December 27, 2025 • 28 mins
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Drag met The documented drama of an actual crime for
the next thirty minutes, in cooperation of the Los Angeles
Police Department, you will travel step by step on the
side of the law through an actual case transcribed from
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Speaker 4 (02:02):
It was Saturday, November eight, was foggy in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
We were working the day watch out.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Of robbery detail.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
My partner's Ben Romero. The boss's Captain Diddyon. My name
is Friday. I was on the way back from R
and I and it was eleven twenty three am when
I got to room twenty seven, a robbery detail.
Speaker 7 (02:17):
Joe, Alright, where you been anyhow? I've been sitting here
twenty minutes waiting for you.
Speaker 8 (02:21):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I've been checking a couple of names through R and I.
It took a little longer, and I figured at least.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
You could just leave a note in the book. I
do the same for you.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
I've been sitting here twenty minutes for Georgia.
Speaker 8 (02:28):
I'm sorry. What's the matter? What you feeling?
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Well? No, I'm all right, just like a little cooperation, Joe.
Speaker 8 (02:32):
So what's the matter with you? Oh?
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
I guess I was mad when I woke up at
a crazy house.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Well, what's the trouble?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
You have an argument with your wife in laws?
Speaker 6 (02:40):
They're visiting again, six of 'em.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
Uh, I'm worth They sleeping all over the place for
I ad those two kids in a great Fox terrier.
He's not even house broken. Ye know how long are
you gonna stay? A couple of days?
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Two weeks? I don't know how I can lasted out, Joe.
Speaker 7 (02:51):
They're crawling all over the place, kids screaming, dog trying
up the front room.
Speaker 8 (02:54):
No privacy.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
I don't want 'em to do well.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Why don't you just level with him? Asking thee if
they wouldn't mind standing at the motel for.
Speaker 8 (02:58):
A couple of days.
Speaker 7 (02:59):
I suggested that the wife this morning. What do you
think that's when the argument's starting. Hey, I almost forgot
to tell you. That truck driver finally showed up at
frank Burns.
Speaker 8 (03:07):
Oh ye, it's about time. Where is?
Speaker 5 (03:08):
He took him across the hall of the mugroom, got.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Him checking out some coming out mug books because we
better see how he's doing to her.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
I sure took his time getting it, didn't He can't.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
Didn't offer any excuses. He's no more help than he
was yesterday. Surly not very cooperating.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
How you doing, mister Burros.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
You'ren't live with my partner.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Start for Friday, A lot of Burrs. I ain't got
a headache.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
This is just a waste of time waiting through all
these pictures. I've been through two of these books already.
I couldn't identify any of the guys.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
You know, we know what's pretty tedious. We'd just like
to have you check through a few more items, if.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
You wouldn't mind.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
Look, I don't mind giving you a hand when I
got time, but I got things to do today. I
got some on for then, I'd have to get a haircut.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
My suit pressed.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
Well, this thing is pretty important to us, Burrows.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
I know we're putting you out, but we need every
lead we can get. We'd certainly appreciate it if you
could just give us a little more cooperation.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
I don't know what else I can do. I told
you everything. I know, just what happened. A few more
things he'd like to ask you about.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Is there some of the details you didn't make quite clear?
Speaker 8 (04:03):
Oh? What details?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
How do you mean details?
Speaker 5 (04:05):
About the hijacking mind going.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Over to the gain voice.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
I laid it out for you the last time he
talked to me, just the way it went. It's the
same as the rest.
Speaker 8 (04:12):
Well, how do you mean the same as the rest?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Well, the other.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Hijackings are the same as though it's no different.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
He pretty familiar with the other jobs, are you?
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Or followed him in the paper or the bullet and
the cops got out on him. It's up on the
dispatch board in the garage. Hey, is that fresh water?
Speaker 6 (04:24):
And I coul over there?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (04:25):
I think so, hope you so?
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Hi?
Speaker 8 (04:28):
I have a couple last on for this headache.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Can't tick aspirin's out board.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yeah, you been driving a couple of years for a
lovel trucking line, Is that right, Burus?
Speaker 6 (04:42):
That's right? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (04:43):
What if you'd mind running it.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Through for us again, Brohs, Maybe there's a few details
about the thing that you forgot to mention.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
It won't be any different.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
And the last time I pulled out from the load
and dock about six o'clock yesterday morning, hauling a load
of Scotch whiskey over to Phoenix, pulled up for the
red lighted Ali meat in Jackson. That's when the guy
pulled open the door and got in next to me,
put a gun in my ribs, told me look straight ahead.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
The first thing he did was hand me the pair
of goggles and tell me to put him on same kind.
The welders use. Front of the lens was covered with
the tape.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
I put them on.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
I couldn't see a thing. I took over the wheel
and started driving.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Well, did you have any idea what direction you were
hitting him?
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Not what the goggles on.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
I tried to follow it first, but I got all
mixed up, couldn't tell where he was driving, made quite
a few turns. He drove about twenty twenty five minutes,
I guess before we pulled up that's where the switching
point was. Two more guys met us there. I could
only tell by the voices. They pulled me out of
the truck and put me in a car.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Well, Jay, tell us anything at all about that transfer point.
I mean, were there any sounds or anything like that
to give you an idea that maybe where you were?
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Well, I figure it must have been someplace out in
the valley, pretty far out. No traffic sounds at all,
just cricket scene and things like that. He got me
in that car, drove around about an hour, I figure,
and they put me on the side of the road,
told me to leave the goggles on for ten minutes,
and then they drove off.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Well, how about those two men at the transfer point?
Speaker 8 (05:51):
If you heard their voices again, you think you could
recognize them?
Speaker 6 (05:53):
I don't know, I dit it. They didn't say too much,
not that I heard anyway.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
I'm just curious, bruhs, how is it you thought of
calling your company first instead of the police. Well, it's
icrgo holdoad a whiskey. If somebody hijacked that, I figured
the company ought to be the first to know.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I'd like to ask you just one more question. There's
no offense intended here.
Speaker 8 (06:08):
Yeah, you've ever been arrested? Why would that have to
do with well, probably nothing at all. Have you ever
been arrested?
Speaker 7 (06:13):
I'd like to setch a straight on right now. If
you think I was working inside on this thing, you.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Got it wrong.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
I didn't have anything to do with it, and there's
nothing to worry about it, all right.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Yeah, I've been arrested.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
When was that Burrows?
Speaker 6 (06:23):
About ten years ago? It was back east West Virginia.
What was the charge hijacking?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Our record showed no previous arrests for Frank Burrows. For
the next few days he was kept under observation.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
When we got the kick back from Washington, it showed
Burrows had one previous arrest, the one he.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Told us about, for hijacking.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
We checked all his friends, relatives and associates. We found
nothing suspicious. His employers said that they were aware of
his police record, but they told us that Burrows.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
Was one of the best drivers they had.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
There was nothing to link him with a series of
hijackings which had been going on all over the city
for the past month. Our crime lab checked the pair
of goggles which Burrows had been forced to wear during
the hijacking.
