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From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, 01:47.280 --> 01:51.520 Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 01:51.520 --> 01:58.560 It was Thursday, November 19th. It was warm in Los Angeles. 01:58.560 --> 02:00.480 We were working the day watch out of homicide detail. 02:00.480 --> 02:03.160 My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Warman. 02:03.160 --> 02:05.760 My name's Friday. We just got in a call from Georgia Street 02:05.760 --> 02:10.200 Receiving Hospital and it was 946 A.M. when we got to the second floor. 02:10.200 --> 02:12.040 Go to the treatment room. Yes? 02:12.040 --> 02:15.200 Could I see Dr. Hall, please? Come in, Joe. 02:15.200 --> 02:17.360 Joe, Frank. Hi, Doc. 02:17.360 --> 02:18.360 Is this the girl? Yeah. 02:18.360 --> 02:20.120 How's she doing? I'm not sure yet. 02:20.120 --> 02:22.520 Just finished the transfusion. When are you going to know? 02:22.520 --> 02:24.480 We think she's going to live, but there's no way of telling right now 02:24.480 --> 02:27.720 how much damage has been done to the brain tissue. 02:27.720 --> 02:30.440 Bad bruise on her face. Must have received a bad blow. 02:30.440 --> 02:33.520 Might have gotten it when she fell. Let's go outside. 02:33.520 --> 02:35.000 I can use the smoke. Okay. 02:35.000 --> 02:42.000 If there's any change, I'll be out in the hall. All right, doctor. 02:42.000 --> 02:45.120 You got a cigarette? I'm fresh out. Yeah, here you are. 02:45.120 --> 02:48.000 Frank? Yeah, thanks. 02:48.000 --> 02:51.000 Here's a match. 02:51.000 --> 02:55.200 Thanks. I didn't know you gave transfusions in cases like this, Doc. 02:55.200 --> 02:57.800 Don't have to very often. You see, a thing like this, 02:57.800 --> 03:01.000 the carbon monoxide in the gas joins with the hemoglobin in the red cells. 03:01.000 --> 03:03.600 Won't let go. Blood takes the monoxide through the system 03:03.600 --> 03:07.000 and suffocates the brain tissue. We've given her some coramine. 03:07.000 --> 03:10.200 Helps speed up the heart action. Wait, look, she's got a good chance of living, 03:10.200 --> 03:12.200 but we won't know how bad it really is until later. 03:12.200 --> 03:14.800 It's a rough one, isn't it? You find out who she is? 03:14.800 --> 03:17.800 Well, according to the stuff we found in her wallet, her name's Mona Fenton. 03:17.800 --> 03:19.800 Another thing that doesn't make much sense, Doc, 03:19.800 --> 03:22.400 she registered into the hotel as Mrs. John Norris. 03:22.400 --> 03:24.000 As near as we can find out, she wasn't married. 03:24.000 --> 03:26.400 How'd you come up with that? Well, when the office got word about it, 03:26.400 --> 03:27.800 we tried to get in touch with her husband. 03:27.800 --> 03:30.400 We called the phone number on the ID that we found in her wallet, 03:30.400 --> 03:32.400 talked with her mother. She says the girl's single. 03:32.400 --> 03:34.400 How about the guy she was with? You been able to talk to him? 03:34.400 --> 03:37.400 No, haven't found out who he is. Name doesn't check out, huh? 03:37.400 --> 03:39.200 Not that we can find. How about the mother? 03:39.200 --> 03:41.600 Did she give you anything? We just talked to her for a minute. 03:41.600 --> 03:43.400 We're going over there when we leave here. 03:43.400 --> 03:46.000 Maybe she can come up with some answers. I sure hope so. 03:46.000 --> 03:48.600 Couple of more questions you can ask her. Yeah, what's that? 03:48.600 --> 03:50.800 Find out if the girl's been under a doctor's care. 03:50.800 --> 03:53.700 What do you mean? Checked her over when she came in, found marks. 03:53.700 --> 03:56.200 On her arm? Yeah, I think she's an addict. 03:56.200 --> 03:59.100 The 04:01.600 --> 04:05.400 At 8.30 a.m. that morning, a guest in a small hotel on Grand Avenue 04:05.400 --> 04:09.000 had thought that he detected the odor of gas in the halls of the building. 04:09.000 --> 04:12.800 He notified the desk clerk and together they conducted a search of the premises. 04:12.800 --> 04:18.000 Finally, they ascertained that the escaping gas was coming from a room on the third floor of the hotel. 04:18.000 --> 04:22.000 When the desk clerk got no answer to his calls, he used a passkey to open the door. 04:22.000 --> 04:25.700 Sprawled across the bed was a girl who appeared to be in her early 20s. 04:25.700 --> 04:29.000 The gas heater in the room had been turned on full and the windows were closed, 04:29.000 --> 04:33.400 locked and stuffed with pieces of torn sheets to keep the fumes in the room. 04:33.400 --> 04:37.300 The quick action of the desk clerk had undoubtedly saved the girl's life. 04:37.300 --> 04:40.800 While the hotel guest called an ambulance, the clerk turned off the gas, 04:40.800 --> 04:45.800 opened the windows and administered artificial respiration to the girl until the ambulance crew arrived. 04:45.800 --> 04:51.500 As an attempted suicide, the homicide detail had to make an investigation and Frank and I were assigned to the case. 04:51.500 --> 04:54.400 After we talked to Doc Hall at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital, 04:54.400 --> 04:57.500 we drove down to the hotel where the girl had been found. 