Dragnet: The Hunt for the Badge Bandit

For two months, a predator had been working the darkened parks and canyon roads of Los Angeles — a stocky, blonde man who flashed a badge, then turned on his victims with his fists. Fifteen robberies. Fifteen assaults. Sergeants Joe Friday and Ben Romero of the LAPD were hunting a ghost: the Badge Bandit, Charles Kirby, a man the department knew by description but couldn’t catch. When the trail finally closed in a canyon road confrontation, Kirby rammed their vehicle and vanished into the brush, leaving both detectives hospitalized. Friday walked out in two days. Romero stayed ten.

 Back on duty, Friday was assigned to a decoy operation — parked on Mulholland Drive in the small hours with Policewoman Dorothy River, waiting for Kirby to take the bait. He did. The arrest came quickly, quietly — until the system stumbled. 

 Episode Quotes

“There’s only one way a guy like that ever quits.” — Captain Steed

“You can’t work if you don’t eat.” — Mrs. Friday

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SPEAKER_05 2:32

I was on the way home from the office and it was 2 25 a.m. when I got to Collins Avenue. Number 4656. Yeah, Ma. Did I wake you?

SPEAKER_06 2:50

What time is it?

SPEAKER_05 2:51

A little after two. Don't worry, I'm okay. Got any cold meat in the icebox?

SPEAKER_06 3:11

There's some left in the icebox, but I'll come down and walk in the call.

SPEAKER_05 3:15

No, no, all I want is a sandwich, Ma. You're going back to sleep.

SPEAKER_06 3:23

We can't rip on time. Fan. Don't pick up my drink. What do you all hours first thing? You know, you'd be getting thick. You need your food, you need your rare. I'm very prayers with your sticks.

SPEAKER_05 3:35

You didn't have to get up tomorrow. All I want is salmon factory.

SPEAKER_06 3:39

I better have bone poor cooking. Here. Come pretty well to warm it up. Knife needed the paider vanid. Some of those onions you like, too. Fike Bermuda.

SPEAKER_05 3:50

Okay, enough for you, Martin. I'll get the milk.

SPEAKER_06 3:54

Goodness. Half part two on Lony. What got the through laid again?

SPEAKER_05 4:00

Another steak, I was the same down.

SPEAKER_06 4:02

Another murder in Highland Park?

SPEAKER_05 4:04

No, my the badge bandit wouldn't pose it as a policeman.

SPEAKER_06 4:07

Move that one. Certainly ought to do something about him.

SPEAKER_05 4:10

Yeah, well, we're trying to. We cannot find him.

SPEAKER_06 4:14

There's gonna be defeat in the paper about it tonight. They're terrible the way he beats up people and robs them. See that, Sandra. The way he treats women. Oh, you get a shame. They ought to put him away.

SPEAKER_05 4:28

You know. You have tomorrow eye bread?

SPEAKER_06 4:31

Mm-hmm. You're gonna have tomorrow off, Joker.

SPEAKER_05 4:37

The captain says he works to stay through, so we give the guy.

SPEAKER_06 4:41

I thought you were gonna have tomorrow off. You ought to tell the captain, you need your wrecks. You can't go online if it's working all hour. You'll be coming down to work one of these days.

SPEAKER_05 4:54

Fifteen robberies, fifteen assaults, all in two months. How many gotta stop them? You ready?

SPEAKER_06 5:04

Can't they warn the people? Wouldn't be getting robbed and beaten up if they were parking with lonely crazy.

SPEAKER_05 5:14

Yeah. Long freedom can't do anything about that, Mark. Public place.

SPEAKER_06 5:20

Mm-hmm. I throw this in the hand of trade. That's sure if it is. In stewing beef's just running together. Then we're gonna eat with you.

SPEAKER_05 5:42

Yeah, his wife's sore too. He hasn't been home much since we started on it. That's a tough one.

SPEAKER_06 5:51

All that rotting, heating, huh? Couldn't be deep.

SPEAKER_05 5:55

Well. You set the alarm. I got us checked back in at eight in the morning.

SPEAKER_06 6:04

Eight o'clock?

