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02:30.160 --> 02:31.160 Come right in. 02:31.160 --> 02:32.160 Thank you. 02:32.160 --> 02:33.160 Thank you. 02:33.160 --> 02:34.160 My name's Romero. 02:34.160 --> 02:36.160 Sir, I talked to you on the phone. 02:36.160 --> 02:37.160 This is my partner, Sergeant Friday. 02:37.160 --> 02:38.160 How are you? 02:38.160 --> 02:39.160 How are you? 02:39.160 --> 02:40.160 Certainly glad to see you. 02:40.160 --> 02:41.160 Let me get another chair here. 02:41.160 --> 02:42.160 Thank you very much. 02:42.160 --> 02:47.240 I haven't had time for my after lunch cigarette yet. 02:47.240 --> 02:48.240 Care to join me? 02:48.240 --> 02:49.240 No, thank you, sir. 02:49.240 --> 02:52.240 I got a light for you. 02:52.240 --> 02:55.240 Oh, yeah, yeah. 02:55.240 --> 02:59.800 Well, I guess you know what the problem is. 02:59.800 --> 03:02.200 No need for me to go all the way back and start from the beginning. 03:02.200 --> 03:05.120 I didn't get it quite clear on the phone, Mr. Elliott. 03:05.120 --> 03:06.400 When did this last thing come up? 03:06.400 --> 03:10.160 Well, the way we have figured out, it must have happened around closing time yesterday, 03:10.160 --> 03:12.080 between 5, 5.30, we figure. 03:12.080 --> 03:14.120 The store was pretty crowded at that time, was it? 03:14.120 --> 03:15.120 Yeah, it's pretty busy. 03:15.120 --> 03:18.200 We had a special pre-winter showing in the fur department. 03:18.200 --> 03:20.600 No one noticed it was gone until after we'd closed up. 03:20.600 --> 03:24.080 Can you give us a description of the piece of merchandise, Mr. Elliott? 03:24.080 --> 03:28.200 Yes, yeah, you got it right here. 03:28.200 --> 03:30.800 Complete description, you see. 03:30.800 --> 03:35.320 Silver blooming stole, satin lining, two slashed pockets, silver chain fastener. 03:35.320 --> 03:37.320 Complete description of it for you. 03:37.320 --> 03:38.320 Yes, I see. 03:38.320 --> 03:39.320 Thank you. 03:39.320 --> 03:40.680 These are the code numbers and the serial numbers on it, sir? 03:40.680 --> 03:41.680 That's right. 03:41.680 --> 03:43.920 The whole thing's getting way out of hand, Sergeant. 03:43.920 --> 03:48.360 We had a lot of things lifted from the store the last few weeks, but nothing this big. 03:48.360 --> 03:49.360 This keeps up. 03:49.360 --> 03:51.200 I don't see how we're going to get our insurance renewed. 03:51.200 --> 03:54.840 I guess your store detectives are working on this latest one, the missing fur? 03:54.840 --> 03:58.280 Yes, but it's the same as all the recent cases we've had. 03:58.280 --> 04:00.200 They haven't been able to find a thing. 04:00.200 --> 04:03.120 All the personnel have been checked, all the people who were around the department when 04:03.120 --> 04:04.120 the fur was stolen. 04:04.120 --> 04:06.960 I mean, those it was possible to check on. 04:06.960 --> 04:09.600 As far as we know, they're all clear. 04:09.600 --> 04:11.560 What were the circumstances of this thing, Mr. Elliott? 04:11.560 --> 04:14.000 I mean, was this mink stole on a display rack? 04:14.000 --> 04:15.720 Did one of the models have it on exactly? 04:15.720 --> 04:16.720 How was it? 04:16.720 --> 04:17.720 Well, it was modeled, yes. 04:17.720 --> 04:21.160 After it was shown to several parties, it was put back in stock. 04:21.160 --> 04:25.080 We have a special rack for the stoles, regularly enclosed cabinets, sliding doors on it. 04:25.080 --> 04:27.000 Cabinets usually open during store hours. 04:27.000 --> 04:28.000 I see. 04:28.000 --> 04:30.680 There was a store detective in the department at the time. 04:30.680 --> 04:32.520 All those salespeople were standing around. 04:32.520 --> 04:35.600 I can't understand why one of them didn't see it happen. 04:35.600 --> 04:39.760 Mr. Elliott, you say this is the first time an expensive item like this has been lifted 04:39.760 --> 04:40.760 from your store? 04:40.760 --> 04:41.760 That's right. 04:41.760 --> 04:42.760 How about the personnel, Mr. Elliott? 04:42.760 --> 04:45.960 You say there's been a check made on each one of them since this thing started? 04:45.960 --> 04:46.960 Yes, sir, that's correct. 04:46.960 --> 04:50.200 And there's no reason to be suspicious at all of any one of your people? 04:50.200 --> 04:54.440 Well, as a matter of fact, there is one, Sergeant, salesgirl. 04:54.440 --> 04:58.400 She was up in five in the Sweet 16 shop, then she was moved down to cosmetics on the street 04:58.400 --> 04:59.400 floor. 04:59.400 --> 05:01.800 What is it that makes you suspicious of her? 05:01.800 --> 05:05.640 Well, before I say anything, I want to make it pretty clear to you. 05:05.640 --> 05:09.320 We've never had any real proof that there was something wrong there. 05:09.320 --> 05:12.200 Dorothy started with us eight years ago. 05:12.200 --> 05:14.560 That's a girl's name, Dorothy Kirkman. 