WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.160 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:11.160 --> 00:13.560 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:13.560 --> 00:14.560 Fragment. 00:14.560 --> 00:24.000 You're a detective sergeant. 00:24.000 --> 00:26.240 You're assigned a homicide detail. 00:26.240 --> 00:29.200 An attractive divorcee disappears from her home. 00:29.200 --> 00:31.120 There's no lead to her whereabouts. 00:31.120 --> 00:32.880 There's evidence of foul play. 00:32.880 --> 00:37.760 Your job, find her. 00:37.760 --> 00:45.560 Fragment. 00:45.560 --> 00:48.440 The document a drama of an actual crime. 00:48.440 --> 00:52.760 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 00:52.760 --> 00:57.380 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 00:57.380 --> 00:58.380 police files. 00:58.380 --> 01:04.280 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 01:04.280 --> 01:09.760 in action. 01:09.760 --> 01:10.760 Was Tuesday June 10th. 01:10.760 --> 01:11.760 Was mild in Los Angeles. 01:11.760 --> 01:14.520 We were working the day watch out of homicide details. 01:14.520 --> 01:15.680 My partner's Frank Smith. 01:15.680 --> 01:16.680 The boss is Captain Norman. 01:16.680 --> 01:17.680 My name's Friday. 01:17.680 --> 01:22.480 We're on our way out from the office and it was 1115 a.m. when we got to 2962 Reservoir 01:22.480 --> 01:23.480 Street. 01:23.480 --> 01:24.480 Front door. 01:24.480 --> 01:27.480 Are you the policeman? 01:27.480 --> 01:28.480 Yes ma'am. 01:28.480 --> 01:29.480 Ms. Harrison. 01:29.480 --> 01:30.480 That's right. 01:30.480 --> 01:31.480 Come on in. 01:31.480 --> 01:33.360 My partner, Frank Smith. 01:33.360 --> 01:34.360 My name's Friday. 01:34.360 --> 01:35.360 How are you ma'am? 01:35.360 --> 01:36.360 I was expecting you. 01:36.360 --> 01:37.360 Yes ma'am. 01:37.360 --> 01:39.200 Other officers said there'd be somebody here from the detectives to see me. 01:39.200 --> 01:40.200 You meant from the detectives? 01:40.200 --> 01:41.200 That's right, Ms. Harrison. 01:41.200 --> 01:43.480 I got some coffee on if you'd like a cup while we talk. 01:43.480 --> 01:44.480 No thank you. 01:44.480 --> 01:45.480 No thank you ma'am. 01:45.480 --> 01:46.480 Okay. 01:46.480 --> 01:47.480 You want to sit down there? 01:47.480 --> 01:48.480 We can get started on this. 01:48.480 --> 01:51.800 I made some little notes this morning after the other policemen left. 01:51.800 --> 01:54.640 I thought it might help me to remember. 01:54.640 --> 01:57.400 They didn't find anything when they went to Josephine's house, did they? 01:57.400 --> 01:58.400 No they haven't. 01:58.400 --> 02:00.200 I wonder if you'd tell us what you know about her disappearance. 02:00.200 --> 02:01.200 I'd be glad to. 02:01.200 --> 02:05.760 Last time I saw her was Friday, the sixth, last Friday. 02:05.760 --> 02:06.760 Where was that? 02:06.760 --> 02:07.760 Out in her yard. 02:07.760 --> 02:10.800 She was hanging up clothes and we got to talking, you know, about neighborhood stuff. 02:10.800 --> 02:11.800 Yes ma'am. 02:11.800 --> 02:12.800 We talked for a little while. 02:12.800 --> 02:15.560 Her hanging up clothes and I was working around the yard. 02:15.560 --> 02:17.440 Did there seem to be anything wrong then? 02:17.440 --> 02:18.920 Well what do you mean? 02:18.920 --> 02:20.640 Well did you seem upset about anything? 02:20.640 --> 02:22.600 Not that she told me about. 02:22.600 --> 02:23.600 We were pretty close. 02:23.600 --> 02:25.800 She told me just about everything happened to her. 02:25.800 --> 02:30.000 When her and Jordan were still married we used to get together all the time, have a little 02:30.000 --> 02:32.880 barbecue, maybe take in the drive-in movie. 02:32.880 --> 02:34.360 That's her husband? 02:34.360 --> 02:35.960 Yeah, Jordan Allen. 02:35.960 --> 02:37.560 She's divorced then? 02:37.560 --> 02:38.560 Yeah. 02:38.560 --> 02:40.800 I got them in a locketory about six months ago. 02:40.800 --> 02:41.800 Not final yet. 02:41.800 --> 02:42.800 Where's Mr. Allen now? 02:42.800 --> 02:45.200 Nonetheless, I heard he was working down in San Diego. 02:45.200 --> 02:47.080 Do you know where we might get in touch with him? 02:47.080 --> 02:48.880 Well not right off. 02:48.880 --> 02:50.760 Must be some letters over to Josephine's though. 02:50.760 --> 02:51.760 He was always writing it. 02:51.760 --> 02:53.520 Was there any trouble between them? 02:53.520 --> 02:54.520 They got a divorce. 02:54.520 --> 02:55.520 Well that's not what I mean. 02:55.520 --> 02:56.520 I mean after. 02:56.520 --> 02:57.520 Did they have any arguments, any disagreements? 02:57.520 --> 02:59.520 Off and on. 02:59.520 --> 03:01.200 Jordan wanted to get back together again. 03:01.200 --> 03:04.600 I was asking her to call off the decree. 03:04.600 --> 03:05.600 Did he see her often? 