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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Obsession.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Can the dead come to life? Can a man executed
in the electric chair of a state's prison be reborn
to wreak vengeance against society? In a moment, you'll hear
a weird and fantastic story of a terrible obsession starring
Mary Anderson. In the sordid confines of a psychopathic ward,
(00:52):
redolent of bio de foremant araldehyde, where a moon faced
clock fights off time in rounded nibbles, a girl lies.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Under the white counterpane of a.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Restraining being a girl somewhere in her early twenties, She
had been found wandering in the streets, her mind enveloped
in that darksome mantle that is called amnesia, remembering not
even her name. Then at the hospital, that void of
darkness was probed by the searching skill of a psychiatrist,
(01:28):
and she wanted to talk. She had to talk with
the same urgency that one must breathe. It was an obsession.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
There there must be.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Ticular lazy I guess on a documents. I just want
you to listen to a while.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
I thought I can differently anyway, how thinks she's buzzing
around inside my head.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
It's having me crazy. Yeah, I saw that, luf between
you two.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Do you think I'm crazy already? Well maybe I am.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Maybe I'm dead too. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
It don't seem like simple a rhythmatic, just simple arithmatic.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
What what is it you want to tell us, miss Bennett.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I don't know why.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
I want to tell you the whole less on me,
but I've got to stop this buzzing inside my head.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Spy looked up.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Can you remember a guy called Orleans Spanky Olans see?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Oh yes, I saw him in the headlines, held up
a postal truck, didn't they. Let's see now he uh
he got away with four hundred thousand dollars. Well he
almost got away. And the next time I saw his
name in the States had him in the death chamber
and that it wasn't it, no, Doc.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Not by a long shot. That was just the beginning.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
You mean, you've been in conversation with him since he
went to the.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Great Beyond where Frankie finally went. It's too hot for conversation.
But he didn't go there in the state, and the newspapers.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Thought he did. You see I was Franky's girl.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Well anyway you figured I was, so I know the
whole story.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I ought to know.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I made it happen right from that day I went
to visit Frankie in.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
The death cell.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
He was waiting for his mouth, he Jim Vincent, and
for his brother Karl. I knew he'd never tell where
he had hidden that hot four hundred thousand, four hundred
thousands unless we.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Got him out. So when Jim and Carl arrived and
told the pre Eve have been turned down.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Out by everybody, even the governor, I decided to try
a loon shot, something I've been keeping under wraps for
a long time.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Frank you was pacing the cell again.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
Well what are you gonna do? Just sit here? Can't
you think of something? Come on, car, where's that brotherly love?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
We've seen everybody? I don't. I don't know what to do.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
There's not a legal trick left, but.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
There is a chance, just one.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
It's a long one, Frankie.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
What is it for?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Peach?
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Take what is it?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
There's a friend of mine, a doctor. I was talking
to him last night.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Doctor. Are you kidding me? What good can a doctor me?
Why don't you let her talk? Frankie? Maybe she's got
something right?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
All right, go ahead, it's like this, Frankie.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
The doctor told me that with the right injections.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
A man who's been gassed can be uh brought back
to life.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Brought Sonny, why are you giving me what kind of
a double cross of this?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Relax, Honey, you have a guard here. I'm telling you're
playing fact.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Anyone who's been.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Gassed and even put outstead can be revived provided you
get him to the right doctor.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Fasten up. You want to hear the details, frank you.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Okay, Shelly, I'm listening, but get this straight. You, Jim
and you Car. I don't do no talking about the
four hundred grand until I'm out of this pen. And
you can figure how much talking I'll do if I
come out dead.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
When I was laughing in myself all the time, Doc Funk,
worrying about Jim and Carl when it.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Was little me. You had all the plans.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Well, anyway, we pulled it off.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
We brought ourself a.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Couple of prison guards and a laundry driver on my instructions.
