1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,120 The story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:12,120 --> 00:00:14,480 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:16,160 Fatima cigarettes. 4 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:27,560 Best of all, king-sized cigarettes brings you dragnet. 5 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:29,000 You're a detective sergeant. 6 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,360 You're assigned to homicide detail. 7 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:34,960 An unidentified woman is found murdered in a hotel room. 8 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:35,960 Cause of death? 9 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:37,560 Strangulation. 10 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:40,200 There's no lead to the identity of the killer. 11 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:41,200 Your job? 12 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:45,440 Find him. 13 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:50,880 The latest Fatima sales report shows thousands and thousands of king-sized cigarette smokers 14 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:52,920 are switching to Fatima. 15 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:58,920 For the month of October, coast to coast actual figures show Fatima sales are up 110 16 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:01,360 percent or more than double. 17 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:04,680 Fatima, best of all king-sized cigarettes. 18 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:08,880 Definitely the best quality in its class, but the same price as the cigarette you're 19 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:09,880 now smoking. 20 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:15,320 Remember, thousands of Americans are switching to extra mild Fatima. 21 00:01:15,320 --> 00:01:18,040 Next time, insist on the best. 22 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:24,120 King-sized Fatima in the distinctive golden yellow package. 23 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:31,160 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 24 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:35,960 For the next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 25 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:40,520 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 26 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:42,200 police files. 27 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:47,360 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 28 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:52,960 in action. 29 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:54,360 It was Tuesday, October 27th. 30 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,080 It was cold in Los Angeles. 31 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:57,960 We were working the day watch out of homicide. 32 00:01:57,960 --> 00:01:59,160 My partner's Ben Romero. 33 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:01,120 The boss is Thad Brown, chief of detectives. 34 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:02,120 My name's Friday. 35 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:07,400 It was 1.35 p.m. when we got to the old central jail building, third floor, the crime lab. 36 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:08,960 How you doing, Lee? 37 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:09,960 Hi, Ben. 38 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:10,960 Joe. 39 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:11,960 How's it going? 40 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:12,960 Did you check the stuff yet? 41 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:13,960 Yeah, most of it. 42 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:14,960 Come on back here. 43 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:15,960 Okay. 44 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:16,960 Well, this is all of it. 45 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:18,400 Did you find anything we can get a lead out of? 46 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:19,400 Nothing too good, no. 47 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,920 I don't think you could identify it from what we've got here. 48 00:02:21,920 --> 00:02:23,120 The morgue poster body yet? 49 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:24,120 Yeah, just this morning. 50 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:25,480 How about fingerprints, Lee? 51 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:26,680 Did they find any in that hotel? 52 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:27,880 No foreign prints, no. 53 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:28,880 Dead end there. 54 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:29,880 What about the woman's purse? 55 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:30,880 Did she show anything? 56 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:31,880 No chance. 57 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:32,880 You can see the fabric here. 58 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:33,880 Won't take a print. 59 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:34,880 Yeah. 60 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:35,880 Contents of the purse here, usual stuff. 61 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:36,880 Mm-hmm. 62 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,840 Comb, lipstick, key chain, one key on it, half pack of chewing gum, coin purse, a dime, 63 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:41,840 two nickels in it. 64 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:42,840 That's all of it. 65 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,960 According to the room clerk at the hotel, she had a wallet with her when she checked 66 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:47,960 in. 67 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:48,960 There's no sign of that, was there? 68 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:49,960 Nope. 69 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:50,960 No sign of it in the hotel room either. 70 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,200 Is that the only piece of jewelry found on the body, that wedding ring there? 71 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:55,560 Yeah, it's a cheap ring. 72 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:56,560 No markings on it. 73 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:57,560 No way of tracing it. 74 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:00,760 About the only thing I can tell you, she was pretty well dressed. 75 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:01,760 That's an expensive bag there. 76 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:02,760 Yeah. 77 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:03,760 Sure not a cheap dress either. 78 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:05,640 Same for a coat and shoes. 79 00:03:05,640 --> 00:03:07,040 They cost some money too. 80 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:08,880 How about labels on any of that stuff? 81 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:09,880 One on the coat. 82 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:10,880 Yeah. 83 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:11,880 You can see right here. 84 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:13,560 Benworth Department Store, Los Angeles. 85 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:14,560 Coats fairly new. 86 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:16,640 They might be able to give you something on it. 87 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:17,640 Yeah, maybe. 88 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:19,360 The people at the hotel, got anything there? 89 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:21,200 Well, it could have been better, Lee. 90 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,360 The woman checked in last night around 8 o'clock. 91 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:25,760 She registered as John Ross' wife, L.A. 92 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:27,600 I didn't even see the man with it? 93 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:28,600 No, nobody. 94 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:30,680 Room clerk says the woman came in alone. 95 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,440 She said her husband was out parking the car, so she registered for both of them. 96 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:36,960 Clerk said he left the desk a few minutes after that. 97 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:39,800 Figures the man must have come in sometime while he was gone. 98 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,000 Nobody on duty at the desk after midnight. 99 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,480 He could have left the hotel any time after that without being seen. 100 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:48,080 She registered at 8 p.m. in the corner and says she died about 10.30. 