lives about four blocks from the Gormans. 132 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,920 Well, we talked to neighbors a lot closer than that to the Gormans. 133 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:02,880 They didn't seem to know anything about it. 134 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:04,200 What else did this guy tell you? 135 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:05,200 Well, let's see. 136 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:09,240 Um, the man Mrs. Gorman was supposed to be running out with is a Ralph Cain. 137 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:11,120 He lives next door to Mr. Pearson. 138 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,400 Well, how'd this Pearson sound to you? 139 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:15,040 Pretty typical neighborhood watchdog. 140 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:17,400 But here's the interesting part. 141 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,080 Mrs. Gorman and little daughter Nancy disappeared last Thursday. 142 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:23,720 Now, according to Pearson, this Ralph Cain hasn't been seen around since Friday night. 143 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:27,600 He told me on the phone he saw Cain toss a couple of suitcases in his car late Friday 144 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:28,600 night and drive off. 145 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:30,400 He said he hasn't come back yet. 146 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:32,000 Well, it might be something. 147 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:36,160 Well, how much of a romance was Mrs. Gorman supposed to be having with this Ralph Cain? 148 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:38,360 Well, it's pretty heavy, according to Pearson. 149 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:41,240 Said it's been going on for six months anyhow. 150 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:42,800 And Mr. Gorman didn't know anything about it? 151 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:43,800 He got me there. 152 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:45,720 If he did, he didn't let us in on it. 153 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,520 I wonder if he'd have any reason to cover it up. 154 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:49,800 It's possible, I guess. 155 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:51,200 Didn't want the scandal. 156 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:53,680 How sure are you that Ralph Cain's really missing? 157 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:54,680 Might be just off on a weekend. 158 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:56,240 No, I checked the place he worked. 159 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:57,240 He's a printer. 160 00:05:57,240 --> 00:05:58,240 Didn't show up for work Monday. 161 00:05:58,240 --> 00:05:59,800 Didn't show up for day either. 162 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:00,800 No message, no excuse? 163 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:01,800 Nothing. 164 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:03,840 I called a friend of Cain's that Pearson knew about. 165 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:05,440 Friend doesn't know where he's going. 166 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:06,960 Well, I guess we better get on it. 167 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:09,360 That's the first decent lead in five days. 168 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:10,360 Yeah. 169 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,040 Just thinking, Joe. 170 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:14,040 Neighbors like Pearson? 171 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:15,040 Uh-huh. 172 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:19,560 What would we do without them? 173 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:23,920 Five days before, on a Thursday evening, a Mr. Philip Gorman returned to his home in 174 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:28,680 the Westlake District of Los Angeles to find his wife, Barbara Gorman, and his two-year-old 175 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:30,320 daughter, Nancy, missing. 176 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,560 There wasn't any note, no explanation of any kind. 177 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:35,440 Few clothes were gone. 178 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:40,000 Mr. Gorman filed a missing report, and a broadcast and an APB were gotten out on the mother and 179 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:41,000 daughter. 180 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,280 Neighbors, friends, and relatives were checked. 181 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:44,560 No leads. 182 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,840 Routine investigation failed to turn up anything. 183 00:06:47,840 --> 00:06:51,400 Mr. Gorman could give us no explanation for the disappearance. 184 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:53,400 After three days, we got out of the radiogram. 185 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:54,400 Still no results. 186 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:55,400 Tuesday, 1.50 p.m. 187 00:06:55,400 --> 00:07:00,160 Ben and I got in the car and drove out to see John Pearson, who'd phoned in the information 188 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:03,840 about Mrs. Gorman's supposed boyfriend, Ralph Cain. 189 00:07:03,840 --> 00:07:07,400 We found Pearson out on the back porch of his home, feeding some milk to a pair of house 190 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:08,400 cats. 191 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,240 I thought everybody knew that, Sergeant. 192 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:12,840 Mrs. Gorman running around with that Ralph Cain. 193 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:13,840 I'm no busybody. 194 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:15,920 I wouldn't have mentioned it all if this hadn't happened. 195 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:18,880 You say Cain had been seeing Mrs. Gorman for the last six months. 196 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:20,040 Is that right, Mr. Pearson? 197 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:21,040 About six months. 198 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:22,040 That's how long I've seen it go on. 199 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:24,320 James, don't be such a hog. 200 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:25,800 Let Fred have some of the milk, too. 201 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:26,800 Greedy little devils. 202 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:30,240 Do you know of anybody else in the neighborhood who's been aware of this, Mr. Pearson? 203 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:32,360 I mean Mrs. Gorman and this Ralph Cain. 204 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,080 Well I know for sure that Thelma White next door knows about it. 205 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:36,080 She's mentioned it to me. 206 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:37,080 Mm-hmm. 207 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:39,720 Cain used to park with Mrs. Gorman near that vacant lot by Thelma's house. 208 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:42,520 Those were the nights that Mr. Gorman was working late. 209 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:45,480 Would you know if Mr. Gorman was aware of this, that his wife was running around with 210 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:46,480 another man? 211 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:47,680 I'm pretty sure he did, Sergeant. 