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We're working today watch out a homicide my partner's Ben Romero The boss is that brown cheaper detectives my name's Friday We're on the way out from the office and was 10 45 a.m. When we got to Ortega Street number 1285 Second floor. Yeah room 14 They all smell the same. Don't they put that room in housing for you No, these are the odd numbers here must be down that way, huh? Yeah, here it is 14 Taking his time Get out of here. What is this? You guys really cops come on get up so full of So full of you really cops How about your faking? We showed you our identification. It's a door. I thought you're faking. That's the truth There's a couple of guys out to musk me up. I thought you were them your name Henry Ross. Yeah, that's right I thought you're one of those moochers out of fight within the body of an She's gonna get a power and come back in take care of me. Yeah. Yeah, I Got no reason to fight with cops. I didn't do my room any good Landlady sure gonna scream that come on. You want to finish up dressing? I want to talk to you downtown What's it about officer missing person they'll brief you when we get downtown? No, it's all right with me But you take these handcuffs off, please. It's kind of hard dressing with them Oh, you have to do is put your shoes on you can make out. All right. I Don't know why you had to slap handcuffs on me I didn't know you were cops you mind if we check through your things wrong Huh, why you mind? Oh go ahead if you want. I got a night You know I get a spoke up at the door that wouldn't have been a fight. I thought you were that mooch in a bar and he's friend I thought you were looking to trouble You buy ready to go. Yeah, I'd Like to brush my teeth off, you know mine. I Got a real mouthful of cotton this morning. All right. What do you keep your tooth fresh? It's over here. I'll get it No, I'll get it never Yeah, first shelf. It's in the glass. Don't you trust me There you go put some toothpaste. Yeah Turn on the water tap, huh nothing Joe's pretty clean, of course, I'm clean what you expect Anybody could have made the mistake. I didn't know your cops Henry. I was worth loss. That's your full name. Yeah, that's right Hardly ever use the Osworth though. It's a real lousy name, huh? What's the fridge on all this officer? We told you missing person. It's gonna talk to you about it I don't think I can help you Nobody I know is missing. How about Paul Davis? Davis Yeah, I know there. I don't know his name is Paul up and gone a long time on this Davis. Yeah, that's right Something wrong you think we figure murder after going over his room thoroughly We took Henry Ellsworth Ross back to the city hall of the interrogation room It was a slightly built man dark hair brown eyes swarly complexion. It was a longshoreman by trade Among his friends and acquaintances. He was known as a heavy drinker and a man with a violent temper Ben and I questioned him for a half an hour and got nowhere He sat across the table relaxed scraping at a thick callus on his hand with his fingernail I'll tell you the truth. I just don't know what you're getting at. I Think I know a guy named Davis and it's about as fast as gosh sure that's all you've got to tell us Of course, I'm sure I look I got a right to call a lawyer if you're gonna sit there and throw a lot of charges We're not throwing charges at you Henry we've got a missing person's case would like to have you cooperate that's about it Well, maybe I'd like to but I can't Paul Davis is just a name of me. Maybe I know him. I don't know you got that report there. Yeah, just man. There you go Here's the way it goes in yeah According to his wife Paul Davis left Los Angeles by auto a little over four months ago Was driving up to Oakdale, California to take a job with a dairy company up there He never got there. He's been missing ever since so what's the pitch? All we've been able to find is Davis's car the 36 Ford coupe 7 Tom 7 9 2 Was sold a month ago up in Lodi, California But Davis didn't sell it man by the name of Carter signed the pink slip at the time of the sale Henry Carter Sorry, I mean anything to me. Well, it's Carter made it look like Paul Davis had signed the Ford over to him We checked it out. Davis's signature was forged. That's right Suppose there's something to do with me. Did you ever use the name Henry Carter? Of course not Ross. It's only name. I go by never had your name Never used in a I told you no What if you'd mind taking a look at this? Here you go this here And we just got to do it me the pink slip to Paul Davis car Hmm Signatures on the back here transfer of ownership you recognize you the one of them Paul Davis Henry each car That's me. I mean is it supposed to it should yeah, why the signatures are both in your handwriting How about it Henry how about what I don't even know what you're talking about you're trying to give me the treatment What's this all about trying to locate Paul Davis? I'm not even sure I know the car I think you better level Henry our handwriting man check both the signatures. It's your writing Well, maybe you better get a new handwriting man. I never saw that slip. I never wrote those signatures anybody can copy Well, it's got something else for you Ross like the heavy check it over see if you can identify it What is the letter or to take a look here? That mean I mean No, nothing. I hope you're not gonna tell me this is my handwriting. That's what the report said It's crazy. I never wrote like that in my life. All the writing characteristics match up same as the signatures on the pink Slip all right, maybe they are the same. I didn't write either