1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,060 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:11,060 --> 00:00:21,700 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:21,700 --> 00:00:23,380 You're a detective sergeant. 4 00:00:23,380 --> 00:00:25,500 You're assigned a burglary detail. 5 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:29,780 A woman posing as a housemaid has been stealing cash and other valuables from homes in your 6 00:00:29,780 --> 00:00:30,780 city. 7 00:00:30,780 --> 00:00:36,780 Your job, stop her. 8 00:00:36,780 --> 00:00:45,780 Cragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 9 00:00:45,780 --> 00:00:50,660 For the next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 10 00:00:50,660 --> 00:00:55,140 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 11 00:00:55,140 --> 00:00:56,140 police files. 12 00:00:56,140 --> 00:01:01,900 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Cragnet is the story of your police force 13 00:01:01,900 --> 00:01:07,340 in action. 14 00:01:07,340 --> 00:01:08,340 It was Tuesday, October 11th. 15 00:01:08,340 --> 00:01:09,340 It was cloudy in Los Angeles. 16 00:01:09,340 --> 00:01:11,660 We were working the day watch out a burglary detail. 17 00:01:11,660 --> 00:01:12,660 My partner is Frank Smith. 18 00:01:12,660 --> 00:01:13,660 The boss is Captain Bernard. 19 00:01:13,660 --> 00:01:14,660 My name is Frank. 20 00:01:14,660 --> 00:01:19,220 We're on our way back from lunch and it was 1 17 p.m. when we got to room 45. 21 00:01:19,220 --> 00:01:20,220 Burglary. 22 00:01:20,220 --> 00:01:21,220 Hey, Smith. 23 00:01:21,220 --> 00:01:22,220 Huh? 24 00:01:22,220 --> 00:01:23,220 Your wife called while you're out. 25 00:01:23,220 --> 00:01:24,220 I want you to call her back. 26 00:01:24,220 --> 00:01:25,220 Oh, thanks. 27 00:01:25,220 --> 00:01:26,220 That's funny. 28 00:01:26,220 --> 00:01:27,220 It's not like Fay to call in the middle of the day. 29 00:01:27,220 --> 00:01:28,220 Well, the kids were all right when I left this morning. 30 00:01:28,220 --> 00:01:29,220 I wonder what she wants. 31 00:01:29,220 --> 00:01:30,220 Why don't you call her and find out? 32 00:01:30,220 --> 00:01:31,220 You're not married, Joe. 33 00:01:31,220 --> 00:01:32,220 You don't understand. 34 00:01:32,220 --> 00:01:33,220 Sometimes a guy wants a minute to think things over. 35 00:01:33,220 --> 00:01:34,220 Sort of prepare himself if he's done something he shouldn't. 36 00:01:34,220 --> 00:01:35,220 Well, have you? 37 00:01:35,220 --> 00:01:36,220 Have I what? 38 00:01:36,220 --> 00:01:37,220 Done something you shouldn't? 39 00:01:37,220 --> 00:01:38,220 Of course not. 40 00:01:38,220 --> 00:01:39,220 Then be my guest. 41 00:01:39,220 --> 00:01:40,220 Okay, thanks. 42 00:01:40,220 --> 00:01:41,220 Well, I'm going to go. 43 00:01:41,220 --> 00:01:42,220 I'll see you later. 44 00:01:42,220 --> 00:01:43,220 Bye. 45 00:01:43,220 --> 00:01:44,220 Bye. 46 00:01:44,220 --> 00:01:45,220 Bye. 47 00:01:45,220 --> 00:01:46,220 Bye. 48 00:01:46,220 --> 00:01:47,220 Bye. 49 00:01:47,220 --> 00:01:48,220 Bye. 50 00:01:48,220 --> 00:01:49,220 Bye. 51 00:01:49,220 --> 00:01:50,220 Bye. 52 00:01:50,220 --> 00:01:51,220 Bye. 53 00:01:51,220 --> 00:01:52,220 Bye. 54 00:01:52,220 --> 00:01:53,220 Bye. 55 00:01:53,220 --> 00:01:54,220 Bye. 56 00:01:54,220 --> 00:01:55,220 Bye. 57 00:01:55,220 --> 00:01:56,220 Bye. 58 00:01:56,220 --> 00:01:57,220 Bye. 59 00:01:57,220 --> 00:01:58,220 Bye. 60 00:01:58,220 --> 00:01:59,220 Bye. 61 00:01:59,220 --> 00:02:00,220 Bye. 62 00:02:00,220 --> 00:02:01,220 Bye. 63 00:02:01,220 --> 00:02:02,220 Bye. 64 00:02:02,220 --> 00:02:03,220 Bye. 65 00:02:03,220 --> 00:02:04,220 Bye. 66 00:02:04,220 --> 00:02:05,220 Bye. 67 00:02:05,220 --> 00:02:06,220 Bye. 68 00:02:06,220 --> 00:02:07,220 Bye. 69 00:02:07,220 --> 00:02:08,220 Bye. 70 00:02:08,220 --> 00:02:09,220 Bye. 71 00:02:09,220 --> 00:02:10,220 Bye. 72 00:02:10,220 --> 00:02:11,220 Bye. 73 00:02:11,220 --> 00:02:12,220 Bye. 74 00:02:12,220 --> 00:02:13,220 Bye. 75 00:02:13,220 --> 00:02:14,220 Hi, honey. 76 00:02:14,220 --> 00:02:15,220 Yeah. 77 00:02:15,220 --> 00:02:16,220 Well, we're out to lunch. 78 00:02:16,220 --> 00:02:17,220 Why? 79 00:02:17,220 --> 00:02:18,220 Is something wrong? 80 00:02:18,220 --> 00:02:19,220 Oh. 81 00:02:19,220 --> 00:02:20,220 What happened? 82 00:02:20,220 --> 00:02:21,220 Nothing. 83 00:02:21,220 --> 00:02:22,220 Where's she now? 84 00:02:22,220 --> 00:02:23,220 Oh, she's gone. 85 00:02:23,220 --> 00:02:25,220 Does she know who? 86 00:02:25,220 --> 00:02:27,220 She reported? 87 00:02:27,220 --> 00:02:29,220 Why not? 88 00:02:29,220 --> 00:02:31,220 Oh yeah. 89 00:02:31,220 --> 00:02:33,220 Well, why don't you tell her? 90 00:02:33,220 --> 00:02:35,220 I guess we could. 91 00:02:35,220 --> 00:02:37,220 Yeah. 92 00:02:37,220 --> 00:02:39,220 Sure. 93 00:02:39,220 --> 00:02:41,220 What's the afternoon again? 94 00:02:41,220 --> 00:02:43,220 Yeah, Joseph. 95 00:02:43,220 --> 00:02:45,220 It'll be about 7.30 I guess. 96 00:02:45,220 --> 00:02:47,220 Alright honey, thanks for telling me if anything comes up I'll call you. 97 00:02:47,220 --> 00:02:49,220 Yeah, bye. 98 00:02:49,220 --> 00:02:51,220 Yeah, bye. 99 00:02:53,220 --> 00:02:55,220 Nice old lady like that. 100 00:02:55,220 --> 00:02:57,220 I don't think you ever met her, Joan. Her name is Mrs. Vesper. 101 00:02:57,220 --> 00:02:59,220 No, it doesn't sound familiar. 102 00:02:59,220 --> 00:03:01,220 She used to live next door to us when I was a kid. 103 00:03:01,220 --> 00:03:03,220 Known me since... 104 00:03:03,220 --> 00:03:05,220 ...since I can remember. 105 00:03:05,220 --> 00:03:07,220 She's alone now. 106 00:03:07,220 --> 00:03:09,220 Faith calls her up every once in a while to see if she's alright. 107 00:03:09,220 --> 00:03:11,220 She called her this morning. 108 00:03:11,220 --> 00:03:13,220 Mrs. Vesper says she had some money stolen, some jewelry. 109 00:03:13,220 --> 00:03:15,220 It happened yesterday. 110 00:03:15,220 --> 00:03:17,220 Didn't she report it? 111 00:03:17,220 --> 00:03:19,220 I don't think so. Wants me to talk to her. 112 00:03:19,220 --> 00:03:21,220 Alright, let's go. 113 00:03:21,220 --> 00:03:23,220 Well? 114 00:03:23,220 --> 00:03:25,220 Joan, you gotta promise me something. 115 00:03:25,220 --> 00:03:27,220 You gotta give me your word right here. 116 00:03:27,220 --> 00:03:29,220 I don't want you to kid me afterwards about the way she treats me. 117 00:03:29,220 --> 00:03:31,220 Mrs. Vesper? 118 00:03:31,220 --> 00:03:33,220 Yeah. I told you she's known me all my life. 119 00:03:33,220 --> 00:03:35,220 Well, sometimes she acts like I'm still a little boy. 120 00:03:35,220 --> 00:03:37,220 You know how it is. 121 00:03:37,220 --> 00:03:39,220 So you won't rip me, huh? 122 00:03:39,220 --> 00:03:41,220 About anything, anything at all? 123 00:03:41,220 --> 00:03:43,220 What do you get me? 124 00:03:43,220 --> 00:03:45,220 Well, she doesn't think I ought to be on the force for one thing. 