October 29, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
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Speaker 2 (00:38):
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Speaker 3 (02:12):
Drag Net 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
official police biolence, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
Dragnet is the story of your police force.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
In action.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Was Tuesday, April twentieth, was overcast in Los Angeles. We
were working a day watch out of homicide. My partner's
Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Blaine Steve. My name's Friday.
I was on my way back from communications and it
was one thirty five pm when I got to Room
forty two Homicide.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Hi Joe, it's.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
Still for not much money for Bengals inside, Captain Service,
you're right back fall, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Keeping you busy.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
We'll about the same little hectic around the house though.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Ben mentioned something about that you're getting ready for a wedding.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Out there, aren't you.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
Yeah, My daughter Alice sure getting a nice fellow.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That's all.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
Yeah, ambitious kid, part time account, goes to law school
at night down Loyota.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Really nice fellow. And they're getting married away from Saturday.
It's gonna be a big church thing.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Sure, glad doesn't happen often.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Oh, I mean big production.
Speaker 8 (03:26):
Never saw so many bills in my life. New dress
for Alice going away, luggage, bridesmaids, dresses, eats, drinks, new
carpets for.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
The hall, new curtains in the living room. Wife must
think I made of the stuff. Well, you should have
had all boys make. Yeah, you're giving your daughter away.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Huh yeah, Well it reminds me. I gotta be sure
and some my suit. The cleaners get a good press
job on it. Sure is funny. What's that?
Speaker 7 (03:48):
It seems for years the wife's been afraid we'd never
get Alice married off. Now it's finally and the works
of wife's still unhappy.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh wellw's that goes are.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
Arm moping around the house, wiping out her eyes. Keeps
muttering something about losing her little girl, little.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Girls leaving her. I don't know the holes your daughter
thirty two.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
Well, let me be downstairs office.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
If anybody wants right back.
Speaker 9 (04:08):
Oh, find me ben scar of me.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I didn't see it. O.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Hi, where you been making a couple of phone calls?
I think we might have done?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Hum? Yeah, what's that the Gorman case?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Fine?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I had a call from one of the neighbors while
he were going, Uh, what is that calendar about?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
See? I don't know. Oh, here, I got one in
my pocket. Here in my wallet? Oh really?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, well let's see now, Missus Gorman and the little
girl Nancy disappeared on the fifteenth, is that right?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah? Thursday?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Quiet, and my husband, mister Gorman, father missing complaining on
Friday morning?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Right? Yeah? What are you getting at? Well? You remember
when we talked to mister Gorman.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
He couldn't think of any reason why his wife and
his little girls should disappeared.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Like you did.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, remember me asking him the question if his wife
ran around.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
At all, if she was interested in any other man?
That's right, he told you no, didn't. This man who
just called in.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
He lives out in the Gorman neighborhood, he swears up
and downe and Missus Gorman was keeping company with another man.
Who is this neighbor anyway, Name's John Pearson. He lives
about four blocks from the Gormans, But we.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Talked to neighbors a lot closer than that. To the Gormans,
they didn't seem to know anything about it. What else
did Guy tell you?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Let's see, the man Missus Gorman was supposed to be
running out with is a Ralph Kan his next door
to mister Pearson.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Well, how does Pearson sound young?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Pretty typical neighborhood watch dog. But here's the interesting part,
uh huh. Missus Gorman and little daughter Nancy disappeared last Thursday.
Now Courton ap Pearson as Ralph Kane hasn't been seen
around since Friday night. He told me on the phone
he saw Cane tossed a couple of suitcases in his
car late Friday night and drive off, so he hasn't
come back yet.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
It might be something.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Well, how much of a romance was Missus Gormant supposed
to be having with this Ralph Kane?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
And that's pretty heavy.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Gordon and Pearson said it's been going on for six
months anyhow, And mister.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Gorman didn't know anything about it and got me there.
If he did, he didn't let us in on it.
What if he'd have any reason to cover it up?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
It's possible. I guess didn't want the scandal. I assure
you that Ralph Kane's really missing, might be just off
on a weekend.
Speaker 9 (06:03):
No.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I checked the place he worked, he's a printer. Didn't
show up for work, money, didn't show up to date
or no message, no excuse. I think I called a
friend of Kyne's at Pierson New Back. A friend doesn't
know where he's going. I guess we better get on
it's the first decent lead in five days. Yeah, it's
just thanking Joe neighbors lack Peerson.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
What would we do with the five days before?
Speaker 6 (06:29):
On a Thursday evening, a mister Phillip Gorman returned to
his home in the Westlake district of Los Angeles to
find his wife, Barbara Gorman, and his two year old daughter,
Nancy missing. There wasn't any note, no explanation of any kind.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Few clothes were gone.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Mister Gorman filed a missing report, and a broadcast and.
Speaker 10 (06:47):
An APB were gotten out on the mother and daughter.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Neighbors, friends, and relatives were checked. No leads.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Routine investigation failed to turn up anything. Mister Gorman could
give us no explanation for the disappearance. After three days
we got out of a radiogram, still no results. Tuesday,
one fifty pm, Ben and I got in the car
and drove out to see John Pearson, who had phoned
in the information about Missus Gorman's supposed boyfriend, Ralph King.
We found Pearson out on the back porch of his
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home feeding some milk to a pair of housecats.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I thought everybody knew that sergeant Missus Gorman running around
with that Ralph.
Speaker 9 (07:22):
Came.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I'm a busybud it I wouldn't have mentioned it all
if this hadn't happened. You say Ken had been seeing
Missus Gorman for the last six months?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Is that rightman?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Experienced in for about six months? That's how long I've
seen it go on the change. Don't be such a hag.
Let Fred have some of the milk.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Too, beauty, little the devils.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Do you know of anybody else in the neighborhood who's
been aware of this, mister Pearson, I mean Missus Gorman
and this Ralph KINGE?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Well, I know for sure that Somelma White next door
knows about it.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
She's mentioned it to me.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
King used to park with Missus Gorman near that vacant
lot by Thomas's house.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Of course, were the life that mister Gorman was working like.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
And would you know if mister Gorman was aware of this,
that his wife was running around with another man.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I'm pretty sure he did, Sergeant. That's a strange part
about it. And how do you nurse George the man
who delivers the groceries. He just happened to mention it
to me once. All right, James Friday, it's all gone.
