1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,040 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:12,040 --> 00:00:23,280 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:24,280 You're a detective sergeant. 4 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:27,200 You're assigned a homicide detail. 5 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:30,880 You get a call telling you that the body of a man has been found in the motel room. 6 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:33,640 There's no lead to his true identity. 7 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:34,640 Your job? 8 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,640 Check it out. 9 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:47,440 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 10 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:52,320 For the next 30 minutes of in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you 11 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:57,040 will travel step by step on the side of the law to an actual case transcribed from official 12 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:58,040 police violence. 13 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:04,000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 14 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:05,000 in action. 15 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:06,000 It was Tuesday, July 19th. 16 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:07,000 It was hot in Los Angeles. 17 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:08,000 We were working the night watch out of homicide detail. 18 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,000 My partner is Frank Smith. 19 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:10,000 The boss is Captain Warman. 20 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:11,000 My name is Friday. 21 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,000 I was on my way back from the main jail and it was 5.27 p.m. when I got to room 42. 22 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:13,000 Homicide. 23 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:14,000 I ought to go. 24 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:15,000 He's willing to make a statement. 25 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:16,000 He copped the whole thing. 26 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:17,000 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 27 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:18,000 I'm sorry. 28 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:19,000 I'm sorry. 29 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:20,000 I'm sorry. 30 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:21,000 I'm sorry. 31 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:22,000 I'm sorry. 32 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:23,000 I'm sorry. 33 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:24,000 I'm sorry. 34 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:25,000 I'm sorry. 35 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:26,000 I'm sorry. 36 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:27,000 I'm sorry. 37 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:28,000 I'm sorry. 38 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:29,000 Cuz he couldn't take that baby. 39 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:30,000 I don't know. 40 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:35,380 I think, you know, he might be just prickly trying not to sex that bad. 41 00:01:35,380 --> 00:01:39,780 But he's just very darn handsome. 42 00:01:39,780 --> 00:01:41,060 Who doesn't? 43 00:01:41,060 --> 00:01:45,660 He done this to the kid this morning. 44 00:01:45,660 --> 00:01:48,800 Way really good at doing stuff, ain't he. 45 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:54,040 Looks like a dope belly from awerk with her at home where she's been kept closer to car 46 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:55,040 permanent shutDDLEat. 47 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,540 No, she didn't think it was that bad. 48 00:01:57,540 --> 00:01:59,040 Not to call a doctor. 49 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,540 Just enough to keep me awake worrying about it. 50 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:04,540 This morning the whole thing's gone though. 51 00:02:04,540 --> 00:02:05,540 No trouble. 52 00:02:05,540 --> 00:02:07,540 Says it was probably a heartburn. 53 00:02:07,540 --> 00:02:09,540 Why don't you give her a couple of your Pepto pills? 54 00:02:09,540 --> 00:02:11,540 Oh Joe, that's very funny. 55 00:02:11,540 --> 00:02:13,540 Honey. 56 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:16,540 Homicide Friday. 57 00:02:16,540 --> 00:02:18,540 Yeah, that's right. 58 00:02:19,540 --> 00:02:21,540 What's that? 59 00:02:21,540 --> 00:02:23,540 What's that address? 60 00:02:23,540 --> 00:02:25,540 No, I will be right out. 61 00:02:25,540 --> 00:02:27,540 No, no, not at any. 62 00:02:28,540 --> 00:02:30,540 Nice. Goodbye. 63 00:02:30,540 --> 00:02:31,540 Work? 64 00:02:31,540 --> 00:02:32,540 Work. 65 00:02:32,540 --> 00:02:35,040 We made it to the motel out on Sepulveda, found a body in one of the cabins. 66 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:35,540 Yeah. 67 00:02:35,540 --> 00:02:37,540 Thinks it's a suicide. 68 00:02:45,540 --> 00:02:47,540 Frank and I left the office and drove out to the address. 69 00:02:47,540 --> 00:02:49,540 It was a modern motel set back from the highway. 70 00:02:49,540 --> 00:02:52,540 There were 14 cabins surrounding a swimming pool on the lot. 71 00:02:52,540 --> 00:02:55,540 We met with the woman who placed the call and the owner of the place. 72 00:02:56,540 --> 00:02:58,540 Right over there, number eight. 73 00:02:58,540 --> 00:02:59,540 Mm-hmm. 74 00:02:59,540 --> 00:03:00,540 Has anyone been touched in the room? 75 00:03:00,540 --> 00:03:01,540 No, sir. 76 00:03:01,540 --> 00:03:04,540 Since I saw him, I knew what had happened. 77 00:03:04,540 --> 00:03:06,540 I locked the door and called you. 78 00:03:06,540 --> 00:03:07,540 What's his name? 79 00:03:07,540 --> 00:03:09,540 Registered as Tom Rustad, Phoenix. 80 00:03:09,540 --> 00:03:11,540 How long has he been here? 81 00:03:11,540 --> 00:03:13,540 About 10 days. I'd have to take the card to be sure. 82 00:03:13,540 --> 00:03:14,540 Be alone? 83 00:03:14,540 --> 00:03:15,540 Mm-hmm. 84 00:03:15,540 --> 00:03:20,540 Here, I got the key. 85 00:03:20,540 --> 00:03:21,540 Go ahead. 86 00:03:21,540 --> 00:03:22,540 Thank you. 87 00:03:22,540 --> 00:03:23,540 Goodbye. 88 00:03:23,540 --> 00:03:25,540 Did you touch the body at all? 89 00:03:25,540 --> 00:03:27,540 No, I should say not. 90 00:03:27,540 --> 00:03:28,540 Mm-hmm. 91 00:03:28,540 --> 00:03:33,540 I've worked around motels for a long time, yet and so nothing bothers me. 92 00:03:33,540 --> 00:03:37,540 Tell you though, this almost, they'd like to scare me half to death. 93 00:03:37,540 --> 00:03:38,540 Yes, ma'am. 94 00:03:38,540 --> 00:03:40,540 Better call the lab after we come out, huh? 95 00:03:40,540 --> 00:03:41,540 Yeah. 96 00:03:41,540 --> 00:03:43,540 You all right if I use the phone in the office? 