WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.520 The story you are about to hear is true. 00:12.520 --> 00:15.760 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:15.760 --> 00:28.080 Fatima, best of all king-sized cigarettes brings you dragnet. 00:28.080 --> 00:32.080 You're a detective sergeant, you're assigned to homicide detail. 00:32.080 --> 00:34.880 An elderly man is found dead in the living room of his home. 00:34.880 --> 00:38.000 There's a single bullet hole in his chest. 00:38.000 --> 00:43.040 On the surface it appears the man took his own life, but the evidence points to the opposite. 00:43.040 --> 00:49.600 Your job, investigate. 00:49.600 --> 00:56.480 More and more smokers coast to coast are saying this about king-sized Fatima every day. 00:56.480 --> 00:58.720 They're different, better. 00:58.720 --> 01:01.200 They are different, so pleasing. 01:01.200 --> 01:05.120 Yes, in Fatima the difference is quality. 01:05.120 --> 01:10.800 You see Fatima contains the finest domestic and Turkish tobacco superbly blended. 01:10.800 --> 01:16.080 And Fatima is extra mild with a much different, much better flavor and aroma. 01:16.080 --> 01:19.120 Compare Fatima with any other king-sized cigarette. 01:19.120 --> 01:25.440 You'll find Fatima gives you all the advantages of extra length plus Fatima quality, which 01:25.440 --> 01:27.840 no other king-sized cigarette has. 01:27.840 --> 01:32.080 Yes, in Fatima the difference is quality. 01:32.080 --> 01:34.600 Next time buy Fatima. 01:34.600 --> 01:39.840 Best of all king-sized cigarettes. 01:39.840 --> 01:46.240 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 01:46.240 --> 01:50.720 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:50.720 --> 01:55.240 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 01:55.240 --> 01:56.240 police files. 01:56.240 --> 02:02.000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 02:02.000 --> 02:05.720 in action. 02:05.720 --> 02:06.720 Was Wednesday, January 10th. 02:06.720 --> 02:07.720 It was cold in Los Angeles. 02:07.720 --> 02:11.040 We were working a day watch out of homicide detail. 02:11.040 --> 02:14.640 My partner's Ben Romero, the boss is Thad Brown, Chief of Detectives. 02:14.640 --> 02:15.640 My name's Friday. 02:15.640 --> 02:21.000 It was 8.25 a.m. when I got to the police academy, the doctor's office. 02:21.000 --> 02:22.000 Morning. 02:22.000 --> 02:23.000 Morning. 02:23.000 --> 02:24.000 Can I help you? 02:24.000 --> 02:25.000 I'm checking in for my annual physical. 02:25.000 --> 02:26.000 Oh, okay. 02:26.000 --> 02:27.000 All right. 02:27.000 --> 02:28.000 Let's see your name. 02:28.000 --> 02:29.000 Joe Friday. 02:29.000 --> 02:30.000 Friday, just like a day in a week. 02:30.000 --> 02:31.000 Yeah, that's right. 02:31.000 --> 02:32.000 Friday. 02:32.000 --> 02:33.000 Anything to find. 02:33.000 --> 02:34.000 Are you sure you were notified? 02:34.000 --> 02:39.000 Yeah, the teletype was posted in the office a couple of days ago. 02:39.000 --> 02:40.000 Annual physical exams. 02:40.000 --> 02:43.000 My name was right near the top of the list. 02:43.000 --> 02:44.000 F-R-I-D-A-Y. 02:44.000 --> 02:45.000 Okay. 02:45.000 --> 02:54.000 Oh, yeah. 02:54.000 --> 02:57.000 Yeah, here you are. 02:57.000 --> 02:58.000 Joseph Friday. 02:58.000 --> 02:59.000 That's it, yeah. 02:59.000 --> 03:00.000 Well, all right, Friday. 03:00.000 --> 03:01.000 Let's get your name down here. 03:01.000 --> 03:02.000 Okay. 03:02.000 --> 03:03.000 Age? 03:03.000 --> 03:04.000 Thirty-four. 03:04.000 --> 03:05.000 Where you work? 03:05.000 --> 03:06.000 Central homicide. 03:06.000 --> 03:07.000 Serial number? 03:07.000 --> 03:08.000 2288. 03:08.000 --> 03:09.000 Okay. 03:09.000 --> 03:16.000 How are they keeping you busy? 03:16.000 --> 03:20.000 Oh, pretty busy, yeah. 03:20.000 --> 03:24.000 Forty-five hundred men in the department. 03:24.000 --> 03:27.000 Everyone has to have an annual physical. 03:27.000 --> 03:28.000 Uh-huh. 03:28.000 --> 03:32.000 Better get you weighed and send your lung inside. 03:32.000 --> 03:35.000 Doc's probably going to be very worried. 03:35.000 --> 03:40.000 Over here. 03:40.000 --> 03:42.000 Oh, never fails. 03:42.000 --> 03:44.000 Dr. Vance's office. 03:44.000 --> 03:45.000 Who's that? 03:45.000 --> 03:46.000 Just a minute. 03:46.000 --> 03:49.000 It's for you Friday, your office. 03:49.000 --> 03:50.000 Thank you. 03:50.000 --> 03:51.000 Friday, darling. 03:51.000 --> 03:52.000 This is Ben, Joe. 03:52.000 --> 03:53.000 You about to go in there? 03:53.000 --> 03:54.000 No, not quite. 03:54.000 --> 03:55.000 I haven't seen Doc Vance yet. 03:55.000 --> 03:56.000 What's the matter? 03:56.000 --> 03:59.000 Dead body called up by Westlake Park Radio Company. 03:59.000 --> 04:00.000 What's the matter? 