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Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
you will travel step by step on the side of
the laws to an actual case. Transcribe from official police bidence,
from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnett is
the story of your police force and action.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
It was Wednesday, September eighth. It was cold in Los Angeles.
We were working the day watch out of homicide detail.
My partner's Frank Smith. The boss's Captain Mormon. My name
is Friday. I was on my way back to the
office from R and I and it was ten fourteen
am when I got to him. Forty two homicide. Pardon me, sir, Yes, sir,
are you a policeman?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yes, that's right. What can I do for you? I
want to talk to somebody. I'm not sure who though.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
If you tell me what it's all about, I'm I'll
be able to help you.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Well, I got to be sure it's the right person.
You can understand, that, can'tcher. Yes, sir, my name's Paul Marcus.
All right, mister Marcus, what does you want to talk about?
Do you work in there in the homicide department. That's right,
you know all about murder center. Do you want to
come into the office and talk No, no, I don't
want to go in there. Is there someplace else we
can go. I'd like to talk to you alone. This
is kind of a personal thing.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
All right, sir, Come on down the hall interrogation.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Nobody else there. No, that's good because, like I told you,
this is a personal matter. I need your advice. All right,
So this way, this is the first time I've ever
been in the police department. Feel kind of funny just
walking in and talking personal things to a stranger.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yes, right, and understand. Go ahead, we'll sit down right there.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Thank you. All right, you and tell me about it.
Do you mind closing the door?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
All right? Right now?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
What's your problem, mister Marcus? I told you it was personal, Yes,
I know. I want to be sure I handled it right.
I could get in a lot of trouble if I
didn't been trying to figure out what to do about
it for a week now. I couldn't find the right answer.
That's why I came here. You guys should know all.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Right now, if you'll just tell me what's bothering you,
we might be able to do something for you.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Huh. A whole week and no answer. I sure hope
you got it for me.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I'm sorry, mister Marcus, but if you don't tell me
what this is all about, there's nothing we can do.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
It's nothing big, just a personal problem. I just want
to know how to handle it. All right, go ahead,
I killed a woman.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Ten eighteen am. We got the name of the woman
Paul Marcus said that he'd murdered. We also obtained a
description of the victim, and Frank went down the hall
to missing persons to see if a report had been
filed on her.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I waited with the suspect. It's a personal problem. You
know how to handle it, and I wasn't sure. That's
why I came to you.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
All right.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Where did you meet this Lorraine Farrell? San Francisco?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
How long ago? A couple of weeks. I just knew
her a little while before it happened, just a couple
of weeks. Fisherman's Wharf. What's a fisherman's wharf? That's where
I met her in San Francisco. I was on a
vacation two weeks with pay and I went to San
Francisco Fisherman's Wharf.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
That's where I met Lorraine. All right, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Well I was down. I was sitting on the dock,
looking at the boats, just sitting there eating prawns. You
know how they cook him in those great big pots,
you know. Well, I was just sitting there eating prawns,
and I met her the word'd you kill her? Look,
you got to let me tell this in my own way,
or I'm not going to tell you at all. It's
got to be right, so you'll understand now. If you
don't get it right, the whole thing's gone wrong. You see,
it's a real personal thing, all right, So go ahead. Well,
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I was just sitting there eating prawns, eating them and
throwing the little tail pieces down the water, you know
how you do, watching them kind of float around kind of.
All of a sudden, she was right there, sitting just
alongside of me.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Do you ever see her before? I never laid eyes
on her till then.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
All right, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
We both sat there for a minute.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Then we started to talk, just little things like nice
weather and how long you've been in San Francisco, things
like that, You know.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
How you do? How old you say?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
The feral woman was nineteen turned nineteen, the fifth of August.
All right, she was born there, you know, in San Francisco.
She told me about it when we were talking, how
she was born there and grew up there. Told me
all about the schools she went to, how she used
to play on Strawberry Island and Stow Lake.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You ever been there? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
See, it's kind of a beautiful place.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
They got those rowboats and you paddle around the lake,
and right in the middle of this island, Strawberry Island,
there's all those swans that swim around. You can feed them,
real beautiful Strawberry Island. Tell me something, Marcus. You've ever
been in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
You ever had any metal care? Been under the supervision
of the characters? Maybe you think I'm crazy, don't you.
I want to just ask you a question. Oh I'm not.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I never been to a doctor. I'm telling you the truth.
You'll see you want to go ahead. I guess you
get a lot of crackpots in here telling you all
kinds of funny stories.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
The doors are wide open all night. I guess you
get a lot of them. But I'm not a crackpot.
I'm telling you the truth. I did kill her, but
it's important. You know why I did it. I got
to tell you the right way. If I don't, none
of it's going to be any good. When you killer
September one, that's the day we left. September first. That'd
be a week ago to day. Huh yeah, September first, Joe,
Now seem just a minute, Marcus, what do you got Well?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I checked missing persons, you know, I got a report
on the girl's same name description matches once she.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Disappeared September first. It fits in with what he told us. Yeah,
but there's something that doesn't.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
What's that she's sixteen years old.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Each year, there are hundreds of citizens who walk into
the nearest police station and confess to some sort of crime.
Some have actually happened, have occurred only in the mind
of the person confessing, No matter how wild the confession,
how implausible the details of the crime, Each report has
to be checked out to doctors. Such cases are clinical,
but to the working detective that the cause of a
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lot of leg work and a great deal of checking.
They cost the taxpayer untold man hours in investigating time,
and many times result in nothing. Because of his attitude
and his reluctance to give us the complete story. All
at once, it appeared that Paul Marcus might be one
of these people. The fact that he named a girl
who was missing meant little, since it was possible for
him to have read the story in a newspaper. The
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only way we had of being sure was to continue
the interrogation ten thirty four am.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
She told me she wanted to get away from home.
That's what she told me. How it was rough for
there and she wanted to get away.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
That's when you said you'd bring her down here.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Is it right?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Oh? No, I didn't even suggest that the whole thing
was her idea. She brought it at Yes. You see,
after that first day on Fisherman's Wharf, I saw her
several times. Almost every day. We'd meet someplace and talk.
