WEBVTT 1 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:32.920 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:36.320 This is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, 3 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:41.240 email it to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, 4 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:46.200 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and become one 5 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:52.560 of our friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com slash Radio Detectives. Well, 6 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:54.640 before we do get started, I do want to let 7 00:00:54.679 --> 00:00:56.759 you know the programs brought to you by the financial 8 00:00:56.759 --> 00:00:59.679 support of our listeners, and I particularly want to thank 9 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:03.399 you for his support. You can support the show support 10 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:06.760 dot Great Detectives dot net. 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Your job getting. 22 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:20.719 Drag meet the documented drama of an actual crime. For 23 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:23.479 the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles 24 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:26.639 Police Department, you will travel step by step on the 25 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:29.000 side of the law to an actual case from official 26 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:33.280 police files, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. 27 00:02:33.639 --> 00:02:36.400 Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 28 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:43.039 It was Tuesday, November three, was Chile in Los Angeles. 29 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:45.400 We were working the night watch out of robbery detail. 30 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:48.159 My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Captain ed Walker. 31 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:51.080 My name is Friday. Was five minutes to midnight when 32 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:55.039 we got to three eighteen Silver Avenue, Stendall's Bakery shop. 33 00:02:56.879 --> 00:03:00.599 A Maryland Friday Central robber at sixteen. 34 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:03.280 Are my partner Olson's back there in the shop talking 35 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:03.759 to the owner. 36 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:05.120 You answered the call, did you? 37 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:05.400 Yeah? 38 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:06.919 I must have been a crazy man. Shot two of 39 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:10.879 them down, cold blood. They go in the ambulance now shot. 40 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:11.240 Up pretty bad. 41 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:12.719 Who runs the place? 42 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:16.360 Swedish family named Stendall, father, mother, two daughters, All four 43 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:17.479 of them work in the bakery here. 44 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:19.520 They all here at the time of the robbery. 45 00:03:19.639 --> 00:03:21.479 Yeah, the hold up man shot the father and the 46 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:23.879 oldest daughter. The mother and the younger girl are in 47 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:25.199 the back straight through that door. 48 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:33.199 Okay, thanks James, Right, Sergey, yo on the side of 49 00:03:33.199 --> 00:03:35.400 the door here looks like a bullet hole. 50 00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:39.120 Yeah, thy Jacob, Sergy, you want to call into the 51 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:40.639 crime lab, ask who send somebody out? 52 00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:41.000 All right? 53 00:03:41.159 --> 00:03:41.520 Thank you? 54 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:50.080 Hi you Olson. That's right, romere on Friday, sent for robbery. 55 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:52.159 Oh how are you? These are two of the victims, 56 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:55.599 missus Sidney Stendall, girls, her daughter named Jennifer. Any other 57 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:58.800 witnesses not so far. Neighbor around here is pretty deserted 58 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:00.719 this time of night. Hold up, man made a fast 59 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:02.840 getaway and two people who were shocked. What kind of 60 00:04:02.840 --> 00:04:05.280 shape of then? And father and mister standle he's got 61 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:07.759 a bullet wound on the right shoulder. Older daughter is 62 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:10.439 a lot worse. Her name is June, nineteen years old. 63 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:13.000 Chat four or five times in the stomach or do 64 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:13.759 you want to stand by? 65 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:21.920 Right? Yeah? Okay, missus Stendall, we're from robbery detail. 66 00:04:22.680 --> 00:04:23.560 Yeah, how do you do? 67 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:24.160 How do you do? 68 00:04:24.759 --> 00:04:29.399 Jeannie was Alexei and Sis plats for her to go too. 69 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:35.319 You will excuse me for not getting up offer It 70 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:36.680 doesn't feel so bad. 71 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:37.920 That's perfectly all right. Man. 72 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:42.560 Oh, thank you, okay, thank you very much. 73 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:47.079 You and your daughter here. We're in the front of 74 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:49.000 the bakery shop at the time of the robbery, Is 75 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:49.879 that right, miss Standle? 