1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,440 The story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:15,840 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:28,560 Fatima, best of all king-sized cigarettes brings you dragnet. 4 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:30,000 You're a detective sergeant. 5 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,080 You're assigned a robbery detail. 6 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:35,520 A gang of hijackers has set up operations in your city. 7 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:39,600 Truckloads of merchandise worth thousands of dollars vanish completely. 8 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:41,400 The criminals know their business. 9 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:43,520 Their system appears foolproof. 10 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:47,800 Your job, stop them. 11 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:53,960 Fatima, best of all king-sized cigarettes. 12 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:56,360 Definitely the best quality in its class. 13 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:59,720 About the same price as the cigarette you're now smoking. 14 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:04,880 And Fatima is extra mild with a much different, much better flavor and aroma. 15 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:08,360 So compare Fatima yourself today. 16 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:14,640 You'll find Fatima gives you all the advantages of extra length plus Fatima quality, which 17 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,280 no other king-sized cigarette has. 18 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:21,960 Remember, the cost of Fatima is the same as the cigarette you're now smoking. 19 00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:26,600 Remember, in Fatima, the difference is quality. 20 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:30,960 Next time, bye Fatima. 21 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:38,120 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 22 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:42,720 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 23 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:47,280 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 24 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:48,360 police files. 25 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:54,160 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 26 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:55,160 in action. 27 00:01:55,160 --> 00:02:00,520 It was Saturday, November 8th. 28 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:01,520 It was foggy in Los Angeles. 29 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,160 We were working the day watch out of robbery detail. 30 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:07,160 My partner's Ben Romero, the boss's Captain Didion. 31 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:08,160 My name's Friday. 32 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:14,360 I was on the way back from R&I and it was 1123 a.m. when I got to room 27A, robbery detail. 33 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:15,360 Joe? 34 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:16,360 Hi. 35 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:17,360 Where you been anyhow? 36 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:18,800 I've been sitting here 20 minutes waiting for you. 37 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:19,800 Oh, I'm sorry. 38 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:20,800 I've been checking a couple of names through R&I. 39 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:21,800 It took a little longer than I figured. 40 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:23,600 The least you could do is leave a note in the book. 41 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:24,600 I do the same for you. 42 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:25,600 I've been sitting here 20 minutes. 43 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:26,600 That's why I told you, I'm sorry. 44 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:27,600 What's the matter? 45 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:28,600 Are you feeling well? 46 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:29,600 No, I'm all right. 47 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:30,600 It's just like a little cooperation, Joe. 48 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:31,600 That's all. 49 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:32,600 What's the matter with you? 50 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:33,600 Oh, I don't know. 51 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:35,040 I guess I was mad when I woke up. 52 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:36,040 Got a crazy house. 53 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:37,040 Oh, what's the trouble? 54 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:38,040 Did you have an argument with your wife? 55 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:39,040 In-laws are visiting again. 56 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:40,040 Six of them. 57 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:41,040 Oh, and where are they sleeping? 58 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:47,560 All over the place, four adults, two kids, and a gray fox terrier. 59 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:48,560 He's not even housebroken. 60 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:49,560 How long are you going to stay? 61 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:50,560 A couple of days? 62 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:51,560 Two weeks. 63 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:52,560 I don't know how it can last without Joe. 64 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:53,560 They're crawling all over the place. 65 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:54,560 Kids screaming, dog canning up the front room, no privacy. 66 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:55,560 I don't know what I'm going to do. 67 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:56,560 Well, why don't you just level with them? 68 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:58,160 Ask them if they wouldn't mind staying at a motel for a couple of days. 69 00:02:58,160 --> 00:02:59,920 I suggested that to the wife this morning. 70 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:00,920 What'd she think? 71 00:03:00,920 --> 00:03:01,920 That's when the argument started. 72 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:05,640 Hey, I almost forgot to tell you that truck driver finally showed up. 73 00:03:05,640 --> 00:03:06,640 That Frank Burr? 74 00:03:06,640 --> 00:03:07,640 Oh, yeah, it's about time. 75 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:08,640 Where is he? 76 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:09,640 Took him across the hall to the mug room. 77 00:03:09,640 --> 00:03:12,080 Got him checking out some coming out mug books. 78 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,320 Guess we better see how he's doing. 79 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:15,320 All right. 80 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:17,880 He sure took his time getting here, didn't he? 81 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:19,320 Didn't offer any excuses. 82 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:20,880 He's no more help than he was yesterday. 83 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:21,880 Yeah. 84 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:22,880 It's early. 85 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:23,880 Not very cooperative. 86 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:26,880 How you doing, Mr. Burr? 87 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:29,400 You remember my partner, Sergeant Friday? 88 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:31,040 I like him, Burr. 89 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:33,080 I ain't got a headache. 90 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:35,720 This is just a waste of time waiting through all these pictures. 91 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:37,440 I've been through two of these books already. 92 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:39,200 I couldn't identify any of the guys. 93 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:40,520 Yeah, we know it's pretty tedious. 94 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:43,080 We'd just like to have you check through a few more volumes if you wouldn't mind. 95 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:47,000 Look, I don't mind giving you a hand when I got time, but I got things to do today. 96 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:48,280 I got something on for tonight. 97 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:49,280 Have to get a haircut. 98 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:50,280 My suit pressed. 99 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:52,120 Well, this thing's pretty important to us, Burrows. 