WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.240 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:12.240 --> 00:14.720 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:14.720 --> 00:19.280 Dragnet is brought to you by Chesterfield, made by Liggett and Myers. 00:19.280 --> 00:32.280 First, major tobacco company to bring you a complete line of quality cigarettes. 00:32.280 --> 00:33.840 You're a detective sergeant. 00:33.840 --> 00:35.960 You're assigned to homicide detail. 00:35.960 --> 00:39.360 A howling dog causes a man to check his neighbor's house. 00:39.360 --> 00:42.320 He finds the brutally beaten body of an elderly woman. 00:42.320 --> 00:45.180 She's been killed by person or persons unknown. 00:45.180 --> 00:50.840 Your job, investigate. 00:50.840 --> 00:54.360 Today friends, you hear these three words everywhere. 00:54.360 --> 00:56.800 Chesterfield's for me. 00:56.800 --> 01:01.760 The Chesterfield you smoke today is the best cigarette ever made. 01:01.760 --> 01:08.360 Best for you because Chesterfield gives you proof of highest quality, low nicotine. 01:08.360 --> 01:09.920 The taste you want. 01:09.920 --> 01:11.840 The mildness you want. 01:11.840 --> 01:17.200 Chesterfield is best for you because it's tested and approved by 30 years of scientific 01:17.200 --> 01:19.080 tobacco research. 01:19.080 --> 01:24.360 Chesterfield is best for you because it has an established good record with smokers. 01:24.360 --> 01:27.040 Proven by test after test. 01:27.040 --> 01:33.120 Yes friends, the Chesterfield you smoke today is the best cigarette ever made. 01:33.120 --> 01:36.480 For the taste you want, the mildness you want. 01:36.480 --> 01:40.000 Join the thousands now changing to Chesterfield. 01:40.000 --> 01:49.480 Always say Chesterfield's for me. 01:49.480 --> 01:53.280 Dragnet, the document a drama of an actual crime. 01:53.280 --> 01:57.560 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:57.560 --> 02:02.140 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 02:02.140 --> 02:03.820 police files. 02:03.820 --> 02:08.960 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 02:08.960 --> 02:11.040 in action. 02:11.040 --> 02:15.200 It was Tuesday, June 10th. 02:15.200 --> 02:16.200 It was warm in Los Angeles. 02:16.200 --> 02:18.480 We were working the night watch out of homicide detail. 02:18.480 --> 02:20.760 My partner is Frank Smith, the boss is Captain Warman. 02:20.760 --> 02:21.760 My name is Friday. 02:21.760 --> 02:26.200 I was on my way back in from the alley and it was 7.26 p.m. when I got to 9782 Green 02:26.200 --> 02:27.200 Oak Drive. 02:27.200 --> 02:28.200 Front door. 02:28.200 --> 02:29.200 Did you find anything? 02:29.200 --> 02:32.040 No, no sign of anybody out back. 02:32.040 --> 02:33.040 Did you call the crime lab? 02:33.040 --> 02:34.360 Yeah, I talked to Lee's on the way. 02:34.360 --> 02:35.360 That's good. 02:35.360 --> 02:36.360 Call Hollywood Division 2. 02:36.360 --> 02:37.640 They're going to send out some more men to help us. 02:37.640 --> 02:40.080 That's an outside chance we might come up with something. 02:40.080 --> 02:42.400 Yeah, whoever did it sure must have been wild, Joe. 02:42.400 --> 02:44.720 I don't think I ever saw killing as brutal as this one. 02:44.720 --> 02:45.720 It's pretty rough. 02:45.720 --> 02:47.880 Must have hit her a couple of dozen times. 02:47.880 --> 02:49.880 Look at there. 02:49.880 --> 02:52.680 See, wristwatch is broken. 02:52.680 --> 02:56.880 Looks like she might have raised her arm to try and stop some of the blows. 02:56.880 --> 02:57.880 Crystal smashed up pretty bad. 02:57.880 --> 02:58.880 It's hard to read. 02:58.880 --> 02:59.880 Looks like 304, doesn't it? 02:59.880 --> 03:00.880 Uh-huh. 03:00.880 --> 03:03.000 Must have been the time. 03:03.000 --> 03:05.200 From what the neighbor says, it had to have to be this afternoon. 03:05.200 --> 03:08.080 Did you find anything that looks like the murder weapon? 03:08.080 --> 03:09.080 Nothing out in the open. 03:09.080 --> 03:11.000 Thought it'd be better if the crime lab checked the place first. 03:11.000 --> 03:12.000 How about the other rooms? 03:12.000 --> 03:13.320 They as bad as the one out front? 03:13.320 --> 03:14.720 Yeah, stuff's all scattered around. 03:14.720 --> 03:17.040 Drawers pulled out, contents thrown all over. 03:17.040 --> 03:18.600 Whoever it was sure wanted us to think it was robbery. 03:18.600 --> 03:19.840 Well, let's check the neighbor. 03:19.840 --> 03:20.840 Yeah, he's cross street. 03:20.840 --> 03:23.520 Said he wanted to go home and take something to help quiet him down. 03:23.520 --> 03:25.560 Must have been quite a shock to the old guy. 03:25.560 --> 03:28.280 You want to tell Brian and Phillips where we'll be? 03:28.280 --> 03:29.280 Yeah. 03:29.280 --> 03:30.280 Phillips is out in the back. 03:30.280 --> 03:31.280 I saw him when I came in. 03:31.280 --> 03:32.280 I'll talk to Brian. 03:32.280 --> 03:34.560 Ask him to let us know when Lee gets here, will you? 03:34.560 --> 03:35.560 All right. 03:35.560 --> 03:36.560 Come on in. 03:36.560 --> 03:37.560 Thank you. 03:37.560 --> 03:38.560 Mr. Brody? 03:38.560 --> 03:39.560 Yeah, over here. 03:39.560 --> 03:41.560 Want to turn the lights on? 03:41.560 --> 03:57.120 I was just sitting here having a drink, trying to calm down a little. 03:57.120 --> 03:58.120 Yeah, sir. 03:58.120 --> 04:00.560 Switches there on the wall, sort of behind the whatnot. 04:00.560 --> 04:02.880 Had to kind of feel around. 04:02.880 --> 04:05.560 Yeah, sir, I found it. 04:05.560 --> 04:07.560 Turned out the lights helped my head. 04:07.560 --> 04:12.040 Oh, me oh my, I got an awful headache. 