Speaker 8 (07:01):
They were an ordinary.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Industrial type, easily obtained and impossible to trace other.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
Than those belonging to Burrows.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
There were no fingerprints on them. Late that afternoon, the
missing truck and trailer was found empty in the deserted.
Speaker 8 (07:12):
Section of the valley. No latent fingerprints or other physical evidence.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Nine am the next morning, we met with Captain Dideon
Carco's gone.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
Not a trace of that, said Skipper high Grate Scott's whiskey,
one hundred and fifty cases got out of boats and
all the liquor wholesalers serial numbers.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Listening that ex con Burrows.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Nothing turned up on him.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
No nothing, We double checked. Everything about him is clean.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
He didn't get anything off that abandoned truck, No.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Prints, no physical evidence. Seems like they got it down
to a science hall at.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
The Fat Brown.
Speaker 9 (07:37):
He's getting all the kicks from the warehouse operators. Thirty
days and six hijackings. How about moving faster?
Speaker 7 (07:42):
As you know, we got twelve stakehouts running down freight
load skipper incoming out going, got three girls in the
stat's office doing nothing but making runs for us.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
No new suspect.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
We've got a meeting with an informant after lunch. He
figures he may have something. There's nothing to bank on it.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
How about an inside tip off on these jobs, Any
indication of the gang's working something like that.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
No, nothing, Definitely skipper jobs seem to be well case.
Though we've checked out everybody with a record.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Working for the trucking lines. No reason to think any
of them had a end in it. Excuse me a minute. Indian, Yeah,
live Oak, near Trenton.
Speaker 8 (08:12):
Avenue.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
Yeah, I got a price to thank you. Yet another
truck early this morning where there's a location but a
move on. It looks like they got their signals crossed.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (08:22):
It doesn't make sense the cargo of they hijack?
Speaker 8 (08:24):
What was it?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Beload of toothbrushes?
Speaker 8 (08:29):
Nine three am. Then and I drove to the intersection of.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Live Oak Drive and Trenton Avenue and the Hollywood Hills
where relocated the latest driver to fall victim to the
gang of hijackers.
Speaker 8 (08:39):
His story was the same as the others.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
He'd stopped his truck for a red light at a
deserted intersection when a man jumped on the running board
and pointed a gun at his head.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
The man with a gun took over.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
The wheel and forced the driver to put on a
pair of.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Black dot welders goggles. Then the truck was moved to
a remote.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
Spot where the driver was transferred to a car and
later released in the remote section of the Hollywood Hills.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Jack.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Truck was found empty a day later, and again there
was no physical evidence, no fingerprints.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
The driver could add little to what we already knew.
The only point that made the case any different.
Speaker 8 (09:09):
From those that had gone before. Was the cargo that
had been stolen, a load of tooth brushes. We began
an immediate check.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Of the neighborhood where, according to the driver, he.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
Was first held up. It was a fairly remote intersection
in the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
After four hours of interviewing ranchers and gas station attendance,
we talked to the operator of a practice driving range
for golfers.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
Located just off the highway. His name was Fred Garrison.
Speaker 9 (09:30):
As a matter of fact, I did notice something out
of the ordinary this morning, little four six am. I
think spite of this big semi turning off on that
dirt road down the highway there? Now, which dirt road
is that, Misscarris, Oh, right up the highway there?
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Shit, it turns off by that clump of trees.
Speaker 9 (09:44):
Couldn't figure out why a big truck and trailer be
taken that road. Doesn't make sense.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
How do you mean, what's the dead end?
Speaker 9 (09:49):
No reason why a driver it turned off there by mistake.
There's a big sign right there at the intersection says
not a through street right there.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
See it plainsday.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
I wonder if he could describe the truck for us
mister Garrison.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
It was pretty good size run of those big boom
them jobs. Black lettering on the side. I think.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
It turned off the highway, went down the dirt road
a little ways, and then it turned off into that
grove of trees and the driver cut the lights.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Did you notice any activity going on in dull?
Speaker 6 (10:10):
No?
Speaker 8 (10:10):
No, I didn't.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
Oh maybe I should have walked over and checked it.
Speaker 9 (10:13):
I figured it was just some truck driver pulling up
to catch a.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Few weeks asleep. And I see if my boy Dave
was with me at the.
Speaker 9 (10:17):
Time, wanted to check it, but I told him to
mind his own business.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
He says.
Speaker 9 (10:21):
A couple of minutes after the truck pulled in, he
saw a grace of dam come down the road and
park next to the truck, right in that same clump
of trees.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Well, I didn't always look a little suspicious.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
To use her.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
Oh I suppose so, and away, I just don't like
the matter where it's not my business.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
That's awful.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
Did your boy Dave get a good look at this
grace of and you know then you want to come
in the officer down?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Sure, hey, sit right there if you like.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Let's see now where worry about your boy Dave's.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
Oh yeah, you said that he saw a grace of
an pull in next to the truck over in that
clump of trees.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Did he mention anything else that he noticed about the car?
I mean, other of them, the fact that it was
a grace of dam.
Speaker 9 (10:57):
Oh yeah, I think you did say something else about it. Now,
let's see, I wasn't listening too close at the time.
The day's doing some arians downtown for me right now.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
He'll be phoning in pretty soon.
Speaker 9 (11:06):
Though I can ask him about it. Then he paid
a lot more attention to the thing than I did.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Well, how long were the truck and trailer in that
Sadan park in the grove tree?
Speaker 8 (11:13):
Do you remember there?
Speaker 9 (11:13):
Well? Not too long, maybe fifteen twenty minutes. The car
pulled out first and took off down the highway away
from town that way, see, and the truck and trailer
at few minutes after waste figure they were.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Up to And we've got an idea what time was
that again when you saw the truck turn off the
highway onto the dirt road?
Speaker 6 (11:29):
About six am, maybe a few minutes one.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
Way or the other.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I wonder if you'd show us the exact spot where
you saw that truck park, would you?
Speaker 9 (11:35):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Sure? Here?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
You want to come over here with me?
Speaker 8 (11:37):
The window? Huh?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Now you see the clump of trees there, Yeah, are eucalyptus.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
They bought it right on the road.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Yeah, maybe that's him.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Now here are some fair waste.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Oh yeah, Dave Hodja maake ou m oh fine, no, no, no, listen.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
A couple of policemen here now.
Speaker 9 (11:57):
They're asking about that truck and that gray sedan you
saw up on the road this morning.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
Want to know what you noticed about the saddan besides
the color?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I I.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
Oh you did?
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Uh huh?
Speaker 8 (12:08):
Yeah, Well you better head back here.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
They probably want to talk.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
To you about it.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
All right, Davy, Bye, what do you have to say?
Speaker 9 (12:14):
I'll he'll be back in about twenty minutes. I figured
you want to talk to him.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
How about the sedan? Saer, did you get a pretty
good look at it?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Did he say? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (12:20):
I guess so he got part of license number.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
Red.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Garrison's son, Dave returned and gave us all the pertinent
facts about the truck and the gray sedan which he'd
noticed in the neighborhood early that morning. His description of
the truck and trailer. What he saw of it anyway,
Matt's closely with that of the latest vehicle to be hijacked.
