1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,600 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:14,200 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:16,720 Drag men. 4 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:24,080 You're a detective sergeant. 5 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:27,480 You're assigned a robbery detail. 6 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:30,080 You get a call from the Georgia Street Hospital. 7 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:32,600 A woman has been brought in to receive emergency treatment. 8 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:35,440 She says she was kidnapped and robbed. 9 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:38,440 Your job, investigate. 10 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:44,360 Drag men. 11 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:46,440 The documented drama of an actual crime. 12 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:51,800 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 13 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:56,440 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 14 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:57,440 police violence. 15 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:03,520 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 16 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:04,520 in action. 17 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:07,520 It was Wednesday, February 4th. 18 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:12,960 It's cool in Los Angeles. 19 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:14,800 We're working tonight, watch out for robbery detail. 20 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,400 My partner is Frank Smith, the boss of Chief of Detective Stad Brown. 21 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:18,400 My name is Friday. 22 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:22,680 We're on our way out from the office and it was 832 when we got to Georgia Street Hospital. 23 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:23,680 A treatment room. 24 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:24,680 Dr. Hall? 25 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:25,680 Hi. 26 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:26,680 Frank, be right with him. 27 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:27,680 Just kidding. 28 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:28,680 Certainly, doctor. 29 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:29,680 All right. 30 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:30,680 Hi, doctor. 31 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:31,680 That the Alston woman? 32 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:32,680 Yeah. 33 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:33,680 How is she? 34 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:34,680 Bruised about the face, not too serious. 35 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:35,680 She can leave when you finish with her. 36 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:36,680 Good. 37 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:37,680 Can we go in now? 38 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:38,680 Sure. 39 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:39,680 Let me know when you're through with her. 40 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:40,680 All right. 41 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:41,680 Thanks, doc. 42 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:42,680 Miss Alston? 43 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:43,680 Yes? 44 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:44,680 We're police officers. 45 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:45,680 This is Frank Smith. 46 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:46,680 My name is Friday. 47 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:47,680 How do you do? 48 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:48,680 I do, man. 49 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:49,680 Doctor just told us that you could return to Georgia Street. 50 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:50,680 I'm sorry. 51 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:51,680 I'm sorry. 52 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:52,680 I'm sorry. 53 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:53,680 I'm sorry. 54 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:54,680 I'm sorry. 55 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:57,440 Doctor just told us that you could return home when we finish questioning you, so we'll 56 00:01:57,440 --> 00:01:58,440 try not to keep you too long. 57 00:01:58,440 --> 00:01:59,440 Thank you. 58 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:00,440 I'm not really hurt much. 59 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:01,440 I was more frightened than anything else. 60 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:02,440 Yes, ma'am. 61 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:05,440 Would you like to tell us what happened now? 62 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:10,240 I stopped at a signal at Washington Boulevard in Normandy and suddenly the car door opened 63 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:12,560 and a man jumped in the car. 64 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,460 I was scared and I let out a yell. 65 00:02:15,460 --> 00:02:16,680 Which door did he open? 66 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:17,920 Well, on the passenger side. 67 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:20,120 He got right in the front seat beside me. 68 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:21,120 All right. 69 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:22,560 He had a knife in his hand. 70 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:24,880 He said not to scream or he'd stab me. 71 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:26,880 Put the knife right against my ribs. 72 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:27,880 Right here. 73 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:31,040 Then he said to drive straight ahead. 74 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:32,040 I did. 75 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,720 We went a couple of blocks, I guess it wasn't. 76 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:37,080 Then he said to stop the car. 77 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:39,560 When I pulled over the curb, another man got in the car. 78 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:40,560 In the back seat. 79 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:44,800 The woman with the knife told me to get in the back seat. 80 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,840 When I did, he gave the knife to the other man. 81 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:48,840 Then he started to drive. 82 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:54,320 And the man in the back took my purse from the front seat and started going through it. 83 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:57,200 I don't know why I did, but I grabbed for it. 84 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:59,000 It was a mistake. 85 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,000 He slapped me real hard. 86 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,080 He said that was just a sample. 87 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:06,120 I'd get some more if I didn't just sit quiet. 88 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:12,440 He took the money I had my bill filled and he grabbed my arm and twisted it so I had 89 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:13,440 a watch on. 90 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:18,320 And I hesitated when he told me to take it off and then he hit me again. 