1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,560 The story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,040 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:29,600 Fatima cigarettes, best of all king size cigarettes, brings you drag net on both radio and television. 4 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:30,600 You're a detective sergeant. 5 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:32,720 You're assigned to burglary detail. 6 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:37,680 For more than two months, a wave of safe burglaries has been sweeping your city. 7 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:40,120 Apparently it's the work of professionals. 8 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,960 The jobs are well planned, well executed. 9 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:45,600 There's no lead to the whereabouts of the suspects. 10 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:51,160 Your job, get them. 11 00:00:51,160 --> 00:00:54,200 Compare Fatima with any other king size cigarette. 12 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:58,200 Yes, compare Fatima with any other king size cigarette. 13 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:02,960 One, Fatima's length filters the smoke 85 millimeters for your protection. 14 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:06,640 Two, Fatima's length cools the smoke for your protection. 15 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:12,560 Three, Fatima's length gives you those extra puffs, 21 percent longer than standard cigarette 16 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:13,560 size. 17 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:16,360 Fatima gives you more for your money. 18 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:22,640 And in king size Fatima, you get an extra mild and soothing smoke, plus the added protection 19 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:24,960 of Fatima quality. 20 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:28,320 Try Fatima in the bright sunny yellow pack. 21 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:32,360 Best of all, king size cigarettes. 22 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:40,160 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 23 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:45,040 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 24 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:49,640 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 25 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:51,320 police files. 26 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:56,520 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 27 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:57,520 in action. 28 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:02,960 It was Sunday, June 8th. 29 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:03,960 It was warm in Los Angeles. 30 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:07,240 We were working the day watch out of burglary division, safe detail. 31 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:09,640 My partner's Bill Lockwood, the boss's captain wisdom. 32 00:02:09,640 --> 00:02:10,640 My name's Friday. 33 00:02:10,640 --> 00:02:15,600 I was on the way back to the office and it was 8.36 a.m. when I got to room 45, burglary 34 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:16,600 division. 35 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:17,600 Joe. 36 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:18,600 Oh, hi, Smith. 37 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,440 There's a note in the book for us from the captain about your partner Lockwood. 38 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:22,440 Yeah, what's that? 39 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:24,040 I got to make that sick report on him yesterday. 40 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:25,040 Did you call him? 41 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:26,040 How's his leg? 42 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:27,040 Well, I talked to him on the phone last night. 43 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:28,040 Pretty bad ankle sprain. 44 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:30,720 The doctor figures he'll be out for a couple of weeks anyway. 45 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:32,440 Who's the fellow you got there? 46 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:35,200 Suspect Jones and McCready picked up on Stakehouse drugstore, third inventory. 47 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:36,760 What do you got on him? 48 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:38,960 McCready says they picked him up about quarter to five this morning. 49 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,120 Jones was staked out inside the drugstore. 50 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:44,920 Saw this fellow drive up in the car, get out and try the front door of the place. 51 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:48,320 And he went around and backed the place, tried the back door, then he came around the front 52 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:50,320 again, tried to jimmy the door. 53 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:52,440 Finally gave up, got in his car and started to drive off. 54 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:54,800 Jones and McCready followed him, picked him up and brought him in. 55 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:55,800 Where's Jones and McCready now? 56 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,360 I told him to go ahead home, no reason for him to hang around. 57 00:02:58,360 --> 00:02:59,360 We carried the thing from here. 58 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:00,360 What have you done so far? 59 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:01,360 Did you check him through R.N.I.A.? 60 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:02,360 Called Frank Cunningham. 61 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:03,360 He's doing it now. 62 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:04,360 What's his name? 63 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:09,200 According to his identification, it's Charles W. Boyd in the dress at 239 West 92nd Street. 64 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,760 That's what he tells us anyway. 65 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:12,760 Is that your name, fella? 66 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:13,760 Yeah, that's my name. 67 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:14,760 It's all my identification. 68 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:15,760 No reason for me to lie. 69 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:16,760 You can check me out. 70 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:17,760 All right. 71 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:18,760 Hold your hand up there. 72 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:19,760 I'll get these cups off of you. 73 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:20,760 Yeah, sure. 74 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:21,760 All right, there you are. 75 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:22,760 Thanks. 76 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:23,760 You're tired sitting here, handcuffed, sitting in one place. 77 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:24,760 Frank, you want to tell Gaffney we'll be down in the interrogation room when R.N.I. calls 78 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:25,760 back, tell him to transfer it in there, would you? 79 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:26,760 Yeah, okay, I'll meet you there. 80 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:27,760 All right, thanks. 81 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:28,760 All right, boy, let's go. 82 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:29,760 I'd like to talk to you down the hall. 83 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:30,760 Yeah, let's get this thing over with. 84 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:31,760 I don't feel good. 85 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:32,760 I want to get out of here. 86 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:33,760 What are you shaking for? 87 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:34,760 There's nothing to get nervous about. 88 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:35,760 He was sick. 89 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:36,760 Yeah, I haven't been feeling good at all the last couple of days. 90 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:37,760 Wouldn't you be? 91 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:48,760 I was smoking. 92 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:50,760 Hey, say, would you happen to have a cigarette, please? 93 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:51,760 Yeah, here. 94 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:52,760 Thanks. 95 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:53,760 Here's a light for you. 96 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:54,760 Yeah, thank God. 97 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:55,760 Thanks. 