What happens
Captain Sutherland and Detective Sloan of the Aurora police investigate the disappearance of Warren J. Lincoln, a greenhouse owner, after a neighbor reports blood-stained evidence in his house and yard. Lincoln's wife and her brother, whom the neighbors describe as quarrelsome, have apparently left, and the police find signs of violence in the bedroom. When Lincoln himself reappears at headquarters, he claims he was away on business and says he was kidnapped in Chicago. The detectives question his explanations and his account of threatening calls and letters. This episode of the Police Reporter series, a true murder mystery drama, is broadcast as the first in the series.
Aurora, Illinois, 1923
Characters: Warren J. Lincoln, Captain Sutherland, Detective Sloan, Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Lincoln's brother, Joe, Neighbor woman, Officer
Listen for: The neighbor's description of the quarrelsome household and Lincoln's shifting explanations when the detectives question him.
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.