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The difference is quality Ask your dealer for Fatima the quality king-size cigarette best of all long cigarettes start enjoying Fatima tomorrow Dragnet 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 the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files From beginning to end from crime to punishment dragnet is the story of your police force in action Was Tuesday March 8th. It was cold in Los Angeles. We were working the night watch out of homicide My partner's been Romero the boss's captain steed. My name's friday We were on the way out from the office and it was 6 45 p.m. When we got to Greenwich street Number 3 18 Yes, gentlemen police officers like to see doctor small, please. I'm reverend small. Won't you come in? Thank you Hey, let me take your hats officers. I've been waiting for you. Thanks. Oh, my name's friday. This is my partner sergeant Romero How do you do? I'm glad to know you. How do you do? Hope we didn't interrupt your dinner Oh, no, no the organist brother reaver and i were just running over a few hymns for the service tonight Or would you come this way please into the parlor? As I mentioned on the telephone i'm not much of a detective But I think something should be done about this matter as soon as possible Oh, we'd like to get a few more particulars first reverend. When'd you first find out about these threatening letters? Sister Dorothy wilson I think I told you about her she came here to the rectory and showed them to me She told me she's been getting the last four days and phone calls too How long have you known this Dorothy wilson? Is she one of your regular parish names? Well, she first joined my congregation about a month ago She's been in regular attendance at our services ever since is that the church next door joining the rectory here Yes, that's right sergeant second reform church at the holy book I founded it here about three years ago and I've been past her ever since Have you ever had this trouble before? I mean threats against the people who join your church No, never never any trouble at all I wonder if you have those notes that miss wilson's been receiving reverend. Yes right here in my desk Let me see uh Yes, yes here are the five sister wilson got And here are the two that I received Wonder if I could look at yes surely here you are. Thank you Oh, would you excuse me for a moment? It's about time for brother rebirth to get over to the church I'd better tell him certainly reverend didn't mean to hold you up. No not at all. I'll be back in just a moment. All right What do they look like? Yeah, let's see Postmarks here March 4th 5th 7th 8th Come from different places around town according to the postmark is long beach a couple from azusa glendale here No return address on any of them This notebook paper looks like to me this one isn't it to you? Yeah And there's this other one here looks like some kind of wrapping paper The writing's not too bad Let's see according to the postmark. This is the first one they got I guess I see Oh Dorothy Wilson you are a sinner and you have led a sinful life Yet you have the nerve to come into our church and make believe you're a christian Spelling choice, man. I know I have been coming to our church for a long time And it is an outrage to have you praying in our temple If you don't get out and stay out, I'm going to make sure you're taken care of for good Huh look outside Sister in the lord must be some kind of a fanatic. We better run all these through the prime there. Yeah This one maybe it's typhoon. Well, here you read it stated march 6th. Yeah Take this as a warning bring your sinful body to our church again and your blood will run in the aisles A life can be taken when god demands it. It could be your sorry for the interruption officers A few things I had to remind brother reber of Have you seen all the letters? Well, we're just checking them over reber Certainly a terrible thing for our church. I hope we can keep the matter as quiet as possible Yes, sir. I noticed the two different signatures on these notes now half of them are signed A sister in the lord. Yes, and uh, the other half are signed It's brother dr. Griswold. Yes, that's right The first letter I got was from this brother griswold his of the type written ones You know anyone in your congregation with that name reber dr. Griswold No, I checked over my list of regular parishioners twice if there is such a man. I don't know of him Oh, we can run that name through r and i anyway, huh ben? Mm-hmm. Do you have any suspicions at all reber? What do you mean such well? I mean, can you think of anybody in your congregation who might possibly resent this smith wilson's joining your church? Maybe well, no, I hadn't had an opportunity to think it over in that light But I can't imagine anybody in our group writing letters like this What's her background reber? Do you know much about her? No, she's a quiet girl. She's very religious Work census stenographer at an office downtown helps support her mother. Will she be at church tonight? Yes, she's here already helping to set up the chairs for the service Why would you like to talk to her? Yes, sir, but good. All right. Let's go over to the church They're still half an hour before services begin. We're fine. I don't have to take these letters along with us reber We want our handwriting man to check them over. Yes by all means that