1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,400 Sound off for Chesterfield. 2 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:15,640 Chesterfield, the only cigarette in America to give you premium quality in both regular 3 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:26,400 and king size brings you Dragnet. 4 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:30,240 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 5 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:40,880 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 6 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:42,400 You're a detective sergeant. 7 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:44,720 You're assigned to homicide detail. 8 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:47,560 The body of a dead man has been found in the rear of his shop. 9 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:50,080 He has been brutally beaten to death. 10 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:51,800 The killer is unknown. 11 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:57,520 Your job, find him. 12 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:03,600 Thousands are changing to Chesterfield, both regular and king size, because Chesterfield 13 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:08,440 is the first and only cigarette to give you premium quality in both sizes. 14 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:14,160 That means king size Chesterfield contains tobaccos of better quality and higher price 15 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:16,680 than any other king size cigarette. 16 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:20,160 It's the same fine tobacco as in regular Chesterfield. 17 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:25,600 There is absolutely no difference except that king size Chesterfield is larger, contains 18 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:30,520 so much more of the same tobaccos, it gives more than a fifth longer smoke. 19 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:33,080 Yes, more than a fifth longer smoke. 20 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:39,520 So remember, Chesterfield is the only cigarette to give you premium quality in both regular 21 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:41,020 and king size. 22 00:01:41,020 --> 00:01:43,420 Buy them either way you like them. 23 00:01:43,420 --> 00:01:50,640 Premium quality Chesterfield and much milder. 24 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:56,760 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 25 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:01,600 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 26 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:06,140 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 27 00:02:06,140 --> 00:02:07,820 police files. 28 00:02:07,820 --> 00:02:12,960 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 29 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:13,960 in action. 30 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:19,360 It was Monday, July 5th. 31 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:20,760 It was hot in Los Angeles. 32 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:22,960 We were working the day watch out a homicide detail. 33 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:24,040 My partner is Frank Smith. 34 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:25,240 The boss is Captain Norman. 35 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:26,240 My name is Friday. 36 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:28,960 It was 7 58 a.m. when I got to room 42. 37 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:29,960 Homicide. 38 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:31,640 Is that you Joe? 39 00:02:31,640 --> 00:02:32,640 Yeah. 40 00:02:32,640 --> 00:02:33,640 How's it going? 41 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:34,640 Don't ask me. 42 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:35,640 What's the matter? 43 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:36,640 I went to the beach yesterday. 44 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:37,640 Got the sunburn. 45 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:39,640 I could hardly sleep last night. 46 00:02:39,640 --> 00:02:40,640 I'm just miserable Joe. 47 00:02:40,640 --> 00:02:44,400 It's going to be a week before I can wear a shirt without feeling I got army blanket 48 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:45,400 on. 49 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:46,400 Well can't you get something for it? 50 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:47,560 Something to make it feel a little better anyway? 51 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:48,560 Don't bring that up either. 52 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:49,560 What's that? 53 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,040 If you've got any homemade remedies for sunburn, keep them to yourself. 54 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:53,040 I've had them for now. 55 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:54,040 Why? 56 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:55,040 What's the matter? 57 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:56,840 Like I said, we went to the beach yesterday. 58 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:57,840 Beautiful day. 59 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:00,880 They fixed up a lunch, sandwiches, potato salad, deviled eggs, all that stuff. 60 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:01,880 Yeah, I know. 61 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:03,480 We went down to Castle Rock, you know, down the highway. 62 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:04,480 Yeah. 63 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:05,480 Just had a ball. 64 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:06,480 Just great. 65 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:09,160 Kids played in the water and then when it got dark we had a few Fourth of July things 66 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:10,160 for them. 67 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:11,160 We had sparklers, stuff like that. 68 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:12,160 Yeah. 69 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:13,640 When we got home I started to feel it. 70 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:14,840 What, the sunburn? 71 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:15,840 Yeah. 72 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:17,440 Back feels like it's on fire, Joe. 73 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:19,320 Legs feel like it got them in hot oil. 74 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:20,320 Believe me, it's terrible. 75 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:24,960 Took off my shirt, pants at home, just sitting there in my shorts. 76 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:27,360 I was trying to figure out some way to stop the burning, you know. 77 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:28,360 Yeah. 78 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:29,360 Well, it happened. 79 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:30,360 In comes Armand. 80 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:31,360 Oh, that's your brother-in-law, huh? 81 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:32,360 Yeah. 82 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:34,960 He's read in some magazine where tea is the stuff for burns. 83 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:36,480 Right away he starts brewing tea. 84 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:37,480 Tea? 85 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:38,480 Yeah. 86 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:39,480 Can you drink? 87 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:40,480 Yeah. 88 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:41,480 I'm on the floor, right? 89 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:42,480 Flat on my stomach. 90 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:44,960 I was feeling so miserable I'd have done anything to get rid of the feeling so I just lay there. 91 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:48,360 And he starts putting tea leaves all up and down my back. 92 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:49,360 Back of my legs. 93 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:51,040 It felt real good at first. 94 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:52,600 Kind of cool, you know. 95 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:53,600 Yeah. 96 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:54,600 And all this time you're laying on your stomach here. 97 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:55,600 Yeah. 98 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:56,600 Right in the middle of the living room floor. 99 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,920 He put papers down first, you know, so the tea wouldn't drip all over the floor. 100 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:01,240 Well, you brew the stuff first. 101 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:02,240 Yeah. 102 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:03,240 And then they put the tea leaves on me. 103 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,800 But then the tea leaves started to dry. 104 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,520 They crinkled all up and the pain came back. 105 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:09,520 Just miserable, Joe. 106 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:10,880 Well, did it do any good at all? 107 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:11,960 I don't know. 108 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:15,400 They finally took it off and put some kind of ointment on my back. 109 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:16,400 Helped a little. 