WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.080 The story you are about to hear is true. 00:10.080 --> 00:12.440 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:12.440 --> 00:29.360 Fatima cigarettes, best of all king-size cigarettes, brings you Dragnet on both radio and television. 00:29.360 --> 00:30.880 You're a detective sergeant. 00:30.880 --> 00:32.520 You're assigned to homicide detail. 00:32.520 --> 00:37.680 A woman is found dying in a vacant lot, her identity unknown. 00:37.680 --> 00:43.360 Your job, investigate. 00:43.360 --> 00:46.600 Compare Fatima with any other king-size cigarette. 00:46.600 --> 00:50.400 Yes, compare Fatima with any other king-size cigarette. 00:50.400 --> 00:55.400 One, Fatima's length filters the smoke 85 millimeters for your protection. 00:55.400 --> 00:58.760 Two, Fatima's length cools the smoke for your protection. 00:58.760 --> 01:04.960 Three, Fatima's length gives you those extra puffs, 21 percent longer than standard cigarette 01:04.960 --> 01:05.960 size. 01:05.960 --> 01:08.400 Fatima gives you more for your money. 01:08.400 --> 01:14.920 And in king-size Fatima, you get an extra mild and soothing smoke, plus the added protection 01:14.920 --> 01:17.240 of Fatima quality. 01:17.240 --> 01:22.680 Buy Fatima in the bright, sunny yellow pack. 01:22.680 --> 01:29.840 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 01:29.840 --> 01:34.680 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:34.680 --> 01:39.280 travel step-by-step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 01:39.280 --> 01:40.960 police files. 01:40.960 --> 01:46.160 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 01:46.160 --> 01:48.280 in action. 01:48.280 --> 01:52.600 It was Thursday, October 16th. 01:52.600 --> 01:53.600 It was cloudy in Los Angeles. 01:53.600 --> 01:56.520 We were working the night watch out of homicide detail. 01:56.520 --> 01:57.600 My partner's Frank Smith. 01:57.600 --> 01:58.800 The boss is Captain Lorman. 01:58.800 --> 01:59.800 My name's Friday. 01:59.800 --> 02:04.280 It was 9.48 p.m. when I got to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital, Dr. Hall's office. 02:04.280 --> 02:05.480 Joe, how are you? 02:05.480 --> 02:06.480 Hi, Doc. 02:06.480 --> 02:08.280 How about that case you got in from Seventh and Union? 02:08.280 --> 02:09.280 How's she doing? 02:09.280 --> 02:10.280 She died about five minutes ago. 02:10.280 --> 02:11.280 Well, fill me in. 02:11.280 --> 02:12.280 What do you got on it? 02:12.280 --> 02:14.200 You talked to the radio car officers, ones that handle the call? 02:14.200 --> 02:15.480 Frank's talking to them now out in the lobby. 02:15.480 --> 02:17.640 I thought I'd check in with you while he was handling that in. 02:17.640 --> 02:19.040 Not an awful lot to tell you, Joe. 02:19.040 --> 02:21.120 Ambulance G2 brought her in from the location. 02:21.120 --> 02:22.440 She was alive when they brought her in. 02:22.440 --> 02:23.640 Did everything I could for her. 02:23.640 --> 02:24.640 Didn't help much. 02:24.640 --> 02:25.640 Too far gone. 02:25.640 --> 02:26.640 What's it look like? 02:26.640 --> 02:28.320 Chloroform poisoning, pretty obvious. 02:28.320 --> 02:29.320 Probably self-administered. 02:29.320 --> 02:30.400 Looks like that anyway. 02:30.400 --> 02:31.400 She didn't last long. 02:31.400 --> 02:32.800 It's a little unusual, huh, chloroform? 02:32.800 --> 02:33.800 Yeah. 02:33.800 --> 02:34.800 Under the circumstances, it sure is. 02:34.800 --> 02:35.800 Anything else? 02:35.800 --> 02:36.800 How do you mean? 02:36.800 --> 02:38.360 Well, any probable causes, any marks on her? 02:38.360 --> 02:39.960 No, a little scratch on her wrist. 02:39.960 --> 02:40.960 That's about all. 02:40.960 --> 02:41.960 Well, you got her now. 02:41.960 --> 02:42.960 Can we look at her? 02:42.960 --> 02:43.960 Yeah. 02:43.960 --> 02:44.960 Bag number three. 02:44.960 --> 02:45.960 Come on. 02:45.960 --> 02:49.720 Ed Barrett called us, asked us for help. 02:49.720 --> 02:51.520 It's a rough night, huh? 02:51.520 --> 02:52.520 Yeah. 02:52.520 --> 02:53.520 Traffic went crazy tonight. 02:53.520 --> 02:54.720 A dozen cases in the last two hours. 02:54.720 --> 02:56.040 A couple of homicides, too. 02:56.040 --> 02:57.040 Busy night. 02:57.040 --> 02:58.560 You got the weekend coming up, huh? 02:58.560 --> 03:00.200 Yeah, not looking forward to it. 03:00.200 --> 03:02.760 Here we go. 03:02.760 --> 03:05.760 Over here. 03:05.760 --> 03:07.360 Chloroform sure hangs on, doesn't it? 03:07.360 --> 03:08.360 It's so strong. 03:08.360 --> 03:09.360 Hmm. 03:09.360 --> 03:10.760 Notice the burns around her mouth. 03:10.760 --> 03:11.760 I know it was discoloration. 03:11.760 --> 03:12.760 Well, who is she? 03:12.760 --> 03:13.760 Any idea? 03:13.760 --> 03:15.000 We got her down as Jane Doe. 03:15.000 --> 03:16.600 You're gonna have to take it from there. 03:16.600 --> 03:18.880 I understand the radio car officers couldn't identify her. 03:18.880 --> 03:20.600 Apparently pretty well off, huh? 03:20.600 --> 03:21.600 Nice clothes. 03:21.600 --> 03:22.600 Seems to be well kept. 03:22.600 --> 03:23.600 I'd say so. 03:23.600 --> 03:24.600 Expensive jewelry there. 03:24.600 --> 03:25.600 Rings, wristwatch. 03:25.600 --> 03:28.880 A little strange for a probable suicide, isn't it? 03:28.880 --> 03:30.440 Looks like she took good care of herself. 03:30.440 --> 03:31.440 Hair all done up, fingernails. 03:31.440 --> 03:33.440 About how old would you say? 03:33.440 --> 03:35.760 Not more than 35, just about that. 03:35.760 --> 03:38.800 Here's the chart, honey. 03:38.800 --> 03:43.120 Time arrival, 9.38 p.m. from Southwest corner, 7th and Union vacant lot. 03:43.120 --> 03:46.560 For call, possible drunk woman down, Jane Doe, number 4. 03:46.560 --> 03:49.920 Female, Caucasian, approximate age 35. 03:49.920 --> 03:51.600 Weight 128 and 1 quarter. 