Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

NBC brings you...

...dragnet.

You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to robbery detail.

There's a potential killer on the loose in your city.

18 women have been beaten and robbed by this man.

The newspapers call him the Weerwolf. Your job is to get him.

Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime, investigated and solved by the men who unrelentingly stand watch on the security of your home, your family and your life.

For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case from official police files from beginning to end from crime to punishment.

Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.

It was Thursday morning, February 2nd. It was raining in Los Angeles.

We were working the early morning watch out of robbery detail. Detectives in Los Angeles work in pairs.

My partner's been Romero. He's a sergeant and so am I. My name's Friday.

The boss is Ed Backstrang, chief of detectives.

I was on the way back to the teletype room and it was 3 a.m. when I got to rooms 27 a robbery detail.

Hi, Ben. What's up? Keep the code on, Joe. Just had a hot shot call. Come and skip her.

Right behind you. Let's go Friday. Well, what was it, Ed?

Another woman robbed, almost beaten to death.

How many does that make? Not 18 and 6 weeks. Is that right, Skipper?

Yeah, 18 too many. Come on down these stairs to the garage.

Yeah. What about that suspect we had, Ed? You mean Martin? Yeah.

Had a release in this morning. But I got a good tail on him, Henderson.

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