This is Your FBI: Fugitive Killer - The Scientific Conviction

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, murder. In the crime of murder, final conviction of the killer often depends on evidence which can be revealed only by the microscopes, the test tubes,

and other instruments of modern science with which the FBI's vast laboratory is equipped. Whereas the steps leading to the killers' arrest may depend all together on the intelligence and swift action of the special agent on the case.

Tonight's case from the files of your FBI is a dramatic example of how investigative ability brought about the arrest of a brutal killer, after which science convicted him. About two miles out from a village of Belford, Massachusetts, sitting well back from the The road is the weather-beaten house occupied by the Crayton.

Although a sign on the roadside mailbox reads tourist accommodated, F.E. Crayton, a kindly little grey-haired woman nearing 70, and her granddaughter Lynn are alone most of the time. As they wear one rainy set at the night in the early fall.

In the living room, F.E. sits in her rocker before the fire knitting. Lynn is at the piano while blacking a Scotty stretches indifferently before the fireplace. My dear, couldn't you play something just a little more cheerful?

It's not a very cheerful night, nanny. It feels cold and clammy. Like the touch of death, oh, gracious! What kind of talk is that? Sometimes rain is warm and friendly. But tonight, it's stealthy. Like death.