76 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:50.480 No? 77 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:55.279 Yeah, Nie was back here with her father. That's Lars, 78 00:04:55.319 --> 00:04:58.959 my husband. Unie and I were in the shop in front. 79 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:01.240 Who were you with, man, Uni? 80 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:05.560 Uni and I MoMA means June, my older sister, she 81 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:06.279 calls it Uni. 82 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:09.959 Yeah, Yun oh yeah, do you mind telling us what happened? 83 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:15.319 Well, Yun, and I was scrubbing the floor of the shop. 84 00:05:16.279 --> 00:05:19.160 You choose the nightly scrubbed the floor of the shop. 85 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:23.720 Then this man came in and pointed a gun. He 86 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:24.839 wanted our money. 87 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:26.079 Boy, what time did he come in? 88 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:31.639 Eleven fifteen, eleven twenty, I don't remember for certain. He 89 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:34.000 wanted dull money and I gave it to him. 90 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:35.439 How much was that man? 91 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:42.079 Yeah? No, do it omka bang? Twenty four dollars, Yeah, 92 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:46.720 twenty four dollars. Used the paper money, He took it 93 00:05:46.759 --> 00:05:51.079 and put it in his pocket. Un my daughter, she 94 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:57.959 started to cry. The man hit her. She cried some 95 00:05:58.040 --> 00:05:59.800 more than last. 96 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:00.360 Yeah. 97 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:04.519 He came around and from the back the man pointed 98 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:08.000 the gun he made Lars and me and yeh he 99 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:14.000 stand against that war, but not you. He took hold 100 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:20.079 of her. Jenny, who's held the theay been vegan denman 101 00:06:20.199 --> 00:06:23.240 and but you. 102 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:27.560 He was getting fresh with your mom. The man tried 103 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:30.240 to get fresh with June. Officers, June. 104 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:33.959 He tried to drag out the door with yeah you, 105 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:41.600 and he hit him, hit him good and even like that, 106 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:48.079 drew her against the counter and pushed June down. Crazy 107 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:53.879 man class he looked. He kicked her. 108 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:54.680 M h. 109 00:06:55.720 --> 00:07:00.199 Then Lars, my husband. He ran at the man. He 110 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:08.360 hurt the gun loud and Lars fell down and I screamed, yeah, yeah, 111 00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:12.439 I screamed. He turned and I saw the man standing 112 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:18.600 over you. He pointed the gun down at her. I 113 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:25.279 see looked on him. He kept shooting her four maybe 114 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:35.000 five times. Yeh, miscreamed, She kept screaming. The man ran 115 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:35.839 off the door. 116 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:38.319 It's all right now. 117 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:42.560 And either one of you ever seen this man before? 118 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:42.959 No? 119 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:44.879 No, did I But you know him? 120 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:47.120 If you saw him again, I think so I. 121 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:49.639 Would, abser. I got a good look at him. He's 122 00:07:49.639 --> 00:07:52.079 wearing a blue cap like a baseball player wears. 123 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:54.079 Howd he get away? Was he on foot or did 124 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:54.560 he have a car? 125 00:07:55.240 --> 00:07:57.720 Nobody followed him, but after he left I heard a 126 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:00.079 car start up down the block and then it drove away. 127 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:03.639 Do you have anything else to add, Missus Staniel. 128 00:08:04.600 --> 00:08:09.639 I hope you catched the man. He beat his catch. 129 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:11.399 Yes, ma'am, we're gonna try. 130 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:26.920 Yin Arsenella, Calm and Nichols. Here, Mom, your officer, can 131 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:28.720 you find the man? Please call me. 132 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:37.480 You keep the nickels, we'll call you. Before we left 133 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:39.600 the scene of the robbery and shooting, Missus Stendall and 134 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:41.799 her daughter gave us their description of the hold up man, 135 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:44.799 together with the clothing he wore. The suspect had no 136 00:08:44.840 --> 00:08:48.600 outstanding physical characteristics that they'd noticed. The only thing unusual 137 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:50.399 about his clothing was that he wore what appeared to 138 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:52.360 be a baseball cap at the time of the hold up. 139 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:55.200 She described the cap as light blue with a visor. 