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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. 01:55.540 --> 02:05.540 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 02:05.540 --> 02:11.540 It was Tuesday, October 18th. It was cloudy in Los Angeles. We were working the early morning watch out of homicide. 02:11.540 --> 02:16.540 My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Thad Brown, Chief of Detectives. My name's Friday. 02:16.540 --> 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. 02:22.540 --> 02:24.540 Hi, Brian. 02:24.540 --> 02:27.540 Hi. Got those mug shots you wanted, Joe. Here you go. 02:27.540 --> 02:30.540 Oh, thank you. The captain leave yet? 02:30.540 --> 02:32.540 They're waiting for me in the garage. You call back? 02:32.540 --> 02:33.540 I'm going to right now, yeah. 02:33.540 --> 02:35.540 Okay. I guess I better hustle it. See you out there, huh? 02:35.540 --> 02:37.540 Right, Brian. 02:37.540 --> 02:39.540 Hello? 03:01.540 --> 03:02.540 Hello. 03:02.540 --> 03:04.540 I'm sorry to wake you, Ben. This is Joe. How you feeling? 03:04.540 --> 03:07.540 Oh. Hi, Joe. What time is it? 03:07.540 --> 03:09.540 3.30 a.m. How's the sore throat? 03:09.540 --> 03:11.540 Oh, it's not better. I ought to be back to work tomorrow. 03:11.540 --> 03:14.540 Oh, we need you now, Ben. You want to be ready in about 20 minutes? I'll pick you up. 03:14.540 --> 03:17.540 20 minutes? Okay. What's the matter? 03:17.540 --> 03:20.540 A man by the name of Martin Sullivan, official down at the Third National Bank. 03:20.540 --> 03:21.540 Yeah, what about it? 03:21.540 --> 03:23.540 He's got a 22-year-old daughter. Or he had one. 03:23.540 --> 03:24.540 Huh? 03:24.540 --> 03:25.540 She's gone. 03:25.540 --> 03:33.540 Less than 14 hours before, at 1 o'clock the previous afternoon, 03:33.540 --> 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. 03:39.540 --> 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. 03:46.540 --> 03:50.540 It had been the only contact made thus far by the abductor. 03:50.540 --> 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. 03:56.540 --> 03:59.540 The entire force throughout the city had been alerted. 03:59.540 --> 04:03.540 3.44 a.m. I pulled up in front of Ben's house. 04:08.540 --> 04:09.540 Well, good morning. 04:09.540 --> 04:10.540 Hi. 04:10.540 --> 04:11.540 You made good time. 04:11.540 --> 04:13.540 Where are we headed? 04:13.540 --> 04:17.540 To Sullivan Home out on Castro Boulevard. Thad Brown's out there now with Brian. 04:17.540 --> 04:19.540 Any leads to going? 04:19.540 --> 04:20.540 No, not so far. 04:20.540 --> 04:23.540 The girl disappeared a little before 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon. 04:23.540 --> 04:27.540 Note from the abductor came through last night. They're asking $30,000. 04:27.540 --> 04:29.540 I don't get it. Sullivan hasn't got that kind of money. 04:29.540 --> 04:33.540 Yeah, I know that. Poor guy's almost out of his mind. Mrs. Sullivan too, they're all broken up. 04:33.540 --> 04:35.540 Fill me in. How'd it happen? 04:35.540 --> 04:39.540 Well, the girl was taken from a business school that she goes to. 04:39.540 --> 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. 04:43.540 --> 04:45.540 How about the teachers? What was their story? 04:45.540 --> 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. 04:51.540 --> 04:53.540 Yeah, lousy thing. Did he use the car? 04:53.540 --> 04:58.540 Yeah, blue sedan. That's all we know. Witnesses didn't get the make of the license number. 04:58.540 --> 04:59.540 Any description on the man? 04:59.540 --> 05:04.540 Yeah. They say about 5'9", 160 brown suit and dark hair. 05:04.540 --> 05:05.540 Is that all? 05:05.540 --> 05:07.540 That's it. 05:07.540 --> 05:10.540 Here's a copy of the letter that the Sullivan's got. You can read it. It's the usual. 05:10.540 --> 05:17.540 All right, thanks. l have your daughter, Judy. Get $30,000 quick if you want her back alive. 05:17.540 --> 05:22.540 Don't call police or l'll kill her. Contact you later. Sign the wolf. 05:22.540 --> 05:26.540 Lousy kid. l don't know. l could think of a better name. Here we are. 05:33.540 --> 05:35.540 Who's got the original note, Joe? 05:35.540 --> 05:40.540 The crime lab. They're checking it for prints and handwriting. 