100 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,280 I know we're putting you out, but we need every lead we can get. 101 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,360 We'd certainly appreciate it if you could just give us a little more cooperation. 102 00:03:57,360 --> 00:03:58,520 I don't know what else I can do. 103 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:00,600 I told you everything I know, just the way it happened. 104 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:02,680 A few more things we'd like to ask you about, sir. 105 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,360 Some of the details you didn't make quite clear. 106 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:06,360 What details? 107 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:07,360 How do you mean? 108 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:08,360 Details about the hijacking. 109 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:09,360 You've done it again, boys. 110 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,200 I laid it out for you the last time you talked to me. 111 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:13,200 Just the way it went. 112 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:14,200 It's the same as the rest. 113 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:15,880 How do you mean the same as the rest? 114 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:17,760 The other hijackings are the same as those. 115 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:18,760 No different. 116 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:20,160 You're pretty familiar with the other jobs, are you? 117 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:21,160 I followed them in the paper. 118 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:22,160 I read the bulletin. 119 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:23,160 The cops got out on them. 120 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:25,160 It was up on the dispatch board in the garage. 121 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,840 Is that fresh water in that cooler over there? 122 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:28,840 Yeah, I think so. 123 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:29,840 Help yourself. 124 00:04:29,840 --> 00:04:30,840 Thanks. 125 00:04:30,840 --> 00:04:32,840 I've got to have a couple of aspirin for this headache. 126 00:04:32,840 --> 00:04:33,840 Can't take aspirin without water. 127 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:34,840 Yeah. 128 00:04:34,840 --> 00:04:44,280 You've been driving a couple of years for LaVelle Trucking Line. 129 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:45,280 Is that right, Burroughs? 130 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:46,280 Yeah, that's right. 131 00:04:46,280 --> 00:04:47,280 Yeah. 132 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:48,960 What if you'd mind running it through for us again, Burroughs? 133 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:51,640 Maybe there's a few details about the thing that you forgot to mention. 134 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:54,040 It won't be any different than the last time. 135 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:57,800 I pulled out from the loading dock about six o'clock yesterday morning, hauling a load of 136 00:04:57,800 --> 00:04:59,880 Scotch whiskey over to Phoenix. 137 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:01,920 Pulled up for the red light at Alameda and Jackson. 138 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:04,280 That's when the guy pulled open the door and got in next to me. 139 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:06,080 He put a gun in my ribs, told me to look straight ahead. 140 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:09,800 The first thing he did was hand me that pair of goggles and tell me to put them on. 141 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:10,800 Same kind the welders use. 142 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:12,720 Front of the lens was covered with tape. 143 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:13,720 I put them on. 144 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:14,720 I couldn't see a thing. 145 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:15,720 Guy took over the wheel and started driving. 146 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:18,120 Well, did you have any idea what direction you were heading in? 147 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:19,360 No, not with the goggles on. 148 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,840 I tried to follow at first, but I got all mixed up, couldn't tell where he was driving. 149 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:23,840 Made quite a few turns. 150 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:27,400 He drove about 20, 25 minutes, I guess, before we pulled up. 151 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:28,980 That's where the switching point was. 152 00:05:28,980 --> 00:05:30,280 Two more guys met us there. 153 00:05:30,280 --> 00:05:31,560 I could only tell by the voices. 154 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,400 They pulled me out of the truck and put me in a car. 155 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,200 Well, can you tell us anything at all about that transfer point? 156 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:39,520 I mean, were there any sounds, anything like that, that would give you an idea that maybe 157 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:40,520 where you were? 158 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:43,660 Well, I figure it must have been someplace out in the valley pretty far out. 159 00:05:43,660 --> 00:05:45,040 No traffic sounds at all. 160 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,200 Just crickets and things like that. 161 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:50,320 He got me in that car, drove around about an hour, I figure. 162 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:53,320 And they put me on out at the side of the road, told me to leave the goggles on for 163 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:54,760 10 minutes, and then they drove off. 164 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:56,960 Well, how about those two men at the transfer point? 165 00:05:56,960 --> 00:05:59,200 If you heard their voices again, do you think you could recognize them? 166 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:00,200 I don't know. 167 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:01,200 I doubt it. 168 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:02,200 They didn't say too much. 169 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:03,200 Not that I heard anyway. 170 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:04,200 Well, I guess you're right, Burroughs. 171 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,200 How is it you thought of calling your company first instead of the police? 172 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:08,520 Well, it's their cargo, a whole load of whiskey. 173 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,480 If somebody hijacked it, I figured the company ought to be the first to know. 174 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:13,200 I'd like to ask you just one more question. 175 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:14,680 There's no offense intended here. 176 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:15,680 Yeah? 177 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:16,680 Have you ever been arrested? 178 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:17,680 Why? 179 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:18,680 What'd that have to do with it? 180 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:19,680 Well, probably nothing at all. 181 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:20,680 Have you ever been arrested? 182 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:22,480 I'd like to set you straight on it right now. 183 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:24,840 If you think I was working inside on this thing, you got it wrong. 184 00:06:24,840 --> 00:06:26,120 I didn't have anything to do with it. 185 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:28,160 Then there's nothing to worry about, is there? 186 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:29,160 All right. 187 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:30,160 Yeah, I've been arrested. 188 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:31,160 When was that, Burroughs? 189 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:32,160 About 10 years ago. 190 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:33,160 In the east, West Virginia. 191 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:34,160 What was the charge? 192 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:35,160 Hijacking. 193 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:39,160 Our records showed no previous arrests for Frank Burroughs. 194 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:42,520 For the next few days, he was kept under observation. 