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It was Tuesday, February 18th. It was cold in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out on homicide detail. My partner's Ben Romero, the boss of Stad Brown, Chief of Detectives, my name's Friday. It was 10.43 a.m. when we got the Woodview High School, the vice principal's office. Morning, ma'am. Yeah. Like to see the vice principal, please. Leave her name is Harmon. Miss Harmon? I'm Miss Harmon. What does it do? You wanted police officers, ma'am. Is our identification? Oh, yeah. This is my partner's subject. Romero, my name's Friday. I see how do you do? Well, we'd like to talk to one of your girl students, Miss Harmon. A Roberta Dixon. Understand she's registered here? Roberta Dixon. Oh, yes, I believe I know her. Would you mind calling her out of class, please, when we like talk to her? Well, we generally don't like to do that off. So, not miss it's absolutely necessary. It's pretty important, ma'am. We've got a message for the girl. I see. Couldn't wait until after school hours. I'm afraid not, Miss Harmon. It's about the girl's mother. It's pretty serious. Oh, was she been taken ill, said it? No, ma'am. She's been murdered.

16-year-old Roberta Dixon, the daughter of the murdered woman, was called out of her class room and brought downstairs to the office of Miss Harmon. The girl's vice principal. She was a thin, dark-haired girl and sweater and skirt. With the help of Miss Harmon, whom the girl seemed to know fairly well, Ben and I broke the news of her mother's death as gently as we could. At first, the 16-year-old girl seemed to take the shot with some composure, but suddenly she broke down, leaping and became hysterical. When she recovered sufficiently, the girl agreed to come downtown with us to answer a few routine questions. Miss Harmon agreed to accompany her. 11.05am. We checked back in at the office. Ben and I completed the 3.11-dead body report while Miss Harmon and the daughter of the murdered woman waited in the adjoining room. What was that time discovered, Joe? You got a note on it there? Yeah, let me look. 8.55am. Oh, thank you. Hi, Joe. Oh, hi, George. How are you doing? I'm okay and complain. Got some check-in out today. I wonder if you'd help me. I want to give it a try. Ben, you know George the COVID-19 don't you report it from the daily news?

Oh, yeah, sure. Sam, I'm around. Hi. Sam, I understand you two are working on that knife murder out on Pico. The dead woman they found this morning? Yeah, that's right. If you think I'd like to check with you before I do the story, the victim's name was Florence Elinor Dixon, right? That's right, George. There are a couple more things here. It's time if I got it wrong. The victim was 40 years old, divorced one child, daughter 16. The body was discovered nine o'clock this morning by a next-door neighbor. Let's see, the neighbor's name is Esther Fenwick. No, I think the name is Fenmore, George. Oh, thanks. The N-M-O-R-E. You understand, yeah, I haven't got much to go on. No murder weapons, no other leads. No, not much of anything so far. We just got it on this thing. How about the husband of the dead woman? You get anything there? Well, he divorced Mrs. Dixon two years ago. There's no line on him yet. We're still checking him out. We might have some word later on the day for him. Any other possible suspects in mind, if you want to say? No, I don't think so. It's still wide open. How about a motive? Have you been established yet? Could have been one of a dozen things. We're going to have to do some digging before we can say definitely. It doesn't look like it was a robbery motive, but that's about all we can tell you for sure, George. See, I was out at the

morgue when they brought their body, and it's at worst they've seen a long time, brutal. It's pretty bad. I suppose there's nothing from the crime lab yet. No, I think they just got back from the house a few minutes ago. If you want to drop by later on this afternoon, we might have something new for you. Okay, thanks. Oh, say, I saw you bringing the girl in a few minutes ago. Victim's daughter. I'd like to get a couple of pictures on her. Well, how about making a little later on, George? Kids still upset. Pretty much it would shock for you, no? Okay, I'll be waiting out in the hall in the photographer. Okay, give me a call. I just a couple of shines. He won't take him. He'll bet you, George. We'll call you. Okay. You about to finish with that report, man? Yeah, hold on. I guess we better talk to the girl, huh? Yeah, all right. The morgue scene when they're going to host the body. Sometimes a day without I have the results first thing tomorrow morning. Miss Alman? I think she's a lot better now, Sergeant. Roberta, the officers would like to stop you a few minutes if you feel up to it. All right. Who killed my mother if you found out? Not you have to, Roberta. And we think you might be