05:46.540 --> 05:48.540 Hi, Joe Romero. l'm in the living room. 05:48.540 --> 05:52.540 Thank you, Joe. 05:52.540 --> 05:56.540 That's the way l see it, Mr. Sullivan. You understand exactly what you have to do now? 05:56.540 --> 05:58.540 Yes, l'll do as you say. 05:58.540 --> 06:02.540 All right, sir. Here are the two men who will help you. Sergeant Friday and Romero, Central Homicide. 06:02.540 --> 06:05.540 All right, Mr. Sullivan. l'll do as you say. 06:05.540 --> 06:10.540 Mr. Brown, are you sure about all this? l keep thinking he might get frightened. He might do something to her. 06:10.540 --> 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. 06:15.540 --> 06:19.540 All right. l want to see Mrs. Sullivan first. Will you excuse me? l'll be ready in a moment. 06:19.540 --> 06:21.540 All right, fine. 06:21.540 --> 06:23.540 What is it, Chief? Any development? 06:23.540 --> 06:25.540 l'm back here in the dining room. 06:25.540 --> 06:27.540 Yes? 06:30.540 --> 06:31.540 Yes? 06:31.540 --> 06:33.540 That's it on the table. Second note from the guy. 06:33.540 --> 06:34.540 When did it come? 06:34.540 --> 06:38.540 Half an hour ago. Guy had it delivered by a special messenger. He used a plain envelope. 06:38.540 --> 06:42.540 The messenger kid didn't know anything about it. Doesn't remember what the guy looked like. 06:42.540 --> 06:43.540 Let's take him. 06:43.540 --> 06:45.540 Yes, all righty. 06:45.540 --> 06:49.540 He says, ''Meet me in the Legion Park at five o'clock this morning near Balkan Drive. 06:49.540 --> 06:55.540 Come alone, bring 30,000. We'll return girl. Don't tell the cops. l'll kill her if you do.'' 06:55.540 --> 06:57.540 lt's the same signature to Wolf. 06:57.540 --> 06:59.540 Not much time, Chief. lt's 4 a.m. now. 06:59.540 --> 07:02.540 l know. That's what we'll have to do as he says. There's no other way. 07:02.540 --> 07:04.540 Sullivan's going out there alone, is he? 07:04.540 --> 07:07.540 You're going with him, you'll remember. He'll be hidden in the trunk of his car. 07:07.540 --> 07:09.540 All right. Anything else? Any plan you want us to follow? 07:09.540 --> 07:11.540 Get him, that's all. 07:11.540 --> 07:19.540 4.15 a.m. Ben and l went out back to the garage where Mr. Sullivan's car was parked. 07:19.540 --> 07:23.540 We jammed ourselves into the trunk compartment and Brian closed the door on us. 07:23.540 --> 07:27.540 The latch was rigged so that we could push open the door from the inside. 07:27.540 --> 07:32.540 A few minutes later, Mr. Sullivan came out, got in the car, and we drove off. 07:32.540 --> 07:37.540 At three minutes to five, we pulled up at the designated meeting place up in the Legion Park. 07:37.540 --> 07:43.540 We waited. Nothing happened. Five minutes past 5 a.m. Still nothing. 07:43.540 --> 07:45.540 Outside, it started to thunder. 07:47.540 --> 07:50.540 The rain is starting, man. lt's windy. 07:52.540 --> 07:54.540 Joe, are you here? 07:54.540 --> 07:58.540 Yeah. l've got to come up the road toward us, haven't l? 07:59.540 --> 08:01.540 Yeah. Wait a minute. 08:01.540 --> 08:03.540 Coming over this way. 08:03.540 --> 08:05.540 Yeah, sounds that way, doesn't it? Are you ready? 08:05.540 --> 08:07.540 Right. Easy. 08:09.540 --> 08:11.540 Coming back here. Watch it now. 08:21.540 --> 08:23.540 Friday? l'm out. 08:23.540 --> 08:24.540 Chief, is that you? 08:24.540 --> 08:26.540 Yeah. Come on out. Meetings off. 08:26.540 --> 08:28.540 What for, man? l'm breaking. 08:28.540 --> 08:31.540 Come on. 08:31.540 --> 08:33.540 What happened to the leg? 08:33.540 --> 08:35.540 There we go. 08:35.540 --> 08:38.540 Mr. Sullivan, you want to drive back home? We'll contact you there. 08:38.540 --> 08:40.540 Yes, sir. All right. 08:40.540 --> 08:43.540 Come on. Let's get over the car. 08:43.540 --> 08:46.540 What's the story? Did he scare off? 08:46.540 --> 08:49.540 The guy had no intention of following through with the meeting. 08:49.540 --> 08:50.540 How come? 08:50.540 --> 08:52.540 He told us he phoned a couple of minutes before 5 a.m. 08:52.540 --> 08:55.540 We tried to trace the call. He wouldn't stay on the line long enough. 