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But now, from August twenty third, nineteen fifty one, here is the Big in Laws.

The story you were about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

You're a detective sergeant here assigned a robbery detail.

A gang of hijackers is set up operations in your city.

Truckloads of merchandise worth thousands of dollars vanished completely.

The criminals know their business, their system appears foolproof.

Your job stop them.

Drag met the documented drama of an actual crime.

Well, the next thirty minutes in cooperation of the Los Angeles Police Department.

You will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police by us.

From beginning to end, and from crime to punishment.

Drag Net is the story of your police force in action.

It was Saturday, November eight, was foggy in Los Angeles.

We're working the day watch out of robbery detail.

My partner's Ben Romero.

The boss's captain Didion.

My name is Friday.

I was on the way back from R and I and.

It was eleven twenty three am when I got THROUGHOM twenty seven eight robbery detail.

Joe, Hi, where you've been anyhow?

I've been sitting here twenty minutes waiting for you.

I'm sorry.

I've been checking a couple of names through and I took a little longer, and I figured.

At least you could do is leave a note in the book.

I do the same for you.

I've been sitting here, George.

I'm sorry.

What's the matter?

You feeling well?

No, I'm alright.

It just like a little cooperation, Joetso what's the matter with you?

Oh?

I don't know.

I guess I was mad when I woke up at a crazy house.

What's the trouble?

You have an argue with your wife in laws?

They're visioning again?

Sex of them?

Or were they sleeping all over the place?

For adults?

Two kids in a great Fox terrier.

He's not even house broken.

How long are you gonna stay?

A couple of days?

Two weeks?

I don't know how I can last about Joe.

They're crawling all over the place, kids, gleaming dog caring up the front room.

No privacy.

I don't know what I'm gonna do.

Well, why don't you just level with him?

Ask him they wouldn't mind standing at a motel for a couple of days.

I suggested that to the wife this morning.

What do you think that's when the argument's started?

Hey, I almost forgot to tell you that.

Truck driver finally showed up at uh Frank Burns.

Oh yeah, it's about time.

Where is?

He took him across the hall of the mug room, got him checking out some coming out mug books.

I guess we better see how he's doing all right?

He sure took his time to get away, didn't He didn't offer any excuses.

He's no more help than he was yesterday, surly not very cooperating.

How you doing, mister Burros?

You'n't limber my partner story of Friday.

I got a headache.

This is just a waste of time waiting through all these pictures.

I've been through two of these books already.

I couldn't identify any of the guys.

Yeah, we know it's pretty tedious.

We'd just like to have you check through a few more volumes if you wouldn't mind.

Look, I don't mind giving you a hand when I got time, but I got things.

To do today.

I got some on for the night, have to get a haircut, my suit pressed.

Well, this thing's pretty important to us.

Burroughs.

I know we're putting you out, but we need every lead we can get.

We'd certainly appreciate it if you could just give us a little more cooperation.

I don't know what else I can do.

I told you everything, I know, just what happened.

A few more things we'd like to ask you about.

Is there some of the details you didn't make quite clear?

What details?

How do you mean details about the hijacking?

Mind going over with the gain voice?

Well later it out for you.

The last time he talked to me just the way it went.

It's the same as the rest.

Well, how do you mean the same as the rest?

Well, the other hijackings are the same as though it was no different.

You're pretty familiar with the other jobs, aren't well?

Follow them in the paper or the bullet and the cops got out on him.

It's up on the dispatch board in the garage.

Is that fresh water?

And I coud over there?

Yeah?

I think so happens to night.

I have a pup last one for his headache.

Can't take asphin it's not water.

You know you've been driving a couple of years for Lavell Trucking Line.

Is that right, bros?

That's right?

Yeah?

What if you'd mind running it through for us again?

Bro, Maybe there's a few details about the thing that you forgot to mention.

It won't be any different.

And last time I pulled out from the load and dock about six o'clock yesterday morning hauling a load of Scotch whiskey over to Phoenix, pulled up for the red lighted Alameda and Jackson.

That's when the guy pulled open the door and got in next to me, put a gun in my ribs told me look straight ahead.

The first thing he did was hand me the pair of goggles and tell me to put him on same kind of the welders use.

Front of the lens was covered with the tape.

I put him on.

I couldn't see a thing.

Guy took over the wheel and started driving.

