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Dragnet - "Big Whiff" (Old Time Radio, 1952) · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: June 5th, 1952, brought NBC listeners Dragnet, episode 156, Big Whiff.
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  Speaker 1: On the Los Angeles night watch, Detective Sergeant Joe Friday
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  Speaker 1: and Frank Smith are called to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital
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  Speaker 1: after a well-dressed woman is found critically ill in a
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  Speaker 1: vacant lot near 7th and Union. Chloroform poisoning, no identification,
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  Speaker 1: and little physical evidence send the homicide detectives through hospital,
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  Speaker 1: squad room, and neighborhood leads as they work to establish
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  Speaker 1: who she is and how she came there. Jack Webb
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  Speaker 1: stars as Friday, with Herb Ellis as Smith. Jim Moser
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  Speaker 9: but now it's time for dum-da-dum-dum. That's right, Dragnet. Jack
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  Speaker 9: Webb stars as Sergeant Joe Friday of the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 9: Police Department.
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  Speaker 3: It's back to.
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  Speaker 9: June 5th, 1952 for The Big Whiff on Dragnet.
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  Speaker 4: The story you are about to hear is true. The
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  Speaker 4: names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a
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  Speaker 4: detective sergeant. You're assigned a homicide detail. A woman is
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  Speaker 4: found dying in a vacant lot. Her identity unknown.
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  Speaker 3: Your job, investigate.
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  Speaker 10: the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files.
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  Speaker 10: From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is
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  Speaker 10: the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 3: It was Thursday, October 16th. It was cloudy in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 3: We were working the night watch on a homicide detail.
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  Speaker 3: My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Lorman. My
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  Speaker 3: name's Friday. It was 9.48 p.m. when I got to
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  Speaker 3: Georgia Street Receiving Hospital, Dr.
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  Speaker 4: Hall's office.
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  Speaker 3: Joe, how are you? Hi, Doc. How about that case
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  Speaker 3: you got in from 7th and Union? How's she doing?
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  Speaker 3: She died about five minutes ago. Fill me in. What
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  Speaker 3: do you got on it? You talk to the radio
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  Speaker 3: car officers, ones that handle the call? Frank's talking to
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  Speaker 3: him now out in the lobby. Thought I'd check in
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  Speaker 3: with you while he was handling that end.
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  Speaker 4: Not an awful lot to tell you, Joe. Ambulance G2
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  Speaker 4: brought her in from the location. She was alive when
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  Speaker 4: they brought her in. Did everything I could for her.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't help much.
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  Speaker 4: Too far gone.
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  Speaker 3: What's it look like? Chloroform poisoning.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty obvious.
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  Speaker 3: Probably self-administered. Looks like that anyway. She didn't last long.
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  Speaker 3: It's a little unusual, huh? Chloroform? Yeah. Yeah, under the circumstances,
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  Speaker 3: it sure is. Anything else?
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  Speaker 4: How do you mean?
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  Speaker 3: Well, any probable causes, any marks on her? No, a
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  Speaker 3: little scratch on her wrist, that's about all. Well, you
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  Speaker 3: got her now.
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  Speaker 4: Can we look at her?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, bag number three. Come on. Ed Barrett called us,
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  Speaker 3: asked us for help.
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  Speaker 4: It's a rough.
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  Speaker 3: Night, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Traffic went crazy tonight. A dozen cases in the last
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  Speaker 3: two hours. A couple of homicides, too. Busy night. You
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  Speaker 3: got the weekend coming up, huh? Yeah, not looking forward
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  Speaker 3: to it.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Over here.
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  Speaker 3: That chloroform sure hangs on, doesn't it? Sure strong. Hmm. Well,
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  Speaker 3: there's some burns around her mouth and nose. Discoloration. Well,
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  Speaker 3: who is she? Any idea?
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  Speaker 4: We got her down as Jane Doe. You're gonna have
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  Speaker 4: to take it from there. I understand the radio car
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  Speaker 4: officers couldn't identify her. Apparently pretty well off, huh?
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  Speaker 3: Nice clothes. Seems to be well kept. I'd say so.
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  Speaker 3: Expensive jewelry there. Rings, wristwatch. A little strange for a
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  Speaker 3: probable suicide, isn't it? Looks like she took good care
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  Speaker 3: of herself. Hair all done up, fingernails. About how old,
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  Speaker 3: would you say? Not more than 35, just about that.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the chart, honey. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: Time arrival, 9.38 p.m. From southwest corner of 7th and Union,
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  Speaker 4: vacant lot. Reason for call, possible drunk woman down. Jane Doe,
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  Speaker 4: number four. Female, Caucasian, approximate age 35. Weight, 128 and
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  Speaker 4: 1 quarter. Height, 5 foot 4. Brown hair, hazel eyes.