91 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:19,920 He took your watch too, did he? 92 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:22,360 Yeah, and my ring too. 93 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:24,360 Can you give us a serial number on the watch? 94 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:26,760 Yes, I have it written down at home. 95 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:28,480 Well, and a description of the ring too. 96 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:29,480 All right. 97 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:30,480 Would you go on, please? 98 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:35,280 Sure, I'd wind up with a picture and a headline in tomorrow's paper one way or the other. 99 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:36,520 How do you mean that? 100 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:38,280 Well, he was driving like a maniac. 101 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:40,280 He's breaking all kinds of laws. 102 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:41,280 Yes, ma'am. 103 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,160 Then I thought, well, maybe this might be a good thing. 104 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:45,160 He's driving like that. 105 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,320 I mean, because a police car started chasing us. 106 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:51,720 I could hear the siren and I thought I saw the red lights flashing. 107 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:56,760 I was hoping they'd catch us, but well, somehow we got away from them. 108 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:59,000 This man took so many chances, you know. 109 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,000 I wonder if we didn't smash up sooner. 110 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,480 You mean that you did have an accident later on? 111 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:05,480 You don't know about that? 112 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:06,480 No. 113 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:13,480 Well, after he got away from the police car, this man kept driving real crazy and dangerous. 114 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:15,400 We went down a dead end street. 115 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:20,160 He put on the brakes, but it was too late and we smashed into a wall of some kind. 116 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:21,160 Yeah. 117 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:23,880 And they got out of the car and they started running. 118 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:25,920 I started screaming. 119 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:26,920 Mm-hmm. 120 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:30,000 Well, anyhow, some man came out of a building. 121 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:34,520 I told him what had happened and he called the police and the ambulance. 122 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:36,520 Here I am. 123 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:42,040 I feel some shaky, but thankfully it wasn't any worse. 124 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:44,480 Can you give us a description of these two men? 125 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,240 Well, not much, I'm afraid. 126 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:49,440 That makes me feel pretty stupid, too. 127 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:50,720 What do you mean, ma'am? 128 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:54,320 Well, I'm always doing those observation tests in magazines. 129 00:04:54,320 --> 00:05:01,240 I could get real high ratings and when I'm up against the real thing, I fail miserably. 130 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:04,480 Can you give us a general idea of their age, their coloring, their height, the way they 131 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:05,480 were dressed? 132 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:08,480 I don't think they were too old. 133 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:10,480 Maybe around 20 or so. 134 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:12,720 They had dark hair. 135 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:14,120 I can't tell you how tall they were. 136 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:19,320 The only time I saw them standing up was when they ran away from the car. 137 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:24,320 As I remember, the one that drove had on a sport coat, tan color, and the one in the 138 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:29,160 back had on a brown suede jacket, you know, the kind with the knit cuffs and the collar 139 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:30,160 and the waist. 140 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:31,160 That's about all I can remember. 141 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:32,160 I'm sorry. 142 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:33,160 That's all right, Miss Alston. 143 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:34,160 We appreciate the fact you're under a pretty bad strain. 144 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:35,160 I really thought they'd kill me. 145 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:36,160 Yes, ma'am. 146 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:37,160 You remember if they were in the car, they'd kill you. 147 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:41,120 You mean that they have mustaches? 148 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:42,120 That's right. 149 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:43,120 No, they didn't. 150 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:49,920 Well, you remember if either of them had any scars or marks on their faces, anything distinguishing 151 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:51,640 that might help us identify them later? 152 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:54,200 Well, if they did, I didn't see any. 153 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:56,200 Well, there was one thing. 154 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:59,200 I don't know if it means anything. 155 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:00,200 Yeah. 156 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,520 The one that was driving had a bandage on his thumb. 157 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:06,560 I could see that because he held the steering wheel up near the top. 158 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:07,560 With which hand? 159 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:09,440 The right one. 160 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:13,640 It was all wrapped up, you know, all around, not just adhesive kind. 161 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:18,040 I'm sorry I can't give you more information. 162 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:24,320 That didn't make me happier than for you to catch them, especially the one that kept hitting 163 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:26,320 me, the one in the back seat. 164 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:28,320 Yes, ma'am, I understand. 165 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:30,880 I think he enjoyed it. 166 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:35,920 He'd grin when he did it after I made the mistake of grabbing from my purse. 167 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:39,080 I tried not to give him a reason to hit me again. 