WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.040 The story you are about to hear is true. 00:11.040 --> 00:22.360 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:22.360 --> 00:23.360 You're a detective sergeant. 00:23.360 --> 00:26.440 You're assigned a homicide detail. 00:26.440 --> 00:30.120 A man has been shot in a cheap hotel in the downtown area. 00:30.120 --> 00:32.360 There's no apparent motive for the attack. 00:32.360 --> 00:34.880 No lead to the identity of the assailant. 00:34.880 --> 00:41.400 Your job, find him. 00:41.400 --> 00:42.400 It was Tuesday, January 11th. 00:42.400 --> 00:43.400 It was cold in Los Angeles. 00:43.400 --> 00:45.600 We were working the day watch out on homicide detail. 00:45.600 --> 00:46.920 My partner is Frank Smith. 00:46.920 --> 00:47.920 The boss is Captain Warman. 00:47.920 --> 00:48.920 My name is Friday. 00:48.920 --> 00:52.920 I was on my way into the office and it was 5.26 a.m. when I got to room 42. 00:52.920 --> 00:53.920 Homicide. 00:53.920 --> 00:54.920 Yeah. 00:54.920 --> 00:56.920 We just got through the hospital. 00:56.920 --> 00:57.920 Mm-hmm. 00:57.920 --> 00:58.920 Well, he's on the way in. 00:58.920 --> 00:59.920 That's right. 00:59.920 --> 01:00.920 Wait a minute. 01:00.920 --> 01:01.920 Yeah, here he is now. 01:01.920 --> 01:02.920 Uh-huh. 01:02.920 --> 01:03.920 No, I haven't called him yet. 01:03.920 --> 01:04.920 Well, I didn't say anything. 01:04.920 --> 01:05.920 Okay, we'll keep in touch with him. 01:05.920 --> 01:06.920 Right. 01:06.920 --> 01:07.920 Bye. 01:07.920 --> 01:08.920 What do you got, anything? 01:08.920 --> 01:09.920 Yeah, shooting over on 5th. 01:09.920 --> 01:10.920 Soon as I check the crime lab, we can roll on. 01:10.920 --> 01:11.920 Who's the victim? 01:11.920 --> 01:12.920 A guy named Arthur McNeil. 01:12.920 --> 01:13.920 WMA, 62 years. 01:13.920 --> 01:14.920 Is he saying anything? 01:14.920 --> 01:15.920 No, he ran out. 01:15.920 --> 01:16.920 Six bullets in his head. 01:16.920 --> 01:31.920 The Garnet Hotel was located on 5th Street between Turner and Banning. 01:31.920 --> 01:34.440 It was an old run-down building. 01:34.440 --> 01:40.280 A wooden sign over the entrance advertised room, 75 cents per night, weekly rates available. 01:40.280 --> 01:42.760 Frank and I climbed one flight of wooden stairs that led to the lobby. 01:42.760 --> 01:46.400 By the time we'd gotten there, two black and white cars had arrived and the uniformed officers 01:46.400 --> 01:49.080 were attempting to restore some sort of order in the place. 01:49.080 --> 01:52.400 We talked with them briefly and then we met Mr. Ted Brindle, the night Arthur placed the 01:52.400 --> 01:53.400 original call. 01:53.400 --> 01:54.400 I know what's going on, I tell you. 01:54.400 --> 01:55.400 No reason for me to try to hide nothing. 01:55.400 --> 01:56.400 I ain't mixed up in it. 01:56.400 --> 01:57.400 We didn't say you were. 01:57.400 --> 01:58.400 What? 01:58.400 --> 01:59.400 I say we didn't say you were involved. 01:59.400 --> 02:00.400 We just want to find out what happened here. 02:00.400 --> 02:01.400 Oh, come on in the office. 02:01.400 --> 02:02.400 Can't hear a word you're saying. 02:02.400 --> 02:03.400 Come on. 02:03.400 --> 02:04.400 Come on, talk in the office. 02:04.400 --> 02:05.400 Now then, tell me, can you hear yourself talking? 02:05.400 --> 02:06.400 I can hear you. 02:06.400 --> 02:07.400 I can hear you. 02:07.400 --> 02:08.400 I can hear you. 02:08.400 --> 02:09.400 I can hear you. 02:09.400 --> 02:10.400 I can hear you. 02:10.400 --> 02:11.400 I can hear you. 02:11.400 --> 02:12.400 I can hear you. 02:12.400 --> 02:13.400 I can hear you. 02:13.400 --> 02:16.400 I can hear you. 02:16.400 --> 02:17.400 Now then, tell me, can you hear yourself talk? 02:17.400 --> 02:18.400 Sit down. 02:18.400 --> 02:19.400 Thank you. 02:19.400 --> 02:20.400 Just throw the clothes on the floor, toss them down, take a seat. 02:20.400 --> 02:21.400 Yes, sir. 02:21.400 --> 02:22.400 Yes, sir. 02:22.400 --> 02:23.400 Now about the shooting. 02:23.400 --> 02:27.400 I was just finishing up and all of a sudden I hear these noises, you know, like pow, pow, 02:27.400 --> 02:28.400 loud, sharp. 02:28.400 --> 02:29.400 Yeah. 02:29.400 --> 02:30.400 Wasn't sure what they was at first. 02:30.400 --> 02:31.400 A lot of noise around here all the time. 02:31.400 --> 02:32.400 People falling out of bed, bottles breaking, stuff like that. 02:32.400 --> 02:33.400 Mm-hmm. 02:33.400 --> 02:34.400 It was loud enough, though, I figured I ought to take a look, so I went upstairs. 02:34.400 --> 02:35.400 Yeah. 02:35.400 --> 02:36.400 A couple other people were out in the halls trying to find out what the hullabaloo was all 02:36.400 --> 02:37.400 about. 02:37.400 --> 02:44.400 Wasn't anything to let anybody know. 02:44.400 --> 02:45.400 Yes, sir. 02:45.400 --> 02:49.400 Then I come to Mr. McNeil's room, 319, on the left. 02:49.400 --> 02:50.400 Mm-hmm. 02:50.400 --> 02:51.400 Door was open, wide. 02:51.400 --> 02:52.400 I looked in, there he was. 02:52.400 --> 02:53.400 McNeil? 02:53.400 --> 02:54.400 Yes, sir, laying right on the floor. 02:54.400 --> 02:55.400 Just kind of sprawled around like he'd just dropped there. 02:55.400 --> 02:56.400 Yeah. 02:56.400 --> 02:57.400 I called to him, he yelled. 