January 1, 2026 • 25 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
You're a detective Judgeist. You're assigned to Bunco Fugitive Details.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
You've got a call from another city to pick up
a Burguary suspect.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
You know the name is Using, you know where he's living.
Your job, pick him up. Drag the document a drama
of an actual crime. For the next thirty minutes.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
In cooperation with a Los Angeles police department, you will
travel step by step on the side of the laws
to an actual.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Case tmescribe from official police vince from beginning to end,
from crime to punishment. Dragnet is the story of your
police force and actions which susy you and force at
the pipe of last. But we were working today. Watch
out a Bunco fugitive detail and by this face the
boss of capin see my name is Friday. We're on
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our way aft.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
From the opposite was nine forty two am when we
got the corner of the Stellman the fountains.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
The other going to cor Hotel. Yes, we sat over there.
Huh yeah, you have the money. Yeah, right here, I'm
off with tire missus Hattsfields. Yes, I know we say
true with air conditioned, Well yes, ma'am, but it is true.
I know, ma'am, but the air conditioning is on full.
Now all right, ma'am, yes, I'll send im right be
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with you right away. So I'm here, boy, get to
my daughter, up to missus hotfield and travel too right away.
Now I'm hard to teach you away, So I s
what is it you want? Or a police out? This
y identification? There's nothing wrong as there.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I don't know what I do if anything else went wrong.
The air conditioning unit went out this morning making excuses.
I don't know how much longer the ice quarter is
going to hold on?
Speaker 4 (01:52):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
What's wrong?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Now?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You have a mister George Richmond registered here, probably gives
us home addresses, modesto.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I have to see it here, wait ten minutes. How
do I know you're what you say?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Police departments always sending out a circular saying to be
careful about this sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Respectable hotel?
Speaker 5 (02:10):
You know?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
How do I know?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
There's the identification? A youngster? I before? Oh he's Friday.
How about yours?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Here?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
You are.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
All right?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
You can't be too careful your own office, you know, careful?
Anybody can come in here with.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
A badge, yes, or must be just chet your register
for us please, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Sure, Oh yes, sir, here he is Richmond, George and
that's still California.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Se know, no check out there before yesterday? Oh excuse
main ty legislation and death.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yes, missus Hatfield, Yes, ma'am, I know that's what we advertise.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Well, yes, ma'am. But it's on the way up, no, ma'am.
I send the boy myself, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I'm sure he'll be there all right, Missus Hatfield, Yes,
I may quits.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Now what was it you wanted with mister Richmond. Well,
you said that he moved.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Out, yes, bag and baggage the day before yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Did you leave any boarding addressing?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
No.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I talked to him when he left it and say
a word about where he was going. Was there anyone
in the hotel he was especially friendly with. Anybody might
know where we can week him?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
No, I kind of kept to himself. Nice get a tip,
scud kept to himself though.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Is there anyone around a place who might know where
he was doing? Bell boys be able to wait for
some coffee shopping?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
No, I hardly think so. He didn't need here. I
don't blame him. Well, thank you very much for hear
the cad. If you hear anything from mister Richmond, which
you appreciate a call, you'll bet I'll give you a ring.
He got any mail while he was saying here?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
No, no, nothing, not even a phone call. Didn't use
the room for anything but sleep, feel quiet?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Good tip for Did he drive a card you know?
Speaker 6 (03:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
No, nothing, no say you know, come to think like
you might tip with her any andy, Yeah, yeah, drive
a cab usually right out in the front. He picked
up mister Richmond one night. He might be able to
tell you something. I just think you blame my sending
he comes up. Appreciate that call, don't care. I don't
forget what you're looking for.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Legislation that yes, missus cart Field.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
All right, I know, ma'am. But the ice water is
on the way up. I can't understand why it's there,
but I am that fell out there might be him. Yeah,
excuse me though, Yeah, any money, that's right? What can
I do for the police? Officers? Would like some information?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I got a plane at the park here.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
You know, it's not sad. We'd like don if you
remember picking up a Georgia Richmond here, oh Richmond man, Yeah,
that's right. Richmond.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
A name doesn't make any bell ring, don't you guy?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Look like you got this lie shot right? Yeah, there
you go, you come to pass time and off here. Yeah,
he kind of look like one. Here's the guy. Yeah,
so that's him. You remember taking him up? Yeah, it
seems I've seen him before. Yeah, yeah, good sippers. Yeah
I picked him up. Let's see a couple of days
(05:04):
ago drug Downtown, Sure, downtown, Remember where you took him?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You know, it's a couple of days ago, Like I said, Yeah,
haven't got the spider's idea.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Ten out seven am. We continued to talk to the
cab driver.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
He was sure that he picked up George Richmond on
Sunday nights, but he was unable to tell us where
he'd takehim the suspect. We go back downtown and checked
with a cab company on the driver's way, though. We
found that he'd made three pickups that night from the
hotel on Thountain Avenue. The first stop lifted with a
large cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
We checked with a cash here.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
She was unable to identify the mug shots of Richmond.
The second stop was a large apartment out on Wilcha Boulevard.
