WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.240 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:11.240 --> 00:13.880 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:13.880 --> 00:22.880 Drag men. 00:22.880 --> 00:24.560 You're a detective sergeant. 00:24.560 --> 00:26.880 You're assigned to homicide detail. 00:26.880 --> 00:28.800 A woman reports her sister is missing. 00:28.800 --> 00:32.320 The story she gives you indicates foul play. 00:32.320 --> 00:38.880 Your job, investigate. 00:38.880 --> 00:39.880 It was Tuesday, April 8th. 00:39.880 --> 00:40.880 It was warm in Los Angeles. 00:40.880 --> 00:43.120 We were working the day watch out on homicide division. 00:43.120 --> 00:44.120 My partner is Frank Smith. 00:44.120 --> 00:45.120 The boss is Captain Norman. 00:45.120 --> 00:46.120 My name is Friday. 00:46.120 --> 00:51.120 I was on my way back from the business office and it was 1146 A.M. when I got to room 42. 00:51.120 --> 00:52.120 Homicide. 00:52.120 --> 00:55.120 It's just too bad to get a little faster on things like this. 00:55.120 --> 00:56.120 It's just too bad. 00:56.120 --> 00:57.120 Yes ma'am. 00:57.120 --> 00:58.120 Hi Joe. 00:58.120 --> 00:59.120 This is my partner Sergeant Friday. 00:59.120 --> 01:00.120 Joe, this is Mrs. Moffat. 01:00.120 --> 01:01.120 How are you ma'am? 01:01.120 --> 01:02.120 How do you do? 01:02.120 --> 01:03.120 Want to tell him the story? 01:03.120 --> 01:04.120 You think it'll do any good? 01:04.120 --> 01:05.120 Yes ma'am. 01:05.120 --> 01:06.120 Well then, my sister is gone. 01:06.120 --> 01:07.120 Yes. 01:07.120 --> 01:09.120 Disappeared and I want you to find her. 01:09.120 --> 01:10.120 When did you see her last? 01:10.120 --> 01:11.120 A couple of weeks ago. 01:11.120 --> 01:12.120 Could you give us a date? 01:12.120 --> 01:13.120 You have a calendar? 01:13.120 --> 01:16.120 Yes ma'am, right on the wall there behind you. 01:16.120 --> 01:18.120 Oh, this is the eighth. 01:18.120 --> 01:22.120 Maggie's birthday was in March and that'd make it 14th of March. 01:22.120 --> 01:23.120 I see. 01:23.120 --> 01:25.120 She came by to thank me for the party. 01:25.120 --> 01:26.120 Had a few of the girls in for her. 01:26.120 --> 01:27.120 That's your sister? 01:27.120 --> 01:28.120 Yes, Margaret Shane. 01:28.120 --> 01:31.120 Have you heard anything from her since then? 01:31.120 --> 01:32.120 Not a peep. 01:32.120 --> 01:33.120 What about her home? 01:33.120 --> 01:34.120 Have you checked there? 01:34.120 --> 01:35.120 Tried to call her on the phone a couple of times. 01:35.120 --> 01:36.120 Didn't talk to her though. 01:36.120 --> 01:37.120 Who'd you speak with? 01:37.120 --> 01:38.120 Her husband. 01:38.120 --> 01:39.120 Did you ask him where your sister was? 01:39.120 --> 01:41.120 Yes, I came right out with it. 01:41.120 --> 01:42.120 Didn't mince anything up. 01:42.120 --> 01:43.120 What'd he have to say? 01:43.120 --> 01:44.120 Well, then, just beat around. 01:44.120 --> 01:46.120 Didn't come out with a yay or no. 01:46.120 --> 01:47.120 Just beat around. 01:47.120 --> 01:49.120 How about the rest of her family? 01:49.120 --> 01:50.120 Isn't any. 01:50.120 --> 01:51.120 I'm the only living relative she has. 01:51.120 --> 01:52.120 Impossible. 01:52.120 --> 01:53.120 She's ill? 01:53.120 --> 01:54.120 If that's so, I'd know about it. 01:54.120 --> 01:55.120 We were pretty close. 01:55.120 --> 01:56.120 Hardly no secrets from each other. 01:56.120 --> 01:57.120 I see. 01:57.120 --> 02:02.120 Now, if you're all done asking me the same questions this fella has, I want to know. 02:02.120 --> 02:03.120 I know there's something wrong. 02:03.120 --> 02:04.120 I want you to find out. 02:04.120 --> 02:05.120 All right, we'll check on it. 02:05.120 --> 02:07.120 I want you to do more than that, a lot more. 02:07.120 --> 02:08.120 Big pardon? 02:08.120 --> 02:09.120 I want you to arrest Maggie's husband. 02:09.120 --> 02:10.120 Well, why? 02:10.120 --> 02:11.120 Because he killed her. 02:11.120 --> 02:17.120 We checked the name and description of the woman through missing persons files, but we 02:17.120 --> 02:18.120 failed to find anything on her. 02:18.120 --> 02:23.120 While I talked to Karen Moffat, Frank went down the hall and ran the names Margaret Shane, 02:23.120 --> 02:26.120 and her husband Gordon through R&I. 02:26.120 --> 02:28.120 There was nothing on either one of them. 02:28.120 --> 02:29.120 1.06 p.m. 02:29.120 --> 02:33.120 We left the office and drove out to check the missing woman's house. 02:33.120 --> 02:36.120 Doesn't seem like anybody's home. 02:36.120 --> 02:39.120 Well, let's check the bank. 02:39.120 --> 02:40.120 All right. 02:40.120 --> 02:42.120 You think there's anything to it? 02:42.120 --> 02:46.120 You know, as much as I do, we both started from the same place. 02:46.120 --> 02:47.120 Yeah. 02:47.120 --> 02:48.120 I'll get it. 02:48.120 --> 02:49.120 All right. 