1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,600 You're about to hear a story based on actual events. 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:07,600 To protect the innocent, names and places have been changed. 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:19,600 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers bring you Miss Jean Crane in a story taken from life. 4 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:24,600 Tonight's presentation of Suspense. 5 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:29,600 Tonight, Auto Light presents the case study of a murderer. 6 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,600 A factual document from medical reports. 7 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:40,600 The tragic story of a woman's refusal to believe that within her husband lived the murderer among us. 8 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:46,600 Well, hello sheriff. 9 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:47,600 Hi Harlow. 10 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:48,600 Say, what am I going to do? 11 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:50,600 My battery's dry as a cactus. 12 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:58,600 Well, lasso opacilus sure snappy starts from an Auto Light Stay Full, the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 13 00:00:58,600 --> 00:00:59,600 Three times a year? 14 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:02,600 Are you a hog washing me Harlow? 15 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:04,600 No, I'm shooting straight sheriff. 16 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:07,600 Three times a year in normal car use. 17 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:12,600 That's because that great Auto Light Stay Full has three times the liquid reserve of ordinary batteries. 18 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:16,600 And the Auto Light Stay Full gives longer life as proved by tests. 19 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:20,600 Conducted according to accepted life cycle standards. 20 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:22,600 Why, she sounds better than Chow calling me Harlow. 21 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:23,600 Right you are sheriff. 22 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:29,600 So friends, see your neighborhood Auto Light battery dealer and ask him for an Auto Light Stay Full. 23 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:33,600 The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 24 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:38,600 To quickly find his name, call Western Union by number. 25 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:39,600 And ask for me. 26 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:41,600 I am operator 25. 27 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:44,600 I'll gladly tell you the name of your nearest neighbor. 28 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:47,600 I'll gladly tell you the name of your nearest Auto Light battery dealer. 29 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:52,600 And remember from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 30 00:01:52,600 --> 00:02:11,600 And now with the case study of a murderer and the transcribed performance of Miss Jean Crane, Auto Light hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 31 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:16,600 It's funny to be married to a man three years and find out he's kept secrets from you. 32 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:18,600 Or not secrets like drinking or cards of women. 33 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,600 Oh no, my Hank was never like that. 34 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,600 I mean he was like two different men. 35 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:26,600 Really two men. 36 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:28,600 He kept it a secret even from himself. 37 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:31,600 That's what I'm beginning to understand. 38 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:41,600 Because the man I knew, the Hank Lathrop I loved, he was a sweet, sweet, a wonderful sweet husband. 39 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:45,600 The doctor says, he says the baby coming on its way. 40 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,600 He won't inherit it because nobody can inherit Hank's kind of trouble. 41 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:50,600 His mind sickness. 42 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:52,600 And I'm not asking for sympathy. 43 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:53,600 I'm just telling you. 44 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:55,600 That's all. 45 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:56,600 I never asked for help. 46 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,600 Neither did Hank. 47 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:01,600 Oh no, he did ask. 48 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:05,600 And the only way he could, he tried to ask to let me know. 49 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,600 But too late, too late. 50 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:17,600 It was last spring. 51 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:19,600 It was that day he came home so upset. 52 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:21,600 Been married two years. 53 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:22,600 Waited on the south side. 54 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:24,600 Well, not really the south side. 55 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,600 It was too close to downtown, to the factories and warehouses. 56 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:30,600 But with no kids, it wasn't too bad. 57 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:32,600 No kids. 58 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:36,600 Well, anyway, we'd been married over two years. 59 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:38,600 Hank, that you? 60 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:39,600 Hi, darling. 61 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:40,600 Hi. 62 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:42,600 Good day at work? 63 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:43,600 Yeah, sure. 64 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:46,600 Have something real good for dinner. 65 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:48,600 What are the headlines? 66 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:49,600 What do you mean? 67 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:52,600 I mean, what's the headline in the paper? 68 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:54,600 Oh, Hank, what's wrong, honey? 69 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:56,600 Headache or something? 70 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:58,600 A gruesome murder. 71 00:03:58,600 --> 00:03:59,600 What? 72 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:00,600 The headlines. 