101 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,440 You're not even sure there was a man with her, are you? 102 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:53,760 Yeah, the woman who was registered next door to the murder room, she told us she heard 103 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:54,960 a man and a woman arguing. 104 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:55,960 That was about 10 o'clock. 105 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:57,600 Said it got pretty loud. 106 00:03:57,600 --> 00:03:58,600 Hmm. 107 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,120 No idea who the woman really was, huh? 108 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,320 I suppose that John Ross and wife business doesn't mean anything. 109 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:05,360 That's pretty doubtful. 110 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:07,760 But all we got to go on is the physical description from the coroner. 111 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:14,080 She was a small woman, 5 foot 1, 99 and a quarter pounds, wasn't that what it had been? 112 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:15,080 No. 113 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:17,640 Brown hair, blue eyes, about 31, 32 years old. 114 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:19,520 We got her prints off to Washington. 115 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:20,520 Got any ideas? 116 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:22,520 We figured maybe it could be a psycho killer. 117 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:23,520 How'd you figure? 118 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:26,240 The coroner's report listed strangulation as a cause of death. 119 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:27,240 Yeah? 120 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:32,320 Whoever did it made sure her neck was broken. 121 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:36,080 At approximately 6 o'clock that morning in a second floor room of a downtown hotel, the 122 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:38,760 body of an unidentified woman was found murdered. 123 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:42,920 Preliminary investigation failed to reveal the true identity of the victim or the killer. 124 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:46,240 As far as physical evidence was concerned, there wasn't much to go on. 125 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,680 The deep bruises on her neck and throat along with a crushed vertebrae at the base of her 126 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:52,480 skull indicated a savage attack. 127 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:54,400 1.55 p.m. 128 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,560 Through the label on the dead woman's coat, we traced the garment to a department store 129 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:00,040 where it had been purchased, but they had no record on it. 130 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:04,160 It was a cash purchase and the salesgirl couldn't remember the customer. 131 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,200 Investigation during the next two days failed to turn up any leads. 132 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:10,980 We showed a morgue picture of the victim to bartenders, waitresses, parking lot attendants 133 00:05:10,980 --> 00:05:12,520 in the vicinity of the hotel. 134 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:13,960 They couldn't identify her. 135 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:16,720 We rechecked tenants and employees at the hotel. 136 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:18,120 That got us nothing. 137 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,800 Thursday 5.48 p.m. 138 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:23,480 One answer I'd sure like to find. 139 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:24,480 Yeah? 140 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:26,760 The victim was a nice looking woman, well dressed, nice clothes. 141 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,600 How come she'd stay in a cheap hotel down in the neighborhood like that? 142 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,120 It doesn't jive for my money. 143 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:32,720 Well, that's hard to say. 144 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:33,720 Sure got me stopped. 145 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,000 Two days leg work and we're in no play. 146 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,440 Well, we might be in better shape when we get that kick back from Washington. 147 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:39,440 I sure hope so. 148 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:40,440 Go ahead. 149 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:44,720 Hey, excuse me? 150 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:48,120 Yes, sir. 151 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:50,640 Can we help you? 152 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:53,960 Well, no, I don't know. 153 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:55,520 I guess that all depends. 154 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:57,160 I'm waiting for a couple of detectives here. 155 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:58,840 Who is it you wanted to see? 156 00:05:58,840 --> 00:05:59,840 A couple of detectives. 157 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:00,840 Who are they? 158 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:02,840 That's pretty confidential, you know. 159 00:06:02,840 --> 00:06:04,840 I have to talk to them. 160 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:07,800 Told me to see Friday and Romero. 161 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:09,800 Ben Friday and Joe Romero. 162 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:10,800 Who's handling the case? 163 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:11,800 Yes, sir. 164 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:12,800 I'm Joe Friday. 165 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:13,800 This is my partner, Ben Romero. 166 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:14,800 We're handling the case. 167 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:16,360 What did you want to see us about? 168 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:18,920 You said you were working on that murder case? 169 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:20,200 That woman they found in the hotel? 170 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:21,200 Yes, sir. 171 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:22,200 That's right. 172 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:23,200 That so? 173 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:24,200 May I see your badges? 174 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:25,200 Yes, sir. 175 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:26,200 Here's our identification. 176 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:27,200 Mm-hmm. 177 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:32,200 I read about that murder in the paper, you know. 178 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:34,800 You better come over here. 179 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:35,800 Yeah. 180 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:39,160 You're going to thank me for this. 181 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:40,880 I've got all you want to know about that murder. 182 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:42,640 You mind telling us your name, sir? 183 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:43,640 I don't mind. 184 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:44,640 Al P. Morgan. 185 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:47,160 I was a good friend of hers, you know. 186 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:48,800 I used to work with him. 187 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:49,800 You mean the dead woman? 188 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:50,800 It's the same one. 189 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:52,480 I never forget her face. 190 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:53,480 Maude McLeod. 191 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,240 I saw that picture in the paper and I said to myself, 192 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:58,000 there's old Maude. 193 00:06:58,000 --> 00:06:59,400 You're pretty sure of that, are you, Mr. Morgan? 194 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:00,400 Sure, I'm sure. 195 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:01,400 Maude McLeod. 196 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:03,600 Used to work together in the circus. 197 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:04,600 Maude was a bareback girl, you know. 198 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:06,400 Best in the country, real trooper. 