195 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:46,440 When we got the kickback from Washington, it showed Burroughs had one previous arrest, 196 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:48,880 the one he told us about, for hijacking. 197 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:51,480 We checked all his friends, relatives, and associates. 198 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:53,360 We found nothing suspicious. 199 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,880 His employer said that they were aware of his police record, but they told us that Burroughs 200 00:06:56,880 --> 00:06:58,880 was one of the best drivers they had. 201 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:02,680 There was nothing to link him with a series of hijackings which had been going on all 202 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:05,240 over the city for the past month. 203 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,640 Our crime lab checked the pair of goggles which Burroughs had been forced to wear during 204 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:09,640 the hijacking. 205 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:14,600 They were an ordinary industrial type, easily obtained, and impossible to trace. 206 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,360 Other than those belonging to Burroughs, there were no fingerprints on them. 207 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:22,200 Late that afternoon, the missing truck and trailer was found empty in a deserted section 208 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:23,200 of the valley. 209 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:25,200 No latent fingerprints or other physical evidence. 210 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:29,600 9 a.m. the next morning, we met with Captain Didion. 211 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:30,600 Cargo's gone, huh? 212 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:31,600 Not a trace of it. 213 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:32,600 That's it, Skipper. 214 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:33,600 High grade Scotch whiskey, 150 cases. 215 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:35,600 Got out of Bolton all the liquor wholesalers. 216 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:37,240 The serial number's listed. 217 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:39,320 That ex-con Burroughs, nothing turned up on him? 218 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:40,320 No, nothing. 219 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:41,320 We double-checked everything about him. 220 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:42,320 He's clean. 221 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:43,320 You didn't get a thing off that abandoned truck? 222 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:44,880 No prints, no physical evidence. 223 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:46,520 Seems like they got it down to a science. 224 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:47,520 Tell that to Thad Brown. 225 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:49,720 He's getting all the kicks from the warehouse to operators. 226 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:51,520 30 days and six hijackings. 227 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:52,520 How about moving faster? 228 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:55,800 As you know, we got 12 stakeouts running down freightloads, Skipper. 229 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,600 Incoming, outgoing, got three girls in the stats office doing nothing but making runs 230 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:00,600 for us. 231 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:01,600 No new suspects. 232 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:02,920 We got a meeting with an informant after lunch. 233 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:03,920 He figures he may have something. 234 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:04,920 There's nothing to bank on now. 235 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:07,040 How about an inside tip-off on these jobs? 236 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:08,920 Any indication the gang's working something like that? 237 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:10,520 No, nothing definite, Skipper. 238 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:12,360 Jobs seem to be pretty well-cased, though. 239 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,120 We've checked out everybody with a record working for the trucking line. 240 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:17,320 No reason to think any of them had a hand in it. 241 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:19,320 Excuse me a minute. 242 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:20,320 Didion. 243 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:21,320 Yeah. 244 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:24,320 Live Oak near Trenton Avenue. 245 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:26,400 Yeah, I got it right. 246 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:27,400 Thank you. 247 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,920 We got another truck early this morning. 248 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:30,920 Where? 249 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:31,920 There's a location. 250 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:32,920 Better move on it. 251 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:33,920 Looks like they got their signals crossed. 252 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:34,920 How do you mean? 253 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:35,920 Doesn't make sense. 254 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:36,920 Cargo they hijacked. 255 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:37,920 What was it? 256 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:38,920 A load of toothbrushes. 257 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:39,920 9.23 a.m. 258 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:47,480 Ben and I drove to the intersection of Live Oak Drive and Trenton Avenue in the Hollywood 259 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:52,000 Hills where we located the latest driver to fall victim to the gang of hijackers. 260 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,040 His story was the same as the others. 261 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,760 He'd stopped his truck for a red light at a deserted intersection when a man jumped on 262 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:00,320 the running board and pointed a gun at his head. 263 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:04,160 The man with the gun took over the wheel and forced the driver to put on a pair of blacked-out 264 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:05,960 welder's goggles. 265 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:09,800 Then the truck was moved to a remote spot where the driver was transferred to a car 266 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:13,320 and later released in a remote section of the Hollywood Hills. 267 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:15,840 The hijacked truck was found empty a day later. 268 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:19,320 And again there was no physical evidence, no fingerprints. 269 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:21,960 The driver could add little to what we already knew. 270 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:25,520 The only point that made the case any different from those that had gone before was the cargo 271 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:26,520 that had been stolen. 272 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:28,560 A load of toothbrushes. 273 00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:32,000 We began an immediate check of the neighborhood where according to the driver he was first 274 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:33,000 held up. 275 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:36,600 It was a fairly remote intersection in the San Fernando Valley. 276 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:40,140 After four hours of interviewing ranchers and gas station attendants we talked to the 277 00:09:40,140 --> 00:09:44,000 operator of a practice driving range for golfers located just off the highway. 278 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,720 His name was Fred Garrison. 279 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:48,080 As a matter of fact I did notice something out of the ordinary this morning. 280 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:49,880 A little before 6 a.m. I think. 281 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:53,320 Spotted this big semi turning off on that dirt road down the highway there. 282 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:54,880 Which dirt road is that Mr. Garrison? 283 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:56,600 Oh right up the highway there. 284 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:57,600 See it? 285 00:09:57,600 --> 00:09:59,760 It turns off by that clump of trees. 