The Blood River Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (August 3, 1950)

“The Blood River Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 3, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is sent to Blood River to investigate the shooting of Max Coburn, a wealthy rancher who had taken out $50,000 in life insurance. Coburn is shot by an unknown assailant at his home and dies in the hospital. Dollar arrives in the remote mountain town to look into the circumstances of the shooting and find the gunman.

Blood River, a small village of about 300 people in a mountain valley, and St. Paul's Hospital; present day (1950s)

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Deputy Sheriff Tom Grey, Max Coburn, Frank Coburn, Mary Coburn, Dr. Fulton, Millie

Listen for: The details of Millie's eyewitness account of the shooting at Coburn's home, and the investigation into who shot the rancher and why.

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.