Mike asked to be cremated and then to the prison
of the short pronounced him dead, Oh gord, switch body.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
One body was sent to the crematory with a tag
of Frank Collins.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
That's the one you read about in the headlines. But
the real flank Alans were shoved into a laundry sack.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
In less than ten minutes. The truck driver was pulling
off in the rear of an old house. I run it,
how about a mile from the pana. Come on him,
Come give me a hand. Slam down on the table.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Okay, driver, Okay, okay, here's your money.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Feed it.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Okay, alright, Scottie, here he is.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
He was a doctor friend of mine.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
He had his appoetical all set up, a tank of oxygen,
a pull motor, and a little miracle drug called Methyline blue.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
You can look it up in any medical journal if
you're interested.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Anyway, Scotty went to work.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Look at it looking like you's bathing.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
It was like a miracle, all right. But I didn't
have no time to think about miracles. Nothing.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I didn't.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
I had any little plan all worked out, and I.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Had to spring you for if it got too much
like him old stuff again. Right now. It was kind
of dazed, and what was.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
More important to me pretty grateful to be seeing right
coming through the windows and no bars on them.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I just can't believe.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
It's the last thing I remember I was being stripped
of a chair in the gas chamber. And forget it, Frankie.
You're gonna be fine now, Oh you bet I am,
especially when we pull out of here and I forgot
that door.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
That's gotta take.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
A little doing. You leave this house and you'll be
spotted in a minute.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Well, what do you expect me to do? Well up
in here like a hermit. We got a better plan
than that.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
We're gonna fix it so you'll never be recognized as
Frankie Owens again.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Yeah, how do you mean?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Plastic surgery? Thank you, our new faith to go with
a new life.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
You know that's not bad, not bad. Well, come on,
let's do it and get it over with. And the
only trumple is we're broke. Shut up, Carl Sally? What's
he given me?
Speaker 5 (08:28):
What do you want a lot of my statement of
how much it costs to buy your life? All right here?
It is five thousand for each of the guards, two.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Thousand for that other stuff, twenty five hundred.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
You'll get it back with interest.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Sure, Sure, we trusted Frankie.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Then what do you after? Look, honey, It isn't what
we're after. It's what we gotta have.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Enough of that four hundred thousand to buy the plastic
surgeon and then get us all out of here.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
But it isn't safe for me to go after it.
You said so yourself, Sally.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
That's right I did. But how about one of us
going after it?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
No?
Speaker 6 (09:01):
No, I can't.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
You mean you want to drop the whole thing just
after going this far?
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Why won't the surgeon go on the cup?
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Maybe he don't believe you got four.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Hundred thousand buried? Why should he? I have nothing to
show him?
Speaker 6 (09:12):
All right? Then, look, Skelly, do you think you could
convince him if if you had a map to show him?
Now you're making sense, Frankie. And I don't know whether
I am or nut, but I'm trusting you, Sally. I'll
draw a maper where the dough is, then you use
it to sell a doxy. But get this, Nobody is
to leave this joint until I'm ready to leave with him.
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Is that a deal?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Selling here? It's a deal, honey.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Now just sit down and I'll get you a pen
and some papers.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
And then right at this point, the upside of the
highway there's an auto club road sign. He just pays
off ten yards into the woods from that sign, and
that's it, right next to a big rock.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I'm Frankie him. I'll take that pace.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
How about run up the dot huh, so we can
get this whole thing over with it. Jim, it's your
hands up, Frankie.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Go on, nah over again.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
So wall Lli. You're not gonna let him do this
to us, Sally.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Sorry, Frankie, but this is the way it's gonna be.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
What are you dirty, little double cross chicken? I swear,
go on, get back to the wall.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Yeah, that's better.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
You always were hot headed, Frankly, Jim, don't do it.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
She'll only double course you actually done me, Carl, call you.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Tell him's not gonna tell him a thing, frank It's
a simple question of arithmetic. Four hundred grand about it.
Four ways just don't add up to as much as
when you divide it among three.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
I cam, wait, hope we take away that I drew
it on the level I was trying to trick you.
Let me go and I'll show you where it is.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
No good, frank you, we were expecting that one the
long honey, that was the real end of Frank Yellen.
I don't know why I couldn't understand. Oh, it's just
a matter of simple arithmetic. Besides, there wasn't any crimes.
