1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,000 The story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,760 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:18,760 Fatima cigarettes, king size, extra mild and soothing, brings you dragnet on both radio 4 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:28,760 and television. 5 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:30,120 You are a detective sergeant. 6 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:31,760 You are assigned to homicide detail. 7 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:37,000 A 25 year old man is found hiding in a freight car in a deserted train yard. 8 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,600 In his arms he holds the body of a dead woman. 9 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:41,760 The victim's identity is unknown. 10 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:43,800 The suspect refuses to talk. 11 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:49,800 Your job, investigate. 12 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,920 Compare Fatima with any other king size cigarette. 13 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:56,760 Yes, compare Fatima with any other king size cigarette. 14 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:01,120 One, Fatima's length filters the smoke 85 millimeters for your protection. 15 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:04,520 Two, Fatima's length cools the smoke for your protection. 16 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:10,160 Three, Fatima's length gives you those extra puffs, 21 percent longer than standard cigarette 17 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:11,160 size. 18 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:13,440 Fatima gives you more for your money. 19 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:19,320 And in king size Fatima, you get an extra mild and soothing smoke, plus the added protection 20 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:21,480 of Fatima quality. 21 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:27,280 Live Fatima in the bright sunny yellow pack. 22 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:34,040 DRAGNET, the documented drama of an actual crime. 23 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:38,920 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 24 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:43,480 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 25 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:44,480 police files. 26 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:50,320 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, DRAGNET is the story of your police force 27 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,040 in action. 28 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:56,120 It was Tuesday, January 18th. 29 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:57,720 It was cold in Los Angeles. 30 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,240 We were working the night watch out of homicide detail. 31 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:01,760 My partner's Frank Smith. 32 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:02,760 The boss is Captain Warman. 33 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:03,760 My name's Friday. 34 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:09,240 I was on the way back from the record bureau and it was 10.38 p.m. when I got to room 42. 35 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:10,240 Homicide detail. 36 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:11,240 Hi. 37 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:12,240 Did the cop hot anything yet? 38 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:13,240 Nothing. 39 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:14,240 I keep asking him questions. 40 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:15,240 Might as well be talking to myself. 41 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:16,240 He might be in a state of shock. 42 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:17,240 No, I don't think so. 43 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:18,240 You got anything on him from our office? 44 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:19,240 No. 45 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:20,240 He's clean. 46 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:24,840 You and Stahl want to get over to the morgue, roll the dead woman's prints. 47 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:25,840 Yeah, sure. 48 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:26,840 Maybe you'll have better luck with him. 49 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:27,840 See you later. 50 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:28,840 Yeah, sure. 51 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:35,840 Here's your driver's license, Gordon. 52 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:41,840 Better put it back in your wallet. 53 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:46,440 Gordon, put it back in your wallet. 54 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:50,600 Now, look, son, I don't think you're helping yourself much by keeping quiet. 55 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:52,320 There's a lot of explaining to be done here. 56 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:55,320 I'm afraid you're the only one that can do it. 57 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:56,320 Gordon? 58 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,880 All right, son, it's just a matter of time. 59 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:01,440 You're going to have to tell somebody sooner or later. 60 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:02,440 Why won't you tell us now? 61 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:05,440 Come on, what do you say? 62 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:08,520 Well, look, son, I'll tell you the truth. 63 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:10,600 I don't get the reasoning behind all this. 64 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:11,760 We know there's nothing wrong with you. 65 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:12,960 We know you can talk all right. 66 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,520 You talk to the officers in the radio car who brought you in. 67 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:17,920 You know as well as I do, you're going to have to explain what's happened here. 68 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:20,280 You're going to have to explain that dead body. 69 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:22,640 You want to get it over with now? 70 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:26,640 Look, Gordon, if you didn't kill the woman, you haven't anything to worry about. 71 00:03:26,640 --> 00:03:28,120 And if you did, we're going to find out anyway. 72 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:34,120 Who was the woman, Gordon? 73 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:35,120 Will you tell me that much? 74 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,560 What's her name? 75 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,120 You know her very long? 76 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:41,880 Did you know her very long? 77 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:42,880 What was she to you? 78 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:44,920 Do you want to tell me that? 79 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:47,480 She's a fairly middle aged woman in her early fifties, I'd say. 80 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:48,480 Is that about right? 81 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:52,080 Was she your mother, Gordon? 82 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:54,720 Older sister maybe? 83 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:57,720 Any relation at all? 84 00:03:57,720 --> 00:03:58,720 What's the matter, son? 85 00:03:58,720 --> 00:03:59,720 Feeling sick? 86 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:00,720 How about a cigarette? 