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Well, now it's time for 21 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:49.680 today's episode of Dragnet. The original air date October twelfth, 22 00:01:49.879 --> 00:02:05.280 nineteen fifty two, and this one is the Big Lie. 23 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:11.439 Ladies and gentlemen. The story you were about to hear 24 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:14.960 is cruel. The names have been changed to protect the innocence. 25 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:29.319 You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a homicide detail. You've 26 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:31.560 got a call that a man has been murdered. His 27 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:32.599 pillar is unknown. 28 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:44.919 Good job, get him right. 29 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:49.000 The documented drama of an actual crime. For the next 30 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:52.080 thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police. 31 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:54.759 Department, you will travel step by step on the side 32 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:57.639 of the law to an actual case transcribed from official 33 00:02:57.639 --> 00:03:01.840 police FIR from beginning to men, from time to punishment. 34 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:04.919 Diagnest is the story of your police force and action. 35 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:12.360 It was Saturday night, twelfth. It was warm in Los Angeles. 36 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:12.960 We were working to. 37 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:15.599 Day, watched out a homicide detail. My partner is Frank Smith, 38 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:16.759 the boss of Captain Morman. 39 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:17.759 My name's Friday. 40 00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:19.479 It was eight oh four am when I got to 41 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:20.240 Room forty two. 42 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:23.680 Comis side as to Joe, Yeah, I'm trying, like Frank. 43 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:26.520 I got held up with driving Its okay, no problem now, 44 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:27.120 Scribby guy. 45 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:29.000 When I get that freeways, anything to you. And on 46 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:30.479 the end of the past, this time the money. You 47 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:33.000 can't go one ten miles an hour? Yeah, cars Tylis 48 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:36.199 a frank old boy. When we get to night, I'm 49 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:38.080 gonna go straight to bed and I've he's got to 50 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:41.400 east the man. I'll trouble get the feet less. Well, 51 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:42.879 I wouldn't have had any trouble if I'd had the 52 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:45.000 chance to do it. What do you mean again? It 53 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:47.400 my brother in law? Oh what he had to do 54 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:49.199 it on a couple of weeks. He's always kind of 55 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:51.360 waste one of those courses of hypnotism at home. 56 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:54.159 Book got to the house yesterday, right when he's got 57 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:55.840 a new career, going to go into the hypnop king 58 00:03:55.919 --> 00:03:56.319 and business. 59 00:03:57.759 --> 00:03:59.360 Book felt hard to do it right. You can have 60 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:01.680 food and so well with people making the things you want. 61 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:03.280 All that stuff hideaway. 62 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:05.840 He's got to practice on somebody. We just finished dinner 63 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:07.000 and I was all settled. 64 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:08.800 Down to watch television. Comes in with a sort of book, 65 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:11.080 A little bity near in the candle. First when he 66 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:13.560 lights the candle, tells me to look at it. Concentrate, 67 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:15.599 you know, you know, I told him to go take 68 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:17.879 a run on Johnthan right away, saved yourn Jim. He says, 69 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:20.000 I don't want him to get ahead, and I said 70 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:21.839 something about the fact that he could use one and 71 00:04:22.439 --> 00:04:24.480 him hands up with me sitting there and him trying 72 00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:26.959 to control my will. Whether the work I don't know. 73 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:29.040 Raived his hands in front of me and flashed the 74 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:32.319 mirror in my eyes and I fell asleep. Yeah, right 75 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:34.839 away wakes me up, wants no hot to help. But 76 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:36.959 it was like when he put me under. I told 77 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:39.399 him he didn't. I just went to sleep so he 78 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:41.480 gets time to use with this book called post a 79 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:43.639 God his suggestion. You know, when I'm asleep, he said 80 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:45.519 something I'm supposed to do and I wake up. Yeah, 81 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:47.759 and he woke me up and waited for me to 82 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:49.720 do it what he wants you to do. I never 83 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:50.279 found out. 84 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:53.040 He just sat there and looked at me every time 85 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:54.800 I doze off and waking me up so I could 86 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:57.519 do whatever it was he suggested and run one thirty 87 00:04:57.600 --> 00:04:58.040 this morning. 