110 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:18,120 I had to sleep on my stomach all night. 111 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:19,280 Couldn't turn over. 112 00:04:19,280 --> 00:04:21,440 I just lay real still. 113 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:25,640 Once in a while I'd fall asleep and roll over and wow, I'd wake right up with a pain. 114 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:27,840 I tell you, Joe, I didn't sleep at all. 115 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:28,840 Not a wink. 116 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:30,100 Yeah, I know what you mean. 117 00:04:30,100 --> 00:04:31,840 I don't see what you're blaming Armin for. 118 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:33,600 Seems like he did try to help you out, though. 119 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:34,600 Oh, sure, he tried. 120 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:36,320 The whole thing was his fault. 121 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:38,760 If he'd kept his big mouth shut, everything would have been all right. 122 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:39,760 How'd he figure that? 123 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:40,760 A picnic. 124 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:41,760 It was his idea, Joe. 125 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:42,760 It's a hot shot. 126 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:43,760 I'll get it. 127 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:48,760 What is it? 128 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:51,760 Killing down on Bixle. 129 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:55,840 8.14 a.m. 130 00:04:55,840 --> 00:04:57,480 We arrived at the address on South Bixle. 131 00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:59,280 It was a small neighborhood pawn shop. 132 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:02,800 A radio card arrived and the two officers had cleared the crowd away from the entrance 133 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:04,200 of the store. 134 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:07,360 One of the officers showed us through a curtain into the back room. 135 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:08,360 Everything was smashed. 136 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:10,000 Glass cases were demolished. 137 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,960 Clothing from the shelves had been torn down and thrown all over the floor. 138 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:17,080 At one side of the room, a closet door was half open and in the closet was the body of 139 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:18,120 a man. 140 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,160 We started to talk with George Armstrong, a victim's partner. 141 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:22,920 Terrible, huh? 142 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:23,920 I don't want to look anymore. 143 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:25,320 I don't want to believe it. 144 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:26,320 Anybody would do this to Mark. 145 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:27,320 Mark? 146 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:28,320 Is that your partner's name? 147 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:29,320 Yes, I'm Mark Williams, my friend. 148 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:31,320 We've been together the last 15 years. 149 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,160 We've been together for 10 years before that. 150 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:35,320 I don't want to think about it. 151 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:36,320 Would you like to step out here, sir? 152 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:37,320 Front part of the store? 153 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:38,320 Well, would it be all right? 154 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:39,320 Yes, it'd be fine. 155 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:40,320 I'll call the crime lab, John. 156 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:41,320 All right, good. 157 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:42,320 Where's the phone, sir? 158 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:43,320 It's back there on the wall. 159 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:44,320 Thanks. 160 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:45,320 I'd like to ask you some questions if it'd be all right. 161 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:46,320 Yes. 162 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:47,320 You discovered the body, is that right? 163 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:48,320 Well, yes. 164 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:49,320 This morning when I came in, I opened the store like I always do, about, I think, 745, 165 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:50,320 I guess it was, something like that. 166 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:51,320 I see. 167 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:52,320 I opened the front door like I usually do and I came in and I saw a body. 168 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:53,320 I don't know if it's a body or a body. 169 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:54,320 I don't know. 170 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:55,320 I don't know. 171 00:05:55,320 --> 00:06:05,560 I opened the front door like I usually do and I came in and put the water on for some 172 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:06,560 tea. 173 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,200 You can see there, you see that hot plate? 174 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:11,400 Mark and I usually have a cup of tea when he comes in. 175 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:12,400 I see. 176 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:15,320 Well, then I went to the back room to hang up my coat. 177 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:19,280 First I thought that somebody had tried to rob the place, where things, you know, were 178 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:20,280 scattered all over. 179 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:23,120 Then I saw Mark laying on the floor and I called you. 180 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:25,120 They're on the way, Joe. 181 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:28,280 Did you always open up the store by yourself, Mr. Armstrong? 182 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:29,280 Yes. 183 00:06:29,280 --> 00:06:32,920 I don't know how it started, but somewhere along the line I'd open up the place and then 184 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:35,160 Mark would clean up the shop and close. 185 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:37,240 It's been that way for years. 186 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:38,240 When did you last see Mr. Williams? 187 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:39,240 That is, when did you see him alive? 188 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:40,240 Saturday night. 189 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:41,240 I left about 545. 190 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:42,240 He was closing the place up. 191 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:47,540 I told him that I'd meet him for breakfast Sunday morning. 192 00:06:47,540 --> 00:06:48,540 He wasn't there. 193 00:06:48,540 --> 00:06:50,360 I tried to call him at home, but there wasn't any answer. 194 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:52,420 His landlady, they hadn't seen him. 195 00:06:52,420 --> 00:06:53,420 Was he married, do you know? 196 00:06:53,420 --> 00:06:54,420 No. 197 00:06:54,420 --> 00:06:55,420 He wasn't married. 198 00:06:55,420 --> 00:06:56,420 Same thing happened to both of us. 199 00:06:56,420 --> 00:06:58,000 Neither one of us married. 200 00:06:58,000 --> 00:06:59,000 What's that to you? 201 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,480 Well, you see, Mark and I are both in love with the same girl. 202 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:02,480 We were younger. 203 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:07,240 We used to take her to the park with someone, listen to the band, concert. 204 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:08,240 Three of us. 205 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:09,640 We used to go every place together. 206 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:11,920 Like I said, both of us were in love with her. 207 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:17,160 Well, things went along just fine for a year or so, then she got married to someone else. 208 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,240 Mark and I were pretty sad about it. 209 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:20,240 Couldn't blame the girl, though. 210 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,040 The guy she married was rich. 211 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:24,840 We had a big house, a good family. 