212 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:48,680 That's the strange part about it. 213 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:49,680 How do you know? 214 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:53,320 Well George, the man who delivers the groceries, he just happened to mention to me once. 215 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:54,320 Mm-hmm. 216 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:55,320 All right, James. 217 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:56,320 Right, it's all gone. 218 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:57,320 Now run off and play. 219 00:07:57,320 --> 00:07:59,920 Yes, George, the grocer man. 220 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:03,200 He made a delivery to the Gormans once and heard the morale about it. 221 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:06,560 George said Mr. Gorman was very mad, talked divorce, all that sort of thing. 222 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:09,520 Well how about the Gorman's little girl, Mr. Pearson, little Nancy? 223 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:11,600 Tragic, Sergeant, such a sweet little thing. 224 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:13,560 Mrs. Gorman kept her under an iron hand. 225 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,120 Imagine, the little girl's only two years old. 226 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,760 Mrs. Gorman was after her with a stick all the time. 227 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:19,760 She's not much of a mother. 228 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:21,720 Not the way I look at it anyway. 229 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:23,120 Well what's your opinion of all this? 230 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:25,840 Do you think that Ralph Cain has run off with Mrs. Gorman? 231 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:26,840 What else can you think? 232 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:28,720 Two of them carry on for six months. 233 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:32,000 Mrs. Gorman disappears Thursday, Mr. Cain leaves Friday night. 234 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:33,000 What else can you think? 235 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:37,040 Uh, this neighbor of yours, Thelma White, does she live in this house over here, over 236 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:38,040 on the right? 237 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:39,040 Yeah, that's right, right next door. 238 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:40,800 You go over and talk to her, she's home now. 239 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:42,680 Thelma will tell you the same thing I did. 240 00:08:42,680 --> 00:08:44,280 All right, sir, thank you very much. 241 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:45,280 Not at all, Sergeant. 242 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:49,160 Just one thing I can't understand about Mrs. Gorman's little girl, little Nancy. 243 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:50,160 Hmm? 244 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:51,640 Can't quite understand why she's gone. 245 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:52,640 Doesn't seem to fit somehow. 246 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:53,640 How do you mean? 247 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:57,680 If you're going to run off with a man, you don't take your family along. 248 00:08:57,680 --> 00:09:03,360 Two fifteen p.m. 249 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,680 We went next door and talked with the neighbor, Thelma White. 250 00:09:06,680 --> 00:09:09,640 She told us the same story as Pearson. 251 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:11,280 From the two of them we got the description. 252 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:15,760 DMV furnished us with the license number of Ralph Cain's car. 253 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:19,720 We checked further with Cain's friends, relatives, and his landlady. 254 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:22,600 No one had seen or heard from him since late Friday. 255 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:25,120 We searched the duplex where he lived, no leads. 256 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,480 We went back to the office and checked Cain through R&I. 257 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:30,640 He had one arrest for petty theft. 258 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:33,960 We got out a broadcast and an APB on him. 259 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:37,560 That night Ben and I drove out to see the husband and father of the missing woman and 260 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:39,080 youngster, Philip Gorman. 261 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:44,920 He was employed as a groundskeeper at one of the baseball parks in the city. 262 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:46,920 Pretty fair turnout tonight, huh? 263 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:47,920 Yeah. 264 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:48,920 Weather's cleared up a little. 265 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:49,920 It's probably helped, huh? 266 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:50,920 Where's the groundkeeper shack? 267 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:51,920 Down at the end there? 268 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:52,920 Yeah, you can't see it from here. 269 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:55,520 It's just below the end of the bleachers there. 270 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:56,520 Wow. 271 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:57,520 You come out here very often? 272 00:09:57,520 --> 00:09:59,520 Not as often as I'd like to. 273 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:02,520 It's down this way. 274 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:03,520 Hey. 275 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:04,920 Watch your step, Brad Joey. 276 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:05,920 There's a mud puddle. 277 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:06,920 Yeah, I see it. 278 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:07,920 Oh, sorry. 279 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:10,440 You're allowed to get back in the stands. 280 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:11,720 You're not allowed down this end. 281 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:12,720 All right, Mr. Gorman. 282 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:13,720 Friday in Romero. 283 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:14,720 You remember that? 284 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:15,720 Yeah, sure. 285 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:16,720 I didn't recognize you for a minute. 286 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:17,720 We got a few minutes, Mr. Gorman. 287 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:18,720 We'd like to talk to you if we could. 288 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:20,120 We're sure right now if you want. 289 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:22,840 Have you found out something about the wife, little girl? 290 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:23,840 No, sir, nothing definite. 291 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:24,840 We've got a few questions we'd like to ask you. 292 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:25,840 Well, that's fine with me. 293 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:26,840 I've got nothing to do for a couple more innings. 294 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:27,840 What's it all about? 