1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,160 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:13,560 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:14,560 Fragment. 4 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:24,000 You're a detective sergeant. 5 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,240 You're assigned a homicide detail. 6 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:29,200 An attractive divorcee disappears from her home. 7 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:31,120 There's no lead to her whereabouts. 8 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:32,880 There's evidence of foul play. 9 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:37,760 Your job, find her. 10 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:45,560 Fragment. 11 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:48,440 The document a drama of an actual crime. 12 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:52,760 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 13 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:57,380 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 14 00:00:57,380 --> 00:00:58,380 police files. 15 00:00:58,380 --> 00:01:04,280 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 16 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:09,760 in action. 17 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:10,760 Was Tuesday June 10th. 18 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:11,760 Was mild in Los Angeles. 19 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:14,520 We were working the day watch out of homicide details. 20 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:15,680 My partner's Frank Smith. 21 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:16,680 The boss is Captain Norman. 22 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:17,680 My name's Friday. 23 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:22,480 We're on our way out from the office and it was 1115 a.m. when we got to 2962 Reservoir 24 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:23,480 Street. 25 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:24,480 Front door. 26 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,480 Are you the policeman? 27 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:28,480 Yes ma'am. 28 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:29,480 Ms. Harrison. 29 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:30,480 That's right. 30 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:31,480 Come on in. 31 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:33,360 My partner, Frank Smith. 32 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:34,360 My name's Friday. 33 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:35,360 How are you ma'am? 34 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:36,360 I was expecting you. 35 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:37,360 Yes ma'am. 36 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:39,200 Other officers said there'd be somebody here from the detectives to see me. 37 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:40,200 You meant from the detectives? 38 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:41,200 That's right, Ms. Harrison. 39 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,480 I got some coffee on if you'd like a cup while we talk. 40 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:44,480 No thank you. 41 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:45,480 No thank you ma'am. 42 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:46,480 Okay. 43 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:47,480 You want to sit down there? 44 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:48,480 We can get started on this. 45 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:51,800 I made some little notes this morning after the other policemen left. 46 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:54,640 I thought it might help me to remember. 47 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,400 They didn't find anything when they went to Josephine's house, did they? 48 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:58,400 No they haven't. 49 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:00,200 I wonder if you'd tell us what you know about her disappearance. 50 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:01,200 I'd be glad to. 51 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:05,760 Last time I saw her was Friday, the sixth, last Friday. 52 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:06,760 Where was that? 53 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:07,760 Out in her yard. 54 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:10,800 She was hanging up clothes and we got to talking, you know, about neighborhood stuff. 55 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:11,800 Yes ma'am. 56 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:12,800 We talked for a little while. 57 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,560 Her hanging up clothes and I was working around the yard. 58 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:17,440 Did there seem to be anything wrong then? 59 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:18,920 Well what do you mean? 60 00:02:18,920 --> 00:02:20,640 Well did you seem upset about anything? 61 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:22,600 Not that she told me about. 62 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:23,600 We were pretty close. 63 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:25,800 She told me just about everything happened to her. 64 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:30,000 When her and Jordan were still married we used to get together all the time, have a little 65 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,880 barbecue, maybe take in the drive-in movie. 66 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:34,360 That's her husband? 67 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:35,960 Yeah, Jordan Allen. 68 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:37,560 She's divorced then? 69 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:38,560 Yeah. 70 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:40,800 I got them in a locketory about six months ago. 71 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:41,800 Not final yet. 72 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:42,800 Where's Mr. Allen now? 73 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,200 Nonetheless, I heard he was working down in San Diego. 74 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:47,080 Do you know where we might get in touch with him? 75 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:48,880 Well not right off. 76 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:50,760 Must be some letters over to Josephine's though. 77 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:51,760 He was always writing it. 78 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:53,520 Was there any trouble between them? 79 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:54,520 They got a divorce. 80 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:55,520 Well that's not what I mean. 81 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:56,520 I mean after. 82 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:57,520 Did they have any arguments, any disagreements? 83 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:59,520 Off and on. 84 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:01,200 Jordan wanted to get back together again. 85 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:04,600 I was asking her to call off the decree. 86 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:05,600 Did he see her often? 87 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:09,720 I don't think they got together in the last couple of months. 88 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,520 No Josephine got some phone calls from him though. 89 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:13,520 From San Diego? 