08:55.540 --> 08:59.540 What'd he have to say? 08:55.540 --> 08:59.540 A couple of things. 08:59.540 --> 09:01.540 Number one, he wants more money. 09:01.540 --> 09:03.540 Number two, he knows we're working the case. 09:03.540 --> 09:05.540 What was his reaction? 09:05.540 --> 09:07.540 He claims he doesn't care. We'll never get him anyway. 09:07.540 --> 09:09.540 Well, how's the thing stand now? 09:09.540 --> 09:12.540 $50,000. He wants it in the next 12 hours. 09:14.540 --> 09:17.540 More than 16 hours had passed since word of Judy Sullivan's abduction 09:17.540 --> 09:19.540 had been phoned into homicide. 09:19.540 --> 09:23.540 During that time, an APB containing the descriptions of the suspect, 09:23.540 --> 09:27.540 his car, and his victim had been dispatched to law enforcement agencies 09:27.540 --> 09:29.540 throughout the entire area. 09:29.540 --> 09:32.540 The same descriptions were being broadcast every hour. 09:32.540 --> 09:35.540 The Sullivan home had been placed under strict surveillance, 09:35.540 --> 09:38.540 and Mr. Sullivan instructed not to contact the suspect 09:38.540 --> 09:40.540 without the knowledge of the police. 09:40.540 --> 09:44.540 The girl's father had raised almost $10,000 in cash to buy him off, 09:44.540 --> 09:47.540 and the serial numbers on each one of the bills had been copied 09:47.540 --> 09:51.540 by a police stenographer and rechecked by a homicide officer. 09:51.540 --> 09:55.540 So far, the wolf, as he called himself, had made three separate contacts, 09:55.540 --> 09:57.540 but he'd covered his tracks well. 09:57.540 --> 10:02.540 We knew he was somewhere in the city, 450 square miles of it. 10:02.540 --> 10:04.540 We knew we had to find him. 10:04.540 --> 10:07.540 618 A.M. We checked back into homicide. 10:08.540 --> 10:09.540 What's going, boy? 10:09.540 --> 10:11.540 Here's a copy of the letter, fellas. 10:11.540 --> 10:13.540 Special delivery came in about 25 minutes ago. 10:13.540 --> 10:14.540 Not safe, huh? 10:14.540 --> 10:15.540 Hmm. 10:15.540 --> 10:17.540 That's the same handwriting it looks like. 10:17.540 --> 10:20.540 Check the postmark, Joe. Must have mailed it right after he grabbed the girl. 10:20.540 --> 10:21.540 Let me see. 10:21.540 --> 10:23.540 Stay away from Sullivan. 10:23.540 --> 10:25.540 If the girl's found dead, it's your fault. Stay away. 10:25.540 --> 10:26.540 Wolf. 10:26.540 --> 10:28.540 Can't seem to make up his mind, huh? 10:28.540 --> 10:29.540 Hmm. 10:29.540 --> 10:31.540 They checking the original of this for prints, Tom? 10:31.540 --> 10:32.540 Yeah, no word yet. 10:32.540 --> 10:34.540 How about that second note? Anything on that? 10:34.540 --> 10:35.540 Uh-huh. 10:35.540 --> 10:38.540 Stahl lifted a couple of prints, running them through our eye. 10:38.540 --> 10:39.540 Who's watching Sullivan House now? 10:39.540 --> 10:41.540 Gomez and Faxter. Chief's out there, too. 10:41.540 --> 10:44.540 He's still afraid the girl's father will try to make a deal with the guy. 10:44.540 --> 10:45.540 He tried again? 10:45.540 --> 10:46.540 No, not yet. 10:46.540 --> 10:48.540 Well, he couldn't blame him if he did. He's worried sick. 10:48.540 --> 10:49.540 Huh, guy? 10:49.540 --> 10:50.540 No. 10:50.540 --> 10:53.540 Homicide Romero. Here I try. 10:53.540 --> 10:54.540 Mm-hmm. 10:54.540 --> 10:56.540 Mm-hmm. How do you spell it? 10:56.540 --> 11:00.540 Okay, right. Yeah, thanks a lot. 11:00.540 --> 11:05.540 Record Bureau, those two prints Stahl lifted from the letter, run them through the single print file. 11:05.540 --> 11:06.540 Any luck? 11:06.540 --> 11:07.540 They gotta make. 11:07.540 --> 11:17.540 The fingerprint that was lifted from the suspect's letter was identified as belonging to a Donald Alfred Kiefer. 11:17.540 --> 11:23.540 WMA, age 29, 5 feet 8 inches, 170 pounds, brown eyes, dark brown hair. 11:23.540 --> 11:28.540 He had one previous arrest for forgery in Los Angeles 10 months before. 11:28.540 --> 11:34.540 At the time of his arrest, Kiefer's occupation was listed as bank clerk at the Third National Bank. 11:34.540 --> 11:37.540 Well, I went down the hall to the Record Bureau to pull the crime report. 