by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate the death of young Gloria Paul, who left behind a suicide note. When the results from the crime lab reveal that Gloria did not kill herself after all, suspicion immediately falls on her boyfrined Ross Mitchell (Robert Knapp), a struggling actor who is renting the room in which the girl's body was found. Future Waltons costar Ellen Corby) contributes a sparking bit as a landlady who used to be an actress in B-pictures--and who is inordinately protective of chief suspect Mitchell. This episode is based on the Dragnet radio broadcast of June 28,1953.