98 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:56,760 All right, turn around a minute, will you? 99 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:57,760 Let me look at your eyes. 100 00:03:57,760 --> 00:03:58,760 Huh? 101 00:03:58,760 --> 00:03:59,760 Turn around. 102 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:07,760 All right, let's go. 103 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:12,760 It's okay, Joe. 104 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:21,760 I told Gavin he'll put through the call tomorrow night. 105 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:22,760 Oh, that's fine. 106 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:23,760 I mean, sure, this won't take long. 107 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:25,760 I'd like to get out of here and get home. 108 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:26,760 I've been sick for a week. 109 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:27,760 I ought to be in bed right now. 110 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:32,760 I'm going to get as fast as we can right in here. 111 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:33,760 Have a chair, Boyd. 112 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:34,760 Yeah. 113 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:38,760 All right, mister, you say you're not feeling well. 114 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:39,760 You're tired. 115 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:40,760 You want to go home. 116 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:41,760 So are we. 117 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:42,760 We've been working all night. 118 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:43,760 Now, how about getting the bottom of this thing? 119 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:44,760 I'm sure I'm all for it. 120 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:46,760 I tried to explain to the guys who picked me up. 121 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:47,760 I don't know what it's all about. 122 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:48,760 Ask me anything you want. 123 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:49,760 Now, let's start it here, Boyd. 124 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:52,760 What were you doing out there hanging around that drug store at quarter to five this morning? 125 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:54,760 It's the same thing I told the other officers. 126 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,760 I was sick and wanted to get something for my nerve. 127 00:04:57,760 --> 00:04:58,760 Jumpy as a cat, couldn't sleep. 128 00:04:58,760 --> 00:04:59,760 Well, the drug store was closed. 129 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:00,760 That was pretty obvious, wasn't it? 130 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:01,760 Yeah, that's right. 131 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:02,760 It was. 132 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:05,760 I just drove up there, tried the door, and I saw the joint was closed, so I left. 133 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:06,760 That's all there is to it. 134 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:07,760 Just what I told the other officers. 135 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:09,760 No, that's not true, Boyd, and you know it isn't. 136 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:11,760 You hung around the store for more than 10 minutes. 137 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,760 You tried the front door, then you waited a couple of minutes. 138 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:15,760 You went around to the back. 139 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:16,760 You tried to get in back there. 140 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:17,760 You couldn't make it, so you came around front again. 141 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:19,760 You tried to jimmy the front door, didn't you? 142 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:20,760 No, no, that's not it. 143 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:21,760 You got it all wrong. 144 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:24,760 How about this, Boyd, this your crowbar? 145 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:25,760 Yeah, what about it? 146 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:26,760 Just a car tool. 147 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:27,760 Used to fix flat tires. 148 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:28,760 Carried around all the time in the car. 149 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:29,760 Did they carry it on you? 150 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:30,760 No, not all the time. 151 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:31,760 I just happened to have it. 152 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:32,760 That's all. 153 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:33,760 Now look, Boyd, that's not going to get it. 154 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:34,760 The officers have picked you up. 155 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:36,760 Saw you using this bar on the door of that drug store. 156 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:38,760 I thought you were willing to get on to facts. 157 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:39,760 You were going to square with us. 158 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:40,760 How about it? 159 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:41,760 I'm sure, sure I'll square with you. 160 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:43,760 I wanted to get over as much as you do. 161 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:44,760 Just tell me what you want to know. 162 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:46,760 All we want is the truth. 163 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:48,760 It's addressed in your ID, the one you gave us. 164 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:49,760 Is that your true address? 165 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:51,760 You're living there now? 166 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:52,760 Yeah, that's right. 167 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:53,760 Check it out if you want. 168 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:54,760 I'm not lying. 169 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:55,760 No reason to lie. 170 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:56,760 What do you think there is? 171 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:58,760 This address of yours is just about 10 miles away from where you were picked up. 172 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:02,760 Now you tell us how much sense it makes driving 10 miles to a drug store at 4.30 in the morning. 173 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:03,760 Well, I had to. 174 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:04,760 I was sick. 175 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:05,760 It was the only place open. 176 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:06,760 You're lying and you know it, mister. 177 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:08,760 You had to pass at least two all-night drug stores on the way. 178 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:09,760 Why couldn't you stop at one of those? 179 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:10,760 I didn't see any stores open. 180 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:11,760 I was sick. 181 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:14,760 I just kept driving until I spotted a place I thought was open. 182 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:15,760 Looked at me like it was open. 183 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:17,760 A lot of lights in the window inside the store, too. 184 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:19,760 I didn't know it was closed, so I tried the door. 185 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:21,760 You usually try doors with a crowbar, boy? 186 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:22,760 Look, what are you getting at? 187 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:24,760 You think I was trying to break in that place? 188 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:25,760 Yeah, that's what we think. 189 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:26,760 Well, what for? 190 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:27,760 What do I want to break in there? 191 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:29,760 I wanted to get something for my nerves. 192 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:30,760 That's all. 193 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:31,760 I wanted to find a drug store. 194 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:34,760 Why should I break or open a place and just get a bottle of medicine? 195 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:36,760 We don't think you were looking for medicine, Boyd. 196 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:37,760 Well, then what was it? 197 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:38,760 What were you figuring? 