Murder Island: Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator (January 9, 1952)

“Murder Island” is an episode of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 9, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Confidential investigator Barry Craig is grabbed off a Broadway street and taken to a waterfront hideout where he meets Stacy, a wanted criminal with a bad reputation who claims he didn't kill a man named Crowley whose body was found in Long Island Sound. Stacy hires Craig to find the real murderer, slips him a thousand dollars, and has him dumped on the street. Now Craig must investigate the case despite police suspicion and a mysterious boat house operator with secrets of his own.

New York City, including Broadway, the East River waterfront, and a decrepit boat house

Characters: Barry Craig, Stacy, Lieutenant Trev Rogers, Maxie, Crowley (victim), Boat house operator

Listen for: Craig's witty narration and wisecracks as he navigates the criminal underworld; the tense confrontation with Stacy at the waterfront hideout; the mysterious circumstances surrounding Crowley's brutal murder.

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.