Tom and Alice Corey Suicide Pact: Broadway Is My Beat (August 21, 1950)

“Tom and Alice Corey Suicide Pact” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 21, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

A desperate phone call reports that a man named Corey has killed his wife and himself. Detective Danny Clover and his partner must search through multiple Coreys in the city to find the victims, eventually locating Tom and Alice Corey dead in their apartment. As the investigation begins, witnesses reveal troubling details about the couple's deteriorating relationship.

New York City, 1950. Police headquarters, various apartment buildings, and the Corey residence at 1520 W46, apartment 2A.

Characters: Danny Clover, Tom Corey, Alice Corey, Detective Mugerman, Miss Stanley, Henry Fairchild

Listen for: The frantic opening phone call that sets the investigation in motion, the detectives systematically checking multiple Coreys in the phone book, and Miss Stanley's account of the couple's recent behavior at a bridge game.

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.