WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.440 The story you're about to hear is true. 00:10.440 --> 00:22.800 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:22.800 --> 00:24.480 You're a detective sergeant. 00:24.480 --> 00:26.680 You're assigned a juvenile detail. 00:26.680 --> 00:28.800 You get a call from Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. 00:28.800 --> 00:31.520 A two-year-old child has been brought in. 00:31.520 --> 00:33.280 Her condition is critical. 00:33.280 --> 00:35.280 There's evidence of foul play. 00:35.280 --> 00:37.280 Your job, check it out. 00:37.280 --> 00:42.280 It was Sunday, August 14th. 00:42.280 --> 00:43.280 It was warm in Los Angeles. 00:43.280 --> 00:45.480 We were working the night watch out of juvenile detail. 00:45.480 --> 00:46.680 My partner is Frank Smith. 00:46.680 --> 00:47.680 The boss is Captain Powers. 00:47.680 --> 00:48.680 My name is Friday. 00:48.680 --> 00:52.720 I was on my way back from detention cells and it was 728 P.M. when I got to the second 00:52.720 --> 00:55.240 floor of Georgia Street juvenile squad room. 00:55.240 --> 00:57.680 Hi, how'd it go? 00:57.680 --> 00:58.680 Nothing. 00:58.680 --> 01:00.200 Those kids won't cop to a thing. 01:00.200 --> 01:01.200 What about the weapons? 01:01.200 --> 01:03.160 They only admit they had them and that's all. 01:03.160 --> 01:05.120 Nothing about what they were going to do with them? 01:05.120 --> 01:06.120 No. 01:06.120 --> 01:07.120 I don't know, Joe. 01:07.120 --> 01:09.480 Today, kids got a lot more than we ever had. 01:09.480 --> 01:11.600 TV, cars, a lot of things. 01:11.600 --> 01:12.600 Yeah. 01:12.600 --> 01:14.840 Still seems like they aren't happy unless they're figuring out how to beat somebody's 01:14.840 --> 01:15.840 brains out. 01:15.840 --> 01:17.640 It doesn't go for all of them. 01:17.640 --> 01:19.240 Well, enough to give us a headache. 01:19.240 --> 01:20.240 Yeah. 01:20.240 --> 01:21.240 Take those kids upstairs. 01:21.240 --> 01:25.200 If they spent the same time doing something constructive that they do making the zip guns 01:25.200 --> 01:28.080 and saps, they'd have something worthwhile, something worth remembering. 01:28.080 --> 01:29.840 Well, maybe it'll work out the same way. 01:29.840 --> 01:30.840 What do you mean? 01:30.840 --> 01:31.840 They won't forget this. 01:31.840 --> 01:34.840 You have an old Friday. 01:34.840 --> 01:36.840 You got it, Doc. 01:36.840 --> 01:39.360 Why don't you come in? 01:39.360 --> 01:40.360 Anybody with it? 01:40.360 --> 01:43.360 Give me that again, will you? 01:43.360 --> 01:45.880 Yeah, I got it. 01:45.880 --> 01:46.880 Okay. 01:46.880 --> 01:47.880 We'll check it. 01:47.880 --> 01:48.880 That's right. 01:48.880 --> 01:50.880 We'll get back to you later. 01:50.880 --> 01:51.880 Thanks, Doc. 01:51.880 --> 01:52.880 Bye. 01:52.880 --> 01:53.880 It was Dr. Sebastian. 01:53.880 --> 01:54.880 Yeah. 01:54.880 --> 01:56.880 Just brought a little girl into emergency. 01:56.880 --> 01:57.880 Had convulsions. 01:57.880 --> 01:58.880 What's she doing? 01:58.880 --> 01:59.880 Dead on arrival. 01:59.880 --> 02:05.480 Frank and I notified Homicide Division, then we left the office and drove out to the address 02:05.480 --> 02:07.480 I'd gotten on the phone. 02:07.480 --> 02:11.040 1784 Malabar Street was a small wooden house set on the back of a lot. 02:11.040 --> 02:14.000 A dead oak tree in the front yard was overgrown with ivy. 02:14.000 --> 02:17.680 Several broken and rusted children's toys were half hidden in the weeds near the front 02:17.680 --> 02:18.680 porch. 02:18.680 --> 02:22.480 We rang the front doorbell. 02:22.480 --> 02:23.480 Somebody ought to be home. 02:23.480 --> 02:24.480 The lights are on. 02:24.480 --> 02:25.480 Let's try it again. 02:25.480 --> 02:28.480 Yeah, somebody's coming. 02:28.480 --> 02:29.480 Uh-huh. 02:29.480 --> 02:30.480 Yes? 02:30.480 --> 02:31.480 Miss Manson? 02:31.480 --> 02:32.480 That's right. 02:32.480 --> 02:33.480 What do you want? 02:33.480 --> 02:34.480 Police officers would like to talk to you. 02:34.480 --> 02:35.480 We have to go through it all again. 02:35.480 --> 02:40.480 Don't you think I feel bad enough about it? 02:40.480 --> 02:41.480 We're sorry to bother you, ma'am. 02:41.480 --> 02:44.480 We've got some questions we have to ask you. 02:44.480 --> 02:45.480 All right, come on in. 02:45.480 --> 02:46.480 You might as well sit down. 02:46.480 --> 02:47.480 Thank you. 02:47.480 --> 02:48.480 Thank you. 02:48.480 --> 02:55.480 This is Frank Smith, and my name's Frye. 02:55.480 --> 02:58.480 How are you doing, Miss Manson? 02:58.480 --> 02:59.480 Hello. 02:59.480 --> 03:00.480 You're the child's aunt, is that right? 03:00.480 --> 03:01.480 Yeah. 03:01.480 --> 03:02.480 Her mother's my sister. 03:02.480 --> 03:03.480 And where's her mother? 