The Murder of Charles Brooks

Fight all one, two, one, two, quickly! For the first time, Scotland Yard opens its secret files to bring you the authentic stories of some of its most baffling cases. These accurate dramatizations which are presented exclusively by NBC are drawn from the official files of Scotland Yard.

Their true pictures of the operations of the world's most famous crime detection organization. Only the names of the participants have for obvious reasons been changed. The research is prepared by Percy Hoskins, Chief Crime Reporter of the London Daily Express.

the stories for radio which are performed by an all British cast are written and directed by Willis Cooper. Here are the principal participants in case number 108 MR-131. Two of these persons have been hanged for murder. Private Eric Slade, twenty-two of the Royal Army Ordinance Corps. I was a bomb disposal man. Gladys Brown, who wanted to be a dancer.

I'm not so awfully bad looking, am I? Melanie Rodier, 20, a French war refugee. The Swiss and poor, poor, and the Swiss Paris. Charles Brooks, 31, taxi cab driver. It was a brand new American Plymouth, a grey one, model 1941.

Inspectors Stuart Wilcox of Scotland Yard. Which of those four voices sounds guilty to you? This lower ground floor corridor in which we're standing leads to Scotland Yard's Black Museum. Come down there with me. I'd like you to see an actual souvenir of an actual murder.

This is the Black Museum. Oh, good afternoon, Wilcox. Good afternoon, sir. This is Chief Superintendent John Davidson, curator of the Black Museum. Well, how do you do? I expect you've never seen a place like this before.

Look about, if you like. Now, the items we have here have all served in some way in the commission of a crime. Here's the bullet from our murderous gun. This is the Linen Duster in which the body of a murder victim was raped.