The Murder of Duncan Frazier

Whitehall 1212 quickly. For the first time, Scotland Yard opens its secret files to bring you the authentic, true stories of some of its most baffling cases. These accurate records are drawn from the Scotland Yard file by Special Permission of Commissioner Sir Harold Scott.

They're true in every respect, except for the names of the participants which, for obvious reasons, have been changed. The research has been done by Mr. Percy Hoskins, Chief Crime Reporter for the London Daily Express, the stories for radio are written and directed by Mr. Willis Cooper. Here are the principal participants in Case Number 201 MR340, Sidney Patterson-Builder.

Mr. Patterson is absent, sir. Detective Inspector Edmund Whitaker of Scotland Yard. It was quite obvious why, Mr. Patterson was absent. But our other participants, in our Case Number 201 MR340, were not of the same importance as Mr. Patterson. We shall run across them as we go on. We shall run across a great many interesting things as we reenact case

201 MR 340. And I should like to warn you, if you have the slightest trace of murder in your heart, that a murdered person's teeth are almost impossible to destroy, and that nothing is ever lost, and will certainly be found sometime, somewhere by someone.

Now, will you come with me? This is Scott and Jard's Black Museum. Yes. It's Inspector Whitaker, sir, with a friend. Oh, do come in, Whitaker. Thank you, sir. Come along. This is Chief Superintendent John Davidson, the curator of the Black Museum.

How do you do? I'm afraid this place is a little like chamber of horrors, although our exhibits taken by themselves are not so startling. But the entrepreneurs of the law breakers are particularly of the unlovely art of murder. Now this human bone here brought one man to the hangman's expert hands. These dried blood stains on this cloth are from a once-loving husband's throat.