97 00:03:43,540 --> 00:03:46,540 Sure, you go right ahead. It's on the desk back in the county. 98 00:03:46,540 --> 00:03:47,540 All right. 99 00:03:49,540 --> 00:03:52,540 Thing like this, it isn't going to do the place any good. 100 00:03:52,540 --> 00:03:55,540 I hope it can be played down in the papers. 101 00:03:55,540 --> 00:03:58,540 This is the first kind of trouble we've had. 102 00:03:58,540 --> 00:04:00,540 Suicide sure isn't going to help. 103 00:04:00,540 --> 00:04:02,540 We'll have to find some way to change it. 104 00:04:02,540 --> 00:04:04,540 Well, there is, but that wouldn't help much either. 105 00:04:04,540 --> 00:04:06,540 What do you mean? He's dead, isn't he? 106 00:04:06,540 --> 00:04:17,540 Yeah, but he had help. 107 00:04:17,540 --> 00:04:21,540 6.03 p.m. The crew from the crime lab arrived and started their investigation. 108 00:04:21,540 --> 00:04:23,540 Apparently the victim had been killed with a small caliber gun. 109 00:04:23,540 --> 00:04:25,540 However, a search of the room failed to turn it up. 110 00:04:25,540 --> 00:04:27,540 The coroner's office was notified. 111 00:04:27,540 --> 00:04:29,540 They came out to check the body and go through his effects. 112 00:04:29,540 --> 00:04:33,540 6.18 p.m. Frank and I talked with the motel owner in his cabin. 113 00:04:33,540 --> 00:04:37,540 Here's the registration card you can see there where he signed it. 114 00:04:37,540 --> 00:04:39,540 Is he driving a car, do you know? 115 00:04:39,540 --> 00:04:40,540 Oh, I never saw one. 116 00:04:40,540 --> 00:04:41,540 How'd he get here? 117 00:04:41,540 --> 00:04:42,540 You mean when he checked in? 118 00:04:42,540 --> 00:04:43,540 Yeah. 119 00:04:43,540 --> 00:04:44,540 By cab. 120 00:04:44,540 --> 00:04:46,540 Did he tell you why he was in town? 121 00:04:46,540 --> 00:04:48,540 No, he never mentioned it. 122 00:04:48,540 --> 00:04:49,540 Did he work? 123 00:04:49,540 --> 00:04:50,540 I don't know. 124 00:04:50,540 --> 00:04:52,540 When he checked in, did he say how long he'd be staying? 125 00:04:52,540 --> 00:04:55,540 No, he said it might be a week, ten days. 126 00:04:55,540 --> 00:04:57,540 How about visitors? You haven't seen him? 127 00:04:57,540 --> 00:04:58,540 I haven't seen him. 128 00:04:58,540 --> 00:04:59,540 What about phone calls? 129 00:04:59,540 --> 00:05:00,540 Yeah, I've made some. 130 00:05:00,540 --> 00:05:01,540 Do you have a record of him? 131 00:05:01,540 --> 00:05:06,540 No, usually we do. All the calls go through the board, but he's the phone booth outside. 132 00:05:06,540 --> 00:05:07,540 Oh, cool. 133 00:05:07,540 --> 00:05:10,540 A couple times I was out by the pool at night, you know. 134 00:05:10,540 --> 00:05:13,540 I'd be out there and I'd see him in the booth. 135 00:05:13,540 --> 00:05:15,540 A couple times he talked for quite a while. 136 00:05:15,540 --> 00:05:17,540 But you haven't got any idea who he was calling? 137 00:05:17,540 --> 00:05:18,540 No. A dime call, though. 138 00:05:18,540 --> 00:05:19,540 What's that? 139 00:05:19,540 --> 00:05:21,540 Cost him a dime. I heard the bell ring when he dropped the money. 140 00:05:21,540 --> 00:05:22,540 Well, they all do. 141 00:05:22,540 --> 00:05:23,540 You get any mail? 142 00:05:23,540 --> 00:05:24,540 No. 143 00:05:24,540 --> 00:05:26,540 You pay for his room in advance? 144 00:05:26,540 --> 00:05:28,540 Yeah, the first time he gave me the money for a week. 145 00:05:28,540 --> 00:05:30,540 And just a few days ago he paid for another week. 146 00:05:30,540 --> 00:05:31,540 How'd he pay it? 147 00:05:31,540 --> 00:05:32,540 What do you mean? 148 00:05:32,540 --> 00:05:34,540 Well, by checks or cash. 149 00:05:34,540 --> 00:05:35,540 Oh, cash. 150 00:05:35,540 --> 00:05:37,540 What size bills do you remember? 151 00:05:37,540 --> 00:05:39,540 I never saw him use anything smaller than a 50. 152 00:05:39,540 --> 00:05:40,540 Oh, who? 153 00:05:40,540 --> 00:05:41,540 Sure seemed to have a lot of them. 154 00:05:41,540 --> 00:05:43,540 I guess maybe a couple thousand dollars. 155 00:05:43,540 --> 00:05:45,540 Does he always carry that kind of money with him? 156 00:05:45,540 --> 00:05:47,540 Well, I wouldn't know about that. 157 00:05:47,540 --> 00:05:48,540 Mm-hmm. 158 00:05:48,540 --> 00:05:50,540 I guess he must have kept something smaller, though. 159 00:05:50,540 --> 00:05:52,540 He's an everybody can change a 50. 160 00:05:52,540 --> 00:05:54,540 Not everybody. 161 00:05:54,540 --> 00:05:56,540 You gonna let his people know? 162 00:05:56,540 --> 00:05:57,540 What's that? 163 00:05:57,540 --> 00:06:01,540 Well, he must have some people over in Phoenix that should know about him being dead. 164 00:06:01,540 --> 00:06:02,540 Yeah. 165 00:06:02,540 --> 00:06:04,540 Sure don't feel it's my place to tell. 166 00:06:04,540 --> 00:06:06,540 No, sir, we'll take care of it. 167 00:06:06,540 --> 00:06:07,540 Okay. 168 00:06:07,540 --> 00:06:09,540 It's gonna be a shock to him, a guy his age. 169 00:06:09,540 --> 00:06:12,540 Probably got a wife and family, not gonna do him any good. 170 00:06:12,540 --> 00:06:14,540 Well, it works both ways, doesn't it? 171 00:06:14,540 --> 00:06:16,540 Didn't do much for him. 172 00:06:16,540 --> 00:06:18,540 The crime lab found the room had been ransacked. 173 00:06:18,540 --> 00:06:20,540 Although none of the possessions of the victim had been taken, 174 00:06:20,540 --> 00:06:23,540 there was no money in the room and no personal identification could be found. 175 00:06:23,540 --> 00:06:25,540 The place was gone over for fingerprints. 176 00:06:25,540 --> 00:06:28,540 Several clean steps were lifted, but they belonged to the dead man. 177 00:06:28,540 --> 00:06:31,540 No other usable physical evidence was recovered. 178 00:06:31,540 --> 00:06:33,540 The coroner's office checked through the victim's luggage. 179 00:06:33,540 --> 00:06:36,540 In one of the suitcases, they found an unscathed body. 180 00:06:36,540 --> 00:06:39,540 The body was found in the basement of the crime lab. 181 00:06:39,540 --> 00:06:41,540 The body was found in the basement of the crime lab. 182 00:06:41,540 --> 00:06:43,540 The body was found in the basement of the crime lab. 183 00:06:43,540 --> 00:06:46,540 The coroner's office checked through the victim's luggage. 184 00:06:46,540 --> 00:06:48,540 In one of the suitcases, they found an unstamped letter 185 00:06:48,540 --> 00:06:50,540 addressed to a June LaSalle in Reno, Nevada. 186 00:06:50,540 --> 00:06:54,540 Its contents explained that the victim expected to be in that city at the end of the month. 187 00:06:54,540 --> 00:06:57,540 There was no way of establishing a relationship between the two people. 188 00:06:57,540 --> 00:07:00,540 The coroner sealed the motel room and Frank and I returned to the office. 189 00:07:00,540 --> 00:07:02,540 We sent a radiogram to the authorities in Phoenix 190 00:07:02,540 --> 00:07:05,540 asking for all information on Tom Rue's death. 191 00:07:05,540 --> 00:07:08,540 The following morning, Wednesday, June 20th, we got their answer. 192 00:07:08,540 --> 00:07:10,540 There it is, Joe. 193 00:07:10,540 --> 00:07:13,540 Yeah, take a look. 194 00:07:13,540 --> 00:07:15,540 Yeah, boy, it's going to make it rougher. 