The Wages of Sin

Suspense - Radio’s Outstanding Theater of Thrills · Jun 28, 2026 · 29m

Originally Aired: October 19, 1950

Suspense #399, "The Wages of Sin," stars Barbara Stanwyck as Ruby Miller, a woman with a questionable past who returns to her apartment to find a murdered man bleeding on her rug. The victim is David Madlock, a man Ruby claims she's never met, yet he was shot to death in her living room and had a key to her apartment on his body. Captain Salvador doesn't believe her story, especially when he discovers that Ruby recently came into a large sum of money, enough to pay for an expensive apartment, new clothes, and a substantial bank deposit. Despite having an…