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Dragnet - "Big Rain" (Old Time Radio, 1953) · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: John Robinson wrote this November 3rd, 1953 NBC broadcast of Dragnet,
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  Speaker 1: episode 220. In Big Rain, Detective Sergeant Joe Friday and
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  Speaker 1: his partner Frank Smith are assigned to a homicide detail
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  Speaker 1: investigation after a woman is found badly beaten near a
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  Speaker 1: gutter on a rainy Los Angeles night. The evidence points
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  Speaker 1: first toward Cecil Johnson, while reports that the woman's husband
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  Speaker 1: had threatened her life add another lead for Friday and
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  Speaker 1: Smith to pursue. Jack Webb stars as Friday, with Ben
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  Speaker 1: Alexander as Smith. Vivi Janis and Harry Bartell are also
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  Speaker 1: heard in the cast. Ladies and gentlemen, the curtain rises now.
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  Speaker 1: Here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: ¶ ¶ Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about
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  Speaker 2: to hear is true. The names have been changed to
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  Speaker 2: protect the innocent.
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  Speaker 2: You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to homicide detail. You
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  Speaker 2: get a call that a woman has been badly beaten.
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  Speaker 2: The circumstances indicate foul play.
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  Speaker 4: Your job? Check it out.
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  Speaker 2: The nation's top golfers and sports writers have named Ben
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  Speaker 2: Hogan Professional Golfer of the Year.
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  Speaker 4: Ben, of course, smokes Chesterfield. But let's hear what he
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  Speaker 4: has to say about them himself.
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  Speaker 5: I'm a Chesterfield smoker and have been for seven years.
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  Speaker 3: Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
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  Speaker 3: next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
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  Speaker 3: you will travel step by step on the side of
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  Speaker 3: the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files.
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  Speaker 3: From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is
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  Speaker 3: the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 7: It was Tuesday, November 17th. It was raining in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 7: We were working the night watch on a homicide detail.
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  Speaker 7: My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Lorman.
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  Speaker 6: My name's Friday. We were on our way back from
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  Speaker 6: the main jail, and it was 11.27 p.m. when we
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  Speaker 6: got to room 42.
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  Speaker 2: Homicide.
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  Speaker 8: We've got to get that car radio fixed, Joe.
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  Speaker 4: It's getting worse all the time.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, we can take it over in the morning.
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  Speaker 9: Thing almost knocked me right out of the seat when
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  Speaker 9: I called in tonight.
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  Speaker 6: As soon as you press the button.
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  Speaker 4: Bang, you get a shot.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I was out with Lopey yesterday. He picked
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  Speaker 6: up the mic. I thought he was going to climb
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  Speaker 6: right out of the window. Yeah, well, that's pretty funny
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  Speaker 6: as long as you don't have to use the thing. Well,
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  Speaker 6: it must be a short someplace, huh? Got to get
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  Speaker 6: it fixed.
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  Speaker 9: You know, I must have used a dollar's worth of
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  Speaker 9: dimes calling in today. If this keeps up, I'm going
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  Speaker 9: to have to give up lunches.
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  Speaker 6: Well, that wouldn't hurt you either.
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  Speaker 4: That's not kind, Joe.
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  Speaker 6: I've lost seven pounds in the last two weeks.
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  Speaker 8: Where?
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to see about a transfer.
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  Speaker 6: Well, let's finish up these reports before you get out
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  Speaker 6: of here.
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  Speaker 1: What do you say?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I'm with you.
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  Speaker 2: Hot shot. I get it.
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  Speaker 6: There's a robbery call. A bar out in the Olympic.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 9: Thought for a minute we were going to have to
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  Speaker 9: go out. All I want to do is get home
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  Speaker 9: and get some dry socks on. My feet are killing me.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Well, I got an idea. If you'll stop talking
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  Speaker 6: and pick up a pencil, we can quit on time
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  Speaker 6: for a change. Another hot shot.
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  Speaker 4: I'll get it.
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  Speaker 8: Get your hat.
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  Speaker 4: Beating out in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Woman found her laying in the gutter.
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  Speaker 6: She still alive?
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  Speaker 4: Was when they got the call. We better step on it, though.
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  Speaker 4: They don't know how long she's gonna last.
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  Speaker 7: When we got to the address we'd been given by
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  Speaker 7: the complaint board, two radio cars from Hollywood Division were
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  Speaker 7: already there. An ambulance had arrived, and the crew was
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  Speaker 7: doing what they could for the victim. She was still alive,
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  Speaker 7: but the attendant said that she appeared to have a
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  Speaker 7: skull fracture.
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  Speaker 6: In addition to possible internal injuries.
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  Speaker 7: From one of the officers who answered the call, we
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  Speaker 7: found that the victim had been sprawled across the sidewalk,
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  Speaker 7: her head in the gutter. Due to the heavy rain,
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  Speaker 7: a stream of water was running down and into a
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  Speaker 7: storm drain. The fact that the drain was above the
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  Speaker 7: victim's head appeared to be the only thing that saved.
