WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.320 The story you are about to hear is true. 00:11.320 --> 00:13.960 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:13.960 --> 00:29.760 Fatima cigarettes, best of all king-size cigarettes, brings you drag net on both radio and television. 00:29.760 --> 00:31.440 You're a detective sergeant. 00:31.440 --> 00:33.800 You're assigned to homicide detail. 00:33.800 --> 00:36.640 A 38-year-old woman disappears. 00:36.640 --> 00:39.680 She leaves her sister and her four children behind. 00:39.680 --> 00:41.680 There's evidence of foul play. 00:41.680 --> 00:47.240 Your job, find her. 00:47.240 --> 00:50.240 In Fatima, the difference is quality. 00:50.240 --> 00:53.920 Yes, in Fatima, the difference is quality. 00:53.920 --> 00:56.120 Prove it yourself today. 00:56.120 --> 00:59.360 Compare Fatima with any other king-size cigarette. 00:59.360 --> 01:04.200 One, Fatima's length filters the smoke 85 millimeters for your protection. 01:04.200 --> 01:07.840 Two, Fatima's length cools the smoke for your protection. 01:07.840 --> 01:13.920 Three, Fatima's length gives you those extra puffs, 21% longer than standard cigarette 01:13.920 --> 01:14.920 size. 01:14.920 --> 01:21.840 And in Fatima, you get an extra mild and soothing smoke plus the added protection of Fatima 01:21.840 --> 01:22.840 quality. 01:22.840 --> 01:26.840 Definitely the best quality in its class, but the same price as the cigarette you're 01:26.840 --> 01:27.840 now smoking. 01:27.840 --> 01:31.680 Bye, Fatima, in the bright, sunny yellow pack. 01:31.680 --> 01:36.080 Best of all, king-size cigarettes. 01:36.080 --> 01:43.960 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 01:43.960 --> 01:48.880 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:48.880 --> 01:53.560 travel step-by-step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 01:53.560 --> 01:55.280 police files. 01:55.280 --> 02:00.560 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 02:00.560 --> 02:02.560 in action. 02:02.560 --> 02:06.760 It was Monday, June 3rd. 02:06.760 --> 02:08.680 It was overcast in Los Angeles. 02:08.680 --> 02:11.080 We were working the day watch out of homicide detail. 02:11.080 --> 02:12.240 My partner's Ed Jacobs. 02:12.240 --> 02:14.120 The boss is Thad Brown, chief of detectives. 02:14.120 --> 02:15.120 My name's Friday. 02:15.120 --> 02:19.640 I was on the way back from communications and it was 815 a.m. when I got to room 42. 02:19.640 --> 02:20.640 Homicide. 02:20.640 --> 02:21.640 Joe, what's doing? 02:21.640 --> 02:22.640 Hi, Brian. 02:22.640 --> 02:23.640 You seen Ed? 02:23.640 --> 02:25.200 He went down the hall in a minute, said he'd be right back. 02:25.200 --> 02:26.200 Oh, thank you. 02:26.200 --> 02:30.640 I don't see anything in the book. 02:30.640 --> 02:31.640 Nothing new, huh? 02:31.640 --> 02:32.640 Not much. 02:32.640 --> 02:33.640 Pretty slow. 02:33.640 --> 02:34.640 How's your mother, Joe? 02:34.640 --> 02:35.640 I heard she wasn't feeling too well. 02:35.640 --> 02:36.640 No, she's not, as a matter of fact. 02:36.640 --> 02:37.640 The doctor says it's anemia. 02:37.640 --> 02:39.440 It's gonna take a little time to get over it, I guess. 02:39.440 --> 02:40.440 Oh, sorry to hear it. 02:40.440 --> 02:42.920 I gotta do some checking down at the auto desk. 02:42.920 --> 02:44.920 If I get any calls, I'll have them switch it down there, will you? 02:44.920 --> 02:45.920 Yeah, I sure will, Brian. 02:45.920 --> 02:46.920 Thanks. 02:46.920 --> 02:47.920 You betcha. 02:47.920 --> 02:48.920 Oh, excuse me, Ed. 02:48.920 --> 02:49.920 Pardon me, Tom. 02:49.920 --> 02:50.920 Hi, Ed. 02:50.920 --> 02:51.920 What'd they give you? 02:51.920 --> 02:52.920 Missing report, woman. 02:52.920 --> 02:53.920 How about the mail? 02:53.920 --> 02:54.920 No, it's nothing. 02:54.920 --> 02:55.920 What about the missing report there? 02:55.920 --> 02:56.920 Yeah, it's all here. 02:56.920 --> 03:00.000 Some woman out on 64th Street, name's Rose Baker. 03:00.000 --> 03:03.640 She's been gone about a week. 03:03.640 --> 03:07.320 Last seen Tuesday, May 27th, 10 p.m. 03:07.320 --> 03:08.440 Who's this that made the report? 03:08.440 --> 03:09.440 Carl Shelton? 03:09.440 --> 03:10.440 Who's he? 03:10.440 --> 03:11.440 It's her boyfriend. 03:11.440 --> 03:13.160 Miss Baker's husband died about five years ago. 03:13.160 --> 03:14.960 She's been running around quite a bit since then. 03:14.960 --> 03:15.960 Had a lot of man trouble. 03:15.960 --> 03:17.760 She disappeared before then, huh? 03:17.760 --> 03:18.760 Yeah, half a dozen times. 03:18.760 --> 03:20.760 Never been gone this long, though. 03:20.760 --> 03:22.240 Holmes took this report from Shelton. 03:22.240 --> 03:23.720 He gathered Miss Baker's not too stable. 03:23.720 --> 03:25.120 She's known to drink quite a bit. 03:25.120 --> 03:27.120 Doesn't seem to care anything for her home or kids. 03:27.120 --> 03:28.120 Yeah, I see it here. 03:28.120 --> 03:29.120 She has four children. 