1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,720 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:15,080 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:20,760 Fatima cigarettes, king size, extra mild and soothing, brings you dragnet on both radio 4 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:21,760 and television. 5 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:33,560 You're a detective sergeant. 6 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:35,040 You're assigned a homicide detail. 7 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:39,320 A young man walks into your office and tells you that his best friend has been killed by 8 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:41,240 unknown assailants. 9 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:45,120 Your job, investigate. 10 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:50,440 Friends, the name Fatima has always stood for quality. 11 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:55,240 Fatimas are distinctive with a truly different flavor and aroma. 12 00:00:55,240 --> 00:01:01,160 And in king size Fatima, you get an extra mild and soothing smoke, plus the added protection 13 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:02,680 of Fatima quality. 14 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:06,900 Remember, in Fatima, the difference is quality. 15 00:01:06,900 --> 00:01:12,640 Because of its quality, its extra mildness, its better flavor and aroma, Fatima continues 16 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:16,200 to grow in favor among king size cigarette smokers everywhere. 17 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,840 Switch to Fatima yourself today. 18 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:23,120 Ask your dealer for Fatima in the bright, sunny yellow pack. 19 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:25,240 King size Fatima. 20 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:29,240 The difference is quality. 21 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:36,600 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 22 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:41,520 For the next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 23 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:46,120 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 24 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:47,840 police files. 25 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:53,040 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 26 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:54,040 in action. 27 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:59,280 It was Monday, August 9th. 28 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:00,280 It was warm in Los Angeles. 29 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,680 We were working the day watch out of homicide detail. 30 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:04,080 My partner is Frank Smith. 31 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:05,080 The boss is Captain Warman. 32 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:06,080 My name is Friday. 33 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:09,560 It was 7.58 a.m. when I got to room 42. 34 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:10,560 Homicide. 35 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:11,560 That you, Frank? 36 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:12,560 Yeah, morning, Joe. 37 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:16,560 Looks like it's going to be a scorcher today, doesn't it? 38 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:17,560 Yeah, nice and clear. 39 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:18,560 How's the weekend going? 40 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:19,560 Lousy. 41 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:20,560 Why? 42 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:21,560 What do you mean? 43 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:23,360 Oh, Faye and me had a ruckus Saturday night. 44 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:24,360 Was that so? 45 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:26,160 Yeah, it happens every time we have somebody over for dinner. 46 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:27,160 Never fails. 47 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:28,160 Yeah. 48 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:29,160 She gets to yakking it up with the company. 49 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:30,160 We never eat till 10, 10.30. 50 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:31,760 It's a miserable time for dinner. 51 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:33,240 Yeah, it's pretty late at night. 52 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,320 Saturday night, we had the Johnsons over, going to play a little cards, have a little 53 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:37,320 dinner. 54 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:38,320 You know, relax. 55 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:39,320 Wife picks Swedish meatballs. 56 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:40,320 They're on the stove. 57 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:41,320 Everything's dandy. 58 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:42,320 She gets to talking. 59 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:43,320 We finally sit down to eat. 60 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:44,320 It's 10.15. 61 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:45,320 Meatballs are burned. 62 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:46,320 Yeah. 63 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:47,320 We lost our appetite. 64 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:48,320 It was real embarrassing, Joe. 65 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:49,320 We finally sat down. 66 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:51,080 I figured, let Faye know I was pretty sore. 67 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:54,040 But I didn't want to come right out and tell her in front of the Johnsons, you know. 68 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:55,040 Yeah, I understand. 69 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:56,640 So I picked up one of the meatballs that was burned. 70 00:02:56,640 --> 00:02:58,360 Said she'd invented something new. 71 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,160 Everybody else used chlorophyll for their tea, but we had built-in charcoal. 72 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:02,160 Yeah. 73 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:03,160 What did she say? 74 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:04,160 Nothing. 75 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:05,160 Just a look. 76 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:06,160 Hasn't said a word to me since. 77 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:07,160 Sends the kids with messages for me. 78 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:08,160 It's pretty miserable. 79 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:09,160 She'll probably be over it when you get home tonight. 80 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:10,160 Pardon me. 81 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:11,160 Yes, sir? 82 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:12,160 Is this the homicide department? 83 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:13,160 Or any court of murder? 84 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:14,160 Yes, sir. 85 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:17,160 That's right. 86 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:19,160 You the fellas I talked to about a murder? 87 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:20,160 Yes, sir. 88 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:21,160 Come on in. 89 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:22,160 Sit down. 90 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:23,160 Take that chair over there. 