05:14.560 --> 05:16.000 She came to us right out of high school. 05:16.000 --> 05:20.480 She seemed to be doing all right, get along with the customers, dressed neatly, always 05:20.480 --> 05:21.480 on time. 05:21.480 --> 05:24.480 And all of a sudden, this shoplifting started. 05:24.480 --> 05:26.280 We didn't think there was any connection at first. 05:26.280 --> 05:28.280 Thought it was only coincidence. 05:28.280 --> 05:30.280 How do you mean? 05:30.280 --> 05:33.480 Well, just for instance, wait a minute, now. 05:33.480 --> 05:37.880 Get the file in there right here in the desk. 05:37.880 --> 05:39.520 I see. 05:39.520 --> 05:41.560 There you go. 05:41.560 --> 05:43.120 Here it is. 05:43.120 --> 05:48.480 Out of the first 14 items that disappear, six of them are out of Dorothy Kirkman's department, 05:48.480 --> 05:49.480 right out of her section. 05:49.480 --> 05:51.520 Cashmere sweaters, expensive blouses, scarves. 05:51.520 --> 05:57.040 As I say, at first we wrote it off to coincidence, but it kept recurring. 05:57.040 --> 06:00.720 Her section almost seemed to be the focal point of all the shoplifting. 06:00.720 --> 06:02.120 That was at the beginning, of course. 06:02.120 --> 06:04.000 Did you have the Kirkman girl watched, Mr. Elliott? 06:04.000 --> 06:05.000 Yes, we did. 06:05.000 --> 06:06.680 The department had kept an eye on her. 06:06.680 --> 06:08.760 I guess Dorothy noticed it. 06:08.760 --> 06:12.520 She resented it quite a bit, had a little spat with the head of the department. 06:12.520 --> 06:16.160 We thought it'd be best for everyone if she transferred. 06:16.160 --> 06:18.040 So we had her move downstairs to cosmetics. 06:18.040 --> 06:19.840 How did that arrangement work out? 06:19.840 --> 06:21.520 Well, the first few weeks, fine. 06:21.520 --> 06:23.760 And we started missing things out of cosmetics. 06:23.760 --> 06:26.080 A lot of it didn't amount to too much. 06:26.080 --> 06:27.320 A lot of it did. 06:27.320 --> 06:29.920 Makeup kits, expensive perfumes. 06:29.920 --> 06:33.360 This time we called her in, tried to talk to her about it in a nice way. 06:33.360 --> 06:35.400 She got very resentful. 06:35.400 --> 06:37.000 She denied knowing anything about it, is that it? 06:37.000 --> 06:38.240 Yes, she got very upset. 06:38.240 --> 06:41.160 Of course, there is one thing I will say. 06:41.160 --> 06:43.840 The items in cosmetics are on display all over the counter. 06:43.840 --> 06:46.400 It's fairly easy for anybody to pick them up. 06:46.400 --> 06:50.160 The fact still remains, a stealing began in her department upstairs. 06:50.160 --> 06:55.400 She moves over to cosmetics and all of a sudden the losses increase there. 06:55.400 --> 06:56.400 What would you figure? 06:56.400 --> 06:57.400 Yes, I see what you mean. 06:57.400 --> 07:00.640 I wonder if you could have somebody point out this Dorothy Kirkman for us, Mr. Elliott. 07:00.640 --> 07:01.960 I think maybe we'd better have a talk with her. 07:01.960 --> 07:02.960 We'd like to help you, Sergeant. 07:02.960 --> 07:03.960 I'm afraid that's not possible. 07:03.960 --> 07:04.960 Oh? 07:04.960 --> 07:05.960 How do you mean? 07:05.960 --> 07:09.640 She quit last Saturday. 07:09.640 --> 07:13.680 We got all the information available on Dorothy Kirkman from the store's personnel files and 07:13.680 --> 07:17.300 then we called the office and gave them a description of the stolen fur. 07:17.300 --> 07:19.840 We asked them to check the Kirkman girl through RNI. 07:19.840 --> 07:21.980 She had no previous criminal record. 07:21.980 --> 07:25.160 Before we left the store we went to the fur department, talked to all the sales people 07:25.160 --> 07:28.840 concerned, but we were unable to come up with anything new regarding the theft of the silver 07:28.840 --> 07:30.720 blue mink stole. 07:30.720 --> 07:33.080 We drove out to Dorothy Kirkman's last known address. 07:33.080 --> 07:35.560 She wasn't at home, but her mother was. 07:35.560 --> 07:39.320 The mother told us that the day before her daughter had started on a new job as a sales 07:39.320 --> 07:44.580 girl at the House of Raymond, an exclusive shop specializing in all types of cosmetics. 07:44.580 --> 07:48.040 We checked the phone book and found that the House of Raymond was located in the same ten 07:48.040 --> 07:52.600 block stretch along Wilshire Boulevard where the shoplifting campaign was going on. 07:52.600 --> 07:56.640 It was one of the few places along there that the thieves hadn't bothered. 07:56.640 --> 08:00.480 It was three blocks from Anthony's store for women, the Kirkman girl's former place of 08:00.480 --> 08:04.960 employment, 4.05 p.m. We located her behind one of the front counters. 08:04.960 --> 08:08.320 Across the aisle half a dozen women were listening to a makeup demonstrator giving a talk on 08:08.320 --> 08:10.200 complexion care. 08:10.200 --> 08:12.680 Dorothy Kirkman seemed pleasant and cooperative. 