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Three Times Dead

A shopkeeper thanks the cop who rescued him by giving the officer's wife a magic statue that can grant three wishes.

A store-keeper shows his gratitude to the police officer that saves them by giving his wife a magical figurine able to grant three boons.

Soon after a policeman kills two thugs in an attempted holdup, the holdup victim, a store owner, gives the cop’s wife a solid gold six-inch statue as a thank-you gift. The store owner says it will grant the owner three wishes. Without telling her husband, she makes a first wish—for $15,000. Almost immediately his squad car is hit head on. It seems she’ll get the $15,000—in life insurance money.

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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“Three Times Dead.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, June 17, 1974.

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