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Speaker 2 (00:35):
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Speaker 1 (00:37):
You get a lead on one of the sources of supply,
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Speaker 6 (02:07):
It was Wednesday, November eighth, was windy in Los Angeles.
We're working the day watch out of Juvenile Division. My
partner's at Jacob's. The boss's Captain Stein. My name's Friday
was eleven o five am when we got to the
basement floor of Grohman High School, the locker room.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Which way, Steve, want to show us? Which locker's yours?
Speaker 7 (02:26):
You still haven't told me what this is all about?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Routine check son.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
Yeah, but why do you have to pick on me?
Why do you have to see my locker?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
We're not picking on you, Steve.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Now, how about it?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Which locker's yours?
Speaker 8 (02:35):
Right here?
Speaker 7 (02:36):
This is mine?
Speaker 9 (02:37):
Three eighteen. Here's the key. No, you open it, Steve,
just a couple of personal.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Things of mine.
Speaker 8 (02:43):
That's all all right, I'll open it. Well, there you.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
Are see for yourself.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Go and take your things out of the locker sun.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
You can see what's in there, can't you? My Jim,
a couple of textbooks?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
How about digging back in the carner and left hand
side there? Well?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Or I mean, come on, Steve, dig him out back here?
Speaker 7 (03:07):
You mean these joke books?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
That's right, have a lot then?
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Why just a couple of joke books? A kid gave
him to me?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Bring him out of Steve.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
Okay, just a couple of 'em.
Speaker 8 (03:18):
Kid came to me.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
There looks like more in a couple them.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
That's what you call a joke book, Steve.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
That's what the kids call him. Yeah, some of them
are a.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
Little dirty, not so bad though.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
They're felthy Steve. And you don't know what you get him?
Speaker 7 (03:31):
I told you kid gave him to me.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Ooh, what's his name?
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Some kid around school I don't remember right.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Now, gave you these books for nothing.
Speaker 8 (03:38):
Sure, I had a couple he wanted. We trade it off.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
A lot of the kids have him. I trade him around.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
That stack you got did look pretty new. Couldn't have
been passed around much?
Speaker 7 (03:46):
Maybe not, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Matter of fact, they look brand new, don't think, don't
even look like they've been open.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
Yet, how come you're rousing me on this thing? What
about the other kids?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
They got them too, they're buying them, Steve, they're not
selling them.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
I'm not selling them. Anybody says that's a liar.
Speaker 10 (03:57):
No good, son. We talked to fellas here at the
high school. Some kids are over the junior high school too.
They all say you're the one who's selling them.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
They're liars, both the fellows in high school the kids
down the street in junior high.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
And they say, you've been selling this stuff for months.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Now about it.
Speaker 9 (04:10):
They're lying, that's all. I don't know what they're talking about.
Speaker 10 (04:14):
You've been selling these thirty five cents a piece, three
for a dollar last couple of weeks. You've been peddling
pictures to a dollar piece. You got any of them
in your locker?
Speaker 8 (04:20):
Speat a couple, I got them off?
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Another kid?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
What other kid?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
What's his name? What's his name?
Speaker 7 (04:28):
Some kids? I don't remember.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
It's not much of an answer, son, What.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Do you want from me?
Speaker 8 (04:32):
Anyway?
Speaker 7 (04:33):
I told you I'm not selling the books. I don't
care what those other groups say. It's my word against theirs.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Now, maybe you ought to get this straight. Son.
Speaker 10 (04:39):
We're not out to get you your way down the line.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
We want the.
Speaker 10 (04:42):
People at the top, the men who print this junk,
the wholesaleer's, the big distributors.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
So why ask me? I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Nothing you don't want to cooperate is anything?
Speaker 7 (04:49):
What am I supposed to cooperate about. I'm not mixed
up in anything.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
We think you are a son, We know you are.
Who are you selling this for? What do you get
your supply?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (04:58):
You see this?
Speaker 7 (04:58):
What's in my locker?
Speaker 8 (05:00):
Well?
Speaker 7 (05:00):
I don't have any supply. You got to go far
to prove I have.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Not very far. Stee, what from about here to your home?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Eleven thirty eight am, after picking up his supply of
obscene books and photographs to be booked later as evidence
ed and I drove the subject, Stephen Banner, to his home,
approximately a mile from the high school. His apprehension and
our theory that he probably kept the bulk of his
supply of books and pictures at or near his home,
was no accident.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
For weeks, we've.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Known that a steady stream of pornography was being fed
into a half a dozen high schools and junior high schools,
throughout the city, books, photographs, pictures, and pamphlets of the
worst kind. Because of embarrassment, I'm a part of the
curious teenage kids who bought this stuff. It wasn't easy
to pick up a solid lead. After weeks of observation
and questioning, we finally narrowed down the principal source of
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supply to a single teenage boy, Stephen Banner.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Even then, we knew he.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Must be only one of one hundred small time distributors
working for the persons directly rest responsible for manufacturing this
sort of thing. Our only hope was that he'd be
willing and able to supply us with the names of
the person's responsible. When we got to Stephen Banner's home,
where he lived with his sister and brother in law,
we started to thoroughly, but.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
We found nothing.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Both his sister and brother in law were at work.
We went back and started checking through the garage at
the rear.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Of the house.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Joe back a natonic.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah, I have a look, Steve.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Want to tell us about this? Yeah, these books here,
these pictures case foot on him.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Yeah, well about it, son, Your sister and brother in
law know about.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
This, No, they don't know anything. I didn't think you'd
find him.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Are you ready to tell us about it?
Speaker 7 (06:47):
My sister gonna have to find out.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I don't know. Steve's gonna be pretty hard to keep
it from him.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
So there's a contact son. Where'd they come from?
Speaker 7 (06:54):
Charlie, Charlie Freiberg only the books, though pictures came from
another guy.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It's a long story. We got the time son, who
is this? Freburg?
Speaker 9 (07:03):
Met him downtown one Sunday Penny Arkide on Broadway.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Me and this other kid were in there. Bud Spencer.
Freburg came up, started to.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Talk to us.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
All right, go on.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
He finally took a couple of these books out of his.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
Pocket, came to us.
Speaker 9 (07:16):
He wanted to know what we thought of him, told
us he had plenty of him if we knew any
other kids who wanted him.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
He knew you and your friend Bud were in high school.
Speaker 8 (07:23):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
What else, Steve, Well, that's about it, he asked me.
And but if we wanted to sell.
