1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 The star you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:10,000 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:21,000 You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to burglary detail. 4 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:26,000 A dozen churches in your city are victimized by a team of experienced safe burglars. 5 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:31,000 You track the suspects for weeks. You finally apprehend three men. 6 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:39,000 Your job? Convict them. 7 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Dragnet. The documented drama of an actual crime. 8 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,000 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 9 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:53,000 you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files. 10 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,000 It's beginning to end. From crime to punishment. 11 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:04,000 Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 12 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,000 This Sunday, March 5th, it was cloudy in Los Angeles. 13 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,000 We were working the day watch out of burglary detail. 14 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:13,000 My partner is Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Wisdom. My name is Friday. 15 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:20,000 I was on the way back from the record bureau and it was 11.30 p.m. when I got to room 25A, the interrogation room. 16 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:21,000 Excuse me, Ben? 17 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:22,000 Yeah, Joe? 18 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:23,000 Got a minute? 19 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,000 Yeah, sure. Wait here, Bryson. Back in a minute. 20 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:26,000 All right. 21 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:27,000 Yeah? 22 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:28,000 Let's go out in the hall. 23 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:33,000 Uh-huh. 24 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,000 How are you doing with Bryson? Did he tell you anything? 25 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,000 No, he wasn't medicine. How about the other two men? 26 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,000 No, nothing. They're sitting tight, waiting for their lawyer to show up. 27 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,000 Had all three of them checked through R&I. Bryson's a two-time loser, third degree, GTA. 28 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,000 His two partners serve time for robbery. 29 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,000 We shouldn't have too much trouble putting them away. We've got a good enough collection of physical evidence. 30 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:51,000 Well, maybe. 31 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,000 You heard from the crime lab yet? 32 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,000 No, not yet. I'd feel a lot better about it if we'd get by to the cop house. 33 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:56,000 Let's call him again, then. 34 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,000 Yeah, why don't I go in the room? Go ahead. 35 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Keep your seat, Bryson. We've got a few more questions for you. 36 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:08,000 Oh, excuse me. I thought you had it all squared away by now. I thought you were going to sack and leave by now. 37 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000 We're afraid not, Bryson. You haven't even given us a story yet. 38 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:15,000 Well, I told you I didn't have anything to do with it. It seems pretty obvious I didn't. I thought you'd take my word for it. 39 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Didn't you think of any reason why we shared? You lied to us once already, didn't you? 40 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:22,000 I didn't lie to you. I told you the truth. I didn't break into that church. I didn't have anything to do with it. 41 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,000 On the way in here, we asked you if you'd ever been arrested before and you told us no. 42 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Our record bureau says you're a two-time loser. 43 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:33,000 Oh, well, I'm sorry about that, Sergeant. I really am. When you picked me up, I guess I got a little nervous. 44 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,000 I didn't mean to lie to you. I was just a little mixed up, I guess. 45 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:41,000 You've got a little time to settle down. You ought to be able to tell us your story now. Just relax and take your time, huh? 46 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Why? 47 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Well, what did the other two fellows tell you? Miller and Henry? 48 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,000 Well, what difference did that make to you? 49 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Well, it might make a lot of difference, Sergeant. 50 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,000 Well, you just tell us your story. That's all we ask. 51 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,000 What were you doing at the scene of the burglary? What business did you have there? 52 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,000 You weren't mixed up and you've got nothing to hide. 53 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,000 I haven't got nothing to hide. I just don't want to involve a lot of innocent people, that's all. 54 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Anything you tell us is going to help you, you know that, huh? 55 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,000 All right, Sergeant. It's strictly confidential, huh? 56 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Well, one of those other fellows you picked up tonight, the dark-head fellow, his name is Tony Miller. 57 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,000 He's engaged to marry my sister. 58 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Yeah, well, I think that is a little... 59 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Well, please, give me a chance. 60 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:12,000 All right. 61 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:13,000 I'd like to lay it all out for you. 62 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:14,000 Go ahead. 63 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,000 Well, ever since my sister got engaged to her, I've been worried about it. 64 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,000 I never liked him to begin with. 65 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Lately, I've been keeping an eye on Miller, him and that friend of his, Henderson. 