Dragnet: The Big September Man

The story you're about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a homicide detail. An attractive blonde secretary has found beaten to death in a downtown office building.

You've only one lead to start with. A length of steel pipe wrapped in heavy paper. There's no trace of the killer. Your job? Get 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. It was Wednesday, September 28th. It was hot in Los Angeles. We were working the night watch out of homicide detail.

My partner has been Romero, the boss is Thad Brown, Chief of Detectives. My name is Friday. I was on the way back from the crime lab and it was 11.48 p.m. when I got to room 42.

Homicide. Romero? Ben. Hey Romero? Not here. You ready? Oh yeah, Lopey, how are you? You seen Romero around the last half hour? Sposed to meet him here. Well he's coming gone, still around the building though.

Got a call. What was it about, you know? Yeah, I was on that killing tonight. Call came for one of the cruiser cars, checked in the neighborhood, down where it happened. Yeah, did they find something?

Picked up a guy about three blocks in the murder scene, acting suspicious. Man in the cruiser car figured maybe you'd want to talk to them. They're bringing the man in now. Yeah, mm-hmm You've been already checking with the crime lab. Yeah, not much Murder weapons about all we got so far. It's a piece of pipe with heavy manila paper wraps around it