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Speaker 3 (02:07):
It was Tuesday, May eighth, was cool in Los Angeles.
We were working the night Watch out of homicide detail.
My partner's Frank Smith, the boss's captain. Warning, my name's Friday.
I was on my way over from the office and
it was ten thirteen pm. When I got to Georgia
Street Receiving Hospital, the waiting room, I.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Think, joh, how's he doing? I don't know. I'll talk
to doctor Sebastian. How's it look?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Not too good? Slugs and bed and his lung caused
a hemorrhage, was getting a transfusion? What are you going on?
I just talked to the guys who came in with
him for a minute. They didn't have a lot, you know.
Carl came in from a man who owns a news
stand at the corner of Normandy and Willowbrook. See the witness, Yeah,
anything there?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Well, I have talked to him. What he got on
the victim? Wait a minute, I got it here names
Matthew Denton. Address given is one eight nine seven O
Taff Street in Hollywood. Did you get in touch with anybody? No?
Tried to hospital, nobody was there anything else? And I went
over to the personal property stuff cigarettes, slider call Hi,
huh out A diamond ring on a small finger, left
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hand looks expensive gold wristwatch one hundred and forty dollars
in cash, thirteen hundred dollars in American Express checks. Doesn't
spell robbery, doesn't Oh, none of the stuff was disturbed.
Maybe he can tell us something. Huh, yeah, Joe, Frank,
my doctor, how's it? Look? What time I got?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Ten sixteen? Make it ten thirteen? Huh close enough for
the report? What time of death?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Matthew Trevor Denton, WMA, thirty one years, five foot nine,
one hundred and sixty four pounds and stopped living at
ten thirteen pm on May eighth.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
We didn't know who he was or why he died.
Before we left the hospital.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
We put in a call to Denton's address, but we
got no answer. We checked the name and descriptions through I.
There was no record on the dead man. At ten
forty eight pm, we left Georgia Street and drove over
to the scene of the shooting, where we talked to
the witness Andrew Keats.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I go over, there's right, it happened to the bus stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I was standing right here, right here. I saw the
whole thing happen.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yes, sir By, what time was that, mister case?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Oh? I guess it was nine thirty years old.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I see, I was just.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Standing in here and bang, bang, two shots.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Did you see what led up to the shooting?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well, what do you mean? Let up?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Well, I mean you see what happened before.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Oh yeah, the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Uh huh? Would you tell us about it? Sure? Oh? Alright,
go ahead.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Well one of those nights where just nothing went right,
you know. I mean, uh, I.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Started off with my wife burning the coffee. I wouldn't
think a person could do that, would you burn the coffee?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
So I go ahead.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I had a big argument for a left home. I
just started off that way. Yes, sir, got on here
and took over. About what time's up in the stanca?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Oh I was seven thirty in the morning. Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Tried to get breakfast business, you know, people on the
way to eat stop off for early paper.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I see, I triably get them, all right.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I opened her up in the morning, and then there's
a school kid akes over for me about three and
the afternoon niche here on around six thirty. Wanna come
back from supper? I see, that's when she burned the
coffee night supper.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
All right, you wanna tell us about the shooting.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Oh, sure, they're kind of hard. You know. This is
the first time for me.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Hows that?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Well, it's the first time I've ever been a witness.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
First, I said, what time did you first see the.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Victim man who was shot? Yes, sir, well, I told
you it was about nine thirty. The car pulled up
to the curb and this fella got out.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
He kind of stood there for a minute and he
talked to the other fella in the car. He just
stood there a minute and talked, kind of leaning in
the window. Car pulled away and the one man one who.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Got out, Yeah, he walked over and sat down on
the bench like he was waiting for the bus. O case,
you got a good look at the car got out
of my sword. If that's what you mean, would you
describe it for us? It was a black Chevy I'd
say maybe fifty two or fifty.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Three Sadana could pay No is you see dan fourth door?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
And nothing special about it? Did you get a look
at the man that was driving?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
No?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
No, the light's kind of bad over there. You can
see for yourself the one fella leaning in the car.
I couldn't get a good look.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I didn't pay a lot of attention to it. Anyway,
It didn't seem anything to get all concerned about.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
All right, chick, do you wanna go ahead?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Well, the fella sat there for a minute, not doing nothing,
just just waiting.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Then this other car pulled up right up the curve.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
One guy got out of the car, got right out
and walked over the fella.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Sitting on the bench. I see, Oh, excuse me a
minute of the customer, par chick, what do you think?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Right? Don't know?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Old Bert always stops by the same time he gets
one of each, you know, same time every night with.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
The old Bert. You know, see, I want if you
go ahead with his story?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Oh oh yeah, Well, this car pulled up and the
fella got out.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
They walked over the bench started talking to the first man.
They got in an argument.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
How don't know that?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Why?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Well do you know they were arguing.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Well, I could see standing over there, waving their arms around.
I could even hear some of the yelling. They wasn't
no take get all to see that they were having
some kind of trouble.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Could you hear what the travel was about?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
No, just a lot of yelling and waving. He had
no outright word, or do you want to go ahead
for you? Well, next thing.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I knew was when the fellaw got out of the car.
I started swinging at the other one that was the victim.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Yeah, one that was shot all right, Well, you just
bet the guy tackle more naked handily the victim fella
started to clean up on this other one.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
He just started to mopst with it.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I see.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
That's when the guy who was waiting in the car
got out and went over to help his friends. You see,
three of them kind of struggled around for a while,
and the one from the car pulled the gun. Bang bang,
two shots. First guy dropped right down on the sidewalk.
The other two got in the.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Car and took off, went roaring down Normandy that way.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Can he described the second car, well, not too good.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I just got a glance at that. I wasn't paying
a lot of attention. The first time I figured I
should take a good look at it.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
It was gone.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I see how about of men driving him?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Well, what do you want to know?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Can you describe him? Not?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Good?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Well? I could you tell us just what you camester
ketson and help sure?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
First one was a tall length he fell. He didn't
weigh much, sort of string bean.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
How tall would you say? Well?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
On the no, colase to six three maybe six two round?
