Motive for Murder

Suspense - Radio’s Outstanding Theater of Thrills · Jun 17, 2026 · 29m

Originally Aired: March 16, 1950

Suspense #376, "Motive for Murder," stars Alan Ladd as Detective Dave Murphy, whose world shatters when he comes home to find a murdered stranger in his apartment and his wife Mary passed out drunk beside the body. The victim, Victor Hamilton, supposedly came to demonstrate a vacuum cleaner, but no vacuum cleaner is found at the scene. All the evidence points to Mary: her fingerprints on the murder weapon, lipstick on the dead man's cheek, and whiskey on her breath. Even Dave's partner, Lieutenant Jock Dusan, can't fight the facts, though he tries to give his…