He described the car as a gray sedan, and he said.
Speaker 8 (12:40):
It looked to him like it was a late model Nash,
but he couldn't be sure.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
He said.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
The first three units on the license plate were seventy seven.
The location in the grove of trees where the truck
had been spotted was checked thoroughly. Outside of some indepthitite
tire tracks, there was no physical evidence. Four ten PM,
we put in a call to DMV and asked for
a rundown on.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
The free license plate numbers.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
The next morning, DMB returned to us a list of
more than a thousand auto registrations, which began with a
figure seventy seven.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
We went down the list and gradually eliminated six hundred
of these as not being physically close in description to
the car scene by Garrison's boy Dave.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
We kept checking. Almost three hundred more on the list
were registered in distant parts of the state. That left
us with over a hundred vehicles registered in or around
Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
To check out. It went slow.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Three weeks passed we narrowed the list down to twenty
three possibles. Tuesday, December tenth, we were checking registrations with
addresses in the east end of the city to name
on this one.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Against Perry or Water our parents.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Grave. Straight back to gard Perk and let's try the
bell again.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Let me say, uh, let's give the carlic be prepared
to get careless. Nobody home, garage wide open cars, isn't they?
Speaker 8 (14:03):
You know? Qualify so far?
Speaker 7 (14:07):
You wanna check the standing post the registrations saying at it.
Check out our right, just submitted.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
What you got there?
Speaker 8 (14:18):
Here? Found these under the seat.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Oh, maybe we're home. It's a pair of goggles to
take a look. Yeah, both lens is covered with tape.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
You're in the forechery division of a Metropolitan Police Department.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Handwripping analysis. Now let's check it against the forged letter.
The capital's print even lye. The o's and the a's
are clean.
Speaker 9 (14:52):
No, this isn't the typewriter we're looking for. Yeah, capital's
print high asianos are solid, p slanted.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
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Speaker 8 (16:14):
Tuesday, December tenth, two fifteen pm.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
A pair of goggles found in the automobile registered to
water Our Perry were the same brand and style as
the goggles used to black out the truck drivers and
all the previous hijackings. Men and I searched the car,
but we failed to come up with any.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
Additional physical evidence. We left the garage, checked the house.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Again to make sure that there was nobody at home.
Then we went down the street close to.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
The house to where we parked our car.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
We put in a call to R and I and
requested a make on Walter R.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Perry.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
He had no previous criminal record. A few minutes later,
we spotted two women loaded with grocery bags come down
the street, go up the stairs at the Perry house
and let themselves.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
In with a key.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
We went up to the front door, rang the bell.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
And the younger of the two women answered, dark brown hair,
blue eyes, about five foot six, twenty eight twenty nine
years old. We identified ourselves and she showed us into
the living room. She told us her name was Leona
Perry and that Walter Perry was her husband. They'd been
married eleven years, no children. We asked her where her
husband was, and she said he was out of town
on a business trip up north to Monna Vista, California.
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We asked her what line of business he was in.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Well, right now, world is a jewelry salesman, which for
himself has to quite a bit of traveling.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Your husband's blonde about five nine hundred and sixty pounds.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
That right, Yes, that's right.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
How do you go up north? Man?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
You know? Well, I think he went up by train.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
I'm not sure I have any idea how we might
contact your husband up north.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
No, I'm afraid I don't. He said he had a
couple of business apartments in different towns in that area
up there. He didn't tell me where he'd be staying.
What's it about, Sorr.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
She just a routine check and missus Perry. Is that
a photograph of your husband over there at the piano? Yes,
one's he expected back.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
You know.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Let's see, this is Tuesday, should be home sometimes Thursday.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
You see a minute ago, you said, right now, your
husband's a jewelry salesman.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Is that his usual line of work?
Speaker 6 (17:56):
No, world is a truckt he work here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
No, he drove for cutting up in the Bay area, Oakland, Berkeley.
He had that job for ten years, almost from the
day we were married. And then last December he had
a fight with the boss and he quit. We moved
down here to find work, but it just couldn't seem
to get placed.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
How long has he been selling jewelry now?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Oh, about eight months, I'd say, be doing very good
at it. We have more now than when he was
driving a truck. A lot of money in jewlry business.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Well, it's just you and your husband living here, is
that right?
Speaker 6 (18:23):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
My mother lives with us too. We just got back
from doing the shopping. I guess she's busy bringing the
giostries away. Mom, bah, I don't.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
Say that's all right, ma'am. I think you can give
us the information we need.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Well, I'd like to know what this is about. I'd
appreciate it if you'd tell me the water isn't in
any kind of trouble.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
Is he just a routine investigation, Miss Berry, doesn't necessarily
mean your husband's in.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Lab I want to tell you right now, my husband's
involved in anything. Walder's never had trouble with the police,
and his life world has trouble with the police.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Let it's nothing mob. These policemen want to talk to
wald and you just want to ask him a few questions,
that's all. Uh, this is my mother, missus Burke. No,
this is mister Friday, mister Romaunt, I total leone.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
I felt it all day.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Something's wrong. Walter has done something he hasn't. Don't start
on that again, my please. The office has told me
they want to talk to Walter though, but for if
he hasn't done anything, why do they want.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
To talk to him? Routeen Judy ma'am, there's nothing to
get excited about it.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
I know what happened.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I felt it all the time. That funny job he
has selling jewelry, going out at all hours couldn't fool me.
I knew it wasn't right.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
What's he done where he's routed?
Speaker 8 (19:19):
It was? We got a right to know. There was
nothing we can tell you, definitely, ma'am. How about these
odd working hours your husband has miss Perry.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
What's the reason for that?
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Could you tell us?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Well, I don't know. Walter works for himself. He just
has to make business context when he cares, that's all.
Sometimes it's late at night, sometimes early in the morning.
Why don't you stay out of it? My after all,
it's our business, water is in mine. You've just marked
my wordly wan, I find out about this that husband
of yours has done something and these policemen are after him.
I knew it wasn't right. I felt it all along.
He say, an, these jewelry business is big money. I
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should have left and taken you with me that he started.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
Walter's a truck driver. It's all you'll ever be.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
It's where he should have stayed there. You always picking
on Walter Why Because I told you in the first place,
you never should have married him. Eleven years ago I
told you I never should have come to stay with you.
You couldn't go and marry one of those nice boys
you met at school.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
It had to be Walter Perley.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Well maybe you'll see now trouble with the police. Now
you'll see what kind of a man you can shut
up for.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
Sorry, we're afraid that isn't helping much, missus Burke.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
I suppose not.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
What is it it can help?
Speaker 6 (20:14):
You have kids?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Should try to tell him something, make it easy for him.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
Never listen that Gray Sidan back in the garage? Man,
does anyone else drive it besides mister Perry?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
You know no, Leona doesn't drive. Order is the only
one who runs it.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
He drives it to all these business appointments. He has
it aught out it's right?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
How many times he doesn't take it so when he's
out of town? Uh?
