What happens
Alex Sturgis, a middle-aged pharmacist married to a much younger wife, Lenore, is shot and dying in a hospital bed. He confesses to a doctor how a wounded bank robber, James Kirk, came into his drugstore one night asking for help. Alex let Kirk die, took the stolen money, and disposed of the body. An insurance detective, Mark Bigger, then begins to suspect him. The episode is part of the Inner Sanctum Mysteries series, with a broadcast date of January 22, 1946.
A small drugstore in a city, a bank, a hospital emergency ward, and a bay pier.
Characters: Alex Sturgis, Lenore, James Kirk, Mark Bigger, Kelly, Dr. John, Mary, Mr. Host
Listen for: Alex's confession to the doctor in the hospital ward, which explains the events that led him there.
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.