Dragnet: The Big Dare - A Deadly Invitation

It was a warm September night when Sergeants Joe Friday and Ben Romero of the LAPD Homicide Detail caught a case unlike any other on the books. Betty Dixon, a divorced mother of one, was found stabbed to death in her Los Angeles home by her sixteen-year-old son, who had come home late from a double feature his mother had insisted he stay for. There was no forced entry, nothing stolen, and no sign of a struggle beyond the body itself. Neighbours heard raised voices and a woman's strange, pleading words through the wall, but no one thought to call the police until it was already far too late.

The only real evidence was a bolo knife, a torn corner of an envelope postmarked from Sonoma, and one clean set of fingerprints that matched no name on file. Weeks of patient, unglamorous detective work - checking parole records, chasing a vague description of a jealous ex-boyfriend known only as Floyd - finally led Friday and Romero to a two-time state hospital parolee named Richard Floyd Coleman. It would take the courage of his own sister, walking unannounced into a parole office, to lead detectives down a lonely stretch of Highway 66 and bring the case, and a chilling confession, to its end.

Episode Quotes

“She dared me to kill her. She said I didn’t have the nerve.” - Richard Floyd Coleman

“You had a motive, and you haven’t got an alibi.” - Sergeant Romero

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SPEAKER_06 2:19

With warm in Walt Angwood. We were working a night watch out of homicide detail. My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Blaine Steed. My name's Friday. I was on the way back from the interrogation room. It was 1123 T.M. when they got to room 42. Homicide. Tyler Aimed.

SPEAKER_03 2:38

Hello, Duke.

SPEAKER_06 2:39

Like type this up for me? The dead body report?

SPEAKER_03 2:42

Yeah, thank you.

SPEAKER_06 2:43

Thank you. Yeah? How you doing? They bring Palmer in, yes. He's in the interrogation room, cabins with him. What's his story? He claims he had nothing to do with it. Didn't contact any of the boys rounded? He hasn't got any in town. It was just him and his mother. You called juvenile hall, didn't you? Yeah, they'll look after him for the time being. Would have been shot for a kid. Yeah. Get anything out of him? Harry and I have been talking to him. Just starting to make pen. You want to lend a hand? Sure.

SPEAKER_07 3:12

What's going on to be tomorrow? My mother dies.

SPEAKER_06 3:22

Harry, hi. Do you want to give it a try? Yeah. All right, Robert. Come on, son. It's gonna be all right now. We need your help, Robert. Think you can answer a few questions for us? How about a bite to eat, son? I get to tell me.

SPEAKER_05 3:40

Come on.

SPEAKER_06 3:43

I don't care. All right, fish it out. Well, here, take it. Yeah. You're the cop that drove me down here, aren't you? That's right. Not going back to the house. You don't have to, son. I'm never going back to that place. All right. Did you start from the beginning for us, Lob? Just take it easy. Tell us what you know.

SPEAKER_05 4:07

Okay. Think I could have a coat?

SPEAKER_06 4:10

I'll think I've a coffee. You ran that when you're at Flame Ferry. Well I know is I left the house about half happen. Mom gave me the money to go to a show. Was she alone in the house and you left? Yeah, that's right. We had dinner and then I went to the show. You usually go to the show on school night then? Mom asked me if I wanted to go. She gave me the money. Double feature. She told me to stay for both pictures. She usually judged that? No, she always said to just stay for one picture. She didn't want me coming home for late. Was she expecting anybody to visit her? I mean, after you had gone? She didn't say so. She just told me to stay for both pictures, that's all. What time did the movie let out? Pretty late, so I went straight home. I went in the bedroom. It was on the floor. There was his knife. What'd you do then, son? Ran outside. Hollered. Wallace came over from next door. Went inside and looked, but then they called a cop. My knife you saw in the bedroom.

SPEAKER_05 5:15

With the blood all over it.

SPEAKER_06 5:17

Did you ever see the knife before? Yeah. Yeah, Roy gave it to my mom last year. Bolo knife. Who is it, Roy? Mom's boyfriend. One of them. He's in the Navy. Was he at your house tonight? I told you it was just Mom and I. Roy had a fight with Mom about two weeks ago. He said he didn't like her to have another boyfriend, and they had a fight. They argued that what you mean? Yeah. And once Roy slapped my man. Well, what are they, Joe? No, no bad fairy. I did call Crammy. Oh, yeah. Son, did you know most of your mother's friend? Most of them, yeah. Can you think of any of them who might have wanted to hurt your mother?

