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Now from November ninth, nineteen fifty, here is the Big Mother.
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. You're assigned to homicide detail. A newborn
baby is taken from a hospital nursery. There's no trace
of the infant, there's no trace of the abductor. Your
job find them.
Speaker 3: Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
next thirty minutes, in cooperation with 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 bolence,
from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnet is
the story of your police force in action.
Speaker 4: It was Thursday, January twenty eighth. It was raining in
Los Angeles. We were working the night watch out of homicide.
My partner's Ben Romero, the boss's captain Steve, my name's Dragon.
Was eleven thirty five pm when we got to Mercy
Hospital on Norwich Avenue, the main entrance.
Speaker 5: Better check it to death.
Speaker 6: To bed a Wales.
Speaker 5: To be wayne police officers. We received a call from
the hospital here.
Speaker 7: Oh, yes, you're right this.
Speaker 5: Way, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 7: Doctor Welsh is waiting for him.
Speaker 5: Is he the man in charge?
Speaker 7: Oh no, doctor Welsh is the ahead of the hospital.
Please doctor Wells.
Speaker 5: All I mean please, thank you? Yes, doctor Walsh. How
do you do? It's my partner side at Romero. My
name is Friday, waiting for you. You have a seat, bib,
Thank you, Thank you, gentlemen.
Speaker 8: I just got here a few moments ago, myself no,
doctor knows as much about this.
Speaker 5: As I do. We were notified that a three day
old baby's missing. Is that correct?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 8: One of the striker twins gone his Tuesday money.
Speaker 5: Where'd the baby disappear? From?
Speaker 8: Doctor, nursery? I can't understand how it could happen. Never
heard of such a thing. Who was in charge of
the nursery, Nurse O'Connor. She's back with the superintendent of nurses,
quite upset, and I'd like to talk to her. Yes here,
we would, all right, That's why I please, you can't
understand it. How did a baby disappear like that? After
the parents have been notified? He's on his way in
and now I haven't told the mother yet. When did
they first notice the baby was gone? I understand it
was around eleven pm.
Speaker 5: Call came into our office about eleven twenty.
Speaker 8: Go ahead, certain, that's o connor, Yes, Doctor Wilson. These
gentlemen are from the police department, certain amount starting Friday.
Speaker 6: What do you do?
Speaker 5: You want to know all about what happened tonight?
Speaker 8: You know, of course a serious matter.
Speaker 5: Try to tell exactly how it happened. I'll try, doctor
an officer.
Speaker 4: Well, we know that you're probably pretty upset, nurse. Now
you just relax and take your time. Yes, sir, when
did you first notice that the Striker baby was missing?
Speaker 6: Must have happened somewhere between eleven o'clock and ten minutes
past eleven. I'm sure of that.
Speaker 5: How were you sure of that?
Speaker 6: I came on duty a few minutes of four eleven.
I took the night reports as usual, and I started
checking the orders and the formulas. I remember very well
if both the Striker twins were in their cribs at
that time. I think it must have been about five
minutes past eleven when I got this phone call from home.
My mother's been sick, late labors about her.
Speaker 5: How far did you have to go to answer the phone?
Speaker 6: About ten feet down the hole from the nursery, just
around the corner.
Speaker 5: Could you see the entrance to the nursery from where
you were talking on the phone.
Speaker 6: No, so I couldn't. I was only on the phone
for a minute or two. Soon as I hung up,
I came right back to the nursery.
Speaker 5: Was the telephone call actually from your mother?
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, My mother is a hard condition. She wanted
me to be sure and have a prescription field.
Speaker 5: What time was it when you got back to the nursery, owner,
Can you remember.
Speaker 6: That it wasn't quite ten minutes past eleven. So I
came back through the door and the nursery.
Speaker 5: I noticed right.
Speaker 6: Away one of the cribs was empty. One of the
Striker twins was gone.
Speaker 5: Is there more than one entrance to the nursery insatia.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, there are two entrances, but at night one
of the us keept locked.