91 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:24,160 I thought I'd never make it. 92 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:25,160 Are you all right? 93 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:30,160 Yeah, not that I'm here, it's all right. 94 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:32,160 Your face is pretty badly cut there. 95 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:33,160 Those bruises, scratches on your throat. 96 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:34,160 You sure you're all right now? 97 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:35,160 Yeah, yeah, I'm all right. 98 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:36,160 I never thought I'd get here. 99 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:41,160 At times I was ready to quit, but then I'd think of Kevin, what they did to him. 100 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:42,160 I had to keep walking. 101 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:43,160 I had to. 102 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:44,160 For Kevin, I had to. 103 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:45,160 Well, everything's all right now. 104 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:46,160 You can tell us about it. 105 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:47,160 I don't know where to start. 106 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:48,160 What's your name, young fella? 107 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:49,160 Bruce Hamilton. 108 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:50,160 All right, Bruce. 109 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:51,160 I'm Joe Friday. 110 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:52,160 This is my partner, Frank Smith. 111 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:53,160 Hello, Bruce. 112 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:54,160 Hello. 113 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:55,160 We know that you must have been through a terrible ordeal, but you can tell us about it. 114 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:56,160 It's all right. 115 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:57,160 What day is today? 116 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:58,160 It's Monday the 9th. 117 00:03:58,160 --> 00:03:59,160 Monday. 118 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:00,160 And it was Saturday night. 119 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:01,160 Just two days. 120 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:02,160 Seems like 10 years. 121 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:03,160 I don't know. 122 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:04,160 I don't know. 123 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:05,160 I don't know. 124 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:06,160 I don't know. 125 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:07,160 I don't know. 126 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:08,160 I don't know. 127 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:09,160 I don't know. 128 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:10,160 I don't know. 129 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:11,160 I don't know. 130 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:13,160 It seems like 10 years. 131 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:18,720 We just finished dinner, sitting around the fire having coffee, trying to figure out 132 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:21,880 whose turn it was to do the dishes. 133 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:22,880 Then we heard them. 134 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:23,880 You heard them? 135 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:24,880 Who was that? 136 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:25,880 Horsemen. 137 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:26,880 Lots of them. 138 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:27,880 They rode right into the camp. 139 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:33,320 One of them yelled something, and they all stopped, stood there looking at us. 140 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:35,440 We didn't know what to do, who they were. 141 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:37,040 We just stood there. 142 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:41,320 Then this big guy, I guess he was the leader, said something to us in Spanish. 143 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:43,320 We couldn't understand him. 144 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:45,240 All right, go ahead. 145 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:47,640 You see, Kevin and I go to school together. 146 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:51,760 Summer vacation, we decided to go down to Mexico and do a little prospecting. 147 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:52,760 That's the reason we were there. 148 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:53,760 Go on. 149 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:56,480 We just stood there and looked at him. 150 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:58,920 Big guy said something else, and then they all laughed. 151 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:01,920 And he got off his horse and came over to Kevin and me. 152 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:03,280 He was a big man. 153 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:06,600 When we tried to tell him that we didn't know what he was saying, he laughed and turned 154 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,280 to the other man, and they laughed too. 155 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:12,480 Big guy said something else to him, and they all got off their horses and started to go 156 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:13,480 through our things. 157 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:18,360 Kevin told them not to and started to walk over to them to stop them. 158 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:20,480 The leader hit Kevin and knocked him down. 159 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:24,160 The men laughed at him, and Kevin got up and ran toward one of them. 160 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:25,320 Kevin started to hit him. 161 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:28,480 I broke away from the one that was holding me and ran to help Kevin. 162 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:33,080 The big guy grabbed me and hit me in the face, knocked me down, started to kick me. 163 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:34,080 I heard a shot. 164 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:38,840 When I looked where Kevin was, he was all doubled up, holding his stomach. 165 00:05:38,840 --> 00:05:43,360 He hollered at me to help him, and the guy shot him again. 166 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:44,360 Fell down and didn't move. 167 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:48,480 They all laughed, thought it was a big joke. 168 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:51,680 I got up, one of them shot at me, started running. 169 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:52,880 I ran as fast as I could. 170 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:53,880 He kept shooting. 171 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,560 I thought sure they'd hit me, and I kind of waited for it. 172 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,360 Then I ran through some bushes, and I fell into this gully. 173 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:04,360 They hit the bottom, I just lay there, didn't move, almost afraid to breathe. 