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"Till Death Do Us Part" is a classic radio play from the iconic Inner Sanctum Mysteries horror-suspense series. The story follows newlyweds Joe and Nancy Paige on their honeymoon, whose evening spirals into a nightmare of accidental murders, cover-ups, and terror.
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00:08Good evening, friends of the Creaking Door.
00:11This is your host to welcome you once again into the Inner Sanctum.
00:16Come in.
00:17Come in and read our newest spirit.
00:20He'd been married for ten years and everything was going fine until one night at dinner his wife asked him
00:24to pass the knife, which he did, right through her.
00:28Then he hid her body in the town bell.
00:31That's where he made his mistake because the next morning she told on him.
00:46And now we can turn to a little matter of murder.
00:50Our story tonight begins on a pleasant note with a honeymoon couple.
00:54But don't start to squirm.
00:56The unpleasantness will commence soon enough.
01:00Let's look on at Joe and Nancy Stone, married hardly five hours and parked at the side of the road
01:07by the bank of the old mill stream and whispering sweet nothings to each other.
01:13Gee, Nancy, it's wonderful to be married to you.
01:16Yeah.
01:17The other clerks at Scott's department store can see us now.
01:21I don't want anybody to see us.
01:24I just want to be alone with you, Joe, for the rest of my life.
01:28I hope you don't mind spending our honeymoon in a tourist cabin instead of a swanky hotel.
01:32But I love it this way, Joe.
01:34The stream rushing past.
01:36The moonlight shining on the bridge.
01:38Oh, it's all around us.
01:41Look, there's another car.
01:43They're parking on the bridge.
01:45He's turning his headlights out, too.
01:48They think they've got privacy.
01:50I guess they can't see us parking.
01:53Look, Joe, that couple's getting out of the car.
01:55Yeah.
01:56For a walk on the bridge.
01:58I wonder if this is their wedding night, too.
02:00It's a gorgeous car.
02:02Joe.
02:03What?
02:04That couple are acting very strange.
02:06Huh?
02:07They're having an argument.
02:09Joe.
02:10Look what he just took out of his pocket.
02:12Oh, Mackerel.
02:13A gun.
02:14He was pointing the gun at her.
02:15Joe!
02:18He shot her.
02:19Holy Mackerel.
02:21It can't be.
02:22It must be a gag of some kind.
02:23But you saw the flashes when he fired the gun.
02:26How stooped she died.
02:28Her body crumpled at his feet.
02:29Yeah.
02:31Yeah.
02:31He's picking her up.
02:33I bet he's going to throw her into the street.
02:34Joe, don't let him.
02:36Nancy, you push my hand down on the horn.
02:38He sees us.
02:39He's starting across the bridge.
02:40Is that him for us?
02:41He knows we've witnessed the murder.
02:42He's got to kill us, too.
02:43Quick, start your car.
02:44He'll be here before I can turn the car around.
02:45What are we going to do?
02:46We'll duck into the woods.
02:47Come on.
02:48Quick.
02:49Next one.
02:50My high heel.
02:51I can't run fast.
02:52You've got to.
02:53Here, through these bushes.
02:55Get behind this tree.
02:57He's getting out of his car.
02:59He has the gun.
03:00Joey.
03:01He needs to kill us.
03:04He's coming straight for this tree.
03:05He knows we're here.
03:07Nancy, we've got to run for our lives.
03:09Take my hand.
03:10Come on.
03:14He's shooting at us.
03:15Come on, Nancy.
03:16Faster.
03:17Faster.
03:18Faster.
03:25I'm tired, Joe.
03:28I can't go much further.
03:29We can't stop.
03:30He's close behind us.
03:33Is he hanging out?
03:34Nobody's still after us.
03:35Let's stop and run.
03:37Oh, not yet.
03:37I saw headlights up ahead.
03:38Maybe there's a road if we can only make it.
03:41Joe.
03:42I'm through.
03:43I can't go anymore.
03:44Nancy, look.
03:45Through the tree is the road.
03:46Come on.
03:46One last sprint.
03:53Here it is, Nancy.
