1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:17,519 Speaker 1: Come in. 2 00:00:19,559 --> 00:00:25,760 Speaker 2: Welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall. Murder we are told will 3 00:00:25,839 --> 00:00:30,879 out as will. I believe truth, which is to say 4 00:00:30,879 --> 00:00:35,840 that most murderers, though not all, are eventually exposed and 5 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:38,759 made to pay for what is considered certainly the most 6 00:00:38,759 --> 00:00:44,079 heinous crimes of all, the taking of another's life. Such 7 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:47,600 was the case with the charming, debonair and totally amoral 8 00:00:47,719 --> 00:00:52,000 Greg Manchester, who felt sure he had committed the perfect murder, 9 00:00:52,719 --> 00:00:58,240 only to discover you're arresting me for murder. Lieutenant, you 10 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:05,040 can't be serious, very serious, mister Manchester. On what grounds? Yes, 11 00:01:05,079 --> 00:01:07,239 I shot and took my wife, but it was an accidents. 12 00:01:07,599 --> 00:01:13,000 No accident, mister Manchester. Cold blooded murder, and we can 13 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:15,680 prove it. How can you prove murder when there was 14 00:01:15,719 --> 00:01:18,400 no murder, It was an accident. I tell you, I 15 00:01:18,439 --> 00:01:20,439 only wish to have been a witness to prove what 16 00:01:20,599 --> 00:01:21,040 I say. 17 00:01:21,599 --> 00:01:24,560 Speaker 3: There was a witness, Greg, a witness who can prove 18 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:25,640 it was murder. 19 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 2: Oh, Sandy, tell me who the corpse? Greg? 20 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: The corpse? 21 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,599 Speaker 2: Our mystery drama, The Eye of Death was written especially 22 00:01:46,599 --> 00:01:51,879 for the Mystery Theater by George Lowther and stars Joan Hackett. 23 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,280 It is sponsored in part by sign Off the Sinus 24 00:01:55,280 --> 00:02:00,920 Medicines and Onenheuser Busch Incorporated brewers of Budweiser. I'll be 25 00:02:00,959 --> 00:02:15,039 back shortly with that one. When it comes to murder, 26 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:19,360 it sometimes seems to me that the cleverer a murderer, 27 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:23,479 the more certain he is to be caught, for, as 28 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:27,479 the annals of Crime reveal, he tends to outsmart himself. 29 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:33,520 Doctor Crippen Landrew, George Joseph Smith to mention, but a few, 30 00:02:34,039 --> 00:02:38,599 all without exception, flattered themselves on having committed perfect crimes, 31 00:02:39,319 --> 00:02:45,280 when in truth they had trapped themselves by overlooking one single, minor, 32 00:02:45,319 --> 00:02:52,280 little detail, as did a certain gentleman named Gregory Manchester. Listen, murder. 33 00:02:53,159 --> 00:02:56,280 You are accusing me, Sandy, of planning the murder your mother. 34 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:58,360 Is that what you say? 35 00:02:58,719 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 3: Don't twist my words, greg I said it wouldn't surprise 36 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:04,919 me if she had a fatal accident and died suddenly. Oh, Sandy, 37 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,080 don't even speak of such things. Just the thought makes 38 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:12,280 my heart skip a beat. I'm sorry, Rose, how is 39 00:03:12,319 --> 00:03:12,719 your heart? 40 00:03:13,199 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 2: Oh? 41 00:03:13,759 --> 00:03:17,439 Speaker 3: Same mother thinks I ought to see another doctor, Sandy. 42 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 2: I'm sorry you feel about me as you do. I 43 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:22,439 hope when I married your mother, that you'd become as 44 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,560 much my friend as your sister has. Why if you 45 00:03:25,599 --> 00:03:27,400 could have heard me talking about you at my club, 46 00:03:28,319 --> 00:03:30,000 how proud I was going to be to have the 47 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:32,879 famous photographer Sandy Oaks for a stepdaughter. 48 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 3: Can we be friends, Sandy friends? M Sorry, Greg, but 49 00:03:41,039 --> 00:03:44,560 your charm is wasted on me. You charmed my mother 50 00:03:44,599 --> 00:03:47,280 into marrying you, charmed her into turning over all of 51 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:50,360 the money to you, charmed into taking out one hundred 52 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,120 thousand dollars life policy with you as a beneficiary. 53 00:03:53,159 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 2: But now, my dear, why not? After all, Sandy, I 54 00:03:55,599 --> 00:03:56,960 am her husband and a. 55 00:03:56,919 --> 00:04:00,479 Speaker 3: Fast worker, irid less than a month said, I haven't 56 00:04:00,479 --> 00:04:03,000 wasted any time getting this marriage to pay off for you. 57 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:05,319 Speaker 2: Oh now you're accusing me of marrying your mother for 58 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:06,719 her money? Is that it, my dear? 59 00:04:06,919 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 3: You can believe it? Oh now, Sandy Rose, it's true. 60 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:13,599 And I'm telling you straight out, this clothes horse with 61 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:16,399 his blonde hair and his Sir Walter roly Man as 62 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:19,839 there's nothing more than a sharp operator, a con artist. 63 00:04:20,319 --> 00:04:21,800 And that's what I've come here to tell my mother, 64 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:23,240 and I will tell her she ever gets out of 65 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:26,120 that bathroom comes down here say you're all upset, said, 66 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:28,399 I'm steaming, and I've been steaming ever since I heard 67 00:04:28,399 --> 00:04:31,519 about this new life insurance policy. When mother phoned and 68 00:04:31,519 --> 00:04:33,800 said that you'd just taken out one hundred thousand dollars 69 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:37,199 policy with dear Greggy as a beneficiary, I could have 70 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:39,040 What is that? 71 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:43,839 Speaker 2: What it's a stain in the ceiling. It's a water staining. 72 00:04:44,079 --> 00:04:46,480 The bathroom is just above us. Oh, now, don't tell 73 00:04:46,519 --> 00:04:49,240 me the tubs overflowed. If your mother's had another of 74 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:51,879 her fainting spells in the bob come. 75 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 3: On fainting spills. But there's never had a fainting spell 76 00:04:54,519 --> 00:04:56,000 in the wrong there Sanday. 77 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 2: She never told you, But she's had a number of 78 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:00,879 them sudden blackouts since your father died. The shock of 79 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:02,959 his death, I don't know. And she's had two since 80 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,759 we married a month ago. God brand she hasn't had another. 81 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:07,720 I'm gonna take you. I don't hear me on. 82 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:20,079 Speaker 3: Oh no, he killed her, Joe, he killed her? Now, sweetheart, 83 00:05:20,319 --> 00:05:22,360 did he drowned her in that tub? All of that 84 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:26,319 talk about sudden fainting spells black out's no way, Joe, 85 00:05:26,399 --> 00:05:27,040 no way. Ow. 86 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 2: Look, my dear lovable bride, to be. I don't like 87 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,720 Gregory Manchester any more than you do, and I couldn't 88 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,160 agree more that he's the phony you claim he is. 89 00:05:36,199 --> 00:05:41,240 But you're no fool, Sandy. A camera nut maybe with 90 00:05:41,319 --> 00:05:43,800 that camera of yours always slung around your neck. 91 00:05:43,879 --> 00:05:46,480 Speaker 3: But Joe photography, he is my business. And I don't 92 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:48,839 know how many pictures I have missed if I didn't 93 00:05:48,879 --> 00:05:51,120 keep this high powered instamat ready at all times. And really, 94 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:52,199 I don't know why it bothers you. 95 00:05:52,879 --> 00:05:58,759 Speaker 2: It's nothing. Oh excuse me, yes, yes, yes, have them. 96 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:02,759 Come right in Manchester and your sister. 