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Bury Me Again

Jerry Horton owes too much money and comes up with a plan to pretend he's dead and become a different person - a salesman who already died. But lying all the time makes things bad between Jerry and his wife Myrna, and she feels so guilty that she turns against him, leaving him all by himself and stuck because of his lies.

Desperate to escape mounting debts, Jerry Horton concocts a scheme to fake his death and assume the identity of a dead traveling salesman. But the tension of living a lie drives a wedge between him and his wife, Myrna, and her guilt leads her to betray him, leaving him alone, trapped by his own dishonesty.

Jerry Horton, one of the few left alive in a horrible train wreck, switches wallets with a dead fellow passenger who had, before the tragedy, bragged about the value of his life insurance. After assuming the dead man’s name, Jerry carefully instructs his wife, by phone, on how to collect the insurance, all $150,000 of it. Everything goes well until the insurance company demands the dead man’s body be exhumed.

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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“Bury Me Again.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, November 4, 1974.

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