04:57.500 --> 04:58.900 Right in here. 05:01.100 --> 05:03.200 Anybody been in this room since the other officers left? 05:03.200 --> 05:05.500 No, sir. They told me to lock it until you could see it. 05:05.500 --> 05:07.100 All right, sir. 05:07.100 --> 05:09.100 This is just the way you found it, is that right? 05:09.100 --> 05:14.000 Well, yes, of course. The gas is turned off and I opened the windows, but everything else is the same. 05:14.000 --> 05:15.400 I see. 05:17.500 --> 05:20.300 From what you said on the phone, she came in last night, is that right? 05:20.300 --> 05:23.000 Yes, sir. At least that's what the registration book says. 05:23.000 --> 05:25.300 They checked in at 10.15. 05:25.300 --> 05:26.500 Did you take care of him? 05:26.500 --> 05:29.000 No, I was out to dinner when they got here. 05:29.000 --> 05:30.100 Who checked him in? 05:30.100 --> 05:31.500 Jeff, Jeff Christensen. 05:31.500 --> 05:32.300 Is he around? 05:32.300 --> 05:35.600 No, not right now. He'll probably be back tonight. 05:35.600 --> 05:37.000 Know where we can find him? 05:37.000 --> 05:39.800 I don't know. See, Jeff got paid last night. 05:39.800 --> 05:41.200 Got his week's wages. 05:41.200 --> 05:45.400 Last I saw him, he was on his way out on the town with some of his friends. 05:45.400 --> 05:48.900 Jeff goes out on the town. Maybe we don't see him a couple of days. 05:48.900 --> 05:51.000 I see. But you figure he'll be back tonight, huh? 05:51.000 --> 05:56.400 Oh, yes, yes. Jeff only worked a couple of days last week, so he ain't gonna go on much of the town. 05:56.400 --> 05:59.300 Mm-hmm. Did you see the man Miss Benton came in with? 05:59.300 --> 06:00.400 No, I didn't. 06:00.400 --> 06:02.600 He was already in the room when I got back from dinner. 06:02.600 --> 06:06.400 I checked the book. I got the money from Jeff before I left. 06:06.400 --> 06:10.000 The man must have gone out sometime earlier this morning. 06:10.000 --> 06:12.300 I guess I was asleep. My room's just back of a desk. 06:12.300 --> 06:14.400 The fellow must have got out while I was asleep. 06:14.400 --> 06:17.200 I see. Did you get any calls from the room at all? 06:17.200 --> 06:18.800 Not a one. 06:18.800 --> 06:22.400 Like I told those uniformed officers we were here, I didn't see them at all. Not a people. 06:22.400 --> 06:26.000 Matter of fact, I was thinking how nice and quiet they were. 06:26.000 --> 06:29.800 But the way the room looks, they sure must have had some sort of argument. 06:29.800 --> 06:31.600 Yes, sir. 06:31.600 --> 06:33.800 Would you know if they brought any baggage with them? 06:33.800 --> 06:35.900 Matter of fact, I know they didn't. 06:35.900 --> 06:38.400 Sure looks like they did some heavy drinking, don't it? 06:38.400 --> 06:39.600 Mm-hmm. 06:39.600 --> 06:42.800 Yeah. Glasses. That bottle's almost empty. 06:42.800 --> 06:45.000 Yeah. I'd rather you wouldn't touch the bottle. 06:45.000 --> 06:47.400 Oh, yeah. Yeah, well, I won't. 06:47.400 --> 06:49.400 Say, you talk to the girls' people yet? 06:49.400 --> 06:50.400 No, sir, we haven't. 06:50.400 --> 06:51.800 But you plan to see them, aren't you? 06:51.800 --> 06:53.100 Yes, sir. 06:53.100 --> 06:56.500 Yeah, I wonder if you'd do me a favor. You know, when you see a people. 06:56.500 --> 06:57.400 Yes, sir. What's that? 06:57.400 --> 07:00.800 Well, I don't much mind the dirty glasses and having to straighten the room up. 07:00.800 --> 07:02.400 That's all part of the hotel business. 07:02.400 --> 07:05.600 But I wish you'd say something about the torn sheets. 07:05.600 --> 07:08.000 Tell the people about them. I don't want to cause no trouble. 07:08.000 --> 07:13.300 But maybe if they know how about the sheets were all torn up, they'd want to make good on them. 07:13.300 --> 07:15.000 You will mention them, won't you? 07:15.000 --> 07:16.200 Yes, sir. 07:16.200 --> 07:19.500 I'll call the office, Joe. Have them send out a crew. See what prints we can lift. 07:19.500 --> 07:21.400 All right, fine. 07:21.400 --> 07:23.100 Who else has a passkey to this room? 07:23.100 --> 07:24.100 Oh, you mean beside me? 07:24.100 --> 07:25.200 Yes, sir. 07:25.200 --> 07:26.400 Well, ain't nobody. 07:26.400 --> 07:27.800 Where's the key kept? 07:27.800 --> 07:31.400 It hangs on a nail next to this. That big nail there. It hangs right on it. 07:31.400 --> 07:32.100 Mm-hmm. 07:32.100 --> 07:35.800 When you came into the room, did you notice if there was anything around the door to keep the gas inside? 07:35.800 --> 07:38.000 Uh, I don't follow you. 07:38.000 --> 07:41.000 Well, you found pieces of torn sheets around the windows, you say. 07:41.000 --> 07:43.700 Now, was there anything like that but the door? 07:43.700 --> 07:46.800 Oh, oh, yes. I'm with you now. Yeah. 07:46.800 --> 07:48.500 Now, let me think. 07:48.500 --> 07:53.200 As I remember, no, no, there wasn't nothing there, just around the windows. 07:53.200 --> 07:55.600 Mm-hmm. Was the key in the lock when you came up here? 07:55.600 --> 07:56.600 You mean inside the room? 07:56.600 --> 07:57.400 Yes, sir. That's right. 