97 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:05,439 Speaker 3: I'm going to try to get Rose to move in 98 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:07,079 with me now that mother's gone. 99 00:06:07,879 --> 00:06:13,439 Speaker 2: Come in, Rose, mister Manchester, thank you. Hello, Sandy. Hello, 100 00:06:13,879 --> 00:06:14,920 how are you feeling? Rose? 101 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:15,959 Speaker 3: Oh? 102 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:16,519 Speaker 2: All right? 103 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,399 Speaker 3: I want to talk with you privately after the reading 104 00:06:20,399 --> 00:06:25,720 of mother's will. What about Sandy later, Dear, Well. 105 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:32,639 Speaker 2: We're all here, so I'll get started. I Geraldine Oaks, Manchester, 106 00:06:32,959 --> 00:06:34,079 a resident of the city. 107 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 3: Wait a minute, Joe, Yes, Geraldine Oaks, Manchester. 108 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,720 Speaker 2: Your mother made a new will after she married mister Manchester. 109 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:43,639 Didn't she tell you? No? 110 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 3: But she told me she was going to She didn't, 111 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:48,000 I'm sure I. 112 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:51,759 Speaker 2: Know why another slap at me? Sandy? Are you implying 113 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:53,360 I changed her mind about telling you. 114 00:06:53,959 --> 00:06:54,959 Speaker 3: If the shoe fits? 115 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 2: Great? 116 00:06:55,399 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 1: Now? 117 00:06:55,959 --> 00:06:58,519 Speaker 2: Now hold it? Please. We're here for the reading of 118 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:00,680 a will, and I suggest we get on with it. 119 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:14,279 I Geraldine Oaks, Manchester, a resident of this city. Lastly, 120 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:18,399 I hereby revoke all former wills and constiles to wills 121 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:22,800 heretofore by me made in witness thereof I have here. 122 00:07:22,879 --> 00:07:25,279 I'm two, set my hand and seal this tenth day 123 00:07:25,319 --> 00:07:29,879 of October, Signed Geraldine Oaks, Manchester, and witnessed, et cetera, 124 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:34,639 et cetera, et cetera. Well, mister Manchester, you've inherited quite 125 00:07:34,639 --> 00:07:36,160 a fortune. 126 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:40,279 Speaker 3: Plus one hundred thousand dollars in insurance, while Rose gets nothing, 127 00:07:40,959 --> 00:07:41,439 Nor do I. 128 00:07:42,439 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 2: As your mother stated in her will, Sandy, she trusted me, 129 00:07:45,959 --> 00:07:49,040 implicitly trusted me to see the girls was well cared for. 130 00:07:49,959 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 3: And you I don't need mother's money. But Rose, oh Sandy, 131 00:07:52,759 --> 00:07:55,839 you can trust greg mother? Did I do? 132 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 2: I know? You do? Rouse? 133 00:07:57,519 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 3: You trust everyone you always. 134 00:07:58,759 --> 00:08:01,279 Speaker 2: Have, possibly because she hasn't let the world make her 135 00:08:01,279 --> 00:08:03,759 as cynical as it has made you, or not just 136 00:08:03,759 --> 00:08:04,519 a manut. Mister man. 137 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:06,399 Speaker 3: I can take care of myself, Joe. More important, I 138 00:08:06,399 --> 00:08:08,680 can take care of Rose and I mean too. But Sandy, 139 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:11,680 I'm going to be all right. Greg will leave you 140 00:08:11,759 --> 00:08:13,600 to starve, if I know, Greg. But he isn't going 141 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,600 to because I'm not going to let him. I'm going 142 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,439 to break this will, Sandy. I mean it, Joe, he 143 00:08:19,519 --> 00:08:22,240 can't mother and he fleester. Well, You're not going to 144 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:22,839 get away with it. 145 00:08:22,879 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 2: Greg. 146 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:24,639 Speaker 3: I'll break this will if it's the last thing that 147 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:25,000 I do. 148 00:08:25,199 --> 00:08:27,879 Speaker 2: And may I ask exactly how am I. 149 00:08:27,839 --> 00:08:31,959 Speaker 3: There by proving you murdered my mother and meant to 150 00:08:32,039 --> 00:08:33,679 murderer from the start? 151 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 2: Have some more from creole Florence. 152 00:08:42,159 --> 00:08:44,960 Speaker 3: Oh, Greg Darling, I couldn't I simply couldn't you know 153 00:08:45,039 --> 00:08:45,600 I want to die? 154 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 2: Oh nonsense. This is no time to say on a diet. 155 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:51,000 In the first place, it's many draw wied. For the second, 156 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:53,480 I brought you to the finest restaurant in or Oh 157 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:57,240 you dear delightful. And in the third place, why anyone 158 00:08:57,279 --> 00:09:00,600 with your figure feels you the need the diet that 159 00:09:00,639 --> 00:09:01,679 baffles me up? 160 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:06,679 Speaker 3: You are a dear and delightful man, Greg Manchester, you 161 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:09,159 are almost as I know. 162 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 2: I'll say it. 163 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:13,200 Speaker 3: You are as dear and delightful as my late husband. 164 00:09:13,519 --> 00:09:18,360 Oh Greg, I'm so glad we met, So glad, Florence. 165 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:20,679 Speaker 2: You know, only a week ago I was the lonest 166 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:24,320 man on earth, lovely and the way only the bereave 167 00:09:24,519 --> 00:09:28,200 can be lonely. Even though it's months since Jardine passed on, 168 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,080 I thought I would never get over the loss. And 169 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:35,799 then well, then, my dearest, you don't mind if I 170 00:09:35,919 --> 00:09:39,919 called you my dearest? Of course not well I met 171 00:09:39,919 --> 00:09:43,519 you and life became worth living again. 172 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,159 Speaker 3: Graig, do you know that seems exactly the way I 173 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:48,919 felt feel. 174 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:54,200 Speaker 2: I thought as much. We've known each other only a week, 175 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:57,559 my dear, but what a week it has been. And 176 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:02,240 for my part, Florence, I you won't be offended. No, no, 177 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:05,120 for my parts. You're the woman I've been looking for 178 00:10:05,159 --> 00:10:09,600 since my own dear Geraldine caused, the woman I felt 179 00:10:09,639 --> 00:10:11,279 sure I would never never find. 180 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 3: Oh Greg, Greg, you dear man, then you're not offend. 181 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:25,159 Speaker 2: It wouldn't be if I well, I find if you want, darling, 182 00:10:26,759 --> 00:10:31,240 if I asked you to become my wife, oh dear, 183 00:10:31,279 --> 00:10:31,919 I have offended. 