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Speaker 4 (01:53):
Was Monday, August night was warm in Los Angeles. We
were working a day watch outahamicide detail. My partner's Frank Smith,
the boss's Capital Arm and my name is Friday. It
was seven fifty eight am when I got to Room
forty two. Homicide, got you, Frank.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Yeah, I'm morning Joe.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
It's like it's gonna be a scorture the day, doesn't it?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Nice and clear?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
On't the weekend?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Goo lousy?
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Why what do you mean, oh fan me had a
Rockie Saturday night for that.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
So, yeah, it happens.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Every time we have somebody over for dinner.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Never fails.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Yeah, she gets to yacking it up with the company.
We never eat till ten ten thirty. It's a miserable
time for dinner. Yeah, it's pretty late at the Saturday
night we had the Johnson's over, gonna play little cards,
have a little dinner, you know, relax, white fixed Swedish
meatballs that are on the stove.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Everything's dandy.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
She gets to talking. We finally sit down to eat,
it's ten to fifteen meatballs are burned. Yeah, by that
time we're also hungry. We lost our appet That was
real embarrassing, Joe. We finally sat down at fair.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Let fain know.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
I was pretty sore. I didn't want to come right
out and tell her in front of the Johnson's.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
You know, yeah, I know it's kid.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
So I picked up one of the meatballs.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
It was burned since she'd invented something new. Everybody else
he was chlorophylled for their teeth, but we had.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Built in charcoal.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, well'd she say nothing? Just a look.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Hasn't said a word to me since sends the kids
with messages for me.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
It's pretty miserable, and I se you'll probably be over
when you get home your night.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Pardon me, Yes, sir?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Is the homicide apartment or you caught him murder?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Yes, sir, that's alright.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You think fellas I talk to about him?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Mother?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yes, sir, Come, I am.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Sir. I'll take that chair with that.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Thought, I never make it.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Oh you alright, yeah, I know that I'm here. It's alright.
My face pretty badly cut there, those bruises scratches on
your throat. You're sure you are right now?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, yeah, I'm alright. I never thought i'd get here.
Times I was ready to quit, but then I think
of Kevin, what they did to 'em night. I had
to keep walking. I had to for Kevin. I had to.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Well, I think it's alright. Now you can tell us
about it.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I don't know where to start.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
What's your name, young fella, Bruce Hamilton? Alright, Bruce, I'm
Joe Friday. This is my partner, Frank Smith.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
I know, Bruce.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Oh, we know that you must have been through a
terrible ordeal. But you can tell us about it, if
it's alright. What day is today?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
It's Monday, the ninth, Whitney.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Then it was.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Saturday night, just two days. It seems like ten years.
We just finished in and sitting around the fire having coffee,
trying to figure out whose turn it was to do
the dishes. Then we heard him.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
You heard them?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Who was that horseman? Lots of 'em. They rode right
into the camp. One of 'em yelled something. They all
stopped stood there looking at us. We didn't know what
to do. Who they were. We just stood there and then
this big guy I I guess he was. The leader
said something to us in Spanish. We couldn't understand him. Alright,
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go ahead, you see, Kevin and I go to school together.
Summer vacation, we decided to go down to Mexico and
to a little prospect him. That's the reason we were there.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
M M going.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
We just stood there and looked at him. Big guy
said something else, and then they all laughed, and he
got off his horse and came over to Kevin and
me and was a big man. When we tried to
tell him that we didn't know what he was saying,
he laughed and turned to the other man and they la,
I have two. Big guy said something else to him,
and they all got off their horses and started to
go through our things. Kevin told him not to him
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started to walk over the room to stop him. The
leader hit Kevin and knocked him down and then laughed
at him, and Kevin got up and ran toward one
of 'em. Kevin started to hit him. I broke away
from the one that was holding me and ran to
help Kevin. The big guy grabbed me and hit me
in the face, knocked me down, started kicking. I heard
a shot when I looked where Kevin was. He was
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all doubled up, holding his stomach. He hollered at me
to help him, and the guy shot him again, fell down,
didn't move. They all laughed, thought it was a big joke.
I got up. One of them shot at me. I
started running. I ran as fast as I could. He
kept shooting. Thought sure they hit me, and I kind
of waited for it. Then I ran through some bushes
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and I fell into this gully mm hm and I
at the bottom. I just lay there and didn't move,
almost afraid to breathe. I guess they thought they'd kill me.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
I see what happened.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Then I wait until I couldn't hear him anymore. And
then I'd grown up out of the gully to see
if they were gone. I wanted to help Kevin. I
didn't see anybody, so I walked over to where he was.
It was laying on his face. He got no idea
how I felt when I turned him over. Alright, we understand,
go ahead. I knew right away it was dead. I
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shot him in the stomach and and the chest shirt
was all stayed. There was nothing I could do for him,
nothing anybody could do. I looked at him for a
long time as I cried. It was terrible. Kevin was
dead and there's nothing I could do for him.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I'd say, why'd you do that?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I buried Kevin. I looked for something to dig the
grave with, but they'd taken everything, even the shovels. Everything.
Found a place under a tree, and dug a grave
with my hands. Then I went back and got Kevin,
laid him in the grave. I dug and covered him up,
set a prayer for him. I did the best I
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could for him, best I could.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Alright, So I'm trying to take it easy. I think
let's get him some water. I'll take him down the
interrogation room. An Bruce, maybe you'd like to go down
the hall to another room. It's a little more quiet
down there.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Huh yeah, Sorry, crying like a kid. I I guess
you think it's chilly, but I can't help it.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
It's alright, Bruce, we know how you feel. Nobody gets
too old to cry. But no, it's down this way, okay.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
So I'm tired of I glad to get this over with.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Sure out here with it, go ahead. I wanna sit down.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Thanks every glass of water, Bruce, Thanks, it tastes good.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Helps alright, is there any more? You wanna tell us.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Where's a little more? There was nothing I could do.
I I looked around. They'd taken everything, dishes, food supplies, clothes.
