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42 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:32,920 Yes, sir, that's right. 43 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:33,920 What can I do for you? 44 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:34,920 I want to talk to somebody. 45 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:35,920 I'm not sure who though. 46 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:38,960 If you tell me what it's all about, I might be able to help you. 47 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:40,560 Well, I got to be sure it's the right person. 48 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:42,200 You can understand that, can't you? 49 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:43,200 Yes, sir. 50 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:44,200 My name's Paul Marcus. 51 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:45,200 All right, Mr. Marcus. 52 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:46,200 What is it you want to talk about? 53 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,480 Do you work in there in the homicide department? 54 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:49,480 That's right. 55 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:50,480 You know all about murders then, huh? 56 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:52,880 You want to come into the office and talk? 57 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:54,480 No, no, I don't want to go in there. 58 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:56,280 Is there someplace else we can go? 59 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:57,280 I'd like to talk to you alone. 60 00:02:57,280 --> 00:02:58,480 This is kind of a personal thing. 61 00:02:58,480 --> 00:02:59,480 All right, sir. 62 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:00,480 Come on down the hall. 63 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:01,480 The interrogation room. 64 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:02,480 Nobody else there? 65 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:03,480 No. 66 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:05,160 That's good, because like I told you, this is a personal matter. 67 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:06,160 I need your advice. 68 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:07,160 All right, sir, this way. 69 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:10,840 This is the first time I've ever been in the police department. 70 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:14,400 I feel kind of funny just walking in and talking personal things to a stranger. 71 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:17,400 Yes, sir, I can understand. 72 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,400 Go ahead. 73 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,040 Want to sit down right there? 74 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:24,040 Thank you. 75 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:28,440 All right, you want to tell me about it? 76 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:29,440 You mind closing the door? 77 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:30,440 All right. 78 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:35,800 All right, now what's your problem, Mr. Marcus? 79 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:37,400 I told you it was personal. 80 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:38,680 Yes, I know. 81 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:40,280 I want to be sure I handled it right. 82 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:43,200 I could get in a lot of trouble if I didn't. 83 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,120 Been trying to figure out what to do about it for a week now and couldn't find the right 84 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:47,120 answer. 85 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:48,120 That's why I came here. 86 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:49,120 You guys should know. 87 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:51,280 All right, now if you'll just tell me what's bothering you, we might be able to do something 88 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:52,280 for you. 89 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:53,280 All right. 90 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:54,280 A whole week and no answer. 91 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:55,880 I sure hope you've got it for me. 92 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:59,080 I'm sorry, Mr. Marcus, but if you don't tell me what this is all about, there's nothing 93 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:00,080 we can do. 94 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:01,640 Well, it's nothing big, just a personal problem. 95 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:03,080 I just want to know how to handle it. 96 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:04,080 All right, go ahead. 97 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:07,320 I killed a woman. 98 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:11,520 10 18 a.m. 99 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:14,240 We got the name of the woman Paul Marcus said that he'd murdered. 100 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:17,480 We also obtained a description of the victim and Frank went down the hall to missing persons 101 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:19,440 to see if a report had been filed on her. 102 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:20,880 I waited with the suspect. 103 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:22,080 It's a personal problem. 104 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:23,080 You know how to handle it. 105 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:24,080 I wasn't sure. 106 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:25,080 That's why I came to you. 107 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,040 All right, where did you meet this Lorraine Farrell? 108 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:28,040 San Francisco. 109 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:29,040 How long ago? 110 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:30,040 Couple of weeks. 111 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:31,600 I just knew her a little while before it happened. 112 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:32,600 Just a couple of weeks. 113 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:33,600 Mm-hmm. 114 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:34,600 What's that? 115 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:35,600 Fisherman's Wharf. 116 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:36,600 That's where I met her in San Francisco. 117 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:37,600 I was on a vacation. 118 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:39,840 Two weeks with pay and I went to San Francisco. 119 00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:40,840 Fisherman's Wharf. 120 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:41,840 That's where I met Lorraine. 121 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:42,840 All right, go ahead. 122 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:46,000 Well, I was down there sitting on the dock looking at the boats, just sitting there eating 123 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,320 prawns, you know how they cook them in those great big pots. 124 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:49,320 Yeah. 125 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:51,240 Well, I was just sitting there eating prawns and I met her. 126 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:52,520 Well, where'd you kill her? 127 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:55,760 Look, you've got to let me tell this in my own way or I'm not going to tell you at all. 128 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:57,040 It's got to be right so you'll understand. 129 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:59,600 Now, if you don't get it right, the whole thing has gone wrong. 130 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:01,600 You see, it's a real personal thing. 131 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:03,760 All right, sir, go ahead. 132 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:07,000 Well, I was just sitting there eating prawns, eating them and throwing the little tail pieces 133 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:08,280 down the water. 134 00:05:08,280 --> 00:05:09,280 You know how you do. 135 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:10,280 Mm-hmm. 136 00:05:10,280 --> 00:05:14,160 Watching them kind of float around and kind of all of a sudden she was right there sitting 137 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:15,160 just alongside of me. 138 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:16,160 You ever see her before? 139 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:18,160 I never laid eyes on her till then. 140 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:19,760 All right, go ahead. 141 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:23,040 We both sat there for a minute and then we started to talk, just little things like nice 142 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:26,120 weather and how long you've been in San Francisco, things like that. 143 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:27,120 You know how you do. 144 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:28,800 How old did you say the Feral Woman was? 145 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:30,760 Nineteen, turned 19 the 5th of August. 