184 00:10:32,159 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 3: No, no, Oh, You've made me so happy. 185 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:46,519 Speaker 2: I think I'm ready to cry. But I know of him. Uh, Greig, 186 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:51,360 is something wrong? No? No, no, but excuse me a moment, Clarence. 187 00:10:52,080 --> 00:11:02,879 I'll be right back. Well, Sandy Oak School, photographer, camera 188 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:04,320 and all. 189 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:08,799 Speaker 3: Greg Manchester, con artist and murderer, next victim and all? 190 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:11,440 Speaker 2: What are you doing in New Orleans. 191 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 3: Marty Grove week, I'm covering it for Cosmopolite. 192 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,799 Speaker 2: You're lying. You found out I was living in New 193 00:11:18,879 --> 00:11:20,279 Orleans and you followed me here. 194 00:11:20,639 --> 00:11:22,519 Speaker 3: I care to see my press credentials. 195 00:11:23,039 --> 00:11:26,919 Speaker 2: If Cosmopolite sent you, you asked for the assignments. How right 196 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:30,879 you are? Now you listen to me. Any more trouble 197 00:11:30,879 --> 00:11:32,840 from you, and I'll make you know what trouble really 198 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:33,919 is trouble? 199 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:36,639 Speaker 3: What makes you think I'm out to give you trouble? 200 00:11:36,759 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 2: Because you followed me here? Because I suddenly spotted you 201 00:11:39,639 --> 00:11:41,720 snapping a picture of me and Missus Chapman. 202 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:44,279 Speaker 3: I took more than one before you noticed me, Greg, 203 00:11:44,399 --> 00:11:45,519 they may come in hand. 204 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 2: It I don't see how Well. Then look over there, Greg. 205 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:51,519 Speaker 3: See that sign. 206 00:11:52,799 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 2: One of that reads Marty growling? 207 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:58,279 Speaker 3: Exactly from that angle I caught not only you and 208 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:01,720 Missus Chaplin, but that sign hanging behind you on the wall. 209 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:06,600 So what the time element, Greg and the place? I 210 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:08,360 can hear district attorneys saying. 211 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:09,559 Speaker 2: To you at your trial for murder. 212 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:14,039 Speaker 3: Quote, you did know the widow, missus Florence Chapman as 213 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,159 early as Mardi Gras week, didn't you? In New Orleans? 214 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:17,759 Wasn't it? 215 00:12:18,159 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 2: Unquote my murder triumph. 216 00:12:21,879 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 3: You are going to kill her, aren't you? For her 217 00:12:23,879 --> 00:12:27,320 money after you marry her? Tell me does she have 218 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:29,799 any children? You can leave penniless as you did my 219 00:12:29,879 --> 00:12:30,799 sister Rose. 220 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:33,759 Speaker 2: She went to live with you. You're very successful, honey 221 00:12:33,799 --> 00:12:36,159 of doll. You'll take care of her. 222 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:40,440 Speaker 3: I am, I'm also going to take care of you now, Sunday. 223 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:42,960 I want cool it, calm man. I am not my 224 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,399 mother that you're talking to now, or my sister Rose, 225 00:12:45,919 --> 00:12:47,279 or that lovely victim of yours. 226 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 2: Over there. 227 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 3: A photographer gets around you, think of the cleverest thing 228 00:12:51,039 --> 00:12:55,879 that ever happened. You are, But buster it's your cleverness 229 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:59,559 that's going to put you behind bars, because somewhere, somehow 230 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:03,200 you're going to think you're so clever that you'll make 231 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:06,120 one little mistake, one staint, a little mistake, and when 232 00:13:06,159 --> 00:13:08,320 you do, I'm going to be there. 233 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 2: Be smart and get out of my life and stay out. 234 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:15,960 Speaker 3: Excuse me, I don't mean to interrupt, but Greg, dear, 235 00:13:16,879 --> 00:13:21,679 won't you introduce me to that very attractive friend, dear. 236 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:28,399 Speaker 2: Mail DearS as, of course, sir Sandy Oaks my stepdaughter. 237 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,879 Speaker 3: Oh you're not the daughter of that poor woman who 238 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:38,840 who drowned accidentally. Yes, Missus Chapman, I am you know 239 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:43,720 my Oh Greg told you no. I've been watching you 240 00:13:43,799 --> 00:13:46,759 and mister Manchester ever since he met you a week ago. 241 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 2: Watching Greg Darling. What does she mean? Oh, never mind 242 00:13:50,759 --> 00:13:53,080 finds she's a trouble maker. She tried to stop me 243 00:13:53,159 --> 00:13:54,200 from marrying her mother. 244 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 3: I tried to stop you from murdering my mother. 245 00:13:57,559 --> 00:13:59,159 Speaker 2: Oh gracious, that's talk. 246 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:03,879 Speaker 3: You're in a restaurant, and missus Chapman, let me give 247 00:14:03,919 --> 00:14:05,879 you a tip, a tip. 248 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 2: That will save your life. 249 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:11,799 Speaker 3: Say goodbye right now to this charming, well dressed murderer. 250 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:14,480 Speaker 2: Say goodbye and go on living. 251 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 3: Greg, Greg, I believe you're right this well, I don't 252 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:24,120 know what she is. What she is, I'm sorry, I 253 00:14:24,399 --> 00:14:25,000 came over. 254 00:14:25,159 --> 00:14:27,799 Speaker 2: I'll wait for you at our table. Yes, yes, yes, 255 00:14:27,919 --> 00:14:31,039 of course, Vond's well. 256 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 3: You'll see she's as naive and as trusting as my 257 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,600 mother and my sister or others you've murdered. 258 00:14:38,799 --> 00:14:44,159 Speaker 2: Oh so it's others now, look Sander, you said I'm clever. Well, 259 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:46,720 I am clever, a hell of a lot cleverer than 260 00:14:46,759 --> 00:14:49,679 you are. Now, I guess the only way to get 261 00:14:49,679 --> 00:14:51,879 you off my neck is to prove it. And just 262 00:14:51,919 --> 00:14:56,200 how will you do that? The only way I know? Murder? 263 00:14:57,159 --> 00:15:00,240 Don't get me all choked up. I know you ready 264 00:15:00,279 --> 00:15:00,639 for anything. 265 00:15:00,679 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 3: You try murder me, You don't have much of a chance, 266 00:15:03,919 --> 00:15:04,960 mister Manchester. 267 00:15:04,639 --> 00:15:08,679 Speaker 2: Oh murder you? No? No, no, not you? Who then, 268 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:21,120 mister Rose, who you love so much? Who else? Inevitably 269 00:15:21,279 --> 00:15:25,720 it had to come to this, the challenge, the squaring off, 270 00:15:26,399 --> 00:15:30,679 the gauntlet flung down between a cold blooded murderer and 271 00:15:30,759 --> 00:15:35,039 a self sufficient girl like Sandy Oaks who's been around? 272 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:41,279 Is she right? Will Greg Manchester make that one fatal mistake? 