# The Big Story: Deadline Murder (EP4897)

An episode of [The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/335549005), 27 Jan 2026, 33 min.

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Today's Mystery:Reporter Rolf Mills of the Minneapolis Morning Tribune tries to solve the murder of a woman who was found in the dump. Original Radio Broadcast: May 19, 1948 Originating from New York Starring: Art Carney as Rolf Mills, Joe Boland, Joan Alexander, Joe DeSantis, Ray Johnson, Grace Keddy, and Grant Richards Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Take the listener survey…http://survey.greatdetectives.net Give us a call 208-991-4783 Follow us on Instagram at http://instagram.com/greatdetectives Become one of ourfriends on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter@radiodetectives Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.

## Transcript

[0:28] Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Orlando, Florida.
[0:34] Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
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[1:14] Speaker 1: your podcasts. From now. From May nineteenth, nineteen forty eight,
[1:20] Speaker 1: here is the Deadline Murder.
[1:25] Speaker 2: Well now amos cigarettes present the Big Story of course please.
[1:39] Speaker 3: Yeah, this is Wald Kremer, the Grand Inspectory.
[1:42] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[1:42] Speaker 5: I was just short cutting back from Cedar Lake across
[1:45] Speaker 5: the city dump.
[1:46] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[1:46] Speaker 5: So well I just saw a pair of silk stuck
[1:49] Speaker 5: and sticking up out of the dump.
[1:51] Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
[1:53] Speaker 5: The thing is there was legs in them, a woman's legs.
[2:06] Speaker 2: The Big story here is a man. It's sound and
[2:11] Speaker 2: its fury, its joy, and its sorrow, as faithfully reported
[2:15] Speaker 2: by the men and women of the great American newspapers. Minneapolis, Minnesota,
[2:23] Speaker 2: from the pages of the Minneapolis Morning Tribune. The headline
[2:26] Speaker 2: story of a murder victim who was buried alive tonight
[2:31] Speaker 2: to Ralph K. Mills of the Minneapolis Morning Tribune goes
[2:35] Speaker 2: the Pell Mell Award for the big story and now
[2:46] Speaker 2: the story as it actually happened.
[2:49] Speaker 7: Ralph K.
[2:50] Speaker 2: Mills Story as he lived it, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
[3:02] Speaker 6: Your name, Ralph Kills, Your paper, The Minneapolis Morning Tribune.
[3:08] Speaker 6: You're beat.
[3:10] Speaker 7: Well that's your particular.
[3:11] Speaker 6: Squawk this particular night of April twenty ninth, because you're
[3:15] Speaker 6: supposed to be working out of the city room and
[3:17] Speaker 6: instead you're on substitute duty down at police headquarters. You
[3:23] Speaker 6: thought you'd graduated from there long ago, but no, here
[3:27] Speaker 6: you are back in the Cops and Robbers department. As
[3:30] Speaker 6: for your big story, well you don't know it, but
[3:34] Speaker 6: there's one cooking. It starts way back back before you
[3:38] Speaker 6: even joined the paper like this.
[3:42] Speaker 8: How many times do I have to tell you not
[3:44] Speaker 8: to plan that door when you come in. I'm sorry, sorry, sorry,
[3:47] Speaker 8: That's all you ever say and then you go right
[3:49] Speaker 8: ahead and do it all over again.
[3:50] Speaker 7: I said, I was sorry. It wasn't my fault. There's
[3:53] Speaker 7: springs busters.
[3:54] Speaker 8: Well, why don't you fix it? I will, I will,
[3:56] Speaker 8: I will, promises, promises.
[3:58] Speaker 7: Layoff of me, don't you?
[4:01] Speaker 8: Honey? Oh, you make me sick. Come on, let's go.
[4:05] Speaker 7: Out and get some dy go out. I just came in.
[4:09] Speaker 7: Oh golly, I.
[4:10] Speaker 4: Thought, Now.
[4:12] Speaker 8: What have I done?
[4:13] Speaker 9: We're always going out to eat? Can we ever stay
[4:16] Speaker 9: home once in a while?
[4:17] Speaker 8: Stay home? When do we ever go out? When do
[4:20] Speaker 8: you ever take me out?
[4:21] Speaker 7: Oh that's not fair unless we never.
[4:24] Speaker 8: Mind, never mind, forget us. I'll go out in the
[4:26] Speaker 8: kitchen and make.