Speaker 4: Is it possible that somebody in the hospital, maybe a doctor,
took the baby for examination or some kind of.
Speaker 5: Treatment, No, sir.
Speaker 6: Just as soon as I noticed the baby was gone,
I went to the head nurse and two of us
contacted everybody in the hospital. No one knew anything about it.
Speaker 4: Well, is it possible that the child's mother could have
come down from the second floor and taken the baby.
Speaker 6: No, so, Miss Strike has been asleep since ten o'clock.
She still asleep.
Speaker 5: Are there any other nurses or at tennant's working near
the nursery when the baby disappeared?
Speaker 6: No, no reason for anyone besides myself to be around
at that time. None of the cleaning people, they'd all
gone home.
Speaker 5: Doctor Walsh. I wondered if we could to have a
look at the nursery now, want nurse O'Connor to come along, yes,
would you believe? Yes? Where gentlemen stir down the hall?
What are the hospital visiting eyes? Doctor usual?
Speaker 8: Two until four in the afternoon, seven to nine in
the Evening's quite strict about that.
Speaker 4: Do you know if all the visitors had left the
hospital by nine o'clock tonight?
Speaker 8: Of course I wasn't here, but the Superintendent of nurses
told me they had all left by nine.
Speaker 5: She's compelling our listen to every visitor we had this evening.
It was good.
Speaker 9: They'll all have to be checked nursers right here as
mm hm. This empty crib just inside the window here, Yes, sir,
that's where the baby was. You can see it's right
next to the door here.
Speaker 5: I noticed that there's no blanket in the crib.
Speaker 6: Is that missing too, Yes, sir, crib's just the way
I found it when I came back in the telephon.
I haven't touched it.
Speaker 5: Are there any marks of identification of the blanket or
the clothing?
Speaker 6: Each one's stenciled Mersey Hospital. Each baby wears an ID bracelet.
Speaker 4: Doctor I wonder if we could have that crib brought
out to have a check for possible fingerprints.
Speaker 5: Certainly, of course. Is this the other door of the nursery?
And thanks you, miss o Connor.
Speaker 6: That's right, Sergeant, I checked it.
Speaker 5: It's locked. That large window on the other side of
the nursery not a stationary window.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, it is. It faces onto a small court.
Speaker 5: I want whoever took the baby had to use this door, so.
Speaker 6: The only way they could have gotten in. Oh, excuse
me minute, I want to attend to the baby.
Speaker 5: Sure, listen that, Jim. Yeah, doctor. Are there any other
entrances open at night besides the main one, not after
ten pm?
Speaker 8: Or just the main entrance on our which air there's
a nurse on duty.
Speaker 5: There at all times. How about the parents? Is there
anything unusual there?
Speaker 10: No, if I was working man, I was a housewife.
But the baby's perfectly normal, nothing unusual at all. Three
day old baby. They usually take a lot of careful handling,
don't there. It's definitely first week is always critical, this thing.
Speaker 8: Taking a three day old infant out in this weather,
cold rain, Fred, The odds.
Speaker 5: Are all against the child. Were sure the main entrance
was the only one open after ten o'clock. Yes, I
can't understand it. How could anyone get that baby out
of that hospital. We're not sure they did.
Speaker 4: Midnight, three day old twin boy was missing from his
crib in the hospital nursery. That's all we knew. We
checked the list of possibilities. The baby could have been
taken for ransom. Somebody wanted revenge in the Striker family
and decided on the baby as the best means. Maybe
someone just wanted a child, someone mentally unsound, a maniac,
a pervert. Maybe an accident had happened at the hospital,
somebody wanted to cover up. Possibly one of the parents
of their families had a motive. Perhaps somebody just wanted
the child dead. We called the office and got out
an APB and the Striker baby in a description of
the blanket and the clothing.
Speaker 5: Details of officers were alerted at the bus.
Speaker 4: Depots, railroad terminals, the airports, all public transportation facilities. Steps
were taken to notify doctors, hospital, sanitariums, anybody in any
place where a three day old baby might be taken.
The entire area around Mercy Hospital was canvass no information.