146 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:31,760 All right. 147 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:33,400 She was born there, you know, in San Francisco. 148 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:37,040 She told me about it when we were talking, how she was born there and grew up there. 149 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:38,040 Yeah. 150 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:40,800 Told me all about the schools she went to, how she used to play on Strawberry Island 151 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:41,800 in Stowe Lake. 152 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:42,800 You ever been there? 153 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:43,800 Yes, sir. 154 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:44,800 It's kind of a beautiful place, you know. 155 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:48,680 They got those row boats and you paddle around the lake and right in the middle is this island, 156 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:49,680 Strawberry Island. 157 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:51,080 There's all those swans that swim around. 158 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:52,080 You can feed them. 159 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:53,880 Real beautiful Strawberry Island. 160 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,520 Tell me something, Marcus. 161 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:57,520 You ever been to the hospital? 162 00:05:57,520 --> 00:05:58,520 Huh? 163 00:05:58,520 --> 00:05:59,520 You ever had any mental care? 164 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:01,440 Or vision of a psychiatrist, maybe? 165 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:02,680 You think I'm crazy, don't you? 166 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:04,000 I'll just ask you a question. 167 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Well, I'm not. 168 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:06,000 I've never been to a doctor. 169 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:07,000 I'm telling you the truth. 170 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,000 You'll see. 171 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:09,000 All right. 172 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:10,000 You want to go ahead? 173 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,400 I guess you get a lot of crackpots in here telling you all kinds of phony stories, huh? 174 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:14,080 Well, the doors are wide open all night. 175 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:15,420 I guess you get a lot of them. 176 00:06:15,420 --> 00:06:16,420 But I'm not a crackpot. 177 00:06:16,420 --> 00:06:17,420 I'm telling you the truth. 178 00:06:17,420 --> 00:06:18,420 I did kill her. 179 00:06:18,420 --> 00:06:19,960 But it's important you know why I did it. 180 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:21,080 I got to tell you the right way. 181 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:22,720 If I don't, none of it's going to be any good. 182 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:24,000 When did you kill her? 183 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:25,000 September 1st. 184 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,000 That's the day we left. 185 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,680 September 1st. 186 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:30,680 Yeah, September 1st. 187 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:31,680 Joe, see you in a minute. 188 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:32,680 All right. 189 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:33,680 Just a minute, Marcus. 190 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:34,680 Mm-hmm. 191 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:35,680 All right. 192 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:36,680 What do you got? 193 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:37,680 Well, I checked missing persons. 194 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:38,680 Yeah. 195 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:39,680 I got a report on the girl. 196 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:40,680 Same name, description matches. 197 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:41,680 When did she disappear? 198 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:42,680 September 1st. 199 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:43,680 That fits in with what he told us. 200 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:44,680 Yeah, but there's something that doesn't. 201 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:45,680 What's that? 202 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:46,680 She's 16 years old. 203 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:55,680 Each year, there are hundreds of citizens who walk into the nearest police station. 204 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:58,680 And confess to some sort of crime. 205 00:06:58,680 --> 00:06:59,680 Some have actually happened. 206 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,720 Others have occurred only in the mind of the person confessing. 207 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:07,920 No matter how wild the confession, how implausible the details of the crime, each report has 208 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,120 to be checked out. 209 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:11,920 To doctors, such cases are clinical. 210 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:15,440 But to the working detective, they're the cause of a lot of legwork and a great deal 211 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:16,440 of checking. 212 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:20,480 They cost the taxpayer untold man hours in investigating time. 213 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:23,560 And many times result in nothing. 214 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:26,600 Because of his attitude and his reluctance to give us the complete story all at once, 215 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:29,720 it appeared that Paul Marcus might be one of these people. 216 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:33,040 The fact that he named a girl who was missing meant little since it was possible for him 217 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:35,380 to have read the story in a newspaper. 218 00:07:35,380 --> 00:07:38,360 The only way we had of being sure was to continue the interrogation. 219 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:39,360 1034 AM. 220 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:42,000 She told me she wanted to get away from home. 221 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,880 That's what she told me, how it was rough for her there and she wanted to get away. 222 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:47,400 That's when you said you'd bring her down here, is that right? 223 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:48,760 Oh, no, I didn't even suggest it. 224 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:49,960 The whole thing was her idea. 225 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:50,960 She brought it up? 226 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:51,960 Yes. 227 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:54,800 After that first day on Fisherman's Wharf, I saw her several times. 228 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:56,840 Almost every day we'd meet someplace and talk. 229 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:57,840 Where would you meet her? 230 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,960 Well, sometimes in one of the hotel bars once we met out at the Steinhardt Aquarium. 231 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:02,360 We met on the rotunda there. 232 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:04,760 You know where they have the big pool and all the alligators swimming around? 233 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:05,760 You know where? 234 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:06,760 Uh-huh. 235 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:09,840 Well, we met there once and we walked over to the place where they have the band concerts 236 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:11,520 right across the way where the band plays. 237 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:12,680 Only they weren't there that day. 238 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:14,920 Wasn't anybody there, just Lorraine and me. 239 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:16,800 We sat on the benches and talked. 240 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:18,120 That's when she said she wanted to go with me. 241 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:19,520 To Los Angeles, huh? 242 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:20,520 Yeah. 243 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:23,080 She said she wanted me to take her. 244 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:24,560 She came right out and asked you? 245 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:25,560 Sure. 246 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:27,600 Told me how it was hard for her at home and she wanted to get away. 247 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:29,000 She told me she had friends here. 248 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,640 Said she could stay with them until she got things straightened out. 249 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:33,320 You know, get a job and a place of her own. 250 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:34,320 Uh-huh. 251 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:35,320 Well, she was gonna do that. 252 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:36,320 Get a place of her own and a job. 253 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:37,320 Then she'd be all right. 