03:05.600 --> 03:09.720 I don't think they got together in the last couple of months. 03:09.720 --> 03:12.520 No Josephine got some phone calls from him though. 03:12.520 --> 03:13.520 From San Diego? 03:13.520 --> 03:14.520 Yeah. 03:14.520 --> 03:17.160 Did Mrs. Allen say anything to you about taking vacation, anything like that? 03:17.160 --> 03:19.200 No, she'd had anything like that in mind. 03:19.200 --> 03:20.200 She'd have told me. 03:20.200 --> 03:21.200 We were pretty close. 03:21.200 --> 03:22.200 Did she have any men friends that you know of? 03:22.200 --> 03:23.200 Oh she's a handsome woman, Mr. Friday. 03:23.200 --> 03:24.200 She had a lot of them. 03:24.200 --> 03:28.160 Well did she see any one person more than the others would you know? 03:28.160 --> 03:29.160 David Lansing. 03:29.160 --> 03:31.040 They used to go out quite a bit. 03:31.040 --> 03:33.920 I think David wanted to marry her as soon as the divorce was final. 03:33.920 --> 03:35.920 Has he been around lately would you know? 03:35.920 --> 03:36.920 Not since Josephine disappeared. 03:36.920 --> 03:37.920 How about before that? 03:37.920 --> 03:40.920 I had a date with her the very night before. 03:40.920 --> 03:43.080 Went out for dinner and then went dancing. 03:43.080 --> 03:47.480 Any trouble between them would you know? 03:47.480 --> 03:49.600 I don't want to get mixed up in anything Mr. Friday. 03:49.600 --> 03:50.600 You can understand that can't you? 03:50.600 --> 03:51.600 Yes ma'am we can. 03:51.600 --> 03:54.480 But if you know anything about Mrs. Allen's disappearance we'll have to ask that you 03:54.480 --> 03:55.480 tell us. 03:55.480 --> 03:58.000 It's just that I don't want David to find out about it. 03:58.000 --> 03:59.360 Well he won't hear it from us. 03:59.360 --> 04:00.360 That's a promise? 04:00.360 --> 04:01.360 Yes ma'am. 04:01.360 --> 04:02.360 How about you? 04:02.360 --> 04:03.360 Yes ma'am. 04:03.360 --> 04:10.000 Well then, if you ask me, I'd say that David had something to do with Josephine's being 04:10.000 --> 04:11.000 gone. 04:11.000 --> 04:12.000 Why do you say that? 04:12.000 --> 04:13.000 Because they were always fighting. 04:13.000 --> 04:14.520 I could hear them all the way over here. 04:14.520 --> 04:16.040 What'd they argue about do you know? 04:16.040 --> 04:17.040 David wanted to marry her. 04:17.040 --> 04:21.240 And she wouldn't tell him whether she would or not until after the divorce was final. 04:21.240 --> 04:24.440 Luckily she put it, until she got the papers she was still a married woman. 04:24.440 --> 04:26.000 Lansing didn't like that huh? 04:26.000 --> 04:28.000 Oh no, not a bit. 04:28.000 --> 04:30.120 About ten days ago I was over there. 04:30.120 --> 04:33.920 My TV was on the blank and I went over to see one of my favorites. 04:33.920 --> 04:36.400 David was there and it was no time before they was at it. 04:36.400 --> 04:39.760 Yelling and screaming kind of made me embarrassed. 04:39.760 --> 04:40.760 That's when he said it. 04:40.760 --> 04:41.760 What was that? 04:41.760 --> 04:49.560 Said for Josephine to get rid of Jordan or David would get rid of her. 04:49.560 --> 04:52.120 We continued to question the Harrison woman about Mrs. Allen. 04:52.120 --> 04:55.240 She could give us no reason for her disappearance. 04:55.240 --> 04:56.520 Sang and I left and went next door. 04:56.520 --> 04:57.720 We checked through the house. 04:57.720 --> 05:01.080 It was exactly the way the two uniformed officers had found it that morning. 05:01.080 --> 05:03.200 The shades on all of the windows were drawn. 05:03.200 --> 05:04.840 None of the furniture seemed to be disturbed. 05:04.840 --> 05:07.080 There was no sign of a struggle. 05:07.080 --> 05:09.800 On the dining room table there was a setting for two people. 05:09.800 --> 05:11.200 Silverware, napkins, glasses. 05:11.200 --> 05:13.480 They were all ready to be used. 05:13.480 --> 05:16.080 On the plate themselves was a complete meal. 05:16.080 --> 05:17.720 None of the food had been touched. 05:17.720 --> 05:19.120 We looked for Mrs. Allen's luggage. 05:19.120 --> 05:22.440 There was no way of being sure, but apparently none of her things had been taken. 05:22.440 --> 05:24.920 We went on through the house and out into the backyard. 05:24.920 --> 05:27.320 There was no sign of anything wrong out there either. 05:27.320 --> 05:29.200 Sure doesn't figure, does it? 05:29.200 --> 05:31.920 Table all set, food, none of it touched. 05:31.920 --> 05:33.720 There was an answer some place. 05:33.720 --> 05:35.720 Let's check the garage. 05:35.720 --> 05:37.720 All right. 