1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,520 The story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:15,760 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:28,080 Fatima, best of all king-sized cigarettes brings you dragnet. 4 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:32,080 You're a detective sergeant, you're assigned to homicide detail. 5 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,880 An elderly man is found dead in the living room of his home. 6 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:38,000 There's a single bullet hole in his chest. 7 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:43,040 On the surface it appears the man took his own life, but the evidence points to the opposite. 8 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:49,600 Your job, investigate. 9 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:56,480 More and more smokers coast to coast are saying this about king-sized Fatima every day. 10 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:58,720 They're different, better. 11 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:01,200 They are different, so pleasing. 12 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:05,120 Yes, in Fatima the difference is quality. 13 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:10,800 You see Fatima contains the finest domestic and Turkish tobacco superbly blended. 14 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:16,080 And Fatima is extra mild with a much different, much better flavor and aroma. 15 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:19,120 Compare Fatima with any other king-sized cigarette. 16 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:25,440 You'll find Fatima gives you all the advantages of extra length plus Fatima quality, which 17 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:27,840 no other king-sized cigarette has. 18 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:32,080 Yes, in Fatima the difference is quality. 19 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:34,600 Next time buy Fatima. 20 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:39,840 Best of all king-sized cigarettes. 21 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:46,240 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 22 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:50,720 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 23 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:55,240 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 24 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:56,240 police files. 25 00:01:56,240 --> 00:02:02,000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 26 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,720 in action. 27 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:06,720 Was Wednesday, January 10th. 28 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:07,720 It was cold in Los Angeles. 29 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:11,040 We were working a day watch out of homicide detail. 30 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:14,640 My partner's Ben Romero, the boss is Thad Brown, Chief of Detectives. 31 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:15,640 My name's Friday. 32 00:02:15,640 --> 00:02:21,000 It was 8.25 a.m. when I got to the police academy, the doctor's office. 33 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:22,000 Morning. 34 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Morning. 35 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Can I help you? 36 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:25,000 I'm checking in for my annual physical. 37 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:26,000 Oh, okay. 38 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:27,000 All right. 39 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Let's see your name. 40 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,000 Joe Friday. 41 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Friday, just like a day in a week. 42 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Yeah, that's right. 43 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:32,000 Friday. 44 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,000 Anything to find. 45 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:34,000 Are you sure you were notified? 46 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:39,000 Yeah, the teletype was posted in the office a couple of days ago. 47 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:40,000 Annual physical exams. 48 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,000 My name was right near the top of the list. 49 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,000 F-R-I-D-A-Y. 50 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,000 Okay. 51 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Oh, yeah. 52 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,000 Yeah, here you are. 53 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:58,000 Joseph Friday. 54 00:02:58,000 --> 00:02:59,000 That's it, yeah. 55 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Well, all right, Friday. 56 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Let's get your name down here. 57 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Okay. 58 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Age? 59 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Thirty-four. 60 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Where you work? 61 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:06,000 Central homicide. 62 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Serial number? 63 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:08,000 2288. 64 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Okay. 65 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:16,000 How are they keeping you busy? 66 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Oh, pretty busy, yeah. 67 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,000 Forty-five hundred men in the department. 68 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Everyone has to have an annual physical. 69 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,000 Uh-huh. 70 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Better get you weighed and send your lung inside. 71 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,000 Doc's probably going to be very worried. 72 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:40,000 Over here. 73 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,000 Oh, never fails. 74 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,000 Dr. Vance's office. 75 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,000 Who's that? 76 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Just a minute. 77 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,000 It's for you Friday, your office. 78 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,000 Thank you. 79 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,000 Friday, darling. 80 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:52,000 This is Ben, Joe. 81 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:53,000 You about to go in there? 82 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:54,000 No, not quite. 83 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:55,000 I haven't seen Doc Vance yet. 84 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:56,000 What's the matter? 85 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,000 Dead body called up by Westlake Park Radio Company. 86 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:00,000 What's the matter? 87 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:05,000 No, not quite. 88 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:06,000 I haven't seen Doc Vance yet. 89 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:07,000 What's the matter? 