04:12.040 --> 04:14.240 You don't happen to have a couple of aspirin on you, do you? 04:14.240 --> 04:15.240 No, sir, I'm sorry, I don't. 04:15.240 --> 04:18.240 Oh, well, I guess you don't mind much. 04:18.240 --> 04:23.160 I guess this will do just as good. 04:23.160 --> 04:24.720 What if you tell me just what happened here? 04:24.720 --> 04:26.520 Well, I'm glad to. 04:26.520 --> 04:28.640 I want to help all I can, sure. 04:28.640 --> 04:31.600 I'd like to see you get the guy who did this to Ethel. 04:31.600 --> 04:33.440 Why do you think it was a man? 04:33.440 --> 04:34.440 Huh? 04:34.440 --> 04:35.440 Well, you said guy. 04:35.440 --> 04:36.440 What makes you think it was a man? 04:36.440 --> 04:42.240 Well, I didn't mean it like, you know, not special, but come right down to it, almost 04:42.240 --> 04:43.240 got to be a man. 04:43.240 --> 04:46.080 You can't imagine an old woman doing a thing like that. 04:46.080 --> 04:48.200 At least no woman I ever knew. 04:48.200 --> 04:50.280 It's got to be a man. 04:50.280 --> 04:54.040 Come on in, everybody come in. 04:54.040 --> 04:58.400 Might as well have a convention, all the people coming in. 04:58.400 --> 05:00.480 It's my partner, Mr. Brody. 05:00.480 --> 05:02.240 Oh, another policeman, huh? 05:02.240 --> 05:03.240 Yes, sir. 05:03.240 --> 05:04.240 How's that, Joe? 05:04.240 --> 05:05.240 They're going to call us when the crime lab crew gets here. 05:05.240 --> 05:07.520 How are you, Mr. Brody? 05:07.520 --> 05:08.520 People all over the place. 05:08.520 --> 05:13.040 I never saw a crowd come so fast as when the sirens come in. 05:13.040 --> 05:17.800 Seemed like they were attached to mushrooms, just sprung up out of the ground. 05:17.800 --> 05:18.800 Oh, yeah, I'm fine. 05:18.800 --> 05:19.800 Fine, yeah. 05:19.800 --> 05:23.200 I wonder if you'd mind leaving that alone until we ask you a few questions. 05:23.200 --> 05:25.400 Oh, you mean before I have another drink? 05:25.400 --> 05:26.400 Yes, sir, if you would. 05:26.400 --> 05:27.400 Well, of course. 05:27.400 --> 05:28.400 Glad to oblige. 05:28.400 --> 05:29.400 I'll wait, I mean. 05:29.400 --> 05:34.400 You don't have to worry about me, though, not old Earl Brody. 05:34.400 --> 05:35.880 I'm the whole of my life. 05:35.880 --> 05:36.880 Hey, just bet. 05:36.880 --> 05:39.880 Old Earl's a regular tanker. 05:39.880 --> 05:41.880 Don't ever show on old Earl. 05:41.880 --> 05:42.880 Mm-hmm. 05:42.880 --> 05:44.880 Well, if you'd just tell us about finding the body. 05:44.880 --> 05:49.680 Well, I was out in the front, watering the lawn. 05:49.680 --> 05:51.720 Always do it at the same time, you see. 05:51.720 --> 05:53.120 The hot sun burns it up. 05:53.120 --> 05:54.120 You don't water, you know. 05:54.120 --> 05:55.120 You've got to do that. 05:55.120 --> 05:56.120 Yes, sir. 05:56.120 --> 05:59.120 Well, that's what I was doing, watering the lawn. 05:59.120 --> 06:01.120 Yeah, sir, do you want to go on? 06:01.120 --> 06:04.120 Sure you fellas want a little snort, huh? 06:04.120 --> 06:05.880 No, no thanks, Mr. Brody. 06:05.880 --> 06:06.880 No thanks. 06:06.880 --> 06:12.960 Yeah, well, all of a sudden I hear Nero making an awful fuss. 06:12.960 --> 06:13.960 Who's that? 06:13.960 --> 06:15.960 That's a silly name, isn't it? 06:15.960 --> 06:16.960 Who is it? 06:16.960 --> 06:18.840 Little bitty old Peek. 06:18.840 --> 06:21.120 She called it Nero. 06:21.120 --> 06:25.840 Always seemed to me that if you're going to call a dog Nero, it should be a big dog. 06:25.840 --> 06:28.600 Yes, Nero's the dog. 06:28.600 --> 06:30.680 Well, what happened then? 06:30.680 --> 06:34.320 Well, sir, first off, I didn't pay much attention to it. 06:34.320 --> 06:36.240 Just kept right on watering the lawn. 06:36.240 --> 06:40.160 Then old Nero kept it up, kept right on yelling and howling. 06:40.160 --> 06:42.000 Finally, I figured there must be something wrong. 06:42.000 --> 06:44.240 Yes, sir, there must be with all that going on. 06:44.240 --> 06:48.000 So I turned off the water and wandered over it, you know, check up. 06:48.000 --> 06:49.000 Yes, sir. 06:49.000 --> 06:50.600 Mr. Brody, about what time was this? 06:50.600 --> 06:54.360 I thought it was funny that Ethel not coming out and making Nero shut up. 06:54.360 --> 06:56.160 Oh, it was about six o'clock. 06:56.160 --> 06:57.160 Yeah, about six o'clock. 06:57.160 --> 06:58.920 Did you see anyone around the house when you went over? 06:58.920 --> 07:00.880 Not a soul, no, sir, there's nobody. 07:00.880 --> 07:03.400 So I went around back to the patio, you know. 07:03.400 --> 07:04.400 Mm-hmm. 07:04.400 --> 07:06.400 Well, there wasn't anybody there either. 07:06.400 --> 07:07.680 And I knocked at the door. 07:07.680 --> 07:12.400 Now all this time little old Nero is still raising old Ned. 07:12.400 --> 07:14.400 Ain't stopped to breathe hardly. 07:14.400 --> 07:15.400 Yes, sir. 07:15.400 --> 07:20.120 Well, sir, when I knocked on the door, things swung right open. 07:20.120 --> 07:22.560 Wasn't locked, you know, so I called Ethel. 07:22.560 --> 07:24.120 I called a couple of times. 07:24.120 --> 07:25.120 I didn't get no answer. 07:25.120 --> 07:29.120 I couldn't see nothing, so the door opens on the kind of little service ports. 07:29.120 --> 07:30.120 I didn't see a thing. 07:30.120 --> 07:31.120 Yes, sir. 07:31.120 --> 07:33.960 Then I went in, walked right into the kitchen. 07:33.960 --> 07:39.200 There she was lying on the floor, stuff scattered all over and little Nero sitting right beside 07:39.200 --> 07:40.640 her just going crazy. 07:40.640 --> 07:41.880 You called the police right away, didn't you? 07:41.880 --> 07:45.360 Well, I ran out of the house all over to my place and called the operator. 