SPEAKER_05 6:01

I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 6:02

Roy Farmer, maybe. He was mad at her. The only one I can think of. I don't know. I don't want to think about her anymore. All right, son. We won't bother you anymore tonight. Thanks a lot. Yeah. Thank you. Mm-hmm. You want to follow through a juvenile hall to get the boy taken care of? Okay. You're gonna be in an interrogation roof? Yeah, I got a few more questions for Roy Palmer. Right, check your later. Okay. Farm my back at the parties? No, not just yet. Just talked with the Reynolds boy. Joe? Can't believe anything that kid tells you. He's a liar. He hates me. You give him reason to hate you, Farmer? The kid's a liar, that's all. You were his mother's boyfriend two weeks ago. You had a fight with it. You slapped him. All right, I slapped her. That don't make it murder. I wasn't near that house last night and I didn't kill her. We found your knife in her bag. Huh? A bolo knife, bullet handle? It's not mine. I gave it to her a year ago for a present. Didn't even know she still had it. But why do you have to pick on a knee? Because you had a motive and you haven't got an alibi. What about all those bums you used to run around with? Why don't you ask them for alibi? When we found them, we left them. Do you know any of them, Palmer? The other men that she went out with? How'd I know them? Only time she ran around was when I was on sea duty. Then how'd you know she was running around? Friends of mine. You saw her out with these guys. I get him. Interrogation room, Friday.

SPEAKER_05 7:29

Lee Jones, Joe. Just got back from a diction house.

SPEAKER_06 7:31

Anything?

SPEAKER_05 7:32

Oh, it's a fast start. Blaton Prince checked the murder weapon that knife. Touched the handle. Yeah? Fingerprints, perfect set.

SPEAKER_06 7:45

Captain Feed and I put the suspect Roy Palmer down the hall and had his fingerprints taken. At the same time, across the street in the crime lab, a set of fingerprints were lifted from the weapon which had taken the life of Mrs. Betty Dixon. The two tetra prints were checked and rechecked. They didn't match. Every object in the murder house was going over for the fingerprints and further evidence. Roy Palmer's fingerprints were on none of them. He was released pending further investigation. The only suspect in one of the most savage murders in the history of the city was three. The next morning, Captain Steed and I met with Chief of Detective Stad Brown. How about the dead woman's son? Did you talk to him again? Well, we're marrowed within taking down a list of all the people that his mother knew, friends, neighbors, everybody. No lucky head with a set of fingerprints? No, we got no record on them. Checking them through Washington, we already got a kickfact for the camp. Footprints and chiefs of envelope. That's strategical evidence, huh? Yeah. One of the top corners off an envelope. Had a postmark on it, um. Hanoma. Sonoma. Fire him with anything in it? No, not so far. Might turn up when we start checking the victim's friend. The folks that deboted it for, uh, that you saw it as far as report. Yeah, I mean. I don't know if you tell you, you're not after an ordinary killer. 23 an iPhone. Revenge motive, maybe. The reaction of the dead woman's neighbors. That's what's gotten east stop. No one heard a thing? Mitchell and Diddy have took over in the neighborhood. Haven't found anyone yet or thought or heard anything unusual. Well, I can't buy it. A woman isn't just cut down like that without some kind of a commotion. Besides, the homes in that neighborhood are fairly close together. Shouldn't take much to make yourself heard from one house to the other. A ton of robbery or burglary? No, according to the boy, the house is intact. Nobody touched anything. We'll leave you with a boyfriend angle. Lovers quarrel. We're stuck with it. You know. Hi, Chief. How'd you make out? Better than his felt. The boy was over most of the carp this morning. Did he talk? Five pages of names and addresses. He gave me your own of them. Well, how about that boyfriend angle? About half a dozen names. Seems the mother had quite a social life since the boy's father died. You can promote the boy's story about going to the movies? Yeah, I checked out. Very nice kid considering the environment he'd been raised in. How about those names, Ben? Any of them lips for Noma? Is their hometown? No, I don't think so. Let me stay here. No. No? Yeah?

SPEAKER_04 9:59

Huh? Found them. All right, you better start digging into that letter. Bookmark my tie-in later. Meantime, you still have that set of fingerprints. No chance for mistake there. If we reach the right men, those pencil collecting will be killed. That makes it simple for you. Fence will tell us through you. You got only one after the dig for. Yeah? Where are you?