140 00:08:55.840 --> 00:08:58.480 Together with officers Bechdel and Lopez from Central Robbery, we 141 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:01.360 canvassed the immediate neighborhood for us their possible witnesses. We 142 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.399 found none. The next morning we went out to the hospital. 143 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:08.039 The condition of the older daughter, June, was critical. We 144 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:11.399 interviewed the father. He could tell us nothing. At ten am, 145 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:14.200 missus Stendall and her younger girl, Jenny were brought to 146 00:09:14.200 --> 00:09:16.360 the office and we started them looking through mug books 147 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:20.399 of Parolis previously convicted of armed robbery. Within two hours, 148 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:22.679 both of them positively identified the picture of a recent 149 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:25.440 San Quentin release as that of the hold up man. 150 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:28.399 His name was Harold Best. We started a quick rundown. 151 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:34.039 You pulled the Packagejohnny, here's the dope. 152 00:09:34.120 --> 00:09:38.879 Harold Best as Harold Norris alias Harold Thomps alias Tom 153 00:09:38.919 --> 00:09:41.879 Norris one term for arm robbery and Q got out 154 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:44.720 four months ago. M owned description both match. How about 155 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:47.000 the ex con file to check he's registered? Do you 156 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:48.480 get ahold of his parlofs. 157 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:50.960 Yeah, twenty four to for to Excelsior Avenue's rooming. I'll 158 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:53.240 let checks for the x con files. Cruel officer says 159 00:09:53.240 --> 00:09:55.279 Best went to work two weeks ago to filling station 160 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:57.840 over on from mine. Yah doesn't seem to be able 161 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:01.320 to hold a job. Quarrelsome n himself to dead. I've 162 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:09.080 got robbery romel. You're right, that's all huh yeah, right, 163 00:10:09.159 --> 00:10:12.279 but great thinker. The crime lab they checked the slugs 164 00:10:12.279 --> 00:10:14.559 taken from the two victims. Yeah, they came from a 165 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:18.480 thirty two caliber revolver. I'll be a cult anything else, 166 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:23.440 that's it. I'm too bad at dark. We've had worse. Yeah, 167 00:10:23.679 --> 00:10:25.600 maybe we can make that phone call pretty quick. 168 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:32.399 Two pm Wednesday, Ben and I drove out to his 169 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:34.639 rooming house at twenty four to forty ex Celsia Avenue, 170 00:10:34.679 --> 00:10:36.679 and we found that Herbert Best was still living there. 171 00:10:36.840 --> 00:10:39.440 We had the landlady show us his room. Besides the 172 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:43.360 usual personal belongings, we came across nothing of consequence. After 173 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:45.639 questioning the landlady, we drove to the service station on 174 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:48.039 Vermont Avenue where Best was supposed to be employed. 175 00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:57.000 I don't seen him run around. 176 00:10:57.679 --> 00:10:59.720 There's a fellow over there greasing your car in there as. 177 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:07.080 Oh oh yeah, it looks like Best. 178 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:13.200 Hey fella, you now, can you tell us if there's 179 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:14.360 a Herbert Best working here? 180 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:15.360 Uh? 181 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:15.919 Man? 182 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:21.480 Why police officers would like to ask you? 183 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:22.240 Ah? 184 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:27.440 Matter routine investigation. Got a few questions for you supposed. 185 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:29.919 To have this greased up a quarter to four? 186 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:32.080 What am I supposed to do? 187 00:11:32.200 --> 00:11:32.559 Please? 188 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:33.440 Your boss? 189 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:34.159 I'll find him. 190 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:37.200 Your got any heat on you? 191 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:38.120 Oh? 192 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:39.320 This is all a bar? 193 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:41.240 How long is it's gonna be a. 194 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:44.320 Couple of minutes. I'm gonna take more on a grease job. 195 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:45.600 Put this singing shape. 196 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:46.639 I will wait for you. 197 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:53.320 How'd you find me? Mosey Line, lady of mine, No routine, general, 198 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:06.240 you're very fetnah on. This trap is froze, he said, Chunk, Well, 199 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:07.159 what's all about? 200 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:09.639 Got a few things are straightened out? Bess how long 201 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:10.440 you been working here? 202 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:13.679 You didn't drive out here for that. That's not your game. 203 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:15.320 What's the pitch routine? 