Speaker 1: This is District Attorney Markham. The Shoeless murder case involved
Speaker 1: the killing of three girl models, all of whom it
Speaker 1: participated in the contest at the home of Walter Jordan's
Speaker 1: shoe manufacturer. First to die was a girl named Inez Stone,
Speaker 1: killed while the contest was going on. Later, two other
Speaker 1: models were murdered and their shoes stolen, a factor which
Speaker 1: we can't understand. We do know that one of the
Speaker 1: models still alive. Edith Graham has a boyfriend who has
Speaker 1: a record, and Vance has an idea he can entice
Speaker 1: the killer into the open with two letters he wrote.
Speaker 2: But that's all.
Speaker 1: Whom the letters were to go to, or what was
Speaker 1: in them, we don't know about it.
Speaker 2: One An d Hi just come by to taking a
Speaker 2: breakfast and.
Speaker 3: There was a nice of you Joey, sit down hot nice?
Speaker 3: Do you rang him?
Speaker 2: Okay? Brung your mail up with me?
Speaker 1: Just one letter? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Thanks joe wonder this collections? Yes, Joy listeners, listen to
Speaker 3: what Edie this letter? Here's all it says, miss Edith Graham,
Speaker 3: I got what you want? Meet me tonight, tamp and
Speaker 3: cover Street midnight and it's signed.
Speaker 2: Shoes uh ah, what does it mean?
Speaker 1: Joy?
Speaker 3: What do you think it means?
Speaker 1: I know, honey, and I'm stoping, only not stop enough
Speaker 1: to think that you don't know what it means.
Speaker 4: To That's all the mail this morning, mister Jordan. Alright, uh,
Speaker 4: except one letter, Mark Personal. Do you want me to
Speaker 4: open it?
Speaker 2: Please? Do not personal?
Speaker 5: Yes, I don't can't be anything my assistant shouldn't know about.
Speaker 5: Go ahead, open it and read it.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, it says.
Speaker 2: Mister Jordan.
Speaker 1: But is it?
Speaker 2: You had better read this yourself?
Speaker 5: Have just to all of Jordan. I got what you want?
Speaker 5: Meet me tonight tenth in Cover Street, midnight, seven shoes.
Speaker 1: Doesn't make sense to me, mister Jordan?
Speaker 2: Does it to you?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 5: I'm afraid it does very good sense.
Speaker 1: Ten minutes after midnight advance, our murderer hasn't shown up.
Speaker 1: Ten past midnight tenth and culver you and I Markham,
Speaker 1: but no murderer. Yes, I've got something to confess to you.
Speaker 1: What's that? Either I'm not as clever as you've always insisted,
Speaker 1: or our shoeless killer is a very smart individual because
Speaker 1: he didn't fall for this plan. Well why did you
Speaker 1: think he would? He had to do, Markham? Don't you
Speaker 1: see he was killing to get a certain pair of shoes,
Speaker 1: a pair of which was worn by one of the
Speaker 1: girls in that bathing contest, but he didn't know which
Speaker 1: girl wore them. He tried to kill one of the
Speaker 1: remaining models the night before last. That means he hadn't
Speaker 1: gotten what he wanted up until now. HM. Logical enough,
Speaker 1: I offered to give it to him in a letter.
Speaker 1: Should have risen to the bait. Unless that's our suspect
Speaker 1: list isn't complete. I'm pretty sure that if we could
Speaker 1: find the reason for those shoes being missing from a
Speaker 1: victim's feet, we'd have our murderer. Seems as if that's right,
Speaker 1: doesn't it? Yes, Well, it may or may not be so.
Speaker 1: But one thing I know is definite. I know where
Speaker 1: I'm going on this case. I wish I did know that. No, Markham,
Speaker 1: my next move may possibly be wasted, But I'm going
Speaker 1: back to the Jordan home for a look at some
Speaker 1: of Walter Jordan's personal records.
Speaker 2: Do you think of show them to you? Or do
Speaker 2: you want me to do it legally?
Speaker 1: I'd rather you didn't, Markham, thanks just the same that
Speaker 1: rather Jordan didn't know I was doing it either.
Speaker 2: I want to look at his records.
Speaker 5: Off the record, stand right where you are, wherever you are.
Speaker 5: Turn taught me, with your hands up, do as I
Speaker 5: say now before I shoots as I say. Caught you
Speaker 5: in my library, I could shoot without giving you this break,
Speaker 5: Turn taught me.
Speaker 1: I said, well, thanks, hello, mister Jordan, I must apologize
Speaker 1: for this.
Speaker 5: Well, I certainly think you ought to have it.
Speaker 1: So I didn't mean to you. I meant to myself
Speaker 1: for getting caught. Now the bungling of me. Then, I've
Speaker 1: never done anything quite like this before, quite like what
Speaker 1: like looking through a man's personal papers and uh, check books.
Speaker 1: I'm rather glad I did, though, I've uncovered a lot
Speaker 1: of interesting information.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what you found. You found canceled checks
Speaker 5: made out by me to a Stone.
Speaker 1: Correct, Yes, and in as Stone was murdered in this
Speaker 1: estate of yours, the first of the shoeless murders.