Speaker 10 (07:28):
For him around school, his friend of yours, Bud Spencer,
he's selling him too.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
Yeah, he goes to a different school. Though both of
us did pretty good with the book so real fast.
The pictures were even better.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
So you say you didn't get the pictures from Freiburg.
There was somebody else.
Speaker 9 (07:43):
Man by the name of Jack, I don't know his
last name. Freberg put us onto him, gave us.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
An introduction, set up the deal.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
We got the pictures for seventy five cents. Most of
the time they get us a dollar dollar and a
half apiece. But I did pretty good.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Do you know any other fellows working for this Friburg?
Speaker 7 (07:59):
Steve and the kids in school and no just butting me,
that's all I know. It wouldn't be so bad if
it was just the books. A lousy Charlie.
Speaker 9 (08:08):
He had to go and promote the party routine, get everybody.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Mixed up in that.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
How do you mean, what's it all about, Charlie.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
He stays at this place out on Sepalvita.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
It's a motel. That's where we always contacted him.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Yeah, after a couple of weeks when we got to
know him, he asked me and but out to this place,
said he was going to throw a party, told us
to bring our girlfriends along. Turned out we were the
only ones at the party, Me and Bud and the
girls and Charlie Freibur party lasted pretty late. I should
have been smart enough to figure it out, and I wasn't.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Well, you mean, Steve, figure out?
Speaker 9 (08:38):
What why Charlie be throwing parties just for us? The
first two times there wasn't anything wrong. We just talk,
danced with the girls, drank some beer. Charlie told us
to have a good time. He threw a party every
Friday night ever, broke up the latter three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
How old are your girlfriends? Joys and Buds?
Speaker 9 (08:54):
Seventeen? And they were both seventeen. They've been around though,
now you just kidding? They weren't very smart. I can
tell you that none of us were. I guess. Next
couple of parties, Charlie had whiskey there. Dumb girls drank
right along with him.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
So did we tiebreak served the whiskey? Did he?
Speaker 7 (09:08):
Yeah, that's right. He loaded the drinks, kept handing the
girls a lot of stuff about how he used to
be a director in pictures.
Speaker 9 (09:14):
He had a lot of connections in Hollywood. The last
party I was at, he said he was going to
get the girl's screen test.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
A lot of malachy like that.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
What else, Steve, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I had a beef with.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
Charlie about it, and I walked out.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
I haven't been back since.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
He still throw these Friday night parties.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
You know, maybe I don't know number three or four
after the last one I walked out on. Dumb girls
think Charlie's just great. God, So I can't stand the guy.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
How about the parties he didn't show up for, Steve,
you get a run down him.
Speaker 9 (09:42):
I heard a couple of things. You know, sure, glad,
I wasn't there. How do you mean dumb girls never fails,
the oldest line in the world. They still go for it.
What's that tell him? You're going to get him in
the movies?
Speaker 6 (09:58):
We continued questioning this subject seventeen year old Stephen Banner.
He gave us a full description of the man who'd
been selling him the books, Charles Freiberg, and also a
description of the man known as Jack, the one who
had been supplying him with pictures and photographs. In addition,
he gave us the addresses of the two men, a
fair description of Freiberg's car no license number, and the
names and addresses of the two girls he and his
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friend had taken.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
To Freiburg's parties. One twenty pm.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
ED and I took the case of obscene books from
the garage loaded in the backseat of our car, and
Stephen Banner directed us to the high school attended by
his friend Bud Spencer. We picked up the Spencer boy
and drove him and Banner downtown to Georgia Street Juvenile,
where we booked him in on seven hundred B Welfare
and Institution Code lack of supervision. We drove to the
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motel out on Supulsita, but the suspect, Charles Freiberg, had
moved out five days before. No forwarding address. It wasn't
a dead end though. From his motel registration card we
got the description and license number of his car. On
the way into the office, we checked out the ad
dress of his confederate, the man known as Jack. He'd
moved the same day as Freyburg.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
No forwarding address.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Back at the office, DMV got to make on the
license number for us the car registered in Freiburg's name
two thirty nine West ninety second Street. We went down
to R and I and pulled the package on the
suspect three forty pm.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Last address on was three years old. How does his
record read?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Well? He's been in the business before.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
A couple of bag charges, three to eleven charge to
possession obscene literature.
Speaker 10 (11:31):
Served eight months and kyie jail mug shot there. Yeah yeah,
m h close enough the way the.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Boy described him, I'd say, so there's mo two huh,
same pitch the last time. They got him working in
the high school trade and passed himself off as a
studio man movie director.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
How about the other man, Jack? You get anything there that?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Yah?
Speaker 6 (11:51):
I gave the information on him to the stats ibice.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
They're gonna make a run for us.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Well, I guess we better check on the kid's girlfriends
huh and get their story.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah, I suppose sure gets me jofe.
Speaker 10 (12:02):
What's that very young girls like the hou at motel
parties with three am drinking?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, seventeen year olds? No reason for it, no reason.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
At all, I think a one that might do uh
their parents. We checked out the suspect's address, furnished this
by DMV and also the information from the R and
I package.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
They went nowhere.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
We had a second interview with Stephen Banner and his
friend Bud Spencer. We showed them Friburg's mugshot and.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Both of them identified it.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
We got out a broadcast.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
And an apb on 'em four to twelve pm.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Together with Policewoman Doreen statesl Ed and I drove out
to interview the two.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Teenage girls involved, the Dorothy Ryan and a Laura Osburn.
We stopped at the home of the Osbourne girl first,
but she wasn't there, and neither were her parents. An
older sister told us that both the mother and father
were working and that Laura was at a neighborhood school
for models taking her weekly lesson. We checked at the
modeling school, a converted second floor social hall, where we
finally located the girl, a tall brunette, dark eyes, fair complexion.
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The heavy makeup didn't.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Do much to hide her age.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
While a modeling lesson went on, policewomen State till ed
and I talked to the girl off in one corner
of the hall.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Your friend Steve Banner, he took you to those parties
at mister Friburg's place.
Speaker 11 (13:15):
Oh, that's right, very nice man. It was always nice
to Dorothy and me. Dorothy Ryan, she came to the
parties with Bud. He's a friend of Steve Banners.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Mmm, you have no complaint to make about this, mister Friburg.
He never caused the trouble of any kind.
