August 6, 2025 • 29 mins
The Whistler was a suspenseful mystery anthology that ran from 1942-1955. A character known only as the Whistler was the host and narrator of the tales, which focused on crime and fate and had a suspenseful and eerie tone, always ending with a twist. The Whistler was later adapted to television.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And now stay tuned for the mystery program that is
unique among all mystery programs, because even when you know
who's guilty, you always receive a startling surprise at the
final curtain. In the Signal Oil Program, the Whistler signal,
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the famous go Farther gasoline invite you to sit back
and enjoy another strange story by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things. For
I walk by night. I know many range tales hidden
in the hearts of men and women.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Who have stepped into the shadows.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare
not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's Strange
Story Blue Alibi.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
John Sheridan knew exactly what to expect as he brought
his car to a stop in front of his new
England Beach home. For the brightly lighted house the cars
parke carelessly along the driveway meant just one thing. His wife,
Edith had again invited a group of her friends over
to spend the evening. As John entered the house, the music,
the gay laughter, the hum of idle chatter suddenly became
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more than he could bear. Unobserved, or so he thought.
He slipped into the hall, hurried to the den and
shut the door, but his escape was on momentary. Almost
immediately the door opened.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Again, John, why do you insist on being deliberately offensive
to our guests?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Your guests, not mine. I didn't invite them.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
But I did because of you.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
That again, Yes, that again.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
You may be satisfied with your salary as city treasurer
and chairman of the Board of Public Works, but we
get along.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I'm satisfied, but I'm not.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
These people are important politically.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
They can help you, John, you could be governor, and if.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Right now, keeping up my work is more important than
making new political contacts. I have a lot of construction
contract bits to go over. I'd plan to work on
them here tonight and have them ready by morning, But
now your noisy friends make it impossible. Where are you
going down to the guest Cottagehere I can work in
peace and quiet.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
You leave the house, walk slowly down to the cottage
near the beach, pleased with the way you've handled Edith.
You lied about the work you have to do, didn't you, John?
That was just an excuse to get away from the
house without arousing your suspicions. Some time later, a light
tap at the cottage door tells you that your expected
visitor has a rived.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Hello, Frank, come on in.
Speaker 7 (03:17):
Party going on up at your place and some of
Edith's friends.
Speaker 8 (03:19):
And the chance of them dropping in on us. No,
and I still don't say why we couldn't have met
at my place, like I was too risky.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
If wish, Mark, Frank will arrange to meet at a
different place each time from now on. Yeah, maybe you're right.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Oh that's a nice little spot you've got here, Sheridan.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Just a guest house. Eat this idea? O what's this stuff?
Your wife is sculptres No, well that's some of my work.
Just a hobby. Been pulling around with play modeling as
I was a kid. Huh, sit down, Frank, get your drink.
Speaker 7 (03:49):
Oh thanks, don't have time.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
You you have the money? Yep.
Speaker 8 (03:56):
Yeah, you're cut for the library building jobs. How about
that bridge contract?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
The final bids will be in Friday. I'll go over
them all before the board meets. You can tip your
contractor off. Who is it this time? Greenwood? Our greenwood? Okay,
the job's his. I'll get the usual.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
Cut as soon as the contracts signed.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Good, that'll be in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
It's as simple as that, isn't it, John? You arrange
it so that a few of Frank Devon's handpicked contractors
get most of the city construction jobs, and Frank's payoff
is big. Be quick. After he leaves, you smile, open
the package you left and stuff the five thousand dollars
into your wallet. But that smile freezes when suddenly you
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hear footsteps. You'll slip the wallet into your pocket just
as the door opens.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Hit it. What are you doing here?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I guess so Overwhelmed with your graciousness, they left early,
so I decided to go for at swim.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
John.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
How long have you and Frank Devon been mixed up
in this crooked deal?
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Sorry? I couldn't help it over here.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
It's coming down the back way when I heard voices,
I see, John, you must be out of your mind.
With a great career ahead of you, you get yourself
involved with a gambling racketeer like Frank Devon who's managed
to link himself with a few shady contractors.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
How much has he given you?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
About twenty five thousand?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
You're going to give it back every pair.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I can't only got about fifteen thousand left.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
I'll make up the other ten.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
How generous loosening up the purse strings at last, are you?
Speaker 5 (05:39):
John?
Speaker 4 (05:39):
You've got to break with Devon tomorrow completely permanently. If
you don't, I'll go to the district Attorney and tell
him everything.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I know that'll involve me.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
That's right, John, I've worked hard to make you a
success and you can still be a success.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
That's all you think about. My marriage isn't a marriage
to you anymore?
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Is just all right, But you're the cause of it.
I'm not a blind and fool.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
You know what do you mean?
Speaker 5 (06:03):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Anne Alison your secretary that something else, Johnny. You got
to discharge her and break with her as well as Devon.