66 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:26,000 I knew they were up to something, and then I read in the paper about that string of church burglaries, 67 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,000 the guys breaking into churches, nothing else to say. 68 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Yeah. 69 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Well, I had an idea as to Miller and his friend. 70 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,000 How do you mean, boy? What made you think it was him? 71 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,000 I had an idea, that's all. I couldn't prove anything. It was just a hunch. 72 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,000 You must have had some reason to expect him. 73 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:42,000 Nothing definite, no. I just knew something was wrong, that they were up to something. 74 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,000 Well, then, early tonight, I saw a friend of Tony Miller. 75 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,000 He was the one that buys my neighborhood. 76 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,000 I talked to him a while, and finally he told me that Miller and Henderson were out working a deal. 77 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,000 He said they were going to break into a church over on 8th Street and knock over the city. 78 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Well, how come this friend of Miller is like you were on it? 79 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Well, I guess he thought I was a pretty close friend of Tony's. 80 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,000 He knew Tony was going to marry my sister. 81 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Anyway, when I found out about it, I got over to that church as fast as I could. 82 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,000 I wanted to find Miller and Henderson and try and talk them out of it. 83 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,000 I didn't want any guy who was going to marry my sister getting into trouble like that. 84 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,000 You know, maybe going to jail for burglary. 85 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,000 I know Miller's been in jail before. I suppose you knew that. 86 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,000 Yeah, I knew it, but that was before he was engaged to my sister. 87 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,000 You met Miller and Henderson at that church, didn't you? 88 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,000 No, I was too late. They had already broken into the place. 89 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:24,000 I went around the back of the church, and I saw one of the stained glass windows was broken where they'd gotten in. 90 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,000 I climbed up on the sill, and I could see them working inside. 91 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,000 It was some kind of a small back room. They were working on the safe, both of them, Miller and Henderson. 92 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,000 I see. What did you do there? 93 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Well, I tried to talk them out of it, man. They wouldn't listen. 94 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,000 I suppose you can prove your strength. 95 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:42,000 I mean, that friend you met in the bar, the one who tipped you off about the burger, and you think you're willing to back up this story? 96 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Well, I'm not sure, Sergeant. He might lie. He might not want to get involved. 97 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,000 How about Miller and Henderson? They're backing up, won't they? 98 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,000 If you weren't involved in the deal, there wouldn't be any reason for them to implicate you with... 99 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Well, Tony Miller thinks it's my fault he's in jail. He hates me. 100 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:57,000 You can't take his word for anything. Probably the first thing he'd do is lie about it, and Henderson too. 101 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Well, who are you going to corroborate your story? 102 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Well, maybe nobody, but it's the truth. I swear to you, it's the truth. 103 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,000 I'll tell the same thing in court if I have to. They've got to believe. 104 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,000 You're asking a lot, aren't you? 105 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,000 That's the way it happens, so help me. 106 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:10,000 Yeah. 107 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Now tell me the truth, Sergeant. You know I didn't have a hand in it. 108 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,000 If it goes to court, they couldn't convict me, could they? 109 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:16,000 Come on, what do you think? 110 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:17,000 I think you're a liar. 111 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:24,000 To the working detective, the one logical way to appraise a known criminal is by his record. 112 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:31,000 You estimate him the same way you check a particular make-up automobile, a racehorse, or a radio set by past performance. 113 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:36,000 By refusing to buy his trumped-up story, we didn't figure that we were doing this suspect Charles Bryson an injustice. 114 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:43,000 Bryson was 37 years old. He'd spent 13 of those 37 years in prison, either the county jail or the state penitentiary. 115 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,000 His criminal record dated back to the time he was 20 years old. 116 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:54,000 Besides serving numerous shorter terms for lesser offenses in the county jail, Bryson had spent two terms in the state penitentiary for burglary. 117 00:05:54,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Despite the efforts of the probation officers, the adult authority, and the rehabilitation officials to help him, he seemed content to go along in his criminal career. 118 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,000 In this particular case, the series of church burglaries. 119 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:10,000 We had good reason to believe that Bryson and his two accomplices, Miller and Henderson, were the guilty men. 120 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,000 All three of them were booked at the main jail in suspicion of 459 P.C. 121 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,000 The next morning, Ben and I checked in at the crime lab. 122 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,000 Lee Jones, you around? 