87 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:01,720 All right. 88 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:02,720 A body of high smoke? 89 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:18,360 I hope you haven't got the idea we're trying to trick you into anything, Gordon. 90 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:19,960 We've got a dead woman on our hands here. 91 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:21,760 We've got to find out why she's dead. 92 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:22,760 Now what do you say? 93 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:25,960 No use looking up at the clock, son. 94 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:27,960 We're stuck here till we find out about that woman. 95 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:32,960 Let's go for both of them. 96 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:33,960 Homicide Friday. 97 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:34,960 Oh yeah, yeah. 98 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:35,960 No, not right now. 99 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:36,960 I ought to be back in about half hour. 100 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:37,960 Yeah, half hour. 101 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:38,960 Right, I'll tell them to call you. 102 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:39,960 Bye. 103 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:40,960 I got an idea, Gordon. 104 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,960 Might as well set your mind at ease. 105 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:50,600 Now number one, if you think we're out to build a frame against you on this thing, let 106 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:52,600 me tell you that you're wrong and I'll prove it to you, son. 107 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,480 I'm going to tell you exactly what we know about this case, everything. 108 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:59,120 And when I'm finished, maybe you can fill in the blank spots for us, huh? 109 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:00,920 What's the matter, you're heading? 110 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:04,120 Some aspirin in my locker there if you want some. 111 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:05,120 No? 112 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:06,120 All right. 113 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:09,120 Here's all we know about it. 114 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:14,880 Now one of our radio cars, 1A4, answered a call from the night watchman down in the freight 115 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:15,880 yards. 116 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:19,600 He told the officers that he'd spotted a man wandering around down at the far end of the 117 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:22,400 train yards near the west gate. 118 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:26,680 He only saw him at a distance, but he said he could make out the man and that he saw 119 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:27,960 that he had a woman with him. 120 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:31,260 She must have either been sick or she had too much to drink because the man appeared 121 00:05:31,260 --> 00:05:33,900 to be dragging her along with him. 122 00:05:33,900 --> 00:05:36,920 The two of them disappeared behind a line of boxcars on the siding. 123 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:41,120 When the watchman went out to look for the two people, he couldn't find them. 124 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:44,400 Called the radio car and when the officers got there, they started searching. 125 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:48,400 I finally found you hiding back in the corner of an empty boxcar there. 126 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:52,480 You were holding that dead woman in your arms. 127 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:55,520 There wasn't anything the officers could see that might have caused the woman's death. 128 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:58,920 There were no marks on the body, nothing visible anyway. 129 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,920 When they tried to question you, all that you'd tell them was your name and that you 130 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:05,720 didn't want to live, that you didn't care what happened to you. 131 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:06,720 That's about the size of it, Gordon. 132 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:07,720 Did I leave anything out? 133 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:08,720 Gordon? 134 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:12,040 Oh yeah, there is something else. 135 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:15,600 From what we could gather, the dead woman had been doing some drinking before she died. 136 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,600 And in fact, she looks like she was a pretty heavy drinker. 137 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:22,680 Another thing, we know you and the woman got into the train yard down by the west gate. 138 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,920 We know that you dragged your body across the freight yards to that empty boxcar that 139 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:27,480 they found you hiding in. 140 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:31,960 The heel marks from her shoes lead from the sidewalk through the dirt directly to the 141 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:32,960 door of that boxcar. 142 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:37,560 We could see where you dragged your body from the door back to the corner of the car. 143 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:39,880 Now that's the whole story so far, Gordon. 144 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:41,880 You want to fill in the rest? 145 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:44,880 Son, how about it? 146 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:45,880 Who is the woman? 147 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:53,800 All right, look, how about these items we found in your pocket, Gordon, this address 148 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:54,800 book here? 149 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:59,080 Is this the woman's name in here? 150 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:01,440 This handkerchief with a lipstick on it. 151 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:02,800 Were you out with another girl tonight? 152 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:03,800 Were you, son? 153 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,760 If you were, it might help to tell us who she is. 154 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:10,160 Do you hear me, son? 155 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:12,680 How about this lady's ring you had in your pocket? 156 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:14,160 Name Elizabeth engraved on the inside. 157 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:16,120 Does that tie in at all, Gordon? 158 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:19,120 Who's it belong to? 159 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,120 Homicide Friday. 160 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,120 Oh yeah, Frank. 161 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:28,120 Can you get an ID in on her? 162 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:29,120 Mm-hmm. 163 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:30,120 H-O-F-M-M-A-N. 164 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:31,120 2N? 165 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:32,120 Right. 