Homicide Detail.. A 38 year old mother has disappeared,, and it’s up to Joe Friday to unravel the mystery.

While waiting for his partner, Ed Jacobs, Joe gets the report. Rose Baker has disappeared before, but her boyfriend Carl Sheldon claims she hasn’t been gone so long in the past. Rose left her 4 kids in the care of her sister, and different statements by various witnesses are the beginning of a tangled web of lies. Did she move, is she just on the prowl to some of her other boyfriends on her string? Is she just a forgetful drunk who easily loses her purse?

Miss Marin is Rose’s sister, and ex-girlfriend of Carl. Might she have an ax to grind? Joe and Ed interview her. But find her to be responsible in caring for the kids left with her. As the search goes out. Joe retraces the clues he has to go on. Might there be money issues in raising the kids? Is there anything different in the way Rose disappeared this time, as opposed to others?

The matter becomes grim, when the body of Rose is found. Joe describes how the crime lab went to work to secure the scene. A phone call from a witness claims to know who killed Rose, and the cops turn to confronting the killer. Conflicting stories are soon resolved, and the motive behind the crime is exposed./