295 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:32,360 Well, when we talked to you at your house the other day, Gorman, you remember me asking 296 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:35,640 if you could think of any reason why your wife and your little girls had disappeared 297 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:36,640 like you did? 298 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:37,640 Yeah, I remember. 299 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:39,040 There was nothing I could think of, Sergeant. 300 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:42,800 Do you recall us asking you if your wife might have been interested in some other man, 301 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:43,800 somebody she might go off with? 302 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:44,800 Yeah, yeah, I remember all that. 303 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:45,800 I told you I didn't think that was it. 304 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:50,320 Well, now look, if you know something and you're not telling us because you don't want 305 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:53,840 to scandal, you can forget that, Gorman, because whatever you tell us is in strict confidence, 306 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:54,840 you know? 307 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:55,840 I don't know what you mean, Sergeant. 308 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:56,840 I told you everything I know. 309 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:58,120 We'll be honest with you, Gorman. 310 00:10:58,120 --> 00:10:59,440 We think you're trying to cover up. 311 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:00,440 Well, that's not true. 312 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:02,480 I don't have anything to cover up. 313 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:04,880 We picked up some new information on your wife this afternoon. 314 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:09,040 We hear she was pretty friendly with a man named Ralph Kane, lives a few blocks from 315 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:10,040 your house. 316 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:11,840 We hear that you knew what was going on. 317 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:14,120 You and your wife Barbara had a row. 318 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:15,120 You talked divorce. 319 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:16,120 How about it? 320 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:20,240 Well, let's go inside the shack here, huh, and get away from some of this noise. 321 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:23,080 That's fine, sure. 322 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:29,680 I hope you don't mind it in here. 323 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:30,680 It's a little dirty. 324 00:11:30,680 --> 00:11:32,520 I keep all the maintenance stuff in here. 325 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:33,520 That's all right, Gorman. 326 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:35,240 Now, how about Ralph Kane? 327 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:36,240 Yeah, yeah. 328 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:37,720 I knew about it. 329 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:38,720 It's like you said, all the scandal. 330 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:40,520 I just didn't want it to get out. 331 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:43,680 Well, look, if you're going to hold out on us, it's not going to help much to find your 332 00:11:43,680 --> 00:11:44,680 wife and little girl. 333 00:11:44,680 --> 00:11:46,360 Yeah, I know, Sergeant. 334 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:49,760 I just didn't want people to find out what a bum I'm in. 335 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:52,320 You know what some neighbors are like. 336 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:54,320 I can't understand how it happened. 337 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:55,720 I met the wife when I was in the Army. 338 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:56,720 I see. 339 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:57,720 I brought her back out here. 340 00:11:57,720 --> 00:11:58,720 Everything was fine. 341 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:01,320 After the baby was born, she started to change. 342 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:02,320 Nothing satisfied her. 343 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:03,320 She began to run around. 344 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:06,720 Nothing but a bum, but I guess I found out too late. 345 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:08,920 Now, this Ralph Kane, what do you know about him? 346 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:09,920 You know, he's a single guy. 347 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:11,200 Works at a print shop downtown. 348 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:13,160 He's a pretty good looking guy. 349 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:14,160 He's got money to spend. 350 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:15,160 That's all Barbara cares about. 351 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:16,720 Well, what's your idea about him? 352 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:17,720 Huh? 353 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:19,200 You think Kane and your wife have gone off together? 354 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:21,240 Well, to tell you the truth, I'm not sure. 355 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:22,240 Maybe they did. 356 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:23,960 I've been trying to check around the mall. 357 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:25,560 We're not getting very far. 358 00:12:25,560 --> 00:12:28,120 It's only one thing I'm really worried about. 359 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:29,720 That's my little girl, Nancy. 360 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:31,840 I don't care what my wife is or how far she goes. 361 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:33,560 I just want my little girl back. 362 00:12:33,560 --> 00:12:34,560 That's all. 363 00:12:34,560 --> 00:12:36,560 Do you have any idea at all where your wife might have gone? 364 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:37,560 No. 365 00:12:37,560 --> 00:12:38,560 None at all. 366 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:40,280 She doesn't know California too well. 367 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:42,240 She's only been out here a year. 368 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:46,040 You don't know any of Kane's friends, his hangouts, or places you think he might go. 369 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:47,040 No. 370 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:48,880 I've never even met the guy, Sergeant. 371 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:49,880 I'm going to, though. 372 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:50,880 I know what he looks like. 373 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:51,880 I'll meet him. 374 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:53,360 Well, there's just one more thing, Gorman. 375 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:57,040 If your wife was set on running off with another man, why did she take your little girl with 376 00:12:57,040 --> 00:12:58,040 her? 377 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:00,160 She wasn't too devoted to the baby, I understand. 378 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:01,160 Yeah, yeah, that's right. 379 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:02,160 That's what's got me worried. 380 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:06,480 The only thing I can figure out is the wife hated me more than I thought. 381 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:09,480 She knew that I thought Nancy was about, you know, the greatest thing alive. 