We checked the manager of the place and she told
us that he didn't recognize the name. We showed her
the mug shots of Richmond. He said that she thought
he'd seen the man two weeks before. When she asked
him what he wanted, he said that he was looking
for a miss Norman. Because of the way, he said,
the landlord he hadn't told him that there was a
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tenant by that name living in the place. He gave
out the apartment number of the Norman woman and thinking
I went up to see her, won't try it again.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, all adopted? What all adopted? We'd like to talk
to you. That's a minute.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
And what's this all about?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
That's why Norman? Yeah, I start?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
What do you want with me?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
What if we can come in?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Please?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Fee a little better than talking out here in the hall.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Yeah, I guess, so come in.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Thank you. My name is Fridy. Just my apartment, Frank
saman please to meet your man. Yeah, huh, you go
alone here it's Norman.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Yeah, I just got up.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Have excuse the way.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
The price looks kind of messy.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Mind if I put on some coffee, I'm not gonna
be able to answer any questions.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
If I have a couple of.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Coffee when you go out of headnames? What's want to
see me about?
Speaker 6 (06:58):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Man?
Speaker 6 (06:59):
I mean?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Richmond? H Richmond deaf? Ma'am George Rickman?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Why'd you have that?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
What you done?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Well?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
You just like milk? You know him?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Do you?
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
I know?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
What do you guys want him for? We'd like to
talk to him with nyman? Uh huh, don't wanna tell
me what it's about? Huh, Well, I'll be better if
we talk to him. Yeah you do?
Speaker 7 (07:20):
What did you got a cigarette?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Deest friend? Here you go, Matt.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Hey, thanks?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
You know there's no level off between me and George?
Is that right?
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Bet?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
There isn't he i' might gonna Dutch to a cowboy.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
You could go out to dinner one lousy not in
the chief dinner.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
So you're the youngest.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You know where he is?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Now?
Speaker 5 (07:42):
No, I've got the slightest idea I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I hurd tell you then I would like to.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
See him get his way he treated me.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Do you know any of his friends, anyone who might
know where he is.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I don't think he's got.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
A friend he's I never met any of 'em.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Does he drive a car? You know, no or nothing?
Always took a cab, used to kill me.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
I don't only way to take a cab or lousy
black and he took a cab.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I like to be a sport, always kipping, dig I get.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
A drugs do a cowboy?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Waiting to see him last?
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Oh, I think a couple of weeks ago that much. Anyway,
last time I saw him, don't care if I never
see him again. While he acted, I thought he was
gonna kill me.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Ma'am went out to dinner.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
When we got back here, he's been drinking a lot,
got real nasty. I told him he better be going.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You know it was late enough, yes, ma'am. Well, like
I said, it was late, and he got.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Real nasty, start yelling at me, called me all sorts
of things. I'm not gonna let any NaSTA their things
like that to me. So I tell him to get
up and never wanna see him again.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
What lardy dinner? And he thought.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
He yelled me, where do you go? Ahead? My son?
He's hauled up and hit me, but let's stay in
the hall.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And he as hard as he could.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I'm' stuck my jaw.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I let out a scream and he beat it cause at.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
The commotion, I had 'em move.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Then this didn't happen here that no play those rounds?
A my, I'm moved the next day. What do you mean,
blitchmand at the club?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
So you got another figure?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah? He yest? Hang what club is that, ma'am? Where
I were in green Land and downtown?
Speaker 5 (09:09):
I didn't figure that girl?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I met him?
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Mary came in one night, acted real big, ask him
if i'd have dinner with him.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
As it happened, I didn't have an engagement that night,
so I said, yes, Well I kind of went together
for a while. I see here.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Look you get him the real bad guy when he
treats women terrible.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
He said, wait a minute, yes, ma'am, I know someone.
Will I be able to tell you where he is?
What is that man?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Tell her name Hank? He s hang around the club,
and so I did talk to him at the bar
once in a while.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Well do you know where you can find it? Till
I hang, no, but I can tell you where his
girlfriend lives. A hell, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Well play till around third out in fair.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Fact, do you know his twelve name? Ma'am sure, I
gotta think about that.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Let's see Janette. That's the girl get introduced him Palmer
that that didn't hang Palmer. I don't know about him though.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Oh think's a real mean one, kind of quiet, not
like George.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
George liked to shoot his mouth.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Off, but Hank is quiet, trouble off man.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Well, one night we went up to Jeannette's for a
couple of drinks. Hank tokot his coat. That's why I says, rough,
you know, guy's a gun.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
One pm we got the description of Hank Palmer, and
then Frank and I drove back to the city Hall.
We ran the name of descriptions to R and I,
but we got no mate. We sent the name to
George Blairton to the II but Sacramento. We got a
communication off to Washington asking.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Them for information on Palmer.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
We also checked the name of Palmer's girlfriend to our records,
but we got no information. We contacted Captain Steed and
the Rings for a stakeout to be placed in the
apartment of Palmer's girlfriend, Jeanette Allen. Two days went by,
Palmer and Richmond failed to make an appearance.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
We talked to Jeanett Allen, but.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
She couldn't supply as with any information answer the whereabouts
of the two men.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Descriptions of the men were informants were questions.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
We contacted the Modesco Police Department. They sent us all
information on the places Richmond was known to frequent.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
While he was in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
They kicked back from FACTA medaw and Washington gave us
no new information on Richmond, but Washington had him listed
as having two arrests for armed robbery and adw in
the East. Another week's past, the steakhouts on Jeanette Allen's apartment.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Continued, no sign of either of the men.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Sergeant Alphonojis are the bunk of fugitive Detail worked with.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Us and trying to trace their movements.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
On Saturday, June fifteens, we got words from an informant
that Richmond and Palmer had been seen in town. We
checked with a steak out at the apartment, but they'd
seen nothing of the two men. Frank Alphonoj's and idro
about to relieve the steakhout.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
It's enough.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Yeah, they're just laying there.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, says it's the hottest fifteens on records. Yes, and
you haven't heard from Palmer at all since he got
back at that. No, not a word.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
I don't really believe he's in town see Worth.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
He'd looked me up and never done this before. Uh huh.