02:57.400 --> 02:58.400 The light wasn't on the room, couldn't see too good, didn't go right off, then it went 02:58.400 --> 02:59.400 in. 02:59.400 --> 03:00.400 Yes, sir. 03:00.400 --> 03:01.400 Dead. 03:01.400 --> 03:02.400 Mm-hmm. 03:02.400 --> 03:10.400 Called the cops, told them to kill him, said for him to come right in. 03:10.400 --> 03:11.400 Did you go in the room at all? 03:11.400 --> 03:12.400 Well, just to look at Mr. McNeil. 03:12.400 --> 03:13.400 As soon as I saw what happened, I turned around, ran to the phone, called the cops. 03:13.400 --> 03:14.400 What can you tell us about this McNeil? 03:14.400 --> 03:15.400 Oh, not much to say. 03:15.400 --> 03:16.400 Quiet, didn't cause no trouble. 03:16.400 --> 03:17.400 Didn't drink, pities, ran on time. 03:17.400 --> 03:18.400 Mm-hmm. 03:18.400 --> 03:19.400 Yeah, me and my relatives in town, did you know that? 03:19.400 --> 03:20.400 Didn't hear him say nothing. 03:20.400 --> 03:21.400 Is there anything else you might tell us about him? 03:21.400 --> 03:22.400 No, nothing right off. 03:22.400 --> 03:23.400 All right, thank you. 03:23.400 --> 03:24.400 You going up to see the room now? 03:24.400 --> 03:25.400 That's right. 03:25.400 --> 03:32.400 Sure don't make much sense. 03:32.400 --> 03:34.960 What's that? 03:34.960 --> 03:35.960 Why anybody do it? 03:35.960 --> 03:38.960 Plain little guy, nothing about him, make him stand out, take any notice. 03:38.960 --> 03:39.960 Mm-hmm. 03:39.960 --> 03:42.960 Mind his own business, got along with all the guests. 03:42.960 --> 03:44.960 Wasn't anybody pay any attention to him. 03:44.960 --> 03:45.960 You got it wrong. 03:45.960 --> 03:46.960 Why? 03:46.960 --> 03:47.960 Somebody did. 03:47.960 --> 03:48.960 612 a.m. 03:48.960 --> 03:56.920 The crew from the crime lab arrived and began their investigation of the murder room. 03:56.920 --> 04:01.560 The canvas of the area was started in an attempt to find somebody who might have seen the killer. 04:01.560 --> 04:02.560 Frank and I went up to room 319. 04:02.560 --> 04:06.320 The appearance of the room indicated that there had been a struggle before McNeil was 04:06.320 --> 04:07.320 killed. 04:07.320 --> 04:09.320 Clothing was scattered around the floor, tables were overturned. 04:09.320 --> 04:12.320 The bedding had been ripped from the bed and then torn apart. 04:12.320 --> 04:14.320 Pictures had been removed from the wall. 04:14.320 --> 04:15.320 Books were scattered all around the place. 04:15.320 --> 04:18.720 The drawers from the small desk in the bureau had been ransacked. 04:18.720 --> 04:19.720 Papers had been thrown around. 04:19.720 --> 04:23.320 While Lieutenant Lee Jones continued his investigation, Frank and I talked with the 04:23.320 --> 04:24.320 night clerk, Ted Randall. 04:24.320 --> 04:26.520 Do you know if McNeil carried large sums of money? 04:26.520 --> 04:27.520 Huh? 04:27.520 --> 04:29.360 Did McNeil carry much money with him, would you know? 04:29.360 --> 04:30.760 Don't know if I can answer that. 04:30.760 --> 04:32.240 He never did flash any of it around. 04:32.240 --> 04:34.240 Guess he had enough to live on, though. 04:34.240 --> 04:35.840 Told you before, he always paid his rent on time. 04:35.840 --> 04:38.280 Do you have any close friends you know of? 04:38.280 --> 04:39.280 Only met one. 04:39.280 --> 04:40.280 Who was that? 04:40.280 --> 04:41.280 Girl. 04:41.280 --> 04:42.280 Know her name? 04:42.280 --> 04:43.280 Well, ain't exactly a girl either. 04:43.280 --> 04:44.280 Guess she's around 50. 04:44.280 --> 04:47.320 A couple of times, McNeil took her out to a movie or something. 04:47.320 --> 04:50.560 When they came in, he went upstairs, changed his clothes, and her and me, we talked. 04:50.560 --> 04:54.000 I guess he saw something kind of interesting in her. 04:54.000 --> 04:55.000 Myself. 04:55.000 --> 04:56.000 I couldn't, though. 04:56.000 --> 04:58.000 Kind of dumpy, you know? 04:58.000 --> 04:59.000 Seemed like her, though. 04:59.000 --> 05:01.360 A couple other times he talked about her, said how she was so nice. 05:01.360 --> 05:02.360 Seemed to understand him. 05:02.360 --> 05:03.360 How about her name? 05:03.360 --> 05:04.360 Let me think for a minute. 05:04.360 --> 05:05.360 Clara. 05:05.360 --> 05:06.360 Yeah, it seemed like that with it. 05:06.360 --> 05:07.360 Clara. 05:07.360 --> 05:08.360 You know where we can get in touch with her? 05:08.360 --> 05:13.360 Well, the way I remember, she lived in a hotel down the street near 6th. 05:13.360 --> 05:15.360 Did you know the name of the place? 05:15.360 --> 05:16.360 Eldridge, I think it was. 05:16.360 --> 05:17.360 Not really sure. 05:17.360 --> 05:20.360 If you ask down there, they ought to be able to tell you, though. 05:20.360 --> 05:21.360 Name's Clara something. 05:21.360 --> 05:23.360 What if we could use your phone? 05:23.360 --> 05:24.360 Sure, in the lobby downstairs. 05:24.360 --> 05:25.360 I'll call. 05:25.360 --> 05:26.360 All right. 05:26.360 --> 05:27.360 Hey, you gotta have a dime. 05:27.360 --> 05:28.360 It's your pay phone. 05:28.360 --> 05:29.360 Yes, sir. 05:29.360 --> 05:32.360 Gee, they sure made a mess. 05:32.360 --> 05:33.360 Did McNeil get much mail while he was here? 05:33.360 --> 05:34.360 No, a couple of letters. 05:34.360 --> 05:36.360 You know where they were from? 05:36.360 --> 05:37.360 Some law company here in town. 05:37.360 --> 05:38.360 Must have been good. 05:38.360 --> 05:42.360 You know how they had the name printed up in the corner of the envelope? 