The Marcia Dean Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (May 12, 1950)

“The Marcia Dean Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 12, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Bank teller Harry Dean steals $20,000 from his employer after receiving a ransom demand for his wife Marcia. He pays the money as instructed at a beach resort, but Marcia never comes home. Detective Danny Clover discovers that Marcia was never kidnapped—she was murdered, and her husband orchestrated the crime with his accomplice.

New York City, including police headquarters, Queens, Brooklyn vacant lot, and a beach resort hotel called the Idle Wild Arms in Rockaway

Characters: Detective Danny Clover, Harry Dean, Marcia Dean, Sergeant Tartaglia, Edith Keller, Stan Hodeck, Dr. Sandskink, Mr. Graham

Listen for: The hard-boiled narration of Detective Danny Clover as he uncovers a scheme involving murder, blackmail, and betrayal within a marriage; the cab driver's crucial role in the investigation.

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.