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And you can get all of my 25 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:08.439 reviews automatically delivered your kindle by subscribing through the Amazon Store. Well, 26 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:13.280 now it's time for today's episode of Dragnet. The original 27 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:17.759 airdate on today's program is August twenty fourth of nineteen 28 00:02:17.919 --> 00:02:20.639 fifty and the title is The Big Chance. 29 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:32.199 The story you are about to hear is true, only 30 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:35.280 the names and locations have been changed to protect the innocent. 31 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:49.800 Dragnet Here a detective sergeant here assigned a homicide detail. 32 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:53.759 He went to an early morning call a police officer 33 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:57.680 on patrol duty disappears. Any attempt to contact him by 34 00:02:57.719 --> 00:03:10.520 car radio fails. Job find him. 35 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:15.159 Drag Net, the documented drama of an actual crime paull 36 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:17.800 the next thirty minutes. In cooperation with the Los Angeles 37 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:20.800 Police Department, you will travel, step by step on the 38 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:23.039 side of the law through an actual case, from official 39 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:27.240 police violence, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. 40 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:30.479 Drag Net is the story of your police force in action. 41 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:37.560 It was Monday, June fourth, was sultry in Los Angeles. 42 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:40.840 We were working early morning watch out a homicide. The 43 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:44.000 partner's Ben Romero. The boss's chief detective's Thad Brown. 44 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:45.039 My name is Friday. 45 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:48.039 Was six forty five am when we got the Imperial 46 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:50.120 Highway San Pedro cut off. 47 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:55.800 All right, Friday and Ramera, Yeah, that's right, Pete Sutton 48 00:03:55.840 --> 00:03:58.960 Insurance Department, All right, come we got here, sent as 49 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:01.000 we could inspect your bowers for the end. 50 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:03.080 You know it had backstra in Central Homicide told us 51 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:05.639 to check with Bowers at the Sheriff's office. Bowers directors 52 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:06.759 to come out here to lend you a hand. 53 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:09.080 This thing happens close to the county line. They figured 54 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:10.960 both departments ought to go to work on it. Sure, 55 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:13.680 glad to have you looks like a tough one. Is 56 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:17.160 this the highway patrol car the missing officer? He signed, Yeah? 57 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:18.560 Is it just the way we found it? 58 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:22.759 We turned off to the missions, motor was running, lights 59 00:04:22.759 --> 00:04:24.920 were on, must have been idling quite a while, the 60 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:27.720 temperature was up pretty high. When'd you find it this way? 61 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:31.120 Forty five minutes ago? Missing Patrolman's name is Eugene Brewer. 62 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:34.560 State Highway Patrol called the Sheriff's department a little before 63 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:37.720 six a. M told us the missing officer wasn't acknowledging 64 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:41.120 his radio called. I talked to Mark Benson his radio right. 65 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:43.800 We checked it. In fact, it was operating normal when 66 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:45.920 we found the car. Mike was out of the bracket, 67 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:50.079 laying on the seat day well, any ideas, no signs 68 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:55.759 of struggling, No blood stained this assholeed here, no footprints anywhere, 69 00:04:56.439 --> 00:04:56.959 nothing on. 70 00:04:56.879 --> 00:04:57.680 The shoulder of the road. 71 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:00.639 You said the car was running, that's right, emanates any 72 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:03.600 engine trouble. Yeah, Oh, there's more to it than that, 73 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:04.399 gotta be. 74 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:07.720 Nobody has any idea why or when he left his car. 75 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:09.680 You've got it all, you know, as much as we do. 76 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:11.639 What was the check on Brewer? 77 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:14.439 Mark Benson says he's one of their top men. Been 78 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:17.120 with highway Patrol for eight years. Good record all the way. 79 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:20.240 Have you talk to anybody around here? Pretty remote spot 80 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:22.600 out here, a lot of truck gardens, it's about all. 81 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:25.800 My partner Dave Terry, turned up one man. Maybe he's 82 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:27.879 got something that's him over by our car. 83 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:30.759 Hey, Dave, would you send him over here please. 