Broadway's My Beat: The Helen Carrol Murder Case (EP4772)|Detective Radio Drama
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Adam Graham
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 13, 1950
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover, Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia, Jack Kruschen as Sergent Muggavan, Joyce McCluskey, Herb Butterfield, Peggy Webber, Lou Krugman, and David Ellis
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to the great detectives of old time radio from Boise, Idaho. |
| 0:35.4 | This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're going to bring you this |
| 0:39.5 | week's episode of Broadway's My Beat. But first, I do want to encourage you, if you're enjoying |
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| 1:16.5 | Well, now we go |
| 1:18.7 | to Broadway's My Beat |
| 1:21.0 | from October 13th, |
| 1:22.9 | 1950. Here is |
| 1:24.9 | the Helen Carroll murder case. |
| 1:40.8 | Music Here is the Helen Carroll murder case. Broadway's My Beat, from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. |
| 1:53.0 | Broadway's My Beat, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. |
| 2:16.6 | Broadway, where you walk through the October evening and hold close the things you want to save for memories. |
| 2:18.1 | Then Broadway's as innocent and nostalgic as music drifting from a carousel. If you move on, you get hit in the |
| 2:23.6 | face by a guy fishing for nickels under a grating. Whatever you were pursuing is gone now, lost. |
| 2:29.8 | And Broadway trails off into the side streets. Walk them like I did, and try to close your eyes against |
| 2:36.6 | the pattern of scars in the street of the tenements, the kids with the torn deck of cards |
| 2:41.4 | under the lamppost, the dogs at the trash cans, the wide-eyed girl who lurched against me. |
| 2:46.8 | Pardon me. |
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