Murder Ain't Minor (The Case of Bonnie Goodwin): Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (August 7, 1949)

“Murder Ain't Minor (The Case of Bonnie Goodwin)” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 7, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is hired by a man named King Hart to locate a girl named Bonnie Goodwin, who is a beneficiary on Hart's insurance policy. Dollar travels to Chicago to track down the elusive young woman, following a trail through various lodgings and encounters with people who know her.

Hartford, Connecticut and Chicago, Illinois

Characters: Johnny Dollar, King Hart, Emma, Danny Cade

Listen for: Johnny Dollar's expense account narration as he pursues leads across Chicago; his encounters at various boarding houses and hotels; a mysterious warning about being followed.

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.