And he's the tall one.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
About how twenty three twenty five? I couldn't tell that
too good?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Then they see what about his coloring? Was he lighter?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Dunety? Remember right he was?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
How about his clothes?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
He had on a pair of jeans, one of them jackets,
you know, made out of the same kind of material
rivage like on him. Uh, were real tight jeans. Uh,
both of 'em were wearing them.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Anything else you can tell us about the tall man? No?
Was he the driver of the car? Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, yeah, he was the one who did the shoot
and the tall fella.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Could you see the gun ever?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Not good?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Do you remember whether it was a revolver or automatic?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Oh? Looked like it was a bother to me? Right?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Now, what about the other man.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
He was shorter than the first one, No, run, but
U know shorter. Guess anybody? He looked small next to him?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
About how tall was he?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Always about five nine five ten? Give a cup and
take a cup?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
All right? How was he built?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Sort of light? Oh? Maybe one hundred and forty.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Anything else about the two men? Did either of them
wear glasses? Do you remember? No?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
No, not so as I could see. Might have taken
them off, you know, before they got out of the car.
Might have, but I didn't see him. When the fight started.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Did either of them use a name that you could hear?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I told you before. I couldn't hear anything they said.
There's just a lot of yelling and fights started, all right.
There wasn't anything special about the two fellows and make
them stand out, one tall, the other short.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
No big reason to remember them. Graid you got it wrong,
mister huh.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
We got a reason.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
We made arrangements for Andrew Kates to come down to
the office and look through the mud books. The rest
of the neighborhood was checked again, but we were unable
to find anyone else.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Who'd witnessed the shooting.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
While we'd been talking to Kate's a team of detectives
from Homicide Detail at gone to the victim's house. They
didn't find anyone at home, but when they spoke to
the neighbors, they were told that Matthew Denton's wife was
in the hospital. Frank and I checked with her doctor
and found out that she was in the maternity ward.
He recommended that we delayed talking to the woman as
long as possible, since she was in a weakened condition.
From the hospital record, we found that Denton was employed
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by an advertising agency. We checked with the nurse's on duty.
We found that he left the hospital with another man.
They gave us a description of him, but they were
unable to identify him for us. We asked they call
the office and the event the man returned to the hospital,
Frank and I went back to the office and checked out.
The next morning, Wednesday, at eight forty am, we were
back in the squad room.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yes, sir, you're looking for somebody. Ill I see somebody
about this story and the paper which one is at
Sue doctor shooting last night? Corner Normandy Wilborough, All right,
what does Joanna talk about? Are you the officers hounding
the case?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yes, sir, my name is Stirling Hall.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I think maybe I can help you out all right
when I have a seat, mister Hall, sure, thank you.
That's by finder Frank Smith. My name is Friday.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
How did you mister Smith? All right? What you got?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Well, it says here in the paper where Denton left
the hospital with a man says you're looking for him.
That's right, Well you don't have to look no further
on him. You were with Denton last night? Were just said,
all right? How long were you together?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Till about nine thirty? It dropped him off the bus
stand right where he was shot.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I don't want to be can start at the beginning
and tell us the whole story with him? Sure thing, Well,
you see, I got a lady friend the same hospital
as Denton's wife. I was over there last night, say hello.
I brought a box of caramels and said hello, uh huh.
But I was on my way out the place, and
I stopped off for a cup of coffee in that
little little shop that got there.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You know whether it has the gifts books on what
the name of the baby? And know I well, I
was having a cup of coffee in this year.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Denton come in. He wanted to buy a.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Little plant for his wife. They just had a baby.
Wanted to send her something.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I see now.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
We got to talk and I had a cup of coffee.
It turned out he he didn't have his car, so
I asked.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Him if I could give him a ride home.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
He was kind of nervous and.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
All new father, Yes, sir. We left the hospital and
he said it wasn't necessary for me to take him
all the way home, said for me to just I'm
off the bus stand.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Told me there was one way right near his house.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
All right. Well, on the way, we was following this
car and all of a sudden it stops, no signal
or nothing, just lambs on the brakes, and we rammed
into it. Well, didn't hardly do no damage to the
other car, broke one of my headlights as all, but
didn't hurt the other car at all. Two fellers got
out and they walked back and they started a little ruckus,
said we was speeding and driving reckless, all that kind
of stuff, read aloud, and this dam he'd tell him
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to shove off.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Said their car wasn't hurt at all, and said not
to make a big thing out of it.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
He told him was their fault anyway, Were you still
in the car? No, we got out to see what
damage had occurred. I seek Now, these two guys started
to get rugged now like they wanted to start some
real trouble and dent and said if they wanted to
make a problem out of it, thing to do was
to call the cops and make a complaint. Well, they
say to that nothing, just said to forget it, and
then they got in the car and shoved off. Now
I didn't see him again, but I got to thinking
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about it this morning when I saw the throwing in paper.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
You think it might have been one of them too,
who shot? Then?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Well, we don't know, sir. Can he give us in
description of the man? Sure thing?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Now, one of them was real tall. The other one
was about my high. It'll be about five eight five
eight and three quarters.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Then he give us a description of the car. Yes, sir,
it was a light blue forward, one of them new ones,
you know, with the plastic on top of Sir. I
took a good luck at it. A matter of fact,
I kind of thought there might be some trouble about
the accident. I didn't want to be out on.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
A limb with my insurance company so I made sure.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Yeah, I got the license number. Well, I got a
complete description of the two men. Frank check DMV on
the license number. Five minutes later he came back to
the office, So, yeah, you got it.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
If you find out who the car belongs to, shouldn't
anything to pick up them two feathers. It's not going
to be that easy. M car was stolen. Before Frank
and I left the office. We made arrangements for stelling
Hall to check the mudbooks and the hope that he
might be able to identify the suspects.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
At eleven twenty am, we drove over to talk to
the registered owner of the stolen car. He told us
that the vehicle had been taken from a parking lot
the day before and that he'd made an immediate report
on it to the police. Additional broadcasts were gotten out
on the automobile and on the suspects. That afternoon, we
drove over and talked to the victim's wife.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
She told us that the money and the express checks
Denton had been carrying were for the payment of the
hospital and the doctor bills.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
We questioned her about our husband's friends and associates. Although
we had the story given us by Sterling Hall. It
seemed unlikely that the man was killed as the result
of an argument over a minor traffic accident. We spent
the rest of the day interviewing people who knew the victim.
