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May 2025
45m 38s

A Life in Your Hands: The Randall Marsde...

Adam Graham|Old Time Radio Detective Host
About this episode
An assistant prosecutor is murdered on the same night a man he sent to death row has escaped. Suspicion falls on the escaped murderer, but is he the real culprit?

Original Air Date: July 24, 1952

Originating from New York

Starring: Carlton Kadell as Jonathan Kegg

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