I'm tired of having my friends laugh at me behind
my book. I mean what I say, John, If you
haven't told Frank Devon, you're through and send your little
farewells to Anne Allison by tomorrow night, I'll go to
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the district attorney tell him everything.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
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Here's all you have to do. You know those Signal
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Speaker 2 (08:13):
You haven't much choice, have you, John. You're certain your
wife Edith meant it when she said she'd expose your
illegal adventures with a racketeering and politically powerful Frank Devon
unless you broke off with him immediately. You don't want
to give up all that easy money, do you not?
When Edith holds on to hers the way she does.
But she's too strong for you, and you certainly don't
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want to go to jail, do you. If you can
just persuade Devon to play it Edith's way for a while,
give you some time to kill her suspicions, you'll resume
your profitable associations with him. Later the following evening, you
phone him. Arranged to meet him in the office of
a mutual friend.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
Come on in, Sredan, Hello, Frank, that's so important you
can't tell me over the phone.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I'm I mean sort of a jam. I think going
to lay off for a while. My wife found out
about our arrangement. Oh, she was outside the beach cottage
last night and heard everything we said.
Speaker 8 (09:09):
I should have had more sense than me. You're there
in the first place. Okay, So your wife knows, so
she'll keep her mouth shut.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
She won't.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
She'll have to you think I'm going to sink twenty
five grand under this deal and then kiss it off
just like that.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
No, I don't expect that, Frank. I've got the twenty
five thousand right here cash, just like you gave it
to me. Keep it. He doesn't understand. She'll go to
the DA. She'll tell him.
Speaker 8 (09:30):
Everything that would involve you too. She knows that, well, well,
he's really nuts about you, isn't she. It's not that
she thinks that I'm going to let my number one
boy at city Hall go. She's off our world. You're
going to go right on handing out jobs the way
I tell you. Understand, I put that money back in
your pocket and go home and make your wife behave Frank, Listen,
you'll listen to me. Greenwood gets that bridge construction just
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like we planned. And if the DA starts getting nosy
all of a sudden, well that's okay too. You won't
have to worry about your wife anymore. You mean, she'll
be a widow.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Your certainly means what he says, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
John?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Certain that Frank Devon won't hesitate to take any action
he feels necessary to keep you in line or quiet,
and you know that with his connections he could arrange
things very easily. Your only hope now is to prevent
Edith from going to the district attorney, at least until
you can figure some way to handle Frank. You've got
to have time to think things out. You return to
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your home and find Edith in the library. You try
and explain to her how impossible it is for you
to well to simply tell Devon that you're through. Explain
to her that above everything, he's a racketeer with a
powerful organization, that even her life might be in jeopardy.
Assure her that you'll break with Devon if she'll just
give you a little time. Finally, she agrees to give
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you until the end of the week. For the next
few days, you think of one scheme after the other
and reject each as impractical. Then one afternoon, Edith drops
unexpectedly into your office. Her first words fall on your
ears like a bomb shell.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Hello, John, I thought you'd be glad to know I've
taken care of your break with Frank Devon. What I
send him back all the money he's given you by
a special messenger this morning, with a note explaining exactly
what will happen to him if he doesn't let you alone.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
It'll convince him, John, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
After Edith leaves, you begin to realize that her action
was a smart move. Her note to Devon places him
on a spot as tight as your own. But you're
still quite nervous and spend the remainder of the day
in your office waiting for some word from Devon, but
nothing comes. Finally, as night settles over the city, you
hurry out of the office to the parking lot, slide
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into your car. As you do, your hands suddenly freeze
on the wheel. Pressing at the back of your head
is the cold, unmistakable feel of an automatic.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Don't turn around.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Who who are you? What do you want?
Speaker 9 (12:12):
Name's Nick? Mister Devin told me I should have a
little talk with you. That's right. First of all, at
twenty five grand your wife sent to him this morning.
He told me to deposit in your bank to your
credit that I did this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
No, No, that could be a.
Speaker 9 (12:31):
Little embarrassing to you couldn't it. Now about that letter,
Your wife's note says that you wrote the DA the
one that's going to be sent to him if anything
happens to you, telling him all about you and mister
Devon deals.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
That nothing about that I've written it.
Speaker 9 (12:49):
Oh gag, well worked.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
If anything happens to me, all.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
I gotta do is press this trigger and it's all over,
just like that. You know where mister Devons is right now,
two hundred miles away with a perfect alibi. So how's
the DA gonna pin anything on mister Devon?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Huh? Do you still know the details of the contract racket.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
I ain't got a thing to do with that racket,
only you and the contract is. Devons was pretty smart
to handle it that way right from the start. I'm
speaking of the contracts about that bridge.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Job coming up? What about it?
Speaker 9 (13:31):
Is al Green? What gonna get that bridge contract?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yes, you'll get it.
