The Rifle for Christmas
Aired: Dec 22nd, 1949. Days before Christmas, Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero race to find a nine-year-old boy who vanished from his own backyard, with fresh bloodstains and a spent rifle cartridge as their only leads. Told in Dragnet's signature clipped, documentary style, this 1949 episode traces a grim holiday-season case pulled straight from LAPD files.
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