They would have been all right if I had a
glass of water. Man, can't help yourself right out in
the kitchen, alright, talking about you?
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Joe on No, I no think now, yeah, Joe, Yeah,
they stopping out in the front man getting out.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I see one of them. That's one an oversaw. Uh
they like this becoming you know, yeah, cap falling away. Okay,
I want to take sid side of the door. Think alright,
you better go into the bedroom in selling you.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Think there's gonna be in trouble.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
All depends on the way you wanted. Oh well, I
guess you know the say hoping on? Oh I hate
just have to move again. Some many in the hall
stop him. Okay, right, who were you?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
You?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
A hang farmer? Yeah? So what please stop?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Hold up?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Hold up, getting a.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Call frank very listen, life is coming one s six
nine right at a call an ambulance too?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
What he hurt back? He was fifteen eight forty pm.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Judge and al Phanodis was removed to Georgia Sea Receiving Hospital.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
This condition was listed as critical.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
The bullet had edited chest and was still embedded below
the left lung. His family was notified and after Frank
and I got out the APB on Palmer and we
drove by to pick up Missus Pinodi's.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
We dropped her off the hospital and Frank stayed with it.
Palmer's description was put out, as was a description of
the car he commandeered to get away.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I ran the number through our DMV and found that
it was registered to a Woodam Evans sixteen twenty seventy points, Hollywood.
Along with Sergeant Oli, I checked out the address. Missus
Evans told us that she hadn't seen her husband for
several hours, but when he left the house he had
told her that he was going to.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
A lodge meeting.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
We got a description of him and got out a
local and an ATV on him. I called the hospital
and found that they operated on pinojees, but that they
were unable to remove the bullet.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
His wife collapsed. Frank had her taken home, where she
was cared for by their family. Doctor. Twelve forty six am,
a radio car out and chats were picked up Evans.
He told him that Palmer had forced him at gunpoint
to drive him to the valley.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
There, he forced Evans from the car and driven off.
Evans couldn't give the officers any idea where the suspect
might have been headed.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Two hours later, the car.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Was found abandoned on Spring Street and was placed under surveillance,
and a dragnet of a downtown area was started. Metro
Divisions signed twenty teams of men to make a block
by block stretch of the vicinity. The details of the
bus stations and at the airports were alerted. Four to
twelve am, I got a call from Frank and I
drove over to Judge's Ree Receiving.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Hospital because I just saw the doctor about down just side.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
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Police force election.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
When an officer is first accepted by.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
The police force, he spends thirteen weeks at the police Academy.
In that period, he learns the basic fundamentals of being
a peace officer. From graduation from the academy, he's assigned
either the traffic or.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
To retur of duty in one of the city jails.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Then, depending on his aptitude and the way he conducts
himself in the field, he's checked on for possible transfer
to one of the detective's divisions as an investigator. By
the time a police officer gets his assignment to the
detective girl, he's become a professional troubleshooter.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
He knows how to handle himself and he knows how
to treat the lawbreaker. He's on call twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
A day, seven days a week, and he wears a gun.
When a hoodlum shoots a police officer, he's showing society
that he has no regard for the law, and at.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
The same time he's announcing that he will not hesitate
to kill an unarmed citizen.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Dodge and Alfred Pinodi's has been a policeman fourteen years.
He's begun in traffic and then had been transferred to
the Jewelian Division.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
From there he went to Homicide detail and then the
Bunco Fugitives Division. He was a professional peace officer and
he's been murdered.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
He gave his life to protect the people who paid
his salary, the taxpayers.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
His killer was still at large and we had to
find him.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
The search of the downtown area was intensified, but it
netted us nothing. Frank and I checked the immediate area
around the abandoned car. In talking to the people in
the vicinity, we found a newsboy who had seen Palmer
park the car. He said he was unable to tell
us where the man had gone, but he said that
he thought he might have gone into a bar near
the corner. We checked the place, but the bartender was
unable to give us any information.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Day's past. We reject the known hangouts of the two men.
Neither of 'em have been seen. Twoday, June eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
We got word that Palmer had been seen entering an
apartment house on South Halm Rono ten fourteen am.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Frank and I go over to talked to the landlady.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Oh l Richmond, No, no, I don't think I know that.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
What whatever he.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Fisures this whole book. See if you recognize him, sir, Yeah,
he's the main one.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
I haven't seen him though.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
This one, ma'am, This one I know him?
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Which one do?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
We's Richmond?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
No?
Speaker 6 (17:31):
That sound his name? Told me it was Rochman said
it was John Richman lived up in two o six
as in fun Do you know ma'am. No, we went
out this morning early, the first time in a couple
of days it went out early.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Expect him back?
Speaker 6 (17:41):
So oh, I don't know right, all might be I
don't generally know when that's coming back. Don't keep tab
on me now them? Yeah, at tennants a nice bunch,
most of 'em quiet had a full place last two years.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Uh huh, how I just uh.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
Richman, Yeah, that's it John Richman.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
How all has he been hat?
Speaker 6 (17:59):
Oh, he's kind of new. He took over the room
from a friend of us.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yes, ma'am. Do you have any friends in the building,
anyone that he.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Seeks quite a bit of Well, now there's a girl
on three oh six, cause he's quite a.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Bit of her. Oh who's that on his all? Brook?