88 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:00.279 He gave up because the book wasn't any good and 89 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:02.920 the kindn't get his money back. All the time, say, 90 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:05.600 I just watched him if I'd known what it was. 91 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:06.399 He wanted me to do it. 92 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:08.000 I'd done it to get him off my back. I 93 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:10.959 never did find out what it was. Morning when didn't 94 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:13.319 say hello, said that I wasn't co operator. 95 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:22.600 I get it. Comic bes friend bes friend is Yeah, 96 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:26.879 so what was that? Adds again, that's time, we'll do 97 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:29.240 that out something for us. Yeah. 98 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:31.560 A woman out on Burne Street sixty four twenty five 99 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:37.680 because her son's in money. Frank and I drove out 100 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:40.319 to the house. It was a typical residential neighborhood. When 101 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:42.319 we got there, a crowd of gathered around the front 102 00:05:42.319 --> 00:05:44.439 of the house. The radio cars arrived and the officers 103 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:46.519 had gotten the people back from the lawn and the 104 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:48.639 entrance of the house. We went in and met the 105 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:50.920 woman who had placed the call, and it was Edith Curtis. 106 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:53.480 He was a woman in the late forties with graying hair. 107 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:55.720 As we talked to her, she could lean her handkerchief 108 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:56.000 in her. 109 00:05:55.959 --> 00:05:59.240 Hands, just the same the gun. The end of the week, 110 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:01.279 he looked at it and said that it needed clean. 111 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:04.560 He's always home on Saturday, so this morning he said 112 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:07.279 he might as well get at it. After breakfast. He 113 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:09.959 got out all the things that needed, put the land's 114 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:12.759 table in there and started to clean the guns. I 115 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:15.319 was in the bedroom, siding up the place. I heard 116 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:18.439 these loud voices and then a shot. I went to 117 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:20.959 the living room and I saw the men standing there. 118 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:23.519 As soon as he saw me, he turned around and 119 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:26.519 ran to the door. I yelled at it, but he 120 00:06:26.600 --> 00:06:31.199 didn't stop. I went over to chest. It was just 121 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:34.600 lying there, still in quiet. I could see where he'd 122 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:37.480 been shot, and it was dead. And then I called 123 00:06:37.639 --> 00:06:40.839 room before you got to the other men of once 124 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:43.560 in the car got here, but it was too late. 125 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:45.120 That boy was dead. 126 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:52.279 I'll go see if my partner's finished the column, because 127 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:54.000 would you like just to call your family doctor? 128 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:57.000 No, there was kind to you. Put up you all U. 129 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:01.839 This house has been full of press last couple of years, 130 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:06.040 nothing but sadness. I used to it. I guess the 131 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:09.040 good laws next used to it. If he didn't, I 132 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:13.240 don't think the mother could go on. Man, my youngest daughter, Alice, 133 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:16.480 who need to go this next month for twenty fourth 134 00:07:17.439 --> 00:07:21.279 she killed herself Stargeant. It's almost killed me to Lucy. 135 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:25.360 That's why Dan used to it. I got to the 136 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:27.600 point after Alice was dead, where I couldn't see any 137 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:30.680 reason for going on, and I figured it a good 138 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:34.000 lord must have wanted it this way, and I wasn't 139 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:37.439 one to stay was wrong. Alice was going to have 140 00:07:37.639 --> 00:07:38.439 enough trouble. 