Where would you meet her? Most sometimes in one of
the hotel bars. Once we met out of the Steinhart Aquarium,
we met on the road Tunda there you know where
they have the big pool and all the alligators swimming around.
You know where, Well, we met there once and we
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walked over to the place where they have the band concerts,
right across the way where the band plays, Only they
weren't there that day. Wasn't anybody there, just Lorrain and me.
We sat on the benches and talked. That's when she
said she wanted to go with me to Los Angeles. Huh, yeah,
that's where it was going. She wanted me to take her.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
She came right out naskin sure.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Told me how it was hard for a home, and
she wanted to get away. She told me she had
friends here, said she could stay with them until she
got things straightened out, you know, get a job and
a place of her own. When she was going to
do that, get a place of her own, in a job,
and then she'd.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Be all right.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
You ever meet her parents? No, I never went to
the house. She told me where it was though, someplace
out by the Twin Peaks Tunnel. I didn't know where exactly.
She didn't want me to go out there, said it'll
only cause her more trouble. That's why I meet her
in town. You ever meet any of her friends up
in San Francisco?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Just once. We were in a drug store on Market
Street having a sandwich. We were just sitting there and
she was telling me how it was bad for a home,
and a girl came in, looked like she was a school,
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Young.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
She came in and talked to Lorraine and they went
over to the phone booths and talked. You didn't actually
meet the girl, No, no, Lorraine said. If I did,
the girl might say something to Lorraine's parents and that
would cause trouble. You know this girl's name. I think
it was Grace. I'm not sure, but I think it
was Grace. When'd you leave San Francisco Wednesday morning, September one?
I want to get back in time to get some
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rest before I had to go to work. You know,
my vacation was up and I had to go back
to work. Where'd you pick up the girl? Wasn't a pickup.
I was sitting on Fisherman's Wharf eating prawns and looking
at the boats and we started to talk.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Wasn't a pick up. We just got friendly.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
No, Marcus, he means that where'd you pick up the
girl when you left the Los Angeles? Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I thought you met when I met her the first time,
That's what I thought. I met her out at the tunnel.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Where's that well?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
You know where Castro Street runs in the market, where
the el car comes in from the beach. That's where
I met her. She came from home, had her suitcase
and all, and she came out on the el car.
Go ahead, well, she got off the street car, got
into my car, and we left for Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Where'd you kill her?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Told you before, If I don't tell it my way,
it isn't gonna work. You're not gonna understand. It's gotta
be my way.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Alright, Go ahead, mine.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Well it was a beautiful day, just the kind of
a day you want when you're going on a drive,
you know what I mean. Clear and the sunshine. Yeah, well,
that's what kind of.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
A day it was. Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
You could see all across the Bay over to Berkeley,
and the way up north was real clear. You wanna
go ahead with your story, mister Friday?
Speaker 4 (10:24):
My way? Yes, all right, I'm go ahead.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Alright.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
We drove all day, stopped for lunch at a place
near San Luis Obispo, a little lunch stand there. Had
a French dip sandwich with one of the best.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I ever had.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
A meat was real lean, and they didn't sop up
the bun with the gravy, just the right amount, one
of the best I ever ate. Lorraine liked him too.
She didn't like the bread, all sopped up with gravy.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Well, go ahead. What happened?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
After I had lunch, we left there and drove on.
We got down around Malibu. I guess it was really
before that where the divided Highway is up the coast,
you know where the cliffs are. Yeah, we well, we stopped.
She was such a beautiful night. I just wanted to
sit there and look at the ocean. People don't take
time anymore.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And what happened then?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
We just sat there, had a cigarette and talked. That's
when I told her first time I ever said it.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
What was that?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
It's funny. I guess most fellas say it a lot,
you know. I meanto a bunch of girls and never
mean it. Go ahead, I told her first time. I
said I loved her, And I told her that she
didn't have to get a job, that I wanted to
marry her and get her a house and all, and
she wouldn't have no more trouble at home. How she'd
have her own home and everything would be all right.
I told her all that. Yeah, And that's when I knew,
right then you could divide the second and a million
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parts and then one of them one of the parts.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I knew I had to do it.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Kill her.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Yeah, you see, she didn't tell me the real reason
she lied to me, and I knew I had to
do it so she wouldn't lie to anyone else. You
can understand that. You can see why I had to
do it. Well, maybe you better tell us.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Well, it was all a lie, all about the family
being mean to her. All that was a lie.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
She just wanted to get the lost thing lists because
she wanted to meet some other fellow here. That's why
she lied about the family and that's why she did it. So,
you see, I had to kill her. I had to
How did you kill her?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I said, how did you kill her? We got out
of the car and walked over to the cliffs. We
could see right down to the ocean. We just stood there.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I just hit her. She fell down.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
It was quiet, so I pushed her over into the water.
What'd you do then, Marcus? I got in the car
and drove home. You just left her there?
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Certainly there wasn't anything I could do for you.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Point out the place where all this happened.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Well, sure, it's up the coast where the highway's divided
north of Malibu. It's really easy to find anybody else around.
You mean when I hit her?
Speaker 4 (12:34):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
No, we were all alone.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I didn't see anybody, just the two of us. All right, Marcus?
You willing even give us a statement on all this?
You mean what I just told you was sure? You
want me to tell all about it again? We'll call
her this stenographer so you can write it down. Huh,
that's the idea. Oh, sure, I'll tell her.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Tell me something, Marcus. When'd you get out of the hospital.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I told you before, I was never in one, you guys.
Sure make it tough, don't you. What's in I came
in here because I wanted to tell you about Lorraine.
I wanted you to know so you wouldn't think it
was my fault, that's all. So you wouldn't think it
was my fault. Now you don't believe me. You think
I'm just another crack pot trying to sell a phony story.
You guys, sure make it tough. We're gonna be sure, and.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I'm telling you the truth. I want you to believe me.
I want you to believe me, And we're beginning to.
A statement was taken from the suspect and he was
booked in at the main jail on a charge of
suspicion of violation of Section twenty eighty seven PC murder.
We sent a teletype to San Francisco and we contacted
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Inspectors Ed van der Voort and John O'Hare of Homicide Detail.
