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one five. But now, from August twenty third, nineteen fifty one,
here is the Big in Laws.
Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true, only
the names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're
a detective sergeant here assigned a robbery detail. A gang
of hijackers is set up operations in your city. Truckloads
of merchandise worth thousands of dollars vanished completely. The criminals
know their business, their system appears foolproof.
Speaker 3: Your job stop them.
Speaker 4: Drag met the documented drama of an actual crime. Well,
the next thirty minutes in cooperation of the Los Angeles
Police Department. You will travel step by step on the
side of the law through an actual case transcribed from
official police by us. From beginning to end, and from
crime to punishment. Drag Net is the story of your
police force in action.
Speaker 5: It was Saturday, November eight, was foggy in Los Angeles.
We're working the day watch out of robbery detail. My
partner's Ben Romero. The boss's captain Didion. My name is Friday.
Speaker 6: I was on the way back from R and I and.
Speaker 5: It was eleven twenty three am when I got THROUGHOM
twenty seven eight robbery detail.
Speaker 7: Joe, Hi, where you've been anyhow? I've been sitting here
twenty minutes waiting for you.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: I've been checking a couple of names through and I
took a little longer, and I figured.
Speaker 6: At least you could do is leave a note in
the book. I do the same for you. I've been
sitting here, George. I'm sorry. What's the matter? You feeling well? No,
I'm alright. It just like a little cooperation, Joetso what's
the matter with you? Oh? I don't know.
Speaker 7: I guess I was mad when I woke up at
a crazy house. What's the trouble? You have an argue with
your wife in laws? They're visioning again? Sex of them?
Speaker 6: Or were they sleeping all over the place?
Speaker 7: For adults? Two kids in a great Fox terrier. He's
not even house broken. How long are you gonna stay?
A couple of days?
Speaker 6: Two weeks? I don't know how I can last about Joe.
Speaker 7: They're crawling all over the place, kids, gleaming dog caring
up the front room.
Speaker 6: No privacy.
Speaker 5: I don't know what I'm gonna do. Well, why don't
you just level with him? Ask him they wouldn't mind
standing at a motel for a couple of days. I
suggested that to the wife this morning. What do you
think that's when the argument's started? Hey, I almost forgot
to tell you that.
Speaker 7: Truck driver finally showed up at uh Frank Burns.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, it's about time. Where is?
Speaker 7: He took him across the hall of the mug room,
got him checking out some coming out mug books.
Speaker 6: I guess we better see how he's doing all right?
Speaker 7: He sure took his time to get away, didn't He
didn't offer any excuses. He's no more help than he
was yesterday, surly not very cooperating.
Speaker 6: How you doing, mister Burros?
Speaker 7: You'n't limber my partner story of Friday. I got a headache.
This is just a waste of time waiting through all
these pictures. I've been through two of these books already.
I couldn't identify any of the guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we know it's pretty tedious. We'd just like to
have you check through a few more volumes if you
wouldn't mind. Look, I don't mind giving you a hand
when I got time, but I got things.
Speaker 6: To do today. I got some on for the night,
have to get a haircut, my suit pressed. Well, this
thing's pretty important to us. Burroughs. I know we're putting
you out, but we need every lead we can get.
Speaker 5: We'd certainly appreciate it if you could just give us
a little more cooperation.
Speaker 7: I don't know what else I can do. I told
you everything, I know, just what happened. A few more
things we'd like to ask you about. Is there some
of the details you didn't make quite clear?
Speaker 6: What details? How do you mean details about the hijacking?
Mind going over with the gain voice?
Speaker 7: Well later it out for you. The last time he
talked to me just the way it went. It's the
same as the rest. Well, how do you mean the
same as the rest?
Speaker 6: Well, the other hijackings are the same as though it
was no different. You're pretty familiar with the other jobs,
aren't well?
Speaker 7: Follow them in the paper or the bullet and the
cops got out on him. It's up on the dispatch
board in the garage. Is that fresh water?
