Speaker 1: Come in welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall Walking delegate to
this union of demons, devils, shades and spirits, plus other
assorted practitioners of the ultra and the macabre. The truest
maxim perhaps of them all, is the one that says
you can't get something for nothing. Not only is it
true from the ethical point of view, it is also
a demonstrable scientific fact. Well, then, with both science and
morality on its side, why is this self evident principle
so universe disregarded? Why do so many of us try
to make a full time career of reaping without sowing
Our mystery drama You Can Change Your Life was written
especially for the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars
Ralph Bell. It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor
Division and Anheuser Busch Incorporated. Brewer is a Budweiser. I'll
be back shortly with Act one. The curfew tolls the
knell of parting day. The lowing herd winds slowly o'er
the lea. The plowman homeward plods his weary way and
leaves the world to darkness, And to me as it happens,
the darkness is not only left to the poet. Darkness
is available to whoever cares to make use of it.
By their very nature, some deeds can only be performed
in the darkness, such as the one you're about to witness.
Speaker 2: Maria Conception Valdez gets off the bus.
Speaker 1: She stands on the dark, bog shrouded street corner. Where
is Arturo? She always meets her here when she works late.
Neither he nor she is happy that she must walk
a long, lonely block at this hour. Maria smiles, and
her smile is something to see. At forty she is
still slender, trim and beautiful. Perhaps Arturo has forgotten, but
how could he forget he did not do.
Speaker 3: Did you fall asleep?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Oh, excuse me, I thought my housband actor.
Speaker 2: Excuse me? Are you missus Maria Conception Valdez.
Speaker 4: That's Maria Conceptune.
Speaker 2: Oh I stand corrected. My name is Eugene Parmenter. Yes,
and I wonder, missus Valdez, do you remember me?
Speaker 4: Do I remember you?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: I cannot say that I do.
Speaker 2: This would go back eleven years, eleven years ago.
Speaker 5: For me.
Speaker 4: That would have been another world for me too. Well,
mister Don Minter, what what is it.
Speaker 2: You wish well, it's I find it inconceivable that you
wouldn't remember me.
Speaker 4: Well, sir, perhaps if he went to tell me, you.
Speaker 1: Changed the entire course of my life. Have me, yes?
But how you judged me?
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, that cannot be.
Speaker 5: Dude, You are making a mistake. You have confusingly perhaps.
Speaker 2: With someone there's there's no mistake.
Speaker 4: But I have never been a judge. Indeed, I would
never be a judge.
Speaker 2: Think back eleven years, a night filled with music, with laughter,
in a great hall, with brilliant life. I I really Parmenter, Parlimenter,
Eugene Parlimenter, do you remember me? Thank you?
Speaker 5: Please, sir, if you will excuse me, you judge me,
I must be on my way.
Speaker 4: Say my name, Eugene Parmenter says.
Speaker 2: Eugene parmented Now do you remember? Do you remember judging me?
Speaker 1: Do you remember condemning me?
Speaker 4: You condemn anybody?
Speaker 1: Never? Now it is my turn, you please turn.
Speaker 4: What do you want?
Speaker 1: I want? Missus Gussie volkovskin And now that you've found me,
I'm a police lieutenant wife.
Speaker 5: And you want to come in and talk to me. Now,
since I can't stop you.
Speaker 4: Let's get it over with leave me, save you a
lot of time.
Speaker 5: You want to talk to me about the murder of
Maria Concetti ball Dad's last night.
Speaker 1: It happened just down the street. Now did you hear anything?
Speaker 5: I didn't hear nothing because I wasn't home. What's the matter?
Speaker 4: Do I need an alibi?
Speaker 1: I only wanted to ask you who killed her?
Speaker 4: Go ahead ask me.
Speaker 1: I thought you said you weren't here.
Speaker 4: It's open and shuts.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
Speaker 3: I know who killed her? Her husband, that Arturo?
Speaker 1: Why do you say that?
Speaker 4: Why do I say that?
Speaker 5: Listen hear that These walls are like cardboys. I think
they are cardboard. You can hear every word they say
next door. I used to sit by the wall all night,
a cup of teas and fruits and cake, and just
listen to what to the arguments Maria and Arturo used.
Speaker 4: To have each and every night.
Speaker 1: What about?