125 00:03:45,220 --> 00:03:47,220 I might as well tell you about it. 126 00:03:47,220 --> 00:03:49,220 If I don't, she will. 127 00:03:49,220 --> 00:03:51,220 She always claims I should have taken up something else. 128 00:03:51,220 --> 00:03:53,220 Like what? 129 00:03:53,220 --> 00:03:55,220 Oh, you know the crazy ideas people get, especially about kids. 130 00:03:55,220 --> 00:03:57,220 Well, Mrs. Vesper thinks I... 131 00:03:57,220 --> 00:03:59,220 Well, see, when I was 132 00:03:59,220 --> 00:04:01,220 a lot younger, really young, about ten or twelve, 133 00:04:01,220 --> 00:04:03,220 I used to sort of memorize 134 00:04:03,220 --> 00:04:05,220 things, little pieces and poems. 135 00:04:05,220 --> 00:04:07,220 Memorize what? 136 00:04:07,220 --> 00:04:09,220 Memorize things, poems and little pieces, and I'd go next door 137 00:04:09,220 --> 00:04:11,220 and recite them for her. 138 00:04:11,220 --> 00:04:13,220 You say she's known you all her life? 139 00:04:13,220 --> 00:04:15,220 Yeah, practically. 140 00:04:15,220 --> 00:04:17,220 Well, it'll be true if we don't get out there. 141 00:04:17,220 --> 00:04:19,220 Well, she got a real kick out of them poems. 142 00:04:19,220 --> 00:04:21,220 I wasn't much good, but she was prejudiced 143 00:04:21,220 --> 00:04:23,220 because she liked me, you know. 144 00:04:23,220 --> 00:04:25,220 Want to go? 145 00:04:25,220 --> 00:04:27,220 Yeah, but I just want to explain this. 146 00:04:27,220 --> 00:04:29,220 She thinks I should have kept at it. 147 00:04:29,220 --> 00:04:31,220 Made it my career. 148 00:04:31,220 --> 00:04:33,220 Reciting poems? 149 00:04:33,220 --> 00:04:35,220 No, not exactly reciting, Joe. 150 00:04:35,220 --> 00:04:37,220 I didn't just recite them. 151 00:04:37,220 --> 00:04:39,220 You wrote them, too? 152 00:04:39,220 --> 00:04:41,220 Yeah. 153 00:04:41,220 --> 00:04:43,220 Frank and I left the office 154 00:04:43,220 --> 00:04:45,220 and drove out to the home of Mrs. Sarah Vesper. 155 00:04:45,220 --> 00:04:47,220 She lived in a small bungalow on Las Palmas Street 156 00:04:47,220 --> 00:04:49,220 in the Miracle Mile district. 157 00:04:49,220 --> 00:04:51,220 It was 2.07 p.m. when we got there. 158 00:04:51,220 --> 00:04:53,220 Why, for goodness sake, 159 00:04:53,220 --> 00:04:55,220 Frank Smith, where on earth 160 00:04:55,220 --> 00:04:57,220 did you come from? 161 00:04:57,220 --> 00:04:59,220 Afternoon, Mrs. Vesper. 162 00:04:59,220 --> 00:05:01,220 Mrs. Vesper? What's gotten into you, 163 00:05:01,220 --> 00:05:03,220 Frank? You've never called me that before 164 00:05:03,220 --> 00:05:05,220 in your whole life. 165 00:05:05,220 --> 00:05:07,220 Oh, I meant Aunt Sarah. 166 00:05:07,220 --> 00:05:09,220 Well, now that's more like it. 167 00:05:09,220 --> 00:05:11,220 What brings you here? 168 00:05:11,220 --> 00:05:13,220 Aunt Sarah, this is my partner, Sergeant Friday. 169 00:05:13,220 --> 00:05:15,220 Oh, pleased to meet you. 170 00:05:15,220 --> 00:05:17,220 You work for Frank, do you, young man? 171 00:05:17,220 --> 00:05:19,220 Aunt Sarah, we work together. 172 00:05:19,220 --> 00:05:21,220 Oh, you don't say. 173 00:05:21,220 --> 00:05:23,220 Well, I expect that keeps you from 174 00:05:23,220 --> 00:05:25,220 getting lonesome, don't it? 175 00:05:25,220 --> 00:05:27,220 Yes, ma'am. 176 00:05:27,220 --> 00:05:29,220 My goodness, now don't just stand there. 177 00:05:29,220 --> 00:05:31,220 Come on inside, both of you. 178 00:05:31,220 --> 00:05:33,220 Thank you very much. 179 00:05:33,220 --> 00:05:35,220 Well, sir, this isn't the dondest coincidence. 180 00:05:35,220 --> 00:05:37,220 Ma'am? 181 00:05:37,220 --> 00:05:39,220 Oh, sit right down. 182 00:05:39,220 --> 00:05:41,220 After you, boss. 183 00:05:41,220 --> 00:05:43,220 Thanks. 184 00:05:43,220 --> 00:05:45,220 Believe it or not, I was talking to your wife 185 00:05:45,220 --> 00:05:47,220 only this morning. 186 00:05:47,220 --> 00:05:49,220 Then the next thing I know, here you are. 187 00:05:49,220 --> 00:05:51,220 Yes, ma'am, Faye told me. 188 00:05:51,220 --> 00:05:53,220 Oh, my stars. 189 00:05:53,220 --> 00:05:55,220 What's the matter, Aunt Sarah? 190 00:05:55,220 --> 00:05:57,220 Oh, I just remembered, that's why you're here, 191 00:05:57,220 --> 00:05:59,220 ain't it, on account of what I said to Faye? 192 00:05:59,220 --> 00:06:01,220 Yes, ma'am. 193 00:06:01,220 --> 00:06:03,220 I should never have mentioned it to her. 194 00:06:03,220 --> 00:06:05,220 I don't know what's the matter with me. 195 00:06:05,220 --> 00:06:07,220 I don't know what happened or something. 196 00:06:07,220 --> 00:06:09,220 I just keep forgetting that you're a policeman. 197 00:06:09,220 --> 00:06:11,220 Oh. 198 00:06:11,220 --> 00:06:13,220 Well, you oughtn't to have been one in the first place. 199 00:06:13,220 --> 00:06:15,220 Now, if you'd just taken my advice... 200 00:06:15,220 --> 00:06:17,220 Aunt Sarah. 201 00:06:17,220 --> 00:06:19,220 Oh, now don't misunderstand me, please. 202 00:06:19,220 --> 00:06:21,220 I'm not criticizing the police. 203 00:06:21,220 --> 00:06:23,220 We certainly couldn't get along without them, 204 00:06:23,220 --> 00:06:25,220 and I'd be the first to say so, but 205 00:06:25,220 --> 00:06:27,220 some people have a talent for one thing, 206 00:06:27,220 --> 00:06:29,220 and some people are talented 207 00:06:29,220 --> 00:06:31,220 in a different direction. 208 00:06:31,220 --> 00:06:33,220 Isn't that right, Mr. Friday? 209 00:06:33,220 --> 00:06:35,220 Yes, ma'am. 210 00:06:35,220 --> 00:06:37,220 You take Frank here. He had a real talent 211 00:06:37,220 --> 00:06:39,220 for making up verses, even when he was 212 00:06:39,220 --> 00:06:41,220 just a little tight. 213 00:06:41,220 --> 00:06:43,220 I bet you didn't know that, did you? 214 00:06:43,220 --> 00:06:45,220 Well, I heard a little something about it. 215 00:06:45,220 --> 00:06:47,220 A real talent, that's what it was. 216 00:06:47,220 --> 00:06:49,220 Mm-hmm. 217 00:06:49,220 --> 00:06:51,220 Why, I remember some of his poems 218 00:06:51,220 --> 00:06:53,220 to my dying day, 219 00:06:53,220 --> 00:06:55,220 the rind and everything. 220 00:06:55,220 --> 00:06:57,220 Is that right? 221 00:06:57,220 --> 00:06:59,220 Aunt Sarah, would you tell us about... 222 00:06:59,220 --> 00:07:01,220 That one about the rainbow. 223 00:07:01,220 --> 00:07:03,220 Yes. Did he ever do it for you, Mr. Friday? 224 00:07:03,220 --> 00:07:05,220 No, no, I don't think he did. 225 00:07:05,220 --> 00:07:09,220 Oh, it gave you such a beautiful picture. 226 00:07:09,220 --> 00:07:11,220 Just like an artist had painted it, 227 00:07:11,220 --> 00:07:13,220 only with words. 