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02:42.680 --> 02:43.680 Hi. 02:43.680 --> 02:44.680 Did she show up yet? 02:44.680 --> 02:45.680 No, not a couple of minutes ago. 02:45.680 --> 02:47.120 She's waiting for us now in the next room. 02:47.120 --> 02:48.360 Did you talk to her at all? 02:48.360 --> 02:49.360 No. 02:49.360 --> 02:50.360 Seems to be a nice enough woman. 02:50.360 --> 02:51.840 I don't know how much help she's going to be. 02:51.840 --> 02:52.840 Yeah. 02:52.840 --> 02:53.840 Go ahead. 02:53.840 --> 02:54.840 Yeah, thank you. 02:54.840 --> 03:00.080 Miss Banner, I'd like to have you meet my partner, Sergeant Friday. 03:00.080 --> 03:01.440 Joe, this is Miss Banner. 03:01.440 --> 03:02.440 Hello. 03:02.440 --> 03:04.600 I'm sorry I wasn't home when you stopped by yesterday, Sergeant. 03:04.600 --> 03:05.600 I got the card you left though. 03:05.600 --> 03:07.280 I called in as soon as I got home. 03:07.280 --> 03:09.040 Well, thanks for coming in, Miss Banner. 03:09.040 --> 03:10.480 We have a few questions we'd like to ask you. 03:10.480 --> 03:11.480 It won't take very long. 03:11.480 --> 03:14.920 We have a communication from Atlantis Dillon back in New York, Miss Banner. 03:14.920 --> 03:17.000 It's about her brother, Chester Dillon. 03:17.000 --> 03:19.440 We understand you rented his home from him out on Wilson Avenue. 03:19.440 --> 03:20.440 Mr. Dillon? 03:20.440 --> 03:21.440 Well, yes. 03:21.440 --> 03:22.440 I've got a two-year lease on the house. 03:22.440 --> 03:23.440 I rented it from him last November. 03:23.440 --> 03:27.040 Well, according to the letter we got from Mr. Dillon's sister, she's worried about him. 03:27.040 --> 03:28.520 She hasn't heard from him in some time. 03:28.520 --> 03:30.520 Do you have any idea where we could contact him? 03:30.520 --> 03:32.800 Well, last I heard, he left on a trip to New York. 03:32.800 --> 03:34.280 That was about eight weeks ago, I'd say. 03:34.280 --> 03:38.600 You see, I usually sent a check for the rent, the apartment he had here, and when he left 03:38.600 --> 03:41.400 on his trip, he told me to hold on to the rent checks and he'd collect them when he 03:41.400 --> 03:42.400 got back. 03:42.400 --> 03:44.080 How long did he say he'd be gone? 03:44.080 --> 03:45.080 I don't remember definitely. 03:45.080 --> 03:46.480 I think he said four or five months. 03:46.480 --> 03:49.680 He didn't leave any forwarding address, any place you could contact him back east? 03:49.680 --> 03:50.680 No, he didn't. 03:50.680 --> 03:51.680 He just wanted to get away. 03:51.680 --> 03:53.160 Didn't want to be bothered with anyone. 03:53.160 --> 03:54.440 He wasn't feeling very well. 03:54.440 --> 03:56.200 He was very depressed, poor man. 03:56.200 --> 03:57.200 Well, why was that, ma'am? 03:57.200 --> 03:58.200 Do you know? 03:58.200 --> 03:59.800 Well, his wife died just a few months ago, you know. 03:59.800 --> 04:01.080 No, ma'am, we didn't know. 04:01.080 --> 04:03.440 All we got from his sister was that she hadn't heard from Dillon. 04:03.440 --> 04:04.440 She was worrying. 04:04.440 --> 04:06.160 She didn't give us any other information. 04:06.160 --> 04:07.160 Oh, yes. 04:07.160 --> 04:10.760 Mrs. Dillon died in last September, I think it was. 04:10.760 --> 04:12.800 Poor man felt terrible about it. 04:12.800 --> 04:14.680 Couldn't seem to get over it. 04:14.680 --> 04:15.960 That's why he rented the house to me. 04:15.960 --> 04:17.560 It reminded him too much of her. 04:17.560 --> 04:18.560 Yes, ma'am, I understand. 04:18.560 --> 04:20.000 Lovely home they have. 04:20.000 --> 04:23.560 Mr. Dillon said he really didn't want to rent it, but he couldn't stand being alone in 04:23.560 --> 04:24.560 the house. 04:24.560 --> 04:25.560 It was a large place, you know. 04:25.560 --> 04:26.560 Yes, ma'am. 04:26.560 --> 04:28.000 We checked with the people living in the house now. 04:28.000 --> 04:30.000 We understand you leased the place to them last month. 04:30.000 --> 04:31.000 I subleased it, yes. 04:31.000 --> 04:33.000 You see, it just got too big for me. 04:33.000 --> 04:36.520 It was nice at first, but it got to be an awful lot of work. 04:36.520 --> 04:39.440 I rented it to this family and took a smaller house down the street. 04:39.440 --> 04:42.720 Would you happen to know any of Mr. Dillon's friends in the city, Miss Banner, anyone we 04:42.720 --> 04:45.000 could contact who might know where we can locate him? 04:45.000 --> 04:46.000 I don't know. 04:46.000 --> 04:47.360 He didn't seem to have any friends. 04:47.360 --> 04:50.280 He and his wife had only been in the city a year before she died. 04:50.280 --> 04:51.440 He was retired, you know. 04:51.440 --> 04:52.440 Yes, ma'am. 04:52.440 --> 04:53.440 We talked to some of the neighbors out there. 04:53.440 --> 04:55.280 They couldn't tell us much about him. 04:55.280 --> 04:57.680 Maybe some of the people he did business with might know something. 04:57.680 --> 04:59.760 Have you tried the neighborhood bank out there? 04:59.760 --> 05:01.440 I know that's where Mr. Dillon had his account. 05:01.440 --> 05:02.440 No, ma'am, we haven't yet. 05:02.440 --> 05:04.200 Well, I can give you the bank's address. 05:04.200 --> 05:05.720 It's about all, though. 05:05.720 --> 05:07.160 That's the only contact you know of? 05:07.160 --> 05:08.640 I'm afraid so, yes. 05:08.640 --> 05:11.600 I didn't know much about Mr. Dillon's private affairs. 