07:57.400 --> 08:03.100 No, no. The reason I know that for sure is that I looked through the keyhole, tried to see what was in the room. 08:03.100 --> 08:06.800 No, sir, the key wasn't in. Of course, that don't mean nothing. 08:06.800 --> 08:07.600 Sir? 08:07.600 --> 08:10.900 Well, only a couple of the rooms have keys anyway. We don't use them anymore. 08:10.900 --> 08:12.800 You mean you don't lock the doors? 08:12.800 --> 08:16.000 Sure, we lock the doors. We got them all locked all the time. 08:16.000 --> 08:19.400 It's a respectable hotel. Of course, we lock the doors. 08:19.400 --> 08:22.300 But not with those keys. We got those other locks on the doors. 08:22.300 --> 08:24.200 Oh, I see. You see? Yeah, see there? 08:24.200 --> 08:27.500 Sort of like Yale locks. That kind, you know. 08:27.500 --> 08:29.800 That's what locks the doors, not the other keys. 08:29.800 --> 08:31.300 Yes, I see. 08:31.300 --> 08:33.000 Of course, we lock the doors. 08:33.000 --> 08:34.400 Yes. 08:34.400 --> 08:36.600 The locks catch when the door is closed, though, is that right? 08:36.600 --> 08:39.800 Yep. Locks them tight. 08:39.800 --> 08:42.800 I got in touch with Lee Jones, Joe. He sent a crew right over. 08:42.800 --> 08:44.800 Good. I checked with Doc Hall. 08:44.800 --> 08:45.500 How's the girl? 08:45.500 --> 08:47.800 Oh, she's coming along. Doc says she's doing better. 08:47.800 --> 08:52.600 Oh, these fellas that you're gonna have roaming around here, what's this all about? Is something wrong? 08:52.600 --> 08:54.300 We're not sure yet, sir. 08:54.300 --> 08:56.800 Oh, dear, dear. It always happens like this, don't it? 08:56.800 --> 08:57.600 What's that, sir? 08:57.600 --> 09:00.500 I try to run a respectable place. Goodness knows I do. 09:00.500 --> 09:04.500 I keep it right up to date. It's good service and something like this happens. 09:04.500 --> 09:07.700 There was no reason for that girl to do a thing like this. Not in my hotel. 09:07.700 --> 09:11.500 Now you cops come in here. Cops gonna be all over the place. 09:11.500 --> 09:14.200 Tenants aren't gonna like it. They ain't gonna like it at all. 09:14.200 --> 09:19.800 Just because of that girl. Why'd she have to come in here and do a thing like this? 09:19.800 --> 09:21.900 Why'd she have to do it at all, sir? 09:21.900 --> 09:28.900 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 09:28.900 --> 09:32.200 11.26 a.m. We questioned the people in the hotel. 09:32.200 --> 09:37.200 None of them could remember hearing any undue noise coming from the room where the girl had tried to kill herself. 09:37.200 --> 09:41.200 Normally, the investigation would have been routine, but with the possibility of foul play, 09:41.200 --> 09:44.000 we had to check every angle and then check it again. 09:44.000 --> 09:47.500 The crew from the crime lab arrived and went over the room. 09:47.500 --> 09:52.000 Under the bed, they found an empty capsule, the type commonly used to dispense heroin. 09:52.000 --> 09:55.400 They also came up with a clean set of fingerprints on both glasses. 09:55.400 --> 10:01.100 They were photographed, and the water glasses themselves were removed to the crime lab to be booked as evidence. 10:01.100 --> 10:05.700 The registration card the couple had signed was turned over to Don Meyer in handwriting. 10:05.700 --> 10:09.400 The name was checked through our record bureau, through the phone book, and through the city directory, 10:09.400 --> 10:14.600 but when the leads were checked out, we were no further in knowing who the man was who'd taken the room with Mona Fenton. 10:14.600 --> 10:18.600 Word was left at the hotel for the handyman to contact us as soon as he returned. 10:18.600 --> 10:23.700 Word was also left that if the man who'd registered with the Fenton girl returned, we were to be called. 10:23.700 --> 10:29.600 11.45 a.m. The men from the crime lab finished their investigation and returned to the office to compile the results. 10:29.600 --> 10:33.400 Frank and I left the hotel and drove out to the address listed on the girl's identification. 10:33.400 --> 10:38.200 It was a large white colonial home near one of the colleges. We rang the doorbell and waited. 10:38.200 --> 10:39.900 Yes? 10:39.900 --> 10:40.700 Mrs. Fenton? 10:40.700 --> 10:42.200 Yes, that's right. What is it you want? 10:42.200 --> 10:43.600 Police officers would like to talk to you. 10:43.600 --> 10:44.400 Oh, come in. 10:44.400 --> 10:47.700 Thank you. 10:47.700 --> 10:49.100 It's about Mona, isn't it? 10:49.100 --> 10:49.600 Yes, ma'am. 10:49.600 --> 10:52.200 I knew something like this would happen. I knew it all along. 10:52.200 --> 10:53.100 May I get your pardon? 10:53.100 --> 10:57.500 When she first had this crazy idea, when she first told me about it, I knew. 10:57.500 --> 11:01.600 Kids, try to tell them. Just try, and they tell you that times have changed. 11:01.600 --> 11:06.200 They say that you're not keeping up with the time. They know it all. Nobody can tell them anything. 11:06.200 --> 11:07.700 Well, what idea is this, Mrs. Fenton? 