382 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:12,840 I guess rather than let me have her, she took Nancy along with her. 383 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:16,320 Was it possible she might drop the baby off with some friend or relative and tell him 384 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:17,320 to keep her? 385 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:19,200 I've checked on that already, Sergeant. 386 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:20,960 You got the names of all the people we know. 387 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:23,160 I'm sure they'd get in touch with me if they had Nancy. 388 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:24,720 We'll double check them anyhow. 389 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:25,720 All right. 390 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:28,520 Now, if there's anything else comes up, you let us know right away, huh? 391 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:29,960 All right, Sergeant. 392 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:31,360 It's just the baby, that's all. 393 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:34,280 Nancy, as far as I'm concerned, my wife never lived. 394 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:36,240 It's kind of hard to take her away. 395 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:37,240 Yes, it is. 396 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:39,960 I think you got the finest setup in the world. 397 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:44,000 Nice home, job, baby, good furniture, everything you need. 398 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:45,000 Yeah. 399 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Everything but a wife. 400 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:53,440 The search for the missing wife and the two-year-old daughter went on. 401 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:57,920 The broadcasts and teletypes on Mrs. Gorman and Ralph Cain failed to net us a thing. 402 00:13:57,920 --> 00:13:58,920 A week passed. 403 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:01,000 There were no leads. 404 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Another week went by. 405 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:03,000 Nothing. 406 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,440 The half dozen replies we'd gotten on our teletype went nowhere. 407 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:08,120 They were blind leads. 408 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:12,920 Wednesday, May 5th, we got a call from the manager of an auto court in the south end 409 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:14,160 of the city. 410 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:18,240 He told us that a man, a woman, and a little girl, answering the description of the missing 411 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:22,240 trio had stopped at his place the night before. 412 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:27,000 Along with Jack McCready from homicide, Ben and I drove out and interviewed the man. 413 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:30,480 We showed him pictures of Cain, Mrs. Gorman, and two-year-old Nancy. 414 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:31,920 He identified all three. 415 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:33,820 He could give us no idea where they'd gone. 416 00:14:33,820 --> 00:14:35,920 We checked through the cottage where they stayed. 417 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:37,480 No, nothing. 418 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:40,760 Just about as clean as you can get. 419 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:42,760 Well, something here. 420 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:44,280 What's that? 421 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:45,280 Look here. 422 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:47,280 A kid's picture book. 423 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:48,760 Let's see. 424 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:52,040 Yeah, take a look right here. 425 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:53,880 This book belongs to Nancy Gorman. 426 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:56,280 Well, we know they were here. 427 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:57,280 That's about it. 428 00:14:57,280 --> 00:14:58,280 Hey, Ben. 429 00:14:58,280 --> 00:14:59,280 Yo. 430 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:00,280 Yeah, Mac. 431 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:01,280 Where are you? 432 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:02,280 Out in the back. 433 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:03,280 Come here. 434 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:04,280 All right. 435 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:05,280 What have you got? 436 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:06,280 Come here. 437 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:07,280 Have a look. 438 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:14,440 Where'd you find that? 439 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:16,040 Poking around this trash barrel here. 440 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:18,120 Looks like part of a little girl's dress, huh? 441 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:19,280 Yeah, there's not much there. 442 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:20,280 Did you find the rest, Ellie? 443 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:21,400 Well, that's all there is. 444 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:22,400 Just that little collar. 445 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:24,120 Well, take a look here, Ben. 446 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:26,760 These stains right here, over here, too. 447 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:27,760 Yeah. 448 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:28,760 What do you think? 449 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:29,760 Mac, blood stains? 450 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:34,640 I'd say so. 451 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:38,760 We drove back to the office, to the crime lab, and had Lee Jones run the stains on the 452 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:39,760 dress. 453 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:43,680 He ran a benzidine test and then a biological precipitant. 454 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:45,760 The stains were made by human blood. 455 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:50,160 Well, it still didn't put us any closer to the missing child or her mother. 456 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:51,560 The search went on. 457 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:53,000 We redoubled our efforts. 458 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:54,480 No luck. 459 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:56,320 Another 10 days passed. 460 00:15:56,320 --> 00:16:00,800 We had a few more responses to our all-points bulletin, but none of them panned out. 461 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:03,800 On May 16th, we got two more leads to check out. 462 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:05,540 They went nowhere. 463 00:16:05,540 --> 00:16:08,520 We got back to the office a little after 6 p.m. 464 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:10,960 Better call Mr. Gorman after we check in, huh? 465 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:11,960 Keep him off of our backs? 466 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:12,960 Yeah. 467 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:14,600 I hate to keep telling him the same thing. 468 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:15,600 No word. 469 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:16,600 Yeah. 470 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:17,600 How about it? 471 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:18,600 You call Gorman tonight, huh? 472 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:19,600 All right. 