SPEAKER_05 6:07

Badge man has got two more victims tonight. They're a college kid. Doctor said he didn't think we should talk to him tonight, so what I've seen tomorrow morning about.

SPEAKER_06 6:14

Really badly injured.

SPEAKER_05 6:16

Nope. Pretty bad. A boy took the trouble being a girl with the task thing done. Well, it's very good, Ma. I'm better get to bed.

SPEAKER_06 6:24

Yeah, but your face looks so thin. You need all the rest you can get.

SPEAKER_05 6:29

I get it.

SPEAKER_06 6:29

I won't be film out first thing.

SPEAKER_05 6:35

Hello. It's Lorman done homicide jewel. Sorry to bother you. Yeah, Lorman. Please do. Captain wants you or Romero to meet him in Hollywood and Laurel right away. What's the matter now? Tagging hold up in Laurel Canyon 20 minutes ago. Yeah? Got the area blocked off. Figure they got the man trapped. The victims get a look at the gunny. Same description, the badge banded. I left the house, went over and picked up Ben. We drove out to the edge of the Santa Monica Mountains where Hollywood full of our dams and Laurel Canyon begin. We headed back into the canyon to the blockaded area. Captain Steed from Homicide was there waiting for Kemp. Have them tell them I'll invent tour to start moving in. Sorry to call you back. Couldn't be helped. Okay. How's it shaping up?

SPEAKER_07 7:24

Commander search detail in the vicinity of Laurel Canyon. Unit 62K reports that they are at Mulholland Drive and Oakitone Avenue. Nothing further to report.

SPEAKER_05 7:38

Covers just about all the Laurel Canyon district. Badge bandit got his victims near the top of this hill here. Well, the man who called in said the bandit had trouble starting his car. Finally had left it and took off into the brush. It was headed west on this road here. All right. Any report from the detail up on Canyon Road? Nothing yet. I'll stand by the radio. How much area we got to cover? From the mouth of the canyon here and all the way back to Ventura Boulevard. On the west here, from Lookout Mountain Avenue over to Perthview Drive on the east. How much have we got to go on? Crowley talked to the victims for a minute before they took him to Georgia Street. Yeah. The guy's description's the same. Heavy set, blonde hair, chubby face, on ring battle. Mm-hmm. He's on foot. There's plenty of underbrush around here to hide it. Wait a minute, uh, before they get this call in for a sailor. Have communications contact them to QK. Don't go there line faking air. Yeah. We'll have the other flow thin from the west to the north. Right. You two gotta get up on Rowland Drive. Line's pretty thin up there. I'll use the help. Is that the area where you've been in the car? Yeah. I want you to cover all the houses in that area. Check with everybody you can find in the neighborhood. I may be able to help. If they don't answer, find out why. Okay. I'll be making the rounds another ten minutes. Check with you then. All right, thanks so much. So one more thing, catch you. I'll tell you what I told the rest of the men. This guy's in a corner and he's got a gun. There's only one way out for him. Make sure it's not you. 3 45 a.m. Ben and I drove up to Groveland Drive and joined the search. We started our house canvas of the neighborhood where the suspect had abandoned his car. None of the residents had any further information to give him. 4 a.m. We kept on checking. 23 hours. Long get, yeah. I could use some sleep. What a mine is boiling man. She even mad the kid. Yeah? What's the trouble? Oh, and her sent down some flower bulb from Oregon yet, the bloody old bulb. Yeah. Kid was playing with a little girl next door yesterday, and they found the box, the flower bug. They put the mess of them in a pot of water and boiled them on the stove. What'd they do that for? Oh no. There is another house up ahead. We better check it. They ought to get them street lights up here. At night, working people up in the middle of the night. I don't like it any more than they do. Which we can make them believe that. Nice neighborhood up here. Wonder what the price is on these lugs. Well, it shouldn't be too high and say real estate's coming down. Yeah? What is it? Police officers. If I had to disturb them, we'd like to talk to you a minute.

