The Isabel James Matter (The Kimball Matter): Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (August 18, 1953)

“The Isabel James Matter (The Kimball Matter)” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 18, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar arrives in Tulsa, Oklahoma to investigate the murder of Isabelle James, a young woman whose throat was cut. She is the fourth victim of what appears to be a serial killer operating in the area over the past three weeks. Dollar interviews the victim's uncle, her beneficiary, and learns that police have arrested a man named Alvin Storey who was found carrying a razor.

Tulsa, Oklahoma; a hotel, a police station, and a farmhouse

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Captain Clifford Kissing, Isabelle James's uncle, Alvin Storey

Listen for: The details of the four murders, Johnny Dollar's investigation techniques, and the interrogation of the suspect Alvin Storey

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.