WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.660 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:11.660 --> 00:23.920 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:23.920 --> 00:25.600 You're a detective sergeant. 00:25.600 --> 00:27.200 You're assigned to homicide detail. 00:27.200 --> 00:31.760 A night watchman has been stabbed to death in a downtown appliance store. 00:31.760 --> 00:33.960 There's no apparent motive for the killing. 00:33.960 --> 00:35.800 No lead to the suspect. 00:35.800 --> 00:41.000 Your job, find him. 00:41.000 --> 00:53.520 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 00:53.520 --> 00:58.560 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 00:58.560 --> 01:03.400 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 01:03.400 --> 01:05.200 police files. 01:05.200 --> 01:10.660 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 01:10.660 --> 01:17.400 in action. 01:17.400 --> 01:18.400 Was Monday August 8th. 01:18.400 --> 01:19.400 It was warm in Los Angeles. 01:19.400 --> 01:21.880 We were working the day watch out of homicide detail. 01:21.880 --> 01:22.880 My partner's Frank Smith. 01:22.880 --> 01:23.880 The boss is Captain Lorman. 01:23.880 --> 01:24.880 My name is Frank. 01:24.880 --> 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 01:28.960 --> 01:32.000 of 7th and Duke Common streets. 01:32.000 --> 01:33.000 Bentley Appliance Company. 01:33.000 --> 01:36.000 Sure is a big place. 01:36.000 --> 01:37.000 There's somebody coming. 01:37.000 --> 01:42.440 Yeah, what do you want? 01:42.440 --> 01:43.440 Police officers. 01:43.440 --> 01:46.440 Oh yeah, just a minute. 01:46.440 --> 01:48.640 Come on in. 01:48.640 --> 01:51.720 Thanks a lot. 01:51.720 --> 01:54.120 I guess it'd be a good idea if I locked the door again, huh? 01:54.120 --> 01:56.120 If you'd like to, yes, sir. 01:56.120 --> 01:57.120 Good idea. 01:57.120 --> 02:00.920 There you go, it's all secure. 02:00.920 --> 02:01.920 My name's Ralph Bentley. 02:01.920 --> 02:03.120 I'm the one who put in the call. 02:03.120 --> 02:04.120 This is Frank Smith. 02:04.120 --> 02:05.120 My name's Friday. 02:05.120 --> 02:06.120 I do. 02:06.120 --> 02:07.120 I do, sir. 02:07.120 --> 02:08.120 Where's the body? 02:08.120 --> 02:09.120 Oh, back here in the stock room. 02:09.120 --> 02:10.880 Who found him, Mr. Bentley? 02:10.880 --> 02:12.480 Our building superintendent, Curtis Holman. 02:12.480 --> 02:13.480 Is he here now? 02:13.480 --> 02:14.480 Yeah, he's upstairs. 02:14.480 --> 02:15.480 All right. 02:15.480 --> 02:17.200 I suppose you'll want to talk to him. 02:17.200 --> 02:18.200 Yes, we will. 02:18.200 --> 02:19.200 I'll get it. 02:19.200 --> 02:20.200 Go ahead. 02:20.200 --> 02:22.200 Oh, thanks. 02:22.200 --> 02:27.600 Oh, over here, it's behind these packing cases. 02:27.600 --> 02:28.600 Uh-huh. 02:28.600 --> 02:32.400 Well, you can see there he was stabbed. 02:32.400 --> 02:33.400 Yeah. 02:33.400 --> 02:35.400 I sure am messing. 02:35.400 --> 02:37.400 Yeah, what's his name? 02:37.400 --> 02:38.400 Mr. Bentley? 02:38.400 --> 02:39.400 Hmm? 02:39.400 --> 02:40.400 The victim's name? 02:40.400 --> 02:41.400 Oh, Clyde Maddock. 02:41.400 --> 02:42.400 M-A-T-I-C-K? 02:42.400 --> 02:43.400 I-K, no C. 02:43.400 --> 02:48.400 What time was the body discovered? 02:48.400 --> 02:50.760 It must have been about 7.30. 02:50.760 --> 02:51.760 That's when Holman comes to work. 02:51.760 --> 02:52.760 Did he find it right away? 02:52.760 --> 02:53.760 I don't know. 02:53.760 --> 02:55.760 I haven't been able to get him to say much. 02:55.760 --> 02:57.760 When I came in, he was just standing here looking at the body. 02:57.760 --> 03:00.160 It was kind of numb, you know. 03:00.160 --> 03:01.160 What time did you get here? 03:01.160 --> 03:03.160 It must have been about 7.45. 03:03.160 --> 03:04.160 That's when I called you, wasn't it? 03:04.160 --> 03:05.160 Yes, sir, about that time. 03:05.160 --> 03:07.640 Yeah, that's when it was, 7.45. 03:07.640 --> 03:09.640 How long has this Maddock worked for you? 03:09.640 --> 03:11.880 Oh, three years. 03:11.880 --> 03:12.880 Almost four. 03:12.880 --> 03:15.560 Has anything in here been disturbed? 03:15.560 --> 03:17.400 Not that I know of. 03:17.400 --> 03:19.040 I don't think Holman touched anything. 03:19.040 --> 03:22.240 I couldn't talk to him very much, but I'm pretty sure he knows enough to leave things 03:22.240 --> 03:23.240 alone. 03:23.240 --> 03:24.240 Uh-huh. 03:24.240 --> 03:25.760 Well, I sure can't understand it. 03:25.760 --> 03:26.760 What's that? 03:26.760 --> 03:27.760 Well, take a look around. 03:27.760 --> 03:28.760 It doesn't look like there's a fight. 03:28.760 --> 03:30.760 Does it look like it to you? 03:30.760 --> 03:31.760 No. 03:31.760 --> 03:32.760 Well, that's it. 03:32.760 --> 03:33.760 What do you mean? 03:33.760 --> 03:36.400 Well, it stands to reason it was somebody he knew. 03:36.400 --> 03:39.320 Some stranger, there'd be signs he wouldn't just let somebody come up and stab him in 03:39.320 --> 03:40.320 the back, now would he? 03:40.320 --> 03:41.320 Doesn't seem likely, does it? 03:41.320 --> 03:44.480 Well, in the three years he's been with us, I've never heard anyone say an unkind thing 03:44.480 --> 03:46.480 about Maddock, not one. 03:46.480 --> 03:47.480 He didn't have an enemy in the world. 