The Deadly Crystal Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (September 23, 1962)

“The Deadly Crystal Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 23, 1962. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is called to Connecticut to investigate the theft of $300,000 worth of jewels from eccentric Mrs. Weatherwell's bedroom. The jewels mysteriously vanish while she bathes and are just as mysteriously returned by a young woman named Lynn Peters, who delivers them to the house and then disappears. Johnny becomes convinced there is more to the case than a simple theft and recovery.

Connecticut and New York City, primarily at Mrs. Weatherwell's mansion in Birch Brook Road and police headquarters in Manhattan

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Les Wallers, Mrs. Weatherwell, Lynn Peters, Lieutenant Randy Singer

Listen for: The puzzle of why the jewels were stolen and then returned without explanation, and the identity and motives of the mysterious Lynn Peters

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.