84 00:05:31.079 --> 00:05:33.439 Who is the fellow one of the farmers works at 85 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:34.480 truck garden out here? 86 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:36.959 Names Henry Tanagucci. 87 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:43.839 Tennant second, Yes, sir, mister Tanagucci, this is Sergeant Friday 88 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:47.000 and Rameira. Oh yes, sir, I know you filled my 89 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:49.759 partner in, but would you mind going over it again 90 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:50.399 for us? 91 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:51.360 All right? 92 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:53.480 I can tell you very little. 93 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:54.000 You know. 94 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:57.920 We start worked early in the garden, yes, sir, kind 95 00:05:57.959 --> 00:06:01.360 of a fellow. I work with Conye to cover. We're 96 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:04.519 started on a string beings about five o'clock this morning, 97 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:10.319 a pink patch near Imperial Highway. Yeah, we noticed a head. 98 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:13.120 I'd stop off the side of the road. This happened 99 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:17.040 all the time along the highway, but this stayed very long. 100 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:19.720 By what time did you notice this? Mister Tanner Gucci? 101 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:26.519 Must have been or ten minutes past five, I remember, 102 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:29.360 asked Charlie Fujikuni cultivator man. 103 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:29.959 What time was? 104 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:32.439 Let's see? Did you see or hear anything out of 105 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:33.160 the ordinary? 106 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:34.199 Oh no, sir. 107 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:38.240 We wait a while and the head I do not move. 108 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:42.519 Connor and I decided maybe somebody was in trouble. This 109 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:45.839 highway quite deserted early morning hours. What do you do then? 110 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:49.160 We walked up to see what was wrong. 111 00:06:49.720 --> 00:06:52.879 When we get close, we could see what state highway car, 112 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:54.319 so we know everything all right. 113 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:56.160 Did you see the officer in the car? 114 00:06:56.920 --> 00:07:00.040 No, the door was opened on the other side. But 115 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:02.759 maybe officer investigate something down in the brush. 116 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:04.000 Did you see him down there? 117 00:07:04.199 --> 00:07:04.360 Oh? 118 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:07.439 No, we just think he was check up something. 119 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:10.000 So we go back to work. You saw nothing out 120 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:11.480 of the ordinary, nothing unusual. 121 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:14.000 No, we don't. 122 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:16.079 We hear the radio play. 123 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:20.040 We know everything. Okay, that checks after radio was functioning 124 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:20.759 when we got here. 125 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:24.279 You didn't notice any other cars around anywhere, did you? Well? 126 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:24.720 Knowsa. 127 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:28.879 Thank you very much, mister Tanagucci. Here's my car. I'd 128 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:30.879 appreciate it. If you think of anything else, please let 129 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:31.199 us know. 130 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:33.680 Yes, I will. 131 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:36.959 What happened to Alfice Sunday's car, We don't know. Oh, 132 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:40.959 he's all right. Probably look for somebody. 133 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:47.480 It makes us even we're looking for him. Monday, June fourth, 134 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:50.519 eight am, according to our instructions, we headed back to 135 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:52.720 the Hall of Justice to check in with Inspector Gordon 136 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:55.639 brought Bowers and Captain Garner Brown of the Sheriff's Department. 137 00:07:56.160 --> 00:07:58.680 They were coordinating his search for the missing Highway patrolman 138 00:07:58.759 --> 00:08:02.639 Eugene Brewer. Spector ed Backstrand, Central Homicide was helping out 139 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:07.040 to the peace officer. Cooperation with all branches of the 140 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:10.720 various law enforcement agencies is essential. Each man on the 141 00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:14.160 force knows the value of a coordinated effort. He knows 142 00:08:14.199 --> 00:08:16.199 that without the aid of the many divisions of law 143 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:19.360 enforcing bodies in his city and county, the task of 144 00:08:19.399 --> 00:08:22.319 maintaining law and order would be a total failure. The 145 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:24.920 local officer depends on the men in the federal, state, 146 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:28.800 and county departments as they depend on him. Without this coordination, 147 00:08:29.079 --> 00:08:32.799 no one department could survive. Eight twenty five am. We 148 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:35.679 met with Inspector Bowers and ed Backstrand in the Sheriff's office. 