141 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:38.680 As it was. 142 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:43.519 I don't even understand to a side stargant the one 143 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:45.560 unforgivable spin man. 144 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:50.920 Okay, so I'll tell him that's what the fellows on 145 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:53.879 the side they're around the neighborhood's yeah. 146 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:55.800 One if people give us a description of the man 147 00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:57.160 you saw, the let's get out of call on. 148 00:07:57.639 --> 00:08:00.759 So that started pretty good just then looking at me? 149 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:01.439 How old? 150 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:05.600 Was maybe thirty five or forty? Not any older than that? 151 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:06.240 I'm sure? 152 00:08:06.759 --> 00:08:09.480 How tall is the gay? Taller than you? About how 153 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:10.600 much taller? Oh? 154 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:12.439 Maybe a couple of them chips? 155 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:14.560 Now I'm on my sixty one or two? Is that right? 156 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:16.360 Yeah? Thanking s that's pretty. 157 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:18.199 Close about his weight? Howe anythink he was? 158 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:21.079 I'm not very good as sad. I stared about one 159 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:22.399 hundred and eighty round there. 160 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:25.439 What about his clothes? What was he wearing for the moment? 161 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:27.959 He had on one of those blue denimouts that you 162 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:30.360 know the crowds is in the jacket slight blue and 163 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:33.519 the coat had that dark blue trim knitted around the 164 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:36.720 bottom and collar. Had on a white shirt. No tie 165 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:40.919 that there those shoes with a real thick soles that Robert. 166 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:42.200 M about him. 167 00:08:42.759 --> 00:08:44.080 I don't think I know what you mean. 168 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:45.840 But do you have any mercy stars or anything that 169 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:46.639 might make it easier for. 170 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:50.159 Us to identify? No, not that I could see, but 171 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:53.120 she won't have any trouble identifying. And I'll tell you 172 00:08:53.159 --> 00:08:54.519 if you have the right one in us. 173 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:56.320 Did he have a car? Would you know that? I 174 00:08:56.399 --> 00:08:56.960 don't think so. 175 00:08:57.159 --> 00:08:59.480 I didn't see one, thinking man. 176 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:01.919 Cool, I'll call it somebody. I always jails it out 177 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:05.279 the local of acc you know, mister yeah. Could you 178 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:07.399 tell us exactly what time the shooting took place? 179 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:10.600 Not exactly, but i'd say a god is fourty eight? 180 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:14.440 Did this man say anything? No, not her words. You 181 00:09:14.519 --> 00:09:16.480 never saw him before? Maybe around the neighborhood. The store 182 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:17.519 was in the sweet someplace. 183 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:20.360 No, I never saw I might know that, but if 184 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:21.840 I see him again, I'll know him. 185 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:26.039 I'll be right back to I hope you won't take 186 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:26.679 a sance, ma'am. 187 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:27.960 What that does? 188 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:30.559 Well, you don't seem too greatly concerned about your son's 189 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:31.039 death here. 190 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:33.919 I thought i'd explain that to you. I told you 191 00:09:34.080 --> 00:09:36.000 that I have to visit, that it's the lord's will. 192 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:40.080 I might as well tell you, Sudge. You've probably find 193 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:40.879 out anyways. 194 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:42.559 What's that meant? Bill? 195 00:09:43.399 --> 00:09:46.799 Jeff and Dot's had a few wants and it's nothing curious. 196 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:48.039 But he did have words. 197 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:49.399 I know your time. Man. 198 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:52.440 Well, I told you that my daughter took her own life. 199 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:55.840 I am she did to hear in this house. I 200 00:09:55.919 --> 00:09:59.240 thought it was a happy home. I found out it wasn't. 201 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:00.879 I found out too. 202 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:01.159 Well. 203 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:07.399 You see, Alice, that's my daughter. So she's going to marry. 