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transcribed from official 02:02.320 --> 02:04.080 police files. 02:04.080 --> 02:09.360 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 02:09.360 --> 02:10.360 in action. 02:10.360 --> 02:15.920 It was Wednesday, September 8th. 02:15.920 --> 02:17.160 It was cold in Los Angeles. 02:17.160 --> 02:19.680 We were working the day watch out of homicide detail. 02:19.680 --> 02:20.680 My partner is Frank Smith. 02:20.680 --> 02:21.680 The boss is Captain Warman. 02:21.680 --> 02:22.680 My name is Friday. 02:22.680 --> 02:25.160 I was on my way back to the office from R9. 02:25.160 --> 02:27.920 It was 10, 14 a.m. when I got to room 42. 02:27.920 --> 02:28.920 Homicide. 02:28.920 --> 02:29.920 Pardon me, sir. 02:29.920 --> 02:30.920 Yes, sir. 02:30.920 --> 02:31.920 Are you a policeman? 02:31.920 --> 02:32.920 Yes, sir, that's right. 02:32.920 --> 02:33.920 What can I do for you? 02:33.920 --> 02:34.920 I want to talk to somebody. 02:34.920 --> 02:35.920 I'm not sure who though. 02:35.920 --> 02:38.960 If you tell me what it's all about, I might be able to help you. 02:38.960 --> 02:40.560 Well, I got to be sure it's the right person. 02:40.560 --> 02:42.200 You can understand that, can't you? 02:42.200 --> 02:43.200 Yes, sir. 02:43.200 --> 02:44.200 My name's Paul Marcus. 02:44.200 --> 02:45.200 All right, Mr. Marcus. 02:45.200 --> 02:46.200 What is it you want to talk about? 02:46.200 --> 02:48.480 Do you work in there in the homicide department? 02:48.480 --> 02:49.480 That's right. 02:49.480 --> 02:50.480 You know all about murders then, huh? 02:50.480 --> 02:52.880 You want to come into the office and talk? 02:52.880 --> 02:54.480 No, no, I don't want to go in there. 02:54.480 --> 02:56.280 Is there someplace else we can go? 02:56.280 --> 02:57.280 I'd like to talk to you alone. 02:57.280 --> 02:58.480 This is kind of a personal thing. 02:58.480 --> 02:59.480 All right, sir. 02:59.480 --> 03:00.480 Come on down the hall. 03:00.480 --> 03:01.480 The interrogation room. 03:01.480 --> 03:02.480 Nobody else there? 03:02.480 --> 03:03.480 No. 03:03.480 --> 03:05.160 That's good, because like I told you, this is a personal matter. 03:05.160 --> 03:06.160 I need your advice. 03:06.160 --> 03:07.160 All right, sir, this way. 03:07.160 --> 03:10.840 This is the first time I've ever been in the police department. 03:10.840 --> 03:14.400 I feel kind of funny just walking in and talking personal things to a stranger. 03:14.400 --> 03:17.400 Yes, sir, I can understand. 03:17.400 --> 03:20.400 Go ahead. 03:20.400 --> 03:23.040 Want to sit down right there? 03:23.040 --> 03:24.040 Thank you. 03:24.040 --> 03:28.440 All right, you want to tell me about it? 03:28.440 --> 03:29.440 You mind closing the door? 03:29.440 --> 03:30.440 All right. 03:30.440 --> 03:35.800 All right, now what's your problem, Mr. Marcus? 03:35.800 --> 03:37.400 I told you it was personal. 03:37.400 --> 03:38.680 Yes, I know. 03:38.680 --> 03:40.280 I want to be sure I handled it right. 03:40.280 --> 03:43.200 I could get in a lot of trouble if I didn't. 03:43.200 --> 03:46.120 Been trying to figure out what to do about it for a week now and couldn't find the right 03:46.120 --> 03:47.120 answer. 03:47.120 --> 03:48.120 That's why I came here. 03:48.120 --> 03:49.120 You guys should know. 03:49.120 --> 03:51.280 All right, now if you'll just tell me what's bothering you, we might be able to do something 03:51.280 --> 03:52.280 for you. 03:52.280 --> 03:53.280 All right. 03:53.280 --> 03:54.280 A whole week and no answer. 03:54.280 --> 03:55.880 I sure hope you've got it for me. 03:55.880 --> 03:59.080 I'm sorry, Mr. Marcus, but if you don't tell me what this is all about, there's nothing 03:59.080 --> 04:00.080 we can do. 04:00.080 --> 04:01.640 Well, it's nothing big, just a personal problem. 04:01.640 --> 04:03.080 I just want to know how to handle it. 04:03.080 --> 04:04.080 All right, go ahead. 04:04.080 --> 04:07.320 I killed a woman. 04:07.320 --> 04:11.520 10 18 a.m. 04:11.520 --> 04:14.240 We got the name of the woman Paul Marcus said that he'd murdered. 04:14.240 --> 04:17.480 We also obtained a description of the victim and Frank went down the hall to missing persons 04:17.480 --> 04:19.440 to see if a report had been filed on her. 04:19.440 --> 04:20.880 I waited with the suspect. 04:20.880 --> 04:22.080 It's a personal problem. 04:22.080 --> 04:23.080 You know how to handle it. 04:23.080 --> 04:24.080 I wasn't sure. 04:24.080 --> 04:25.080 That's why I came to you. 04:25.080 --> 04:27.040 All right, where did you meet this Lorraine Farrell? 04:27.040 --> 04:28.040 San Francisco. 04:28.040 --> 04:29.040 How long ago? 04:29.040 --> 04:30.040 Couple of weeks. 04:30.040 --> 04:31.600 I just knew her a little while before it happened. 04:31.600 --> 04:32.600 Just a couple of weeks. 04:32.600 --> 04:33.600 Mm-hmm. 04:33.600 --> 04:34.600 What's that? 04:34.600 --> 04:35.600 Fisherman's Wharf. 04:35.600 --> 04:36.600 That's where I met her in San Francisco. 04:36.600 --> 04:37.600 I was on a vacation. 04:37.600 --> 04:39.840 Two weeks with pay and I went to San Francisco. 04:39.840 --> 04:40.840 Fisherman's Wharf. 04:40.840 --> 04:41.840 That's where I met Lorraine. 04:41.840 --> 04:42.840 All right, go ahead. 04:42.840 --> 04:46.000 Well, I was down there sitting on the dock looking at the boats, just sitting there eating 04:46.000 --> 04:48.320 prawns, you know how they cook them in those great big pots. 04:48.320 --> 04:49.320 Yeah. 04:49.320 --> 04:51.240 Well, I was just sitting there eating prawns and I met her. 04:51.240 --> 04:52.520 Well, where'd you kill her? 04:52.520 --> 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. 04:55.760 --> 04:57.040 It's got to be right so you'll understand. 04:57.040 --> 04:59.600 Now, if you don't get it right, the whole thing has gone wrong. 04:59.600 --> 05:01.600 You see, it's a real personal thing. 05:01.600 --> 05:03.760 All right, sir, go ahead. 