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  Speaker 4: Listed as Nordic descent. Probable suicide.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. Okay, Doc.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks.
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  Speaker 3: I better look up Frank, see what he's got, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Haven't notified the coroner yet. You fellas want to take
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  Speaker 3: care of that? Yeah, sure. We'll call him. About all
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  Speaker 3: we can do unless we find some relatives to notify, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Joe?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Frank.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, hi, Doc. How are you?
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  Speaker 3: Frank? Looks like you're losing weight. Yeah, four pounds in
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  Speaker 3: two weeks. Not too bad for me, anyway.
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  Speaker 4: What'd you get, Joe?
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  Speaker 3: Chloroform poisoning.
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  Speaker 4: Probable suicide.
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  Speaker 3: Find out who she is? I gotta get back to
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  Speaker 3: my office. If there's anything I can help you with,
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  Speaker 3: come on back.
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  Speaker 7: Right, Doc.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks very much.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: How about it? Any identification? No, I talked to the
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  Speaker 3: fellas that took the call.
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  Speaker 4: Unit 182. It was a routine call. 390W down. They
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  Speaker 4: couldn't find out who put the call in. Said they
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  Speaker 4: found her in a vacant lot lying over against the
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  Speaker 4: side of the building. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They said she looked like she'd been drinking. Then they
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  Speaker 3: got away for the chloroform. Then they found this empty
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  Speaker 3: container by her side.
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  Speaker 4: Here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It ties in.
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  Speaker 4: They were careful handling it.
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  Speaker 3: Anything else?
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  Speaker 4: Well, while they're waiting for the ambulance, they talked to
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  Speaker 4: some of the people in the neighborhood. They couldn't tell
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  Speaker 4: them anything about the woman. The building they found her
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  Speaker 4: next to is a vacant store.
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  Speaker 3: No identification on her at all?
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  Speaker 4: No, nothing. No purse or wallet. I checked missing persons.
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  Speaker 4: No one of her description reported. Fellows who handled the
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  Speaker 4: call said they went over her clothing. No marks of identification.
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  Speaker 3: Better notify Leighton Prince, huh? Maybe they can identify him.
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  Speaker 3: Already called him, Joe.
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  Speaker 4: Looks like probable suicide. Sure, new twist, though. Chloroform room.
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't figure it out. What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. No violence committed on the body. No
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  Speaker 3: indication of robbery. She had a wristwatch on. Rings, too.
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  Speaker 4: Wouldn't figure anyway. Chloroform angle.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: No other physical evidence out there, huh? I mean, besides
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  Speaker 4: the chloroform container. Nothing else besides the handkerchief. Yeah, plain
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  Speaker 4: white handkerchief. Chloroform on it. They found it next to
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  Speaker 4: the body. It's the only thing that doesn't fit 100%.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean? It's a man's handkerchief.
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  Speaker 3: 10.25 p.m. Frank and I took the dead woman's clothing,
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  Speaker 3: the handkerchief, and the almost empty container of chloroform and
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  Speaker 3: drove back downtown to the office. We dropped off the
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  Speaker 3: clothing and the handkerchief at the crime lab to be
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  Speaker 3: processed for possible identifying marks. The chloroform container was taken
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  Speaker 3: to latent fingerprints for examination. The following morning, the body
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  Speaker 3: of the unidentified woman was taken to the county morgue
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  Speaker 3: for posting. As soon as the dead woman's prints were
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  Speaker 3: made available to us, they were checked through our record
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  Speaker 3: bureau and also through the record bureau at the sheriff's office.
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  Speaker 3: In addition, they also made a run on her description.
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  Speaker 3: They were unable to identify her. We checked with the
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  Speaker 3: crime lab, but they couldn't help us either. A detailed
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  Speaker 3: examination of the dead woman's clothing failed to yield any
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  Speaker 3: leads as to her identity. Latent prints didn't have any
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  Speaker 3: better luck with a chloroform container. The only prints they
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  Speaker 3: found on it were those of the dead woman. Meantime,
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  Speaker 3: the morning papers had picked up the story and given
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  Speaker 3: it front page billing. 11.16 a.m. How's that again, Doc? Uh-huh. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I see.
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  Speaker 10: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: A little unusual, wouldn't you say? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, we'll pick it up after lunch.
