 This is your FBI This is your FBI the official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Tonight the subject of our FBI file armed robbery its title the harvest Tonight's case from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation tells the story of a vicious crime Why are such crimes committed? According to one authority many of them are a direct result of a growing national lack of respect for law and order Maybe it is too late to teach that respect to those men and women who are already our adult criminals It is not too late. However to breed a just regard for decency in the millions upon millions of Americans now growing up the very future of the nation of all of us Depends on that lesson being learned by the generation now approaching maturity For it is a fact beyond any denial that in those places where a disregard for law and order Attain definite proportions the state itself has deteriorated Apprehending criminals is largely the job of law enforcement agencies Preventing crime is largely the job of you the people Tonight's FBI file opens on the outskirts of a vineyard in a western state It is early evening and an open fire is blazing in the center of a large cluster of tents a Leather-faced middle-aged man sits before the fire strumming an ancient weather-beaten guitar Beside him a young man lies on the ground reading a paper-covered book Looks up as he hears the squeak of a wash line fully from between two of the tents Rose ain't you done yet? This is the last shirt Say something special Rose you and your father going there next I guess that's where I'll go too. Well, ain't that a surprise Must have got up Okay, I knew bunk with him Just got to give him his own way No wonderful about him saving that baby What baby? Before last he was driving into town and he saw a house on fire. He ran in and got a baby out what got burned No, who told you that he did Rose you still listening to him talk about himself What are you doing with the football practicing see rose hold the football this way then you lift it up Like your gun throw pass and then you stick it under your arm and off you go I suppose you played football too. Yeah Broke state scoring record 37 touchdowns in one season and if you want to know something else these are the shoes of war when I did Yeah, I remember one time I was stopped on the two-yard line It was the last minute of play well I kept shoving and driving like this from the knees high and then I felt the cleats blood in I was over the goal line Huh, that's why the pros want me what pros the football pros. I'm waiting right now for a job That's why I got to keep in such a good shape Rose Rose I forgot to fix Papa's medicine Carl the air ball paradise range. No Two weeks work for 50 pickers Starting Monday, maybe by Monday they can keep their grades. I told the pros how much I want They're smart. They'll pay me sure like to be going east myself Kind of like to see you Oklahoma again Call yes, mini What'd you find out a messenger from the banks ready to start back to town come on Smitty just brought my word the pros are paying my price so long Later that night at a nearby FBI field office special agent Jim Taylor is typing a report when agent Ira Douglas approaches Oh, hello, Ira. I didn't know you were on duty tonight. Well, I wasn't supposed to be with a bank messenger was way late at the Everstone Vineyard Where's that up in the valley near Morgan Doe? Have you got any details? Yeah police report Messenger was way late on a private road that leads to the vineyard office. You're spoken to him. No, not yet They took him to a hospital. He was still unconscious an hour ago. How much was stolen? I don't know Well, I don't suppose you can locate anybody from the bank tonight No, but the switchboard is gonna keep trying Oh, Ira if they find any of the officials will you get the information for me? Where are you going Morganville? We're stopping here. What for open that bag. I know use at the lock with a wrench for now Okay, throw it out here. What throw the bag on the road How you gonna get it open with this now, let's get at it Checks More checks more checks bankbook Well keep digging that's all 220s and a 10 A measly 50 bucks We can cash a check sure until the cops we did it Come on. Let's get back in the car Oh, why are we going? Paradise ranch the rest of the crew won't be there. I know We got real door. They'd be worth running This way it ain't so we show up tomorrow and get jobs like nothing happened Special agent Douglas. Hi, Jim Taylor. Are you in Morganville? Yes at the hospital I've been here most of the night The messenger came to for a few minutes and passed out again. Could he tell you anything? The band had only got $50 in cash Rest of the money was in checks all made out to the Everstone vineyard How'd they get him Jim? Well, there was glass smashed in the road. He got a flat stopped to fix it and was hit from behind Any descriptions? No And I went over the area with the police. We couldn't find any sign of a weapon What was the weapon? No, we don't know There are three wounds in the messenger skull spaced about an inch apart Doctor won't even make a guess what was used I'm going over to the vineyard now. I run talk to the foreman Anything I can do down here? No, not now. I'll see you in the office first thing tomorrow morning Did you sign in? For both of us and you know what? $1.20 an hour. Oh swell Miss Slovakia, you need some help with your tent? No Larry You want to work? You can help me carry some bundles back from the store. Come on. I'll see you in the tent Let's cut through here and across the road. All right Hi, kids. Hi, okay. Hey, you going to the store? Mm-hmm Well, might as well walk over with you. I don't want my bones to get stiff Ain't