From them, we learned that Denton was well liked and
he was respectful. He took an active interest in neighborhood
clubs and events. The more we went into his background,
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the more convinced we became that he'd been killed by
the men in the stolen Ford. Two days passed. On Saturday,
May twelfth, the vehicle was found abandoned. A stakeout was
placed on it, and when no one approached it, the
crew from Layton Prince went over the car. We found
several partial fingerprints, but not enough for classification. The Prince
were photographed and held for evidence, and I continued to
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work on the killing. A month went by without additional
information turning up. On Tuesday, June nineteenth, we got a
call from Burglery detail. Yeah no, nothing, where'd he come from? No,
I don't might check out.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
No, No, we'll pick him up. Yeah, okay, right, thanks
mac Over and Burglary. He says they just picked up
a guy for receiving uh huh, tried to make a deal,
said if he got a break, he might be able
to help us clean up something.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Say what it was, Yeah, he did the Denton killing.
We left the office. We went over to room forty five.
We talked with the officers who'd picked up the suspect.
They told us that they found a large quantity of
stolen automobile supplies in his possession. We took him to
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the interrogation room for questioning for almost an hour. He
remained silent.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
How about it, kanely gonna give us a hand, knee on?
Stand up, Let's go give it up. Huh. Now we'll
be back. Well, you're taking me back to Burgley making
book you man jail. Yep, But you guys are all
through with me. Yeah, for now. We'll talk to you again,
or you won't get any more. Tell me somethingbody by.
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A little while ago, you said you knew something about
a killing.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Now you shut up.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Won't give us a time of day. Why I told
another cop if I gotta break you get one. You
know we can't make deals. No, that's gonna cost you.
You're gonna take an installment. How do you figure that?
You said? You knew something about Matthew Dentmon's murder? Is
that right?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I don't remember that far back. We do, and we
can prove you did. If you're up on a receiving rap,
now that's bad enough.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
But if we can tag you withholding information, we'll make
you as an accessory after the fact. I mean, you'll try.
I think we'll make it from here. It's got another color.
I want to see how it comes out. I'll come on,
let's go down. It's way. I know what's the tab
for being accessory? Five years? Okay, let's go back. Huh.
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returned Harold Kanneely to the interrogation room. We put out
a call to Gene Bechdel to come and take a statement.
CONNELI asked that we sent out for some coffee for him.
Frank went down the hall and brought back three cups.
After he'd finished his Kanneee leaned back, it's good coffee strong.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I like it that way.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yeah, well, knowledge, you've had the class to start the story.
What do you saying? Sure? What do you want to know?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Why?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
The two men? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Now you're gonna start this all over again. I get
out here on the line. I don't know who they are.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
What do you know about him? Not much? A couple
of guys are doing pretty good with radios. You're one
of their customers. Yeah, me and a half a dozen others.
You know who they are.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
You're not going to get the names. All right, Let's
get back to two men. Why do you think they
had something to do with Denton?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Well, about three weeks ago, there's in my place. Had
five new radios that kind of with the bar to
pick the stations, you know, like the new cads. Yeah,
I know, I had five of them. Want to turn
them over?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
You know the price?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
They were asking his way out. I told him so,
so they have to find someplace else to drop them,
all right, tell me there was a beef they had
to get out of town. Said they needed the money
to swing it. I still doesn't add up to Denton's killers, doesn't,
but it will a right, come on, tell us. I
went out of the office for a couple minutes, told
him how to make a phone call. Yeah, I got
a mic hiding in the room. Found out that helps
some business once in a while. I turned it on
and listened to the guy's talk. They were yacting about
some guy that got shot. The big fellow was saying
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there was no other way to handle it, so that
he didn't like it either, but there just wasn't any
other way. Big think then was to get some money
and just beat down. I waited outside for a couple
more minutes, but they didn't say anything, so I went
back in. I told him I couldn't swing the radio deal.
What'd they do then? Well, they said they had to
dump him someplace.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
If I couldn't take him, I'd find somebody who wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Told him to go ahead. What do these guys looked
like a couple of bums, one tall, the other short,
wearing those jeans with the coats made out of the
same cloth. You know you had dealings with them before, Yeah,
a couple of times. You know the names? No, all
I know is the big one's called Dusty. I don't
know the last boy. How about the other one? Nothing
there anything else about him? Now? They're both lushes, you know.
A big one is Dusty always got a flask on
his hip, I mean a bottle line, No, all metal flask.
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Look they used in prohibition. This one's all beat up, dented,
it's all dirty, but I never seen Dusty without it,
Both of them all the time nipping at it right.
You know where these guys live? No, someplace down town.
They got a pad there. I don't know where it
is though. How do you know it's downtown? Well, I
don't know for sure. It's just a guess. Did you
ever hear either of them say anything about a job?
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Not?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Those two They've never done a day's work in their lives.
So I think they're good at is lifting radios. They
wouldn't work steady if stealing was legal. Got all they
take radios all I've ever seen. I guess they got
a gimmick. Figure they can make a living with them,
why change? I guess they do pretty good. I don't know.