198 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:39,760 This is what we figured, mister. 199 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:41,760 You're going in that store to burglarize the safe. 200 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:42,760 The area is the same. 201 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:43,760 The time element is right. 202 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:44,760 So is the type of business. 203 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:46,760 The M.O. matches right down the line. 204 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:48,760 I don't know what you're talking about. 205 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:49,760 Six safe jobs in the last two months. 206 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:51,760 The same time element, the same general area. 207 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:53,760 Drug stores, liquor stores, and markets. 208 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:54,760 What about it? 209 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:55,760 I don't know what you're talking about. 210 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:56,760 It's the truth. 211 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:57,760 I'm not a burglar. 212 00:06:57,760 --> 00:06:58,760 You got me wrong. 213 00:06:58,760 --> 00:06:59,760 I never touched a safe in my life. 214 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:01,760 How many times have you been arrested, mister? 215 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:02,760 How many times have you been arrested? 216 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:03,760 Well, a couple of times. 217 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:04,760 I've been picked up. 218 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:05,760 Nothing serious. 219 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:06,760 Those who helped me. 220 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:07,760 It's the truth. 221 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:08,760 I never touched a safe in my whole life. 222 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:10,760 It's not going to do much good lying to us, Boyd. 223 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:11,760 We'll get everything we need from records. 224 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:12,760 I've got a record. 225 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:13,760 I ain't denying that, but I'm no burglar. 226 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:16,760 Then what were you doing at quarter to five this morning trying to get in that drug store 227 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:17,760 if you're not a burglar? 228 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:18,760 I tried to explain to you. 229 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:19,760 I wasn't trying to break in. 230 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:21,760 I needed some medicine, something for my nerves. 231 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:22,760 I thought the place was open. 232 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:23,760 I'm a sick man. 233 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:24,760 I swear on a Bible, officer. 234 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:25,760 That's just the way it was. 235 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:26,760 I get it. 236 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:27,760 Yeah, Friday, Tony. 237 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:28,760 Oh, yeah, come on. 238 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:29,760 Charles Boyd. 239 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:30,760 Yeah, that's right. 240 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:31,760 Mm-hmm. 241 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:32,760 That's him. 242 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:33,760 What do you got? 243 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:34,760 Uh-huh. 244 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:35,760 All the same, I think. 245 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:36,760 Give me the last two. 246 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:37,760 No, the last two. 247 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:38,760 I'm not a burglar. 248 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:39,760 I'm a drug dealer. 249 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:40,760 I'm a drug dealer. 250 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:41,760 I'm a drug dealer. 251 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:43,760 Give me the last two arrests. 252 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:44,760 No, the last two arrests again. 253 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:45,760 Yeah. 254 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:46,760 May 9th, May 22nd. 255 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:47,760 All right, Tony. 256 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:48,760 Yeah, thanks very much. 257 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:51,760 Frank, you got that folder there, those crime reports? 258 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:53,760 Yeah, I hear you. 259 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:55,760 What'd he have to say? 260 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:57,760 Boyd was in custody May 9th, May 22nd. 261 00:07:57,760 --> 00:07:58,760 What was he in on? 262 00:07:58,760 --> 00:07:59,760 Narcotics. 263 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:00,760 He's a user. 264 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:01,760 Long record. 265 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:02,760 It's all the same, though. 266 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:03,760 Never been picked up for anything but narcotics. 267 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:04,760 That's about rose him out, huh? 268 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:05,760 Night in the 22nd. 269 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:06,760 If he was in jail, he couldn't have had anything to do with those last two judgements. 270 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:07,760 Yeah, it's about the size of it. 271 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:08,760 You got to be kidding me. 272 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:11,760 I told you, you thought I was lying, didn't you? 273 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:12,760 I'm no burglar. 274 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:13,760 You know what my record is. 275 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:14,760 I never touched a safe in my life. 276 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:15,760 Just checking it out, Boyd. 277 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:16,760 Sometimes it happens this way. 278 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:17,760 Sure. 279 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:18,760 No hard feelings. 280 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:19,760 I take off now and go home. 281 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:20,760 I'm not feeling well at all. 282 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:21,760 I guess it's okay if you don't... 283 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:22,760 No, you just sit still, Boyd. 284 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:23,760 You're not going in. 285 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:24,760 What do you mean? 286 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:25,760 Red tab on your card down at the record bureau. 287 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:26,760 Your last arrest, May 22nd violation, state narcotics act. 288 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:27,760 You went out on a $1,500 bail. 289 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:28,760 Yeah, that's right. 290 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:29,760 It was all legal. 291 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:30,760 I paid for it. 292 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:31,760 I paid for it. 293 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:32,760 I paid for it. 294 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:33,760 I paid for it. 295 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:38,760 Why didn't you show up for your preliminary hearing? 296 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:39,760 We got a bench warrant for your arrest. 297 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:40,760 Oh, no, they wouldn't do that to me, would they? 298 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:41,760 I was sick in bed. 299 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:42,760 I couldn't make it to court. 