273 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:45,200 She says, you will. Perhaps we'll find out when I 274 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:58,799 return for Act two. Much has been written on the 275 00:15:58,879 --> 00:16:04,840 psychology of murder and murderers, and although experts disagree, when 276 00:16:04,879 --> 00:16:08,200 have experts ever done anything else? There seems a little 277 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:12,000 question that the common motive for murder is personal gain 278 00:16:13,159 --> 00:16:16,840 in any case. Assuredly, that's what it is with Greg Manchester, 279 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:23,039 who you might say marries for murder. But now Sandy Oaks, 280 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:27,039 veteran freelance photographer, has set out to prove that Manchester 281 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:31,200 murdered her mother, even as Manchester threatens that if she 282 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:36,639 doesn't leave him alone, he will kill her invalid sister, Rose, Sandy, 283 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:39,840 your mother drowned in her bath after suffering a black out. 284 00:16:39,879 --> 00:16:42,639 Speaker 3: Oh mother never had a blackout of fainting spell in 285 00:16:42,679 --> 00:16:45,399 her life. Manchester spread that story to cover himself. 286 00:16:45,559 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 2: But you can't prove it, and until you can, I'm 287 00:16:48,399 --> 00:16:49,639 warning you drop it. 288 00:16:49,679 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 3: I'm not afraid of a suit for libel or slander 289 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:52,480 if that's what you mean. 290 00:16:52,759 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 2: What I mean is I'm afraid for your life, if 291 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,960 what you say is true. Cruise is life. 292 00:17:00,039 --> 00:17:02,519 Speaker 3: I'm worried about if anything happened to me, she'd be 293 00:17:02,519 --> 00:17:03,480 alone and penniless. 294 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:07,519 Speaker 2: You don't ever have to worry about Rose while I'm around. 295 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:10,880 You know that, of course not. 296 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:14,160 Speaker 3: But good lord, I didn't realize it was this late. 297 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:15,240 I've got to rush. 298 00:17:15,079 --> 00:17:17,680 Speaker 2: Why just when I was about to invite you to lodge. 299 00:17:17,759 --> 00:17:20,599 Speaker 3: I'm sorry, darling, but I'm due with the Metropolitan Photographic 300 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:22,839 Exhibit in half an hour. I promised to advise the 301 00:17:22,839 --> 00:17:25,079 committee on how to hang the prize exhibits, oh. 302 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,400 Speaker 2: Including one of yours, which reminds me I owe you 303 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:32,759 an apology, an apology because I want a prize. Well, 304 00:17:32,799 --> 00:17:35,880 I'm always kidding you about carrying that fancy camera of yours, 305 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:37,839 but if you hadn't had it with you and shot 306 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:40,359 from the hip that day, you'd never have caught that 307 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:42,359 picture of an old man being mugged. 308 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:44,759 Speaker 3: And the muggers off the cops nail. And because of 309 00:17:44,759 --> 00:17:46,960 what I photographed, which reminds me, I've got to see 310 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,920 Lieutenant McCoy at headquarters after the photo Exhibit four four. 311 00:17:50,559 --> 00:17:54,240 The information I dug up in New Orleans about Greg Manchester, Now, 312 00:17:54,279 --> 00:17:57,319 it may not mean anything to you, darling, but I'm 313 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:00,279 hoping it will mean plenty to Lieutenant mc boy. 314 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:09,799 Speaker 2: It means nothing to me, Sandy, nothing at all. But Mac, Sandy, 315 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:14,000 I checked it out. Yeah, sure Manchester was married before 316 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,000 he met your mother. I'm sure his wife died of 317 00:18:17,039 --> 00:18:20,240 an overdose of sleeping pills, but the coroner's verdict was 318 00:18:20,319 --> 00:18:21,440 death by accident. 319 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:24,319 Speaker 3: Oh, Mac, you put me away, You really do. 320 00:18:24,839 --> 00:18:25,559 Speaker 2: I don't get you. 321 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:28,680 Speaker 3: His wife dies of an overdose of sleeping pills, and 322 00:18:28,759 --> 00:18:32,079 he inherits over fifty thousand dollars. He marries my mother, 323 00:18:32,519 --> 00:18:35,720 she dies by drowning. He inherits. Every century has plus 324 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,559 an insurance of one hundred thousand dollars taken out less 325 00:18:38,559 --> 00:18:42,359 than a month before. Two deaths, two so called accidents, 326 00:18:42,799 --> 00:18:46,519 and Greg Manchester hits the financial jackpot. That doesn't strike 327 00:18:46,599 --> 00:18:50,119 you as fishy, Yes, but now he's going to marry 328 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:53,759 this other wealthy widow, Florence Chapman, less than three months 329 00:18:53,799 --> 00:18:57,599 after my mother dies, Sandy. Oh, And he threatens to 330 00:18:57,680 --> 00:18:59,519 kill my sister Rose if I don't lay off. And 331 00:18:59,599 --> 00:19:01,359 you sit there and you tell me that you don't 332 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:03,599 think that Manchester is a cold blooded murderer. 333 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 2: Hard and so I said, he's clean. Sammy as a cop, 334 00:19:08,559 --> 00:19:10,720 I got a player by the book the rules of Evans. 335 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,799 Maybe Manchester did kill your mother and his previous wife, 336 00:19:14,839 --> 00:19:17,279 but I haven't got a shred of evidence to proby did. 337 00:19:17,519 --> 00:19:23,880 And the ear of you, well have you no? No? 338 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:25,960 Speaker 3: But I'm going to get it sooner or later. Manchester 339 00:19:26,039 --> 00:19:29,079 is going to make one slip, one victial slip. And 340 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:30,759 I'm going to be there when he does. 341 00:19:32,039 --> 00:19:33,759 Speaker 2: Taking pictures of him as he does. 342 00:19:33,839 --> 00:19:35,279 Speaker 3: I'll bet it isn't funny. 343 00:19:35,319 --> 00:19:38,599 Speaker 2: Mac. I'm just cracking wise about you and your trusty 344 00:19:38,839 --> 00:19:41,400 companions that camera. Laugh. 345 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 3: But it caught you a couple of muggers, and Mac, 346 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:54,640 it may catch me a murderer. There's a venturers want? 347 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:54,839 Speaker 2: Is it? 348 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:55,279 Speaker 3: For a while? 349 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:55,519 Speaker 2: Oh? 350 00:19:55,599 --> 00:19:58,440 Speaker 3: No, standing there, im, you're excited to sit still. You're 351 00:19:58,559 --> 00:20:00,839 too excited, period. I'll be all right. 352 00:20:01,559 --> 00:20:02,839 Speaker 2: Oh, it's such a thrill for. 353 00:20:02,839 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 3: Me just to get out of that apartment. But on 354 00:20:05,599 --> 00:20:09,880 top of that, these wonderful pictures Holsman, Eisen, Sat, Kepler 355 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:10,759 and you. 356 00:20:11,759 --> 00:20:12,480 Speaker 2: That's what I call. 357 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:16,079 Speaker 3: Really sisterly love, putting me in that class. Oh you 358 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:19,839 want a first prize, yes, but in photojournalism, and there's 359 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:22,440 nothing already about my stuff. The first prize is a 360 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:24,559 first prize, and I'm not going to argue. 