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  Speaker 6: Her from drowning.
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  Speaker 7: The crime lab had been called and the men from
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  Speaker 7: Hollywood Division were doing what they could to keep the
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  Speaker 7: crowd back in order to preserve any physical evidence that
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  Speaker 7: might have been left. The victim appeared to be a
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  Speaker 7: woman in her early 40s. The clothes she wore looked expensive,
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  Speaker 7: but they were badly torn. Her face was cut and
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  Speaker 7: the men in the ambulance crew removed her immediately to
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  Speaker 7: Hollywood Emergency Hospital for treatment. An officer was assigned to
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  Speaker 7: her in the event she regained consciousness. When she was found,
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  Speaker 7: her left shoe was missing and there was no sign
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  Speaker 7: of any purse or wallet. None of the people who'd
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  Speaker 7: gathered in the crowd could give us an identification of her.
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  Speaker 7: The homes in the vicinity were large, and the area
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  Speaker 7: was sparsely populated. The nearest house to the place where
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  Speaker 7: the victim was found was at least 300 feet down
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  Speaker 7: the street. We talked to the people in the crowd
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  Speaker 7: and found that the man who'd made the original call
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  Speaker 7: was still supposed to be there. We checked with the
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  Speaker 7: officers in the radio unit, but they said they hadn't
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  Speaker 7: seen him. From them, however, we found that the call
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  Speaker 7: had been from the home of a Mr.
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  Speaker 6: And Mrs. Roger Heflin.
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  Speaker 7: We contacted them, and they came back to the scene
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  Speaker 7: and pointed out the man. Frank and I took him
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  Speaker 7: over to our car for questioning. All right, Johnson, you
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  Speaker 7: want to tell us what happened?
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  Speaker 10: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: You called the police, didn't you?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I called them.
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  Speaker 6: You found her? Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 10: She was lying in the street like that. I got
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  Speaker 10: scared and I called the police. I thought maybe she
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  Speaker 10: was dead.
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  Speaker 6: What were you doing up here this time of night?
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  Speaker 10: Just walking around.
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  Speaker 6: You live up here, do you? No. Where do you live?
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  Speaker 10: Got a room down a fountain.
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  Speaker 6: Let me see your identification, will you, please?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, yeah. Here's my wallet.
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  Speaker 6: Any money in it?
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 6: All right, let me have it.
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  Speaker 11: Here you are.
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  Speaker 6: Is this your true name? Cecil August Johnson?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Who's Mary Johnson?
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  Speaker 10: Hmm?
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  Speaker 6: I say, who's Mary Johnson?
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  Speaker 8: Who's she?
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  Speaker 10: My sister.
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  Speaker 6: Is this her address here on the card?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, you aren't going to call her, are you? You
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  Speaker 10: aren't going to call her.
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  Speaker 6: Why?
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  Speaker 10: Well, she'd be pretty sure about it if you did.
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  Speaker 10: She don't like it for me to get mixed up
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  Speaker 10: with cops. She don't like it at all.
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  Speaker 6: You ever been to an institution?
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  Speaker 10: Hmm?
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  Speaker 6: State institution. You ever been in one?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah. I was in Camarillo once.
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  Speaker 6: How long ago did you get out?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, a long time ago. Three days. A long time ago.
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  Speaker 10: I haven't been there for a long time.
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  Speaker 4: What were you there for?
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  Speaker 10: Well, lusting people.
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  Speaker 8: Who?
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  Speaker 10: I was in Camarillo.
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  Speaker 6: Why'd they send you there, fella?
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  Speaker 10: To get well.
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  Speaker 6: From what?
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  Speaker 10: Just well.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we know. What'd they want you to get well from?
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  Speaker 10: I was never in Camarillo.
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  Speaker 6: You haven't been drinking tonight, have you?
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  Speaker 9: Hmm?
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  Speaker 6: I said you've been drinking.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, a little bit.
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  Speaker 6: Where?
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  Speaker 10: By down Highway Boulevard.
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  Speaker 6: When they sent you to the hospital, what was the reason?
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  Speaker 10: I've never been to the hospital.
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  Speaker 6: You told us that you'd been in Camarillo.
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  Speaker 10: That was to get well.
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  Speaker 6: Now look, fella, we asked you before. What for?
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  Speaker 10: They thought I was molesting people.
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  Speaker 2: Were you?
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  Speaker 10: No, I didn't hurt anybody.
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  Speaker 8: Did they say you did?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Who?
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  Speaker 10: A lady. They said I hit her.
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  Speaker 6: Did you hit her?
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  Speaker 10: Huh?
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  Speaker 6: I said, did you hit the woman?
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  Speaker 10: No, I never hurt anybody.
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  Speaker 6: You know who the woman is that you found?
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  Speaker 10: You're not going to call my sister, are you?
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  Speaker 6: Do you know who the woman is?
