Dragnet: Auto Burglaries - Myra the Redhead

Here is another in NBC's Great Parade of New Shows. Ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. NBC brings you Dragnet. You're a detective sergeant.

You're assigned to autotheft detail. In three months more than 250 cars have been broken into, property mounting well into thousands of dollars has been stolen. Two youthful members of the gang have been apprehended. They all important brains of the criminal ring, the leaders, are still at large.

Your job, get them. Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime, investigated and solved by the men who unrelentingly stand watch on the security of your home, your family, and your life. For the next 30 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 from official police

files. From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Monday, March 2nd. It was cold and Los Angeles. We were working the night shift out of auto theft.

My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Ed Backstrand, Chief of Detectives. My name's Friday. I was on the way back from the interrogation room and it was 10.58 pm when I got to room 26.

Chief of Detectives office. Real tough kids, aren't they? Yeah, they would admit a thing. Now sit down. Thanks. When'd you pick him up? About 8.30 tonight in the parking lot behind the star theater out on Sunset.

He was lifting the radio out of a 48 convertible. He's had lots of experience. The report says you picked up a 19-year-old girl with him. She was waiting for the guy in a parked car across the street in the theater.