Todays Mystery: Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith investigate the death of a 52-year-old music teacher whose body is discovered in an abandoned freight car, cradled in the arms of a young man who refuses to explain what happened. When the young man finally confesses to killing her, the detectives struggle to understand why he would murder a woman he claims to have loved deeply and who had devoted years to nurturing his musical ambitions.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 10, 1952

Originating from Hollywood

Cast:

• Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday
  
  
• Herb Ellis as Sgt. Frank Smith
  
  
• Vic Perrin
  
  
• Harry Bartell
  
  
• Joyce McCluskey
  
  
• Jim Moser, writer
  
  
• Walter Schumann, music
  
  
• Technical advice from the office of Chief W.H. Parker
  
  
• Captain Jack Donahoe, Sgt. Marty Wynn, and Sgt. Vance Brasher, technical advisors
  
  
• George Fenneman, announcer
  
  

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