90 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:14,520 Yeah. 91 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:17,160 Did Mrs. Allen say anything to you about taking vacation, anything like that? 92 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:19,200 No, she'd had anything like that in mind. 93 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:20,200 She'd have told me. 94 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:21,200 We were pretty close. 95 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:22,200 Did she have any men friends that you know of? 96 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:23,200 Oh she's a handsome woman, Mr. Friday. 97 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:24,200 She had a lot of them. 98 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:28,160 Well did she see any one person more than the others would you know? 99 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:29,160 David Lansing. 100 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:31,040 They used to go out quite a bit. 101 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:33,920 I think David wanted to marry her as soon as the divorce was final. 102 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:35,920 Has he been around lately would you know? 103 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:36,920 Not since Josephine disappeared. 104 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:37,920 How about before that? 105 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:40,920 I had a date with her the very night before. 106 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:43,080 Went out for dinner and then went dancing. 107 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:47,480 Any trouble between them would you know? 108 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:49,600 I don't want to get mixed up in anything Mr. Friday. 109 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:50,600 You can understand that can't you? 110 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:51,600 Yes ma'am we can. 111 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,480 But if you know anything about Mrs. Allen's disappearance we'll have to ask that you 112 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:55,480 tell us. 113 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:58,000 It's just that I don't want David to find out about it. 114 00:03:58,000 --> 00:03:59,360 Well he won't hear it from us. 115 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:00,360 That's a promise? 116 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:01,360 Yes ma'am. 117 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:02,360 How about you? 118 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:03,360 Yes ma'am. 119 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:10,000 Well then, if you ask me, I'd say that David had something to do with Josephine's being 120 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,000 gone. 121 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Why do you say that? 122 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Because they were always fighting. 123 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:14,520 I could hear them all the way over here. 124 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:16,040 What'd they argue about do you know? 125 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:17,040 David wanted to marry her. 126 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:21,240 And she wouldn't tell him whether she would or not until after the divorce was final. 127 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:24,440 Luckily she put it, until she got the papers she was still a married woman. 128 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:26,000 Lansing didn't like that huh? 129 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Oh no, not a bit. 130 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,120 About ten days ago I was over there. 131 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:33,920 My TV was on the blank and I went over to see one of my favorites. 132 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,400 David was there and it was no time before they was at it. 133 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,760 Yelling and screaming kind of made me embarrassed. 134 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:40,760 That's when he said it. 135 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:41,760 What was that? 136 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:49,560 Said for Josephine to get rid of Jordan or David would get rid of her. 137 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:52,120 We continued to question the Harrison woman about Mrs. Allen. 138 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:55,240 She could give us no reason for her disappearance. 139 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:56,520 Sang and I left and went next door. 140 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:57,720 We checked through the house. 141 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:01,080 It was exactly the way the two uniformed officers had found it that morning. 142 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:03,200 The shades on all of the windows were drawn. 143 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:04,840 None of the furniture seemed to be disturbed. 144 00:05:04,840 --> 00:05:07,080 There was no sign of a struggle. 145 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,800 On the dining room table there was a setting for two people. 146 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:11,200 Silverware, napkins, glasses. 147 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,480 They were all ready to be used. 148 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:16,080 On the plate themselves was a complete meal. 149 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:17,720 None of the food had been touched. 150 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:19,120 We looked for Mrs. Allen's luggage. 151 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,440 There was no way of being sure, but apparently none of her things had been taken. 152 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:24,920 We went on through the house and out into the backyard. 153 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:27,320 There was no sign of anything wrong out there either. 154 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:29,200 Sure doesn't figure, does it? 155 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:31,920 Table all set, food, none of it touched. 156 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:33,720 There was an answer some place. 157 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:35,720 Let's check the garage. 158 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:37,720 All right. 159 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:40,720 I got it. 160 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:45,720 Well, no sign here. 161 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:52,720 You want to check the stuff at the back? 162 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:53,720 Yeah. 163 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:54,720 Trunk here. 164 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:55,720 Look at this. 165 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:58,720 It looks like stains of some kind. 166 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:01,720 Better take a look, huh? 167 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,720 By the way it's wrapped up, they're going to mail it. 168 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,720 Labels and everything here. 169 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:08,720 Rope. 170 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:11,720 You got anything to cut this with? 171 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:15,720 Might be something here. 172 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:17,720 Here, will you try this? 173 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:20,720 Oh, thanks. 