1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,040 The story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:11,040 --> 00:00:22,360 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:23,360 You're a detective sergeant. 4 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:26,440 You're assigned a homicide detail. 5 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:30,120 A man has been shot in a cheap hotel in the downtown area. 6 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:32,360 There's no apparent motive for the attack. 7 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:34,880 No lead to the identity of the assailant. 8 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:41,400 Your job, find him. 9 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:42,400 It was Tuesday, January 11th. 10 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:43,400 It was cold in Los Angeles. 11 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:45,600 We were working the day watch out on homicide detail. 12 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:46,920 My partner is Frank Smith. 13 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:47,920 The boss is Captain Warman. 14 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:48,920 My name is Friday. 15 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:52,920 I was on my way into the office and it was 5.26 a.m. when I got to room 42. 16 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:53,920 Homicide. 17 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:54,920 Yeah. 18 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:56,920 We just got through the hospital. 19 00:00:56,920 --> 00:00:57,920 Mm-hmm. 20 00:00:57,920 --> 00:00:58,920 Well, he's on the way in. 21 00:00:58,920 --> 00:00:59,920 That's right. 22 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:00,920 Wait a minute. 23 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:01,920 Yeah, here he is now. 24 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:02,920 Uh-huh. 25 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:03,920 No, I haven't called him yet. 26 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:04,920 Well, I didn't say anything. 27 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:05,920 Okay, we'll keep in touch with him. 28 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:06,920 Right. 29 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:07,920 Bye. 30 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:08,920 What do you got, anything? 31 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:09,920 Yeah, shooting over on 5th. 32 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:10,920 Soon as I check the crime lab, we can roll on. 33 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:11,920 Who's the victim? 34 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:12,920 A guy named Arthur McNeil. 35 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:13,920 WMA, 62 years. 36 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:14,920 Is he saying anything? 37 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:15,920 No, he ran out. 38 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:16,920 Six bullets in his head. 39 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:31,920 The Garnet Hotel was located on 5th Street between Turner and Banning. 40 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:34,440 It was an old run-down building. 41 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:40,280 A wooden sign over the entrance advertised room, 75 cents per night, weekly rates available. 42 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:42,760 Frank and I climbed one flight of wooden stairs that led to the lobby. 43 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:46,400 By the time we'd gotten there, two black and white cars had arrived and the uniformed officers 44 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:49,080 were attempting to restore some sort of order in the place. 45 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:52,400 We talked with them briefly and then we met Mr. Ted Brindle, the night Arthur placed the 46 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:53,400 original call. 47 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:54,400 I know what's going on, I tell you. 48 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:55,400 No reason for me to try to hide nothing. 49 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:56,400 I ain't mixed up in it. 50 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:57,400 We didn't say you were. 51 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:58,400 What? 52 00:01:58,400 --> 00:01:59,400 I say we didn't say you were involved. 53 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:00,400 We just want to find out what happened here. 54 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:01,400 Oh, come on in the office. 55 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:02,400 Can't hear a word you're saying. 56 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:03,400 Come on. 57 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:04,400 Come on, talk in the office. 58 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:05,400 Now then, tell me, can you hear yourself talking? 59 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:06,400 I can hear you. 60 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:07,400 I can hear you. 61 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:08,400 I can hear you. 62 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:09,400 I can hear you. 63 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:10,400 I can hear you. 64 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:11,400 I can hear you. 65 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:12,400 I can hear you. 66 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:13,400 I can hear you. 67 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,400 I can hear you. 68 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:17,400 Now then, tell me, can you hear yourself talk? 69 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:18,400 Sit down. 70 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:19,400 Thank you. 71 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:20,400 Just throw the clothes on the floor, toss them down, take a seat. 72 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:21,400 Yes, sir. 73 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:22,400 Yes, sir. 74 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:23,400 Now about the shooting. 75 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,400 I was just finishing up and all of a sudden I hear these noises, you know, like pow, pow, 76 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:28,400 loud, sharp. 77 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:29,400 Yeah. 78 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:30,400 Wasn't sure what they was at first. 79 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:31,400 A lot of noise around here all the time. 80 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:32,400 People falling out of bed, bottles breaking, stuff like that. 81 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:33,400 Mm-hmm. 82 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:34,400 It was loud enough, though, I figured I ought to take a look, so I went upstairs. 83 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:35,400 Yeah. 84 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:36,400 A couple other people were out in the halls trying to find out what the hullabaloo was all 85 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:37,400 about. 86 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:44,400 Wasn't anything to let anybody know. 87 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:45,400 Yes, sir. 88 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:49,400 Then I come to Mr. McNeil's room, 319, on the left. 89 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:50,400 Mm-hmm. 90 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:51,400 Door was open, wide. 91 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:52,400 I looked in, there he was. 92 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:53,400 McNeil? 93 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:54,400 Yes, sir, laying right on the floor. 