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  Speaker 4: What woman?
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  Speaker 6: Now, look, fella, pay attention. The one you found tonight. Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: I've known her for a long time.
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  Speaker 6: What's her name?
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  Speaker 10: Grace.
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  Speaker 4: You know her last name?
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  Speaker 2: Hmm?
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  Speaker 6: Do you know her last name?
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  Speaker 10: No. You know... I never really been in Cameroon. I
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  Speaker 10: just told you that.
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  Speaker 6: That's all?
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  Speaker 10: Why? I don't know. Just sometimes I like to do
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  Speaker 10: things like that. I don't have no reason. I just
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  Speaker 10: like to do it. Like, once I told my sister
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  Speaker 10: I killed a man. She almost fainted. I just like
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  Speaker 10: to do that once in a while.
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  Speaker 8: Things get dull.
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  Speaker 10: I like to get them started.
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  Speaker 6: Where'd you meet Grace?
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  Speaker 10: Bar down in Hollywood. I go in there all the time.
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  Speaker 10: I met her there.
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  Speaker 6: Did you meet her there tonight? Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: She was there. Said she had a fight with her
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  Speaker 10: old man. Said they had a real beef. She told
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  Speaker 10: me he hit her. Belted her right in the mouth.
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  Speaker 10: What do you think of a guy do a thing
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  Speaker 10: like that to a woman? Any man do a thing
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  Speaker 10: like that, he's no good. No good at all. They
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  Speaker 10: said I did it, too. Told my sister I hit
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  Speaker 10: a woman.
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  Speaker 6: Who said that?
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  Speaker 10: Other cops when they arrested me.
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  Speaker 4: When was this?
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  Speaker 10: When I was at Camarilla to get well.
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  Speaker 6: You under a doctor's care now?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 10: I got real well at Camarilla. Real well. They let
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  Speaker 10: me go.
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  Speaker 6: You just got through telling us that you'd never been there.
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  Speaker 10: I'm a liar. You can't believe anything I say. I'm
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  Speaker 10: a real liar. My sister's all the time saying that
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  Speaker 10: about me. She says I'm a liar. That's one of
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  Speaker 10: the reasons she used to get sore at me. I'm
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  Speaker 10: such a liar. I was never there.
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  Speaker 6: You know where this Grace lived?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 10: I think it was up on Ledgewood Drive. I think
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  Speaker 10: that's where it was, on Ledgewood Drive.
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  Speaker 6: You know where the house is?
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  Speaker 8: Mm-mm.
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  Speaker 10: I never saw it. I was going to go up
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  Speaker 10: there one day and punch an old man in the nose.
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  Speaker 10: You know, because he hit Grace. I was plenty sore
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  Speaker 10: about it.
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  Speaker 4: He gave her a black eye.
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  Speaker 10: I was plenty sore. But I didn't. You know why?
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  Speaker 6: You tell us.
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  Speaker 10: Because I thought my sister would get mad at me.
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  Speaker 10: She always gets mad when I get in fights. And
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  Speaker 10: when I lie. She gets real sore. I've got no
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  Speaker 10: sense of humor.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: There was a guy at the hospital who had a
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  Speaker 10: real sense of humor. He was funny. He had a
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  Speaker 10: piece of inner tube and he wore it like a hat. Floppy,
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  Speaker 10: you know? He had a real great sense of humor.
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  Speaker 10: But my sister, she don't like anybody to laugh.
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  Speaker 6: How many times have you been arrested, fella?
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  Speaker 10: Maybe a couple.
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  Speaker 6: Here in Los Angeles?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, all the time in L.A. Cops here don't like me.
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  Speaker 10: I got no sense of humor. None. I never saw
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  Speaker 10: such dull cops.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Johnson, you wait here. We got a few
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  Speaker 6: things to check out and then we want to take
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  Speaker 6: you downtown.
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  Speaker 10: You aren't going to arrest me, are you?
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  Speaker 6: We'll see.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I hope not. My sister, she'd be real sore.
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  Speaker 6: Johnson?
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  Speaker 4: Hmm?
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  Speaker 6: Tell me something. Did you hit her? You mean, did.
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  Speaker 10: I hit Grace? Is that what you mean?
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  Speaker 9: That's what I mean.
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  Speaker 11: No.
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  Speaker 10: I met her tonight. and she asked me to take
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  Speaker 10: a walk with her. To take a walk, that's all.
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  Speaker 10: Then all of a sudden, she was lying on the ground.
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  Speaker 10: I was pretty drunk. I didn't know what happened. Just
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  Speaker 10: all of a sudden, she was there, and I got scared,
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  Speaker 10: and I called the cops.
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  Speaker 8: But I didn't hit her.
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  Speaker 10: I wouldn't do a thing like that to Grace.
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  Speaker 3: Not me.
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  Speaker 8: You believe that, don't you?
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  Speaker 10: Well, don't you?
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  Speaker 4: You gotta buy it.
