April 24, 2025 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Ladies and gentlemen. The story you are about to hear
is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Drag met their.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Detective sergeant here assigned to homicide detail. A young girl
who has been found in a cheap hotel room. Apparently
an attempt at suicide. There's reason to suspect, Paul, play
your job, investigate. It was Thursday, November nineteenth. It was
Warham in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch
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out of Homicide Detail. My partner's Frank Smith. The bosses
Capt mc mormon. My name's Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
We just got in a call from Georgie Street receiving
the hospital wom It was nine forty six am when
we got to the second floor the treatment's room.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Yeah, did I see doctor Hall?
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Please come an, Joe.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So Rank, Hi, here's the girl. Yeah, how's she doing?
I'm not sure yet. Just finish the transfusion and when
you're gonna know who thinks she's gonna live. But there's
no way of telling them right now how much damage
has been done to the brain tissue. Bad bruise on
her face must have received the bad blow it might
have gotten when she fell.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Squat side.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Now I can use the smoke. Okay, Well, if there's any.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Change, I'll be out in the hall.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
All right, that's true.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
You gotta cigarette, I'm fresh?
Speaker 7 (01:29):
Yeah, here you are, right? Yeah? Thanks, here's a match.
Speaker 8 (01:37):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
I didn't know you gave transfusions to the faces like
this guy.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Well have to very often. You see a thing like this.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
The carbon monoxide in the gas joins with the hemoglobin
in the red cells, won't let go. Blood takes the
monoxide to the system and suffocates the brain tissue.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
We've given her some coromine help speed up the heart action.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
Wait.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Look, she's got a good chance of living, but we
won't know how bad it really isn't till later. The
rough one in there, I find out who's at the
car and the stuff we found her waller names Mona Fenton.
Another thing that doesn't make much sense. She registered into
the hotel as missus John Norrith. There's we can find
out she wasn't married.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
How's you come up with that?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Well, when the office got worried about it, we tried
to get in touch with her husband. Called the phone
number on the ID that we found on her walk,
talked with her mother.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
She says a girl single. How about the guy she
was with you? But nabn't talked to him.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
No, I haven't found out who he is. Name doesn't
check out, not that we can find. How about the mother?
Did you give anything? We just talked to her for
a minute. We're going over there when.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
We leave here.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Maybe she can come up with some answers.
Speaker 7 (02:31):
I sure, hope.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
So a couple more questions you can ask her.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
Yeah, what's that?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Find out if the girl's been under a doctor's care.
What do you mean checked her over when she came in,
found marks ran Yeah, I think she's an addict. At
eight thirty am that morning, a guest in a small
hotel on Grand Avenue had thought.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
That he detected the odor of gas in the halls
of the building.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
He notified the desk clerk, and together they conducted the
search of the premises. Finally, he ascertained that the escaping
gas was coming from a room on the third floor
of the hotel. When the desk clerk got no answer
to his calls, he used a pass key opened the door.
Sprawled across the bed was a girl who appeared to
be in her early twenties. The gas heater in the
room had been turned on full, and the windows were
closed locks and stuffed with pieces of torn sheets to
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keep the fumes in the room. The quick action of
the desk clerk had undoubtedly saved the girl's life.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
While a hotel guest.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Called an ambulance, the clerk turned off the gas, opened
the windows, and administered artificial respiration to the girl until.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
The ambulance crew arrived.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
As an attempted suicide, the homicide detail had to make
an investigation in the Frank and Iowa assigned to the case.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
After we talked to Doc Hall at.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Georgia Street Receiving Hospital, we drove down to the hotel
where the girl had been found.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Right in here.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Anybody had been in this room since the other officers left.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Oh, told me to lock it until you could see it.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
All right, SA, This is just the way you found it?
Is that right? Well?
Speaker 9 (03:56):
Yas course, the gas is turned off and I opened
the windows, But everything else is the same.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
I see from what you said on the phone, she
came in last night, Is that right?
Speaker 9 (04:07):
Yes, sir, at least that's what the registration book says.
They checked in at ten fifteen.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
Did you take care of him.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
No, I was out to dinner when they got here.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
Who checked him in?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Jeff, Jeff Christensen, see.
Speaker 9 (04:19):
Round, No, not right now. He'll probably be back tonight.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
You know where we can find him.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (04:25):
See, Jeff got paid last night cause week's wages.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Last I saw him.
Speaker 9 (04:29):
He's on his way out on the town with some
of his friends.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Jeff goes out on the town.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
Maybe we don't.
Speaker 9 (04:34):
See him a couple of days, I see, But you
figure he'll be back tonight. Oh, yes, yes, Jeff only
worked a couple of days last week, so he gonna.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Go on much of the town.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
Did you see the man, Miss Spenton came in with.
Speaker 9 (04:46):
No, I didn't. You were already in the room when
I got back from dinner. I uh checked the book.
I got the money from Jeff before I left. The
man must have gone out sometime earlier this morning. I
guess I was asleep. My robe just back to a desk.
Fella must have got out of while I was asleep.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
I see. Did you get any calls from the room
at all? Ill?
Speaker 9 (05:05):
The one like I told those uniformed officers be here,
I didn't see them at all. A lot of people
as a matter of fact, I was thinking how nice
and quiet they were. But the way the room books,
they sure must have had some sort of argument.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Yes, but you know if they brought any baggage.
Speaker 9 (05:20):
With him, matter of fact, I know they didn't. Sure
looks like they did some heavy drinking though time. Yeah,
glasses and bottles almost empty?
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Yeah, I roatther.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
You wouldn't touch the bottle?
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Oh yeah, Labama, say you talk to the girls people yet?
Speaker 7 (05:37):
No, sure we haven't.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
But you're planning to see him, aren't you?
Speaker 7 (05:39):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Yeah, I wonder if you're doing me a favor, you
know when you see up people?
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Yes, sir, what's that?
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Well? I don'd dirty glasses and.
Speaker 9 (05:47):
Having a strict rope, So off, I will go to this,
but I wish the sheets tell of people about him.
I don't like going to a probably thought or he
made something?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Well, ain't nobody?
Speaker 7 (05:59):
Where's the key kept?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
That hangs on a nail next to desk. That's big
nail aft hangs right on it.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
When you came into the room, did you notice that
there was ending around the door to keep the gas inside?
