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Police Department, you will travel step by step on the
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Speaker 5 (01:56):
It was Sunday, December twenty fifth. It was raining in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
We're working a.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Day watch out of homicide detail. My partner's Ben Romero.
The boss is blaming Steed Captain a homicide. My name
is Friday. Was thirty nine minutes past five am when
I got to San Andreas Cathedral on First Street, churchyard.
Oh that's kind aticulating. Hi Dave, Hi Joe.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
My body's over here all right, Merry Christmas. Huh yeah,
section from the church.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Founded about an hour ago.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Remember, look.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Pretty brutal.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Yeah, okay, who wish you? No identification?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
The corner checked the body yet, Yeah, how long you've
been dead? We're gonna start writing about midnight? Didn't Yeah,
the grounds dry under the.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
Body open dead five or six hours?
Speaker 6 (02:57):
I'd say, Ben get here yet, Yeah, he's helping. Claudia
checked the area.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
And this park here just all a part of the
church grounds.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
And I think so I was stuck out of this
rain for a minutes. There's an alcove over there by
the church.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Yeah, but not.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
How much we got to go one day? Not much motive.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Looks like robbery, you know, find a woman's person in
the body, pretty well picked over.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Chris is wet.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
The Jones's destiny contents for Prince Corners checking.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
And the idea of what the killer used in the
woman's face, and coroner figures a sharp instrument of.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Some kind nasty one. Yeah fight here we high l
e I you and everything happens on Christmas.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Chris was soaking wet an ordinary black handbag and raised
any prints on the stuff inside?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
No?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
No, want? Yeah you can check the content.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Thanks you. Let's see small comb closted the teeth out
of it. Three pinners, hairpins, mirror lipstick, that's itchly a
couple more things. This fountain panel, this door key, and
I'm sing. Found them in the grass a few feet
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from the body.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
I have a look at us. Yeah, it's an ordinary
ballpoint fountain pin Buy him in any drug stop for
sixty nine cents. The center rushed on. The key must
have been dropped recently. Maybe this will explain what happened
to her face. Broken beer bottles? Where'd you find that
last one? Found it back in the bushes over there,
These jagged edges here smeared with blood too much rain
can't do anything about princes till a drive and can
(04:36):
get enough from these smears to run a precipitate drink.
So hey, yeah, man, what is it? Oh?
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Hi Joe? Hi Cardio found the stead of footprints over
with that plump of shrabbery.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Rain hasn't spoiled me?
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Did you cover it?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (04:48):
I think you can get a pretty good cash from that.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
I get a picture of them right away. Hey, Charlie,
I'll get the stuff from the car. Mind giving me
a hand day. Well, it's takes care of Christmas, yo, know.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yeah, you get a chance to check the body in
what do you think? Well, there's no sign of struggle.
Could have happened after a Christmas Eve brawl maybe? Yeah.
Whoever the victim is, she was probably acquainted with the killer.
The two of 'em came in the park and the
victim got it before she knew what was happening.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Might work easier if we find out who the victim
is and.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
We can check our prince to R and I when
we get back to the office. What those footprints look like.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Seem like a heavy print, maybe work shoes or some
kind I wanna see how he's making out.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
And miss Christmas dinner again this year.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
H what trinds farm and fan and keys?
Speaker 5 (05:42):
What a waste.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
It's a cheap pin in your sell thousands and want
to smoke.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
I think.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Those princes who helped him Victor killer. I gotta find
him very hm, thank you. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Maybe we can work a switch.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
How's that? And then the lock that fits the key.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Nine am Christmas Day, Sergeant's Dave Royo, Robert Claudio, Ben
and I went back to the office and took stock
of what we had to work with. Wasn't much. The
woman had been murdered. Who was she? Why was she killed?
Who was the killer? Dave and Claudio had the dead
woman's fingerprints taken and they were run through the record bureau.
Ben and I checked with Lee Jones at the crime lamp.
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The results of the precipitate test showed that the type
of blood found on the broken beer bottle Matt's that
of the victim. From the cast of the foot impressions
found at the scene of the killing, Lee estimated that
and were made by a person approximately five feet nine
inches tall, weighing about one hundred and sixty pounds. He
figured the foot gear must have been of a heavy type,
either a boot or address shoe with thick double soles
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size eleven nine. Am. We checked in at the basement
of the Hall of Justice. The COLDI morn, Doc, how's
it going?
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Oh there at Joe. It's caused by motable fracture.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
The skulls flashing the face was a contributing saw as
I sent her close to Lee Jones.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Yeah, we know, no lung remarks.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Ah, I got two things here. They will help me,
they won't. Yeah. And the chemist report here and.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
The blood analysis shows the victim of drinking. She was
definitely under the influence at the time she was murdered.
Twelve hundred percent of alcohol in the blood.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
How about the leady weapon, Doc, We're gonna.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Rule out that beer bottle and just coming to that
step over here.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Yeah, this mark here in the side of her face,
brown smudge. Well, Jones says that that shoe polish he
analyzed a few of the particles.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Times in the cause of death, was brought about by
severe blows in my head and face.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Heavy shoe, huh, that's my guess. Probably a boot or
a workshoe.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
That doesn't nand you what do you mean they were
heavy work shoes a killer was wearing? Why would they
probably how many.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
People probably say worksho could be a waterproofing, you know.
Jones says it was a brown paste polish figure unless
the killer was wearing some kind of dress, boots, cycling boots.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Maybe hundreds of kids in our motorcycles were.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Yeah, that's going to be about as helpful as a
key or a cheap fountain pen.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Excuse me, Connie mooy Tyson speaking, Yeah, all right, think
I'll tell cunning Amata and I want to see you
run away?