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  Speaker 8: You gotta, because it's the truth.
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  Speaker 6: Is that right?
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  Speaker 10: Sure.
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  Speaker 8: It's the truth.
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  Speaker 7: Every word.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you said it yourself, didn't you?
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  Speaker 10: Hmm?
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  Speaker 6: You're an awful liar.
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  Speaker 4: 12.52 a.m.
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  Speaker 7: Well, one of the officers from a radio unit stood
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  Speaker 7: by with Cecil Johnson. We talked with Lieutenant Lee Jones
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  Speaker 7: from the crime lab. He told us that what footprints
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  Speaker 7: they'd found in the immediate vicinity of the victim had
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  Speaker 7: been destroyed by the rain... He told us that his
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  Speaker 7: crew was unable to find any useful physical evidence. The
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  Speaker 7: area was searched, but we failed to find either the
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  Speaker 7: missing left shoe or the woman's purse.
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  Speaker 6: If she'd carried one. We put in a call to
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  Speaker 6: the Hollywood Receiving Hospital. Dr.
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  Speaker 7: Elwin Terrell told us that the victim was suffering from
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  Speaker 7: a fracture of the skull and apparently several broken ribs.
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  Speaker 7: He told us that the woman was in a deep
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  Speaker 7: coma and she couldn't be questioned at that time. We
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  Speaker 7: asked him to contact us through the business office in
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  Speaker 7: the event that she regained consciousness. We questioned the people
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  Speaker 7: in the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 6: But they were of no aid. None of them recalled
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  Speaker 6: hearing any automobiles on the streets, and none of them
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  Speaker 6: could testify as to the people loitering in the area. 1.10 a.m.
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  Speaker 7: We took Cecil Johnson and had him detained at the
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  Speaker 7: city jail pending further investigation. A check of his record
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  Speaker 7: showed that he'd been sent to Camarillo twice on charges
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  Speaker 7: of molesting and violation of Section 245 PC.
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  Speaker 6: He'd been released into the custody of his sister three
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  Speaker 6: weeks previously.
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  Speaker 7: Before he was placed in a cell, we got the
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  Speaker 7: name and address of the bar where he said he'd
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  Speaker 7: met the woman he called Grace.
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  Speaker 10: 1.40 a.m.
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  Speaker 7: Frank and I drove out to the place. It was
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  Speaker 7: located on Hollywood Boulevard near Las Palmas Avenue. There was
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  Speaker 7: only one other customer in the place when we went in.
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  Speaker 7: The bartender was cleaning up for the night.
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  Speaker 4: What'll it be?
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  Speaker 6: We're looking for Emil.
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  Speaker 1: I'm him.
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  Speaker 4: What do you want? It's none about that lousy Jackie,
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  Speaker 4: is it?
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  Speaker 8: What's that?
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  Speaker 4: You're cops, aren't you? Isn't this about Jackie?
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  Speaker 8: We're police officers, yeah.
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  Speaker 12: You gotta understand, I thought he was an actor. You know,
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  Speaker 12: I thought he was just hanging around the place to
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  Speaker 12: take work calls. That's what he told me. I didn't
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  Speaker 12: have no way of knowing different.
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  Speaker 4: Here's the truth.
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  Speaker 6: We don't know anything about Jackie. We'd like to ask
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  Speaker 6: you some questions about a man named Cecil Johnson.
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  Speaker 12: That crackpot? You know, I thought you were after me
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  Speaker 12: because of Jackie. Oh, there it goes again. Excuse me.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah. Hello? Here it is.
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  Speaker 4: No, he ain't here anymore.
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 8: I don't care how the horse did.
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  Speaker 12: Jackie ain't here. Now, don't call me no more. You see,
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  Speaker 12: this guy Jackie's a book. All the time he's using
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  Speaker 12: my phone and I don't know it. Yesterday, a couple
• 12:41
  Speaker 12: of cops come in and put the arm on him.
• 12:42
  Speaker 4: All day, the phone's been ringing.
• 12:43
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 12:44
  Speaker 12: From what they say, he's lucky he got arrested. He
• 12:46
  Speaker 12: must have lost his shirt yesterday. Horse came in that
• 12:48
  Speaker 12: paid 20 to 1. Boy, he really must have had it.
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: I see.
• 12:51
  Speaker 6: Now, what do you know about this Cecil Johnson?
• 12:53
  Speaker 4: A creep. A real creep.
• 12:54
  Speaker 6: Did you see him tonight?
• 12:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah, he was in.
• 12:56
  Speaker 6: About what time? Let's see.
• 12:58
  Speaker 12: It was just before the fight on TV. That'll make
• 13:01
  Speaker 12: it about 6.45. Yeah, about then. About 6.45.
• 13:04
  Speaker 8: He come in alone?
• 13:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, always does. He don't have no friends.
• 13:08
  Speaker 6: What time did he leave? Do you remember?
