Broadway Is My Beat: The Joey Croft Murder Case 06/23/1952
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Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
26 min
8 speakers
8 chapters
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What is the setting and introduction of the Joey Croft Murder Case?
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Broadway's My Beat, from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.
Broadway's My Beat, the exciting drama of people who walk the Great White Way, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
Afternoon sun strikes glints on Broadway's pavements... ...and the perfumes of summer drift in from meadows never known... ...from tropic seas that were never sailed... ...from green hills veiled in mist and imagined in childhood... ...drift and die against neon bled of its color. But the illusion still rides the silken vessel of a girl's summer frock... ...and the season dances in her slow languid walk... ...and her passing is reflected in chrome and steel... There's crowd between you and her. There's loss. So walk away from it, kid, and order the beer and skim off the longing. Summer, too, will finally pass from Broadway.
For the policeman, there's this, the corridor to be walked, the corridor at whose end lie the anonymous dead, the unclaimed dead. Walk it and push open a swinging door that opens onto the city's morgue. Stand for a moment. against the stillness and move into it.
Over here, Danny. This one. What about him? Fill me in, Muggerman. It's a summer's day, Danny, and you and I have to... Don't cry about it, kid. Just tell me, huh? Well, this is the one they brought in yesterday, Danny. One of those boys and girls found buried in the sand on Coney Island. When they dug him out, they also found a knife wound in his chest. Made them sad. They turned off the portable radio, stopped dancing. Identify him yet? Yeah, that's why I called you. All right, you called me. The man was in his beach trunks, no wallet on him, no bundle of clothes, not even a locket tag. You want me to compliment you on how hard you worked for his identity? Yeah, it would be nice. All he had was some numbers tattooed on his arm.
The kind they were, their sequence, I figured they were social security type, so I checked the agency in Baltimore. They had him in their files. He used to work Carney's. Just came in on the teletype. Who is he? A man by the name of Joey Croft. Now runs a palace of fun down in Coney. Him and a partner. I checked on the partner. They tell me he had dished, Danny. He had dished by the name of Letty Scott. You going to talk to her? Coney had a nice day. Sure you would.
And leave the place of the tagged and cataloged dead. The clean and quiet room where death is pigeonholed. Accounts current for homicide. Leave there and out into beginning twilight.
Who is Joey Croft and how was he found?
And to drive now to Coney. And Coney Island on a mild summer's evening is carnival. Is pink cotton candy and things that spin and things that whirl. And Coney is ten shots for a quarter. And guess your weight. And down rushing rides and carousels. Giddiness, laughter, hot dogs, arcades, and little Egypt's oldest granddaughter. Ask a question of a man in a harlequin suit who needed a shave, and be directed to some steps and a frosted glass door to an office on top of it.
Come in.
Hi.
Hello. Thanks.
For what?
For the stairs. What else do you have on your mind?
I'm from the police. My name's Danny Clover.
I asked you something.
Yeah, you did. It's about Joey Croft.
All right, it's about Joey Croft. Sit down, wait for him. Go ahead, do that. I'm his partner. He seems surprised he sees you sitting in his chair. When he comes in, say that he said you were to do that.
Joey's dead. He was found yesterday on the beach, Miss Scott. Dead, stabbed to death. He's in the morgue.
Honey, alone, will you?
All right.
Let me alone. Is Dad?
That's right. Murdered.
What, a fight, an argument with somebody? Joey's temper... How? Who did it?
We don't know. What about you?
Are you kidding?
Did you kill him?
I'm a girl who used to ride elephants. That makes me kind to all animals and nearly all people. And I was real kind to Joey. I don't go around killing him.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the setting and introduction of the Joey Croft Murder Case?
0:00–3:31
2
Who is Joey Croft and how was he found?
3:31–5:23
3
What details emerge about Joey Croft's background?
5:23–7:42
4
Who are the key suspects in Joey Croft's murder?
7:42–9:24
5
What evidence links Fred Moore to the murder?
9:24–12:18
6
How does Letty Scott relate to the case?
12:18–14:01
7
What revelations occur during the investigation?
14:01–16:07
8
How does the episode conclude regarding the murder mystery?
16:07–26:17
Speakers
8 identifiedMore from Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
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