The Plantagent Matter - Ep 3: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (March 7, 1956)

“The Plantagent Matter - Ep 3” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 7, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar investigates an unidentified girl who dies of poison at the Plantation Hotel. Finding a .38 revolver with three bullets fired in the girl's purse, he traces the gun's registration to Raymond O'Connell, only to discover that O'Connell died over a year ago. Visiting O'Connell's widow Terry, Johnny learns the gun connection and a crucial detail: the dead girl is Amy Duran, Terry's sister, and she had been arguing with a man named Paul Dameron in the hotel parking lot the night before her death.

Vicksburg, Mississippi, at the Plantation Hotel, City Hall licensing division, and the O'Connell residence on Polk Street

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Sergeant Peters, Lieutenant Jim Akins, Terry O'Connell, Paul Dameron, Amy Duran, Raymond O'Connell

Listen for: Johnny's discovery that the dead girl is Amy Duran and his confrontation with Paul Dameron, who had argued with Amy the night before her death

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.