174 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:21,720 Keep those knots. 175 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:26,720 Yeah. 176 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,720 Here, give me a hand with the lock, will you? 177 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:31,720 Yeah. 178 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:32,720 It's coming out. 179 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:33,720 There we are. 180 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:39,720 All right. 181 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:41,720 You know where she is? 182 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:42,720 Yeah. 183 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:48,720 Let's find out who put her there. 184 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:52,720 The crew from the crime lab was called and they came out to go over the house and the garage. 185 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:55,720 Frank and I called the office and told them what we'd found. 186 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:57,720 We checked the labels on the trunk. 187 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:01,720 They were addressed to a David Lansing on Rowena Avenue out in Glendale. 188 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:04,720 We went back to the woman who put in the original call. 189 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:08,720 From her we got a complete description of Lansing and we called it into the office. 190 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:14,720 We found that he had an arrest record listing several drunk charges and two major 415s, fights. 191 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:17,720 While the men from the crime lab continued their investigation on the scene, 192 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:19,720 Frank and I drove over to see Lansing. 193 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:21,720 He wasn't home. 194 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:24,720 We talked to his landlady, but she told us that she hadn't seen him in several days. 195 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,720 She was unable to tell us where he was employed. 196 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:29,720 We checked his room and questioned her about his car. 197 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,720 She gave us the name and business address of his roommate. 198 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:34,720 We drove over to see him. 199 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,720 He worked in a large television store on Pico Boulevard. 200 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:39,720 Yes sir, something I can do for you? 201 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:40,720 I'd like to see Mark Gilson. 202 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:41,720 That's me. 203 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:44,720 Police officer, this is my partner Frank Smith. My name's Friday. 204 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:46,720 How are you? What can I do for you? 205 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:49,720 We'd like to ask you a couple questions about David Lansing. 206 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:50,720 David in trouble again? 207 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:51,720 Do you know where he is? 208 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:53,720 No, I haven't seen him for a couple of days. 209 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:55,720 You have no idea where you can find him? 210 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,720 If I had you'd sure get it. Say, can you tell me what this is all about? 211 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:00,720 It'd be better if we talked to Lansing about it. 212 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:03,720 Yeah, if he's in the beef again, I'd just as soon stay out of it. It won't make me unhappy. 213 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:04,720 When did you see him last? 214 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:05,720 The day? 215 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:06,720 That's it. 216 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:08,720 Let me see, I guess it was Friday night. 217 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:11,720 Did he say anything to you that might give us a lead as to where we can find him? 218 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,720 No, I was home when he came in. He was pretty bugged about something. 219 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:15,720 Do you know what it was? 220 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:18,720 Only a couple things ever got David upset, his boss or his girl. 221 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:19,720 Do you know his girl? 222 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:24,720 No, never met her. David was all the time talking about how we were going to get together some night, have dinner, take in a few places. 223 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:26,720 We never quite got around to it though. 224 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:27,720 Uh-huh. 225 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:28,720 Did he ever say anything about her? 226 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:32,720 No, not much. He was pretty crazy about her. He wanted to marry her just as soon as her divorce was final. 227 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:34,720 What was he mad about when you saw him last, you know? 228 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:36,720 Well, I guess it was Josephine. That's his girl. 229 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:37,720 Yeah, we know. 230 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:43,720 He was sore about her. She's got this husband down south someplace. I don't know, either San Pedro or San Diego, somewhere down there. 231 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:44,720 Yeah? 232 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:48,720 He was trying to get Josephine to come back to him, call off the divorce. He's always calling about it, trying to see her. 233 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:49,720 Made Dave sore. 234 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:52,720 Boy, he put it, he and Joe had gotten into a beef about it that day. 235 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:53,720 Uh-huh. 236 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:54,720 That was Friday? 237 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:58,720 Yeah, yeah. He had a couple of drinks before he got home and while he was there and we were talking, he had a couple more. 238 00:08:58,720 --> 00:08:59,720 Got pretty mean. 239 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:00,720 Is that right? 240 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:05,720 Oh, yeah. Dave doesn't drink too good. All he needs is a couple. He thinks he can lick the world. He gets pretty mean. 241 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:07,720 I don't like to have him around when he's loaded. 242 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:08,720 He give you any idea where he was going? 243 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:10,720 No, I left him at the apartment. 244 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:11,720 What time was that? 245 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:18,720 Oh, I don't know. About, well, about 6.30, around in there. I had a date with a girl. She lives out in the Santa Monica Canyon. 246 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:22,720 Takes about an hour to drive out there. I left about 6.30 because I met this girl at 7.30. 247 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:24,720 Lansing was still in the apartment, huh? 248 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:29,720 Yeah. He was just sitting there pouring the booze away. I told him, take it easy, slow down. He said for me not to worry. 