The Big Guilt

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast · Aug 30, 2026 · 31m

Originally Aired: November 23, 1952

Dragnet #179, "The Big Guilt," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith respond to a grim discovery in a back alley at 18th and Winfield. A well-dressed man has been found strangled with his own necktie, his pockets turned inside out, robbed of everything. Officer Harper has detained Alexander Jones, a man found stumbling out of the alley that morning. Jones appears severely hungover and shaken by what he's witnessed. As the crime lab processes the scene, they discover footprints that don't match the victim's shoes and a wallet behind garbage cans…