Dragnet: The Big Chance
Dragnet · August 24, 1950 · 29 min · 4,891 words
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about to hear is true. Only the names and locations have been changed to protect the innocent. Fatima cigarettes. Best of all long cigarettes brings you dragnet. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a homicide detail. You answer an early morning call.
A police officer on patrol duty disappears. Any attempt to contact him by car radio fails. Your job. Find him. extra mild Fatima yourself. Best of all, long cigarettes. It's wise to smoke extra
mild Fatima. It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. The documented drama of an actual crime. 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, June 4th. It was sultry in Los Angeles. We were working early morning to watch out of homicide. That partner's been Romero. The boss is Chief of the Tech News Thad Brown.
My name's Friday. It was 6.45 a.m. when we got the Imperial Highway. San Pedro cut off. All right. Friday in Romero? Yeah, that's right. Pete Sutton and Sheriff's Department. I don't know. We got here, sinners, but good.
Inspector Bowers, fill the inn? Yeah, it backstrand central homicide told us to check with Bowers at the Sheriff's office. Bowers, directors, come out here and lend you a hand. This thing happens close to the county line, and I figured both departments ought to go to work on it.
Sure, glad to have you. It's like a tough one. And was this the highway patrol car that missing Officer was assigned to? Yeah. Isn't just the way we found it. We turned off the ignition.
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