94 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:55,400 Just kind of sprawled around like he'd just dropped there. 95 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:56,400 Yeah. 96 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:57,400 I called to him, he yelled. 97 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:58,400 The light wasn't on the room, couldn't see too good, didn't go right off, then it went 98 00:02:58,400 --> 00:02:59,400 in. 99 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:00,400 Yes, sir. 100 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:01,400 Dead. 101 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:02,400 Mm-hmm. 102 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:10,400 Called the cops, told them to kill him, said for him to come right in. 103 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:11,400 Did you go in the room at all? 104 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:12,400 Well, just to look at Mr. McNeil. 105 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:13,400 As soon as I saw what happened, I turned around, ran to the phone, called the cops. 106 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:14,400 What can you tell us about this McNeil? 107 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:15,400 Oh, not much to say. 108 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:16,400 Quiet, didn't cause no trouble. 109 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:17,400 Didn't drink, pities, ran on time. 110 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:18,400 Mm-hmm. 111 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:19,400 Yeah, me and my relatives in town, did you know that? 112 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:20,400 Didn't hear him say nothing. 113 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:21,400 Is there anything else you might tell us about him? 114 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:22,400 No, nothing right off. 115 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:23,400 All right, thank you. 116 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:24,400 You going up to see the room now? 117 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:25,400 That's right. 118 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:32,400 Sure don't make much sense. 119 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:34,960 What's that? 120 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:35,960 Why anybody do it? 121 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,960 Plain little guy, nothing about him, make him stand out, take any notice. 122 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:39,960 Mm-hmm. 123 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,960 Mind his own business, got along with all the guests. 124 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:44,960 Wasn't anybody pay any attention to him. 125 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:45,960 You got it wrong. 126 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:46,960 Why? 127 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:47,960 Somebody did. 128 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:48,960 612 a.m. 129 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:56,920 The crew from the crime lab arrived and began their investigation of the murder room. 130 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:01,560 The canvas of the area was started in an attempt to find somebody who might have seen the killer. 131 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:02,560 Frank and I went up to room 319. 132 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:06,320 The appearance of the room indicated that there had been a struggle before McNeil was 133 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:07,320 killed. 134 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:09,320 Clothing was scattered around the floor, tables were overturned. 135 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:12,320 The bedding had been ripped from the bed and then torn apart. 136 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:14,320 Pictures had been removed from the wall. 137 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:15,320 Books were scattered all around the place. 138 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,720 The drawers from the small desk in the bureau had been ransacked. 139 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:19,720 Papers had been thrown around. 140 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:23,320 While Lieutenant Lee Jones continued his investigation, Frank and I talked with the 141 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:24,320 night clerk, Ted Randall. 142 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:26,520 Do you know if McNeil carried large sums of money? 143 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:27,520 Huh? 144 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:29,360 Did McNeil carry much money with him, would you know? 145 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:30,760 Don't know if I can answer that. 146 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:32,240 He never did flash any of it around. 147 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:34,240 Guess he had enough to live on, though. 148 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:35,840 Told you before, he always paid his rent on time. 149 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:38,280 Do you have any close friends you know of? 150 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:39,280 Only met one. 151 00:04:39,280 --> 00:04:40,280 Who was that? 152 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:41,280 Girl. 153 00:04:41,280 --> 00:04:42,280 Know her name? 154 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:43,280 Well, ain't exactly a girl either. 155 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:44,280 Guess she's around 50. 156 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:47,320 A couple of times, McNeil took her out to a movie or something. 157 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:50,560 When they came in, he went upstairs, changed his clothes, and her and me, we talked. 158 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:54,000 I guess he saw something kind of interesting in her. 159 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:55,000 Myself. 160 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,000 I couldn't, though. 161 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Kind of dumpy, you know? 162 00:04:58,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Seemed like her, though. 163 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,360 A couple other times he talked about her, said how she was so nice. 164 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:02,360 Seemed to understand him. 165 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:03,360 How about her name? 166 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:04,360 Let me think for a minute. 167 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:05,360 Clara. 168 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:06,360 Yeah, it seemed like that with it. 169 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:07,360 Clara. 170 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:08,360 You know where we can get in touch with her? 171 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:13,360 Well, the way I remember, she lived in a hotel down the street near 6th. 172 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:15,360 Did you know the name of the place? 173 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:16,360 Eldridge, I think it was. 174 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:17,360 Not really sure. 175 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:20,360 If you ask down there, they ought to be able to tell you, though. 176 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:21,360 Name's Clara something. 177 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:23,360 What if we could use your phone? 178 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:24,360 Sure, in the lobby downstairs. 179 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:25,360 I'll call. 180 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:26,360 All right. 181 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:27,360 Hey, you gotta have a dime. 182 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:28,360 It's your pay phone. 