11:07.700 --> 11:12.700 When she wanted to quit school and take the job in that drive-in restaurant, the most ridiculous thing I ever heard of. 11:12.700 --> 11:20.100 But nobody could talk her out of it, Lord knows I tried. I knew something like this would happen. I just knew it. 11:20.100 --> 11:24.400 Yes, ma'am. Do you know any reason why your daughter might want to take her own life? 11:24.400 --> 11:25.800 Are you a policeman, too? 11:25.800 --> 11:28.200 Yes, ma'am. I'm Frank Smith. This is my partner, Joe Friday. 11:28.200 --> 11:29.000 How do you do? 11:29.000 --> 11:33.400 How are you, ma'am? Do you know any reason why your daughter might want to kill herself? 11:33.400 --> 11:35.500 It's a little hard to say, Mr. Friday. 11:35.500 --> 11:36.600 What's that? 11:36.600 --> 11:39.200 Mona and I had quite an argument about her leaving school. 11:39.200 --> 11:43.300 It was one of those silly things that starts and gets all out of hand, you know. 11:43.300 --> 11:47.500 We both have pride, and neither one of us was going to back down. 11:47.500 --> 11:50.200 I haven't seen Mona to talk to for over a month. 11:50.200 --> 11:51.800 Does she live here, ma'am? 11:51.800 --> 11:53.500 Yes, she does, Mr. Smith. 11:53.500 --> 11:57.100 But there's an outside entrance to her room. She comes and goes as she pleases. 11:57.100 --> 11:59.500 Doesn't eat her meals here, so I hardly ever see her. 11:59.500 --> 12:02.500 Mm-hmm. Do you know if she's been under a doctor's care? 12:02.500 --> 12:04.900 No, I don't think so. Why do you ask that? 12:04.900 --> 12:07.100 Well, is your daughter a diabetic? 12:07.100 --> 12:09.200 No, she isn't, Mr. Friday. 12:09.200 --> 12:12.200 Why all these questions about Mona and a doctor? What are you trying to find out? 12:12.200 --> 12:14.800 Does your daughter have any special boyfriends, Mrs. Fenton? 12:14.800 --> 12:16.000 She did have. 12:16.000 --> 12:16.800 Who was that? 12:16.800 --> 12:18.900 Richard Burdick. Nice boy. 12:18.900 --> 12:21.800 Mona and he were planning to get married when they got out of school. 12:21.800 --> 12:25.600 Then, along with everything else, that just blew up. 12:25.600 --> 12:27.700 Everything seemed to go all at the same time. 12:27.700 --> 12:30.100 Did your daughter have any trouble with this Burdick? 12:30.100 --> 12:32.900 No. Nothing you could call real trouble. 12:32.900 --> 12:35.500 It's just that they agreed to disagree. 12:35.500 --> 12:37.900 It was Mona's idea. Richard didn't want anything to change. 12:37.900 --> 12:39.600 She was very much in love with her. 12:39.600 --> 12:40.400 Uh-huh. 12:40.400 --> 12:41.500 Does he know about this? 12:41.500 --> 12:43.600 I don't think so, Mrs. Fenton. We haven't told him. 12:43.600 --> 12:46.300 I don't know what he's going to do when he hears about it. 12:46.300 --> 12:49.100 It's going to hit him awfully hard. He's the sensitive type. 12:49.100 --> 12:51.500 Does your daughter have any close friends that she might confide in? 12:51.500 --> 12:52.900 I suppose she does. 12:52.900 --> 12:55.200 She's talked about some of the girls where she worked. 12:55.200 --> 12:57.100 Would you give us their names, please? 12:57.100 --> 12:59.900 Oh, yes, I will. I'll write them down for you, those I can remember. 12:59.900 --> 13:02.600 All right, fine. Has your daughter been in good spirits lately? 13:02.600 --> 13:06.000 As far as I know, yes. She's always seemed happy enough when I saw her. 13:06.000 --> 13:09.600 I told you we haven't said much more than hello the last month, but she seemed happy. 13:09.600 --> 13:12.600 Uh-huh. You said that she broke up with this Burdick boy, is that right? 13:12.600 --> 13:13.500 Yes. 13:13.500 --> 13:14.500 When was that? 13:14.500 --> 13:16.300 Six weeks, two months ago. 13:16.300 --> 13:17.600 You know what caused it? 13:17.600 --> 13:20.200 The job, all the other things. 13:20.200 --> 13:23.300 Mona kept making dates with him and then breaking them at the last minute. 13:23.300 --> 13:25.400 I guess Richard just got tired of being stood up. 13:25.400 --> 13:27.900 Well, did he and your daughter have any arguments that you know of? 13:27.900 --> 13:29.300 No. 13:29.300 --> 13:31.600 They just decided that it wouldn't work out for them. 13:31.600 --> 13:34.300 They just decided to stop seeing each other. 13:34.300 --> 13:36.000 Did your daughter have any other steady boyfriends? 13:36.000 --> 13:37.900 Anyone that she saw quite a bit of, maybe? 13:37.900 --> 13:41.300 Well, there was one boy. He was quite a bit older than Mona. 13:41.300 --> 13:43.600 She saw a lot of him the last couple of weeks. 13:43.600 --> 13:45.100 You know who he was? 13:45.100 --> 13:47.100 No, I never met him. I only saw him once. 13:47.100 --> 13:49.100 What if you could describe him for us? 13:49.100 --> 13:51.700 No, I'm afraid I can't. He drove by for Mona one night, 13:51.700 --> 13:53.400 going to pick her up for a date. 13:53.400 --> 13:54.800 Parked out in front and honked the horn. 13:54.800 --> 13:55.600 I see. 13:55.600 --> 13:57.300 I went to the front door to tell him to come in. 13:57.300 --> 13:58.800 Mona wasn't ready yet, but he wouldn't. 13:58.800 --> 14:00.500 Just sat out there and waited. 