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Have you ever seen this pair of goggles before?
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Man?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
No, I never hear. What does it mean that tape
all over the front of him?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Well, how about your son and last friends? Do you
ever bring any of them here to the house?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Since I've been staying here the last six months. Letter
men call him on the phone, He goes out, doesn't
bring anyone around though.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
I'm just sick.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
Well, can you tell us anything about this jewelry business?
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Mister Perry's working you.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I don't even want to think about it. I raised
four daughters, nice girls, every one of them attractive plans
for him, and you wanted to be happy and marry
some nice fellow, have a nice, comfortable home. You try
to tell them, and they never listen.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
About the car man, you have to be seventeen, and.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
They know everything. My girls could have married wealthy if
they were smart. A lot of other girls have done it.
They had nice clothes, they got through business school, good
home training, all this talk about love. They're also smart
and they know everything and they know nothing. This is
what happens when they wake up and find out. Would
you finish putting the grocery the way Mauve talked to
the officers or anything you want, Leona, I didn't mean
to upset you. Maybe things will be all right.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
And just a few more questions, Miss Perry, and I
so all, well, whatever it.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Is, I know world hasn't done anything wrong. He wouldn't
do anything wrong. It doesn't make sense. It's just no
reason for it. I remember your father ly on us
sixteen years we were married. One night he packed up
and left me. There wasn't any reason for that either,
wasn't there moved.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
We continued questioning the wife and the mother in law
of the suspect, Walter Perry.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
From the wife we got the.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Names and addresses of four close friends of Perry's who
were supposed to be associates of his in the jewelry business.
In the basement and in a waft over the garage,
we found more than a dozen cases of high grade
Scott's whiskey, cases of expensive furs, and other loop taken
in the hijackings. Perry said her husband told her he
was storing and stuff for some friends. Was only a small.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
Portion of the taake.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
We called the office and got out a broadcast and
an APV in the suspect and the rings for an
immediate steak out on the Perry house.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
And then, together with.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
Matthews and Gonzales from robbery Detail, we began checking out
the four.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
Close friends of the suspect.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
We could locate only two of them, but those two
paid off in the basements.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
And garages of their homes.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
We found another portion of the loot, along with evidence
that showed that both men had taken.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
Active parts in the hijackings.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
They were booked at the main jail on suspicion of
two eleven PC.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
A four week went by.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
The steakout continued on the Perry house.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
Still no sign of him.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Saturday, December twentieth, four to forty five pm we checked
back in at the office.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
This thing short dragon.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
The l used to wrap it up before Christmas, when
they get it out of the way, working a couple
of days off.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
I don't know if I'm too interested.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Joe, the days off, I mean we got visitors on
the way again.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
What you mean for the holidays.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Who's kind of the same old bunch.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
My brother in law and his wife and his kids
and that little do over there.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
Well, they were just leading for three weeks worth they deal.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
Oh, brother in law got home, found a notice from
his company. He's been transferred out here. They're going to
stay with us all through the holidays and then they'll
start house hunt.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
How about that.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
He's got a problem.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
He's got a new rug in the living how about.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
Twenty to one on it?
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Jill, what's a little fox teary, oh high skipper anything
before we check out?
Speaker 6 (23:18):
He's the news for you to just talked to the
Venturia Sheriff's office. We own my favorite.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
PU mean they grabbed Walter Perry half an hour ago.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Monday, December twenty second, Suspect Walter Perry was returned to
Los Angeles. He was taken to the interrogation room where
Captain Diddeon Ben and I questioned him for almost two hours.
He was confronted with the evidence and testimony against him,
and after another hour and a half of interrogation, he broke.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
He gave us a.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Full signed statement describing his part in the campaign of hijackings.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
He also gave us the names of everyone in the gang,
how they participated in a what extent.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
He said. Most of the.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Property looted from the hijack trucks was stored in a
rented barn located at the north end of the San
Fernando Valley.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
A detail of men checked. I didn't confirm the information.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
The suspect's wife, Leona, was notified of her husband's arrest.
Speaker 8 (24:05):
One thirty five pm. We completed our interrogation.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Very nice. Go you ask me a lot of questions.
How about it? Can I ask you with? What's it? Well?
Speaker 8 (24:13):
Why do you think I did it?
Speaker 6 (24:13):
Why I got mixed up in this?
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Well, according to your statements, you wanted the money, didn't it?
Speaker 10 (24:16):
Or you've been out to my house Ivn't you even
met my wife and Aunty? I guess you met a
mother too. Yeah, well then you've got it. Nobody in
the world would make me go for a hijack deal,
but she could. I even remember the morning I'd met
up my mind to do it her. I was out
the kitchen here yapping at Leona in the other room,
the same old roasting a fosy truck driver.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
That was me.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
Eleven years the wife and I've been married. Her mother
lived with us, nine of them. Didn't get any better,
didn't get any worse, Just the same old yapping her
and her four girls. Why couldn't they listen to her?
They were the best girls in the world.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Why couldn't they marry money?
Speaker 10 (24:46):
Why don't it to be guys like truck driver, stupid
truck driver, same thing, every day, always the same, nine
years of it there, So I want not to get
enough money to rub in her face enough to make.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
A choke on me. You can hate somebody for that.
Speaker 10 (24:59):
I don't know how many years there give me, but
I'm gonna hate her everyone.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
That Oh, Hi, Elston wanta to remain in jail.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
That's ready to go.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
I want to be a minute recks right? Thank you?
Speaker 6 (25:08):
All right? Gray? Yeah?
Speaker 10 (25:11):
Uh, sergeant, My wife's been told hers sh she knows
about it.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
She's waiting outside in the hall with her mother, and
you can see him on the way out.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
No thanks, old her. Hi, honey, I'm sorry, older.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Why did you do it?
Speaker 6 (25:27):
I ask him?
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Whether they're honey?
Speaker 10 (25:28):
You heard as much of it as I did, nine
years worth of I guess it finally got me sick.
She wanted you to have money, so I went out
to get it. You you come and see me when
you can.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I wasn't going to any jail to see you. I
knew it all along. I knew what your words the truth.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
She never should have.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Married you, all right, pray, let's fool mschie hold.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Huh, why.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
How you fingering?
Speaker 8 (25:52):
And I don't know? How about some coffee?
Speaker 6 (25:53):
I'm I'm cay. She was funny.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
You see other people sweating and out your true, looked
like nothing. I'm just thinking, hibout, what's.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
That I was in? What about them?
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Yes? I haven't got it, half man.
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The story you have just heard was true, only the
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Speaker 4 (02:02):
It was Saturday, November eight, was foggy in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
We were working the day watch out.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Of robbery detail.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
My partner's Ben Romero. The boss's Captain Diddyon. My name
is Friday. I was on the way back from R
and I and it was eleven twenty three am when
I got to room twenty seven, a robbery detail.
Speaker 7 (02:17):
Joe, Alright, where you been anyhow? I've been sitting here
twenty minutes waiting for you.