286 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:02,320 Couldn't figure out why a big truck and trailer would be taking that road. 287 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:03,320 Doesn't make sense. 288 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:04,320 How do you mean sir? 289 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:05,320 Well it's a dead end. 290 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:07,240 No reason why a driver turn off there by mistake. 291 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:10,640 There's a big sign right there at the intersection that says Nauta Thru Street. 292 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:11,640 Right there. 293 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:12,640 See it? 294 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:13,640 Plain as day. 295 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:14,640 I wonder if you could describe the truck for us Mr. Garrison. 296 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:15,640 It's a pretty good size. 297 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:16,840 One of those big aluminum jobs. 298 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:18,400 Black lettering on the side I think. 299 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:21,720 Yeah it turned off the highway, went down the dirt road a little ways and then it turned 300 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:24,480 off into that grove of trees and the driver cut the lights. 301 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:26,600 Did you notice any activity going on at all? 302 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:28,280 No, no I didn't. 303 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:30,040 Oh maybe I should have walked over and checked it. 304 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:32,960 I figured it was just some truck driver pulling up to catch a few winks of sleep. 305 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:35,000 My boy Dave was with me at the time. 306 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,600 He wanted to check it but I told him to mind his own business. 307 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:41,280 It says a couple of minutes after the truck pulled in he saw a gray sedan come down the 308 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,160 road and parked next to the truck right in that same clump of trees. 309 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:46,320 Now didn't all this look a little suspicious to you sir? 310 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:48,280 Oh I suppose so in a way. 311 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:50,760 I just don't like the matter where it's not my business that's all. 312 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:53,320 Well did your boy Dave get a good look at this gray sedan? 313 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:54,320 Do you know that? 314 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,320 You want to come in the office to sit down? 315 00:10:57,320 --> 00:10:58,320 Sure. 316 00:10:58,320 --> 00:10:59,320 Oh thanks. 317 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:02,920 Hey sit right there if you like. 318 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:03,920 Fine thank you. 319 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:07,000 Let's see now where were we? 320 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,000 About your boy Dave's? 321 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:09,000 Oh yeah. 322 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,880 You said that he saw a gray sedan pull in next to the truck over in that clump of trees. 323 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:14,280 Did he mention anything else that he noticed about the car? 324 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:16,000 Other than the fact that it was a gray sedan? 325 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,560 Oh yeah I think he did say something else about it. 326 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:21,520 Let's see he wasn't listening too close at the time. 327 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:23,760 Dave's doing some errands downtown for me right now. 328 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:25,520 He'll be phoning in pretty soon though. 329 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:26,960 I can ask him about it then. 330 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:29,000 He paid a lot more attention to the thing than I did. 331 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,120 Well how long were the truck and trailer and that sedan parked in the grover tree if you 332 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:33,120 remember that? 333 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:36,160 Well not too long maybe 15-20 minutes. 334 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:40,520 The car pulled out first and took off down the highway away from town that way see. 335 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:42,480 And the truck and trailer left a few minutes after. 336 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:44,040 Where you figure they were up to? 337 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:45,040 We've got an idea. 338 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:48,360 What time was that again sir when you saw the truck turn off the highway onto the dirt 339 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:49,360 road? 340 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:50,360 About 6 a.m. 341 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:51,360 Maybe a few minutes one way or the other. 342 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:55,120 I wonder if you'd show us the exact spot where you saw that truck parked would you? 343 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:56,120 Oh sure here. 344 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:58,840 You want to come over here with me to the window? 345 00:11:58,840 --> 00:11:59,840 Alright. 346 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:02,680 Now you see the clump of trees there? 347 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:03,680 Yeah. 348 00:12:03,680 --> 00:12:04,680 A eucalyptus. 349 00:12:04,680 --> 00:12:05,680 Are they bored to ride on the road? 350 00:12:05,680 --> 00:12:06,680 Yeah. 351 00:12:06,680 --> 00:12:07,680 Maybe that's him now. 352 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:08,680 Alright. 353 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:10,760 You got some furaways? 354 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:11,760 Oh yeah Dave. 355 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:12,760 How'd you make out? 356 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:13,760 Mmm hmm. 357 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:14,760 Oh fine. 358 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:15,760 No, no, no. 359 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:16,760 Listen. 360 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:17,760 A couple of policemen here now. 361 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,920 They're asking about that truck and that gray sedan you saw up on the road this morning. 362 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:24,120 Want to know what you noticed about the sedan besides the color? 363 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:25,120 How's that? 364 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:28,680 Oh you did uh huh. 365 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:29,680 Yeah. 366 00:12:29,680 --> 00:12:31,320 Well you better head back here. 367 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:32,920 They probably want to talk to you about it. 368 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:33,920 Alright Davey. 369 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:34,920 Bye. 370 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:35,920 What do you have to say? 371 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:37,920 I'll be back in about 20 minutes. 372 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:39,200 I figured you wanted to talk to him. 373 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:40,200 Well how about the sedan sir? 374 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:41,560 Did he get a pretty good look at it did he say? 375 00:12:41,560 --> 00:12:42,560 Yeah I guess so. 376 00:12:42,560 --> 00:12:46,960 He got part of the license number. 377 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:51,120 Fred Garrison's son Dave returned and gave us all the pertinent facts about the truck 378 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:54,680 and the gray sedan which he'd noticed in the neighborhood early that morning. 379 00:12:54,680 --> 00:12:58,080 His description of the truck and trailer, what he saw of it anyway, matched closely 380 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:00,720 with that of the latest vehicle to be hijacked. 381 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:04,360 He described the car as a gray sedan and he said it looked to him like it was a late model 382 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:06,440 Nash but he couldn't be sure. 383 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:10,600 He said the first three units on the license plate were 7 T 7. 