1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,320 The story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,960 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:29,760 Fatima cigarettes, best of all king-size cigarettes, brings you drag net on both radio and television. 4 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:31,440 You're a detective sergeant. 5 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:33,800 You're assigned to homicide detail. 6 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:36,640 A 38-year-old woman disappears. 7 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:39,680 She leaves her sister and her four children behind. 8 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:41,680 There's evidence of foul play. 9 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:47,240 Your job, find her. 10 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:50,240 In Fatima, the difference is quality. 11 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:53,920 Yes, in Fatima, the difference is quality. 12 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:56,120 Prove it yourself today. 13 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,360 Compare Fatima with any other king-size cigarette. 14 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:04,200 One, Fatima's length filters the smoke 85 millimeters for your protection. 15 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:07,840 Two, Fatima's length cools the smoke for your protection. 16 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:13,920 Three, Fatima's length gives you those extra puffs, 21% longer than standard cigarette 17 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:14,920 size. 18 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:21,840 And in Fatima, you get an extra mild and soothing smoke plus the added protection of Fatima 19 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:22,840 quality. 20 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:26,840 Definitely the best quality in its class, but the same price as the cigarette you're 21 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:27,840 now smoking. 22 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:31,680 Bye, Fatima, in the bright, sunny yellow pack. 23 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:36,080 Best of all, king-size cigarettes. 24 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:43,960 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 25 00:01:43,960 --> 00:01:48,880 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 26 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:53,560 travel step-by-step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 27 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:55,280 police files. 28 00:01:55,280 --> 00:02:00,560 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 29 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:02,560 in action. 30 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:06,760 It was Monday, June 3rd. 31 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:08,680 It was overcast in Los Angeles. 32 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:11,080 We were working the day watch out of homicide detail. 33 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:12,240 My partner's Ed Jacobs. 34 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:14,120 The boss is Thad Brown, chief of detectives. 35 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:15,120 My name's Friday. 36 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:19,640 I was on the way back from communications and it was 815 a.m. when I got to room 42. 37 00:02:19,640 --> 00:02:20,640 Homicide. 38 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:21,640 Joe, what's doing? 39 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:22,640 Hi, Brian. 40 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:23,640 You seen Ed? 41 00:02:23,640 --> 00:02:25,200 He went down the hall in a minute, said he'd be right back. 42 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:26,200 Oh, thank you. 43 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:30,640 I don't see anything in the book. 44 00:02:30,640 --> 00:02:31,640 Nothing new, huh? 45 00:02:31,640 --> 00:02:32,640 Not much. 46 00:02:32,640 --> 00:02:33,640 Pretty slow. 47 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:34,640 How's your mother, Joe? 48 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:35,640 I heard she wasn't feeling too well. 49 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:36,640 No, she's not, as a matter of fact. 50 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:37,640 The doctor says it's anemia. 51 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:39,440 It's gonna take a little time to get over it, I guess. 52 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:40,440 Oh, sorry to hear it. 53 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:42,920 I gotta do some checking down at the auto desk. 54 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:44,920 If I get any calls, I'll have them switch it down there, will you? 55 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:45,920 Yeah, I sure will, Brian. 56 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:46,920 Thanks. 57 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:47,920 You betcha. 58 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:48,920 Oh, excuse me, Ed. 59 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:49,920 Pardon me, Tom. 60 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:50,920 Hi, Ed. 61 00:02:50,920 --> 00:02:51,920 What'd they give you? 62 00:02:51,920 --> 00:02:52,920 Missing report, woman. 63 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:53,920 How about the mail? 64 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:54,920 No, it's nothing. 65 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:55,920 What about the missing report there? 66 00:02:55,920 --> 00:02:56,920 Yeah, it's all here. 67 00:02:56,920 --> 00:03:00,000 Some woman out on 64th Street, name's Rose Baker. 68 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,640 She's been gone about a week. 69 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:07,320 Last seen Tuesday, May 27th, 10 p.m. 70 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:08,440 Who's this that made the report? 71 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:09,440 Carl Shelton? 72 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:10,440 Who's he? 73 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:11,440 It's her boyfriend. 74 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:13,160 Miss Baker's husband died about five years ago. 75 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:14,960 She's been running around quite a bit since then. 76 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:15,960 Had a lot of man trouble. 77 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:17,760 She disappeared before then, huh? 78 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:18,760 Yeah, half a dozen times. 79 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:20,760 Never been gone this long, though. 80 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:22,240 Holmes took this report from Shelton. 81 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:23,720 He gathered Miss Baker's not too stable. 82 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:25,120 She's known to drink quite a bit. 83 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:27,120 Doesn't seem to care anything for her home or kids. 84 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:28,120 Yeah, I see it here. 85 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:29,120 She has four children. 86 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,120 They're living with her aunt, Mrs. Baker's sister. 87 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,120 It's kind of a funny arrangement, isn't it? 88 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,120 Yeah, Baker woman packed her bags and walked out of the house about a year ago. 89 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,320 Her sister's been taking care of the kids ever since. 