361 00:20:25,279 --> 00:20:27,160 Speaker 2: Whoa send me? 362 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:30,279 Speaker 3: Maybe I'd better sit down from a minute or two. 363 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:31,880 Yeses right there? 364 00:20:32,599 --> 00:20:32,720 Speaker 2: Now? 365 00:20:32,759 --> 00:20:37,720 Speaker 3: How bad is it? It's not that sandy? Would you 366 00:20:37,759 --> 00:20:41,279 open night back? And they got the bottle of nitropilia 367 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:43,839 just to say here a little moment, now here, we 368 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:46,279 are here, stay here, I'll get you a couple of wars. 369 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:50,880 Excuse me, please excuse me. I just want to get through. 370 00:20:50,759 --> 00:20:51,519 Speaker 1: To the water cooler. 371 00:20:51,559 --> 00:20:52,640 Speaker 2: We're here, Let me help you. 372 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:54,400 Speaker 3: Thank you you? 373 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:55,839 Speaker 2: Yes me? 374 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:57,759 Speaker 3: What are you doing here? 375 00:20:57,759 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 2: Greg? Missus Manchester wanted to see the exhibits. She married 376 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:06,119 you then, and I wanted to see you. Thure you'd 377 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:09,079 be here. So I've got no time for you. 378 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 1: Now. 379 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:10,839 Speaker 3: I've got to get a cup of water for my sister. 380 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:15,440 Speaker 2: Well, here's the cup, there's the water. I want a 381 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,279 word with you, Sandy a mount Would you get out 382 00:21:17,319 --> 00:21:18,319 of my way? Excuse me? 383 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:21,400 Speaker 3: Please excuse me, Rose, Rose. 384 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:22,160 Speaker 2: Deer here you are. 385 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,119 Speaker 3: Thank you, Sandy, thank you? 386 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 2: Are you better? Yes? 387 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 1: Much? 388 00:21:30,559 --> 00:21:33,640 Speaker 3: I think it would better, girl, Sandy, I haven't seen 389 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:38,000 everything yet. Your holdra at my heart. My first day 390 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,000 out of the apartment in weeks. I'm going to make 391 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,960 the most of it. I'm going to see everything there 392 00:21:43,079 --> 00:21:45,880 is to see. Oh look who's here? 393 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:52,920 Speaker 2: Hello? Rose? Are you Greg lover? Better? You pretty well? 394 00:21:53,759 --> 00:21:55,920 Thank you? I meant to call on you when I 395 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:57,640 got back to No. Orleans, but I have felt your 396 00:21:57,720 --> 00:21:58,720 sister wouldn't approve. 397 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:01,440 Speaker 3: You're right, Greg Herster know you too. 398 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,640 Speaker 2: All Sandy and I I'm going to have a scene. 399 00:22:05,039 --> 00:22:07,880 I only want to say hello, So if you'll excuse me, 400 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:13,079 I'll rejoin my wife. Goodbye, Rose, good Bye, Sandy. Oh, 401 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,720 give my regards to Lieutenant McCoy next time you'll see him. 402 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,599 Lieutenant McCoy, the police lieutenant you went to see this 403 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:23,720 morning about a certain little matter. 404 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,359 Speaker 3: How do you know that I want to see McCoy 405 00:22:27,599 --> 00:22:29,000 and what I want to see him about. 406 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,960 Speaker 2: Or does it matter? I know? And I think it 407 00:22:32,039 --> 00:22:34,480 was very foolish of you, Sandy, do you? 408 00:22:35,279 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 1: Oh? 409 00:22:35,519 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 2: Yes, very In fact, is I intimated to you in 410 00:22:38,799 --> 00:22:44,279 New Orleans? It could even be dangerous, deadly dangerous, not 411 00:22:44,319 --> 00:22:52,279 for you, not immediately for you. Well, goodbye for now, Sanny. 412 00:22:52,319 --> 00:22:58,319 What was that all about? Nothing? Rose? Nothing? What did 413 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:04,240 Greg mean? It could be dead dangerous? It's so it's 414 00:23:04,279 --> 00:23:05,599 nothing for you to worry about. Rose. 415 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 3: Well, all right if you say so. Funny though, but 416 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:28,039 I'm worried somehow suddenly I'm I'm very worried. 417 00:23:29,319 --> 00:23:29,640 Speaker 1: Joe. 418 00:23:30,519 --> 00:23:32,240 Speaker 3: Oh, nice to see you come in. 419 00:23:32,599 --> 00:23:36,359 Speaker 2: How are you right? Oh, I'm fine fine, No, Fibbs, 420 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,200 dear brother in law to be. I talked to Sandy 421 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,480 on the phone. She said, your heart gave you a 422 00:23:41,519 --> 00:23:44,440 little trouble if the photography exhibitions. 423 00:23:43,839 --> 00:23:47,480 Speaker 3: As oh nothing my nightrope pills couldn't handle and did. 424 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 2: Oh good good where Sandy three guesses the doctor give 425 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:55,839 the man a cigar? Oh, would you rather have a drink? 426 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,319 A drink? And I'll make it. I'll make it. Sandy said, 427 00:23:59,319 --> 00:24:01,759 you ran into Greg Manchester at the exhibition. 428 00:24:02,039 --> 00:24:07,519 Speaker 3: Yes, I'm wondered Joe about what. Greg said a funny 429 00:24:07,559 --> 00:24:11,319 thing to Sandy. It seems he heard somehow she'd gone 430 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:17,240 to see police Lieutenant Lieutenant McCloy McCoy McCoy about something. 431 00:24:17,519 --> 00:24:21,559 He didn't say what, and Sandy wouldn't tell me, But anyhow, 432 00:24:22,039 --> 00:24:24,599 he said he thought she was very foolish to do 433 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:28,640 anything like that, and that it could be deadly dangerous. 434 00:24:29,079 --> 00:24:32,400 Those were the words he used, deadly dangerous. 435 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:37,359 Speaker 2: I see Sandy didn't tell you, No, she didn't. 436 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:39,920 Speaker 3: But not for her. That was the funny part of 437 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:45,119 what he said, Not deadly dangerous for her. Not immediately. 438 00:24:46,759 --> 00:24:48,279 Speaker 2: Rose, Rose, what is it. 439 00:24:52,279 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 3: You are? 440 00:24:52,640 --> 00:25:04,799 Speaker 2: Nacrosy sunny Sunday bedroom, I Rose, Let me get you 441 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:09,440 to the count Let's lay you down. Here are there? 442 00:25:10,839 --> 00:25:15,400 Chris Midad Sandy, are yet yet. 443 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 3: Here, he rose? Open your mouth? 444 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:18,839 Speaker 2: Are yet water? 445 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:19,200 Speaker 1: Joe? 446 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,799 Speaker 2: Hi, Joe? 447 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,119 Speaker 3: Here you are all right now, Honey, swallowed the pills. 448 00:25:27,079 --> 00:25:32,240 Swallow it, dear, that's it. That's okay, all right, cheer 449 00:25:32,279 --> 00:25:37,000 to be all right. No moment to two, Ruse, Louise, deal. 450 00:25:39,319 --> 00:25:39,440 Speaker 2: Is it? 451 00:25:39,519 --> 00:25:48,119 Speaker 3: Having any thing? Rose is the pain? Let him up? Rose, Rose, Joe. 452 00:25:49,759 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 2: Here, let me two. She she's gone, Sandy, No, no afraid, so, sweetheart. 