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For the next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step-by-step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police violence. 17 00:01:55,540 --> 00:02:05,540 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 18 00:02:05,540 --> 00:02:11,540 It was Tuesday, October 18th. It was cloudy in Los Angeles. We were working the early morning watch out of homicide. 19 00:02:11,540 --> 00:02:16,540 My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Thad Brown, Chief of Detectives. My name's Friday. 20 00:02:16,540 --> 00:02:22,540 I was on the way back from the stats office, and it was 3.26 a.m. when I got to room 42. Homicide. 21 00:02:22,540 --> 00:02:24,540 Hi, Brian. 22 00:02:24,540 --> 00:02:27,540 Hi. Got those mug shots you wanted, Joe. Here you go. 23 00:02:27,540 --> 00:02:30,540 Oh, thank you. The captain leave yet? 24 00:02:30,540 --> 00:02:32,540 They're waiting for me in the garage. You call back? 25 00:02:32,540 --> 00:02:33,540 I'm going to right now, yeah. 26 00:02:33,540 --> 00:02:35,540 Okay. I guess I better hustle it. See you out there, huh? 27 00:02:35,540 --> 00:02:37,540 Right, Brian. 28 00:02:37,540 --> 00:02:39,540 Hello? 29 00:03:01,540 --> 00:03:02,540 Hello. 30 00:03:02,540 --> 00:03:04,540 I'm sorry to wake you, Ben. This is Joe. How you feeling? 31 00:03:04,540 --> 00:03:07,540 Oh. Hi, Joe. What time is it? 32 00:03:07,540 --> 00:03:09,540 3.30 a.m. How's the sore throat? 33 00:03:09,540 --> 00:03:11,540 Oh, it's not better. I ought to be back to work tomorrow. 34 00:03:11,540 --> 00:03:14,540 Oh, we need you now, Ben. You want to be ready in about 20 minutes? I'll pick you up. 35 00:03:14,540 --> 00:03:17,540 20 minutes? Okay. What's the matter? 36 00:03:17,540 --> 00:03:20,540 A man by the name of Martin Sullivan, official down at the Third National Bank. 37 00:03:20,540 --> 00:03:21,540 Yeah, what about it? 38 00:03:21,540 --> 00:03:23,540 He's got a 22-year-old daughter. Or he had one. 39 00:03:23,540 --> 00:03:24,540 Huh? 40 00:03:24,540 --> 00:03:25,540 She's gone. 41 00:03:25,540 --> 00:03:33,540 Less than 14 hours before, at 1 o'clock the previous afternoon, 42 00:03:33,540 --> 00:03:39,540 Judith Sullivan was last seen driving off in a car with a man who'd represented himself as a friend of her father's. 43 00:03:39,540 --> 00:03:46,540 At 11 o'clock that night, the Sullivan family received an anonymous letter demanding $30,000 for the safe return of the girl. 44 00:03:46,540 --> 00:03:50,540 It had been the only contact made thus far by the abductor. 45 00:03:50,540 --> 00:03:56,540 As soon as we got word of what had happened from the girl's father, a broadcast and an APB had been gotten out. 46 00:03:56,540 --> 00:03:59,540 The entire force throughout the city had been alerted. 47 00:03:59,540 --> 00:04:03,540 3.44 a.m. I pulled up in front of Ben's house. 48 00:04:08,540 --> 00:04:09,540 Well, good morning. 49 00:04:09,540 --> 00:04:10,540 Hi. 50 00:04:10,540 --> 00:04:11,540 You made good time. 51 00:04:11,540 --> 00:04:13,540 Where are we headed? 52 00:04:13,540 --> 00:04:17,540 To Sullivan Home out on Castro Boulevard. Thad Brown's out there now with Brian. 53 00:04:17,540 --> 00:04:19,540 Any leads to going? 54 00:04:19,540 --> 00:04:20,540 No, not so far. 55 00:04:20,540 --> 00:04:23,540 The girl disappeared a little before 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon. 56 00:04:23,540 --> 00:04:27,540 Note from the abductor came through last night. They're asking $30,000. 57 00:04:27,540 --> 00:04:29,540 I don't get it. Sullivan hasn't got that kind of money. 58 00:04:29,540 --> 00:04:33,540 Yeah, I know that. Poor guy's almost out of his mind. Mrs. Sullivan too, they're all broken up. 59 00:04:33,540 --> 00:04:35,540 Fill me in. How'd it happen? 60 00:04:35,540 --> 00:04:39,540 Well, the girl was taken from a business school that she goes to. 61 00:04:39,540 --> 00:04:43,540 Man had her called out of class. He told her her father was sick. Said he was a friend of the family. 62 00:04:43,540 --> 00:04:45,540 How about the teachers? What was their story? 63 00:04:45,540 --> 00:04:51,540 Well, they said the girl didn't want to go with the man at first, but he finally talked her into it and kept telling her her father was dying. 64 00:04:51,540 --> 00:04:53,540 Yeah, lousy thing. Did he use the car? 65 00:04:53,540 --> 00:04:58,540 Yeah, blue sedan. That's all we know. Witnesses didn't get the make of the license number. 66 00:04:58,540 --> 00:04:59,540 Any description on the man? 67 00:04:59,540 --> 00:05:04,540 Yeah. They say about 5'9", 160 brown suit and dark hair. 68 00:05:04,540 --> 00:05:05,540 Is that all? 69 00:05:05,540 --> 00:05:07,540 That's it. 70 00:05:07,540 --> 00:05:10,540 Here's a copy of the letter that the Sullivan's got. You can read it. It's the usual. 71 00:05:10,540 --> 00:05:17,540 All right, thanks. l have your daughter, Judy. Get $30,000 quick if you want her back alive. 