05:11.600 --> 05:15.040 Whenever I talked to him, it seemed the only thing he had on his mind was his wife's death. 05:15.040 --> 05:17.000 He couldn't seem to get over it. 05:17.000 --> 05:19.360 Seemed like he didn't want to get over it. 05:19.360 --> 05:22.160 You mentioned that when you leased his home, Mr. Dillon took an apartment. 05:22.160 --> 05:24.160 Do you happen to have that address, Miss Banner? 05:24.160 --> 05:26.960 Well, I don't have it with me now, but I have it at home. 05:26.960 --> 05:28.520 I can call in and give it to you if you like. 05:28.520 --> 05:29.520 If you would, please. 05:29.520 --> 05:30.520 Certainly. 05:30.520 --> 05:31.520 Well, thank you very much, Miss Banner. 05:31.520 --> 05:32.520 You have our card. 05:32.520 --> 05:35.480 When you hear anything at all from Mr. Dillon, we'd appreciate it if you'd call us. 05:35.480 --> 05:37.600 Surely, I'll call you right away. 05:37.600 --> 05:39.040 Do you think something could have happened to him? 05:39.040 --> 05:40.520 Well, if possible, we don't know. 05:40.520 --> 05:42.000 All we have is the letter from his sister. 05:42.000 --> 05:44.360 It does seem kind of strange, doesn't it? 05:44.360 --> 05:46.080 He wasn't feeling too well. 05:46.080 --> 05:49.560 I wondered why he hadn't contacted me about sending the rent money to him. 05:49.560 --> 05:51.680 He was such a nice man, Mr. Dillon. 05:51.680 --> 05:53.280 I certainly hope nothing's happened to him. 05:53.280 --> 05:56.720 Well, you say he was very depressed about his wife's death, ma'am. 05:56.720 --> 05:59.520 Would you say that it was getting to be a little abnormal with him, maybe? 05:59.520 --> 06:03.440 Well, I wouldn't know about that, Sergeant, but I didn't know he brooded about it all 06:03.440 --> 06:04.440 the time. 06:04.440 --> 06:05.440 He felt that he'd lost everything. 06:05.440 --> 06:07.760 He didn't seem to want to go on. 06:07.760 --> 06:10.960 Did he ever give you an indication that maybe he might take his own life? 06:10.960 --> 06:13.160 I mean, all this brooding over his wife? 06:13.160 --> 06:14.840 Well, no, nothing definite. 06:14.840 --> 06:16.560 Just depressed and moody all the time. 06:16.560 --> 06:20.800 Oh, now that I remember it, the last time I saw him, he did say something kind of funny. 06:20.800 --> 06:21.800 Yes, ma'am. 06:21.800 --> 06:22.800 What was that? 06:22.800 --> 06:23.800 It was the day before he left. 06:23.800 --> 06:26.480 We were talking about the rent money, and I asked him if I could send it to him. 06:26.480 --> 06:28.760 He got kind of a strange look on his face. 06:28.760 --> 06:33.560 He said, where I'm going, I won't need the money. 06:33.560 --> 06:37.280 The day before we called on Lucille Banner for an interview, a letter had been received 06:37.280 --> 06:40.000 from a Miss Gladys Dillon in Elmira, New York. 06:40.000 --> 06:41.600 Her request was routine. 06:41.600 --> 06:45.580 It was one of thousands of similar letters received every year by police departments 06:45.580 --> 06:47.280 all over the country. 06:47.280 --> 06:51.480 Each one of them has to be worked out to the satisfaction of all parties concerned, the 06:51.480 --> 06:54.400 person who's reported missing and the person looking for them. 06:54.400 --> 06:58.400 It's an enormous job requiring thousands of man hours annually. 06:58.400 --> 07:02.400 Like the dozens of other investigations handled by the police officer, some of them end happily, 07:02.400 --> 07:04.040 some of them in tragedy. 07:04.040 --> 07:07.600 Whatever the result, the finding of a lost person is just as important to function of 07:07.600 --> 07:11.040 your local police department as any other investigation. 07:11.040 --> 07:13.760 Gladys Dillon hadn't heard from her brother recently. 07:13.760 --> 07:14.760 She was worried about him. 07:14.760 --> 07:16.880 She asked us to investigate. 07:16.880 --> 07:20.920 Our initial interview with Lucille Banner, the woman who'd rented Chester Dillon's home, 07:20.920 --> 07:23.620 failed to yield much of a lead as to his whereabouts. 07:23.620 --> 07:26.760 The only source of additional information she could offer was the neighborhood bank 07:26.760 --> 07:28.920 where Dillon had his account. 07:28.920 --> 07:32.440 At four o'clock that afternoon, Ben and I drove out to interview the manager of the 07:32.440 --> 07:34.440 bank, Mr. Harrison. 07:34.440 --> 07:36.400 Yes, that's right. 07:36.400 --> 07:39.000 Mr. Dillon's had his account with us ever since he came to Los Angeles. 07:39.000 --> 07:40.360 I know him quite well. 07:40.360 --> 07:41.960 Is there something you'd like to know about him? 07:41.960 --> 07:42.960 Yes, sir, there is. 07:42.960 --> 07:45.440 We had a request from his sister in New York she'd like to look in. 07:45.440 --> 07:48.480 Well, I'm pretty sure his account's still open here. 07:48.480 --> 07:49.480 Matter of fact, I'm positive it is. 07:49.480 --> 07:52.480 At this moment, I'll have one of the clerks get his file. 07:52.480 --> 07:54.480 All right, thanks, Mr. Harrison. 07:54.480 --> 07:55.480 That reminds me, I almost forgot. 07:55.480 --> 07:56.480 Yeah, what's that? 07:56.480 --> 08:00.320 I've got to get to the bank tomorrow for sure, payment on my car's a day past due already. 