[4:27] Speaker 10: Your old.
[4:30] Speaker 7: Look, let's not keep squabbling.
[4:33] Speaker 9: Uh oh golly, everything used to be so nice.
[4:35] Speaker 7: Everything is to.
[4:36] Speaker 8: Never mind, never mind. Just go inside, take your shoes off, dear,
[4:42] Speaker 8: read your papers here. Yeah, when everything's ready, you'll be
[4:45] Speaker 8: fast asleep.
[4:46] Speaker 6: I know.
[4:48] Speaker 9: Look, it isn't as if you've had other things to
[4:50] Speaker 9: do all day. Is it asking too much for a
[4:53] Speaker 9: guy to want dinner when he comes home? Not asking
[4:56] Speaker 9: too much, Just a little piece and quiet around the place.
[5:00] Speaker 9: You have to pick fights with me all the time, honey,
[5:05] Speaker 9: listen to me.
[5:06] Speaker 8: You want what do you want?
[5:10] Speaker 9: Just a little piece and choir around out, go ahead,
[5:13] Speaker 9: get sore.
[5:14] Speaker 7: I'm just trying to make some sense here.
[5:16] Speaker 8: Oh I know that tone of voice. I can tell
[5:19] Speaker 8: you get so noble, so high and mighty. You make
[5:23] Speaker 8: me sick. You make me just plain sick.
[5:25] Speaker 9: Gonna ask print tablet yourself very clever.
[5:30] Speaker 7: Someday I'm really gonna get sore.
[5:32] Speaker 8: That's right.
[5:33] Speaker 7: Threaten me wooden sore. Someday one of us is going
[5:38] Speaker 7: to be very sorry.
[5:39] Speaker 8: Howre you trying to scare me?
[5:41] Speaker 7: No, I'm just telling you. You keep this up. You
[5:45] Speaker 7: keep nagging the daylight hot of me.
[5:46] Speaker 10: You keep yepping happy yet yep, yeah, but yet, yep, yep.
[5:51] Speaker 7: You keep it up. And so help me out.
[5:54] Speaker 8: You're what You're way door all the time.
[6:16] Speaker 7: Honey, you're home, honey, hey ah, that woman bartender. My
[6:33] Speaker 7: wife's been in there tonight.
[6:35] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[6:35] Speaker 6: You're gone, friend here and gone and nuts.
[6:41] Speaker 7: For the last time. You're coming home with me for
[6:43] Speaker 7: the last time.
[6:44] Speaker 8: No, no, no, no, no.
[6:46] Speaker 7: No, okay, don't bother coming home ever.
[6:56] Speaker 6: Nothing of that.
[6:57] Speaker 7: And you know you.
[6:59] Speaker 6: Ralph k Ills, police reporter for the Minneapolis Morning Tribune
[7:03] Speaker 6: do not have a backward looking crystal ball. All you
[7:07] Speaker 6: know is that it's a pretty average Friday night down
[7:10] Speaker 6: at police headquarters, and average means dull.
[7:15] Speaker 7: The desk.
[7:15] Speaker 6: Sergeant's got a call, probably the same old routine nothing headquarters.
[7:22] Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah.
[7:25] Speaker 6: So yeah nothing, huh not the way you rushed into
[7:33] Speaker 6: the other room and now comes your friend Detective Peterson
[7:39] Speaker 6: with this.
[7:40] Speaker 7: You say you're had a date tonight, roll yeah, and
[7:42] Speaker 7: the deadline?
[7:43] Speaker 6: What you've got another date? Now you and me down
[7:46] Speaker 6: to the city dump.
[7:48] Speaker 7: Very funny with who a corpse.
[7:51] Speaker 6: And so stocking you're coming.
[8:07] Speaker 7: All the shopling that doesn't m beating any idea who she.
[8:15] Speaker 6: Is identifying marks, labels, torn off.
[8:18] Speaker 4: The clothes.
[8:20] Speaker 7: Safe and calling it murder? Say doctor, can you add anything?
[8:26] Speaker 10: Can you give me anything more on the cause of
[8:28] Speaker 10: death beyond the beating that is?
[8:31] Speaker 7: Yes?
[8:31] Speaker 10: What's that?
[8:34] Speaker 6: This woman has dirt in her mouth and in her throat, Yes,
[8:41] Speaker 6: proving proving she was alive when she was put here?
[8:46] Speaker 4: There read alive.