02:49.120 --> 02:53.120 There's somebody home. 02:53.120 --> 02:54.120 Yeah. 02:54.120 --> 02:58.120 I wonder why he didn't bark when we knocked on the door. 02:58.120 --> 03:00.120 There's nothing here. 03:00.120 --> 03:03.120 Let's check the garage there. 03:03.120 --> 03:05.120 Lock? 03:05.120 --> 03:07.120 No. 03:07.120 --> 03:16.120 Well, it's quite a shop, huh? 03:16.120 --> 03:19.120 A lot of tools. 03:19.120 --> 03:23.120 Doesn't look like anything. 03:23.120 --> 03:24.120 No. 03:24.120 --> 03:25.120 Frank? 03:25.120 --> 03:26.120 Yeah? 03:26.120 --> 03:27.120 Come here. 03:27.120 --> 03:32.120 Right here, under the sawdust. 03:32.120 --> 03:33.120 Where? 03:33.120 --> 03:34.120 Oh, yeah. 03:34.120 --> 03:39.120 Looks like somebody tried to hide it. 03:39.120 --> 03:40.120 Blood stains. 03:40.120 --> 03:48.120 We put on the call to the crime lab requesting that a crew be sent out to check the stains 03:48.120 --> 03:49.120 that we found on the floor. 03:49.120 --> 03:52.120 We talked to the neighbors about the couple and we got the address of the place where Mr. 03:52.120 --> 03:53.120 Shane was employed. 03:53.120 --> 03:55.120 It was a large wholesale carpet company. 03:55.120 --> 03:57.120 We found Shane in one of the offices. 03:57.120 --> 03:58.120 That's right. 03:58.120 --> 04:02.120 No, ma'am, if it's put in, it should make the room a lot warmer. 04:02.120 --> 04:06.120 Another carpet you've chosen shouldn't show anywhere for years. 04:06.120 --> 04:07.120 Mm-hmm. 04:07.120 --> 04:10.120 Well, we found that color doesn't show the dirt. 04:10.120 --> 04:11.120 No, ma'am. 04:11.120 --> 04:14.120 Well, it'll increase the value of your home. 04:14.120 --> 04:15.120 Oh, that's right. 04:15.120 --> 04:18.120 Oh, we can have it in for you the day after tomorrow. 04:18.120 --> 04:19.120 That's right. 04:19.120 --> 04:20.120 I'll give you a call. 04:20.120 --> 04:21.120 All right. 04:21.120 --> 04:22.120 Bye. 04:22.120 --> 04:24.120 Yes, sir, can I do something for you? 04:24.120 --> 04:25.120 Mr. Shane? 04:25.120 --> 04:26.120 That's right. 04:26.120 --> 04:27.120 Do you want to come in? 04:27.120 --> 04:29.120 What can I do for you? 04:29.120 --> 04:30.120 Police officers. 04:30.120 --> 04:31.120 It's Frank Smith. 04:31.120 --> 04:32.120 My name's Friday. 04:32.120 --> 04:33.120 How do you do, sir? 04:33.120 --> 04:34.120 Something wrong? 04:34.120 --> 04:35.120 No, sir, just a couple of questions we'd like to ask. 04:35.120 --> 04:36.120 Oh, sure. 04:36.120 --> 04:37.120 Do you want to sit down? 04:37.120 --> 04:38.120 Thank you. 04:38.120 --> 04:39.120 Cigarette? 04:39.120 --> 04:40.120 Yeah, thanks. 04:40.120 --> 04:43.120 How about you, Mr. Smith? 04:43.120 --> 04:44.120 Yes, thank you. 04:44.120 --> 04:45.120 One light? 04:45.120 --> 04:46.120 I've got it. 04:46.120 --> 04:49.120 Here you are. 04:49.120 --> 04:50.120 Thanks. 04:50.120 --> 04:51.120 Thanks. 04:51.120 --> 04:55.120 Now then, what's this all about? 04:55.120 --> 04:56.120 You know where your wife is, Mr. Shane? 04:56.120 --> 04:58.120 Oh, there's something about Maggie? 04:58.120 --> 04:59.120 Well, do you know where she is? 04:59.120 --> 05:03.120 Look, Mr. Friday, if there's something wrong with Maggie, I've got the right to know about 05:03.120 --> 05:04.120 it. 05:04.120 --> 05:05.120 Yes, sir, that's true. 05:05.120 --> 05:06.120 We'd like to talk to Mrs. Shane. 05:06.120 --> 05:08.120 We hope you tell us where we might reach her. 05:08.120 --> 05:09.120 Was she in trouble? 05:09.120 --> 05:10.120 No, sir. 05:10.120 --> 05:11.120 Well, then I don't understand all the questions. 05:11.120 --> 05:13.120 We've got a report that she's missing. 05:13.120 --> 05:14.120 Who filed it? 05:14.120 --> 05:15.120 Her sister. 05:15.120 --> 05:16.120 That figures. 05:16.120 --> 05:17.120 How's that? 05:17.120 --> 05:18.120 She is never going to stop. 05:18.120 --> 05:19.120 I don't believe I'll follow you. 05:19.120 --> 05:22.120 Karen's been hacked at me ever since I married Maggie. 05:22.120 --> 05:25.120 Now the day goes by she doesn't plan some kind of a dig. 05:25.120 --> 05:26.120 Does she have a reason? 05:26.120 --> 05:27.120 Yeah. 05:27.120 --> 05:29.120 She had it all fixed for Maggie to marry someone else. 05:29.120 --> 05:31.120 I came along and upset her plans. 05:31.120 --> 05:32.120 Been trying to break us up ever since. 05:32.120 --> 05:33.120 That's how? 05:33.120 --> 05:34.120 Yeah. 05:34.120 --> 05:37.120 This fellow she was trying to palm off on my wife. 05:37.120 --> 05:38.120 Karen's husband worked for her. 05:38.120 --> 05:41.120 She figured it'd be real soft having the boss as a brother-in-law. 05:41.120 --> 05:45.120 Well, the way it worked out, the slob had to work for a living. 05:45.120 --> 05:47.120 Almost kills Karen every time she thinks of it. 05:47.120 --> 05:48.120 Where is your wife? 05:48.120 --> 05:49.120 I wish I could tell you. 05:49.120 --> 05:50.120 What? 05:50.120 --> 05:51.120 I wish I knew where she was. 05:51.120 --> 05:52.120 Haven't you got any idea? 05:52.120 --> 05:53.120 No. 05:53.120 --> 05:54.120 A couple weeks ago I came home from work. 05:54.120 --> 05:55.120 Maggie was gone. 05:55.120 --> 05:56.120 I haven't seen her since. 