Let's be Barbara McIntyre.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Nice girl dance the works downtown at one of the
club she in now.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
You know, well she should be.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Yes, hardly ever get up much before noon.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Hardly ever he works late to know test, ma'am is
uh Richmond drive a car?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Richmond?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (18:26):
Yeah, Now, well, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Seems like he's always coming home in a cab, comes
in at all hours. I don't think he's gonna last here.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Why say that now, cause I don't think he will.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
That's all plays the radio late and makes noise, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Then there was a fight. The girl didn't wanna do anything.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
About it, but I certainly think she should have.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Oh what's that about?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Man?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Oh one night, let's see.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
It must have been about uh a week ago. Rifeman
or or Richmond or whatever his name is kim home
and he was, well, he's been drinking.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Quite a bit to know.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Yes, them, Well, he went up to the girl's apartment
and they had an awful bawl, screaming and yelling, an
awful ball. I went up master if there was something
I could do, but she yelled through the door and
said no, the everything was all right.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Of course it wasn't. Man.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Well, the next day, the course, they had a black
car that just wouldn't stop, all bruised up, had a
bandage drive here on the floor. It must they hit
an awful hog. No, sir, I don't think he's gonna last.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
And you're pretty sure that you haven't seen this other
man though? Right, Well, let me.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
See that picture then.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
That's what.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
No, No, no, I'm positive I never saw him. Course,
I don't mean he wasn't here, ma'am. Well, like I said,
I don't pay much attention to 'em.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I pay their rent.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
No, I don't bother him.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
They come and go as they please.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
They wouldn't you want him for it? Is it about
that minister that's me?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Is it about him beating up.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
That poor girl?
Speaker 6 (19:43):
No, ma'am, I should have known about him. No, suh,
you ain't gonna last long around him.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Why if we cold see his room? As it all? Boy?
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Well, I guess it's all right.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I'll get the keys, all right, ma'am, thank you.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Three yards right up the stairs and then to the
front of the hall.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
So on the right at the fire.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
End of the hall. Well we ready to come up
with us, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Oh, all all right, glad to help. The way he
must have beat that girl a scene that's twenty years.
She wasn't gonna last.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Long round here, oh man, it sure is. Before we
looked at Richmond's apartment, we tried to check with his girlfriend.
We found that she wasn't there. The manager let us
into her apartment, but we found no indication.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Where she might have gone. Then we went downstairs and
searched Richmond's place. He wasn't there the landa he stood
by When we searched the place. In the closet we
found a small arsenal, a gas grenade, a sawt off shotgun,
and to boxes of shelves. There were also several revolvers,
along with over one hundred and.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Fifty rounds of ammunition.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
We called the office and arrange for a stake out
on the building sugeants already. Gerard, Jolman and Miller came out.
Jerid and Gilmore covered the front entrance all the way in.
Miller was taking to the back of the building, and
Frank and I covered Richmond's room. The residents of the
apartments were worn to stay inside their rooms and they
keep their doors washed.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Ten thirty pm, there was still no sign of the suspects.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
We waited eleven o'clock eleven fifteen midnight.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
So, yeah, looks flight it might be them cab pulling
up in front. How about Jerid and gil want uh?
I can't see him from here. Yeah, it's like Palm
and Richmond. Yeah, the girl was where she she's walking
between him. Thanks a tougha, y know, So I won't
try to take him on the street this twenty coming
in the building.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Uh, I should be here pretty quick, and figures just
coming here upstairs the was apartment sounds like it when.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
If they went in with it. Just got to wait.
When a minute somebody outside there in the hall there cool.
I don't feel right. I tell you it's too quiet something,
he said. Alright, let you, I give it up on.
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I made the street dry to get him that car
je killing look like that store. You want to come
to me while I try to get over there and
take it easy? Right? All right? Thanks? Alright, I'm coming over.
I'm telling you see yeah, behind the BULI over there.
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Come on out of there, fritsman, come on, come on,
go the guns out you Si. You don't have fian
You're a dead end the way out of there. Come
on back there, coming out, Joe.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Okay, a pair question.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
You got my quest.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
I'm not anymore. Please, don't stand any more.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Please come out here, Come on, alright, I'm throwing it out.
I don't do any more.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Please, all right, I'll take Richard time.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I'm god God here.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I'm worth catching.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
See that I'm worth pa. I told Gilmore to call
the Amulet Richman's sad. How about this one? So he said,
I don't know how bad I should have known not
to kill a cop. I would have been like to
try and kill a cop.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
I didn't mean to.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
I got scared, that's all.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Scared. You can understand, I can't you. You want to
shake him? Thanks? Yeah? What if imm pommen? I'll check it?
No about it dead? Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
These are pockets.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Because you're sickularded Ammunitionly, it doesn't look like he was
laid to quest.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
He was ready. The story you have just heard was true.
The names were chane to protect the innfence.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
On July twenty sixth an inquest was held in the
car in his office in in Paul.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
The County of Los Angeles, in a moment of result,
said that in quest.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
At the coroner's in quest, it was found at the
deaths of George Thomas Richmond and Henry Donald Palmer were
justifiable homicide. It was found that they were armed and
were killed while resisting arrest. You have dropped her drag
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Man a series of authentic cases from official files. Technical
advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police W. H.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Parker, Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Police Department Technical Advisors. Captain Jack Donaho, Sergeant Marty Wim,
Sergeant Fans Preachers Heard Tonight where Ben Alexander.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Joyce, mcclus d, Paul Richards. Scripts by John Robinson, music
by Walter Schumann, Hell Give Me speaking
You're a detective Judgeist. You're assigned to Bunco Fugitive Details.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
You've got a call from another city to pick up
a Burguary suspect.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
You know the name is Using, you know where he's living.