11:37.540 --> 11:43.540 Brian checked by Leighton Prince to see if they'd gotten anything off the last note from the suspect. 11:43.540 --> 11:45.540 Ben went to check with John Meyer in handwriting. 11:45.540 --> 11:51.540 7 23 a.m. Chief Fad Brown got back to the office. I showed him Kiefer's crime report. 11:51.540 --> 11:53.540 All right, what's the rundown on it? 11:53.540 --> 11:58.540 Well, at the time, Kiefer pulled the forgery job at the bank. Mr. Sullivan was one of the vice presidents. 11:58.540 --> 12:01.540 He was the one that preferred charges against Kiefer, and he saw that he was prosecuted. 12:01.540 --> 12:03.540 Mm-hmm. Where's this Kiefer now? 12:03.540 --> 12:05.540 Let me check that. 12:05.540 --> 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. 12:12.540 --> 12:13.540 Did you call Omaha? 12:13.540 --> 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. 12:19.540 --> 12:20.540 Chief? 12:20.540 --> 12:21.540 Aye. 12:21.540 --> 12:22.540 What about that Leighton note? 12:22.540 --> 12:24.540 I got the report right here. 12:24.540 --> 12:25.540 How's it look? 12:25.540 --> 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. 12:30.540 --> 12:31.540 What's that? 12:31.540 --> 12:36.540 They examined the paper for watermarks and texture. Both notes are written on the same paper. 12:36.540 --> 12:38.540 Impressions show both pieces of paper from the same tablet. 12:38.540 --> 12:39.540 Mm-hmm. 12:39.540 --> 12:44.540 Check the density of the carbon in the pencil we used. Both specimens match. Same pencil. 12:44.540 --> 12:45.540 Joe. 12:45.540 --> 12:46.540 Oh, hi, Skipper. 12:46.540 --> 12:48.540 Hi. Did you catch up with Don Meyer, Ben? 12:48.540 --> 12:50.540 Yeah. He went over the handwriting. Looks pretty good. 12:50.540 --> 12:51.540 What's the word? 12:51.540 --> 12:54.540 As close as you can get, here are the two exemplars. 12:54.540 --> 12:55.540 Mm-hmm. 12:55.540 --> 12:59.540 Francis Crosses, double-loops as L, open A, pressure on the downstroke. 12:59.540 --> 13:00.540 Ah. 13:00.540 --> 13:04.540 Donald Kiefer, the wolf, same handwriting. 13:04.540 --> 13:11.540 By noontime, Donald Kiefer's description had been broadcast throughout the entire area. 13:11.540 --> 13:15.540 Bulletins were dispatched to all departments, and a supplementary APB was gotten out. 13:15.540 --> 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. 13:22.540 --> 13:29.540 The bus depots, railroad terminals, the airports, and all main roads leading out of the city were kept under strict surveillance. 13:29.540 --> 13:36.540 The entire Los Angeles area was broken down into single square mile districts, and a house-to-house canvas was started. 13:36.540 --> 13:43.540 A squad of men were assigned to cover each square mile. Outlying towns and cities were requested to do the same. 13:43.540 --> 13:49.540 By four o'clock that afternoon, one of the greatest dragnet operations in the history of the city was underway. 13:49.540 --> 13:56.540 We were sure Donald Kiefer was somewhere inside. Five twelve p.m. We got the call back from the Omaha police. 13:56.540 --> 13:57.540 Is that Joe? 13:57.540 --> 13:58.540 Mm-hmm. 13:58.540 --> 14:03.540 Again, please, what was that? Six X-ray, 419, Nebraska Plague. 14:03.540 --> 14:06.540 Right. Fine, Lieutenant, thanks. Bye. 14:07.540 --> 14:08.540 They made the car? 14:08.540 --> 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. 14:13.540 --> 14:19.540 He used a stolen blue sedan in the robbery. 1939 model, Nebraska Plague, six X-ray, 419. 14:19.540 --> 14:21.540 What about his family and friends? Have they been checked? 14:21.540 --> 14:25.540 Yeah, they say Kiefer left Omaha about six weeks ago. I don't know where he was headed. 14:25.540 --> 14:29.540 We better get that car description that communicates it, huh? APB and a radiogram? 14:29.540 --> 14:30.540 Yeah, right. 14:30.540 --> 14:31.540 Righty, Romero? 14:31.540 --> 14:32.540 Yeah. 14:32.540 --> 14:33.540 What are you tied up with? 14:33.540 --> 14:36.540 Just got a call back from Omaha. Make on Kiefer in the car. 14:36.540 --> 14:39.540 Give it to me. You two get out to Sullivan the house as fast as you can. 