1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,280 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Terrone Power in tonight's presentation 2 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:18,920 of Suspense. 3 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:22,560 Tonight Auto Light presents the story of a man who found that everything was against 4 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:23,560 him. 5 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:27,880 His wife distrusted him, his best friend had to give him an alibi, all because of a girl, 6 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:29,000 a dead girl. 7 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,280 Our story is called The Guilty Always Run. 8 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:36,960 Our star Mr. Terrone Power. 9 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:41,320 $100,000. 10 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:45,760 That's the huge total to be given away in cash through the Auto Light family charity 11 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:46,760 drawing. 12 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:52,760 If you're one of 25 persons selected, you will name your favorite church, club, hospital, 13 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:58,280 or other recognized charity to share a total of $100,000. 14 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:04,040 And now it's our privilege to hear what Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey, campaign chairman 15 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:07,520 of the Mental Health Fund, says about this great opportunity. 16 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:12,840 Money, such as that being offered in this Auto Light family charity drawing, can do 17 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:17,600 much to aid the research which will not only help cure, but prevent mental illness. 18 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:23,120 If you are selected, I urge you to remember the vital work of the Mental Health Fund. 19 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:27,760 You can enter this drawing by just signing your name and address on a registration form 20 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:31,360 at any or all of these Auto Light family car dealers. 21 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:38,280 DeSoto, Hudson, Plymouth, Studebaker, Dodge, Willis, Nash, Packard, Kaiser, or Chrysler. 22 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:44,400 Help your favorite local or national charity share in $100,000. 23 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:46,480 Sign up tomorrow. 24 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:52,280 And now Auto Light presents Transcribed, The Guilty Always Run, starring Mr. Terrone Power, 25 00:01:52,280 --> 00:02:08,080 hoping once again to keep you in suspense. 26 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:10,760 To leave me alone all evening like that. 27 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:12,400 It's way after 12. 28 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:14,620 Listen, you told me it was all right. 29 00:02:14,620 --> 00:02:16,280 You told me to go. 30 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,280 Answer the phone, will you? 31 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:19,280 Okay. 32 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:22,000 Or do you expect me to leap across the room and... 33 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Okay. 34 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Hello? 35 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:25,000 Hello? 36 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:26,000 Hello? 37 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:27,000 Hello? 38 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Hello? 39 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,000 Anybody there? 40 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Well? 41 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Nobody there. 42 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:32,000 What's the matter? 43 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,000 I thought I heard something. 44 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:34,000 Hello? 45 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Hello? 46 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Hello? 47 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:37,000 Hello? 48 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:38,000 There's a bell. 49 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,000 Nobody there. 50 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,000 What's the matter? 51 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,000 I thought I heard something. 52 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,000 Hello. Hello. 53 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Hello, hello. 54 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Somebody playing a joke, Jeff? 55 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:57,000 I guess so. 56 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:58,000 Karen? 57 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Don't start anything, Janie, huh? 58 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Was it Karen? 59 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Janie, baby. Janie. 60 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,000 What? 61 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:06,000 Listen. 62 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Sure. 63 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Sure, sweetie. What do you want me to listen to? 64 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,000 It's not my fault you've got your hip in a cast. 65 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,000 It's not your fault I've got my hip in a cast, dear. 66 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:15,000 Oh, cut it out, will you? 67 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:16,000 I'm clumsy. 68 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,000 I go along on vacations to the beach and fall off a surfboard 69 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,000 and break my hip and my husband meets another... 70 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Are you going to answer the phone? 71 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Uh-uh. No. 72 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Bring the phone over to me, Jeff. 73 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,000 Let me answer it. 74 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Sure. 75 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:42,000 Here. 76 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:44,000 Hello? 77 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,000 What's the matter? 78 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:48,000 You tell me. 79 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,000 I asked you a question. What's the... 80 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,000 Here, you take the phone. 81 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:53,000 Hello? 82 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Who is this? 83 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Hello? 84 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Help me. Help me, Jeff. 85 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Yes, this is... 86 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Jeff. 87 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:04,000 This is Jeff. 88 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Who would... Hello? Hello? Hello? 