Well, does you have any idea what direction you were heading in?

Not with the goggles on.

I tried to follow it first, but I got all mixed up, couldn't tell where he was driving, made quite a few turns.

He drove about twenty twenty five minutes, I guess before we pulled up that's where the switching point was.

Two more guys met us there.

I could only tell by the voices.

They put me out of the truck and put me in a car.

Well, can you tell us anything at all about that transfer point?

I mean, were there any sounds or anything like that that give you an idea that maybe.

Where you were?

Well, I figure it must have been someplace out in the valley, pretty far out, no traffic sounds at all, just cricket scene and things like that.

You got me in that car, drove around about an hour, I figure, and they put me on out side of the road, told me to leave the goggles on for ten minutes, and then they drove off.

Well, how about those two men at the transfer point?

If you heard their voices again, you think you could recognize them.

I don't No, I dit it.

I didn't say too much, not that I heard anyway.

I'm just curious, Bruhs, how is it you thought of calling your company first instead of the police.

Well, it's their cargo, hold old a whiskey.

If somebody hijacked that, I figured the company ought to be the first to know.

I like to ask you just one more question.

There's no offense intended here.

Yeah, have you ever been arrested?

Why?

What'd that have to do with?

Probably nothing at all.

Have you ever been arrested?

I'd like to set you straight on it right now.

If you think I was working inside on this thing, you got it wrong.

I didn't have anything to do with it, and there's nothing to worry about it, all right.

Yeah, I've been arrested that Burroughs about ten years ago.

It was back east West Virginia.

What was the chart hijacking?

Our records showed no previous arrests for Frank Burrows for the next few days.

He was kept under observation.

When we got the kickback from Washington, it showed Burrows had one previous arrest, the one he told us about, for hijacking.

We checked all his friends, relatives and associates.

We found nothing suspicious.

His employers said that they were aware of his police record, but they told us that Burrows was one of the best drivers they had.

There was nothing to link him with a series of hijackings which had been going on all over the city for the past month.

Our crime lab checked the pair of goggles which Burrows had been forced to wear during the hijacking.

They were an ordinary industrial type, easily obtained and impossible to trace other than those belonging to Burrows.

There were no fingerprints on them.

Late that afternoon, the missing truck and trailer was found empty in a deserted section of the valley, no latent, fingerprints or other physical evidence.

Nine am the next morning, we met with Captain Dideon.

Carcos going on how to trace something that said Skipper High Great Scott's Whiskey.

One hundred and fifty cases you got out of bullets and all the liquor wholesalers, serial numbers, listening.

That ex con Burrows.

Nothing turned up on him, No, nothing, We double checked.

Everything about him is clean.

You didn't get anything off, had abandon the truck, no prints, no physical evidence.

Seems like they got it down to a science.

Sound like the fad Brown.

He's getting all the kicks from the warehouse operators.

Thirty days and six hijackings.

How about moving faster?

Well, as you know, we got twelve steakhouts running down freight load skipper Yeah, incoming out going, got three girls in the Stat's.

Office doing nothing but making runs for us.

No news respect.

We've got a meeting with an informant after lunch.

He figures he may have something.

There's nothing to bank on it.

How about an inside tip off on these jobs?

Any indication the gang's working something like that.

No, nothing, Definitely skipper jobs seem to be pretty well cased.

Though.

We've checked out everybody with a record working.

For the trucking lines.

No reason to think any of them had to end in it.

Excuse me a minute, didion Yeah, live Oak near Trenton, happening, Yeah, I got it right, Thank you.

Yet another truck earl this morning, where there's a location.

Better move on.

It looks like they got their signals crushed.

Honey, mean, it doesn't make sense.

The cargo of the hijack, what was it?

A load of toothbrushes?

Nine three am, Ben and I drove to the intersection of Live Oat Drive and Trenton Avenue in the Hollywood Hills, where we located the latest driver to.

Fall victim to the gang of hijackers.

His story was the same as the others.

He'd stopped his truck for a red light at a deserted intersection when a man jumped on the running board and pointed a gun at his head.

The man with the gun took over the wheel and forced the driver to put on a pair.

Of black dot welders goggles.

Then the truck was moved to a remote spot where the driver was transferred to a car and later released in the remote section of the Hollywood Hills.

The hijack truck was found empty a day later, and again there was no physical evidence, no fingerprints.