03:29.120 --> 03:31.120 They're living with her aunt, Mrs. Baker's sister. 03:31.120 --> 03:33.120 It's kind of a funny arrangement, isn't it? 03:33.120 --> 03:36.120 Yeah, Baker woman packed her bags and walked out of the house about a year ago. 03:36.120 --> 03:38.320 Her sister's been taking care of the kids ever since. 03:38.320 --> 03:41.200 Mother comes back for a visit once in a while. 03:41.200 --> 03:44.920 This address we've got on Mrs. Baker, it's the same address as her boyfriend, Carl Shelton. 03:44.920 --> 03:45.920 Yeah, that's right. 03:45.920 --> 03:48.120 They both have apartments in the same building. 03:48.120 --> 03:50.320 Is this a recent picture, Miss Baker? 03:50.320 --> 03:51.320 Supposed to be, yeah. 03:51.320 --> 03:53.320 It's a nice-looking woman, huh? 03:53.320 --> 03:55.720 Sister's listed here as the last person who saw her. 03:55.720 --> 03:56.720 Well, how's that? 03:56.720 --> 03:58.720 Baker woman still wasn't living at home, was she? 03:58.720 --> 04:01.720 According to the sister, Mrs. Baker came over to the house to see her the night she disappeared. 04:01.720 --> 04:04.720 Sometime around 8 o'clock, two of them had some business to talk over. 04:04.720 --> 04:05.720 Hmm. 04:05.720 --> 04:08.720 Seems the sister had a check for $400 she got from selling some furniture. 04:08.720 --> 04:11.720 Claim the kids had been sick, she had doctor bills to pay. 04:11.720 --> 04:13.720 You mean Mrs. Baker's sister took care of things to that extent? 04:13.720 --> 04:14.720 Apparently. 04:14.720 --> 04:16.720 Anyway, after the sister got the check for selling the furniture, 04:16.720 --> 04:18.720 Mrs. Baker wanted half the money. 04:18.720 --> 04:20.720 Sister said that's why she came to see her that night. 04:20.720 --> 04:23.720 Two of them got in the car and went out to find somebody to cash the check. 04:23.720 --> 04:24.720 You want a drink of water? 04:24.720 --> 04:26.720 No, no thanks, Sam. 04:26.720 --> 04:29.720 Where do you get a $400 check cashed at 8 o'clock at night, would you know? 04:29.720 --> 04:32.720 Sister said Mrs. Baker knew somebody who'd cash it for them. 04:32.720 --> 04:34.720 It turned out the person couldn't cash it. 04:34.720 --> 04:36.720 Sister stopped at a bar for a glass of beer. 04:36.720 --> 04:40.720 Mrs. Baker took the car and went to look up somebody else she thought could cash it. 04:40.720 --> 04:42.720 That was it. Mrs. Baker hadn't been seen since. 04:42.720 --> 04:44.720 Who was this somebody else? 04:44.720 --> 04:45.720 No idea. 04:45.720 --> 04:46.720 Sister claimed she doesn't know. 04:46.720 --> 04:48.720 Mrs. Baker didn't tell her. 04:48.720 --> 04:50.720 Sounds like Mrs. Baker wanted the whole check, wouldn't you say? 04:50.720 --> 04:53.720 That's what the sister figured when Mrs. Baker didn't come back. 04:53.720 --> 04:56.720 She finished the glass of beer, left the barn, started walking home. 04:56.720 --> 04:58.720 Two blocks from the house she found her car parked. 04:58.720 --> 04:59.720 No sign of Mrs. Baker. 04:59.720 --> 05:02.720 Car keys were in the glove compartment, so it's the sister's share of the money. 05:02.720 --> 05:03.720 $200 in cash. 05:03.720 --> 05:05.720 Well, how about the firm that issued the check? 05:05.720 --> 05:06.720 Did they get it back canceled? 05:06.720 --> 05:07.720 Yeah, a couple of days ago. 05:07.720 --> 05:09.720 Mrs. Baker's endorsement on the bank. 05:09.720 --> 05:11.720 Yeah, sounds pretty wild, doesn't it? 05:11.720 --> 05:12.720 The whole thing does. 05:12.720 --> 05:14.720 Talked to half a dozen people who saw Mrs. Baker that night. 05:14.720 --> 05:15.720 None of their stories jibed. 05:15.720 --> 05:16.720 What do you mean? 05:16.720 --> 05:19.720 Her boyfriend, Carl Shelton, he claims that Mrs. Baker told him 05:19.720 --> 05:21.720 she was going out of town for a few days with a girlfriend. 05:21.720 --> 05:22.720 They check it out? 05:22.720 --> 05:23.720 Yeah. 05:23.720 --> 05:24.720 Girlfriend didn't know anything about it. 05:24.720 --> 05:26.720 Then they talked to a woman who works with Mrs. Baker. 05:26.720 --> 05:28.720 She says, yeah, the Baker woman was planning a trip. 05:28.720 --> 05:30.720 Mrs. Baker mentioned anything about it to her sister? 05:30.720 --> 05:33.720 No, sister says Mrs. Baker told her just the opposite. 05:33.720 --> 05:35.720 Said she was getting out of her apartment into a new place. 05:35.720 --> 05:37.720 She was going to spend the next couple of days moving. 05:37.720 --> 05:39.720 They checked the boyfriend, Shelton. 05:39.720 --> 05:41.720 Said if Mrs. Baker was moving, it was new to him. 05:41.720 --> 05:43.720 Well, either she's a liar or one of her friends are, huh? 05:43.720 --> 05:44.720 It's all bollock stuff. 05:44.720 --> 05:46.720 No two stories anywhere near alike. 05:46.720 --> 05:47.720 What do they figure for a motive? 05:47.720 --> 05:49.720 They got a line on anybody who might have wandered out of the way? 05:49.720 --> 05:51.720 Big field to pick from. 05:51.720 --> 05:52.720 She fought with Carl Shelton. 