What happens
Johnny Dollar, a special investigator for the Universal Adjustment Bureau, looks into a life insurance claim after Howard Edwards is reported lost when his car went into the Hudson River near Kerrsferry. His wife Mary stands to collect a large payment, and the police believe the couple staged his disappearance because they were nearly broke. Dollar begins by questioning Sergeant Ben Wingler and then speaks with Mary Edwards, who describes her husband's invention and the plans that have since gone missing. The episode is part of the Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar radio series, first broadcast on CBS Radio on September 20, 1959, with Bob Bailey in the title role. Dollar's investigation takes him through the local police and the evidence at the scene.
Kerrsferry, a small town on the Hudson River, and New York
Characters: Johnny Dollar, Pat McCracken, Sergeant Ben Wingler, Mary Edwards, Peter Paskin, Howard Edwards, Marty Levitt, Lieutenant Singer
Listen for: Pay attention to Mary Edwards's account of the missing invention plans and how it contrasts with what the police have assumed.
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.