Dragnet: The Big Chick

The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Dragnet. Detective Sergeant. He resigned to narcotics detail. The body of a man has been found in the public park lake. Physical evidence indicates he was killed by narcotics.

Your job? Check it out. It was Monday, July 9th. It was warm in Los Angeles. We were working the day to watch out in narcotics detail. My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Shy.

My name's Friday. We run our way out from the office and it was 10, 23 a.m. when we got to room 42. Homicide. Yeah, that's right. Mm-hmm. You got a name line? Hi, Gerald. Frank.

Oh, yeah. All right, will you? Yeah? What's the spelling on there? Yeah, I'll check it out. I'll call you back. Jack, how's it going? Pretty good. Will you? I don't know if it doesn't do much good to kick.

Yeah, never worked for me. What do you got for? Well, wait a minute. I got the pictures. We got it late Saturday night. I just got the results of the audit so this morning. But maybe you and Frank would be interested.

Yeah, here on the table. What is it? I'm here. Well, we got the story goes together like this. A couple of kids on their way home from the late show walked through MacArthur Park. It's been about 10.30.

There. Stopped with a side of the lake for a minute and they saw something in the water. Went down to check it and found the body of a man. Yeah. Here's a picture of where we found him.

The contact of the park authorities and they called the police. Tell me car answered and they called us. You know who he is? No idea, he made him through his prints or names, Walter Gilmore, appears to be his true name, got several audiences.