05:37.720 --> 05:40.720 I got it. 05:40.720 --> 05:45.720 Well, no sign here. 05:45.720 --> 05:52.720 You want to check the stuff at the back? 05:52.720 --> 05:53.720 Yeah. 05:53.720 --> 05:54.720 Trunk here. 05:54.720 --> 05:55.720 Look at this. 05:55.720 --> 05:58.720 It looks like stains of some kind. 05:58.720 --> 06:01.720 Better take a look, huh? 06:01.720 --> 06:04.720 By the way it's wrapped up, they're going to mail it. 06:04.720 --> 06:07.720 Labels and everything here. 06:07.720 --> 06:08.720 Rope. 06:08.720 --> 06:11.720 You got anything to cut this with? 06:11.720 --> 06:15.720 Might be something here. 06:15.720 --> 06:17.720 Here, will you try this? 06:17.720 --> 06:20.720 Oh, thanks. 06:20.720 --> 06:21.720 Keep those knots. 06:21.720 --> 06:26.720 Yeah. 06:26.720 --> 06:29.720 Here, give me a hand with the lock, will you? 06:29.720 --> 06:31.720 Yeah. 06:31.720 --> 06:32.720 It's coming out. 06:32.720 --> 06:33.720 There we are. 06:33.720 --> 06:39.720 All right. 06:39.720 --> 06:41.720 You know where she is? 06:41.720 --> 06:42.720 Yeah. 06:42.720 --> 06:48.720 Let's find out who put her there. 06:48.720 --> 06:52.720 The crew from the crime lab was called and they came out to go over the house and the garage. 06:52.720 --> 06:55.720 Frank and I called the office and told them what we'd found. 06:55.720 --> 06:57.720 We checked the labels on the trunk. 06:57.720 --> 07:01.720 They were addressed to a David Lansing on Rowena Avenue out in Glendale. 07:01.720 --> 07:04.720 We went back to the woman who put in the original call. 07:04.720 --> 07:08.720 From her we got a complete description of Lansing and we called it into the office. 07:08.720 --> 07:14.720 We found that he had an arrest record listing several drunk charges and two major 415s, fights. 07:14.720 --> 07:17.720 While the men from the crime lab continued their investigation on the scene, 07:17.720 --> 07:19.720 Frank and I drove over to see Lansing. 07:19.720 --> 07:21.720 He wasn't home. 07:21.720 --> 07:24.720 We talked to his landlady, but she told us that she hadn't seen him in several days. 07:24.720 --> 07:27.720 She was unable to tell us where he was employed. 07:27.720 --> 07:29.720 We checked his room and questioned her about his car. 07:29.720 --> 07:32.720 She gave us the name and business address of his roommate. 07:32.720 --> 07:34.720 We drove over to see him. 07:34.720 --> 07:37.720 He worked in a large television store on Pico Boulevard. 07:37.720 --> 07:39.720 Yes sir, something I can do for you? 07:39.720 --> 07:40.720 I'd like to see Mark Gilson. 07:40.720 --> 07:41.720 That's me. 07:41.720 --> 07:44.720 Police officer, this is my partner Frank Smith. My name's Friday. 07:44.720 --> 07:46.720 How are you? What can I do for you? 07:46.720 --> 07:49.720 We'd like to ask you a couple questions about David Lansing. 07:49.720 --> 07:50.720 David in trouble again? 07:50.720 --> 07:51.720 Do you know where he is? 07:51.720 --> 07:53.720 No, I haven't seen him for a couple of days. 07:53.720 --> 07:55.720 You have no idea where you can find him? 07:55.720 --> 07:58.720 If I had you'd sure get it. Say, can you tell me what this is all about? 07:58.720 --> 08:00.720 It'd be better if we talked to Lansing about it. 08:00.720 --> 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. 08:03.720 --> 08:04.720 When did you see him last? 08:04.720 --> 08:05.720 The day? 08:05.720 --> 08:06.720 That's it. 08:06.720 --> 08:08.720 Let me see, I guess it was Friday night. 08:08.720 --> 08:11.720 Did he say anything to you that might give us a lead as to where we can find him? 08:11.720 --> 08:14.720 No, I was home when he came in. He was pretty bugged about something. 08:14.720 --> 08:15.720 Do you know what it was? 08:15.720 --> 08:18.720 Only a couple things ever got David upset, his boss or his girl. 08:18.720 --> 08:19.720 Do you know his girl? 08:19.720 --> 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. 08:24.720 --> 08:26.720 We never quite got around to it though. 08:26.720 --> 08:27.720 Uh-huh. 08:27.720 --> 08:28.720 Did he ever say anything about her? 08:28.720 --> 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. 08:32.720 --> 08:34.720 What was he mad about when you saw him last, you know? 08:34.720 --> 08:36.720 Well, I guess it was Josephine. That's his girl. 08:36.720 --> 08:37.720 Yeah, we know. 08:37.720 --> 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. 08:43.720 --> 08:44.720 Yeah? 08:44.720 --> 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. 08:48.720 --> 08:49.720 Made Dave sore. 08:49.720 --> 08:52.720 Boy, he put it, he and Joe had gotten into a beef about it that day. 08:52.720 --> 08:53.720 Uh-huh. 08:53.720 --> 08:54.720 That was Friday? 08:54.720 --> 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. 08:58.720 --> 08:59.720 Got pretty mean. 08:59.720 --> 09:00.720 Is that right? 09:00.720 --> 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. 09:05.720 --> 09:07.720 I don't like to have him around when he's loaded. 09:07.720 --> 09:08.720 He give you any idea where he was going? 09:08.720 --> 09:10.720 No, I left him at the apartment. 09:10.720 --> 09:11.720 What time was that? 09:11.720 --> 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. 