I went over the mesquit bushes where we hid in
our duffel bag. We kept all our money and papers
in there, wallet's identification, all our valuables. They'd found that
it was gone. They hadn't left anything, and.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
They took everything. Didn't leave a thing.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Huh nothing?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Why'd you do that?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Started a walk. We parked our car just off the
highway and it was about five miles and I got
to where we'd park it the the car was gone.
I didn't know what to do. What could I do?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
All right?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I started to walk down Sonata to tell the police.
Then I began to think that the bandits had taken
my wallet. I didn't have any identification, no way to
prove who I was, couldn't even speak the language. Got
scared that they might not believe me.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Now, you walked all the way from Ensnata to the
American border? Is that it?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
That's right? I walked all Saturday night and Sunday morning.
I found an old Adobe house, and I crawled through
a window and slept. I don't know how long I
was asleep, but it was dark. When I woke up,
I started a walk again. I walked all Sunday night too.
I got to the border. I was afraid to go
through the gates, so I went down by the river
bed and found a hole in the fence. I crawled
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through and went over the American side. I got there,
I felt better say. I figured that i'd go up
to the first policeman I saw and tell him what happened.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Did you notify the authorities down in San Diego? No?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I I got to the police station, but I didn't
go in. I didn't tell him why not. Like I said,
I didn't have any way to prove who I was.
I had no money, my wallet was gone, my clothes
were all torn, face was all kind. I thought I'd
be better if I could get to Kevin's mother. If
I could see her and talk to her, she'd know
what to do. I hitched a ride. I I wanted
to go to San Francisco. Truck driver brought me this far.
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While we were driving, I thought more and more about
what i'd say to Kevin's mother. How I Tillery was dead,
and I know I couldn't do it, but I had
to tell somebody. That's why I came to see you.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Now, Bruce, we're gonna have to go back down to Mexico.
You'll be able to show us where the body is,
won't you?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
H I have to go, I guess I can. But
I can tell you exactly where it was. I I
can give you a map, tell you right where he's buried.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Do you wanna give us that information? Now?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah? It was south of Encinata, forty miles down the
new paved highway south.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Of Encenada, forty miles.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
You sure it was forty miles? Yeah. While we were driving,
Kevin and I kept trying to figure out how many
kilometers to a mile. I kept watching the speedometer. It
was just forty miles when we turned off the paved
highway on a little dirt road.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Forty miles.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah, there's a clump of trees near there in the gully.
You can't miss it.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
I say, can you give us the description of the car,
the license number?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Well, I don't remember the license number, but the car
was a fifty one Ford seed in dark blue car
belonged to Kevin. I I never paid any attention to
the license.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
That's k e V I N Kevin. Huh, yeah, we
can check that through DMV. What was Kevin's full name
and address?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Kevin Alan Bradley. He lived at six or five over
to Washington Street, San Francisco. He lived with his mother
apartment on Knob Hill.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Would you give us a description of Kevin?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Well, it's about my size, generally five ten, one hundred
and forty ponds, blue eyes. His hair's light, kind of
blonde like mine. Twenty two years old. We looked a
lot of like kids at school. You used to think
we were brothers sometimes, I say, Jolley, better.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Get a communication to the Mexican authorities.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Fill them in on the whole thing. You know we're coming.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Down, you know, contact San Francisco and let them handle
that end of the thing. Get a teletype off the
DMV and SACA. Man, I'll get a license number on
the car. I'll we better contact the San Diego Peda
and get a hold Algate and fill him in on
the thing.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Yeah, it's a good ima. I'll stay here with Bruce.
You want to take Kevin? How lucky young fellow? Would
you know these bandits again, if you saw them.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I I might not know some of 'em, but the
big guy and the one that shot Kevin, I'll never
forget them. The big guy was tall, heavy, over six feet,
well over two hundred pounds. I'll never forget him laugh
when he killed Kevin. When he laughed, you could see
he had two gold teeth right here in front. He's here,
two gold teeth.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
How about the other man, Bruce, Do you get a
good look at him?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
He was a small man, dark like the leader. He
wasn't wearing a hat, real thin face. His clothes were
all dirty and his pants were torn around the bottoms.
He was wearing those leather sandals, the open kind. His
feet were filthy, like he had not a bath in
a year.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
You think you'd be able to identify any of the others.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I don't know. Maybe if I saw him, I was scared,
and I don't mind admitting Joe.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yeah, Frank, I.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Stopped by R and I before I went on with
the other communications.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Check the name Kevin Alan.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Bradley through Yeah, there's a teletype inm San Francisco dated
July thirteenth. It's a missing person report on Kevin you want.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
To read it. Let's it say I get a missing report.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
I described as male, white American, twenty two years five,
ten hundred and forty pounds, blond, blue eyes, fair complexion.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Time of disappearance.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Was wearing a dark blue Gabardine suit, driving a dark
blue nineteen fifty one Ford license number one Robert two nine.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Five one something else.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Joe, He's going to be carrying a sum of money
in excess of fifteen hundred dollars when I disappeared.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Fifteen hundred dollars. It's a lot of money in it.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Oh, not to Kevin. He was used to carrying that
kind of money. She and his folks were pretty rich.
He he always had all the money he wanted.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
I see, aw about this missing report here, Bruce, What
do you mean? Well, didn't Kevin's mother know that he
was going to Mexico?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Well no, you see, they had an argument about where
he was gonna spend the summer vacation. She wanted him
to go to Canada, and he wanted to come down here.
One afternoon he just took off. Kevin went to the
bank and got the money and we just took off.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
I see, he didn't tell us about anything about it.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
No, he thought that she'd try to stop him. Probably
would have too if she'd known.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Or was uh the money among the things that were stolen.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Front of me? Well? Yeah, it was in Kevin's wallet,
in the duffel bag. Suppose it was kind of foolish
to leave that much money just laying around, but we did.
