Jack Webb

She wouldn't do that to me, taking it off, just packing up and leaving.

Rosie wouldn't do that to me.

Well, she's got four children.

Yeah.

She did it to them.

We questioned Carl Shelton for another half hour, but he failed to come up with anything in the way of a definite lead.

10.40 a.m.

We drove to the home of the missing woman's girlfriend and Iris Kirby.

Two things she was pretty definite about.

She knew nothing about an out-of-town trip Mrs. Baker was supposed to have planned for the two of them.

And secondly, she had no use for Carl Shelton.

She told us that Shelton was her ex-boyfriend and that she had introduced him to Rose Baker and that shortly after that he dropped her.

A few weeks later, Shelton began to keep steady company with Mrs. Baker.

Outside of her personal grievance against Shelton, Iris Kirby had nothing to offer in the way of a lead to the whereabouts of her friend.

11.30 a.m., we got in the car and headed for the factory in the south end of town where Rose Baker was employed.

We stopped off on the way for lunch, a bowl of soup and a sandwich.

Ed had a cheeseburger and a piece of pie.

Before we left, we checked the office to see if there were any calls.

Nothing.

The place where Mrs. Baker worked was on Santa Fe Avenue, a one-story building covering almost half a block.