473 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:20,600 Mac? 474 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:21,600 What's Dylan? 475 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:22,600 Got something for you. 476 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:23,600 Sheriff's substation called East L.A. 477 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:24,600 Yeah, what about? 478 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:25,600 The Gorman case. 479 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:26,600 They found him. 480 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:27,600 Where? 481 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:28,600 Another auto court right there in East L.A. 482 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:30,560 Ralph Kane and Mrs. Gorman, they got him both under surveillance. 483 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:31,960 How about the little girl, Nancy? 484 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:32,960 Well, that's a hitch. 485 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:33,960 Huh? 486 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:44,960 No sign of her. 487 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:49,720 You are listening to Dragnet, authentic cases from official files. 488 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:53,720 Now, let's look at our Fatima files. 489 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:58,320 Listed under H. Hardwick. 490 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:00,840 Cedric Hardwick, distinguished actor. 491 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:04,360 He says, I find Fatima a very pleasing cigarette. 492 00:17:04,360 --> 00:17:07,200 It has a distinctly better flavor. 493 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:08,560 Kay. 494 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:10,000 Kelly. 495 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:14,080 Nancy Kelly, star of the Broadway hit, Season in the Sun. 496 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:18,760 She says, between scenes and after the show, I like to relax in my dressing room and light 497 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:20,000 up a Fatima. 498 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,040 They have a really different flavor. 499 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:25,640 And what's important to me, they're extra mild. 500 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:34,080 Listed under L. Lovett, vice admiral, Leland P. Lovett, United States Navy retired. 501 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:37,040 He says, I smoked Fatimas when I was a midshipman. 502 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:41,200 I still do because they have a better flavor and aroma. 503 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:44,000 Fatima is easily the best of all long cigarettes. 504 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:48,160 Friends, our files show Fatima sales are going up. 505 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:49,560 Up every day. 506 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:56,800 The reason for Fatima's ever increasing popularity can be summed up in two words, Fatima quality. 507 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:03,440 Yes, Fatima gives you all the advantages of extra length plus Fatima quality, which no 508 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:05,800 other king size cigarette has. 509 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:10,400 So if you smoke a king size cigarette, compare Fatima. 510 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:12,780 You'll find they now cost the same. 511 00:18:12,780 --> 00:18:15,320 But your first puff will tell you. 512 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:18,400 Ah, that's different. 513 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:22,200 Because in Fatima, the difference is quality. 514 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:24,040 Buy Fatima. 515 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:28,200 Best of all long cigarettes. 516 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:36,720 Saturday, May 16th, 9 p.m. 517 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:41,400 Along with Levinson and McCready from homicide, Ben and I drove out to the sheriff's substation 518 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:43,600 in the east end of the city. 519 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:47,080 One of the deputy sheriffs directed us to the motor court where Mrs. Barbara Gorman and 520 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:50,080 Ralph Cain were under surveillance. 521 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:51,960 We found the two of them in one of the rear cottages. 522 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:55,680 There was no trace of two year old Nancy Gorman. 523 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:59,480 Levinson and McCready took Ralph Cain out to the car to interrogate him. 524 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:01,880 Ben and I remained in the cottage with Mrs. Gorman. 525 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:05,240 She was a tall blonde, thin faced and nervous. 526 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:07,640 She spoke with a decided accent. 527 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:10,280 We questioned her for more than two hours. 528 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:11,280 We got nowhere. 529 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:13,840 Why don't you sit down, Mrs. Gorman, relax. 530 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:15,120 How can anyone relax? 531 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:16,120 These questions. 532 00:19:16,120 --> 00:19:17,120 You have no right to do this. 533 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:18,720 Well, maybe you haven't got it straight, Mrs. Gorman. 534 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:20,040 This is a pretty important matter. 535 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:21,320 We'd like to find out about your little girl. 536 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:22,580 Told you I don't know. 537 00:19:22,580 --> 00:19:23,580 She ran away. 538 00:19:23,580 --> 00:19:24,580 Yes, ma'am. 539 00:19:24,580 --> 00:19:25,580 Now, we've had ten different versions. 540 00:19:25,580 --> 00:19:27,520 You stopped at a hotel in Nevada and she disappeared. 541 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:29,380 You were at an auto court in Bakersfield. 542 00:19:29,380 --> 00:19:30,520 She ran away during the night. 543 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:31,760 We've heard just about all of them. 544 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:32,760 How about the truth? 545 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:34,280 I've told you everything I'm going to tell you. 546 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:35,720 I don't know what's happened to the kid. 547 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:36,720 She's gone. 548 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:37,720 That's all. 549 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:38,720 She's gone. 550 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:39,720 Got to be an explanation for it. 551 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:40,720 Where has she gone? 552 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:41,720 She ran away. 553 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:42,720 How many times do I have to tell you? 554 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:46,800 I left with Raph, who went out of the city. 555 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:47,800 After a few days, Nancy got lonesome. 556 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:48,800 She wanted to see her father. 