SPEAKER_03 10:31

Oh, all right. Let me get the door open. What's been going on in the neighborhood tonight? Some kind of trouble? Cars racing up and down the hill? What's the trouble? Have you noticed any strangers in the neighborhood lads? No. No, I just got to bed 20 minutes ago. I work out at Fairmont. We're shooting night.

SPEAKER_05 10:48

What's all the commotion anyway? Orden for a suspect. He's supposed to be around this area.

SPEAKER_03 10:52

Well, I haven't seen anybody.

SPEAKER_05 10:54

I thought I heard somebody out of the garage a few minutes ago. Went out and looked around, but I didn't see anything. You checked to see if your car is still in the garage? No, I left it in the driveway. No, sir, there's no car in your driveway. Sure there is.

SPEAKER_03 11:04

Let me show you. Hey, a gone. And we'll use your phone. Yeah. Yeah, but I saw it just a few minutes ago. The car was right there in the driveway. You think that guy took my car?

SPEAKER_05 11:15

Yeah, just a pretty good bet. You got your license number handy here. I don't remember it. I got it on a card in my wallet. Give me a communication. Can you give it the description of your car? It's a Plymouth to Dan, black. In the dam, listen. Search detail, all canyon. I got some new information for all units in the detail. Here's the license number. Uh, when you broadcast this information to all units in the third detail, what would they make and model your car? 43 Black Limeth, a two-door to dam. Uh 1946 Black Plymouth, two doors to dam, license number. Uh, 7X-ray 2569. This car's just been stolen from 102-11 Grosven Drive. Any identifying marks on the car? Well, I left my keys in it. No, no, sir. I mean any special markings on the car. Maybe a dent in one of the fenders. Well, good George. Hold on, we get it.

SPEAKER_03 12:05

Uh, the right headlight went out on me last night. I haven't had it fixed yet.

SPEAKER_05 12:08

The right headlight on the car is out. Notify all units in the search detail that we believe the suspect is now in possession of this car. Fine, thank you. Let's go.

SPEAKER_03 12:16

Must have happened in the last 16 minutes. I heard that noise and I went out to check. The car was there then.

SPEAKER_05 12:20

Well, here's our car and we'll be checking with you later.

SPEAKER_03 12:22

Yeah, I sure hope you find it. I don't know how I can get to work tomorrow without my car. Well, we'll notify. Yeah, yeah, I sure hope you find it.

SPEAKER_05 12:28

Thanks for your help, man. World Dev.

SPEAKER_06 12:37

Great 569. Repeat. 569. For a distance stolen from 1021, Groveland Dry. The right headlight is out. Oh my god, the least affected non-session is our key three things.

SPEAKER_05 12:52

I don't think you could have gotten it card to the blockage, yet you better start searching the side roads. Yeah. Wait a minute, did the car coming down the hill through it? You're always making time. Yo. Only one headlight on the door. Let's turn around quick. Get over to the M5.

SPEAKER_06 13:28

Attention, all units. Special attention, all units in Philly.

SPEAKER_05 13:37

You're right. Ben. An ambulance was called, and Ben and I were taken to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. There I received emergency treatment for multiple cuts and bruises and a sprained left shoulder. Fenn didn't do so well. He had a possible concussion, two broken ribs, and a half a dozen severe cuts about the face and arm. We were then taken to the PF ward. Next afternoon we had a visit from Captain Steve and Chief of Detective Sad Brownfield. Braddy, how are you feeling? Oh, pretty good, Chief. It saw Romero across the hall. You came out better than he did. Yeah. That's what I hear. Are you resting, Amy? Oh, much better. No danger involved. Needs rest, that's about all. How long? Oh, you'll be here two weeks, according to Doctor. What about you? Couple of days. Too bad, Joe. Badge band? Yeah. Looks like you two got banged up for nothing. Oh? After he rammed your car, he ditched Black Plymouth, and then we figure he hit the underbrush. Yeah. Somehow, when we were all on you and Ben out of that wreck, he slipped through the line. Any fingerprints on the car? Only you. It's rotten luck. I guess it was his night, huh? We're getting more men from Metro Division to help out. Dang. And we're doubling the number of decoys around the city. Police women, huh? Yeah, we'll have each of them planted in the parked car along with an officer in every area of the badge bed that's been working. All we have to do is grab it to bait once. Yeah, if he goes for it. And plenty of time to choose. We work the same setup every night till we reach him. Big operation. Might have to run it for a week unless he quit. Well, there's only one way a guy like that ever quit. Yeah, when we stop him. Saturday, March 10th at 2 p.m. I was released from the PF ward and went home. Ben stayed on at the hot fiddle. He had at least another ten days to go before release. Sunday I fent at home. Monday afternoon I checked back in at the office, and Captain Seed put me on decoy duty for that week along with policewoman Dorothy River. We were assigned to cover an isolated parking area near Moholland Drive and Beverly Glane. With a nice view that the duty was slow. No sign on the bad bend. Policewoman River and I waited it out from late evening to early morning, from Monday through Thursday. Friday night came, same thing. We waited.