08:12.680 --> 08:15.880 No, I don't mind telling you. 08:15.880 --> 08:17.680 I got sick and tired of being called a thief. 08:17.680 --> 08:18.680 That's why I quit Anthony's. 08:18.680 --> 08:20.760 A little of that goes a long way. 08:20.760 --> 08:23.680 You started work here at Raymond's yesterday, Miss Kirkman, is that right? 08:23.680 --> 08:24.680 Yes, that's right. 08:24.680 --> 08:26.960 I think I'm going to like it a lot better than Anthony's. 08:26.960 --> 08:27.960 Mm-hmm. 08:27.960 --> 08:30.760 I was looking here at Anthony's, ma'am, I suppose you'd heard that quite a bit of shoplifting 08:30.760 --> 08:31.760 was going on. 08:31.760 --> 08:32.760 Yes, I knew about it. 08:32.760 --> 08:34.760 I guess every girl in the store knew it. 08:34.760 --> 08:37.000 They had a big personnel meeting about it. 08:37.000 --> 08:38.680 You have any suspicions of your own, Miss Kirkman? 08:38.680 --> 08:39.680 How do you mean that? 08:39.680 --> 08:42.440 Well, I mean, was there anyone in particular that you might have been a little suspicious 08:42.440 --> 08:44.240 of, maybe one of the customers? 08:44.240 --> 08:45.240 No. 08:45.240 --> 08:48.720 I've waited on some real weird ones, but I didn't see any of them ever try to walk out 08:48.720 --> 08:49.720 with anything. 08:49.720 --> 08:52.520 All I knew was what Mr. Elliott told us at that meeting. 08:52.520 --> 08:56.160 Well, this might be an embarrassing question for you, Miss, and we'd appreciate an honest 08:56.160 --> 08:57.160 answer. 08:57.160 --> 08:58.160 Yes. 08:58.160 --> 08:59.160 What about the sales girls you worked with? 08:59.160 --> 09:01.720 Did any of them ever give you cause to be suspicious? 09:01.720 --> 09:05.520 You mean, do I think any of them were doing the stealing? 09:05.520 --> 09:06.520 No. 09:06.520 --> 09:07.840 There were some of them I didn't like. 09:07.840 --> 09:11.280 I didn't trust them either, but I wouldn't accuse them of stealing. 09:11.280 --> 09:13.400 I wouldn't accuse anybody unless I had proof. 09:13.400 --> 09:15.120 That's more than I can say for some people I know. 09:15.120 --> 09:18.640 Well, by any chance, did you happen to be in Anthony's this past Monday? 09:18.640 --> 09:19.640 Monday? 09:19.640 --> 09:20.640 No, why do you ask? 09:20.640 --> 09:24.440 When you were working on the fifth floor off the street at Anthony's, we understand 09:24.440 --> 09:28.440 that when the merchandise first started disappearing, a pretty good percentage of it was out of 09:28.440 --> 09:29.440 your section. 09:29.440 --> 09:31.080 That's what they told me, yes. 09:31.080 --> 09:34.760 And then when you were transferred downstairs to the cosmetics counter, quite a few things 09:34.760 --> 09:36.040 started disappearing from there. 09:36.040 --> 09:37.960 Now, we'd like an honest answer, Miss Kirkman. 09:37.960 --> 09:40.480 Do you have any explanation at all for this? 09:40.480 --> 09:43.320 I'll tell you the same thing I told them at the store, Sergeant. 09:43.320 --> 09:46.800 I can't explain it, but I didn't have anything to do with it, believe me. 09:46.800 --> 09:50.960 Well, you'll have to admit, Miss, it's pretty much of a coincidence, isn't it? 09:50.960 --> 09:52.840 Sergeant, you can call it anything you want to. 09:52.840 --> 09:54.800 I didn't have anything to do with it. 09:54.800 --> 09:58.680 The only thing I ever took home from that store was my paycheck. 09:58.680 --> 09:59.680 Would you excuse me, please? 09:59.680 --> 10:00.680 Customer, I have to wait over. 10:00.680 --> 10:01.680 Yes, ma'am, we're right ahead. 10:01.680 --> 10:02.680 Huh? 10:02.680 --> 10:03.680 What do you think? 10:03.680 --> 10:04.680 I don't know. 10:04.680 --> 10:06.720 She's a nice enough girl. 10:06.720 --> 10:10.720 She seems to be telling the truth. 10:10.720 --> 10:12.720 Could be a coincidence, the way it worked out. 10:12.720 --> 10:15.720 Nothing to prove otherwise. 10:15.720 --> 10:18.440 4.38 p.m. 10:18.440 --> 10:22.040 We finished questioning the suspect, Dorothy Kirkman, and Ben and I went back to the office 10:22.040 --> 10:25.320 and made arrangements to have the girl kept under temporary surveillance. 10:25.320 --> 10:29.560 A bulletin had been gotten out on the missing fur stole, the pawn shop detail had been notified, 10:29.560 --> 10:33.200 and a description of the fur had been placed on the stolen property list. 10:33.200 --> 10:37.880 The following day, along with Sergeants Dick Rubles and Jim Tabor, we continued our investigation 10:37.880 --> 10:39.400 of the latest shoplifting complaints. 10:39.400 --> 10:42.920 It went slow, a lot of legwork, and no progress. 10:42.920 --> 10:46.200 Like the dozens of other items of merchandise which had vanished in the last eight weeks, 10:46.200 --> 10:49.280 there wasn't a trace of the missing fur stole. 