August 1, 2025 • 44 mins
CBS Radio Mystery Theater - The Eye of Death
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come in.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Welcome. I'm e. G.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Marshall.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Murder we are told will out as will. I believe truth,
which is to say that most murderers, though not all,
are eventually exposed and made to pay for what is
considered certainly the most heinous crimes of all, the taking
of another's life. Such was the case with the charming,
(00:45):
debonair and totally amoral Greg Manchester, who felt sure he
had committed the perfect murder, only to discover you're arresting
me for murder. Lieutenant, you can't be serious, very serious,
mister Manchester. On what grounds? Yes, I shot and took
(01:05):
my wife, but it was an accidents. No accident, mister Manchester.
Cold blooded murder, and we can prove it. How can
you prove murder when there was no murder, It was
an accident. I tell you, I only wish to have
been a witness to prove what I say.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
There was a witness, Greg, a witness who can prove
it was murder.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh, Sandy, tell me who the corpse?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Greg?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
The corpse?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Our mystery drama, The Eye of Death was written especially
for the Mystery Theater by George Lowther and stars Joan Hackett.
It is sponsored in part by sign Off the Sinus
Medicines and Onenheuser Busch Incorporated brewers of Budweiser. I'll be
back shortly with that one. When it comes to murder,
(02:15):
it sometimes seems to me that the cleverer a murderer,
the more certain he is to be caught, for, as
the annals of Crime reveal, he tends to outsmart himself.
Doctor Crippen Landrew, George Joseph Smith to mention, but a few,
all without exception, flattered themselves on having committed perfect crimes,
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when in truth they had trapped themselves by overlooking one single, minor,
little detail, as did a certain gentleman named Gregory Manchester. Listen, murder.
You are accusing me, Sandy, of planning the murder your mother.
Is that what you say?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Don't twist my words, greg I said it wouldn't surprise
me if she had a fatal accident and died suddenly. Oh, Sandy,
don't even speak of such things. Just the thought makes
my heart skip a beat. I'm sorry, Rose, how is
your heart?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Same mother thinks I ought to see another doctor, Sandy.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I'm sorry you feel about me as you do. I
hope when I married your mother, that you'd become as
much my friend as your sister has. Why if you
could have heard me talking about you at my club,
how proud I was going to be to have the
famous photographer Sandy Oaks for a stepdaughter.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Can we be friends, Sandy friends? M Sorry, Greg, but
your charm is wasted on me. You charmed my mother
into marrying you, charmed her into turning over all of
the money to you, charmed into taking out one hundred
thousand dollars life policy with you as a beneficiary.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
But now, my dear, why not?
Speaker 5 (03:54):
After all, Sandy, I am her husband and a.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Fast worker, irid less than a month said, I haven't
wasted any time getting this marriage to pay off for you.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Oh now you're accusing me of marrying your mother for
her money? Is that it, my dear?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You can believe it? Oh now, Sandy Rose, it's true.
And I'm telling you straight out. This clothes horse with
his blonde hair and his Sir Walter roly Man as
there's nothing more than a sharp operator, a carn artist.
And that's what I've come here to tell my mother,
and I will tell her she ever gets out of
that bathroom comes down here.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Sam, you're all upset, said, I'm steaming.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
And I've been steaming ever since I heard about this
new life insurance policy.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
When mother phoned and said that you'd.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Just taken out one hundred thousand dollars policy with dear
Greggy as a beneficiary, I could have what is that?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
What it's a stain in the ceiling. It's a water staining.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
The bathroom is just above us.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Oh, now, don't tell me the tubs overflowed. If your
mother's had another of her fainting spells in the bob come.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
On fainting spills.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
But there's never had a fainting spell.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
In the wrong there, Sanday. She never told you, But
she's had a number of them sudden blackouts since your
father died. The shock of his death, I don't know.
And she's had two since we married a month ago.
God brand, she hasn't had another. I'm gonna take you.
I don't hear me on.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Oh no, he killed her, Joe, he killed her?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Now, sweetheart, did he drowned her in that tub?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
All of that talk about sudden fainting spells blackout's no way, Joe,
no way.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Ow.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Look, my dear lovable bride to be. I don't like
Gregory Manchester any more than you do, and I couldn't
agree more that he's the phony you claim he is.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
But you're no fool, Sandy.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
A camera nut maybe with that camera of yours always
slung around your neck.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
But Joe photography, he is my business.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
And I don't know how many pictures I have missed
if I didn't keep this high powered instamt ready at
all times.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
And really, I don't know why it bothers you.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
It's nothing.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Oh excuse me, yes, yes, yes, have them Come right
in Manchester and your sister.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I'm going to try to get Rose to move in
with me now that mother's gone.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Come in Rose, mister Manchester, thank you. Hello, Sandy?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Hello, how are you feeling? Rose? Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
All right, I want to talk with you privately after
the reading of mother's will.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
What about Sandy later, Dear, Well.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
We're all here, so I'll get started. I Geraldine Oaks, Manchester,
a resident of the city.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Wait a minute, Joe, Yes, Geraldine Oaks, Manchester.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Your mother made a new will after she married mister Manchester.
Didn't she tell you?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
No? But she told me she was going to She
didn't I'm sure I know why.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Another slap at me, Sandy. Are you implying I changed
her mind about telling you.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
If the shoe fits?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Great? Now?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Now hold it?
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Please.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
We're here for the reading of a will, and I
suggest we get.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
On with it.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I Geraldine Oaks, Manchester, a resident of this city. Lastly,
I hereby revoke all former wills and constiles to wills
heretofore by me made in witness thereof I have here.
I'm two, set my hand and seal this tenth day
(07:25):
of October, Signed Geraldine Oaks, Manchester, and witnessed, et cetera,
et cetera, et cetera. Well, mister Manchester, you've inherited quite
a fortune.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Plus one hundred thousand dollars in insurance, while Rose gets nothing.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Nor do I.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
As your mother stated in her will, Sandy, she trusted me,
implicitly trusted me to see the girls was well cared for.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And you I don't need mother's money. But Rose, Oh Sandy,
you can trust greg mother?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Did I do? I know?
Speaker 6 (07:56):
You do?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Rouse? You trust everyone you always.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Have, possibly because she hasn't let the world make her
as cynical as it.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Has made you, or not just a manut, mister man.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I can take care of myself, Joe. More important, I
can take care of Rose, and I mean too. But Sandy,
I'm going to be all right. Greg will leave you
to starve, if I know, Greg. But he isn't going
to because I'm not going.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
To let him. I'm going to break this will, Sandy.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I mean it. Joe, he can't mother and he fleester. Well,
You're not going to get away with it.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Greg.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
I'll break this will if it's the last thing that
I do.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
And may I ask exactly how am I.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
There by proving you murdered my mother and meant to
murderer from the start?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Have some more from creole Florence.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Oh, Greg Darling, I couldn't I simply couldn't you know?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I want to die? Oh nonsense.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
This is no time to say on a diet. In
the first place, it's MARNI draw wied. For the second,
I brought you to the finest restaurant in or Oh
you dear delightful. And in the third place, why anyone
with your figure feels you the need the diet that
baffles me up?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
You are a dear and delightful man, Greg Manchester, you
are almost as I know, I'll say it. You are
as dear and delightful as my late husband. Oh Greg,
I'm so glad we met, So glad, Florence.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
You know, only a week ago I was the lonest
man on earth, lovely and the way only the bereave
can be lonely. Even though it's months since Jardine passed on,
I thought I would never get over the loss. And then.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Well, then, my dearest, you don't mind if I called
you my dearest?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Of course not well I met you and life became
worth living again.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Graig, do you know that seems exactly the way I
felt feel?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I thought as much.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
We've known each other only a week, my dear, but
what a week it has been. And for my part, Florence,
I you won't be offended, No.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
No, for my parts.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
You're the woman I've been looking for since my own
dear Geraldine caused armed, the woman I felt sure I
would never never find.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Oh Greg, Greg, you dear man, then you're not offend.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It wouldn't be if I well, I find if you want, darling,
if I asked you to become my wife, Oh dear,
I have offended.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
No, no, oh, You've made me so happy. I think
I'm ready to cry. But I know of him? Uh, Greig,
is something wrong?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
No, no, no, but excuse me a moment, Clarence. I'll
be right back. Well, Sandy Oak's school, photographer, camera and all.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Greg Manchester con artist and murderer, next victim and all?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
What are you doing in New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Marty Grove week, I'm covering it for Cosmopolite.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You're lying.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
You found out I was living in New Orleans and
you followed me here.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
I care to see my press credentials.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
If Cosmopolite sent you, you asked for the assignments.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
How right you are?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Now you listen to me. Any more trouble from you,
and I'll make you know what trouble really is trouble?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
What makes you think I'm out to give you trouble?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Because you followed me here?