Speaker 9 (13:39):
And your wife she's gonna keep quiet, Age, she'll keep.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Quiet, She'll have to.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
A half hour later, you arrive at your house, still
somewhat shaken from your encounter with Devon's trigger man in
the parking lot. You can't break off with Devon, can you.
You're certain of that now, and the more you think
about it, the more better you become toward Edith. You
really don't want to sever your connections with Devon anyway,
do you not? With all that easy money rolling in
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another year or two with him and you won't need
a political career.
Speaker 10 (14:19):
In it.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
At your home.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Good evening, mister Sheridan.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Hello, Kitty, is missus Sheridan about?
Speaker 6 (14:23):
She's gone for a swim?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (14:24):
I see all right, thanks, mister Sheridan. I know it's
not any of my business.
Speaker 11 (14:32):
Well, it's about missus Sheridan, sir, going swimming like that
every evening, and alone too. There's never a soul along
the beach that time of night. I don't think it's safe.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I never thought much about it. She's really quite a
good swimmer.
Speaker 11 (14:47):
There's been plenty of good swimmers drounds, you know, Crampson
all and that undertow.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
I hear it's pretty bad.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I'll speak to her about It's thoughtful of you do
mention it, Kitty. Thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yes, John, as Katie says, if something should happen to
eat it, you could go right ahead with Devon, couldn't you,
and you're tired of Edith's efficient management of your life.
As Katy suggested, Edith could drown, couldn't she, John, an
accident and no one would suspect. Yes, but it won't
be a simple matter to arrange Edith a good swimmer,
and you wouldn't stand a chance of fighting her in
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the waves. Then your eyes fall on the small clay
figure you've modeled Gunoir's water bearer, and the flicker of
an idea stirs in your brain. You pick it up,
stare at it for a moment, and then your gaze
wanders to the half open bathroom door, the tub beyond
the empty aluminum bucket in the corner. The bucket. John, Yes,
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now you know exactly how you're going to do it,
don't you. Edith will drown, but at the guest cottage,
not at the beach, and even the autopsy will help
put you.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
In the clear. Late tonight, Edith, Yes, yes, I had
some work to do at the office. How is the water.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Cold anywhere from Deaven today?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
No? No, not a word.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Good.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Then it's over, isn't it, John, Yes, he did.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I guess it's all over.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
It isn't really over, is it? John, Not quite, but
it will be tomorrow night. You'll have to have an
alibi too, not an elaborate one, not perfect, the kind
that causes suspicion. Yes, a simple alibi, John. Want to
make your actions and explanation seem perfectly natural. As you
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replace the small clay figure on your desk, it suddenly
occurs to you the alibi to account for every moment
of your time your old hobby clay modeling. Early the
following evening, over after dinner coffee, you set your plan
in the motion. Edith seemed surprised when you tell her
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you're going to take up your hobby again, a little
puzzle too, but she does seem please.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
It would be more work for you, Katie, I don't mind.
Speaker 11 (17:22):
Then it'll seem quite like old times again, mister Sheridan
making them little statue old times.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
I've wondered. Well, anyway, I'm glad John. I wondered what.
Speaker 11 (17:34):
He was carrying in that package Undry's arm when he
came home there.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Oh, I happened to drive in the Galloway's art shot
today and we got to talking, and the next thing
I knew, I bought a stock of supplies. Well, if
you'll excuse me, Edith. I think I'll go down to
the guest cottage. I'm anxious to get started. He used
to get a big kick out of this.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
I don't blame you, johnn you have real talent. What's
the subject going to be?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I haven't quite decided yet. Why don't you look in
on me after your swim?
Speaker 5 (18:00):
You really want me to?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yes? Why not?
Speaker 5 (18:03):
All right?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
John?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I will fine. Oh and Katie if anyone calls, I
don't want to be disturbed.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I understand, sir.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Once at the cottage, you spend several minutes making certain
that everything you need is at hand, and now the
most important step of all. You smile as you cross
to the workbench, pick up a soft blue tinted clay,
and begin to shape your alibi a clever touch. This
isn't it, John, And you're amused, quite pleased with yourself
as your fingers dig into the clay. It's almost ten
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o'clock now, Edith will be returning from the beach soon.
Your fingers move swiftly, expertly molding the small figure of
a bird on the stand before you. You must have
it all finish tonight, John. Your alibi occasionally you look
out the window down the path to the beach. Finally
you see Edith emerge from the water. Now, John, now
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is the time to call Katy up at the house.
Make certain she's kept busy there during the next fifteen minutes,
all the time you need fifteen important minutes. You dial
the main house.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yes, Katy, I'm famished. How about fixing me some coffee
and sandwiches? Huh yes, Oh that'll be fine. Hello John,
Well eat it, enjoy a swim even more than usual.