204 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:15.919 Investigation? 205 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:17.440 We'd like to know where you've been spending your nights. 206 00:12:17.840 --> 00:12:20.200 For instance, Sunday night, where were you? 207 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:21.000 Well, I don't know. 208 00:12:21.159 --> 00:12:26.200 I went to a show. Yes, I saw Mickeyrny Pitcher 209 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:30.559 where downtown? I had a beer after the show? Come home? 210 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:33.000 H How about Monday night? Uh? 211 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:36.960 Or went home after work? I was booked, went to 212 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:37.559 bed early? 213 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:38.360 Can you prove it? 214 00:12:38.919 --> 00:12:42.600 Land ladies saw me come in, always snooping around. She 215 00:12:42.759 --> 00:12:44.200 ought to know if I was there or not? 216 00:12:44.799 --> 00:12:46.679 How about last night Tuesday? 217 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:49.840 Played some cards a friend of mine, him and his 218 00:12:49.919 --> 00:12:51.559 wife Penny Annie Pooker. 219 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:54.120 Where the place it's. 220 00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:57.200 Down on Pico near the park. You can ask 'em 221 00:12:57.240 --> 00:13:02.000 what times you get there? I'm not sure. Oh, eight o'clock. 222 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:02.799 I guess what. 223 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:03.639 Time did you leave? 224 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:05.360 What's it all about? 225 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:06.120 What time did you. 226 00:13:06.120 --> 00:13:10.440 Leave roun midnight? Y'all must have been around midnight? 227 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:12.080 What'd you play with your friend and his wife? 228 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:17.480 Okr ook her loss as usual, took a street car home, 229 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:18.200 went to bed. 230 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:20.039 I'm sure you didn't leave earlier. 231 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:23.960 Of course, I'm sure it was rum midnight? I remember, 232 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:28.120 how do you remember? I looked at my watch, but 233 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:28.840 not for you. 234 00:13:29.639 --> 00:13:30.519 What times you get home? 235 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:34.519 It takes about a half hour on trolley. Must have 236 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:36.240 been about twelve thirty. 237 00:13:36.440 --> 00:13:37.679 And the land lady see you coming. 238 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:40.480 I don't know if she saw me or not? Always 239 00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:42.559 snoop aroun probably did? 240 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:43.320 You're not sure? 241 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:46.799 No, of course, I'm not sure she looks for me. 242 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:48.080 I don't know for her. 243 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:50.080 You want a gun? Best? 244 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:52.879 You know better than not? Copper ex cons Can I 245 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:53.399 have a gun? 246 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:55.960 Your friend and his wife now, they're going to back 247 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:57.960 you up? If you were playing cards with him till midnight? 248 00:13:58.440 --> 00:13:58.840 Why not? 249 00:13:59.120 --> 00:13:59.639 I was? 250 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:03.840 There's a boss looking from here. I'd better let him 251 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:04.399 know I'm here. 252 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:08.879 Best. What's that you got in your back pocket? There? 253 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:11.279 In your back pocket? The right one? There? 254 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:12.559 Oh? 255 00:14:12.679 --> 00:14:18.399 This yeah, baseball cap Why. 256 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:21.559 Four pm, Ben and I checked the suspects locker at 257 00:14:21.559 --> 00:14:23.679 the service station and then drove him back to the office. 258 00:14:23.679 --> 00:14:27.200 At the interrogation room, we continued questioning him. He denied 259 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:29.480 any knowledge of the hold up and shooting at Stendall's 260 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:32.320 bakery shop the night before. We asked him again about 261 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:33.960 the friends he was supposed to be playing cards with 262 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:36.120 at the time of the robbery. He told us that 263 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:38.480 they lived over on Peico, but he couldn't remember the address. 264 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:41.039 He volunteered to direct this there, but he said they 265 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:43.639 wouldn't be home. He told us their names were mister 266 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:46.039 and missus Clyde Mitchell. They were in charge of the 267 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:48.559 food concessions at one of the football stadiums in town. 268 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:52.200 Best was held for suspicion of robbery. That night. We 269 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:54.320 drove out and interviewed the landlady at his boarding house. 270 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:57.759 She knew nothing of Best whereabouts the previous night. She 271 00:14:57.799 --> 00:14:59.919 didn't know what time he left or what time he returned. 