able to help or so. It's so hard to believe. I just saw this morning. She was all right then. Well, you try to take it easier, Roberta. We'll make it as brief as possible. Now, you and your mother are the only people living at your house, no one else? No, me and my mother get tough. My father used to live with us. He doesn't need more. How long has it been since your father left? Not sure. About five years, I think. He and Mama didn't get along. We got divorced. Do you see your father told him anymore? I mean, does he ever come to your house to visit? You did once. It was about a year ago, I think. It wasn't much good. And my mother argued all the time he was there. He wasn't in the back. Has he been in contact at all with your mother? Do you know, does he write her letters? Call her on the phone. The last time when he came to her house, I haven't heard anything about him since. I don't even know where he is. I don't care. I guess. I hardly even know. I like to have you think about this carefully, Roberta. Did your mother have any close friends who used to come to the house quite a bit? Yes, two or three women friends are hers at work. Any men friends? No. Mama didn't have any men friends. She didn't like men. She said they were all

no good. She used to tell me that all the time. Do you have any relatives who we can contact? I don't know about my father's side. My mother has a brother and sister in West Virginia. Dresses at home. What am I going to do? Why would anybody kill my mother? I mean, you try to take it easy, Roberta. Everything's going to work out all right. Look, now, do you think you can give us a list of most of the people your mother knew, friends around the neighborhood, the people she knew what her work? Yes, I think so. Most of them were in her dress book. I think I know where it is. All right, fine. Just before you left for school, was going to Roberta, was there anyone in the house besides you and your mother? No, just a two of us. Was your mother expecting anyone? Nothing I know of. Your mother was all right with you. She didn't seem to be anything bothering her. She acted all right to me just like any other morning. We got up at quarter seven. I got dressed and I took a shower. I fixed breakfast. We ate and then I left for school. About what time was that, Roberta? Well, before eight, there was a usual time. I have my first class at 9 o'clock. When I left, my mother, she was just finishing her breakfast.

I said goodbye. It was the last time we saw her. Can we talk after a while, please? Maybe I'll feel better. Can't talk now? No, sure. That's all right. Would you like to rest here? I don't know why I'm crying. Still, but I'm here anyway. No reason to cry. You better get some rest, you know, Mr. No reason. It doesn't make sense crying about Mama. How's that? I'm not sorry. I'm glad she's dead. Early that afternoon, after she'd rested sufficiently and recovered herself, we had another interview with Roberta Dixon, the teenage daughter of the murdered woman. Ms. Harmon, the vice principal, went back to the school and a policewoman was called in to be present during the interrogation. Again, she insisted that she wasn't at all sorry that her mother was dead. She said that privately she didn't have any love for either one of her parents, least of all her mother. She told the usual story of a broken home, a father who showed little interest in his daughter, of providing a good home for, a strict overbearing mother,

who apparently made no effort to understand the girl. We'd continue to interview Roberta Dixon, outside of what she'd already told us she showed no further knowledge of the murder. Pending action for the court, we had the girl placed in the custody of the juvenile authorities. 310 p.m., Ben and I drove back to the murder house on South Peaco Boulevard, where we met police reporter George D. Colvin. Together with Brian and Ortiz, we continued our preliminary investigation. We rechecked the immediate area of the Dixon home and talked again with the neighbors. We failed to come up with anything new. 425 p.m., along with the reporter George D. Colvin, Ben and I went back to the murder house. Well, I don't know, it doesn't seem to judge that time of morning. It's possible though. What's that, Joy? Prouller. It might have been ahead, do you think so? No, we've already run that down. Yeah. We checked communications, there's no recent complaints about anybody prowling the neighborhood. We talked to the neighbors to no indication of it. No sign of anybody trying to break in here either.