249 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:32,720 He had to decide on something. I figured it was about Josephine. 250 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:37,720 You know, Dave really loved that girl. All this stuff with her ex-husband was just eating at him. 251 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:39,720 I guess he was just trying to figure out what to do. 252 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:40,720 Yeah. 253 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:45,720 The funny thing about Dave, it takes him a while to make up his mind about what to do, but once he decides, there's nothing that can stop him. 254 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:46,720 That's how? 255 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:48,720 Oh, yeah. It takes him a while, but he's always right. 256 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:49,720 No, not always. 257 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:50,720 What do you mean? 258 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:52,720 Looks like he missed this time. 259 00:09:52,720 --> 00:10:01,720 Frank and I went back to the office. We got out a local broadcast and an APB on David Lansing along with the information on his automobile. 260 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:04,720 We made arrangements for a stakeout to be placed on his home. 261 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:09,720 A call was put through to the firm who employed him, but they told us that he hadn't shown up for work that week. 262 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:15,720 Frank and I went back to the crime lab and we met with Lieutenant Lee Jones. He went over the physical evidence found at the murder scene. 263 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:20,720 The trunk itself had been checked over as well as the ropes it was tied with and the mailing label. 264 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,720 There was nothing about the trunk to tell where it might have come from. 265 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:26,720 The rope was of a common variety that couldn't be purchased anywhere. 266 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:31,720 The knots, however, were of a type generally used by seamen to secure heavy articles. 267 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:36,720 We made arrangements to obtain samples of Lansing's handwriting for comparison with the writing on the label. 268 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:38,720 The evidence was marked in books. 269 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:42,720 The next morning, Frank and I met with Captain Lorman and we went over what we had. 270 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:45,720 We decided that in David Lansing we had a prime suspect. 271 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:51,720 After we left the city hall, we started to check out the people listed in Lansing's package as friends or acquaintances. 272 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:54,720 The first one we talked to was a Miss Dodie Frederick. 273 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:55,720 Honey, he's a bum. 274 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:56,720 Well, how long have you known him? 275 00:10:56,720 --> 00:11:00,720 About ten years we went together. We even thought about getting married. It was all a big deal. 276 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:03,720 Right now, I don't much care if I never see him again. 277 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:05,720 I wanted to see him last. 278 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:08,720 Oh, I see. I guess it was Saturday. Yeah, Saturday night. 279 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:09,720 What was last week? 280 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:11,720 That's right. He came in the place we talked. 281 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:12,720 What place? 282 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:14,720 Bar over on Sixth. I worked there as a sort of hostess. 283 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:16,720 What did Lansing say when you saw him? 284 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:19,720 Not much. I did most of the talking, just like usual. 285 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,720 Just came in, sat in a booth. Always sits in a booth. 286 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:26,720 Ordered a drink and we talked. It was kind of slow, so we just sat and talked. 287 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:27,720 What did you talk about? 288 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:29,720 The old days. 289 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:31,720 I'm not going to give you a line. 290 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:35,720 I was in love with Dave. Always was. Right from the first time I saw him, I wanted to marry him. 291 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:38,720 Everything was going good until we met this Alan Broad. 292 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:39,720 Whatever it is. 293 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:43,720 All of a sudden he figures I ain't good enough for him or something like that. 294 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:46,720 Anyway, drops me right in the middle of the street, takes off. 295 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:48,720 You say anything about Mrs. Allen Saturday night? 296 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:54,720 Honey, he don't talk much else. All the time it's what she said or what she did. All the time that way. 297 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:58,720 You'd think she was a Taj Mahal or something the way he talked about her. 298 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:00,720 And what'd he say Saturday night? 299 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:04,720 Just about old Josephine. I tell you, I'm so sick of that name I could scream. 300 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:10,720 Big deal with him too. He's always around her, but when he's got a problem, who do you think he comes running to? 301 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:12,720 We wouldn't know. 302 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:18,720 I'll tell you, me. She gives him the bad time and he comes to me to get over it. Always been like that. 303 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:24,720 He meets some girl and right away it's the real thing. Always ends up the same way. He comes back. 304 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:29,720 Thinks he's a real big man, all the time with the chicks. One of these days I'm going to tell him that. 305 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:31,720 Tell him to leave me alone. 306 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:33,720 I'm going to tell him as soon as he comes back. 307 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:34,720 What do you mean? 308 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:35,720 Huh? 309 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:37,720 About when he comes back. Do you know where he is? 310 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:41,720 No, but when he was in here Saturday he was broke. Borrowed thirty bucks from me. 311 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:43,720 Said he had to leave town. 312 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:54,720 We continued to talk to Dodie Frederick. We got as much information as we could from her. 313 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:59,720 She told us that Lansing had said he was going to San Francisco. We asked her if he had any friends in the Bay City. 314 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:06,720 She supplied us a list of names. We went back to the office and got in touch with the authorities in San Francisco and asked them to check on the suspect for us. 315 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:12,720 We put in a call to the coroner's office. The body had been posted and the time of death was set at sometime Friday night. 