174 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:06,760 Guess they thought they'd kill me. 175 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:08,240 I see. 176 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:09,240 What happened then? 177 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,440 I waited until I couldn't hear them anymore, and then I crawled up out of the gully to 178 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:13,440 see if they were gone. 179 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,360 I wanted to help Kevin. 180 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:19,200 I didn't see anybody, so I walked over to where he was. 181 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,520 He was laying on his face. 182 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:26,000 You got no idea how I felt when I turned him over. 183 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:27,560 All right, we understand. 184 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:28,560 Go ahead. 185 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:30,400 I knew right away he was dead. 186 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:33,440 They shot him in the stomach and in the chest. 187 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:34,960 His shirt was all stained. 188 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:40,040 There was nothing I could do for him, nothing anybody could do. 189 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:42,920 I looked at him for a long time as I cried. 190 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:45,080 It was terrible. 191 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:46,720 Kevin was dead in this. 192 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:47,720 Nothing I could do for him. 193 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:50,720 What did you do then? 194 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:52,920 I buried Kevin. 195 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:58,120 I looked for something to dig the grave with, but they'd taken everything, even the shovel, 196 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:01,960 and I found a place under a tree and dug a grave with my hands. 197 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:04,520 Then I went back and got Kevin. 198 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:06,880 I laid him in the grave. 199 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:11,680 I dug him, covered him up, and set a prayer for him. 200 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,280 I did the best I could for him. 201 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:15,280 Best I could. 202 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:18,280 All right, son, take it easy. 203 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:20,280 Frank, let's get him some water. 204 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:22,600 I'll take him down to the interrogation room. 205 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:23,600 All right. 206 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:26,040 Bruce, maybe you'd like to go down the hall to another room. 207 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:28,440 It's a little more quiet down there, huh? 208 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:29,440 Yeah. 209 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:31,840 So I'm crying like a kid. 210 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:35,040 I guess you think it's silly, but I can't help it. 211 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:36,040 That's all right, Bruce. 212 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:37,440 We know how you feel. 213 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:40,440 Nobody gets too old to cry. 214 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:42,440 Go ahead. 215 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:45,440 No, it's down this way. 216 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:46,440 Okay. 217 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:47,440 So I'm tired. 218 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:50,440 I'm glad to get this over with. 219 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:51,440 Sure. 220 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:52,440 All right, here we are. 221 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:53,440 Go ahead, Bruce. 222 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:56,440 Want to sit down? 223 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:57,440 Thanks. 224 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:01,440 Here's a glass of water, Bruce. 225 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:02,440 Thanks. 226 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:03,440 Tastes good. 227 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:04,440 Helps. 228 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:05,440 All right. 229 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:10,440 Now, is there any more you want to tell us? 230 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:13,440 Well, there's a little more. 231 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:16,440 There was nothing I could do. 232 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:17,440 I looked around. 233 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:18,440 They'd taken everything. 234 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:19,440 Dishes, food, supplies, clothes. 235 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:20,440 I went over them and I found a little bit of everything. 236 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:23,440 Food, supplies, clothes. 237 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,440 I went over the mesquite bushes where we hid our duffel bag. 238 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:28,440 We kept all our money and papers in there. 239 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:31,440 Wallets, identification, all our valuables. 240 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:32,440 They found that. 241 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:33,440 It was gone. 242 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:35,440 They hadn't left anything. 243 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:36,440 They took everything. 244 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:37,440 Didn't leave a thing, huh? 245 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:38,440 Not a thing. 246 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:39,440 What'd you do then? 247 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:42,440 Started a walk. 248 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:44,440 We parked our car just off the highway. 249 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:46,440 It was about five miles. 250 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:47,440 I got to where we'd parked it. 251 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:49,440 The car was gone. 252 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:50,440 I didn't know what to do. 253 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:52,440 What could I do? 254 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:53,440 Nothing. 255 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:56,440 I started to walk to Ensenada to tell the police. 256 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:59,440 Then I began to think that the bandits had taken my wallet. 257 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:02,440 I didn't have any identification, no way to prove who I was. 258 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:04,440 Couldn't even speak the language. 259 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:06,440 I got scared that they might not believe me. 260 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:10,440 Now, you walked all the way from Ensenada to the American border, is that it? 261 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:11,440 That's right. 262 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:13,440 I walked all Saturday night. 