Speaker 6: And I coud over there? Yeah? I think so happens
to night. I have a pup last one for his headache.
Can't take asphin it's not water. You know you've been
driving a couple of years for Lavell Trucking Line. Is
that right, bros?
Speaker 8: That's right?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: What if you'd mind running it through for us again? Bro,
Maybe there's a few details about the thing that you
forgot to mention.
Speaker 7: It won't be any different. And last time I pulled
out from the load and dock about six o'clock yesterday
morning hauling a load of Scotch whiskey over to Phoenix,
pulled up for the red lighted Alameda and Jackson. That's
when the guy pulled open the door and got in
next to me, put a gun in my ribs told
me look straight ahead. The first thing he did was
hand me the pair of goggles and tell me to
put him on same kind of the welders use. Front
of the lens was covered with the tape. I put
him on.
Speaker 6: I couldn't see a thing. Guy took over the wheel
and started driving. Well, does you have any idea what
direction you were heading in? Not with the goggles on.
Speaker 7: I tried to follow it first, but I got all
mixed up, couldn't tell where he was driving, made quite
a few turns. He drove about twenty twenty five minutes,
I guess before we pulled up that's where the switching
point was. Two more guys met us there. I could
only tell by the voices. They put me out of
the truck and put me in a car.
Speaker 5: Well, can you tell us anything at all about that
transfer point? I mean, were there any sounds or anything
like that that give you an idea that maybe.
Speaker 6: Where you were?
Speaker 7: Well, I figure it must have been someplace out in
the valley, pretty far out, no traffic sounds at all,
just cricket scene and things like that. You got me
in that car, drove around about an hour, I figure,
and they put me on out side of the road,
told me to leave the goggles on for ten minutes,
and then they drove off.
Speaker 5: Well, how about those two men at the transfer point?
If you heard their voices again, you think you could
recognize them.
Speaker 6: I don't No, I dit it. I didn't say too much,
not that I heard anyway.
Speaker 7: I'm just curious, Bruhs, how is it you thought of
calling your company first instead of the police. Well, it's
their cargo, hold old a whiskey. If somebody hijacked that,
I figured the company ought to be the first to know.
Speaker 5: I like to ask you just one more question. There's
no offense intended here. Yeah, have you ever been arrested?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 6: What'd that have to do with? Probably nothing at all.
Have you ever been arrested?
Speaker 7: I'd like to set you straight on it right now.
If you think I was working inside on this thing,
you got it wrong. I didn't have anything to do
with it, and there's nothing to worry about it, all right. Yeah,
I've been arrested that Burroughs about ten years ago. It
was back east West Virginia. What was the chart hijacking?
Speaker 5: Our records showed no previous arrests for Frank Burrows for
the next few days.
Speaker 6: He was kept under observation.
Speaker 5: When we got the kickback from Washington, it showed Burrows
had one previous arrest, the one he told us about,
for hijacking. We checked all his friends, relatives and associates.
We found nothing suspicious. His employers said that they were
aware of his police record, but they told us that
Burrows was one of the best drivers they had. There
was nothing to link him with a series of hijackings
which had been going on all over the city for
the past month.
Speaker 6: Our crime lab checked the pair of goggles which Burrows
had been forced to wear during the hijacking.
Speaker 5: They were an ordinary industrial type, easily obtained and impossible
to trace other than those belonging to Burrows. There were
no fingerprints on them. Late that afternoon, the missing truck
and trailer was found empty in a deserted section of
the valley, no latent, fingerprints or other physical evidence.
Speaker 6: Nine am the next morning, we met with Captain Dideon.
Speaker 7: Carcos going on how to trace something that said Skipper
High Great Scott's Whiskey. One hundred and fifty cases you
got out of bullets and all the liquor wholesalers, serial numbers, listening.
Speaker 6: That ex con Burrows. Nothing turned up on him, No, nothing,
We double checked. Everything about him is clean. You didn't
get anything off, had abandon the truck, no prints, no
physical evidence. Seems like they got it down to a science.