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  Speaker 4: Right, bye.
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  Speaker 11: Anything?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, a dark cephalo at the morgue. Just finished forcing
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  Speaker 4: the body. What'd he say? The chloroform killed her. They
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  Speaker 4: even found traces of it in the stomach.
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  Speaker 3: Huh? That's right.
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  Speaker 4: That's a weird one, isn't it? Doesn't leave much doubt. Suicide.
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  Speaker 4: No indication it.
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  Speaker 3: Was anything else, is there? I got it. Homicide. Friday talking.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Mitchell?
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: That so? Yeah, sure. Be glad to. Yeah, we'll be here.
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  Speaker 3: You want to give us your address?
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  Speaker 7: Hello?
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  Speaker 3: Hello? Here we go. Who was it, Joe? Somebody named
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  Speaker 3: James Mitchell. He's on his way down to see us,
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  Speaker 3: wants to talk to us about the dead woman. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He says he killed her. 11.50 a.m. While Frank and
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  Speaker 3: I waited around for Mitchell to show up, we checked
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  Speaker 3: his name through R & I, but we were unable
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  Speaker 3: to find anything on him. A few minutes before 1 p.m.,
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  Speaker 3: a short, blonde-haired man in a blue serge suit entered
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  Speaker 3: the squad room and asked for us. He introduced himself
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  Speaker 3: as James Mitchell. Frank and I took him to the
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  Speaker 3: interrogation room where we started to question him. He told
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  Speaker 3: us he was a steelworker. by trade currently unemployed he
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  Speaker 3: said he was originally from alabama that he'd been in
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  Speaker 3: california for approximately two years after that he lapsed into
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  Speaker 3: silence we tried to question him about the dead woman
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  Speaker 3: but we made little headway The only admission we could
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  Speaker 3: get from him was that he killed the woman. Outside
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  Speaker 3: of that, he refused to say anything.
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  Speaker 4: Now, how about it, Mitchell? What's the trouble? You called us,
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  Speaker 4: volunteered a confession. You said you killed the woman. You
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  Speaker 4: wanted to tell us a story. Now, why don't you
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  Speaker 4: answer our questions?
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  Speaker 3: Jim, how about it? Aren't you feeling well? You want
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  Speaker 3: us to call a doctor? Jim?
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  Speaker 4: You're not giving us much of an out, mister. You
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  Speaker 4: volunteered to make yourself a suspect in this thing.
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  Speaker 3: You say you killed the woman.
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  Speaker 4: Now, why don't you answer the questions?
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  Speaker 3: We can't keep this up forever. You ought to know that.
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  Speaker 3: You haven't answered a question in almost an hour now. Look,
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  Speaker 3: if you're not going to talk, Jim, there's only one
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  Speaker 3: thing we can do. We're going to have to book you. Mitchell?
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  Speaker 3: Is that what you want? Go ahead and book me.
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  Speaker 4: I killed her.
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  Speaker 3: Go on, book me. Why can't you tell us the story? Now,
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  Speaker 3: you admit you killed the woman. Why won't you tell
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  Speaker 3: us about it? Why should I? I killed her.
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  Speaker 4: That's all you have to know.
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  Speaker 3: You said on the phone you'd tell us the whole story,
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  Speaker 3: didn't you? Now, what made you change your mind?
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  Speaker 4: You got the story.
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  Speaker 3: I killed her. All there is to it. You know
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  Speaker 3: better than that, Mitchell.
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  Speaker 4: You know the woman very well? No, not very well.
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  Speaker 4: What was her name?
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  Speaker 3: Mary. Mary what?
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  Speaker 4: Mary, that's all.
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  Speaker 3: I met her in a bar.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know her well. I killed her.
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  Speaker 3: That's all you gotta know.
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  Speaker 4: I had to.
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  Speaker 3: Why'd you have to, Jim? I don't have to tell you.
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  Speaker 3: I had a reason.
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  Speaker 4: Good reason. Robbery? I don't have to say.
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  Speaker 3: You have a fight with her?
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  Speaker 4: Lovers quarrel?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe.
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  Speaker 10: Maybe.
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  Speaker 3: What's the difference? Now, this bar where you met Mary,
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  Speaker 3: that in downtown L.A., was it? Yeah, it's downtown.
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  Speaker 4: She had it coming.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad I did it. Not worth much, huh?
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  Speaker 4: She was when I met her. Well, what happened?
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  Speaker 3: Did she go out the deep end?
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  Speaker 4: Guess so.
