WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.880 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:11.880 --> 00:14.640 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:14.640 --> 00:15.640 Drag men. 00:15.640 --> 00:22.640 You're a detective sergeant. 00:22.640 --> 00:28.120 You're assigned a juvenile detail. 00:28.120 --> 00:31.280 A series of housebreakings has taken place in your city. 00:31.280 --> 00:35.040 The articles taken and the method of operation indicate a juvenile thief. 00:35.040 --> 00:41.200 Your job, find him. 00:41.200 --> 00:42.200 It was Tuesday, July 6th. 00:42.200 --> 00:43.200 It was hot in Los Angeles. 00:43.200 --> 00:45.320 We were working the day watch out of juvenile detail. 00:45.320 --> 00:46.600 My partner is Frank Smith. 00:46.600 --> 00:47.880 The boss is Captain Powers. 00:47.880 --> 00:48.880 My name's Friday. 00:48.880 --> 00:52.240 We were on our way out from the office and it was 10.36 a.m. when we got to the old 00:52.240 --> 00:54.240 central jail building. 00:54.240 --> 00:56.240 Crime lab. 00:56.240 --> 00:58.240 Right. 00:58.240 --> 01:00.240 Back. 01:00.240 --> 01:04.240 How's it going? 01:04.240 --> 01:06.240 It's going to hit the 90. 01:06.240 --> 01:07.240 Probably will too. 01:07.240 --> 01:08.240 Any water around? 01:08.240 --> 01:09.240 Bottle over there in the corner. 01:09.240 --> 01:10.240 Help yourself. 01:10.240 --> 01:11.240 Thanks. 01:11.240 --> 01:12.240 How about you, John? 01:12.240 --> 01:13.240 No, no thanks. 01:13.240 --> 01:16.240 You got anything for us, Ray? 01:16.240 --> 01:18.240 Not the same as usual. 01:18.240 --> 01:19.240 Take a look. 01:19.240 --> 01:20.240 Same entrance. 01:20.240 --> 01:24.240 Cut the screen on one of the back windows, broke the glass and climbed in. 01:24.240 --> 01:25.240 Any prints? 01:25.240 --> 01:26.240 No, nothing. 01:26.240 --> 01:27.240 Here's a picture of the edge of the screen. 01:27.240 --> 01:28.240 Here. 01:28.240 --> 01:29.240 You can see the cut edges. 01:29.240 --> 01:30.240 Have we got anything from it? 01:30.240 --> 01:31.240 Not much. 01:31.240 --> 01:32.240 I figured it was done with a knife. 01:32.240 --> 01:35.240 If we come up with that, we might be able to tell you if you got the right one. 01:35.240 --> 01:37.240 What about the physical evidence in the house, Ray? 01:37.240 --> 01:38.240 Not much. 01:38.240 --> 01:39.240 We've got a couple of partials. 01:39.240 --> 01:42.240 Lifted them from the glass top on the dresser. 01:42.240 --> 01:43.240 Here. 01:43.240 --> 01:44.240 Give me a picture. 01:44.240 --> 01:47.240 You can see here, not much to go on. 01:47.240 --> 01:49.240 Match up with the prints from the other jobs? 01:49.240 --> 01:52.240 A couple of points, but not enough to go the case on. 01:52.240 --> 01:55.240 The only thing you got that definitely ties this one in with the other is the footprint. 01:55.240 --> 01:56.240 Another one? 01:56.240 --> 01:57.240 Mm-hmm. 01:57.240 --> 01:59.240 Found it in the soft earth underneath the window. 01:59.240 --> 02:01.240 Give me that print, will you, Frank? 02:01.240 --> 02:02.240 Oh, yeah. 02:02.240 --> 02:03.240 Here you go. 02:03.240 --> 02:04.240 Thanks. 02:04.240 --> 02:05.240 Here. 02:05.240 --> 02:06.240 You can see it clearly. 02:06.240 --> 02:07.240 A heel mark. 02:07.240 --> 02:08.240 Same as in the others. 02:08.240 --> 02:09.240 Did you get a cast of it? 02:09.240 --> 02:10.240 Mm-hmm. 02:10.240 --> 02:11.240 You want to see it? 02:11.240 --> 02:12.240 No. 02:12.240 --> 02:13.240 No reason if you look it over. 02:13.240 --> 02:14.240 You got the same thing on the picture. 02:14.240 --> 02:15.240 Yeah. 02:15.240 --> 02:16.240 Anything else? 02:16.240 --> 02:17.240 You had it. 02:17.240 --> 02:18.240 No. 02:18.240 --> 02:19.240 You got a cigarette. 02:19.240 --> 02:20.240 Ran out and had a chance to get some more. 02:20.240 --> 02:23.240 Here. 02:23.240 --> 02:26.240 Thanks. 02:26.240 --> 02:27.240 Thanks, Joe. 02:27.240 --> 02:28.240 Yeah. 02:28.240 --> 02:31.240 You been able to chase down the rubber heel for us? 02:31.240 --> 02:32.240 No. 02:32.240 --> 02:33.240 No luck. 02:33.240 --> 02:34.240 We contacted half a dozen firms. 02:34.240 --> 02:35.240 They all tell us the same thing. 02:35.240 --> 02:36.240 It's made special. 02:36.240 --> 02:39.240 Probably some small factory that specializes in custom-made shoes. 02:39.240 --> 02:41.240 Might be some sort of correcting shoe. 02:41.240 --> 02:42.240 You know, orthopedic? 02:42.240 --> 02:43.240 Oh, yeah. 02:43.240 --> 02:44.240 You've had it for a couple of weeks now. 02:44.240 --> 02:45.240 What do you sit on it? 02:45.240 --> 02:46.240 I don't know why we're we find it. 02:46.240 --> 02:47.240 We've talked about every repairman in town. 02:47.240 --> 02:48.240 None of them have seen this kind of thing. 02:48.240 --> 02:50.240 None of them can tell us where it was made. 02:50.240 --> 02:51.240 Check with the doctors in the area. 02:51.240 --> 02:52.240 None of them know the brand. 02:52.240 --> 02:54.240 I figure it might be one of them who sent for it. 02:54.240 --> 02:55.240 That's none of them. 02:55.240 --> 02:56.240 No. 02:56.240 --> 02:57.240 It's a new one to them, too. 02:57.240 --> 02:58.240 Yeah. 02:58.240 --> 02:59.240 Wish there was more I could give you, fellas. 02:59.240 --> 03:00.240 Well, that's all right, man. 03:00.240 --> 03:01.240 It seems no matter which way we turn, there's another wall waiting for us. 03:01.240 --> 03:02.240 How about Burger? 03:02.240 --> 03:03.240 Anything come in from them? 03:03.240 --> 03:04.240 Well, they're checking it all down. 03:04.240 --> 03:05.240 They got the same thing we came up with. 03:05.240 --> 03:06.240 Anything turn up on the stolen merchandise? 03:06.240 --> 03:07.240 No. 03:07.240 --> 03:08.240 Burger, he's made all the checks. 