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The Two-Dollar Murders

A man tries to cover up an affair and murder by killing a cop who writes him a parking ticket. The unlikliest of clues and the unlikliest of witnesses gives him away.

A guy attempts to hide his cheating and a killing by murdering a police officer who gives him a parking violation. The most unexpected evidence and the most surprising witness expose his crimes.

The only lead the police have for two murders is that both victims were shot by the same revolver. No one in the neighborhood is of much help, and the publisher is certain he won’t be caught. But he doesn’t know what the policeman told a diner waitress before he was killed or that his wife suspects him—not only of having cheated on her but also, for reasons she can’t figure out, of having fired the .38 he always carries at both the women and the cop.

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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“The Two-Dollar Murders.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, June 3, 1977.

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