05:42.360 --> 05:43.360 Yeah. 05:43.360 --> 05:44.360 Embossed. 05:44.360 --> 05:46.360 Must cost them something. 05:46.360 --> 05:47.360 You remember the name? 05:47.360 --> 05:48.360 No, can't get a picture. 05:48.360 --> 05:50.360 Did McNeil drive a car? 05:50.360 --> 05:51.360 Uh-uh. 05:51.360 --> 05:53.360 Used to take the street car to work. 05:53.360 --> 05:55.360 Know that because he used to talk about the people he met. 05:55.360 --> 05:57.360 He got real sore when it rained. 05:57.360 --> 05:59.360 Told me he couldn't stand the smell of wet wool. 05:59.360 --> 06:03.360 Said there ought to be a law that nobody could wear wool clothes when it rained. 06:03.360 --> 06:05.360 He's a funny little guy. 06:05.360 --> 06:07.360 Got real definite ideas about things. 06:07.360 --> 06:08.360 That so? 06:08.360 --> 06:09.360 Oh, yeah. 06:09.360 --> 06:10.360 Made up his mind and stuck to it. 06:10.360 --> 06:11.360 Like the envelope. 06:11.360 --> 06:12.360 What's that? 06:12.360 --> 06:14.360 The envelope he had a couple days ago. 06:14.360 --> 06:16.360 Wanted to put it in the hotel safe. 06:16.360 --> 06:17.360 Told him he didn't have one. 06:17.360 --> 06:19.360 Just got the steel boxes. 06:19.360 --> 06:22.360 You know, one for each room in case the guests want to check something. 06:22.360 --> 06:23.360 And we got those. 06:23.360 --> 06:26.360 When he found out, he decided to keep the envelope himself. 06:26.360 --> 06:27.360 Tell you what was in it? 06:27.360 --> 06:28.360 No. 06:28.360 --> 06:31.360 Just acted kind of mysterious, like it had something real valuable inside. 06:31.360 --> 06:34.360 When he found out it wasn't safe, he told me he'd keep it with him. 06:34.360 --> 06:36.360 But he didn't give you any idea what was in the envelope? 06:36.360 --> 06:37.360 No. 06:37.360 --> 06:39.360 No, just plain white, little. 06:39.360 --> 06:41.360 You know, like your mail letter in. 06:41.360 --> 06:42.360 Yeah. 06:44.360 --> 06:45.360 How about it? 06:45.360 --> 06:46.360 Did you find a woman? 06:46.360 --> 06:47.360 Yes, sir. 06:47.360 --> 06:48.360 See you in a minute, Joe. 06:48.360 --> 06:49.360 Yeah. 06:49.360 --> 06:50.360 Want to excuse us? 06:50.360 --> 06:51.360 Sure. 06:51.360 --> 06:52.360 What do you want? 06:52.360 --> 06:53.360 I want to check the hotel. 06:53.360 --> 06:54.360 The woman's name is Clara Fabian. 06:54.360 --> 06:55.360 Yeah. 06:55.360 --> 06:56.360 She checked out 30 minutes ago. 06:56.360 --> 06:57.360 Did you say where she was going? 06:57.360 --> 06:58.360 No. 06:58.360 --> 06:59.360 The clerk said she was pretty upset. 06:59.360 --> 07:01.360 Said something about a death in the family. 07:09.360 --> 07:10.360 Frank and I went over to the Eldridge Hotel. 07:10.360 --> 07:13.360 We talked to the manager and he told us that the Fabian woman had left hurriedly. 07:13.360 --> 07:16.360 We checked her room, but we found nothing to indicate where she might have gone. 07:16.360 --> 07:19.360 We called the office and had the name run through R&I. 07:19.360 --> 07:23.360 We found she had a record listing several drunk arrests and two convictions on bunko charges. 07:23.360 --> 07:26.360 Her picture was pulled and shown to Ted Brenda. 07:26.360 --> 07:28.360 He identified her as McNeil's friend. 07:28.360 --> 07:32.360 From her package, we obtained the name of a sister living in the Los Angeles area. 07:32.360 --> 07:35.360 721 a.m., Frank and I drove out to talk to her. 07:35.360 --> 07:38.360 At first, she refused to tell us anything, but after questioning, 07:38.360 --> 07:41.360 she admitted that she'd heard from Clara Fabian that morning. 07:41.360 --> 07:45.360 She called to say that she was checking into a hotel on South Spring Street. 07:45.360 --> 07:49.360 When we got to the place, the desk clerk told us we'd find her in the coffee shop. 07:49.360 --> 07:51.360 I guess that's her. 07:51.360 --> 07:52.360 Yeah, matches the description. 07:52.360 --> 07:53.360 Yeah. 07:55.360 --> 07:57.360 Clara Fabian? 07:57.360 --> 07:58.360 Yeah. 07:58.360 --> 07:59.360 What do you want? 07:59.360 --> 08:00.360 Police officers would like to talk to you. 08:00.360 --> 08:02.360 I want nothing to do with no cops. 08:02.360 --> 08:04.360 This is my partner, Frank Smith. My name's Friday. 08:04.360 --> 08:06.360 I told you, I don't want to talk to you. You go away. 08:06.360 --> 08:08.360 I'm afraid we can't do that. 08:08.360 --> 08:10.360 Why, some kind of law? 08:10.360 --> 08:12.360 I don't know what you're after, but I ain't gonna help you. 08:12.360 --> 08:15.360 My filly guys like you all the time, giving me nothing but trouble. 08:15.360 --> 08:19.360 I'm clean. Don't owe nobody nothing. Now leave me alone. 08:19.360 --> 08:21.360 You know a man named Arthur McNeil? 08:22.360 --> 08:24.360 I'm gonna get out of here. 08:24.360 --> 08:27.360 All right, Miss Fabian. If you don't want to talk here, we'll go downtown. 08:29.360 --> 08:30.360 What about McNeil? 08:30.360 --> 08:31.360 You know him? 08:31.360 --> 08:32.360 Yeah. 08:32.360 --> 08:33.360 When did you see him last? 08:33.360 --> 08:34.360 About midnight. 08:34.360 --> 08:35.360 Where? 08:35.360 --> 08:36.360 At dinner. 08:36.360 --> 08:38.360 A couple of drinks. I drove him home. 08:38.360 --> 08:39.360 How well do you know him? 08:39.360 --> 08:40.360 He wants to get married. 