03:47.480 --> 03:48.480 Well, that doesn't mean much. 03:48.480 --> 03:49.480 Hmm? 03:49.480 --> 03:54.480 One of his friends didn't like him then. 03:54.480 --> 04:05.760 Eight-thirty a.m. 04:05.760 --> 04:09.600 We put in a call to the crime lab and asked them to come out and go over the scene. 04:09.600 --> 04:13.480 The manager led us upstairs to the main offices and we met the building superintendent, Curtis 04:13.480 --> 04:14.480 Holman. 04:14.480 --> 04:16.880 He was a small man in his early fifties. 04:16.880 --> 04:19.080 I don't care how it looks, Mr. Friday, I didn't do it. 04:19.080 --> 04:21.200 You gotta believe that, I didn't have anything to do with it. 04:21.200 --> 04:24.520 I know what he says you did, Holman, the officers just want to ask you some questions. 04:24.520 --> 04:26.440 Well, I don't want them to think I killed him. 04:26.440 --> 04:28.680 I don't want them to think that. 04:28.680 --> 04:29.680 What time did you find the body? 04:29.680 --> 04:33.520 I guess it must have been around seven-thirty, someplace around in there. 04:33.520 --> 04:38.000 You see, I just came in, locked the door after me, and then I was going to come up here and 04:38.000 --> 04:39.000 change my clothes. 04:39.000 --> 04:41.920 I got my own closet down there in the hall. 04:41.920 --> 04:43.440 My own closet, yes, sir. 04:43.440 --> 04:47.160 I was coming back, going upstairs, and I saw him just laying there. 04:47.160 --> 04:48.160 Right away I knew he was dead. 04:48.160 --> 04:50.520 You didn't have to have nobody tell me that. 04:50.520 --> 04:51.520 I knew he was dead. 04:51.520 --> 04:52.520 What'd you do? 04:52.520 --> 04:53.520 Nothing. 04:53.520 --> 04:54.520 Couldn't. 04:54.520 --> 04:55.520 Couldn't do nothing. 04:55.520 --> 04:58.000 First time I ever saw a dead man. 04:58.000 --> 04:59.000 I don't know. 04:59.000 --> 05:00.720 I guess just stood there and looked. 05:00.720 --> 05:01.720 First time. 05:01.720 --> 05:03.400 Yeah, that's where he was when I came in. 05:03.400 --> 05:04.720 Yeah, I was just there. 05:04.720 --> 05:06.400 You see, I didn't kill him. 05:06.400 --> 05:07.400 Wasn't me. 05:07.400 --> 05:08.400 Somebody did it, but it wasn't me. 05:08.400 --> 05:09.400 All right, Holman, all right. 05:09.400 --> 05:12.400 Now, we were friends, Friday and me. 05:12.400 --> 05:16.360 I guess I should have told you he doesn't mean any harm. 05:16.360 --> 05:17.360 I understand. 05:17.360 --> 05:19.160 Played cribbage once in a while in the morning. 05:19.160 --> 05:21.440 Me and Clyde played cribbage. 05:21.440 --> 05:24.280 Was there anybody else in the store when you got here, Holman? 05:24.280 --> 05:25.280 Huh? 05:25.280 --> 05:26.280 You talking to me? 05:26.280 --> 05:27.280 Yes, sir. 05:27.280 --> 05:29.240 Did you see anybody else in the place when you got here? 05:29.240 --> 05:31.280 No, just me and Clyde. 05:31.280 --> 05:32.280 Only he was dead. 05:32.280 --> 05:33.280 How'd you get in? 05:33.280 --> 05:34.280 Got a key. 05:34.280 --> 05:35.280 See, right here. 05:35.280 --> 05:36.280 My own key. 05:36.280 --> 05:38.280 How many keys are there, Mr. Batley? 05:38.280 --> 05:39.280 Oh, there's three out. 05:39.280 --> 05:40.280 I got one. 05:40.280 --> 05:41.280 Holman has one. 05:41.280 --> 05:42.560 Maddock had the other one. 05:42.560 --> 05:44.720 Have you contacted his family? 05:44.720 --> 05:45.720 Hasn't got one. 05:45.720 --> 05:47.200 As far as we know, he hasn't got any people. 05:47.200 --> 05:48.720 You can give us his address, though, can't you? 05:48.720 --> 05:49.720 Well, sure. 05:49.720 --> 05:50.720 No trouble at all. 05:50.720 --> 05:51.720 Lives upstairs. 05:51.720 --> 05:52.720 What? 05:52.720 --> 05:53.720 Part of the deal we worked out when he started. 05:53.720 --> 05:54.720 A little room on the third floor. 05:54.720 --> 05:55.720 He gets that and a salary. 05:55.720 --> 05:58.320 Hmm, real nice way he fixed it up. 05:58.320 --> 06:00.400 All painted bookshelves, a lot of books. 06:00.400 --> 06:01.400 All over the place, books. 06:01.400 --> 06:02.720 Wonder if we could see it. 06:02.720 --> 06:03.720 Certainly. 06:03.720 --> 06:04.720 You like it. 06:04.720 --> 06:05.720 Real nice room. 06:05.720 --> 06:06.720 Nice and mine. 06:06.720 --> 06:07.720 Wish I had it. 06:07.720 --> 06:11.440 We can go down this way. 06:11.440 --> 06:12.440 Want me to go up with you? 06:12.440 --> 06:14.120 Yes, sir, if you'd like to. 06:14.120 --> 06:16.800 Sure, I like Clyde's room. 06:16.800 --> 06:19.800 Be fast if we take the stairs. 06:19.800 --> 06:21.120 All right. 06:21.120 --> 06:23.520 Here we are. 06:23.520 --> 06:26.400 All right, go ahead. 06:26.400 --> 06:28.720 Thank you. 06:28.720 --> 06:33.120 I guess Clyde had about every book printed. 06:33.120 --> 06:34.120 Great one for reading. 06:34.120 --> 06:35.120 That so? 06:35.120 --> 06:36.120 Oh, yeah. 06:36.120 --> 06:37.120 All time had his face in the book. 06:37.120 --> 06:38.120 All time reading. 06:38.120 --> 06:39.120 Smart. 06:39.120 --> 06:42.040 He knew all kinds of things. 06:42.040 --> 06:44.120 Just asked Clyde a question and he knew the answer. 06:44.120 --> 06:46.680 I was all time telling him he should go on the quiz shows. 06:46.680 --> 06:47.680 He'd won them all. 06:47.680 --> 06:51.080 Knew the names of all the presidents, when they was elected. 06:51.080 --> 06:52.080 All about him. 06:52.080 --> 06:53.080 Is that right? 06:53.080 --> 06:55.240 Let's write down this way. 06:55.240 --> 06:58.240 All right. 06:58.240 --> 07:00.520 I used to sit there and look through the books. 