The Jolly Roger Fraud Matter - Ep 3: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (March 21, 1956)

“The Jolly Roger Fraud Matter - Ep 3” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 21, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is probing the suspicious sinking of the yacht Jolly Roger, owned by the wealthy and dangerous Paula Zanegan. The only survivor, a cabin boy, dies under mysterious circumstances in a Tijuana hospital before Dollar can question him. Dollar races to speak with the doctor who treated the boy, hoping to learn what happened to the ship.

San Diego and Tijuana, 1956. Coast Guard headquarters, a Tijuana hospital, and the highway between the two cities.

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Jan Penny, Lieutenant Smith, Paula Zanegan, Dr. Hernandez, the cabin boy

Listen for: The revelation of what the cabin boy told Dr. Hernandez about a strange device aboard the Jolly Roger before his murder; clues about the ship's sinking and Zanegan's involvement.

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.