03:03.480 --> 03:04.480 I don't know. 03:04.480 --> 03:05.480 Been trying to get in touch with her. 03:05.480 --> 03:06.480 Left messages all over town, but I guess she ain't got any of them. 03:06.480 --> 03:07.480 The child stayed with you, does she? 03:07.480 --> 03:08.480 Yeah. 03:08.480 --> 03:09.480 Been here since she was six months old. 03:09.480 --> 03:10.480 Feel like she was my own. 03:10.480 --> 03:11.480 I've got three kids myself, all boys. 03:11.480 --> 03:12.480 And I'm going to have to get a job. 03:12.480 --> 03:13.480 I'm going to have to get a job. 03:13.480 --> 03:14.480 I'm going to have to get a job. 03:14.480 --> 03:15.480 I'm going to have to get a job. 03:15.480 --> 03:16.480 I'm going to have to get a job. 03:16.480 --> 03:17.480 I'm going to have to get a job. 03:17.480 --> 03:18.480 It's been hard, I think. 03:18.480 --> 03:19.580 Have to work. 03:19.580 --> 03:29.240 Have a very important family. 03:29.240 --> 03:45.880 It's always tough, too, with this ever so easy. 03:45.880 --> 03:50.040 Melissa takes it for the day. Just like always, she was here this morning. 03:50.040 --> 03:50.680 Yes ma'am. 03:50.680 --> 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. 03:57.960 --> 04:03.000 We all sat around Nate. My kids, baby and Joan, and the kids went to get dressed. 04:03.000 --> 04:03.500 Yeah. 04:05.800 --> 04:09.640 After she was dressed they left. Joan and Melissa, going to the zoo on the ride. 04:10.440 --> 04:14.920 Real big day, real big. About six they came back. 04:14.920 --> 04:15.880 That's this evening? 04:15.880 --> 04:16.760 Yeah, it's the clock. 04:18.760 --> 04:22.280 The baby, the baby didn't look real good. Kind of hot and flushed. 04:22.280 --> 04:23.000 Yeah. 04:23.000 --> 04:26.520 I asked Joan if she'd given her a lot of junk. She said no, nothing that had hurt her. 04:26.520 --> 04:27.320 That's what she said. 04:28.200 --> 04:30.200 Just came in the house and then she left. 04:30.200 --> 04:33.960 Said she had an appointment that she couldn't be late. Just dumped the baby inside the house and walked out. 04:34.760 --> 04:35.260 I see. 04:35.960 --> 04:40.200 I gave her a bath. Thought it might make her feel better. She was running a little fever. 04:40.200 --> 04:42.200 Warm bath is supposed to bring down her temperature. 04:42.200 --> 04:43.160 Oh, sorry. 04:43.160 --> 04:45.160 Didn't. Didn't do any good at all. 04:45.720 --> 04:48.680 I asked her if she was hungry and she said she was, so I gave her some dinner. 04:49.240 --> 04:51.800 Had no more than taken one bite and she had the first sip. 04:52.840 --> 04:55.560 Sitting right there at the table and she had it. I didn't know what to do. 04:56.200 --> 04:59.000 Never had nothing happen like that before. I didn't know what to give her. 04:59.000 --> 05:00.040 Did you call the doctor? 05:00.040 --> 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. 05:03.800 --> 05:04.440 Yeah. 05:04.440 --> 05:07.640 Didn't want to leave the baby alone, but there wasn't any other way. Nothing else I could do. 05:07.640 --> 05:11.640 The doctor wasn't at home. I left work for him to come right over and then I came back. 05:12.120 --> 05:15.400 Then no sooner walked into the house and she had another fit. Scared me to death. 05:15.400 --> 05:17.400 Poor little thing. 05:17.400 --> 05:21.400 I could see she was in pain. Terrible pain. There wasn't anything I could do for her. 05:21.400 --> 05:24.200 I just couldn't wait anymore. I went back and called the emergency hospital. 05:24.200 --> 05:25.400 Asked them to send an ambulance. 05:25.400 --> 05:27.400 Told them it was important to send somebody right away. 05:28.200 --> 05:30.200 Couple minutes after that the men got here and took her away. 05:30.200 --> 05:32.200 Poor little thing. 05:32.200 --> 05:33.000 Yes ma'am. 05:33.000 --> 05:35.800 She looked at me like asking me to stop the pain. 05:35.800 --> 05:39.800 Begging me. Almost tore my heart right out of my chest to see her. So little. 05:39.800 --> 05:41.800 Almost killed me. 05:41.800 --> 05:43.800 Yes. 05:43.800 --> 05:45.800 She was dead when they got her there. 05:45.800 --> 05:49.800 Didn't even live long enough for them to try and save her. Not even that long. 05:49.800 --> 05:51.800 Yes ma'am. We know. 05:51.800 --> 05:57.800 Just a baby. Two years old and she's dead. Just a tiny little baby. 05:57.800 --> 05:59.800 It was so hard to see. 05:59.800 --> 06:03.800 A lot of people could die and it wouldn't make any difference. 06:03.800 --> 06:09.800 But not her. She was beautiful. Just beautiful. Like my daughter. Like my own. 06:09.800 --> 06:13.800 You sure there isn't something we can get for you, Miss Malton? 06:13.800 --> 06:15.800 No. Nothing. 