07:45.360 --> 07:48.520 I dialed over and told them to send a policeman right away. 07:48.520 --> 07:51.560 Yeah, right away I called him. 07:51.560 --> 07:52.920 Had you seen Miss Lawrence at all today? 07:52.920 --> 07:54.800 Yeah, I saw her this noontime. 07:54.800 --> 07:57.600 She was out to get the mail and we said, uh, hello. 07:57.600 --> 08:00.520 You know, just as cheerful like, like that. 08:00.520 --> 08:01.960 Well, what time did you say hello? 08:01.960 --> 08:06.220 I picked up the mail and went right back into the house just like she didn't have no idea 08:06.220 --> 08:07.720 what was going to happen. 08:07.720 --> 08:10.120 Oh, about 1.30, mail comes in. 08:10.120 --> 08:13.840 Did you see anyone around her house this afternoon? 08:13.840 --> 08:15.400 Nobody, no, no. 08:15.400 --> 08:20.640 Oh, well, of course, now I was out in the back most of the afternoon, you see, you see, 08:20.640 --> 08:25.240 out there working the flowers, so I can't right now say that there wasn't anybody over 08:25.240 --> 08:26.240 there. 08:26.240 --> 08:27.240 I see. 08:27.240 --> 08:28.240 Do you know where we can get in touch with Mr. Lawrence? 08:28.240 --> 08:30.240 He works in the garage down on Pico. 08:30.240 --> 08:33.800 I think I got the name of the place around someplace. 08:33.800 --> 08:38.320 I used to take my car down to him before him and Mrs. Lawrence got a divorce. 08:38.320 --> 08:40.080 How long have they been divorced? 08:40.080 --> 08:41.680 About three years, I guess. 08:41.680 --> 08:44.240 Well, I'm not really sure about that. 08:44.240 --> 08:45.240 How'd they get along, you know? 08:45.240 --> 08:47.120 Any trouble between them? 08:47.120 --> 08:50.240 I guess there's some who'd say that he was right. 08:50.240 --> 08:55.000 I may need to practice not to get involved in those things, religion, politics, marriage, 08:55.000 --> 08:56.000 troubles. 08:56.000 --> 08:58.240 I don't get meddled up in them. 08:58.240 --> 09:01.080 Oh, they, yeah, they fought all the time. 09:01.080 --> 09:02.080 Yeah. 09:02.080 --> 09:04.000 Has Mr. Lawrence been at his wife's house lately? 09:04.000 --> 09:05.480 Well, not that I've seen. 09:05.480 --> 09:09.920 I guess they will see each other, but I understand what Ethel said. 09:09.920 --> 09:11.280 It was at the lawyer's. 09:11.280 --> 09:14.720 She used to try to tell me about it, but I just wouldn't listen. 09:14.720 --> 09:16.200 I don't believe in it. 09:16.200 --> 09:20.480 Religion, politics, marriage stuff and all those things, et cetera, et cetera. 09:20.480 --> 09:21.480 Yes, sir. 09:21.480 --> 09:22.480 Alimony. 09:22.480 --> 09:24.080 They was always fighting about alimony, always. 09:24.080 --> 09:28.040 Do you know what the disagreements were about besides alimony? 09:28.040 --> 09:29.600 I'll tell you, mister. 09:29.600 --> 09:32.360 You better talk to Mr. Lawrence about that. 09:32.360 --> 09:33.680 He's the one to set you right on it. 09:33.680 --> 09:37.600 I go telling you and I'm liable to say something wrong, you see, and I wouldn't be right, I 09:37.600 --> 09:38.600 would it. 09:38.600 --> 09:39.600 You better talk to him. 09:39.600 --> 09:40.600 You talk to him. 09:40.600 --> 09:41.600 All right, sir, if you'll just give us the address, please. 09:41.600 --> 09:42.600 Sure, sure. 09:42.600 --> 09:46.600 Take a look at my checkbook, see if I can find it. 09:46.600 --> 09:48.080 You talk to him. 09:48.080 --> 09:52.480 You don't give you all the scoop, then maybe I can help you out a little. 09:52.480 --> 09:54.080 All right, Mr. Brudig, thank you. 09:54.080 --> 09:57.160 Got any more questions you've got to ask me right now? 09:57.160 --> 09:59.680 Well, if you don't feel well, sir, we can talk to you later. 09:59.680 --> 10:04.480 Well, it ain't that I don't feel good, just that I like another little snort, you know, 10:04.480 --> 10:09.200 kind of picked me up a little, big body and soul together, awful thing, oh, just awful. 10:09.200 --> 10:11.800 Well, there may be some more things we'll want to check with you later tonight. 10:11.800 --> 10:15.560 A little old snort ain't gonna do no harm, one thing. 10:15.560 --> 10:18.840 Everybody says his old or old can hold his liquor. 10:18.840 --> 10:21.560 Everybody says that, you can ask them, everybody. 10:21.560 --> 10:24.680 Harder day goes by if somebody don't say that. 10:24.680 --> 10:27.920 Well, if you'll get Mr. Lawrence's address for us, please. 10:27.920 --> 10:29.920 Right away, right away, sir. 10:29.920 --> 10:36.280 I wonder how you're gonna take all this, all them years of battling, screaming at each 10:36.280 --> 10:37.280 other. 10:37.280 --> 10:38.280 Now they're over. 10:38.280 --> 10:42.040 He ain't gonna have no more trouble because of her. 10:42.040 --> 10:43.800 No, that's not quite right, sir. 10:43.800 --> 10:44.800 Huh? 10:44.800 --> 10:51.200 He's liable to have a lot more. 10:51.200 --> 10:54.320 Earl Brutig looked through his desk and he found a canceled check bearing the address 10:54.320 --> 10:56.600 of the garage where the victim's husband was employed. 10:56.600 --> 11:00.640 While he was looking for the check stub, Frank and I interrogated him further on the relations 11:00.640 --> 11:02.840 between Ethel Lawrence and her husband. 11:02.840 --> 11:06.160 He refused to tell us any more than he had, explaining that if the answers we got from 11:06.160 --> 11:09.240 the husband weren't adequate, we could come back and see him. 11:09.240 --> 11:10.560 6.48 p.m. 11:10.560 --> 11:13.720 We returned to the victim's house and we talked with Lieutenant Lee Jones. 