1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,660 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:11,660 --> 00:00:23,920 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:25,600 You're a detective sergeant. 4 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:27,200 You're assigned to homicide detail. 5 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:31,760 A night watchman has been stabbed to death in a downtown appliance store. 6 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:33,960 There's no apparent motive for the killing. 7 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:35,800 No lead to the suspect. 8 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:41,000 Your job, find him. 9 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:53,520 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 10 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:58,560 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 11 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:03,400 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 12 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:05,200 police files. 13 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:10,660 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 14 00:01:10,660 --> 00:01:17,400 in action. 15 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:18,400 Was Monday August 8th. 16 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:19,400 It was warm in Los Angeles. 17 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:21,880 We were working the day watch out of homicide detail. 18 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:22,880 My partner's Frank Smith. 19 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:23,880 The boss is Captain Lorman. 20 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:24,880 My name is Frank. 21 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:28,960 We were on the way out from the office and it was 8.26 a.m. when we got to the corner 22 00:01:28,960 --> 00:01:32,000 of 7th and Duke Common streets. 23 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:33,000 Bentley Appliance Company. 24 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,000 Sure is a big place. 25 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:37,000 There's somebody coming. 26 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:42,440 Yeah, what do you want? 27 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:43,440 Police officers. 28 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:46,440 Oh yeah, just a minute. 29 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:48,640 Come on in. 30 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:51,720 Thanks a lot. 31 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:54,120 I guess it'd be a good idea if I locked the door again, huh? 32 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:56,120 If you'd like to, yes, sir. 33 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:57,120 Good idea. 34 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,920 There you go, it's all secure. 35 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:01,920 My name's Ralph Bentley. 36 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:03,120 I'm the one who put in the call. 37 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:04,120 This is Frank Smith. 38 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:05,120 My name's Friday. 39 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:06,120 I do. 40 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:07,120 I do, sir. 41 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:08,120 Where's the body? 42 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:09,120 Oh, back here in the stock room. 43 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:10,880 Who found him, Mr. Bentley? 44 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:12,480 Our building superintendent, Curtis Holman. 45 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:13,480 Is he here now? 46 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:14,480 Yeah, he's upstairs. 47 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:15,480 All right. 48 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:17,200 I suppose you'll want to talk to him. 49 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:18,200 Yes, we will. 50 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:19,200 I'll get it. 51 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:20,200 Go ahead. 52 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:22,200 Oh, thanks. 53 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:27,600 Oh, over here, it's behind these packing cases. 54 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:28,600 Uh-huh. 55 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,400 Well, you can see there he was stabbed. 56 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:33,400 Yeah. 57 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:35,400 I sure am messing. 58 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:37,400 Yeah, what's his name? 59 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:38,400 Mr. Bentley? 60 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:39,400 Hmm? 61 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:40,400 The victim's name? 62 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:41,400 Oh, Clyde Maddock. 63 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:42,400 M-A-T-I-C-K? 64 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:43,400 I-K, no C. 65 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:48,400 What time was the body discovered? 66 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:50,760 It must have been about 7.30. 67 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:51,760 That's when Holman comes to work. 68 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:52,760 Did he find it right away? 69 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:53,760 I don't know. 70 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:55,760 I haven't been able to get him to say much. 71 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:57,760 When I came in, he was just standing here looking at the body. 72 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:00,160 It was kind of numb, you know. 73 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:01,160 What time did you get here? 74 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:03,160 It must have been about 7.45. 75 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:04,160 That's when I called you, wasn't it? 76 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:05,160 Yes, sir, about that time. 77 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:07,640 Yeah, that's when it was, 7.45. 78 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:09,640 How long has this Maddock worked for you? 79 00:03:09,640 --> 00:03:11,880 Oh, three years. 80 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:12,880 Almost four. 81 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:15,560 Has anything in here been disturbed? 82 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:17,400 Not that I know of. 83 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:19,040 I don't think Holman touched anything. 84 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:22,240 I couldn't talk to him very much, but I'm pretty sure he knows enough to leave things 85 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:23,240 alone. 86 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:24,240 Uh-huh. 87 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:25,760 Well, I sure can't understand it. 88 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:26,760 What's that? 89 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:27,760 Well, take a look around. 90 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:28,760 It doesn't look like there's a fight. 91 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:30,760 Does it look like it to you? 92 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:31,760 No. 93 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:32,760 Well, that's it. 94 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:33,760 What do you mean? 95 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,400 Well, it stands to reason it was somebody he knew. 96 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:39,320 Some stranger, there'd be signs he wouldn't just let somebody come up and stab him in 97 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:40,320 the back, now would he? 98 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:41,320 Doesn't seem likely, does it? 99 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,480 Well, in the three years he's been with us, I've never heard anyone say an unkind thing 100 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:46,480 about Maddock, not one. 101 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:47,480 He didn't have an enemy in the world. 102 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:48,480 Well, that doesn't mean much. 103 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:49,480 Hmm? 104 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:54,480 One of his friends didn't like him then. 105 00:03:54,480 --> 00:04:05,760 Eight-thirty a.m. 106 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:09,600 We put in a call to the crime lab and asked them to come out and go over the scene. 