195 00:07:15,540 --> 00:07:16,540 Yeah. 196 00:07:16,540 --> 00:07:17,540 I never heard of him. 197 00:07:17,540 --> 00:07:26,540 In the hope of getting an identification of the victim, 198 00:07:26,540 --> 00:07:29,540 his fingerprint classification and description was sent to George Breton 199 00:07:29,540 --> 00:07:32,540 up at C.I.I. Sacramento, FBI headquarters in Washington, 200 00:07:32,540 --> 00:07:35,540 and to the police departments in the seven western states. 201 00:07:35,540 --> 00:07:38,540 A close check of his clothing revealed that Tom Rue's dead suits were tailor-made 202 00:07:38,540 --> 00:07:40,540 and had been made in Reno. 203 00:07:40,540 --> 00:07:44,540 We contacted the authorities there and asked them to check on the tailor shops in the area. 204 00:07:44,540 --> 00:07:47,540 We also asked that they check out the woman Rue's dead had written to. 205 00:07:47,540 --> 00:07:51,540 While we waited for the answer, we contacted the cab company that had serviced the area around the motel. 206 00:07:51,540 --> 00:07:57,540 We asked them to go over their waybills and report all trips from the motel and all trips to the address. 207 00:07:57,540 --> 00:08:00,540 Two hours later, we got the list and started to check out the drivers. 208 00:08:00,540 --> 00:08:01,540 Sure, I remember that guy. 209 00:08:01,540 --> 00:08:03,540 A couple more like him, I could buy my own cab company. 210 00:08:03,540 --> 00:08:04,540 What do you mean? 211 00:08:04,540 --> 00:08:05,540 He's a big tipper. 212 00:08:05,540 --> 00:08:07,540 Never heard anything less than a half a sawbuck. 213 00:08:07,540 --> 00:08:09,540 Down at the stand, you got to be a real battle. 214 00:08:09,540 --> 00:08:11,540 I was going to pick him up, you know, at a loop. 215 00:08:11,540 --> 00:08:12,540 Where do you usually take him? 216 00:08:12,540 --> 00:08:15,540 Different places, restaurants, shows, different places. 217 00:08:15,540 --> 00:08:17,540 Did he ever tell you what he was doing in town? 218 00:08:17,540 --> 00:08:18,540 We'd talk. 219 00:08:18,540 --> 00:08:20,540 You know, long drive downtown, you'd find a doll. 220 00:08:20,540 --> 00:08:22,540 A couple of times he rode in the front seat with me. 221 00:08:22,540 --> 00:08:25,540 Guess maybe the company wouldn't like it, but that's the way he wanted it. 222 00:08:25,540 --> 00:08:26,540 What did you talk about? 223 00:08:26,540 --> 00:08:28,540 Weather, fishing, lots of things. 224 00:08:28,540 --> 00:08:30,540 Mostly about girls, though. 225 00:08:30,540 --> 00:08:32,540 He thought he was quite a ladies' man. 226 00:08:32,540 --> 00:08:34,540 The way he dressed, all that money, he should have been. 227 00:08:34,540 --> 00:08:36,540 Ever see any of his friends? 228 00:08:36,540 --> 00:08:38,540 Listen, how come you're asking all these questions? 229 00:08:38,540 --> 00:08:40,540 This place, matter. 230 00:08:40,540 --> 00:08:42,540 I knew that when I got the word from the front office. 231 00:08:42,540 --> 00:08:44,540 They told me to ride with you all the way. 232 00:08:44,540 --> 00:08:46,540 What's the beef? You have to roost that or something? 233 00:08:46,540 --> 00:08:47,540 Investigation. 234 00:08:47,540 --> 00:08:49,540 Now what about his friends? 235 00:08:49,540 --> 00:08:52,540 Well, she wouldn't want them to find out about the whole deal. 236 00:08:52,540 --> 00:08:53,540 Probably wouldn't call me anymore. 237 00:08:53,540 --> 00:08:54,540 What's that? 238 00:08:54,540 --> 00:08:55,540 Marcia. 239 00:08:55,540 --> 00:08:56,540 Who? 240 00:08:56,540 --> 00:08:57,540 I don't know her last name. 241 00:08:57,540 --> 00:08:58,540 Some bimbo roosted that in them. 242 00:08:58,540 --> 00:08:59,540 Ever meet her? 243 00:08:59,540 --> 00:09:00,540 Not twice. 244 00:09:00,540 --> 00:09:01,540 What's that mean? 245 00:09:01,540 --> 00:09:03,540 Well, she was in the cab. 246 00:09:03,540 --> 00:09:05,540 You know, I'd pick him up here, drive over to her place 247 00:09:05,540 --> 00:09:07,540 and take the two of them down to a restaurant. 248 00:09:07,540 --> 00:09:09,540 So, real beautiful. 249 00:09:09,540 --> 00:09:10,540 Tall, blonde, gorgeous. 250 00:09:10,540 --> 00:09:12,540 Bruce, that was pretty fiddly with her, wasn't he? 251 00:09:12,540 --> 00:09:13,540 Yeah, I guess so. 252 00:09:13,540 --> 00:09:14,540 The way he talked, he liked her a lot. 253 00:09:14,540 --> 00:09:16,540 You got her address? 254 00:09:16,540 --> 00:09:17,540 Yeah, I suppose. 255 00:09:17,540 --> 00:09:18,540 Huh? 256 00:09:18,540 --> 00:09:19,540 Why, you guys are out there. 257 00:09:19,540 --> 00:09:21,540 It's going to lead right back to me. 258 00:09:21,540 --> 00:09:22,540 He caused a lot of trouble. 259 00:09:22,540 --> 00:09:23,540 Tell you, he's a funny guy. 260 00:09:23,540 --> 00:09:24,540 He talks about a lot of things, 261 00:09:24,540 --> 00:09:26,540 but he don't like to have you ask questions. 262 00:09:26,540 --> 00:09:27,540 Especially about him. 263 00:09:27,540 --> 00:09:28,540 Yeah. 264 00:09:28,540 --> 00:09:29,540 Got real touchy when I talk about where he was from, 265 00:09:29,540 --> 00:09:30,540 what he did for a living. 266 00:09:30,540 --> 00:09:31,540 Yeah. 267 00:09:31,540 --> 00:09:32,540 That's why it's important 268 00:09:32,540 --> 00:09:33,540 you don't get in any trouble with him. 269 00:09:33,540 --> 00:09:34,540 I can use those tips. 270 00:09:34,540 --> 00:09:35,540 Well, don't count on them anymore. 271 00:09:35,540 --> 00:09:36,540 Huh? 272 00:09:36,540 --> 00:09:37,540 They won't be coming. 273 00:09:37,540 --> 00:09:49,540 We got the address of the woman the driver knew as Marcia. 274 00:09:49,540 --> 00:09:52,540 We called the office to check on the wires we'd sent. 275 00:09:52,540 --> 00:09:53,540 There's been no answer to any of them. 276 00:09:53,540 --> 00:09:55,540 1.30 p.m., we drove over to see the woman. 277 00:09:55,540 --> 00:09:57,540 The place was a new apartment building on Wilshire Boulevard. 278 00:09:57,540 --> 00:09:59,540 On the mailbox, we found the name Marcia Lovequist 279 00:09:59,540 --> 00:10:02,540 and the information that she occupied Apartment 14. 280 00:10:02,540 --> 00:10:04,540 We went up and rang the bell. 281 00:10:04,540 --> 00:10:05,540 I know. 282 00:10:05,540 --> 00:10:06,540 Doesn't look like she's home. 283 00:10:06,540 --> 00:10:07,540 We'll check with the man with you. 284 00:10:07,540 --> 00:10:08,540 All right. 285 00:10:08,540 --> 00:10:09,540 Sure is a pretty pool in there, Joe. 286 00:10:09,540 --> 00:10:10,540 Yeah. 287 00:10:10,540 --> 00:10:11,540 You know, you ought to get a place out here. 288 00:10:11,540 --> 00:10:12,540 It'd be great for you. 289 00:10:12,540 --> 00:10:13,540 It would, huh? 290 00:10:13,540 --> 00:10:14,540 Sure. 291 00:10:14,540 --> 00:10:15,540 Nice apartment, pool, get some sun. 292 00:10:15,540 --> 00:10:16,540 Yeah, we got a lot of time for that. 293 00:10:16,540 --> 00:10:17,540 Well, once in a while. 294 00:10:17,540 --> 00:10:18,540 It wouldn't cost so much. 295 00:10:18,540 --> 00:10:19,540 Mm-hmm. 296 00:10:19,540 --> 00:10:20,540 Be nice. 297 00:10:20,540 --> 00:10:21,540 Me and Faye, come over and see you 298 00:10:21,540 --> 00:10:22,540 and bring the kids. 299 00:10:22,540 --> 00:10:23,540 You bet. 300 00:10:23,540 --> 00:10:24,540 I'll see you later. 