228 00:07:13,220 --> 00:07:15,220 You know what I mean? 229 00:07:15,220 --> 00:07:17,220 Well, I'm not sure I do. 230 00:07:17,220 --> 00:07:19,220 Go ahead, Frank, say it for Mr. Friday. 231 00:07:19,220 --> 00:07:21,220 Oh, please, Aunt Sarah. 232 00:07:21,220 --> 00:07:23,220 Now I know he'd like to hear it, 233 00:07:23,220 --> 00:07:25,220 wouldn't you, Mr. Friday? 234 00:07:25,220 --> 00:07:27,220 I sure would. 235 00:07:27,220 --> 00:07:29,220 All right, Frank, the one about the rainbow. 236 00:07:29,220 --> 00:07:31,220 I don't remember it, Aunt Sarah. 237 00:07:31,220 --> 00:07:33,220 Oh, now you're just being modest. 238 00:07:33,220 --> 00:07:35,220 Yes, yes, you are, Frank. 239 00:07:35,220 --> 00:07:37,220 Joe. 240 00:07:37,220 --> 00:07:39,220 Oh, really, I don't, Aunt Sarah. 241 00:07:39,220 --> 00:07:41,220 I don't remember, not a word, honest. 242 00:07:41,220 --> 00:07:43,220 Seems funny you'd forget a thing like that. 243 00:07:43,220 --> 00:07:45,220 I mean, when you made it up yourself. 244 00:07:45,220 --> 00:07:47,220 Well, it's been a long time. 245 00:07:47,220 --> 00:07:49,220 Hasn't been any longer for you than it has for me, 246 00:07:49,220 --> 00:07:51,220 and I can still remember it. 247 00:07:51,220 --> 00:07:53,220 Just as clear as the first time I heard it. 248 00:07:53,220 --> 00:07:55,220 What? 249 00:07:55,220 --> 00:07:59,220 Rainbow, rainbow, up so high. 250 00:07:59,220 --> 00:08:01,220 That's how it begun, Mr. Friday. 251 00:08:01,220 --> 00:08:03,220 Love to hear it, Frank. 252 00:08:03,220 --> 00:08:06,220 Rainbow, rainbow, up so high. 253 00:08:06,220 --> 00:08:09,220 Blue and red and yellow and brown. 254 00:08:09,220 --> 00:08:13,220 Like an arch across the sky. 255 00:08:13,220 --> 00:08:17,220 Won't you ever tumble down? 256 00:08:17,220 --> 00:08:23,220 Where did it go from there, Frank? 257 00:08:23,220 --> 00:08:26,220 The next verse, what was it? 258 00:08:26,220 --> 00:08:29,220 I'm sorry, Aunt Sarah, but we haven't got much time. 259 00:08:29,220 --> 00:08:33,220 Oh, well, anyway, that gives you an idea, Frank's talent. 260 00:08:33,220 --> 00:08:35,220 Yes, ma'am, it sure does. 261 00:08:35,220 --> 00:08:36,220 Oh, come on. 262 00:08:36,220 --> 00:08:40,220 Aunt Sarah, would you just tell us about the things that were stolen from you? 263 00:08:40,220 --> 00:08:41,220 Mrs. Vesper. 264 00:08:41,220 --> 00:08:45,220 Oh, well, I suppose I should have gotten in touch with the police. 265 00:08:45,220 --> 00:08:46,220 Yes, ma'am, you should have. 266 00:08:46,220 --> 00:08:49,220 Well, I didn't see where that would help matters none. 267 00:08:49,220 --> 00:08:54,220 Just like closing the barn door after the horse had been stolen and besides, 268 00:08:54,220 --> 00:08:56,220 I didn't want to hurt Barbara's feelings. 269 00:08:56,220 --> 00:08:57,220 Barbara? 270 00:08:57,220 --> 00:08:58,220 My niece. 271 00:08:58,220 --> 00:08:59,220 Oh, I see. 272 00:08:59,220 --> 00:09:00,220 You remember Barbara, Frank? 273 00:09:00,220 --> 00:09:05,220 Oh, sure, you played out in the backyard with her the whole summer she was visiting me. 274 00:09:05,220 --> 00:09:07,220 Kind of a scrawny girl. 275 00:09:07,220 --> 00:09:09,220 Of course, she's filled out now. 276 00:09:09,220 --> 00:09:10,220 You just wouldn't recognize her. 277 00:09:10,220 --> 00:09:12,220 Has two children of her own. 278 00:09:12,220 --> 00:09:14,220 Nice home out in Westwood. 279 00:09:14,220 --> 00:09:16,220 Yes, ma'am. 280 00:09:16,220 --> 00:09:19,220 What's your niece got to do with all this, Mrs. Vesper? 281 00:09:19,220 --> 00:09:20,220 Oh, she's the one who sent her. 282 00:09:20,220 --> 00:09:21,220 Ma'am. 283 00:09:21,220 --> 00:09:22,220 The Kenan woman. 284 00:09:22,220 --> 00:09:25,220 Well, did you know your niece was sending this woman over? 285 00:09:25,220 --> 00:09:29,220 No, no, I guess it was supposed to be kind of a surprise. 286 00:09:29,220 --> 00:09:30,220 Oh. 287 00:09:30,220 --> 00:09:35,220 Anyway, she just come up to the door yesterday morning, oh, long about 9.30, 288 00:09:35,220 --> 00:09:37,220 and now said she was ready to go to work. 289 00:09:37,220 --> 00:09:38,220 I see. 290 00:09:38,220 --> 00:09:41,220 First, I didn't know what she was getting at. 291 00:09:41,220 --> 00:09:45,220 Then she explained about Barbara hiring her to give me a hand. 292 00:09:45,220 --> 00:09:50,220 Of course, I don't need nobody, a little place like this, no trouble at all. 293 00:09:50,220 --> 00:09:51,220 Yes, ma'am. 294 00:09:51,220 --> 00:09:55,220 But it didn't want to hurt Barbara's feelings, so I told her to come on in. 295 00:09:55,220 --> 00:09:59,220 Figured maybe she could help out some of the heavy work, you know, 296 00:09:59,220 --> 00:10:01,220 turning the mattresses and moving furniture. 297 00:10:01,220 --> 00:10:02,220 Sure. 298 00:10:02,220 --> 00:10:04,220 What was the woman's name, Aunt Sarah? 299 00:10:04,220 --> 00:10:05,220 Margaret. 300 00:10:05,220 --> 00:10:06,220 That's what she told me, Margaret. 301 00:10:06,220 --> 00:10:07,220 Do you know her last name? 302 00:10:07,220 --> 00:10:10,220 No, no, don't think she even mentioned it. 303 00:10:10,220 --> 00:10:11,220 All right, what happened next? 304 00:10:11,220 --> 00:10:15,220 Well, we did the cleaning, not that she was much of a housekeeper, 305 00:10:15,220 --> 00:10:18,220 practically had to go over the whole place after she left. 306 00:10:18,220 --> 00:10:19,220 About how long did she stay, do you remember? 307 00:10:19,220 --> 00:10:22,220 Half day, that's what she said Barbara hired her for. 308 00:10:22,220 --> 00:10:27,220 Must have been about, oh, 10 after 1 when she went. 309 00:10:27,220 --> 00:10:30,220 Didn't even give me a full four hours. 310 00:10:30,220 --> 00:10:33,220 Insisted on my fixing her some lunch, too. 311 00:10:33,220 --> 00:10:36,220 I tell you, that woman sure had her share of gall, 312 00:10:36,220 --> 00:10:39,220 eating my sandwiches at the same time she was robbing me. 313 00:10:39,220 --> 00:10:42,220 Wonder she didn't ask for a car fare. 314 00:10:42,220 --> 00:10:44,220 Well, just what was it she stole? 315 00:10:44,220 --> 00:10:47,220 My cash money, cleaned out every pocketbook in the dresser, 316 00:10:47,220 --> 00:10:51,220 found the bills I had hid under the dresser scarf, too. 317 00:10:51,220 --> 00:10:52,220 Yes, ma'am. 318 00:10:52,220 --> 00:10:54,220 How soon did you find out that these things were gone? 319 00:10:54,220 --> 00:10:58,220 A little while after she left when I went to straighten up the mess she'd made. 320 00:10:58,220 --> 00:11:00,220 You still haven't talked to your niece about all this? 321 00:11:00,220 --> 00:11:03,220 I told you I didn't want to get her all upset. 