What happens
Joe Harris, a young drifter, hops a freight train from Kansas City bound for California, and shares a boxcar with a stranger who looks strikingly like him. A struggle leaves the stranger dead, and Joe, afraid of being blamed, swaps draft cards with him and takes the name Martin Pell. Joe then reaches the town of Wiesie, Oklahoma, where a man named Bliss hires him to kill an elderly relative. The episode is part of the Inner Sanctum Mysteries series, first broadcast on July 6, 1952.
A freight train from Kansas City, then the small town of Wiesie, Oklahoma, in the rain and dark of night
Characters: Joe Harris, Martin Pell, Bliss, Uncle Carrou
Listen for: The boxcar confrontation with the stranger, and Joe's decision to switch identities with the dead man
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.