166 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:33,120 You going out there now? 167 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:34,120 Okay, take O'Donnell with you, huh? 168 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:35,120 Right, let me hear from him. 169 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:36,120 Right, no, no, not yet. 170 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:37,120 No, all right, bye. 171 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:38,120 That was my partner, Gordon. 172 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:39,120 The officer who was in here with you. 173 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:44,120 They took the dead woman's fingerprints. 174 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:49,120 They've got her identified, son. 175 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:55,120 Elizabeth Hoffman, aged 52 years, music teacher, last known address, 5473 6th Avenue. 176 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:58,120 They're on their way out there now to check it. 177 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,120 All right, relax, Gordon. 178 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:01,120 That window doesn't lead anywhere. 179 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:04,120 Well, you want to take another look at this ring? 180 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:07,120 You got a fair idea that it means something, Gordon. 181 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:09,120 They examined the dead woman's hands. 182 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:11,120 They know she was wearing a ring recently. 183 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:13,120 Her name's Elizabeth Hoffman. 184 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:15,120 Name Elizabeth engraved inside this ring. 185 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:19,120 Now, look, boy, we're going to get the answer sooner or later. 186 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:20,120 How about it? 187 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:22,120 What were you doing with this ring in your pocket? 188 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:24,120 Now, let me tell you something, young fella. 189 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:27,120 I don't know what's bothering you, but whatever it is, we're going to find it out. 190 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:28,120 Now, get it through your head. 191 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:29,120 You're in a bad spot. 192 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:31,120 If you're not interested in helping yourself, then neither am I. 193 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:32,120 The monkey's on your back. 194 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:33,120 You're going to have to help scratch it off. 195 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:34,120 Now, get with it. 196 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:37,120 Now, get it out. 197 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:38,120 All right. 198 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:39,120 Let's have your driver's license. 199 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:40,120 Come on. 200 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:41,120 Get it out. 201 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:42,120 All right. 202 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:44,120 I'll take it. 203 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:55,120 Gordon John Miller, 2055 Malcolm Avenue, Los Angeles. 204 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:57,120 Hello, information? 205 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:01,120 Do you have a phone listing for 2055 Malcolm Avenue? 206 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:05,120 Yes, ma'am. 207 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,120 Mm-mm. 208 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,120 32-32-192. 209 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:17,120 Thanks a lot. 210 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:18,120 Put the phone down. 211 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:20,120 You ready to tell us? 212 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:21,120 No, I won't tell you. 213 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:22,120 All right. 214 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:27,120 Any way you want it, Gordon. 215 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:28,120 You can't call. 216 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:29,120 You can't. 217 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:30,120 I won't let you. 218 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:31,120 I'll take it easy. 219 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:32,120 They can't tell you. 220 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:33,120 They don't know. 221 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:34,120 Give me the phone. 222 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:35,120 All right. 223 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:36,120 Sit down. 224 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:37,120 I said sit down. 225 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:38,120 If you won't answer the questions, we'll find somebody who will. 226 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:39,120 Give me your wrist. 227 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:40,120 Now, sit still. 228 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:46,120 Now, the sooner you get it through your head, you're not here on a traffic ticket, the better. 229 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:48,120 You're going to stay cuffed to that chair till we're ready to book you. 230 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,120 I'm sick of treating you like a baby. 231 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:52,120 They can't tell you. 232 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:53,120 They don't understand. 233 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:54,120 They can't tell you. 234 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:55,120 There can't be any worse than you. 235 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:56,120 Now, sit still there. 236 00:09:56,120 --> 00:10:11,120 Hello, is this the Miller residence, 2055 Malcolm Avenue? 237 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,840 My name's Friday, ma'am. 238 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:14,840 Police department, Central Homicide. 239 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:15,840 Who's this speaking, please? 240 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:16,840 I see. 241 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:21,840 Miss Miller, are you related to a Gordon Miller? 242 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:22,840 Your brother? 243 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:23,840 Uh-huh. 244 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:24,840 No, he's not her. 245 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:25,840 There's nothing wrong with him. 246 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:26,840 Yes, he's here. 247 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:27,840 We're holding him. 248 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:29,840 I wonder if you'd be kind enough to come down here to the city hall. 249 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:31,840 It's the city hall, yes, ma'am. 250 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:32,840 It's important. 251 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:33,840 We'd like to talk to you. 252 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:34,840 No, as soon as possible. 253 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,840 Yeah, you can get in through the Main Street entrance. 254 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:38,840 Main Street, M-A-I-N. 255 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:41,840 It's room 42, 42 on the main floor. 