168 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:40,080 It didn't help. 169 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:42,440 He just hit me when he felt like it. 170 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:43,440 No reason at all. 171 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:45,840 It really wouldn't have made any difference what you did, ma'am. 172 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:47,800 How do you mean, Mr. Frady? 173 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:48,800 Men like that. 174 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:49,800 Yeah? 175 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:55,760 They don't need a reason. 176 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:58,480 We continued to question Gwen Alston, but she could add nothing further than what ate 177 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:00,800 us in identifying the suspects. 178 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:02,160 She did give us a description of the ring. 179 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:05,360 She said she would call and give us the serial number of her watch. 180 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:08,080 She couldn't tell us anything about the knife used to intimidate her other than the fact 181 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:10,880 that it had a blade about six inches long. 182 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,240 We asked her to come down to the city hall and check the mug books. 183 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:16,560 Dr. Hall released the victim and she returned home in the company of her brother. 184 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:19,800 The radio unit that had answered the call had gotten out a local broadcast on the two 185 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:20,800 suspects. 186 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,640 They impounded the victim's car and had been moved to the official police garage. 187 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:25,640 9.37 p.m. 188 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:28,000 Frank and I drove over to Wall Street. 189 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,640 The crew from Leighton Prince had just finished going over the car. 190 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:32,640 Hi, Joe, Frank. 191 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:33,640 Hi, Harlow. 192 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:35,120 How long now are you? 193 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:36,120 You fellas draw this one? 194 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:37,120 Yeah. 195 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:38,120 You want to give us some help this time? 196 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:39,120 Yeah, just finishing. 197 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:40,120 It doesn't look too good. 198 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:41,120 Yeah? 199 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:42,120 Got a couple of partials, nothing real clean. 200 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,160 Well, with what we got from the victim, it looks like we got our work cut out for us 201 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:46,160 on this. 202 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:47,160 What do you mean, Joe? 203 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:49,480 Well, all she could give us in the way of a description would fit any number of guys. 204 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:50,480 I see. 205 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:52,920 Well, we got something out of the back seat that might be of some use to you. 206 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:53,920 What's that, Harlow? 207 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:56,920 I got it right here in an envelope. 208 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:59,120 There you are, Joe. 209 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:00,120 What's this? 210 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,320 That aluminum container has some corneal lenses in it. 211 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:03,320 What do you mean? 212 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:04,320 Eyeglasses. 213 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:05,320 They're kind of fit right in the eye. 214 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:06,320 Oh. 215 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:07,320 Where'd you find them? 216 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:08,320 In the back seat right on top of the cushion. 217 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:11,760 Well, it might be something we'll have to check with the Alston woman, see if they belong 218 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:13,760 to her or anybody in her family. 219 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:14,760 Yeah. 220 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:15,760 What is this case, Joe? 221 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:16,760 Kidnapping robbery. 222 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:17,760 How many suspects? 223 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:18,760 Two. 224 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:19,760 One woman in the car? 225 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:20,760 Yeah. 226 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:21,760 Hurt her at all? 227 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:22,760 Yeah, beat her up a little. 228 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:23,760 Huh. 229 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:24,760 Real he-man, huh? 230 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:25,760 I sure wish I had more for you fellas to go on. 231 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:28,640 Yeah, Harlow, we don't have much, but at least we know something. 232 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:29,640 What's that, Joe? 233 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:30,640 When we reach these two. 234 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:31,640 Yeah. 235 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:32,640 They won't give us any fight. 236 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:34,620 This is a big. 237 00:08:34,620 --> 00:08:36,000 The big. 238 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:37,360 Big good. 239 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:38,900 That's the story. 240 00:08:38,900 --> 00:08:40,040 Generally less real. 241 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:42,680 That's a liquor store. 242 00:08:42,680 --> 00:08:45,400 That's a veryíssome wine. 243 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:46,380 No, I'm just talking about that stall. 244 00:08:46,380 --> 00:08:47,720 We barely dived into any events. 245 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:48,720 All right. 246 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:49,720 This is Joe Rubyís server. 247 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:53,480 We've had enough and the duty to get rid of one suspect. 248 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:54,480 Yeah. 249 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:56,900 We've had enough and this is Ray Pinker. 250 00:08:56,900 --> 00:08:57,900 Ray? 251 00:08:57,900 --> 00:08:58,900 Yes. 252 00:08:58,900 --> 00:09:00,900 Andy prior, what did you do? 253 00:09:00,900 --> 00:09:01,900 Us. 254 00:09:01,900 --> 00:09:03,100 See those little facets? 