149 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:38.120 Nothing now, nobody. 150 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:40.600 Saw somebody did We haven't found him, Inspector Bauer. 151 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:42.960 We both figure the only thing to do is to 152 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:44.840 ask the cooperation of the newspapers. 153 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:45.639 We got it. 154 00:08:45.720 --> 00:08:47.120 Pretty good layout, the. 155 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:49.600 Stories, and every morning edition in town they're running a 156 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:51.519 picture in full description of the missing patrolman. 157 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:54.240 We talked to everybody we could find in a general 158 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:54.960 area out there. 159 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:56.480 We were two hours at it. 160 00:08:56.639 --> 00:08:58.679 The spot where the patrol car was found is pretty 161 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:01.120 remote couple of gas states and some vegetable gardens. 162 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:03.399 He told you about the ten and Gucca Fella checked 163 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:04.639 all his friends that work with him. 164 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:05.679 They couldn't add anything. 165 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:09.240 Maybe the newspaper will turn up something. I sent a 166 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:11.600 special detail out there to fan out and search the 167 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:13.320 entire area five square miles. 168 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:15.960 Yeah, it will take time. There's nothing else we can do. 169 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:17.360 No, there's nothing more we can do. 170 00:09:17.960 --> 00:09:19.919 There's nothing anybody can do until we can show him 171 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:21.559 the patrol cars how to carry two men. 172 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:24.279 Nobody seems to be able to do anything by it. 173 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:27.000 Maybe they will now, sending one officer out in the 174 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:29.039 patrol cars like trying to run a trolley line with 175 00:09:29.080 --> 00:09:31.440 one man. How many cases can you remember? An hour 176 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:34.399 department ed deadman pulled the car over and Doug ten 177 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:37.080 at three o'clock one morning. Driver turned out to be 178 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:39.399 a guy with the record. Deadman couldn't know that. While 179 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:41.200 he was making out the traffic ticket, the guy shot 180 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:42.000 him down the street. 181 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:43.440 Deadman died before he could get help. 182 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:45.679 Yeah, he'll do a lot of griping that he'd take 183 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:48.039 the division. But those men in the patrol cars and 184 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:50.639 the motorcycle boys, they get the dirty end. 185 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:52.120 Of the deal, for sure, you bet they do. 186 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:54.360 When of the detective ists in on a job, he 187 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:56.279 knows who he's after, what he looks like, what he 188 00:09:56.320 --> 00:09:57.080 can expect when. 189 00:09:56.919 --> 00:09:57.679 He finds him. 190 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:00.240 The boys in the patrol cars answer a call three 191 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:02.639 ninety four, fifteen or five oh seven. Sure we know 192 00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:04.279 what they're supposed to be. But how often do they 193 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:07.440 turn out that way prowler or peeping tom? How many 194 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:09.080 times do they have a gun in their pocket? How 195 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:10.360 many cops do they kill every year? 196 00:10:10.519 --> 00:10:12.320 And we've all been through it, you know what it is. 197 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:14.120 Yeah, but how often do we think about it when 198 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:15.440 we're griping on steakhouts. 199 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:17.519 Let me tell you something. This goes for me as 200 00:10:17.559 --> 00:10:17.919 well as you. 201 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:20.559 Let's not forget who the real cream of the force is, 202 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:23.639 the backbone of any police department. Men on wheels, no question, 203 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:26.080 Thank every Sorry. I didn't mean to make a speech, 204 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:27.840 but when something like this happens, it gets to me. 205 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:30.679 They're riding on short odds as it is. There ought 206 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:32.159 to be two men in every patrol Calm. 207 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:34.519 Or we should have been somebody else with Brewer. The guy 208 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:36.679 on the job just doesn't disappear without a trace. 