The Lux Hotel Murders
Aired: Aug 11th, 1949. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero race through a rain-soaked Los Angeles night chasing a killer who has struck twice at cheap downtown hotels, leaving behind only a hastily scrawled hotel register and a nervous manager's fading memory. This early Dragnet case, with Romero still at Friday's side, shows the show's documentary-style grit in its rawest form as detectives grind through interviews and evidence in real time. A tense, atmospheric slice of classic police procedural radio.
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