This is Your FBI: The Marriage Racket

The Equitable Society presents this is your FBI This is your FBI an official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Presented as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States To your FBI you look for national security and to the Equitable Society for financial security

These two great institutions are dedicated to the protection of you, your home, and your country. Tonight's file, the Marriage Racket. In the years that have just finished their parade into the history books, the people of the world became accustomed to the cruel reality of having the Earth fertilize with the blood of millions of soldiers.

A sudden violent death became the normal thing. The pages of every newspaper carried their mournful honor rules. But that was war. That was a crime all of civilization was guilty of having committed. That was a crime the FBI could neither prevent nor sell.

But now we've come upon a period of peace. A period when the FBI can and does prevent crimes. Of all of those, it's most important that the FBI and all law enforcement agencies prevent one certain crime.

Because once that crime has been committed, all that remains is catching and punishing the criminal. The victim is beyond saving. This crime is murder. Our story tonight takes us to a pleasant farming community in Iowa.

Chris Newton, who owns 200 acres of the best land in the county, has just returned home from the city with a new wife. This is their first day together at home. Ella! I'm in the kitchen honey. Oh well something smells good. Chicken! With dumpling? With dumpling. You just get over that wash up everything's just about