***SPOILERS*** Chilling even for Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, murder mystery that has to do with the sabotaging of a race car engine that the person who's investing millions in developing it Walter Eastman,Jess Baker, is indited for the murder of the race car driver Vincent Danielli, Alejandno Rey, who in fact sabotaged it. Danielli who's been burning the candle at both ends planned to blackmail the person who invented the car engine Dr. Mooney, Frank Maxwell, by faking an accident while testing out the race car. Danielli goes so far as faking an injury as well to make his plan look even better. It's Eastman's wife Kate, Ardrey Dahon, that Danielli has been working on with his oily olive oil charms and made up stories about her husbands many infidelities with what seems like scores of women. This has the very distraught Kate plan to divorce the heel but only if she can get the goods, or women, on him for a favorable divorce settlement.
With the scheming Danielli planning to murder Kate's husband when he comes homes from his exclusive country club with the weekly recipes, $5,000.00, and then jet back to Italy and leave Kate hanging things go a wee bit wrong for him. He ends up being murdered himself! And it's the person whom Danielli planned to murdered who ends up being indited for his murder instead!
Perry Mason being Eastman's lawyer now has his hands full in cracking the case that seemed to be a slam dunk for the prosecuting D.A Hamilton "Ham" Burger, William Talman, in that all the evidence points straight to Eastman as Danielli's murderer. But there's one important thing that points the other direction and away from Eastman. It's a number of tire racks at the murder scene! They in fact were fooled around with by Eastnman's murderer but he unknowingly left a very important clue in Eastman's car that would point straight to him! And at the same time totally exonerate Eastman in Danielli's murder! Something that Daielli's killer completely overlooked but the sharp eyed Perry Mason didn't!
***SPOILERS*** Very probably the most chilling cold blooded and blood curdling confession ever seen in a Perry Mason episode when Danielli's murderer without as much as being crossed examined by Perry mason dropped a bombshell in his being Danielli's killer! He confessed in such a crazed and depraved manor that left everyone in the courtroom, including Perry, totally speechless! It's that for a moment I wondered if it was to be part of his insanity defense, to prove that he was totally nuts, when he was to later be sentenced!
With the scheming Danielli planning to murder Kate's husband when he comes homes from his exclusive country club with the weekly recipes, $5,000.00, and then jet back to Italy and leave Kate hanging things go a wee bit wrong for him. He ends up being murdered himself! And it's the person whom Danielli planned to murdered who ends up being indited for his murder instead!
Perry Mason being Eastman's lawyer now has his hands full in cracking the case that seemed to be a slam dunk for the prosecuting D.A Hamilton "Ham" Burger, William Talman, in that all the evidence points straight to Eastman as Danielli's murderer. But there's one important thing that points the other direction and away from Eastman. It's a number of tire racks at the murder scene! They in fact were fooled around with by Eastnman's murderer but he unknowingly left a very important clue in Eastman's car that would point straight to him! And at the same time totally exonerate Eastman in Danielli's murder! Something that Daielli's killer completely overlooked but the sharp eyed Perry Mason didn't!
***SPOILERS*** Very probably the most chilling cold blooded and blood curdling confession ever seen in a Perry Mason episode when Danielli's murderer without as much as being crossed examined by Perry mason dropped a bombshell in his being Danielli's killer! He confessed in such a crazed and depraved manor that left everyone in the courtroom, including Perry, totally speechless! It's that for a moment I wondered if it was to be part of his insanity defense, to prove that he was totally nuts, when he was to later be sentenced!