05:52.720 --> 05:55.720 She fought with his sister, some of the people she worked with. 05:55.720 --> 05:57.720 She had three or four other men around town on the string, too. 05:57.720 --> 05:59.720 Any one of them could have wandered her out of the way. 05:59.720 --> 06:01.720 All her relatives have been checked out and all her friends? 06:01.720 --> 06:02.720 Places she'd be most likely to go? 06:02.720 --> 06:03.720 All checked. 06:03.720 --> 06:04.720 Not a trace of her, nothing. 06:04.720 --> 06:06.720 Yeah, I guess we better start moving on it. 06:06.720 --> 06:07.720 A lot of ground to cover. 06:07.720 --> 06:09.720 See if we can't straighten out some of those stories. 06:09.720 --> 06:14.720 One thing's sure, somebody's lying. 06:14.720 --> 06:16.720 8.35 a.m. 06:16.720 --> 06:18.720 Before we left the city hall, we checked with Sergeant Holmes 06:18.720 --> 06:22.720 and missing persons who'd taken the report on Rose Baker's disappearance. 06:22.720 --> 06:27.720 He had nothing to add to what was in the report and what he'd already told Ed. 06:27.720 --> 06:31.720 First on the interview list was the sister of the missing woman, Bernice Marin. 06:31.720 --> 06:34.720 She was employed as a saleswoman for a grocery supply firm. 06:34.720 --> 06:37.720 We called it the home where Ms. Marin lived with her four nieces and nephews, 06:37.720 --> 06:39.720 but there was no answer. 06:39.720 --> 06:42.720 The next door neighbor told us that Ms. Marin was working, 06:42.720 --> 06:46.720 that she usually didn't get home until 4.15 or 4.30 in the afternoon. 06:46.720 --> 06:49.720 In the meantime, we figured we might as well check the next name on the list, 06:49.720 --> 06:51.720 Mrs. Baker's boyfriend, Carl Shelton. 06:51.720 --> 06:54.720 We'd already checked him through R&I and he had no record. 06:54.720 --> 06:58.720 We drove out to his address, a three-story apartment house on 64th Street. 06:58.720 --> 07:01.720 Shelton's apartment was on the main floor rear. 07:01.720 --> 07:03.720 He answered the door in his bathrobe and slippers. 07:03.720 --> 07:06.720 He told us that he was employed at one of the local oil refineries 07:06.720 --> 07:09.720 and that this particular week he was working the graveyard shift, 07:09.720 --> 07:11.720 11 at night until 7 in the morning. 07:11.720 --> 07:14.720 He showed us back to a small kitchen at the rear of the apartment. 07:14.720 --> 07:18.720 While we questioned him, he fixed a percolator of coffee and put it on the stove. 07:18.720 --> 07:20.720 You're sure about Ms. Baker's plans, are you? 07:20.720 --> 07:23.720 She never mentioned anything to you about moving out of the apartment house here? 07:23.720 --> 07:26.720 No, never. Somebody's handing you a line there. 07:26.720 --> 07:28.720 If Rosie was gonna move, she'd tell me about it. 07:28.720 --> 07:32.720 Just a minute, I gotta get that coffee. It looks about done. 07:32.720 --> 07:35.720 You call this Wantsome Java? Got a whole portfolio. 07:35.720 --> 07:37.720 No, no, thank you. 07:39.720 --> 07:42.720 How long do you say you've known Ms. Baker? 07:42.720 --> 07:44.720 About a year, year and a half. 07:44.720 --> 07:46.720 We got along pretty good. 07:46.720 --> 07:48.720 She was right from the start. 07:48.720 --> 07:50.720 Sure don't understand her taking off like this. 07:50.720 --> 07:53.720 Did Ms. Baker ever talk to you much about the family? 07:53.720 --> 07:55.720 Her sister, four children? 07:55.720 --> 07:58.720 I mean, did she see them regularly? Seem to get along with them all right to you? 07:58.720 --> 08:02.720 I don't think I'd know that. Rosie never had much to say about them. 08:02.720 --> 08:06.720 The only thing I could gather was that she just got sick of the routine, you know. 08:06.720 --> 08:10.720 Keeping up a house, doing the wash, mopping, dusting, taking care of four kids. 08:10.720 --> 08:13.720 She just checked out, that's all. Let her sister Bernice take over. 08:13.720 --> 08:15.720 If you ask me, she never should have had a family to begin with. 08:15.720 --> 08:19.720 Rosie isn't the kind. She's a party girl, likes a good time, you know what I mean? 08:19.720 --> 08:21.720 One thing I don't understand, Shelton. 08:21.720 --> 08:24.720 You said a minute ago you couldn't figure out Ms. Baker's going off like this. 08:24.720 --> 08:27.720 When you filed a missing report on her, you said she was planning a trip out of town. 08:27.720 --> 08:28.720 Yeah, that's right. 08:28.720 --> 08:31.720 Well, isn't it possible she might have taken off without telling you? 08:31.720 --> 08:33.720 No, I don't think so. She'd have told me. 08:33.720 --> 08:37.720 She's planning a trip, all right, but she wasn't going to leave till the next night, Wednesday night. 