183 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:29,360 Yes, sir. 184 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,360 Gee, they sure made a mess. 185 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:33,360 Did McNeil get much mail while he was here? 186 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:34,360 No, a couple of letters. 187 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:36,360 You know where they were from? 188 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:37,360 Some law company here in town. 189 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:38,360 Must have been good. 190 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:42,360 You know how they had the name printed up in the corner of the envelope? 191 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:43,360 Yeah. 192 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:44,360 Embossed. 193 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:46,360 Must cost them something. 194 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:47,360 You remember the name? 195 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:48,360 No, can't get a picture. 196 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:50,360 Did McNeil drive a car? 197 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:51,360 Uh-uh. 198 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:53,360 Used to take the street car to work. 199 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:55,360 Know that because he used to talk about the people he met. 200 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:57,360 He got real sore when it rained. 201 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,360 Told me he couldn't stand the smell of wet wool. 202 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:03,360 Said there ought to be a law that nobody could wear wool clothes when it rained. 203 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:05,360 He's a funny little guy. 204 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:07,360 Got real definite ideas about things. 205 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:08,360 That so? 206 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:09,360 Oh, yeah. 207 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:10,360 Made up his mind and stuck to it. 208 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:11,360 Like the envelope. 209 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:12,360 What's that? 210 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:14,360 The envelope he had a couple days ago. 211 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:16,360 Wanted to put it in the hotel safe. 212 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:17,360 Told him he didn't have one. 213 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:19,360 Just got the steel boxes. 214 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:22,360 You know, one for each room in case the guests want to check something. 215 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:23,360 And we got those. 216 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:26,360 When he found out, he decided to keep the envelope himself. 217 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:27,360 Tell you what was in it? 218 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:28,360 No. 219 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:31,360 Just acted kind of mysterious, like it had something real valuable inside. 220 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:34,360 When he found out it wasn't safe, he told me he'd keep it with him. 221 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:36,360 But he didn't give you any idea what was in the envelope? 222 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:37,360 No. 223 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:39,360 No, just plain white, little. 224 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:41,360 You know, like your mail letter in. 225 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:42,360 Yeah. 226 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:45,360 How about it? 227 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:46,360 Did you find a woman? 228 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:47,360 Yes, sir. 229 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:48,360 See you in a minute, Joe. 230 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:49,360 Yeah. 231 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:50,360 Want to excuse us? 232 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:51,360 Sure. 233 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:52,360 What do you want? 234 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:53,360 I want to check the hotel. 235 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:54,360 The woman's name is Clara Fabian. 236 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:55,360 Yeah. 237 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:56,360 She checked out 30 minutes ago. 238 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:57,360 Did you say where she was going? 239 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:58,360 No. 240 00:06:58,360 --> 00:06:59,360 The clerk said she was pretty upset. 241 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:01,360 Said something about a death in the family. 242 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:10,360 Frank and I went over to the Eldridge Hotel. 243 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,360 We talked to the manager and he told us that the Fabian woman had left hurriedly. 244 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:16,360 We checked her room, but we found nothing to indicate where she might have gone. 245 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:19,360 We called the office and had the name run through R&I. 246 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:23,360 We found she had a record listing several drunk arrests and two convictions on bunko charges. 247 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,360 Her picture was pulled and shown to Ted Brenda. 248 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:28,360 He identified her as McNeil's friend. 249 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:32,360 From her package, we obtained the name of a sister living in the Los Angeles area. 250 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,360 721 a.m., Frank and I drove out to talk to her. 251 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,360 At first, she refused to tell us anything, but after questioning, 252 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:41,360 she admitted that she'd heard from Clara Fabian that morning. 253 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:45,360 She called to say that she was checking into a hotel on South Spring Street. 254 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:49,360 When we got to the place, the desk clerk told us we'd find her in the coffee shop. 255 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:51,360 I guess that's her. 256 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:52,360 Yeah, matches the description. 257 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:53,360 Yeah. 258 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,360 Clara Fabian? 259 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:58,360 Yeah. 260 00:07:58,360 --> 00:07:59,360 What do you want? 261 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:00,360 Police officers would like to talk to you. 262 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:02,360 I want nothing to do with no cops. 263 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:04,360 This is my partner, Frank Smith. My name's Friday. 264 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:06,360 I told you, I don't want to talk to you. You go away. 265 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:08,360 I'm afraid we can't do that. 266 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:10,360 Why, some kind of law? 267 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:12,360 I don't know what you're after, but I ain't gonna help you. 268 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,360 My filly guys like you all the time, giving me nothing but trouble. 269 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:19,360 I'm clean. Don't owe nobody nothing. Now leave me alone. 