05:56.120 --> 05:57.120 Can you pin it down? 05:57.120 --> 06:01.120 Uh, Thursday, week. 06:01.120 --> 06:03.120 She called during the day to tell me she wanted me to go out to dinner. 06:03.120 --> 06:05.120 Said she wanted me to be home on time. 06:05.120 --> 06:07.120 I told her I wouldn't be able to make it. 06:07.120 --> 06:08.120 We had word. 06:08.120 --> 06:09.120 She hung up. 06:09.120 --> 06:10.120 When I got to the house, she was gone. 06:10.120 --> 06:11.120 Did she leave any kind of a note? 06:11.120 --> 06:12.120 Yeah. 06:12.120 --> 06:13.120 Have you got it? 06:13.120 --> 06:14.120 I don't think so. 06:14.120 --> 06:15.120 I was pretty upset. 06:15.120 --> 06:16.120 Guess I must have thrown her away. 06:16.120 --> 06:19.120 Haven't seen her around since. 06:19.120 --> 06:22.120 You know, you've got quite a woodworking shop in your garage. 06:22.120 --> 06:23.120 Yeah, yeah. 06:23.120 --> 06:24.120 Stuff's getting a little rusty now. 06:24.120 --> 06:26.120 I haven't felt like doing anything. 06:26.120 --> 06:28.120 Now, this trouble with your wife, was there another man involved? 06:28.120 --> 06:29.120 It'd be hard to say. 06:29.120 --> 06:30.120 What do you mean? 06:30.120 --> 06:32.120 Well, Maggie's an attractive girl. 06:32.120 --> 06:35.120 Everywhere she went, there was some guy trying to make time. 06:35.120 --> 06:36.120 Might have been someone special. 06:36.120 --> 06:37.120 I wouldn't know. 06:37.120 --> 06:38.120 Mm-hmm. 06:38.120 --> 06:40.120 I wonder if we could use one of the phones outside. 06:40.120 --> 06:41.120 Use this, if you like. 06:41.120 --> 06:42.120 Well, one of the others will do. 06:42.120 --> 06:43.120 Sure. 06:43.120 --> 06:44.120 Go ahead. 06:44.120 --> 06:45.120 I'll call over, Joe. 06:45.120 --> 06:46.120 See what they've come up with. 06:46.120 --> 06:47.120 Okay. 06:50.120 --> 06:51.120 There's notes your wife left. 06:51.120 --> 06:52.120 What'd it say? 06:52.120 --> 06:53.120 You mean the exact words? 06:53.120 --> 06:54.120 If you remember them. 06:54.120 --> 06:56.120 It was pretty simple. 06:56.120 --> 06:57.120 Just that she was leaving me. 06:57.120 --> 06:59.120 Said she didn't have to tell me why, and then I knew. 06:59.120 --> 07:01.120 Did she say where she was going? 07:01.120 --> 07:02.120 No. 07:02.120 --> 07:03.120 Figured maybe she went back east. 07:03.120 --> 07:04.120 She's got some friends there. 07:04.120 --> 07:05.120 Where? 07:05.120 --> 07:06.120 Nebraska, I think. 07:06.120 --> 07:07.120 I've never met her. 07:07.120 --> 07:08.120 How about clothes? 07:08.120 --> 07:09.120 What? 07:09.120 --> 07:11.120 Did she take any clothes with her? 07:11.120 --> 07:12.120 Oh, yeah, I guess so. 07:12.120 --> 07:13.120 She had quite a few. 07:13.120 --> 07:14.120 I looked at her closet. 07:14.120 --> 07:15.120 I couldn't tell what was gone. 07:15.120 --> 07:16.120 She took her fur coat, though. 07:16.120 --> 07:17.120 Mm-hmm. 07:17.120 --> 07:19.120 Did you try to contact any of her friends? 07:19.120 --> 07:20.120 I called around. 07:20.120 --> 07:21.120 I didn't find out anything. 07:21.120 --> 07:22.120 Mm-hmm. 07:22.120 --> 07:23.120 Oh, things are far, Sergeant. 07:23.120 --> 07:25.120 Isn't anything new about a wife leaving her husband? 07:25.120 --> 07:27.120 Read about it all the time in the papers. 07:27.120 --> 07:28.120 Karen's just a little girl. 07:28.120 --> 07:31.120 She's soaring at me, always has been, always will be. 07:31.120 --> 07:32.120 Joe. 07:32.120 --> 07:33.120 Yeah? 07:33.120 --> 07:34.120 Excuse me. 07:34.120 --> 07:35.120 Yeah, sure. 07:35.120 --> 07:36.120 Did you talk to the lab? 07:36.120 --> 07:37.120 Yeah. 07:37.120 --> 07:38.120 I just finished the tests on the blood stains. 07:38.120 --> 07:39.120 Mm-hmm. 07:39.120 --> 07:40.120 We're not too far off. 07:40.120 --> 07:41.120 Huh? 07:41.120 --> 07:42.120 Human blood. 07:42.120 --> 07:45.120 Frank and I took Gordon Shane back to his house. 07:45.120 --> 07:48.120 During the ride, he was quiet, and he refused to be let out. 07:48.120 --> 07:49.120 He was a good boy. 07:49.120 --> 07:50.120 He was a good boy. 07:50.120 --> 07:51.120 He was a good boy. 07:51.120 --> 07:52.120 He was a good boy. 07:52.120 --> 07:53.120 He was a good boy. 07:53.120 --> 07:54.120 He was a good boy. 07:54.120 --> 07:55.120 He was a good boy. 07:55.120 --> 07:56.120 He was a good boy. 07:56.120 --> 07:57.120 He was a good boy. 07:57.120 --> 07:58.120 When we arrived at the floating park discount, 07:58.120 --> 08:00.120 it was like there was stalling for theive at night. 08:00.120 --> 08:02.120 Why didn't he arrive yet, and he refused to be lead into 08:02.120 --> 08:03.120 a conversation about his wife? 08:03.120 --> 08:04.120 When we arrived at the house, 08:04.120 --> 08:06.120 we took him back to the garage. 