SPEAKER_08 15:56

How's Danny see him today?

SPEAKER_05 15:58

Yeah, you're doing fine. Be out next week. Well, sure.

SPEAKER_08 16:03

You want to figure it out?

SPEAKER_05 16:05

Thank you. Go find me there.

SPEAKER_08 16:20

Long ride.

SPEAKER_05 16:21

Yeah. Long.

SPEAKER_08 16:26

Just alone. Show me up here on the area.

SPEAKER_05 16:31

How full of kid. Just going out.

SPEAKER_08 16:33

Ready to cry, found you? Stay grass in the air.

SPEAKER_05 16:43

The look of your gold, you can have my code. It doesn't bother me anything.

SPEAKER_08 16:46

No, no, that's right, Joe. Okay. Beautiful view from up here in the all the light.

SPEAKER_05 16:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 16:56

You like to dance, Joe? I said, do you like a dance?

SPEAKER_05 17:00

Once in a while, I guess I'm not too good at the point.

SPEAKER_08 17:03

Well, they're caught having this big annual dance two weeks from Fraterty.

SPEAKER_05 17:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 17:07

I might get a kick out of it for him.

SPEAKER_05 17:09

It leaves me out. I don't own a tech.

SPEAKER_08 17:11

He could rent one, it'd be fun.

SPEAKER_05 17:13

Afraid I don't look good in a tech.

SPEAKER_08 17:15

I never met a man who thought he did. Why don't you try it?

SPEAKER_05 17:18

I might be working.

SPEAKER_08 17:19

Well, I mean if you're not working, how'd you come?

SPEAKER_05 17:21

You going?

SPEAKER_08 17:23

I was planning on it.

SPEAKER_05 17:25

Got a date?

SPEAKER_08 17:26

Yeah. I have hope.

SPEAKER_05 17:29

There's a car pulling in.

unknown 17:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 17:34

Parked over in the back of it.

SPEAKER_08 17:36

I can only make out one person in the car.

SPEAKER_05 17:39

Yeah. Looks like a man I can't make sure. Alright, getting on over closer. We might as well look the part, huh? Alright.

SPEAKER_08 17:51

Coming with what?

SPEAKER_05 17:52

Walking over to the side of the road. Got a flashlight. Looking around.

SPEAKER_08 17:58

And I don't like the bad gun.

SPEAKER_05 18:02

Yeah, he's turning around. He's got his flashlight on.

SPEAKER_08 18:06

Coming up on your side of the car.

SPEAKER_05 18:07

I take it easy, you know what to do. Come on, I'll let the car. Please help.

SPEAKER_04 18:16

All right, hold on. Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_02 18:19

Come on, I get out of the car, blonde you. All right, so the dunny.

SPEAKER_05 18:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 18:34

Now I'll get the cup, Frenny.

SPEAKER_05 18:36

Thanks. I didn't think I hit him there hard.

SPEAKER_08 18:40

You didn't, I did.