107 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:13,480 The manager led us upstairs to the main offices and we met the building superintendent, Curtis 108 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:14,480 Holman. 109 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:16,880 He was a small man in his early fifties. 110 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:19,080 I don't care how it looks, Mr. Friday, I didn't do it. 111 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:21,200 You gotta believe that, I didn't have anything to do with it. 112 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,520 I know what he says you did, Holman, the officers just want to ask you some questions. 113 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:26,440 Well, I don't want them to think I killed him. 114 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:28,680 I don't want them to think that. 115 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:29,680 What time did you find the body? 116 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:33,520 I guess it must have been around seven-thirty, someplace around in there. 117 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:38,000 You see, I just came in, locked the door after me, and then I was going to come up here and 118 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:39,000 change my clothes. 119 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,920 I got my own closet down there in the hall. 120 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:43,440 My own closet, yes, sir. 121 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:47,160 I was coming back, going upstairs, and I saw him just laying there. 122 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:48,160 Right away I knew he was dead. 123 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:50,520 You didn't have to have nobody tell me that. 124 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:51,520 I knew he was dead. 125 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:52,520 What'd you do? 126 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:53,520 Nothing. 127 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:54,520 Couldn't. 128 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:55,520 Couldn't do nothing. 129 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:58,000 First time I ever saw a dead man. 130 00:04:58,000 --> 00:04:59,000 I don't know. 131 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:00,720 I guess just stood there and looked. 132 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:01,720 First time. 133 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:03,400 Yeah, that's where he was when I came in. 134 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:04,720 Yeah, I was just there. 135 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:06,400 You see, I didn't kill him. 136 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:07,400 Wasn't me. 137 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:08,400 Somebody did it, but it wasn't me. 138 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:09,400 All right, Holman, all right. 139 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:12,400 Now, we were friends, Friday and me. 140 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:16,360 I guess I should have told you he doesn't mean any harm. 141 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:17,360 I understand. 142 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:19,160 Played cribbage once in a while in the morning. 143 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:21,440 Me and Clyde played cribbage. 144 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:24,280 Was there anybody else in the store when you got here, Holman? 145 00:05:24,280 --> 00:05:25,280 Huh? 146 00:05:25,280 --> 00:05:26,280 You talking to me? 147 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:27,280 Yes, sir. 148 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:29,240 Did you see anybody else in the place when you got here? 149 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:31,280 No, just me and Clyde. 150 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:32,280 Only he was dead. 151 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:33,280 How'd you get in? 152 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:34,280 Got a key. 153 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:35,280 See, right here. 154 00:05:35,280 --> 00:05:36,280 My own key. 155 00:05:36,280 --> 00:05:38,280 How many keys are there, Mr. Batley? 156 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:39,280 Oh, there's three out. 157 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:40,280 I got one. 158 00:05:40,280 --> 00:05:41,280 Holman has one. 159 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:42,560 Maddock had the other one. 160 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:44,720 Have you contacted his family? 161 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:45,720 Hasn't got one. 162 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:47,200 As far as we know, he hasn't got any people. 163 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:48,720 You can give us his address, though, can't you? 164 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:49,720 Well, sure. 165 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:50,720 No trouble at all. 166 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:51,720 Lives upstairs. 167 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:52,720 What? 168 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:53,720 Part of the deal we worked out when he started. 169 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:54,720 A little room on the third floor. 170 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:55,720 He gets that and a salary. 171 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:58,320 Hmm, real nice way he fixed it up. 172 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:00,400 All painted bookshelves, a lot of books. 173 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:01,400 All over the place, books. 174 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:02,720 Wonder if we could see it. 175 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:03,720 Certainly. 176 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:04,720 You like it. 177 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:05,720 Real nice room. 178 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:06,720 Nice and mine. 179 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:07,720 Wish I had it. 180 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:11,440 We can go down this way. 181 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:12,440 Want me to go up with you? 182 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:14,120 Yes, sir, if you'd like to. 183 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:16,800 Sure, I like Clyde's room. 184 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:19,800 Be fast if we take the stairs. 185 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:21,120 All right. 186 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:23,520 Here we are. 187 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:26,400 All right, go ahead. 188 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,720 Thank you. 189 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:33,120 I guess Clyde had about every book printed. 190 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:34,120 Great one for reading. 191 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:35,120 That so? 192 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:36,120 Oh, yeah. 193 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:37,120 All time had his face in the book. 194 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:38,120 All time reading. 195 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:39,120 Smart. 196 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:42,040 He knew all kinds of things. 197 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:44,120 Just asked Clyde a question and he knew the answer. 198 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,680 I was all time telling him he should go on the quiz shows. 199 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:47,680 He'd won them all. 200 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:51,080 Knew the names of all the presidents, when they was elected. 201 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:52,080 All about him. 202 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:53,080 Is that right? 203 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:55,240 Let's write down this way. 204 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:58,240 All right. 205 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:00,520 I used to sit there and look through the books. 