The Big Story — 1951
52 episodes broadcast in 1951.
January 3, 1951
A Wise Father Knows His Own Daughter
January 10, 1951
A Killer Needs a Character Reference (ugly Sound of Murder)
January 17, 1951
The Most Dangerous Killer Is the Most Obvious
January 24, 1951
Rediscovery of an Old Friend and Hanging Him
January 31, 1951
Murder Has Five Components (student's Favorite Subject Is Murde
February 7, 1951
Death at Lover's Lane (youth Terrorized by Chain of Murder)
February 14, 1951
Incident on the Fourth of July
February 21, 1951
Going to Sleep an Hour Before Midnight (montana's Most Brutal M
February 28, 1951
Bicycling to the Scene of the Crime
March 7, 1951
Two Missing Persons and Death (late Arrival Home)
Ed Neumeier of the Humboldt Times in Eureka, California supplies this week's true story.
March 21, 1951
A Weather Report Leads to the Digging Up of a Clue
March 28, 1951
The Murder with Too Many Suspects
William Doherty of the Chicago Sun-Times reported the real case told as 'The Poker Hand That Ended in Death.'
April 11, 1951
A Drive in the Country Leads to Death
April 18, 1951
The Case of the Upside Down Corpse
Virgil Hill of the Hiawatha, Kansas Daily World is the reporter behind this week's story.
May 2, 1951
A Flashlight and a Small Black Hat Lead to a Killer
May 9, 1951
A Day of Horror (seventeen Year Old Reporter) Sapulpa
May 16, 1951
Thirteen Is a Killer's Unlucky Number
May 23, 1951
A Love to Last Forever Ended in Death
May 30, 1951
A Half Forgotten Memory Becomes a Long Remembered Manhunt
June 6, 1951
An Ad in the Personals Leads to Death
June 13, 1951
The Town Where Children Lived in Terror
June 20, 1951
A Quote from Shakespeare Traps a Killer
June 27, 1951
Hard Luck Ends in Violence and Death
July 4, 1951
The Stupid Criminal Who Became Dangerously Smart
July 11, 1951
The Devil Gets His Due or the Story Turns to Ashes
July 18, 1951
A Fire That Singed Many Lives
Cleveland Press reporter Bus Bergen beat a 40-minute deadline on the case dramatized here.
August 1, 1951
A Troubled Woman's Search for Excitement
August 8, 1951
The Killer in a Convertible Who Was Driven to the End of His Ro
August 15, 1951
Reconstruction of a Family's Life Leads to Death
August 22, 1951
A Criminal Trapped in MID Air Vanishes
August 29, 1951
A Reporter, a Beautiful Young Girl and a Murder
September 5, 1951
The Killer Who Talked His Way to Doom
September 12, 1951
Death in a Lonely Lava Desert Country
September 19, 1951
Murder in a Killer's Right Hand (answer to Puzzle in a Dream)
September 26, 1951
Murderer Trapped by Old Trick
October 3, 1951
Two Brutal Murders and Two Contradictory Theories Lead to Kille
October 10, 1951
Mystery and Mother Love Add Up to Murder
October 17, 1951
The Killer Who Was No Good at Anything
October 24, 1951
The Old Man on the Houseboat at Dead Man's Bend
October 31, 1951
Turning Tune Back to Murder
November 7, 1951
Two Killers Regret Wiping the Smile Off Another Man's Face
Cluster M. Nilsson of the Salt Lake City Tribune supplies this week's true story.
November 21, 1951
Justice for a Man Imprisoned for Murder
November 28, 1951
The Murderer Who Had Clay Feet
December 5, 1951
The Killer Who Paid a High Price for Being a Connoisseur of Bea
December 12, 1951
A Search for Human Interest Leads to Tragedy
December 19, 1951
A Bank Robbery and a Christmas Gift to an Unlucky Man
December 26, 1951
The Reporter Who Believed a Convict Was Innocent
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