90 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Dead body called up by Westlake Park Radio Company. 91 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,000 No one else in homicide to handle it? 92 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:10,000 Not right now. 93 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,000 They're pretty busy. 94 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:12,000 I'll use you coming back to the office once you meet me out there. 95 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:13,000 It's 932-0-Laurel-9. 96 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:14,000 Just a minute. 97 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Have that pad, Doc. 98 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Thank you. 99 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,000 932-0-Laurel. 100 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:18,000 I got it. 101 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:19,000 What's the story? 102 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Old man, my son dead in his living room, bullet hole in his chest. 103 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,000 Uh-huh. 104 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:22,000 And the radio car said at first it looked like the old man had killed himself. 105 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:23,000 They're not so sure now. 106 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,000 What do you mean? 107 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,000 I think he's dead. 108 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:26,000 What do you mean? 109 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:31,000 I think he had some help. 110 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:32,000 845 A.M. 111 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:39,440 I left the doctor's office at the police academy and drove to the Westlake area where I met 112 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:42,640 Ben in front of the cottage where the dead body had been found. 113 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:47,120 We went inside and checked with one of the men from the radio car who was standing by. 114 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:52,160 The dead man was identified as Martin Latimer, age 68, a retired owner of a couple of neighborhood 115 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,360 grocery stores in the city. 116 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:56,600 He was lying sprawled on his side on the floor. 117 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,800 There was a bullet hole in his chest just above the heart where the slug had entered 118 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:00,800 the body. 119 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:04,560 There was another larger wound in the back through the left shoulder blade where the 120 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:05,560 bullet had emerged. 121 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:10,280 Approximately eight feet across the room from the body was another chair with a Winchester 122 00:05:10,280 --> 00:05:14,720 rifle wired firmly to the top, its muzzle pointing directly above the spot where the 123 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:16,160 body lay on the floor. 124 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:21,160 A thick white string was found wound firmly around the trigger of the rifle. 125 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:24,840 It ran through a metal ring on the stock of the gun and stretched across the room where 126 00:05:24,840 --> 00:05:27,400 it had been tied to the dead man's right index finger. 127 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:31,080 At first glance, it seemed like an obvious suicide arrangement. 128 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:34,240 Officer Harkness, one of the men in the radio car who had answered the call, took the exception. 129 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:36,560 I don't know, Sergeant, maybe I'm all wet. 130 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:37,920 Just doesn't gel right for me. 131 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:39,680 Who discovered the body, Arnhold? 132 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:41,480 Next door neighbor, Mrs. Donworth. 133 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:42,480 My partners were there now. 134 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:43,480 You fellas call the crime lab? 135 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:44,480 Yeah, they're on their way out. 136 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:47,480 Was the old man the only one who lived in the house here? 137 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:49,280 Yeah, that's what the neighbor told us. 138 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:52,520 Sure like to see what the crime lab crew is going to think of it. 139 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:53,520 What's the big question, Harkness? 140 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:55,840 Well, I know it's none of my business, Sergeant. 141 00:05:55,840 --> 00:05:57,480 You fellas are the detectives. 142 00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:59,320 I just couldn't help but notice though. 143 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:00,320 What's that? 144 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,400 Well, come here. 145 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:07,280 Over here, this rifle wired to the back of the chair. 146 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:09,680 Take a side along the barrel of the rifle. 147 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:10,680 See what you think. 148 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:11,680 Right through the sight, huh? 149 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:12,680 Mm-hmm. 150 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:13,680 Point it right above the arm, Joe. 151 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:14,680 Over there, isn't it? 152 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:15,680 Yeah. 153 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:16,680 To the straight line with the body. 154 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:17,680 How much do you think? 155 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:19,680 The straight line with the body, how much fits? 156 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:23,480 The old man pulled the string tied to his index finger and it set off the trigger. 157 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:24,840 Took the slug through the chest, didn't it? 158 00:06:24,840 --> 00:06:26,440 Yeah, that's what I figured. 159 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:29,880 Now here, take a look at the wall directly behind the old man. 160 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:30,880 Yeah. 161 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:33,480 The slug went clean through the body, we know that. 162 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:36,720 And through the chest above the heart, then out through the shoulder blade. 