08:37.720 --> 08:39.720 She's going to pick up this girlfriend of hers, Iris, 08:39.720 --> 08:42.720 and the two of them are going to take the bus down to Laguna for a couple of days. 08:42.720 --> 08:45.720 Well, it's our understanding this girlfriend, Iris, didn't know anything about the trip. 08:45.720 --> 08:47.720 Can you explain that? 08:47.720 --> 08:50.720 I don't know. I guess Rosie forgot to tell her. Can't figure these women sometimes. 08:50.720 --> 08:52.720 Maybe she was going to phone her Wednesday morning. 08:52.720 --> 08:54.720 She knew Iris could get away almost any time. 08:54.720 --> 08:57.720 You think it's possible she might have gone down to Laguna by herself? 08:57.720 --> 08:59.720 No, that's not like Rosie. 08:59.720 --> 09:03.720 I went in to report her missing. I called a couple of places down to Laguna where Rosie usually stops at. 09:03.720 --> 09:04.720 They hadn't seen her. 09:04.720 --> 09:06.720 Possible she might have gone some other place? 09:06.720 --> 09:09.720 No, without telling me, no. Besides, she wouldn't go alone. I know that. 09:09.720 --> 09:13.720 Sheldon, we understand Mrs. Baker was friendly with two or three other men around town. 09:13.720 --> 09:16.720 You think it's possible she might have gone someplace with one of them? 09:17.720 --> 09:18.720 Sheldon? 09:19.720 --> 09:23.720 No. No, I can't buy that. If it was eight months ago, I'd say maybe, but not now. 09:23.720 --> 09:24.720 Why not? 09:24.720 --> 09:28.720 We had it out, that's all. It was all settled. She wouldn't do anything like that again. 09:28.720 --> 09:29.720 You sure about that, R.M.? 09:29.720 --> 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. 09:34.720 --> 09:36.720 Rosie wouldn't do that to me. 09:36.720 --> 09:37.720 Well, she's got four children. 09:37.720 --> 09:38.720 Yeah. 09:38.720 --> 09:39.720 She did it to them. 09:42.720 --> 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. 09:47.720 --> 09:52.720 10.40 a.m. We drove to the home of the missing woman's girlfriend, an Iris Kirby. 09:52.720 --> 09:55.720 Two things she was pretty definite about. 09:55.720 --> 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. 09:59.720 --> 10:02.720 And secondly, she had no use for Carl Sheldon. 10:02.720 --> 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. 10:09.720 --> 10:13.720 A few weeks later, Sheldon began to keep steady company with Mrs. Baker. 10:13.720 --> 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. 10:19.720 --> 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. 10:25.720 --> 10:28.720 We stopped off on the way for lunch, a bowl of soup and a sandwich. 10:28.720 --> 10:30.720 Ed had a cheeseburger and a piece of pie. 10:30.720 --> 10:33.720 Before we left, we checked the office to see if there were any calls. 10:33.720 --> 10:34.720 Nothing. 10:34.720 --> 10:39.720 The place where Mrs. Baker worked was on Santa Fe Avenue, a one-story building covering almost half a block. 10:39.720 --> 10:43.720 They manufactured men's work clothes, shirts, and overalls. 10:43.720 --> 10:44.720 We checked with the personnel office. 10:44.720 --> 10:47.720 We asked if Rose Baker had any friends that she worked with. 10:47.720 --> 10:51.720 We were told that there was a Mildred Dunn who was a fairly close friend of the Baker woman. 10:51.720 --> 10:55.720 Ed and I waited in the office while they sent down to the plant for Mildred Dunn. 10:55.720 --> 10:56.720 Ms. Dunn? 10:56.720 --> 10:57.720 That's right. 10:57.720 --> 11:00.720 Police officers. My name's Jacobs. This is my partner, Sergeant Friday. 11:00.720 --> 11:01.720 How do you do? 11:00.720 --> 11:01.720 How are you? 11:01.720 --> 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. 11:05.720 --> 11:08.720 Yes, that's right. I've known Rose ever since she came here. 11:08.720 --> 11:10.720 She worked on the machine next to me. 11:10.720 --> 11:11.720 She come home yet? 11:11.720 --> 11:12.720 No, not yet. 11:12.720 --> 11:15.720 You remember Mrs. Baker saying anything to you about taking a trip, Mrs. Dunn? 11:15.720 --> 11:16.720 I mean, just before she disappeared? 11:16.720 --> 11:19.720 Yes, she did. She'd been looking forward to it. 11:19.720 --> 11:21.720 That's probably where she is. Don't you think, off on her trip? 11:21.720 --> 11:22.720 Well, we don't know, ma'am. 11:22.720 --> 11:26.720 Did she mention anything definite about the trip to you, where she was going, when she was leaving? 11:26.720 --> 11:28.720 Well, I think she was going to Laguna Beach. 11:28.720 --> 11:31.720 It's hard to tell. She's always kidding around, Rose is. 11:31.720 --> 11:35.720 Once she said she was going to fly to Switzerland for a vacation. Samaritz. 11:35.720 --> 11:37.720 She's always kidding around like that. 11:37.720 --> 11:38.720 Oh, that's so? 11:38.720 --> 11:42.720 Like once when she had a date with Fred. She said she was going to the pump room in Chicago. 11:42.720 --> 11:44.720 You know, just being funny. 11:44.720 --> 11:46.720 I see. Who is this Fred, Mrs. Dunn? 11:46.720 --> 11:49.720 A fellow in the shipping department, Fred Lyons. Nice fella. 