300 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:43,760 Would you just look at me? 301 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:44,760 You can tell, can't you? 302 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:45,760 I ought to be in bed. 303 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:46,760 Yeah, you don't look good at all. 304 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:47,760 Of course I don't. 305 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:48,760 I'm a sick man, really sick. 306 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:49,760 I'll be in a hospital. 307 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:50,760 Well, maybe that's where they'll send you. 308 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:51,760 We continued questioning the suspect, Charles Boyd, who finally admitted that he'd gone 309 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:52,760 to the drug store early that night. 310 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:53,760 He was in the hospital. 311 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:54,760 He was in the hospital. 312 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:55,760 He was in the hospital. 313 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:56,760 He was in the hospital. 314 00:08:56,760 --> 00:08:57,760 He was in the hospital. 315 00:08:57,760 --> 00:08:58,760 He was in the hospital. 316 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:03,760 We continued questioning the suspect, Charles Boyd, who finally admitted that he'd gone 317 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:06,760 to the drug store early that morning for the purpose of burglarizing a place to obtain 318 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:07,760 narcotics. 319 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:11,760 He told us it was his first attempt at burglary, and further interrogation proved beyond a 320 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:14,760 doubt he had nothing to do with the current wave of safe burglaries. 321 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:19,760 He was booked on the bench warrant, and narcotics detail was notified of his arrest. 322 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:23,760 For all practical purposes, we were right back where we'd started from two months before, 323 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:26,760 when the campaign of safe jobs first started. 324 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:31,760 Boyd was just another in a long line of possible suspects who had to be tracked down and checked 325 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:32,760 out. 326 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:35,760 In the final analysis, they meant nothing to the case, but tracking them down and checking 327 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:41,760 them out meant long hours of legwork, days, even weeks, and then more hours spent interrogating 328 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:42,760 them. 329 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:44,760 Boyd typified the possible suspect. 330 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:46,760 He added nothing, but he couldn't be ignored. 331 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:51,760 In the weeks that followed, stakeouts continued in the general area where the safe burglaries 332 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:52,760 had been operating. 333 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:53,760 No further leads. 334 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:56,760 The investigation went on. 335 00:09:56,760 --> 00:09:59,760 On June 17, Frank Smith and I drove out to the San Fernando Valley to check a lead on 336 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:02,760 a possible suspect we'd gotten from one of our informants. 337 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:07,760 His information was that the possible suspect, an ex-convict by the name of Mark Chandler, 338 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:11,760 who'd served time for burglary, had apparently come into some money recently. 339 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:16,760 Through the parole office, we located Chandler on a chicken ranch just outside of Van Nuys. 340 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:18,760 Yeah, I've been out here almost three months now. 341 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:19,760 Nice life. 342 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:20,760 Pretty hard work, though. 343 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:24,760 Got a few routine questions for you, Mark, like we talked about the burglary detail. 344 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:25,760 I guess you know why we're out here. 345 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:27,760 Yeah, I think I get the idea. 346 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:31,760 I admit there was a time when you wouldn't be very welcome, but right now it's different. 347 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:33,760 Anything I can do to help, it's all right, folks. 348 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:35,760 We're gonna lay it right on the table for you, Mark. 349 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:36,760 You own this place, do you? 350 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:37,760 Yeah, that's right. 351 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:38,760 Me and my brother. 352 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:39,760 Where'd the money come from? 353 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:40,760 My brother. 354 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:41,760 He set the whole thing up. 355 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:42,760 You say you and your brother. 356 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:43,760 Whose money bought the place, Mark? 357 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:45,760 Well, my brother made the down payment. 358 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:46,760 You can check on it. 359 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:48,760 The whole deal went through ESCO right down here at the local bank. 360 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:50,760 What's the deal anyway? 361 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:51,760 Didn't you check with my parole officer? 362 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:53,760 Yeah, we checked with Galloway. 363 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:54,760 He told us you were still on active parole. 364 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:56,760 You were running a chicken ranch. 365 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:57,760 Didn't say it was for your brother, though. 366 00:10:57,760 --> 00:10:59,760 Well, I thought I filled him in on it. 367 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:00,760 I didn't have enough cash to swing the deal. 368 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:01,760 My brother put up most of the dough. 369 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:03,760 I only had 800 bucks. 370 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:05,760 That's your car back there in the driveway, Mark? 371 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:07,760 No, that's my brother's. 372 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:08,760 Nice one, huh? 373 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:09,760 Yeah. 374 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:11,760 I got permission from the parole officer to drive. 375 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:13,760 Say, would you mind walking back with me to the Brutus shack? 376 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:15,760 I got a new batch of Rhode Islanders in this morning. 377 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:16,760 Day old chicks. 378 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:17,760 Got to be sure the heat's right. 379 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:19,760 Yeah, all right. 380 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:21,760 There's a lot of work around a place like this. 381 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:23,760 I just built those pens there. 382 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:25,760 Uh-huh, they're nice. 383 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:27,760 Good-looking flock of chicks there, wouldn't you say? 384 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:28,760 Four weeks old. 385 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:29,760 Those are bar drops. 386 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:32,760 Notice how they're starting to feather out already, getting nice and heavy? 387 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:33,760 Make wonderful fryers, you know. 388 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:34,760 Oh, that's all? 389 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:35,760 Oh, yeah. 390 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:39,760 Just a minute. 391 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:41,760 Hey, will you look at that mash rack? 392 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:43,760 They like fiends. 