06:15.800 --> 06:19.800 There isn't anything we can help now. Nothing at all. 06:19.800 --> 06:23.800 Ma'am, has there been any history of this type of attack in your family? 06:23.800 --> 06:25.800 You mean fits? 06:25.800 --> 06:27.800 Epilepsy. Anything of that nature? 06:27.800 --> 06:29.800 No. Never been anything like that. 06:29.800 --> 06:33.800 Well now did the child tell you that she felt sick? 06:33.800 --> 06:37.800 We didn't have no idea. There was something wrong until it was too late. 06:37.800 --> 06:39.800 Did she complain of stomach cramps, do you remember? 06:39.800 --> 06:41.800 No. She didn't. 06:41.800 --> 06:43.800 What did you have for dinner? 06:43.800 --> 06:45.800 Ground meat. Tater. The green beans. 06:45.800 --> 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. 06:49.800 --> 06:51.800 Is your sister separated from her husband? 06:51.800 --> 06:53.800 Yeah. They hadn't been together for over a year. 06:53.800 --> 06:55.800 Been that long anyway, I suppose. 06:55.800 --> 06:59.800 He's supposed to contribute support, but he doesn't. Not a dime. 06:59.800 --> 07:01.800 I see. Did she provide support for the little girl? 07:01.800 --> 07:04.800 She was the baby's mother, but that's as far as it went. 07:04.800 --> 07:07.800 It came to count from Alyssa and it landed in my lap. 07:07.800 --> 07:11.800 Remember when she had Rosiola? Joe didn't even come over and see her. Just didn't care. 07:11.800 --> 07:13.800 Mailed a little doll for the baby. 07:13.800 --> 07:16.800 Guess that was supposed to make up for her mother not being there. 07:16.800 --> 07:18.800 Can you tell us where we can contact your sister? 07:18.800 --> 07:21.800 Sure. A place over on Hewitt Street. Got an apartment there. 07:21.800 --> 07:22.800 Do you have the address? 07:22.800 --> 07:25.800 Yeah. Won't do much good to go over there, though. 07:25.800 --> 07:26.800 Why's that? She probably ain't home. 07:26.800 --> 07:29.800 Chances are she's out someplace running around having a good time. 07:29.800 --> 07:30.800 I see. 07:30.800 --> 07:33.800 Don't even know that baby's dead. Hasn't got the slightest idea. 07:33.800 --> 07:35.800 I will go and see her. 07:35.800 --> 07:38.800 Hope you won't mind waiting for her to show up. You're going to have to. 07:38.800 --> 07:40.800 Probably wait a long time. Yes, ma'am. 07:40.800 --> 07:43.800 She don't care about the baby. Never did. 07:43.800 --> 07:46.800 Told me a couple of times. Just a rock around her neck. 07:46.800 --> 07:49.800 Talked about how hard it was for her to get a husband with a kid. 07:49.800 --> 07:52.800 All the time, how the baby was making it hard for her. 07:52.800 --> 07:54.800 All she ever thought about herself. 07:54.800 --> 07:57.800 Didn't want anything to interfere with that. Just herself. 07:57.800 --> 08:00.800 She won't care about the baby. She won't care at all. 08:00.800 --> 08:02.800 Probably won't even talk to you. 08:02.800 --> 08:03.800 I think she will. 08:03.800 --> 08:06.800 Why should she? No reason for it. Even see it. 08:06.800 --> 08:07.800 Yes, there is. 08:07.800 --> 08:08.800 What? 08:08.800 --> 08:10.800 We're trying to find out why the child died. 08:10.800 --> 08:12.800 Just got sick, that's all. 08:12.800 --> 08:14.800 There's nothing more to it, unless it just got sick. 08:14.800 --> 08:15.800 You seem pretty sure about it. 08:15.800 --> 08:18.800 Of course I am. Couldn't be anything else. 08:18.800 --> 08:21.800 You think there was anything else? You think there was something wrong? 08:21.800 --> 08:22.800 We don't know yet. 08:22.800 --> 08:24.800 Well then talk to Joan. Ask her. 08:24.800 --> 08:26.800 Anything wrong with Melissa that happened today. 08:26.800 --> 08:28.800 She ought to be able to tell you. Talk to her. 08:28.800 --> 08:30.800 Yes, ma'am. That's what we'll do. 08:30.800 --> 08:32.800 Hope it does you some good. 08:32.800 --> 08:34.800 It wouldn't surprise me a bit if she knows what happened. 08:34.800 --> 08:36.800 What's that? 08:36.800 --> 08:38.800 She's probably got an idea. 08:38.800 --> 08:40.800 I wouldn't want her to know I told you this. 08:40.800 --> 08:41.800 What do you mean? 08:41.800 --> 08:44.800 If there's something wrong with the way Melissa died, if there is... 08:44.800 --> 08:45.800 Yes, ma'am. 08:45.800 --> 08:48.800 It wouldn't surprise me if Joan killed her. 08:53.800 --> 08:55.800 Frank and I left the house and drove over to the apartment on Hewitt Street. 08:55.800 --> 08:57.800 The name on the mailbox read Joan Guymon. 08:57.800 --> 08:59.800 We rang the bell, but there was no answer. 08:59.800 --> 09:01.800 We talked to the landlady, Mrs. Enid Finden. 09:01.800 --> 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. 09:06.800 --> 09:09.800 We asked her what she could tell us about Mrs. Guymon. 