- In this Screenliner short, New York City police detectives investigate the case of a missing girl, whose clothes are found on a bridge. Was it a suicide, was she murdered, or is this a hoax?
- Jumping off a bridge is a common form of suicide in large cities. It is important to recover evidence as to the occurrence of these suicides to match possible victims to missing persons. With one such case, clothing matching the description of such worn by a missing teenager is found on a bridge. The missing girl's parents identify the clothing as being their daughter's, and they tell a story of a girl with a poor academic record, discipline by them and many quarrels between the three, but would such lead one to suspect the girl is the type to commit suicide? After reviewing more evidence, Captain Cronin, the lead police detective for this case, believes the suicide is a hoax and that the plain Jane girl really is trying to make it as a model. As Captain Cronin pursues many leads - including issuing several forms of public bulletins and conducting more painstaking legwork of interviewing the modeling agencies specifically in New York, the hub of such activity - he hopes that this case will be like 98% of all missing persons cases with a happy ending of the missing person being found alive.—Huggo
- A coat is found folded beside the guardrail of a New York City bridge. Left by a suicide? A police captain investigates. The parents of a 16-year-old missing girl identify the coat. The captain searches her room, visits her school, and talks to her best friend: a pattern emerges that sends him to modeling agencies. He looks through glamor photos brought by recent hopefuls, and he takes a few to a police artist, who finds the plain Jane beneath the gloss. Has the captain found a lead to the girl's whereabouts? What will he find there?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
- Suicide is the subject of the RKO-Pathe short film. In New York city, police find as many as 200 bodies per year floating in the surrounding waters. The police have found a girl's clothes on a bridge that match a description in a missing person's report. The missing girl's parents confirm it's their daughter's clothes. The 16 year-old missing girl was unhappy, getting poor marks at school with resulting family arguments at home. Oddly however, the girl seems to have taken extra clothes and her trinkets with her, behavior that is not for those planning suicide. When they find books on how to become a model in her school locker, the police conclude the girl is a runaway and not a suicide. They trace her through a modeling agency but find that her lack of success have driven her to despair.—garykmcd
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