206 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:03,240 Didn't make much sense to me, but Clyde sure liked them. 207 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:06,240 All right, Holman, I'm sure the officers know what you mean. 208 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:07,240 Just try and tell them that's all. 209 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:08,240 Tell them about Clyde. 210 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:09,240 Sure. 211 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:10,240 Oh, this is it. 212 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:11,240 It's locked. 213 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:13,240 Do you have a key? 214 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:14,240 No, I don't. 215 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:15,240 I got one. 216 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:16,240 Got it on the ring. 217 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:17,240 You want me to open the door? 218 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:18,240 If you would, yeah. 219 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:19,240 Sure thing. 220 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:20,240 Glad to help you. 221 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,240 Find the right one now. 222 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:24,240 Here, you drop this. 223 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:27,240 Why do you have a key to the room? 224 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:28,240 Clyde gave it to me. 225 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,240 Said it was all right for me to have it in case I wanted to clean up. 226 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:32,800 He let me do that. 227 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:33,800 Clean up. 228 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:34,800 All right. 229 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:35,800 Well, do you have the key? 230 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:36,800 Yeah. 231 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:37,800 Here it is. 232 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,800 There you are. 233 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:43,800 Hey. 234 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:48,800 Sure looks like there was a party in here. 235 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:49,800 Yeah. 236 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:52,800 Certainly didn't have any idea things like this went on. 237 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:54,800 Boy, just look at this room. 238 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:58,800 Beer bottles all over the place, glasses. 239 00:07:58,800 --> 00:07:59,800 Empty bottle. 240 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:00,800 This place is filthy. 241 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:04,800 I was going to clean it up, Mr. Bentley, honest I was. 242 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:10,800 Right after I finish the rest of the building, I was going to clean it up. 243 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,800 Fourteen beer bottles, all of them empty, boy. 244 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:16,800 I don't see how a man could drink that much beer. 245 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:18,800 Looks like he had some help there. 246 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:19,800 Huh? 247 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:20,800 What do you got? 248 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:21,800 Hey, look at these glasses. 249 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:22,800 Yeah. 250 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:23,800 Lipsticks, man. 251 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:24,800 Don't touch them. 252 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:25,800 I'm sorry. 253 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,800 Boy, that really does it. 254 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:30,800 That's the capper. 255 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:31,800 Sir? 256 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,800 You know, when he took the job, I made it perfectly clear, no mistake about it, none 257 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:35,800 at all. 258 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:36,800 What do you mean? 259 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:37,800 Beer drinking, I don't mind. 260 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:38,800 He's got that right. 261 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:41,800 But I told him there wasn't supposed to be any women up here. 262 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:42,800 No. 263 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:43,800 He knew it. 264 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:45,800 Doesn't look good place of business, just doesn't look good. 265 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:46,800 Yeah. 266 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:49,800 I told him if he broke the rule once, just once he'd be sorry about it. 267 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:50,800 That's what I told him. 268 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:52,800 He's got no quarrel about it now. 269 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:53,800 Huh? 270 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:54,800 He's sorry. 271 00:08:54,800 --> 00:09:01,800 He's sorry. 272 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:06,800 The crime lab arrived and started to go over the room. 273 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:10,800 After photographs had been taken, the body was removed to the county morgue. 274 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:14,800 Apparently, the victim had died of internal hemorrhage caused by three deep stab wounds 275 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:15,800 in the back. 276 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:17,800 He'd been dead about 36 hours. 277 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:21,800 From questioning the other employees of the store, we were able to find out a little about 278 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:22,800 the victim's background. 279 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:26,800 All of them knew him as a quiet man who kept pretty much to himself. 280 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:28,800 We asked about the women, friends. 281 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:29,800 They couldn't help us there either. 282 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:30,800 The questioning continued. 283 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:33,800 As far as I know, there wasn't anybody. 284 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:35,800 Did he ever mention any friends to you? 285 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:36,800 No, we didn't talk much. 286 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:38,800 I didn't see him a lot. 287 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:41,800 You know, he'd be in the halls or something like that, but we didn't talk much. 288 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:44,800 Is there anything more you can tell us that might help? 289 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:45,800 I don't think so. 290 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:47,800 If I think of anything, I'll let you know. 291 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:48,800 All right. 292 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:49,800 Thank you very much. 293 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:50,800 Is that all? 294 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:52,800 Yes. 295 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:57,800 Well, sure getting us nowhere. 296 00:09:57,800 --> 00:09:58,800 Yeah. 297 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:00,800 Let's have the next one, huh? 298 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:01,800 All right. 299 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:05,800 Do you come in now, Miss Lask? 300 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:06,800 Yes. 301 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:08,800 It's, uh, Carl Lask, is that right? 302 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:09,800 That's right. 303 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:10,800 My name's Smith. 304 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:11,800 This is Sergeant Friday. 305 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:12,800 I do. 306 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:13,800 How are you? 307 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:14,800 Would you like to sit down? 308 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:15,800 Thank you. 309 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:18,800 I guess it's about Mr. Maddock, huh? 310 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:19,800 That's right. 311 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:21,800 Awful thing to have happen. 