163 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:38,520 I see what you mean. 164 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:41,280 Now here, now take a look at this wall here. 165 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:43,000 Got a mark on it. 166 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:44,000 Yeah. 167 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,640 One thing, sure, if the old man was shot in that position, the slug had to come this 168 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:48,640 way. 169 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:49,640 Well? 170 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:51,840 That's through his body, right about this height here. 171 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:52,840 Uh-huh. 172 00:06:52,840 --> 00:06:57,240 We ought to find the bullet hole in this wall, right around here. 173 00:06:57,240 --> 00:06:58,920 It ought to be. 174 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,080 Not a trace of a slug there. 175 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:02,800 Not much chance it could have been deflected, do you think? 176 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:03,800 Well, that's what I thought. 177 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:07,320 It's a.30-30 Winchester, enough power to go through a couple plaster walls. 178 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:09,280 Well, we know the slug went through the body. 179 00:07:09,280 --> 00:07:12,240 It's got to be somewhere in one of these four walls. 180 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:14,440 Take a look over here and see what you think. 181 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:15,600 All right. 182 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:17,840 Down here near the corner of the wall. 183 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:18,840 Where? 184 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:19,840 Well, right here. 185 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:20,840 Yeah, it looks like it, Sam. 186 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:21,840 Something's out of kilter. 187 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:26,840 The rifle never could have thrown a slug this far down on the wall, not the way far to the 188 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:27,840 chair there. 189 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:31,840 Besides, that is way out of line, at least four feet, the way I figured here. 190 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:33,800 Well, I know it's none of my business, Sergeant. 191 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:35,800 I couldn't help but notice it, though. 192 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:37,640 Uh, you want me to stand by outside? 193 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:38,920 Yeah, okay, if you will. 194 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:39,920 Would you mind checking with your partner? 195 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:42,760 See if we can have that neighbor lady brought over for questioning, would you? 196 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:43,760 Right, I'll check with him now. 197 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:44,760 Thank you. 198 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:46,720 I'm going to take another look at that rifle. 199 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:49,680 Well, it sure doesn't add up too well, does it? 200 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:52,800 Even if the old man jerked the gun when he pulled the trigger with that string arrangement, 201 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:55,640 the slug couldn't have passed through his chest, out his back, and then hit the wall 202 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:56,640 where it did. 203 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:58,640 Stand just behind the body, will you, Joe? 204 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:01,360 See if it's possible to line it up. 205 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:03,360 All right, what about here? 206 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:04,360 Look about it to you? 207 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:05,360 Uh, yeah, that's good. 208 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:06,360 Let me see here. 209 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:07,360 No, not a chance, Joe. 210 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:08,360 It's way out of line. 211 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:09,360 If that's the gun that killed him, the old man didn't pull the trigger. 212 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:16,360 Not from there, anyway. 213 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:17,360 Well, there's one other chance. 214 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:18,360 Yeah? 215 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:19,360 Somebody pulled it for him. 216 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:26,040 Lieutenant Lee Jones arrived with his crime lab crew and went to work. 217 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:29,600 We put in a call to the coroner's office, and then the dead man's neighbor, Mrs. Elsie 218 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:31,600 Donowitz, was brought over for questioning. 219 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,560 She was a chubby matronly lady, about 45. 220 00:08:34,560 --> 00:08:39,400 She told us she'd been a neighbor to the aging Martin Latimer for more than 10 years. 221 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:41,960 I take it you knew Mr. Latimer pretty well, ma'am. 222 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:43,920 Yeah, I suppose. 223 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:47,360 Didn't have any relatives, poor man, all alone. 224 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:49,400 He was in the grocery business for years. 225 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:51,960 He made some nice money, I guess. 226 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:55,720 Retired about eight years ago, sold both his stores. 227 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:58,240 Had an income from a mortgage on one of them. 228 00:08:58,240 --> 00:08:59,240 $150 a month. 229 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:00,240 Yeah, he was very comfortable. 230 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:01,240 Wasn't a penny painter at all. 231 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:04,880 But he was thrifty, it was the same way with my husband Claude. 232 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:12,720 He used to say, take care of the dimes and the dollars will take care of themselves. 233 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:16,080 Well, Mrs. Donowitz, can you think of any reason why Latimer would want to take his 234 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:17,080 own life? 235 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:18,080 Oh, I suppose. 236 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:21,080 Poor old man is getting along in years. 237 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:24,640 For a long time, he was afraid he was going to die with cancer. 238 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:25,640 Is that so? 239 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:26,640 Did Mr. Latimer have cancer, do you know? 240 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:27,640 Oh, no. 241 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:30,640 He kept thinking he was going to die with it. 242 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:36,040 Could you come next door to my place while I get some of my laundry out? 243 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:37,040 We could talk there. 