14:00.500 --> 14:01.800 I didn't get a good look at him. 14:01.800 --> 14:03.900 Could you describe the car for us? 14:03.900 --> 14:05.300 I'm not good. 14:05.300 --> 14:08.100 It was one of those foreign cars, a convertible. 14:08.100 --> 14:10.900 I think it might have been a Jaguar. I'm not sure about that, though. 14:10.900 --> 14:12.700 But you're sure it wasn't an American automobile. 14:12.700 --> 14:13.800 Yes, I'm sure about that. 14:13.800 --> 14:16.900 All right. How about the color of the car? Can you tell us that? 14:16.900 --> 14:20.300 It was awfully dark out there. I'm not sure. 14:20.300 --> 14:23.300 I'd rather not say, officer, if I can't be sure. You understand that. 14:23.300 --> 14:25.500 I wouldn't want to tell you something and then have it turn out to be wrong. 14:25.500 --> 14:26.800 You can understand that, can't you? 14:26.800 --> 14:28.300 Yes, ma'am, of course. 14:28.300 --> 14:29.900 Did you see Mona this morning? 14:29.900 --> 14:31.500 Yes, we did. 14:31.500 --> 14:32.300 Is she all right? 14:32.300 --> 14:33.900 They think so, yes. 14:33.900 --> 14:34.800 Aren't you sure? 14:34.800 --> 14:37.700 Well, when we talked to the doctor, they were doing everything they could. 14:37.700 --> 14:40.000 They seemed to think that she was going to be all right. 14:40.000 --> 14:42.200 Thank God. 14:42.200 --> 14:45.200 It's so hard, Mr. Friday, to know that your child is sick, 14:45.200 --> 14:47.300 that she tried to kill herself. 14:47.300 --> 14:52.100 To want to go to her and not be able to. 14:52.100 --> 14:54.400 It's so hard. 14:54.400 --> 14:56.100 Try to take it easy if you can, Miss Fenton. 14:56.100 --> 15:00.600 If you'll just give us the names of the girls that she might know, we'll be on our way. 15:00.600 --> 15:02.200 Yes, I'll write them for you. 15:02.200 --> 15:03.900 Thank you. 15:03.900 --> 15:04.600 Excuse me. 15:04.600 --> 15:07.600 Shirley. 15:07.600 --> 15:09.100 Hello. 15:09.100 --> 15:10.500 Yes, it is. 15:10.500 --> 15:11.700 What? 15:11.700 --> 15:13.700 Yes, they're here. Just a moment. 15:13.700 --> 15:14.600 It's for you. 15:14.600 --> 15:18.600 I'll get a job. 15:18.600 --> 15:20.100 I'll get those names for you, Mr. Friday. 15:20.100 --> 15:22.100 All right, fine. 15:22.100 --> 15:25.000 Did your daughter ever refer to this man in the foreign car by name? 15:25.000 --> 15:26.900 No, I don't think she did. 15:26.900 --> 15:30.500 All I know is that whenever she went out with him, it was the big date of the bunch. 15:30.500 --> 15:32.000 How often did she see him? 15:32.000 --> 15:33.500 Maybe a couple of times a week. 15:33.500 --> 15:34.700 Might have been more. 15:34.700 --> 15:37.300 I had no way of knowing what she was doing. 15:37.300 --> 15:39.600 She kept pretty much to herself when she met him, 15:39.600 --> 15:42.100 but I could tell he was the big thing in her life. 15:42.100 --> 15:44.500 He was it. 15:44.500 --> 15:45.200 Joe? 15:45.200 --> 15:46.000 Yeah. 15:46.000 --> 15:46.900 See a minute? 15:46.900 --> 15:48.100 Yes, excuse me, Miss Fenn. 15:48.100 --> 15:49.000 I'll finish this list. 15:49.000 --> 15:51.100 Thank you. 15:51.100 --> 15:51.700 Yeah. 15:51.700 --> 15:53.400 Call with some Jacks Meyers at the office. 15:53.400 --> 15:53.900 Yeah. 15:53.900 --> 15:55.400 Just removed her to the general hospital. 15:55.400 --> 15:55.800 Yeah. 15:55.800 --> 15:56.800 She had a relapse. 15:56.800 --> 15:59.500 They don't think she's gonna live. 15:59.500 --> 16:13.100 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 16:13.100 --> 16:17.900 There are good reasons why thousands of people are changing to Chesterfield every day. 16:17.900 --> 16:22.200 Why Chesterfield is the largest selling two-way cigarette in America. 16:22.200 --> 16:26.100 Why Chesterfield is best for me and best for you. 16:26.100 --> 16:28.200 People these days want facts. 16:28.200 --> 16:30.100 When you want people to use your product, 16:30.100 --> 16:33.800 you have to tell them what effect it has on people who do use it regularly. 16:33.800 --> 16:39.400 That's why a doctor has examined for almost two years a large group of Chesterfield smokers. 16:39.400 --> 16:45.300 Forty-five percent of them have, on the average, been smoking Chesterfields for well over ten years. 16:45.300 --> 16:48.800 What is the effect on these people from smoking Chesterfield? 16:48.800 --> 16:54.200 No adverse effects to the nose, throat, and sinuses, says the doctor. 16:54.200 --> 16:56.900 Consider Chesterfield's record with these smokers, 16:56.900 --> 17:00.000 with millions of other smokers throughout America. 17:00.000 --> 17:03.900 Another good reason for you to change to Chesterfield. 17:03.900 --> 17:08.300 Regular or king size, Chesterfield is best for me, 17:08.300 --> 17:10.400 best for you. 17:10.400 --> 17:19.500 ["Fenton Girl's Marching March"] 17:19.500 --> 17:22.800 We obtained the name of the drive-in restaurant where the Fenton Girl was employed. 17:22.800 --> 17:25.000 We also got the names of the girls that she worked with, 17:25.000 --> 17:27.700 and the address of her boyfriend, Richard Burdick. 17:27.700 --> 17:33.000 Mrs. Fenton also gave us a list of names of persons who might be able to aid us in the investigation. 