316 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:16,720 We checked out the rest of Lansing's friends and associates without result. 317 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:23,720 We re-questioned the suspect's roommate and we went over his apartment again but we failed to turn up any evidence that might aid us in taking him into custody. 318 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:28,720 Two days passed. Saturday, June 14th. Frank and I checked in for work. 319 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:30,720 How's it going John? 320 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:31,720 Alright. 321 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:33,720 Say, uh, you got a date tonight? 322 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:34,720 What was that? 323 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:36,720 I say you got a date tonight. 324 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:37,720 What do you mean? 325 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:40,720 Well, I just wondered if maybe you'd like to drop over for dinner. You know, kind of sit around and talk. 326 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:42,720 Well, is there anything planned? 327 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:44,720 Good. When it's all set, I'll give Fay a call. 328 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:46,720 Okay. I get it. 329 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:49,720 Homicide Friday. 330 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:51,720 Yeah, when did you get him? 331 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:52,720 Be right over. 332 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:53,720 Right. 333 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:54,720 Come on, we've got to get over to the main jail. 334 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:55,720 What's the matter? 335 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:56,720 They found Lansing. 336 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:09,720 We went over to the main jail and picked up David Lansing. He'd been arrested that morning and booked for drunk, violation of section 4127A of the Los Angeles Municipal Code. 337 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:15,720 As soon as the officers at the jail had made sure of his identity, they called us. He was taken back to the city hall to handwriting. 338 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:20,720 An exemplar of his handwriting was taken for comparison with the printing on the label found on the trunk. 339 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:26,720 Frank and I took the suspect back to the interrogation room for questioning. He was fairly sober, but he complained of a bad headache. 340 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:33,720 Frank went down the hall and brought back some coffee. We told Lansing of Josephine Allen's death. It didn't seem to make any difference to him. 341 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:35,720 It's hot. 342 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:37,720 Get it down, it'll help you. 343 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:40,720 If it isn't anything, it'll do me any good. I just got to wait it out. 344 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:42,720 All right, Lansing, you want to tell us why you did it? 345 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:43,720 Hmm? 346 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:45,720 You want to tell us why you killed Josephine Allen? 347 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:48,720 I'd like to help you out. There's only one problem. I didn't do it. 348 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:50,720 Only evidence doesn't point that way. 349 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:51,720 You better take another look. 350 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:53,720 Are you in the service, Lansing? 351 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:56,720 No, I got deferred. Bad ear. 352 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:58,720 Ever do any work in the Merchant Marine? 353 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:01,720 No. I get sick on the boats at MacArthur Park. 354 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:03,720 Never did any sea duty, huh? 355 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:06,720 No. I'm the kind of fellow that can only take a shower. 356 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:09,720 Here. 357 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:10,720 Note for you, Frank. 358 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:11,720 Thanks. 359 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:15,720 Fred? 360 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:16,720 Yeah? 361 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:17,720 Want to step on in? 362 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:18,720 Yeah. 363 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:22,720 What do you got? 364 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:23,720 No, here from Don Meyer. 365 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:24,720 Yeah. 366 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:26,720 They checked the exemplars of Lansing against the label on the trunk. 367 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:27,720 Yeah. 368 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:28,720 No match at all. 369 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:30,720 Kind of looks like they might have the wrong man. 370 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:44,720 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 371 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:58,720 The information from handwriting division on the results of the comparison made it possible that we had the wrong suspect in custody. 372 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:04,720 The main two pieces of physical evidence we had were the knots used in tying the rope around the trunk and the label. 373 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:07,720 On both counts, apparently David Lansing was out. 374 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:11,720 We set out for more coffee for the suspect and we continued to question him. 375 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:14,720 Look, I'll spell it out for you. I didn't have anything to do with killing her. 376 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:16,720 You saw her Friday, didn't you? 377 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:17,720 Yeah, but that don't mean I killed her. 378 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:19,720 Well, tell us what happened when you saw her. 379 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:20,720 From where? 380 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:21,720 From when she opened the door. 381 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:24,720 I went over to see her about 7.30. 382 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:25,720 Friday night? 383 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:27,720 Yeah. I went over to try to talk some sense into her. 384 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:29,720 Were you two having trouble? 385 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:30,720 Yeah. 386 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:31,720 About what? 387 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:36,720 The same thing all the time. I loved her. I loved her a lot. I wanted to marry the girl. 388 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:40,720 All the time his ex-husband's hanging around trying to get her to come back. 389 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:43,720 I had a belly full and wanted to get things straightened out so I went to see her. 390 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:44,720 Yeah. 391 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:48,720 I didn't call and tell her. She was pretty hacked about it. Said I should have called. She got real sore. 392 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:49,720 Mm-hmm. 393 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:53,720 I asked her what was wrong. She never acted like that before. I wanted to know what the beef was. 394 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:54,720 Really? 