Sound like the fad Brown.
Speaker 7: He's getting all the kicks from the warehouse operators. Thirty
days and six hijackings. How about moving faster? Well, as
you know, we got twelve steakhouts running down freight load
skipper Yeah, incoming out going, got three girls in the Stat's.
Speaker 6: Office doing nothing but making runs for us. No news respect.
We've got a meeting with an informant after lunch. He
figures he may have something. There's nothing to bank on it.
Speaker 7: How about an inside tip off on these jobs? Any
indication the gang's working something like that. No, nothing, Definitely
skipper jobs seem to be pretty well cased.
Speaker 6: Though.
Speaker 7: We've checked out everybody with a record working.
Speaker 6: For the trucking lines. No reason to think any of
them had to end in it.
Speaker 7: Excuse me a minute, didion Yeah, live Oak near Trenton, happening, Yeah,
I got it right, Thank you. Yet another truck earl
this morning, where there's a location. Better move on. It
looks like they got their signals crushed. Honey, mean, it
doesn't make sense. The cargo of the hijack, what was it?
A load of toothbrushes?
Speaker 5: Nine three am, Ben and I drove to the intersection
of Live Oat Drive and Trenton Avenue in the Hollywood Hills,
where we located the latest driver to.
Speaker 6: Fall victim to the gang of hijackers. His story was
the same as the others.
Speaker 5: He'd stopped his truck for a red light at a
deserted intersection when a man jumped on the running board
and pointed a gun at his head. The man with
the gun took over the wheel and forced the driver
to put on a pair.
Speaker 6: Of black dot welders goggles.
Speaker 5: Then the truck was moved to a remote spot where
the driver was transferred to a car and later released
in the remote section of the Hollywood Hills. The hijack
truck was found empty a day later, and again there
was no physical evidence, no fingerprints.
Speaker 6: The driver could add little to what we already knew.
Speaker 5: The only point that made the case any different from
those that had gone before was the cargo that had
been stolen.
Speaker 6: A load of toothbrushes.
Speaker 5: We began an immediate check of the neighborhood where, according
to the driver, he was first held up. It was
a fairly remote intersection in the San Fernando Valley. After
four hours of interviewing ranchers and gas station attendance, we
talked to the operator of a practice driving range for
golfers located just off the highway.
Speaker 6: His name was Fred Garrison.
Speaker 9: As a matter of fact, I did notice something out
of the ordinary this morning, a little four to six am,
I think, spotted this big semi turning off on that
dirt road down the highway there.
Speaker 6: Now which dirt road is that, miss Garrison?
Speaker 9: Oh, right up the highway there? Shit, Oh, it turns
off by that clump of trees. Couldn't figure out why
a big truck and trailer be taken that road. Doesn't
make sense.
Speaker 6: What do you mean?
Speaker 9: What's the dead end? No reason why a driver turned
off there by mistake. There's a big sign right there
at the intersection says not a through street right there?
See it plainnessday.
Speaker 6: I wonder if he could describe the truck force, mister Garrison.
Speaker 9: It was pretty good size, one of those big aluminum jobs.
Black lettering on the side. I think, yeah, it turned
off the highway, went down the dirt road a little ways,
and then it turned off into that grove of trees
and the driver cut the lights.
Speaker 7: Did you notice any activity going on in Goo?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 9: No, I didn't. Oh maybe I should have walked over
and checked it. I figured it was just some truck
driver pulling up to catch a few weeks asleep.
Speaker 6: And I see my boy Dave was with me at the.
Speaker 9: Time, wanted to check it, but I told him to
mind his own business.
Speaker 6: He says. A couple of minutes.
Speaker 9: After the truck pulled in, he saw Gray s Dan
come down the road and park next to the truck,
right in that same clump of trees.
Speaker 6: Well, I didn't always look a little suspicious to use her.
Oh I suppose so, and away.
Speaker 9: I just don't like the metal where it's not my business.
Speaker 6: That's awful. Did your boy Dave get a good look
at this grace oft and you.