557 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:50,600 We were asleep one night and she ran away. 558 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:51,960 That's all there is to it. 559 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:52,960 Simple. 560 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:53,960 Why can't you understand? 561 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:55,320 You're going to have to do better than that, Mrs. Gorman. 562 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:56,320 Now, how about the truth? 563 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:57,320 What happened? 564 00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:58,320 Can't keep me here all night. 565 00:19:58,320 --> 00:19:59,320 Where's Raph? 566 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:00,320 I want Raph. 567 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:03,080 Why'd you take the child with you in the first place, Mrs. Gorman? 568 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:05,000 It's pretty obvious that you didn't want her. 569 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,440 Did Kane want you to take her along? 570 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:07,440 Oh, no. 571 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:08,440 He wanted me to leave her. 572 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:09,440 Just he and I. 573 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:10,440 That's all he wanted. 574 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:13,240 I should have left her there, all this trouble. 575 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:14,240 Questions? 576 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:15,240 It's an easy remedy, ma'am. 577 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:17,000 What'd you really do with the little girl? 578 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:18,000 She wanted off. 579 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:19,000 It's the truth. 580 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:20,000 We didn't know it. 581 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:21,000 She wanted off. 582 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:22,000 We couldn't help it. 583 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,120 How about the little dress we found in that auto court with Danes on it? 584 00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:26,120 Same questions. 585 00:20:26,120 --> 00:20:27,580 You always ask the same questions. 586 00:20:27,580 --> 00:20:28,580 What about the dress, ma'am? 587 00:20:28,580 --> 00:20:30,280 Do I always have to repeat? 588 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:31,280 I told you. 589 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:32,280 Raph got his hand. 590 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:33,280 He was shaving. 591 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:35,280 It was just an old dress, a rag. 592 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:36,760 Raph bandaged his hand with it. 593 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:38,800 Well, you usually wear bandages a while, don't you? 594 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:39,800 Don't just throw them away. 595 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:40,800 It was only a scratch. 596 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:42,760 He didn't need the rag very long. 597 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:44,200 Quite a few stains on the dress, ma'am. 598 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:45,600 Must have been more than just a scratch. 599 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:47,240 No, it was just a scratch. 600 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:48,880 Can't you believe anything I say? 601 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:49,880 No, not so far. 602 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:50,880 Please. 603 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,480 Can't I go outside for a few minutes? 604 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:54,480 I have a headache. 605 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:55,480 It's so hot in here. 606 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:56,480 All right, Miss Gorman. 607 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:57,480 Go ahead, Manny. 608 00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:58,480 Yeah, thanks. 609 00:20:58,480 --> 00:20:59,480 The air. 610 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:00,480 It's so good. 611 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:10,760 Terrible headache. 612 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:14,440 You mind telling us something, Miss Gorman? 613 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:15,440 Please. 614 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,840 Can't you let me alone for a minute? 615 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:19,400 Why did you leave your husband? 616 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:20,400 Him? 617 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:21,960 Any woman would leave him. 618 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:22,960 It's Raph. 619 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:23,960 I love Raph. 620 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:24,960 And your little girl. 621 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:25,960 What about her? 622 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,040 My husband wanted her, not me. 623 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:29,520 I'm just not like that. 624 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:30,840 I didn't want her in the first place. 625 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:31,840 It was a mistake. 626 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:32,840 Terrible mistake. 627 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:34,840 Is that why you got rid of her? 628 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:35,840 What? 629 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,200 Now, it's pretty obvious by this time, ma'am. 630 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,880 When you left your husband, you took your little girl along for spite. 631 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:41,920 Cain didn't want her. 632 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:43,760 You found out you didn't either, so you got rid of her. 633 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:44,760 Now, is that it? 634 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:45,760 I didn't say that. 635 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:46,760 You're putting words in my mouth. 636 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:47,760 I didn't say that at all. 637 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:48,760 Joe, Ben. 638 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:51,360 Yeah, Mac, over here. 639 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:52,360 Cain's given us half the story. 640 00:21:52,360 --> 00:21:53,800 He shouldn't be too hard to get the rest. 641 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:54,800 It's a lie. 642 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:55,800 There's no story to tell. 643 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:57,680 Now, as you ran away, that's all we know. 644 00:21:57,680 --> 00:21:58,680 Mac. 645 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,200 Well, they tried some kind of a death pact. 646 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:03,200 He and Mrs. Gorman here got in the room and turned on the gas. 647 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:04,200 He didn't tell you. 648 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:05,200 He didn't tell you. 649 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:06,200 I'm afraid so, ma'am. 650 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:07,200 That's your boyfriend's story. 