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Because I suddenly spotted you snapping a picture of me
and Missus Chapman.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I took more than one before you noticed me, Greg,
They may.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Come in hand it I don't see how Well.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Then look over there, Greg, see that sign.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
One of that reads Marty growling?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Exactly from that angle I caught not only you and
missus Chaplin.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
But that sign hanging behind you on the wall, So
what the time element? Greg and the place?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I can hear district attorneys saying to you at your
trial for murder. Quote you did know the widow, missus
Florence Chapman, as early as Mardi Gras week, didn't you?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
In New Orleans? Wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Unquote my murder triumph.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
You are going to kill her, aren't you? For her money?
After you marry her?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Tell me does she have any children? You can leave
penniless as you did my sister Rose, she.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Went to live with you. You're very successful, money of
doll you'll take care of her.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I am, I'm also going to take care of you now, Sunday.
I want cool it, calm man. I am not my
mother that you're talking to now, or my sister Rose,
or that lovely victim of yours.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Over there.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
A photographer gets around you, think of the cleverest thing
that ever happened. You are, But buster it's your cleverness
that's going to put you behind bars, because somewhere, somehow
you're going to think you're so clever that you'll make
one little mistake, one saint, a little mistake and when
you do, I'm going to be there.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Be smart and get out of my life and stay out.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Excuse me, I don't mean to interrupt, but Greg, dear,
won't you introduce me to that very attractive friend, dear.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Mail DearS as of course, Sir Sandy Oaks my stepdaughter.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Oh you're not the daughter of that poor woman who
who drowned accidentally.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Yes, Missus Chapman, I.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Am you know my Oh Greg told you no. I've
been watching you and mister Manchester ever since he met
you a week ago.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Watching Greg Darling. What does she mean?
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Oh, never mind finds she's a trouble maker. She tried
to stop me from marrying her mother.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
I tried to stop you from murdering my mother. Oh gracious,
that's talk.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You're in a restaurant, and missus Chapman, let me give
you a tip, a tip.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
That will save your life.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Say goodbye right now to this charming, well dressed murderer.
Say goodbye and go on living, Greg, Greg, I believe
you're right this well. I don't know what she is,
what she is, I'm sorry, I came over.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
I'll wait for you at our table.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yes, yes, yes, of course. Vond's well, you'll see.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
She's as naive and as trusting as my mother and
my sister or others you've murdered.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Oh so it's others now, look Sander, you said I'm clever.
Well I am clever, a hell of a lot cleverer
than you are. Now, I guess the only way to
get you off my neck.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Is to prove it.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
And just how will you do that?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
The only way I know? Murder?
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Don't get me all choked up. I know you ready
for anything.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
You try murder me, You don't have much of a chance,
mister Manchester.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Oh murder you? No, no, no, not you? Who then,
mister Rose, who you love so much? Who else? Inevitably
it had to come to this, the challenge, the squaring off,
(15:26):
the gauntlet flung down between a cold blooded murderer and
a self sufficient girl like Sandy Oaks who's been around?
Is she right? Will Greg Manchester make that one fatal mistake?
Speaker 6 (15:41):
She says, you will?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Perhaps we'll find out when I return for Act two.
Much has been written on the psychology of murder and murderers,
and although experts disagree, when have experts ever done anything else?
(16:07):
There seems a little question that the common motive for
murder is personal gain in any case. Assuredly, that's what
it is with Greg Manchester, who you might say marries
for murder. But now Sandy Oaks, veteran freelance photographer, has
set out to prove that Manchester murdered her mother, even
(16:29):
as Manchester threatens that if she doesn't leave him alone,
he will kill her invalid sister, Rose, Sandy, your mother
drowned in her bath after suffering a black out.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Oh mother never had a blackout of fainting spell in
her life. Manchester spread that story to cover himself, But you.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Can't prove it, and until you can, I'm warning you
drop it.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I'm not afraid of a suit for libel or slander
if that's what you mean.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
What I mean is I'm afraid for your life, if
what you say is true.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Cruise is life I'm worried about if anything happened to me,
she'd be alone and penniless.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
You don't ever have to worry about Rose while I'm around.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
You know that, of course not. But good lord, I
didn't realize it was this late. I've got to rush.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Why just when I was about to invite you to lodge.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I'm sorry, darling, but I'm due with the Metropolitan Photographic
Exhibit in half an hour. I promised to advise the
committee on how to hang the prize exhibits, oh.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Including one of yours, which reminds me I owe you
an apology.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
An apology because I want a prize.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Well, I'm always kidding you about carrying that fancy camera
of yours, but if you hadn't had it with you
and shot from the hip that day, you'd never have
caught that picture of an old man being mugged.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
And the muggers off the cops nail.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
And because of what I've photographed, which reminds me, I've
got to see Lieutenant McCoy at headquarters after the photo
Exhibit four four. The information I dug up in New
Orleans about Greg Manchester, now, it may not mean anything
to you, darling, but I'm hoping it will mean plenty
to Lieutenant mc boy.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
It means nothing to me, Sandy, nothing at all, but
Mac Sandy, I checked it out. Yeah, sure Manchester was
married before he met your mother. I'm sure his wife
died of an overdose of sleeping pills, but the coroner's
verdict was death by accident.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Oh, Mac, you put me away, you really do.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I don't get you.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
His wife dies of an overdose of sleeping pills, and
he inherits over fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
He marries my mother. She dies by drowning. He inherits.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Every century has plus an insurance of one hundred thousand
dollars taken out less than a month before.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Two deaths, two so.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Called accidents, and Greg Manchester hits the financial jackpot.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
That doesn't strike you.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
As fishy, Yes, but now he's going to marry this
other wealthy widow, Florence Chapman, less than three months after
my mother dies, Sandy.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Oh, and he threatens to kill my sister Rose if
I don't lay off.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
And you sit there and you tell me that you
don't think that Manchester is a cold blooded murderer.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Hard and so I said, he's clean. Sammy as a cop,
I got a player by the book the rules of Evans.
Maybe Manchester did kill your mother and his previous wife.
But I haven't got a shred of evidence to proby did.
And the ear of you, well have you no?
Speaker 6 (19:23):
No?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
But I'm going to get it. Sooner or later.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Manchester is going to make one slip, one victial slip,
and I'm going to be there when he does.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Taking pictures of him as he does.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
I'll bet it isn't funny.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Mac.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I'm just cracking wise about you and your trusty companions
that camera.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Laugh.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
But it caught you a couple of muggers, and Mac,
it may catch me a murderer.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
There's a venturers want? Is it for a while?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
No, standing there, im, you're excited to sit still.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
You're too excited, period. I'll be all right. Oh, it's
such a thrill for me just to get out of
that apartment.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
But on top of that, these wonderful pictures Holsman, Eisen,
Sat Kepler and you.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
That's what I call really sisterly love, putting me in
that class.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Oh you want a first prize, yes, but in photojournalism,
and there's nothing already about my stuff. The first prize
is a first prize, and I'm not going to argue
whoa sending? Maybe I'd better sit down from a minute
or two yeses right there?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Now?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
How bad is it? It's not that Sandy?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Would you open night back? And they got the bottle
of nitropilia Just to say a little moment now here.
