1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,440 The story you're about to hear is true. 2 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:22,800 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:24,480 You're a detective sergeant. 4 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:26,680 You're assigned a juvenile detail. 5 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:28,800 You get a call from Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. 6 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,520 A two-year-old child has been brought in. 7 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:33,280 Her condition is critical. 8 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:35,280 There's evidence of foul play. 9 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:37,280 Your job, check it out. 10 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:42,280 It was Sunday, August 14th. 11 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:43,280 It was warm in Los Angeles. 12 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:45,480 We were working the night watch out of juvenile detail. 13 00:00:45,480 --> 00:00:46,680 My partner is Frank Smith. 14 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:47,680 The boss is Captain Powers. 15 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:48,680 My name is Friday. 16 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:52,720 I was on my way back from detention cells and it was 728 P.M. when I got to the second 17 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:55,240 floor of Georgia Street juvenile squad room. 18 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:57,680 Hi, how'd it go? 19 00:00:57,680 --> 00:00:58,680 Nothing. 20 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:00,200 Those kids won't cop to a thing. 21 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:01,200 What about the weapons? 22 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:03,160 They only admit they had them and that's all. 23 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:05,120 Nothing about what they were going to do with them? 24 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:06,120 No. 25 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:07,120 I don't know, Joe. 26 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:09,480 Today, kids got a lot more than we ever had. 27 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:11,600 TV, cars, a lot of things. 28 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:12,600 Yeah. 29 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:14,840 Still seems like they aren't happy unless they're figuring out how to beat somebody's 30 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:15,840 brains out. 31 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:17,640 It doesn't go for all of them. 32 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:19,240 Well, enough to give us a headache. 33 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:20,240 Yeah. 34 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:21,240 Take those kids upstairs. 35 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:25,200 If they spent the same time doing something constructive that they do making the zip guns 36 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:28,080 and saps, they'd have something worthwhile, something worth remembering. 37 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:29,840 Well, maybe it'll work out the same way. 38 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:30,840 What do you mean? 39 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:31,840 They won't forget this. 40 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,840 You have an old Friday. 41 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:36,840 You got it, Doc. 42 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,360 Why don't you come in? 43 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:40,360 Anybody with it? 44 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:43,360 Give me that again, will you? 45 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:45,880 Yeah, I got it. 46 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:46,880 Okay. 47 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:47,880 We'll check it. 48 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:48,880 That's right. 49 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:50,880 We'll get back to you later. 50 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:51,880 Thanks, Doc. 51 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:52,880 Bye. 52 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:53,880 It was Dr. Sebastian. 53 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:54,880 Yeah. 54 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:56,880 Just brought a little girl into emergency. 55 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:57,880 Had convulsions. 56 00:01:57,880 --> 00:01:58,880 What's she doing? 57 00:01:58,880 --> 00:01:59,880 Dead on arrival. 58 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:05,480 Frank and I notified Homicide Division, then we left the office and drove out to the address 59 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:07,480 I'd gotten on the phone. 60 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:11,040 1784 Malabar Street was a small wooden house set on the back of a lot. 61 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:14,000 A dead oak tree in the front yard was overgrown with ivy. 62 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,680 Several broken and rusted children's toys were half hidden in the weeds near the front 63 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:18,680 porch. 64 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:22,480 We rang the front doorbell. 65 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:23,480 Somebody ought to be home. 66 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:24,480 The lights are on. 67 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:25,480 Let's try it again. 68 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:28,480 Yeah, somebody's coming. 69 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:29,480 Uh-huh. 70 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:30,480 Yes? 71 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:31,480 Miss Manson? 72 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:32,480 That's right. 73 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:33,480 What do you want? 74 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:34,480 Police officers would like to talk to you. 75 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:35,480 We have to go through it all again. 76 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:40,480 Don't you think I feel bad enough about it? 77 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:41,480 We're sorry to bother you, ma'am. 78 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,480 We've got some questions we have to ask you. 79 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:45,480 All right, come on in. 80 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:46,480 You might as well sit down. 81 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:47,480 Thank you. 82 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:48,480 Thank you. 83 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:55,480 This is Frank Smith, and my name's Frye. 84 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:58,480 How are you doing, Miss Manson? 85 00:02:58,480 --> 00:02:59,480 Hello. 86 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:00,480 You're the child's aunt, is that right? 87 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:01,480 Yeah. 88 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:02,480 Her mother's my sister. 89 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:03,480 And where's her mother? 