• 13:09
  Speaker 4: Oh, he stayed around and watched the fight. Got into
• 13:11
  Speaker 4: an argument with a guy. Then he left about, uh, well,
• 13:14
  Speaker 4: let's see. I guess it must have been about 9.30,
• 13:16
  Speaker 4: quarter of 10.
• 13:17
  Speaker 6: You know a woman named Grace? We understand she's in
• 13:20
  Speaker 6: here quite a bit.
• 13:21
  Speaker 8: Grace, huh?
• 13:21
  Speaker 4: Well, we got a couple of Graces come in here.
• 13:23
  Speaker 4: What's yours look like?
• 13:24
  Speaker 6: About 42, dark hair, wearing a tweed coat.
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: Excuse me a minute, huh?
• 13:29
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: Hello? Yeah, it is.
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: No, he's not here.
• 13:34
  Speaker 8: He won't be back, so stop calling. I don't care
• 13:37
  Speaker 8: if it did pay that. Look, bud, I got no
• 13:39
  Speaker 8: part in the action. Now, forget the number, huh? Jackie's gone.
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: He's in the can.
• 13:43
  Speaker 8: Yeah, he's pinched.
• 13:44
  Speaker 6: Now, lay off, huh?
• 13:47
  Speaker 8: Now, let's see. Dark hair, tweed coat.
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, that'll be Grace Dillon.
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: Dillon?
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, she's pretty much of a regular.
• 13:55
  Speaker 5: D-I-L-L-O-N.
• 13:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess so.
• 13:58
  Speaker 8: D-I-L-L-O-N.
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: I guess that's the way to spell it. Well, what's
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: all the questions? Something wrong?
• 14:03
  Speaker 6: What time was she in here tonight?
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: Who says she was?
• 14:05
  Speaker 6: Well, that's what we understand.
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 14:08
  Speaker 12: Oh, yeah, well, there's nothing wrong around here. No reason
• 14:10
  Speaker 12: not to cooperate. She was here come in about 8.
• 14:13
  Speaker 6: What time did she leave?
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: I guess it was 9.30, 9.45. Did she leave alone?
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: I've got to think about that.
• 14:18
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: Lots of people in here with the fights, you know.
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: Let me think. I'm going to tear that thing right
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: out of the wall. He ain't here. He's been pinched.
• 14:28
  Speaker 12: I don't know when he'll be back, and I don't care.
• 14:31
  Speaker 12: You know, come to think about it, I think she
• 14:33
  Speaker 12: left with that Cecil.
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: Johnson?
• 14:35
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 14:35
  Speaker 6: Does either one of them have much to drink, do
• 14:37
  Speaker 6: you know?
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: Cecil had a couple of beers. It's all he needs.
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: Don't take much with him.
• 14:40
  Speaker 9: How about the Dillon woman?
• 14:42
  Speaker 12: She was feeling no pain when she got here. Really
• 14:45
  Speaker 12: carrying a load. I finally told her to take a walk,
• 14:47
  Speaker 12: told her I couldn't serve her no more. That's when
• 14:48
  Speaker 12: she left.
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: Her and Cecil were sitting right there next to each other.
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: When I told her I wouldn't pour no more for her,
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: she got hacked and her and Cecil left.
• 14:55
  Speaker 6: You know where she lives?
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: Not right off. I can look it up.
• 14:58
  Speaker 12: We keep a list of people who come in here.
• 15:00
  Speaker 12: Send them announcements about things, like when we get a
• 15:01
  Speaker 12: new piano player, things like that.
• 15:03
  Speaker 6: I see.
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: I can look it up for you. Just take a minute.
• 15:05
  Speaker 6: Fine, thanks.
• 15:05
  Speaker 8: Let's see. A, B, C.
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: Oh, here it is.
• 15:11
  Speaker 8: Darby, Dexter, Dibs. I wish they'd come in and pick
• 15:14
  Speaker 8: up the tab we're carrying.
• 15:16
  Speaker 10: Oh, let's see here.
• 15:17
  Speaker 6: Here it is. Here it is.
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: 2917 Ledgewood Drive.
• 15:21
  Speaker 10: 29-17.
• 15:21
  Speaker 8: Thank you.
• 15:22
  Speaker 12: You can take the card if you want. Don't make
• 15:23
  Speaker 12: any difference to me if she never comes back. The
• 15:25
  Speaker 12: way she carried on tonight. People just don't understand.
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: What's that?
• 15:30
  Speaker 12: You can just serve them so much. After that, you're
• 15:32
  Speaker 12: pouring 100 proof trouble. You got to shut them off sometime.
• 15:35
  Speaker 8: Uh-huh.
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: She ever come in here with her husband? Dylan? Yeah.
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: Couple of times. Quite a while ago, though.
• 15:40
  Speaker 12: They came in late one night. Sat back there in
• 15:42
  Speaker 12: the booth. Had a couple of quick belts.
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: He drinks Irish whiskey. Likes it neat. Had a big beef.