03:55The road.
03:57I never thought we'd make it.
04:01Is he still after us coming to the woods?
04:02I don't know.
04:03We'll stop the first car that comes along.
04:05Oh, take it easy, baby.
04:08I was thinking of that poor girl who's lying dead on the bridge.
04:13And on our wedding night, too.
04:15Here comes a car.
04:16I'll stop it.
04:17Hey.
04:17It isn't stopping.
04:19They went right by.
04:21Joe.
04:22What?
04:22I think I hear something behind us in the woods.
04:27It's only the wind in the trees.
04:29I suppose...
04:30I suppose he should suddenly step out of those woods with his gun.
04:33Maybe he gave up.
04:34Maybe he went back to take care of that body.
04:37Our car is there, Joe.
04:39We've got a marriage license in the glove compartment.
04:41And there's a seat Mrs. Swenson gave us for the cabin.
04:43Yeah.
04:44He'll know all about us.
04:45Who we are.
04:46Where to find us.
04:46We don't know a thing about him except his face.
04:49The face of a murderer.
04:51Come on, Nancy.
04:52I think we'd better start walking.
04:53We've got to get to the cabin and phone the police.
05:02How much further, Joe?
05:04Just around the bend.
05:06I'd like to lie down and sleep.
05:08Right here on the road.
05:10Fine way to spend a wedding night.
05:13Don, look.
05:14We're there.
05:16Swenson's cabin.
05:18They're all dark.
05:19Everybody's asleep.
05:20I won't have to wake up Mrs. Swenson and use her phone.
05:23Joe.
05:24What?
05:25Look in front of our cabin.
05:26What?
05:27Hey.
05:27That's our car.
05:29The murderer must have driven here and it's by another road to wait for.
05:33I don't see anybody around.
05:35Maybe he's in the car.
05:36Wait here.
05:37I'll go and see.
05:37No, you'll get him.
05:38Don't worry.
05:39We both saw his face.
05:41He's got to kill us both.
05:43If I go over there alone, he won't shoot till he knows where you are.
05:46Joe.
05:46Now, take it easy.
05:47Stay back here in the shadows.
05:49It'll be all right.
05:53It's okay, Nancy.
05:55The car is empty.
05:57Maybe he's hiding somewhere close by.
05:59No, he must have skipped out.
06:00But why would he bring our car back here?
06:04He wanted to get it away from the bridge.
06:05Don't you see?
06:06He must have dumped that girl's body in the river and then he took our car away.
06:09No trace.
06:09I'm scared, Joe.
06:11Maybe he's hiding inside the cabin waiting for us.
06:14He'd be a sap.
06:15One shot would wake up all the people in the other cabins and Mrs. Swenson, too.
06:18He'd never get away with it.
06:20Come on.
06:20We're going in our cabin and get cleaned up.
06:22Then we'll use the phone.
06:28The switch is right here.
06:30There, you see?
06:31Nobody hiding.
06:33Holy mackerel.
06:34What is it?
06:36Oh, over there on the bed.
06:38What a...
06:40It's the girl's body.
06:41Just like we saw her on the bridge.
06:53And now we can return to that cozy little honeymoon cabin
06:57where Joe and Nancy found the beautiful corpse on their bed.
07:01The corpse who'd had her face lifted.
07:03But don't worry.
07:04Before the night's over, the murderer may have his face lifted, too.
07:08On the end of a rope.
07:12Now, if that murderer were an oriental, he might try to save face.
07:15But you can't save your face if you lose your head, can you?
07:18Hmm?
07:20In the meantime,
07:21I wonder what Joe and Nancy are going to do
07:23with the uninvited corpse in their honeymoon cottage.
07:26Don't you?
07:31Now, listen, Nancy, we have to think this over.
07:33We're in a jam.
07:35Oh, for the love of Pete, Nancy, this is no time to faint.
07:41It's almost...
07:42No, no, no.
07:43Don't look at it.
07:45Not here.
07:46Down.
07:48What'll we do, Joe?
07:50I don't know.
07:51I got to think.
