Dragnet: The Big Phone Call (EP4974)
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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
32 min
5 speakers
8 chapters
transcribed 4 months ago
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What is the main crime being investigated in this episode?
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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're going to bring you this week's episode of Dragnet. But first, I do want to encourage you, if you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software. Also, today's program is brought to you in part by the financial support of our listeners. You can support the show on a one-time basis by mailing a donation to Adam Graham, P.O. Box 15913. That's P.O. Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715. And you can also become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters for as little as $2 per month. And I do want to welcome our latest Patreon supporter. Thank you so much to Bill, supporting the podcast at the Master Detective level of $15 or more per month.
Thanks so much for your support. But now, from February 14th, 1952, here is The Big Phone Call.
The story you're about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. A jewelry salesman is slugged and robbed of $20,000 in precious stones. After months of investigation, you finally discover the man responsible for the holdup. You've got the evidence to prove him guilty. Your job, bring him in.
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.
It was Thursday, July 18th. It was sultry in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of robbery detail. My partner's Ed Jacobs. The boss is Captain Didion. My name's Friday. It was 1.35 p.m. when we got back to the city hall, the interrogation room. Sit down, Mr. Garvey. Yes, all right. You want to call a Captain Ed, let him know we're back? Okay.
Thanks. I'd still like to know what this is all about, Sergeant, dragging you down here in the middle of the day.
I've got an office to run. Just a minute, Mr. Garvey. Yeah, I just got back. All of them? Good. Yeah, interrogation room, right.
Got his check in yet?
Yeah, I'm back. Worked out fine.
Would you please explain what this is about, why you brought me down here?
We think you know why.
I don't. I haven't any idea. You take me away from my store on a busy day. You put a police guard on it. You insist on bringing me down here. What's it all about? Tell me. You know you tell us, Mr. Garvey. Tell you about what?
The jewel robbery nine months ago, that holdup. What holdup? My store hasn't been robbed. I'm talking about your friend, Thomas Ashley. Ashley? What about him?
We think you remember it. Nine months ago, parking lot back of the building down on 4th Street.
Oh, sure. Some holed-up man slugged him, stole his case of samples. I remember it now. Poor Tom. The thief made a big haul, didn't he?
Unset dime is $20,000 worth.
I remember it now. I don't think Tom's gotten over it yet. I was a jewelry salesman for the same company at the time, you know, the same company Tom was working for. Yeah, we know all that. Some of the big bosses thought Tom had a hand in it. They figured it was a put-up job. Nothing was further from the truth. Not so. Sure, I know Tom. He's a close friend of mine. He wouldn't be mixed up in a deal like that. Tom and I worked out of the same office for years. We've had him over the house for dinner. We've even been on vacations together. He's one of the most honest men I know. You sure of all this, aren't you? Of course I'm sure. That isn't why you called me down here, is it? You don't think Tom had anything to do with that robbery, do you?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main crime being investigated in this episode?
0:00–5:25
2
How do Friday and Jacobs confront the jewelry store owner?
5:25–8:22
3
What evidence do the detectives present against the suspect?
8:22–11:58
4
How does the suspect try to defend himself during the interrogation?
11:58–15:10
5
What confessions does the suspect make about his actions?
15:10–18:43
6
How do the detectives prove the suspect's involvement in the robbery?
18:43–22:22
7
What is the outcome of the investigation at the trial?
22:22–26:58
8
What lessons can be learned from the suspect's mistakes?
26:58–32:39