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Friday and Gannon are working the day watch out of homicide when they respond to a late night call at the house of Jessie Gaynor.
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00:25This is the city, Los Angeles, California.
00:30It's the largest city in the United States.
00:34Los Angeles has a lot of everything.
00:37People, a police administration building, and 16 geographical police divisions.
00:45North Hollywood Division, Wilshire Division, West Valley Division, Van Nuys Division, Hollywood Division.
00:56Los Angeles has one of the largest artificial harbors in the world.
01:00This is San Pedro.
01:03It has a baseball team.
01:05This is where they play, Dodger Stadium.
01:08It has a sports arena.
01:10This one will handle ice hockey, a rodeo, a championship fight, or a national political convention.
01:17It has Hollywood, and it says so on the side of a mountain.
01:22It has golf courses, lots of them, public and private.
01:27You can trace the history of man, his habits, his progress, right here.
01:32The Los Angeles County Museum.
01:36A lot of people are born in Los Angeles every day, many of them here at the county hospital.
01:43A lot of people die in Los Angeles every day.
01:47A lot of people get married.
01:50A lot get divorced.
01:53When a marriage falls apart, and it happens here, it's a job for lawyers.
01:57When it doesn't, sometimes it's part of my job.
02:00I carry a badge.
02:04It was Tuesday, March 24th.
02:05It was cold in Los Angeles.
02:06We were working the day watch out of Homicide Division.
02:09The boss is Captain Hugh Brown.
02:11My partner's Bill Gannon.
02:13My name's Friday.
02:15We were working late.
02:16We heard an ambulance shooting call on the air.
02:18Code 2.
02:19We were in the vicinity, so we drove over to check it out.
02:31The story you are about to see is true.
02:34The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
03:06Police officers, what happened here?
03:07He's in there.
03:08I called for an ambulance.
03:10Who is he?
03:10My husband.
03:11What's his name?
03:12Carl Hamlin.
03:13It's locked.
03:14He has a gun.
03:15He said he was going to kill himself.
03:18All right, come on, Hamlin.
03:19Open up.
03:20You have another key to this door?
03:22No, I don't.
03:23All right, let's hit it.
03:26It's no use.
03:27Is there another way into this room?
03:28No, this is the only door.
03:30How about windows?
03:31What?
03:31Is there a window in the room?
03:33Oh, yes, off the porch.
03:35You want to show us?
03:35He came in here drunk and caused a scene.
03:39The shade has pulled down.
03:41Yes, ma'am.
03:44Here, here's a knife.
04:09It's locked.
04:10I'm going to have to break this.
04:11I don't care as long as you get to him.
04:15It's the cruiser unit.
04:16I'll tell him to stand by.
04:17Right.
04:18Hurry.
04:18Please hurry.
04:19Watch the glass.
04:34Is he still alive?
04:36I can't tell.
04:38That'll be the ambulance.
04:39Will you show him where this room is?
04:40Oh, yes.
04:49He must have wanted privacy real bad.
04:55Looks like he got it.
05:0038 cold.
05:05One round fired.
05:09He's in here.
05:10I'm his wife.
05:13That's rollable.
05:25He's dead.
05:27May I have his full name?
05:29Carl Hamlin.
05:31You have a middle name?
05:33Martin.
05:34Age?
05:3543.
05:37You live here?
05:38No, we have a little house over on North Bronson.
05:42947.
05:43Do we have to go through all this?
05:45That's all, Miss Hamlin.
05:49Here's your day away, slip.
05:50See you later, Barbie.
05:51Got it?
05:52Yeah.
05:58All right, if I use your telephone, Miss Hamlin.
06:01Yes.
06:02It's all so wrong, Carl, being dead.
06:05It's all so wrong.
06:06Would you like to go in there and sit down?
06:11Would you like us to call your family doctor for you?
06:13I've already called him for my mother.
06:16He'll be right here.
06:17Where's your mother now?
06:18In the bedroom.
06:20She's lying down.
06:21This whole thing has been such a shock.
06:23I understand.
