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The Big Rain
Originally Aired: November 3, 1953
Dragnet #220, "The Big Rain," Sergeants Joe Friday and Frank Smith are working the night watch in homicide when they catch a brutal assault case during a torrential Los Angeles rainstorm. A woman in her early forties is found sprawling across a sidewalk with her head in the gutter, barely saved from drowning by the position of a storm drain. She appears to have a skull fracture and internal injuries, and her expensive clothing is torn. Her purse and one shoe are missing, suggesting robbery or worse.
The man who called in the crime, Cecil August Johnson…
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