08:00.320 --> 08:01.920 I only got two payments left. 08:01.920 --> 08:02.920 Oh, you're doing fine. 08:02.920 --> 08:04.600 I got another eight months to go. 08:04.600 --> 08:05.600 I'm not so fine. 08:05.600 --> 08:08.520 Two more payments to go and now the wife wants a new one. 08:08.520 --> 08:09.520 Never fail. 08:09.520 --> 08:11.520 Here we are, Sergeant, just as I thought. 08:11.520 --> 08:13.240 Mr. Dillon's account is still open. 08:13.240 --> 08:14.240 Uh-huh. 08:14.240 --> 08:16.240 There have been any recent deposits or withdrawals on the account? 08:16.240 --> 08:19.240 Let's have a look here. 08:19.240 --> 08:20.240 Uh-huh. 08:20.240 --> 08:24.240 Just as I thought, nothing since he left on his trip. 08:24.240 --> 08:26.600 His last withdrawal date was November 27th. 08:26.600 --> 08:28.920 He mentioned to you that he was going on a trip, didn't he? 08:28.920 --> 08:32.400 Yes, I think he said he was going back to New York, more or less a vacation trip. 08:32.400 --> 08:34.120 His wife died recently. 08:34.120 --> 08:35.640 He didn't take it too well. 08:35.640 --> 08:36.640 Yes, we understand. 08:36.640 --> 08:40.000 Did he leave any instructions about his account with you, Mr. Harrison, any address you could 08:40.000 --> 08:41.480 contact him at if you had to? 08:41.480 --> 08:44.160 No, he didn't leave any instructions with me. 08:44.160 --> 08:46.240 No address, just a vacation trip. 08:46.240 --> 08:48.040 He said he didn't expect to be gone too long. 08:48.040 --> 08:50.440 Did he mention how long it would be? 08:50.440 --> 08:52.960 Five or six weeks, I think that's what he said. 08:52.960 --> 08:56.520 I happened to talk to him about it because at the time he made quite a sizable withdrawal. 08:56.520 --> 08:59.600 I thought maybe he was a little unhappy with our service. 08:59.600 --> 09:01.600 How much was the withdrawal, sir? 09:01.600 --> 09:02.600 Let's see. 09:02.600 --> 09:05.120 Here it is, November 27th. 09:05.120 --> 09:06.880 He withdrew $2,400. 09:06.880 --> 09:08.520 Was that in cash or in Travis' checks? 09:08.520 --> 09:09.520 Do you know that? 09:09.520 --> 09:13.400 No, it shows here that it was in cash. 09:13.400 --> 09:16.640 Mr. Harrison, you said a minute ago that you knew Mr. Dillon pretty well. 09:16.640 --> 09:17.640 Yes, that's right. 09:17.640 --> 09:20.320 He used to stop and chat with me whenever he'd come in the bank. 09:20.320 --> 09:21.320 That was usually once a week. 09:21.320 --> 09:23.120 I didn't know him socially though. 09:23.120 --> 09:27.040 You mentioned he seemed to take his wife's death pretty hard. 09:27.040 --> 09:29.960 What would you say his mental condition was last time he saw him? 09:29.960 --> 09:31.440 All right, I'd say. 09:31.440 --> 09:34.000 Just after his wife's death, he wasn't in very good shape. 09:34.000 --> 09:36.240 He brooded about it quite a bit. 09:36.240 --> 09:37.240 And he began to pull out of it. 09:37.240 --> 09:39.800 He seemed to be in a fairly good frame of mind. 09:39.800 --> 09:41.160 He planned his vacation. 09:41.160 --> 09:42.800 He was looking forward to it. 09:42.800 --> 09:43.800 I see. 09:43.800 --> 09:44.800 Why do you ask? 09:44.800 --> 09:45.800 Is something wrong? 09:45.800 --> 09:46.800 No, sir, not that we know of. 09:46.800 --> 09:48.680 Routine check, that's about the size of it. 09:48.680 --> 09:52.240 Does Dillon have any other real estate besides the house on Ralston Avenue? 09:52.240 --> 09:53.240 Would you happen to know that? 09:53.240 --> 09:54.840 Not to my knowledge, no. 09:54.840 --> 09:58.280 He has no other business connections in Los Angeles. 09:58.280 --> 10:00.480 Here are all his references right here. 10:00.480 --> 10:04.000 See, most of them are charge accounts and so forth. 10:04.000 --> 10:06.440 I remember the time he opened his account with us. 10:06.440 --> 10:07.440 He told me he was retired. 10:07.440 --> 10:09.960 He and his wife came out here for their help. 10:09.960 --> 10:11.400 Do they have any relatives out here? 10:11.400 --> 10:12.400 Do you know, Mr. Harrison? 10:12.400 --> 10:15.120 No, from what I understand, both of their families are in the East. 10:15.120 --> 10:18.160 They don't have any children according to his application. 10:18.160 --> 10:19.160 They don't have any repute relatives. 10:19.160 --> 10:24.360 And since Dillon was in here last November to make that withdrawal, you've had no communications 10:24.360 --> 10:25.360 from him at all, have you? 10:25.360 --> 10:26.360 No, sir, I haven't. 10:26.360 --> 10:27.360 What seems to be the trouble? 10:27.360 --> 10:30.480 Do you have an idea of something might be wrong? 10:30.480 --> 10:32.280 Nothing definite, no, sir. 10:32.280 --> 10:35.880 We've been told about his feeling depressed over his wife's death and there was some indication 10:35.880 --> 10:37.840 he might possibly have done away with himself. 10:37.840 --> 10:40.160 After what you've told us, it doesn't seem too likely. 10:40.160 --> 10:41.160 I don't know. 10:41.160 --> 10:42.440 I wouldn't like to commit myself. 10:42.440 --> 10:45.400 As I say, he did seem to be getting over it. 10:45.400 --> 10:46.760 I didn't know him that well, though. 10:46.760 --> 10:48.920 It might be entirely possible. 10:48.920 --> 10:51.240 He was devoted to Mrs. Dillon. 10:51.240 --> 10:52.240 Maybe he could have taken his own life. 10:52.240 --> 10:53.240 I don't know. 10:53.240 --> 10:55.520 Well, it leaves a big question to answer, doesn't it? 10:55.520 --> 10:56.520 What's that? 10:56.520 --> 10:59.760 Why do you need the $2,400 to do it? 10:59.760 --> 11:02.040 1.25 p.m. 11:02.040 --> 11:05.440 We continued interviewing the bank manager, Mr. Harrison, but he was unable to come up 11:05.440 --> 11:07.400 with any further leads. 