03:51.600 --> 03:54.120 Height 5 foot 4, brown hair, hazel eyes. 03:54.120 --> 03:56.080 Listed as Nordic descent, probable suicide. 03:56.080 --> 03:57.080 That's it. 03:57.080 --> 03:58.080 Okay, Doc, thanks. 03:58.080 --> 04:00.480 I better look up Frank, see what he's got, huh? 04:00.480 --> 04:01.480 Okay. 04:01.480 --> 04:03.600 Haven't notified the coroner yet. 04:03.600 --> 04:04.600 You fellas wanna take care of that? 04:04.600 --> 04:05.600 Yeah, sure, we'll call her. 04:05.600 --> 04:08.600 About all we can do unless we find some relatives to notify, huh? 04:08.600 --> 04:09.600 Joe? 04:09.600 --> 04:10.600 Yeah, Frank. 04:10.600 --> 04:11.600 Oh, hi, Doc. 04:11.600 --> 04:12.600 How are you? 04:12.600 --> 04:15.320 Yeah, four pounds in two weeks, not too bad for me, anyway. 04:15.320 --> 04:16.600 What'd you get, Joe? 04:16.600 --> 04:18.280 Chloroform poisoning, probable suicide. 04:18.280 --> 04:19.520 Find out who she is? 04:19.520 --> 04:20.520 I gotta get back to my office. 04:20.520 --> 04:22.520 If there's anything I can help you with, come on back. 04:22.520 --> 04:23.800 You're right, Doc, thanks very much. 04:23.800 --> 04:24.800 Okay. 04:24.800 --> 04:25.800 How about it, any identification? 04:25.800 --> 04:29.840 No, I talked to the fellas that took the call, Unit 182, it was a routine call. 04:29.840 --> 04:32.440 390W down, they couldn't find out who put the call in. 04:32.440 --> 04:35.240 Said they found her in a vacant lot lying over against the side of the building. 04:35.240 --> 04:36.240 Yeah. 04:36.240 --> 04:38.440 They said she looked like she'd been drinking, then they got away with the chloroform. 04:38.440 --> 04:41.160 Now they found this empty container by her side. 04:41.160 --> 04:42.160 Here. 04:42.160 --> 04:43.840 Ties in, though. 04:43.840 --> 04:45.080 They were careful handling it. 04:45.080 --> 04:46.080 Anything else? 04:46.080 --> 04:49.040 Well, while they're waiting for the ambulance, they talked to some of the people in the neighborhood. 04:49.040 --> 04:50.800 They couldn't tell them anything about the woman. 04:50.800 --> 04:52.600 Building they found her next to is a vacant store. 04:52.600 --> 04:53.800 No identification on her at all? 04:53.800 --> 04:54.800 No, nothing. 04:54.800 --> 04:55.800 No purse or wallet. 04:55.800 --> 04:56.800 I checked missing persons. 04:56.800 --> 04:57.800 No one of her description reported. 04:57.800 --> 05:00.520 Fellas who handled the call said they went over her clothing. 05:00.520 --> 05:01.520 No marks of identification. 05:01.520 --> 05:03.760 Better notify Leighton Prince, huh? 05:03.760 --> 05:04.760 Maybe they can identify her. 05:04.760 --> 05:05.760 Already called him, Joe. 05:05.760 --> 05:06.760 Looks like probable suicide. 05:06.760 --> 05:07.760 Sure, a new twist, though. 05:07.760 --> 05:08.760 Chloroform rope. 05:08.760 --> 05:09.760 He doesn't figure it out. 05:09.760 --> 05:10.760 What do you think? 05:10.760 --> 05:11.760 I don't know. 05:11.760 --> 05:12.760 No evidence committed on the body. 05:12.760 --> 05:13.760 No indication of robbery. 05:13.760 --> 05:15.240 She had a wristwatch on. 05:15.240 --> 05:16.240 Rings, too. 05:16.240 --> 05:17.240 Wouldn't figure anyway. 05:17.240 --> 05:18.240 Chloroform angle. 05:18.240 --> 05:20.040 No other physical evidence out there, huh? 05:20.040 --> 05:21.840 What do you mean besides the chloroform container? 05:21.840 --> 05:22.840 Nothing else besides the handkerchief. 05:22.840 --> 05:23.840 Hmm? 05:23.840 --> 05:24.840 Yeah, a plain white handkerchief. 05:24.840 --> 05:25.840 Chloroform on it. 05:25.840 --> 05:26.840 They found it next to the body. 05:26.840 --> 05:27.840 It's the only thing that doesn't fit 100%. 05:27.840 --> 05:28.840 What do you mean? 05:28.840 --> 05:31.840 It's a man's handkerchief. 05:31.840 --> 05:35.200 10.25 p.m. 05:35.200 --> 05:38.520 Frank and I took the dead woman's clothing, the handkerchief, and the almost empty container 05:38.520 --> 05:41.480 of chloroform and drove back downtown to the office. 05:41.480 --> 05:45.200 We dropped off the clothing and the handkerchief at the crime lab to be processed for possible 05:45.200 --> 05:46.880 identifying marks. 05:46.880 --> 05:50.880 The chloroform container was taken to Leighton Fingerprints for examination. 05:50.880 --> 05:55.760 The following morning, the body of the unidentified woman was taken to the county morgue for posting. 05:55.760 --> 05:58.600 As soon as the dead woman's prints were made available to us, they were checked through 05:58.600 --> 06:02.320 our record bureau and also through the record bureau at the sheriff's office. 06:02.320 --> 06:04.640 In addition, they also made a run on her description. 06:04.640 --> 06:06.580 They were unable to identify her. 06:06.580 --> 06:09.200 We checked with the crime lab, but they couldn't help us either. 06:09.200 --> 06:13.480 A detailed examination of the dead woman's clothing failed to yield any leads as to her 06:13.480 --> 06:14.480 identity. 06:14.480 --> 06:17.360 Leighton Prince didn't have any better luck with the chloroform container. 06:17.360 --> 06:20.120 The only prints they found on it were those of the dead woman. 06:20.120 --> 06:24.760 Meantime, the morning papers had picked up the story and given it front page billing, 06:24.760 --> 06:25.760 11.16 a.m. 06:25.760 --> 06:28.760 How's that again, Doc? 06:28.760 --> 06:29.760 Uh-huh. 06:29.760 --> 06:30.760 Yeah, I see. 06:30.760 --> 06:31.760 Mm-hmm. 06:31.760 --> 06:34.760 A little unusual, wouldn't you say? 06:34.760 --> 06:35.760 Yeah. 06:35.760 --> 06:38.200 Okay, we'll pick it up after lunch. 06:38.200 --> 06:39.200 Right, bye. 06:39.200 --> 06:40.200 Anything? 06:40.200 --> 06:42.800 Yeah, Doc Cephalo at the morgue just finished forcing the body. 06:42.800 --> 06:43.800 What'd he say? 06:43.800 --> 06:44.800 The chloroform killed her. 06:44.800 --> 06:46.040 They even found traces of it in his stomach. 