Speaker 9: Know you want to come in the officer sit down?
Speaker 6: Sure?
Speaker 7: Oh huh, hey, sit right there if you like.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 7: Let's see now where worry about your boy Dave's Oh yeah,
you said that he saw Gray sa'dan pulling next to
the truck over in that plump of trees.
Speaker 5: Did he mention anything else that he noticed about the car,
I mean, other than the fact that it was a
gray Sedan.
Speaker 9: Well, yeah, I think he did say something else about it.
Let's see, I wasn't listening too close at the time.
Dave's doing some arians downtown for me right now. He'll
be phoning in pretty soon, though I can ask him
about it. Then he paid a lot more attention to
the thing than I did.
Speaker 5: Well, how long were the truck and trailer in the
Saedan park in the grove of trees?
Speaker 6: Do you remember there?
Speaker 9: Well, not too long, maybe fifteen twenty minutes. The car
pulled out first and took off down the highway away
from town that way, see, and the truck and trailer
left few minutes after waste.
Speaker 7: Figure they were up to And we've got an idea
what time was that Againza, when you saw the truck
turn off the highway onto the dirt.
Speaker 9: Room, About six am, maybe a few minutes one way
or the other.
Speaker 6: I wonder if you'd show us the exact spot where
you saw that truck park, would you? Oh?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 9: Here you want to come over here with me to window.
Speaker 6: Huh.
Speaker 9: Now you see the clump of trees there?
Speaker 6: Yeah, how you glipped? How they bought it right on
the road.
Speaker 9: Yeah, maybe that's him now, yes, fair ways? Oh yeah, Dave,
how'd you make out? M oh fine, no, no, no, listen.
A couple of policemen here now. They're asking about that
truck and that gray Saedan you saw up on the
road this morning. I want to know what you noticed
about the Sadan besides the color a I.
Speaker 5: Oh you did?
Speaker 9: Uh huh, yeah, Well you better head back here. They
probably want to talk to you about it. All right, Davy?
Speaker 6: Bye, what do you have to say?
Speaker 9: I'll hear be back in about twenty minutes. I figured
you want to talk to him?
Speaker 6: How about the sedan? Said, you get a pretty good
look at it? Did he say? Yeah?
Speaker 9: I guess so he got part of a license number.
Speaker 5: Red Garrison's son, Dave returned and gave us all the
pertinent facts about the truck and the gray Sedan which
he'd noticed in the neighborhood.
Speaker 6: Early that morning.
Speaker 5: His description of the truck and trailer what he saw,
but anyway, Matt's closely with that of the latest vehicle
to be hijacked. He described the car as a gray Sedan,
and he said it looked to him like it was
a late model Nash, but he couldn't be sure.
Speaker 6: He said.
Speaker 5: The first three units on the license plate were seventy seven.
The location in the grove of trees where the truck
had been spotted was checked thoroughly. Outside of some indefinite
tire tracks, there was no physical evidence. Four ten PM,
we put in a call to DMV and asked for
a rundown on the three license plate numbers. The next morning,
DMB returned to us a list of more than a
thousand auto registrations, which began with a figure seventy seven.
We went down the list and gradually eliminated six hundred
of these as not being physically close in description to
the car scene by Garrison's boy Dave.
Speaker 6: We kept checking.
Speaker 5: Almost three hundred more on the list were registered in
distant parts of the state. That left us with over
one hundred vehicles registered in or around Los Angeles to
check out.
Speaker 6: It went slow. Three weeks passed.
Speaker 5: We narrowed the list down to twenty three possibles. Tuesday,
December tenth, we were checking registrations with addresses in the
east end of the city.
Speaker 6: It's a name on this one against Perry or Water
Straight back to drive. There's a car park and yeah,
let's try the bell again. Let me say, let's give
the car look. Be pre sure to get care. Nobody home,
garage wide open cars. Isn't they qualify so far? You
want to check the steering post, the registration check out?
All right, it's a minute. What do you got there? Here?