Speaker 8 (02:21):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I've been checking a couple of names through R and I.
It took a little longer, and I figured at least.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
You could just leave a note in the book. I
do the same for you.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
I've been sitting here twenty minutes for Georgia.
Speaker 8 (02:28):
I'm sorry. What's the matter? What you feeling?
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Well? No, I'm all right, just like a little cooperation, Joe.
Speaker 8 (02:32):
So what's the matter with you? Oh?
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
I guess I was mad when I woke up at
a crazy house.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Well, what's the trouble?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
You have an argument with your wife in laws?
Speaker 6 (02:40):
They're visiting again, six of 'em.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
Uh, I'm worth They sleeping all over the place for
I ad those two kids in a great Fox terrier.
He's not even house broken. Ye know how long are
you gonna stay? A couple of days?
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Two weeks? I don't know how I can lasted out, Joe.
Speaker 7 (02:51):
They're crawling all over the place, kids screaming, dog trying
up the front room.
Speaker 8 (02:54):
No privacy.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
I don't want 'em to do well.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Why don't you just level with him? Asking thee if
they wouldn't mind standing at the motel for.
Speaker 8 (02:58):
A couple of days.
Speaker 7 (02:59):
I suggested that the wife this morning. What do you
think that's when the argument's starting. Hey, I almost forgot
to tell you. That truck driver finally showed up at
frank Burns.
Speaker 8 (03:07):
Oh ye, it's about time. Where is?
Speaker 5 (03:08):
He took him across the hall of the mugroom, got.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Him checking out some coming out mug books because we
better see how he's doing to her.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
I sure took his time getting it, didn't He can't.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
Didn't offer any excuses. He's no more help than he
was yesterday. Surly not very cooperating.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
How you doing, mister Burros.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
You'ren't live with my partner.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Start for Friday, A lot of Burrs. I ain't got
a headache.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
This is just a waste of time waiting through all
these pictures. I've been through two of these books already.
I couldn't identify any of the guys.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
You know, we know what's pretty tedious. We'd just like
to have you check through a few more items, if.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
You wouldn't mind.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
Look, I don't mind giving you a hand when I
got time, but I got things to do today. I
got some on for then, I'd have to get a haircut.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
My suit pressed.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
Well, this thing is pretty important to us, Burrows.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
I know we're putting you out, but we need every
lead we can get. We'd certainly appreciate it if you
could just give us a little more cooperation.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
I don't know what else I can do. I told
you everything. I know, just what happened. A few more
things he'd like to ask you about.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Is there some of the details you didn't make quite clear?
Speaker 8 (04:03):
Oh? What details?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
How do you mean details?
Speaker 5 (04:05):
About the hijacking mind going.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Over to the gain voice.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
I laid it out for you the last time he
talked to me, just the way it went. It's the
same as the rest.
Speaker 8 (04:12):
Well, how do you mean the same as the rest?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Well, the other.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Hijackings are the same as though it's no different.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
He pretty familiar with the other jobs, are you?
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Or followed him in the paper or the bullet and
the cops got out on him. It's up on the
dispatch board in the garage. Hey, is that fresh water?
Speaker 6 (04:24):
And I coul over there?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (04:25):
I think so, hope you so?
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Hi?
Speaker 8 (04:28):
I have a couple last on for this headache.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Can't tick aspirin's out board.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yeah, you been driving a couple of years for a
lovel trucking line, Is that right, Burus?
Speaker 6 (04:42):
That's right? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (04:43):
What if you'd mind running it.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Through for us again, Brohs, Maybe there's a few details
about the thing that you forgot to mention.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
It won't be any different.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
And the last time I pulled out from the load
and dock about six o'clock yesterday morning, hauling a load
of Scotch whiskey over to Phoenix, pulled up for the
red lighted Ali meat in Jackson. That's when the guy
pulled open the door and got in next to me,
put a gun in my ribs, told me look straight ahead.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
The first thing he did was hand me the pair
of goggles and tell me to put him on same kind.
The welders use. Front of the lens was covered with
the tape.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
I put them on.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
I couldn't see a thing. I took over the wheel
and started driving.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Well, did you have any idea what direction you were
hitting him?
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Not what the goggles on.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
I tried to follow it first, but I got all
mixed up, couldn't tell where he was driving, made quite
a few turns. He drove about twenty twenty five minutes,
I guess before we pulled up that's where the switching
point was. Two more guys met us there. I could
only tell by the voices. They pulled me out of
the truck and put me in a car.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Well, Jay, tell us anything at all about that transfer point.
I mean, were there any sounds or anything like that
to give you an idea that maybe where you were?
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Well, I figure it must have been someplace out in
the valley, pretty far out. No traffic sounds at all,
just cricket scene and things like that. He got me
in that car, drove around about an hour, I figure,
and they put me on the side of the road,
told me to leave the goggles on for ten minutes,
and then they drove off.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Well, how about those two men at the transfer point?
Speaker 8 (05:51):
If you heard their voices again, you think you could
recognize them?
Speaker 6 (05:53):
I don't know, I dit it. They didn't say too much,
not that I heard anyway.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
I'm just curious, bruhs, how is it you thought of
calling your company first instead of the police. Well, it's
icrgo holdoad a whiskey. If somebody hijacked that, I figured
the company ought to be the first to know.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I'd like to ask you just one more question. There's
no offense intended here.
Speaker 8 (06:08):
Yeah, you've ever been arrested? Why would that have to
do with well, probably nothing at all. Have you ever
been arrested?
Speaker 7 (06:13):
I'd like to setch a straight on right now. If
you think I was working inside on this thing, you.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Got it wrong.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
I didn't have anything to do with it, and there's
nothing to worry about it, all right.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Yeah, I've been arrested.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
When was that Burrows?
Speaker 6 (06:23):
About ten years ago? It was back east West Virginia.
What was the charge hijacking?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Our record showed no previous arrests for Frank Burrows. For
the next few days he was kept under observation.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
When we got the kick back from Washington, it showed
Burrows had one previous arrest, the one he.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Told us about, for hijacking.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
We checked all his friends, relatives and associates. We found
nothing suspicious. His employers said that they were aware of
his police record, but they told us that Burrows.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
Was one of the best drivers they had.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
There was nothing to link him with a series of
hijackings which had been going on all over the city
for the past month. Our crime lab checked the pair
of goggles which Burrows had been forced to wear during
the hijacking.
Speaker 8 (07:01):
They were an ordinary.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Industrial type, easily obtained and impossible to trace other.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
Than those belonging to Burrows.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
There were no fingerprints on them. Late that afternoon, the
missing truck and trailer was found empty in the deserted.
Speaker 8 (07:12):
Section of the valley. No latent fingerprints or other physical evidence.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Nine am the next morning, we met with Captain Dideon
Carco's gone.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
Not a trace of that, said Skipper high Grate Scott's whiskey,
one hundred and fifty cases got out of boats and
all the liquor wholesalers serial numbers.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Listening that ex con Burrows.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Nothing turned up on him.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
No nothing, We double checked. Everything about him is clean.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
He didn't get anything off that abandoned truck, No.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Prints, no physical evidence. Seems like they got it down
to a science hall at.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
The Fat Brown.
