The Big Winchester

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast · Jun 28, 2026 · 31m

Originally Aired: August 16, 1951 Dragnet #114, "The Big Winchester," Sergeant Joe Friday is pulled away from his annual physical exam when his partner Ben Romero calls about a suspicious death in the Westlake Park area. An elderly man named Martin Latimer, a 68-year-old retired grocery store owner, has been found dead in his living room with a bullet wound in his chest. At first glance, the scene appears to be a suicide, with a Winchester rifle elaborately wired to a chair and connected by string to the victim's finger, but Officer Harkness from the radio car patrol has his doubts. As Friday…