I'll run off and play. Yes, George the grocer man.
He made a delivery to the Gormans once and heard
them rowing about it. George said, mister Gorman was very mad,
talk divorce, all that sort of thing.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Well, how about the going of his little girl, mister Pearson,
Little Nancy, tragic, Sergeant, such a sweet little thing.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Missus Gorman kept her under an iron. Had imagine the
little girl is only two years old. Missus Gorman was
after her with a stick all the time. She's not
much of a mother, not the way I look at
it anyway. Well, what's your opinion of all is? Do
you think that Ralph Keane has run off with miss Gorman?
Or what else? Can you think? Two of them carry
on for six months. Missus Gorman disappears Thursday. Mister Kane
leaves Friday night. What else can you think in this neighbor?
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Years tell him?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Why does she live in his house? Over here?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
We're going to write that's right right next door. You
go over and talk to her. She's home now, so
I won't tell you the same thing I did.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I said, thank you very much, not at all, Sergeant.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Just one thing I can't understand about missus Gorman's little girl,
little Nancy. Can't quite understand why she's gone. Doesn't seem
to fit somehow. How do you mean she's gonna run
off with a man? You don't take your family alone.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Two point fifteen pm we went next door and talked
with the neighbor, Thelma White.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
She told us the same story as Pearson.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
From the two of them, we got the description DMV
furnished just with a license number of Ralph Kaine's car.
We checked further with Kane's friends, relatives, and his landlady.
No one had seen or heard from him since late Friday.
We searched the duplex where he lived, no leeds. We
went back to the office and checked Kane through r
and I. He had one arrest for petty theft. We
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got out a broadcast and an APB on him. Lat night,
Ben and I drove out to see the husband and
father of the missing woman and youngster, Philip Gorman. He
was employed as a groundskeeper at one of the baseball
parks in the city.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Pretty fair turned out tonight.
Speaker 10 (09:57):
Huh yeah, weather's turned up.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Little Bobby health him. Where's the ground seaper shocked out
at the end there.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, you can't see it from here. It's just below
the end of the bleachers.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
There, Oh mighty.
Speaker 9 (10:08):
Very often, not as often as I'd like to.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
He's done this one day. Watch your step for Joey's
and mud fun kay, I see it.
Speaker 9 (10:19):
Sorry, you don't have to get back in the stands.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
You're not allowed down this sand Harry, Miss Gorman fighting
Ramry you know?
Speaker 9 (10:25):
Yeah, sure, I didn't recognize you for a minute.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
You got a few minutes. Mister Gorman would like to
talk to you if we could, for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Right now, if you want. You found out something about
the wife a little girl?
Speaker 10 (10:34):
No, say nothing, definite, got a few questions you'd like
to ask you.
Speaker 9 (10:37):
What's fine with me? I got nothing to do for
a couple of mornings. What's it all about.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
When we talked to you at your house the other day, Gorman,
you remember me asking you if you could think of
any reason why your wife and your little girls had
disappeared like you did.
Speaker 9 (10:48):
Yeah, I remember, there's nothing I can think of, Sergeant.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Would you recall us asking you if your wife might
have been interested in some other man, somebody.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
She might go off with.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
Yeah, I remember what I told you. I didn't think
that was it, and I like it.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
If you know something and you're not telling us because
you don't want to scandal, you can forget that, Garman,
because whatever you tell us is in the strict confidence.
Speaker 9 (11:05):
You know, I don't know what you're reading, Sergeant. I
told you everything I know, and we'll.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Be honest with you.
Speaker 11 (11:09):
Gum.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
We think you're trying to cover up.
Speaker 9 (11:11):
Well, that's not true. I don't have anything to cover up.
Speaker 10 (11:14):
We picked up some new information on your wife this afternoon.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Well here she was pretty friendly with a man named
Ralph Kane, lives a few blocks from your house.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Well here that you.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
Knew what was going on, you and your wife, Barbara
had a row you talk divorce.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
How about it?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Well, let's go inside the shack, get away from some
of this noise. Fine, Jared, I hope you don't mind
it in his little dirty I keep all the maintenance
stuff in here.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
That's all right. Gumming.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Now, how about Ralph king Yeah, yeah, I knew about it.
It's like you said, all the scam. Well, I just
didn't want to get out.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Well, look, if you're going to hold out all this,
it's not gonna help much to.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Find your wife a little good I know, a surgeon.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I just didn't want people to find out what a
bum I'm married him. You know what some neighbors are like.
I can't understand how it happened. I I met the
wife when I was in the army. We'll see. I
brought her back out here. Everything was fine. After the
baby was born, she started to change. Nothing satisfied sho
be to run around that a but a bum? And
I guess I found out too late. You know it's
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Ralph Kane.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
What do you know about him?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
You know his single guy works at print shop downtown.
He's pretty good looking, guy's got money to spend. So
Barbara cares about Well, what's your idea about it?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
If you think Gane and your wife have gone off
to get I'll tell her the truth. I'm not sure.
Maybe they did. I've been trying to check around them all.
I'm not getting very farm.
Speaker 9 (12:39):
That's only one.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Thing I'm really worried about. That's my little girl, Nancy.
I don't care what my wife does or how far
she goes. I I just want my little girl back.
Speaker 10 (12:46):
It's are you any idea at all where your wife
might have gone?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Oh? None at all. She had no California too once.
She's only been out here here.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
You don't know any of Kane's friends is hanging out,
or the places you think you might go.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
You know, I've never really met the guy sur I'm
going to do. I know what he looks like. I'll
beat him.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
It was just one more thing going.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
And if your wife was set on running off with
another man, why did you take your little girl with him?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
He wasn't too devoted to the baby on Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 9 (13:14):
That's what's got me worried.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
The only thing I can figure out is the wife
hated me more than.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I thought she knew that.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I thought Nancy's about the greatest thing alive.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I guess rather than let me have her. She took
Nancy on with me.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Well, was it possible she might drop the baby office
I'm friend or relative and tell him.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
To keep Well, I've checked on that already. You got
the names of all the people we know. I'm sure
they did in touch with me if they had names,
and we'll devil check them in you hare after as
anything else comes up, you let us know right away,
all right, Sergey, it's just the baby, That's all Nancy
is as far as I'm concerned. My wife never lived.