05:03.760 --> 05:07.000 Well, I was just sitting there eating prawns, eating them and throwing the little tail pieces 05:07.000 --> 05:08.280 down the water. 05:08.280 --> 05:09.280 You know how you do. 05:09.280 --> 05:10.280 Mm-hmm. 05:10.280 --> 05:14.160 Watching them kind of float around and kind of all of a sudden she was right there sitting 05:14.160 --> 05:15.160 just alongside of me. 05:15.160 --> 05:16.160 You ever see her before? 05:16.160 --> 05:18.160 I never laid eyes on her till then. 05:18.160 --> 05:19.760 All right, go ahead. 05:19.760 --> 05:23.040 We both sat there for a minute and then we started to talk, just little things like nice 05:23.040 --> 05:26.120 weather and how long you've been in San Francisco, things like that. 05:26.120 --> 05:27.120 You know how you do. 05:27.120 --> 05:28.800 How old did you say the Feral Woman was? 05:28.800 --> 05:30.760 Nineteen, turned 19 the 5th of August. 05:30.760 --> 05:31.760 All right. 05:31.760 --> 05:33.400 She was born there, you know, in San Francisco. 05:33.400 --> 05:37.040 She told me about it when we were talking, how she was born there and grew up there. 05:37.040 --> 05:38.040 Yeah. 05:38.040 --> 05:40.800 Told me all about the schools she went to, how she used to play on Strawberry Island 05:40.800 --> 05:41.800 in Stowe Lake. 05:41.800 --> 05:42.800 You ever been there? 05:42.800 --> 05:43.800 Yes, sir. 05:43.800 --> 05:44.800 It's kind of a beautiful place, you know. 05:44.800 --> 05:48.680 They got those row boats and you paddle around the lake and right in the middle is this island, 05:48.680 --> 05:49.680 Strawberry Island. 05:49.680 --> 05:51.080 There's all those swans that swim around. 05:51.080 --> 05:52.080 You can feed them. 05:52.080 --> 05:53.880 Real beautiful Strawberry Island. 05:53.880 --> 05:56.520 Tell me something, Marcus. 05:56.520 --> 05:57.520 You ever been to the hospital? 05:57.520 --> 05:58.520 Huh? 05:58.520 --> 05:59.520 You ever had any mental care? 05:59.520 --> 06:01.440 Or vision of a psychiatrist, maybe? 06:01.440 --> 06:02.680 You think I'm crazy, don't you? 06:02.680 --> 06:04.000 I'll just ask you a question. 06:04.000 --> 06:05.000 Well, I'm not. 06:05.000 --> 06:06.000 I've never been to a doctor. 06:06.000 --> 06:07.000 I'm telling you the truth. 06:07.000 --> 06:08.000 You'll see. 06:08.000 --> 06:09.000 All right. 06:09.000 --> 06:10.000 You want to go ahead? 06:10.000 --> 06:12.400 I guess you get a lot of crackpots in here telling you all kinds of phony stories, huh? 06:12.400 --> 06:14.080 Well, the doors are wide open all night. 06:14.080 --> 06:15.420 I guess you get a lot of them. 06:15.420 --> 06:16.420 But I'm not a crackpot. 06:16.420 --> 06:17.420 I'm telling you the truth. 06:17.420 --> 06:18.420 I did kill her. 06:18.420 --> 06:19.960 But it's important you know why I did it. 06:19.960 --> 06:21.080 I got to tell you the right way. 06:21.080 --> 06:22.720 If I don't, none of it's going to be any good. 06:22.720 --> 06:24.000 When did you kill her? 06:24.000 --> 06:25.000 September 1st. 06:25.000 --> 06:26.000 That's the day we left. 06:26.000 --> 06:29.680 September 1st. 06:29.680 --> 06:30.680 Yeah, September 1st. 06:30.680 --> 06:31.680 Joe, see you in a minute. 06:31.680 --> 06:32.680 All right. 06:32.680 --> 06:33.680 Just a minute, Marcus. 06:33.680 --> 06:34.680 Mm-hmm. 06:34.680 --> 06:35.680 All right. 06:35.680 --> 06:36.680 What do you got? 06:36.680 --> 06:37.680 Well, I checked missing persons. 06:37.680 --> 06:38.680 Yeah. 06:38.680 --> 06:39.680 I got a report on the girl. 06:39.680 --> 06:40.680 Same name, description matches. 06:40.680 --> 06:41.680 When did she disappear? 06:41.680 --> 06:42.680 September 1st. 06:42.680 --> 06:43.680 That fits in with what he told us. 06:43.680 --> 06:44.680 Yeah, but there's something that doesn't. 06:44.680 --> 06:45.680 What's that? 06:45.680 --> 06:46.680 She's 16 years old. 06:46.680 --> 06:55.680 Each year, there are hundreds of citizens who walk into the nearest police station. 06:55.680 --> 06:58.680 And confess to some sort of crime. 06:58.680 --> 06:59.680 Some have actually happened. 06:59.680 --> 07:02.720 Others have occurred only in the mind of the person confessing. 07:02.720 --> 07:07.920 No matter how wild the confession, how implausible the details of the crime, each report has 07:07.920 --> 07:10.120 to be checked out. 07:10.120 --> 07:11.920 To doctors, such cases are clinical. 07:11.920 --> 07:15.440 But to the working detective, they're the cause of a lot of legwork and a great deal 07:15.440 --> 07:16.440 of checking. 07:16.440 --> 07:20.480 They cost the taxpayer untold man hours in investigating time. 07:20.480 --> 07:23.560 And many times result in nothing. 07:23.560 --> 07:26.600 Because of his attitude and his reluctance to give us the complete story all at once, 07:26.600 --> 07:29.720 it appeared that Paul Marcus might be one of these people. 07:29.720 --> 07:33.040 The fact that he named a girl who was missing meant little since it was possible for him 07:33.040 --> 07:35.380 to have read the story in a newspaper. 07:35.380 --> 07:38.360 The only way we had of being sure was to continue the interrogation. 07:38.360 --> 07:39.360 1034 AM. 07:39.360 --> 07:42.000 She told me she wanted to get away from home. 07:42.000 --> 07:44.880 That's what she told me, how it was rough for her there and she wanted to get away. 07:44.880 --> 07:47.400 That's when you said you'd bring her down here, is that right? 07:47.400 --> 07:48.760 Oh, no, I didn't even suggest it. 07:48.760 --> 07:49.960 The whole thing was her idea. 07:49.960 --> 07:50.960 She brought it up? 07:50.960 --> 07:51.960 Yes. 07:51.960 --> 07:54.800 After that first day on Fisherman's Wharf, I saw her several times. 07:54.800 --> 07:56.840 Almost every day we'd meet someplace and talk. 07:56.840 --> 07:57.840 Where would you meet her? 07:57.840 --> 08:00.960 Well, sometimes in one of the hotel bars once we met out at the Steinhardt Aquarium. 08:00.960 --> 08:02.360 We met on the rotunda there. 08:02.360 --> 08:04.760 You know where they have the big pool and all the alligators swimming around? 