I paid them enough times? All right, anything else you
can tell us? No, they work with anybody else, do
you know?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Not that I've ever heard? How about close friends? No,
they see when they be back to your place.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
No, they don't have a regular route. When they pick
up some things they come in. They got nothing to sell.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
I don't see them. When'd you see him last time?
I told you bout Are they still around?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Well? I don't know, Rumble says they are. I haven't
seen him myself. You know where we can reach them? No, Oh,
you don't make an appointment with them. You know if
these guys have ever been arrested. Oh, we never talked
about where they seem to feel about COPSTO. You're sure
figure they feel they from lady? You know, I don't
think so. Never heard him say, only done business with
him a couple of times. We never got real buddy, buddy,
they don't go with that, chummy said much. All right,
(20:57):
tonely any more you want to tell us? I guess
that's it.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
All right?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Come on, I want you to check the books. Yeah, hey,
can you spring it out?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
A couple of that coffee?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
It's sure good, about the best they ever tasted. Hey,
wait a minute. You know there's one more thing about
the guys you're after. All right, take it easy with him.
Like I told you, they're both lushes. I think they're
off their rockers. You know, we'll watch it. You're better.
They're packing heavy, you know, anyway you slice it, they're loaded.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Harold Kneely went through the mug books, but he was
unable to find a picture of the two suspects. The
name Dusty was checked to the Moniker file without result.
Information was forwarded to George Brett and ip at CEII Sacramento,
and a supplemental APB was gotten out. We spent the
rest of the day with officers from Burgery Detail going
over reports. We found that they'd been working on a
string of car radio thefts for the past several weeks.
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When we compared notes with them, it seemed more than
possible that they're two suspects were the same men we
wanted for the killing of Matthew Denton. However, they were
no closer to the men than we were. From the reports,
we were able to figure that the pair was still
in Los Angeles. That evening, we met with Captain Mormon,
Captain Bernard, and chie Detective stad Brown. We worked out
a system of rolling steakouts that would cover most of
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the territory where the thieves had been working. Three additional
teams of men from Burgery were assigned to help us,
and on Wednesday, June twentieth, the operation was started.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
For three days, there was no action. Thefts from Otto's.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Continued, but when they were checked out, the method of
operation used eliminated any suspects that we were looking for.
On Sunday, June twenty fourth, we got a call that
a man answering the descriptions of one of the thieves
had been seen in the vicinity of Beverly.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Boulevard and Elmwood Avenue. Frank and I left our position
in the stakeout and we drove out to the area.
Should be a couple of more blocks. Yeah, we just
passed Ridgewood Place. You better take it easy. Next block
when you start cruising, Yeah, see anything? No, I want
to take a left here, all right, I'll take you
take left. It doesn't look like it. Let's go up
(22:57):
a couple more blocks, all right, should be a break
if we nail 'em to night. Yeah, a little rough
on the study time. How's it going? Oh, I don't
know Joe times. I don't think I'm ever gonna make
a sergeant. What are you doing now? You mean study him? Yeah,
legal procedure. You should know that, all the practical stuff. Yeah,
putting it in the legal language that makes it rough
(23:18):
on me. Yeah, I had the same trouble.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I haven't been able to hit the books for the
past week.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Wait a minute, and no, nothing, keep going. What'd you say?
I've said I hadn't hit the books.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
I missed a couple of lectures too. No, you never
gonna make it that way, And it's my face says
wait a minute. Uhuh, slow down? What do you got
up there?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
See next block on the left, about fifty feet in
the other side of the street. Line, I don't see yeh.
Look to me like somebody trying to get into the car.
I'm not sure. Uh, let's check it. Uh huh. Just
up ahead there, yeah, see anything you know?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
It looks like somebody on the other side. Better pull up,
will take a look. Okay, alright, let's go right, I'll
come on the other side.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Take it easy. If it's the one we want, they're heavy,
all right, all right, mister, let's hold it right there.
Stand where you are. That's right.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
What are you causing me trouble for?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I didn't We didn't say you didn't.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
How about it, mister, it's your car, say me, it's
my car. What do you think about time you got
the white slip? Send the machines right out in pain
sight where it's supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You've been drinking, haven't you?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Small? One of you officers don't do better solving crimes.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I had a couple. Yeah. What's your name?
Speaker 6 (24:33):
I don't see that's any business yours. All I'm trying
to do is get into my car. I'm not causing
any trouble.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
What's your name?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
It's Kyle Peter Carr.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
And you got the keys of this car.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Matter of fact, I have, and that's why I'm having
so much trouble getting in. If I had the keys.
I could just flip the door open and drive off right. Yeah, yeah,
what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I just want to see what you're carrying?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Watch Joe, mister, come on, get up all right, I'm
going like to.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Say I'm doing. Try to get in front. Yeah, come on,
get your hands it back. He's clean, job all right?
Come on, I didn't mean shooting.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Sure, she gotta leave.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Come on down here into the light, and I stand
still and matches the description. Pretty good. What's your partner?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I didn't mean to do it. It was it was
an accident. I just hit the guy. I just got
in a fight with him. Dusty did the shoot, and
he did it. I didn't.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I just got in a fight and a calm down
where I knew you'd catch just a new it.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
All the time, I kept telling him, Dusty, we had
to get out of town. We gotta go. I kept
telling him all the time.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
I was telling him where is he?
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Oh, where's that? He's the one who did it. I
just got in a fight. That's he's the one who
was shot, not me. Donald for it. That's where old
Dusty is all safe.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Dusty, he said we didn't have to leave.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
He said, you'd never catch us.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Let's go. Old Dusty's always right, always knows what he's
doing all the time, never makes a mistake.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Not Old Dusty now.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Only made one this time. Ton't the story you've just
heard is true. The names were changed to protect the innocent.
On November sixth, trial was held in Department ninety five,
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Speaker 3 (02:07):
It was Tuesday, May eighth, was cool in Los Angeles.