06:46.040 --> 06:47.040 Huh? 06:47.040 --> 06:48.040 That's right. 06:48.040 --> 06:49.040 That's a weird one, isn't it? 06:49.040 --> 06:50.040 Doesn't leave much doubt. 06:50.040 --> 06:51.040 Suicide. 06:51.040 --> 06:52.040 No indication it was anything else, is it? 06:52.040 --> 06:53.040 I got it. 06:53.040 --> 06:54.040 Homicide, Friday talking. 06:54.040 --> 06:55.040 Yes, sir. 06:55.040 --> 06:56.040 Yeah? 06:56.040 --> 06:57.040 Mitchell? 06:57.040 --> 06:58.040 Mm-hmm. 06:58.040 --> 06:59.040 That's all. 06:59.040 --> 07:00.040 Yeah, sure, I'd be glad to. 07:00.040 --> 07:01.040 Yeah, we'll be here. 07:01.040 --> 07:02.040 You want to give us your address? 07:02.040 --> 07:03.040 Yeah. 07:03.040 --> 07:04.040 Okay. 07:04.040 --> 07:05.040 Okay. 07:05.040 --> 07:08.480 Here we go. 07:08.480 --> 07:11.480 How was it, Joe? 07:11.480 --> 07:14.920 Somebody the name of James Mitchell, he's on his way down to see us, wants to talk to 07:14.920 --> 07:15.920 us about the dead woman. 07:15.920 --> 07:16.920 Yeah. 07:16.920 --> 07:17.920 He says he killed her. 07:17.920 --> 07:18.920 11.50 a.m. 07:18.920 --> 07:26.280 While Frank and I waited around for Mitchell to show up, we checked his name through R&I, 07:26.280 --> 07:28.400 but we were unable to find anything on him. 07:28.400 --> 07:33.480 A few minutes before 1 p.m., a short blonde-haired man in a blue-sir'd suit entered the squadroom 07:33.480 --> 07:34.480 and asked for us. 07:34.480 --> 07:36.720 He introduced himself as James Mitchell. 07:36.720 --> 07:40.080 Frank and I took him to the interrogation room where we started to question him. 07:40.080 --> 07:43.540 He told us he was a steelworker by trade, currently unemployed. 07:43.540 --> 07:46.840 He said he was originally from Alabama, that he'd been in California for approximately 07:46.840 --> 07:48.400 two years. 07:48.400 --> 07:50.020 After that, he lapsed into silence. 07:50.020 --> 07:53.320 We tried to question him about the dead woman, but we made little headway. 07:53.320 --> 07:56.560 The only admission we could get from him was that he killed the woman. 07:56.560 --> 07:58.400 Outside of that, he refused to say anything. 07:58.400 --> 07:59.720 Now, how about it, Mitchell? 07:59.720 --> 08:00.920 What's the trouble? 08:00.920 --> 08:03.800 You called us, volunteered a confession, you said you killed the woman, you wanted to tell 08:03.800 --> 08:04.800 us a story. 08:04.800 --> 08:05.800 Now, why don't you answer our questions? 08:05.800 --> 08:06.800 Jim, how about it? 08:06.800 --> 08:07.800 Aren't you feeling well? 08:07.800 --> 08:08.800 You want us to call a doctor? 08:08.800 --> 08:09.800 Jim? 08:09.800 --> 08:10.800 You're not giving us much of an out, mister. 08:10.800 --> 08:11.800 You volunteered to make yourself a suspect in this thing. 08:11.800 --> 08:12.800 You say you killed the woman. 08:12.800 --> 08:13.800 Now, why don't you answer the questions? 08:13.800 --> 08:14.800 We can't keep this up forever. 08:14.800 --> 08:15.800 You ought to know that. 08:15.800 --> 08:16.800 You haven't answered the question in almost an hour now. 08:16.800 --> 08:17.800 Look, if you're not gonna talk, Jim, there's only one thing we can do. 08:17.800 --> 08:18.800 We're gonna have to book you. 08:18.800 --> 08:19.800 Mitchell, is that what you want? 08:19.800 --> 08:20.800 Go ahead and make a call. 08:20.800 --> 08:21.800 I'll be right there. 08:21.800 --> 08:22.800 I'll be right there. 08:22.800 --> 08:23.800 I'll be right there. 08:23.800 --> 08:24.800 I'll be right there. 08:24.800 --> 08:25.800 I'll be right there. 08:25.800 --> 08:33.800 Go ahead and book me. 08:33.800 --> 08:34.800 I killed her. 08:34.800 --> 08:35.800 Go on, book me. 08:35.800 --> 08:36.800 Well, why can't you tell us the story? 08:36.800 --> 08:37.800 Now, you admit you killed the woman. 08:37.800 --> 08:38.800 Why won't you tell us about it? 08:38.800 --> 08:39.800 Why should I? 08:39.800 --> 08:40.800 I killed her. 08:40.800 --> 08:41.800 That's all you have to know. 08:41.800 --> 08:44.800 You said on the phone you'd tell us the whole story, didn't you? 08:44.800 --> 08:45.800 Now, what made you change your mind? 08:45.800 --> 08:46.800 You got the story. 08:46.800 --> 08:47.800 I killed her. 08:47.800 --> 08:48.800 I'll hold ass to it. 08:48.800 --> 08:49.800 You know better than that, Mitchell. 08:49.800 --> 08:50.800 You know the woman very well? 08:50.800 --> 08:51.800 No, not very well. 08:51.800 --> 08:52.800 What was her name? 08:52.800 --> 08:55.800 Mary. 08:55.800 --> 08:56.800 Mary what? 08:56.800 --> 08:57.800 Mary, that's all. 08:57.800 --> 08:58.800 I met her in a bar. 08:58.800 --> 08:59.800 I didn't know her well. 08:59.800 --> 09:00.800 I killed her. 09:00.800 --> 09:01.800 That's all you got to know. 09:01.800 --> 09:02.800 I had to. 09:02.800 --> 09:03.800 Why'd you have to, Jim? 09:03.800 --> 09:04.800 I don't have to tell you. 09:04.800 --> 09:05.800 I had a reason. 09:05.800 --> 09:06.800 Good reason. 09:06.800 --> 09:07.800 Robbery? 09:07.800 --> 09:08.800 I don't have to say. 09:08.800 --> 09:09.800 You had a fight with her? 09:09.800 --> 09:10.800 Lovers quarrel? 09:10.800 --> 09:11.800 Maybe. 09:11.800 --> 09:12.800 What's the difference? 09:12.800 --> 09:15.800 Well, this bar where you met Mary, that in downtown L.A., was it? 09:15.800 --> 09:16.800 Yes, downtown. 09:16.800 --> 09:17.800 She had it coming in blue. 09:17.800 --> 09:18.800 I had to tell you. 09:18.800 --> 09:19.800 I had to tell you. 09:19.800 --> 09:22.800 Yes, downtown, she had it coming. 09:22.800 --> 09:23.800 I'm glad I did it. 09:23.800 --> 09:24.800 Not worth much, huh? 09:24.800 --> 09:25.800 She was when I met her. 09:25.800 --> 09:26.800 Well, what happened? 09:26.800 --> 09:27.800 Did she go off the deep end? 09:27.800 --> 09:28.800 I guess so. 09:28.800 --> 09:29.800 What's the difference? 