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CBS Radio Mystery Theater_79-04-16_(0971)_Ring Of Evil

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Helena sees a woman with a dagger plunged into her chest, and the killer's hand bears a blood-red ring.
A young American tourist in Taxco, Mexico, witnesses a murder from a balcony and later realizes the killer's distinctive ruby ring is worn by her father's friend, Colonel William. As she uncovers the ring's cursed legend tied to Cortez, she becomes entangled in a web of superstition, greed, and danger, culminating in a violent confrontation on a remote mountainside.

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A red glass ring turns a Taxco vacation into a patient study in fear.

The episode turns Taxco into a study in superstition, opening with Cicero, the dark of the unknown, and the old divide between religion and fear before settling into the red glass ring and Juan Pedrosa's warning that it should be returned.

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You get a cursed ring, a church warning, and one very stubborn vacation story.

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