We are here. Stay here, I'll get you a couple
of wars. Excuse me, please excuse me. I just want
to get through to the water cooler.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
We're here, Let me help you.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Thank you you?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yes me?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Greg?
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Missus Manchester wanted to see the exhibits.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
She married you then.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
And I wanted to see you. Thure you'd be here.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
So I've got no time for you.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Now.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
I've got to get a cup of water for my sister.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Well, here's the cup, there's the water. I want a
word with you, Sandy a mount.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Would you get out of my way? Excuse me? Please
excuse me, Rose, Rose deer here you are. Thank you, Sandy,
thank you? Are you better?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Much?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I think it would better, girl, Sandy, I haven't seen
everything yet. Your whole dra at my heart. My first
day out of the apartment in weeks. I'm going to
make the most of it. I'm going to see everything
there is to see. Oh look who's here?
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Rose?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Greg?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Never better?
Speaker 6 (21:51):
You?
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Pretty well? Thank you?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I meant to call on you when I got back
to New Orleans, but I have felt your sister wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Approve You're right, Greg, her to know you too.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
All Sandy and I I'm going to have a scene.
I only want to say hello, So if you'll excuse me,
I'll rejoin my wife. Goodbye, Rose, good bye, Sandy. Oh,
give my regards to Lieutenant McCoy next time you'll.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
See him, Lieutenant McCoy.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
The police lieutenant you went to see this morning about
a certain little matter.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
How do you know that I want to see McCoy
and what I want to see him about?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Or does it matter? I know? And I think it
was very foolish of you, Sandy, do you?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yes, very In fact, is I intimated to you in
New Orleans? It could even be dangerous, deadly dangerous, not
for you, not immediately for you. Well, goodbye for.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Now, Sanny. What was that all about? Nothing?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Rose?
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Nothing? What did Greg mean? It could be dead dangerous?
It's so it's nothing for you to worry about.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Rose.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Well, all right if you say so. Funny though, but
I'm worried somehow suddenly I'm I'm very worried.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Joe.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Oh, nice to see.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
You come in. How are you right? Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I'm fine fine.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
No, Fibbs, dear brother in law to be. I talked
to Sandy on the phone. She said, your heart gave
you a little trouble if the photography exhibitions.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
As oh nothing my nightrope pills couldn't handle and did.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Oh good good where Sandy three guesses the.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Doctor give the man a cigar? Oh, would you rather
have a drink?
Speaker 6 (23:56):
A drink?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
And I'll make it. I'll make it. Sandy said, you
ran into Greg Manchester at the exhibition.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Yes, I'm wordy, Joe about what?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Greg said a funny thing to Sandy. It seems he
heard somehow she'd gone to see police Lieutenant Lieutenant McCloy McCoy.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
McCoy about something.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
He didn't say what, and Sandy wouldn't tell me, But anyhow,
he said he thought she was very foolish to do
anything like that, and that it could be deadly dangerous.
Those were the words he used, deadly dangerous.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I see Sandy didn't tell you, No, she didn't.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
But not for her.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
That was the funny part of what he said, Not
deadly dangerous for her.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Not immediately, Rose, Rose, what is it.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
You are?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Nacrosy sunny Sunday bedroom, I Rose, Let me get you
to the count Let's lay you down here.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
Are there, Chrisdad, Sandy, are yet yet here?
Speaker 4 (25:15):
He rose? Open your mouth? Are yet water?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Joe?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Hi, Joe? Here you are.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
All right now, Honey, swallowed the pills. Swallow it, dear,
that's it. That's okay, all right, child, to be all right.
No moment to two, Ruse, Louise, deal.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Having any thing? Rose? Is the pain? Let him up? Rose, Rose, Joe.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Here, let me two.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
She she's gone, Sandy, No, no afraid, so, sweetheart.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
He's done it. He threatened he wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
He has.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Great Manchester.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
He said he'd kill her if I didn't lay off.
And I didn't, and he has, Thank you, Mac, goodbye?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
What'd he say?
Speaker 6 (26:31):
McCoy?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
The toxicology lab tested the pills Rose took that I
gave her.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Oh, Sandy, all right, come on now, honey.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
The pills.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
They found that they were triple strength, triple the amount
of necrogliss or I'm prescribed for Rose.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
That's impossible. No pharmacists would make a mistake like that.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
The pharmacists didn't. They got him out of bed, and
they met him at his place and checked his records.
He made no mistake, well, Sandy, how Gregg?
Speaker 6 (27:11):
Sandy don't ask.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Me how he did it.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
He got into the apartment maybe while we were out
Rose and I.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
I don't change the bottles.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
All that matters to me is that he did it.
And I know in my bones, I know that he
did it. He murdered the woman he was married to
before he married my mother. He killed my mother, He
killed Rose. He'll kill Florence Chapman.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
He'll kill me unless I stop him.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
He's got to be stopped, Joe, stopped and put behind
bars like any other animal. And that's where I'm going
to put him, with God's help, Joe, that's where I'll put.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Him for the rest of his life.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Brave words, words spoken under the pressure of emotion. Well,
I think I can tell you at this point that
Sandy did put Greg Manchester behind bars for the rest
of his life. When he made that one fatal slip.
He Well, I was about to say that he overlooked something,
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but the fact is he never saw it. But Sandy did, or,
to be more precise, her camera did. I'll return in
a moment for act three. You will recall my saying
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earlier that the cleverer, the murderer, the more likely he
is to make one fatal slip, something so minor he
never thought of it, never noticed it. What slip will
Greg Manchester make? So far he's got away with his killings.
Sandy Oaks doesn't know where Greg Manchester will make that
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fatal slip, or when, or more particularly how, but make it.
She knows he will, and as I've told you, make
it he did. The question is what insignificant but very
final mistake did he make?
Speaker 6 (29:24):
You?
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Dare, Dare, show your face here.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
I came here to this funeral home to see Rose
for the last time. I am her stepfather, Sandy, and have.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
A ride murderer, Sandy, get him out of here, Joe.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Sonny, Joe, I'm going. May I have a word with
you outside? Of course, Sandy put herself together. Well, Joe,
you're a lawyer. Would you give me some advice? What
am I to do with her? She hates me, has
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hated me for the moment we met. I don't know why.
Chemistry aspose. Not much I can say to that, Greg, except.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
You're a liar.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I beg your pardon. You're a liar. It isn't chemistry
between you and Sandy it's Sandy's awareness, her awareness.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
From the first, her trained.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Awareness because she's photographed so many people, that you're a phony.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
I agreed with.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Her about that after only short acquaintance with you, Greg,
but I didn't agree with her that you're a murderer.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Now.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
You can't mean you think I murdered Geraldine. I think
you murdered Geraldine and Rose. I think you murdered another woman,
in fact, probably other women. You can stand there and
through my face say it, because it's obvious there's such
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a thing as coincidence. Greg, that your history, your married history,
goes beyond coincidence, and you are calling me a murderer.
I thought I've made that plane. You're skating on thin
ice now and you're going to go through it, and
when you do, you're going to find the water bitter cold, Greg,
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bitter cold.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Won't you sit down, miss Oaks? Thank you? Missus Manchester.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Let me say I only agreed to see you when
you phoned and said you wanted to talk with me alone.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I only agreed because you are his stepdaughter.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Missus Manchester, and I wanted to see you because someone
should warn you.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Greg Manchester is a murderer. What are you saying?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
He murdered my mother, He murdered my sister Rose, he
murdered the woman he was married to before he met
my mother. He's going to murder you, my dear. Do
you realize the gravity of his accusation?
Speaker 4 (32:09):
The important thing is that you realize.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
What I realize is that you are a bitter and
malicious young woman who, for some reason I am totally
unable to understand, wants to malign a man who has
never done anything but good for you.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Good?