204 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:10.039 She met a young man who worked in an inner 205 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:13.440 press factory. She said the thinking was very nice. I 206 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:15.000 couldn't see much in him. 207 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:16.480 I told her so. 208 00:10:17.639 --> 00:10:20.240 He had quite a few rows about it. That's when 209 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:24.519 he was here. And that night the row Alice's young 210 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:26.759 man left, maybe quite a fuss about my trying to 211 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:29.879 run the children's life. Told Alice that he'd married or 212 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:32.559 right away that night. But when they were married, he 213 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:34.440 didn't want to have anything to do with Jeff. 214 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:36.919 On me, Well, did Jeff take any part in this world? 215 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:39.720 Oh? My yes, I find a young man strong out 216 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:42.360 at a house. Alice wasn't here. It just seemed to 217 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:46.080 go to pieces. That night she took an overdose kicking 218 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:53.679 to it. I'll never forget when I pollical practice. That's 219 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:57.039 not too im as such. 220 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:00.639 That's quite all right man. You said you and your 221 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:03.000 son had several arguments with it about this engagement. 222 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:07.159 Yes, that's Alice's funeral. Jeff seemed to stop around the 223 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:09.360 house then at Nice to go out with drink quite 224 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:11.960 a bit. He seemed to think that I'd called Dallas 225 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:14.440 to do away with itself. I tried to tell him 226 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:16.960 that I didn't, but I was just as sorry as 227 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:20.080 you guys. I told him how badly I've felt. It 228 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:21.440 didn't seem to do any good. 229 00:11:21.720 --> 00:11:26.080 Well have you heard from Alicis? Fan said he what's 230 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:27.000 his name? Is it? Good? 231 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:27.919 Sadly? 232 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:31.440 Bruce Dudley, you know you can get in touch with him. 233 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:34.600 I think Jeff had his ads. I can look for it. 234 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:35.080 Thank you. 235 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:38.000 You don't think that Bruce had adn't need to do 236 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:40.519 with this. I know it wasn't him. I know, Brooke, 237 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:41.879 I know what. 238 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:44.360 He looks like. It wasn't him. In the living room. Well, 239 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:45.480 we just want to talk to him. 240 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:50.200 Of course, he might have hired someone else. No, I'm 241 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:53.600 sure Brooks had nothing to do with it. Even with 242 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:57.320 what he did say that nice and he had to fight. 243 00:11:58.080 --> 00:11:59.759 Jeath told him that if he didn't get out of 244 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:03.279 always out when less Dud said that Sunday I met 245 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:06.000 leaving other people's lives was going back by that it 246 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:08.759 might take some time, but it would be retained. And 247 00:12:08.879 --> 00:12:10.879 that look in his eyes when he rested the door, 248 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:14.559 doesn't yeah naze he did to him, he looked ned 249 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:15.440 in us to kill us. 250 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:23.399 Close nine twelve am, the coroner arrived and removed the body. 251 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:25.840 The men from the crime lab drew went over the place. 252 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:28.039 The complete set of pictures was taken Before the body 253 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:30.840 was removed. Layton Prince went over the rifle on the 254 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:33.919 table and the coon operatus. Frank and I noticed that 255 00:12:34.039 --> 00:12:36.360 the tablecloth on the living room table had been on 256 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:38.840 the floor when we got to the house. Missus Curtis 257 00:12:38.879 --> 00:12:40.399 had told us that her son had grabbed it as 258 00:12:40.399 --> 00:12:41.240 he fell to the floor. 259 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:43.039 He talked with the neighbors. 260 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:45.200 One of them and Missus Alvin Temper said that she 261 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:47.279 had been watering the lawn between seven point thirty and 262 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:49.559 eight am, but that she had seen no one enter 263 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:51.960 or leave the Curtis house. She told us that she 264 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:54.440 had heard frequent and loud arguments between Missus Curtis and 265 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:57.200 her son. Frank and I drove out to the address 266 00:12:57.200 --> 00:12:59.720 of Bruce Dudman, with a modern one room apartment on 267 00:12:59.840 --> 00:13:01.879 river Side Drive in the San Fernando Valley. 