A Matter of Murder story
A carjacker steals a Rolls-Royce with a dead body inside it. Directed by: David Lowell Rich. Story by: Boris Sobelman.
8 total · 1 choice · 5 major · 2 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| spouse murder | choice | A theme alluded to in the title: Sheridan brutally murdered his nagging wife and tried to dump her body in a nearby lake. |
| extramarital affair | major | Sheridan killed his nagging wife in order to be with Enid, whom the viewer is given to understand he had been carrying on with for some time. |
| framing someone for a crime | major | In reality, Sheridan had murdered his wife and stashed her body in the trunk of his Rolls-Royce. When the car thieves made off with his ride before he could dump the body in a nearby lake, Sheridan and his lover Enid seized the opportunity by hatching a plot to frame them for kidnapping his wife for a ransom of $200,000. Their thinking was that the police would conclude the thieves murdered the women as part of a botched kidnapping. |
| law enforcement | major | The story partially follows the police in their efforts to unravel the mystery of what on earth had happened to Sheridan's wife. |
| ransom kidnapping | major | In reality, Sheridan had murdered his wife and stashed her body in the trunk of his Rolls-Royce. When the car thieves made off with his ride before he could dump the body in a nearby lake, Sheridan and his lover Enid seized the opportunity by hatching a plot to frame them for kidnapping his wife for a ransom of $200,000. Their thinking was that the police would conclude the thieves murdered the women as part of a botched kidnapping. |
| theft | major | The story revolves partly around a gang of car thieves. In this story they stole the same Rolls-Royce twice and found the same murdered woman in the trunk both times. |
| honor | minor | The leader of the car thieves was too honorable to go into kidnapping or commit murder, we heard time and again. |
| legal occupation | minor | The family attorney Mr. Flagstone prepared Sheridan's wife's $200,000 ransom. |