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The Unseen Watcher

A betting man comes up with a wild plan to kill his bookie so he can get out of the massive money he owes. To pay for his gambling habit, he murders his wife and burns down property to try to collect insurance money.

Flying his helicopter toward a traffic tie-up, reporter Sam Bendix takes a peek at the roof where a woman he and the boys in the radio newsroom call “Suntan Sue” often sunbathes in the nude. But this time, instead of waving at the helicopter, she is thrown down by a man and smothered with a pillow. It is a case of murder, for sure, but Sam’s testimony, say the police, will be no good in court. He was 600 feet above the scene of the crime.

A gambler dreams up a desperate scheme to "off" his bookie in order to escape his huge debts. To fund his addiction, he kills his wife and commits arson in an attempt to claim insurance.

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 Unseen Watcher.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, March 19, 1979.

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