06:24When I talked to our doctor, he said for me to give her one of the pills he's prescribed.
06:28Supposed to make her sleep.
06:30I see.
06:30You're going to have to talk to her?
06:32Yes, ma'am.
06:33I hope you won't have to do it tonight.
06:34She's not too well.
06:36We'll try to avoid upsetting her.
06:37I'd appreciate it.
06:39I'll release the cruiser unit.
06:40All right.
06:41Now, Miss Hamlin, there are a few questions we have to ask you if you feel up to answering them.
06:44Yes.
06:45Do you want to tell us what happened?
06:46Well, Carl came over tonight drunk and caused a big scene.
06:50Your husband doesn't live here, then?
06:52No.
06:52No, we're separated.
06:53I see.
06:54Anyone else here when it happened?
06:55Just mother and myself.
06:57Anyone else living here?
06:58Just the two of us.
06:59All right.
07:00What time did Mr. Hamlin get here?
07:02I'm not sure.
07:03I was asleep.
07:05Beg your pardon?
07:05I was asleep.
07:07You weren't expecting him then?
07:08No.
07:08Last time I saw him, I told him to leave me alone.
07:11I said I'd get a court order if I had to.
07:14Yes?
07:14Well, we've been separated about a week this time.
07:16Is that right?
07:17Well, there have been other times.
07:20This was the worst.
07:22I told him I was finished, that I didn't want anything more to do with him.
07:26Would you go on, please?
07:27Well, he's been calling here and where I work.
07:33Most of the time, he was drunk.
07:34He kept asking for reconciliation.
07:37Saying how sorry he was and asking me to take him back.
07:41Yes?
07:42Oh, I'm not blaming it all on him.
07:45I know some of it was my fault.
07:48Yes, ma'am.
07:49But he called this afternoon and said he had to see me.
07:54Had it all worked out so we could get back together again.
07:57Yes, ma'am.
07:57Well, I told him I didn't want to see him.
07:59I said for him to stay away.
08:02I came home and told Mother about it and said Carl might come over tonight.
08:06That if he did, I didn't want to see him.
08:08Yes?
08:09I kind of half expected him to show up, but he didn't.
08:13Well, I went to bed after the 10 o'clock news and Mother stayed up to read.
08:17Yes, ma'am.
08:18The first I knew there was anything wrong was when I heard the shot.
08:21I got up and I came right downstairs.
08:24Yeah?
08:24Well, Mother was standing in front of the study door.
08:26She told me that Carl had locked the door and that he'd shot himself.
08:30I see.
08:31I tried to call to him.
08:33First, I thought he was playing some kind of a joke.
08:36Yes, ma'am.
08:37Well, Mother said she'd heard Carl fall down in the room.
08:39I called you right away.
08:41Anything else, Mrs. Hamlin?
08:43No, that's all.
08:44All right, Mrs. Hamlin, we'd like to talk to your mother now.
08:47She's over 60, Sergeant Friday.
08:49A thing like this isn't easy to go through at that age.
08:52Yes, ma'am.
08:53We understand.
08:54Carl and my mother didn't get along.
08:56He's always said that she caused the trouble between us.
09:00Told me a couple of times that if she'd kept her nose out of our business, we might be able
09:03to get along.
09:04I wonder if we could talk to her now.
09:05Oh, do you have to?
09:07Yes, ma'am.
09:07We'll try to be as brief as possible.
09:09I'll go see.
09:13I made the notification.
09:14Yeah.
09:15Well, as soon as we get a statement from her mother and the coroner shows up, we can take off.
09:19Yeah.
09:20Want to stop by the house on the way home?
09:22Eileen bought a bunch of stuff for me at the Delicatessen.
09:24Is that right?
09:25Make you a real good sandwich?
09:26Bottle of beer?
09:28Yeah.
09:29Head cheese and bologna on garlic bread, a little mayonnaise, horseradish, mustard.
09:32How's that sound to you, Joe?
09:34I'll just have a bowl of soup at the apartment.
09:36Thanks, anyway.