123 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Yeah, I'm here. Come on back. 124 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 How about that? They gave the place a new coat of paint. 125 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Yeah, sure needed it. 126 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,000 Good morning, fellas. 127 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:27,000 How you doing, Lee? 128 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,000 That set of burglary tools those thieves were using in that church last night, just finished checking them over. 129 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,000 I might have two or three things for you. 130 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:34,000 What have you got, Lee? 131 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:35,000 Have a look over here. 132 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,000 You find a set of tools. I take it the thieves had a lot of practice. 133 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,000 All three of them had records. How about some of the other physical evidence you got there? 134 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,000 One thing at a time, John. 135 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Most of all these tools here, small sledge, you see Jimmy, kinch bar, screwdriver. 136 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,000 I think we can hide them in with at least six of those church burglaries. 137 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,000 I think we can do it for certain. 138 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Couldn't work with Rieken, Vich? 139 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:55,000 I think so, the jury's listening. 140 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,000 Oh, you got it worked out, Lee? Tool markings? 141 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,000 That's part of it, yeah. 142 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,000 I want you to take a look at this kinch bar here. 143 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,000 They did a lot of their work with this. 144 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:11,000 I guess I don't have to tell you there aren't two identical kinch bars in the world that could leave the same exact markings on a piece of woodwork or on a face. 145 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,000 There aren't a pair of tools in the world that could leave the same markings on anything. 146 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Yeah, we know the case. You're sure during Poverty that the thieves used this kinch bar here on six of the jobs they pulled? 147 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:26,000 That's the idea. I compared specimen markings of every one of these tools against the markings made at the point of entry on six of the churches these thieves broke into. 148 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,000 In every case, the markings matched perfectly. 149 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,000 These are the tools that made them, no doubt about it. 150 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,000 The screwdriver, the set of windows, and the kinch bar. 151 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Sure won't hurt our case, honey. 152 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Can you tell me something else, Lee? 153 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:42,000 I examined the end of the kinch bar with a microscope, checked the screwdrivers in these tools. 154 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:47,000 The tips of each one of them are contaminated with particles of paint, different kinds of paint. 155 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:53,000 I've already compared these paint transfers with samples of paint taken from the exterior of those churches that were broken into. 156 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,000 Each one of them, they match all the way. 157 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:59,000 The color of the paint, the age, degree of oxidation, the lead content compares perfectly. 158 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,000 Now come over here, something else. 159 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,000 What have you got there, Lee? 160 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,000 These are the shoes that two men who found inside the church were wearing. 161 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:12,000 These are the fun impressions of boys from Litton Prince listed off the floor in front of the faith inside the church. 162 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:17,000 We know him on that church floor, set up the best impressions, and they feel pretty good. 163 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,000 Did you make the prints? 164 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,000 The boys from Litton Prince did, yeah. 165 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,000 Good impressions, you see here? 166 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:29,000 General size of the shoe, the main heel impression, the wear pattern on the sole here, the whole general characteristics of both pair of shoes matches up to a team. 167 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,000 How much is that going to mean to a jury, Lee? 168 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,000 It's going to mean a lot, for sure. 169 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,000 The same thing I've been telling you, the same thing. 170 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:41,000 I'd like to tell every cop in the department, if you can fight for nothing at the scene of a crime beyond a reasonable doubt, 171 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:45,000 then don't go flashing around looking for an object that's an exact duplicate. 172 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,000 Don't play Hoff, sir. 173 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:52,000 Any microscope will tell you there are no two things in this world exactly identically alike. 174 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,000 I don't care if it's a pair of shoes, a gun, a crowbar, or your two front teeth. 175 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,000 And that's all I have for Lee. 176 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,000 Is he going to have trouble? 177 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,000 I don't know, Lee, he shouldn't have. 178 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,000 You got the few of them, I have the few of the crime, that ought to be enough for the court. 179 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,000 Yeah, I hope so. 180 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:08,000 I don't sound sure. 181 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,000 I believe there's only one time I'm sure about things like Bryson. 