11:49.720 --> 11:50.720 He and Mrs. Baker see much of each other? 11:50.720 --> 11:52.720 They used to, yes. Quite a bit. 11:52.720 --> 11:57.720 I don't know if they were serious about each other. I thought they were till the last month or so. 11:57.720 --> 12:00.720 Maybe they had a tiff or something. Maybe Rose got tired of him. I don't know. 12:00.720 --> 12:02.720 But you do think the two of them were serious at one time? 12:02.720 --> 12:04.720 Oh, yes. It wasn't more than a month ago. 12:04.720 --> 12:06.720 And all of a sudden they weren't sweet on each other. 12:06.720 --> 12:09.720 At least Rose wasn't about him. She told me that. 12:09.720 --> 12:11.720 Well, I guess we better check on her, ma'am. 12:11.720 --> 12:13.720 Is this Fred Lyons working today, do you know, ma'am? 12:13.720 --> 12:15.720 Oh, no. He quit last Tuesday. 12:17.720 --> 12:21.720 One fifteen p.m. We finished questioning Mildred Dunn and we went back to the personnel office 12:21.720 --> 12:24.720 to get Fred Lyons' description and last known address. 12:24.720 --> 12:29.720 We checked out the address, but Lyons had moved out the previous Tuesday and left no forwarding address. 12:29.720 --> 12:34.720 We questioned the landlady, looked over his rooms, checked through the neighborhood and talked to everybody he knew. 12:34.720 --> 12:39.720 We found nothing to indicate that Lyons had anything directly to do with Rose Baker's disappearance. 12:39.720 --> 12:43.720 But we did find out that he knew Mrs. Baker and that he thought quite a bit of her. 12:43.720 --> 12:47.720 We went back to the office, got out a broadcast and an APB on Lyons. 12:47.720 --> 12:50.720 Want to check the book, Joe, see if we got any late calls there? 12:50.720 --> 12:51.720 Yeah, sure. 12:51.720 --> 12:52.720 I'll get it. 12:52.720 --> 12:53.720 Right. 12:53.720 --> 12:55.720 Homicide, Jacobs. That's right. 12:55.720 --> 12:58.720 Mm-hmm. Are they sure? What was that? 12:58.720 --> 13:00.720 All right. Thank you. Got something? 13:00.720 --> 13:01.720 Yeah. 13:01.720 --> 13:03.720 Hollywood division. Woman's purse found in the vacant lot out there. 13:03.720 --> 13:05.720 High school kid found it. A lot of identification inside. 13:05.720 --> 13:10.720 Yeah. Rose Baker. 13:10.720 --> 13:15.720 3.15 p.m. The purse was brought downtown to the crime lab for detailed examination. 13:15.720 --> 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. 13:22.720 --> 13:27.720 Meantime, Ed and I drove out to talk to the missing woman's sister, 36 years old, Bernice Marin. 13:27.720 --> 13:33.720 She and her sister's four children lived in a five-room stucco house just off Exposition Boulevard. 13:33.720 --> 13:37.720 We got there shortly after Miss Marin returned home from her job. 13:37.720 --> 13:40.720 Her two older nephews were out in front cutting the lawn. 13:40.720 --> 13:43.720 She showed us into a neatly kept living room where we interviewed her. 13:43.720 --> 13:46.720 She was a plain-looking woman, brown hair, gray eyes. 13:46.720 --> 13:49.720 She showed little concern about her sister's disappearance. 13:49.720 --> 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. 13:53.720 --> 13:55.720 I used to worry about her. I don't anymore. 13:55.720 --> 13:58.720 Well, how about that purse of hers that was found this afternoon, Miss Marin? 13:58.720 --> 14:00.720 Wouldn't you say that makes it a little unusual this time? 14:00.720 --> 14:03.720 I don't think so. She loses things all the time. 14:03.720 --> 14:07.720 I don't know what she does when she goes off on those things. I don't want to know. 14:07.720 --> 14:09.720 Gets drunk and does a lot of fooling around, I suppose. 14:09.720 --> 14:11.720 She's lost two or three purses the same way. 14:11.720 --> 14:15.720 What about last Tuesday, the night she disappeared? You notice if she'd been drinking then? 14:15.720 --> 14:18.720 Yeah, I got the idea she'd had a couple of high balls before she came over. 14:18.720 --> 14:21.720 She wasn't drunk, but she wasn't feeling any pain. 14:21.720 --> 14:23.720 I'll say, would you excuse me? I want to yell at the kids out there. 14:23.720 --> 14:25.720 Yes, ma'am. 14:25.720 --> 14:30.720 Frank! Frank, that's enough of that playing around out there. 14:30.720 --> 14:32.720 Let's get started pushing that lawn mower, huh? 14:32.720 --> 14:35.720 Okay, just try that other system. It's almost half done now. 14:35.720 --> 14:38.720 You better hurry it up. You still got the backyard to do, remember? 14:38.720 --> 14:39.720 Yeah, okay. 14:39.720 --> 14:42.720 Only good thing that came out of that married sergeant, those kids out there. 14:42.720 --> 14:43.720 Yes, ma'am. 14:43.720 --> 14:46.720 There's two more besides Frank and Bobby, the girls, my nieces. 14:46.720 --> 14:48.720 One's nine, one's seven. Marvelous kids. 14:48.720 --> 14:50.720 Girls are just as pretty as pictures. 