09:18.720 --> 09:22.720 Takes about an hour to drive out there. I left about 6.30 because I met this girl at 7.30. 09:22.720 --> 09:24.720 Lansing was still in the apartment, huh? 09:24.720 --> 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. 09:29.720 --> 09:32.720 He had to decide on something. I figured it was about Josephine. 09:32.720 --> 09:37.720 You know, Dave really loved that girl. All this stuff with her ex-husband was just eating at him. 09:37.720 --> 09:39.720 I guess he was just trying to figure out what to do. 09:39.720 --> 09:40.720 Yeah. 09:40.720 --> 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. 09:45.720 --> 09:46.720 That's how? 09:46.720 --> 09:48.720 Oh, yeah. It takes him a while, but he's always right. 09:48.720 --> 09:49.720 No, not always. 09:49.720 --> 09:50.720 What do you mean? 09:50.720 --> 09:52.720 Looks like he missed this time. 09:52.720 --> 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. 10:01.720 --> 10:04.720 We made arrangements for a stakeout to be placed on his home. 10:04.720 --> 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. 10:09.720 --> 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. 10:15.720 --> 10:20.720 The trunk itself had been checked over as well as the ropes it was tied with and the mailing label. 10:20.720 --> 10:23.720 There was nothing about the trunk to tell where it might have come from. 10:23.720 --> 10:26.720 The rope was of a common variety that couldn't be purchased anywhere. 10:26.720 --> 10:31.720 The knots, however, were of a type generally used by seamen to secure heavy articles. 10:31.720 --> 10:36.720 We made arrangements to obtain samples of Lansing's handwriting for comparison with the writing on the label. 10:36.720 --> 10:38.720 The evidence was marked in books. 10:38.720 --> 10:42.720 The next morning, Frank and I met with Captain Lorman and we went over what we had. 10:42.720 --> 10:45.720 We decided that in David Lansing we had a prime suspect. 10:45.720 --> 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. 10:51.720 --> 10:54.720 The first one we talked to was a Miss Dodie Frederick. 10:54.720 --> 10:55.720 Honey, he's a bum. 10:55.720 --> 10:56.720 Well, how long have you known him? 10:56.720 --> 11:00.720 About ten years we went together. We even thought about getting married. It was all a big deal. 11:00.720 --> 11:03.720 Right now, I don't much care if I never see him again. 11:03.720 --> 11:05.720 I wanted to see him last. 11:05.720 --> 11:08.720 Oh, I see. I guess it was Saturday. Yeah, Saturday night. 11:08.720 --> 11:09.720 What was last week? 11:09.720 --> 11:11.720 That's right. He came in the place we talked. 11:11.720 --> 11:12.720 What place? 11:12.720 --> 11:14.720 Bar over on Sixth. I worked there as a sort of hostess. 11:14.720 --> 11:16.720 What did Lansing say when you saw him? 11:16.720 --> 11:19.720 Not much. I did most of the talking, just like usual. 11:19.720 --> 11:22.720 Just came in, sat in a booth. Always sits in a booth. 11:22.720 --> 11:26.720 Ordered a drink and we talked. It was kind of slow, so we just sat and talked. 11:26.720 --> 11:27.720 What did you talk about? 11:27.720 --> 11:29.720 The old days. 11:29.720 --> 11:31.720 I'm not going to give you a line. 11:31.720 --> 11:35.720 I was in love with Dave. Always was. Right from the first time I saw him, I wanted to marry him. 11:35.720 --> 11:38.720 Everything was going good until we met this Alan Broad. 11:38.720 --> 11:39.720 Whatever it is. 11:39.720 --> 11:43.720 All of a sudden he figures I ain't good enough for him or something like that. 11:43.720 --> 11:46.720 Anyway, drops me right in the middle of the street, takes off. 11:46.720 --> 11:48.720 You say anything about Mrs. Allen Saturday night? 11:48.720 --> 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. 11:54.720 --> 11:58.720 You'd think she was a Taj Mahal or something the way he talked about her. 11:58.720 --> 12:00.720 And what'd he say Saturday night? 12:00.720 --> 12:04.720 Just about old Josephine. I tell you, I'm so sick of that name I could scream. 12:04.720 --> 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? 12:10.720 --> 12:12.720 We wouldn't know. 12:12.720 --> 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. 12:18.720 --> 12:24.720 He meets some girl and right away it's the real thing. Always ends up the same way. He comes back. 12:24.720 --> 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. 12:29.720 --> 12:31.720 Tell him to leave me alone. 12:31.720 --> 12:33.720 I'm going to tell him as soon as he comes back. 12:33.720 --> 12:34.720 What do you mean? 12:34.720 --> 12:35.720 Huh? 12:35.720 --> 12:37.720 About when he comes back. Do you know where he is? 12:37.720 --> 12:41.720 No, but when he was in here Saturday he was broke. Borrowed thirty bucks from me. 12:41.720 --> 12:43.720 Said he had to leave town. 12:43.720 --> 12:54.720 We continued to talk to Dodie Frederick. We got as much information as we could from her. 12:54.720 --> 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. 