72 00:05:17,540 --> 00:05:22,540 Don't call police or l'll kill her. Contact you later. Sign the wolf. 73 00:05:22,540 --> 00:05:26,540 Lousy kid. l don't know. l could think of a better name. Here we are. 74 00:05:33,540 --> 00:05:35,540 Who's got the original note, Joe? 75 00:05:35,540 --> 00:05:40,540 The crime lab. They're checking it for prints and handwriting. 76 00:05:46,540 --> 00:05:48,540 Hi, Joe Romero. l'm in the living room. 77 00:05:48,540 --> 00:05:52,540 Thank you, Joe. 78 00:05:52,540 --> 00:05:56,540 That's the way l see it, Mr. Sullivan. You understand exactly what you have to do now? 79 00:05:56,540 --> 00:05:58,540 Yes, l'll do as you say. 80 00:05:58,540 --> 00:06:02,540 All right, sir. Here are the two men who will help you. Sergeant Friday and Romero, Central Homicide. 81 00:06:02,540 --> 00:06:05,540 All right, Mr. Sullivan. l'll do as you say. 82 00:06:05,540 --> 00:06:10,540 Mr. Brown, are you sure about all this? l keep thinking he might get frightened. He might do something to her. 83 00:06:10,540 --> 00:06:15,540 Believe me, Mr. Sullivan, it's the only way. l know how you must feel, but we can't do anything else. 84 00:06:15,540 --> 00:06:19,540 All right. l want to see Mrs. Sullivan first. Will you excuse me? l'll be ready in a moment. 85 00:06:19,540 --> 00:06:21,540 All right, fine. 86 00:06:21,540 --> 00:06:23,540 What is it, Chief? Any development? 87 00:06:23,540 --> 00:06:25,540 l'm back here in the dining room. 88 00:06:25,540 --> 00:06:27,540 Yes? 89 00:06:30,540 --> 00:06:31,540 Yes? 90 00:06:31,540 --> 00:06:33,540 That's it on the table. Second note from the guy. 91 00:06:33,540 --> 00:06:34,540 When did it come? 92 00:06:34,540 --> 00:06:38,540 Half an hour ago. Guy had it delivered by a special messenger. He used a plain envelope. 93 00:06:38,540 --> 00:06:42,540 The messenger kid didn't know anything about it. Doesn't remember what the guy looked like. 94 00:06:42,540 --> 00:06:43,540 Let's take him. 95 00:06:43,540 --> 00:06:45,540 Yes, all righty. 96 00:06:45,540 --> 00:06:49,540 He says, ''Meet me in the Legion Park at five o'clock this morning near Balkan Drive. 97 00:06:49,540 --> 00:06:55,540 Come alone, bring 30,000. We'll return girl. Don't tell the cops. l'll kill her if you do.'' 98 00:06:55,540 --> 00:06:57,540 lt's the same signature to Wolf. 99 00:06:57,540 --> 00:06:59,540 Not much time, Chief. lt's 4 a.m. now. 100 00:06:59,540 --> 00:07:02,540 l know. That's what we'll have to do as he says. There's no other way. 101 00:07:02,540 --> 00:07:04,540 Sullivan's going out there alone, is he? 102 00:07:04,540 --> 00:07:07,540 You're going with him, you'll remember. He'll be hidden in the trunk of his car. 103 00:07:07,540 --> 00:07:09,540 All right. Anything else? Any plan you want us to follow? 104 00:07:09,540 --> 00:07:11,540 Get him, that's all. 105 00:07:11,540 --> 00:07:19,540 4.15 a.m. Ben and l went out back to the garage where Mr. Sullivan's car was parked. 106 00:07:19,540 --> 00:07:23,540 We jammed ourselves into the trunk compartment and Brian closed the door on us. 107 00:07:23,540 --> 00:07:27,540 The latch was rigged so that we could push open the door from the inside. 108 00:07:27,540 --> 00:07:32,540 A few minutes later, Mr. Sullivan came out, got in the car, and we drove off. 109 00:07:32,540 --> 00:07:37,540 At three minutes to five, we pulled up at the designated meeting place up in the Legion Park. 110 00:07:37,540 --> 00:07:43,540 We waited. Nothing happened. Five minutes past 5 a.m. Still nothing. 111 00:07:43,540 --> 00:07:45,540 Outside, it started to thunder. 112 00:07:47,540 --> 00:07:50,540 The rain is starting, man. lt's windy. 113 00:07:52,540 --> 00:07:54,540 Joe, are you here? 114 00:07:54,540 --> 00:07:58,540 Yeah. l've got to come up the road toward us, haven't l? 115 00:07:59,540 --> 00:08:01,540 Yeah. Wait a minute. 116 00:08:01,540 --> 00:08:03,540 Coming over this way. 117 00:08:03,540 --> 00:08:05,540 Yeah, sounds that way, doesn't it? Are you ready? 118 00:08:05,540 --> 00:08:07,540 Right. Easy. 119 00:08:09,540 --> 00:08:11,540 Coming back here. Watch it now. 120 00:08:21,540 --> 00:08:23,540 Friday? l'm out. 121 00:08:23,540 --> 00:08:24,540 Chief, is that you? 122 00:08:24,540 --> 00:08:26,540 Yeah. Come on out. Meetings off. 123 00:08:26,540 --> 00:08:28,540 What for, man? l'm breaking. 124 00:08:28,540 --> 00:08:31,540 Come on. 125 00:08:31,540 --> 00:08:33,540 What happened to the leg? 126 00:08:33,540 --> 00:08:35,540 There we go. 127 00:08:35,540 --> 00:08:38,540 Mr. Sullivan, you want to drive back home? We'll contact you there. 128 00:08:38,540 --> 00:08:40,540 Yes, sir. All right. 129 00:08:40,540 --> 00:08:43,540 Come on. Let's get over the car. 130 00:08:43,540 --> 00:08:46,540 What's the story? Did he scare off? 131 00:08:46,540 --> 00:08:49,540 The guy had no intention of following through with the meeting. 132 00:08:49,540 --> 00:08:50,540 How come? 133 00:08:50,540 --> 00:08:52,540 He told us he phoned a couple of minutes before 5 a.m. 134 00:08:52,540 --> 00:08:55,540 We tried to trace the call. He wouldn't stay on the line long enough. 