254 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:38,720 Did you ever meet her parents? 255 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:40,080 No, I never went to the house. 256 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:41,480 She told me where it was though. 257 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:43,200 Someplace out by the Twin Peaks tunnel. 258 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:44,280 I didn't know where exactly. 259 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:45,280 She didn't want me to go out there. 260 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:47,400 Said it would only cause her more trouble. 261 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:48,400 That's why I'd meet her in town. 262 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,680 You ever meet any of her friends up in San Francisco? 263 00:08:51,680 --> 00:08:54,960 Yeah, just once we were in a drug store on Market Street having a sandwich. 264 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:58,000 We were just sitting there and she was telling me how it was bad for her at home and a girl 265 00:08:58,000 --> 00:08:59,000 came in. 266 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:00,320 Looked like she was a school girl. 267 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:01,320 You know how I mean, young? 268 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:02,320 Uh-huh. 269 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:05,760 Well, she came in and talked to Lorraine and they went over to the phone booths and talked. 270 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:07,200 You didn't actually meet the girl? 271 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:08,200 No. 272 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:10,920 No, Lorraine said if I did, the girl might say something to Lorraine's parents and that 273 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:11,920 would cause trouble. 274 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:13,400 You know this girl's name? 275 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:14,400 I think it was Grace. 276 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:16,120 I'm not sure, but I think it was Grace. 277 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:18,960 When did you leave San Francisco? 278 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:20,680 Wednesday morning, September 1st. 279 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:23,360 I wanted to get back in time to get some rest before I had to go to work. 280 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:25,480 You know, my vacation was up and I had to go back to work. 281 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:26,960 Where'd you pick up the girl? 282 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:27,960 Wasn't a pick-up. 283 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:32,480 I was sitting on Fisherman's Wharf, eating prawns and looking at the boats and we started 284 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:33,480 to talk. 285 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:35,160 Wasn't a pick-up, we just got friendly. 286 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:39,160 No, Marcus, he means that where'd you pick up the girl when you left for Los Angeles? 287 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:41,920 Oh, I thought you met when I met her the first time. 288 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:42,920 That's what I thought. 289 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:43,920 Uh-huh. 290 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:44,920 I met her out at the tunnel. 291 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:45,920 Where's that? 292 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:49,200 Where Castro Street runs into Market, where the L-car comes in from the beach. 293 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:50,200 That's where I met her. 294 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:53,000 She came from home, had her suitcase and all, and she came out on the L-car. 295 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,200 All right, go ahead. 296 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:58,640 She got off the streetcar, got into my car, and we left for Los Angeles. 297 00:09:58,640 --> 00:09:59,640 Where'd you kill her? 298 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:02,720 I told you before, if I don't tell it my way, it isn't gonna work. 299 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:03,720 You're not gonna understand. 300 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:04,720 It's gotta be my way. 301 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:06,320 All right, go ahead, Marcus. 302 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:10,580 Well, it was a beautiful day, just the kind of a day you want when you're going on a drive. 303 00:10:10,580 --> 00:10:12,520 You know how I mean, clear and the sunshine. 304 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:13,520 Yeah. 305 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:14,520 Well, that's what kind of a day it was. 306 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:15,520 Uh-huh. 307 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:18,080 You could see all across the bay, over to Berkeley, and way up north. 308 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:19,080 It was real clear. 309 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:22,480 You wanna go ahead with your story? 310 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:23,480 Mr. Friday? 311 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:24,480 Uh-huh. 312 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:25,480 My way? 313 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:28,480 Yeah, sorry, go ahead. 314 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:29,840 All right. 315 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:33,680 We drove all day, stopped for lunch at a place near San Luis Obispo, a little lunch stand 316 00:10:33,680 --> 00:10:34,680 there. 317 00:10:34,680 --> 00:10:35,680 Had a French dip sandwich. 318 00:10:35,680 --> 00:10:36,680 It was one of the best I ever had. 319 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:39,520 The meat was real lean, and they didn't sop up the bun with the gravy. 320 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:40,520 Just the right amount. 321 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:41,520 One of the best I ever ate. 322 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:42,520 Uh-huh. 323 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:43,520 Lorraine liked them, too. 324 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:45,520 She liked the bread all sopped up with gravy. 325 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:46,520 Go ahead. 326 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:48,600 What happened after you had lunch? 327 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:50,560 We left there and drove on. 328 00:10:50,560 --> 00:10:52,600 We got down around Malibu. 329 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:55,560 I guess it was really before that where the divided highway is, up the coast. 330 00:10:55,560 --> 00:10:56,560 You know where the cliffs are? 331 00:10:56,560 --> 00:10:57,560 Yeah, we know. 332 00:10:57,560 --> 00:10:58,560 Well, we stopped. 333 00:10:58,560 --> 00:10:59,840 It was such a beautiful night. 334 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:02,520 I just wanted to sit there and look at the ocean. 335 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:03,520 People don't take time anymore. 336 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:04,520 What happened then? 337 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:08,080 We just sat there, had a cigarette, and talked. 338 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:09,080 That's when I told her. 339 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:10,520 First time I ever said it. 340 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:11,520 What was that? 341 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:12,520 It's funny. 342 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:14,120 I guess most fellas say it a lot. 343 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:16,200 You know how I mean to a bunch of girls that never mean it? 344 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:17,280 Go ahead. 345 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:18,280 I told her. 346 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:21,400 The first time I said I loved her, and I told her that she didn't have to get a job, that 347 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:24,760 I wanted to marry her, get her a house and all, and she wouldn't have no more trouble 348 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:25,760 at home. 349 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:27,960 How she'd have her own home and everything would be all right. 350 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:28,960 I told her all that. 351 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:29,960 Yeah. 352 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:31,640 And that's when I knew right then. 353 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:35,080 You could divide the second in a million parts, and in one of them, one of the parts, I knew 354 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:36,080 I had to do it. 355 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:37,080 Kill her? 356 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:38,080 Yeah. 357 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:40,040 You see, she didn't tell me the real reason. 