Dragnet: The Big Hate (EP5084)

Todays Mystery: Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith investigate the death of a 52-year-old music teacher whose body is discovered in an abandoned freight car, cradled in the arms of a young man who refuses to explain what happened. When the young man finally confesses to killing her, the detectives struggle to understand why he would murder a woman he claims to have loved deeply and who had devoted years to nurturing his musical ambitions.Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 10, 1952Originating from HollywoodCast:

• Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday
• Herb Ellis as Sgt. Frank Smith
• Vic Perrin
• Harry Bartell
• Joyce McCluskey
• Jim Moser, writer
• Walter Schumann, music
• Technical advice from the office of Chief W.H. Parker
• Captain Jack Donahoe, Sgt. Marty Wynn, and Sgt. Vance Brasher, technical advisors
• George Fenneman, announcer

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