244 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:38,040 It's just across the yard. 245 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:39,040 All right, ma'am, that'll be fine. 246 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:42,040 Did you want to tell Lee Jones we'll be next door, Ben? 247 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:44,040 Yes, you better let Hotness know, too. 248 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:45,040 Yeah, right, I'll tell him. 249 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:46,040 Thank you. 250 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:53,040 About that cancer business, officer, Mr. Latimer was always talking about it. 251 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:54,040 Yes, ma'am. 252 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:55,720 He finally went to a doctor about it. 253 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:57,840 That was last week only. 254 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:01,640 They came back and he told me the doctor said for him not to be so silly about it. 255 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:03,640 He was a well man and good health. 256 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:06,640 When was the last time that you saw Latimer, ma'am? 257 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:08,640 Day before yesterday. 258 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:12,640 Oh, we laughed and joked over the back thing. 259 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:16,640 Poor old man had such a nice smile, reminded me a good deal of Claude. 260 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:17,640 That was my husband. 261 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:20,640 I'd like to have your honest opinion, Ms. Donner. 262 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:22,640 Do you think Mr. Latimer killed himself? 263 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:26,640 Well, I suppose that rifle in there, that teller was in fact him. 264 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:28,640 Joe, I wonder if I could talk to you a minute? 265 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:29,640 Yeah, okay. 266 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:31,640 Would you like to go on ahead over next door, ma'am? 267 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:32,640 We'll be right with you. 268 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:33,640 All right, officer. 269 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:34,640 Thank you very much. 270 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:37,640 We'll be right there, ma'am. 271 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:38,640 Yeah. 272 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:40,640 Crime lab proves having a field day. 273 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:43,640 They say if the old man shot himself with that rig, it ought to make Ripley's call. 274 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:44,640 They find anything definite? 275 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:47,640 Just the driver for fingerprints, didn't find a warrant. 276 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:48,640 How about that? 277 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:51,640 Yeah, makes less sense than that slug buried in the corner of the wall, doesn't it? 278 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:52,640 Sure does. 279 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:56,640 Checked the desk in the living room, found some correspondence Latimer was having with 280 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:58,640 some woman through a lonely hearts club. 281 00:10:58,640 --> 00:10:59,640 Yeah? 282 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:01,640 Did you find any reason why he'd want to die? 283 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:03,640 Pretty good reason why he'd want to live. 284 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:06,640 Found a photograph, beautiful girl, looked to be about 24 or 25. 285 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:07,640 Yeah, what about it? 286 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:09,640 She was going to marry him. 287 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:16,640 The crime lab crew continued their routine investigation of Martin Latimer's cottage. 288 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:19,640 They removed the 30-30 slug from the corner of one wall. 289 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:23,640 Ben and I went next door to question the neighbor, Mrs. Donworth. 290 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:26,640 There didn't seem to be any common ground at all between the evidence in the house and 291 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:28,640 the information that she had to offer. 292 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:32,640 As we continued questioning her, Mrs. Donworth remembered that a month before, 293 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:36,640 Latimer had told her that something might happen to him and he wanted to make out a will. 294 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:38,640 He asked if she would witness the will. 295 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:42,640 A few days later, Latimer's lawyer came to the house and Mrs. Donworth witnessed the signing. 296 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:45,640 At that time, she said Latimer made the remark, 297 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:51,640 I don't feel like going on much longer anyway. If death means arrest, I think I deserve one. 298 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:55,640 Mrs. Donworth kept busy with the laundry while we interviewed her. 299 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:59,640 Could you let me get by to the manhole officer? I have to get some of this ironing done. 300 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:01,640 Yes, ma'am, I'm sorry. 301 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:06,640 I'm afraid there's one thing I don't remember you telling us, ma'am. 302 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:11,640 Did you hear anything of the ordinary going on next door or this morning or last night? 303 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:15,640 No, nothing I noticed anyway. 304 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:18,640 Officer, did you see that knob on the washer, the one on the left? 305 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:19,640 What do you mean, this over here? 306 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:22,640 Yeah, just lift it up and turn it around to off, please. 307 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:24,640 It says off right there in the dial. 308 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:25,640 Yes, ma'am, I see. 309 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:26,640 Here you are. 310 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:28,640 Yeah, thanks. 311 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:32,640 No, there was nothing I heard from next door or remark about. 312 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:37,640 Of course, it's so noisy around here that time of morning you can't even hear yourself think anyway. 313 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:38,640 How's that, ma'am? 314 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:41,640 The trucks passing by up and down every morning. 315 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:44,640 They're not small truck theater. They start in at 6 a.m. 316 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:47,640 They rattle past for two, three hours, please. 317 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:49,640 The first good explanation we've had on this thing. 318 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:54,640 Could you give us the names of some of the other people on the street who knew Mr. Latimer pretty well, Mrs. Dunwoody? 