312 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:24,800 I work in the office almost right under his room. 313 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:26,800 Kind of gives me the creeps to think about. 314 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:27,800 Oh, creepy. 315 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:28,800 Did you know him very well? 316 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:30,800 Yeah, I guess you could say I did. 317 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:32,800 I went to lunch with him a couple of times. 318 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:33,800 Even had a couple of dates. 319 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:35,800 Not flower type dates, though. 320 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:36,800 How's that? 321 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:37,800 He didn't bring flowers. 322 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:38,800 Oh, I see. 323 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:41,800 Met after work, went to dinner, nothing serious. 324 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:43,800 Do you know any of his other friends? 325 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:45,800 Just about everybody in the place. 326 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:47,800 Wasn't anybody that wasn't friends with Mr. Maddock. 327 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:48,800 Everybody liked him. 328 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:50,800 Is there anybody special? 329 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:51,800 You mean like a girlfriend? 330 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:52,800 That's right. 331 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:54,800 I don't know. 332 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:56,800 As maybe it was Bessie. 333 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:57,800 Who's that, Miss? 334 00:10:57,800 --> 00:10:58,800 Bessie Rowan. 335 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:00,800 Her and Mr. Maddock were pretty friendly. 336 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:03,800 You ask me, I'd say might even have been serious. 337 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:04,800 Does she work here? 338 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:06,800 Yeah, stockroom clerk. 339 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:07,800 Head of the department. 340 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:08,800 I see. 341 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:09,800 Pretty important job. 342 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:10,800 Got charge of all the ordering. 343 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:11,800 Yeah. 344 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:14,800 You ever been in Mr. Maddock's room? 345 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:18,800 I know you're just trying to do what you think is right, Mr. Friday. 346 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:20,800 But I don't like what you're getting at. 347 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:21,800 No offense, Miss Lask. 348 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:23,800 Just a routine question. 349 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:25,800 The answer's no, I told you. 350 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:27,800 I just went out with him a couple of times, that's all. 351 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:28,800 I see. 352 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:30,800 You remember that. 353 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:31,800 Yes, ma'am. 354 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:32,800 Is Miss Rowan here this morning? 355 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:33,800 No, she isn't. 356 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:35,800 What a funny thing to... 357 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:36,800 What do you mean? 358 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:37,800 It's not like her to miss a day's work. 359 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:39,800 Long as I've been here, she never done it before. 360 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:41,800 Always here, always on time. 361 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:43,800 That's why it's so funny. 362 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:45,800 She called this morning and said she wouldn't be able to make it. 363 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:46,800 Did she say why? 364 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:47,800 Not really. 365 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:49,800 Kind of talked around it, you know. 366 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:53,800 Matter of fact, I didn't think she had a real reason for not coming in. 367 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:54,800 How was that? 368 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:56,800 The way she acted. 369 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:57,800 Say. 370 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,800 You don't think it had anything to do with Mr. Maddock, do you? 371 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:01,800 I wouldn't know. 372 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:03,800 I'll bet that's it. 373 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:04,800 She knows something. 374 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:05,800 That's why she's not coming in. 375 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:06,800 That's the reason. 376 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:07,800 It's possible. 377 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:08,800 More than that, she knows something. 378 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:09,800 I'll bet you on it. 379 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:10,800 Bet you anything. 380 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,800 No, it wouldn't be too fair. 381 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:14,800 We'd like to see you win. 382 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:26,800 We checked all the employees of the store through R&I. 383 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:29,800 Except for two drunk arrests for the janitor, Curtis Hallman. 384 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:31,800 There was no record on any of them. 385 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,800 We tried to contact Bessie Rowan at her home, but she wasn't there. 386 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:38,800 The neighbors were unable to tell us anything that might aid us in finding her. 387 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:41,800 We asked them to notify us in the event she returned. 388 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:46,800 At 12.46 p.m., an unidentified woman called the Bentley Appliance Company and asked for the victim. 389 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:50,800 She was told that he was out and was asked to leave a phone number where she could be contacted. 390 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:56,800 Frank and I checked with the phone company and found that the number was assigned to a public phone booth in a downtown department store. 391 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,800 We drove over to the place and talked with one of the clerks. 392 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:02,800 Yes, it seems to me there was a woman by the phone booth. 393 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:04,800 Can you give us a description of her? 394 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:06,800 Not a very good one, I'm afraid. 395 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:08,800 Well, anything you can tell us might help. 396 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:10,800 See, there is one thing, though. 397 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:11,800 What's that? 398 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:13,800 Might not mean anything. 399 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:14,800 What is it, ma'am? 400 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:15,800 Her hair. 401 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:16,800 Yeah. 402 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:17,800 Real red. 403 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:19,800 About the brightest red I've ever seen. 404 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:20,800 Had to come from a bottle. 405 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:22,800 Never saw any natural hair of that color. 406 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:23,800 All right. 407 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:24,800 That help you any? 408 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:25,800 Well, we don't know yet. 409 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:26,800 I didn't think it would. 