08:04.760 --> 08:05.760 You know where? 08:05.760 --> 08:06.760 Uh-huh. 08:06.760 --> 08:09.840 Well, we met there once and we walked over to the place where they have the band concerts 08:09.840 --> 08:11.520 right across the way where the band plays. 08:11.520 --> 08:12.680 Only they weren't there that day. 08:12.680 --> 08:14.920 Wasn't anybody there, just Lorraine and me. 08:14.920 --> 08:16.800 We sat on the benches and talked. 08:16.800 --> 08:18.120 That's when she said she wanted to go with me. 08:18.120 --> 08:19.520 To Los Angeles, huh? 08:19.520 --> 08:20.520 Yeah. 08:20.520 --> 08:23.080 She said she wanted me to take her. 08:23.080 --> 08:24.560 She came right out and asked you? 08:24.560 --> 08:25.560 Sure. 08:25.560 --> 08:27.600 Told me how it was hard for her at home and she wanted to get away. 08:27.600 --> 08:29.000 She told me she had friends here. 08:29.000 --> 08:31.640 Said she could stay with them until she got things straightened out. 08:31.640 --> 08:33.320 You know, get a job and a place of her own. 08:33.320 --> 08:34.320 Uh-huh. 08:34.320 --> 08:35.320 Well, she was gonna do that. 08:35.320 --> 08:36.320 Get a place of her own and a job. 08:36.320 --> 08:37.320 Then she'd be all right. 08:37.320 --> 08:38.720 Did you ever meet her parents? 08:38.720 --> 08:40.080 No, I never went to the house. 08:40.080 --> 08:41.480 She told me where it was though. 08:41.480 --> 08:43.200 Someplace out by the Twin Peaks tunnel. 08:43.200 --> 08:44.280 I didn't know where exactly. 08:44.280 --> 08:45.280 She didn't want me to go out there. 08:45.280 --> 08:47.400 Said it would only cause her more trouble. 08:47.400 --> 08:48.400 That's why I'd meet her in town. 08:48.400 --> 08:51.680 You ever meet any of her friends up in San Francisco? 08:51.680 --> 08:54.960 Yeah, just once we were in a drug store on Market Street having a sandwich. 08:54.960 --> 08:58.000 We were just sitting there and she was telling me how it was bad for her at home and a girl 08:58.000 --> 08:59.000 came in. 08:59.000 --> 09:00.320 Looked like she was a school girl. 09:00.320 --> 09:01.320 You know how I mean, young? 09:01.320 --> 09:02.320 Uh-huh. 09:02.320 --> 09:05.760 Well, she came in and talked to Lorraine and they went over to the phone booths and talked. 09:05.760 --> 09:07.200 You didn't actually meet the girl? 09:07.200 --> 09:08.200 No. 09:08.200 --> 09:10.920 No, Lorraine said if I did, the girl might say something to Lorraine's parents and that 09:10.920 --> 09:11.920 would cause trouble. 09:11.920 --> 09:13.400 You know this girl's name? 09:13.400 --> 09:14.400 I think it was Grace. 09:14.400 --> 09:16.120 I'm not sure, but I think it was Grace. 09:16.120 --> 09:18.960 When did you leave San Francisco? 09:18.960 --> 09:20.680 Wednesday morning, September 1st. 09:20.680 --> 09:23.360 I wanted to get back in time to get some rest before I had to go to work. 09:23.360 --> 09:25.480 You know, my vacation was up and I had to go back to work. 09:25.480 --> 09:26.960 Where'd you pick up the girl? 09:26.960 --> 09:27.960 Wasn't a pick-up. 09:27.960 --> 09:32.480 I was sitting on Fisherman's Wharf, eating prawns and looking at the boats and we started 09:32.480 --> 09:33.480 to talk. 09:33.480 --> 09:35.160 Wasn't a pick-up, we just got friendly. 09:35.160 --> 09:39.160 No, Marcus, he means that where'd you pick up the girl when you left for Los Angeles? 09:39.160 --> 09:41.920 Oh, I thought you met when I met her the first time. 09:41.920 --> 09:42.920 That's what I thought. 09:42.920 --> 09:43.920 Uh-huh. 09:43.920 --> 09:44.920 I met her out at the tunnel. 09:44.920 --> 09:45.920 Where's that? 09:45.920 --> 09:49.200 Where Castro Street runs into Market, where the L-car comes in from the beach. 09:49.200 --> 09:50.200 That's where I met her. 09:50.200 --> 09:53.000 She came from home, had her suitcase and all, and she came out on the L-car. 09:53.000 --> 09:55.200 All right, go ahead. 09:55.200 --> 09:58.640 She got off the streetcar, got into my car, and we left for Los Angeles. 09:58.640 --> 09:59.640 Where'd you kill her? 09:59.640 --> 10:02.720 I told you before, if I don't tell it my way, it isn't gonna work. 10:02.720 --> 10:03.720 You're not gonna understand. 10:03.720 --> 10:04.720 It's gotta be my way. 10:04.720 --> 10:06.320 All right, go ahead, Marcus. 10:06.320 --> 10:10.580 Well, it was a beautiful day, just the kind of a day you want when you're going on a drive. 10:10.580 --> 10:12.520 You know how I mean, clear and the sunshine. 10:12.520 --> 10:13.520 Yeah. 10:13.520 --> 10:14.520 Well, that's what kind of a day it was. 10:14.520 --> 10:15.520 Uh-huh. 10:15.520 --> 10:18.080 You could see all across the bay, over to Berkeley, and way up north. 10:18.080 --> 10:19.080 It was real clear. 10:19.080 --> 10:22.480 You wanna go ahead with your story? 10:22.480 --> 10:23.480 Mr. Friday? 10:23.480 --> 10:24.480 Uh-huh. 10:24.480 --> 10:25.480 My way? 10:25.480 --> 10:28.480 Yeah, sorry, go ahead. 10:28.480 --> 10:29.840 All right. 10:29.840 --> 10:33.680 We drove all day, stopped for lunch at a place near San Luis Obispo, a little lunch stand 10:33.680 --> 10:34.680 there. 10:34.680 --> 10:35.680 Had a French dip sandwich. 10:35.680 --> 10:36.680 It was one of the best I ever had. 10:36.680 --> 10:39.520 The meat was real lean, and they didn't sop up the bun with the gravy. 10:39.520 --> 10:40.520 Just the right amount. 10:40.520 --> 10:41.520 One of the best I ever ate. 10:41.520 --> 10:42.520 Uh-huh. 10:42.520 --> 10:43.520 Lorraine liked them, too. 10:43.520 --> 10:45.520 She liked the bread all sopped up with gravy. 10:45.520 --> 10:46.520 Go ahead. 10:46.520 --> 10:48.600 What happened after you had lunch? 10:48.600 --> 10:50.560 We left there and drove on. 10:50.560 --> 10:52.600 We got down around Malibu. 10:52.600 --> 10:55.560 I guess it was really before that where the divided highway is, up the coast. 10:55.560 --> 10:56.560 You know where the cliffs are? 10:56.560 --> 10:57.560 Yeah, we know. 10:57.560 --> 10:58.560 Well, we stopped. 10:58.560 --> 10:59.840 It was such a beautiful night. 