09:37Just don't see how you can sleep nights the way you eat.
09:43Mother, these men want to ask you some questions.
09:45My mother, Mrs. Gaynor, Sergeant Friday and...
09:49Gannon's my name.
09:50How do you do, ma'am?
09:51How do you do?
09:51A couple of things we have to know, Ms. Gaynor.
09:53Now we'll try to be as brief as possible.
09:55Mother, if you get tired, just tell them.
09:57They'll stop.
09:57All right, dear.
09:58What time did your son-in-law get here tonight, ma'am?
10:02I'm not sure.
10:03I think it was about 11.30.
10:05Yes, ma'am.
10:06Nora told me Mr. Hamlin might be coming over, but that time of night, you'd hardly expect
10:11anybody to come calling, would you?
10:12No, ma'am.
10:13He did.
10:14He always was doing something nobody else did.
10:17I think he just sat around and tried to figure things to do that was different.
10:21Yes, ma'am.
10:21Like tonight.
10:22He came in drunk.
10:24He yelled about how he wanted to have a showdown.
10:26I didn't know what he was talking about.
10:27Yes, ma'am.
10:28Started to yell at me.
10:30Told me how their breakup was all my fault.
10:32Started to curse at me.
10:33Yeah.
10:34I'm 62, Mr. Friday.
10:36I've seen lots of things, met lots of people.
10:39Isn't anybody who can talk to me like that?
10:41I told Mr. Hamlin, told him to get out of the house.
10:44That's when he pulled this gun out of his pocket.
10:46He pulled the gun?
10:47Had it right in his coat, outside pocket.
10:49Yes.
10:49Would you go on, please?
10:50I told him.
10:51I said, Mr. Hamlin, you just stop this foolishness and get out of here.
10:54That's what I said.
10:55Yes, ma'am.
10:56He looked at me and said, yeah, you'd like that, wouldn't you?
11:00Those are the exact words.
11:02And then he told me how he was going to kill himself to just show me.
11:05Go on, please.
11:07I thought it was some kind of dramatics.
11:09Mr. Hamlin was that kind, you know, always play acting around.
11:12Yes, ma'am.
11:13Not this time.
11:14Next thing I know, he ran into the study and locked the door.
11:18After that, there was a shot, and I heard him fall down.
11:21And right then is when Nora came into the room.
11:24He went into the study and you heard the shot, is that right?
11:26Yes.
11:27Then I heard him fall on the floor.
11:29All right, Ms. Gaynor, I think we have everything we need.
11:31Okay, if I go back to bed then?
11:33Yes, ma'am.
11:33You go ahead.
11:34All right, then.
11:35Mr. Friday.
11:36Yes, ma'am.
11:36Anything more you want to know about Mr. Hamlin, I'll tell you.
11:39Well, I don't think there'll be anything else.
11:41Thank you, Ms. Gaynor.
11:42If there is, I'll tell you.
11:43Yes, ma'am.
11:45I'll be in my room, Nora.
11:47All right, Mother.
11:48I'll be right there.
11:51She's taking it a lot better than I thought she would.
11:54Yes, ma'am.
11:55Ms. Hamlin.
11:56Yes?
11:56Did your husband ever mention suicide before?
11:58Oh, yes, several times.
12:00Matter of fact, just this week.
12:02I thought he was being dramatic again.
12:04I didn't pay much attention to him.
12:06It was so hard to tell if he was drunk or if he really meant something.
12:10I see.
12:11All the years we were married, I don't think he was ever really serious.
12:15He was this time.
12:411.14 a.m.
12:43The police photographer arrived at the house and took pictures of the room.
12:46The coroner removed the body to the county morgue.
12:501.37 a.m.
12:51Bill and I left the Gaynor house and returned to the office.
12:562.03 a.m.
12:57We filled out the DB report listing the death of Carl Martin Hamlin as suicide.
13:01The body would be posted at 10 a.m. the next morning.
13:07Wednesday, March 25th, 11.15 a.m.
13:10We got a call from Ray Murray in SID.