(11:23):
There's no crime involved, is there shooting.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
A man who was already dead?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
No, there is no crime in killing a man who
is already dead, no crime to be reckoned with in
the courts of mortal men. But what of the crime
reflected in the dark mirror of your mind, the hideous
crime of your own obsession? Returning now to the strange
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obsession starring Mary Anderson in the white walled cubicle of
the psychopathic ward, the sweet hand of the clock turns
silently on its orbit, as Sally Bennett's voice knights through
the stillness like a thin blade of a scalp or
ripping through membrane.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Frank Orlean's estact.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
His debt to society marked paid in full, and somewhere
four hundred thousand dollars lies waiting for those who can
find it, for those whose murder warped minds will stop
at nothing under the compelling influence of obsession.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
So now there will only three off We powered into
Carl Sedan, Jim Calm and Nate.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
And he started out.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Well, Carl was anxious to get there, all right. He
drove like one of those high school kids.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
And I cut down, Lizzie.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
You want to get there, don't you?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Exactly?
Speaker 6 (13:22):
I want to get there. That's why I'm I get
to slow.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Down, take it easy, both, I've got all right. Hey,
why don't we stop at a roadside hotel for the
night and go on in the morning.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Okay with you?
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Carl, Well, I think it's crazy, but that's the way
you want it.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
The three of us had dinner in an upstairs room,
dinner and wine and conversation. Conversation that set things up
for a little plan i'd work.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
That's about a gym another glance for you. I don't
think i'd better have any Don't be.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Silly, Jim.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
We got luck to celebrate tonight.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Okay, yeah, certainly have ok Charles.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Fuller up you you keep Jim company. Call. I'm going
to take a look at the balcony of you.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Okay, Sally, Well, here's to the four hundred grand gym
And to Sally, huh what it do? That's one thing
I want you to keep straight til the money we divide.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
But not Sally.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
She's all mine, you understand.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Yeah, what's the matter on the balcony with me?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
It's nice and proud out of here.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Now you don't have to repeat that invitation.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Well, see you later.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
I'll go to a gym. I wouldn't have a chance
with her even if I wanted it.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Sure, I am, jim Yeah, it's pretty out here.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yeah, yeah, you're pretty Sally to me, to me, you
and me, you're gonna have a great time, aren't we.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Why not.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I'll have nearly three.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Hundred thousand bucks to keep us warm, Sally. Anywhere we
want to go, we go there.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Anything we want to do, we do it.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I've been waiting a long time for a set up
like this.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
So have I.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Oh, Jimmy, look right now, backyard, a dear, that's nice.
Look at him, Jimmy's cue.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I don't see anything.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yeah, get where I'm standing, right by the rail.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I still don't see anything.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
He's down under our balcony. You'll have to lean over
to see him.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Sure you not seeing an elephant? Sally? A little pink one?
Huh huh oh?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Where ah?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
See him and Sally, maybe you'd better have another.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
So you find that the deceased James Vincent at his
death from an accidental fall while under the influence of alcohol.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Naturally, the other guest understood when Carl and I left
immediately after the inquest. We uh, we couldn't dare to
hang around the scene.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Of a tragedy.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Besides, there was a pala doe waiting to be dug on.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Carl and I. We were the only members left to
the four hundred grand club.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
There were no secrets between us except.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
One, just one.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Carl didn't know that I've gotten gumps gone.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
A girl can't be too careful.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
You know.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
It's kind of nice, isn't it, that two of us alone?
You did want it that way?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
What do you think, Carl?
Speaker 7 (17:08):
I think the future looks mighty sweet. It was different
with Frankie and Jim along. They were both suckers, always
in the hot water with the cops.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
You and me.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
Nobody's got that thing on us. It because we keep
our heads working. Yeah, and that's why we.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Get cars the roadside.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Of the map.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Yeah, you're right. Come on, honey, get your purse open,
just a.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Minute, call, get that shovel out of a turtle down.
Oh yeah, I'm so excited, almost forgotten you what you're saying.
You always keep your head working. Well, mine's still on tight.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Let's now ten pieces from the sign into the water.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
You measure it all, I'll get the thing one two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight nine ten.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
This must be it? All right? Is everything match? I've
sure I came right up by this big rock, just
like on the drawer.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Yeah, okay, Carl, I'll keep a look out just in
case anybody gets here.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Okay, go on, you can start digging. Digget plenty wide, Carl.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
You don't worry, baby, I'll dig it white as a grave.