209 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:42.080 It's just what he's done. You checked everywhere everything. Excuse me? 210 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:49.279 Powers who Yeah, I send them right in this My 211 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:52.600 health truck driver by the name of Matt Wolf says 212 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:57.440 he's got something for him. Come in, mister Wolf, Yes, 213 00:10:57.720 --> 00:11:07.320 come in, mister Wilf inspected backstrand Sergeant Friday Romero, how. 214 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:07.639 Do you do him? 215 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:12.480 I saw the story in this morning's Times. I don't 216 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:15.240 know what I got's worth the him, but I figured 217 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:16.080 i'd better pass. 218 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:20.320 Along with you guys. Something on the missing Highway patrol then, well, I. 219 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:21.360 Don't know the reason I'm here. 220 00:11:21.639 --> 00:11:23.559 Maybe it's just a coincidence, but I gave a fellow 221 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:25.519 hand early this morning out of the Imperial Highway, not 222 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:26.039 far from war. 223 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:29.159 The paper here says that empty patrol car was about 224 00:11:29.159 --> 00:11:31.399 what time was that, mister will All around four. 225 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:31.840 Thirty this morning? 226 00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:33.120 Do you want to tell us about it? 227 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:34.000 Yeah? 228 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:38.399 Yeah, I'm an independent trucker. I haul top soil for 229 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:41.360 different nurseries. Stuff out there in imperials good rich stuff. 230 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:42.879 We did it right out of the side of the hill. 231 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:43.480 Him. 232 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:45.480 Well, I just loaded up and sas I'm my way 233 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:48.559 back to town. This fella flags me down, said he'd 234 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:50.159 had a flat pulled out on the shore of the 235 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:52.759 road to fix it. Said he didn't know it was sand. 236 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:54.480 After he'd fixed the flat, he found out he's stuck. 237 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:56.799 He couldn't get his car. You gave him a hand, huh, 238 00:11:56.919 --> 00:11:58.639 not out with a flat. He already had that fixed. 239 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:00.799 But I turned him off, and that's how it became 240 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:01.799 suspiciously fell. 241 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:03.200 How do you mean well? 242 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:05.159 I offered to get out, hook up the toe chain. 243 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:08.120 He said, no, no, just stand a cab. I figured 244 00:12:08.120 --> 00:12:09.600 if he could do it along, though I was me, 245 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:13.600 I pulled him out. Here's the funny plant. Here's him 246 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:15.559 a chain, got a kink in it from the way 247 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:19.000 to the poll. It's no mean job to handle it alone, 248 00:12:19.399 --> 00:12:22.639 he says, Right, he'll do it himself. Seem to me 249 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:24.600 like he didn't want me to get a good look 250 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:27.200 at him or his car. I could be wrong, but 251 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:30.720 well that's the way it struck me. Did you notice anything, Yes, 252 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:33.120 I did one thing. I got to look at him 253 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:35.279 when I threw on my backup lights in his car. 254 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:36.960 That's a real funny one. 255 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:38.679 What do you mean it is a. 256 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:39.399 Fairly new car. 257 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:42.960 I'd sayen older than the last year's my Liettle Plymouth. 258 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:46.320 If the risk is sounding completely nuts. I'm going to 259 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:48.360 tell you that car looked like I had just been painted. 260 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:49.720 There's nothing wrong in that. 261 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:49.960 Is it? 262 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:50.720 Well? 263 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:52.039 There is if you're off on the side of the 264 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:54.080 road at that time in the morning throwing cheap black 265 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:57.000 pain all over a fairly new car. He's using a 266 00:12:57.039 --> 00:12:59.399 spray gun. I could understand part of it. What's that 267 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:01.159 is his license plate? 