270 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:21,360 You know a man named Arthur McNeil? 271 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:24,360 I'm gonna get out of here. 272 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:27,360 All right, Miss Fabian. If you don't want to talk here, we'll go downtown. 273 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:30,360 What about McNeil? 274 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:31,360 You know him? 275 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:32,360 Yeah. 276 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:33,360 When did you see him last? 277 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:34,360 About midnight. 278 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:35,360 Where? 279 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:36,360 At dinner. 280 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:38,360 A couple of drinks. I drove him home. 281 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:39,360 How well do you know him? 282 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:40,360 He wants to get married. 283 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:41,360 Do you know where he worked? 284 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:43,360 At his own place. 285 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:44,360 Some kind of chemicals. 286 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:46,360 Can you give us the address? 287 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:48,360 What are all the questions about? Something wrong? 288 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:49,360 Police matter. 289 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:52,360 Why don't you tell me what this is about? Questions you're asking. 290 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:54,360 For all I know, I might be saying the wrong thing. 291 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:56,360 If you tell us the truth, you won't be saying the wrong thing, huh? 292 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:58,360 I got your word on that. 293 00:08:58,360 --> 00:08:59,360 What about something happened to Arthur? 294 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:00,360 Yeah. 295 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:01,360 What? 296 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:02,360 He had an accident. 297 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:04,360 Where? Down at the chemistry place? 298 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:05,360 Yeah. 299 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:06,360 What about his hotel? 300 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:07,360 What'd he do? Fall down the stairs? 301 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:08,360 No. 302 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:09,360 Wouldn't be surprised. 303 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:10,360 The way he lusht up last night. 304 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:12,360 Boy, I never saw him so loaded. 305 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:13,360 That's all? 306 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:14,360 Yeah. 307 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:16,360 A couple of drinks and he's on his way to outer space. 308 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:18,360 He only takes two or three. 309 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:20,360 He had more than that when I met him. 310 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:22,360 I'm gonna have a celebration. 311 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:23,360 What for? 312 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:24,360 What was he celebrating? 313 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:26,360 Some kind of an invention he was working on. 314 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,360 Told me it'd taken him over five years, but he did it. 315 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:31,360 Said we'd be on the easy street. 316 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,360 He had pictures about the money pouring in, all we could use. 317 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:36,360 That's what caused the fight. 318 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:38,360 You see, all the time we've been going together, 319 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:41,360 he's been giving me that line about lots of money. 320 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:44,360 How he was gonna make this invention and be a millionaire all the time. 321 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:45,360 Talking like that. 322 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:46,360 Yeah. 323 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:48,360 I went and looked at him and you know it was all in his head. 324 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:49,360 Nothing to it. 325 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:51,360 I told him to stop it. 326 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:52,360 Told him a hundred times. 327 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:53,360 Didn't do any good. 328 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:54,360 Finally blew up. 329 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:55,360 I couldn't take no more. 330 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:56,360 This was last night, huh? 331 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:57,360 Yeah. 332 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:59,360 We had dinner and he showed me an envelope. 333 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:01,360 That was the invention and it's a big deal. 334 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:02,360 He's gonna be rich. 335 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:04,360 Went on and on about it. 336 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:06,360 I tell you, I think he was a little cracked. 337 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:09,360 Wanted to drive to Vegas right then, get married. 338 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,360 10.30 and he wanted to leave then. 339 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:13,360 I told him he was off the beat. 340 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:15,360 I got it right to his face. 341 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:16,360 Made him mad. 342 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:18,360 Real sore. 343 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:19,360 I think a lot of it was the booze. 344 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:20,360 You know, courage. 345 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:22,360 He can't handle drinking at all. 346 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:25,360 Told me that if I didn't go with him right then, 347 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:26,360 we'd call the whole thing off. 348 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:27,360 Stop seeing each other. 349 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:29,360 I told him it was all right with me. 350 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:31,360 Never meant to get married anyway. 351 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:34,360 Something to do to pass the time. 352 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:36,360 I wouldn't have really got married. 353 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:37,360 What happened then? 354 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:38,360 I took him home. 355 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:40,360 Dropped him at the hotel. 356 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:41,360 Where'd you go then? 357 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:42,360 Back to my place. 358 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:43,360 Got ready for bed. 359 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:44,360 Guess it was about 11 when he called. 360 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:46,360 Real mad. 361 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:47,360 Carried on. 362 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:48,360 Yelled and screamed. 