uh, manila envelope on the desk You can put them in there if you like. Thank you. This one here. Yes Okay This way officers How many members do you have in your church reverend small 162 regulars Another hundred or so on the friends they attend on me occasionally You mentioned that this miss wilson's had threatening phone calls too. Yes, that's what she told me this afternoon Man's voice for a woman The sister wilson said both the phone calls usually follow each letter and they identify themselves the same way Brother griswold and the sister and the lord have you received any calls from no, I've been half expecting them But I hadn't had any yet Here should we go in please Here we are Our seating arrangements still temporary. We hope to have fuels installed next year. Uh-huh nice church. Yes. Thank you Oh, there's sister wilson. She is helping set up the chairs If you'd like to wait in the choir's dressing room, I'll bring her in there to you. All right. Thank you reverend Let's go man This one joe. Yeah, this is it Huh, ought to open a few windows in here. It's musty. Yeah What time do you say the services start 7 30? It's uh Five minutes by 7 now Officers. Yes, sir Officers, this is sister. Dorothy wilson sister wilson sergeant friday. How do you do, man? Hello and sergeant ramirez. That's from ero Oh, I'm sorry sergeant ramero sister wilson. Hello. Can I tell you? I guess you want to speak with sister wilson alone for you Why would we like have you stay if you would reverend wonder if there's someplace where we could sit down Yes, certainly right over here in the anti room. Fine. That would be fine How's sister wilson? There's no need to be afraid These offices are here to help you and to protect you. See that nothing happens. Yes, brother small We're fast in the faith of the lord and you shall not fear. Yes, I will You want me to tell you all about it sergeant hot started? We'll be pleased to say is it all right to smoke in here? Yes, of course go ahead Uh, will we care for a second? No, thank you. Nothing's meant. I'm not right nothing. Okay. I'll leave the bank there if you want to Uh, we've already looked over the letters that you receive Uh, the reverend here told us that you got the first one last Friday. Yes, that's right I've gotten one each day since then phone calls too. Did you recognize the voices making the calls? No, I didn't know them at all a woman's voice was Very rough kind of like she might be old Said some terrible things about me and brother small. She called both of us terrible names Awesome the same with a man who calls. Yes, sometimes he's even worse None of the things they say are true sergeant not one word I'd like you to think carefully before you answer this mrs. Wilson Is there anyone at all that you know in your neighborhood here at church or at your work who might be doing this? Maybe somebody that you knew a few years ago some acquaintance ever since it's happened. I've been trying to think of someone I don't think I've ever met anybody who'd do this kind of thing Well, how about a former boyfriend or a girlfriend who might be jealous of you for some reason? Oh I did have quite a few boyfriends just casual dates nothing serious They were always taking me out Dancing and out to parties We went everywhere, but I was never interested in any of them. Well, were any of them upset when you stopped going out with them? A few of them were angry when I wouldn't marry them, but I don't think any of them would write those kind of letters Do you think the whole thing might be some kind of a joke someone's playing? It's a pretty grim joke to go this far Do you live by yourself miss wilson? No with my mother, but I don't want her to know anything about this. Well, I think it'd be wiser if you told her No, no, she mustn't know mother's been ill lately. And if she found out it might upset her an awful lot She's not well at all Help yourself to some of the ones that jump Yes, please I would all right Thank you. What are you are anybody else ever? Yes, please Ben, nothing. Okay. Thank you Uh, how about some of the church members miss wilson? Have any of them been at all unfriendly to you since you started coming here? No, I don't think so A few are pretty hard to get to know. They're shy, I guess But none of them have been uncharitable Then you don't think the threats are coming from anyone in the church? Well, if they are I don't know who the person is The way they say all those rotten things about me. They call me a sinner and a bad woman Well, I guess I'm a sinner like all of us are, but I'm not a bad woman I'm going to church because I want to be born again in the light I've never killed anyone and I've never been a bad woman You believe me, don't you ever? Yes, of course I do. Now don't get yourself all upset sister wilson You think that's why they want to murder me because I'm a sinner? You think that's why? Please sister wilson try and get your mind off. They want to kill me because I'm a sinner then why don't they want to kill all the sinners? We're gonna have a lot of homicides if they try 10 p.m together with sergeants reins and bechtel. We tail dorthy wilson to her home She parked her car at the rear and went inside a stakeout was placed on her house The next morning we took the threatening letters Which the wilson girl had received and asked don mayer and handwriting to check them over During the next five days. We checked thoroughly into the