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The Big Casing
Originally Aired: May 3, 1951 Dragnet #99, "The Big Casing," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero respond to a shooting at the Kelsey apartment hotel. They find Marie Robertson dead from a gunshot wound to the right temple, with her husband Andrew claiming it was suicide. According to Andrew, the couple had been arguing while Marie prepared dinner. He says she grabbed his Army .45 automatic from a nightstand, backed into the kitchen, and shot herself to end their dispute. However, Friday and Romero quickly notice troubling details at the scene that contradict the suicide story…
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