10:59.840 --> 11:02.520 I just wanted to sit there and look at the ocean. 11:02.520 --> 11:03.520 People don't take time anymore. 11:03.520 --> 11:04.520 What happened then? 11:04.520 --> 11:08.080 We just sat there, had a cigarette, and talked. 11:08.080 --> 11:09.080 That's when I told her. 11:09.080 --> 11:10.520 First time I ever said it. 11:10.520 --> 11:11.520 What was that? 11:11.520 --> 11:12.520 It's funny. 11:12.520 --> 11:14.120 I guess most fellas say it a lot. 11:14.120 --> 11:16.200 You know how I mean to a bunch of girls that never mean it? 11:16.200 --> 11:17.280 Go ahead. 11:17.280 --> 11:18.280 I told her. 11:18.280 --> 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 11:21.400 --> 11:24.760 I wanted to marry her, get her a house and all, and she wouldn't have no more trouble 11:24.760 --> 11:25.760 at home. 11:25.760 --> 11:27.960 How she'd have her own home and everything would be all right. 11:27.960 --> 11:28.960 I told her all that. 11:28.960 --> 11:29.960 Yeah. 11:29.960 --> 11:31.640 And that's when I knew right then. 11:31.640 --> 11:35.080 You could divide the second in a million parts, and in one of them, one of the parts, I knew 11:35.080 --> 11:36.080 I had to do it. 11:36.080 --> 11:37.080 Kill her? 11:37.080 --> 11:38.080 Yeah. 11:38.080 --> 11:40.040 You see, she didn't tell me the real reason. 11:40.040 --> 11:41.920 She lied to me, and I knew I had to do it. 11:41.920 --> 11:43.560 So she wouldn't lie to anyone else. 11:43.560 --> 11:44.880 You can understand that. 11:44.880 --> 11:46.400 You can see why I had to do it. 11:46.400 --> 11:48.200 Well, maybe you better tell us. 11:48.200 --> 11:51.280 Well, it was all a lie, all about the family being mean to her. 11:51.280 --> 11:52.840 All that was a lie. 11:52.840 --> 11:56.080 She just wanted to get to Los Angeles because she wanted to meet some other fella here. 11:56.080 --> 11:57.200 That's why. 11:57.200 --> 11:59.200 She lied about the family, and that's why she did it. 11:59.200 --> 12:00.800 So you see, I had to kill her. 12:00.800 --> 12:01.800 I had to. 12:01.800 --> 12:02.800 How'd you kill her? 12:02.800 --> 12:03.800 Huh? 12:03.800 --> 12:05.700 I say, how did you kill her? 12:05.700 --> 12:08.520 We got out of the car and walked over to the cliffs. 12:08.520 --> 12:09.880 We could see right down to the ocean. 12:09.880 --> 12:11.600 We just stood there. 12:11.600 --> 12:12.600 I just hit her. 12:12.600 --> 12:13.600 She fell down. 12:13.600 --> 12:14.600 It was quiet. 12:14.600 --> 12:16.320 So I pushed her over into the water. 12:16.320 --> 12:17.320 Mm-hmm. 12:17.320 --> 12:20.080 What'd you do then, Marcus? 12:20.080 --> 12:21.720 I got in the car and drove home. 12:21.720 --> 12:23.760 You just left her there, huh? 12:23.760 --> 12:24.760 Certainly. 12:24.760 --> 12:26.240 There wasn't anything I could do for her. 12:26.240 --> 12:28.120 You point out the place where all this happened? 12:28.120 --> 12:29.120 Well, sure. 12:29.120 --> 12:31.760 It's up the coast where the highway's divided, north of Malibu. 12:31.760 --> 12:33.040 It's real easy to find. 12:33.040 --> 12:34.080 Anybody else around? 12:34.080 --> 12:35.080 You mean when I hit her? 12:35.080 --> 12:36.080 That's right. 12:36.080 --> 12:37.080 No, we were all alone. 12:37.080 --> 12:39.400 I didn't see anybody, just the two of us. 12:39.400 --> 12:42.640 All right, Marcus, you willing to give us a statement on all this? 12:42.640 --> 12:44.160 You mean what I just told you? 12:44.160 --> 12:45.160 Yeah. 12:45.160 --> 12:46.160 Well, sure. 12:46.160 --> 12:47.160 You want me to tell all about it again? 12:47.160 --> 12:48.160 We'll call in a stenographer. 12:48.160 --> 12:49.160 So you can write it down, huh? 12:49.160 --> 12:50.160 That's the idea. 12:50.160 --> 12:51.160 Well, sure. 12:51.160 --> 12:52.160 I'll tell her. 12:52.160 --> 12:53.160 Tell me something, Marcus. 12:53.160 --> 12:56.160 When did you get out of the hospital? 12:56.160 --> 12:57.440 I told you before. 12:57.440 --> 12:59.080 I was never in one. 12:59.080 --> 13:00.640 You guys sure make it tough, don't you? 13:00.640 --> 13:01.640 What's that? 13:01.640 --> 13:04.000 I came in here because I wanted to tell you about Lorraine. 13:04.000 --> 13:06.200 I wanted you to know so you wouldn't think it was my fault. 13:06.200 --> 13:07.200 That's all. 13:07.200 --> 13:08.840 So you wouldn't think it was my fault, and now you don't believe me. 13:08.840 --> 13:12.520 You think I'm just another crackpot trying to sell a phony story. 13:12.520 --> 13:13.520 You guys sure make it tough. 13:13.520 --> 13:14.520 We got to be sure. 13:14.520 --> 13:15.920 Well, I'm telling you the truth. 13:15.920 --> 13:16.920 I want you to believe me. 13:16.920 --> 13:17.920 Yeah. 13:17.920 --> 13:18.920 I want you to believe me. 13:18.920 --> 13:23.920 Yeah, we're beginning to. 13:23.920 --> 13:30.120 A statement was taken from the suspect, and he was booked in at the main jail on a charge 13:30.120 --> 13:33.480 of suspicion of violation of Section 187 PC, murdered. 13:33.480 --> 13:38.000 We sent a teletype to San Francisco, and we contacted Inspectors Ed Van Der Voort and John 13:38.000 --> 13:39.600 O'Hare of homicide detail. 13:39.600 --> 13:43.880 We filled them in and asked that they check out the suspect's story on their end. 13:43.880 --> 13:47.480 We also asked that they send us all available information on the missing girl and that they 13:47.480 --> 13:50.520 check with her family and try to get a list of any known associates that she might have 13:50.520 --> 13:53.440 had in the Los Angeles area. 13:53.440 --> 13:57.600 Frank and I checked out of the office at 7 48 p.m. and we went home for the night. 13:57.600 --> 14:02.480 The following morning at 9 23 a.m. Inspector Van Der Voort from San Francisco called back. 14:02.480 --> 14:03.480 Uh huh. 14:03.480 --> 14:04.480 Yeah. 14:04.480 --> 14:05.480 When was that, Ed? 14:05.480 --> 14:06.480 Wait a minute. 14:06.480 --> 14:07.480 All right. 