This is Case Closed Crime Stories from the Golden Age of Radio.

Welcome back to Case Closed, one hour of mystery from the Golden Age of Radio every Wednesday at Relicradio.com.

First this week is Crime Classics. We'll hear Madeline Smith, Made or Murderous from January 20th,

1954. After that, it's Dragnet and the Big Betty from November 23rd, 1950.

I had to trim some music off of the Dragnet episode in hopes that the machines at Spotify

don't decide it needs to be pulled down.

If it does disappear, you can always find it and everything else on the website.

But first, here's Crime Classics.

Good evening. This is Crime Class classics. I am Thomas Highland,

with another true story of crime. Listen. That's the way the doorbell sounded at number 14

Pembroke Street in Glasgow, Scotland. That's the way it sounded if a fellow was impatient.

If he had just come home from Madeline Smith's house on a March day in 1857 and really want it in,

his name was Pierre Emil Langeleyé and the door was in his way.

Why didn't someone answer anyway?

Here comes his landlady.

She gasped because Pierre was her favorite lodger and he looked terrible.

Awful, standing there in the doorway, swaying,

before he fell on his face.

Dead.

Tonight, my report to you on Madeline Smith,

made or murderous, which.

Crime classics.

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