13:12He wanted to see us.
13:15Ran the normal checkout this morning.
13:17Fired a test shot in the Hamlin suicide revolver.
13:19Checked it against 38 cold unsolved murders.
13:21Weapons clean.
13:22Your case isn't.
13:23What do you mean, Ray?
13:24Take a look at this one.
13:28Yeah, six left, 38 cold, so.
13:31Picked this one up in the corner this morning.
13:33I was there when Hamlin was posted.
13:34Yeah.
13:35Lodged in the back muscle near the spine.
13:38Slug's good and clean.
13:39No damage.
13:40Passed between the ribs.
13:41What are you getting at, Ray?
13:42You're my guest.
13:44Yeah.
13:45I was expecting a quarter.
13:47And I handed you a penny.
13:48A bad one.
13:51Six right.
13:52Automatic ammunition, isn't it?
13:54That's right.
13:54Nine millimeter.
13:55What do you think, a Luger?
13:56Either that or a Browning.
13:57Both are common.
13:59Yeah.
13:59This fellow Hamlin pulled a pretty neat trick, didn't he?
14:02He sure did.
14:03He killed himself with a bullet that couldn't possibly be fired from the gun he was holding.
14:06Yep.
14:07You two better tear up your reports on this one.
14:09No suicide here.
14:10Yeah.
14:11You gotta find a murder gun.
14:2211.32 a.m.
14:24Bill and I, along with Ray Murray, drove out to see Nora Hamlin, the victim's widow.
14:27From the physical evidence on hand, the way the door had been locked, and the fact that
14:31the window had been bolted from the inside, it appeared unlikely that anyone could have
14:35left the room after Carl Hamlin had been shot.
14:38However, from the information we'd gotten from Ray Murray, there had to be another weapon
14:42involved in the killing.
14:44It was 11.44 a.m. when we got to the house on Whitmore Drive.
14:50Oh, I didn't expect you back.
14:51I wonder if we could come in, Ms. Hamlin.
14:53I guess, of course.
14:57Mrs. Hamlin, this is Ray Murray from our Scientific Investigation Division.
15:01Mr. Murray?
15:01How do you do?
15:02We'd like to take another look at the study.
15:04Oh, why?
15:05We'd like to check it again.
15:07Well, all right.
15:08If you need me, I'll be in the living room.
15:16Right in here is where we found him, Ray.
15:17Mm-hmm.
15:20You can see where we had to break this window to get in.
15:22Yeah, I see.
15:23Party was lying along here, head down there, feet about here.
15:26About on the line of the sofa, huh?
15:28Right.
15:29What about the gun?
15:30It was near his right hand.
15:32Was the gun in his hand when you found him?
15:33No, no.
15:34Near his right hand.
15:35The pictures from the photo lab will pair that up.
15:38Even if it wasn't for the variance in the slug zone, none of it adds for two cents.
15:41Well, how's that?
15:42I talked to the doc when I picked up the death slug.
15:44Yeah.
15:45It entered the right center of his chest, about here, and traveled straight.
15:48Yeah.
15:49Came to rest in his right back muscle.
15:51Line of travel's all off.
15:52No right-handed man's likely to shoot himself that way.
15:54No.
15:57What about the doors when you found them?
15:58Well, we'll show you the way they were when we got in.
16:02His bolt was thrown.
16:04His key was turned.
16:05His chair was propped up under these knobs like so.
16:08What about the key?
16:09Was it still in the lock?
16:10Yeah.
16:13That place looks solid enough.
16:18Plaster walls.
16:22Not much chance of anybody getting through them.
16:26You check those bookcases?
16:28Any of them moving anyway?
16:29No, they appear to be solid.
16:32Well, what do you think, Ray?
16:34Well, I don't know.
16:35The way that door was barricaded.
16:37The rest of the room.
16:39Nobody could have shot them and gotten outside.
16:41They couldn't have come through that window, that's for sure.
16:43Well, you had to break it.
16:44Right.
16:45Well, the way it's set up, you shouldn't have too much trouble finding a suspect.