651 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:08,200 What else, Mac? 652 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:12,000 Well, as I say, Cain and Mrs. Gorman got in the room, agreed to end it all. 653 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,480 They had a little girl with them in the room. 654 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:14,800 Well, why was that? 655 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:15,800 Cain says he doesn't know. 656 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:17,960 It seemed to simplify things, having the kid with him. 657 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:18,960 He tell you what happened? 658 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:20,760 Yeah, they turned on the gas. 659 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:21,760 No. 660 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:22,760 No. 661 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:23,760 Never mind. 662 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:24,760 Mrs. Gorman? 663 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:25,760 Never mind. 664 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:26,760 You don't have to say it. 665 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:27,760 You want to tell them? 666 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:30,760 You want to tell us about it? 667 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:31,760 Mrs. Gorman? 668 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:32,760 Yes. 669 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,760 I'll tell you. 670 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,320 3 a.m. 671 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:41,080 We went back inside the cottage at the auto court. 672 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:45,840 We gave her a cigarette and Barbara Gorman sat down and told us the story. 673 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:50,200 Four days after she'd left with her two-year-old daughter and Ralph Cain, she knew she'd made 674 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:51,840 a mistake. 675 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,280 She admitted that she never should have taken the child. 676 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:58,000 She said the little girl seemed to be in their way all the time. 677 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,880 Cain was all for deserting the child or sending her back to her father. 678 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:05,300 Mrs. Gorman wouldn't agree to it, just out of pure spite. 679 00:23:05,300 --> 00:23:08,920 One night in an auto court, she and Cain had a big drinking party. 680 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:12,360 They brooded over the mix-up that they'd gotten themselves into. 681 00:23:12,360 --> 00:23:13,960 Cain didn't have any money to get married. 682 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,080 He knew he'd lost his job. 683 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:20,260 Even if they could get married, Mrs. Gorman wasn't sure she could get a divorce. 684 00:23:20,260 --> 00:23:23,720 Another full day and night of drinking, and they decided on a lover's death pack. 685 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:25,400 They turned on the gas. 686 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:26,400 I don't get it, Mrs. Gorman. 687 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,480 Why'd you have your little girl in the room with you? 688 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,960 Why didn't you leave her with somebody, with anybody? 689 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:31,960 Why? 690 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:32,960 She was mine, wasn't she? 691 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:36,840 I thought we could go together, all three of us, but it didn't work that way. 692 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:37,840 What happened? 693 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:38,840 Ralph and I woke up. 694 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:40,360 My throats were burning. 695 00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:41,640 My eyes were burning. 696 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,680 I looked over Nancy. 697 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:44,680 She wasn't moving. 698 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:46,280 It was just like she was asleep. 699 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:47,280 What'd you do then? 700 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:49,560 We got in the car and left. 701 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:51,520 We found a nice place in the desert. 702 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:53,480 There were nice flowers there. 703 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,040 We buried Nancy. 704 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:56,040 How about you and Ralph Kane? 705 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:57,040 You knew you were running deeper. 706 00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:58,360 Why didn't you try it again? 707 00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:00,240 Oh, we did a couple of times. 708 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:01,600 We loved each other. 709 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:05,560 It was the only thing we could do, but every time we tried, we couldn't go through with 710 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:06,560 it. 711 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:07,560 We'd try. 712 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:08,560 We never could finish it. 713 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:09,560 Ralph got a job. 714 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:11,040 We were gonna buy a gun. 715 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:12,840 Tomorrow we'd try again. 716 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,640 Can you show us where you buried your little girl? 717 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:16,640 Yes. 718 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:18,880 Place in the desert, out near Palm Springs. 719 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:20,520 It was a nice place. 720 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:22,640 There's lots of nice flowers around. 721 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,960 You understand, don't you? 722 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,240 We were in love, Ralph and I. 723 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:28,240 Yeah. 724 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,680 My husband wouldn't understand the way I loved Ralph. 725 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:32,680 It was everything. 726 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,200 It was the whole world, Ralph and I. 727 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,200 I didn't mean it that way for Nancy. 728 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:39,200 It was a mistake. 729 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,200 You've got to understand I didn't mean it that way. 730 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:43,200 That's the way it is. 731 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:44,200 Doesn't matter. 732 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,200 You can't hurt us, not Ralph and I. 733 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,200 You can't take away what we've got. 734 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:49,200 You'll never take that away. 735 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:50,200 All right. 736 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:51,200 You want to get your coat? 737 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:52,200 Yes. 738 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:53,200 It doesn't matter what happens. 739 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:54,200 It's for Ralph. 