Speaker 5: Well you got another background, captain wife, I'm.
Speaker 1: Only a lieutenant.
Speaker 5: You're going to get promoted because you're about to solve
this case.
Speaker 4: It's the old story.
Speaker 1: What old story?
Speaker 5: They come here from Cuba twelve fifteen years ago.
Speaker 4: He was kind of rich, but he was lucky to
get out with.
Speaker 5: A shirt on his back. You see, well, I don't know.
He couldn't seem to get started up here. Everything went
wrong for.
Speaker 1: Her, Missus Valdosco. All I want to know is why
you say he'd.
Speaker 5: Killed him, like I was saying, the only work he
could get was the kind of thing that was that
was considered beneath his station, like it says.
Speaker 2: In the book.
Speaker 1: Meanwhy she got a job, she started making more money
than he did.
Speaker 4: How did you know?
Speaker 1: I've read the books too.
Speaker 4: So he gets jealous.
Speaker 5: He says, I won't have you working in that place
with all those men at night. What kind of a
place wasn't a bank or a stockbroker?
Speaker 4: He said he was dishonored that.
Speaker 5: His wife worked at night in an office with men.
And she asked why did he feel dishonored that his
wife had to work period? And he accused her of
being sweet on one of the guys, and she laughed
at him, and.
Speaker 4: He said, if she didn't quit, he'd kill her.
Speaker 1: He said he would kill her those words.
Speaker 4: Those exact words.
Speaker 1: When did the argument take place?
Speaker 5: The argument in the sense that they was having a
difference of opinion had been going on for years, but
it did start getting hot till she got this new job.
Speaker 4: Let's see you last month.
Speaker 1: And you distinctly heard him say I'll kill you.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
Speaker 5: And I even says to her, listen, Maria, this guy
sounds like he could do it too. But she only
laughed and said, poor Arturo. And then she sighed and said,
I may have outgrown him.
Speaker 1: Thank you, missus Valdoska, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: But Lieutenant, why would I kill my Why would I
kill you my wife?
Speaker 1: Mister Valders, is a clue for.
Speaker 2: Yes, we fought, but told marged couple.
Speaker 1: Fights continuously better than we were a father brown.
Speaker 2: There are those things between her man and wife which
need not be discussed with strangers.
Speaker 1: We are investigating a murder. Investigate, but white question me,
mister Valders. Your wife was murdered near the bust.
Speaker 2: By by some some some human monster.
Speaker 1: Some thiefle. Her money was still in her purse. She
still wore her rings and bracelets. We must discount robberies
the motive. Won't you find a bard with your wife?
Mister Alders?
Speaker 2: I am not required to tell you or.
Speaker 1: Ra shall I tell you? She was making more money
than you? You resented it and she was beginning to
resent it too. Your marriage was coming apart. There's a lie.
Speaker 2: I was a very wealthy young man back in the
old country. We were allowed to take nothing with us.
I never learned. I never learned how to make a living.
She said, you must change your whole altitude. You must
go to school, learn a trade, a profession.
Speaker 1: Anything.
Speaker 2: I could not do it.
Speaker 1: Do you understand, Franklin?
Speaker 2: Now? Too many generations of blue blood. But she learned,
and she was becoming another person, a stranger. I tried
to keep her, but she and saw you kill No, no, no,
you had made her at the bus stop every evening.
Speaker 1: Yes, the last night you didn't know why not?
Speaker 2: I must have fallen asleep. I was awakened by the police,
puring my bird to tell me this.
Speaker 1: I know outside you what sounds more logical, mister Valdez.
Last night you went to the bus stop as usual
to meet your wife, and you had the usual argument,
and then the fit of anger, you killed her. But
it's not I wouldn't, I couldn't kill Where were you?
I watched home.
Speaker 2: I told you I had fallen asleep.
Speaker 1: It never happened before. Had you ever missed meeting or
at the bus stop. I was.
Speaker 2: I was very tired.
Speaker 1: I just fell asleep, which means you have no alibi.
Speaker 2: You know, no, no, no, you must be leefing.
Speaker 1: Mister Valdez. You could have gone to the bus stop
last night what I did, you would have waited for.
Speaker 2: I had the fight, the usual fight, and I reached
that terrible point where you lost control and killed her.
Speaker 1: No, when you realized what you had done, you became horrified.