11:13.720 --> 11:17.440 He told us that the crew from the crime lab had been unable to find the murder weapon, 11:17.440 --> 11:20.040 but that they had been able to lift several good fingerprints from the kitchen. 11:20.040 --> 11:23.200 He went on to say that these had been checked with those of the victim and they were not 11:23.200 --> 11:24.640 the same. 11:24.640 --> 11:26.720 Little other physical evidence was found in the house. 11:26.720 --> 11:30.160 However, an impression of a shoe had been found in the soft earth at the side of the 11:30.160 --> 11:32.840 house and a plaster cast had been made of it. 11:32.840 --> 11:35.920 We asked Lieutenant Jones to take the fingerprints of the neighbor who had found the body and 11:35.920 --> 11:38.960 check them with the impressions left in the victim's house. 11:38.960 --> 11:40.280 9.46 p.m. 11:40.280 --> 11:44.240 The coroner arrived and removed the body and attached the paper seal to the front door. 11:44.240 --> 11:47.280 Frank and I went back to the office and checked the name of the victim and her husband through 11:47.280 --> 11:48.880 the record bureau. 11:48.880 --> 11:53.260 We found that Bernard Lawrence had been arrested four years previously on a wife beating charge, 11:53.260 --> 11:56.360 but that he'd been released when his wife refused to prosecute. 11:56.360 --> 11:58.080 We checked the name Earl Broody. 11:58.080 --> 11:59.680 He had no record. 11:59.680 --> 12:00.680 10.54 p.m. 12:00.680 --> 12:03.360 We drove over to the garage where the victim's husband was employed. 12:03.360 --> 12:07.960 The place was closed, but there was a card on the door giving an emergency address. 12:07.960 --> 12:11.000 Frank and I drove out to the house, a low rambling ranch style building. 12:11.000 --> 12:13.880 The garage owner, Arnold Norton, met us at the door. 12:13.880 --> 12:14.880 Yeah? 12:14.880 --> 12:15.880 Mr. Norton? 12:15.880 --> 12:16.880 That's right. 12:16.880 --> 12:17.880 What can I do for you? 12:17.880 --> 12:18.880 Police officers. 12:18.880 --> 12:19.880 Would you like to talk to you? 12:19.880 --> 12:20.880 Yeah, I guess it's okay. 12:20.880 --> 12:21.880 I don't know what it's about, but I guess it's okay. 12:21.880 --> 12:22.880 What do you want? 12:22.880 --> 12:24.880 It might be better if we talked inside. 12:24.880 --> 12:27.640 Do you mind if I see your identification? 12:27.640 --> 12:28.640 No, sir. 12:28.640 --> 12:29.640 Here's my ID card. 12:29.640 --> 12:31.080 This is my partner, Frank Smith. 12:31.080 --> 12:32.080 My name's Friday. 12:32.080 --> 12:33.080 Uh-huh. 12:33.080 --> 12:34.080 Yeah, come in. 12:34.080 --> 12:35.080 Thank you. 12:35.080 --> 12:36.080 Thank you. 12:36.080 --> 12:37.080 Just a minute. 12:37.080 --> 12:38.080 I'll turn off the TV. 12:38.080 --> 12:39.760 We don't like to bother you, Mr. Norton. 12:39.760 --> 12:40.760 It shouldn't take us too long. 12:40.760 --> 12:41.760 Doesn't matter. 12:41.760 --> 12:42.760 It's just a fight movie. 12:42.760 --> 12:43.760 I've seen it before. 12:43.760 --> 12:46.640 I get a kick out of seeing him again. 12:46.640 --> 12:47.640 What is it you want to know? 12:47.640 --> 12:49.800 You have an employee named Bernard Lawrence working for you? 12:49.800 --> 12:52.200 Yeah, Barney's been with me for about seven years. 12:52.200 --> 12:53.200 Why? 12:53.200 --> 12:54.200 You have a home address for him? 12:54.200 --> 12:55.200 I suppose so. 12:55.200 --> 12:56.520 Look, can you tell me what this is all about? 12:56.520 --> 12:57.520 Just a routine investigation. 12:57.520 --> 12:58.520 We like to talk to him. 12:58.520 --> 13:00.120 I'll write out the address for you. 13:00.120 --> 13:01.120 All right. 13:01.120 --> 13:03.720 What do you care about Lawrence and his wife having any quarrels or disagreements? 13:03.720 --> 13:05.880 I'm not quite sure how I should answer that. 13:05.880 --> 13:06.880 What do you mean? 13:06.880 --> 13:08.200 I don't know why you're asking the question. 13:08.200 --> 13:11.160 It's a little rough to ask me to comment on the way Barney gets along with his wife. 13:11.160 --> 13:12.480 I don't want to lay anything on him. 13:12.480 --> 13:13.960 You've known him for quite a while, have you? 13:13.960 --> 13:16.200 Yeah, I told you he's been with me for seven years. 13:16.200 --> 13:17.800 Best carburetor man I've got. 13:17.800 --> 13:20.600 You must have heard him discussing his home life at one time or another, haven't you? 13:20.600 --> 13:22.440 I went through the same thing before, you know. 13:22.440 --> 13:23.880 I got myself right in the middle before. 13:23.880 --> 13:25.080 I don't want it to happen again. 13:25.080 --> 13:26.780 I don't understand. 13:26.780 --> 13:30.040 When they got the divorce, all the time lawyers coming around asking questions, trying to 13:30.040 --> 13:31.040 get me to take sides. 13:31.040 --> 13:32.320 I'm not going to do it. 13:32.320 --> 13:34.960 If Barney's trying to bring the thing up again, he should be the one to tell me not to have 13:34.960 --> 13:36.400 you fellas come around and do it. 13:36.400 --> 13:37.480 I'm not going to get in the middle again. 13:37.480 --> 13:38.880 I've known both of them for a long time. 13:38.880 --> 13:40.040 I think a lot of them. 13:40.040 --> 13:42.800 Ethel and Barney and me have been pretty close in the years. 13:42.800 --> 13:43.800 But I've had it. 13:43.800 --> 13:46.800 All the questions about how much Barney makes, what were his working hours, who did he see, 13:46.800 --> 13:48.240 did he run around with any girls. 13:48.240 --> 13:50.160 No, I'm not going to answer any more questions. 13:50.160 --> 13:52.400 This isn't a civil matter, Mr. Norton. 