The Big Rose

Originally Aired: March 27, 1952

Dragnet #146, "The Big Rose," Friday and Jacobs catch a perplexing missing persons case that quickly points to foul play. Thirty-eight-year-old Rose Baker has vanished without a trace, leaving behind four children in the care of her sister, Bernice Maron. The case is a tangle of contradictions from the start. Mrs. Baker was last seen the night of May 27th when she visited her sister to demand half the proceeds from a furniture sale. After taking the car to cash a check, she never returned—but the sister later found the vehicle parked two blocks from home with $200 in cash left behind in the glove compartment.

As Friday and Jacobs begin their investigation, they discover that nobody's story matches up. Rose's boyfriend Carl Shelton claims she was leaving town with a girlfriend. A coworker says she was planning a trip. The sister insists Rose was moving to a new apartment. With a victim known for heavy drinking, multiple romantic entanglements, and a history of abandoning her children, the detectives face a wide field of potential suspects—and someone is definitely lying.

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