SPEAKER_05 18:46

Policewoman Dorothy River Knight took the suspect to Hollywood Division, where he was booked on suspicion of robbery and gave his name as Charles Leon Kirby, age 46. Monday, March 19th, Ben was released from the hospital and he checked back in for word. A special show-up was held at which ten of the 17 victims definitely identified Kirby as the bad family. The suspect had finally been apprehended. Now we started the slow process of formally charging the man and presenting our evidence against him to bring him to trial. 10 a.m. Sen and I went across the street to the sixth floor of the Hall of Justice to present our case against Kirby and to obtain a formal coupling against him. We met with Deputy District Attorney Broker.

SPEAKER_04 19:24

When you get out of the hospital, then showed that sick to that place. Heard about your accident.

SPEAKER_05 19:29

That guy sure gave enough trouble, didn't he? Yeah, he's still giving us trouble. How's that? He got in a tangle with another prisoner out in Hollywood division.

SPEAKER_04 19:36

Yeah?

SPEAKER_05 19:37

The other prisoner gave Kirby a pretty bad going over. Cut him up and broke his left forearm. They're moving him in an ambulance through Hollywood to the prison ward at the General Hospital. When did this happen? This this morning. I think they're moving him downtown now. Tough one. How about the reports on Kirby? Are they all in order? Here's a summary report. Ledges 10 positive identifications containing 10 counts for robbery and 10 counts for forcible wraith. Mm-hmm. Here were here are seven other crime reports. Only far identification on means. Okay. What do you got for crow riding evidence gas? Oh, we went through Kirby's department, found at least a dozen pieces of property that he took from his victims. Mm-hmm. Mostly watches and jewelry. The victims identified every piece we found.

SPEAKER_04 20:19

Okay, let me get the details out. So excuse me a minute. Drift. Broker speaking. Yeah, it's not you, Friday.

SPEAKER_05 20:27

Family. Friday. When? Yeah, right away. Ballette bedded. Went to my Kirby. She just broke out of that ambulance.

SPEAKER_09 20:41

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As soon as word of Kirby's escape came through, the information was broadcast to all points. All available cruiser cars and men were rushed to the escape area, and the door-to-door canvas got underway. All of the men were given mugshots to Kirby together with his description. 11 a.m., Fenn and I got back to the office. We found a message from Captain Steed to meet him in the Chief of the Detective's office.

SPEAKER_02 22:32

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SPEAKER_05 22:33

What's the story, Chief? Well, I'm trying to find out. Where'd he make the break? Yeah, fourth and main. Couldn't have picked a better thought. The ambulance has just crossed third and main when Kirby plugged the guard. The driver was too busy dodging traffic to notice what was going on in back. Well, it's a lousy break. Kirby jumped out of the back end of the ambulance and disappeared in the crowd. No silent sense. Well, that's fine. Takes us almost three months to reach the guy, and he breaks away on a cheap floop like that. Well, he doesn't have many friends in town. He's only got one we know of. Yeah. My brother. Kirby stays with him pretty often, from what we can gather. And the brother lives in a roomy house down on Alameda. Will nobody check that guess? We've got it staked out. The brother works at a box factory in the south end of town. That's covered too. He's not going far with a broken arm. What do you got?

SPEAKER_03 23:12

Farm shop rolled up next three here, a few months ago.

SPEAKER_05 23:15

Here's a description of an order, man. Stop your bill, blonde hair, horn rim, black, it's chubby face. You were wrong about that. Broken arm. Come on. 11:40 a.m. Ben and I folded up at the East Asia Farm Shop on 6th Street. Inside, we found a proprietor, Morris Brewbaker, lying propped up against one of the showcases. He was an elderly man, and his face and head showed the marks of a savage beating. His wounds were hemorrhaging badly, and the ambulance attendants were giving him first aid. We showed him Charles Kirby's mugshot.

SPEAKER_04 23:47

I wouldn't make a mistake, actually. Well, he alarmed this brewbaker. He had by himself. He has to look at a watch, and when I turned to get it, he kicked me. I fell against the showcase and cut myself. He pulled me in the back room. I didn't even know the cell. He kept beating me, eating it, true baker.

SPEAKER_05 24:05

Let me get this conflict done. Much did he get away with, dear?

