Kidnapped Murderer: Boston Blackie (March 16, 1949)

“Kidnapped Murderer” is an episode of Boston Blackie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 16, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Boston Blackie springs Bugs Martin from police custody, convinced of his innocence in Joe Williams's murder. But Martin is immediately kidnapped by Williams's associates, who believe Martin killed their boss and stole from the organization. Blackie must uncover the real killer before Martin is silenced permanently.

Boston, primarily at police headquarters and various locations around the city

Characters: Boston Blackie, Bugs Martin, Detective Faraday, Happy, Mary Wesley, Luke

Listen for: The tension between Blackie's maverick methods and official police procedure; the revelations about Joe Williams's death and the criminal underworld's involvement; the jealous confrontation at the episode's end.

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.