The Big Roll

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast · Aug 10, 2026 · 31m

Originally Aired: June 26, 1952 Dragnet #159, "The Big Roll," opens with Sergeants Joe Friday and Frank Smith investigating a violent abduction on a downtown Los Angeles street. At the corner of 11th and South Pierce, bar owner Leon Morley describes the terrifying scene he witnessed around 6 p.m.: two men dragging a screaming, bloodied victim into a gray sedan. The victim pleaded with his attackers, offering them money and his car, but the men forced him into the vehicle and sped away. Morley noticed blood on the victim's clothes and staining the sidewalk, suggesting this was more than a…