255 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:03,700 Mm-hmm. 256 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:04,300 Where is it? 257 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:05,200 Oh, yeah. 258 00:09:05,300 --> 00:09:06,900 Could you tell us who these were made for, Dudley? 259 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:08,700 I can give you the name of the optician. 260 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:09,800 Appreciate it if you could. 261 00:09:09,900 --> 00:09:11,000 I'll have to check our files. 262 00:09:11,100 --> 00:09:12,000 It shouldn't take too long. 263 00:09:12,100 --> 00:09:13,000 All right, sir. 264 00:09:13,100 --> 00:09:15,000 Ordinarily, we'd have to check lens power, diameter, 265 00:09:15,100 --> 00:09:15,900 radius curvature. 266 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:16,600 Yes, sir. 267 00:09:16,700 --> 00:09:17,700 This is special type lens. 268 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:18,800 Is that so? 269 00:09:18,900 --> 00:09:20,100 It's used to correct the condition of the eye 270 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:21,600 known as keratoconus. 271 00:09:21,700 --> 00:09:22,700 What's that, sir? 272 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:24,000 The conical cornea. 273 00:09:24,100 --> 00:09:24,800 Oh. 274 00:09:24,900 --> 00:09:26,100 We don't make too many of them. 275 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:27,100 Excuse me. 276 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:28,100 I'll get the name of the optician for you. 277 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:30,700 All right, fine. 278 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:31,700 Pretty good deal, huh? 279 00:09:31,700 --> 00:09:32,500 Yeah. 280 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:33,900 I know a fellow who wears them. 281 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Says he used to hate to get a haircut, but not anymore. 282 00:09:36,100 --> 00:09:36,900 All right. 283 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:38,000 Yeah, with these glasses on his eyes, 284 00:09:38,100 --> 00:09:40,000 now he can get his hair cut and still read the magazines. 285 00:09:40,100 --> 00:09:40,800 Oh. 286 00:09:40,900 --> 00:09:41,600 I found it for you. 287 00:09:41,700 --> 00:09:42,600 That's good. 288 00:09:42,700 --> 00:09:45,200 These were made for John L. Roberts. 289 00:09:45,300 --> 00:09:46,100 Just a minute, sir. 290 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:48,900 I'd like to write that down. 291 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:50,000 OK, go ahead, please. 292 00:09:50,100 --> 00:09:50,900 John L. Roberts. 293 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:52,200 Mm-hmm. 294 00:09:52,300 --> 00:09:56,000 439 Camden Drive, Beverly Hills. 295 00:09:56,100 --> 00:09:56,800 Thank you. 296 00:09:56,900 --> 00:09:57,700 Got it? 297 00:09:57,800 --> 00:09:58,800 Yes, sir. 298 00:09:58,900 --> 00:10:00,600 This is the optician that sent in the prescription, huh? 299 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:01,700 That's right. 300 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:02,700 All right, fine. 301 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:03,700 Thanks for your cooperation, Dudley. 302 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:04,700 Not at all. 303 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:06,100 I always get a kick out of helping you, fella. 304 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:07,100 Yes, sir. 305 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:08,700 A lot of steps to solve a crime, aren't they? 306 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:09,900 Quite a few, yeah. 307 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:11,500 Sure hope I've given you a little something. 308 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:12,300 You have? 309 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:13,500 A lot of steps. 310 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:14,500 Yes, sir. 311 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:15,500 You helped us make the first one. 312 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:23,500 We drove out to Beverly Hills and we talked to John L. Roberts. 313 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:25,500 He checked the prescription number against his files 314 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:27,700 and gave us the name and address of a Robert Briarkin 315 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,100 as the man he had fitted with the corneal lenses. 316 00:10:30,100 --> 00:10:32,000 Frank and I went over to the house on Bedford Street, 317 00:10:32,100 --> 00:10:33,400 but there was nobody home. 318 00:10:33,500 --> 00:10:35,400 We found out from a neighbor that Briarkin 319 00:10:35,500 --> 00:10:38,600 worked for a coin machine repair company on Pico Boulevard. 320 00:10:38,700 --> 00:10:40,200 We located the concern and the manager 321 00:10:40,300 --> 00:10:42,100 showed us where we could find the suspect. 322 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:46,400 1013 AM. 323 00:10:46,500 --> 00:10:47,400 Robert Briarkin? 324 00:10:47,500 --> 00:10:48,200 Hmm? 325 00:10:48,300 --> 00:10:49,700 Is your name Robert Briarkin? 326 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:50,400 Yeah. 327 00:10:50,500 --> 00:10:51,200 Police officers. 328 00:10:51,300 --> 00:10:52,800 Sorry to have the occasion. 329 00:10:52,900 --> 00:10:53,600 Joe Friday? 330 00:10:53,700 --> 00:10:54,400 That's right. 331 00:10:54,500 --> 00:10:55,200 Frank Smith. 332 00:10:55,300 --> 00:10:55,800 Mm-hmm. 333 00:10:55,900 --> 00:10:56,700 Hi, Howard. 334 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:58,300 I'd like to ask you some questions. 335 00:10:58,400 --> 00:10:59,700 What about? 336 00:10:59,700 --> 00:11:01,800 Do you wear those glasses all the time? 337 00:11:01,900 --> 00:11:02,600 Do I what? 338 00:11:02,700 --> 00:11:03,500 The glasses you got on. 339 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:04,800 Do you wear them for work? 340 00:11:04,900 --> 00:11:06,400 Yeah, most of the time. 341 00:11:06,500 --> 00:11:07,600 What's this about glasses? 342 00:11:07,700 --> 00:11:09,800 You ever wear any other kind? 343 00:11:09,900 --> 00:11:10,700 Yeah, why? 344 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:11,800 What kind? 345 00:11:11,900 --> 00:11:12,800 How many kinds are there? 346 00:11:12,900 --> 00:11:14,400 Why don't you tell us? 347 00:11:14,500 --> 00:11:15,200 I don't get this. 348 00:11:15,300 --> 00:11:17,100 What am I supposed to have done? 349 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:18,400 You wear another kind of glasses? 350 00:11:18,500 --> 00:11:19,200 Is that what you said? 351 00:11:19,300 --> 00:11:20,100 Yeah. 352 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:21,200 What kind? 353 00:11:21,300 --> 00:11:22,400 The corneal lens type. 354 00:11:22,500 --> 00:11:23,800 Where are they? 355 00:11:23,900 --> 00:11:24,200 I don't know. 356 00:11:24,300 --> 00:11:25,200 Home, I guess. 357 00:11:25,300 --> 00:11:26,600 You're not sure? 358 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:28,100 Look, officers, I don't know what you're after, 359 00:11:28,100 --> 00:11:30,000 but if it's something that happened in the last 20 years, 360 00:11:30,100 --> 00:11:31,000 you've got the wrong guy. 361 00:11:31,100 --> 00:11:32,600 Well, if we have, then you've got nothing to worry about, 362 00:11:32,700 --> 00:11:33,600 have you? 363 00:11:33,700 --> 00:11:36,300 That's right, but a mistaken identity can be embarrassing. 