[8:48] Speaker 7: Where's the nurse phone. I've got to call a paper.
[8:58] Speaker 7: I'll have to hold her for the past Man edition. George, Yes, Ralph,
[9:02] Speaker 7: you'll stick with it.
[9:03] Speaker 10: Oh sure, but don't set your heart on identification by
[9:06] Speaker 10: the next deadline, or a solution for the final edition,
[9:08] Speaker 10: complete with killer attached, could be done sure by Sherlock
[9:12] Speaker 10: Holmes the FBI that Hey, the man is serious. Look, George,
[9:15] Speaker 10: this one will go down to the books marked unsolved.
[9:17] Speaker 7: Believe me, never can tell.
[9:19] Speaker 5: Just you stay with it. After all, you've got a
[9:22] Speaker 5: whole hour until the next deadline.
[9:23] Speaker 10: An hour might as well be a week, remember, George.
[9:26] Speaker 10: When I've got is a press card, not a crystal ball.
[9:40] Speaker 7: Well, sorry, I've gone through all the files. What have
[9:42] Speaker 7: I found? Nothing? You try the rogues gallery mills back
[9:46] Speaker 7: to the U one. No soap Peddy.
[9:48] Speaker 10: Crimes, no soap ib on missing person. Oh nothing there either,
[9:52] Speaker 10: Oh except this? Huh you think this picture looks like
[9:55] Speaker 10: the dead one?
[9:56] Speaker 4: Nope?
[9:57] Speaker 7: I needed to die much. Oh what do they want?
[10:00] Speaker 10: My guy miracles? They sitting in an office downtown. Hey,
[10:03] Speaker 10: what time is it?
[10:04] Speaker 7: A quarter?
[10:05] Speaker 4: Two?
[10:06] Speaker 10: Fifteen minutescola page closes? What have I got twice? What
[10:08] Speaker 10: I phoned in twice?
[10:09] Speaker 7: Nothing? It was the woman just a I don't know.
[10:15] Speaker 7: I think I'll see what goes on, all right, that's right, lady.
[10:18] Speaker 7: I won't take on what's the story pit.
[10:21] Speaker 6: It looks like identification, Rob. She saw your story in
[10:24] Speaker 6: the paper and told the cop on the beach. You
[10:25] Speaker 6: thought you knew the one. Missus Styles, what was that
[10:31] Speaker 6: woman's name again.
[10:32] Speaker 7: Missus Kristy, Missus Sadie Kristy. What makes you think the
[10:37] Speaker 7: murdered woman is your neighbor? Man, I don't know, just
[10:39] Speaker 7: have a feeling. She hasn't been home for days. Neither
[10:42] Speaker 7: was a husband. They had a fight.
[10:46] Speaker 10: They're always fighting.
[10:47] Speaker 6: I see right here, miss Styles, it's doing. A word
[10:53] Speaker 6: from you is all we need?
[10:55] Speaker 7: Hey?
[10:56] Speaker 6: You all right?
[10:57] Speaker 10: Yes?
[10:58] Speaker 7: Yes, well that's why?
[11:00] Speaker 6: Please ready?
[11:10] Speaker 4: Amen?
[11:12] Speaker 7: Yes?
[11:16] Speaker 6: Oh is that your neighbor, Missus Presley, take your time,
[11:23] Speaker 6: be sure?
[11:26] Speaker 4: Yes, looks.
[11:28] Speaker 6: Oh face no, why I mean.
[11:36] Speaker 7: Yes, Missus Styles?
[11:40] Speaker 8: Hm hm, yes, yes sah.
[12:05] Speaker 6: When the door opens, Ralph, let me do the talk.
[12:10] Speaker 6: Peterson from police headquarters. Does mister Cresley live here?
[12:15] Speaker 7: Is he home?
[12:17] Speaker 10: Not?
[12:17] Speaker 7: Right now?
[12:18] Speaker 6: Expect him back?
[12:19] Speaker 5: Why?
[12:20] Speaker 3: Yes?
[12:22] Speaker 8: Would you like to come in and wait?
[12:23] Speaker 4: Yes? Who are you? Yes?
[12:27] Speaker 8: Why? And why?
[12:41] Speaker 2: We'll be back in just a moment with the night's
[12:43] Speaker 2: big story. Now we return you to our narrator, Bob
[12:54] Speaker 2: Sloan and the Big Story of Ralph K.
