The Big Sour

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast · Jul 3, 2026 · 27m

Originally Aired: September 20, 1951 Dragnet #119, "The Big Sour," Sergeant Joe Friday and Detective Ben Romero investigate a brutal home invasion robbery targeting an elderly couple in the Westlake Park area. When Friday arrives at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital, he learns that seventy-one-year-old Wendell McClung has been savagely tortured by two armed bandits who invaded his modest home. The thieves burned the soles of his feet and stabbed his hands repeatedly with what appears to be a hat pin, forcing him to reveal where he and his wife Catherine kept their valuable jewelry collection…