08:06.120 --> 08:09.120 The crew from the crime lab had 08:06.120 --> 08:10.120 gone back to the office to make the groupings tests 08:10.120 --> 08:11.120 on the blood stains. 08:11.120 --> 08:13.120 We should tell me what this is all about. 08:13.120 --> 08:15.120 We figure you might have the answer to that. 08:15.120 --> 08:16.860 When are you gonna stop talking in riddles? 08:16.860 --> 08:18.120 You know, Shane, you know what we're after. 08:18.120 --> 08:20.120 You'll save yourself a lot of trouble if you go along with us. 08:20.120 --> 08:21.120 Well, I don't know. 08:21.120 --> 08:22.120 What are you after? 08:22.120 --> 08:24.120 You dragged me away from my job, 08:24.120 --> 08:25.120 caused me a lot of embarrassment. 08:25.120 --> 08:28.020 Fine sure you got an explanation for this what? 08:28.720 --> 08:30.720 The blood stains here on the floor 08:31.240 --> 08:35.220 Yeah, sure. I killed a couple of people. This is where I did it. We don't need any jokes Shane 08:35.220 --> 08:39.680 Just figure it out. Well, you better turn in your deer stalker cap. I made those stains myself 08:39.920 --> 08:45.900 Yeah, I was working on the lathe chiseled slipped out of my hand cut my foot when this happened a couple weeks ago 08:46.700 --> 08:48.700 before or after your wife left 08:48.800 --> 08:53.440 Now you're ready to stop the game. It's a real easy question Shane. Give us the answer the same way. Will you? 08:53.440 --> 08:59.200 Before how much a couple of days you told us your wife left on the 27th of March. Is that right? Yeah 08:59.200 --> 09:03.560 I guess is it right or isn't it? It's right. It's right. When'd you cut your foot the Sunday before? 09:04.240 --> 09:08.040 How do you pull that date up? Well, no trouble. It's the last time I worked out here 09:08.040 --> 09:12.480 Oh, well, the cut that bad still be a mark with me. Yeah, you mind showing us now at all 09:13.120 --> 09:17.960 You know your blood type. Hmm. What's your blood type? Oh, how about your wife's? 09:17.960 --> 09:22.680 I don't know somehow we never quite got around to talking about all right. Let's go in the house 09:22.680 --> 09:27.520 You can show us your foot there. Yeah, sure you think you might be able to come up with a note your wife left as well 09:27.520 --> 09:29.520 Look 09:31.680 --> 09:36.840 You know much about the law what do you mean if I get out of this can I bring suit against my sister-in-law? 09:36.840 --> 09:37.680 Okay 09:37.680 --> 09:42.840 Well seems there should be something I can do to close her mouth all the time Maggie and me were together. She was causing trouble 09:43.640 --> 09:47.740 Like to really fix her good. That's a civil matter. You better see your lawyer about that 09:47.740 --> 09:52.100 I'm going to get the bill. I'm not 09:54.780 --> 09:59.700 Talking to living room where living room you want to go ahead. Yeah 10:00.700 --> 10:03.540 This is the living room. You can sit down any place. All right 10:04.300 --> 10:08.940 Little messy. I haven't spent a lot of time here since she left just toss those things on the floor 10:09.180 --> 10:14.060 Don't worry about it. You want to see if you can find that note now? Yeah, I think maybe it's in the desk 10:14.060 --> 10:19.660 I'm gonna play them and I'll have a look first. You guys don't trust anybody do you that's the way it's gonna be 10:19.660 --> 10:21.660 You got to go with it. All right 10:22.300 --> 10:26.420 Better make sure I haven't got a machine gun hidden in there. You know, you've done pretty good up to here Shane 10:26.660 --> 10:31.900 Don't press your luck. Yeah, go ahead tear the place up. You better haven't got a wall bed 10:31.900 --> 10:35.100 You could look for her in there. I don't seem to make any difference to you that your wife left at all 10:35.100 --> 10:37.100 That's the way it looks. Yeah 10:37.140 --> 10:42.660 Now you ain't far off real load off my back. We've been married over four years and all that time 10:42.660 --> 10:44.220 I haven't had a minute's rest 10:44.220 --> 10:49.180 Thinking how she was gonna run off for somebody else figured that she dropped me now. It's over 10:49.180 --> 10:54.060 I don't have to worry anymore. You got it wrong Shane. That right? Yeah, take a look Joe 10:54.980 --> 10:59.220 What do you got there? You got no right to go through my personal things. When you see your wife last 10:59.220 --> 11:04.380 I'm not gonna say anything more. You're trying to lead me into something looks like you found your own way. Now, how about it? 11:04.380 --> 11:08.900 I'm not gonna talk anymore. All right, you call it any way you want no matter how it turns out 11:08.900 --> 11:10.900 You're gonna carry the load 11:10.900 --> 11:14.340 All right, she left on the 27th. That's the last time you saw her 11:14.340 --> 11:17.940 Yeah, have you heard anything from her since then? Oh, and I hope you got an answer for these 11:18.460 --> 11:21.440 Where you got a couple of checks made out to you and they're signed by your wife 11:21.440 --> 11:26.280 