This episode was somewhat prescient, as it occurred just 6 months before the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, under similar circumstances, i.e., the dispute over trade union leadership. I'd like to answer the listeners who noted that it is not realistic with regard to both the potency and reaction time of black widow venom. Those readers probably did not listen to the end of the story. I don't want to say more because of spoilers, but suffice it to say the story revealed it was a slightly different kind of spider. . . 