Pearl Carrasa: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (April 25, 1950)

“Pearl Carrasa” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 25, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar tracks down the beneficiary of a $5,000 life insurance policy for the deceased Pearl Carrasa, a lonely young woman who was murdered in New York. Dollar's investigation leads him from a death row interview with the convicted murderer to the girl's former apartment building, then to Las Vegas following a trail of forwarded mail to the Rambo Club.

New York City and Las Vegas, 1950

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Marty Pruitt, Lieutenant Bernard Goldberg, Pearl Carrasa, the building manager

Listen for: Johnny Dollar's methodical expense-account narration as he pieces together clues about a mysterious young woman and searches for her beneficiary

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.