13:52.400 --> 13:54.280 This has nothing to do with the divorce? 13:54.280 --> 13:55.280 No, sir. 13:55.280 --> 13:56.800 I'm not going to be called as a witness? 13:56.800 --> 13:58.800 We can't say to that, sir. 13:58.800 --> 13:59.800 Uh-huh. 13:59.800 --> 14:02.280 The way you fellas are going about this routine thing makes me think that it's a lot more 14:02.280 --> 14:04.760 important than just a traffic ticket or anything like that. 14:04.760 --> 14:05.760 Well, it is. 14:05.760 --> 14:07.280 Did you see Lawrence today? 14:07.280 --> 14:08.280 You mean the garage? 14:08.280 --> 14:09.280 Yes, sir. 14:09.280 --> 14:10.600 Yeah, he came to work at eight, just like he always does. 14:10.600 --> 14:11.600 He was there all day? 14:11.600 --> 14:13.320 Eight to five, that's what he works. 14:13.320 --> 14:16.680 Does he have occasion to leave the garage at all during the day? 14:16.680 --> 14:17.680 I don't understand what you mean. 14:17.680 --> 14:20.160 Well, does he have to leave to go pick up parts, anything like that? 14:20.160 --> 14:22.200 Yeah, once in a while he does. 14:22.200 --> 14:24.680 We got a fellow who does that kind of thing, but when he's out on the call and Barney needs 14:24.680 --> 14:27.000 something fast, he maybe runs down the street and gets it. 14:27.000 --> 14:28.600 Did he leave the garage this afternoon? 14:28.600 --> 14:30.520 Yeah, he had to go down and pick up some rebuilds. 14:30.520 --> 14:31.520 You know what time he left? 14:31.520 --> 14:33.880 It would be hard to pin it down to an exact time. 14:33.880 --> 14:35.360 I don't much keep tabs on Barney. 14:35.360 --> 14:37.240 He comes and goes as he pleases. 14:37.240 --> 14:39.080 Pretty important that we get an idea of when he was gone. 14:39.080 --> 14:40.960 Well, I can check it with the other boys in the shop. 14:40.960 --> 14:43.360 I should be able to find out when he left. 14:43.360 --> 14:45.200 I know he got back about 4.30, though. 14:45.200 --> 14:46.520 You're pretty sure about the time? 14:46.520 --> 14:51.080 Yeah, he came back and did a job on a rush one that we had, and then he took off at five. 14:51.080 --> 14:52.280 How was he acting when he came back? 14:52.280 --> 14:53.280 What do you mean? 14:53.280 --> 14:54.760 Did he seem upset about anything? 14:54.760 --> 14:55.760 No, not particularly. 14:55.760 --> 14:57.360 He seemed pretty happy, though. 14:57.360 --> 15:00.080 He kept talking about what a beautiful day it was and how good he felt. 15:00.080 --> 15:02.000 You know, it came right down to it. 15:02.000 --> 15:04.200 Barney was happier than he's been in some time. 15:04.200 --> 15:06.720 Just seemed like all his troubles were gone. 15:06.720 --> 15:09.160 We know how you feel about this, Mr. Norton, but it's pretty important. 15:09.160 --> 15:11.960 Did you ever hear Mr. Lawrence threaten his wife? 15:11.960 --> 15:15.600 I'm gonna have to take your word for it being pretty important, Mr. Friday. 15:15.600 --> 15:18.240 I've got no way of knowing, but if you guys get me in the middle of anything, I'm gonna 15:18.240 --> 15:19.400 be pretty sore about it. 15:19.400 --> 15:20.840 Don't worry about that. 15:20.840 --> 15:23.960 Well, then they'll answer your question. 15:23.960 --> 15:25.520 Barney and Ethel didn't get along very well. 15:25.520 --> 15:27.200 I guess you knew that. 15:27.200 --> 15:31.280 Yes, and all Ethel accusing Barney of running around, they had some pretty big arguments. 15:31.280 --> 15:33.040 Barney was pretty mad at the judge when he got the alimony. 15:33.040 --> 15:34.800 He had to pay Ethel 150 a month. 15:34.800 --> 15:36.320 It made him pretty sore. 15:36.320 --> 15:38.640 But the judge said to pay it or go to jail. 15:38.640 --> 15:41.560 Ethel would just as soon see him in jail. 15:41.560 --> 15:43.520 Barney used to talk to me about it. 15:43.520 --> 15:46.360 We'd stop down the street and have a beer when we closed up the shop. 15:46.360 --> 15:49.840 Barney would say there was only two ways he could get out of the alimony payments. 15:49.840 --> 15:53.200 One was if Ethel got married again and Barney always said she was so mean that no sane man 15:53.200 --> 15:54.200 would have her. 15:54.200 --> 15:55.200 What about the other way? 15:55.200 --> 15:56.200 That was for her to die. 15:56.200 --> 15:59.280 I guess that was about the only threat he ever made so I could hear it. 15:59.280 --> 16:00.280 What's that? 16:00.280 --> 16:04.160 That he wouldn't mind helping her out. 16:04.160 --> 16:07.880 1147 p.m. 16:07.880 --> 16:10.320 We drove over to the address we'd gotten for Bernard Lawrence. 16:10.320 --> 16:13.200 It was a modern apartment building in the Wilshire district. 16:13.200 --> 16:15.960 We rang the bell to his apartment, but we got no answer. 16:15.960 --> 16:20.200 Frank and I talked to the manager of the building and he led us into the suspect's apartment. 16:20.200 --> 16:23.640 In a preliminary search of the place, we found nothing to tie the man in with his wife's 16:23.640 --> 16:24.640 death. 16:24.640 --> 16:28.000 However, from the clothes and the other personal effects in the place, we were reasonably sure 16:28.000 --> 16:30.360 that he'd returned to the apartment. 16:30.360 --> 16:34.080 The manager told us that Lawrence had come home after work, changed his clothes and left, 16:34.080 --> 16:36.240 saying that he'd return later. 16:36.240 --> 16:39.240 We put in a call to the office and we told them where we were and we made arrangements 16:39.240 --> 16:43.680 to be relieved the next morning in the event the suspect hadn't returned. 