Your job, pick him up. Drag the document a drama
of an actual crime. For the next thirty minutes.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
In cooperation with a Los Angeles police department, you will
travel step by step on the side of the laws
to an actual.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Case tmescribe from official police vince from beginning to end,
from crime to punishment. Dragnet is the story of your
police force and actions which susy you and force at
the pipe of last. But we were working today. Watch
out a Bunco fugitive detail and by this face the
boss of capin see my name is Friday. We're on
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our way aft.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
From the opposite was nine forty two am when we
got the corner of the Stellman the fountains.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
The other going to cor Hotel. Yes, we sat over there.
Huh yeah, you have the money. Yeah, right here, I'm
off with tire missus Hattsfields. Yes, I know we say
true with air conditioned, Well yes, ma'am, but it is true.
I know, ma'am, but the air conditioning is on full.
Now all right, ma'am, yes, I'll send im right be
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with you right away. So I'm here, boy, get to
my daughter, up to missus hotfield and travel too right away.
Now I'm hard to teach you away, So I s
what is it you want? Or a police out? This
y identification? There's nothing wrong as there.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I don't know what I do if anything else went wrong.
The air conditioning unit went out this morning making excuses.
I don't know how much longer the ice quarter is
going to hold on?
Speaker 4 (01:52):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
What's wrong?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Now?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You have a mister George Richmond registered here, probably gives
us home addresses, modesto.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I have to see it here, wait ten minutes. How
do I know you're what you say?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Police departments always sending out a circular saying to be
careful about this sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Respectable hotel?
Speaker 5 (02:10):
You know?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
How do I know?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
There's the identification? A youngster? I before? Oh he's Friday.
How about yours?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Here?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
You are.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
All right?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
You can't be too careful your own office, you know, careful?
Anybody can come in here with.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
A badge, yes, or must be just chet your register
for us please, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Sure, Oh yes, sir, here he is Richmond, George and
that's still California.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Se know, no check out there before yesterday? Oh excuse
main ty legislation and death.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yes, missus Hatfield, Yes, ma'am, I know that's what we advertise.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Well, yes, ma'am. But it's on the way up, no, ma'am.
I send the boy myself, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I'm sure he'll be there all right, Missus Hatfield, Yes,
I may quits.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Now what was it you wanted with mister Richmond. Well,
you said that he moved.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Out, yes, bag and baggage the day before yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Did you leave any boarding addressing?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
No.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I talked to him when he left it and say
a word about where he was going. Was there anyone
in the hotel he was especially friendly with. Anybody might
know where we can week him?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
No, I kind of kept to himself. Nice get a tip,
scud kept to himself though.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Is there anyone around a place who might know where
he was doing? Bell boys be able to wait for
some coffee shopping?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
No, I hardly think so. He didn't need here. I
don't blame him. Well, thank you very much for hear
the cad. If you hear anything from mister Richmond, which
you appreciate a call, you'll bet I'll give you a ring.
He got any mail while he was saying here?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
No, no, nothing, not even a phone call. Didn't use
the room for anything but sleep, feel quiet?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Good tip for Did he drive a card you know?
Speaker 6 (03:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
No, nothing, no say you know, come to think like
you might tip with her any andy, Yeah, yeah, drive
a cab usually right out in the front. He picked
up mister Richmond one night. He might be able to
tell you something. I just think you blame my sending
he comes up. Appreciate that call, don't care. I don't
forget what you're looking for.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Legislation that yes, missus cart Field.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
All right, I know, ma'am. But the ice water is
on the way up. I can't understand why it's there,
but I am that fell out there might be him. Yeah,
excuse me though, Yeah, any money, that's right? What can
I do for the police? Officers? Would like some information?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I got a plane at the park here.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
You know, it's not sad. We'd like don if you
remember picking up a Georgia Richmond here, oh Richmond man, Yeah,
that's right. Richmond.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
A name doesn't make any bell ring, don't you guy?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Look like you got this lie shot right? Yeah, there
you go, you come to pass time and off here. Yeah,
he kind of look like one. Here's the guy. Yeah,
so that's him. You remember taking him up? Yeah, it
seems I've seen him before. Yeah, yeah, good sippers. Yeah
I picked him up. Let's see a couple of days
(05:04):
ago drug Downtown, Sure, downtown, Remember where you took him?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You know, it's a couple of days ago, Like I said, Yeah,
haven't got the spider's idea.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Ten out seven am. We continued to talk to the
cab driver.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
He was sure that he picked up George Richmond on
Sunday nights, but he was unable to tell us where
he'd takehim the suspect. We go back downtown and checked
with a cab company on the driver's way, though. We
found that he'd made three pickups that night from the
hotel on Thountain Avenue. The first stop lifted with a
large cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
We checked with a cash here.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
She was unable to identify the mug shots of Richmond.
The second stop was a large apartment out on Wilcha Boulevard.