Per I don't follow you, but you found pieces of
turning sheet for you to say nothing like that.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
But the door.
Speaker 9 (06:15):
Oh, oh, yes, I'm with you now. Yeah, let me
think cause I remember. No, No, there wasn't nothing there
just round the windows.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Was the key in the lock when you came up here?
Speaker 5 (06:27):
You mean inside the room?
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Yes to that track.
Speaker 9 (06:29):
No, No reason I know that for sure is that
I looked through the keyhole, had to see what was
in the room.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
No, sis, key wasn't in of course, I don't mean nothing.
But well, only a.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Couple of rooms have keys. Anyway, we don't use them anymore.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
You mean you don't lock the doors. Sure, we lock
the doors.
Speaker 9 (06:44):
You got them all locked all the time. This is
a respectable hotel. Of course we locked the doors, but
not with those keys. We got those other locks on
the doors. Oh I see see yeah see there sort
of like Yale locks, that kind you know, that's what
locks the doors, the other keys.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
Yes, I see, of.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Course she locked the doors.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Yes, the locks catch when the door is closed, though,
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Yeh, lock some tight.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I got in touch with Lee Jones. Joe, he sent
a crew right over.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Good.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I check with Doc Hall. How's a girl. Oh, she's
coming along. Doc says, she's doing better.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Oh, these fellows that you're gonna have roaming around here.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
What's this all about?
Speaker 5 (07:22):
There's something wrong.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
We're not sure yet, sir.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Oh, it always happens like this, don't what's that?
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I try to run a respectable place.
Speaker 9 (07:30):
Goodness knows as I do. I keep it right up
the date. There's good service, and something like this happens.
There's no reason for that girl to do a thing
like this, not in my hotel. Now, you cops coming here.
CoP's gonna be all over THEO. That's what I'm gonna
like it, And they like it at.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
All just because of that girl. Why't she have to
come in here and do a thing like this?
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Why don't you have to do it at all? Sir?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
We questioned the people in the hotel. None of them
could remember hearing any undue noise coming from the room
where the girl had tried to kill herself. Normally the
investigation would have been routine, but with the possibility of
foul play, we had to check every angle and then
check it again. The crew from the crime lab arrived and.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
Went over the room.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Under the bed, they found an empty kitchen. Would telling
you the enhaunment. The officer pent back. There were photographs
and the waterlasses out into the crime lab to be
booked as evidence. The registers turned over to dire aameless
the girl through the phone book and through the city directory.
When the leads were checked out, we were no further
in knowing who the one was who'd taken it home
on the Fenton. Word was left at the hotel for
the handy man to contact us as soon as he returned.
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Word was also left that if the man who had
registered with the Fent and girl returned, we were to
be called.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Eleven forty five am. The men from the crime lab
finished their instigation and returned to the office file of results.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Frank and I left the hotel and grove out to
the address listed on the girl's identification barge White Colonial
home near one of the colleges. We rang the doorbell and.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
Waited, Yes, Mss Spins, Yes, that's right. What is it
you want.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
Police officers would like to talk to?
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Oh, con thank you. It's about mona'sness. Yes, ma'am fast
time happy. When she first told me about it, I
knew didn't try to just try and they tell you
that times have changed. They say that you're not keeping
up with the time.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
They know it all.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
Nobody can tell 'em anything.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
But what idea is this? Missus Semmons?
Speaker 8 (09:23):
When she wanted to quit school and take the job
in that drive and restaurant, most ridiculous thing I ever
heard of, Nobody could talk her out of it. Brod
knows I tried. I knew something like this step.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
I just knew it.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Do you know any reason why your daughter might want
to take her own life?
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Are you a policeman too, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
And Frank Smith, this is my partner, Joe Friday, you
do how do you.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Do you know any reason when your daughter might wanna
kill herself?
Speaker 8 (09:49):
The little pride to stay in Friday? With that, Mona
and I had quite an argument about her living school.
It's one of those silly things that starts and gets
all out of hands. You know, they both have problem.
I didn't neither one of us was going to back down.
I haven't seen Mona to talk to for over a month.
Does she live here, ma'am? Yes she does, mister Smith.
There's an outside entrance to her room. She comes and
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goes as she treases. Doesn't need her meals here?
Speaker 7 (10:13):
Well?
Speaker 8 (10:13):
I hardly Ever's here.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
You know, if she's been under a doctor's care.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
Oh, I don't think so. Why do you ask that?
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Well?
Speaker 7 (10:20):
Was your daughter a diabetic?
Speaker 6 (10:22):
No she isn't.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Mister Friday. What all these questions about Mona and a doctor?
What are you trying to find out?
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Does your daughter have any special boyfriends? Missus Finnon's.
Speaker 8 (10:29):
She did have. Who was that Richard's burdick nice boy Mona?
And he was kind of to get married when I
got out of school, and along with everything else, that
just blew up. Everything seemed to go all at the
same time.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Did your daughter have any trouble with us Bertie?
Speaker 8 (10:45):
No, nothing you could call real troubles. But they agreed
to disagree. Was Mona's idea. Richard didn't want anything to change.
She was very much in love with her. Uh huh
Does he know about this?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I don't think so, missus Fenton. We haven't told him.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
I don't know what he's gonna do when he hears
about it. Can't hit him off the hard. He's the
sensitive type.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Does your daughter have any close friends that she might
confide him?
Speaker 8 (11:06):
I suppose she does. She's talked about some of the
girls where she works.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
Would you give him her names? Please?
Speaker 8 (11:12):
Oh, yes, I will. I'll write him down for you
those I can remember.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
I'm fine. Has your daughter been in good spirits.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
Lately, Spurs? I know, yes, she's always seemed happy enough
when I.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Saw I told you.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
We haven't said much more than hello the last month,
but she's seemed tatty.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
You said that she broke up with this birtic boy.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
Is that right? Yes? Well when was that?
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Six weeks? Two months ago?
Speaker 7 (11:30):
You know what caused it?
Speaker 8 (11:32):
The job hope Mama kept making dates with him and
then breaking him at the last minute. I guess Richard
just got tired of being stood up?
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Well? Does he and your daughter have any arguments? Did
you know?
Speaker 8 (11:41):
I No, it's decided that it wouldn't work out for them.