It's kind of hard to take him with.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yes it is.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I think you got the finest set up in the world.
Nice home, john, baby, good furniture, everything you need, Yeah,
everything but a wife.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
The search for the missing wife and the two year
old daughter went on. The broadcasts and teletypes on missus
Gorman and Ralph Kine failed to let us a thing.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
A week passed, there were no leads. Another week went
by nothing.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
The half dozen replies we'd gotten on our teletype went nowhere.
They were blind leads. Wednesday, May fipp we got a
call from the manager of an auto court in the
south end of the city.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
He told us that a.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
Man, a woman and a little girl answering the description
of the missing trio had stopped at his place the
night before.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Along with Jack McCready.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
From Homicide, Ben and I drove out and interviewed the man.
We showed him pictures of Kane, Missus Gorman, and two
year old Nancy. He identified all three. He could give
us no idea where they'd gone. We checked through the
cuttage where they stayed.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
No, nothing. It's about as clean as you can get
a little something here. What's that? Oh?
Speaker 6 (14:59):
Here kid's picture book? Let's see. Yeah, take a look
right here.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Uh, this book belongs to Nancy Gorman. Well you know
they were here. That's about it.
Speaker 12 (15:11):
There is that?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yo? Yeah, Mac, where are it?
Speaker 9 (15:15):
I'm a bui come mayor? Alright, what did it got?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Mayor? Have a look? Where'd you find that?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Smoking?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Around this trash barrel? Here? It's like part of a
little girl's dress. Huh, Yeah, there's not much there. Do
you find the rest out of it? Well? That's all
there is, just that little collar.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Lea take a look here, Ben, and the stains right
here over here too?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah? What do you think mac? Blood stains? I'd say.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
So we drove back to the office to the crime
lab and had Lee Jones run the stains on the dress.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Mm.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
He ran a benzadeine test and then.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
A biological precipitent the stains were made by human blood. Well,
it still didn't put us any closer to the missing
child or her mother. The search went on. We redoubled
our efforts.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
No luck. Another ten days passed.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
We had a few more responses to our all points.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Bulletin, but none of them panned out.
Speaker 10 (16:16):
On May sixteenth, we got two more leads.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
To check out. They went nowhere.
Speaker 10 (16:21):
We got back to the office a little after six pm.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Better call mister Gorman after we check in. Keep him
off of her back. Yeah, I hate to keep telling
him the same thing.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
No word. Yeah, how about it? You call Gorman tonight?
Speaker 7 (16:33):
Uh mac let's doll it got something for your shriff.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Substation called East ll A. Now what about the Gorman case?
They found him?
Speaker 7 (16:41):
Well, another auto court right there in East La. Ralph
came and missus Gormant. They got him both under surveillance.
How about the little girl, Nancy, Well, that's a hitch huh.
It was a sign of her.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
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Speaker 4 (17:06):
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Speaker 9 (17:09):
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Speaker 2 (17:12):
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Speaker 6 (18:51):
Saturday, May sixteenth, nine pm, along with Levinson McCready from Homicide,
Then and I drove out to the Sheriff's substation in
the east end of the city.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
One of the deputy sheriffs directed this to the Motor Court, where.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Missus Barbara Gorman and Ralph Kane were under surveillance. We
found the two of them in one of the rear cottages.
There was no trace of two year old Nancy Gorman.
Levinson and McCready took Ralph Kane out to the car
to interrogate him. Ben and I remained in the cottage
with Missus Gorman. She was a tall, blonde, thin faced
and nervous. She spoke with a decided accent. We questioned
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her for more than two hours. We got nowhere.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Why don't she sit down, Missus Gorman? Relax?
Speaker 5 (19:32):
How can anyone relax these questions? She have no right
to do this.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Well, maybe you haven't got it straight, Missus Gorman. This
is a pretty important matter. We'd like to find out
about your little girl too.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Do I don't know she ran away?
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Yes, ma'am now we've had ten different versions. You stopped
at a hotel in Nevada and she disappeared. You were
in an otto court in Bakersfield, she ran away during
the night.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
We've heard just about all of them. How about the truth?
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Told you everything? I'm going to tell you. I don't
know what's happened to the kit. She's gone, that's all
she's gone.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
It's got to be an explanation for it. Where is
she gone?
Speaker 5 (19:58):
She ran away? How many times? So I have to
tell you? I left with Raff, who went out of
the city. After a few days. Nancy got lonesome. She
wanted to see her father, who were asleep one night,
and she ran away. That's all there is to it. Simple.
Why can't you understand?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And you're gonna have to do better than that, Missus Garman.
How about the truth? What happened?
Speaker 5 (20:15):
You can't keep me here all night? Where's Raf? I
want Raf?
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Why'd you take the child with you in the first place?
Missus Garman? It's pretty obvious that she didn't want her.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Did Kane wants you to take her along?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Oh? No, he wants me to leave her just he
and I. That's all he wanted. Should have left her
there all the trouble questions.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
It's an easy remedy, ma'am, What did you really do
with a little girl?
Speaker 5 (20:35):
She wanted off? It's the truth. We didn't know it.
She wanted off. We couldn't help it.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
How about the little dress we found in that auto corp?
With Thames on her?
Speaker 5 (20:43):
The same questions. She always asked the same questions.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
What about the dress, ma'am?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Do I always have to repeat? I told you raf
get his hand he was shaving. It was just a
no dress or rag red bandage's hand with it?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Well, you usually wear bandages a while, don't you? Don't
just throw them away?
