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The Big Confession
Originally Aired: March 30, 1954
Dragnet #241, "The Big Confession," finds Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith confronting an unsettling case when a young man named Paul Marcus walks into the homicide division with a disturbing admission. Marcus insists he needs to tell his story in his own way, carefully describing how he met nineteen-year-old Lorraine Farrell at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco during his vacation. He recounts their brief romance in painstaking detail, from eating prawns on the dock to visiting Strawberry Island, before finally revealing that he killed her…
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