09:09.800 --> 09:11.800 Kind of hard to say right off. 09:11.800 --> 09:12.800 She's funny, you know how I mean? 09:12.800 --> 09:13.800 No, ma'am. 09:13.800 --> 09:16.800 Well, there's a lot of people who don't like her, lots of them. 09:16.800 --> 09:19.800 I think she's kind of wild the way she runs around, partying up. 09:19.800 --> 09:21.800 You'll hear a lot of talk about her. 09:21.800 --> 09:23.800 You've got to kind of make up your own mind about it. 09:23.800 --> 09:25.800 Do you have any idea where we can find her? 09:25.800 --> 09:27.800 No, could be in half a dozen places. 09:27.800 --> 09:30.800 If she starts on her run, she's likely not to slow down for a couple of days. 09:30.800 --> 09:31.800 Do you know the man she's with? 09:31.800 --> 09:33.800 Sorry, I can't help you there. 09:33.800 --> 09:35.800 I've seen him before, but not many times. 09:35.800 --> 09:37.800 I don't think Joan goes out with him much. 09:37.800 --> 09:38.800 Something wrong? 09:38.800 --> 09:39.800 No. 09:39.800 --> 09:40.800 Something happened to Joan? 09:40.800 --> 09:41.800 No, ma'am. 09:41.800 --> 09:43.800 There must be some reason you're nosing around. 09:43.800 --> 09:45.800 Anything you want to tell me? 09:45.800 --> 09:47.800 It might be a little better if we talk to Miss Guymon. 09:47.800 --> 09:49.800 The way you want it. 09:49.800 --> 09:51.800 I can apply to something that don't concern me. 09:51.800 --> 09:53.800 Have you ever met Mrs. Guymon's little girl? 09:53.800 --> 09:54.800 You mean Melissa? 09:54.800 --> 09:55.800 Yes, ma'am. 09:55.800 --> 09:57.800 Sure. Two of them being here several times. 09:57.800 --> 09:59.800 Sunday, you know, Joan has a little girl. 09:59.800 --> 10:00.800 How they seem to get along. 10:00.800 --> 10:01.800 What? 10:01.800 --> 10:03.800 Miss Guymon and her daughter. How they get along. 10:03.800 --> 10:05.800 Well, you said it yourself, Melissa's her daughter. 10:05.800 --> 10:06.800 Yeah. 10:06.800 --> 10:08.800 What have you heard? 10:08.800 --> 10:09.800 Huh? 10:09.800 --> 10:11.800 Somebody's been talking about how Joan treats the kid. 10:11.800 --> 10:13.800 Well, maybe you'd better tell her. 10:13.800 --> 10:15.800 I don't want to get in no trouble. You understand that? 10:15.800 --> 10:16.800 Yeah. 10:16.800 --> 10:18.800 Well, I'd be down here watching the television, 10:18.800 --> 10:20.800 maybe doing some ironing, and I'd hear Joan yell at the baby. 10:20.800 --> 10:22.800 Wow. 10:22.800 --> 10:24.800 She used words the kid shouldn't hear, not that young. 10:24.800 --> 10:25.800 Yes, ma'am. 10:25.800 --> 10:27.800 Of course, not that those kind of words are ever good for a youngster, 10:27.800 --> 10:29.800 but sure, not for one only two years old. 10:29.800 --> 10:30.800 Yeah. 10:30.800 --> 10:33.800 Anyway, she'd yell for a while, then it'd be quiet. 10:33.800 --> 10:35.800 Then she'd hit the kid a couple times, things calmed down. 10:35.800 --> 10:38.800 Now, do you know if Mrs. Guymon ever hit her daughter? 10:38.800 --> 10:40.800 Well, sure, I saw it with my own eyes. 10:40.800 --> 10:42.800 We had words about it. 10:42.800 --> 10:44.800 Well, Joan told me to mind my own business. 10:44.800 --> 10:46.800 I had to keep my nose where it belonged. 10:46.800 --> 10:48.800 She told me how Melissa was her kid, 10:48.800 --> 10:50.800 and if she thought a slap would do some good, she was going to give it. 10:50.800 --> 10:52.800 She did. 10:52.800 --> 10:54.800 Only a couple times they weren't slaps. 10:54.800 --> 10:55.800 Really? 10:55.800 --> 10:58.800 Like this, with a closed fist. 10:58.800 --> 11:00.800 Right along here, right above the ear. 11:00.800 --> 11:02.800 A couple times in the face. 11:02.800 --> 11:04.800 I saw the kid with a black eye myself, sure. 11:04.800 --> 11:06.800 Does Mr. Guymon see his wife? 11:06.800 --> 11:09.800 I know. He said a couple times that he doesn't. 11:09.800 --> 11:12.800 I don't think she even knows where he is. 11:12.800 --> 11:14.800 Kind of sad, you know. 11:14.800 --> 11:15.800 What happened? 11:15.800 --> 11:17.800 That's how all the trouble started. 11:17.800 --> 11:18.800 Mr. Guymon. 11:18.800 --> 11:20.800 Both of them used to live here when they got married. 11:20.800 --> 11:22.800 First off, it seemed pretty happy. 11:22.800 --> 11:25.800 Didn't have no idea there was anything wrong. 11:25.800 --> 11:27.800 Then when the baby was born, the trouble started. 11:27.800 --> 11:30.800 Wasn't long before the whole building knew about it. 11:30.800 --> 11:33.800 Of course, there was a couple of people who had an idea before. 11:33.800 --> 11:34.800 What's that? 11:34.800 --> 11:35.800 About her. 11:35.800 --> 11:39.800 Running around, down to the bars, drinking, talking with other men. 11:39.800 --> 11:40.800 I'm not a prude. 11:40.800 --> 11:43.800 Never been anybody to say that about me. Nobody. 