11:07.400 --> 11:11.640 Before we left the bank, he gave us a complete list of all of Chester Dillon's references. 11:11.640 --> 11:15.260 We gave him our card and he told us he would pass along immediately any information he 11:15.260 --> 11:17.720 might get on the whereabouts of Mr. Dillon. 11:17.720 --> 11:18.720 1.45. 11:18.720 --> 11:23.000 We went back to the office where we got a call from Lucille Banner. 11:23.000 --> 11:26.080 She gave us Dillon's last known address and we drove out to check it. 11:26.080 --> 11:29.180 It was an apartment court in the Pico Crenshaw area. 11:29.180 --> 11:33.240 We talked to the manager and she told us that Dillon had moved out three months before, 11:33.240 --> 11:34.240 on November 22nd. 11:34.240 --> 11:38.720 He told her that he was moving in with a close friend of his and he gave her his forwarding 11:38.720 --> 11:39.720 address. 11:39.720 --> 11:43.940 It turned out to be a single-story frame cottage located in one of the older residential districts 11:43.940 --> 11:44.940 of the city. 11:44.940 --> 11:48.240 The name on the mailbox read Raymond L. Schaefer. 11:48.240 --> 11:52.600 We rang the bell and a man who identified himself as Raymond Schaefer hushed us into 11:52.600 --> 11:54.160 a small living room. 11:54.160 --> 11:57.240 He told us that he was from the same town in the east that the Dillon's came from and 11:57.240 --> 11:58.920 that he was a long-time friend of theirs. 11:58.920 --> 12:01.120 No, I haven't seen Chester for months. 12:01.120 --> 12:02.120 Last November I think it was. 12:02.120 --> 12:03.400 That was the last time I saw him. 12:03.400 --> 12:07.200 You say at that time Dillon was living in the apartment down in the Crenshaw area, Mr. 12:07.200 --> 12:08.200 Schaefer. 12:08.200 --> 12:09.200 Yeah, that's right. 12:09.200 --> 12:10.200 You mean he never came here to live with you? 12:10.200 --> 12:11.800 No, it's just like I told you before. 12:11.800 --> 12:13.960 He talked about moving in here with me, but he never did. 12:13.960 --> 12:15.280 I have no idea where he is. 12:15.280 --> 12:17.720 Well, he gave you a name here as a forwarding address, Schaefer. 12:17.720 --> 12:18.960 Have you been getting his mail? 12:18.960 --> 12:20.480 Yeah, matter of fact I have. 12:20.480 --> 12:22.400 He told me he was going to do that. 12:22.400 --> 12:23.760 Never came to pick it up though. 12:23.760 --> 12:24.760 Seemed funny to me. 12:24.760 --> 12:26.360 You're still getting his mail here, is that right? 12:26.360 --> 12:27.360 Yeah, it's still coming. 12:27.360 --> 12:28.360 Not much of it. 12:28.360 --> 12:29.480 Maybe a letter a week. 12:29.480 --> 12:31.240 Mostly bills and advertising. 12:31.240 --> 12:34.440 This list of names you've given us, sir, these are all the people in the east Mr. Dillon 12:34.440 --> 12:37.520 was acquainted with, people he might contact on his trip back there, is that right? 12:37.520 --> 12:38.520 That's all of them. 12:38.520 --> 12:40.680 As far as I know, he hadn't been back there yet though. 12:40.680 --> 12:41.680 How do you know that? 12:41.680 --> 12:44.480 I got a letter from my sister Gert a couple of days ago. 12:44.480 --> 12:46.440 If Chester was in town, Gert would have known about it. 12:46.440 --> 12:48.760 He would have been sure to stop by and see her. 12:48.760 --> 12:49.760 I wish I could help you. 12:49.760 --> 12:51.800 To tell you the truth, I'm getting a little worried about him myself. 12:51.800 --> 12:54.480 Well, just one more question, Mr. Schaefer. 12:54.480 --> 12:58.280 You know if Mr. Dillon was in the habit of carrying large sums of money around with him? 12:58.280 --> 12:59.560 No, I don't think so. 12:59.560 --> 13:01.520 Chester was pretty cautious that way. 13:01.520 --> 13:03.280 He wasn't too free with a dollar, you know. 13:03.280 --> 13:06.480 Would you happen to know if he had a large sum of money with him the last time you saw 13:06.480 --> 13:07.480 him? 13:07.480 --> 13:09.080 No, if he did have, he didn't mention it. 13:09.080 --> 13:10.080 I see. 13:10.080 --> 13:13.240 Would you think of anything else that might give us a lead on Mr. Dillon's whereabouts, 13:13.240 --> 13:14.240 anything at all? 13:14.240 --> 13:15.960 I think I've told you everything. 13:15.960 --> 13:18.560 I wish there was something I could tell you that had helped. 13:18.560 --> 13:20.240 I sure hope nothing's happened to him. 13:20.240 --> 13:21.240 Yes, sir. 13:21.240 --> 13:23.720 Now, would you mind showing us that mail you're holding for Dillon, please? 13:23.720 --> 13:24.720 Oh, sure, sir. 13:24.720 --> 13:25.720 It's right over here. 13:25.720 --> 13:26.720 It's in the desk. 13:26.720 --> 13:27.720 There you are. 13:27.720 --> 13:28.720 That's all of it. 13:28.720 --> 13:29.720 Thank you. 13:29.720 --> 13:30.720 Anything, Joe? 13:30.720 --> 13:31.720 No, not much. 13:31.720 --> 13:32.720 Bills, circulars. 13:32.720 --> 13:44.400 There's one with a New York postmark, now, Maya, probably from his sister. 13:44.400 --> 13:46.040 There's another one. 13:46.040 --> 13:47.040 Only three days old. 13:47.040 --> 13:48.440 From the union department store. 