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Tw a zevenies? She didn't need the ride very long.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Quite a few stains on the dress, ma'am, must have
been more than just a scratch.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
No, it was just a scratch. Can't you believe anything
I say?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
No, not so far?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Please can't I go autside for a few minutes? I
have a headache. It's so hot in.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Here, all right, Missus Garman? Go ahead? Minute?
Speaker 4 (21:27):
The air so good?
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Terrible headache?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Do you mind telling you something? Missus Garman?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Please? Can't you let me alone for a minute?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Why did you leave your husband.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Yell, any woman would leave him. It's rat.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I love Rats and your little girl? What about her?
Speaker 5 (21:45):
My husband wanted her, not me. I'm just not like that.
I didn't want her in the first place. It was
a mistake, terrible mistake.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Is that why you got rid of it? But that's
pretty obvious by this time, ma'am. When you left your husband,
you took your little girl along for Spike Kane did
in the water.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
You fought out. You didn't need it, so you got
rid of or now?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Is that is I didn't say that putting words in
my mouth. I didn't say that at all.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
Joe Ben, Yeah, might go here.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Kein's giving us half the story. Shouldn't be too hard
to get the rest.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
It's a lie. There's no story to tell. Nancy ran away.
That's all we know.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Mack Kane says they tried some kind of a death packed.
He and missus Gorman here got in a room and
turned on a gas.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
He didn't tell you. He didn't tell you afraid.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
So man, that's your boyfriend's story. What else? May well?
Speaker 7 (22:29):
As I say, Kane and Missus Gorman got in the room,
agreed to it all. They had a little girl with
him in the room.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Well, why was that? Kane says, he doesn't know. Seemed
to simplify things having a kid with him. Can tell
you what happened? Yeah, they turned on the gas. Jo.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Oh, never mind, miss Garman, never mind, you don't have
to say it.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Do you wanna tell us about it?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Miss Garman, Yes, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Three am.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
We went back inside the cottage at the auto court.
We gave her a cigarette and Barbara Gorman sat down
and told us the story. Four days after she left
with her two year old daughter and Ralph Kane. She
knew she'd made a mistake. She admitted that she never
should have taken the child. She said the little girl
seemed to be in their way all the time. Cain
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was all for deserting the child or sending her back
to her father. Missus Gorman wouldn't agree to it, just
out of pure spite. One night in an auto court,
she and Kane had a big drinking party.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
They brooded over the mixup that they'd gotten themselves into.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Kin didn't have any money to get married. He knew
he'd lost his job. Even if they could get married,
Missus Gorman wasn't sure.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
She could get a divorce.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Another full day and night of drinking, and they decided
on a lover's death pack.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
They turned on the gas. I don't get it, missus Gorman.
Why'd you have your little girl in the room with you?
Why didn't you leave her with somebody? Anybody? Try?
Speaker 5 (23:52):
She was mine, wasn't she? I thought we could go together,
all three of us, But he didn't work that way.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
What happened?
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Ra oo? Cup, throats were burning, My eyes were burning.
Looked over Nancy. She wasn't moving. Its just like she
was asleep.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Won't you do?
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Then we got in the car and left. We found
a nice place in the desert. There were nice flowers there.
We buried Nancy.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
How about you and Ralph Kin? You knew you were
in deeper? Why didn't you try it again? Oh?
Speaker 5 (24:20):
We did a couple of times. We loved each other,
the only thing we could do. But every time we tried,
we couldn't go through with it. We'd try, we never
could finish it. Raf got a job tw We were
gonna buy a gun tomorrow. We try again, and.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
You show us where you buried your little girl?
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Yes, placed in the desert out New Palm Springs, it
was a nice place. There's lots of nice flowers around.
You understand, don't you. We're in love Ralph and I. Yea,
my husband wouldn't understand where I loved Rath twas everything,
twas the whole world, Rath and I. I didn't need
(25:00):
it that way for Nancy Press a mistake. You've got
to understand. I didn't need it that way.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
That's the way it is.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
It doesn't matter. You can't hurt us, my trep and I.
You can't take away which we've got. You will never
take that away.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
All right? You want to get you cooked.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Yes, it doesn't matter what happens. It's for half. I
don't care what they do. I'll keep on loving him
same way I love him now, doesn't matter. We'll pay
for our mistakes.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, leady, A're gonna cost you.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
At five am, we put in a call for Lieutenant
Lee Jones and the crime lab crew in the corner.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
When they arrived at the auto court, we.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
Drove to the spot in the desert near Palm Springs
where Ralph Kane and Missus Gorman pointed out the spot
where they buried Nancy. The body was uncovered at the
exact spot was taken back to town to the County Morgue,
where an autopsy was performed. Kane and Missus Garman were
booked in suspicion of murder. By five o'clock that afternoon,
we had the results of the autopsy.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Right, thank you bye.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
What's the story man? Not what we thought? What do
you mean? I think missus Gorman sold us a bill
of goods. Little girl didn't dine in a room full
of gash? What the docs say?
Speaker 7 (26:11):
He found two bullet holes in the body.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
That night, after hours of interrogation, Ralph Kin and Missus
Barbara Gorman both broke down and confessed that they'd killed
the child in cold blood. They pleaded drunkends that they
weren't responsible for their actions. They were returned to their
cells and held without bail, but child's father, Philip Gorman,
was notified The following morning. Ben and I accompanied him
(26:37):
to the County Morgue.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
It's this way, mister Gorman. Uh like.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
You sure you wanna go through with this? S mister German. Well,
I'm might as well tell you the truth. I'm not
sure I do. It isn't gonna help much, mister, Go
and blieve me didn't. I just wanted to see it
just once more. Yeah, well it doesn't work. I wouldn't
(27:09):
be the same, not the way you remember. Just wanted
to see it. I just wanted to find out. What's
that bought a mother? Ralph King, huh, what is it
that can make them do it?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Let me grow? She's only two. What could make anybody
do a thing like that? Your wife called it love.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
The story you've just heard was true, only the names
were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
On September tenth, the trial was held in Superior Court,
Department eighty nine, City in County of Los Angeles, State
of California. In a moment the results of that trial,
and now here is our star Jack Webb.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
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Speaker 6 (27:55):
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Speaker 1 (02:32):
In action.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Was Tuesday, April twentieth, was overcast in Los Angeles. We
were working a day watch out of homicide. My partner's
Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Blaine Steve. My name's Friday.