04:00.000 --> 04:05.000 No, not quite. 04:05.000 --> 04:06.000 I haven't seen Doc Vance yet. 04:06.000 --> 04:07.000 What's the matter? 04:07.000 --> 04:08.000 Dead body called up by Westlake Park Radio Company. 04:08.000 --> 04:09.000 No one else in homicide to handle it? 04:09.000 --> 04:10.000 Not right now. 04:10.000 --> 04:11.000 They're pretty busy. 04:11.000 --> 04:12.000 I'll use you coming back to the office once you meet me out there. 04:12.000 --> 04:13.000 It's 932-0-Laurel-9. 04:13.000 --> 04:14.000 Just a minute. 04:14.000 --> 04:15.000 Have that pad, Doc. 04:15.000 --> 04:16.000 Thank you. 04:16.000 --> 04:17.000 932-0-Laurel. 04:17.000 --> 04:18.000 I got it. 04:18.000 --> 04:19.000 What's the story? 04:19.000 --> 04:20.000 Old man, my son dead in his living room, bullet hole in his chest. 04:20.000 --> 04:21.000 Uh-huh. 04:21.000 --> 04:22.000 And the radio car said at first it looked like the old man had killed himself. 04:22.000 --> 04:23.000 They're not so sure now. 04:23.000 --> 04:24.000 What do you mean? 04:24.000 --> 04:25.000 I think he's dead. 04:25.000 --> 04:26.000 What do you mean? 04:26.000 --> 04:31.000 I think he had some help. 04:31.000 --> 04:32.000 845 A.M. 04:32.000 --> 04:39.440 I left the doctor's office at the police academy and drove to the Westlake area where I met 04:39.440 --> 04:42.640 Ben in front of the cottage where the dead body had been found. 04:42.640 --> 04:47.120 We went inside and checked with one of the men from the radio car who was standing by. 04:47.120 --> 04:52.160 The dead man was identified as Martin Latimer, age 68, a retired owner of a couple of neighborhood 04:52.160 --> 04:54.360 grocery stores in the city. 04:54.360 --> 04:56.600 He was lying sprawled on his side on the floor. 04:56.600 --> 04:59.800 There was a bullet hole in his chest just above the heart where the slug had entered 04:59.800 --> 05:00.800 the body. 05:00.800 --> 05:04.560 There was another larger wound in the back through the left shoulder blade where the 05:04.560 --> 05:05.560 bullet had emerged. 05:05.560 --> 05:10.280 Approximately eight feet across the room from the body was another chair with a Winchester 05:10.280 --> 05:14.720 rifle wired firmly to the top, its muzzle pointing directly above the spot where the 05:14.720 --> 05:16.160 body lay on the floor. 05:16.160 --> 05:21.160 A thick white string was found wound firmly around the trigger of the rifle. 05:21.160 --> 05:24.840 It ran through a metal ring on the stock of the gun and stretched across the room where 05:24.840 --> 05:27.400 it had been tied to the dead man's right index finger. 05:27.400 --> 05:31.080 At first glance, it seemed like an obvious suicide arrangement. 05:31.080 --> 05:34.240 Officer Harkness, one of the men in the radio car who had answered the call, took the exception. 05:34.240 --> 05:36.560 I don't know, Sergeant, maybe I'm all wet. 05:36.560 --> 05:37.920 Just doesn't gel right for me. 05:37.920 --> 05:39.680 Who discovered the body, Arnhold? 05:39.680 --> 05:41.480 Next door neighbor, Mrs. Donworth. 05:41.480 --> 05:42.480 My partners were there now. 05:42.480 --> 05:43.480 You fellas call the crime lab? 05:43.480 --> 05:44.480 Yeah, they're on their way out. 05:44.480 --> 05:47.480 Was the old man the only one who lived in the house here? 05:47.480 --> 05:49.280 Yeah, that's what the neighbor told us. 05:49.280 --> 05:52.520 Sure like to see what the crime lab crew is going to think of it. 05:52.520 --> 05:53.520 What's the big question, Harkness? 05:53.520 --> 05:55.840 Well, I know it's none of my business, Sergeant. 05:55.840 --> 05:57.480 You fellas are the detectives. 05:57.480 --> 05:59.320 I just couldn't help but notice though. 05:59.320 --> 06:00.320 What's that? 06:00.320 --> 06:03.400 Well, come here. 06:03.400 --> 06:07.280 Over here, this rifle wired to the back of the chair. 06:07.280 --> 06:09.680 Take a side along the barrel of the rifle. 06:09.680 --> 06:10.680 See what you think. 06:10.680 --> 06:11.680 Right through the sight, huh? 06:11.680 --> 06:12.680 Mm-hmm. 06:12.680 --> 06:13.680 Point it right above the arm, Joe. 06:13.680 --> 06:14.680 Over there, isn't it? 06:14.680 --> 06:15.680 Yeah. 06:15.680 --> 06:16.680 To the straight line with the body. 06:16.680 --> 06:17.680 How much do you think? 06:17.680 --> 06:19.680 The straight line with the body, how much fits? 06:19.680 --> 06:23.480 The old man pulled the string tied to his index finger and it set off the trigger. 06:23.480 --> 06:24.840 Took the slug through the chest, didn't it? 06:24.840 --> 06:26.440 Yeah, that's what I figured. 06:26.440 --> 06:29.880 Now here, take a look at the wall directly behind the old man. 06:29.880 --> 06:30.880 Yeah. 06:30.880 --> 06:33.480 The slug went clean through the body, we know that. 06:33.480 --> 06:36.720 And through the chest above the heart, then out through the shoulder blade. 