Well, what's that prove the dates and the checks make a lot out of you Shane? Ah, they were written a week after she left you 11:31.380 --> 11:32.680 We made a search of the house 11:32.680 --> 11:36.280 But we failed to turn up anything more that would tie Gordon Shane in with his wife's disappearance 11:36.280 --> 11:41.080 We looked through the desk and we found several letters that she'd written these were taken for handwriting comparison 11:41.080 --> 11:46.440 We also found several pictures of the missing woman a check with the neighbors failed to give us anything further to work on 11:46.800 --> 11:49.840 All of them told us of constant fights between Shane and his wife 11:50.320 --> 11:54.480 One of the people said that on several occasions the sound of sobbing had been heard coming from the house 11:55.080 --> 11:58.880 At 520 p.m. Frank and I left the place and took Shane down to the City Hall 11:59.080 --> 12:03.300 The checks and samples of Mrs. Shane's writing were turned over to Larry Sloan for comparison 12:03.300 --> 12:06.980 We put in a call to the crime lab, but we found that the blood grouping tests were not finished 12:08.260 --> 12:10.860 612 we took the suspect to the interrogation room 12:11.820 --> 12:13.820 Let's sit down over there. Okay 12:15.100 --> 12:18.140 How long you think you're gonna be able to hold me depends on when we get the truth 12:18.140 --> 12:22.780 Well, you saw the cut on my foot. You didn't find anything at the house. Look you're grabbing at shadows 12:22.780 --> 12:28.100 You still haven't told us about the check. No reason to everything I say you twist around so it ends up something 12:28.100 --> 12:31.840 I don't mean where'd you get the checks from Maggie? What about the date on them? I don't know 12:31.840 --> 12:35.900 I guess she made a mistake when they were written. Where'd you get them? Found them at the desk 12:36.060 --> 12:40.100 Well, didn't you think it was kind of funny that your wife would write a couple of checks just leave him laying around on a desk 12:40.100 --> 12:46.060 No, Maggie was always doing something like that. She didn't care about money. How about you Shane? Huh make any difference to you? 12:46.940 --> 12:52.300 Look, I'm getting tired of this some crazy old bag comes in here tells you a fairy tale and you buy it all away 12:52.820 --> 12:55.860 Any special reason why you're taking my sister-in-law's word for it? 12:55.860 --> 13:00.620 Well, she tells us things that up well, then you better go over the column again. My wife walked out on me 13:00.620 --> 13:05.620 There wasn't any fight when it happened. She just picked up and she left. I don't know where she is. I don't much care 13:06.660 --> 13:11.500 But you put this down in your book. I didn't kill her now. Look leave me alone 13:13.340 --> 13:18.060 When do I get to call a lawyer? We'll set it up for you. Well do it fast cuz you get nothing more from me 13:18.100 --> 13:22.680 That's the way you want it was in any other way. I'm telling you the truth and you don't believe it 13:23.420 --> 13:26.800 We'll keep my mouth shut so you can't make it any worse. All right, Gordon 13:27.060 --> 13:29.540 We'll take you over to the main jail. You can call your lawyer for me 13:29.540 --> 13:31.540 What are you holding me on? 13:31.620 --> 13:35.980 Suspicion of murder you just don't give up do you look we got to go along with the evidence 13:35.980 --> 13:40.400 Well, you better check it again cuz you're making a mistake somewhere along the line. That's the way it looks to you does it 13:40.400 --> 13:45.580 Yeah, go over the road again find that you're a cop. No, let's do it the easy way. Ah, you pointed out 13:51.660 --> 13:54.480 The suspect was removed to the main jail and held for further investigation 13:54.480 --> 13:58.960 Frank checked the office and I went down the hall to talk to Larry Sloan in handwriting 14:00.280 --> 14:05.000 Joe how's it going? You all throw those checks Larry just wrapping it up. All right the way sure sit down 14:07.200 --> 14:09.600 What do you figure I want you to tell us 14:11.000 --> 14:15.640 How to start complaint woman wanted us to find her sister. Where the checks fit in 14:16.520 --> 14:19.640 Found him with a husband dates a couple of days after she disappeared 14:20.560 --> 14:22.760 Figure he might have written him. Huh? Well, that's one way 14:22.760 --> 14:29.200 Well, that doesn't okay. What do you got the endorsement on the back of Shane's writing his signature? Yeah here you can see it 14:29.200 --> 14:30.720 Yeah, here you can see it 14:30.720 --> 14:36.280 No trouble there. The old way pulls a stroke down. Yes, that's his what about the writing on the face 14:36.280 --> 14:43.840 No, but here shading on the G. Yeah, where the crossbar on the T's pulled up. These are the samples and you got the same thing right here 14:45.800 --> 14:49.560 No doubt about it, huh? No with me woman wrote the checks 14:49.560 --> 14:52.000 So in here Frank, oh 14:53.400 --> 14:56.440 Just talk with Lee at the crime lamp. Yeah, he finished the grouping test 14:56.440 --> 15:02.480 What do you find got in touch with Karen Moffat found out the missing woman's blood type? Yeah stains on the floor aren't hers 15:02.480 --> 15:03.480 They belong to Shane 15:04.040 --> 15:05.560 How you doing Joe? 15:05.560 --> 15:22.840 Not good. Looks like we got the wrong man in jail doesn't it? You are listening to dragnet the authentic story of your police force in action 15:22.840 --> 15:29.040 Frank and I left the office went over to the main jail to see Gordon Shane and talked to him for over an hour 15:29.040 --> 15:33.560 He told us that he and his wife had been having trouble for quite a while and that they'd separated on several occasions 15:33.560 --> 15:36.920 He went on to tell us that he didn't know for sure whether there was another man involved 15:36.920 --> 15:40.120 But that he heard his wife spent a lot of time in a small bar on Vermont Avenue 15:40.120 --> 15:43.440 He said that it was possible we could pick up some information on her there 15:43.440 --> 15:48.600 Frank and I left the jail and we went to the main jail and we talked to him for over an hour 15:48.600 --> 15:54.040 He said that it was possible we could pick up some information on her there Frank and I left the jail and drove over the place 15:54.040 --> 15:57.040 It was an average neighborhood tavern we talked to the bartender 15:57.040 --> 16:00.440 Only one way to describe her, a man oh man 16:00.440 --> 16:03.880 Was there anybody special that Mrs. Shane spent a lot of time with would you know? 16:03.880 --> 16:07.400 Gee I don't know a lot of people in here like a family 16:07.400 --> 16:09.920 Guess if you had to nail it down it'd be Leonard 16:09.920 --> 16:10.920 Who's Leonard? 16:10.920 --> 16:13.320 Another regular he's here almost every afternoon 16:13.320 --> 16:15.160 He and Mrs. Shane were pretty friendly huh? 16:15.160 --> 16:19.680 Yeah real buddies they used to come in and get gas together spend the whole afternoon 16:19.680 --> 16:24.480 Sit down there at the inn and play horse play it by the hour not for money we don't allow that in here 16:24.480 --> 16:25.600 What do you know about him? 16:25.600 --> 16:29.120 Not much doesn't figure him and Maggie had hit it off though 16:29.120 --> 16:30.240 Why do you say that? 16:30.240 --> 16:34.720 Well it just doesn't she liked her fellas big you know dark and handsome 16:34.720 --> 16:38.520 Leonard's a little guy not more than five-fourth sure ain't anything to look at 16:38.520 --> 16:40.160 What's his last name? 16:40.160 --> 16:44.960 Hmm I think it's P-U-R-D-Y Purdy that seems like it's it 16:44.960 --> 16:45.960 What's he look like? 16:45.960 --> 16:46.960 Hmm? 16:46.960 --> 16:52.760 Not much about him you'd remember he's a little guy blonde hair real bad complexion 16:52.760 --> 16:55.800 He has a mustache you know big kind of handlebar like 16:55.800 --> 16:57.280 Yeah you know where he lived? 16:57.280 --> 17:00.880 Not for sure I think he's got a room over on Fountain someplace I don't know the number 17:00.880 --> 17:01.880 Where's your phone? 17:01.880 --> 17:02.880 Through the back door there 17:02.880 --> 17:03.880 Thanks 17:03.880 --> 17:04.880 I'll check it Joe 17:04.880 --> 17:05.880 Alright 17:05.880 --> 17:07.880 This is Purdy work for a living? 17:07.880 --> 17:08.880 No regular 17:08.880 --> 17:09.880 What's he duty now? 17:09.880 --> 17:13.520 He's some kind of salesman door to door I don't know what he peddled 17:13.520 --> 17:16.360 Seen him a couple of times with a Snapple case 17:16.360 --> 17:17.360 He's been around lately? 17:17.360 --> 17:21.840 No hadn't thought about it but I guess I haven't seen him in a couple of weeks 17:21.840 --> 17:24.800 You ever hear what he and Mrs. Shane talked about? 17:24.800 --> 17:28.400 Word here and there nothing you could put together I think she spent the time with him because 17:28.400 --> 17:29.560 she didn't have to worry about it 17:29.560 --> 17:30.560 How do you mean that? 17:30.560 --> 17:34.800 Well you know a little guy like that couldn't give me no trouble he was always around Maggie 17:34.800 --> 17:37.520 didn't have a car so Leonard is a driver if she wanted to go someplace 17:37.520 --> 17:39.640 What kind of a car? 17:39.640 --> 17:43.560 41 Bissola parked it out back a couple of times it's a real wreck 17:43.560 --> 17:44.560 Alright 17:44.560 --> 17:45.560 What'd she do? 17:45.560 --> 17:46.560 Huh? 17:46.560 --> 17:47.560 Maggie what are you after? 