We were working the night Watch out of homicide detail.
My partner's Frank Smith, the boss's captain. Warning, my name's Friday.
I was on my way over from the office and
it was ten thirteen pm. When I got to Georgia
Street Receiving Hospital, the waiting room, I.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Think, joh, how's he doing? I don't know. I'll talk
to doctor Sebastian. How's it look?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Not too good? Slugs and bed and his lung caused
a hemorrhage, was getting a transfusion? What are you going on?
I just talked to the guys who came in with
him for a minute. They didn't have a lot, you know.
Carl came in from a man who owns a news
stand at the corner of Normandy and Willowbrook. See the witness, Yeah,
anything there?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Well, I have talked to him. What he got on
the victim? Wait a minute, I got it here names
Matthew Denton. Address given is one eight nine seven O
Taff Street in Hollywood. Did you get in touch with anybody? No?
Tried to hospital, nobody was there anything else? And I went
over to the personal property stuff cigarettes, slider call Hi,
huh out A diamond ring on a small finger, left
(03:04):
hand looks expensive gold wristwatch one hundred and forty dollars
in cash, thirteen hundred dollars in American Express checks. Doesn't
spell robbery, doesn't Oh, none of the stuff was disturbed.
Maybe he can tell us something. Huh, yeah, Joe, Frank,
my doctor, how's it? Look? What time I got?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Ten sixteen? Make it ten thirteen? Huh close enough for
the report? What time of death?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Matthew Trevor Denton, WMA, thirty one years, five foot nine,
one hundred and sixty four pounds and stopped living at
ten thirteen pm on May eighth.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
We didn't know who he was or why he died.
Before we left the hospital.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
We put in a call to Denton's address, but we
got no answer. We checked the name and descriptions through I.
There was no record on the dead man. At ten
forty eight pm, we left Georgia Street and drove over
to the scene of the shooting, where we talked to
the witness Andrew Keats.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I go over, there's right, it happened to the bus stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I was standing right here, right here. I saw the
whole thing happen.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yes, sir By, what time was that, mister case?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Oh? I guess it was nine thirty years old.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I see, I was just.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Standing in here and bang, bang, two shots.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Did you see what led up to the shooting?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well, what do you mean? Let up?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Well, I mean you see what happened before.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Oh yeah, the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Uh huh? Would you tell us about it? Sure? Oh? Alright,
go ahead.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Well one of those nights where just nothing went right,
you know. I mean, uh, I.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Started off with my wife burning the coffee. I wouldn't
think a person could do that, would you burn the coffee?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
So I go ahead.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I had a big argument for a left home. I
just started off that way. Yes, sir, got on here
and took over. About what time's up in the stanca?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Oh I was seven thirty in the morning. Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Tried to get breakfast business, you know, people on the
way to eat stop off for early paper.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I see, I triably get them, all right.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I opened her up in the morning, and then there's
a school kid akes over for me about three and
the afternoon niche here on around six thirty. Wanna come
back from supper? I see, that's when she burned the
coffee night supper.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
All right, you wanna tell us about the shooting.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Oh, sure, they're kind of hard. You know. This is
the first time for me.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Hows that?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Well, it's the first time I've ever been a witness.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
First, I said, what time did you first see the.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Victim man who was shot? Yes, sir, well, I told
you it was about nine thirty. The car pulled up
to the curb and this fella got out.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
He kind of stood there for a minute and he
talked to the other fella in the car. He just
stood there a minute and talked, kind of leaning in
the window. Car pulled away and the one man one who.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Got out, Yeah, he walked over and sat down on
the bench like he was waiting for the bus. O case,
you got a good look at the car got out
of my sword. If that's what you mean, would you
describe it for us? It was a black Chevy I'd
say maybe fifty two or fifty.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Three Sadana could pay No is you see dan fourth door?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
And nothing special about it? Did you get a look
at the man that was driving?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
No?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
No, the light's kind of bad over there. You can
see for yourself the one fella leaning in the car.
I couldn't get a good look.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I didn't pay a lot of attention to it. Anyway,
It didn't seem anything to get all concerned about.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
All right, chick, do you wanna go ahead?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Well, the fella sat there for a minute, not doing nothing,
just just waiting.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Then this other car pulled up right up the curve.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
One guy got out of the car, got right out
and walked over the fella.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Sitting on the bench. I see, Oh, excuse me a
minute of the customer, par chick, what do you think?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Right? Don't know?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Old Bert always stops by the same time he gets
one of each, you know, same time every night with.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
The old Bert. You know, see, I want if you
go ahead with his story?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Oh oh yeah, Well, this car pulled up and the
fella got out.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
They walked over the bench started talking to the first man.
They got in an argument.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
How don't know that?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Why?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Well do you know they were arguing.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Well, I could see standing over there, waving their arms around.
I could even hear some of the yelling. They wasn't
no take get all to see that they were having
some kind of trouble.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Could you hear what the travel was about?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
No, just a lot of yelling and waving. He had
no outright word, or do you want to go ahead
for you? Well, next thing.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I knew was when the fellaw got out of the car.
I started swinging at the other one that was the victim.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Yeah, one that was shot all right, Well, you just
bet the guy tackle more naked handily the victim fella
started to clean up on this other one.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
He just started to mopst with it.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I see.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
That's when the guy who was waiting in the car
got out and went over to help his friends. You see,
three of them kind of struggled around for a while,
and the one from the car pulled the gun. Bang bang,
two shots. First guy dropped right down on the sidewalk.
The other two got in the.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Car and took off, went roaring down Normandy that way.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Can he described the second car, well, not too good.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I just got a glance at that. I wasn't paying
a lot of attention. The first time I figured I
should take a good look at it.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
It was gone.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I see how about of men driving him?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Well, what do you want to know?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Can you describe him? Not?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Good?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Well? I could you tell us just what you camester
ketson and help sure?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
First one was a tall length he fell. He didn't
weigh much, sort of string bean.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
How tall would you say? Well?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
On the no, colase to six three maybe six two round?