73 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:02,600 Didn't you ask me what the headlines were? 74 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:04,600 Oh, well, yes, honey, sure. 75 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:06,600 But you don't look well. 76 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:07,600 What is it? 77 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:08,600 What should it be? 78 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:09,600 What's it always? 79 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:13,600 The paper's jammed up to here with murder and killing all the time. 80 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:15,600 A man comes home from work. 81 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,600 Work's hard enough, but a man comes home and sees pictures and columns 82 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:20,600 on a mother and a baby killed. 83 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:22,600 Killed near the lake. 84 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:32,600 More than a baby murdered. 85 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,600 But Hank was always like that, one way or another. 86 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,600 It gets upset like that when the pressure's too heavy, 87 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:40,600 and when it lets up, he's okay again. 88 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:42,600 Except it didn't let up. 89 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:52,600 Not this time, because a couple of weeks later it really hit. 90 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,600 Well, that's the last check the boom dropped the sack. 91 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:56,600 Oh, no. 92 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:58,600 Yeah, mean about eight other guys. 93 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:02,600 Oh, Hank, I'm sorry. 94 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:04,600 Makes the guy think he doesn't count for much. 95 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:05,600 Oh, that's not true, darling. 96 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,600 You know, you begin to think on a job that maybe they can't get along without you, 97 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:12,600 that you're pretty important, and the whole place would fold if you left. 98 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:14,600 And then poof. 99 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:15,600 Bye, sonny boy. 100 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:17,600 Maybe they had a good reason. 101 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:18,600 If they could have kept you, they would have. 102 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:19,600 Yeah, sure, sure. 103 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,600 You say it, and they say it, and it's right. 104 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,600 Only something inside me says it just got kicked, 105 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:26,600 and I don't amount to much at all. 106 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:28,600 Not much at all. 107 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:30,600 Well, I'm plenty, see? Plenty. 108 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:32,600 Yes, darling, you are. You are plenty. 109 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:36,600 You're the most wonderful man in the world. 110 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:38,600 You know I feel that way, don't you? 111 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:40,600 That I really feel that way. 112 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:44,600 Well, then I figure I'm kind of lucky, too. 113 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:45,600 Kind of. 114 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:48,600 Sure, darling. Sure, honey. Sure, you are. 115 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,600 Luckier than the poor guy whose wife got killed with a baby. 116 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:53,600 Luckier than him. 117 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:56,600 Hank, you can't keep getting upset by that. You can't. 118 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,600 Not that one. A new one. A second one. 119 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,600 Been a second killing at Lincoln Park, just like the first. 120 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:06,600 The papers are full of it. 121 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:08,600 Wouldn't you like your dinner? 122 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,600 It's too hot to eat. It's too hot to do anything. 123 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:16,600 How can you keep up your strength to look for a job if you don't eat enough? 124 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:20,600 The whole great, big, brainy city, and mayor and cops and everybody. 125 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:22,600 Can't find him. 126 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:25,600 Hank, please stop reading about those murders. 127 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:27,600 Oh, yeah. 128 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:29,600 Hank, you're not listening. 129 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:30,600 Sure I am. 130 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:34,600 Why don't we go to the beach? Wouldn't it be swell? Or the amusement park? 131 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,600 Remember last year we went. That was fun. You winning that Cupid doll and all. 132 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,600 It was fun, wasn't it, darling? 133 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:42,600 It was... 134 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,600 Can't you stop looking at that paper for a minute? 135 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:48,600 I just wanted to find out when some news broadcasts. There must be one on now. 136 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:49,600 No. 137 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:50,600 What? 138 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:52,600 We've had enough of those murders. Enough of them. 139 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:55,600 You have to stop thinking about them all the time. 140 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:57,600 Every minute, that's all you think about. 141 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:02,600 Don't tell me what to do. Not like that. Ever. 142 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:05,600 Oh, Hank, I... 143 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:08,600 I'm sorry, darling. 144 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:12,600 I said I'm sorry if I... 145 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,600 And the chief of police says it's almost impossible to tell whether Miniat would strike next. 146 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:28,600 There has been a few crews. Maybe the man might be... 147 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:30,600 Something was happening to Hank. 148 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,600 A man gets kind of dizzy just from being alive sometimes, I guess. 