03:08.240 --> 03:09.240 Pawn shops have been alerted. 03:09.240 --> 03:10.240 Stuff's all cheap. 03:10.240 --> 03:11.240 Costumes, they're all cheap. 03:11.240 --> 03:12.240 They're all cheap. 03:12.240 --> 03:13.240 They're all cheap. 03:13.240 --> 03:18.240 They're all cheap. 03:18.240 --> 03:19.240 No reason to try and hock it. 03:19.240 --> 03:20.240 They wouldn't get anything for it. 03:20.240 --> 03:21.240 Brings you back to a motive. 03:21.240 --> 03:22.240 Why'd you pull him a job in the first place? 03:22.240 --> 03:23.240 All right, we'll file out with where the heels are made. 03:23.240 --> 03:26.240 About the only thing we can figure is that some kid out for kicks gets his laughs from 03:26.240 --> 03:27.240 breaking into houses. 03:27.240 --> 03:28.240 There's no other reason. 03:28.240 --> 03:30.240 Stuff he's stolen, you can buy by the carload in any dime store. 03:30.240 --> 03:34.240 A couple of times he's left money alone when it's in plain sight to steal some cheap pin. 03:34.240 --> 03:36.240 Looks like you've got yourself a wild one. 03:36.240 --> 03:37.240 Yeah. 03:37.240 --> 03:38.240 What can you tell us about the foot prints, any? 03:38.240 --> 03:39.240 Well, I don't know. 03:39.240 --> 03:40.240 I don't know. 03:40.240 --> 03:43.240 What can you tell us about the foot prints, any? 03:43.240 --> 03:44.240 Not much. 03:44.240 --> 03:45.240 I found under the window. 03:45.240 --> 03:46.240 Kid wasn't moving when they were made. 03:46.240 --> 03:47.240 Can't figure a stride. 03:47.240 --> 03:48.240 What about weight? 03:48.240 --> 03:49.240 Only a guess, Joe. 03:49.240 --> 03:50.240 Yeah. 03:50.240 --> 03:52.240 I'd say it came in about 140. 03:52.240 --> 03:54.240 Could be 15 pounds one way or the other. 03:54.240 --> 03:55.240 What about the size? 03:55.240 --> 03:56.240 Seven. 03:56.240 --> 03:57.240 Looks like 7C. 03:57.240 --> 03:58.240 You sure about that? 03:58.240 --> 03:59.240 Well, pretty sure. 03:59.240 --> 04:00.240 Not much, is it? 04:00.240 --> 04:01.240 Best we can do. 04:01.240 --> 04:02.240 Okay. 04:02.240 --> 04:03.240 Last place, the woman was real sore. 04:03.240 --> 04:04.240 Don't blame her. 04:04.240 --> 04:05.240 Not about the costume jewelry. 04:05.240 --> 04:10.240 She didn't much care about that. 04:10.240 --> 04:13.240 The prized gladiola she was raising. 04:13.240 --> 04:14.240 Get tramped all over him. 04:14.240 --> 04:15.240 Real sore that he stepped on. 04:15.240 --> 04:16.240 Don't blame her. 04:16.240 --> 04:19.240 Says when she catches him, she's going to give him a good talk. 04:19.240 --> 04:21.240 I'm tramping up all her plants. 04:21.240 --> 04:22.240 Well, we'll see you, Ray. 04:22.240 --> 04:23.240 Yeah. 04:23.240 --> 04:25.240 Sure haven't got much to go on, have you? 04:25.240 --> 04:26.240 You called it. 04:26.240 --> 04:32.240 Frank and I went back to the office, and we pulled all of the reports that we had on the 04:32.240 --> 04:33.240 thefts. 04:33.240 --> 04:35.240 We spent the rest of the morning going over them. 04:35.240 --> 04:37.240 The method of operation was apparent. 04:37.240 --> 04:42.240 Each Friday night for the past two months between the hours of 8.30 and 11 p.m., a single 04:42.240 --> 04:46.240 thief had entered a home in a wealthy section of town and stolen as much worthless costume 04:46.240 --> 04:48.240 jewelry as he could carry out. 04:48.240 --> 04:51.240 On each occasion, the entry was made through a rear window. 04:51.240 --> 04:55.240 In those cases where the window was locked, the thief broke the glass and undid the latch. 04:55.240 --> 04:59.240 On each occasion, he left at least one footprint in the dirt around the house. 04:59.240 --> 05:03.240 The heel impression was of a type that we hadn't been able to identify. 05:03.240 --> 05:06.240 We'd gotten pictures of it out to all major shoe manufacturers, but they were unable to 05:06.240 --> 05:08.240 tell us where the shoes had been made. 05:08.240 --> 05:12.240 We'd canvassed the area where the thefts were taking place without results. 05:12.240 --> 05:16.240 Rolling stakeouts were set up on Friday nights, and they'd netted us nothing. 05:16.240 --> 05:19.240 The thief approached the home, broke into them, stole what he wanted, and then he left 05:19.240 --> 05:21.240 without being apprehended or seen. 05:21.240 --> 05:25.240 Throughout the investigation, Frank and I had been working closely with Burglary Division, 05:25.240 --> 05:28.240 but their men hadn't been able to come up with any more than we had. 05:28.240 --> 05:32.240 At 1.15 p.m., Frank and I left the office, we got something to eat, and then we started 05:32.240 --> 05:34.240 to check the playgrounds again. 05:34.240 --> 05:37.240 At each one, we'd contact a member of the park department and ask them if they'd seen 05:37.240 --> 05:40.240 anyone wearing a pair of shoes similar to the pictures that we had. 05:40.240 --> 05:43.240 Every place, we got the same answer. None of them had. 05:43.240 --> 05:46.240 We stopped groups of boys on the street and asked to see their shoes. 05:46.240 --> 05:50.240 We checked mall shops, drugstores, pool halls, and bowling alleys without any results. 05:50.240 --> 05:54.240 The same operation had been going on for the past two weeks without bettering our chances 05:54.240 --> 05:56.240 of apprehending the suspect. 05:56.240 --> 06:00.240 At 3.30 p.m., Frank and I left one of the larger bowling alleys in town and headed back 06:00.240 --> 06:01.240 to the office. 06:01.240 --> 06:03.240 Boy, I'll sure be glad to get home tonight. 06:03.240 --> 06:05.240 Yeah. Hot. 06:05.240 --> 06:06.240 Sure was. 06:06.240 --> 06:08.240 Yeah, must have gone over 90. 