The Shady Lane Matter - Ep 2

From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar ready what you call the Hartford mr. Dollar. Thanks operator. Go ahead Hartford Hello Johnny yeah Pete a big fat expensive out and you still reverse the call head to I'm phoning from a crossroads store Look, I need a quick factor to in connection with the Ellen Bates murder that ten thousand dollar policy on Ellen's life

When was it written Pete around four years ago? I'll get the exact date if you want to hang on no, no Well, that's close enough. I was hoping it was only a year or two back.

Knocks a pet theory in the head, huh? No, but it doesn't help but any. Is there also a policy on the life of Ben Bates? Yeah, same amount. Taking out the same time, right? A nice round zero.

What do the local authorities think? The only local authority in Shady Lane is sitting outside in the car right now, and he thinks the same as I do. Which is what? We're both stumped. I'll be talking to you.

Tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey and the transcribed adventures of the man with the action packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigators truly Johnny Dollar from special investigator Johnny Dollar location Shady Lane Vermont to the home office star mutual insurance company Hartford Connecticut assignment, the shady lane matter. Expense account continued. Item four, seven cents,

a copy of the shady lane weekly crier, the paper that prints the folksy news, according to the masthead. Maybe it would help, because the whole case seemed to have a folksy flavor. A young farmwife named Ellen Bates, a semi-invalent without a known enemy in the township had been shot to death a month before. The killer, unidentified, motive, unknown, physical evidence