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01:20.360 --> 01:24.040 Chesterfield, first with premium quality. 01:24.040 --> 01:27.640 Chesterfield, first choice of young America. 01:27.640 --> 01:32.520 And that's from a survey made in 274 colleges and universities. 01:32.520 --> 01:34.920 Try Chesterfield's today. 01:34.920 --> 01:38.320 Chesterfield, regular or king size. 01:38.320 --> 01:44.640 They're much milder and best for you. 01:44.640 --> 01:51.320 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 01:51.320 --> 01:56.360 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:56.360 --> 02:01.000 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 02:01.000 --> 02:02.720 police files. 02:02.720 --> 02:07.960 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 02:07.960 --> 02:08.960 in action. 02:08.960 --> 02:16.120 It was Sunday, April 26th, it was raining in Los Angeles. 02:16.120 --> 02:18.200 We were working the night watch out of homicide detail. 02:18.200 --> 02:19.240 My partner is Frank Smith. 02:19.240 --> 02:20.240 The boss is Captain Norman. 02:20.240 --> 02:21.440 My name is Friday. 02:21.440 --> 02:26.520 I was on my way back to the office and it was 11 44 p.m. when they got to room 42. 02:26.520 --> 02:27.520 Homicide. 02:27.520 --> 02:28.520 Hi. 02:28.520 --> 02:29.520 Anybody call? 02:29.520 --> 02:30.520 Yeah, I'll help you call. 02:30.520 --> 02:35.520 I want to know if you left these overshoes. 02:35.520 --> 02:36.520 No, I didn't see them. 02:36.520 --> 02:37.520 It's quit raining anyway. 02:37.520 --> 02:39.040 What are you doing there? 02:39.040 --> 02:41.680 Just a minute, Joe. 02:41.680 --> 02:42.680 What's the scale for? 02:42.680 --> 02:44.680 The needle's bent a little. 02:44.680 --> 02:47.280 What are you doing? 02:47.280 --> 02:48.280 Wearing my stuff. 02:48.280 --> 02:49.280 Your what? 02:49.280 --> 02:50.280 Wearing my stuff. 02:50.280 --> 02:51.280 Oh, yeah. 02:51.280 --> 02:52.640 I guess everybody ought to know what his stuff weighs. 02:52.640 --> 02:53.640 Yeah. 02:53.640 --> 02:54.640 Let's see. 02:54.640 --> 02:55.640 Got my gun. 02:55.640 --> 02:57.040 Better take the bullets out first. 02:57.040 --> 02:59.240 What are you doing that for? 02:59.240 --> 03:00.240 Keep track. 03:00.240 --> 03:01.240 Yeah, that's right. 03:01.240 --> 03:02.240 Now the bullets. 03:02.240 --> 03:03.240 Handcuffs. 03:03.240 --> 03:14.240 Frank, did anybody ever ask you about all this? 03:14.240 --> 03:17.240 My bullet clipped. 03:17.240 --> 03:20.160 Look, I'm a member of the club here, too. 03:20.160 --> 03:21.160 What's this all about? 03:21.160 --> 03:22.160 Pencils. 03:22.160 --> 03:23.160 Pour? 03:23.160 --> 03:28.160 Yeah, press kind of hard. 03:28.160 --> 03:32.160 Other stuff in my wallet. 03:32.160 --> 03:33.640 Change. 03:33.640 --> 03:34.640 Keys. 03:34.640 --> 03:37.680 Boy, no wonder my feet kill me. 03:37.680 --> 03:38.680 What? 03:38.680 --> 03:39.680 Six pounds, two and a half ounces. 03:39.680 --> 03:40.680 That's what I carry, Joe. 03:40.680 --> 03:41.960 Work a night's got a flashlight, too. 03:41.960 --> 03:42.960 That's good for another pound. 03:42.960 --> 03:44.480 You figure that's what makes your feet hurt, huh? 03:44.480 --> 03:45.480 Sure. 03:45.480 --> 03:46.480 Yeah. 03:46.480 --> 03:47.480 I'm a little bit of a pain in the ass. 03:47.480 --> 03:48.480 How much do you weigh, Frank? 03:48.480 --> 03:49.480 Any calls? 03:49.480 --> 03:50.480 Come on, how much? 03:50.480 --> 03:51.480 Joe, I get that all day from Fay. 03:51.480 --> 03:52.480 Never thought I'd get it from you. 03:52.480 --> 03:53.480 It's a hot shot. 03:53.480 --> 03:54.480 I'll get it. 03:54.480 --> 03:59.480 What do you got? 03:59.480 --> 04:03.480 Shooting on East Burindo. 04:03.480 --> 04:06.960 11.45 p.m. 04:06.960 --> 04:10.280 We swung out of the City Hall garage and headed south on Main Street. 04:10.280 --> 04:12.600 The streets were still wet after the rain. 04:12.600 --> 04:13.600 Code three. 04:13.600 --> 04:14.600 Red light and siren. 04:14.600 --> 04:16.720 And even with that, driving a fast car is no picnic. 04:16.720 --> 04:18.920 You can be wrong at every corner. 04:18.920 --> 04:21.800 Big buildings to block off the sound of your siren. 04:21.800 --> 04:23.920 Cars to shield the red light from oncoming motorists. 04:23.920 --> 04:24.920 It's no fun. 04:24.920 --> 04:27.360 There had been a shooting and we had to get there. 04:27.360 --> 04:31.120 As Frank and I swung around the last streetcar on Main Street and picked up Burindo, we heard 04:31.120 --> 04:36.200 the police radio operator dispatching ambulance G-13 to the address we were headed for. 04:36.200 --> 04:39.200 We didn't know what direction the ambulance would come from, so for the next few blocks 04:39.200 --> 04:43.360 we drove with added caution, knowing that our siren would keep us from hearing theirs. 04:43.360 --> 04:46.560 Five blocks ahead through the mist we could see the red lights of a police car parked 04:46.560 --> 04:47.560 at the curb. 04:47.560 --> 04:50.560 A radio car in the area had gotten a call and answered it immediately. 04:50.560 --> 04:55.120 It was 11.52 p.m. when we pulled up in front of 1981 East Burindo. 04:55.120 --> 04:56.920 The large house was dark. 04:56.920 --> 04:59.880 Two neighborhood women stood in the driveway and directed us to the back of the house where 04:59.880 --> 05:02.720 we found the officers from Unit 1A6. 05:02.720 --> 05:05.840 We checked with them and got the information that they'd come up with. 05:05.840 --> 05:09.960 They suggested that they canvass the immediate area for any information on the assailant. 05:09.960 --> 05:11.840 Frank and I went in through the back door of the house. 05:11.840 --> 05:12.840 The victim lay on the floor. 05:12.840 --> 05:15.560 He was unconscious and bleeding profusely. 05:15.560 --> 05:17.680 His head was held in the lap of another man. 05:17.680 --> 05:18.680 Are you the doctor? 05:18.680 --> 05:19.680 No, sir, we're police officers. 