358 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:41,920 She lied to me, and I knew I had to do it. 359 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:43,560 So she wouldn't lie to anyone else. 360 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:44,880 You can understand that. 361 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:46,400 You can see why I had to do it. 362 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:48,200 Well, maybe you better tell us. 363 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:51,280 Well, it was all a lie, all about the family being mean to her. 364 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:52,840 All that was a lie. 365 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:56,080 She just wanted to get to Los Angeles because she wanted to meet some other fella here. 366 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:57,200 That's why. 367 00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:59,200 She lied about the family, and that's why she did it. 368 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:00,800 So you see, I had to kill her. 369 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:01,800 I had to. 370 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:02,800 How'd you kill her? 371 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:03,800 Huh? 372 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:05,700 I say, how did you kill her? 373 00:12:05,700 --> 00:12:08,520 We got out of the car and walked over to the cliffs. 374 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:09,880 We could see right down to the ocean. 375 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:11,600 We just stood there. 376 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:12,600 I just hit her. 377 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:13,600 She fell down. 378 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:14,600 It was quiet. 379 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:16,320 So I pushed her over into the water. 380 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:17,320 Mm-hmm. 381 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:20,080 What'd you do then, Marcus? 382 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:21,720 I got in the car and drove home. 383 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:23,760 You just left her there, huh? 384 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:24,760 Certainly. 385 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:26,240 There wasn't anything I could do for her. 386 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:28,120 You point out the place where all this happened? 387 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:29,120 Well, sure. 388 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:31,760 It's up the coast where the highway's divided, north of Malibu. 389 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:33,040 It's real easy to find. 390 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:34,080 Anybody else around? 391 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:35,080 You mean when I hit her? 392 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:36,080 That's right. 393 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:37,080 No, we were all alone. 394 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:39,400 I didn't see anybody, just the two of us. 395 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:42,640 All right, Marcus, you willing to give us a statement on all this? 396 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:44,160 You mean what I just told you? 397 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:45,160 Yeah. 398 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:46,160 Well, sure. 399 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:47,160 You want me to tell all about it again? 400 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:48,160 We'll call in a stenographer. 401 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:49,160 So you can write it down, huh? 402 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:50,160 That's the idea. 403 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:51,160 Well, sure. 404 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:52,160 I'll tell her. 405 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:53,160 Tell me something, Marcus. 406 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:56,160 When did you get out of the hospital? 407 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:57,440 I told you before. 408 00:12:57,440 --> 00:12:59,080 I was never in one. 409 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:00,640 You guys sure make it tough, don't you? 410 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:01,640 What's that? 411 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,000 I came in here because I wanted to tell you about Lorraine. 412 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,200 I wanted you to know so you wouldn't think it was my fault. 413 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:07,200 That's all. 414 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:08,840 So you wouldn't think it was my fault, and now you don't believe me. 415 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:12,520 You think I'm just another crackpot trying to sell a phony story. 416 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:13,520 You guys sure make it tough. 417 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:14,520 We got to be sure. 418 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:15,920 Well, I'm telling you the truth. 419 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:16,920 I want you to believe me. 420 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:17,920 Yeah. 421 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:18,920 I want you to believe me. 422 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:23,920 Yeah, we're beginning to. 423 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:30,120 A statement was taken from the suspect, and he was booked in at the main jail on a charge 424 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:33,480 of suspicion of violation of Section 187 PC, murdered. 425 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:38,000 We sent a teletype to San Francisco, and we contacted Inspectors Ed Van Der Voort and John 426 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:39,600 O'Hare of homicide detail. 427 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:43,880 We filled them in and asked that they check out the suspect's story on their end. 428 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:47,480 We also asked that they send us all available information on the missing girl and that they 429 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:50,520 check with her family and try to get a list of any known associates that she might have 430 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:53,440 had in the Los Angeles area. 431 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:57,600 Frank and I checked out of the office at 7 48 p.m. and we went home for the night. 432 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:02,480 The following morning at 9 23 a.m. Inspector Van Der Voort from San Francisco called back. 433 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:03,480 Uh huh. 434 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:04,480 Yeah. 435 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:05,480 When was that, Ed? 436 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:06,480 Wait a minute. 437 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:07,480 All right. 438 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:08,480 Yeah, I got it. 439 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:09,480 How about friends down here? 440 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:13,480 I say, how about friends down here? 441 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:15,080 Uh huh. 442 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:16,600 Oh, I see. 443 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:19,160 Well, it should be here this afternoon then. 444 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:20,160 Right. 445 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:22,160 Yeah, we'll check them out. 446 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:24,480 No, no, that's on the way. 447 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:25,480 We put it in the mail for you last. 448 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:28,480 Well, you should have it by now then. 449 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:29,480 Okay. 450 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:30,480 Right. 451 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:31,480 Right, Ed. 452 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:32,480 Thanks very much. 453 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:33,480 We'll be checking with you. 454 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:34,480 Right. 455 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:35,480 Bye. 456 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:36,480 How about it? 457 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:40,480 Well, they checked the family and the friends, the place where Marcus said he stayed up there. 458 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:41,480 Yeah. 459 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:52,080 Marcus' story checks out all the way. 460 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:56,760 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 461 00:14:56,760 --> 00:14:59,720 One of the biggest comedy hits of the year. 462 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:04,040 That's how the movie critics are describing Bob Hope's latest Paramount picture, Casanova's 463 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:05,480 Big Night. 