Found he's under the seat. Oh, maybe we're home. It's
a pair of guidels. Take a look. Yeah, both lens
is covered with tape.
Speaker 4: You're in the poetry division of a Metropolitan Police Department
handwriting analysis.
Speaker 9: Now let's check it against the forged letter. The capital's
print evenly. The o's and the a's are clean. No,
this isn't the typewriter we're looking for. Yeah, capitals print high,
asianos are solid, peace slanted.
Speaker 6: This is the.
Speaker 10: One Tuesday, December tenth, two fifteen DM.
Speaker 5: A pair of goggles found in the automobile registered to
water our Perry were the same brand and style as
the goggles used to black out the truck drivers and
all the previous hijackings.
Speaker 6: Ben and I searched the car, but we failed to
come up with any additional physical evidence.
Speaker 5: We left the garage, checked the house again to make
sure that there was nobody at home. Then we went
down the street close to the house to where we
parked our car. We put in a call to R
and I and requested a make on water ar Perry.
Speaker 6: He had no previous criminal records.
Speaker 5: A few minutes later, we spotted two women loaded with
grocery bags come down.
Speaker 6: The street, go up the stairs at the Perry house
and let themselves in with a key.
Speaker 5: Went up to the front door, rang the bell, and
the younger of the two women answered, dark brown hair,
blue eyes, about five foot six, twenty eight twenty nine
years old. We identified ourselves and she showed us into
the living room. She told us her name was Leona
Perry and that Walter Perry was her husband. They'd been
married eleven years, no children. We asked her where her
husband was, and she said he was out of town
on a business trip up north com outa Vista, California.
Speaker 6: We asked her what line of business he.
Speaker 11: Was in, Well, right now, will Is Jewelry Sales me
which himself to quite their traveling.
Speaker 7: Your husband's blonde about five nine hundred and sixty pounds
that run.
Speaker 8: Yes, that's right.
Speaker 6: How do you go up north Man to do well?
Speaker 8: I think he went up by train. I'm not sure I.
Speaker 6: Have any idea how we might contact your husband of.
Speaker 11: North No, I'm afraid I don't. He said he had
a couple of business apartments in different towns in that
area up there. He didn't tell me where he'd be staying.
What's it about, sarge, mister routine check and miss Perry?
Speaker 6: Is that a photograph of your husband over there at
the piano? Yes, one's he expected back to know.
Speaker 8: Let's see, this is Tuesday, should home sometimes Thursday?
Speaker 6: A minute ago? You said, right now, your husband's a
jewelry salesman. Is that his usual line of work?
Speaker 8: No, world is a truck driver.
Speaker 6: He worked here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 8: No, he groves for company up north in the Bay area, Oakland, Berkeley.
He had that job for ten years, almost from the
day we were married.
Speaker 11: And then last December he had a fight with the
boss and clips we moved down here to find work
butt and just pretend to get placed.
Speaker 6: How long has he been selling jewelry.
Speaker 11: Now it was about eight months. I'd say you're doing
very good at it. You have more now than when
he's driving a truck, a lot of.
Speaker 6: Money to Jeers. And it's just you and your husband
living here, is that right?
Speaker 8: No, my mother lives with us too. We just got
back from doing the shopping. I guess she said, you're
putting the grocery do mom Ah.
Speaker 6: I don't say. That's all right, ma'am. I think you
can give us the information we need.
Speaker 11: Well, I'd like to know what this is about. I'd
appreciate it if you'd tell me. World isn't in any kind
of trouble?
Speaker 7: Is he just a routine investigation, Miss Perry, doesn't necessarily
mean your husband's in law.
Speaker 8: I want to tell you right now my husband was involved
in anything. I had trouble with the police. Is like
water have trouble with the police.
Speaker 6: What is it?
Speaker 8: Letter, It's nothing. Mabby's policemen want to talk to wald
and I just want to ask him a few questions
and all. This is my mother, missus Burt, this is
it's Friday, mister Marr.
Speaker 12: I told you, leone, I felt it all day.