263 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:17,440 Then Sunday morning I found an old adobe house and I crawled through a window and slept. 264 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:21,440 I don't know how long I was asleep, but it was dark when I woke up. 265 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:23,440 I started to walk again. 266 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:25,440 I walked all Sunday night, too. 267 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:26,440 I got to the border. 268 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:31,440 I was afraid to go through the gate, so I went down by the riverbed and found a hole in the fence. 269 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:34,440 I crawled through and went over the American side. 270 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:37,440 When I got there, I felt better, safe. 271 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:41,440 I figured that I'd go up to the first policeman I saw and tell him what happened. 272 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:44,440 Did you notify the authorities down in San Diego? 273 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:48,440 No, I got to the police station, but I didn't go in. 274 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:49,440 I didn't tell them. 275 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:50,440 Why not? 276 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:52,440 Like I said, I didn't have any way to prove who I was. 277 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:54,440 I had no money. My wallet was gone. 278 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:57,440 My clothes were all torn. My face was all cut. 279 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:00,440 I thought it'd be better if I could get to Kevin's mother. 280 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:03,440 I could see her and talk to her. She'd know what to do. 281 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:06,440 I hitched a ride. I wanted to go to San Francisco. 282 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:09,440 Truck driver brought me this far. 283 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:13,440 While we were driving, I thought more and more about what I'd say to Kevin's mother. 284 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:15,440 How I'd tell her he was dead. 285 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:17,440 And I know I couldn't do it. 286 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:21,440 But I had to tell somebody. That's why I came to see you. 287 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:24,440 Now, Bruce, we're gonna have to go back down to Mexico. 288 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:27,440 You'll be able to show us where the body is, won't you? 289 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:29,440 I have to go. I guess I can. 290 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:31,440 But I can tell you exactly where it was. 291 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:34,440 I can give you a map, tell you right where he's buried. 292 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:36,440 Do you want to give us that information now? 293 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:42,440 Yeah. It was south of Ensenada, 40 miles down the new paved highway. 294 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,440 South of Ensenada, 40 miles. You sure it was 40 miles? 295 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:51,440 Yeah. While we were driving, Kevin and I kept trying to figure out how many kilometers to a mile. 296 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:53,440 I kept watching the speedometer. 297 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:56,440 It was just 40 miles when we turned off the paved highway onto a little dirt road. 298 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:57,440 40 miles? 299 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:02,440 Yeah. There's a clump of trees near there on the gully. You can't miss it. 300 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:05,440 Can you give us the description of the car, the license number? 301 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:10,440 Well, I don't remember the license number, but the car was a 51 Ford Sedan, dark blue. 302 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:14,440 I belonged to Kevin. I never paid any attention to the license. 303 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:16,440 That's K-E-V-I-N, Kevin, huh? 304 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:17,440 Yeah. 305 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:21,440 Now we can check that through DMV. What was Kevin's full name and address? 306 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:27,440 Kevin Allen Bradley. He lived at 6502 Washington Street, San Francisco. 307 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:30,440 He lived with his mother, an apartment on Nod Hill. 308 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:32,440 Would you give us a description of Kevin? 309 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:37,440 Well, he's about my size generally. 5'10", 140 pounds, blue eyes. 310 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:41,440 His hair's light, kind of blonde like mine, 22 years old. 311 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:45,440 We looked a lot alike. Kids at school used to think we were brothers sometimes. 312 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:46,440 I see. 313 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,440 Joe, we better get a communication to the Mexican authorities, fill them in on the whole thing. 314 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:53,440 Tell them we're coming down. Contact San Francisco and let them handle that end of the thing. 315 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:57,440 Get a teletype off the DMV in Sacramento, get a license number on the car. 316 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:01,440 We better contact the San Diego PD and get a hold of Al Gaetan, fill him in on the thing. 317 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:04,440 Yeah, that's a good idea. I'll stay here with Bruce. You want to compare that? 318 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:07,440 I don't know. 319 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:13,440 Now look, young fella, would you know these bandits again if you saw them? 320 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:20,440 Why, I might not know some of them, but the big guy and the one that shot Kevin, I'll never forget them. 321 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:26,440 The big guy was tall, heavy, over 6 feet, well over 200 pounds. I'll never forget him. 322 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:32,440 That laugh when he killed Kevin. When he laughed, you could see he had two gold teeth right here in front. 323 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:35,440 These here. Two gold teeth, huh? Yeah. 324 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:38,440 Now how about the other man, Bruce? Did you get a good look at him? 325 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:43,440 He was a small man, dark like the leader. He wasn't wearing a hat, real thin face. 326 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:46,440 His clothes were all dirty and his pants were torn around the bottoms. 327 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:52,440 He was wearing those leather sandals, the open kind. His feet were filthy like he hadn't had a bath in a year. 328 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:55,440 You think you'd be able to identify any of the others? 329 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:59,440 I don't know, maybe if I saw him. I was scared and I don't mind admitting. 330 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:04,440 Joe? Yeah, Frank. I stopped by R&I before I went on with the other communications. 