The baby's crib was dusted for prints, no leads, no
physical evidence. The investigation continued. When George Stryker, the father
of the child, arrived, Ben and I met with him
in the office of the hospital superintendent. Can we let
people know about it? Newspapers and the radio.
Speaker 5: We've already covered that. Stories and pictures have gone out
to the papers. We've notified the radio stations. They're getting
out broadcast on How am I gonna tell my wife?
Speaker 4: Also, there's only one thing that we can promise you.
We'll do everything we can to find your baby.
Speaker 5: But isn't there something I can do? Isn't there some
way I can help?
Speaker 4: This is just a remote possibility, mister Striker, but you
ought to know about it. What's that In case anybody
contacts you regarding your baby, in case they make any
demands on you for money or anything else, we want
you to notify us immediately.
Speaker 5: What could they expect to get from us? We own
our home. That's about all. We just want to cover
all the possibilities, missus Stricker, in case any demand at
all is made. Don't try to deal with the people,
all right, Yes, sir, I understand? So I did. Yeah,
one of the mental homicide. Like to see outside start
going to leapis fall. Thank you doctor, We'll have to
go down missus tractor. We'll keep you involved, all right,
thank you, Joe. Yeah, I'll leave us.
Speaker 11: Say we got something back here and seen us and
I was a night watchman out back the side of
the hospital and faces on of Stacy Avenue.
Speaker 5: Yeah, two doors back there, just off the street. One
I'm is open.
Speaker 4: Together with Sergeant belave Us and doctor Watts, the head
of the hospital, we went back and examined the side
door which opened on the Stacy Avenue. The latch was
obviously folly. It took only slight pressure on the door
to open it. The latch, both door knobs, and the
door itself were dusted for prints. The entranceway in the
immediate area were rechecked. No leads, no physical evidence. We
traced an imaginary path from the open door.
Speaker 5: To the nursery.
Speaker 4: We came to the conclusion that it could have been
possible for an abductor to enter the hospital, make his
way to the nursery, take the child from its crib
in the absence of the night nurse, and leave but
the same side door without being seen. Store keepers and
residents along Stacy Avenue were requestioned. We got nowhere when
the abduction story broke in the newspaper and over the radio.
The next morning, the call started to come in. People
in practically all sections of the city thought that they'd
seen the missing baby.
Speaker 5: Each call was carefully checked out, none of them paid off.
Ten am we checked back in at the office. Must
be getting old, Joe. I can't seem to take these
all night stations like yous to. Oh yeah, I'm pretty tired.
Drank too much coffee again, I got a sour stomach.
All right, Hi Leavis, the Stat's office come up with
that run for us. Yet that's still working on it.
How about that Sam Bernardino.
Speaker 11: Co Yeah, they called back. They picked the woman up
when she got off the bus, checked her on the
baby out, baby belongs to her.
Speaker 5: Anything else come in, all been checked out. The press
called again.
Speaker 12: I want to know if there are any.
Speaker 5: New leads, you know, side and side to you in
the gay Yes, sir, did I help you?
Speaker 13: They told me the business office to come down and
see it.
Speaker 5: Surely come onney nice.
Speaker 13: My name's Wallace. I'm the desk clerk down to the hotel.
On Eleventh Street, Little Good Hotel. Yes, sir, I got
some information. Like to talk to you all right.
Speaker 4: See this is my partner size at the maryl and
it's starting to leave us.
Speaker 5: What's the information about?
Speaker 14: Well, I got hold of a paper this morning, read
about that baby that's missing. Imagine those people are pretty
worried about the kid. You say, like all the information
they can get. Huh looks like that in hospitals in
the gym.
Speaker 5: When you say, well, what information do you have?
Speaker 13: While I guess those parents could sue the hospital that
they wanted to.
Speaker 5: What's you're all we're interested in is finding a baby?
Can you help us there?
Speaker 12: Well?
Speaker 13: I do know for sure.
Speaker 5: What are you trying to tell us? Have you seen
the baby? Well?
