What happens
Rick Olsen, a struggling artist in a San Francisco bohemian circle, is suspected after the body of his former lover, the sculptor Maureen Morrison, is found on the rocks below a cliff near Seal Rocks. Detective Carlson questions Rick, who says he quarreled with Maureen the night before and parted from her. Rick's new fiancée, Sally Blair, claims she was with him that night, and the district attorney is left weighing her word against the evidence. The story follows Rick and Sally's uneasy relationship as the investigation continues. This episode is from The Whistler, broadcast on September 25, 1944.
San Francisco and the nearby Seal Rocks, 1940s
Characters: The Whistler, Rick Olsen, Cassie, Maureen Morrison, Sally Blair, Detective Carlson, Tommy Melvin, The District Attorney
Listen for: Sally's shifting account of where Rick was that night, and the strained conversations between Rick and Sally as the case moves toward trial.
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.