We checked the manager of the place and she told
us that he didn't recognize the name. We showed her
the mug shots of Richmond. He said that she thought
he'd seen the man two weeks before. When she asked
him what he wanted, he said that he was looking
for a miss Norman. Because of the way, he said,
the landlord he hadn't told him that there was a
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tenant by that name living in the place. He gave
out the apartment number of the Norman woman and thinking
I went up to see her, won't try it again.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, all adopted? What all adopted? We'd like to talk
to you. That's a minute.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
And what's this all about?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
That's why Norman? Yeah, I start?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
What do you want with me?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
What if we can come in?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Please?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Fee a little better than talking out here in the hall.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Yeah, I guess, so come in.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Thank you. My name is Fridy. Just my apartment, Frank
saman please to meet your man. Yeah, huh, you go
alone here it's Norman.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Yeah, I just got up.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Have excuse the way.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
The price looks kind of messy.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Mind if I put on some coffee, I'm not gonna
be able to answer any questions.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
If I have a couple of.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Coffee when you go out of headnames? What's want to
see me about?
Speaker 6 (06:58):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Man?
Speaker 6 (06:59):
I mean?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Richmond? H Richmond deaf? Ma'am George Rickman?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Why'd you have that?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
What you done?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Well?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
You just like milk? You know him?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Do you?
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
I know?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
What do you guys want him for? We'd like to
talk to him with nyman? Uh huh, don't wanna tell
me what it's about? Huh, Well, I'll be better if
we talk to him. Yeah you do?
Speaker 7 (07:20):
What did you got a cigarette?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Deest friend? Here you go, Matt.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Hey, thanks?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
You know there's no level off between me and George?
Is that right?
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Bet?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
There isn't he i' might gonna Dutch to a cowboy.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
You could go out to dinner one lousy not in
the chief dinner.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
So you're the youngest.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You know where he is?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Now?
Speaker 5 (07:42):
No, I've got the slightest idea I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I hurd tell you then I would like to.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
See him get his way he treated me.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Do you know any of his friends, anyone who might
know where he is.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I don't think he's got.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
A friend he's I never met any of 'em.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Does he drive a car? You know, no or nothing?
Always took a cab, used to kill me.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
I don't only way to take a cab or lousy
black and he took a cab.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I like to be a sport, always kipping, dig I get.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
A drugs do a cowboy?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Waiting to see him last?
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Oh, I think a couple of weeks ago that much. Anyway,
last time I saw him, don't care if I never
see him again. While he acted, I thought he was
gonna kill me.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Ma'am went out to dinner.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
When we got back here, he's been drinking a lot,
got real nasty. I told him he better be going.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You know it was late enough, yes, ma'am. Well, like
I said, it was late, and he got.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Real nasty, start yelling at me, called me all sorts
of things. I'm not gonna let any NaSTA their things
like that to me. So I tell him to get
up and never wanna see him again.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
What lardy dinner? And he thought.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
He yelled me, where do you go? Ahead? My son?
He's hauled up and hit me, but let's stay in
the hall.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And he as hard as he could.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I'm' stuck my jaw.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I let out a scream and he beat it cause at.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
The commotion, I had 'em move.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Then this didn't happen here that no play those rounds?
A my, I'm moved the next day. What do you mean,
blitchmand at the club?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
So you got another figure?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah? He yest? Hang what club is that, ma'am? Where
I were in green Land and downtown?
Speaker 5 (09:09):
I didn't figure that girl?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I met him?
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Mary came in one night, acted real big, ask him
if i'd have dinner with him.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
As it happened, I didn't have an engagement that night,
so I said, yes, Well I kind of went together
for a while. I see here.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Look you get him the real bad guy when he
treats women terrible.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
He said, wait a minute, yes, ma'am, I know someone.
Will I be able to tell you where he is?
What is that man?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Tell her name Hank? He s hang around the club,
and so I did talk to him at the bar
once in a while.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Well do you know where you can find it? Till
I hang, no, but I can tell you where his
girlfriend lives. A hell, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Well play till around third out in fair.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Fact, do you know his twelve name? Ma'am sure, I
gotta think about that.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Let's see Janette. That's the girl get introduced him Palmer
that that didn't hang Palmer. I don't know about him though.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Oh think's a real mean one, kind of quiet, not
like George.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
George liked to shoot his mouth.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Off, but Hank is quiet, trouble off man.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Well, one night we went up to Jeannette's for a
couple of drinks. Hank tokot his coat. That's why I says, rough,
you know, guy's a gun.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
One pm we got the description of Hank Palmer, and
then Frank and I drove back to the city Hall.
We ran the name of descriptions to R and I,
but we got no mate. We sent the name to
George Blairton to the II but Sacramento. We got a
communication off to Washington asking.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Them for information on Palmer.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
We also checked the name of Palmer's girlfriend to our records,
but we got no information. We contacted Captain Steed and
the Rings for a stakeout to be placed in the
apartment of Palmer's girlfriend, Jeanette Allen. Two days went by,
Palmer and Richmond failed to make an appearance.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
We talked to Jeanett Allen, but.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
She couldn't supply as with any information answer the whereabouts
of the two men.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Descriptions of the men were informants were questions.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
We contacted the Modesco Police Department. They sent us all
information on the places Richmond was known to frequent.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
While he was in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
They kicked back from FACTA medaw and Washington gave us
no new information on Richmond, but Washington had him listed
as having two arrests for armed robbery and adw in
the East. Another week's past, the steakhouts on Jeanette Allen's apartment.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Continued, no sign of either of the men.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Sergeant Alphonojis are the bunk of fugitive Detail worked with.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Us and trying to trace their movements.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
On Saturday, June fifteens, we got words from an informant
that Richmond and Palmer had been seen in town. We
checked with a steak out at the apartment, but they'd
seen nothing of the two men. Frank Alphonoj's and idro
about to relieve the steakhout.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
It's enough.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Yeah, they're just laying there.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, says it's the hottest fifteens on records. Yes, and
you haven't heard from Palmer at all since he got
back at that. No, not a word.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
I don't really believe he's in town see Worth.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
He'd looked me up and never done this before. Uh huh.