Speaker 11 (13:28):
Charlie Will knew, as I told you before. That business
about Steve getting mad just because Charlie told us he'd
get us in the movies. What was silly, That's all
plain silly. Charlie was just helping us. How do you meanwhy, Well,
he's in Hollywood, you know, Charlie Freiberg. He has lots
of connections. He just wanted to help us get some
good modeling jobs. That's why I took our pictures.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
There was nothing wrong.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
You continued going to.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
These party nut parties without the two boys, is that right?
Speaker 11 (13:51):
Yes, Dorothy and me? It wasn't anything wrong with it.
I mean Charlie as well as they did by that time,
two bathings with pictures.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
That's all.
Speaker 11 (13:58):
There was nothing wrong in that's of any of those pictures,
either you or Dorothy radd No, but Charlie's gonna get
us some he promised he would.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
You know where he is now?
Speaker 11 (14:06):
No, we moved have any idea where he is.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
When's the last time you saw Friburg?
Speaker 11 (14:10):
Miss about ten days two weeks ago?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
What's this all about?
Speaker 7 (14:14):
Offs are you looking for Charlie.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
How does he usually contact you, Laura? By phone?
Speaker 11 (14:19):
Yeah, he usually calls.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Has he called you lately?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Why are you looking for him?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Can't you tell me routine investigation?
Speaker 8 (14:29):
Miss?
Speaker 11 (14:31):
I'm sorry, I don't know where Charlie is. Why can't
you tell me where you want him?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
We want him?
Speaker 11 (14:36):
Why can't you give me your reason?
Speaker 7 (14:38):
This is one of the reasons, Laura.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Would you look at this picture?
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Charlie took this.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
It's his business, Laura. That's the way his police record reads.
I can't believe it.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
That's one reason we want Friburg. There's lots of others.
Are you willing to help.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Us, Laura?
Speaker 11 (14:50):
He said they'd be beautiful glamours. They're not.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
You know where he stays now?
Speaker 7 (14:54):
No, I'll find out though.
Speaker 11 (14:56):
How do you mean I've got a date with him,
supposed to meet him out on Wilsha willsher and Yes
at eight o'clock tomorrow night.
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Speaker 6 (16:35):
November eighth, Wednesday, five thirty pm. After our interview with
seventeen year old Laura Osburn, policewoman during States, Aled and
I drove to the home of Laura's girlfriend, Dorothy Ryan,
who was also present at the motel parties given by
the suspect, Charles Friberg. Her story of what had happened
was essentially the same as the one we got from
the Osbourne girl.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
That night, we met with the.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Parents of both girls. They were well meaning, cooperative. They
admitted their mistake. It was the same old story of
lack of supervision.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
And very little home life. The parents told us that
they had.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
No idea of what had been going on or the late.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Hours that their teenage girls had been keeping.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Besides promising closer supervision of the girls, they told us
they would notify us immediately if the suspect Freiburg made
any attempt to contact their daughters. Six twenty five pm,
we got back to the office, put in the call
to Stephen Banner's home and notified his sister and brother
in law that the boy was being held for further interrogation.
We also notified the parents of Bud Spencer. The following morning,
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Ed and I went across the street to the District
Attorney's office, presented our case and a warrant was issued
on Charles Freiberg for seven oh two wic contributing to
the delinquency of a minor at seven o'clock that night,
Ed and I staked out on a cocktail lounge near
the intersection of Wilshire and Mobrea, the place where the
suspect had told Laura Osborne to meet him seven point
thirty seven forty five.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
We waited.
Speaker 10 (18:00):
Maybe we're in Business General right down the corner. They're
waiting with the signal to change doc suit doc hat
there could because no, we're now heading to the bar.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
All right, let's go for.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Mm no mistaken?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Hey, hello, hold it up on my way?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
How's that police officers? Your name Friburg?
Speaker 8 (18:22):
What?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
No, that's not my name. Is your identification? Please? Yes,
I've got my identification.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Why will we see it?
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Please?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Why?
Speaker 8 (18:30):
What do you want your identification before?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I haven't done anything.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Let's go, mister, talk about it downtown.
Speaker 12 (18:36):
We don't mean it just a minute. I don't want
any trouble. I'll I'll show you. Yeah, driver's license, rest
of my stuff, Charles Friberg. It's an old address in it. Yeah,
I haven't met time change it. Just got back in town.
What's the matter anyway?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Where you stay in Friburg? No place.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I just got back in town.
Speaker 12 (18:56):
I told you that I've stayed any place yet, no
connections that are Oh where's your car? I don't have one.
I've been one for a year, sold it. Look, how
about filling me in? What do you want with me?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Do you wanna step over here?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Friburg got away.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
All right, Just like to know what's going on then,
so I'd like to.
Speaker 10 (19:12):
See what you're carrying in your pockets? Take everything out
for his one pocket at a time.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
What is this a shakedown? Do you start with your
coat pockets?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
All right?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Okay, ah, now the other one okay?
Speaker 4 (19:31):
He said he don't have a car, fibird h of
course not ca ton you that? So what are you
doing with that parking ticket?
Speaker 6 (19:40):
We walked the suspect Frybird two blocks to the parking
lot listed on the cream check that he had in
his coat pocket. He had black hair streaked with gray.
Looked to be in his mid fifties. We questioned him
on the way, but he'd admit nothing. We located his
car in the parking lot and searched it in the
glove compartment. Besides a half a dozen photographs and small books,
we found a key with a metal disk attacks to it.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Stamped on the.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Disc with the words West Side Studios number twenty three.
Freiberg refused to identify the key. He refused to admit
a thing. We walked him back to our car, and
together the three of us headed out for the old
West Side Studios, just off Jefferson Boulevard. On the way,
we tried again to question the suspect, but we got nowhere.
He refused to answer even the simplest questions. One look
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at the West Side Studios and knew right away the
place had seen better days. It had been fairly prominent
in the early days of motion picture making, but all
it was left now was two square blocks of broken
down scenery, one dilapidated sound stage, and a row of
weather beaten cottages, the tar paper peeling off the roofs.
We got out of the car and started up the walk.
The faded sign over the main gate read west Side
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Studios founded nineteen twenty and down in one corner admissioned
by pass only. The guard shack at the gate was
boarded up.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
No sign of a night watchman. We kept walking.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
How come I don't keep a watchman at the gate? Fireburg.
Don't they make pictures anymore? And you bet they do?
Speaker 12 (21:05):
Places been going downhill for a long time. It's coming
back though.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Then you do know the place?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Is I right?
Speaker 12 (21:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I know it.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
I should know it. Put him in by that nothing
you rent an office?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Here?
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Is at it?