We filled them in and asked that they check out
the suspect story on their end. We also asked that
they send us all available information on the missing girl
and that they check with her family and try to
get a list of any known associates that she might
have had in the Los Angeles area. Frank and I
checked out of the office at seven forty eight pm
and we went home for the night. The following morning,
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at nine twenty three am, your vandervoard from San Francisco
called back. Uh huh, yeah, when was that?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Ed?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Wait a minute, all right, yeah, I got it. How
about friends down here?
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Now?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I said, how about friends down here? M oh I see,
Well it should be here this afternoon then, right, yeah,
I we'll check them out. No, no, that's on the way.
We put it in the mail for you last Well
you should have it by now then, okay, right right, ed,
Thanks very much. We'll be checking with you right bye.
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How about it? Well, they checked the family and the friends,
the place where Marcus City stayed up there. Yeah, Marcu's
story checks out all the way.
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In the phone conversation, we learned that all of Lorraine
Farrell's friends and relatives had been interviewed and their stories
checked with the one given us by the suspect, Marcus.
The girl and Paul Marcus had been seen together in
the Bay City. The desk clerk at the hotel where
the suspect had stayed verified the date that he checked out.
It was the same day Lorraine Farrell disappeared. The officers
in San Francisco were able to contact the girl the
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suspect had referred to as Grace. She recalled seeing a
man answering marcus description with a missing Farrell girl. Frank
and I spent the rest of the day checking on
the suspect. We talked to the people he worked with.
They described Marcus as being moody and withdrawn. We talked
with his landlady. Her description of the suspect's attitude was
the same that we'd gotten before. We thoroughly searched Marcus's apartment,
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and in a desk drawer we found a loose leaf
notebook with several pages of penciled notes describing the trip
that he'd taken up to San Francisco. On one of
the pages at the back of the book, we found
a lengthy letter to a Lorraine in which Marcus apologized
to the girl for killing her, but he went on
to explain that he had no choice. We booked this evidence.
The following morning, Friday, September tenth, Frank and I drove
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down to the beach and we talked to the people
in the vicinity where the suspect said the murder had occurred.
We found an elderly couple who lived in a trailer
on the beach. They recalled having seen two people answering
the description of the suspect and the missing girl on
the night that the murder occurred. We drove back to
the main jail and we signed out Marcus. We took
him down to the car and we drove him out
to the beach. We turned up the highway and told
him to let us know when we came to the
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place where he killed the Faral girl.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Sure you know where the place is, Marcus, Yeah, I remember.
It's just up the road a little bit. Just keep
right on going, you'll find it. You'll see it.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Now.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
There's kind of a parking place and a couple of
trees eucalyptus. I think there's two of them on the
side of the parking place. You can't miss him. It's
right ahead there on the left now you see.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah, we'll pull in the drink. Okay, just look at
all those cars.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Everybody's in such a hurry they never see anything, just
like they had blinders on.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
You.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Sure this is the place I told you.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Didn't I no reason to say a thing like that
if it wasn't true.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Just full right in there. That's it.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Right over there, all right here is where I parked
when it happened. Maybe over there a little bit more,
but all right about here.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
And the two of you just sat here for a
few minutes, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yeah, we just sat here and had a cigarette, and
then we got out of the car and walked over
to the edge.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Of the cliff. All right, come on show us.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Sure, so you'll believe me, I'll show you. And we
stood right over there, right there, and I told her
I was in love with her and wanted to marry her.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Now you stay here, just point out where you were.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
You think I might try to jump off, don't you.
That's what you think, isn't it. You Just show us, Huh,
I wouldn't do that. There's no reason to I don't
know why you wouldn't agree that I had to do it.
I didn't have any other way to do it.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Or were you when you hit her?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Right there near that clump of grass. We stood there
and looked down at the ocean, and she told me
about this other guy. That's when I hit her. She
fell down right well, right about there. I waited to
push her off the cliff there, right where I hit her.
She was just lying there. I guess she hit her
head on something, and she was real quiet. I just
rolled her over the edge. It was right there there,
you see where the rocks are kind.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Of worn going till you w Yeah, no, you wait here.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
See.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
If I had known it was going to be this
hard to get it straightened out, I don't think i'd
have started the thing.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
When am I going to get out of jail? That
isn't up to us?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Well, then I want to talk to the people who
it's up to. I got to tell them about Lorraine,
how she lied to me, and why I had to
kill her. As soon as they hear the story, they'll understand.
They got to realize that there wasn't any other way.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
How's it look?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Oh? I found that's caught in a branch just over
the edge. You know it's a girl's handkerchief. Read the
name of it, yeah, Lorraine Friday, September tenth, three forty
six pm. We contacted the crime lab and asked them
to come out and go over the scene. Officers stood
by so that any physical evidence would not be disturbed
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until Lieutenant Lee Jones and his men had an opportunity
to go over it. Frank and I, along with a suspect,
drove back to town, where we made arrangements with the
city Lifeguard Service to search for the body. The following morning,
a boat equipped with diving gear left Santa Monica Harbor
and took a course north. Experienced deep sea divers searched
the crevices in the rocks beneath the cliffs. All of
the sea bordering the vicinity was gone over. There was
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no trace of a body. The shoreline on either side
of the murder's spot was checked, still no trace of
the missing girl. In the meantime, two additional teams of
men were assigned to check out the friends of Lorraine Ferrell.
They carried pictures of Paul Marcus and attempted to dig
out any information on the suspect and the missing girl.
Six forty two pm Sunday, we called the main jail
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and asked if the suspect he brought to the city
Hall for additional questioning.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I had a reason to do what I did, A
good reason. Now, you let me talk to the responsible
people around here, and I'll have them tell you. I'm
getting a little tired of being shoved around here. You
just bring in the boss and let me talk to him.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
What day did you say that you left San Francisco?
September one?
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I thought it was a second. The first you said
you left in the afternoon. Is that right in the morning?
And you remember it. I don't know what all these
questions are for. I told you I killed the Lorrain.