410 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:28,800 Just something you remember. 411 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:30,800 Something kind of outstanding. 412 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:31,800 I just thought of it. 413 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:35,800 Figured it might be a way for you to remember if it's the one you're looking for. 414 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:40,800 Well, if it is, we've got another way. 415 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:46,800 4.35 p.m. 416 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:48,800 Frank and I went back to the city hall and checked into the office. 417 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:52,800 There was a note in the book for us to get in touch with Sergeant J. Allen at the crime lab. 418 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:55,800 He just finished his preliminary examination of physical evidence 419 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:57,800 and wanted to go over his findings with us. 420 00:13:57,800 --> 00:13:58,800 Back here, Joe. 421 00:13:58,800 --> 00:13:59,800 Frank. 422 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:00,800 Yeah. 423 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:01,800 Okay. 424 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:03,800 Well, how'd you do? 425 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:04,800 Not bad. 426 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:05,800 Here, take a look. 427 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:06,800 Yeah? 428 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,800 These are the beer bottles we found in the room 14 of them. 429 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:10,800 They're clean. 430 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:12,800 Able to lift three good prints from one of the glasses. 431 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:13,800 Enough for identification. 432 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:14,800 If you come up with a finger. 433 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:16,800 Not enough for classification. 434 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:17,800 No. 435 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:18,800 Anything else? 436 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:20,800 I went over the room with a vacuum cleaner. 437 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:22,800 Found this in the couch. 438 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:23,800 Earring? 439 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:24,800 Yeah. 440 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:26,800 Imitation stone, Monnings gold filled. 441 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:27,800 Nothing else, huh? 442 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:29,800 Any way of checking where it was bought, J? 443 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:30,800 It'll be pretty hard. 444 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:32,800 Costume jewelry, a lot of places make it. 445 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:33,800 Even more than that seller. 446 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:34,800 Yeah. 447 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,800 Found this handkerchief on the floor under the couch. 448 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:39,800 No monogram. 449 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:40,800 Any laundry marks? 450 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:41,800 No. 451 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:42,800 Went over it with ultraviolet. 452 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:43,800 There's none there. 453 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:45,800 Is that it? 454 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:47,800 Well, lipstick marks on the glasses we lifted him. 455 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:49,800 Might be able to use them on identification. 456 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:50,800 Yeah. 457 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:52,800 You, uh, come up with a motive yet? 458 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:53,800 No. 459 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:54,800 No, as near as we can tell, 460 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:55,800 there wasn't anything stolen from the store. 461 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:58,800 The victim had $36 in cash on him. 462 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:00,800 Expensive watch, ring. 463 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:01,800 None of it was touched. 464 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:02,800 Hmm. 465 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:03,800 You got any more for us, J? 466 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:05,800 Well, couldn't find the murder weapon. 467 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:06,800 Wasn't in the room. 468 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:08,800 We checked, the rest of the place couldn't turn it. 469 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:10,800 Any idea what it might have been, J? 470 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:12,800 A sharp instrument, probably a pocket knife, 471 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:13,800 three-inch blade. 472 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:15,800 Oh, one more thing, not sure about it. 473 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:16,800 Yeah. 474 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:17,800 Here, I'll get it. 475 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:21,800 Take a look. 476 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:22,800 What do you got there? 477 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:23,800 Hair. 478 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:24,800 Found them on the victim's jacket. 479 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:26,800 No way of telling how long they'd been there. 480 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:27,800 Human? 481 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:27,800 Yeah. 482 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:29,800 Whoever they belonged to shouldn't be too hard to spot. 483 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:30,800 What do you mean? 484 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:31,800 Bright red. 485 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:32,800 I'm not sure. 486 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:41,800 We left the crime lab 487 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:43,800 and drove over to the Bentley Appliance Company. 488 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:44,800 We went up to the second floor 489 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:47,800 and talked with the secretary again, Cora Lask. 490 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:49,800 Sure, I can give you a description of Bessie, 491 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:50,800 no trouble at all. 492 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:51,800 Have you heard from her today? 493 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:52,800 Not since this morning. 494 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:54,800 I told you about that, you know, how she wouldn't be in. 495 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:55,800 Yeah. 496 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:56,800 That's the only time. 497 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:57,800 Now, about the description, 498 00:15:57,800 --> 00:15:59,800 what color hair does she have? 499 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:00,800 It's a blonde color. 500 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:01,800 Darker light. 501 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:02,800 Kind of in between. 502 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:04,800 I guess that's the reason she fixes it up. 503 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:05,800 How do you mean? 504 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:06,800 Touch up. 505 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:08,800 Usually a sort of strawberry blonde, I guess you'd call it. 506 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:09,800 Uh-huh. 507 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:10,800 Last time she did it, 508 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:13,800 I guess it was a week ago, she had an accident. 509 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:14,800 Yeah. 510 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:15,800 With the dye, she did something wrong. 511 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:16,800 Sure looked funny. 512 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:17,800 How do you mean? 513 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:18,800 Well, it turned out wrong. 