We didn't think that anything had happened like this. I
stop and think back over it, Kevin being dead, I
don't know. I just get sick. Yea.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Now you say you didn't have any money? How did
you get along?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I didn't think much about food. The important thing was
to tell somebody about Kevin's being killed. That's all I
thought about telling somebody.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Yeah, sure, well you must be pretty hungry. Then you'd
like something eat now with you?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yeah, might taste pretty good. Sandwich and some coffee. How
about you, guys? You're gonna eat frank?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
How about you? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (14:32):
If I get communications off, run across the street and
pick up some sandwiches and coffee and bring them back here.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
What kind of sandwich you like?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Grosn Anything doesn't make any difference.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Joe oh Ham's all right, white bread, lot of mustard, okay,
I'll be right fine, right.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Oh, say Joe, running kind of low in my allowance?
When I got a buck and a half, you got.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
A little change?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Yeah? Sure, now here, let me get this.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Did you say you had some money? Well?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I have got ten dollars ten dollar bill.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Mightybe, I'm wrong. I thought you said the bandits took
all your money. I get it wrong.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Well what I meant is I didn't think I had
any money yet I found this ten in my pocket
just before I walked in here. Oh, I say, yeah,
Look you can see it's all watted up. Must have
been in my pocket for a long time, just a tin,
all wadded up.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Yeah, it's all crumpled up there. You have me tell
what it is, can you?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yeah, that's right. But you can see it's a ten. Sure,
it's all wrinkled up. You can see how I missed it.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Yeah, I'll tell you. Why don't you put everything in
your pockets right here on the table? Huh?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Why what that show? I'd come on, boy, I haven't
got anything in my pockets.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
While you found the ten, maybe you'll find something.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Else, all right, But I don't know what it's gonna
show pocket, knife, handkerchief. Come, you got the ten on
the table there? It's all.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Maybe there's something in your coat pockets.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
No, I don't carry anything in my coat pockets.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Stretches them or you take a look anyway, Huh.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I told you I don't use them. See nothing.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
How about the inside pockets, No, there's nothing there.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Let's have a look.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I told you there's nothing there.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Then you won't mind if we have a look.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
What's that you got there, Bruce? That's my wallet. Guess
they didn't take it after all? See, thanks for finding it. No,
I probably wouldn't have thought to look for it. I
just figured that it was gone here. Let me have it.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Let's see what's in it?
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
What's just some cards? Personal stuff like that? Nothing you'd
be interested in. I I forgot all about it. Feel
pretty silly. I didn't even know what was there.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Take a look to you.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
And you say, this is your wallet? Is that right? Bruce?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yeah, it's mine. I told you it's mine. How about
let me have it. Huh.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
There's quite a bit of money in here, Bruce. Huh,
I don't know. Just a glance here looks to be
about a thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Then it just a minute. I I think I can
explain that.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
There's another thing here. I don't think you can explain
what'side of the name in the wallet, Kevin Bradley.
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Speaker 4 (18:18):
With the finding of Kevin Bradley's wallet, the case had
taken a new turn. We continued to question Bruce Hamilton,
but he insisted that he thought the wallet and the
money had been taken by the bandits when they killed
the Bradley boy. While I talked to him, Frank went
down the hall and contacted the Mexican authorities and gave
them the information. He gave them the description of Kevin
Bradley and of Bruce Hamilton. They told him that to
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the best of their knowledge, there were no bandits operating
in the vicinity, but they would dispatch a search party
to go over the area. They said they would keep
us advised of any developments that might arise. Frank also
contacted the San Francisco Police Department and gave them the information.
They said they'd take care of that. Into the investigation.
Eleven forty seven am. Frank came back to the interrogation
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and we continued to question the Hamilton boy.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I told you and I know, I don't know how
the money got there. I was as surprised as you were.
I don't understand it. You've gotta believe me.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Yeah, Well, you're making it free tough to believe, Bruce.
It's kind of hard to buy the fact that over
a thousand dollars in Kevin's wallet turns up in your
pocket and you don't know how it got there.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
What is the truth? I don't know how I can
convince you that it's the truth.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
There are a couple of other things that aren't clear here.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
What tell me I'm not lying. I've got nothing to hide.
What's not right? Tell me?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Well, it's business of not telling the authorities.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I told you. I was scared that they might not
believe me. You can understand that, can't you.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Well, maybe, up to a point.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I thought that if I could get to Kevin's mother,
then she could take care of it. I didn't know
what else to do. And when I got to La,
I had a chance to think about it, and I
couldn't go through with it. I couldn't tell his mother.
I couldn't face her. Bruce.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
When you describe what we could find the body, you
said it was about forty miles down the paved highway.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
That right, That's what I said.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Well, how long has it been since you've been to Mexico.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I told you I just came back from there. Don't
you believe anything I've told you?
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Well, John and I just finished an investigation down in Mexico.
Investigation took us about seventy miles south of en Sonata.
We found the highway paved for only about five five
miles south. You say forty miles. I'd explain the difference.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Maybe I was wrong about the distance.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
You're pretty sure when you first told us about it.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Well, maybe I made a mistake something else.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Bruce, it's a little hazy year.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I told you I want to help anything.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
How far south of Encinnata did you say you were?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
I said about forty miles. Now I'm not sure, but.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
You are sure that it was south of Encinata. Yeah,
and Kevin was killed on a Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Then you started for the States right away, That's what
I said.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I started walking as soon as I found the car
was gone, and.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
You walked all the way to the border.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
How'd you walk? What rout did you take?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I told you I stayed off the road. I was
afraid of the bandit's coming back. I walked along the
road side and then through the hills. I got off
the road side when I saw anybody coming.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
But you did walk all the way.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, that's right, all the way from Ensenada to the border.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
And it took you how long?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
On Saturday night and Sunday night? I got a ride
in San Diego in the morning.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
What time do you figure that you started for the border?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Maybe eleven thirty midnight, I don't know for sure.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
And you stopped at dawn.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Yeah, I stopped and slept, and I woke up and
I started.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
A walking And you're asking us to believe that you
walked over one hundred miles in less than fourteen hours?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Is that right? Through country like that? What do you
think that? I'm making a whole thing up my face?
My back here?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Look?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Does this look like my imagination?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
You could have gotten these in a fight with Kevin.