Got me, I can't figure. And Dick's moment sure kept to herself, lived to 11 years, and we can't dig up more than half a dozen neighbors who really knew. That business with a daughter, too. Chair stacks up pretty strange. Didn't the crime lab prove finding anything is wanting, Joe? No, nothing great. Jacket and Paris shoes, the few stains on them. Took them into run a benzodyne test. That's about the size of it. Sure, a slow start. I expect a little more from the neighbors, so I die. You know, it'd be different if a thing happened in the middle of the night, according to the daughter, if it must have happened at least after 8.30 this morning. Now, if the killer got in the house after that, you'd think somebody on the block would have noticed. The neighbors close by on either side. How about checking out in the yard and back? I didn't get too good to look around this morning. Prouller's nothing more to cover in here. Crime lab's been all over. And how about where this Mrs. Dickson worked, Joe? Anybody tag by, sir? Yeah, Tommy Bryant did. Hotel out on South Grand. She worked in the limiter room. A couple people she knew there. They couldn't tell them anything. How about some of her other friends? No, nothing yet. We're still checking. Go ahead, Joe.

Okay. All right, it's a big back yard. Kept it nice, didn't it? You want to check alongside here, bend the house? I'll give the back of the yard a little bit. Yeah, okay. I want a good sized garage, huh? Pretty hard to find them like that anymore. Pretty good size, lot too. He sure must have worked to keep an enoughers. Not a weed on the place, is there? Yeah. More you can save for the neighbors. Have a look, George, down here. Huh? Flower bed here. Two little mounds of dirt, you see them? Yeah. The ground looks like it's been recently turned when you say, fairly recent. I don't know what that's supposed to mean. Yeah, small wooden crosses press down on each one of the mounds. Where were they? Looks like a couple of small graves, doesn't it? You want to reach me that stick over there, George? Oh, yeah. There you go. Thank you.

Have a look here. All right, nothing on mine and how are you, Joe? What's here? We're not sure ourselves, wait a minute. What is it? Wait a minute. You all right, too many yards? Bird. Little Canary. How about that? Hasn't been very long. Look here, with the breast. What do you think, a knife? Could be. Drop instrument of some kind, just a minute. I'm going to try this other mounds here. Wait a minute, Joe. Yeah. It's another one. You all look Canary, same thing. Look at the breath. Neither one's been buried for more than a few days. Funny one. Did Dixon's raised Canary, you know? I don't know. I don't think so. I'm sure it doesn't make any sense to me. They didn't want the bird. You'd think they'd give them away. Why go slaughter them like that? Yeah, well, it works both ways. Deep wounds in the chest. Some kind of sharp weapon.

Yeah. The Dixon woman. She died the same way. 4.35 p.m. We took the two Canaries, wrapped them in paper and brought them downtown to Lieutenant Lee Jones at the crime lab to be processed. He was still running tests on the stained jacket and pair of shoes, which had been found in the house among the dead woman's personal effects. 5.15 p.m. We checked for the office and then we drove over to juvenile hall to see Roberta Dixon. Apparently she was in a much better frame of mind. I talked to Ms. Harmon this afternoon. Our vice principal. She wants me to come and stay with her for a while. Hope she can arrange it. It should be nice. We were back at your house this afternoon. We were found something we'd like to ask you about. Look at that. Well, do you keep any pets in your house? I mean, either you or your mother. Well, no, not usually. Why? How do you mean not? Usually. Well, we didn't up until a week ago. Mama didn't like animals. She didn't want them around. Then I got these two Canaries. I bought them with my own money. I work after school, you know. Right, Steve. I bought a cage for them too. My mother was mad when I bought them home. She didn't