They just decided to stop seeing each other.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Did your daughter have any other steady boyfriends? Anyone that
she saw quite a bit of it?
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Maybe?
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Well, there was one boy. He's quite a bit older
than Manna. She saw a lot of him the last
couple of weeks.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
You know who he was?
Speaker 8 (11:59):
No, I never met I'm only try him one.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
What if you could describe him for us?
Speaker 8 (12:03):
No, I'm afraid I can't. He drove by for Mona
one night, kind of pick her up for a date.
Prucked out in front and honked the horn.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
I see.
Speaker 8 (12:09):
I went to the front door to tell him to
come in. Mona wasn't ready. It wouldn't just sat out then,
Ladd I didn't get a good look at him.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Could you describe the car for us?
Speaker 8 (12:18):
I'm not good. It was one of those foreign cars
or convertible. I think it might've been a Jaguar. I'm
not sure about that, though.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
We're you sure it wasn't an American automobile.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Yes, I'm sure about that.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
How about the color of the car. Can you tell
us that the dark out there?
Speaker 8 (12:31):
I'm not sure. I'd better not say, Officer. If I
can't be sure, you understand that I wouldn't want to
tell you something and then have it turn out to
be wrong.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Then I'm coming.
Speaker 8 (12:40):
Did you see Mona this morning?
Speaker 7 (12:42):
Yes? We do.
Speaker 8 (12:43):
Is she all right?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
They think so?
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Yet?
Speaker 8 (12:46):
Aren't you sure?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Well when we talked to that, if they were doing
everything they could, they seemed to think that she was
gonna be all right.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
Thank god gardens to Friday to know that your child
is sick. But she tried to kill herself. Do you
wanna go tour and not be able to.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
It's so fun.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Try to take it easy if you cant.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Mri Spindon, If you'll just give us the names of
the girl that she might know, we'll be on our way.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Yes, I'll write them for you.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Excuse me?
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Surely?
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Hello? Yes he did, Hue, Yes, they're here. I guess
the moment.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
See you, I'll get a job.
Speaker 8 (13:29):
I'll get those names for you.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
Mister Fridy Fight, did your daughter ever refer.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
To this man in the foreign car by name?
Speaker 8 (13:35):
No, I don't think she did. Oh I know is
that whenever she went out with him, it was the
big date of the bunch.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
How often did she see him?
Speaker 8 (13:42):
Eighty A couple of times a week. It might have
been more. I had no way of knowing what she
was doing. Kept pretty much to herself when she met him,
but I could tell he was the biggest thing in
her life.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
He was it.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Oh, yeah, stay a minute, Yeah, give them misspin, I'll
finish this live.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Thank you now.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Call us from Jack Smires at the office. Yeah, Jess
removed her to the general hospital.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Yeah, she had a relapse. They don't think she's gonna live.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
We obtained the name of the drive in restaurant where
the Fenton girl was employed.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
We also got the.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Names of the girls that she worked with and the
address of her boyfriend, Richard Bertie. Missus Fenton also gave
us a list of names of persons who might be
able to aid us in the investigation. Under further questioning,
the mother was still unable to furnish us with a
motive for her daughter's attempt.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
To take her own life.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
The apparent lack of a motive or any type of
a suicide note, coupled with the bruise on the girl's kin,
made the likelihood of foul play more than possible. Twelve
fifty seven pm, we left the Fenton home and drove
over to the drive In. We stopped on the way
and put him a call to the office. There still
hadn't been any report of the handy man at the hotel.
The only person who could give us a description of
the man who registered at the place of the Fentland girl.
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When we got to the drive and we asked about
a Peggy Greeks and one of the girls on the list.
After a few minutes, the girl came over to our car.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
You wanna see means you Peggy Greeks.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
And yeah, why we'd like to ask you some questions
about MoMA Fendly. Well, you guys police officers would just
like to talk to you.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
I gotta get it, okayd with the manager.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
I'm on duty now, lunchtime, pretty busy.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
I gotta get it.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Okay, I'll take care of his runny fine, I'll check.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
With the manager. Jump riding.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
This isn't gonna take long.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
I got a couple of customers.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Waiting, pares.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
My partner will take care of it all right.
Speaker 10 (15:29):
The manager, knowing that, worries me. It's the tips they're
gonna leave make what I do, and the tips are.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Important, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
That's all this about Moena anyway. What the cops after
her for?
Speaker 7 (15:38):
Well, she tried to kill herself this morning?
Speaker 8 (15:40):
Oh no, yeah, why should do a thing like that?
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Boy, he thought maybe you could help us there or me.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
I haven't got anything to do with.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
It, or we understand you were pretty friendly with it.
Speaker 10 (15:49):
Oh sure, I was a friend of mine this, but
I don't know anything about no suicide.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
I don't know anything about it, and I don't wanna.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Do you know, any reason she might try to take
her own life, not a reason in the world, not mama.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
You know she was under a doctor care for any reason.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Right, you know?
Speaker 5 (16:02):
I mean I don't know. Didn't say anything about it.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
I never said a word.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Why sh well, that's what we're trying to find out.
Can you think of any enemy she had, anybody.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Who might have wanted to hurt her?
Speaker 5 (16:11):
How far is this gonna go?
Speaker 8 (16:12):
Why do you mean, miss I mean, he's gonna hear
about this. Who's gonna hear the answers? I'm gonna give him.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
No one know what he got for.
Speaker 10 (16:18):
Well, I'll give you this for free. If anything happened
in the morning, you go talk to Dick Burdick.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Talk to him.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
He'll be able to tell you why to say that,
because it's true no other reason.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
He's a real bum.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
He ask me.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
I think there's something wrong with him, you know, in
the head.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Woll do you have any.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Reason to say that?
Speaker 10 (16:33):
All the reason in the world, poor girl, this bumb
all the time, coming around and giving her trouble, all
the time, telling always gonna kill her, and anybody that
comes nearer.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Burdick said that to me is spent ing did hey half.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
A dozen times? Wasn't more a week ago?
Speaker 10 (16:45):
My mother told me she told him off, told him
to get lost, wanna be part of him, to leave
her alone.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
He made a big scene. You wanna tell me all
about it?