272 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:02.039 Ben and I went over his room again. There was 273 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:05.639 no sign of a gun. Friday, two pm, officers Beckall 274 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:07.480 and Lopez went out to the hospital to see if 275 00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:10.480 mister Standell and his daughter June could identify best mug shots. 276 00:15:10.919 --> 00:15:12.559 Ben and I drove out to the stadium to locate 277 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:15.320 and missus Clyde Mitchell was a high school football game 278 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:15.720 going on. 279 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:20.480 High school kids here, have a lot of fun nowadays. 280 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:22.919 Best years of your life, Joe, you sound like you're 281 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:23.440 eighty five. 282 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:26.679 Some nights. I feel like it. Way those kids turned 283 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:29.159 out for these things. You'd think USC and Noted Dame 284 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:31.879 were playing. You see the number on that gate over there, Yeah, 285 00:15:32.279 --> 00:15:35.320 it's twenty three. That the number of the gatekeeper gaming. 286 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:37.519 Yeah, must be the Mitchell stand over there. 287 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:45.000 Come on, oh mess, and you'll tell us where to 288 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:46.159 find mister and missus Mitchell. 289 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:47.279 You'll run back to ten. 290 00:15:47.320 --> 00:15:48.799 You're knocking the door. Thank you. 291 00:15:53.600 --> 00:15:57.240 Godle Man to Mims Mitchell, it's all right. What is 292 00:15:57.279 --> 00:16:00.440 it police officers like talk to if you a few minutes, I'm. 293 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:01.519 Having a bottle lunch with some money. 294 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:04.639 Shut the door, yes, ma'am, Thank you. 295 00:16:04.840 --> 00:16:08.759 Lowsy food business. You never get a chance to feed yourself, Yes, ma'am. 296 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:12.759 Hey care for some of these new kind of potato chips? Revolutionary, 297 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:16.120 it says, oh, mother, Thompson's poff chips flavored. 298 00:16:16.120 --> 00:16:16.720 Get all kind. 299 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:18.519 See do you her a combination? 300 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:20.840 See girl like an egg? 301 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:21.120 Clint? 302 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:22.039 Sure tastes different? 303 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:22.320 Have come? 304 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:24.799 I would thank you. 305 00:16:24.840 --> 00:16:27.039 See we're inquiring about a friend of yours, Miss Mitchell. 306 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:28.480 Maybe you can tell us something about him. 307 00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:29.039 Oh that. 308 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:32.440 Man, but the name of Herbert. 309 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:34.480 West herb you o time friend of my husbands? 310 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:35.200 What do you want to know? 311 00:16:35.519 --> 00:16:37.240 You see him quite often, do you, Miss Mitchell? 312 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:38.159 Once? 313 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:40.960 Twice a month, Clyde and I played cards or glot 314 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:43.080 bowling with him. Her pretty, you got me? 315 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:46.039 When's the last time you saw him? 316 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:47.519 Early this week? 317 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:48.240 Tuesday? I think? 318 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:49.480 Was sure it was Tuesday? 319 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:52.320 Mmm, see, yeah it was. We played card twice. 320 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:53.440 That's your play, that's right. 321 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:55.519 I a little poker cride and herbing me. 322 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:58.840 What time did best get to your place, Miss Mitchell? 323 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:02.039 Right after I finished up for the dinner dishes, around 324 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:02.919 seven forty five? 325 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:04.319 I'd say, how long did you stay? 326 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:05.240 A couple hours? 327 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:06.880 We sat around, had a few drinks, played poker. 328 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:08.400 Nicol Emmett, what time do you leave? 329 00:17:08.440 --> 00:17:09.039 Do you remember that? 330 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:10.559 A little before ten? 331 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:13.240 I think? Sure that man is important, A sure as. 332 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:15.640 I can be. Must have left before ten, because Clyde 333 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:18.279 and I listened to the ten o'clock news alone. Then 334 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:20.119 we went to bed ye after your. 335 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:22.559 Friend Best tells us he didn't leave your place until midnight. 