199 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:08,880 What makes you so sure it's the same woman, Mr. Morgan? 200 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,320 When was the last time you saw this friend of yours, 201 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:12,320 this Maude McLeod? 202 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:14,760 Well, I used to see her all the time. 203 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:16,360 Worked the old cell's photo together. 204 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:18,200 Got a photo of her. 205 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:19,480 Do you mind if we take a look at it, sir? 206 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:20,480 That's why I came down here. 207 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:21,480 I want to help out. 208 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:22,480 She's got to be identified. 209 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:23,480 Let's see. 210 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:24,480 Got it here somewhere. 211 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:25,480 It's old Maude in a circus costume. 212 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:26,480 Yeah, here it is. 213 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:27,480 Take a look at that. 214 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:28,480 That's Maude, ain't it? 215 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:29,480 Well, I don't know, sir. 216 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:30,480 Doesn't seem to be too much resemblance here. 217 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:31,480 Is that right? 218 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:32,480 Yeah. 219 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:33,480 It's Maude, isn't it? 220 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:34,480 Yeah. 221 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:35,480 It's Maude, isn't it? 222 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:36,480 Yeah. 223 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:40,760 I'm afraid you've made a mistake, Mr. Morgan. 224 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:41,760 Thanks for your cooperation anyhow. 225 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:42,760 Appreciate you coming in. 226 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:43,760 Well, sure, it was Maude. 227 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:44,760 I got it. 228 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:45,760 Homicide Friday. 229 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:46,760 Oh, yeah, Frank. 230 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:47,760 Uh-huh. 231 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:48,760 Is that right? 232 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:49,760 What'd it say? 233 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:50,760 Uh-huh. 234 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:51,760 Yeah. 235 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:52,760 Okay, fine. 236 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:53,760 No, we'll pick it up. 237 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:54,760 Yeah, thanks. 238 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:55,760 Anything? 239 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:56,760 Communications. 240 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:59,760 They got the kickback from Washington on the dead woman's fingerprints. 241 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:00,760 Any luck? 242 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:01,760 They got her identified. 243 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:04,760 She worked at an aircraft plant during the war, named Maude. 244 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:09,400 She worked at an aircraft plant during the war, named Doris Frazier. 245 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,000 I can't help but think your fellows are missing a bet. 246 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:13,000 I knew that dead woman. 247 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:14,800 Well, she's already been identified, Mr. Morgan. 248 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:15,800 We know who she is. 249 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:16,800 Her name's Doris Frazier. 250 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:17,800 That's her. 251 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:18,800 Yes, sir, that's right. 252 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:19,800 Well, what do you think of that? 253 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:20,800 Old Maude. 254 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:25,800 She went and changed her name. 255 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,200 Thursday, 6.35 p.m. 256 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:33,440 Ben and I went down the hall to communications and got a copy of the kickback from Washington. 257 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:36,640 The murder victim was identified as Doris Eileen Frazier. 258 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:42,160 She applied for a position as a typist at the Eagle Aircraft Plant in Burbank in 1942. 259 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:45,320 Next morning, we checked the personnel office at the plant and we found that Doris Frazier 260 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:48,760 had been employed as a typist from 1942 to 1944. 261 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:54,400 And going over her application, we found her last known address listed as 7346 Oakdale 262 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:55,680 Avenue. 263 00:08:55,680 --> 00:09:00,960 Her application stated she was single, with no previous employment, with no known relatives. 264 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,660 We could uncover no further information on the girl. 265 00:09:03,660 --> 00:09:07,440 We drove across town to the Oakdale Avenue address, a large apartment building in a better 266 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:08,960 than average neighborhood. 267 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:12,740 The manager told us that Doris Frazier had lived there up to eight months before. 268 00:09:12,740 --> 00:09:16,980 He said that a few weeks before she moved, she was married to a tall, dark-haired man, 269 00:09:16,980 --> 00:09:18,980 but he was unable to remember his name. 270 00:09:18,980 --> 00:09:23,000 The manager also told us that the newly married couple apparently began having trouble from 271 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:24,880 the day that they were married. 272 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:28,160 We checked the next forwarding address, a boarding house for women in the south end 273 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:29,160 of the city. 274 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:32,040 Ben and I interviewed the woman in charge of Mrs. Frances Watson. 275 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:35,280 We talked to her back in the kitchen of the boarding house while she polished a set of 276 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:36,280 silverware. 277 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:38,880 I saw that picture in the paper. 278 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:40,360 I didn't connect it with Doris, though. 279 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:42,280 She was a much prettier girl when she lived here. 280 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:45,080 You say she left here about 18 months ago, Miss Watson? 281 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:46,400 Yes, maybe a little more. 282 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:47,400 It might be closer to two years. 283 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:49,400 I'd have to check my rent receipts to be sure. 284 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:51,840 Did you happen to know anything about the Frazier girl, Miss Watson? 285 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:54,360 I mean, did you know much about her personal life at all? 286 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:56,840 Well, of course, I always insist on references. 287 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:59,080 Any good boarding house does, you know. 288 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:00,920 Doris was a nice girl in many ways. 289 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:02,640 Of course, she had her shortcomings. 290 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:03,960 I suppose we all do. 291 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:08,880 When she first came here, she seemed like such a nice girl, and then she started to go downhill. 292 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:10,200 I just don't know what got into her. 293 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:11,200 Well, how do you mean, ma'am? 294 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:12,200 Was she in some kind of trouble? 