05:19.680 --> 05:20.680 The ambulance is on the way here. 05:20.680 --> 05:22.560 If I could just stop the bleeding, it's his chest. 05:22.560 --> 05:23.560 Do you know who did this? 05:23.560 --> 05:24.560 No. 05:24.560 --> 05:25.560 Has he been conscious at all since you've been here? 05:25.560 --> 05:26.560 Just for a second. 05:26.560 --> 05:27.560 Did he say anything? 05:27.560 --> 05:28.560 Well, I heard the shot and came right over. 05:28.560 --> 05:30.560 He was laying here on the floor right here. 05:30.560 --> 05:31.560 Poor guy. 05:31.560 --> 05:32.560 Yes, sir, did he say anything? 05:32.560 --> 05:33.560 He helped me. 05:33.560 --> 05:34.560 That's all he said. 05:34.560 --> 05:35.560 Helped me. 05:35.560 --> 05:36.560 I didn't know what to do. 05:36.560 --> 05:37.560 I got this towel from the sink and tried to stop the bleeding. 05:37.560 --> 05:38.560 Fist in my handkerchief, that's all I had. 05:38.560 --> 05:43.080 I can't do much, but I had to try, I had to keep pressing, that's all I could think of. 05:43.080 --> 05:44.480 Keep pressing, try to stop it. 05:44.480 --> 05:45.480 Yes, sir. 05:45.480 --> 05:46.480 Do you feel all right, sir? 05:46.480 --> 05:47.480 Yes, yes, I'm all right. 05:47.480 --> 05:48.480 Got to help him. 05:48.480 --> 05:50.600 Here, let me get in there and take care of that. 05:50.600 --> 05:51.600 Come on, sir, we can get under. 05:51.600 --> 05:52.600 Got it, Joe. 05:52.600 --> 05:53.600 All right. 05:53.600 --> 05:54.600 Come on, sir, get up. 05:54.600 --> 05:55.600 That's all right, you'll handle this. 05:55.600 --> 05:56.600 The excitement. 05:56.600 --> 05:57.600 I can't seem to get my breath. 05:57.600 --> 05:58.600 Something we can get for you? 05:58.600 --> 05:59.600 No, I'll be all right. 05:59.600 --> 06:00.600 I think I'll get a drink of water. 06:00.600 --> 06:02.600 I'd rather you wouldn't touch that glass, sir. 06:02.600 --> 06:03.600 Oh, yeah, fingerprints. 06:03.600 --> 06:04.600 Well, I can wait. 06:04.600 --> 06:09.280 Oh, say, I did touch that towel, hope it didn't hurt anything, didn't mean to. 06:09.280 --> 06:10.520 No, sir, I don't think so. 06:10.520 --> 06:11.520 What's your name? 06:11.520 --> 06:12.520 Paul Weston. 06:12.520 --> 06:14.320 I live right next door, right across the driveway, Greyhouse. 06:14.320 --> 06:16.080 I wonder if you could tell us what happened. 06:16.080 --> 06:17.560 Sure, I want to help all I can. 06:17.560 --> 06:19.560 I live right next door and I was the first one here. 06:19.560 --> 06:21.120 Anything I can do, I want to help. 06:21.120 --> 06:22.120 Yes, sir. 06:22.120 --> 06:25.560 I've known Charlie for, oh, I guess it's maybe 40 years, long time. 06:25.560 --> 06:27.040 Charlie, that's the man's name here? 06:27.040 --> 06:28.040 Yes, Charles Stahl. 06:28.040 --> 06:29.040 How you doing, Frank? 06:29.040 --> 06:30.040 That's pretty bad. 06:30.040 --> 06:31.040 I don't know. 06:31.040 --> 06:33.360 Would you tell us what happened here? 06:33.360 --> 06:35.320 Well, it was right after Charlie left my place. 06:35.320 --> 06:36.320 That's when I heard the noise. 06:36.320 --> 06:37.320 What noise, West? 06:37.320 --> 06:41.600 I was out of my porch, putting out the cans, getting the box ready when I heard the noise. 06:41.600 --> 06:44.440 First off, I thought Charlie was doing the same thing, getting the cans ready. 06:44.440 --> 06:45.440 What kind of a noise? 06:45.440 --> 06:46.440 Like he dropped the box. 06:46.440 --> 06:48.000 I know now that wasn't it. 06:48.000 --> 06:49.800 Charles, just a minute, West. 06:49.800 --> 06:51.920 Yeah, I think he's coming around. 06:51.920 --> 06:52.920 Is he coming to? 06:52.920 --> 06:53.920 Is he going to say anything? 06:53.920 --> 06:54.920 Who shot him? 06:54.920 --> 06:55.920 All right, just a minute. 06:55.920 --> 06:56.920 What's his name again? 06:56.920 --> 06:57.920 Stahl. 06:57.920 --> 06:58.920 Mr. Stahl. 06:58.920 --> 06:59.920 Mr. Stahl. 06:59.920 --> 07:00.920 Maybe you talk to me. 07:00.920 --> 07:01.920 He knows me. 07:01.920 --> 07:02.920 We're friends. 07:02.920 --> 07:03.920 All right, stay right there. 07:03.920 --> 07:07.520 Mr. Stahl, we want to help you. 07:07.520 --> 07:09.120 Can you tell us who shot you? 07:09.120 --> 07:12.040 Hey, what are you saying? 07:12.040 --> 07:14.040 Is he giving you the name? 07:14.040 --> 07:15.040 All right, hold it, West. 07:15.040 --> 07:16.040 Just a minute. 07:16.040 --> 07:19.040 How about it, Frank? 07:19.040 --> 07:20.040 He's dead. 07:20.040 --> 07:22.040 Did he say anything? 07:22.040 --> 07:24.520 Yeah, not much help. 07:24.520 --> 07:27.920 Ask me not to shoot him again. 07:27.920 --> 07:35.080 It was a couple of minutes before midnight when Charles Stahl died in Frank's arms. 07:35.080 --> 07:38.600 According to the next door neighbor, Paul West, the victim was 55 years old. 07:38.600 --> 07:42.660 He was not married and he lived in the big house on Burendo by himself. 07:42.660 --> 07:47.040 The ambulance crew returned to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital after making out a DOA report 07:47.040 --> 07:49.600 and the coroner's office was asked to pick up the body. 07:49.600 --> 07:53.940 12 minutes later, coroner's deputies Maxwell and Martinez arrived. 07:53.940 --> 07:58.000 Before the murdered man's body was removed, the crew from the crime lab photographed the 07:58.000 --> 08:00.520 scene and Frank and I signed the property receipt for the money and the personal effects 08:00.520 --> 08:02.280 found on the body. 08:02.280 --> 08:06.000 We asked the crime lab to check a 32 caliber Smith & Wesson revolver found on the floor 08:06.000 --> 08:07.320 under the kitchen stove. 08:07.320 --> 08:09.840 There was one empty cartridge in the cylinder. 08:09.840 --> 08:12.600 We put in a call to gun records but we found nothing on the gun. 08:12.600 --> 08:15.760 A call to R&I on the victim of the shooting turned up nothing. 08:15.760 --> 08:18.720 Layton fingerprints found nothing on the murder weapon. 