I walked in here and told you there's no reason
for all.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
This mcgillo, just no reason. ORIGIN had the body. I
didn't hide it. I told you I put her in
the ocean. We haven't able to find her. Well, then
you're not looking good. I told you the truth all
along the line. I've told you. Sure you didn't make
a mistake about where all this happened.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Not a chance in the world. Right there by the
parking place where the two trees are. Well, maybe you
just thought you left her there?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
I know it. Had you been drinking when you kill her?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
No, we stopped and had a couple of beers on
the way, just a couple, not enough to get drunk.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
But you did have something to drink well, sure, but
not enough to get drunk on. How many beers you have? Two?
Maybe three? Right? Which was it two or three? Well?
What difference does it make? Were you drunk?
Speaker 7 (21:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
About the girl? Was she drunk?
Speaker 5 (21:37):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
You sure about that? Yes?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yes, I'm sure. What are you trying to do? What
difference does it make? Maybe we did have more than
a couple, but what difference does it make?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Just trying to get things straight? We want to be
sure we got the right story. Well you have right?
How about a cigarette? Huh yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Thanks?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Ran? Yeah, thanks, yeah, I can imagine.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Hey, wait a minute, don't light his two? That's bad.
What do you mean three on a match? It's bad?
It isn't well, sure you never do that.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Here?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
He got right home after he killed the faraoh girl.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Huh yeah. I drove right down the highway and went home.
Traffic was kind of heavy. I thought about it, all
those people, all hurrying around, not taking any time.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Anybody see you when you came home? What do you mean, Well,
anybody see you park the car go into your apartment?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Well, no, there wasn't anybody around.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
You said when you met the girl up in San
Francisco that she had a suitcase with her. Is that right? Yeah,
she did artificial leather with real leather binding. Where is
it not? Huh?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
What'd you do with her suitcase? Well, I don't know.
I don't remember it. We couldn't find it in your room.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
You didn't have no right to go through my room,
No right at all. We didn't find a suitcase. Where
is it? Well, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
You put it with a body?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Well I might have where, I don't know. I don't remember.
I hit her. She lied to me, and I hit her,
and I pushed her into the ocean. That's all I know.
And that's all I'm gonna tell you. Joe, see you
a minute. Yeah, sure, what do you got out? We
found the girl where she's sitting in the squad room.
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Frank stayed with the suspect in the interrogation room, and
I went with Sergeant Alla leave us up to the office.
Sitting at one of the tables was a small girl
with jet black hair. As we came into the room,
she was putting on lipstick. She glanced over at us,
and then she went back to what she was doing.
There wasn't any doubt about it. The girl in the
squad room was Lorraine Ferrell. She dyed her hair and
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she had on a lot of makeup. But it was
the missing girl. Joe. This is miss Farrell, Joe Friday.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
How do you do?
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Where'd you find her?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Out? Friend up? Nigel Rock says she's been there for
a week.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Thanks sm right.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Have you seen the papers lately, miss Ferrol?
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Yeah, I read the funny You.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Got to read the front page. You've been on him
all right. M We've got a lot of policemen out
looking for you.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
They probably needed the exercise anyway.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
There's a man down the hall who thinks that he
killed you.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
That creep Paul, Yeah, Paul Marcus, that's his name, real creep.
I was glad to get away from him. Oh, I
guess he tried to give me about our home. What
a bloney.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
He's a real creep. You gotta keep an eye on him.
He's gonna wig one of these days.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Is that so?
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (24:22):
He told me down here, and when I told him
I didn't want to have anything to do with him,
he got real sore started yelling.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Creep, where'd all this happen?
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Miss out by Mala Book wrote, out there, he stopped
the car and gave me all the stuffable when to
marry me. I was in love with me, big Deal,
said I was the first girl I ever said that
to Big Deal.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Then?
Speaker 6 (24:42):
I told him I didn't want no part of him,
told him to get lost, thanked him for the ride
and told him get lost.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
He flipped bad.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
He flipped.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
I took off, got a ride game into the town.
I got this girl for a Negro rock. I've been
out there. You gotta watch that guy though.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
How old did you tell him that you were?
Speaker 5 (24:58):
I don't know, forget, I think nineteen something like that.
I forget. He confessed to killing me. Huh, that's right,
he's a wig.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Let's take a walker where come on?
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Sure, I've got nothing to lose.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Can you guys drive me back to Eagle Rock tonight?
I got a date. They got to be back pretty quick.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
You're not going to go back to Eagle Rock? Who says,
So we're gonna have to hold.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
You for what. I haven't done anything.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
You're a minor. We've got a missing report filed on you.
Your folks are pretty worried.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Uh, they're always worrying about assumpthing. There ain't nothing for
him to worry about. Then they worry about that.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Well, it doesn't make any difference. We're gonna have to
hold you.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
You just try it, Coup. You just tried. You'll find
out you got more trouble than you came in one lump.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Uh huh In here is Lorraine Farrell, Officer Smith. Well, Lorraine, Hi, creep.
I didn't mean to do it. You know that. I
didn't really mean to do it, but there wasn't any
other way.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
What's planned? You know what he's talking about.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
He thinks he killed you wigged. I didn't think i'd
ever see you again.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
I didn't think I would.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
But I want you to know one thing, Lorrange, what's
that I forgive you for lying?
Speaker 5 (26:04):
I told you it heaven' Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Come on, we're too We'll take you to the office and.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Call a policewoman send it a can huh to juvenile hall.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Come on, let's go. I'll take your job. Ra by
Paul by Lorrange. I'm not mad at anymore. You know
I was worried, Sergeant.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Yeah, I want you to know how I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah. What's what you tried to do? I think was
real fine. Thanks? And what you mean you didn't fool
me a bit? Huh? I know I killed her.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
The story you have just heard is true. The names
were changed to protect the innocent. On October fourth, the
hearing was held in Department ninety eight, Superior Court, State
of California, in and Fall the County of Los Angeles.
In a moment the results of that hearing. Now here
is our star, Jack Webb, thank you.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
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Speaker 2 (27:24):
Paul Nelson Marcus was held to answer a charge a
violation of Section seven oh one WIC contributing to the
delinquency of a minor. After due deliberation, he was placed
on probation and delivered into the hands of a competent psychiatrist,
Lorraine Jean Farrell, was returned to the custody of her parents.