182 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,000 Yeah? 183 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,000 When they check him in at San Quentin. 184 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:20,000 Two days later, Charles Bryson and his two accomplices, Henderson and Miller, were arraigned in municipal court 185 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,000 on a date set for their preliminary hearing. 186 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:27,000 Four days later, the preliminary hearing was held and the three of them were bound over for arraignment in Superior Court. 187 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:32,000 In the weeks that followed, before their arraignment and Superior Court trial, 188 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Ben and I worked along with the District Attorney's Office preparing the case against the three men, 189 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,000 making statements, running down additional evidence, checking and rechecking, 190 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,000 piecing together the facts which we hoped would earn a conviction for each of the criminals. 191 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,000 We weren't positive that it happened. 192 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:50,000 The strongest part of our case was going to come out of the crime lab, the testimony of Lee Jones. 193 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:56,000 And we knew as well as Lee did that, generally speaking, juries are not too much in sympathy with scientific facts 194 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,000 when it has to do with physical evidence. 195 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Generally, they don't follow technical cases too well. 196 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:05,000 We also knew that the three defendants had a good lawyer, a clever one. 197 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,000 Getting convictions wasn't going to be easier. 198 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:12,000 The trial opened in Superior Court June 2nd. Ben and I testified when we were called on. 199 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,000 On the morning of June 9th, the jury retired to deliberate. 200 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,000 Late that afternoon, we got a call from the Hall of Justice. 201 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:19,000 Yes, Mitty. 202 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:20,000 Uh-huh, yeah. 203 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:21,000 Both of them, huh? 204 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,000 I see, uh-huh. 205 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,000 Well, that's a lot of ideas. 206 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:25,000 That's right. 207 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,000 Juries back there, they came up with a verdict. 208 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,000 What's the story? 209 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:29,000 Anderson and Miller, they found them both guilty. 210 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,000 The first degree burglary. 211 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,000 Yeah, what about Bryson? 212 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:36,000 They let him go. 213 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,000 Well, maybe it was no great shock to us, 214 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:42,000 but after the time and effort we put in on the case, it was a disappointment. 215 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,000 The worst of the three criminals had been set free. 216 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:50,000 At the trial, Bryson had taken the stand and told the court the same cock and bull story he told Ben and I, 217 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,000 that he'd gone to the church, the scene of the burglary, 218 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,000 to plead with Henderson and Miller not to commit the crime. 219 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,000 Bryson had a good personality and a fast line of talk. 220 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:03,000 It wasn't hard to see how he could convince a jury that he was only an innocent bystander. 221 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,000 The biggest obstacle that stood in the way of convicting Bryson was that the prosecution, 222 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,000 the district attorney, according to law, 223 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:13,000 could not call to the attention of the jury Bryson's previous criminal record, 224 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,000 especially his two prior convictions for burglary. 225 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,000 To them, because of the limitations of the law, 226 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,000 he was presented as a private citizen with as much integrity 227 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,000 and as clean of any previous guilt as you and your neighbor. 228 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:29,000 Henderson and Miller were committed to the state penitentiary to serve sentences as prescribed by law, 229 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,000 and Charles Bryson, shortly after the trial, left the city. 230 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:37,000 Two months passed. Saturday, August 8, I started on my vacation. 231 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:41,000 Two weeks later, on August 22, I checked back in for work. 232 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:42,000 Hi, Joe. Good to see you. 233 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,000 Hi, Jim. What's been doing? 234 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,000 Oh, not too much. How did the vacation go? 235 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:50,000 Oh, pretty good, thanks. My mother and I went up north to visit some relatives up in Moone County. 236 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,000 It was a nice trip for her. She hadn't been feeling too well, you know. 237 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,000 Oh, that's too bad. Getting any fishing done? 238 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,000 A little, yeah. That's your beautiful country up here. 239 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:58,000 Is Ben well? 240 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:02,000 No, he took off today. He's been putting in some full days while you've been gone. 241 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Oh, that's good. Anything special doing? 242 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,000 Oh, nothing too big. Just doing a chain store burglary out in the town. 243 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,000 I've been working along with Ben. 244 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:10,000 Yeah? Giving you much trouble? 