13:48.440 --> 13:49.920 A couple more earlier dates on it. 13:49.920 --> 13:50.920 That's about it. 13:50.920 --> 13:53.360 You know, I'll copy down the return addresses on it. 13:53.360 --> 13:54.360 Fine. 13:54.360 --> 13:55.360 Mr. Schaffer? 13:55.360 --> 13:56.360 Yeah? 13:56.360 --> 13:58.800 There's a suitcase by the desk here. 13:58.800 --> 13:59.800 Initials on it. 13:59.800 --> 14:00.800 CLD? 14:00.800 --> 14:01.800 Yeah. 14:01.800 --> 14:03.560 CLD, is that your bag, Schaffer? 14:03.560 --> 14:05.360 Oh, no, I forgot to tell you. 14:05.360 --> 14:06.840 Chester left that here one day. 14:06.840 --> 14:07.840 Huh? 14:07.840 --> 14:08.840 How was that? 14:08.840 --> 14:12.160 Well, that was one day just before he was going to leave on his vacation. 14:12.160 --> 14:14.400 He brought it over here and said he'd like to leave it with me. 14:14.400 --> 14:16.040 Forgot to mention it to you. 14:16.040 --> 14:17.040 You bring anything else with him? 14:17.040 --> 14:19.720 Yeah, he brought another suitcase with him, just like this one. 14:19.720 --> 14:21.680 I got it in the other room. 14:21.680 --> 14:23.840 He said he wanted to leave them here while he was on his vacation. 14:23.840 --> 14:25.640 I'm sorry, I forgot to mention it. 14:25.640 --> 14:27.480 Well, maybe you forgot something else, Schaffer. 14:27.480 --> 14:28.480 What? 14:28.480 --> 14:32.120 You don't take their suitcases on a trip, don't they? 14:32.120 --> 14:35.280 2.30 p.m. 14:35.280 --> 14:37.200 We continued questioning Raymond Schaffer. 14:37.200 --> 14:41.000 We opened the two suitcases labeled with the initials of Chester Dillon and found an assortment 14:41.000 --> 14:45.640 of personal items which Schaffer told us belonged to Dillon and his late wife. 14:45.640 --> 14:49.640 Small pictures, cigarette boxes, books, similar articles, which apparently would not be taken 14:49.640 --> 14:50.640 on a vacation trip. 14:50.640 --> 14:53.760 None of them were of any great value. 14:53.760 --> 14:58.180 After we left Schaffer's home, we checked into R&I and found he had no criminal record. 14:58.180 --> 15:01.680 We checked further with friends and acquaintances of both men and found nothing to indicate 15:01.680 --> 15:05.680 that Schaffer was in any way involved in the disappearance of Chester Dillon. 15:05.680 --> 15:07.360 3.30 p.m. 15:07.360 --> 15:10.760 We called the office and found that there had been no answers so far to the broadcast 15:10.760 --> 15:13.900 and missing persons bulletins that we'd gotten out on Dillon. 15:13.900 --> 15:17.200 We started checking the references given us by the bank. 15:17.200 --> 15:18.920 First was the Union Department store. 15:18.920 --> 15:22.360 It was located on Main Street in the south end of town. 15:22.360 --> 15:25.920 We checked with the credit department to see what information we could get from them. 15:25.920 --> 15:26.920 Yes? 15:26.920 --> 15:30.280 Yes, here's the file on the Dillon's right here. 15:30.280 --> 15:33.000 Chester Ellen Sarah J. on Ralston Avenue. 15:33.000 --> 15:34.280 Yes ma'am, that's the one. 15:34.280 --> 15:35.720 What information would you like, sir? 15:35.720 --> 15:37.520 We're trying to locate Mr. Dillon, ma'am. 15:37.520 --> 15:39.640 Have you had any recent change of address on that account? 15:39.640 --> 15:40.640 No, we haven't. 15:40.640 --> 15:41.640 They moved, you know. 15:41.640 --> 15:42.640 Well, we believe so. 15:42.640 --> 15:44.640 We don't know his present address, though. 15:44.640 --> 15:47.880 Well, we do have an outstanding bill of theirs, I noticed. 15:47.880 --> 15:49.560 Sent them several form letters. 15:49.560 --> 15:51.840 We've been trying to contact them ourselves. 15:51.840 --> 15:54.720 Have there been any recent charges on that account, you know? 15:54.720 --> 15:55.720 Let's see. 15:55.720 --> 15:58.680 Nothing too recent, no. 15:58.680 --> 16:00.680 Last charge was made on December 5th. 16:00.680 --> 16:03.120 Yes, Thursday, December 5th. 16:03.120 --> 16:06.080 That's a couple of weeks after he disappeared, Joe. 16:06.080 --> 16:07.080 Yeah, that's right. 16:07.080 --> 16:08.200 What was that charge for, ma'am? 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19:20.960 --> 19:23.720 She had light brown hair, I'm pretty sure of that. 19:23.720 --> 19:26.600 Not too old, maybe in her late 30s, early 40s. 19:26.600 --> 19:33.240 She was a plain looking woman, five foot five or six, thin as I remember. 19:33.240 --> 19:34.960 She wore glasses, I remember that, too. 19:34.960 --> 19:35.960 I see. 19:35.960 --> 19:37.960 You got that picture, Miss Delamere, Ben? 19:37.960 --> 19:38.960 Oh, yeah. 19:38.960 --> 19:39.960 Here you are. 19:39.960 --> 19:42.680 Would you take a look at this picture, Miss? 19:42.680 --> 19:45.400 Now, does that look like the woman you waited on? 19:45.400 --> 19:48.880 No, no, that's not her. 19:48.880 --> 19:51.400 The woman I waited on was much younger. 19:51.400 --> 19:53.480 She had light brown hair, too, not gray. 19:53.480 --> 19:55.280 Thin face, I think. 19:55.280 --> 19:57.640 And she wore glasses, I'm sure of that. 19:57.640 --> 20:01.040 Do you remember if there was a man with her, Miss Van Kirk, or was she alone? 20:01.040 --> 20:03.040 No, she was alone. 20:03.040 --> 20:07.080 Now that I remember, there was something very different about the glasses she wore. 20:07.080 --> 20:09.200 I don't know if that's important or not. 20:09.200 --> 20:10.200 What about her glasses? 