Hello, and welcome to another episode of Nostologic Mystery Radio.

I'm your host Stevie Kay, and it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear.

For this episode, I bring you Tales of the Texas Rangers, episode titled, Fugitive's Trail, originally aired October 21, 1951, where a teenage babysitter disappears after a shotgun murder

and her ex-boyfriend seems eager to help the Rangers track her down.

So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.

Thank you for listening.

The National Broadcasting Company presents Joe McCray in Tales of the Texas Rangers.

From Hollywood, another authentic reenactment

of a case transcribed from the files of the Texas Rangers.

Tales of the Texas Rangers starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Jace Pearson.

Texas more than 260,000 square miles.

And 50 men who make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement body in North America.

Music Now, from the files of the Texas Rangers,

come these stories based on facts.

Names, dates, and places are fictitious for obvious reasons.

The events themselves are a matter of record.

Case for tonight, fugitives trails.

It is approximately 11.30 on the night of January 21st, 1948.

Mr. and Mrs. Ben Purvis are driving back to their ranch on the outskirts of Newby, Texas.

The car, a small black sedan, and finally swings off the main highway, turns into a long, narrow dirt road leading to the ranch buildings hmm looks like we got company ben there's a car parking from the house yeah probably one

of arline's boyfriends look i thought you told her we didn't like your fellas hanging around

oh now ben he probably just about to pick her up and take home. We told her we'd be back about this time.

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