06:36.720 --> 06:38.520 I see what you mean. 06:38.520 --> 06:41.280 Now here, now take a look at this wall here. 06:41.280 --> 06:43.000 Got a mark on it. 06:43.000 --> 06:44.000 Yeah. 06:44.000 --> 06:47.640 One thing, sure, if the old man was shot in that position, the slug had to come this 06:47.640 --> 06:48.640 way. 06:48.640 --> 06:49.640 Well? 06:49.640 --> 06:51.840 That's through his body, right about this height here. 06:51.840 --> 06:52.840 Uh-huh. 06:52.840 --> 06:57.240 We ought to find the bullet hole in this wall, right around here. 06:57.240 --> 06:58.920 It ought to be. 06:58.920 --> 07:01.080 Not a trace of a slug there. 07:01.080 --> 07:02.800 Not much chance it could have been deflected, do you think? 07:02.800 --> 07:03.800 Well, that's what I thought. 07:03.800 --> 07:07.320 It's a.30-30 Winchester, enough power to go through a couple plaster walls. 07:07.320 --> 07:09.280 Well, we know the slug went through the body. 07:09.280 --> 07:12.240 It's got to be somewhere in one of these four walls. 07:12.240 --> 07:14.440 Take a look over here and see what you think. 07:14.440 --> 07:15.600 All right. 07:15.600 --> 07:17.840 Down here near the corner of the wall. 07:17.840 --> 07:18.840 Where? 07:18.840 --> 07:19.840 Well, right here. 07:19.840 --> 07:20.840 Yeah, it looks like it, Sam. 07:20.840 --> 07:21.840 Something's out of kilter. 07:21.840 --> 07:26.840 The rifle never could have thrown a slug this far down on the wall, not the way far to the 07:26.840 --> 07:27.840 chair there. 07:27.840 --> 07:31.840 Besides, that is way out of line, at least four feet, the way I figured here. 07:31.840 --> 07:33.800 Well, I know it's none of my business, Sergeant. 07:33.800 --> 07:35.800 I couldn't help but notice it, though. 07:35.800 --> 07:37.640 Uh, you want me to stand by outside? 07:37.640 --> 07:38.920 Yeah, okay, if you will. 07:38.920 --> 07:39.920 Would you mind checking with your partner? 07:39.920 --> 07:42.760 See if we can have that neighbor lady brought over for questioning, would you? 07:42.760 --> 07:43.760 Right, I'll check with him now. 07:43.760 --> 07:44.760 Thank you. 07:44.760 --> 07:46.720 I'm going to take another look at that rifle. 07:46.720 --> 07:49.680 Well, it sure doesn't add up too well, does it? 07:49.680 --> 07:52.800 Even if the old man jerked the gun when he pulled the trigger with that string arrangement, 07:52.800 --> 07:55.640 the slug couldn't have passed through his chest, out his back, and then hit the wall 07:55.640 --> 07:56.640 where it did. 07:56.640 --> 07:58.640 Stand just behind the body, will you, Joe? 07:58.640 --> 08:01.360 See if it's possible to line it up. 08:01.360 --> 08:03.360 All right, what about here? 08:03.360 --> 08:04.360 Look about it to you? 08:04.360 --> 08:05.360 Uh, yeah, that's good. 08:05.360 --> 08:06.360 Let me see here. 08:06.360 --> 08:07.360 No, not a chance, Joe. 08:07.360 --> 08:08.360 It's way out of line. 08:08.360 --> 08:09.360 If that's the gun that killed him, the old man didn't pull the trigger. 08:09.360 --> 08:16.360 Not from there, anyway. 08:16.360 --> 08:17.360 Well, there's one other chance. 08:17.360 --> 08:18.360 Yeah? 08:18.360 --> 08:19.360 Somebody pulled it for him. 08:19.360 --> 08:26.040 Lieutenant Lee Jones arrived with his crime lab crew and went to work. 08:26.040 --> 08:29.600 We put in a call to the coroner's office, and then the dead man's neighbor, Mrs. Elsie 08:29.600 --> 08:31.600 Donowitz, was brought over for questioning. 08:31.600 --> 08:34.560 She was a chubby matronly lady, about 45. 08:34.560 --> 08:39.400 She told us she'd been a neighbor to the aging Martin Latimer for more than 10 years. 08:39.400 --> 08:41.960 I take it you knew Mr. Latimer pretty well, ma'am. 08:41.960 --> 08:43.920 Yeah, I suppose. 08:43.920 --> 08:47.360 Didn't have any relatives, poor man, all alone. 08:47.360 --> 08:49.400 He was in the grocery business for years. 08:49.400 --> 08:51.960 He made some nice money, I guess. 08:51.960 --> 08:55.720 Retired about eight years ago, sold both his stores. 08:55.720 --> 08:58.240 Had an income from a mortgage on one of them. 08:58.240 --> 08:59.240 $150 a month. 08:59.240 --> 09:00.240 Yeah, he was very comfortable. 09:00.240 --> 09:01.240 Wasn't a penny painter at all. 09:01.240 --> 09:04.880 But he was thrifty, it was the same way with my husband Claude. 09:04.880 --> 09:12.720 He used to say, take care of the dimes and the dollars will take care of themselves. 09:12.720 --> 09:16.080 Well, Mrs. Donowitz, can you think of any reason why Latimer would want to take his 09:16.080 --> 09:17.080 own life? 09:17.080 --> 09:18.080 Oh, I suppose. 