14:07.480 --> 14:08.480 Yeah, I got it. 14:08.480 --> 14:09.480 How about friends down here? 14:09.480 --> 14:13.480 I say, how about friends down here? 14:13.480 --> 14:15.080 Uh huh. 14:15.080 --> 14:16.600 Oh, I see. 14:16.600 --> 14:19.160 Well, it should be here this afternoon then. 14:19.160 --> 14:20.160 Right. 14:20.160 --> 14:22.160 Yeah, we'll check them out. 14:22.160 --> 14:24.480 No, no, that's on the way. 14:24.480 --> 14:25.480 We put it in the mail for you last. 14:25.480 --> 14:28.480 Well, you should have it by now then. 14:28.480 --> 14:29.480 Okay. 14:29.480 --> 14:30.480 Right. 14:30.480 --> 14:31.480 Right, Ed. 14:31.480 --> 14:32.480 Thanks very much. 14:32.480 --> 14:33.480 We'll be checking with you. 14:33.480 --> 14:34.480 Right. 14:34.480 --> 14:35.480 Bye. 14:35.480 --> 14:36.480 How about it? 14:36.480 --> 14:40.480 Well, they checked the family and the friends, the place where Marcus said he stayed up there. 14:40.480 --> 14:41.480 Yeah. 14:41.480 --> 14:52.080 Marcus' story checks out all the way. 14:52.080 --> 14:56.760 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 14:56.760 --> 14:59.720 One of the biggest comedy hits of the year. 14:59.720 --> 15:04.040 That's how the movie critics are describing Bob Hope's latest Paramount picture, Casanova's 15:04.040 --> 15:05.480 Big Night. 15:05.480 --> 15:09.720 Like so many other millions of smokers, Bob and Audrey Dalton, who appears with him in 15:09.720 --> 15:12.880 the picture, say Chesterfield's for me. 15:12.880 --> 15:14.600 First, Audrey Dalton. 15:14.600 --> 15:19.360 I changed to Chesterfield King Size because I think it's better than any other King Size 15:19.360 --> 15:20.360 cigarette. 15:20.360 --> 15:22.440 Bob Hope says, Five years. 15:22.440 --> 15:24.280 That's how long I've been smoking Chesterfields. 15:24.280 --> 15:27.480 And they have what it takes to satisfy me. 15:27.480 --> 15:31.560 What's more, I've seen how they make Chesterfields down in their Durham factory and I wouldn't 15:31.560 --> 15:33.520 smoke any other cigarette. 15:33.520 --> 15:35.360 Try Chesterfields yourself. 15:35.360 --> 15:37.240 You'll find their best for you too. 15:37.240 --> 15:39.080 Yes, either way. 15:39.080 --> 15:41.280 Regular or King Size. 15:41.280 --> 15:45.040 Smoke America's most popular two-way cigarette. 15:45.040 --> 15:56.860 Join the thousands now changing to Chesterfield. 15:56.860 --> 16:00.300 In the phone conversation, we learned that all of Lorraine Farrell's friends and relatives 16:00.300 --> 16:04.880 had been interviewed and their stories checked with the one given us by the suspect, Marcus. 16:04.880 --> 16:08.560 The girl and Paul Marcus had been seen together in the Bay City. 16:08.560 --> 16:12.160 The desk clerk at the hotel where the suspect had stayed verified the date that he'd checked 16:12.160 --> 16:13.160 out. 16:13.160 --> 16:16.080 It was the same day Lorraine Farrell disappeared. 16:16.080 --> 16:19.320 The officers in San Francisco were able to contact the girl the suspect had referred 16:19.320 --> 16:20.720 to as Grace. 16:20.720 --> 16:25.360 She recalled seeing a man answering Marcus' description with a missing Farrell girl. 16:25.360 --> 16:28.200 Frank and I spent the rest of the day checking on the suspect. 16:28.200 --> 16:29.880 We talked to the people he worked with. 16:29.880 --> 16:32.680 They described Marcus as being moody and withdrawn. 16:32.680 --> 16:34.320 We talked with his landlady. 16:34.320 --> 16:38.760 Her description of the suspect's attitude was the same that we'd gotten before. 16:38.760 --> 16:42.400 We thoroughly searched Marcus' apartment and in a desk drawer we found a loose leaf 16:42.400 --> 16:46.040 notebook with several pages of penciled notes describing the trip that he'd taken up to 16:46.040 --> 16:48.140 San Francisco. 16:48.140 --> 16:52.600 On one of the pages at the back of the book, we found a lengthy letter to a Lorraine in 16:52.600 --> 16:56.440 which Marcus apologized to the girl for killing her, but he went on to explain that he had 16:56.440 --> 16:58.240 no choice. 16:58.240 --> 17:00.040 We booked this evidence. 17:00.040 --> 17:03.520 The following morning, Friday, September 10th, Frank and I drove down to the beach and we 17:03.520 --> 17:07.440 talked to the people in the vicinity where the suspect said the murder had occurred. 17:07.440 --> 17:10.340 We found an elderly couple who lived in a trailer on the beach. 17:10.340 --> 17:13.960 They recalled having seen two people answering the description of the suspect and the missing 17:13.960 --> 17:16.560 girl on the night that the murder occurred. 17:16.560 --> 17:18.760 We drove back to the main jail and we signed out Marcus. 17:18.760 --> 17:21.120 We took him down to the car and we drove him out to the beach. 17:21.120 --> 17:24.360 We turned up the highway and told him to let us know when we came to the place where he'd 17:24.360 --> 17:25.360 killed the Farrell girl. 17:25.360 --> 17:27.080 You sure you know where the place is, Marcus? 17:27.080 --> 17:28.080 Yeah, I remember. 17:28.080 --> 17:29.600 It's just up the road a little bit. 17:29.600 --> 17:30.600 Just keep right on going. 17:30.600 --> 17:31.600 You'll find it. 17:31.600 --> 17:32.600 Mm-hmm. 17:32.600 --> 17:35.520 You'll see it now. 17:35.520 --> 17:37.800 There's kind of a parking place and a couple of trees. 17:37.800 --> 17:40.560 Eucalyptus, I think, there's two of them on the side of the parking place. 17:40.560 --> 17:41.560 You can't miss them. 17:41.560 --> 17:42.560 It's right ahead there on the left. 17:42.560 --> 17:43.560 There, you see? 17:43.560 --> 17:44.560 Yeah. 17:44.560 --> 17:45.560 I'm gonna pull in, Frank. 17:45.560 --> 17:46.560 Okay. 17:46.560 --> 17:51.560 Listen, look at all those cars. 17:51.560 --> 17:54.520 Everybody's in such a hurry, they never see anything, just like they had blinders on. 17:54.520 --> 17:56.040 You sure this is the place? 17:56.040 --> 17:57.440 I told you, didn't I? 17:57.440 --> 17:58.840 No reason to say a thing like that. 17:58.840 --> 18:01.080 If it wasn't true, just pull right in there. 18:01.080 --> 18:02.080 That's it, right over there. 