Category: The Big Story

NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Big Story

The Big Story: The Poison Pen Murders (EP4932)

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Today’s Mystery:

A reporter with a reputation for making errors tries to solve the murder of a laundry owner.

Original Radio Broadcast: July 20, 1949

Originating from New York

Starring: Jackson Beck as Tom Mercer; Barbara Townsend; Alice Rinehart; Ted Osborn; Santos Ortega; Gil Mack; Milton Herman

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The Big Story: Bitterest Man on Earth (EP4927)

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Today’s Mystery:

A reporter tries to get justice for a man who claims to have been mistaken for someone else.

Original Radio Broadcast: June 8, 1949

Originating from New York

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The Big Story: Respected Chemist Dead (EP4922)

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Today’s Mystery:

A prominent chemist’s mysterious death may have been faked … but why?

Original Radio Broadcast: March 9, 1949

Originating from New York

Starring: Sydney Smith as Ike McAnally; Ann Burr; Agnes Young; Lyle Sudrow; Ted Osborne

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The Big Story: The Jigsaw Crime (EP4917)

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Today’s Mystery:

A legendary Arkansas reporter investigates the murder of an unidentified man.

Original Radio Broadcast: January 26, 1949

Originating from New York

Starring: Martin Wolfson as Joe Wirges; Art Carney; Larry Haines; Art Carney; Martin O’Day; Joyce Gordon; Joe DeSantis

Encyclopedia of Arkansas entry on Joseph Wirges.

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The Big Story: Sixteen Year Old Misfit Kills Out of Fear (EP4912)

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Today’s Mystery:

Across the Indiana border, a sixteen-year-old from Louisville kills four men in a failed bank robbery and its aftermath.

Original Radio Broadcast: January 5, 1949

Originating from New York

Starring: James McCallion as Al Aronson; Bob Sloane; Santos Ortega; Martin Wolfson; Jackie Grimes; Grant Richards

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The Big Story: Blind Date with Murder (EP4907)

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Today’s Mystery:

A Pittsburgh reporter is forced to cancel a date and finds himself covering a multiple murder.

Original Radio Broadcast: September 22, 1948

Originating from New York

Starring: James McCallion; Bob Sloane; Larry Haines; Ruth Shafer; Rita Ascot; Joan Alexander; Bill Smith; Mandel Kramer

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The Big Story: The Lottery (EP4902)

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Today’s Mystery:

A reporter goes undercover to get the dope on an Atlanta numbers racket.

Original Radio Broadcast: July 21, 1948

Originating from New York

Starring: George Petrie; James Van Dyk; James Monks; Mercedes McCambridge; Ted De Corsia; John Sylvester

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The Big Story: Deadline Murder (EP4897)

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Today’s Mystery:

Reporter Rolf Mills of the Minneapolis Morning Tribune tries to solve the murder of a woman who was found in the dump.

Original Radio Broadcast: May 19, 1948

Originating from New York

Starring: Art Carney as Rolf Mills, Joe Boland, Joan Alexander, Joe DeSantis, Ray Johnson, Grace Keddy, and Grant Richards

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The Big Story: Pillars of Society (EP4992)

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Today’s Mystery:

The mother of a man who was convicted of robbing and beating an elderly storekeeper appeals to a reporter to clear him.

Original Radio Broadcast: May 5, 1948

Originating from New York

Starring: Arnold Moss; Barbara Weeks; Andy Klein; Mickey O’Day; Bob Sloane; Ed Jerome; Jackie Grimes

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The Big Story: Manhunt in Manhattan (EP4887)

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Today’s Mystery:

A reporter searches for a robber who provoked a police officer into killing a bystander.

Original Radio Broadcast: January 7, 1948

Originating from New York

Starring: William Quinn; Whit Vernon; Francis De Sales; Everett Sloane; Jerry Lewis; Eileen Heckart; Stephen Chase; Evelyn Juster; Will Kuluva,

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The Big Story: The Case of the Ambitious Hobo (EP4872)

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Today’s Mystery:

A reporter hunts for a baby-faced killer.

Original Radio Broadcast:December 17, 1947

Originating from New York

Starring: George Petrie as Russ Wilson; Larry Robinson; Hester Sondergaard; Humphrey Davis; William Keene; Ralph Bell; Bob Sloane

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The Big Story: The Case of the Cornered Cat (EP4867)

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Today’s Mystery:

America’s public enemey #1 is interested in turning himself in to Walter Winchell to be handed over to the FBI. But will he actually do it?

Original Radio Broadcast: September 17, 1947

Originating from New York

Starring: Ward Wilson as Walter Winchell; Ed Begley as J. Edgar Hoover; Don Appell; Alan Hewitt; Mildred Clinton

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Feature Assignment: The Majczek Case (EP4862)

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Today’s Mystery:

A mother who has worked as a scrub woman for 13 years offers a large reward to absolve her son of a Chicago cop’s murder.

Audition Date: February 6, 1946

Originating from New York

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The Big Story: The Case of the Final Curtain (EP4857)

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Today’s Mystery:

A woman suspects that her father was poisoned in a nursing home.

Original Radio Broadcast: December 7, 1947

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Tremayne as Aubrey Maddock; Alice Reinhart; Ted Osborn; Agnes Young; John Gibson; Will Geer

Windsor Historical Society article on the murders: https://windsorhistoricalsociety.org/amy-archer-gilligan-entrepreneurism-gone-wrong-in-windsor/

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The Big Story: The Case of the Unfinished Love Song (EP4852)

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Today’s Mystery:

Howard Beaufait of The Cleveleand News reinvestigates the case of a violin-playing convicted killer who claims innocence and whose wife also believes him.

Original Radio Broadcast: November 26, 1947

Originating from New York

Starring: Craig McDonnell; John Sylvester; Francis De Sales; Eileen Heckart; Luise Barkley

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