12:59.720 --> 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. 13:06.720 --> 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. 13:12.720 --> 13:16.720 We checked out the rest of Lansing's friends and associates without result. 13:16.720 --> 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. 13:23.720 --> 13:28.720 Two days passed. Saturday, June 14th. Frank and I checked in for work. 13:28.720 --> 13:30.720 How's it going John? 13:30.720 --> 13:31.720 Alright. 13:31.720 --> 13:33.720 Say, uh, you got a date tonight? 13:33.720 --> 13:34.720 What was that? 13:34.720 --> 13:36.720 I say you got a date tonight. 13:36.720 --> 13:37.720 What do you mean? 13:37.720 --> 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. 13:40.720 --> 13:42.720 Well, is there anything planned? 13:42.720 --> 13:44.720 Good. When it's all set, I'll give Fay a call. 13:44.720 --> 13:46.720 Okay. I get it. 13:47.720 --> 13:49.720 Homicide Friday. 13:49.720 --> 13:51.720 Yeah, when did you get him? 13:51.720 --> 13:52.720 Be right over. 13:52.720 --> 13:53.720 Right. 13:53.720 --> 13:54.720 Come on, we've got to get over to the main jail. 13:54.720 --> 13:55.720 What's the matter? 13:55.720 --> 13:56.720 They found Lansing. 13:56.720 --> 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. 14:09.720 --> 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. 14:15.720 --> 14:20.720 An exemplar of his handwriting was taken for comparison with the printing on the label found on the trunk. 14:20.720 --> 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. 14:26.720 --> 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. 14:33.720 --> 14:35.720 It's hot. 14:35.720 --> 14:37.720 Get it down, it'll help you. 14:37.720 --> 14:40.720 If it isn't anything, it'll do me any good. I just got to wait it out. 14:40.720 --> 14:42.720 All right, Lansing, you want to tell us why you did it? 14:42.720 --> 14:43.720 Hmm? 14:43.720 --> 14:45.720 You want to tell us why you killed Josephine Allen? 14:45.720 --> 14:48.720 I'd like to help you out. There's only one problem. I didn't do it. 14:48.720 --> 14:50.720 Only evidence doesn't point that way. 14:50.720 --> 14:51.720 You better take another look. 14:51.720 --> 14:53.720 Are you in the service, Lansing? 14:53.720 --> 14:56.720 No, I got deferred. Bad ear. 14:56.720 --> 14:58.720 Ever do any work in the Merchant Marine? 14:58.720 --> 15:01.720 No. I get sick on the boats at MacArthur Park. 15:01.720 --> 15:03.720 Never did any sea duty, huh? 15:03.720 --> 15:06.720 No. I'm the kind of fellow that can only take a shower. 15:08.720 --> 15:09.720 Here. 15:09.720 --> 15:10.720 Note for you, Frank. 15:10.720 --> 15:11.720 Thanks. 15:14.720 --> 15:15.720 Fred? 15:15.720 --> 15:16.720 Yeah? 15:16.720 --> 15:17.720 Want to step on in? 15:17.720 --> 15:18.720 Yeah. 15:21.720 --> 15:22.720 What do you got? 15:22.720 --> 15:23.720 No, here from Don Meyer. 15:23.720 --> 15:24.720 Yeah. 15:24.720 --> 15:26.720 They checked the exemplars of Lansing against the label on the trunk. 15:26.720 --> 15:27.720 Yeah. 15:27.720 --> 15:28.720 No match at all. 15:28.720 --> 15:30.720 Kind of looks like they might have the wrong man. 15:30.720 --> 15:44.720 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 15:53.720 --> 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. 15:58.720 --> 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. 16:04.720 --> 16:07.720 On both counts, apparently David Lansing was out. 16:07.720 --> 16:11.720 We set out for more coffee for the suspect and we continued to question him. 16:11.720 --> 16:14.720 Look, I'll spell it out for you. I didn't have anything to do with killing her. 16:14.720 --> 16:16.720 You saw her Friday, didn't you? 16:16.720 --> 16:17.720 Yeah, but that don't mean I killed her. 16:17.720 --> 16:19.720 Well, tell us what happened when you saw her. 16:19.720 --> 16:20.720 From where? 16:20.720 --> 16:21.720 From when she opened the door. 16:21.720 --> 16:24.720 I went over to see her about 7.30. 16:24.720 --> 16:25.720 Friday night? 16:25.720 --> 16:27.720 Yeah. I went over to try to talk some sense into her. 16:27.720 --> 16:29.720 Were you two having trouble? 16:29.720 --> 16:30.720 Yeah. 16:30.720 --> 16:31.720 About what? 16:31.720 --> 16:36.720 The same thing all the time. I loved her. I loved her a lot. I wanted to marry the girl. 16:36.720 --> 16:40.720 All the time his ex-husband's hanging around trying to get her to come back. 16:40.720 --> 16:43.720 I had a belly full and wanted to get things straightened out so I went to see her. 16:43.720 --> 16:44.720 Yeah. 16:44.720 --> 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. 