336 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:25.359 Oh, that's not right. He must be mixed up. 337 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:26.160 He left before ten. 338 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:28.799 I'm sure that all right, miss Mitchell. Thank you say 339 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:29.119 I hope I. 340 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:32.160 Haven't said anything I shouldn't have. I know Herb's next gun. Yeah, 341 00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:35.319 he likes to gamble, not checking out on for Tuesday night. 342 00:17:35.319 --> 00:17:38.200 I that's right, you're playing too much poker for not 343 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:45.359 playing enough. Three point thirty pm, we located mister Mitchell, 344 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:47.400 corroborated his wife's story, and then we went back to 345 00:17:47.400 --> 00:17:50.680 the city hall. Officers Beckel and Lopez were waiting for us. 346 00:17:50.960 --> 00:17:53.079 They told us that they had seen mister Stendall and 347 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:55.480 his daughter June at the hospital. Both of them had 348 00:17:55.519 --> 00:17:58.039 identified Herbert best mugshot as that of the hold up 349 00:17:58.079 --> 00:18:01.200 man had a show up Missus. Stendall and her daughter 350 00:18:01.240 --> 00:18:05.119 identified Best. We checked auto records for all stolen cars 351 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:07.920 that might tie in. There were none. We then started 352 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:09.400 to work on the theory that he had taken a 353 00:18:09.400 --> 00:18:11.400 bus from his friend's place where he had been playing 354 00:18:11.400 --> 00:18:13.599 cars at the stend Doll Bakery where the shooting took place. 355 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:16.680 Lopezan Bechdel rode the bus over the same route, took 356 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:19.200 forty three minutes, plenty of time for Best, who have 357 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:20.759 gotten from one place to the other, even on a 358 00:18:20.799 --> 00:18:23.319 slow run. We interviewed the bus driver who'd been on 359 00:18:23.400 --> 00:18:27.079 duty that particular line Tuesday night between ten pm and midnight. 360 00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:29.319 He identified Best as one of his passengers, but he 361 00:18:29.319 --> 00:18:32.039 didn't remember where he got off. The next morning, Ben 362 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:35.960 and I met with Ed Walker, captain of robbery. 363 00:18:36.359 --> 00:18:39.279 How they got just sew the wu DA night out 364 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:41.440 the case for him. Yeah, we got to complain. He'll 365 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:42.519 be arrangdous afternoon. 366 00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:43.480 That's doing a case. 367 00:18:43.480 --> 00:18:46.240 He got well, he's one of the Stendall family. Identified Best. 368 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:49.319 His alibi didn't stand up for Tuesday night, and we 369 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:52.039 got that bus driver. He tapped Best too in that 370 00:18:52.119 --> 00:18:54.839 blue baseball camp. All we need now's the hold up again? 371 00:18:54.960 --> 00:18:59.119 I hate to spoil it for you. This letter just 372 00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:02.920 came through the man. Have a look. What do you 373 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:07.480 think I read in the paper this morning about Herbert Best. 374 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:11.000 You've got the wrong guy. I'm the one who held 375 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:13.559 up that baker. Every detail about that robbery is written 376 00:19:13.559 --> 00:19:16.119 down in that letter. The information wasn't in the newspaper story. 377 00:19:16.279 --> 00:19:17.960 Nobody else with the hold up man at no all 378 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:20.920 those details. Yeah, wait a minute, isn't it If you 379 00:19:20.960 --> 00:19:23.240 don't believe I'm the right man, I'll shoot up a 380 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:26.200 couple of more jerks. Next time I'll kill him. It's 381 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:29.359 no crank letdy, Oh it isn't You got the wrong man? 382 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:41.359 You are listening to dragnet. 383 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:50.839 After we received the anonymous letter in the mail confessing 384 00:19:50.839 --> 00:19:52.720 to distend All Bakery hold up, we met with the 385 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:55.279 Deputy District Attorney. We acquainted him with the new facts 386 00:19:55.319 --> 00:19:58.839 in the case. That afternoon, the charges against Herbert Best 387 00:19:58.839 --> 00:20:03.319 were dropped. We started again at the beginning ten am Monday, 388 00:20:03.319 --> 00:20:06.200 November ninth, the members of the Stendall family were again 389 00:20:06.279 --> 00:20:09.599 shown mug books of x cons with robbery records. This 390 00:20:09.720 --> 00:20:12.480 time they picked out eight mug shots of known robberymen, 391 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:15.880 each with a marked resemblance to the original suspect, Herbert Best. 392 00:20:16.440 --> 00:20:19.279 Together with Officers Bechdel and Lopez, we started checking them out. 393 00:20:19.880 --> 00:20:22.160 The first two days we tracked down four of the eight. 394 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:25.000 All of the four were in the clear. Five point 395 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:26.960 fifteen pm we got back in the City Hall, the 396 00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:34.200 carpool seen any empty spots you no, but don't park 397 00:20:34.200 --> 00:20:36.200 it in any one of the city councilman's stalls. Yeah, 398 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:38.359 it might get so well, why don't you pull up here? 399 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:44.359 Boyd'll take care of you. Yeah, that's just good, right good? 400 00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:53.359 Oh God? And I knew there's something I forgot to do. 401 00:20:53.680 --> 00:20:54.000