464 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:09,720 Like so many other millions of smokers, Bob and Audrey Dalton, who appears with him in 465 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:12,880 the picture, say Chesterfield's for me. 466 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:14,600 First, Audrey Dalton. 467 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:19,360 I changed to Chesterfield King Size because I think it's better than any other King Size 468 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:20,360 cigarette. 469 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:22,440 Bob Hope says, Five years. 470 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:24,280 That's how long I've been smoking Chesterfields. 471 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:27,480 And they have what it takes to satisfy me. 472 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:31,560 What's more, I've seen how they make Chesterfields down in their Durham factory and I wouldn't 473 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:33,520 smoke any other cigarette. 474 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:35,360 Try Chesterfields yourself. 475 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:37,240 You'll find their best for you too. 476 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:39,080 Yes, either way. 477 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:41,280 Regular or King Size. 478 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:45,040 Smoke America's most popular two-way cigarette. 479 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:56,860 Join the thousands now changing to Chesterfield. 480 00:15:56,860 --> 00:16:00,300 In the phone conversation, we learned that all of Lorraine Farrell's friends and relatives 481 00:16:00,300 --> 00:16:04,880 had been interviewed and their stories checked with the one given us by the suspect, Marcus. 482 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:08,560 The girl and Paul Marcus had been seen together in the Bay City. 483 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:12,160 The desk clerk at the hotel where the suspect had stayed verified the date that he'd checked 484 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:13,160 out. 485 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:16,080 It was the same day Lorraine Farrell disappeared. 486 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:19,320 The officers in San Francisco were able to contact the girl the suspect had referred 487 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:20,720 to as Grace. 488 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:25,360 She recalled seeing a man answering Marcus' description with a missing Farrell girl. 489 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:28,200 Frank and I spent the rest of the day checking on the suspect. 490 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:29,880 We talked to the people he worked with. 491 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:32,680 They described Marcus as being moody and withdrawn. 492 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:34,320 We talked with his landlady. 493 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:38,760 Her description of the suspect's attitude was the same that we'd gotten before. 494 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:42,400 We thoroughly searched Marcus' apartment and in a desk drawer we found a loose leaf 495 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:46,040 notebook with several pages of penciled notes describing the trip that he'd taken up to 496 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:48,140 San Francisco. 497 00:16:48,140 --> 00:16:52,600 On one of the pages at the back of the book, we found a lengthy letter to a Lorraine in 498 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:56,440 which Marcus apologized to the girl for killing her, but he went on to explain that he had 499 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:58,240 no choice. 500 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:00,040 We booked this evidence. 501 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:03,520 The following morning, Friday, September 10th, Frank and I drove down to the beach and we 502 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:07,440 talked to the people in the vicinity where the suspect said the murder had occurred. 503 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:10,340 We found an elderly couple who lived in a trailer on the beach. 504 00:17:10,340 --> 00:17:13,960 They recalled having seen two people answering the description of the suspect and the missing 505 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:16,560 girl on the night that the murder occurred. 506 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:18,760 We drove back to the main jail and we signed out Marcus. 507 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:21,120 We took him down to the car and we drove him out to the beach. 508 00:17:21,120 --> 00:17:24,360 We turned up the highway and told him to let us know when we came to the place where he'd 509 00:17:24,360 --> 00:17:25,360 killed the Farrell girl. 510 00:17:25,360 --> 00:17:27,080 You sure you know where the place is, Marcus? 511 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:28,080 Yeah, I remember. 512 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:29,600 It's just up the road a little bit. 513 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:30,600 Just keep right on going. 514 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:31,600 You'll find it. 515 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:32,600 Mm-hmm. 516 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:35,520 You'll see it now. 517 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:37,800 There's kind of a parking place and a couple of trees. 518 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,560 Eucalyptus, I think, there's two of them on the side of the parking place. 519 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:41,560 You can't miss them. 520 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:42,560 It's right ahead there on the left. 521 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:43,560 There, you see? 522 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:44,560 Yeah. 523 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:45,560 I'm gonna pull in, Frank. 524 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:46,560 Okay. 525 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:51,560 Listen, look at all those cars. 526 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:54,520 Everybody's in such a hurry, they never see anything, just like they had blinders on. 527 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:56,040 You sure this is the place? 528 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:57,440 I told you, didn't I? 529 00:17:57,440 --> 00:17:58,840 No reason to say a thing like that. 530 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:01,080 If it wasn't true, just pull right in there. 531 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:02,080 That's it, right over there. 532 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:07,000 Well, right here is where I parked when it happened. 533 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,840 Maybe over there a little bit more, but, oh, right about here. 534 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,680 And the two of you just sat here for a few minutes, is that it? 535 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:13,680 Yeah. 536 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,080 We just sat here and had a cigarette, then we got out of the car and walked over to the 537 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:17,080 edge of the cliff. 538 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:18,080 All right, come on. 539 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:19,080 Show us. 540 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:20,080 Sure. 541 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:26,920 So you'll believe me, I'll show you. 542 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,560 We stood right over there, right there, and I told her I was in love with her and wanted 543 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:31,560 to marry her. 544 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:33,120 Now, you stay here. 545 00:18:33,120 --> 00:18:34,720 Just point out where you were. 546 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:37,120 You think I might try to jump off, don't you? 547 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:38,120 That's what you think, isn't it? 548 00:18:38,120 --> 00:18:39,120 You just show us, huh? 549 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:40,120 I wouldn't do that. 550 00:18:40,120 --> 00:18:41,120 There's no reason to. 551 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:43,240 I don't know why you wouldn't agree that I had to do it. 552 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:44,880 I didn't have any other way to do it. 553 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:46,780 Where were you when you hit her? 554 00:18:46,780 --> 00:18:49,180 Right there, near that clump of grass. 555 00:18:49,180 --> 00:18:52,800 We stood there and looked down at the ocean, and she told me about this other guy. 556 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:54,120 That's when I hit her. 557 00:18:54,120 --> 00:18:56,240 She fell down right about, well, right about there. 