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I. Deeply in love, attractive nurse Helen Green and her fiance, Roger Lawson, plan their forthcoming wedding. Helen tells Roger she must break the news to other suitor, Freddy Holt, explains it will be their last date.
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Girls who attract men also attract — trouble. That's why the first thing detectives look for, in any crime of passion, is The Woman. She's the motive for murder, the primitive reason why men kill. But Helen Green wasn't thinking such dark thoughts when she won a beauty contest. Or when she got engaged to Roger Lawson. She didn't -know that two people stood in the way of her happiness: Her own former sweetheart — and the devoted friend of her fiance. One of these was jealous enough to become her murderer!
Here, re-enacted from the files of the True Detective Mysteries program, is her tragic story — from the motives that brought about her death to the capture of the criminal. Detective Ellis had few clues to go on but they all led to Roger's elderly friend, who had brooded in his loneliness until his warped mind came up with the simple, evil solution. As long as Helen was alive, she would distract Roger, take all his time and attention. She was "too pretty to live!"
To learn how police solved this crime turn to page 82.
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4. When the engaged couple park behind Roger's hotel to talk after a movie, a hail of gunfire blasts through the windshield, killing Helen, wounding Roger.
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