514 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:20,800 Embarrassed her all over the place. 515 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:22,800 Everybody was making cracks about it. 516 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:25,800 She said she was going to redo it the first chance she had. 517 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:26,800 Yeah. 518 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:27,800 I kind of laughed myself. 519 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:28,800 It was pretty hard to imagine. 520 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:29,800 What's that? 521 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:30,800 That color red hair. 522 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:42,800 We returned to the office and filled out the reports. 523 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:45,800 At 6.18 p.m., we got a call from one of the suspect's neighbors 524 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:47,800 telling us that she'd returned home. 525 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:49,800 We grew about to talk to her. 526 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:50,800 Yeah? 527 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:51,800 Bessie Rowan? 528 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:52,800 That's right. 529 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:53,800 Who are you? 530 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:54,800 Police officer. 531 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:55,800 I'd like to talk to you. 532 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:56,800 Well, I'm a police officer. 533 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:57,800 I'm a police officer. 534 00:16:57,800 --> 00:16:59,800 I'd like to talk to you. 535 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:01,800 Well, I haven't got anything to say to you. 536 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:04,800 It's not going to do me much good, though, is it? 537 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:05,800 Is it? 538 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:08,800 You're going to take me down to the pookie anyway, aren't you? 539 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:09,800 Aren't you going to? 540 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:11,800 Might be better if we talk the inside. 541 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:13,800 Oh, well, then. 542 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:14,800 Come on in. 543 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:16,800 Ain't no difference where we talk. 544 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:17,800 Not a bit. 545 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:18,800 You ain't going to believe me anyway. 546 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:19,800 About what? 547 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:20,800 That I didn't kill Clyde. 548 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:22,800 You ain't going to believe me, are you? 549 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:23,800 Why don't you tell us? 550 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:24,800 All right, I will. 551 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:26,800 What do you think of that, huh? 552 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:28,800 What do you think of that? 553 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:29,800 You alone here? 554 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:31,800 No, I got three more friends hiding in the closet. 555 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:33,800 They usually don't come out this early, though, 556 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:34,800 wait until it gets dark. 557 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:36,800 That's when they like it, when it's dark. 558 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:38,800 Now, you want me to tell you now, huh? 559 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:39,800 Do you? 560 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:40,800 About what? 561 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:41,800 About Clyde. 562 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:42,800 How he's dead. 563 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:43,800 You want me to? 564 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:44,800 Why don't you try? 565 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:47,800 No matter what I say, you're going to believe what you want to, 566 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:49,800 so it'd probably be easier if I went along with you, wouldn't it? 567 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:50,800 Might be. 568 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:51,800 Okay, then. 569 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:56,800 I killed him. 570 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:28,800 6.23 p.m., we continued to talk to Bessie Rowan. 571 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:31,800 Frank went out to the kitchen and made a pot of coffee. 572 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:33,800 After we'd gotten several cups down, Miss Rowan, 573 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:35,800 she sobered up and was able to answer our questions. 574 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:36,800 I didn't mean it. 575 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:37,800 I wasn't feeling very good. 576 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:38,800 I guess that's why I said it. 577 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:39,800 Did you see him Saturday night? 578 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:40,800 Yeah. 579 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:41,800 Where? 580 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:42,800 After work. 581 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:44,800 Met him, we went to the place on the corner, 582 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:46,800 had a couple of drinks, and then I came home. 583 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:47,800 Ever been to his room? 584 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:48,800 Went to meet at the company? 585 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:49,800 Yeah. 586 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:51,800 I guess it wouldn't do any good to lie about it. 587 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:52,800 Yeah, I've been there. 588 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:53,800 When? 589 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:54,800 I don't know. 590 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:55,800 I guess the last time was a week ago. 591 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:57,800 Somewhere in there, I had a couple of drinks. 592 00:18:57,800 --> 00:18:59,800 How'd you and Maddie get along? 593 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:01,800 All right, we didn't set the world on fire. 594 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:02,800 How'd you know he was dead? 595 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:03,800 Heard it. 596 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:04,800 Where? 597 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:05,800 I'd rather not say. 598 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:06,800 I'm like somebody in trouble. 599 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:07,800 You've got a good-sized piece of that right now. 600 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:09,800 Why don't you tell us? 601 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:10,800 A friend of mine. 602 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:12,800 I called this morning. 603 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:13,800 That's how you found out? 604 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:14,800 Yeah. 605 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:16,800 I guess his friend wasn't supposed to say anything. 606 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:18,800 As soon as she did, she told me not to say anything. 607 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:20,800 What time did you see Maddie last? 608 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:22,800 I guess it was about 7.30. 609 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:24,800 Right after we came out of the bar, 610 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:27,800 he walked me back to the parking lot and I came home. 611 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:28,800 Anybody vouch for that? 612 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:29,800 No. 613 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:30,800 You can prove it then, though. 614 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:32,800 Maybe they changed the laws, huh? 615 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:33,800 What do you mean by that? 616 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:35,800 I always thought you had to prove I was guilty. 