11:43.800 --> 11:46.800 But I just don't believe in married women doing it. Not them. 11:46.800 --> 11:48.800 That's what caused the trouble, isn't it? 11:48.800 --> 11:49.800 You just put it down to that. 11:49.800 --> 11:51.800 Oh, my, they had some big arguments. 11:51.800 --> 11:52.800 Big ones. 11:52.800 --> 11:53.800 Hear them all over the building. 11:53.800 --> 11:56.800 All over the block, I guess, if he was listening. 11:56.800 --> 11:58.800 Well, it wasn't long after that he walked out on her. 11:58.800 --> 12:00.800 Left her flat with the baby. 12:00.800 --> 12:02.800 Pat right up and moved out. 12:02.800 --> 12:04.800 Even took his photograph records. Everything. 12:04.800 --> 12:06.800 Don't think she's seen him since. 12:06.800 --> 12:08.800 Well, are they divorced, you know? 12:08.800 --> 12:09.800 I don't know about that. 12:09.800 --> 12:11.800 A couple times she's talked about getting one. 12:11.800 --> 12:13.800 I don't think she's ever gone through with it. 12:13.800 --> 12:14.800 I know she's planning on it. 12:14.800 --> 12:15.800 How's that? 12:15.800 --> 12:16.800 If she wants to get married again. 12:16.800 --> 12:19.800 Told me that a hundred times, how she wants to find a man and settle down. 12:19.800 --> 12:22.800 Just about all she talks about. 12:22.800 --> 12:24.800 The big problem is Melissa. 12:24.800 --> 12:25.800 Mm-hmm. 12:25.800 --> 12:27.800 Well, I know she's had the chance. I know that for sure. 12:27.800 --> 12:28.800 Mm-hmm. 12:28.800 --> 12:30.800 A couple of them have even talked to me about it. 12:30.800 --> 12:31.800 About how they want to marry Joan. 12:31.800 --> 12:33.800 Build a home for her. 12:33.800 --> 12:35.800 All comes back to the same thing. 12:35.800 --> 12:36.800 What's that? 12:36.800 --> 12:37.800 The kid. 12:37.800 --> 12:39.800 None of the men want a ready-made family. 12:39.800 --> 12:41.800 They're all willing to have one of their own, but... 12:41.800 --> 12:43.800 It ain't easy for a woman with a two-year-old child. 12:43.800 --> 12:44.800 Not easy at all. 12:44.800 --> 12:45.800 Mm-hmm. 12:45.800 --> 12:48.800 I know she thought a couple times about leaving the kid with her sister. 12:48.800 --> 12:50.800 Some kind of problem there, too. 12:50.800 --> 12:52.800 I think they were always fighting about it. 12:52.800 --> 12:54.800 Do you know what the arguments were about? 12:54.800 --> 12:57.800 Sure. Joan's sister didn't think she was doing enough to support the kid. 12:57.800 --> 12:59.800 You know, figured she ought to have more money. 12:59.800 --> 13:01.800 Any of these quarrels ever get violent? 13:01.800 --> 13:04.800 I've heard them upstairs, yelling and screaming at each other. 13:04.800 --> 13:06.800 Almost as bad as Joan and her husband. 13:06.800 --> 13:08.800 Sister saying that either she had to hand over more money 13:08.800 --> 13:10.800 or else take Melissa out of the house. 13:10.800 --> 13:12.800 Joan saying that she didn't care what happened to the kid. 13:12.800 --> 13:14.800 Yelling all over the place. Terrible way they carried on. 13:14.800 --> 13:15.800 Mm-hmm. 13:15.800 --> 13:16.800 Be honest about it. 13:16.800 --> 13:18.800 I don't think either one of them really wanted the little girl. 13:18.800 --> 13:19.800 Neither one of them. 13:19.800 --> 13:20.800 Is that right? 13:20.800 --> 13:23.800 Both been just as happy if she'd never been born. 13:23.800 --> 13:25.800 Poor little kid. 13:25.800 --> 13:28.800 Wonder they didn't try to put her in another home, you know. 13:28.800 --> 13:30.800 Find some people who wanted her. 13:30.800 --> 13:32.800 Giving her a chance to grow up being loved. 13:32.800 --> 13:33.800 That's right. 13:33.800 --> 13:34.800 At least they could have done. 13:34.800 --> 13:36.800 Given the little kid a chance. 13:36.800 --> 13:37.800 Oh, I don't know. 13:37.800 --> 13:41.800 Maybe someday Joan will wake up, realize what she's doing. 13:41.800 --> 13:42.800 Mm-hmm. 13:42.800 --> 13:43.800 Maybe she will. 13:43.800 --> 13:45.800 Let's hope it's not too late. 13:45.800 --> 13:51.800 In the company of the manager, Frank and I checked Joan Gaiman's room. 13:51.800 --> 13:53.800 There was no indication that she wasn't going to return. 13:53.800 --> 13:57.800 We asked Miss Finden to notify us as soon as she heard from the Gaiman woman. 13:57.800 --> 13:59.800 We returned to the office and checked with the crime lab. 13:59.800 --> 14:02.800 They'd finished going over the child's clothing and they hadn't found anything out of order. 14:02.800 --> 14:06.800 We put in a call to the coroner's office and we talked to Chief Deputy Coroner Vic Wallage. 14:06.800 --> 14:09.800 He told us that the autopsy would be held at 10 a.m. the following morning 14:09.800 --> 14:11.800 and that we should have the results by 11. 