What happens
Laura Starling Morton, a former laboratory technician, is tried for killing her husband Robert, but is acquitted. Years later, under the name Laura Morton, she is married to research chemist Charles Morton. When Charles's half-brother Elmer Garner arrives after years in the army, he presses Laura to persuade Charles to change his will in Elmer's favor, and the tension between them grows. The story is part of the Suspense series, first broadcast on February 16, 1950, with Marlene Dietrich starring and Hans Conried featured.
A courtroom and a house in an American city, in the years after a murder trial, when the story is told in the late 1940s.
Characters: Laura Starling Morton, Robert Williams, Elmer Garner, Charles Morton, Fredonia Bell
Listen for: Elmer's pressure on Laura over Charles's will, and Charles's unexpected offer of coffee at their anniversary.
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.