Speaker 9 (07:37):
He's getting all the kicks from the warehouse operators. Thirty
days and six hijackings. How about moving faster?
Speaker 7 (07:42):
As you know, we got twelve stakehouts running down freight
load skipper incoming out going, got three girls in the
stat's office doing nothing but making runs for us.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
No new suspect.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
We've got a meeting with an informant after lunch. He
figures he may have something. There's nothing to bank on it.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
How about an inside tip off on these jobs, Any
indication of the gang's working something like that.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
No, nothing, Definitely skipper jobs seem to be well case.
Though we've checked out everybody with a record.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Working for the trucking lines. No reason to think any
of them had a end in it. Excuse me a minute. Indian, Yeah,
live Oak, near Trenton.
Speaker 8 (08:12):
Avenue.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
Yeah, I got a price to thank you. Yet another
truck early this morning where there's a location but a
move on. It looks like they got their signals crossed.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (08:22):
It doesn't make sense the cargo of they hijack?
Speaker 8 (08:24):
What was it?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Beload of toothbrushes?
Speaker 8 (08:29):
Nine three am. Then and I drove to the intersection of.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Live Oak Drive and Trenton Avenue and the Hollywood Hills
where relocated the latest driver to fall victim to the
gang of hijackers.
Speaker 8 (08:39):
His story was the same as the others.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
He'd stopped his truck for a red light at a
deserted intersection when a man jumped on the running board
and pointed a gun at his head.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
The man with a gun took over.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
The wheel and forced the driver to put on a
pair of.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Black dot welders goggles. Then the truck was moved to
a remote.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
Spot where the driver was transferred to a car and
later released in the remote section of the Hollywood Hills.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Jack.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Truck was found empty a day later, and again there
was no physical evidence, no fingerprints.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
The driver could add little to what we already knew.
The only point that made the case any different.
Speaker 8 (09:09):
From those that had gone before. Was the cargo that
had been stolen, a load of tooth brushes. We began
an immediate check.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Of the neighborhood where, according to the driver, he.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
Was first held up. It was a fairly remote intersection
in the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
After four hours of interviewing ranchers and gas station attendance,
we talked to the operator of a practice driving range
for golfers.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
Located just off the highway. His name was Fred Garrison.
Speaker 9 (09:30):
As a matter of fact, I did notice something out
of the ordinary this morning, little four six am. I
think spite of this big semi turning off on that
dirt road down the highway there? Now, which dirt road
is that, Misscarris, Oh, right up the highway there?
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Shit, it turns off by that clump of trees.
Speaker 9 (09:44):
Couldn't figure out why a big truck and trailer be
taken that road. Doesn't make sense.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
How do you mean, what's the dead end?
Speaker 9 (09:49):
No reason why a driver it turned off there by mistake.
There's a big sign right there at the intersection says
not a through street right there.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
See it plainsday.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
I wonder if he could describe the truck for us
mister Garrison.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
It was pretty good size run of those big boom
them jobs. Black lettering on the side. I think.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
It turned off the highway, went down the dirt road
a little ways, and then it turned off into that
grove of trees and the driver cut the lights.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Did you notice any activity going on in dull?
Speaker 6 (10:10):
No?
Speaker 8 (10:10):
No, I didn't.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
Oh maybe I should have walked over and checked it.
Speaker 9 (10:13):
I figured it was just some truck driver pulling up
to catch a.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Few weeks asleep. And I see if my boy Dave
was with me at the.
Speaker 9 (10:17):
Time, wanted to check it, but I told him to
mind his own business.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
He says.
Speaker 9 (10:21):
A couple of minutes after the truck pulled in, he
saw a grace of dam come down the road and
park next to the truck, right in that same clump
of trees.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Well, I didn't always look a little suspicious.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
To use her.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
Oh I suppose so, and away, I just don't like
the matter where it's not my business.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
That's awful.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
Did your boy Dave get a good look at this
grace of and you know then you want to come
in the officer down?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Sure, hey, sit right there if you like.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Let's see now where worry about your boy Dave's.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
Oh yeah, you said that he saw a grace of
an pull in next to the truck over in that
clump of trees.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Did he mention anything else that he noticed about the car?
I mean, other of them, the fact that it was
a grace of dam.
Speaker 9 (10:57):
Oh yeah, I think you did say something else about it. Now,
let's see, I wasn't listening too close at the time.
The day's doing some arians downtown for me right now.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
He'll be phoning in pretty soon.
Speaker 9 (11:06):
Though I can ask him about it. Then he paid
a lot more attention to the thing than I did.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Well, how long were the truck and trailer in that
Sadan park in the grove tree?
Speaker 8 (11:13):
Do you remember there?
Speaker 9 (11:13):
Well? Not too long, maybe fifteen twenty minutes. The car
pulled out first and took off down the highway away
from town that way, see, and the truck and trailer
at few minutes after waste figure they were.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Up to And we've got an idea what time was
that again when you saw the truck turn off the
highway onto the dirt road?
Speaker 6 (11:29):
About six am, maybe a few minutes one.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
Way or the other.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I wonder if you'd show us the exact spot where
you saw that truck park, would you?
Speaker 9 (11:35):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Sure? Here?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
You want to come over here with me?
Speaker 8 (11:37):
The window? Huh?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Now you see the clump of trees there, Yeah, are eucalyptus.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
They bought it right on the road.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Yeah, maybe that's him.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Now here are some fair waste.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Oh yeah, Dave Hodja maake ou m oh fine, no, no, no, listen.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
A couple of policemen here now.
Speaker 9 (11:57):
They're asking about that truck and that gray sedan you
saw up on the road this morning.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
Want to know what you noticed about the saddan besides
the color?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I I.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
Oh you did?
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Uh huh?
Speaker 8 (12:08):
Yeah, Well you better head back here.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
They probably want to talk.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
To you about it.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
All right, Davy, Bye, what do you have to say?
Speaker 9 (12:14):
I'll he'll be back in about twenty minutes. I figured
you want to talk to him.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
How about the sedan? Saer, did you get a pretty
good look at it?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Did he say? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (12:20):
I guess so he got part of license number.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
Red.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Garrison's son, Dave returned and gave us all the pertinent
facts about the truck and the gray sedan which he'd
noticed in the neighborhood early that morning. His description of
the truck and trailer. What he saw of it anyway,
Matt's closely with that of the latest vehicle to be hijacked.
He described the car as a gray sedan, and he said.
Speaker 8 (12:40):
It looked to him like it was a late model Nash,
but he couldn't be sure.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
He said.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
The first three units on the license plate were seventy seven.