18:02.080 --> 18:07.000 Well, right here is where I parked when it happened. 18:07.000 --> 18:09.840 Maybe over there a little bit more, but, oh, right about here. 18:09.840 --> 18:12.680 And the two of you just sat here for a few minutes, is that it? 18:12.680 --> 18:13.680 Yeah. 18:13.680 --> 18:16.080 We just sat here and had a cigarette, then we got out of the car and walked over to the 18:16.080 --> 18:17.080 edge of the cliff. 18:17.080 --> 18:18.080 All right, come on. 18:18.080 --> 18:19.080 Show us. 18:19.080 --> 18:20.080 Sure. 18:20.080 --> 18:26.920 So you'll believe me, I'll show you. 18:26.920 --> 18:30.560 We stood right over there, right there, and I told her I was in love with her and wanted 18:30.560 --> 18:31.560 to marry her. 18:31.560 --> 18:33.120 Now, you stay here. 18:33.120 --> 18:34.720 Just point out where you were. 18:34.720 --> 18:37.120 You think I might try to jump off, don't you? 18:37.120 --> 18:38.120 That's what you think, isn't it? 18:38.120 --> 18:39.120 You just show us, huh? 18:39.120 --> 18:40.120 I wouldn't do that. 18:40.120 --> 18:41.120 There's no reason to. 18:41.120 --> 18:43.240 I don't know why you wouldn't agree that I had to do it. 18:43.240 --> 18:44.880 I didn't have any other way to do it. 18:44.880 --> 18:46.780 Where were you when you hit her? 18:46.780 --> 18:49.180 Right there, near that clump of grass. 18:49.180 --> 18:52.800 We stood there and looked down at the ocean, and she told me about this other guy. 18:52.800 --> 18:54.120 That's when I hit her. 18:54.120 --> 18:56.240 She fell down right about, well, right about there. 18:56.240 --> 18:57.240 Uh-huh. 18:57.240 --> 18:58.840 And where'd you push her off the cliff? 18:58.840 --> 19:00.680 There, right where I hit her. 19:00.680 --> 19:01.680 She was lying there. 19:01.680 --> 19:03.840 I guess she hit her head on something, and she was real quiet. 19:03.840 --> 19:05.280 I just rolled her over the edge. 19:05.280 --> 19:06.280 It was right there. 19:06.280 --> 19:08.200 There, you see where the rocks are kind of worn? 19:08.200 --> 19:09.200 Don't take away. 19:09.200 --> 19:10.200 Yeah. 19:10.200 --> 19:11.200 No, you wait here. 19:11.200 --> 19:15.920 Gee, if I'd have known it was going to be this hard to get it straightened out, I don't 19:15.920 --> 19:16.920 think I'd have started the thing. 19:16.920 --> 19:19.120 When am I going to get out of jail? 19:19.120 --> 19:20.120 That isn't up to us. 19:20.120 --> 19:21.920 Well, then I want to talk to the people who it's up to. 19:21.920 --> 19:25.440 I got to tell them about Lorraine, how she lied to me, and why I had to kill her. 19:25.440 --> 19:27.200 As soon as they hear the story, they'll understand. 19:27.200 --> 19:29.160 They got to realize that there wasn't any other way. 19:29.160 --> 19:30.520 How's it look? 19:30.520 --> 19:33.200 Well, I found this caught in a branch just over the edge. 19:33.200 --> 19:34.200 It's a girl's handkerchief. 19:34.200 --> 19:35.200 Read the name on it. 19:35.200 --> 19:36.200 Yeah, Lorraine. 19:36.200 --> 19:41.200 Friday, September 10th, 3 46 p.m. 19:41.200 --> 19:48.360 We contacted the crime lab and asked them to come out and go over the scene. 19:48.360 --> 19:51.680 Officers stood by so that any physical evidence would not be disturbed until Lieutenant Lee 19:51.680 --> 19:54.040 Jones and his men had an opportunity to go over it. 19:54.040 --> 19:57.680 Frank and I, along with the suspect, drove back to town where we made arrangements with 19:57.680 --> 20:00.760 the city lifeguard service to search for the body. 20:00.760 --> 20:04.160 The following morning, a boat equipped with diving gear left Santa Monica Harbor and took 20:04.160 --> 20:06.240 a course north. 20:06.240 --> 20:10.480 Experienced deep sea divers searched the crevices in the rocks beneath the cliffs. 20:10.480 --> 20:12.800 All of the sea bordering the vicinity was gone over. 20:12.800 --> 20:15.200 There was no trace of a body. 20:15.200 --> 20:18.040 The shoreline on either side of the murder spot was checked. 20:18.040 --> 20:20.240 Still no trace of the missing girl. 20:20.240 --> 20:23.400 In the meantime, two additional teams of men were assigned to check out the friends of 20:23.400 --> 20:25.080 Lorraine Farrell. 20:25.080 --> 20:28.760 They carried pictures of Paul Marcus and attempted to dig out any information on the suspect 20:28.760 --> 20:30.320 and the missing girl. 20:30.320 --> 20:33.200 6 42 p.m. Sunday. 20:33.200 --> 20:36.520 We called the main jail and asked that the suspect be brought to the city hall for additional 20:36.520 --> 20:37.520 questioning. 20:37.520 --> 20:39.200 I had a reason to do what I did, a good reason. 20:39.200 --> 20:42.680 Now you let me talk to the responsible people around here and I'll have them tell you. 20:42.680 --> 20:44.240 I'm getting a little tired of being shoved around. 20:44.240 --> 20:48.240 You just bring in the boss and let me talk to him. 20:48.240 --> 20:50.640 What day did you say that you left San Francisco? 20:50.640 --> 20:51.640 September 1st. 20:51.640 --> 20:52.640 I thought it was the second. 20:52.640 --> 20:53.640 The first. 20:53.640 --> 20:55.680 You said you left in the afternoon, is that right? 20:55.680 --> 20:56.920 In the morning, and you remember it. 20:56.920 --> 20:58.640 I don't know what all these questions are for. 20:58.640 --> 20:59.800 I told you I killed Lorraine. 20:59.800 --> 21:02.720 I walked in here and told you there's no reason for all this McGill. 21:02.720 --> 21:03.720 Just no reason. 21:03.720 --> 21:05.580 Where'd you hide the body? 21:05.580 --> 21:06.580 I didn't hide it. 21:06.580 --> 21:07.580 Well, then where is it? 21:07.580 --> 21:09.520 I told you, I put her in the ocean. 21:09.520 --> 21:10.520 We haven't been able to find her. 21:10.520 --> 21:11.520 Well, then you're not looking good. 21:11.520 --> 21:13.000 I told you the truth all along the line. 21:13.000 --> 21:14.000 I've told you the truth. 21:14.000 --> 21:15.500 You sure you didn't make a mistake about where all this happened? 