135 00:08:55,540 --> 00:08:59,540 What'd he have to say? 136 00:08:55,540 --> 00:08:59,540 A couple of things. 137 00:08:59,540 --> 00:09:01,540 Number one, he wants more money. 138 00:09:01,540 --> 00:09:03,540 Number two, he knows we're working the case. 139 00:09:03,540 --> 00:09:05,540 What was his reaction? 140 00:09:05,540 --> 00:09:07,540 He claims he doesn't care. We'll never get him anyway. 141 00:09:07,540 --> 00:09:09,540 Well, how's the thing stand now? 142 00:09:09,540 --> 00:09:12,540 $50,000. He wants it in the next 12 hours. 143 00:09:14,540 --> 00:09:17,540 More than 16 hours had passed since word of Judy Sullivan's abduction 144 00:09:17,540 --> 00:09:19,540 had been phoned into homicide. 145 00:09:19,540 --> 00:09:23,540 During that time, an APB containing the descriptions of the suspect, 146 00:09:23,540 --> 00:09:27,540 his car, and his victim had been dispatched to law enforcement agencies 147 00:09:27,540 --> 00:09:29,540 throughout the entire area. 148 00:09:29,540 --> 00:09:32,540 The same descriptions were being broadcast every hour. 149 00:09:32,540 --> 00:09:35,540 The Sullivan home had been placed under strict surveillance, 150 00:09:35,540 --> 00:09:38,540 and Mr. Sullivan instructed not to contact the suspect 151 00:09:38,540 --> 00:09:40,540 without the knowledge of the police. 152 00:09:40,540 --> 00:09:44,540 The girl's father had raised almost $10,000 in cash to buy him off, 153 00:09:44,540 --> 00:09:47,540 and the serial numbers on each one of the bills had been copied 154 00:09:47,540 --> 00:09:51,540 by a police stenographer and rechecked by a homicide officer. 155 00:09:51,540 --> 00:09:55,540 So far, the wolf, as he called himself, had made three separate contacts, 156 00:09:55,540 --> 00:09:57,540 but he'd covered his tracks well. 157 00:09:57,540 --> 00:10:02,540 We knew he was somewhere in the city, 450 square miles of it. 158 00:10:02,540 --> 00:10:04,540 We knew we had to find him. 159 00:10:04,540 --> 00:10:07,540 618 A.M. We checked back into homicide. 160 00:10:08,540 --> 00:10:09,540 What's going, boy? 161 00:10:09,540 --> 00:10:11,540 Here's a copy of the letter, fellas. 162 00:10:11,540 --> 00:10:13,540 Special delivery came in about 25 minutes ago. 163 00:10:13,540 --> 00:10:14,540 Not safe, huh? 164 00:10:14,540 --> 00:10:15,540 Hmm. 165 00:10:15,540 --> 00:10:17,540 That's the same handwriting it looks like. 166 00:10:17,540 --> 00:10:20,540 Check the postmark, Joe. Must have mailed it right after he grabbed the girl. 167 00:10:20,540 --> 00:10:21,540 Let me see. 168 00:10:21,540 --> 00:10:23,540 Stay away from Sullivan. 169 00:10:23,540 --> 00:10:25,540 If the girl's found dead, it's your fault. Stay away. 170 00:10:25,540 --> 00:10:26,540 Wolf. 171 00:10:26,540 --> 00:10:28,540 Can't seem to make up his mind, huh? 172 00:10:28,540 --> 00:10:29,540 Hmm. 173 00:10:29,540 --> 00:10:31,540 They checking the original of this for prints, Tom? 174 00:10:31,540 --> 00:10:32,540 Yeah, no word yet. 175 00:10:32,540 --> 00:10:34,540 How about that second note? Anything on that? 176 00:10:34,540 --> 00:10:35,540 Uh-huh. 177 00:10:35,540 --> 00:10:38,540 Stahl lifted a couple of prints, running them through our eye. 178 00:10:38,540 --> 00:10:39,540 Who's watching Sullivan House now? 179 00:10:39,540 --> 00:10:41,540 Gomez and Faxter. Chief's out there, too. 180 00:10:41,540 --> 00:10:44,540 He's still afraid the girl's father will try to make a deal with the guy. 181 00:10:44,540 --> 00:10:45,540 He tried again? 182 00:10:45,540 --> 00:10:46,540 No, not yet. 183 00:10:46,540 --> 00:10:48,540 Well, he couldn't blame him if he did. He's worried sick. 184 00:10:48,540 --> 00:10:49,540 Huh, guy? 185 00:10:49,540 --> 00:10:50,540 No. 186 00:10:50,540 --> 00:10:53,540 Homicide Romero. Here I try. 187 00:10:53,540 --> 00:10:54,540 Mm-hmm. 188 00:10:54,540 --> 00:10:56,540 Mm-hmm. How do you spell it? 189 00:10:56,540 --> 00:11:00,540 Okay, right. Yeah, thanks a lot. 190 00:11:00,540 --> 00:11:05,540 Record Bureau, those two prints Stahl lifted from the letter, run them through the single print file. 191 00:11:05,540 --> 00:11:06,540 Any luck? 192 00:11:06,540 --> 00:11:07,540 They gotta make. 193 00:11:07,540 --> 00:11:17,540 The fingerprint that was lifted from the suspect's letter was identified as belonging to a Donald Alfred Kiefer. 194 00:11:17,540 --> 00:11:23,540 WMA, age 29, 5 feet 8 inches, 170 pounds, brown eyes, dark brown hair. 195 00:11:23,540 --> 00:11:28,540 He had one previous arrest for forgery in Los Angeles 10 months before. 196 00:11:28,540 --> 00:11:34,540 At the time of his arrest, Kiefer's occupation was listed as bank clerk at the Third National Bank. 197 00:11:34,540 --> 00:11:37,540 Well, I went down the hall to the Record Bureau to pull the crime report. 198 00:11:37,540 --> 00:11:43,540 Brian checked by Leighton Prince to see if they'd gotten anything off the last note from the suspect. 