Speaker 5 (08:21):
What's up? Demanded victims Prince. During the war years, a
complete file of pictures and fingerprints had been kept on
all persons employed at local defense plans. Out of this
file came our first major lead. The victim's fingerprints matched
those of one Maria Camacho, thirty eight years old, formerly
employed at Universal Aircraft. Her address in nineteen forty five
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was listed as ninety two thirty Sheridan Avenue. Ben and
I went over to the crime lab, picked up the
key and the fountain pen found near the body, and
drove to the Sheridan Avenue address. The house was three
blocks from the churchyard where the body was found. A
young woman with a baby in her arms answered the door.
She identified herself as Elena Gomez. She told us Maria
(09:05):
Camacho was her aunt. They were expecting her for Christmas
dinner late that afternoon. We told her what happened. When
she recovered from the shock, we questioned her and her husband,
the furniture worker.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
So high for me, bulle, why anyone do this to rink?
Speaker 7 (09:21):
When's the last time you saw her? Mis filmy?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
She was around last night, sargat.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
She brought the presents for the kids, always bought them
peasants on Christmas?
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Did she live here?
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Was this her permanent address? She stayed with us Durningior
War when Gray was oversea.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
When he came back, she took a room down the street.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
I didn't you give you a dress?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
What time did Maria leave the house last night? Oh,
let's see, must been around ten o'clock, not much later,
don't you think, Lenna? About ten o'clock? Yeah, go see
what those kids are doing a ready?
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Did Maria have anything to drink here last night? Minus gomaz, Yes,
we're glad to share it together.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
That cas.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Tell if she's been drinking before she came here. It
was Christmas eve. I guess she'd had a fear. Why
was she a pretty heavy drinker? Not usually not maybe
on the holidays. So I really like to get up
and have fun living alone.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
All that.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Poor real?
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Oh did she drink it home?
Speaker 7 (10:19):
Or was there some particular place.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
She liked to go?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
A cantina down on Soda Streets?
Speaker 4 (10:24):
She used to go there.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Any others good?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
A couple of bars on Brooklyn Avenue.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
I don't know the names.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
What did Maria do for a living? Miscumez She took
int some dressmaking with herself.
Speaker 9 (10:37):
She wasn't poor, wasn't rich. Her landlady could tell you
about her friends.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Kids are hungry, Land and he's getta call.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Sorry that we had to break in on you like it.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
That's just the kids. Ask the officers if they want
the met pie rake.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
No, no, no, that's all right, I mad go may
think just one more thing?
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Would you look at these please? It's pam.
Speaker 9 (10:58):
Sure, that's Maria. Look great, Maria's pitt.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Now how about this key?
Speaker 7 (11:04):
No?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
I never saw that before? Near die? Well, thanks very much,
both of you. Sorry to hold up your dinner. I's sorry, Hey,
maybe I.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Could picture a turkey sandwich.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Oh, thank you again.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Same.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
We have to be going.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
We'll contact you later on.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Here's our card, all right.
Speaker 9 (11:22):
I can't think of a reason, Sarge. Hi, someone would
kill us, I would kill Maria.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Come on, nice kid, it's gonna be having a good Christmas.
Too bad we had to spoil it. We drove down
the street to the rooming house where Maria Comancho stayed.
We talked to the land lady and the rest of
the tenants and failed to come up with a lead.
They told us Maria Camancho drank a little, but she
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was always pleasant, easy to get along with. We checked
her room. We went through stacks of any slanguage, newspapers
and magazines. We went through her bills, photographs or letters.
We found nothing. There wasn't an item in the small
apartment that could help us.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
We went through the entire rooming house, trying each.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Door with a key that we'd found with the body.
Didn't fit any of them, not even the door to
the victim's room.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Five pm, there was a lull in the ring.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
We picked up Dave and Claudio and started to explore
the only lead we had. The victim had been drinking
a few hours before she'd been murdered, probably in a
neighborhood tavern. For the next six hours, we canvassed every
bar in the vicinity. Eleven fifteen pm Christmas night, the
four of us met in a combination bar a restaurant
at Brooklyn and Soto for a bite.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
You heard as much luck as we did nothing, Dave.
Everybody we talked to knew a woman. Nobody saw her
Christmas Eve, and we picked.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Up the names of a dozen friends of hers from
the bar down and checked them out.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
They couldn't tell us anything.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Well, we still got another dozen buyers to cover. At
least she must have been in one of them last night.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
I wish we'd find it. My wife's sure, man, you've
got the company sus mine.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
All right?
Speaker 9 (12:59):
Get remember we had.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
The girl hand sandwich I did all right.
Speaker 9 (13:04):
And the three hamburgers.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
I played.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
We got some ketchup. Please sure say you wouldn't like
a little leg night to go with that. It's good.
I make the better my o. Here's something you can
do for us, Yes, sir, would you look at this picture?
Speaker 5 (13:23):
All right? See if you've identified this woman.
Speaker 9 (13:26):
She looks like Maria.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Yeah, that's her.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
You know it was you in here last night, you know,
yeah she was What time was.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
She all about eleven eleven thirty? Y?
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Was she with somebody or half a dozen then at.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Least Maria, another woman and four or five men.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Were they drinking or they were well behaved?
Speaker 7 (13:42):
Just had a little Christmas chair that so they like
my ignite?
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Or what time did Maria leave? You remember?
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Well, no, not exactly, but she left before the others.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
They closed the place, before those cuts. She leave a
woone No Tony father.
Speaker 9 (13:53):
Out of I think it must have been sometime around midnight.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
I'm not sure who's Tony Tony Perez.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
He's bussed by here.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
He knows Marie.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
See now Christmas is Offle's a hotel down the street, someplace.