301 00:10:24,540 --> 00:10:25,540 Bye. 302 00:10:25,540 --> 00:10:26,540 Bye. 303 00:10:26,540 --> 00:10:27,540 Bye. 304 00:10:27,540 --> 00:10:28,540 Bye. 305 00:10:28,540 --> 00:10:29,540 Bye. 306 00:10:29,540 --> 00:10:30,540 Bye. 307 00:10:30,540 --> 00:10:31,540 Bye. 308 00:10:31,540 --> 00:10:32,540 All right, thanks. 309 00:10:32,540 --> 00:10:33,540 That's what I thought. 310 00:10:33,540 --> 00:10:34,540 You bet. 311 00:10:34,540 --> 00:10:35,540 Well, you wouldn't want to be a hog 312 00:10:35,540 --> 00:10:36,540 about the pool, would you? 313 00:10:36,540 --> 00:10:37,540 Not me, Frank. 314 00:10:37,540 --> 00:10:38,540 You feel that way, 315 00:10:38,540 --> 00:10:39,540 just forget the whole thing. 316 00:10:39,540 --> 00:10:40,540 That's what I was planning. 317 00:10:40,540 --> 00:10:41,540 You just forget it. 318 00:10:41,540 --> 00:10:42,540 Here's the manager. 319 00:10:42,540 --> 00:10:43,540 Can I help you? 320 00:10:43,540 --> 00:10:44,540 What if you could tell us 321 00:10:44,540 --> 00:10:45,540 where you can find Miss Lovequist? 322 00:10:45,540 --> 00:10:46,540 Martin? 323 00:10:46,540 --> 00:10:47,540 Yeah, that's right. 324 00:10:47,540 --> 00:10:48,540 Oh, just a few minutes ago. 325 00:10:48,540 --> 00:10:49,540 Oh, yes. 326 00:10:49,540 --> 00:10:50,540 There she is over at the pool. 327 00:10:50,540 --> 00:10:53,540 See, with the star hat. 328 00:10:53,540 --> 00:10:54,540 Oh, yeah. 329 00:10:54,540 --> 00:10:55,540 Thanks very much. 330 00:10:55,540 --> 00:10:56,540 Sure. 331 00:10:56,540 --> 00:10:58,540 Thank you, ma'am. 332 00:10:58,540 --> 00:10:59,540 Miss Lovequist? 333 00:10:59,540 --> 00:11:00,540 Yes? 334 00:11:00,540 --> 00:11:01,540 Yes? 335 00:11:01,540 --> 00:11:03,540 The police office, like to ask you a few questions. 336 00:11:03,540 --> 00:11:04,540 Policeman? 337 00:11:04,540 --> 00:11:06,540 I don't know what I could tell you, but go ahead. 338 00:11:06,540 --> 00:11:07,540 Sorry if we sit down? 339 00:11:07,540 --> 00:11:09,540 Sure, fill up a couple of shoes. 340 00:11:09,540 --> 00:11:10,540 Thank you. 341 00:11:10,540 --> 00:11:11,540 Thank you. 342 00:11:11,540 --> 00:11:12,540 I'll go. 343 00:11:13,540 --> 00:11:14,540 Thank you. 344 00:11:16,540 --> 00:11:18,540 This is Frank Smith, my name's Friday. 345 00:11:18,540 --> 00:11:19,540 How do you do? 346 00:11:19,540 --> 00:11:20,540 That's fine. 347 00:11:20,540 --> 00:11:21,540 Now, what do you want to see me about? 348 00:11:21,540 --> 00:11:23,540 You know a man named Ruth, Ted? 349 00:11:23,540 --> 00:11:24,540 Yeah, why? 350 00:11:24,540 --> 00:11:26,540 Look in, tell us about him. 351 00:11:26,540 --> 00:11:27,540 You in trouble? 352 00:11:27,540 --> 00:11:28,540 No, we're just checking. 353 00:11:28,540 --> 00:11:30,540 Oh, well, what do you want to know? 354 00:11:30,540 --> 00:11:31,540 You know where he's from? 355 00:11:31,540 --> 00:11:32,540 Me and Tom Town? 356 00:11:32,540 --> 00:11:33,540 What's that? 357 00:11:33,540 --> 00:11:35,540 Some place up north, I don't think you ever said. 358 00:11:35,540 --> 00:11:36,540 How'd you happen to meet him? 359 00:11:36,540 --> 00:11:38,540 Cocktail party, Hotel Downtown. 360 00:11:38,540 --> 00:11:41,540 It was a convention, my agent got me a job as a hostess. 361 00:11:41,540 --> 00:11:43,540 I'm a model, I do some work in TV. 362 00:11:43,540 --> 00:11:45,540 I can get a little luck, I'll take what she can get. 363 00:11:45,540 --> 00:11:46,540 Yeah. 364 00:11:46,540 --> 00:11:49,540 Tom was there, we got to talking, went out to dinner. 365 00:11:49,540 --> 00:11:50,540 Tom got a bit out of there. 366 00:11:50,540 --> 00:11:52,540 Did he tell you what he did for a living? 367 00:11:52,540 --> 00:11:53,540 No, I don't think so. 368 00:11:53,540 --> 00:11:54,540 Fair old man, I think. 369 00:11:54,540 --> 00:11:56,540 Talk like one. 370 00:11:56,540 --> 00:11:57,540 What about this convention? 371 00:11:57,540 --> 00:11:58,540 You know what it was for? 372 00:11:58,540 --> 00:12:00,540 Oh, Dennis. 373 00:12:00,540 --> 00:12:02,540 But he didn't have anything to do with that, he was just there. 374 00:12:02,540 --> 00:12:06,540 Tom, he was sitting at the bar and one of the guys asked him to come up and have a cup of drinks, that's all. 375 00:12:06,540 --> 00:12:07,540 He wasn't a Dennis, though. 376 00:12:07,540 --> 00:12:08,540 I see. 377 00:12:08,540 --> 00:12:10,540 Do you have any friends here in town, would you know? 378 00:12:10,540 --> 00:12:11,540 Yeah, I don't. 379 00:12:11,540 --> 00:12:14,540 Listen, why don't you ask him, he'd go along with you, nice guy. 380 00:12:14,540 --> 00:12:16,540 He'd be able to answer these questions a lot better than me. 381 00:12:16,540 --> 00:12:18,540 Well, we're checking everybody who knew him. 382 00:12:18,540 --> 00:12:19,540 Oh, I see. 383 00:12:19,540 --> 00:12:20,540 Oh, nice guy. 384 00:12:20,540 --> 00:12:21,540 He had a lot of fun. 385 00:12:21,540 --> 00:12:22,540 I wanted to see him last night. 386 00:12:22,540 --> 00:12:25,540 He stayed for yesterday, had dinner, took a dive. 387 00:12:25,540 --> 00:12:28,540 Came by for a nightcap and then he called a cab and went home. 388 00:12:28,540 --> 00:12:30,540 Did you hear from him yesterday? 389 00:12:30,540 --> 00:12:32,540 No, didn't really expect to. 390 00:12:32,540 --> 00:12:33,540 Why? 391 00:12:33,540 --> 00:12:36,540 Well, you see, we had kind of a fight. 392 00:12:36,540 --> 00:12:37,540 Nothing serious. 393 00:12:37,540 --> 00:12:40,540 I didn't figure I'd hear from him until maybe today, you know, until we both got over the mad. 394 00:12:40,540 --> 00:12:43,540 Can you tell us what the argument was about? 395 00:12:43,540 --> 00:12:45,540 Well, the same to you, I'd rather not. 396 00:12:45,540 --> 00:12:47,540 It was pretty important that we know. 397 00:12:47,540 --> 00:12:50,540 Well, guess we can't do any harm. 398 00:12:50,540 --> 00:12:52,540 He was just getting too serious, that's all. 399 00:12:52,540 --> 00:12:53,540 What? 400 00:12:53,540 --> 00:12:55,540 Too serious. 401 00:12:55,540 --> 00:12:57,540 Told him I had to go out of town on a modeling job. 402 00:12:57,540 --> 00:12:59,540 Santa Barbara had begun a couple days and he got real mad. 403 00:12:59,540 --> 00:13:01,540 Said he didn't want me running around like that anymore. 404 00:13:01,540 --> 00:13:03,540 Very progressive. 405 00:13:03,540 --> 00:13:06,540 I told him he didn't have any right to tell me what to do, that we weren't married, you know. 406 00:13:06,540 --> 00:13:08,540 Well, the mad got loud. 407 00:13:08,540 --> 00:13:12,540 Him telling me I wasn't going to Santa Barbara and me saying he couldn't stop me. 408 00:13:12,540 --> 00:13:14,540 He finally called and came and went home. 409 00:13:14,540 --> 00:13:15,540 What time was that? 410 00:13:15,540 --> 00:13:17,540 I guess about 3.30. 411 00:13:17,540 --> 00:13:19,540 Might have been 4, no later. 412 00:13:19,540 --> 00:13:20,540 All right, thank you very much. 413 00:13:20,540 --> 00:13:22,540 If you could think of anything else, we'd appreciate a call. 414 00:13:22,540 --> 00:13:23,540 Sure. 415 00:13:23,540 --> 00:13:24,540 Leave you one of our cards? 416 00:13:24,540 --> 00:13:25,540 Mm-hmm. 417 00:13:25,540 --> 00:13:26,540 Ask for either one of them? 418 00:13:26,540 --> 00:13:27,540 Yes, ma'am. 419 00:13:27,540 --> 00:13:29,540 Hey, I'll tell you who you ought to talk to. 420 00:13:29,540 --> 00:13:30,540 Who's that? 421 00:13:30,540 --> 00:13:31,540 Well, you ought to see him anyway. 