89 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Whoever it was hung up, Janie. 90 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Who was it, Jeff? 91 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:14,000 I don't know. 92 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Was it Karen? 93 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Now, why don't you cut that out? 94 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,000 It was a girl. Was it Karen? 95 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,000 Karen sounded like she needed help. 96 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Loaded, probably. 97 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,000 What does she look like? You never told me. 98 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,000 Very tanned, very tall. 99 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:31,000 And very beautiful. 100 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:32,000 She really is. 101 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,000 Calling here after midnight. 102 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,000 Doesn't she know you're married? Didn't you tell her? 103 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:37,000 I told her. 104 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,000 You better go see if she's all right. 105 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Now, listen, Karen... 106 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,000 You'd better go see. 107 00:04:43,000 --> 00:05:11,000 Yeah. 108 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,000 The drive was eight miles from Zuma Beach. 109 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,000 Nearly two in the morning and a full moon and a few clouds 110 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,000 and phosphorescence riding the lip of the surf. 111 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,000 No one was home at Karen Lawrence's house. 112 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,000 Her white convertible wasn't there either. 113 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:27,000 I went home. 114 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,000 Janie was sleeping, so I waited till morning to tell her. 115 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,000 Then I went out on the beach and started to work on the surfboards with Lou, 116 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,000 a friend of mine who'd taken the place next door. 117 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:38,000 You know how I'd raise this, Dent? 118 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,000 How? 119 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,000 Put a beer bottle cap on it, then set a hot iron on the cap. 120 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:42,000 That'll pop right up. 121 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Yeah, I might try it when... 122 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Hi. 123 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:47,000 Hello there. 124 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:48,000 Hello. 125 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,000 I'm Phyllis George. Which one of you is Jeff? 126 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:51,000 Not Lou, huh? 127 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:52,000 Jeff. 128 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:54,000 It's always Jeff. 129 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:55,000 Me. 130 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:56,000 What did you do with Karen? 131 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:57,000 What are you talking about? 132 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,000 I drove out to see her. We were going shopping today. 133 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:01,000 She's not home. 134 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,000 The inside of her house is a wreck. 135 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Why ask me? 136 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,000 She told me yesterday she was going to load up her surfboard 137 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,000 and try to trap you into some moonlight surfing. 138 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:10,000 How did she make out? 139 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,000 She made out good. 140 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:13,000 Yeah, we went surfing. 141 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,000 Where's Karen, Sonny? 142 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,000 All right, baby. I'm going to the cops. 143 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,000 We finished resurfacing the boards after that. 144 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,000 Not much talk. 145 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,000 I kept looking down the road for the cops that girl promised. 146 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,000 No cops. 147 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:41,000 After a while, I said to Lou, 148 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,000 see you, and went back to Janie. 149 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Carried her out to the strand of white beach we bought for the summer. 150 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:51,000 Oiled her back and her shoulders and her arms and then her face. 151 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Then lay down and set the ball of sun spinning. 152 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,000 And that's how a day got done. 153 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,000 Around 10 that night, the moon was low, 154 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,000 but gaining altitude fast. 155 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:08,000 Jeff? 156 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:09,000 Yeah, honey? 157 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,000 It's a beautiful night out there. 158 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,000 Very beautiful. 159 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Uh-huh. 160 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,000 No sense you sitting around listening to the radio. 161 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:23,000 Why don't you take the board, go surfing in the moonlight? 162 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:24,000 No, no, Janie, I... 163 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,000 Listen to me, sweetie. 164 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,000 If I could, I'd go with you. 165 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,000 There's nothing right now I want more to do. 166 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,000 So you go, huh, sweetie? 167 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Don't let me ruin all of it for you. 168 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Janie, I don't mind... 169 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,000 You go, take the board and go, because I asked you to. 170 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,000 Because I want you to. 171 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:52,000 I went. 172 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:55,000 And the waves were coming in gentle and fast 173 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:59,000 and the moon crested from about 150 yards offshore. 