90 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:41,200 Mother comes back for a visit once in a while. 91 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,920 This address we've got on Mrs. Baker, it's the same address as her boyfriend, Carl Shelton. 92 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:45,920 Yeah, that's right. 93 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,120 They both have apartments in the same building. 94 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:50,320 Is this a recent picture, Miss Baker? 95 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:51,320 Supposed to be, yeah. 96 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:53,320 It's a nice-looking woman, huh? 97 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:55,720 Sister's listed here as the last person who saw her. 98 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:56,720 Well, how's that? 99 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:58,720 Baker woman still wasn't living at home, was she? 100 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,720 According to the sister, Mrs. Baker came over to the house to see her the night she disappeared. 101 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:04,720 Sometime around 8 o'clock, two of them had some business to talk over. 102 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:05,720 Hmm. 103 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:08,720 Seems the sister had a check for $400 she got from selling some furniture. 104 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:11,720 Claim the kids had been sick, she had doctor bills to pay. 105 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:13,720 You mean Mrs. Baker's sister took care of things to that extent? 106 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:14,720 Apparently. 107 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:16,720 Anyway, after the sister got the check for selling the furniture, 108 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:18,720 Mrs. Baker wanted half the money. 109 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:20,720 Sister said that's why she came to see her that night. 110 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:23,720 Two of them got in the car and went out to find somebody to cash the check. 111 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:24,720 You want a drink of water? 112 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:26,720 No, no thanks, Sam. 113 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,720 Where do you get a $400 check cashed at 8 o'clock at night, would you know? 114 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,720 Sister said Mrs. Baker knew somebody who'd cash it for them. 115 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:34,720 It turned out the person couldn't cash it. 116 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:36,720 Sister stopped at a bar for a glass of beer. 117 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:40,720 Mrs. Baker took the car and went to look up somebody else she thought could cash it. 118 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:42,720 That was it. Mrs. Baker hadn't been seen since. 119 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:44,720 Who was this somebody else? 120 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:45,720 No idea. 121 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:46,720 Sister claimed she doesn't know. 122 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:48,720 Mrs. Baker didn't tell her. 123 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:50,720 Sounds like Mrs. Baker wanted the whole check, wouldn't you say? 124 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,720 That's what the sister figured when Mrs. Baker didn't come back. 125 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,720 She finished the glass of beer, left the barn, started walking home. 126 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:58,720 Two blocks from the house she found her car parked. 127 00:04:58,720 --> 00:04:59,720 No sign of Mrs. Baker. 128 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:02,720 Car keys were in the glove compartment, so it's the sister's share of the money. 129 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:03,720 $200 in cash. 130 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:05,720 Well, how about the firm that issued the check? 131 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:06,720 Did they get it back canceled? 132 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:07,720 Yeah, a couple of days ago. 133 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:09,720 Mrs. Baker's endorsement on the bank. 134 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:11,720 Yeah, sounds pretty wild, doesn't it? 135 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:12,720 The whole thing does. 136 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:14,720 Talked to half a dozen people who saw Mrs. Baker that night. 137 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:15,720 None of their stories jibed. 138 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:16,720 What do you mean? 139 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,720 Her boyfriend, Carl Shelton, he claims that Mrs. Baker told him 140 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:21,720 she was going out of town for a few days with a girlfriend. 141 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:22,720 They check it out? 142 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:23,720 Yeah. 143 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:24,720 Girlfriend didn't know anything about it. 144 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:26,720 Then they talked to a woman who works with Mrs. Baker. 145 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:28,720 She says, yeah, the Baker woman was planning a trip. 146 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:30,720 Mrs. Baker mentioned anything about it to her sister? 147 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,720 No, sister says Mrs. Baker told her just the opposite. 148 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:35,720 Said she was getting out of her apartment into a new place. 149 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:37,720 She was going to spend the next couple of days moving. 150 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:39,720 They checked the boyfriend, Shelton. 151 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:41,720 Said if Mrs. Baker was moving, it was new to him. 152 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:43,720 Well, either she's a liar or one of her friends are, huh? 153 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:44,720 It's all bollock stuff. 154 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:46,720 No two stories anywhere near alike. 155 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:47,720 What do they figure for a motive? 156 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:49,720 They got a line on anybody who might have wandered out of the way? 157 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:51,720 Big field to pick from. 158 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:52,720 She fought with Carl Shelton. 159 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:55,720 She fought with his sister, some of the people she worked with. 160 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:57,720 She had three or four other men around town on the string, too. 161 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:59,720 Any one of them could have wandered her out of the way. 162 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:01,720 All her relatives have been checked out and all her friends? 163 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:02,720 Places she'd be most likely to go? 164 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:03,720 All checked. 165 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:04,720 Not a trace of her, nothing. 166 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:06,720 Yeah, I guess we better start moving on it. 167 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:07,720 A lot of ground to cover. 