The Welcome to the great detectives of radio from Seattle.

This is your host, Adam Graham.

In a moment, we're going to bring you this week's episode of Broadway's

My Beat. But first, I do want to encourage you, if you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us

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And now from June the 9th, 1950, here is the Ted Forsteck and Ruth Ballard

murder case.

Oh! the Ted Forsteck and Ruth Ballard murder case. Broadway, my beat, the Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent,

the lonesomest mile in the world.

Broadway's My Beat, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.

The sound that Eddie's upward from Broadway is the sound of shock,

a thing composed of laughter, trumpet, the clack of heel, the cry from the lonely bed.

You stand at the window at the police headquarters waiting for some part of it to touch you,

and in one way or another it does.

The frightened voice through a phone, the impersonal alarm of a teletype.

Or a tired officer walks into your office,

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