1948-2-22 The Nursery Rhyme Murders

Broadcast February 22nd 1948 on Mutual at 5:00 p.m. EST sponsored by D.L. & W. Coal Company "Blue Coal"

This episode is included in Radio Spirits CD set The Shadow: Bitter Fruit

Written by: Max Ehrlich

Announcer: Andre Baruch

Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) & Grace Matthews (Margot Lane) Martin Gabel, Staats Cotsworth, Santos Ortega

Music: Elsie Thompson

Synopsis:

Psychiatrist Alfred Foster calls on criminologist Lamont Cranston to help him find Bert Eustis, a patient who recently escaped from a private sanitarium located in a densely wooded area in the suburbs. Bert is extremely unbalanced emotionally and sets about committing violent murders based on the bedtime stories and nursery rhymes read to him as a child. Bert’s periods of insanity take the life of intern Ralph Andrews and his wife, Polly. Lamont questions Bert’s father but finds Bert dead at the top of the stairs. Returning to the sanitarium, Margot discovers to her horror that the real killer is Foster — not Bert. Before she becomes the next victim, The Shadow arrives to torment the killer and reveal the solution to the mystery. Foster is a clever quack so obsessed with abnormal cases such as that of Bert Eustis that he became unbalanced himself. Bert’s escape was the snapping point for Foster and he thought he could blame the murders on Bert.

Listen to this episode

Note:

This episode is a rewrite of  "The Mother Goose Bandit" broadcast March 4th 1945.