10:49.280 --> 10:52.920 Four men were added to the special detail on duty in the ten block area where the stealing 10:52.920 --> 10:54.440 was going on. 10:54.440 --> 10:58.480 Anybody in the city who'd ever served time for shoplifting was checked and rechecked. 10:58.480 --> 11:01.760 Constant surveillance was maintained over a half a dozen known thieves who we figured 11:01.760 --> 11:02.760 might be involved. 11:02.760 --> 11:04.640 It got us nothing. 11:04.640 --> 11:07.360 Wednesday, August 23rd, 5.30 p.m. 11:07.360 --> 11:09.080 No leads, no progress. 11:09.080 --> 11:10.080 We went back to the office. 11:10.080 --> 11:14.040 Sure hope I get home before six o'clock tonight. 11:14.040 --> 11:16.560 I want to see that shoe repairman out in our neighborhood. 11:16.560 --> 11:17.560 Well, what's the matter? 11:17.560 --> 11:18.560 You need some half souls? 11:18.560 --> 11:19.560 I don't know. 11:19.560 --> 11:22.200 I went in his shop the other day and he conned me into a new set of arch supports. 11:22.200 --> 11:24.280 As a matter of fact, he didn't even call them arch supports. 11:24.280 --> 11:25.280 What'd he say they were? 11:25.280 --> 11:26.280 Metatarsal supports. 11:26.280 --> 11:27.280 You know supports from metatarsals? 11:27.280 --> 11:28.280 Yeah. 11:28.280 --> 11:31.160 That's one of the bones in the foot. 11:31.160 --> 11:34.320 He sold me a pair of these things and told me I should wear only one of them in my right 11:34.320 --> 11:35.320 shoe. 11:35.320 --> 11:36.320 Now what's the matter with that? 11:36.320 --> 11:37.320 Isn't it working out? 11:37.320 --> 11:38.320 Measurable. 11:38.320 --> 11:42.480 I feel like I've been walking around with one foot in a bucket. 11:42.480 --> 11:47.120 Now check the book. 11:47.120 --> 11:48.120 Okay. 11:48.120 --> 11:49.120 Anything? 11:49.120 --> 11:50.120 Yeah, sure is from Robles. 11:50.120 --> 11:51.120 What do you got? 11:51.120 --> 11:52.120 That mink fur. 11:52.120 --> 11:53.120 It's been found. 11:53.120 --> 12:04.400 Two hours before at approximately 3.30 p.m. in the main depot of the Santa Fe bus lines, 12:04.400 --> 12:09.600 a 38 year old housewife, Mrs. Harriet Briggs, noticed an unclaimed parcel lying on one 12:09.600 --> 12:11.920 of the benches in the depot waiting room. 12:11.920 --> 12:15.680 When it became apparent to Mrs. Briggs that the parcel was either lost or forgotten, she 12:15.680 --> 12:19.580 picked it up and took it to the clerk in charge of lost and found articles. 12:19.580 --> 12:23.560 In checking the package for some kind of identification, they discovered the silver blue mink stole 12:23.560 --> 12:24.560 inside. 12:24.560 --> 12:27.760 The car was dispatched to pick up the fur and it was identified as the garment taken 12:27.760 --> 12:29.880 from Anthony's fur salon. 12:29.880 --> 12:33.800 Mrs. Briggs volunteered to come along to the office to give what information she could. 12:33.800 --> 12:38.000 A stakeout was placed at the bus depot in case anybody called for the package. 12:38.000 --> 12:41.720 Five fifty p.m. we interviewed Mrs. Briggs in the squad room. 12:41.720 --> 12:42.720 That's right, officer. 12:42.720 --> 12:45.440 It was just a little before 3.30. 12:45.440 --> 12:48.920 I was in the bus depot there waiting for my husband. 12:48.920 --> 12:52.840 That's when I first noticed this package lying on the bench just across from me. 12:52.840 --> 12:53.840 May I see? 12:53.840 --> 12:55.320 Would you go on please, Mrs. Briggs? 12:55.320 --> 12:57.560 I didn't think anything of it at first. 12:57.560 --> 13:01.360 I went on reading the afternoon paper but no one came for the package. 13:01.360 --> 13:03.400 It was just lying there. 13:03.400 --> 13:04.400 Was there a long time. 13:04.400 --> 13:07.280 How long would you say, ma'am, I mean before you picked it up and took it to the lost and 13:07.280 --> 13:08.280 found clerk? 13:08.280 --> 13:13.360 Oh, I'd say twenty minutes, half an hour. 13:13.360 --> 13:14.360 That much at least. 13:14.360 --> 13:18.880 I left it with a young man at the counter there and I told him I'd be back to see if 13:18.880 --> 13:20.360 anyone claimed it. 13:20.360 --> 13:27.480 Well, when I did get back, that's after I had dinner with my husband, Carl, we found 13:27.480 --> 13:28.960 out what was in the package. 13:28.960 --> 13:31.880 It's certainly strange, don't you think, officer? 13:31.880 --> 13:32.880 Yes, ma'am. 13:32.880 --> 13:35.400 Did you happen to notice at all who it was that left the package there? 13:35.400 --> 13:41.560 Well, I'm not really sure, officer, but I think I know who it was. 13:41.560 --> 13:43.900 A tall woman. 13:43.900 --> 13:48.280 She had a brown jacket, if I remember rightly. 13:48.280 --> 13:51.120 I think you'd say she was in her early thirties. 13:51.120 --> 13:53.160 Have you ever seen this woman before, Miss Briggs? 