Inner Sanctum Halloween Month, day 27 of 31: "Death Pays the Freight"

There are so, so many stories in old-time radio wherein a character meets a random stranger who is their exact double. Such a story is "Death Pays the Freight," an Inner Sanctum episode which was originally broadcast on July 6th, 1952. This story concerns a hobo on a boxcar who kills a man in self-defense. Realizing the dead man is practically his twin he decides to adopt the dead man's identity, then finds out the dead man was a hitman!

"Death Pays the Freight" was hosted by Paul McGrath and featured Everett Sloane, Leon Janney and Ralph Bell. You can listen to this episode at archive.org by clicking here.