Maybe he didn't want you to take the money.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
You keep talking about the money. I try to tell you,
I don't know how the money got in my pocket.
I don't know anything about it. Do you think I
killed Kevin? Is that right?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Yeah? It looks that way. Done it.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
It was my best friend. I had no reason to
kill him. He was my friend.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Well, look, son, we better get this thing straight for you.
You've opened up a can of beans here. You waltz
in here and give us a cock and bull story
about this killing. Parts of your story we can't buy.
Why are you trying to sell it to us? You
lied about the road, you lied about the money. The
story about how you walk doesn't ring true. You want
to know what I really think, Bruce? I think the
whole thing's alive. And start to finish a lie. Now,
let's come off it. Who killed Kevin Bradley? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I get this straight, Bruce? Did you kill him? Huh?
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Did you kill Kevin Bradley's that the reason for this story?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Oh? No, I didn't.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Well somebody did.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Can you tell us who?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
You're getting me all mixed up?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
You're the one that's getting it mixed up, Bruce. We
just want to know who killed Kevin Bradley.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
We think maybe it was you.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Looks like it might have been.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Oh no, it couldn't be. Leave me alone. I didn't
do it.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Why couldn't you have done it?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Looks like you did, because Kevin Bradley isn't dead. What's
that he was never killed. I'm Kevin Bradley.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
The boy broke down completely and admitted that the whole
thing was a hoax. He said he hadn't been in
Mexico at all, but he'd spent the past week in
a downtown hotel working out the story that he planned
to tell us. He admitted that the wounds were self inflicted.
He explained that he had scratched his own face and
hid himself with a rock to produce the cuts and bruises.
He went on to say that he had picked Mexico
as the scene of the false killing because he thought
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the story would be more difficult to trace. Like many citizens,
he was unaware of the close cooperation between American law
enforcement agencies and the Mexican authorities. We asked him about
the existence of a Bruce Hamilton, and he told us
there was such a boy in his class at school.
Twelve to fifty pm. The communication had come through from
San Francisco and the teletype said that Missus Bradley was
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en route to Los Angeles to aid in the investigation.
When we told Kevin about this, he lapsed into silence
and another hour refused to say anything. Two five pm.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Now, look, boy, I have been sitting there for an
hour and you haven't said a word. There's something you
want to say, Well, listen.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
There's nothing to say. I tried tried to get away
from her all my life. She's told me what to do.
I tried to tell her, but I couldn't. Nobody could
to understand. You don't, you can't. Every time I tried
to get away, she'd say something or do something so
I couldn't leave. Was trapped and I didn't know what
to do. And I thought I did know, and even
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that didn't work. I thought that if you told her
I was dead, she'd forget me, leave me alone. I
can't even die, right, Kevin, you're here.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
I knew what they told me was wrong. I knew
you were all right.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Oh mother, it's happened to Kevin Darling. Your face, your clothes?
Speaker 8 (23:48):
Oh my poor baby?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
How did this happen?
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Or you're all right?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Or your poor face all cut? What's happened? Kevin? It's
all right? No, it's not all right.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
I don't know what happened. Who did this awful thing?
But I'll take care of it. What do you know
about this? What do you know about this? Did you
do it. Did you get this poor boy? Look at
this poor face. Just look at it. It's terrible, that's
what it is.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
It's terrible.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
I mean to find out just what happened here. I'll
get to the bottom of this. No, don't you worry, Kevin, baby.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Mother is here.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
She'll take care of you.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Mother. Please, it's all right, how you Everything'll be all right, mother.
These officers had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
Because if you say so, Kevin, baby, have you called
the doctor about this? Have you gotten in touch with
someone to take care of his face? Never mind, I'll
take him to a doctor. I look after him, poor baby, Mother,
look after him.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Mother, Please don't Kevin. You know that mother knows what's best.
Speaker 8 (24:42):
Mother will take care of her.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
And stop and shut up. Heaven, I'm sick if you're
tired of it. For twenty years, as long as I
can remember, you've taken care of things. Did you ever
think I might want to take care of a few
things myself? Have you ever thought that I wasn't a
kid anymore? I'm an adult, like it says on the
missing report, male white American twenty t two years an adult.
I no, I've tried to say this before and I've
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never had the nerve. I've got it now, and I'm
gonna finish. I'm tired of having you make all the
arrangements for me. I'm gonna have dates with girls that
I want to go out with, not the ones you
pick for me. I'm gonna get a job and make
my own way. I'm gonna buy a car, and if
I smash it up and me along with it, it's
my business. I'll never forgive you for what you've done.
You spent twenty years making me an outside are always
on the fringe. I couldn't do the things I wanted to,
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only the things you wanted me to do, only the
things you thought best. I'm sick of having you make
the decisions for me. From here on in, I'm gonna
make them myself. I tried to kill Kevin Bradley for
no reason. You killed him a long time ago. Take
a good look at me, mother, Take a good look
and see what you've done. I hate the side of you.
I hate everything about you. Now let me alone and
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go away.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
I take it easy, but it's all right, officer. I understand.
Sometimes he gets like this. He doesn't mean it.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
I know it all right.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
Kevin, I'm sure the officers are in. Dry your eyes
and we'll go home. Do you hear me, Kevin, stop
this foolishness. I said, we're going home.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yes, mother, I hear you.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
I'm sorry, officers embarrassing. I don't know why he does
these things. He's always been pretty emotional. There's nothing else
we better be going. I want to catch the early
plane back to the city. If a party planned for
tomorrow night, million things to.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Do, you'll have to help, Kevin.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
Kevin, do you hear me, Yes, Mother, I hear well,
then say goodbye to the officers and let's go.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Good Bye, mister Friday, mister Smith. I'm sorry, that's all happened.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
That's our we son.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
I tried, Sorcy, just didn't work, but I did try.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Kevin, let's go.
Speaker 8 (26:45):
I don't want to miss that plane.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Yes, mother, Oh sorry, Oh yes, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (26:54):
Thank you for giving my boy.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Back to me.