149 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:38,600 It's from being hit too many times by too many things, all kinds of things. 150 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:42,600 Half of them I didn't understand and still don't all the way. 151 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:44,600 Oh, but I should have understood. 152 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:48,600 Three months later, that summer night, three months later. 153 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:50,600 Look at them. Look at all these papers. 154 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:54,600 All the same story of everybody running around getting no place. 155 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:56,600 Hank, couldn't you read the newspapers at Walgreens? 156 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,600 No. No, I couldn't. Bums read papers for free and I'm no bum. 157 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:02,600 I got a wife and I'm no bum. I'm somebody. Just understand that, Beth. 158 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:04,600 I'm somebody and so are you. 159 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:07,600 Sure, honey, but wouldn't one paper be enough? One a day? 160 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:13,600 They all have the same story mostly and you spend a dollar, a dollar and a half a day on newspapers. 161 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:15,600 Well, what do you want me to do? I'm trying everything I can. 162 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:17,600 What are you accusing me of? That I'm not a good husband? 163 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:21,600 No, Hank. No, nobody's... I'm not accusing you of anything. 164 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:22,600 You mustn't think that. 165 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:24,600 You act like I did something wrong, that's what. 166 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,600 Not just like I wasn't working, but like I was almost a murderer. 167 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:30,600 Like I was that murderer they're all looking for. 168 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:38,600 Oh, it's hot. It's too hot in here. 169 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,600 If you'll let me, I'll open the windows. 170 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:46,600 Let you? The temperature's over 90, sure I'll let you. Why wouldn't I? 171 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:47,600 You... 172 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:49,600 Why what? 173 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:50,600 Nothing. 174 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,600 Well, don't start to say something and stop. Say it. 175 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:56,600 Well, you told me to shut it. 176 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:01,600 I did? I told you to close it? Why would I tell you to close it? 177 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:04,600 Well, you did, that's all. It isn't important. 178 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:08,600 What's so important about a window being open and closed to make all this argument? 179 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:10,600 Because I didn't. 180 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:11,600 Oh, what time is it? 181 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:12,600 Ten. 182 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:13,600 Oh, the news. I... 183 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:15,600 No, no, I... 184 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:17,600 I don't want to listen to the news. 185 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:21,600 Would you like a cold glass of beer? 186 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:22,600 Yeah. 187 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:24,600 Yeah, beer. 188 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:26,600 Nice, tall glass of beer. 189 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:28,600 Only not here, not in this house. 190 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,600 At Marty's on the corner, that's the place for a beer. 191 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:32,600 But it costs so much more. 192 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:34,600 Yeah, I know, I know, darling, but I... 193 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:36,600 I just got to get out of here. 194 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,600 I have to get with people. 195 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:41,600 Yes, darling, of course. 196 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:43,600 I have some cash, a few dollars. 197 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:45,600 I've been saving it for your birthday. 198 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,600 But we can celebrate your birthday whenever we want. 199 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,600 Sure, honey, sure, darling. 200 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:03,600 I only had three dollars and 28 cents. 201 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:06,600 Funny to remember it exactly like that. 202 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:10,600 Three dollars and 28 cents that I slipped into his pocket when he wasn't looking. 203 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:15,600 And we had beer with the jukebox banging away and me shaking inside. 204 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:17,600 Shaking. 205 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:24,600 I just kept sipping my one beer and watching Hank. 206 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:29,600 Maybe waiting for him to smile and make a joke and then I'd know everything was okay. 207 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:32,600 But he never smiled, didn't even talk. 208 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:34,600 Just drank beer and glared. 209 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:36,600 You know what happened? 210 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:40,600 Himself in the mirror just glaring at himself until he stood up. 211 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:42,600 Go home. 212 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:43,600 Together? 213 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:45,600 No, you by yourself. 214 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:47,600 But Hank, you're... 215 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:49,600 You're kind of tight, darling, kind of... 216 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:51,600 Come on, come on, let me take your arm. 217 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:53,600 Don't pull. 218 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:55,600 Please, please, Hank. 219 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:58,600 I said don't pull. Now go on, go home. 220 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:02,600 He almost ran out of the place. 