295 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:16,160 Well, of course, when she first came here, we didn't know it, but she was married. 296 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:17,720 This is a home for single girls. 297 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:20,840 We have our rules and regulations just like any other respectable place. 298 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:21,840 Yes, ma'am, we understand. 299 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:26,000 Well, as we came to find out later, Doris wasn't only married, but she was fighting 300 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,000 with her husband. 301 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,200 I understand he wasn't much at all. 302 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:31,280 She was thinking of getting a divorce, as a matter of fact. 303 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:32,880 Well, did you ever meet her husband, Miss Watson? 304 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:33,880 No, I never did. 305 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:35,520 I suppose it's just as well I didn't. 306 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,840 I understand that Doris left him after they'd been married only a few months. 307 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:39,840 Mm-hmm. 308 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:40,840 Do you know what his name is, ma'am? 309 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:42,320 No, I have no idea. 310 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:44,680 Doris always used a maiden name, and she was with me. 311 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:46,400 Then you never saw this man, Miss Watson? 312 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:47,680 He never came to the house here? 313 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:49,360 No, I didn't say I never saw him. 314 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:50,640 I said I didn't meet him. 315 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,760 Yes, there was once when he came to the house to see Doris. 316 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:55,640 What was the occasion, you mind telling us about it? 317 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:58,240 Oh, it was most unpleasant, I can tell you that. 318 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:00,320 Let me see now. 319 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,120 Yes, Doris had been here about six months. 320 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:06,360 Even by that time, I was beginning to see the real side of the girl. 321 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:08,440 No character, Sergeant, no character at all. 322 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:09,440 It shows up every time. 323 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:10,440 Yes, ma'am. 324 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:11,440 What if you'd go on, please? 325 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:16,200 Well, as I was saying, it was after about six months when this man brought Doris home 326 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:20,480 late one night, about a quarter till midnight, I'd say, upset the whole house. 327 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:21,480 How was that, ma'am? 328 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:23,920 The two of them, this man and Doris. 329 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:27,280 They stood right out there in the hall, had a terrible quarrel. 330 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:29,200 The language, it was dreadful. 331 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:31,600 The top of their lungs, too. 332 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:35,040 My husband went out to quiet them down, but the man left before he had a chance to calm 333 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:36,040 him down. 334 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:37,040 He upset the whole house. 335 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:38,040 Uh-huh. 336 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:40,760 Now, this man that the Frazier woman was arguing with, you're sure that that was her husband? 337 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:42,560 Well, as sure as I can be. 338 00:11:42,560 --> 00:11:45,320 That's what Doris told me, anyway, the day after. 339 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:48,480 I called her in and told her I just couldn't tolerate behavior like that. 340 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:50,560 It upset her quite a bit, I remember. 341 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:53,160 She cried, said it wouldn't happen again. 342 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:55,360 That's when she told me she was trying to get a divorce. 343 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:56,520 Is that what the big argument was about? 344 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:57,520 Would you know that? 345 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:00,080 Yes, she said she wanted a divorce, her husband didn't. 346 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:01,560 He wanted her back with him. 347 00:12:01,560 --> 00:12:04,560 Certainly is sad, the way some people mix up their lives. 348 00:12:04,560 --> 00:12:05,560 Yes, ma'am. 349 00:12:05,560 --> 00:12:08,720 By any chance did you get a good look at this man, the husband, I mean? 350 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:10,640 Well, he was tall and had dark hair. 351 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:12,200 That's about all I remember. 352 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:13,560 He was well dressed, too. 353 00:12:13,560 --> 00:12:14,760 I see. 354 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:18,440 When Doris Frazier left here, Mrs. Watson, did she leave a forwarding address with you? 355 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:19,440 No, she didn't. 356 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:21,060 I haven't any idea where she moved. 357 00:12:21,060 --> 00:12:23,080 What kind of work was she doing while she was living here? 358 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:24,640 Do you have any idea where she was employed? 359 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:26,720 Yes, that was one of the references she gave me. 360 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:30,240 Furniture company down on Venice Boulevard, if I remember correctly. 361 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:32,120 I have the address, my record book. 362 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:34,840 Certainly is unfortunate, the whole thing. 363 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:36,080 Yes, ma'am, it is. 364 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:38,200 He even tried to talk to her before she left. 365 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:41,320 Sat her down and talked to her for a whole afternoon. 366 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:42,960 I guess it was just a waste of time. 367 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:44,400 How's that, ma'am? 368 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:46,880 Trouble with her husband, terrible thing. 369 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:50,520 He seemed to treat her so badly, two of them fighting all the time. 370 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:53,280 I believe she was actually afraid of him. 371 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:54,520 She told me he was very jealous. 372 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:55,520 He drank, ran around. 373 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:57,520 That's why I couldn't understand it. 374 00:12:57,520 --> 00:12:59,520 You couldn't understand what, ma'am? 375 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:01,400 Doris, when she moved away from here. 376 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:02,400 Yes, ma'am. 377 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:08,200 She said she was going back with her husband. 378 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:11,720 The landlady, Frances Watson, gave us the address of the furniture store where the murder 379 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:15,160 victim had been employed and we drove down to check with the personnel manager of Mr. 380 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:16,360 Collins. 381 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:20,000 He said that Doris Frazier had been fired from her job ten months before. 382 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,920 He said she'd been let go because she was constantly late for work and that she got 383 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:26,160 into the habit of asking for salary advances too often. 384 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:29,200 Collins also told us that he'd heard about the trouble between the Frazier woman and 385 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:30,200 her husband. 