168 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:09,720 See if we can't straighten out some of those stories. 169 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:14,720 One thing's sure, somebody's lying. 170 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:16,720 8.35 a.m. 171 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:18,720 Before we left the city hall, we checked with Sergeant Holmes 172 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,720 and missing persons who'd taken the report on Rose Baker's disappearance. 173 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:27,720 He had nothing to add to what was in the report and what he'd already told Ed. 174 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:31,720 First on the interview list was the sister of the missing woman, Bernice Marin. 175 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:34,720 She was employed as a saleswoman for a grocery supply firm. 176 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:37,720 We called it the home where Ms. Marin lived with her four nieces and nephews, 177 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:39,720 but there was no answer. 178 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:42,720 The next door neighbor told us that Ms. Marin was working, 179 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:46,720 that she usually didn't get home until 4.15 or 4.30 in the afternoon. 180 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:49,720 In the meantime, we figured we might as well check the next name on the list, 181 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:51,720 Mrs. Baker's boyfriend, Carl Shelton. 182 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:54,720 We'd already checked him through R&I and he had no record. 183 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:58,720 We drove out to his address, a three-story apartment house on 64th Street. 184 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:01,720 Shelton's apartment was on the main floor rear. 185 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:03,720 He answered the door in his bathrobe and slippers. 186 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:06,720 He told us that he was employed at one of the local oil refineries 187 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,720 and that this particular week he was working the graveyard shift, 188 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:11,720 11 at night until 7 in the morning. 189 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,720 He showed us back to a small kitchen at the rear of the apartment. 190 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:18,720 While we questioned him, he fixed a percolator of coffee and put it on the stove. 191 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:20,720 You're sure about Ms. Baker's plans, are you? 192 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:23,720 She never mentioned anything to you about moving out of the apartment house here? 193 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:26,720 No, never. Somebody's handing you a line there. 194 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:28,720 If Rosie was gonna move, she'd tell me about it. 195 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,720 Just a minute, I gotta get that coffee. It looks about done. 196 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:35,720 You call this Wantsome Java? Got a whole portfolio. 197 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:37,720 No, no, thank you. 198 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:42,720 How long do you say you've known Ms. Baker? 199 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:44,720 About a year, year and a half. 200 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:46,720 We got along pretty good. 201 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:48,720 She was right from the start. 202 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:50,720 Sure don't understand her taking off like this. 203 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,720 Did Ms. Baker ever talk to you much about the family? 204 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:55,720 Her sister, four children? 205 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,720 I mean, did she see them regularly? Seem to get along with them all right to you? 206 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:02,720 I don't think I'd know that. Rosie never had much to say about them. 207 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:06,720 The only thing I could gather was that she just got sick of the routine, you know. 208 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:10,720 Keeping up a house, doing the wash, mopping, dusting, taking care of four kids. 209 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:13,720 She just checked out, that's all. Let her sister Bernice take over. 210 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:15,720 If you ask me, she never should have had a family to begin with. 211 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:19,720 Rosie isn't the kind. She's a party girl, likes a good time, you know what I mean? 212 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:21,720 One thing I don't understand, Shelton. 213 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:24,720 You said a minute ago you couldn't figure out Ms. Baker's going off like this. 214 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,720 When you filed a missing report on her, you said she was planning a trip out of town. 215 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:28,720 Yeah, that's right. 216 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:31,720 Well, isn't it possible she might have taken off without telling you? 217 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:33,720 No, I don't think so. She'd have told me. 218 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:37,720 She's planning a trip, all right, but she wasn't going to leave till the next night, Wednesday night. 219 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:39,720 She's going to pick up this girlfriend of hers, Iris, 220 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:42,720 and the two of them are going to take the bus down to Laguna for a couple of days. 221 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,720 Well, it's our understanding this girlfriend, Iris, didn't know anything about the trip. 222 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:47,720 Can you explain that? 223 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:50,720 I don't know. I guess Rosie forgot to tell her. Can't figure these women sometimes. 224 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:52,720 Maybe she was going to phone her Wednesday morning. 225 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:54,720 She knew Iris could get away almost any time. 226 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,720 You think it's possible she might have gone down to Laguna by herself? 227 00:08:57,720 --> 00:08:59,720 No, that's not like Rosie. 228 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:03,720 I went in to report her missing. I called a couple of places down to Laguna where Rosie usually stops at. 229 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:04,720 They hadn't seen her. 230 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:06,720 Possible she might have gone some other place? 231 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:09,720 No, without telling me, no. Besides, she wouldn't go alone. I know that. 232 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:13,720 Sheldon, we understand Mrs. Baker was friendly with two or three other men around town. 233 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:16,720 You think it's possible she might have gone someplace with one of them? 234 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:18,720 Sheldon? 235 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:23,720 No. No, I can't buy that. If it was eight months ago, I'd say maybe, but not now. 236 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:24,720 Why not? 237 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:28,720 We had it out, that's all. It was all settled. She wouldn't do anything like that again. 