331 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:06,440 Checked the name Kevin Allen Bradley through. Yeah. 332 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:11,440 There's a teletype from San Francisco dated July 13th. It's a missing person report on Kevin. You want to read it? 333 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:13,440 What's it say? Regular missing report? 334 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:20,440 It describes male, white, American, 22 years, 5'10", 140 pounds, blonde, blue eyes, fair complexion. 335 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:23,440 Time of disappearance was wearing a dark blue gabardine suit. 336 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:28,440 Driving a dark blue 1951 Ford, license number 1, Robert 2951. 337 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:29,440 Something else, Joe? 338 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:33,440 There's no way he's carrying a sum of money in excess of $1,500 when he disappeared. 339 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:35,440 $1,500? That's a lot of money in there. 340 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:38,440 Not to Kevin. He was used to carrying that kind of money. 341 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:41,440 You see, his folks were pretty rich. He always had all the money he wanted. 342 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:45,440 I see. Well, how about this missing report here, Bruce? 343 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:46,440 What do you mean? 344 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:49,440 Well, didn't Kevin's mother know that he was going to Mexico? 345 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:55,440 Well, no. You see, they had an argument about where he was going to spend his summer vacation. 346 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:58,440 She wanted him to go to Canada, and he wanted to come down here. 347 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:00,440 One afternoon he just took off. 348 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:04,440 Kevin went to the bank and got the money and just took off. 349 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:06,440 He didn't tell his mother anything about it? 350 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:08,440 No, he thought that she'd try to stop him. 351 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:10,440 Probably would have too if she'd known. 352 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:13,440 Oh, was the money among the things that were stolen from you? 353 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:16,440 Well, yeah. It was in Kevin's wallet in the duffel bag. 354 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:21,440 I suppose it was kind of foolish to leave that much money just laying around, but we did. 355 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:24,440 We didn't think that anything had happened like this. 356 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:27,440 I stopped and think back over it. 357 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:30,440 Kevin being dead, I don't know, I just get sick. 358 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,440 Now, you say you didn't have any money. How did you get along? 359 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:35,440 I didn't think much about food. 360 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:38,440 The important thing was to tell somebody about Kevin's being killed. 361 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:41,440 That's all I thought about, telling somebody. 362 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:44,440 Yeah, sure. Well, you must be pretty hungry then. You'd like something to eat now, would you? 363 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:48,440 Yeah, it might taste pretty good. Sandwich and some coffee. 364 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:50,440 How about you guys? You going to eat? 365 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:51,440 Frank, how about you? 366 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:55,440 Yeah, I'll try to get communications off around across the street and pick up some sandwiches and coffee and bring them back here. 367 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:56,440 All right, fine. 368 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:57,440 What kind of sandwich do you like, Bruce? 369 00:14:57,440 --> 00:14:59,440 Anything. Doesn't make any difference. 370 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:00,440 Joe? 371 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:01,440 Ham's all right. White bread, a lot of mustard. 372 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:02,440 Okay, I'll be right back. 373 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:03,440 All right. 374 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:07,440 Oh, say, Joe, I'm running kind of low on my allowance. I only got a buck and a half. You got a little change? 375 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:08,440 Yeah, sure. 376 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:10,440 Here, let me get this. 377 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:11,440 What's that? 378 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:12,440 Huh? 379 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:14,440 Did you say you had some money? 380 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:17,440 Well, I have got $10. $10 bill. 381 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:21,440 Well, maybe I'm wrong, but I thought you said the bandits took all your money. Did I get it wrong? 382 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:27,440 Well, what I meant is I didn't think I had any money. I found this $10 in my pocket just before I walked in here. 383 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:28,440 Oh, I see, yeah. 384 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:34,440 Look, you can see it's all wadded up. It must have been in my pocket for a long time. Just a $10 all wadded up. 385 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:37,440 Yeah, it's all crumpled up there. You can hardly tell what it is, can you? 386 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:40,440 Yeah, that's right. But you can see it's a $10. 387 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:44,440 Sure, it's all wrinkled up. You can see how I missed it. 388 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:48,440 Yeah. I'll tell you, why don't you put everything in your pockets right here on the table, huh? 389 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,440 Why? What'll that show? 390 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:52,440 All right, come on, boy. 391 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:54,440 I haven't got anything in my pockets. 392 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:57,440 Well, you found the $10. Maybe you'll find something else. 393 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:05,440 All right, but I don't know what it's going to show. Pocket knife, handkerchief, comb. 394 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:08,440 You got the $10 on the table there. That's all. 395 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:10,440 Maybe there's something in your coat pocket. 396 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:13,440 No, I don't carry anything in my coat pockets. It stretches them. 397 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:15,440 Well, you take a look anyway, huh? 398 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,440 I told you I don't use them. See? Nothing. 399 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:20,440 How about the inside pocket? 400 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:22,440 No, there's nothing there. 401 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:23,440 Let's have a look, huh? 402 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:25,440 I told you there's nothing there. 