The Lonely Hearts Matter - Ep 2: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (April 24, 1956)

“The Lonely Hearts Matter - Ep 2” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 24, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is looking into the death of Jonathan Wells, whose widow collected a $50,000 policy. While waiting for autopsy results, Wells's daughter Norma visits Dollar in a state of fear, reporting mysterious phone calls and someone lingering outside her apartment door. Dollar learns that Norma's stepmother Mabel Burke owns a lonely hearts correspondence club and employs a man named Burton who lives off her money.

Chicago, Illinois; a hotel room, the coroner's office, and the Wells household.

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Norma Wells, Max Lancer, Mabel Burke Wells, Burton, Fanny Tetler

Listen for: The mysterious phone call and footsteps that frighten Norma Wells; details about the lonely hearts club and Burton's relationship to the family; Mabel's account of her marriage to Jonathan Wells and her business interests.

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.