17:47.560 --> 17:49.120 Like I said we like to talk to her 17:49.120 --> 17:53.360 Sure doubt you get to know her after that doesn't matter how much money she spent she can't 17:53.360 --> 17:54.360 switch you back 17:54.360 --> 17:56.360 She spent quite a bit in here did she? 17:56.360 --> 17:57.360 Yeah 17:57.360 --> 18:00.240 Her and Leonard had really put the drinks away both of them had hollow legs 18:00.240 --> 18:04.040 You know I've seen some pretty heavy drinkers walk up against them they don't stand a chance 18:04.040 --> 18:05.920 Maggie can really put it away 18:05.920 --> 18:06.920 The hose causes trouble 18:06.920 --> 18:07.920 How do you mean? 18:07.920 --> 18:11.400 It's loud yelling all over about how she could buy and sell everybody in a place 18:11.400 --> 18:16.640 A couple of times I had to ask her to get out things like that hurt business you know 18:16.640 --> 18:17.960 She carry a lot of money with her did she? 18:17.960 --> 18:22.400 Oh yeah I always had a bundle six was an heiress or something I don't know she was always loaded 18:22.400 --> 18:23.400 though 18:23.400 --> 18:24.400 Anything on Purdy? 18:24.400 --> 18:25.400 Yeah sure is 18:25.400 --> 18:26.400 Yeah? 18:26.400 --> 18:35.280 Got out of state mental hospital six months ago 18:35.280 --> 18:38.680 From his package we found that Leonard Purdy had been arrested several times for suspicion 18:38.680 --> 18:42.920 of grand theft however he hadn't been convicted on any of them also there were 18 drunk arrests 18:42.920 --> 18:43.920 against him 18:43.920 --> 18:47.840 We put in a call to Georgia Street psycho detail and we talked to Lieutenant Quinn he 18:47.840 --> 18:51.240 remembered Purdy and went on to say that the suspect had been in the scene several times 18:51.240 --> 18:52.240 since his release 18:52.240 --> 18:57.200 He told us that Purdy had committed himself to the state hospital as an alcoholic 18:57.200 --> 19:00.600 Quinn went on to say that when Purdy was drunk he became violent and that on three of his 19:00.600 --> 19:03.840 arrests it had taken several officers to subdue him 19:03.840 --> 19:07.640 We contacted the authorities up at Camarillo they told us that the suspect had been released 19:07.640 --> 19:11.240 by them after treatment and that he apparently was cured 19:11.240 --> 19:15.320 We checked the last address in his package but we found that he'd moved a local and an 19:15.320 --> 19:16.800 APB was gotten out on him 19:16.800 --> 19:21.520 We asked EMV to furnish any and all information on a car registered to him two days went by 19:21.520 --> 19:22.520 without a word of him 19:22.520 --> 19:26.280 In the meantime we talked to all of his friends and acquaintances from each one of them we 19:26.280 --> 19:27.480 got the same story 19:27.480 --> 19:30.720 Leonard Purdy was a freeloader who'd do anything for a dollar 19:30.720 --> 19:34.160 On Thursday April 10th we got word that the suspect had been seen in the second hand store 19:34.160 --> 19:35.160 down on Main Street 19:35.160 --> 19:38.360 We checked the area and got an identification from his mug shot 19:38.360 --> 19:40.560 He'd come in to pawn a man's watch 19:40.560 --> 19:43.720 From the buy book we got an address out on Gladys Avenue 19:43.720 --> 19:46.920 We talked to the landlady and found that the suspect was in his room 19:46.920 --> 19:47.920 Frank and I went upstairs 19:47.920 --> 20:04.360 Want to talk to you Purdy? 20:04.360 --> 20:11.440 Yes and I 20:11.440 --> 20:12.440 Yeah what do you want? 20:12.440 --> 20:13.440 You Leonard Purdy? 20:13.440 --> 20:15.440 That's right who are you guys? 20:15.440 --> 20:17.080 Police officers want to talk to you 20:17.080 --> 20:19.040 I got nothing to do with cops I have my fill up 20:19.040 --> 20:20.040 Yeah 20:20.040 --> 20:23.240 Why don't you come in? 20:23.240 --> 20:24.240 Frank 20:24.240 --> 20:25.240 Yeah 20:25.240 --> 20:27.240 You gonna be here long? 20:27.240 --> 20:28.240 Not long 20:28.240 --> 20:30.240 That's good I don't feel like making small talk 20:30.240 --> 20:35.360 I don't know if you drink but there's just barely enough for me you can understand 20:35.360 --> 20:36.360 Put the glass down Purdy 20:36.360 --> 20:37.360 What? 20:37.360 --> 20:38.360 Put it down 20:38.360 --> 20:41.840 You got no right to come in here and tell me what to do nobody asked you 20:41.840 --> 20:44.000 No I don't miss my closet 20:44.000 --> 20:46.200 Does this fur coat belong to you Purdy? 20:46.200 --> 20:47.200 Yeah I get cold nights 20:47.200 --> 20:49.960 You know a woman by the name of Margaret Shane? 20:49.960 --> 20:50.960 Never heard of her 20:50.960 --> 20:51.960 You sure about that? 20:51.960 --> 20:55.360 I'm sure I'm sure I got nothing to answer to you before you come in here and tell me 20:55.360 --> 20:58.040 what to do I don't have to give you one single answer about nothing 20:58.040 --> 20:59.040 You better come up with one 20:59.040 --> 21:00.040 What's that? 21:00.040 --> 21:01.040 This coat 21:01.040 --> 21:02.040 What about it? 21:02.040 --> 21:03.560 It's got Margaret Shane's name in it 21:03.560 --> 21:07.800 Well it must be a mistake I don't know anybody named Shane nobody 21:07.800 --> 21:08.920 We got a lot of people who say you do 21:08.920 --> 21:11.600 You telling me the truth? 