363 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:49,360 Said I'd be sorry. 364 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:51,360 Finally, I couldn't take it anymore 365 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:53,360 and hung up right while he was talking. 366 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:55,360 A couple of minutes later, he called back. 367 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:56,360 I wouldn't answer the phone. 368 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:57,360 Then when it stopped ringing, 369 00:10:57,360 --> 00:10:59,360 I told the boy at the desk not to ring my room anymore. 370 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:00,360 Yeah. 371 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:01,360 It didn't bother me at first. 372 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:02,360 Then I got to thinking about it. 373 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:04,360 Little crackpot. 374 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:05,360 I tried to do something. 375 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:07,360 So I decided to get out. 376 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:09,360 That's why you left the hotel. 377 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:10,360 Yeah. 378 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:11,360 The way he was lashed up, 379 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:12,360 the things he said, 380 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:14,360 and the way he'd known if he was going to cause me trouble. 381 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:16,360 All I knew was that I didn't want no part of it. 382 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:17,360 Yeah. 383 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:18,360 It was an accident. 384 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:20,360 Something serious? 385 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:21,360 Yeah, that's right. 386 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:22,360 In the hospital? 387 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:23,360 No. 388 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:25,360 How bad's he hurt? 389 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:27,360 As bad as you can get. 390 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:29,360 This isn't a joke, is it? 391 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:30,360 No, it's no joke. 392 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:32,360 If it is, I don't think it's very funny. 393 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:34,360 It's no joke, lady. 394 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:35,360 He dead? 395 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:37,360 That's right. 396 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:39,360 He do it himself? 397 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:41,360 Looks like he had some help. 398 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:43,360 Poor old guy. 399 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:46,360 It's kind of funny to think about it now. 400 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:48,360 I used to figure he was cute, 401 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:50,360 the way he was always bringing me presents. 402 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:52,360 Oh, not big, you know, 403 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:55,360 but like a bunch of flowers or a book, little things. 404 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:57,360 Funny to think about it. 405 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:00,360 I can hardly imagine him being dead, poor little guy. 406 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:01,360 You know who did it? 407 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:02,360 Not yet, no. 408 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:04,360 We hope you might be able to help us. 409 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:05,360 Why me? 410 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:07,360 Nobody seems to know much about him. 411 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:08,360 Can't find any close friends. 412 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:10,360 Nobody'd want to see him dead. 413 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:12,360 Never talked about anybody to me. 414 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:14,360 Did he ever mention a lawyer to you? 415 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:15,360 No. 416 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:17,360 Can you give us any idea where he worked? 417 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:18,360 You mean the chemistry place? 418 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:20,360 If that's the place, yeah. 419 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:22,360 No, never said exactly. 420 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,360 I think it was some kind of store though, 421 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:25,360 with the windows painted. 422 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:27,360 He talked about the invention, 423 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:29,360 said he had all this stuff to make it with, 424 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:31,360 but he never told me where it was. 425 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:32,360 All right. 426 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:34,360 Anything else you can tell us about him? 427 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:36,360 No, nothing. 428 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:37,360 All right, thanks, Miss Fabian. 429 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:38,360 For what? 430 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:40,360 For what you have been able to tell us. 431 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:44,360 Don't seem like it's going to be any help. 432 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:47,360 Are you sure this ain't some kind of a joke? 433 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:49,360 No, ma'am. 434 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:50,360 He's really dead. 435 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:52,360 Yes, he is. 436 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:54,360 Yeah, poor little guy. 437 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:56,360 Well, if you think of anything, 438 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:58,360 we'd appreciate a call from maybe one of our cards. 439 00:12:58,360 --> 00:12:59,360 Oh, thanks. 440 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:01,360 I'll remember something, I'll sure let you know. 441 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:02,360 All right. 442 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:03,360 Can you tell me how it happened? 443 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:05,360 He was shot. 444 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:07,360 Maybe it was an accident, you know. 445 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,360 Whoever did it didn't mean to. 446 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:10,360 That's not likely. 447 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:11,360 Maybe. 448 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:14,360 Heard where a gun goes off, somebody kills. 449 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:16,360 All the time, you read about it in the papers. 450 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:18,360 Gun goes off accidentally? 451 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:20,360 No, not six times. 452 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:28,360 Frank and I went back to the office. 453 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:31,360 We called the crime lab and talked with Lieutenant Lee Jones. 454 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:33,360 He told us that they'd been unable to find anything we could use 455 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:35,360 at the scene of the killing. 