Dragnet: The Big Family

The doctor here is true. All of the names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a missing persons detail. A wealthy businessman in your city drops from sight. There's no trace of him.

There's no apparent reason for his disappearance. Your job. Find him. 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 transcribed from official police files.

From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. The Saturday, February 6th was foggy in Los Angeles. We're working the day watch out of missing persons.

My partner has been Romero. The boss is that Brown chief of detectives. My name's Friday. I was on the way back from communications and it was 8.15 a.m. when I got to room 67 a Missing persons Oh Joe. Oh hi advanced Hey coming on a Jared case. Oh nothing. It's a dead end so far. You're gonna. It's a tough one

Joe yeah, man Just got a call from Evans Harvard Division They found Jared's car where the park at the end of pure six abandoned found about seven o'clock this morning You know they checked the car over mm-hmm. They found Jared's coat in the front seat letter in the pocket Yeah.

Suicide note. John Keith Jarrett was a prominent and prosperous man. He was a well-known civic figure in social life. As a young man, he'd inherited a moderately successful business from his father in over a period of 20 years, built into a million-dollar concern.