Life good. I just called Katy to make some sandwiches
for us. Well, how do you.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Like it all? This is splendid.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I'm calling it the Blue Heron.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
It's the best you ever done.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Really, thanks Here you look at it from this signal?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Oh, yes, yes, excellent.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Her back is to you now and you move quickly
her arms to her side.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
John, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
It's over in a matter of minutes, isn't it. John?
You carried its body across the deserted beach to the
end of the pier and drop her into the sea.
Then you hurry up the path to the cottage. As
you reach the crest of the hill, you see Katie
step out of the main house and start down the path.
You leap into the brush, make your way quickly through
the shadows to the cottage and step inside. When Katie arrives,
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you're standing at the work table, your fingers moving over
the blue heron.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Ah, there you are, Kittie.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Isn't Miss Sheridan back from a swim yet?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Isn't she at the house? No, sir, well, perhaps she's
on her way up. Now. Did you notice anyone just
this minute came down?
Speaker 7 (20:46):
Sir?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Didn't see a soul on the path.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Well, don't worry, she'll be along.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Yes, Oh, oh my.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
You have been working. What sort of a bird is that?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Heron? Like it?
Speaker 6 (21:03):
It is pretty, sir, real pretty, a doubt missus Sheridan.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Sir.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
It kind of worries me.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
You're very considered it Katie, but don't worry. You go
on back to the house.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
I'll be up late, Yes, sir, good night.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
You wait another hour, then call the house ask Katie
if Edith has returned. When she tells you Edith hasn't
come back yet, you show concern, and minutes later Katie
joins you and goes with you to the beach, where
you play the role of the worried husband. Finally, the
two of you return to the house call the police,
give them the details of Edith's disappearance. Early the following morning,
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you're at the guest cottage when Katie ushers in Chief
of Police Thompson.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Oh, mister Sheraton, it's truthful.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Harry, if you found it.
Speaker 10 (22:00):
Yes, about an hour ago, the tide carried a body
about a half a mile down the beach.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I'm sorry, John, Edith drowned. No, no, I can't believe it.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
It is hard to believe. She must have been seized
with cramps unless perhaps her heart.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
No, her heart was fine.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Well, if anything was wrong, the autopsy will show it.
I'll phone you the results.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yes, I appreciate it, Harry.
Speaker 10 (22:24):
I won't keep any longer now, John, I know this
has been hard on you.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Thanks. Thanks, Harry, you been very kind.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
After police Chief Thompson leaves, you breathe a sigh of relief.
You're sure he doesn't suspect to things. Nevertheless, she'll be
glad when the autopsy is over and the case is
officially closed. When the chief hasn't called after a couple
of hours, you begin to grow restless and pace the
floor and finally Hello John. Oh, yes, Harry, it looks
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like we were right.
Speaker 10 (23:06):
The AUDIFC shows your wife probably drowned as a result
of cramps. No marks on the body, sea water in
nor lungs. Sorry John, If there's.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Anything I can no, No, thanks, Harry, You've been more
than considerate. I'll be all right now, perfectly all right.
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Speaker 2 (25:13):
Well, John, it's over, isn't it. Your wife Edith is
dead an accidental drowning, and no one suspects that you
had anything to do with The police have come and gone,
They've accepted your story, and now the autopsy proves Edith's
death was caused by drowning. You're certain you're in the clear. Yes,
you're free to continue with Frank Devon, free of Edith
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the way that she was running your life. During the
remainder of the day, you play the role of the
grief stricken husband, accept the condolences of your friends, and
then early that evening you have another caller, Chief of
Police Thompson.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Back again, Harry.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Sometimes I'm pretty hard to get rid of John.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Who said down, what's on your mind?
Speaker 7 (25:57):
Just a couple more questions.
Speaker 10 (25:59):
You say, the guest cottage last night between the hours
of eight and eleven years That's right.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
You didn't leave the cottage at all.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
No, No, I was in the cottage all evening working
my hobby. You know well you saw, yeah, I saw
the blue.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Hair, and I think you called it. John.
Speaker 10 (26:14):
You didn't happen to take a bath at the guest
cottage last night. You did a bath, I know well.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
I'm afraid that censes it. You drowned your wife and
that cottage shared.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
That's absurd.
Speaker 10 (26:29):
Whatever reason, your lawyer gave us a letter you had
written to the DA exposing your activities with Frank Devon.
Your wife gave it to him and told him to
turn it over to us if anything happened either of you.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Devon's being picked up right now.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Sure, Sure I wrote that letter. Devon was threatening us,
But that doesn't prove I killed Edith. You said yourself
the autopsy showed seawater in both lungs.
Speaker 10 (26:52):
That autopsy showed us a lot of things. Your wife
was drowned in seawater, all.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Right, but she wasn't drowned in the sea. Wait a minute, Hell,
you're not making so Oh yes, I am.