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: I finally had to go back and ask him to
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: go out. He's a real bum. He's mean.
• 15:51
  Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: The kind of guy where to know him is to
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: hate him. You know the kind?
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 15:58
  Speaker 10: He ain't here.
• 15:59
  Speaker 8: I don't care how much you lost.
• 16:00
  Speaker 10: He's in the can and what.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: What?
• 16:03
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah, honey. Well, I didn't know it was you.
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
• 16:08
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'll be home early, soon as I close up.
• 16:10
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 16:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, I do, too.
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: What?
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: All right, honey. I love you. I do, too, meanest. Look, honey,
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: there's a couple of men here I gotta talk to, huh? Well, yeah,
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: as soon as I close up, yeah.
• 16:26
  Speaker 12: Goodbye, honey.
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: What?
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, yeah, all right.
• 16:32
  Speaker 8: There.
• 16:33
  Speaker 10: Bye.
• 16:35
  Speaker 12: It's the wife. We've just been married a couple of weeks.
• 16:38
  Speaker 12: She's kind of, uh, you know.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: Did Dylan ever hit his wife, would you know?
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he did.
• 16:44
  Speaker 12: She came in here one night with a mouse that
• 16:46
  Speaker 12: had no end. Said her old man gave it to her. Say,
• 16:49
  Speaker 12: what's all this about, anyway? There's something wrong with Grace?
• 16:51
  Speaker 12: Something happen to her?
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: Well, we don't know yet.
• 16:54
  Speaker 12: Well, let me give you this for free. If there's
• 16:56
  Speaker 12: anything happen to her, six to one evening was her
• 16:58
  Speaker 12: old man.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: He's a real bum. He's mean. Anything wrong, and it's
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: him that caused it.
• 17:03
  Speaker 8: You better talk to him.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: You'll find out.
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: All right, sir. Thank you very much.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 17:06
  Speaker 11: We will.
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: Thanks.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: No, not at all.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: Glad to help out. All right.
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: Good night.
• 17:10
  Speaker 8: Say, you guys going downtown?
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: To the jail?
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: Well, if you see Jackie, will you give him a
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: message for me?
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: All right. What's that?
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: Tell him if he gets out, I.
• 17:20
  Speaker 8: Don't want him back here no more.
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 17:22
  Speaker 8: Guy ties up my phone.
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: 2.26 a.m.
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: We got a description of the victim's husband and checked
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: the name through R & I.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: We were unable to come up with any criminal record
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: on him.
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: Frank and I drove out to the address given us
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: by the bartender. It was a large English stucco house
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: five blocks from where Grace Dillon had been found.
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: We rang the bell and waited.
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: An elderly woman answered the door and told us that
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: Herman Dillon was not in. She explained that she was
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: a babysitter and that she'd been called to take care
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: of the couple's three children.
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: She went on to say that Mr. Dillon left the
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: house at approximately 10.15 p.m.
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: And had not yet returned. We called the office and
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: arranged for a stakeout to be set up on the house.
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: While we waited for the officers to arrive, the babysitter
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: told us that the Dillons had constant fights. She said
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: that on several occasions, Mr. Dillon threatened to kill his
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: wife if she didn't spend more time at home taking
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: care of the children. She went on to explain that
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: there'd been an argument that evening and that after a
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: loud fight, the wife had left the house. After she'd
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: been gone for over an hour, Herman Dillon.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: Left to find her. 3.02 a.m. The officers arrived.
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: We asked them to wait for the husband to return
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: and then to notify us immediately. Frank and I drove
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: downtown and checked into the crime lab. We talked to
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: Lieutenant Lee Jones regarding his findings. He told us that
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: he'd gone over the victim's clothing, but he was unable
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: to find any physical evidence to help us in finding
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: her assailant.
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: 3.46 a.m. We checked into the office and put in
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: a call to the hospital.
• 18:38
  Speaker 8: How do you spell that, Doc? Huh? Uh, A-D-E.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: Do you have any idea when that might be?
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: I see, sir.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: Well, if you'll let us know.
• 18:51
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the business office here will know how.
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: To reach us.
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Thanks again.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Good night, Doc.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: How is she? Well, the doctor says he's finished his examination.
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: She's got a frontal bone fracture, three broken ribs, cuts
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: and contusions.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: Is she going to be all right?
• 19:05
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you'd think so. Says she might come out of
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: it any time. Says it looks like she might have
• 19:09
  Speaker 9: been thrown from a car.
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: Well, that would explain the missing shoe and purse, wouldn't it?
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: Do you have any idea when we can talk to her?
• 19:15
  Speaker 9: No, might not do any good anyway.
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: Well, the doc says this kind.
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: Of fracture can produce a retrograde amnesia.
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: Huh?
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: She won't remember anything.
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• 20:22
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• 20:33
  Speaker 7: At 4.02 a.m., Frank and I signed out of the
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: office and we went home. At 5.13 a.m., I got
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: a call that the husband of the victim, Herman Dillon,
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: had returned home.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: The officers who called said that they were bringing him
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: down to the city hall.