16:49How's that?
16:49Find a butler built like an envelope.
16:54Hey, uh, you didn't see anything of an empty shell casing last night, did you?
16:58No, there was no reason to look for one.
17:00Sure, no sign of any now.
17:01Let's see if we can turn it.
17:02Yeah, it looks to me like the rug's been vacuuming since last night.
17:06Let's talk to the Hamlin woman.
17:13Mrs. Hamlin.
17:15Yes, something you want?
17:16Has anyone been in the study since last night?
17:18I didn't know I wasn't supposed to.
17:20You didn't say anything about it.
17:22Did you clean the room?
17:23Yes, I told you.
17:24I was straightening up the house.
17:25Did you see an empty shell casing?
17:27I don't know what you mean.
17:28Like this.
17:29The brass parts, eh?
17:31No, I didn't see anything like that.
17:33Did you use the vacuum cleaner this morning?
17:34Yes, I did.
17:35Have you emptied it since you used it?
17:37No.
17:37I wonder if we could see it.
17:38I don't know what this is all about, but if you want the vacuum, I'll get it.
17:41I'll give you a hand with it.
17:43It's not heavy.
17:49Do you want the attachments, too?
17:51No, ma'am.
17:51Just the vacuum itself, please.
17:53And a piece of newspaper.
17:54All right.
18:01Here it is.
18:03I wish I knew what this is all about.
18:24Here it is.
18:25What's the caliber, Ray?
18:26Nine millimeter.
18:42Miss Hamlin, do you have another gun in the house?
18:44No.
18:45You sure about that, are you?
18:46Yes.
18:46What makes you think there might be another one?
18:48How many shots did you hear last night, Miss Hamlin?
18:51One.
18:51You sure about that?
18:52Yes.
18:53Why?
18:53We have reason to believe there were two shots fired.
18:55What difference does it make how many there were?
18:57It might make a lot of difference.
18:59Why?
18:59My husband killed himself.
19:00I can't be sure how many times he might have fired the gun.
19:04Once, twice, three times.
19:05What difference does it make?
19:06I'll try to explain it to you.
19:08Your husband was holding a .38 caliber revolver when we found him,
19:10but the bullet that killed him was fired from a nine millimeter automatic.
19:13I don't know what you're talking about.
19:15What are you trying to say?
19:17Miss Hamlin, we don't believe your husband killed himself.
19:19You're not serious.
19:21I'm afraid we are.
19:22This whole thing's ridiculous.
19:24Not according to the evidence.
19:25Well, who'd want to kill him?
19:26Who'd have a reason?
19:27That's what we're trying to find out.
19:29Would you get your mother, please?
19:30What do you want to talk to her about?
19:32Would you get her, please?
19:33She's not well.
19:34She's had enough trouble.
19:35There's no reason for you to make any more for her.
19:37Don't you worry about it, Nora.
19:40Mother, you shouldn't be up.
19:42I heard you talking.
19:43I've been listening.
19:46Haven't seen you before.
19:48Murray's my name.
19:49How do you do?
19:50Jesse Gaynor, Nora's mother.
19:52How are you?
19:54Now, what's all this about Mr. Hamlin not killing himself?
19:57That's right, Mrs. Gaynor.
19:58What makes you think it is?
19:59Several things.
20:00Do you have a gun in the house?
20:01You mean a pistol?
20:02An automatic.
20:03Might.
20:04Why?
20:05Where is it?
20:05In the table drawer in the living room.
20:07We'd like to take a look at it.
20:09All right.
20:13In there.
20:21German Luger.
20:22Does that gun belong to you, Mrs. Gaynor?
20:24Yes.
20:24My husband had it.
20:25It's mine now.
20:26Mrs. Gaynor, it's our duty to advise you of your constitutional rights.
20:29You have the right to remain silent.
20:30Any statement you make may be used against you in a court of law.
20:33You have the right to the presence of an attorney.
20:35If you desire and cannot afford an attorney,
20:37one will be appointed before any questioning.
20:39Yes, I understand.
