Written by Robert L. Richards, produced and directed by William Spier, this episode is consistently cited[1] as one of the most terrifying programs broadcast during radio's Golden Age.
James (Robert Taylor) and Ellen (Cathy Lewis), married seven years and having recently relocated to California for the husband's engineering job, move into a hastily finished rental house in a development that was started before the war.
Fleeing the house in a panic, they return with a pair of policemen, only to discover the closet door is unlocked and the blood has vanished.
A newspaper article clipped to the manuscript notes that James killed Ellen with a shotgun before turning the weapon on himself.
As the story concludes, a young couple comes into his office and asks about renting the house in Cypress Canyon.