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: I got in touch with Frank, and by the time
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: we got to the squad room, Dillon was already there.
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: He appeared dazed and acted as if he'd been drinking heavily.
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: We sent out for some black coffee for him. He
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: apparently didn't know what had happened to his wife.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: What's all this about, anyway? What are you dragging me
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: out of my house.
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: Like this for?
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: Got a few questions we want to ask you, Dillon.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: What do you got that's so important you got to
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: go through it at 6 in the morning?
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: When did you see your wife last?
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: About 7.30 last night. Why?
• 21:07
  Speaker 9: How do you and your wife get along?
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: We've been married for 10 years.
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: Not much of an answer, mister.
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: You're not married.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: Been married 10 years and that's an answer. Been married
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: 10 years, it's all the answer you need.
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: Well, maybe you better spell it out for me.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: After that long, you have a few disagreements, bound to.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: You know, being together all that time.
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: You and your wife had a disagreement last night, did you? Yeah,
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: we had a discussion.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: What about?
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: I don't think that's any of your business.
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, maybe it is. Now, what'd you argue about?
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: Her running around. Wasn't a real argument, just a discussion.
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: Well, we got it. It was more than that.
• 21:41
  Speaker 8: Then you got it wrong.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: We heard you hit her a couple of times.
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: That's a lie.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: I might have shoved her a little. She had it coming, though,
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: all the time running around. We got three kids, three
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: little kids, and she doesn't care that for them. Always
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: going out, hanging around those cheap bars, boozing it up.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: I came home the other night.
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: She'd walked out and left the kids all alone, all
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: by themselves. Didn't even get a sitter for them.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: Where you been tonight?
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: Why you have to know that?
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: You want to tell us? Yeah.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: After Grace and me had the fight, she walked out.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: I waited for her to come home. Then when she didn't,
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: I went out to find her.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: Did you? Did you find her?
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: No, I looked all over for her.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: All the bars along the boulevard, but she wasn't there.
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: Where you been since the bars closed?
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: Walking around.
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: In all this rain?
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: I've been trying to figure out what to do, trying
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: to make up my mind.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: About what?
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: What I should do with Grace. Things can't go on
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: like this.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: They just can't.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: We've heard from some of your wife's friends that you
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: made threats in their lives, is that right?
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: Who told you that?
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: We just heard it. Is it true?
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: I suppose so. If I'd have found her tonight, I'd
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: have maybe killed her. I've never been so mad before.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: You see anybody you knew tonight?
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: What?
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: When you were walking around, did you see anybody you knew?
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: No, why?
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: When you got no way to prove where you were.
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: Why'd I have to do that?
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: Might make things easier on you.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: Hey, what's this all about, anyway? Why are you asking
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: all these questions about me and Grace? What are you
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: trying to say? Where is Grace, you know?
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: Yeah. Well, where is she? What's happened to her?
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: She's in the hospital. She had an accident.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: It's pretty bad.
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: What kind of an accident? Looks like she was beaten.
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: And you think I did it?
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: Might have been you.
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: Is she alive?
• 23:12
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: You think I beat her up?
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Did you?
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: No, I maybe wanted to, knocked some sense into her,
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: but I didn't do it.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: Can you prove where you were tonight?
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: Can you prove where you were?
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: No, I don't even know myself. Hey, you really think
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: I did it?
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: That's what we're trying to find out.
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: You know, I was pretty drunk tonight.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: I got real loaded.
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: That's a terrible point.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah, let me see your hands, Winnie.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: Let me see them.
• 23:33
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: Put them up there, both of them.
• 23:35
  Speaker 10: Here.
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: Where'd you get those bruises? I don't know.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: I don't remember.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: You better try. This is pretty important.
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: I told you I was drunk.
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: There's only one thing that'll put bruises like that on
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: your hands.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: You hit something pretty hard. Herman Dillon was detained pending
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: further investigation. We'd called the hospital, but there was no
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: change in Mrs. Dillon's condition. Because of the lack of
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: physical evidence, her testimony was essential in apprehending the person
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: who'd beaten her. We had two prime suspects. Cecil Johnson,
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: who was known to have been in her company when.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: She left the bar.
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: Johnson's record indicated that he was capable of committing the crime.
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: On the other hand, the victim's husband had stated that
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: he might kill her. He was unable to explain his
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: movements at the time of the attack. The only person
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: who could tell us the true story was the victim herself,
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: and we had the doctor's statement that she might not
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: remember the events immediately leading up to the beating. At 10.14 a.m.
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: the following morning, the officer called from the hospital telling
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: us that Mrs. Dillon had regained consciousness and could be questioned.
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  Speaker 7: The doctor told us that she was calling for her
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: husband and asked that we bring Dylan with us. We
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: went by the city jail and picked him up, and
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: then we drove over to the hospital. The doctor told
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  Speaker 7: us that Mrs. Dylan was in a weak condition and
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: that we couldn't talk to her.