319 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:56,640 Yeah, I suppose. 320 00:12:56,640 --> 00:13:00,640 I don't think any of them knew the poor old man as well as I did. 321 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:04,640 Most of them are younger folks, you know, parties and things. 322 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:10,640 When you get up around 65, a path that like Mr. Latimer, parties don't mean so much anymore. 323 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:12,640 Yes, ma'am, I understand. 324 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:13,640 Yeah. 325 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:20,640 It's a nice quiet home with a good heating system, good books on the shelves, good man around the house. 326 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:21,640 Is that all you can ask for? 327 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:22,640 Yes, ma'am. 328 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:23,640 Well, thank you very much. 329 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:27,640 We'll leave our card here in case you want to contact us for any reason. 330 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:29,640 All right, officer. 331 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:35,640 There's one more thing, Mrs. Dunwoody, we understand Latimer was corresponding with several women to a lonely hearts club. 332 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:37,640 Did he ever mention that to you? 333 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:39,640 No, he never did. 334 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:41,640 I found out from the mailman. 335 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:43,640 He's a regular gossip. 336 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:47,640 And Latimer never mentioned any other women that he corresponded with, is that right? 337 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:49,640 I pretended I didn't even know about it. 338 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:52,640 He never brought it up. 339 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:56,640 Don't understand why he'd want to meet a lady that way. 340 00:13:56,640 --> 00:14:01,640 Almost to them we're looking for is a man with money so they can quit work and lay around the house. 341 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:04,640 Well, thanks again, Mrs. Dunwoody, that's been very helpful. 342 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:05,640 Yes. 343 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:07,640 Poor old man. 344 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:10,640 I wonder what made him write letters after silly women. 345 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:12,640 If it was good, they'd have done him. 346 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:15,640 He wrote letters all over the country. 347 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:17,640 Getting tired of working myself. 348 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:19,640 Could have saved the postage, too. 349 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:20,640 May I be excused? 350 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:22,640 I was right next door. 351 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:28,640 Would have married him in a minute. 352 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:33,640 We left Mrs. Dunwoody's house a few minutes past noon and we went back next door to Latimer's cottage. 353 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:37,640 The crime lab crew had finished their investigation and the deputy coroner arrived. 354 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:40,640 He took the body downtown for autopsy. 355 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:45,640 We talked over the crime lab findings with Lieutenant Lee Jones and he felt the same way that Ben and I did. 356 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:51,640 The theory that Latimer had shot himself to death was possible in many respects, but it was far from plausible. 357 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:56,640 We checked through Latimer's correspondence with the women that he'd contacted by mail through the Lonely Hearts Club. 358 00:14:56,640 --> 00:15:01,640 Especially the young girl he obviously intended to marry judging from his letters to her. 359 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:05,640 Her picture showed her to be a brunette, dark eyes, young and very attractive. 360 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:09,640 The inscription at the bottom read, With Love, Catherine. 361 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:12,640 There was no return address on either the photo or the letter. 362 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:15,640 Ben called to check with the Lonely Hearts Club. 363 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:16,640 Yes, ma'am. 364 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:17,640 No, that's all right. 365 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:19,640 We'll probably be dropping down to talk to you. 366 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:21,640 Yes, boy. 367 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:22,640 What'd they say? 368 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:23,640 Might be it, Joe. 369 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:27,640 Club secretary says they've been having trouble with somebody who signs the pictures just like this one. 370 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:28,640 With Love, Catherine. 371 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:29,640 Uh-huh. 372 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:31,640 I described the picture and the secretary says it's the same girl. 373 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:32,640 What's the angle? 374 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:36,640 The girl doesn't belong to the club, but somehow she got a list of their members and their addresses. 375 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:38,640 She writes to them, usually old men. 376 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:41,640 Gets them set for marriage and they send for her. 377 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:44,640 Her letters come from the east, from different cities. 378 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:46,640 She writes and asks for a train fare out here. 379 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:49,640 The men send her the money for clothes and train fare and that's the last of it. 380 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:50,640 She's gone. 381 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:51,640 Oh, that's all right. 382 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:54,640 Now, this one letter here. 383 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:55,640 This one. 384 00:15:55,640 --> 00:16:01,640 I hate to ask you, dear, but if you could send me the traveling money and just a little extra for some clothes, 385 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:06,640 I will take the first train and be with you in a week to become your wife, awaiting that precious moment and so on. 386 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:07,640 Hmm. 387 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:08,640 Kind of pours it on thick. 388 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:09,640 What's the date on this? 389 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:10,640 Let's see. 390 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:12,640 December 30th. 391 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:13,640 It's 12 days ago. 392 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:14,640 What do you think? 