256 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:42,840 Just ask for Friday. 257 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:43,840 That's my name. 258 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:44,840 All right, thank you. 259 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:45,840 Goodbye. 260 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:46,840 It's your sister, Lillian. 261 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:47,840 She's on her way down, Gordon. 262 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:48,840 It's not going to help. 263 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:49,840 She doesn't know a lot of them, though. 264 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:50,840 Who's them? 265 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:51,840 You mean your family? 266 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:52,840 Yes, they're my family. 267 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:55,840 They shouldn't have called. 268 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:58,840 They don't know about it. 269 00:10:58,840 --> 00:10:59,840 They can't tell you. 270 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:02,840 Why did you have to call? 271 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:03,840 You know why, Gordon. 272 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:05,840 We gave you plenty of chance to tell us yourself. 273 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:07,840 The answers have to come from somewhere. 274 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:08,840 What answers? 275 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:11,840 What do you want me to say? 276 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:12,840 Commicide Friday. 277 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:13,840 What? 278 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:14,840 How's that again? 279 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:16,840 No, I'm afraid you have the wrong extension. 280 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:17,840 You want vice detail. 281 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:18,840 In just a minute, I'll have your call transferred. 282 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:23,840 Yeah, would you give this call to 2607? 283 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:26,840 Yeah, thank you. 284 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:33,840 I asked, what do you want me to say? 285 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:34,840 What do you want? 286 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:35,840 Pretty simple, Gordon. 287 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:38,840 Just tell us what happened tonight, will you? 288 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:40,840 She's dead, isn't she, Elizabeth? 289 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:41,840 Yes, that's right. 290 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:43,840 There's nothing else to say. 291 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:45,840 I killed her. 292 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:47,840 Why did you kill her, son? 293 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,840 I'm not sure, really, I'm not. 294 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:53,840 I think I felt sorry for her. 295 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:55,840 I killed her, though I know that much. 296 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:57,840 You murdered the woman, but you don't know why? 297 00:11:57,840 --> 00:11:59,840 Yeah. 298 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:01,840 I keep trying to remember. 299 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:02,840 I can't. 300 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:03,840 It doesn't seem real. 301 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:04,840 You've been drinking, Gordon? 302 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:08,840 Yeah, two or three days. 303 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:10,840 We were going to have dinner tonight. 304 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:12,840 We started drinking cocktails before. 305 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:14,840 Quite a few. 306 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:15,840 We never had dinner. 307 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:17,840 What do you mean by we? 308 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:21,840 Two of us, Elizabeth and I. 309 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:22,840 Elizabeth Hoffman. 310 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:23,840 Where were you drinking? 311 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:25,840 I don't know. 312 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:27,840 I'm telling you the truth. 313 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:28,840 I keep trying to remember. 314 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:29,840 No marks on the body, Gordon. 315 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:30,840 None we could see anyway. 316 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:31,840 How'd you kill her? 317 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:34,840 I killed her, that's enough, isn't it? 318 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:36,840 I murdered her. 319 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:37,840 Please don't talk anymore. 320 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:38,840 I'm sorry, son. 321 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:40,840 That's not even half the story. 322 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:41,840 You admit you killed the woman. 323 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:43,840 You won't tell us why, you won't tell us how. 324 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,840 It wasn't about her alone. 325 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:48,840 They kept hounding her. 326 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:53,840 They drove her out of her mind. 327 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:54,840 Come on, son, snap out of it. 328 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:55,840 That's not going to help any. 329 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:57,840 Come on. 330 00:12:57,840 --> 00:12:58,840 Yeah. 331 00:12:58,840 --> 00:12:59,840 Now what's it all about? 332 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:00,840 What do you have to do with it? 333 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:03,840 I've known her for 10 years. 334 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:06,840 She was my music teacher. 335 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:08,840 Piano, brilliant woman. 336 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:10,840 Elizabeth was a real artist. 337 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:12,840 You've been taking piano lessons 338 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:14,840 from her for 10 years, is that right? 339 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:15,840 Yes, sir. 340 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:17,840 Elizabeth was arranging a concert tour for me. 341 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:19,840 South America this fall. 342 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:21,840 She said she was sure I'd be a success. 343 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:22,840 I couldn't fail. 344 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:25,840 Concerts in eight cities all over South America. 345 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:26,840 We were going this fall. 346 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:28,840 We were going to leave in August. 347 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:31,840 Does that have anything to do with her death? 