238 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:29,720 You sure about that, R.M.? 239 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:34,720 Yeah, positive. I don't get it at all. She wouldn't do that to me, taking off, just backing up and leaving. 240 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:36,720 Rosie wouldn't do that to me. 241 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:37,720 Well, she's got four children. 242 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:38,720 Yeah. 243 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:39,720 She did it to them. 244 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:47,720 We questioned Carl Sheldon for another half hour, but he failed to come up with anything in the way of a definite lead. 245 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:52,720 10.40 a.m. We drove to the home of the missing woman's girlfriend, an Iris Kirby. 246 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,720 Two things she was pretty definite about. 247 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:59,720 First, she knew nothing about an out of town trip Mrs. Baker was supposed to have planned for the two of them. 248 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:02,720 And secondly, she had no use for Carl Sheldon. 249 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:09,720 She told us that Sheldon was her ex-boyfriend and that she had introduced him to Rose Baker, and that shortly after that he dropped her. 250 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:13,720 A few weeks later, Sheldon began to keep steady company with Mrs. Baker. 251 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:19,720 Outside of her personal grievance against Sheldon, Iris Kirby had nothing to offer in the way of a lead to the whereabouts of her friend. 252 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:25,720 11.30 a.m. We got in the car and headed for the factory in the south end of town where Rose Baker was employed. 253 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:28,720 We stopped off on the way for lunch, a bowl of soup and a sandwich. 254 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:30,720 Ed had a cheeseburger and a piece of pie. 255 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:33,720 Before we left, we checked the office to see if there were any calls. 256 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:34,720 Nothing. 257 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:39,720 The place where Mrs. Baker worked was on Santa Fe Avenue, a one-story building covering almost half a block. 258 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:43,720 They manufactured men's work clothes, shirts, and overalls. 259 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:44,720 We checked with the personnel office. 260 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:47,720 We asked if Rose Baker had any friends that she worked with. 261 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:51,720 We were told that there was a Mildred Dunn who was a fairly close friend of the Baker woman. 262 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:55,720 Ed and I waited in the office while they sent down to the plant for Mildred Dunn. 263 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:56,720 Ms. Dunn? 264 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:57,720 That's right. 265 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:00,720 Police officers. My name's Jacobs. This is my partner, Sergeant Friday. 266 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:01,720 How do you do? 267 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:01,720 How are you? 268 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:05,720 I'd like to ask you a few questions about Rose Baker, Mrs. Dunn. I understand you're a pretty close friend of hers. 269 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:08,720 Yes, that's right. I've known Rose ever since she came here. 270 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:10,720 She worked on the machine next to me. 271 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:11,720 She come home yet? 272 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:12,720 No, not yet. 273 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:15,720 You remember Mrs. Baker saying anything to you about taking a trip, Mrs. Dunn? 274 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:16,720 I mean, just before she disappeared? 275 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:19,720 Yes, she did. She'd been looking forward to it. 276 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:21,720 That's probably where she is. Don't you think, off on her trip? 277 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:22,720 Well, we don't know, ma'am. 278 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:26,720 Did she mention anything definite about the trip to you, where she was going, when she was leaving? 279 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:28,720 Well, I think she was going to Laguna Beach. 280 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:31,720 It's hard to tell. She's always kidding around, Rose is. 281 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:35,720 Once she said she was going to fly to Switzerland for a vacation. Samaritz. 282 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:37,720 She's always kidding around like that. 283 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:38,720 Oh, that's so? 284 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:42,720 Like once when she had a date with Fred. She said she was going to the pump room in Chicago. 285 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:44,720 You know, just being funny. 286 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:46,720 I see. Who is this Fred, Mrs. Dunn? 287 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:49,720 A fellow in the shipping department, Fred Lyons. Nice fella. 288 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:50,720 He and Mrs. Baker see much of each other? 289 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:52,720 They used to, yes. Quite a bit. 290 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:57,720 I don't know if they were serious about each other. I thought they were till the last month or so. 291 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:00,720 Maybe they had a tiff or something. Maybe Rose got tired of him. I don't know. 292 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:02,720 But you do think the two of them were serious at one time? 293 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:04,720 Oh, yes. It wasn't more than a month ago. 294 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:06,720 And all of a sudden they weren't sweet on each other. 295 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:09,720 At least Rose wasn't about him. She told me that. 296 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:11,720 Well, I guess we better check on her, ma'am. 297 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:13,720 Is this Fred Lyons working today, do you know, ma'am? 298 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:15,720 Oh, no. He quit last Tuesday. 299 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:21,720 One fifteen p.m. We finished questioning Mildred Dunn and we went back to the personnel office 300 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:24,720 to get Fred Lyons' description and last known address. 301 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:29,720 We checked out the address, but Lyons had moved out the previous Tuesday and left no forwarding address. 302 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:34,720 We questioned the landlady, looked over his rooms, checked through the neighborhood and talked to everybody he knew. 303 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:39,720 We found nothing to indicate that Lyons had anything directly to do with Rose Baker's disappearance. 