Speaker 10 (27:01):
You were pretty smart to fill that bathtub at your
guest cutage with seawater before you drowned your wife and
a Sheridon.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
You almost fooled.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
And I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 10 (27:10):
You forgot about the microscopic analysis Sheridon. You see that
seawater and your wife's lungs also contained one hundred six
particles of clay. So does the bathtub blue modeling clay
the same blue clay you bought a Galloway shop yesterday.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I didn't.
Speaker 10 (27:25):
That's only one way that clay could have gotten into
your wife's lungs. It washed off your hands while you
were holding around to the water.
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John Sheridan knew exactly what to expect as he brought
his car to a stop in front of his new
England Beach home. For the brightly lighted house the cars
parke carelessly along the driveway meant just one thing. His wife,
Edith had again invited a group of her friends over
to spend the evening. As John entered the house, the music,
the gay laughter, the hum of idle chatter suddenly became
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more than he could bear. Unobserved, or so he thought.
He slipped into the hall, hurried to the den and
shut the door, but his escape was on momentary. Almost
immediately the door opened.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Again, John, why do you insist on being deliberately offensive
to our guests?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Your guests, not mine. I didn't invite them.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
But I did because of you.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
That again, Yes, that again.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
You may be satisfied with your salary as city treasurer
and chairman of the Board of Public Works, but we
get along.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I'm satisfied, but I'm not.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
These people are important politically.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
They can help you, John, you could be governor, and if.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Right now, keeping up my work is more important than
making new political contacts. I have a lot of construction
contract bits to go over. I'd plan to work on
them here tonight and have them ready by morning, But
now your noisy friends make it impossible. Where are you
going down to the guest Cottagehere I can work in
peace and quiet.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
You leave the house, walk slowly down to the cottage
near the beach, pleased with the way you've handled Edith.
You lied about the work you have to do, didn't you, John?
That was just an excuse to get away from the
house without arousing your suspicions. Some time later, a light
tap at the cottage door tells you that your expected
visitor has a rived.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Hello, Frank, come on in.
Speaker 7 (03:17):
Party going on up at your place and some of
Edith's friends.
Speaker 8 (03:19):
And the chance of them dropping in on us. No,
and I still don't say why we couldn't have met
at my place, like I was too risky.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
If wish, Mark, Frank will arrange to meet at a
different place each time from now on. Yeah, maybe you're right.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Oh that's a nice little spot you've got here, Sheridan.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Just a guest house. Eat this idea? O what's this stuff?
Your wife is sculptres No, well that's some of my work.
Just a hobby. Been pulling around with play modeling as
I was a kid. Huh, sit down, Frank, get your drink.
Speaker 7 (03:49):
Oh thanks, don't have time.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
You you have the money? Yep.
Speaker 8 (03:56):
Yeah, you're cut for the library building jobs. How about
that bridge contract?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
The final bids will be in Friday. I'll go over
them all before the board meets. You can tip your
contractor off. Who is it this time? Greenwood? Our greenwood? Okay,
the job's his. I'll get the usual.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
Cut as soon as the contracts signed.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Good, that'll be in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
It's as simple as that, isn't it, John? You arrange
it so that a few of Frank Devon's handpicked contractors
get most of the city construction jobs, and Frank's payoff
is big. Be quick. After he leaves, you smile, open
the package you left and stuff the five thousand dollars
into your wallet. But that smile freezes when suddenly you
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hear footsteps. You'll slip the wallet into your pocket just
as the door opens.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Hit it. What are you doing here?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I guess so Overwhelmed with your graciousness, they left early,
so I decided to go for at swim.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
John.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
How long have you and Frank Devon been mixed up
in this crooked deal?
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Sorry? I couldn't help it over here.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
It's coming down the back way when I heard voices,
I see, John, you must be out of your mind.
With a great career ahead of you, you get yourself
involved with a gambling racketeer like Frank Devon who's managed
to link himself with a few shady contractors.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
How much has he given you?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
About twenty five thousand?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
You're going to give it back every pair.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I can't only got about fifteen thousand left.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
I'll make up the other ten.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
How generous loosening up the purse strings at last, are you?
Speaker 5 (05:39):
John?
Speaker 4 (05:39):
You've got to break with Devon tomorrow completely permanently. If
you don't, I'll go to the district Attorney and tell
him everything.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I know that'll involve me.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
That's right, John, I've worked hard to make you a
success and you can still be a success.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
That's all you think about. My marriage isn't a marriage
to you anymore?
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Is just all right, But you're the cause of it.
I'm not a blind and fool.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
You know what do you mean?
Speaker 5 (06:03):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Anne Alison your secretary that something else, Johnny. You got
to discharge her and break with her as well as Devon.
I'm tired of having my friends laugh at me behind
my book. I mean what I say, John, If you
haven't told Frank Devon, you're through and send your little
farewells to Anne Allison by tomorrow night, I'll go to
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the district attorney tell him everything.