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Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
you will travel step by step on the side of
the laws to an actual case. Transcribe from official police bidence,
from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnett is
the story of your police force and action.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
It was Wednesday, September eighth. It was cold in Los Angeles.
We were working the day watch out of homicide detail.
My partner's Frank Smith. The boss's Captain Mormon. My name
is Friday. I was on my way back to the
office from R and I and it was ten fourteen
am when I got to him. Forty two homicide. Pardon me, sir, Yes, sir,
are you a policeman?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yes, that's right. What can I do for you? I
want to talk to somebody. I'm not sure who though.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
If you tell me what it's all about, I'm I'll
be able to help you.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Well, I got to be sure it's the right person.
You can understand, that, can'tcher. Yes, sir, my name's Paul Marcus.
All right, mister Marcus, what does you want to talk about?
Do you work in there in the homicide department. That's right,
you know all about murder center. Do you want to
come into the office and talk No, no, I don't
want to go in there. Is there someplace else we
can go. I'd like to talk to you alone. This
is kind of a personal thing.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
All right, sir, Come on down the hall interrogation.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Nobody else there. No, that's good because, like I told you,
this is a personal matter. I need your advice. All right,
So this way, this is the first time I've ever
been in the police department. Feel kind of funny just
walking in and talking personal things to a stranger.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yes, right, and understand. Go ahead, we'll sit down right there.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Thank you. All right, you and tell me about it.
Do you mind closing the door?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
All right? Right now?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
What's your problem, mister Marcus? I told you it was personal, Yes,
I know. I want to be sure I handled it right.
I could get in a lot of trouble if I
didn't been trying to figure out what to do about
it for a week now. I couldn't find the right answer.
That's why I came here. You guys should know all.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Right now, if you'll just tell me what's bothering you,
we might be able to do something for you.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Huh. A whole week and no answer. I sure hope
you got it for me.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I'm sorry, mister Marcus, but if you don't tell me
what this is all about, there's nothing we can do.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
It's nothing big, just a personal problem. I just want
to know how to handle it. All right, go ahead,
I killed a woman.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Ten eighteen am. We got the name of the woman
Paul Marcus said that he'd murdered. We also obtained a
description of the victim, and Frank went down the hall
to missing persons to see if a report had been
filed on her.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I waited with the suspect. It's a personal problem. You
know how to handle it, and I wasn't sure. That's
why I came to you.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
All right.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Where did you meet this Lorraine Farrell? San Francisco?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
How long ago? A couple of weeks. I just knew
her a little while before it happened, just a couple
of weeks. Fisherman's Wharf. What's a fisherman's wharf? That's where
I met her in San Francisco. I was on a
vacation two weeks with pay and I went to San
Francisco Fisherman's Wharf.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
That's where I met Lorraine. All right, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Well I was down. I was sitting on the dock,
looking at the boats, just sitting there eating prawns. You
know how they cook him in those great big pots,
you know. Well, I was just sitting there eating prawns,
and I met her the word'd you kill her? Look,
you got to let me tell this in my own way,
or I'm not going to tell you at all. It's
got to be right, so you'll understand now. If you
don't get it right, the whole thing's gone wrong. You see,
it's a real personal thing, all right, So go ahead. Well,
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I was just sitting there eating prawns, eating them and
throwing the little tail pieces down the water, you know
how you do, watching them kind of float around kind of.
All of a sudden, she was right there, sitting just
alongside of me.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Do you ever see her before? I never laid eyes
on her till then.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
All right, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
We both sat there for a minute.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Then we started to talk, just little things like nice
weather and how long you've been in San Francisco, things
like that, You know.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
How you do? How old you say?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
The feral woman was nineteen turned nineteen, the fifth of August.
All right, she was born there, you know, in San Francisco.
She told me about it when we were talking, how
she was born there and grew up there. Told me
all about the schools she went to, how she used
to play on Strawberry Island and Stow Lake.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You ever been there? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
See, it's kind of a beautiful place.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
They got those rowboats and you paddle around the lake,
and right in the middle of this island, Strawberry Island,
there's all those swans that swim around. You can feed them,
real beautiful Strawberry Island. Tell me something, Marcus. You've ever
been in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
You ever had any metal care? Been under the supervision
of the characters? Maybe you think I'm crazy, don't you.
I want to just ask you a question. Oh I'm not.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I never been to a doctor. I'm telling you the truth.
You'll see you want to go ahead. I guess you
get a lot of crackpots in here telling you all
kinds of funny stories.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
The doors are wide open all night. I guess you
get a lot of them. But I'm not a crackpot.
I'm telling you the truth. I did kill her, but
it's important. You know why I did it. I got
to tell you the right way. If I don't, none
of it's going to be any good. When you killer
September one, that's the day we left. September first. That'd
be a week ago to day. Huh yeah, September first, Joe,
Now seem just a minute, Marcus, what do you got Well?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I checked missing persons, you know, I got a report
on the girl's same name description matches once she.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Disappeared September first. It fits in with what he told us. Yeah,
but there's something that doesn't.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
What's that she's sixteen years old.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Each year, there are hundreds of citizens who walk into
the nearest police station and confess to some sort of crime.
Some have actually happened, have occurred only in the mind
of the person confessing, No matter how wild the confession,
how implausible the details of the crime, Each report has
to be checked out to doctors. Such cases are clinical,
but to the working detective that the cause of a
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lot of leg work and a great deal of checking.
They cost the taxpayer untold man hours in investigating time,
and many times result in nothing. Because of his attitude
and his reluctance to give us the complete story. All
at once, it appeared that Paul Marcus might be one
of these people. The fact that he named a girl
who was missing meant little, since it was possible for
him to have read the story in a newspaper. The
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only way we had of being sure was to continue
the interrogation ten thirty four am.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
She told me she wanted to get away from home.
That's what she told me. How it was rough for
there and she wanted to get away.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
That's when you said you'd bring her down here.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Is it right?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Oh? No, I didn't even suggest that the whole thing
was her idea. She brought it at Yes. You see,
after that first day on Fisherman's Wharf, I saw her
several times. Almost every day. We'd meet someplace and talk.
Where would you meet her? Most sometimes in one of
the hotel bars. Once we met out of the Steinhart Aquarium,
we met on the road Tunda there you know where
they have the big pool and all the alligators swimming around.