212 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:26,320 We didn't have much of anything. 213 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:28,560 No, neither of us married. 214 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:31,480 Just never seemed to find a girl compared with Kate. 215 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:32,480 Kate? 216 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:33,480 Kate Dillon. 217 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:34,920 She's a lovely girl. 218 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:37,840 This meeting you were going to have yesterday morning, was that a regular thing? 219 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:39,080 Oh, yes, it was. 220 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:44,880 You see, about the only relaxation Mark and I had was bowling on the green. 221 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:45,880 Bowling? 222 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:46,880 Mm-hmm. 223 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:50,880 Every Sunday that it didn't rain, we'd meet for breakfast, then catch a bus out to Exposition 224 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:53,320 Park, you know, bowling club out there. 225 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:55,480 Mark and I both belonged. 226 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:56,840 Mark was a sort of local champion. 227 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:58,320 Played a real good game. 228 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:01,240 Well, didn't you think that anything was wrong when he didn't meet you yesterday? 229 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:02,240 Well, yes, I did. 230 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:03,240 I did it first. 231 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:06,600 Then I got to thinking about it, and I figured maybe he wasn't feeling too good. 232 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:08,280 Just didn't want to go out to the club. 233 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:09,280 Yes, sir. 234 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:10,800 He'd get like that, moody. 235 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:11,800 Just for no reason at all. 236 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:13,960 Decided he didn't want to go any place at all. 237 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:15,400 Just sit in his room. 238 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:18,040 Almost always came to work, even when he was in the mood. 239 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:21,640 But now and then he'd just sit up there and look out the window. 240 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:23,520 Was there any special reason for all this? 241 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:25,560 No, not that I know of. 242 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:26,880 He'd just get like that. 243 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:27,880 No special reason. 244 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,280 When he did, you just had to sit and let the mood pass. 245 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:31,600 Nothing else to do. 246 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:32,600 I see. 247 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,360 Well, did Mr. Williams have any enemies that you'd know of, anyone at all, that might do 248 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:36,360 a thing like this? 249 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:37,360 No, sir. 250 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:38,360 No one. 251 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:39,360 Mm-hmm. 252 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:40,520 Was he alone when he left him Saturday night? 253 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,560 Yes, he was straightening up the shelves, getting the things in order. 254 00:08:43,560 --> 00:08:45,080 But he was all by himself. 255 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:46,080 No one was here. 256 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:48,400 Have you ever had any trouble with anyone in the neighborhood lately? 257 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:50,200 Somebody who might have been looking for trouble, maybe? 258 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:52,520 Well, Sergeant, most of our customers have trouble. 259 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:56,360 Well, yes, sir, but about how much money was on the premises when you left? 260 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:59,080 Mm, maybe $1,500. 261 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:00,080 Where'd you keep the money? 262 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:02,120 In the safe, right there. 263 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:05,160 You can see for yourself it's all right. 264 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:06,680 Would you mind opening it up just to be sure? 265 00:09:06,680 --> 00:09:09,840 Well, if you want me to, but I'm sure everything's okay. 266 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:11,840 If you wouldn't mind, sir. 267 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:12,840 Okay. 268 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:18,080 I know there's nothing wrong here. 269 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:19,080 43. 270 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:25,040 You can see for yourself that everything's okay, can't you? 271 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:26,040 16 left. 272 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:29,720 Yes, sir, we just want to be sure. 273 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:30,720 Right to 8. 274 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:31,720 There. 275 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:32,720 You can see it. 276 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:33,720 Uh-huh. 277 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,720 Is the money kept in that strongbox? 278 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:37,720 Yes, sir. 279 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:39,640 Who knew the combination to this safe? 280 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:41,240 I mean, besides you. 281 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:42,240 Just Mark and me. 282 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:45,240 We're the only ones. 283 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:46,880 There. 284 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:47,880 All the money's there. 285 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:49,840 Is there anything else missing from the store? 286 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:50,840 Anything that you can see? 287 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:52,720 Well, sir, I did look around you. 288 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:54,440 If there was anything, how could I tell? 289 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:57,800 I'd have to take a complete inventory. 290 00:09:57,800 --> 00:09:58,800 What difference does it make? 291 00:09:58,800 --> 00:09:59,800 How's it going to help Mark? 292 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:03,440 Well, it's pretty important we find out why he was killed the way he was, sir. 293 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:04,440 A beating and all. 294 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:07,040 If you'd look around, you might be able to come up with something. 295 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:10,840 All right, I'll look around, but I'll tell you, I don't think there's anything gone. 296 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:18,160 All right, if you just do that, we'll look over the back room if we're all right. 297 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:19,960 Pretty bad, huh, John? 298 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:20,960 Yeah. 299 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:23,160 Looks like revenge could have been the motive, maybe, from the looks of things here. 300 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:25,160 Yeah, it'd have to be something like that. 301 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:26,160 Yeah, but beating. 302 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:29,160 The way the place is all smashed up. 303 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:30,160 Yeah. 304 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:31,160 Frank? 305 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:32,160 Yeah? 306 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:33,160 Come over here. 307 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:34,160 Yeah? 308 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:35,160 Look here in the closet. 309 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:36,160 You can see it there under the body. 310 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:37,160 Oh, yeah, it looks like a hand axe. 311 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:41,120 Yeah, might have been trying to defend himself, huh? 312 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:42,120 Well, maybe. 313 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:43,120 Sergeant? 314 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:44,120 Yes, sir? 315 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:45,120 You were right, absolutely right. 