Crime of Passion
Description
Attorney Phil Wilcox is hired to take the case of George Parrish, a middle-aged night watchman who came home one night to discover his wife, half-dressed, with another man. Parrish then shot her. Wilcox, prone to spend many hours in the office away from his wife, works hard on the case. His wife, meanwhile, spends more and more time with a man at the art gallery where she works. Wilcox, hearing rumors from his friends, begins to wonder what he’ll have to do to stop her.
As the trial of George Parrish for the murder of his wife Millie unfolds, attorney Philip Wilcox wrestles with his own marital troubles. Wilcox's defense of Parrish is complicated by the revelation that Millie's affair was emotional, not physical, and that George's crime was born of passion rather than premeditation.
Attorney Philip Wilcox defends George Parrish, who killed his wife Millie, while dealing with problems in his own marriage. The case gets harder when Philip learns that Millie's affair was only emotional and that George killed her in a moment of anger, not because he planned it ahead of time.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.
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