I don't know, I'm fit. Maybe the key does. David
Claudio started to check the neighborhood to locate the hotel
where Tony Perez stayed. Ben and I continued our canvas
of bars and restaurants in the area. One am, the
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rain started in again. We checked into the bar on
Brooklyn Avenue near Cornwall. The Cantena Sinaloa.
Speaker 9 (14:26):
Yes, sir, gentlemen, police help us.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Would you love to dispect you?
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Please?
Speaker 7 (14:30):
If you can identify?
Speaker 9 (14:31):
Wait till I dry my hands. Let's just getting some
of these glasses out of the way.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Let's see.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Never seen her before?
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Oh yeah, that's Maria. Too bad. I read in the
papers about it.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Can you tell us if she was in here last night?
Speaker 9 (14:48):
No, I didn't see how I've read in the papers
about it.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Though, terrible put it possible she might have been in
You didn't there?
Speaker 9 (14:56):
No, I always know when Maria is here.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
She was always full of fun. She'd like to sing.
Speaker 9 (15:02):
I better get these glasses.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
These then you won't call the office.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
You know.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
All about a drink?
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Sir?
Speaker 7 (15:10):
You don't.
Speaker 9 (15:10):
You don't look so good.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
You got any coffee?
Speaker 9 (15:13):
It's not very fresh. You been standing there a couple
of hours.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
I'm sorry. Okay, here.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Here's the sugar, any, thank you kindly? Yeah, that's not
very warm.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Huh, that's okay. What do you think of it, sir?
The guy was crazy? I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Ah, he must have been crazy.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Lots of nice rain, that's good for the farmers. Yeah, sure,
you ever see this key before? Let's see m I
don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
I go, yeah, daven't thought you found hotel that picked
up con pere. What do you tell me? He says,
you're talking to him, knowing samely if to find anything on.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
Him, he's wearing a fair of dark brown boots.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Yeah, well, polished.
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Monday, December twenty sixth nine am, we checked Tony Perez
through R and I. He had a record of seven
arrests but no convictions. During the past year, he'd been
booked on suspicion of two to eleven PC assault, would
intent to do great bodily harm and second degree burgenering.
In each instance, he'd been released for lack of evidence.
All of his shoes and clothing were brought to the
crime lamb for examination. Nine am we brought Perez back
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to the interrogation room. He admitted that he had been
with Maria Camacho Christmas Eve, but he denied having anything
to do with her killing. He told us that after
he had left Maria, he'd go into a party at
some friend's house. David Claudio went out to check his story.
I gave him the key found near the body and
asked him to try it on the door to Perez's
hotel room. Ben and I continued to question the suspect.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
How well did you know Maria from montre TONI I
told you already. She was just some old crow. We
used to hang around the bars, that's all.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
I used to talk to her once in a while.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Did you ever have any arguments with him?
Speaker 5 (18:34):
No? How many times you're gonna ask me that, it
would help a lot if he could tell us exactly
where you left Maria Christmas, even when you left it.
I told you already.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
I don't remember exactly. We're drinking.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
We were all drinking.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
I don't remember.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
How'd you get to that?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Boy?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
I walked place.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
Down Malabar Street. Maria stopped at a bar someplace along
the way, and that's the last time I saw her.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Did you go in with her?
Speaker 7 (18:58):
No, she went in alone.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
I went to the party, that's all.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
I'm interrogation room fright.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
Lee Jones.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Check the polish and press boots and matches with the
smear of polish in the victim's face.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Wax components were exactly the same. Good. How about the cast, Nope,
they didn't match.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
The prince We cast out there beside eleven big heel Prez,
where's the nine pretty small hill?
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Don't match at all?
Speaker 6 (19:22):
What about the other stuff went over? The rest of
his shoes was closed, knotting the kai in.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Oh jaylie, thank you? Do you shine your own boots? Tony? No?
Why where do you get 'em? Shamed?
Speaker 6 (19:36):
I go to Angelo's Chicago Street right in there.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
First, when's the last time you got a shame? Oh? Christmas? Eve?
What time Christmas?
Speaker 6 (19:45):
He've done? When I got off work about two and half? No? Alright,
hi dad, see.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
When you're outside of it?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Yeah? First, the truth about the party. He was there.
We timed out. How long did it take him to
walks in the restaurant for the party? Yeah? Pretty close.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
His friends say, you got to the party about twelve thirty.
Doesn't look like you had time to kill that woman.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Where does that leave us? You still got those boots? No,
no more, they don't match the impressions at the murder scene.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Well it makes us even here's your keyback didn't fit?
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Tony Perez was held for further investigation. Dave and Claudio
took up the canvassing of bars in the same area
where we had left off the night before. Then and
I drove down to Angelo's Shine Stands. It stood just
outside a barber shop, four chairs with an awning full
of cigarette holes over him. He identified Maria Camacho's picture immediately.
We questioned him while he polished their shoes.
Speaker 9 (20:47):
Marie I used to tell sergeant running around like that,
she had so many friends, so many? Did you see
Maria on Christmas? Even though Christmas Eve? Let me see no? No,
last time was two days before Christmas?
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Angelo? Do you know a man with the name of
Tony Perez?
Speaker 9 (21:07):
Sony Show, Tony Perez Talk, big show?
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Is he one of your customers?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (21:14):
Longest time he comes to see me? Is he here
on Christmas Eve?
Speaker 7 (21:17):
Thanks?
Speaker 4 (21:17):
So?
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Yeah? Yeah, he was here.
Speaker 9 (21:19):
I gave him a shine, A good customer.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Remember what kind of shoes he had on?
Speaker 9 (21:24):
Shore? Boots? He always wears boots.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
What color were they?
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Do you know?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Brown?
Speaker 9 (21:29):
I always wear brown boots. Well, what's about it, Tony
and talk?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
What kind of police do you use in his boots?
Ends long? I got the cam down.