393 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:44,760 I just spilled that thing an hour ago. 394 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:45,760 That's where the money goes. 395 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:47,760 You know, that mash goes for better than five bucks a sack. 396 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:49,760 Look, we don't want to take too much of your time, Chandler. 397 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:50,760 We can see you're busy. 398 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:52,760 We've got a couple of dates we'd like to check with you, 399 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:53,760 where you were, what you did. 400 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:54,760 Oh, sure, fellas. 401 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:56,760 Just let me check the temperature in the Bruder house here. 402 00:11:56,760 --> 00:11:57,760 It won't take a minute. 403 00:11:57,760 --> 00:11:58,760 Hey, come on in. 404 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:03,760 All right. 405 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:05,760 They're pretty cute when they're small, huh? 406 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:09,760 Let me see here. 407 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:10,760 Just look at that, huh, Joe? 408 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:11,760 Piled all over each other. 409 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:15,760 There must be more than a thousand of them, at least. 410 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:19,760 Yeah, just right, 89. 411 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:21,760 Got to watch them pretty close the first week. 412 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:23,760 Fell off the road, lost a big back last week. 413 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:25,760 Heating element in the Bruder went out overnight. 414 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:28,760 Oh, you've got to shove that door hard, fix a little. 415 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:32,760 Yeah, I'll get it. 416 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:34,760 Okay, what else was it, officers? 417 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:35,760 Glad to help you any way I can. 418 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:37,760 Well, there's dates we want to check, Mark. 419 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:39,760 It was almost a month ago, the week ending May 7th. 420 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:42,760 Can you confirm your time on that weekend, where you were, what you did? 421 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:43,760 On the 7th? 422 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:45,760 Yeah, let's see. 423 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:46,760 Yeah, I was here. 424 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:47,760 Any way of proving that? 425 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:48,760 Yeah, I think so. 426 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:50,760 I started here the 23rd of April. 427 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:51,760 Been here every night since. 428 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:53,760 Anyone we can check with on that? 429 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:54,760 Well, my brother and his wife. 430 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:56,760 They were here, they can tell you. 431 00:12:56,760 --> 00:12:57,760 Neighbors, too. 432 00:12:57,760 --> 00:12:59,760 They come over for cards on the weekends. 433 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:03,760 Come to think of it, I remember my parole officer was out to see me one of those weekends. 434 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:04,760 I'm pretty sure of it. 435 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:05,760 You can check with him. 436 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:06,760 All right, Mark, thanks. 437 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:08,760 What's the pitch anyway, Sergeant? 438 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:10,760 There are safe jobs around town, is that it? 439 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:11,760 That's it. 440 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:12,760 You heard anything, Mark? 441 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:13,760 Any rumbles at all? 442 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:14,760 No, sorry. 443 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:15,760 This job keeps me pretty close to home. 444 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:16,760 I don't get around at all. 445 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:18,760 Maybe two, three nights a month. 446 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:19,760 That's the only time I get out. 447 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:21,760 That's all we're asking about. 448 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:27,760 Before we left the suspect, Mark Chandler, we called his parole officer, 449 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:31,760 and he substantiated the fact that he visited with Chandler on the night of May 7th, 450 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:33,760 the date of one of the safe burglaries. 451 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:36,760 We checked with his brother, his sister-in-law, and the neighbors, 452 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:38,760 and all of them fully corroborated his story. 453 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:42,760 Before we left, we were satisfied that Chandler had nothing to do with the safe burglaries. 454 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:45,760 It was just another of the more than half a hundred possibles 455 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:48,760 that we checked out in the course of the investigation. 456 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:51,760 On June 22nd, we got a lead on still another one. 457 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:55,760 It came from the proprietor of a fix-it shop on West Pico Boulevard near Normandy. 458 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:57,760 We drove out to interview him. 459 00:13:57,760 --> 00:13:59,760 He gave his name as Harold Van Owen. 460 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:01,760 Yeah, just a minute, officers. 461 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:03,760 Be with me in a minute, all right? 462 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:04,760 Yeah, okay. 463 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:06,760 You have to get these keys made. 464 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:08,760 The lady will be back soon, says she needs them. 465 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:11,760 What time you got, Frank? 466 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:12,760 Ten to twelve. 467 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:13,760 You hungry? 468 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:14,760 I didn't have much breakfast. 469 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:16,760 How about dropping by Filippi's, all right? 470 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:18,760 It's me. I could use a good French dip sandwich. 471 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:20,760 Haven't been down there for a while. 472 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:24,760 All right, officer, sorry to keep you waiting. 473 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:26,760 I had to get the keys done. I promised the woman. 474 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:27,760 That's all right, Mr. Van Owen. 475 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:29,760 What was it you wanted to see us about? 476 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:31,760 Well, I don't know to tell the truth. 477 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:33,760 Maybe it's something, maybe it's nothing at all. 478 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:34,760 I just don't know. 479 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:36,760 I figured I ought to let somebody know about it, sir. 480 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:37,760 Yes, sir? 481 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:39,760 A young fellow was in here the day before yesterday. 482 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:41,760 Said his name was Ralph McKinley. 483 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:44,760 Told me he lived around the neighborhood, but I don't think I ever saw him before. 484 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:45,760 He didn't act right to me. 485 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:47,760 He said he's an inventor. 486 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:49,760 I doubt it, though. He just didn't look the part to me. 487 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:52,760 Young fellow, you know, dresses pretty flashy. 488 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:54,760 Never met an inventor that looked like that before. 