07:00.520 --> 07:03.240 Didn't make much sense to me, but Clyde sure liked them. 07:03.240 --> 07:06.240 All right, Holman, I'm sure the officers know what you mean. 07:06.240 --> 07:07.240 Just try and tell them that's all. 07:07.240 --> 07:08.240 Tell them about Clyde. 07:08.240 --> 07:09.240 Sure. 07:09.240 --> 07:10.240 Oh, this is it. 07:10.240 --> 07:11.240 It's locked. 07:11.240 --> 07:13.240 Do you have a key? 07:13.240 --> 07:14.240 No, I don't. 07:14.240 --> 07:15.240 I got one. 07:15.240 --> 07:16.240 Got it on the ring. 07:16.240 --> 07:17.240 You want me to open the door? 07:17.240 --> 07:18.240 If you would, yeah. 07:18.240 --> 07:19.240 Sure thing. 07:19.240 --> 07:20.240 Glad to help you. 07:20.240 --> 07:22.240 Find the right one now. 07:22.240 --> 07:24.240 Here, you drop this. 07:24.240 --> 07:27.240 Why do you have a key to the room? 07:27.240 --> 07:28.240 Clyde gave it to me. 07:28.240 --> 07:31.240 Said it was all right for me to have it in case I wanted to clean up. 07:31.240 --> 07:32.800 He let me do that. 07:32.800 --> 07:33.800 Clean up. 07:33.800 --> 07:34.800 All right. 07:34.800 --> 07:35.800 Well, do you have the key? 07:35.800 --> 07:36.800 Yeah. 07:36.800 --> 07:37.800 Here it is. 07:37.800 --> 07:40.800 There you are. 07:40.800 --> 07:43.800 Hey. 07:43.800 --> 07:48.800 Sure looks like there was a party in here. 07:48.800 --> 07:49.800 Yeah. 07:49.800 --> 07:52.800 Certainly didn't have any idea things like this went on. 07:52.800 --> 07:54.800 Boy, just look at this room. 07:54.800 --> 07:58.800 Beer bottles all over the place, glasses. 07:58.800 --> 07:59.800 Empty bottle. 07:59.800 --> 08:00.800 This place is filthy. 08:00.800 --> 08:04.800 I was going to clean it up, Mr. Bentley, honest I was. 08:04.800 --> 08:10.800 Right after I finish the rest of the building, I was going to clean it up. 08:10.800 --> 08:13.800 Fourteen beer bottles, all of them empty, boy. 08:13.800 --> 08:16.800 I don't see how a man could drink that much beer. 08:16.800 --> 08:18.800 Looks like he had some help there. 08:18.800 --> 08:19.800 Huh? 08:19.800 --> 08:20.800 What do you got? 08:20.800 --> 08:21.800 Hey, look at these glasses. 08:21.800 --> 08:22.800 Yeah. 08:22.800 --> 08:23.800 Lipsticks, man. 08:23.800 --> 08:24.800 Don't touch them. 08:24.800 --> 08:25.800 I'm sorry. 08:25.800 --> 08:29.800 Boy, that really does it. 08:29.800 --> 08:30.800 That's the capper. 08:30.800 --> 08:31.800 Sir? 08:31.800 --> 08:34.800 You know, when he took the job, I made it perfectly clear, no mistake about it, none 08:34.800 --> 08:35.800 at all. 08:35.800 --> 08:36.800 What do you mean? 08:36.800 --> 08:37.800 Beer drinking, I don't mind. 08:37.800 --> 08:38.800 He's got that right. 08:38.800 --> 08:41.800 But I told him there wasn't supposed to be any women up here. 08:41.800 --> 08:42.800 No. 08:42.800 --> 08:43.800 He knew it. 08:43.800 --> 08:45.800 Doesn't look good place of business, just doesn't look good. 08:45.800 --> 08:46.800 Yeah. 08:46.800 --> 08:49.800 I told him if he broke the rule once, just once he'd be sorry about it. 08:49.800 --> 08:50.800 That's what I told him. 08:50.800 --> 08:52.800 He's got no quarrel about it now. 08:52.800 --> 08:53.800 Huh? 08:53.800 --> 08:54.800 He's sorry. 08:54.800 --> 09:01.800 He's sorry. 09:01.800 --> 09:06.800 The crime lab arrived and started to go over the room. 09:06.800 --> 09:10.800 After photographs had been taken, the body was removed to the county morgue. 09:10.800 --> 09:14.800 Apparently, the victim had died of internal hemorrhage caused by three deep stab wounds 09:14.800 --> 09:15.800 in the back. 09:15.800 --> 09:17.800 He'd been dead about 36 hours. 09:17.800 --> 09:21.800 From questioning the other employees of the store, we were able to find out a little about 09:21.800 --> 09:22.800 the victim's background. 09:22.800 --> 09:26.800 All of them knew him as a quiet man who kept pretty much to himself. 09:26.800 --> 09:28.800 We asked about the women, friends. 09:28.800 --> 09:29.800 They couldn't help us there either. 09:29.800 --> 09:30.800 The questioning continued. 09:30.800 --> 09:33.800 As far as I know, there wasn't anybody. 09:33.800 --> 09:35.800 Did he ever mention any friends to you? 09:35.800 --> 09:36.800 No, we didn't talk much. 09:36.800 --> 09:38.800 I didn't see him a lot. 09:38.800 --> 09:41.800 You know, he'd be in the halls or something like that, but we didn't talk much. 09:41.800 --> 09:44.800 Is there anything more you can tell us that might help? 09:44.800 --> 09:45.800 I don't think so. 09:45.800 --> 09:47.800 If I think of anything, I'll let you know. 09:47.800 --> 09:48.800 All right. 09:48.800 --> 09:49.800 Thank you very much. 09:49.800 --> 09:50.800 Is that all? 09:50.800 --> 09:52.800 Yes. 09:52.800 --> 09:57.800 Well, sure getting us nowhere. 09:57.800 --> 09:58.800 Yeah. 09:58.800 --> 10:00.800 Let's have the next one, huh? 10:00.800 --> 10:01.800 All right. 10:01.800 --> 10:05.800 Do you come in now, Miss Lask? 10:05.800 --> 10:06.800 Yes. 10:06.800 --> 10:08.800 It's, uh, Carl Lask, is that right? 10:08.800 --> 10:09.800 That's right. 10:09.800 --> 10:10.800 My name's Smith. 10:10.800 --> 10:11.800 This is Sergeant Friday. 10:11.800 --> 10:12.800 I do. 10:12.800 --> 10:13.800 How are you? 10:13.800 --> 10:14.800 Would you like to sit down? 10:14.800 --> 10:15.800 Thank you. 10:15.800 --> 10:18.800 I guess it's about Mr. Maddock, huh? 10:18.800 --> 10:19.800 That's right. 