09:18.080 --> 09:21.080 Poor old man is getting along in years. 09:21.080 --> 09:24.640 For a long time, he was afraid he was going to die with cancer. 09:24.640 --> 09:25.640 Is that so? 09:25.640 --> 09:26.640 Did Mr. Latimer have cancer, do you know? 09:26.640 --> 09:27.640 Oh, no. 09:27.640 --> 09:30.640 He kept thinking he was going to die with it. 09:30.640 --> 09:36.040 Could you come next door to my place while I get some of my laundry out? 09:36.040 --> 09:37.040 We could talk there. 09:37.040 --> 09:38.040 It's just across the yard. 09:38.040 --> 09:39.040 All right, ma'am, that'll be fine. 09:39.040 --> 09:42.040 Did you want to tell Lee Jones we'll be next door, Ben? 09:42.040 --> 09:44.040 Yes, you better let Hotness know, too. 09:44.040 --> 09:45.040 Yeah, right, I'll tell him. 09:45.040 --> 09:46.040 Thank you. 09:46.040 --> 09:53.040 About that cancer business, officer, Mr. Latimer was always talking about it. 09:53.040 --> 09:54.040 Yes, ma'am. 09:54.040 --> 09:55.720 He finally went to a doctor about it. 09:55.720 --> 09:57.840 That was last week only. 09:57.840 --> 10:01.640 They came back and he told me the doctor said for him not to be so silly about it. 10:01.640 --> 10:03.640 He was a well man and good health. 10:03.640 --> 10:06.640 When was the last time that you saw Latimer, ma'am? 10:06.640 --> 10:08.640 Day before yesterday. 10:08.640 --> 10:12.640 Oh, we laughed and joked over the back thing. 10:12.640 --> 10:16.640 Poor old man had such a nice smile, reminded me a good deal of Claude. 10:16.640 --> 10:17.640 That was my husband. 10:17.640 --> 10:20.640 I'd like to have your honest opinion, Ms. Donner. 10:20.640 --> 10:22.640 Do you think Mr. Latimer killed himself? 10:22.640 --> 10:26.640 Well, I suppose that rifle in there, that teller was in fact him. 10:26.640 --> 10:28.640 Joe, I wonder if I could talk to you a minute? 10:28.640 --> 10:29.640 Yeah, okay. 10:29.640 --> 10:31.640 Would you like to go on ahead over next door, ma'am? 10:31.640 --> 10:32.640 We'll be right with you. 10:32.640 --> 10:33.640 All right, officer. 10:33.640 --> 10:34.640 Thank you very much. 10:34.640 --> 10:37.640 We'll be right there, ma'am. 10:37.640 --> 10:38.640 Yeah. 10:38.640 --> 10:40.640 Crime lab proves having a field day. 10:40.640 --> 10:43.640 They say if the old man shot himself with that rig, it ought to make Ripley's call. 10:43.640 --> 10:44.640 They find anything definite? 10:44.640 --> 10:47.640 Just the driver for fingerprints, didn't find a warrant. 10:47.640 --> 10:48.640 How about that? 10:48.640 --> 10:51.640 Yeah, makes less sense than that slug buried in the corner of the wall, doesn't it? 10:51.640 --> 10:52.640 Sure does. 10:52.640 --> 10:56.640 Checked the desk in the living room, found some correspondence Latimer was having with 10:56.640 --> 10:58.640 some woman through a lonely hearts club. 10:58.640 --> 10:59.640 Yeah? 10:59.640 --> 11:01.640 Did you find any reason why he'd want to die? 11:01.640 --> 11:03.640 Pretty good reason why he'd want to live. 11:03.640 --> 11:06.640 Found a photograph, beautiful girl, looked to be about 24 or 25. 11:06.640 --> 11:07.640 Yeah, what about it? 11:07.640 --> 11:09.640 She was going to marry him. 11:09.640 --> 11:16.640 The crime lab crew continued their routine investigation of Martin Latimer's cottage. 11:16.640 --> 11:19.640 They removed the 30-30 slug from the corner of one wall. 11:19.640 --> 11:23.640 Ben and I went next door to question the neighbor, Mrs. Donworth. 11:23.640 --> 11:26.640 There didn't seem to be any common ground at all between the evidence in the house and 11:26.640 --> 11:28.640 the information that she had to offer. 11:28.640 --> 11:32.640 As we continued questioning her, Mrs. Donworth remembered that a month before, 11:32.640 --> 11:36.640 Latimer had told her that something might happen to him and he wanted to make out a will. 11:36.640 --> 11:38.640 He asked if she would witness the will. 11:38.640 --> 11:42.640 A few days later, Latimer's lawyer came to the house and Mrs. Donworth witnessed the signing. 11:42.640 --> 11:45.640 At that time, she said Latimer made the remark, 11:45.640 --> 11:51.640 I don't feel like going on much longer anyway. If death means arrest, I think I deserve one. 11:51.640 --> 11:55.640 Mrs. Donworth kept busy with the laundry while we interviewed her. 11:55.640 --> 11:59.640 Could you let me get by to the manhole officer? I have to get some of this ironing done. 11:59.640 --> 12:01.640 Yes, ma'am, I'm sorry. 12:03.640 --> 12:06.640 I'm afraid there's one thing I don't remember you telling us, ma'am. 12:06.640 --> 12:11.640 Did you hear anything of the ordinary going on next door or this morning or last night? 12:11.640 --> 12:15.640 No, nothing I noticed anyway. 