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Now to Night's presentation of radio's Theater of Thrills Spence Tonight,
the story of a man who allows himself to be
trapped by his past. We call it Remember Me So Now,
starring mister Tony Brrap and Miss Charlotte Lawrence. Here is
(00:22):
tonight suspense play. Remember me?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh you just made it.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I was closing. What can I do for you? This
is a stick up? Why the stick up? Stick up?
Come on? I want the money. Oh you can't do this.
You can't do this as I can. I'll put all
you doing a paper bag and hurry. But I don't
have much money and this is a small business. I'm
gonna put that register. I won't you cut out of
(01:07):
hell away? You don't get away?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
No, no, you can't.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
That time money, I won't let if you raise you
old man, get away from me. Can't rob me?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
You you can't rob me.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Again.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
I didn't think it's still be open. Who are you?
Where's mister Lebwod?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
He isn't here? Leave?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Is missus Leberwit sick again?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah? Yeah, she's sick again. I've been watching the store
for my eye. I was just closing.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Oh well, maybe I better run upstairs and see if
there's anything I can No, no, no.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
There he took it to the hospital and they aren't here.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Gee, I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
What are you looking at me for?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Don't I know you?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
No, No, you don't know me. Look, I'm closing. You'll
have to come back tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Harry, Harry, No, I'm sure we went to school together
from Stives and Hi, I'm rooted. Sure I remember.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
No, I don't remember you.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
No, I guess you wouldn't. But I remember you, Harry.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah, I guess you too.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I just need a few things before you close. Here's
the list.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Yeah, you pull down the shades on the windows and
throw the latch while I get.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
To IM sure all the people to run into. I
haven't seen you since high school.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Yeah, I see breadcread, Yeah, coffee're.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Right there above you. The coffee. Oh, and potato salad
in the refrigerator a pound?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Do you have to have all this stuff right now?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Of course I do.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
What's marning nothing out. I'll get the potato salad.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
You haven't changed the pit, Harry. I know you anywhere,
you know. I never forget a face, especially yours.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
He's too bad.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
It's kind of a pretty girl. But she had to
walk in on me. She does remember me. She can
put the finger around. They get fast when they find
old manly with his body. That's too bad. Now I
got to kill her too, but not here. Somebody might
have heard the shots, called a cop. So I gotta
get out of here and take her with me. And
I gotta be careful. Nature think I belong. Yeah, get
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the rest of us stuff and get out of here.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
What else do you need?
Speaker 4 (03:40):
That's enough for an hour? I have more than I
can carry as it is.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
That's oh yes, how much? Is it? Three and a half?
Even here? So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Well, it was nice in you again. I'd better go and.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Let your cloth Wait wait, wait, don't don't ut.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Well I've kept you wh it is.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
That's okay, okay, I'll walk you.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
We we can talk about all the times.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Don't you have to do anything before your clothes?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
No? No, all done here. I'll carry the grocery st okay.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I can carry them. I only live around the corn
third Avenue.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I'm going that way too, I will. I'll carry this way.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Come on, well, I forgot I need flower too. Get
the large bag. Now on the stand. I'll get it.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Okay, okay, here sixty, we'll charge it.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Let's get out of here.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
I can carry it all right, all right? Want me
to get the life?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yeah yeah, please.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Nice for you to carry the packages for me, Harry.
It's nothing, hie. I haven't got into you before around
the store.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
This is a first time i've I've watched the store
off for mister uh Leewood's.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
You must have left him and awful her.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, yeah, he did. His wife was pretty sick.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
You have to watch so fast.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I'm sorry. Oh where did you say you were living?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I mean there happened you just around the corner.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
You live alone? Yes, yeah, you know. It's been a
long long time since high school.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You got a good memory for faces. I know. I
don't remember you.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
You wouldn't. You didn't know me too well. You used
to say hello sometimes when we passed in the hall.
Oh you were a big shot football player and all
that stuff. All the girls had a crush on you,
Harry Good.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Sure you been living into this neighborhood long, too long.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
But the red's cheap and far works. I stay here.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah, I know what you mean.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
That place up ahead with the ivy on the fire
skating couse. She's getting heavy.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
No, no, I gotta think fast so good here in
the street, that's too many people around. Like she said,
she lives alone. I've got to get inside with her
alone in her apartment, and I can.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Get rid of her.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
I wish she'd quit talk. And she asked too many questions.