17:33.000 --> 17:36.200 Under further questioning, the mother was still unable to furnish us with a motive 17:36.200 --> 17:38.900 for her daughter's attempt to take her own life. 17:38.900 --> 17:42.100 The apparent lack of a motive, or any type of a suicide note, 17:42.100 --> 17:47.300 coupled with the bruise on the girl's chin, made the likelihood of foul play more than possible. 17:47.300 --> 17:51.200 12.57 p.m. We left the Fenton home and drove over to the drive-in. 17:51.200 --> 17:53.500 We stopped on the way and put in a call to the office. 17:53.500 --> 17:56.200 There still hadn't been any report of the handyman at the hotel, 17:56.200 --> 18:00.800 the only person who could give us a description of the man who registered at the place with the Fenton Girl. 18:00.800 --> 18:05.100 When we got to the drive-in, we asked about a Peggy Griegson, one of the girls on the list. 18:05.100 --> 18:07.800 After a few minutes, the girl came over to our car. 18:10.300 --> 18:11.300 You want to see me? 18:11.300 --> 18:12.300 You Peggy Griegson? 18:12.300 --> 18:12.900 Yeah, why? 18:12.900 --> 18:14.900 We'd like to ask you some questions about Mona Fenton. 18:14.900 --> 18:15.700 Who are you guys? 18:15.700 --> 18:17.600 Police officers. We'd just like to talk to you. 18:17.600 --> 18:20.400 I gotta get it okayed with the manager. I'm on duty now, lunchtime. 18:20.400 --> 18:21.900 Pretty busy. I gotta get it okayed. 18:21.900 --> 18:22.600 I'll take care of it. 18:22.600 --> 18:23.300 All right, fine. 18:23.300 --> 18:24.400 I'll check with the manager, Joe. 18:24.400 --> 18:25.300 Right. 18:25.300 --> 18:28.200 Hope this isn't gonna take long. I got a couple of customers waiting for orders. 18:28.200 --> 18:29.500 My partner will take care of it. 18:29.500 --> 18:32.400 Well, ain't the manager knowing that worries me. It's the tips they're gonna leave. 18:32.400 --> 18:33.800 Make what I do and the tips are important. 18:33.800 --> 18:35.000 Yes, ma'am. 18:35.000 --> 18:36.800 What's all this about Mona anyway? 18:36.800 --> 18:38.100 What are the cops after her for? 18:38.100 --> 18:40.100 Well, she tried to kill herself this morning. 18:40.100 --> 18:40.900 Mona? 18:40.900 --> 18:42.100 Yeah. 18:42.100 --> 18:43.800 Why? Why'd you do a thing like that? 18:43.800 --> 18:45.700 Well, we thought maybe you could help us there. 18:45.700 --> 18:47.400 Why me? I haven't got anything to do with it. 18:47.400 --> 18:49.100 Well, we understand you were pretty friendly with her. 18:49.100 --> 18:52.800 Well, sure, I was a friend of Mona's, but I don't know anything about no suicide. 18:52.800 --> 18:54.500 I don't know anything about it and I don't want to. 18:54.500 --> 18:56.500 Do you know any reason she might try to take her own life? 18:56.500 --> 18:58.700 Not a reason in the world. Not Mona. 18:58.700 --> 19:01.100 Do you know if she was under a doctor's care for any reason? 19:01.100 --> 19:03.000 No. I mean, I don't know. 19:03.000 --> 19:05.300 She didn't say anything about it. Never said a word. 19:05.300 --> 19:06.100 Was she? 19:06.100 --> 19:07.600 Well, that's what we're trying to find out. 19:07.600 --> 19:09.000 Can you think of any enemy she had? 19:09.000 --> 19:10.900 Anybody who might have wanted to hurt her? 19:10.900 --> 19:12.300 How far is this gonna go? 19:12.300 --> 19:13.400 Well, how do you mean, miss? 19:13.400 --> 19:14.800 I mean, who's gonna hear about this? 19:14.800 --> 19:16.300 Who's gonna hear the answers I'm gonna give? 19:16.300 --> 19:17.400 Well, no one. 19:17.400 --> 19:18.600 Now, what do you got for us? 19:18.600 --> 19:20.100 Well, I'll give you this for free. 19:20.100 --> 19:22.300 If anything happened to Mona, you go talk to Dick Burdick. 19:22.300 --> 19:24.000 Talk to him. He'll be able to tell you. 19:24.000 --> 19:24.900 Why'd you say that? 19:24.900 --> 19:26.500 Because it's true. No other reason. 19:26.500 --> 19:28.100 He's a real bum. 19:28.100 --> 19:30.000 You ask me, I think there's something wrong with him. 19:30.000 --> 19:31.100 You know, in the head. 19:31.100 --> 19:33.100 Would you have any reason to say that? 19:33.100 --> 19:34.300 All the reason in the world. 19:34.300 --> 19:37.600 Poor girl, this bum all the time coming around, giving her trouble. 19:37.600 --> 19:40.400 All the time telling her how he's gonna kill her and anybody that comes near her. 19:40.400 --> 19:41.800 Burdick said that to Miss Fenton, did he? 19:41.800 --> 19:43.000 Half a dozen times. 19:43.000 --> 19:45.100 Wasn't one a week ago. 19:45.100 --> 19:47.500 Mona told me she told him off, told him to get lost. 19:47.500 --> 19:49.800 She wanted any part of him to leave her alone. 19:49.800 --> 19:51.900 He made a big scene. Mona told me all about it. 19:51.900 --> 19:54.000 One day, this Terry drove in here. 19:54.000 --> 19:55.900 Got one of those flashy foreign cars. 19:55.900 --> 19:56.800 A Jaguar? 19:56.800 --> 19:58.000 I think so, yeah. 19:58.000 --> 19:59.000 All right, go ahead. 19:59.000 --> 20:00.700 Well, one day, he drove into the place. 20:00.700 --> 20:02.500 Mona took care of him. 20:02.500 --> 20:04.300 I guess he liked Mona. He kept coming back. 20:04.300 --> 20:06.600 Always parked in her station. 