What happens
Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator, travels to the remote Oklahoma ranch of Durango Laramie Delhart, where he meets the eccentric Sidewinder Wilson. Sidewinder has called Johnny about the robbery and murder of a bank messenger in the small town of Fairweather, and the case involves an insurance policy and a missing set of securities. Johnny questions Sidewinder about the crime, and Carol Delhart, Durango's niece, is also at the ranch. The episode is part of the Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar series, first broadcast on CBS Radio on April 12, 1959, with Bob Bailey in the lead role.
Hartford, Connecticut, and a remote ranch near Enid, Oklahoma, in the late 1950s
Characters: Johnny Dollar, Sidewinder Wilson, Durango Laramie Delhart, Carol Delhart, George Reed, Claude Needles, Barney Gifford, Pete Waley
Listen for: Sidewinder's claim about who returned the stolen securities to the Fairweather bank, and what happens when Barney Gifford arrives at the ranch.
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.