Broadcast March 4th 1951 on Mutual at 5:00 p.m. EST sponsored by the U.S. Army & the U.S. Air Force Recruiting Service
This is a lost episode and no recreation of it has yet been made. If you have a copy of the script please let me know.
Written by: DeWitt Copp
Announcer: Carl Caruso
Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane) Ian Martin (Paul Coda and the voice) Santos Ortega (Commissioner Weston and Anton Reber) Stefan Schnabel (Carl Setvic and Joseph Heink) Lili Valenti (Maria Reber)
Music: Charles Paul
Synopsis:
Three people in town have been murdered, and the only connection was that they were former prison mates at a concentration camp named Regensbruck and have come to America to start a new life. The two names remaining are Joseph Heink and Paul Coda. Lamont and Margot question both suspects and victims and, unsure of the killer or the next intended victim, they resort to having The Shadow question the uncooperative Heink. After learning that Heink turned informant on the camp prisoners, The Shadow arranges for Margot to stand guard outside the apartment in case something happens. Paul Coda turns up missing with a trail of blood in his apartment suggesting foul play. But when Heink receives a phone call to visit a vacant tenement building on the next corner he finds Margot outside and forces her to tag along. There, Paul Coda reveals his true identity — he is Muller, “The Butcher,” who supposedly died. But the Allies never captured him. The real Paul Coda has been dead for years and Muller assumed his identity in order to aid espionage efforts. When Carl Setvic saw him on the street and recognized him, he found it necessary to remove everyone in the city who knew him from the old days. Although he shoots and kills the last victim, Heink manages to commit one act of justice before dying — he shoots and kills The Butcher.
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