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Speaker 4 (01:53):
Was Monday, August night was warm in Los Angeles. We
were working a day watch outahamicide detail. My partner's Frank Smith,
the boss's Capital Arm and my name is Friday. It
was seven fifty eight am when I got to Room
forty two. Homicide, got you, Frank.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Yeah, I'm morning Joe.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
It's like it's gonna be a scorture the day, doesn't it?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Nice and clear?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
On't the weekend?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Goo lousy?
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Why what do you mean, oh fan me had a
Rockie Saturday night for that.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
So, yeah, it happens.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Every time we have somebody over for dinner.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Never fails.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Yeah, she gets to yacking it up with the company.
We never eat till ten ten thirty. It's a miserable
time for dinner. Yeah, it's pretty late at the Saturday
night we had the Johnson's over, gonna play little cards,
have a little dinner, you know, relax, white fixed Swedish
meatballs that are on the stove.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Everything's dandy.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
She gets to talking. We finally sit down to eat,
it's ten to fifteen meatballs are burned. Yeah, by that
time we're also hungry. We lost our appet That was
real embarrassing, Joe. We finally sat down at fair.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Let fain know.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
I was pretty sore. I didn't want to come right
out and tell her in front of the Johnson's.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
You know, yeah, I know it's kid.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
So I picked up one of the meatballs.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
It was burned since she'd invented something new. Everybody else
he was chlorophylled for their teeth, but we had.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Built in charcoal.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, well'd she say nothing? Just a look.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Hasn't said a word to me since sends the kids
with messages for me.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
It's pretty miserable, and I se you'll probably be over
when you get home your night.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Pardon me, Yes, sir?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Is the homicide apartment or you caught him murder?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Yes, sir, that's alright.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You think fellas I talk to about him?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Mother?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yes, sir, Come, I am.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Sir. I'll take that chair with that.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Thought, I never make it.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Oh you alright, yeah, I know that I'm here. It's alright.
My face pretty badly cut there, those bruises scratches on
your throat. You're sure you are right now?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, yeah, I'm alright. I never thought i'd get here.
Times I was ready to quit, but then I think
of Kevin, what they did to 'em night. I had
to keep walking. I had to for Kevin. I had to.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Well, I think it's alright. Now you can tell us
about it.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I don't know where to start.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
What's your name, young fella, Bruce Hamilton? Alright, Bruce, I'm
Joe Friday. This is my partner, Frank Smith.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
I know, Bruce.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Oh, we know that you must have been through a
terrible ordeal. But you can tell us about it, if
it's alright. What day is today?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
It's Monday, the ninth, Whitney.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Then it was.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Saturday night, just two days. It seems like ten years.
We just finished in and sitting around the fire having coffee,
trying to figure out whose turn it was to do
the dishes. Then we heard him.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
You heard them?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Who was that horseman? Lots of 'em. They rode right
into the camp. One of 'em yelled something. They all
stopped stood there looking at us. We didn't know what
to do. Who they were. We just stood there and then
this big guy I I guess he was. The leader
said something to us in Spanish. We couldn't understand him. Alright,
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go ahead, you see, Kevin and I go to school together.
Summer vacation, we decided to go down to Mexico and
to a little prospect him. That's the reason we were there.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
M M going.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
We just stood there and looked at him. Big guy
said something else, and then they all laughed, and he
got off his horse and came over to Kevin and
me and was a big man. When we tried to
tell him that we didn't know what he was saying,
he laughed and turned to the other man and they la,
I have two. Big guy said something else to him,
and they all got off their horses and started to
go through our things. Kevin told him not to him
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started to walk over the room to stop him. The
leader hit Kevin and knocked him down and then laughed
at him, and Kevin got up and ran toward one
of 'em. Kevin started to hit him. I broke away
from the one that was holding me and ran to
help Kevin. The big guy grabbed me and hit me
in the face, knocked me down, started kicking. I heard
a shot when I looked where Kevin was. He was
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all doubled up, holding his stomach. He hollered at me
to help him, and the guy shot him again, fell down,
didn't move. They all laughed, thought it was a big joke.
I got up. One of them shot at me. I
started running. I ran as fast as I could. He
kept shooting. Thought sure they hit me, and I kind
of waited for it. Then I ran through some bushes
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and I fell into this gully mm hm and I
at the bottom. I just lay there and didn't move,
almost afraid to breathe. I guess they thought they'd kill me.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
I see what happened.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Then I wait until I couldn't hear him anymore. And
then I'd grown up out of the gully to see
if they were gone. I wanted to help Kevin. I
didn't see anybody, so I walked over to where he was.
It was laying on his face. He got no idea
how I felt when I turned him over. Alright, we understand,
go ahead. I knew right away it was dead. I
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shot him in the stomach and and the chest shirt
was all stayed. There was nothing I could do for him,
nothing anybody could do. I looked at him for a
long time as I cried. It was terrible. Kevin was
dead and there's nothing I could do for him.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I'd say, why'd you do that?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I buried Kevin. I looked for something to dig the
grave with, but they'd taken everything, even the shovels. Everything.
Found a place under a tree, and dug a grave
with my hands. Then I went back and got Kevin,
laid him in the grave. I dug and covered him up,
set a prayer for him. I did the best I
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could for him, best I could.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Alright, So I'm trying to take it easy. I think
let's get him some water. I'll take him down the
interrogation room. An Bruce, maybe you'd like to go down
the hall to another room. It's a little more quiet
down there.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Huh yeah, Sorry, crying like a kid. I I guess
you think it's chilly, but I can't help it.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
It's alright, Bruce, we know how you feel. Nobody gets
too old to cry. But no, it's down this way, okay.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
So I'm tired of I glad to get this over with.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Sure out here with it, go ahead. I wanna sit down.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Thanks every glass of water, Bruce, Thanks, it tastes good.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Helps alright, is there any more? You wanna tell us.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Where's a little more? There was nothing I could do.
I I looked around. They'd taken everything, dishes, food supplies, clothes.