background of dorthy wilson We talked to our relatives or employers all our friends past and present We had no good reason to suspect any of them We checked out the people at the church and they were clear Both reverend small and the wilson girl continued to receive more threatening letters Some of the language and the accusations were pretty foul Still no outward attempt were made on the life of the wilson girl A week after we started on the case we tallied up our findings. They seemed to make sense We talked it over with reins in the squadron Don mayer is checking those letters and a sample of the wilson girl's handwriting, isn't he? What's he got to say? The letters written in the long hand is signed to sister and the lord and the type written letters is signed brother d.ark grislaw Yeah, I know that don says all the letters were written with the same person How's your figure well similarities and phrasing Same mistakes and spelling type written in the long hand both Signatures on the grislaw letters match the handwriting in the other letters No, they were only dealing with one suspect and don mayer seems pretty sure of it, you know Well, uh, how does the wilson girl's handwriting check out? What's working on there? Where does that leave us? You've been on stake out that the wilson girl's home a few nights. Haven't you noticed anything peculiar about the setter? How do you mean? Something that didn't fit something that didn't quite join No, I don't think so Well, just that business about a car thought that was a little out of line. Yeah, it struck us the same way Girl always seemed frightened enough about the situation when she's around us But when she thinks she's alone looks to me like she takes it a little differently. Yeah Every night when she drives home. She parks the car in that dark garage must be at least 50 75 yards from her house. Yeah I've never seen her look particularly nervous And taking that long walk through the front door I'm sure the normal reaction for a frightened woman would be to park the car right in front of the house and hurry inside She hasn't done that once How about all those friends of hers you guys checked out? I think they well, we've been staked out at her house The church and the work You know that there's not a thing Checked with some of her ex-boyfriends, too Nothing there Well, the wilson girl told us that some of the boys had proposed to her We couldn't find one who'd admit it. They all said she was a nice girl, but they didn't propose marriage Those threatening phone calls are another thing both the pastor of the church and Dorothy wilson got letters But only the girl received phone call. Yeah Well logically if the reverend got the letters the same time as the girl He should have been getting phone calls, too. He hasn't received the one. It could be accidental And wherever wants to kill the girl might figure the reverend would recognize his voice It's possible, but you remember that story that the wilson girl gave us about her mother Remember that she didn't want her to know about the letters because her mother was sick Well, we checked with her mother's doctor and mrs. Wilson hasn't been sick in five years Yeah, how about that? What do you figure? I think the girl's a fake Everything we knew about the case of Dorothy wilson everything we'd learned through questioning and observation seemed to point to one definite conclusion Dorothy wilson for one reason or another was writing the threatening letters to herself As for the warnings that she got over the telephone. We only had her word for it We took our findings to captain steed and laid out the case for her He directed this to stay on it for a few more days until we could find enough evidence and testimony to prove out our theory The following day Dorothy wilson received a letter more threatening than any of the previous ones Reverend small also received a copy of the same letter Again, don mire's opinion was that they were written by the same person All right, what's doing? I don't know Boys got any new theories. What do you mean on the Dorothy wilson case? Do we need one? I don't think your old one's going to hold up. Why what's the matter? She's a georgia street. 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The difference is quality Ask your dealer for fatima the quality king-size cigarette Best of all long cigarettes start enjoying fatima tomorrow Soon as we got the report that dorthy wilson had been attacked by an unknown assailant We drove to georgia street receiving hospital where she was being treated Anderson and beckle from homicide were standing by We talked to the doctor who told us that the victim had no serious injuries She had two slight bruises on her upper arms and a slight bruise on her forehead She complained of a headache while the doctor made out his report. We questioned the wilson girl She told us that she'd gone to the church of the holy book at six o'clock that night after work She told us that she wanted to pray before the start of the regular service at 8 15 p.m We asked her exactly when and where the attack occurred At about 6 30. I felt a little tired. I told the officers on duty at the church I thought I'd get a little rest before services started and then I went into the ladies dressing room laid down That's what happened. It was terrible. Did you see the person who tried to hurt you? No I was lying down with my eyes closed and he must