And he's the tall one.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
About how twenty three twenty five? I couldn't tell that
too good?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Then they see what about his coloring? Was he lighter?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Dunety? Remember right he was?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
How about his clothes?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
He had on a pair of jeans, one of them jackets,
you know, made out of the same kind of material
rivage like on him. Uh, were real tight jeans. Uh,
both of 'em were wearing them.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Anything else you can tell us about the tall man? No?
Was he the driver of the car? Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, yeah, he was the one who did the shoot
and the tall fella.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Could you see the gun ever?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Not good?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Do you remember whether it was a revolver or automatic?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Oh? Looked like it was a bother to me? Right?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Now, what about the other man.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
He was shorter than the first one, No, run, but
U know shorter. Guess anybody? He looked small next to him?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
About how tall was he?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Always about five nine five ten? Give a cup and
take a cup?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
All right? How was he built?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Sort of light? Oh? Maybe one hundred and forty.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Anything else about the two men? Did either of them
wear glasses? Do you remember? No?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
No, not so as I could see. Might have taken
them off, you know, before they got out of the car.
Might have, but I didn't see him. When the fight started.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Did either of them use a name that you could hear?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I told you before. I couldn't hear anything they said.
There's just a lot of yelling and fights started, all right.
There wasn't anything special about the two fellows and make
them stand out, one tall, the other short.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
No big reason to remember them. Graid you got it wrong,
mister huh.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
We got a reason.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
We made arrangements for Andrew Kates to come down to
the office and look through the mud books. The rest
of the neighborhood was checked again, but we were unable
to find anyone else.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Who'd witnessed the shooting.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
While we'd been talking to Kate's a team of detectives
from Homicide Detail at gone to the victim's house. They
didn't find anyone at home, but when they spoke to
the neighbors, they were told that Matthew Denton's wife was
in the hospital. Frank and I checked with her doctor
and found out that she was in the maternity ward.
He recommended that we delayed talking to the woman as
long as possible, since she was in a weakened condition.
From the hospital record, we found that Denton was employed
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by an advertising agency. We checked with the nurse's on duty.
We found that he left the hospital with another man.
They gave us a description of him, but they were
unable to identify him for us. We asked they call
the office and the event the man returned to the hospital,
Frank and I went back to the office and checked out.
The next morning, Wednesday, at eight forty am, we were
back in the squad room.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yes, sir, you're looking for somebody. Ill I see somebody
about this story and the paper which one is at
Sue doctor shooting last night? Corner Normandy Wilborough, All right,
what does Joanna talk about? Are you the officers hounding
the case?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yes, sir, my name is Stirling Hall.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I think maybe I can help you out all right
when I have a seat, mister Hall, sure, thank you.
That's by finder Frank Smith. My name is Friday.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
How did you mister Smith? All right? What you got?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Well, it says here in the paper where Denton left
the hospital with a man says you're looking for him.
That's right, Well you don't have to look no further
on him. You were with Denton last night? Were just said,
all right? How long were you together?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Till about nine thirty? It dropped him off the bus
stand right where he was shot.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I don't want to be can start at the beginning
and tell us the whole story with him? Sure thing, Well,
you see, I got a lady friend the same hospital
as Denton's wife. I was over there last night, say hello.
I brought a box of caramels and said hello, uh huh.
But I was on my way out the place, and
I stopped off for a cup of coffee in that
little little shop that got there.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You know whether it has the gifts books on what
the name of the baby? And know I well, I
was having a cup of coffee in this year.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Denton come in. He wanted to buy a.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Little plant for his wife. They just had a baby.
Wanted to send her something.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I see now.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
We got to talk and I had a cup of coffee.
It turned out he he didn't have his car, so
I asked.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Him if I could give him a ride home.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
He was kind of nervous and.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
All new father, Yes, sir. We left the hospital and
he said it wasn't necessary for me to take him
all the way home, said for me to just I'm
off the bus stand.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Told me there was one way right near his house.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
All right. Well, on the way, we was following this
car and all of a sudden it stops, no signal
or nothing, just lambs on the brakes, and we rammed
into it. Well, didn't hardly do no damage to the
other car, broke one of my headlights as all, but
didn't hurt the other car at all. Two fellers got
out and they walked back and they started a little ruckus,
said we was speeding and driving reckless, all that kind
of stuff, read aloud, and this dam he'd tell him
(12:23):
to shove off.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Said their car wasn't hurt at all, and said not
to make a big thing out of it.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
He told him was their fault anyway, Were you still
in the car? No, we got out to see what
damage had occurred. I seek Now, these two guys started
to get rugged now like they wanted to start some
real trouble and dent and said if they wanted to
make a problem out of it, thing to do was
to call the cops and make a complaint. Well, they
say to that nothing, just said to forget it, and
then they got in the car and shoved off. Now
I didn't see him again, but I got to thinking
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about it this morning when I saw the throwing in paper.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
You think it might have been one of them too,
who shot? Then?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Well, we don't know, sir. Can he give us in
description of the man? Sure thing?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Now, one of them was real tall. The other one
was about my high. It'll be about five eight five
eight and three quarters.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Then he give us a description of the car. Yes, sir,
it was a light blue forward, one of them new ones,
you know, with the plastic on top of Sir. I
took a good luck at it. A matter of fact,
I kind of thought there might be some trouble about
the accident. I didn't want to be out on.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
A limb with my insurance company so I made sure.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Yeah, I got the license number. Well, I got a
complete description of the two men. Frank check DMV on
the license number. Five minutes later he came back to
the office, So, yeah, you got it.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
If you find out who the car belongs to, shouldn't
anything to pick up them two feathers. It's not going
to be that easy. M car was stolen. Before Frank
and I left the office. We made arrangements for stelling
Hall to check the mudbooks and the hope that he
might be able to identify the suspects.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
At eleven twenty am, we drove over to talk to
the registered owner of the stolen car. He told us
that the vehicle had been taken from a parking lot
the day before and that he'd made an immediate report
on it to the police. Additional broadcasts were gotten out
on the automobile and on the suspects. That afternoon, we
drove over and talked to the victim's wife.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
She told us that the money and the express checks
Denton had been carrying were for the payment of the
hospital and the doctor bills.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
We questioned her about our husband's friends and associates. Although
we had the story given us by Sterling Hall. It
seemed unlikely that the man was killed as the result
of an argument over a minor traffic accident. We spent
the rest of the day interviewing people who knew the victim.