I went over the mesquit bushes where we hid in
our duffel bag. We kept all our money and papers
in there, wallet's identification, all our valuables. They'd found that
it was gone. They hadn't left anything, and.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
They took everything. Didn't leave a thing.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Huh nothing?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Why'd you do that?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Started a walk. We parked our car just off the
highway and it was about five miles and I got
to where we'd park it the the car was gone.
I didn't know what to do. What could I do?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
All right?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I started to walk down Sonata to tell the police.
Then I began to think that the bandits had taken
my wallet. I didn't have any identification, no way to
prove who I was, couldn't even speak the language. Got
scared that they might not believe me.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Now, you walked all the way from Ensnata to the
American border? Is that it?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
That's right? I walked all Saturday night and Sunday morning.
I found an old Adobe house, and I crawled through
a window and slept. I don't know how long I
was asleep, but it was dark. When I woke up,
I started a walk again. I walked all Sunday night too.
I got to the border. I was afraid to go
through the gates, so I went down by the river
bed and found a hole in the fence. I crawled
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through and went over the American side. I got there,
I felt better say. I figured that i'd go up
to the first policeman I saw and tell him what happened.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Did you notify the authorities down in San Diego? No?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I I got to the police station, but I didn't
go in. I didn't tell him why not. Like I said,
I didn't have any way to prove who I was.
I had no money, my wallet was gone, my clothes
were all torn, face was all kind. I thought I'd
be better if I could get to Kevin's mother. If
I could see her and talk to her, she'd know
what to do. I hitched a ride. I I wanted
to go to San Francisco. Truck driver brought me this far.
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While we were driving, I thought more and more about
what i'd say to Kevin's mother. How I Tillery was dead,
and I know I couldn't do it, but I had
to tell somebody. That's why I came to see you.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Now, Bruce, we're gonna have to go back down to Mexico.
You'll be able to show us where the body is,
won't you?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
H I have to go, I guess I can. But
I can tell you exactly where it was. I I
can give you a map, tell you right where he's buried.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Do you wanna give us that information? Now?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah? It was south of Encinata, forty miles down the
new paved highway south.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Of Encenada, forty miles.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
You sure it was forty miles? Yeah. While we were driving,
Kevin and I kept trying to figure out how many
kilometers to a mile. I kept watching the speedometer. It
was just forty miles when we turned off the paved
highway on a little dirt road.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Forty miles.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah, there's a clump of trees near there in the gully.
You can't miss it.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
I say, can you give us the description of the car,
the license number?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Well, I don't remember the license number, but the car
was a fifty one Ford seed in dark blue car
belonged to Kevin. I I never paid any attention to
the license.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
That's k e V I N Kevin. Huh, yeah, we
can check that through DMV. What was Kevin's full name
and address?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Kevin Alan Bradley. He lived at six or five over
to Washington Street, San Francisco. He lived with his mother
apartment on Knob Hill.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Would you give us a description of Kevin?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Well, it's about my size, generally five ten, one hundred
and forty ponds, blue eyes. His hair's light, kind of
blonde like mine. Twenty two years old. We looked a
lot of like kids at school. You used to think
we were brothers sometimes, I say, Jolley, better.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Get a communication to the Mexican authorities.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Fill them in on the whole thing. You know we're coming.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Down, you know, contact San Francisco and let them handle
that end of the thing. Get a teletype off the
DMV and SACA. Man, I'll get a license number on
the car. I'll we better contact the San Diego Peda
and get a hold Algate and fill him in on
the thing.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Yeah, it's a good ima. I'll stay here with Bruce.
You want to take Kevin? How lucky young fellow? Would
you know these bandits again, if you saw them.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I I might not know some of 'em, but the
big guy and the one that shot Kevin, I'll never
forget them. The big guy was tall, heavy, over six feet,
well over two hundred pounds. I'll never forget him laugh
when he killed Kevin. When he laughed, you could see
he had two gold teeth right here in front. He's here,
two gold teeth.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
How about the other man, Bruce, Do you get a
good look at him?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
He was a small man, dark like the leader. He
wasn't wearing a hat, real thin face. His clothes were
all dirty and his pants were torn around the bottoms.
He was wearing those leather sandals, the open kind. His
feet were filthy, like he had not a bath in
a year.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
You think you'd be able to identify any of the others.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I don't know. Maybe if I saw him, I was scared,
and I don't mind admitting Joe.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yeah, Frank, I.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Stopped by R and I before I went on with
the other communications.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Check the name Kevin Alan.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Bradley through Yeah, there's a teletype inm San Francisco dated
July thirteenth. It's a missing person report on Kevin you want.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
To read it. Let's it say I get a missing report.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
I described as male, white American, twenty two years five,
ten hundred and forty pounds, blond, blue eyes, fair complexion.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Time of disappearance.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Was wearing a dark blue Gabardine suit, driving a dark
blue nineteen fifty one Ford license number one Robert two nine.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Five one something else.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Joe, He's going to be carrying a sum of money
in excess of fifteen hundred dollars when I disappeared.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Fifteen hundred dollars. It's a lot of money in it.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Oh, not to Kevin. He was used to carrying that
kind of money. She and his folks were pretty rich.
He he always had all the money he wanted.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
I see, aw about this missing report here, Bruce, What
do you mean? Well, didn't Kevin's mother know that he
was going to Mexico?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Well no, you see, they had an argument about where
he was gonna spend the summer vacation. She wanted him
to go to Canada, and he wanted to come down here.
One afternoon he just took off. Kevin went to the
bank and got the money and we just took off.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
I see, he didn't tell us about anything about it.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
No, he thought that she'd try to stop him. Probably
would have too if she'd known.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Or was uh the money among the things that were stolen.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Front of me? Well? Yeah, it was in Kevin's wallet,
in the duffel bag. Suppose it was kind of foolish
to leave that much money just laying around, but we did.