384 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:15,000 The location in the grove of trees where the truck had been spotted was checked thoroughly. 385 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,880 Outside of some indefinite tire tracks there was no physical evidence. 386 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:22,720 4 10 p.m. we put in a call to DMV and asked for a run down on the three license plate 387 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:23,720 numbers. 388 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:27,880 The next morning DMV returned to us a list of more than a thousand auto registrations 389 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:30,740 which began with a figure 7 T 7. 390 00:13:30,740 --> 00:13:34,880 We went down the list and gradually eliminated 600 of these as not being physically close 391 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:38,560 in description to the car seen by Garrison's boy Dave. 392 00:13:38,560 --> 00:13:39,920 We kept checking. 393 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:43,760 Almost 300 more on the list were registered in distant parts of the state. 394 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:47,560 That left us with over a hundred vehicles registered in or around Los Angeles to check 395 00:13:47,560 --> 00:13:48,560 out. 396 00:13:48,560 --> 00:13:49,920 It went slow. 397 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:50,920 Three weeks passed. 398 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:53,800 We narrowed the list down to 23 possibles. 399 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:55,640 Tuesday December 10th. 400 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:59,240 We were checking registrations with addresses in the east end of the city. 401 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,280 What's the name on this one again? 402 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:02,280 Perry. 403 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:03,280 Walter R. Perry. 404 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:11,720 The garage is straight back to drive there. 405 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:13,840 There's a car park in it. 406 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:14,840 Let's try the bell again. 407 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:19,840 What do you say? 408 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:21,840 All right. 409 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:25,320 Let's give the car a look. 410 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:26,680 People sure do get careless. 411 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:29,560 Nobody home garage wide open cars sitting there. 412 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:31,560 Qualify so far. 413 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:35,720 You want to check the steering post there registrations. 414 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:36,720 I got it. 415 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:39,720 Check out all right. 416 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:41,720 Just a minute. 417 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:44,720 What do you got there? 418 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:45,720 Here. 419 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:46,720 Found these under the seat. 420 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:47,720 Maybe we're home. 421 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:48,720 It's a pair of goggles. 422 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:49,720 Take a look. 423 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:50,720 Yeah. 424 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:51,720 Both lenses covered with tape. 425 00:14:51,720 --> 00:15:06,680 You're in the forgery division of the Metropolitan Police Department. 426 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,680 Handwriting analysis. 427 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:16,400 Now let's check it against the forged letter. 428 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:18,240 The capitals print evenly. 429 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,760 The O's and the A's are clean. 430 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:27,760 No this isn't the typewriter we're looking for. 431 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:35,800 Yeah. 432 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:36,800 Capitals print high. 433 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:38,200 A's and O's are solid. 434 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:39,200 P's slanted. 435 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:40,600 This is the one. 436 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:42,880 It's the same with cigarettes. 437 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:45,960 There are many king-sized brands to choose from. 438 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:49,960 But when you know all the facts, you'll make your choice Fatima. 439 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:51,560 Here are those facts. 440 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:54,600 Fatimas are the same in length and circumference. 441 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:56,800 Eighty-five millimeters long. 442 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:59,480 One and one sixty-fourths inches around. 443 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:05,920 And Fatima filters the smoke exactly the same long distance as any other king-sized cigarette. 444 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:09,800 But in Fatima, the difference is quality. 445 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:13,000 Remember, Fatima gives you extra mildness. 446 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,360 A much different, much better flavor and aroma. 447 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:19,440 You get all the advantages of extra length. 448 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:24,400 Plus Fatima quality, which no other king-sized cigarette has. 449 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:28,920 Fatima, best of all king-sized cigarettes. 450 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:31,760 Definitely the best quality in its class. 451 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:35,800 But the same price as the cigarette you are now smoking. 452 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:45,520 Next time, buy Fatima. 453 00:16:45,520 --> 00:17:06,760 Is 454 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:10,400 Then we went down the street close to the house to where we parked our car. 455 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:14,560 We put in a call to R&I and requested a make on Walter R. Perry. 456 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:16,800 He had no previous criminal record. 457 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,840 A few minutes later we spotted two women loaded with grocery bags come down the street, 458 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:24,660 go up the stairs of the Perry house and let themselves in with a key. 459 00:17:24,660 --> 00:17:28,720 We went up to the front door, rang the bell, and the younger of the two women answered. 460 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:33,420 Dark brown hair, blue eyes, about five foot six, 28, 29 years old. 461 00:17:33,420 --> 00:17:36,480 We identified ourselves and she showed us into the living room. 462 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:40,120 She told us her name was Leona Perry and that Walter Perry was her husband. 463 00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:42,680 They'd been married 11 years, no children. 464 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:45,800 We asked her where her husband was and she said he was out of town on a business trip 465 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:48,800 up north to Marta Vista, California. 466 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:50,680 We asked her what line of business he was in. 467 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:55,080 Well right now, Walter's jewelry salesman, which himself, has to quite a bit of traveling. 468 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:58,320 Your husband's blonde, about five, nine hundred and sixty pounds, is that right? 469 00:17:58,320 --> 00:17:59,320 Yes, that's right. 470 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:00,320 How'd he go up north, ma'am, do you know? 471 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:02,920 Well, I think he went up by train, I'm not sure. 472 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:06,040 You have any idea how we might contact your husband up north? 473 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:07,040 No, I'm afraid I don't. 474 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:11,320 He said he had a couple of business apartments in different towns in that area up there. 475 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:13,760 He didn't tell me where he'd be staying. 