304 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:43,720 But we did find out that he knew Mrs. Baker and that he thought quite a bit of her. 305 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:47,720 We went back to the office, got out a broadcast and an APB on Lyons. 306 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:50,720 Want to check the book, Joe, see if we got any late calls there? 307 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:51,720 Yeah, sure. 308 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:52,720 I'll get it. 309 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:53,720 Right. 310 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:55,720 Homicide, Jacobs. That's right. 311 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:58,720 Mm-hmm. Are they sure? What was that? 312 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:00,720 All right. Thank you. Got something? 313 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:01,720 Yeah. 314 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:03,720 Hollywood division. Woman's purse found in the vacant lot out there. 315 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:05,720 High school kid found it. A lot of identification inside. 316 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:10,720 Yeah. Rose Baker. 317 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:15,720 3.15 p.m. The purse was brought downtown to the crime lab for detailed examination. 318 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:22,720 Brian and Barrett from Homicide went out to interview the boy who found the purse and to check the neighborhood where it was discovered. 319 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:27,720 Meantime, Ed and I drove out to talk to the missing woman's sister, 36 years old, Bernice Marin. 320 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:33,720 She and her sister's four children lived in a five-room stucco house just off Exposition Boulevard. 321 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:37,720 We got there shortly after Miss Marin returned home from her job. 322 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:40,720 Her two older nephews were out in front cutting the lawn. 323 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:43,720 She showed us into a neatly kept living room where we interviewed her. 324 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:46,720 She was a plain-looking woman, brown hair, gray eyes. 325 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,720 She showed little concern about her sister's disappearance. 326 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:53,720 I gave up trying to keep track of her a long time ago, Sergeant. I haven't any idea where she's gone. 327 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:55,720 I used to worry about her. I don't anymore. 328 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:58,720 Well, how about that purse of hers that was found this afternoon, Miss Marin? 329 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:00,720 Wouldn't you say that makes it a little unusual this time? 330 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:03,720 I don't think so. She loses things all the time. 331 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:07,720 I don't know what she does when she goes off on those things. I don't want to know. 332 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:09,720 Gets drunk and does a lot of fooling around, I suppose. 333 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:11,720 She's lost two or three purses the same way. 334 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:15,720 What about last Tuesday, the night she disappeared? You notice if she'd been drinking then? 335 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:18,720 Yeah, I got the idea she'd had a couple of high balls before she came over. 336 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:21,720 She wasn't drunk, but she wasn't feeling any pain. 337 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:23,720 I'll say, would you excuse me? I want to yell at the kids out there. 338 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:25,720 Yes, ma'am. 339 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:30,720 Frank! Frank, that's enough of that playing around out there. 340 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:32,720 Let's get started pushing that lawn mower, huh? 341 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:35,720 Okay, just try that other system. It's almost half done now. 342 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:38,720 You better hurry it up. You still got the backyard to do, remember? 343 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:39,720 Yeah, okay. 344 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:42,720 Only good thing that came out of that married sergeant, those kids out there. 345 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:43,720 Yes, ma'am. 346 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:46,720 There's two more besides Frank and Bobby, the girls, my nieces. 347 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:48,720 One's nine, one's seven. Marvelous kids. 348 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:50,720 Girls are just as pretty as pictures. 349 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:54,720 I'm glad I have a chance to take care of them. I guess I just like kids. 350 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:57,720 I can understand it when people don't appreciate them. 351 00:14:57,720 --> 00:14:59,720 I don't have a family of my own. 352 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:00,720 Oh, I see. 353 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:02,720 Miss Marin, when you were with your sister last Tuesday night, 354 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:05,720 you say she didn't mention anything at all about taking that trip out of town. 355 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:07,720 No, just the opposite. Like I told you. 356 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:10,720 She said she was moving out of her apartment into a new place. 357 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:11,720 That's why she needed the money. 358 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:14,720 Well, what's the story about this money your sister came to pick up, Miss Marin? 359 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:16,720 I don't think I quite got that clear. 360 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:20,720 Well, we had this baby grand piano that my mother gave Rose and me just before she died. 361 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,720 Kids have been sick the last couple of months, one thing and another. 362 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:27,720 I needed a little money to catch up on some doctor bills, so I sold the piano. 363 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:30,720 I needed to do it, but the bills had to be paid. 364 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:35,720 Well, Rose found out about it somehow, and she wanted half the money I got for the piano. 365 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:37,720 She wanted the money for herself. Can you imagine that? 366 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:40,720 She wasn't even willing to pay for her own kids' doctor bills. 367 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:43,720 It'd be different if I was charging her to take care of the kids. 368 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:45,720 I just do it because I like them. 369 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:48,720 Well, anyway, she found out about it, and I had to split the check with her. 370 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:50,720 The whole thing was for $400. 371 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:52,720 I understand your sister got the check cashed that night, that correct? 372 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:56,720 Yeah, that's right. It was 8 o'clock at night, but Rose said she knew somebody who'd cash it. 373 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:58,720 She wanted the money that night. 