364 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:38,800 I'd just like to know what I'm supposed to have done. 365 00:11:38,900 --> 00:11:40,800 Suppose you tell us about the other glasses, huh? 366 00:11:40,900 --> 00:11:41,800 The corneal lens? 367 00:11:41,900 --> 00:11:42,800 Yeah. 368 00:11:42,900 --> 00:11:44,900 What do you want to know about them? 369 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:46,900 Like we said before, we want to know where they are. 370 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:48,300 Like I said, home. 371 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:49,400 You sure? 372 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:50,300 Yeah. 373 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:52,000 How many pair do you have? 374 00:11:52,100 --> 00:11:53,300 One. 375 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:54,600 You wear glasses all the time? 376 00:11:54,700 --> 00:11:55,200 Yeah. 377 00:11:55,300 --> 00:11:56,400 Can you see without them? 378 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:58,100 Yeah, but not too good. 379 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:00,100 Where were you the night before last? 380 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:01,100 At home. 381 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:02,300 How about last night? 382 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:03,100 Same. 383 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:03,700 All night. 384 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:04,300 Right. 385 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:05,100 Can you prove it? 386 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:06,300 Yeah, my wife will tell you that. 387 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:07,300 You can call her on the phone. 388 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:08,500 She'll tell you everything with the house. 389 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:09,600 All right. 390 00:12:09,700 --> 00:12:10,800 We'll go out there. 391 00:12:10,900 --> 00:12:12,600 You can call her just as well. 392 00:12:12,700 --> 00:12:15,100 We'd like to see your other glasses, too. 393 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:16,100 All right. 394 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:17,800 You mind telling me what this is all about? 395 00:12:17,900 --> 00:12:20,100 Investigating kidnapping and robbery. 396 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:22,100 You think I had something to do with it? 397 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:23,700 We're investigating. 398 00:12:23,700 --> 00:12:26,400 OK, if that's how it is, I've got nothing to hide. 399 00:12:26,500 --> 00:12:27,400 You want to go right now? 400 00:12:27,500 --> 00:12:28,400 That's right. 401 00:12:28,500 --> 00:12:29,600 My jacket's right here in the locker. 402 00:12:29,700 --> 00:12:30,400 Wait a minute. 403 00:12:30,500 --> 00:12:31,400 I'll get it for you. 404 00:12:34,100 --> 00:12:35,100 This there? 405 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:36,600 Yeah, the bounce way with the net trim. 406 00:12:41,700 --> 00:12:44,200 We took Robert Brierton with us, and we drove out to his home. 407 00:12:44,300 --> 00:12:47,200 On the way, he continued to deny any knowledge of the crime. 408 00:12:47,300 --> 00:12:49,600 Because the victim, Gwen Alston, had been unable to furnish us 409 00:12:49,700 --> 00:12:51,200 with much of a description of the suspect, 410 00:12:51,300 --> 00:12:52,800 it was difficult to determine whether or not 411 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:54,700 Brierton was one of the men. 412 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:55,700 He had dark hair. 413 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:57,500 He was in his early 20s. 414 00:12:57,600 --> 00:12:59,800 The suede jacket he wore checked out. 415 00:12:59,900 --> 00:13:02,700 1107 AM. 416 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:04,700 Anna? 417 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:06,200 Anna? 418 00:13:06,300 --> 00:13:07,200 I guess you didn't hear. 419 00:13:07,300 --> 00:13:07,800 It's all right. 420 00:13:07,900 --> 00:13:08,900 We'll wait for her. 421 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:10,200 Now, I've been trying to make up my mind 422 00:13:10,300 --> 00:13:11,700 whether I should be mad or not. 423 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:13,200 I know you're only doing what you have to, 424 00:13:13,300 --> 00:13:14,700 so I guess there's no need to get overheated. 425 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:17,700 But I'll say it again, you got the wrong guy. 426 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:19,200 Well, if we're wrong, we'll admit it. 427 00:13:19,300 --> 00:13:21,300 Let's hope this doesn't put me in bad down at work. 428 00:13:21,300 --> 00:13:23,200 No need for it, too, if you're innocent. 429 00:13:23,300 --> 00:13:24,700 I suppose so. 430 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:25,700 You want to sit down? 431 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:27,200 I don't know just when my wife will get back. 432 00:13:27,300 --> 00:13:29,700 If you don't mind, we'd like to see your other glasses now. 433 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:30,700 Oh, sure, I'll get them for you. 434 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:31,700 Where are they? 435 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:33,200 Well, I usually keep them on the bedroom dresser 436 00:13:33,300 --> 00:13:34,200 when I'm not using them. 437 00:13:34,300 --> 00:13:35,700 All right, we'll go with you, all right? 438 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:37,700 Sure. 439 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:39,200 Hope she made the bed. 440 00:13:39,300 --> 00:13:40,700 She's a pretty good housekeeper, but sometimes 441 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:42,200 she gets a little sloppy about it. 442 00:13:42,300 --> 00:13:43,000 Yeah. 443 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:47,200 I swear they were right here on the dresser. 444 00:13:47,300 --> 00:13:48,200 Yeah. 445 00:13:48,300 --> 00:13:49,200 I haven't had them too long. 446 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:51,100 I switch off with these that I'm wearing. 447 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:52,600 Did you wear them yesterday? 448 00:13:52,700 --> 00:13:54,600 Yeah, but then they should still be on the dresser. 449 00:13:54,700 --> 00:13:56,100 I don't know where they could be. 450 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:57,600 Well, we can help you. 451 00:13:57,700 --> 00:13:58,600 What do you mean? 452 00:13:58,700 --> 00:13:59,600 Who's back there? 453 00:13:59,700 --> 00:14:00,600 Anna? 454 00:14:00,700 --> 00:14:01,600 What are you doing home? 455 00:14:01,700 --> 00:14:03,600 Oh, honey, these are police officers. 456 00:14:03,700 --> 00:14:04,600 This is my wife. 457 00:14:04,700 --> 00:14:05,100 I do. 458 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:06,100 How you doing, ma'am? 459 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:07,100 What are they doing here? 460 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:08,100 We'd like to talk to you, Miss Bryden. 461 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:09,100 About what? 462 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:11,100 Now, don't worry, dear. 463 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:12,100 What's it all about? 464 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:14,100 Would you like to step out in the other room, please? 465 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:17,100 It's all right, dear. 466 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:18,600 You don't understand it. 467 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:22,300 Listen, dear, can you tell us where your husband was Tuesday night? 468 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:24,100 He was home with me. 469 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:25,100 How about last night? 470 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:26,300 He was here all evening. 471 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:27,400 You sure? 472 00:14:27,500 --> 00:14:29,600 Yes, he came home from work and stayed in all evening. 