20:10.200 --> 20:13.600 They were horn-rimmed, as I remember, very light color. 20:13.600 --> 20:16.880 And there was some metal work along the top edge of the frame. 20:16.880 --> 20:19.960 Very smart looking, gold metal all along the top. 20:19.960 --> 20:25.480 Light brown hair, slight bill, thin face, late 30s or early 40s, were light horn-rimmed 20:25.480 --> 20:27.480 glasses and gold metal on the frame. 20:27.480 --> 20:28.480 Yes, that's right. 20:28.480 --> 20:30.840 Check me if I'm wrong, Joe. 20:30.840 --> 20:31.840 That description, Tom familiar? 20:31.840 --> 20:33.600 Just what I was thinking. 20:33.600 --> 20:35.600 Horn-rimmed glasses, metal work on them. 20:35.600 --> 20:37.600 The woman who came to see us at the office? 20:37.600 --> 20:38.600 Yeah, you got it. 20:38.600 --> 20:39.600 Lucille Banner. 20:39.600 --> 20:45.200 Ben and I went back to the office and had Lucille Banner check through our eyes. 20:45.200 --> 20:46.840 She had no criminal record. 20:46.840 --> 20:50.240 Then we drove to the home on Ralston Avenue, which Chester Dillon had leased to Lucille 20:50.240 --> 20:53.060 Banner, in which she in turn had sublet. 20:53.060 --> 20:56.320 We obtained a copy of the lease, which the Banner woman had with the current tenants 20:56.320 --> 20:57.320 and which bore her signature. 20:57.320 --> 21:01.760 We brought the copy of the lease downtown, gave it to Don Meyer in handwriting, and asked 21:01.760 --> 21:05.640 him to compare Lucille Banner's signature with the signature on the sales slip that 21:05.640 --> 21:08.000 we'd obtained from the union department store. 21:08.000 --> 21:11.480 Fifteen minutes later, he called us at the office with the result. 21:11.480 --> 21:12.480 Yeah, Don. 21:12.480 --> 21:13.480 Mm-hmm. 21:13.480 --> 21:14.480 Good sell. 21:14.480 --> 21:15.480 You're right. 21:15.480 --> 21:16.480 Thanks a lot. 21:16.480 --> 21:17.480 What'd he get? 21:17.480 --> 21:18.960 Says there's no question in his mind. 21:18.960 --> 21:19.960 Yeah. 21:19.960 --> 21:20.960 Both signatures match perfectly. 21:20.960 --> 21:28.360 What the reason was behind Lucille Banner's forging the signature of Mrs. Dillon on the 21:28.360 --> 21:30.680 sales slip, we didn't know. 21:30.680 --> 21:33.800 Whether or not it had any connection with the disappearance of Chester Dillon, we didn't 21:33.800 --> 21:34.800 know. 21:34.800 --> 21:38.600 As soon as we got the handwriting report from Don Meyer, Ben and I left the office immediately 21:38.600 --> 21:41.960 and drove to the bungalow, which the Banner woman was renting on Ralston Avenue. 21:41.960 --> 21:45.280 It was a block down the street from the Dillon house. 21:45.280 --> 21:49.600 Lucille Banner wasn't at home, but a neighborhood gardener trimming a lawn in front of her house 21:49.600 --> 21:51.960 told us that she was expected back shortly. 21:51.960 --> 21:56.520 The gardener, who identified himself only as Julio, volunteered that he also did gardening 21:56.520 --> 21:59.920 work for Miss Banner when she occupied the Dillon home. 21:59.920 --> 22:02.760 He'd also worked for the Dillons when they lived in the house. 22:02.760 --> 22:05.960 He told us he liked the Dillons quite a bit, but that he didn't have much use for Miss 22:05.960 --> 22:06.960 Banner. 22:06.960 --> 22:10.160 He seemed to be up on all the news in the neighborhood. 22:10.160 --> 22:14.880 He trimmed the hedges of the lawn with hand shears as we talked to him. 22:14.880 --> 22:17.560 Can you tell us anything about Miss Dillon and Miss Banner, Julio? 22:17.560 --> 22:19.560 How'd they seem to get along, you know? 22:19.560 --> 22:21.320 They get along all right, I guess. 22:21.320 --> 22:24.280 When I worked at the big house down there for Miss Banner, that's before she moved, 22:24.280 --> 22:25.960 I would see Mr. Dillon there. 22:25.960 --> 22:28.480 He would be at the house maybe once, two times a week. 22:28.480 --> 22:31.240 Miss Banner would ask him to come over for dinner for him. 22:31.240 --> 22:32.800 Miss Banner likes him, I think. 22:32.800 --> 22:34.320 Mr. Dillon, I don't know about him. 22:34.320 --> 22:35.920 He wasn't feeling so good. 22:35.920 --> 22:37.520 Still thinking about his wife. 22:37.520 --> 22:40.280 Here, I'll finish up this clipping now. 22:40.280 --> 22:43.680 There, all done. 22:43.680 --> 22:45.800 You mentioned you don't like Miss Banner very much, Julio. 22:45.800 --> 22:46.800 Why is that? 22:46.800 --> 22:48.160 Did she ever give you a reason not to like her? 22:48.160 --> 22:49.600 She's a little crazy, I think. 22:49.600 --> 22:50.600 Funny woman. 22:50.600 --> 22:53.600 When I used to work at the big house for her in the garden, she would watch me all the 22:53.600 --> 22:56.400 time, follow me all around, tell me to do all kinds of crazy jobs. 22:56.400 --> 22:58.280 She gave me good pay, though, so I do them. 22:58.280 --> 22:59.440 How do you mean, Julio? 22:59.440 --> 23:00.680 What kind of crazy job? 23:00.680 --> 23:02.460 The compost box for fertilizer, you know. 23:02.460 --> 23:04.720 She wanted me to build one for her in the backyard. 23:04.720 --> 23:06.120 That was down the street, the Dillon house. 23:06.120 --> 23:07.120 Mm-hmm. 23:07.120 --> 23:08.120 Crazy woman. 23:08.120 --> 23:09.360 She wanted me to build a compost box in the greenhouse. 23:09.360 --> 23:10.960 I have a special place, Mark Farrell. 23:10.960 --> 23:11.960 Who ever heard of that? 23:11.960 --> 23:13.640 To build a compost box inside a greenhouse. 