You ran from the spot you raised that to your home,
to the security of your room. Now you want to
sleep because you wanted to believe that you had been
asleep all the time. And I when you ask me,
mister Valves, I'm telling you what happens to many people
who commit murder, but people like you who are not
professional criminals, who will only kill perhaps once in their lives,
and only when they're driven beyond all endurance.
Speaker 2: I didn't kill her, I tell you, I didn't kill her.
Speaker 1: Yes, you probably believe you didn't kill her. Lieutenant, What
am I going to do? If I were you, I'd
get a lawyer.
Speaker 5: Well, mister Palment, here I can promise you in Les
in one week's time, you should be an acceptable Bridge player.
Speaker 1: That's fine.
Speaker 5: Yes, indeed, the Boarding School of Bridge guarantees, I mean,
provided you can count to thirteen.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think I can handle that, Miss border Ow. Good.
Speaker 4: Well, it's been a pleasure to meet you. Oh excuse me?
Speaker 2: Hello?
Speaker 4: Oh yes, darling. Well I'm closing right now. The new
student is here.
Speaker 5: Oh well, I just have to get his name and everything.
I won't be long, sure, think by the now.
Speaker 4: Just let me fill out this form.
Speaker 2: You said it's been a pleasure to meet me. But
we have met before, you and I?
Speaker 4: Oh have we?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes? And I remember you very well?
Speaker 4: Are you sure?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, it was eleven years ago.
Speaker 5: Eleven years Oh that's ancient history.
Speaker 2: Well to you perhaps, but to me it's real, living,
vital history.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to place.
Speaker 2: You remember me now? No, and my name, Eugene Parimenter
means nothing.
Speaker 4: Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I suppose I should you?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: You changed the entire course of my life.
Speaker 4: Oh, but how can you say that?
Speaker 2: Yes, you sat in judgment.
Speaker 4: Now I'm afraid I can't follow that at all.
Speaker 2: You judged me and found me wanting.
Speaker 4: How is it I don't remember any of that?
Speaker 2: To you?
Speaker 1: It meant nothing?
Speaker 2: Oh no, but to me it was my life.
Speaker 4: You condemn me, mister Parmentary. Are you sure you.
Speaker 1: Have to be closely? Look at me?
Speaker 4: I look at me, sir.
Speaker 5: I'm afraid I must ask you to look at me,
you stupid woman.
Speaker 4: Now see here?
Speaker 5: Please please don't we got me.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ki wh Why because you sentenced me the
misery for ten years?
Speaker 4: You won't get away with it?
Speaker 1: Perhaps I wouldn't if I use the gun.
Speaker 2: That no one here?
Speaker 1: You'd be taught with a gun.
Speaker 2: I can identify boots A nfe leaves no choice.
Speaker 5: But oh why?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 2: Look at me closely? Now?
Speaker 1: Do you remember.
Speaker 4: Eugene Pomenter?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 4: I remember?
Speaker 1: Good, Now you won't die Anygnoree.
Speaker 4: But I didn't do anything content me.
Speaker 1: Well that's twice, mister Eugene Pomoner has committed murder the
first time the police found someone who could conveniently be blamed,
showing that sometimes even murderers can have fringe benefits. Will
mister Palmoner be lucky this time again? That will depend
on Homicide Lieutenant Charles Weiss. As you can see, quite
a second act is building up, and I shall be.
Speaker 7: Here with it in just a few moments.
Speaker 1: Mister Eugene Parmenter has been busy recently settling what appears
to be some old grievances. What makes this of interest
to the police is the fact that he has been
settling them with a knife. Of course, the police don't
know about mister Parmenter yet, indeed, why should they. His
first murder has a logical suspect, and as for his second,
now or later? Terry an hour later? Are you going
to make a statement? Hey?
Speaker 2: What do you mean as a statement.
Speaker 1: Telling us how and why you've killed her? Lou Kennedy?
Are you crazy? I mean, have you lost your mind? Terry?
You've been cheating on her? Oh okay, all right, you've
been robbing a blind here at the school.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: She's got you in court, she's got a lawsuit against you.
Speaker 2: Well, let me explain.
Speaker 1: What's so explained, Srry. It's more than just a civil
action recover money. You could be up against inmbettlement fraud.