245 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,000 He's been going a couple of weeks. Not getting any better. 246 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,000 I'm beginning to feel the pressure a little. 247 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,000 How's it stand? Any leads on the suspect? 248 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:18,000 Just one. Yeah? 249 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:23,000 That guy by the name of Charles Bryson. 250 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:28,000 When our suspect Charles Bryson left Los Angeles after his trial some three months before, 251 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:32,000 we had reports that he was headed east for the city of Memphis, Tennessee. 252 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:36,000 In subsequent leaks, we had word that he was also seen in St. Louis, Missouri, 253 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:40,000 where police officers had him under surveillance as a possible suspect in a robbery there. 254 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:44,000 On or about August 10th, the St. Louis police lost track of Bryson. 255 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:48,000 A week later, the newest series of burglaries began throughout Los Angeles. 256 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:52,000 The P.C.M.O. matched that of Bryson down to the last detail. 257 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:56,000 The places burglarized were chain stores, supermarkets generally. 258 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:01,000 The method of entry was the same, prying open a back window with a pinch bar, a similar tool. 259 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:05,000 The manner in which the safes were opened in the various business places that matched, too. 260 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,000 So did five sets of foot impressions found at the scene of five different burglaries, 261 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,000 each of them made by a man wearing tennis shoes. 262 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,000 The operation corresponded exactly to the way Bryson worked. 263 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,000 But there was one big hit in the investigation. 264 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,000 Nobody could be sure Bryson was back in town. 265 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,000 No one had seen him. No one had heard from him. 266 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,000 Monday, August 24th, 8 a.m. 267 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Got us running in circles so far, Joe. I can't figure it. 268 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,000 I bet lunch money is Bryson, but we can't even start to prove it. 269 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,000 How about the people in town Bryson runs with? They all been checked out? 270 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,000 They're the ones we know about, yeah, his friends, relatives, always know him hanging out. 271 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,000 We've been over it every inch of the way. 272 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:42,000 Everybody knows, they're not saying. There's no trace of him. 273 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,000 Yeah, that's a possibility. Maybe we're wrong. 274 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:45,000 Go ahead. 275 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,000 What do you mean maybe we're wrong? 276 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:51,000 Well, the only lead we've got is the M.O. Bryson isn't the only thief who operates that way. 277 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,000 It could be another man using the same system. 278 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,000 Yeah, we've thought about that. 279 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,000 You ran a check through the stats office? 280 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:56,000 Yeah, uh-huh. 281 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:01,000 The only known burglars in our records who operate like Bryson are either in jail or out of town or they're dead. 282 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:04,000 We checked it through a couple of times. It keeps coming out the same way. 283 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,000 Bryson's the only strong lead we've got. 284 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,000 Yeah, but I got it. 285 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,000 Burglary Friday. 286 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:11,000 Yes, sir. 287 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,000 You know, sir, Sergeant Taber's out right now. Is there any message? 288 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,000 Well, I guess about ten minutes. 289 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Yes, sir, right. I'll tell him. Thank you. 290 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,000 You sure there's no more on all these jobs, not just Bryson, huh? 291 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,000 All the way. That's what's gotten me stumped. 292 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,000 If the guy is pulling these jobs in the Aysen town, somebody should have spotted him. 293 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:30,000 He's changed stores he's hitting. We've had to take out the home for ten days. 294 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:33,000 I've got every informant we know watching for Bryson. I'm not a sign. 295 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:35,000 Hopefully you'll let him go to the gym so they'd call back. 296 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,000 Oh, thanks. 297 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,000 I got this telepathy this morning. I've been in touch with Sergeant Clinton. 298 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:41,000 Might be a line on Bryson. 299 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:42,000 I see. 300 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,000 The answer on that mail watch we asked him for. 301 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,000 Uh-huh. 302 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:47,000 What angles this, Ben? 303 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,000 You remember Church, Burglary's Miller, and Henderson, through the Senate with Sergeant Clinton? 304 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,000 Oh, yeah. You asked Clinton for a mail watch on both of them, did you? 305 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,000 Yeah, I figured there was a chance Bryson might write to him. 306 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,000 Looks like it got us a lead. 307 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,000 What do they got there? 308 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,000 It's from the Warden's office. 