199 00:11:43,540 --> 00:11:45,540 Ben went to check with John Meyer in handwriting. 200 00:11:45,540 --> 00:11:51,540 7 23 a.m. Chief Fad Brown got back to the office. I showed him Kiefer's crime report. 201 00:11:51,540 --> 00:11:53,540 All right, what's the rundown on it? 202 00:11:53,540 --> 00:11:58,540 Well, at the time, Kiefer pulled the forgery job at the bank. Mr. Sullivan was one of the vice presidents. 203 00:11:58,540 --> 00:12:01,540 He was the one that preferred charges against Kiefer, and he saw that he was prosecuted. 204 00:12:01,540 --> 00:12:03,540 Mm-hmm. Where's this Kiefer now? 205 00:12:03,540 --> 00:12:05,540 Let me check that. 206 00:12:05,540 --> 00:12:12,540 He was placed on probation on May 16th this year. He returned to his home in Omaha, Nebraska. That's 1380 Mackinac Avenue. 207 00:12:12,540 --> 00:12:13,540 Did you call Omaha? 208 00:12:13,540 --> 00:12:19,540 I got the call in now. Ben took an exemplar of Kiefer's handwriting from the package. Don Meyer's going over it now. 209 00:12:19,540 --> 00:12:20,540 Chief? 210 00:12:20,540 --> 00:12:21,540 Aye. 211 00:12:21,540 --> 00:12:22,540 What about that Leighton note? 212 00:12:22,540 --> 00:12:24,540 I got the report right here. 213 00:12:24,540 --> 00:12:25,540 How's it look? 214 00:12:25,540 --> 00:12:30,540 Well, Stoller put some prints off it, brought them out with the iodine fume gun. They match with the first. There's something else. 215 00:12:30,540 --> 00:12:31,540 What's that? 216 00:12:31,540 --> 00:12:36,540 They examined the paper for watermarks and texture. Both notes are written on the same paper. 217 00:12:36,540 --> 00:12:38,540 Impressions show both pieces of paper from the same tablet. 218 00:12:38,540 --> 00:12:39,540 Mm-hmm. 219 00:12:39,540 --> 00:12:44,540 Check the density of the carbon in the pencil we used. Both specimens match. Same pencil. 220 00:12:44,540 --> 00:12:45,540 Joe. 221 00:12:45,540 --> 00:12:46,540 Oh, hi, Skipper. 222 00:12:46,540 --> 00:12:48,540 Hi. Did you catch up with Don Meyer, Ben? 223 00:12:48,540 --> 00:12:50,540 Yeah. He went over the handwriting. Looks pretty good. 224 00:12:50,540 --> 00:12:51,540 What's the word? 225 00:12:51,540 --> 00:12:54,540 As close as you can get, here are the two exemplars. 226 00:12:54,540 --> 00:12:55,540 Mm-hmm. 227 00:12:55,540 --> 00:12:59,540 Francis Crosses, double-loops as L, open A, pressure on the downstroke. 228 00:12:59,540 --> 00:13:00,540 Ah. 229 00:13:00,540 --> 00:13:04,540 Donald Kiefer, the wolf, same handwriting. 230 00:13:04,540 --> 00:13:11,540 By noontime, Donald Kiefer's description had been broadcast throughout the entire area. 231 00:13:11,540 --> 00:13:15,540 Bulletins were dispatched to all departments, and a supplementary APB was gotten out. 232 00:13:15,540 --> 00:13:22,540 Special details were stationed at every post office in the city to watch for notes from the suspect that might come through the mail. 233 00:13:22,540 --> 00:13:29,540 The bus depots, railroad terminals, the airports, and all main roads leading out of the city were kept under strict surveillance. 234 00:13:29,540 --> 00:13:36,540 The entire Los Angeles area was broken down into single square mile districts, and a house-to-house canvas was started. 235 00:13:36,540 --> 00:13:43,540 A squad of men were assigned to cover each square mile. Outlying towns and cities were requested to do the same. 236 00:13:43,540 --> 00:13:49,540 By four o'clock that afternoon, one of the greatest dragnet operations in the history of the city was underway. 237 00:13:49,540 --> 00:13:56,540 We were sure Donald Kiefer was somewhere inside. Five twelve p.m. We got the call back from the Omaha police. 238 00:13:56,540 --> 00:13:57,540 Is that Joe? 239 00:13:57,540 --> 00:13:58,540 Mm-hmm. 240 00:13:58,540 --> 00:14:03,540 Again, please, what was that? Six X-ray, 419, Nebraska Plague. 241 00:14:03,540 --> 00:14:06,540 Right. Fine, Lieutenant, thanks. Bye. 242 00:14:07,540 --> 00:14:08,540 They made the car? 243 00:14:08,540 --> 00:14:13,540 That and a lot more. The Omaha cops are looking for Kiefer, too. They want him for a robbery there two months ago. 244 00:14:13,540 --> 00:14:19,540 He used a stolen blue sedan in the robbery. 1939 model, Nebraska Plague, six X-ray, 419. 245 00:14:19,540 --> 00:14:21,540 What about his family and friends? 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Best of all, king-size cigarettes. 276 00:16:12,540 --> 00:16:19,540 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 277 00:16:19,540 --> 00:16:22,540 Wednesday, October 19th, 5.48 p.m. 278 00:16:22,540 --> 00:16:26,540 Ben and I drove out to the Sullivan home where we checked with Bert Harris, 279 00:16:26,540 --> 00:16:29,540 the man who'd been assigned to watch Mr. Sullivan. 