23:13.640 --> 23:14.640 Crazy. 23:14.640 --> 23:15.640 Oh, did you build it for her? 23:15.640 --> 23:17.120 Yes, but not inside the greenhouse. 23:17.120 --> 23:19.520 I built it outside, right next door to the greenhouse. 23:19.520 --> 23:22.120 When she come outside, she go crazy almost, call me names. 23:22.120 --> 23:23.120 Crazy. 23:23.120 --> 23:24.120 She made me tear it up. 23:24.120 --> 23:27.120 Then she made me build it inside the greenhouse, right on the place she had marked for it. 23:27.120 --> 23:29.240 Sounds weird, doesn't it? 23:29.240 --> 23:30.240 When did all this happen, Julio? 23:30.240 --> 23:31.240 Do you remember? 23:31.240 --> 23:32.240 When you built the compost box? 23:32.240 --> 23:34.160 I mean, a couple of months ago about that. 23:34.160 --> 23:36.040 It was just after Mr. Dillon went away. 23:36.040 --> 23:39.200 I tried to tell Miss Banner, who ever heard of a compost box in a greenhouse? 23:39.200 --> 23:40.200 She wouldn't listen. 23:40.200 --> 23:43.400 She had to have it built in a certain place, right in the greenhouse, little piece of ground 23:43.400 --> 23:44.400 in there. 23:44.400 --> 23:45.400 The box had to go right on top of it. 23:45.400 --> 23:46.400 Mm-hmm. 23:46.400 --> 23:47.720 You figure she acted pretty strange about it, do you? 23:47.720 --> 23:50.080 You think she had something in there, little piece of ground. 23:50.080 --> 23:52.600 You think she had something to hide. 23:52.600 --> 23:59.240 One fifteen p.m., Lucille Banner returned home and Ben and I went inside the house with 23:59.240 --> 24:01.960 her, where we questioned her in the living room. 24:01.960 --> 24:05.720 Outside in the front yard, the gardener, Julio, continued working on the lawn. 24:05.720 --> 24:07.760 Lucille Banner was calm and composed. 24:07.760 --> 24:10.200 We questioned her about the forged signature on the sales slip. 24:10.200 --> 24:11.200 She would admit nothing. 24:11.200 --> 24:13.240 The whole thing's too silly to even comment on. 24:13.240 --> 24:14.840 I don't know what you're talking about, Sergeant. 24:14.840 --> 24:16.120 We think you do, Miss Banner. 24:16.120 --> 24:19.920 Our handwriting man has checked the two signatures, one on the sales slip and one on the lease. 24:19.920 --> 24:20.920 They both match. 24:20.920 --> 24:23.040 They were written by the same person, there's no doubt about it. 24:23.040 --> 24:24.040 Been checked thoroughly. 24:24.040 --> 24:25.040 Now what about it, Miss Banner? 24:25.040 --> 24:26.040 There's no way out of it. 24:26.040 --> 24:27.040 You ought to know that. 24:27.040 --> 24:28.040 I'll deny it. 24:28.040 --> 24:29.040 That's all. 24:29.040 --> 24:30.040 I'll keep on denying it. 24:30.040 --> 24:31.040 I wasn't in that store and I didn't forge any signatures. 24:31.040 --> 24:32.560 Why would I do a thing like that? 24:32.560 --> 24:34.040 What kind of a woman do you think I am? 24:34.040 --> 24:35.040 All we know are the facts, ma'am. 24:35.040 --> 24:36.680 Now why don't you give us a straight story? 24:36.680 --> 24:38.680 It's going to save time and trouble for everybody concerned. 24:38.680 --> 24:40.240 You've heard everything I've got to say. 24:40.240 --> 24:41.240 This thing's ridiculous. 24:41.240 --> 24:42.240 It's stupid. 24:42.240 --> 24:43.240 I'm not answering any more questions. 24:43.240 --> 24:45.040 You want to get your hat and coat, Miss Banner? 24:45.040 --> 24:47.040 I'm afraid you'll have to come downtown with us. 24:47.040 --> 24:51.040 What good's that going to do, I'll just keep on denying it? 24:51.040 --> 24:52.040 You can't make me say I did a thing like that. 24:52.040 --> 24:53.040 I want to get your coat, please. 24:53.040 --> 24:54.040 It's right here. 24:54.040 --> 24:55.040 All right. 24:55.040 --> 24:56.040 Yes, ma'am. 24:56.040 --> 24:57.040 The car's right out in front. 24:57.040 --> 25:02.040 Hold it a minute, will you, Ben? 25:02.040 --> 25:03.040 Yeah, okay. 25:03.040 --> 25:04.040 Julio? 25:04.040 --> 25:05.040 Yes, sir. 25:05.040 --> 25:06.040 Can I see a minute? 25:06.040 --> 25:07.040 Sure. 25:07.040 --> 25:08.040 Hello, Miss Banner. 25:08.040 --> 25:09.040 William. 25:09.040 --> 25:10.040 A favor I'd like to ask of you, Julio. 25:10.040 --> 25:11.040 You got a couple of minutes to spare? 25:11.040 --> 25:12.040 Yeah, you want something? 25:12.040 --> 25:13.040 We want to take a look in the back of your car. 25:13.040 --> 25:18.040 Mr. Dillon's house, I'd like to have you come along with us, Julio. 25:18.040 --> 25:19.040 It won't take very long. 25:19.040 --> 25:20.040 Sure, okay. 25:20.040 --> 25:21.040 I'll come along. 25:21.040 --> 25:22.040 Bring a shovel along, will you, Julio? 25:22.040 --> 25:23.040 I'd like to check something. 25:23.040 --> 25:24.040 Yeah, okay. 25:24.040 --> 25:25.040 I'll bring one. 25:25.040 --> 25:26.040 All right, Miss Banner. 25:26.040 --> 25:27.040 What's this about? 25:27.040 --> 25:28.040 What are you trying to do? 25:28.040 --> 25:29.040 Something we want to check in the Dillon's backyard. 25:29.040 --> 25:30.040 It won't take long. 25:30.040 --> 25:31.040 What would it have to do with me? 25:31.040 --> 25:32.040 I don't have anything to do with that house. 25:32.040 --> 25:33.040 I don't even live there anymore. 25:33.040 --> 25:34.040 You realize that, don't you? 25:34.040 --> 25:35.040 Yes, ma'am. 25:35.040 --> 25:36.040 We realize it. 25:36.040 --> 25:37.040 I'll call my lawyer. 