Report on the Jolly Death Riders

Originally Aired: August 27, 1951 Suspense #436, "Report on the Jolly Death Riders," William Holden stars in this tense drama based on actual events. Lieutenant Harbor of the San Francisco Police Department investigates a tragic hit-and-run accident on the Oakland Bay Bridge. Warren and Gladys Milford are celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary when two hot rods racing across the bridge force Warren to swerve, crashing into a steel support beam. Warren survives with minor injuries, but Gladys dies in the ambulance. Before losing consciousness, Warren catches a glimpse of white letters on a gold background reading "Jolly High Riders" painted on one of the cars that didn't stop. Detective Sergeant Boyle tracks down the Jolly High Riders club to a cheap gymnasium on West Stockton, where he interrogates the five charter members: Lodge Brisson, the gym manager and hard boy; Mickey Holzer, who works at a parking garage; Julie and Wanda Lake; and overweight Wally Bergman. The club members claim their car was stolen just before a big Saturday race, but Harbor suspects one or more of them knows the truth about what happened that deadly night on the bridge.