Speaker 10 (16:52):
One day this Terry drove in here, got one of
those twashy farn cars, but Jaguar, I think so. Yeah,
Like when we one day he drove into the place.
Mana took care of him.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
I guess he liked money, kept him back, always parked
from her station.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
Anyway, this Bertie kid found out about it, but.
Speaker 10 (17:09):
Then he got him to worry about. But he made
a big thing about it. Okay, he said if she didn't,
he was gonna cause real trouble.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Did he see what he was gonna do?
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (17:16):
I think he was kidding. I don't think he really madmed.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Tippy kid, what would be saying? I really don't think
he met it all right? I wouldn't he say to her?
Speaker 5 (17:24):
She gotta be found him together again?
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Kill him both.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
With the other girls in the driver, and.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
We got this name seat from girl and Terry Hamilton
from one of the girls. We got the address of Hamilton.
Two forty five pm. We left the drive in and
drove over to the address of the girl's boyfriend, Richard Berdick.
We talked to the landlady. She told us that the
Berdick boy had regular habits.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
She paid his rent on time, he never had any visitors.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
She told us that he wasn't in his room at
that time, but she said that she'd let us in
and her company. We went upstairs. She unlocked the door
and Frank and I went in. I'll checked the bedroom,
I'll take the kitchen.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
Yeah, there's nothing out there.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
How did you do? Oh, it looks like we're a
little late. What his clothes are gone? We checked the
room further. Every indication was that Richard berdie had left
the apartment in a hurry. We talked to the landlady again.
She could give us no reason for his disappearance. She
gave us the name of his employer. We'd put in
a call to them, but they told us that Bertie
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could failed to show up for work that day four
fifteen pm. We put in a call to the hotel
on Grand Avenue, but the handyman still hadn't returned, and
there'd been no word from him. We went back to
the office and checked the name Richard Berdick through our eye,
but we found no criminal record for anybody answering his description.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
We put out a local m APB on him.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
At four thirty nine pm, we got a call from
General Hospital telling us that the Fenman girl would regained
consciousness and that we could talk to her.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Frank and I left the office and traveled code.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Too out to the hospital. The doctor on duty told
us that the girl was out of danger, but that
she was very weak. He asked her not to get
her excited, and he let us into her room.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Miss then, Yes, were you police officers?
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Why can't you leave me alone? Go away?
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Just a couple of questions we'd like to ask you.
Speaker 11 (19:17):
I don't wanna talk to anybody. Why why didn't you
leave things the way they were? Why didn't you leave
me alone?
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Well, you've had a lot of people worried mess, no.
Speaker 11 (19:24):
Reason for it be better all the way around, if
things had happened the way I've planned them, and.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
You did try to kill yourself. Yes, who was with
you in that hotel room?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Mmr Marris, Yeah, it was Terry. It was always Terry
was gonna marry me. Then he didn't, said he wouldn't.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
He didn't that way? You did what you did? Yes,
he used narcotics or something.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Hm, he used narcotics.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Yes, it was Terry's. I did too.
Speaker 11 (19:54):
I think that's all he wanted with me, just to
get me hooked so i'd have to do what he said.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
I think that was the reason.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
How about this, Richard Berty, what a body do you
have anything to do with? You? Deciding to take your
own life?
Speaker 6 (20:05):
A lot of ways.
Speaker 11 (20:07):
The mistake I haven't made was leaving Richer. Now, I
thought it was smart, real smart. I was gonna show him.
Terry said he'd marry me. He said he was in
love with me.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
He gets you started on narchics.
Speaker 11 (20:17):
Yeah, at first it wasn't so bad. I loved him,
really I did. Then when I had to have the.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Sixes, he changed told me he couldn't give it to
me anymore. I was gonna have to pay for it.
I tried to tell him, to tell him that I
loved him. I wanted to be with him.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
Why.
Speaker 11 (20:34):
I went to the hotel to talk it over, try
to come to an understanding, some kind of an understanding.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Mm mm.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
He said that he didn't wanna have anything to do
with me.
Speaker 11 (20:45):
He wanted no part of me anymore, said that I
was gonna have to pay for the h from now on.
I didn't have any way to pay for it. He
said it wasn't any of his business.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
He a music.
Speaker 11 (20:57):
Yeah, also stupid, So stupid, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
The whole thing. I had it real good all the
way around, and then I went ahead and ruined everything,
tore it all down. Even if I'd have.
Speaker 11 (21:13):
Killed myself, it would have been no answer, not the
right answer anyway.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
I know that I know it real well.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Alright, Can you tell us where you can find this terry?
Speaker 6 (21:24):
You bet?
Speaker 7 (21:24):
I can.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
I wanna see him, feel like I do. I want
him to know what it's like.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Would you be willing to meet with him? Make a
bib of narcotic sports.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
You name the time, I'll be there. I'll be there
if I have to crawl.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Alright, anybody get some mass now?
Speaker 6 (21:42):
I guess so, I'm pretty tired. Did you see my mother?
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Yes, ma'am?
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Is she real mad at me?
Speaker 8 (21:52):
No?
Speaker 7 (21:52):
I don't think she is.
Speaker 11 (21:54):
Would you call her, ask her to come and see me?
Tell her I'm sorry, Tell her I want to see her.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
I should be glad to hear that I hope.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
So I got so much to tell her her and
Richard how much to tell him?
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Both? All right, we didn't touch it.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
And you tell me when you want me to call Terry,
you tell me we will. Terrible.
Speaker 8 (22:20):
What's that, Terry?
Speaker 6 (22:23):
He's been around a long time.
Speaker 11 (22:25):
Must be other girls in the same six all because
of him, Girls who have a bad habit and have
to do what he says, Girls like me.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Terrible.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Nobody knows how many?