90 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:04,480 I don't know. 91 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:05,480 Been trying to get in touch with her. 92 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:06,480 Left messages all over town, but I guess she ain't got any of them. 93 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:07,480 The child stayed with you, does she? 94 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:08,480 Yeah. 95 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:09,480 Been here since she was six months old. 96 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:10,480 Feel like she was my own. 97 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:11,480 I've got three kids myself, all boys. 98 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:12,480 And I'm going to have to get a job. 99 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:13,480 I'm going to have to get a job. 100 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:14,480 I'm going to have to get a job. 101 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:15,480 I'm going to have to get a job. 102 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:16,480 I'm going to have to get a job. 103 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:17,480 I'm going to have to get a job. 104 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:18,480 It's been hard, I think. 105 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:19,580 Have to work. 106 00:03:19,580 --> 00:03:29,240 Have a very important family. 107 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:45,880 It's always tough, too, with this ever so easy. 108 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:50,040 Melissa takes it for the day. Just like always, she was here this morning. 109 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:50,680 Yes ma'am. 110 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:55,000 Gonna be a big day. She told the baby they were going up to the park to the zoo to see the animals. 111 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:03,000 We all sat around Nate. My kids, baby and Joan, and the kids went to get dressed. 112 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:03,500 Yeah. 113 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:09,640 After she was dressed they left. Joan and Melissa, going to the zoo on the ride. 114 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:14,920 Real big day, real big. About six they came back. 115 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:15,880 That's this evening? 116 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:16,760 Yeah, it's the clock. 117 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:22,280 The baby, the baby didn't look real good. Kind of hot and flushed. 118 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:23,000 Yeah. 119 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,520 I asked Joan if she'd given her a lot of junk. She said no, nothing that had hurt her. 120 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:27,320 That's what she said. 121 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:30,200 Just came in the house and then she left. 122 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,960 Said she had an appointment that she couldn't be late. Just dumped the baby inside the house and walked out. 123 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:35,260 I see. 124 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:40,200 I gave her a bath. Thought it might make her feel better. She was running a little fever. 125 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:42,200 Warm bath is supposed to bring down her temperature. 126 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:43,160 Oh, sorry. 127 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:45,160 Didn't. Didn't do any good at all. 128 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,680 I asked her if she was hungry and she said she was, so I gave her some dinner. 129 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:51,800 Had no more than taken one bite and she had the first sip. 130 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:55,560 Sitting right there at the table and she had it. I didn't know what to do. 131 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:59,000 Never had nothing happen like that before. I didn't know what to give her. 132 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:00,040 Did you call the doctor? 133 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:03,800 Yeah. We don't have a telephone until I went down to the corner. There's a booth at the gas station. 134 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:04,440 Yeah. 135 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,640 Didn't want to leave the baby alone, but there wasn't any other way. Nothing else I could do. 136 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:11,640 The doctor wasn't at home. I left work for him to come right over and then I came back. 137 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:15,400 Then no sooner walked into the house and she had another fit. Scared me to death. 138 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:17,400 Poor little thing. 139 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:21,400 I could see she was in pain. Terrible pain. There wasn't anything I could do for her. 140 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,200 I just couldn't wait anymore. I went back and called the emergency hospital. 141 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:25,400 Asked them to send an ambulance. 142 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:27,400 Told them it was important to send somebody right away. 143 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:30,200 Couple minutes after that the men got here and took her away. 144 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:32,200 Poor little thing. 145 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:33,000 Yes ma'am. 146 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,800 She looked at me like asking me to stop the pain. 147 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:39,800 Begging me. Almost tore my heart right out of my chest to see her. So little. 148 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:41,800 Almost killed me. 149 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:43,800 Yes. 150 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:45,800 She was dead when they got her there. 151 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:49,800 Didn't even live long enough for them to try and save her. Not even that long. 152 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:51,800 Yes ma'am. We know. 153 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:57,800 Just a baby. Two years old and she's dead. Just a tiny little baby. 154 00:05:57,800 --> 00:05:59,800 It was so hard to see. 155 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:03,800 A lot of people could die and it wouldn't make any difference. 156 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:09,800 But not her. She was beautiful. Just beautiful. Like my daughter. Like my own. 157 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:13,800 You sure there isn't something we can get for you, Miss Malton? 158 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:15,800 No. Nothing. 159 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:19,800 There isn't anything we can help now. Nothing at all. 160 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:23,800 Ma'am, has there been any history of this type of attack in your family? 161 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:25,800 You mean fits? 162 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:27,800 Epilepsy. Anything of that nature? 