268 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:04.879 We rang the buzzer a second time and waited. It's 269 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:08.519 like he's not in. You know what time seventeen, He's 270 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:10.080 probably gone out. Come on and checked the man. 271 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:14.559 Yeah, mister Dudley, Yeah, pretty well, well police officers left. 272 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:17.519 Talk to okay, come on, it just got up out 273 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:21.360 like last night. I feel it all Well, all those 274 00:13:21.360 --> 00:13:22.200 suppose to sit down. 275 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:24.240 I'm gonna put a pot of coffee that well, it 276 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:26.559 feels like a troop of midas trans baft over my son. 277 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:29.440 Yes, sir, right ahead. What do you want to see 278 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:32.320 me about? You know what? Jeff Curterer, Yeah, I know him. Hey, 279 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:34.200 won't you say your name to her? Well, my name 280 00:13:34.279 --> 00:13:36.879 is Friday. It's my partner, Frank Smith. He's gotten bad, 281 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:39.480 something to prove at your cops. Yesha, it's my ID. 282 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:44.799 Mm hm sage Joseph d Okay, what's this. 283 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:48.240 About Jeff's dead mister Dudley, Yeah, yes, sir. 284 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:49.039 How it happened? 285 00:13:49.080 --> 00:13:51.639 Accident? We're not sure I didn't kill himself, did he? 286 00:13:51.759 --> 00:13:52.440 Why do you ask that? 287 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:55.240 I just thought he might. Man Chris had killed. 288 00:13:55.039 --> 00:13:56.440 Herself, thought he might have done the same thing. 289 00:13:57.480 --> 00:13:59.039 Do you know of any reason when he do something 290 00:13:59.120 --> 00:13:59.320 like that? 291 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:01.039 No, not that I could name. 292 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:03.600 Understand you, missus. Curtis didn't get along, so though you 293 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:06.360 got a long rright, Oh, and Alice and I stood up. 294 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:09.200 There were some words. Nothing serves well, well you guys 295 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:10.120 do pretty caught him? 296 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:10.639 Yeah? 297 00:14:10.919 --> 00:14:13.279 Yeah, I understand he had quite an argument. He was 298 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:14.320 ready to throw you out of the house. 299 00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:15.960 And I've been talking to his mother if he's been 300 00:14:15.960 --> 00:14:16.960 throwing lives around again? 301 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:19.240 Well, is it true? Did you and Curtis have an argument? Yeah? 302 00:14:19.240 --> 00:14:21.000 I got nothing to hide. You've been out of the 303 00:14:21.039 --> 00:14:23.639 house this morning. No, why have any way of proving 304 00:14:23.679 --> 00:14:25.960 you were here all morning? Jeff got up? You know 305 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:27.559 that the guy's got me out of bed? What are 306 00:14:27.559 --> 00:14:28.799 you trying to prove? Just want to know if you 307 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:31.080 canna come to your time? And so you think I 308 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:32.639 had something to do with Jeff? Jeff is at it? 309 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:35.600 They didn't save that. No, but your meant excuse me, 310 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:38.080 I got to get the coffee. You want some coffee? 311 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:39.320 No, I don't, Fine, how about you? 312 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:41.600 You don't mind if I have a top and I'll 313 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:42.240 take her out of here. 314 00:14:42.279 --> 00:14:42.799 And thanks. 315 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:55.039 That's facious. You guys really think I can do with 316 00:14:55.120 --> 00:14:55.840 what happened to Jeff. 317 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:57.519 We're not paid to say what we think. You try 318 00:14:57.559 --> 00:15:00.960 to get the fact. Yeah, we had to concentrate on 319 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:02.919 missus Curtis. I wouldn't put it past the old back 320 00:15:02.960 --> 00:15:05.919 to kill it on some check around the bars in 321 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:06.399 the neighborhood. 322 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:07.000 Talk to his friends. 323 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:09.120 I'll tell you his mother was scared to death that 324 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:10.159 he'd marry one of these days. 325 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:10.799 Walk out on it. 326 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:12.600 He used to be on his back all the time 327 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:14.120 about the girls he went out with. I knew some 328 00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:15.559 of them, Alice, and he used. 329 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:16.720 To double date with him once in a while. 330 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:19.080 They ever have any arguments about this? While you were 331 00:15:19.080 --> 00:15:20.240 around a couple of times. 332 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:24.559 Yeah, you don't believe he wanted to check with Harry. 333 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:25.639 He'll tell you the same story. 334 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:28.799 Lord knows he went through enough of it. Harry. Yeah, 335 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:29.960 Jeff's brothers. 