The Jeanne Maxwell Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (March 6, 1953)

“The Jeanne Maxwell Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 6, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar arrives in Boston to investigate the death of Jeanne Maxwell, a young woman found in a river. While police are undecided between suicide and murder, Dollar's examination of the evidence and the circumstances surrounding her death begins to point toward foul play rather than self-destruction.

Boston and Hartford, Connecticut, 1953

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Lieutenant De Rosa, Jeanne Maxwell's roommate Marionelle, Harold Corey, Jeanne Maxwell's mother, Edward Maxwell, Beatrice Maxwell

Listen for: The details about Jeanne Maxwell's lifestyle, the mysterious gold key with a heart-shaped bow found in her dresser, and Harold Corey the truck driver who had been seeing her

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.