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I shouldn't have let him get out of my sight. 16:54.540 --> 16:57.540 Forget it. Right now we've got to find out where he's gone to meet Kiefer. 16:57.540 --> 16:59.540 Did you talk to Mrs. Sullivan about it, Bert? 16:59.540 --> 17:01.540 Yeah, she said she doesn't know anything about it. 17:01.540 --> 17:02.540 Where is she now? 17:02.540 --> 17:04.540 Back in the sitting room lying down. 17:04.540 --> 17:06.540 Now let's try her again, huh? She might be able to help. 17:06.540 --> 17:08.540 Okay. It's back this way. 17:09.540 --> 17:11.540 What timing got, Jim? 17:11.540 --> 17:12.540 It's five minutes past six. 17:12.540 --> 17:14.540 I get it. 17:16.540 --> 17:18.540 Hello? How's that? 17:18.540 --> 17:20.540 Yeah, where are you? 17:21.540 --> 17:22.540 What? 17:23.540 --> 17:25.540 Oh, well, where are you? 17:25.540 --> 17:27.540 Where are you? 17:27.540 --> 17:29.540 All right, we'll be right out. 17:30.540 --> 17:31.540 Yeah? 17:31.540 --> 17:34.540 Mr. Sullivan, he met with Kiefer out in Laurel Canyon. 17:34.540 --> 17:36.540 Did he get his daughter back? 17:36.540 --> 17:38.540 Yeah, he did. Wrapped in newspaper. 17:42.540 --> 17:48.540 All units in the area were notified immediately that a contact had been made with the suspect Donald Kiefer. 17:48.540 --> 17:51.540 We got in the car and we drove out to Laurel Canyon. 17:51.540 --> 17:53.540 The entire area had been blocked off. 17:53.540 --> 17:58.540 We found Martin Sullivan standing in the middle of the road at the end of East Winding Way. 17:58.540 --> 18:02.540 500 feet down the hill was a private residence where Sullivan had telephoned us. 18:02.540 --> 18:04.540 The only building in the immediate vicinity. 18:04.540 --> 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. 18:13.540 --> 18:17.540 We notified the crime lab, Chief Thatt Brown in the corner. 18:17.540 --> 18:21.540 Despite the severe emotional shock, Mr. Sullivan told us the story. 18:21.540 --> 18:23.540 He said Judy was all right. 18:23.540 --> 18:26.540 I believed him. I wanted her back. 18:26.540 --> 18:32.540 Judy. I tricked the officer, the one watching me. 18:32.540 --> 18:35.540 Kiefer said to come alone. No police. 18:35.540 --> 18:37.540 Did you see his car, Mr. Sullivan? 18:37.540 --> 18:40.540 I wanted her back. I wanted Judy back. 18:40.540 --> 18:45.540 I did as he said. I drove out here at 6 o'clock. I waited. 18:45.540 --> 18:48.540 I put the money on the front seat, like he said. 18:48.540 --> 18:50.540 Did he get the money, sir? 18:50.540 --> 18:54.540 Then I got out. I left the parking lights on. 18:54.540 --> 18:58.540 I stood up there by the end of the road and I waited. 18:58.540 --> 19:00.540 And then he drove up. 19:00.540 --> 19:03.540 He took the money. 19:03.540 --> 19:05.540 And then he came up to me. 19:05.540 --> 19:07.540 He had a gun. 19:07.540 --> 19:10.540 I wanted Judy back. 19:10.540 --> 19:12.540 He had a gun. 19:12.540 --> 19:14.540 Did you see his car? 19:14.540 --> 19:16.540 He said she was up there. 19:16.540 --> 19:20.540 Beyond the road, she was tied to a tree, he said. 19:20.540 --> 19:23.540 I wanted her back. 19:23.540 --> 19:26.540 Now look, Mr. Sullivan, did you see his car? 19:26.540 --> 19:28.540 I went to look for Judy. 19:28.540 --> 19:31.540 He drove away. 19:31.540 --> 19:34.540 She wasn't there by the tree. 19:34.540 --> 19:37.540 I couldn't find her. 19:37.540 --> 19:40.540 Now, way back. 19:40.540 --> 19:44.540 I saw the money. 19:44.540 --> 19:47.540 On the way. 19:47.540 --> 19:50.540 Yes, sir. 19:50.540 --> 19:52.540 Lord. 19:52.540 --> 19:55.540 Let me find him. 19:55.540 --> 19:58.540 Oh Lord, let me kill him. 20:03.540 --> 20:10.540 Before he collapsed completely, we showed the dead girl's father a picture of Donald Kiefer and he identified him definitely. 20:10.540 --> 20:16.540 The information was immediately relayed back to Central Division and rebroadcast over our entire radio system. 20:16.540 --> 20:22.540 Teletypes were dispatched to sheriff's offices and communications sent to law enforcement agencies throughout the country. 20:22.540 --> 20:24.540 9.52 p.m. 20:24.540 --> 20:27.540 The house-to-house search was intensified. 