The Lonely Hearts Matter - Ep 3

From Hollywood, it's time now for... Johnny Dollar. Ready with your call to Hartford, Mr. Dollar. Go ahead, please. Johnny, what's up? Plenty, Dave. The Wells' girl was right. Her father was murdered. We just got the autopsy report. He died from a dose of ground glass.

And I'll put a stopwater on the insurance claim. It was filed this afternoon. And something else, Dave. A man died in St. Louis about two and a half years ago. I wonder if you'd have mutual records, service check, and see if he was insured.

His name was Walter Mabirly Burke. Burke. Burke. Well, Jonathan Wells' widow was previously married to Burke. They were married at the time of his death, and he also died suddenly and mysteriously. Oh, Mabel. Oh, you have met her, Dave. She's just a sweet old lady who's had little bad luck now and then. And she regards death as the doorway to a greater and more glorious life.

Oh, well, that sounds very noble. It would if she didn't keep slamming the door. Tonight and every weekday night, Bob Bailey and the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed Expensive card, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

How is truly Johnny Dollar. From special investigated Johnny Dollar, location Chicago to the home office, North Western Shurity Company Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment? The Lonely Hearts Matter. Expensive count continued. Item 8, $7.65, dinner for normal wells myself.

It was brought up by room service and we ate alone in my suite. Now I didn't feel like facing the dining room. I was still trying to figure her out. When she'd come to me with a claim that her father had been poisoned by her stepmother for his insurance, I'd tagged her for a jealous, hysterical kid.