Speaker 5: She was blackmailing me, I admitted, and I'd bet I
Speaker 5: paid her.
Speaker 1: In view of the evidence here, you couldn't do anything
Speaker 1: else but admit it. Do you also admit you killed her? No?
Speaker 1: I'm glad you said. That makes this case even more interesting.
Speaker 1: There's a stub in your check book here I'd like
Speaker 1: to know about. It's one dated yesterday and indicates a
Speaker 1: check made out to Edith Graham ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: What was that for?
Speaker 5: She knew and as was blackmailing me and didn't tell
Speaker 5: the police.
Speaker 2: How did she know?
Speaker 1: I can't figure that at all. I can understand her
Speaker 1: not saying anything to the police. It would destroy her
Speaker 1: chances of continuing to blackmail you. Very interesting, mister Jordan.
Speaker 1: I I have an idea. I'll be seeing you again
Speaker 1: after I see Miss Graham.
Speaker 3: I don't know why I did it, mister Markham.
Speaker 1: I just don't know why easy enough. I know it
Speaker 1: was wrong, but I couldn't help. I think I understand
Speaker 1: Miss Graham, and I'm glad you came to me. How
Speaker 1: much money did you get from mister Jordan? Get one
Speaker 1: check for ten thousand dollars. I cashed the check, but
Speaker 1: I'll return to money. I'm sure we can straighten this out.
Speaker 1: And I'm very glad you came to me. So Jordan
Speaker 1: was being blackmailed by a ness Stone the first of
Speaker 1: the girls.
Speaker 3: To die, Yes, he was, and after she was killed,
Speaker 3: I thought I could do the same thing.
Speaker 1: I'm happy you changed your mind. You know, Vance has
Speaker 1: you on his list of suspects. This might do quite
Speaker 1: a bit to change his mind, perhaps, Markham, Oh Vance,
Speaker 1: Hello Vance, Miss Graham, mind if I intrude Markham, you're
Speaker 1: not intruding Vance. Miss Graham was just reporting something very
Speaker 1: interesting to me. She was telling you that as Stone
Speaker 1: was blackmailing Jordan, and that after Miss Stone's.
Speaker 2: Death, she took over.
Speaker 1: That's right. How did you know, Markom I left Walter
Speaker 1: Jordan about an hour ago. At that time I found
Speaker 1: out about Miss Stone and Miss Graham here, but she
Speaker 1: didn't know that. She came down to my office to
Speaker 1: tell me what she'd been doing without knowing you already knew. Vance.
Speaker 2: That's fine, but incorrect.
Speaker 1: As soon as I left Walter Jordan, he called Miss
Speaker 1: Graham called to tell her her blackmailing was over.
Speaker 2: That I knew.
Speaker 1: I overheard him calling the number, and her being here
Speaker 1: now indicates the conversation. Miss Graham knew I'd be after
Speaker 1: her to admit she was blackmailing Jordan, so she beat
Speaker 1: me to it and came to you, thereby eliminating suspicion
Speaker 1: from herself. She thought, that's.
Speaker 3: All very cute and clever.
Speaker 2: Vans. But now what now?
Speaker 1: I want you to tell me how you knew and
Speaker 1: s Stone was blackmailing George Vance. Please, I'm sorry, but
Speaker 1: how can that be important? Why should it have result
Speaker 1: in the deaths of two other models? The answer to
Speaker 1: the question I asked, Markham will tell you what you
Speaker 1: want to know, Miss Graham. How did you know and
Speaker 1: s Stone was blackmailing Jordan?
Speaker 3: I overheard his fighting with him. It all came out
Speaker 3: while they were arguing.
Speaker 2: Where were they and you at the time.
Speaker 3: I was putting on my bathing suit. The pool bath
Speaker 3: house has a roof, but there's an opening between the
Speaker 3: floor and the walls, an opening about two feet high
Speaker 3: running right.
Speaker 2: Aroun so you could hear what was going on outside.
Speaker 1: I see. That's all, Miss Graham, except for one thing.
Speaker 1: I'll want you down to that bath house tomorrow morning
Speaker 1: and bring your friend Joey with you.
Speaker 3: Oh you know about him?
Speaker 1: Huh, of course we do. We'll expect you and him
Speaker 1: there tomorrow morning, Miss Graham.
Speaker 3: Okay, can I go now?
Speaker 2: Vance?
Speaker 1: Yes, but you're entitled to know this. Mister Jordan will
Speaker 1: be invited to his own bathhouse tomorrow morning too, and
Speaker 1: Markham and I will be there planning a party, ending.
Speaker 2: A party, Miss Graham.
Speaker 1: It's high time our killers stopped having a good time
Speaker 1: out of making fools out of us, Markham, can you
Speaker 1: hear me? Yes, Fritz good, you have Joey and mister
Speaker 1: Jordan in the bathhouse with you.
Speaker 2: That's right, very well.
Speaker 1: You are now in the position that Miss Graham says
Speaker 1: she was in when she heard Jordan and in his
Speaker 1: stone arguing.
Speaker 2: Can you hear this?