403 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:27,440 Then you won't mind if we have a look. 404 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:32,440 What's that you got there, Bruce? 405 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:35,440 That's my wallet. Guess they didn't take it after all. 406 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:37,440 Gee, thanks for finding it. 407 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:41,440 No, I probably wouldn't have thought to look for it. I just figured that it was gone. 408 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:43,440 Here, let me have it. 409 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:44,440 Let's see what's in it, huh? 410 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:47,440 Just some cards, personal stuff like that. Nothing you'd be interested in. 411 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:51,440 I forgot all about it. I feel pretty silly. I didn't even know it was there. 412 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:52,440 Take a look, Joe. 413 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:57,440 You say this is your wallet, is that right, Bruce? 414 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:00,440 Yeah, it's mine. I told you it's mine. How about let me have it, huh? 415 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:02,440 There's quite a bit of money in here, Bruce. 416 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:03,440 Huh? 417 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:06,440 I don't know. Just a glance here. Looks to be about $1,000, doesn't it? 418 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:08,440 Just a minute. I think I can explain that. 419 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:10,440 There's another thing here I don't think you can explain. 420 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:13,440 What's that name in the wallet? 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I don't know how the money got there. 455 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:34,440 I was as surprised as you were. I don't understand it. You've got to believe me. 456 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:36,440 Yeah, well, you're making it pretty tough to believe, Bruce. 457 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:39,440 It's kind of hard to buy the fact that over a thousand dollars in Kevin's wallet 458 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:41,440 turns up in your pocket and you don't know how it got there. 459 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:45,440 But it's the truth. I don't know how I can convince you that it's the truth. 460 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:47,440 Well, there are a couple of other things that aren't clear here. 461 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:51,440 What? Tell me. I'm not lying. I've got nothing to hide. What's not right? Tell me. 462 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:53,440 Well, it's business of not telling the authorities. 463 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:55,440 I told you I was scared that they might not believe me. 464 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:56,440 You can understand that, can't you? 465 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:57,440 Well, maybe up to a point. 466 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:01,440 I thought that if I could get to Kevin's mother, then she could take care of it. 467 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:02,440 I didn't know what else to do. 468 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:06,440 Then when I got to L.A., I had a chance to think about it and I couldn't go through with it. 469 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:08,440 I couldn't tell his mother. I couldn't face her. 470 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:10,440 Bruce, when you described where we could find the body, 471 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:12,440 you said it was about 40 miles down the paved highway, that right? 472 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:13,440 That's what I said. 473 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:15,440 Well, how long has it been since you've been to Mexico? 474 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:17,440 Well, I told you I just came back from there. 475 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:19,440 Don't you believe anything I've told you? 476 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:21,440 Well, Joe and I just finished an investigation down in Mexico. 477 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:24,440 Investigation took us about 70 miles south of Ensenada. 478 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:26,440 We found a highway paved for only about five miles south. 479 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:28,440 You say 40 miles. How do you explain the difference? 480 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:30,440 Well, maybe I was wrong about the distance. 481 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:32,440 Well, you're pretty sure when you first told us about it. 482 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:33,440 Well, maybe I made a mistake. 483 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:35,440 There's something else, Bruce. It's a little hazy here. 484 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:36,440 I told you I want to help anything. 485 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:38,440 How far south of Ensenada did you say you were? 486 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:41,440 I said about 40 miles. Now I'm not sure. 487 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:43,440 But you are sure that it was south of Ensenada. 488 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:44,440 Yeah. 489 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:45,440 And Kevin was killed on a Saturday night. 490 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:46,440 That's right. 491 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:47,440 And you started for the States right away. 492 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,440 That's what I said. I started walking as soon as I found the car was gone. 493 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:51,440 And you walked all the way to the border. 494 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:52,440 That's right. 495 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:54,440 How'd you walk? What route did you take? 496 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:55,440 I told you I stayed off the road. 497 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:57,440 I was afraid of the bandits coming back. 498 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:00,440 I walked along the roadside and then through the hills. 499 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:02,440 I got off the roadside whenever I saw anybody coming. 500 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:04,440 But you did walk all the way. 501 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:06,440 Yeah, that's right. All the way from Ensenada to the border. 502 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:07,440 And it took you how long? 503 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:09,440 Well, Saturday night and Sunday night. 504 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:11,440 I got a ride in San Diego in the morning. 505 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:13,440 What time do you figure that you started for the border? 506 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:15,440 Maybe 11.30, midnight. I don't know for sure. 507 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:16,440 And you stopped at dawn? 508 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:18,440 Well, yeah. I stopped and slept. 509 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:19,440 Then I woke up and I started a walk. 510 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:23,440 And you're asking us to believe that you walked over 100 miles in less than 14 hours. Is that right? 