Speaker 12 (22:36):
Yes, man, where's it gonna end when you meet him?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Terry Norris Hamilton was tried and convicted a violation of
the State Narcotics Act of felony one count.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
He received sentence as prescribed by law.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Violation of the State Narcotics Act that felony is punishable
by him in the state penitentiary for a period of
from one to five years. Mona Irene Fenton pled guilty
to the same charge and was placed on probation for
a period of three years, with a provision that she
be placed under the care of a competent psychiatrist.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Dragonette.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
The Story of Your Police Force in Action is a
presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service
Speaker 6 (24:16):
S
Ladies and gentlemen. The story you are about to hear
is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Drag met their.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Detective sergeant here assigned to homicide detail. A young girl
who has been found in a cheap hotel room. Apparently
an attempt at suicide. There's reason to suspect, Paul, play
your job, investigate. It was Thursday, November nineteenth. It was
Warham in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch
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out of Homicide Detail. My partner's Frank Smith. The bosses
Capt mc mormon. My name's Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
We just got in a call from Georgie Street receiving
the hospital wom It was nine forty six am when
we got to the second floor the treatment's room.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Yeah, did I see doctor Hall?
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Please come an, Joe.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So Rank, Hi, here's the girl. Yeah, how's she doing?
I'm not sure yet. Just finish the transfusion and when
you're gonna know who thinks she's gonna live. But there's
no way of telling them right now how much damage
has been done to the brain tissue. Bad bruise on
her face must have received the bad blow it might
have gotten when she fell.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Squat side.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Now I can use the smoke. Okay, Well, if there's any.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Change, I'll be out in the hall.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
All right, that's true.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
You gotta cigarette, I'm fresh?
Speaker 7 (01:29):
Yeah, here you are, right? Yeah? Thanks, here's a match.
Speaker 8 (01:37):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
I didn't know you gave transfusions to the faces like
this guy.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Well have to very often. You see a thing like this.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
The carbon monoxide in the gas joins with the hemoglobin
in the red cells, won't let go. Blood takes the
monoxide to the system and suffocates the brain tissue.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
We've given her some coromine help speed up the heart action.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
Wait.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Look, she's got a good chance of living, but we
won't know how bad it really isn't till later. The
rough one in there, I find out who's at the
car and the stuff we found her waller names Mona Fenton.
Another thing that doesn't make much sense. She registered into
the hotel as missus John Norrith. There's we can find
out she wasn't married.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
How's you come up with that?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Well, when the office got worried about it, we tried
to get in touch with her husband. Called the phone
number on the ID that we found on her walk,
talked with her mother.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
She says a girl single. How about the guy she
was with you? But nabn't talked to him.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
No, I haven't found out who he is. Name doesn't
check out, not that we can find. How about the mother?
Did you give anything? We just talked to her for
a minute. We're going over there when.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
We leave here.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Maybe she can come up with some answers.
Speaker 7 (02:31):
I sure, hope.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
So a couple more questions you can ask her.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
Yeah, what's that?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Find out if the girl's been under a doctor's care.
What do you mean checked her over when she came in,
found marks ran Yeah, I think she's an addict. At
eight thirty am that morning, a guest in a small
hotel on Grand Avenue had thought.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
That he detected the odor of gas in the halls
of the building.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
He notified the desk clerk, and together they conducted the
search of the premises. Finally, he ascertained that the escaping
gas was coming from a room on the third floor
of the hotel. When the desk clerk got no answer
to his calls, he used a pass key opened the door.
Sprawled across the bed was a girl who appeared to
be in her early twenties. The gas heater in the
room had been turned on full, and the windows were
closed locks and stuffed with pieces of torn sheets to
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keep the fumes in the room. The quick action of
the desk clerk had undoubtedly saved the girl's life.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
While a hotel guest.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Called an ambulance, the clerk turned off the gas, opened
the windows, and administered artificial respiration to the girl until.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
The ambulance crew arrived.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
As an attempted suicide, the homicide detail had to make
an investigation in the Frank and Iowa assigned to the case.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
After we talked to Doc Hall at.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Georgia Street Receiving Hospital, we drove down to the hotel
where the girl had been found.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Right in here.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Anybody had been in this room since the other officers left.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Oh, told me to lock it until you could see it.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
All right, SA, This is just the way you found it?
Is that right? Well?
Speaker 9 (03:56):
Yas course, the gas is turned off and I opened
the windows, But everything else is the same.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
I see from what you said on the phone, she
came in last night, Is that right?
Speaker 9 (04:07):
Yes, sir, at least that's what the registration book says.
They checked in at ten fifteen.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
Did you take care of him.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
No, I was out to dinner when they got here.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
Who checked him in?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Jeff, Jeff Christensen, see.
Speaker 9 (04:19):
Round, No, not right now. He'll probably be back tonight.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
You know where we can find him.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (04:25):
See, Jeff got paid last night cause week's wages.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Last I saw him.
Speaker 9 (04:29):
He's on his way out on the town with some
of his friends.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Jeff goes out on the town.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
Maybe we don't.
Speaker 9 (04:34):
See him a couple of days, I see, But you
figure he'll be back tonight. Oh, yes, yes, Jeff only
worked a couple of days last week, so he gonna.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Go on much of the town.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
Did you see the man, Miss Spenton came in with.
Speaker 9 (04:46):
No, I didn't. You were already in the room when
I got back from dinner. I uh checked the book.
I got the money from Jeff before I left. The
man must have gone out sometime earlier this morning. I
guess I was asleep. My robe just back to a desk.
Fella must have got out of while I was asleep.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
I see. Did you get any calls from the room
at all? Ill?
Speaker 9 (05:05):
The one like I told those uniformed officers be here,
I didn't see them at all. A lot of people
as a matter of fact, I was thinking how nice
and quiet they were. But the way the room books,
they sure must have had some sort of argument.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Yes, but you know if they brought any baggage.
Speaker 9 (05:20):
With him, matter of fact, I know they didn't. Sure
looks like they did some heavy drinking though time. Yeah,
glasses and bottles almost empty?
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Yeah, I roatther.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
You wouldn't touch the bottle?
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Oh yeah, Labama, say you talk to the girls people yet?
Speaker 7 (05:37):
No, sure we haven't.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
But you're planning to see him, aren't you?
Speaker 7 (05:39):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Yeah, I wonder if you're doing me a favor, you
know when you see up people?
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Yes, sir, what's that?
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Well? I don'd dirty glasses and.
Speaker 9 (05:47):
Having a strict rope, So off, I will go to this,
but I wish the sheets tell of people about him.
I don't like going to a probably thought or he
made something?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Well, ain't nobody?
Speaker 7 (05:59):
Where's the key kept?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
That hangs on a nail next to desk. That's big
nail aft hangs right on it.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
When you came into the room, did you notice that
there was ending around the door to keep the gas inside?