10:19.800 --> 10:21.800 Awful thing to have happen. 10:21.800 --> 10:24.800 I work in the office almost right under his room. 10:24.800 --> 10:26.800 Kind of gives me the creeps to think about. 10:26.800 --> 10:27.800 Oh, creepy. 10:27.800 --> 10:28.800 Did you know him very well? 10:28.800 --> 10:30.800 Yeah, I guess you could say I did. 10:30.800 --> 10:32.800 I went to lunch with him a couple of times. 10:32.800 --> 10:33.800 Even had a couple of dates. 10:33.800 --> 10:35.800 Not flower type dates, though. 10:35.800 --> 10:36.800 How's that? 10:36.800 --> 10:37.800 He didn't bring flowers. 10:37.800 --> 10:38.800 Oh, I see. 10:38.800 --> 10:41.800 Met after work, went to dinner, nothing serious. 10:41.800 --> 10:43.800 Do you know any of his other friends? 10:43.800 --> 10:45.800 Just about everybody in the place. 10:45.800 --> 10:47.800 Wasn't anybody that wasn't friends with Mr. Maddock. 10:47.800 --> 10:48.800 Everybody liked him. 10:48.800 --> 10:50.800 Is there anybody special? 10:50.800 --> 10:51.800 You mean like a girlfriend? 10:51.800 --> 10:52.800 That's right. 10:52.800 --> 10:54.800 I don't know. 10:54.800 --> 10:56.800 As maybe it was Bessie. 10:56.800 --> 10:57.800 Who's that, Miss? 10:57.800 --> 10:58.800 Bessie Rowan. 10:58.800 --> 11:00.800 Her and Mr. Maddock were pretty friendly. 11:00.800 --> 11:03.800 You ask me, I'd say might even have been serious. 11:03.800 --> 11:04.800 Does she work here? 11:04.800 --> 11:06.800 Yeah, stockroom clerk. 11:06.800 --> 11:07.800 Head of the department. 11:07.800 --> 11:08.800 I see. 11:08.800 --> 11:09.800 Pretty important job. 11:09.800 --> 11:10.800 Got charge of all the ordering. 11:10.800 --> 11:11.800 Yeah. 11:11.800 --> 11:14.800 You ever been in Mr. Maddock's room? 11:14.800 --> 11:18.800 I know you're just trying to do what you think is right, Mr. Friday. 11:18.800 --> 11:20.800 But I don't like what you're getting at. 11:20.800 --> 11:21.800 No offense, Miss Lask. 11:21.800 --> 11:23.800 Just a routine question. 11:23.800 --> 11:25.800 The answer's no, I told you. 11:25.800 --> 11:27.800 I just went out with him a couple of times, that's all. 11:27.800 --> 11:28.800 I see. 11:28.800 --> 11:30.800 You remember that. 11:30.800 --> 11:31.800 Yes, ma'am. 11:31.800 --> 11:32.800 Is Miss Rowan here this morning? 11:32.800 --> 11:33.800 No, she isn't. 11:33.800 --> 11:35.800 What a funny thing to... 11:35.800 --> 11:36.800 What do you mean? 11:36.800 --> 11:37.800 It's not like her to miss a day's work. 11:37.800 --> 11:39.800 Long as I've been here, she never done it before. 11:39.800 --> 11:41.800 Always here, always on time. 11:41.800 --> 11:43.800 That's why it's so funny. 11:43.800 --> 11:45.800 She called this morning and said she wouldn't be able to make it. 11:45.800 --> 11:46.800 Did she say why? 11:46.800 --> 11:47.800 Not really. 11:47.800 --> 11:49.800 Kind of talked around it, you know. 11:49.800 --> 11:53.800 Matter of fact, I didn't think she had a real reason for not coming in. 11:53.800 --> 11:54.800 How was that? 11:54.800 --> 11:56.800 The way she acted. 11:56.800 --> 11:57.800 Say. 11:57.800 --> 12:00.800 You don't think it had anything to do with Mr. Maddock, do you? 12:00.800 --> 12:01.800 I wouldn't know. 12:01.800 --> 12:03.800 I'll bet that's it. 12:03.800 --> 12:04.800 She knows something. 12:04.800 --> 12:05.800 That's why she's not coming in. 12:05.800 --> 12:06.800 That's the reason. 12:06.800 --> 12:07.800 It's possible. 12:07.800 --> 12:08.800 More than that, she knows something. 12:08.800 --> 12:09.800 I'll bet you on it. 12:09.800 --> 12:10.800 Bet you anything. 12:10.800 --> 12:12.800 No, it wouldn't be too fair. 12:12.800 --> 12:14.800 We'd like to see you win. 12:24.800 --> 12:26.800 We checked all the employees of the store through R&I. 12:26.800 --> 12:29.800 Except for two drunk arrests for the janitor, Curtis Hallman. 12:29.800 --> 12:31.800 There was no record on any of them. 12:31.800 --> 12:34.800 We tried to contact Bessie Rowan at her home, but she wasn't there. 12:34.800 --> 12:38.800 The neighbors were unable to tell us anything that might aid us in finding her. 12:38.800 --> 12:41.800 We asked them to notify us in the event she returned. 12:41.800 --> 12:46.800 At 12.46 p.m., an unidentified woman called the Bentley Appliance Company and asked for the victim. 12:46.800 --> 12:50.800 She was told that he was out and was asked to leave a phone number where she could be contacted. 12:50.800 --> 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. 12:56.800 --> 12:59.800 We drove over to the place and talked with one of the clerks. 12:59.800 --> 13:02.800 Yes, it seems to me there was a woman by the phone booth. 13:02.800 --> 13:04.800 Can you give us a description of her? 13:04.800 --> 13:06.800 Not a very good one, I'm afraid. 13:06.800 --> 13:08.800 Well, anything you can tell us might help. 13:08.800 --> 13:10.800 See, there is one thing, though. 13:10.800 --> 13:11.800 What's that? 13:11.800 --> 13:13.800 Might not mean anything. 13:13.800 --> 13:14.800 What is it, ma'am? 13:14.800 --> 13:15.800 Her hair. 13:15.800 --> 13:16.800 Yeah. 13:16.800 --> 13:17.800 Real red. 13:17.800 --> 13:19.800 About the brightest red I've ever seen. 13:19.800 --> 13:20.800 Had to come from a bottle. 13:20.800 --> 13:22.800 Never saw any natural hair of that color. 13:22.800 --> 13:23.800 All right. 