489 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:56,760 Well, what did he want with you, sir? 490 00:14:56,760 --> 00:14:58,760 He wanted me to make up a piece of machinery for him. 491 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:01,760 He said it was a special part of a new gadget he was working in. 492 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:03,760 Brought in his own drawing of the thing. 493 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:05,760 I got it down here someplace. 494 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:07,760 What did the young fellow look like, would you remember that? 495 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:09,760 Typical cool room cowboy, I guess. 496 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:11,760 About 29, 30 years old. 497 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:13,760 Thin side, tall. 498 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:16,760 Got a lot of gray hair for a young fellow. 499 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:18,760 Hair was almost gray. 500 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:22,760 This is the drawing. 501 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:24,760 This is what he wants me to make up for him. 502 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:28,760 What do you think it's supposed to be? 503 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:30,760 McKinley said it was part of a new hydraulic press he's working on. 504 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:32,760 I got a few doubts about that. 505 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:33,760 How do you mean? 506 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:37,760 I've been tinkering around in this business long enough to know what goes into a hydraulic press. 507 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:39,760 Can't see where this thing fits in at all. 508 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:40,760 What's your idea on it? 509 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:41,760 I think it's a pole. 510 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:43,760 Only one job there any good for. 511 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:45,760 Breaking into his safe. 512 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:53,760 Before we left the fix-it shop, Van Owen gave us a complete description of Ralph McKinley, 513 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:55,760 the man who'd ordered the gadget made for him. 514 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:58,760 We showed him several mug shots of possible suspects, 515 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:00,760 but he was unable to make any identification. 516 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:05,760 Van Owen told us that McKinley said he'd call back in about three or four days to pick it up. 517 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:08,760 Except for the man's chance remark that he lived in the neighborhood, 518 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:11,760 Van Owen had no idea as to his whereabouts. 519 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:12,760 12.10 p.m. 520 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:16,760 We drove back to the office and made arrangements for an immediate stakeout at the fix-it shop. 521 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:20,760 Then we checked the name and description of Ralph McKinley through R&I and through the staff's office. 522 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:22,760 It got us nothing. 523 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:25,760 As far as we could find out, he had no previous criminal record. 524 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:27,760 The end of the week came and went. 525 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:32,760 The man known as McKinley failed to show up at Van Owen's fix-it shop to pick up the article that he'd ordered. 526 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:33,760 8.00 a.m. 527 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:35,760 Monday morning, June 28th. 528 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:37,760 We got the report and we checked in for work. 529 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:40,760 Despite all precautions, another safe job had occurred over the weekend. 530 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:43,760 This time at a liquor store on South Alvarado. 531 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:46,760 The time, the area, and the MO were generally the same. 532 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:48,760 Frank and I drove out to the location. 533 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:52,760 The store was located in the middle of the block, directly beneath an apartment hotel. 534 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:56,760 Two of the rooms on the second floor of the hotel were situated above the liquor store. 535 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:59,760 In one of these rooms, a hole had been ripped in the floor. 536 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:04,760 A hole large enough to allow a man to pass through it and gain access to the liquor store directly beneath. 537 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:08,760 After we checked over the room, we put in a call for Ray Pinker and the crime lab crew. 538 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,760 Then we went downstairs to interview the manager of the hotel, 539 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:12,760 Aclide Winted. 540 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:15,760 I rented that room prior to night. 541 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:16,760 A couple of young fellows. 542 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:18,760 We checked in a few minutes before 7. 543 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:20,760 I figure I'm a pretty good judge of faces. 544 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:22,760 It sure didn't look like fees to me. 545 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:24,760 How'd they register me for this? 546 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:26,760 One signed his name as Gordon. 547 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:29,760 The other one was Richardson, I think. 548 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:31,760 The register's right outside the desk. 549 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:32,760 You can check it if you like. 550 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:33,760 Yes, sir, we'd like to do that. 551 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:37,760 When these two men, Gordon and Richardson, checked in here, did they have any baggage with them? 552 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:38,760 Would you know that? 553 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:39,760 Oh, yes. 554 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:41,760 If they had baggage, they took most of it with them. 555 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:43,760 They left a few old clothes behind. 556 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:45,760 They must have left for the back way. 557 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:49,760 Sometime late Sunday night, I figured, imagine tearing up the floor of that room. 558 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:50,760 The lousy bums. 559 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:52,760 I'd sure like to get my hands on them. 560 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:54,760 Did they have a card, you know? 561 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:56,760 They had a card. I got the license number, too. 562 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:58,760 You think you'd recognize the two men if you saw them again? 563 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:00,760 Take them in a minute. 564 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:01,760 You sure of that, ain't you? 565 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:04,760 Well, I'd know them in a minute, especially the young fellow Richardson. 566 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:07,760 He could have been more than 27, 28 years old. 567 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:10,760 That was great. 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Gordon on it, written in pencil. 596 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:09,760 Along with the half a dozen pieces of clothing found in the hotel room, 597 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:13,760 the items were taken back to the crime lab for further examination. 598 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:14,760 Nine, ten a.m. 599 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:17,760 After we finished interviewing the hotel manager, Clyde Winters, 600 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:21,760 Frank Smith and I returned to the office with a license number and description of the suspect's car, 601 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:26,760 as well as exemplars of their handwriting, which we'd obtained from the hotel register. 602 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:31,760 We gave our DMV all the information on the car, and they began an immediate check. 603 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:35,760 The vehicle was registered in the name of Ralph McKinley at a Bronson Avenue address. 