09:29.800 --> 09:30.800 She's dead. 09:30.800 --> 09:32.800 Well, why'd you turn yourself in, Jim? 09:32.800 --> 09:33.800 Figured you couldn't beat it? 09:33.800 --> 09:34.800 Maybe. 09:34.800 --> 09:35.800 How do you mean? 09:35.800 --> 09:38.800 I could have stayed out of your way if I wanted to. 09:38.800 --> 09:39.800 For a while, anyway. 09:39.800 --> 09:40.800 I didn't want to. 09:40.800 --> 09:41.800 Why not, Jim? 09:41.800 --> 09:42.800 Good reason. 09:42.800 --> 09:43.800 I'm glad I killed her. 09:43.800 --> 09:44.800 She had it coming. 09:44.800 --> 09:45.800 Now, go ahead and do what you want. 09:45.800 --> 09:46.800 I know what the rap is. 09:46.800 --> 09:47.800 I'll pay for it. 09:47.800 --> 09:51.800 Well, if you're willing to take the rap, Jim, why not tell us the whole story, huh? 09:51.800 --> 09:52.800 You got the story. 09:52.800 --> 09:53.800 I killed her. 09:53.800 --> 09:54.800 That's all you need. 09:54.800 --> 09:55.800 Don't you want to brief us in on the details? 09:55.800 --> 09:57.800 How it happened, how it came about. 09:57.800 --> 09:59.800 Might be extenuating circumstances, you can't tell. 09:59.800 --> 10:00.800 Well, how do you mean? 10:00.800 --> 10:02.800 Different things that might throw a new slant on the case. 10:02.800 --> 10:05.800 Court's not going to hand down a decision until they got the whole story. 10:05.800 --> 10:07.800 You mean about Mary? 10:07.800 --> 10:09.800 I'll never tell them about her. 10:09.800 --> 10:10.800 Lies the things she did to me. 10:10.800 --> 10:12.800 Never tell anybody about it. 10:12.800 --> 10:13.800 Must have been pretty bad, huh? 10:13.800 --> 10:15.800 I mean, the way you took it out on her. 10:15.800 --> 10:17.800 She was rotten all the way through. 10:17.800 --> 10:18.800 I had to kill her. 10:18.800 --> 10:20.800 What happened with the chloroform, Jim? 10:20.800 --> 10:21.800 Didn't it work fast enough for you? 10:21.800 --> 10:22.800 Chloroform? 10:22.800 --> 10:23.800 Yeah, uh-huh. 10:23.800 --> 10:25.800 Didn't it react on her fast enough for you? 10:25.800 --> 10:28.800 No, no it didn't. 10:28.800 --> 10:29.800 I hated her. 10:29.800 --> 10:30.800 Yeah, I guess you did. 10:30.800 --> 10:32.800 You must have had quite a scrap with her. 10:32.800 --> 10:33.800 Struggled quite a bit, didn't you? 10:33.800 --> 10:34.800 Yeah, she fought me all the way. 10:34.800 --> 10:35.800 I got her, though. 10:35.800 --> 10:36.800 I hated her. 10:36.800 --> 10:39.800 Out of my mind, I hated her so much. 10:39.800 --> 10:40.800 We've been trying to figure it out, Jim. 10:40.800 --> 10:41.800 What'd you hit her with? 10:41.800 --> 10:43.800 I mean, around the head and on the neck. 10:43.800 --> 10:44.800 What'd you use? 10:44.800 --> 10:45.800 The metal? 10:45.800 --> 10:46.800 Yeah, angle iron. 10:46.800 --> 10:47.800 Uh-huh. 10:47.800 --> 10:48.800 Kind of lost my head. 10:48.800 --> 10:49.800 I kept beating her. 10:49.800 --> 10:51.800 She tried to scream, but I had my hand over her mouth. 10:51.800 --> 10:52.800 Then she fell down. 10:52.800 --> 10:54.800 She didn't make a sound after that. 10:54.800 --> 10:55.800 I see. 10:55.800 --> 10:56.800 Well, how come you took her jewelry? 10:56.800 --> 11:00.800 I mean, if you just wanted to kill her, how is it you took all her valuables, too? 11:00.800 --> 11:03.800 Jim, how about it, Mitchell? 11:03.800 --> 11:04.800 Well, I don't know. 11:04.800 --> 11:06.800 I spur of the moment, I guess. 11:06.800 --> 11:08.800 I took them, but I didn't keep my thumb away. 11:08.800 --> 11:10.800 I don't remember where. 11:10.800 --> 11:12.800 I'm glad it's over. 11:12.800 --> 11:13.800 All right, Jim. 11:13.800 --> 11:14.800 Now, what's this all about? 11:14.800 --> 11:15.800 You didn't kill that woman. 11:15.800 --> 11:16.800 You know that as well as we do. 11:16.800 --> 11:17.800 Well, what are you talking about? 11:17.800 --> 11:18.800 Of course I killed her. 11:18.800 --> 11:19.800 She's dead, ain't she? 11:19.800 --> 11:20.800 How many times do I have to admit it? 11:20.800 --> 11:22.800 The woman had one mark in her body, Mitchell. 11:22.800 --> 11:23.800 A small scratch on the wrist. 11:23.800 --> 11:24.800 Huh? 11:24.800 --> 11:26.800 Not a single wound on the head, none on the neck, either. 11:26.800 --> 11:27.800 Well, I killed her. 11:27.800 --> 11:29.800 That's all you gotta know, not saying anything now. 11:29.800 --> 11:31.800 All the woman's valuables weren't taken, either, Jim. 11:31.800 --> 11:33.800 She was found with a couple of rings on her hands, 11:33.800 --> 11:35.800 an expensive watch, a bracelet, too. 11:35.800 --> 11:36.800 Now, come on, Jim. 11:36.800 --> 11:37.800 What's the angle here? 11:37.800 --> 11:39.800 You can't prove I didn't do it. 11:39.800 --> 11:40.800 You can't prove that. 11:40.800 --> 11:41.800 I think we can. 11:41.800 --> 11:43.800 Now, why can't you just take my word for it? 11:43.800 --> 11:45.800 It's the queerest setup I ever saw. 11:45.800 --> 11:47.800 I'm willing to admit I killed her, and you won't believe me. 11:47.800 --> 11:48.800 What kind of cop saw you, anyway? 11:48.800 --> 11:50.800 Where'd you spend last night, Jim? Where were you? 11:50.800 --> 11:52.800 I don't know. I don't remember. 11:52.800 --> 11:54.800 You remember. Now, how about it? 11:54.800 --> 11:56.800 It's the queerest setup I ever saw. 11:56.800 --> 11:58.800 Whole town. You wouldn't believe it. 11:58.800 --> 11:59.800 Yeah? 11:59.800 --> 12:00.800 Look, I come here from Alabama. 12:00.800 --> 12:02.800 I told you that. I've been here for 22 months. 12:02.800 --> 12:03.800 A long time. It's almost two years. 12:03.800 --> 12:04.800 Mm-hmm. 12:04.800 --> 12:06.800 Queerest town I ever saw. 12:06.800 --> 12:08.800 Thousands of people all over, millions of them. 12:08.800 --> 12:10.800 People all around you, all over the place, everywhere you go. 12:10.800 --> 12:13.800 I didn't know any of them. Not a one. 12:13.800 --> 12:15.800 They didn't know me. 22 months. 