08:40.360 --> 08:41.360 Do you know where he worked? 08:41.360 --> 08:43.360 At his own place. 08:43.360 --> 08:44.360 Some kind of chemicals. 08:44.360 --> 08:46.360 Can you give us the address? 08:46.360 --> 08:48.360 What are all the questions about? Something wrong? 08:48.360 --> 08:49.360 Police matter. 08:49.360 --> 08:52.360 Why don't you tell me what this is about? Questions you're asking. 08:52.360 --> 08:54.360 For all I know, I might be saying the wrong thing. 08:54.360 --> 08:56.360 If you tell us the truth, you won't be saying the wrong thing, huh? 08:56.360 --> 08:58.360 I got your word on that. 08:58.360 --> 08:59.360 What about something happened to Arthur? 08:59.360 --> 09:00.360 Yeah. 09:00.360 --> 09:01.360 What? 09:01.360 --> 09:02.360 He had an accident. 09:02.360 --> 09:04.360 Where? Down at the chemistry place? 09:04.360 --> 09:05.360 Yeah. 09:05.360 --> 09:06.360 What about his hotel? 09:06.360 --> 09:07.360 What'd he do? Fall down the stairs? 09:07.360 --> 09:08.360 No. 09:08.360 --> 09:09.360 Wouldn't be surprised. 09:09.360 --> 09:10.360 The way he lusht up last night. 09:10.360 --> 09:12.360 Boy, I never saw him so loaded. 09:12.360 --> 09:13.360 That's all? 09:13.360 --> 09:14.360 Yeah. 09:14.360 --> 09:16.360 A couple of drinks and he's on his way to outer space. 09:16.360 --> 09:18.360 He only takes two or three. 09:18.360 --> 09:20.360 He had more than that when I met him. 09:20.360 --> 09:22.360 I'm gonna have a celebration. 09:22.360 --> 09:23.360 What for? 09:23.360 --> 09:24.360 What was he celebrating? 09:24.360 --> 09:26.360 Some kind of an invention he was working on. 09:26.360 --> 09:29.360 Told me it'd taken him over five years, but he did it. 09:29.360 --> 09:31.360 Said we'd be on the easy street. 09:31.360 --> 09:34.360 He had pictures about the money pouring in, all we could use. 09:34.360 --> 09:36.360 That's what caused the fight. 09:36.360 --> 09:38.360 You see, all the time we've been going together, 09:38.360 --> 09:41.360 he's been giving me that line about lots of money. 09:41.360 --> 09:44.360 How he was gonna make this invention and be a millionaire all the time. 09:44.360 --> 09:45.360 Talking like that. 09:45.360 --> 09:46.360 Yeah. 09:46.360 --> 09:48.360 I went and looked at him and you know it was all in his head. 09:48.360 --> 09:49.360 Nothing to it. 09:49.360 --> 09:51.360 I told him to stop it. 09:51.360 --> 09:52.360 Told him a hundred times. 09:52.360 --> 09:53.360 Didn't do any good. 09:53.360 --> 09:54.360 Finally blew up. 09:54.360 --> 09:55.360 I couldn't take no more. 09:55.360 --> 09:56.360 This was last night, huh? 09:56.360 --> 09:57.360 Yeah. 09:57.360 --> 09:59.360 We had dinner and he showed me an envelope. 09:59.360 --> 10:01.360 That was the invention and it's a big deal. 10:01.360 --> 10:02.360 He's gonna be rich. 10:02.360 --> 10:04.360 Went on and on about it. 10:04.360 --> 10:06.360 I tell you, I think he was a little cracked. 10:06.360 --> 10:09.360 Wanted to drive to Vegas right then, get married. 10:09.360 --> 10:11.360 10.30 and he wanted to leave then. 10:11.360 --> 10:13.360 I told him he was off the beat. 10:13.360 --> 10:15.360 I got it right to his face. 10:15.360 --> 10:16.360 Made him mad. 10:16.360 --> 10:18.360 Real sore. 10:18.360 --> 10:19.360 I think a lot of it was the booze. 10:19.360 --> 10:20.360 You know, courage. 10:20.360 --> 10:22.360 He can't handle drinking at all. 10:22.360 --> 10:25.360 Told me that if I didn't go with him right then, 10:25.360 --> 10:26.360 we'd call the whole thing off. 10:26.360 --> 10:27.360 Stop seeing each other. 10:27.360 --> 10:29.360 I told him it was all right with me. 10:29.360 --> 10:31.360 Never meant to get married anyway. 10:31.360 --> 10:34.360 Something to do to pass the time. 10:34.360 --> 10:36.360 I wouldn't have really got married. 10:36.360 --> 10:37.360 What happened then? 10:37.360 --> 10:38.360 I took him home. 10:38.360 --> 10:40.360 Dropped him at the hotel. 10:40.360 --> 10:41.360 Where'd you go then? 10:41.360 --> 10:42.360 Back to my place. 10:42.360 --> 10:43.360 Got ready for bed. 10:43.360 --> 10:44.360 Guess it was about 11 when he called. 10:44.360 --> 10:46.360 Real mad. 10:46.360 --> 10:47.360 Carried on. 10:47.360 --> 10:48.360 Yelled and screamed. 10:48.360 --> 10:49.360 Said I'd be sorry. 10:49.360 --> 10:51.360 Finally, I couldn't take it anymore 10:51.360 --> 10:53.360 and hung up right while he was talking. 10:53.360 --> 10:55.360 A couple of minutes later, he called back. 10:55.360 --> 10:56.360 I wouldn't answer the phone. 10:56.360 --> 10:57.360 Then when it stopped ringing, 10:57.360 --> 10:59.360 I told the boy at the desk not to ring my room anymore. 10:59.360 --> 11:00.360 Yeah. 11:00.360 --> 11:01.360 It didn't bother me at first. 11:01.360 --> 11:02.360 Then I got to thinking about it. 11:02.360 --> 11:04.360 Little crackpot. 11:04.360 --> 11:05.360 I tried to do something. 11:05.360 --> 11:07.360 So I decided to get out. 11:07.360 --> 11:09.360 That's why you left the hotel. 11:09.360 --> 11:10.360 Yeah. 11:10.360 --> 11:11.360 The way he was lashed up, 11:11.360 --> 11:12.360 the things he said, 11:12.360 --> 11:14.360 and the way he'd known if he was going to cause me trouble. 11:14.360 --> 11:16.360 All I knew was that I didn't want no part of it. 11:16.360 --> 11:17.360 Yeah. 11:17.360 --> 11:18.360 It was an accident. 11:18.360 --> 11:20.360 Something serious? 