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Promise to Kill

When a man discovers the murderer who violently attacked and killed his wife and daughter will spend life in prison rather than face execution, he decides to take matters into his own hands and deliver his own form of punishment.

Wealthy Dave Farmer, enraged by the brutal murders of his exceptionally beautiful wife and 5-year-old daughter, arranges through his best friend and lawyer to have their assassin—Adonis-like delivery boy Vernon White—killed in prison. When the plan backfires and White escapes, Farmer determines to track him down and perform the execution himself. When confronted, the frightened youth talks and, for the first time, Farmer learns what really happened on that tragic day.

After learning that the killer's sentence was reduced to life imprisonment instead of the death penalty, a man plans to mete out his own brand of justice against the deviant that brutally raped and murdered his wife and daughter.

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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“Promise to Kill.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, December 3, 1975.

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