16:43.680 --> 16:46.680 Frank and I settled down in our car, which was parked across the street from the apartment 16:46.680 --> 16:48.600 to wait for Lawrence. 16:48.600 --> 16:52.400 At 1.30, Frank went down to the corner and called Fay to tell her he'd be a little late. 16:52.400 --> 16:55.720 He brought back a carton of hot coffee and some sandwiches. 16:55.720 --> 16:57.240 The stakeout continued. 16:57.240 --> 17:00.320 2.30, still no sign of the suspect. 17:00.320 --> 17:02.640 3.30, 4.00. 17:02.640 --> 17:06.600 At 5.30 a.m., the landlord came to the porch of the apartment house and yelled at us indicating 17:06.600 --> 17:08.380 he wanted to tell us something. 17:08.380 --> 17:10.160 Frank went over to see him while I waited in the car. 17:10.160 --> 17:13.000 A couple of minutes later, Frank came running back. 17:13.000 --> 17:14.000 Joe? 17:14.000 --> 17:15.000 Joe? 17:15.000 --> 17:16.000 Yeah. 17:16.000 --> 17:17.000 Manager just got a call from Lawrence. 17:17.000 --> 17:18.000 What about? 17:18.000 --> 17:20.040 Lawrence wanted to have his stuff packed and sent down to the depot. 17:20.040 --> 17:21.040 Yeah. 17:21.040 --> 17:22.040 Said he's leaving town. 17:22.040 --> 17:23.040 We're making mistakes. 17:23.040 --> 17:24.040 A perfect news Execution. 17:24.040 --> 17:25.040 Who are you talking to? 17:25.040 --> 17:26.040 Fox. 17:26.040 --> 17:27.040 That's not a reference letter. 17:27.040 --> 17:28.060 That was a child name. 17:28.060 --> 17:29.080 It's not a letter. 17:29.080 --> 17:30.080 OK. 17:30.080 --> 17:31.080 Billy Graham. 17:31.080 --> 17:32.080 It's not a letter. 17:32.080 --> 17:33.080 It's just it's... 17:33.080 --> 17:34.080 Well. 17:34.080 --> 17:35.120 Er, it's... 17:35.120 --> 17:36.120 Well, let's go. 17:36.120 --> 17:37.120 Are you hearing? 17:37.120 --> 17:38.120 Bill's still not Jewish. 17:38.120 --> 17:39.120 Well, get with us, Mr. Terry. 17:39.120 --> 17:40.120 Oh, baby, I'm happy to be. 17:40.120 --> 17:41.120 Good departed we are both in the Texas prison. 17:41.120 --> 17:42.120 The jump took four years preaux prevented every chance at somehow getting back to his 17:42.120 --> 17:43.120 bottom two. 17:43.120 --> 17:44.120 He never really lied. 17:44.120 --> 17:45.120 modal hunger. 17:45.120 --> 17:41.040 Can't believe he could have 17:41.040 --> 17:46.120 Now, how about we get to our book first. 17:46.120 --> 17:47.120 Is this the comic book that solving our calculation and changing the swill to trace, 17:47.120 --> 17:51.120 I've smoked regular sized Chesterfields for about seven years. 17:51.120 --> 17:55.120 Guess that ought to prove how I feel about Chesterfields taste and mildness. 17:55.120 --> 17:58.120 Peter says Chesterfields for me too. 17:58.120 --> 18:04.120 Far as I'm concerned, King is the only size, and like Mary says, Chesterfield is the only cigarette. 18:04.120 --> 18:09.120 Either way you like them. I bet you'll find Chesterfield is best for you. 18:09.120 --> 18:13.120 Yes, smoke America's most popular two-way cigarette. 18:13.120 --> 18:16.120 Regular and King-sized Chesterfield. 18:16.120 --> 18:20.120 The best cigarette ever made. And best for you. 18:20.120 --> 18:34.120 Five forty-two a.m. We called the business office and had arrangements made to check the reservation list on trains going east. 18:34.120 --> 18:40.120 We also set up stakeouts on the depots and on the airline terminals in the event the suspect changed his mind about taking the train. 18:40.120 --> 18:43.120 Two officers came out and relieved us at the apartment. 18:43.120 --> 18:48.120 The manager of the apartment was instructed to notify the officers on stakeout in the event he heard from Lawrence. 18:48.120 --> 18:55.120 Six twelve a.m. Frank and I drove back downtown. We went to the business office and got out a local and an APB on the suspect. 18:55.120 --> 19:01.120 We checked out of the office to go home and change our clothes and at eight forty-six a.m. we met back in the squad room. 19:01.120 --> 19:06.120 You made it fast, huh Joe? Yeah, carton of coffee there if you want some. 19:06.120 --> 19:09.120 No thanks. I got something to eat on the way in. Any word? 19:09.120 --> 19:13.120 No, not yet. Lawrence still hasn't showed up at the apartment. There's nothing from the depot stakeouts. 19:13.120 --> 19:17.120 Oh man, I'd sure like to get some sleep. I'm with you there. 19:17.120 --> 19:20.120 You know, Faye sure is sore. What about last night? Yeah. 19:20.120 --> 19:24.120 Had it all planned. We were going to a movie tonight. Always plans it on my day off. 19:24.120 --> 19:28.120 You know, we have dinner and get out of the neighborhood. Kind of nice. She looks forward to it. 19:28.120 --> 19:32.120 What's that got to do with last night? Well, this is my day off, right? Yeah. 19:32.120 --> 19:36.120 Yeah, that's what it says on the schedule. And I'm working, right? Yeah. 19:36.120 --> 19:39.120 Well, I worked all last night too, huh? Yeah. 19:39.120 --> 19:42.120 Gonna be no movie tonight. I don't follow you. 19:42.120 --> 19:48.120 Well, I'm gonna sleep. As soon as I get home, I'm gonna climb right into the shower, dry off, into bed. 19:48.120 --> 19:51.120 Gonna sleep the clock around. Yeah. That's why. 19:51.120 --> 19:56.120 We got to talk to Skipper this morning. Is he in yet? Yeah, he's down at Chief Brown's office. 19:56.120 --> 19:59.120 You fill him in? Yeah, a little bit. He goes along with us. 19:59.120 --> 20:02.120 Well, let's check R&I. I want to look at that arrest report on Lawrence, 20:02.120 --> 20:05.120 see if any of his friends are listed. We might be able to get a lead on him. 20:05.120 --> 20:08.120 Better find out if he made that call he was supposed to have made when he was gone from work, huh? 20:08.120 --> 20:10.120 Yeah. The way it looks, he's still in town. 20:10.120 --> 20:12.120 Well, that doesn't do us a lot of good unless we know where. 