395 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:58,720 Well, she filled me in on how Jordan was coming up from San Diego. They had some things to talk about. 396 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:02,720 Big deal. All the time they were talking. Him trying to get her to come back. 397 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:05,720 Got to the point where I didn't know where I stood. 398 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:09,720 She told me to come in, but she said I couldn't stay long because she was expecting Jordan. 399 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:11,720 Said he was coming up for dinner. 400 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:16,720 I told her I wanted to marry her. I told her to make up a mind once and for all not to keep me on the string anymore. 401 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:17,720 What'd she say? 402 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:21,720 Told me to call her Saturday morning. Said she'd have something to tell me then. 403 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:23,720 Go ahead. 404 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:28,720 The way she put it, things were going to work out. After we talked for a little bit, I left. 405 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,720 She told me she didn't want me there when the ex got to the place. 406 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:32,720 What time did you leave? 407 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:33,720 I don't know. 408 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:35,720 Well, you must have some kind of an idea. 409 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:40,720 Maybe 7.30 or 8 around in there. I'm not sure. I was pretty sore when I walked out. I didn't pay a lot of attention. 410 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:42,720 Where'd you go then? 411 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:47,720 I went home for a while. I sat around, then I went over to see a guy I know runs a little club on Alvarado. 412 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:50,720 We sat there until the place closed, and after that I went home with him. 413 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:52,720 Why didn't you go on to your place? 414 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:54,720 No reason. He lived pretty close. We spent the night there. 415 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:56,720 Why'd you stop going to work? 416 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:57,720 What? 417 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:00,720 We checked with the place where you worked, and said you haven't been to work this week. 418 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:03,720 I guess that's because I couldn't get in touch with Joseph Fink. 419 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:04,720 How do you mean that? 420 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:10,720 I tried to call her Saturday morning. I didn't get any answers, so I figured that Jordan had talked her into coming back. I just went out on a run. 421 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:11,720 Did you try to see her? 422 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:12,720 Hmm? 423 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:14,720 What, did you go over to the house and try to see her? 424 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:19,720 Yeah, I went over Saturday night. There wasn't any answer. Shades were all full down. I figured sure she'd left town. 425 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:21,720 What'd you do? 426 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:27,720 Went down to a bar on sixth. Saw a girl I know. We talked, and I guess I got pretty loaded. 427 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:30,720 The next couple of days are kind of foggy. 428 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:32,720 You ever met Jordan Allen? 429 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:35,720 Yeah, once. Put it down that we didn't get along too good. 430 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:36,720 You know anything about him? 431 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:37,720 What do you mean? 432 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:39,720 What kind of business is he in? 433 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:42,720 I think it's some kind of photography thing. He sells cameras or something like that. 434 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:44,720 You know anything about his background? 435 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:48,720 Not much. I only met the guy once. We didn't get along too good then. 436 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:51,720 Near as I can remember from what Josephine told me, he worked on a boat. 437 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:52,720 Really? 438 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:54,720 Merchant Marine for about six years. 439 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:55,720 You sure about that? 440 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:57,720 It's what I heard. Take it from there. 441 00:18:57,720 --> 00:18:58,720 All right, we'll do that. 442 00:18:58,720 --> 00:18:59,720 It's gonna make a difference? 443 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:01,720 It might to you. 444 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:02,720 How do you figure? 445 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:04,720 You're lucky you get seasick. 446 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:15,720 The suspect was returned to the main jail where he was held to answer on the drug charge. 447 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:20,720 We got in touch with Sergeant Tony McGuire down in San Diego and asked him to check on the victim's husband. 448 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:24,720 Frank and I met with Chief of Detective Staff Brown and Captain Warman. 449 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:26,720 We laid out the information we'd been able to come up with. 450 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:30,720 They agreed that we should drive to the Southland City and talk to Jordan Allen. 451 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:33,720 We checked out a trip car and we drove down to talk to him. 452 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:37,720 We found him at his home, a small clabbered house on B Street. 453 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:39,720 From the way he looked, he'd been in bed when we rang the bell. 454 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:43,720 Come on in. 455 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:44,720 What do you want to see me about? 456 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:46,720 I'd like to ask you a few questions. 457 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:47,720 About what? 458 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:48,720 When was the last time you saw your wife? 459 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:49,720 Why? 460 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:50,720 We'd like to have an answer. 461 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:52,720 I don't know, maybe a couple weeks ago. 462 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:54,720 Bring it down to a day, will you? 463 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:55,720 Why? 464 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:56,720 Pretty important to you. 465 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:57,720 Why to me? 466 00:19:57,720 --> 00:19:59,720 You lay it out to me when you want, mister. 