I was on my way back from communications and it
was one thirty five pm when I got to Room
forty two Homicide.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Hi Joe, it's.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
Still for not much money for Bengals inside, Captain Service,
you're right back fall, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Keeping you busy.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
We'll about the same little hectic around the house though.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Ben mentioned something about that you're getting ready for a wedding.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Out there, aren't you.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
Yeah, My daughter Alice sure getting a nice fellow.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That's all.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
Yeah, ambitious kid, part time account, goes to law school
at night down Loyota.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Really nice fellow. And they're getting married away from Saturday.
It's gonna be a big church thing.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Sure, glad doesn't happen often.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Oh, I mean big production.
Speaker 8 (03:26):
Never saw so many bills in my life. New dress
for Alice going away, luggage, bridesmaids, dresses, eats, drinks, new
carpets for.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
The hall, new curtains in the living room. Wife must
think I made of the stuff. Well, you should have
had all boys make. Yeah, you're giving your daughter away.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Huh yeah, Well it reminds me. I gotta be sure
and some my suit. The cleaners get a good press
job on it. Sure is funny. What's that?
Speaker 7 (03:48):
It seems for years the wife's been afraid we'd never
get Alice married off. Now it's finally and the works
of wife's still unhappy.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh wellw's that goes are.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
Arm moping around the house, wiping out her eyes. Keeps
muttering something about losing her little girl, little.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Girls leaving her. I don't know the holes your daughter
thirty two.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
Well, let me be downstairs office.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
If anybody wants right back.
Speaker 9 (04:08):
Oh, find me ben scar of me.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I didn't see it. O.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Hi, where you been making a couple of phone calls?
I think we might have done?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Hum? Yeah, what's that the Gorman case?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Fine?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I had a call from one of the neighbors while
he were going, Uh, what is that calendar about?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
See? I don't know. Oh, here, I got one in
my pocket. Here in my wallet? Oh really?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, well let's see now, Missus Gorman and the little
girl Nancy disappeared on the fifteenth, is that right?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah? Thursday?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Quiet, and my husband, mister Gorman, father missing complaining on
Friday morning?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Right? Yeah? What are you getting at? Well? You remember
when we talked to mister Gorman.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
He couldn't think of any reason why his wife and
his little girls should disappeared.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Like you did.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, remember me asking him the question if his wife
ran around.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
At all, if she was interested in any other man?
That's right, he told you no, didn't. This man who
just called in.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
He lives out in the Gorman neighborhood, he swears up
and downe and Missus Gorman was keeping company with another man.
Who is this neighbor anyway, Name's John Pearson. He lives
about four blocks from the Gormans, But we.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Talked to neighbors a lot closer than that. To the Gormans,
they didn't seem to know anything about it. What else
did Guy tell you?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Let's see, the man Missus Gorman was supposed to be
running out with is a Ralph Kan his next door
to mister Pearson.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Well, how does Pearson sound young?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Pretty typical neighborhood watch dog. But here's the interesting part,
uh huh. Missus Gorman and little daughter Nancy disappeared last Thursday.
Now Courton ap Pearson as Ralph Kane hasn't been seen
around since Friday night. He told me on the phone
he saw Cane tossed a couple of suitcases in his
car late Friday night and drive off, so he hasn't
come back yet.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
It might be something.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Well, how much of a romance was Missus Gormant supposed
to be having with this Ralph Kane?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
And that's pretty heavy.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Gordon and Pearson said it's been going on for six
months anyhow, And mister.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Gorman didn't know anything about it and got me there.
If he did, he didn't let us in on it.
What if he'd have any reason to cover it up?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
It's possible. I guess didn't want the scandal. I assure
you that Ralph Kane's really missing, might be just off
on a weekend.
Speaker 9 (06:03):
No.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I checked the place he worked, he's a printer. Didn't
show up for work, money, didn't show up to date
or no message, no excuse. I think I called a
friend of Kyne's at Pierson New Back. A friend doesn't
know where he's going. I guess we better get on
it's the first decent lead in five days. Yeah, it's
just thanking Joe neighbors lack Peerson.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
What would we do with the five days before?
Speaker 6 (06:29):
On a Thursday evening, a mister Phillip Gorman returned to
his home in the Westlake district of Los Angeles to
find his wife, Barbara Gorman, and his two year old daughter,
Nancy missing. There wasn't any note, no explanation of any kind.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Few clothes were gone.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Mister Gorman filed a missing report, and a broadcast and.
Speaker 10 (06:47):
An APB were gotten out on the mother and daughter.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Neighbors, friends, and relatives were checked. No leads.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Routine investigation failed to turn up anything. Mister Gorman could
give us no explanation for the disappearance. After three days
we got out of a radiogram, still no results. Tuesday,
one fifty pm, Ben and I got in the car
and drove out to see John Pearson, who had phoned
in the information about Missus Gorman's supposed boyfriend, Ralph King.
We found Pearson out on the back porch of his
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home feeding some milk to a pair of housecats.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I thought everybody knew that sergeant Missus Gorman running around
with that Ralph.
Speaker 9 (07:22):
Came.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I'm a busybud it I wouldn't have mentioned it all
if this hadn't happened. You say Ken had been seeing
Missus Gorman for the last six months?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Is that rightman?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Experienced in for about six months? That's how long I've
seen it go on the change. Don't be such a hag.
Let Fred have some of the milk.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Too, beauty, little the devils.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Do you know of anybody else in the neighborhood who's
been aware of this, mister Pearson, I mean Missus Gorman
and this Ralph KINGE?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Well, I know for sure that Somelma White next door
knows about it.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
She's mentioned it to me.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
King used to park with Missus Gorman near that vacant
lot by Thomas's house.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Of course, were the life that mister Gorman was working like.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
And would you know if mister Gorman was aware of this,
that his wife was running around with another man.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I'm pretty sure he did, Sergeant. That's a strange part
about it. And how do you nurse George the man
who delivers the groceries. He just happened to mention it
to me once. All right, James Friday, it's all gone.