268 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:02.120 Front one? 269 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:04.600 It was all painted over here. You couldn't read any 270 00:13:04.600 --> 00:13:07.159 of the numbers. What led you to believe he just 271 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:08.279 finished painting his car? 272 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:09.559 Always hands and arms? 273 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:10.519 It was always closed. 274 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:12.519 See that kind of paint you put all on the. 275 00:13:12.559 --> 00:13:14.960 Right and who am? Well? 276 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:18.919 I don't know. Was it was it worth bothering you 277 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:21.399 guys about you? Really it was, mister Wolf. I can't 278 00:13:21.399 --> 00:13:23.879 tell you just what it means now. Maybe it doesn't 279 00:13:23.879 --> 00:13:26.200 mean anything, but certainly it's out of the ordinary and 280 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:27.679 worth reporting to the police. 281 00:13:27.799 --> 00:13:30.679 Wow, sir, I'd like to see your boys find it missing. 282 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:34.200 Officer thought it was pretty rotten in Denmark about that one. 283 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:34.360 Huw. 284 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:38.360 Maybe we found a whole maybe, but I'd like to 285 00:13:38.360 --> 00:13:40.200 have you and me Mary help out in the next step. 286 00:13:40.279 --> 00:13:50.759 What's that go up a roadblock? Ten? Thirty am. 287 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:53.039 Before we left the Sheriff's office, the truck driver nat 288 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:55.639 Wolf gave Inspector Bauers a description of the man in 289 00:13:55.639 --> 00:13:59.240 the Plymou sedan. Together with Lieutenant Pete Sutton and Dave Terry, 290 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:02.320 we drove to the Imperial Highway. Nat Wolf showed us 291 00:14:02.360 --> 00:14:03.200 the spot beside. 292 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:04.120 The road where he towed the man. 293 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:06.480 The area was checked and sample scrapings of the black 294 00:14:06.519 --> 00:14:08.720 paint were taken. There was no chance of taking a 295 00:14:08.759 --> 00:14:10.879 tire impression because of the loose sand in the area. 296 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:13.840 All physical evidence was taken back to the crime lab 297 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:16.759 for analysis. Gnat Wolf returned to the office to check 298 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:19.080 through mug books for possible identification of the man he 299 00:14:19.080 --> 00:14:22.480 helped out. Meantime, a special detail of man continued to 300 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:24.679 search the area where the missing patrolman had disappeared. 301 00:14:25.320 --> 00:14:25.840 Three a m. 302 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:28.840 According to instructions, the roadblock was established at the spot 303 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:30.200 where the abandoned patrol. 304 00:14:29.919 --> 00:14:33.080 Cardsman found Imperial Highway San Pedro cut off. 305 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:47.840 Success play was one. 306 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:47.679 Police business. 307 00:14:47.799 --> 00:14:49.679 Yes, sir, I wonder if you could help us out. 308 00:14:49.960 --> 00:14:53.600 Certainly you travel this highway every night, ma'am, Yes I do. 309 00:14:53.679 --> 00:14:56.039 I'm in the vegetable business. Did you come this way 310 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:58.879 last night about this time. I run pretty much on schedule. 311 00:14:58.919 --> 00:14:59.480 Yes I did. 312 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:03.120 Did you notice anything unusual along the highway? I bet 313 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:05.559 I know what this is about that missing highway patrol man. 314 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:06.080 Yes, ma'am. 315 00:15:06.120 --> 00:15:07.799 We're stopping everybody to see if they can give us 316 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:09.720 any information that might help us out. 317 00:15:10.120 --> 00:15:11.799 Oh I wish I could, but I didn't see a 318 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:13.600 thing that poor fella. 319 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:14.639 Do you think you'll find him? 320 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:17.039 M we're trying off all right, Sorry I. 321 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:18.320 Can't help you. 322 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:19.840 Can I go now? Yes, ma'am? 323 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:20.240 Thank you? 324 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:24.240 Thinks really good party? 325 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:25.320 How'd you do? 326 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:31.399 Nothing? What time you got your uh? Almost four? Got 327 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:33.360 a little more hot coffee in that jugus? 328 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:34.759 That's fine with me, you know. 329 00:15:40.840 --> 00:15:41.279 Here we I. 330 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:48.000 Cuts in the lid here and trump and thanks, so 331 00:15:49.639 --> 00:15:59.120 watch your fingers it's hot. Yeah, yeah, that's good. Now 332 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:01.639 I'll take this one. 333 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:03.279 I'm wanna put my coffee on the fender here, don't 334 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:04.559 knock it off on how much you thank you? 335 00:16:06.679 --> 00:16:06.840 Hey? 336 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:12.200 Wait a minute, wait a minute, colla, can you see 337 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:15.039 my light? I haven't even got a cigarette, I mean 338 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:15.679 my flashlight. 