422 00:13:31,540 --> 00:13:34,540 I haven't heard anything, but Tom might have gone over there. 423 00:13:34,540 --> 00:13:35,540 Who? 424 00:13:35,540 --> 00:13:37,540 This photographer I was going to Santa Barbara with. 425 00:13:37,540 --> 00:13:39,540 Tom might have gone over to see him. 426 00:13:39,540 --> 00:13:40,540 Can you give us his address? 427 00:13:40,540 --> 00:13:41,540 Yeah, I've got it upstairs. 428 00:13:41,540 --> 00:13:43,540 Did Roostad know this photographer? 429 00:13:43,540 --> 00:13:44,540 Well, he never met. 430 00:13:44,540 --> 00:13:45,540 He knew about him, though. 431 00:13:45,540 --> 00:13:46,540 Yeah. 432 00:13:46,540 --> 00:13:47,540 That's why he might be able to tell you something. 433 00:13:47,540 --> 00:13:48,540 Well? 434 00:13:48,540 --> 00:13:50,540 Well, Tom thought there was something between us. 435 00:13:50,540 --> 00:13:51,540 He's rather fell on me. 436 00:13:51,540 --> 00:13:52,540 Of course, I told him it was silly. 437 00:13:52,540 --> 00:13:53,540 It didn't make any difference, though. 438 00:13:53,540 --> 00:13:54,540 Real jealous possessive. 439 00:13:54,540 --> 00:13:55,540 Mm-hmm. 440 00:13:55,540 --> 00:13:57,540 Said him and the other fellow were going to tangle someday. 441 00:13:57,540 --> 00:13:58,540 I hope not. 442 00:13:58,540 --> 00:13:59,540 Why? 443 00:13:59,540 --> 00:14:00,540 I know the other guy. 444 00:14:00,540 --> 00:14:01,540 Yeah. 445 00:14:01,540 --> 00:14:02,540 He killed Tom. 446 00:14:02,540 --> 00:14:12,540 We got the name and address of the photographer, 447 00:14:12,540 --> 00:14:14,540 and then we drove back to City Hall. 448 00:14:14,540 --> 00:14:17,540 We made a check through RNI, but we found no record on him. 449 00:14:17,540 --> 00:14:18,540 3 or 6 p.m. 450 00:14:18,540 --> 00:14:21,540 Well, looks like we might have a lead. 451 00:14:21,540 --> 00:14:23,540 Yeah, well, it turns out, don't you? 452 00:14:23,540 --> 00:14:24,540 Mm-hmm. 453 00:14:24,540 --> 00:14:25,540 Homicide Friday. 454 00:14:25,540 --> 00:14:26,540 Yeah. 455 00:14:26,540 --> 00:14:27,540 Yeah, Jack. 456 00:14:27,540 --> 00:14:28,540 No, we've been waiting for it. 457 00:14:28,540 --> 00:14:29,540 Can you give it to me over the phone? 458 00:14:29,540 --> 00:14:30,540 We'll pick up the copy later. 459 00:14:30,540 --> 00:14:31,540 Okay, go ahead. 460 00:14:31,540 --> 00:14:32,540 Mm-hmm. 461 00:14:32,540 --> 00:14:33,540 What? 462 00:14:33,540 --> 00:14:34,540 How do you spell that? 463 00:14:34,540 --> 00:14:48,540 R-O-S-S-E-L-L-E. 464 00:14:48,540 --> 00:14:49,540 Yeah. 465 00:14:49,540 --> 00:14:50,540 All right. 466 00:14:50,540 --> 00:14:51,540 Soon as it comes in. 467 00:14:51,540 --> 00:14:53,540 Yeah, we'd appreciate a call on it. 468 00:14:53,540 --> 00:14:54,540 Right. 469 00:14:54,540 --> 00:14:55,540 Okay. 470 00:14:55,540 --> 00:14:56,540 Jack Ricketts down in communication. 471 00:14:56,540 --> 00:14:57,540 Yeah? 472 00:14:57,540 --> 00:14:58,540 Got a teletype from Reno. 473 00:14:58,540 --> 00:14:59,540 About Ruth, then? 474 00:14:59,540 --> 00:15:00,540 Yeah, they got a record on him. 475 00:15:00,540 --> 00:15:01,540 Real name is Thomas Rosell. 476 00:15:01,540 --> 00:15:04,540 That's the name on the letter? 477 00:15:04,540 --> 00:15:05,540 Yeah, they ran it down. 478 00:15:05,540 --> 00:15:06,540 What'd they got on him? 479 00:15:06,540 --> 00:15:09,540 Been arrested for bunkos, grand theft, money, forgery. 480 00:15:09,540 --> 00:15:11,540 Haven't been able to make any of them sticks. 481 00:15:11,540 --> 00:15:12,540 Mm-hmm. 482 00:15:12,540 --> 00:15:13,540 And what they say, a couple of months ago, 483 00:15:13,540 --> 00:15:14,540 he went into a new line. 484 00:15:14,540 --> 00:15:15,540 They figure that's what he's pitching now. 485 00:15:15,540 --> 00:15:16,540 What's that? 486 00:15:16,540 --> 00:15:17,540 Nautotics. 487 00:15:17,540 --> 00:15:18,540 Mm-hmm. 488 00:15:18,540 --> 00:15:19,540 What about this Rosell woman? 489 00:15:19,540 --> 00:15:20,540 She assisted? 490 00:15:20,540 --> 00:15:21,540 No, his wife. 491 00:15:21,540 --> 00:15:22,540 Huh? 492 00:15:22,540 --> 00:15:23,540 Married, got three kids. 493 00:15:23,540 --> 00:15:24,540 Her up there and a smarty woman here 494 00:15:24,540 --> 00:15:25,540 and he's flung a real line. 495 00:15:25,540 --> 00:15:27,540 Well, did they come up with anything more? 496 00:15:27,540 --> 00:15:28,540 Possible motive, maybe. 497 00:15:28,540 --> 00:15:29,540 Yeah. 498 00:15:29,540 --> 00:15:30,540 When Rosell left town, 499 00:15:30,540 --> 00:15:31,540 they got a rumble he was coming down here on business. 500 00:15:31,540 --> 00:15:32,540 Uh-huh. 501 00:15:32,540 --> 00:15:34,540 Had 12 ounces of heroin to peddle. 502 00:15:47,540 --> 00:15:48,540 We put on a call to Narcotics Division 503 00:15:48,540 --> 00:15:50,540 and talked to Captain Walters. 504 00:15:50,540 --> 00:15:52,540 He told us they didn't have anything on Rosell, 505 00:15:52,540 --> 00:15:53,540 but they'd heard about a new supply 506 00:15:53,540 --> 00:15:55,540 of high-grade heroin being moved into town. 507 00:15:55,540 --> 00:15:56,540 We told him what we'd found, 508 00:15:56,540 --> 00:15:58,540 and then we drove out to talk to the photographers 509 00:15:58,540 --> 00:16:00,540 the victim's girlfriend had mentioned. 510 00:16:00,540 --> 00:16:01,540 Well, I'm sorry, fellas. 511 00:16:01,540 --> 00:16:03,540 I haven't got any idea what you're talking about. 512 00:16:03,540 --> 00:16:05,540 Have you seen Tom Roostad or Rosell? 513 00:16:05,540 --> 00:16:06,540 Sure, I didn't say I hadn't, 514 00:16:06,540 --> 00:16:08,540 but I didn't have anything to do with killing him. 515 00:16:08,540 --> 00:16:10,540 How'd you know he was dead? 516 00:16:10,540 --> 00:16:11,540 It's all over the afternoon papers, 517 00:16:11,540 --> 00:16:13,540 don't you boys read your own publicity? 518 00:16:13,540 --> 00:16:14,540 When did you see him? 519 00:16:14,540 --> 00:16:15,540 Roostad? 520 00:16:15,540 --> 00:16:16,540 Yeah. 521 00:16:16,540 --> 00:16:17,540 Night before last. 522 00:16:17,540 --> 00:16:18,540 Monday? 523 00:16:18,540 --> 00:16:19,540 Yeah, I guess already Tuesday morning. 524 00:16:19,540 --> 00:16:20,540 What time? 525 00:16:20,540 --> 00:16:22,540 Oh, about 4.15. 526 00:16:22,540 --> 00:16:23,540 Yeah, that's it. 527 00:16:23,540 --> 00:16:24,540 It was 4.15, I remember, 528 00:16:24,540 --> 00:16:25,540 because he woke me up. 529 00:16:25,540 --> 00:16:26,540 I looked at the clock. 530 00:16:26,540 --> 00:16:27,540 What do you want? 531 00:16:27,540 --> 00:16:28,540 Oh, he had some wild idea 532 00:16:28,540 --> 00:16:30,540 there was something going between me and Marsha. 533 00:16:30,540 --> 00:16:32,540 Was he? 534 00:16:32,540 --> 00:16:34,540 Well, I don't see if there's any of your business, 535 00:16:34,540 --> 00:16:35,540 but it doesn't matter to me, 536 00:16:35,540 --> 00:16:36,540 so I'll tell you, no, there wasn't. 537 00:16:36,540 --> 00:16:37,540 Mm-hmm. 538 00:16:37,540 --> 00:16:39,540 He's a model, I'm a photographer. 539 00:16:39,540 --> 00:16:40,540 She worked for him there. 