558 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:57,240 Uh-huh. 559 00:18:57,240 --> 00:18:58,840 And where'd you push her off the cliff? 560 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:00,680 There, right where I hit her. 561 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:01,680 She was lying there. 562 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:03,840 I guess she hit her head on something, and she was real quiet. 563 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:05,280 I just rolled her over the edge. 564 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:06,280 It was right there. 565 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:08,200 There, you see where the rocks are kind of worn? 566 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:09,200 Don't take away. 567 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:10,200 Yeah. 568 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:11,200 No, you wait here. 569 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:15,920 Gee, if I'd have known it was going to be this hard to get it straightened out, I don't 570 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:16,920 think I'd have started the thing. 571 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:19,120 When am I going to get out of jail? 572 00:19:19,120 --> 00:19:20,120 That isn't up to us. 573 00:19:20,120 --> 00:19:21,920 Well, then I want to talk to the people who it's up to. 574 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:25,440 I got to tell them about Lorraine, how she lied to me, and why I had to kill her. 575 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:27,200 As soon as they hear the story, they'll understand. 576 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,160 They got to realize that there wasn't any other way. 577 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:30,520 How's it look? 578 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:33,200 Well, I found this caught in a branch just over the edge. 579 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:34,200 It's a girl's handkerchief. 580 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:35,200 Read the name on it. 581 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:36,200 Yeah, Lorraine. 582 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:41,200 Friday, September 10th, 3 46 p.m. 583 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:48,360 We contacted the crime lab and asked them to come out and go over the scene. 584 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:51,680 Officers stood by so that any physical evidence would not be disturbed until Lieutenant Lee 585 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,040 Jones and his men had an opportunity to go over it. 586 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:57,680 Frank and I, along with the suspect, drove back to town where we made arrangements with 587 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,760 the city lifeguard service to search for the body. 588 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:04,160 The following morning, a boat equipped with diving gear left Santa Monica Harbor and took 589 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,240 a course north. 590 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:10,480 Experienced deep sea divers searched the crevices in the rocks beneath the cliffs. 591 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:12,800 All of the sea bordering the vicinity was gone over. 592 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:15,200 There was no trace of a body. 593 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:18,040 The shoreline on either side of the murder spot was checked. 594 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:20,240 Still no trace of the missing girl. 595 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:23,400 In the meantime, two additional teams of men were assigned to check out the friends of 596 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:25,080 Lorraine Farrell. 597 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:28,760 They carried pictures of Paul Marcus and attempted to dig out any information on the suspect 598 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:30,320 and the missing girl. 599 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,200 6 42 p.m. Sunday. 600 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:36,520 We called the main jail and asked that the suspect be brought to the city hall for additional 601 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:37,520 questioning. 602 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:39,200 I had a reason to do what I did, a good reason. 603 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:42,680 Now you let me talk to the responsible people around here and I'll have them tell you. 604 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:44,240 I'm getting a little tired of being shoved around. 605 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:48,240 You just bring in the boss and let me talk to him. 606 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:50,640 What day did you say that you left San Francisco? 607 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:51,640 September 1st. 608 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:52,640 I thought it was the second. 609 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:53,640 The first. 610 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:55,680 You said you left in the afternoon, is that right? 611 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:56,920 In the morning, and you remember it. 612 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:58,640 I don't know what all these questions are for. 613 00:20:58,640 --> 00:20:59,800 I told you I killed Lorraine. 614 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,720 I walked in here and told you there's no reason for all this McGill. 615 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:03,720 Just no reason. 616 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:05,580 Where'd you hide the body? 617 00:21:05,580 --> 00:21:06,580 I didn't hide it. 618 00:21:06,580 --> 00:21:07,580 Well, then where is it? 619 00:21:07,580 --> 00:21:09,520 I told you, I put her in the ocean. 620 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:10,520 We haven't been able to find her. 621 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:11,520 Well, then you're not looking good. 622 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:13,000 I told you the truth all along the line. 623 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,000 I've told you the truth. 624 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,500 You sure you didn't make a mistake about where all this happened? 625 00:21:15,500 --> 00:21:16,500 Not a chance in the world. 626 00:21:16,500 --> 00:21:18,440 Right there by the parking place where the two trees are. 627 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:20,000 Well, maybe you just thought you left her there. 628 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:21,000 I know it. 629 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,800 You been drinking when you killed her? 630 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:25,120 No, we stopped and had a couple of beers on the way. 631 00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:26,600 Just a couple, not enough to get drunk. 632 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:27,600 But you did have something to drink. 633 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:29,440 Well, sure, but not enough to get drunk on. 634 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:30,920 How many beers do you have? 635 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:32,200 Two, maybe three. 636 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:33,200 All right, which was it? 637 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:34,200 Two or three? 638 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:35,200 Well, what difference does it make? 639 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:36,200 Were you drunk? 640 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:37,200 No. 641 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:38,200 How about the girl? 642 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:39,200 Was she drunk? 643 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:40,200 No. 644 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:41,200 You sure about that? 645 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:42,200 Yes, yes, I'm sure. 646 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:43,200 What are you trying to do? 647 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:44,200 What difference does it make? 648 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:45,200 Maybe we did have more than a couple, but what difference does it make? 649 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:46,200 We're just trying to get things straight. 650 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:47,200 We want to be sure we got the right story. 651 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:48,200 Well, you have. 652 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:49,200 Right. 653 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:51,200 How about a cigarette? 654 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:52,200 Yeah, thanks. 655 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:53,200 Frank? 656 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:54,200 Yeah, thanks. 657 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,200 Here, I got a match. 658 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:03,280 Hey, wait a minute. 659 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:04,280 Don't light his two. 660 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:05,280 That's bad. 661 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:06,280 What do you mean? 662 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:07,280 Three on a match. 