The driver could add little to what we already knew.

The only point that made the case any different from those that had gone before was the cargo that had been stolen.

A load of toothbrushes.

We began an immediate check of the neighborhood where, according to the driver, he was first held up.

It was a fairly remote intersection in the San Fernando Valley.

After four hours of interviewing ranchers and gas station attendance, we talked to the operator of a practice driving range for golfers located just off the highway.

His name was Fred Garrison.

As a matter of fact, I did notice something out of the ordinary this morning, a little four to six am, I think, spotted this big semi turning off on that dirt road down the highway there.

Now which dirt road is that, miss Garrison?

Oh, right up the highway there?

Shit, Oh, it turns off by that clump of trees.

Couldn't figure out why a big truck and trailer be taken that road.

Doesn't make sense.

What do you mean?

What's the dead end?

No reason why a driver turned off there by mistake.

There's a big sign right there at the intersection says not a through street right there?

See it plainnessday.

I wonder if he could describe the truck force, mister Garrison.

It was pretty good size, one of those big aluminum jobs.

Black lettering on the side.

I think, yeah, it turned off the highway, went down the dirt road a little ways, and then it turned off into that grove of trees and the driver cut the lights.

Did you notice any activity going on in Goo?

No?

No, I didn't.

Oh maybe I should have walked over and checked it.

I figured it was just some truck driver pulling up to catch a few weeks asleep.

And I see my boy Dave was with me at the.

Time, wanted to check it, but I told him to mind his own business.

He says.

A couple of minutes.

After the truck pulled in, he saw Gray s Dan come down the road and park next to the truck, right in that same clump of trees.

Well, I didn't always look a little suspicious to use her.

Oh I suppose so, and away.

I just don't like the metal where it's not my business.

That's awful.

Did your boy Dave get a good look at this grace oft and you.

Know you want to come in the officer sit down?

Sure?

Oh huh, hey, sit right there if you like.

Thank you.

Let's see now where worry about your boy Dave's Oh yeah, you said that he saw Gray sa'dan pulling next to the truck over in that plump of trees.

Did he mention anything else that he noticed about the car, I mean, other than the fact that it was a gray Sedan.

Well, yeah, I think he did say something else about it.

Let's see, I wasn't listening too close at the time.

Dave's doing some arians downtown for me right now.

He'll be phoning in pretty soon, though I can ask him about it.

Then he paid a lot more attention to the thing than I did.

Well, how long were the truck and trailer in the Saedan park in the grove of trees?

Do you remember there?

Well, not too long, maybe fifteen twenty minutes.

The car pulled out first and took off down the highway away from town that way, see, and the truck and trailer left few minutes after waste.

Figure they were up to And we've got an idea what time was that Againza, when you saw the truck turn off the highway onto the dirt.

Room, About six am, maybe a few minutes one way or the other.

I wonder if you'd show us the exact spot where you saw that truck park, would you?

Oh?

Sure?

Here you want to come over here with me to window.

Huh.

Now you see the clump of trees there?

Yeah, how you glipped?

How they bought it right on the road.

Yeah, maybe that's him now, yes, fair ways?

Oh yeah, Dave, how'd you make out?

M oh fine, no, no, no, listen.

A couple of policemen here now.

They're asking about that truck and that gray Saedan you saw up on the road this morning.

I want to know what you noticed about the Sadan besides the color a I.

Oh you did?

Uh huh, yeah, Well you better head back here.

They probably want to talk to you about it.

All right, Davy?

Bye, what do you have to say?

I'll hear be back in about twenty minutes.

I figured you want to talk to him?

How about the sedan?

Said, you get a pretty good look at it?

Did he say?

Yeah?

I guess so he got part of a license number.

Red Garrison's son, Dave returned and gave us all the pertinent facts about the truck and the gray Sedan which he'd noticed in the neighborhood.

Early that morning.

His description of the truck and trailer what he saw, but anyway, Matt's closely with that of the latest vehicle to be hijacked.

He described the car as a gray Sedan, and he said it looked to him like it was a late model Nash, but he couldn't be sure.

He said.

The first three units on the license plate were seventy seven.

The location in the grove of trees where the truck had been spotted was checked thoroughly.

Outside of some indefinite tire tracks, there was no physical evidence.

Four ten PM, we put in a call to DMV and asked for a rundown on the three license plate numbers.