348 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:33,840 I guess so, in a way. 349 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:36,840 She did everything for me and I had to kill her. 350 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:39,840 Only one who believed in me. 351 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:40,840 I can't tell you. 352 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:42,840 The last two years I didn't have any money 353 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:43,840 to pay for my lessons. 354 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:44,840 She didn't care. 355 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:47,840 She even fed me, took care of me when I was sick once. 356 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:49,840 She did everything for me. 357 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:52,840 You know, this is pretty hard to understand, son. 358 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:54,840 She did everything for you, then why did you kill her? 359 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:57,840 What makes you think that's important? 360 00:13:57,840 --> 00:13:59,840 She's dead and I killed her. 361 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:01,840 You always ask why. 362 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:03,840 It's not important how she died. 363 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:04,840 It is to us. 364 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:05,840 Now how'd you kill her, Gordon? 365 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:07,840 Why'd you take her body down to the freight yard? 366 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:10,840 You should have known Elizabeth when she was alive. 367 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:12,840 You never met a woman like her. 368 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:13,840 Just wonderful. 369 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:16,840 Talented, she was brilliant, understanding. 370 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:19,840 Great woman, warm. 371 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:21,840 No one like her, Sergeant. 372 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:22,840 Great human being. 373 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:24,840 She drank quite a bit, didn't she, Gordon? 374 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:27,840 Yes, she drank. 375 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:28,840 Reason for it, though. 376 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:30,840 Reason that way with a lot of brilliant people. 377 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:32,840 Who drink once in a while. 378 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:33,840 She drank more than that, didn't she? 379 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:35,840 She had a reason for it. 380 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:38,840 Who are you to sit and judge on her? 381 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:41,840 Elizabeth was a brilliant artist, great woman, great. 382 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:44,840 One of the finest musicians in the country, a great woman. 383 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:45,840 She was a drunk and a bad drunk. 384 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:47,840 Now let's face it, son, you know that as well as I do. 385 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:48,840 You're a liar. She wasn't. 386 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:49,840 You're a rotten liar. 387 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:50,840 Six drunk arrests in 14 months. 388 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:52,840 That's what her card reads in the record bureau. 389 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:54,840 Those are the only times we know of. 390 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:56,840 Now how many can you add to it? 391 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:58,840 She drank. 392 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:00,840 She thought it was the only way out for her. 393 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:02,840 Wasn't any other way. 394 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:04,840 Yeah, well, you're talking in circles here, Gordon. 395 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:06,840 Get it straightened out, will you? 396 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:08,840 You want to know why Elizabeth drank? 397 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:10,840 Go ask my family. They'll tell you. 398 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:12,840 They'll tell you a lot of things if you want to believe it. 399 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:14,840 What can they tell me that you can't? 400 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:15,840 Nothing. 401 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:17,840 They'll try and pretend they know liars. 402 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:18,840 I don't want any part of them. 403 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:20,840 They don't want any part of me. 404 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:21,840 Don't you live with your family now, Gordon? 405 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:23,840 I haven't seen them for a year. I don't want to see them. 406 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:24,840 Why not? 407 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:26,840 What, you get along with them? Your father? Your mother? 408 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:28,840 My mother's dead. 409 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:31,840 Died when I was 12. 410 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:33,840 Just my father and my sister. 411 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:35,840 What's the matter? Don't you get along with them? 412 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:37,840 I just want them to let me alone, that's all. Just let me alone. 413 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:39,840 How about Elizabeth Hoffman? Your family know her pretty well? 414 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:41,840 Yeah, they know her. 415 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:43,840 They didn't understand her, though. 416 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:45,840 I really loved her. She loved me. 417 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:47,840 I don't think I follow your son. 418 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:49,840 I knew you wouldn't understand. 419 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:51,840 I was in love with Elizabeth. She was in love with me. 420 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:53,840 We were going to get married. 421 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:55,840 You're 25 years old, Gordon. Is that right? 422 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:57,840 Yes. 423 00:15:57,840 --> 00:15:59,840 Elizabeth Hoffman was 52. That's what our records show here. 424 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:01,840 What about it? 425 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:03,840 Oh, 27 years difference. That's a little unusual, wouldn't you say? 426 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:05,840 Oh, whatever. 427 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:07,840 Everything that's great is unusual. 428 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:09,840 That's what makes it great. 429 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:11,840 I loved her. Time didn't make any difference. 430 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:13,840 A few years. What's that? 431 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:15,840 I loved her more than any woman in the world. 432 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:17,840 She meant everything. 