The Mario La Vecchia Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (June 2, 1950)

“The Mario La Vecchia Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 2, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Clover arrives at a crime scene where Mario La Vecchia, a one-armed ex-cop turned factory guard, lies dead with a gun in his hand. Though it appears to be suicide, Mario's father Chester insists his son was murdered. Clover investigates the La Vecchia family and discovers Mario recently lost his job at a furniture factory following a payroll robbery, and that Mario was involved with a young woman named Carrie Lister.

New York City, primarily Broadway and surrounding neighborhoods including a furniture factory in Brooklyn, a boarding school, and various city locations.

Characters: Danny Clover, Chester La Vecchia, Christina La Vecchia, Carrie Lister, Dr. Sensky, Paul Dinsmore, John Fisher, Sergeant Tartaglia

Listen for: The complex web of lies that emerges as Danny uncovers the truth about Mario's death, including his sister Christina's secret marriage and her father's initial deception about where Mario was the night of the robbery.

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.