322 00:11:03,220 --> 00:11:06,220 I suppose she will think it's funny I haven't called to thank her. 323 00:11:06,220 --> 00:11:09,220 I wonder if you'd mind calling her now. 324 00:11:09,220 --> 00:11:10,220 You mean right now? 325 00:11:10,220 --> 00:11:11,220 Yes, ma'am. 326 00:11:11,220 --> 00:11:13,220 And do I have to? 327 00:11:13,220 --> 00:11:15,220 Well, we'd like to get this cleaning woman's name and address. 328 00:11:15,220 --> 00:11:17,220 You don't have to say why you're calling Aunt Sarah. 329 00:11:17,220 --> 00:11:20,220 She's bound to know something's wrong. 330 00:11:20,220 --> 00:11:22,220 Barbara's no fool. 331 00:11:22,220 --> 00:11:24,220 Well, if you won't talk to her, we will. 332 00:11:24,220 --> 00:11:26,220 We can find out where she lives. 333 00:11:26,220 --> 00:11:28,220 Guess I was wrong about you, Frank Smith. 334 00:11:28,220 --> 00:11:29,220 Ma'am? 335 00:11:29,220 --> 00:11:33,220 Guess you're turning into a policeman after all. 336 00:11:33,220 --> 00:11:37,220 Like looking a gift tossed in the teeth, that's what it is. 337 00:11:37,220 --> 00:11:40,220 Barbara's going to think you don't appreciate all she's done for me. 338 00:11:40,220 --> 00:11:42,220 You wait there. I'll be right back. 339 00:11:42,220 --> 00:11:44,220 Yes, ma'am. 340 00:11:44,220 --> 00:11:46,220 All right, go ahead and say it. 341 00:11:46,220 --> 00:11:47,220 Hmm? 342 00:11:47,220 --> 00:11:48,220 Go on, get it over with. 343 00:11:48,220 --> 00:11:50,220 Write me about the poem. 344 00:11:50,220 --> 00:11:51,220 I saw you smirking. 345 00:11:51,220 --> 00:11:55,220 I'd rather you did that than just sit there with that silly smirk on your face. 346 00:11:55,220 --> 00:11:58,220 I suppose you never made up any poems when you were a kid, huh? 347 00:11:58,220 --> 00:12:00,220 Well, I might have. 348 00:12:00,220 --> 00:12:02,220 I'll bet. 349 00:12:02,220 --> 00:12:06,220 Blue and red and brown, like an arch up in the sky. 350 00:12:06,220 --> 00:12:08,220 When will you tumble down? Is that it? 351 00:12:08,220 --> 00:12:10,220 Oh, Joe. 352 00:12:10,220 --> 00:12:12,220 Of course, I wasn't a real talented poet. 353 00:12:12,220 --> 00:12:14,220 Yeah. 354 00:12:14,220 --> 00:12:15,220 What are you staring at, then? 355 00:12:15,220 --> 00:12:17,220 Oh, nothing, nothing, you know. 356 00:12:17,220 --> 00:12:18,220 Well, then stop it, will you? 357 00:12:18,220 --> 00:12:20,220 No, I was just noticing you need a haircut, don't you? 358 00:12:20,220 --> 00:12:22,220 Well, I'm going to get one this week. 359 00:12:22,220 --> 00:12:24,220 You're not letting it grow long, then. 360 00:12:24,220 --> 00:12:26,220 Why would I let... 361 00:12:26,220 --> 00:12:28,220 Joe, so help me if we ever get out of here. 362 00:12:28,220 --> 00:12:31,220 Hmm. Just slipped out. I won't say another word, I promise. 363 00:12:31,220 --> 00:12:33,220 Or look, either, huh? 364 00:12:33,220 --> 00:12:35,220 I don't want to even look. 365 00:12:35,220 --> 00:12:38,220 Well, now that isn't the strangest thing. 366 00:12:38,220 --> 00:12:40,220 Did you get a hold of your niece, Miss Vesper? 367 00:12:40,220 --> 00:12:44,220 Oh, yes. Yes, I talked to her, but I don't understand it. 368 00:12:44,220 --> 00:12:46,220 Simply don't understand it. 369 00:12:46,220 --> 00:12:47,220 What's that? 370 00:12:47,220 --> 00:12:48,220 A cleaning woman. 371 00:12:48,220 --> 00:12:49,220 What about her? 372 00:12:49,220 --> 00:12:51,220 Barbara didn't have anything to do with it. 373 00:12:51,220 --> 00:12:52,220 Oh? 374 00:12:52,220 --> 00:12:54,220 She's never even heard of her. 375 00:12:54,220 --> 00:12:56,220 Frank and I continued to talk to the victim. 376 00:12:56,220 --> 00:13:00,220 Mrs. Vesper told us that the suspect was WFA, about 40 years old, 377 00:13:00,220 --> 00:13:03,220 5'3 or 4', weighing approximately 140 pounds. 378 00:13:03,220 --> 00:13:06,220 Said she was wearing a house dress and a white gray coat. 379 00:13:06,220 --> 00:13:09,220 She also gave us a detailed description of the jewelry that had been stolen. 380 00:13:09,220 --> 00:13:12,220 Frank telephoned Mrs. Vesper's niece, and she said she was not acquainted 381 00:13:12,220 --> 00:13:14,220 with anyone who answered the suspect's description. 382 00:13:14,220 --> 00:13:16,220 5.17 p.m. 383 00:13:16,220 --> 00:13:18,220 The crime lab reported they had found no physical evidence 384 00:13:18,220 --> 00:13:20,220 at the Vesper residence. 385 00:13:20,220 --> 00:13:24,220 Three days later, October 14th, we received a theft report from a woman 386 00:13:24,220 --> 00:13:25,220 living near Wilshire and Western. 387 00:13:25,220 --> 00:13:28,220 The suspect had gained entrance by saying that a neighbor had sent her to clean. 388 00:13:28,220 --> 00:13:31,220 The description tallied with what we already had. 389 00:13:31,220 --> 00:13:34,220 During the next two weeks, nine more thefts were reported. 390 00:13:34,220 --> 00:13:36,220 In each case, the suspect had used the same M.O. 391 00:13:36,220 --> 00:13:38,220 and the description indicated that the crimes had all been the work 392 00:13:38,220 --> 00:13:40,220 of the same woman. 393 00:13:40,220 --> 00:13:43,220 Eight of the thefts took place within a few blocks of Wilshire Boulevard 394 00:13:43,220 --> 00:13:46,220 in the area between Vermont and Fairfax. 395 00:13:46,220 --> 00:13:50,220 In one instance, the suspect had been seen departing on the Wilshire bus. 396 00:13:50,220 --> 00:13:53,220 Police officers staked out buses and bus stops. 397 00:13:53,220 --> 00:13:56,220 Lists of the stolen property were sent to all pawn shops in the city. 398 00:13:56,220 --> 00:13:58,220 Two women were brought in for questioning that the victims were unable 399 00:13:58,220 --> 00:14:00,220 to give positive identification. 400 00:14:00,220 --> 00:14:03,220 Employment agencies for domestic workers were contacted. 401 00:14:03,220 --> 00:14:05,220 Newspaper want ads were checked. 402 00:14:05,220 --> 00:14:06,220 No leads developed. 403 00:14:06,220 --> 00:14:10,220 Saturday, October 29th, 2.17 p.m. 404 00:14:10,220 --> 00:14:12,220 I got it. 405 00:14:12,220 --> 00:14:16,220 Burgory Friday. 406 00:14:16,220 --> 00:14:17,220 Who? 407 00:14:17,220 --> 00:14:19,220 Oh, yeah. Yeah, Corky. 408 00:14:19,220 --> 00:14:21,220 What's that? 409 00:14:21,220 --> 00:14:23,220 Yeah, thanks. 410 00:14:23,220 --> 00:14:24,220 If you can? 411 00:14:24,220 --> 00:14:26,220 Okay. 412 00:14:26,220 --> 00:14:27,220 Corky Levitt. 413 00:14:27,220 --> 00:14:28,220 Yeah? 414 00:14:28,220 --> 00:14:30,220 Woman's in his pawn shop trying to unload a diamond clip. 415 00:14:30,220 --> 00:14:32,220 Corky says it's on our list. 416 00:14:32,220 --> 00:14:54,220 We left the office and drove down to Corky Levitt's pawn shop on South Main. 417 00:14:54,220 --> 00:14:57,220 Over the phone, Corky had said he would stall the woman as long as he could. 418 00:14:57,220 --> 00:14:59,220 It was 2.28 p.m. when we got to his place. 419 00:14:59,220 --> 00:15:01,220 The woman was still there. 