I'll run off and play. Yes, George the grocer man.
He made a delivery to the Gormans once and heard
them rowing about it. George said, mister Gorman was very mad,
talk divorce, all that sort of thing.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Well, how about the going of his little girl, mister Pearson,
Little Nancy, tragic, Sergeant, such a sweet little thing.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Missus Gorman kept her under an iron. Had imagine the
little girl is only two years old. Missus Gorman was
after her with a stick all the time. She's not
much of a mother, not the way I look at
it anyway. Well, what's your opinion of all is? Do
you think that Ralph Keane has run off with miss Gorman?
Or what else? Can you think? Two of them carry
on for six months. Missus Gorman disappears Thursday. Mister Kane
leaves Friday night. What else can you think in this neighbor?
(08:44):
Years tell him?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Why does she live in his house? Over here?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
We're going to write that's right right next door. You
go over and talk to her. She's home now, so
I won't tell you the same thing I did.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I said, thank you very much, not at all, Sergeant.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Just one thing I can't understand about missus Gorman's little girl,
little Nancy. Can't quite understand why she's gone. Doesn't seem
to fit somehow. How do you mean she's gonna run
off with a man? You don't take your family alone.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Two point fifteen pm we went next door and talked
with the neighbor, Thelma White.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
She told us the same story as Pearson.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
From the two of them, we got the description DMV
furnished just with a license number of Ralph Kaine's car.
We checked further with Kane's friends, relatives, and his landlady.
No one had seen or heard from him since late Friday.
We searched the duplex where he lived, no leeds. We
went back to the office and checked Kane through r
and I. He had one arrest for petty theft. We
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got out a broadcast and an APB on him. Lat night,
Ben and I drove out to see the husband and
father of the missing woman and youngster, Philip Gorman. He
was employed as a groundskeeper at one of the baseball
parks in the city.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Pretty fair turned out tonight.
Speaker 10 (09:57):
Huh yeah, weather's turned up.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Little Bobby health him. Where's the ground seaper shocked out
at the end there.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, you can't see it from here. It's just below
the end of the bleachers.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
There, Oh mighty.
Speaker 9 (10:08):
Very often, not as often as I'd like to.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
He's done this one day. Watch your step for Joey's
and mud fun kay, I see it.
Speaker 9 (10:19):
Sorry, you don't have to get back in the stands.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
You're not allowed down this sand Harry, Miss Gorman fighting
Ramry you know?
Speaker 9 (10:25):
Yeah, sure, I didn't recognize you for a minute.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
You got a few minutes. Mister Gorman would like to
talk to you if we could, for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Right now, if you want. You found out something about
the wife a little girl?
Speaker 10 (10:34):
No, say nothing, definite, got a few questions you'd like
to ask you.
Speaker 9 (10:37):
What's fine with me? I got nothing to do for
a couple of mornings. What's it all about.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
When we talked to you at your house the other day, Gorman,
you remember me asking you if you could think of
any reason why your wife and your little girls had
disappeared like you did.
Speaker 9 (10:48):
Yeah, I remember, there's nothing I can think of, Sergeant.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Would you recall us asking you if your wife might
have been interested in some other man, somebody.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
She might go off with.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
Yeah, I remember what I told you. I didn't think
that was it, and I like it.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
If you know something and you're not telling us because
you don't want to scandal, you can forget that, Garman,
because whatever you tell us is in the strict confidence.
Speaker 9 (11:05):
You know, I don't know what you're reading, Sergeant. I
told you everything I know, and we'll.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Be honest with you.
Speaker 11 (11:09):
Gum.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
We think you're trying to cover up.
Speaker 9 (11:11):
Well, that's not true. I don't have anything to cover up.
Speaker 10 (11:14):
We picked up some new information on your wife this afternoon.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Well here she was pretty friendly with a man named
Ralph Kane, lives a few blocks from your house.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Well here that you.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
Knew what was going on, you and your wife, Barbara
had a row you talk divorce.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
How about it?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Well, let's go inside the shack, get away from some
of this noise. Fine, Jared, I hope you don't mind
it in his little dirty I keep all the maintenance
stuff in here.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
That's all right. Gumming.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Now, how about Ralph king Yeah, yeah, I knew about it.
It's like you said, all the scam. Well, I just
didn't want to get out.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Well, look, if you're going to hold out all this,
it's not gonna help much to.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Find your wife a little good I know, a surgeon.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I just didn't want people to find out what a
bum I'm married him. You know what some neighbors are like.
I can't understand how it happened. I I met the
wife when I was in the army. We'll see. I
brought her back out here. Everything was fine. After the
baby was born, she started to change. Nothing satisfied sho
be to run around that a but a bum? And
I guess I found out too late. You know it's
(12:20):
Ralph Kane.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
What do you know about him?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
You know his single guy works at print shop downtown.
He's pretty good looking, guy's got money to spend. So
Barbara cares about Well, what's your idea about it?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
If you think Gane and your wife have gone off
to get I'll tell her the truth. I'm not sure.
Maybe they did. I've been trying to check around them all.
I'm not getting very farm.
Speaker 9 (12:39):
That's only one.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Thing I'm really worried about. That's my little girl, Nancy.
I don't care what my wife does or how far
she goes. I I just want my little girl back.
Speaker 10 (12:46):
It's are you any idea at all where your wife
might have gone?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Oh? None at all. She had no California too once.
She's only been out here here.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
You don't know any of Kane's friends is hanging out,
or the places you think you might go.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
You know, I've never really met the guy sur I'm
going to do. I know what he looks like. I'll
beat him.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
It was just one more thing going.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
And if your wife was set on running off with
another man, why did you take your little girl with him?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
He wasn't too devoted to the baby on Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 9 (13:14):
That's what's got me worried.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
The only thing I can figure out is the wife
hated me more than.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I thought she knew that.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I thought Nancy's about the greatest thing alive.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I guess rather than let me have her. She took
Nancy on with me.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Well, was it possible she might drop the baby office
I'm friend or relative and tell him.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
To keep Well, I've checked on that already. You got
the names of all the people we know. I'm sure
they did in touch with me if they had names,
and we'll devil check them in you hare after as
anything else comes up, you let us know right away,
all right, Sergey, it's just the baby, That's all Nancy
is as far as I'm concerned. My wife never lived.
