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The Big Ham
Originally Aired: June 28, 1953
Dragnet #210, "The Big Ham,"
Sergeant Joe Friday and Frank Smith are called to investigate what appears to be a suicide in the Westlake Park district. A young woman has been found dead in an apartment rented to a man named Ross Mitchell, who is nowhere to be found. The victim, initially unidentified as Jane Doe Number 17, is soon identified by her father, Robert Andrews Paul, as his daughter Gloria. A suicide note was discovered at the scene, but the circumstances raise questions that Friday and Smith must pursue.
As Friday and Smith interview the grieving Mr…
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