What happens
Brothers John and Jim Spencer, with their younger brother Carl, flee Missouri after robbing a bank and killing a man at a livery. Believing their fortune was rightfully theirs after the war, they try to cross Kansas on stolen horses while a growing posse hunts them. Their escape grows harder as news of the robbery spreads faster than they can ride, and the brothers must decide how far they will go to stay free. The episode is a Suspense radio drama, broadcast on CBS, starring Richard Widmark, and the original air date was January 26, 1953.
Missouri and Kansas, United States, in the years after the Civil War
Characters: John Spencer, Jim Spencer, Carl Spencer, Simpson
Listen for: The brothers' reasoning about their future as the posse closes in, and the tense moment at the isolated house in Kansas.
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.