[12:57] Speaker 7: Mills as he lived it and a.
[13:01] Speaker 6: Fine thing covering police headquarters for the Minneapolis Morning Tribune.
[13:06] Speaker 7: You, Ralph K.
[13:07] Speaker 6: Mills have a blonde corpse turn up in time for
[13:10] Speaker 6: the first edition, a person unknown murdered by person or
[13:15] Speaker 6: person's unknown, and the city desk hopes for the who
[13:19] Speaker 6: and the buy home for the final edition. And you
[13:23] Speaker 6: just followed a false trail to the better end. Just
[13:26] Speaker 6: another case of mistaken identity.
[13:28] Speaker 7: So what do you do? Step one? You call the
[13:31] Speaker 7: desk a mistake?
[13:33] Speaker 10: George, the woman who identified the corpse was wrong.
[13:36] Speaker 7: I'm sorry any ideas. Didn't you say before.
[13:40] Speaker 11: You thought you'd found the picture of a missing woman?
[13:42] Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, but the best cop and I agreed it
[13:44] Speaker 10: wasn't the dead one.
[13:45] Speaker 7: We just saying the woman was wrong. Just now, couldn't
[13:48] Speaker 7: you be? What was the date she disappeared? Nineteen thirty five?
[13:52] Speaker 7: Her name was Ruth M. Corno.
[13:53] Speaker 5: Well she could have changed in all those years, So backtrack.
[13:57] Speaker 7: Everybody makes mistakes.
[13:59] Speaker 10: Yeah, I know, That's why they put eracers on lead pencils,
[14:02] Speaker 10: And tonight my pencil is all a racer.
[14:20] Speaker 7: Rock stone.
[14:22] Speaker 10: Colin Scompton, Copley, Corneau, Ruth m Corna reported missing by
[14:28] Speaker 10: husband m hm.
[14:30] Speaker 7: Talking to yourself, OAF, I don't know.
[14:33] Speaker 10: Look, sergeant, this Corona woman we tossed out of the
[14:35] Speaker 10: running before anything else on her charges complaints Corneau.
[14:39] Speaker 7: Let's see.
[14:42] Speaker 1: Em.
[14:44] Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, here it is Corna.
[14:47] Speaker 3: Oh oh, this is a man, Peter Cornall go On
[14:51] Speaker 3: arrested on complaint of his wife Ruth.
[14:53] Speaker 7: M that's the one for?
[14:54] Speaker 10: What what for?
[14:55] Speaker 7: You're gonna love this? Ralph assault.
[15:12] Speaker 10: Hella Joe Lopez, Yes, sir, mister Lopez, this is Ralph
[15:16] Speaker 10: Mills down at headquarters.
[15:17] Speaker 7: What sweet headquarters?
[15:19] Speaker 5: An trouble?
[15:19] Speaker 10: No, sir, I'm from the Morning Tribune. I'm checking on
[15:22] Speaker 10: somebody who used to live in your boarding house. Can
[15:24] Speaker 10: I ask you three questions? I don't know, just three
[15:28] Speaker 10: simple yes or no questions? Okay, okay?
[15:31] Speaker 4: Three?
[15:32] Speaker 10: Okay? Do you remember a couple named Corno Peter and Ruth?
[15:37] Speaker 6: Yes, that's one.
[15:39] Speaker 7: Good. Do you know where they are now?
[15:41] Speaker 6: Him?
[15:42] Speaker 10: No?
[15:43] Speaker 5: Huh?
[15:43] Speaker 7: She run away from him, kicks herround restaurants, clubs.
[15:46] Speaker 5: You know.
[15:46] Speaker 7: That's two? Three? Would you know her? If you saw?
[15:50] Speaker 10: Yes?
[15:51] Speaker 7: Sure, you owe me fat well? Would you come down
[15:54] Speaker 7: to headquarters? You can say three questions.
[15:57] Speaker 6: No, this is Detective Peters and Lopez. Will you come
[16:00] Speaker 6: downtown to identify a body? Yes, all right, miss Lopez,
[16:25] Speaker 6: take good time, Miss Lopez. Be sure. Well, don't look
[16:33] Speaker 6: like I'm gonna get my back, Red, I guess for
[16:43] Speaker 6: the identifications. You say goodbye to Detective Peterson until later
[16:48] Speaker 6: you'll make the eleven thirty edition. By our replate and
[16:51] Speaker 6: our whisper, a murdered woman is Ruth M. Cornall, and
[16:55] Speaker 6: it's definitely established that she is separated from her husband
[16:58] Speaker 6: under conditions mutual dislike to put it mild life. And
[17:04] Speaker 6: so you have the victim, the motive, and the problem
[17:08] Speaker 6: of finding suspect number one, the husband. Then on your own,
[17:12] Speaker 6: you start checking all over town. But while you walked
[17:16] Speaker 6: the jukebox and neon Trail, the husband is being questioned
[17:20] Speaker 6: down in Florida.