20:12.120 --> 20:14.120 Well, we can go out and talk to the fellow that found the body. 20:14.120 --> 20:16.120 He might be able to come up with something. 20:16.120 --> 20:19.120 Better put a stake out on the garage where Lawrence worked too. He might show up there. 20:19.120 --> 20:22.120 Right. I'll get Norton on the phone. Tell him to let us know if he hears anything. 20:22.120 --> 20:24.120 All right. 20:27.120 --> 20:29.120 You know, the whole thing looks pretty clean. 20:29.120 --> 20:32.120 All we got to do is put Lawrence at his wife's house this afternoon. We got it made. 20:32.120 --> 20:35.120 There's only one trouble. We got to find him before we can put him there. 20:40.120 --> 20:43.120 After putting in the call to the garage where the suspect was employed 20:43.120 --> 20:46.120 and arranging for a stakeout on the place, Frank and I checked the arrest record 20:46.120 --> 20:50.120 that had been made out four years previously and obtained a list of his friends and relatives. 20:50.120 --> 20:54.120 We contacted each one of them, but they could give us no information on Lawrence. 20:54.120 --> 20:58.120 That morning we met with Captain Lorman and we went over the evidence with him. 20:58.120 --> 21:00.120 The fingerprints found at the scene of the murder had been eliminated 21:00.120 --> 21:03.120 when they were compared with those of the neighbor, Earl Brooding. 21:03.120 --> 21:07.120 Other physical evidence netted us nothing. The murder weapon still had not been found. 21:07.120 --> 21:10.120 The only piece of evidence that we had to attempt to identify the killer 21:10.120 --> 21:13.120 was the plaster cast of the footprint found by the side of the house. 21:13.120 --> 21:17.120 However, Lee Jones said that it would be of little use other than to identify the size of the shoe. 21:17.120 --> 21:20.120 It was a size 10 with a leather sole and a leather heel. 21:20.120 --> 21:23.120 There were no distinguishing marks on the impression. 21:23.120 --> 21:26.120 Two days went by and we still hadn't found Lawrence. 21:26.120 --> 21:28.120 We talked to the men he worked with, but none of them could supply us 21:28.120 --> 21:31.120 with any information as to his possible whereabouts. 21:31.120 --> 21:34.120 We checked the bars he was known to frequent without results. 21:34.120 --> 21:36.120 Apparently the suspect had disappeared without a trace. 21:36.120 --> 21:39.120 On Saturday, June 14, three days after the murder, 21:39.120 --> 21:42.120 Frank and I got back to the office after lunch. 21:42.120 --> 21:44.120 You want to check the books? Yeah. 21:47.120 --> 21:49.120 Where can I find Joe Friday? I'm him. 21:49.120 --> 21:51.120 I'm Barney Lawrence. Well, we've been looking for you. 21:51.120 --> 21:53.120 I want you to get off my back. Leave me alone. 21:53.120 --> 21:55.120 You mind telling us where you've been for the past three days? 21:55.120 --> 21:56.120 It's none of your business. 21:56.120 --> 21:58.120 The only reason I'm here now is I want to tell you to stop going around 21:58.120 --> 22:00.120 asking a lot of questions, causing me embarrassment. 22:00.120 --> 22:02.120 What do you mean by that? You know what I mean. 22:02.120 --> 22:05.120 I don't mind telling you I'm pretty sore about the things you said behind my back. 22:05.120 --> 22:07.120 You probably didn't think I'd find out about them, 22:07.120 --> 22:08.120 but I did and I'm telling you to stop. 22:08.120 --> 22:10.120 You ought to take it easy, Lawrence. 22:10.120 --> 22:12.120 You keep your nose out of this, cop. I'm talking to him. 22:12.120 --> 22:14.120 I got a few things for you too before I leave. 22:14.120 --> 22:15.120 Yeah? I don't think you're going to leave. 22:15.120 --> 22:16.120 What's that supposed to mean? 22:16.120 --> 22:18.120 Just what it sounded like. You're under arrest. 22:18.120 --> 22:19.120 For what? Suspicion of murder. 22:19.120 --> 22:21.120 You figured I killed Ethel? You look good for it. 22:21.120 --> 22:23.120 Then you better get a pair of glasses, cop. 22:23.120 --> 22:26.120 I'm walking out of here and if you're smart, you won't try to stop me. 22:26.120 --> 22:27.120 I wouldn't try it, Lawrence. 22:27.120 --> 22:29.120 Lawrence? Now hold it. 22:29.120 --> 22:31.120 If you haven't done anything wrong, you've got nothing to worry about. 22:31.120 --> 22:32.120 Now come on back here. 22:32.120 --> 22:33.120 You know something? 22:33.120 --> 22:34.120 What's that? 22:34.120 --> 22:35.120 I've always wanted to hit a cop. 22:37.120 --> 22:39.120 Come on, Lawrence. On your feet. 22:39.120 --> 22:41.120 Keep your hands off me, cop. Just keep your hands off me. 22:41.120 --> 22:42.120 All right, now sit down. 22:42.120 --> 22:44.120 Right here. Sit down. 22:44.120 --> 22:46.120 Go ahead. 22:46.120 --> 22:48.120 We're investigating a murder. Someone beat your wife to death. 22:48.120 --> 22:49.120 We're trying to find out who did it. 22:49.120 --> 22:50.120 Well, it wasn't me. 22:50.120 --> 22:53.120 You've got a funny way of showing it. 22:58.120 --> 23:01.120 The suspect was booked in at the main jail on suspicion of murder. 23:01.120 --> 23:05.120 Lawrence put in a call to his lawyer and arrangements were made to have him released on bond. 23:05.120 --> 23:08.120 Frank and I attempted to interrogate him before he was booked, 23:08.120 --> 23:11.120 but he refused to answer any questions we put to him. 23:11.120 --> 23:13.120 The following morning, we met with he and his lawyer. 23:13.120 --> 23:16.120 Again, we ran into the same stubborn silence. 