16:48.720 --> 16:49.720 Mm-hmm. 16:49.720 --> 16:53.720 I asked her what was wrong. She never acted like that before. I wanted to know what the beef was. 16:53.720 --> 16:54.720 Really? 16:54.720 --> 16:58.720 Well, she filled me in on how Jordan was coming up from San Diego. They had some things to talk about. 16:58.720 --> 17:02.720 Big deal. All the time they were talking. Him trying to get her to come back. 17:02.720 --> 17:05.720 Got to the point where I didn't know where I stood. 17:05.720 --> 17:09.720 She told me to come in, but she said I couldn't stay long because she was expecting Jordan. 17:09.720 --> 17:11.720 Said he was coming up for dinner. 17:11.720 --> 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. 17:16.720 --> 17:17.720 What'd she say? 17:17.720 --> 17:21.720 Told me to call her Saturday morning. Said she'd have something to tell me then. 17:21.720 --> 17:23.720 Go ahead. 17:23.720 --> 17:28.720 The way she put it, things were going to work out. After we talked for a little bit, I left. 17:28.720 --> 17:31.720 She told me she didn't want me there when the ex got to the place. 17:31.720 --> 17:32.720 What time did you leave? 17:32.720 --> 17:33.720 I don't know. 17:33.720 --> 17:35.720 Well, you must have some kind of an idea. 17:35.720 --> 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. 17:40.720 --> 17:42.720 Where'd you go then? 17:42.720 --> 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. 17:47.720 --> 17:50.720 We sat there until the place closed, and after that I went home with him. 17:50.720 --> 17:52.720 Why didn't you go on to your place? 17:52.720 --> 17:54.720 No reason. He lived pretty close. We spent the night there. 17:54.720 --> 17:56.720 Why'd you stop going to work? 17:56.720 --> 17:57.720 What? 17:57.720 --> 18:00.720 We checked with the place where you worked, and said you haven't been to work this week. 18:00.720 --> 18:03.720 I guess that's because I couldn't get in touch with Joseph Fink. 18:03.720 --> 18:04.720 How do you mean that? 18:04.720 --> 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. 18:10.720 --> 18:11.720 Did you try to see her? 18:11.720 --> 18:12.720 Hmm? 18:12.720 --> 18:14.720 What, did you go over to the house and try to see her? 18:14.720 --> 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. 18:19.720 --> 18:21.720 What'd you do? 18:21.720 --> 18:27.720 Went down to a bar on sixth. Saw a girl I know. We talked, and I guess I got pretty loaded. 18:27.720 --> 18:30.720 The next couple of days are kind of foggy. 18:30.720 --> 18:32.720 You ever met Jordan Allen? 18:32.720 --> 18:35.720 Yeah, once. Put it down that we didn't get along too good. 18:35.720 --> 18:36.720 You know anything about him? 18:36.720 --> 18:37.720 What do you mean? 18:37.720 --> 18:39.720 What kind of business is he in? 18:39.720 --> 18:42.720 I think it's some kind of photography thing. He sells cameras or something like that. 18:42.720 --> 18:44.720 You know anything about his background? 18:44.720 --> 18:48.720 Not much. I only met the guy once. We didn't get along too good then. 18:48.720 --> 18:51.720 Near as I can remember from what Josephine told me, he worked on a boat. 18:51.720 --> 18:52.720 Really? 18:52.720 --> 18:54.720 Merchant Marine for about six years. 18:54.720 --> 18:55.720 You sure about that? 18:55.720 --> 18:57.720 It's what I heard. Take it from there. 18:57.720 --> 18:58.720 All right, we'll do that. 18:58.720 --> 18:59.720 It's gonna make a difference? 18:59.720 --> 19:01.720 It might to you. 19:01.720 --> 19:02.720 How do you figure? 19:02.720 --> 19:04.720 You're lucky you get seasick. 19:04.720 --> 19:15.720 The suspect was returned to the main jail where he was held to answer on the drug charge. 19:15.720 --> 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. 19:20.720 --> 19:24.720 Frank and I met with Chief of Detective Staff Brown and Captain Warman. 19:24.720 --> 19:26.720 We laid out the information we'd been able to come up with. 19:26.720 --> 19:30.720 They agreed that we should drive to the Southland City and talk to Jordan Allen. 19:30.720 --> 19:33.720 We checked out a trip car and we drove down to talk to him. 19:33.720 --> 19:37.720 We found him at his home, a small clabbered house on B Street. 19:37.720 --> 19:39.720 From the way he looked, he'd been in bed when we rang the bell. 19:39.720 --> 19:43.720 Come on in. 19:43.720 --> 19:44.720 What do you want to see me about? 19:44.720 --> 19:46.720 I'd like to ask you a few questions. 19:46.720 --> 19:47.720 About what? 19:47.720 --> 19:48.720 When was the last time you saw your wife? 19:48.720 --> 19:49.720 Why? 19:49.720 --> 19:50.720 We'd like to have an answer. 19:50.720 --> 19:52.720 I don't know, maybe a couple weeks ago. 19:52.720 --> 19:54.720 Bring it down to a day, will you? 19:54.720 --> 19:55.720 Why? 19:55.720 --> 19:56.720 Pretty important to you. 19:56.720 --> 19:57.720 Why to me? 19:57.720 --> 19:59.720 You lay it out to me when you want, mister. 