The Helen Carrol Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (October 13, 1950)

“The Helen Carrol Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 13, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Clover finds a confused young woman named Linda Arnold wandering the streets with no memory of who she is. After taking her home to her apartment, Clover discovers her aunt Helen Carroll dead in the kitchen, stabbed with a letter opener that was found in Linda's purse. When Ted Raymond, Linda's boyfriend, learns of the death, he confesses to the murder and is arrested, but Clover suspects the truth may be more complicated.

New York City, specifically the Broadway area and apartment buildings in the tenements

Characters: Danny Clover, Linda Arnold, Helen Carroll, Ted Raymond, Muggerman, Dr. Sinsky

Listen for: The investigation of Helen Carroll's murder as Detective Clover questions whether Ted Raymond's confession is genuine or if the traumatized Linda Arnold is guilty, with hints of a troubled past between Linda and her aunt.

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.