Sensitive documents have been turned over to enemy hands. Secrets involving the manufacture of an atom bomb have been betrayed. Now it’s in the hands of Scotland Yard to investigate,…
Visiting a crime of 30 years ago, a 32-year-old Peter Amery looked much older than his years, and wife just 4 years younger than he. In voiceover, details are shared…
An ordinary raincoat finds its way to the Black Museum, and we learn about the crime that put it there. Robbers in white cloth masks took no jewelry, and the only victim was the young man shopping for a wedding ring. How will the anonymous, shabby raincoat link the robbers to the scene? The pistol used in the crime is in the pocket, but it was a stolen one. A glimmer of hope comes when the coat was traced to certain possible shops, and the tedious police work begins.
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Starting with a vieew of various exhibits from the Black Museum, news of a possible new entry arrives. A fire is just smoldering out when the Scotland Yard inspectors arrive. Could it have been suicide? Maybe, but not with a bullet hole in the victim's back.
Pilot episode, written and directed by Willis Cooper, creator of Lights Out, Quiet Please, and others. Presents a series of cases based on real crimes, but fictionalized for radio. In the vane of other shows like Dragnet, or the Black Museum, the names have been changed, and the crimes are presented in a matter of fact style, and sometimes brutal reality.
An aged man was found dead, with a bashed in head, and a distraught young widow. Is Mrs Applebee telling the truth when she claims Tom was already dead when she found him? Her story is in conflict from her admission the night before, when she was drunk, and spoke freely to the police sergeant responding to the case.
Or, The Case of Air Cadet Gordon. Scotland Yard opens its official files to share true crime stories. The names have been changed, but the facts are real. Exhibits in…
Albert is an informant who is fishing for a little cash from the Scotland Yard inspector. There's not a lot of interest in the information, other than to keep the…
The cast of characters is introduced in this enactment of a real crime, from the files of Scotland Yard. Police split between voiceover, and dramatization to present the evidence, and…
In what appears to be a flawless murder, with no identifying marks left on a body, and no fingerprints or other evidence left to point to the killer, Invistigators are…