The Blood Red Wine
Description
Joel, an honest but unsuccessful salesman, tries to help a stranger who comes to his door in the midst of a storm, suffering from a heart attack. Joel helps the man, who identifies himself as J.B. Lucas, by loosening his clothes and giving him his wife Myra’s special boysenberry wine. But when Lucas dies, Myra convinces Joel to put his body back in his car and keep Lucas’ money ($250,000), even though Joel knows a clue and a guilty conscience will lead the sheriff to him.
A stranger stumbles from a storm into a married couple's home and dies from heart failure. He has $250,000 in stolen cash with him. The husband and wife must decide whether to keep the money or return it, even though no one knows they found it.
A man wonders out of a storm into a couple's house and dies of a heart attack. He is carrying with him $250,000 stolen money. Do they keep it or give it back despite the fact that nobody knows they have it?
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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