221 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,600 I knew if I followed him I'd see something terrible. 222 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:09,600 I had to know. I had to know if what I guessed was true. 223 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:20,600 And then I saw him rush up to a cop on Lake Street and scream something at him. 224 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:23,600 I couldn't hear. I couldn't hear at all and the crowd was there in no time. 225 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:25,600 I kill him. I kill him. 226 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:27,600 Please. Please let me through. 227 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:29,600 I can't stand anymore. I'm telling you. 228 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,600 I'm his wife. Please let his wife through. 229 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:34,600 Hank, Hank, darling, Hank. 230 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:37,600 Officer, please. He didn't do anything, officer. 231 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:42,600 I did it. I can't stand it anymore. I can't stand the killing and the murder anymore. 232 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:44,600 I did it. 233 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:57,600 I waited in that police station for hours. 234 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,600 I waited and wondered because no one told me anything. 235 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:04,600 Except a kindly man. He gave me a cigarette and talked to me. 236 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:10,600 And then hours, oh, hours and hours later he called me into his office. 237 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:13,600 Can't I see him? Can't I? 238 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:15,600 In a few minutes. 239 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:17,600 Oh, thank you. Thank you so much. 240 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:19,600 I'll never forget you for letting me see him, mister. 241 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:22,600 Doctor, Doctor Broughton. 242 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:25,600 I told you hours ago in the outside office. 243 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:27,600 Did you hear me then? 244 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:31,600 Oh, yes. Yes, I remember. 245 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:33,600 And the rest of what I told you? 246 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:36,600 Please let me see him. He didn't do any harm. He didn't kill anyone. 247 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:38,600 He didn't kill anyone! 248 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:40,600 We know he didn't, Mrs. Lathren. 249 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:45,600 You know, you're sure you know? 250 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:47,600 Please listen to him. 251 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:48,600 He didn't kill anybody. 252 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:50,600 But he could. He might. 253 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:52,600 How can you say that? 254 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:55,600 Haven't I been through enough? Don't say that to me. 255 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:57,600 He confessed to two murders he did not commit. 256 00:12:57,600 --> 00:12:59,600 He admitted to two murders he had no part of. 257 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:02,600 And he didn't do wrong. Nothing wrong. 258 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:04,600 Will you permit your husband to take treatment? 259 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:09,600 You're saying he should be put away. You're saying he's crazy. 260 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:13,600 I'm saying he has an illness. I'm saying he's sick and he can be cured now. 261 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:15,600 Maybe not later, but now he can. 262 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,600 No. No, all he needs is love and kindness. 263 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:21,600 The only words. They have no meaning to him right now. 264 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:23,600 They might have once, but not now. 265 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:25,600 Now he only sits, cunning and sharp. 266 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,600 Everything is a secret. He should be treated. 267 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:32,600 I should bring him before a board and have him undergo therapy. 268 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:34,600 I'll fight you. I'll work day and night to get the money, 269 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,600 but I'll fight you with lawyers to keep you from disgracing him like that. 270 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,600 You won't have to. As a doctor, I say he's dangerous, 271 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:42,600 but no court would uphold me. 272 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:44,600 He hasn't committed any overt act. 273 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:46,600 To all appearances, he's normal. 274 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:47,600 He is. He is normal. 275 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,600 He isn't. But we can't make him accept help. 276 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:52,600 You're the only one who can do that. No. 277 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:54,600 He can be cured now. No. 278 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,600 He confessed to murders he fantasized himself as having committed. 279 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:00,600 He needs love, not psycho doctors like you. 280 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:02,600 He might easily commit murder if he doesn't get help. 281 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:05,600 Take me to my husband. A month, six months, a year. 282 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:09,600 I don't know when, but he'll kill Mrs. Lathrop. 283 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:25,600 He'll kill. 284 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:47,600 Off Hooked is bringing you Miss Jean Crane with William Conrad in The Case Study of a Murderer. 285 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:55,600 Though you go everywhere, there's none can compare with that auto light stay full of mine. 286 00:14:55,600 --> 00:15:02,600 And it's because the auto light stay full is that famous battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 287 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,600 Them's just the words to describe her, Hollow. 288 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:14,600 And there's more, Sheriff, because every positive plate in the great auto light stay full is protected by fiberglass retaining mats to reduce shedding and flaking. 289 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:21,600 That's why the auto light stay full gives longer life as proved by tests conducted according to accepted life cycle standards. 