They would have been all right if I had a
glass of water. Man, can't help yourself right out in
the kitchen, alright, talking about you?
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Joe on No, I no think now, yeah, Joe, Yeah,
they stopping out in the front man getting out.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I see one of them. That's one an oversaw. Uh
they like this becoming you know, yeah, cap falling away. Okay,
I want to take sid side of the door. Think alright,
you better go into the bedroom in selling you.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Think there's gonna be in trouble.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
All depends on the way you wanted. Oh well, I
guess you know the say hoping on? Oh I hate
just have to move again. Some many in the hall
stop him. Okay, right, who were you?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
You?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
A hang farmer? Yeah? So what please stop?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Hold up?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Hold up, getting a.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Call frank very listen, life is coming one s six
nine right at a call an ambulance too?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
What he hurt back? He was fifteen eight forty pm.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Judge and al Phanodis was removed to Georgia Sea Receiving Hospital.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
This condition was listed as critical.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
The bullet had edited chest and was still embedded below
the left lung. His family was notified and after Frank
and I got out the APB on Palmer and we
drove by to pick up Missus Pinodi's.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
We dropped her off the hospital and Frank stayed with it.
Palmer's description was put out, as was a description of
the car he commandeered to get away.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I ran the number through our DMV and found that
it was registered to a Woodam Evans sixteen twenty seventy points, Hollywood.
Along with Sergeant Oli, I checked out the address. Missus
Evans told us that she hadn't seen her husband for
several hours, but when he left the house he had
told her that he was going to.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
A lodge meeting.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
We got a description of him and got out a
local and an ATV on him. I called the hospital
and found that they operated on pinojees, but that they
were unable to remove the bullet.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
His wife collapsed. Frank had her taken home, where she
was cared for by their family. Doctor. Twelve forty six am,
a radio car out and chats were picked up Evans.
He told him that Palmer had forced him at gunpoint
to drive him to the valley.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
There, he forced Evans from the car and driven off.
Evans couldn't give the officers any idea where the suspect
might have been headed.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Two hours later, the car.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Was found abandoned on Spring Street and was placed under surveillance,
and a dragnet of a downtown area was started. Metro
Divisions signed twenty teams of men to make a block
by block stretch of the vicinity. The details of the
bus stations and at the airports were alerted. Four to
twelve am, I got a call from Frank and I
drove over to Judge's Ree Receiving.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Hospital because I just saw the doctor about down just side.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your
Police force election.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
When an officer is first accepted by.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
The police force, he spends thirteen weeks at the police Academy.
In that period, he learns the basic fundamentals of being
a peace officer. From graduation from the academy, he's assigned
either the traffic or.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
To retur of duty in one of the city jails.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Then, depending on his aptitude and the way he conducts
himself in the field, he's checked on for possible transfer
to one of the detective's divisions as an investigator. By
the time a police officer gets his assignment to the
detective girl, he's become a professional troubleshooter.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
He knows how to handle himself and he knows how
to treat the lawbreaker. He's on call twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
A day, seven days a week, and he wears a gun.
When a hoodlum shoots a police officer, he's showing society
that he has no regard for the law, and at.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
The same time he's announcing that he will not hesitate
to kill an unarmed citizen.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Dodge and Alfred Pinodi's has been a policeman fourteen years.
He's begun in traffic and then had been transferred to
the Jewelian Division.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
From there he went to Homicide detail and then the
Bunco Fugitives Division. He was a professional peace officer and
he's been murdered.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
He gave his life to protect the people who paid
his salary, the taxpayers.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
His killer was still at large and we had to
find him.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
The search of the downtown area was intensified, but it
netted us nothing. Frank and I checked the immediate area
around the abandoned car. In talking to the people in
the vicinity, we found a newsboy who had seen Palmer
park the car. He said he was unable to tell
us where the man had gone, but he said that
he thought he might have gone into a bar near
the corner. We checked the place, but the bartender was
unable to give us any information.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Day's past. We reject the known hangouts of the two men.
Neither of 'em have been seen. Twoday, June eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
We got word that Palmer had been seen entering an
apartment house on South Halm Rono ten fourteen am.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Frank and I go over to talked to the landlady.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Oh l Richmond, No, no, I don't think I know that.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
What whatever he.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Fisures this whole book. See if you recognize him, sir, Yeah,
he's the main one.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
I haven't seen him though.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
This one, ma'am, This one I know him?
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Which one do?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
We's Richmond?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
No?
Speaker 6 (17:31):
That sound his name? Told me it was Rochman said
it was John Richman lived up in two o six
as in fun Do you know ma'am. No, we went
out this morning early, the first time in a couple
of days it went out early.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Expect him back?
Speaker 6 (17:41):
So oh, I don't know right, all might be I
don't generally know when that's coming back. Don't keep tab
on me now them? Yeah, at tennants a nice bunch,
most of 'em quiet had a full place last two years.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Uh huh, how I just uh.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
Richman, Yeah, that's it John Richman.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
How all has he been hat?
Speaker 6 (17:59):
Oh, he's kind of new. He took over the room
from a friend of us.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yes, ma'am. Do you have any friends in the building,
anyone that he.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Seeks quite a bit of Well, now there's a girl
on three oh six, cause he's quite a.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Bit of her. Oh who's that on his all? Brook?