14:50.720 --> 14:54.720 I'm glad I have a chance to take care of them. I guess I just like kids. 14:54.720 --> 14:57.720 I can understand it when people don't appreciate them. 14:57.720 --> 14:59.720 I don't have a family of my own. 14:59.720 --> 15:00.720 Oh, I see. 15:00.720 --> 15:02.720 Miss Marin, when you were with your sister last Tuesday night, 15:02.720 --> 15:05.720 you say she didn't mention anything at all about taking that trip out of town. 15:05.720 --> 15:07.720 No, just the opposite. Like I told you. 15:07.720 --> 15:10.720 She said she was moving out of her apartment into a new place. 15:10.720 --> 15:11.720 That's why she needed the money. 15:11.720 --> 15:14.720 Well, what's the story about this money your sister came to pick up, Miss Marin? 15:14.720 --> 15:16.720 I don't think I quite got that clear. 15:16.720 --> 15:20.720 Well, we had this baby grand piano that my mother gave Rose and me just before she died. 15:20.720 --> 15:23.720 Kids have been sick the last couple of months, one thing and another. 15:23.720 --> 15:27.720 I needed a little money to catch up on some doctor bills, so I sold the piano. 15:27.720 --> 15:30.720 I needed to do it, but the bills had to be paid. 15:30.720 --> 15:35.720 Well, Rose found out about it somehow, and she wanted half the money I got for the piano. 15:35.720 --> 15:37.720 She wanted the money for herself. Can you imagine that? 15:37.720 --> 15:40.720 She wasn't even willing to pay for her own kids' doctor bills. 15:40.720 --> 15:43.720 It'd be different if I was charging her to take care of the kids. 15:43.720 --> 15:45.720 I just do it because I like them. 15:45.720 --> 15:48.720 Well, anyway, she found out about it, and I had to split the check with her. 15:48.720 --> 15:50.720 The whole thing was for $400. 15:50.720 --> 15:52.720 I understand your sister got the check cashed that night, that correct? 15:52.720 --> 15:56.720 Yeah, that's right. It was 8 o'clock at night, but Rose said she knew somebody who'd cash it. 15:56.720 --> 15:58.720 She wanted the money that night. 15:58.720 --> 16:02.720 To save an argument, we got in the car and went to see this friend of hers, some bartender. 16:02.720 --> 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. 16:07.720 --> 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. 16:11.720 --> 16:13.720 And that's the last time you saw your sister, is it? 16:13.720 --> 16:16.720 Yes. I waited a couple of hours, and then I walked home. 16:16.720 --> 16:21.720 Two blocks from the house, I saw my car pulled up at the curb, right on Exposition Boulevard. 16:21.720 --> 16:25.720 Car keys were in the glove compartment, $200 in cash right under them. 16:25.720 --> 16:27.720 No sign of Rose, though. 16:27.720 --> 16:29.720 What time was it when you got back to the house? You remembered? 16:29.720 --> 16:33.720 It was after 11. Close to 11.30, I think. I went right to bed. 16:33.720 --> 16:36.720 And since that time, you've had no indication where your sister might have gone? 16:36.720 --> 16:39.720 No phone calls, no letters, no word from one of her friends who might have seen her? 16:39.720 --> 16:43.720 No, not a thing. She's in trouble. You can understand why. 16:43.720 --> 16:48.720 Been coming for a long time. Last five years, going downhill all the time. 16:48.720 --> 16:53.720 She's no good, Sergeant. I don't know how it happened. Just no good at all. 16:53.720 --> 16:55.720 Well, thank you very much, Miss Marin. 16:55.720 --> 16:56.720 Thank you, ma'am. 16:56.720 --> 16:59.720 Oh, not at all. No trouble. I guess I'd better get dinner started for the kids. 16:59.720 --> 17:03.720 Well, if you hear anything about your sister, we'd appreciate it if you'd give us a call. 17:03.720 --> 17:07.720 Yes, all right. It's gonna be the same old story. Same thing all over again. You can bet on it. 17:07.720 --> 17:08.720 Ma'am. 17:08.720 --> 17:10.720 She'll come back when the money's gone. 17:10.720 --> 17:15.720 5.15 p.m. Ed and I drove back downtown and went directly to the crime lab. 17:15.720 --> 17:20.720 The missing woman's purse, which had been found in the vacant lot out in Hollywood, had been examined thoroughly. 17:20.720 --> 17:23.720 They'd found nothing that had provided us with a new lead. 17:23.720 --> 17:26.720 We checked communications, but there was still no answer to the APB. 17:26.720 --> 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. 17:32.720 --> 17:35.720 5.30 p.m. We got back to the squad room. 17:35.720 --> 17:41.720 Hiya. Hi, Brian. You just got back? Yeah. You get the word? No. What's that? Mrs. Baker. They just found her body. 17:54.720 --> 17:59.720 You are listening to Dragnet. 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Best of all, king-size cigarettes. 19:24.720 --> 19:35.720 June 3rd, Monday, 6 p.m. 19:35.720 --> 19:39.720 The body of 38-year-old Rose Baker had been discovered in the Hollywood Hills area. 19:39.720 --> 19:44.720 Approximately three-fourths of a mile from the intersection of Mulholland Drive and Oakknoll Terrace, 19:44.720 --> 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. 