316 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:46,120 What's that, sir? 317 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:47,120 Well, he did steal something. 318 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:48,120 The gun case had been broken into. 319 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:49,120 Yes, sir, anything missing? 320 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:50,120 A couple of revolvers. 321 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:51,120 8.32 a.m. 322 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:52,120 The crime lab crew arrived and went over the place. 323 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:53,120 In the back room under a pile of clothes, they found a 10-inch length of lead pipe that 324 00:10:53,120 --> 00:11:05,320 was 325 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:07,860 made of lead. 326 00:11:07,860 --> 00:11:11,680 Dean Bergman from Leighton Prince dusted the room, the safe in the store, and the lead 327 00:11:11,680 --> 00:11:12,680 pipe. 328 00:11:12,680 --> 00:11:13,920 He came up with several clean prints. 329 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:17,520 He rolled the dead man's fingerprints and then he took Armstrong's. 330 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:20,880 Comparison with those he'd found eliminated all of them except a partial print on the 331 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:21,880 safe. 332 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,280 The coroner arrived and removed the body. 333 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:27,120 Frank and I canvassed the neighborhood, but none of the people in the area had noticed 334 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:29,680 anyone suspicious in the last few days. 335 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:33,200 We called the office and Sergents Joe Lamonica and Howard Hudson came out to help us in the 336 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:34,480 search of the vicinity. 337 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:38,200 The axe found in the hands of the victim, Mark Williams, had stains on the blade. 338 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,920 A closer check of the pawn shop showed that several articles other than the guns had been 339 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:42,920 stolen. 340 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:46,280 George Armstrong gave us a complete list of the missing property along with the serial 341 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:47,600 numbers of the guns. 342 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:48,600 11.34 a.m. 343 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:51,080 Frank and I checked back into the city hall. 344 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:53,640 Frank, did you get the APBs out? 345 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:54,640 Yeah. 346 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:55,960 Notified the pawn shop detail. 347 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:56,960 Any word from Lamonica and Hudson? 348 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:57,960 No, not yet. 349 00:11:57,960 --> 00:11:58,960 At least there's nothing in the book there. 350 00:11:58,960 --> 00:11:59,960 I get it. 351 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:00,960 Homicide Friday. 352 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:01,960 Oh, yeah, Joe. 353 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:04,960 Yeah. 354 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:09,560 No, we haven't heard from him yet. 355 00:12:09,560 --> 00:12:10,560 No. 356 00:12:10,560 --> 00:12:11,560 Where? 357 00:12:11,560 --> 00:12:12,560 Yeah. 358 00:12:12,560 --> 00:12:14,560 Yeah, well, that figures. 359 00:12:14,560 --> 00:12:15,560 OK, thanks. 360 00:12:15,560 --> 00:12:16,560 It's Lamonica. 361 00:12:16,560 --> 00:12:20,880 He and Hudson found a bloodstained shirt in an alley behind an apartment house a couple 362 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:22,160 of blocks from the pawn shop. 363 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:23,160 Yeah. 364 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:25,280 Checked the apartment register and they found a Wallace Holmes listed. 365 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:26,280 Holmes? 366 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:27,280 Yeah, Lamonica knows him. 367 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:28,280 Yeah. 368 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:30,480 Just served six months for violation of the Narcotics Act. 369 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:38,800 12.02 PM, we ran the name Wallace Holmes through R&I. 370 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:41,200 He had a record dating back almost 10 years. 371 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:44,760 He'd been arrested twice for violation of the state health and safety code and once 372 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:47,080 on suspicion of 211 PC. 373 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:50,160 We talked to the neighbors in the apartment building where he lived, but they told us that 374 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:53,680 Holmes had been in bed with a bad cold for the past three days. 375 00:12:53,680 --> 00:12:57,080 Several of them had taken him food on occasion and stated positively that he could not have 376 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:59,200 left the apartment. 377 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:01,800 We then checked his fingerprints against those we'd found at the pawn shop. 378 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:02,800 There was no make. 379 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,200 A stakeout was placed on the building. 380 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:09,200 2.15 PM, we checked by the crime lab to see if Ray Pinker had finished the tests on the 381 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:11,520 physical evidence that he'd collected at the murder scene. 382 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:12,520 Looks like the lead pipe. 383 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:14,040 Can you tell us anything about the killer? 384 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:15,360 Nothing, except he's WMA. 385 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:17,440 Well, how about the other bloodstains, Ray? 386 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:19,520 Test out type O, victim's type B. 387 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:22,160 Well, figures that he managed to hit the killer with the axe then, huh? 388 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:23,160 Possible. 389 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:24,160 How about the shirt? 390 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:25,160 Do you find anything on it? 391 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:27,560 Haven't finished the tests on the dust particles we found in the pocket yet. 392 00:13:27,560 --> 00:13:29,280 The precipitant test shows it's human blood. 393 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:30,920 Haven't had a chance to group it yet. 394 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:32,400 How about any laundry markings? 395 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:33,400 Anything there, Ray? 396 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:37,600 Just about to check it. 397 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:38,600 Spread it out here. 398 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:41,600 You want to get those lights, Frank? 399 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:44,400 Yeah, I'll do it. 400 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:47,400 Turn on this fluorescent. 401 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:52,160 Yeah, laundry marking here. 402 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:54,000 Yeah, looks like RJ. 403 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,000 Is that right? 404 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,000 And there's a number there, too. 405 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,680 7-6-9-0-2. 406 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:01,680 Anything else, Ray? 407 00:14:01,680 --> 00:14:02,680 Hmm? 408 00:14:02,680 --> 00:14:05,880 Looks like that's about it. 409 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:06,880 What laundry would you know? 410 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:08,520 Yeah, I think so. 411 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:11,160 Markings the same type as consolidated central laundry uses. 412 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:12,160 Big place out on Pico. 413 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:15,240 Handle cleaning for a lot of small neighborhood places in town. 414 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:16,240 I can give you the address. 415 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:17,240 Okay, anything else? 416 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:20,920 Oh, yeah, a 15 neck and a 33 sleeve. 417 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:22,360 Average size, not much help, huh? 418 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:25,560 Maybe I can give you some more when I get through the dust particles in the pockets. 