511 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:24,440 Yeah. 512 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:25,440 And through country like that? 513 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:26,440 What do you think? That I'm making the whole thing up? 514 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:30,440 Look at my face, my back. Here, look. Does this look like my imagination? 515 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,440 You could have gotten these in a fight with Kevin. Maybe he didn't want you to take the money. 516 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:38,440 You keep talking about the money. I tried to tell you I don't know how the money got in my pocket. 517 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:42,440 I don't know anything about it. You think I killed Kevin, is that right? 518 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:43,440 Yeah, it looks that way, doesn't it? 519 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:47,440 He was my best friend. I had no reason to kill him. He was my friend. 520 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:51,440 Now look, son, we better get this thing straight for you. You've opened up a can of beans here. 521 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:56,440 You waltz in here and give us a cock and bull story about this killing. Parts of your story we can't buy. 522 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,440 Why are you trying to sell it to us? You lied about the road. You lied about the money. 523 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:01,440 The story about how you walked doesn't ring true. 524 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:05,440 You want to know what I really think, Bruce? I think the whole thing's a lie from start to finish. A lie. 525 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,440 Now let's come off it. Who killed Kevin Bradley? 526 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:10,440 I don't know. I don't know. 527 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,440 Now get this straight, Bruce. Did you kill him? 528 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:13,440 Huh? 529 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:15,440 Did you kill Kevin Bradley? Is that the reason for this story? 530 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:16,440 No, no, I didn't. 531 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,440 Well, somebody did. Can you tell us who? 532 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:19,440 You're getting me all mixed up. 533 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:22,440 You're the one that's getting it mixed up, Bruce. We just want to know who killed Kevin Bradley. 534 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:23,440 We think maybe it was you. 535 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:24,440 Looks like it might have been. 536 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:26,440 No, no, it couldn't be. Leave me alone. I didn't do it. 537 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:29,440 Why couldn't you have done it? Looks like you did. 538 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:31,440 Because Kevin Bradley isn't dead. 539 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:32,440 What's that? 540 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:36,440 He was never killed. I'm Kevin Bradley. 541 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,440 The boy broke down completely and admitted that the whole thing was a hoax. 542 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:50,440 He said he hadn't been in Mexico at all, but he spent the past week in a downtown hotel working out the story that he planned to tell us. 543 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,440 He admitted that the wounds were self-inflicted. 544 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:58,440 He explained that he had scratched his own face and hit himself with a rock to produce the cuts and bruises. 545 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:04,440 He went on to say that he had picked Mexico as the scene of the false killing because he thought the story would be more difficult to trace. 546 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:11,440 Like many citizens, he was unaware of the close cooperation between American law enforcement agencies and the Mexican authorities. 547 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:17,440 We asked him about the existence of a Bruce Hamilton, and he told us there was such a boy in his class at school. 548 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:21,440 12.50 p.m. The communication had come through from San Francisco, 549 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:26,440 and the teletype said that Mrs. Bradley was en route to Los Angeles to aid in the investigation. 550 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:31,440 When we told Kevin about this, he lapsed into silence and for another hour refused to say anything. 551 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:32,440 2.05 p.m. 552 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,440 All right, now look, boy, you've been sitting there for an hour and you haven't said a word. 553 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,440 If there's something you want to say, well, listen. 554 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:43,440 There's nothing to say. I tried. I tried to get away from her. 555 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:47,440 All my life she's told me what to do. I tried to tell her, but I couldn't. 556 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,440 Nobody could understand. You don't. You can't. 557 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:54,440 Every time I tried to get away, she'd say something or do something, so I couldn't leave. 558 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,440 I was trapped and I didn't know what to do. 559 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:00,440 And I thought I did know, and even that didn't work. 560 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:05,440 I thought that if you told her I was dead, she'd forget me, leave me alone. 561 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,440 I can't even die right. 562 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:13,440 Kevin, you're here. I knew what they told me was wrong. I knew you were all right. 563 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:14,440 Hello, Mother. 564 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:18,440 What happened to you, Kevin, darling? Your face, your clothes. 565 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,440 Oh, my poor baby, how did this happen? Are you all right? 566 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,440 Your poor face, all cut. What's happened, Kevin? 567 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:25,440 It's all right, Mother. 568 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:29,440 No, it's not all right. I don't know what happened, who did this awful thing, but I'll take care of it. 569 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:30,440 Officer. 570 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:31,440 Yes, ma'am. 571 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:32,440 What do you know about this? 572 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:33,440 My big part. 573 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:37,440 What do you know about this? Did you do it? Did you hit this poor boy? 574 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:42,440 Look at this poor face. Just look at it. It's terrible. That's what it is. It's terrible. 575 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,440 I mean to find out just what happened here. I'll get to the bottom of this. 576 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:50,440 No, don't you worry, Kevin, baby. Mother, she'll take care of you. 577 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:51,440 Mother, please. 