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  Speaker 6: At any length.
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  Speaker 7: Frank, Dylan, and I went into her room and waited
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: for her to open her eyes.
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  Speaker 8: Is that you, Herman?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, dear.
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  Speaker 11: You're not mad at me, are you?
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  Speaker 8: You're not still mad at me?
• 24:52
  Speaker 10: No, dear, I'm not.
• 24:53
  Speaker 11: Oscar, I was afraid you still were mad. You know, Herman,
• 25:00
  Speaker 11: you shouldn't have hit me like you did. I know
• 25:01
  Speaker 11: maybe I had a reason, but you shouldn't have hit me.
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  Speaker 6: Can you tell us what happened, Mrs. Dillon?
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  Speaker 11: Who are you?
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: Police officers.
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  Speaker 11: What are you doing here?
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: Trying to find out who did this to you.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't anybody did it.
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  Speaker 8: Ma'am?
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  Speaker 11: It wasn't anybody.
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: I did it myself.
• 25:16
  Speaker 11: Silly did it all by myself.
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: I don't believe I understand, Mrs. Dillon.
• 25:19
  Speaker 11: Herman and me had a fight and I walked out.
• 25:22
  Speaker 11: I was going to leave him. I went down and
• 25:24
  Speaker 11: had a few drinks, just a few. And I got
• 25:26
  Speaker 11: to thinking about me and Herman... How I was such
• 25:29
  Speaker 11: a bad wife. I got to thinking about the kids
• 25:32
  Speaker 11: and how I was a bad mother. You aren't still
• 25:35
  Speaker 11: mad at me, are you, Herman? Really, in your heart?
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: No, Grace, I'm glad you're going to be all right.
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: That's all that counts.
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: You want to tell us what happened, Miss Dillon, please?
• 25:44
  Speaker 11: I was on my way home. I was going back.
• 25:47
  Speaker 11: Cecil was walking home with me. It was raining pretty hard,
• 25:50
  Speaker 11: and we came to a gutter that was full of water.
• 25:52
  Speaker 11: I stepped up on the curb to go around it.
• 25:55
  Speaker 11: I didn't want to step in the water, and I fell.
• 25:59
  Speaker 11: Fell down the hill, rolled all the way to the bottom.
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  Speaker 11: All the way to the next street.
• 26:04
  Speaker 10: I remember falling.
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  Speaker 11: I remember laying in the street down below and how
• 26:08
  Speaker 11: I couldn't move. Didn't know about anything else after that.
• 26:12
  Speaker 11: Until just when you got here, Len, I don't remember
• 26:15
  Speaker 11: much of anything.
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: You mean that you fell down yourself but nobody beat
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: you up, huh?
• 26:20
  Speaker 11: No.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: Herman hit me when I was home.
• 26:22
  Speaker 11: He got mad at me and hit me.
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: But he was right.
• 26:26
  Speaker 11: You were right, honey.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: Real right.
• 26:29
  Speaker 11: But it's going to be different, I promise you, just
• 26:31
  Speaker 11: as long as you ain't still mad at me. That's
• 26:33
  Speaker 11: all that matters, that you ain't mad.
• 26:34
  Speaker 10: Now, take it easy, honey.
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: Everything's going to be all right. Just take it easy
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: and try to get some sleep.
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: I love you, Herman.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: I love you very much.
• 26:43
  Speaker 11: And I'm going to make it all up to you,
• 26:44
  Speaker 11: all the bad times.
• 26:46
  Speaker 10: I'm going to make it all.
• 26:47
  Speaker 11: Up to you.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: I love you too, Grace. Now, you go to sleep.
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: Get some rest.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: All right, honey.
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: All right, thank you, Miss Dillon. We better go.
• 27:02
  Speaker 10: You gonna want me anymore, Sergeant?
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: No, I don't think so.
• 27:04
  Speaker 10: I wonder if she means it.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: If she really does.
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: What's that?
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: About making it up to the kids how things are
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: gonna be different.
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: Well, I don't know.
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: She said she would. That's just it. She said it
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: so many times before.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard is true.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: The names were changed to protect the innocents.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: On November 18th, a meeting was held in the captain's
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: office homicide division. In a moment, the results of that meeting.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Now, here is our star, Jack Webb.
• 27:38
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• 27:39
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  Speaker 3: Since no crime had been committed, no legal action was
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: taken against Mr.
• 28:13
  Speaker 8: And Mrs.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Dillon.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Cecil August Johnson was removed to room 5, Georgia Street
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Receiving Hospital for further psychiatric examination. You have just heard Dragnet,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: a series of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: comes from the office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker,
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Los Angeles Police Department. Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Brasher. Heard tonight were Ben Alexander,
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Jack Crucian, Vivi Janis, Harry Bartell. Script by John Robinson.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Music by Walter Schumann. Hal Gibney speaking.
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