13:53.160 --> 13:55.160 No, I never did. 13:55.160 --> 13:58.360 Very attractive, as I recall. 13:58.360 --> 13:59.360 She wore glasses. 13:59.360 --> 14:01.360 Anything else about her you might have noticed? 14:01.360 --> 14:02.360 Let me think. 14:02.360 --> 14:04.360 She had blonde hair. 14:04.360 --> 14:05.360 I remember that much. 14:05.360 --> 14:09.960 And the reason I do remember it is because she wore it like I used to when I was a girl, 14:09.960 --> 14:14.440 you know, through the back and the bun like this. 14:14.440 --> 14:17.240 And you're pretty sure that this woman you described is the one who left the package 14:17.240 --> 14:18.240 there? 14:18.240 --> 14:24.800 If I remember rightly, she's the only one that sat across from me. 14:24.800 --> 14:26.720 I guess it must be her. 14:26.720 --> 14:29.480 If it wasn't her, I don't know who else it could have been. 14:29.480 --> 14:31.000 All right, Miss Briggs, thank you very much. 14:31.000 --> 14:32.000 We appreciate it. 14:32.000 --> 14:33.840 That beautiful fur. 14:33.840 --> 14:36.480 I know that woman must be just sick about losing it. 14:36.480 --> 14:38.440 I certainly hope you find her, officer. 14:38.440 --> 14:39.440 Yes, ma'am. 14:39.440 --> 14:46.080 We had the stats office make a run for us and all females with shoplifting records who 14:46.080 --> 14:48.920 fitted the description of the woman who'd left the mink stole in the waiting room at 14:48.920 --> 14:49.920 the bus depot. 14:49.920 --> 14:53.560 The following morning we checked with the men on stake out of the depot. 14:53.560 --> 14:57.200 They told us nobody had come back to report losing such a parcel. 14:57.200 --> 15:00.760 Together with Rubles and Tabor, we spent most of the day checking out the names on the list 15:00.760 --> 15:05.000 of known shoplifters which the stats office had made up for us, names of possible suspects 15:05.000 --> 15:08.460 who physically resembled a tall blonde woman seen at the depot. 15:08.460 --> 15:09.460 We got nowhere. 15:09.460 --> 15:13.680 Either they had ironclad alibis or they had since moved out of the city. 15:13.680 --> 15:18.360 We ran down every possible angle on the freak recovery of the missing fur stole. 15:18.360 --> 15:22.080 During the next 10 days, the case got more involved than it already was. 15:22.080 --> 15:26.320 Some of the stolen articles of new merchandise began showing up but not through any of the 15:26.320 --> 15:28.120 channels we expected. 15:28.120 --> 15:31.320 Some of the items were found dumped in sidewalk refuse cans. 15:31.320 --> 15:35.220 Some were found in hotel lobbies, in the post office, in theaters. 15:35.220 --> 15:37.360 Some were found tossed in vacant lots. 15:37.360 --> 15:40.400 The only logical answer we could figure was that it was the work of somebody who was stealing 15:40.400 --> 15:43.800 for just the love of stealing, a kleptomaniac. 15:43.800 --> 15:48.040 Tuesday, September 4th, a 15-year-old girl in one of the exclusive residential neighborhoods 15:48.040 --> 15:52.960 reported finding two parcels containing women's clothing and expensive costume jewelry. 15:52.960 --> 15:56.800 They still had the price tags on them and they totaled $360. 15:56.800 --> 16:00.160 Ben and I drove out to talk to the girl, a Patricia Denvers. 16:00.160 --> 16:01.920 Where'd you happen to find these things, Patrice? 16:01.920 --> 16:03.960 In the f***ing lot right down the block there. 16:03.960 --> 16:05.680 I was on my way home from the show. 16:05.680 --> 16:08.720 I took the things home and showed my mother she called the police. 16:08.720 --> 16:12.200 If nobody claims this package with the costume jewelry, can I keep it? 16:12.200 --> 16:13.200 It's certainly beautiful. 16:13.200 --> 16:14.200 No, I'm afraid not, Miss. 16:14.200 --> 16:15.360 We know who the things belong to. 16:15.360 --> 16:16.560 We're gonna have to return them. 16:16.560 --> 16:18.680 Oh, I certainly don't understand that. 16:18.680 --> 16:19.680 Well, how do you mean? 16:19.680 --> 16:22.040 Well, as far as I could see, she threw the things away. 16:22.040 --> 16:23.040 I thought she didn't want them. 16:23.040 --> 16:25.040 What do you mean, who didn't want them? 16:25.040 --> 16:27.160 Well, the lady who threw them in the empty lot. 16:27.160 --> 16:29.720 You saw who it was that threw the packages in that lot, did you? 16:29.720 --> 16:32.760 Yes, I was on my way home from the show, just like I told you. 16:32.760 --> 16:34.720 I could see this lady walking up ahead of me. 16:34.720 --> 16:36.920 She was about a block away, I guess. 16:36.920 --> 16:40.200 When she went by the lot, I saw her take these packages from underarm and toss them in the 16:40.200 --> 16:41.720 grass. 16:41.720 --> 16:43.640 She wouldn't do that if she wanted them, would she? 16:43.640 --> 16:44.960 Did you get a good look at this woman? 