393 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:15,640 It's possible. 394 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:18,640 She could have showed up, tried to grab all the old man's money she could find. 395 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:19,640 Maybe he caught her at it. 396 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:23,640 She killed him, rigged up this phony setup to make it look like Latimer shot himself. 397 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,640 Can you hold more water if we could find out she really came here? 398 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:28,640 Maybe we better start ringing a few doorbells. 399 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:30,640 The other neighbors might come up with something. 400 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:31,640 What do you say? 401 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:33,640 Let me see that girl's picture again, will you? 402 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:35,640 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 403 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:37,640 No photographer's name. 404 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:39,640 Now look in the back here, Ben. 405 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:40,640 Hmm. 406 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:41,640 You know, down here in the corner. 407 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:43,640 Right in the corner of the picture mounting. 408 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:44,640 Oh, yeah, yeah. 409 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:47,640 XXXXY3. 410 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:50,640 Must be some kind of manufacturer's marking. 411 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:51,640 Photography supplier. 412 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:52,640 Hmm. 413 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:54,640 Guess it stands for the type of paper, huh? 414 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:56,640 You know anything about the photo business? 415 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:57,640 No, I don't. 416 00:16:57,640 --> 00:16:58,640 Maybe you do. 417 00:16:58,640 --> 00:16:59,640 Let's find somebody who does, huh? 418 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:05,640 Before we drove back to the office, Ben and I covered the rest of the neighborhood 419 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:09,640 and talked to everybody who knew the dead man, Martin Latimer, even remotely. 420 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:11,640 They told us nothing that we didn't already know. 421 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:14,640 There had been no strangers seen visiting the old man. 422 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:18,640 No one had noticed anything out of the ordinary in Latimer's daily routine. 423 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:21,640 Three o'clock that afternoon, we checked with the police photo lab. 424 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:26,640 They told us that the symbols stamped on the cardboard frame of the photograph signed Catherine 425 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,640 were symbols used by a photo supply company up in San Francisco. 426 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,640 We went back to the office and got in touch with the San Francisco firm. 427 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:37,640 We were told that the symbols indicated the style and the size of photographic mounting, 428 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:43,640 and further that this particular type of mounting was distributed only throughout seven western states. 429 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:48,640 They gave us a list of 18 photo studios in Los Angeles who kept that particular mount in stock. 430 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:51,640 It was a long chance, but we started checking them out. 431 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:56,640 Meantime, we'd run the girl through R&I and gotten on an APB, seeking information on her. 432 00:17:56,640 --> 00:18:01,640 Three days later, Ben and I had checked out 10 of the 18 photo studios on our list. 433 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:04,640 The 11th was the M&Y Family Portraits on Melrose. 434 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:05,640 Yes, sir. Can I help you? 435 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:09,640 Police officers, would you mind taking a look at this photograph here, please? 436 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:14,640 Let me see. Would you like an enlargement? Got a special price in enlargements this week. 437 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:17,640 No, sir. We'd just like to know if you can identify this girl, that's all. 438 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:20,640 Well, do you recognize her at all, sir? 439 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:23,640 I know her. Sure you wouldn't like an enlargement? 440 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:25,640 An enlargement? 441 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:39,640 You're in a cruiser car of a Metropolitan Police Department. You receive a routine radio call. 442 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:44,640 All units, attention all units, pick up and hold for investigation the following vehicle. 443 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:49,640 1948 Ford, two-door sedan, black, white sidewall tires. 444 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:53,640 There are many cars that fit this description. You listen for more facts. 445 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,640 This car will have extensive damage to right front end. 446 00:18:56,640 --> 00:19:00,640 License number, 9-ROBERT-9-707. 447 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:07,640 In the 7 column, 9-ROBERT-9-707, KMA-567. 448 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:11,640 Now you can pin it down to one. It's the same with cigarettes. 449 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:14,640 There are many king-size brands to choose from. 450 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:19,640 But when you know all the facts, you'll make your choice, Fatima. 451 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:20,640 Here are those facts. 452 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:25,640 Fatimas are the same in length and circumference as any other king-size cigarette. 453 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:30,640 85 millimeters long, 1-1-64 inches around. 454 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:34,640 And Fatima filters the smoke exactly the same long distance. 455 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:38,640 But in Fatima, the difference is quality. 456 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:40,640 Fatima gives you extra mildness. 457 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:44,640 A much different, much better flavor and aroma. 458 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:50,640 Remember, Fatima gives long cigarette smokers all the advantages of extra length. 459 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:55,640 Plus Fatima quality, which no other king-size cigarette has. 460 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:58,640 Next time, insist on the best. 461 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:10,640 By Fatima, best of all king-size cigarettes. 