I never felt more like working.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Oh baby, there she is.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Looks like an old tool chest on it. But we
know better. Stop me, Carl.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
We know it's a gold mine.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Come on, get.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
It out of that hole.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Are okay?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (18:45):
Oh we are safe and sound on now, Sally.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Know we can, Sally, Holly, what are you doing with that? Done? Sorry?
We're partners, ain't we? There's plenty here.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
For all of us, please, Sally dog play.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I don't know why not of the men stood.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
It was all just simple arithmetic.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I wanted it to be.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Four hundred thousand divided among one lee, and that's the way.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
It was now.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
I pushed Call's body into the gravey ha dug.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
For himself, and then I knelt.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Down beside the chest and I pried it open for
the shovel.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I did it.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
I wondered if the money would be in small build
or big.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
I netted the.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Lid that didn't seem to be in a in it just.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Torn pieces of newspaper, but ahead to be. It just
couldn't be empty.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Then I found something, an envelope seal lapresent. I tore
it off from it.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
The do you know what was inside?
Speaker 5 (20:23):
There was a single dollar bill and a note, a
note from Frankie that said, whoever's double across me, keep
this butt for your trouble. The rest of the four
hundred RM I'll leave to the.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Word, to the word.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Funny talk. All had money for the word.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
They say. They found me wondering on the highway. I
don't know how I got there. I didn't remember anything
until just a little while ago, and.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Then I got this awful buzzing inside my head. I
thought it go if I told you about everything, But
it's worse than before. I guess I just got a
better get rid of it anyway. It'll be better that way.
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I wouldn't want to live without the money. You see,
I counted so much unity. I never thought about the
things I was doing to get it until.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
The money Wasn't you understand about that, don't you talk?
It was all just simple, a simple R.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Hold up, hold what's happened to a doctor?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And hold yest a minute? No, no, it's no use,
she's dead. You have been listening to obsession
Speaker 8 (23:06):
Sa
Obsession.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Can the dead come to life? Can a man executed
in the electric chair of a state's prison be reborn
to wreak vengeance against society? In a moment, you'll hear
a weird and fantastic story of a terrible obsession starring
Mary Anderson. In the sordid confines of a psychopathic ward,
(00:52):
redolent of bio de foremant araldehyde, where a moon faced
clock fights off time in rounded nibbles, a girl lies.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Under the white counterpane of a.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Restraining being a girl somewhere in her early twenties, She
had been found wandering in the streets, her mind enveloped
in that darksome mantle that is called amnesia, remembering not
even her name. Then at the hospital, that void of
darkness was probed by the searching skill of a psychiatrist,
(01:28):
and she wanted to talk. She had to talk with
the same urgency that one must breathe. It was an obsession.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
There there must be.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Ticular lazy I guess on a documents. I just want
you to listen to a while.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
I thought I can differently anyway, how thinks she's buzzing
around inside my head.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
It's having me crazy. Yeah, I saw that, luf between
you two.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Do you think I'm crazy already? Well maybe I am.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Maybe I'm dead too. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
It don't seem like simple a rhythmatic, just simple arithmatic.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
What what is it you want to tell us, miss Bennett.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I don't know why.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
I want to tell you the whole less on me,
but I've got to stop this buzzing inside my head.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Spy looked up.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Can you remember a guy called Orleans Spanky Olans see?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Oh yes, I saw him in the headlines, held up
a postal truck, didn't they. Let's see now he uh
he got away with four hundred thousand dollars. Well he
almost got away. And the next time I saw his
name in the States had him in the death chamber
and that it wasn't it, no, Doc.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Not by a long shot. That was just the beginning.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
You mean, you've been in conversation with him since he
went to the.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Great Beyond where Frankie finally went. It's too hot for conversation.