163 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:29,800 No. Never been anything like that. 164 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:33,800 Well now did the child tell you that she felt sick? 165 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:37,800 We didn't have no idea. There was something wrong until it was too late. 166 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:39,800 Did she complain of stomach cramps, do you remember? 167 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:41,800 No. She didn't. 168 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:43,800 What did you have for dinner? 169 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:45,800 Ground meat. Tater. The green beans. 170 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:49,800 Couldn't have been that. Made her sick. We all ate the same thing. The kids and me. None of us had any trouble. 171 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:51,800 Is your sister separated from her husband? 172 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:53,800 Yeah. They hadn't been together for over a year. 173 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:55,800 Been that long anyway, I suppose. 174 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,800 He's supposed to contribute support, but he doesn't. Not a dime. 175 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:01,800 I see. Did she provide support for the little girl? 176 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,800 She was the baby's mother, but that's as far as it went. 177 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,800 It came to count from Alyssa and it landed in my lap. 178 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,800 Remember when she had Rosiola? Joe didn't even come over and see her. Just didn't care. 179 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:13,800 Mailed a little doll for the baby. 180 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,800 Guess that was supposed to make up for her mother not being there. 181 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:18,800 Can you tell us where we can contact your sister? 182 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,800 Sure. A place over on Hewitt Street. Got an apartment there. 183 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:22,800 Do you have the address? 184 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:25,800 Yeah. Won't do much good to go over there, though. 185 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:26,800 Why's that? She probably ain't home. 186 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,800 Chances are she's out someplace running around having a good time. 187 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:30,800 I see. 188 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:33,800 Don't even know that baby's dead. Hasn't got the slightest idea. 189 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:35,800 I will go and see her. 190 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,800 Hope you won't mind waiting for her to show up. You're going to have to. 191 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:40,800 Probably wait a long time. Yes, ma'am. 192 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:43,800 She don't care about the baby. Never did. 193 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:46,800 Told me a couple of times. Just a rock around her neck. 194 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:49,800 Talked about how hard it was for her to get a husband with a kid. 195 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:52,800 All the time, how the baby was making it hard for her. 196 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:54,800 All she ever thought about herself. 197 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,800 Didn't want anything to interfere with that. Just herself. 198 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,800 She won't care about the baby. She won't care at all. 199 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:02,800 Probably won't even talk to you. 200 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:03,800 I think she will. 201 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:06,800 Why should she? No reason for it. Even see it. 202 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:07,800 Yes, there is. 203 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:08,800 What? 204 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:10,800 We're trying to find out why the child died. 205 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:12,800 Just got sick, that's all. 206 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:14,800 There's nothing more to it, unless it just got sick. 207 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:15,800 You seem pretty sure about it. 208 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:18,800 Of course I am. Couldn't be anything else. 209 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:21,800 You think there was anything else? You think there was something wrong? 210 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:22,800 We don't know yet. 211 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:24,800 Well then talk to Joan. Ask her. 212 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:26,800 Anything wrong with Melissa that happened today. 213 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:28,800 She ought to be able to tell you. Talk to her. 214 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:30,800 Yes, ma'am. That's what we'll do. 215 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:32,800 Hope it does you some good. 216 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:34,800 It wouldn't surprise me a bit if she knows what happened. 217 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:36,800 What's that? 218 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:38,800 She's probably got an idea. 219 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:40,800 I wouldn't want her to know I told you this. 220 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:41,800 What do you mean? 221 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:44,800 If there's something wrong with the way Melissa died, if there is... 222 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:45,800 Yes, ma'am. 223 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:48,800 It wouldn't surprise me if Joan killed her. 224 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:55,800 Frank and I left the house and drove over to the apartment on Hewitt Street. 225 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,800 The name on the mailbox read Joan Guymon. 226 00:08:57,800 --> 00:08:59,800 We rang the bell, but there was no answer. 227 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:01,800 We talked to the landlady, Mrs. Enid Finden. 228 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:06,800 She told us that the Guymon woman had left the place about 7.15 in the company of a man and she hadn't returned. 229 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,800 We asked her what she could tell us about Mrs. Guymon. 230 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:11,800 Kind of hard to say right off. 231 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:12,800 She's funny, you know how I mean? 232 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:13,800 No, ma'am. 233 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:16,800 Well, there's a lot of people who don't like her, lots of them. 234 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,800 I think she's kind of wild the way she runs around, partying up. 235 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:21,800 You'll hear a lot of talk about her. 236 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:23,800 You've got to kind of make up your own mind about it. 237 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:25,800 Do you have any idea where we can find her? 238 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:27,800 No, could be in half a dozen places. 