14:11.800 --> 14:14.800 He went on to say that in his examination of Melissa Gaiman, 14:14.800 --> 14:16.800 he'd found several bruises on her neck and back. 14:16.800 --> 14:21.800 However, he was unable to tell us if the blows might have been strong enough to cause her death. 14:21.800 --> 14:25.800 1216 a.m. we ran the names Joan Gaiman and her sister through RNI. 14:25.800 --> 14:26.800 There was no record on the sister, 14:26.800 --> 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. 14:31.800 --> 14:35.800 The rest of the night was spent in checking out the places she was known to have frequenting. 14:35.800 --> 14:38.800 An attempt was made to find her husband without result. 14:38.800 --> 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. 14:45.800 --> 14:46.800 Yeah. 14:47.800 --> 14:49.800 What about the bruises? 14:49.800 --> 14:50.800 I see. 14:51.800 --> 14:53.800 How long's that going to take? 14:53.800 --> 14:54.800 Right. 14:54.800 --> 14:56.800 We won't keep in touch again. 14:56.800 --> 14:57.800 Okay. Bye. 14:58.800 --> 14:59.800 How about it? 14:59.800 --> 15:00.800 They finished. 15:00.800 --> 15:01.800 What's the cause of death? 15:01.800 --> 15:02.800 I'm still not sure. 15:02.800 --> 15:03.800 What do you mean? 15:03.800 --> 15:05.800 They think she might have been poisoned. 15:09.800 --> 15:12.800 The autopsy had failed to show the cause of death of Melissa Gaiman. 15:12.800 --> 15:14.800 Further tests were to be conducted. 15:14.800 --> 15:16.800 In the meantime, the search for her mother continued. 15:16.800 --> 15:20.800 A check with a landlady showed the victim's mother hadn't returned to her home during the night. 15:20.800 --> 15:24.800 We contacted her sister, but she told us she hadn't heard from Joan Gaiman. 15:24.800 --> 15:27.800 The afternoon papers carried a story on the little girl's death. 15:27.800 --> 15:30.800 Frank and I checked with Sergeant J. Allen again, but he hadn't come up with anything new. 15:30.800 --> 15:32.800 3.20 p.m. 15:32.800 --> 15:34.800 You want to go out and see the sister? 15:34.800 --> 15:36.800 I don't think it's going to do much good. She said she'd call if she heard anything. 15:36.800 --> 15:37.800 Yeah. 15:37.800 --> 15:38.800 I got it. 15:40.800 --> 15:41.800 You have an old sped? 15:41.800 --> 15:42.800 Yeah, that's right. 15:42.800 --> 15:43.800 Hmm? 15:44.800 --> 15:45.800 Yeah, we have. 15:46.800 --> 15:47.800 Well, where are you? 15:47.800 --> 15:49.800 All right, I'll stay right there. 15:49.800 --> 15:50.800 That's right. 15:50.800 --> 15:51.800 Huh? 15:51.800 --> 15:52.800 As soon as we can. 15:53.800 --> 15:54.800 Joan Gaiman. 15:54.800 --> 15:55.800 Where is she? 15:55.800 --> 15:56.800 Bar down on East Fifth. 15:56.800 --> 15:57.800 Does she know about the little girl? 15:57.800 --> 15:58.800 Yeah, wants to see us right away. 15:58.800 --> 15:59.800 Well, it makes us even. 15:59.800 --> 16:00.800 She's got more of a reason. 16:00.800 --> 16:01.800 Hmm? 16:01.800 --> 16:02.800 Said she killed her daughter. 16:10.800 --> 16:12.800 Frank and I left the city hall and drove over to the bar. 16:12.800 --> 16:14.800 When we walked into the place, it appeared to be deserted. 16:14.800 --> 16:18.800 The bartender told us there was a woman answering the description we gave him in one of the rear boots. 16:18.800 --> 16:21.800 Joan Gaiman was in her late 20s, but she looked at least 40. 16:21.800 --> 16:23.800 She'd been drinking heavily and she'd been crying. 16:25.800 --> 16:26.800 Oh, yeah? 16:27.800 --> 16:28.800 Is that who you're looking for? 16:28.800 --> 16:29.800 You're Miss Gaiman? 16:29.800 --> 16:30.800 That's right. Who are you? 16:30.800 --> 16:31.800 Police officer. 16:31.800 --> 16:32.800 This is Frank Smith. My name is Friday. 16:32.800 --> 16:33.800 Yeah. 16:34.800 --> 16:37.800 I knew you'd be here. I knew it good. 16:39.800 --> 16:42.800 Why don't you sit right down and make yourself comfortable? 16:42.800 --> 16:44.800 What's wrong with how Zye talked to you? 16:44.800 --> 16:45.800 He talked to me. 16:45.800 --> 16:46.800 Yeah. 16:47.800 --> 16:49.800 Well, then you know why I asked you to come down here? 16:49.800 --> 16:50.800 Yes, ma'am. You want to tell us about it? 16:50.800 --> 16:51.800 No. 16:51.800 --> 16:52.800 How's that? 16:53.800 --> 16:56.800 You asked me if I wanted to talk about it. 16:57.800 --> 16:58.800 Well, I don't. 16:59.800 --> 17:01.800 I don't even want to think about it. 17:02.800 --> 17:03.800 I wish it never happened. 17:03.800 --> 17:04.800 You're right. 17:05.800 --> 17:08.800 You probably think it's funny I'm not crying, don't you? 17:08.800 --> 17:12.800 Don't you? You think there's something wrong with me? 17:13.800 --> 17:15.800 Maybe it's death and I'm not crying? 