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Speaker 2 (08:13):
You haven't much choice, have you, John. You're certain your
wife Edith meant it when she said she'd expose your
illegal adventures with a racketeering and politically powerful Frank Devon
unless you broke off with him immediately. You don't want
to give up all that easy money, do you not?
When Edith holds on to hers the way she does.
But she's too strong for you, and you certainly don't
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want to go to jail, do you. If you can
just persuade Devon to play it Edith's way for a while,
give you some time to kill her suspicions, you'll resume
your profitable associations with him. Later the following evening, you
phone him. Arranged to meet him in the office of
a mutual friend.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
Come on in, Sredan, Hello, Frank, that's so important you
can't tell me over the phone.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I'm I mean sort of a jam. I think going
to lay off for a while. My wife found out
about our arrangement. Oh, she was outside the beach cottage
last night and heard everything we said.
Speaker 8 (09:09):
I should have had more sense than me. You're there
in the first place. Okay, So your wife knows, so
she'll keep her mouth shut.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
She won't.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
She'll have to you think I'm going to sink twenty
five grand under this deal and then kiss it off
just like that.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
No, I don't expect that, Frank. I've got the twenty
five thousand right here cash, just like you gave it
to me. Keep it. He doesn't understand. She'll go to
the DA. She'll tell him.
Speaker 8 (09:30):
Everything that would involve you too. She knows that, well, well,
he's really nuts about you, isn't she. It's not that
she thinks that I'm going to let my number one
boy at city Hall go. She's off our world. You're
going to go right on handing out jobs the way
I tell you. Understand, I put that money back in
your pocket and go home and make your wife behave Frank, Listen,
you'll listen to me. Greenwood gets that bridge construction just
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like we planned. And if the DA starts getting nosy
all of a sudden, well that's okay too. You won't
have to worry about your wife anymore. You mean, she'll
be a widow.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Your certainly means what he says, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
John?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Certain that Frank Devon won't hesitate to take any action
he feels necessary to keep you in line or quiet,
and you know that with his connections he could arrange
things very easily. Your only hope now is to prevent
Edith from going to the district attorney, at least until
you can figure some way to handle Frank. You've got
to have time to think things out. You return to
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your home and find Edith in the library. You try
and explain to her how impossible it is for you
to well to simply tell Devon that you're through. Explain
to her that above everything, he's a racketeer with a
powerful organization, that even her life might be in jeopardy.
Assure her that you'll break with Devon if she'll just
give you a little time. Finally, she agrees to give
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you until the end of the week. For the next
few days, you think of one scheme after the other
and reject each as impractical. Then one afternoon, Edith drops
unexpectedly into your office. Her first words fall on your
ears like a bomb shell.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Hello, John, I thought you'd be glad to know I've
taken care of your break with Frank Devon. What I
send him back all the money he's given you by
a special messenger this morning, with a note explaining exactly
what will happen to him if he doesn't let you alone.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
It'll convince him, John, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
After Edith leaves, you begin to realize that her action
was a smart move. Her note to Devon places him
on a spot as tight as your own. But you're
still quite nervous and spend the remainder of the day
in your office waiting for some word from Devon, but
nothing comes. Finally, as night settles over the city, you
hurry out of the office to the parking lot, slide
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into your car. As you do, your hands suddenly freeze
on the wheel. Pressing at the back of your head
is the cold, unmistakable feel of an automatic.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Don't turn around.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Who who are you? What do you want?
Speaker 9 (12:12):
Name's Nick? Mister Devin told me I should have a
little talk with you. That's right. First of all, at
twenty five grand your wife sent to him this morning.
He told me to deposit in your bank to your
credit that I did this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
No, No, that could be a.
Speaker 9 (12:31):
Little embarrassing to you couldn't it. Now about that letter,
Your wife's note says that you wrote the DA the
one that's going to be sent to him if anything
happens to you, telling him all about you and mister
Devon deals.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
That nothing about that I've written it.
Speaker 9 (12:49):
Oh gag, well worked.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
If anything happens to me, all.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
I gotta do is press this trigger and it's all over,
just like that. You know where mister Devons is right now,
two hundred miles away with a perfect alibi. So how's
the DA gonna pin anything on mister Devon?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Huh? Do you still know the details of the contract racket.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
I ain't got a thing to do with that racket,
only you and the contract is. Devons was pretty smart
to handle it that way right from the start. I'm
speaking of the contracts about that bridge.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Job coming up? What about it?
Speaker 9 (13:31):
Is al Green? What gonna get that bridge contract?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yes, you'll get it.
Speaker 9 (13:39):
And your wife she's gonna keep quiet, Age, she'll keep.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Quiet, She'll have to.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
A half hour later, you arrive at your house, still
somewhat shaken from your encounter with Devon's trigger man in
the parking lot. You can't break off with Devon, can you.
You're certain of that now, and the more you think
about it, the more better you become toward Edith. You
really don't want to sever your connections with Devon anyway,
do you not? With all that easy money rolling in
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another year or two with him and you won't need
a political career.