374 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:02,720 To save an argument, we got in the car and went to see this friend of hers, some bartender. 375 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:07,720 We couldn't cash the thing, so Rose took the car and went out to look up another friend she thought would cash it. 376 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:11,720 I didn't want to go chasing all over town with her, so I stayed at this bar and had a beer. 377 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:13,720 And that's the last time you saw your sister, is it? 378 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:16,720 Yes. I waited a couple of hours, and then I walked home. 379 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:21,720 Two blocks from the house, I saw my car pulled up at the curb, right on Exposition Boulevard. 380 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:25,720 Car keys were in the glove compartment, $200 in cash right under them. 381 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:27,720 No sign of Rose, though. 382 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:29,720 What time was it when you got back to the house? You remembered? 383 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:33,720 It was after 11. Close to 11.30, I think. I went right to bed. 384 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,720 And since that time, you've had no indication where your sister might have gone? 385 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:39,720 No phone calls, no letters, no word from one of her friends who might have seen her? 386 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:43,720 No, not a thing. She's in trouble. You can understand why. 387 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:48,720 Been coming for a long time. Last five years, going downhill all the time. 388 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:53,720 She's no good, Sergeant. I don't know how it happened. Just no good at all. 389 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:55,720 Well, thank you very much, Miss Marin. 390 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:56,720 Thank you, ma'am. 391 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:59,720 Oh, not at all. No trouble. I guess I'd better get dinner started for the kids. 392 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:03,720 Well, if you hear anything about your sister, we'd appreciate it if you'd give us a call. 393 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:07,720 Yes, all right. It's gonna be the same old story. Same thing all over again. You can bet on it. 394 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:08,720 Ma'am. 395 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:10,720 She'll come back when the money's gone. 396 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:15,720 5.15 p.m. Ed and I drove back downtown and went directly to the crime lab. 397 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:20,720 The missing woman's purse, which had been found in the vacant lot out in Hollywood, had been examined thoroughly. 398 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,720 They'd found nothing that had provided us with a new lead. 399 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:26,720 We checked communications, but there was still no answer to the APB. 400 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:32,720 We'd gotten out on Fred Lyons, the man who'd worked with Rose Baker and who'd dropped from site the same day she did. 401 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,720 5.30 p.m. We got back to the squad room. 402 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:41,720 Hiya. Hi, Brian. You just got back? Yeah. You get the word? No. What's that? Mrs. Baker. 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Best of all, king-size cigarettes. 420 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:35,720 June 3rd, Monday, 6 p.m. 421 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:39,720 The body of 38-year-old Rose Baker had been discovered in the Hollywood Hills area. 422 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:44,720 Approximately three-fourths of a mile from the intersection of Mulholland Drive and Oakknoll Terrace, 423 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:51,720 a dirt road branched off to the left of Mulholland and wound about 300 yards down the hill to a dead-end stop. 424 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:56,720 Just below the guardrail, which circled the edge of the road, there were two eucalyptus trees. 425 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:00,720 They overlooked a deep ravine covered with scrub oak and patches of laurel. 426 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:04,720 Halfway down one slope of the ravine, they found the body of the missing woman. 427 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,720 There were two bullet holes in the left side of the skull. 428 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:09,720 There was another one at the base of the throat. 429 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:12,720 In her clenched right hand, there was a 50-cent piece. 430 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:14,720 The immediate area surrounding the body had been roped off, 431 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:19,720 and Lieutenant Lee Jones and the crime lab crew were making their preliminary investigation. 432 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:21,720 There was no sign of the murder weapon. 433 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,720 The coroner arrived, and when the preliminary investigation was completed, 434 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:26,720 the body was taken downtown to the county morgue. 435 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:32,720 All clothing and personal effects were removed from the body and sent to the crime lab for detailed examination. 436 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:37,720 Rose Baker's sister, Bernice Marron, was brought to the county morgue and identified the body. 437 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,720 A few minutes after 10 o'clock that night, Ed and I got back to the office. 438 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:44,720 I got it. Homicide, Friday. 439 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:45,720 Is this Sergeant Friday? 440 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:46,720 Yes, sir, that's right. 441 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:49,720 This is Carl Shelton, Sergeant. You were out to talk to me this morning, you remember? 442 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:50,720 Oh, yeah, Shelton. 443 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:54,720 I heard about Rosie just a couple of minutes ago. I gotta talk to you, Sergeant. There's something I gotta tell you. 444 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:55,720 Is that so? Do you want to tell me now? 445 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,720 I don't want to tell you on the phone. I'll drive in to see you. I'll leave right now. 446 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:00,720 Well, yeah, all right. Do you mind telling me what it's about? 447 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:02,720 Yeah, I know who killed Rosie. 448 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:08,720 11.08 p.m. Carl Shelton arrived at the office. 449 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:12,720 Ed and I took him down the hall to the interrogation room where he gave us his story. 450 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:17,720 He told us, first of all, that he was well acquainted with most of the regular customers at the tavern 451 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:21,720 where Rose Baker and her sister had first stopped to cash the $400 check. 452 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:28,720 He told us one of these people, a LaRoy Hanson, had contacted him after he read in the morning paper about Mrs. Baker's murder. 