12:15.640 --> 12:18.640 Officer, did you see that knob on the washer, the one on the left? 12:18.640 --> 12:19.640 What do you mean, this over here? 12:19.640 --> 12:22.640 Yeah, just lift it up and turn it around to off, please. 12:22.640 --> 12:24.640 It says off right there in the dial. 12:24.640 --> 12:25.640 Yes, ma'am, I see. 12:25.640 --> 12:26.640 Here you are. 12:26.640 --> 12:28.640 Yeah, thanks. 12:28.640 --> 12:32.640 No, there was nothing I heard from next door or remark about. 12:32.640 --> 12:37.640 Of course, it's so noisy around here that time of morning you can't even hear yourself think anyway. 12:37.640 --> 12:38.640 How's that, ma'am? 12:38.640 --> 12:41.640 The trucks passing by up and down every morning. 12:41.640 --> 12:44.640 They're not small truck theater. They start in at 6 a.m. 12:44.640 --> 12:47.640 They rattle past for two, three hours, please. 12:47.640 --> 12:49.640 The first good explanation we've had on this thing. 12:49.640 --> 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? 12:54.640 --> 12:56.640 Yeah, I suppose. 12:56.640 --> 13:00.640 I don't think any of them knew the poor old man as well as I did. 13:00.640 --> 13:04.640 Most of them are younger folks, you know, parties and things. 13:04.640 --> 13:10.640 When you get up around 65, a path that like Mr. Latimer, parties don't mean so much anymore. 13:10.640 --> 13:12.640 Yes, ma'am, I understand. 13:12.640 --> 13:13.640 Yeah. 13:13.640 --> 13:20.640 It's a nice quiet home with a good heating system, good books on the shelves, good man around the house. 13:20.640 --> 13:21.640 Is that all you can ask for? 13:21.640 --> 13:22.640 Yes, ma'am. 13:22.640 --> 13:23.640 Well, thank you very much. 13:23.640 --> 13:27.640 We'll leave our card here in case you want to contact us for any reason. 13:27.640 --> 13:29.640 All right, officer. 13:29.640 --> 13:35.640 There's one more thing, Mrs. Dunwoody, we understand Latimer was corresponding with several women to a lonely hearts club. 13:35.640 --> 13:37.640 Did he ever mention that to you? 13:37.640 --> 13:39.640 No, he never did. 13:39.640 --> 13:41.640 I found out from the mailman. 13:41.640 --> 13:43.640 He's a regular gossip. 13:43.640 --> 13:47.640 And Latimer never mentioned any other women that he corresponded with, is that right? 13:47.640 --> 13:49.640 I pretended I didn't even know about it. 13:49.640 --> 13:52.640 He never brought it up. 13:52.640 --> 13:56.640 Don't understand why he'd want to meet a lady that way. 13:56.640 --> 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. 14:01.640 --> 14:04.640 Well, thanks again, Mrs. Dunwoody, that's been very helpful. 14:04.640 --> 14:05.640 Yes. 14:05.640 --> 14:07.640 Poor old man. 14:07.640 --> 14:10.640 I wonder what made him write letters after silly women. 14:10.640 --> 14:12.640 If it was good, they'd have done him. 14:12.640 --> 14:15.640 He wrote letters all over the country. 14:15.640 --> 14:17.640 Getting tired of working myself. 14:17.640 --> 14:19.640 Could have saved the postage, too. 14:19.640 --> 14:20.640 May I be excused? 14:20.640 --> 14:22.640 I was right next door. 14:22.640 --> 14:28.640 Would have married him in a minute. 14:28.640 --> 14:33.640 We left Mrs. Dunwoody's house a few minutes past noon and we went back next door to Latimer's cottage. 14:33.640 --> 14:37.640 The crime lab crew had finished their investigation and the deputy coroner arrived. 14:37.640 --> 14:40.640 He took the body downtown for autopsy. 14:40.640 --> 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. 14:45.640 --> 14:51.640 The theory that Latimer had shot himself to death was possible in many respects, but it was far from plausible. 14:51.640 --> 14:56.640 We checked through Latimer's correspondence with the women that he'd contacted by mail through the Lonely Hearts Club. 14:56.640 --> 15:01.640 Especially the young girl he obviously intended to marry judging from his letters to her. 15:01.640 --> 15:05.640 Her picture showed her to be a brunette, dark eyes, young and very attractive. 15:05.640 --> 15:09.640 The inscription at the bottom read, With Love, Catherine. 15:09.640 --> 15:12.640 There was no return address on either the photo or the letter. 15:12.640 --> 15:15.640 Ben called to check with the Lonely Hearts Club. 15:15.640 --> 15:16.640 Yes, ma'am. 15:16.640 --> 15:17.640 No, that's all right. 15:17.640 --> 15:19.640 We'll probably be dropping down to talk to you. 15:19.640 --> 15:21.640 Yes, boy. 15:21.640 --> 15:22.640 What'd they say? 15:22.640 --> 15:23.640 Might be it, Joe. 15:23.640 --> 15:27.640 Club secretary says they've been having trouble with somebody who signs the pictures just like this one. 15:27.640 --> 15:28.640 With Love, Catherine. 