540 00:16:40,540 --> 00:16:41,540 They had her 25 bucks an hour. 541 00:16:41,540 --> 00:16:42,540 That's all there was. 542 00:16:42,540 --> 00:16:43,540 Yeah. 543 00:16:43,540 --> 00:16:44,540 I ain't gonna tell you it wouldn't have been nice, 544 00:16:44,540 --> 00:16:46,540 but this didn't happen. 545 00:16:46,540 --> 00:16:48,540 I don't believe in romance around the office. 546 00:16:48,540 --> 00:16:49,540 Doesn't do anything that would cause trouble. 547 00:16:49,540 --> 00:16:50,540 Yeah. 548 00:16:50,540 --> 00:16:51,540 What happened when Roostad came in? 549 00:16:51,540 --> 00:16:53,540 Oh, made a lot of accusations. 550 00:16:53,540 --> 00:16:54,540 I told him they weren't true. 551 00:16:54,540 --> 00:16:55,540 Said he had a filthy mind. 552 00:16:55,540 --> 00:16:56,540 Told him to get out. 553 00:16:56,540 --> 00:16:57,540 Did he go? 554 00:16:57,540 --> 00:16:58,540 No, I tried a little muscle. 555 00:16:58,540 --> 00:17:00,540 I bellied him a couple of times, and then ended it. 556 00:17:00,540 --> 00:17:01,540 Mm-hmm. 557 00:17:01,540 --> 00:17:02,540 Bought him a drink to show him 558 00:17:02,540 --> 00:17:03,540 there weren't any hard feelings, 559 00:17:03,540 --> 00:17:04,540 and a couple more. 560 00:17:04,540 --> 00:17:05,540 Yeah. 561 00:17:05,540 --> 00:17:07,540 Picked it around a while, and then he left. 562 00:17:07,540 --> 00:17:08,540 What'd he talk about? 563 00:17:08,540 --> 00:17:11,540 Looked at my suspect, that wheel on my back. 564 00:17:11,540 --> 00:17:13,540 We're talking to everybody who knew him. 565 00:17:13,540 --> 00:17:14,540 We didn't cross my name off the list. 566 00:17:14,540 --> 00:17:15,540 I bellied him, that's all. 567 00:17:15,540 --> 00:17:16,540 I didn't shoot him. 568 00:17:16,540 --> 00:17:17,540 Right. 569 00:17:17,540 --> 00:17:19,540 Did he call a cab from here when he left? 570 00:17:19,540 --> 00:17:22,540 No, I was going to, and he decided to walk. 571 00:17:22,540 --> 00:17:23,540 Did you see him leave? 572 00:17:23,540 --> 00:17:24,540 Certainly. 573 00:17:24,540 --> 00:17:25,540 I locked the door after. 574 00:17:25,540 --> 00:17:26,540 Mm. 575 00:17:26,540 --> 00:17:28,540 Watched him walk outside from the window there. 576 00:17:28,540 --> 00:17:30,540 Must have changed his mind about the cab, though. 577 00:17:30,540 --> 00:17:31,540 What? 578 00:17:31,540 --> 00:17:32,540 Cab. 579 00:17:32,540 --> 00:17:33,540 Must have changed his mind. 580 00:17:33,540 --> 00:17:34,540 I thought you said he didn't take one. 581 00:17:34,540 --> 00:17:35,540 I said he didn't call. 582 00:17:35,540 --> 00:17:37,540 When the cruiser picked him up, they drove off. 583 00:17:37,540 --> 00:17:39,540 You didn't get the number of the cab, did you? 584 00:17:39,540 --> 00:17:41,540 Look, a guy woke me up at four o'clock in the morning, 585 00:17:41,540 --> 00:17:43,540 came in here, wanted to start a beef. 586 00:17:43,540 --> 00:17:44,540 I finally got rid of him. 587 00:17:44,540 --> 00:17:46,540 I'm a nine to six boy. 588 00:17:46,540 --> 00:17:47,540 I haven't got time to stand around windows 589 00:17:47,540 --> 00:17:50,540 and get cab numbers for you cops. 590 00:17:50,540 --> 00:17:52,540 I went back to sleep. 591 00:17:52,540 --> 00:17:53,540 Fine, that's when anything comes up, 592 00:17:53,540 --> 00:17:54,540 give us a call, will you? 593 00:17:54,540 --> 00:17:55,540 Yeah, sure. 594 00:17:55,540 --> 00:17:56,540 Take this guy away. 595 00:17:56,540 --> 00:17:57,540 Mm-hmm. 596 00:17:57,540 --> 00:18:00,540 Oh, look, I'm sorry if I sounded off, 597 00:18:00,540 --> 00:18:02,540 just that I don't want to get mixed up in it. 598 00:18:02,540 --> 00:18:03,540 You can understand that, can't you? 599 00:18:03,540 --> 00:18:04,540 Sure. 600 00:18:04,540 --> 00:18:05,540 No hard feelings, eh? 601 00:18:05,540 --> 00:18:06,540 No. 602 00:18:06,540 --> 00:18:07,540 I'll be honest with you. 603 00:18:07,540 --> 00:18:08,540 I didn't like Rustad. 604 00:18:08,540 --> 00:18:10,540 I didn't like him an inch, but I didn't hate him. 605 00:18:10,540 --> 00:18:11,540 Not enough to kill him. 606 00:18:11,540 --> 00:18:12,540 Somebody did. 607 00:18:12,540 --> 00:18:25,540 We contacted the cab company again 608 00:18:25,540 --> 00:18:26,540 and asked them to check the way bills 609 00:18:26,540 --> 00:18:27,540 from Nestler's address. 610 00:18:27,540 --> 00:18:30,540 They came up with one trip on Tuesday morning. 611 00:18:30,540 --> 00:18:32,540 The dispatcher gave us the driver's name 612 00:18:32,540 --> 00:18:33,540 and told us where we could find him. 613 00:18:33,540 --> 00:18:34,540 Yeah, I remember the guy. 614 00:18:34,540 --> 00:18:35,540 Looked like he had a beef with somebody, 615 00:18:35,540 --> 00:18:36,540 you know, a real cut up. 616 00:18:36,540 --> 00:18:37,540 Mm-hmm. 617 00:18:37,540 --> 00:18:38,540 Where'd you take him? 618 00:18:38,540 --> 00:18:39,540 Let me think. 619 00:18:39,540 --> 00:18:40,540 It was a hotel downtown. 620 00:18:40,540 --> 00:18:41,540 Remember the name? 621 00:18:41,540 --> 00:18:42,540 I dropped him off at the corner of Margo. 622 00:18:42,540 --> 00:18:43,540 He went into a hotel there. 623 00:18:43,540 --> 00:18:44,540 See now. 624 00:18:44,540 --> 00:18:45,540 The Royal Arms, I think it was. 625 00:18:45,540 --> 00:18:46,540 Yeah, yeah, that's the place. 626 00:18:46,540 --> 00:18:47,540 All right, thanks a lot. 627 00:18:47,540 --> 00:18:48,540 I'm glad to help out. 628 00:18:48,540 --> 00:18:49,540 Say, this fella, 629 00:18:49,540 --> 00:18:50,540 he the same one who was killed yesterday? 630 00:18:50,540 --> 00:18:51,540 That's right. 631 00:18:51,540 --> 00:18:52,540 I wish I'd seen a lot of him. 632 00:18:52,540 --> 00:18:53,540 Newspapers, television, a lot of him. 633 00:18:53,540 --> 00:18:54,540 Always works that way, don't it? 634 00:18:54,540 --> 00:18:55,540 What do you mean? 635 00:18:55,540 --> 00:18:56,540 After you're dead, you're famous. 636 00:18:56,540 --> 00:18:57,540 Mm-hmm. 637 00:18:57,540 --> 00:18:58,540 When it's too late to enjoy it. 638 00:18:58,540 --> 00:19:14,540 Frank and I drove down to the Royal Arms Hotel. 639 00:19:14,540 --> 00:19:16,540 We talked with a clerk who had been on duty Tuesday morning. 640 00:19:16,540 --> 00:19:18,540 He remembered a man answering the victim's description 641 00:19:18,540 --> 00:19:21,540 and told us he'd inquired about a guest named Wallace Alney. 642 00:19:21,540 --> 00:19:22,540 Because of Ruth's dad's insistence, 643 00:19:22,540 --> 00:19:24,540 the clerk had put through a call to Alney, 644 00:19:24,540 --> 00:19:26,540 and the guest said to let the victim come upstairs. 645 00:19:26,540 --> 00:19:28,540 He went on to say that about 30 minutes later, 646 00:19:28,540 --> 00:19:30,540 both men had left the hotel together. 647 00:19:30,540 --> 00:19:31,540 9.40 p.m. 648 00:19:31,540 --> 00:19:33,540 We went up to Wallace Alney's room. 649 00:19:33,540 --> 00:19:34,540 Here it is, John. 650 00:19:34,540 --> 00:19:35,540 Come on. 651 00:19:35,540 --> 00:19:37,540 Yeah, it's me. 652 00:19:37,540 --> 00:19:42,540 Yeah? 653 00:19:42,540 --> 00:19:43,540 Wallace Alney? 654 00:19:43,540 --> 00:19:44,540 Yes, sir? 655 00:19:44,540 --> 00:19:45,540 Please talk to me. 656 00:19:45,540 --> 00:19:46,540 I'd like to talk to you. 657 00:19:46,540 --> 00:19:47,540 Sure, come on in. 658 00:19:47,540 --> 00:19:48,540 This is Frank Smith. 659 00:19:48,540 --> 00:19:49,540 My name's Friday. 