Speaker 8: Something's wrong.
Speaker 12: Walter's done something.
Speaker 8: There's don't decide to let it get him off.
Speaker 6: Please.
Speaker 12: The officers told me.
Speaker 8: They want to talk to all episode.
Speaker 12: But forth he hasn't done anything.
Speaker 6: Why do they want to talk to it routine judy, ma'am.
There's nothing to get excited about it.
Speaker 12: I know what happened. I felt it all the time.
Speaker 13: That funny job he has selling jewelry, going out at
all hours couldn't fool me.
Speaker 12: I knew it wasn't right. What's he done?
Speaker 9: Where he's relative?
Speaker 6: Was?
Speaker 12: We got a right to know?
Speaker 6: There's nothing we can tell you, definitely, ma'am.
Speaker 5: How about these odd working hours your husband has missus Perry,
what's the reason for that?
Speaker 6: Could you tell us? Why don't know?
Speaker 12: Water works for himself.
Speaker 8: He just has to make business contexts when he can.
Speaker 6: That's all.
Speaker 8: Sometimes it's late at night, sometimes early in the morning.
Speaker 12: Why don't you stay out of it?
Speaker 8: After all, it's our.
Speaker 12: Business, wall is mine? Just mark my wordly wan to
find out about this. That husband yours has done something
and these policemen are after him. I knew it wasn't right.
I felt it all along. Please take these jewels. Business
is big money. I should have left and taken you
with me that they.
Speaker 9: Started Waters a truck driver.
Speaker 12: It's all you'll ever be. It's where he should have stayed.
There are you always picking out Water?
Speaker 6: Why?
Speaker 13: Because I told you in the first place you never
should have married him. Eleven years ago I told you
I never should have come.
Speaker 12: To stay with you.
Speaker 13: You couldn't go and marry one of those nice boys
you met at school. It had to be Water Perry. Well,
maybe you'll see now trouble with the police. Now you'll
see what kind of a man you shut up for.
Speaker 8: Sorry, I'll.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm afraid that isn't helping much.
Speaker 12: Miss burg was What is it that can help?
Speaker 9: Kids?
Speaker 12: Should try to tell him something, make it easy for him.
Speaker 7: Never listened that gray sedan back in the garage? Man,
does anyone else drive it besides mister Perry?
Speaker 6: Do you know?
Speaker 12: No, Leona doesn't drive. World is the only one who
runs it.
Speaker 6: He drives it to all these business appointments. He has
it ought out, It's right?
Speaker 12: How many times he doesn't take it so when he's
out of town.
Speaker 6: You ever seen this pair of goggles before? Man?
Speaker 12: No, I never hear What does it mean that tape
all over in front of him.
Speaker 6: How about your son and last friends? Do you ever
bring any of them here to the.
Speaker 13: House since I've been staying here the last six months.
Call him on the phone, He goes out, doesn't bring
anyone around though.
Speaker 6: I'm just sick.
Speaker 7: Well, can you tell us anything about this jewelry business
mister Berry's working here.
Speaker 12: I don't even want to think about it.
Speaker 13: I raised four daughters, nice girls, every one of them, attractive,
plans for them, and you want them to be happy
and marry some nice fellow, have a nice, comfortable home.
You try to tell them.
Speaker 6: They never listen about the car man.
Speaker 13: You get to be seventeen and they know everything. My
girls could have married wealthy if they were smart. A
lot of other girls have done it.
Speaker 12: They had nice clothes, they got through business school, good
home training. All us talk about love.
Speaker 6: They're also smart.
Speaker 12: They know everything, and they know nothing. This is what happens.
We wake up and find out.
Speaker 8: Would you finish putting a girl through the way?
Speaker 12: Move totally off anything you wild? Leona didn't mean to
upset you. Maybe things will be all right.
Speaker 6: And just a few more questions, Miss Verry, that's all.
Speaker 8: Well, whatever it is, I know long hasn't done anything wrong.
He wouldn't do anything wrong.
