The Chesapeake Fraud Matter - Ep 5: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (October 21, 1955)

“The Chesapeake Fraud Matter - Ep 5” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 21, 1955. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar arrives in Baltimore to wrap up a case involving John Ridden, who supposedly died in a boating accident months ago. Dollar discovers that Ridden faked his death and has been living in Denver under the alias Frank Bowers, but Bowers was recently murdered along with one of Dollar's operatives. When Dollar returns to Baltimore with evidence that Ridden is alive, he finds that Ridden's widow Elizabeth has just married Ridden's attorney Hugh Bryan—and Bryan confesses that Ridden orchestrated his own disappearance.

Denver and Baltimore, 1955

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Pat Kelleher, Lieutenant O'Neill, Hugh Bryan, Elizabeth Ridden, John Ridden, Frank Bowers

Listen for: The mystery of why John Ridden faked his death and who murdered him in Denver; the sudden marriage between Elizabeth and Hugh Bryan and what it means for the insurance case

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.