419 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:26,560 Yeah, okay. 420 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:28,320 Wish we had a little more to go on. 421 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:32,520 Well, you got a piece of lead pipe, a stained shirt and an axe that looks like it's been 422 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:33,520 recently used. 423 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:34,520 Yeah. 424 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:35,520 They all connect somewhere along the line. 425 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:39,320 Yeah, all we got to do is find out where. 426 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:44,960 2.58 p.m. Frank and I drove out to the consolidated central laundry. 427 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:47,320 We talked to the manager and he looked through the files. 428 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:50,440 He was able to tell us that the shirt had been laundered at a small cleaning place on 429 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:51,440 South Hill. 430 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:53,720 He gave us the address and Frank and I drove over. 431 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:55,280 We talked to the manager of the shop. 432 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:56,280 Uh-huh. 433 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:57,280 Yeah, it's our number, all right. 434 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:00,160 Pastor, would it be possible for you to tell us who owns the shirt? 435 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:02,600 Yeah, I'll look it up in the book. 436 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:06,400 Let's see, R.J. 769-02. 437 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,400 Mm-hmm, that's right. 438 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:13,280 Let's see, 642-998-7. 439 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:16,320 Yeah, yeah, here it is. 440 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:18,920 John Dunlap, address out on 3rd Street. 441 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:21,360 Say, what do you want to know about the shirt for? 442 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:22,360 Dunlap done something? 443 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:24,080 No, we're just conducting an investigation here. 444 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:25,080 Oh. 445 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:26,480 What's the describe that's Dunlap for us? 446 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:28,000 Oh, sure, I've known John for years. 447 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,560 He's been bringing us things in here for at least, uh, eight, maybe nine years. 448 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:33,440 Could you give us a description of him, you think? 449 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:37,960 Yeah, John, he's about, uh, about my size, maybe 5'11". 450 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:38,960 Weighs about 180. 451 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:40,360 How about his coloring? 452 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:41,360 Huh? 453 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:43,240 His coloring, is he dark or light-complected? 454 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:44,240 Oh, yeah. 455 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:46,440 Well, I guess you'd say maybe sort of medium. 456 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:47,440 Yeah, medium. 457 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:50,680 Does he have any marks or scars on him, anything unusual about him? 458 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:53,000 Well, if you asked me that yesterday, I'd have said no. 459 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:54,000 How's that? 460 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:58,000 Well, up till this morning, well, John came in this morning and there was nothing that 461 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,800 made him stand out up till then. 462 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:01,680 He must have had an accident over the weekend, I guess. 463 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:02,680 I don't understand. 464 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:16,160 He came in this morning, his face was all scratched up. 465 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:21,020 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 466 00:16:21,020 --> 00:16:25,080 We like to give the facts about Chesterfield so you can be your own judge. 467 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:30,880 Chesterfield is the first and only cigarette to give you premium quality in both regular 468 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:32,520 and king size. 469 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:37,000 Chesterfield is the first and only cigarette to tell you what it's made of, the world's 470 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:42,740 best tobaccos, kept tasty and fresh by pure and costly moistening agents, the best that 471 00:16:42,740 --> 00:16:44,400 money can buy. 472 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:47,600 And Chesterfield cigarette paper is of the highest purity. 473 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:52,480 Now Chesterfield is the first cigarette to present this scientific evidence on the effects 474 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:53,480 of smoking. 475 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:58,200 A medical specialist is making regular bi-monthly examinations of a group of people from various 476 00:16:58,200 --> 00:16:59,720 walks of life. 477 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:04,680 Forty-five percent of this group have smoked Chesterfield for an average of over ten years. 478 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:09,400 After eight months, the medical specialist reports that he observed no adverse effects 479 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:13,880 on the nose, throat, and sinuses of the group from smoking Chesterfield. 480 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:16,080 I'd say that means real mildness. 481 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:22,080 Either way you like them, regular or king size, you'll find premium quality Chesterfields 482 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:32,000 much milder. 483 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,680 Monday 5.30 p.m. Frank and I ran the name John Dunlap through R&I. 484 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:38,440 We found no record on anyone answering his description. 485 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:42,520 Meantime a stakeout on Wallace Holmes' apartment where we found the bloodstained shirt continued. 486 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:45,680 Ray Pinker had finished the test on the shirt and found that most of the blood on it was 487 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,760 type B, however there were also small traces of type O. 488 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:52,480 The tests on the dust particles found in the pockets of the shirt netted us nothing. 489 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:55,880 6.15 p.m. We drove out to the address given us by the cleaning shop. 490 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:57,640 It was a large apartment building. 491 00:17:57,640 --> 00:17:59,120 Dunlap was registered in the penthouse. 492 00:17:59,120 --> 00:18:01,600 We took the elevator up and rang the bell. 493 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:02,600 Yeah? 494 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:03,600 John Dunlap? 495 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:06,480 That's right, what can I do for you? 496 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:07,720 Police officer, would you like to talk to you? 497 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:08,720 Police? 498 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:09,720 What do you want with me? 499 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:10,720 Just like to talk to you. 500 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:11,720 Well, okay, come on in. 501 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:16,040 You can see you caught me in the shower. 502 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:17,040 This is my partner Frank Smith. 503 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:18,040 My name's Friday. 504 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:19,040 Hi, John. 505 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:20,040 How do you do, sir? 506 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:21,040 Hey, mind if I go ahead and get dressed while we talk? 507 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:22,320 I got a date and I don't want to be too late. 508 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:23,320 No, it's all right. 509 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:24,320 Go right ahead. 510 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:26,240 Come on in here. 511 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:27,240 What is it I can do for you, officers? 512 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:30,120 Well, I wonder if you could explain your movement Saturday night. 513 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:31,120 Saturday night? 514 00:18:31,120 --> 00:18:32,120 Yes, sir. 515 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:33,120 Well, let's see. 516 00:18:33,120 --> 00:18:36,200 I played golf in the morning, got back from the club about six, I guess. 517 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:39,560 Miserable game, 102, lost $35. 