Cover-Up: Tales of the Texas Rangers (August 17, 1952)

“Cover-Up” is an episode of Tales of the Texas Rangers, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 17, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Farmer Lee Gaynor finds a Mexican worker named Sanchez Mendoza cleaning blood from the floor of his neighbor Russell Hines' farmhouse. Hines is missing, his wallet and car remain behind, and blood is found throughout the house. Ranger Jay Pearson arrives to investigate what appears to be a murder, tracking Mendoza into the hills after the farmhand flees.

Rural Texas farmland, the Hines farmhouse and surrounding hills and woods

Characters: Lee Gaynor, Russell Hines, Sanchez Mendoza, Ranger Jay Pearson, Sheriff Art Buckley, Dave Morgan

Listen for: The ranger's pursuit of the fleeing suspect into the hills and his interrogation of Mendoza's story about Hines hiring him for farm work before supposedly going on vacation.

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.