617 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:36,800 They done away with that? 618 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:37,800 No. 619 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:38,800 Then start proving. 620 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:39,800 All right, get a coat and we'll go downtown. 621 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:40,800 You gonna book me? 622 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:41,800 We'll see. 623 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:43,800 Gotta make a charge, don't you? 624 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:44,800 If you want it that way. 625 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:45,800 Never mind. 626 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:47,800 I'll get a jacket. 627 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:48,800 Where is it? 628 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:49,800 Bedroom closet. 629 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:50,800 You want to show me? 630 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:51,800 You don't trust anybody, do you? 631 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:52,800 Let's get the coat, lady. 632 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:53,800 That's the one. 633 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:54,800 Okay. 634 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:55,800 There you are. 635 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:56,800 The gentleman would hold it. 636 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:57,800 Yeah. 637 00:19:57,800 --> 00:19:58,800 It's all set? 638 00:19:58,800 --> 00:19:59,800 Yeah, I guess so. 639 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:00,800 You turn off the coffee? 640 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:01,800 Yeah, I think so. 641 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:02,800 You better be sure. 642 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:03,800 I'm not gonna come home and have to clean a burned coffee pot. 643 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:04,800 Don't worry about it. 644 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:05,800 Huh? 645 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:06,800 You might not be coming home. 646 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:24,000 The woman was taken downtown to the city hall. 647 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:25,000 Her fingerprints were taken. 648 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,440 We checked her name and description through RNI once more, but we failed to come up with 649 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:30,040 a record for her. 650 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:31,040 8.15 p.m. 651 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:34,000 While I talked to her in the squad room, Frank went down the hall. 652 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:35,600 You're gonna let me go home. 653 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:36,880 As soon as you tell us the truth. 654 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:38,080 I've told you everything I know. 655 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:39,080 It's all you're gonna get. 656 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:40,080 John. 657 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:41,080 Yeah? 658 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:42,080 Here it is. 659 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:43,080 What's that? 660 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:46,080 The solution to the case? 661 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:47,080 It might be. 662 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:48,080 It's a report from Leighton Prince. 663 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:49,080 Yeah? 664 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:51,080 Your fingerprints match with the ones we found on some glasses in his room. 665 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:52,080 What does that mean? 666 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:53,080 You were in his room. 667 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:54,080 I've already admitted that. 668 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:55,080 You told us you weren't there Saturday. 669 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:56,080 So he's a sloppy housekeeper. 670 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:57,080 Now, we talked to the janitor. 671 00:20:57,080 --> 00:20:58,080 He cleaned the room Saturday morning. 672 00:20:58,080 --> 00:20:59,080 The glasses weren't there then. 673 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:00,080 How about him? 674 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:01,080 He's a good man. 675 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:02,080 He's a good man. 676 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:03,080 He's a good man. 677 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:04,080 He's a good man. 678 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:05,080 He's a good man. 679 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:06,080 How about it, Miss Rowland? 680 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:09,800 Make it easier if you give us a statement. 681 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:10,800 Come on. 682 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:11,800 All right. 683 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:14,240 I was there, but I didn't kill him. 684 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:15,240 And that's the truth. 685 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:16,240 Go ahead. 686 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:18,680 After we left the bar, he asked me to come up and have a nightcap. 687 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:19,680 I did. 688 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:20,680 Yeah? 689 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:21,680 We had some stuff to talk over. 690 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:22,680 What? 691 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:23,680 We wanted to get married. 692 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:24,680 We talked about it before. 693 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:25,680 There was something that was hanging him up. 694 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:26,680 I don't know what it was. 695 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:28,880 I told him we couldn't go on like that anymore. 696 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:30,960 It had to be either one way or the other. 697 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:33,200 Either we'd get married or else we'd call the whole thing off. 698 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:34,200 Yeah. 699 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:35,720 He asked for a couple of days. 700 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:37,840 Said he'd clean up whatever the trouble was by then. 701 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:38,840 Yeah. 702 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:39,840 I told him to go ahead. 703 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:40,840 That's all. 704 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:42,560 Had a couple of drinks and then I left and I came straight home. 705 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:43,560 What time did you get there? 706 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:44,560 About 10. 707 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:45,560 Maybe 10.30. 708 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:46,560 Why'd you lie to us? 709 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:47,960 I don't know. 710 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:48,960 I was drunk. 711 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:49,960 You saw that. 712 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:50,960 Yeah. 713 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:51,960 I got scared. 714 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:53,320 I figured sure you'd think I did it. 715 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:54,600 Did Maddock have any other girlfriends? 716 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:55,600 I don't know. 717 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:56,600 We didn't talk about it. 718 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:57,600 Did he mention anybody else? 719 00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:58,600 Yeah. 720 00:21:58,600 --> 00:21:59,600 I guess. 