We didn't think that anything had happened like this. I
stop and think back over it, Kevin being dead, I
don't know. I just get sick. Yea.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Now you say you didn't have any money? How did
you get along?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I didn't think much about food. The important thing was
to tell somebody about Kevin's being killed. That's all I
thought about telling somebody.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Yeah, sure, well you must be pretty hungry. Then you'd
like something eat now with you?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yeah, might taste pretty good. Sandwich and some coffee. How
about you, guys? You're gonna eat frank?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
How about you? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (14:32):
If I get communications off, run across the street and
pick up some sandwiches and coffee and bring them back here.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
What kind of sandwich you like?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Grosn Anything doesn't make any difference.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Joe oh Ham's all right, white bread, lot of mustard, okay,
I'll be right fine, right.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Oh, say Joe, running kind of low in my allowance?
When I got a buck and a half, you got.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
A little change?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Yeah? Sure, now here, let me get this.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Did you say you had some money? Well?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I have got ten dollars ten dollar bill.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Mightybe, I'm wrong. I thought you said the bandits took
all your money. I get it wrong.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Well what I meant is I didn't think I had
any money yet I found this ten in my pocket
just before I walked in here. Oh, I say, yeah,
Look you can see it's all watted up. Must have
been in my pocket for a long time, just a tin,
all wadded up.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Yeah, it's all crumpled up there. You have me tell
what it is, can you?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yeah, that's right. But you can see it's a ten. Sure,
it's all wrinkled up. You can see how I missed it.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Yeah, I'll tell you. Why don't you put everything in
your pockets right here on the table? Huh?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Why what that show? I'd come on, boy, I haven't
got anything in my pockets.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
While you found the ten, maybe you'll find something.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Else, all right, But I don't know what it's gonna
show pocket, knife, handkerchief. Come, you got the ten on
the table there? It's all.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Maybe there's something in your coat pockets.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
No, I don't carry anything in my coat pockets.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Stretches them or you take a look anyway, Huh.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I told you I don't use them. See nothing.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
How about the inside pockets, No, there's nothing there.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Let's have a look.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I told you there's nothing there.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Then you won't mind if we have a look.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
What's that you got there, Bruce? That's my wallet. Guess
they didn't take it after all? See, thanks for finding it. No,
I probably wouldn't have thought to look for it. I
just figured that it was gone here. Let me have it.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Let's see what's in it?
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
What's just some cards? Personal stuff like that? Nothing you'd
be interested in. I I forgot all about it. Feel
pretty silly. I didn't even know what was there.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Take a look to you.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
And you say, this is your wallet? Is that right? Bruce?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yeah, it's mine. I told you it's mine. How about
let me have it. Huh.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
There's quite a bit of money in here, Bruce. Huh,
I don't know. Just a glance here looks to be
about a thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Then it just a minute. I I think I can
explain that.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
There's another thing here. I don't think you can explain
what'side of the name in the wallet, Kevin Bradley.
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With the finding of Kevin Bradley's wallet, the case had
taken a new turn. We continued to question Bruce Hamilton,
but he insisted that he thought the wallet and the
money had been taken by the bandits when they killed
the Bradley boy. While I talked to him, Frank went
down the hall and contacted the Mexican authorities and gave
them the information. He gave them the description of Kevin
Bradley and of Bruce Hamilton. They told him that to
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the best of their knowledge, there were no bandits operating
in the vicinity, but they would dispatch a search party
to go over the area. They said they would keep
us advised of any developments that might arise. Frank also
contacted the San Francisco Police Department and gave them the information.
They said they'd take care of that. Into the investigation.
Eleven forty seven am. Frank came back to the interrogation
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and we continued to question the Hamilton boy.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I told you and I know, I don't know how
the money got there. I was as surprised as you were.
I don't understand it. You've gotta believe me.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Yeah, Well, you're making it free tough to believe, Bruce.
It's kind of hard to buy the fact that over
a thousand dollars in Kevin's wallet turns up in your
pocket and you don't know how it got there.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
What is the truth? I don't know how I can
convince you that it's the truth.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
There are a couple of other things that aren't clear here.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
What tell me I'm not lying. I've got nothing to hide.
What's not right? Tell me?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Well, it's business of not telling the authorities.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I told you. I was scared that they might not
believe me. You can understand that, can't you.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Well, maybe, up to a point.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I thought that if I could get to Kevin's mother,
then she could take care of it. I didn't know
what else to do. And when I got to La,
I had a chance to think about it, and I
couldn't go through with it. I couldn't tell his mother.
I couldn't face her. Bruce.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
When you describe what we could find the body, you
said it was about forty miles down the paved highway.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
That right, That's what I said.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Well, how long has it been since you've been to Mexico.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I told you I just came back from there. Don't
you believe anything I've told you?
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Well, John and I just finished an investigation down in Mexico.
Investigation took us about seventy miles south of en Sonata.
We found the highway paved for only about five five
miles south. You say forty miles. I'd explain the difference.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Maybe I was wrong about the distance.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
You're pretty sure when you first told us about it.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Well, maybe I made a mistake something else.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Bruce, it's a little hazy year.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I told you I want to help anything.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
How far south of Encinnata did you say you were?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
I said about forty miles. Now I'm not sure, but.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
You are sure that it was south of Encinata. Yeah,
and Kevin was killed on a Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Then you started for the States right away, That's what
I said.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I started walking as soon as I found the car
was gone, and.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
You walked all the way to the border.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
How'd you walk? What rout did you take?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I told you I stayed off the road. I was
afraid of the bandit's coming back. I walked along the
road side and then through the hills. I got off
the road side when I saw anybody coming.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
But you did walk all the way.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, that's right, all the way from Ensenada to the border.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
And it took you how long?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
On Saturday night and Sunday night? I got a ride
in San Diego in the morning.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
What time do you figure that you started for the border?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Maybe eleven thirty midnight, I don't know for sure.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
And you stopped at dawn.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Yeah, I stopped and slept, and I woke up and
I started.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
A walking And you're asking us to believe that you
walked over one hundred miles in less than fourteen hours?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Is that right? Through country like that? What do you
think that? I'm making a whole thing up my face?
My back here?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Look?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Does this look like my imagination?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
You could have gotten these in a fight with Kevin.
Maybe he didn't want you to take the money.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
You keep talking about the money. I try to tell you,
I don't know how the money got in my pocket.