13:23.800 --> 13:24.800 That help you any? 13:24.800 --> 13:25.800 Well, we don't know yet. 13:25.800 --> 13:26.800 I didn't think it would. 13:26.800 --> 13:28.800 Just something you remember. 13:28.800 --> 13:30.800 Something kind of outstanding. 13:30.800 --> 13:31.800 I just thought of it. 13:31.800 --> 13:35.800 Figured it might be a way for you to remember if it's the one you're looking for. 13:35.800 --> 13:40.800 Well, if it is, we've got another way. 13:45.800 --> 13:46.800 4.35 p.m. 13:46.800 --> 13:48.800 Frank and I went back to the city hall and checked into the office. 13:48.800 --> 13:52.800 There was a note in the book for us to get in touch with Sergeant J. Allen at the crime lab. 13:52.800 --> 13:55.800 He just finished his preliminary examination of physical evidence 13:55.800 --> 13:57.800 and wanted to go over his findings with us. 13:57.800 --> 13:58.800 Back here, Joe. 13:58.800 --> 13:59.800 Frank. 13:59.800 --> 14:00.800 Yeah. 14:00.800 --> 14:01.800 Okay. 14:02.800 --> 14:03.800 Well, how'd you do? 14:03.800 --> 14:04.800 Not bad. 14:04.800 --> 14:05.800 Here, take a look. 14:05.800 --> 14:06.800 Yeah? 14:06.800 --> 14:09.800 These are the beer bottles we found in the room 14 of them. 14:09.800 --> 14:10.800 They're clean. 14:10.800 --> 14:12.800 Able to lift three good prints from one of the glasses. 14:12.800 --> 14:13.800 Enough for identification. 14:13.800 --> 14:14.800 If you come up with a finger. 14:14.800 --> 14:16.800 Not enough for classification. 14:16.800 --> 14:17.800 No. 14:17.800 --> 14:18.800 Anything else? 14:18.800 --> 14:20.800 I went over the room with a vacuum cleaner. 14:20.800 --> 14:22.800 Found this in the couch. 14:22.800 --> 14:23.800 Earring? 14:23.800 --> 14:24.800 Yeah. 14:24.800 --> 14:26.800 Imitation stone, Monnings gold filled. 14:26.800 --> 14:27.800 Nothing else, huh? 14:27.800 --> 14:29.800 Any way of checking where it was bought, J? 14:29.800 --> 14:30.800 It'll be pretty hard. 14:30.800 --> 14:32.800 Costume jewelry, a lot of places make it. 14:32.800 --> 14:33.800 Even more than that seller. 14:33.800 --> 14:34.800 Yeah. 14:34.800 --> 14:37.800 Found this handkerchief on the floor under the couch. 14:38.800 --> 14:39.800 No monogram. 14:39.800 --> 14:40.800 Any laundry marks? 14:40.800 --> 14:41.800 No. 14:41.800 --> 14:42.800 Went over it with ultraviolet. 14:42.800 --> 14:43.800 There's none there. 14:44.800 --> 14:45.800 Is that it? 14:45.800 --> 14:47.800 Well, lipstick marks on the glasses we lifted him. 14:47.800 --> 14:49.800 Might be able to use them on identification. 14:49.800 --> 14:50.800 Yeah. 14:50.800 --> 14:52.800 You, uh, come up with a motive yet? 14:52.800 --> 14:53.800 No. 14:53.800 --> 14:54.800 No, as near as we can tell, 14:54.800 --> 14:55.800 there wasn't anything stolen from the store. 14:55.800 --> 14:58.800 The victim had $36 in cash on him. 14:58.800 --> 15:00.800 Expensive watch, ring. 15:00.800 --> 15:01.800 None of it was touched. 15:01.800 --> 15:02.800 Hmm. 15:02.800 --> 15:03.800 You got any more for us, J? 15:03.800 --> 15:05.800 Well, couldn't find the murder weapon. 15:05.800 --> 15:06.800 Wasn't in the room. 15:06.800 --> 15:08.800 We checked, the rest of the place couldn't turn it. 15:08.800 --> 15:10.800 Any idea what it might have been, J? 15:10.800 --> 15:12.800 A sharp instrument, probably a pocket knife, 15:12.800 --> 15:13.800 three-inch blade. 15:13.800 --> 15:15.800 Oh, one more thing, not sure about it. 15:15.800 --> 15:16.800 Yeah. 15:16.800 --> 15:17.800 Here, I'll get it. 15:20.800 --> 15:21.800 Take a look. 15:21.800 --> 15:22.800 What do you got there? 15:22.800 --> 15:23.800 Hair. 15:23.800 --> 15:24.800 Found them on the victim's jacket. 15:24.800 --> 15:26.800 No way of telling how long they'd been there. 15:26.800 --> 15:27.800 Human? 15:26.800 --> 15:27.800 Yeah. 15:27.800 --> 15:29.800 Whoever they belonged to shouldn't be too hard to spot. 15:29.800 --> 15:30.800 What do you mean? 15:30.800 --> 15:31.800 Bright red. 15:31.800 --> 15:32.800 I'm not sure. 15:40.800 --> 15:41.800 We left the crime lab 15:41.800 --> 15:43.800 and drove over to the Bentley Appliance Company. 15:43.800 --> 15:44.800 We went up to the second floor 15:44.800 --> 15:47.800 and talked with the secretary again, Cora Lask. 15:47.800 --> 15:49.800 Sure, I can give you a description of Bessie, 15:49.800 --> 15:50.800 no trouble at all. 15:50.800 --> 15:51.800 Have you heard from her today? 15:51.800 --> 15:52.800 Not since this morning. 15:52.800 --> 15:54.800 I told you about that, you know, how she wouldn't be in. 15:54.800 --> 15:55.800 Yeah. 15:55.800 --> 15:56.800 That's the only time. 15:56.800 --> 15:57.800 Now, about the description, 15:57.800 --> 15:59.800 what color hair does she have? 15:59.800 --> 16:00.800 It's a blonde color. 16:00.800 --> 16:01.800 Darker light. 16:01.800 --> 16:02.800 Kind of in between. 16:02.800 --> 16:04.800 I guess that's the reason she fixes it up. 16:04.800 --> 16:05.800 How do you mean? 16:05.800 --> 16:06.800 Touch up. 16:06.800 --> 16:08.800 Usually a sort of strawberry blonde, I guess you'd call it. 16:08.800 --> 16:09.800 Uh-huh. 16:09.800 --> 16:10.800 Last time she did it, 16:10.800 --> 16:13.800 I guess it was a week ago, she had an accident. 16:13.800 --> 16:14.800 Yeah. 16:14.800 --> 16:15.800 With the dye, she did something wrong. 16:15.800 --> 16:16.800 Sure looked funny. 16:16.800 --> 16:17.800 How do you mean? 16:17.800 --> 16:18.800 Well, it turned out wrong. 16:18.800 --> 16:20.800 Embarrassed her all over the place. 