Dragnet - The Big Frame

Detective Sergeants Joe Friday and Ben Romero are working the day watch out of Traffic Division. At 7:55 AM, Friday arrived at 123 South Figueroa Street in Los Angeles. Friday meets Lieutenant McGee of the division. Friday asks "Has Ben come in yet?" McGee says "He's down in the record room". Soon, Romero appears and says "Hi, Joe. I picked up the overnight reports down at records, McGee. Here you go". McGee says "Oh, thanks, Ben. This one on top here. I'd like to have you two check it out". Romero says "Dead body report?" McGee says "Yeah. Left me a note on it. That's about all. Hard to figure". Friday asks "What's the story?" McGee says "Just  what you see in the report". Friday reads the report "Victim. Edward Raymond Stokes, 732 Delano Street, Apartment 2". McGee says "His body was found in the gutter near 63rd and Vermont at 3 o'clock this morning. No witnesses. Only one piece of evidence". Friday says "Yeah, see they got it listed here. Skid marks near the body. Is that all?" McGee says "That's it. Apparently hit and run". Romero asks "Where's the body?" McGee says "At a neighborhood mortuary out there. Emerald Hills Funeral Home. One of the deputy coroners handled the body. A fellow named Joe Larimore". Friday asks "Has anybody claimed it yet?" McGee says "No". Friday says "Okay. Ben, you ready?" Romero says "Yeah, lets go". They drive to the scene where the body was found to look at the skid marks, and discover that they were too old to have happened the previous night. Next, they drive to the mortuary to look at the body. As they walk into the office, a man says "Can I help you?" Friday says "Police Officers. We'd like to talk to Mr. Latimore, the deputy coroner". The man says "I'm Latimore. Are you here about the hit and run victim?" Friday says "Yes, we need to take a look". As they walk to the area where the body is kept, Latimore says "It's an unusual case". Friday asks "Why do you say it's unusual, Mr. Latimore?" He says "The fractures and wounds are not generally consistent with a hit and run case".