336 00:15:29.879 --> 00:15:30.600 Who got married. 337 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:34.279 Oh, let's see about five years ago we got out 338 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:35.639 of the house lots stocking bag. 339 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:37.480 If we went through a flash with his mother about it, 340 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:39.320 he'll tell you about it. He used to go over 341 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:41.080 and see Jeff once in a while after he got married, 342 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:42.720 but the old lady caused so much trouble it just 343 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:43.159 got on me. 344 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:45.320 At the bar. Got to the point where Harry wouldn't 345 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:45.919 go in the house. 346 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:46.240 Check with him. 347 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:47.440 I'll tell you you know where we can get in 348 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:49.879 touch with him. No, I haven't gotten the address. Look 349 00:15:49.919 --> 00:15:51.080 it up in the book, Harry Curtis. 350 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:53.159 I think it's out on Selma someplace in Hollywood. 351 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:54.679 Where do you work? 352 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:56.240 Myer Aircraft? I'm a toolmaker. 353 00:15:56.360 --> 00:15:57.120 He worked today's day. 354 00:15:57.240 --> 00:15:58.080 Yeah, I'm off today. 355 00:15:58.519 --> 00:15:59.399 What's this for this one? 356 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:00.080 To know where we can we? 357 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:01.960 Should? You still think I had something to do with 358 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:02.240 it him? 359 00:16:02.279 --> 00:16:04.000 You know, we didn't say you did your name came 360 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:06.960 up to check it out and oh a lot of 361 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:08.639 times when Jeff and I didn't get along, I want 362 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:09.799 to try to set her that there weren't. 363 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:12.080 I never don't even that hurt him. Got enough in 364 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:14.519 his hands with that mother, you know. So one night 365 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:16.440 we came home from the date Alice Mee, Jeff and 366 00:16:16.519 --> 00:16:19.120 his date were staying around the kitchen having something to eat. 367 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:21.720 Another came in matter than a web hand raised came 368 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:23.399 told Jeff to get the woman out of the house. 369 00:16:23.799 --> 00:16:25.000 Jeff Tilbery wouldn't have her. 370 00:16:24.919 --> 00:16:25.679 Talk to a girl like that. 371 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:28.159 He thought quite a bit of her. The old biddy 372 00:16:28.159 --> 00:16:30.120 walked right over and slapped the girl across the face. 373 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:32.519 Told her to leave Jeff alone, but she'd rather see 374 00:16:32.559 --> 00:16:33.919 him dead and tied up with a girl like that. 375 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:40.600 Two forty pm. We go back to the office. 376 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:42.320 We've been no replies from the locality. 377 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:45.519 ATV We checked the names of Jeffrey Curtis and Bruce 378 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:48.320 Dudley through R and I. There was no record on Curtis, 379 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:52.720 but Dudley had been arrested twice for lamc foreven seeds 380 00:16:53.080 --> 00:16:55.679 being drunk in a public place. He served sentences in 381 00:16:55.720 --> 00:16:58.159 the city jail and both drive me. We checked with 382 00:16:58.240 --> 00:16:59.919 the coroner's office and me. He told us the Curtis 383 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:02.480 been killed by a thirty eight caliber bullet. It had 384 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:04.640 been fired at close rings into the back of its skull. 385 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:07.279 The bullet was booked for evidence and we made out 386 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:09.799 a dead body report. He put him a call to 387 00:17:09.880 --> 00:17:11.319 the brother's house, but we were told that he was 388 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:13.559 out of the city and he wouldn't return until sometime 389 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:16.000 that night. We left word for him to call our. 390 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:17.160 Officor Sounity returns. 391 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:20.079 We checked on a suicide story given us by Missus 392 00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:22.200 Curtis and found that an Alice Curtis had taken our 393 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:24.920 own life by an overdose of sleeping pills two years before. 394 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:28.400 By twenty pm, Frank and I drove out to Sock 395 00:17:28.440 --> 00:17:29.400 to Missus Curtis again. 396 00:17:29.839 --> 00:17:32.039 You want to look at Jess's room, don't you? Yes, No, 397 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:33.079 Churtis just nice. 398 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:38.640 We were here this morning. 399 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:41.759 He didn't say anything about his other sons. 400 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:43.920 The officer Harry doesn't care much for me. 401 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:45.359