used to having days off Carl I bet you were afraid we weren't coming Where's your tent Rose? I'll put ours next door But Carl, you went east to play football. Huh me? I'm a great picker. Who said anything about playing football? Larry did. Oh, you'll go crazy. You listen to him. Okay, you were there. Didn't he say he was leaving to go play pro football? I wouldn't know where you're going rose to the store. Ha. I'll drive you over. Come on Oh, hi Jim. Just get back for about a half an hour ago. I've been in with the s.a.c He's assigned you to this bank messenger case too, but I got to be in court in the morning Yeah, I know but you're to join me after you leave court. Where central city I thought the messenger was held up near morganville. That's right He was but most of the migratory workers have left there to work at a place called paradise range. That's near central city I've got to interview them. Did you get anything more from the messenger? No, he died without regaining consciousness Oh When are you going to central city? I'm leaving now Well, give me the details on how to find that ranch and I'll see you there tomorrow That's for sure takes a half hour to fill the lug Yeah, and for what? So some slob can walk in a storm Buy him with a pound And then Slabs can't walk in and buy him We're in trouble let him drop dead All of them all the big fat slobs in the world What's eating you I hate this lousy job. I hate grapes Thought after the other night I'd never pick another one Here I am breaking my back again Well, maybe Maybe it wasn't born to be lucky. I wasn't born for this job neither. Hey, call Yeah, I gotta talk to you. Come on. What do you want? The office just got a call bank messenger died Oh Why'd they call here? Well the cops are getting a list of the workers who come down here at mevveston The thing we came here Why well the cops will want to know which guys didn't show up Those are the guys who got trouble, but they're gonna ask everybody a lot of questions. Let them Larry and rose know about us taking off before the rest. I can handle rose you can't handle larry He'll tell the cops the first chance it gets they ain't gonna believe him Why not because before he gets to talk we'll pin the whole job on him We will return in just a moment to tonight's exciting case from the official files of your fbi And now back to the fbi file the harvest In this case from the files of your fbi you have seen a crime committed by two men The leader the one who conceived the crime The one who wielded the murder weapon Is 26 years old This case is brought to you tonight because it illustrates perfectly the crime problem resulting From our great national lack of juvenile rehabilitation centers Carl Boyd was arrested twice as a youngster Once when he was 11 and again at 15 Crime exists today because of failures Failure to prevent delinquency And failure to correct delinquency Those things combine to result in a failure to prevent crime The delinquent of today is the public enemy of tomorrow Is your city equipped to salvage the youth who get into trouble? Or are they merely gotten out of the way at some poorly run reformatory? As a citizen you should be able to answer that question The information is available Study it Find out what your local government is doing with the delinquency problem Do what you can to help For the person your community needs to help solve that problem Is you Tonight's fbi file continues at the paradise ranch later that afternoon Special agent ira douglas has just arrived Jim I got here as soon as I could well arry. You're just in time for work. Okay. What's the job? Well, here's a list of the migratory workers. They used at everstone vineyard last week. Mm-hmm This is the list of workers who showed up here All present and accounted for all but six I called our office. They're following through on those people now Have you interviewed anybody here yet? No, I just finished cross-checking the list How many workers are on both from the 60 50 pickers and 10 checkers Do you remember the tent village you passed through coming in the main gate? Uh-huh. Well, that's where they live Okay, how do you want to uh handle the interviews? Well, the checkers were in the field office at the everstone vineyard when the bank messenger was there So it seems to me we should interview them first Not one hand you don't catch a football that way And don't kick it from now Run back halfway you other kids get back way back. Okay. Let's have the ball now give for the back There it comes Well, okay, so see that one. Yeah, couldn't hardly miss it 60 yards and a spiral all the way Brother if I could only gone to college. I'd have made every all-american team there was Yeah, but could be better off now. You crazy. No You'd be in training all the time Couldn't go out with the girls You've got any idea how mad that make you calm. Yeah, smitty come here Okay kids rest up a minute What do you want? Look if you're gonna frame larry, you better do it quick. He just told an FBI guy you left saturday night with us And you said you were gonna play football. Well, that's fine. One of the FBI guys coming over to see you. Okay What are you gonna do go back to the tent? How's sure That's the first place they're gonna look. I know I'll see you later. I got something I gotta do Carl Boyd. Uh-huh. I'm a special agent of the FBI Hear my credentials. Okay I'd like to ask you a few questions. Go ahead Well before I do I want to tell you that you don't have to answer them But if you do anything you say can be used against you against me for what I got nothing to hide Go ahead. Ask me anything. Well, I understand you worked last week at Everstone Vineyard near Morganville Yeah, I did well There was a bank messenger held up and killed Saturday