Dyke Easter: This Time for Creeps

Dyke Easter: This Time for Creeps

Author: Adam Graham July 4, 2025 Duration: 35:05
Original Release Date: December 13, 2015

Dyke Easter is hired by a man to smooth out a case where he committed murder, except Easter arrives to find the supposedly murdered man alive.

Audition Date: 1939 or 1949

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