239 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:30,800 If she starts on her run, she's likely not to slow down for a couple of days. 240 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:31,800 Do you know the man she's with? 241 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:33,800 Sorry, I can't help you there. 242 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:35,800 I've seen him before, but not many times. 243 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:37,800 I don't think Joan goes out with him much. 244 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:38,800 Something wrong? 245 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:39,800 No. 246 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:40,800 Something happened to Joan? 247 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:41,800 No, ma'am. 248 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:43,800 There must be some reason you're nosing around. 249 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:45,800 Anything you want to tell me? 250 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:47,800 It might be a little better if we talk to Miss Guymon. 251 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:49,800 The way you want it. 252 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:51,800 I can apply to something that don't concern me. 253 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:53,800 Have you ever met Mrs. Guymon's little girl? 254 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:54,800 You mean Melissa? 255 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:55,800 Yes, ma'am. 256 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:57,800 Sure. Two of them being here several times. 257 00:09:57,800 --> 00:09:59,800 Sunday, you know, Joan has a little girl. 258 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:00,800 How they seem to get along. 259 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:01,800 What? 260 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,800 Miss Guymon and her daughter. How they get along. 261 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:05,800 Well, you said it yourself, Melissa's her daughter. 262 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:06,800 Yeah. 263 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:08,800 What have you heard? 264 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:09,800 Huh? 265 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:11,800 Somebody's been talking about how Joan treats the kid. 266 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:13,800 Well, maybe you'd better tell her. 267 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:15,800 I don't want to get in no trouble. You understand that? 268 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:16,800 Yeah. 269 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:18,800 Well, I'd be down here watching the television, 270 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:20,800 maybe doing some ironing, and I'd hear Joan yell at the baby. 271 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:22,800 Wow. 272 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:24,800 She used words the kid shouldn't hear, not that young. 273 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:25,800 Yes, ma'am. 274 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:27,800 Of course, not that those kind of words are ever good for a youngster, 275 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:29,800 but sure, not for one only two years old. 276 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:30,800 Yeah. 277 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:33,800 Anyway, she'd yell for a while, then it'd be quiet. 278 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:35,800 Then she'd hit the kid a couple times, things calmed down. 279 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:38,800 Now, do you know if Mrs. Guymon ever hit her daughter? 280 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:40,800 Well, sure, I saw it with my own eyes. 281 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:42,800 We had words about it. 282 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:44,800 Well, Joan told me to mind my own business. 283 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:46,800 I had to keep my nose where it belonged. 284 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:48,800 She told me how Melissa was her kid, 285 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:50,800 and if she thought a slap would do some good, she was going to give it. 286 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:52,800 She did. 287 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:54,800 Only a couple times they weren't slaps. 288 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:55,800 Really? 289 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:58,800 Like this, with a closed fist. 290 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:00,800 Right along here, right above the ear. 291 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:02,800 A couple times in the face. 292 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:04,800 I saw the kid with a black eye myself, sure. 293 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:06,800 Does Mr. Guymon see his wife? 294 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:09,800 I know. He said a couple times that he doesn't. 295 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:12,800 I don't think she even knows where he is. 296 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:14,800 Kind of sad, you know. 297 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:15,800 What happened? 298 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:17,800 That's how all the trouble started. 299 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:18,800 Mr. Guymon. 300 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:20,800 Both of them used to live here when they got married. 301 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:22,800 First off, it seemed pretty happy. 302 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:25,800 Didn't have no idea there was anything wrong. 303 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:27,800 Then when the baby was born, the trouble started. 304 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:30,800 Wasn't long before the whole building knew about it. 305 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:33,800 Of course, there was a couple of people who had an idea before. 306 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:34,800 What's that? 307 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:35,800 About her. 308 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:39,800 Running around, down to the bars, drinking, talking with other men. 309 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:40,800 I'm not a prude. 310 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:43,800 Never been anybody to say that about me. Nobody. 311 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:46,800 But I just don't believe in married women doing it. Not them. 312 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:48,800 That's what caused the trouble, isn't it? 313 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:49,800 You just put it down to that. 314 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:51,800 Oh, my, they had some big arguments. 315 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:52,800 Big ones. 316 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:53,800 Hear them all over the building. 317 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:56,800 All over the block, I guess, if he was listening. 