Fog Over Murder: Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator (October 13, 1953)

“Fog Over Murder” is an episode of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 13, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Barry Craig, a confidential investigator, is hired by a psychiatrist to help restore the identity of a patient known as Clark Smith, who suffers from amnesia and refuses to remember who he really is. Following cryptic clues the doctor has uncovered—the words "Midvale" and "Pomatony"—Craig traces the man's background to Farrington, New Jersey, where he discovers that Lloyd Beamer, the owner of the Midvale bottling works, disappeared years ago under mysterious circumstances.

A beach shack on Long Island, New York; the town of Farrington, New Jersey; and the Midvale bottling works

Characters: Barry Craig, Dr. Vanner, Clark Smith, Lloyd Beamer, Sheriff/Barber, Mrs. Polly Beamer

Listen for: The psychiatrist's theory that forgotten memories can hide dark secrets; Barry Craig's methodical detective work using simple clues like place names and rivers; the revelation that the amnesiac patient may be the missing bottling works owner

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.