06:08.240 --> 06:09.240 Yeah. 06:09.240 --> 06:10.240 Must have. 06:10.240 --> 06:13.240 The paper said 90, but it was hotter, I can always tell. 06:13.240 --> 06:14.240 How can you always tell? 06:14.240 --> 06:17.240 My feet, Joe. Always tell with them feet. 06:17.240 --> 06:20.240 Cold day, I can walk for a couple of miles, not have any trouble. 06:20.240 --> 06:23.240 Come the hot weather, and if I step off a curb, I got misery. 06:23.240 --> 06:24.240 Yeah. 06:24.240 --> 06:27.240 I think I'll get me another pair of shoes, kind with the holes in them. 06:27.240 --> 06:28.240 What? 06:28.240 --> 06:29.240 Kind with the holes in them. 06:29.240 --> 06:32.240 You know what I mean, you see them all the time in the men's magazines, kind of cloth 06:32.240 --> 06:33.240 on the top. 06:33.240 --> 06:37.240 You know, real thin leather on the sole and cloth over the top, lot of little holes in 06:37.240 --> 06:38.240 it. 06:38.240 --> 06:39.240 They're cool. 06:39.240 --> 06:41.240 You see them all the time in the magazines, don't you? 06:41.240 --> 06:42.240 Oh yeah. 06:42.240 --> 06:43.240 Yeah, I see them all the time. 06:43.240 --> 06:46.240 You know, it's got a picture of a guy wearing them with a tan suit on. 06:46.240 --> 06:50.240 All he's got on the same suit, and he's got a straw hat with one of those bands made out 06:50.240 --> 06:53.240 of feathers, you know, like a kind of snake kind of. 06:53.240 --> 06:54.240 Mm-hmm. 06:54.240 --> 06:57.240 Guy's always in a tan suit and a hat. 06:57.240 --> 07:01.240 Maybe you gotta have one of those before you can buy the shoes, you figure. 07:01.240 --> 07:02.240 One of those suits? 07:02.240 --> 07:03.240 Yeah. 07:03.240 --> 07:04.240 I don't know. 07:04.240 --> 07:05.240 Uh-huh. 07:05.240 --> 07:08.240 You're not talking much today. 07:08.240 --> 07:10.240 Haven't got room to get in. 07:10.240 --> 07:12.240 You're doing it all, you know. 07:12.240 --> 07:15.240 Oh, my, that's pretty funny. 07:15.240 --> 07:16.240 It's hot. 07:16.240 --> 07:19.240 Must have been over 90. 07:19.240 --> 07:20.240 I was just about to say it. 07:20.240 --> 07:21.240 It's one hour. 07:21.240 --> 07:22.240 It's one hour. 07:22.240 --> 07:23.240 Take it easy. 07:23.240 --> 07:24.240 You see that kid up there? 07:24.240 --> 07:25.240 No. 07:25.240 --> 07:26.240 Up there. 07:26.240 --> 07:28.240 Just coming out of the drug store in the corner, waiting for the light there. 07:28.240 --> 07:29.240 Oh, yeah. 07:29.240 --> 07:30.240 Tennis player, huh? 07:30.240 --> 07:32.240 Well, he's wearing a pair of canvas shoes, looks like, from here. 07:32.240 --> 07:33.240 Want to check him? 07:33.240 --> 07:34.240 You might as well. 07:34.240 --> 07:35.240 Looks good here. 07:35.240 --> 07:36.240 All right. 07:36.240 --> 07:37.240 You want to wait? 07:37.240 --> 07:38.240 No, I'll come with you. 07:38.240 --> 07:39.240 Hey, fella, hold it up. 07:39.240 --> 07:40.240 What? 07:40.240 --> 07:41.240 Wait a minute. 07:41.240 --> 07:42.240 You mean me? 07:42.240 --> 07:43.240 Yeah. 07:43.240 --> 07:44.240 Yeah, what do you want? 07:44.240 --> 07:45.240 Police officer, son. 07:45.240 --> 07:46.240 We'd like to ask a couple questions. 07:46.240 --> 07:47.240 What for? 07:47.240 --> 07:48.240 I'm not sure. 07:48.240 --> 07:49.240 I'm not sure. 07:49.240 --> 07:52.240 We didn't say you did. 07:52.240 --> 07:53.240 We just want to ask a couple questions. 07:53.240 --> 07:54.240 I sat there for a minute. 07:54.240 --> 07:55.240 You were after me. 07:55.240 --> 07:56.240 My partner, Frank Smith. 07:56.240 --> 07:57.240 My name's Friday. 07:57.240 --> 07:58.240 Hi. 07:58.240 --> 07:59.240 Oh, I'm Alec McCarran. 07:59.240 --> 08:00.240 What'd you want to ask? 08:00.240 --> 08:01.240 You been playing tennis? 08:01.240 --> 08:02.240 No, just practicing. 08:02.240 --> 08:03.240 I go down to the handball court at school and practice. 08:03.240 --> 08:04.240 Couldn't get a game this afternoon. 08:04.240 --> 08:05.240 Why? 08:05.240 --> 08:06.240 Let's take a look at your shoes, will you? 08:06.240 --> 08:07.240 What? 08:07.240 --> 08:08.240 Your shoes there that you're wearing. 08:08.240 --> 08:09.240 I want to see them. 08:09.240 --> 08:10.240 What is this, a joke? 08:10.240 --> 08:11.240 No. 08:11.240 --> 08:12.240 Well, sure sounds like a rib. 08:12.240 --> 08:13.240 You guys sure you're really cops? 08:13.240 --> 08:14.240 Well, here's the idea again. 08:14.240 --> 08:15.240 You want to look? 08:15.240 --> 08:16.240 You want to see them? 08:16.240 --> 08:19.240 Now, let us look at your shoes, then. 08:19.240 --> 08:20.240 Okay. 08:20.240 --> 08:21.240 No reason not to. 08:21.240 --> 08:22.240 They're... 08:22.240 --> 08:23.240 The soles, we want to see. 08:23.240 --> 08:24.240 You sure this isn't some kind of joke? 08:24.240 --> 08:25.240 It looks like it's no joke. 08:25.240 --> 08:26.240 Come on, Alec. 08:26.240 --> 08:27.240 Let's see the soles. 08:27.240 --> 08:28.240 Sure, then. 08:28.240 --> 08:29.240 Well, you satisfied now? 08:29.240 --> 08:30.240 Yeah. 08:30.240 --> 08:31.240 Okay for me to go now? 08:31.240 --> 08:32.240 Afraid not. 08:32.240 --> 08:33.240 Why, say, what is this anyway? 08:33.240 --> 08:34.240 Oh, it's stopping me in the shoe thing. 08:34.240 --> 08:35.240 You looking for something special? 08:35.240 --> 08:36.240 Not anymore. 08:36.240 --> 08:37.240 We just found it. 08:37.240 --> 08:49.240 Frank and I took the boy back to Georgia Street and checked his name through R&I. 08:49.240 --> 08:52.240 We found that there was no previous arrest record for him. 08:52.240 --> 08:53.240 7.15 p.m. 08:53.240 --> 08:55.240 We took him into one of the interrogation rooms. 08:55.240 --> 08:57.240 Your full name's Alec McCarran, is that right? 08:57.240 --> 08:58.240 Yeah. 08:58.240 --> 08:59.240 How old are you? 08:59.240 --> 09:00.240 Sixteen. 09:00.240 --> 09:01.240 Where do you live? 09:01.240 --> 09:02.240 4782 Fargo Street. 