604 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:37,760 The legal owner was a local bank. 605 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:43,760 We checked the Bronson Avenue place, but they told us there that the man known as McKinley had moved out seven months before. 606 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:46,760 They had no information on his whereabouts. 607 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:47,760 Ten, twenty a.m. 608 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,760 We talked to the people at the bank, which held a pink slip on the car. 609 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:55,760 They told us that the last two monthly payments on the car had been mailed in from a Clippard Street address. 610 00:20:55,760 --> 00:21:02,760 Frank and I drove out to the location, a one-story duplex apartment building near the intersection of Clippard and Beverly Boulevard. 611 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:05,760 Nice unit, aren't they? 612 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:07,760 They run up all over town. 613 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:08,760 They seem to be, don't they? 614 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:09,760 I'll get it. 615 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:14,760 Yeah? 616 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:15,760 Your name Ralph McKinley? 617 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:16,760 Yeah, that's right, wouldn't you? 618 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:19,760 Police officers, you want to get your coat and McKinley, like to talk to you downtown. 619 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:20,760 What for? What's it all about? 620 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:22,760 Anybody else living here with you? 621 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:24,760 No, just myself. Look, you mind telling me what this is all about? 622 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:26,760 Got a few questions we'd like to ask you. It won't take long. 623 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,760 I can't go with you now. I got a business appointment, half an hour. 624 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:32,760 I've been out of town the last couple of months. I'm due back on a job today. 625 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:33,760 That's all? 626 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:37,760 Yeah, I just can't spare the time. Appointments all day long. I got a whole flock of business I have to clear up. 627 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:39,760 Well, that makes us even. Come on, let's go. 628 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:47,760 Well, there wasn't much doubt about McKinley. He fitted the suspect's description almost perfectly. 629 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:51,760 Tall, slight build, approximately 29 years of age, prematurely gray hair. 630 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:54,760 We went over the apartment, but there was no sign of anyone else on the premises. 631 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:57,760 No sign of any of the loot taken and the burglary. 632 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:00,760 We checked the adjoining garage, but it was empty. 633 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,760 The suspect refused to admit that he even owned a car. 634 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:07,760 Frank got on the phone, called the office, and arranged for an immediate stakeout on the apartment. 635 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:12,760 When the men arrived, we drove McKinley back to the city hall and took him to the interrogation room. 636 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:16,760 He was arrogant and uncooperative. We talked to him for a full hour, but he'd admit nothing. 637 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:20,760 Frank left and went down the street to the crime lab to check with Ray Pinker on his findings. 638 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:22,760 I continued questioning McKinley. 639 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,760 I don't care what the old man says. I don't know what you're talking about. 640 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:28,760 He described you perfectly. He says you were in his fix-it shop a little over a week ago. 641 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,760 You told him you were an inventor. You ordered this gadget from him. 642 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:33,760 I don't get it. What's that supposed to prove? 643 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:35,760 Well, you admit you went to the old man. You had him make this thing up for you, didn't you? 644 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:37,760 I don't admit anything. Why should I? 645 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:41,760 All we're looking for is a straight story. We're going to get it sooner or later, McKinley. Might as well be now. 646 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:43,760 You're getting nothing from me. I don't have to tell you a thing. 647 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:45,760 How about the hotel over on South Alvarado? You stayed there last weekend? 648 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:48,760 No, of course not. Why should I go to a hotel? I stayed at my place. 649 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:50,760 I thought you said you'd been away. You just got back in town. 650 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:52,760 Sure, that's what I said. I just got back last week. 651 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:54,760 Well, then you didn't stay at that hotel on South Alvarado. 652 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:56,760 I told you I didn't. I don't even know the place. 653 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:58,760 But you know Mr. Van Owen, the old fella at the fix-it shop. 654 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:00,760 I don't know him either. I don't even go near that end of town. 655 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:02,760 What end of town? 656 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:04,760 What are you talking about? Where you said the shop is. 657 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:09,760 I didn't mention where it was. I asked you if you knew of Mr. Van Owen, if you ever went to his fix-it shop to order anything. 658 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:11,760 Look, what are you lying for? What's the angle? 659 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:14,760 No angle, McKinley. I told you I'd like to have a straight story, that's all. 660 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:19,760 Well, you've got it, mister. You heard everything I have to say. I don't know any old man. I don't know anything about that hotel. 661 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:27,760 Why are you talking? Yeah, Don, how'd it go? Uh-huh. I see. 662 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:31,760 Yeah, we'll pick it up. No, we'll pick it up, right. Thanks a lot. 663 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:34,760 You're a library, good McKinley. 664 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:35,760 Now what are you talking about? 665 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:39,760 That was our handwriting, man. You've just been checking those exemplars of your handwriting we got from you. 666 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,760 You compared them to a signature in the register at the hotel on South Alvarado. 667 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:44,760 I already told you, I don't know the place. 668 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:49,760 A young fellow by the name of Richardson checked in there Friday night about seven o'clock. He signed the register. The signature's in your handwriting, McKinley. 669 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:50,760 Yeah, sure. That's right. 670 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:52,760 I don't know the place. I've never been there. 671 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:59,760 Now look, you're gonna have to do better than that, fella. The hotel manager's on his way down here now to identify you. So's Mr. Van Owen from that fix-it shop. Maybe you better pique together a new story, huh? 672 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,760 You've got my story, cop. I was out of town. You can't pull where I was. 673 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:05,760 All right, McKinley, any way you want it. 674 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:06,760 Go? All right, how'd it go? 675 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:10,760 Pretty good. Ray Pinker finished checking out the theft of crime lab. Here's the report on it. 676 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:12,760 Thank you. 677 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:14,760 It's about so's it up, no doubt about it. 678 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,760 All right. 