721 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:02,440 A couple of times he talked about some girl that was giving him trouble, called him at 722 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,320 work, you know, and he's back. 723 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:06,000 Told him he was trying to get rid of her. 724 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:07,960 Possible she might have been the reason you couldn't get married. 725 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:08,960 Yeah, might be. 726 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:09,960 You know anything about her? 727 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:10,960 No. 728 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:11,960 He didn't talk much about her. 729 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:16,000 A couple of times he'd be hacked because she'd call the store and made a big scene. 730 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,760 Said she was usually gassed. 731 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,480 She was a real lush way he put it, drunk most of the time. 732 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:22,480 Funny though. 733 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:24,720 He didn't go for hard booze. 734 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:25,720 Huh? 735 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:26,720 Just drank beer. 736 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:40,600 On the chance that the empty beer bottles we'd found in the victim's room had been bought 737 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:44,640 in the neighborhood, we began an immediate canvas of the liquor stores in the area. 738 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:48,120 We gave the dealers a description of Clyde Maddock and we also asked if a woman had purchased 739 00:22:48,120 --> 00:22:50,520 14 bottles of beer. 740 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:54,120 In the first five stores we drew a blank, but the clerk in the sixth told us that he 741 00:22:54,120 --> 00:22:56,800 had made such a sale on Saturday night to a woman. 742 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,880 He was unable to tell us who she was, but he did say that he'd seen her several times 743 00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:01,920 in the neighborhood bar. 744 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:03,960 We started to check them. 745 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,840 Several bartenders knew the woman, but were unable to tell us her name or where we could 746 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:07,840 find her. 747 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:11,000 At 1220 we stopped at a place called the Pink Pigeon. 748 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,640 Yeah, I know her. 749 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:13,640 In here all the time. 750 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:14,640 She's a beer drinker. 751 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:15,640 You know her name? 752 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:16,640 Let me think. 753 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:17,640 Yeah, Gladys something. 754 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:19,400 I don't think I ever heard the last part. 755 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,280 Wouldn't make me unhappy if she didn't come back. 756 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:22,280 What do you mean? 757 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,040 You know, she's all the time tanked, loud, dirty mouth. 758 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:26,560 Sick like that doesn't do the place any good. 759 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:28,160 You know where you can get in touch with her? 760 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:29,160 What's the matter? 761 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:30,160 She done something? 762 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:31,160 We'd like to talk to her. 763 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:32,160 Well, sure. 764 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:33,160 I didn't mean to stick my nose in where it don't belong. 765 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:34,160 That's all right. 766 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:35,160 You know where we can find her? 767 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:36,160 I don't know. 768 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:37,160 I guess her place would be as good as any. 769 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:38,160 Well, where is that? 770 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:39,160 A couple of blocks up. 771 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:40,160 It's a brown house, second from the corner. 772 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:41,160 You can't miss it. 773 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:42,160 Just like her, a real mess. 774 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:43,160 There's weeds all around. 775 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:44,160 It's a brown house. 776 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:45,160 All right. 777 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:46,160 Thank you. 778 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:47,160 I'm glad to help out. 779 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:58,520 I've been telling everybody. 780 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,200 We left the bar and drove over to the house the bartender described. 781 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,080 There was a light on in the front room when we got there. 782 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:07,360 The name on the mailbox read Mrs. Clyde Maddock. 783 00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:08,360 Yes? 784 00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:10,360 You're Miss Maddock? 785 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:11,360 That's right. 786 00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:12,360 Who are you? 787 00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:13,360 Police officer. 788 00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:14,360 Come on in. 789 00:24:14,360 --> 00:24:15,360 I've been expecting you. 790 00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:20,360 Wait a minute. 791 00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:21,360 I'll get a coat. 792 00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:22,360 That's all right. 793 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:23,360 I'll get it. 794 00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:24,360 You kind of surprised me. 795 00:24:24,360 --> 00:24:25,360 How's that? 796 00:24:25,360 --> 00:24:27,760 I kind of figured you'd find me before this. 797 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:29,760 Didn't think it'd take this long. 798 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:31,360 Did you kill him? 799 00:24:31,360 --> 00:24:32,360 Yeah. 800 00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:33,360 He wanted a divorce. 801 00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:34,360 I wouldn't give it to him. 802 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:36,360 I wanted to marry some floozy where he worked. 803 00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:39,200 He wouldn't give me a chance to work things out. 804 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,520 I tried to convince him he was wrong. 805 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:46,000 I told him if he tried to leave me, he'd be sorry. 806 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:47,400 I tried to convince him. 807 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,200 He wouldn't believe me. 808 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,200 Well, maybe he does now. 809 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:52,200 Let's go. 810 00:24:52,200 --> 00:25:02,360 The story you've just heard is true. 811 00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:05,040 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 812 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:10,200 On December 16th, trial was held in Department 97's Superior Court of the State of California 813 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:29,520 in and for the County of Los Angeles, in a moment the results of that trial. 814 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:33,840 Gladys Markham Maddick was tried and convicted of murder in the second degree and received 815 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,120 punishment as prescribed by law. 816 00:25:36,120 --> 00:25:39,840 Murder in the second degree is punishable by imprisonment for a period of from five 817 00:25:39,840 --> 00:26:00,400 years to life in the state penitentiary. 818 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:05,480 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 819 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:09,920 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police 820 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:36,960 Department.