Speaker 12: It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 8: There's just no reason for it.
Speaker 12: I remember your father ly on us sixteen years.
Speaker 6: We were married.
Speaker 12: One night he packed up and left me. There wasn't
any reason for that either, wasn't the move.
Speaker 5: We continued questioning a whyfe and the mother in law
of the suspect, Walter Perry. From the wife, we got
the names and addresses of four close friends of Perry's
who were supposed to be associates of his in the
jewelry business.
Speaker 6: In the basement and in.
Speaker 5: A loft over the garage, we found more than a
dozen cases of high grade scotch whiskey, cases of expensive furs,
and other loot taken in the hijackings.
Speaker 6: Missus Perry said her husband told Harry was storing his
stuff for some friends. Was only a small portion of
the taake.
Speaker 5: We called the office and got out a broadcast and
an APB in the suspect and arranged for an immediate
stakeout on the Perry house. And then together with Matthews
and Gonzales from Robbery Detail, we began checking out the
four close friends of the suspect. We could locate only
two of them, but those two paid off in the
basements and garages of their homes, we found.
Speaker 6: Another portion of the loot, along with.
Speaker 5: Evidence that showed that both men had taken active parts
in the hijackings. They were booked at the main jail
on suspicion of two to eleven PC. A full week
went by, the stakeout continued on the Perry house, still
no sign of him. Saturday, December twentieth, four five pm
we checked back in at the office.
Speaker 6: This thing shorte Dragon. I don't it would be nice
to wrap it up before Christmas. We'll then get it
all the way. Might working a couple of days off? No,
I don't know if I'm too interested, Joe or the
days off. I mean, we've got visitors on the wear again.
They mean for the holidays.
Speaker 7: Who's kind the same old bunch. My brother in law
and his wife and his kids and that little doll there. Well,
they were just leave you for three weeks worth. They
what's the deal?
Speaker 6: Oh, brother in law got home finally notice from his
company he's been transferred out here.
Speaker 7: They're going to stay with us all through the holidays
and then they'll start house hunt. How about man, he's
got a problem. He's got a new rug in the
living room. How about twenty to one on it? Jill,
what's a little fox?
Speaker 6: Teary? Oh?
Speaker 7: Hi skipper? Anything before we check out? Be's the news
for you? Just talk to the Ventoria Sheriff's office.
Speaker 6: We all my favorite. What do you mean? They grabbed
Walter Perry half an hour ago.
Speaker 5: Monday, December twenty second, So I suspect Walter Perry was
returned to Los Angeles.
Speaker 6: He was taken to the interrogation.
Speaker 5: Room when Captain Diddyon then and I questioned him for
almost two hours. He was confronted with the evidence and
testimony against him, and after another hour and a half
of interrogation, he broke. He gave us a full signed
statement describing his part in the campaign of hijackings. He
also gave us the names of everyone in the gang,
how they participated in to what extent he said. Most
of the property looted from the hijacked trucks was stored
in a rented barn located at the north end of
the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 6: The detail of men checked it and confirmed the information.
Speaker 5: The suspect's wife, Leona, was notified of her husband's arrest.
Speaker 6: One thirty five pm. We completed our interrogation. That's it,
very nice, goough. You asked me a lot of questions.
How about it? Can I ask you with? What's it? Well?
Why do you think I did it? Why I got
mixed up in this? Well? According to your statements, you
wanted the money a minute or you've been out to
my house? Haven't you?
Speaker 7: You met my wife? And answer, I guess you met
a mother too. Yeah, well, then you've got it. Nobody
in the work would make me go for a hijack deal,
but she could. I remember the morning I admit up
my mind to do it her. I was out the
kitchen here yapping at Leona in the other room, the
same old roasting abous, the truck driver that was me
eleven years. The wife and I've been married, Her mother
lived with us, nine of them. Didn't get any better,
didn't get any worse, Just the same old yapping her
and her four girls. Why couldn't they listen to her?
They were the best girls in the world. Why couldn't
they marry money?
