Today's Mystery: Reporter Chick Gleason heads into Northern California to cover what appears to be a routine forest fire. But when two blazes erupt in the same area, suspicion grows that someone has deliberately set them. Then a sudden shift in the wind traps a group of missionaries in a deadly inferno, leaving 15 men dead. As investigators search for the arsonist, Gleason uncovers a suspect whose desperate circumstances may conceal a motive far more disturbing than anyone imagined.
Original Radio Broadcast: October 6, 1954
Originating in New York
Cast:
- Joe Helgeson as Chick Gleason
- Carl Swenson as Alan Rusk
- Norman Rose as Narrator
- Dean Almquist
- Earl George
- Michael O'Day
- Ed Fuller
- Chelsea Garrett
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