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You’re Better Off Guilty

On his way to work one morning, mild-mannered Ralph Westfield discovers the murdered body of rock ’n’ roll star Jill Joris. Immediately, he’s a public figure, the press, public and police linking him romantically with the star. His paycheck increases, and women start fawning over him. At the same time, the police try to pin the murder on him, so relentlessly that he almost begins believing he committed it.

When the body of a renowned actress is discovered by a plain and unexceptional stock broker, he finds himself at the center of the investigation. He feels strangely elated to be considered the prime suspect in the case.

A famous actress turns up dead, and an ordinary stockbroker finds the body. When police make him their top suspect in the murder, the man feels oddly thrilled to be at the heart of the case.

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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“You’re Better Off Guilty.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, September 19, 1979.

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