What happens
Reporter James Fusco of the Columbus Citizen investigates the death of a young woman found with her throat cut near McKinley Avenue and Fisher Road. At the scene he finds a key ring missing one key, and he begins piecing together the victim's private life. Her roommate is evasive, but a lead points to a boyfriend, Lewis Jack, who is questioned and released. Fusco then follows a trail through a boarding house and a rifle range, turning up a man who calls himself Ed Smith. The episode is part of the Big Story series, with the broadcast dated June 4, 1947, and this portion ends with the investigation still underway.
Columbus, Ohio, in 1947, covering the city's newspaper office, a murder scene on McKinley Avenue, an apartment, a boarding house on South Wilton Street, and a rifle range.
Characters: James Fusco, Bill Dawson, Ellen Johnson, Frances Graham, Lewis Jack, Mrs. Hammett, Dr. Lance Crackett, Pete
Listen for: The missing key from the key ring and the rifle range clue that Fusco pursues after the boarding house lead.
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.