25:37.040 --> 25:38.040 I'll call my lawyer. 25:38.040 --> 25:39.040 I'll call my lawyer. 25:39.040 --> 25:40.040 I'll call my lawyer. 25:40.040 --> 25:43.040 I'll call my lawyer. 25:43.040 --> 25:48.040 I'll call him as soon as I get to a phone. 25:48.040 --> 25:49.040 Julio? 25:49.040 --> 25:50.040 Back this way, Sergeant. 25:50.040 --> 25:51.040 Through the gate. 25:51.040 --> 25:52.040 All right. 25:52.040 --> 25:56.040 What are you trying to do to me? 25:56.040 --> 25:57.040 You know I don't live here anymore. 25:57.040 --> 25:59.040 I don't even have anything to do with this place. 25:59.040 --> 26:00.040 You did live here, ma'am. 26:00.040 --> 26:02.040 You lived here when Mr. Dillon disappeared, isn't that right? 26:02.040 --> 26:03.400 What are you trying to say? 26:03.400 --> 26:04.960 You've got no business on this property. 26:04.960 --> 26:06.440 You've got no business here at all. 26:06.440 --> 26:07.440 Yes, ma'am, we have. 26:07.440 --> 26:08.440 What? 26:08.440 --> 26:10.440 Did you kill Mr. Dillon? 26:10.440 --> 26:12.440 Did you kill him? 26:12.440 --> 26:13.440 Miss Manning? 26:13.440 --> 26:17.440 All right, Julio, the compost box in the greenhouse. 26:17.440 --> 26:18.440 Do you want to start digging? 26:18.440 --> 26:19.440 You mean the compost box? 26:19.440 --> 26:20.440 Yeah, okay. 26:20.440 --> 26:25.440 He was an old man. 26:25.440 --> 26:30.440 So old he was sick. 26:30.440 --> 26:31.440 Ma'am? 26:31.440 --> 26:32.440 He didn't want to live anymore. 26:32.440 --> 26:34.440 He didn't have any reason for living. 26:34.440 --> 26:36.440 Why shouldn't he give me the house? 26:36.440 --> 26:37.440 Why shouldn't I have his money? 26:37.440 --> 26:38.440 I was nice to him. 26:38.440 --> 26:39.440 I cooked for him. 26:39.440 --> 26:40.440 I wanted to take care of him. 26:40.440 --> 26:43.440 He just didn't want to live anymore, that's all. 26:43.440 --> 26:45.440 All right, Julio, you can hold it up. 26:45.440 --> 26:46.440 You want to tell us, ma'am? 26:46.440 --> 26:47.440 He needed a woman. 26:47.440 --> 26:48.440 Anybody could tell that. 26:48.440 --> 26:49.440 He needed me. 26:49.440 --> 26:51.440 He's got a long sign, Chester and me. 26:51.440 --> 26:53.440 I offered to marry him, and he wouldn't do it. 26:53.440 --> 26:55.440 All he could do was think about his wife. 26:55.440 --> 26:56.440 She was dead. 26:56.440 --> 26:58.440 He'd sit around and talk about her all the time. 26:58.440 --> 26:59.440 You killed him. 26:59.440 --> 27:00.440 Is that what you're trying to say? 27:00.440 --> 27:02.440 I wanted to marry Chester and take care of him. 27:02.440 --> 27:03.440 He wouldn't do it. 27:03.440 --> 27:05.440 He had an argument in the kitchen one night. 27:05.440 --> 27:07.440 I had a gun, and I killed him. 27:07.440 --> 27:08.440 I killed him. 27:08.440 --> 27:09.440 Is that where you buried him? 27:09.440 --> 27:10.440 In the greenhouse? 27:10.440 --> 27:12.440 Yes, I buried him deep. 27:12.440 --> 27:13.440 The gun, too. 27:13.440 --> 27:14.440 He'll be all right. 27:14.440 --> 27:15.440 Poor Chester. 27:15.440 --> 27:16.440 Yeah. 27:16.440 --> 27:17.440 He was so old. 27:17.440 --> 27:18.440 He needed a woman. 27:18.440 --> 27:19.440 Anyone could tell you that. 27:19.440 --> 27:20.440 He needed me. 27:20.440 --> 27:22.440 Well, I guess you made a mistake. 27:22.440 --> 27:24.440 No, Sergeant, he did. 27:24.440 --> 27:25.440 Yeah. 27:25.440 --> 27:26.440 He didn't want me. 27:26.440 --> 27:33.440 The story you have just heard was true. 27:33.440 --> 27:39.440 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:39.440 --> 27:42.440 On June 2nd, trial was held in Superior Court, 27:42.440 --> 27:45.440 Department 86, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 27:45.440 --> 27:47.440 In a moment, the results of that trial. 27:47.440 --> 27:49.440 And now here is our star, Jack Webb. 27:49.440 --> 27:50.440 Thank you. 27:50.440 --> 27:52.440 Friends, during the past couple of years, 27:52.440 --> 27:54.440 we've had many talks with law enforcement agencies 27:54.440 --> 27:58.440 and received hundreds of letters from police officers all over the country. 27:58.440 --> 28:02.440 We're especially pleased to know that so many of these men feel as we do 28:02.440 --> 28:05.440 that Fatima is the best of all King Si cigarettes. 28:05.440 --> 28:08.440 As a matter of fact, our sales reports prove beyond a doubt 28:08.440 --> 28:12.440 that more and more smokers everywhere are switching to Fatima. 28:12.440 --> 28:15.440 When you buy your first pack, you'll understand why. 28:15.440 --> 28:17.440 You'll enjoy Fatima's extra mildness, 28:17.440 --> 28:19.440 their much better flavor and aroma. 28:19.440 --> 28:23.440 Next time, look for the golden yellow package and ask for Fatima. 28:23.440 --> 28:26.440 Best of all, King Si cigarette. 28:26.440 --> 28:39.440 The Seale Marie Banner was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree. 28:39.440 --> 28:42.440 She received a sentence as prescribed by law. 28:42.440 --> 28:45.440 She is now serving a life term in the state penitentiary for women 28:45.440 --> 28:55.440 in Tehachapi, California. 28:55.440 --> 29:00.440 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 29:00.440 --> 29:04.440 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. 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