Pierce Brooks, the technical advisor on this film, was the Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective who originally solved the actual case on which this film was based.
Filmed in 1966 but not broadcast until 1969.
Sergeant Joe Friday:
Now you listen to me, you gutter-mouth punk. I've dealt with you before, and every time I did, it took me a month to wash off the filth. I'll tell you what you did to that four-year old girl out in Westlake Park: you staked out a bench like you've always done. You bought a sack of penny candy; you waited until the right little girl came along... You got her in your car. She started to cry; you hit her across the mouth twice. You cut her lip with your ring. Knocked out three of her teeth. And then you know what you did to her... Now, I didn't say that, Rockwell, you did. That's exactly what you told those officers who arrested you. They advised you of your constitutional rights before you opened your mouth. Now you're trying to tell us you didn't understand. Well, you're a liar... Like every hoodlum since Cain up through Capone, you've learned to hide behind some quirk in the law. And mister, you are a two-bit hoodlum. You've fallen twice for A.D.W. Burglary, three times. Twice for forcible rape; I tagged you for those. And now you've graduated: you've moved to the sewer. You're a child molester.
Sgt. Joe Friday:
Let's go, Markell, you're going downtown.
Ricky Markell:
I ain't gonna talk to you there, either.
Sgt. Joe Friday:
Well now, you don't have to. Shelton copped out, told me the whole story, he said you stabbed the guy and shot him three times, once in the right temple.
Ricky Markell:
Max didn't tell you that!
Sgt. Joe Friday:
He said it was your show, all he did was throw the mustard power in his face, just wanted to roll him, but you were so geed up you had to cut him open.
Ricky Markell:
Maxie's a liar!
Don Negler, alias J. Johnson:
I'd like to tell you right now why I killed them.
Sergeant Joe Friday:
Why?
Don Negler, alias J. Johnson:
Because they asked me to. They said they'd rather die than live with me.
Plot holes: When Carol Freeman is reported missing, the officers visit her brother, George Freeman. If Freeman was her married name, her brother's last name would not be Freeman.
Plot holes: Friday and Gannon collect a picture of each of the missing women. At the end when they see the pictures that Negler took of his bound victims, they are all wearing the same outfits.
Follows
"Dragnet" (1951)
Dragnet (1954)
"Dragnet 1967" (1967)
Followed by
Dragnet (1987)
"Dragnet" (2003)