Speaker 12 (21:18):
Fiberg Yeah, that's right straight down the way there. Copies
twenty three.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Brought your job? You doing some kind of movie work? Yeah,
I've been for thirty years. More than thirty years.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
It's still you an actor, Friburg.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Haven't you ever heard the name? I'm a producer?
Speaker 10 (21:32):
Oh, I see, why'd you tell us that to start with?
Speaker 12 (21:35):
I wanted to know different reasons. I don't like to
throw my weight around. I have a lot of connections
in Hollywood, you know, that's all the trade. Thirty years.
I was one of the first. You can make a
lot of friends in thirty years.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 10 (21:48):
So how about those books we fo out in your car,
those pictures, I explain them.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
This studio will.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
Be back in the street in the year.
Speaker 12 (21:53):
I've bet a thousand dollars on it. This whole block
here sound stages. I get the plans for him in
my desk.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
And so do you have an interest in this lot?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Not?
Speaker 12 (22:01):
Jack Lee, not right now? Anyway, I did have an
interest though I will again. I was one of the
original owners.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
You know, still haven't got an explanation.
Speaker 12 (22:10):
How about the books and pictures.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
We found in your car?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Oh that nothing to explain. He's there, just a t gimmes.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
I picked up.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
You know what, boy was the name of Stephen Banner?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Banner?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Why how about Bud Spencer? You know him?
Speaker 8 (22:23):
No?
Speaker 12 (22:24):
Uh, I knew what George Spencer wants.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Actor.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I was back in the old days. So how about
Lord Osbone, Dorothy Ryan? You know them?
Speaker 12 (22:32):
No, it's pretty hard to say, you know, sergeant over
the years in this business, especial when.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
You meet an awful lot of people. Well these are
fairly recent. You ought to remember 'em. They're just kids,
seventeen year old, No afraid.
Speaker 12 (22:43):
I don't recall the names. Down stage Bell we got
a company over. They're doing some shooting tonight television films.
They make 'em too fast. Trade's not like it used
to be quality. That's what way you went after. It's gone.
Now it's all gone.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
West Side will do.
Speaker 12 (23:00):
It again, though, you can bet on that we're coming back.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Look, how about leveling Friburg. You know why we picked
you up, you know, while we're out here. It just did.
I don't know why.
Speaker 12 (23:09):
Oh say, look across the road that's set over there,
the old greenhouse there, colonial mansion, Weather's fainted. The colors
a little typical old Southern mistake. Now you know, we
shot some beautiful footage there. Pictures are classic in its
own right. Maybe you remember it Moonlight Magnolia's they changed
the title Leader Loved and the Moonlight beautiful thing.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
You ever see it? No, I don't think so.
Speaker 12 (23:32):
And I couldn't tell you how many beauties we turned
out that year. I was a young fellow. Then Song
and Strife, Moonlight Magnolia's Little Orphan Girl, Sweetheart of the Campus.
Speaker 10 (23:42):
At your cottage A mister Froberg, what's that just down
away there, number twenty three?
Speaker 12 (23:47):
Oh yeah, we forgot about it. I hope you'll excuse
the way it looks. I have been able to find
a good accommodations in the town. I've been staying at
the office. We have a little couch there I sleep
on that. We have a hot plate too, good enough
to boil the coffee in the morning.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
How come you couldn't find space in town? The hotels
at that rush.
Speaker 12 (24:06):
Are the h the one time used to staying out, guys,
I just soon camp here at the studios and stay
at one of those places downtown. Say, uh, wouldn't you
like to see the rest of the lot. Pretty interesting
if you've never seen a real movie lot, I mean
a high classman.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
We've seen them, mister Friberg. We'd like to check your vest.
Speaker 12 (24:22):
Oh alright, this is it hottysneyed a good coat of paint.
Of course, it'll all be done pretty soon. West Side
is gonna come back strong.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
You can bet on that. Uh, I guess so?
Speaker 12 (24:34):
Oh watch it on that first step.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
There, so loose, have to call maintenance. We get that fixed. Yeah,
it's sorry.
Speaker 12 (24:45):
Ah, here we are. Well, you can see the opposite
and very much. But if you want a gentlemen, you
wanna check that camera there.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
I don't take a look at these cases over there.
Speaker 12 (25:02):
Okay, this picture here on the wall, that's the cash
and the production staff of my first film. Here's the
other one, me and Harsy Bernard. He autographed the picture
for me, Bernard himself. Those were the days, alright. Quality,
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that's what we went after in the pictures, real quality,
not like to day. Gone. The good days, fine pictures
to gone, oh gone?
Speaker 6 (25:43):
How about it Freiburg, These cases of books here in
these photographs.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Not my fault. Believe me.
Speaker 12 (25:48):
I had to make a living. I had to make money.
How do you think it feels to get cheap like that?
I used to be young, I was big, I was talent.
I made big pictures. How do you think it feels
to get cheap all of a sudden, cheap enough to
do this kind of thing?
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Nobody forced It was your choice, mister.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
It wasn't my choice.
Speaker 12 (26:07):
If you're wrong, all I wanna do is make pictures.
There wasn't a change anymore, not like the old days.
You need hundreds of thousands, millions. It's gone, it's all gone.
Had to eat, had to put clothes on my back.
Speaker 10 (26:25):
You admit you're responsible for this, books, pictures. Working in
the high school trade kids like Steve Banner, Bud Spencer.
Speaker 12 (26:31):
After nineteen thirty five, I couldn't get a job. I
didn't want this. I had to do it. I'm ashamed.
Who wouldn't be.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
I had to eat. It was the only way I
had to live. There's honest jobs to be here.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
How about this man named Jack?
Speaker 12 (26:47):
He was in with me. He was my cameraman back
in the old days. You can't blame him either. He
had to live too.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
If you will even come downtown with us, give us
a statement.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Yes, all, all right?
Speaker 12 (26:58):
Anything?
Speaker 4 (26:59):
How about the part he's the two girls, Laura Osborne,
Dorothy Ryan.
Speaker 12 (27:02):
I took some pictures at youall. I didn't harm them
nothing anyway.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
He had a round Freiburg.
Speaker 8 (27:08):
You know that.
Speaker 12 (27:08):
Yeah, I know. But just to have the kids there,
it made you remember the days in your life, best
days in anybody's life, that's all.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
When he used to have money, when he used to
be young.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
The story you have just heard was true. The names
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Speaker 13 (27:38):
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Speaker 6 (02:07):
It was Wednesday, November eighth, was windy in Los Angeles.