Speaker 1: Very plainly listen, go ahead, miss Graham, say the word
Speaker 1: you over, Harry.
Speaker 3: Okay, don't give me that, Walter. You'll keep paying or
Speaker 3: you're blue in the faith. And incidentally, I'm winning this
Speaker 3: contest today. Don't forget it. You're paying and I'm winning,
Speaker 3: or I talk. And then here Jordan tried to get
Speaker 3: her to quiet down, but she wasn't having any and
Speaker 3: she said, don't shush me, Walter. Jordan's suppose everybody knew
Speaker 3: how you took over your shoe business fight, swindling the
Speaker 3: man who wounded. How long do you think you'd be
Speaker 3: such a big man?
Speaker 6: Well, how long?
Speaker 3: That's about all that?
Speaker 2: You're all that, Markham, very distinctly the truth.
Speaker 1: Yes, uh, come out here, will you Markham, Right, miss Graham,
Speaker 1: who was in the dressing room with you when.
Speaker 2: You heard all this?
Speaker 3: Nobody? I came in early, that's why, and Nas and
Speaker 3: Jordan talked out here.
Speaker 2: They didn't know I was inside.
Speaker 1: I see, And a Stone was killed in almost this
Speaker 1: same spot a few hours later.
Speaker 6: I suppose that's right.
Speaker 2: Where were you at the dime?
Speaker 3: I don't know where I.
Speaker 1: Was when she was killed. You don't trick me, he said, Well, guys,
Speaker 1: what's up?
Speaker 2: Markham looked down at the opening in the bath house.
Speaker 2: The bathouse wall, it doesn't extend all the way to
Speaker 2: the floor. What do you see? See?
Speaker 1: Yes, I see a pair of legs belonging to mister Jordan,
Speaker 1: another belonging to Joey. Why shouldn't I see them there?
Speaker 1: Both in the bath house?
Speaker 2: That's right? And now, if you will, you can make
Speaker 2: your arrest.
Speaker 1: You mean you know the murderer, why the three girls
Speaker 1: were killed, and why the shoes were missing. Yes, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you all about that later, but right now you
Speaker 1: can arrest Edith Graham for murder.
Speaker 6: Oh wait, right there, Martin, I know I'm coming out of.
Speaker 2: The pool.
Speaker 6: Invigorating.
Speaker 2: Certainly looks good. Nice of mister Jordan to let me
Speaker 2: use his pool.
Speaker 1: Yes he was, and it'd be very nice of you
Speaker 1: Vans if you brought me up to date on the
Speaker 1: shoeless murdered. Well, you want to know first why they
Speaker 1: were shoeless, is that right?
Speaker 2: Mark?
Speaker 1: I want to know why the shoes were removed from
Speaker 1: the dead bodies. Yes, that was the most confusing part
Speaker 1: of this case, and it still is. It was intended
Speaker 1: to be confusing, Markham. In fact, that was the only
Speaker 1: reason the shoes were taken.
Speaker 2: I beg you pardon.
Speaker 1: The murderer, whom we know now was Edith Graham. Knew
Speaker 1: that we would try to find some link between the
Speaker 1: missing shoes and her. There was no link, of course,
Speaker 1: but she was trying to lead us up a blind alley.
Speaker 1: Well she has certainly succeeded. In other words, the shoes
Speaker 1: were taken merely to throw us off. She was sure
Speaker 1: we'd concentrate on them, and we did.
Speaker 2: Yes, Eh, very clever.
Speaker 1: Idea. Now tell me this. Why were the three girls murder?
Speaker 1: The answer is simple. When Edith Graham murdered in as
Speaker 1: Stone out where she had heard Stone and Jordan arguing,
Speaker 1: she looked down and saw a pair of girl's legs
Speaker 1: in the bath house. She immediately assumed that whoever owned
Speaker 1: those legs had heard Miss Stone's death struggle, and probably
Speaker 1: had heard Miss Stone mention her Miss Graham's name go ahead.
Speaker 1: But by the time she had killed Miss Stone and
Speaker 1: made her way into the bath house, whoever it was
Speaker 1: in the bathhouse had disappeared, or Miss Graham knew was
Speaker 1: that one of the girls was a possible witness to
Speaker 1: the murder, a murder she committed to enable her to
Speaker 1: blackmail Walter Jordan. She had to get rid of that
Speaker 1: possible witness. In order to do that, she had to
Speaker 1: kill three more girls.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: She had no idea which one of the three other
Speaker 1: girls in the contest was a possible witness to what
Speaker 1: she'd done, and there was no way to find out, right,
Speaker 1: listen to this vance. Originally there were five girls. Miss
Speaker 1: Stone was killed, That left four. Two of the other
Speaker 1: girls were murdered. That left two, Doris Morgan and Edith Graham.
Speaker 1: The killer tried to get Miss Morgan in the park,
Speaker 1: which he escaped. That left only one girl who could
Speaker 1: have done the killings.
Speaker 2: Miss Graham.
Speaker 1: You're right again, Markham. Now we know how and why
Speaker 1: and that she killed the others. Now we have her confession,
Speaker 1: we know one other thing too vance We know this
Speaker 1: is the end of the shoeless murder case.
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