453 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:32,720 I've known LaRoy at least four or five years. He used to work with me. He wouldn't lie to me. 454 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:34,720 Where'd this fellow tell you, Shelton? That's LaRoy Hanson. 455 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:39,720 He said he got to the bar a little after midnight. It hadn't been at least that, because LaRoy doesn't get off work till 11.30. 456 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:44,720 He said he saw Rosie sitting in a car parked a couple of doors down from the bar. There was a woman in the car with her. 457 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:47,720 He described her just like Rosie's sister. They were having a beef. 458 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:49,720 Does this friend of yours hear what Mrs. Baker and this woman were talking about? 459 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:53,720 No, but he's smart enough to know a big argument when he sees one. He says they were really going to it. 460 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:54,720 Is he sure about the time? 461 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:58,720 He's got to be. LaRoy works at a sheet metal plant south of town. He gets off at 11.30. 462 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,720 It takes him more than a half hour to get in. Why should he lie about it? 463 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:04,720 He wasn't even going to mention it till he found out she was dead. 464 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:07,720 This woman he says Mrs. Baker was with, she fits her sister's description that close? 465 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:09,720 Exactly. And there was a guy with LaRoy. He'll back it up. 466 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:13,720 If the sister says she wasn't sitting in that car with Rosie outside that bar after midnight, she's a liar. 467 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:15,720 Well, she is, if you can prove your story. 468 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,720 Here's the phone. You ask LaRoy. 469 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:27,720 11.22 p.m. We put in calls to both of the men who were supposed to have seen Rose Baker and her sister Bernice 470 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:31,720 sitting in a parked car outside the tavern six nights before. 471 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:35,720 Both of them corroborated Carl Shelton's story down to the last detail. 472 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:37,720 They were especially certain about the time. 473 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:43,720 Bernice Marin told us that on the night her sister Rose disappeared, she hadn't seen her after 9.15 p.m. 474 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:47,720 and that she had walked home and was in bed by 11.30. 475 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:52,720 Both LaRoy Hanson and his friend told us that they had seen Rose Baker and a woman answering her sister's description 476 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,720 sitting together in a car parked outside the tavern. 477 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:59,720 They were both certain at the time that it was well past midnight. 478 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:01,720 We made a check on LaRoy Hanson and his friend. 479 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:06,720 As far as we were able to find out, there was no logical reason why they should lie about what they told us. 480 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:11,720 Ed and I got in the car and drove out to the home of Bernice Marin just off Exposition Boulevard. 481 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:15,720 It was 20 minutes past midnight. We rang the front doorbell and got her out of bed. 482 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:19,720 Oh, officers. I didn't know who it was. Come in. 483 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:21,720 Thank you, ma'am. 484 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,720 You have to wait long before I answer. I sleep pretty sound. 485 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,720 Fred will have to ask you to get dressed, Miss Marin. I'd like to talk to you downtown. 486 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:28,720 Why? What's the matter? 487 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:30,720 Well, some more questions we have to ask you, ma'am. 488 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,720 A few more things we have to clear up about your sister. It's pretty important. 489 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,720 I've told you everything I know. I don't like to go out and leave the kids alone at night. 490 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:39,720 What is it you want to ask me about? 491 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,720 Well, you told us the last time you saw your sister was about 9.15 last Tuesday night, Miss Marin. 492 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:43,720 Yes, that's right. 493 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:47,720 We've got a couple of people who claim they saw you with your sister after midnight Tuesday. 494 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:50,720 You were sitting with her in your car parked outside a tavern. 495 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,720 You're having an argument with her. At least two people saw you and they'll swear to that. 496 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:54,720 No, that couldn't be right. 497 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:55,720 They claim it is. 498 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,720 They say it was after midnight and they saw me with Rose? 499 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:00,720 Yes, ma'am. That's what they say. 500 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,720 And you believe it? You believe it was me? 501 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,720 Yes, ma'am. We do. 502 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:07,720 You think I killed Rose? Is that it? 503 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:09,720 Yes, ma'am. We think so. 504 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:13,720 How about it, Miss Marin? 505 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:18,720 It'll take me a minute to get my clothes on. I want to talk to the oldest boy, my nephew Frank. 506 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:19,720 Would it be all right? 507 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:20,720 I'll have to go along with you. 508 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,720 All right. This way, down the hall. 509 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:30,720 In here. I don't want to wake the other kids if I can help. 510 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:31,720 All right. 511 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:38,720 Frank. Wake up, Frank. Frankie. 512 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:41,720 What do you want, Anparnees? 513 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:46,720 I hate to wake you up, Frankie. I'm going to have to go downtown tonight. I'm leaving now. 514 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:50,720 In case I'm not here when you and the kids get up, I want you to take care of everything, all right, honey? 515 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,720 Yeah, okay. What do you have to go downtown for? 516 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:55,720 Well, it's something about your mother, Frank. 517 00:24:55,720 --> 00:25:00,720 It might take a little time. You see the girls get off to school on time in the morning, won't you? 518 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,720 Bobby, too. The sandwiches are all made. They're in the icebox. 