663 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:08,280 It's bad. 664 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:09,280 It is, huh? 665 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:10,280 Well, sure, you never do that. 666 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:11,280 Here. 667 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:12,280 Thanks. 668 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:16,680 You got right home after you killed the Pharoah girl, huh? 669 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:17,680 Yeah. 670 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:19,480 I got right down the highway and went home. 671 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:21,040 Traffic was kind of heavy. 672 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:24,960 I thought about it, all those people all hurrying around, not taking any time. 673 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:25,960 Anybody see you when you came home? 674 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:26,960 What do you mean? 675 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,080 Well, anybody see you park the car, go into your apartment? 676 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:30,920 Well, no, there wasn't anybody around. 677 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:34,280 Now, you said when you met the girl up in San Francisco that she had a suitcase with 678 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:35,280 her, is that right? 679 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:36,280 Yeah, she did. 680 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:38,400 Artificial leather with real leather binding. 681 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:39,400 Where is it now? 682 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:40,400 Huh? 683 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:41,400 What did you do with her suitcase? 684 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:42,400 Well, I don't know. 685 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:43,400 I don't remember it. 686 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:44,400 We couldn't find it in your room. 687 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,280 Well, you didn't have no right to go through my room. 688 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:47,320 No right at all. 689 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:48,320 You didn't find a suitcase. 690 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:49,320 Where is it? 691 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:50,320 Well, I don't know. 692 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:51,320 Did you put it with a body? 693 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:52,320 Well, I might have. 694 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:53,320 Where? 695 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:54,320 I don't know. 696 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:55,320 I don't remember. 697 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:56,320 I hit her. 698 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:57,320 She lied to me and I hit her. 699 00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:58,320 And I pushed her into the ocean. 700 00:22:58,320 --> 00:22:59,320 That's all I know. 701 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:00,320 And that's all I'm going to tell you. 702 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,320 Joe, see you a minute. 703 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,320 Yeah, sure. 704 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,320 What do you got, Al? 705 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:09,320 We found the girl. 706 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:10,320 Where? 707 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:11,320 She's sitting in the squad room. 708 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:21,320 Frank stayed with the suspect in the interrogation room and I went with Sergeant Al Olivas up 709 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:22,320 to the office. 710 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:27,320 Sitting at one of the tables was a small girl with jet black hair. 711 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,440 As we came into the room, she was putting on lipstick. 712 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,320 She glanced over at us and then she went back to what she was doing. 713 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:35,800 There wasn't any doubt about it. 714 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,280 The girl in the squad room was Lorraine Ferrell. 715 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:42,280 She dyed her hair and she had on a lot of makeup, but it was the missing girl. 716 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:44,800 Joe, this is Miss Ferrell and Joe Friday. 717 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:45,800 How do you do? 718 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:46,800 Hi. 719 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:47,800 Where did you find her, Al? 720 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:48,800 Friend up in Eagle Rock. 721 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:49,800 Says she's been there for a week. 722 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:50,800 Thanks, Al. 723 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:51,800 Right. 724 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,800 You seen the papers lately, Miss Ferrell? 725 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:56,800 Yeah, I read the front page. 726 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:58,520 You ought to read the front page. 727 00:23:58,520 --> 00:23:59,520 You've been on them. 728 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:00,520 All right. 729 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,920 We've got a lot of policemen out looking for you. 730 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:04,800 They probably needed the exercise anyway. 731 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,080 There's a man down the hall who thinks that he killed you. 732 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:09,080 That creep, Paul? 733 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:10,080 Yeah, Paul Marcus. 734 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:11,080 That's his name. 735 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:12,080 Real creep. 736 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,080 I was glad to get away from him. 737 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,680 Oh, my gosh, he tried to give me a bite out of home. 738 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:17,680 What a baloney. 739 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:18,680 He's a real creep. 740 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:19,680 You ought to keep an eye on him. 741 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:20,680 He's going to wig one of these days. 742 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:21,680 Is that so? 743 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:22,680 Yeah. 744 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,800 He drove me down here and when I told him I didn't want to have anything to do with him, 745 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,000 he got real sore, started yelling. 746 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:29,000 Creep. 747 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:30,000 Where'd all this happen, Miss? 748 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,000 Out by Malibu. 749 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,000 Road out there. 750 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,800 He stopped the car and gave me all this stuff about when to marry me. 751 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:36,800 I was in love with me. 752 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:37,800 Big deal. 753 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:39,680 I was the first girl I ever said that to. 754 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:40,760 Big deal. 755 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:41,760 What happened then? 756 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:43,760 I told him I didn't want no part of him. 757 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:44,760 Told him to get lost. 758 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,320 Thank him for the ride and told him to get lost. 759 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:48,320 He flipped. 760 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:49,320 Bad. 761 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:50,320 He flipped. 762 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:51,320 I took off, got a ride, came into the town. 763 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:52,320 I got this girlfriend, Eagle Rock. 764 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:53,320 I've been out there. 765 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,320 You ought to watch that guy, though. 766 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,120 How old did you tell him that you were? 767 00:24:58,120 --> 00:24:59,120 I don't know. 768 00:24:59,120 --> 00:25:00,120 Forget. 769 00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:01,120 I think 19, something like that. 770 00:25:01,120 --> 00:25:02,120 I forget. 771 00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:03,120 He confessed to killing me, huh? 772 00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:04,120 That's right. 773 00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:05,120 Flipped. 