318 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:58,800 Well, it wasn't long after that he walked out on her. 319 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:00,800 Left her flat with the baby. 320 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:02,800 Pat right up and moved out. 321 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:04,800 Even took his photograph records. Everything. 322 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:06,800 Don't think she's seen him since. 323 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:08,800 Well, are they divorced, you know? 324 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:09,800 I don't know about that. 325 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:11,800 A couple times she's talked about getting one. 326 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:13,800 I don't think she's ever gone through with it. 327 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:14,800 I know she's planning on it. 328 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:15,800 How's that? 329 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:16,800 If she wants to get married again. 330 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:19,800 Told me that a hundred times, how she wants to find a man and settle down. 331 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:22,800 Just about all she talks about. 332 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:24,800 The big problem is Melissa. 333 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:25,800 Mm-hmm. 334 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:27,800 Well, I know she's had the chance. I know that for sure. 335 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:28,800 Mm-hmm. 336 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:30,800 A couple of them have even talked to me about it. 337 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:31,800 About how they want to marry Joan. 338 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:33,800 Build a home for her. 339 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:35,800 All comes back to the same thing. 340 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:36,800 What's that? 341 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:37,800 The kid. 342 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:39,800 None of the men want a ready-made family. 343 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:41,800 They're all willing to have one of their own, but... 344 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:43,800 It ain't easy for a woman with a two-year-old child. 345 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:44,800 Not easy at all. 346 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:45,800 Mm-hmm. 347 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,800 I know she thought a couple times about leaving the kid with her sister. 348 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:50,800 Some kind of problem there, too. 349 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:52,800 I think they were always fighting about it. 350 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:54,800 Do you know what the arguments were about? 351 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,800 Sure. Joan's sister didn't think she was doing enough to support the kid. 352 00:12:57,800 --> 00:12:59,800 You know, figured she ought to have more money. 353 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:01,800 Any of these quarrels ever get violent? 354 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:04,800 I've heard them upstairs, yelling and screaming at each other. 355 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:06,800 Almost as bad as Joan and her husband. 356 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:08,800 Sister saying that either she had to hand over more money 357 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:10,800 or else take Melissa out of the house. 358 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:12,800 Joan saying that she didn't care what happened to the kid. 359 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:14,800 Yelling all over the place. Terrible way they carried on. 360 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:15,800 Mm-hmm. 361 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:16,800 Be honest about it. 362 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:18,800 I don't think either one of them really wanted the little girl. 363 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:19,800 Neither one of them. 364 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:20,800 Is that right? 365 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:23,800 Both been just as happy if she'd never been born. 366 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:25,800 Poor little kid. 367 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:28,800 Wonder they didn't try to put her in another home, you know. 368 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:30,800 Find some people who wanted her. 369 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:32,800 Giving her a chance to grow up being loved. 370 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:33,800 That's right. 371 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:34,800 At least they could have done. 372 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:36,800 Given the little kid a chance. 373 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:37,800 Oh, I don't know. 374 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:41,800 Maybe someday Joan will wake up, realize what she's doing. 375 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:42,800 Mm-hmm. 376 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:43,800 Maybe she will. 377 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:45,800 Let's hope it's not too late. 378 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:51,800 In the company of the manager, Frank and I checked Joan Gaiman's room. 379 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:53,800 There was no indication that she wasn't going to return. 380 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:57,800 We asked Miss Finden to notify us as soon as she heard from the Gaiman woman. 381 00:13:57,800 --> 00:13:59,800 We returned to the office and checked with the crime lab. 382 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:02,800 They'd finished going over the child's clothing and they hadn't found anything out of order. 383 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:06,800 We put in a call to the coroner's office and we talked to Chief Deputy Coroner Vic Wallage. 384 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,800 He told us that the autopsy would be held at 10 a.m. the following morning 385 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:11,800 and that we should have the results by 11. 386 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,800 He went on to say that in his examination of Melissa Gaiman, 387 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:16,800 he'd found several bruises on her neck and back. 388 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:21,800 However, he was unable to tell us if the blows might have been strong enough to cause her death. 389 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:25,800 1216 a.m. we ran the names Joan Gaiman and her sister through RNI. 390 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:26,800 There was no record on the sister, 391 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:31,800 but we found that the Gaiman woman had been arrested several times in the last year on charges of 4127 a.m. 392 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:35,800 The rest of the night was spent in checking out the places she was known to have frequenting. 393 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:38,800 An attempt was made to find her husband without result. 