Speaker 6: Why don't it to be guys like truck drivers? Stupid
truck driver, same thing every day, always the same, nine
years of it day. So I wanted to get enough
money to rub in her face, enough to make a
choke on. You can hate somebody for that. I don't
know how many years they'll give me, but I'm going
to hate her.
Speaker 9: Everyone remained jail wasn't ready to go.
Speaker 6: I want to be a minute. Backs. Thank you all right, Gord? Yeah, uh, Sergean.
My wife's been told her. She knows about it. She's
waiting outside in the hall with her mother, and you
can see him on the way.
Speaker 14: Out, and a lot of thanks. Hi, honey, I'm sorry.
Why did you do ask him when they're they're honey?
Speaker 7: You heard as much of it as I did, nine
years worth of I guess it finally got me sick.
Speaker 6: She wanted you to have money, so I want have
to get it. You come and see me when you came.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I wasn't going to any jail to see you.
I knew it all along. I knew what you would
the truth. She never should have married you.
Speaker 6: All right, pray, let's go.
Speaker 9: Fine.
Speaker 6: How are you figuring? I don't know. How about some coffee? Okay?
She is funny.
Speaker 7: You see other people sweating that your troubles looked like nothing.
I'm just thinking about what's that those in laws in
what about it? Yes, I hadn't got it half.
Speaker 2: Then the story you have just heard was true, only
the names were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 4: On March fifth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department
eighty seven, City in County of Los Angeles, State of California.
In a moment the results of that trial, Walter Richard
Perry was tried and convicted on several counts of robbery
in the first degree. He was sentenced to the state
penitentiary for the term prescribed by law. First degree robbery
is punishable by a term of five years to life.
His accomplices received similar sentences, Ladies and gentlemen, As we know,
thousands of people in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Illinois have
been driven from their homes by floodwaters.
Speaker 2: Many are being sheltered and fed with a Red Cross.
All Americans are urged to give through their local Red
Cross chapters. Your contribution of just a dollar will give
you a feeling of justifiable pride.
Speaker 4: You have just heard drag Meth a series of authentic
cases from official filets technical advice comes from the office
of Chief of Police W. H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department.
Speaker 6: Stay tuned for Counterspy Next time, NBC.
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. I was wondering how Romero's in laws would
come back into the tititle, and of course it turns
out it has to do with both Romero's in laws
and the perpetrators. I guess in some ways, Romero's reacting
to other people's family troubles the same way that people
in the nineties did when they watched those sort of
daytime talk shows, or today when people watch reality TV
shows and they see people behaving so crazily and they're like, Okay,
my family is messed up, but at least we're not
that bad now. I do sympathize with the perpetrator a
little bit, but I don't like the idea of, particularly
in a case like this, of someone driving someone else
to commit a crime, which is essentially what he did
when he was saying, nobody could make me do this,
but my mother in law, she made me do it.
Lots of people have overbearing, nagging mother in laws, and
they also have wives who will put up with it
and not stick up for their husbands. But most of
these guys don't start hijacking liquor. There are all kinds
of ways to deal with this, and beginning on hijacking
trucks is a choice. Now, if this were Broadways my beat,
Danny Clover probably would have arrested the mother in law
on principle as an accessory. But Dragnet's based more on
the real world. All right, Listener comments and feedback, and
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Speaker 15: Tell me this, any of your clients policyholders have any
kind of trouble, accidents, anything like that over at Lake
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Speaker 16: Ah, So that's what's eating you, Oh Johnny. That flame
was legitimate. It's in the home office for settlement. The
company will pay it and that'll be that what claim.
So just you stop worrying about it and forget what claim, Jake, No, sir, Johnny,
there's not a single solitary thing for you to investigate
out here.
Speaker 6: So just you forget it.
Speaker 15: You know something, Jake, You just convinced me there is
something to investigate it. So I'm grabbing the first plane
i can.
Speaker 16: Well, Johnny, I'd love to see you, but I what's home.
Speaker 15: I'm charging my expense account to your company.
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