280 00:16:29,540 --> 00:16:31,540 He told us that at about 3 o'clock that afternoon, 281 00:16:31,540 --> 00:16:34,540 the father of the missing girl had a phone call. 282 00:16:34,540 --> 00:16:37,540 He said he had to go down to the bank, and Harris went with him. 283 00:16:37,540 --> 00:16:40,540 While they were at the bank, Mr. Sullivan succeeded in decoying Harris 284 00:16:40,540 --> 00:16:42,540 with a fake telephone call. 285 00:16:42,540 --> 00:16:46,540 While Harris was answering the call, Sullivan disappeared. 286 00:16:46,540 --> 00:16:49,540 Did Mr. Sullivan get any more money while he was at the bank, Bert? 287 00:16:49,540 --> 00:16:50,540 Yeah, $5,000. 288 00:16:50,540 --> 00:16:52,540 Did you get the serial numbers off the bills? 289 00:16:52,540 --> 00:16:54,540 Uh-huh. I shouldn't have let him get out of my sight. 290 00:16:54,540 --> 00:16:57,540 Forget it. Right now we've got to find out where he's gone to meet Kiefer. 291 00:16:57,540 --> 00:16:59,540 Did you talk to Mrs. Sullivan about it, Bert? 292 00:16:59,540 --> 00:17:01,540 Yeah, she said she doesn't know anything about it. 293 00:17:01,540 --> 00:17:02,540 Where is she now? 294 00:17:02,540 --> 00:17:04,540 Back in the sitting room lying down. 295 00:17:04,540 --> 00:17:06,540 Now let's try her again, huh? She might be able to help. 296 00:17:06,540 --> 00:17:08,540 Okay. It's back this way. 297 00:17:09,540 --> 00:17:11,540 What timing got, Jim? 298 00:17:11,540 --> 00:17:12,540 It's five minutes past six. 299 00:17:12,540 --> 00:17:14,540 I get it. 300 00:17:16,540 --> 00:17:18,540 Hello? How's that? 301 00:17:18,540 --> 00:17:20,540 Yeah, where are you? 302 00:17:21,540 --> 00:17:22,540 What? 303 00:17:23,540 --> 00:17:25,540 Oh, well, where are you? 304 00:17:25,540 --> 00:17:27,540 Where are you? 305 00:17:27,540 --> 00:17:29,540 All right, we'll be right out. 306 00:17:30,540 --> 00:17:31,540 Yeah? 307 00:17:31,540 --> 00:17:34,540 Mr. Sullivan, he met with Kiefer out in Laurel Canyon. 308 00:17:34,540 --> 00:17:36,540 Did he get his daughter back? 309 00:17:36,540 --> 00:17:38,540 Yeah, he did. Wrapped in newspaper. 310 00:17:42,540 --> 00:17:48,540 All units in the area were notified immediately that a contact had been made with the suspect Donald Kiefer. 311 00:17:48,540 --> 00:17:51,540 We got in the car and we drove out to Laurel Canyon. 312 00:17:51,540 --> 00:17:53,540 The entire area had been blocked off. 313 00:17:53,540 --> 00:17:58,540 We found Martin Sullivan standing in the middle of the road at the end of East Winding Way. 314 00:17:58,540 --> 00:18:02,540 500 feet down the hill was a private residence where Sullivan had telephoned us. 315 00:18:02,540 --> 00:18:04,540 The only building in the immediate vicinity. 316 00:18:04,540 --> 00:18:13,540 A few yards beyond the point where East Winding Way ended, back in a clump of tall grass, we found the body of 22-year-old Judy Sullivan. 317 00:18:13,540 --> 00:18:17,540 We notified the crime lab, Chief Thatt Brown in the corner. 318 00:18:17,540 --> 00:18:21,540 Despite the severe emotional shock, Mr. Sullivan told us the story. 319 00:18:21,540 --> 00:18:23,540 He said Judy was all right. 320 00:18:23,540 --> 00:18:26,540 I believed him. I wanted her back. 321 00:18:26,540 --> 00:18:32,540 Judy. I tricked the officer, the one watching me. 322 00:18:32,540 --> 00:18:35,540 Kiefer said to come alone. No police. 323 00:18:35,540 --> 00:18:37,540 Did you see his car, Mr. Sullivan? 324 00:18:37,540 --> 00:18:40,540 I wanted her back. I wanted Judy back. 325 00:18:40,540 --> 00:18:45,540 I did as he said. I drove out here at 6 o'clock. I waited. 326 00:18:45,540 --> 00:18:48,540 I put the money on the front seat, like he said. 327 00:18:48,540 --> 00:18:50,540 Did he get the money, sir? 328 00:18:50,540 --> 00:18:54,540 Then I got out. I left the parking lights on. 329 00:18:54,540 --> 00:18:58,540 I stood up there by the end of the road and I waited. 330 00:18:58,540 --> 00:19:00,540 And then he drove up. 331 00:19:00,540 --> 00:19:03,540 He took the money. 332 00:19:03,540 --> 00:19:05,540 And then he came up to me. 333 00:19:05,540 --> 00:19:07,540 He had a gun. 334 00:19:07,540 --> 00:19:10,540 I wanted Judy back. 335 00:19:10,540 --> 00:19:12,540 He had a gun. 336 00:19:12,540 --> 00:19:14,540 Did you see his car? 337 00:19:14,540 --> 00:19:16,540 He said she was up there. 338 00:19:16,540 --> 00:19:20,540 Beyond the road, she was tied to a tree, he said. 339 00:19:20,540 --> 00:19:23,540 I wanted her back. 340 00:19:23,540 --> 00:19:26,540 Now look, Mr. Sullivan, did you see his car? 341 00:19:26,540 --> 00:19:28,540 I went to look for Judy. 342 00:19:28,540 --> 00:19:31,540 He drove away. 343 00:19:31,540 --> 00:19:34,540 She wasn't there by the tree. 344 00:19:34,540 --> 00:19:37,540 I couldn't find her. 345 00:19:37,540 --> 00:19:40,540 Now, way back. 346 00:19:40,540 --> 00:19:44,540 I saw the money. 347 00:19:44,540 --> 00:19:47,540 On the way. 348 00:19:47,540 --> 00:19:50,540 Yes, sir. 349 00:19:50,540 --> 00:19:52,540 Lord. 350 00:19:52,540 --> 00:19:55,540 Let me find him. 351 00:19:55,540 --> 00:19:58,540 Oh Lord, let me kill him. 352 00:20:03,540 --> 00:20:10,540 Before he collapsed completely, we showed the dead girl's father a picture of Donald Kiefer and he identified him definitely. 