420 00:15:01,220 --> 00:15:06,220 You make up your mind, Buster, give me some dough on the thing and hand it back. 421 00:15:06,220 --> 00:15:07,220 I'll take it someplace else. 422 00:15:07,220 --> 00:15:08,220 Let's have a look at it, Corky. 423 00:15:08,220 --> 00:15:09,220 Sure. 424 00:15:09,220 --> 00:15:10,220 Hey, what is this? 425 00:15:10,220 --> 00:15:11,220 Police officers. 426 00:15:11,220 --> 00:15:12,220 Huh? 427 00:15:12,220 --> 00:15:13,220 Fine, let's go. 428 00:15:13,220 --> 00:15:14,220 Take your hands off me or I'll cut. 429 00:15:14,220 --> 00:15:15,220 I said let's go. 430 00:15:15,220 --> 00:15:16,220 Thanks, Corky. 431 00:15:16,220 --> 00:15:17,220 Sure, you bet. 432 00:15:17,220 --> 00:15:18,220 Yeah, thanks a lot. 433 00:15:18,220 --> 00:15:19,220 I suppose you let me in on it. 434 00:15:19,220 --> 00:15:20,220 What's the beef? 435 00:15:20,220 --> 00:15:21,220 We're talking over at the office, huh? 436 00:15:21,220 --> 00:15:22,220 About what? 437 00:15:22,220 --> 00:15:23,220 This clip. 438 00:15:23,220 --> 00:15:24,220 You mean it's hard? 439 00:15:24,220 --> 00:15:25,220 Is that what you're getting at? 440 00:15:25,220 --> 00:15:26,220 Why don't you tell us? 441 00:15:26,220 --> 00:15:27,220 Well, wouldn't you know it. 442 00:15:27,220 --> 00:15:28,220 Lucky Rita. 443 00:15:28,220 --> 00:15:29,220 Sure walked into it this time. 444 00:15:29,220 --> 00:15:31,220 Didn't I? 445 00:15:31,220 --> 00:15:32,220 Looks like it. 446 00:15:32,220 --> 00:15:33,220 Newcoms got your minds all made up. 447 00:15:33,220 --> 00:15:36,220 You think I stole that thing, don't you? 448 00:15:36,220 --> 00:15:39,220 Somebody did. 449 00:15:39,220 --> 00:15:42,220 2.42 p.m. 450 00:15:42,220 --> 00:15:45,220 We contacted Control One and notified them we were bringing in a female suspect. 451 00:15:45,220 --> 00:15:48,220 They took down our mileage and location and made a note of the time. 452 00:15:48,220 --> 00:15:52,220 Eight minutes later we pulled into the city hall and we again checked with Control One. 453 00:15:52,220 --> 00:15:56,220 While the suspect was being searched by a policewoman, we talked to one of the victims. 454 00:15:56,220 --> 00:15:59,220 The victim positively identified the diamond clip as belonging to her. 455 00:15:59,220 --> 00:16:00,220 3.41 p.m. 456 00:16:00,220 --> 00:16:03,220 We interrogated the suspect in the squad room. 457 00:16:03,220 --> 00:16:07,220 All right, sit down over there. 458 00:16:07,220 --> 00:16:08,220 You want a cigarette? 459 00:16:08,220 --> 00:16:13,220 Yeah. 460 00:16:13,220 --> 00:16:17,220 All right, now suppose you tell us about it. 461 00:16:17,220 --> 00:16:19,220 Come on, Rita, let's get it over with. 462 00:16:19,220 --> 00:16:20,220 What's there to tell? 463 00:16:20,220 --> 00:16:21,220 You guys know all the answers. 464 00:16:21,220 --> 00:16:22,220 We know some of them. 465 00:16:22,220 --> 00:16:23,220 Your name's Rita Baines. 466 00:16:23,220 --> 00:16:26,220 You've fallen three times, forgery, grand theft, burglary. 467 00:16:26,220 --> 00:16:28,220 You made two trips to the hatchet being one to Corona. 468 00:16:28,220 --> 00:16:30,220 Say, I've got my record, big deal. 469 00:16:30,220 --> 00:16:32,220 Let's talk about this diamond clip, huh? 470 00:16:32,220 --> 00:16:33,220 Okay. 471 00:16:33,220 --> 00:16:34,220 Pretty, ain't it? 472 00:16:34,220 --> 00:16:35,220 Where'd you get it, Rita? 473 00:16:35,220 --> 00:16:36,220 Didn't I steal it? 474 00:16:36,220 --> 00:16:39,220 Isn't that why you brought me up here? 475 00:16:39,220 --> 00:16:40,220 It's a difference. 476 00:16:40,220 --> 00:16:42,220 You wouldn't believe me no matter what I told you. 477 00:16:42,220 --> 00:16:44,220 Why don't you try the truth? 478 00:16:44,220 --> 00:16:45,220 Okay. 479 00:16:45,220 --> 00:16:46,220 It was a gift. 480 00:16:46,220 --> 00:16:47,220 Yeah. 481 00:16:47,220 --> 00:16:48,220 Yeah. 482 00:16:48,220 --> 00:16:49,220 Lady gave it to me. 483 00:16:49,220 --> 00:16:50,220 Who was she? 484 00:16:50,220 --> 00:16:51,220 I don't know. 485 00:16:51,220 --> 00:16:52,220 I've never saw her before in my life. 486 00:16:52,220 --> 00:16:53,220 I was riding the bus yesterday afternoon. 487 00:16:53,220 --> 00:16:54,220 She was sitting next to me. 488 00:16:54,220 --> 00:16:55,220 Mm-hmm. 489 00:16:55,220 --> 00:16:56,220 Had that pin on. 490 00:16:56,220 --> 00:16:57,220 Asked me if I liked it. 491 00:16:57,220 --> 00:16:58,220 You bet. 492 00:16:58,220 --> 00:16:59,220 I said, sure. 493 00:16:59,220 --> 00:17:00,220 She took it off. 494 00:17:00,220 --> 00:17:01,220 Said I could have it. 495 00:17:01,220 --> 00:17:02,220 Just handed it right over, just like that. 496 00:17:02,220 --> 00:17:03,220 Yeah. 497 00:17:03,220 --> 00:17:04,220 What'd she look like, Rita? 498 00:17:04,220 --> 00:17:05,220 I don't know. 499 00:17:05,220 --> 00:17:06,220 Forty, maybe 45. 500 00:17:06,220 --> 00:17:07,220 A little on the heavy side. 501 00:17:07,220 --> 00:17:08,220 And you've never seen her before? 502 00:17:08,220 --> 00:17:09,220 First time. 503 00:17:09,220 --> 00:17:10,220 Mm-hmm. 504 00:17:10,220 --> 00:17:14,220 You know, when I was a little girl, my folks always told me not to take things from strange. 505 00:17:14,220 --> 00:17:15,220 Sure they did. 506 00:17:15,220 --> 00:17:16,220 Yeah. 507 00:17:16,220 --> 00:17:17,220 Guess they were right. 508 00:17:17,220 --> 00:17:18,220 All right, Rita. 509 00:17:18,220 --> 00:17:19,220 What do you do for a living? 510 00:17:19,220 --> 00:17:20,220 Weight table. 511 00:17:20,220 --> 00:17:22,220 Where? 512 00:17:22,220 --> 00:17:23,220 Borrowed from Pico. 513 00:17:23,220 --> 00:17:24,220 You work days or nights? 514 00:17:24,220 --> 00:17:25,220 Nights mostly. 515 00:17:25,220 --> 00:17:26,220 Don't open till four o'clock. 516 00:17:26,220 --> 00:17:27,220 Every morning's free then, huh? 517 00:17:27,220 --> 00:17:28,220 Law against it? 518 00:17:28,220 --> 00:17:29,220 Ever do any housework? 519 00:17:29,220 --> 00:17:30,220 Straighten up my room once in a while. 520 00:17:30,220 --> 00:17:31,220 Ever do housework for somebody else? 521 00:17:31,220 --> 00:17:32,220 What do you mean? 522 00:17:32,220 --> 00:17:33,220 Like a cleaning woman. 523 00:17:33,220 --> 00:17:36,220 I ain't that hard up for a job, even with a record. 524 00:17:36,220 --> 00:17:37,220 All right. 525 00:17:37,220 --> 00:17:38,220 Let's talk about this pin some more. 526 00:17:38,220 --> 00:17:39,220 You didn't believe me, did you? 527 00:17:39,220 --> 00:17:40,220 Pretty hard to swallow, isn't it? 528 00:17:40,220 --> 00:17:41,220 Yeah. 529 00:17:41,220 --> 00:17:42,220 Lady at Balance who says worth over $100. 530 00:17:42,220 --> 00:17:43,220 Palmbroker didn't think so. 531 00:17:43,220 --> 00:17:44,220 People don't go around giving away $100. 532 00:17:44,220 --> 00:17:45,220 They don't give away money. 