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You can't help but think....


...as you watch these episodes that, since they were supposedly based on true cases, someone, at some time, suffered the crimes we see committed. I've just watched "The Big Hit and Run" and wonder if a grandmother and her grandson did, indeed, die in the streets sometime in the late 40's or early 50's in LA and that this episode is thus a kind of memorial to them.

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I recently read a book written by the man that was the warden of San Quentin from 1940 through the early '50s, and recognized a few of the stories he told as Dragnet plots.

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