453 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:07,519 He's done it. 454 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:09,880 Speaker 3: He threatened he wouldn't. 455 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:13,319 Speaker 2: He has great Manchester. 456 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:16,839 Speaker 3: He said he'd kill her if I didn't lay off. 457 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:27,759 Speaker 4: And I didn't, and he has. Thank you, Mac, goodbye? 458 00:26:30,279 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 2: What'd he say? McCoy? 459 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:37,839 Speaker 3: The toxicology lab tested the pills Rose took that I 460 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:38,279 gave her. 461 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 2: Oh, Sandy, all right, come on now, honey. 462 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:51,480 Speaker 3: The pills. They found that they were triple strength, triple 463 00:26:51,519 --> 00:26:54,759 the amount of necrogliss or I'm prescribed for Rose. 464 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,599 Speaker 2: That's impossible. No pharmacists would make a mistake like that. 465 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,519 Speaker 3: The pharmacists didn't. They got him out of bed, and 466 00:27:03,559 --> 00:27:05,480 they met him at his place and checked his records. 467 00:27:05,519 --> 00:27:06,480 He made no mistake. 468 00:27:06,599 --> 00:27:13,839 Speaker 2: Well, Sandy, how gregg? Sandy, don't ask. 469 00:27:13,759 --> 00:27:15,640 Speaker 3: Me how he did it. He got into the apartment 470 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,680 maybe while we were out. Rose and I. I don't 471 00:27:18,759 --> 00:27:19,720 change the bottles. 472 00:27:19,759 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 1: I don't know. 473 00:27:20,319 --> 00:27:22,119 Speaker 3: It doesn't matter. All that matters to me is that 474 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:23,880 he did it. And I know in my bones, I 475 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,400 know that he did it. He murdered the woman he 476 00:27:27,559 --> 00:27:31,240 was married to before he married my mother. He killed 477 00:27:31,319 --> 00:27:37,440 my mother, he killed Rose. He'll kill Florence Chapman. He'll 478 00:27:37,519 --> 00:27:44,480 kill me unless I stop him. He's got to be stopped, Joe, 479 00:27:45,559 --> 00:27:49,680 stopped and put behind bars like any other animal. And 480 00:27:49,799 --> 00:27:54,119 that's where I'm going to put him, with God's help, Joe, 481 00:27:54,319 --> 00:27:55,200 That's where I'll put. 482 00:27:55,160 --> 00:28:03,400 Speaker 2: Him for the rest of his life. Brave words, words 483 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:07,480 spoken under the pressure of emotion. Well, I think I 484 00:28:07,599 --> 00:28:10,359 can tell you at this point that Sandy did put 485 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,359 Greg Manchester behind bars for the rest of his life 486 00:28:13,839 --> 00:28:18,240 when he made that one fatal slip. He Well, I 487 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,599 was about to say that he overlooked something, but the 488 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:26,160 fact is he never saw it. But Sandy did, or, 489 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:30,640 to be more precise, her camera did. I'll return in 490 00:28:30,759 --> 00:28:45,039 a moment for act three. You will recall my saying 491 00:28:45,119 --> 00:28:49,200 earlier that the cleverer the murderer, the more likely he 492 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:53,279 is to make one fatal slip, something so minor he 493 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,880 never thought of it, never noticed it. What slip will 494 00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:01,559 Greg Manchester make? So far he's got away with his killings. 495 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:06,200 Sandy Oaks doesn't know where Greg Manchester will make that 496 00:29:06,359 --> 00:29:12,000 fatal slip, or when, or more particularly how, but make it. 497 00:29:12,519 --> 00:29:16,079 She knows he will, and as I've told you, make 498 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:21,279 it he did. The question is what insignificant but very 499 00:29:21,559 --> 00:29:23,839 final mistake did he make? 500 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:24,960 Speaker 1: You? 501 00:29:25,319 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 3: D Dare show your face here. 502 00:29:28,279 --> 00:29:30,559 Speaker 2: I came here to this funeral home to see Rose 503 00:29:30,599 --> 00:29:34,000 for the last time. I am her stepfather, Sandy, and 504 00:29:34,079 --> 00:29:34,680 have a ride. 505 00:29:34,799 --> 00:29:37,359 Speaker 3: Murderer, Sandy, get him out of here, Joe. 506 00:29:37,519 --> 00:29:40,519 Speaker 2: Sonny, Joe, I'm going. May I have a word with 507 00:29:40,599 --> 00:29:52,119 you outside? Of course, Sandy put herself together. Well, Joe, 508 00:29:52,319 --> 00:29:56,720 you're a lawyer. Would you give me some advice? What 509 00:29:56,839 --> 00:30:01,039 am I to do with her? She hates me, has 510 00:30:01,079 --> 00:30:04,559 hated me for the moment we met. I don't know why. 511 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:09,559 Chemistry aspose, not much I can say to that Greg, 512 00:30:09,839 --> 00:30:16,319 except you're a liar. I beg your pardon. You're a liar. 513 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:22,440 It isn't chemistry between you and Sandy. It's Sandy's awareness, 514 00:30:22,599 --> 00:30:26,400 her awareness from the first her trained awareness because she's 515 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:31,559 photographed so many people, that you're a phony. I agreed 516 00:30:31,599 --> 00:30:34,559 with her about that after only short acquaintance with you, Greg, 517 00:30:34,759 --> 00:30:37,720 but I didn't agree with her that you're a murderer. 518 00:30:39,319 --> 00:30:46,359 I agree now. You can't mean you think I murdered Geraldine. 519 00:30:47,319 --> 00:30:52,559 I think you murdered Geraldine and Rose. I think you 520 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:58,599 murdered another woman, in fact, probably other women. You can 521 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,039 stand there and through my face say it because it's 522 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:07,519 obvious there's such a thing as coincidence, Greg, that your history, 523 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:13,960 your married history, goes beyond coincidence. And you are calling 524 00:31:14,039 --> 00:31:18,880 me a murderer. I thought I've made that plane. You're 525 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,119 skating on thin ice now and you're going to go 526 00:31:22,319 --> 00:31:26,319 through it, and when you do, you're going to find 527 00:31:26,359 --> 00:31:36,160 the water bitter cold, Greg, bitter cold. Won't you sit down, 528 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:37,359 miss Oaks? Thank you? 529 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 3: Missus Manchester. Let me say I only agreed to see 530 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,039 you when you phoned and said you wanted to talk 531 00:31:43,119 --> 00:31:43,720 with me alone. 532 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,640 Speaker 2: I only agreed because you are his stepdaughter. 533 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 3: Missus Manchester, and I wanted to see you because someone 534 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,680 should warn you. Greg Manchester is a murderer. 535 00:31:54,599 --> 00:31:55,559 Speaker 2: What are you saying? 536 00:31:55,759 --> 00:31:59,519 Speaker 3: He murdered my mother. He murdered my sister Rose, he 537 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:01,599 murdered the woman he was married to before he met 538 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:06,079 my mother. He's going to murder you, my dear. 539 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,960 Speaker 2: Do you realize the gravity of this accusation? 540 00:32:09,599 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 3: The important thing is that you realize what I realize 541 00:32:12,799 --> 00:32:15,799 is that you are a bitter and malicious young woman who, 542 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:19,559 for some reason I am totally unable to understand, wants 543 00:32:19,599 --> 00:32:22,160 to malign a man who has never done anything but 544 00:32:22,359 --> 00:32:22,960 good for you. 545 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:24,759 Speaker 1: Good? 546 00:32:25,839 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 2: What do you mean? 547 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,720 Speaker 3: Your mother left him all her money, didn't she? 548 00:32:30,799 --> 00:32:31,000 Speaker 2: Yes? 549 00:32:31,119 --> 00:32:34,039 Speaker 3: He was also the beneficiary of her life insurance, wasn't 550 00:32:34,039 --> 00:32:38,519 he yes? And all of this the fortune he might 551 00:32:38,599 --> 00:32:40,759 have had he turned over to you and your sister. 