518 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:40,560 Sure was off Saturday. 519 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:41,800 Just a minute, sir. 520 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:44,200 You tell us what clothes you want, we'll get them for you. 521 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:45,560 All right, hand me that shirt there. 522 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:46,560 The blue one, huh? 523 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:47,560 Yeah. 524 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:50,720 Sure, miserable game Saturday, three-putted almost every green. 525 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:51,720 Nice looking shirts down there. 526 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:52,720 You like them? 527 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:53,720 Well, they're nice looking. 528 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:54,720 Where do you get them? 529 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:56,400 I haven't made, can't wear store-made shirts. 530 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:58,560 Next too long collar doesn't fit right. 531 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:00,080 What did you do after you got home from the golf club? 532 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,600 Took a shower, then went out, had a date. 533 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:04,240 Lousy game room the whole evening. 534 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:05,240 Sir? 535 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:08,560 Well, after that crummy 102, I really played the 19th hole, got pretty loaded. 536 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:11,000 By the time I got to Alice's, I was in a rare mood. 537 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:12,000 Alice? 538 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:13,000 Yeah, Alice, Alice Miller. 539 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:16,480 Anyway, I was about half hour late and she was fit to be tied. 540 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:17,840 We were supposed to have dinner out in Malibu. 541 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:21,760 It took us about an hour to drive out there and Alice kept getting mad as we drove. 542 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:23,000 I guess I didn't help things out any. 543 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:24,960 I was in a foul mood and didn't keep it to myself. 544 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:25,960 Yeah. 545 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,440 Well, by the time we got there, really going at it, silly thing. 546 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:30,600 No sense to the argument at all, but it just kept building. 547 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:31,600 Either one of you married? 548 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:33,320 Yeah, I assume a partner here is. 549 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:34,800 Well, then he knows what I mean. 550 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,360 Well, we didn't get down to the beach till about 8.30 or 9. 551 00:19:37,360 --> 00:19:40,560 We got out of the car and Alice said she wanted me to take her back home. 552 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:42,000 I told her we'd just gotten there. 553 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:43,560 She said she didn't care, wanted to go home. 554 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:44,560 Yeah. 555 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:47,120 I told her if she wanted to leave, it was OK with me and I turned around to walk down 556 00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:48,120 to the house. 557 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:49,120 You know, it's pretty dark down there. 558 00:19:49,120 --> 00:19:50,120 Uh huh. 559 00:19:50,120 --> 00:19:53,360 Well, I walked right over the embankment, must have fallen over about six, seven feet. 560 00:19:53,360 --> 00:19:55,560 Didn't hurt myself much, but you can see I scratched up my face. 561 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:56,560 Yeah, we can't. 562 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:58,440 Well, the long one, though, I guess it was worth it. 563 00:19:58,440 --> 00:19:59,440 How's that? 564 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:02,480 Well, Alice was so scared she ran down to me and the argument was all over. 565 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:03,840 We went on into the house and had dinner. 566 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:04,840 How long were you there? 567 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:08,960 Oh, I guess until, uh, well, maybe 2.30, 3 in the morning. 568 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:10,720 Got to playing charades, time just went. 569 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,200 You happen to know what blood type you have? 570 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:14,200 What? 571 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:15,200 Your blood type. 572 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:16,200 Do you know what it is? 573 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:17,760 I think it's A, but I'm not sure, though. 574 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:18,760 Uh huh. 575 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:20,280 You said you had your shirts made to order, huh? 576 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:21,280 Yeah, that's right. 577 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:22,280 Why? 578 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:24,240 Can you tell us how someone else might have gotten one of your shirts? 579 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:25,240 Wait a minute. 580 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:26,840 I don't think I understand just what's going on. 581 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:27,840 What is this all about? 582 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:29,520 You come in here and ask a lot of questions. 583 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:30,520 What's it all for? 584 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:31,520 Just routine. 585 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:32,520 Routine what? 586 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:35,440 Routine for me to have policemen come in and ask a lot of questions? 587 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:37,520 Where was I Saturday night who makes my shirts? 588 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:38,520 Who might have had them? 589 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:39,520 Come on, what's the pitch? 590 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:42,120 All right, do you know a man named Mark Williams? 591 00:20:42,120 --> 00:20:43,120 Williams? 592 00:20:43,120 --> 00:20:45,800 Uh, no, Tom Williams sells insurance. 593 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:46,800 No, Mark Williams. 594 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:48,920 No, I don't think I know Mark. 595 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:50,960 Anyway, what's he got to do with this? 596 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:52,440 He was killed Saturday night. 597 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:54,000 You figure maybe I did? 598 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,720 Well, a shirt that belongs to you was found near the scene. 599 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:57,720 My shirt? 600 00:20:57,720 --> 00:20:58,720 That's right. 601 00:20:58,720 --> 00:20:59,720 Same label. 602 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:00,720 Check the laundry markings in it. 603 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:01,720 Your laundry man said it was your shirt. 604 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:02,720 Said it was your number. 605 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:03,720 You talked to Harry? 606 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:05,560 Yeah, if that's his name, I guess we did. 607 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:07,000 I don't understand it. 608 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:08,200 Hey, wait a minute. 609 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:09,200 Yes, sir? 610 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,600 A couple of weeks ago, I gave a half a dozen shirts to the woman who comes in to clean 611 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:12,840 up the place. 612 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:13,840 She might know what happened. 613 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:14,840 Let me call her and find out. 614 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:16,840 I've got her number here someplace. 615 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:20,720 Yeah, here it is. 616 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:23,560 If anybody knows, she would. 617 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,000 A couple of weeks ago, told her she could have them. 618 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,800 I don't know what the matter with them. 619 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:30,320 Hello? 620 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:31,320 Mrs. Lambert in, please? 621 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:33,360 Yeah, thank you. 622 00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:35,440 Hello, Mrs. Lambert. 