21:15.500 --> 21:16.500 Not a chance in the world. 21:16.500 --> 21:18.440 Right there by the parking place where the two trees are. 21:18.440 --> 21:20.000 Well, maybe you just thought you left her there. 21:20.000 --> 21:21.000 I know it. 21:21.000 --> 21:23.800 You been drinking when you killed her? 21:23.800 --> 21:25.120 No, we stopped and had a couple of beers on the way. 21:25.120 --> 21:26.600 Just a couple, not enough to get drunk. 21:26.600 --> 21:27.600 But you did have something to drink. 21:27.600 --> 21:29.440 Well, sure, but not enough to get drunk on. 21:29.440 --> 21:30.920 How many beers do you have? 21:30.920 --> 21:32.200 Two, maybe three. 21:32.200 --> 21:33.200 All right, which was it? 21:33.200 --> 21:34.200 Two or three? 21:34.200 --> 21:35.200 Well, what difference does it make? 21:35.200 --> 21:36.200 Were you drunk? 21:36.200 --> 21:37.200 No. 21:37.200 --> 21:38.200 How about the girl? 21:38.200 --> 21:39.200 Was she drunk? 21:39.200 --> 21:40.200 No. 21:40.200 --> 21:41.200 You sure about that? 21:41.200 --> 21:42.200 Yes, yes, I'm sure. 21:42.200 --> 21:43.200 What are you trying to do? 21:43.200 --> 21:44.200 What difference does it make? 21:44.200 --> 21:45.200 Maybe we did have more than a couple, but what difference does it make? 21:45.200 --> 21:46.200 We're just trying to get things straight. 21:46.200 --> 21:47.200 We want to be sure we got the right story. 21:47.200 --> 21:48.200 Well, you have. 21:48.200 --> 21:49.200 Right. 21:49.200 --> 21:51.200 How about a cigarette? 21:51.200 --> 21:52.200 Yeah, thanks. 21:52.200 --> 21:53.200 Frank? 21:53.200 --> 21:54.200 Yeah, thanks. 21:54.200 --> 21:57.200 Here, I got a match. 21:57.200 --> 22:03.280 Hey, wait a minute. 22:03.280 --> 22:04.280 Don't light his two. 22:04.280 --> 22:05.280 That's bad. 22:05.280 --> 22:06.280 What do you mean? 22:06.280 --> 22:07.280 Three on a match. 22:07.280 --> 22:08.280 It's bad. 22:08.280 --> 22:09.280 It is, huh? 22:09.280 --> 22:10.280 Well, sure, you never do that. 22:10.280 --> 22:11.280 Here. 22:11.280 --> 22:12.280 Thanks. 22:12.280 --> 22:16.680 You got right home after you killed the Pharoah girl, huh? 22:16.680 --> 22:17.680 Yeah. 22:17.680 --> 22:19.480 I got right down the highway and went home. 22:19.480 --> 22:21.040 Traffic was kind of heavy. 22:21.040 --> 22:24.960 I thought about it, all those people all hurrying around, not taking any time. 22:24.960 --> 22:25.960 Anybody see you when you came home? 22:25.960 --> 22:26.960 What do you mean? 22:26.960 --> 22:29.080 Well, anybody see you park the car, go into your apartment? 22:29.080 --> 22:30.920 Well, no, there wasn't anybody around. 22:30.920 --> 22:34.280 Now, you said when you met the girl up in San Francisco that she had a suitcase with 22:34.280 --> 22:35.280 her, is that right? 22:35.280 --> 22:36.280 Yeah, she did. 22:36.280 --> 22:38.400 Artificial leather with real leather binding. 22:38.400 --> 22:39.400 Where is it now? 22:39.400 --> 22:40.400 Huh? 22:40.400 --> 22:41.400 What did you do with her suitcase? 22:41.400 --> 22:42.400 Well, I don't know. 22:42.400 --> 22:43.400 I don't remember it. 22:43.400 --> 22:44.400 We couldn't find it in your room. 22:44.400 --> 22:46.280 Well, you didn't have no right to go through my room. 22:46.280 --> 22:47.320 No right at all. 22:47.320 --> 22:48.320 You didn't find a suitcase. 22:48.320 --> 22:49.320 Where is it? 22:49.320 --> 22:50.320 Well, I don't know. 22:50.320 --> 22:51.320 Did you put it with a body? 22:51.320 --> 22:52.320 Well, I might have. 22:52.320 --> 22:53.320 Where? 22:53.320 --> 22:54.320 I don't know. 22:54.320 --> 22:55.320 I don't remember. 22:55.320 --> 22:56.320 I hit her. 22:56.320 --> 22:57.320 She lied to me and I hit her. 22:57.320 --> 22:58.320 And I pushed her into the ocean. 22:58.320 --> 22:59.320 That's all I know. 22:59.320 --> 23:00.320 And that's all I'm going to tell you. 23:00.320 --> 23:03.320 Joe, see you a minute. 23:03.320 --> 23:05.320 Yeah, sure. 23:05.320 --> 23:08.320 What do you got, Al? 23:08.320 --> 23:09.320 We found the girl. 23:09.320 --> 23:10.320 Where? 23:10.320 --> 23:11.320 She's sitting in the squad room. 23:11.320 --> 23:21.320 Frank stayed with the suspect in the interrogation room and I went with Sergeant Al Olivas up 23:21.320 --> 23:22.320 to the office. 23:22.320 --> 23:27.320 Sitting at one of the tables was a small girl with jet black hair. 23:27.320 --> 23:30.440 As we came into the room, she was putting on lipstick. 23:30.440 --> 23:33.320 She glanced over at us and then she went back to what she was doing. 23:33.320 --> 23:35.800 There wasn't any doubt about it. 23:35.800 --> 23:38.280 The girl in the squad room was Lorraine Ferrell. 23:38.280 --> 23:42.280 She dyed her hair and she had on a lot of makeup, but it was the missing girl. 23:42.280 --> 23:44.800 Joe, this is Miss Ferrell and Joe Friday. 23:44.800 --> 23:45.800 How do you do? 23:45.800 --> 23:46.800 Hi. 23:46.800 --> 23:47.800 Where did you find her, Al? 23:47.800 --> 23:48.800 Friend up in Eagle Rock. 23:48.800 --> 23:49.800 Says she's been there for a week. 23:49.800 --> 23:50.800 Thanks, Al. 23:50.800 --> 23:51.800 Right. 23:51.800 --> 23:54.800 You seen the papers lately, Miss Ferrell? 23:54.800 --> 23:56.800 Yeah, I read the front page. 23:56.800 --> 23:58.520 You ought to read the front page. 23:58.520 --> 23:59.520 You've been on them. 23:59.520 --> 24:00.520 All right. 24:00.520 --> 24:02.920 We've got a lot of policemen out looking for you. 24:02.920 --> 24:04.800 They probably needed the exercise anyway. 24:04.800 --> 24:08.080 There's a man down the hall who thinks that he killed you. 24:08.080 --> 24:09.080 That creep, Paul? 24:09.080 --> 24:10.080 Yeah, Paul Marcus. 24:10.080 --> 24:11.080 That's his name. 24:11.080 --> 24:12.080 Real creep. 24:12.080 --> 24:14.080 I was glad to get away from him. 24:14.080 --> 24:16.680 Oh, my gosh, he tried to give me a bite out of home. 24:16.680 --> 24:17.680 What a baloney. 24:17.680 --> 24:18.680 He's a real creep. 