But he didn't go there in the state, and the newspapers.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Thought he did. You see I was Franky's girl.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Well anyway you figured I was, so I know the
whole story.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I ought to know.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I made it happen right from that day I went
to visit Frankie in.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
The death cell.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
He was waiting for his mouth, he Jim Vincent, and
for his brother Karl. I knew he'd never tell where
he had hidden that hot four hundred thousand, four hundred
thousands unless we.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Got him out. So when Jim and Carl arrived and
told the pre Eve have been turned down.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Out by everybody, even the governor, I decided to try
a loon shot, something I've been keeping under wraps for
a long time.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Frank you was pacing the cell again.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
Well what are you gonna do? Just sit here? Can't
you think of something? Come on, car, where's that brotherly love?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
We've seen everybody? I don't. I don't know what to do.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
There's not a legal trick left, but.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
There is a chance, just one.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
It's a long one, Frankie.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
What is it for?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Peach?
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Take what is it?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
There's a friend of mine, a doctor. I was talking
to him last night.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Doctor. Are you kidding me? What good can a doctor me?
Why don't you let her talk? Frankie? Maybe she's got
something right?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
All right, go ahead, it's like this, Frankie.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
The doctor told me that with the right injections.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
A man who's been gassed can be uh brought back
to life.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Brought Sonny, why are you giving me what kind of
a double cross of this?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Relax, Honey, you have a guard here. I'm telling you're
playing fact.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Anyone who's been.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Gassed and even put outstead can be revived provided you
get him to the right doctor.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Fasten up. You want to hear the details, frank you.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Okay, Shelly, I'm listening, but get this straight. You, Jim
and you Car. I don't do no talking about the
four hundred grand until I'm out of this pen. And
you can figure how much talking I'll do if I
come out dead.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
When I was laughing in myself all the time, Doc Funk,
worrying about Jim and Carl when it.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Was little me. You had all the plans.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Well, anyway, we pulled it off.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
We brought ourself a.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Couple of prison guards and a laundry driver on my instructions.
Mike asked to be cremated and then to the prison
of the short pronounced him dead, Oh gord, switch body.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
One body was sent to the crematory with a tag
of Frank Collins.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
That's the one you read about in the headlines. But
the real flank Alans were shoved into a laundry sack.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
In less than ten minutes. The truck driver was pulling
off in the rear of an old house. I run it,
how about a mile from the pana. Come on him,
Come give me a hand. Slam down on the table.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Okay, driver, Okay, okay, here's your money.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Feed it.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Okay, alright, Scottie, here he is.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
He was a doctor friend of mine.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
He had his appoetical all set up, a tank of oxygen,
a pull motor, and a little miracle drug called Methyline blue.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
You can look it up in any medical journal if
you're interested.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Anyway, Scotty went to work.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Look at it looking like you's bathing.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
It was like a miracle, all right. But I didn't
have no time to think about miracles. Nothing.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I didn't.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
I had any little plan all worked out, and I.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Had to spring you for if it got too much
like him old stuff again. Right now. It was kind
of dazed, and what was.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
More important to me pretty grateful to be seeing right
coming through the windows and no bars on them.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I just can't believe.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
It's the last thing I remember I was being stripped
of a chair in the gas chamber. And forget it, Frankie.
You're gonna be fine now, Oh you bet I am,
especially when we pull out of here and I forgot
that door.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
That's gotta take.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
A little doing. You leave this house and you'll be
spotted in a minute.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Well, what do you expect me to do? Well up
in here like a hermit. We got a better plan
than that.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
We're gonna fix it so you'll never be recognized as
Frankie Owens again.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Yeah, how do you mean?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Plastic surgery? Thank you, our new faith to go with
a new life.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
You know that's not bad, not bad. Well, come on,
let's do it and get it over with. And the
only trumple is we're broke. Shut up, Carl Sally? What's
he given me?
Speaker 5 (08:28):
What do you want a lot of my statement of
how much it costs to buy your life? All right here?
It is five thousand for each of the guards, two.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Thousand for that other stuff, twenty five hundred.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
You'll get it back with interest.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Sure, Sure, we trusted Frankie.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Then what do you after? Look, honey, It isn't what
we're after. It's what we gotta have.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Enough of that four hundred thousand to buy the plastic
surgeon and then get us all out of here.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
But it isn't safe for me to go after it.
You said so yourself, Sally.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
That's right I did. But how about one of us
going after it?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
No?