And the potato salad stinks. I hate potato salad onions.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I've got to get inside that apartment.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Well, I did pretty crabby.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Huh uh? What's it like inside?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Which is as bad? I picked my apartment uptown, but
it just smell these old place of pab can't get
rid of it.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I'd like to see it. See what you've done.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Well, I don't know that. That lady's funny about visitors.
And it's kind of late.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Come on, come mind.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
You can't carry all this stuff along after your.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Well okay, uh no, you're going up. I have to
throw a light switch.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Right which way upstairs?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Right?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah? All, says he getting heavy.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
It's the footstow on your right, cop.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I could use more light on the stairway, not.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
All the place could use.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yeah, here, I'll unlock it. Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Oh, it's not bad. You fix it up by yourself.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah. Here, let me take the bag. I want to
put this stuff away.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Yeah, you have fixed this place up.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Okay, some view.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yeah, leel go drive past the window to get used
to that too. I'm seeing it when I moved in.
Really a mist. Then I went to work on I
thought you were in the other room.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I that flower on my skirt? Oh, I put tomorrow
some coffee.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Come in the other room here. I want to show
you something, a picture of you.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Of me, the football uniform.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yet I still have our class book, your pictures in it.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Sit down, Yeah, sure.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Funny thing running into you. I got to the book
a couple of weeks ago, and I was thinking about you,
wondering whatever became of you.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
You were thinking about me.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
You didn't know it, but I had a big crush
on you when we were in school.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
No I didn't.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
I thought I was a big shot in those days.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I couldn't see anything.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
You sure did. Look, here's the picture of the fourth
of July dance in the gym. Yeah, do you remember it?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Well?
Speaker 4 (09:29):
I'm not sure you asked me for a dance that day,
but I'm surprised we know more than started. And they
stopped me and they could take this picture, and you
ran off to find Mona Stark.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Mona.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
You remember her?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Yeah? Yeah, I remember Mona.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
You were going with her when you quit school, weren't you.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
He broke up? Why?
Speaker 5 (09:55):
I borrowed a car at my pals so we could
drive up the Connecticut to get married. It was a
big yellow in vertable. Wanted to make a big impression.
Mona liked to be impressed. Only my power forgot to
tell me it was a stolen car.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I never saw her again.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
I saw a picture of her though, on the cover
of a secret detective magazine. She had a gun in
one hand, a bottling the other, and some guy was
choking and she looked good.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Well enough of a good old day. What are you
doing now, Harry?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
For a living? I mean, it's nothing worth talking about.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
How do you happen to know mister leebowood Wash. He's
the sweetest old here. Don't take credit right up through
his ears, But people always get around the tanyon. You
must know him pretty well to be left in charge
of the store.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah, well, I what's that?
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Well, how do you put up with that? It shakes
a whole doing you get used.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
To its noisy?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Hunh Yeah, you could.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Fire a cannon in here when it goes by and
you wouldn't hear it. Uh, get used to it. Oh,
I think the coffee's ready. Only take a minute, even
fire a cannon.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
A cannon, she said, A cannon, and I'm only carrying
at thirty eight.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Sure. Sure, All I have to do is sit and wait.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
We'll drink coffee, we'll chat about the good old days.
When the l goes by again, I'll be able to
walk out of here safe and sign with nothing to
worry about it. Ruthie won't be able to remember anything.
She'll be dead.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
You are listening to remember me. You like presentation and radios,
theater of brills, suspense.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Hope, you'll be ready in a minuteary, let.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Him make coffee, let her do anything she wants. He's
only got a few minutes to live, only until he
l goes buy again.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Nobody's going to hear the shot, and Ruthie, who remembers
me so well, will.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Be out of the way.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Let'll just find two buddies A couple of blocks ago,
nowthing miles from here, all after going hours, wait for
the heir, waiter, wait for.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
The l Why I act if you were hungry, I
could know no.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Oh thanks, just a coffee, okay, sugar?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
That black here.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Hot good?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I will howlong you look dear over here. I wouldn't
last overnight with that l going by the window like that.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Oh I'm used to it.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
The go by often never stopped.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I warn you next time I heard coming.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Yeah, yeah, you you'll do.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
That Harry Norris hair in my apartment. H Well, I
can't get over running you like ben.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Oh yeah, well that's that's the way it goes.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
I can still see you the way you were in school.
I remember a football game with that story of high
You got knocked out and they carried you off the field.
