Study of a Murderer
Suspense · January 20, 1955 · 24 min · 3,051 words
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And now tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills suspense Tonight the story of a man who insisted upon finishing the murder he never committed We call it study of a murderer So now starring Charlotte Lawrence and William Conrad Here is tonight's suspense play Study of a murderer It's funny to be married to a man three years
Find out he's kept secrets from you Not secrets like drinking or cards or women. Hank was never like that. I mean he was like two different men, really two men. He kept it even a secret from himself.
That's what I'm beginning to understand. Because the men I knew, loved, was a wonderful sweet husband. The doctor says, he says the baby coming on its way. He won't inherit it because nobody can inherit Hank's kind of trouble, his sickness.
And I'm not asking for sympathy, I'm just telling you that's all. I never asked for help, neither did Hank. Oh no, he did ask. In the only way he could. He tried to ask to let me know, but it was too late.
It was last spring, it was that day he came home so upset. That you? Hi, darling. Hi. Good day at work? Yeah, yeah, sure.
Have something real good for dinner. What are the headlines? What do you mean? I mean, what's the headline? In the paper? Murder? What? The headline didn't jazz me what the headlines were? Oh, yes, honey, sure.
What is it? Don't you feel well? What should it be? What's it always? The paper's jammed up to here with murder and killing all the time. A man comes home from work and it works hard enough, but a man comes home and he sees pictures and columns on a mother and a baby.
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