11:20.360 --> 11:21.360 Yeah, that's right. 11:21.360 --> 11:22.360 In the hospital? 11:22.360 --> 11:23.360 No. 11:23.360 --> 11:25.360 How bad's he hurt? 11:25.360 --> 11:27.360 As bad as you can get. 11:27.360 --> 11:29.360 This isn't a joke, is it? 11:29.360 --> 11:30.360 No, it's no joke. 11:30.360 --> 11:32.360 If it is, I don't think it's very funny. 11:32.360 --> 11:34.360 It's no joke, lady. 11:34.360 --> 11:35.360 He dead? 11:35.360 --> 11:37.360 That's right. 11:37.360 --> 11:39.360 He do it himself? 11:39.360 --> 11:41.360 Looks like he had some help. 11:41.360 --> 11:43.360 Poor old guy. 11:43.360 --> 11:46.360 It's kind of funny to think about it now. 11:46.360 --> 11:48.360 I used to figure he was cute, 11:48.360 --> 11:50.360 the way he was always bringing me presents. 11:50.360 --> 11:52.360 Oh, not big, you know, 11:52.360 --> 11:55.360 but like a bunch of flowers or a book, little things. 11:55.360 --> 11:57.360 Funny to think about it. 11:57.360 --> 12:00.360 I can hardly imagine him being dead, poor little guy. 12:00.360 --> 12:01.360 You know who did it? 12:01.360 --> 12:02.360 Not yet, no. 12:02.360 --> 12:04.360 We hope you might be able to help us. 12:04.360 --> 12:05.360 Why me? 12:05.360 --> 12:07.360 Nobody seems to know much about him. 12:07.360 --> 12:08.360 Can't find any close friends. 12:08.360 --> 12:10.360 Nobody'd want to see him dead. 12:10.360 --> 12:12.360 Never talked about anybody to me. 12:12.360 --> 12:14.360 Did he ever mention a lawyer to you? 12:14.360 --> 12:15.360 No. 12:15.360 --> 12:17.360 Can you give us any idea where he worked? 12:17.360 --> 12:18.360 You mean the chemistry place? 12:18.360 --> 12:20.360 If that's the place, yeah. 12:20.360 --> 12:22.360 No, never said exactly. 12:22.360 --> 12:24.360 I think it was some kind of store though, 12:24.360 --> 12:25.360 with the windows painted. 12:25.360 --> 12:27.360 He talked about the invention, 12:27.360 --> 12:29.360 said he had all this stuff to make it with, 12:29.360 --> 12:31.360 but he never told me where it was. 12:31.360 --> 12:32.360 All right. 12:32.360 --> 12:34.360 Anything else you can tell us about him? 12:34.360 --> 12:36.360 No, nothing. 12:36.360 --> 12:37.360 All right, thanks, Miss Fabian. 12:37.360 --> 12:38.360 For what? 12:38.360 --> 12:40.360 For what you have been able to tell us. 12:40.360 --> 12:44.360 Don't seem like it's going to be any help. 12:44.360 --> 12:47.360 Are you sure this ain't some kind of a joke? 12:47.360 --> 12:49.360 No, ma'am. 12:49.360 --> 12:50.360 He's really dead. 12:50.360 --> 12:52.360 Yes, he is. 12:52.360 --> 12:54.360 Yeah, poor little guy. 12:54.360 --> 12:56.360 Well, if you think of anything, 12:56.360 --> 12:58.360 we'd appreciate a call from maybe one of our cards. 12:58.360 --> 12:59.360 Oh, thanks. 12:59.360 --> 13:01.360 I'll remember something, I'll sure let you know. 13:01.360 --> 13:02.360 All right. 13:02.360 --> 13:03.360 Can you tell me how it happened? 13:03.360 --> 13:05.360 He was shot. 13:05.360 --> 13:07.360 Maybe it was an accident, you know. 13:07.360 --> 13:09.360 Whoever did it didn't mean to. 13:09.360 --> 13:10.360 That's not likely. 13:10.360 --> 13:11.360 Maybe. 13:11.360 --> 13:14.360 Heard where a gun goes off, somebody kills. 13:14.360 --> 13:16.360 All the time, you read about it in the papers. 13:16.360 --> 13:18.360 Gun goes off accidentally? 13:18.360 --> 13:20.360 No, not six times. 13:26.360 --> 13:28.360 Frank and I went back to the office. 13:28.360 --> 13:31.360 We called the crime lab and talked with Lieutenant Lee Jones. 13:31.360 --> 13:33.360 He told us that they'd been unable to find anything we could use 13:33.360 --> 13:35.360 at the scene of the killing. 13:35.360 --> 13:38.360 He said that the victim had been shot with a.38 caliber revolver. 13:38.360 --> 13:42.360 And going over the room, his crew had found several items of value. 13:42.360 --> 13:44.360 In light of this, there was a possibility that the motive for the killing 13:44.360 --> 13:47.360 was not robbery as we'd thought before. 13:47.360 --> 13:49.360 Lieutenant Jones said that the coroner had called, 13:49.360 --> 13:52.360 and he said that he'd found over $100 in cash on the body of the victim, 13:52.360 --> 13:55.360 also a wristwatch and an expensive ring. 13:55.360 --> 13:57.360 In one of the pockets of the coat McNair was wearing, 13:57.360 --> 14:00.360 the crew from the crime lab had found an address book. 14:00.360 --> 14:02.360 Jones said he was sending it over to us. 14:02.360 --> 14:05.360 The canvas of the area had netted us nothing. 14:05.360 --> 14:07.360 None of the people in the immediate vicinity had seen anything 14:07.360 --> 14:09.360 out of the ordinary at the time of the killing. 14:09.360 --> 14:14.360 We contacted the stats office and asked them to make a run on the method of operation. 14:14.360 --> 14:16.360 Until we could come up with a motive for the slaying, 14:16.360 --> 14:18.360 and we did, to apprehend the killer. 14:18.360 --> 14:20.360 Additional men had been sent out from the office 14:20.360 --> 14:22.360 to interrogate the other people in the hotel. 14:22.360 --> 14:24.360 They reported that they'd found nothing to aid us. 14:24.360 --> 14:26.360 1047 AM. 14:26.360 --> 14:28.360 Well, we're sure of building zeros. 14:28.360 --> 14:30.360 We sure are. There's not much to go on. 14:30.360 --> 14:32.360 Nothing. 