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  Speaker 3: What's the difference?
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  Speaker 4: She's dead.
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  Speaker 3: But why'd you turn yourself in, Jim? You couldn't beat it? Maybe.
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  Speaker 4: How do you mean?
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  Speaker 3: I could have stayed out of your way if I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to. For a while, anyway. I didn't want to.
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  Speaker 3: Why not, Jim? Good reason.
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  Speaker 11: I'm glad I killed her. She had it coming. Now
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  Speaker 11: go ahead and do what you want. I know what
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  Speaker 11: the rap is.
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  Speaker 4: I'll pay for it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you're willing to take the rap, Jim, why
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  Speaker 3: not tell us the whole story, huh? You got the story.
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  Speaker 3: I killed her. That's all you need. Don't you want
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  Speaker 3: to brief us in on the details?
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  Speaker 4: How it happened?
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  Speaker 3: How it came about? Might be extenuating circumstances. You can't tell?
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  Speaker 4: Well, how do you mean? Different things that might throw
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  Speaker 4: a new slant on the case. The court's not going
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  Speaker 4: to hand down a decision until they got the whole story.
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  Speaker 4: You mean about Mary?
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  Speaker 11: I'll never tell them about her. Lousy thing she did
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  Speaker 11: to me. Never tell anybody about it.
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  Speaker 3: Must have been pretty bad, huh? I mean, the way
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  Speaker 3: you took it out on her. She was rotten.
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  Speaker 4: All the way through. I had to kill her.
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  Speaker 3: What happened with the chloroform, Jim? Didn't it work fast
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  Speaker 3: enough for you? Chloroform? Yeah, uh-huh. Didn't it react on
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  Speaker 3: her fast enough for you?
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  Speaker 12: No.
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  Speaker 3: No, it didn't.
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  Speaker 4: I hated her.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess you did. Must have had quite a
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: scrap with her. Struggled quite a bit, didn't you?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, she fought me all the way. I got her, though.
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  Speaker 4: I hated her.
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  Speaker 3: Out of my mind, I hated her so much. We've
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  Speaker 3: been trying to figure it out, Jim. What'd you hit
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  Speaker 3: her with? I mean, around the head and on the neck.
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  Speaker 3: What'd you use, a piece of metal?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, angle iron.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of lost my head.
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  Speaker 4: I kept beating her.
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  Speaker 11: She tried to scream, but I had my hand over
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  Speaker 11: her mouth, and then she fell down.
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  Speaker 4: She didn't make a sound after that.
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  Speaker 3: I see. Well, how come you took her jewelry? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if you just wanted to kill her, how is it
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  Speaker 3: you took all her valuables, too?
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  Speaker 4: Jim....
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  Speaker 3: How about it, Mitchell? I don't know. Spur of the moment,
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  Speaker 3: I guess. I took them, but I didn't keep them.
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  Speaker 4: I threw them away. I don't remember where. I'm glad
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  Speaker 4: it's over.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Jim. Now, what's this all about? You didn't
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: kill that woman. You know that as well as we do. Well,
• 13:35
  Speaker 3: what are you talking about? Of course I killed her.
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  Speaker 4: She's dead, ain't she?
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  Speaker 11: How many times do I have to admit it?
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  Speaker 4: The woman had one mark on her body, Mitchell, a
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  Speaker 4: small scratch on the wrist.
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
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  Speaker 4: Not a single wound on the head, none on the
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  Speaker 4: neck either.
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  Speaker 11: Well, I killed her, so you gotta know not saying
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  Speaker 11: anything now.
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  Speaker 3: All the woman's valuables weren't taken either, Jim. She was
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  Speaker 3: found with a couple of rings on her hands, an
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: expensive watch, a bracelet, too.
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: Now, come on, Jim.
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: What's the angle here? You can't prove I didn't do it.
• 13:57
  Speaker 4: You can't prove that. I think we can.
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: Look, why can't you just take my word for it?
• 14:01
  Speaker 11: It's a queer setup I ever saw.
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: I'm willing to admit I killed her.
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: And you won't believe me.
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: What kind of cops are you, anyway? Where'd you spend
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: last night, Jim? Where were you?
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't remember.
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: You remember. Now, how about it?
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: It's a queer setup I ever saw. Whole town. You
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: wouldn't believe it. Yeah? Look, I come here from Alabama.
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: I told you that.
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  Speaker 3: I've been here for 22 months.
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: A long time. It's almost two years. Mm-hmm.
• 14:22
  Speaker 11: Queerest town I ever saw. Thousands of people all over.
