The Case of the Steel Pipe
Aired: Jul 7th, 1949. A young waitress named Helen Corday is found bludgeoned to death in a foggy Los Angeles vacant lot, and Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Romero turn to the crime lab for answers. Paint chips, blood typing, hair samples, and a single tennis shoe print become the building blocks of the investigation as detectives canvass her boss and union rep to find someone, anyone, who knew the real Helen Corday. A vivid look at how forensic science met old-fashioned legwork in the earliest days of the television-era police procedural.
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