339 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:18.200 I got a cigarette, lader. If I don't do you 340 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:19.000 any good. 341 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:20.080 You've been drinking haven't you. 342 00:16:20.360 --> 00:16:21.000 Yes, I have. 343 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:24.000 I never get drunk, but I've had a little drink. 344 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:25.440 I'm sorry, but I'm gonna have to ask you to 345 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:26.399 pull over the side of the road. 346 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:32.759 Okay, what happened to my car? It was broke? 347 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:35.360 Better let me do it, huh. I wanna slide over 348 00:16:35.399 --> 00:16:35.919 a little bit there. 349 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:37.840 I'll never pick up hitch hikers. 350 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:39.440 I'm just gonna move your car to the side of 351 00:16:39.440 --> 00:16:39.879 the highway. 352 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:42.399 Now, many troubles you, No, five oh two. 353 00:16:42.440 --> 00:16:43.559 We'll have to hold him awhile. 354 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:46.519 We'll tell your friend to get into here's the citland. 355 00:16:46.759 --> 00:16:54.720 We're not going far. Where we're going right? Here? 356 00:16:56.039 --> 00:16:57.879 Is this the road to Pistonol Beach? 357 00:16:58.440 --> 00:16:59.399 No? Not this one. 358 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:04.880 Well, that dirty little ernie he lied again. He hates clams. 359 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:05.440 What's that? 360 00:17:05.880 --> 00:17:08.319 I've been trying for five months to get the Pismo 361 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:11.519 Beach for a bowl of cram chowder. I haven't major. 362 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:13.359 Yes, all right, you just sit here a while and 363 00:17:13.400 --> 00:17:15.240 sober up with you. I'm gonna hold onto your keys 364 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:16.519 and get them back to you. You haven't got a 365 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:17.799 bottle in the car? Heavy? No? 366 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:22.759 I never drink and drive. Alcohol and gasoline do not mix. 367 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:28.039 You drive this road every night every night, and. 368 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:30.680 He keeps telling me to take me to Pismo Beach. 369 00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:33.039 I love crams. 370 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:40.400 You just sit here and sober up, happy drunk. Yeah, 371 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:44.880 he's too drunk to drive, getting along towards daylight. 372 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:46.519 Where I put my clock? 373 00:17:46.599 --> 00:17:48.400 No, I've put it over here, Joe friend, we knock 374 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:52.279 it out. No thanks, this one's mine day. 375 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:57.079 Hu seem to come in bunches. You get to her 376 00:17:57.119 --> 00:17:58.279 three and then you wait for an hour. 377 00:17:58.319 --> 00:17:59.680 You know they don't use this highway much since they 378 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:00.279 put that all. 379 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:03.559 In the channel at least business. Yes, sir, you travel 380 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:06.359 this highway every night about this time once in a while. 381 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:07.920 I haven't been over this way in a week. You 382 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:10.319 didn't drive this way last night, No, sir, I didn't 383 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:13.680 anything the matter. Routine check. Thank you very much. 384 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:19.000 You can go on nothing. 385 00:18:21.880 --> 00:18:23.440 It looks like a hopeless job, doesn't it. 386 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:26.200 M business is picking up? 387 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:27.079 Here comes another one. 388 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:29.319 It looks like one of your sheriff's cars peaked. 389 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:31.359 Yeah, Reynolds homicide. 390 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:36.359 Eat something, Yeah, Reynolds, you can pack up. 391 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:38.880 They found him, Is he all right? Two bullet holes 392 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:39.680 in the back of his head. 393 00:18:54.880 --> 00:18:56.720 You are listening to drag net. 394 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:04.039 Five am Tuesday. 395 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:07.160 The body of Highway Patrolman Eugene Brewer was found half 396 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:09.640 buried in a shallow grave approximately four and a half 397 00:19:09.720 --> 00:19:11.519 miles from the point where his car had been found 398 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:15.000 standing on the highway. The scene was roped off, photographed 399 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:17.720 measurements were taken, and the area carefully gone over for 400 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:21.480 any physical evidence. A few scattered residents were again checked 401 00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:24.920