Speaker 13: I may have. You happen to know. If they're offering
any reward for information, Well.
Speaker 5: I don't know where to come from. The father is
a working man.
Speaker 14: Don't get me wrong, sergeant. I don't expect anything for
any information I've given it. Well, I don't make too
much at the hotel.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 14: If they wanted to show their gratitude in some way,
just thought i'd mention it.
Speaker 5: Oh thank you. Well, just don't worry about that. What's
the information?
Speaker 14: Well, you know I didn't mean anything by that. Anybody
be glad to help out in a case like this.
What I came in to tell you was one and
a young baby checked in the hotel last night when
I was on duty. What time I think it was
about twelve o'clock. The woman didn't have any baggage or anything.
One little blanket around the kid. When I saw that
story in the paper this morning.
Speaker 5: I got suspicious. A woman still registered at the hotel.
Speaker 13: She was when I left. That was about an hour ago.
Speaker 5: I'm not named. Did she register? Do you remember?
Speaker 14: No, I don't, but it's in the register. You can
check it if you want. Where is it out there,
Eleventh and Charleton, right in the corner. I'm sure it
must be the kid you're looking for. Say, I hope
you haven't got me wrong. I mean about the reward.
Speaker 13: You know, I don't expect anything for this.
Speaker 5: We haven't got you wrong.
Speaker 4: Thirty five am it was still raining. Together with the
desk clerk Wallace, we drove to the Bluebird Hotel on
Eleventh Street. We checked the cards at the desk and
found that the woman had registered into the name of
Missus Harold Parks. The clerk on duty told us, as
far as he knew, she was still in the room
with a baby.
Speaker 13: It was down this way side. This is around sixty.
Speaker 5: Missus Parks, Missus Park, you have a pasky with you also, thank.
Speaker 13: Nobody here.
Speaker 5: Wait a minute, what have you got small blanket? Check
the lettering Mercy Hospital.
Speaker 3: You are listening to Dragnet authentic stories of your police
force in action.
Speaker 4: Friday, January twenty ninth, eleven am. We were unable to
locate the woman who had registered at the hotel under
the name of Missus Parks. There was no sign of
the baby. The blanket we found in the room was
identified by hospital personnel is the same type used in
the nursery. The room was checked for fingerprints and physical evidence.
We found nothing. People in adjoining rooms were questioned but
they could give us no information. We got a description
of the woman who used the name Missus Parks from
the desk clerk and we.
Speaker 5: Got out on all points bullet and on her.
Speaker 4: Our hotel registration card was checked for handwriting and fingerprints.
Captain Steed ordered an immediate canvas of all hotels, apartments
and rooming houses in the central area. The hotel clerks
were shown mugshots of possible suspects. They failed to identify
any of them. Three pm Friday, the search for the
striker baby went on.
Speaker 5: Yeah, checked out, all right, Okay, heal anything fel unseen
has checked that Lulsha calls another phone might not show
the thoughts. Yeah.
Speaker 11: Lewis and I were making the rounds of hotels out
a long Peogle stopped at a drug store for a
cup of coffee.
Speaker 5: We talked to Druggish while we were there. Had a
pretty good story for us. You gotta life, mere go NICs.
This drugstore is two black hotel where the woman stayed.
Speaker 11: It's open all night, and the druggist told us a
woman answering this missus Park's description.
Speaker 5: Came in about one thirty am. What a whole raft
of stuff? How do you mean what kind of stuff?
Everything for a baby?
Speaker 11: Bottles, nipples, dextro soil powder, you know all that stuff?
Speaker 5: Was he sure the woman's description.
Speaker 11: He gave it to us before we'd even mention what
this missus Parks looked like. Right down at the collar
of her coat. Did she had the baby with her?
When she bought this stuff.
Speaker 5: And the druggis said no. She even asked him if
she could buy can milk there? Where is it? Lee?
What do you mean? Does he have any idea where
the woman came from where she went? No, but he
said if she came back in again, he called us
right away.
Speaker 11: He's going to notify the other clerks too, and they'll
keep us posted if anything turns up.