You could go to jail, Plutenant, Let me level with you. Huh, okay,
she was mad at me. Oh come on, sorry, let's
stick to the five tees. Are the facts, Lieutenant? Sure,
I robbed the blind but I was entitled her all
I could get.
Speaker 2: I gave her what she wanted fa exchange. All I know.
Speaker 1: Is you have the strongest of motives. She thrown you
out into the street. You were on your way to jail.
But don't you understand, Lieutenant, It happened all the time regularly,
like clockwork. This time had went a little further because
she was a little maddy. But she calmed down like
she always did. She couldn't do without me. Both of
us knew it. All she was doing was letting all
steam try that story in front of a jury. It
might be lucky you were.
Speaker 2: The last one to see her alive at a club.
Speaker 1: Now true, the killer was letting us us saw you
in that building at six p as well. I don't
deny I was there. I'd come to make up with her,
and I did. We did, and she said, run along
and meet me at Larrago's restaurant. Somebody's coming by him
a couple of minutes to sign up for lessons.
Speaker 2: And I did.
Speaker 1: And who was a somebody?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but.
Speaker 1: He must have been the guy who killed him.
Speaker 2: Terry, you have to realize that we.
Speaker 1: Only have your word for the fact that you was
missus Borden had made up last night, and that you
no longer had a motive, and that that there was
a mysterious visitor to her office. But it's true. Maybe
there is a mad killer running around, a mad killner.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: A couple three nights ago, this dame was murdered on
the street corner. She was stabbed, wasn't she? What are
you trying to tell me, Terry? Okay, last night Elizabeth
Borden gets stabbed to death.
Speaker 2: Now the safe guy could have done it, and what
was his motive? What was his motive for killing the
other day? Now, come on, give me a break.
Speaker 1: Huh, don't close it up.
Speaker 2: I know I'm hip deep in circumstantial evidence.
Speaker 1: But I tell you I didn't kill it. Okay, sorry,
think about it. No, you think about it. She was
the deuce who was laying the Golden maids.
Speaker 2: Why should I be crazy.
Speaker 1: Enough to kill it? Homicide? And will tell he was? Yes, doctor, right,
this miss Elizabeth Bardon was murdered the other night. Is
there anywhere at all we can tell if it was
with the same knight that killed the Valdez woman well
in the wound? Is there anything about it that could
tell us if it was administered by the same person. Wow, huh,
he said, the possession was exactly the same. I say, yes,
I know it's not conclusive. Well, okay, Doc, thanks most
of our theirs. I might have talked to you while Lieutenant,
I might be able to offer you a sniper ray
of hope, hope for what. The evidence is all against
you so far, But there's a chance you may not be.
Speaker 2: The killer, nor I am the killer. What you see
after you had left me the other day, I thought
the thought for hours, and of course.
Speaker 1: You were right. I killed her? Are you sure?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, yeah, she no longer loved me. That's because
when we came here she began to grow into someone else,
and they had refused to go at all. I stuck
out at her wildly, blindly, and so I killed her.
Speaker 1: You confess them, and I must have killed her. Who
else would have?
Speaker 2: But you don't actually remember doing it at all. I
must have blotted it forever from my memory.
Speaker 1: Another woman was stabbed at death last night.
Speaker 2: Unhappily, there is never a shortage of maniacs.
Speaker 1: Well, it could have been a random killing, or it
may be a pattern, or tell me the name, Elizabeth Borden.
Speaker 2: Elizabeth bore them.
Speaker 1: Did you ever get your wife mentioned Elizabeth Borden?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, in what connection? She maybe? I said, Oh
it was months ago.
Speaker 1: She said.
Speaker 2: You will never guess what are you run into today?
Elizabeth Borden? And and that was all? But else did
you say nothing? You see? Women are well, they are
a race unto themselves. She said, I ran into Elizabeth
Borden as if I knew who she was.
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Borden and your wife were both stabbed to death,
possibly by the same man.
Speaker 2: No, lud and I am sure I killed my wife.
Speaker 5: What do you want to look in an apartment for
all the tenant and cap clothes?
Speaker 1: You ever hear missus Valders speak of an Elizabeth Bordon.
Speaker 4: Elizabeth boord say, ain't she the one that was murdered? Hey?
You figure the same guy? But why could have sworn
all that turl was the culprit?
