The Reluctant Killer

Steve "Killer" Janos, an ex–professional football player, has served time for alleged wife-beating. In reality, he had only pushed her in anger when she objected to his giving up a lucrative football career. Now, on parole and able to get a truck-driving job, he vows revenge—even murder.

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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