15:28.640 --> 15:29.640 Uh-huh. 15:29.640 --> 15:31.640 I described the picture and the secretary says it's the same girl. 15:31.640 --> 15:32.640 What's the angle? 15:32.640 --> 15:36.640 The girl doesn't belong to the club, but somehow she got a list of their members and their addresses. 15:36.640 --> 15:38.640 She writes to them, usually old men. 15:38.640 --> 15:41.640 Gets them set for marriage and they send for her. 15:41.640 --> 15:44.640 Her letters come from the east, from different cities. 15:44.640 --> 15:46.640 She writes and asks for a train fare out here. 15:46.640 --> 15:49.640 The men send her the money for clothes and train fare and that's the last of it. 15:49.640 --> 15:50.640 She's gone. 15:50.640 --> 15:51.640 Oh, that's all right. 15:51.640 --> 15:54.640 Now, this one letter here. 15:54.640 --> 15:55.640 This one. 15:55.640 --> 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, 16:01.640 --> 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. 16:06.640 --> 16:07.640 Hmm. 16:07.640 --> 16:08.640 Kind of pours it on thick. 16:08.640 --> 16:09.640 What's the date on this? 16:09.640 --> 16:10.640 Let's see. 16:10.640 --> 16:12.640 December 30th. 16:12.640 --> 16:13.640 It's 12 days ago. 16:13.640 --> 16:14.640 What do you think? 16:14.640 --> 16:15.640 It's possible. 16:15.640 --> 16:18.640 She could have showed up, tried to grab all the old man's money she could find. 16:18.640 --> 16:19.640 Maybe he caught her at it. 16:19.640 --> 16:23.640 She killed him, rigged up this phony setup to make it look like Latimer shot himself. 16:23.640 --> 16:26.640 Can you hold more water if we could find out she really came here? 16:26.640 --> 16:28.640 Maybe we better start ringing a few doorbells. 16:28.640 --> 16:30.640 The other neighbors might come up with something. 16:30.640 --> 16:31.640 What do you say? 16:31.640 --> 16:33.640 Let me see that girl's picture again, will you? 16:33.640 --> 16:35.640 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 16:35.640 --> 16:37.640 No photographer's name. 16:37.640 --> 16:39.640 Now look in the back here, Ben. 16:39.640 --> 16:40.640 Hmm. 16:40.640 --> 16:41.640 You know, down here in the corner. 16:41.640 --> 16:43.640 Right in the corner of the picture mounting. 16:43.640 --> 16:44.640 Oh, yeah, yeah. 16:44.640 --> 16:47.640 XXXXY3. 16:47.640 --> 16:50.640 Must be some kind of manufacturer's marking. 16:50.640 --> 16:51.640 Photography supplier. 16:51.640 --> 16:52.640 Hmm. 16:52.640 --> 16:54.640 Guess it stands for the type of paper, huh? 16:54.640 --> 16:56.640 You know anything about the photo business? 16:56.640 --> 16:57.640 No, I don't. 16:57.640 --> 16:58.640 Maybe you do. 16:58.640 --> 16:59.640 Let's find somebody who does, huh? 17:02.640 --> 17:05.640 Before we drove back to the office, Ben and I covered the rest of the neighborhood 17:05.640 --> 17:09.640 and talked to everybody who knew the dead man, Martin Latimer, even remotely. 17:09.640 --> 17:11.640 They told us nothing that we didn't already know. 17:11.640 --> 17:14.640 There had been no strangers seen visiting the old man. 17:14.640 --> 17:18.640 No one had noticed anything out of the ordinary in Latimer's daily routine. 17:18.640 --> 17:21.640 Three o'clock that afternoon, we checked with the police photo lab. 17:21.640 --> 17:26.640 They told us that the symbols stamped on the cardboard frame of the photograph signed Catherine 17:26.640 --> 17:30.640 were symbols used by a photo supply company up in San Francisco. 17:30.640 --> 17:33.640 We went back to the office and got in touch with the San Francisco firm. 17:33.640 --> 17:37.640 We were told that the symbols indicated the style and the size of photographic mounting, 17:37.640 --> 17:43.640 and further that this particular type of mounting was distributed only throughout seven western states. 17:43.640 --> 17:48.640 They gave us a list of 18 photo studios in Los Angeles who kept that particular mount in stock. 17:48.640 --> 17:51.640 It was a long chance, but we started checking them out. 17:51.640 --> 17:56.640 Meantime, we'd run the girl through R&I and gotten on an APB, seeking information on her. 17:56.640 --> 18:01.640 Three days later, Ben and I had checked out 10 of the 18 photo studios on our list. 18:01.640 --> 18:04.640 The 11th was the M&Y Family Portraits on Melrose. 18:04.640 --> 18:05.640 Yes, sir. Can I help you? 18:05.640 --> 18:09.640 Police officers, would you mind taking a look at this photograph here, please? 18:09.640 --> 18:14.640 Let me see. Would you like an enlargement? Got a special price in enlargements this week. 18:14.640 --> 18:17.640 No, sir. We'd just like to know if you can identify this girl, that's all. 18:17.640 --> 18:20.640 Well, do you recognize her at all, sir? 18:20.640 --> 18:23.640 I know her. Sure you wouldn't like an enlargement? 