08:18.720 --> 08:22.480 The crime lab crew found no footprints in the ground near the house but they did find 08:22.480 --> 08:26.880 several marks of tire tracks and one good impression left in the moist dirt in the alley 08:26.880 --> 08:28.360 behind the house. 08:28.360 --> 08:31.800 A plaster cast was made of the imprint and it was returned to the office to be booked 08:31.800 --> 08:33.240 as evidence. 08:33.240 --> 08:36.600 We checked with the officers in unit 1A6 but they said that in canvassing the neighborhood 08:36.600 --> 08:39.120 they'd been unable to come up with any new leads. 08:39.120 --> 08:43.200 1221 A.M. we checked back into the house and we talked to the neighbor Paul West. 08:43.200 --> 08:45.840 What kind of a job did Stahl have? 08:45.840 --> 08:48.340 Owned a print shop, Stahl Press over on the east side. 08:48.340 --> 08:49.340 Was he in business by himself? 08:49.340 --> 08:50.340 What do you mean? 08:50.340 --> 08:51.340 Well did he have any partners? 08:51.340 --> 08:54.160 No, Charlie owned it right out, had the pink slip you might say. 08:54.160 --> 08:55.440 Can you give us the address? 08:55.440 --> 08:57.360 Sure, biggest print shop on the east side. 08:57.360 --> 09:01.040 Printed just about everything, posters, display cards, things like that. 09:01.040 --> 09:02.640 He gave me some cards last Christmas. 09:02.640 --> 09:04.640 Here, take a look. 09:04.640 --> 09:05.640 That's my name, Embossed. 09:05.640 --> 09:06.640 Yes sir. 09:06.640 --> 09:07.640 Did it himself. 09:07.640 --> 09:08.640 That's very nice sir. 09:08.640 --> 09:09.640 Can I have that back please? 09:09.640 --> 09:10.640 Oh sure, here you are. 09:10.640 --> 09:11.640 Embossed. 09:11.640 --> 09:12.640 Anybody in the shop with him? 09:12.640 --> 09:13.640 Any employees? 09:13.640 --> 09:14.640 Well, there's the Becker kids, Pete and Alvin. 09:14.640 --> 09:15.640 They work in the shop, do they? 09:15.640 --> 09:16.640 Yeah, I've been with them. 09:16.640 --> 09:17.640 I guess it's been about a year. 09:17.640 --> 09:18.640 How long have you been with them? 09:18.640 --> 09:21.640 Fine, I never heard about any trouble. 09:21.640 --> 09:22.640 I've been kind of friends with the family. 09:22.640 --> 09:23.640 Charlie was pretty fond of them. 09:23.640 --> 09:24.640 Did he have any personal enemies, maybe because of the business? 09:24.640 --> 09:25.640 No, not that I know of. 09:25.640 --> 09:26.640 How long do you say you've known Stahl? 09:26.640 --> 09:27.640 Been about 40 years. 09:27.640 --> 09:28.640 We grew up together. 09:28.640 --> 09:29.640 I see. 09:29.640 --> 09:30.640 His father and mine built these houses at the same time. 09:30.640 --> 09:31.640 Charlie and I went to school together. 09:31.640 --> 09:32.640 Belonged to the same club. 09:32.640 --> 09:33.640 We were soldiers together. 09:33.640 --> 09:34.640 Served in the 146th field artillery in the war. 09:34.640 --> 09:35.640 But at the last war sir? 09:35.640 --> 09:36.640 Oh no, the last war. 09:36.640 --> 09:37.640 The last war. 09:37.640 --> 09:38.640 The last war. 09:38.640 --> 09:39.640 The last war. 09:39.640 --> 09:40.640 The last war. 09:40.640 --> 09:41.640 The last war. 09:41.640 --> 09:42.640 The last war. 09:42.640 --> 09:43.640 The last war. 09:43.640 --> 09:44.640 The last war. 09:44.640 --> 09:45.640 The last war. 09:45.640 --> 09:48.640 The last war. 09:48.640 --> 09:49.640 The last war. 09:49.640 --> 09:50.640 The last war. 09:50.640 --> 09:51.640 The last war. 09:51.640 --> 09:52.640 But at the last war? 09:52.640 --> 09:53.640 No, the big one. 09:53.640 --> 09:54.640 The first world war. 09:54.640 --> 09:55.640 Oh, I see. 09:55.640 --> 09:56.640 Came back and we were right here side-to-side all his time. 09:56.640 --> 09:57.640 We've been friends, Charlie and me. 09:57.640 --> 09:58.640 Good friends. 09:58.640 --> 09:59.640 You've got to catch a person who did this. 09:59.640 --> 10:00.640 You've got to get them. 10:00.640 --> 10:01.940 You said earlier that Stahl had been over to your house tonight? 10:01.940 --> 10:02.940 Yes, that's right. 10:02.940 --> 10:04.680 Did he have any special reason for the visit? 10:04.680 --> 10:06.000 Well, he didn't need a reason. 10:06.000 --> 10:07.480 Charlie was always welcome. 10:07.480 --> 10:08.480 Yes. 10:08.480 --> 10:09.480 We understand. 10:09.480 --> 10:11.760 Of course, tonight's Sunday, and we had a game. 10:11.760 --> 10:12.760 Sir? 10:12.760 --> 10:13.760 Bridge. 10:13.760 --> 10:14.760 Always play bridge on Sunday night. 10:14.760 --> 10:16.260 What time did he get to your house? 10:16.260 --> 10:18.060 Same time as always, right after supper. 10:18.060 --> 10:19.060 What time's that, sir? 10:19.060 --> 10:20.560 Right after 7.30. 10:20.560 --> 10:22.360 We were just finishing supper when he came in. 10:22.360 --> 10:24.860 Charlie sat down, had dessert and coffee with us. 10:24.860 --> 10:26.260 Rice pudding with raisins. 10:26.260 --> 10:27.360 Charlie had two dishes. 10:27.360 --> 10:28.660 Then we started to play bridge. 10:28.660 --> 10:30.260 I see. Now, who else was there? 10:30.260 --> 10:31.060 You mean the game? 10:31.060 --> 10:31.760 Yeah. 10:31.760 --> 10:33.060 Oh, just Rose and Paula. 10:33.060 --> 10:35.360 Rose, my wife, and Paula, my daughter. 10:35.360 --> 10:37.060 Anything unusual happen tonight? 10:37.060 --> 10:38.060 Just once. 10:38.060 --> 10:39.060 Yeah, what was that? 10:39.060 --> 10:41.860 Well, a bit of grand slam and spades made it. 10:41.860 --> 10:43.660 Even with Rose, seven spades. 10:43.660 --> 10:45.660 Well, that's not exactly what we mean, Wes. 10:45.660 --> 10:46.660 Pretty unusual. 10:46.660 --> 10:48.660 Yes, sir, but did anything happen with Stahl? 10:48.660 --> 10:51.160 Sure. He almost hit the ceiling when we made it. 10:51.160 --> 10:52.160 Got pretty mad, did he? 10:52.160 --> 10:53.160 Sure. 10:53.160 --> 10:56.160 Since we've been playing, most he ever did was make a little slam. 10:56.160 --> 10:57.660 He went right home after that. 10:57.660 --> 10:59.660 I guess that's when he went out to empty the cans. 10:59.660 --> 11:01.160 Anyway, that's when I heard the noise. 