We're working the day watch out of Juvenile Division. My
partner's at Jacob's. The boss's Captain Stein. My name's Friday
was eleven o five am when we got to the
basement floor of Grohman High School, the locker room.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Which way, Steve, want to show us? Which locker's yours?
Speaker 7 (02:26):
You still haven't told me what this is all about?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Routine check son.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
Yeah, but why do you have to pick on me?
Why do you have to see my locker?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
We're not picking on you, Steve.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Now, how about it?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Which locker's yours?
Speaker 8 (02:35):
Right here?
Speaker 7 (02:36):
This is mine?
Speaker 9 (02:37):
Three eighteen. Here's the key. No, you open it, Steve,
just a couple of personal.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Things of mine.
Speaker 8 (02:43):
That's all all right, I'll open it. Well, there you.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
Are see for yourself.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Go and take your things out of the locker sun.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
You can see what's in there, can't you? My Jim,
a couple of textbooks?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
How about digging back in the carner and left hand
side there? Well?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Or I mean, come on, Steve, dig him out back here?
Speaker 7 (03:07):
You mean these joke books?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
That's right, have a lot then?
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Why just a couple of joke books? A kid gave
him to me?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Bring him out of Steve.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
Okay, just a couple of 'em.
Speaker 8 (03:18):
Kid came to me.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
There looks like more in a couple them.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
That's what you call a joke book, Steve.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
That's what the kids call him. Yeah, some of them
are a.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
Little dirty, not so bad though.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
They're felthy Steve. And you don't know what you get him?
Speaker 7 (03:31):
I told you kid gave him to me.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Ooh, what's his name?
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Some kid around school I don't remember right.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Now, gave you these books for nothing.
Speaker 8 (03:38):
Sure, I had a couple he wanted. We trade it off.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
A lot of the kids have him. I trade him around.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
That stack you got did look pretty new. Couldn't have
been passed around much?
Speaker 7 (03:46):
Maybe not, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Matter of fact, they look brand new, don't think, don't
even look like they've been open.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
Yet, how come you're rousing me on this thing? What
about the other kids?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
They got them too, they're buying them, Steve, they're not
selling them.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
I'm not selling them. Anybody says that's a liar.
Speaker 10 (03:57):
No good, son. We talked to fellas here at the
high school. Some kids are over the junior high school too.
They all say you're the one who's selling them.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
They're liars, both the fellows in high school the kids
down the street in junior high.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
And they say, you've been selling this stuff for months.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Now about it.
Speaker 9 (04:10):
They're lying, that's all. I don't know what they're talking about.
Speaker 10 (04:14):
You've been selling these thirty five cents a piece, three
for a dollar last couple of weeks. You've been peddling
pictures to a dollar piece. You got any of them
in your locker?
Speaker 8 (04:20):
Speat a couple, I got them off?
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Another kid?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
What other kid?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
What's his name? What's his name?
Speaker 7 (04:28):
Some kids? I don't remember.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
It's not much of an answer, son, What.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Do you want from me?
Speaker 8 (04:32):
Anyway?
Speaker 7 (04:33):
I told you I'm not selling the books. I don't
care what those other groups say. It's my word against theirs.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Now, maybe you ought to get this straight. Son.
Speaker 10 (04:39):
We're not out to get you your way down the line.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
We want the.
Speaker 10 (04:42):
People at the top, the men who print this junk,
the wholesaleer's, the big distributors.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
So why ask me? I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Nothing you don't want to cooperate is anything?
Speaker 7 (04:49):
What am I supposed to cooperate about. I'm not mixed
up in anything.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
We think you are a son, We know you are.
Who are you selling this for? What do you get
your supply?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (04:58):
You see this?
Speaker 7 (04:58):
What's in my locker?
Speaker 8 (05:00):
Well?
Speaker 7 (05:00):
I don't have any supply. You got to go far
to prove I have.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Not very far. Stee, what from about here to your home?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Eleven thirty eight am, after picking up his supply of
obscene books and photographs to be booked later as evidence
ed and I drove the subject, Stephen Banner, to his home,
approximately a mile from the high school. His apprehension and
our theory that he probably kept the bulk of his
supply of books and pictures at or near his home,
was no accident.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
For weeks, we've.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Known that a steady stream of pornography was being fed
into a half a dozen high schools and junior high schools,
throughout the city, books, photographs, pictures, and pamphlets of the
worst kind. Because of embarrassment, I'm a part of the
curious teenage kids who bought this stuff. It wasn't easy
to pick up a solid lead. After weeks of observation
and questioning, we finally narrowed down the principal source of
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supply to a single teenage boy, Stephen Banner.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Even then, we knew he.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Must be only one of one hundred small time distributors
working for the persons directly rest responsible for manufacturing this
sort of thing. Our only hope was that he'd be
willing and able to supply us with the names of
the person's responsible. When we got to Stephen Banner's home,
where he lived with his sister and brother in law,
we started to thoroughly, but.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
We found nothing.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Both his sister and brother in law were at work.
We went back and started checking through the garage at
the rear.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Of the house.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Joe back a natonic.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah, I have a look, Steve.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Want to tell us about this? Yeah, these books here,
these pictures case foot on him.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Yeah, well about it, son, Your sister and brother in
law know about.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
This, No, they don't know anything. I didn't think you'd
find him.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Are you ready to tell us about it?
Speaker 7 (06:47):
My sister gonna have to find out.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I don't know. Steve's gonna be pretty hard to keep
it from him.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
So there's a contact son. Where'd they come from?
Speaker 7 (06:54):
Charlie, Charlie Freiberg only the books, though pictures came from
another guy.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It's a long story. We got the time son, who
is this? Freburg?
Speaker 9 (07:03):
Met him downtown one Sunday Penny Arkide on Broadway.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Me and this other kid were in there. Bud Spencer.
Freburg came up, started to.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Talk to us.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
All right, go on.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
He finally took a couple of these books out of his.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
Pocket, came to us.
Speaker 9 (07:16):
He wanted to know what we thought of him, told
us he had plenty of him if we knew any
other kids who wanted him.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
He knew you and your friend Bud were in high school.
Speaker 8 (07:23):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
What else, Steve, Well, that's about it, he asked me.
And but if we wanted to sell.
Speaker 10 (07:28):
For him around school, his friend of yours, Bud Spencer,
he's selling him too.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
Yeah, he goes to a different school. Though both of
us did pretty good with the book so real fast.