SPEAKER_06 10:20

Thursday, September 30th, 11 a.m. We started checking the list of the murdered woman's friend through RI for any possible criminal record. It's usually the case that a major crime rates headlines phase twice from the crime is committed when the criminal is apprehended. Between two, more than often in the space of weeks and months, sometimes even years, in which the police officer goes through the monotonous, undramatic business of checking files, asking questions, sifting and sorting leads and evidence until he finally reaches the criminal. For a news story, it's pretty dull material, but it frews out the contention of most working detectors. You don't catch criminals with headline. Monday, October 4th. We checked with uh Miss Lucille Dana, a counterclerk at a little market out on Crenshaw.

SPEAKER_03 11:05

Terrible came. I didn't wear on my vacation. Heard about it when I got home yesterday.

SPEAKER_06 11:10

You were pretty good friends with Betty Dixon. Is that right, Miss Dana?

SPEAKER_03 11:13

Yeah, pretty good. And give me that I'll take care of this custom. Yeah, all right.

SPEAKER_05 11:23

No, two back them jolly beans fleet. All right. Okay, that's um.

SPEAKER_03 11:32

All right. Mama's name. Kevin? No. Are you gonna put that right? Tommy?

SPEAKER_05 11:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:48

Number two corn being. Two twenty, twenty size, six three, three dollars, four five. Five stents? I just can't get over it the truth. Poor big.

SPEAKER_06 12:33

We understand that you used to go out with the Dixon woman, Miss Dana. Do you know of most of her close friends?

SPEAKER_03 12:39

Well, most of her men friends. We used to devil date a lot together.

SPEAKER_06 12:43

I wonder if you'd take a look at this list of names that we have here.

SPEAKER_03 12:46

All right.

SPEAKER_06 12:52

Now, does that about cover all her boyfriends, all that you knew of anyway?

SPEAKER_03 12:55

Yeah, I think so. You don't have Floyd, don't you?

SPEAKER_06 13:03

Who is that? Floyd who?

SPEAKER_03 13:05

I never did know it was last anymore. He's played both of us out, Betty and I.

SPEAKER_06 13:09

I seem to like her quite a bit. When's the last time she was out with him, do you?

SPEAKER_03 13:12

Oh, fix him on the goat late.

SPEAKER_06 13:15

How do you mean?

SPEAKER_03 13:16

Floyd. Fellowed, you know. Hot temper. Eddie was Stanish would be a light complex one. Oh, give him sure.

SPEAKER_06 13:26

Oh, the fact of that mid gun is a lighter flint later.

SPEAKER_03 13:28

Yes, sir. Twenty-five.

SPEAKER_06 13:34

All right. Could you describe this Floyd for us, Mr.?

SPEAKER_03 13:42

Well, he's kind of fresh and conceited in some way, but he's attractive. A lot of fun.

SPEAKER_06 13:48

How about his physical appearance, weight, and hype?

SPEAKER_03 13:51

About six feet, I'd say. Not a filled. A couple of 80 pounds, I guess.

SPEAKER_06 13:55

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 13:56

Dark hair, dark brown eye. Good dancing.

SPEAKER_06 14:00

How do you and Ms. Dixon get along?

SPEAKER_03 14:02

Oh, I don't think he did it. Sloy didn't better used to fight all the time, but he used to fight with Roy Palmer, too. I don't think Sloy did it.

SPEAKER_06 14:08

Is he in town now, do you know?

SPEAKER_03 14:10

No, I don't. As I say, last time I saw him was six months ago.

SPEAKER_06 14:13

Would you know if Mrs. Dixon found Ray from Blyth?

SPEAKER_03 14:15

She did. She didn't tell me.

SPEAKER_06 14:17

You have no idea then whether you could get in touch with this Floyd.

SPEAKER_03 14:19

Oh, no, I don't. He's from up Norwich originally.

SPEAKER_06 14:23

Is that so?

SPEAKER_03 14:24

Yeah, Phenoma.

