Dragnet: Rifle for Christmas

about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Your detective sergeant, here assigned to homicide detail. A small boy is reported missing from his home. His age nine years. Foul play is suspected. Your job?

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 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. It was Thursday, December 22nd. It was cold in Los Angeles. We were working the night watch out of homicide.

My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Thad Brown, chief detective. My name's Friday. I was on the way into work and it was 3.55 p.m. when I got to room 42. Homicide. Hi, Joe. Ben.

Well, here's the file on the Webster case. I'm going to the file up in me? Yeah. Bad Friday. Miss Levinson, you know, 113, Jay? Got some. What kind of track down a nine-year-old boy? How long has he been gone?

About how do you figure? The kid was last seen playing in the backyard. I left the message for Chief of Detective's Dad Brown. Then we went over to the crime lab, picked up Lieutenant Lee Jones, and drove out the Arroyo Seaco Freeway to Collas Avenue.

Was an average neighborhood. 46-56 was a one-story green stucco residence situated on the corner of Carlos Avenue and Harrison Drive. Beyond the backyard was a tract of undeveloped land covered with scrub-oaked. Harry Levinson from Highland Park, Juvenile was waiting for us in front of the house.