433 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:19,840 I didn't care if she drank. I didn't care if she was old. 434 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:21,840 You don't stop being beautiful just because you grow old. 435 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:23,840 Elizabeth was beautiful. 436 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:25,840 Well, drinking didn't help her much. 437 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:27,840 I don't care about that. I'll still say it. 438 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:29,840 I don't care about that. I'll still say it. 439 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:31,840 She loved me and I loved her. 440 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:33,840 Believe me, please. I loved her. 441 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:35,840 Believe me, please. I loved her. 442 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:37,840 All right, I believe you, son. 443 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:39,840 Let me ask you this. 444 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:41,840 Yes? 445 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:43,840 You say you respected her, that she was talented. 446 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:45,840 You were grateful to her. She was generous. 447 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:47,840 She made sacrifices for you, did everything for you that she could. 448 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:49,840 Is that right? 449 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:51,840 She loved you and you loved her. You were going to marry her. 450 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:53,840 Yeah. 451 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:55,840 This fall on the way to South America. 452 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:57,840 Going to be married. 453 00:16:57,840 --> 00:16:59,840 You always wanted. 454 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:01,840 Elizabeth would have been so happy. 455 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:03,840 So happy. 456 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:05,840 Yeah, well then why did you kill her? 457 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:07,840 Yeah, Frank. 458 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:09,840 See you in a minute. 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We kept walking and we turned off. 513 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:35,840 We walked for a long time. 514 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:37,840 Were you anywhere near the freight yards when you killed her? Can you remember that? 515 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:40,840 No, I don't know. Like a nightmare. There's so much of it. I guess I don't want to remember it. 516 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:44,840 And what's the last location you can recall Gordon? I mean before you found yourself in the freight yards. 517 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:46,840 Olympic Boulevard I think. Someplace on Olympic. 518 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:48,840 Kept walking and walking. I don't remember why. 519 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:51,840 You remember packing your suitcases before you left the boarding house? 520 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,840 Packing? Yeah I think I do. Elizabeth and I talked about going away for a few days. 521 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:57,840 Someplace out of town. I think we're going to go tomorrow. 522 00:19:57,840 --> 00:19:59,840 They checked both your rooms Gordon. Yours and Elizabeth Hoffman's. 523 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:03,840 They found your bags packed but there was nothing about her room that indicated she was going away. 524 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:05,840 Everything was in order. Can you explain that? 525 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:07,840 I don't know. Maybe she didn't have time. Hadn't gotten around to it. 526 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:09,840 I guess you found the poison too. 527 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:13,840 That's right. I got it two days ago. We thought about it. We even wrote a letter explaining why we do it. 528 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:16,840 Yeah. We didn't have the courage though. Neither one of us. 529 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:18,840 Talked about it and decided to forget it. 530 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,840 I've told you everything. There isn't anything else to say. 531 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:24,840 Friday? Yeah. Oh alright Jeff. Send her in please. 532 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:28,840 You're Lillian Miller is that right? Yes that's right. 533 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,840 I don't want to see her. I don't want to see her. She's your sister Gordon. She wants to see you. 534 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:33,840 Please keep her out. Keep her away. 535 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:37,840 Gordon. My name's Friday Miss Miller. Come on in please. 536 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:39,840 Have a chair. Thank you. 537 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:43,840 How are you Gordon? It's been such a long time. How have you been? 538 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:45,840 Chair Miss Miller. Thanks. 539 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,840 Poor kid. What is it Gordon? What's the trouble about? 540 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:51,840 Honey what is it? 541 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:54,840 Won't you even look at me? Get out of here. Let me alone. Get out. 542 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:56,840 Please Gordon don't. 543 00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:00,840 I'm here to help you honey. They called me tonight. They said you're in trouble. What is it? Let me help you please. 544 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:03,840 You can't help. She's dead now. Will you go home? Elizabeth's dead. I killed her. 545 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:05,840 Where's the forgotten? 546 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:07,840 Will you take her out of here Sergeant and tell her to go? 547 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:11,840 You don't know what you're saying honey. It's not in his right mind Sergeant. I know he isn't. 548 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:15,840 Please Gordon you have to let us help you. I called dad before I left. 549 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:18,840 He's on his way here now. We'll get you a lawyer. 550 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:20,840 Don't worry honey. It'll be alright. Everything will be alright. 551 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:22,840 She's dead. Can you bring her back? 552 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:24,840 You couldn't have killed her. Couldn't have. 553 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:27,840 Pounding her. Torturing her. Why couldn't you let her alone? Why couldn't you let us alone? 554 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:30,840 We only did it for you Gordon and we thought it was best for you. 555 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:34,840 You fool. You fool. Say anything you want Gordon. I don't care. But let me help you please. 556 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:36,840 It doesn't count what I am. Just let me help you. 557 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:38,840 I'll get it. 558 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:42,840 Okay. Henry Miller. The boy's father. 559 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:44,840 I don't want to see him in here. I don't know him. He's not my father. 