The Lonely Hearts Matter - Ep 5: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (April 27, 1956)

“The Lonely Hearts Matter - Ep 5” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 27, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar looks into the death of Jonathan Wells from ground glass poisoning, and the now-fatal poisoning of his widow Mabel Burke Wells. With two husbands dead from the same cause within three years and $50,000 in insurance collected each time, Mabel appears the likely suspect—until she regains consciousness in the hospital with a different theory about who is really guilty.

Chicago, primarily a hospital where Mabel Burke Wells lies dying from poisoning

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Mabel Burke Wells, Burton Creeley, Norma Wells, Doctor, Nurse, Max Lance

Listen for: The dramatic deathbed confession scene where Mabel reveals the true killer's identity, and the desperate chase that erupts as the guilty party flees the hospital with a hostage.

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.