The Garrabaldi Case: Richard Diamond, Private Detective (February 1, 1952)

“The Garrabaldi Case” is an episode of Richard Diamond, Private Detective, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 1, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Private detective Richard Diamond is hired by Janet Collins to find a witness named Tony Garibaldi, who allegedly saw her brother Bert murdered a bookie. Bert has been convicted and is scheduled to be executed the next day. Diamond tracks down Tony and learns the case is far more complicated than it appears, involving blackmail and a conspiracy to force false testimony.

New York City, including Diamond's office, apartment buildings, a pool room, a dry cleaning shop, and various locations across the city

Characters: Richard Diamond, Helen Asher, Janet Collins, Bert Collins, Freddy, Tony Garibaldi, Lieutenant Levinson, Sneasy Williams

Listen for: The clever coin-flip gambit Diamond uses to distract the gunman Freddy, and the revelation that Tony witnessed not Bert but someone else committing the murder

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.