It's kind of hard to take him with.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yes it is.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I think you got the finest set up in the world.
Nice home, john, baby, good furniture, everything you need, Yeah,
everything but a wife.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
The search for the missing wife and the two year
old daughter went on. The broadcasts and teletypes on missus
Gorman and Ralph Kine failed to let us a thing.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
A week passed, there were no leads. Another week went
by nothing.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
The half dozen replies we'd gotten on our teletype went nowhere.
They were blind leads. Wednesday, May fipp we got a
call from the manager of an auto court in the
south end of the city.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
He told us that a.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
Man, a woman and a little girl answering the description
of the missing trio had stopped at his place the
night before.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Along with Jack McCready.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
From Homicide, Ben and I drove out and interviewed the man.
We showed him pictures of Kane, Missus Gorman, and two
year old Nancy. He identified all three. He could give
us no idea where they'd gone. We checked through the
cuttage where they stayed.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
No, nothing. It's about as clean as you can get
a little something here. What's that? Oh?
Speaker 6 (14:59):
Here kid's picture book? Let's see. Yeah, take a look
right here.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Uh, this book belongs to Nancy Gorman. Well you know
they were here. That's about it.
Speaker 12 (15:11):
There is that?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yo? Yeah, Mac, where are it?
Speaker 9 (15:15):
I'm a bui come mayor? Alright, what did it got?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Mayor? Have a look? Where'd you find that?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Smoking?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Around this trash barrel? Here? It's like part of a
little girl's dress. Huh, Yeah, there's not much there. Do
you find the rest out of it? Well? That's all
there is, just that little collar.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Lea take a look here, Ben, and the stains right
here over here too?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah? What do you think mac? Blood stains? I'd say.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
So we drove back to the office to the crime
lab and had Lee Jones run the stains on the dress.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Mm.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
He ran a benzadeine test and then.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
A biological precipitent the stains were made by human blood. Well,
it still didn't put us any closer to the missing
child or her mother. The search went on. We redoubled
our efforts.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
No luck. Another ten days passed.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
We had a few more responses to our all points.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Bulletin, but none of them panned out.
Speaker 10 (16:16):
On May sixteenth, we got two more leads.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
To check out. They went nowhere.
Speaker 10 (16:21):
We got back to the office a little after six pm.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Better call mister Gorman after we check in. Keep him
off of her back. Yeah, I hate to keep telling
him the same thing.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
No word. Yeah, how about it? You call Gorman tonight?
Speaker 7 (16:33):
Uh mac let's doll it got something for your shriff.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Substation called East ll A. Now what about the Gorman case?
They found him?
Speaker 7 (16:41):
Well, another auto court right there in East La. Ralph
came and missus Gormant. They got him both under surveillance.
How about the little girl, Nancy, Well, that's a hitch huh.
It was a sign of her.
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Speaker 6 (18:51):
Saturday, May sixteenth, nine pm, along with Levinson McCready from Homicide,
Then and I drove out to the Sheriff's substation in
the east end of the city.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
One of the deputy sheriffs directed this to the Motor Court, where.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Missus Barbara Gorman and Ralph Kane were under surveillance. We
found the two of them in one of the rear cottages.
There was no trace of two year old Nancy Gorman.
Levinson and McCready took Ralph Kane out to the car
to interrogate him. Ben and I remained in the cottage
with Missus Gorman. She was a tall, blonde, thin faced
and nervous. She spoke with a decided accent. We questioned
(19:26):
her for more than two hours. We got nowhere.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Why don't she sit down, Missus Gorman? Relax?
Speaker 5 (19:32):
How can anyone relax these questions? She have no right
to do this.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Well, maybe you haven't got it straight, Missus Gorman. This
is a pretty important matter. We'd like to find out
about your little girl too.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Do I don't know she ran away?
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Yes, ma'am now we've had ten different versions. You stopped
at a hotel in Nevada and she disappeared. You were
in an otto court in Bakersfield, she ran away during
the night.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
We've heard just about all of them. How about the truth?
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Told you everything? I'm going to tell you. I don't
know what's happened to the kit. She's gone, that's all
she's gone.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
It's got to be an explanation for it. Where is
she gone?
Speaker 5 (19:58):
She ran away? How many times? So I have to
tell you? I left with Raff, who went out of
the city. After a few days. Nancy got lonesome. She
wanted to see her father, who were asleep one night,
and she ran away. That's all there is to it. Simple.
Why can't you understand?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And you're gonna have to do better than that, Missus Garman.
How about the truth? What happened?
Speaker 5 (20:15):
You can't keep me here all night? Where's Raf? I
want Raf?
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Why'd you take the child with you in the first place?
Missus Garman? It's pretty obvious that she didn't want her.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Did Kane wants you to take her along?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Oh? No, he wants me to leave her just he
and I. That's all he wanted. Should have left her
there all the trouble questions.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
It's an easy remedy, ma'am, What did you really do
with a little girl?
Speaker 5 (20:35):
She wanted off? It's the truth. We didn't know it.
She wanted off. We couldn't help it.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
How about the little dress we found in that auto corp?
With Thames on her?
Speaker 5 (20:43):
The same questions. She always asked the same questions.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
What about the dress, ma'am?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Do I always have to repeat? I told you raf
get his hand he was shaving. It was just a
no dress or rag red bandage's hand with it?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Well, you usually wear bandages a while, don't you? Don't
just throw them away?
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Tw a zevenies? She didn't need the ride very long.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Quite a few stains on the dress, ma'am, must have
been more than just a scratch.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
No, it was just a scratch. Can't you believe anything
I say?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
No, not so far?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Please can't I go autside for a few minutes? I
have a headache. It's so hot in.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Here, all right, Missus Garman? Go ahead? Minute?
Speaker 4 (21:27):
The air so good?