Speaker 9 (21:38):
Here ye here high great polish.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
If you got boats, I.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
Can fix them up.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
Do you use the same polish on all the boats
of Shane Angel?
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (21:48):
Only the brown boats. That's brown polish, you fellas. That's
too many questions make me go through slow.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
There's no rush, Angelow, can you tell me this?
Speaker 9 (21:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Besides Tony Paz, is there anybody else with brown boots
who gotta shine from you? Christmas Eve? I don't know.
Speaker 9 (22:05):
Lots of people get shined. Christmas Eve was pretty busy, and.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Just the people with brown boot TAngelo?
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Can you remember?
Speaker 9 (22:11):
No, no, no, I don't think so. Tony was the
only one with the brown boats.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
There's no artist.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
And how about heavy brown shoes?
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Can you remember the people with heavy brown shoes that
came in for shine? No, no, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (22:25):
Look, please just letting me shine your shoes?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Huh?
Speaker 7 (22:28):
That can of brown poly Changelo, you say, there's the
kinds you use on Tony Perez's booth.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
Yeah, that's that's kind of right here.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Well, can you remember how many times you.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Used that polish on Christmas Eve? Well?
Speaker 9 (22:39):
Hell, I open this can that morning, can see how
much is gone? Maybe I use it all or maybe
half a dozen times?
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Can you remember the people whose shoes called for this
kind of polish?
Speaker 9 (22:50):
Lots of them brown shoes. I know the feet when
I see him, I don't know the faces.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Don't you remember any of them if.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
They like the shine, might be buying a buyer to
come back.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Three four fellas.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
Maybe I sit him before. I don't know the names. Okay, finished,
and I.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Get to shine it. Oh yeah, fine, say I'm gonna
buy that can of polish from the Angelo and we're
gonna check back with you later.
Speaker 9 (23:18):
Okay, fine, polish, Sergeant Best you can't get.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Yeah, but it rubs off. December twenty sixth five pm,
we drove back to the crime lab and had Lee
Jones analyze the can of shoe polish get massed exactly
with the particles of shoe polish taken from the victim's
body and from the boots of Tony Perez. We arranged
for a steak out at Angelo's shine stand in case
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the people with heavy brown shoes returned, Angelo could point
them out immediately to the men on duty. Five thirty pm,
Dave and Claudio called in. I thought they had another nibble,
this time from the bartender at the Al Sadello tavern
a bar on Sodo Street. Drove down to South meaning
Harlem Place for a meet.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
M Hi day Hi.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Figured we'd better move on this tonight.
Speaker 9 (24:12):
What's the pitch bartender on Soto tip me that Maria
Camacho was in his place. Christmas Eve said it was
a little after midnight.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Huh, said she had a drink, left the place about
ten minutes past twelve with a guy called Frank Tallanto.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Nosed around, found his Toronto works at the midnight missions
over there.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
All right, let's go.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Just hit there.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
Yeah, good friend's missions.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Come in for a nice warm, spiritual bath, coffee and
soup free and watch the stairs.
Speaker 10 (24:41):
Yeah yeah, no, brother, I only hope that I'm meeting
here and thought too close to Majors toes to close
the great and Gloria's light as the stairs.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
And yet, brothers, if.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
We be not born again of that light as the
book says, we gonna be down.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Brother dang man, Yeah no, brother's will.
Speaker 10 (25:03):
Sister Michael Ferguson plays one of.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
His doing marches. Let's join our.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
Brother to brother and march into the lunch room where,
through the kind graces of one of our benefacts is
he Wodorus is the Acropolis cafe.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
He's one of you.
Speaker 10 (25:15):
Will be in tire of a boat, Turkey soup and
my sister Wilson's homemade bread and a.
Speaker 9 (25:18):
Cut of his pipe, ter ferguson too much?
Speaker 6 (25:27):
If men see yeah, let's go sure pack him in
with him? SI smells I'm doing?
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Excuse me, brother? What is police?
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Officers?
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Do you have a Frank Tolano working here? The trouble?
Does he work here? Well? Yes, he's a very good man, Frank.
Anything wrong? Is he getting to know? He had worked
a week? Find him? While I like to know what
the trouble is. We like to talk to him.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Mister that so well, he has a roma good friends
mission INEX, that's man time, pristy.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Is that his permanent residence, the mission annex.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
Yeah, Frank's very helpful.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
He works with and we give him rowing board. Is
he over at three Annix? Now? Yep, maybe you'd better
not see him now, Officer him.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Well, well, Frank's nod at the best.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
You've been drinking again, that's for sure. Sign What do
you mean?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Well, whenever Frank starts drinking, that means that he's worrying.
He's one of those he drinks to forget him. He's
been drinking for three days.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
He wants to have a let to forget. Come on
six thirty pm, we drove over to the good Friend's
mission annex on San Pedro Street. The man in charge
told us that Toronto had a small room to himself
at the rear of the second floor. Dave and Claudia
went around to cover the mission annex from the back.
Ben and I went up a narrow flight of wooden stairs.
(26:42):
Plain white plaster walls were chipped and cracked and scrawled
with pencil markings. We walked down to the end of
a wide hallway to a brown panel door with a
transom above it. There was a man in soiled work
clothes sitting on the bed. On the table next to him,
there were three quart wine bottles, two of them were empty.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Get out of here, Hugh, Frank Leno, what about it?
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Police officers like to talk to you. Get out of
here and not taking me. I'll cut you to pieces.
Drop the bottle, to Leno, get out of here, drop
the bottle.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
I'll cut you to pieces like you cut Maria.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
I'll kill you.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Put it down to Lonto, drop it. Get the cups on. Yeah,
let's go.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Just a minute. Yeah it fits.
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Speaker 5 (01:56):
It was Sunday, December twenty fifth. It was raining in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
We're working a.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Day watch out of homicide detail. My partner's Ben Romero.