456 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:38,360 He said that the victim had been shot with a.38 caliber revolver. 457 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:42,360 And going over the room, his crew had found several items of value. 458 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:44,360 In light of this, there was a possibility that the motive for the killing 459 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:47,360 was not robbery as we'd thought before. 460 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:49,360 Lieutenant Jones said that the coroner had called, 461 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,360 and he said that he'd found over $100 in cash on the body of the victim, 462 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,360 also a wristwatch and an expensive ring. 463 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:57,360 In one of the pockets of the coat McNair was wearing, 464 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:00,360 the crew from the crime lab had found an address book. 465 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:02,360 Jones said he was sending it over to us. 466 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:05,360 The canvas of the area had netted us nothing. 467 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:07,360 None of the people in the immediate vicinity had seen anything 468 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:09,360 out of the ordinary at the time of the killing. 469 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:14,360 We contacted the stats office and asked them to make a run on the method of operation. 470 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:16,360 Until we could come up with a motive for the slaying, 471 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:18,360 and we did, to apprehend the killer. 472 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:20,360 Additional men had been sent out from the office 473 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,360 to interrogate the other people in the hotel. 474 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:24,360 They reported that they'd found nothing to aid us. 475 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:26,360 1047 AM. 476 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:28,360 Well, we're sure of building zeros. 477 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:30,360 We sure are. There's not much to go on. 478 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:32,360 Nothing. 479 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:34,360 I got it. 480 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:36,360 Homicide Friday. 481 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:38,360 Yes, sir. That's right. 482 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:42,360 Well, how'd you hear about it? 483 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:45,360 Yeah. 484 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:47,360 Yes, sir, we would. 485 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:49,360 What's that? 486 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:51,360 All right. As soon as we can get there. 487 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:53,360 Yes, sir. Goodbye. 488 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:55,360 Might have a break, man. 489 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:57,360 The man says he's McNeil's lawyer. 490 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:59,360 What's he got? 491 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:01,360 First step. The reason McNeil was killed. 492 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:13,360 Frank and I left the city hall and drove over to the address I'd been given on the phone. 493 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:16,360 After a few minutes' wait, we were shown into George Casper's office. 494 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:18,360 We identified ourselves and he asked us to sit down. 495 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:20,360 Terrible thing to have happen. 496 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:21,360 Yes, sir. 497 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:23,360 I heard about it on the car radio this morning when I was coming to work. 498 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:25,360 You're Mr. McNeil's attorney, are you? 499 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:27,360 Yes. Have been for over 10 years. 500 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:30,360 On the phone, you said that you knew why he was killed. 501 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,360 That's right. I feel a little silly about it now that you're here. 502 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:35,360 All seems pretty melodramatic. 503 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:37,360 Like to tell us about it? 504 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:39,360 It's McNeil's formula. 505 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:40,360 What, sir? 506 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:43,360 For the last eight years, McNeil's been working on a new type of explosive for commercial use. 507 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:44,360 I see. 508 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:46,360 Supposed to have a lot of advantages. 509 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:48,360 Easy to carry, minimizes the danger of accidental firing. 510 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:51,360 The way he painted it would answer a lot of problems in building. 511 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:52,360 Mm-hmm. 512 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:55,360 He called me the day before yesterday. He said it was finished. 513 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:57,360 He'd completed the final laboratory experiments. 514 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:58,360 Yeah. 515 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:00,360 Went on about how it was going to make a fortune for him. 516 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:02,360 Mm-hmm. 517 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:04,360 Had he talked to anyone about it? 518 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:06,360 I'm not sure, but knowing McNeil, I imagine he did. 519 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:08,360 Why do you say that? 520 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:11,360 The experiments got to be an obsession with him about the only thing that mattered. 521 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:15,360 A couple of times when we were out someplace, he'd have a few drinks and start talking about the explosive. 522 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:17,360 Loud enough for anyone near him to hear it. 523 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:18,360 Mm-hmm. 524 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:20,360 Do you know where he worked? 525 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:22,360 Yes, small place out in the valley. I can give you the address if you want it. 526 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:24,360 Yes, sir. We'd appreciate that. 527 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:26,360 Have you any idea who might have killed him? 528 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:27,360 Those who were working on it. 529 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:28,360 Mm-hmm. 530 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:29,360 Was there anybody he was close to? 531 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:30,360 You mean socially? 532 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:32,360 Ladder and business. 533 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:34,360 No, can't think of anyone. 534 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:36,360 There was a girl. He spoke several times of marrying her. 535 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:39,360 Sorry, but I can't tell you any more than that. I don't know her name. 536 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:41,360 All right, fine, Mr. Cather. 537 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:43,360 Does he have any relatives here in town? 538 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:45,360 No, he made a will several months ago. 539 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:47,360 Left everything to one of the industrial schools. 