394 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:43,800 The next day, Frank and I met in the squad room early to put through a call to the coroner's office. 395 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:46,800 Yeah. 396 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:49,800 What about the bruises? 397 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:50,800 I see. 398 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:53,800 How long's that going to take? 399 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:54,800 Right. 400 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:56,800 We won't keep in touch again. 401 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:57,800 Okay. Bye. 402 00:14:58,800 --> 00:14:59,800 How about it? 403 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:00,800 They finished. 404 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:01,800 What's the cause of death? 405 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:02,800 I'm still not sure. 406 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:03,800 What do you mean? 407 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:05,800 They think she might have been poisoned. 408 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:12,800 The autopsy had failed to show the cause of death of Melissa Gaiman. 409 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:14,800 Further tests were to be conducted. 410 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:16,800 In the meantime, the search for her mother continued. 411 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:20,800 A check with a landlady showed the victim's mother hadn't returned to her home during the night. 412 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:24,800 We contacted her sister, but she told us she hadn't heard from Joan Gaiman. 413 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:27,800 The afternoon papers carried a story on the little girl's death. 414 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:30,800 Frank and I checked with Sergeant J. Allen again, but he hadn't come up with anything new. 415 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:32,800 3.20 p.m. 416 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:34,800 You want to go out and see the sister? 417 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:36,800 I don't think it's going to do much good. She said she'd call if she heard anything. 418 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:37,800 Yeah. 419 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:38,800 I got it. 420 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:41,800 You have an old sped? 421 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:42,800 Yeah, that's right. 422 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:43,800 Hmm? 423 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:45,800 Yeah, we have. 424 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:47,800 Well, where are you? 425 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:49,800 All right, I'll stay right there. 426 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:50,800 That's right. 427 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:51,800 Huh? 428 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:52,800 As soon as we can. 429 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:54,800 Joan Gaiman. 430 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:55,800 Where is she? 431 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:56,800 Bar down on East Fifth. 432 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:57,800 Does she know about the little girl? 433 00:15:57,800 --> 00:15:58,800 Yeah, wants to see us right away. 434 00:15:58,800 --> 00:15:59,800 Well, it makes us even. 435 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:00,800 She's got more of a reason. 436 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:01,800 Hmm? 437 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:02,800 Said she killed her daughter. 438 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:12,800 Frank and I left the city hall and drove over to the bar. 439 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:14,800 When we walked into the place, it appeared to be deserted. 440 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:18,800 The bartender told us there was a woman answering the description we gave him in one of the rear boots. 441 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:21,800 Joan Gaiman was in her late 20s, but she looked at least 40. 442 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:23,800 She'd been drinking heavily and she'd been crying. 443 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:26,800 Oh, yeah? 444 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:28,800 Is that who you're looking for? 445 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:29,800 You're Miss Gaiman? 446 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:30,800 That's right. Who are you? 447 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:31,800 Police officer. 448 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:32,800 This is Frank Smith. My name is Friday. 449 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:33,800 Yeah. 450 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:37,800 I knew you'd be here. I knew it good. 451 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:42,800 Why don't you sit right down and make yourself comfortable? 452 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:44,800 What's wrong with how Zye talked to you? 453 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:45,800 He talked to me. 454 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:46,800 Yeah. 455 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:49,800 Well, then you know why I asked you to come down here? 456 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:50,800 Yes, ma'am. You want to tell us about it? 457 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:51,800 No. 458 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:52,800 How's that? 459 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,800 You asked me if I wanted to talk about it. 460 00:16:57,800 --> 00:16:58,800 Well, I don't. 461 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:01,800 I don't even want to think about it. 462 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:03,800 I wish it never happened. 463 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:04,800 You're right. 464 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:08,800 You probably think it's funny I'm not crying, don't you? 465 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:12,800 Don't you? You think there's something wrong with me? 466 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:15,800 Maybe it's death and I'm not crying? 467 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:19,800 Well, do you want to know why? You want to know? 468 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:20,800 Why don't you tell us, lady? 469 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:23,800 Because there ain't no tears left. 470 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:26,800 Not a single one of them all cried out. 471 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:29,800 That's why. 472 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:32,800 You better put that down. 473 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:33,800 I'm not crying. 474 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:35,800 I'm not crying. 475 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:39,800 You better put that down. You've had enough of that. 476 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:42,800 I think I'll have a lot more. 477 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:44,800 A lot more. 478 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:46,800 You said you killed your little girl, is that right? 