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: Millions of them. People all around you, all over the place.
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: Everywhere you go.
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: I didn't know any of them. Not a one.
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: They didn't know me.
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: 22 months. Couldn't get to know nobody. I still don't.
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: They don't know me either.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: Tried to get acquainted. Just seemed I never could. Nobody
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: knew me. Nobody cared.
• 14:43
  Speaker 11: Didn't even know who I was. What kind of town
• 14:46
  Speaker 11: is that? 22 months right here.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: They don't even know who I am. Nobody knows. Living alone,
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: you just get sick of it.
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: Get sick and tired of it.
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: That's what brought all this on, huh?
• 14:54
  Speaker 11: Well, I mean, at least they'll notice me.
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: They'll know I'm here. I killed a woman. They'll know
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: who I am now.
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: You ever spend any time in a hospital, Mitchell? Institution?
• 15:02
  Speaker 11: Now, what'd you have to ask that for?
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: Just because I want to know people, want to notice me?
• 15:06
  Speaker 11: That doesn't make me crazy. Can't be alone all the time.
• 15:09
  Speaker 11: You got to have somebody notice you.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: Were you ever in an institution, Jim?
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: Just once. Only a couple of months. It wasn't anything.
• 15:17
  Speaker 11: Look, can't you just forget what I said?
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, I told you I killed the woman.
• 15:20
  Speaker 11: The paper's going to be out pretty soon.
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: Pictures and things.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: Probably a big write-up.
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, can't we let it go at that?
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: I killed her. Just forget the rest. No, I'm afraid not.
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: Why not?
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: We'll just make out it's that way. People get to
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: know me anyway. At least they'll know I'm around. I
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: won't be alone. No use worrying, Jim. Huh? 1.38 p.m.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: We continued to question the self-accused suspect, James Mitchell, and
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: he finally told us that he'd been confined for a
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: period of 18 months in a state mental hospital in Alabama.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: That had been more than three years before. The questioning
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: also left no doubt in our mind that Mitchell had
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: nothing at all to do with the death of the
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: unidentified woman. A sister of Mitchell's living in Alabama was contacted,
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: and she agreed to come out west as soon as
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: possible to look after her brother. In the meantime, he
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: was delivered to the care of psychiatrists at the county hospital.
• 16:11
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• 16:13
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• 16:16
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• 16:19
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• 16:21
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• 16:24
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• 16:30
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• 16:34
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• 16:37
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• 16:40
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• 16:44
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  Speaker 3: Saturday, October 18th. The newspapers continue to cooperate by giving
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: his front page space to the story of the unidentified woman.
• 24:29
  Speaker 12: Joe?
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, how'd you do?
• 24:31
  Speaker 12: Nothing.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Identification wasn't even close.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: How about Brian and Lopez? What'd they do on that
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: call of theirs? Well, they're over at the morgue now
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: with a boy, 16-year-old. Kid was pretty wrought up when
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: he came in.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Well, we sure had a.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Parade of them.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: All last night, all this morning.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Well, it doesn't hurt our chances any. The more, the better.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: I suppose so.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Not gonna make much headway if we can't identify her.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Any answers on the roll points we got out on it?
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, four of them. They've all been checked.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Nothing. Chilling gum, Joe? New kind. Tangerine flavor.
• 24:55
  Speaker 9: No, no thanks.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: How about that check of the hospitals around town? Anything
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: show up there yet?
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: No, not so far. The scar on the woman's leg
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: was from an operation, all right. Doc figures it might
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: not have been done in a hospital, though. It was
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: a minor operation. Could have been done in a doctor's office, maybe.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: I'd stop it, sure. Tough enough checking hospitals for a
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: record of the operation. Next to impossible to check every
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: doctor in town for it.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Well, even then we could miss. Don't know where the
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: woman's from. She could have had the operation done anywhere.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: I'll get it. Homicide. Friday talking.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Tom.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: You did?
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: That's all?
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Okay. Fine.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: You bet. Thanks, Tom. It was Brian.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: He and Lopey are driving that boy over to Georgia Street,
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: the 16-year-old.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: What happened?
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Well, they took the boy to the morgue. They showed
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: him the body. Asked him if he recognized it.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: What's he say?
