What happens
Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator, travels to Sarasota, Florida, at the request of his friend Earl Poorman, who handles the insurance of retired chemist Parley Baron. Baron has been missing since Friday morning, when he left home on errands and never returned, and his car was later found parked by a fishing dock. Earl believes Baron is dead, and Johnny begins questioning Baron's devout wife, Laura, who reveals her husband's past work with explosives. Johnny then goes fishing with Earl, and their boat drifts toward a floating body wearing a straw hat like Baron's. The episode is from the Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar series, first broadcast on CBS Radio on June 23, 1957, and stars Bob Bailey.
Sarasota, Florida, and the nearby Gulf of Mexico, Lido Key, Tampa
Characters: Johnny Dollar, Earl Poorman, Parley Baron, Laura Baron, Sergeant Harry Brackett, Mike, Will Bright, Pete Moreno
Listen for: The discovery of the floating body while Johnny and Earl are out fishing, and Laura Baron's account of her husband's past work.
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.