Speaker 1: You never heard her mention Elizabeth Borden.
Speaker 2: Never?
Speaker 1: What are you looking for? Anything that might give me
a lead?
Speaker 4: You ain't happy with that Turro? Huh?
Speaker 1: As long as there's a possibility, then.
Speaker 4: You think she was good looking?
Speaker 5: Now here's the picture I can tell by the hairstyle
and the dress, it's got to be ten eleven years ago.
Look at her, wasn't she gorgeous? How are these other
two games in the picture?
Speaker 1: I would a minute, the one in the middle. Why
does she look permitted to the one in the middle.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've seen that face before?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I wait a second in the paper just reason.
Speaker 1: She's a good ten years younger. But it's got to
be does with Borden? The two of them connected?
Speaker 4: Me sure?
Speaker 5: The one on the left, that's Maria Concepcion. The one
in the middle, that's got to be Elizabeth bordon that's
the third one.
Speaker 4: I lead you on the right.
Speaker 1: How is she? Hello?
Speaker 2: Are you Penelope Simpson? Well, my name is Eugene Parmonder.
I hope you remember me. Oh you don't. Well, look
we're having a get together that you can change your life. Alumni. Well,
I guess alumni is not quite the word. Oh do
you remember any of the other girls? Look, I happen
to be at the rat Skalers. It's just a block
away from your office. And well, I know this is
short notice, but it's five o'clock. Could you meet me
here for a drink? On your way home and we
can talk about it. Don't worry. No, I remember what
you look like. How could I ever forget?
Speaker 1: Now, mister Valdez, I know you told me you never
heard of Elizabeth Borden. Now this is her picture. Does
you look familiar? No, Lieutenant the other woman in the photograph? No, no, no, Lieutenant,
mister Valdez. This is a picture of three women. Two
of them have already been murdered. I have to find
out who is the third lady.
Speaker 2: By Lieutenant, you have conleased me, I must have killed
Maria because.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, Now, evidently there is someone who was
out to kid your wife, and this Elizabeth bordon woman,
and now maybe.
Speaker 2: This other You don't know how much I wanted to
kill her, you see, I am no longer a man.
She supported me. Look closely at the picture. Do you
know where it was taken? I don't remember. Isn't there
anything about her that's familiar? I shouted at her.
Speaker 1: I jeled at her. What he meant? The dress? What dress?
You'll see the dress in the picture. She bought the dress.
Speaker 2: It cost too much money. We were poor. Why don't
you want a dress? Because she's a woman, and women
in are vain.
Speaker 1: Okay, And this is maybe ten years ago. You had
an argument with your wife about a dress, but she
bought it, and she's wearing this dress and a spect
Oh please please, I I don't remember the argument about
the dress.
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 1: Why Why did she want the dress?
Speaker 2: Oh? Jay? Because she said millions of people would be
looking at her where where on the television? That's where.
It was a program? How you call it a giveaway program?
It was called I don't remember, all.
Speaker 1: Right, telling everything? You do? Remember?
Speaker 2: Yeah, she had written a letter I did not hold
with such foolishness. She had applied to be a judge.
Speaker 1: Or kind of a judge, judge judge who would judge
the people, the contestants, and she was accepted, and that
is why she wanted the dress. Is it possible that
these women were also on the program?
Speaker 2: Is it possible?
Speaker 1: Let me look again?
Speaker 2: Oh, let me try to remember. She was sitting behind
a huge desk with two other women and she was
waiting these days. Yes, it could be.
Speaker 1: These might have been the other women or the men.
Not otherwise. Yesh, what's her name? Another pays Sampson, same
kind of wound. Huh, all right, I'll get right on
over there. The name Penelope Simpson Valdez. Does that mean
anything to you? Uh?
Speaker 2: No more? Then are you going to put me back
in myself?
Speaker 1: Mister Valders, How many times must I tell you did
not kill your wife? You're free now, there's no point
you're coming around here anymore. Nobody's going to arrest you.
Speaker 3: She had had called me, she said she had a
date for cocktail.
Speaker 1: Did she say with whom?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: No, but you see she was in her Hurry.
Speaker 1: Missus Simpson, I have a photograph here, and I wonder
if you know I couldn't what I want you to identify?
If you can two other ladies who are posing with your.
Speaker 4: Daughter, and I can't help you?