560 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:48,840 Alright. Take it easy Gordon. Please honey. Try to understand. We only want to help. 561 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:52,840 Who's in charge here? My name is Friday Mr. Miller. This is my partner Sergeant Smith. 562 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:54,840 The handcuffs on my son. Gordon who did it? He put them on you. 563 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:57,840 I did Mr. Miller. The only way we could settle him down. 564 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:01,840 Taking quite a bit of authority in your hands aren't you? Get them off of him right now. No reason to handcuff him. 565 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:02,840 Sorry. Can't be done. 566 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:08,840 I said take them off. I have a little influence in this town. I'll see to it that the police commission hears about this. 567 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:09,840 Now what's my son doing here anyway? 568 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,840 The Hoffman woman dad. Elizabeth Hoffman. 569 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:16,840 What about her? She's dead. Gordon says he killed her dad. We've got to do something. 570 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:19,840 Don't tell him anything Gordon. Don't say a thing. I'll get a lawyer for you right away. 571 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:21,840 I know what your rights are. Don't tell him anything. 572 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:23,840 Did you know Elizabeth Hoffman Mr. Miller? 573 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:27,840 I knew her slightly. Can't see what this fuss is all about anyway. 574 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:29,840 Woman wasn't any good to begin with. No good at all. 575 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:33,840 You ought to be glad I'm handcuffed at this chair. I never thought of hitting you before. I'd like to do it now. 576 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:35,840 Please Gordon don't say those things. 577 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:37,840 As far as I can remember you've been nothing but trouble. 578 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:41,840 Now either you snap out of it this time or you're on your own. I'm sick of this. 579 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:43,840 Police stations, trampy women keeping you out of jail. 580 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,840 Either you start to realize who's boss in this family or there's going to be real trouble. 581 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:48,840 You'll find yourself out in the cold. You'll stay there. 582 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:50,840 Get him out of here. Get him out of my cell. 583 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:53,840 Please dad he's not well. Try and understand. 584 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:55,840 Enough Gordon. I'll send a lawyer for you. That's all I'll do. 585 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,840 If you make up your mind I'm boss you can come home. If not you can stay away. 586 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:00,840 Now figure it out for yourself. I don't care. 587 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:02,840 I hate you. I hope you ever forget it. I hate you. 588 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:03,840 Dad. 589 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,840 I'll see you at home Lillian. It's the maid's night out. 590 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:08,840 Lock the door before you go to bed. 591 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,840 Please dad we've got to help. Don't leave dad. 592 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,840 God. God. God. 593 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:17,840 Sergeant. 594 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,840 You know. Will you lock me up now? I'm tired. 595 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,840 Alright Gordon just a minute. Frank you want to stay with him. 596 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:24,840 Yeah okay. 597 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:27,840 Miss Miller you might step outside for a minute. There's something I'd like to ask you. 598 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,840 Yes alright. You'll let me see Gordon again? 599 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:32,840 Yes ma'am. Come on this way. 600 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:41,840 Now look. About this Elizabeth Hoffman Miss Miller. Did you know her at all? 601 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,840 I tried to talk to her. I even offered her money if she'd let Gordon alone. 602 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,840 It wasn't any news. She'd been drinking. She wouldn't even listen. 603 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:49,840 I kept saying she was going to marry Gordon. 604 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:52,840 What's the big attraction do you know I mean between your brother and that woman? 605 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:54,840 There's only one thing Gordon ever really wanted. 606 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:57,840 He wasn't too interested in women. Things like that. 607 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:01,840 All he wanted was to be a musician. A great pianist. That's all he ever wanted. 608 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:06,840 The sad part about it is he'll never make it. I think down deep he knows that. 609 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:08,840 When he was a kid dad sent him to the finest teachers. 610 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:10,840 After six months they all said the same thing. 611 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:11,840 Yes ma'am. 612 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:15,840 He'd never make it. We could play well enough but he certainly wasn't exceptional. 613 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:17,840 He never improved. He just stayed the same. 614 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:19,840 He started taking lessons from Elizabeth. 615 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:21,840 She convinced him he had a great talent. 616 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,840 Kept telling him she'd make a great pianist out of him. 617 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,840 The last three years she kept promising to take him on a tour. Europe, South America. 618 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:32,840 It never happened. I think Gordon knew it never could happen. 619 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,840 I see. Can you think of any reason at all why he'd want to kill her? 620 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:37,840 There isn't any reason. None at all. Gordon didn't kill her. 621 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:39,840 He couldn't kill anybody. He didn't kill her. 622 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:41,840 I'm sure of it. 623 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,840 I hope you're right Miss Miller. For your brother's sake. 624 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:46,840 Would you excuse me for a few minutes please? 625 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:47,840 Yes. All right. 626 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:49,840 You wait here. You sit down if you want to. I'll be right back. 627 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:50,840 All right. 628 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:54,840 All set Joe? 629 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:55,840 Yeah. In a minute. 