We were losing the game, and you came back and
all bandaged up and put it ahead.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
I was very proud of you. I thought you were wonderful.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Yeah I didn't know it, cha, I knew you well.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
I waited outside the gym that night to see if
you were all right.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I started to leave.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
You had a little bandage right uh there? Or were
the tiny scars.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Now, oh h h you were You waited around to
see if I was okay.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Yeah. I even followed you home that night. I was
afraid you might pass out on the street and there
would be known to take care of you. So I
followed you. Four didn't going home. You stopped in at
the pool room. I waited outside for hours.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
You're dead.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Then it started to snow and I went home.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
That's funny. I don't remember seeing you, and yet you
right around so much funny.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I was a pretty horrible looking kid.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Maybe there's nothing wrong with you now? Really?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
What times? I don't know?
Speaker 4 (15:15):
The Clarks in the bedroom. Oh, I wonder how MSUs
Leverwood's is doing.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Missus leewoods.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Oh what you can drop by in the morning and
find out you you'll like living alone this way?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Oh love it lovesome.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Sometimes a lot of friends in the neighborhood and we
get together and have crazy times.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
How come you never get married?
Speaker 4 (15:43):
I never met the kind of man I'd want to
spend the rest of my life with.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I guess no boyfriend, no one.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
It's kind of your fault, Harry, my fault. When a
girl had a crush on a fella and nothing happens.
She goes down to anything that maybe some day something
will happen, and in the meantime, the other fellas just
don't mean much.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
I guess, Oh, I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Did you feel this way about me?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
I did once when we were in school, but I
got over it. Uh that you sure?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I guess A funny kid?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Get it, Harry?
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Oh, I wish I could remember you of what you
look like like.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I said, that was pretty awful. What are you looking
at your scar? It's no larger than the met shid? Yeah,
I can how to feel it. You have another kiny
scar shot of the nose right here? What you get hi?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Fight?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
I think it's always a tough guy. That's why the
girls liked you so much and treated him so rough
that I am you ignore it most of the time. Yeah,
well you're ignoring me right now? How much only inches
between us? You ignore me? Ignore this? If you can't
(17:31):
hurry and this.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
All right?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
I forgot to warn you. Yeah, it just went fire.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Movie. I got.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
What's Mary?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
I don't know, must be getting soft in the head.
I come up here to do something now I can't.
Thanks you said that the way you act, do you
feel like I mean something to you all the time?
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I didn't know you were alive. Look, if I really
need anything, do you will help me? I need her?
Speaker 5 (18:29):
I think?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Can I trust you? Ruby?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
At your home?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Who's that? I don't know what he is? Jimmy, Well,
now like a s missus, Juliet, you see your room?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I hear he come in a while ago.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
I didn't see you though.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
A doorall you don't answer? Do you have a key?
A key?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
A get it?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I don't know what you do about? Don't Maybe you're
going to do just as I say, You're going to
get hurt. Now you see this thirty eight, it's going
to be against your side. Just like this. They act
like you've been asleep and answered that can get rid
of jump?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Standing?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Okay, I look and take my hand away from your mom.
Be careful.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
I don't want anybody to know I'm here to get
rid of him.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
What's going on.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Out there, Ruthie?
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Jimmy? Is that you?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Yeah? Are you all right?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
What do you wanted? Lad of court? Amor? I? Why
did jaster when I not I've been asleep?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Wait?
Speaker 4 (19:38):
You want?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Oh nothing, honey? I was worried about you.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
You said you were going to stop my old man
label with this play for groceries.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
On your way home.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
I did stop. There is everything okay, Yes, yes, everything
was all right.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
The labors was held up to night as shot. Oh
this is Lbor Woods came down to the store and
bunning dead behind the counter.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Bro, I heard you, Jimmy, Maybe what is full of cops?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
If they had happened less than an hour ago, you
can see why I was so worried.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Well, I'm all right, Jimmy, I'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Okay, don't I get a good night?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Kid? I'm not dread? Can I?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Okay? Andnight? I miss Duley. Forget about the keys.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
He's all right. You killed him.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
I killed him.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
You're gonna kill me.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I'm gonna kill you, Yes, you have to.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
I could fix you good with the police.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Yes, you could just teach you to remember old school sweethearts.
You almost got it before. But you mix me up
a little. You made me forget what I come up
here to do. We're trying to make me.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Think you care about idea?
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Does everyone in the building stop having a good night?
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I don't care who he is. Why the routine with me.
What we have?
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Why don't you yourself up? You heard Jimmy, the neighborhood
is pull the police. You can't get away.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I've been a tire spots in this. I always get
away here here it comes, sir. Sorry, I won't tell
anyone else. Orry paid, Sorry.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
It's allry, It's all right.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
He dead opposite. Yeah, I didn't know whether you get
here in time.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
We finally found that trail of floor. You're left from
the store up here. You hit the door just as
the outpassed close. You really use your head, spilling a
flower along the way. Jes see him shoot the old man.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
When Harry opened the refrigerator kept some potatoes salad, I
saw mister Lever with his legs sprawled out on the floor.
