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Crime Classics (1953-1954)

Crime Classics

(1953 to 1954)

Detective / Mystery

Cast: Elliot Lewis and Lou Merrill

Crime Classics was created by radio actor and director Elliot Lewis for CBS in June of 1953. The weekly series featured true ...

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The Checkered Life and Sudden Death of Colonel James Fisk, Junior - 6/29/1953

The Shrapnelled Body of Charles Drew, Senior - 7/6/1953

The Terrible Deed of John White Webster, and His Crime That Shocked the Nation - 7/13/1953

The Death of a Picture Hanger - 7/20/1953

The Final Day of General Ketchum and How He Died - 7/27/1953

Mr. Thrower's Hammer - 8/3/1953

The Axe and the Drood Family - 8/10/1953

The Incredible Trial of Laura D. Fair - 8/17/1953

The Alsop Family - How It Diminished and Grew Again - 8/24/1953

Your Loving Son, Nero - 8/31/1953

Henrietta R. - 9/7/1953

The Bloody, Bloody Banks of Fall River - 9/14/1953

The Hangman and William Palmer Who Won - 10/7/1953

The Seven Layered Arsenic Cake of Madame Lafarge - 10/14/1953

Billy Bonny Bloodletter Also Known As - 10/21/1953

John Hayes - His Head and How They Were Parted - 10/28/1953

Blackbeard's 14th Wife - Why She Was No Good for Him - 11/11/1953

The Triangle on the Round Table - 11/18/1953

The Killing Story of William Corder and the Farmer's Daughter - 11/25/1953

If a Body Need a Body, Just Call Burke & Hare - 12/2/1953

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln - 12/9/1953

John and Judith - Their Crime and Why They Didn't Get to Enjoy It - 12/16/1953

Coyle and Richardson - Why They Hung in a Swinging Breeze - 12/30/1953

The Younger Brothers - Why Some of Them Grew No Older - 1/6/1954

How Supan Got the Hook Outside Bombay - 1/13/1954

Madeleine Smith - Maid or Murderess, Which? - 1/20/1954

The Boorn Brothers & the Hangman - A Study in Nip & Tuck - 1/27/1954

The Incredible History of John Shepard - 2/3/1954

Twenty Three Knives Against Caesar - 2/10/1954

Jean Baptiste Troppmann, Killer of Many - 2/17/1954

The Good Ship Jane - Why She Became Flotsam - 2/24/1954

Roger Nems - How He, Though Dead, Won the Game - 3/3/1954

Old Sixtoes - How He Stopped Construction on the BBC and I - 3/17/1954

A General's Daughter, Czar's Lieutenant and the Linen Closet - A Russian Tragedy - 4/7/1954

James Evans, Fireman - How He Extinguished a Human Torch - 4/14/1954

Widow Magee and the Three Gypsies - A Vermont Fandango - 4/28/1954

The Lethal Habit of Marquise De Brinvilliers - 5/26/1954

Mr. Jonathon Jewett - How, Most Peculiarly, He Cheated the Hangman - 6/2/1954

The Death of a Baltimore Birdie and Friend - 6/16/1954

Ali Pasha - A Turkish Delight - 6/23/1954