09:02.240 --> 09:03.240 Where's that, son? 09:03.240 --> 09:04.240 Up above Silver Lake. 09:04.240 --> 09:05.240 You live with your family? 09:05.240 --> 09:06.240 Yeah. 09:06.240 --> 09:07.240 Your father and mother both live there? 09:07.240 --> 09:08.240 Yeah. 09:08.240 --> 09:10.240 When are you gonna tell me what this is all about? 09:10.240 --> 09:11.240 Got a job, son? 09:11.240 --> 09:12.240 Not now. 09:12.240 --> 09:13.240 I got one coming up. 09:13.240 --> 09:14.240 Doing what? 09:14.240 --> 09:15.240 Box boy in a market. 09:15.240 --> 09:16.240 Supposed to go to work next week. 09:16.240 --> 09:17.240 Kid they got now is going in the Army. 09:17.240 --> 09:18.240 They promised me his job. 09:18.240 --> 09:19.240 You go to school? 09:19.240 --> 09:20.240 Yeah, I'm a senior in high school. 09:20.240 --> 09:21.240 Look, it's getting late. 09:21.240 --> 09:22.240 My dad's gonna start to worry. 09:22.240 --> 09:23.240 Is it okay if I call him? 09:23.240 --> 09:24.240 We'll call him for you in a minute. 09:24.240 --> 09:25.240 Thanks. 09:25.240 --> 09:26.240 What do I tell him when he wants to know what's happening? 09:26.240 --> 09:27.240 We'll talk to him. 09:27.240 --> 09:28.240 Okay. 09:28.240 --> 09:29.240 What do you usually do nights? 09:29.240 --> 09:30.240 I don't know. 09:30.240 --> 09:31.240 I'm a little busy. 09:31.240 --> 09:32.240 I'm a little busy. 09:32.240 --> 09:36.240 I'm a little busy, too, so I'll talk to him. 09:36.240 --> 09:37.240 Okay. 09:37.240 --> 09:38.240 What do you usually do nights? 09:38.240 --> 09:39.240 I don't know what you mean. 09:39.240 --> 09:40.240 Well, evening hours. 09:40.240 --> 09:41.240 What do you do? 09:41.240 --> 09:42.240 I stay home mostly. 09:42.240 --> 09:43.240 I gotta get my grades up for college. 09:43.240 --> 09:44.240 I usually study. 09:44.240 --> 09:45.240 During summer vacation? 09:45.240 --> 09:46.240 My dad helps me. 09:46.240 --> 09:47.240 I gotta make up a couple of credits. 09:47.240 --> 09:48.240 Thought you had to go to summer school for that. 09:48.240 --> 09:49.240 I guess I'll get out of school late. 09:49.240 --> 09:50.240 You study every night? 09:50.240 --> 09:51.240 Just about, yeah. 09:51.240 --> 09:52.240 But not everyone, huh? 09:52.240 --> 09:53.240 No, I go out sometimes. 09:53.240 --> 09:54.240 When? 09:54.240 --> 09:55.240 Mostly the weekends. 09:55.240 --> 09:56.240 Friday. 09:56.240 --> 09:57.240 What do you do when you go out? 09:57.240 --> 09:58.240 And where do you go? 09:58.240 --> 09:59.240 Show sometimes. 09:59.240 --> 10:00.240 Anywhere else? 10:00.240 --> 10:01.240 Bowling. 10:01.240 --> 10:02.240 I go down to the library to get a book. 10:02.240 --> 10:03.240 Mostly to the show. 10:03.240 --> 10:04.240 Do you go with anybody? 10:04.240 --> 10:05.240 No. 10:05.240 --> 10:06.240 Where'd you get those tennis shoes? 10:06.240 --> 10:07.240 My dad got them for me. 10:07.240 --> 10:08.240 Where? 10:08.240 --> 10:09.240 Place back east. 10:09.240 --> 10:10.240 I had them a long time. 10:10.240 --> 10:11.240 You know the name of the place? 10:11.240 --> 10:12.240 Not right off. 10:12.240 --> 10:13.240 Some place in Maine, I think. 10:13.240 --> 10:16.240 Do you know anybody else who's got a pair like them? 10:16.240 --> 10:17.240 I've never seen any others. 10:17.240 --> 10:19.240 I told you, my father got them for me. 10:19.240 --> 10:20.240 Used to wear them when he was a kid. 10:20.240 --> 10:22.240 Sent back to Maine for them. 10:22.240 --> 10:25.240 You guys won't tell me what this is all about, huh? 10:25.240 --> 10:26.240 Yeah, we will. 10:26.240 --> 10:27.240 There have been a string of burglaries in town. 10:27.240 --> 10:28.240 Housebreaking. 10:28.240 --> 10:30.240 Person that's been pulling them wears a pair of shoes just like yours. 10:30.240 --> 10:31.240 Like mine? 10:31.240 --> 10:32.240 That's right. 10:32.240 --> 10:33.240 You think I'm the one? 10:33.240 --> 10:34.240 Well, it looks like it, doesn't it? 10:34.240 --> 10:35.240 I'd better call my father. 10:35.240 --> 10:36.240 All right, we'll call him for you. 10:36.240 --> 10:37.240 He's the only pair of shoes in the world, you know. 10:37.240 --> 10:38.240 Only ones we've been able to find, son. 10:38.240 --> 10:39.240 There must be a lot more. 10:39.240 --> 10:40.240 We're willing to see them. 10:40.240 --> 10:41.240 Hello, this is Sergeant Friday, Los Angeles Police Department. 10:41.240 --> 10:42.240 Who am I speaking to, please? 10:42.240 --> 10:43.240 Yes, sir. 10:43.240 --> 10:44.240 Yes, sir. 10:44.240 --> 10:45.240 Yes, sir. 10:45.240 --> 10:46.240 Yes, sir. 10:46.240 --> 10:47.240 Yes, sir. 10:47.240 --> 10:48.240 Yes, sir. 10:48.240 --> 10:49.240 Yes, sir. 10:49.240 --> 10:50.240 Yes, sir. 10:50.240 --> 10:51.240 Yes, sir. 10:51.240 --> 10:52.240 Yes, sir. 10:52.240 --> 10:53.240 Yes, sir. 10:53.240 --> 10:54.240 Yes, sir. 10:54.240 --> 10:55.240 Yes, sir. 10:55.240 --> 10:56.240 Yes, sir. 10:56.240 --> 10:57.240 Yes, sir. 10:57.240 --> 10:58.240 Yes, sir. 10:58.240 --> 11:03.240 Yes, sir, your son's here, especially the burglary. 11:03.240 --> 11:04.240 That's right. 11:04.240 --> 11:07.240 Well, that may be so, Mr. McCarran, but that's the charge. 11:07.240 --> 11:08.240 Yes, sir. 11:08.240 --> 11:11.240 No, no, we'll bring him to his home. 11:11.240 --> 11:14.240 Sure you can, just a minute. 11:14.240 --> 11:18.240 I want to talk to your son. 11:18.240 --> 11:20.240 Hello, Dad? 11:20.240 --> 11:21.240 Yeah. 11:21.240 --> 11:22.240 Uh-huh. 11:22.240 --> 11:25.240 At the police station? 11:25.240 --> 11:28.240 No, it's no joke. 11:28.240 --> 11:29.240 What? 11:29.240 --> 11:31.240 Well, I'll tell you when I see you. 11:31.240 --> 11:32.240 Yeah, bye. 11:32.240 --> 11:35.240 All right, Alex, get your sweater. 11:35.240 --> 11:36.240 You're taking me home now? 11:36.240 --> 11:37.240 That's right. 