The location in the grove of trees where the truck
had been spotted was checked thoroughly. Outside of some indepthitite
tire tracks, there was no physical evidence. Four ten PM,
we put in a call to DMV and asked for
a rundown on.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
The free license plate numbers.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
The next morning, DMB returned to us a list of
more than a thousand auto registrations, which began with a
figure seventy seven.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
We went down the list and gradually eliminated six hundred
of these as not being physically close in description to
the car scene by Garrison's boy Dave.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
We kept checking. Almost three hundred more on the list
were registered in distant parts of the state. That left
us with over a hundred vehicles registered in or around
Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
To check out. It went slow.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Three weeks passed we narrowed the list down to twenty
three possibles. Tuesday, December tenth, we were checking registrations with
addresses in the east end of the city to name
on this one.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Against Perry or Water our parents.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Grave. Straight back to gard Perk and let's try the
bell again.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Let me say, uh, let's give the carlic be prepared
to get careless. Nobody home, garage wide open cars, isn't they?
Speaker 8 (14:03):
You know? Qualify so far?
Speaker 7 (14:07):
You wanna check the standing post the registrations saying at it.
Check out our right, just submitted.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
What you got there?
Speaker 8 (14:18):
Here? Found these under the seat.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Oh, maybe we're home. It's a pair of goggles to
take a look. Yeah, both lens is covered with tape.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
You're in the forechery division of a Metropolitan Police Department.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Handwripping analysis. Now let's check it against the forged letter.
The capital's print even lye. The o's and the a's
are clean.
Speaker 9 (14:52):
No, this isn't the typewriter we're looking for. Yeah, capital's
print high asianos are solid, p slanted.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
This is the one.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
It's the same with cigarettes. There are many king sized
brands to choose from. But when you know all the facts,
you'll make your choice Fatima.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Here are those facts.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Fatimas are the same in length and circumference eighty five
millimeters long, one and one sixty fourth inches around, and
Fatima filters the smoke exactly the same long distance as
any other king size cigarette. But in Fatima the difference
is quality.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Remember, Fatima gives you extra mildness, a much different, much
better flavor and aroma. You get all the advantages of
extra length plus Fatima quality, which no other king.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Size cigarette has.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Fatima best of all king size cigarettes, definitely the best
quality in its but the same price as the cigarette
you are now smoking. Next time by Fatima.
Speaker 8 (16:14):
Tuesday, December tenth, two fifteen pm.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
A pair of goggles found in the automobile registered to
water Our Perry were the same brand and style as
the goggles used to black out the truck drivers and
all the previous hijackings. Men and I searched the car,
but we failed to come up with any.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
Additional physical evidence. We left the garage, checked the house.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Again to make sure that there was nobody at home.
Then we went down the street close to.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
The house to where we parked our car.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
We put in a call to R and I and
requested a make on Walter R.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Perry.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
He had no previous criminal record. A few minutes later,
we spotted two women loaded with grocery bags come down
the street, go up the stairs at the Perry house
and let themselves.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
In with a key.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
We went up to the front door, rang the bell.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
And the younger of the two women answered, dark brown hair,
blue eyes, about five foot six, twenty eight twenty nine
years old. We identified ourselves and she showed us into
the living room. She told us her name was Leona
Perry and that Walter Perry was her husband. They'd been
married eleven years, no children. We asked her where her
husband was, and she said he was out of town
on a business trip up north to Monna Vista, California.
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We asked her what line of business he was in.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Well, right now, world is a jewelry salesman, which for
himself has to quite a bit of traveling.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Your husband's blonde about five nine hundred and sixty pounds.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
That right, Yes, that's right.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
How do you go up north? Man?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
You know? Well, I think he went up by train.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
I'm not sure I have any idea how we might
contact your husband up north.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
No, I'm afraid I don't. He said he had a
couple of business apartments in different towns in that area
up there. He didn't tell me where he'd be staying.
What's it about, Sorr.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
She just a routine check and missus Perry. Is that
a photograph of your husband over there at the piano? Yes,
one's he expected back.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
You know.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Let's see, this is Tuesday, should be home sometimes Thursday.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
You see a minute ago, you said, right now, your
husband's a jewelry salesman.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Is that his usual line of work?
Speaker 6 (17:56):
No, world is a truckt he work here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
No, he drove for cutting up in the Bay area, Oakland, Berkeley.
He had that job for ten years, almost from the
day we were married. And then last December he had
a fight with the boss and he quit. We moved
down here to find work, but it just couldn't seem
to get placed.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
How long has he been selling jewelry now?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Oh, about eight months, I'd say, be doing very good
at it. We have more now than when he was
driving a truck. A lot of money in jewlry business.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Well, it's just you and your husband living here, is
that right?
Speaker 6 (18:23):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
My mother lives with us too. We just got back
from doing the shopping. I guess she's busy bringing the
giostries away. Mom, bah, I don't.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
Say that's all right, ma'am. I think you can give
us the information we need.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Well, I'd like to know what this is about. I'd
appreciate it if you'd tell me the water isn't in
any kind of trouble.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
Is he just a routine investigation, Miss Berry, doesn't necessarily
mean your husband's in.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Lab I want to tell you right now, my husband's
involved in anything. Walder's never had trouble with the police,
and his life world has trouble with the police.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Let it's nothing mob. These policemen want to talk to
wald and you just want to ask him a few questions,
that's all. Uh, this is my mother, missus Burke. No,
this is mister Friday, mister Romaunt, I total leone.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
I felt it all day.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Something's wrong. Walter has done something he hasn't. Don't start
on that again, my please. The office has told me
they want to talk to Walter though, but for if
he hasn't done anything, why do they want.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
To talk to him? Routeen Judy ma'am, there's nothing to
get excited about it.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
I know what happened.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I felt it all the time. That funny job he
has selling jewelry, going out at all hours couldn't fool me.
I knew it wasn't right.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
What's he done where he's routed?
Speaker 8 (19:19):
It was? We got a right to know. There was
nothing we can tell you, definitely, ma'am. How about these
odd working hours your husband has miss Perry.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
What's the reason for that?
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Could you tell us?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Well, I don't know. Walter works for himself. He just
has to make business context when he cares, that's all.
Sometimes it's late at night, sometimes early in the morning.
Why don't you stay out of it? My after all,
it's our business, water is in mine. You've just marked
my wordly wan, I find out about this that husband
of yours has done something and these policemen are after him.
I knew it wasn't right. I felt it all along.
He say, an, these jewelry business is big money. I
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should have left and taken you with me that he started.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
Walter's a truck driver. It's all you'll ever be.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
It's where he should have stayed there. You always picking
on Walter Why Because I told you in the first place,
you never should have married him. Eleven years ago I
told you I never should have come to stay with you.
You couldn't go and marry one of those nice boys
you met at school.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
It had to be Walter Perley.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Well maybe you'll see now trouble with the police. Now
you'll see what kind of a man you can shut
up for.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
Sorry, we're afraid that isn't helping much, missus Burke.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
I suppose not.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
What is it it can help?
Speaker 6 (20:14):
You have kids?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Should try to tell him something, make it easy for him.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
Never listen that Gray Sidan back in the garage? Man,
does anyone else drive it besides mister Perry?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
You know no, Leona doesn't drive. Order is the only
one who runs it.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
He drives it to all these business appointments. He has
it aught out it's right?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
How many times he doesn't take it so when he's
out of town? Uh?
