Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Deadly Debt Matter 08/28/1960
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Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
25 min
2 speakers
8 chapters
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What is the premise of the “Deadly Debt Matter” case introduced at the start?
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Johnny Deller.
Johnny, this is Don Boomhauer.
Don in Sarasota, Florida? That's right. Don, how are you? How's the real estate business?
Just fine, and business is booming.
Yeah, I haven't seen you since I flew down there to do some fishing with our mutual pal, Earl Poorman.
Ha ha. That one, with his misguided sense of value. Oh, what's that
mean?
Oh, his trips out to California all the time. And this time it looks as though he might stay out there.
Uh, Don, I think all you Floridians are jealous of California.
Now, Johnny, you think we'd ever admit it, even to ourselves? Be rank heresy. Anyhow, with Earl Poorman out of town, at least for a while, I'm kind of holding down the office of tri-state life and casualty these days. So what happens?
Trouble.
Trouble. Client's name is Thomas Patterson.
All right, what's happened? Somebody knock him off or something?
No, not yet. But a few years ago when he was living up in Jacksonville, well Tom was the sole witness to a murder. The killer was tried and sent to State's prison.
Uh uh. Huh? So now this killer's on the loose and you figure Tom Patterson's life isn't worth a bag of beans.
That's it exactly. Uh wanna come down here and see what you can do about it?
Nope.
No, not
okay, Don. I'll grab the first plane I can.
CBS Radio brings you Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action packed expense account. America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yes, truly? Sony Dollar.
Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar. To the Tri-Stalife at Casualty Insurance Company Sarasota office. Following his account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the deadly debt matter.
Expense account item one seventy nine forty, taxi in a plane out of Hartford. The flight was good and by early afternoon I was in Don Boomhauer's real estate office in Sarasota, Florida. After the usual amenities. Now
let me lay it all out for you, Johnny. Yeah, sure, Don. Go ahead. And to begin with, the life insurance policy involved has a face value of seventy thousand dollars.
Hmm. Let's see then. My commission will come to uh Don't
you ever think of anything but money?
Sure. Like what? Well, right now I'm thinking about the chances of staying alive. After all, with a killer on the loose. Well, at least the thought of a few bucks coming to me could help me die happy. Uh, the insured's name you said is
Thomas Patterson. It is now.
Uh.
Some years ago, Johnny, young Tommy lived up in Jacksonville, worked as a milkman. Early one morning, that was in 1951, he pulled up in front of an alley just in time to see a man named Casey Carey shoot down a fellow named Harker, who just happened to be busy at the moment blasting away at Carey with the 38.
Ah, so
Carey pleaded self-defense,
huh?
Well, he tried to, but the jury wouldn't go for it. You see, there'd been a long standing feud between the two of 'em.
Who is Thomas Patterson and why is his life considered a target?
Uh huh. Only reason they didn't give Carrie the chair is because Harker had a record as long as your arm. I see. Instead, Carrie was given ten years to life.
I see.
The point is that Tommy Patterson's testimony was what really convicted him. So, of course, he made the usual melodramatic threat.
Oh, yeah.
That he'd get Patterson if it was the last thing he ever did. He didn't care when, he'd be in no hurry. But sooner or later he'd track him down and kill him. So what's happened? Tom had just got married and started a nice little family, two boys and a girl. So Carey's threat scared him as much because of the wife and kids as for himself. Yeah,
but now, Don, you know as well as I do how little those courtroom
threats usually mean. Now, now wait. Yeah. About that time, some relative died and left Tom a considerable sum of money. So he changed his name, uh, legally. Changed it to what? To what it is now. Thomas K. Patterson. Uh, what it was before doesn't matter. Okay, go on. Then he and his family moved on down to Venice, a few miles south of you.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the premise of the “Deadly Debt Matter” case introduced at the start?
0:00–3:31
2
Who is Thomas Patterson and why is his life considered a target?
3:31–7:18
3
What past murder testimony links Tom Patterson to the killer Casey Carey?
7:18–10:11
4
How does Johnny Dollar trace the killer’s movements from Jacksonville to Venice?
10:11–12:13
5
What evidence does Dollar uncover about the murder weapon and the gun permit?
12:13–14:36
6
How does the confrontation at Carey’s gas station unfold and who is arrested?
14:36–17:45
7
What forensic findings (ballistics, bullet caliber) confirm the shooter’s identity?
17:45–20:20
8
How does the episode wrap up with the final expense account and closing narration?
20:20–23:53
Speakers
2 identifiedMore from Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
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