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: It's his mother. 2.05 p.m. Frank and I left the
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: office and drove over to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. The
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: 16-year-old boy who had identified the dead woman as his
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: mother was being treated for shock and hysteria. The youngster
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: told Brian and Lopez that his name was Arnold Hopkins
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: and that he'd been living with his mother at a
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Norwood Street address. After he was given a sedative and
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: recovered himself a bit, the boy was driven to the
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: home of his aunt and uncle out near Barnsdale Park.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: That night, Frank and I called on the boy and
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: found him sufficiently recovered to answer a few questions. He
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: confirmed his identity of the body he'd viewed that afternoon
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: as that of his mother, Mrs. Jeanette Hopkins. He said
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: he was an only child and that his father was dead.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: He told us his mother had been working for the
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: past six years as coast representative for an eastern cosmetics firm.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: We asked him what had happened the night his mother disappeared.
• 26:32
  Speaker 18: The phone just rang about, well, when we were finishing dinner.
• 26:34
  Speaker 18: About 8 o'clock, maybe quarter after. Well, when Ma hung up,
• 26:38
  Speaker 18: she said something important come up. She had to go
• 26:40
  Speaker 18: out to see somebody. She said she had to see
• 26:43
  Speaker 18: him right away. She got her coat and left. That's
• 26:47
  Speaker 18: the last time I saw her.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: Well, who was she going to see, Arnold?
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Did she tell you?
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: No, she didn't. I heard her talking on the phone, though.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: Heard her say, Leo.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: She said it a couple of times. Leo.
• 27:01
  Speaker 18: I think she said, okay, I'll meet you there, Leo,
• 27:04
  Speaker 18: and she hung up. Then she got her coat, kissed
• 27:06
  Speaker 18: me goodbye, and she went out. Did she leave on
• 27:08
  Speaker 18: foot or was she driving, do you remember?
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Oh, on foot.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: My mother didn't drive. Who's Leo, so? Your mother ever
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: talk about him? Heard her talking to him on the
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: phone a couple of times, that's about all.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Well, do you know where he lives?
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: What he looks like? Can you tell us anything about
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: him at all?
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: No, sir, nothing.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't know him if I saw him.
• 27:22
  Speaker 14: The End.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Saturday, October 18th, 8.30 p.m. Frank Smith and I continued
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: interviewing the dead woman's son, 16-year-old Arnold Hopkins. The big
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: lead pointed in the direction of the man known as Leo,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: who telephoned Mrs. Hopkins Thursday night, a little more than
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: an hour before she died, and made an appointment to
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: meet her. It was a good lead, but it didn't
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: go too far. All the boy could tell us was
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: that the man's name was Leo. He'd heard his mother
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: address a man by that name on the telephone several times,
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: but that was the extent of it. He didn't know
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Leo's last name. He didn't know where he lived. He
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: had no idea where his mother was to meet the
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: man the night she died. We talked to the boy's
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: aunt and uncle, the dead woman's brother and sister-in-law, but
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: they couldn't help us either. Frank Smith and I obtained
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: a list of all of Mrs. Hopkins' friends and business
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: associates known to the son and the aunt and the uncle.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: We spent the rest of the weekend checking with them.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Most of them gave us pretty much the same story. Mrs.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Hopkins was well-liked and well-respected, both in her business and
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: private life. She was devoted to her teenage son. She
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: didn't drink, and socially, her behavior was beyond question. She
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: attended church regularly. She was active in several women's clubs,
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: engaged in social and religious work. None of the people
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: we talked to could think of any reason that she
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: would want to end her own life. All of them
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: denied any knowledge of the man known as Leo. Monday afternoon,
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: October 20th, Frank and I had another meeting with the
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: victim's son, Arnold Hopkins. We had him check over the
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: personal effects found on the body. Yes, sir, that's hers.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: The other ring, too.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: How about this bracelet, sir?
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir. She always wore that. My dad gave it
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: to her, I think. When he was alive, I mean.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: She always wore it. Now, the wristwatch, two rings, the bracelet,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: and this lapel pin here. That's about it, son? Yes, sir.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: I guess so. You have her necklace, too.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: How's that?
• 29:13
  Speaker 18: My mother's necklace. She was wearing it that night. She
• 29:16
  Speaker 18: had it on when she left the house. Didn't you
• 29:17
  Speaker 18: find it?
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: What kind of necklace is it, son? What's it look like?
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: It's made like the bracelet is.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: That one there.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: See, the two of them go together to set. Your
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: mother wore expensive jewelry like that every day, did she?
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: No, sir.
• 29:28
  Speaker 18: She wore the bracelet quite a bit, not the necklace, though.
• 29:31
  Speaker 18: She only wore that when she was dressed up. I
• 29:34
  Speaker 18: thought about it yesterday. I meant to tell you about it.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: What's that, son?