one never wrote like that in my life here Let me show you all right, sorry Ben you want to pull a package tomorrow night? Yeah, okay? I don't savvy one bit of this sergeant. How about laying it out? You can see the name at the bottom of the letter it's signed Henry Carter same as the pink slip Well, that doesn't mean anything to me This letter was sent to the wife of Paul Davis about nine weeks ago And it says here that Davis supposedly was too busy to write his wife So he had his Henry Carter send a letter he also writes in here that Davis sold his car to Carter Somebody trying to cover up huh? Yeah, we think so We think it's Henry Carter This is um this Davis guy's been gone about four months. That's right. You said you thought Davis was murdered outcome Just an idea Eight men had disappeared from around here in the last 14 months just like Davis Six more up in the San Joaquin Valley the same way They took off alone on auto trips and never seen again Not a trace Pretty funny You ain't go Joe. Thank you You've got your record here Henry from baton rouge Sent to sheriff Pleman support huh Look we have to drag all out again. It's past Just one thing we had to check here You told us that you never use an alien. Is that right? All right. I have I didn't know what you're getting at I didn't figure there's any use dragging out dirty laundry again. I asked you if you ever use the name Henry Carter Okay, I've used it. It's common name. There's a lot of Henry Carter's around. We only know what'll fit your description I'm clean. You know that I'm gonna smoke Henry. No Joe Thanks Well, let me have one with you There you go I'm gonna match here. You know, we rode this thing for four months All over the state here. I'll tell you what we got Henry. We'll let you make up your own mind It's not my writing On June 4th Paul Davis left Los Angeles and his car hit it for Oakdale Lighting the afternoon he stopped for gas at a service station just beyond San Fernando The attendant says a man was with Davis. You fit that man's description Henry Yeah Well, that seemed monks like that in court and get on the stand and can't even remember their own name A couple others you and Davis stopped for a hamburger just outside of Gorman. There's a man there He remembers you too. He stopped again in Bakersfield pick up a quart of oil for the car You and Davis had a coke the last time he was seen alive That makes me a killer, huh? Month after that the pink slip to Davis's car came through DMV up in Sacramento That was for the transfer of ownership from Davis to Henry Carter both in your handwriting A couple of weeks later, Mrs. Davis got that letter Month ago Davis's car was sold to a dealer in Lodi. Yeah. Yeah, we found the dealer Ross showed him in mugshot He says you sold him the car At all it's just the main part there's more we've been on the road a lot We followed you from here to Sacramento and back Henry every stop every detour took us a long time Yeah, I guess it did What do you say Ron? Nothing Anyway, you want it Henry You got on the smoke. Yeah Here you are Yeah I guess you worked hard on it, huh? All over the state That's right Must be pretty hot up in the valley so with that dusty, huh? We made out I've never been up in the valley and so it's too hot for me. We got people who saw you there What's it pro 10 people in some writing samples? You can't build a case on that. You know it, don't you? We're gonna try You think I murdered Davis You said Yeah You think I murdered those other guys too, huh? What was it the 10 12 of them? We're asking about Davis You think I killed him? Tell me the truth. Do you think I murdered Davis? Yeah, I think you did Well, then you know as well as I do there's only one way to prove it, you know find his body 1 15 p.m Ben and I took Henry Ross out and fed him some lunch Then we took him back to the city hall of the interrogation room where we continued to question him It was relaxed and he talked a great deal about everything but the disappearance of Paul Davis He didn't seem anxious to get away made no demands for an attorney to represent him For a full hour. He did most of the talking He told us about the different homicide cases he'd read up on He asked us about the 12 men who disappeared in the past months in the same manner Paul Davis had Was there any trace of him at all? Did we have any leads? How do we think we were going to find him? Well, we finally got around to asking him if he'd submit to a lie detector test He seemed taken by the idea and agreed to it almost immediately Ben called sergeant burger and made arrangements for the test We made up a list of key questions At 5 p.m. We took the suspect to the third floor of the old city jail where sergeant burger gave him the polygraph test On the way back to the office Ross complained. He was hungry. We stopped and bought him coffee and donuts We got back to the interrogation room a little after 6 p.m The questioning continued Ross didn't seem to mind at all. We kept talking. We let him talk 8 p.m. He was still going strong You remember the wilson case back in 34, don't you say? Woman killed her whole family big case. You remember? Yeah, that's pretty tragic Is that a hobby of yours henry collecting murder stories? No, no, I just read him remember I guess I can remember every big murder case in the last 15 years. That's so yeah spot all of I yeah, I guess it is kind of a hobby. I get a big kick out of it I get it ben. Excuse me, henry. Oh, sure Paragation room friday Oh, yeah burger Yeah, okay. Thank you. You know, there's one thing I get a real big kick out of those detective magazines Mystery stories the way they make out the