Speaker 2 (32:25):
What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Your mother left him all her money, didn't she? Yes?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
He was also the beneficiary of her life insurance, wasn't
he yes? And all of this the fortune he might
have had he turned over to you and your sister?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Is that not so?
Speaker 4 (32:43):
It certainly is not so. Gregg told then he lied.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
He took my mother into giving him control of her money,
power of attorney and all of that, and then taking
out a hundred thousand dollar life insurance policy, and then
he killed her.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Can you prove that?
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I can't not yet, But whether I can or not,
I think what you should keep in mind is that
at least two previous wives have died suddenly and mysteriously
after giving him control of their money.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
Have you.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Why, well, yes I have. Oh but I can't believe this.
I won't believe it.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
My husband is one of the most dear and delightful
men I've ever met.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Thank you, my dear, Thank you for your trust in me.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
Greg.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
We didn't hear you come in.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
I'm glad you didn't, otherwise I'd not have overheard my
stepdaughter's accusations. Certainly, I must ask you to leave and
please don't come back.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Goodbye, missus Manchester, and good luck.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Well.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
I hope that's the last we see of her. I'm
sure you didn't believe the lies you must have told
about me.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Why no, of course, snock, Greg.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
You don't sound altogether sure, Florence.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
But yes, I am only Greg.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
You told me you had handed all your former wife's
fortune over to her daughter's.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
No no, no, no, no, what do you misunderstood me?
I said that I intended to do it, but I
haven't had time to get around with it yet. It's
quite involved, you know, certain megalities which take time.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
And you don't believe me to you No, no, no, no,
I do I do.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Only I'm certain you said you had already given them
the money.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Oh you're mistaken, my dear, Greg.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Yes, that power of attorney I signed the other day. Yes,
don't be offended, dear, But just as a matter of interest,
does it give you.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Control over my money? Now?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
That's an odd question, Franz, does it?
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Greg?
Speaker 2 (35:02):
What the power of attorney is? Just that it empowers
me to act in your behalf.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
In other words, you can sign checks withdraw money from
my account.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
That sort of thing, Yes, that sort of thing I see. No, No, no, no,
I don't think you do.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
For instance, you don't see that you have just signed
your death warrant.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
This warrant.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
I want you to go into your bedroom, start packing, packing.
You're going to visit your sister in New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Midnight. Make the call, Florence, make it or I'll shoot
you right now.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Hello, miss Oaks, this is missus Manchester. Yes, I've I've
got to see you right away. Could you come here
to my apartment? My fancy and I were just it's urgent,
miss Oaks, dreadfully urgent. Please please come, of course, all.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Right, thank you, goodbye, she's coming right over.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
Yes, Greg, please don't kill me.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
I'm sorry, Farrence I'll.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Give you my money.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
I've already got it.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Then why kill me?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Pleasure, my dear, simple pleasure.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
I find a certain thrill and murdering someone, especially silly
women like you. When Sandy pushes that door buzzer, listen
to it carefully, Florence, it will be the last sound
you hear in this life.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Greg.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
I must snap over the lights here in the bedroom.
Oh good, I'm coming, I'm coming, all right, help me,
help me, help me. We heard a shot in the bedroom.
I just had a problem.
Speaker 7 (37:24):
Picked dark in here the lights with oh yeah here,
Oh good lord, Florence Manchester. What oh no, oh no, Sandy,
for the love, this is no time for snapping pictures.
I wasn't even aware I was get to the farmer,
call the police and put that damn camera away.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Yes, yes, okay, I thought Florence was a prowler.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
I lost my head. I preferred into the dark room headquarters.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Give me a Lieutenant McCoy Is he there?
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Yeah, hurry, Sandy, Sandy, please look at it.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
Joe, look at it and tell me what do you see.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
I see the body of Florence Manchester lying on her
bedroom floor. I have seen the body of Florence Manchester
lying on her bedroom floor for over a month now,
in blow up after blow up after blow up of
the pictures you snapped that night. This blow up, good lord, Sandy,
it's the biggest yet.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Why Because these pictures prove Greg murdered Florence.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
That's why you keep saying that.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
But you don't tell me what proved.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Because I don't know because it's staring at me in
the face and I can't see it.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Joe, look at it. Please just look at it. Look no, Joe,
just look.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
I've had it, Sandy, all right. Maybe, like you say,
Greg's story of what happened with so much eyewash. Maybe
Florence didn't leave to visit his sister in New Orleans.
Maybe she didn't come back on actively while he was
asleep in his bedroom. Maybe he didn't hear a noise
in her bedroom. Think it was a prowler panic and
shooting into the dark in bedroom. Eye wash, all eyewashed,
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But h what is it?
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Eyewash?
Speaker 6 (39:14):
I wash?
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Give me that boop ooh with pleasure. That's it, Joe,
that's it. What's what?
Speaker 4 (39:20):
The proof that he murdered? It the proof I'd been
looking for. But couldn't see Joe Florence Manchester's eyes.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Look at her eyes.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Manchester, you'd been booked on charge of murder, the murder
of your wife, Florence. Now look here, thanks to your
stepdaughter seeing the oaks, here we have positive proof that
you deliberately and with malice of forethought, shot Florence Manchester
to death.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
What proof?
Speaker 2 (39:53):
What proof? I told you she hacked a bag, you
saw it in the bedroom and left the visitors. Mister
Norton let her come back unexpectedly, according to your story,
and I fired a shot into her pitch black bedroom
thinking she was a prowler. That's what happened. That's the truth.
And now no, it's a lie. This photograph of your
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wife's body, Sandy took it within a minute or two
after the shot was fired. So look at Manchester, Look
especially at the eyes, the eyes that are open and
staring at the ceiling. What do you see her eyes?
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What else am I supposed to see? The size of
her pupils? Look at the pupils of her eyes. Down't
what you see? I see the pupils of her eyes
contracted contracted to the size of a pinhead. I the
human eyes is like a camera. Like that instament, Sandy
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always carries. The darker object or a place, the wider
the pupil of the eye expands. The brighter an object
or a place such as your wife's bedroom, the narrower
the pupil becomes contracts. What's more, Manchester, when a person
is killed instantly, as your wife was, the pupil remains
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unchanged for two to three minutes. You'll say you're saying it.
The photo says it, not me. You stated that you
fired that shot into a dark bedroom, killing your wife
by accident. Her eyes contracted to pinhead size proved that
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she died in a lighted room, a brightly lighted room.
If you have anything to say, make it in the
form of a confession, won't you? And on second thought,
I'm not sure we need bother. It's all on film, Manchester.
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Our picture, they say, is worth a thousand words. And
so it would seem that Lieutenant McCoy is right. No
words of Manchester's in his defense could possibly disprove the
truth of his wife's dead accusing eyes. I'll be back shortly,
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and Gregory Manchester is no longer a name but a
number at State's Prison. Sandy's name has changed too, from
Miss Sandy Oaks to Missus Joseph. Norman. Hasn't changed her
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habit of carrying that camera wherever she goes, however, but
she seems to use it more and more these days,
snapping pictures of a baby named Joe Junior. Our cast
included Joan Hackett, ELpH Bell, Robert Dryden, and Joan Shay.
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown
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and now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Missus Tipton. It's really hard to see where I'd fit in.
I'm a trained social worker. That's how I make my living.
At least that was how I made my living. I
was discharged six months ago. They were cutting down, and well,
I haven't been able to find anything in my field,
and I'm running short of money. So I'm willing to
take almost any kind of job if it's respectable, because.
Speaker 4 (43:36):
I'm not going to ask you to do anything you
wouldn't ordinarily do. Do you need a secretary something like that?
I think I could manage that maybe, or be a companion.
Speaker 8 (43:47):
I want a secretary or a companion. Why would I
I never do anything? And I prefer being alone well,
what is it that you do want? I want somebody
to live for me to.
Speaker 4 (44:06):
Live for you.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
Radio Mystery Theater were sponsored in part by Enhuzer Busch Incorporated,
brewers of Budweiser and sign off the Sinus Medicines.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
This is E. G.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.