519 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,720 All you have to do is put them in a paper sack, all right? 520 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:10,720 Yeah, okay. Why do you have to go now? Can't you wait until tomorrow? 521 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,720 No, I'm afraid not, honey. 522 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:17,720 You take care of everything, huh? Make sure all the doors are locked. And don't forget to feed the dog. 523 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,720 No, I won't forget. What's the matter? Is there anything wrong? 524 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:25,720 Of course not. Now, if something happens so I can't get back tomorrow, I'll call you on the phone, all right? 525 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,720 Yeah, okay. You be sure and call, huh? 526 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:34,720 I'll call you, honey. You go to sleep now, huh? It'll be all right. You get some sleep. 527 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:35,720 Good night, Frankie. 528 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:37,720 Yeah, okay. Good night. 529 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:42,720 I'm sorry to keep you waiting. I had to tell Frank what to do. The kids wouldn't understand. 530 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:44,720 I mean, if they woke up and didn't find me here. 531 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,720 Yes, ma'am. What'd you do with the murder gun, Miss Mann? 532 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:51,720 Out in the garage, I'll show you. I had her four kids to raise. It's not easy. 533 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,720 You know what it costs to feed them, put clothes on their back? 534 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,720 It's not the kids I minded. They're wonderful. I love every one of them. 535 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:03,720 I'm glad to get the chance to raise them. I never married myself, never had any of my own. 536 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:07,720 It hasn't been easy at all, working all day, coming home and cooking for them, 537 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:09,720 doing the wash, trying to keep the house clean. 538 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:13,720 Rose never gave me a dime to pay a bill for her own kids, too. 539 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:17,720 She gave us nothing and she tried to take everything, tried to bleed me for my last dollar. 540 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,720 She cashed the check that night and said she was gonna keep all the money. 541 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,720 I couldn't stand anymore. We argued and I killed her. 542 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:25,720 Yeah, well, I'm sorry, ma'am. We'll have to go. 543 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:26,720 Yes, all right. 544 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,720 What'll I do, Sergeant? What'll I say? 545 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:32,720 I advise you to tell the truth. You'll get a fair trial. 546 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:34,720 I know that. It's not what I mean. 547 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:35,720 What do you mean? 548 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:37,720 Inside there. What am I gonna say? How'll I explain it? 549 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:38,720 Ma'am. 550 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,720 The kids. How do you tell four kids you killed their mother? 551 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,720 The story you have just heard was true. 552 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:31,460 The names were changed and the 553 00:26:31,460 --> 00:26:55,460 to protect the innocent. 554 00:26:55,460 --> 00:26:57,460 The story you have just heard was true. 555 00:26:57,460 --> 00:26:59,460 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 556 00:26:59,460 --> 00:27:01,780 was held in Superior Court, Department 92, 557 00:27:01,780 --> 00:27:04,380 City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 558 00:27:04,380 --> 00:27:06,580 In a moment, the results of that trial. 559 00:27:06,580 --> 00:27:08,520 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 560 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:09,880 Thank you, George Feneman. 561 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,780 Friends, I make it a habit to carry two packs 562 00:27:11,780 --> 00:27:12,980 of Fatimas around with me. 563 00:27:12,980 --> 00:27:15,300 One's for my smoking, and the second one's for smokers 564 00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:17,620 I see with other king-sized cigarettes. 565 00:27:17,620 --> 00:27:20,580 All I have to say is, here, compare Fatima. 566 00:27:20,580 --> 00:27:22,160 I know they're gonna be sold on Fatimas 567 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:23,740 the next time we meet. 568 00:27:23,740 --> 00:27:25,740 How about comparing Fatima yourself? 569 00:27:25,740 --> 00:27:29,080 You'll find Fatima's length filters the smoke 85 millimeters, 570 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,980 cools the smoke, all for your protection. 571 00:27:31,980 --> 00:27:35,180 You get those extra puffs because Fatima's 21% longer 572 00:27:35,180 --> 00:27:37,180 than standard cigarette size. 573 00:27:37,180 --> 00:27:40,140 And Fatima gives you an extra mild and soothing smoke, 574 00:27:40,140 --> 00:27:42,540 plus the added protection of Fatima quality. 575 00:27:42,540 --> 00:27:44,660 Prove it today, buy Fatima. 576 00:27:44,660 --> 00:27:48,240 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 577 00:27:52,660 --> 00:27:54,500 When their aunt, Bernice Alberta Marin, 578 00:27:54,500 --> 00:27:57,540 was apprehended on suspicion of 187 P.C., 579 00:27:57,540 --> 00:28:00,300 the four Baker children were taken into protective custody 580 00:28:00,300 --> 00:28:02,060 by juvenile authorities. 581 00:28:02,060 --> 00:28:03,960 Bernice Marin was indicted for murder 582 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:05,960 and entered a plea of self-defense. 583 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:07,580 She claimed that at the time of the murder, 584 00:28:07,580 --> 00:28:09,300 her sister attacked her with a knife 585 00:28:09,300 --> 00:28:12,540 while they argued over the division of the $400 check. 586 00:28:12,540 --> 00:28:14,620 Bernice Marin was tried in superior court 587 00:28:14,620 --> 00:28:17,340 by a jury composed of nine men and three women. 588 00:28:17,340 --> 00:28:19,260 She was found not guilty. 589 00:28:19,260 --> 00:28:28,260 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 590 00:28:28,260 --> 00:28:29,860 You have just heard Dragnet, 591 00:28:29,860 --> 00:28:32,900 a series of authentic cases from official files. 592 00:28:32,900 --> 00:28:35,340 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police 593 00:28:35,340 --> 00:28:38,180 W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 594 00:28:38,180 --> 00:28:40,380 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, 595 00:28:40,380 --> 00:28:43,140 Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Brasher. 596 00:28:43,140 --> 00:28:44,660 Heard tonight were Barney Phillips, 597 00:28:44,660 --> 00:28:46,580 Virginia Gregg, Vic Perrin. 598 00:28:46,580 --> 00:28:50,100 Script by Jim Moser, music by Walter Schuman. 599 00:28:50,100 --> 00:28:51,460 Hal Gipney speaking. 600 00:28:51,460 --> 00:28:54,220 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 601 00:28:54,220 --> 00:28:57,380 Fatima cigarettes, best of all, king-size cigarettes 602 00:28:57,380 --> 00:29:00,780 has brought you Dragnet, transcribed from Los Angeles. 603 00:29:00,780 --> 00:29:18,980 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 604 00:29:18,980 --> 00:29:21,780 Next, it's Counter-Spy on NBC. 605 00:29:21,780 --> 00:29:29,780 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"]