murderer. How do you mean? You know, they always build it up into something big somebody's always killing somebody else for a million Dollars, uh, maybe over some woman some beautiful woman same way with the movies That's where they get it all mixed up. I don't think I follow you henry. Oh, sure you do Every time some guy writes a murder story. He's got to build up a big reason for the killing a lot of money beautiful woman Revenge, maybe always got to be a big reason motive motive. That's what they say Well, generally works out that way, doesn't it? Why? I'll bet you there's a a thousand murder cases in your files without any reason at all Some people kill it. So I've heard about lots of them. They just want to kill and they go ahead and do it Maybe for a few bucks. Maybe for nothing. They just do it. That's all Sure, you know that like this thing you've been talking about 10 and 12 guys disappear. They got a few bucks. Maybe they got nothing Somebody plows them under and that's all no big reason. They Just do it. So 12 guys are gone. It doesn't mean anything That's how you get it figured out, you know, huh a phone call a minute ago there Was a man who gave you the lie detector test. Oh, right. How'd it go? He just finished going over your graph. He got 16 positive reactions Yeah, what's that mean? You're lying Henry 16 times. That's right. You better tell him to get a new machine. I lied all the way through Mind telling us why? Yeah I guess I knew you'd find out let's go get something to eat first. So I'm hungry No, we better talk a little more, Henry. Well, let's go. I'll tell you why we're eating bring a pencil We did very a map map of what the canyon where I buried it You are listening to drag myth for the step-by-step solution to tonight's authentic case history Here's step-by-step are the actual reasons why Fatima is the quality king-size cigarette Why in Fatima the difference is quality quality of tobaccos the finest domestic and turkish varieties Extra mild and superbly blended to give you a much different much better flavor and aroma quality of manufacture smooth round perfect cigarettes rolled in the finest paper money can buy manufactured in the newest and most modern of all cigarette factories quality even to the appearance of the bright clean golden yellow package Carefully wrapped and sealed to bring you Fatima's rich fresh extra mild flavor Compare Fatima yourself Fatima's now cost the same as other long cigarettes But your first puff will tell you Ah, that's different Yes in Fatima the difference is quality insist on Fatima Start enjoying the quality king-size cigarette Fatima best of all long cigarettes Wednesday 9 55 p.m Ben and I took Henry Ross across the street bought him a coke at max place And we took him next door to the Melbourne cafeteria Was almost closing time Ross got himself a cottage cheese and pineapple salad bacon and liver with onions rye bread banana pie and coffee Ben had a hot beef sandwich mashed potatoes and coffee. I had the same At the back of the cafeteria one of the bus boys was mopping the tile floor Was a strong smell of disinfection How about that table over there sergeant? That all right with you? Yeah, it's okay. Doesn't make any difference Want some water? Yeah, Henry. Yeah, please. All right, I'll get some. Oh boy, living onions It sure smells great, huh? Yeah, I can't take those onions so well. May repeat on me. Not me. I can eat any Salt and pepper? Yeah, thanks Boy, I'm sure hungry. I haven't eaten much today You get a sandwich made with rye bread? Graham bread. Oh, you should have gotten the rye real German rye bread. Yeah Not that real nice and fresh. There you go, Ben. I don't think oh, thank you You know, all that talk really sharpened up my appetite. Boy, it's food tastes good Shall we jump? Yeah We brought a pencil along Henry Once it starts taking them The greatest time is any I guess You know the whole thing just comes right back to what I was trying to tell you there in the office Yeah, what's that? Well, you know All about the thorny mystery stories. Oh, yeah, every time there's trouble. There's a big reason behind it It's thorny. It's off. Yeah, sure this it's paul davis francy I guess I knew you'd find me out. I knew this morning when you picked me up. You had it figured Must have been a big job, huh? Finding me Pretty big Henry, you know a lot of mileage How'd it happen? Well there again, I just like I was saying Ain't no big reason behind it I needed a few bucks from this davis camo, huh? I guess he was it I've passed me a catchable. Oh, yeah There you are. Get the lid off there There you go. Nice. What'd you meet davis, Henry? I was hitchhiking out on ventura Not a dime in my jeans. I was going up the Maricopa I thought I had a job up there and that davis come along pick me up You ever know him before then? You know, stranger He says he's going to Oakdale. The guy gave me a ride Well, we stopped for gas at San Fernando and I saw you had a few bucks in his wallet I guess that's when I got the idea About what? Still on him Now maybe that gives you an idea what I was talking about. You don't need any big reason to tell somebody davis had 18 bucks Now suppose I told that to a writer somebody kill on the guy for 18 bucks. That wouldn't make much sense, huh? He'd tell you never sell you need a million dollars beautiful woman. Good motive. Yeah What'd you kill him, Henry? Just outside of baker school Little canyon there I got davis to buy a fifth of sherry in baker school He's ranked someone the way I passed the saw, huh? Yeah Yeah There is no good without plenty of salt How'd you kill davis, Henry? That's a funny thing He drank some