Let's be Barbara McIntyre.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Nice girl dance the works downtown at one of the
club she in now.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
You know, well she should be.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Yes, hardly ever get up much before noon.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Hardly ever he works late to know test, ma'am is
uh Richmond drive a car?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Richmond?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (18:26):
Yeah, Now, well, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Seems like he's always coming home in a cab, comes
in at all hours. I don't think he's gonna last here.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Why say that now, cause I don't think he will.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
That's all plays the radio late and makes noise, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Then there was a fight. The girl didn't wanna do anything.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
About it, but I certainly think she should have.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Oh what's that about?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Man?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Oh one night, let's see.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
It must have been about uh a week ago. Rifeman
or or Richmond or whatever his name is kim home
and he was, well, he's been drinking.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Quite a bit to know.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Yes, them, Well, he went up to the girl's apartment
and they had an awful bawl, screaming and yelling, an
awful ball. I went up master if there was something
I could do, but she yelled through the door and
said no, the everything was all right.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Of course it wasn't. Man.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Well, the next day, the course, they had a black
car that just wouldn't stop, all bruised up, had a
bandage drive here on the floor. It must they hit
an awful hog. No, sir, I don't think he's gonna last.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
And you're pretty sure that you haven't seen this other
man though? Right, Well, let me.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
See that picture then.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
That's what.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
No, No, no, I'm positive I never saw him. Course,
I don't mean he wasn't here, ma'am. Well, like I said,
I don't pay much attention to 'em.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I pay their rent.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
No, I don't bother him.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
They come and go as they please.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
They wouldn't you want him for it? Is it about
that minister that's me?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Is it about him beating up.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
That poor girl?
Speaker 6 (19:43):
No, ma'am, I should have known about him. No, suh,
you ain't gonna last long around him.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Why if we cold see his room? As it all? Boy?
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Well, I guess it's all right.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I'll get the keys, all right, ma'am, thank you.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Three yards right up the stairs and then to the
front of the hall.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
So on the right at the fire.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
End of the hall. Well we ready to come up
with us, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Oh, all all right, glad to help. The way he
must have beat that girl a scene that's twenty years.
She wasn't gonna last.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Long round here, oh man, it sure is. Before we
looked at Richmond's apartment, we tried to check with his girlfriend.
We found that she wasn't there. The manager let us
into her apartment, but we found no indication.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Where she might have gone. Then we went downstairs and
searched Richmond's place. He wasn't there the landa he stood
by When we searched the place. In the closet we
found a small arsenal, a gas grenade, a sawt off shotgun,
and to boxes of shelves. There were also several revolvers,
along with over one hundred and.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Fifty rounds of ammunition.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
We called the office and arrange for a stake out
on the building sugeants already. Gerard, Jolman and Miller came out.
Jerid and Gilmore covered the front entrance all the way in.
Miller was taking to the back of the building, and
Frank and I covered Richmond's room. The residents of the
apartments were worn to stay inside their rooms and they
keep their doors washed.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Ten thirty pm, there was still no sign of the suspects.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
We waited eleven o'clock eleven fifteen midnight.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
So, yeah, looks flight it might be them cab pulling
up in front. How about Jerid and gil want uh?
I can't see him from here. Yeah, it's like Palm
and Richmond. Yeah, the girl was where she she's walking
between him. Thanks a tougha, y know, So I won't
try to take him on the street this twenty coming
in the building.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Uh, I should be here pretty quick, and figures just
coming here upstairs the was apartment sounds like it when.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
If they went in with it. Just got to wait.
When a minute somebody outside there in the hall there cool.
I don't feel right. I tell you it's too quiet something,
he said. Alright, let you, I give it up on.
(22:16):
I made the street dry to get him that car
je killing look like that store. You want to come
to me while I try to get over there and
take it easy? Right? All right? Thanks? Alright, I'm coming over.
I'm telling you see yeah, behind the BULI over there.
(22:43):
Come on out of there, fritsman, come on, come on,
go the guns out you Si. You don't have fian
You're a dead end the way out of there. Come
on back there, coming out, Joe.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Okay, a pair question.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
You got my quest.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
I'm not anymore. Please, don't stand any more.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Please come out here, Come on, alright, I'm throwing it out.
I don't do any more.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Please, all right, I'll take Richard time.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I'm god God here.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I'm worth catching.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
See that I'm worth pa. I told Gilmore to call
the Amulet Richman's sad. How about this one? So he said,
I don't know how bad I should have known not
to kill a cop. I would have been like to
try and kill a cop.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
I didn't mean to.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
I got scared, that's all.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Scared. You can understand, I can't you. You want to
shake him? Thanks? Yeah? What if imm pommen? I'll check it?
No about it dead? Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
These are pockets.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Because you're sickularded Ammunitionly, it doesn't look like he was
laid to quest.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
He was ready. The story you have just heard was true.
The names were chane to protect the innfence.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
On July twenty sixth an inquest was held in the
car in his office in in Paul.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
The County of Los Angeles, in a moment of result,
said that in quest.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
At the coroner's in quest, it was found at the
deaths of George Thomas Richmond and Henry Donald Palmer were
justifiable homicide. It was found that they were armed and
were killed while resisting arrest. You have dropped her drag
(25:03):
Man a series of authentic cases from official files. Technical
advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police W. H.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Parker, Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Police Department Technical Advisors. Captain Jack Donaho, Sergeant Marty Wim,
Sergeant Fans Preachers Heard Tonight where Ben Alexander.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Joyce, mcclus d, Paul Richards. Scripts by John Robinson, music
by Walter Schumann, Hell Give Me speaking
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