290 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:23,600 You never said nothing true, a Hollow. 291 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:28,600 So friends, call Western Union by number and ask for Operator 25. 292 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:35,600 She will gladly tell you the name of your nearest auto light battery dealer where you can get an auto light stay full battery. 293 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:40,600 The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 294 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:44,600 So just call Western Union and ask for Operator 25. 295 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:48,600 Remember, you're always right with auto light. 296 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:59,600 And now auto light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage Miss Jean Crane in Elliot Lewis's production of The Case Study of a Murderer. 297 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:14,600 The dramatic report well calculated to keep you in suspense. 298 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:23,600 I took him right home. Sleep. He needed sleep. More sleep than he could ever get. I know that much at least now. 299 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:34,600 He sat by the bed all that time, all the time, wiping his face with cold cloths and waiting, waiting and kissing him when it started that awful morning. 300 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:42,600 Love was all he needed. That's what I was so sure about then. So awful sure while he slept like he'd been hit or something. 301 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:49,600 For 16 hours, 16 straight hours and I knew he'd be fine, just fine. 302 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:54,600 He couldn't kill, not Hank. Oh no, he'd be fine. 303 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:59,600 And I remembered from a magazine or something, I had turned on the radio. 304 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:09,600 I remember that music helps people who are upset kind of. So I turned it on real soft. 305 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:10,600 Beth? 306 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:13,600 Yes, darling. 307 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:14,600 What time is it? 308 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:17,600 Eight thirty about. 309 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:18,600 Have I been sleeping long? 310 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:20,600 It's eight thirty in the night. 311 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:25,600 Oh. Do you know why I did it? 312 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:26,600 It's not important. 313 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:27,600 But it is. 314 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:31,600 Oh no, darling. No, it isn't. It's past. It doesn't make any difference. 315 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:36,600 Showing off. That's what it was. Showing them up. Cops, I mean. 316 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:40,600 Whatever your reason was, it was yours and it's all right, honey. 317 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,600 You don't believe me. You don't believe I did it to show them up. 318 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:45,600 Whatever your reason was. 319 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:48,600 Well, it was... it was the... 320 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:54,600 Lie back, darling. No, no. Lie back and rest, Hank. 321 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,600 The papers. What did the papers say? 322 00:17:57,600 --> 00:17:59,600 Whatever they'd say, it wouldn't mean anything. 323 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:01,600 I've got to know. I've got to. 324 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:05,600 If they're making fun of you, well, they're not, honey. Nobody is. Nobody would. 325 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:10,600 There's nothing to be ashamed of. It's a silly thing. We all do silly things. 326 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:11,600 There's nothing to be ashamed of. 327 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:15,600 It's a disgrace. A real disgrace. 328 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:19,600 Nothing. I'm nothing. 329 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:26,600 I even... like a kid, I even feel like I could... like... like I want to cry. 330 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:30,600 Cry, darling. A man isn't weak if he cries, darling. 331 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:32,600 He just had too much happen to him. 332 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:35,600 Like women have too much happen. Like anybody. 333 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:40,600 Cry. You'll feel better, baby. You will. 334 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:49,600 I'm weak. No man likes a man who's weak. 335 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:53,600 No woman likes a man who can't admit he's weak sometimes, honey. 336 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:59,600 You know, he saw me cry. I never cried before. I never cried when I was a kid. Never. 337 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:04,600 I love you, darling. You have to know that. I love you. 338 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:06,600 You wouldn't leave me, would you? 339 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:07,600 Never. Never. 340 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:11,600 You don't believe what that doctor said. 341 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:12,600 What doctor? 342 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:14,600 The police. That doctor. 343 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:16,600 What did he tell you? 344 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:23,600 Nothing. But I got the idea. I smelled it. I figured out what he was driving at. 345 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:25,600 He didn't say much to me. 346 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:31,600 He's a liar. For publicity. All those guys are like anything for publicity. 347 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:35,600 But I can't blame him. I did it for publicity. 348 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,600 Really, that's why I... 349 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:44,600 I don't believe me. I don't know why I did it. I don't know why. 350 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:48,600 Because you had too many bad things happen in a row. 351 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:53,600 Because you had too much beer. Too much hit your baby. Too much all at once. 352 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:57,600 I don't know why. I felt like I... 353 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:01,600 Like somebody should be punished for all those terrible, terrible murders. 