This is Your FBI: Flowers for the Corpse

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Tonight's FBI file, Flowers for the Corps, professional thieving is a business, and some forms of it just as some forms of legitimate business are conducted on a nationwide scale, with accomplices in major cities throughout the country acting as sales outlets for the stolen goods.

But your FBI, one of whose jobs it is to smash these rings, Also, operates on a nationwide scale. And no matter how cunning the methods of the one, there are no match for the unrelenting vigilance of the other.

And it is inevitable, as illustrated in tonight's case from the files of your FBI, it is inevitable that some time, at some point, the twain shall meet. The greenhouse floral business operated by Merle Sherton and his widowed aunt in the suburbs of a large Midwestern city had until a few months ago, produced only a modest income.

Then it began to prosper smartly, but at the moment this sudden financial success means nothing to Merle Sherton. He stands for Lornley and his greenhouse contemplating a flower. Mel? Oh, Merle? Yes, Aunt Kathy. I thought you were coming into the house for lunch.