[17:21] Speaker 9: Private first Class Peter Canoe, reporting to Captain Carroll is directed.
[17:24] Speaker 3: At least Corona. You're a Minneapolis boy. Private, ever in
[17:28] Speaker 3: trouble with the police. Nothing serious. I am instructed by
[17:33] Speaker 3: a Detective Peterson of the Minneapolis Police to tell you
[17:35] Speaker 3: that anything you tell me may be held against you.
[17:37] Speaker 7: He just called me. Hey see, sir, you married, Corona separated?
[17:42] Speaker 4: Sir, Sir?
[17:43] Speaker 7: Later, where were your last night on passer? I reported
[17:48] Speaker 7: duty at Revelue today?
[17:49] Speaker 12: Where'd you go?
[17:51] Speaker 7: Can you prove it? And then I was with ken, Sir,
[17:55] Speaker 7: you didn't.
[17:55] Speaker 3: Leave the state of Florida on an overnight pass.
[17:59] Speaker 7: Sir, you say.
[18:02] Speaker 12: You're separated from your wife? Yes, prepare yourself for a shop.
[18:07] Speaker 12: Last night she was murdered. I see what's time?
[18:13] Speaker 7: Man? I said, I knew somebody would some day. Do
[18:18] Speaker 7: you want another pass?
[18:20] Speaker 3: Excuse me, sir, I said, Do you want me to
[18:22] Speaker 3: write you a three day past for her funeral?
[18:26] Speaker 7: No? No thanks, sir.
[18:37] Speaker 6: Suspect eliminated And there you are looking for him in
[18:41] Speaker 6: the local bars. But at one you learn about this
[18:44] Speaker 6: tasteful little incident from a bar girl.
[18:47] Speaker 8: You used to paler around Ruthie and me. She was
[18:51] Speaker 8: I thought she was kind of hot.
[18:52] Speaker 1: You know.
[18:53] Speaker 8: Everybody was just another sucker for her. What I mean,
[18:57] Speaker 8: well money, you know? So one night we was here
[19:01] Speaker 8: her night. All of a sudden, she leaves me flat
[19:04] Speaker 8: and goes outside, goes turn through the door, and I
[19:07] Speaker 8: follow it just in time to see her crash. Hey,
[19:11] Speaker 8: why don't you walk where you're looking.
[19:13] Speaker 7: I'm sorry, lady, you're sorry.
[19:16] Speaker 8: Look at my stacking. You'll ruin my stacking. Sorry. That's
[19:19] Speaker 8: all I ever here is sorry. I'm not the lift off.
[19:23] Speaker 7: My shoes, I said, I was sorry. It's for the shoes.
[19:28] Speaker 6: I'll drive you home, okay, And what a bus hit
[19:30] Speaker 6: the road?
[19:32] Speaker 7: Okay? Haven't you away?
[19:37] Speaker 6: Hey?
[19:38] Speaker 8: Wait a minute, is is this your car? Did you
[19:46] Speaker 8: just drive it for somebody?
[19:48] Speaker 7: It's my car. I drive it for my SHLFA.
[19:53] Speaker 8: Why didn't you say so? O?
[19:56] Speaker 4: Jane?
[19:58] Speaker 7: The name is Cashle Wally Cuss and suck. Nice blondie.
[20:04] Speaker 7: You're not bad looking at all. Where'd you say you
[20:08] Speaker 7: wanted to go?
[20:09] Speaker 8: You're not bad looking either. For a guy who picks
[20:12] Speaker 8: girls up. I knock him down, he.
[20:14] Speaker 7: Said, sug nice baby.
[20:17] Speaker 6: Wait says do you want to ride?
[20:20] Speaker 1: Oh?
[20:20] Speaker 4: No, I want to ride.
[20:24] Speaker 8: Let's go someplace and have some fun.
