This is Case Closed, Crime Stories from the Golden Age of Radio.

On this episode of Case Closed, our hour of old-time radio crime begins with gangbusters.

We'll hear their story from October 2, 1948, titled The Case of the Chicago Tunnel Gang.

After that, it's the sounds of darkness, and for two pins.

That story aired August 18th, 1967.

Busters! Yes. That story aired August 18th, 1967. Gangbusters.

Gangbusters presented in cooperation with police and federal law enforcement departments throughout the United States.

The only national program that brings you authentic police case histories.

Tonight, gangbusters the case of the Chicago Tunnel Gang, who dug their way to thousands in stolen currency, until their ringleader's passion for saving a dollar, put them in the hole.

Gangbusters has asked Lieutenant Thomas J. McGrath, retired of the Chicago Police Department,

the narrate by proxy tonight's case.

Thank you, Don Gardner. But first, I'd like to mention that one of your gangbusters listeners, a Missouri sheriff, just last Sunday, apprehended a murder suspect from Ohio, whose description he had first heard on gangbusters.

I think that the sheriff and gangbusters deserve a lot of credit for this latest assist to law enforcement.

Well, thank you, Lieutenant McGrath.

As a matter of fact, we hope to have the sheriff himself tell the story of this capture to our gangbusters listeners on a later program.

But now, how about tonight's case?

Well, Don, this case had its beginnings in the city of Chicago just about a year ago on a cold, windy morning.

Inside the candy store she ran, Bella Mama, as she was known,

straightened the magazines left port over by the kids who dropped in on the way to school

to spend their nickels playing her punchboards.

She heard a bell on the front door tinkle and looked up to see a slightly built red-haired man

come in out of the cold.

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