Highway Patrol1955

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Narrator:
A missing person may be tracked down because his personal history and habits are known. But when he has no predictable habits, the problem is difficult, and becomes dangerous when those unpredictable habits are mixed with uncontrollable homicidal tendencies. Haldor Mattern, an ordinary-appearing man with extraordinarily strong hands, was such a person. [Mattern is shown walking in a wooded area. He backs into a one-inch-thick tree branch and is visibly upset. In a show of strength, he snaps the branch] The search for missing persons is a police function which the Highway Patrol is uniquely equipped to perform, by reason of its mobility and widespread jurisdiction.