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Terrible headache?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Do you mind telling you something? Missus Garman?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Please? Can't you let me alone for a minute?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Why did you leave your husband.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Yell, any woman would leave him. It's rat.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I love Rats and your little girl? What about her?
Speaker 5 (21:45):
My husband wanted her, not me. I'm just not like that.
I didn't want her in the first place. It was
a mistake, terrible mistake.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Is that why you got rid of it? But that's
pretty obvious by this time, ma'am. When you left your husband,
you took your little girl along for Spike Kane did
in the water.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
You fought out. You didn't need it, so you got
rid of or now?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Is that is I didn't say that putting words in
my mouth. I didn't say that at all.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
Joe Ben, Yeah, might go here.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Kein's giving us half the story. Shouldn't be too hard
to get the rest.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
It's a lie. There's no story to tell. Nancy ran away.
That's all we know.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Mack Kane says they tried some kind of a death packed.
He and missus Gorman here got in a room and
turned on a gas.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
He didn't tell you. He didn't tell you afraid.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
So man, that's your boyfriend's story. What else? May well?
Speaker 7 (22:29):
As I say, Kane and Missus Gorman got in the room,
agreed to it all. They had a little girl with
him in the room.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Well, why was that? Kane says, he doesn't know. Seemed
to simplify things having a kid with him. Can tell
you what happened? Yeah, they turned on the gas. Jo.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Oh, never mind, miss Garman, never mind, you don't have
to say it.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Do you wanna tell us about it?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Miss Garman, Yes, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Three am.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
We went back inside the cottage at the auto court.
We gave her a cigarette and Barbara Gorman sat down
and told us the story. Four days after she left
with her two year old daughter and Ralph Kane. She
knew she'd made a mistake. She admitted that she never
should have taken the child. She said the little girl
seemed to be in their way all the time. Cain
(23:19):
was all for deserting the child or sending her back
to her father. Missus Gorman wouldn't agree to it, just
out of pure spite. One night in an auto court,
she and Kane had a big drinking party.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
They brooded over the mixup that they'd gotten themselves into.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Kin didn't have any money to get married. He knew
he'd lost his job. Even if they could get married,
Missus Gorman wasn't sure.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
She could get a divorce.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Another full day and night of drinking, and they decided
on a lover's death pack.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
They turned on the gas. I don't get it, missus Gorman.
Why'd you have your little girl in the room with you?
Why didn't you leave her with somebody? Anybody? Try?
Speaker 5 (23:52):
She was mine, wasn't she? I thought we could go together,
all three of us, But he didn't work that way.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
What happened?
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Ra oo? Cup, throats were burning, My eyes were burning.
Looked over Nancy. She wasn't moving. Its just like she
was asleep.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Won't you do?
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Then we got in the car and left. We found
a nice place in the desert. There were nice flowers there.
We buried Nancy.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
How about you and Ralph Kin? You knew you were
in deeper? Why didn't you try it again? Oh?
Speaker 5 (24:20):
We did a couple of times. We loved each other,
the only thing we could do. But every time we tried,
we couldn't go through with it. We'd try, we never
could finish it. Raf got a job tw We were
gonna buy a gun tomorrow. We try again, and.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
You show us where you buried your little girl?
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Yes, placed in the desert out New Palm Springs, it
was a nice place. There's lots of nice flowers around.
You understand, don't you. We're in love Ralph and I. Yea,
my husband wouldn't understand where I loved Rath twas everything,
twas the whole world, Rath and I. I didn't need
(25:00):
it that way for Nancy Press a mistake. You've got
to understand. I didn't need it that way.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
That's the way it is.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
It doesn't matter. You can't hurt us, my trep and I.
You can't take away which we've got. You will never
take that away.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
All right? You want to get you cooked.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Yes, it doesn't matter what happens. It's for half. I
don't care what they do. I'll keep on loving him
same way I love him now, doesn't matter. We'll pay
for our mistakes.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, leady, A're gonna cost you.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
At five am, we put in a call for Lieutenant
Lee Jones and the crime lab crew in the corner.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
When they arrived at the auto court, we.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
Drove to the spot in the desert near Palm Springs
where Ralph Kane and Missus Gorman pointed out the spot
where they buried Nancy. The body was uncovered at the
exact spot was taken back to town to the County Morgue,
where an autopsy was performed. Kane and Missus Garman were
booked in suspicion of murder. By five o'clock that afternoon,
we had the results of the autopsy.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Right, thank you bye.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
What's the story man? Not what we thought? What do
you mean? I think missus Gorman sold us a bill
of goods. Little girl didn't dine in a room full
of gash? What the docs say?
Speaker 7 (26:11):
He found two bullet holes in the body.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
That night, after hours of interrogation, Ralph Kin and Missus
Barbara Gorman both broke down and confessed that they'd killed
the child in cold blood. They pleaded drunkends that they
weren't responsible for their actions. They were returned to their
cells and held without bail, but child's father, Philip Gorman,
was notified The following morning. Ben and I accompanied him
(26:37):
to the County Morgue.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
It's this way, mister Gorman. Uh like.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
You sure you wanna go through with this? S mister German. Well,
I'm might as well tell you the truth. I'm not
sure I do. It isn't gonna help much, mister, Go
and blieve me didn't. I just wanted to see it
just once more. Yeah, well it doesn't work. I wouldn't
(27:09):
be the same, not the way you remember. Just wanted
to see it. I just wanted to find out. What's
that bought a mother? Ralph King, huh, what is it
that can make them do it?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Let me grow? She's only two. What could make anybody
do a thing like that? Your wife called it love.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
The story you've just heard was true, only the names
were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
On September tenth, the trial was held in Superior Court,
Department eighty nine, City in County of Los Angeles, State
of California. In a moment the results of that trial,
and now here is our star Jack Webb.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Thank you friends.
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In Aroma, Missus Barbara Gorman and Ralph Donald Kin were
tried and convicted in Superior Court of murder in the
first degree. Missus Gorman was sentenced to life imprisonment. Kin
received the death penalty. He was executed at the State
(28:36):
Penitentiary San Quentin, California.
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