467 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:00,720 We asked it simple. 468 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:01,720 You can give us the same kind of an answer now. 469 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:05,720 Look, you come in here, you're not from Diego, you got no right asking me anything. 470 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:06,720 Local authorities know we're here. 471 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:11,720 Now if you want us to ask them to ask the questions, it can be fixed up. 472 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,720 How about it, Alan? 473 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:15,720 Go ahead. 474 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:16,720 When did you see your wife last? 475 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:18,720 Must have been a couple weeks ago. 476 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:20,720 I can't come up with a date for you. 477 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:21,720 What do you do for a living? 478 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:23,720 Sell photographic materials. 479 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:25,720 What kind of a job did you have before that? 480 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:26,720 First maid on a ship. 481 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:28,720 How long did you hold down that job? 482 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:29,720 Six and a half years. 483 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:31,720 How'd you and your wife get along? 484 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:32,720 We were divorced. 485 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:34,720 I understand you saw her quite a bit. 486 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:36,720 Once in a while, yeah, not too often. 487 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:38,720 The way we got it, you were trying to get her to call off the divorce. 488 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:40,720 You've been listening to a lot of people with big mouths. 489 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:42,720 They seem to talk pretty straight, mister. 490 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:45,720 Well, you go and ask them the questions. 491 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:47,720 All right, Alan, get your clothes on. 492 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:48,720 What for? 493 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:51,720 If you don't want to talk here, we can make it downtown. 494 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:53,720 Well, what do you want to know? 495 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:55,720 Your accounts for your time last week. 496 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:56,720 What day? 497 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:57,720 I'll start with Monday. 498 00:20:57,720 --> 00:20:58,720 Worked. 499 00:20:58,720 --> 00:20:59,720 What'd you do at night? 500 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:00,720 Took in a movie. 501 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:01,720 Can you prove that? 502 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:02,720 Yeah, I took a girl, I know. 503 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:04,720 Works in one of the photo shops here in town. 504 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:05,720 Check with her. 505 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:06,720 What about Tuesday? 506 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:09,720 Worked during the day, stayed home Tuesday night. 507 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:10,720 You got any way to back that up? 508 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:11,720 No, I was alone. 509 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:13,720 All right, go ahead. 510 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:15,720 Wednesday, I had to go out of town, took a run over to Riverside, 511 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:17,720 didn't get back till about 1.30. 512 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:18,720 In the morning? 513 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:18,720 Yeah. 514 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:20,720 You proved that? 515 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:22,720 I can give you the names of the people I was with. 516 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:23,720 You can call them if you have to. 517 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:24,720 All right. 518 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:26,720 There's some way to get away from it, I sure appreciate it. 519 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:27,720 I don't like to have them brought into it. 520 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:28,720 All right. 521 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:29,720 It's a business thing. 522 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:30,720 The old man buys a lot of stuff from me. 523 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:31,720 I don't want to ruin the contact. 524 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:33,720 What about Friday night? 525 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:35,720 Friday night, I was home all night. 526 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:37,720 Didn't feel too good, so I was here all night. 527 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:38,720 Anybody devout for you? 528 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,720 No, I called a couple of people, but there wasn't anybody here. 529 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,720 Saturday night, I went out with the same girl I dated Monday. 530 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:46,720 Look, you want to tell me what this is all about? 531 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:47,720 What do you think you know? 532 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:48,720 Now, how would I know? 533 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:50,720 You guys coming here caused a lot of trouble. 534 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:51,720 How am I supposed to know what it's all about? 535 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,720 All right, I'll lay it out for you. 536 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:54,720 Your wife's dead. 537 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:55,720 Josephine? 538 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:56,720 That's right. 539 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:57,720 When did it happen? 540 00:21:57,720 --> 00:21:58,720 Last week. 541 00:21:58,720 --> 00:21:59,720 You think I had something to do with it? 542 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:00,720 Everything. 543 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:01,720 We've got points that way. 544 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:03,720 Well, how do you figure that? 545 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:04,720 Why'd I want to kill her? 546 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:05,720 What reason would I have? 547 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:06,720 They want you to tell us. 548 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:08,720 Well, I haven't any. 549 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:09,720 Now, come on, fellas. 550 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:10,720 Tell me the truth. 551 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:11,720 This is a joke, huh? 552 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:12,720 How much did Jeff give you to pull again? 