20:06.600 --> 20:08.600 Anyway, this Burdick kid found out about it. 20:08.600 --> 20:12.000 Wasn't anything for him to worry about, but he made a big thing about it. 20:12.000 --> 20:14.000 Told Mona she was supposed to stop seeing Terry. 20:14.000 --> 20:15.800 Said if she didn't, he was gonna cause real trouble. 20:15.800 --> 20:17.300 Did he say what he was gonna do? 20:17.300 --> 20:18.800 I think he was kidding. 20:18.800 --> 20:20.800 I don't think he really meant it. He's just a kid. 20:20.800 --> 20:21.800 What would he say? 20:21.800 --> 20:23.500 I really don't think he meant it. 20:23.500 --> 20:25.800 Well, all right. Now, what did he say to her? 20:25.800 --> 20:35.800 Said if he found them together again, kill them both. 20:35.800 --> 20:37.600 We talked to the other girls in the drive-in. 20:37.600 --> 20:41.500 From them, we got the same story about the scenes that Richard Burdick had created. 20:41.500 --> 20:46.000 We got more information about the threats that he'd made against the Fenton girl and Terry Hamilton. 20:46.000 --> 20:48.500 From one of the girls, we got the address of Hamilton. 20:48.500 --> 20:49.800 2.45 p.m. 20:49.800 --> 20:53.300 We left the drive-in and drove over to the address of the girl's boyfriend, Richard Burdick. 20:53.300 --> 20:54.400 We talked to the landlady. 20:54.400 --> 20:56.500 She told us that the Burdick boy had regular habits. 20:56.500 --> 20:59.000 He paid his rent on time. He never had any visitors. 20:59.000 --> 21:02.800 She told us that he wasn't in his room at that time, but she said that she'd let us in. 21:02.800 --> 21:04.400 In her company, we went upstairs. 21:04.400 --> 21:06.600 She unlocked the door and Frank and I went in. 21:06.600 --> 21:08.000 Go on, check the bedroom. I'll take the kitchen. 21:08.000 --> 21:09.000 Yeah. 21:14.600 --> 21:16.500 Nothing out there. How'd you do? 21:16.500 --> 21:17.900 Well, it looks like we're a little late. 21:17.900 --> 21:18.300 What? 21:18.300 --> 21:19.800 His clothes are gone. 21:19.800 --> 21:21.600 We checked the room further. 21:21.600 --> 21:25.000 Every indication was that Richard Burdick had left the apartment in a hurry. 21:25.000 --> 21:26.600 We talked to the landlady again. 21:26.600 --> 21:28.600 She could give us no reason for his disappearance. 21:28.600 --> 21:30.400 She gave us the name of his employer. 21:30.400 --> 21:34.700 We put in a call to them, but they told us that Burdick had failed to show up for work that day. 21:34.700 --> 21:36.100 4.15 p.m. 21:36.100 --> 21:41.800 We put in a call to the hotel on Grand Avenue, but the handyman still hadn't returned and there'd been no word from him. 21:41.800 --> 21:44.700 We went back to the office and checked the name Richard Burdick through R&I, 21:44.700 --> 21:47.300 but we found no criminal record for anybody answering questions. 21:47.300 --> 21:50.000 We put out a local and an APB on him. 21:50.000 --> 21:56.000 At 4.39 p.m., we got a call from General Hospital telling us that the Fenton girl had regained consciousness and that we could talk to her. 21:56.000 --> 21:59.200 Frank and I left the office and traveled code two out to the hospital. 21:59.200 --> 22:03.000 The doctor on duty told us that the girl was out of danger, but that she was very weak. 22:03.000 --> 22:06.000 He asked us not to get her excited and he led us into her room. 22:09.800 --> 22:11.000 Miss Fenton. 22:12.700 --> 22:14.000 Yes, who are you? 22:14.000 --> 22:15.000 I'm a doctor. 22:15.000 --> 22:17.400 Yes, who are you? 22:17.400 --> 22:18.700 Police officers. 22:18.700 --> 22:22.000 Why can't you leave me alone? Go away. 22:22.000 --> 22:24.000 Just a couple of questions we'd like to ask you. 22:24.000 --> 22:28.900 I don't want to talk to anybody. Why didn't you leave things the way they were? Why didn't you leave me alone? 22:28.900 --> 22:30.900 Well, you had a lot of people worried, Miss. 22:30.900 --> 22:32.200 No reason for it. 22:32.200 --> 22:36.500 Be better all the way around if things had happened the way I planned them. 22:36.500 --> 22:38.500 And you did try to kill yourself? 22:38.500 --> 22:39.200 Yes. 22:39.200 --> 22:41.000 Who was with you in that hotel room? 22:41.000 --> 22:42.300 You mean Mr. Morris? 22:42.300 --> 22:43.000 Yeah. 22:43.000 --> 22:44.300 It was Terry. 22:44.300 --> 22:48.000 It was always Terry. He was going to marry me, then he didn't. 22:48.000 --> 22:50.000 He said he would and he didn't. 22:50.000 --> 22:52.000 That way you did what you did? 22:52.000 --> 22:53.000 Yes. 22:53.000 --> 22:55.000 You used narcotics, Miss Fenton? 22:55.000 --> 22:56.000 Hmm? 22:56.000 --> 22:57.000 You used narcotics? 22:57.000 --> 23:00.000 Yes. That was Terry's idea, too. 23:00.000 --> 23:05.000 I think that's all he wanted with me, just to get me hooked so I'd have to do what he said. 23:05.000 --> 23:07.000 I think that was the reason. 23:07.000 --> 23:08.000 How about this Richard Burdick? 23:08.000 --> 23:09.000 What about him? 23:09.000 --> 23:11.000 Do you have anything to do with you deciding to take your own life? 23:11.000 --> 23:13.000 In a lot of ways. 23:13.000 --> 23:16.000 The biggest mistake I ever made was leaving Richard. 