Come in.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Welcome. I'm e. G.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Marshall.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Murder we are told will out as will. I believe truth,
which is to say that most murderers, though not all,
are eventually exposed and made to pay for what is
considered certainly the most heinous crimes of all, the taking
of another's life. Such was the case with the charming,
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debonair and totally amoral Greg Manchester, who felt sure he
had committed the perfect murder, only to discover you're arresting
me for murder. Lieutenant, you can't be serious, very serious,
mister Manchester. On what grounds? Yes, I shot and took
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my wife, but it was an accidents. No accident, mister Manchester.
Cold blooded murder, and we can prove it. How can
you prove murder when there was no murder, It was
an accident. I tell you, I only wish to have
been a witness to prove what I say.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
There was a witness, Greg, a witness who can prove
it was murder.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh, Sandy, tell me who the corpse?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Greg?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
The corpse?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Our mystery drama, The Eye of Death was written especially
for the Mystery Theater by George Lowther and stars Joan Hackett.
It is sponsored in part by sign Off the Sinus
Medicines and Onenheuser Busch Incorporated brewers of Budweiser. I'll be
back shortly with that one. When it comes to murder,
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it sometimes seems to me that the cleverer a murderer,
the more certain he is to be caught, for, as
the annals of Crime reveal, he tends to outsmart himself.
Doctor Crippen Landrew, George Joseph Smith to mention, but a few,
all without exception, flattered themselves on having committed perfect crimes,
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when in truth they had trapped themselves by overlooking one single, minor,
little detail, as did a certain gentleman named Gregory Manchester. Listen, murder.
You are accusing me, Sandy, of planning the murder your mother.
Is that what you say?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Don't twist my words, greg I said it wouldn't surprise
me if she had a fatal accident and died suddenly. Oh, Sandy,
don't even speak of such things. Just the thought makes
my heart skip a beat. I'm sorry, Rose, how is
your heart?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Same mother thinks I ought to see another doctor, Sandy.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I'm sorry you feel about me as you do. I
hope when I married your mother, that you'd become as
much my friend as your sister has. Why if you
could have heard me talking about you at my club,
how proud I was going to be to have the
famous photographer Sandy Oaks for a stepdaughter.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Can we be friends, Sandy friends? M Sorry, Greg, but
your charm is wasted on me. You charmed my mother
into marrying you, charmed her into turning over all of
the money to you, charmed into taking out one hundred
thousand dollars life policy with you as a beneficiary.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
But now, my dear, why not?
Speaker 5 (03:54):
After all, Sandy, I am her husband and a.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Fast worker, irid less than a month said, I haven't
wasted any time getting this marriage to pay off for you.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Oh now you're accusing me of marrying your mother for
her money? Is that it, my dear?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You can believe it? Oh now, Sandy Rose, it's true.
And I'm telling you straight out. This clothes horse with
his blonde hair and his Sir Walter roly Man as
there's nothing more than a sharp operator, a carn artist.
And that's what I've come here to tell my mother,
and I will tell her she ever gets out of
that bathroom comes down here.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Sam, you're all upset, said, I'm steaming.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
And I've been steaming ever since I heard about this
new life insurance policy.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
When mother phoned and said that you'd.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Just taken out one hundred thousand dollars policy with dear
Greggy as a beneficiary, I could have what is that?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
What it's a stain in the ceiling. It's a water staining.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
The bathroom is just above us.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Oh, now, don't tell me the tubs overflowed. If your
mother's had another of her fainting spells in the bob come.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
On fainting spills.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
But there's never had a fainting spell.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
In the wrong there, Sanday. She never told you, But
she's had a number of them sudden blackouts since your
father died. The shock of his death, I don't know.
And she's had two since we married a month ago.
God brand, she hasn't had another. I'm gonna take you.
I don't hear me on.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Oh no, he killed her, Joe, he killed her?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Now, sweetheart, did he drowned her in that tub?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
All of that talk about sudden fainting spells blackout's no way, Joe,
no way.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Ow.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Look, my dear lovable bride to be. I don't like
Gregory Manchester any more than you do, and I couldn't
agree more that he's the phony you claim he is.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
But you're no fool, Sandy.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
A camera nut maybe with that camera of yours always
slung around your neck.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
But Joe photography, he is my business.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
And I don't know how many pictures I have missed
if I didn't keep this high powered instamt ready at
all times.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
And really, I don't know why it bothers you.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
It's nothing.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Oh excuse me, yes, yes, yes, have them Come right
in Manchester and your sister.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I'm going to try to get Rose to move in
with me now that mother's gone.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Come in Rose, mister Manchester, thank you. Hello, Sandy?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Hello, how are you feeling? Rose? Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
All right, I want to talk with you privately after
the reading of mother's will.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
What about Sandy later, Dear, Well.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
We're all here, so I'll get started. I Geraldine Oaks, Manchester,
a resident of the city.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Wait a minute, Joe, Yes, Geraldine Oaks, Manchester.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Your mother made a new will after she married mister Manchester.
Didn't she tell you?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
No? But she told me she was going to She
didn't I'm sure I know why.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Another slap at me, Sandy. Are you implying I changed
her mind about telling you.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
If the shoe fits?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Great? Now?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Now hold it?
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Please.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
We're here for the reading of a will, and I
suggest we get.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
On with it.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I Geraldine Oaks, Manchester, a resident of this city. Lastly,
I hereby revoke all former wills and constiles to wills
heretofore by me made in witness thereof I have here.
I'm two, set my hand and seal this tenth day
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of October, Signed Geraldine Oaks, Manchester, and witnessed, et cetera,
et cetera, et cetera. Well, mister Manchester, you've inherited quite
a fortune.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Plus one hundred thousand dollars in insurance, while Rose gets nothing.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Nor do I.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
As your mother stated in her will, Sandy, she trusted me,
implicitly trusted me to see the girls was well cared for.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And you I don't need mother's money. But Rose, Oh Sandy,
you can trust greg mother?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Did I do? I know?
Speaker 6 (07:56):
You do?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Rouse? You trust everyone you always.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Have, possibly because she hasn't let the world make her
as cynical as it.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Has made you, or not just a manut, mister man.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I can take care of myself, Joe. More important, I
can take care of Rose, and I mean too. But Sandy,
I'm going to be all right. Greg will leave you
to starve, if I know, Greg. But he isn't going
to because I'm not going.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
To let him. I'm going to break this will, Sandy.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I mean it. Joe, he can't mother and he fleester. Well,
You're not going to get away with it.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Greg.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
I'll break this will if it's the last thing that
I do.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
And may I ask exactly how am I.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
There by proving you murdered my mother and meant to
murderer from the start?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Have some more from creole Florence.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Oh, Greg Darling, I couldn't I simply couldn't you know?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I want to die? Oh nonsense.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
This is no time to say on a diet. In
the first place, it's MARNI draw wied. For the second,
I brought you to the finest restaurant in or Oh
you dear delightful. And in the third place, why anyone
with your figure feels you the need the diet that
baffles me up?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
You are a dear and delightful man, Greg Manchester, you
are almost as I know, I'll say it. You are
as dear and delightful as my late husband. Oh Greg,
I'm so glad we met, So glad, Florence.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
You know, only a week ago I was the lonest
man on earth, lovely and the way only the bereave
can be lonely. Even though it's months since Jardine passed on,
I thought I would never get over the loss. And then.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Well, then, my dearest, you don't mind if I called
you my dearest?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Of course not well I met you and life became
worth living again.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Graig, do you know that seems exactly the way I
felt feel?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I thought as much.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
We've known each other only a week, my dear, but
what a week it has been. And for my part, Florence,
I you won't be offended, No.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
No, for my parts.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
You're the woman I've been looking for since my own
dear Geraldine caused armed, the woman I felt sure I
would never never find.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Oh Greg, Greg, you dear man, then you're not offend.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It wouldn't be if I well, I find if you want, darling,
if I asked you to become my wife, Oh dear,
I have offended.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
No, no, oh, You've made me so happy. I think
I'm ready to cry. But I know of him? Uh, Greig,
is something wrong?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
No, no, no, but excuse me a moment, Clarence. I'll
be right back. Well, Sandy Oak's school, photographer, camera and all.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Greg Manchester con artist and murderer, next victim and all?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
What are you doing in New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Marty Grove week, I'm covering it for Cosmopolite.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You're lying.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
You found out I was living in New Orleans and
you followed me here.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
I care to see my press credentials.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
If Cosmopolite sent you, you asked for the assignments.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
How right you are?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Now you listen to me. Any more trouble from you,
and I'll make you know what trouble really is trouble?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
What makes you think I'm out to give you trouble?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Because you followed me here?