11:01.160 --> 11:02.160 That was the shots. 11:02.160 --> 11:03.160 It must have been. 11:03.160 --> 11:05.660 I didn't know it at the time, but I guess that's what it was. 11:05.660 --> 11:07.160 What'd you do after you heard the shot? 11:07.160 --> 11:09.660 Well, now at the time, I didn't know what it was. 11:09.660 --> 11:12.160 I thought maybe Charlie had fallen and hurt himself. 11:12.160 --> 11:14.660 I looked over at his place, but there wasn't any lights on. 11:14.660 --> 11:16.660 I went out the curb with a box of cans. 11:16.660 --> 11:19.160 Came back, and I didn't see Charlie, so I walked over. 11:19.160 --> 11:20.160 I see. 11:20.160 --> 11:21.660 I called him, asked if he was all right. 11:21.660 --> 11:23.160 Didn't get no answer, so I came in. 11:23.160 --> 11:25.660 Found him out on the floor, where he was when you came in. 11:25.660 --> 11:27.660 You're the one who put in the call, is that right? 11:27.660 --> 11:30.160 Yeah, I called the operator and told her to get an ambulance 11:30.160 --> 11:32.160 right over that Charlie had been shot. 11:32.160 --> 11:33.660 Told her to send a policeman. 11:33.660 --> 11:35.660 Now, what time was it when Stahl left your house? 11:35.660 --> 11:37.660 Well, it must have been about 11.15 or so. 11:37.660 --> 11:40.660 Earlier than usual, we always play almost to midnight. 11:40.660 --> 11:43.160 I guess Charlie got miffed about the grand slam I made, 11:43.160 --> 11:45.160 and then Paula kidded him about the woman. 11:45.160 --> 11:46.160 What woman is that? 11:46.160 --> 11:48.160 Oh, it wasn't anything. I went out and looked. 11:48.160 --> 11:49.160 Nobody there. 11:49.160 --> 11:50.160 Sir? 11:50.160 --> 11:51.660 A couple of times, Charlie thought he heard a woman 11:51.660 --> 11:53.660 coughing outside the window by his house. 11:53.660 --> 11:55.660 I went over to the window and looked out there, 11:55.660 --> 11:57.160 but there wasn't anybody there. 11:57.160 --> 11:58.660 Well, did you hear this coughing? 11:58.660 --> 11:59.660 No, not really. 11:59.660 --> 12:01.660 After Charlie started talking about it, I thought I did, 12:01.660 --> 12:04.160 but when I went out to look, there wasn't anybody there. 12:04.160 --> 12:06.160 His imagination, that's all. 12:06.160 --> 12:07.660 He was mad because of the slam. 12:07.660 --> 12:10.160 Well, did you hear anything at all when you were out there? 12:10.160 --> 12:11.160 Huh? 12:11.160 --> 12:12.660 Well, when you went into Stahl's house, 12:12.660 --> 12:13.660 did you hear anybody around? 12:13.660 --> 12:15.160 A car, maybe, something like that? 12:15.160 --> 12:16.160 No, not a soul. 12:16.160 --> 12:18.160 Now, Wes, could somebody have gone out the front of the house 12:18.160 --> 12:19.160 when you came in the back? 12:19.160 --> 12:20.660 Wouldn't seem it could be. 12:20.660 --> 12:21.660 I'd have heard him if they did. 12:21.660 --> 12:23.160 Well, then you'd say that whoever shot Stahl 12:23.160 --> 12:25.160 wasn't in the house when you went in, is that it? 12:25.160 --> 12:26.660 Pretty sure about that. 12:26.660 --> 12:28.660 Of course, they might have left before I went in. 12:28.660 --> 12:29.660 Sir? 12:29.660 --> 12:31.160 Well, I'd already took about the hands out the front 12:31.160 --> 12:32.660 after I heard the noise. 12:32.660 --> 12:33.660 If there was anybody in the house, 12:33.660 --> 12:34.660 they could have gotten out then. 12:34.660 --> 12:36.160 But you didn't see anybody, did you? 12:36.160 --> 12:37.160 No, nobody at all. 12:37.160 --> 12:39.660 Do you know if Stahl has any relatives in Los Angeles? 12:39.660 --> 12:40.660 No. 12:40.660 --> 12:41.660 He hasn't, huh? 12:41.660 --> 12:43.160 Hasn't got any anyplace, none at all. 12:43.160 --> 12:44.160 Always kind of worried him. 12:44.160 --> 12:45.160 Why is that? 12:45.160 --> 12:47.160 Well, he used to say he didn't have any folks 12:47.160 --> 12:48.160 to leave his things to. 12:48.160 --> 12:49.660 The house, print shop. 12:49.660 --> 12:51.160 He made a will, though. 12:51.160 --> 12:53.160 All legal, with a seal and all. 12:53.160 --> 12:54.160 Official. 12:54.160 --> 12:55.160 Used to talk to me about it. 12:55.160 --> 12:56.160 I see. 12:56.160 --> 12:57.160 You know who the beneficiary was, would you? 12:57.160 --> 12:58.160 Not now. 12:58.160 --> 12:59.160 What? 12:59.160 --> 13:02.160 Well, I knew who it was, but he said he was going to change it. 13:02.160 --> 13:04.160 Said he was going to put a new name on. 13:04.160 --> 13:05.160 Well, did he say whose? 13:05.160 --> 13:06.160 Nope. 13:06.160 --> 13:11.160 Just said I'd be surprised. 13:11.160 --> 13:13.160 We looked through the victim's desk for the will. 13:13.160 --> 13:16.160 In one of the bottom drawers, we found a locked tin box. 13:16.160 --> 13:19.160 In a box of paper clips, we found a key that fit. 13:19.160 --> 13:22.160 In the top liner of the box, there was a Purple Heart ribbon 13:22.160 --> 13:24.660 and an American Victory Medal from the First World War. 13:24.660 --> 13:27.160 In the bottom of the box, there were several government bonds 13:27.160 --> 13:28.660 and the will. 13:28.660 --> 13:31.160 In it, he left the house and the rest of his possessions 13:31.160 --> 13:32.660 to a Mrs. Margaret Becker. 13:32.660 --> 13:35.160 The print shop and the business, he left to Mrs. Becker's sons, 13:35.160 --> 13:36.660 Peter and Alvin. 13:36.660 --> 13:39.160 The will was dated three years previously. 13:39.160 --> 13:41.160 On a separate piece of paper, we found an address 13:41.160 --> 13:44.160 for a Mrs. Margaret Becker, the Lone Star Motel 13:44.160 --> 13:46.160 on Sepulveda Boulevard. 13:46.160 --> 13:49.160 1240 A.M., we affixed the public administrator's seal, 13:49.160 --> 13:51.160 which the coroner's deputy had left with us, 13:51.160 --> 13:53.160 to the door of the victim's house. 