[20:27] Speaker 6: Huh. While the bar girls telling this, you check your
[20:36] Speaker 6: watch a half hour the final deadline.
[20:39] Speaker 7: You're coming closer, very close.
[20:42] Speaker 10: All you need now is what'd you say the name
[20:44] Speaker 10: of that pickup guy was?
[20:48] Speaker 8: You're having him steady?
[20:49] Speaker 9: After that?
[20:49] Speaker 4: Thanks?
[20:50] Speaker 7: Thanks?
[20:50] Speaker 10: All right, I'm gonna try another bar, but here buy
[20:53] Speaker 10: yourself a drink with something in it to drink for
[20:55] Speaker 10: a change.
[21:04] Speaker 6: Well, like I said, everything's going nice and quiet when
[21:07] Speaker 6: it's blind. Yeah, she comes in and takes over the
[21:11] Speaker 6: end of the barn. Now I've seen her husband come
[21:14] Speaker 6: and drag her out, and I seen him tell her
[21:16] Speaker 6: not to come home.
[21:17] Speaker 7: And I don't want that kind of traight. Just a
[21:20] Speaker 7: home type bar.
[21:21] Speaker 6: I know, I know the win.
[21:23] Speaker 7: Huh.
[21:24] Speaker 6: Well, she's feeling fine, no plan at all, drinking up
[21:27] Speaker 6: some guy's door. At again, I'm wondering how I can
[21:31] Speaker 6: get rid of her quiet. When all of a sudden,
[21:33] Speaker 6: somebody does it for me. The door opens and then
[21:36] Speaker 6: walks the sky cart.
[21:38] Speaker 7: Realdy.
[21:39] Speaker 8: Somebody call me, Oh it's you.
[21:44] Speaker 7: It's me all right, Well you have been the last
[21:46] Speaker 7: two days.
[21:48] Speaker 8: Who wants to know?
[21:49] Speaker 7: I want to know?
[21:50] Speaker 8: You want to know? You owe me or something? Stop
[21:54] Speaker 8: pushing me around?
[21:55] Speaker 7: Who push her?
[21:56] Speaker 4: Run?
[21:57] Speaker 7: You make up to me? You take me for everything
[21:59] Speaker 7: I got? You call up me pushing you around? Come on,
[22:02] Speaker 7: you're getting oaty.
[22:04] Speaker 8: Your mate is running.
[22:05] Speaker 7: Come on, I like it here, I said, get out.
[22:08] Speaker 8: Come on you square. You may go on hit the road,
[22:12] Speaker 8: You'll get out of here. You let me take your
[22:15] Speaker 8: hands off me?
[22:16] Speaker 10: Do you think around?
[22:22] Speaker 7: I said, it's none of my business.
[22:25] Speaker 6: I would have paid him to take away anybody.
[22:29] Speaker 11: And that's so when did you say this was?
[22:32] Speaker 4: What did I tell you only last night? It was
[22:35] Speaker 4: this last night? That is it?
[22:47] Speaker 6: Motive and man Wally corson last man to see Ruth
[22:51] Speaker 6: Corner alive. A check on the city directory gives you
[22:54] Speaker 6: his address. A call of Peterson and you have a
[22:56] Speaker 6: good cop with you. One short ride and you have
[22:59] Speaker 6: ten minutes to go to the final deadline with your story.
[23:03] Speaker 6: On the other side of this door, Peterson unbuttons the
[23:09] Speaker 6: flap on his whole stone. You shift a little behind him.
[23:14] Speaker 6: You never can tell.
[23:18] Speaker 7: Nobody you think.
[23:19] Speaker 6: I don't know here, take the gun, come and me
[23:22] Speaker 6: stand back. I'll force the door.
[23:35] Speaker 7: Shambles with the blood in the walls.
[23:37] Speaker 6: Cautin, watch up the other room, Carson, come out with you.
[23:42] Speaker 4: Pete.
[23:43] Speaker 10: It's a note in the count uh okay to read it?
[23:47] Speaker 10: Go ahead, dear mother, mother, I'm sorry. We had a
[23:54] Speaker 10: terrific fight. I loved her and I couldn't stand a loser.
[23:58] Speaker 7: But I couldn't hold it.
[24:00] Speaker 10: I guess nobody could. Money and watch pocket for rent
[24:05] Speaker 10: I'm going away. I hope we meet soon from the coop.
[24:11] Speaker 10: Can I use the phone?
