Dark Shadows

Narrator: The murder of Doctor Elton Parkson was one of the most baffling in police history, for the clues they found had little meaning and no apparent connection to each other: desk drawers strung out in a line in the center of the office, their contents untouched; the strangled victim found locked in a closet. Because of the nature of these clues, Lieutenant Pat McKay from the homicide detail enlisted the aid of Doctor Everett Colner, police psychiatrist. Colner felt that, because the victim was a doctor, the killer might be found among his patients. So with the aid of Jean Smith, the slain doctor's nurse, he carefully examined Parkson's files for psychiatric clues. Selected case histories revealed such intimate personal details as 'intemperate, violent, melancholy, morose, psychoneurotic, hysterical, neurasthenic... '