When he came from behind the counter, he left tracks
of blood. I see, how'd you keep my hairs along
without his killing it? We had a lot to talk about.
(22:26):
I knew Harry a long time ago. There were things
I remembered about him, but he but he didn't remember me.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Suspense and what's mister Tony Barrett and Miss Charlotte law
And started the night's presentation of Remember Me Dispence is
produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. The night's script was
written by mister Gus Faith. The music was composed by
Lucien Morrowick and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. Featured in the
cast were Joe kerns Lee, Lahlar Ellen Cleeve and Jim Nasser.
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The Burden is a documentary series that takes listeners into the hidden places where justice is done (and undone). It dives deep into the lives of heroes and villains. And it focuses a spotlight on those who triumph even when the odds are against them. Season 5 - The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. Another young man admitted to the murder, and David breathed a sigh of relief, until the confessed murderer fingered David; “He paid me to do it.” David was sentenced to life without parole. Two decades later, Pulitzer winner and podcast host, Maggie Freleng (Bone Valley Season 3: Graves County, Wrongful Conviction, Suave) launched a “live” investigation into David's conviction alongside Jason Baldwin (himself wrongfully convicted as a member of the West Memphis Three). Maggie had come to believe that the entire investigation of David was botched by the tiny local police department, or worse, covered up the real killer. Was Maggie correct? Was David’s claim of innocence credible? In Death and Deceit in Alliance, Maggie recounts the case that launched her career, and ultimately, “broke” her.” The results will shock the listener and reduce Maggie to tears and self-doubt. This is not your typical wrongful conviction story. In fact, it turns the genre on its head. It asks the question: What if our champions are foolish? Season 4 - The Burden: Get the Money and Run “Trying to murder my father, this was the thing that put me on the path.” That’s Joe Loya and that path was bank robbery. Bank, bank, bank, bank, bank. In season 4 of The Burden: Get the Money and Run, we hear from Joe who was once the most prolific bank robber in Southern California, and beyond. He used disguises, body doubles, proxies. He leaped over counters, grabbed the money and ran. Even as the FBI was closing in. It was a showdown between a daring bank robber, and a patient FBI agent. Joe was no ordinary bank robber. He was bright, articulate, charismatic, and driven by a dark rage that he summoned up at will. In seven episodes, Joe tells all: the what, the how… and the why. Including why he tried to murder his father. Season 3 - The Burden: Avenger Miriam Lewin is one of Argentina’s leading journalists today. At 19 years old, she was kidnapped off the streets of Buenos Aires for her political activism and thrown into a concentration camp. Thousands of her fellow inmates were executed, tossed alive from a cargo plane into the ocean. Miriam, along with a handful of others, will survive the camp. Then as a journalist, she will wage a decades long campaign to bring her tormentors to justice. Avenger is about one woman’s triumphant battle against unbelievable odds to survive torture, claim justice for the crimes done against her and others like her, and change the future of her country. Season 2 - The Burden: Empire on Blood Empire on Blood is set in the Bronx, NY, in the early 90s, when two young drug dealers ruled an intersection known as “The Corner on Blood.” The boss, Calvin Buari, lived large. He and a protege swore they would build an empire on blood. Then the relationship frayed and the protege accused Calvin of a double homicide which he claimed he didn’t do. But did he? Award-winning journalist Steve Fishman spent seven years to answer that question. This is the story of one man’s last chance to overturn his life sentence. He may prevail, but someone’s gotta pay. The Burden: Empire on Blood is the director’s cut of the true crime classic which reached #1 on the charts when it was first released half a dozen years ago. Season 1 - The Burden In the 1990s, Detective Louis N. Scarcella was legendary. In a city overrun by violent crime, he cracked the toughest cases and put away the worst criminals. “The Hulk” was his nickname. Then the story changed. Scarcella ran into a group of convicted murderers who all say they are innocent. They turned themselves into jailhouse-lawyers and in prison founded a lway firm. When they realized Scarcella helped put many of them away, they set their sights on taking him down. And with the help of a NY Times reporter they have a chance. For years, Scarcella insisted he did nothing wrong. But that’s all he’d say. Until we tracked Scarcella to a sauna in a Russian bathhouse, where he started to talk..and talk and talk. “The guilty have gone free,” he whispered. And then agreed to take us into the belly of the beast. Welcome to The Burden.