12:15.800 --> 12:17.800 Couldn't get to know nobody. I still don't. 12:17.800 --> 12:19.800 They don't know me, either. 12:19.800 --> 12:21.800 Well, tried to get acquainted. 12:21.800 --> 12:22.800 Just seemed to never could. 12:22.800 --> 12:24.800 Nobody knew me. Nobody cared. 12:24.800 --> 12:26.800 They didn't even know who I was. 12:26.800 --> 12:29.800 What kind of town is that? 22 months right here. 12:29.800 --> 12:30.800 They don't even know who I am. 12:30.800 --> 12:32.800 Nobody knows. Living alone, you just get sick of it. 12:32.800 --> 12:34.800 Get sick and tired of it. 12:34.800 --> 12:36.800 That's what brought all this on, huh? 12:36.800 --> 12:38.800 Well, at least they'll notice me. They'll know I'm here. 12:38.800 --> 12:40.800 I killed a woman. They'll know who I am now. 12:40.800 --> 12:44.800 Never spent any time in a hospital, Mitchell. Institution. 12:44.800 --> 12:46.800 Now, what'd you have to ask that for? 12:46.800 --> 12:48.800 Just because they want to know people, want to notice me? 12:48.800 --> 12:50.800 That doesn't make me crazy. 12:50.800 --> 12:53.800 Can't be alone all the time. You got to have somebody notice you. 12:53.800 --> 12:55.800 Were you ever in an institution, Jim? 12:55.800 --> 12:58.800 Just once. Only a couple of months. 12:58.800 --> 13:00.800 It wasn't anything. Look, can't you just forget what I said? 13:00.800 --> 13:02.800 I mean, I told you I killed a woman. 13:02.800 --> 13:04.800 The papers are gonna be out pretty soon. 13:04.800 --> 13:06.800 Pictures and things. Probably a big write-up. 13:06.800 --> 13:08.800 Well, can't we let it go with that? I killed her. 13:08.800 --> 13:10.800 Just forget the rest. 13:10.800 --> 13:11.800 No, I'm afraid not. 13:11.800 --> 13:12.800 Why not? 13:12.800 --> 13:14.800 We'll just make out it's that way. 13:14.800 --> 13:16.800 People get to know me anyway. At least they'll know I'm around. 13:16.800 --> 13:18.800 I won't be alone. 13:18.800 --> 13:19.800 There's no use worrying, Jim. 13:19.800 --> 13:20.800 Huh? 13:20.800 --> 13:22.800 You won't be alone anymore. 13:23.800 --> 13:25.800 1.38 p.m. 13:25.800 --> 13:28.800 We continued to question the self-accused suspect, James Mitchell, 13:28.800 --> 13:31.800 and he finally told us that he'd been confined for a period of 18 months 13:31.800 --> 13:34.800 in a state mental hospital in Alabama. 13:34.800 --> 13:36.800 That had been more than three years before. 13:36.800 --> 13:40.800 The questioning also left no doubt in our mind that Mitchell had nothing at all 13:40.800 --> 13:42.800 to do with the death of the unidentified woman. 13:42.800 --> 13:45.800 A sister of Mitchell's living in Alabama was contacted 13:45.800 --> 13:49.800 and she agreed to come out west as soon as possible to look after her brother. 13:49.800 --> 13:53.800 In the meantime, he was delivered to the care of psychiatrists at the county hospital. 13:53.800 --> 13:57.800 The incident of a man confessing guilt of a crime of which he's wholly innocent 13:57.800 --> 13:59.800 certainly wasn't anything new. 13:59.800 --> 14:01.800 Like police officers all over the country, all over the world, 14:01.800 --> 14:05.800 we've come to accept it as almost a routine part of a criminal investigation. 14:05.800 --> 14:08.800 Most of the time, the would-be criminals suffering with mental trouble. 14:08.800 --> 14:10.800 Sometimes it's a thirst for notoriety. 14:10.800 --> 14:13.800 In any event, they all have to be checked, every one of them. 14:13.800 --> 14:15.800 It means time, trouble, and money. 14:15.800 --> 14:17.800 Hours of cautious interrogation. 14:17.800 --> 14:22.800 More hours of checking stories that have basis only in the imagination of a sick mind. 14:22.800 --> 14:25.800 They slow the investigation. They waste hundreds of man hours. 14:25.800 --> 14:29.800 But like anonymous leads or would-be witnesses, they can't be ignored. 14:29.800 --> 14:31.800 It's part of the job. 14:31.800 --> 14:35.800 Saturday, October 18th, the newspapers continue to cooperate 14:35.800 --> 14:38.800 by giving his front page space to the story of the unidentified woman. 14:39.800 --> 14:40.800 Joe? 14:40.800 --> 14:41.800 Yeah, how'd you do? 14:41.800 --> 14:42.800 Nothing. 14:42.800 --> 14:43.800 Identification wasn't even close. 14:43.800 --> 14:45.800 How about Brian and Lopez? What'd they do on that call of theirs? 14:45.800 --> 14:47.800 Well, they're over at the morgue now with a boy. 14:47.800 --> 14:49.800 16-year-old. Kid was pretty wrought up when he came in. 14:49.800 --> 14:51.800 We sure had a parade of them. 14:51.800 --> 14:53.800 All last night, all this morning. 14:53.800 --> 14:55.800 Well, it doesn't hurt our chances any the more the better. 14:55.800 --> 14:56.800 I suppose so. 14:56.800 --> 14:59.800 Not gonna make much headway if we can't identify her. 14:59.800 --> 15:01.800 Any answers on the roll points we got out on her? 15:01.800 --> 15:03.800 Yeah, four of them. They all been checked. Nothing. 15:04.800 --> 15:06.800 Chewing gum, Joe? New kind, tangerine flavor. 15:06.800 --> 15:08.800 No, no thanks. 15:09.800 --> 15:11.800 How about that check at the hospital's around town? 15:11.800 --> 15:12.800 Anything show up there yet? 15:12.800 --> 15:13.800 No, not so far. 15:13.800 --> 15:15.800 The scar on the woman's leg was from an operation, all right. 15:15.800 --> 15:18.800 Doc figures it might not have been done in the hospital, though. 15:18.800 --> 15:20.800 It was a minor operation. Could have been done in a doctor's office, maybe. 15:20.800 --> 15:22.800 I'd stop it, sure. 15:22.800 --> 15:24.800 Tough enough checking hospitals for a record of the operation. 