14:32.360 --> 14:34.360 I got it. 14:34.360 --> 14:36.360 Homicide Friday. 14:36.360 --> 14:38.360 Yes, sir. That's right. 14:40.360 --> 14:42.360 Well, how'd you hear about it? 14:43.360 --> 14:45.360 Yeah. 14:45.360 --> 14:47.360 Yes, sir, we would. 14:47.360 --> 14:49.360 What's that? 14:49.360 --> 14:51.360 All right. As soon as we can get there. 14:51.360 --> 14:53.360 Yes, sir. Goodbye. 14:53.360 --> 14:55.360 Might have a break, man. 14:55.360 --> 14:57.360 The man says he's McNeil's lawyer. 14:57.360 --> 14:59.360 What's he got? 14:59.360 --> 15:01.360 First step. The reason McNeil was killed. 15:09.360 --> 15:13.360 Frank and I left the city hall and drove over to the address I'd been given on the phone. 15:13.360 --> 15:16.360 After a few minutes' wait, we were shown into George Casper's office. 15:16.360 --> 15:18.360 We identified ourselves and he asked us to sit down. 15:18.360 --> 15:20.360 Terrible thing to have happen. 15:20.360 --> 15:21.360 Yes, sir. 15:21.360 --> 15:23.360 I heard about it on the car radio this morning when I was coming to work. 15:23.360 --> 15:25.360 You're Mr. McNeil's attorney, are you? 15:25.360 --> 15:27.360 Yes. Have been for over 10 years. 15:27.360 --> 15:30.360 On the phone, you said that you knew why he was killed. 15:30.360 --> 15:33.360 That's right. I feel a little silly about it now that you're here. 15:33.360 --> 15:35.360 All seems pretty melodramatic. 15:35.360 --> 15:37.360 Like to tell us about it? 15:37.360 --> 15:39.360 It's McNeil's formula. 15:39.360 --> 15:40.360 What, sir? 15:40.360 --> 15:43.360 For the last eight years, McNeil's been working on a new type of explosive for commercial use. 15:43.360 --> 15:44.360 I see. 15:44.360 --> 15:46.360 Supposed to have a lot of advantages. 15:46.360 --> 15:48.360 Easy to carry, minimizes the danger of accidental firing. 15:48.360 --> 15:51.360 The way he painted it would answer a lot of problems in building. 15:51.360 --> 15:52.360 Mm-hmm. 15:52.360 --> 15:55.360 He called me the day before yesterday. He said it was finished. 15:55.360 --> 15:57.360 He'd completed the final laboratory experiments. 15:57.360 --> 15:58.360 Yeah. 15:58.360 --> 16:00.360 Went on about how it was going to make a fortune for him. 16:00.360 --> 16:02.360 Mm-hmm. 16:02.360 --> 16:04.360 Had he talked to anyone about it? 16:04.360 --> 16:06.360 I'm not sure, but knowing McNeil, I imagine he did. 16:06.360 --> 16:08.360 Why do you say that? 16:08.360 --> 16:11.360 The experiments got to be an obsession with him about the only thing that mattered. 16:11.360 --> 16:15.360 A couple of times when we were out someplace, he'd have a few drinks and start talking about the explosive. 16:15.360 --> 16:17.360 Loud enough for anyone near him to hear it. 16:17.360 --> 16:18.360 Mm-hmm. 16:18.360 --> 16:20.360 Do you know where he worked? 16:20.360 --> 16:22.360 Yes, small place out in the valley. I can give you the address if you want it. 16:22.360 --> 16:24.360 Yes, sir. We'd appreciate that. 16:24.360 --> 16:26.360 Have you any idea who might have killed him? 16:26.360 --> 16:27.360 Those who were working on it. 16:27.360 --> 16:28.360 Mm-hmm. 16:28.360 --> 16:29.360 Was there anybody he was close to? 16:29.360 --> 16:30.360 You mean socially? 16:30.360 --> 16:32.360 Ladder and business. 16:32.360 --> 16:34.360 No, can't think of anyone. 16:34.360 --> 16:36.360 There was a girl. He spoke several times of marrying her. 16:36.360 --> 16:39.360 Sorry, but I can't tell you any more than that. I don't know her name. 16:39.360 --> 16:41.360 All right, fine, Mr. Cather. 16:41.360 --> 16:43.360 Does he have any relatives here in town? 16:43.360 --> 16:45.360 No, he made a will several months ago. 16:45.360 --> 16:47.360 Left everything to one of the industrial schools. 16:47.360 --> 16:49.360 Not much. Lab equipment, a few books. 16:49.360 --> 16:51.360 Mm-hmm. 16:51.360 --> 16:53.360 Anything else he can tell us about? 16:53.360 --> 16:55.360 No, I'm afraid not. Most of the time he's pretty quiet. 16:55.360 --> 16:57.360 Kept to himself. 16:57.360 --> 16:59.360 Once in a while he'd go on a bender my last couple of days. 16:59.360 --> 17:02.360 When he was on one of those drinking bouts, he'd get in some kind of trouble. 17:02.360 --> 17:05.360 Loud talk, something like that. Nothing serious. 17:05.360 --> 17:09.360 All right, sir. If you'll give us that address, we won't take up any more of your time. 17:09.360 --> 17:11.360 Yes, of course. 17:11.360 --> 17:14.360 I can understand why I felt a little silly about calling you. 17:14.360 --> 17:16.360 What's that, sir? 17:16.360 --> 17:18.360 Explosives, spies. Sounds like something in a movie. 17:18.360 --> 17:20.360 Mm-hmm. 17:20.360 --> 17:22.360 I don't imagine there's anything to it, though. 17:22.360 --> 17:24.360 As far as I know, McNeil might not even have finished the formula. 17:24.360 --> 17:26.360 Might have been just another of his stories. 17:26.360 --> 17:27.360 Yeah, that's right. 17:27.360 --> 17:29.360 He was always telling whoppers. 17:29.360 --> 17:32.360 I guess a psychiatrist would say he was trying to find some way of justifying himself. 17:32.360 --> 17:33.360 Is that right? 17:33.360 --> 17:37.360 It seemed to be a big thing with him, to find a way of making himself heard about. 17:37.360 --> 17:39.360 It kind of looks like he found it. 17:39.360 --> 17:44.360 ... 