19:59.720 --> 20:00.720 We asked it simple. 20:00.720 --> 20:01.720 You can give us the same kind of an answer now. 20:01.720 --> 20:05.720 Look, you come in here, you're not from Diego, you got no right asking me anything. 20:05.720 --> 20:06.720 Local authorities know we're here. 20:06.720 --> 20:11.720 Now if you want us to ask them to ask the questions, it can be fixed up. 20:11.720 --> 20:14.720 How about it, Alan? 20:14.720 --> 20:15.720 Go ahead. 20:15.720 --> 20:16.720 When did you see your wife last? 20:16.720 --> 20:18.720 Must have been a couple weeks ago. 20:18.720 --> 20:20.720 I can't come up with a date for you. 20:20.720 --> 20:21.720 What do you do for a living? 20:21.720 --> 20:23.720 Sell photographic materials. 20:23.720 --> 20:25.720 What kind of a job did you have before that? 20:25.720 --> 20:26.720 First maid on a ship. 20:26.720 --> 20:28.720 How long did you hold down that job? 20:28.720 --> 20:29.720 Six and a half years. 20:29.720 --> 20:31.720 How'd you and your wife get along? 20:31.720 --> 20:32.720 We were divorced. 20:32.720 --> 20:34.720 I understand you saw her quite a bit. 20:34.720 --> 20:36.720 Once in a while, yeah, not too often. 20:36.720 --> 20:38.720 The way we got it, you were trying to get her to call off the divorce. 20:38.720 --> 20:40.720 You've been listening to a lot of people with big mouths. 20:40.720 --> 20:42.720 They seem to talk pretty straight, mister. 20:42.720 --> 20:45.720 Well, you go and ask them the questions. 20:45.720 --> 20:47.720 All right, Alan, get your clothes on. 20:47.720 --> 20:48.720 What for? 20:48.720 --> 20:51.720 If you don't want to talk here, we can make it downtown. 20:51.720 --> 20:53.720 Well, what do you want to know? 20:53.720 --> 20:55.720 Your accounts for your time last week. 20:55.720 --> 20:56.720 What day? 20:56.720 --> 20:57.720 I'll start with Monday. 20:57.720 --> 20:58.720 Worked. 20:58.720 --> 20:59.720 What'd you do at night? 20:59.720 --> 21:00.720 Took in a movie. 21:00.720 --> 21:01.720 Can you prove that? 21:01.720 --> 21:02.720 Yeah, I took a girl, I know. 21:02.720 --> 21:04.720 Works in one of the photo shops here in town. 21:04.720 --> 21:05.720 Check with her. 21:05.720 --> 21:06.720 What about Tuesday? 21:06.720 --> 21:09.720 Worked during the day, stayed home Tuesday night. 21:09.720 --> 21:10.720 You got any way to back that up? 21:10.720 --> 21:11.720 No, I was alone. 21:11.720 --> 21:13.720 All right, go ahead. 21:13.720 --> 21:15.720 Wednesday, I had to go out of town, took a run over to Riverside, 21:15.720 --> 21:17.720 didn't get back till about 1.30. 21:17.720 --> 21:18.720 In the morning? 21:17.720 --> 21:18.720 Yeah. 21:18.720 --> 21:20.720 You proved that? 21:20.720 --> 21:22.720 I can give you the names of the people I was with. 21:22.720 --> 21:23.720 You can call them if you have to. 21:23.720 --> 21:24.720 All right. 21:24.720 --> 21:26.720 There's some way to get away from it, I sure appreciate it. 21:26.720 --> 21:27.720 I don't like to have them brought into it. 21:27.720 --> 21:28.720 All right. 21:28.720 --> 21:29.720 It's a business thing. 21:29.720 --> 21:30.720 The old man buys a lot of stuff from me. 21:30.720 --> 21:31.720 I don't want to ruin the contact. 21:31.720 --> 21:33.720 What about Friday night? 21:33.720 --> 21:35.720 Friday night, I was home all night. 21:35.720 --> 21:37.720 Didn't feel too good, so I was here all night. 21:37.720 --> 21:38.720 Anybody devout for you? 21:38.720 --> 21:41.720 No, I called a couple of people, but there wasn't anybody here. 21:41.720 --> 21:44.720 Saturday night, I went out with the same girl I dated Monday. 21:44.720 --> 21:46.720 Look, you want to tell me what this is all about? 21:46.720 --> 21:47.720 What do you think you know? 21:47.720 --> 21:48.720 Now, how would I know? 21:48.720 --> 21:50.720 You guys coming here caused a lot of trouble. 21:50.720 --> 21:51.720 How am I supposed to know what it's all about? 21:51.720 --> 21:53.720 All right, I'll lay it out for you. 21:53.720 --> 21:54.720 Your wife's dead. 21:54.720 --> 21:55.720 Josephine? 21:55.720 --> 21:56.720 That's right. 21:56.720 --> 21:57.720 When did it happen? 21:57.720 --> 21:58.720 Last week. 21:58.720 --> 21:59.720 You think I had something to do with it? 21:59.720 --> 22:00.720 Everything. 22:00.720 --> 22:01.720 We've got points that way. 22:01.720 --> 22:03.720 Well, how do you figure that? 22:03.720 --> 22:04.720 Why'd I want to kill her? 22:04.720 --> 22:05.720 What reason would I have? 22:05.720 --> 22:06.720 They want you to tell us. 22:06.720 --> 22:08.720 Well, I haven't any. 22:08.720 --> 22:09.720 Now, come on, fellas. 22:09.720 --> 22:10.720 Tell me the truth. 22:10.720 --> 22:11.720 This is a joke, huh? 22:11.720 --> 22:12.720 How much did Jeff give you to pull again? 22:12.720 --> 22:13.720 No joke. 22:13.720 --> 22:15.720 Look, I don't know what he gave you, but I'll double it. 22:15.720 --> 22:17.720 You just tell me the bit and I'll double your money. 