The Lois Conrad Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (April 12, 1952)

“The Lois Conrad Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 12, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Clover investigates the stabbing death of Lois Conrad, a student at the Globe secretarial school, found murdered in the recreation room early one April morning. Clover interviews the school staff, the girl's father, and her boyfriend Frankie Wilson at the boat shed in Central Park, learning that Lois was last seen leaving the boating lake at midnight, claiming she needed to go home.

New York City in April, including the Globe secretarial school, a brownstone apartment building on the West Thirties, and Central Park's boating lake.

Characters: Detective Danny Clover, Mrs. Schur, Mrs. Lindsey, Carlos, Mr. Conrad, Frankie Wilson, Detective Muggaben, Lieutenant Geno

Listen for: Clover's methodical questioning and the contradictions that emerge about Lois's movements the night she died, along with hints about her manipulative behavior toward the men in her life.

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.