540 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:49,360 Not much. Lab equipment, a few books. 541 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:51,360 Mm-hmm. 542 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:53,360 Anything else he can tell us about? 543 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:55,360 No, I'm afraid not. Most of the time he's pretty quiet. 544 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:57,360 Kept to himself. 545 00:16:57,360 --> 00:16:59,360 Once in a while he'd go on a bender my last couple of days. 546 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:02,360 When he was on one of those drinking bouts, he'd get in some kind of trouble. 547 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:05,360 Loud talk, something like that. Nothing serious. 548 00:17:05,360 --> 00:17:09,360 All right, sir. If you'll give us that address, we won't take up any more of your time. 549 00:17:09,360 --> 00:17:11,360 Yes, of course. 550 00:17:11,360 --> 00:17:14,360 I can understand why I felt a little silly about calling you. 551 00:17:14,360 --> 00:17:16,360 What's that, sir? 552 00:17:16,360 --> 00:17:18,360 Explosives, spies. Sounds like something in a movie. 553 00:17:18,360 --> 00:17:20,360 Mm-hmm. 554 00:17:20,360 --> 00:17:22,360 I don't imagine there's anything to it, though. 555 00:17:22,360 --> 00:17:24,360 As far as I know, McNeil might not even have finished the formula. 556 00:17:24,360 --> 00:17:26,360 Might have been just another of his stories. 557 00:17:26,360 --> 00:17:27,360 Yeah, that's right. 558 00:17:27,360 --> 00:17:29,360 He was always telling whoppers. 559 00:17:29,360 --> 00:17:32,360 I guess a psychiatrist would say he was trying to find some way of justifying himself. 560 00:17:32,360 --> 00:17:33,360 Is that right? 561 00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:37,360 It seemed to be a big thing with him, to find a way of making himself heard about. 562 00:17:37,360 --> 00:17:39,360 It kind of looks like he found it. 563 00:17:39,360 --> 00:17:44,360 ... 564 00:17:44,360 --> 00:17:46,360 Frank and I went back to the office and met with Captain Lorman. 565 00:17:46,360 --> 00:17:51,360 We discussed the possibility of McNeil being killed by somebody who wanted the chemical formula. 566 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:54,360 Because of the potential value of the explosive, federal authorities were notified, 567 00:17:54,360 --> 00:17:58,360 and they sent a team of men out to aid in the investigation. 568 00:17:58,360 --> 00:18:03,360 The next morning, Wednesday, January 12th, we picked up a list of similar crimes from the stats office. 569 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:06,360 In checking out the victims, we got the same description of the thief from each one of them. 570 00:18:06,360 --> 00:18:12,360 They all described him as a white male American, 32 years, 165 pounds. 571 00:18:12,360 --> 00:18:16,360 In each case, the thief had followed the victims and attacked them as they entered their homes. 572 00:18:16,360 --> 00:18:19,360 The last robbery had taken place three weeks before, on December 23rd. 573 00:18:19,360 --> 00:18:22,360 During the commission of the crime, the victim had been wounded. 574 00:18:22,360 --> 00:18:25,360 The bullet had been removed and held at the crime lab as evidence. 575 00:18:25,360 --> 00:18:28,360 8.02 a.m. Frank and I put him on a call to Lieutenant Jones. 576 00:18:28,360 --> 00:18:30,360 8.26 a.m. 577 00:18:30,360 --> 00:18:31,360 Might be late. 578 00:18:31,360 --> 00:18:32,360 Yeah. 579 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:33,360 I got it. 580 00:18:33,360 --> 00:18:34,360 Homicide Friday. 581 00:18:34,360 --> 00:18:36,360 Yeah, Lee. 582 00:18:36,360 --> 00:18:38,360 You check him? 583 00:18:38,360 --> 00:18:40,360 How about it? 584 00:18:41,360 --> 00:18:44,360 Yeah, sure is. 585 00:18:44,360 --> 00:18:45,360 Yeah. 586 00:18:45,360 --> 00:18:48,360 Now all we gotta do is to make it do some good. 587 00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:50,360 All right. Thank you, Lee. Bye. 588 00:18:50,360 --> 00:18:52,360 What's he got? 589 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:55,360 Well, he checked the bullet from the last robbery against the ones that killed McNeil. 590 00:18:55,360 --> 00:18:56,360 Yeah. 591 00:18:56,360 --> 00:18:58,360 Same gun. 592 00:18:58,360 --> 00:19:05,360 Additional local broadcasts and APBs were gotten out, carrying the description of the holdup man. 593 00:19:05,360 --> 00:19:10,360 Victims were asked to come to the city hall and recheck the mug books in the hope that they might be able to identify him. 594 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:15,360 A check of McNeil's workshop failed to disclose any evidence that he'd been working on an explosive. 595 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:18,360 A week went by without any new developments. 596 00:19:18,360 --> 00:19:21,360 Thursday, January 20th, Frank and I got back to the squad room. 597 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:24,360 I was here to look for a while, like it was gonna go. 598 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:25,360 Yeah, I'm good. 599 00:19:25,360 --> 00:19:27,360 I got it. 600 00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:28,360 Homicide Friday. 601 00:19:28,360 --> 00:19:30,360 Yeah, Jim. 602 00:19:30,360 --> 00:19:32,360 When? 603 00:19:32,360 --> 00:19:34,360 Might be. 604 00:19:34,360 --> 00:19:35,360 Right. 605 00:19:35,360 --> 00:19:37,360 Right now. 606 00:19:37,360 --> 00:19:39,360 Jim Austin, robbery. 607 00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:41,360 They just got back from a call out in Westwood. 608 00:19:41,360 --> 00:19:42,360 Yeah? 609 00:19:42,360 --> 00:19:44,360 Thief fits our description pretty good. Austin thinks it might be the same guy. 610 00:19:44,360 --> 00:19:45,360 They get him? 611 00:19:45,360 --> 00:19:46,360 No, something just as good. 612 00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:47,360 What do you mean? 613 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:52,360 He's got a key. 614 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:55,360 Frank and I went over to room 27A and we met with Sergeant Jim Austin. 615 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:57,360 He gave us the details of the robbery. 616 00:19:57,360 --> 00:20:02,360 From the way the holdup man operated and the description given by the victim, he was the man we were looking for. 617 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:05,360 And getting away from the scene, he dropped a key to a downtown hotel room. 618 00:20:05,360 --> 00:20:09,360 We checked the address in the phone book and then we left the city hall. 619 00:20:09,360 --> 00:20:11,360 It was a small place on South Fourth Street. 620 00:20:11,360 --> 00:20:14,360 We identified ourselves with the manager and told him why we were there. 621 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:16,360 Yes, it's one of our keys. 622 00:20:16,360 --> 00:20:17,360 Do you have the room? 623 00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:18,360 Yes, Ralph Otley. 624 00:20:18,360 --> 00:20:19,360 What's this Otley look like? 625 00:20:19,360 --> 00:20:21,360 He's a nice young fellow, blonde. Guess he's about 30 years old. 626 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:22,360 How long has he been here? 627 00:20:22,360 --> 00:20:23,360 You mean regular? 628 00:20:23,360 --> 00:20:24,360 That's right. 629 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:27,360 About five months. A couple of times before that for a couple of months. He came back though. 630 00:20:27,360 --> 00:20:28,360 See him now? 631 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:30,360 No, I haven't seen him since this morning. Left about 7.30. 632 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:31,360 Does he have a job? 633 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:33,360 He never told me nothing about it. 634 00:20:33,360 --> 00:20:34,360 What does he do for a living? 635 00:20:34,360 --> 00:20:36,360 Well, I guess you'd say he was kind of a promoter. 636 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:37,360 What do you mean? 637 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:40,360 Well, he goes around trying to line things up, figure some way to make a killing. 