The Dr Robert Stafford Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (March 10, 1950)

“The Dr Robert Stafford Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 10, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Clover responds to a murder at the Ramsey Apartments where a well-dressed man is found shot dead in an elevator. With no identification on the body, Clover begins questioning the building's residents to uncover the victim's identity and motive for murder.

The Ramsey Apartments in New York City, spanning the elevator, apartments on the sixth floor, and police headquarters.

Characters: Detective Danny Clover, Eddie Amboy, elevator operator, Mary Conrad, Martha, Jonathan Quill, Harold Black

Listen for: The elevator operator Eddie Amboy's account of finding the body, and the suspicious reactions of the apartment tenants when shown the victim's photograph.

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.