578 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,440 It's all right, honey. Everything will be all right. 579 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,440 Mother, these officers had nothing to do with it. 580 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:59,440 Of course not. If you say so, Kevin, baby. Have you called the doctor about this? 581 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:05,440 Have you gotten in touch with someone to take care of his face? Never mind. I'll take him to a doctor. 582 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,440 I'll look after him. Poor baby. Mother will look after him. 583 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:09,440 Mother, please don't. 584 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:14,440 No, Kevin, you know that Mother knows what's best. Mother will take care of him. 585 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,440 Stop it. Stop it. Shut up. 586 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:18,440 Kevin. 587 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:22,440 I'm sick of it, tired of it. For 20 years, as long as I can remember, you've taken care of things. 588 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,440 Did you ever think I might want to take care of a few things myself? 589 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,440 Have you ever thought that I wasn't a kid anymore? I'm an adult. 590 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:32,440 Like it says on the missing report, male, white, American, 22 years, an adult. 591 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:33,440 All right. Take it easy, son. 592 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,440 No, I've tried to say this before and I've never had the nerve. 593 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:38,440 I've got it now and I'm going to finish. 594 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,440 I'm tired of having you make all the arrangements for me. 595 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:45,440 I'm going to have dates with girls that I want to go out with, not the ones you pick for me. 596 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:50,440 I'm going to get a job and make my own way. I'm going to buy a car and if I smash it up and me along with it, it's my business. 597 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:52,440 I'll never forgive you for what you've done. 598 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:56,440 You spent 20 years making me an outsider, always on the fringe. 599 00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:02,440 I couldn't do the things I wanted to, only the things you wanted me to do, only the things you thought best. 600 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:07,440 I'm sick of having you make the decisions for me. From here on in, I'm going to make them myself. 601 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,440 I tried to kill Kevin Bradley for no reason. You killed him a long time ago. 602 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:15,440 Take a good look at me, Mother. Take a good look and see what you've done. 603 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:19,440 I hate the sight of you. I hate everything about you and I'll leave me alone and go away. 604 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:21,440 All right. Take it easy, boy. 605 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,440 It's all right, Officer. I understand. 606 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:29,440 Sometimes he gets like this. He doesn't mean it. I know him. 607 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:32,440 All right, Kevin. I'm sure the officers are impressed. 608 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,440 Dry your eyes and we'll go home. 609 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:39,440 Do you hear me, Kevin? Stop this foolishness I said. We're going home. 610 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,440 Yes, Mother, I hear you. 611 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:47,440 I'm sorry, Officer. Embarrassing. I don't know why he does these things. He's always been pretty emotional. 612 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:48,440 Yes, Mother. 613 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:52,440 There's nothing else. We'd better be going. I want to catch the early plane back to the city. 614 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:58,440 There's a party planned for tomorrow night. A million things to do. You'll have to help, Kevin. 615 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,440 Kevin, do you hear me? 616 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,440 Yes, Mother, I hear you. 617 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,440 Well, then say goodbye to the officers and let's go. 618 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:10,440 Goodbye, Mr. Friday. Mr. Smith. I'm sorry this all happened. 619 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,440 Yes, so are we, son. 620 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:17,440 I tried, Sergeant. It just didn't work, but I did try. 621 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:21,440 Kevin, let's go. I don't want to miss that plane. 622 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,440 Yes, Mother. 623 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:26,440 Oh, Sergeant. 624 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:27,440 Yes, ma'am. 625 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,440 Thank you for giving my boy back to me. 626 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:45,440 The story you have just heard was true. The names were changed to protect the innocent. 627 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,440 On August 9th, the matter was taken before the city attorney for a decision. 628 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,440 In a moment, the results of that decision. 629 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,440 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 630 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:54,440 Thank you, George Fennahman. 631 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,440 Friends, if you're planning a trip this coming holiday weekend, 632 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,440 I'd like to suggest that you take Fatimas along with you. 633 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,440 Get a carton or two, and that way you'll have enough to last the trip. 634 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,440 In Fatima, the difference is quality. 635 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,440 Quality that gives you extra mildness and a really different flavor and aroma. 636 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:13,440 You get an extra mild and soothing smoke, plus the added protection of Fatima quality. 637 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:17,440 That's king-size Fatima in the bright, sunny yellow pack and carton. 638 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:30,440 In the interest of justice, there was no complaint filed against Kevin Allen Bradley. 639 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:43,440 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 640 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:48,440 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 641 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:53,440 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Brasher. 642 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,440 Heard tonight were Herb Ellis, Edwin Bruce, Sarah Selby. 643 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:03,440 Script by John Robinson. Music by Walter Schuman. Hal Gibney speaking. 644 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:16,440 King-size Fatima has brought you Dragnet, transcribed from Los Angeles. 645 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:33,440 Friday here at the Mario Lanza Show on NBC.