by Hal Erickson
synopsis
40-year-old divorcee Florence Dickson is found brutally stabbed to death in her own bed. Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) must break the news to Florence's 16-year-old daughter Roberta (Sue George), who curiously seems more concerned about her doll collection than her mother's murder. Further investigation of the Dickson home reveals a pair of marked "graves" in the backyard--each containing a doll that has been slashed to pieces with a knife. This episode is based on the Dragnet radio broadcast of December 6, 1951 (in which the makeshift graves contained mutilated canaries!)