The boss is blaming Steed Captain a homicide. My name
is Friday. Was thirty nine minutes past five am when
I got to San Andreas Cathedral on First Street, churchyard.
Oh that's kind aticulating. Hi Dave, Hi Joe.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
My body's over here all right, Merry Christmas. Huh yeah,
section from the church.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Founded about an hour ago.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Remember, look.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Pretty brutal.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Yeah, okay, who wish you? No identification?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
The corner checked the body yet, Yeah, how long you've
been dead? We're gonna start writing about midnight? Didn't Yeah,
the grounds dry under the.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
Body open dead five or six hours?
Speaker 6 (02:57):
I'd say, Ben get here yet, Yeah, he's helping. Claudia
checked the area.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
And this park here just all a part of the
church grounds.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
And I think so I was stuck out of this
rain for a minutes. There's an alcove over there by
the church.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Yeah, but not.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
How much we got to go one day? Not much motive.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Looks like robbery, you know, find a woman's person in
the body, pretty well picked over.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Chris is wet.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
The Jones's destiny contents for Prince Corners checking.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
And the idea of what the killer used in the
woman's face, and coroner figures a sharp instrument of.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Some kind nasty one. Yeah fight here we high l
e I you and everything happens on Christmas.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Chris was soaking wet an ordinary black handbag and raised
any prints on the stuff inside?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
No?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
No, want? Yeah you can check the content.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Thanks you. Let's see small comb closted the teeth out
of it. Three pinners, hairpins, mirror lipstick, that's itchly a
couple more things. This fountain panel, this door key, and
I'm sing. Found them in the grass a few feet
(04:12):
from the body.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
I have a look at us. Yeah, it's an ordinary
ballpoint fountain pin Buy him in any drug stop for
sixty nine cents. The center rushed on. The key must
have been dropped recently. Maybe this will explain what happened
to her face. Broken beer bottles? Where'd you find that
last one? Found it back in the bushes over there,
These jagged edges here smeared with blood too much rain
can't do anything about princes till a drive and can
(04:36):
get enough from these smears to run a precipitate drink.
So hey, yeah, man, what is it? Oh?
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Hi Joe? Hi Cardio found the stead of footprints over
with that plump of shrabbery.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Rain hasn't spoiled me?
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Did you cover it?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (04:48):
I think you can get a pretty good cash from that.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
I get a picture of them right away. Hey, Charlie,
I'll get the stuff from the car. Mind giving me
a hand day. Well, it's takes care of Christmas, yo, know.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yeah, you get a chance to check the body in
what do you think? Well, there's no sign of struggle.
Could have happened after a Christmas Eve brawl maybe? Yeah.
Whoever the victim is, she was probably acquainted with the killer.
The two of 'em came in the park and the
victim got it before she knew what was happening.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Might work easier if we find out who the victim
is and.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
We can check our prince to R and I when
we get back to the office. What those footprints look like.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Seem like a heavy print, maybe work shoes or some
kind I wanna see how he's making out.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
And miss Christmas dinner again this year.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
H what trinds farm and fan and keys?
Speaker 5 (05:42):
What a waste.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
It's a cheap pin in your sell thousands and want
to smoke.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
I think.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Those princes who helped him Victor killer. I gotta find
him very hm, thank you. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Maybe we can work a switch.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
How's that? And then the lock that fits the key.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Nine am Christmas Day, Sergeant's Dave Royo, Robert Claudio, Ben
and I went back to the office and took stock
of what we had to work with. Wasn't much. The
woman had been murdered. Who was she? Why was she killed?
Who was the killer? Dave and Claudio had the dead
woman's fingerprints taken and they were run through the record bureau.
Ben and I checked with Lee Jones at the crime lamp.
(06:27):
The results of the precipitate test showed that the type
of blood found on the broken beer bottle Matt's that
of the victim. From the cast of the foot impressions
found at the scene of the killing, Lee estimated that
and were made by a person approximately five feet nine
inches tall, weighing about one hundred and sixty pounds. He
figured the foot gear must have been of a heavy type,
either a boot or address shoe with thick double soles
(06:49):
size eleven nine. Am. We checked in at the basement
of the Hall of Justice. The COLDI morn, Doc, how's
it going?
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Oh there at Joe. It's caused by motable fracture.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
The skulls flashing the face was a contributing saw as
I sent her close to Lee Jones.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Yeah, we know, no lung remarks.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Ah, I got two things here. They will help me,
they won't. Yeah. And the chemist report here and.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
The blood analysis shows the victim of drinking. She was
definitely under the influence at the time she was murdered.
Twelve hundred percent of alcohol in the blood.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
How about the leady weapon, Doc, We're gonna.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Rule out that beer bottle and just coming to that
step over here.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Yeah, this mark here in the side of her face,
brown smudge. Well, Jones says that that shoe polish he
analyzed a few of the particles.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Times in the cause of death, was brought about by
severe blows in my head and face.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Heavy shoe, huh, that's my guess. Probably a boot or
a workshoe.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
That doesn't nand you what do you mean they were
heavy work shoes a killer was wearing? Why would they
probably how many.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
People probably say worksho could be a waterproofing, you know.
Jones says it was a brown paste polish figure unless
the killer was wearing some kind of dress, boots, cycling boots.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Maybe hundreds of kids in our motorcycles were.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Yeah, that's going to be about as helpful as a
key or a cheap fountain pen.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Excuse me, Connie mooy Tyson speaking, Yeah, all right, think
I'll tell cunning Amata and I want to see you
run away?