Per I don't follow you, but you found pieces of
turning sheet for you to say nothing like that.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
But the door.
Speaker 9 (06:15):
Oh, oh, yes, I'm with you now. Yeah, let me
think cause I remember. No, No, there wasn't nothing there
just round the windows.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Was the key in the lock when you came up here?
Speaker 5 (06:27):
You mean inside the room?
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Yes to that track.
Speaker 9 (06:29):
No, No reason I know that for sure is that
I looked through the keyhole, had to see what was
in the room.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
No, sis, key wasn't in of course, I don't mean nothing.
But well, only a.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Couple of rooms have keys. Anyway, we don't use them anymore.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
You mean you don't lock the doors. Sure, we lock
the doors.
Speaker 9 (06:44):
You got them all locked all the time. This is
a respectable hotel. Of course we locked the doors, but
not with those keys. We got those other locks on
the doors. Oh I see see yeah see there sort
of like Yale locks, that kind you know, that's what
locks the doors, the other keys.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
Yes, I see, of.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Course she locked the doors.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Yes, the locks catch when the door is closed, though,
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Yeh, lock some tight.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I got in touch with Lee Jones. Joe, he sent
a crew right over.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Good.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I check with Doc Hall. How's a girl. Oh, she's
coming along. Doc says, she's doing better.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Oh, these fellows that you're gonna have roaming around here.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
What's this all about?
Speaker 5 (07:22):
There's something wrong.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
We're not sure yet, sir.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Oh, it always happens like this, don't what's that?
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I try to run a respectable place.
Speaker 9 (07:30):
Goodness knows as I do. I keep it right up
the date. There's good service, and something like this happens.
There's no reason for that girl to do a thing
like this, not in my hotel. Now, you cops coming here.
CoP's gonna be all over THEO. That's what I'm gonna
like it, And they like it at.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
All just because of that girl. Why't she have to
come in here and do a thing like this?
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Why don't you have to do it at all? Sir?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
We questioned the people in the hotel. None of them
could remember hearing any undue noise coming from the room
where the girl had tried to kill herself. Normally the
investigation would have been routine, but with the possibility of
foul play, we had to check every angle and then
check it again. The crew from the crime lab arrived and.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
Went over the room.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Under the bed, they found an empty kitchen. Would telling
you the enhaunment. The officer pent back. There were photographs
and the waterlasses out into the crime lab to be
booked as evidence. The registers turned over to dire aameless
the girl through the phone book and through the city directory.
When the leads were checked out, we were no further
in knowing who the one was who'd taken it home
on the Fenton. Word was left at the hotel for
the handy man to contact us as soon as he returned.
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Word was also left that if the man who had
registered with the Fent and girl returned, we were to
be called.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Eleven forty five am. The men from the crime lab
finished their instigation and returned to the office file of results.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Frank and I left the hotel and grove out to
the address listed on the girl's identification barge White Colonial
home near one of the colleges. We rang the doorbell and.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
Waited, Yes, Mss Spins, Yes, that's right. What is it
you want.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
Police officers would like to talk to?
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Oh, con thank you. It's about mona'sness. Yes, ma'am fast
time happy. When she first told me about it, I
knew didn't try to just try and they tell you
that times have changed. They say that you're not keeping
up with the time.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
They know it all.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
Nobody can tell 'em anything.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
But what idea is this? Missus Semmons?
Speaker 8 (09:23):
When she wanted to quit school and take the job
in that drive and restaurant, most ridiculous thing I ever
heard of, Nobody could talk her out of it. Brod
knows I tried. I knew something like this step.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
I just knew it.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Do you know any reason why your daughter might want
to take her own life?
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Are you a policeman too, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
And Frank Smith, this is my partner, Joe Friday, you
do how do you.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Do you know any reason when your daughter might wanna
kill herself?
Speaker 8 (09:49):
The little pride to stay in Friday? With that, Mona
and I had quite an argument about her living school.
It's one of those silly things that starts and gets
all out of hands. You know, they both have problem.
I didn't neither one of us was going to back down.
I haven't seen Mona to talk to for over a month.
Does she live here, ma'am? Yes she does, mister Smith.
There's an outside entrance to her room. She comes and
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goes as she treases. Doesn't need her meals here?
Speaker 7 (10:13):
Well?
Speaker 8 (10:13):
I hardly Ever's here.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
You know, if she's been under a doctor's care.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
Oh, I don't think so. Why do you ask that?
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Well?
Speaker 7 (10:20):
Was your daughter a diabetic?
Speaker 6 (10:22):
No she isn't.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Mister Friday. What all these questions about Mona and a doctor?
What are you trying to find out?
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Does your daughter have any special boyfriends? Missus Finnon's.
Speaker 8 (10:29):
She did have. Who was that Richard's burdick nice boy Mona?
And he was kind of to get married when I
got out of school, and along with everything else, that
just blew up. Everything seemed to go all at the
same time.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Did your daughter have any trouble with us Bertie?
Speaker 8 (10:45):
No, nothing you could call real troubles. But they agreed
to disagree. Was Mona's idea. Richard didn't want anything to change.
She was very much in love with her. Uh huh
Does he know about this?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I don't think so, missus Fenton. We haven't told him.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
I don't know what he's gonna do when he hears
about it. Can't hit him off the hard. He's the
sensitive type.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Does your daughter have any close friends that she might
confide him?
Speaker 8 (11:06):
I suppose she does. She's talked about some of the
girls where she works.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
Would you give him her names? Please?
Speaker 8 (11:12):
Oh, yes, I will. I'll write him down for you
those I can remember.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
I'm fine. Has your daughter been in good spirits.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
Lately, Spurs? I know, yes, she's always seemed happy enough
when I.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Saw I told you.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
We haven't said much more than hello the last month,
but she's seemed tatty.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
You said that she broke up with this birtic boy.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
Is that right? Yes? Well when was that?
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Six weeks? Two months ago?
Speaker 7 (11:30):
You know what caused it?
Speaker 8 (11:32):
The job hope Mama kept making dates with him and
then breaking him at the last minute. I guess Richard
just got tired of being stood up?
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Well? Does he and your daughter have any arguments? Did
you know?
Speaker 8 (11:41):
I No, it's decided that it wouldn't work out for them.