[24:12] Speaker 6: You're sure? And you can read them the note too.
[24:14] Speaker 7: Thanks.
[24:16] Speaker 10: You know there's there's something about this note. Money and
[24:19] Speaker 10: watch pocket, money and watch pocket. Hey, he expects to
[24:24] Speaker 10: be found.
[24:25] Speaker 4: What's that door?
[24:25] Speaker 7: Lead to closets? What's this money? Last of the garage?
[24:29] Speaker 6: Come on on the front way blocked from the inside.
[24:42] Speaker 6: Wait a minute, listen, engine's running. He gets down on
[24:51] Speaker 6: his knees. So do you you sniff at the bottom
[24:56] Speaker 6: of the door. You'd both say one word, no too.
[25:02] Speaker 4: Curl up my nice.
[25:20] Speaker 2: In just a moment, we'll read you a telegram from
[25:22] Speaker 2: Ralph K. Mills of the Minneapolis Morning Tribune with the
[25:25] Speaker 2: final outcome of Tonight's Big Story. Now we read you
[25:34] Speaker 2: that telegram from Ralph K. Mills of the Minneapolis Morning Tribune.
[25:39] Speaker 10: On entering garage, we found that killer in Tonight's Big
[25:42] Speaker 10: Story had escaped beyond the law by committing suicide. Solution
[25:47] Speaker 10: of case came at three am, nine hours after start
[25:50] Speaker 10: of investigation and in time for the final edition. Many
[25:55] Speaker 10: thanks for Tonight's pell Mell Award. Thank you, mister Mills.
[25:58] Speaker 2: The makers of Pellmell Famous Cigarettes are proud to have
[26:01] Speaker 2: named you the winner of the Pell Mail five hundred
[26:03] Speaker 2: dollars Award for notable service in the field of journalism.
[26:06] Speaker 2: Listen again next week, same time, same station, when Pell
[26:10] Speaker 2: Mail Famous Cigarettes will present another big story.
[26:14] Speaker 7: A big story from.
[26:15] Speaker 10: The front pages of the Mobile Alabama Press Register Byeline
[26:20] Speaker 10: George Cox.
[26:21] Speaker 7: A big story about a murder and escape and a manhunt.
[26:42] Speaker 2: A big Story is produced by BERNARDJ. Pocter with music
[26:45] Speaker 2: by Lotta Misslensky. The night's program was written by Alan Sloan.
[26:50] Speaker 2: Your narrator was Bob Sloan, and ur Conne played the
[26:53] Speaker 2: part of Ralf Kills. In order to protect the names
[26:56] Speaker 2: of people actually involved in Tonight's authentic big story, the
[27:01] Speaker 2: names of all characters and the dramatization were changed, with the.
[27:04] Speaker 7: Exception of the reporter, mister Mills.
[27:16] Speaker 2: This is Ernest Chapel speaking for the makers of hell
[27:19] Speaker 2: Mel Famous Cigarettes.
[27:25] Speaker 7: This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company.
[27:38] Speaker 1: Welcome back, all right well. In our cast, in addition
[27:42] Speaker 1: to Art Carney, there was Joe Bowan, Joan Alexander who
[27:48] Speaker 1: I thought I recognized her voice, Joe DeSantis, Ray Johnson,
[27:53] Speaker 1: Grace Kendy and Grant Richards and as always with the
[27:57] Speaker 1: big story, and I'll probably stop talking about this, but
[28:01] Speaker 1: it seems like the biggest thing they looked for was
[28:05] Speaker 1: somebody who could perform doubles. And it's just a case
[28:10] Speaker 1: of you've got your budget and you need your actors
[28:14] Speaker 1: to give as much as they can to give the
[28:18] Speaker 1: story enough believable variety. Of course, Art Carney probably one
[28:23] Speaker 1: of the most famous people we've heard on this series.
[28:27] Speaker 1: He's probably most remembered as Ed Norton on The Honeymooners,
[28:32] Speaker 1: but of course he had such a fantastic acting career,
[28:38] Speaker 1: including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and multiple Emmys.
[28:43] Speaker 1: This episode is interesting and it kind of plays into
[28:49] Speaker 1: this fact that this is such an odd situation for
[28:54] Speaker 1: real life, but certainly was common enough for people who
[28:58] Speaker 1: went to movies. A reporter comes on a baffling crime
[29:04] Speaker 1: and wraps up the case in an hour or so.