23:16.120 --> 23:20.120 At 1130 a.m., we met with Captain Lorman and Chief of Detective Stad Brown. 23:20.120 --> 23:22.120 We laid out the evidence we had. 23:22.120 --> 23:24.120 From all appearances, we had the guilty man in custody, 23:24.120 --> 23:27.120 but it might be difficult to prove in a court of law. 23:27.120 --> 23:32.120 The one thing we'd been unable to establish was Lawrence's presence in the house at the time of the murder. 23:32.120 --> 23:34.120 It was decided that without being able to prove this, 23:34.120 --> 23:38.120 we would have little chance of getting a complaint from the district attorney's office. 23:38.120 --> 23:40.120 Frank and I started re-questioning the neighbors. 23:40.120 --> 23:42.120 None of them could tell us any more than they already had. 23:42.120 --> 23:45.120 We re-questioned the man who had found the body, Earl Brutig. 23:45.120 --> 23:50.120 He came up with the additional information that there had been a crew of carpenters working on a house the day of the killing. 23:50.120 --> 23:52.120 The building was located next door to him, 23:52.120 --> 23:55.120 directly across the street from the place where the murder had been committed. 23:55.120 --> 23:58.120 We questioned the carpenters. None of them could tell us anything. 23:58.120 --> 24:02.120 However, there was one man who had been working on the construction that we were unable to reach. 24:02.120 --> 24:04.120 It took us several days before we were able to find him. 24:04.120 --> 24:09.120 On Wednesday, June 18th, we got to his house at 730 a.m. just before he left for work. 24:09.120 --> 24:12.120 He asked us to talk to him in the kitchen of his home. 24:12.120 --> 24:14.120 I was just having breakfast. Fix you guys something to eat? 24:14.120 --> 24:17.120 No, thanks, Mr. Hewitt. We don't want to take up much of your time here. 24:17.120 --> 24:19.120 Oh, don't worry about that. What's this about, anyway? 24:19.120 --> 24:24.120 Well, we understand that you were working on a job on Green Oak Drive on the 10th of June. Is that right? 24:24.120 --> 24:28.120 Let me think. Yeah, yeah, 9700 block. Yeah, I was there. Why? 24:28.120 --> 24:30.120 You worked there all day, did you? 24:30.120 --> 24:35.120 That's right. Left the place around, uh, 530. 24:35.120 --> 24:37.120 Say this about that woman that was murdered? Yes, sir. 24:37.120 --> 24:40.120 You got the fellow did it? Well, we think we know where he is. 24:40.120 --> 24:43.120 You guys like a cup of coffee? Yeah, fine. We'll join you. 24:43.120 --> 24:45.120 Yeah, thanks. 24:50.120 --> 24:53.120 Did either of you use sugar? No, no, thanks. No, thanks, sir. 24:53.120 --> 24:56.120 Don't see how you can drink coffee without it. 24:56.120 --> 24:58.120 I always use two spoons myself. 25:06.120 --> 25:08.120 That's good. 25:08.120 --> 25:10.120 Well, say, if you know who did the killing, how come he isn't in jail? 25:10.120 --> 25:13.120 We need a little more evidence before we can take him to court. 25:13.120 --> 25:15.120 That's why you're talking to me, huh? That's right. 25:15.120 --> 25:18.120 A couple things you might be able to straighten us out on. 25:18.120 --> 25:21.120 Why me? Well, we've talked to the other men in the crew. 25:21.120 --> 25:24.120 Seems like you're the only one left. 25:24.120 --> 25:28.120 Comes right back to me, huh? That's right. 25:28.120 --> 25:30.120 Yeah. 25:34.120 --> 25:38.120 What's the matter, Hewitt? Gotta sit down. 25:38.120 --> 25:42.120 Edmund! What's wrong, Hewitt? What's the matter? You sick? 25:42.120 --> 25:47.120 Poison. Poison and the sugar. 25:47.120 --> 25:50.120 I've been expecting it. Frank, get an ambulance. Quick. 25:50.120 --> 25:52.120 What kind of poison, Hewitt? What kind? 25:52.120 --> 25:55.120 There's nothing you can do now. 25:55.120 --> 25:58.120 I know this is wrong, taking poison. 25:58.120 --> 26:01.120 I killed the old lady. 26:01.120 --> 26:06.120 I killed her. 26:09.120 --> 26:11.120 Ambulance on the way, Joe. 26:11.120 --> 26:14.120 No hurry. He's dead. 26:20.120 --> 26:23.120 The story you have just heard is true. 26:23.120 --> 26:26.120 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 26:26.120 --> 26:29.120 On June 23rd, an inquest was held in offices of the coroner 26:29.120 --> 26:31.120 in and for the county of Los Angeles. 26:31.120 --> 26:33.120 In a moment, the results of that inquest. 26:33.120 --> 26:35.120 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 26:35.120 --> 26:38.120 Thank you. Earlier, George Feneman told you exactly why 26:38.120 --> 26:41.120 the Chesterfield you smoked today is the best cigarette ever made. 26:41.120 --> 26:44.120 And best for you. Now, the rest is up to you. 26:44.120 --> 26:46.120 Get a carton or two for yourself. 26:46.120 --> 26:49.120 Smoke them and you'll say, as we do, it's Chesterfield's for me. 26:49.120 --> 26:52.120 At the inquest, it was ruled that the suspect, Merle Patrick Hewitt, 26:52.120 --> 26:56.120 died of self-administered poison and his death was listed as a suicide. 26:56.120 --> 27:00.120 The victim's husband, Bernard Jerome Lawrence, was released from custody. 27:00.120 --> 27:05.120 Ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to thank the editors of Time Magazine 27:05.120 --> 27:08.120 for their cover story of Jack Webb and Dragnet. 27:08.120 --> 27:11.120 That's Time Magazine. 27:11.120 --> 27:20.120 On your newsstands this Thursday. 27:20.120 --> 27:24.120 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 27:24.120 --> 27:26.120 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, 27:26.120 --> 27:29.120 W.H. 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