SPEAKER_04 24:08

I I I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_05 24:10

Blue suit, blue overcoat, wrap around, and navy blue bullet. He he kept hitting me. I have you out of here in a minute.

SPEAKER_04 24:18

He kept hitting me like a crazy septic my stingwheel.

SPEAKER_05 24:22

Okay. What else did you take much fruit baker? Can you remember? Uh yeah, uh from the cash register. He took money. How much? $1540, I can't be sure. I mean, that's your store. Did you see which way we draw? I don't know. He he he dragged me in the back room, he locked me in. Hey, moving nonsense. Okay. I don't know. I'm going through the shelves there and um the back of the counter. I don't know. What'd you keep, uh? My uh account books and my gun boxed of shelves, too. You want to take a look, Ben? Yeah. My cats after the shake it, we feel they're gonna be a minute now. Account booked it too, there. Yeah. He got the gun. 4 p.m. Kirby, alias the badge bandit, was still at large. As far as we were concerned, the case was almost back to where it started from 11 weeks before. The suspect was still loot, was well armed, was still free to rob, assault, or murder. We had two big advantages: Kirby's possible broken arm, which would need medical attention, and secondly, the lead to Kirby's brother. At 5:30 p.m., we had a report that the suspect was seen purchasing a ticket at a theater box office out on Hollywood Boulevard. We ran it down. It didn't pay off. At 6:15, a taxi driver thought he plotted Kirby boarding an outbound streetcar at Figaro and Fico. Was checked out. No result. At 7 o'clock, Ben and I got something to eat at a drive-in, and we relieved the men on stake out of the rooming house on Alameda Street where Kirby's brother was staying. 10 p.m. midnight. No sign of Kirby. We waited. At 3 a.m., Hampton and Cummings of Homicide relieved us and Ben drove me home. It was 3 45 when he dropped me on Pitcoliff Avenue, number 465.

SPEAKER_06 26:17

Drill Battery.

SPEAKER_05 26:20

Yeah, Ma, I didn't mean to wake you.

SPEAKER_06 26:22

What sound is?

SPEAKER_05 26:24

Almost four.

SPEAKER_06 26:26

And it's late hour. You got to say yes, Long Rabbit goes.

SPEAKER_05 26:30

We'll be all right, La. Got something to eat and you ain't bought it.

SPEAKER_06 26:34

There's a little hole meat and some things in the cupboard.

SPEAKER_05 26:36

Just want a sandwich.

SPEAKER_06 26:39

If I had some dice meatballs and spaghetti for dinner, I can bond the dun sorry. Hi, Sandy working all outer.

SPEAKER_05 26:55

I wish she wouldn't get up more. I can figure something.

SPEAKER_06 26:57

Why not the meatballs, it's spaghetti. You need something from stamp, sure.

SPEAKER_05 27:02

I get it. Yeah, Larman. Thought you'd like to know they just got Kirby. Where? And his brother plays about 15 minutes ago. Hansen and Cummings grabbed him. Any trouble? No. Grabbed him before he got to his gun. You just locked him up, thought you'd like to know. Yeah. Thanks, Warren. Good night. The office, Ma. The gut could'll be the badge band.

SPEAKER_06 27:36

Oh, big face. Maybe you had some time else, you know.

SPEAKER_05 27:41

Yeah. Never fails, that it you work on a case for three months. Leave it for 30 minutes and it's all over.

SPEAKER_06 27:51

Is there anything else you robbed?

SPEAKER_05 27:53

No, no, that's fine, Ma. You go on to bed.

SPEAKER_06 27:56

Well, all right, Georges. Don't say it too long.

SPEAKER_05 27:59

All right. All right. Hey, Mark.

SPEAKER_06 28:05

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_05 28:06

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Charles Leon Kirby, alias the Badge Bandit, was tried and convicted in Superior Court on several counts of armed robbery, rape, and assault with intent to commit murder. He was sentenced to life imprisonments. After serving one year in the state penitentiary, he was judged insane and committed to the state mental hospital at Mendocino. After two months there, he escaped. Charles Kirby, alias the badge bandit, is still at large. You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.A. Wharton. This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company.

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