13:53.160 --> 13:56.160 We talked with the wife and daughter of the neighbor, Paul West. 13:56.160 --> 13:58.160 They confirmed the story he'd given us. 13:58.160 --> 14:01.160 On the way to talk to the Becker woman, we stopped and called the office. 14:01.160 --> 14:04.160 They checked the name through R&I, but they came up with no identification. 14:04.160 --> 14:07.160 We called Sergeant J. Allen at the crime lab, 14:07.160 --> 14:10.160 and he told us that the tire marks found in the rear of the victim's house 14:10.160 --> 14:13.160 were made by three B.F. Goodrich tires and one truck tire. 14:13.160 --> 14:16.160 He said that the cast they'd made was of the truck tire, 14:16.160 --> 14:18.160 as it was the only one they could lift, 14:18.160 --> 14:20.160 and that it was made by the left front wheel. 14:20.160 --> 14:22.160 There was a car parked in front of the manager's cottage. 14:22.160 --> 14:25.160 The registration listed Margaret Becker as the owner. 14:25.160 --> 14:27.160 Legal the same. We checked it. 14:28.160 --> 14:30.160 Motor's cold? 14:30.160 --> 14:32.160 Yeah, tires don't match. 14:32.160 --> 14:34.160 Nice try. Yeah. 14:34.160 --> 14:36.160 Let's go. 14:37.160 --> 14:39.160 I get it. 14:42.160 --> 14:44.160 Late. Yeah. 14:45.160 --> 14:47.160 One-fifty. 14:47.160 --> 14:49.160 Probably asleep. 14:52.160 --> 14:55.160 What's the matter? Can't you read? Sign says no vacancy. 14:55.160 --> 14:58.160 That means full-up. N-O, that means no. Awaken somebody at this hour. 14:58.160 --> 15:01.160 Yes, ma'am. And don't ask me if I know some place where you can stay, 15:01.160 --> 15:03.160 if I don't. Good night. Just a minute, Miss Becker. 15:03.160 --> 15:05.160 How do you know my name? Police officers. 15:05.160 --> 15:07.160 What do you want around here? I run a clean place, no trouble, 15:07.160 --> 15:09.160 license all paid up, nothing wrong. 15:09.160 --> 15:12.160 What about? You know a man named Charles Stahl? 15:12.160 --> 15:14.160 What are you asking that for? We'd like to know. 15:14.160 --> 15:16.160 And I want to know why you're asking. What's this all about? 15:16.160 --> 15:18.160 Anything wrong with Charlie? That why you're out here? 15:18.160 --> 15:20.160 Yes, ma'am. What's wrong? 15:20.160 --> 15:22.160 It's pretty serious. Go ahead. You can tell me. 15:22.160 --> 15:24.160 Well, he's dead, Miss Becker. 15:26.160 --> 15:28.160 Come in. Thank you. 15:28.160 --> 15:30.160 What's the matter, Margaret? Who are these fellas? 15:30.160 --> 15:32.160 Who are you? What are you doing here? They're policemen. 15:32.160 --> 15:34.160 Well, we don't need you. We got the whole thing cleaned up. 15:34.160 --> 15:36.160 We took care of it ourselves. Nobody sent for you. 15:36.160 --> 15:39.160 We took care of him. No, Daddy, they're here about Charles. 15:39.160 --> 15:41.160 Charlie Stahl? Yes, sir, that's right. 15:41.160 --> 15:43.160 Charlie here? Well, where is he? 15:43.160 --> 15:45.160 He's not here, Daddy. Something's happened to him. 15:45.160 --> 15:47.160 What? He's dead. 15:47.160 --> 15:50.160 Dead? Charlie? Yes. 15:50.160 --> 15:53.160 Well, how did it happen? An accident? No, sir. 15:53.160 --> 15:56.160 Oh, poor Charlie Stahl. He's a nice boy. 15:56.160 --> 16:00.160 Too bad I thought you was here about the fella number eight, the loud one. 16:00.160 --> 16:03.160 What's that, sir? A man from Texas came in tonight pretty drunk. 16:03.160 --> 16:06.160 We had to take him in. Daddy put him to bed. He was pretty drunk. 16:06.160 --> 16:08.160 Heavy, too. That's what he thought you were out here for. 16:08.160 --> 16:11.160 Couldn't even get out of his car. Margaret had the pocket for him. 16:11.160 --> 16:14.160 Loud, you know, real drunk. Wore his pants inside his boots. 16:14.160 --> 16:16.160 What was it you wanted to see me about? 16:16.160 --> 16:18.160 A few questions we'd like to ask you. About Charles? 16:18.160 --> 16:20.160 Yes, ma'am. When was the last time you saw him? 16:20.160 --> 16:22.160 Must have been a couple of weeks ago. 16:22.160 --> 16:26.160 I saw him last week, April 22nd, went fishing down at the pier. 16:26.160 --> 16:28.160 Miss Becker, what was your relationship with Stahl? 16:28.160 --> 16:31.160 Good friends, that's all. We knew each other almost all our lives. 16:31.160 --> 16:34.160 I used to live next door to him. Went through school together. 16:34.160 --> 16:37.160 I always thought they were going to get married. Charlie was a good boy. 16:37.160 --> 16:39.160 You see much of him lately? No, not too much. 16:39.160 --> 16:42.160 I've been busy here with Daddy, and Charlie's had other things to do. 16:42.160 --> 16:45.160 Move next door to him on December 14th. 16:45.160 --> 16:47.160 Exactly 42 years ago, come with him. 16:47.160 --> 16:49.160 You know if he had any enemies, ma'am? 16:49.160 --> 16:51.160 No, can't think of anyone who didn't like Charlie. 16:51.160 --> 16:53.160 Didn't catch anything at the pier. Bad bait. 16:53.160 --> 16:55.160 You've been home all evening, have you? 16:55.160 --> 16:56.160 Yeah. Why'd you ask that? 16:56.160 --> 16:57.160 It's just routine. 16:57.160 --> 16:59.160 You think I had something to do with it, that it? 16:59.160 --> 17:00.160 No, ma'am, we don't. 17:00.160 --> 17:01.160 Pinheads, that's what you need. 17:01.160 --> 17:02.160 I beg your pardon, sir? 17:02.160 --> 17:04.160 Pinhead anchovies, that's what you need for pier fishing. 17:04.160 --> 17:06.160 You say it's routine, but I don't like you coming in here, 17:06.160 --> 17:08.160 waking us up with all these questions. 17:08.160 --> 17:10.160 We've had a bad night, that drunk coming in here. 17:10.160 --> 17:12.160 We've been on the go ever since then. 17:12.160 --> 17:14.160 A few years ago, it used to be we'd get a lot of pinheads. 17:14.160 --> 17:15.160 Not anymore. 17:15.160 --> 17:17.160 You want to make any accusations, you talk to Paul West. 17:17.160 --> 17:20.160 You just talk to him. Try your routine questions there. 