20:27.540 --> 20:31.540 The dragnet operation in which we hoped to trap the killer was drawing slowly inward. 20:31.540 --> 20:38.540 A few minutes before midnight, Ben and I drove back downtown to the crime lab to check with Lieutenant Lee Jones. 20:38.540 --> 20:40.540 Hey fellas, come on back. 20:40.540 --> 20:41.540 Anything yet, Lee? 20:41.540 --> 20:43.540 Just checking over these towels here. 20:43.540 --> 20:46.540 Found them wrapped around the girl's body inside the papers. 20:46.540 --> 20:47.540 What do you think about them? 20:47.540 --> 20:48.540 What's that? 20:48.540 --> 20:49.540 All yesterday's papers. 20:49.540 --> 20:53.540 Every story about the girl's disappearance has been clipped out. 20:53.540 --> 20:55.540 How about the towels? Any laundry marks at all, Lee? 20:55.540 --> 20:57.540 Nothing so far, Joe. 20:57.540 --> 20:59.540 Every one of them clipped off. 20:59.540 --> 21:00.540 Mog, post the body yet? 21:00.540 --> 21:02.540 They're doing it now. 21:02.540 --> 21:03.540 Nasty one. 21:03.540 --> 21:04.540 Oh, it sure is. 21:04.540 --> 21:07.540 Any footprints or tire marks out where they found the body? 21:07.540 --> 21:08.540 No, lots of them. 21:08.540 --> 21:11.540 Got two of the men checking them now. 21:11.540 --> 21:13.540 One thing. 21:13.540 --> 21:14.540 What is it, Lee? 21:14.540 --> 21:15.540 I don't know. 21:15.540 --> 21:17.540 Under the seam here, this towel. 21:17.540 --> 21:19.540 Wait a minute. 21:19.540 --> 21:21.540 Give me that pair of snippers, will you, Joe? 21:21.540 --> 21:22.540 Yes. 21:22.540 --> 21:24.540 Here you go. 21:24.540 --> 21:25.540 Thanks. 21:25.540 --> 21:28.540 Press back under the seam here. 21:28.540 --> 21:29.540 There. 21:29.540 --> 21:31.540 That's one tag he missed. 21:31.540 --> 21:33.540 Yeah, can you read the marking? 21:33.540 --> 21:35.540 Greenway Apartments, Los Angeles. 21:38.540 --> 21:40.540 1234 A.M. 21:40.540 --> 21:43.540 We located the Greenway Apartments in the East Wilshire District, 21:43.540 --> 21:45.540 and we checked with a manager. 21:45.540 --> 21:47.540 He identified Kieffer's mugshot, but he said he hadn't been home 21:47.540 --> 21:49.540 to the apartment since the day before. 21:49.540 --> 21:53.540 We called the crime lab, and we went up to check the suspect's apartment. 21:53.540 --> 21:55.540 One look was enough. 21:55.540 --> 21:58.540 Lieutenant Lee Jones found specimens of the Sullivan girl's blood 21:58.540 --> 22:01.540 in the wash basin and the bathtub drains. 22:01.540 --> 22:04.540 In an adjoining garage, we found a car which Kieffer had used, 22:04.540 --> 22:09.540 a blue sedan, Nebraska plates, 6X-ray, 419. 22:09.540 --> 22:11.540 A cancellation of the warrant order for the car was issued, 22:11.540 --> 22:14.540 and a stakeout placed at the apartment and in the garage 22:14.540 --> 22:17.540 in case Kieffer decided to return. 22:17.540 --> 22:21.540 All that night and into the next day, the citywide dragnet went on. 22:21.540 --> 22:23.540 There was no sign of the killer. 22:23.540 --> 22:25.540 At ten minutes past two that afternoon, 22:25.540 --> 22:27.540 the first piece of ransom money showed up. 22:27.540 --> 22:31.540 It was at a used car lot on the corner of Beverly and Naylor streets. 22:31.540 --> 22:33.540 Two hours later, another piece of the money turned up 22:33.540 --> 22:36.540 at a busy downtown department store. 22:36.540 --> 22:39.540 In both cases, the man who passed the stolen money was finally identified 22:39.540 --> 22:41.540 as Donald Kieffer. 22:41.540 --> 22:44.540 Details were strengthened in both areas where the money appeared. 22:44.540 --> 22:47.540 Research went on. 6.42 p.m. 22:47.540 --> 22:50.540 Ben and I got a call to meet Chief Thad Brown at the Hollywood Division Station. 22:50.540 --> 22:52.540 Tommy Bryan from Central Homicide was with him. 22:52.540 --> 22:54.540 This is the way it stacks up now. 22:54.540 --> 22:57.540 This pin map over here, this is where we're concentrating the search, 22:57.540 --> 22:59.540 this area here. 22:59.540 --> 23:01.540 How about the lead we had on him downtown? Did it work out? 23:01.540 --> 23:04.540 No, the last 20 minutes we picked up three possible leads on the man 23:04.540 --> 23:06.540 out in this neighborhood here. 23:06.540 --> 23:10.540 East of Vine, south of Franklin, west of La Brea, north of Santa Monica. 