15:24.800 --> 15:26.800 Next to impossible, we'll check every doctor in town for it. 15:26.800 --> 15:28.800 Well, even then, we could miss. 15:28.800 --> 15:29.800 Don't know where the woman's from. 15:29.800 --> 15:31.800 She could have had the operation done anywhere. 15:31.800 --> 15:33.800 I'll get it. 15:33.800 --> 15:35.800 Homicide, Friday talking. 15:35.800 --> 15:36.800 Yeah, Tom. 15:36.800 --> 15:38.800 Well, I know. 15:38.800 --> 15:40.800 You did? 15:40.800 --> 15:41.800 That's so. 15:41.800 --> 15:44.800 Yeah, okay. Fine. You bet. Thanks, Tom. 15:44.800 --> 15:46.800 It was Brian. 15:46.800 --> 15:48.800 He and Lopey are driving that boy over to George's Street, the 16-year-old. 15:48.800 --> 15:49.800 What happened? 15:49.800 --> 15:51.800 Well, they took the boy to the morgue. They showed him the body. 15:51.800 --> 15:52.800 Asked him if he recognized it. 15:52.800 --> 15:53.800 What'd he say? 15:53.800 --> 15:55.800 It's his mother. 15:58.800 --> 15:59.800 2.05 p.m. 15:59.800 --> 16:02.800 Frank and I left the office and drove over to George's Street Receiving Hospital. 16:02.800 --> 16:08.800 The 16-year-old boy who had identified the dead woman as his mother was being treated for shock and hysteria. 16:08.800 --> 16:12.800 The youngster told Brian and Lopez that his name was Arnold Hopkins 16:12.800 --> 16:15.800 and that he'd been living with his mother at a Norwood Street address. 16:15.800 --> 16:18.800 After he was given a sedative and recovered himself a bit, 16:18.800 --> 16:21.800 the boy was driven to the home of his aunt and uncle out near Barnesdale Park. 16:21.800 --> 16:26.800 That night, Frank and I called on the boy and found him sufficiently recovered to answer a few questions. 16:26.800 --> 16:32.800 He confirmed his identity of the body he'd viewed that afternoon as that of his mother, Mrs. Jeanette Hopkins. 16:32.800 --> 16:35.800 He said he was an only child and that his father was dead. 16:35.800 --> 16:40.800 He told us his mother had been working for the past six years as coast representative for an Eastern cosmetics firm. 16:40.800 --> 16:43.800 We asked him what had happened the night his mother disappeared. 16:43.800 --> 16:46.800 The phone just rang about, well, when we were finishing dinner. 16:46.800 --> 16:48.800 About 8 o'clock. Maybe quarter after. 16:48.800 --> 16:49.800 Mm-hmm. 16:49.800 --> 16:53.800 Well, when Ma hung up, she said something important come up. She had to go out to see somebody. 16:53.800 --> 16:57.800 She said she had to see him right away. She got her coat and left. 16:57.800 --> 17:00.800 It was the last time I saw her. 17:00.800 --> 17:02.800 Well, who was she going to see, Arnold? Did she tell you? 17:02.800 --> 17:05.800 No, she didn't. I heard her talking on the phone, though. 17:05.800 --> 17:09.800 I heard her say, Leo. She said it a couple of times. Leo. 17:09.800 --> 17:12.800 Where was she going to meet this person, Arnold? Did you have an overhear of that? 17:12.800 --> 17:16.800 No, I didn't. I think she said, okay, I'll meet you there, Leo, and she hung up. 17:16.800 --> 17:19.800 Then she got her coat, kissed me goodbye, and she went out. 17:19.800 --> 17:21.800 Did she leave on foot or was she driving, you remember? 17:21.800 --> 17:23.800 Oh, on foot. My mother didn't drive. It was Leo's cell. 17:23.800 --> 17:25.800 Did your mother ever talk about him? 17:25.800 --> 17:27.800 I heard her talking to him on the phone a couple of times. That's about all. 17:27.800 --> 17:31.800 Well, do you know where he lives? What he looks like? Can you tell us anything about him at all? 17:31.800 --> 17:34.800 No, sir, nothing. 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She always wore that. 20:22.800 --> 20:25.800 My dad gave it to her, I think, when he was alive, I mean. 20:25.800 --> 20:26.800 She always wore it. 20:26.800 --> 20:31.800 Now the wristwatch, two rings, the bracelet, and this lapel pin here. 20:31.800 --> 20:32.800 This about it, son? 20:32.800 --> 20:34.800 Yes, sir, I guess so. 20:34.800 --> 20:36.800 You have her necklace, too. 20:36.800 --> 20:37.800 How's that? 20:37.800 --> 20:38.800 My mother's necklace. 20:38.800 --> 20:39.800 She was wearing it that night. 20:39.800 --> 20:42.800 She had it on when she left the house. Didn't you find it? 20:42.800 --> 20:44.800 What kind of necklace is it, son? What's it look like? 20:44.800 --> 20:47.800 It's made like the bracelet is. That one there. 20:47.800 --> 20:49.800 See, the two of them go together to set. 20:49.800 --> 20:51.800 Your mother wore expensive jewelry like that every day, did she? 20:51.800 --> 20:55.800 No, sir. She wore the bracelet quite a bit, not the necklace, though. 20:55.800 --> 20:57.800 She only wore that when she was dressed up. 20:57.800 --> 21:00.800 I thought about it yesterday. I meant to tell you about it. 21:00.800 --> 21:01.800 What's that, son? 21:01.800 --> 21:04.800 Well, right after she got the phone call that night when she told me she had to go out. 21:04.800 --> 21:05.800 Yeah. 21:05.800 --> 21:09.800 Well, she went back and got her coat, and then she came in the living room and kissed me goodbye. 21:09.800 --> 21:10.800 She had the necklace in her hand. 21:10.800 --> 21:12.800 You're sure she took it with her? 21:12.800 --> 21:14.800 Oh, yes, sir. I'm positive. 21:14.800 --> 21:17.800 After she kissed me goodbye, she went over to the mirror and I saw her put the necklace on. 21:17.800 --> 21:19.800 She was wearing it when she left. 21:19.800 --> 21:21.800 I didn't think much about it till later on. 21:21.800 --> 21:24.800 Most of the time, she only wears it when she dresses up. 21:24.800 --> 21:26.800 She wasn't very dressed up that night. 21:26.800 --> 21:27.800 Joe. 21:27.800 --> 21:28.800 Yeah. 21:28.800 --> 21:32.800 Can you describe the necklace for her son, exactly what it looks like? 21:32.800 --> 21:33.800 Yes, sir. I think I can. 21:33.800 --> 21:36.800 When you saw your mother with the necklace on, did you think to ask her about it? 21:36.800 --> 21:37.800 Yeah, I did. 21:37.800 --> 21:40.800 She said she was wearing it because she wanted to look pretty. 