The Tell-Tale Corpse

Two ex-cons named Ernie and Sid get out of jail and go see their old cellmate Ted's aunt. She has one key to a treasure chest with $100,000 inside, and they have the other key. After they murder Aunt Grace to steal her share of the money, things get messy when she won't stay buried.

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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