Speaker 6 (09:01):
No, I can't.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
You mean you want to drop the whole thing just
after going this far?
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Why won't the surgeon go on the cup?
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Maybe he don't believe you got four.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Hundred thousand buried? Why should he? I have nothing to
show him?
Speaker 6 (09:12):
All right? Then, look, Skelly, do you think you could
convince him if if you had a map to show him?
Now you're making sense, Frankie. And I don't know whether
I am or nut, but I'm trusting you, Sally. I'll
draw a maper where the dough is, then you use
it to sell a doxy. But get this, Nobody is
to leave this joint until I'm ready to leave with him.
(09:33):
Is that a deal?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Selling here? It's a deal, honey.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Now just sit down and I'll get you a pen
and some papers.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
And then right at this point, the upside of the
highway there's an auto club road sign. He just pays
off ten yards into the woods from that sign, and
that's it, right next to a big rock.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I'm Frankie him. I'll take that pace.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
How about run up the dot huh, so we can
get this whole thing over with it. Jim, it's your
hands up, Frankie.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Go on, nah over again.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
So wall Lli. You're not gonna let him do this
to us, Sally.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Sorry, Frankie, but this is the way it's gonna be.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
What are you dirty, little double cross chicken? I swear,
go on, get back to the wall.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Yeah, that's better.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
You always were hot headed, Frankly, Jim, don't do it.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
She'll only double course you actually done me, Carl, call you.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Tell him's not gonna tell him a thing, frank It's
a simple question of arithmetic. Four hundred grand about it.
Four ways just don't add up to as much as
when you divide it among three.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
I cam, wait, hope we take away that I drew
it on the level I was trying to trick you.
Let me go and I'll show you where it is.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
No good, frank you, we were expecting that one the
long honey, that was the real end of Frank Yellen.
I don't know why I couldn't understand. Oh, it's just
a matter of simple arithmetic. Besides, there wasn't any crimes.
(11:23):
There's no crime involved, is there shooting.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
A man who was already dead?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
No, there is no crime in killing a man who
is already dead, no crime to be reckoned with in
the courts of mortal men. But what of the crime
reflected in the dark mirror of your mind, the hideous
crime of your own obsession? Returning now to the strange
(12:14):
obsession starring Mary Anderson in the white walled cubicle of
the psychopathic ward, the sweet hand of the clock turns
silently on its orbit, as Sally Bennett's voice knights through
the stillness like a thin blade of a scalp or
ripping through membrane.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Frank Orlean's estact.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
His debt to society marked paid in full, and somewhere
four hundred thousand dollars lies waiting for those who can
find it, for those whose murder warped minds will stop
at nothing under the compelling influence of obsession.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
So now there will only three off We powered into
Carl Sedan, Jim Calm and Nate.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
And he started out.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Well, Carl was anxious to get there, all right. He
drove like one of those high school kids.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
And I cut down, Lizzie.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
You want to get there, don't you?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Exactly?
Speaker 6 (13:22):
I want to get there. That's why I'm I get
to slow.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Down, take it easy, both, I've got all right. Hey,
why don't we stop at a roadside hotel for the
night and go on in the morning.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Okay with you?
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Carl, Well, I think it's crazy, but that's the way
you want it.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
The three of us had dinner in an upstairs room,
dinner and wine and conversation. Conversation that set things up
for a little plan i'd work.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
That's about a gym another glance for you. I don't
think i'd better have any Don't be.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Silly, Jim.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
We got luck to celebrate tonight.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Okay, yeah, certainly have ok Charles.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Fuller up you you keep Jim company. Call. I'm going
to take a look at the balcony of you.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Okay, Sally, Well, here's to the four hundred grand gym
And to Sally, huh what it do? That's one thing
I want you to keep straight til the money we divide.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
But not Sally.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
She's all mine, you understand.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Yeah, what's the matter on the balcony with me?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
It's nice and proud out of here.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Now you don't have to repeat that invitation.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Well, see you later.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
I'll go to a gym. I wouldn't have a chance
with her even if I wanted it.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Sure, I am, jim Yeah, it's pretty out here.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yeah, yeah, you're pretty Sally to me, to me, you
and me, you're gonna have a great time, aren't we.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Why not.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I'll have nearly three.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Hundred thousand bucks to keep us warm, Sally. Anywhere we
want to go, we go there.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Anything we want to do, we do it.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I've been waiting a long time for a set up
like this.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
So have I.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Oh, Jimmy, look right now, backyard, a dear, that's nice.