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Because I suddenly spotted you snapping a picture of me
and Missus Chapman.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I took more than one before you noticed me, Greg,
They may.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Come in hand it I don't see how Well.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Then look over there, Greg, see that sign.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
One of that reads Marty growling?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Exactly from that angle I caught not only you and
missus Chaplin.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
But that sign hanging behind you on the wall, So
what the time element? Greg and the place?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I can hear district attorneys saying to you at your
trial for murder. Quote you did know the widow, missus
Florence Chapman, as early as Mardi Gras week, didn't you?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
In New Orleans? Wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Unquote my murder triumph.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
You are going to kill her, aren't you? For her money?
After you marry her?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Tell me does she have any children? You can leave
penniless as you did my sister Rose, she.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Went to live with you. You're very successful, money of
doll you'll take care of her.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I am, I'm also going to take care of you now, Sunday.
I want cool it, calm man. I am not my
mother that you're talking to now, or my sister Rose,
or that lovely victim of yours.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Over there.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
A photographer gets around you, think of the cleverest thing
that ever happened. You are, But buster it's your cleverness
that's going to put you behind bars, because somewhere, somehow
you're going to think you're so clever that you'll make
one little mistake, one saint, a little mistake and when
you do, I'm going to be there.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Be smart and get out of my life and stay out.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Excuse me, I don't mean to interrupt, but Greg, dear,
won't you introduce me to that very attractive friend, dear.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Mail DearS as of course, Sir Sandy Oaks my stepdaughter.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Oh you're not the daughter of that poor woman who
who drowned accidentally.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Yes, Missus Chapman, I.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Am you know my Oh Greg told you no. I've
been watching you and mister Manchester ever since he met
you a week ago.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Watching Greg Darling. What does she mean?
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Oh, never mind finds she's a trouble maker. She tried
to stop me from marrying her mother.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
I tried to stop you from murdering my mother. Oh gracious,
that's talk.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You're in a restaurant, and missus Chapman, let me give
you a tip, a tip.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
That will save your life.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Say goodbye right now to this charming, well dressed murderer.
Say goodbye and go on living, Greg, Greg, I believe
you're right this well. I don't know what she is,
what she is, I'm sorry, I came over.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
I'll wait for you at our table.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yes, yes, yes, of course. Vond's well, you'll see.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
She's as naive and as trusting as my mother and
my sister or others you've murdered.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Oh so it's others now, look Sander, you said I'm clever.
Well I am clever, a hell of a lot cleverer
than you are. Now, I guess the only way to
get you off my neck.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Is to prove it.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
And just how will you do that?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
The only way I know? Murder?
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Don't get me all choked up. I know you ready
for anything.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
You try murder me, You don't have much of a chance,
mister Manchester.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Oh murder you? No, no, no, not you? Who then,
mister Rose, who you love so much? Who else? Inevitably
it had to come to this, the challenge, the squaring off,
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the gauntlet flung down between a cold blooded murderer and
a self sufficient girl like Sandy Oaks who's been around?
Is she right? Will Greg Manchester make that one fatal mistake?
Speaker 6 (15:41):
She says, you will?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Perhaps we'll find out when I return for Act two.
Much has been written on the psychology of murder and murderers,
and although experts disagree, when have experts ever done anything else?
(16:07):
There seems a little question that the common motive for
murder is personal gain in any case. Assuredly, that's what
it is with Greg Manchester, who you might say marries
for murder. But now Sandy Oaks, veteran freelance photographer, has
set out to prove that Manchester murdered her mother, even
(16:29):
as Manchester threatens that if she doesn't leave him alone,
he will kill her invalid sister, Rose, Sandy, your mother
drowned in her bath after suffering a black out.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Oh mother never had a blackout of fainting spell in
her life. Manchester spread that story to cover himself, But you.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Can't prove it, and until you can, I'm warning you
drop it.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I'm not afraid of a suit for libel or slander
if that's what you mean.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
What I mean is I'm afraid for your life, if
what you say is true.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Cruise is life I'm worried about if anything happened to me,
she'd be alone and penniless.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
You don't ever have to worry about Rose while I'm around.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
You know that, of course not. But good lord, I
didn't realize it was this late. I've got to rush.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Why just when I was about to invite you to lodge.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I'm sorry, darling, but I'm due with the Metropolitan Photographic
Exhibit in half an hour. I promised to advise the
committee on how to hang the prize exhibits, oh.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Including one of yours, which reminds me I owe you
an apology.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
An apology because I want a prize.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Well, I'm always kidding you about carrying that fancy camera
of yours, but if you hadn't had it with you
and shot from the hip that day, you'd never have
caught that picture of an old man being mugged.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
And the muggers off the cops nail.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
And because of what I've photographed, which reminds me, I've
got to see Lieutenant McCoy at headquarters after the photo
Exhibit four four. The information I dug up in New
Orleans about Greg Manchester, now, it may not mean anything
to you, darling, but I'm hoping it will mean plenty
to Lieutenant mc boy.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
It means nothing to me, Sandy, nothing at all, but
Mac Sandy, I checked it out. Yeah, sure Manchester was
married before he met your mother. I'm sure his wife
died of an overdose of sleeping pills, but the coroner's
verdict was death by accident.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Oh, Mac, you put me away, you really do.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I don't get you.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
His wife dies of an overdose of sleeping pills, and
he inherits over fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
He marries my mother. She dies by drowning. He inherits.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Every century has plus an insurance of one hundred thousand
dollars taken out less than a month before.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Two deaths, two so.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Called accidents, and Greg Manchester hits the financial jackpot.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
That doesn't strike you.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
As fishy, Yes, but now he's going to marry this
other wealthy widow, Florence Chapman, less than three months after
my mother dies, Sandy.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Oh, and he threatens to kill my sister Rose if
I don't lay off.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
And you sit there and you tell me that you
don't think that Manchester is a cold blooded murderer.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Hard and so I said, he's clean. Sammy as a cop,
I got a player by the book the rules of Evans.
Maybe Manchester did kill your mother and his previous wife.
But I haven't got a shred of evidence to proby did.
And the ear of you, well have you no?
Speaker 6 (19:23):
No?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
But I'm going to get it. Sooner or later.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Manchester is going to make one slip, one victial slip,
and I'm going to be there when he does.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Taking pictures of him as he does.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
I'll bet it isn't funny.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Mac.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I'm just cracking wise about you and your trusty companions
that camera.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Laugh.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
But it caught you a couple of muggers, and Mac,
it may catch me a murderer.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
There's a venturers want? Is it for a while?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
No, standing there, im, you're excited to sit still.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
You're too excited, period. I'll be all right. Oh, it's
such a thrill for me just to get out of
that apartment.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
But on top of that, these wonderful pictures Holsman, Eisen,
Sat Kepler and you.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
That's what I call really sisterly love, putting me in
that class.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Oh you want a first prize, yes, but in photojournalism,
and there's nothing already about my stuff. The first prize
is a first prize, and I'm not going to argue
whoa sending? Maybe I'd better sit down from a minute
or two yeses right there?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Now?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
How bad is it? It's not that Sandy?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Would you open night back? And they got the bottle
of nitropilia Just to say a little moment now here.
