Crime Classics

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Crime Classics.

A new series of true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land from every time.

Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Hyland.

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You are listening to Crime Classics and your host, Thomas Hyland.

This Friday night, Mr. Keene, tracer of lost persons, takes on the beautiful widow murder case.

The story has been dramatized for radio a number of times, including two radio dramas, one on the BBC regional program in 1934 and one on BBC Home Service in 1939.

Then there was a fictionalized account of the murder produced in 1953 for the CBS radio series Crime Classics, entitled The Killing Story of William Corder and the Farmer's Daughter.

Tourists still flock to the museum in Bury St. Edmunds to see the artifacts on display.

It's an old Norman-arched building with narrow passages, stone floors, and jail-barred doors that bring the visitors immediately into the past, and there people stroll by to look at the grisly death mask made soon after they cut him down, a bust made of quarter, and his scalp containing one ear.

In Fall River, Massachusetts, the 1892 killings of Andrew and Abby Borden brought suspicion upon Andrew's younger daughter, Lizzie.

On September 30, 1953, CBS presented the 14th episode of Crime Classics, Bloody Banks of Fall River, as Thomas Highland recounts the investigation and the courtroom proceedings that followed.

Morton Fine and David Friedkin wrote this dramatization of the historical case with Elliot Lewis producing and directing.

The cast includes Lou Merrill, Irene Tedrow, Herb Butterfield,

Now, back to the golden age of radio.

Good evening.

This is Crime Classics.

I am Thomas Highland with another true story of crime.

In 1869, the disappearance of the Kink family drew attention to a field near Pantin outside Paris.

From CBS Radio's Crime Classics comes Episode 33, Jean-Baptiste Tropman Killer of Many, first heard February 17, 1954.

Lou Merrill is Thomas Highland, guiding us through the real Tropman case.

Jean-Baptiste Tropman, a 19-year-old Alsatian mechanic, and an investigation that begins with freshly disturbed Earth.

Good

evening.

This is Crime Classics.

I am Thomas Highland with another true story of crime.

In early 19th century Vermont, Jesse and Stephen Bourne fall under suspicion when their brother-in-law, Russell Colvin, disappears.

On January 27th, 1954, CBS presented the 30th episode of Crime Classics, The Bourne Brothers and the Hangman, A Study in Nip and Tuck.

Accusations, supposed physical evidence, and mounting public pressure bring the case toward a capital prosecution.

Lou Merrill narrates with Virginia Gregg, Lamont Johnson, Bill Conrad, Jack Kruschen, Irene Tedrow, Joe Kearns, Herb Butterfield, and Alistair Duncan.

We now take you back to the original broadcast.

Good evening.

This is Crime Classics.

I am Thomas Highland with another true story of crime.

My report to you about a mother and son in Rome in the first century A.D., listed in my files as your loving son, Nero.

Crime Classics, a new series of true crime stories taken from the records and newspapers of every land from every time.

Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Hyland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders.

Now once again, Mr. Thomas Hyland.

From mater, we get the word matricide.

Thank you.

In just a moment, Thomas Highland will tell you about next week's crime classics.

Your Loving Son Nero, tonight's crime classic, was adapted from the original court reports and newspaper accounts by Morton Fine and David Friedkin.