174 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,000 I paddled the board out easy and slow 175 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,000 to where the moon was shaping them. 176 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,000 It's where I saw her. 177 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,000 Karen. 178 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,000 Her hair floating and woven in a web of kelp. 179 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,000 And her face moon-white. 180 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,000 And her lips and splotches of color on her throat 181 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,000 where the bruises were. 182 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,000 Karen in the wet shroud of a silk dress. 183 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,000 Dead Karen. 184 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:29,000 In the sodden jacket I'd lent her the night before. 185 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,000 When I got back to the house, Janie was asleep. 186 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:36,000 I didn't wake her. 187 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:40,000 I got into some clothes, went out to the car. 188 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,000 Hey, wait a minute. 189 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:45,000 Is that you, Jeff? 190 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,000 Yeah, it's me, Lou. 191 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,000 Lou, come out here a minute, will you? 192 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,000 Sure. 193 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:56,000 I couldn't sleep. 194 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:57,000 I was reading. 195 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:58,000 I heard the car and I thought maybe I... 196 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,000 Something I want to tell you about last night, Lou. 197 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Something you don't know. 198 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,000 All I know about last night is that you and Karen went surfing 199 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:06,000 by moonlight this morning. 200 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,000 A girl named Phyllis rode up and you all copped in your face 201 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,000 because no more beautiful Karen. 202 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,000 After that, I lose you. 203 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:13,000 Just listen to me, huh? 204 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Well, I'm listening, Jeff. 205 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,000 Well, like you said, I went surfing with her. 206 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,000 After that, she needled me into taking her to that joint 207 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,000 down the highway for a beer. 208 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:21,000 It's been done. 209 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,000 A beautiful girl sometimes merits a beer. 210 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,000 Ah, Journey doesn't know about it, huh? 211 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,000 That's what you're trying to say? 212 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:30,000 Something else. 213 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,000 All right, something else. 214 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,000 It was while we were in the joint. 215 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:34,000 She... 216 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Well, you know Karen. 217 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:37,000 You'd know what she... 218 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,000 Yeah, if only you'd better deny it. 219 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Is that what you did, Jeff? 220 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:42,000 I had to walk out on her. 221 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,000 She followed me out. 222 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:44,000 I told her off. 223 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,000 Put her in her car and told her off for the rest of time. 224 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,000 Marriage, I said to her. 225 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:49,000 Happily married. 226 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:50,000 And a couple of other things I said. 227 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,000 She cried and then she drove off. 228 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,000 I walked the beach for a long time. 229 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Jeff. 230 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:56,000 It's the last I saw her, Lou. 231 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:57,000 I swear it. 232 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:58,000 I swear it. 233 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,000 What's eating on you, kid? 234 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,000 A little while ago, I found her 235 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,000 floating in a kelp bed. 236 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:07,000 Dead. 237 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,000 I think murdered. 238 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,000 Where were you going just now, Jeff? 239 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,000 To the police. 240 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:17,000 Jeff. 241 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,000 Yeah? 242 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,000 Police is where grief is. 243 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,000 What? 244 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,000 You told Karen off, you said, and never saw her again. 245 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,000 You swore it when I didn't even know what you were talking about. 246 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,000 Don't you believe me? 247 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:29,000 Don't! 248 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,000 Police is where grief is. 249 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:35,000 Police and Karen murdered can burst wide open what you got with Janie. 250 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,000 You forgot a thing, Jeff. 251 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,000 What? 252 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:40,000 You didn't walk a lonesome beach last night. 253 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,000 You left Karen, you came to my house. 254 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,000 We sanded the surfboards. 255 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,000 Isn't that what you forgot? 256 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,000 Lou, from me to you, an alibi. 257 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:52,000 An alibi maybe you don't need, but from me to you. 258 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,000 Because of what you and Janie mean to me. 259 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,000 Because of what he said, because it was a big grief. 260 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,000 Because it might kill what it was Janie and I had together. 