07:53Oh, on a wedding night,
07:54to have a thing like this happen.
07:56Why did he leave her here, Joe?
07:58To put us in a spot.
07:59The cops will never believe our story.
08:01Now they'll think we killed her.
08:03We...
08:04But Joe never saw her before in our lives.
08:07Nancy, we've got to get rid of her.
08:08What?
08:08We've got to take her back,
08:10back to the bridge,
08:10and dump her right back on the murder.
08:12No.
08:12It's the only thing we can do.
08:14Suppose the cops come here and find her.
08:16They'll grill us for hours.
08:17They'll hold us for the inquest.
08:18It might take a week, two weeks.
08:21A fine way to spend a honeymoon in jail.
08:23I've never thought of that.
08:24We've got to do it.
08:25We've got to take her back.
08:26But...
08:27But that means we have to lift her up
08:31and carry her.
08:32I'll carry her.
08:32But you'll have to help.
08:34I couldn't.
08:35You've got to.
08:39What must I do?
08:40You go out and get the back door of the car open,
08:42and then I'll bring her out.
08:44Joe!
08:46Joe, you'll find us here with the body.
08:48Quick, throw the blanket over.
08:50I'll see who it is.
08:50I can't go near her.
08:52Oh, as I say, quick!
08:54I'll try.
08:55Give me a minute.
08:59Who is it?
09:00It's all right, Mrs. Swenson.
09:01This blanket, it's too short.
09:03Just a minute, Mrs. Swenson.
09:04Her feet are sticking out.
09:06Get those clothes out of the police.
09:07Throw them on top of her.
09:09That's the best I can do.
09:10All right, all right.
09:11Sit on the bed in front of her feet.
09:12Let me carry her, Mrs. Swenson.
09:13It's coming, Mrs. Swenson.
09:15Is everything okay, Nancy?
09:16Yes.
09:17I feel faint.
09:18Fight your lip, do anything, but don't faint now.
09:24Good evening, Mrs. Swenson.
09:25Good evening, Mr. Stone.
09:26I hope I'm not intruding.
09:28I saw your lights, so I knew you weren't asleep yet.
09:30We were just going to sleep, weren't we, Nancy?
09:33Yes.
09:34I should have thought you'd be asleep long ago.
09:37Oh, you see, I brought you a jug of my own homemade apple cider.
09:40I'll put it right here.
09:40And some glasses, too.
09:42Oh, thank you, Mrs. Swenson.
09:44It's awfully nice of you.
09:45Oh, not at all.
09:47It's so nice to have a honeymoon couple.
09:49I wanted to do it earlier, but my heart was bothering me.
09:52I have a bad heart, you know.
09:53Oh, I'm terribly sorry to hear that, Mrs. Swenson.
09:55Well, thank you for everything.
09:56Oh, aren't you going to try my cider?
09:58I thought you'd like to drink a toast.
10:00Well, we're not very thirsty right now, Mrs. Swenson.
10:02Are we, Nancy?
10:04No.
10:04No, no.
10:05Oh, of course not.
10:07Now, run right along and leave you both strictly alone.
10:10Good night, Mrs. Swenson, and thank you again.
10:12Good night, Mrs. Swenson.
10:13Oh, you poor dear.
10:15You look all tuckered out sitting there on the bed.
10:17I bet you don't even know how to make up a bed.
10:20Here, I'll make it up for you.
10:21Oh, no.
10:21Oh, it's the least I can do.
10:22Now, you just sit over here on the chair, my dear.
10:24Please don't.
10:25Why?
10:26She means, please don't bother.
10:28Oh, it's no bother to all.
10:30Look at all these clothes all thrown out.
10:34What's this?
10:35We can explain everything.
10:36Shot.
10:37She's been shot.
10:38Murdered.
10:39Please, Mrs. Swenson, it's not what you think.
10:40Murdered.
10:41You're no honeymooners.
10:42You're murderers.
10:43Stop that.
10:44Let me go.
10:46Stop that.
10:48Stop it.
10:49Now, Joe, you're smiling on your hands.