17:44.360 --> 17:46.360 Frank and I went back to the office and met with Captain Lorman. 17:46.360 --> 17:51.360 We discussed the possibility of McNeil being killed by somebody who wanted the chemical formula. 17:51.360 --> 17:54.360 Because of the potential value of the explosive, federal authorities were notified, 17:54.360 --> 17:58.360 and they sent a team of men out to aid in the investigation. 17:58.360 --> 18:03.360 The next morning, Wednesday, January 12th, we picked up a list of similar crimes from the stats office. 18:03.360 --> 18:06.360 In checking out the victims, we got the same description of the thief from each one of them. 18:06.360 --> 18:12.360 They all described him as a white male American, 32 years, 165 pounds. 18:12.360 --> 18:16.360 In each case, the thief had followed the victims and attacked them as they entered their homes. 18:16.360 --> 18:19.360 The last robbery had taken place three weeks before, on December 23rd. 18:19.360 --> 18:22.360 During the commission of the crime, the victim had been wounded. 18:22.360 --> 18:25.360 The bullet had been removed and held at the crime lab as evidence. 18:25.360 --> 18:28.360 8.02 a.m. Frank and I put him on a call to Lieutenant Jones. 18:28.360 --> 18:30.360 8.26 a.m. 18:30.360 --> 18:31.360 Might be late. 18:31.360 --> 18:32.360 Yeah. 18:32.360 --> 18:33.360 I got it. 18:33.360 --> 18:34.360 Homicide Friday. 18:34.360 --> 18:36.360 Yeah, Lee. 18:36.360 --> 18:38.360 You check him? 18:38.360 --> 18:40.360 How about it? 18:41.360 --> 18:44.360 Yeah, sure is. 18:44.360 --> 18:45.360 Yeah. 18:45.360 --> 18:48.360 Now all we gotta do is to make it do some good. 18:48.360 --> 18:50.360 All right. Thank you, Lee. Bye. 18:50.360 --> 18:52.360 What's he got? 18:52.360 --> 18:55.360 Well, he checked the bullet from the last robbery against the ones that killed McNeil. 18:55.360 --> 18:56.360 Yeah. 18:56.360 --> 18:58.360 Same gun. 18:58.360 --> 19:05.360 Additional local broadcasts and APBs were gotten out, carrying the description of the holdup man. 19:05.360 --> 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. 19:10.360 --> 19:15.360 A check of McNeil's workshop failed to disclose any evidence that he'd been working on an explosive. 19:15.360 --> 19:18.360 A week went by without any new developments. 19:18.360 --> 19:21.360 Thursday, January 20th, Frank and I got back to the squad room. 19:21.360 --> 19:24.360 I was here to look for a while, like it was gonna go. 19:24.360 --> 19:25.360 Yeah, I'm good. 19:25.360 --> 19:27.360 I got it. 19:27.360 --> 19:28.360 Homicide Friday. 19:28.360 --> 19:30.360 Yeah, Jim. 19:30.360 --> 19:32.360 When? 19:32.360 --> 19:34.360 Might be. 19:34.360 --> 19:35.360 Right. 19:35.360 --> 19:37.360 Right now. 19:37.360 --> 19:39.360 Jim Austin, robbery. 19:39.360 --> 19:41.360 They just got back from a call out in Westwood. 19:41.360 --> 19:42.360 Yeah? 19:42.360 --> 19:44.360 Thief fits our description pretty good. Austin thinks it might be the same guy. 19:44.360 --> 19:45.360 They get him? 19:45.360 --> 19:46.360 No, something just as good. 19:46.360 --> 19:47.360 What do you mean? 19:47.360 --> 19:52.360 He's got a key. 19:52.360 --> 19:55.360 Frank and I went over to room 27A and we met with Sergeant Jim Austin. 19:55.360 --> 19:57.360 He gave us the details of the robbery. 19:57.360 --> 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. 20:02.360 --> 20:05.360 And getting away from the scene, he dropped a key to a downtown hotel room. 20:05.360 --> 20:09.360 We checked the address in the phone book and then we left the city hall. 20:09.360 --> 20:11.360 It was a small place on South Fourth Street. 20:11.360 --> 20:14.360 We identified ourselves with the manager and told him why we were there. 20:14.360 --> 20:16.360 Yes, it's one of our keys. 20:16.360 --> 20:17.360 Do you have the room? 20:17.360 --> 20:18.360 Yes, Ralph Otley. 20:18.360 --> 20:19.360 What's this Otley look like? 20:19.360 --> 20:21.360 He's a nice young fellow, blonde. Guess he's about 30 years old. 20:21.360 --> 20:22.360 How long has he been here? 20:22.360 --> 20:23.360 You mean regular? 20:23.360 --> 20:24.360 That's right. 20:24.360 --> 20:27.360 About five months. A couple of times before that for a couple of months. He came back though. 20:27.360 --> 20:28.360 See him now? 20:28.360 --> 20:30.360 No, I haven't seen him since this morning. Left about 7.30. 20:30.360 --> 20:31.360 Does he have a job? 20:31.360 --> 20:33.360 He never told me nothing about it. 20:33.360 --> 20:34.360 What does he do for a living? 20:34.360 --> 20:36.360 Well, I guess you'd say he was kind of a promoter. 20:36.360 --> 20:37.360 What do you mean? 20:37.360 --> 20:40.360 Well, he goes around trying to line things up, figure some way to make a killing. 20:40.360 --> 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. 20:44.360 --> 20:46.360 What do you want to talk to him about? 20:46.360 --> 20:47.360 Police business. 20:47.360 --> 20:48.360 Not in trouble, is he? 20:48.360 --> 20:49.360 We'd better talk to him about that. 20:49.360 --> 20:51.360 Well, look, if he's done anything wrong, the hotel didn't know a thing about it. 20:51.360 --> 20:54.360 He paid his rent, he didn't cause any trouble here. Now, we didn't have any partners. 