You know where, Well, we met there once and we
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walked over to the place where they have the band concerts,
right across the way where the band plays, Only they
weren't there that day. Wasn't anybody there, just Lorrain and me.
We sat on the benches and talked. That's when she
said she wanted to go with me to Los Angeles. Huh, yeah,
that's where it was going. She wanted me to take her.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
She came right out naskin sure.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Told me how it was hard for a home, and
she wanted to get away. She told me she had
friends here, said she could stay with them until she
got things straightened out, you know, get a job and
a place of her own. When she was going to
do that, get a place of her own, in a job,
and then she'd.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Be all right.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
You ever meet her parents? No, I never went to
the house. She told me where it was though, someplace
out by the Twin Peaks Tunnel. I didn't know where exactly.
She didn't want me to go out there, said it'll
only cause her more trouble. That's why I meet her
in town. You ever meet any of her friends up
in San Francisco?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Just once. We were in a drug store on Market
Street having a sandwich. We were just sitting there and
she was telling me how it was bad for a home,
and a girl came in, looked like she was a school,
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Young.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
She came in and talked to Lorraine and they went
over to the phone booths and talked. You didn't actually
meet the girl, No, no, Lorraine said. If I did,
the girl might say something to Lorraine's parents and that
would cause trouble. You know this girl's name. I think
it was Grace. I'm not sure, but I think it
was Grace. When'd you leave San Francisco Wednesday morning, September one?
I want to get back in time to get some
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rest before I had to go to work. You know,
my vacation was up and I had to go back
to work. Where'd you pick up the girl? Wasn't a pickup.
I was sitting on Fisherman's Wharf eating prawns and looking
at the boats and we started to talk.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Wasn't a pick up. We just got friendly.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
No, Marcus, he means that where'd you pick up the
girl when you left the Los Angeles? Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I thought you met when I met her the first time,
That's what I thought. I met her out at the tunnel.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Where's that well?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
You know where Castro Street runs in the market, where
the el car comes in from the beach. That's where
I met her. She came from home, had her suitcase
and all, and she came out on the el car.
Go ahead, well, she got off the street car, got
into my car, and we left for Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Where'd you kill her?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Told you before, If I don't tell it my way,
it isn't gonna work. You're not gonna understand. It's gotta
be my way.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Alright, Go ahead, mine.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Well it was a beautiful day, just the kind of
a day you want when you're going on a drive,
you know what I mean. Clear and the sunshine. Yeah, well,
that's what kind of.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
A day it was. Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
You could see all across the Bay over to Berkeley,
and the way up north was real clear. You wanna
go ahead with your story, mister Friday?
Speaker 4 (10:24):
My way? Yes, all right, I'm go ahead.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Alright.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
We drove all day, stopped for lunch at a place
near San Luis Obispo, a little lunch stand there. Had
a French dip sandwich with one of the best.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I ever had.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
A meat was real lean, and they didn't sop up
the bun with the gravy, just the right amount, one
of the best I ever ate. Lorraine liked him too.
She didn't like the bread, all sopped up with gravy.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Well, go ahead. What happened?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
After I had lunch, we left there and drove on.
We got down around Malibu. I guess it was really
before that where the divided Highway is up the coast,
you know where the cliffs are. Yeah, we well, we stopped.
She was such a beautiful night. I just wanted to
sit there and look at the ocean. People don't take
time anymore.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And what happened then?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
We just sat there, had a cigarette and talked. That's
when I told her first time I ever said it.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
What was that?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
It's funny. I guess most fellas say it a lot,
you know. I meanto a bunch of girls and never
mean it. Go ahead, I told her first time. I
said I loved her, And I told her that she
didn't have to get a job, that I wanted to
marry her and get her a house and all, and
she wouldn't have no more trouble at home. How she'd
have her own home and everything would be all right.
I told her all that. Yeah, And that's when I knew,
right then you could divide the second and a million
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parts and then one of them one of the parts.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I knew I had to do it.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Kill her.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Yeah, you see, she didn't tell me the real reason
she lied to me, and I knew I had to
do it so she wouldn't lie to anyone else. You
can understand that. You can see why I had to
do it. Well, maybe you better tell us.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Well, it was all a lie, all about the family
being mean to her. All that was a lie.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
She just wanted to get the lost thing lists because
she wanted to meet some other fellow here. That's why
she lied about the family and that's why she did it. So,
you see, I had to kill her. I had to
How did you kill her?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I said, how did you kill her? We got out
of the car and walked over to the cliffs. We
could see right down to the ocean. We just stood there.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I just hit her. She fell down.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
It was quiet, so I pushed her over into the water.
What'd you do then, Marcus? I got in the car
and drove home. You just left her there?
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Certainly there wasn't anything I could do for you.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Point out the place where all this happened.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Well, sure, it's up the coast where the highway's divided
north of Malibu. It's really easy to find anybody else around.
You mean when I hit her?
Speaker 4 (12:34):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
No, we were all alone.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I didn't see anybody, just the two of us. All right, Marcus?
You willing even give us a statement on all this?
You mean what I just told you was sure? You
want me to tell all about it again? We'll call
her this stenographer so you can write it down. Huh,
that's the idea. Oh, sure, I'll tell her.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Tell me something, Marcus. When'd you get out of the hospital.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I told you before, I was never in one, you guys.
Sure make it tough, don't you. What's in I came
in here because I wanted to tell you about Lorraine.
I wanted you to know so you wouldn't think it
was my fault, that's all. So you wouldn't think it
was my fault. Now you don't believe me. You think
I'm just another crack pot trying to sell a phony story.
You guys, sure make it tough. We're gonna be sure, and.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I'm telling you the truth. I want you to believe me.
I want you to believe me, And we're beginning to.
A statement was taken from the suspect and he was
booked in at the main jail on a charge of
suspicion of violation of Section twenty eighty seven PC murder.
We sent a teletype to San Francisco and we contacted
(13:36):
Inspectors Ed van der Voort and John O'Hare of Homicide Detail.