386 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,600 He said he'd seen the husband in the store several times when he came to call for his 387 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:34,600 wife. 388 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:36,640 He identified the husband as Stephen Arnold. 389 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:40,800 The description was approximately the same, a tall, well-dressed man, dark hair, heavy 390 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:41,800 build. 391 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:45,400 The personnel manager gave us the last known address they had on the victim. 392 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:49,760 The following morning we checked it out, an apartment hotel in the East Wilshire area. 393 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:53,320 She was still registered there together with her husband, Stephen Arnold, but the desk clerk 394 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:56,320 told us that Arnold hadn't been living there for the past three months. 395 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:57,880 He had no idea where Arnold had moved. 396 00:13:57,880 --> 00:13:59,760 He didn't know where he worked. 397 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:02,920 While the desk clerk stood by, Ben and I went upstairs and checked the apartment. 398 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:03,920 Anything, Joe? 399 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:04,920 No, nothing. 400 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:05,920 Nothing in the bedroom. 401 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:10,200 Like Lee says, she goes in for nice clothes, about all I can figure. 402 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:12,440 And what you got there? 403 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:13,680 See it lying on the desk here. 404 00:14:13,680 --> 00:14:15,880 Looks like she started to letter and didn't get to finish it. 405 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:17,440 What's it say there? 406 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:20,640 Well, it's dated October 23rd, that's over a week ago. 407 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:25,800 It says, Dear George, I've been meaning to write to you before, but that's all. 408 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:27,040 That's as far as she got. 409 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:30,240 George, first time we've run into that name on this deal. 410 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:31,680 Makes more than one man in her life. 411 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:33,240 Yeah, there's a couple more letters here. 412 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:34,760 They're all addressed to her unopened. 413 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:35,760 Let me see. 414 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:39,040 All we can go by are the return addresses. 415 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:44,080 Telephone bill, ad from a woman's store, postcard, another ad. 416 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:47,280 Here's something, Santa Monica postmark. 417 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:48,960 Check the name on that return. 418 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:51,960 Yeah, Stephen Arnold. 419 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:55,920 12.35 p.m. 420 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:58,200 We called the office and checked Stephen Arnold through RNI. 421 00:14:58,200 --> 00:14:59,920 He had no criminal record. 422 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:04,320 The return address, which he'd listed on the envelope of the letter to his wife, was 10826 423 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:06,080 Pacific Front Boulevard. 424 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:08,600 We located it on the beach just below Santa Monica. 425 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:12,080 Was a small hamburger stand owned and operated by the dead woman's husband. 426 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:15,880 No, I haven't seen Doris for a couple of months anyway. 427 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:16,880 Why? 428 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:19,680 Because you had an apartment with your wife in the East Wilson neighborhood. 429 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:21,000 Is that right, Mr. Arnold? 430 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Yeah, that's right. 431 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:23,360 Mind telling us why you left? 432 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:24,600 No, I don't mind. 433 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:26,760 I wanted to move closer to my work, that's all. 434 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:28,240 That place is way too far out. 435 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:30,480 Well, how is it your wife didn't move with you, sir? 436 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:31,800 She wanted to stay close to town. 437 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:33,760 Doesn't care for the beach much. 438 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:35,040 Bad for her sinus, I guess. 439 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:37,000 Well, did you have an argument with your wife, Arnold? 440 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Some kind of a disagreement? 441 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:39,080 Is that one of the reasons you moved? 442 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:40,480 Yeah, you might call it that. 443 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:41,480 We're getting a divorce. 444 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:42,480 Is that so? 445 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:44,040 Yeah, it was the best thing all the way around. 446 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:46,560 There's nothing to be fighting and scrapping last year anyway. 447 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:47,560 We decided to call it quits. 448 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:51,240 Excuse me a minute, I gotta put some cold drinks in this cooler here. 449 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:52,240 Yeah, go right ahead. 450 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:57,320 What, do you care for a cold drink? 451 00:15:57,320 --> 00:15:58,320 No, no thanks. 452 00:15:58,320 --> 00:15:59,320 Coke maybe? 453 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:00,320 No thanks. 454 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:05,960 Did you get the divorce from your wife, Mr. Arnold? 455 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:06,960 Yeah, that's right. 456 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:07,960 I'm divorcing her. 457 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,200 Why do you want to know? 458 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:12,880 You remember that last time you saw your wife, the exact date, I mean? 459 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:14,800 No, I don't think I remember that. 460 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:17,040 It's been at least three months, I'll say that much. 461 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:19,880 You spend most of your time down here at the beach, do you, Mr. Arnold? 462 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:20,880 Yeah, that's right. 463 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:22,960 I get into town once or twice a month. 464 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:24,560 Are you sure you wouldn't like a Coke? 465 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:25,560 No, that wouldn't, thanks. 466 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:27,560 I think I'll have one myself, if you don't mind. 467 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:32,160 I'm sure I got a cold one here. 468 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:33,160 Water sure is cold. 469 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:34,960 How about last Tuesday night, sir? 470 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:37,240 You happened to be in town that night? 471 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:38,960 Last time was two, three weeks ago anyway. 472 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:42,240 Went in to see a show. 473 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:44,400 I was working here last Tuesday night. 474 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:45,400 Work every night except Monday. 475 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:47,200 It's the only night I'm closed up. 476 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:49,200 Is there anyone who can vouch for that? 477 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:50,720 I don't think I get this. 478 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:51,720 Why do you want to know? 479 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:53,240 Well, is there anybody who can vouch for you? 480 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:55,280 Well, sure, half a dozen people anyway. 