The Betty Moran Case: Richard Diamond, Private Detective (May 29, 1949)

“The Betty Moran Case” is an episode of Richard Diamond, Private Detective, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 29, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Richard Diamond takes a case from wealthy William Moran, who claims his wife Betty was being blackmailed and suggests she was driven to murder and suicide. When Diamond investigates the death of Mac Grayson, the alleged blackmailer, and traces connections to others involved in the scheme, he uncovers a darker truth hidden beneath the police's quick conclusion of murder-suicide.

New York City, including Diamond's office overlooking Broadway, police precinct, Skid Row and the Parrot Club, Fink's apartment, and a ferry to Staten Island

Characters: Richard Diamond, William Moran, Betty Moran, Mac Grayson, Lieutenant Walt Levinson, Sergeant Otis, Wilbert Truett, Leo Fink

Listen for: Diamond's casual philosophy about his work, his banter with police contacts, his encounter with the perpetually drunk Wilbert Truett in the Parrot Club, and the climactic chase through the ferry's engine room

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.