309 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:05,000 So it says, uh, regarding your request on information concerning Charles Bryson, 310 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:13,000 on August 22nd, Anthony Miller, our number 172156J, received a letter from a person signing himself George Cameron. 311 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,000 Contents of letter suspicious. 312 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,000 Cameron, does that mean anything to you? 313 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,000 I just checked Bryson's package again down there on the R&I. 314 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Cameron was his mother's maiden name. 315 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,000 Bryson's used it as an alias before, quite a few times. 316 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,000 Uh-huh. 317 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,000 How about the return address on the letter, Ben? Los Angeles? 318 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,000 Morning Post Office, General DeLevot. 319 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:40,000 Monday, 10 a.m., we alerted the Post Office detail and arranged for a mail watch on all incoming letters through General Delivery 320 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:45,000 addressed to Charles Bryson, George Cameron, or to another of the suspects known aliases. 321 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:50,000 A week passed. No sign of Bryson, no trace of any of his correspondence through General Delivery. 322 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,000 Another week went by. 323 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,000 Two more chains for our burglaries. 324 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:59,000 The MO in each case was the same, but matched closely to Bryson's known working habits. 325 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:04,000 But despite our precautions and the close check we maintained on his friends and his known hangouts, 326 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,000 the suspects still remained unseen and unheard from. 327 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:13,000 On September 9th, an informant of Ben's called us at the office and told us he thought he'd seen Bryson the night before. 328 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,000 Yeah, Matty, where was that? 329 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,000 Uh-huh, yeah, right, we'll check it, thank you. 330 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Bye. 331 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:22,000 Bryson's supposed to have been seen near Vermont and Beverly Boulevard last night, drinking in a bar out there. 332 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:23,000 You're pretty sure it was Bryson? 333 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:24,000 He thinks so, yeah. 334 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:25,000 Got the name of the place here. 335 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,000 We can check for the bar tender, see if he can identify Bryson's mug here. 336 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:30,000 Right, I'll get my top coat on. 337 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:33,000 I'll get it. 338 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,000 Where's the refraggy? 339 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,000 Yes, sir. 340 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,000 When was that? 341 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,000 Yeah, go ahead. 342 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,000 Uh-huh, I got it. 343 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,000 Yes, sir, right away. 344 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:48,000 Post office detail, Bryson called for a meal at the General Delivery half an hour ago. 345 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,000 Who is he? Did they follow him? 346 00:16:50,000 --> 00:17:03,000 280 Glenmore, Apartment 6, he's there now. 347 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:15,000 You are listening to Dragnet, authentic stories of your police force in action. 348 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:27,000 September 9th, Tuesday, 1130 a.m., the burglary suspect Charles Bryson was placed under surveillance at the apartment where he'd gone immediately after calling for his mail at the General Delivery window in the main post office. 349 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:33,000 Three teams of men were assigned the job of following Bryson alternately, 24 hours a day. 350 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:38,000 We waited for a chance to get into his apartment and search it while it was empty, but it never occurred. 351 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:44,000 Somebody was always there, either Bryson or a tall, dark-haired woman, his common-law wife. 352 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:49,000 During the week that followed, the suspect was watched everywhere he went. He attempted no burglaries. 353 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:54,000 On the eighth day, the stakeout was removed. Three nights later, two burglaries were committed. 354 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:59,000 Both jobs bore the marks of the suspect's M.O., but we couldn't prove a thing against him. 355 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:08,000 We knew the setup we had was going nowhere. If we wanted to get Bryson red-handed, if we wanted a case against him that would stand up in any court, we had to find a new approach. 356 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,000 Lee Jones came up with an idea. 357 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:14,000 It's a technical name for its ampersand. I guess you heard of it? 358 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,000 I think I heard you making a name, Lantzberg. 359 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,000 That kind of luminous powder isn't it? It glows in the dark? 360 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:24,000 No, not exactly. Here, take a look at some. There you see. Colorless, odorless, no smell at all to it. 361 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,000 It's a coal-tile product. We call it crystal and hydrocarbon. 362 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:34,000 Now here's the point of the thing. When you take this ampersand powder and rub it into the surface of an object, it's completely invisible, its naked eye. 363 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,000 Never know it's there. Here, let me show you. 364 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:37,000 How about my coat sleeve there? 365 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:44,000 There you go. That's the powder all over it. Some in your hand too. Rub it in like so. 366 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:48,000 Now can you see or feel any of the powder while I put it on? 367 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,000 No, nothing there. 368 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:59,000 Now let me switch on this lamp here. This is a multivitual light. Now watch when I turn it on your arm, what we rubbed on the powder. 