552 00:32:41,119 --> 00:32:41,720 Speaker 1: Is that not so? 553 00:32:43,519 --> 00:32:48,160 Speaker 3: It certainly is not so. Gregg told then he lied. 554 00:32:48,839 --> 00:32:50,960 He took my mother into giving him control of her money, 555 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:52,920 power of attorney and all of that, and then taking 556 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,480 out a hundred thousand dollar life insurance policy, and then 557 00:32:55,519 --> 00:33:02,160 he killed her. Can you prove that? I can't? Not yet, 558 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,160 But whether I can or not, I think what you 559 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,440 should keep in mind is that at least two previous 560 00:33:07,519 --> 00:33:10,799 wives have died suddenly and mysteriously after giving him control 561 00:33:10,839 --> 00:33:12,720 of their money, have you. 562 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:14,599 Speaker 1: Why? 563 00:33:15,799 --> 00:33:16,759 Speaker 2: Well, yes I have. 564 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,880 Speaker 3: Oh but I can't believe this. I won't believe it. 565 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,920 My husband is one of the most dear and delightful 566 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:26,000 men I've ever met. 567 00:33:26,359 --> 00:33:30,319 Speaker 2: Thank you, my dear, thank you for your trust in me. Greg. 568 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,160 We didn't hear you come in. I'm glad you didn't, 569 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:37,799 otherwise I'd not have overheard my stepdaughter's accusations. Certainly, I 570 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,920 must ask you to leave, and please don't come back. 571 00:33:42,519 --> 00:33:45,400 Speaker 3: Goodbye, missus Manchester, and good luck. 572 00:33:50,359 --> 00:33:53,079 Speaker 2: Well. I hope that's the last we see of her. 573 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:56,640 I'm sure you didn't believe the lies you must have 574 00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:02,200 told about me. Why no, of course, snock, Greg. You 575 00:34:02,279 --> 00:34:05,599 don't sound altogether sure of Florence. But yes, I am 576 00:34:06,759 --> 00:34:08,079 only Greg. 577 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,920 Speaker 3: You told me you had handed all your former wife's 578 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:13,280 fortune over to her daughter's. 579 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,400 Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, what do you misunderstood me? 580 00:34:17,039 --> 00:34:20,159 I said that I intended to do it, but I 581 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:22,239 haven't had time to get around with it yet. It's 582 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,239 quite involved, you know, certain megalities which take time. And 583 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:29,639 you don't believe me to you, no, no, no, no, 584 00:34:30,039 --> 00:34:30,840 I do I do. 585 00:34:32,159 --> 00:34:36,119 Speaker 3: Only I'm certain you said you had already given them 586 00:34:36,159 --> 00:34:36,480 the money. 587 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:40,280 Speaker 2: Oh you're mistaken, my dear, Greg. 588 00:34:41,519 --> 00:34:46,119 Speaker 3: Yes, that power of attorney I signed the other day. Yes, 589 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,239 don't be offended, dear, But just as a matter. 590 00:34:49,119 --> 00:34:55,320 Speaker 2: Of interest, does it give you control over my money? 591 00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:56,880 Speaker 3: Now? 592 00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:00,400 Speaker 2: That's an odd question, Franz, does it? 593 00:35:00,599 --> 00:35:00,760 Speaker 1: Greg? 594 00:35:02,199 --> 00:35:04,239 Speaker 2: What the power of attorney is just that it empowers 595 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:05,480 me to act in your behalf. 596 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:11,119 Speaker 3: In other words, you can sign checks withdraw money from 597 00:35:11,159 --> 00:35:11,719 my account. 598 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:18,679 Speaker 2: That sort of thing. Yes, that sort of thing I see. No, no, no, no, 599 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,000 I don't think you do. For instance, you don't see 600 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:28,400 that you have just signed your death warrant. This warrant. 601 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,000 I want you to go into your bedroom, start packing, packing. 602 00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:46,920 You're going to visit your sister in New Orleans midnight. 603 00:35:48,199 --> 00:35:52,159 Make the call, Florence. Make it or I'll shoot you 604 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:52,760 right now. 605 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:13,159 Speaker 3: Hello, miss Oaks, this is missus Manchester. Yes, I've I've 606 00:36:13,199 --> 00:36:15,480 got to see you right away. Could you come here 607 00:36:15,519 --> 00:36:19,039 to my apartment? My fancy and I were just it's urgent, 608 00:36:19,159 --> 00:36:25,719 miss Oaks, dreadfully urgent. Please please come of course, all. 609 00:36:25,679 --> 00:36:33,719 Speaker 2: Right, thank you, goodbye, she's coming right over. Yes, Greg, 610 00:36:34,039 --> 00:36:38,159 please don't kill me. I'm sorry, Farrence. I'll give you 611 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:43,239 my money. I've already got it, then why kill me? Pleasure, 612 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:46,800 my dear simple pleasure. I find a certain thrill and 613 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:52,559 murdering someone, especially silly women like you. When Sandy pushes 614 00:36:52,599 --> 00:36:55,679 that door buzzer, listen to it carefully, Florence, it will 615 00:36:55,679 --> 00:36:57,440 be the last sound you hear in this life. 616 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:09,559 Speaker 1: Greg, I. 617 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:15,039 Speaker 2: Must snap over the lights here in the bedroom. Oh good, 618 00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:19,599 I'm coming, I'm coming, all right, help me, help me, 619 00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,880 help me. We heard a shot in the bedroom. I 620 00:37:23,039 --> 00:37:23,800 just had a problem. 621 00:37:24,679 --> 00:37:27,039 Speaker 5: Picked dark in here the lights with oh yeah here, 622 00:37:28,559 --> 00:37:37,119 oh good, lord, Florence Manchester, what oh no, oh no, Sandy, 623 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:39,960 for the love, this is no time for snapping pictures. 624 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,880 I wasn't even aware I was get to the farmer, call. 625 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,559 Speaker 2: The police and put that damn camera away. 626 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:49,639 Speaker 3: Yes, yes, okay, I thought Florence. 627 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:53,280 Speaker 2: Was a prowler. I lost my head. I preferred into 628 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:55,360 the dark room headquarters. 629 00:37:56,119 --> 00:37:57,800 Speaker 3: Give me a Lieutenant McCoy Is he there? 630 00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:07,519 Speaker 6: Yeah, hurry, Sandy, Sandy, please look at it, Joe, look 631 00:38:07,559 --> 00:38:09,079 at it and tell me what do you see. 632 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,519 Speaker 2: I see the body of Florence Manchester lying on her 633 00:38:14,559 --> 00:38:18,599 bedroom floor. I have seen the body of Florence Manchester 634 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,360 lying on her bedroom floor for over a month now, 635 00:38:21,639 --> 00:38:24,840 in blow up after blow up after blow up of 636 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:30,400 the pictures you snapped that night. This blow up, good lord, Sandy, 637 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:31,559 it's the biggest yet. 638 00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:35,000 Speaker 3: Why Because these pictures prove Greg murdered Florence. 