SPEAKER_06 14:29

Ben and I went back to the obvious and got up a teletype to the Tonoma Police Department along with a description of the suspect named Floyd. Then we checked with the 15-year-old son of the murdered woman. He remembered the man called Floyd, and mistakes his description of the suspect checked out with that gymnast by his mother's friend, Lucille Payner. 3 p.m. We met with Lieutenant Harry Didion and Captain Steve. You want to fill him in, Diddy? Finally got in touch with a dead woman of next door neighbor. His name's Conroy. Get anything out of him? They seem to be the only ones who heard anything the night of the murder. What they had to say. Steve. Yeah, they saw Mrs. Dixon's son Robert leave the house about 7:30 the night of the murder. Nothing till 8:30. Yeah. They heard loud pounding on the back door of the Dixon hall. The door finally opened. They heard an angry woman's voice invite the person in. Oh, ma'am? Yeah. Any description? Not much. She was tall, good build. Have much, Jack. Swan. Neighbors said it was quiet then for about an hour. And they heard a woman crying, said it sounded like Mrs. Dixon. Did they make out any of the conversation? They got it right here. About 9:30, they heard Mrs. Dixon a lot of loud talking. She said, Why don't you kill me then, Florida, and put me out of my midland? Anything else? I said it was quiet between 9.30 and 10. And they heard something that sounded like the thought of a body falling on the floor, a piece of furniture over time. No screams for help. Funny, but the neighbors say no. The only other thing they heard was Mrs. Dixon's. You quote. He said, Do a good job, finish me off. None of them ever thought of calling the police. Well, they told me they didn't want to get mixed up in a family fight, none of their business. She had quite a few men visitors. No. One more thing. I guess this is what made the neighbors think everything was all right. About 10:15, they heard a man's voice, couldn't make out any word. Then they heard Mrs. Dixon say, please kiss me goodbye. A few minutes after that, they heard someone leave for the back door. They see him? Not very good. I think it was the same man they saw go in. Pretty tall, good build. That's it. Where did it leave out? Pretty weird. How about that? No, I don't know. She's supposed to be a than woman, she'd have to be pretty drunk to ask a man to kill her. A man would have to be pretty drunk to take her up on it. Why the killer used that volunteer on a victim? That feather envelope we found by the body. Yeah, those focus marks phenoma. There's a state mental hospital up there. So found. Maybe we're dealing with a maniac. 4 p.m. Monday. R and I could give up nothing because of the meager description. Ben and I stecked out of the office and went over to the Chase building to the Department of State Institutions. First, we checked the name Floyd through the file using it as the last name. Then at the first name. We failed the connects. Either the names didn't fit the description of the suspect, or they were elderly men still confined to the institution of Sonoma. We checked his files using Floyd as a middle name. We came up with two recent Ferrole's from Sonoma. Both matched the description almost perfectly. Both had the middle name Floyd. We checked out the first one, Gerald Floyd Johansson. They found out that he's been returned to Sonoma almost a month before. The second Ferro Lee still had his freedom. We took the set of his fingerprints back to the office and had them checked out with the set of prints found on the murder weapon. How's it shape up, Joy? Richard's Floyd Coleman. Is that the right name? Yeah, can he make? He's your killer.

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The best of all long cigarettes. Monday, October 4th, 7 p.m. We got on an ATV and a radiogram on Richard's Lloyd Coleman, which kecked BMZ for possible auto ownership. From his record, we found that he had been signed twice at the state mental hospital at Sonoma. The first time for a period of two years, the second time for 14 months. Hospital files told us that on both occasions he'd been committed by his older sister, Evelyn Coleman. His only living relative. Her address was listed as 5640 Upper Terrace, an apartment court in the East Wiltshire district. We drove out to question her. In one of her apartment windows was a hand lettered sign, seamstress, dresses made to order, Evelyn Marie Coleman. She turned out to be a tall, quiet girl in her 30s, gray eyed, brown hair. She worked on the filling machine while we talked with her.

SPEAKER_03 20:03

I'm grinding you so good, Sergeant, but I had to have the flowers ready by two this afternoon. We've called her friend of the call's place. Well, fact it's what was if you wanted to know.

SPEAKER_06 20:14

About your brother, Richard.

SPEAKER_03 20:15

Oh. Anything else?

SPEAKER_06 20:17

No, we're just checking, that's all. We'd like to talk to him.

SPEAKER_03 20:19

Well, what about?

SPEAKER_06 20:20

Routine check. We understand he'd fenced some time up because I'm known.

SPEAKER_03 20:24

I mean, yeah, if we did. But just had a hard panel, but stockers don't seem to know the trouble. Refugees told me if it's up.

SPEAKER_06 20:32

You're a only living relative?

SPEAKER_03 20:33

Yes, I am. Folks die are both young. Practically raised Richard my fast.

SPEAKER_06 20:38

Have you seen your brother lately, Miss Cohner?

SPEAKER_03 20:40

No, not lately. Why?

SPEAKER_06 20:42

Do you have any idea where we might contact him?

