What happens
Martin Delavan returns home after being expelled from college and finds his stepmother, Gladys, dead in her bedroom. Confused and angry, he confesses to her murder and reenacts the crime for the police. His father, Henry, insists on his innocence, but Martin's account of his whereabouts and the evidence against him keep tightening around him. Mickey Rooney stars in this episode of the radio series Suspense, first broadcast on April 28, 1949.
A house on Beach Street South, and a police station in an American town, 1949
Characters: Martin Delavan, Gladys Delavan, Henry Delavan, Lieutenant Steel, Steve Barton, William J. Simmons
Listen for: Martin's shifting confessions and his father's insistence that his son did not do it
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.