479 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:47,800 That's right. 480 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:49,800 Well, tell us about it, will you? 481 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:52,800 No reason not to. 482 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:55,800 No reason for anything anymore. 483 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:57,800 All right, go ahead. 484 00:17:58,800 --> 00:17:59,800 I killed her. 485 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:01,800 I killed her. 486 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:03,800 It's like I put a gun up to her head. 487 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:05,800 I killed her. Is this the same? 488 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:06,800 Go ahead. 489 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:09,800 Poor little kid. 490 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:11,800 She didn't want much. 491 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:13,800 Hardly anything. 492 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:16,800 One of those dolls with the hair you can wave. 493 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:19,800 That's all. The doll with curly hair and her mother. 494 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:21,800 She got the doll. 495 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:25,800 I gave it to her yesterday when we came back from the zoo. 496 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:27,800 It's just seeing how happy she was. 497 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:29,800 She was happy. 498 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:33,800 Another thing I wouldn't give her. 499 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:35,800 No mother. 500 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:37,800 Poor little kid. 501 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:39,800 She doesn't have no mother. 502 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:42,800 Just me, that's all it means. 503 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:44,800 Yeah. 504 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:46,800 That's how I did it. 505 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:47,800 What's that? 506 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:49,800 Killed her. 507 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:53,800 If I'd been her mother and kept her with me, it never would have happened. 508 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:55,800 She'd be all right now. 509 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:58,800 I neglect. 510 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:01,800 That's what I did. Neglect. 511 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:03,800 And I gave it to her. 512 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,800 Never paid no attention to her. 513 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:09,800 All the time. Too busy with what I was doing. 514 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:11,800 I didn't pay any attention to her. 515 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:13,800 I didn't pay any attention at all. 516 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:14,800 All right. Come on, lady. 517 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:15,800 Where are we going? 518 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:16,800 Downtown. 519 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:17,800 What for? 520 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:19,800 I don't think we'll be able to talk better there. 521 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:21,800 Oh, I don't want to go anyplace. 522 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:23,800 I'm going to stay right here. 523 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:26,800 My baby is dead. 524 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:28,800 Poor little kid doesn't have no mother. 525 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:30,800 Why don't you just go away and leave me alone? 526 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:31,800 You know we can't do that. 527 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:32,800 Why not? 528 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:34,800 There are a lot of somethings that you got to harm people. 529 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:35,800 Is that what you're doing? 530 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:36,800 Right. Yeah. 531 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:38,800 Now, wait a minute. 532 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:39,800 You don't need to be alone. 533 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:41,800 You got no right to do this to me. 534 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:43,800 Bartender! 535 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:44,800 Come on back here and help! 536 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:47,800 These lousy cops are giving me trouble. Help me! 537 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:48,800 Come on, lady. 538 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:49,800 You're only making it harder on yourself. 539 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:51,800 Leave me alone. Get away from me. 540 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:52,800 Come on. Don't cause me more trouble. 541 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:55,800 If you were a gentleman, you wouldn't do this to me. 542 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:57,800 If you were a lady, we wouldn't have to. 543 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:03,800 We took the woman back to the city hall. 544 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:06,800 After several cups of hot coffee, she straightened out enough to give us a story. 545 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:08,800 She went over each step of the previous day, 546 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:12,800 naming all the places she and her daughter had gone and all of the foods they'd eaten. 547 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:15,800 There was no apparent cause for the child's death. 548 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:19,800 In talking to her, we found that the child was wearing different clothing when she was brought to the hospital. 549 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:23,800 Frank and I drove out to Mrs. Guyman's sister's home and picked up the dress and the coat the little girl had worn. 550 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:26,800 It was turned over to the crime lab. 2.15 p.m. 551 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:30,800 You and Elfrady. 552 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:31,800 Yeah. 553 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:34,800 I don't know. We'll have to check it. 554 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:35,800 Right. 555 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:38,800 Yeah. Soon as we know. Right. 556 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:40,800 Right. Paint her over at the lab. 557 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:41,800 Yeah. 558 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:42,800 Just finished going over the little girl's dress. 559 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:43,800 Find anything? 560 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:44,800 A couple of stains. 561 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:45,800 Yeah. 562 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:46,800 Traces of poison. 