A Brief Pause For Murder (East Coast Broadcast)

In “A Brief Pause for Murder,” radio announcer Roger Wicksen has grown to despise his glamorous, cruel wife Tisha, and the moment she announces she’s leaving him for novelist Trent Crandall, he finally makes up his mind: she’s going to die. When a series of “whip-cord strangler” murders grips the city, Roger sees his perfect cover. With the help of a nervous new engineer who’s hiding a prison record, Roger secretly records a station break that will air while he slips home to kill Tisha—giving him an airtight alibi. But the night of the murder, the radio announces something Roger never expected: the real strangler has been caught hours earlier. His plan collapses as his only cover vanishes, and the prerecorded alibi he confidently counted on ends up exposing the impossible—Roger Wicksen was in two places at once. By the time the final notes fade, the trap he built for Tisha has snapped shut around him instead.