Universal Pictures The Phantom Lady is an exciting of study of a psychopathic killer. Scott Henderson is accused of strangling his wife to death but he vehemently denies it. There are several people who can corroborate his whereabouts but all of them deny seeing him the night his wife was murdered. The only person who has any faith in him is his secretary Carol Richman who determines to track down the three people who can vouch for Scott’s whereabouts. However her tracking them down proves fatal.