The pictures were even better.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
So you say you didn't get the pictures from Freiburg.
There was somebody else.
Speaker 9 (07:43):
Man by the name of Jack, I don't know his
last name. Freberg put us onto him, gave us.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
An introduction, set up the deal.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
We got the pictures for seventy five cents. Most of
the time they get us a dollar dollar and a
half apiece. But I did pretty good.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Do you know any other fellows working for this Friburg?
Speaker 7 (07:59):
Steve and the kids in school and no just butting me,
that's all I know. It wouldn't be so bad if
it was just the books. A lousy Charlie.
Speaker 9 (08:08):
He had to go and promote the party routine, get everybody.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Mixed up in that.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
How do you mean, what's it all about, Charlie.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
He stays at this place out on Sepalvita.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
It's a motel. That's where we always contacted him.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Yeah, after a couple of weeks when we got to
know him, he asked me and but out to this place,
said he was going to throw a party, told us
to bring our girlfriends along. Turned out we were the
only ones at the party, Me and Bud and the
girls and Charlie Freibur party lasted pretty late. I should
have been smart enough to figure it out, and I wasn't.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Well, you mean, Steve, figure out?
Speaker 9 (08:38):
What why Charlie be throwing parties just for us? The
first two times there wasn't anything wrong. We just talk,
danced with the girls, drank some beer. Charlie told us
to have a good time. He threw a party every
Friday night ever, broke up the latter three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
How old are your girlfriends? Joys and Buds?
Speaker 9 (08:54):
Seventeen? And they were both seventeen. They've been around though,
now you just kidding? They weren't very smart. I can
tell you that none of us were. I guess. Next
couple of parties, Charlie had whiskey there. Dumb girls drank
right along with him.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
So did we tiebreak served the whiskey? Did he?
Speaker 7 (09:08):
Yeah, that's right. He loaded the drinks, kept handing the
girls a lot of stuff about how he used to
be a director in pictures.
Speaker 9 (09:14):
He had a lot of connections in Hollywood. The last
party I was at, he said he was going to
get the girl's screen test.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
A lot of malachy like that.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
What else, Steve, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I had a beef with.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
Charlie about it, and I walked out.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
I haven't been back since.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
He still throw these Friday night parties.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
You know, maybe I don't know number three or four
after the last one I walked out on. Dumb girls
think Charlie's just great. God, So I can't stand the guy.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
How about the parties he didn't show up for, Steve,
you get a run down him.
Speaker 9 (09:42):
I heard a couple of things. You know, sure, glad,
I wasn't there. How do you mean dumb girls never fails,
the oldest line in the world. They still go for it.
What's that tell him? You're going to get him in
the movies?
Speaker 6 (09:58):
We continued questioning this subject seventeen year old Stephen Banner.
He gave us a full description of the man who'd
been selling him the books, Charles Freiberg, and also a
description of the man known as Jack, the one who
had been supplying him with pictures and photographs. In addition,
he gave us the addresses of the two men, a
fair description of Freiberg's car no license number, and the
names and addresses of the two girls he and his
(10:20):
friend had taken.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
To Freiburg's parties. One twenty pm.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
ED and I took the case of obscene books from
the garage loaded in the backseat of our car, and
Stephen Banner directed us to the high school attended by
his friend Bud Spencer. We picked up the Spencer boy
and drove him and Banner downtown to Georgia Street Juvenile,
where we booked him in on seven hundred B Welfare
and Institution Code lack of supervision. We drove to the
(10:44):
motel out on Supulsita, but the suspect, Charles Freiberg, had
moved out five days before. No forwarding address. It wasn't
a dead end though. From his motel registration card we
got the description and license number of his car. On
the way into the office, we checked out the ad
dress of his confederate, the man known as Jack. He'd
moved the same day as Freyburg.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
No forwarding address.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Back at the office, DMV got to make on the
license number for us the car registered in Freiburg's name
two thirty nine West ninety second Street. We went down
to R and I and pulled the package on the
suspect three forty pm.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Last address on was three years old. How does his
record read?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Well? He's been in the business before.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
A couple of bag charges, three to eleven charge to
possession obscene literature.
Speaker 10 (11:31):
Served eight months and kyie jail mug shot there. Yeah yeah,
m h close enough the way the.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Boy described him, I'd say, so there's mo two huh,
same pitch the last time. They got him working in
the high school trade and passed himself off as a
studio man movie director.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
How about the other man, Jack? You get anything there that?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Yah?
Speaker 6 (11:51):
I gave the information on him to the stats ibice.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
They're gonna make a run for us.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Well, I guess we better check on the kid's girlfriends
huh and get their story.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah, I suppose sure gets me jofe.
Speaker 10 (12:02):
What's that very young girls like the hou at motel
parties with three am drinking?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, seventeen year olds? No reason for it, no reason.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
At all, I think a one that might do uh
their parents. We checked out the suspect's address, furnished this
by DMV and also the information from the R and
I package.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
They went nowhere.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
We had a second interview with Stephen Banner and his
friend Bud Spencer. We showed them Friburg's mugshot and.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Both of them identified it.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
We got out a broadcast.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
And an apb on 'em four to twelve pm.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Together with Policewoman Doreen statesl Ed and I drove out
to interview the two.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Teenage girls involved, the Dorothy Ryan and a Laura Osburn.
We stopped at the home of the Osbourne girl first,
but she wasn't there, and neither were her parents. An
older sister told us that both the mother and father
were working and that Laura was at a neighborhood school
for models taking her weekly lesson. We checked at the
modeling school, a converted second floor social hall, where we
finally located the girl, a tall brunette, dark eyes, fair complexion.
(13:02):
The heavy makeup didn't.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Do much to hide her age.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
While a modeling lesson went on, policewomen State till ed
and I talked to the girl off in one corner
of the hall.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Your friend Steve Banner, he took you to those parties
at mister Friburg's place.
Speaker 11 (13:15):
Oh, that's right, very nice man. It was always nice
to Dorothy and me. Dorothy Ryan, she came to the
parties with Bud. He's a friend of Steve Banners.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Mmm, you have no complaint to make about this, mister Friburg.
He never caused the trouble of any kind.
Speaker 11 (13:28):
Charlie Will knew, as I told you before. That business
about Steve getting mad just because Charlie told us he'd
get us in the movies. What was silly, That's all
plain silly. Charlie was just helping us. How do you meanwhy, Well,
he's in Hollywood, you know, Charlie Freiberg. He has lots
of connections. He just wanted to help us get some
good modeling jobs. That's why I took our pictures.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
There was nothing wrong.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
You continued going to.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
These party nut parties without the two boys, is that right?