I don't know anything about it. Do you think I
killed Kevin? Is that right?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Yeah? It looks that way. Done it.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
It was my best friend. I had no reason to
kill him. He was my friend.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Well, look, son, we better get this thing straight for you.
You've opened up a can of beans here. You waltz
in here and give us a cock and bull story
about this killing. Parts of your story we can't buy.
Why are you trying to sell it to us? You
lied about the road, you lied about the money. The
story about how you walk doesn't ring true. You want
to know what I really think, Bruce? I think the
whole thing's alive. And start to finish a lie. Now,
let's come off it. Who killed Kevin Bradley? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I get this straight, Bruce? Did you kill him? Huh?
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Did you kill Kevin Bradley's that the reason for this story?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Oh? No, I didn't.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Well somebody did.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Can you tell us who?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
You're getting me all mixed up?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
You're the one that's getting it mixed up, Bruce. We
just want to know who killed Kevin Bradley.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
We think maybe it was you.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Looks like it might have been.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Oh no, it couldn't be. Leave me alone. I didn't
do it.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Why couldn't you have done it?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Looks like you did, because Kevin Bradley isn't dead. What's
that he was never killed. I'm Kevin Bradley.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
The boy broke down completely and admitted that the whole
thing was a hoax. He said he hadn't been in
Mexico at all, but he'd spent the past week in
a downtown hotel working out the story that he planned
to tell us. He admitted that the wounds were self inflicted.
He explained that he had scratched his own face and
hid himself with a rock to produce the cuts and bruises.
He went on to say that he had picked Mexico
as the scene of the false killing because he thought
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the story would be more difficult to trace. Like many citizens,
he was unaware of the close cooperation between American law
enforcement agencies and the Mexican authorities. We asked him about
the existence of a Bruce Hamilton, and he told us
there was such a boy in his class at school.
Twelve to fifty pm. The communication had come through from
San Francisco and the teletype said that Missus Bradley was
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en route to Los Angeles to aid in the investigation.
When we told Kevin about this, he lapsed into silence
and another hour refused to say anything. Two five pm.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Now, look, boy, I have been sitting there for an
hour and you haven't said a word. There's something you
want to say, Well, listen.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
There's nothing to say. I tried tried to get away
from her all my life. She's told me what to do.
I tried to tell her, but I couldn't. Nobody could
to understand. You don't, you can't. Every time I tried
to get away, she'd say something or do something so
I couldn't leave. Was trapped and I didn't know what
to do. And I thought I did know, and even
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that didn't work. I thought that if you told her
I was dead, she'd forget me, leave me alone. I
can't even die, right, Kevin, you're here.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
I knew what they told me was wrong. I knew
you were all right.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Oh mother, it's happened to Kevin Darling. Your face, your clothes?
Speaker 8 (23:48):
Oh my poor baby?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
How did this happen?
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Or you're all right?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Or your poor face all cut? What's happened? Kevin? It's
all right? No, it's not all right.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
I don't know what happened. Who did this awful thing?
But I'll take care of it. What do you know
about this? What do you know about this? Did you
do it. Did you get this poor boy? Look at
this poor face. Just look at it. It's terrible, that's
what it is.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
It's terrible.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
I mean to find out just what happened here. I'll
get to the bottom of this. No, don't you worry, Kevin, baby.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Mother is here.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
She'll take care of you.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Mother. Please, it's all right, how you Everything'll be all right, mother.
These officers had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
Because if you say so, Kevin, baby, have you called
the doctor about this? Have you gotten in touch with
someone to take care of his face? Never mind, I'll
take him to a doctor. I look after him, poor baby, Mother,
look after him.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Mother, Please don't Kevin. You know that mother knows what's best.
Speaker 8 (24:42):
Mother will take care of her.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
And stop and shut up. Heaven, I'm sick if you're
tired of it. For twenty years, as long as I
can remember, you've taken care of things. Did you ever
think I might want to take care of a few
things myself? Have you ever thought that I wasn't a
kid anymore? I'm an adult, like it says on the
missing report, male white American twenty t two years an adult.
I no, I've tried to say this before and I've
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never had the nerve. I've got it now, and I'm
gonna finish. I'm tired of having you make all the
arrangements for me. I'm gonna have dates with girls that
I want to go out with, not the ones you
pick for me. I'm gonna get a job and make
my own way. I'm gonna buy a car, and if
I smash it up and me along with it, it's
my business. I'll never forgive you for what you've done.
You spent twenty years making me an outside are always
on the fringe. I couldn't do the things I wanted to,
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only the things you wanted me to do, only the
things you thought best. I'm sick of having you make
the decisions for me. From here on in, I'm gonna
make them myself. I tried to kill Kevin Bradley for
no reason. You killed him a long time ago. Take
a good look at me, mother, Take a good look
and see what you've done. I hate the side of you.
I hate everything about you. Now let me alone and
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go away.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
I take it easy, but it's all right, officer. I understand.
Sometimes he gets like this. He doesn't mean it.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
I know it all right.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
Kevin, I'm sure the officers are in. Dry your eyes
and we'll go home. Do you hear me, Kevin, stop
this foolishness. I said, we're going home.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yes, mother, I hear you.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
I'm sorry, officers embarrassing. I don't know why he does
these things. He's always been pretty emotional. There's nothing else
we better be going. I want to catch the early
plane back to the city. If a party planned for
tomorrow night, million things to.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Do, you'll have to help, Kevin.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
Kevin, do you hear me, Yes, Mother, I hear well,
then say goodbye to the officers and let's go.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Good Bye, mister Friday, mister Smith. I'm sorry, that's all happened.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
That's our we son.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
I tried, Sorcy, just didn't work, but I did try.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Kevin, let's go.
Speaker 8 (26:45):
I don't want to miss that plane.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Yes, mother, Oh sorry, Oh yes, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (26:54):
Thank you for giving my boy.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Back to me.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
The story you've just heard was true. The names were
changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
On August ninth, the matter was taken before the city
attorney for a decision.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
In a moment.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
The results of that decision now here is our star,
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