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The Big Pipe
Originally Aired: February 23, 1954
Dragnet #236, "The Big Pipe," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith investigate the brutal murder of an accountant found beaten to death in a downtown Los Angeles office building. The victim, Mrs. Fitzgerald, is discovered by building cleaning woman Miss Joyce at 7 a.m., lying dead behind her desk in an office ransacked with papers strewn across the floor. The murder weapon is a 15-inch piece of lead pipe, wrapped in brown paper at one end and bloodstained at the other.
Despite the chaotic scene suggesting robbery, valuable diamond rings remain on the…
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