We are here. Stay here, I'll get you a couple
of wars. Excuse me, please excuse me. I just want
to get through to the water cooler.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
We're here, Let me help you.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Thank you you?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yes me?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Greg?
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Missus Manchester wanted to see the exhibits.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
She married you then.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
And I wanted to see you. Thure you'd be here.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
So I've got no time for you.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Now.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
I've got to get a cup of water for my sister.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Well, here's the cup, there's the water. I want a
word with you, Sandy a mount.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Would you get out of my way? Excuse me? Please
excuse me, Rose, Rose deer here you are. Thank you, Sandy,
thank you? Are you better?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Much?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I think it would better, girl, Sandy, I haven't seen
everything yet. Your whole dra at my heart. My first
day out of the apartment in weeks. I'm going to
make the most of it. I'm going to see everything
there is to see. Oh look who's here?
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Rose?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Greg?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Never better?
Speaker 6 (21:51):
You?
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Pretty well? Thank you?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I meant to call on you when I got back
to New Orleans, but I have felt your sister wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Approve You're right, Greg, her to know you too.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
All Sandy and I I'm going to have a scene.
I only want to say hello, So if you'll excuse me,
I'll rejoin my wife. Goodbye, Rose, good bye, Sandy. Oh,
give my regards to Lieutenant McCoy next time you'll.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
See him, Lieutenant McCoy.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
The police lieutenant you went to see this morning about
a certain little matter.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
How do you know that I want to see McCoy
and what I want to see him about?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Or does it matter? I know? And I think it
was very foolish of you, Sandy, do you?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yes, very In fact, is I intimated to you in
New Orleans? It could even be dangerous, deadly dangerous, not
for you, not immediately for you. Well, goodbye for.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Now, Sanny. What was that all about? Nothing?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Rose?
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Nothing? What did Greg mean? It could be dead dangerous?
It's so it's nothing for you to worry about.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Rose.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Well, all right if you say so. Funny though, but
I'm worried somehow suddenly I'm I'm very worried.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Joe.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Oh, nice to see.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
You come in. How are you right? Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I'm fine fine.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
No, Fibbs, dear brother in law to be. I talked
to Sandy on the phone. She said, your heart gave
you a little trouble if the photography exhibitions.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
As oh nothing my nightrope pills couldn't handle and did.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Oh good good where Sandy three guesses the.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Doctor give the man a cigar? Oh, would you rather
have a drink?
Speaker 6 (23:56):
A drink?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
And I'll make it. I'll make it. Sandy said, you
ran into Greg Manchester at the exhibition.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Yes, I'm wordy, Joe about what?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Greg said a funny thing to Sandy. It seems he
heard somehow she'd gone to see police Lieutenant Lieutenant McCloy McCoy.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
McCoy about something.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
He didn't say what, and Sandy wouldn't tell me, But anyhow,
he said he thought she was very foolish to do
anything like that, and that it could be deadly dangerous.
Those were the words he used, deadly dangerous.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I see Sandy didn't tell you, No, she didn't.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
But not for her.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
That was the funny part of what he said, Not
deadly dangerous for her.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Not immediately, Rose, Rose, what is it.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
You are?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Nacrosy sunny Sunday bedroom, I Rose, Let me get you
to the count Let's lay you down here.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
Are there, Chrisdad, Sandy, are yet yet here?
Speaker 4 (25:15):
He rose? Open your mouth? Are yet water?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Joe?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Hi, Joe? Here you are.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
All right now, Honey, swallowed the pills. Swallow it, dear,
that's it. That's okay, all right, child, to be all right.
No moment to two, Ruse, Louise, deal.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Having any thing? Rose? Is the pain? Let him up? Rose, Rose, Joe.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Here, let me two.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
She she's gone, Sandy, No, no afraid, so, sweetheart.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
He's done it. He threatened he wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
He has.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Great Manchester.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
He said he'd kill her if I didn't lay off.
And I didn't, and he has, Thank you, Mac, goodbye?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
What'd he say?
Speaker 6 (26:31):
McCoy?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
The toxicology lab tested the pills Rose took that I
gave her.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Oh, Sandy, all right, come on now, honey.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
The pills.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
They found that they were triple strength, triple the amount
of necrogliss or I'm prescribed for Rose.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
That's impossible. No pharmacists would make a mistake like that.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
The pharmacists didn't. They got him out of bed, and
they met him at his place and checked his records.
He made no mistake, well, Sandy, how Gregg?
Speaker 6 (27:11):
Sandy don't ask.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Me how he did it.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
He got into the apartment maybe while we were out
Rose and I.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
I don't change the bottles.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
All that matters to me is that he did it.
And I know in my bones, I know that he
did it. He murdered the woman he was married to
before he married my mother. He killed my mother, He
killed Rose. He'll kill Florence Chapman.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
He'll kill me unless I stop him.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
He's got to be stopped, Joe, stopped and put behind
bars like any other animal. And that's where I'm going
to put him, with God's help, Joe, that's where I'll put.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Him for the rest of his life.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Brave words, words spoken under the pressure of emotion. Well,
I think I can tell you at this point that
Sandy did put Greg Manchester behind bars for the rest
of his life. When he made that one fatal slip.
He Well, I was about to say that he overlooked something,
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but the fact is he never saw it. But Sandy did, or,
to be more precise, her camera did. I'll return in
a moment for act three. You will recall my saying
(28:45):
earlier that the cleverer, the murderer, the more likely he
is to make one fatal slip, something so minor he
never thought of it, never noticed it. What slip will
Greg Manchester make? So far he's got away with his killings.
Sandy Oaks doesn't know where Greg Manchester will make that
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fatal slip, or when, or more particularly how, but make it.
She knows he will, and as I've told you, make
it he did. The question is what insignificant but very
final mistake did he make?
Speaker 6 (29:24):
You?
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Dare, Dare, show your face here.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
I came here to this funeral home to see Rose
for the last time. I am her stepfather, Sandy, and have.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
A ride murderer, Sandy, get him out of here, Joe.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Sonny, Joe, I'm going. May I have a word with
you outside? Of course, Sandy put herself together. Well, Joe,
you're a lawyer. Would you give me some advice? What
am I to do with her? She hates me, has
(30:01):
hated me for the moment we met. I don't know why.
Chemistry aspose. Not much I can say to that, Greg, except.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
You're a liar.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I beg your pardon. You're a liar. It isn't chemistry
between you and Sandy it's Sandy's awareness, her awareness.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
From the first, her trained.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Awareness because she's photographed so many people, that you're a phony.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
I agreed with.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Her about that after only short acquaintance with you, Greg,
but I didn't agree with her that you're a murderer.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Now.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
You can't mean you think I murdered Geraldine. I think
you murdered Geraldine and Rose. I think you murdered another woman,
in fact, probably other women. You can stand there and
through my face say it, because it's obvious there's such
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a thing as coincidence. Greg, that your history, your married history,
goes beyond coincidence, and you are calling me a murderer.
I thought I've made that plane. You're skating on thin
ice now and you're going to go through it, and
when you do, you're going to find the water bitter cold, Greg,
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bitter cold.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Won't you sit down, miss Oaks? Thank you? Missus Manchester.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Let me say I only agreed to see you when
you phoned and said you wanted to talk with me alone.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I only agreed because you are his stepdaughter.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Missus Manchester, and I wanted to see you because someone
should warn you.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Greg Manchester is a murderer. What are you saying?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
He murdered my mother, He murdered my sister Rose, he
murdered the woman he was married to before he met
my mother. He's going to murder you, my dear. Do
you realize the gravity of his accusation?
Speaker 4 (32:09):
The important thing is that you realize.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
What I realize is that you are a bitter and
malicious young woman who, for some reason I am totally
unable to understand, wants to malign a man who has
never done anything but good for you.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Good?
Speaker 2 (32:25):
What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Your mother left him all her money, didn't she? Yes?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
He was also the beneficiary of her life insurance, wasn't
he yes? And all of this the fortune he might
have had he turned over to you and your sister?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Is that not so?