21:40.800 --> 21:42.800 She was going to meet a good friend. 21:42.800 --> 21:44.800 And she didn't say where? 21:44.800 --> 21:47.800 No, sir. I guess she was wrong, huh? 21:47.800 --> 21:48.800 About her necklace, I mean. 21:48.800 --> 21:50.800 No, son. About her friend. 21:55.800 --> 21:57.800 Monday, 3.18 p.m. 21:57.800 --> 21:59.800 We got a description of the necklace from the Hopkins boy, 21:59.800 --> 22:02.800 confirmed it with his aunt and uncle, and then we double-checked it at the jeweler's, 22:02.800 --> 22:04.800 where it had been purchased. 22:04.800 --> 22:07.800 After that, we contacted the pawn shop detail and burglary division. 22:07.800 --> 22:10.800 The necklace and its description was put on the stolen property list, 22:10.800 --> 22:14.800 and copies were sent to secondhand jewelry stores and pawn shops throughout the area. 22:14.800 --> 22:17.800 We also got out a broadcast and an APB on it. 22:17.800 --> 22:21.800 4.15 the following afternoon, we got a reply from the San Diego police department. 22:21.800 --> 22:25.800 A pawn shop owner down there had reported taking in the necklace the Friday before, 22:25.800 --> 22:28.800 which matched the description of the one we were looking for. 22:28.800 --> 22:33.800 The man who pawned the necklace listed his name in the pawn shop's buy book as Raymond Butler. 22:33.800 --> 22:36.800 San Diego officers had checked out the home address that he'd given. 22:36.800 --> 22:38.800 It was a vacant lot. 22:38.800 --> 22:42.800 The necklace was sent back to Los Angeles, where it was identified as Mrs. Hopkins. 22:42.800 --> 22:45.800 The description of the man who'd pawned the necklace was forwarded from San Diego, 22:45.800 --> 22:48.800 together with a photostatic copy of the suspect's signature, 22:48.800 --> 22:50.800 and we got out an all-points bulletin on him. 22:50.800 --> 22:52.800 Two days passed. Nothing. 22:52.800 --> 22:57.800 Along with Brian and Lopez, we continued checking all public places in the general area 22:57.800 --> 23:00.800 where the body of Mrs. Hopkins had been found. 23:00.800 --> 23:01.800 You got anything, Frank? 23:01.800 --> 23:03.800 Talked to a man by the name of Wagner, Joey. 23:03.800 --> 23:06.800 He used to do a lot of traveling, business trips, most of them to San Diego. 23:06.800 --> 23:09.800 Wagner says he heard she had a boyfriend down there, tall, dark-haired fellow. 23:09.800 --> 23:10.800 That's all. No name. 23:10.800 --> 23:12.800 I get it. 23:12.800 --> 23:14.800 Homicide Friday. 23:14.800 --> 23:16.800 What? Oh, yeah, Lope. 23:16.800 --> 23:18.800 Mm-hmm. Where? 23:18.800 --> 23:22.800 Check side, does it? Yeah, that's good. Fine. Okay, thanks, Lope. Yeah, right away. 23:22.800 --> 23:23.800 Anything, Joe? 23:23.800 --> 23:26.800 Lopez, he and Brian just checked a bar out in the neighborhood where the body was found. 23:26.800 --> 23:27.800 Mm-hmm. 23:27.800 --> 23:30.800 They talked to the bartender in the place, showed him the description of the man who pawned the necklace. 23:30.800 --> 23:31.800 Bartender says he knows the man. 23:31.800 --> 23:32.800 Are you sure? 23:32.800 --> 23:33.800 Pretty sure. 23:33.800 --> 23:36.800 He told Brian and Lope that the man's either a boxer or a wrestler, something like that, anyway. 23:36.800 --> 23:38.800 You know the man's name, where he lives? 23:38.800 --> 23:39.800 Says his name's Taylor. No home address. 23:39.800 --> 23:40.800 You know his first name? 23:40.800 --> 23:42.800 Yeah. Leo. 23:46.800 --> 23:47.800 1.25 p.m. 23:47.800 --> 23:51.800 After interviewing four other people who were in the bar the night of Mrs. Hopkins' death, 23:51.800 --> 23:53.800 Lopez and Brian checked back in at the office. 23:53.800 --> 23:57.800 They told us that at least one of the four persons they talked to, in addition to the bartender, 23:57.800 --> 24:02.800 was sure that the description of the suspect who pawned the necklace fitted a man known as Leo Taylor, 24:02.800 --> 24:05.800 who was in the bar the previous Thursday night. 24:05.800 --> 24:07.800 He was seen in the place between 8.30 and 9.00 p.m. 24:07.800 --> 24:11.800 and he was seen with a woman answering Mrs. Hopkins' general description. 24:11.800 --> 24:17.800 The bartender had no idea where the man lived, but he seemed fairly certain of the man's name, Leo Taylor, 24:17.800 --> 24:20.800 and his occupation, either wrestling or boxing. 24:20.800 --> 24:21.800 5.05 p.m. 24:21.800 --> 24:25.800 We made a run on Taylor's name and description through R&I and we got a make. 24:25.800 --> 24:27.800 We checked his handwriting and that matched out also. 24:27.800 --> 24:30.800 He had one previous arrest for assault and disorderly conduct. 24:30.800 --> 24:33.800 His residence was a West 11th Street address. 24:33.800 --> 24:36.800 We checked it out, but he'd moved six months before. 24:36.800 --> 24:40.800 The landlady had no forwarding address on him, but she told us one of the places he used to frequent was a gym 24:40.800 --> 24:43.800 on South Olive down near Olympic. 24:43.800 --> 24:44.800 We ran it down. 24:44.800 --> 24:45.800 How about a try? 24:45.800 --> 24:46.800 Alright, come on. 24:46.800 --> 24:48.800 I'm getting tired of punching the back. 24:48.800 --> 24:52.800 I checked with a fellow in the office over there, Joe, says the man we once taken a shower back there, locker room. 24:52.800 --> 24:53.800 Alright. 24:53.800 --> 24:55.800 In here? 24:55.800 --> 24:56.800 Yeah. 24:56.800 --> 24:57.800 Go ahead. 24:57.800 --> 24:58.800 Yeah. 25:01.800 --> 25:03.800 Excuse me, your name Leo Taylor? 25:03.800 --> 25:04.800 How's that? 25:04.800 --> 25:05.800 I said are you Leo Taylor? 