473 00:14:29,700 --> 00:14:31,000 Oh, I see. 474 00:14:31,100 --> 00:14:31,800 What is it? 475 00:14:31,900 --> 00:14:33,100 Police business. 476 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:34,900 You think Robert had something to do with it? 477 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:36,300 Yes, we do. 478 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:37,300 When did this happen? 479 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:38,300 Last night. 480 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,000 I told you he was home all evening. 481 00:14:41,100 --> 00:14:43,000 That may be true, but these cornea lenses 482 00:14:43,100 --> 00:14:45,100 were found in the victim's car. 483 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:46,200 They belonged to Robert? 484 00:14:46,300 --> 00:14:47,600 That's what his optician told us, yeah. 485 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:48,800 What's all wrong? 486 00:14:48,900 --> 00:14:51,100 The victim was beaten by a man who wore a jacket, 487 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:53,100 brown suede with knit trim. 488 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:54,500 That's the kind your husband owns, you know. 489 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:56,500 But he wasn't out of the house, I tell you. 490 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:57,800 I'm very glad to take him downtown. 491 00:14:57,900 --> 00:14:58,600 No, he didn't do it. 492 00:14:58,700 --> 00:14:59,500 I know it. 493 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:00,600 I'm sorry, Miss Bryden. 494 00:15:00,700 --> 00:15:01,600 These are your husband's lenses. 495 00:15:01,700 --> 00:15:02,900 They were found in the victim's car. 496 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,100 But he was with me all evening. 497 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:06,600 Well, it may be, but we're going to have to hold him. 498 00:15:06,700 --> 00:15:09,600 No, he didn't do it. 499 00:15:09,700 --> 00:15:11,000 It was Gordon. 500 00:15:11,100 --> 00:15:12,600 Gordon who? 501 00:15:12,700 --> 00:15:15,100 I let him wear Robert's jacket last night. 502 00:15:15,100 --> 00:15:17,500 Who's Gordon? 503 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:18,500 My brother. 504 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:31,400 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story 505 00:15:31,500 --> 00:15:32,800 of your police force in action. 506 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:34,800 Mrs. Bryden went on to explain that she let her younger 507 00:15:34,900 --> 00:15:36,800 brother take the suede jacket the previous night. 508 00:15:36,900 --> 00:15:38,800 She also told us that the boy was living with them 509 00:15:38,900 --> 00:15:40,800 while he attended school. 510 00:15:40,900 --> 00:15:42,800 After questioning her further, we learned that Gordon 511 00:15:42,900 --> 00:15:44,800 Hedig had been in trouble with the police before. 512 00:15:44,900 --> 00:15:47,800 We called the office and asked Jack Crowley to check the name 513 00:15:47,900 --> 00:15:49,800 and description through R&I. 514 00:15:49,900 --> 00:15:51,800 We also asked that if he came up with a record, 515 00:15:51,900 --> 00:15:53,800 he would be able to get the record back. 516 00:15:53,900 --> 00:15:54,800 And we did. 517 00:15:54,900 --> 00:15:56,800 We asked him to give us the record. 518 00:15:56,900 --> 00:15:57,800 And he did. 519 00:15:57,900 --> 00:15:58,800 And he did. 520 00:15:58,900 --> 00:15:59,800 And he did. 521 00:15:59,900 --> 00:16:00,800 And he did. 522 00:16:00,900 --> 00:16:01,800 And he did. 523 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:03,700 But if he came up with a record, he'd have Harland Stahl 524 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:05,700 compare Hedig's fingerprints with the partials found 525 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:07,700 in the victim's car. 526 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:09,700 Frank and I got the address of the school that the boy was 527 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:11,200 attending, and we drove over to see him. 528 00:16:11,300 --> 00:16:13,300 We waited in a small office while the school authorities 529 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:14,700 located him. 530 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:16,200 Well, Miss Austin was right about what she told us. 531 00:16:16,300 --> 00:16:17,500 What do you mean? 532 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:18,700 Well, she said she couldn't give us a very accurate 533 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:19,500 description. 534 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:20,700 Yeah. 535 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:21,700 She said the ages might be around 20 or so. 536 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:23,000 Mm-hmm. 537 00:16:23,100 --> 00:16:24,700 Not many high school students look 20, not even seniors. 538 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:26,200 Yeah, that's true. 539 00:16:26,300 --> 00:16:27,200 But according to what the Bryertons told us, 540 00:16:27,300 --> 00:16:28,200 this could be the boy. 541 00:16:28,300 --> 00:16:29,700 Yeah, that's right. 542 00:16:29,700 --> 00:16:33,600 Come in. 543 00:16:33,700 --> 00:16:34,600 Come on in, son. 544 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:38,600 Close the door. 545 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:42,600 You Gordon Heddy? 546 00:16:42,700 --> 00:16:43,600 Yeah. 547 00:16:43,700 --> 00:16:45,600 Police officers, Heddy. 548 00:16:45,700 --> 00:16:47,600 What do you want me to do, standard attention? 549 00:16:47,700 --> 00:16:48,600 I told you once to come on in. 550 00:16:48,700 --> 00:16:50,600 Now come on over here. 551 00:16:50,700 --> 00:16:51,600 Sure, but remember where you are. 552 00:16:51,700 --> 00:16:53,600 These ain't soundproof walls. 553 00:16:53,700 --> 00:16:54,600 I don't play tough with us, son. 554 00:16:54,700 --> 00:16:56,600 Sit down. 555 00:16:56,700 --> 00:16:58,600 You see, orders always tell you guys what to do. 556 00:16:58,600 --> 00:16:59,500 Sit down, stand up. 557 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:00,500 You're all the same. 558 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:01,500 It'll get off a guy in the back. 559 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:03,500 All right, just keep still. 560 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:05,500 I'm sitting in school trying to learn something. 561 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:07,500 You got to come around and jerk me out of class. 562 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:09,500 Why don't you wait until General Assembly 563 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:11,500 to get the whole school in on it? 564 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:12,500 You don't care what you do to a guy's reputation. 565 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:14,500 That's what you think, is it? 566 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:15,500 Yeah. 567 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:17,500 Now listen, son, we never heard of you before today, 568 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:18,500 but we're finding out fast. 569 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:20,500 The way we got it, you've gone way out of your way 570 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:23,500 to make your own record, and you didn't do it in the classroom. 571 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:25,500 We've got a good reason to be here. 572 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:27,500 If you're innocent, you won't have to worry about 573 00:17:27,500 --> 00:17:29,400 what anyone in this school thinks. 574 00:17:29,500 --> 00:17:30,400 You don't sell me, mister. 