16:20.800 --> 16:22.800 Everybody was making cracks about it. 16:22.800 --> 16:25.800 She said she was going to redo it the first chance she had. 16:25.800 --> 16:26.800 Yeah. 16:26.800 --> 16:27.800 I kind of laughed myself. 16:27.800 --> 16:28.800 It was pretty hard to imagine. 16:28.800 --> 16:29.800 What's that? 16:29.800 --> 16:30.800 That color red hair. 16:30.800 --> 16:42.800 We returned to the office and filled out the reports. 16:42.800 --> 16:45.800 At 6.18 p.m., we got a call from one of the suspect's neighbors 16:45.800 --> 16:47.800 telling us that she'd returned home. 16:47.800 --> 16:49.800 We grew about to talk to her. 16:49.800 --> 16:50.800 Yeah? 16:50.800 --> 16:51.800 Bessie Rowan? 16:51.800 --> 16:52.800 That's right. 16:52.800 --> 16:53.800 Who are you? 16:53.800 --> 16:54.800 Police officer. 16:54.800 --> 16:55.800 I'd like to talk to you. 16:55.800 --> 16:56.800 Well, I'm a police officer. 16:56.800 --> 16:57.800 I'm a police officer. 16:57.800 --> 16:59.800 I'd like to talk to you. 16:59.800 --> 17:01.800 Well, I haven't got anything to say to you. 17:01.800 --> 17:04.800 It's not going to do me much good, though, is it? 17:04.800 --> 17:05.800 Is it? 17:05.800 --> 17:08.800 You're going to take me down to the pookie anyway, aren't you? 17:08.800 --> 17:09.800 Aren't you going to? 17:09.800 --> 17:11.800 Might be better if we talk the inside. 17:11.800 --> 17:13.800 Oh, well, then. 17:13.800 --> 17:14.800 Come on in. 17:14.800 --> 17:16.800 Ain't no difference where we talk. 17:16.800 --> 17:17.800 Not a bit. 17:17.800 --> 17:18.800 You ain't going to believe me anyway. 17:18.800 --> 17:19.800 About what? 17:19.800 --> 17:20.800 That I didn't kill Clyde. 17:20.800 --> 17:22.800 You ain't going to believe me, are you? 17:22.800 --> 17:23.800 Why don't you tell us? 17:23.800 --> 17:24.800 All right, I will. 17:24.800 --> 17:26.800 What do you think of that, huh? 17:26.800 --> 17:28.800 What do you think of that? 17:28.800 --> 17:29.800 You alone here? 17:29.800 --> 17:31.800 No, I got three more friends hiding in the closet. 17:31.800 --> 17:33.800 They usually don't come out this early, though, 17:33.800 --> 17:34.800 wait until it gets dark. 17:34.800 --> 17:36.800 That's when they like it, when it's dark. 17:36.800 --> 17:38.800 Now, you want me to tell you now, huh? 17:38.800 --> 17:39.800 Do you? 17:39.800 --> 17:40.800 About what? 17:40.800 --> 17:41.800 About Clyde. 17:41.800 --> 17:42.800 How he's dead. 17:42.800 --> 17:43.800 You want me to? 17:43.800 --> 17:44.800 Why don't you try? 17:44.800 --> 17:47.800 No matter what I say, you're going to believe what you want to, 17:47.800 --> 17:49.800 so it'd probably be easier if I went along with you, wouldn't it? 17:49.800 --> 17:50.800 Might be. 17:50.800 --> 17:51.800 Okay, then. 17:51.800 --> 17:56.800 I killed him. 18:21.800 --> 18:28.800 6.23 p.m., we continued to talk to Bessie Rowan. 18:28.800 --> 18:31.800 Frank went out to the kitchen and made a pot of coffee. 18:31.800 --> 18:33.800 After we'd gotten several cups down, Miss Rowan, 18:33.800 --> 18:35.800 she sobered up and was able to answer our questions. 18:35.800 --> 18:36.800 I didn't mean it. 18:36.800 --> 18:37.800 I wasn't feeling very good. 18:37.800 --> 18:38.800 I guess that's why I said it. 18:38.800 --> 18:39.800 Did you see him Saturday night? 18:39.800 --> 18:40.800 Yeah. 18:40.800 --> 18:41.800 Where? 18:41.800 --> 18:42.800 After work. 18:42.800 --> 18:44.800 Met him, we went to the place on the corner, 18:44.800 --> 18:46.800 had a couple of drinks, and then I came home. 18:46.800 --> 18:47.800 Ever been to his room? 18:47.800 --> 18:48.800 Went to meet at the company? 18:48.800 --> 18:49.800 Yeah. 18:49.800 --> 18:51.800 I guess it wouldn't do any good to lie about it. 18:51.800 --> 18:52.800 Yeah, I've been there. 18:52.800 --> 18:53.800 When? 18:53.800 --> 18:54.800 I don't know. 18:54.800 --> 18:55.800 I guess the last time was a week ago. 18:55.800 --> 18:57.800 Somewhere in there, I had a couple of drinks. 18:57.800 --> 18:59.800 How'd you and Maddie get along? 18:59.800 --> 19:01.800 All right, we didn't set the world on fire. 19:01.800 --> 19:02.800 How'd you know he was dead? 19:02.800 --> 19:03.800 Heard it. 19:03.800 --> 19:04.800 Where? 19:04.800 --> 19:05.800 I'd rather not say. 19:05.800 --> 19:06.800 I'm like somebody in trouble. 19:06.800 --> 19:07.800 You've got a good-sized piece of that right now. 19:07.800 --> 19:09.800 Why don't you tell us? 19:09.800 --> 19:10.800 A friend of mine. 19:10.800 --> 19:12.800 I called this morning. 19:12.800 --> 19:13.800 That's how you found out? 19:13.800 --> 19:14.800 Yeah. 19:14.800 --> 19:16.800 I guess his friend wasn't supposed to say anything. 19:16.800 --> 19:18.800 As soon as she did, she told me not to say anything. 19:18.800 --> 19:20.800 What time did you see Maddie last? 19:20.800 --> 19:22.800 I guess it was about 7.30. 19:22.800 --> 19:24.800 Right after we came out of the bar, 19:24.800 --> 19:27.800 he walked me back to the parking lot and I came home. 19:27.800 --> 19:28.800 Anybody vouch for that? 19:28.800 --> 19:29.800 No. 19:29.800 --> 19:30.800 You can prove it then, though. 19:30.800 --> 19:32.800 Maybe they changed the laws, huh? 19:32.800 --> 19:33.800 What do you mean by that? 19:33.800 --> 19:35.800 I always thought you had to prove I was guilty. 19:35.800 --> 19:36.800 They done away with that? 19:36.800 --> 19:37.800 No. 19:37.800 --> 19:38.800 Then start proving. 