25:05.800 --> 25:06.800 Yeah, that's right. What is it? 25:06.800 --> 25:08.800 Police officers would like to talk to you. 25:08.800 --> 25:10.800 Oh, you're taking a shower right now? You want to wait a while? 25:10.800 --> 25:12.800 Well, keep Taylor. We want to talk to you now. 25:12.800 --> 25:13.800 Alright. 25:16.800 --> 25:19.800 Alright, what's the rush? What's it all about? 25:19.800 --> 25:20.800 We want to talk to you downtown. 25:20.800 --> 25:22.800 What do you want me downtown for? 25:22.800 --> 25:24.800 I'm a 15 check. I'd like to ask you a few questions. 25:24.800 --> 25:25.800 About what? 25:25.800 --> 25:26.800 Jeanette Hopkins. 25:26.800 --> 25:28.800 That's so. What about her? 25:28.800 --> 25:30.800 When's the last time you saw the woman, Taylor? 25:30.800 --> 25:32.800 I don't know. A couple of months ago. At least that. Why? 25:32.800 --> 25:34.800 Well, you can talk about it downtown. 25:34.800 --> 25:37.800 Well, let's talk now. It'll take me a little time to get dressed. What's the pitch? 25:37.800 --> 25:39.800 You know as well as we do. 25:39.800 --> 25:41.800 You want to throw me that shirt, Mac? 25:41.800 --> 25:42.800 Thanks. 25:42.800 --> 25:45.800 What do you mean I know as well as you do? Know what? 25:45.800 --> 25:47.800 No rush, Leo. We can talk downtown. 25:47.800 --> 25:51.800 I read about it in the papers. It's a terrible thing. 25:51.800 --> 25:53.800 I'm going to look her up one of these days. It's too bad. 25:53.800 --> 25:55.800 You live in Los Angeles, Taylor? 25:55.800 --> 25:56.800 Yeah, why? 25:56.800 --> 25:57.800 Ever get down to San Diego? 25:57.800 --> 25:59.800 Once in a while. Not too often. 25:59.800 --> 26:01.800 You don't think I had anything to do with it, do you? 26:01.800 --> 26:03.800 How do you mean, Leo? With what? 26:03.800 --> 26:06.800 I mean, Jeanette, she's dead. You don't think I had a hand in it, do you? 26:06.800 --> 26:08.800 Let me tell you, I'm going to level with you, Leo. 26:08.800 --> 26:10.800 We've been on this thing a week. 26:10.800 --> 26:12.800 We've got you placed in San Diego. We've got you placed here. 26:12.800 --> 26:16.800 You say you haven't seen Mrs. Hopkins for two months. We can do a lot better than that. 26:16.800 --> 26:18.800 You were with her in San Diego two weeks ago. 26:18.800 --> 26:20.800 You were drinking with her in a bar out there last Thursday night. 26:20.800 --> 26:23.800 You were with her 20 minutes before she died. We got all we need, Leo. 26:23.800 --> 26:25.800 Got my coat there, engraving? 26:25.800 --> 26:26.800 Check the pockets, man. 26:26.800 --> 26:28.800 Yeah. 26:28.800 --> 26:30.800 Got to take a lot of proof. I guess you know that. 26:30.800 --> 26:31.800 Got to take a lot of it. 26:31.800 --> 26:33.800 We got it. 26:33.800 --> 26:37.800 Better have. Let's see. Keys, wallet, comb. 26:37.800 --> 26:38.800 Yeah. 26:38.800 --> 26:39.800 Okay, let's go. 26:39.800 --> 26:41.800 No, just a minute, Leo. 26:41.800 --> 26:43.800 Yeah? 26:43.800 --> 26:53.800 Pawn ticket here. You forgot it. 26:53.800 --> 26:55.800 The story you have just heard was true. 26:55.800 --> 26:58.800 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 26:58.800 --> 27:01.800 On January 28th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 89, 27:01.800 --> 27:04.800 City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 27:04.800 --> 27:06.800 In a moment, the results of that trial. 27:06.800 --> 27:08.800 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 27:08.800 --> 27:09.800 Thank you, George Fenomen. 27:09.800 --> 27:13.800 Friends, there's not much I can add to what you've already heard about Fatimas. 27:13.800 --> 27:15.800 If you smoke them, I know you'll agree with me, 27:15.800 --> 27:18.800 that no other king-size cigarette can match Fatima quality. 27:18.800 --> 27:21.800 Now, if you haven't tried them yet, prove it to yourself. 27:21.800 --> 27:23.800 Buy a pack and give them a try. 27:23.800 --> 27:25.800 I wish you would kind of check up on what we've been telling you. 27:25.800 --> 27:28.800 Compare Fatimas with any other king-size cigarette. 27:28.800 --> 27:30.800 You'll like Fatima's better flavor and aroma. 27:30.800 --> 27:33.800 It's extra mild and soothing smoke. 27:33.800 --> 27:35.800 And you'll find Fatima gives you more for your money. 27:35.800 --> 27:38.800 Yes, sir. In Fatima, the difference is quality. 27:38.800 --> 27:40.800 Buy a pack tomorrow. 27:40.800 --> 27:41.800 Fatima. 27:41.800 --> 27:52.800 When confronted with the evidence and testimony against him, 27:52.800 --> 27:56.800 Leo Francis Taylor broke down and confessed to the murder of Mrs. Jeanette Hopkins. 27:56.800 --> 27:59.800 She'd been paying blackmail to Taylor in order to keep their affair secret, 27:59.800 --> 28:02.800 but a month before her death, she refused to pay him anymore. 28:02.800 --> 28:06.800 Taylor threatened her again, and she agreed to give him the necklace as a final payoff. 28:06.800 --> 28:08.800 At their meeting, Taylor demanded cash. 28:08.800 --> 28:12.800 His victim threatened him with arrest, and he administered the chloroform. 28:12.800 --> 28:15.800 Taylor was tried and found guilty of first-degree murder 28:15.800 --> 28:18.800 and was sentenced to a life term in the state penitentiary. 28:25.800 --> 28:29.800 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:29.800 --> 28:35.800 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 28:35.800 --> 28:40.800 Technical advisors Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Winn, Sergeant Vance Brasher. 28:40.800 --> 28:44.800 Heard tonight were Herb Ellis, Mick Perrin, Gil Stratton, Jack Crusian. 28:44.800 --> 28:49.800 Script by Jim Moser. Music by Walter Schuman. Hal Gibney speaking. 28:49.800 --> 28:54.800 King-size Fatima, made by the same people who make popular Chesterfield cigarettes, 28:54.800 --> 29:08.800 has brought you Dragnet, transcribed from Los Angeles. 29:08.800 --> 29:25.800 Each Thursday night, it's Counterspy on NBC.