476 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:14,760 What's it about, Sargey? 477 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:17,120 Just a routine check, Miss Perry. 478 00:18:17,120 --> 00:18:19,680 Is that a photograph of your husband over there on the piano? 479 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:20,680 Yes. 480 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:22,680 When's he expected back, do you know? 481 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:24,680 Let's see, this is Tuesday. 482 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:26,680 He should be home sometime Thursday. 483 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:27,680 I see. 484 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:29,960 A minute ago you said right now your husband's a jewelry salesman. 485 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:31,520 Is that his usual line of work? 486 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:32,520 No, Walter's a truck driver. 487 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:33,520 He work here in Los Angeles? 488 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:34,520 No, he grows for a company up north in the Bay Area. 489 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:37,520 Oakland, Berkeley. 490 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:41,520 He had that job for ten years, almost from the day we were married. 491 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:44,520 And then last December he had a fight with the boss and quit. 492 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:47,520 We moved down here to find work, but he just couldn't seem to get placed. 493 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:49,520 How long has he been selling jewelry now? 494 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:51,520 Oh, about eight months, I'd say. 495 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:53,520 He's doing very good at it. 496 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:55,520 He had more now than when he was driving a truck. 497 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:57,520 A lot of money in the jewelry business. 498 00:18:57,520 --> 00:18:59,520 Well, it's just you and your husband living here, is that right? 499 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:01,520 No, my mother lives with us too. 500 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:03,520 We just got back from doing the shopping. 501 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:05,520 I guess she's busy putting the groceries away. 502 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:07,520 Mom? 503 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:09,520 Say that's all right, ma'am. 504 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:11,520 I think you can give us the information we need. 505 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:13,520 Well, I'd like to know what this is about. 506 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:15,520 I'd appreciate it if you'd tell me. 507 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:17,520 Walter isn't in any kind of trouble, is he? 508 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:19,520 Just a routine investigation, Miss Perry. 509 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:21,520 Doesn't necessarily mean your husband's involved. 510 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:24,520 I'm telling you right now, my husband isn't involved in anything. 511 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:26,520 Walter's never had trouble with the police in his life. 512 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:28,520 Walter has trouble with the police? What is it, Leon? 513 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:29,520 It's nothing, ma. 514 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:30,520 These policemen want to talk to Walter. 515 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:32,520 They just want to ask him a few questions, that's all. 516 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:34,520 This is my mother, Mrs. Burton. 517 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:36,520 This is Mr. Friday and Mr. Romero. 518 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:38,520 I told you, Leon, I felt it all day. 519 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:40,520 Something's wrong. Walter's done something, hasn't he? 520 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:42,520 Now, don't start on that again, ma. 521 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:44,520 Please, the officers told me they want to talk to Walter, that's all. 522 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:46,520 What for? If he hasn't done anything, why do they want to talk to him? 523 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:48,520 Routine duty, ma'am. There's nothing to get excited about. 524 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:50,520 I knew it would happen. I felt it all the time. 525 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:53,520 That funny job he has selling jewelry, going out at all hours. 526 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,520 Couldn't fool me. I knew it wasn't right. 527 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,520 What's he done? Were he's relatives? We've got a right to know. 528 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:00,520 There's nothing we can tell you, definitely, ma'am. 529 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:03,520 How about these odd working hours your husband has, Miss Perry? 530 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:05,520 What's the reason for that? Could you tell us? 531 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:07,520 Well, I don't know Walter works for himself. 532 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:10,520 He just has to make business contacts when he can't, that's all. 533 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:13,520 Sometimes it's late at night, sometimes early in the morning. 534 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:16,520 Why don't you stay out of it, ma? After all, it's our business. 535 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:17,520 Walter's in mine. 536 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:19,520 You just marked my word, Leon. I find out about this. 537 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,520 That husband of yours has done something and these policemen are after him. 538 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:23,520 I knew it wasn't right. I felt it all along. 539 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:24,520 Please, take out. 540 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:26,520 Money, jewelry, business, big money. 541 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:28,520 I should have left and taken you with me the day it started. 542 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:30,520 Walter's a truck driver. It's all you'll ever be. 543 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:31,520 It's where he should have stayed. 544 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:33,520 Why are you always picking on Walter? Why? 545 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:35,520 Because I told you in the first place you never should have married him. 546 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:38,520 Eleven years ago I told you. I never should have come to stay with you. 547 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:41,520 You couldn't go and marry one of those nice boys you met at school. 548 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:43,520 It had to be Walter Perry. Well, maybe you will see now. 549 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:45,520 Trouble with the police. Now you'll see what kind of a man you marry. 550 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:48,520 Shut up, Mark. Sorry, officer. 551 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:52,520 Well, I'm afraid that isn't helping much, Miss Burke. 552 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:55,520 I suppose not. What is it that can help? 553 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:57,520 You have kids, you try to tell them something, make it easy for them. 554 00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:58,520 You never listen. 555 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:02,520 That gray sedan back in the garage, ma'am, does anyone else drive it besides Mr. Perry? 556 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:05,520 No, Leonor doesn't drive. Walter's the only one who runs it. 557 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,520 He drives it to all these business appointments he has at odd hours? 558 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:11,520 That's right. Any time he doesn't take it, it's when he's out of town. 559 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:14,520 You ever seen this pair of goggles before, ma'am? 560 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:17,520 No, I never have. What does it mean, that tape all over the front of them? 561 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:19,520 Now, how about your son-in-law's friends? 