660 00:19:49,540 --> 00:19:50,540 Hi. 661 00:19:50,540 --> 00:19:51,540 Hi, sir. 662 00:19:51,540 --> 00:19:52,540 That's all right. 663 00:19:52,540 --> 00:19:53,540 Like a drink? 664 00:19:53,540 --> 00:19:54,540 I'm just going to fix myself one. 665 00:19:54,540 --> 00:19:55,540 No, thanks. 666 00:19:55,540 --> 00:19:56,540 I'd like a drink before dinner. 667 00:19:56,540 --> 00:19:57,540 Sharpens up the old appetite. 668 00:19:57,540 --> 00:19:58,540 Yeah. 669 00:19:58,540 --> 00:20:01,540 Mind if we look around? 670 00:20:01,540 --> 00:20:02,540 No, go ahead. 671 00:20:02,540 --> 00:20:03,540 Do you look for anything special? 672 00:20:03,540 --> 00:20:04,540 I might be able to help. 673 00:20:04,540 --> 00:20:05,540 No, it's all right. 674 00:20:05,540 --> 00:20:06,540 All right, text me a plaza. 675 00:20:06,540 --> 00:20:08,540 Well, maybe you'd better have some of this 676 00:20:08,540 --> 00:20:09,540 if this is all about, huh? 677 00:20:09,540 --> 00:20:11,540 You know a man named Tom Roostad? 678 00:20:11,540 --> 00:20:12,540 A little zeal. 679 00:20:12,540 --> 00:20:13,540 Why? 680 00:20:13,540 --> 00:20:14,540 You know him? 681 00:20:14,540 --> 00:20:15,540 Yeah, I met him. 682 00:20:15,540 --> 00:20:16,540 I'm just playing a joke. 683 00:20:16,540 --> 00:20:17,540 I don't know much about him. 684 00:20:17,540 --> 00:20:18,540 Now, what about Roostad? 685 00:20:18,540 --> 00:20:19,540 When did you see him last? 686 00:20:19,540 --> 00:20:20,540 I don't know. 687 00:20:20,540 --> 00:20:21,540 A few days ago. 688 00:20:21,540 --> 00:20:26,540 Want to pin it down for us? 689 00:20:26,540 --> 00:20:27,540 Monday. 690 00:20:27,540 --> 00:20:28,540 Yeah, Monday. 691 00:20:28,540 --> 00:20:29,540 That's the last time you saw him? 692 00:20:29,540 --> 00:20:30,540 Yeah, we had a couple of drinks in the bar at the corner. 693 00:20:30,540 --> 00:20:31,540 I haven't seen him since. 694 00:20:31,540 --> 00:20:32,540 We got two people who say you did. 695 00:20:32,540 --> 00:20:33,540 All right. 696 00:20:33,540 --> 00:20:34,540 Yeah. 697 00:20:34,540 --> 00:20:35,540 Well, then go talk to them. 698 00:20:35,540 --> 00:20:36,540 Leave me alone. 699 00:20:36,540 --> 00:20:37,540 You ever been arrested? 700 00:20:37,540 --> 00:20:38,540 Why? 701 00:20:38,540 --> 00:20:39,540 Have you? 702 00:20:39,540 --> 00:20:40,540 Yeah. 703 00:20:40,540 --> 00:20:41,540 What be? 704 00:20:41,540 --> 00:20:42,540 I don't think I'm going to answer that. 705 00:20:42,540 --> 00:20:43,540 You don't have to. 706 00:20:43,540 --> 00:20:44,540 We'll find out. 707 00:20:44,540 --> 00:20:45,540 Well, I'm going to go. 708 00:20:45,540 --> 00:20:46,540 I'll see you later. 709 00:20:46,540 --> 00:20:47,540 Bye. 710 00:20:47,540 --> 00:20:48,540 Bye. 711 00:20:48,540 --> 00:20:49,540 Bye. 712 00:20:49,540 --> 00:20:50,540 Bye. 713 00:20:50,540 --> 00:20:51,540 B-bye. 714 00:20:51,540 --> 00:20:52,540 Bye. 715 00:20:52,540 --> 00:20:53,540 Michael. 716 00:20:53,540 --> 00:20:55,400 Where are you from? 717 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:56,400 All around. 718 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:57,400 Name a city? 719 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:58,980 Francois Vegas, KC, all around. 720 00:20:58,980 --> 00:20:59,980 How about Reno? 721 00:20:59,980 --> 00:21:00,980 Yeah, I've been through. 722 00:21:00,980 --> 00:21:02,080 Oh, you meant Roostad? 723 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,080 Look, uh. 724 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:05,980 What do you guys ask? 725 00:21:05,980 --> 00:21:09,860 You got the answer to that one I've saved some time. 726 00:21:09,860 --> 00:21:11,020 I've got a lot of time. 727 00:21:11,020 --> 00:21:12,020 Go away. 728 00:21:12,020 --> 00:21:13,080 Let's be honest with each other, huh? 729 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:14,080 Go ahead. 730 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:20,320 Why don't you guys lay out what you got and I'll tell you how close you are. 731 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:22,320 Can they count as silly women? 732 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:23,320 Why? 733 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:25,320 Like playing checkers with yourself. 734 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:27,320 Nothing I can do then. 735 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:28,320 How about the closet? 736 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:30,320 Look, you make a pinch, I got no choice. 737 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:31,320 If you're wrong, I'll own City Hall. 738 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:32,320 I don't think we are. 739 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,320 Then be my guest. 740 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:35,320 All right, you're under arrest. 741 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:36,320 Charge? 742 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:38,320 For suspicion of murder. 743 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:39,320 I'll take the closet. 744 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,320 Save it in trouble. 745 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:51,320 I killed him. 746 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:55,320 A search of the closet turned up a driver's license and other identification for Thomas Rosell. 747 00:21:55,320 --> 00:22:00,320 They also found a.25 caliber gun, $2,700 in cash, and a quantity of heroin. 748 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,320 The suspect was taking to City Hall for questioning. 749 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:08,320 They ran his name through R&I and found that he had several arrests in the state of California for violation of the state narcotics act. 750 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:11,320 12, 16 a.m. We got the full story. 751 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:12,320 We were in business up north. 752 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:13,320 Reno? 753 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:14,320 Yeah, we made a lucky buy. 754 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:15,320 He came down here to sell it. 755 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,320 I gave him some connections where he could dump it. 756 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:18,320 Go ahead. 757 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:19,320 He's been down here a couple days. 758 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,320 He sent a wire telling me the merchandise wasn't moving. 759 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:22,320 I knew it was a lie. 760 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:23,320 Right away I knew it. 761 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:25,320 Good stuff like that would have to be a market. 762 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:26,320 And I got the word. 763 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:27,320 What do you mean? 764 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:31,320 A friend of mine, he called, told me about Tom and his Marsha doll, how they were running around. 