623 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:36,440 This is John Dunlap. 624 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:37,440 Oh, just fine. 625 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:38,440 And you? 626 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:39,440 That's good. 627 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:43,920 No, no, I just want to know what you did with those shirts you took a couple of weeks ago. 628 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,720 Well, no, Mrs. Lambert, I did give them to you. 629 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:48,840 I just want to know what you did with them. 630 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:49,840 Uh-huh. 631 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:50,840 I see. 632 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:53,560 Well, can you give me the address? 633 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:54,560 Well, just a minute. 634 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:55,560 I'll get a pencil. 635 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:56,560 Do you have a pencil, officer? 636 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:57,560 Here you are. 637 00:21:57,560 --> 00:21:58,560 Thank you. 638 00:21:58,560 --> 00:21:59,560 Now, go ahead, Mrs. Lambert. 639 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,560 Uh-huh. 640 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:04,840 47? 641 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:06,960 All right, thank you. 642 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:08,680 No, no, don't you worry. 643 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:09,680 Everything's all right. 644 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:11,680 Yeah, well, thank you, Mrs. Lambert. 645 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:13,120 Yeah, I'll see you then. 646 00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:14,120 Right, goodbye. 647 00:22:14,120 --> 00:22:16,960 A real character thought I wanted the shirts back. 648 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:18,440 Did she tell you what she did with them? 649 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:27,600 Yeah, I said she sold them to a secondhand store down on Bixel. 650 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,320 We went over to the cleaning woman. 651 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:32,800 She gave us the same story that we'd gotten from John Dunlap. 652 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,640 We went over to the secondhand store, but it was closed. 653 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:38,040 The stakeout on the apartment continued. 654 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:41,480 The body had been posted, and the coroner told us that Williams had been killed at approximately 655 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:43,180 midnight on Saturday night. 656 00:22:43,180 --> 00:22:46,120 That would allow two hours on either side, making it possible for the murder to take 657 00:22:46,120 --> 00:22:49,760 place between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. 658 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,000 Frank and I checked out of the office and went home. 659 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:56,040 The following morning, Tuesday, July 6th at 8 17 p.m., we checked the secondhand store 660 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:57,840 where the shirts had been sold. 661 00:22:57,840 --> 00:22:59,520 The dealer told us that he remembered the shirts. 662 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,120 He said that he'd bought five of them and had only sold one. 663 00:23:02,120 --> 00:23:05,160 He was able to give us a fair description of the man he'd sold the shirt to. 664 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:08,480 He went on to say that he'd heard that the man was a user of narcotics. 665 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:11,300 We ran the name he gave us, Fred Harris, through R&I. 666 00:23:11,300 --> 00:23:13,560 He had a record of violation of the state narcotic act. 667 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,320 We got out an APB and a local bulletin on him. 668 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:20,360 We called Narcotics Division and notified them that we wanted Harris as a suspect. 669 00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:23,520 We checked the address listed on his record, but we found that he'd moved and left no 670 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:25,280 forwarding address. 671 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:26,600 Two days went by. 672 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,400 We ran down all leads, but we were able to come up with nothing new. 673 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,920 Thursday, July 8th, 8 30 a.m. 674 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:33,720 Frank and I checked back into the squad room. 675 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,720 Well, there's another one that didn't go anyplace. 676 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,720 Yeah, well, he's got to be someplace. 677 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,080 I get it. 678 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:43,080 Homicide Friday. 679 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:44,080 Oh, yeah, Joe. 680 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:45,080 Mm-hmm. 681 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:46,080 Yeah. 682 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:47,080 Well, how soon will you be here? 683 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:48,080 All right. 684 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:49,080 Okay. 685 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:50,080 Right. 686 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:51,080 Anything? 687 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:56,080 Well, Monica and Hudson, they just picked Harris up. 688 00:23:56,080 --> 00:24:00,400 1120 a.m. 689 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,480 Fred Harris was brought to the interrogation room. 690 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,360 Frank and I talked to him for about an hour, but other than his name, he refused to tell 691 00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:06,360 us anything. 692 00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:07,680 We tried to lead him out. 693 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,720 We talked about his family, about sports, food, everything we could think of. 694 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:12,200 None of it worked. 695 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,200 Harris remained sullen and uncooperative. 696 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:15,200 1 46 p.m. 697 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:16,760 How about some lunch, Joe? 698 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:18,200 I guess so. 699 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:19,200 Harris? 700 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:20,200 No. 701 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:21,200 No, thanks. 702 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:22,200 All right. 703 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:23,200 You suit yourself. 704 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:24,200 What do you want, Joe? 705 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:25,200 Oh, ham on rice, all right? 706 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:26,200 Get some coffee, too, huh? 707 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:27,200 Okay. 708 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:28,200 You sure, Harris? 709 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,200 You don't want it, indeed? 710 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:33,200 No, I told you. 711 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:34,200 Okay. 712 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,200 All right, if I smoke? 713 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,200 Yeah, go ahead. 714 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:48,200 Why don't you want to talk about it, Harris? 715 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:49,200 About what? 716 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:50,200 Why you killed Williams. 717 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:51,200 Who says I did? 718 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:52,200 That's the way it looks. 719 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:53,200 It looks wrong. 720 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,200 Well, you figured for yourself, Harris. 721 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,200 When you killed the old man, you weren't very careful. 722 00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:59,200 You left a couple of prints around the place. 723 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:00,200 Yeah? 724 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:01,200 Shirt your war. 725 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:02,200 We got that. 726 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:03,200 Found it right where you dropped it. 727 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:04,200 Ran that down and leads right to you. 728 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:05,200 Got the man who sold it to you. 729 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:06,200 Identifies you. 730 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:07,200 Maybe he's wrong. 