INTERROGATED BY: SERGEANT F.J. PACKETT, 7872,

RAMPART DETECTIVES

SERGEANT A.B. MELENDRES, 3914,

RAMPART DETECTIVES

JOHN E. HOWARD,

DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY

GEORGE MURPHY, BUREAU OF

INVESTIGATION,

DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE

BY SERGEANT PACKETT

Q Let’s start off with your name first of all, okay?

BY MR. DI PIERRO

A. Okay, Vincent Di Pierro.

Q. How do you spell the last name?

A. D-I capital P-i-e-r-r-o.

Q. Do you have a middle name, Vincent?

A. Thomas.

Q. Thomas, okay, what’s the address where you live?

A. 1635 South Beverly Glen.

Q. Beverly Glen?

A. Right.

Q. And this is in what city?

A. Los Angeles.

Q. All right, was the girl with him?

A. It looked as though, yes.

Q. What makes you say that?

A. Well, she was following him.

Q. Where did she follow him from?

A. From – she was standing behind the tray stand because she was up next to him on – behind, and she was holding on to the other end of the tray table and she – like – it looked like as if she was almost holding him.

Q. Did you see him get off the tray stand?

A. Yes, I did.

Q. And then he walked towards the Senator?

A. Yes.

Q. This girl, —

A. She stayed there.

Q. At the tray stand?

A. Right.  I glanced over once in a while.  She was good looking so I looked at her.

Q. What is it in your mind that makes you think they were together, the fact that they were standing together?

A. No, no, he turned when he was on the tray stand once and he had the same stupid smile on, you know, and then he kind of turned and said something.  I don’t know what he said.

BY MR. HOWARD:

Q. You did see him speak to her?

A. He turned as though he did say something, whether he said anything –

Q. Did she move her mouth like she was speaking to him?

A. No, she just smiled.

Q. But in other words, he was looking towards, say, the Senator?

A. Yes.  He was holding on up here and there was another pole behind him, where she was holding on and he turned like this, as though to say something, and whether his lips moved or not I couldn’t see that.

Q. And it was after he turned and she smiled?

A. She smiled.

Q. And would it seem to you that she smiled at something that had been said?

A. Yeah, or –

Q. Or that she was smiling because the Senator was walking towards her?

A. No, when she first entered she looked as though she was sick also.

Q. All right, this girl, what nationality would you say she was?  Any idea at all?’

A. No, all I know is she was white.

Q. She was white; Caucasian?

A. Yes, a Caucasian girl.

Q. What is the youngest this girl could be?

A. 21, 20 or 21.

Q. At least 20 or 21?

A. Yes.

Q. Would you have no question about serving her a drink in a bar?

A. Oh no, no.

Q. She was definitely of age?

A. Yes.

Q. What is the oldest you think she was?

A. I don’t know, about 24.

Q. All right, how tall was this girl?

A. I really couldn’t determine because I only saw her in the dining room.  I never seen, see her standing on the ground.

Q. In relation to the fellow who was standing on the tray thing that we discussed, that was four inches above the ground, where was her head in relation to his body; were they about the same height at that time or –

A. You could say approximately.

Q. Well, when they turned to talk to her –

A. They were almost eye level.

Q. They were almost eye level at that time?

A. But, you see, with the tray stand you would never know how it’s balanced.  I don’t know whether one end was higher because the way it is now, it’s central, it’s not equalized.

Q. So, you couldn’t really –

A. You can’t really judge, no.

Q. How about her build, could you see it?

A. Oh yeah.

Q. “Oh yeah,” what does that mean?

A. Very shapely.

Q. She wasn’t skinny, she wasn’t fat?

A. No.

Q. What was this girl wearing?

A. She had a white dress with – it looked like either black or dark violet polka dots on it and kind of a bively (phonetic) like collar.

Q. A what kind of collar?

A. A thing that goes around like that.  I don’t know what they call it.

BY MR. HOWARD:

Q. Pretty greasy looking?

A. You could go out – you couldn’t go to the Coconut Grove with it, you know, but it was a nice dress to dress up in, a nice dress.

BY SGT. PACKETT:

Q. How about this girl’s hair, what color was it?

A. Brown I would say, a brunette.

Q. Your hair is brown?

A. Yes.

Q. Lighter or darker than yours?

A. A little darker than mine.

Q. Was it long or short or what?

A. I would say about to here, not much longer.

Q. Just above the shoulders?

A. Just above the shoulders kind of –

BY SGT. MELENDRES:

Q. To her neck?

A. Yes, about the neck, maybe just a little longer, I don’t know.

BY SGT. PACKETT:

Q. Was it straight or curly?

A. One side was a little puffed up a little.

Q. Did you see anyone else with this girl, that you recall?

A. Not that I recall.  Those were the only two people I saw on the tray stand.