10:50I'm just trying to stop her yelling.
10:52Please, Mrs. Swenson.
10:58Joe.
11:00What happened?
11:01I don't know.
11:02She just went limp and slid down on the floor.
11:07Mrs. Swenson.
11:09Mrs. Swenson, are you all right?
11:11Mrs. Swenson.
11:13What is it?
11:15She...
11:17She...
11:17She's dead.
11:20Joe.
11:21You killed her.
11:22You smothered her to death.
11:24I'm a murderer.
11:25Me.
11:26Joe Stoner.
11:27Kill her.
11:28We started out on our honeymoon and now I'm...
11:30I'm a murderer.
11:31Joe.
11:38I was kind of dizzy for a second.
11:41Joe, please.
11:42You look like a ghost.
11:44You're trembling.
11:45Nancy.
11:46What are we going to do?
11:48I...
11:49Are you sure she's dead?
11:51Yeah.
11:51Yeah.
11:51Look at her face.
11:52She's dead.
11:54And I went on the bed.
11:56We're in a jam, Nancy.
11:57In a bad jam.
11:58Oh, Joe.
12:01I wish I were dead, too.
12:03Well, hold us for murder.
12:04But it was an accident.
12:05You didn't mean to kill Mrs. Swenson.
12:06Yeah, but how will we ever prove we didn't kill the other one, too?
12:09We'll never be able to find that guy with the black roads to the cops.
12:11The cops will pin the rap on us.
12:12Joe, take me out of here.
12:14I can't stand it.
12:15Her on the bed.
12:17And Mrs. Swenson on the floor.
12:19Let's go away, please.
12:20Far away.
12:21You mean run away?
12:23Anything.
12:24Anything.
12:24But let's not stay here.
12:27I won't go to jail.
12:28I won't.
12:30Take me away.
12:31Yeah.
12:31Yeah.
12:32Yeah.
12:32We'll get out.
12:33We'll keep going.
12:34Nobody knows our names.
12:35They can't trace us.
12:36Come on.
12:36Get the clothes packed.
12:42Joe, I can't close this.
12:43Believe it.
12:43I'll close it.
12:44You'll get the other one packed.
12:45Now, don't forget anything.
12:46Look under the bed.
12:47Be sure we don't leave a single thing behind.
12:48No.
12:49No.
12:49Mustn't leave anything behind.
12:55Everything's packed, Joe.
12:55Hurry.
12:56Hurry.
12:56All right.
12:57I'll take the bags.
12:57You put the lights out.
12:58Hey.
12:59What, Joe?
13:00What's wrong?
13:00I just thought.
13:01Her fingerprints all over the place.
13:03What do we do?
13:04We've got to wipe them off.
13:04Off everything.
13:05Grab a towel.
13:06We'll wipe everything inside.
13:12We've wiped everything, Joe, I think.
13:13The bedstead?
13:14Yes.
13:14The bathroom?
13:15The faucet?
13:15Yes.
13:16The doorknobs?
13:16The dresser?
13:17Yes.
13:17The water pitcher?
13:18Yes.
13:19Then that's all.
13:20Let's go.
13:20Joe, beside it, Joe.
13:21We didn't wipe that.
13:22We didn't touch it.
13:23I'll wipe it anyway.
13:24Snap it up.
13:26All right.
13:27Come on, then.
13:27I'll feel better in the car, out on the road.
13:37Joe, do you think we forgot anything?
13:38I don't know.
13:39I can't think.
13:40I'm numb all over.
13:41Darling.
13:42Holy macromance.
13:43I'm a murderer.
13:44I'm a killer.
13:45Running away.
13:46We shouldn't have done it.
13:47We shouldn't have run away.
13:48Joe, it's not as if you killed her on purpose.
13:49It was an accident.
13:50Nancy, you realize you're married to a murderer.
13:53But it wasn't murder.
13:54So easy.
13:55So easy to kill.
13:57I never thought it could be so easy.
13:59All I did was hold my hand over her face.
14:01Please, Joe.
14:04What time is it?
14:06It's almost two o'clock.