11:37.240 --> 11:38.240 Because Dad set you straight, huh? 11:38.240 --> 11:39.240 Told you it was all a mistake? 11:39.240 --> 11:40.240 No, I'm afraid he didn't. 11:40.240 --> 11:41.240 What do you mean? 11:41.240 --> 11:43.240 Didn't he tell you this whole thing is wrong? 11:43.240 --> 11:46.240 Well, he tried to, yeah, that's right. 11:46.240 --> 11:48.240 Well, then you're going to have to let me go. 11:48.240 --> 11:49.240 No, I'm afraid not. 11:49.240 --> 11:51.240 But you have to if it's a mistake. 11:51.240 --> 11:53.240 Yeah, if it's a mistake. 11:53.240 --> 12:00.240 Frank and I left the office with the boy, and we drove out to his home. 12:00.240 --> 12:03.240 It was a large two-story colonial house overlooking Silver Lake. 12:03.240 --> 12:06.240 We were admitted to the place by a maid, and we were shown into the living room. 12:06.240 --> 12:09.240 The boy's father, Henry McCarran, was waiting for us. 12:09.240 --> 12:10.240 You're the officer? 12:10.240 --> 12:11.240 Yes, sir, that's right. 12:11.240 --> 12:12.240 My partner, Frank Smith. 12:12.240 --> 12:13.240 My name's Friday. 12:13.240 --> 12:14.240 How do you do? 12:14.240 --> 12:15.240 You want to tell me what this is all about now? 12:15.240 --> 12:18.240 Well, it looks like your son is mixed up in some burglaries, Mr. McCarran. 12:18.240 --> 12:20.240 You're aware that's a pretty serious charge. 12:20.240 --> 12:21.240 Yes, sir, that's right. 12:21.240 --> 12:23.240 I suppose you have some kind of proof to make that statement. 12:23.240 --> 12:24.240 We think so. 12:24.240 --> 12:26.240 Am I telling you what it is? 12:26.240 --> 12:29.240 Well, while we were talking, would it be all right to look at the boy's room? 12:29.240 --> 12:31.240 Do you think that's quite fair? 12:31.240 --> 12:32.240 Necessary, Mr. McCarran. 12:32.240 --> 12:33.240 What if I say you can't? 12:33.240 --> 12:35.240 Well, then we'll have to come back with a warrant. 12:35.240 --> 12:37.240 All right, this way. 12:37.240 --> 12:40.240 What do you got to say about this, Alex? 12:40.240 --> 12:41.240 I didn't do it, Dan. 12:41.240 --> 12:42.240 And that's the truth? 12:42.240 --> 12:43.240 Yes, sir. 12:43.240 --> 12:44.240 Good enough for me. 12:44.240 --> 12:45.240 Through here. 12:45.240 --> 12:46.240 This is it. 12:46.240 --> 12:47.240 Go ahead. 12:47.240 --> 12:51.240 Frank? 12:51.240 --> 12:52.240 Yeah. 12:52.240 --> 12:55.240 Now, I suppose you tell me what this is all about. 12:55.240 --> 12:57.240 The shoes that your boy is wearing here. 12:57.240 --> 12:58.240 You got them for him? 12:58.240 --> 12:59.240 That's right. 12:59.240 --> 13:00.240 I had them made to order. 13:00.240 --> 13:01.240 Where? 13:01.240 --> 13:02.240 Place back east in Maine. 13:02.240 --> 13:04.240 You know of anyone else who has a pair of them? 13:04.240 --> 13:06.240 No, as far as I know, that's the only pair on the coast. 13:06.240 --> 13:07.240 Good kind of shoes. 13:07.240 --> 13:09.240 I used to wear them when I played. 13:09.240 --> 13:10.240 Uh-huh. 13:10.240 --> 13:11.240 What do they have to do with this? 13:11.240 --> 13:15.240 On each one of the steps, we found a print from a shoe like that outside the window. 13:15.240 --> 13:17.240 Well, that doesn't mean that Alec was in them at the time. 13:17.240 --> 13:18.240 How about it, Alec? 13:18.240 --> 13:19.240 You let anybody else use his shoes? 13:19.240 --> 13:20.240 No. 13:20.240 --> 13:21.240 Well, there's your answer. 13:21.240 --> 13:23.240 Still doesn't come down to proof. 13:23.240 --> 13:26.240 What night did your boy spend out of the house, Mr. McCarran? 13:26.240 --> 13:27.240 I don't know. 13:27.240 --> 13:29.240 I guess he's gone on Friday most of the time. 13:29.240 --> 13:30.240 You know where he goes? 13:30.240 --> 13:31.240 The show, library. 13:31.240 --> 13:33.240 I don't keep a chain on him, Sergeant. 13:33.240 --> 13:34.240 I have complete trust in Alec. 13:34.240 --> 13:36.240 Burgers have been taking place on Friday nights. 13:36.240 --> 13:38.240 Still entirely circumstantial. 13:38.240 --> 13:40.240 Yes, sir, but it fits, doesn't it? 13:40.240 --> 13:41.240 What's he supposed to have sewn on? 13:41.240 --> 13:42.240 Costume jewelry. 13:42.240 --> 13:44.240 You mean five and dime stuff? 13:44.240 --> 13:45.240 Yes, sir. 13:45.240 --> 13:47.240 All right, there you are. 13:47.240 --> 13:49.240 You tell me why. 13:49.240 --> 13:50.240 Sir? 13:50.240 --> 13:51.240 Why had Alec steal that? 13:51.240 --> 13:52.240 Now look around, Sergeant. 13:52.240 --> 13:54.240 I just spent $1,500 on this room. 13:54.240 --> 13:55.240 Had it all redone. 13:55.240 --> 13:57.240 Alec's got just about everything he wants. 13:57.240 --> 13:58.240 He gets a good allowance. 13:58.240 --> 14:00.240 If he needs any more money, he only has to come to me. 14:00.240 --> 14:02.240 There's no reason for him to steal. 14:02.240 --> 14:04.240 I say this is a nice room and all. 14:04.240 --> 14:07.240 What you say may be true, but the fact states that the steps are taking place. 14:07.240 --> 14:10.240 All right, then I'll put it on the line. 14:10.240 --> 14:11.240 I've got faith in my son. 14:11.240 --> 14:16.240 He's had all the things a boy could want, a good family, good home, all the things that count. 14:16.240 --> 14:18.240 Maybe there is a thief, but it isn't my son. 14:18.240 --> 14:19.240 I know that. 14:19.240 --> 14:22.240 You got an explanation for the shoes for the Friday nights? 14:22.240 --> 14:23.240 No, I'll find one. 14:23.240 --> 14:25.240 Maybe we can try it for this too, Mr. Caron. 14:25.240 --> 14:26.240 What? 14:26.240 --> 14:27.240 Found these in the boy's closet. 14:27.240 --> 14:28.240 Hmm? 14:28.240 --> 14:29.240 Box of cheap costume jewelry. 14:29.240 --> 14:38.240 With the finding of the jewelry in Alec McCarran's room, the circumstantial case against him seemed to solidify. 