The next morning, DMB returned to us a list of more than a thousand auto registrations, which began with a figure seventy seven.

We went down the list and gradually eliminated six hundred of these as not being physically close in description to the car scene by Garrison's boy Dave.

We kept checking.

Almost three hundred more on the list were registered in distant parts of the state.

That left us with over one hundred vehicles registered in or around Los Angeles to check out.

It went slow.

Three weeks passed.

We narrowed the list down to twenty three possibles.

Tuesday, December tenth, we were checking registrations with addresses in the east end of the city.

It's a name on this one against Perry or Water Straight back to drive.

There's a car park and yeah, let's try the bell again.

Let me say, let's give the car look.

Be pre sure to get care.

Nobody home, garage wide open cars.

Isn't they qualify so far?

You want to check the steering post, the registration check out?

All right, it's a minute.

What do you got there?

Here?

Found he's under the seat.

Oh, maybe we're home.

It's a pair of guidels.

Take a look.

Yeah, both lens is covered with tape.

You're in the poetry division of a Metropolitan Police Department handwriting analysis.

Now let's check it against the forged letter.

The capital's print evenly.

The o's and the a's are clean.

No, this isn't the typewriter we're looking for.

Yeah, capitals print high, asianos are solid, peace slanted.

This is the.

One Tuesday, December tenth, two fifteen DM.

A pair of goggles found in the automobile registered to water our Perry were the same brand and style as the goggles used to black out the truck drivers and all the previous hijackings.

Ben and I searched the car, but we failed to come up with any additional physical evidence.

We left the garage, checked the house again to make sure that there was nobody at home.

Then we went down the street close to the house to where we parked our car.

We put in a call to R and I and requested a make on water ar Perry.

He had no previous criminal records.

A few minutes later, we spotted two women loaded with grocery bags come down.

The street, go up the stairs at the Perry house and let themselves in with a key.

Went up to the front door, rang the bell, and the younger of the two women answered, dark brown hair, blue eyes, about five foot six, twenty eight twenty nine years old.

We identified ourselves and she showed us into the living room.

She told us her name was Leona Perry and that Walter Perry was her husband.

They'd been married eleven years, no children.

We asked her where her husband was, and she said he was out of town on a business trip up north com outa Vista, California.

We asked her what line of business he.

Was in, Well, right now, will Is Jewelry Sales me which himself to quite their traveling.

Your husband's blonde about five nine hundred and sixty pounds that run.

Yes, that's right.

How do you go up north Man to do well?

I think he went up by train.

I'm not sure I.

Have any idea how we might contact your husband of.

North No, I'm afraid I don't.

He said he had a couple of business apartments in different towns in that area up there.

He didn't tell me where he'd be staying.

What's it about, sarge, mister routine check and miss Perry?

Is that a photograph of your husband over there at the piano?

Yes, one's he expected back to know.

Let's see, this is Tuesday, should home sometimes Thursday?

A minute ago?

You said, right now, your husband's a jewelry salesman.

Is that his usual line of work?

No, world is a truck driver.

He worked here in Los Angeles.

No, he groves for company up north in the Bay area, Oakland, Berkeley.

He had that job for ten years, almost from the day we were married.

And then last December he had a fight with the boss and clips we moved down here to find work butt and just pretend to get placed.

How long has he been selling jewelry.

Now it was about eight months.

I'd say you're doing very good at it.

You have more now than when he's driving a truck, a lot of.

Money to Jeers.

And it's just you and your husband living here, is that right?

No, my mother lives with us too.

We just got back from doing the shopping.

I guess she said, you're putting the grocery do mom Ah.

I don't say.

That's all right, ma'am.

I think you can give us the information we need.

Well, I'd like to know what this is about.

I'd appreciate it if you'd tell me.

World isn't in any kind of trouble?

Is he just a routine investigation, Miss Perry, doesn't necessarily mean your husband's in law.

I want to tell you right now my husband was involved in anything.

I had trouble with the police.

Is like water have trouble with the police.

What is it?

Letter, It's nothing.

Mabby's policemen want to talk to wald and I just want to ask him a few questions and all.

This is my mother, missus Burt, this is it's Friday, mister Marr.

I told you, leone, I felt it all day.

Something's wrong.

Walter's done something.

There's don't decide to let it get him off.

Please.

The officers told me.