19:51.720 --> 19:56.720 Just below the guardrail, which circled the edge of the road, there were two eucalyptus trees. 19:56.720 --> 20:00.720 They overlooked a deep ravine covered with scrub oak and patches of laurel. 20:00.720 --> 20:04.720 Halfway down one slope of the ravine, they found the body of the missing woman. 20:04.720 --> 20:07.720 There were two bullet holes in the left side of the skull. 20:07.720 --> 20:09.720 There was another one at the base of the throat. 20:09.720 --> 20:12.720 In her clenched right hand, there was a 50-cent piece. 20:12.720 --> 20:14.720 The immediate area surrounding the body had been roped off, 20:14.720 --> 20:19.720 and Lieutenant Lee Jones and the crime lab crew were making their preliminary investigation. 20:19.720 --> 20:21.720 There was no sign of the murder weapon. 20:21.720 --> 20:24.720 The coroner arrived, and when the preliminary investigation was completed, 20:24.720 --> 20:26.720 the body was taken downtown to the county morgue. 20:26.720 --> 20:32.720 All clothing and personal effects were removed from the body and sent to the crime lab for detailed examination. 20:32.720 --> 20:37.720 Rose Baker's sister, Bernice Marron, was brought to the county morgue and identified the body. 20:37.720 --> 20:40.720 A few minutes after 10 o'clock that night, Ed and I got back to the office. 20:40.720 --> 20:44.720 I got it. Homicide, Friday. 20:44.720 --> 20:45.720 Is this Sergeant Friday? 20:45.720 --> 20:46.720 Yes, sir, that's right. 20:46.720 --> 20:49.720 This is Carl Shelton, Sergeant. You were out to talk to me this morning, you remember? 20:49.720 --> 20:50.720 Oh, yeah, Shelton. 20:50.720 --> 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. 20:54.720 --> 20:55.720 Is that so? Do you want to tell me now? 20:55.720 --> 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. 20:58.720 --> 21:00.720 Well, yeah, all right. Do you mind telling me what it's about? 21:00.720 --> 21:02.720 Yeah, I know who killed Rosie. 21:05.720 --> 21:08.720 11.08 p.m. Carl Shelton arrived at the office. 21:08.720 --> 21:12.720 Ed and I took him down the hall to the interrogation room where he gave us his story. 21:12.720 --> 21:17.720 He told us, first of all, that he was well acquainted with most of the regular customers at the tavern 21:17.720 --> 21:21.720 where Rose Baker and her sister had first stopped to cash the $400 check. 21:21.720 --> 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. 21:28.720 --> 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. 21:32.720 --> 21:34.720 Where'd this fellow tell you, Shelton? That's LaRoy Hanson. 21:34.720 --> 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. 21:39.720 --> 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. 21:44.720 --> 21:47.720 He described her just like Rosie's sister. They were having a beef. 21:47.720 --> 21:49.720 Does this friend of yours hear what Mrs. Baker and this woman were talking about? 21:49.720 --> 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. 21:53.720 --> 21:54.720 Is he sure about the time? 21:54.720 --> 21:58.720 He's got to be. LaRoy works at a sheet metal plant south of town. He gets off at 11.30. 21:58.720 --> 22:01.720 It takes him more than a half hour to get in. Why should he lie about it? 22:01.720 --> 22:04.720 He wasn't even going to mention it till he found out she was dead. 22:04.720 --> 22:07.720 This woman he says Mrs. Baker was with, she fits her sister's description that close? 22:07.720 --> 22:09.720 Exactly. And there was a guy with LaRoy. He'll back it up. 22:09.720 --> 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. 22:13.720 --> 22:15.720 Well, she is, if you can prove your story. 22:15.720 --> 22:18.720 Here's the phone. You ask LaRoy. 22:21.720 --> 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 22:27.720 --> 22:31.720 sitting in a parked car outside the tavern six nights before. 22:31.720 --> 22:35.720 Both of them corroborated Carl Shelton's story down to the last detail. 22:35.720 --> 22:37.720 They were especially certain about the time. 22:37.720 --> 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. 22:43.720 --> 22:47.720 and that she had walked home and was in bed by 11.30. 22:47.720 --> 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 22:52.720 --> 22:55.720 sitting together in a car parked outside the tavern. 22:55.720 --> 22:59.720 They were both certain at the time that it was well past midnight. 22:59.720 --> 23:01.720 We made a check on LaRoy Hanson and his friend. 23:01.720 --> 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. 23:06.720 --> 23:11.720 Ed and I got in the car and drove out to the home of Bernice Marin just off Exposition Boulevard. 23:11.720 --> 23:15.720 It was 20 minutes past midnight. We rang the front doorbell and got her out of bed. 23:15.720 --> 23:19.720 Oh, officers. I didn't know who it was. Come in. 23:19.720 --> 23:21.720 Thank you, ma'am. 23:21.720 --> 23:24.720 You have to wait long before I answer. I sleep pretty sound. 