Speaker 10 (14:19):
In it.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
At your home.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Good evening, mister Sheridan.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Hello, Kitty, is missus Sheridan about?
Speaker 6 (14:23):
She's gone for a swim?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (14:24):
I see all right, thanks, mister Sheridan. I know it's
not any of my business.
Speaker 11 (14:32):
Well, it's about missus Sheridan, sir, going swimming like that
every evening, and alone too. There's never a soul along
the beach that time of night. I don't think it's safe.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I never thought much about it. She's really quite a
good swimmer.
Speaker 11 (14:47):
There's been plenty of good swimmers drounds, you know, Crampson
all and that undertow.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
I hear it's pretty bad.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I'll speak to her about It's thoughtful of you do
mention it, Kitty. Thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yes, John, as Katie says, if something should happen to
eat it, you could go right ahead with Devon, couldn't you,
and you're tired of Edith's efficient management of your life.
As Katy suggested, Edith could drown, couldn't she, John, an
accident and no one would suspect. Yes, but it won't
be a simple matter to arrange Edith a good swimmer,
and you wouldn't stand a chance of fighting her in
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the waves. Then your eyes fall on the small clay
figure you've modeled Gunoir's water bearer, and the flicker of
an idea stirs in your brain. You pick it up,
stare at it for a moment, and then your gaze
wanders to the half open bathroom door, the tub beyond
the empty aluminum bucket in the corner. The bucket. John, Yes,
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now you know exactly how you're going to do it,
don't you. Edith will drown, but at the guest cottage,
not at the beach, and even the autopsy will help
put you.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
In the clear. Late tonight, Edith, Yes, yes, I had
some work to do at the office. How is the water.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Cold anywhere from Deaven today?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
No? No, not a word.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Good.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Then it's over, isn't it, John, Yes, he did.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I guess it's all over.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
It isn't really over, is it? John, Not quite, but
it will be tomorrow night. You'll have to have an
alibi too, not an elaborate one, not perfect, the kind
that causes suspicion. Yes, a simple alibi, John. Want to
make your actions and explanation seem perfectly natural. As you
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replace the small clay figure on your desk, it suddenly
occurs to you the alibi to account for every moment
of your time your old hobby clay modeling. Early the
following evening, over after dinner coffee, you set your plan
in the motion. Edith seemed surprised when you tell her
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you're going to take up your hobby again, a little
puzzle too, but she does seem please.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
It would be more work for you, Katie, I don't mind.
Speaker 11 (17:22):
Then it'll seem quite like old times again, mister Sheridan
making them little statue old times.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
I've wondered. Well, anyway, I'm glad John. I wondered what.
Speaker 11 (17:34):
He was carrying in that package Undry's arm when he
came home there.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Oh, I happened to drive in the Galloway's art shot
today and we got to talking, and the next thing
I knew, I bought a stock of supplies. Well, if
you'll excuse me, Edith. I think I'll go down to
the guest cottage. I'm anxious to get started. He used
to get a big kick out of this.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
I don't blame you, johnn you have real talent. What's
the subject going to be?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I haven't quite decided yet. Why don't you look in
on me after your swim?
Speaker 5 (18:00):
You really want me to?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yes? Why not?
Speaker 5 (18:03):
All right?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
John?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I will fine. Oh and Katie if anyone calls, I
don't want to be disturbed.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I understand, sir.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Once at the cottage, you spend several minutes making certain
that everything you need is at hand, and now the
most important step of all. You smile as you cross
to the workbench, pick up a soft blue tinted clay,
and begin to shape your alibi a clever touch. This
isn't it, John, And you're amused, quite pleased with yourself
as your fingers dig into the clay. It's almost ten
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o'clock now, Edith will be returning from the beach soon.
Your fingers move swiftly, expertly molding the small figure of
a bird on the stand before you. You must have
it all finish tonight, John. Your alibi occasionally you look
out the window down the path to the beach. Finally
you see Edith emerge from the water. Now, John, now
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is the time to call Katy up at the house.
Make certain she's kept busy there during the next fifteen minutes,
all the time you need fifteen important minutes. You dial
the main house.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yes, Katy, I'm famished. How about fixing me some coffee
and sandwiches? Huh yes, Oh that'll be fine. Hello John,
Well eat it, enjoy a swim even more than usual.
Life good. I just called Katy to make some sandwiches
for us. Well, how do you.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Like it all? This is splendid.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I'm calling it the Blue Heron.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
It's the best you ever done.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Really, thanks Here you look at it from this signal?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Oh, yes, yes, excellent.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Her back is to you now and you move quickly
her arms to her side.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
John, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
It's over in a matter of minutes, isn't it. John?
You carried its body across the deserted beach to the
end of the pier and drop her into the sea.
Then you hurry up the path to the cottage. As
you reach the crest of the hill, you see Katie
step out of the main house and start down the path.
