The Chapel Hill Case: Richard Diamond, Private Detective

“The Chapel Hill Case” is an episode of Richard Diamond, Private Detective, the old-time radio show. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Richard Diamond and Lieutenant Walt Levinson travel to the University of North Carolina for a police symposium. They meet Isabelle Corona, a Swiss policewoman, on the train. When she is found murdered in her hotel room, Diamond and Levinson investigate, suspecting a local photographer who seemed to recognize her. Their clever deductions about silver nitrate and dental evidence point toward a solution.

A train to North Carolina, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the surrounding town during a Peace Officers Symposium

Characters: Richard Diamond, Walt Levinson, Helen, Otis, Isabelle Corona, William Avery, Sheriff Simmons, Christopher Kevin

Listen for: Diamond and Levinson's witty banter as they investigate a murder at a police convention; clever detective work involving unconventional clues like a bitten apple and silver nitrate

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.