353 00:20:10,540 --> 00:20:16,540 The information was immediately relayed back to Central Division and rebroadcast over our entire radio system. 354 00:20:16,540 --> 00:20:22,540 Teletypes were dispatched to sheriff's offices and communications sent to law enforcement agencies throughout the country. 355 00:20:22,540 --> 00:20:24,540 9.52 p.m. 356 00:20:24,540 --> 00:20:27,540 The house-to-house search was intensified. 357 00:20:27,540 --> 00:20:31,540 The dragnet operation in which we hoped to trap the killer was drawing slowly inward. 358 00:20:31,540 --> 00:20:38,540 A few minutes before midnight, Ben and I drove back downtown to the crime lab to check with Lieutenant Lee Jones. 359 00:20:38,540 --> 00:20:40,540 Hey fellas, come on back. 360 00:20:40,540 --> 00:20:41,540 Anything yet, Lee? 361 00:20:41,540 --> 00:20:43,540 Just checking over these towels here. 362 00:20:43,540 --> 00:20:46,540 Found them wrapped around the girl's body inside the papers. 363 00:20:46,540 --> 00:20:47,540 What do you think about them? 364 00:20:47,540 --> 00:20:48,540 What's that? 365 00:20:48,540 --> 00:20:49,540 All yesterday's papers. 366 00:20:49,540 --> 00:20:53,540 Every story about the girl's disappearance has been clipped out. 367 00:20:53,540 --> 00:20:55,540 How about the towels? Any laundry marks at all, Lee? 368 00:20:55,540 --> 00:20:57,540 Nothing so far, Joe. 369 00:20:57,540 --> 00:20:59,540 Every one of them clipped off. 370 00:20:59,540 --> 00:21:00,540 Mog, post the body yet? 371 00:21:00,540 --> 00:21:02,540 They're doing it now. 372 00:21:02,540 --> 00:21:03,540 Nasty one. 373 00:21:03,540 --> 00:21:04,540 Oh, it sure is. 374 00:21:04,540 --> 00:21:07,540 Any footprints or tire marks out where they found the body? 375 00:21:07,540 --> 00:21:08,540 No, lots of them. 376 00:21:08,540 --> 00:21:11,540 Got two of the men checking them now. 377 00:21:11,540 --> 00:21:13,540 One thing. 378 00:21:13,540 --> 00:21:14,540 What is it, Lee? 379 00:21:14,540 --> 00:21:15,540 I don't know. 380 00:21:15,540 --> 00:21:17,540 Under the seam here, this towel. 381 00:21:17,540 --> 00:21:19,540 Wait a minute. 382 00:21:19,540 --> 00:21:21,540 Give me that pair of snippers, will you, Joe? 383 00:21:21,540 --> 00:21:22,540 Yes. 384 00:21:22,540 --> 00:21:24,540 Here you go. 385 00:21:24,540 --> 00:21:25,540 Thanks. 386 00:21:25,540 --> 00:21:28,540 Press back under the seam here. 387 00:21:28,540 --> 00:21:29,540 There. 388 00:21:29,540 --> 00:21:31,540 That's one tag he missed. 389 00:21:31,540 --> 00:21:33,540 Yeah, can you read the marking? 390 00:21:33,540 --> 00:21:35,540 Greenway Apartments, Los Angeles. 391 00:21:38,540 --> 00:21:40,540 1234 A.M. 392 00:21:40,540 --> 00:21:43,540 We located the Greenway Apartments in the East Wilshire District, 393 00:21:43,540 --> 00:21:45,540 and we checked with a manager. 394 00:21:45,540 --> 00:21:47,540 He identified Kieffer's mugshot, but he said he hadn't been home 395 00:21:47,540 --> 00:21:49,540 to the apartment since the day before. 396 00:21:49,540 --> 00:21:53,540 We called the crime lab, and we went up to check the suspect's apartment. 397 00:21:53,540 --> 00:21:55,540 One look was enough. 398 00:21:55,540 --> 00:21:58,540 Lieutenant Lee Jones found specimens of the Sullivan girl's blood 399 00:21:58,540 --> 00:22:01,540 in the wash basin and the bathtub drains. 400 00:22:01,540 --> 00:22:04,540 In an adjoining garage, we found a car which Kieffer had used, 401 00:22:04,540 --> 00:22:09,540 a blue sedan, Nebraska plates, 6X-ray, 419. 402 00:22:09,540 --> 00:22:11,540 A cancellation of the warrant order for the car was issued, 403 00:22:11,540 --> 00:22:14,540 and a stakeout placed at the apartment and in the garage 404 00:22:14,540 --> 00:22:17,540 in case Kieffer decided to return. 405 00:22:17,540 --> 00:22:21,540 All that night and into the next day, the citywide dragnet went on. 406 00:22:21,540 --> 00:22:23,540 There was no sign of the killer. 407 00:22:23,540 --> 00:22:25,540 At ten minutes past two that afternoon, 408 00:22:25,540 --> 00:22:27,540 the first piece of ransom money showed up. 409 00:22:27,540 --> 00:22:31,540 It was at a used car lot on the corner of Beverly and Naylor streets. 410 00:22:31,540 --> 00:22:33,540 Two hours later, another piece of the money turned up 411 00:22:33,540 --> 00:22:36,540 at a busy downtown department store. 412 00:22:36,540 --> 00:22:39,540 In both cases, the man who passed the stolen money was finally identified 413 00:22:39,540 --> 00:22:41,540 as Donald Kieffer. 414 00:22:41,540 --> 00:22:44,540 Details were strengthened in both areas where the money appeared. 415 00:22:44,540 --> 00:22:47,540 Research went on. 6.42 p.m. 416 00:22:47,540 --> 00:22:50,540 Ben and I got a call to meet Chief Thad Brown at the Hollywood Division Station. 