17:16.800 --> 17:19.800 Well, do you want to know why? You want to know? 17:19.800 --> 17:20.800 Why don't you tell us, lady? 17:20.800 --> 17:23.800 Because there ain't no tears left. 17:23.800 --> 17:26.800 Not a single one of them all cried out. 17:28.800 --> 17:29.800 That's why. 17:31.800 --> 17:32.800 You better put that down. 17:32.800 --> 17:33.800 I'm not crying. 17:34.800 --> 17:35.800 I'm not crying. 17:35.800 --> 17:39.800 You better put that down. You've had enough of that. 17:40.800 --> 17:42.800 I think I'll have a lot more. 17:42.800 --> 17:44.800 A lot more. 17:44.800 --> 17:46.800 You said you killed your little girl, is that right? 17:46.800 --> 17:47.800 That's right. 17:47.800 --> 17:49.800 Well, tell us about it, will you? 17:50.800 --> 17:52.800 No reason not to. 17:53.800 --> 17:55.800 No reason for anything anymore. 17:56.800 --> 17:57.800 All right, go ahead. 17:58.800 --> 17:59.800 I killed her. 17:59.800 --> 18:01.800 I killed her. 18:01.800 --> 18:03.800 It's like I put a gun up to her head. 18:03.800 --> 18:05.800 I killed her. Is this the same? 18:05.800 --> 18:06.800 Go ahead. 18:07.800 --> 18:09.800 Poor little kid. 18:10.800 --> 18:11.800 She didn't want much. 18:11.800 --> 18:13.800 Hardly anything. 18:13.800 --> 18:16.800 One of those dolls with the hair you can wave. 18:16.800 --> 18:19.800 That's all. The doll with curly hair and her mother. 18:19.800 --> 18:21.800 She got the doll. 18:21.800 --> 18:25.800 I gave it to her yesterday when we came back from the zoo. 18:25.800 --> 18:27.800 It's just seeing how happy she was. 18:27.800 --> 18:29.800 She was happy. 18:29.800 --> 18:33.800 Another thing I wouldn't give her. 18:33.800 --> 18:35.800 No mother. 18:35.800 --> 18:37.800 Poor little kid. 18:37.800 --> 18:39.800 She doesn't have no mother. 18:40.800 --> 18:42.800 Just me, that's all it means. 18:42.800 --> 18:44.800 Yeah. 18:44.800 --> 18:46.800 That's how I did it. 18:46.800 --> 18:47.800 What's that? 18:47.800 --> 18:49.800 Killed her. 18:49.800 --> 18:53.800 If I'd been her mother and kept her with me, it never would have happened. 18:53.800 --> 18:55.800 She'd be all right now. 18:56.800 --> 18:58.800 I neglect. 18:58.800 --> 19:01.800 That's what I did. Neglect. 19:01.800 --> 19:03.800 And I gave it to her. 19:03.800 --> 19:06.800 Never paid no attention to her. 19:06.800 --> 19:09.800 All the time. Too busy with what I was doing. 19:09.800 --> 19:11.800 I didn't pay any attention to her. 19:11.800 --> 19:13.800 I didn't pay any attention at all. 19:13.800 --> 19:14.800 All right. Come on, lady. 19:14.800 --> 19:15.800 Where are we going? 19:15.800 --> 19:16.800 Downtown. 19:16.800 --> 19:17.800 What for? 19:17.800 --> 19:19.800 I don't think we'll be able to talk better there. 19:19.800 --> 19:21.800 Oh, I don't want to go anyplace. 19:21.800 --> 19:23.800 I'm going to stay right here. 19:23.800 --> 19:26.800 My baby is dead. 19:26.800 --> 19:28.800 Poor little kid doesn't have no mother. 19:28.800 --> 19:30.800 Why don't you just go away and leave me alone? 19:30.800 --> 19:31.800 You know we can't do that. 19:31.800 --> 19:32.800 Why not? 19:32.800 --> 19:34.800 There are a lot of somethings that you got to harm people. 19:34.800 --> 19:35.800 Is that what you're doing? 19:35.800 --> 19:36.800 Right. Yeah. 19:36.800 --> 19:38.800 Now, wait a minute. 19:38.800 --> 19:39.800 You don't need to be alone. 19:39.800 --> 19:41.800 You got no right to do this to me. 19:41.800 --> 19:43.800 Bartender! 19:43.800 --> 19:44.800 Come on back here and help! 19:44.800 --> 19:47.800 These lousy cops are giving me trouble. Help me! 19:47.800 --> 19:48.800 Come on, lady. 19:48.800 --> 19:49.800 You're only making it harder on yourself. 19:49.800 --> 19:51.800 Leave me alone. Get away from me. 19:51.800 --> 19:52.800 Come on. Don't cause me more trouble. 19:52.800 --> 19:55.800 If you were a gentleman, you wouldn't do this to me. 19:55.800 --> 19:57.800 If you were a lady, we wouldn't have to. 20:02.800 --> 20:03.800 We took the woman back to the city hall. 20:03.800 --> 20:06.800 After several cups of hot coffee, she straightened out enough to give us a story. 20:06.800 --> 20:08.800 She went over each step of the previous day, 20:08.800 --> 20:12.800 naming all the places she and her daughter had gone and all of the foods they'd eaten. 20:12.800 --> 20:15.800 There was no apparent cause for the child's death. 20:15.800 --> 20:19.800 In talking to her, we found that the child was wearing different clothing when she was brought to the hospital. 20:19.800 --> 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. 20:23.800 --> 20:26.800 It was turned over to the crime lab. 2.15 p.m. 20:29.800 --> 20:30.800 You and Elfrady. 20:30.800 --> 20:31.800 Yeah. 20:32.800 --> 20:34.800 I don't know. We'll have to check it. 20:34.800 --> 20:35.800 Right. 20:36.800 --> 20:38.800 Yeah. Soon as we know. Right. 20:39.800 --> 20:40.800 Right. Paint her over at the lab. 20:40.800 --> 20:41.800 Yeah. 20:41.800 --> 20:42.800 Just finished going over the little girl's dress. 