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Have you ever seen this pair of goggles before?
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Man?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
No, I never hear. What does it mean that tape
all over the front of him?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Well, how about your son and last friends? Do you
ever bring any of them here to the house?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Since I've been staying here the last six months. Letter
men call him on the phone, He goes out, doesn't
bring anyone around though.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
I'm just sick.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
Well, can you tell us anything about this jewelry business?
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Mister Perry's working you.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I don't even want to think about it. I raised
four daughters, nice girls, every one of them attractive plans
for him, and you wanted to be happy and marry
some nice fellow, have a nice, comfortable home. You try
to tell them, and they never listen.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
About the car man, you have to be seventeen, and.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
They know everything. My girls could have married wealthy if
they were smart. A lot of other girls have done it.
They had nice clothes, they got through business school, good
home training, all this talk about love. They're also smart
and they know everything and they know nothing. This is
what happens when they wake up and find out. Would
you finish putting the grocery the way Mauve talked to
the officers or anything you want, Leona, I didn't mean
to upset you. Maybe things will be all right.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
And just a few more questions, Miss Perry, and I
so all, well, whatever it.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Is, I know world hasn't done anything wrong. He wouldn't
do anything wrong. It doesn't make sense. It's just no
reason for it. I remember your father ly on us
sixteen years we were married. One night he packed up
and left me. There wasn't any reason for that either,
wasn't there moved.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
We continued questioning the wife and the mother in law
of the suspect, Walter Perry.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
From the wife we got the.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Names and addresses of four close friends of Perry's who
were supposed to be associates of his in the jewelry business.
In the basement and in a waft over the garage,
we found more than a dozen cases of high grade
Scott's whiskey, cases of expensive furs, and other loop taken
in the hijackings. Perry said her husband told her he
was storing and stuff for some friends. Was only a small.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
Portion of the taake.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
We called the office and got out a broadcast and
an APV in the suspect and the rings for an
immediate steak out on the Perry house.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
And then, together with.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
Matthews and Gonzales from robbery Detail, we began checking out
the four.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
Close friends of the suspect.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
We could locate only two of them, but those two
paid off in the basements.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
And garages of their homes.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
We found another portion of the loot, along with evidence
that showed that both men had taken.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
Active parts in the hijackings.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
They were booked at the main jail on suspicion of
two eleven PC.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
A four week went by.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
The steakout continued on the Perry house.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
Still no sign of him.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Saturday, December twentieth, four to forty five pm we checked
back in at the office.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
This thing short dragon.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
The l used to wrap it up before Christmas, when
they get it out of the way, working a couple
of days off.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
I don't know if I'm too interested.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Joe, the days off, I mean we got visitors on
the way again.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
What you mean for the holidays.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Who's kind of the same old bunch.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
My brother in law and his wife and his kids
and that little do over there.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
Well, they were just leading for three weeks worth they deal.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
Oh, brother in law got home, found a notice from
his company. He's been transferred out here. They're going to
stay with us all through the holidays and then they'll
start house hunt.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
How about that.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
He's got a problem.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
He's got a new rug in the living how about.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
Twenty to one on it?
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Jill, what's a little fox teary, oh high skipper anything
before we check out?
Speaker 6 (23:18):
He's the news for you to just talked to the
Venturia Sheriff's office. We own my favorite.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
PU mean they grabbed Walter Perry half an hour ago.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Monday, December twenty second, Suspect Walter Perry was returned to
Los Angeles. He was taken to the interrogation room where
Captain Diddeon Ben and I questioned him for almost two hours.
He was confronted with the evidence and testimony against him,
and after another hour and a half of interrogation, he broke.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
He gave us a.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Full signed statement describing his part in the campaign of hijackings.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
He also gave us the names of everyone in the gang,
how they participated in a what extent.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
He said. Most of the.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Property looted from the hijack trucks was stored in a
rented barn located at the north end of the San
Fernando Valley.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
A detail of men checked. I didn't confirm the information.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
The suspect's wife, Leona, was notified of her husband's arrest.
Speaker 8 (24:05):
One thirty five pm. We completed our interrogation.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Very nice. Go you ask me a lot of questions.
How about it? Can I ask you with? What's it? Well?
Speaker 8 (24:13):
Why do you think I did it?
Speaker 6 (24:13):
Why I got mixed up in this?
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Well, according to your statements, you wanted the money, didn't it?
Speaker 10 (24:16):
Or you've been out to my house Ivn't you even
met my wife and Aunty? I guess you met a
mother too. Yeah, well then you've got it. Nobody in
the world would make me go for a hijack deal,
but she could. I even remember the morning I'd met
up my mind to do it her. I was out
the kitchen here yapping at Leona in the other room,
the same old roasting a fosy truck driver.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
That was me.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
Eleven years the wife and I've been married. Her mother
lived with us, nine of them. Didn't get any better,
didn't get any worse, Just the same old yapping her
and her four girls. Why couldn't they listen to her?
They were the best girls in the world.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Why couldn't they marry money?
Speaker 10 (24:46):
Why don't it to be guys like truck driver, stupid
truck driver, same thing, every day, always the same, nine
years of it there, So I want not to get
enough money to rub in her face enough to make.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
A choke on me. You can hate somebody for that.
Speaker 10 (24:59):
I don't know how many years there give me, but
I'm gonna hate her everyone.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
That Oh, Hi, Elston wanta to remain in jail.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
That's ready to go.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
I want to be a minute recks right? Thank you?
Speaker 6 (25:08):
All right? Gray? Yeah?
Speaker 10 (25:11):
Uh, sergeant, My wife's been told hers sh she knows
about it.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
She's waiting outside in the hall with her mother, and
you can see him on the way out.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
No thanks, old her. Hi, honey, I'm sorry, older.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Why did you do it?
Speaker 6 (25:27):
I ask him?
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Whether they're honey?
Speaker 10 (25:28):
You heard as much of it as I did, nine
years worth of I guess it finally got me sick.
She wanted you to have money, so I went out
to get it. You you come and see me when
you can.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I wasn't going to any jail to see you. I
knew it all along. I knew what your words the truth.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
She never should have.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Married you, all right, pray, let's fool mschie hold.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Huh, why.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
How you fingering?
Speaker 8 (25:52):
And I don't know? How about some coffee?
Speaker 6 (25:53):
I'm I'm cay. She was funny.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
You see other people sweating and out your true, looked
like nothing. I'm just thinking, hibout, what's.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
That I was in? What about them?
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Yes? I haven't got it, half man.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
The story you have just heard was true, only the
names were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
On March fifth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department
eighty seven, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
In a moment the results of that trial.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
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Speaker 2 (27:10):
Walter Richard Perry was tried and convicted on several counts
of robbery in the first degree. He was sentenced to
the state penitentiary for the term.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Prescribed by law.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
First degree robbery is punishable by a term of five
years to light. His accomplices received similar sentences.
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