261 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:10,000 The summer and beach and sky and sea and the love I had for her. 262 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,000 I waited till Lou had gone back into his house. 263 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,000 And I swam out to where Karen was. 264 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,000 I took off her the jacket I'd lent her the night before. 265 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:23,000 I swam back to shore and found a littered strand of beach and burned the jacket. 266 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,000 And buried the scorched rags. 267 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,000 And I went home and slept. 268 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,000 And it was Janie who woke me. 269 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:33,000 Jeff, Jeff, there's a fellow outside. 270 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:34,000 Who? 271 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,000 A fellow outside. 272 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 Wants to talk to you. 273 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:39,000 Who? 274 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:40,000 A Mr. Anders. 275 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:41,000 A policeman. 276 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,000 Look Janie, no matter what. 277 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,000 That phone call last night. 278 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,000 From Karen? That phone call? 279 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,000 No matter what. Don't say anything about it. Nothing. 280 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,000 A fellow's waiting at the door for you Jeff. 281 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,000 No matter what do you hear? No matter... 282 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,000 You want to see me? You Jeff Marlow? 283 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:11,000 That's right. 284 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,000 A swimmer found a girl out in the kelp this morning. 285 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,000 A girl we all know around here. Karen Lawrence. 286 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,000 What's that got to do with me? 287 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,000 She was murdered Mr. Marlow, strangled. 288 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,000 Somebody killed her and put her out on the tide. 289 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,000 Let's go inside and talk about it. 290 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:30,000 The Guilty Always Run 291 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,000 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Terrone Power 292 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,000 with Kathy Lewis and William Conrad 293 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,000 in The Guilty Always Run. 294 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,000 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding 295 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:55,000 theater of thrills, Suspense. 296 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,000 Hey Marty, what's the rush? 297 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,000 Oh hiya Harlow, I can't stop now. 298 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,000 I'm coming from a preview of the new 54 Kaiser 299 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,000 and I've got to get over to the paper and write the story. 300 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:16,000 Hey they call it the new car with the big change, don't they? 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322 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:35,000 I don't know. 323 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:36,000 Jeff? 324 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,000 Oh it's nothing Janey. 325 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,000 This gentleman just wants to know if I know Karen Lawrence. 326 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:44,000 Why does the gentleman want to know that Jeff? 327 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,000 Well... 328 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,000 Why do you want to know that? 329 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,000 She's dead. 330 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,000 That's not the question I asked you. 331 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:49,000 She was murdered. 332 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:50,000 That's still not the question. 333 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,000 Asking around about her, your husband's name gets mentioned 334 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,000 more than anybody else's. 335 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,000 I see. 336 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:59,000 She was murdered alright in case you've got any doubt about it. 337 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,000 Strangled. 338 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,000 Bruce marks here and here. 339 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:06,000 Two thumbs you know. 340 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,000 Wearing all her clothes. 341 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,000 Good swimmer I understand so we've got a tab at murder. 342 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,000 And I've got to ask Mr. Marlow if you killed her. 343 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,000 No sir, I did not. 344 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,000 But you know her. 345 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,000 Yes sir. 346 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Now look, you don't have to yes sir and no sir me. 347 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:23,000 Okay. 348 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,000 You were with her last night. 349 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,000 We got that from Phyllis George, a friend of hers. 350 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:30,000 Well look, this is what happened. 351 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,000 One day Karen comes up from Malibu with a board 352 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,000 pretty helpless about getting from her car to the surf. 353 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:36,000 When was this? 354 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Ten days ago. 355 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,000 Eleven. 356 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,000 Eleven. 357 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,000 The afternoon of the morning I broke my hip. 358 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:48,000 I can pick it all up till yesterday Marlow. 359 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,000 Talk has it she liked you. 360 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,000 Did Talk have it I tried to ignore her? 361 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:53,000 Yes it did. 362 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,000 Did Talk have it that right off I told her I was married? 363 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,000 Yes, yes it did. 364 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,000 I also checked next door your friend Lou Foster. 365 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,000 He says he was with you around the time the girl was probably killed. 