The Lansing Fraud Matter - Ep 4: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (December 15, 1955)

“The Lansing Fraud Matter - Ep 4” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 15, 1955. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar has been looking into the Lansing fraud case and has concluded that James Lansing's fifty-thousand-dollar insurance policy was procured through deception. Dollar notifies the State Insurance Commission that the policy claim will be withheld pending investigation, and confronts insurance broker Hillary Franks with evidence that someone else must have taken Lansing's physical examination. When Franks panics and attacks Dollar with a paperweight, he flees, and Dollar then visits the beneficiary, Arlene Kennedy, to inform her that charges are being prepared.

San Arizona, primarily at the offices of Hillary Franks and the home of Mrs. Kennedy in Catalina Vista

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Hillary Franks, Mrs. Arlene Kennedy, Dr. Mayhood, Jim Carter, Jim Pader

Listen for: The tense confrontations as Johnny Dollar lays out the fraud scheme to both the insurance broker and the beneficiary, and the growing pressure as the investigation closes in on those involved

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.