533 00:17:45,220 --> 00:17:46,220 They don't give away money. 534 00:17:46,220 --> 00:17:50,220 Palmbroker didn't think so. 535 00:17:50,220 --> 00:17:51,220 People don't go around giving away $100 clips now, do they? 536 00:17:51,220 --> 00:17:52,220 Where'd you get it? 537 00:17:52,220 --> 00:17:53,220 Same on the bus asked me if I liked it. 538 00:17:53,220 --> 00:17:54,220 I said yes, she gave it to me. 539 00:17:54,220 --> 00:17:55,220 Yeah. 540 00:17:55,220 --> 00:17:56,220 You guys don't mind if I stick to that story, do you? 541 00:17:56,220 --> 00:17:57,220 Seeing is out the truth. 542 00:17:57,220 --> 00:17:58,220 Which bus were you riding? 543 00:17:58,220 --> 00:17:59,220 Wilshire. 544 00:17:59,220 --> 00:18:00,220 Where'd your friend get off? 545 00:18:00,220 --> 00:18:01,220 She wasn't my friend. 546 00:18:01,220 --> 00:18:02,220 Where'd she get off? 547 00:18:02,220 --> 00:18:03,220 I don't know. 548 00:18:03,220 --> 00:18:04,220 I got off first. 549 00:18:04,220 --> 00:18:05,220 You know, if it was somebody else telling you this, you might go along with it. 550 00:18:05,220 --> 00:18:06,220 Yeah, sure we would. 551 00:18:06,220 --> 00:18:07,220 But not me. 552 00:18:07,220 --> 00:18:08,220 Not Rita Bane. 553 00:18:08,220 --> 00:18:09,220 You cops give us the money. 554 00:18:09,220 --> 00:18:10,220 You give us the money. 555 00:18:10,220 --> 00:18:11,220 You give us the money. 556 00:18:11,220 --> 00:18:12,220 You give us the money. 557 00:18:12,220 --> 00:18:16,380 You give us the money, you give us the money, you give us the money. 558 00:18:16,380 --> 00:18:17,380 Sure we would. 559 00:18:17,380 --> 00:18:18,380 But not me. 560 00:18:18,380 --> 00:18:19,380 Not Rita Bane. 561 00:18:19,380 --> 00:18:20,380 You cops give a gal a record from then on, she might as well be dead. 562 00:18:20,380 --> 00:18:21,380 Sure. 563 00:18:21,380 --> 00:18:22,380 Anytime there's trouble, pick her up. 564 00:18:22,380 --> 00:18:23,380 She probably did it. 565 00:18:23,380 --> 00:18:24,380 If she tells you different, she's probably lying. 566 00:18:24,380 --> 00:18:25,380 You know, you got one thing wrong, Rita. 567 00:18:25,380 --> 00:18:26,380 I ought to know. 568 00:18:26,380 --> 00:18:27,380 It's happened to me often enough. 569 00:18:27,380 --> 00:18:28,380 I'm the gal with the record. 570 00:18:28,380 --> 00:18:34,380 Yeah, but we didn't give it to you. 571 00:18:34,380 --> 00:18:37,700 Frank and I continued to question the suspect, but she refused to change her story. 572 00:18:37,700 --> 00:18:38,700 842 p.m. 573 00:18:38,700 --> 00:18:41,880 A special show-up was held for several of the burglary victims. 574 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:43,920 None of them identified Rita Baines. 575 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:44,920 9.06 PM. 576 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:47,160 She was released from custody and we went back to the office. 577 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:50,840 Well, if she didn't take that clip, she knows who did. 578 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:51,840 Maybe. 579 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:52,840 That's the reason, Joe. 580 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:59,040 Nobody's going to go to all the trouble stealing this stuff and then give it away. 581 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:00,040 Burgery Friday. 582 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:01,040 Yes, ma'am. 583 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:02,040 What's that? 584 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:03,040 I see. 585 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:04,040 Yes, we would. 586 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:05,040 What's your address? 587 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:14,880 All right, thank you very much. 588 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:15,880 Just a few minutes. 589 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:16,880 Goodbye. 590 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:19,880 Well, here we go again. 591 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:20,880 Another burglary? 592 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:28,120 Another piece of free jewelry. 593 00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:30,560 Frank and I drove out to an address on South Ridgely Drive. 594 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:31,680 9.32 PM. 595 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:33,440 We talked to Mrs. Lucy Heflin. 596 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:36,600 She showed us a pearl choker that had been given to her by a woman she met at a bus stop 597 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:37,600 earlier in the evening. 598 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:38,600 I didn't want to take it. 599 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:40,640 I told her so, but she wouldn't listen. 600 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:41,640 That's fast. 601 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:44,200 And then afterwards when I got home and thought about it, well, I started wondering if maybe 602 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:46,880 there was some reason why she was so anxious to get rid of those pearls. 603 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:47,880 So I called you. 604 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:49,240 Just where was it you saw this woman, Mrs. Heflin? 605 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:50,840 Corner of Wilshire and Barstow. 606 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:52,080 That's where I was waiting for my bus. 607 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:54,120 I take the Wilshire Express home. 608 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:55,120 She was on a long call. 609 00:19:55,120 --> 00:19:56,120 I see. 610 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:57,120 And when it pulled up, she got out. 611 00:19:57,120 --> 00:19:59,120 I guess she must have turned her ankle or something. 612 00:19:59,120 --> 00:20:00,600 Anyway, she dropped her pocketbook. 613 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,200 Well, I helped her pick up her things. 614 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:04,200 That's when she gave me this choker. 