The Lt Jimmy Hunt Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (February 3, 1950)

“The Lt Jimmy Hunt Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 3, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Clover investigates the death of Lieutenant James Hunt, a war veteran found stabbed in his hospital bed at St. Anthony's. Initially ruled a suicide, the priest reveals the wound's location makes murder far more likely. Clover must uncover who wanted the troubled soldier dead and why.

New York City, including St. Anthony's Hospital, a pool room on 16th Street off 8th Avenue, and police headquarters.

Characters: Danny Clover, Sister Angela, Father, Jimmy Hunt, Fred Owen, Virginia Scott, Mickey Bianco, Sergeant Tautaglia

Listen for: The mystery of who murdered the wounded veteran soldier and why someone would target a man already broken by war.

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.