369 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,000 Look at your hand, Joe, like it's lighting up. 370 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Yeah, my coat sleeve too. It's glowing. 371 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,000 How about it? Will it step rub off, Lee? 372 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:09,000 Try it. 373 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:13,000 You're spreading it all over yourself, everything you test. Anything harmful in it, Lee? 374 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:22,000 No. Now watch when I turn the lamp off. You see? Gone. Never even know you had it on. Only time it shows up is under ultraviolet light. 375 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,000 Well does it stay on you indefinitely, Lee? 376 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:27,000 No, the maximum is generally about, oh, say, 24 hours. 377 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:28,000 You guarantee it'll work, huh? 378 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,000 Well, all physics, Joe, under the proper conditions it's got to. 379 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:35,000 Just when I tell my classes up at the Academy, crooks and co-skills have one thing in common. 380 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:36,000 Yeah? 381 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,000 They show up better when you put them on in the right kind of light. 382 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:47,000 When we left Lee Jones at the crime lab, we figured we had the potential solution in our hands, 383 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:53,000 but there was still a lot to be done before we could go into any court of law with a case that we were positive was strong enough to convict Charles Bryson. 384 00:19:53,000 --> 00:20:03,000 Number one, we had to get into his apartment when it was unoccupied, find the set of burglary tools he was using, and douse them thoroughly with anthracene, the same for the clothes he worked in. 385 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:10,000 Number two, we had to get Bryson into custody within 24 hours after he moved on the burglary job or the anthracene wouldn't work. 386 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:18,000 Number three, we had to find the loot taken in the burglary in his possession. Ten days passed before we got a chance to make good on the first step. 387 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:19,000 I get it, Joe. 388 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:23,000 Right. Burglary and Merrill. Yeah, Jim. 389 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,000 Mm-hmm, good. Fine, we'll be right out. 390 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,000 Good break, Joe. I'm Bryson. 391 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:29,000 What's that? 392 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:34,000 They hauled him in on a traffic warrant, speed him, put him into the main jail right now. Good chance to go through his apartment. 393 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:35,000 What about his wife? She's still up there. 394 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,000 She's on her way to put up bail for him. 395 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:38,000 Yeah. 396 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:39,000 Apartment's empty. 397 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:48,000 By the time Bryson was bailed out, Ben and I, along with Jim Tabor and Lee Jones, had combed through Bryson's apartment and finally uncovered a set of burglary tools and work clothes, 398 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:53,000 carefully hidden beneath the floorboards under a kitchen cabinet directly below the sink. 399 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:59,000 Lee Jones contaminated each of the tools with the invisible anthracene powder and also the work clothes. 400 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:03,000 We checked the apartment for any possible loot taken in the burglaries, but we found nothing. 401 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:08,000 We put everything back exactly the way we found it, and then we left and went back to the office. 402 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:13,000 We stood by until 4 a.m. waiting for a call that had indicated that Bryson might be out on another burglary job. 403 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,000 Nothing happened. 404 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,000 The next night, up until 10 o'clock, it was the same routine. 405 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:23,000 At a few minutes past 10, we got a 459 call on a chain drugstore out on Alvarado Street. 406 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,000 Lee Jones had his portable ultraviolet light all ready to go. 407 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:31,000 Ben and I picked him up at the crime lab, and the three of us drove to the scene of the burglary. 408 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,000 It's great back here, Lee. Can I help you with the light? 409 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,000 I can handle it, thanks. 410 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,000 I had some wonder they figured you got in. 411 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,000 Safe stand at the corner. 412 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,000 Yeah, there's not too much of it left. You all set, Lee? 413 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,000 You got the extension cord for the light, with that on? 414 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,000 Yeah, right here. I'm just plugging it in. 415 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,000 Yeah, okay. 416 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,000 Okay. 417 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,000 All right, switch it on, will you? 418 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,000 Right. 419 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:51,000 Well? 420 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:52,000 Yeah. 421 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,000 Seems like it. 422 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,000 What have you got in the window there, Joe? Look at that. 423 00:21:55,000 --> 00:22:00,000 Anthracene tracks all over, foot impressions there, tool marks on the safe, 424 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,000 blood prints on the floor, on the wall. 425 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,000 No question, they left plenty of trail. 426 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:05,000 All right, let's get them. 427 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,000 The next morning. 428 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:13,000 Lee Jones put in a call to the crime lab and ordered a photographer out to take pictures at the scene of the burglary. 