17:20.160 --> 17:21.160 Paul West? 17:21.160 --> 17:22.160 Yeah, Charlie's neighbor. 17:22.160 --> 17:24.160 He's never liked Charlie, never. 17:24.160 --> 17:26.160 Anyone hurt Charlie? It was Paul. 17:26.160 --> 17:28.160 Why do you say that, Mrs. Becker? 17:28.160 --> 17:30.160 Years ago, Charlie was sweet on Paul's sister. 17:30.160 --> 17:32.160 On the way back from the beach one night, there was an accident, 17:32.160 --> 17:34.160 and Paul's sister was killed. 17:34.160 --> 17:35.160 Never forgave Charlie. 17:35.160 --> 17:36.160 Always held him to blame. 17:36.160 --> 17:37.160 Well, why was that, Mrs. Becker? 17:37.160 --> 17:38.160 Charlie was driving. 17:38.160 --> 17:40.160 Paul hated Charles for it. 17:40.160 --> 17:41.160 Now the thing with a daughter. 17:41.160 --> 17:43.160 Paul didn't like that either. 17:43.160 --> 17:46.160 Somebody did something to Charlie, you routine the man next door. 17:46.160 --> 17:47.160 You talk to Paul West. 17:47.160 --> 17:49.160 Now get out of here. I want to get some sleep. 17:49.160 --> 17:51.160 If you've got any more questions, you come back in the morning, 17:51.160 --> 17:52.160 and I'll talk to you then. 17:52.160 --> 17:53.160 You get out of here now. 17:53.160 --> 17:54.160 Yes, ma'am. 17:54.160 --> 17:56.160 But what did you mean by the thing with her, West's daughter? 17:56.160 --> 17:57.160 All right. 17:57.160 --> 17:59.160 I'll tell you that, then you've got to get out of here. 17:59.160 --> 18:00.160 Yes, ma'am. 18:00.160 --> 18:02.160 A couple of months ago, Paula came home, 18:02.160 --> 18:04.160 divorced her husband, and moved home. 18:04.160 --> 18:06.160 Right away, Charlie got sweet on her. 18:06.160 --> 18:07.160 Paul didn't like it. 18:07.160 --> 18:08.160 Didn't like it at all. 18:08.160 --> 18:10.160 Did he ever say anything to stall about it? 18:10.160 --> 18:11.160 You bet he did. 18:11.160 --> 18:12.160 They had a lot of arguments, a lot of them. 18:12.160 --> 18:13.160 You talk to Paul West. 18:13.160 --> 18:15.160 He's the one you've got to talk to. 18:15.160 --> 18:16.160 Now good night. 18:16.160 --> 18:17.160 We'll be back in the morning, ma'am. 18:17.160 --> 18:19.160 I'll be here. Don't worry. 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20:29.160 --> 20:31.160 Come on, you think I had something to do 20:31.160 --> 20:32.160 with Charlie being dead, isn't that it? 20:32.160 --> 20:33.160 No ma'am, we told you before, 20:33.160 --> 20:34.160 this is just a routine investigation. 20:34.160 --> 20:36.160 We're trying to get the facts here. 20:36.160 --> 20:38.160 You still haven't told us about Charlie. 20:38.160 --> 20:39.160 Was he killed? 20:39.160 --> 20:40.160 Yes ma'am. 20:40.160 --> 20:41.160 You think I did it? 20:41.160 --> 20:42.160 You didn't say that. 20:42.160 --> 20:43.160 Not in so many words you didn't, 20:43.160 --> 20:45.160 but that's what you meant. 20:45.160 --> 20:46.160 You found the will. 20:46.160 --> 20:48.160 That's what made you think it was me, isn't that it? 20:48.160 --> 20:49.160 You knew about the will, didn't you? 20:49.160 --> 20:51.160 Certainly I knew about it. 20:51.160 --> 20:53.160 Charles told me when he had it drawn up. 20:53.160 --> 20:55.160 Said he didn't have anybody else who wanted to see 20:55.160 --> 20:56.160 that me and the boys were taken care of. 20:56.160 --> 20:58.160 Too bad about Charlie, Stoll. 20:58.160 --> 20:59.160 He's a good boy. 20:59.160 --> 21:00.160 He's gonna take care of Margaret. 21:00.160 --> 21:02.160 He ever say anything to you about changing the will? 21:02.160 --> 21:03.160 Yes. 21:03.160 --> 21:05.160 He told me about it the last time I saw him. 21:05.160 --> 21:07.160 Had lunch together and he told me then. 21:07.160 --> 21:09.160 Tell you what changes he was gonna make? 21:09.160 --> 21:10.160 No, not right now. 21:10.160 --> 21:11.160 He's been acting lately. 21:11.160 --> 21:12.160 I knew I could tell. 21:12.160 --> 21:14.160 The way he's been acting lately, I could tell. 21:14.160 --> 21:15.160 So could I. 21:15.160 --> 21:17.160 What do you mean the way he's been acting? 21:17.160 --> 21:18.160 Was there anything wrong? 21:18.160 --> 21:19.160 Well, this thing with Paula. 21:19.160 --> 21:20.160 Told you about that. 21:20.160 --> 21:22.160 Charlie's been acting like a fool. 21:22.160 --> 21:24.160 Falling all over, gushing sweet talk. 21:24.160 --> 21:25.160 Silly. 21:25.160 --> 21:27.160 Well, she had him in a trance. 21:27.160 --> 21:29.160 Her just 25 and him 55. 21:29.160 --> 21:31.160 Talk about spring and winter. 21:31.160 --> 21:32.160 Well, that was them. 21:32.160 --> 21:34.160 How'd Paula feel about this? 21:34.160 --> 21:35.160 How'd you expect her to feel? 21:35.160 --> 21:37.160 She thought that Charlie would leave her the money, 21:37.160 --> 21:38.160 house, everything. 21:38.160 --> 21:39.160 She went right along with it. 21:39.160 --> 21:40.160 She was real brazen. 21:40.160 --> 21:41.160 Sir? 21:41.160 --> 21:42.160 Yeah? 21:42.160 --> 21:43.160 You said earlier that you thought your daughter 21:43.160 --> 21:44.160 and Mr. Stahl might get married. 21:44.160 --> 21:45.160 Is that right? 21:45.160 --> 21:46.160 They better did. 21:46.160 --> 21:47.160 They always been in love. 21:47.160 --> 21:48.160 Daddy, that's not true. 21:48.160 --> 21:49.160 Which is true. 21:49.160 --> 21:50.160 I'm your father. 21:50.160 --> 21:51.160 Now you show a little respect. 21:51.160 --> 21:55.160 After that no good Becker walked out on Maggie, 21:55.160 --> 21:57.160 she and Charlie started to see each other again. 21:57.160 --> 21:58.160 Went real nice. 21:58.160 --> 22:00.160 Then Paula come into town, 22:00.160 --> 22:02.160 Charlie Stahl took up with her. 22:02.160 --> 22:04.160 Charlie Stahl made out his will 22:04.160 --> 22:06.160 so that everything went to Margaret and the kids. 22:06.160 --> 22:08.160 Then he decided he'd change it. 22:08.160 --> 22:09.160 You knew about the will too? 22:09.160 --> 22:11.160 Sure, I was a friend of Charlie's. 22:11.160 --> 22:13.160 We used to go fishing all the time. 22:13.160 --> 22:14.160 Talk about things. 