have come up from behind Put his hands around my throat and started to press tight Was awful just awful. What happened then miss wilson? Well, I fought as hard as I could. I kicked and scratched him and I guess I hurt him because he let go of my throat for a minute After that he pulled me down the floor. I remembered that Then he put his hands around this part of my head like like this Mm-hmm The other officers told us that one of the choir members of mr. Sherman found you unconscious in the choir room. Is that right? Whoever it was who wanted to kill me they put a gag in my mouth and blindfolded me Then tied my wrist together with tape. That's how mr. Sherman found me How long do you figure you were unconscious then? I don't know It was about 6 35 when I laid down in the dressing room. Mr. Sherman said he found me there at 20 minutes Past seven and then you were out about 45 minutes as in I suppose so I don't remember anything What makes you think the person who attacked you wanted to kill you miss wilson? That's It's what they said in the letters, isn't it? They want to kill me for coming to church Now your person everything that was in it was scattered all over the dressing room floor. Is that correct? Yes, it was my money and everything scattered all over. I guess they wanted to rob me too $52 in the case that what you had with you that's right a $50 bill and some change I don't know why they didn't take it. Maybe something frightened them off It's possible The officers found some other articles scattered around the dressing room a roll of tape The metal box that the tape came in and a half a dozen razor blades Did you notice any of these in the dressing room before you were attacked? No, none of them. I never saw them before Those razor blades officer. What do you think they wanted to do with them? There's no use thinking about that now. It's all over I knew I'd be protected. I felt the spirit I know the holy light would protect me. Yes, ma'am Will you find whoever did it officer? Well, this is just a hunch miss wilson. Yes, I think we already have Before we left georgia street We talked to the doctor in charge and got a release for the patient Dorothy wilson agreed to drive back with us to the office to make out a crime report On the way she seemed to lose most of her nervousness. She was relaxed and she talked quite a bit Religions are great comfort to me sergeant. I think it's a great comfort to anybody, don't you? Yeah, I do maybe i'm different from most girls, but I get an awful lot out of my church It's like brother small says you have to be born again of the holy light if you really want to live, don't you think so? I don't know what I do if it wasn't for my religion No, I used to have a lot of boyfriends, of course, I don't care for any of them anymore But when I was younger, they were always taking me out all the time Yes, so yes, I had a good time when I was younger going out to dinner and dancing parties Fellows were taking me out all the time. Of course, that was when I was younger not much over 25 now I'll be 27 in august that's pretty old for an unmarried girl, but I'm not worried Get interested in more important things when you get older isn't that right? Oh, yes, that's right. I remember when I was in junior college how boy crazy I was I remember that junior prom I went to Seems such a long time ago. Yeah, I had the most beautiful white dress sergeant with sequins and The skirt was all white and that gathered in here at the waist and it flared out real full I went to the dance with one of the big football players He looks so nice in his blue suit. His name was Stanley. I knew him for a long time He's one of the fellas who asked me to marry him. I guess I was too particular. I just couldn't see any of them Would you mind if I laid out a few facts for you, miss Wilson? Well, not at all sergeant. Go ahead, please I'm not trying to embarrass you in any way, but since we've been on this case We've checked with just about all the friends that you've had in the past few years and that includes your boyfriends None of the fellas that you've mentioned say they've ever proposed marriage to you So they've been out with you once or twice with that song Oh, well, you probably didn't talk to the right fellas. You probably got the namesmith. No, ma'am. We didn't we talked to the right people Well, I can't understand that neither can we miss Wilson. Well, what difference does it make anyway? I wasn't interested in them I I wouldn't have married them anyway going out and dancing parties. That's all they were interested in What reason did you have for lying to us parking in a car necking with girls trying to take advantage of them That's all those fellas wanted Some of the silly girls they married. Well, I don't you discover a lot more important things when you get older sergeant No, I don't think that's the point. Why did you lie to us about it? I don't know really. Maybe I Didn't have a reason. I I just didn't remember right, I guess now. You sure you remember right about what happened tonight What do you mean? It just happened. Of course. I'm sure about it. Someone tried to kill me Uh, might as well park on spring street, then pretty clear this time night. Yeah, okay sergeant I wish you'd tell me what you're getting yet. What are you thinking? Well, there's still a few things that we're not too sure of this well, so we'd like to clear them up What aren't you