They want to talk to all episode.

But forth he hasn't done anything.

Why do they want to talk to it routine judy, ma'am.

There's nothing to get excited about it.

I know what happened.

I felt it all the time.

That funny job he has selling jewelry, going out at all hours couldn't fool me.

I knew it wasn't right.

What's he done?

Where he's relative?

Was?

We got a right to know?

There's nothing we can tell you, definitely, ma'am.

How about these odd working hours your husband has missus Perry, what's the reason for that?

Could you tell us?

Why don't know?

Water works for himself.

He just has to make business contexts when he can.

That's all.

Sometimes it's late at night, sometimes early in the morning.

Why don't you stay out of it?

After all, it's our.

Business, wall is mine?

Just mark my wordly wan to find out about this.

That husband yours has done something and these policemen are after him.

I knew it wasn't right.

I felt it all along.

Please take these jewels.

Business is big money.

I should have left and taken you with me that they.

Started Waters a truck driver.

It's all you'll ever be.

It's where he should have stayed.

There are you always picking out Water?

Why?

Because I told you in the first place you never should have married him.

Eleven years ago I told you I never should have come.

To stay with you.

You couldn't go and marry one of those nice boys you met at school.

It had to be Water Perry.

Well, maybe you'll see now trouble with the police.

Now you'll see what kind of a man you shut up for.

Sorry, I'll.

Well, I'm afraid that isn't helping much.

Miss burg was What is it that can help?

Kids?

Should try to tell him something, make it easy for him.

Never listened that gray sedan back in the garage?

Man, does anyone else drive it besides mister Perry?

Do you know?

No, Leona doesn't drive.

World is the only one who runs it.

He drives it to all these business appointments.

He has it ought out, It's right?

How many times he doesn't take it so when he's out of town.

You ever seen this pair of goggles before?

Man?

No, I never hear What does it mean that tape all over in front of him.

How about your son and last friends?

Do you ever bring any of them here to the.

House since I've been staying here the last six months.

Call him on the phone, He goes out, doesn't bring anyone around though.

I'm just sick.

Well, can you tell us anything about this jewelry business mister Berry's working here.

I don't even want to think about it.

I raised four daughters, nice girls, every one of them, attractive, plans for them, and you want them to be happy and marry some nice fellow, have a nice, comfortable home.

You try to tell them.

They never listen about the car man.

You get to be seventeen and they know everything.

My girls could have married wealthy if they were smart.

A lot of other girls have done it.

They had nice clothes, they got through business school, good home training.

All us talk about love.

They're also smart.

They know everything, and they know nothing.

This is what happens.

We wake up and find out.

Would you finish putting a girl through the way?

Move totally off anything you wild?

Leona didn't mean to upset you.

Maybe things will be all right.

And just a few more questions, Miss Verry, that's all.

Well, whatever it is, I know long hasn't done anything wrong.

He wouldn't do anything wrong.

It doesn't make sense.

There's just no reason for it.

I remember your father ly on us sixteen years.

We were married.

One night he packed up and left me.

There wasn't any reason for that either, wasn't the move.

We continued questioning a whyfe and the mother in law of the suspect, Walter Perry.

From the wife, we got the names and addresses of four close friends of Perry's who were supposed to be associates of his in the jewelry business.

In the basement and in.

A loft over the garage, we found more than a dozen cases of high grade scotch whiskey, cases of expensive furs, and other loot taken in the hijackings.

Missus Perry said her husband told Harry was storing his stuff for some friends.

Was only a small portion of the taake.

We called the office and got out a broadcast and an APB in the suspect and arranged for an immediate stakeout on the Perry house.

And then together with Matthews and Gonzales from Robbery Detail, we began checking out the four close friends of the suspect.

We could locate only two of them, but those two paid off in the basements and garages of their homes, we found.

Another portion of the loot, along with.

Evidence that showed that both men had taken active parts in the hijackings.

They were booked at the main jail on suspicion of two to eleven PC.

A full week went by, the stakeout continued on the Perry house, still no sign of him.

Saturday, December twentieth, four five pm we checked back in at the office.

This thing shorte Dragon.

I don't it would be nice to wrap it up before Christmas.

We'll then get it all the way.

Might working a couple of days off?

No, I don't know if I'm too interested, Joe or the days off.

I mean, we've got visitors on the wear again.

They mean for the holidays.