740 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,200 I don't care what they do. 741 00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:59,240 I'll keep on loving him. 742 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:00,240 Same way I love him now. 743 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:01,240 It doesn't matter. 744 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:02,240 We'll pay for our mistakes. 745 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:03,240 Yeah, lady. 746 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:04,240 They're gonna cost you. 747 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:12,960 At 5 a.m. we put in a call for Lieutenant Lee Jones and the crime lab crew in the corner. 748 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,560 When they arrived at the auto court, we drove to the spot in the desert near Palm Springs 749 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:21,000 where Ralph Cain and Mrs. Gorman pointed out the spot where they buried Nancy. 750 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:25,680 The body was uncovered at the exact spot, was taken back to town to the county morgue 751 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:27,920 where an autopsy was performed. 752 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,240 Cain and Mrs. Gorman were booked on suspicion of murder. 753 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,400 By 5 o'clock that afternoon, we had the results of the autopsy. 754 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:35,400 Yeah, Doc. 755 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:36,400 Uh-huh. 756 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:37,400 Right. 757 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:38,400 Thank you. 758 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:39,400 Bye. 759 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:40,960 What's the story, man? 760 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:41,960 Not what we thought. 761 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:42,960 Well, how do you mean? 762 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:44,320 I think Mrs. Gorman sold us a bill of goods. 763 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,280 The little girl didn't die in a room full of gas. 764 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:47,320 What'd the Doc say? 765 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:52,240 He found two bullet holes in the body. 766 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:56,840 That night, after hours of interrogation, Ralph Cain and Mrs. Barbara Gorman both broke 767 00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:00,920 down and confessed that they'd killed the child in cold blood. 768 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:05,320 They pleaded drunkenness, that they weren't responsible for their actions. 769 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,480 They were returned to their cells and held without bail. 770 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,480 The child's father, Philip Gorman, was notified. 771 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:19,080 The following morning, Ben and I accompanied him to the county morgue. 772 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,080 It's this way, Mr. Gorman. 773 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,080 Oh, thanks. 774 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:29,200 You sure you want to go through with this, sir? 775 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:30,200 Mr. Gorman? 776 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:34,240 Well, I might as well tell you the truth. 777 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:35,240 I'm not sure I do. 778 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,240 It isn't going to help much, Mr. Gorman. 779 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:38,240 Believe me, it isn't. 780 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:41,640 I just wanted to see you just once more. 781 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,080 Yeah, well, it doesn't work out. 782 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,160 It wouldn't be the same. 783 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,920 Not the way you remember. 784 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:49,920 Just wanted to see you. 785 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:51,200 I just wanted to find out. 786 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:52,200 What's that? 787 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,480 About a mother, Ralph Cain. 788 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,520 What is it that could make them do it? 789 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:01,480 A little girl, she's only two. 790 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,160 What could make anybody do a thing like that? 791 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:13,240 My wife called it love. 792 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,920 The story you have just heard was true. 793 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,840 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 794 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:23,200 On September 10th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 89, city and county of Los 795 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:24,840 Angeles, state of California. 796 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:26,640 In a moment, the results of that trial. 797 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,040 And now here is our star, Jack Webb. 798 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:30,040 Thank you. 799 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:34,480 Since tonight you've heard just a few of the reasons why you should smoke Fatima, it sums 800 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:35,760 up this way. 801 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:40,600 Fatima gives you all the advantages of extra length plus Fatima quality, which no other 802 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,720 king-size cigarette has. 803 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,320 Tomorrow, buy Fatima in the golden yellow package. 804 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:59,400 Remember, they're extra mild with a different, better flavor and aroma. 805 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:03,260 Mrs. Barbara Gorman and Ralph Donald Cain were tried and convicted in Superior Court 806 00:28:03,260 --> 00:28:04,920 of murder in the first degree. 807 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,560 Mrs. Gorman was sentenced to life imprisonment. 808 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:09,440 Cain received the death penalty. 809 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:13,720 He was executed at the state penitentiary, San Quentin, California. 810 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:18,940 Ladies and gentlemen, the Bill of Rights section of the United States Constitution protects 811 00:28:18,940 --> 00:28:20,940 our freedom. 812 00:28:20,940 --> 00:28:25,240 Today that freedom is endangered by tyranny and aggression. 813 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:31,160 Every American must help make our free government an example to all peoples by dedicating himself 814 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,560 to a constant active citizenship. 815 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,080 Freedom needs you. 816 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:49,120 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 817 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,760 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. 818 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,360 Markey, Los Angeles Police Department. 819 00:28:55,360 --> 00:29:02,240 Fatima cigarettes, best of all long cigarettes, has brought you Dragnet, transcribed from 820 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:12,000 Los Angeles. 821 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:23,400 Stay tuned for Counterspy, next over most NBC stations.