From them, we learned that Denton was well liked and
he was respectful. He took an active interest in neighborhood
clubs and events. The more we went into his background,
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the more convinced we became that he'd been killed by
the men in the stolen Ford. Two days passed. On Saturday,
May twelfth, the vehicle was found abandoned. A stakeout was
placed on it, and when no one approached it, the
crew from Layton Prince went over the car. We found
several partial fingerprints, but not enough for classification. The Prince
were photographed and held for evidence, and I continued to
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work on the killing. A month went by without additional
information turning up. On Tuesday, June nineteenth, we got a
call from Burglery detail. Yeah no, nothing, where'd he come from? No,
I don't might check out.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
No, No, we'll pick him up. Yeah, okay, right, thanks
mac Over and Burglary. He says they just picked up
a guy for receiving uh huh, tried to make a deal,
said if he got a break, he might be able
to help us clean up something.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Say what it was, Yeah, he did the Denton killing.
We left the office. We went over to room forty five.
We talked with the officers who'd picked up the suspect.
They told us that they found a large quantity of
stolen automobile supplies in his possession. We took him to
(15:49):
the interrogation room for questioning for almost an hour. He
remained silent.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
How about it, kanely gonna give us a hand, knee on?
Stand up, Let's go give it up. Huh. Now we'll
be back. Well, you're taking me back to Burgley making
book you man jail. Yep, But you guys are all
through with me. Yeah, for now. We'll talk to you again,
or you won't get any more. Tell me somethingbody by.
(16:14):
A little while ago, you said you knew something about
a killing.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Now you shut up.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Won't give us a time of day. Why I told
another cop if I gotta break you get one. You
know we can't make deals. No, that's gonna cost you.
You're gonna take an installment. How do you figure that?
You said? You knew something about Matthew Dentmon's murder? Is
that right?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I don't remember that far back. We do, and we
can prove you did. If you're up on a receiving rap,
now that's bad enough.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
But if we can tag you withholding information, we'll make
you as an accessory after the fact. I mean, you'll try.
I think we'll make it from here. It's got another color.
I want to see how it comes out. I'll come on,
let's go down. It's way. I know what's the tab
for being accessory? Five years? Okay, let's go back. Huh.
I'll tell you all about it. You are listening to
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returned Harold Kanneely to the interrogation room. We put out
a call to Gene Bechdel to come and take a statement.
CONNELI asked that we sent out for some coffee for him.
Frank went down the hall and brought back three cups.
After he'd finished his Kanneee leaned back, it's good coffee strong.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I like it that way.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yeah, well, knowledge, you've had the class to start the story.
What do you saying? Sure? What do you want to know?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Why?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
The two men? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Now you're gonna start this all over again. I get
out here on the line. I don't know who they are.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
What do you know about him? Not much? A couple
of guys are doing pretty good with radios. You're one
of their customers. Yeah, me and a half a dozen others.
You know who they are.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
You're not going to get the names. All right, Let's
get back to two men. Why do you think they
had something to do with Denton?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Well, about three weeks ago, there's in my place. Had
five new radios that kind of with the bar to
pick the stations, you know, like the new cads. Yeah,
I know, I had five of them. Want to turn
them over?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
You know the price?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
They were asking his way out. I told him so,
so they have to find someplace else to drop them,
all right, tell me there was a beef they had
to get out of town. Said they needed the money
to swing it. I still doesn't add up to Denton's killers, doesn't,
but it will a right, come on, tell us. I
went out of the office for a couple minutes, told
him how to make a phone call. Yeah, I got
a mic hiding in the room. Found out that helps
some business once in a while. I turned it on
and listened to the guy's talk. They were yacting about
some guy that got shot. The big fellow was saying
(19:12):
there was no other way to handle it, so that
he didn't like it either, but there just wasn't any
other way. Big think then was to get some money
and just beat down. I waited outside for a couple
more minutes, but they didn't say anything, so I went
back in. I told him I couldn't swing the radio deal.
What'd they do then? Well, they said they had to
dump him someplace.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
If I couldn't take him, I'd find somebody who wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Told him to go ahead. What do these guys looked
like a couple of bums, one tall, the other short,
wearing those jeans with the coats made out of the
same cloth. You know you had dealings with them before, Yeah,
a couple of times. You know the names? No, all
I know is the big one's called Dusty. I don't
know the last boy. How about the other one? Nothing
there anything else about him? Now? They're both lushes, you know.
A big one is Dusty always got a flask on
his hip, I mean a bottle line, No, all metal flask.
(19:50):
Look they used in prohibition. This one's all beat up, dented,
it's all dirty, but I never seen Dusty without it,
Both of them all the time nipping at it right.
You know where these guys live? No, someplace down town.
They got a pad there. I don't know where it
is though. How do you know it's downtown? Well, I
don't know for sure. It's just a guess. Did you
ever hear either of them say anything about a job?
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Not?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Those two They've never done a day's work in their lives.
So I think they're good at is lifting radios. They
wouldn't work steady if stealing was legal. Got all they
take radios all I've ever seen. I guess they got
a gimmick. Figure they can make a living with them,
why change? I guess they do pretty good. I don't know.