429 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:16,000 Lee and the photographer had stayed at the scene to gather physical evidence 430 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:22,000 and take pictures of the anthracene prints and markings for presentation in court, 10.52 p.m. 431 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Jones packed up the ultraviolet lamp and Ben and I took it along with us. 432 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,000 We drove directly to Bryson's apartment. 433 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,000 Nobody was there. 434 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,000 No, nobody in the bedroom either. How about that? 435 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:36,000 I don't know, I don't get it. Bryson's had plenty of time to get back here, over an hour. 436 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:41,000 What about his wife? The only time we know she left was when she had to go bathe him out in that traffic one. 437 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,000 Doesn't look like they pulled out, does it? 438 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,000 Is the closet full of clothes in there, a lot of their personal things around? 439 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:47,000 Yeah. 440 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,000 Sure looks like they were expecting to come back. 441 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,000 We might check with the apartment house manager. 442 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,000 He could tell us if they gave notice to move. 443 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:55,000 If... 444 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,000 Oh, let's see here. 445 00:22:58,000 --> 00:22:59,000 What do you got? 446 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,000 A note here on the desk. 447 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:06,000 See, he says, um, Charlie, I'm sorry, but I told you it just doesn't work out with us. 448 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,000 When you read this, I'll be on my way east. 449 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:14,000 I don't want to be mean with you, I just think it'll work better if we forget each other, that's all. 450 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,000 Thanks for everything so long. Signed, Ruth. 451 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,000 Well, if she doesn't like him much either. 452 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:24,000 No, wait a minute. 453 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,000 What have you done? 454 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,000 Please stop this, Bryson. I'd like to talk to you for a minute. 455 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,000 Oh, I know who you are. I remember, what do you want? 456 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:33,000 Ben, do you want to tug him in, like? 457 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,000 Yeah, right over here. 458 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,000 Where is all this? 459 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,000 You said you wanted to talk to me, what's all about? 460 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:39,000 You all set, Ben? 461 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:40,000 Just a minute. 462 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,000 All right, okay, turn it on. 463 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,000 What are you doing? 464 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,000 What are you trying to do to me? 465 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,000 You've done it all to yourself, mister. 466 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,000 Lit up like a Christmas tree, Joe, it's all over in here. 467 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,000 There you go. 468 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,000 They're closing their hands. 469 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,000 What is it? There's light going all over them. What are you doing? 470 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:59,000 It's a chemical, Bryson. Harmless. Same stuff you left all over the drugstore tonight. 471 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,000 Pack up, Ben. Come on, let's go, Bryson. 472 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,000 I don't understand. What's this whole thing all about? 473 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,000 You'll understand it. 474 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,000 Here, I wrote for you. 475 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,000 Come on. 476 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,000 How's that, Joe? 477 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:20,000 Let's go, Bryson. 478 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,000 I guess I didn't know her. 479 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,000 Mr. Tramp, I guess I should have been smart about it. 480 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:25,000 Yeah, I guess so. Come on. 481 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:29,000 How could I know? She said she was in love with me. I believed it. 482 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,000 What am I going to say when they ask me? All our friends are all going to ask me. 483 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,000 They'll say, what happened to Ruth? 484 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,000 Oh, I'll tell you what happened this time. 485 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,000 What am I going to say happened this time? 486 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,000 What are you going to say to the jury this time? 487 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:50,000 The story you have just heard was true. 488 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,000 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 489 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:59,000 On December 10th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 86, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 490 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,000 In a moment, the results of that trial. 491 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:17,000 Charles Lang Bryson was tried and convicted on three counts of first-degree burglary. 492 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:22,000 This is punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not less than five years. 493 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:28,000 However, due to his previous convictions on this and other felony counts, Bryson was judged and habitual criminal. 494 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:41,000 He was sentenced to spend the rest of his natural life in the State Penitentiary. 495 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:46,000 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official clients. 496 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:59,000 The technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department.