Rolf K. Mills, police reporter for the Minneapolis Morning Tribune, is at the police station for what seems to be a dull Friday night. Suddenly, the desk sergeant gets a phone call from Walt Kramer, the grain inspector. Walt says "I was taking a shortcut back from Cedar Lake across the city dump, when I saw a pair of silk stockings sticking up out of the dump. The thing is, that there were legs in them, a woman's legs". The desk sergeant hangs up the phone and runs into another room. Soon, Detective Peterson comes up to Rolf and asks "Did you say you had a date tonight, Rolf?" He says "Yes, and a deadline". Peterson says "You've got another date now. You and me". Rolf asks "Where?" Peterson says "At the city dump". Rolf says "Very funny. With who?" Peterson says "A corpse, with silk stockings. You coming?" A short while later, the body has been found and examined by a doctor, Rolf says "What a beating she took. Any ideas who she is, Peterson says "No identifying marks. The labels are torn off the clothes". Rolf says "Then, it's safe calling it a murder?" Peterson says "Sure". Rolf says "Say doctor, can you add anything more on the cause of death, beyond the beating, that is?" The doctor says "Yes. This woman has dirt in her mouth and in her throat. That proves that she was alive when she was put here". Rolf says "She was buried alive? Where is the nearest phone? I've got to call the paper!" A few hours later, after the initial story came out, a lady named Mrs. Styles appears at the police station. She said that she saw the story in the paper and thought she knew the woman. Peterson asks Mrs. Styles "Who do you believe the victim is? Mrs. Styles says "Mrs. Sadie Cresley". Peterson asks "What makes you think the murdered woman is your neighbor, ma'am?" She says "I don't know. I just have a feeling. She hasn't been home for days. Neither has her husband. They had a fight. They were always fighting".