679 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,760 All right, what is it this time? All your phony charges? I want out of here. 680 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:23,760 Can't be done, McKinley. The report on the clothes found in that hotel room you were in. 681 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:25,760 They're not my clothes. I wasn't even in the place. 682 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:30,760 I'd say you were. Cleaning tags on a pair of trousers and one of the coats, traced them through the dry cleaners to you. 683 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:32,760 You're a liar. I told you I wasn't in the place. 684 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:41,760 There's something else here, fella. They ran tests on all the clothes they found in your room. They found particles of fire clay from the safe that you broke into down below in the liquor store, your coats, your trousers. They were covered with the stuff. 685 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:42,760 Save your breath, will you? I'm not even... 686 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:49,760 When you ripped up the floor of that hotel room, you picked up something else on the clothes, particles of floor varnish, small bits of wood they all tie in. 687 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:50,760 You threw them? 688 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:54,760 No, not quite. A piece of broken coat button we picked up a couple of feet from the safe. 689 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:59,760 They matched it up with one of the buttons on your coat, a broken one. The pieces fit perfectly. 690 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:03,760 McKinley, how about it? You've got my story. You know, you've got a lot to explain. I'll take my chances. 691 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,760 What's the pitch, McKinley? You know you've got to come up with a story. It might as well be now. 692 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,760 There's no story to it. I was out of town. I told you that. 693 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:13,760 Why don't you get off it, mister? It's not going to take much to make a liar out of you. You know that, don't you? 694 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,760 Why don't you get off my back, the two of you? I told you everything. I'm going to tell you. 695 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,760 Sit down, McKinley. I'm getting out of here. 696 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:19,760 Sit down. 697 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:24,760 All right. Go ahead. I can wait it out as long as you can. 698 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:25,760 I doubt that. 699 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:26,760 I'm getting... 700 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:27,760 All right. 701 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:28,760 Smith speaking. 702 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:30,760 How's it? 703 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:31,760 Oh, yeah, Jim. What is it? 704 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:33,760 Isn't it right? 705 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:34,760 When? 706 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:36,760 Mm-hmm. 707 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:38,760 Fine. Yeah. Thanks. 708 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:41,760 Here's the news for you, McKinley. 709 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:42,760 Yeah? 710 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:45,760 Your partner came back to your place a few minutes ago. Our men picked him up. They're bringing him in now. 711 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,760 Yeah, there's news to me. I don't have any partner. I'm in business for myself. 712 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:53,760 That's what your partner figures. Tell me he claims you got all the money. He thinks you were trying to run out on it. 713 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,760 Oh, what money? Look, I showed you my wallet. You know how much I got. 714 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,760 Well, we're gonna ask you just once more. 715 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:00,760 You got it. There's nothing else to say. 716 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:01,760 All right, Frank. 717 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:05,760 Yeah, let's book him in. According to Rogers, his partner's willing to talk. I'll get the story from him. 718 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:07,760 All right, McKinley. Let's go. 719 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:08,760 What do you mean, go where? 720 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:10,760 Main jail. We're booking you in. 721 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:11,760 Come on. Let's go. 722 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:15,760 Go ahead, Frank. Yeah. Come on. 723 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,760 What did he say anyway? This guy you say they picked up? 724 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,760 Oh, your partner? We told you what he said. Why? What's the matter? 725 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:28,760 Nothing. I'm just there. 726 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:32,760 Better order up a stenographer, huh, Joe? Have her ready to take the statement when they bring the guy in. 727 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:33,760 Yeah, it's a good idea. 728 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:39,760 Sergeant? 729 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:40,760 Yeah. 730 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:42,760 Let's go back, I'll tell you. 731 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:47,760 The story you have just heard was true. The names were changed to protect the innocent. 732 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:53,760 On September 19th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 91, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 733 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:55,760 In a moment, the results of that trial. 734 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:57,760 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 735 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:01,760 Thank you, George Fenomen. Friends, just a parting word about Fatima. 736 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,760 I know a lot of you have promised yourself that you'd be here. 737 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:05,760 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 738 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:06,760 I'm sorry. 739 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:07,760 I'm sorry. 740 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:08,760 I'm sorry. 741 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:15,760 Friends, just a parting word about Fatima. 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Best of all, king-size cigarette. 747 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:51,760 Ralph Arthur McKinley and his accomplice, John Warren Hatfield, were tried and convicted on six counts of second-degree burglary. 748 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,760 They received sentences as prescribed by law. 749 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:59,760 Second-degree burglary is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year 750 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:04,760 or by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for not less than one nor more than 15 years. 751 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:09,760 Ladies and gentlemen, to protect our nation and the free world against communist aggression, 752 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:13,760 we must produce vast quantities of guns, planes, tanks, and explosives. 753 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:22,760 Defense of our country against aggression abroad and inflation at home depends on our ability to fill both our military and civilian requirements. 754 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,760 Remember, the better we produce, the stronger we grow. 755 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:38,760 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 756 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:43,760 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 757 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:48,760 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Brasher. 758 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:52,760 Heard tonight were Harry Bartel, Stacy Harris, Jack Crouchon. 759 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:59,760 Script by Jim Moser, music by Walter Truman, Hal Gitme speaking. 760 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:13,760 Fatima cigarettes, best of all, king-size cigarettes, has brought you Dragnet Transcribed from Los Angeles. 761 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:23,760 There's more adventurous entertainment with Night Beat next on NBC.