The Lucille Baker Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (December 15, 1951)

“The Lucille Baker Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 15, 1951. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

A woman named Lucille Baker is found strangled in her tenement apartment. Police detective Danny Clover investigates the discovery made by her husband Charlie and his coworker Bob Kolker, who found her after returning from an office party. As the detective interviews those who knew her, a picture emerges of a shy woman with secrets, including the attention of a coworker named Teddy Fletcher who had long harbored romantic feelings for her.

New York City tenement and office building, during the 1950s

Characters: Danny Clover, Charlie Baker, Bob Kolker, Lucille Baker, Ruthie Alexander, Teddy Fletcher

Listen for: The detective's methodical questioning of suspects and witnesses as the case unfolds, revealing conflicting accounts of the night of the murder and the dead woman's relationships.

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.