563 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:53,800 Along with the crew from the crime lab, Frank, Mrs. Guyman, and I went back to her apartment where a thorough search was started. 564 00:20:53,800 --> 00:21:00,800 From the analysis of the stains found on the child's dress, Sergeant J. Allen said the death might have been caused by minute quantities of poison and another fluid. 565 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:04,800 While he and his crew went over to the apartment, Frank and I talked to Mrs. Guyman. 566 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:06,800 There couldn't be anything here. 567 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:08,800 Was the child alone at all yesterday? 568 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:10,800 No, I don't think so. 569 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:13,800 We went to the zoo and came back here. 570 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,800 We gave her the doll and we played with that for a while. 571 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:19,800 Mm-hmm. Did you leave the apartment at all? 572 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:21,800 Yeah. 573 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,800 I'm down at the corner to make a phone call. I only got a couple of minutes. 574 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:25,800 Your daughter was here alone then. 575 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:29,800 Yes, but she couldn't have gotten into anything. I was only gone a little while. 576 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,800 I was still playing with the doll when I got back. 577 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,800 Mrs. Guyman, our crime lab seems to think she might have been poisoned by some sort of polish. 578 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:38,800 What do you mean? 579 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:40,800 Looks like a metal polish at some time. 580 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:44,800 I don't have any of that in the house. 581 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:44,800 You sure? 582 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:46,800 Certainly. But I know my place. 583 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:48,800 They have to tear everything up like this. 584 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:50,800 It'll all be straightened out. 585 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:52,800 I hope so. 586 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:54,800 It's never going to be an M to it. 587 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:56,800 Joe? 588 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:56,800 Yeah, Jack. 589 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:58,800 See you in a minute. 590 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:00,800 What do you got? 591 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,800 I think this is where I found out the kitchen under the sink. 592 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:05,800 Metal polish? 593 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:05,800 Yeah. 594 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:07,800 Isn't one of the standard brands. 595 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,800 Certainly isn't one of the off brands either, is it? 596 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:12,800 I've never seen it before. 597 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:14,800 Well. 598 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,800 The bottle's almost empty. 599 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:18,800 Cap was off when we found it. 600 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:20,800 Any chance it might have spilled out? 601 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:21,800 No, it doesn't look like it. 602 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:22,800 Not on the floor around the bottle. 603 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:24,800 If you want to come out in the kitchen, we'll check up the prints. 604 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:26,800 They got the kit out there. 605 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:28,800 All right. 606 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:30,800 Can you tell for sure, Jay? 607 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:32,800 No, we can get an idea, though. 608 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,800 There, Joe. It's coming through. You see there? 609 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:37,800 Yeah. 610 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:39,800 What do you think? 611 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:41,800 After all the child's prints, to be sure, it looks like it, though. 612 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:43,800 The fingers are pretty small. 613 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:45,800 There, you can see yourself. Pretty tiny. 614 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:47,800 I don't think it's that bad. 615 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,800 Thanks, Jay. 616 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:53,800 What'd they find? 617 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:55,800 You know how it happened? 618 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:57,800 We think so, yeah. 619 00:22:57,800 --> 00:22:59,800 We found an empty bottle of metal polish in the kitchen. 620 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:01,800 Looks like your daughter drank some of it. 621 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:03,800 She couldn't have. I was with her all the time. 622 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:05,800 I couldn't have gotten to it. 623 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:07,800 You said you left her alone. 624 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:09,800 Not that long. She didn't have time. 625 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:11,800 I was only gone a couple of minutes. 626 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:13,800 That's all. Just a couple of minutes. 627 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,800 That was long enough. 628 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:17,800 It's not true. 629 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:19,800 You're just making it up, trying to make it all my fault. 630 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:21,800 No, ma'am. 631 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:23,800 Yes, you are. You're trying to make out I did kill her. 632 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:25,800 You're saying it's my fault. Well, it isn't. 633 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,800 Well, then you tell us. 634 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:29,800 Whose fault is it? 635 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:31,800 The story you've just heard is true. 636 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:33,800 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 637 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:41,800 On August 18th, an inquest was held in the coroner's office in and for the county of Los Angeles, state of California. 638 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:57,800 After examining all the evidence, a coroner's jury decided that the death of Melissa June Guymon was due to accidental poisoning. 639 00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:59,800 You have just heard Dragnet. 640 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:08,800 The authentic story of your police force in action and starring Jack Webb, a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service.