You leap into the brush, make your way quickly through
the shadows to the cottage and step inside. When Katie arrives,
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you're standing at the work table, your fingers moving over
the blue heron.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Ah, there you are, Kittie.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Isn't Miss Sheridan back from a swim yet?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Isn't she at the house? No, sir, well, perhaps she's
on her way up. Now. Did you notice anyone just
this minute came down?
Speaker 7 (20:46):
Sir?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Didn't see a soul on the path.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Well, don't worry, she'll be along.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Yes, Oh, oh my.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
You have been working. What sort of a bird is that?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Heron? Like it?
Speaker 6 (21:03):
It is pretty, sir, real pretty, a doubt missus Sheridan.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Sir.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
It kind of worries me.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
You're very considered it Katie, but don't worry. You go
on back to the house.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
I'll be up late, Yes, sir, good night.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
You wait another hour, then call the house ask Katie
if Edith has returned. When she tells you Edith hasn't
come back yet, you show concern, and minutes later Katie
joins you and goes with you to the beach, where
you play the role of the worried husband. Finally, the
two of you return to the house call the police,
give them the details of Edith's disappearance. Early the following morning,
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you're at the guest cottage when Katie ushers in Chief
of Police Thompson.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Oh, mister Sheraton, it's truthful.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Harry, if you found it.
Speaker 10 (22:00):
Yes, about an hour ago, the tide carried a body
about a half a mile down the beach.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I'm sorry, John, Edith drowned. No, no, I can't believe it.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
It is hard to believe. She must have been seized
with cramps unless perhaps her heart.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
No, her heart was fine.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Well, if anything was wrong, the autopsy will show it.
I'll phone you the results.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yes, I appreciate it, Harry.
Speaker 10 (22:24):
I won't keep any longer now, John, I know this
has been hard on you.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Thanks. Thanks, Harry, you been very kind.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
After police Chief Thompson leaves, you breathe a sigh of relief.
You're sure he doesn't suspect to things. Nevertheless, she'll be
glad when the autopsy is over and the case is
officially closed. When the chief hasn't called after a couple
of hours, you begin to grow restless and pace the
floor and finally Hello John. Oh, yes, Harry, it looks
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like we were right.
Speaker 10 (23:06):
The AUDIFC shows your wife probably drowned as a result
of cramps. No marks on the body, sea water in
nor lungs. Sorry John, If there's.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Anything I can no, No, thanks, Harry, You've been more
than considerate. I'll be all right now, perfectly all right.
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Speaker 2 (25:13):
Well, John, it's over, isn't it. Your wife Edith is
dead an accidental drowning, and no one suspects that you
had anything to do with The police have come and gone,
They've accepted your story, and now the autopsy proves Edith's
death was caused by drowning. You're certain you're in the clear. Yes,
you're free to continue with Frank Devon, free of Edith
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the way that she was running your life. During the
remainder of the day, you play the role of the
grief stricken husband, accept the condolences of your friends, and
then early that evening you have another caller, Chief of
Police Thompson.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Back again, Harry.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Sometimes I'm pretty hard to get rid of John.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Who said down, what's on your mind?
Speaker 7 (25:57):
Just a couple more questions.
Speaker 10 (25:59):
You say, the guest cottage last night between the hours
of eight and eleven years That's right.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
You didn't leave the cottage at all.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
No, No, I was in the cottage all evening working
my hobby. You know well you saw, yeah, I saw
the blue.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Hair, and I think you called it. John.
Speaker 10 (26:14):
You didn't happen to take a bath at the guest
cottage last night. You did a bath, I know well.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
I'm afraid that censes it. You drowned your wife and
that cottage shared.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
That's absurd.
Speaker 10 (26:29):
Whatever reason, your lawyer gave us a letter you had
written to the DA exposing your activities with Frank Devon.
Your wife gave it to him and told him to
turn it over to us if anything happened either of you.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Devon's being picked up right now.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Sure, Sure I wrote that letter. Devon was threatening us,
But that doesn't prove I killed Edith. You said yourself
the autopsy showed seawater in both lungs.
Speaker 10 (26:52):
That autopsy showed us a lot of things. Your wife
was drowned in seawater, all.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Right, but she wasn't drowned in the sea. Wait a minute, Hell,
you're not making so Oh yes, I am.
Speaker 10 (27:01):
You were pretty smart to fill that bathtub at your
guest cutage with seawater before you drowned your wife and
a Sheridon.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
You almost fooled.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
And I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 10 (27:10):
You forgot about the microscopic analysis Sheridon. You see that
seawater and your wife's lungs also contained one hundred six
particles of clay. So does the bathtub blue modeling clay
the same blue clay you bought a Galloway shop yesterday.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I didn't.
Speaker 10 (27:25):
That's only one way that clay could have gotten into
your wife's lungs. It washed off your hands while you
were holding around to the water.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
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