481 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:59,200 A fellow runs a place next door, the guys in the rest of the stalls up and down the way 482 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:00,840 here, they can all vouch for me. 483 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:03,440 I work till 1 a.m., same as usual. 484 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:04,440 Just a minute. 485 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:05,440 Hey, Vic? 486 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:06,440 Vic? 487 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:07,440 Yeah, Steve? 488 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:08,440 Hop over here for a minute. 489 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:09,440 Something I want to talk to you about. 490 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:10,440 Yeah, just a minute. 491 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:11,440 Okay, Vic, thanks. 492 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:14,440 It'll be right over. 493 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:17,240 You fellas want a cup of coffee or anything? 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527 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:10,160 Reach to Fatima today. 528 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:11,640 Extra mild. 529 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:22,640 Best of all, king-sized cigarettes. 530 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:24,920 Saturday, October 31st, 2 p.m. 531 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:28,520 Ben and I checked with a dozen different concession operators in the neighborhood of Stephen Arnold's 532 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:29,520 eating place. 533 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:33,160 They all corroborated the fact that on the night his wife had met her death in a downtown 534 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:36,960 hotel, Arnold had been working at his stand until 1 a.m. 535 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:40,040 Despite all the previous indications that he might have been responsible for the murder 536 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:43,480 of his wife, we had to eliminate him as a possible suspect. 537 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:45,000 2 20 p.m. 538 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,560 On the way back into town, we stopped by the apartment hotel where Doris Frazier was living 539 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:50,240 at the time of her murder. 540 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,400 After checking further with the tenants and with the help in the building, we found out 541 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:57,000 that the victim had been in the habit of eating most of her meals at restaurants in the immediate 542 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:58,600 neighborhood. 543 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:02,600 After some two hours of checking and running into six restaurants, we found a small coffee 544 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:06,520 shop four blocks from the apartment building where one of the waitresses identified Doris 545 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:07,520 Frazier's picture. 546 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:09,240 Yeah, that's her office. 547 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:10,440 A terrible picture though. 548 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:11,440 She looks so much older. 549 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:14,120 About how often would you say Miss Frazier came in here, ma'am? 550 00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:16,320 Well, three or four times a week, I'd say. 551 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:17,960 The bus stops right out there on the corner. 552 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:20,980 She'd usually have breakfast, then grab the bus and go to work. 553 00:20:20,980 --> 00:20:23,200 Some nights coming home from work, she'd stop in here for dinner. 554 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:24,200 Nice girl, quiet. 555 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:25,680 Did you get to know her at all, Miss? 556 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:27,800 I mean, did you happen to know any of her friends here in the neighborhood? 557 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:31,040 No, as I say, she was a quiet person, not very talkative. 558 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:33,120 Usually read while she was eating, woke her magazine. 559 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:35,000 Did she ever come in here with anyone else? 560 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:36,000 Do you know that? 561 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:37,000 No, quite a few times. 562 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:38,000 She seemed to have a boyfriend. 563 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,680 Of course, she was attractive, small, you know, but real cute looking. 564 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,600 Do you happen to know any of these men? 565 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:44,200 No, I'm sorry, I don't. 566 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:46,520 Any one of them in particular she came in with very often? 567 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:47,520 Let's see. 568 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:51,640 I think there was one, blonde, good dresser, kind of tall, good looking. 569 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:52,920 They usually came in together for breakfast. 570 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:54,800 How long ago was this, Miss, do you recall? 571 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:56,720 Oh, say up until a couple of weeks ago. 572 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:58,120 I usually waited on him in the morning. 573 00:20:58,120 --> 00:20:59,120 That's how I happened to remember. 574 00:20:59,120 --> 00:21:00,120 I see. 575 00:21:00,120 --> 00:21:01,520 Did you ever happen to hear this man's name? 576 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:02,520 Let me see. 577 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:04,760 George, I think that was it, yeah. 578 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:06,360 Did you happen to know if he lives in the neighborhood? 579 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:07,760 No, I'm sorry, I don't. 580 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:09,760 Has this man been in here during the past week, you know? 581 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:10,760 Yes, he has. 582 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:11,760 He came in for breakfast. 583 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:12,760 What day was that? 584 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:13,760 This morning. 585 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:19,240 Before we left the coffee shop, we questioned the cashier who came up with the information 586 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:23,400 that the man known as George usually left his car parked at the service station across 587 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:24,640 the street. 588 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:28,860 We left our card and asked the cashier to call us in case the suspect returned. 589 00:21:28,860 --> 00:21:32,000 At the service station, they also remembered the man known as George, but they told us 590 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,240 he hadn't been in for the past month. 591 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:37,720 He'd done some work on his car for him in the past, so they had a record of his license 592 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:38,720 number. 593 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:43,680 We called our DMV and found that the car was registered to a Carl Lucy in East Hollywood. 594 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:44,680 4.45 p.m. 595 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:49,560 We drove out and interviewed Lucy at his home, but he came nowhere near the description of 596 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:50,560 the suspect. 597 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:55,360 He told us that he had purchased the car six weeks before from a man known as George Crane. 598 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:58,640 He described Crane as tall, blonde, and well-dressed. 599 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:02,800 From the bill of sale, we got Crane's address, a motel on East Manchester. 600 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:06,520 The manager there told us that George Crane had moved a week before. 601 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:10,080 He said that Crane had left no forwarding address, but he did remember where he worked. 