Speaker 5 (08:21):
What's up? Demanded victims Prince. During the war years, a
complete file of pictures and fingerprints had been kept on
all persons employed at local defense plans. Out of this
file came our first major lead. The victim's fingerprints matched
those of one Maria Camacho, thirty eight years old, formerly
employed at Universal Aircraft. Her address in nineteen forty five
(08:44):
was listed as ninety two thirty Sheridan Avenue. Ben and
I went over to the crime lab, picked up the
key and the fountain pen found near the body, and
drove to the Sheridan Avenue address. The house was three
blocks from the churchyard where the body was found. A
young woman with a baby in her arms answered the door.
She identified herself as Elena Gomez. She told us Maria
(09:05):
Camacho was her aunt. They were expecting her for Christmas
dinner late that afternoon. We told her what happened. When
she recovered from the shock, we questioned her and her husband,
the furniture worker.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
So high for me, bulle, why anyone do this to rink?
Speaker 7 (09:21):
When's the last time you saw her? Mis filmy?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
She was around last night, sargat.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
She brought the presents for the kids, always bought them
peasants on Christmas?
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Did she live here?
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Was this her permanent address? She stayed with us Durningior
War when Gray was oversea.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
When he came back, she took a room down the street.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
I didn't you give you a dress?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
What time did Maria leave the house last night? Oh,
let's see, must been around ten o'clock, not much later,
don't you think, Lenna? About ten o'clock? Yeah, go see
what those kids are doing a ready?
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Did Maria have anything to drink here last night? Minus gomaz, Yes,
we're glad to share it together.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
That cas.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Tell if she's been drinking before she came here. It
was Christmas eve. I guess she'd had a fear. Why
was she a pretty heavy drinker? Not usually not maybe
on the holidays. So I really like to get up
and have fun living alone.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
All that.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Poor real?
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Oh did she drink it home?
Speaker 7 (10:19):
Or was there some particular place.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
She liked to go?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
A cantina down on Soda Streets?
Speaker 4 (10:24):
She used to go there.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Any others good?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
A couple of bars on Brooklyn Avenue.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
I don't know the names.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
What did Maria do for a living? Miscumez She took
int some dressmaking with herself.
Speaker 9 (10:37):
She wasn't poor, wasn't rich. Her landlady could tell you
about her friends.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Kids are hungry, Land and he's getta call.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Sorry that we had to break in on you like it.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
That's just the kids. Ask the officers if they want
the met pie rake.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
No, no, no, that's all right, I mad go may
think just one more thing?
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Would you look at these please? It's pam.
Speaker 9 (10:58):
Sure, that's Maria. Look great, Maria's pitt.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Now how about this key?
Speaker 7 (11:04):
No?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
I never saw that before? Near die? Well, thanks very much,
both of you. Sorry to hold up your dinner. I's sorry, Hey,
maybe I.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Could picture a turkey sandwich.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Oh, thank you again.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Same.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
We have to be going.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
We'll contact you later on.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Here's our card, all right.
Speaker 9 (11:22):
I can't think of a reason, Sarge. Hi, someone would
kill us, I would kill Maria.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Come on, nice kid, it's gonna be having a good Christmas.
Too bad we had to spoil it. We drove down
the street to the rooming house where Maria Comancho stayed.
We talked to the land lady and the rest of
the tenants and failed to come up with a lead.
They told us Maria Camancho drank a little, but she
(11:55):
was always pleasant, easy to get along with. We checked
her room. We went through stacks of any slanguage, newspapers
and magazines. We went through her bills, photographs or letters.
We found nothing. There wasn't an item in the small
apartment that could help us.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
We went through the entire rooming house, trying each.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Door with a key that we'd found with the body.
Didn't fit any of them, not even the door to
the victim's room.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Five pm, there was a lull in the ring.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
We picked up Dave and Claudio and started to explore
the only lead we had. The victim had been drinking
a few hours before she'd been murdered, probably in a
neighborhood tavern. For the next six hours, we canvassed every
bar in the vicinity. Eleven fifteen pm Christmas night, the
four of us met in a combination bar a restaurant
at Brooklyn and Soto for a bite.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
You heard as much luck as we did nothing, Dave.
Everybody we talked to knew a woman. Nobody saw her
Christmas Eve, and we picked.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Up the names of a dozen friends of hers from
the bar down and checked them out.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
They couldn't tell us anything.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Well, we still got another dozen buyers to cover. At
least she must have been in one of them last night.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
I wish we'd find it. My wife's sure, man, you've
got the company sus mine.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
All right?
Speaker 9 (12:59):
Get remember we had.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
The girl hand sandwich I did all right.
Speaker 9 (13:04):
And the three hamburgers.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
I played.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
We got some ketchup. Please sure say you wouldn't like
a little leg night to go with that. It's good.
I make the better my o. Here's something you can
do for us, Yes, sir, would you look at this picture?
Speaker 5 (13:23):
All right? See if you've identified this woman.
Speaker 9 (13:26):
She looks like Maria.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Yeah, that's her.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
You know it was you in here last night, you know,
yeah she was What time was.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
She all about eleven eleven thirty? Y?
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Was she with somebody or half a dozen then at.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Least Maria, another woman and four or five men.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Were they drinking or they were well behaved?
Speaker 7 (13:42):
Just had a little Christmas chair that so they like
my ignite?
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Or what time did Maria leave? You remember?
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Well, no, not exactly, but she left before the others.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
They closed the place, before those cuts. She leave a
woone No Tony father.
Speaker 9 (13:53):
Out of I think it must have been sometime around midnight.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
I'm not sure who's Tony Tony Perez.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
He's bussed by here.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
He knows Marie.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
See now Christmas is Offle's a hotel down the street, someplace.
I don't know, I'm fit. Maybe the key does. David
Claudio started to check the neighborhood to locate the hotel
where Tony Perez stayed. Ben and I continued our canvas
of bars and restaurants in the area. One am, the
(14:20):
rain started in again. We checked into the bar on
Brooklyn Avenue near Cornwall. The Cantena Sinaloa.
