Hay Is for Homicide: Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator (August 31, 1954)

“Hay Is for Homicide” is an episode of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 31, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

On a Vermont vacation, confidential investigator Barry Craig finds a dead man with a knife in his heart lying in a hay wagon on a country road. When he seeks help at a nearby farmhouse, he encounters Millie George, an elegantly dressed woman claiming to be a farmer's daughter who speaks of dead men walking the area and hints that her father died mysteriously over a year ago.

A rural Vermont farm and surrounding country roads at night

Characters: Barry Craig, Jake, Millie George

Listen for: The eerie discovery of the body in the hay wagon, Millie George's cryptic warnings about dead men, and Barry Craig's growing suspicion that she knows more than she's revealing about the death

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.