The Ugly Pattern Matter (1): Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (June 29, 1958)

“The Ugly Pattern Matter (1)” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 29, 1958. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar looks into a series of murders at the Simplex Tackle Company in Danbury, after Masters Insurance and Trust has paid out three policies in a row. Johnny is assigned by Barry Winters to the case, and the victims are all company officers killed within a month, each on a Wednesday. Johnny studies the officers' salaries and notices a possible order in the killings. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is a CBS Radio series, and this episode aired on June 29, 1958, starring Bob Bailey.

Hartford, Connecticut, and Danbury, Connecticut, including the Simplex Tackle Company factory and a lake cabin at Parvin's Pond

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Barry Winters, Hanley Thomas, Sergeant Dennis, Charles Hart, Miss Gregg

Listen for: Johnny Dollar's reasoning about the pattern of the murders, based on the officers' salaries

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.