23:16.000 --> 23:19.000 I thought it was smart, real smart. I was going to show him. 23:19.000 --> 23:21.000 Terry said he'd marry me. He said he was in love with me. 23:21.000 --> 23:23.000 Did he get you started on narcotics? 23:23.000 --> 23:25.000 Yeah. 23:25.000 --> 23:28.000 At first it wasn't so bad. I loved him, really I did. 23:28.000 --> 23:31.000 Then when I had to have the fixes, he changed. 23:31.000 --> 23:34.000 Told me he couldn't give it to me anymore. 23:34.000 --> 23:38.000 That I was going to have to pay for it. I tried to tell him to tell him that I loved him. 23:38.000 --> 23:42.000 But I wanted to be with him. That's why I went to the hotel to talk it over. 23:42.000 --> 23:46.000 Try to come to an understanding. Some kind of an understanding. 23:46.000 --> 23:50.000 He said that he didn't want to have anything to do with me. 23:50.000 --> 23:52.000 That he wanted no part of me anymore. 23:52.000 --> 23:55.000 Said that I was going to have to pay for the H from now on. 23:55.000 --> 23:58.000 I didn't have any way to pay for it. 23:58.000 --> 24:00.000 He said it wasn't any of his business. 24:00.000 --> 24:02.000 Is he a user? 24:02.000 --> 24:04.000 Yes. 24:04.000 --> 24:08.000 It's all so stupid, all so stupid. 24:08.000 --> 24:10.000 Ma'am? 24:10.000 --> 24:13.000 The whole thing, I had it real good all the way around. 24:13.000 --> 24:17.000 And then I went ahead and ruined everything, tore it all down. 24:17.000 --> 24:21.000 Even if I'd have killed myself, it would have been no answer. 24:21.000 --> 24:23.000 Not the right answer anyway. 24:23.000 --> 24:26.000 I know that. I know it real well. 24:26.000 --> 24:28.000 Alright, can you tell us where you can find this Terry? 24:28.000 --> 24:30.000 You bet I can. 24:30.000 --> 24:33.000 I want to see him feel like I do. 24:33.000 --> 24:36.000 I want him to know what it's like. 24:36.000 --> 24:39.000 Will you be willing to meet with him? Make a buy off Narcotics Force? 24:39.000 --> 24:42.000 You name the time, I'll be there. 24:42.000 --> 24:44.000 I'll be there if I have to crawl. 24:44.000 --> 24:46.000 Alright, you better get some rest now. 24:46.000 --> 24:48.000 I guess so. 24:48.000 --> 24:51.000 I'm pretty tired. 24:51.000 --> 24:53.000 Did you see my mother? 24:53.000 --> 24:55.000 Yes, ma'am. 24:55.000 --> 24:57.000 Is she real mad at me? 24:57.000 --> 24:59.000 No, I don't think she is. 24:59.000 --> 25:01.000 Would you call her? 25:01.000 --> 25:04.000 Ask her to come and see me? Tell her I'm sorry. 25:04.000 --> 25:06.000 Tell her I want to see her. 25:06.000 --> 25:09.000 I'll be glad to hear that. I hope so. 25:09.000 --> 25:12.000 I've got so much to tell her, her and Richard. 25:12.000 --> 25:14.000 How much to tell them both. 25:14.000 --> 25:17.000 Alright, Miss Femme. We'll get in touch with her. 25:17.000 --> 25:20.000 And you tell me when you want me to call Terry. You tell me. 25:20.000 --> 25:22.000 Alright, we will. 25:22.000 --> 25:24.000 Terrible thing, isn't it? 25:24.000 --> 25:25.000 What's that? 25:25.000 --> 25:27.000 Terry. 25:27.000 --> 25:29.000 He's been around a long time. 25:29.000 --> 25:32.000 Must be other girls in the same fix all because of him. 25:32.000 --> 25:35.000 Girls who have a bad habit and have to do what he says. 25:35.000 --> 25:38.000 Girls like me, terrible. Nobody knows how many. 25:38.000 --> 25:39.000 Yes, ma'am. 25:39.000 --> 25:41.000 Where's it going to end? 25:41.000 --> 25:43.000 When you meet him. 25:50.000 --> 25:52.000 The story you have just heard is true. 25:52.000 --> 25:55.000 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 25:55.000 --> 25:58.000 On March 10th, trial was held in Department 98, 25:58.000 --> 26:00.000 Superior Court of the State of California, 26:00.000 --> 26:02.000 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 26:02.000 --> 26:04.000 In a moment, the results of that trial. 26:04.000 --> 26:06.000 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 26:06.000 --> 26:08.000 Thank you, George Fenomen. 26:08.000 --> 26:13.000 Obviously, it would be impossible for you to question all the Chesterfield smokers that you'd run into. 26:13.000 --> 26:18.000 Yet, we're convinced that you want to know what effect a product has on people who do use it regularly. 26:18.000 --> 26:20.000 Well, Chesterfield tells you. 26:20.000 --> 26:24.000 Now, you've heard the report from the doctor who's been examining Chesterfield smokers. 26:24.000 --> 26:28.000 No adverse effects to the nose, throat, and sinuses from smoking Chesterfield. 26:28.000 --> 26:31.000 I think it would make good sense for you to change to Chesterfield today. 26:31.000 --> 26:34.000 Smoke America's most popular two-way cigarette. 26:34.000 --> 26:38.000 Regular or king size, you'll find Chesterfield's best for you. 26:38.000 --> 27:04.000 Music 27:08.000 --> 27:30.800 she be placed under the care of a competent psychiatrist. 27:30.800 --> 27:35.640 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 27:35.640 --> 27:39.400 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. 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