of the wine got a little sleepy I was just outside of baker's fields Dark by that time I spotted this little canyon. I figured it's as good a place as any Well, so I get some Pull out to the side road and had a few more drinks and I spot this little shack out there in the middle of nowhere Exactly where was this Henry? Right and so yes, maybe two miles north of baker's field We got to the shack finished the wine went to sleep both at it. Mm-hmm And that's where the funny part comes in I guess I killed davis. All right But I didn't mean it Get a whiff of that, huh? Why do these monks have to mop up up before eating? I'll be throwing a minute, Henry Fine How'd you mean Henry? It didn't mean the killing. You already told us you had the idea. Well, sure I had the idea. Let me explain, huh? We both went to sleep in the shack davis me Guess that must have been all about nine o'clock at night. I don't know what it was. Maybe the wine I guess but I start having nightmares Hmm. Yeah, now, maybe this part sounds like a story, but it's the truth. I had all these dreams. I woke up, but they're still there What was that faces? Faces, that's all I could see here is full of faces like I guess that's really still asleep. Yeah, go ahead Oh, I picked up a two by four and started swinging at them their faces Funny thing too. I knew every one of these faces. How do you mean? People I killed. There are only a dozen of them really, but it seemed like there were a hundred of them all around in the air Well, I grabbed that too by four and I started swinging on his coat and sweating all at the same time and I kept on swinging And I saw davis's face and I swung hard kept swinging Didn't he make a sound his eyes closed kept on swinging at his head Oh, I come to it. There he was flying on the floor Seemed to take those other faces away. They didn't bother me after I killed davis. What'd you do with him, Henry? I don't pull him outside the shack. I go home buried Burn his clothes, take his car and money and drove off. I'll show you if you like where I buried him, I mean How about these other men? Well, these faces you saw. Hmm. Oh Uh, when do I get a little more coffee? It's all gone. I'll get it. You know, no, no, thank you What about it Ross the other man? Well, I don't recall them too well It's what you said in the office 10 or 12 of them a couple in sacrament of the others down through the valley Like I say, there was no big reason for killing them. It just happened that way What'd you do with them you remember? Generally, yeah There's one of them that stands up gather the name of Slytheres. I'm gonna sail from a real cry baby Where'd this happen? The moment I picked him up in his car outside of Chuchilla It's nighttime. He must be feeling pretty good I made him stop on a side river. I hit him with a piece of angle or any chronic a baby Buried him in a field there is One of the faces that I saw That's funny. Can I show you how a psychology works? Huh? Yeah, what'd you do with his car Slytheres? I mean go over down to Mexico and sort there Yes, that's what I should have done with Davis's gun. Oh, here you go. Oh, right These killings are yours. You got any more you want to tell us about? I told you already 10 or 12 of them there Pretty much the same when was the first one or maybe 18 months two years ago First one wasn't any harder in life. It's just like I was telling you before Everybody builds up murder. It's supposed to be a big thing hard to do all those phony stories I'd just hit a guy a couple of times or something that'd be it a real small thing Didn't change many that's why I say it's all built up. You ever been created for any mental sickness, raw? No, why you ever been examined by a psychiatrist? No after you killed these men did it body at all I just that one dream Time was with Davis Sure. Good meal. Thank you. Okay You ready Ben? Let's go We'll go back upstairs, huh? Yeah. Do you want to give us a statement? All right I had an idea you'd find me I guess I always knew that you'd find me Well, let's go here. I guess I proved my point. Anyway, it's all built up. Huh murder killing somebody those phony stories It's all built up. It's cheap. No, you got it wrong Henry. Huh? We'll they read you the bill Third was true only the names were changed to protect the innocent On january 7th trial was held in superior court department 86 city and county of los angeles state of california In a moment the results of that trial Now here is our star jack webb. Thank you Friends the makers of fatima have done everything possible to produce the kind of cigarette you want Just as we on dragnet try to bring you the kind of entertainment you want In my honest opinion fatima is the best of all long cigarettes But frankly my opinion doesn't count because fatimas must please you That's why I suggest you buy a pack of fatimas tomorrow So you can prove to yourself that the timas are extra mild with a rich better flavor and aroma You'll find fatima now cost the same as other long cigarettes And i'm convinced that you'll discover what I did in fatima the difference is quality Henry Ellsworth Ross was tried and found guilty on two counts of murder in the first degree and received the death sentence While he indicated that he had murdered the other 10 men He refused to give any further information regarding the killings or what he had done with the bodies Ross was executed in the lethal gas chamber at the state penitentiary san quentin california You have just heard dragnet a series of authentic cases from official files Technical advice comes from the office of chief of police w.h. 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