20:40But what sense does it make to tell me all that legal mumbo-jumbo?
20:44All this talk about Mr. Hamlin not killing himself.
20:47If he didn't do it, who did?
20:48That's what we're trying to find out here.
20:50Uh-huh.
20:52But you've got somebody you're looking at, haven't you?
20:55Somebody you figure did it.
20:56That gun belongs to you, doesn't it?
20:58I am.
20:59You're the only one who witnessed the shooting, isn't that right?
21:01That's right.
21:02Well, now, why don't you tell us about it?
21:03Because if I did, you'd never believe it.
21:06Try us.
21:07All right.
21:08Mr. Hamlin came here last night.
21:10Like I said, he was drunk.
21:12Came in and started yelling.
21:14I was sitting right here, reading.
21:16He started to curse at me, using foul language.
21:20Yeah?
21:20I didn't pay him no mind.
21:22Told him to go away, that Nora was through with him.
21:25He wouldn't go.
21:26Yes, ma'am.
21:27All of a sudden, he pulled out a gun and started waving it around.
21:30Said if I didn't get Nora, he'd kill himself.
21:34I thought it was just some more of his play acting.
21:36Yes, ma'am.
21:36I didn't pay any attention to him.
21:38Figured when he was through, he'd go away.
21:40I went back to reading the book.
21:43Made him madder than ever.
21:44Go on, Ms. Gaynor.
21:45He grabbed the book out of my hand and shot it.
21:49Shot right at it.
21:51Then he threw it into the fireplace.
21:53He shot your book, and then he threw it into the fireplace.
21:56Now, did he shoot at you?
21:56No.
21:57No, at my book.
21:58Not at me.
21:59Just all of a sudden, something happened to me.
22:04I don't think I've ever been so mad.
22:06I took the gun out of the table there and shot him.
22:10He got real scared and ran into the study, closed the door behind him.
22:13Yes, ma'am.
22:14I heard him lock the door and start moving the furniture around.
22:17Then what happened?
22:18Right after that, I heard him fall down.
22:20And then, then Nora came into the room.
22:23Mother, why didn't you tell me?
22:25There wasn't any reason to.
22:27I had to think about it.
22:29What I'd done and what I had to do.
22:32Yes, ma'am.
22:34I was going to call you men this morning and tell you the truth.
22:36I really was.
22:37Yes, ma'am.
22:38I really was.
22:40Just all of a sudden, last night when he shot my book, I've never been so mad.
22:45I really wanted to kill him.
22:47You remember it all pretty well, don't you?
22:49Yes.
22:51Yes, I do.
22:53All right.
22:53Do you want to get a coat, Mrs. Gaynor?
22:54We'll have to take you downtown.
22:56Yes, sir.
22:57I'll get my coat.
23:03Is it going to be all right?
23:04We don't decide that, ma'am.
23:06But you told the truth.
23:07Isn't that going to make a difference?
23:08We'll put it down that way.
23:21Ray.
23:23Ray.
23:26There's the book.
23:33There's the slug.
23:34What's left of it.
23:49The story you have just seen is true.
23:52The names were changed to protect the innocent.
23:56On July 14th, trial was held in Department 186, Superior Court of the State of California for the County of
24:02Los Angeles.
24:03In a moment, the results of that trial.
24:10The defendant pled not guilty, and not guilty by reason of insanity.
24:14The jury found the defendant guilty.
24:17However, she was found to have been insane at the time of the commission of the offense.
24:29The jury found the defendant guilty.
24:56The jury found the defendant guilty.
24:57The jury found the defendant guilty.
25:01The jury found the defendant guilty.
25:10The jury found the defendant guilty.
25:13The jury found the defendant guilty.
25:14The jury found the defendant guilty.
25:14The jury found the defendant guilty.
25:14The jury found the defendant guilty.
25:14The jury found the defendant guilty.
25:15The jury found the defendant guilty.
25:15The jury found the defendant guilty.
25:16The jury found the defendant guilty.
25:20The jury found the defendant guilty.
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