774 00:25:05,120 --> 00:25:06,120 He's a wig. 775 00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:07,120 Let's take a walk, huh? 776 00:25:07,120 --> 00:25:08,120 Where? 777 00:25:08,120 --> 00:25:09,120 Come on. 778 00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:10,120 Sure. 779 00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:11,120 I got nothing to lose. 780 00:25:11,120 --> 00:25:13,040 Can you guys drive me back to Eagle Rock tonight? 781 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:14,040 I got a date. 782 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:15,040 I got to be back pretty quick. 783 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:16,920 You're not going to go back to Eagle Rock. 784 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:17,920 Who says so? 785 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:19,200 We're going to have to hold you. 786 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:20,200 For what? 787 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:21,200 I haven't done anything. 788 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:22,200 Well, you're a minor. 789 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:23,560 We've got a missing report filed on you. 790 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:24,560 Your folks are pretty worried. 791 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,560 They're always worrying about something. 792 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,840 If there ain't nothing for them to worry about, then they worry about that. 793 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:29,840 Well, it doesn't make any difference. 794 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:31,640 We're going to have to hold you. 795 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:32,640 You just try it, cop. 796 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:33,640 You just try it. 797 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,120 You'll find out you got more trouble than you came in one lump. 798 00:25:36,120 --> 00:25:37,120 Come here. 799 00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:38,120 In here. 800 00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:43,120 This is Lorraine Farrell, Officer Schmidt. 801 00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:44,120 Hello. 802 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:45,120 Lorraine. 803 00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:46,120 Hi, creep. 804 00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:47,840 I didn't mean to do it. 805 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:48,840 You know that. 806 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:49,840 I didn't really mean to do it. 807 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:50,840 But there wasn't any other way. 808 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:51,840 What's the plan? 809 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:52,840 You know what he's talking about? 810 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:53,840 He thinks he killed you. 811 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:54,840 Wigged. 812 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:55,840 I didn't think I'd ever see you again. 813 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:56,840 I didn't think I would. 814 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:57,840 But I want you to know one thing, Lorraine. 815 00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:58,840 What's that? 816 00:25:58,840 --> 00:25:59,840 I forgive you for lying. 817 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:00,840 I told you it hadn't. 818 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:01,840 Yeah. 819 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:06,240 Come on. 820 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:07,240 Where to? 821 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,440 We'll take you to the office and call a policewoman. 822 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:11,440 Then to the can, huh? 823 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:12,440 To Juvenile Hall. 824 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:13,440 Come on, let's go. 825 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:14,440 I'll take her job, Lorraine. 826 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:15,440 Bye, Paul. 827 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:16,440 Bye, Lorraine. 828 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:17,920 I'm not mad at you anymore. 829 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:22,920 You know, I was worried. 830 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,920 Sergeant. 831 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:27,640 Yeah? 832 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,320 I want you to know how I appreciate it. 833 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:30,500 Yeah, what's that? 834 00:26:30,500 --> 00:26:32,600 What you tried to do, I think was real fine, thanks. 835 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:34,340 I don't know what you mean. 836 00:26:34,340 --> 00:26:35,340 You didn't fool me a bit. 837 00:26:35,340 --> 00:26:36,340 What? 838 00:26:36,340 --> 00:26:45,640 I know I killed her. 839 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,120 The story you have just heard is true. 840 00:26:48,120 --> 00:26:50,760 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 841 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:55,680 On October 4th, the hearing was held in Department 98, Superior Court, State of California, in 842 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:57,640 and for the County of Los Angeles. 843 00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:59,440 In a moment, the results of that hearing. 844 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,440 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 845 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:03,440 Thank you. 846 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,200 Earlier, George Feneman told you exactly why the Chesterfield you smoked today is the best 847 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:08,620 cigarette ever made. 848 00:27:08,620 --> 00:27:09,620 And best for you. 849 00:27:09,620 --> 00:27:11,540 Now, the rest is up to you. 850 00:27:11,540 --> 00:27:13,200 Get a carton or two for yourself. 851 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:24,800 Smoke them and you'll say, as we do, it's Chesterfield's for me. 852 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:30,760 Paul Nelson Marcus was held to answer a charge of violation of Section 701 WIC, contributing 853 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,080 to the delinquency of a minor. 854 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:37,160 After due deliberation, he was placed on probation and delivered into the hands of a competent 855 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:38,160 psychiatrist. 856 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:51,920 Lorraine Jean Farrell was returned to the custody of her parents. 857 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:56,840 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 858 00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:00,760 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police 859 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:02,220 Department. 860 00:28:02,220 --> 00:28:07,240 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Brasher. 861 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,400 Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, Herb Ellis. 862 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,320 Script by John Robinson. 863 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:13,840 Music by Walter Schuman. 864 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:19,440 Hal Gibney speaking. 865 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:24,920 Watch an entirely different Dragnet case history each week on your local NBC television station. 866 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:29,160 Please check your newspapers for the day and time. 867 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:33,520 Chesterfield has brought you Dragnet transcribed from Los Angeles. 868 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,320 Filter tip smokers, this is it. 869 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,040 L and M filters. 870 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:42,080 The one filter tip cigarette with plenty of good taste. 871 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:43,700 Much more flavor. 872 00:28:43,700 --> 00:28:45,680 Much less nicotine. 873 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,480 And effective filtration. 874 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:53,520 Only L and M filters have the miracle filter tip containing alpha cellulose. 875 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,840 The purest material for filtering cigarette smoke. 876 00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,200 Yes, this is it. 877 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:04,480 As Bennett Serf puts it, L and M filters are just what the doctor ordered. 878 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:09,600 By L and M filters, the distinctive monogram cigarette. 879 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,920 L and M filters. 880 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:13,920 America's highest quality. 881 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:35,200 And best filter tip cigarette. 882 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:40,280 Hear Frank Sinatra as Rocky Fortune following John Cameron Swayze and the news on the NBC 883 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:45,480 radio network.