SPEAKER_03 20:45

Well, no, I don't. You see, he travels around a theater deal.

SPEAKER_06 20:48

Oh, is he working?

SPEAKER_03 20:49

No. We'll be right from time to time. Oh, what was that you want to see today, Sergeant?

SPEAKER_06 20:54

It was just routine questioning. We like talk to him.

SPEAKER_03 20:56

Oh.

SPEAKER_06 20:56

Where was he when you last heard from him, Miss Cohn?

SPEAKER_03 20:59

Oh, couldn't you tell me what you won't see today?

SPEAKER_06 21:02

We just like to question him, that's all.

SPEAKER_03 21:04

Well, what about if you can tell me?

SPEAKER_06 21:06

Is your brother in the city now?

SPEAKER_03 21:07

Oh, I don't know. I just got back, man. I haven't heard from him in two weeks. Almost three weeks.

SPEAKER_06 21:13

Does he usually stay here when he's in town?

SPEAKER_03 21:15

Well, sometimes he's here. You Floyd in some kind of trouble?

SPEAKER_06 21:19

Is that the name he usually goes by, Floyd?

SPEAKER_03 21:21

Well, most of his friends calling Floyd. Why?

SPEAKER_06 21:24

You think he might be staying with one of his friends here in the city?

SPEAKER_03 21:27

Might be, I don't know. Look frightened. If Floyd's in trouble, you can tell me. Yeah, I've seen you through lots of trouble before.

SPEAKER_06 21:34

Not too scared, man.

SPEAKER_03 21:35

Woman? We're sort of something I could be.

SPEAKER_05 21:40

Where was he when you last heard growing?

SPEAKER_03 21:42

You're a good fan of Barbara. He wrote me. Free frightened why do you have to see Floyd? Easy.

SPEAKER_06 21:51

Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_03 21:55

Oh, that's his car. With 2 30 DR on? Fine, thank you. All right, Car, bye. Well, have to hurry. Mrs. Carl's bath.

SPEAKER_06 22:11

Sure, you go right ahead.

SPEAKER_03 22:13

You really don't make much of a death naked about stating up and gonna buy a thing for a valley for your ox. Be signed to a Floyd new. It'd all be good for him. Started to get away from his father's option, real.

SPEAKER_06 22:26

Then McFauna.

SPEAKER_03 22:27

You, Freddy?

SPEAKER_06 22:28

Are those your brother's suitcases in the alcove, I think?

SPEAKER_03 22:31

Yes, they are. They've been there for a month. I keep his odds in end for him.

SPEAKER_06 22:35

I'm sure he hasn't been here in the past month.

SPEAKER_03 22:40

Green Frage, why don't you tell me the truth? I'd been sure it before. This trouble with Floyd. What is it this kind?

SPEAKER_06 22:47

Pretty bad. We want to ask him about a murder.

SPEAKER_03 22:51

Oh no, he wouldn't do that. You're right. You sure it was Floyd?

SPEAKER_05 22:57

Wouldn't I talk to him?

SPEAKER_03 23:03

Floyd. Floyd. It didn't have to happen. I've got a vibrate in the valley. I would have been right there. I'm gonna take care of him out of the valley.

SPEAKER_06 23:20

Do you have any idea where we could find him, Ms. Cole?

SPEAKER_03 23:23

No, I I don't. I heard. I've been worried about him.

SPEAKER_06 23:31

If he was in the city, would he come here this day, ma'am?

SPEAKER_03 23:34

Be good before, yes. I don't know about it.

SPEAKER_06 23:38

Do you have a car?

SPEAKER_03 23:39

No, not that I know of, nor. I don't know what he's lady nor and he doesn't have any money. Who with the woman?

SPEAKER_06 23:46

Well, Mrs. Dixon seems to know your brother pretty well. You better grab that, Ben. Yeah, all right. Hello. Here. The gift. Mrs. Kyla shall pick up her blog tomorrow. Ben and I left Evelyn Coleman's plate and went back to the office. A stakeout was placed on her apartment. Two days went by, nothing happened. Despite the fact that the suspect's sister had promised to cooperate fully with it and locating her brother, a team of men was assigned to follow her wherever she went as insurance against any thoughtful clip-up. Bar was we were kings there and no precaution was out of reason. A maniac was on the loose in the city, the three maniac who had murdered the diction woman. He'd done it once, and if he urge was there, he'd do it again. We sweated out the next three days. On the afternoon of the fixed day, we got an urgent call from one of the parole officers in the state institutions department. I'm at Drew's Vaughn. Ben and I went over and checked with her.