14:09We've been driving for an hour.
14:11I've got a cigarette.
14:11I think there's some in the glove compartment.
14:13I'll get them.
14:16Joe.
14:16What?
14:18Our marriage license.
14:19It's gone.
14:21Are you sure?
14:23It's gone.
14:23It was right here.
14:24A murder.
14:25He took it.
14:26But why?
14:26Why would he take our marriage license?
14:28I don't know.
14:29I can't think straight anymore.
14:30He knows our names.
14:31Everything about us.
14:33Joe.
14:35There's no use our running away.
14:37He knows who we are.
14:38We'll always be at his mercy.
14:40Oh, gosh.
14:41I feel all it.
14:43I can't drive anymore.
14:45I've got to rest.
14:45I've got to think.
14:48Pull up at the side of the room.
14:50Look, up ahead a gas station closed for the night.
14:52We can park there.
14:53Yeah.
14:53Yeah.
15:00I wish I could sleep for a hundred years.
15:03Poor Joe.
15:05Here, put your head on my shoulder.
15:09The first night of our honeymoon.
15:12And maybe the last.
15:27Joe.
15:28Hmm?
15:29What?
15:30It's six o'clock.
15:31Huh?
15:33Hey.
15:34It's Daylight.
15:35Slept all through the night.
15:37I guess I fell asleep, too.
15:39It's cold.
15:40Yeah, we should have closed the windows.
15:43See, baby, you look pretty.
15:45Your hair messed up.
15:46Joe.
15:47Gosh, your hands are cold.
15:48Here, let me warm them.
15:50This is our first morning together, Joe.
15:52Yeah.
15:54Yeah.
15:55Our first morning together.
15:57This isn't the way I used to dream about it.
16:00How did we ever get in a mess like this?
16:02We're back where we were last night in the same jam.
16:05Nothing's changed.
16:06Those two corpses still in the cabin.
16:09What do we do?
16:10Joe, let's not think about it for a while yet.
16:14Let's go find a place for breakfast.
16:17Our first breakfast together.
16:20After that, we'll go back to thinking about it.
16:23But at least, let's have those few minutes.
16:26Sort of stay of execution.
16:28Yeah.
16:29Okay.
16:37There's a place, Joe, a diner.
16:38Yeah, but I haven't got much appetite.
16:40We both needed something hot.
16:45Do you think there's an alarm out for us yet?
16:48Let's not think about it.
16:53Early weather report.
16:54Oh, the customers inside.
16:55That's good.
16:56Morning.
16:57You've been traveling all night?
16:58Yeah.
16:59Yeah, all night.
17:00Ah, some scrambled expertise.
17:01All right.
17:02It'll take a few minutes.
17:02It's all right.
17:03We'll wait.
17:04I'll turn the radio up for you.
17:05This is brought to you.
17:06This is your friendly neighborhood station
17:08with the early morning local news.
17:11During the night,
17:12death came to Mrs. Hannah Swenson,
17:14whose tourist cabins are located
17:16on the Bay Park Highway.
17:18Joe.
17:18Yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:18Right off Route 27.
17:20Mrs. Swenson's body
17:22was discovered by Oscar Jansen,
17:24the handyman,
17:25who was awakened by the sound of a car
17:27driving away from one of the cabins.
17:29Investigating,
17:30he found Mrs. Swenson
17:31lying on the floor of Cabin 3.
17:34Dr. Macklin,
17:35who was summoned immediately,
17:37noticed that Mrs. Swenson
17:38had died of a heart attack.
17:39Heart attack?
17:40He had been treating her
17:41for a severe heartache.
17:42And I didn't kill her.
17:43Joey didn't say anything
17:44about the other bus.
17:46Shh.
17:47The state police
17:48are anxious to contact
17:49a couple who occupied the cabin
17:51and who apparently left
17:52during the night.
17:53They are traveling
17:54in a blue Nash sedan,
17:57license number SN1637.
18:00Their names are not known as yet,
18:02but if they should hear this broadcast,
18:04they are requested to call
18:06at the state police barracks
18:07as soon as possible.