19:38.800 --> 19:39.800 All right, get a coat and we'll go downtown. 19:39.800 --> 19:40.800 You gonna book me? 19:40.800 --> 19:41.800 We'll see. 19:41.800 --> 19:43.800 Gotta make a charge, don't you? 19:43.800 --> 19:44.800 If you want it that way. 19:44.800 --> 19:45.800 Never mind. 19:45.800 --> 19:47.800 I'll get a jacket. 19:47.800 --> 19:48.800 Where is it? 19:48.800 --> 19:49.800 Bedroom closet. 19:49.800 --> 19:50.800 You want to show me? 19:50.800 --> 19:51.800 You don't trust anybody, do you? 19:51.800 --> 19:52.800 Let's get the coat, lady. 19:52.800 --> 19:53.800 That's the one. 19:53.800 --> 19:54.800 Okay. 19:54.800 --> 19:55.800 There you are. 19:55.800 --> 19:56.800 The gentleman would hold it. 19:56.800 --> 19:57.800 Yeah. 19:57.800 --> 19:58.800 It's all set? 19:58.800 --> 19:59.800 Yeah, I guess so. 19:59.800 --> 20:00.800 You turn off the coffee? 20:00.800 --> 20:01.800 Yeah, I think so. 20:01.800 --> 20:02.800 You better be sure. 20:02.800 --> 20:03.800 I'm not gonna come home and have to clean a burned coffee pot. 20:03.800 --> 20:04.800 Don't worry about it. 20:04.800 --> 20:05.800 Huh? 20:05.800 --> 20:06.800 You might not be coming home. 20:06.800 --> 20:24.000 The woman was taken downtown to the city hall. 20:24.000 --> 20:25.000 Her fingerprints were taken. 20:25.000 --> 20:28.440 We checked her name and description through RNI once more, but we failed to come up with 20:28.440 --> 20:30.040 a record for her. 20:30.040 --> 20:31.040 8.15 p.m. 20:31.040 --> 20:34.000 While I talked to her in the squad room, Frank went down the hall. 20:34.000 --> 20:35.600 You're gonna let me go home. 20:35.600 --> 20:36.880 As soon as you tell us the truth. 20:36.880 --> 20:38.080 I've told you everything I know. 20:38.080 --> 20:39.080 It's all you're gonna get. 20:39.080 --> 20:40.080 John. 20:40.080 --> 20:41.080 Yeah? 20:41.080 --> 20:42.080 Here it is. 20:42.080 --> 20:43.080 What's that? 20:43.080 --> 20:46.080 The solution to the case? 20:46.080 --> 20:47.080 It might be. 20:47.080 --> 20:48.080 It's a report from Leighton Prince. 20:48.080 --> 20:49.080 Yeah? 20:49.080 --> 20:51.080 Your fingerprints match with the ones we found on some glasses in his room. 20:51.080 --> 20:52.080 What does that mean? 20:52.080 --> 20:53.080 You were in his room. 20:53.080 --> 20:54.080 I've already admitted that. 20:54.080 --> 20:55.080 You told us you weren't there Saturday. 20:55.080 --> 20:56.080 So he's a sloppy housekeeper. 20:56.080 --> 20:57.080 Now, we talked to the janitor. 20:57.080 --> 20:58.080 He cleaned the room Saturday morning. 20:58.080 --> 20:59.080 The glasses weren't there then. 20:59.080 --> 21:00.080 How about him? 21:00.080 --> 21:01.080 He's a good man. 21:01.080 --> 21:02.080 He's a good man. 21:02.080 --> 21:03.080 He's a good man. 21:03.080 --> 21:04.080 He's a good man. 21:04.080 --> 21:05.080 He's a good man. 21:05.080 --> 21:06.080 How about it, Miss Rowland? 21:06.080 --> 21:09.800 Make it easier if you give us a statement. 21:09.800 --> 21:10.800 Come on. 21:10.800 --> 21:11.800 All right. 21:11.800 --> 21:14.240 I was there, but I didn't kill him. 21:14.240 --> 21:15.240 And that's the truth. 21:15.240 --> 21:16.240 Go ahead. 21:16.240 --> 21:18.680 After we left the bar, he asked me to come up and have a nightcap. 21:18.680 --> 21:19.680 I did. 21:19.680 --> 21:20.680 Yeah? 21:20.680 --> 21:21.680 We had some stuff to talk over. 21:21.680 --> 21:22.680 What? 21:22.680 --> 21:23.680 We wanted to get married. 21:23.680 --> 21:24.680 We talked about it before. 21:24.680 --> 21:25.680 There was something that was hanging him up. 21:25.680 --> 21:26.680 I don't know what it was. 21:26.680 --> 21:28.880 I told him we couldn't go on like that anymore. 21:28.880 --> 21:30.960 It had to be either one way or the other. 21:30.960 --> 21:33.200 Either we'd get married or else we'd call the whole thing off. 21:33.200 --> 21:34.200 Yeah. 21:34.200 --> 21:35.720 He asked for a couple of days. 21:35.720 --> 21:37.840 Said he'd clean up whatever the trouble was by then. 21:37.840 --> 21:38.840 Yeah. 21:38.840 --> 21:39.840 I told him to go ahead. 21:39.840 --> 21:40.840 That's all. 21:40.840 --> 21:42.560 Had a couple of drinks and then I left and I came straight home. 21:42.560 --> 21:43.560 What time did you get there? 21:43.560 --> 21:44.560 About 10. 21:44.560 --> 21:45.560 Maybe 10.30. 21:45.560 --> 21:46.560 Why'd you lie to us? 21:46.560 --> 21:47.960 I don't know. 21:47.960 --> 21:48.960 I was drunk. 21:48.960 --> 21:49.960 You saw that. 21:49.960 --> 21:50.960 Yeah. 21:50.960 --> 21:51.960 I got scared. 21:51.960 --> 21:53.320 I figured sure you'd think I did it. 21:53.320 --> 21:54.600 Did Maddock have any other girlfriends? 21:54.600 --> 21:55.600 I don't know. 21:55.600 --> 21:56.600 We didn't talk about it. 21:56.600 --> 21:57.600 Did he mention anybody else? 21:57.600 --> 21:58.600 Yeah. 21:58.600 --> 21:59.600 I guess. 21:59.600 --> 22:02.440 A couple of times he talked about some girl that was giving him trouble, called him at 22:02.440 --> 22:04.320 work, you know, and he's back. 22:04.320 --> 22:06.000 Told him he was trying to get rid of her. 22:06.000 --> 22:07.960 Possible she might have been the reason you couldn't get married. 22:07.960 --> 22:08.960 Yeah, might be. 22:08.960 --> 22:09.960 You know anything about her? 22:09.960 --> 22:10.960 No. 22:10.960 --> 22:11.960 He didn't talk much about her. 22:11.960 --> 22:16.000 A couple of times he'd be hacked because she'd call the store and made a big scene. 