The Flight Six Matter - Ep 3: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (February 1, 1956)

“The Flight Six Matter - Ep 3” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 1, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar investigates the bombing of Flight Six in Mexico City, which killed Maria de Lagos and seven others. Don Serrano, Maria's brother, arrives at Johnny's hotel insisting that Maria's husband Ramon is guilty, but Johnny discovers that multiple people had financial motives and that a mysterious woman named Marvel Terrence who was supposed to be on the plane never boarded it.

Mexico City, particularly Johnny Dollar's hotel and the airport where Flight Six departed for Havana

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Don Serrano de Elmeito E. Pico, Maria de Lagos, Ramon de Lagos, Marvel Terrence, Ed Palmer, Jim Rourke, Federal police

Listen for: Johnny's investigation into the three insurance policies taken out on Flight Six and his interviews with the key suspects, including Don Serrano's accusation against Ramon and the revelation that Marvel Terrence has disappeared from the hotel.

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.