18:23.640 --> 18:25.640 An enlargement? 18:34.640 --> 18:39.640 You're in a cruiser car of a Metropolitan Police Department. You receive a routine radio call. 18:39.640 --> 18:44.640 All units, attention all units, pick up and hold for investigation the following vehicle. 18:44.640 --> 18:49.640 1948 Ford, two-door sedan, black, white sidewall tires. 18:49.640 --> 18:53.640 There are many cars that fit this description. 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Seems like I've seen it though. 21:04.640 --> 21:06.640 When did you say you had this picture made, Miss? 21:06.640 --> 21:11.640 About a year ago at graduation. My mother had extra copies made up. She liked it. 21:11.640 --> 21:12.640 I didn't care for it much. 21:12.640 --> 21:15.640 Could you tell us how many people have prints of this picture? 21:15.640 --> 21:19.640 Mom had two dozen copies made up. She took 12 and I took 12. 21:19.640 --> 21:22.640 She sent them to relatives, friends of ours, kept a few. 21:22.640 --> 21:24.640 What did you do with yours? 21:24.640 --> 21:27.640 Sent them to friends, girls at school, a few of my boyfriends. 21:27.640 --> 21:30.640 Can you remember if you autographed any of them? 21:30.640 --> 21:34.640 Yeah, some of them. The ones for my girlfriend. Others I gave out plain. 21:34.640 --> 21:38.640 Can you try and think who you gave those to, Miss, the unsigned picture? 21:38.640 --> 21:47.640 One went to Carl, I know that. Ray, Fred and Don. Warren. I think that's it. 21:47.640 --> 21:51.640 I wonder if we could have their full names and addresses, please. 21:51.640 --> 21:53.640 It's all right. 21:53.640 --> 21:58.640 You know what I'm saving all this junk for? Old letters. 21:58.640 --> 22:00.640 Could I see that picture, please? 22:00.640 --> 22:02.640 Yeah, I hear you. 22:02.640 --> 22:05.640 Well, it's the same writing. I thought I'd seen it before. 22:05.640 --> 22:10.640 This old letter from Warren. See the writing? Doesn't it look the same to you? 22:10.640 --> 22:12.640 Hmm, looks close to you. 22:12.640 --> 22:16.640 Well, I've done my own handwriting check it over. Who is this Warren, Miss Chambers? 22:16.640 --> 22:18.640 Warren White. Here's his address right here. 22:18.640 --> 22:21.640 Yeah, I'll copy it, Jim. Fine. 22:21.640 --> 22:26.640 Warren and I went to college together. We were engaged to be married for a while, then I broke it off. 22:26.640 --> 22:27.640 I see. 22:27.640 --> 22:33.640 Warren's a serious boy. He was very thorough, a perfectionist. Do you know, Sergeant, whoever does things halfway? 22:33.640 --> 22:34.640 That's him. 22:34.640 --> 22:37.640 Never knew Warren could do anything in his life halfway, not once. 22:37.640 --> 22:40.640 Well, he's going to have a perfect record at that handwriting matches. 22:40.640 --> 22:41.640 What can they do to him? 22:41.640 --> 22:43.640 I don't know, but they won't do it halfway. 22:43.640 --> 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, 22:54.640 --> 22:57.640 an apartment house where the suspect was supposed to be living. 22:57.640 --> 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, 23:03.640 --> 23:08.640 the same day 68-year-old Martin Latimer was found dead in his home. 23:08.640 --> 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. 23:14.640 --> 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 23:20.640 --> 23:24.640 and asked for an emergency loan of two hundred dollars, which he didn't have to give him. 23:24.640 --> 23:27.640 The sister gave us White's new address and we checked it out. 23:27.640 --> 23:31.640 It was one of those run-down, futuristic-style apartment houses built in the mid-thirties. 23:31.640 --> 23:36.640 It was on a narrow road high above Sunset Boulevard overlooking most of Hollywood. 23:36.640 --> 23:40.640 White wasn't in and the manager said he wasn't expected back till early the next morning. 23:40.640 --> 23:47.640 We had the manager let us in White's apartment. We waited. Midnight. 1 a.m. 23:47.640 --> 23:49.640 No sign of the suspect. 23:49.640 --> 23:52.640 No denying it is sure a beautiful view from here. 23:52.640 --> 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. 23:57.640 --> 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. 24:02.640 --> 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. 24:07.640 --> 24:11.640 It would be nice up here though, wouldn't it? What a view, huh? 24:11.640 --> 24:14.640 Why don't you try talking her into it? You've got nothing to lose. 24:14.640 --> 24:19.640 I might do that. Why don't you slide up one of the windows? Get a little stuff in here. 24:25.640 --> 24:29.640 Oh, smell that air, huh? That's great. 24:29.640 --> 24:31.640 What time you got? 24:31.640 --> 24:34.640 1 45. 24:34.640 --> 24:37.640 Oh, it's a long night. 