615 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:05,200 I see. 616 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:07,600 Said she didn't have any use for it herself and for me to keep it. 617 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:09,920 Tried to give it back, but she wouldn't wait. 618 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:13,040 I tried to follow her, but just then my bus came along and I knew there wouldn't be another 619 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:14,040 one for maybe an hour. 620 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:15,040 Yes, ma'am. 621 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:16,720 They don't run very regular after eight o'clock. 622 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:17,720 Yes. 623 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,760 Anyway, I figured I could always return the choker if that seemed like the best thing. 624 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:22,680 How were you going to do that, Mrs. Heflin? 625 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:23,680 Do you know the woman? 626 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:25,680 Oh, no, no, but I watched her from the bus. 627 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:26,680 We had to wait for the light to change. 628 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:27,680 Yeah. 629 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:28,680 So I was going to a building, an apartment house. 630 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:29,680 Oh. 631 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:30,680 I suppose that's where she lives. 632 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:39,520 Mrs. Heflin told us that the woman had entered an apartment house on Barstow Street, two 633 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:42,040 doors from the Wilshire corner. 634 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:45,680 We asked her to describe the suspect and her description tallied with what we already had. 635 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:46,680 Ten fifteen p.m. 636 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:50,280 We drove over to the Barstow Avenue address and talked to the manager of the apartment. 637 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:53,600 He told us that a woman answering the suspect's description lived on the second floor, apartment 638 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:54,600 seven. 639 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:56,800 He said that her name was Edna Landy. 640 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:00,960 Frank and I went upstairs to talk to her. 641 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:05,960 Well, this must be it. 642 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,920 Somebody's coming. 643 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:11,920 Here. 644 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:13,920 Miss Landy? 645 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:15,240 Yes, sir? 646 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:16,240 Police officers. 647 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:17,240 Oh. 648 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,240 I'd like you to come downtown with us, Miss Landy. 649 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:21,240 All right, I'll get my coat. 650 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:22,240 Never mind, I'll get it for you. 651 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:24,240 It's in the closet over there. 652 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:25,240 OK. 653 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:26,240 I'll look around while I'm at it, Joe. 654 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:27,240 Yeah. 655 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:28,240 You won't find anything. 656 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:29,240 Yes, sir. 657 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:32,240 I gave the last of it away just this evening. 658 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,240 Lady, I met at the bus stop. 659 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:36,240 I gave the last piece to her. 660 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:37,240 I see. 661 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:38,240 She was very kind to me. 662 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:41,240 Helped me when I dropped my purse. 663 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,240 I'm glad I had something nice for her. 664 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,240 Girl choker, that's what it was. 665 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:47,240 Yeah. 666 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:48,240 It was clean, Joe. 667 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:49,240 Nice. 668 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:51,240 I said you wouldn't find anything. 669 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,240 Why'd you do it, Miss Landy? 670 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:56,240 Why'd you steal those things? 671 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:58,240 Oh, I wasn't stealing. 672 00:21:58,240 --> 00:21:59,240 Oh, you weren't, huh? 673 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:00,240 Of course not. 674 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,240 I'm just teaching them a lesson. 675 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:03,240 Yeah. 676 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:04,240 They needed it. 677 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:05,240 They needed it bad. 678 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,240 You never trust anybody. 679 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:08,240 You always say you're stealing from them. 680 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,240 Who are you talking about, Miss Landy? 681 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,240 People that hired me to work for them. 682 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:14,240 Do their cleaning. 683 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:15,240 These people didn't hire you? 684 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:16,240 They're all the same. 685 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:19,240 Folks out here are back east, all the same. 686 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:20,240 Where's back east? 687 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:21,240 Chicago. 688 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:22,240 Chicago, Illinois. 689 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:23,240 Mm-hmm. 690 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:26,240 Doesn't matter how much you do, how hard you try. 691 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:27,240 Ma'am? 692 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:28,240 Sooner or later, something's missing. 