The Ted Ebberly Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (December 29, 1951)

“The Ted Ebberly Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 29, 1951. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Clover investigates the murder of Ted Ebberly, a shoe salesman beaten to death in an alley behind a bar on 139th Street. Ross Lock, a former boxer turned model maker, is arrested at the scene, but the case grows more complicated when a woman named Carol Bennett, who witnessed the fight, is found strangled to death in the Harlem River.

New York City, including a bar on 139th Street, police headquarters, and a boxing gym on Amsterdam Avenue

Characters: Detective Danny Clover, Ross Lock, Jack Coboy, Detective Mugwen, Carol Bennett, Billy Webster

Listen for: The investigation into Ross Lock's involvement in the alley fight, the discovery of Carol Bennett's body, and the emerging questions about who really killed Ted Ebberly and why Carol was silenced.

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.