562 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:21,520 Do you ever bring any of them here to the house? 563 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:23,520 Since I've been staying here the last six months, 564 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:27,520 my father's men call him on the phone, he goes out, doesn't bring anyone around, though. 565 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:28,520 Oh, I'm just sick of it. 566 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:31,520 Well, can you tell us anything about this jewelry business Mr. Perry's working in? 567 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:33,520 I don't even want to think about it. 568 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:36,520 I raised four daughters, nice girls, every one of them attractive. 569 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:39,520 You make plans for them and you want them to be happy and marry some nice fellow, 570 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:41,520 have a nice comfortable home, you try to tell them and they never listen. 571 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:42,520 About the car, ma'am? 572 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:45,520 They get to be 17 and they know everything. 573 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:48,520 My girls could have married wealthy if they were smart, a lot of other girls have done it. 574 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:51,520 They had nice clothes, they got through business school, good home training, 575 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:54,520 all this talk about love, they're all so smart. 576 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:56,520 They know everything and they know nothing. 577 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:58,520 This is what happens, they wake up and find out. 578 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:01,520 Would you finish putting the girls through the way Ma told you? 579 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,520 Anything you want, Leona, I didn't mean to upset you. 580 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:05,520 Maybe things will be all right. 581 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:07,520 Just a few more questions, Miss Perry, and that's all. 582 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,520 Well, whatever it is, I know Walter hasn't done anything wrong. 583 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:11,520 He wouldn't do anything wrong. 584 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:13,520 It doesn't make sense, there's just no reason for it. 585 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:15,520 I remember your father, Leona, 16 years we were married, 586 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,520 and one night he packed up and left me, there wasn't any reason for that either. 587 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:21,520 Wasn't there, Ma? 588 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:28,520 We continued questioning the wife and the mother-in-law of the suspect, Walter Perry. 589 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:31,520 From the wife we got the names and addresses of four close friends of Perry's 590 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:35,520 who were supposed to be associates of his in the jewelry business. 591 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:37,520 In the basement and in a loft over the garage, 592 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,520 we found more than a dozen cases of high-grade Scotch whiskey, 593 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:44,520 cases of expensive furs and other loot taken in the hijacking. 594 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:48,520 Mrs. Perry said her husband told her he was storing the stuff for some friends. 595 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:50,520 It was only a small portion of the take. 596 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:54,520 We called the office and got out a broadcast and an APB on the suspect 597 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:57,520 and arranged for an immediate stakeout on the Perry house. 598 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,520 Then, together with Matthews and Gonzalez from Robbery Detail, 599 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:03,520 we began checking out the four close friends of the suspect. 600 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,520 We could locate only two of them, but those two paid off. 601 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:10,520 In the basements and garages of their homes, we found another portion of the loot, 602 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:14,520 along with evidence that showed that both men had taken active parts in the hijacking. 603 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:18,520 They were booked at the main jail on suspicion of 211 P.C. 604 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:20,520 A full week went by. 605 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:23,520 The stakeout continued on the Perry house, still no sign of him. 606 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,520 Saturday, December 20th, 4.45 p.m. 607 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,520 We checked back in at the office. 608 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:31,520 This thing sure is dragging out, huh? 609 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,520 Yeah, it would be nice to wrap it up before Christmas, wouldn't it? 610 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:35,520 Get it out of the way, might work it into a couple of days off. 611 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:37,520 I don't know if I'm too interested, Joe. 612 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:38,520 What? 613 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,520 I mean, we got visitors on the way again. 614 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:42,520 What do you mean, for the holidays? Who's coming? 615 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:46,520 Same old bunch, my brother-in-law and his wife and his kids and that little dog over there. 616 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:48,520 Well, they were just with you for three weeks, weren't they? What's the deal? 617 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:50,520 Oh, my brother-in-law got home, found a notice from his company. 618 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:52,520 He's been transferred out here. 619 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:55,520 They're going to stay with us all through the holidays, and then they'll start house hunting. 620 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:56,520 How about that? 621 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:57,520 You got a problem? 622 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:00,520 He's got a new rug in the living room. 623 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,520 I've got 20 to 1 on it, Joe. 624 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:03,520 What's that? 625 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:04,520 That little fox terrier. 626 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:06,520 Oh, hi, Skipper. Anything before we check out? 627 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,520 Piece of news for you. Just talked to the Ventura Sheriff's Office. 628 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:10,520 We owe them a favor. 629 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:11,520 What do you mean? 630 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,520 They grabbed Walter Perry half an hour ago. 631 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:17,520 Monday, December 22nd. 632 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:20,520 Suspect Walter Perry was returned to Los Angeles. 633 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:25,520 He was taken to the interrogation room where Captain Diddy and Ben and I questioned him for almost two hours. 634 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:28,520 He was confronted with the evidence and testimony against him, 635 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,520 and after another hour and a half of interrogation, he broke. 636 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:36,520 He gave us a full signed statement describing his part in the campaign of hijackings. 637 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:41,520 He also gave us the names of everyone in the gang, how they participated, and to what extent. 638 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:48,520 He said most of the property looted from the hijacked trucks was stored in a rented barn located at the north end of the San Fernando Valley. 639 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,520 A detail of men checked it and confirmed the information. 640 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:55,520 The suspect's wife, Leona, was notified of her husband's arrest. 641 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,520 1.35 p.m. We completed our interrogation. 642 00:24:58,520 --> 00:24:59,520 That's it, Farrinesco. 