14:38.240 --> 14:42.240 Although he denied any knowledge of the pieces, he was taken down to Georgia Street Juvenile 14:42.240 --> 14:46.240 and booked on suspicion of violation of Section 459 P.C., delinquent. 14:46.240 --> 14:49.240 His father retained a lawyer immediately. 14:49.240 --> 14:52.240 The next day, the jewelry found at his home was shown to the victims, 14:52.240 --> 14:55.240 and they gave us a positive identification on each one of the pieces. 14:55.240 --> 14:58.240 A petition was filed and the facts were presented to the juvenile court. 14:58.240 --> 15:00.240 Detention was requested. 15:00.240 --> 15:05.240 On Thursday, July 8th, Frank and I got back from the second floor after talking to the McCarran boy. 15:05.240 --> 15:07.240 He still admitted nothing about the burglaries. 15:07.240 --> 15:10.240 I don't know, maybe I'm starting to believe the kid. 15:10.240 --> 15:12.240 It sure makes you wonder, doesn't it? 15:12.240 --> 15:13.240 Sergeant Friday? 15:13.240 --> 15:14.240 Yes, sir. 15:14.240 --> 15:15.240 How are you, Mr. McCarran? 15:15.240 --> 15:16.240 Fine, thank you. 15:16.240 --> 15:17.240 I've got it, Sergeant. 15:17.240 --> 15:18.240 I've got it right here. 15:18.240 --> 15:19.240 Sir? 15:19.240 --> 15:20.240 The way to show you that my son had no part in these burglaries. 15:20.240 --> 15:21.240 All right, sir, go ahead. 15:21.240 --> 15:24.240 Now, you say that all the thefts have taken place on Friday night, haven't you? 15:24.240 --> 15:25.240 Yes, sir. 15:25.240 --> 15:27.240 And your big piece of evidence is the heels on his shoes, right? 15:27.240 --> 15:28.240 That's part of it, yes, sir. 15:28.240 --> 15:30.240 All right, then you can just turn them loose. 15:30.240 --> 15:31.240 The big part? 15:31.240 --> 15:32.240 I remembered it last night. 15:32.240 --> 15:34.240 I couldn't get to sleep and got to thinking. 15:34.240 --> 15:35.240 I remembered. 15:35.240 --> 15:36.240 All right, go ahead. 15:36.240 --> 15:37.240 Alex's shoes get a lot of use. 15:37.240 --> 15:40.240 He plays a lot of tennis, wears his shoes all the time. 15:40.240 --> 15:41.240 Oh, sir? 15:41.240 --> 15:42.240 The soles and heels wore out. 15:42.240 --> 15:44.240 We had to send them back east and have them resold. 15:44.240 --> 15:46.240 Sent them back on May 5th. 15:46.240 --> 15:48.240 Didn't get them until May 19th. 15:48.240 --> 15:50.240 Now, there's two Fridays in there, Sergeant. 15:50.240 --> 15:53.240 If the shoes were gone, Alex couldn't have done the burglaries. 15:53.240 --> 15:54.240 Right? 15:54.240 --> 15:55.240 Yeah. 15:55.240 --> 15:58.240 Well, I hope now that you will admit that you've made a mistake. 15:58.240 --> 16:00.240 Well, if we have, Mr. McCarran, we'll sure tell you. 16:00.240 --> 16:01.240 Well, you can take my word for it, Alex. 16:01.240 --> 16:03.240 He had no part in any of this. 16:03.240 --> 16:05.240 He's a good boy, he's honest, he's smart. 16:05.240 --> 16:08.240 If he was going to steal anything, if it really came to that, 16:08.240 --> 16:10.240 he wouldn't risk his neck for a few cheap beads. 16:10.240 --> 16:11.240 Doesn't seem so, does it? 16:11.240 --> 16:12.240 Here you are, John. 16:12.240 --> 16:13.240 Well, what about it? 16:13.240 --> 16:14.240 Why don't you find out? 16:14.240 --> 16:16.240 Just a minute, sir. 16:16.240 --> 16:18.240 Are you going to release my son now? 16:18.240 --> 16:19.240 No, sir. 16:19.240 --> 16:23.240 Well, if the shoes were out of state, then, he couldn't have committed the thefts. 16:23.240 --> 16:24.240 Mm-hmm. 16:24.240 --> 16:26.240 Month of May, two Fridays in that month. 16:26.240 --> 16:27.240 That's right, that's right. 16:27.240 --> 16:38.240 No burglaries on either one of them. 16:38.240 --> 16:50.240 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 16:50.240 --> 16:53.240 It seemed like every attempt the father made to prove the innocence of Alex McCarran 16:53.240 --> 16:55.240 only turned up another piece of evidence against him. 16:55.240 --> 16:57.240 The date for his hearing in juvenile court was set, 16:57.240 --> 16:59.240 and Frank and I talked with Mr. Bowman at the probation department 16:59.240 --> 17:01.240 on the preparation of the case. 17:01.240 --> 17:04.240 From the evidence, it appeared that the boy would be found guilty. 17:04.240 --> 17:06.240 We questioned and re-questioned him. 17:06.240 --> 17:09.240 We went over every facet of his story, but he still stuck to it. 17:09.240 --> 17:11.240 At no time did he change any part of it. 17:11.240 --> 17:14.240 Saturday, July 10, Frank and I checked into the office. 17:14.240 --> 17:17.240 Boy, it's going to be another scorching day. 17:17.240 --> 17:19.240 Yeah, probably over 90 again. 17:19.240 --> 17:21.240 Yeah, over 90. More than that, Joe. 17:21.240 --> 17:23.240 I'm going over to Broadway at noon today, 17:23.240 --> 17:25.240 pick up a pair of those shoes I was telling you about. 17:25.240 --> 17:27.240 Mm-hmm, with the tan suit. 17:27.240 --> 17:28.240 The ones with the holes in them. 17:28.240 --> 17:30.240 Not the suit, the shoes, you know. 17:30.240 --> 17:32.240 Finally decided last night I need them more in a new spinning reel. 17:32.240 --> 17:33.240 I'm going to get them. 17:33.240 --> 17:34.240 Well, that's good. 17:34.240 --> 17:35.240 Anything for us? 17:35.240 --> 17:36.240 Yeah. 17:36.240 --> 17:38.240 Looks like we might be wrong about that McCarran boy. 17:38.240 --> 17:39.240 What do you mean? 17:39.240 --> 17:40.240 Another house breaking last night. 17:40.240 --> 17:41.240 Footprints all over the place. 17:41.240 --> 17:42.240 Yeah? 17:42.240 --> 17:43.240 All of them with the same heel print. 17:43.240 --> 17:49.240 We left the office. We went over to the crime lab. 17:49.240 --> 17:52.240 Ray Pinker showed us photographs that had been made at the scene. 