639 00:38:35,039 --> 00:38:38,199 Speaker 2: That's why you keep saying that. But you don't tell 640 00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:39,559 me what proved. 641 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,199 Speaker 3: Because I don't know because it's staring at me in 642 00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:43,280 the face and I can't see it. 643 00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:43,880 Speaker 2: Joe, look at it. 644 00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:44,880 Speaker 3: Please just look at it. 645 00:38:45,079 --> 00:38:52,199 Speaker 2: Look no, Joe, just look. I've had it, Sandy, all right. Maybe, 646 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,599 like you say, Greg's story of what happened with so 647 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,440 much eyewash. Maybe Florence didn't leave to visit his sister 648 00:38:57,519 --> 00:39:00,360 in New Orleans. Maybe she didn't come back on actively 649 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,880 while he was asleep in his bedroom. Maybe he didn't 650 00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:04,760 hear a noise in her bedroom. Think it was a 651 00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,519 prowler panic and shooting into the dark in bedroom. 652 00:39:07,679 --> 00:39:08,800 Speaker 1: Eye wash, all. 653 00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:16,159 Speaker 2: Eyewashed, But h what is it? Eyewash? I wash? Give 654 00:39:16,199 --> 00:39:19,119 me that boo ooh with pleasure. That's it, Joe, that's it. 655 00:39:19,599 --> 00:39:19,920 What's what? 656 00:39:20,679 --> 00:39:22,519 Speaker 3: The proof that he murdered? It the proof I've been 657 00:39:22,559 --> 00:39:26,400 looking for but couldn't see. Joe, Florence Manchester's eyes. 658 00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:28,000 Speaker 1: Look at her eyes. 659 00:39:33,599 --> 00:39:39,000 Speaker 2: Manchester, you'd been booked on charge of murder, the murder 660 00:39:39,079 --> 00:39:43,679 of your wife, Florence. Now look here, thanks to your 661 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,360 stepdaughter seeing the oaks, here we have positive proof that 662 00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:52,079 you deliberately and with malice of forethought, shot Florence Manchester 663 00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,960 to death. What proof? What proof? I told you she 664 00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,960 hacked a bag. You saw it in the bedroom and 665 00:39:59,079 --> 00:40:02,960 left the visitor, mister Norton let her come back unexpectedly, 666 00:40:03,039 --> 00:40:05,800 according to your story, and I fired a shot into 667 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,880 her pitch black bedroom thinking she was a prowler. That's 668 00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:13,519 what happened. That's the truth. And now no, it's a lie. 669 00:40:15,119 --> 00:40:19,079 This photograph of your wife's body, Sandy took it within 670 00:40:19,159 --> 00:40:22,199 a minute or two after the shot was fired. So 671 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:28,639 look at Manchester, Look especially at the eyes, the eyes 672 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:33,079 that are open and staring at the ceiling. What do 673 00:40:33,159 --> 00:40:37,480 you see her eyes? What else am I supposed to 674 00:40:37,519 --> 00:40:42,239 see the size of her pupils? Look at the pupils 675 00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:45,840 of her eyes. Down't what you see? I see the 676 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:51,159 pupils of her eyes contracted contracted to the size of 677 00:40:51,199 --> 00:40:55,280 a pinhead. I the human eyes is like a camera, 678 00:40:55,599 --> 00:41:00,599 like that instament, Sandy always carries. The darker object or 679 00:41:00,639 --> 00:41:03,239 a place, the wider the pupil of the eye expands, 680 00:41:04,119 --> 00:41:06,280 the brighter an object or a place such as your 681 00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:12,239 wife's bedroom, the narrower the pupil becomes contracts. What's more, Manchester, 682 00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,480 When a person is killed instantly, as your wife was, 683 00:41:16,519 --> 00:41:21,000 the pupil remains unchanged for two to three minutes. You'll 684 00:41:21,079 --> 00:41:26,079 say you're saying it. The photo says it, not me. 685 00:41:28,039 --> 00:41:31,360 You stated that you fired that shot into a dark bedroom, 686 00:41:31,599 --> 00:41:37,440 killing your wife by accident. Her eyes contracted to pinhead 687 00:41:37,599 --> 00:41:41,920 size proved that she died in a lighted room, a 688 00:41:42,119 --> 00:41:46,159 brightly lighted room. If you have anything to say, make 689 00:41:46,199 --> 00:41:50,199 it in the form of a confession, won't you? And 690 00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:54,320 on second thought, I'm not sure we need bother. It's 691 00:41:54,400 --> 00:42:03,679 all on film, Manchester. Our picture, they say, is worth 692 00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:07,639 a thousand words. And so it would seem that Lieutenant 693 00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:12,000 McCoy is right. No words of Manchester's in his defense 694 00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:17,719 could possibly disprove the truth of his wife's dead accusing eyes. 695 00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:33,280 I'll be back shortly, and Gregory Manchester is no longer 696 00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:38,480 a name but a number at State's Prison. Sandy's name 697 00:42:38,599 --> 00:42:43,440 has changed too, from miss Sandy Oaks to Missus Joseph 698 00:42:43,559 --> 00:42:47,880 Norman hasn't changed her habit of carrying that camera wherever 699 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,159 she goes, however, but she seems to use it more 700 00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:55,800 and more these days, snapping pictures of a baby named 701 00:42:55,960 --> 00:43:01,119 Joe Junior. Our cast included Joan Hackett, ELpH Bell, Robert 702 00:43:01,199 --> 00:43:05,239 Dryden and Joan Shay. The entire production was under the 703 00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:12,639 direction of Hyman Brown and now a preview of our 704 00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:13,800 next tale. 705 00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:17,800 Speaker 3: Missus Tipton. It's really hard to see where I'd fit in. 706 00:43:19,039 --> 00:43:21,480 I'm a trained social worker. That's how I make my living. 707 00:43:22,199 --> 00:43:24,280 At least that was how I made my living. I 708 00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:27,920 was discharged six months ago. They were cutting down and well, 709 00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:29,960 I haven't been able to find anything in my field, 710 00:43:30,039 --> 00:43:33,559 and I'm running short of money. So I'm willing to 711 00:43:33,639 --> 00:43:36,599 take almost any kind of job if it's respectable, because 712 00:43:36,639 --> 00:43:38,880 I'm not going to ask you to do anything you 713 00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:42,880 wouldn't ordinarily do. Do you need a secretary something like that? 714 00:43:43,679 --> 00:43:47,159 I think I could manage that maybe, or be a companion. 715 00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:50,000 I want a secretary or a companion. 716 00:43:50,599 --> 00:43:54,519 Speaker 2: Why would I? I never do anything and I prefer 717 00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:58,639 being alone. Well, what is it that you do want? 718 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:04,679 I want somebody to live for me, to. 719 00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:07,920 Speaker 3: Live for you. 720 00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:12,760 Speaker 2: Radio Mystery Theater were sponsored in part by Onenhouzer Busch Incorporated, 721 00:44:13,079 --> 00:44:17,800 brewers of Budweiser and sign off the Sinus Medicines. This 722 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:20,400 is E. G. Marshall inviting you to return to our 723 00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:26,280 Mystery Theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, 724 00:44:27,519 --> 00:44:29,280 pleasant dreams.