366 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,000 Then what are you coming around here for? 367 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,000 What about the bar? 368 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:11,000 Bar on the coast highway near Topanga Canyon Marlow. 369 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:12,000 Bar keeps said to be here. 370 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:13,000 Okay, okay. 371 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,000 Like a fool I took her down there for a beer night before last. 372 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Night before last is when she was killed. 373 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,000 To Talk it out, to tell her to stay away. 374 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,000 Look, maybe to you it sounds- 375 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,000 Don't get yourself excited Marlow. 376 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,000 That's just what I do. 377 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,000 Dane was chasing me, didn't want her to. 378 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:30,000 Take her to some quiet place and talk to her. 379 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,000 Adult over a beer. 380 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,000 Well, I hope your hip gets better Mrs. Marlow. 381 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:39,000 Thanks. 382 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,000 And thank you for your courtesy, both of you. 383 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:43,000 Sure. 384 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:50,000 Jeff. 385 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:51,000 Yeah. 386 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,000 You didn't tell me you took her for a drink. 387 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:54,000 Just for a beer. 388 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:55,000 Oh. 389 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:56,000 Now look Janie. 390 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:59,000 You want me to tell her not to love you anymore Jeff? 391 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,000 What's been going on anyhow? 392 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:04,000 Hello. 393 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:05,000 Mr. Marlow? 394 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:06,000 That's right. 395 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:07,000 Who's this? 396 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,000 Norm. 397 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:09,000 Norm? 398 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,000 Yeah, Norm Sloan Mr. Marlow. 399 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,000 I got the Topanga Innery on the coast highway. 400 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:15,000 You've been in here. 401 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:19,000 Back night before last you were in here with Karen Lawrence. 402 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,000 I understand from the police that Karen- 403 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,000 What do you want? 404 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:30,000 I can't talk to you over the phone Mr. Marlow, but I wish you'd stop in here anytime in the next half hour or so. 405 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:34,000 If I were in your shoes I would Mr. Marlow. 406 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,000 Bye. 407 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:41,000 Who was it? 408 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:42,000 Nobody. 409 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:43,000 Who was it Jeff? 410 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:44,000 Nobody. 411 00:17:44,000 --> 00:18:00,000 I'm going out. 412 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:04,000 You don't want to hear my troubles Mr. Marlow, so I'll just tell you this. 413 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:09,000 I didn't tell that policeman about the arguments you and that girl had in here. 414 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:13,000 Since you were the only ones in here, then I'm the only one who knows about it. 415 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,000 And what happened out front when you left. 416 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:19,000 How she was carrying on and crying. 417 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:26,000 And from what Mr. Anders at Policeman said, she must have been murdered a couple hours after you left here with her. 418 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:30,000 Now look, I don't know what you told the police. 419 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:35,000 But you came down when I called Mr. Marlow, so what am I to figure? 420 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:45,000 As long as you're here Mr. Marlow, I'd like to know what it feels like to go out to Santa Anita with a thousand dollars and not care if I win or lose. 421 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:49,000 With a thousand dollars Mr. Marlow. 422 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:59,000 Today Mr. Marlow. 423 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:04,000 A thousand? For what Jeff? For what I need? To buy off a murder charge? 424 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:08,000 Are you crazy kid? You got it Lou. You're gonna give it to me? 425 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:13,000 You're crazy? How deep into it can you get? A thousand now? A thousand a week maybe for the rest of your life and then you... 426 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:17,000 You're not gonna do it, huh? You're not gonna give it to me. 427 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:24,000 Who you buying from Jeff? Sloan. Runs the beer joint on the highway. He saw me and Karen outside his... 428 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:28,000 A thousand? He must have seen a lot. 429 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:32,000 You'll get it back Lou. Every nickel. 430 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,000 All right Jeff. Drive me to my bank. 431 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,000 And Jeff... Thanks. Thanks. 432 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:43,000 That's not what I meant. This is what I meant. This will do it Jeff. It's as far as I can go. 433 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:49,000 So luck and a long life kid. 434 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:56,000 We just stared at each other for a while and I had to lift his hand from his side to shake it. No more talk. 435 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:03,000 I drove him to his bank. Lou got the money. He gave it to me. I drove him to his house and then went to Sloan's joint. 436 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:31,000 Bought a bottle of beer. Drank half of it. Paid him a thousand dollars for it. Sloan laughed from deep in his stomach. 437 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:43,000 Hello? Hi honey. Who is this? I'm sorry there's no one here. Honey baby it's Jeff. 438 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:51,000 No. No there's no one here by that... Jeff listen. The police are here. They... What are you... 439 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:59,000 That you Marlow? This is Anders Marlow. Sheriff's office. Now listen. Sloan, that beer joint fella. 