17:52.240 --> 17:54.240 The marks were identical with those we'd found before. 17:54.240 --> 17:57.240 The size of the shoe, the way they were worn, everything matched. 17:57.240 --> 18:00.240 The information blew the case against Alec McCarran sky high, 18:00.240 --> 18:02.240 and both Frank and I felt a little relieved. 18:02.240 --> 18:04.240 The probation department was informed what had happened, 18:04.240 --> 18:06.240 and the boy was released immediately. 18:06.240 --> 18:09.240 Frank and I drove him to his home where he was reunited with his family. 18:09.240 --> 18:12.240 We obtained the name and address of the shoe company who had made the tennis shoes, 18:12.240 --> 18:14.240 and the radiogram was sent to the police department in that city 18:14.240 --> 18:18.240 requesting all information on similar shipments to the Los Angeles area. 18:18.240 --> 18:20.240 We got the answer the next morning. 18:20.240 --> 18:23.240 Only one other pair had been sent to the Southland. 18:23.240 --> 18:28.240 Those had been sent to a Mr. Homer Ellsworth, care of general delivery, Ventura, California. 18:28.240 --> 18:30.240 We checked the name through records and identification, 18:30.240 --> 18:32.240 but we were unable to come up with a record for him. 18:32.240 --> 18:35.240 The name was sent to George Brereton, C.I.I., Sacramento. 18:35.240 --> 18:38.240 At a quarter past eleven, Frank and I drove up to the Beach City. 18:38.240 --> 18:41.240 We talked to the postmaster and several of the clerks. 18:41.240 --> 18:44.240 They told us that several pieces of mail had been delivered to Ellsworth. 18:44.240 --> 18:46.240 Although none of the people could tell us where the man lived, 18:46.240 --> 18:48.240 they were able to give us a good description of him. 18:48.240 --> 18:53.240 They went on to say that they had gathered from conversations that he resided someplace in Los Angeles. 18:53.240 --> 18:57.240 We left word with them that the local police department be called in the event the man returned, 18:57.240 --> 18:59.240 and then Frank and I drove back to the city. 18:59.240 --> 19:03.240 We checked the name again, this time with a description, No May. 19:03.240 --> 19:05.240 One of the outstanding things in the way the man was described 19:05.240 --> 19:08.240 was that the little finger from his left hand was missing. 19:08.240 --> 19:11.240 This was checked through the oddity file without result. 19:11.240 --> 19:13.240 The additional information was forwarded to Brereton. 19:13.240 --> 19:16.240 We checked with burglary detail, but they had nothing on the suspect. 19:16.240 --> 19:20.240 Eight forty p.m. We drove out to the McCarran house and talked again to his family. 19:20.240 --> 19:22.240 I knew it all the time. 19:22.240 --> 19:26.240 Got a boy like Alec after sixteen years, you know, pretty much what he will, what he won't do. 19:26.240 --> 19:28.240 A couple things we'd like to go over with you. 19:28.240 --> 19:30.240 Sure, anything you want, just let me know. 19:30.240 --> 19:32.240 Caught the person who was really responsible for this? 19:32.240 --> 19:34.240 That's what we want to talk to you about. 19:34.240 --> 19:35.240 Fine, throw it ahead. 19:35.240 --> 19:38.240 Now the description we've got of the man is that he's about fifty, 19:38.240 --> 19:42.240 around five foot eight, hundred and fifty pounds, dark hair, gray at the temples, 19:42.240 --> 19:45.240 wears glasses, has a mustache, got a finger missing from the left hand. 19:45.240 --> 19:47.240 What's his name? 19:47.240 --> 19:49.240 Well, that we don't know, sir. That's why we're asking you. 19:49.240 --> 19:50.240 No name at all. 19:50.240 --> 19:53.240 Well, he's used Homer Ellsworth. We don't think that's his true name. 19:53.240 --> 19:54.240 It isn't, sir. 19:54.240 --> 19:57.240 His name's not Ellsworth, it's Fallon, Homer Fallon. 19:57.240 --> 19:58.240 You know him? 19:58.240 --> 19:59.240 Sure, he worked for me for ten years. 19:59.240 --> 20:02.240 Sort of a handy man, does our jobs around the house. 20:02.240 --> 20:03.240 You know where we can reach him? 20:03.240 --> 20:04.240 Not sure about that. 20:04.240 --> 20:05.240 What do you mean? 20:05.240 --> 20:06.240 He quit yesterday morning. 20:06.240 --> 20:12.240 We got Fallon's address. We left for the place right away. 20:12.240 --> 20:15.240 It was a small house in the South Hollywood area. 20:15.240 --> 20:18.240 The front yard was overgrown and several of the pickets from the fence were missing. 20:18.240 --> 20:21.240 It was a 1938 Chevrolet truck parked in the driveway. 20:21.240 --> 20:25.240 Frank and I left our unit and walked up to the front door. 20:25.240 --> 20:27.240 Watch your steps, Joe. 20:27.240 --> 20:28.240 Front? 20:28.240 --> 20:29.240 Ward looks there. 20:29.240 --> 20:30.240 Oh, yeah, I see. 20:30.240 --> 20:32.240 I think you'd have a light out here, wouldn't you? 20:32.240 --> 20:34.240 I get it. 20:38.240 --> 20:39.240 Don't hear anything. 20:39.240 --> 20:40.240 Well, he must be here. 20:40.240 --> 20:42.240 I'd be taking the truck, wouldn't you? 20:42.240 --> 20:43.240 Yeah. 20:46.240 --> 20:47.240 Yeah? 20:47.240 --> 20:48.240 Homer Fallon? 20:48.240 --> 20:49.240 Who are you? 20:49.240 --> 20:50.240 Police officer. 20:50.240 --> 20:52.240 I want to talk to you. 20:52.240 --> 20:54.240 Come on in. 20:54.240 --> 20:55.240 Sit down. 20:55.240 --> 20:57.240 Just fixing a little dinner. 20:57.240 --> 20:58.240 Yes, sir. 20:58.240 --> 20:59.240 Go right ahead. 20:59.240 --> 21:00.240 Spaghetti. 21:00.240 --> 21:01.240 Want some? 21:01.240 --> 21:02.240 No, sir. 21:02.240 --> 21:03.240 Pretty good. 21:03.240 --> 21:04.240 That kind, it's all cooked. 21:04.240 --> 21:06.240 Just drop it in the water and heat up the sauce. 