Murder

He was in the second season episode, Testimony of a Traitor.

He was in all the big time pod faves like Murder She Done Sat Down and She Wrote.

Hopping on over to James Darin as his son David Barzak.

He was born in Philadelphia and was a teen idol, actor, and recording artist.

That's a wonderful reference.

It gets better because in 1979, Charlene Tilton, Lucy Ewing from Dallas, was the target.

And they loved it so much, CBS did, they wrote it into two episodes of Murder, She Done Sat Down, as she wrote, in 1986 and 1994.

It's also in an episode of American Horror Story Freak Show in 2014.

I'm an attorney.

And this is "The Murder Sheet."

We're a true crime podcast focused on original reporting, interviews, and deep dives into murder cases.

We're "The Murder Sheet."

And this is the murder of Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown, a conversation with former District Attorney J. Tom Morgan.

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[upbeat music][upbeat music] To learn more about this twisting case, we read A Rainy Night in Georgia: A Lawman's Brutal Murder, a Rogue Southern Sheriff, and a Prosecutor's Quest for Justice.

This is not just a gripping crime nonfiction read.

Chapter Two: The Secret of the Safe.

"Help! Murder! Murder!" The sinister cry rang through the house.

Seated at the breakfast table, his daughter opposite him, the daily papers at his elbow, the Attorney General, hardly realizing the tragical interruption, sprang from his chair as the cry came nearer and the door burst open, admitting his confidential secretary.

"In God's name, Clark, what is the matter?" he demanded, seizing the distraught man.

Mrs. Trevor was dead before she was put in that safe.

The detective broke the appalling silence with an exclamation.

Murdered! Without one word, Beatrice Trevor fell fainting at her father's feet.

End of chapter two.

The aftermath sends her onto a train bound for San Francisco, where a chance encounter, a cash offer, and competing secrets complicate the journey.

Tonight, we raise the curtain on The Whistler: Ticket to Murder, episode 387, first broadcast October 30th, 1949 on the CBS Pacific Network, with Signal Oil as sponsor.

Adrian Gendot wrote the script.

Bill Foreman is heard in the cast.

I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows.

Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.

And now The Whistler's strange story, Ticket to Murder.

[instrumental music plays] Standing at the window of the cheap hotel room and looking out over the outline of lights and neon that was Kansas City after sundown, Eve Benton felt a dread, pressing sense of loneliness, concern.

Well, you better have one, buddy, or you ain't getting in here.

Our mystery drama, Murder Preferred, was written especially for the Radio Mystery Theater by Henry Slessor and stars Tony Roberts.

The name on his business cards read, C. Thomas Hendricks, attorney at law.

Everybody calls him Tom, and Tom Hendricks likes it that way, especially because the C stands for Clarence, a name not very popular these days.

I'm sure you don't see it all.

Oh, I'm sure you've read all the newspaper stories and heard all the broadcasts about the case.

It's your business, isn't it? Murder and arresting

people and...

I call the story...

Murder in the Casbah.

Murder in the Casbah

Tonight's Sherlock Holmes adventure is written by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher and was suggested by an incident in the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story, The Adventure of Black Peter.

Music is by Dean Fossler.

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Richard Widmark stars as Chris Turner, a bitter writer recently dismissed from the fictional radio mystery program Murder, Please.

From CBS's Suspense, this is A Murderous Revision, episode 450, broadcast December 3rd, 1951.

Turner confronts producer Ken Avery through a carefully arranged recording involving Avery and his daughter Lois as scripts, cues, and studio equipment become part of the encounter.

Kathy Lewis and Joseph Kearns co-star David Ellis adapted S. Lee Pogostin's story and Elliot Lewis produced.

So it's about an amateur theater group in England, uh, the Cornley University Drama Society, putting on a new production that's sort of similar to Mouse Trap or Clue.

It's a murder mystery show called The Murder at Haversham Manor.

And, you know, right from even the pre-show, so make sure you get there about 15 minutes early, things do start to go wrong, and it becomes, uh, it becomes a, a bit of a fiasco, but in a sort of love letter to creating theater and the show must go on.

I love it.