23:10.540 --> 23:12.540 More ransom money show up? 23:12.540 --> 23:14.540 You got it there, Bryan. Rate it off. 23:14.540 --> 23:17.540 Yeah. 5.35, sunset in Highland. 23:17.540 --> 23:20.540 Newsboy thought he saw Kieffer crossing the street. 23:20.540 --> 23:23.540 Twenty minutes later, a salesgirl in a dime store up on Hollywood Boulevard 23:23.540 --> 23:25.540 thought she saw him. 23:25.540 --> 23:27.540 Ten minutes after that, he was reported seen near the intersection 23:27.540 --> 23:29.540 of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas. 23:29.540 --> 23:31.540 You figure the reports were reliable? 23:31.540 --> 23:32.540 They were all checked out. 23:32.540 --> 23:34.540 They didn't put too much faith in them until a few minutes ago. 23:34.540 --> 23:35.540 How's that? 23:35.540 --> 23:37.540 Five dollar bill was passed at a cigar store, 23:37.540 --> 23:39.540 Hollywood Boulevard and Hawthorne ransom money. 23:39.540 --> 23:42.540 They've already doubled the number of men and cars in the area. 23:42.540 --> 23:45.540 Men stationed at every intersection to keep an eye on pedestrian traffic. 23:45.540 --> 23:46.540 We're covering everything. 23:46.540 --> 23:49.540 Street, stores, covering the whole neighborhood. 23:49.540 --> 23:51.540 I'll get it. 23:51.540 --> 23:53.540 Homicide, Bryan. 23:53.540 --> 23:55.540 Yeah, just a minute. You, Chief. 23:55.540 --> 23:57.540 Oh. 23:58.540 --> 24:00.540 That, Bryan? 24:00.540 --> 24:02.540 Yeah. Uh-huh. 24:02.540 --> 24:04.540 Where? 24:04.540 --> 24:05.540 Uh-huh. When was that? 24:05.540 --> 24:08.540 No, stay there. We'll be right there. Goodbye. 24:08.540 --> 24:10.540 Another piece of ransom money. 24:10.540 --> 24:11.540 Where'd it turn up? 24:11.540 --> 24:14.540 In a theater on Hollywood Boulevard between Fairview and Hawthorne. 24:14.540 --> 24:16.540 Who passed the money? You think it was Kieffer? 24:16.540 --> 24:18.540 Positive. They say he's in the theater right now. 24:22.540 --> 24:25.540 The information on Kieffer was phoned into communications immediately, 24:25.540 --> 24:29.540 and within a few minutes, men and cars converged on the neighborhood. 24:29.540 --> 24:33.540 The one-half-mile area around the theater was completely blockaded. 24:33.540 --> 24:36.540 Every exit and entrance to the theater was covered. 24:36.540 --> 24:41.540 7.23 p.m. Ben and I, along with Chief Thad Brown and Tom Bryan, 24:41.540 --> 24:43.540 met in the theater manager's office. 24:43.540 --> 24:45.540 Brown outlined our plan of operation. 24:45.540 --> 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 24:51.540 --> 24:54.540 and took up their posts on either side of the orchestra pit. 24:54.540 --> 24:57.540 The picture was stopped and every light in the theater was turned on. 24:57.540 --> 25:03.540 Chief Brown, Bryan, Gomez, Faxter, Ben and myself went down the aisle and up onto the stage. 25:03.540 --> 25:06.540 Chief Brown made the announcement. 25:06.540 --> 25:09.540 Ladies and gentlemen, we'll go all the way quiet for a minute, please. 25:09.540 --> 25:13.540 We're sorry to interrupt the picture, but this is a very important matter. 25:13.540 --> 25:17.540 We're police officers. Maybe you've read about it in the papers. 25:17.540 --> 25:21.540 A girl by the name of Judy Sullivan was abducted and murdered the day before yesterday. 25:21.540 --> 25:24.540 We think we've traced the man who murdered her to this theater. 25:24.540 --> 25:26.540 We believe he's in this theater now. 25:26.540 --> 25:30.540 We're going to search the theater row by row and we'd like to ask for your cooperation. 25:30.540 --> 25:33.540 There's no need to be mad or afraid. 25:33.540 --> 25:35.540 Those who were still eaten out may do so. 25:35.540 --> 25:40.540 But even on the main entrance, each one of you will be checked as you go out the door. 25:40.540 --> 25:43.540 For the benefit of the man we're looking for, don't try to escape. 25:43.540 --> 25:46.540 Every exit is covered. The entire area is locked in. 25:46.540 --> 25:49.540 Don't place any more lights in general. 