22:16.000 --> 22:18.760 Said she was usually gassed. 22:18.760 --> 22:21.480 She was a real lush way he put it, drunk most of the time. 22:21.480 --> 22:22.480 Funny though. 22:22.480 --> 22:24.720 He didn't go for hard booze. 22:24.720 --> 22:25.720 Huh? 22:25.720 --> 22:26.720 Just drank beer. 22:26.720 --> 22:40.600 On the chance that the empty beer bottles we'd found in the victim's room had been bought 22:40.600 --> 22:44.640 in the neighborhood, we began an immediate canvas of the liquor stores in the area. 22:44.640 --> 22:48.120 We gave the dealers a description of Clyde Maddock and we also asked if a woman had purchased 22:48.120 --> 22:50.520 14 bottles of beer. 22:50.520 --> 22:54.120 In the first five stores we drew a blank, but the clerk in the sixth told us that he 22:54.120 --> 22:56.800 had made such a sale on Saturday night to a woman. 22:56.800 --> 22:59.880 He was unable to tell us who she was, but he did say that he'd seen her several times 22:59.880 --> 23:01.920 in the neighborhood bar. 23:01.920 --> 23:03.960 We started to check them. 23:03.960 --> 23:06.840 Several bartenders knew the woman, but were unable to tell us her name or where we could 23:06.840 --> 23:07.840 find her. 23:07.840 --> 23:11.000 At 1220 we stopped at a place called the Pink Pigeon. 23:11.000 --> 23:12.640 Yeah, I know her. 23:12.640 --> 23:13.640 In here all the time. 23:13.640 --> 23:14.640 She's a beer drinker. 23:14.640 --> 23:15.640 You know her name? 23:15.640 --> 23:16.640 Let me think. 23:16.640 --> 23:17.640 Yeah, Gladys something. 23:17.640 --> 23:19.400 I don't think I ever heard the last part. 23:19.400 --> 23:21.280 Wouldn't make me unhappy if she didn't come back. 23:21.280 --> 23:22.280 What do you mean? 23:22.280 --> 23:25.040 You know, she's all the time tanked, loud, dirty mouth. 23:25.040 --> 23:26.560 Sick like that doesn't do the place any good. 23:26.560 --> 23:28.160 You know where you can get in touch with her? 23:28.160 --> 23:29.160 What's the matter? 23:29.160 --> 23:30.160 She done something? 23:30.160 --> 23:31.160 We'd like to talk to her. 23:31.160 --> 23:32.160 Well, sure. 23:32.160 --> 23:33.160 I didn't mean to stick my nose in where it don't belong. 23:33.160 --> 23:34.160 That's all right. 23:34.160 --> 23:35.160 You know where we can find her? 23:35.160 --> 23:36.160 I don't know. 23:36.160 --> 23:37.160 I guess her place would be as good as any. 23:37.160 --> 23:38.160 Well, where is that? 23:38.160 --> 23:39.160 A couple of blocks up. 23:39.160 --> 23:40.160 It's a brown house, second from the corner. 23:40.160 --> 23:41.160 You can't miss it. 23:41.160 --> 23:42.160 Just like her, a real mess. 23:42.160 --> 23:43.160 There's weeds all around. 23:43.160 --> 23:44.160 It's a brown house. 23:44.160 --> 23:45.160 All right. 23:45.160 --> 23:46.160 Thank you. 23:46.160 --> 23:47.160 I'm glad to help out. 23:47.160 --> 23:58.520 I've been telling everybody. 23:58.520 --> 24:01.200 We left the bar and drove over to the house the bartender described. 24:01.200 --> 24:04.080 There was a light on in the front room when we got there. 24:04.080 --> 24:07.360 The name on the mailbox read Mrs. Clyde Maddock. 24:07.360 --> 24:08.360 Yes? 24:08.360 --> 24:10.360 You're Miss Maddock? 24:10.360 --> 24:11.360 That's right. 24:11.360 --> 24:12.360 Who are you? 24:12.360 --> 24:13.360 Police officer. 24:13.360 --> 24:14.360 Come on in. 24:14.360 --> 24:15.360 I've been expecting you. 24:15.360 --> 24:20.360 Wait a minute. 24:20.360 --> 24:21.360 I'll get a coat. 24:21.360 --> 24:22.360 That's all right. 24:22.360 --> 24:23.360 I'll get it. 24:23.360 --> 24:24.360 You kind of surprised me. 24:24.360 --> 24:25.360 How's that? 24:25.360 --> 24:27.760 I kind of figured you'd find me before this. 24:27.760 --> 24:29.760 Didn't think it'd take this long. 24:29.760 --> 24:31.360 Did you kill him? 24:31.360 --> 24:32.360 Yeah. 24:32.360 --> 24:33.360 He wanted a divorce. 24:33.360 --> 24:34.360 I wouldn't give it to him. 24:34.360 --> 24:36.360 I wanted to marry some floozy where he worked. 24:36.360 --> 24:39.200 He wouldn't give me a chance to work things out. 24:39.200 --> 24:42.520 I tried to convince him he was wrong. 24:42.520 --> 24:46.000 I told him if he tried to leave me, he'd be sorry. 24:46.000 --> 24:47.400 I tried to convince him. 24:47.400 --> 24:49.200 He wouldn't believe me. 24:49.200 --> 24:51.200 Well, maybe he does now. 24:51.200 --> 24:52.200 Let's go. 24:52.200 --> 25:02.360 The story you've just heard is true. 25:02.360 --> 25:05.040 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 25:05.040 --> 25:10.200 On December 16th, trial was held in Department 97's Superior Court of the State of California 25:10.200 --> 25:29.520 in and for the County of Los Angeles, in a moment the results of that trial. 25:29.520 --> 25:33.840 Gladys Markham Maddick was tried and convicted of murder in the second degree and received 25:33.840 --> 25:36.120 punishment as prescribed by law. 25:36.120 --> 25:39.840 Murder in the second degree is punishable by imprisonment for a period of from five 25:39.840 --> 26:00.400 years to life in the state penitentiary. 26:00.400 --> 26:05.480 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 26:05.480 --> 26:09.920 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police 26:09.920 --> 26:36.960 Department.