765 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:34,320 This guy told me Tom was going great with the 8. 766 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,320 Said he dropped about seven grand of it already. 767 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:38,320 Sure, as soon as I heard that I got on my horse and made it down here. 768 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:39,320 What happened? 769 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:40,320 Couldn't find out where he was staying. 770 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:41,320 Didn't have a trace. 771 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:42,320 What about the motel? 772 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:43,320 Well, I didn't know about that. 773 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:45,320 As far as I knew, he was supposed to be here. 774 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:46,320 That's the way we arranged it. 775 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:47,320 Yeah. 776 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,320 I sent out word I wanted to see him for him to get in touch right away. 777 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:51,320 He did. 778 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,320 Tried to give me the same line about how he couldn't sell it. 779 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:54,320 What's the market for it? 780 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:56,320 I told him we better call the whole deal off. 781 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,320 He gave me the stuff back, we called the whole deal off. 782 00:22:58,320 --> 00:22:59,320 Yeah. 783 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,320 Took some talk and then we headed for his place. 784 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:02,320 That's the motel? 785 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:02,320 Yeah. 786 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:03,320 How'd you get there? 787 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:04,320 My car. 788 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,320 What happened there? 789 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:08,320 When I saw how much he had left, I told him he was lying. 790 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:09,320 I called him a dirty thief and we had a fight. 791 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:10,320 Nice shot. 792 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:11,320 All right. 793 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:12,320 You're willing to give us a statement? 794 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:13,320 Sure. 795 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:14,320 Why not? 796 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:15,320 I'll get the snide. 797 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:18,320 This wife know you? 798 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:19,320 I guess so. 799 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:20,320 That's too bad. 800 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:21,320 I know her. 801 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:22,320 She's a real nice kid. 802 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:23,320 She's really in love with that town. 803 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:24,320 I guess she did it pretty hard. 804 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:25,320 I wouldn't know. 805 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:26,320 I don't know on her she would. 806 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:27,320 Nice kid like that and he's running around with another broad. 807 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:28,320 Boy, he was a real nice kid. 808 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:29,320 He was a real nice kid. 809 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:30,320 He was a real nice kid. 810 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:31,320 He was a real nice kid. 811 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:32,320 He was a real nice kid. 812 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:34,320 He was a real nice kid. 813 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,320 The way she loved him and doing a thing like that there. 814 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:37,320 Why don't you take another look? 815 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:38,320 What? 816 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:39,320 What did you do to her? 817 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:40,320 The story you've just heard is true. 818 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:41,320 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 819 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:48,320 On November 19th, trial was held in Department 99, Superior Court of the State of California 820 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:53,320 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 821 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:56,320 In a moment, the results of that trial. 822 00:23:56,320 --> 00:24:03,320 Wallace Hamilton, old name, was tried and convicted of murder in the second degree and 823 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,320 received sentence as prescribed by law. 824 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:09,320 Murder in the second degree is punishable by imprisonment for a period of from five 825 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:10,320 years to life in the state penitentiary. 826 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:33,320 You have just heard the story of the man who was killed in the state penitentiary. 827 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:44,320 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 828 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,320 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. 829 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:49,320 Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 830 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:54,320 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Frasier. 831 00:24:54,320 --> 00:25:01,320 Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, Dick Perrin, Helen Cleaves, Lillian Bios, Stacey Harris. 832 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,320 Scripts by John Robinson, music by Walter Schuman. 833 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,320 Hell, give me speaking. 834 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:12,320 Watch an entirely different Dragnet case this week on your local NBC television station. 835 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,320 Please check your newspapers for the day and time. 836 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:34,320 Chesterfield has brought you Dragnet, transcribed from Los Angeles.