Speaker 9 (14:26):
Yes, sir, gentlemen, police help us.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Would you love to dispect you?
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Please?
Speaker 7 (14:30):
If you can identify?
Speaker 9 (14:31):
Wait till I dry my hands. Let's just getting some
of these glasses out of the way.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Let's see.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Never seen her before?
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Oh yeah, that's Maria. Too bad. I read in the
papers about it.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Can you tell us if she was in here last night?
Speaker 9 (14:48):
No, I didn't see how I've read in the papers
about it.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Though, terrible put it possible she might have been in
You didn't there?
Speaker 9 (14:56):
No, I always know when Maria is here.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
She was always full of fun. She'd like to sing.
Speaker 9 (15:02):
I better get these glasses.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
These then you won't call the office.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
You know.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
All about a drink?
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Sir?
Speaker 7 (15:10):
You don't.
Speaker 9 (15:10):
You don't look so good.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
You got any coffee?
Speaker 9 (15:13):
It's not very fresh. You been standing there a couple
of hours.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
I'm sorry. Okay, here.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Here's the sugar, any, thank you kindly? Yeah, that's not
very warm.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Huh, that's okay. What do you think of it, sir?
The guy was crazy? I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Ah, he must have been crazy.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Lots of nice rain, that's good for the farmers. Yeah, sure,
you ever see this key before? Let's see m I
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I go, yeah, daven't thought you found hotel that picked
up con pere. What do you tell me? He says,
you're talking to him, knowing samely if to find anything on.
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Him, he's wearing a fair of dark brown boots.
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Yeah, well, polished.
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Monday, December twenty sixth nine am, we checked Tony Perez
through R and I. He had a record of seven
arrests but no convictions. During the past year, he'd been
booked on suspicion of two to eleven PC assault, would
intent to do great bodily harm and second degree burgenering.
In each instance, he'd been released for lack of evidence.
All of his shoes and clothing were brought to the
crime lamb for examination. Nine am we brought Perez back
(18:03):
to the interrogation room. He admitted that he had been
with Maria Camacho Christmas Eve, but he denied having anything
to do with her killing. He told us that after
he had left Maria, he'd go into a party at
some friend's house. David Claudio went out to check his story.
I gave him the key found near the body and
asked him to try it on the door to Perez's
hotel room. Ben and I continued to question the suspect.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
How well did you know Maria from montre TONI I
told you already. She was just some old crow. We
used to hang around the bars, that's all.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
I used to talk to her once in a while.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Did you ever have any arguments with him?
Speaker 5 (18:34):
No? How many times you're gonna ask me that, it
would help a lot if he could tell us exactly
where you left Maria Christmas, even when you left it.
I told you already.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
I don't remember exactly. We're drinking.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
We were all drinking.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
I don't remember.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
How'd you get to that?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Boy?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
I walked place.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
Down Malabar Street. Maria stopped at a bar someplace along
the way, and that's the last time I saw her.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Did you go in with her?
Speaker 7 (18:58):
No, she went in alone.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
I went to the party, that's all.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
I'm interrogation room fright.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
Lee Jones.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Check the polish and press boots and matches with the
smear of polish in the victim's face.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Wax components were exactly the same. Good. How about the cast, Nope,
they didn't match.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
The prince We cast out there beside eleven big heel Prez,
where's the nine pretty small hill?
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Don't match at all?
Speaker 6 (19:22):
What about the other stuff went over? The rest of
his shoes was closed, knotting the kai in.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Oh jaylie, thank you? Do you shine your own boots? Tony? No?
Why where do you get 'em? Shamed?
Speaker 6 (19:36):
I go to Angelo's Chicago Street right in there.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
First, when's the last time you got a shame? Oh? Christmas? Eve?
What time Christmas?
Speaker 6 (19:45):
He've done? When I got off work about two and half? No? Alright,
hi dad, see.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
When you're outside of it?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Yeah? First, the truth about the party. He was there.
We timed out. How long did it take him to
walks in the restaurant for the party? Yeah? Pretty close.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
His friends say, you got to the party about twelve thirty.
Doesn't look like you had time to kill that woman.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Where does that leave us? You still got those boots? No,
no more, they don't match the impressions at the murder scene.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Well it makes us even here's your keyback didn't fit?
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Tony Perez was held for further investigation. Dave and Claudio
took up the canvassing of bars in the same area
where we had left off the night before. Then and
I drove down to Angelo's Shine Stands. It stood just
outside a barber shop, four chairs with an awning full
of cigarette holes over him. He identified Maria Camacho's picture immediately.
We questioned him while he polished their shoes.
Speaker 9 (20:47):
Marie I used to tell sergeant running around like that,
she had so many friends, so many? Did you see
Maria on Christmas? Even though Christmas Eve? Let me see no? No,
last time was two days before Christmas?
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Angelo? Do you know a man with the name of
Tony Perez?
Speaker 9 (21:07):
Sony Show, Tony Perez Talk, big show?
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Is he one of your customers?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (21:14):
Longest time he comes to see me? Is he here
on Christmas Eve?
Speaker 7 (21:17):
Thanks?
Speaker 4 (21:17):
So?
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Yeah? Yeah, he was here.
Speaker 9 (21:19):
I gave him a shine, A good customer.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Remember what kind of shoes he had on?
Speaker 9 (21:24):
Shore? Boots? He always wears boots.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
What color were they?
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Do you know?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Brown?
Speaker 9 (21:29):
I always wear brown boots. Well, what's about it, Tony
and talk?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
What kind of police do you use in his boots?
Ends long? I got the cam down.
Speaker 9 (21:38):
Here ye here high great polish.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
If you got boats, I.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
Can fix them up.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
Do you use the same polish on all the boats
of Shane Angel?