21:06.240 --> 21:07.240 Pretty good. 21:07.240 --> 21:08.240 Sure you don't want none? 21:08.240 --> 21:09.240 No, thanks. 21:09.240 --> 21:10.240 How about you? 21:10.240 --> 21:11.240 No, sir. 21:11.240 --> 21:12.240 Well, wait a minute. 21:12.240 --> 21:14.240 I'll turn down the fire and we can talk. 21:14.240 --> 21:16.240 All right, sir. 21:16.240 --> 21:18.240 You got to watch it pretty close. 21:18.240 --> 21:21.240 It gets too cooked and you got to eat it with a spoon, not blood that way. 21:21.240 --> 21:22.240 No, sir. 21:22.240 --> 21:24.240 You've had it, have you? 21:24.240 --> 21:26.240 You want to come in here, sir? 21:26.240 --> 21:27.240 Yeah, I'd be right with you. 21:27.240 --> 21:30.240 Open up the sauce and I'll be right there. 21:30.240 --> 21:31.240 Maybe you better come in now. 21:31.240 --> 21:32.240 Why? 21:32.240 --> 21:33.240 Come on in. 21:33.240 --> 21:34.240 Sit down. 21:36.240 --> 21:37.240 Go ahead. 21:37.240 --> 21:38.240 Sit down. 21:38.240 --> 21:40.240 You haven't got no right to tell me what to do in my own house. 21:40.240 --> 21:41.240 No right at all. 21:41.240 --> 21:43.240 All right, better check the place, huh? 21:43.240 --> 21:44.240 Yeah. 21:44.240 --> 21:47.240 Harry, you've got no right to go through my things. 21:47.240 --> 21:49.240 We can come back with a warrant if that'll be easier for you. 21:49.240 --> 21:50.240 Then you go ahead and do it. 21:50.240 --> 21:51.240 You've got no right. 21:51.240 --> 21:53.240 Is there something you don't want me to find? 21:53.240 --> 21:54.240 No. 21:54.240 --> 21:55.240 I've got nothing to hide. 21:55.240 --> 21:56.240 Then you won't mind, will you? 21:56.240 --> 21:57.240 I will, too. 21:57.240 --> 22:00.240 You guys come in here while I'm having dinner and causing a lot of trouble. 22:00.240 --> 22:02.240 You've got no right to do this. 22:02.240 --> 22:03.240 I'm an old man. 22:03.240 --> 22:05.240 I can't take a lot of excitement. 22:05.240 --> 22:06.240 Then why don't you save us all a lot of time? 22:06.240 --> 22:07.240 What? 22:07.240 --> 22:08.240 You know why we're here. 22:08.240 --> 22:09.240 You know what we want. 22:09.240 --> 22:10.240 I do? 22:10.240 --> 22:11.240 Sure you do. 22:14.240 --> 22:15.240 Why don't you tell us? 22:17.240 --> 22:18.240 Big thing over nothing. 22:18.240 --> 22:19.240 That's all it is. 22:19.240 --> 22:21.240 Then you tell us about it, will you? 22:21.240 --> 22:23.240 All this stuff put together wasn't worth a dollar and a half. 22:23.240 --> 22:24.240 None of it. 22:24.240 --> 22:25.240 Not even a dollar and a half. 22:25.240 --> 22:26.240 Well, then why'd you do it? 22:26.240 --> 22:29.240 I wanted to get the kid in trouble all his life. 22:29.240 --> 22:31.240 He's had what he wanted all his life. 22:31.240 --> 22:33.240 Different from me. 22:33.240 --> 22:34.240 I never had nothing. 22:34.240 --> 22:37.240 You put the things we found in his room, did you? 22:37.240 --> 22:38.240 Yeah. 22:38.240 --> 22:39.240 I knew you'd get to him. 22:39.240 --> 22:42.240 Wanted to sew it up, make it look good. 22:42.240 --> 22:44.240 I put him there. 22:44.240 --> 22:47.240 Why'd you do the burglary last night? 22:47.240 --> 22:51.240 Well, I got the feeling sorry for the kid sitting in jail. 22:51.240 --> 22:53.240 You ever been arrested, fellow? 22:53.240 --> 22:55.240 Well, a long time ago. 22:55.240 --> 22:56.240 Where? 22:56.240 --> 22:57.240 Back east. 22:57.240 --> 22:58.240 Bag charge. 22:58.240 --> 23:00.240 I was just a kid working my way out here. 23:00.240 --> 23:02.240 Took me off a freight. 23:02.240 --> 23:05.240 I sat in a can overnight, and then they let me go. 23:05.240 --> 23:07.240 Gave me a floater out of town. 23:07.240 --> 23:09.240 I got sorry for the kid. 23:09.240 --> 23:12.240 Figured if there was another stealing while he was in jail, 23:12.240 --> 23:14.240 you'd let him go. 23:14.240 --> 23:15.240 All right. 23:15.240 --> 23:17.240 Get your coat, will you? 23:17.240 --> 23:18.240 Yeah. 23:18.240 --> 23:20.240 Where is it? 23:20.240 --> 23:21.240 Closet there. 23:21.240 --> 23:22.240 Wait there. 23:22.240 --> 23:24.240 I'll get it. 23:24.240 --> 23:26.240 The only one in there. 23:26.240 --> 23:29.240 I got it. 23:29.240 --> 23:31.240 Here you go. 23:31.240 --> 23:33.240 Thanks. 23:33.240 --> 23:36.240 You know, I was sorry right after. 23:36.240 --> 23:38.240 I didn't want to hurt the kid. 23:38.240 --> 23:40.240 He's really not too bad. 23:40.240 --> 23:42.240 Didn't want to cause him no trouble. 23:42.240 --> 23:44.240 You did pretty good, didn't you? 23:44.240 --> 23:46.240 I suppose so. 23:46.240 --> 23:48.240 Well, I want to go. 23:48.240 --> 23:50.240 Yeah. 23:50.240 --> 23:52.240 Oh, I forgot the spaghetti. 23:52.240 --> 23:54.240 Got to turn it off. 23:54.240 --> 23:56.240 All right. 23:56.240 --> 24:00.240 I guess it doesn't make any difference anyway. 24:00.240 --> 24:02.240 What was that, sir? 24:02.240 --> 24:05.240 Don't make any difference about you taking me to jail. 24:05.240 --> 24:06.240 Is that right? 24:06.240 --> 24:07.240 Yeah. 24:07.240 --> 24:09.240 I cooked the spaghetti too long. 24:09.240 --> 24:11.240 HOMER LINDSAY FALLON 24:17.240 --> 24:20.240 Homer Lindsay Fallon was tried and convicted of burglary 24:20.240 --> 24:22.240 on the first degree, six counts, 24:22.240 --> 24:24.240 and received punishment as prescribed by law. 24:24.240 --> 24:27.240 Burglary on the first degree is punishable by imprisonment 24:27.240 --> 24:31.240 for a period of not less than five years in the state penitentiary. 24:31.240 --> 24:37.240 DRAGNET is a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service. 24:37.240 --> 25:00.240 The United States Armed Forces Radio Service. 25:07.240 --> 25:32.240 The United States Armed Forces Radio Service. 25:32.240 --> 25:52.240 The United States Armed Forces Radio Service.