• 29:37
  Speaker 18: Well, right after she got the phone call that night
• 29:39
  Speaker 18: when she told me she had to go out.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:41
  Speaker 18: Well, she went back and got her coat and then
• 29:43
  Speaker 18: she came in the living room and kissed me goodbye.
• 29:45
  Speaker 18: She had the necklace in her hand.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: You sure she took it with her?
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes, sir.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: I'm positive.
• 29:49
  Speaker 18: After she kissed me goodbye, she went over to the
• 29:51
  Speaker 18: mirror and I saw her put the necklace on. She
• 29:54
  Speaker 18: was wearing it when she left. I didn't think much
• 29:56
  Speaker 18: about it till later on. Most of the time, she
• 29:58
  Speaker 18: only wears it when she dresses up. She wasn't very
• 30:00
  Speaker 18: dressed up that night.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: Joe. Yeah.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Can you describe the necklace for us, son? Exactly what
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: it looks like?
• 30:08
  Speaker 10: Yes, sir.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: I think I can.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: When you saw your mother with a necklace on, did
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: you think to ask her about it?
• 30:12
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I did.
• 30:13
  Speaker 18: She said she was wearing it because she wanted to
• 30:15
  Speaker 18: look pretty.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: She was going to meet a good friend. She didn't
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: say where?
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: No, sir.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: I guess she was wrong, huh? About her necklace, I mean. No, son.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: About her friend. Monday, 3.18 p.m. We got a description
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: of the necklace from the Hopkins boy, confirmed it with
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: his aunt and uncle, and then we double-checked it at
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: the jewelers where it had been purchased. After that, we
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: contacted the pawn shop detail and burglary division. The necklace
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: and its description was put on the stolen property list
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: and copies were sent to second-hand jewelry stores and pawn
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: shops throughout the area. We also got out a broadcast
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: and an APB on it. 4.15 the following afternoon, we
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: got a reply from the San Diego Police Department. A
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: pawn shop owner down there had reported taking in the
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: necklace the Friday before, which matched the description of the
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: one we were looking for. The man who pawned the
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: necklace listed his name in the pawn shop's buy book
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: as Raymond Butler. San Diego officers had checked out the
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: home address that he'd given. It was a vacant lot.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: The necklace was sent back to Los Angeles, where it
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: was identified as Mrs. Hopkins'. The description of the man
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: who'd pawned the necklace was forwarded from San Diego together
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: with a photostatic copy of the suspect's signature, and we
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: got out an all-points bulletin on him. Two days passed.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Nothing.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Along with Brian and Lopez, we continued checking all public
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: places in the general area where the body of Mrs.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Hopkins had been found. You got anything, Frank?
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: Talked to a man by the name of Wagner, Joe.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: He told me she used to do a lot of traveling,
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: business trips, most of them to San Diego. Wagner says
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: he heard she had a boyfriend down there, a tall,
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: dark-haired fellow. That's all. No name.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: I get it. Homicide Friday. What? Oh, yeah, Lopey.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Where? Checks out, does it? Yeah, that's good.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: Fine.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: Okay, thanks, Lopey.
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: Yeah, right away.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: Anything, Joe?
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: Lopez, he and Brian just checked a bar out in
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: the neighborhood where the body was found. They talked to
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: the bartender in the place, showed him the description of
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: the man who pawned the necklace. Bartender says he knows
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: the man. He sure? Pretty sure. He told Brian and
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: Lopey that the man's either a boxer or a wrestler,
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: something like that, anyway. You know the man's name, where
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: he lives? Says his name's Taylor. No home address.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: You know his first name?
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: Leo. Leo.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: 1.25 p.m. After interviewing four other people who were in
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: the bar the night of Mrs. Hopkins' death, Lopez and
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Bryan checked back in at the office. They told us
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: that at least one of the four persons they talked to,
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: in addition to the bartender, was sure that the description
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: of the suspect who pawned the necklace fitted a man
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: known as Leo Taylor, who was in the bar the
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: previous Thursday night. He was seen in the place between 8.30
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: and 9.00 p.m., and he was seen with a woman
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: answering Mrs. Hopkins' general description. The bartender had no idea
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: where the man lived, but he seemed fairly certain of
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: the man's name, Leo Taylor, and his occupation, either wrestling
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: or boxing. 5.05 p.m., we made a run on Taylor's
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: name and description through R & I, and we got
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: a make. We checked his handwriting, and that matched out also.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: He had one previous arrest for assault and disorderly conduct.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: His residence was a West 11th Street address. We checked
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: it out, but he'd moved six months before. The landlady
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: had no forwarding address on him, but she told us
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: one of the places he used to frequent was a
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: gym on South Olive down near Olympic. We ran it down.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: All right, come on. Don't get tired of pushing the bag.