They just decided to stop seeing each other.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Did your daughter have any other steady boyfriends? Anyone that
she saw quite a bit of it?
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Maybe?
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Well, there was one boy. He's quite a bit older
than Manna. She saw a lot of him the last
couple of weeks.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
You know who he was?
Speaker 8 (11:59):
No, I never met I'm only try him one.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
What if you could describe him for us?
Speaker 8 (12:03):
No, I'm afraid I can't. He drove by for Mona
one night, kind of pick her up for a date.
Prucked out in front and honked the horn.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
I see.
Speaker 8 (12:09):
I went to the front door to tell him to
come in. Mona wasn't ready. It wouldn't just sat out then,
Ladd I didn't get a good look at him.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Could you describe the car for us?
Speaker 8 (12:18):
I'm not good. It was one of those foreign cars
or convertible. I think it might've been a Jaguar. I'm
not sure about that, though.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
We're you sure it wasn't an American automobile.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Yes, I'm sure about that.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
How about the color of the car. Can you tell
us that the dark out there?
Speaker 8 (12:31):
I'm not sure. I'd better not say, Officer. If I
can't be sure, you understand that I wouldn't want to
tell you something and then have it turn out to
be wrong.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Then I'm coming.
Speaker 8 (12:40):
Did you see Mona this morning?
Speaker 7 (12:42):
Yes? We do.
Speaker 8 (12:43):
Is she all right?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
They think so?
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Yet?
Speaker 8 (12:46):
Aren't you sure?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Well when we talked to that, if they were doing
everything they could, they seemed to think that she was
gonna be all right.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
Thank god gardens to Friday to know that your child
is sick. But she tried to kill herself. Do you
wanna go tour and not be able to.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
It's so fun.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Try to take it easy if you cant.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Mri Spindon, If you'll just give us the names of
the girl that she might know, we'll be on our way.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Yes, I'll write them for you.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Excuse me?
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Surely?
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Hello? Yes he did, Hue, Yes, they're here. I guess
the moment.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
See you, I'll get a job.
Speaker 8 (13:29):
I'll get those names for you.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
Mister Fridy Fight, did your daughter ever refer.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
To this man in the foreign car by name?
Speaker 8 (13:35):
No, I don't think she did. Oh I know is
that whenever she went out with him, it was the
big date of the bunch.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
How often did she see him?
Speaker 8 (13:42):
Eighty A couple of times a week. It might have
been more. I had no way of knowing what she
was doing. Kept pretty much to herself when she met him,
but I could tell he was the biggest thing in
her life.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
He was it.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Oh, yeah, stay a minute, Yeah, give them misspin, I'll
finish this live.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Thank you now.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Call us from Jack Smires at the office. Yeah, Jess
removed her to the general hospital.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Yeah, she had a relapse. They don't think she's gonna live.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
We obtained the name of the drive in restaurant where
the Fenton girl was employed.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
We also got the.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Names of the girls that she worked with and the
address of her boyfriend, Richard Bertie. Missus Fenton also gave
us a list of names of persons who might be
able to aid us in the investigation. Under further questioning,
the mother was still unable to furnish us with a
motive for her daughter's attempt.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
To take her own life.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
The apparent lack of a motive or any type of
a suicide note, coupled with the bruise on the girl's kin,
made the likelihood of foul play more than possible. Twelve
fifty seven pm, we left the Fenton home and drove
over to the drive In. We stopped on the way
and put him a call to the office. There still
hadn't been any report of the handy man at the hotel.
The only person who could give us a description of
the man who registered at the place of the Fentland girl.
(15:00):
When we got to the drive and we asked about
a Peggy Greeks and one of the girls on the list.
After a few minutes, the girl came over to our car.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
You wanna see means you Peggy Greeks.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
And yeah, why we'd like to ask you some questions
about MoMA Fendly. Well, you guys police officers would just
like to talk to you.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
I gotta get it, okayd with the manager.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
I'm on duty now, lunchtime, pretty busy.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
I gotta get it.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Okay, I'll take care of his runny fine, I'll check.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
With the manager. Jump riding.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
This isn't gonna take long.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
I got a couple of customers.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Waiting, pares.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
My partner will take care of it all right.
Speaker 10 (15:29):
The manager, knowing that, worries me. It's the tips they're
gonna leave make what I do, and the tips are.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Important, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
That's all this about Moena anyway. What the cops after
her for?
Speaker 7 (15:38):
Well, she tried to kill herself this morning?
Speaker 8 (15:40):
Oh no, yeah, why should do a thing like that?
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Boy, he thought maybe you could help us there or me.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
I haven't got anything to do with.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
It, or we understand you were pretty friendly with it.
Speaker 10 (15:49):
Oh sure, I was a friend of mine this, but
I don't know anything about no suicide.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
I don't know anything about it, and I don't wanna.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Do you know, any reason she might try to take
her own life, not a reason in the world, not mama.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
You know she was under a doctor care for any reason.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Right, you know?
Speaker 5 (16:02):
I mean I don't know. Didn't say anything about it.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
I never said a word.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Why sh well, that's what we're trying to find out.
Can you think of any enemy she had, anybody.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Who might have wanted to hurt her?
Speaker 5 (16:11):
How far is this gonna go?
Speaker 8 (16:12):
Why do you mean, miss I mean, he's gonna hear
about this. Who's gonna hear the answers? I'm gonna give him.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
No one know what he got for.
Speaker 10 (16:18):
Well, I'll give you this for free. If anything happened
in the morning, you go talk to Dick Burdick.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Talk to him.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
He'll be able to tell you why to say that,
because it's true no other reason.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
He's a real bum.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
He ask me.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
I think there's something wrong with him, you know, in
the head.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Woll do you have any.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Reason to say that?
Speaker 10 (16:33):
All the reason in the world, poor girl, this bumb
all the time, coming around and giving her trouble, all
the time, telling always gonna kill her, and anybody that
comes nearer.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Burdick said that to me is spent ing did hey half.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
A dozen times? Wasn't more a week ago?
Speaker 10 (16:45):
My mother told me she told him off, told him
to get lost, wanna be part of him, to leave
her alone.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
He made a big scene. You wanna tell me all
about it?