Speaker 1: But uh, why not missus.
Speaker 3: Simpson, because I'm blind, But Julie, because I'm in this room.
Speaker 4: Which I know so thoroughly, every square I see.
Speaker 1: Well, this is a photo. It's very good, must have
been professionally done. It's sin color. We have here your
daughter and a woman named Maria Concepcion Valdez. Is that
name Permion?
Speaker 4: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: And the other is miss Elizabeth Borden. Would you know
of her?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Elizabeth Borton?
Speaker 3: No, oh wait, oh, I I should remember Elizabeth Borton.
Speaker 1: Why why should you remember Elizabeth Bordon? Had your daughter
ever mentioned that name? I? I think so in connection
with a television show?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: A TV show?
Speaker 3: Oh no, I think well, perhaps if you were to
tell me the name of the show.
Speaker 1: I don't know. The name was a giveaway kind of thing.
Speaker 4: What were they giving away?
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly?
Speaker 3: Well, what were they doing on the program? This is
rather peculiar. You know, you're the police officer that I'm
asking the question.
Speaker 1: Well, sometimes you find out more that way. I don't
know what they were giving away, but it had to
do with judging, judging.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, I remember it was called you Can Change
Your Life.
Speaker 1: Thank you, missus Simpson, thank you. I'm so sorry. We
didn't know all this much sooner. Well, what is it
that we do know? We know that three women who
may have been on a TV program more than a
decade ago have come to a violent end, and the
perpetrator is a gentleman who considers himself an aggrieved party.
The name of the show you can Change your Life? Really,
how was it supposed to work? Why don't you meditate
until I return with enlightenment. In just a few moments,
three women of completely different backgrounds murdered offhand. There is
no connection between them. It could have been a mad,
random killer. But police Lieutenant Charles Wife realized that there
is always a method to madness and an order to randomness,
and he has succeeded in placing all three women in
the same place at the same time. And your daughter
was on this program, Missus Simpson.
Speaker 3: Yes, she had written in and she had asked to
be a judge. They paid each judge five hundred dollars. Oh,
the floodgates have opened. I remember, But what does it You.
Speaker 1: Can change your life now?
Speaker 2: Who was the star?
Speaker 3: Oh you don't remember Ted Tinker?
Speaker 1: No, I can't say that I do.
Speaker 3: The show went off the air. Ooh eight nine years
ago because Ted Tinker had a stroke. Oh he was
such a lovely pursuit, so gentle, so kind, so humane,
so involved.
Speaker 1: While Autana was a great show. You know, there's a
sucker born every minute. Would you remember these three ladies,
mister Tinker?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Look, I was on fifteen years, seven hundred and ninety shows.
I'd be on today if I didn't have to be
in a wheelchair. Is there any way you could identify it?
Could be a terrific gimmick, you know what I mean,
the wheelchair bit.
Speaker 2: Look at the career Lionel.
Speaker 1: Barrymore had for himself, fab but the agencies don't buy
about these three ladies. Look, lieutenant, I'm organized the organization.
That's how you're on show business.
Speaker 2: Each one of my.
Speaker 1: Judges, you get the picture five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: A smile, since see it? Thank you.
Speaker 1: There's a letter and a number on the back of
that picture. SK one D in the back of you
that row of drawers, the one Mark K.
Speaker 2: I got it.
Speaker 1: Now there's a fold of Mark one. Take it out,
I hand it over. So what do we got here?
K is nineteen sixty five. Now here we are? And
one is the first show judges? Your three ladies, Maria
Conception Valdez, Elizabeth Worden, dol Skinny Dame and Penelope Simpsons.
What was their function on the show? They gave away
twenty five grand every week, and every week we had
three new judges, and this particular week they were the judges.
How did it work while it was a SOB story program?
You mean you never watched it? Now? What were you
doing live in an exile someplace.
Speaker 2: You know the ratings I had, what did they do?
Speaker 1: Every week? Two creeps had come on a show you
think you run into widows and your business. So these
two characters each week would say how they could change
their lives for the better if they had twenty five
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: And I was it.