575 00:17:30,500 --> 00:17:31,400 We don't have to, son. 576 00:17:31,500 --> 00:17:33,400 If you're clean, it's like we never met you. 577 00:17:33,500 --> 00:17:34,400 But I'm going to put it right on the line for you. 578 00:17:34,500 --> 00:17:36,400 The way this thing shapes up right now, 579 00:17:36,500 --> 00:17:38,400 we think you already bought yourself another hunk of trouble. 580 00:17:38,500 --> 00:17:39,400 Figures. 581 00:17:39,500 --> 00:17:40,400 I made before I go in. 582 00:17:40,500 --> 00:17:41,400 That's where you're wrong, kid. 583 00:17:41,500 --> 00:17:43,400 Nobody's going to tag you with a bum beef. 584 00:17:43,500 --> 00:17:45,400 You give us the right answers, and like my partner said, 585 00:17:45,500 --> 00:17:46,400 we never met you. 586 00:17:46,500 --> 00:17:47,400 All right. 587 00:17:47,500 --> 00:17:48,400 What do you want from me? 588 00:17:48,500 --> 00:17:50,400 You can start by telling us what you did last night. 589 00:17:50,500 --> 00:17:51,400 I went to a show. 590 00:17:51,500 --> 00:17:52,400 Where? 591 00:17:52,500 --> 00:17:53,400 Downtown. 592 00:17:53,500 --> 00:17:54,400 What time? 593 00:17:54,500 --> 00:17:55,400 Around seven, I guess. 594 00:17:55,500 --> 00:17:56,400 Who was with you? 595 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:57,300 Me. 596 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:58,300 What was the name of the theater? 597 00:17:58,400 --> 00:17:59,300 The Dawn. 598 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:00,300 What'd you see? 599 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:01,300 What pictures? 600 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:02,300 Yeah. 601 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:03,300 I don't remember right off. 602 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:05,300 One was Western, and it was about spies. 603 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:07,300 You're all by yourself. 604 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:09,300 I said so, didn't I? 605 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:10,300 What time did you get out of the show? 606 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:11,300 Around 10, I guess. 607 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:12,300 What did you do then? 608 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:13,300 Went home. 609 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:15,300 What kind of clothes you have on last night? 610 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:16,300 What do you mean? 611 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:17,300 What were you wearing? 612 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:18,300 I don't know. 613 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,300 Jacket, sports shirt, usual stuff. 614 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:22,300 What kind of jacket? 615 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:23,300 Suede. 616 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:24,300 Belong to you? 617 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:25,300 No. 618 00:18:25,300 --> 00:18:27,500 No, my brother. 619 00:18:27,500 --> 00:18:29,500 How'd you get out to Washington and Normandy? 620 00:18:29,500 --> 00:18:30,500 To where? 621 00:18:30,500 --> 00:18:31,500 Washington and Normandy. 622 00:18:31,500 --> 00:18:33,500 I told you I was downtown. 623 00:18:33,500 --> 00:18:34,500 Say, what is this? 624 00:18:34,500 --> 00:18:35,500 You tell us. 625 00:18:35,500 --> 00:18:36,500 You were in that car, weren't you? 626 00:18:36,500 --> 00:18:37,500 What car? 627 00:18:37,500 --> 00:18:38,500 The one you beat the woman in. 628 00:18:38,500 --> 00:18:39,500 You're crazy. 629 00:18:39,500 --> 00:18:40,500 Who was with you? 630 00:18:40,500 --> 00:18:41,500 I told you I was alone. 631 00:18:41,500 --> 00:18:42,500 What more do you want? 632 00:18:42,500 --> 00:18:43,500 The name of the person that was with you. 633 00:18:43,500 --> 00:18:47,500 I don't know what you're trying to tag me with, but you're not going to make it this time. 634 00:18:47,500 --> 00:18:50,500 I told you I was at a show by myself. 635 00:18:50,500 --> 00:18:52,500 How do you think you can prove I wasn't? 636 00:18:52,500 --> 00:18:55,500 We found the lenses you lost from the jacket pocket. 637 00:18:55,500 --> 00:18:58,500 Boy, this gets wilder all the time. 638 00:18:58,500 --> 00:18:59,500 I was sitting in the show last night. 639 00:18:59,500 --> 00:19:00,500 That's it. 640 00:19:00,500 --> 00:19:01,500 In other words, you don't want to tell us about it. 641 00:19:01,500 --> 00:19:02,500 Is that it? 642 00:19:02,500 --> 00:19:03,500 About the show. 643 00:19:03,500 --> 00:19:04,500 All right, Hedwig, you play it your way. 644 00:19:04,500 --> 00:19:05,500 It's going to take us a little longer. 645 00:19:05,500 --> 00:19:06,500 That's all. 646 00:19:06,500 --> 00:19:07,500 Same old story. 647 00:19:07,500 --> 00:19:09,500 Don't make any difference what I say. 648 00:19:09,500 --> 00:19:11,500 You know I got a record, so I'm guilty. 649 00:19:11,500 --> 00:19:12,500 Don't make any difference. 650 00:19:12,500 --> 00:19:13,500 Either way, I'm the pigeon. 651 00:19:13,500 --> 00:19:14,500 No, you're wrong. 652 00:19:14,500 --> 00:19:15,500 Not with us, Hedwig. 653 00:19:15,500 --> 00:19:16,500 Oh, come on. 654 00:19:16,500 --> 00:19:18,500 I just didn't fall off the Christmas tree. 655 00:19:18,500 --> 00:19:20,500 There's only one way we want you. 656 00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:21,500 Yeah? 657 00:19:21,500 --> 00:19:22,500 If you're wrong. 658 00:19:22,500 --> 00:19:30,500 We took Gordon heading to the city hall for further questioning. 659 00:19:30,500 --> 00:19:34,500 We called Gwen Alston, asked her to come down and see if she could identify the suspect. 660 00:19:34,500 --> 00:19:37,500 Arlen Stahl said the suspect's fingerprints matched the partials found in the car, but 661 00:19:37,500 --> 00:19:40,500 there weren't enough points to build a case on. 662 00:19:40,500 --> 00:19:41,500 2.47 p.m. 663 00:19:41,500 --> 00:19:43,500 Frank and I had the suspect brought to the squad room. 664 00:19:43,500 --> 00:19:45,500 Why don't you give up? 665 00:19:45,500 --> 00:19:47,500 I ain't going to cop out to something I didn't do. 666 00:19:47,500 --> 00:19:50,500 We don't expect you to, but we still want to know how a container with your brother-in-law's 667 00:19:50,500 --> 00:19:53,500 lenses could be found in the backseat of a victim's car. 668 00:19:53,500 --> 00:19:55,500 Now, they were in his jacket and you wore that jacket. 669 00:19:55,500 --> 00:19:56,500 Isn't that right? 670 00:19:56,500 --> 00:19:57,500 Don't ask me. 671 00:19:57,500 --> 00:19:58,500 I was at the show. 672 00:19:58,500 --> 00:19:59,500 Yeah, so you said. 673 00:19:59,500 --> 00:20:02,500 Another thing, you guys better treat me pretty good while I'm in here. 674 00:20:02,500 --> 00:20:03,500 Yeah? 675 00:20:03,500 --> 00:20:04,500 Sure. 676 00:20:04,500 --> 00:20:05,500 I'm a kid. 677 00:20:05,500 --> 00:20:06,500 Don't forget. 678 00:20:06,500 --> 00:20:07,500 Yeah, that's the way it reads in the books. 679 00:20:07,500 --> 00:20:09,500 For my money, that's as far as it goes. 680 00:20:09,500 --> 00:20:12,500 I told you once we can put you in the backseat of that car. 681 00:20:12,500 --> 00:20:16,500 I get it. 682 00:20:16,500 --> 00:20:19,500 Robbery Friday? 683 00:20:19,500 --> 00:20:20,500 Right. 684 00:20:20,500 --> 00:20:21,500 Send her down, will you? 685 00:20:21,500 --> 00:20:22,500 Right away. 686 00:20:22,500 --> 00:20:23,500 Thank you. 687 00:20:23,500 --> 00:20:25,500 I'm going to tag the business officer. 688 00:20:25,500 --> 00:20:26,500 I'll be right back. 689 00:20:26,500 --> 00:20:27,500 Okay, John. 690 00:20:27,500 --> 00:20:28,500 Miss Austin? 691 00:20:28,500 --> 00:20:29,500 Hello, Sergeant Friday. 692 00:20:29,500 --> 00:20:30,500 I got down as soon as I could. 