602 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:13,200 He was a driller in one of the oil fields down in Long Beach. 603 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:17,640 We checked the oil company's personnel office downtown, but they were closed for the day. 604 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:18,640 6.18 p.m. 605 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,640 We went back to the office and pulled the package on George Crane from R&I. 606 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:23,000 Get anything, Lonnie? 607 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:24,240 Yeah, he's got a record. 608 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:25,480 Here's the package here. 609 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:26,480 Yeah. 610 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:27,480 Nothing very heavy. 611 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,160 Drunk charge, two years ago. 612 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,040 Another one last year, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest. 613 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:33,040 That's about all. 614 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:34,040 I'm seeing. 615 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,280 Yeah, description checks out all the way. 616 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:38,000 You called the night office of that oil company, did you? 617 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,160 Yeah, they couldn't tell us anything. 618 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,160 Said called back first thing in the morning. 619 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:42,160 Want to reach it? 620 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:43,160 I got it, yeah. 621 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:44,160 Homicide, Friday. 622 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:45,160 Who? 623 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:46,160 How's that, sir? 624 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:47,160 Oh, yeah, sure. 625 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:48,160 Yes, sir. 626 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:49,160 No, no, sir, I'm afraid not. 627 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:50,160 Yeah, thanks anyway. 628 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:51,160 You bet. 629 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:52,160 Yeah. 630 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:53,160 Yeah, goodbye. 631 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:54,160 Well, that does it. 632 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:55,160 Who was it? 633 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:56,160 That guy who was in here the other day. 634 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:57,160 He was a cop. 635 00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:58,160 He was a cop. 636 00:22:58,160 --> 00:22:59,160 He was a cop. 637 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:00,160 He was a cop. 638 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:01,160 He was a cop. 639 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:02,480 You remember that guy who was in here the other day? 640 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,080 You remember that Alfred P. Morgan or whatever it was? 641 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:06,080 Oh, wasn't he one? 642 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:07,520 He wanted to buy us a drink. 643 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:08,520 He's celebrating. 644 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:09,520 Huh? 645 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:12,520 His old friend Maude, he just found her. 646 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:18,560 8 a.m. the next morning, we checked with the personnel department of the oil company's 647 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:19,680 downtown offices. 648 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:23,080 They told us that George Crane was employed as a driller, that he'd been working for the 649 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:26,520 company for the past five years, and that he had a good employment record. 650 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,720 They told us he was on the day shift and that he was scheduled to report for work on rig 651 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:33,080 619 at the Long Beach field at 8 o'clock that morning. 652 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:37,000 Ben and I got in the car, drove down to Long Beach where we located the murder suspect, 653 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:38,800 George Crane, at work in the field. 654 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:39,800 Doris Frazier? 655 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:40,800 No, I'm sorry, Sergeant. 656 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,800 I don't think I know anybody by that name. 657 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:45,880 How about Doris Arnold, Mr. Crane? 658 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:47,520 Would you know anybody by that name? 659 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:48,520 Arnold? 660 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:49,520 No, no, I'm afraid not. 661 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:50,520 What's it all about? 662 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:51,520 You own a car, do you, sir? 663 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:52,520 Yeah, that's it right over there, that dark sedan. 664 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:53,520 Yeah. 665 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:54,520 Have you had it long? 666 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:55,520 Oh, I've had it a couple of weeks. 667 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:56,520 Last one I had was giving me a ride. 668 00:23:56,520 --> 00:24:01,520 Did you trade it in? 669 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:03,320 No, I sold it for a private party. 670 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:04,320 Fell out in Hollywood. 671 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,320 You mind taking a look at this picture, Mr. Crane? 672 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:08,320 Yeah. 673 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:11,200 Oh, it doesn't look like anybody I know. 674 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:12,680 Why, am I supposed to? 675 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:13,680 We think you should, yes, sir. 676 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:14,680 I don't think I'll follow you. 677 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:19,080 Do you spend any time around the East Wiltshire District, Crane? 678 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:20,080 East Wiltshire, you said? 679 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:21,080 Yeah. 680 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,400 No, I've probably been over there a couple of times. 681 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:24,400 Not lately, though. 682 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,840 How about the coffee shop on the corner of Gramercy and Marengo? 683 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:29,840 You ever been in there? 684 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:30,840 Not that I remember, no. 685 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:34,760 Well, the waitress in that coffee shop, and the cashier, too, they say they've got a pretty 686 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:35,760 regular customer. 687 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:37,560 He fits your description exactly. 688 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:39,560 You sure you've never been in there? 689 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:41,440 Well, I'm not positive. 690 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,440 I wouldn't swear I never been in the place. 691 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:44,440 What's the difference, anyway? 692 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:48,360 Well, how about that service station across the street from the coffee shop? 693 00:24:48,360 --> 00:24:49,640 You ever parked your car there? 694 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:51,640 They ever do any work on it for you? 695 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,560 Oh, say, I bet I know the place you're talking about. 696 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,200 Yeah, yeah, I've been there quite a few times. 697 00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:58,200 Good station. 698 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,240 They've done some good jobs on the car for me. 699 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:01,240 I remember it now. 700 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,240 Well, I guess you remember the coffee shop. 701 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:04,240 Crane? 