The Big Cab

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast · Oct 2, 2026 · 29m

Originally Aired: September 15, 1953

Dragnet #213, "The Big Cab," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith are called to the hospital in the early morning hours of February 18th to interview Raymond Bailey, a 62-year-old grocery store owner who has just regained consciousness after two days in a coma. Bailey was brutally beaten with a sawed-off shotgun during a Monday night robbery at his small neighborhood store on the corner of Whitman and Beacon Street. Suffering from a skull fracture and heavy sedation, Bailey drifts in and out of clarity as he recounts the terrifying events.

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