731 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:08,200 No, you know better than that. 732 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,200 When they picked you up, you were carrying some of the things you stole from that pawn 733 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:12,200 shop. 734 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:13,200 You can't account for your time on Saturday night. 735 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,200 I told you I didn't do it. 736 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:16,400 I didn't kill the old man. 737 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,400 I just don't remember where I was that night. 738 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:20,400 Didn't that happen to you? 739 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,000 You go someplace and a couple of days later you can't remember where you were. 740 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,000 Doesn't that ever happen to you? 741 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:25,000 Oh, yeah. 742 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:26,000 Once in a while. 743 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:27,000 Yeah, you see? 744 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:31,800 How do you expect me to remember when you sometimes forget? 745 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:32,800 You a user? 746 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,880 What are you asking that for? 747 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:35,880 You got the record. 748 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:36,880 Look it up yourself. 749 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:39,880 Roll up your sleeve. 750 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:44,000 All right. 751 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:45,000 You're a user. 752 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,400 You work for a living? 753 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:48,400 Yeah, sometimes. 754 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:50,400 What do you do? 755 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:51,400 Whatever I can. 756 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:52,400 When did you last work? 757 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,000 A couple of weeks ago. 758 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,000 You haven't worked since then, huh? 759 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:57,000 No. 760 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:58,000 Where'd you get that stuff they found on you? 761 00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,000 I don't know. 762 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:00,000 I must have bought it. 763 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,000 Any idea where? 764 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,000 No. 765 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:03,400 You bought the stuff and you don't know where. 766 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,040 That what you want me to believe? 767 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:06,040 Believe what you want. 768 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:07,040 I don't care. 769 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:08,040 Well, here's what I believe. 770 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:09,040 You tell me if I'm wrong. 771 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,000 I think you went to the old man's pawn shop about closing time on Saturday night. 772 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,200 You had a big yen on it. 773 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:13,200 No money to make a connection. 774 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:14,560 You tried to rob the old man. 775 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:15,560 He didn't like it and you killed him. 776 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,280 You killed him with that hunk of lead pipe we found, the one with your fingerprints all 777 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:19,280 over it. 778 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:20,880 Then you tried to get the safe open and you couldn't. 779 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,600 So you wiped it clean, grabbed what you could carry and you ran out of the store. 780 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,320 A couple of blocks away you calmed down and took a look at yourself. 781 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,800 You threw that shirt in the ash can and then you went up to Wallace Holmes' apartment to 782 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,520 try to make a connection, didn't you? 783 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:31,520 He tell you all that? 784 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:32,520 No. 785 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:33,520 Now come on, how about it? 786 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:34,520 Holmes tell you that? 787 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,080 Now look, you're a little mixed up, aren't you? 788 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,320 You just answer, you don't ask. 789 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:39,320 Sure he told you. 790 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:40,800 He never found out if he did. 791 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:42,800 My big pal, Wallace Holmes. 792 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:47,600 After all I've done for him, if I had a nickel for every pop I shared with that bum and he 793 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:51,600 cops out on me, blabs everything to you. 794 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:52,840 One guy I'd have done anything for. 795 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,160 Get the guy the shirt off your back and this is a thanks I get. 796 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:56,160 Now what's your big trouble, Harris? 797 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:57,160 What do you mean? 798 00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:58,160 You ought to hang on to your shirts. 799 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:08,800 The story you have just heard was true. 800 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,400 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 801 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:16,240 On November 15th, trial was held in Department 86, Superior Court of the State of California 802 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:18,360 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 803 00:27:18,360 --> 00:27:20,640 In a moment, the results of that trial. 804 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,060 Now here is our star, Jack Webb. 805 00:27:23,060 --> 00:27:24,720 Thank you, George Fenomen. 806 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,420 Friends again this year, Chesterfield has asked me to remind you to see your own neighborhood 807 00:27:28,420 --> 00:27:32,080 cigarette dealer first about your Christmas shopping problems. 808 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:36,680 Among many wonderful gift ideas, he's featuring the gift of the year, the Chesterfield Christmas 809 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:37,680 Carton. 810 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:41,880 Now to my way of thinking, it's the ideal gift because Chesterfield is the only premium 811 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:46,440 quality cigarette available to you shoppers in both regular and king size. 812 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:51,560 Either way, regular or king size, they're a wonderful smoke and they make fine Christmas 813 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:52,560 gifts. 814 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:54,180 Get them from your dealer. 815 00:27:54,180 --> 00:28:04,960 Premium quality Chesterfields. 816 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:08,560 Fred Richard Harris was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree. 817 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:22,640 He was executed in the lethal gas chamber at the State Penitentiary, San Quentin, California. 818 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:27,760 You have just heard Drag Met, a series of authentic cases from official files. 819 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,640 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police 820 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,120 Department. 821 00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:38,080 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Brasher. 822 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:43,760 Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, Vic Rodman, Olin Soule, script by John Robinson, music 823 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:49,720 by Walter Schuman, Hal Gibney speaking. 824 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:51,920 Sound off for Chesterfields. 825 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:57,920 Either way you like them, regular or king size, you'll find premium quality Chesterfields 826 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:02,240 much milder. 827 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:14,040 Tonight has brought you Drag Met Transcribed from Los Angeles. 828 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:33,080 And it's more adventure with Barry Craig, confidential investigator on NBC.