[29:08] Speaker 1: Most of the time, if the identity of the killer
[29:12] Speaker 1: isn't apparent, it's going to take some time for the
[29:16] Speaker 1: case to be solved, and it's going to be solved
[29:18] Speaker 1: by the police. So this episode really does lean into
[29:23] Speaker 1: the rarity of the event portrayed now. This was based
[29:27] Speaker 1: on a nineteen forty three case where the victim was
[29:35] Speaker 1: missus Ruth Shebleau, and essentially the main facts of the
[29:41] Speaker 1: episode are pretty well represented. Mills was working this case
[29:46] Speaker 1: because of a fluke, the body was found buried alive,
[29:51] Speaker 1: and the killer did take his own life. The one
[29:54] Speaker 1: detail that the Stories behind the Big Story website adds
[29:59] Speaker 1: is that mister Chableaux had actually filed for divorce from
[30:03] Speaker 1: his wife for the reason of desertion a couple of
[30:08] Speaker 1: years before, but given the way that divorces were handled
[30:11] Speaker 1: back then, it was going to be coming to court
[30:14] Speaker 1: in a few weeks, and this would have of course
[30:16] Speaker 1: been complicated by the fact that he was serving in
[30:19] Speaker 1: the military. So a pretty factual account that perhaps reminds
[30:24] Speaker 1: us that just because something is not really in touch
[30:28] Speaker 1: with how things actually happen in movies doesn't mean that
[30:35] Speaker 1: it couldn't happen in theory, or that it might not
[30:38] Speaker 1: happen every once in a while. I also want to
[30:40] Speaker 1: say that I love the questioning scene with mister Lopez
[30:44] Speaker 1: and how much he was going to make Mills stick
[30:48] Speaker 1: with the whole I'll only ask you three questions thing,
[30:53] Speaker 1: and of course the police had to get on the
[30:55] Speaker 1: line to get him to come in for questioning, although
[30:57] Speaker 1: I guess it does make the question why the police
[31:00] Speaker 1: weren't asking the questions in the first place. But I
[31:06] Speaker 1: gather that the police were cooperative and helping the reporter
[31:09] Speaker 1: get his story and didn't mind the reporter doing some.
[31:13] Speaker 7: Of the work.
[31:14] Speaker 1: All right, Well, now it's time to thank our Patreon
[31:16] Speaker 1: supporter of the day, and I want to thank Zant,
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[31:30] Speaker 1: and that will do it for today. If you're enjoying
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[31:45] Speaker 1: another episode of the Big Story. But join us back
[31:48] Speaker 1: here tomorrow for Broadways my beat where.
[31:52] Speaker 11: And I'm taking my will earned rest.
[31:55] Speaker 13: You want to help mister Clovin, sure mind advice? Sit
[31:58] Speaker 13: down us. Yes there, you were almost a hero today, Russ.
[32:04] Speaker 13: You're kidding, that's how I make my daily summer bread
[32:07] Speaker 13: fifty bucks a week, agle a girls save a light
[32:11] Speaker 13: longer been a lifeguard rush oh six maybe seven summers
[32:15] Speaker 13: time out for a frolic on Anzio Beach. Then you've
[32:18] Speaker 13: had a lot of experience saving people from drowning?
[32:21] Speaker 11: Am I allotted share?
[32:22] Speaker 13: The medical examiner down a headquarters says that man. You
[32:24] Speaker 13: try to say, I remember, Our medical examiner says he
[32:28] Speaker 13: was murdered.
[32:29] Speaker 11: Well, I'll come.
[32:31] Speaker 13: Our man says it was murdered because artificial respiration wasn't
[32:34] Speaker 13: applied properly.
[32:35] Speaker 11: Well, you're a man, is a smart man. But a
[32:39] Speaker 11: four bit of week lifeguard does the best he can.
[32:41] Speaker 11: He studies in classes, he follows a first aid manual.
[32:44] Speaker 11: You call him a murder because he didn't make out
[32:46] Speaker 11: with one poor slop. You tell me, Russ, you murder
[32:49] Speaker 11: the man are considering the percentage of lives that are
[32:52] Speaker 11: saved and not saved by such as we. That's a
[32:55] Speaker 11: question you may never be able to answer.
[32:56] Speaker 1: Hope you'll be with us then in the meantime, send
[32:59] Speaker 1: your calm mins to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net,
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[33:14] Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.

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