The Ben Justin Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (December 8, 1950)

“The Ben Justin Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 8, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Clover investigates the murder of Ben Justin, a former insurance investigator shot in an alley. Justin dies before revealing who shot him, leaving Clover to piece together the case by interviewing his widow, his former employer at Imperial Insurance, and the Reed siblings—a young couple acquitted of murdering Mrs. Colton, a case Justin had investigated.

New York City, primarily Broadway and surrounding locations including police headquarters, Justin's apartment on West 86th Street, Imperial Insurance Company offices on lower Broadway, and the Reed residence.

Characters: Danny Clover, Ben Justin, Evelyn Justin, Mr. Colvin, Johnny Reed, Doddy Reed

Listen for: The investigation unfolds through a series of interviews that reveal Ben Justin's suspicious connection to the Reed siblings and his mysterious role in a high-profile murder case. The detective must determine if his newfound friendship with the acquitted pair had a deadly cost.

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.