21:11.600 --> 21:13.800 Same people tell us you were with her when she disappeared 21:13.800 --> 21:15.200 They don't know what they're talking about 21:15.200 --> 21:17.040 The way they put it it's pretty straight 21:17.040 --> 21:18.040 Who told you who? 21:18.040 --> 21:19.040 Just give me some names 21:19.040 --> 21:20.200 Everybody we talked to 21:20.200 --> 21:21.200 They said I was with her? 21:21.200 --> 21:22.200 That's right 21:22.200 --> 21:23.200 Now where is she? 21:23.200 --> 21:24.200 I don't know 21:24.200 --> 21:25.200 You gotta do better than that 21:25.200 --> 21:27.680 No it's the truth I don't know where she is 21:27.680 --> 21:36.840 I killed her but I don't know where she is 21:36.840 --> 21:39.120 We took the suspect down to the city hall and questioned him 21:39.120 --> 21:41.960 He finally sobered up enough to tell us that he'd gotten into an argument with a Shane 21:41.960 --> 21:43.760 woman and beaten her to death 21:43.760 --> 21:46.800 He went on to say that his car was being repaired and that he'd rented one and driven it out 21:46.800 --> 21:47.800 into the desert 21:47.800 --> 21:48.800 He buried the victim there 21:48.800 --> 21:53.720 We showed him maps of the area but he was unable to tell us where to find the body 21:53.720 --> 21:56.560 He only knew that he'd put it in the culvert along the roadside 21:56.560 --> 21:59.520 We got the name of the automobile rental agency and we called them 21:59.520 --> 22:02.960 Their records gave us the date of the rental and the mileage the car had been driven 22:02.960 --> 22:06.440 We put the suspect in our car and started out toward the Mojave Desert 22:06.440 --> 22:09.600 As we drove Purdy verified our route 22:09.600 --> 22:13.200 By dividing the total mileage in half and figuring the distance between his house and 22:13.200 --> 22:17.400 the office of the auto rental company we had a vague idea where to start looking 22:17.400 --> 22:20.000 After we'd been driving for over two hours we pulled to the side of the road 22:20.000 --> 22:24.480 How's it look around here? 22:24.480 --> 22:27.560 Yeah it might be it I think up the road a little way 22:27.560 --> 22:29.240 Remember that big rock over there? 22:29.240 --> 22:36.080 Remember that pretty good it's up ahead a little 22:36.080 --> 22:38.760 All right 22:38.760 --> 22:42.920 We drove for another 30 minutes and then Purdy directed us to pull off onto a dirt road 22:42.920 --> 22:45.120 We drove another half a mile and we came to the end of the road 22:45.120 --> 22:48.520 We can't go any further 22:48.520 --> 22:49.520 Don't have to 22:49.520 --> 22:50.520 Huh? 22:50.520 --> 22:51.720 I remember now let's get out of the car 22:51.720 --> 22:58.120 Just stay close to us Purdy right here 22:58.120 --> 22:59.880 All right 22:59.880 --> 23:00.880 Which way? 23:00.880 --> 23:01.880 Over here 23:01.880 --> 23:03.880 Sure beautiful day 23:03.880 --> 23:04.880 Yeah 23:04.880 --> 23:08.080 It's different when you get out in the country everything's got a different color 23:08.080 --> 23:10.480 Come on Purdy where is she? 23:10.480 --> 23:11.480 Over there behind the bushes 23:11.480 --> 23:15.600 I'll go look 23:15.600 --> 23:16.960 Always been in big trouble 23:16.960 --> 23:17.960 What's that? 23:17.960 --> 23:20.880 Boozing it up every time I get a few drinks I don't know what I'm doing 23:20.880 --> 23:25.080 But after I got out of the hospital I had it made you know I'd be able to stay away 23:25.080 --> 23:26.080 from it 23:26.080 --> 23:27.080 No 23:27.080 --> 23:28.760 First time I had trouble I went back I always went back 23:28.760 --> 23:31.520 How about it? 23:31.520 --> 23:32.520 Yeah 23:32.520 --> 23:33.520 She's there 23:33.520 --> 23:36.880 All the time that's what caused the trouble wouldn't be here if it wasn't for me boozing 23:36.880 --> 23:37.880 it up 23:37.880 --> 23:41.440 If I could just stay away from it I wouldn't have any problems I want to give it up 23:41.440 --> 23:42.880 If I could just find a way 23:42.880 --> 23:43.880 You got one now 23:43.880 --> 23:56.120 The story you have just heard is true the names were changed to protect the innocent 23:56.120 --> 24:01.320 On August 14th trial was held in Department 98 Superior Court of the State of California 24:01.320 --> 24:03.280 in and for the County of Los Angeles 24:03.280 --> 24:16.000 Leonard Eiler Purdy pled guilty to murder in the second degree and received sentence 24:16.000 --> 24:17.640 as prescribed by law 24:17.640 --> 24:21.720 Murder in the second degree is punishable by imprisonment for a period of from five 24:21.720 --> 24:24.280 years to life in the state penitentiary 24:24.280 --> 24:29.720 DRAGNET the story of your police force in action is a presentation of the United States 24:29.720 --> 24:31.440 Armed Forces Radio Service 24:31.440 --> 24:55.760 The story of your police force in action is a presentation of the United States Armed 24:55.760 --> 25:02.760 Forces Radio Service 25:02.760 --> 25:24.400 The story of your police force in action is a presentation of the United States Armed 25:24.400 --> 25:31.400 Forces Radio Service