The Mrs Webb Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (August 15, 1953)

“The Mrs Webb Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 15, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Culver investigates an attempted murder when someone tries to smother Mrs. Webb with a pillow while she sleeps. Her husband Joe comes home and claims he scared off an intruder who fled down the fire escape, but his drunken state and admission of an affair with another woman, Helen French, cast suspicion on his account of events.

New York City, primarily in an apartment building and the police squad car traveling through the city on an August night.

Characters: Detective Danny Culver, Mrs. Webb, Joe Webb, Mugam (Detective), Helen French, Don

Listen for: The atmospheric opening about August on Broadway, the investigation of the attempted murder, the revelation of Joe Webb's affair, and the questioning of Helen French about her relationship with Webb.

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.