23:24.720 --> 23:27.720 Fred will have to ask you to get dressed, Miss Marin. I'd like to talk to you downtown. 23:27.720 --> 23:28.720 Why? What's the matter? 23:28.720 --> 23:30.720 Well, some more questions we have to ask you, ma'am. 23:30.720 --> 23:33.720 A few more things we have to clear up about your sister. It's pretty important. 23:33.720 --> 23:37.720 I've told you everything I know. I don't like to go out and leave the kids alone at night. 23:37.720 --> 23:39.720 What is it you want to ask me about? 23:39.720 --> 23:42.720 Well, you told us the last time you saw your sister was about 9.15 last Tuesday night, Miss Marin. 23:42.720 --> 23:43.720 Yes, that's right. 23:43.720 --> 23:47.720 We've got a couple of people who claim they saw you with your sister after midnight Tuesday. 23:47.720 --> 23:50.720 You were sitting with her in your car parked outside a tavern. 23:50.720 --> 23:53.720 You're having an argument with her. At least two people saw you and they'll swear to that. 23:53.720 --> 23:54.720 No, that couldn't be right. 23:54.720 --> 23:55.720 They claim it is. 23:55.720 --> 23:58.720 They say it was after midnight and they saw me with Rose? 23:58.720 --> 24:00.720 Yes, ma'am. That's what they say. 24:00.720 --> 24:03.720 And you believe it? You believe it was me? 24:03.720 --> 24:05.720 Yes, ma'am. We do. 24:05.720 --> 24:07.720 You think I killed Rose? Is that it? 24:07.720 --> 24:09.720 Yes, ma'am. We think so. 24:11.720 --> 24:13.720 How about it, Miss Marin? 24:13.720 --> 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. 24:18.720 --> 24:19.720 Would it be all right? 24:19.720 --> 24:20.720 I'll have to go along with you. 24:20.720 --> 24:23.720 All right. This way, down the hall. 24:26.720 --> 24:30.720 In here. I don't want to wake the other kids if I can help. 24:30.720 --> 24:31.720 All right. 24:34.720 --> 24:38.720 Frank. Wake up, Frank. Frankie. 24:40.720 --> 24:41.720 What do you want, Anparnees? 24:41.720 --> 24:46.720 I hate to wake you up, Frankie. I'm going to have to go downtown tonight. I'm leaving now. 24:46.720 --> 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? 24:50.720 --> 24:53.720 Yeah, okay. What do you have to go downtown for? 24:53.720 --> 24:55.720 Well, it's something about your mother, Frank. 24:55.720 --> 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? 25:00.720 --> 25:03.720 Bobby, too. The sandwiches are all made. They're in the icebox. 25:03.720 --> 25:06.720 All you have to do is put them in a paper sack, all right? 25:06.720 --> 25:10.720 Yeah, okay. Why do you have to go now? Can't you wait until tomorrow? 25:10.720 --> 25:12.720 No, I'm afraid not, honey. 25:12.720 --> 25:17.720 You take care of everything, huh? Make sure all the doors are locked. And don't forget to feed the dog. 25:17.720 --> 25:20.720 No, I won't forget. What's the matter? Is there anything wrong? 25:20.720 --> 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? 25:25.720 --> 25:28.720 Yeah, okay. You be sure and call, huh? 25:28.720 --> 25:34.720 I'll call you, honey. You go to sleep now, huh? It'll be all right. You get some sleep. 25:34.720 --> 25:35.720 Good night, Frankie. 25:35.720 --> 25:37.720 Yeah, okay. Good night. 25:37.720 --> 25:42.720 I'm sorry to keep you waiting. I had to tell Frank what to do. The kids wouldn't understand. 25:42.720 --> 25:44.720 I mean, if they woke up and didn't find me here. 25:44.720 --> 25:47.720 Yes, ma'am. What'd you do with the murder gun, Miss Mann? 25:47.720 --> 25:51.720 Out in the garage, I'll show you. I had her four kids to raise. It's not easy. 25:51.720 --> 25:55.720 You know what it costs to feed them, put clothes on their back? 25:55.720 --> 25:58.720 It's not the kids I minded. They're wonderful. I love every one of them. 25:58.720 --> 26:03.720 I'm glad to get the chance to raise them. I never married myself, never had any of my own. 26:03.720 --> 26:07.720 It hasn't been easy at all, working all day, coming home and cooking for them, 26:07.720 --> 26:09.720 doing the wash, trying to keep the house clean. 26:09.720 --> 26:13.720 Rose never gave me a dime to pay a bill for her own kids, too. 26:13.720 --> 26:17.720 She gave us nothing and she tried to take everything, tried to bleed me for my last dollar. 26:17.720 --> 26:20.720 She cashed the check that night and said she was gonna keep all the money. 26:20.720 --> 26:23.720 I couldn't stand anymore. We argued and I killed her. 26:23.720 --> 26:25.720 Yeah, well, I'm sorry, ma'am. We'll have to go. 26:25.720 --> 26:26.720 Yes, all right. 26:26.720 --> 26:30.720 What'll I do, Sergeant? What'll I say? 26:30.720 --> 26:32.720 I advise you to tell the truth. You'll get a fair trial. 26:32.720 --> 26:34.720 I know that. It's not what I mean. 26:34.720 --> 26:35.720 What do you mean? 26:35.720 --> 26:37.720 Inside there. What am I gonna say? How'll I explain it? 26:37.720 --> 26:38.720 Ma'am. 26:38.720 --> 26:41.720 The kids. 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