Who's kind the same old bunch.

My brother in law and his wife and his kids and that little doll there.

Well, they were just leave you for three weeks worth.

They what's the deal?

Oh, brother in law got home finally notice from his company he's been transferred out here.

They're going to stay with us all through the holidays and then they'll start house hunt.

How about man, he's got a problem.

He's got a new rug in the living room.

How about twenty to one on it?

Jill, what's a little fox?

Teary?

Oh?

Hi skipper?

Anything before we check out?

Be's the news for you?

Just talk to the Ventoria Sheriff's office.

We all my favorite.

What do you mean?

They grabbed Walter Perry half an hour ago.

Monday, December twenty second, So I suspect Walter Perry was returned to Los Angeles.

He was taken to the interrogation.

Room when Captain Diddyon then and I questioned him for almost two hours.

He was confronted with the evidence and testimony against him, and after another hour and a half of interrogation, he broke.

He gave us a full signed statement describing his part in the campaign of hijackings.

He also gave us the names of everyone in the gang, how they participated in to what extent he said.

Most of the property looted from the hijacked trucks was stored in a rented barn located at the north end of the San Fernando Valley.

The detail of men checked it and confirmed the information.

The suspect's wife, Leona, was notified of her husband's arrest.

One thirty five pm.

We completed our interrogation.

That's it, very nice, goough.

You asked me a lot of questions.

How about it?

Can I ask you with?

What's it?

Well?

Why do you think I did it?

Why I got mixed up in this?

Well?

According to your statements, you wanted the money a minute or you've been out to my house?

Haven't you?

You met my wife?

And answer, I guess you met a mother too.

Yeah, well, then you've got it.

Nobody in the work would make me go for a hijack deal, but she could.

I remember the morning I admit up my mind to do it her.

I was out the kitchen here yapping at Leona in the other room, the same old roasting abous, the truck driver that was me eleven years.

The wife and I've been married, Her mother lived with us, nine of them.

Didn't get any better, didn't get any worse, Just the same old yapping her and her four girls.

Why couldn't they listen to her?

They were the best girls in the world.

Why couldn't they marry money?

Why don't it to be guys like truck drivers?

Stupid truck driver, same thing every day, always the same, nine years of it day.

So I wanted to get enough money to rub in her face, enough to make a choke on.

You can hate somebody for that.

I don't know how many years they'll give me, but I'm going to hate her.

Everyone remained jail wasn't ready to go.

I want to be a minute.

Backs.

Thank you all right, Gord?

Yeah, uh, Sergean.

My wife's been told her.

She knows about it.

She's waiting outside in the hall with her mother, and you can see him on the way.

Out, and a lot of thanks.

Hi, honey, I'm sorry.

Why did you do ask him when they're they're honey?

You heard as much of it as I did, nine years worth of I guess it finally got me sick.

She wanted you to have money, so I want have to get it.

You come and see me when you came.

Yeah, I wasn't going to any jail to see you.

I knew it all along.

I knew what you would the truth.

She never should have married you.

All right, pray, let's go.

Fine.

How are you figuring?

I don't know.

How about some coffee?

Okay?

She is funny.

You see other people sweating that your troubles looked like nothing.

I'm just thinking about what's that those in laws in what about it?

Yes, I hadn't got it half.

Then the story you have just heard was true, only the names were changed to protect the innocent.

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I was wondering how Romero's in laws would come back into the tititle, and of course it turns out it has to do with both Romero's in laws and the perpetrators.

I guess in some ways, Romero's reacting to other people's family troubles the same way that people in the nineties did when they watched those sort of daytime talk shows, or today when people watch reality TV shows and they see people behaving so crazily and they're like, Okay, my family is messed up, but at least we're not that bad now.

I do sympathize with the perpetrator a little bit, but I don't like the idea of, particularly in a case like this, of someone driving someone else to commit a crime, which is essentially what he did when he was saying, nobody could make me do this, but my mother in law, she made me do it.

Lots of people have overbearing, nagging mother in laws, and they also have wives who will put up with it and not stick up for their husbands.

But most of these guys don't start hijacking liquor.

There are all kinds of ways to deal with this, and beginning on hijacking trucks is a choice.

Now, if this were Broadways my beat, Danny Clover probably would have arrested the mother in law on principle as an accessory.

But Dragnet's based more on the real world.

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