16:44.960 --> 16:46.560 You have any idea what she looks like? 16:46.560 --> 16:47.560 She's a good looking woman. 16:47.560 --> 16:48.560 Tall. 16:48.560 --> 16:49.560 She has beautiful, blonde hair. 16:49.560 --> 16:50.560 Her husband's a doctor. 16:50.560 --> 16:51.560 And you know who she is? 16:51.560 --> 16:52.560 You've seen her before? 16:52.560 --> 16:54.680 Well, I don't know her to talk to. 16:54.680 --> 16:56.080 I just see her around the neighborhood. 16:56.080 --> 16:57.080 Does she live around here? 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19:49.680 --> 19:50.680 Thank you very much. 19:50.680 --> 19:51.680 Did I get you a drink? 19:51.680 --> 19:53.480 I was just having my coffee and brandy. 19:53.480 --> 19:54.480 No, thank you, Miss Sterling. 19:54.480 --> 19:56.040 I really don't know when the doctor will be back. 19:56.040 --> 19:57.040 He was called over to the hospital. 19:57.040 --> 19:58.520 Is there anything I can help you with? 19:58.520 --> 20:02.280 Well, as a matter of fact, Mrs. Sterling, we came out to talk to you, not your husband. 20:02.280 --> 20:03.280 Oh, really? 20:03.280 --> 20:05.800 What is it you wanted to talk to me about, Sergeant Romero? 20:05.800 --> 20:09.720 Well, ma'am, we understand that you do quite a bit of your shopping along Wilshire Boulevard. 20:09.720 --> 20:10.720 Is that right? 20:10.720 --> 20:11.720 Well, yes. 20:11.720 --> 20:12.720 I shop downtown quite often. 20:12.720 --> 20:16.000 Except for the problem of parking, I find it a lot more convenient. 20:16.000 --> 20:17.000 Why do you ask? 20:17.000 --> 20:19.760 Mrs. Sterling, do you do much of your shopping at Anthony's? 20:19.760 --> 20:21.320 I believe that's out in the Wilshire district. 20:21.320 --> 20:22.320 Yes, I do. 20:22.320 --> 20:23.320 For my sports clothes especially. 20:23.320 --> 20:25.360 They have a very good selection. 20:25.360 --> 20:28.400 Would you remember if you were in Anthony's on the 22nd of last month? 20:28.400 --> 20:30.880 I believe that was a Tuesday. 20:30.880 --> 20:31.880 On a Tuesday. 20:31.880 --> 20:35.120 No, I don't think I could remember one way or the other. 20:35.120 --> 20:37.240 I really don't have any special day for shopping. 20:37.240 --> 20:39.760 I just go when I feel like it or when I need something. 20:39.760 --> 20:41.840 Have you ever been in the first and not in Anson's, ma'am? 20:41.840 --> 20:43.600 Have you ever made any purchases there? 20:43.600 --> 20:47.840 I suppose I've been in almost every department at Anthony's at one time or another. 20:47.840 --> 20:50.000 I can tell you though, I've never bought any frizz there. 20:50.000 --> 20:54.760 As I told you, the main reason I go there at all is because of their sportswear. 20:54.760 --> 20:56.680 Could you tell me what this is about, please? 20:56.680 --> 20:57.680 Routine investigation, ma'am. 20:57.680 --> 20:59.880 I wonder if you could tell us this. 20:59.880 --> 21:03.480 Do you have any occasion to travel in the area of the Santa Fe bus depot? 21:03.480 --> 21:04.480 By bus? 21:04.480 --> 21:05.480 No. 21:05.480 --> 21:09.560 I don't think I've been on a bus since, well, since I've been married. 21:09.560 --> 21:11.760 And that'll be six years this coming December. 21:11.760 --> 21:14.480 You've never been in the Santa Fe bus depot downtown, then? 21:14.480 --> 21:15.480 No. 21:15.480 --> 21:16.480 I think I know where it is. 21:16.480 --> 21:17.480 I've driven past it. 21:17.480 --> 21:19.600 I've never been inside though. 21:19.600 --> 21:20.600 Why should you want to know that? 21:20.600 --> 21:23.360 Well, Miss Sterling, we're going to be honest with you. 21:23.360 --> 21:25.280 This has to do with an investigation we're on. 21:25.280 --> 21:28.760 Now, we've had a couple of reports that you were seen at the Santa Fe bus depot on August 21:28.760 --> 21:29.760 23rd. 21:29.760 --> 21:30.760 That was on a Wednesday. 21:30.760 --> 21:32.560 Reports came from pretty reliable people. 21:32.560 --> 21:36.400 Well, I certainly consider myself reliable and I say I've never been there. 21:36.400 --> 21:40.000 Now, if you don't mind, I'd like some kind of explanation for this questioning. 21:40.000 --> 21:43.240 You mean you have no idea why we drove out here to talk to you? 21:43.240 --> 21:44.240 Of course not. 21:44.240 --> 21:46.240 Number one, I don't understand your questions at all. 21:46.240 --> 21:49.160 Number two, I'd like to know what they have to do with me. 21:49.160 --> 21:51.040 What has this to do with you, ma'am? 21:51.040 --> 21:55.400 Last August 23rd, a woman in a brown sports jacket answering your description left a package 21:55.400 --> 21:57.240 in the Santa Fe bus depot. 21:57.240 --> 22:00.540 This package contained a mink stole taken from Anthony's. 22:00.540 --> 22:03.520 The woman who left the package in the depot fits your description perfectly. 