Murder Preferred

Description

A woman tries to hide the shame of her husband killing himself by making it look like someone murdered him instead. When police arrest the wrong man for the crime, she confesses the truth to the lawyer she pays to help the innocent person.

The police had Tony Gerard imprisoned as the murderer of Walter Haven, who was found shot to death in his study on the eve of announcing his campaign for the Senate. But Haven’s widow believes in Gerard’s innocence, and she asks lawyer Tom Hendricks to defend him. Hendricks accepts the challenge, only to find that more than one person may share the guilt in Haven’s death.

In an effort to make her husband's suicide less of an embarrassment, his widow fakes a crime scene in order to make it look like murder. When an innocent man is caught in the cross-fire, she admits her felony to the lawyer she hired to save the unfortunate man.

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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