440 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:03,000 He called the office a little while ago and said you offered him a hundred dollars to keep his mouth shut. 441 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:08,000 A hundred? Now you come in Marlow because when you did that you practically signed a confession. 442 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:15,000 Marlow you understand what's happening to you don't you? You understand what's going to happen to you? 443 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:26,000 I let the receiver hang and let him talk into nothing and I ran. Off the coast highway down the beach. 444 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:34,000 A couple of miles. Farther to Santa Monica Pier. Farther to Ocean Park. Me. Wanted for murder. 445 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:39,000 Because Karen. Dead Karen wanted a part of my life and I wouldn't give it to her. 446 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:45,000 Because her girlfriend stuck her face into mine and yelled cop. Girlfriend Phyllis George. 447 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:53,000 I found her address in the Venice phone book. I went there. Rooming house overlooking one of the phony canals they have. 448 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:59,000 Second floor rear. Phyllis. Scared. Staring. Holding it in. 449 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:03,000 You just get out you hear. Just keep away from me. You gotta help me understand. 450 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:08,000 Things you know about Karen. Fellas she knew. One fella maybe who wanted her dead. 451 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:12,000 You. You did it. Nobody wanted her dead. No. Me. I didn't. 452 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:17,000 You. You did it. Nobody wanted her dead. Help me. Help me. What was it you had with Karen? 453 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:22,000 It makes you choke her and kill her and throw her out into the ocean like she was. I didn't. I didn't kill her. 454 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:27,000 You get out of here huh. Because you scare me. Because you scare. Just listen huh. 455 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:32,000 Anything you know about her that I can take to the cops. Keep away. Keep away. 456 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:42,000 Killer. Killer. Killer. Shut up. Shut up. Like Karen huh. That's how you choke. 457 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:51,000 That's what you did to her killer. That. Like you wanted to do to me just now. No. No. I. 458 00:22:51,000 --> 00:23:15,000 Don't. Don't do. Hello. 459 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:24,000 Lou. This is Jeff. Where are you kid. Listen. How's Janie. I didn't call her because the lines probably tapped or something. 460 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:30,000 How's Janie Lou. She's OK. Where are you. I want you to meet me Lou. Tell me how things are going. 461 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:39,000 How. I gotta talk to somebody. Sure. Where are you. Phone booth outside a drive in laundry in Venice. Rose and Third Avenue. 462 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:52,000 I'll pick you up there kid. Right away Lou. Right away. 463 00:23:52,000 --> 00:24:03,000 How you feeling kid. Scared Lou. How did I get into this Lou. What happened. Why am I running away. 464 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:13,000 Jeff. Let's not. Let's not what. Let's not kid. Huh. Because I'm in this too. That alibi I gave you. 465 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:22,000 What do you mean. Let's not kid Lou. The way you pounced on the alibi paying blackmail. Is that any way for an innocent. You're saying what Lou. 466 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:29,000 Come on. You really think I killed her don't you. Listen Jeff. Janie and I were talking. Janie thinks I killed her. 467 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:41,000 Yeah. Yeah she does Jeff. You ask and I told you. OK. OK. What are we stopping for. This is where you're getting out. 468 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:54,000 What are you talking about. Hey what is this. Open the door Marlow. That's a boy. Now come on out. 469 00:24:54,000 --> 00:25:04,000 That's it. You can slide out too Mr. Foster. Sure. Sure. Lou. That's right. I told Mr. Anders I'd bring you here kid. 470 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:11,000 Look I didn't kill her. I did a lot of things wrong but I didn't. Just don't whimper Jeff. Huh. The old nerve kid. 471 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:18,000 Like sliding in on a big one. Like the thrill things kid huh. Like you and Karen. It wasn't like that. How was it kid huh. 472 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:24,000 What was the formula. Flex the muscle and be polite. Brown eyes looking up at you and here take my coat. You must be cold. 473 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:30,000 Let's have a beer and back to the beach. Back to the beach. And after all of it she was only kidding all the time. 474 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:37,000 What did you strangle her for. The coat Lou. How did you know about it. The coat. My coat I put on her. 475 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:45,000 Sure. The one she was drawing in. There was no coat. I went back there after she'd been murdered. Took the coat from her and burned it. 476 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:50,000 The same crazy reason I did everything wrong. How do you know about the coat Lou. 477 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:58,000 Now look. Nobody knew about that coat but me. And whoever killed her. Then why did you come running to me for an alibi. 478 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:06,000 I didn't Lou. You suggested I ought to have one. You would be my alibi. That way you'd have one too. 479 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:14,000 What about it Foster. What can he say. Those phone calls. Call and hang up. 480 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:22,000 Until Janie got on the line. Then let Janie listen to her in pain and calling out my name. Start suspicion right at home base. 481 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:28,000 You really built it didn't you. We better go. 482 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:48,000 Hey don't shoot that Foster. Stop. Hey. Hey don't. 483 00:26:48,000 --> 00:27:01,000 Lou didn't die. He'll stand trial. Summer's fading and vacation's long over. But sometimes. Sometimes on weekends Janie drives me out to Point Doom. 484 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:30,000 We sit there and we watch the sunset ride in on the long slow curve of surf. And we don't talk. 485 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:37,000 Suspense. Presented by Auto Light. Tonight's star Mr. Terrone Power. 486 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:44,000 This is Harlow Wilcox again. 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Featured in the cast were Charlotte Lawrence, Frank Nelson and Jack Crouchon. 499 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:29,000 Terrone Power may currently be seen in the 20th Century Fox picture, King of the Kiber Rifles in cinemascope and Technicolor. 500 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:35,000 And remember next week Mr. Cornell Wild in Somebody Help Me. 501 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:39,000 This is the CBS Radio Network.