SPEAKER_01 24:52

Cole came in about 20 minutes ago, Sergeant. And voice.

SPEAKER_06 24:55

What do you have to say?

SPEAKER_01 24:56

He wanted to talk to me about the Betty Dixon case. Being nervous.

SPEAKER_06 24:59

You say he knew anything about it?

SPEAKER_01 25:01

I didn't want to frighten him off, asking too many questions. But I got the idea and he had something he wanted to get off his mind.

SPEAKER_06 25:06

Well, did he make anything specific? I mean, named flexes, anything like that?

SPEAKER_01 25:10

No, but I got the impression he knew quite a bit about the case.

SPEAKER_06 25:12

What else?

SPEAKER_01 25:13

He promised he'd be here by four o'clock. Said he'd be ready to talk.

SPEAKER_06 25:17

Mm-hmm. Well, 2.45 now. All right, Ben. Okay. Pull up a chair. We waited. 3.15, 3.30, 345. No sign of the anonymous caller. 4 p.m. Still no sign. We waited. At 4:30, the office door opened, and a tall, thin girl with brown hair came in and walked straight toward the desk of parole officer Gertrude Vore. We saw McVaughan motion the girl across the room toward us with Evelyn Coleman.

SPEAKER_03 25:54

Fargan.

SPEAKER_06 25:55

Ms. Coleman? Flynn.

SPEAKER_03 25:56

I know where Floyd is. I'll take you to him.

SPEAKER_06 26:02

4:35 GM. Zen and I left the state building with Evelyn Coleman, got in our car, and drove north across the spitting, according to her directions until we got on Highway 56. We continued driving north out of the Fritty. Evelyn Coleman sat quiet in the vague feet, looking in her hand folded in her lap. Except for direction, she said nothing. Approximately three miles out of the city, she directed the top onto Lacauhi Highways. We drove east for a few miles, then we turned north onto an unpaved road lined with Lipwood Stream. We'd gone a little less than a mile when she directed us to pull up.

SPEAKER_03 26:34

We can walk the rest of the way. Okay. It's not far.

SPEAKER_06 26:42

All right.

SPEAKER_03 26:43

Good boy.

SPEAKER_06 26:45

Your brother's been out here all this time.

SPEAKER_03 26:48

He didn't tell me. He called before he. I thought he could even stop up.

SPEAKER_06 26:52

What happened?

SPEAKER_03 26:53

I don't know. He's worked now, I think. Could hardly understand him on the phone. He makes friends.

SPEAKER_06 26:58

Are we alone now?

SPEAKER_03 27:00

What's when I left him? We'd go across and field here.

SPEAKER_06 27:03

Okay. Well. You better run?

SPEAKER_03 27:08

No.

SPEAKER_06 27:10

That it over there?

SPEAKER_03 27:11

Yeah. Sacked by the tree. Your feet created rides.

SPEAKER_06 27:17

Yeah, sure, I'm a fee to her.

SPEAKER_05 27:28

Evelyn? Eddie?

SPEAKER_03 27:31

I brought them in, Floyd. They'll take you back.

SPEAKER_05 27:36

I'm Richard Floyd Colin. I want to tell you I killed Betty Dixon. All right, Ben.

SPEAKER_06 27:44

I wanted to marry her. She didn't want her. If you dared me to kill her, I drabbed a knife. We can talk about it later, huh? She was lying on the floor. She said, kiss me goodbye. I held on to her. She seemed to go to sleep.

SPEAKER_03 27:56

We have to go, Floyd.

SPEAKER_05 27:57

You tell him, Ezy, I loved her. You tell him that.

SPEAKER_03 27:59

Yeah, I will.

SPEAKER_05 28:00

She dared me to kill her. She said I didn't have the nerve. She asked me to. Yeah, all right. Come on. Try to tell him that at the hospital.

SPEAKER_06 28:07

Yeah. I'm not crazy.

SPEAKER_04 28:17

The story you have just heard was true. Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. On December 4th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 86, city and county of Los Angeles, state of California. In a moment, the results of that trial. And now, here's our star Jack Webb.

SPEAKER_06 28:34

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Richard Floyd Coleman was examined by six psychiatrists appointed by the court and was found to be criminally insane. He was committed to the state mental hospital at Mendocino for an indefinite period of time. You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authenticators from official file. Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the office of Chief of Police 70 Way Wharton, Los Angeles Police Department.

SPEAKER_06 29:41

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