22:17.720 --> 22:18.720 I'd like to get back at Jeff. 22:18.720 --> 22:19.720 No joke, Alan. 22:19.720 --> 22:21.720 All the evidence we've got points out that you killed your wife. 22:21.720 --> 22:23.720 Now, we just want to know why. 22:23.720 --> 22:25.720 You mean you really got a case you can take to court? 22:25.720 --> 22:28.720 We're going to try. 22:28.720 --> 22:29.720 Well, how about it? 22:29.720 --> 22:31.720 You want to tell us? 22:31.720 --> 22:34.720 Tell them. 22:34.720 --> 22:37.720 I got scared. 22:37.720 --> 22:39.720 That's the only way you'd have known I got scared. 22:39.720 --> 22:40.720 Go ahead. 22:40.720 --> 22:43.720 I saw her Friday night. 22:43.720 --> 22:44.720 She said she'd have dinner with me, 22:44.720 --> 22:45.720 said we'd have some stuff to talk about. 22:45.720 --> 22:46.720 I went up to have dinner with her. 22:46.720 --> 22:47.720 Yeah. 22:47.720 --> 22:49.720 She told me she made up her mind, 22:49.720 --> 22:51.720 said she didn't want to get back together. 22:51.720 --> 22:53.720 This past six months, I figured it would work out. 22:53.720 --> 22:54.720 All the time, I kept calling her, 22:54.720 --> 22:55.720 asking her to take me back. 22:55.720 --> 22:56.720 All the time. 22:56.720 --> 22:58.720 Would have done anything in the world she asked me to do. 22:58.720 --> 23:01.720 She had just taken me back. 23:01.720 --> 23:02.720 None of it worked. 23:02.720 --> 23:04.720 We sat there, had a couple of drinks, 23:04.720 --> 23:07.720 and then she went out in the kitchen and got dinner ready. 23:07.720 --> 23:09.720 All the time, I figured, sure, she's going to say 23:09.720 --> 23:11.720 we were going back together. 23:11.720 --> 23:13.720 I went out in the kitchen with her, 23:13.720 --> 23:14.720 and we talked about it. 23:14.720 --> 23:16.720 She put the stuff on the plates. 23:16.720 --> 23:19.720 And then she told me she was going to marry this David Lansing. 23:19.720 --> 23:20.720 I tried to talk her out of it. 23:20.720 --> 23:21.720 I told her it wouldn't work. 23:21.720 --> 23:22.720 She just wouldn't listen. 23:22.720 --> 23:23.720 Yeah. 23:23.720 --> 23:25.720 Tried to tell her how she was making a mistake, 23:25.720 --> 23:27.720 but she wouldn't listen. 23:27.720 --> 23:29.720 She kept telling me to sit down, eat my dinner. 23:29.720 --> 23:31.720 Just kept telling me that. 23:31.720 --> 23:33.720 I just couldn't take any more of it. 23:33.720 --> 23:35.720 I couldn't see her going to anybody else. 23:35.720 --> 23:36.720 You can see that yourself. 23:36.720 --> 23:37.720 There wasn't anything else I could do. 23:37.720 --> 23:38.720 You can see that, can't you? 23:38.720 --> 23:40.720 Why'd you put Lansing's name on that truck? 23:40.720 --> 23:42.720 That's where I thought I was smart. 23:42.720 --> 23:44.720 I figured I'd have it sent to his place 23:44.720 --> 23:45.720 and then pick it up and get rid of it. 23:45.720 --> 23:48.720 If I couldn't do that, then he'd get the blame for it. 23:48.720 --> 23:50.720 Either way, it would have worked out for me. 23:50.720 --> 23:51.720 All right. 23:51.720 --> 23:52.720 You want to get dressed? 23:52.720 --> 23:53.720 Are you going to take me back to L.A.? 23:53.720 --> 23:54.720 That's right. 23:54.720 --> 23:56.720 I don't much care anymore. 23:56.720 --> 23:59.720 As long as she's gone, there isn't much. 23:59.720 --> 24:01.720 The big thing is that you know that I really loved her. 24:01.720 --> 24:02.720 Yes, yes. 24:02.720 --> 24:04.720 You've got to believe that I did love her. 24:04.720 --> 24:05.720 It's important that you believe me. 24:05.720 --> 24:06.720 I loved her. 24:06.720 --> 24:07.720 It was just one thing. 24:07.720 --> 24:08.720 Yeah. 24:08.720 --> 24:10.720 You had a funny way of showing it, didn't you? 24:10.720 --> 24:19.720 The story you have just heard is true. 24:19.720 --> 24:22.720 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 24:22.720 --> 24:25.720 On November 18th, trial was held in Department 97, 24:25.720 --> 24:27.720 Superior Court of the State of California, 24:27.720 --> 24:29.720 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 24:29.720 --> 24:40.720 In a moment, the results of that trial. 24:40.720 --> 24:44.720 Jordan Keith Allen was tried and convicted of murder in the second degree, 24:44.720 --> 24:47.720 one count, and received sentence as prescribed by law. 24:47.720 --> 24:50.720 Murder in the second degree is punishable by imprisonment 24:50.720 --> 25:03.720 in the state penitentiary for a period of from five years to life. 25:03.720 --> 25:05.720 You have just heard Dragnet, 25:05.720 --> 25:08.720 a series of authentic cases from official files. 25:08.720 --> 25:10.720 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, 25:10.720 --> 25:23.720 W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department.