Speaker 11 (13:51):
Yes, Dorothy and me? It wasn't anything wrong with it.
I mean Charlie as well as they did by that time,
two bathings with pictures.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
That's all.
Speaker 11 (13:58):
There was nothing wrong in that's of any of those pictures,
either you or Dorothy radd No, but Charlie's gonna get
us some he promised he would.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
You know where he is now?
Speaker 11 (14:06):
No, we moved have any idea where he is.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
When's the last time you saw Friburg?
Speaker 11 (14:10):
Miss about ten days two weeks ago?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
What's this all about?
Speaker 7 (14:14):
Offs are you looking for Charlie.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
How does he usually contact you, Laura? By phone?
Speaker 11 (14:19):
Yeah, he usually calls.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Has he called you lately?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Why are you looking for him?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Can't you tell me routine investigation?
Speaker 8 (14:29):
Miss?
Speaker 11 (14:31):
I'm sorry, I don't know where Charlie is. Why can't
you tell me where you want him?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
We want him?
Speaker 11 (14:36):
Why can't you give me your reason?
Speaker 7 (14:38):
This is one of the reasons, Laura.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Would you look at this picture?
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Charlie took this.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
It's his business, Laura. That's the way his police record reads.
I can't believe it.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
That's one reason we want Friburg. There's lots of others.
Are you willing to help.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Us, Laura?
Speaker 11 (14:50):
He said they'd be beautiful glamours. They're not.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
You know where he stays now?
Speaker 7 (14:54):
No, I'll find out though.
Speaker 11 (14:56):
How do you mean I've got a date with him,
supposed to meet him out on Wilsha willsher and Yes
at eight o'clock tomorrow night.
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Speaker 6 (16:35):
November eighth, Wednesday, five thirty pm. After our interview with
seventeen year old Laura Osburn, policewoman during States, Aled and
I drove to the home of Laura's girlfriend, Dorothy Ryan,
who was also present at the motel parties given by
the suspect, Charles Friberg. Her story of what had happened
was essentially the same as the one we got from
the Osbourne girl.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
That night, we met with the.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Parents of both girls. They were well meaning, cooperative. They
admitted their mistake. It was the same old story of
lack of supervision.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
And very little home life. The parents told us that
they had.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
No idea of what had been going on or the late.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Hours that their teenage girls had been keeping.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Besides promising closer supervision of the girls, they told us
they would notify us immediately if the suspect Freiburg made
any attempt to contact their daughters. Six twenty five pm,
we got back to the office, put in the call
to Stephen Banner's home and notified his sister and brother
in law that the boy was being held for further interrogation.
We also notified the parents of Bud Spencer. The following morning,
(17:34):
Ed and I went across the street to the District
Attorney's office, presented our case and a warrant was issued
on Charles Freiberg for seven oh two wic contributing to
the delinquency of a minor at seven o'clock that night,
Ed and I staked out on a cocktail lounge near
the intersection of Wilshire and Mobrea, the place where the
suspect had told Laura Osborne to meet him seven point
thirty seven forty five.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
We waited.
Speaker 10 (18:00):
Maybe we're in Business General right down the corner. They're
waiting with the signal to change doc suit doc hat
there could because no, we're now heading to the bar.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
All right, let's go for.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Mm no mistaken?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Hey, hello, hold it up on my way?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
How's that police officers? Your name Friburg?
Speaker 8 (18:22):
What?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
No, that's not my name. Is your identification? Please? Yes,
I've got my identification.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Why will we see it?
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Please?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Why?
Speaker 8 (18:30):
What do you want your identification before?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I haven't done anything.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Let's go, mister, talk about it downtown.
Speaker 12 (18:36):
We don't mean it just a minute. I don't want
any trouble. I'll I'll show you. Yeah, driver's license, rest
of my stuff, Charles Friberg. It's an old address in it. Yeah,
I haven't met time change it. Just got back in town.
What's the matter anyway?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Where you stay in Friburg? No place.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I just got back in town.
Speaker 12 (18:56):
I told you that I've stayed any place yet, no
connections that are Oh where's your car? I don't have one.
I've been one for a year, sold it. Look, how
about filling me in? What do you want with me?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Do you wanna step over here?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Friburg got away.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
All right, Just like to know what's going on then,
so I'd like to.
Speaker 10 (19:12):
See what you're carrying in your pockets? Take everything out
for his one pocket at a time.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
What is this a shakedown? Do you start with your
coat pockets?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
All right?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Okay, ah, now the other one okay?
Speaker 4 (19:31):
He said he don't have a car, fibird h of
course not ca ton you that? So what are you
doing with that parking ticket?
Speaker 6 (19:40):
We walked the suspect Frybird two blocks to the parking
lot listed on the cream check that he had in
his coat pocket. He had black hair streaked with gray.
Looked to be in his mid fifties. We questioned him
on the way, but he'd admit nothing. We located his
car in the parking lot and searched it in the
glove compartment. Besides a half a dozen photographs and small books,
we found a key with a metal disk attacks to it.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Stamped on the.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Disc with the words West Side Studios number twenty three.
Freiberg refused to identify the key. He refused to admit
a thing. We walked him back to our car, and
together the three of us headed out for the old
West Side Studios, just off Jefferson Boulevard. On the way,
we tried again to question the suspect, but we got nowhere.
He refused to answer even the simplest questions. One look
(20:25):
at the West Side Studios and knew right away the
place had seen better days. It had been fairly prominent
in the early days of motion picture making, but all
it was left now was two square blocks of broken
down scenery, one dilapidated sound stage, and a row of
weather beaten cottages, the tar paper peeling off the roofs.
We got out of the car and started up the walk.
The faded sign over the main gate read west Side
(20:46):
Studios founded nineteen twenty and down in one corner admissioned
by pass only. The guard shack at the gate was
boarded up.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
No sign of a night watchman. We kept walking.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
How come I don't keep a watchman at the gate? Fireburg.
Don't they make pictures anymore? And you bet they do?
Speaker 12 (21:05):
Places been going downhill for a long time. It's coming
back though.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Then you do know the place?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Is I right?
Speaker 12 (21:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I know it.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
I should know it. Put him in by that nothing
you rent an office?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Here?
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Is at it?