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First, it depends on the test to determine if they were blood stains than a biological precipitant test to classify them further. There wasn't any doubt in Lee's mind that the stains were recent, but they were made by human blood. The same blood type is that of the murdered woman. It was a little hard to believe, but the evidence on hand pointed only one prime suspect, 16-year-old Roberta Dixon. Early the following morning we checked back in at the office, Ben went across the street to see if the coroner's autopsy report was ready. 805 am, I checked by communications. They had a report on the tracer we'd gotten out of the murder victim's husband, a child's Dixon. I picked it up and headed back to the office. Morning, Joe. Oh, hi, George. You get the message I left for you. I put it on your desk over in the press room. Yeah, I got it. Thanks. How's it looked this morning? Anything new? Well, it's here. An answer on that tracer we got out on Mrs. Dixon's husband. He's been living up north for the past year of San Francisco. That's still up there? No, not according to this. He

died six months ago, a heart attack. What do you figure? Well, there's not much choice. Joe, oh, hi, George. Hi. What's up, sir? Report, coroner just got it out. What's the word? It doesn't jive with the story we got that coroner places a time of death close to 730 AM yesterday. Of course, it is what we figure chest wounds, kind of a sharp weapon. There's something else. According to the girls, he had breakfast with her mother before she left for school. Coroner says Mrs. Dixon hadn't eaten for at least 12 hours before she died. What was that time of death then? 730 AM? No later. I guess we better move on. I know. What's the angle? Well, a daughter. She says she didn't leave the house until 830. Along with a policewoman, Ben and I drove out to the home of the high school vice principal, Miss Harmon, where the suspect Roberta Dixon was staying. There was no one there. We checked at the high school. Miss Harmon told us that she brought Roberta to school at morning. She thought that if the girl attended classes, that it helped keep her mind off her troubles. Miss Harmon checked the classroom that Dixon girl was supposed to be in, but she wasn't there. Her teachers were

contacted. None of them had seen her that morning. 9.40 AM, we drove over to the Dixon home. We found Roberta in the back bedroom. She was sitting calmly at a sewing machine, stitching ruffles on a dress. In one corner of the room, there was an empty bird cage. I'm pretty busy right now. I've got this sewing to do. What'd you want to talk to me about? We've got a few more questions for you. Roberta, it's about your mother. She's dead, isn't she? Do we have to talk about it? I'm afraid we do. Why do we? Just told me she was dead. There's no sense in talking about dead people. Anyway, I've got this sewing to do. I have to get finished. There. Isn't that pretty? These ruffles go all the way around the bottom of the skirt. Here I have this beautiful color brown. Do you like it? You want to tell us what happened, Roberta? Yesterday, Molly. Yesterday, I already told you, didn't I? We don't think you were telling the truth. You want to go over it again for it? I've got this sewing to do. You can see that, can't you?

Three more ruffles go on. Right here. I have to get it finished. It takes time, you know. I think you better let the sewing go, Roberta. Oh, no, I couldn't do that. I have to get finished. I'm afraid this is a little more important. I think you realize that. I went over the whole thing for you already. I told you everything. Wasn't the truth. You know that, Roberta. Why do you say that? Why is it the truth? Wait, let me say. That's up to you. You think I lied? Don't you? That's stupid. I haven't got any reasons to lie. Did you tell her, Roberta? What? Did you kill your mother? I told you everything already. It's just the way it was. Mom and I got up and had breakfast and I went to school. What? I don't have any reason to lie. Excuse me. Hello? Hi, Fran. Yeah, I'm working on it now. It's going to be beautiful. What? I don't know. That's all right. Sure. Oh, thanks. Yeah, I'm all right. Look, can you call me back later? Yeah, I'll be here.

Okay, I'll be there. I'm sorry, officer. It's my girlfriend, Fran. It's a good friend of mine. She can vouch for me. She'll tell you I'm not a liar. You'll appear on Brown and White's Sadlocks, Roberta. No, why? How about a school jacket? Green plaid? No. I don't like green. Brown's my favorite color. The green plaid jacket was found in the house here. It was stuffed back in the hall closet. It had your name, Stenson, don't it? Oh, yeah. That'll thing. I don't even wear it anymore. Look at that. Won't be pretty when I get finished. Had jacket years, Roberta, they found blood stains on it on the shoes too. No, Roberta. I already told you the shoes aren't mine. The jacket is. Why do you keep calling me a liar? Can't you believe me for once? It's not bad enough for way things are. No, the last time we talked to you, you said you left the house at 8.30 yesterday morning, is that right? Yes, it was around 8.30. We got the report on your mother this morning, Roberta. The corner says she