417 00:22:50,540 --> 00:22:52,540 Tommy Bryan from Central Homicide was with him. 418 00:22:52,540 --> 00:22:54,540 This is the way it stacks up now. 419 00:22:54,540 --> 00:22:57,540 This pin map over here, this is where we're concentrating the search, 420 00:22:57,540 --> 00:22:59,540 this area here. 421 00:22:59,540 --> 00:23:01,540 How about the lead we had on him downtown? Did it work out? 422 00:23:01,540 --> 00:23:04,540 No, the last 20 minutes we picked up three possible leads on the man 423 00:23:04,540 --> 00:23:06,540 out in this neighborhood here. 424 00:23:06,540 --> 00:23:10,540 East of Vine, south of Franklin, west of La Brea, north of Santa Monica. 425 00:23:10,540 --> 00:23:12,540 More ransom money show up? 426 00:23:12,540 --> 00:23:14,540 You got it there, Bryan. Rate it off. 427 00:23:14,540 --> 00:23:17,540 Yeah. 5.35, sunset in Highland. 428 00:23:17,540 --> 00:23:20,540 Newsboy thought he saw Kieffer crossing the street. 429 00:23:20,540 --> 00:23:23,540 Twenty minutes later, a salesgirl in a dime store up on Hollywood Boulevard 430 00:23:23,540 --> 00:23:25,540 thought she saw him. 431 00:23:25,540 --> 00:23:27,540 Ten minutes after that, he was reported seen near the intersection 432 00:23:27,540 --> 00:23:29,540 of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas. 433 00:23:29,540 --> 00:23:31,540 You figure the reports were reliable? 434 00:23:31,540 --> 00:23:32,540 They were all checked out. 435 00:23:32,540 --> 00:23:34,540 They didn't put too much faith in them until a few minutes ago. 436 00:23:34,540 --> 00:23:35,540 How's that? 437 00:23:35,540 --> 00:23:37,540 Five dollar bill was passed at a cigar store, 438 00:23:37,540 --> 00:23:39,540 Hollywood Boulevard and Hawthorne ransom money. 439 00:23:39,540 --> 00:23:42,540 They've already doubled the number of men and cars in the area. 440 00:23:42,540 --> 00:23:45,540 Men stationed at every intersection to keep an eye on pedestrian traffic. 441 00:23:45,540 --> 00:23:46,540 We're covering everything. 442 00:23:46,540 --> 00:23:49,540 Street, stores, covering the whole neighborhood. 443 00:23:49,540 --> 00:23:51,540 I'll get it. 444 00:23:51,540 --> 00:23:53,540 Homicide, Bryan. 445 00:23:53,540 --> 00:23:55,540 Yeah, just a minute. You, Chief. 446 00:23:55,540 --> 00:23:57,540 Oh. 447 00:23:58,540 --> 00:24:00,540 That, Bryan? 448 00:24:00,540 --> 00:24:02,540 Yeah. Uh-huh. 449 00:24:02,540 --> 00:24:04,540 Where? 450 00:24:04,540 --> 00:24:05,540 Uh-huh. When was that? 451 00:24:05,540 --> 00:24:08,540 No, stay there. We'll be right there. Goodbye. 452 00:24:08,540 --> 00:24:10,540 Another piece of ransom money. 453 00:24:10,540 --> 00:24:11,540 Where'd it turn up? 454 00:24:11,540 --> 00:24:14,540 In a theater on Hollywood Boulevard between Fairview and Hawthorne. 455 00:24:14,540 --> 00:24:16,540 Who passed the money? You think it was Kieffer? 456 00:24:16,540 --> 00:24:18,540 Positive. They say he's in the theater right now. 457 00:24:22,540 --> 00:24:25,540 The information on Kieffer was phoned into communications immediately, 458 00:24:25,540 --> 00:24:29,540 and within a few minutes, men and cars converged on the neighborhood. 459 00:24:29,540 --> 00:24:33,540 The one-half-mile area around the theater was completely blockaded. 460 00:24:33,540 --> 00:24:36,540 Every exit and entrance to the theater was covered. 461 00:24:36,540 --> 00:24:41,540 7.23 p.m. Ben and I, along with Chief Thad Brown and Tom Bryan, 462 00:24:41,540 --> 00:24:43,540 met in the theater manager's office. 463 00:24:43,540 --> 00:24:45,540 Brown outlined our plan of operation. 464 00:24:45,540 --> 00:24:51,540 At 7.32 p.m., a detail of 14 men walked down the side aisles on the main floor of the theater 465 00:24:51,540 --> 00:24:54,540 and took up their posts on either side of the orchestra pit. 466 00:24:54,540 --> 00:24:57,540 The picture was stopped and every light in the theater was turned on. 467 00:24:57,540 --> 00:25:03,540 Chief Brown, Bryan, Gomez, Faxter, Ben and myself went down the aisle and up onto the stage. 468 00:25:03,540 --> 00:25:06,540 Chief Brown made the announcement. 469 00:25:06,540 --> 00:25:09,540 Ladies and gentlemen, we'll go all the way quiet for a minute, please. 470 00:25:09,540 --> 00:25:13,540 We're sorry to interrupt the picture, but this is a very important matter. 471 00:25:13,540 --> 00:25:17,540 We're police officers. Maybe you've read about it in the papers. 472 00:25:17,540 --> 00:25:21,540 A girl by the name of Judy Sullivan was abducted and murdered the day before yesterday. 473 00:25:21,540 --> 00:25:24,540 We think we've traced the man who murdered her to this theater. 474 00:25:24,540 --> 00:25:26,540 We believe he's in this theater now. 475 00:25:26,540 --> 00:25:30,540 We're going to search the theater row by row and we'd like to ask for your cooperation. 476 00:25:30,540 --> 00:25:33,540 There's no need to be mad or afraid. 477 00:25:33,540 --> 00:25:35,540 Those who were still eaten out may do so. 478 00:25:35,540 --> 00:25:40,540 But even on the main entrance, each one of you will be checked as you go out the door. 479 00:25:40,540 --> 00:25:43,540 For the benefit of the man we're looking for, don't try to escape. 