20:54.360 --> 20:56.360 Well, don't worry about it. What if we could see his room? 20:56.360 --> 20:57.360 You mean go through it? 20:57.360 --> 20:58.360 We'd like to take a look at it, yeah. 20:58.360 --> 21:01.360 Well, I guess it's all right. You being cops, sure, I'll give you the key. 21:01.360 --> 21:02.360 You better come with us. 21:02.360 --> 21:05.360 Well, I ain't gonna tell him nothing. He comes in while you're upstairs. I won't tell him anything. 21:05.360 --> 21:08.360 No, sir, that's not the idea. We'd like you to be in the room when we check it. 21:08.360 --> 21:14.360 Oh, well, sure, okay, let's go. You really figure that there's something wrong with this, Otley, huh? 21:14.360 --> 21:15.360 Well, we're not sure. 21:15.360 --> 21:17.360 You know, come to think about it, there could be. 21:17.360 --> 21:18.360 Why do you say that? 21:18.360 --> 21:21.360 Just because, the way he lives, he'd have to make a lot of money to live the way he does. 21:21.360 --> 21:24.360 A fella makes that much, he usually tells everybody how he did it. You know, show how smart he is. 21:24.360 --> 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. 21:29.360 --> 21:32.360 Well, maybe he's got a reason. It's not such a good thing. 21:32.360 --> 21:35.360 In the company of the manager, Frank and I checked the suspect's room. 21:35.360 --> 21:38.360 In one of the bureau drawers, we found a box of shells for a.38 pistol. 21:38.360 --> 21:42.360 There were also several items that had been listed as stolen in previous robberies. 21:42.360 --> 21:45.360 We returned to the lobby of the hotel and we waited for Otley to come in. 21:45.360 --> 21:49.360 Four thirty p.m., five, five thirty, five forty-five. 21:51.360 --> 21:52.360 Joe. 21:52.360 --> 21:53.360 Yeah. 21:53.360 --> 21:54.360 Hi, Sid. 21:54.360 --> 21:55.360 Hello, Mr. Otley. 21:55.360 --> 21:57.360 I lost my key someplace. You got another one? 21:57.360 --> 21:58.360 No, I don't have any. 21:58.360 --> 22:02.360 I left it in the room. I'll check, sure. 22:02.360 --> 22:03.360 Let's go. 22:03.360 --> 22:04.360 Any calls for me today? 22:04.360 --> 22:06.360 No, no, sir. No calls. 22:06.360 --> 22:07.360 Stand still, Otley. Police officers. 22:07.360 --> 22:08.360 Hey, what are you doing? 22:08.360 --> 22:09.360 Don't turn around. 22:09.360 --> 22:10.360 I'll take it. 22:11.360 --> 22:12.360 Thirty-eight revolver. 22:12.360 --> 22:14.360 Hey, what's this all about? I haven't done anything. 22:14.360 --> 22:15.360 Get your hands back of it. 22:15.360 --> 22:16.360 Hold still. 22:16.360 --> 22:17.360 You know you got the wrong guy. 22:17.360 --> 22:19.360 I keep telling the same. 22:19.360 --> 22:20.360 Taking him for robbery, huh? 22:20.360 --> 22:21.360 That's one of them. 22:21.360 --> 22:22.360 What do you mean? 22:22.360 --> 22:23.360 We're booking you for suspicion of murder. 22:23.360 --> 22:25.360 Robbery? That's all you can do? 22:25.360 --> 22:27.360 I'm not going to let you get away with it. 22:27.360 --> 22:28.360 Robbery? That's all you got me for? 22:28.360 --> 22:30.360 I'm not going to stand no killing beef. 22:30.360 --> 22:31.360 You keep believing him. 22:31.360 --> 22:32.360 I will. 22:32.360 --> 22:34.360 You're going to tag me with anything more than a 211. 22:34.360 --> 22:35.360 Let's go. 22:36.360 --> 22:37.360 Grab him. 22:37.360 --> 22:38.360 Wait a minute. 22:38.360 --> 22:40.360 Hold it up, Otley, or I'll shoot. 22:45.360 --> 22:47.360 Why did you kill me, cop? Why? 22:47.360 --> 22:48.360 You're lucky. 22:48.360 --> 22:49.360 That's all you know. 22:49.360 --> 22:50.360 I'd have been better off a lot better. 22:50.360 --> 22:51.360 You should have killed me. 22:51.360 --> 22:52.360 All right, come on. 22:52.360 --> 22:53.360 We'll take you down to George Street Hospital. 22:53.360 --> 22:54.360 I'd have made a shoot-through, man. 22:54.360 --> 22:55.360 Is that so? 22:55.360 --> 22:56.360 Yeah. 22:56.360 --> 22:57.360 He wouldn't give me the money. 22:57.360 --> 22:58.360 He kept saying he didn't have any. 22:58.360 --> 22:59.360 Yeah. 22:59.360 --> 23:00.360 I heard him talking about it. 23:00.360 --> 23:01.360 He was loaded. 23:01.360 --> 23:02.360 He could have just given it to me. 23:02.360 --> 23:03.360 No trouble if he didn't just give me the money. 23:03.360 --> 23:04.360 All right, settle down. 23:04.360 --> 23:05.360 You're not hurt bad. 23:05.360 --> 23:06.360 He started yelling. 23:06.360 --> 23:07.360 I had to shoot him. 23:07.360 --> 23:08.360 I had to. 23:08.360 --> 23:09.360 It wasn't any other way. 23:09.360 --> 23:10.360 You should have killed me. 23:10.360 --> 23:11.360 That's why I took off so you'd kill me. 23:11.360 --> 23:12.360 I wish you had a... 23:12.360 --> 23:13.360 Well, don't worry about it. 23:13.360 --> 23:14.360 Huh? 23:14.360 --> 23:15.360 Maybe it'll turn out that way. 23:15.360 --> 23:29.560 The story you've just heard is true. 23:29.560 --> 23:40.360 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 23:40.360 --> 23:44.800 Ralph Neville Otley was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree and received 23:44.800 --> 23:47.000 a life sentence as prescribed by law. 23:47.000 --> 23:51.600 The jury returned a recommendation of mercy and the suspect was sentenced to life imprisonment 23:51.600 --> 23:55.560 at the state penitentiary, San Quentin, California. 23:55.560 --> 24:00.520 You have just heard Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action and starring 24:00.520 --> 24:16.160 Jack Webb, a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service.