Speaker 1: It's the gimmick. It was good for fifteen years. So
I got sick, and the judges, I would suppose, decided
who would receive the prize, and yeah, but don't brush
off the genuine, authentic grass roots appeal. I mean, these
were folks who wanted to change their lives to become
something greater, something better, to be a credit to that country,
in that community. Don't try to sell me. I'm not
a sponsor. K one. We had these three women as
judges and the contestants where only you should have seen
a neck on this guy. He was one of the contestants.
I called him Akerbot crane toadians broke up what was
his name?
Speaker 2: And Jerry Dawson and the.
Speaker 1: Other guy, a very quiet looking creep, name you Gene Parmone,
who was the winner. The jury decided in favor of
the neck Jerry Dawson, and the loser was Gene Parmone.
On what basis did the ladies decide, Wow, they're all
three dead. So I guess we'll never know. But what
kind of stories did the contestants tell? Stories?
Speaker 2: Do I know?
Speaker 1: Do I remember? Great tragedies? A chance to begin anew?
Are you saying I had a sore loser that night
and he was mad enough to kill the judges? Only
a hypothesis?
Speaker 2: So why is that crumb? Wait? Ten years?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Hey, wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 1: I remember he went to jail for what it was
a month after the show. I remember it was in
the paper. He stole a lot of money from some
company he worked for, and he went to jail. He
got ten years, which means he just got out and
just in time to kill those three ladies. Hey, sure
it figures he was sore at him ten years. It's
a long jail term just for stealing. There was summer
assault while up on a two is see when the
cops come after him, he put.
Speaker 2: Up a fight. Pretty violent guy. I remember he started
a bad scene. After the show was over, I had
to call a cops.
Speaker 1: Parmenter Eugene carment but tenderwise. Yeah, okay, Inspector, we got
a tape of that show. We've got a great description
of the guide. We've circulated it all over. Every cop
has an eye on for him. All we can do now,
Inspector's wait, yeah, I'm staying with him.
Speaker 3: I knew this was the right place when I heard
your voice.
Speaker 1: Attendant, Oh, missus Simpson here, let me help you do
a chance?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 1: What can I do for you?
Speaker 3: It's been a month, Lieutenant, hasn't it since the murderer
of my daughter those two other ladies.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. We're doing the best we can crimes a
Salva routine.
Speaker 3: I don't think you will ever find Eugene Parmenter that way.
Speaker 1: That's the only way we have.
Speaker 3: Why were my daughter and the others.
Speaker 1: Killed because some psychotic held them responsible for his.
Speaker 3: Failure precisely and he had to have his revenge. Why
shouldn't he droop quietly out of sight, even leave the country,
disappear forever.
Speaker 1: We hope that won't happen.
Speaker 3: I have a suggestion, you have, yes, why should mister
Parmenter believe his work is finished?
Speaker 1: Of of course, he's already murdered those three women who
he believes had.
Speaker 3: Wronged be Yes, But suppose he can be convinced he
made a mistake.
Speaker 1: I don't follow them.
Speaker 3: Suppose it should turn out that he had killed them
for nothing.
Speaker 1: Then what I still don't understand.
Speaker 3: Suppose he were to discover that the judges on that
program were only figureheads window dressing, that the decision was
really made by mister Ted Tinker, who secretly conveyed the
verdict to the judges.
Speaker 1: And that would make mister Palmonter so furious that he
would attempt to murder mister Tinker.
Speaker 3: Yes, you could guard mister Tinker night and day and
thus catch mister Palmonter in the act as he attended.
Speaker 1: A Missus Simpsons, we can't do that. We are restricted
by various constitutions.
Speaker 4: Very well, I shall do it myself, Missus Sims.
Speaker 3: I shall tell the reporters that my daughter gave me
the sad information that it was mister Tinker who really
made the decision.
Speaker 1: But that's not true.
Speaker 3: How would anyone know, I say, my daughter told me.
Can you prove she didn't?
Speaker 1: Well, Missus Simpson, we can't stop you.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad to be on the evening news over
your station. Penelope told me everything about that all time show.
They were not really the judges, they were just there
to look pretty, mister tid Tinker told them what to do.
Speaker 2: That's not true.
Speaker 1: That is not true.
Speaker 3: Mister Tinker decided in advance who the winner would be.
Speaker 4: It is alive and the girls. Of course, we're willing
to go.
Speaker 6: Along with me.
Speaker 1: You're lying.
Speaker 3: I suppose it can be told now, his poor demented man,
he killed them for nothing?