480 00:25:43,540 --> 00:25:46,540 Every exit is covered. The entire area is locked in. 481 00:25:46,540 --> 00:25:49,540 Don't place any more lights in general. 482 00:25:49,540 --> 00:25:50,540 All right? 483 00:25:50,540 --> 00:25:53,540 Hey! Hey, right there! 484 00:25:53,540 --> 00:25:56,540 There he goes! There! I'm trying to get him! 485 00:25:56,540 --> 00:25:58,540 Come on, Ben. 486 00:25:58,540 --> 00:26:01,540 He's running down the alley, heading to the base! 487 00:26:01,540 --> 00:26:03,540 Backstage, Joe. We can make it from here. 488 00:26:03,540 --> 00:26:05,540 All right, come on. Through here. 489 00:26:05,540 --> 00:26:06,540 Yeah. 490 00:26:06,540 --> 00:26:07,540 Down here. 491 00:26:07,540 --> 00:26:09,540 Right way. 492 00:26:10,540 --> 00:26:12,540 In here. 493 00:26:16,540 --> 00:26:18,540 Come on, over here. 494 00:26:18,540 --> 00:26:20,540 Air conditioning unit for the theater. 495 00:26:20,540 --> 00:26:21,540 Yeah. 496 00:26:21,540 --> 00:26:22,540 I don't see him, do you? 497 00:26:22,540 --> 00:26:23,540 No. 498 00:26:23,540 --> 00:26:26,540 He can't get out. There's just two exits. We've got them both covered. 499 00:26:28,540 --> 00:26:29,540 Look out, Ben! 500 00:26:29,540 --> 00:26:31,540 There he is! All right, keeper, hold it! 501 00:26:33,540 --> 00:26:35,540 Don't shoot! Don't shoot, I hear you! 502 00:26:35,540 --> 00:26:37,540 All right, throw your gun over here! 503 00:26:37,540 --> 00:26:39,540 Come on, throw it out! 504 00:26:41,540 --> 00:26:42,540 Okay, I got it. 505 00:26:42,540 --> 00:26:44,540 Give me that gun, too! 506 00:26:44,540 --> 00:26:48,540 All right, let's take him. 507 00:26:48,540 --> 00:26:49,540 All right. 508 00:26:49,540 --> 00:26:51,540 Okay, you got my gun. I didn't mean to shoot. I tell you, you forced me to. 509 00:26:51,540 --> 00:26:52,540 Put the cuffs on him, Ben. 510 00:26:52,540 --> 00:26:53,540 Yeah, right. 511 00:26:53,540 --> 00:26:55,540 Get your hands off of me! 512 00:26:55,540 --> 00:26:56,540 All right, keeper. 513 00:26:56,540 --> 00:26:58,540 Got the same for your cuffs. 514 00:26:58,540 --> 00:27:00,540 All right, now hold it. 515 00:27:00,540 --> 00:27:01,540 All right, Ben, you all right? 516 00:27:01,540 --> 00:27:02,540 Yeah. 517 00:27:02,540 --> 00:27:03,540 All right, try the cuffs on him now, huh? 518 00:27:03,540 --> 00:27:05,540 Yeah, uh-huh. 519 00:27:05,540 --> 00:27:06,540 Got him, huh? 520 00:27:06,540 --> 00:27:07,540 Yeah. 521 00:27:07,540 --> 00:27:08,540 Yeah, a rough one. 522 00:27:08,540 --> 00:27:09,540 Hey, it's starting to rain again. 523 00:27:09,540 --> 00:27:11,540 It's really pouring out there, Ben. 524 00:27:11,540 --> 00:27:14,540 Yeah? 525 00:27:14,540 --> 00:27:16,540 Guess you better get him out the car, huh? 526 00:27:16,540 --> 00:27:17,540 What's the hurry? 527 00:27:17,540 --> 00:27:18,540 How you mean? 528 00:27:18,540 --> 00:27:20,540 Why spoil a good rain? 529 00:27:27,540 --> 00:27:30,540 The story you have just heard was true. 530 00:27:30,540 --> 00:27:33,540 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 531 00:27:33,540 --> 00:27:39,540 On January 19th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 87, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 532 00:27:39,540 --> 00:27:41,540 In a moment, the results of that trial. 533 00:27:41,540 --> 00:27:43,540 Now here is our star, Jack Webb. 534 00:27:43,540 --> 00:27:44,540 Thank you, George Fenomen. 535 00:27:44,540 --> 00:27:52,540 Friends, this Sunday evening, December 16th, Fatima brings you a television preview of Dragnet on Sound Off Time on NBC. 536 00:27:52,540 --> 00:27:54,540 Check your papers for the time. 537 00:27:54,540 --> 00:27:59,540 Now it's an actual case history filmed right on the spot right at the City Hall downtown Los Angeles. 538 00:27:59,540 --> 00:28:05,540 Starting in January, Dragnet will be seen regularly on television in addition to Dragnet Radio. 539 00:28:05,540 --> 00:28:14,540 Now remember, Fatima is making all this possible and making it possible for you to give the best this Christmas to everybody who smokes king-sized cigarettes. 540 00:28:14,540 --> 00:28:17,540 Fatima in the New Holiday Gift Card. 541 00:28:17,540 --> 00:28:24,540 It's the smartest of all Christmas cardins, just as it should be, because Fatima is the best of all king-sized cigarettes. 542 00:28:24,540 --> 00:28:35,540 Give Fatima. 543 00:28:35,540 --> 00:28:42,540 Donald Alfred Keefer was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree, and on the recommendation of the jury, he received the death penalty. 544 00:28:42,540 --> 00:28:47,540 He was executed in the lethal gas chamber at the State Penitentiary, San Quentin, California. 545 00:28:47,540 --> 00:29:01,540 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 546 00:29:01,540 --> 00:29:06,540 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. 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