They Died of Hunger, Their Pockets Full of Cash! | What Was Killing These Old Men?

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 314 minutes

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Summary

“The Old Die Rich”: They found him in an alley, dead of hunger, with seventeen thousand dollars sewn into the lining of his coat. He wasn't the first. He wouldn't be the last. Every one of them old. Every one of them starved. Every one of them carrying a bank book whose entries went back fifty years — in ink only months old. Private investigator Mark Weldon has chased the pattern across the city, and the pattern keeps leading back to a brownstone on Eldridge Avenue, and a beautiful red-haired physicist with ice-blue eyes and a want-ad that only hires men nobody will miss. Her name is May Roberts. Her laboratory hums behind a locked door. And the old men who walk through it come home rich — just in time to die. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0634

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “To Be a Rose” (August 29, 1977)
00:46:54.231 = BBC Spinechillers, “Inner Critic” (April 2006)
01:00:50.698 = Stay Tuned For Terror, “Lizzie Borden Took An Axe” (July 23, 1945) ***WD
01:13:48.186 = Strange Wills, “Lady And The Pirate” (June 29, 1946) ***WD
01:43:28.483 = Suspense, “Sisters” (February 03, 1944)
02:13:20.326 = Tales of the Frightened, “Deadly Dress” (1957)
02:17:58.583 = Tales of Tomorrow, “The Old Die Rich” (March 26, 1953) ***WD
02:49:45.547 = The Creaking Door, ‘Face To Face Music of the Spheres” (June 01, 1964) ***WD
03:14:16.802 = The Saint, “Peter Great” (June 24, 1951)
03:43:54.405 = Theater Five, “Nameless Day” (November 09, 1964)
04:05:20.075 = Theater 1030, “Trespassers Will Be Experimented Upon” (1968-1971) ***WD
04:34:07.590 = Tales From The Tomb, “The Raven” (1960s)
04:43:33.852 = Two Thousand Plus, “The Brooklyn Brain” (June 21, 1950) ***WD
05:12:14.545 = Show Close

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***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.
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0:00.0	The monitor flatlines. The doctors work fast. The paddles charge. His family watches from the corner of the room.
0:11.0	And Bob Frisbee, husband, father, lifelong pilot, feels something snap.
0:18.0	He wakes in a room he doesn't recognize.
0:22.1	No windows.
0:23.4	A door with no handle.
0:25.4	Light with no source.
0:27.6	And seated across a carved antique table is a man with a file, an impossibly thick file,
0:35.6	who introduces himself only as Mr. O. You're in the waiting room,
0:41.5	he says, and we have a great deal to get through. Everything Bob has ever done is in that file.
0:51.6	Every person he wronged and never faced. Every wound he carried that quietly poisoned
0:57.8	the people around him. Every dark corner of life that looked from the outside, perfectly ordinary.
1:05.5	Above them, a golden wheel appears, and the spokes that are dark are the ones that matter most.
1:12.8	But this isn't just a life review.
1:15.9	Behind the veil of the world Bob thought he knew something has been moving, ancient, deliberate,
1:22.8	with a face that doesn't belong on anything that was ever human.
1:27.5	There are forces here that don't want Bob to finish what he has started, and the waiting
1:32.1	room has an escape tunnel, but Mr. O. won't tell him where that leads.
1:38.9	The Waiting Room, a novel by L.A. Marzuli, the researcher who has spent decades pulling
1:43.9	back the veil on the
1:45.1	supernatural world, most people pretend isn't there. Narrated by Darren Marler. You die. Then,
1:53.7	the reckoning begins. The Waiting Room by L.A. Marzuli, a new audiobook, available now on the audiobooks page at
2:02.6	Weird Darkness.com. The Black Museum. Affiliated stations present.
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