Speaker 5: And I got it homicide Friday.
Speaker 15: My name's missus Lucy. I'm calling about that missing baby
in the paper. Am I talking the right department?
Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am. Do you have any information on the case?
Speaker 15: Well, I certainly have. I know where that strike a
baby is right now?
Speaker 5: Where's that man.
Speaker 15: Right next door? The sabicides heavy?
Speaker 5: What makes you so sure?
Speaker 15: Perfectly?
Speaker 7: Up?
Speaker 15: Me? Is that's all? It's not there? Baby?
Speaker 5: Why do you say that that baby?
Speaker 15: They had him? One looks like mister Sallas missus salads
id in mind? Do?
Speaker 5: How do you mean, Missus Lucy?
Speaker 15: It's very simple, mister Satisize doc quite dark dark head
dog eyes, doc complexions watched the same way.
Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 15: Baby they have is a blonde.
Speaker 4: Before I hung up, I got the woman's name and
address and told her that we'd check out our neighbors.
Speaker 5: Mister and missus sallads are. We weren't sure what it meant.
Speaker 4: It could be the real thing, could be like a
hundred other calls that we'd had in the last twelve hours.
Ben and I got in the car and drove out
to the Salazar home on Wonderland Avenue. We noticed several
cars parked in the driveway and in front of the house.
We went up the front stairs and rang the doorbell.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, come on in. Please would like to speak
to mister salas Ar. Yes, sir, that's me. Come on in.
Thank you, Come inside. Let me fix you a drink.
You were late, huh, no.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 5: We're police officers, mister Saalasar. Liked to ask you a
few questions. Oh, what's the matter. We're making too much
noise for the neighbors. No, it's not that, sir, Just
like to ask you a few questions. Someplace we can talk.
Speaker 12: Well, I have to take care of the guests, you know,
we have this party here. My son was baptized today,
my first son. That's why we're having a body.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, we're sorry to interrupt, but it's pretty important.
It won't take it very long.
Speaker 12: Well, all right, I guess they can get along for
a few minutes. Back here in the kitchen, it's probably
the quietest place to find this way off. Well that
pull up a couple of chairs. Thank you, h missus
Sallis are This is my partner sergeant for Maryland. Name
is Friday Homicide.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, what's the matter? What do you want to
ask me? We're investigating a case that involves the missing.
Speaker 12: Baby, sir, were the one in the paper this morning?
I read about that. It's a terrible thing.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, it is.
Speaker 4: We've had a report that the missing baby was seen
in this neighborhood. We don't know how true it is,
but we have orders to check it out.
Speaker 12: Well, sure, anything I can do. I don't know how
much I can help, but I can understand how that
mama feel. My brand new son, I know how I feel.
Speaker 5: How old is your son, mister Selis? Huh? He's just
one week old? Is afternoon? Fine?
Speaker 7: Boy?
Speaker 5: Was the baby born here in Los Angeles? No, I said,
my wife Roberta to Phoenix to have a baby. We
thought it'd be a lot healthier for her down there.
She has a good friend of Virgincina. Honest, your wife
had the baby in Phoenix and then she brought him
back here. Yes, that's right. Roberta came in early this morning.
Big surprise for me.
Speaker 12: I didn't know she was coming right away. I called
all our old friends. I called Father Desota for the baptism,
and I got things ready for the party.
Speaker 5: Big baptism. Body. You say your wife got back early
this morning.
Speaker 12: Yes, a few minutes after three o'clock. Roberta came in
on the plane. She said it was late, you know,
a big storm. I wonder if we could talk to
your wife, mister Selisa.
Speaker 5: Well, Rolberta's taking a little nap right now. She got
in late. You know all the excitement. Do we have
to wake up? Oh no, she's not right away. I
just wonder if we could see the baby.
Speaker 12: Well, baby's sleeping too. Roberta said not to go in.
But well, if you're real quiet, yes sir, we'll be okay,
he's right, we'll be here. The people will a blanket down. Yeah,
there is big fellow.