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (21:48):
Only the brown boats. That's brown polish, you fellas. That's
too many questions make me go through slow.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
There's no rush, Angelow, can you tell me this?
Speaker 9 (21:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Besides Tony Paz, is there anybody else with brown boots
who gotta shine from you? Christmas Eve? I don't know.
Speaker 9 (22:05):
Lots of people get shined. Christmas Eve was pretty busy, and.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Just the people with brown boot TAngelo?
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Can you remember?
Speaker 9 (22:11):
No, no, no, I don't think so. Tony was the
only one with the brown boats.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
There's no artist.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
And how about heavy brown shoes?
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Can you remember the people with heavy brown shoes that
came in for shine? No, no, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (22:25):
Look, please just letting me shine your shoes?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Huh?
Speaker 7 (22:28):
That can of brown poly Changelo, you say, there's the
kinds you use on Tony Perez's booth.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
Yeah, that's that's kind of right here.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Well, can you remember how many times you.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Used that polish on Christmas Eve? Well?
Speaker 9 (22:39):
Hell, I open this can that morning, can see how
much is gone? Maybe I use it all or maybe
half a dozen times?
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Can you remember the people whose shoes called for this
kind of polish?
Speaker 9 (22:50):
Lots of them brown shoes. I know the feet when
I see him, I don't know the faces.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Don't you remember any of them if.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
They like the shine, might be buying a buyer to
come back.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Three four fellas.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
Maybe I sit him before. I don't know the names. Okay, finished,
and I.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Get to shine it. Oh yeah, fine, say I'm gonna
buy that can of polish from the Angelo and we're
gonna check back with you later.
Speaker 9 (23:18):
Okay, fine, polish, Sergeant Best you can't get.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Yeah, but it rubs off. December twenty sixth five pm,
we drove back to the crime lab and had Lee
Jones analyze the can of shoe polish get massed exactly
with the particles of shoe polish taken from the victim's
body and from the boots of Tony Perez. We arranged
for a steak out at Angelo's shine stand in case
(23:46):
the people with heavy brown shoes returned, Angelo could point
them out immediately to the men on duty. Five thirty pm,
Dave and Claudio called in. I thought they had another nibble,
this time from the bartender at the Al Sadello tavern
a bar on Sodo Street. Drove down to South meaning
Harlem Place for a meet.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
M Hi day Hi.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Figured we'd better move on this tonight.
Speaker 9 (24:12):
What's the pitch bartender on Soto tip me that Maria
Camacho was in his place. Christmas Eve said it was
a little after midnight.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Huh, said she had a drink, left the place about
ten minutes past twelve with a guy called Frank Tallanto.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Nosed around, found his Toronto works at the midnight missions
over there.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
All right, let's go.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Just hit there.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
Yeah, good friend's missions.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Come in for a nice warm, spiritual bath, coffee and
soup free and watch the stairs.
Speaker 10 (24:41):
Yeah yeah, no, brother, I only hope that I'm meeting
here and thought too close to Majors toes to close
the great and Gloria's light as the stairs.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
And yet, brothers, if.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
We be not born again of that light as the
book says, we gonna be down.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Brother dang man, Yeah no, brother's will.
Speaker 10 (25:03):
Sister Michael Ferguson plays one of.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
His doing marches. Let's join our.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
Brother to brother and march into the lunch room where,
through the kind graces of one of our benefacts is
he Wodorus is the Acropolis cafe.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
He's one of you.
Speaker 10 (25:15):
Will be in tire of a boat, Turkey soup and
my sister Wilson's homemade bread and a.
Speaker 9 (25:18):
Cut of his pipe, ter ferguson too much?
Speaker 6 (25:27):
If men see yeah, let's go sure pack him in
with him? SI smells I'm doing?
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Excuse me, brother? What is police?
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Officers?
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Do you have a Frank Tolano working here? The trouble?
Does he work here? Well? Yes, he's a very good man, Frank.
Anything wrong? Is he getting to know? He had worked
a week? Find him? While I like to know what
the trouble is. We like to talk to him.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Mister that so well, he has a roma good friends
mission INEX, that's man time, pristy.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Is that his permanent residence, the mission annex.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
Yeah, Frank's very helpful.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
He works with and we give him rowing board. Is
he over at three Annix? Now? Yep, maybe you'd better
not see him now, Officer him.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Well, well, Frank's nod at the best.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
You've been drinking again, that's for sure. Sign What do
you mean?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Well, whenever Frank starts drinking, that means that he's worrying.
He's one of those he drinks to forget him. He's
been drinking for three days.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
He wants to have a let to forget. Come on
six thirty pm, we drove over to the good Friend's
mission annex on San Pedro Street. The man in charge
told us that Toronto had a small room to himself
at the rear of the second floor. Dave and Claudia
went around to cover the mission annex from the back.
Ben and I went up a narrow flight of wooden stairs.
(26:42):
Plain white plaster walls were chipped and cracked and scrawled
with pencil markings. We walked down to the end of
a wide hallway to a brown panel door with a
transom above it. There was a man in soiled work
clothes sitting on the bed. On the table next to him,
there were three quart wine bottles, two of them were empty.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Get out of here, Hugh, Frank Leno, what about it?
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Police officers like to talk to you. Get out of
here and not taking me. I'll cut you to pieces.
Drop the bottle, to Leno, get out of here, drop
the bottle.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
I'll cut you to pieces like you cut Maria.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
I'll kill you.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Put it down to Lonto, drop it. Get the cups on. Yeah,
let's go.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Just a minute. Yeah it fits.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
The story you I've just heard was true, only the
names were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
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Frank Dominic Tolano has tried and convicted of first degree
murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. He is now serving
his term in the state penitentiary. You have just heard Dragnet,
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