702 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:08,040 Yeah, I think I do now. 703 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,040 Right across the street from the station, that is. 704 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:11,040 Yeah, that's right. 705 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,480 Well, what do you want to know about it? 706 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,480 When's the last time you were in there, Crane? 707 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,240 Well, to tell you the truth, I couldn't be sure. 708 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,040 We talked to a waitress in there yesterday. 709 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,440 She said you were in that morning for breakfast. 710 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:23,880 Do you remember that? 711 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,560 She's way off the track on that one, I can tell you that. 712 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,520 I wasn't near the place yesterday morning. 713 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,560 Well, Cassia remembers you, too. 714 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:31,560 She says you were in. 715 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:32,560 How about it, Crane? 716 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:34,560 Look, what difference does it make? 717 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:35,560 What's this thing all about, anyway? 718 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:37,240 You want to take another look at this picture? 719 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,040 Well, I told you once I don't know the woman. 720 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:40,640 I never saw her before in my life. 721 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:41,640 Why don't you give it some thought? 722 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:42,640 Huh? 723 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:43,640 I said, why don't you give it some thought? 724 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:45,240 You remember East Wilshire. 725 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:46,240 You remember the service station. 726 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,240 You finally remember the coffee shop. 727 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:49,240 Maybe you can remember her if you try. 728 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:50,240 I don't know her. 729 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:51,240 I never saw her in my life. 730 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,440 Look, let's go in the shed where we can hear each other, huh? 731 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:55,440 All right. 732 00:25:55,440 --> 00:26:02,840 Yeah, that's a little better, huh? 733 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:06,320 The waitress in the place says you were in there quite a few times with the woman. 734 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:07,800 You usually came in for breakfast. 735 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,140 You stopped going there about two weeks ago. 736 00:26:10,140 --> 00:26:11,140 I don't know her. 737 00:26:11,140 --> 00:26:12,140 What's the matter, Crane? 738 00:26:12,140 --> 00:26:14,080 You figure you got something to hide? 739 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:15,360 I don't know what you're talking about. 740 00:26:15,360 --> 00:26:16,360 I don't know her. 741 00:26:16,360 --> 00:26:18,480 What do you figure she's got to do with me, anyway? 742 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:19,680 We checked her apartment, mister. 743 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,640 We found a letter she was writing to you. 744 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,360 You about ready to tell us? 745 00:26:24,360 --> 00:26:25,360 What's a letter? 746 00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:26,360 That doesn't mean anything. 747 00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:28,680 Can't prove anything by the letter. 748 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:30,320 What are you thinking, anyway? 749 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:31,420 We think you're lying, Crane. 750 00:26:31,420 --> 00:26:33,640 We think you got a reason for it. 751 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:34,640 What do you say? 752 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:36,800 It doesn't prove anything. 753 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:38,760 Maybe I knew her, and that doesn't mean anything at all. 754 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:39,760 We think it does. 755 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:40,760 Yeah? 756 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:41,760 We think you killed her. 757 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:43,360 Is that the way it looks to you? 758 00:26:43,360 --> 00:26:45,040 That's the way it looks. 759 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:46,400 I don't think you can prove it. 760 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:47,400 We're gonna try. 761 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,320 Now, how about it? 762 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,680 Will it go any easier for me if I admit it? 763 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:53,680 That's not up to us. 764 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:57,120 I don't know why I did it. 765 00:26:57,120 --> 00:26:58,120 What am I gonna give for a reason? 766 00:26:58,120 --> 00:26:59,360 I don't know why I killed her. 767 00:26:59,360 --> 00:27:00,840 I wouldn't know, Crane. 768 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,120 Didn't really have any reason. 769 00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:04,840 That sounds funny, doesn't it? 770 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:05,840 No reason at all. 771 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:06,840 I just killed her. 772 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:08,600 What am I gonna tell them? 773 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,400 If I don't have a reason, how can I ask them to let me off easy? 774 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:12,400 How can I ask them? 775 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:21,560 I don't know, but they'll have an answer. 776 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,400 The story you have just heard was true. 777 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,240 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 778 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:32,160 On February 8th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 92, City and County of Los 779 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:33,860 Angeles, State of California. 780 00:27:33,860 --> 00:27:36,120 In a moment, the results of that trial. 781 00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:38,360 And now here is our star, Jack Webb. 782 00:27:38,360 --> 00:27:39,360 Thank you. 783 00:27:39,360 --> 00:27:44,320 Friends, all of us on Dragnet sincerely hope that all of you enjoyed a happy Thanksgiving. 784 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:48,200 And now for a moment, we'd like to look ahead, pass along a gift suggestion for the coming 785 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:49,640 holidays. 786 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:54,360 Your neighborhood dealer now has Fatimas in colorful, smart Christmas wrappers. 787 00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:56,840 You'll find they make a perfect gift. 788 00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:02,080 Fatima's extra mildness and better flavor, Fatima quality, is bound to please every king-size 789 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:03,680 cigarette smoker. 790 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:09,280 Remember, this holiday season, give your friends Fatima in the distinctive new Christmas carton. 791 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:22,280 Fatima, best of all king-size cigarettes. 792 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:26,960 George Martin Crane was tried and convicted in Superior Court of murder in the first degree. 793 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:38,800 He is now serving a life term in the state penitentiary. 794 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:43,520 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 795 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,680 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. 796 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:51,000 Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 797 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:56,160 Fatima cigarettes, best of all king-size cigarettes has brought you Dragnet, transcribed from 798 00:28:56,160 --> 00:29:02,520 Los Angeles. 799 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,680 Next, counter-spy fights international intrigue. 800 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:13,480 Stay tuned to NBC.