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: Come on. I checked with a fellow in the office
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: over there, Joe. Says the man we once took in
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: the shower back there, locker room.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: In here?
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: Go ahead.
• 33:31
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: Excuse me. Your name Leo Taylor. How's that? I said,
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: are you Leo Taylor?
• 33:41
  Speaker 10: Yeah, that's right.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: What is it?
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: Police officers would like to talk to you. Oh, I'm
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: taking a shower right now. You want to wait a while?
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Well, keep Taylor.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: We want to talk to you now.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: All right. All right. What's the rush? What's it all about?
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: We want to talk to you downtown. What do you
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: want me downtown for? A routine check. Like to ask
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: you a few questions.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: About what?
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Jeanette Hopkins. And so? What about it? When's the last
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: time you saw the.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: Woman, Taylor? I don't know. A couple months ago. At
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: least that.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: Why? We can talk about it downtown. Well, let's talk now.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: It'll take me a little time to get dressed. What's
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: the pitch?
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: You know as well as we do.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: You want to throw me that shirt, Mac?
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: Thanks.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: What do you mean, I.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: Know as well as you do?
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: Know what? No rush, Leo. We can talk downtown. I
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: read about it in the papers. It's a terrible thing.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: I was going to look her up one of these days.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: Too bad. You live in Los Angeles, Taylor?
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, why? Ever get down to San Diego? Once in
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: a while, not too often.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: You don't think I had anything to do with it,
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: do you? How do you mean, Leo? With what? I mean, Jeanette,
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: she's dead. You don't think I had to handle it,
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: do you? I tell you, I'm going to level with you, Leo.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: We've been on this thing a week. We've got you
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: placed in San Diego. We've got you placed here. You
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: say you haven't seen Mrs. Hopkins for two months. We
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: can do a lot better than that. You were with
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: her in San Diego two weeks ago. We were drinking
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: with her in a bar out there last Thursday night.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: You were with her 20 minutes before she died. We
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: got all we need, Leo. Got my coat there, Graven?
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: Check the pockets, Frank. Yeah. It's going to take a
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: lot of proof. I guess you know that. It's going
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: to take a lot of it. We got it. Better have.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: Let's see. Keys, wallet, coin.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: Okay, let's go. No, just a minute, Leo. Yeah? Go
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: ahead and take it here. You forgot it.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: The story you have just heard was true. The names
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: were changed to protect the innocent.
• 35:33
  Speaker 10: On January 28th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 89,
• 35:37
  Speaker 10: City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. When
• 35:40
  Speaker 10: confronted with the evidence and testimony against him, Leo Francis
• 35:43
  Speaker 10: Taylor broke down and confessed to the murder of Mrs.
• 35:46
  Speaker 10: Jeanette Hopkins. She'd been paying blackmail to Taylor in order
• 35:49
  Speaker 10: to keep their affair secret, but a month before her death,
• 35:51
  Speaker 10: she refused to pay him any more. Taylor threatened her again,
• 35:55
  Speaker 10: and she agreed to give him the necklace as a
• 35:56
  Speaker 10: final payoff. At their meeting, Taylor demanded cash. His victim
• 36:00
  Speaker 10: threatened him with arrest, and he administered the chloroform. Taylor
• 36:04
  Speaker 10: was tried and found guilty of first-degree murder and was
• 36:06
  Speaker 10: sentenced to a life term in the state penitentiary.
• 36:08
  Speaker 15: The End.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: You have just heard Dragnet.
• 36:18
  Speaker 10: A series of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice
• 36:22
  Speaker 10: comes from the office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker,
• 36:24
  Speaker 10: Los Angeles Police Department. Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant
• 36:28
  Speaker 10: Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Frazier. Heard tonight were Herb Ellis,
• 36:32
  Speaker 10: Mick Perrin, Gil Stratton, Jack Crucian. Script by Jim Mosier.
• 36:37
  Speaker 10: Music by Walter Schumann. Hal Gibney speaking.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: And that's Dragnet and the Big Whiff. Starring my friend
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: Jack Webb.
• 36:48
  Speaker 9: As originally broadcast June 5th, 1952.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: I'm Stan Freeberg.
• 36:53
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• 37:23
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• 37:27
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