Speaker 5: He's blonde. What do you think you know? I think
he's got a twin five pm.
Speaker 4: Harlan stall from laking fingerprints arrived at the Salasar home.
The footprint of the missing child, taken at the time
of birth, was compared with the print from the child
the Salazar has had. The prints were identical. The missing
baby had been found. Five twenty pm, Ben and I
talked with Missus Salasar in the kitchen of her home.
The christening party went on.
Speaker 7: I don't think I understand what this is all about, officer.
What has my baby got to do with other You.
Speaker 5: Know as well as we do, miss Alisar. That baby
in there, it doesn't belong to you. It's not yours.
Speaker 7: What do you mean it's not mine? Course, it's my baby,
my husband said mine. I just brought him from Phoenix
last night. That's where the baby was born. What are
you trying to do to me?
Speaker 4: That baby isn't yours, Missus Salizan. Now you know that
was taken from the hospital. How about the truth.
Speaker 7: You don't know what you're saying. You don't know what
you're talking about. It's my baby. It was baptized to
day one to Marsalisara. It's my baby.
Speaker 4: It's a pretty serious matter, man. The baby's footprint has
been checked out. The child belongs to a missus Striker.
We want to know how you happen to have.
Speaker 7: Him, cause he's my baby. That's why I have he.
You don't know what a mistake you're making. It's my baby.
I brought him from Phoenix last night. You can have
my husband. He'll tell you.
Speaker 5: A woman checked in at the Bluebird Hotel on Eleventh
Street about midnight last night, missus Alizar. She had a
young baby with him. You fair description.
Speaker 7: I didn't go to a hotel us now I had.
The plane landed here from Phoenix. I came right home.
Speaker 5: Hotel clerk remembers you can identify you, so can a
druggist when you bought the splies run.
Speaker 7: How about nothing? The plane landed, I came home. Is
my baby? It's my baby.
Speaker 5: We found a baby's blanket in the hotel room. You're rended.
Speaker 4: We have your description from at least three people, even
the color of the coach you wore last night.
Speaker 9: You can't take him away. He belongs to me, me
and friends. You can't take him away.
Speaker 5: Please you come, Miss Schalisar.
Speaker 4: Why don't you put yourself in the place of the
real mother of that baby? How do you think she
feels about her baby being taken away. How about it,
Miss Selasar.
Speaker 7: Have a drink. Officers, please for the party, have a drink.
I'll tell you tell us what man, I'm tiredly, mister
don yeah, I tell you how it happened. I know
you you understand, Yes, ma'am. It will be eleven years
next month that Frank and I were married. I don't
have to tell you. We want a baby. Frank always
wanted a baby, but no more than I did. It's
what we lived for, a baby of our own. Yes,
boy or girls, we didn't care. But boy didn't have one.
For eleven years, we didn't have one. The last April,
that's when the doctor told me. He said I was
going to have a baby.
Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 7: Well, a month before the baby was born, we thought
it would be better if I went to my friend's
place in Phoenix Orisons for the winter. You know, it
would be warmer there. Frank thought it would be nicer
for me and a baby.
Speaker 5: Your husband was still in Los Angeles.
Speaker 7: Yes, he tried to come to Phoenix, but he had
to work, so I had my baby alone. It was
a boy. My friend was with me. She'd tell you
it was a boy. I kept calling for him to
bring my baby. It's a long time, I kept calling.
Then I finally came, and the doctor too. And here's
the one that told me, yes, ma'am. He looked just
like his father. I know that, but they told me
he was dead. I don't remember much after that, Sergeant.
I got out of the hospital and I took the
plane and I came back here. It was dark and
was raining, but I walked around. I walked up and
down the street, thinking what could I tell Frank? Baby
was dead? That's all I could tell him. Then I
walked past.
Speaker 5: The hospital that was Mercy Hospital.