died at 7.30. No way there. That's stupid. How could he tell anyway? He can tell. He's a liar. Something else, Roberta. You told us you and your mother got up and you had breakfast together. Yeah, we had breakfast together. Why are you picking on me? You couldn't have had breakfast together. The time she died, your mother hadn't eaten anything for 12 hours. I guess you're going to say they can tell that too. That's right. You want to tell us what really happened now? And I tell us the truth, Roberta. It's going to work out a lot easier. These are some of the toys I have when I was little. I saved almost all of them. My best doll. Had a lot of dolls. I loved them. Guess I still do. I love them more than her. You mean your mother? I wasn't fooling. I don't care if she's dead. She didn't mean anything to me. She never did mean anything. These are more my dolls here. I dressed them all myself, every one of them. I was a

matter, Roberta, between you and your mother, I mean. I don't know. I guess she just didn't mean anything. Not like anybody else's mother. She didn't mean anything at all. Same as my father. You're in the same house. That's all nobody cares for anybody else. Amazing but fighting, fighting or just not saying anything at all. I'm glad she's dead. You killed her? Is that what you want to say? Here's a little piano I had. I got one Christmas I think. Look, Bill Plays. You want to tell us from the beginning? I took a long time. I thought about it a lot. We could go. I made up my mind. It's time to kill her. She was getting worse. I couldn't do anything. I was always wrong. I couldn't go out. I couldn't do

this. I couldn't do that. She started the same way yesterday morning. I got the knife from the kitchen. I went in and she was sitting on the bed putting her stockings on. I don't think she knew what happened. Didn't take long. Were you having an argument with her? Was that what started? We argued every morning. I got so tired of it. She had an awful voice. I only made up my mind. I planned it all out. I even practiced it. You know the two canaries I had? I didn't buy them because they wanted them. You got to be cute though. I felt bad about killing them. Why did you kill them? Practice. I decided to use a knife. I wasn't sure I knew how to do it though.

I got the canaries. One day after school I killed them. I gave them more confidence. I knew I could do it after that. Pull those things. I guess I shouldn't have killed them. You killed your mother with her brother. Do you want to show us who it is? I don't show you. I don't think you ever could have found it. It's up in the attic. Special place I hide things. Would you like some coffee or a coke or something? No, no. One more thing. Why do you leave school this morning? I mean going off without telling anybody. I wanted to come back here. I felt like it. I wanted to come back to my room. The only place I really like to be. I've lived in this house all my life. This is always been my room. Toys I had. My dolls. Everything's here. Everything I have. My books. Room my dolls.

I think we better be going, Roberta. We'll have to take you downtown. Yes, all right. I'll get my coat. Then I'll show you where the knife is. All right. Officers, could I ask you one favor? What's that? It probably sounds silly. It'll help a lot though. This doll here. Yeah. Could I take it with me? Just this one. Make me feel a lot better. Please do you think I could? Yeah, sure. Bring it along if you like. Thank you. You probably think I don't care for anything but my dolls. There's one thing though I want to tell you. What's that? I'm sorry now. I really am. I shouldn't have done it. I know it was wrong.

You do? Yes, I'm sorry I killed the Canaries. The story you have just heard was true. The names were changed. The story you have just heard was true. The names were changed. The names were changed to protect the innocent. On May 6th, the hearing was held in juvenile court, Department 38, City and County of Los Angeles, state of California, in a moment the results of that hearing. Now here is our star, Jack Webb. Thank you, George Fenerman. Friends, I'd like to take just a moment this evening to tell you about Fatima's Christmas gift carton. When you visit your dealer, take a real good look at it. I think you'll agree with me that it's the smartest of all Christmas cartons, just as it should be, because Fatima is the best of all King's eye cigarette. This Christmas season, I'm buying Fatima's for all my friends and I hope you will too. Compare Fatima. See the difference. Taste the difference and then smoke that difference. Because in Fatima, the difference is quality.

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