The Kenneth Mitchell Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (December 1, 1950)

“The Kenneth Mitchell Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 1, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Clover investigates the murder of Kenneth Mitchell, found stabbed in his West 56th Street apartment. Mitchell was a dying man who had recently left a sanatorium, where he fell in love with Ruth Corry, a married woman also suffering from illness. As Clover pursues the case, multiple suspects emerge, each with potential motives rooted in Mitchell's disruptive presence in their lives.

New York City, including a West 56th Street apartment, a sanatorium, Park Avenue, Grand Central, and various city streets and shops

Characters: Danny Clover, detective, Kenneth Mitchell, murder victim, Ruth Corry, Mitchell's lover, Mr. Corry, Ruth's husband, Mrs. Mitchell, Kenneth's wife, Ted Lawson, Ruth's brother, Dr. Nester, sanatorium doctor, Gordon Horner, Corry's lawyer

Listen for: The poetic, atmospheric narration that opens and closes the episode; the revelation of the exact time of death at 8:20 PM; the discovery of alibi evidence and the solution of the case; Ruth Corry's emotional confession and the tragic final revelation.

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.