20:42.800 --> 20:43.800 Find anything? 20:43.800 --> 20:44.800 A couple of stains. 20:44.800 --> 20:45.800 Yeah. 20:45.800 --> 20:46.800 Traces of poison. 20:46.800 --> 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. 20:53.800 --> 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. 21:00.800 --> 21:04.800 While he and his crew went over to the apartment, Frank and I talked to Mrs. Guyman. 21:04.800 --> 21:06.800 There couldn't be anything here. 21:06.800 --> 21:08.800 Was the child alone at all yesterday? 21:08.800 --> 21:10.800 No, I don't think so. 21:10.800 --> 21:13.800 We went to the zoo and came back here. 21:13.800 --> 21:16.800 We gave her the doll and we played with that for a while. 21:16.800 --> 21:19.800 Mm-hmm. Did you leave the apartment at all? 21:19.800 --> 21:21.800 Yeah. 21:21.800 --> 21:24.800 I'm down at the corner to make a phone call. I only got a couple of minutes. 21:24.800 --> 21:25.800 Your daughter was here alone then. 21:25.800 --> 21:29.800 Yes, but she couldn't have gotten into anything. I was only gone a little while. 21:29.800 --> 21:32.800 I was still playing with the doll when I got back. 21:32.800 --> 21:36.800 Mrs. Guyman, our crime lab seems to think she might have been poisoned by some sort of polish. 21:36.800 --> 21:38.800 What do you mean? 21:38.800 --> 21:40.800 Looks like a metal polish at some time. 21:40.800 --> 21:44.800 I don't have any of that in the house. 21:40.800 --> 21:44.800 You sure? 21:44.800 --> 21:46.800 Certainly. But I know my place. 21:46.800 --> 21:48.800 They have to tear everything up like this. 21:48.800 --> 21:50.800 It'll all be straightened out. 21:50.800 --> 21:52.800 I hope so. 21:52.800 --> 21:54.800 It's never going to be an M to it. 21:54.800 --> 21:56.800 Joe? 21:54.800 --> 21:56.800 Yeah, Jack. 21:56.800 --> 21:58.800 See you in a minute. 21:58.800 --> 22:00.800 What do you got? 22:00.800 --> 22:03.800 I think this is where I found out the kitchen under the sink. 22:03.800 --> 22:05.800 Metal polish? 22:03.800 --> 22:05.800 Yeah. 22:05.800 --> 22:07.800 Isn't one of the standard brands. 22:07.800 --> 22:10.800 Certainly isn't one of the off brands either, is it? 22:10.800 --> 22:12.800 I've never seen it before. 22:12.800 --> 22:14.800 Well. 22:14.800 --> 22:16.800 The bottle's almost empty. 22:16.800 --> 22:18.800 Cap was off when we found it. 22:18.800 --> 22:20.800 Any chance it might have spilled out? 22:20.800 --> 22:21.800 No, it doesn't look like it. 22:21.800 --> 22:22.800 Not on the floor around the bottle. 22:22.800 --> 22:24.800 If you want to come out in the kitchen, we'll check up the prints. 22:24.800 --> 22:26.800 They got the kit out there. 22:26.800 --> 22:28.800 All right. 22:28.800 --> 22:30.800 Can you tell for sure, Jay? 22:30.800 --> 22:32.800 No, we can get an idea, though. 22:32.800 --> 22:35.800 There, Joe. It's coming through. You see there? 22:35.800 --> 22:37.800 Yeah. 22:37.800 --> 22:39.800 What do you think? 22:39.800 --> 22:41.800 After all the child's prints, to be sure, it looks like it, though. 22:41.800 --> 22:43.800 The fingers are pretty small. 22:43.800 --> 22:45.800 There, you can see yourself. Pretty tiny. 22:45.800 --> 22:47.800 I don't think it's that bad. 22:47.800 --> 22:49.800 Thanks, Jay. 22:51.800 --> 22:53.800 What'd they find? 22:53.800 --> 22:55.800 You know how it happened? 22:55.800 --> 22:57.800 We think so, yeah. 22:57.800 --> 22:59.800 We found an empty bottle of metal polish in the kitchen. 22:59.800 --> 23:01.800 Looks like your daughter drank some of it. 23:01.800 --> 23:03.800 She couldn't have. I was with her all the time. 23:03.800 --> 23:05.800 I couldn't have gotten to it. 23:05.800 --> 23:07.800 You said you left her alone. 23:07.800 --> 23:09.800 Not that long. She didn't have time. 23:09.800 --> 23:11.800 I was only gone a couple of minutes. 23:11.800 --> 23:13.800 That's all. Just a couple of minutes. 23:13.800 --> 23:15.800 That was long enough. 23:15.800 --> 23:17.800 It's not true. 23:17.800 --> 23:19.800 You're just making it up, trying to make it all my fault. 23:19.800 --> 23:21.800 No, ma'am. 23:21.800 --> 23:23.800 Yes, you are. You're trying to make out I did kill her. 23:23.800 --> 23:25.800 You're saying it's my fault. Well, it isn't. 23:25.800 --> 23:27.800 Well, then you tell us. 23:27.800 --> 23:29.800 Whose fault is it? 23:29.800 --> 23:31.800 The story you've just heard is true. 23:31.800 --> 23:33.800 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 23:33.800 --> 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. 23:41.800 --> 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. 23:57.800 --> 23:59.800 You have just heard Dragnet. 23:59.800 --> 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.