The Tori Jones Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (December 10, 1949)

“The Tori Jones Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 10, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Clover is called to Greenwich Village where he finds dress model Tori Jones hanging dead from a light fixture, murdered with a scarlet silk sash. The investigation leads him through the world of a high-fashion dress company, uncovering stolen design schemes and dangerous secrets that connect a company president, a shop manager, and a designer to the crime.

New York City, primarily Broadway, Greenwich Village, and Sterling Incorporated dress factory, during a December night and the following day

Characters: Detective Danny Clover, Sergeant Tortaglia, Tori Jones, Beth, Lionel Conrad, Martin Driscoll, Ira Getts

Listen for: The atmospheric noir narration capturing Broadway's violent nightlife, the revelation of the stolen dress designs scheme, the shooting at Ira Getts' studio, and the rooftop climax where Driscoll's guilt is exposed

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.