Speaker 12 (21:18):
Fiberg Yeah, that's right straight down the way there. Copies
twenty three.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Brought your job? You doing some kind of movie work? Yeah,
I've been for thirty years. More than thirty years.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
It's still you an actor, Friburg.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Haven't you ever heard the name? I'm a producer?
Speaker 10 (21:32):
Oh, I see, why'd you tell us that to start with?
Speaker 12 (21:35):
I wanted to know different reasons. I don't like to
throw my weight around. I have a lot of connections
in Hollywood, you know, that's all the trade. Thirty years.
I was one of the first. You can make a
lot of friends in thirty years.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 10 (21:48):
So how about those books we fo out in your car,
those pictures, I explain them.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
This studio will.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
Be back in the street in the year.
Speaker 12 (21:53):
I've bet a thousand dollars on it. This whole block
here sound stages. I get the plans for him in
my desk.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
And so do you have an interest in this lot?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Not?
Speaker 12 (22:01):
Jack Lee, not right now? Anyway, I did have an
interest though I will again. I was one of the
original owners.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
You know, still haven't got an explanation.
Speaker 12 (22:10):
How about the books and pictures.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
We found in your car?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Oh that nothing to explain. He's there, just a t gimmes.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
I picked up.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
You know what, boy was the name of Stephen Banner?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Banner?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Why how about Bud Spencer? You know him?
Speaker 8 (22:23):
No?
Speaker 12 (22:24):
Uh, I knew what George Spencer wants.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Actor.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I was back in the old days. So how about
Lord Osbone, Dorothy Ryan? You know them?
Speaker 12 (22:32):
No, it's pretty hard to say, you know, sergeant over
the years in this business, especial when.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
You meet an awful lot of people. Well these are
fairly recent. You ought to remember 'em. They're just kids,
seventeen year old, No afraid.
Speaker 12 (22:43):
I don't recall the names. Down stage Bell we got
a company over. They're doing some shooting tonight television films.
They make 'em too fast. Trade's not like it used
to be quality. That's what way you went after. It's gone.
Now it's all gone.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
West Side will do.
Speaker 12 (23:00):
It again, though, you can bet on that we're coming back.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Look, how about leveling Friburg. You know why we picked
you up, you know, while we're out here. It just did.
I don't know why.
Speaker 12 (23:09):
Oh say, look across the road that's set over there,
the old greenhouse there, colonial mansion, Weather's fainted. The colors
a little typical old Southern mistake. Now you know, we
shot some beautiful footage there. Pictures are classic in its
own right. Maybe you remember it Moonlight Magnolia's they changed
the title Leader Loved and the Moonlight beautiful thing.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
You ever see it? No, I don't think so.
Speaker 12 (23:32):
And I couldn't tell you how many beauties we turned
out that year. I was a young fellow. Then Song
and Strife, Moonlight Magnolia's Little Orphan Girl, Sweetheart of the Campus.
Speaker 10 (23:42):
At your cottage A mister Froberg, what's that just down
away there, number twenty three?
Speaker 12 (23:47):
Oh yeah, we forgot about it. I hope you'll excuse
the way it looks. I have been able to find
a good accommodations in the town. I've been staying at
the office. We have a little couch there I sleep
on that. We have a hot plate too, good enough
to boil the coffee in the morning.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
How come you couldn't find space in town? The hotels
at that rush.
Speaker 12 (24:06):
Are the h the one time used to staying out, guys,
I just soon camp here at the studios and stay
at one of those places downtown. Say, uh, wouldn't you
like to see the rest of the lot. Pretty interesting
if you've never seen a real movie lot, I mean
a high classman.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
We've seen them, mister Friberg. We'd like to check your vest.
Speaker 12 (24:22):
Oh alright, this is it hottysneyed a good coat of paint.
Of course, it'll all be done pretty soon. West Side
is gonna come back strong.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
You can bet on that. Uh, I guess so?
Speaker 12 (24:34):
Oh watch it on that first step.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
There, so loose, have to call maintenance. We get that fixed. Yeah,
it's sorry.
Speaker 12 (24:45):
Ah, here we are. Well, you can see the opposite
and very much. But if you want a gentlemen, you
wanna check that camera there.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
I don't take a look at these cases over there.
Speaker 12 (25:02):
Okay, this picture here on the wall, that's the cash
and the production staff of my first film. Here's the
other one, me and Harsy Bernard. He autographed the picture
for me, Bernard himself. Those were the days, alright. Quality,
(25:26):
that's what we went after in the pictures, real quality,
not like to day. Gone. The good days, fine pictures
to gone, oh gone?
Speaker 6 (25:43):
How about it Freiburg, These cases of books here in
these photographs.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Not my fault. Believe me.
Speaker 12 (25:48):
I had to make a living. I had to make money.
How do you think it feels to get cheap like that?
I used to be young, I was big, I was talent.
I made big pictures. How do you think it feels
to get cheap all of a sudden, cheap enough to
do this kind of thing?
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Nobody forced It was your choice, mister.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
It wasn't my choice.
Speaker 12 (26:07):
If you're wrong, all I wanna do is make pictures.
There wasn't a change anymore, not like the old days.
You need hundreds of thousands, millions. It's gone, it's all gone.
Had to eat, had to put clothes on my back.
Speaker 10 (26:25):
You admit you're responsible for this, books, pictures. Working in
the high school trade kids like Steve Banner, Bud Spencer.
Speaker 12 (26:31):
After nineteen thirty five, I couldn't get a job. I
didn't want this. I had to do it. I'm ashamed.
Who wouldn't be.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
I had to eat. It was the only way I
had to live. There's honest jobs to be here.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
How about this man named Jack?
Speaker 12 (26:47):
He was in with me. He was my cameraman back
in the old days. You can't blame him either. He
had to live too.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
If you will even come downtown with us, give us
a statement.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Yes, all, all right?
Speaker 12 (26:58):
Anything?
Speaker 4 (26:59):
How about the part he's the two girls, Laura Osborne,
Dorothy Ryan.
Speaker 12 (27:02):
I took some pictures at youall. I didn't harm them
nothing anyway.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
He had a round Freiburg.
Speaker 8 (27:08):
You know that.
Speaker 12 (27:08):
Yeah, I know. But just to have the kids there,
it made you remember the days in your life, best
days in anybody's life, that's all.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
When he used to have money, when he used to
be young.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
The story you have just heard was true. The names
were changed to protect the innocent. On January twenty ninth,
trial was held.
Speaker 13 (27:38):
In Superior Court, Department eighty seven, City and County of
Los Angeles, State of California.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
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Speaker 6 (27:44):
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