22:14.160 --> 22:15.160 I told him that he was wrong 22:15.160 --> 22:17.160 to even think of changing his will. 22:17.160 --> 22:19.160 I told him that he was wrong. 22:19.160 --> 22:22.160 What time did you say that car from Texas got in, ma'am? 22:22.160 --> 22:24.160 I told you, about 10.15. 22:24.160 --> 22:26.160 Ma'am, is it possible that somebody could have taken the car out 22:26.160 --> 22:27.160 without you knowing about it? 22:27.160 --> 22:28.160 Hey, wait a minute, Margaret. 22:28.160 --> 22:29.160 That ain't right. 22:29.160 --> 22:30.160 What? 22:30.160 --> 22:31.160 It wasn't that late. 22:31.160 --> 22:33.160 It was only about eight when he come in. 22:33.160 --> 22:35.160 I remember, because I was in bed at 8.30. 22:35.160 --> 22:37.160 I put him to bed and then come back 22:37.160 --> 22:38.160 and went to bed myself. 22:38.160 --> 22:40.160 I wanted to get some sleep, 22:40.160 --> 22:41.160 going fishing in the morning. 22:41.160 --> 22:43.160 You're pretty sure about the time, are you? 22:43.160 --> 22:44.160 Well, you bet. 22:44.160 --> 22:46.160 I remember, because I got in bed and turned on the radio. 22:46.160 --> 22:49.160 Listened to that radio program about the detective. 22:49.160 --> 22:51.160 Fell asleep before the end. 22:51.160 --> 22:54.160 Never did find out who stole the jewels and did the murder. 22:54.160 --> 22:56.160 What was your daughter doing when you came back? 22:56.160 --> 22:57.160 Just sitting there. 22:57.160 --> 23:00.160 She went out to put the car away and I went to bed. 23:00.160 --> 23:01.160 How long was she outside? 23:01.160 --> 23:03.160 I don't know, a few minutes, I guess. 23:03.160 --> 23:05.160 Can you tell us a little closer than that? 23:05.160 --> 23:06.160 Not very well. 23:06.160 --> 23:07.160 I told you I wanted to sleep. 23:07.160 --> 23:08.160 I didn't hear her come in. 23:08.160 --> 23:10.160 Miss Becker, I wonder if you'd get dressed, please. 23:10.160 --> 23:11.160 We'd like to talk to you downtown. 23:11.160 --> 23:12.160 What for? 23:12.160 --> 23:14.160 We have a report from our crime lab. 23:14.160 --> 23:16.160 They found some tire tracks in back of Stahl's house tonight. 23:16.160 --> 23:17.160 They were fresh tracks. 23:17.160 --> 23:19.160 They'd been made since it stopped raining. 23:19.160 --> 23:21.160 Those tracks match the car you got parked back there. 23:21.160 --> 23:23.160 And you think I drove the car over to Charlie's? 23:23.160 --> 23:24.160 Well, we'd like to talk about it. 23:24.160 --> 23:25.160 Why? 23:25.160 --> 23:26.160 Why'd I do a thing like that? 23:26.160 --> 23:27.160 Why'd I want to kill Charlie? 23:27.160 --> 23:29.160 Maybe because he was going to catch you out of his will. 23:29.160 --> 23:30.160 Looks like a pretty good motive. 23:30.160 --> 23:32.160 You two are out of your minds. 23:32.160 --> 23:33.160 All right, ma'am. 23:33.160 --> 23:34.160 We'll lay it out for you. 23:34.160 --> 23:35.160 You better do that. 23:35.160 --> 23:37.160 Making accusations you can't back up. 23:37.160 --> 23:39.160 The way the evidence looks, we got a pretty good case here. 23:39.160 --> 23:42.160 The way it looks, you took the car and you drove it over to Stahl's. 23:42.160 --> 23:44.160 He was next door playing cards, 23:44.160 --> 23:46.160 so you waited in the kitchen for him to come back. 23:46.160 --> 23:48.160 A couple of times you coughed while you were waiting. 23:48.160 --> 23:49.160 He heard you. 23:49.160 --> 23:51.160 He came over to the window to see who it was. 23:51.160 --> 23:52.160 Because it was dark, he couldn't see you. 23:52.160 --> 23:55.160 I haven't heard a story like that since I stopped reading fairy tales. 23:55.160 --> 23:56.160 You came home and you killed him. 23:56.160 --> 23:58.160 Then you heard Mr. West next door. 23:58.160 --> 23:59.160 He came over to see what it was. 23:59.160 --> 24:02.160 You went out the back way to the car that you'd parked in the alley. 24:02.160 --> 24:03.160 And you drove it back here. 24:03.160 --> 24:05.160 That's the way it looks to you, is it? 24:05.160 --> 24:06.160 Yes, ma'am. That's the way it looks. 24:06.160 --> 24:08.160 You figure she killed Charlie Stahl? 24:08.160 --> 24:09.160 Yes, sir. 24:09.160 --> 24:10.160 You're going to arrest Margaret? 24:10.160 --> 24:12.160 I want to talk to her about it. 24:12.160 --> 24:14.160 Oh, going to take her down to jail, huh? 24:14.160 --> 24:15.160 Yes, sir. 24:15.160 --> 24:16.160 Mm-hmm. 24:16.160 --> 24:18.160 Well, I'll go and put my clothes on. 24:18.160 --> 24:20.160 That isn't necessary for you to go with her, sir. 24:20.160 --> 24:21.160 Well, she's not going. 24:21.160 --> 24:22.160 What? 24:22.160 --> 24:23.160 I killed Charlie Stahl. 24:23.160 --> 24:24.160 Daddy. 24:24.160 --> 24:25.160 You killed him? 24:25.160 --> 24:26.160 Yep. 24:26.160 --> 24:28.160 Got tired of how he was treating Margaret. 24:28.160 --> 24:31.160 Got good and tired of him talking about how he was going to change the will. 24:31.160 --> 24:33.160 I couldn't let him do that. 24:33.160 --> 24:35.160 I just killed him and drove the car over and did it. 24:35.160 --> 24:37.160 What time was all this? 24:37.160 --> 24:38.160 Huh? 24:38.160 --> 24:40.160 What time did you go over to Stahl's? 24:40.160 --> 24:43.160 Right after the fellow from Texas. I guess it was about nine. 24:43.160 --> 24:44.160 What time did you kill him? 24:44.160 --> 24:46.160 Oh, it must have been 10.30 or so. 24:46.160 --> 24:48.160 I had to wait for him to get through playing cards. 24:48.160 --> 24:50.160 I had to wait for him to come home. 24:50.160 --> 24:51.160 Why are you doing this, Daddy? 24:51.160 --> 24:52.160 Why am I doing it? 24:52.160 --> 24:54.160 I said somebody's got to take care of the kids. 24:54.160 --> 24:55.160 Somebody's got to take care of you. 24:55.160 --> 24:56.160 I'm an old man. 24:56.160 --> 24:58.160 I ain't much use to anybody. 