354 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:06,600 Like somebody should. Somebody had to. 355 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,600 Listen, we'll move from Chicago. Maybe change our name. 356 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:10,600 Run away? 357 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:13,600 Not run away. Leave. Put it all in the back of us. 358 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:15,600 Run away like I did something wrong? 359 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:19,600 I told you not run away. Don't twist what I'm saying. I only said... 360 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:23,600 That I should run away from here with you. Let them push us away. 361 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:25,600 Nobody pushes me around. 362 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:27,600 No, Hank. I know that. Nobody does. 363 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:29,600 Nobody leaves me places like a kid. 364 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:31,600 It was only a suggestion. 365 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:33,600 Did the doctor tell you to say that to me? 366 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:36,600 No. I told you that the doctor didn't tell me anything. 367 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,600 You're lying. You're keeping things from me. 368 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,600 He must have told you something. 369 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:46,600 He didn't. Not really. He just said for me to take good care of you. That's all. 370 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,600 First nothing and now something. You lied to me. 371 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:51,600 What else did he say? 372 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:53,600 I don't know. Nothing. Just... 373 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:55,600 What else? Tell me. 374 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:59,600 I don't... 375 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:12,600 Suddenly everything Dr. Broughton said was right and everything I said was wrong. 376 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,600 Then I felt sick. I was turning against Hank. 377 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,600 When he needed me most, I was turning against him. 378 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,600 It wasn't as easy as saying I was turning against him. 379 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,600 I had to have some advice. I had to be sure. 380 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:27,600 I needed help. I had to go see Dr. Broughton. 381 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:29,600 You wanted to turn him over to me? 382 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:30,600 No. No, not that. 383 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:32,600 Then why did you come to see me? 384 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:34,600 For advice. 385 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:36,600 Well, you've done what you could. 386 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:40,600 Why don't you make him submit to care, Mrs. Lathrop? There's still time. 387 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:42,600 Only if he wants to. 388 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:44,600 He'll never agree. Not now. Not by himself. 389 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:46,600 He will. He has to. 390 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:48,600 Logic doesn't reach him very well. 391 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:52,600 This is something more than logic. More than doctors or anything else. 392 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:56,600 He'll want to get cured when he knows he's going to be a father. 393 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:04,600 Well, doctor, don't you figure it that way too, doctor? 394 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:05,600 Don't tell him. 395 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:08,600 Not tell him? Not tell him we're going to have a child. 396 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:10,600 Something we both wanted so much. 397 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:12,600 It might have the wrong effect right now. 398 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,600 Oh, no. It'll make him stronger. Make him more sure of himself. 399 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,600 It'll make some men stronger and make others weaker. Less sure and less certain. 400 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:20,600 Is that all the advice you can give me? 401 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,600 Not to tell him. Not to tell my husband he's going to be a father. 402 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:25,600 But tell me honestly, Mrs. Lathrop. 403 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:29,600 In your heart, inside, do you feel he's getting better or worse? 404 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,600 That's not fair. 405 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:34,600 Will you talk to him about getting treatment? 406 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:35,600 I'm not promising anything. 407 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,600 Will you not mention the baby? 408 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:39,600 No promises. I said no promises. 409 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,600 He slapped you again. Will you call me? 410 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:42,600 Goodbye. 411 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:50,600 And his and your child's, Mrs. Lathrop. 412 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:57,600 When I came home, he didn't even look up. He just kept staring at his hands. 413 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:01,600 I decided maybe I'd let him talk first, so I sat in a chair near the window. 414 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:06,600 Wasn't much to see with buildings all close in, but the air smelled good. 415 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:09,600 I waited till I almost wanted to scream. 416 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:14,600 And for no reason he got up and went into the kitchen and washed his hands. 417 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:16,600 When he came back and sat down... 418 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:20,600 A way out. I've got to figure a way out. 419 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,600 Listen, honey, listen. Everything's going to work out fine. 420 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:27,600 I'll figure it out. It's a man's job to figure it out. I don't need help. 421 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:29,600 It's a man's job. 422 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:33,600 Hank. 423 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:37,600 Hank, Hank, I was wondering... 