I paid them enough times? All right, anything else you
can tell us? No, they work with anybody else, do
you know?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Not that I've ever heard? How about close friends? No,
they see when they be back to your place.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
No, they don't have a regular route. When they pick
up some things they come in. They got nothing to sell.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
I don't see them. When'd you see him last time?
I told you bout Are they still around?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Well? I don't know, Rumble says they are. I haven't
seen him myself. You know where we can reach them? No, Oh,
you don't make an appointment with them. You know if
these guys have ever been arrested. Oh, we never talked
about where they seem to feel about COPSTO. You're sure
figure they feel they from lady? You know, I don't
think so. Never heard him say, only done business with
him a couple of times. We never got real buddy, buddy,
they don't go with that, chummy said much. All right,
(20:57):
tonely any more you want to tell us? I guess
that's it.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
All right?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Come on, I want you to check the books. Yeah, hey,
can you spring it out?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
A couple of that coffee?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
It's sure good, about the best they ever tasted. Hey,
wait a minute. You know there's one more thing about
the guys you're after. All right, take it easy with him.
Like I told you, they're both lushes. I think they're
off their rockers. You know, we'll watch it. You're better.
They're packing heavy, you know, anyway you slice it, they're loaded.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Harold Kneely went through the mug books, but he was
unable to find a picture of the two suspects. The
name Dusty was checked to the Moniker file without result.
Information was forwarded to George Brett and ip at CEII Sacramento,
and a supplemental APB was gotten out. We spent the
rest of the day with officers from Burgery Detail going
over reports. We found that they'd been working on a
string of car radio thefts for the past several weeks.
(21:50):
When we compared notes with them, it seemed more than
possible that they're two suspects were the same men we
wanted for the killing of Matthew Denton. However, they were
no closer to the men than we were. From the reports,
we were able to figure that the pair was still
in Los Angeles. That evening, we met with Captain Mormon,
Captain Bernard, and chie Detective stad Brown. We worked out
a system of rolling steakouts that would cover most of
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the territory where the thieves had been working. Three additional
teams of men from Burgery were assigned to help us,
and on Wednesday, June twentieth, the operation was started.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
For three days, there was no action. Thefts from Otto's.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Continued, but when they were checked out, the method of
operation used eliminated any suspects that we were looking for.
On Sunday, June twenty fourth, we got a call that
a man answering the descriptions of one of the thieves
had been seen in the vicinity of Beverly.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Boulevard and Elmwood Avenue. Frank and I left our position
in the stakeout and we drove out to the area.
Should be a couple of more blocks. Yeah, we just
passed Ridgewood Place. You better take it easy. Next block
when you start cruising, Yeah, see anything? No, I want
to take a left here, all right, I'll take you
take left. It doesn't look like it. Let's go up
(22:57):
a couple more blocks, all right, should be a break
if we nail 'em to night. Yeah, a little rough
on the study time. How's it going? Oh, I don't
know Joe times. I don't think I'm ever gonna make
a sergeant. What are you doing now? You mean study him? Yeah,
legal procedure. You should know that, all the practical stuff. Yeah,
putting it in the legal language that makes it rough
(23:18):
on me. Yeah, I had the same trouble.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I haven't been able to hit the books for the
past week.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Wait a minute, and no, nothing, keep going. What'd you say?
I've said I hadn't hit the books.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
I missed a couple of lectures too. No, you never
gonna make it that way, And it's my face says
wait a minute. Uhuh, slow down? What do you got
up there?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
See next block on the left, about fifty feet in
the other side of the street. Line, I don't see yeh.
Look to me like somebody trying to get into the car.
I'm not sure. Uh, let's check it. Uh huh. Just
up ahead there, yeah, see anything you know?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
It looks like somebody on the other side. Better pull up,
will take a look. Okay, alright, let's go right, I'll
come on the other side.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Take it easy. If it's the one we want, they're heavy,
all right, all right, mister, let's hold it right there.
Stand where you are. That's right.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
What are you causing me trouble for?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I didn't We didn't say you didn't.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
How about it, mister, it's your car, say me, it's
my car. What do you think about time you got
the white slip? Send the machines right out in pain
sight where it's supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You've been drinking, haven't you?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Small? One of you officers don't do better solving crimes.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I had a couple. Yeah. What's your name?
Speaker 6 (24:33):
I don't see that's any business yours. All I'm trying
to do is get into my car. I'm not causing
any trouble.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
What's your name?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
It's Kyle Peter Carr.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
And you got the keys of this car.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Matter of fact, I have, and that's why I'm having
so much trouble getting in. If I had the keys.
I could just flip the door open and drive off right. Yeah, yeah,
what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I just want to see what you're carrying?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Watch Joe, mister, come on, get up all right, I'm
going like to.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Say I'm doing. Try to get in front. Yeah, come on,
get your hands it back. He's clean, job all right?
Come on, I didn't mean shooting.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Sure, she gotta leave.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Come on down here into the light, and I stand
still and matches the description. Pretty good. What's your partner?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I didn't mean to do it. It was it was
an accident. I just hit the guy. I just got
in a fight with him. Dusty did the shoot, and
he did it. I didn't.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I just got in a fight and a calm down
where I knew you'd catch just a new it.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
All the time, I kept telling him, Dusty, we had
to get out of town. We gotta go. I kept
telling him all the time.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
I was telling him where is he?
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Oh, where's that? He's the one who did it. I
just got in a fight. That's he's the one who
was shot, not me. Donald for it. That's where old
Dusty is all safe.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Dusty, he said we didn't have to leave.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
He said, you'd never catch us.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Let's go. Old Dusty's always right, always knows what he's
doing all the time, never makes a mistake.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Not Old Dusty now.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Only made one this time. Ton't the story you've just
heard is true. The names were changed to protect the innocent.
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by imprisonment for a period of not more than one
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