693 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:29,240 They say you took it. 694 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:30,240 Mm-hmm. 695 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:31,240 I've worked for them 10 years. 696 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:32,240 Doesn't matter. 697 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:33,240 At least a little thing gets lost. 698 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:34,240 They say you're a thief. 699 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:35,240 I see. 700 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:36,240 I made up my mind to show them. 701 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:40,240 As long as they're going to blame me anyway, might as well do something to deserve it. 702 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:41,240 Mm-hmm. 703 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:42,240 Good lesson. 704 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:43,240 That's what they need. 705 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:44,240 All right. 706 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:45,240 Let's go. 707 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:46,240 I'm an honest woman. 708 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:47,240 I've always been honest. 709 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:48,240 Sure. 710 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:49,240 I never took that money from Mrs. Dresser. 711 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:50,240 She was wrong to say I did. 712 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:51,240 Never took my money. 713 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,240 She was wrong to say I did. 714 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:55,240 Never took nothing that didn't belong to me. 715 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:57,240 Until you came out here. 716 00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:58,240 That's different. 717 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:00,240 Even then, I wasn't taken for myself. 718 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:01,240 I gave all the jewelry away. 719 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:02,240 It wasn't for me. 720 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,240 It was more than jewelry, Miss Landy. 721 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:05,240 A lot of money missing, too. 722 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:06,240 Well, I didn't keep it. 723 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:07,240 Oh? 724 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:08,240 I sent it off, every penny. 725 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:11,240 Sent it to charity, different charities all over. 726 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,240 I wouldn't keep something that wasn't mine. 727 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:14,240 I see. 728 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:17,240 Maybe next time, they'll be a little more careful who they say is a thief. 729 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:18,240 Yes, ma'am. 730 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,240 It isn't right to accuse somebody when she hasn't done it just because you're the cleaning 731 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:22,240 woman. 732 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:23,240 That doesn't mean you're not honest. 733 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:24,240 Mm-hmm. 734 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:25,240 Now, I showed them. 735 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,240 I showed them if I really wanted to be a crook how easy it was. 736 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:29,240 Mm-hmm. 737 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,240 They mustn't think I was doing anything wrong. 738 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:33,240 No. 739 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:34,240 Just trying to make them understand. 740 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:35,240 That's all. 741 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:36,240 Cleaning woman's like everybody else. 742 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,240 She's got feelings, too, and pride like everybody else. 743 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:40,240 Mm-hmm. 744 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,240 Maybe now they'll see where they made their mistake. 745 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:43,240 Yeah. 746 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:44,240 Now they better. 747 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:48,240 I won't stand for being called a liar and a thief, not anymore. 748 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:52,240 Folks better treat me a whole lot different from here on in. 749 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:54,240 Well, that's right, Miss Landy. 750 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:55,240 What? 751 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:56,240 They will. 752 00:23:56,240 --> 00:24:04,240 The story you've just heard is true. 753 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:07,240 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 754 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:12,240 On December 14th, a hearing was held in Department 96, Superior Court of the State of California 755 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,240 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 756 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,240 In a moment, the results of that hearing... 757 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:29,240 Edna Foster Landy was examined by three psychiatrists appointed by the court 758 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,240 and was found to be mentally incompetent. 759 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:35,240 She was committed to a state medical hospital for an indefinite period of treatment. 760 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:49,240 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 761 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:54,240 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 762 00:24:54,240 --> 00:25:06,240 Music