Speaker 7: Now, yes, And it was raining, and I could see
all those babies inside, warm and in their cribs, and
I wanted just one of them, just one for Frank
and me. So I went in the side door and
I found the nursery, and when the nurse was gone,
I took him and left my baby. I went to
the hotel to keep him out of the rain, and
it cleared a little. I took him home. I took
him home to Frank. I took my baby home. That's
why you want my baby, isn't it? Because I took
him because my baby died and I took him.
Speaker 4: Everything can be all right myselves, I wouldn't straighten out.
Speaker 5: Oh, Brad, you talked to the.
Speaker 7: Officers, Frank, what do you want me to say?
Speaker 5: Be all right? Officers? Will everything be all right? Yes, sir,
I think we can work it out.
Speaker 7: What could I tell you, Frank? What was to say
to you?
Speaker 5: It's all right, honey, it's all right. I go out
and tell the people.
Speaker 7: Now, what can you say? What can you tell them?
Speaker 5: Party's over? It's just a mistake.
Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true, only the
names were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 16: In a moment, the results of the trial. Now here
is our star, Jack Webb. Last week I asked you
to write me. You did, and thank you.
Speaker 5: ROBERTA.
Speaker 3: Satasara was excepted by six psychiatrists and was ordered to
be placed in a statemental institution for treatment. You have
just heard Dragnet a series of authentic cases portions transcribed
from official files. Technical advice comes from the Office of
Chief of Police W. H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department.
Coming Up, We the People, then screen Director's Playhouse on NBC.
Speaker 1: Welcome Back, our heartbreaking conclusion and This is one of
those cases where you really do feel for the perpetrator,
while in no way condoning the action that she took. Certainly,
I've talked about the issues that my family has dealt
with along those lines, and when something like this happens,
it is devastating, and they did a great job capturing
those sort of emotions. And of course, in her case,
I think it's made worse because of her husband being
in another state. She has to be the one to
tell him. And this really illustrates what Dragnet's capable of being.
There's this stereotype that Dragnet was always strict to cauto
dialogue all the time, but it had some really highly
dramatic moments. But as with other elements of Dragnet, like violence,
these moments are effective because as a series, it didn't
happen every single week. This episode is also an interesting
time capsule of a way of caring for newborns, that
is going away. Baby nurseries for all babies were the
norm when I was born. Since I was a large baby.
One of my parents' earliest stories was about me looking
like I was being wedged in like the head against
one end of the compartment and my feet against the
other and dwarfing all the much more normal sized babies
in the nursery. And certainly I saw nurseries when I
was growing up those few times we happened by the hospital,
But in many hospitals, rooming in with the mother and
father has become the norm for healthy babies, and many
have shut down nurseries except for nick you situations. When
my son was born three years ago, I think he
might have left the hospital room the entire two days
that we were there, maybe once or twice, and then
only for a couple of minutes. And of course, for
healthy babies, the hospital stay is usually pretty brief. So
a fascinating time capsule that really does provide some insight
as to what this experience was like for earlier generations. Well,
now it is time to thank our Patreon supporter of
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Speaker 5: Get down?
Speaker 17: What's your record for your sweet job?
Speaker 5: You pulled in Pittsburgh? Smile? No conviction Pittsburgh, I ain't
never been to Pittsburgh. No.
Speaker 17: How about San Diego April forty seven, suspicion of armed robbery?
Speaker 5: No conviction. You're coming across?
Speaker 17: How about Philly last December?
Speaker 5: Grand lost me? No conviction?
Speaker 17: Miami, Richmond, Trenton.
Speaker 5: No conviction. Look what do you selling?
Speaker 18: Yeah, take a look at this report, a report direct
from the FBI, or should I say indirect through my
pipeline here in Center City, in the police department, George.
Speaker 5: And I'll get it what goes.
Speaker 17: I'm sorry about that weekend I gave you, But you see,
I'm building an organization along scientific lines.
Speaker 5: I need men who know their way around, who can
get by. That's why I screened you. Scream short.
Speaker 17: Just like in the Army, I spot guy who looks good.
So what do I do?
Speaker 5: I get him framed.
Speaker 18: The cops check his record through the FBI, the report
comes through. I get the report.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime,
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This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.