Speaker 10 (16:52):
One day this Terry drove in here, got one of
those twashy farn cars, but Jaguar, I think so. Yeah,
Like when we one day he drove into the place.
Mana took care of him.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
I guess he liked money, kept him back, always parked
from her station.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
Anyway, this Bertie kid found out about it, but.
Speaker 10 (17:09):
Then he got him to worry about. But he made
a big thing about it. Okay, he said if she didn't,
he was gonna cause real trouble.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Did he see what he was gonna do?
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (17:16):
I think he was kidding. I don't think he really madmed.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Tippy kid, what would be saying? I really don't think
he met it all right? I wouldn't he say to her?
Speaker 5 (17:24):
She gotta be found him together again?
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Kill him both.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
With the other girls in the driver, and.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
We got this name seat from girl and Terry Hamilton
from one of the girls. We got the address of Hamilton.
Two forty five pm. We left the drive in and
drove over to the address of the girl's boyfriend, Richard Berdick.
We talked to the landlady. She told us that the
Berdick boy had regular habits.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
She paid his rent on time, he never had any visitors.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
She told us that he wasn't in his room at
that time, but she said that she'd let us in
and her company. We went upstairs. She unlocked the door
and Frank and I went in. I'll checked the bedroom,
I'll take the kitchen.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
Yeah, there's nothing out there.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
How did you do? Oh, it looks like we're a
little late. What his clothes are gone? We checked the
room further. Every indication was that Richard berdie had left
the apartment in a hurry. We talked to the landlady again.
She could give us no reason for his disappearance. She
gave us the name of his employer. We'd put in
a call to them, but they told us that Bertie
(18:27):
could failed to show up for work that day four
fifteen pm. We put in a call to the hotel
on Grand Avenue, but the handyman still hadn't returned, and
there'd been no word from him. We went back to
the office and checked the name Richard Berdick through our eye,
but we found no criminal record for anybody answering his description.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
We put out a local m APB on him.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
At four thirty nine pm, we got a call from
General Hospital telling us that the Fenman girl would regained
consciousness and that we could talk to her.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Frank and I left the office and traveled code.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Too out to the hospital. The doctor on duty told
us that the girl was out of danger, but that
she was very weak. He asked her not to get
her excited, and he let us into her room.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Miss then, Yes, were you police officers?
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Why can't you leave me alone? Go away?
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Just a couple of questions we'd like to ask you.
Speaker 11 (19:17):
I don't wanna talk to anybody. Why why didn't you
leave things the way they were? Why didn't you leave
me alone?
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Well, you've had a lot of people worried mess, no.
Speaker 11 (19:24):
Reason for it be better all the way around, if
things had happened the way I've planned them, and.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
You did try to kill yourself. Yes, who was with
you in that hotel room?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Mmr Marris, Yeah, it was Terry. It was always Terry
was gonna marry me. Then he didn't, said he wouldn't.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
He didn't that way? You did what you did? Yes,
he used narcotics or something.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Hm, he used narcotics.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Yes, it was Terry's. I did too.
Speaker 11 (19:54):
I think that's all he wanted with me, just to
get me hooked so i'd have to do what he said.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
I think that was the reason.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
How about this, Richard Berty, what a body do you
have anything to do with? You? Deciding to take your
own life?
Speaker 6 (20:05):
A lot of ways.
Speaker 11 (20:07):
The mistake I haven't made was leaving Richer. Now, I
thought it was smart, real smart. I was gonna show him.
Terry said he'd marry me. He said he was in
love with me.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
He gets you started on narchics.
Speaker 11 (20:17):
Yeah, at first it wasn't so bad. I loved him,
really I did. Then when I had to have the.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Sixes, he changed told me he couldn't give it to
me anymore. I was gonna have to pay for it.
I tried to tell him, to tell him that I
loved him. I wanted to be with him.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
Why.
Speaker 11 (20:34):
I went to the hotel to talk it over, try
to come to an understanding, some kind of an understanding.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Mm mm.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
He said that he didn't wanna have anything to do
with me.
Speaker 11 (20:45):
He wanted no part of me anymore, said that I
was gonna have to pay for the h from now on.
I didn't have any way to pay for it. He
said it wasn't any of his business.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
He a music.
Speaker 11 (20:57):
Yeah, also stupid, So stupid, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
The whole thing. I had it real good all the
way around, and then I went ahead and ruined everything,
tore it all down. Even if I'd have.
Speaker 11 (21:13):
Killed myself, it would have been no answer, not the
right answer anyway.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
I know that I know it real well.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Alright, Can you tell us where you can find this terry?
Speaker 6 (21:24):
You bet?
Speaker 7 (21:24):
I can.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
I wanna see him, feel like I do. I want
him to know what it's like.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Would you be willing to meet with him? Make a
bib of narcotic sports.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
You name the time, I'll be there. I'll be there
if I have to crawl.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Alright, anybody get some mass now?
Speaker 6 (21:42):
I guess so, I'm pretty tired. Did you see my mother?
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Yes, ma'am?
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Is she real mad at me?
Speaker 8 (21:52):
No?
Speaker 7 (21:52):
I don't think she is.
Speaker 11 (21:54):
Would you call her, ask her to come and see me?
Tell her I'm sorry, Tell her I want to see her.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
I should be glad to hear that I hope.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
So I got so much to tell her her and
Richard how much to tell him?
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Both? All right, we didn't touch it.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
And you tell me when you want me to call Terry,
you tell me we will. Terrible.
Speaker 8 (22:20):
What's that, Terry?
Speaker 6 (22:23):
He's been around a long time.
Speaker 11 (22:25):
Must be other girls in the same six all because
of him, Girls who have a bad habit and have
to do what he says, Girls like me.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Terrible.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Nobody knows how many?
Speaker 12 (22:36):
Yes, man, where's it gonna end when you meet him?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Terry Norris Hamilton was tried and convicted a violation of
the State Narcotics Act of felony one count.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
He received sentence as prescribed by law.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Violation of the State Narcotics Act that felony is punishable
by him in the state penitentiary for a period of
from one to five years. Mona Irene Fenton pled guilty
to the same charge and was placed on probation for
a period of three years, with a provision that she
be placed under the care of a competent psychiatrist.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Dragonette.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
The Story of Your Police Force in Action is a
presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service
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