25:49.540 --> 25:50.540 All right? 25:50.540 --> 25:53.540 Hey! Hey, right there! 25:53.540 --> 25:56.540 There he goes! There! I'm trying to get him! 25:56.540 --> 25:58.540 Come on, Ben. 25:58.540 --> 26:01.540 He's running down the alley, heading to the base! 26:01.540 --> 26:03.540 Backstage, Joe. We can make it from here. 26:03.540 --> 26:05.540 All right, come on. Through here. 26:05.540 --> 26:06.540 Yeah. 26:06.540 --> 26:07.540 Down here. 26:07.540 --> 26:09.540 Right way. 26:10.540 --> 26:12.540 In here. 26:16.540 --> 26:18.540 Come on, over here. 26:18.540 --> 26:20.540 Air conditioning unit for the theater. 26:20.540 --> 26:21.540 Yeah. 26:21.540 --> 26:22.540 I don't see him, do you? 26:22.540 --> 26:23.540 No. 26:23.540 --> 26:26.540 He can't get out. There's just two exits. We've got them both covered. 26:28.540 --> 26:29.540 Look out, Ben! 26:29.540 --> 26:31.540 There he is! All right, keeper, hold it! 26:33.540 --> 26:35.540 Don't shoot! Don't shoot, I hear you! 26:35.540 --> 26:37.540 All right, throw your gun over here! 26:37.540 --> 26:39.540 Come on, throw it out! 26:41.540 --> 26:42.540 Okay, I got it. 26:42.540 --> 26:44.540 Give me that gun, too! 26:44.540 --> 26:48.540 All right, let's take him. 26:48.540 --> 26:49.540 All right. 26:49.540 --> 26:51.540 Okay, you got my gun. I didn't mean to shoot. I tell you, you forced me to. 26:51.540 --> 26:52.540 Put the cuffs on him, Ben. 26:52.540 --> 26:53.540 Yeah, right. 26:53.540 --> 26:55.540 Get your hands off of me! 26:55.540 --> 26:56.540 All right, keeper. 26:56.540 --> 26:58.540 Got the same for your cuffs. 26:58.540 --> 27:00.540 All right, now hold it. 27:00.540 --> 27:01.540 All right, Ben, you all right? 27:01.540 --> 27:02.540 Yeah. 27:02.540 --> 27:03.540 All right, try the cuffs on him now, huh? 27:03.540 --> 27:05.540 Yeah, uh-huh. 27:05.540 --> 27:06.540 Got him, huh? 27:06.540 --> 27:07.540 Yeah. 27:07.540 --> 27:08.540 Yeah, a rough one. 27:08.540 --> 27:09.540 Hey, it's starting to rain again. 27:09.540 --> 27:11.540 It's really pouring out there, Ben. 27:11.540 --> 27:14.540 Yeah? 27:14.540 --> 27:16.540 Guess you better get him out the car, huh? 27:16.540 --> 27:17.540 What's the hurry? 27:17.540 --> 27:18.540 How you mean? 27:18.540 --> 27:20.540 Why spoil a good rain? 27:27.540 --> 27:30.540 The story you have just heard was true. 27:30.540 --> 27:33.540 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:33.540 --> 27:39.540 On January 19th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 87, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 27:39.540 --> 27:41.540 In a moment, the results of that trial. 27:41.540 --> 27:43.540 Now here is our star, Jack Webb. 27:43.540 --> 27:44.540 Thank you, George Fenomen. 27:44.540 --> 27:52.540 Friends, this Sunday evening, December 16th, Fatima brings you a television preview of Dragnet on Sound Off Time on NBC. 27:52.540 --> 27:54.540 Check your papers for the time. 27:54.540 --> 27:59.540 Now it's an actual case history filmed right on the spot right at the City Hall downtown Los Angeles. 27:59.540 --> 28:05.540 Starting in January, Dragnet will be seen regularly on television in addition to Dragnet Radio. 28:05.540 --> 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. 28:14.540 --> 28:17.540 Fatima in the New Holiday Gift Card. 28:17.540 --> 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. 28:24.540 --> 28:35.540 Give Fatima. 28:35.540 --> 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. 28:42.540 --> 28:47.540 He was executed in the lethal gas chamber at the State Penitentiary, San Quentin, California. 28:47.540 --> 29:01.540 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 29:01.540 --> 29:06.540 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 29:06.540 --> 29:11.540 Barton Yarborough, Sergeant Ben Romero, also heard work with Conner and Vic Perrin. 29:11.540 --> 29:22.540 Script by Jim Moser, music by Walter Schuman, Hal Gibney speaking. 29:22.540 --> 29:35.540 Fatima cigarettes, best of all king-sized cigarettes, as brought to you by Dragnet, transcribed from Los Angeles. 29:35.540 --> 29:44.540 Counterspy fights international intrigue, next on NBC.