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Black Museum – The Straight Razor. ep44, 1952
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:59 — 13.3MB) Walk through the exhibits as Orson Wells shares something about them, before arriving at the straight razor that is key to today’s case. The Wilson’s own a pub, but when Mabel takes ill and doesn’t seem to get better, her mother comes to take [...]
Black Museum – The Spotted Bedsheet. ep43, 1952
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:31 — 10.8MB) It isn’t always weapons or poison that find a place in the Black Museum. Today Orson Wells shares the tale of a common household item that won a place there. The events take place on a cruise. Miss Parsons flirts with a couple of [...]
Black Museum – The Small White Boxes. ep42, 1952
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:14 — 12.1MB) What do innocent little white boxes have to do with murder? Orson Wells tells all about how they won their place in the Black Museum. The case dates back to 1837, and a jury trial in Scotland. As Orson recounts the details of the [...]
Black Museum – A Silencer. ep41, 1952
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:54 — 12.8MB) In reviewing the various instruments of death in the Black Museum, Orson Wells presents how a silencer found it’s way in its display. Before turning in for the evening, Herbert pulled down his blinds, and without warning, or apparent cause he falls down dead. [...]
Black Museum – A Shilling. ep40, 1952.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:10 — 11.6MB) Orson Wells presents a story of how a Shilling coin became the key evidence in a case of murder. Two brothers, Joey and David, have sworn to kill each other. The police know about the threat between the high profile racketeers, but is there [...]
Dragnet – The Big Net. 540420
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:20 — 6.7MB) Women are being robbed and assaulted. Things are getting rough, and the police are worried that someone might be murdered. Using police women as decoys, Friday hopes to have a net of police out to catch the bad guys. The net results in getting [...]
Black Museum – The Shopping Bag. ep39, 1952.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:06 — 12.5MB) The Black Museum is a warehouse of regular items that somehow became involved in murder. Orson Wells tells us how a simple canvass shopping bag won it’s place there, as an instrument of murder. We look in on a drama that unfolds between Stanley, [...]
Black Museum – The Sheath Knife. ep38, 1952.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:13 — 13.4MB) Examine a few of the artifacts, as Orson Wells points out how a simple sheath knife became involved in murder. Scotland Yard investigators are looking for a man with a good amount of physical strength, who is behind a rash of murders done with [...]
Nightwatch – Nude Prowler 540405
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:30 — 5.1MB) Same as audition show. A prowler is reported and described as wearing clothes. By the time the police find him, he is picked up in the nude. Don Reed, reporter, rides with police patrols. Armed only with his tape recording equipment, he documents the [...]
Black Museum – A Service Card. ep37, 1952.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:44 — 11.8MB) Take another tour through the Black Museum, with Orson Wells as your guide through the instruments of death. Roll the clock back to 1947 where parents worry about their son after he returne from the war. Dad is upset that his son can’t hold [...]
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