We filled them in and asked that they check out
the suspect story on their end. We also asked that
they send us all available information on the missing girl
and that they check with her family and try to
get a list of any known associates that she might
have had in the Los Angeles area. Frank and I
checked out of the office at seven forty eight pm
and we went home for the night. The following morning,
(13:58):
at nine twenty three am, your vandervoard from San Francisco
called back. Uh huh, yeah, when was that?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Ed?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Wait a minute, all right, yeah, I got it. How
about friends down here?
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Now?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I said, how about friends down here? M oh I see,
Well it should be here this afternoon then, right, yeah,
I we'll check them out. No, no, that's on the way.
We put it in the mail for you last Well
you should have it by now then, okay, right right, ed,
Thanks very much. We'll be checking with you right bye.
(14:36):
How about it? Well, they checked the family and the friends,
the place where Marcus City stayed up there. Yeah, Marcu's
story checks out all the way.
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In the phone conversation, we learned that all of Lorraine
Farrell's friends and relatives had been interviewed and their stories
checked with the one given us by the suspect, Marcus.
The girl and Paul Marcus had been seen together in
the Bay City. The desk clerk at the hotel where
the suspect had stayed verified the date that he checked out.
It was the same day Lorraine Farrell disappeared. The officers
in San Francisco were able to contact the girl the
(16:18):
suspect had referred to as Grace. She recalled seeing a
man answering marcus description with a missing Farrell girl. Frank
and I spent the rest of the day checking on
the suspect. We talked to the people he worked with.
They described Marcus as being moody and withdrawn. We talked
with his landlady. Her description of the suspect's attitude was
the same that we'd gotten before. We thoroughly searched Marcus's apartment,
(16:40):
and in a desk drawer we found a loose leaf
notebook with several pages of penciled notes describing the trip
that he'd taken up to San Francisco. On one of
the pages at the back of the book, we found
a lengthy letter to a Lorraine in which Marcus apologized
to the girl for killing her, but he went on
to explain that he had no choice. We booked this evidence.
The following morning, Friday, September tenth, Frank and I drove
(17:02):
down to the beach and we talked to the people
in the vicinity where the suspect said the murder had occurred.
We found an elderly couple who lived in a trailer
on the beach. They recalled having seen two people answering
the description of the suspect and the missing girl on
the night that the murder occurred. We drove back to
the main jail and we signed out Marcus. We took
him down to the car and we drove him out
to the beach. We turned up the highway and told
him to let us know when we came to the
(17:23):
place where he killed the Faral girl.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Sure you know where the place is, Marcus, Yeah, I remember.
It's just up the road a little bit. Just keep
right on going, you'll find it. You'll see it.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Now.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
There's kind of a parking place and a couple of
trees eucalyptus. I think there's two of them on the
side of the parking place. You can't miss him. It's
right ahead there on the left now you see.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah, we'll pull in the drink. Okay, just look at
all those cars.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Everybody's in such a hurry they never see anything, just
like they had blinders on.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
You.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Sure this is the place I told you.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Didn't I no reason to say a thing like that
if it wasn't true.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Just full right in there. That's it.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Right over there, all right here is where I parked
when it happened. Maybe over there a little bit more,
but all right about here.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
And the two of you just sat here for a
few minutes, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yeah, we just sat here and had a cigarette, and
then we got out of the car and walked over
to the edge.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Of the cliff. All right, come on show us.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Sure, so you'll believe me, I'll show you. And we
stood right over there, right there, and I told her
I was in love with her and wanted to marry her.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Now you stay here, just point out where you were.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
You think I might try to jump off, don't you.
That's what you think, isn't it. You Just show us, Huh,
I wouldn't do that. There's no reason to I don't
know why you wouldn't agree that I had to do it.
I didn't have any other way to do it.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Or were you when you hit her?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Right there near that clump of grass. We stood there
and looked down at the ocean, and she told me
about this other guy. That's when I hit her. She
fell down right well, right about there. I waited to
push her off the cliff there, right where I hit her.
She was just lying there. I guess she hit her
head on something, and she was real quiet. I just
rolled her over the edge. It was right there there,
you see where the rocks are kind.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Of worn going till you w Yeah, no, you wait here.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
See.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
If I had known it was going to be this
hard to get it straightened out, I don't think i'd
have started the thing.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
When am I going to get out of jail? That
isn't up to us?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Well, then I want to talk to the people who
it's up to. I got to tell them about Lorraine,
how she lied to me, and why I had to
kill her. As soon as they hear the story, they'll understand.
They got to realize that there wasn't any other way.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
How's it look?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Oh? I found that's caught in a branch just over
the edge. You know it's a girl's handkerchief. Read the
name of it, yeah, Lorraine Friday, September tenth, three forty
six pm. We contacted the crime lab and asked them
to come out and go over the scene. Officers stood
by so that any physical evidence would not be disturbed
(19:51):
until Lieutenant Lee Jones and his men had an opportunity
to go over it. Frank and I, along with a suspect,
drove back to town, where we made arrangements with the
city Lifeguard Service to search for the body. The following morning,
a boat equipped with diving gear left Santa Monica Harbor
and took a course north. Experienced deep sea divers searched
the crevices in the rocks beneath the cliffs. All of
the sea bordering the vicinity was gone over. There was
(20:13):
no trace of a body. The shoreline on either side
of the murder's spot was checked, still no trace of
the missing girl. In the meantime, two additional teams of
men were assigned to check out the friends of Lorraine Ferrell.
They carried pictures of Paul Marcus and attempted to dig
out any information on the suspect and the missing girl.
Six forty two pm Sunday, we called the main jail
(20:34):
and asked if the suspect he brought to the city
Hall for additional questioning.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I had a reason to do what I did, A
good reason. Now, you let me talk to the responsible
people around here, and I'll have them tell you. I'm
getting a little tired of being shoved around here. You
just bring in the boss and let me talk to him.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
What day did you say that you left San Francisco?
September one?
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I thought it was a second. The first you said
you left in the afternoon. Is that right in the morning?
And you remember it. I don't know what all these
questions are for. I told you I killed the Lorrain.