553 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:13,720 No joke. 554 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:15,720 Look, I don't know what he gave you, but I'll double it. 555 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:17,720 You just tell me the bit and I'll double your money. 556 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:18,720 I'd like to get back at Jeff. 557 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:19,720 No joke, Alan. 558 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:21,720 All the evidence we've got points out that you killed your wife. 559 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:23,720 Now, we just want to know why. 560 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:25,720 You mean you really got a case you can take to court? 561 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,720 We're going to try. 562 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:29,720 Well, how about it? 563 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,720 You want to tell us? 564 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:34,720 Tell them. 565 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,720 I got scared. 566 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:39,720 That's the only way you'd have known I got scared. 567 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:40,720 Go ahead. 568 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,720 I saw her Friday night. 569 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:44,720 She said she'd have dinner with me, 570 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:45,720 said we'd have some stuff to talk about. 571 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:46,720 I went up to have dinner with her. 572 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:47,720 Yeah. 573 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:49,720 She told me she made up her mind, 574 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:51,720 said she didn't want to get back together. 575 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:53,720 This past six months, I figured it would work out. 576 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:54,720 All the time, I kept calling her, 577 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:55,720 asking her to take me back. 578 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:56,720 All the time. 579 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:58,720 Would have done anything in the world she asked me to do. 580 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:01,720 She had just taken me back. 581 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:02,720 None of it worked. 582 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:04,720 We sat there, had a couple of drinks, 583 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:07,720 and then she went out in the kitchen and got dinner ready. 584 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:09,720 All the time, I figured, sure, she's going to say 585 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:11,720 we were going back together. 586 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:13,720 I went out in the kitchen with her, 587 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:14,720 and we talked about it. 588 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:16,720 She put the stuff on the plates. 589 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:19,720 And then she told me she was going to marry this David Lansing. 590 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:20,720 I tried to talk her out of it. 591 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:21,720 I told her it wouldn't work. 592 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:22,720 She just wouldn't listen. 593 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:23,720 Yeah. 594 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:25,720 Tried to tell her how she was making a mistake, 595 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:27,720 but she wouldn't listen. 596 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:29,720 She kept telling me to sit down, eat my dinner. 597 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:31,720 Just kept telling me that. 598 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:33,720 I just couldn't take any more of it. 599 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:35,720 I couldn't see her going to anybody else. 600 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:36,720 You can see that yourself. 601 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:37,720 There wasn't anything else I could do. 602 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:38,720 You can see that, can't you? 603 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:40,720 Why'd you put Lansing's name on that truck? 604 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:42,720 That's where I thought I was smart. 605 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:44,720 I figured I'd have it sent to his place 606 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:45,720 and then pick it up and get rid of it. 607 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,720 If I couldn't do that, then he'd get the blame for it. 608 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:50,720 Either way, it would have worked out for me. 609 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:51,720 All right. 610 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:52,720 You want to get dressed? 611 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:53,720 Are you going to take me back to L.A.? 612 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:54,720 That's right. 613 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:56,720 I don't much care anymore. 614 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,720 As long as she's gone, there isn't much. 615 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:01,720 The big thing is that you know that I really loved her. 616 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:02,720 Yes, yes. 617 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:04,720 You've got to believe that I did love her. 618 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:05,720 It's important that you believe me. 619 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:06,720 I loved her. 620 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:07,720 It was just one thing. 621 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:08,720 Yeah. 622 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,720 You had a funny way of showing it, didn't you? 623 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:19,720 The story you have just heard is true. 624 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,720 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 625 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,720 On November 18th, trial was held in Department 97, 626 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:27,720 Superior Court of the State of California, 627 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:29,720 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 628 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:40,720 In a moment, the results of that trial. 629 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:44,720 Jordan Keith Allen was tried and convicted of murder in the second degree, 630 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:47,720 one count, and received sentence as prescribed by law. 631 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:50,720 Murder in the second degree is punishable by imprisonment 632 00:24:50,720 --> 00:25:03,720 in the state penitentiary for a period of from five years to life. 633 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:05,720 You have just heard Dragnet, 634 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:08,720 a series of authentic cases from official files. 635 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:10,720 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, 636 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:23,720 W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department.