462 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,640 Saturday, January 13th, 1.35 p.m. 463 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:18,640 We showed the photograph of the girl to the proprietor of the photo studio on Melrose Avenue. 464 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:20,640 And he identified her as one of his customers. 465 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:22,640 He told us her name was Doris Chambers. 466 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:27,640 She was 22 years old and a post-graduate student in chemistry at the university. 467 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:32,640 She came from a fairly well-to-do family and her father was the president of a local neighborhood bank. 468 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:36,640 She didn't even come close to the type of girl that we were looking for. 469 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:40,640 We got the address from the photographer, drove out to the home and interviewed the Chambers girl. 470 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,640 She gave a younger appearance than she did in her picture. 471 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:49,640 She couldn't recognize the handwriting on the photo, nor did she understand the inscription with love, Catherine. 472 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:54,640 After questioning her, it became apparent that she knew nothing at all about 68-year-old Martin Latimer. 473 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:58,640 I wonder if you'd mind taking another look at the handwriting on the picture, Miss. 474 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:00,640 Familiar at all? 475 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:04,640 No. No, I couldn't be sure either way. Seems like I've seen it though. 476 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:06,640 When did you say you had this picture made, Miss? 477 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:11,640 About a year ago at graduation. My mother had extra copies made up. She liked it. 478 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:12,640 I didn't care for it much. 479 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:15,640 Could you tell us how many people have prints of this picture? 480 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:19,640 Mom had two dozen copies made up. She took 12 and I took 12. 481 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,640 She sent them to relatives, friends of ours, kept a few. 482 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:24,640 What did you do with yours? 483 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:27,640 Sent them to friends, girls at school, a few of my boyfriends. 484 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,640 Can you remember if you autographed any of them? 485 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:34,640 Yeah, some of them. The ones for my girlfriend. Others I gave out plain. 486 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:38,640 Can you try and think who you gave those to, Miss, the unsigned picture? 487 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:47,640 One went to Carl, I know that. Ray, Fred and Don. Warren. I think that's it. 488 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:51,640 I wonder if we could have their full names and addresses, please. 489 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:53,640 It's all right. 490 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:58,640 You know what I'm saving all this junk for? Old letters. 491 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:00,640 Could I see that picture, please? 492 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:02,640 Yeah, I hear you. 493 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,640 Well, it's the same writing. I thought I'd seen it before. 494 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:10,640 This old letter from Warren. See the writing? Doesn't it look the same to you? 495 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:12,640 Hmm, looks close to you. 496 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:16,640 Well, I've done my own handwriting check it over. Who is this Warren, Miss Chambers? 497 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:18,640 Warren White. Here's his address right here. 498 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,640 Yeah, I'll copy it, Jim. Fine. 499 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:26,640 Warren and I went to college together. We were engaged to be married for a while, then I broke it off. 500 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:27,640 I see. 501 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:33,640 Warren's a serious boy. He was very thorough, a perfectionist. Do you know, Sergeant, whoever does things halfway? 502 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:34,640 That's him. 503 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:37,640 Never knew Warren could do anything in his life halfway, not once. 504 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,640 Well, he's going to have a perfect record at that handwriting matches. 505 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:41,640 What can they do to him? 506 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,640 I don't know, but they won't do it halfway. 507 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:54,640 Two fifty-five p.m. We left the home of Doris Chambers and drove down Beverly Boulevard to 743 North Clarewood Avenue, 508 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,640 an apartment house where the suspect was supposed to be living. 509 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:03,640 We talked to the manager and he told us that Warren White had moved without giving notice three days before on January 10th, 510 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:08,640 the same day 68-year-old Martin Latimer was found dead in his home. 511 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:14,640 We got on the phone, talked to Doris Chambers again, and she gave us a lead on Warren White's married sister. 512 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:20,640 Seven thirty p.m. We met with the sister of the murder suspect and she told us that her brother Warren had phoned that morning 513 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:24,640 and asked for an emergency loan of two hundred dollars, which he didn't have to give him. 514 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,640 The sister gave us White's new address and we checked it out. 515 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:31,640 It was one of those run-down, futuristic-style apartment houses built in the mid-thirties. 516 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:36,640 It was on a narrow road high above Sunset Boulevard overlooking most of Hollywood. 517 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:40,640 White wasn't in and the manager said he wasn't expected back till early the next morning. 518 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:47,640 We had the manager let us in White's apartment. We waited. Midnight. 1 a.m. 519 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:49,640 No sign of the suspect. 520 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,640 No denying it is sure a beautiful view from here. 521 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:57,640 It's the best in town. It'd be nice for single fellows up here when they wouldn't work with the family though. 