by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Investigating the murder of 50-year-old Charles Stahl, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) interview snappish motel manager Margaret Becker (Ellen Corby), who'd grown up with the victim. It turns out that Stahl was in the process of changing his will, possibly to favor a young girl with whom he'd become infatuated. A few casual words from Paul West (Jonathan Hole), the man who found Stahl's body, lead the detectives to the solution of the crime (which, truth be told, isn't much of a surprise). This episode was inspired by the Dragnet radio broadcast of June 7, 1953.