I walked in here and told you there's no reason
for all.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
This mcgillo, just no reason. ORIGIN had the body. I
didn't hide it. I told you I put her in
the ocean. We haven't able to find her. Well, then
you're not looking good. I told you the truth all
along the line. I've told you. Sure you didn't make
a mistake about where all this happened.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Not a chance in the world. Right there by the
parking place where the two trees are. Well, maybe you
just thought you left her there?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
I know it. Had you been drinking when you kill her?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
No, we stopped and had a couple of beers on
the way, just a couple, not enough to get drunk.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
But you did have something to drink well, sure, but
not enough to get drunk on. How many beers you have? Two?
Maybe three? Right? Which was it two or three? Well?
What difference does it make? Were you drunk?
Speaker 7 (21:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
About the girl? Was she drunk?
Speaker 5 (21:37):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
You sure about that? Yes?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yes, I'm sure. What are you trying to do? What
difference does it make? Maybe we did have more than
a couple, but what difference does it make?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Just trying to get things straight? We want to be
sure we got the right story. Well you have right?
How about a cigarette? Huh yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Thanks?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Ran? Yeah, thanks, yeah, I can imagine.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Hey, wait a minute, don't light his two? That's bad.
What do you mean three on a match? It's bad?
It isn't well, sure you never do that.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Here?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
He got right home after he killed the faraoh girl.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Huh yeah. I drove right down the highway and went home.
Traffic was kind of heavy. I thought about it, all
those people, all hurrying around, not taking any time.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Anybody see you when you came home? What do you mean, Well,
anybody see you park the car go into your apartment?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Well, no, there wasn't anybody around.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
You said when you met the girl up in San
Francisco that she had a suitcase with her. Is that right? Yeah,
she did artificial leather with real leather binding. Where is
it not? Huh?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
What'd you do with her suitcase? Well, I don't know.
I don't remember it. We couldn't find it in your room.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
You didn't have no right to go through my room,
No right at all. We didn't find a suitcase. Where
is it? Well, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
You put it with a body?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Well I might have where, I don't know. I don't remember.
I hit her. She lied to me, and I hit her,
and I pushed her into the ocean. That's all I know.
And that's all I'm gonna tell you. Joe, see you
a minute. Yeah, sure, what do you got out? We
found the girl where she's sitting in the squad room.
(23:17):
Frank stayed with the suspect in the interrogation room, and
I went with Sergeant Alla leave us up to the office.
Sitting at one of the tables was a small girl
with jet black hair. As we came into the room,
she was putting on lipstick. She glanced over at us,
and then she went back to what she was doing.
There wasn't any doubt about it. The girl in the
squad room was Lorraine Ferrell. She dyed her hair and
(23:39):
she had on a lot of makeup. But it was
the missing girl. Joe. This is miss Farrell, Joe Friday.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
How do you do?
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Where'd you find her?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Out? Friend up? Nigel Rock says she's been there for
a week.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Thanks sm right.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Have you seen the papers lately, miss Ferrol?
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Yeah, I read the funny You.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Got to read the front page. You've been on him
all right. M We've got a lot of policemen out
looking for you.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
They probably needed the exercise anyway.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
There's a man down the hall who thinks that he
killed you.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
That creep Paul, Yeah, Paul Marcus, that's his name, real creep.
I was glad to get away from him. Oh, I
guess he tried to give me about our home. What
a bloney.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
He's a real creep. You gotta keep an eye on him.
He's gonna wig one of these days.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Is that so?
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (24:22):
He told me down here, and when I told him
I didn't want to have anything to do with him,
he got real sore started yelling.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Creep, where'd all this happen?
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Miss out by Mala Book wrote, out there, he stopped
the car and gave me all the stuffable when to
marry me. I was in love with me, big Deal,
said I was the first girl I ever said that
to Big Deal.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Then?
Speaker 6 (24:42):
I told him I didn't want no part of him,
told him to get lost, thanked him for the ride
and told him get lost.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
He flipped bad.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
He flipped.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
I took off, got a ride game into the town.
I got this girl for a Negro rock. I've been
out there. You gotta watch that guy though.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
How old did you tell him that you were?
Speaker 5 (24:58):
I don't know, forget, I think nineteen something like that.
I forget. He confessed to killing me. Huh, that's right,
he's a wig.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Let's take a walker where come on?
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Sure, I've got nothing to lose.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Can you guys drive me back to Eagle Rock tonight?
I got a date. They got to be back pretty quick.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
You're not going to go back to Eagle Rock? Who says,
So we're gonna have to hold.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
You for what. I haven't done anything.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
You're a minor. We've got a missing report filed on you.
Your folks are pretty worried.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Uh, they're always worrying about assumpthing. There ain't nothing for
him to worry about. Then they worry about that.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Well, it doesn't make any difference. We're gonna have to
hold you.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
You just try it, Coup. You just tried. You'll find
out you got more trouble than you came in one lump.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Uh huh In here is Lorraine Farrell, Officer Smith. Well, Lorraine, Hi, creep.
I didn't mean to do it. You know that. I
didn't really mean to do it, but there wasn't any
other way.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
What's planned? You know what he's talking about.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
He thinks he killed you wigged. I didn't think i'd
ever see you again.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
I didn't think I would.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
But I want you to know one thing, Lorrange, what's
that I forgive you for lying?
Speaker 5 (26:04):
I told you it heaven' Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Come on, we're too We'll take you to the office and.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Call a policewoman send it a can huh to juvenile hall.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Come on, let's go. I'll take your job. Ra by
Paul by Lorrange. I'm not mad at anymore. You know
I was worried, Sergeant.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Yeah, I want you to know how I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah. What's what you tried to do? I think was
real fine. Thanks? And what you mean you didn't fool
me a bit? Huh? I know I killed her.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
The story you have just heard is true. The names
were changed to protect the innocent. On October fourth, the
hearing was held in Department ninety eight, Superior Court, State
of California, in and Fall the County of Los Angeles.
In a moment the results of that hearing. Now here
is our star, Jack Webb, thank you.
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Paul Nelson Marcus was held to answer a charge a
violation of Section seven oh one WIC contributing to the
delinquency of a minor. After due deliberation, he was placed
on probation and delivered into the hands of a competent psychiatrist,
Lorraine Jean Farrell, was returned to the custody of her parents.
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