HOMICIDE – "White Mistress" – 1965
This is episode 20 of the 510 episode run of, HOMICIDE. This long running Australian Police series was on television between, 1964 and 1977.
A Melbourne city worker is doing some repairs on a drainage ditch just out side of town. A car roars by and almost hits him. He watches the car speed away, then, returns to work. Two weeks later he takes a short cut through some brush in the area. He finds the same car hidden in the woods. Inside is the body of a woman being feasted on by several rats.
Melbourne Homicide Detectives, Lex Mitchell and Terry McDermott draw the assignment. They trace the tags on the car and soon have the woman's identity. First suspect is always of course the husband. However, in this case the man, Rhod Walker, is ruled out. He has been stationed at the South Pole for the last 13 months doing research.
A search of the dead woman's house produces some pictures of another possible suspect. This turns out to be a false lead as well. Then the detectives discover that nobody has seen the woman in the last year. She had bought an airline ticket to England at the time but it was never used. The Detectives are stumped.
Husband Walker finishes his tour at the pole and returns to Melbourne. Detectives McDermott and Mitchell meet him at the dock for a friendly chat. They notice that Walker is a tad on the nervous side. Does he know something? A tail is soon put on Walker.
The tail produces a result when Walker leads them to "the other woman". The woman, Joan Letch, is employed by the same firm as Walker. The two have been having an affair for quite some time. Now we find out, that just before Walker had left on his research tour, he and his wife had had a fight. She had fallen and cracked her skull open. Walker had called Letch after-ward. They had crated up the dead body and stored it at the lab in a minus 100 degree fridge. They had also bought the airline ticket in-order to throw off any possible questions as to the wife's whereabouts. Then two weeks ago, Letch had removed the body, thawed it out, and placed it in the car. Walker of course had the alibi of being at the South Pole.
The two, Walker and Letch are both bound over for trial.
Not as fast moving as normal, but still an entertaining watch. (B/W)
This is episode 20 of the 510 episode run of, HOMICIDE. This long running Australian Police series was on television between, 1964 and 1977.
A Melbourne city worker is doing some repairs on a drainage ditch just out side of town. A car roars by and almost hits him. He watches the car speed away, then, returns to work. Two weeks later he takes a short cut through some brush in the area. He finds the same car hidden in the woods. Inside is the body of a woman being feasted on by several rats.
Melbourne Homicide Detectives, Lex Mitchell and Terry McDermott draw the assignment. They trace the tags on the car and soon have the woman's identity. First suspect is always of course the husband. However, in this case the man, Rhod Walker, is ruled out. He has been stationed at the South Pole for the last 13 months doing research.
A search of the dead woman's house produces some pictures of another possible suspect. This turns out to be a false lead as well. Then the detectives discover that nobody has seen the woman in the last year. She had bought an airline ticket to England at the time but it was never used. The Detectives are stumped.
Husband Walker finishes his tour at the pole and returns to Melbourne. Detectives McDermott and Mitchell meet him at the dock for a friendly chat. They notice that Walker is a tad on the nervous side. Does he know something? A tail is soon put on Walker.
The tail produces a result when Walker leads them to "the other woman". The woman, Joan Letch, is employed by the same firm as Walker. The two have been having an affair for quite some time. Now we find out, that just before Walker had left on his research tour, he and his wife had had a fight. She had fallen and cracked her skull open. Walker had called Letch after-ward. They had crated up the dead body and stored it at the lab in a minus 100 degree fridge. They had also bought the airline ticket in-order to throw off any possible questions as to the wife's whereabouts. Then two weeks ago, Letch had removed the body, thawed it out, and placed it in the car. Walker of course had the alibi of being at the South Pole.
The two, Walker and Letch are both bound over for trial.
Not as fast moving as normal, but still an entertaining watch. (B/W)