638 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:44,360 He hit it pretty good on a deal last year and he's been living on the money since then, I guess. 639 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:46,360 What do you want to talk to him about? 640 00:20:46,360 --> 00:20:47,360 Police business. 641 00:20:47,360 --> 00:20:48,360 Not in trouble, is he? 642 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:49,360 We'd better talk to him about that. 643 00:20:49,360 --> 00:20:51,360 Well, look, if he's done anything wrong, the hotel didn't know a thing about it. 644 00:20:51,360 --> 00:20:54,360 He paid his rent, he didn't cause any trouble here. Now, we didn't have any partners. 645 00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:56,360 Well, don't worry about it. What if we could see his room? 646 00:20:56,360 --> 00:20:57,360 You mean go through it? 647 00:20:57,360 --> 00:20:58,360 We'd like to take a look at it, yeah. 648 00:20:58,360 --> 00:21:01,360 Well, I guess it's all right. You being cops, sure, I'll give you the key. 649 00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:02,360 You better come with us. 650 00:21:02,360 --> 00:21:05,360 Well, I ain't gonna tell him nothing. He comes in while you're upstairs. I won't tell him anything. 651 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:08,360 No, sir, that's not the idea. We'd like you to be in the room when we check it. 652 00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:14,360 Oh, well, sure, okay, let's go. You really figure that there's something wrong with this, Otley, huh? 653 00:21:14,360 --> 00:21:15,360 Well, we're not sure. 654 00:21:15,360 --> 00:21:17,360 You know, come to think about it, there could be. 655 00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:18,360 Why do you say that? 656 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:21,360 Just because, the way he lives, he'd have to make a lot of money to live the way he does. 657 00:21:21,360 --> 00:21:24,360 A fella makes that much, he usually tells everybody how he did it. You know, show how smart he is. 658 00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:29,360 Well, Otley never says anything, just that he made it, not how. He wouldn't let anybody in on a good thing. 659 00:21:29,360 --> 00:21:32,360 Well, maybe he's got a reason. It's not such a good thing. 660 00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:35,360 In the company of the manager, Frank and I checked the suspect's room. 661 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:38,360 In one of the bureau drawers, we found a box of shells for a.38 pistol. 662 00:21:38,360 --> 00:21:42,360 There were also several items that had been listed as stolen in previous robberies. 663 00:21:42,360 --> 00:21:45,360 We returned to the lobby of the hotel and we waited for Otley to come in. 664 00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:49,360 Four thirty p.m., five, five thirty, five forty-five. 665 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:52,360 Joe. 666 00:21:52,360 --> 00:21:53,360 Yeah. 667 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:54,360 Hi, Sid. 668 00:21:54,360 --> 00:21:55,360 Hello, Mr. Otley. 669 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:57,360 I lost my key someplace. You got another one? 670 00:21:57,360 --> 00:21:58,360 No, I don't have any. 671 00:21:58,360 --> 00:22:02,360 I left it in the room. I'll check, sure. 672 00:22:02,360 --> 00:22:03,360 Let's go. 673 00:22:03,360 --> 00:22:04,360 Any calls for me today? 674 00:22:04,360 --> 00:22:06,360 No, no, sir. No calls. 675 00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:07,360 Stand still, Otley. Police officers. 676 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:08,360 Hey, what are you doing? 677 00:22:08,360 --> 00:22:09,360 Don't turn around. 678 00:22:09,360 --> 00:22:10,360 I'll take it. 679 00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:12,360 Thirty-eight revolver. 680 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:14,360 Hey, what's this all about? I haven't done anything. 681 00:22:14,360 --> 00:22:15,360 Get your hands back of it. 682 00:22:15,360 --> 00:22:16,360 Hold still. 683 00:22:16,360 --> 00:22:17,360 You know you got the wrong guy. 684 00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:19,360 I keep telling the same. 685 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:20,360 Taking him for robbery, huh? 686 00:22:20,360 --> 00:22:21,360 That's one of them. 687 00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:22,360 What do you mean? 688 00:22:22,360 --> 00:22:23,360 We're booking you for suspicion of murder. 689 00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:25,360 Robbery? That's all you can do? 690 00:22:25,360 --> 00:22:27,360 I'm not going to let you get away with it. 691 00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:28,360 Robbery? That's all you got me for? 692 00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:30,360 I'm not going to stand no killing beef. 693 00:22:30,360 --> 00:22:31,360 You keep believing him. 694 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:32,360 I will. 695 00:22:32,360 --> 00:22:34,360 You're going to tag me with anything more than a 211. 696 00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:35,360 Let's go. 697 00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:37,360 Grab him. 698 00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:38,360 Wait a minute. 699 00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:40,360 Hold it up, Otley, or I'll shoot. 700 00:22:45,360 --> 00:22:47,360 Why did you kill me, cop? Why? 701 00:22:47,360 --> 00:22:48,360 You're lucky. 702 00:22:48,360 --> 00:22:49,360 That's all you know. 703 00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:50,360 I'd have been better off a lot better. 704 00:22:50,360 --> 00:22:51,360 You should have killed me. 705 00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:52,360 All right, come on. 706 00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:53,360 We'll take you down to George Street Hospital. 707 00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:54,360 I'd have made a shoot-through, man. 708 00:22:54,360 --> 00:22:55,360 Is that so? 709 00:22:55,360 --> 00:22:56,360 Yeah. 710 00:22:56,360 --> 00:22:57,360 He wouldn't give me the money. 711 00:22:57,360 --> 00:22:58,360 He kept saying he didn't have any. 712 00:22:58,360 --> 00:22:59,360 Yeah. 713 00:22:59,360 --> 00:23:00,360 I heard him talking about it. 714 00:23:00,360 --> 00:23:01,360 He was loaded. 715 00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:02,360 He could have just given it to me. 716 00:23:02,360 --> 00:23:03,360 No trouble if he didn't just give me the money. 717 00:23:03,360 --> 00:23:04,360 All right, settle down. 718 00:23:04,360 --> 00:23:05,360 You're not hurt bad. 719 00:23:05,360 --> 00:23:06,360 He started yelling. 720 00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:07,360 I had to shoot him. 721 00:23:07,360 --> 00:23:08,360 I had to. 722 00:23:08,360 --> 00:23:09,360 It wasn't any other way. 723 00:23:09,360 --> 00:23:10,360 You should have killed me. 724 00:23:10,360 --> 00:23:11,360 That's why I took off so you'd kill me. 725 00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:12,360 I wish you had a... 726 00:23:12,360 --> 00:23:13,360 Well, don't worry about it. 727 00:23:13,360 --> 00:23:14,360 Huh? 728 00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:15,360 Maybe it'll turn out that way. 729 00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:29,560 The story you've just heard is true. 730 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:40,360 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 731 00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:44,800 Ralph Neville Otley was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree and received 732 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,000 a life sentence as prescribed by law. 733 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:51,600 The jury returned a recommendation of mercy and the suspect was sentenced to life imprisonment 734 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,560 at the state penitentiary, San Quentin, California. 735 00:23:55,560 --> 00:24:00,520 You have just heard Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action and starring 736 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:16,160 Jack Webb, a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service.