Dragnet: The Big Hands
Dragnet · November 22, 1951 · 29 min · 5,657 words
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The story you were about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Fatima cigarettes. Best of all, king-size cigarettes brings you dragnet. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a homicide detail.
An unidentified woman is found murdered in a hotel room. Cause of death, strangulation. There's no lead to the identity of the killer. Your job? Find him. The latest Fatima Sales Report shows thousands and thousands of King-sized cigarette smokers are switching to Fatima.
For the month of October, coast to coast actual figures show Fatima sales are up 110 percent or more than double. Fatima, best of all King-sized cigarettes. Definitely the best quality in its class. But the same price of the cigarette you're now smoking.
Remember, thousands of Americans are switching to extra-mile Fatima. Next time, insist on the best, king size Fatima, in the distinctive golden yellow package. 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 violence. From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. This Tuesday, October 27th was cold in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of homicide.
My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Thad Brown, Chief of Detectives. My name's Friday. It was 1.35 PM and we got to the old central jail building, third floor. The crime lab. How you doing, Link?
Hi, Ben. How's it going? You check the stuff yet? Yeah, most of it. Come on back here. Okay. Now this is all of it. Did you find anything we can get a lead out of?
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