The Crystal Lake Matter - Ep 1

From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny Deller Life Johnny. Oh hi Tom. What's up? Oh? 50,000 bucks worth of life insurance. Oh yeah, we got a policy for that. I'm out in the life of one Edward Russell Russell never Had a him that's just the trouble Johnny right now. Nobody else has either three days ago

His wife Leona over in Denver filed a missing persons report. She the beneficiary right so what do you want from me? Find out what happened to him. Well, how do you know anything did maybe he just walked down on his wife now for what I and gather Russell was a hothead.

Could be, had one argument, too many. It still could be just a guy getting away for a while. And why would he abandon his car in his storage garage in Colorado Springs? Oh. Yeah. It turned up this morning with part of his luggage in it.

Interested? I'm on my way. 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 investigator. Because truly, Johnny Dollar, expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar, to amalgamated life associates home off his Hartford, Connecticut.

Following as an accounting of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Crystal Lake matter, expense account item one, $120.50 plain fairness in Eddles to Denver. Tom Wilkins hadn't given me much to go on, so I figured a logical place to start was with the missing man's wife, Leona Russell.

Their house was in a moderately prosperous suburb of Denver, a white ranch house with a shakerroof. Everything looked neat and well kept. But somehow a forlorn feeling came through to me about the place. Then the door opened.