Dragnet – The Helen Corday Murder. 490707.

Somewhere in your city theres a killer on the loose. The job for Joe Friday is to catch him! In the crime lab, Joe Friday, and Ben Romero are instructed on forensic methods in science. Clues involve common items any woman might carry in her purse. Exploration into who would want Helen Korday dead is made. Everybody liked Helen.

Helen’s employer, friends, and music teacher, all have only glowing things to say about the pretty brunette. The presentation of the interviews run a little more dramatic than the mundane way of later episodes. Not to mention a little more emotion from the typically stoic Joe Friday.

In a mix of voiceover and drama, the mundane clues are tracked down, and without much more to go on.

Amid crank calls, that offer false clues, Joe is working the robbery beat when he responds to a woman who claims a man just tried to kill her. After a car chase, and a round of questioning, it looks like Joe has his man. There’s still one more twist in this story, so don’t miss how it turns out.