evening on the dirt road leading from the main house of the vineyard You know anything about that? Yeah, I heard about it. Oh, where one of the other pickers told me Why are you asking me about that? Well, you and your friends were the only ones to leave that night the others waited till the next day Well, we got paid off and we left we went and got drunk Where I don't remember someplace on the road You told Larry Castro you're going east to play professional football. I did not Oh, well, that's what he told us. That's how he's trying to get even Even for what his girls start liking him and started liking me So it makes it look like I stole that money. Well, this story does throw suspicion on you. Look go ask him something Ask him what he was burying before Ask Castro. Yeah in back of his tent Come on. It's three tenths down. I'll show you all right this way Why did you see him doing this burying this morning just before we went out to work at west? Yeah, right after we heard you was coming I suppose he didn't tell you nothing about that, did he? No, I didn't around him back to this tent This cast was yeah Oh, look you can see for yourself. That's been dug up Yeah, and there's the shovel by his tent Yeah, there's fresh dirt here You're gonna see what he buried all I'm gonna try it Hey papers Yeah, all the checks Boy, do you go to your tent? Will you and wait there? You're gonna arrest caster if you can't explain these checks. I'll have to Look, I don't know anything about any checks Castro. We aren't trying to prove you committed this murder We're just trying to get the truth. I told you the truth carl board's life. He says I buried him Come in Rose What you're doing here? Somebody sent it for me. Are you rose la vaca? Yes. Oh, please come in Rose they think I robbed that man at Everstone. What? Well, carl told him a story about me. They're from fbi Pardon me castra. Miss la vaca. May we ask you a few questions? He he didn't do that. He couldn't He's not a man who killed somebody. Were you sitting at the fire in front of carl boy's tent Saturday night? Yes, and were you there when boyd told castra and this man oaky that he was going east to play professional football? No, I had to go fix papa's medicine Larry told me when I came back boyd denies saying it. Why would I make it up castra? It's not our job to say if you're innocent or guilty. We're investigators There's been a murder and a bank robbery committed and if you did it that story would throw suspicion on boyd I'm afraid that for now. Anyway, the evidence is all against you Jim I interviewed boyd's friend oaky. No, won't you get anything? No He says he doesn't remember anything boyd says for more than a minute a checker who wrote down here with boyd The one named smitty. He said he doesn't remember boyd saying anything at all about football Do you see boyd again? Yeah, he was kicking a football around with some kids telling him how good he was He told me too Jim I'm willing to nominate him. Yeah, I am too, but you can't ignore those checks, Larry After all they were found behind castra's tent You know someplace there's a link that'll definitely tie one of them to the crime Well, the girl isn't it the checks on it the link is the weapon. That's it. Where do we find it? Well, maybe we'd come up with it if we knew what it was. Yeah Three small rectangular wounds about half inch thick almost an inch apart What could leave that kind of a pattern Could they uh Could they have been made by three separate blows? No, I doubt it, Ira The autopsy showed each wound was exactly the same depth and they were all perfectly spaced A man struck from behind would be falling or dodging Well, they don't use spike clubs for picking grapes. No, and it had to be something with Ira come on. Where are we going back to see carl boyd Smitty Give me a cigarette. How about you training? Give me a cigarette. All right Buy some training Oh There's rose. Oh, hey rose I was looking for you. Where'd you go? Did you see larry? Oh that crook. He's no crook. We're the cops with him. Yes They threw with my bag. Well, I didn't know they had it Well, they're doing with your bag. Well at first I thought maybe I done the killing They said if I put them checks in my bag, the ink could come off on my clothes They wanted to look at all my stuff. So I'll give it to them You get the bag back. Huh, larry. I thought the cops had you. Hey, let me go Why? Because carl here's such a big football player. What are you talking about? We'll explain that to your boyd Agent douglas night took your suitcase in and had our laboratory examine the contents You didn't find no ink from those checks on my stuff No But the laboratory found blood on the cleats of one of your football shoes Blood that matches the dead man's that couldn't come on boyd you and your friend are going with us Carl boyd and ray smith alias smithy were convicted in federal court for bank robbery And in view of the bank messenger's death each received a 40-year sentence In tonight's case you saw the federal bureau of investigation start on a new file With almost no information except that a crime had been committed However, the painstaking attention of fbi agents to every detail To every possible clue Which is the subject of an illustrated story in this month's radio tv mirror Is you will also note well illustrated by the file dramatized this evening Even more important than the apprehension of the two criminals of course was the exoneration of larry castrow That kind of care in the protection of falsely accused people Represents one of the finest attributes of the american way of life In the protection of your personal rights your civil liberties This has been a gerrydivine presentation distributed by the colis hoffman organization