The Julie Dixon Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (May 22, 1949)

“The Julie Dixon Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 22, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Clover is asked by a judge to mediate between a father and daughter with a complicated past. Nelson Jennings spent ten years in Sing Sing for a manslaughter conviction and is being released on parole, but he insists his identity remain hidden from his 20-year-old daughter Ruth, who recently learned he is alive. Clover must decide whether to reunite them or honor the father's wish to remain dead to his child.

New York City, including the Cleveland Hotel and a rooming house off-Broadway

Characters: Detective Danny Clover, Judge Summers, Nelson Jennings, Ruth Jennings, Johnny Milton

Listen for: Clover's difficult choice about whether to bring father and daughter together despite Jennings' wishes, and Ruth's emotional response to learning the truth about her father's past.

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.