693 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:31,500 All right, fine. 694 00:20:31,500 --> 00:20:32,500 And have you got the man here? 695 00:20:32,500 --> 00:20:33,500 Well, we'd like you to tell us. 696 00:20:33,500 --> 00:20:34,500 We'll go down the hall here. 697 00:20:34,500 --> 00:20:35,500 What do I have to do? 698 00:20:35,500 --> 00:20:36,500 Just look into this room. 699 00:20:36,500 --> 00:20:37,500 Tell me if you see the man that beat you up. 700 00:20:37,500 --> 00:20:38,500 Do I have to face him? 701 00:20:38,500 --> 00:20:39,500 No. 702 00:20:39,500 --> 00:20:40,500 You can go around here. 703 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:41,500 You can look around. 704 00:20:41,500 --> 00:20:49,500 All right. 705 00:20:49,500 --> 00:20:50,500 All right, here. 706 00:20:50,500 --> 00:20:51,500 How do you see him? 707 00:20:51,500 --> 00:20:52,500 Well, what about him? 708 00:20:52,500 --> 00:20:53,500 Yes. 709 00:20:53,500 --> 00:20:54,500 That's him there. 710 00:20:54,500 --> 00:21:15,820 We confronted Gordon Heddy with the fact that he'd been positively identified by the person 711 00:21:15,820 --> 00:21:17,260 he had beaten and robbed. 712 00:21:17,260 --> 00:21:19,980 He still refused to admit any knowledge of the crime. 713 00:21:19,980 --> 00:21:22,500 We booked him on section 700-sub-M robbery. 714 00:21:22,500 --> 00:21:26,900 A check was made of the F.I. cards in an attempt to identify the person who'd been with Heddy 715 00:21:26,900 --> 00:21:27,900 the night before. 716 00:21:27,900 --> 00:21:32,180 We called Newton University and 77th Street divisions. 717 00:21:32,180 --> 00:21:35,460 When we checked the central, a clerk went through the files and found that the suspect had been 718 00:21:35,460 --> 00:21:38,780 stopped at 9th and Main Streets at 10 p.m. the previous night. 719 00:21:38,780 --> 00:21:43,340 Frank and I went over to the 1st Street station. 720 00:21:43,340 --> 00:21:44,340 The F.I. card you wanted, Sergeant. 721 00:21:44,340 --> 00:21:45,340 Thank you. 722 00:21:45,340 --> 00:21:46,340 Well, here's what we're looking for. 723 00:21:46,340 --> 00:21:47,340 Yeah? 724 00:21:47,340 --> 00:21:48,340 Wasn't alone. 725 00:21:48,340 --> 00:21:53,780 A person by the name of John Berko was with him. 726 00:21:53,780 --> 00:21:54,780 Officer make a card on him, too? 727 00:21:54,780 --> 00:21:57,780 Yeah, I got it here. 728 00:21:57,780 --> 00:22:00,780 What about the other guy? 729 00:22:00,780 --> 00:22:02,780 Thank you. 730 00:22:02,780 --> 00:22:05,780 John Berko, B-E-R-K-O, age 19, 506 Hold Avenue. 731 00:22:05,780 --> 00:22:06,780 Yeah. 732 00:22:06,780 --> 00:22:09,780 Something else in the back here that checks out. 733 00:22:09,780 --> 00:22:10,780 What's that? 734 00:22:10,780 --> 00:22:11,780 Notation the officer made. 735 00:22:11,780 --> 00:22:12,780 Yeah. 736 00:22:12,780 --> 00:22:13,780 Berko's right thumb was bandaged. 737 00:22:13,780 --> 00:22:26,020 We went back to the office and ran the name John Berko through R&I. 738 00:22:26,020 --> 00:22:29,500 We found a package for him that showed several arrests as a juvenile and one as an adult 739 00:22:29,500 --> 00:22:31,700 for suspicion of ADW. 740 00:22:31,700 --> 00:22:35,820 Gwen Alston was shown his mug shot and she identified him as the other suspect. 741 00:22:35,820 --> 00:22:37,460 We drove out to his address on Whole Street. 742 00:22:37,460 --> 00:22:38,460 It was a boarding house. 743 00:22:38,460 --> 00:22:40,860 The owner admitted us to his room. 744 00:22:40,860 --> 00:22:41,860 We waited. 745 00:22:41,860 --> 00:22:42,860 Four hours went by. 746 00:22:42,860 --> 00:22:43,860 Eight, 19 p.m. 747 00:22:43,860 --> 00:22:51,860 All right, Berko, hold it right there. 748 00:22:51,860 --> 00:22:52,860 Police officers, get your hands over your head. 749 00:22:52,860 --> 00:22:53,860 Come on, move. 750 00:22:53,860 --> 00:22:54,860 Sure. 751 00:22:54,860 --> 00:22:55,860 Over the door. 752 00:22:55,860 --> 00:22:56,860 Come on. 753 00:22:56,860 --> 00:22:57,860 Hands up on the door. 754 00:22:57,860 --> 00:22:58,860 Trying to hold it right there. 755 00:22:58,860 --> 00:22:59,860 All right. 756 00:22:59,860 --> 00:23:00,860 Okay. 757 00:23:00,860 --> 00:23:01,860 He's clean, John. 758 00:23:01,860 --> 00:23:02,860 What's the pitch? 759 00:23:02,860 --> 00:23:03,860 Come on, turn around. 760 00:23:03,860 --> 00:23:04,860 Put your hands behind your back. 761 00:23:04,860 --> 00:23:05,860 All right. 762 00:23:05,860 --> 00:23:06,860 Take it easy with my thumb. 763 00:23:06,860 --> 00:23:07,860 I think I got blood poisoning. 764 00:23:07,860 --> 00:23:08,860 Yeah. 765 00:23:08,860 --> 00:23:09,860 Now you want to tell me what this is about? 766 00:23:09,860 --> 00:23:10,860 Friend of yours sent it to me. 767 00:23:10,860 --> 00:23:12,860 Said you always work together on everything. 768 00:23:12,860 --> 00:23:13,860 It's kind of lonesome without you. 769 00:23:13,860 --> 00:23:14,860 Who are you talking about? 770 00:23:14,860 --> 00:23:15,860 Heddy. 771 00:23:15,860 --> 00:23:16,860 He sent you here. 772 00:23:16,860 --> 00:23:17,860 He copped up to you? 773 00:23:17,860 --> 00:23:18,860 All right, let's go. 774 00:23:18,860 --> 00:23:19,860 What did he say? 775 00:23:19,860 --> 00:23:20,860 You figured. 776 00:23:20,860 --> 00:23:21,860 We're here. 777 00:23:21,860 --> 00:23:22,860 That Fink. 778 00:23:22,860 --> 00:23:23,860 Big talk about how you never cop out to anything. 779 00:23:23,860 --> 00:23:24,860 Never admit nothing. 780 00:23:24,860 --> 00:23:25,860 That's the way it is when you get mixed up with young squirts. 781 00:23:25,860 --> 00:23:26,860 All right, let's go. 782 00:23:26,860 --> 00:23:27,860 Lousy punk. 783 00:23:27,860 --> 00:23:28,860 Suppose you know how he beat up that woman. 784 00:23:28,860 --> 00:23:29,860 Yeah. 785 00:23:29,860 --> 00:23:30,860 Should have heard him after. 786 00:23:30,860 --> 00:23:31,860 I don't know. 787 00:23:31,860 --> 00:23:32,860 I don't know. 788 00:23:32,860 --> 00:23:33,860 I don't know. 789 00:23:33,860 --> 00:23:34,860 I don't know. 790 00:23:34,860 --> 00:23:35,860 I don't know. 791 00:23:35,860 --> 00:23:36,860 I don't know. 792 00:23:36,860 --> 00:23:37,860 I don't know. 793 00:23:37,860 --> 00:23:38,860 I don't know. 794 00:23:38,860 --> 00:23:41,860 Should have heard him after, laughing about how he hit her. 795 00:23:41,860 --> 00:23:44,500 Should have figured he'd cop out if he got nails. 796 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:45,500 No guts. 797 00:23:45,500 --> 00:23:46,500 Got to beat up on women. 798 00:23:46,500 --> 00:23:47,500 No guts at all. 799 00:23:47,500 --> 00:23:48,500 Well, that's real funny, isn't it? 800 00:23:48,500 --> 00:23:49,500 What's that? 801 00:23:49,500 --> 00:23:50,500 We just talked to him. 802 00:23:50,500 --> 00:23:51,500 Yeah? 803 00:23:51,500 --> 00:23:58,500 He said the same things about you. 804 00:23:58,500 --> 00:24:02,620 The story you have just heard is true. 805 00:24:02,620 --> 00:24:05,420 The names were changed to protect the innocents. 806 00:24:05,420 --> 00:24:10,640 On June 9th, trial was held in Department 97, Superior Court of the State of California, 807 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:12,640 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 808 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:26,220 A petition was filed on Gordon Hedig alleging one count of robbery and kidnapping. 809 00:24:26,220 --> 00:24:30,980 He was declared unfit as a juvenile and ordered to be tried in Superior Court. 810 00:24:30,980 --> 00:24:35,540 Gordon Jerome Hedig and John Carlton Burkle were tried and convicted of robbery in the 811 00:24:35,540 --> 00:24:40,300 first degree one count and kidnapping for the purpose of robbery. 812 00:24:40,300 --> 00:24:43,660 Robbery in the first degree is punishable by imprisonment for a period of not less 813 00:24:43,660 --> 00:24:45,880 than five years. 814 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:50,020 Kidnapping for the purpose of robbery with bodily harm is punishable by imprisonment 815 00:24:50,020 --> 00:24:54,460 in the state penitentiary for life without possibility of parole. 816 00:24:54,460 --> 00:25:00,540 Dragnet, the story of your police force in action is a presentation of the United States 817 00:25:00,540 --> 00:25:28,180 Armed Forces radio service.