24:38.640 --> 24:44.640 We waited. 3 a.m. 4 a.m. 4 30. 24:44.640 --> 24:48.640 It was cold and still no sign of the suspect, Warren White. 24:48.640 --> 24:52.640 5 a.m. 5 30. 6 a.m. 24:52.640 --> 24:55.640 The sky was getting light over in the east. 24:55.640 --> 24:59.640 6 30. 7 a.m. 7 30. 24:59.640 --> 25:02.640 We kept waiting. No sign of the suspect. 25:02.640 --> 25:05.640 We called the office and arranged for a relief. 25:05.640 --> 25:09.640 8 a.m. We could hear groups of youngsters passing by outside, 25:09.640 --> 25:13.640 trooping into the main yard of a grammar school just below the apartment house. 25:13.640 --> 25:15.640 We kept waiting. 25:15.640 --> 25:19.640 At 8 15 a.m. we heard a car pull up in front of the apartment house. 25:19.640 --> 25:23.640 Footsteps came down the driveway, up the path, stopped outside the door. 25:23.640 --> 25:29.640 We heard a key turn in the lock. 25:33.640 --> 25:35.640 What is this? What do you want? 25:35.640 --> 25:37.640 You want Warren White? Yes. 25:37.640 --> 25:40.640 The police officers got some questions we'd like to ask you. 25:40.640 --> 25:44.640 It's all right, officers. Why don't you sit down? I'm not going to give you any trouble. 25:44.640 --> 25:48.640 Huh? I killed him. Maybe I'll never know why, but I killed him. 25:48.640 --> 25:51.640 You want to tell us about it? 25:51.640 --> 25:55.640 You must have had a reason for it, rigging it for a suicide. Do you have anything against him? 25:55.640 --> 25:59.640 I hardly even knew him. He used that picture of Doris, the fool. 25:59.640 --> 26:01.640 I made some good money doing it. I needed it. 26:01.640 --> 26:04.640 Are you willing to give us a statement about the whole thing? 26:04.640 --> 26:06.640 I haven't anything to hide, officer. 26:06.640 --> 26:09.640 The minute I killed him, I knew it was all over. Right there in that one minute. 26:09.640 --> 26:13.640 I knew you'd come and find me somehow. I didn't know when, but you'd come and find me. 26:13.640 --> 26:17.640 Well, okay, Ben. We better head downtown. Yeah. What? 26:17.640 --> 26:20.640 It's a great sound, isn't it? What's that? 26:20.640 --> 26:23.640 The school yard. The kids. 26:23.640 --> 26:26.640 Got a great sound to it. Good one. 26:26.640 --> 26:29.640 You want to get your hat? All right. 26:31.640 --> 26:33.640 How can anybody figure? 26:33.640 --> 26:37.640 You start in a school yard like those kids down there, running around, yelling? 26:37.640 --> 26:40.640 I started the same. I'll give you one. 26:40.640 --> 26:44.640 I wonder what it is that happens. An eight-year-old redhead kid. 26:44.640 --> 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. 26:51.640 --> 26:54.640 One kid will end up in an alley with a gun in his hand. 26:54.640 --> 26:57.640 How can anybody figure? I don't know. 26:57.640 --> 27:00.640 Bunch of kids playing in the school yard. 27:00.640 --> 27:03.640 Someday one of them's a killer. Yeah, let's go. 27:03.640 --> 27:14.640 You tell me. What's the answer? 27:14.640 --> 27:16.640 The story you have just heard was true. 27:16.640 --> 27:19.640 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:19.640 --> 27:25.640 On April 2nd, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 88, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 27:25.640 --> 27:29.640 In a moment, the results of that trial. And now here is our star, Jack Webb. 27:29.640 --> 27:36.640 Thank you. Friends, it's come to my attention that some people have a misunderstanding about the cost of Fatimas. 27:36.640 --> 27:40.640 Well, I'd sure like to straighten that out for you right now. 27:40.640 --> 27:44.640 The cost of Fatima is the same as the cigarettes you're now smoking. 27:44.640 --> 27:51.640 Yes, that's right. Fatimas cost no more. But in Fatima, the difference is quality. 27:51.640 --> 27:55.640 Buy Fatima in the golden yellow package. 27:55.640 --> 28:07.640 Warren Thomas White was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree. 28:07.640 --> 28:10.640 He received a sentence of life imprisonment. 28:10.640 --> 28:14.640 He is still serving his term in the state penitentiary, Folsom, California. 28:14.640 --> 28:18.640 Ladies and gentlemen, to build our strength against aggression, 28:18.640 --> 28:22.640 we've got to equip our armed forces with weapons of war, 28:22.640 --> 28:27.640 and at the same time produce plenty of civilian goods so that we can keep prices down. 28:27.640 --> 28:32.640 Remember, the better we produce, the stronger we grow. 28:32.640 --> 28:55.640 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:55.640 --> 29:04.640 Remember, best of all, king-size cigarettes has brought you Dragnet, transcribed from Los Angeles. 29:04.640 --> 29:26.640 Stay tuned for Counterspy, next over NBC.