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Adventure and Mysteries, classic series from Radiol's Golden Path in the Secrets of Scotland Yard. This is Ty Brook. Most of the programs in this series have been casebook histories of that horrifying but strangely intriguing topic, murder.
Now these cases can be divided roughly into two categories, murder by poison and murder by violence. In the former method, poisoning, it seems that the murderer hopes that either the cause or death will be certified, and from some other cause, or that if the poison be traced, then it will not be proved that he administered it.
The other type of murder, violence, sets a very different problem. It is this. Either the murderer must disappear, or the body must disappear, or both. Let us deal with the disposal of the body. How often has this been attempted and how often has the attempt failed?
Dr. Pritain, who picked up the remains of his wife and the seller, Arthur Alfred Rouse, who burnt his victim in a motor car, Harry Dopkin, who buried his wife in a bombed-out Baptist chapel, the farmer who buried his girlfriend in a chicken run, the trunk murders I could go on indefinitely.
To some, the burying or hiding is enough. But others, the more calculating and ingenious, resort to more horrifying acts. Mutilation of the victim in the hope that Eve nith discovered, no means of identification will remain.
Such is the case we are discussing today. And such is the case we can justly call murder most foul. Remember the second 1917, Regent Square blooms Relundant. A street scavenger known to his friends as Jack the Sweeper, no relation to Jack the Ripper, going about his usual business of sweeping up the leaves and debris of an
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