too sure of? I told you everything I knew. I was I was lying down in the dressing room Somebody tried to kill me. I told you all about it. Well, you told us you were unconscious about 45 minutes Well, yeah, 40 or 45 Now we talked to the doctor at Georgia street and the way you describe the attack Well, it would have been just about impossible for anybody to make you unconscious that long by pressing his hands against your head But he hit me on the head too. You can see the bruise here. Well, yes, ma'am I know but that's very slight the doctor says that that couldn't have done it either Just a minute. I'll get the door here What else aren't you sure of? Well, your wrists were taped individually now. If somebody wanted to restrain you They probably would have taped them together, wouldn't they? Well, I don't know what they would have done All I know is they wanted to kill me. They said so in those letters We're not too sure of those letters either, miss both Well, what aren't you sure of? Where they're coming from and who's sending them? We do know they were all written with the same person How do you know that they're signed by two different people? A handwriting man checked them over. He says you're written to the same person You might as well have it straight miss Wilson. We're gonna talk. Can't we do it inside someplace? Please? I'm tired. I'm sorry. All right You know, yeah, I'll see if lakin finger prints is finished with that stuff. Yeah, I'll bring it along if they are We'll be in the interrogation of you know, all right this way miss Wilson Oh, man, I know used to be on the police force nice fella. We used to go out all the time together Was that so? What's his name? Well, that's funny. I don't remember. He's not the nice fella though. He used to go dancing every week Here we are All right I started questioning Dorothy Wilson, but she wanted to talk about everything except what concerned the case Dean Birdman and latent fingerprints that already checked each article that was found at the supposed scene of the crime The wilson girl's prints were all over them. Did you write those threatening letters to yourself miss wilson? I don't understand. Why do you ask me something like that? Did you write the letters to yourself? You know, that's not a fair question sergeant I don't know what you consider fair, but we'd like to know did you write the letters Do you know what it is to pray sergeant? I mean really pray What's that got to do with it? I've been praying all my life. I've been praying hard Ever since I was a little girl. We'd like to have your answer our question miss wilson. I think you'll understand This is the answer sergeant. I I can feel the holy spirit in my heart. I know you understand. Yes, ma'am I've been praying for an awfully long time sergeant when I was a little girl six years old. I was praying Night and day I said my prayers, but there never seemed to be any answer I never could understand it because I only prayed for one thing I didn't think it was too much to ask. What was that? I wanted people to know me sergeant I wanted people to know me and like me. That's all but it never seemed to happen even when I was a little girl You'll think that quite follow you man. You've got to understand me. Nobody else does In the time I was a little girl six nobody ever seemed to care if I was around or not I always tried to make friends tried to make people like me. I tried very hard, but nobody seemed to care Nobody even noticed me Nobody ever noticed me. You mean that's why you wrote those threatening letters to yourself so that you'd be noticed I wanted somebody to care about me. That's all I wanted them to know who I was Dorothy Wilson. I Wanted to walk down the street and have people nod and have them say that's Dorothy Wilson There goes Dorothy Wilson just for somebody to care. That's all sergeant just for somebody to care Well then the whole thing's purely your imagination You wrote the letters to yourself and you pretended somebody attacked you and all the rest God told me to do it sergeant He told me to make myself noticed to stand up and make people know me I'm sorry for it now, but it didn't hurt anyone did it Well, ma'am, you had an awful lot of people working for nothing. I'm sorry It was so nice while it lasted people looking after me Caring about where I went what happened to me It's the first time anybody ever really noticed me It was that important to you People knew who I was Dorothy Wilson, they all noticed me I feel better now that it's over Oh There's one thing I've got to tell you sergeant. Yes, ma'am I remember driving here in the car. I told you about that junior prom I went to that That time I had a beautiful white neck dress with a full skirt the beautiful new white dress. Yes, ma'am. I remember. What about it? Well, it was really pink garganty an old dress I knew you'd find out. That's why I had to tell you. Yeah, I didn't want you think I was a liar To protect the innocent in a moment the results of the trial now. Here is our star jack web Thank you Dragnett's mail this week is included cards from some of you listeners saying that your dealer is out of fatimas Thank you. We've done something about that Now if any more of you find a dealer fresh out of fatimas Send me his name and address and we'll do something about that too Write me jack web post office box 951 hollywood And mr. 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