Tag: apparent suicide

EP3741: Casey, Crime Photographer: Suicide

Stats Cotsworth

While Logan’s convinced a failed playwright committed suicide, Casey is sure it was murder.

Original Air Date: May 4, 1950

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EP3682: Mr. Chameleon: The Case of the Dead Woman’s Eyes

Karl Swenson

A woman is assumed to have committed suicide, but Mr. Chameleon discovers she was killed by a rare Rhodesian poison she couldn’t possibly have obtained.

Original Air Date: July 21, 1948

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EP3647: Richard Diamond: The Frank Bowers Case (Encore)

Dick Powell

A fight manager and gym owner friend of Diamond’s is found dead in the river with three people witnessing him jump to his death, but Diamond doesn’t believe it.

Original Air Date: August 2, 1950

Original Podcast Release Date: May 24, 2017

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EP3500s: Proudly We Hail: This Could Be Murder

A San Francisco police inspector arrives at a scene of an apparent suicide that he suspects could be murder.

Original Air Date: December 3, 1950

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EP3462: Mystery is My Hobby: Death Paints with Purple

Inspector Danton believes a painter drank poison to commit suicide, but Barton Drake believes a splotch of purple paint across his latest painting is a dying clue pointing the finger at the painter’s murderer.

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EP3420: Mystery is My Hobby: Estelle Wainwright Murdered


The wife of an infamous playboy dies of an apparent suicide. Barton Drake suspects murder.

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EP3169: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Mickey McQueen Matter

Edmond O'Brien

A police officer friend of Johnny’s has a problem and visits Johnny in the middle of the night and doesn’t reveal what’s going on. The next day, his friend is found of an apparent suicide, and Johnny doesn’t buy it.

Original Air Date: August 17, 1950

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EP2654: Dragnet: The Big Switch

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate an apparent suicide with signs of foul play.

Original Air Date: January 12, 1954

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EP2540: Dragnet: The Big Ham

Jack Webb

A young woman appears to have committed suicide in the apartment of a promising young actor.

Original Air Date: June 28, 1953

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EP2260: That Hammer Guy: Jim Gordon-Suicide or Murder

Ted de Corsia

A friend of Hammer’s is found dead of an apparent suicide, but Hammer thinks it’s murder.

Original Air Date: Sometime in 1954

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EP1964: Dragnet: The Big Winchester

Jack Webb
An elderly man is found dead of an apparent suicide but the first officer on scene suspects murder.

Original Air Date: August 16, 1951

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EP1935: Michael Shayne: The Case of the Generous Killer

Jeff Chandler
Michael Shayne receives a $100 to go and arrest a wanted man and then finds him dead of an apparent suicide.

Original Air Date: Sometime in 1948

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EP1846: The Avenger: The Wingate Heirs

A cranky sea captain decides to change his will and then apparently jumps out the window to his death before he can do it.

Original Air Date: January 10, 1946

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EP1805: Philip Marlowe: The Big Book

Gerald Mohr
At the request of a cobbler, Marlowe investigates the apparent suicide of an aging starlet.

Original Air Date: September 29, 1950

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EP1779: Michael Shayne: Tire (Tyre) Oriental Lines

Wally Maher

The President of a ship company hires Mike to investigate a troublesome former mate and then is found dead of an apparent suicide.

Original Air Date: July 16, 1945

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