A Gun for Christmas

Your about to see is true. The names have been chained to protect the innocent. Where's work clothes? On holidays it dresses up.

People Christmas brings happiness and prayer. Brings heartbreak. Then my job gets tougher. I'm a cop. It was Thursday, December 22nd. We were working the night watch out of homicide division. My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Warming.

My name's Friday. We've gotten the call that a nine year old boy was missing from his home. The evidence pointed to foul play. We had to check it out. Friday oh yeah Dorty what's that number how long's he been gone how do you figure homicide okay sure we'll get right on a routine J he and Levinson are on

Hollis Avenue trying to track down a nine-year-old boy what's the story well the kids missing suspicion of foul play how long's he been gone about two hours kid was last seen playing in the backyard of his home yeah Dorty says they checked over the yard and find anything blood stains lots of them they look new Tom

Dorty from Highland Park juvenile was waiting for us in front of the house we He went down the driveway and into the backyard. Daugherty told us that the boy's mother told him that she'd gone out to do some Christmas shopping at 11 o'clock that morning.

When she returned home at 2 p.m., the boy was gone. His name was Stanley Johnstone, age nine years. Ray Pinker started his preliminary investigation of the stains found on the patio. Tell us that he and his partner, Levinson, had talked with the neighbors.

They could tell them nothing. He said they put out a missing broadcast on the boy and that the mother was at a loss to explain the boys whereabouts. What's staying in something cartridge? Put me in a hundred things.