Speaker 2: Well, what do you mean, I kill them for nothing?
I killed them because they wouldn't give me a chance
to win. I I kill him for nothing.
Speaker 4: Follow Lord was dead, dead Tinker.
Speaker 2: He fooled me. He was the one.
Speaker 1: He was the one who could have changed my life.
Speaker 2: He was the one.
Speaker 1: I am gonna sue your station. Favery, Nicola, you've got
and that stupid reporter. I never said who the winner
said be, and I can prove it. I got witnesses,
my director of my scriptwriters. You're in bad trouble, baby.
Speaker 2: The next voice you hear will be my lawyer. Mister Tinker.
What oh you know? How'd you get in here? Do
you remember me? I'm Eugene permanary. Now, nah, you ain't.
I remember what you look like. I changed my face
just enough.
Speaker 1: But people who stare hard, I said, I don't care
what you heard on TV.
Speaker 2: It was the dames. They decided I had.
Speaker 4: Nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2: You should have overruled them, after all, my case, my
case was so obviously more worthy. Chow up, don't do
anything crazy, I said. I said I needed the money
in order that I may not drop into the searing
fires of shame. I said I needed it to right
or wrong, and everybody last I didn't laugh believe me.
I was mold, I cried. Then then why didn't you
help me? Why didn't you give me the money that
could have saved my reputation and kept me from prison?
Speaker 1: Because the game had to be played by the rolls
and the judges said you were good John.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, it isn't true. Believe me. She's a
senile old lady. Can't you see what she's doing. She's
setting you up.
Speaker 1: He look, put away a knife, beat it fast, and
you're in the clear. I won't even say you shut up.
Speaker 2: I don't know, not until you pay the price. You're crazy.
Speaker 4: Hey, no, no, don't come there.
Speaker 1: To knife pometer.
Speaker 2: I'm like, don't that knife, don't go.
Speaker 8: One.
Speaker 2: He was the one I had to kill.
Speaker 1: The other thing were a mistake. I'm sorry they has
We're all sorry. There they jim, get the cups on him,
all right, take him down. Oh, come out of jail.
One day, said Tinker. Oh you will pay the price.
Speaker 2: Hey, lieutenant, did you set this up?
Speaker 1: No, missus Simpson arranged it all by herself. We simply
had to protect you in case of danger. I'm gonna
sue her in the station for every nickel that all
I know something she got. She's right, I did call
all the shots.
Speaker 4: Four.
Speaker 2: He killed all us poor dames for.
Speaker 1: Nothing, which is what most murders are done for nothing,
Considering death is so final, couldn't there be a better way? Well?
I have suggestions for many better ways. But first you
listen to some messages, and then I shall return.
Speaker 2: My name is Ebenez, a scrooge.
Speaker 4: Have you got a candy for me?
Speaker 8: Our name is Shrash, and have we got a candy
for you?
Speaker 5: You?
Speaker 4: Your I haven't let you tell me? Lock you yummy, yummy?
Speaker 6: We got a candy for you, A chocolate cream and
a cherry tree. A chilly sluts and a chop with spice, crispy.
Speaker 4: Nung and a coc and nut, a colmn the non
for all.
Speaker 9: Got a canny boy.
Speaker 8: Whether you like your candy sweet or sour, hard or soft,
crispy or creamy shrass has it all wrapped up for Christmas,
from a little bag of shraft starlights to a gold
chest of shrafs chocolates.
Speaker 6: Pat my dummy, we got canyboy.
Speaker 2: You from the service.
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Speaker 3: Can got.
Speaker 1: Something for nothing, a change of the entire direction of
your life in one grand moment, Manna from heaven. No,
it doesn't happen, and yet how many hopes are based
on it? How many people wait breathlessly for the big win,
the long shot, the lottery ticket, and thus do their
lives flow silently away? The only thing you should wait
for regularly is this program, seven times each week. Our
cast included Ralph Bell, Earl Hammond, bryaner, Rayburn, Robert Dryden,
and Martha Greenhouse. The entire production was under the direction
of Hyman Brown Radio. Mystery Theater was sponsored in part
by Anhuser Busch Incorporated, Brewers of Budweiser and Buick Motor Division.
This is E. G. Marshall inviting you to return to
our Mystery Theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until
next time, Pleasant Dreams.
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