18:08Let's get out of here, Nancy.
18:11Joe, what about the trash?
18:12I can't wait.
18:12We're in a hurry.
18:13Come on, Nancy.
18:18What does it mean, Joe?
18:20Why didn't he mention
18:21the other body?
18:22It's a trap, Nancy.
18:22You get it?
18:23They're keeping mum
18:23about the girl's body.
18:25Joe, I don't think so.
18:26Well, what else could it be?
18:27We left two bodies there,
18:28didn't we?
18:28Shut them out or off.
18:30Maybe the real murderer
18:31was waiting close by
18:32all the time.
18:33Maybe after we left,
18:34he went in
18:34and took the girl's body away again.
18:35I don't like it.
18:36I want to get away from here.
18:37Fire away.
18:37Wait, Joe.
18:39Don't you realize
18:40you're not a murderer?
18:41You didn't kill Mrs. Swinson.
18:42It was a heart attack.
18:43That's what they say.
18:44I say it's a trap.
18:45Now, let's get moving.
18:47Joe, it's too late.
18:48Look.
18:48State troop.
18:51He's coming right over here.
18:52Sure.
18:53He's got this license number.
18:56Well, I guess
18:56our honeymoon is over.
18:58Well, are you Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stone?
19:00Yes.
19:01You're Joe Stone?
19:02That's right.
19:03And you, lady,
19:04you're Nancy Stone?
19:05Yes.
19:06Well,
19:07then this belongs to you.
19:09What?
19:09What is it?
19:10Take it.
19:12Her marriage license.
19:14Where'd you get it?
19:16One of our men
19:16happened to be cruising
19:17down by the old mill stream
19:18last night.
19:19He saw a fellow
19:20get out of a roadster
19:21on the bridge
19:22carrying a girl's body.
19:24The fellow dumped
19:25the girl over the rail
19:26and our man went after him.
19:28They had a gunfight.
19:30And the fellow
19:30got a slug through the heart.
19:32When we went through his car,
19:33we found this.
19:34And on the back of it,
19:35you notice,
19:36he wrote your license number.
19:37It was like you figured, Nancy.
19:38The killer was waiting
19:39outside the cabin
19:39all the time.
19:40And after we left,
19:41he came back
19:42and took the girl's body
19:43away again.
19:45Officer,
19:45you got the murderer.
19:47Yeah, sure did.
19:48But we didn't recover
19:49the body of the girl.
19:50It was carried downstream.
19:52May take several days
19:52to find it.
19:54Then we're not
19:54wanted for anything?
19:56Well, you're the folks
19:57that were in
19:57Mrs. Swenson's cabin
19:58last night.
20:00And we figured
20:01you left in a hurry.
20:02Kind of embarrassing
20:03to have a thing like that
20:04happen on your honeymoon, huh?
20:06I can't blame you.
20:07But,
20:08then,
20:10we're free
20:11to go on our honeymoon?
20:13Just come down
20:14to the barracks
20:14and sign a statement.
20:16Then you can be
20:16on your way.
20:18would you mind, officer,
20:20just a few minutes?
20:21We want to go back
20:22in the diner
20:23for our honeymoon breakfast.
20:37Fooled you, didn't we?
20:38I'll bet you expected
20:39Joe and Nancy
20:40to come to a bad end.
20:42It's too bad
20:43Nancy had to be
20:43framed for murder,
20:44but we just couldn't
20:45resist framing her.
20:47She is as pretty
20:48as a picture.
20:49And, oh, yeah,
20:51would you care to hear
20:52our recipe
20:52for eliminating crime?
20:54Well, it goes like this.
20:56To prevent a murder,
20:57you must commit
20:58the murderer
20:59before he commits
21:00the murderer.
21:02Think that over
21:02for a while,
21:04and then you'll be ready
21:05to murder someone.
21:11Well, friends,
21:14it's time once again
21:15to close that creaking door
21:17until next week
21:18at this same time
21:19when we'll be back
21:20with a little hunk
21:21of horror.
21:21Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
21:23ha, ha.
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