22:03.520 --> 22:04.520 That's all? 22:04.520 --> 22:05.520 It's a coincidence. 22:05.520 --> 22:07.120 Yes, ma'am, maybe. 22:07.120 --> 22:10.480 I suppose you've read in the papers about the big increase in shoplifting. 22:10.480 --> 22:14.960 Most of it's taking place right in the area where you say you do most of your buying. 22:14.960 --> 22:17.160 We've checked out every single one of the cases, Mrs. Sterling. 22:17.160 --> 22:18.560 It took us a long time. 22:18.560 --> 22:21.220 We found a dozen salespeople in those stores. 22:21.220 --> 22:24.760 Every one of them tells us that you were around a particular store when the shoplifting took 22:24.760 --> 22:25.760 place. 22:25.760 --> 22:27.440 Law of averages, Mrs. Sterling. 22:27.440 --> 22:29.240 You show up too often in the reports. 22:29.240 --> 22:31.040 Would you please leave my house? 22:31.040 --> 22:32.600 Both of you, please. 22:32.600 --> 22:36.120 I'm sorry, Mrs. Sterling, but you'll have to come along with us. 22:36.120 --> 22:37.840 What do you mean by that? 22:37.840 --> 22:41.600 Don't you know you can get in trouble making false accusations? 22:41.600 --> 22:43.520 I'm going to call my husband right now. 22:43.520 --> 22:51.520 Yes, ma'am, if you like, go right ahead. 22:51.520 --> 22:54.520 Sergeant. 22:54.520 --> 22:58.520 Yes, ma'am. 22:58.520 --> 23:02.520 What is it? 23:02.520 --> 23:07.840 What do you want to know? 23:07.840 --> 23:08.840 You can tell me. 23:08.840 --> 23:09.840 I think you know already. 23:09.840 --> 23:11.840 What do you want? 23:11.840 --> 23:12.840 Tell me, please. 23:12.840 --> 23:14.400 We've got your story, ma'am. 23:14.400 --> 23:18.200 Right up to this afternoon, you went shopping today, you stole things as usual. 23:18.200 --> 23:21.080 When you tried to get rid of them, you were seen right in this neighborhood. 23:21.080 --> 23:24.560 The vacant lot down in the next corner, you threw them away there. 23:24.560 --> 23:25.560 Somebody saw you. 23:25.560 --> 23:27.000 They didn't know it was me. 23:27.000 --> 23:30.000 Yes, ma'am, they knew it was you. 23:30.000 --> 23:31.000 Yes. 23:31.000 --> 23:33.760 How can I make them understand? 23:33.760 --> 23:34.760 You know? 23:34.760 --> 23:35.760 No, ma'am. 23:35.760 --> 23:36.760 Horrible. 23:36.760 --> 23:37.760 Shame. 23:37.760 --> 23:40.760 I couldn't tell my husband. 23:40.760 --> 23:43.760 I couldn't tell Bruce. 23:43.760 --> 23:45.480 I couldn't. 23:45.480 --> 23:47.400 Oh, never mind. 23:47.400 --> 23:52.400 We'll tell him for you. 23:52.400 --> 23:55.480 9.35 p.m. 23:55.480 --> 23:58.940 We got in the car and drove Mrs. Sterling downtown to the city hall. 23:58.940 --> 24:02.280 We took her to the interrogation room, called a police stenographer, and we began to take 24:02.280 --> 24:04.040 her complete statement. 24:04.040 --> 24:07.360 One of the first things she did was to admit full responsibility for the series of shop 24:07.360 --> 24:10.360 liptings which had been going on for over two months. 24:10.360 --> 24:14.080 She told us that her kleptomania, the urge to steal things, had started with her as far 24:14.080 --> 24:16.400 back as her junior high school years. 24:16.400 --> 24:20.200 She admitted as a girl she stole books, tablets, pencils, pieces of chalk. 24:20.200 --> 24:23.480 And as she grew older, it seemed to get more serious with her. 24:23.480 --> 24:25.320 It carried over into her college years. 24:25.320 --> 24:27.600 And that's when her stealing first got her into trouble. 24:27.600 --> 24:29.200 It was when I joined this sorority. 24:29.200 --> 24:30.760 It was just like high school. 24:30.760 --> 24:31.760 I was all alone. 24:31.760 --> 24:34.240 We had a lot of clever girls in our house. 24:34.240 --> 24:35.240 Some of them were smart. 24:35.240 --> 24:36.240 Some of them were pretty. 24:36.240 --> 24:39.280 All of them seemed to be doing something except me. 24:39.280 --> 24:41.200 I had to prove it to them. 24:41.200 --> 24:43.440 I guess I had to prove it to myself. 24:43.440 --> 24:44.440 I was smart too. 24:44.440 --> 24:48.000 Oh, see, you figured that taking things was the best way to prove that. 24:48.000 --> 24:49.240 Yes, I suppose so. 24:49.240 --> 24:51.640 Of course, it wasn't easy, you know. 24:51.640 --> 24:53.680 The awful part was I got caught one day. 24:53.680 --> 24:56.040 It was kind of a relief in a way. 24:56.040 --> 24:58.960 I mean, how could they know I was just as smart as they were? 24:58.960 --> 25:01.140 They didn't find out what I was doing. 25:01.140 --> 25:03.440 Did you stay on at college after that, Miss Sterling? 25:03.440 --> 25:05.440 Oh, no, I couldn't after that. 25:05.440 --> 25:06.440 They voted me out of the sorority. 25:06.440 --> 25:09.400 There wasn't anything to do but leave, so I left. 25:09.400 --> 25:10.600 What happened after that? 25:10.600 --> 25:12.720 I went to New York and stayed with an aunt I have there. 