The Blanche Dermit Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (December 6, 1952)

“The Blanche Dermit Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 6, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Clover investigates a sniper terrorizing Broadway and Manhattan, shooting at women through windows. When a young widow is killed, suspicion falls on her quiet husband, a novelty shop owner who claims to have had a perfect twelve-year marriage with no arguments.

Broadway and Manhattan streets, apartment buildings, police headquarters, novelty shop

Characters: Detective Danny Clover, Sergeant Geno Pataglia, Detective Mugaben, Mr. Dermot, Dr. Sensky, Mickey Rui, Mr. Garston, Mrs. Garston

Listen for: The distinctive noir narration describing the sniper's terror on the streets, the interrogation scenes that gradually reveal the detective's theory about the killer's true motive, and the tense dialogue as Clover confronts Dermot with circumstantial evidence.

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.