October 31, 2019
(Halloween)
Los Angeles, California
Actor Jack Webb in the role of LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday
Click on graphic for Dragnet Introduction (1 minute)
This is the city. Los Angeles, California. Population four million.
It was a brisk Holloween Eve and I was working the night watch out of my home office when the Email message came in. It was from a citizen. He wanted to help. Here is his story.
The Backstory
The below Raul Moreno interview was conducted and published in Black Dahlia Avenger in the AFTERMATH chapter included in the updated paperback edition in 2004.
Page 452:
Raul Moreno with Sgt Friday’s Badge 714 Raul child actor in Adam 12 scene.
Lt. Thad Brown with murder suspect (1932) Chief Thad Brown with Steve Hodel (1966)
JTD’s Story- A 2019 Confirmation/Corroboration
“JTD” is a highly educated man (BS and MA)- and his identity is known to me but for the purpose of this blog, I will keep his name private. The conversation between his father and JTD took place in 1975 (approximate year) while he was attending college. JTD further informed me that the conversation between Jack Webb and his father he believes occurred in 1960, as his father left Cadillac Company in 1963. (Coincidentally, I joined LAPD that same year.)
Here is JTD’s email:
JTD’s recall of his father’s description of both the suspect and the residence once again, independently confirm that LAPD and the DA investigations “had their man” back then.
Everything the father told his son in 1975 matches and corroborates exactly with what Jack Webb told his friend and fellow actor, Raul Moreno, in 1982.
Thank you JTD for forwarding the information and sharing it with myself and other readers. Much appreciated.
Have to wonder who else Sgt. Joe “Just The Facts” Friday told?
A secret like that would be hard to keep. Especially, decades after the crime occurred and knowing or believing that the killer was “long gone” and outside the country.
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