Speaker 4 (32:43):
It certainly is not so. Gregg told then he lied.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
He took my mother into giving him control of her money,
power of attorney and all of that, and then taking
out a hundred thousand dollar life insurance policy, and then
he killed her.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Can you prove that?
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I can't not yet, But whether I can or not,
I think what you should keep in mind is that
at least two previous wives have died suddenly and mysteriously
after giving him control of their money.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
Have you.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Why, well, yes I have. Oh but I can't believe this.
I won't believe it.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
My husband is one of the most dear and delightful
men I've ever met.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Thank you, my dear, Thank you for your trust in me.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
Greg.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
We didn't hear you come in.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
I'm glad you didn't, otherwise I'd not have overheard my
stepdaughter's accusations. Certainly, I must ask you to leave and
please don't come back.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Goodbye, missus Manchester, and good luck.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Well.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
I hope that's the last we see of her. I'm
sure you didn't believe the lies you must have told
about me.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Why no, of course, snock, Greg.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
You don't sound altogether sure, Florence.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
But yes, I am only Greg.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
You told me you had handed all your former wife's
fortune over to her daughter's.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
No no, no, no, no, what do you misunderstood me?
I said that I intended to do it, but I
haven't had time to get around with it yet. It's
quite involved, you know, certain megalities which take time.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
And you don't believe me to you No, no, no, no,
I do I do.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Only I'm certain you said you had already given them
the money.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Oh you're mistaken, my dear, Greg.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Yes, that power of attorney I signed the other day. Yes,
don't be offended, dear, But just as a matter of interest,
does it give you.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Control over my money? Now?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
That's an odd question, Franz, does it?
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Greg?
Speaker 2 (35:02):
What the power of attorney is? Just that it empowers
me to act in your behalf.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
In other words, you can sign checks withdraw money from
my account.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
That sort of thing, Yes, that sort of thing I see. No, No, no, no,
I don't think you do.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
For instance, you don't see that you have just signed
your death warrant.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
This warrant.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
I want you to go into your bedroom, start packing, packing.
You're going to visit your sister in New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Midnight. Make the call, Florence, make it or I'll shoot
you right now.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Hello, miss Oaks, this is missus Manchester. Yes, I've I've
got to see you right away. Could you come here
to my apartment? My fancy and I were just it's urgent,
miss Oaks, dreadfully urgent. Please please come, of course, all.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Right, thank you, goodbye, she's coming right over.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
Yes, Greg, please don't kill me.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
I'm sorry, Farrence I'll.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Give you my money.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
I've already got it.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Then why kill me?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Pleasure, my dear, simple pleasure.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
I find a certain thrill and murdering someone, especially silly
women like you. When Sandy pushes that door buzzer, listen
to it carefully, Florence, it will be the last sound
you hear in this life.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Greg.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
I must snap over the lights here in the bedroom.
Oh good, I'm coming, I'm coming, all right, help me,
help me, help me. We heard a shot in the bedroom.
I just had a problem.
Speaker 7 (37:24):
Picked dark in here the lights with oh yeah here,
Oh good lord, Florence Manchester. What oh no, oh no, Sandy,
for the love, this is no time for snapping pictures.
I wasn't even aware I was get to the farmer,
call the police and put that damn camera away.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Yes, yes, okay, I thought Florence was a prowler.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
I lost my head. I preferred into the dark room headquarters.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Give me a Lieutenant McCoy Is he there?
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Yeah, hurry, Sandy, Sandy, please look at it.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
Joe, look at it and tell me what do you see.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
I see the body of Florence Manchester lying on her
bedroom floor. I have seen the body of Florence Manchester
lying on her bedroom floor for over a month now,
in blow up after blow up after blow up of
the pictures you snapped that night. This blow up, good lord, Sandy,
it's the biggest yet.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Why Because these pictures prove Greg murdered Florence.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
That's why you keep saying that.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
But you don't tell me what proved.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Because I don't know because it's staring at me in
the face and I can't see it.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Joe, look at it. Please just look at it. Look no, Joe,
just look.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
I've had it, Sandy, all right. Maybe, like you say,
Greg's story of what happened with so much eyewash. Maybe
Florence didn't leave to visit his sister in New Orleans.
Maybe she didn't come back on actively while he was
asleep in his bedroom. Maybe he didn't hear a noise
in her bedroom. Think it was a prowler panic and
shooting into the dark in bedroom. Eye wash, all eyewashed,
(39:09):
But h what is it?
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Eyewash?
Speaker 6 (39:14):
I wash?
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Give me that boop ooh with pleasure. That's it, Joe,
that's it. What's what?
Speaker 4 (39:20):
The proof that he murdered? It the proof I'd been
looking for. But couldn't see Joe Florence Manchester's eyes.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Look at her eyes.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Manchester, you'd been booked on charge of murder, the murder
of your wife, Florence. Now look here, thanks to your
stepdaughter seeing the oaks, here we have positive proof that
you deliberately and with malice of forethought, shot Florence Manchester
to death.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
What proof?
Speaker 2 (39:53):
What proof? I told you she hacked a bag, you
saw it in the bedroom and left the visitors. Mister
Norton let her come back unexpectedly, according to your story,
and I fired a shot into her pitch black bedroom
thinking she was a prowler. That's what happened. That's the truth.
And now no, it's a lie. This photograph of your
(40:16):
wife's body, Sandy took it within a minute or two
after the shot was fired. So look at Manchester, Look
especially at the eyes, the eyes that are open and
staring at the ceiling. What do you see her eyes?
(40:36):
What else am I supposed to see? The size of
her pupils? Look at the pupils of her eyes. Down't
what you see? I see the pupils of her eyes
contracted contracted to the size of a pinhead. I the
human eyes is like a camera. Like that instament, Sandy
(40:57):
always carries. The darker object or a place, the wider
the pupil of the eye expands. The brighter an object
or a place such as your wife's bedroom, the narrower
the pupil becomes contracts. What's more, Manchester, when a person
is killed instantly, as your wife was, the pupil remains
(41:17):
unchanged for two to three minutes. You'll say you're saying it.
The photo says it, not me. You stated that you
fired that shot into a dark bedroom, killing your wife
by accident. Her eyes contracted to pinhead size proved that
(41:39):
she died in a lighted room, a brightly lighted room.
If you have anything to say, make it in the
form of a confession, won't you? And on second thought,
I'm not sure we need bother. It's all on film, Manchester.
(42:02):
Our picture, they say, is worth a thousand words. And
so it would seem that Lieutenant McCoy is right. No
words of Manchester's in his defense could possibly disprove the
truth of his wife's dead accusing eyes. I'll be back shortly,
(42:23):
and Gregory Manchester is no longer a name but a
number at State's Prison. Sandy's name has changed too, from
Miss Sandy Oaks to Missus Joseph. Norman. Hasn't changed her
(42:45):
habit of carrying that camera wherever she goes, however, but
she seems to use it more and more these days,
snapping pictures of a baby named Joe Junior. Our cast
included Joan Hackett, ELpH Bell, Robert Dryden, and Joan Shay.
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown
(43:10):
and now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Missus Tipton. It's really hard to see where I'd fit in.
I'm a trained social worker. That's how I make my living.
At least that was how I made my living. I
was discharged six months ago. They were cutting down, and well,
I haven't been able to find anything in my field,
and I'm running short of money. So I'm willing to
take almost any kind of job if it's respectable, because.
Speaker 4 (43:36):
I'm not going to ask you to do anything you
wouldn't ordinarily do. Do you need a secretary something like that?
I think I could manage that maybe, or be a companion.
Speaker 8 (43:47):
I want a secretary or a companion. Why would I
I never do anything? And I prefer being alone well,
what is it that you do want? I want somebody
to live for me to.
Speaker 4 (44:06):
Live for you.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
Radio Mystery Theater were sponsored in part by Enhuzer Busch Incorporated,
brewers of Budweiser and sign off the Sinus Medicines.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
This is E. G.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.
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