522 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:02,640 How about you Joe? Why don't you get your mother looking around up here, be a beautiful place with the two of you. 523 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:07,640 I don't think my mother ever leaves the house. She's been there for 40 years. I guess she'll stay there till she dies. 524 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:11,640 It would be nice up here though, wouldn't it? What a view, huh? 525 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,640 Why don't you try talking her into it? You've got nothing to lose. 526 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:19,640 I might do that. Why don't you slide up one of the windows? Get a little stuff in here. 527 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:29,640 Oh, smell that air, huh? That's great. 528 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,640 What time you got? 529 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,640 1 45. 530 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,640 Oh, it's a long night. 531 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:44,640 We waited. 3 a.m. 4 a.m. 4 30. 532 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:48,640 It was cold and still no sign of the suspect, Warren White. 533 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:52,640 5 a.m. 5 30. 6 a.m. 534 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,640 The sky was getting light over in the east. 535 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:59,640 6 30. 7 a.m. 7 30. 536 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,640 We kept waiting. No sign of the suspect. 537 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,640 We called the office and arranged for a relief. 538 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:09,640 8 a.m. We could hear groups of youngsters passing by outside, 539 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:13,640 trooping into the main yard of a grammar school just below the apartment house. 540 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:15,640 We kept waiting. 541 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,640 At 8 15 a.m. we heard a car pull up in front of the apartment house. 542 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:23,640 Footsteps came down the driveway, up the path, stopped outside the door. 543 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:29,640 We heard a key turn in the lock. 544 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,640 What is this? What do you want? 545 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:37,640 You want Warren White? Yes. 546 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,640 The police officers got some questions we'd like to ask you. 547 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:44,640 It's all right, officers. Why don't you sit down? I'm not going to give you any trouble. 548 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:48,640 Huh? I killed him. Maybe I'll never know why, but I killed him. 549 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,640 You want to tell us about it? 550 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:55,640 You must have had a reason for it, rigging it for a suicide. Do you have anything against him? 551 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:59,640 I hardly even knew him. He used that picture of Doris, the fool. 552 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:01,640 I made some good money doing it. I needed it. 553 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,640 Are you willing to give us a statement about the whole thing? 554 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:06,640 I haven't anything to hide, officer. 555 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:09,640 The minute I killed him, I knew it was all over. Right there in that one minute. 556 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:13,640 I knew you'd come and find me somehow. I didn't know when, but you'd come and find me. 557 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:17,640 Well, okay, Ben. We better head downtown. Yeah. What? 558 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,640 It's a great sound, isn't it? What's that? 559 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,640 The school yard. The kids. 560 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,640 Got a great sound to it. Good one. 561 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,640 You want to get your hat? All right. 562 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:33,640 How can anybody figure? 563 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:37,640 You start in a school yard like those kids down there, running around, yelling? 564 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,640 I started the same. I'll give you one. 565 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:44,640 I wonder what it is that happens. An eight-year-old redhead kid. 566 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:51,640 Must be one down there now. The other kids will grow up, get jobs, work, and die. It'll be all right. Yeah. 567 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,640 One kid will end up in an alley with a gun in his hand. 568 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,640 How can anybody figure? I don't know. 569 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,640 Bunch of kids playing in the school yard. 570 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,640 Someday one of them's a killer. Yeah, let's go. 571 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:14,640 You tell me. What's the answer? 572 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:16,640 The story you have just heard was true. 573 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,640 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 574 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:25,640 On April 2nd, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 88, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 575 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:29,640 In a moment, the results of that trial. And now here is our star, Jack Webb. 576 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:36,640 Thank you. Friends, it's come to my attention that some people have a misunderstanding about the cost of Fatimas. 577 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:40,640 Well, I'd sure like to straighten that out for you right now. 578 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,640 The cost of Fatima is the same as the cigarettes you're now smoking. 579 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:51,640 Yes, that's right. Fatimas cost no more. But in Fatima, the difference is quality. 580 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:55,640 Buy Fatima in the golden yellow package. 581 00:27:55,640 --> 00:28:07,640 Warren Thomas White was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree. 582 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,640 He received a sentence of life imprisonment. 583 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:14,640 He is still serving his term in the state penitentiary, Folsom, California. 584 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,640 Ladies and gentlemen, to build our strength against aggression, 585 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:22,640 we've got to equip our armed forces with weapons of war, 586 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:27,640 and at the same time produce plenty of civilian goods so that we can keep prices down. 587 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:32,640 Remember, the better we produce, the stronger we grow. 588 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:55,640 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 589 00:28:55,640 --> 00:29:04,640 Remember, best of all, king-size cigarettes has brought you Dragnet, transcribed from Los Angeles. 590 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:26,640 Stay tuned for Counterspy, next over NBC.