25:12.720 --> 25:13.720 I got a job. 25:13.720 --> 25:14.720 I had several jobs. 25:14.720 --> 25:17.160 The same thing came up again. 25:17.160 --> 25:19.800 I lost two of the jobs. 25:19.800 --> 25:20.800 Same thing over again. 25:20.800 --> 25:22.200 I just couldn't help it. 25:22.200 --> 25:31.000 It always means so much to me, taking things, not being caught, getting away, getting away. 25:31.000 --> 25:35.840 Things I took, they never meant anything to me, nothing. 25:35.840 --> 25:38.480 Just taking them, not having anyone knowing. 25:38.480 --> 25:40.280 That's all that was important. 25:40.280 --> 25:43.840 It made up for that feeling, being all alone. 25:43.840 --> 25:47.760 Yes, ma'am, and this thing went on, I mean, even after you were married? 25:47.760 --> 25:49.840 No, not at first. 25:49.840 --> 25:52.400 I guess maybe a year or two. 25:52.400 --> 25:54.240 We were very happy, Bruce and I. 25:54.240 --> 25:58.400 And then he got busy, came out here and began to build his practice. 25:58.400 --> 26:00.960 I didn't see as much of him. 26:00.960 --> 26:01.960 We both wanted children. 26:01.960 --> 26:03.680 We wanted them very much. 26:03.680 --> 26:06.360 There weren't any. 26:06.360 --> 26:08.800 Bruce began to spend more time away from home. 26:08.800 --> 26:12.360 Just like before, same thing. 26:12.360 --> 26:14.920 I wasn't important. 26:14.920 --> 26:17.760 I was all alone again. 26:17.760 --> 26:19.800 Wasn't anybody. 26:19.800 --> 26:21.400 You know what I mean, don't you, Sergeant? 26:21.400 --> 26:22.400 Yes, ma'am. 26:22.400 --> 26:25.280 There ought to be an answer someplace. 26:25.280 --> 26:30.160 There isn't anything worse than being alone, is there? 26:30.160 --> 26:33.400 I get it. 26:33.400 --> 26:34.400 Interrogation room, Friday. 26:34.400 --> 26:35.400 Yeah, Dick. 26:35.400 --> 26:36.400 Mm-hmm. 26:36.400 --> 26:38.920 He is on his way now? 26:38.920 --> 26:39.920 Yeah, right. 26:39.920 --> 26:41.920 Yeah, thank you. 26:41.920 --> 26:44.320 Dr. Sterling just called. 26:44.320 --> 26:45.320 Said he was on his way in. 26:45.320 --> 26:46.320 He ought to be here in a couple of minutes. 26:46.320 --> 26:48.320 I don't want to see Bruce. 26:48.320 --> 26:49.320 He's so good. 26:49.320 --> 26:50.320 I wouldn't know how to tell him. 26:50.320 --> 26:51.320 Don't worry, ma'am. 26:51.320 --> 26:52.320 He'll be all right. 26:52.320 --> 26:53.320 No. 26:53.320 --> 26:54.320 I'm alone. 26:54.320 --> 26:55.320 He's alone. 26:55.320 --> 26:56.320 It'll never be all right anymore. 26:56.320 --> 26:59.320 Well, he's on his way in now and he wants to see you. 26:59.320 --> 27:00.320 What can I tell him? 27:00.320 --> 27:01.320 What's it going to be like? 27:01.320 --> 27:02.320 What's going to happen after this? 27:02.320 --> 27:03.320 I don't know, ma'am, but you won't be alone anymore. 27:03.320 --> 27:19.200 The 27:19.200 --> 27:21.920 story you have just heard was true. 27:21.920 --> 27:24.640 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:24.640 --> 27:28.800 On December 9th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 88, City and County of Los 27:28.800 --> 27:30.480 Angeles, State of California. 27:30.480 --> 27:32.640 In a moment, the results of that trial. 27:32.640 --> 27:34.560 And now here's our star, Jack Webb. 27:34.560 --> 27:35.560 Thank you. 27:35.560 --> 27:39.240 Friends, a few minutes ago, we told you exactly why smokers all over the country are switching 27:39.240 --> 27:41.360 to king-size Fatimas. 27:41.360 --> 27:46.200 It's because Fatimas are extra mild, because they have a much better flavor and aroma. 27:46.200 --> 27:50.240 Now, if you haven't tried Fatimas yet, here's where you come in. 27:50.240 --> 27:54.680 We feel so sure that you'll enjoy Fatima quality that we make this offer. 27:54.680 --> 27:56.460 Buy a pack of Fatimas. 27:56.460 --> 28:00.600 If you don't like Fatimas better than the king-size cigarettes you've been smoking, 28:00.600 --> 28:05.120 just return the pack and the unsmoked cigarettes and we'll send you your money back, plus postage. 28:05.120 --> 28:10.980 You see, we're convinced that Fatima is the best of all king-size cigarettes. 28:10.980 --> 28:12.920 Buy a pack of Fatimas today. 28:12.920 --> 28:23.360 I know you'll agree. 28:23.360 --> 28:27.880 Mrs. Virginia Sterling was tried and convicted on several counts of grand theft and received 28:27.880 --> 28:32.080 a sentence as prescribed by law, the terms to run concurrently. 28:32.080 --> 28:46.080 Grand theft is punishable by imprisonment for not less than one or more than ten years. 28:46.080 --> 28:51.000 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:51.000 --> 28:55.240 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. 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