424 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:42,600 wondering if maybe we don't need some other help. 425 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:44,600 What kind of help? 426 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:45,600 I meant like... 427 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,600 What kind? What kind? What kind? 428 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,600 Stop! Stop talking like that. 429 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:51,600 Like what? Like I'm adult, huh? Like that? 430 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,600 No. Yes. 431 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:57,600 Hank, there are places that help when it gets too tough to figure. 432 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,600 No help. Don't need any help. 433 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:01,600 It wouldn't hurt. 434 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:02,600 It's dirty. 435 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:04,600 Oh, Hank, please try to understand, Hank. 436 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,600 A dirty sign. 437 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:07,600 It isn't. It isn't. 438 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,600 In the magazine. I read it in the magazine. It's a dirty, filthy sign. 439 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,600 They lied. It's not. 440 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:15,600 What do you know? What do you know about anything? 441 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:17,600 Can't even keep a house. 442 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,600 What's wrong with it, Hank? What would you like me to do? Just tell me. 443 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,600 It's dirty. Like everything is dirty. 444 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,600 I'll clean it every day and wash. 445 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,600 Nothing will get it clean. Never clean again. 446 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:33,600 Hank, don't talk like that. You scare me, Hank. Please don't talk like that. 447 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:35,600 We'll throw it dirty. 448 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:37,600 We'll never get clean. 449 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,600 Listen to me. Listen. You have to come with me. 450 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:45,600 Why? Because you ask? Why? For you? 451 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,600 For our baby, Hank. For the baby. 452 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,600 Baby? 453 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,600 Baby! 454 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:59,600 Come out! Come out here! 455 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,600 You lied to me! You lied to me! 456 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,600 You cheated and lied to me! 457 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,600 Come out! Come out here! 458 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:14,600 How did it get in my hand? That funny little cupid how we won at the beach. 459 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:19,600 How? When I worked all the time, how did I find the door to stand behind it? 460 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:25,600 How did I raise my arms and wave like tons of lead? 461 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,600 How could I bring it down a thousand miles down on him? 462 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:34,600 Again and again, down and up and down and up. 463 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:50,600 Again and again and down. 464 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:56,600 Maybe he'll get over it. Maybe his sickness didn't go on too long. 465 00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:01,600 Maybe a thousand and million maybes and ifs and prayers. 466 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:05,600 Dr. Broughton. He said he could do something. 467 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:10,600 Oh, Dr. Broughton, you will. Dr. Broughton, you must. 468 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:35,600 You would, kind doctor. Doctor. 469 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,600 Suspense. 470 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:49,600 Presented by Auto Light. Tonight's star, Miss Jean Crane. 471 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:57,600 Friends, this is Harlow Wilcox again to remind you that Auto Light is the world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. 472 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:04,600 In 28 plants from coast to coast, Auto Light makes over 400 products for cars, trucks, tractors, planes and boats. 473 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:08,600 These include Auto Light batteries, including the famous Auto Light Stay Full Battery. 474 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:13,600 Electrical systems used as original factory equipment on many leading makes of our finest cars. 475 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:19,600 A complete line of ignition engineered Auto Light spark plugs, including standard and resistor types. 476 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:25,600 Auto Light also makes automotive and industrial wire and cable, bumpers and hubcaps and many more. 477 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:33,600 And all are backed by constant Auto Light research and are precision built to the most exacting standards of quality and performance. 478 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:45,600 So remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 479 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:52,600 Next week on Suspense, our star will be Mr. Herbert Marshall in the most fantastic spy story ever told. 480 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:56,600 A dramatic report we call Betrayal in Vienna. 481 00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:07,600 In weeks to come, we shall also present Mr. Cornell Wild, Mr. Ray Milan and Mr. Richard Widmark all on Suspense. 482 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:14,600 Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Warwick and conducted by Ludlaskin. 483 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:19,600 The case study of a murderer was written for suspense by Arthur Ross. 484 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:25,600 In tonight's story, William Conrad was heard as Hank and Howard McNeer as Dr. Broughton. 485 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:30,600 Gene Crane and Cary Grant can currently be seen in People Will Talk. 486 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:38,600 And remember next week on Suspense, Mr. Herbert Marshall in another story based on actual events. 487 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:43,600 A dramatic report we call Betrayal in Vienna. 488 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:52,600 For the location of your nearest Auto Light battery or spark plug dealer or your nearest authorized Auto Light service station, 489 00:28:52,600 --> 00:29:00,600 phone Western Union by number and ask for Operator 25. 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