You Can’t Die Twice

Originally Aired: March 31, 1949

Suspense #334, "You Can't Die Twice," stars Edward G. Robinson as Sam Brown, a struggling milkman whose mundane life takes a shocking turn on April Fool's Day. When police call to inform Sam's wife Katie that her husband has been killed by a hit-and-run driver on the Clinton Turnpike, the couple initially dismisses it as a cruel prank. But the news is confirmed on the radio, and they soon realize Sam's wallet was pickpocketed the night before. The body in the morgue, identified only by that wallet, belongs to someone else entirely.

Katie sees an opportunity too tempting to pass up: with Sam's life insurance policy offering twenty thousand dollars with double indemnity for accidental death, she proposes that Sam disappear to Chicago while she collects the money. Despite his moral reservations about the scheme, Sam reluctantly agrees under pressure from his desperate, money-hungry wife. What begins as a bizarre case of mistaken identity quickly transforms into a dangerous game of deception as the couple attempts to exploit a tragic accident for financial gain.