The Big Foot Grafton Case: Richard Diamond, Private Detective (August 30, 1950)

“The Big Foot Grafton Case” is an episode of Richard Diamond, Private Detective, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 30, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Private detective Richard Diamond is hired by a girls' softball team to find their missing second baseman, Lottie Wierichek. When a threatening visitor warns Diamond off the case, he becomes suspicious that the recently buried racketeer Big Foot Grafton may not actually be dead. As Diamond investigates, he discovers connections between Lottie's disappearance, a murdered dentist, and Grafton's criminal organization.

New York City and West Frampton, involving a cemetery, a dental office, a baseball stadium, and various city locations

Characters: Richard Diamond, Lieutenant Walt, Billy, Lefty, Joe Gabbardine, Big Foot Grafton, Dr. Percy Almond, Lottie Wierichek

Listen for: Diamond's witty banter with the police lieutenant and his wise-cracks as he pursues the case; the dynamic between Diamond and the softball players; the revelation that Grafton may have faked his death by placing a substitute corpse in his coffin

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.