24:18.680 --> 24:19.680 You ought to keep an eye on him. 24:19.680 --> 24:20.680 He's going to wig one of these days. 24:20.680 --> 24:21.680 Is that so? 24:21.680 --> 24:22.680 Yeah. 24:22.680 --> 24:25.800 He drove me down here and when I told him I didn't want to have anything to do with him, 24:25.800 --> 24:28.000 he got real sore, started yelling. 24:28.000 --> 24:29.000 Creep. 24:29.000 --> 24:30.000 Where'd all this happen, Miss? 24:30.000 --> 24:31.000 Out by Malibu. 24:31.000 --> 24:32.000 Road out there. 24:32.000 --> 24:35.800 He stopped the car and gave me all this stuff about when to marry me. 24:35.800 --> 24:36.800 I was in love with me. 24:36.800 --> 24:37.800 Big deal. 24:37.800 --> 24:39.680 I was the first girl I ever said that to. 24:39.680 --> 24:40.760 Big deal. 24:40.760 --> 24:41.760 What happened then? 24:41.760 --> 24:43.760 I told him I didn't want no part of him. 24:43.760 --> 24:44.760 Told him to get lost. 24:44.760 --> 24:47.320 Thank him for the ride and told him to get lost. 24:47.320 --> 24:48.320 He flipped. 24:48.320 --> 24:49.320 Bad. 24:49.320 --> 24:50.320 He flipped. 24:50.320 --> 24:51.320 I took off, got a ride, came into the town. 24:51.320 --> 24:52.320 I got this girlfriend, Eagle Rock. 24:52.320 --> 24:53.320 I've been out there. 24:53.320 --> 24:56.320 You ought to watch that guy, though. 24:56.320 --> 24:58.120 How old did you tell him that you were? 24:58.120 --> 24:59.120 I don't know. 24:59.120 --> 25:00.120 Forget. 25:00.120 --> 25:01.120 I think 19, something like that. 25:01.120 --> 25:02.120 I forget. 25:02.120 --> 25:03.120 He confessed to killing me, huh? 25:03.120 --> 25:04.120 That's right. 25:04.120 --> 25:05.120 Flipped. 25:05.120 --> 25:06.120 He's a wig. 25:06.120 --> 25:07.120 Let's take a walk, huh? 25:07.120 --> 25:08.120 Where? 25:08.120 --> 25:09.120 Come on. 25:09.120 --> 25:10.120 Sure. 25:10.120 --> 25:11.120 I got nothing to lose. 25:11.120 --> 25:13.040 Can you guys drive me back to Eagle Rock tonight? 25:13.040 --> 25:14.040 I got a date. 25:14.040 --> 25:15.040 I got to be back pretty quick. 25:15.040 --> 25:16.920 You're not going to go back to Eagle Rock. 25:16.920 --> 25:17.920 Who says so? 25:17.920 --> 25:19.200 We're going to have to hold you. 25:19.200 --> 25:20.200 For what? 25:20.200 --> 25:21.200 I haven't done anything. 25:21.200 --> 25:22.200 Well, you're a minor. 25:22.200 --> 25:23.560 We've got a missing report filed on you. 25:23.560 --> 25:24.560 Your folks are pretty worried. 25:24.560 --> 25:26.560 They're always worrying about something. 25:26.560 --> 25:28.840 If there ain't nothing for them to worry about, then they worry about that. 25:28.840 --> 25:29.840 Well, it doesn't make any difference. 25:29.840 --> 25:31.640 We're going to have to hold you. 25:31.640 --> 25:32.640 You just try it, cop. 25:32.640 --> 25:33.640 You just try it. 25:33.640 --> 25:36.120 You'll find out you got more trouble than you came in one lump. 25:36.120 --> 25:37.120 Come here. 25:37.120 --> 25:38.120 In here. 25:38.120 --> 25:43.120 This is Lorraine Farrell, Officer Schmidt. 25:43.120 --> 25:44.120 Hello. 25:44.120 --> 25:45.120 Lorraine. 25:45.120 --> 25:46.120 Hi, creep. 25:46.120 --> 25:47.840 I didn't mean to do it. 25:47.840 --> 25:48.840 You know that. 25:48.840 --> 25:49.840 I didn't really mean to do it. 25:49.840 --> 25:50.840 But there wasn't any other way. 25:50.840 --> 25:51.840 What's the plan? 25:51.840 --> 25:52.840 You know what he's talking about? 25:52.840 --> 25:53.840 He thinks he killed you. 25:53.840 --> 25:54.840 Wigged. 25:54.840 --> 25:55.840 I didn't think I'd ever see you again. 25:55.840 --> 25:56.840 I didn't think I would. 25:56.840 --> 25:57.840 But I want you to know one thing, Lorraine. 25:57.840 --> 25:58.840 What's that? 25:58.840 --> 25:59.840 I forgive you for lying. 25:59.840 --> 26:00.840 I told you it hadn't. 26:00.840 --> 26:01.840 Yeah. 26:01.840 --> 26:06.240 Come on. 26:06.240 --> 26:07.240 Where to? 26:07.240 --> 26:09.440 We'll take you to the office and call a policewoman. 26:09.440 --> 26:11.440 Then to the can, huh? 26:11.440 --> 26:12.440 To Juvenile Hall. 26:12.440 --> 26:13.440 Come on, let's go. 26:13.440 --> 26:14.440 I'll take her job, Lorraine. 26:14.440 --> 26:15.440 Bye, Paul. 26:15.440 --> 26:16.440 Bye, Lorraine. 26:16.440 --> 26:17.920 I'm not mad at you anymore. 26:17.920 --> 26:22.920 You know, I was worried. 26:22.920 --> 26:25.920 Sergeant. 26:25.920 --> 26:27.640 Yeah? 26:27.640 --> 26:29.320 I want you to know how I appreciate it. 26:29.320 --> 26:30.500 Yeah, what's that? 26:30.500 --> 26:32.600 What you tried to do, I think was real fine, thanks. 26:32.600 --> 26:34.340 I don't know what you mean. 26:34.340 --> 26:35.340 You didn't fool me a bit. 26:35.340 --> 26:36.340 What? 26:36.340 --> 26:45.640 I know I killed her. 26:45.640 --> 26:48.120 The story you have just heard is true. 26:48.120 --> 26:50.760 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 26:50.760 --> 26:55.680 On October 4th, the hearing was held in Department 98, Superior Court, State of California, in 26:55.680 --> 26:57.640 and for the County of Los Angeles. 26:57.640 --> 26:59.440 In a moment, the results of that hearing. 26:59.440 --> 27:02.440 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 27:02.440 --> 27:03.440 Thank you. 27:03.440 --> 27:07.200 Earlier, George Feneman told you exactly why the Chesterfield you smoked today is the best 27:07.200 --> 27:08.620 cigarette ever made. 27:08.620 --> 27:09.620 And best for you. 27:09.620 --> 27:11.540 Now, the rest is up to you. 27:11.540 --> 27:13.200 Get a carton or two for yourself. 27:13.200 --> 27:24.800 Smoke them and you'll say, as we do, it's Chesterfield's for me. 27:24.800 --> 27:30.760 Paul Nelson Marcus was held to answer a charge of violation of Section 701 WIC, contributing 27:30.760 --> 27:33.080 to the delinquency of a minor. 27:33.080 --> 27:37.160 After due deliberation, he was placed on probation and delivered into the hands of a competent 27:37.160 --> 27:38.160 psychiatrist. 27:38.160 --> 27:51.920 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