CBS Radio Mystery Theatre — You're Better Off Guilty ~ Act 3: Scenes 4~6   Smoking Gun In a follow up visit from Miss Evans, the victim's manager, the Inspector gets his 'smoking gun' -- that is to say, he gets all the evidence he needs to arrest and charge a suspect. He didn't expect it to turn out this way, but now he's got both a confession and the murder weapon. Why confess? Sure that Ralph had killed Jill Jorras, he'd called him in for more questioning. In fact, Ralph should be arriving any minute now. The Inspector wanted to grill him with questions until he slipped up, made that fatal mistake that would give himself away. Then an unexpected visit from Miss Evans forces him to toss his old theory aside as she not only confesses, but also produces the murder weapon. Apparently, the Inspector had been 'barking up the wrong tree'. But why confess? She wasn't even a "person of interest". The inspector saw her as a witness, not a suspect. If she'd just kept her mouth … [Read more...]