Doves and Ravens

The marriage of Bart Rollins and wife Loretta has hit a new low. Late on a dark foggy night while returning home from a wedding a figure steps from behind a large oak tree off the curb and into the street and is hit and killed instantly. Bart due to his constant trouble from Loretta has been drinking at the wedding throughout most of the day and night. In a panic Bart envisions the crisis he faces: undoubtedly years in prison if apprehended. With no other cars in the immediate area and no witnesses in sight he leaves the scene. The following week Bart tells Loretta that he intends to end the marriage at which point she informs him that if he ever tries to leave her she the sole eye-witness will be quite happy to tell the authorities all about the hit-and-run accident. Three years later Loretta the owner of a successful business employs several new employees including Kenton Allison a handsome young man nine years her junior. Kenton is married to the beautiful Claudia a cardiac nurse but in spite of the age difference he and Loretta eventually fall in love. In the meantime Kenton and wife Claudia become frequent house-guests of the Rollins' and conversely Bart soon falls for Claudia-a sort of crisscross situation but neither couple is fully aware of the other's activities. Claudia and Bart a commercial artist and also a private pilot find themselves in a quandary: the only barrier keeping them from a future life of bliss: the other couple Loretta and Kenton. Finding themselves in a desperate situation and ever conscious of Loretta's threat they formulate a plan to do away with Loretta and Kenton: a plan intended and designed to make it appear that the couple have literally disappeared. Under the guise of providing the pair with flu shots Claudia inoculates both with a deadly substance after which Bart loads the bodies one at a time into his plane in the darkness of night he flies them out over a large body of w