630 00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:57,840 Gordon, you ready to go? 631 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:01,840 I'd like to ask you one more question son. I'd like to have you tell me the truth on this one. 632 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:02,840 Yeah? 633 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:04,840 What did you have in common with Elizabeth Hoffman? 634 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,840 She was twice as old as you are. You gave up a lot for her. 635 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,840 She didn't have any money. She was an alcoholic. What was the big attraction? 636 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:12,840 Why did I love Elizabeth? Is that what you mean? 637 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:13,840 Yeah, that's right. 638 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,840 You tell me Sergeant. Why do you love any woman? Why? 639 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:20,840 Because you need them. You need them. You can't be alone. Nobody can be alone. 640 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:22,840 I needed Elizabeth. That's why I loved her. 641 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:25,840 There's only been two women in the world who understood me. 642 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,840 One of them was Elizabeth. The other one was my mother. 643 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,840 She died when I was 12. Now they're both dead. Both of them. 644 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:33,840 Only ones who understood. 645 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:34,840 Yeah. 646 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:36,840 My father didn't understand. He never did. 647 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,840 All he knows is business. Making money. More money. 648 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,840 That's why he hated Elizabeth. He was jealous. She understood me. 649 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:44,840 She knew what I was like. Knew all about me. 650 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,840 When I was with Elizabeth, I was safe. I was happy close to her. 651 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:49,840 There wasn't anything to be afraid of. 652 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,840 I'd go to her just like my mother. I'd put my head on her shoulder and she'd put her arms around me. 653 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,840 I wasn't frightened anymore. I was safe. 654 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,840 Everything was alright. Just like when I was a little kid in the night. 655 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:01,840 I'd call out for my mother. She was always there. 656 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,840 She'd put her arms around me and everything was safe. 657 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,840 I wasn't afraid. I needed her. It was the same way I needed Elizabeth. 658 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:10,840 Do you understand now? 659 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:12,840 Now do you know why I loved her? 660 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,840 Yeah. I think I do. Only one question left. Why did you kill her? 661 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,840 I don't know. I really don't. Maybe I'll remember. 662 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,840 Look, Gordon. Are you sure you killed her? 663 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:24,840 If she died in my arms, I must have killed her. 664 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,840 Tomorrow maybe. Maybe I'll remember tomorrow. 665 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:28,840 Is Lillian still here? My sister? 666 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:30,840 She's waiting outside. 667 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:32,840 Did she hear my father? What he said? 668 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:34,840 Told her to be sure and lock the door? 669 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:38,840 Just like my father. They don't have to lock that door. 670 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:40,840 It was locked 13 years ago. 671 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:41,840 How do you mean? 672 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:43,840 It was locked the day my mother died. 673 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:52,840 The story you have just heard was true. 674 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,840 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 675 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,840 On January 19th, an autopsy was performed at the county morgue, 676 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,840 city and county of Los Angeles, state of California. 677 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:04,840 In a moment, the results of that examination. 678 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:06,840 And now here is our star, Jack Webb. 679 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:08,840 Thank you, George Fenomen. 680 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:12,840 Friends, recently I had the pleasure of taking part in a benefit in San Francisco. 681 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,840 While I was there, I met and talked to a lot of smokers 682 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,840 who told me that they'd switched to Fatimas. 683 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,840 They'd found that in Fatima, the difference is quality. 684 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,840 Well, now I'm convinced that you'll switch to Fatimas for the same reason. 685 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,840 Get yourself a pack of Fatimas tomorrow and compare them. 686 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,840 You'll find they give you more for your money. 687 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:36,840 An extra mild and soothing smoke, plus the added protection of Fatima quality. 688 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,840 Remember, look for the bright, sunny, yellow pack. 689 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,840 Buy king-size Fatimas. 690 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,840 The results of the autopsy performed on the body of Elizabeth Hoffman 691 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,840 showed definitely that she had suffered from a chronic heart condition 692 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:58,840 aggravated by excessive drinking. 693 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:02,840 Cause of death was listed as myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle. 694 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,840 Gordon Miller was released from custody and completely exonerated 695 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:07,840 of the death of Elizabeth Hoffman. 696 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,840 Eighteen months later, he took his own life. 697 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:24,840 You have just heard Dragmen, a series of authentic cases from official files. 698 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,840 Technical advice comes from the office of Chief of Police W.H. Parker, 699 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:30,840 Los Angeles Police Department. 700 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:35,840 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Brasher. 701 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:40,840 Heard tonight were Vic Perrin, Herb Ellis, Harry Bartel, Joyce McCluskey. 702 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,840 Script by Jim Moser. Music by Walter Schumer. 703 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,840 George Feneman speaking. 704 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:51,840 King-size Fatima has brought you Dragnet transcribed from Los Angeles. 705 00:28:51,840 --> 00:29:14,840 King-size Fatima has brought you Dragnet transcribed from Los Angeles.