Look at him, Jimmy's cue.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I don't see anything.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yeah, get where I'm standing, right by the rail.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I still don't see anything.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
He's down under our balcony. You'll have to lean over
to see him.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Sure you not seeing an elephant? Sally? A little pink one?
Huh huh oh?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Where ah?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
See him and Sally, maybe you'd better have another.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
So you find that the deceased James Vincent at his
death from an accidental fall while under the influence of alcohol.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Naturally, the other guest understood when Carl and I left
immediately after the inquest. We uh, we couldn't dare to
hang around the scene.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Of a tragedy.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Besides, there was a pala doe waiting to be dug on.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Carl and I. We were the only members left to
the four hundred grand club.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
There were no secrets between us except.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
One, just one.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Carl didn't know that I've gotten gumps gone.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
A girl can't be too careful.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
You know.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
It's kind of nice, isn't it, that two of us alone?
You did want it that way?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
What do you think, Carl?
Speaker 7 (17:08):
I think the future looks mighty sweet. It was different
with Frankie and Jim along. They were both suckers, always
in the hot water with the cops.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
You and me.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
Nobody's got that thing on us. It because we keep
our heads working. Yeah, and that's why we.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Get cars the roadside.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Of the map.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Yeah, you're right. Come on, honey, get your purse open,
just a.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Minute, call, get that shovel out of a turtle down.
Oh yeah, I'm so excited, almost forgotten you what you're saying.
You always keep your head working. Well, mine's still on tight.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Let's now ten pieces from the sign into the water.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
You measure it all, I'll get the thing one two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight nine ten.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
This must be it? All right? Is everything match? I've
sure I came right up by this big rock, just
like on the drawer.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Yeah, okay, Carl, I'll keep a look out just in
case anybody gets here.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Okay, go on, you can start digging. Digget plenty wide, Carl.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
You don't worry, baby, I'll dig it white as a grave.
I never felt more like working.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Oh baby, there she is.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Looks like an old tool chest on it. But we
know better. Stop me, Carl.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
We know it's a gold mine.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Come on, get.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
It out of that hole.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Are okay?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (18:45):
Oh we are safe and sound on now, Sally.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Know we can, Sally, Holly, what are you doing with that? Done? Sorry?
We're partners, ain't we? There's plenty here.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
For all of us, please, Sally dog play.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I don't know why not of the men stood.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
It was all just simple arithmetic.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I wanted it to be.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Four hundred thousand divided among one lee, and that's the way.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
It was now.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
I pushed Call's body into the gravey ha dug.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
For himself, and then I knelt.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Down beside the chest and I pried it open for
the shovel.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I did it.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
I wondered if the money would be in small build
or big.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
I netted the.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Lid that didn't seem to be in a in it just.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Torn pieces of newspaper, but ahead to be. It just
couldn't be empty.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Then I found something, an envelope seal lapresent. I tore
it off from it.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
The do you know what was inside?
Speaker 5 (20:23):
There was a single dollar bill and a note, a
note from Frankie that said, whoever's double across me, keep
this butt for your trouble. The rest of the four
hundred RM I'll leave to the.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Word, to the word.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Funny talk. All had money for the word.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
They say. They found me wondering on the highway. I
don't know how I got there. I didn't remember anything
until just a little while ago, and.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Then I got this awful buzzing inside my head. I
thought it go if I told you about everything, But
it's worse than before. I guess I just got a
better get rid of it anyway. It'll be better that way.
(21:45):
I wouldn't want to live without the money. You see,
I counted so much unity. I never thought about the
things I was doing to get it until.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
The money Wasn't you understand about that, don't you talk?
It was all just simple, a simple R.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Hold up, hold what's happened to a doctor?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And hold yest a minute? No, no, it's no use,
she's dead. You have been listening to obsession
Speaker 8 (23:06):
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