643 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,520 You ask me a lot of questions. How about it? Can I ask you one? 644 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:03,520 What's that? 645 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:05,520 Well, why do you think I did it? Why I got mixed up in this? 646 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:07,520 Well, according to your statement, you wanted the money, isn't it? 647 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:09,520 Well, you'd been out to my house, haven't you? You met my wife? 648 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:10,520 Yeah, that's right. 649 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:11,520 I guess you met her mother, too. 650 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:12,520 Yeah. 651 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:13,520 Well, then you got her. 652 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,520 Nobody in the world could make me go for a hijack deal, but she could. 653 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:20,520 I even remember the morning I'd made up my mind to do it to her. I was out in the kitchen. 654 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,520 I hear yapping at Leona in the other room, same old roasting. 655 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,520 Lousy truck driver, that was me. 656 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:29,520 Eleven years, the wife and I had been married, her mother lived with us, nine of them. 657 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:33,520 Didn't get any better, didn't get any worse, just the same old yapping, her and her four girls. 658 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,520 Why couldn't they listen to her? They were the best girls in the world. 659 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:38,520 Why couldn't they marry money? 660 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,520 Why did it have to be guys like truck drivers, stupid truck drivers? 661 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,520 Same thing every day, always the same, nine years of it. 662 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:50,520 If I went out to get enough money to rub in her face, enough to make a choke on, you can hate somebody for that. 663 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:55,520 I don't know how many years they've given me, but I'm going to hate her every one. 664 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:56,520 Matt? 665 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:57,520 Oh, hi, Olsen. 666 00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,520 I want to remain in jail, listen where they go. 667 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:00,520 Only be a minute, Rex. 668 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:01,520 Right. 669 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:02,520 Thank you. 670 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:03,520 All right, Todd. 671 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:04,520 Yeah. 672 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,520 Sergeant, my wife's been told, huh? She knows about it? 673 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,520 She's waiting outside in the hall with her mother. You can see them on the way out. 674 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:11,520 Oh, thanks. 675 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:16,520 Holder. 676 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:17,520 Hi, honey. 677 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:19,520 I'm sorry. 678 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:21,520 Holder, why did you do it? 679 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:23,520 Ask your mother there, honey. You heard as much of it as I did. 680 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,520 Nine years worth, I guess it finally got me sick. 681 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,520 She wanted you to have money, so I went out to get it. 682 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:31,520 You come and see me when you can? 683 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,520 Leona isn't going to any jail to see you. I knew it all along. 684 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,520 I knew what you were. It's the truth. She never should have married you. 685 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:37,520 All right, Perry. 686 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:38,520 Let's go, mister. 687 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:39,520 Holder. 688 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:41,520 Holder. 689 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:42,520 Why? 690 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:46,520 How you figure? 691 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:48,520 I don't know. How about some coffee? 692 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:49,520 Okay. 693 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:56,520 Sure is funny. You see other people sweating it out, your troubles look like nothing. 694 00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:57,520 I'm just thinking about it. 695 00:26:57,520 --> 00:26:58,520 What's that? 696 00:26:58,520 --> 00:26:59,520 Those in-laws of mine. 697 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:00,520 What about them? 698 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,520 Guess I haven't got it half bad. 699 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:11,520 The story you have just heard was true. 700 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,520 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 701 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:20,520 On March 5th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 87, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 702 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,520 In a moment, the results of that trial. 703 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:24,520 And now here is our star, Jack Webb. 704 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:25,520 Thank you. 705 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:29,520 Friends from our many talks with law enforcement agencies and letters from police officers, 706 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:33,520 we're especially gratified to know that a great number of these men agree with us 707 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,520 that Fatima is the best of all long cigarettes. 708 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,520 Now, our latest sales figures back that up. 709 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:42,520 Every week, more and more smokers are enjoying king-size Fatimas. 710 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,520 People from every state, from all walks of life. 711 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,520 If you haven't tried Fatimas yet, buy a pack tomorrow. 712 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,520 In Fatima, the difference is quality. 713 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:56,520 The quality is better, but the cost of Fatima is the same as the cigarettes you're now smoking. 714 00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,520 Next time, buy king-size Fatima. 715 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:04,520 Walter Richard Perry was tried and convicted on several counts of robbery in the first degree. 716 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:08,520 He was sentenced to the state penitentiary for the term prescribed by law. 717 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:12,520 First degree robbery is punishable by a term of five years to life. 718 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:15,520 His accomplices receive similar sentences. 719 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:20,520 Ladies and gentlemen, as we know, thousands of people in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Illinois 720 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,520 have been driven to the streets of Fatima. 721 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,520 The police officers are now in the state of Los Angeles. 722 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:31,520 As we know, thousands of people in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Illinois have been driven from their homes by floodwaters. 723 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,520 Many are being sheltered and fed by the Red Cross. 724 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:38,520 All Americans are urged to give through their local Red Cross chapters. 725 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:43,520 Your contribution of just a dollar will give you a feeling of justifiable pride. 726 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:47,520 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 727 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:52,520 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 728 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:03,520 Fatima, best of all king-size cigarettes, has brought you Dragnet, transcribed from Los Angeles. 729 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:13,520 Stay tuned for Counter-Spy, next on NBC.