24:58.160 --> 24:59.160 All right. Come on, Miss Becker. 24:59.160 --> 25:00.160 You want to get dressed now? 25:00.160 --> 25:01.160 She ain't the one. I did it. 25:01.160 --> 25:04.160 I killed Charlie Stahl. I already confessed. 25:04.160 --> 25:05.160 Why don't you believe me? 25:05.160 --> 25:07.160 Why don't you ask me now? I did it. 25:07.160 --> 25:08.160 I'm afraid not. 25:08.160 --> 25:10.160 You got the times a little mixed up. 25:10.160 --> 25:11.160 Stahl wasn't killed at 10.30. 25:11.160 --> 25:13.160 No, he's just trying to help me, but he doesn't have to. 25:13.160 --> 25:15.160 Him and me were both here all night. 25:15.160 --> 25:16.160 Neither one of us left. 25:16.160 --> 25:18.160 I was in bed and asleep at midnight. 25:18.160 --> 25:19.160 Why do you say that? 25:19.160 --> 25:20.160 What? 25:20.160 --> 25:21.160 Why do you think Stahl was killed around midnight? 25:21.160 --> 25:22.160 I didn't say that. 25:22.160 --> 25:25.160 He said that you were home and in bed by midnight, didn't he? 25:25.160 --> 25:27.160 Just a figure of speech. 25:27.160 --> 25:28.160 I think I've talked enough to you. 25:28.160 --> 25:29.160 I don't have to say anything more. 25:29.160 --> 25:30.160 I'm going to see a lawyer about it. 25:30.160 --> 25:31.160 You got no right. 25:31.160 --> 25:33.160 I'm the one that did it. I'm the one. 25:33.160 --> 25:35.160 Why did you kill him, Mrs. Becker? 25:35.160 --> 25:37.160 You want to tell us? 25:37.160 --> 25:40.160 You know, nobody believes you. 25:40.160 --> 25:42.160 How about it, Miss Becker? 25:42.160 --> 25:43.160 I'll get dressed. 25:43.160 --> 25:45.160 You did kill him then, huh? 25:45.160 --> 25:46.160 Yes, I did it. 25:46.160 --> 25:48.160 It wasn't because of the money, though. 25:48.160 --> 25:49.160 You got to believe that. 25:49.160 --> 25:50.160 It wasn't because of the money. 25:50.160 --> 25:51.160 Yeah. 25:51.160 --> 25:52.160 I loved him. 25:52.160 --> 25:54.160 Deep in my heart, I loved him. 25:54.160 --> 25:57.160 I always did, even when we were kids. 25:57.160 --> 25:59.160 I thought he was going to marry me. 25:59.160 --> 26:01.160 Then he met Paula. 26:01.160 --> 26:03.160 You shouldn't have done it, Margaret. 26:03.160 --> 26:04.160 I loved him and he didn't want me. 26:04.160 --> 26:06.160 He wanted Paula. 26:06.160 --> 26:07.160 You know what that's like? 26:07.160 --> 26:08.160 What's that? 26:08.160 --> 26:11.160 Love somebody and them not want you. 26:11.160 --> 26:13.160 Begins to eat at you. 26:13.160 --> 26:15.160 Pretty soon you can't stand it anymore. 26:15.160 --> 26:16.160 That's why I did it. 26:16.160 --> 26:20.160 Not for the money, you understand? 26:20.160 --> 26:22.160 I just wanted him. 26:22.160 --> 26:23.160 Yeah. 26:23.160 --> 26:25.160 Just him. That's all I wanted. 26:25.160 --> 26:27.160 Not his money. You believe that? 26:27.160 --> 26:28.160 I never wanted his money. 26:28.160 --> 26:30.160 I just wanted him. 26:30.160 --> 26:31.160 You believe that? 26:31.160 --> 26:33.160 Well, it really doesn't make any difference, does it? 26:33.160 --> 26:34.160 How do you mean? 26:34.160 --> 26:36.160 You didn't get either one. 26:43.160 --> 26:46.160 The story you have just heard is true. 26:46.160 --> 26:48.160 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 26:48.160 --> 26:51.160 On August 6th, trial was held in Department 89, 26:51.160 --> 26:53.160 Superior Court of the State of California, 26:53.160 --> 26:55.160 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 26:55.160 --> 26:57.160 In a moment, the results of that trial. 26:57.160 --> 26:59.160 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 26:59.160 --> 27:01.160 Thank you, George Fenomen. 27:01.160 --> 27:04.160 Friends, all of us on Dragnet, are proud to be associated with Chesterfield, 27:04.160 --> 27:08.160 because believe me, Chesterfield is years ahead of all cigarettes. 27:08.160 --> 27:10.160 You just can't beat a cigarette that was good to begin with 27:10.160 --> 27:12.160 and keeps getting better all the time. 27:12.160 --> 27:15.160 But of course, you can't find out how much you'll like them till you try them. 27:15.160 --> 27:17.160 So that's what we'd like you to do. 27:17.160 --> 27:20.160 Get a carton of Chesterfields, regular or king size. 27:20.160 --> 27:21.160 That's all it takes. 27:21.160 --> 27:24.160 I know you'll agree that Chesterfield is best for you. 27:33.160 --> 27:36.160 Margaret Alice Becker was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree. 27:36.160 --> 27:38.160 She was sentenced to life imprisonment 27:38.160 --> 27:41.160 on the California Institute for Women, Corona, California. 27:41.160 --> 27:44.160 Further investigation proved that the suspect's father, 27:44.160 --> 27:47.160 John Samuel Woodbridge, was not implicated in the murder. 27:47.160 --> 27:51.160 He was not held. 28:17.160 --> 28:21.160 John Robinson, music by Walter Schuman, Hell Gibney speaking. 28:23.160 --> 28:26.160 For a million laughs, tune in Chesterfield's Martin & Lewis show, 28:26.160 --> 28:31.160 Tuesday on this same NBC station, and sound off for Chesterfields. 28:31.160 --> 28:37.160 Either regular or king size, you'll find premium quality Chesterfields much milder. 28:37.160 --> 28:41.160 Chesterfield is best for you. 28:41.160 --> 28:46.160 Chesterfield has brought you Dragnet transcribed from Los Angeles. 28:50.160 --> 28:53.160 Have you tried new cork-tipped Fatima? 28:53.160 --> 28:55.160 It's the smooth smoke. 28:55.160 --> 28:56.160 Here's why. 28:56.160 --> 28:59.160 New Fatima tips of perfect cork, 28:59.160 --> 29:01.160 king size for longer filtering, 29:01.160 --> 29:06.160 and Fatima quality for a much better flavor and aroma. 29:06.160 --> 29:10.160 Remember, Fatima has the tip for your lips. 29:10.160 --> 29:12.160 Try new Fatima. 29:12.160 --> 29:14.160 See how smooth it is. 29:14.160 --> 29:17.160 Fatima is made by the makers of Chesterfield. 29:17.160 --> 29:44.160 Liggett & Myers, one of tobacco's most respected names.