Broadway's My Beat: The Lucille Baker Murder Case (EP4973)
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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
40 min
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What is the Lucille Baker murder case about?
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Who are the key characters involved in the investigation?
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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're going to bring you this week's episode of Broadway's My Beat. But first, I want to encourage you, if you're enjoying this program, to follow using your favorite podcast software. And today's program is brought to you in part by the financial support of our listeners. You can support the show on a one-time basis by using the Zelle app to box13atgreatdetectives.net and become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters for as little as $2 per month. Just go to patreon.greatdetectives.net. But now, from December 15th, 1951, here is the Lucille Baker murder case.
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, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
From somewhere beyond the threshold of neon, the happy holidays beckon to Broadway, and the wilderness of plastic and chrome dons its ribbons of tinsel. Garlands of evergreen are hung against the shriek of subways, and behind plate glass, puppets with shrewd mechanisms perform their frenetic dance. The metallic music flows out of the horns of loudspeakers. The women walk slow, sway gently to its holiday rhythms. And everywhere, the image of gaiety is reflected in spangles that whirl on winter's wind. So paint the grin across your mouth, kid.
What leads to the discovery of Lucille Baker's body?
It's the merry time.
And somewhere within it, a phone call, a drunken voice that leads you into a desolate, wind-littered street, into a tenement scarred with shadows, into a room also desolate. A man sprawled on the floor in drunkenness, his arm flung toward the woman who lies away from him, his fingers reaching, trying to touch her dead face. And the other man who clings to your lapel has waited there only so he could tell you about it.
That proves I had nothing to do with it, doesn't it? I called it in. I waited here for you. Me, along with those two, just so I could tell you about it. Who are you? Bob. Robert Coker. I got a wife and a good name. I don't want to get mixed up in this, mister. The woman? That's Mrs. Baker, Charlie's wife. Boy, has that boy got a hangover waiting for him when he comes to. Imagine, you and Charlie, you're enjoying yourself. You get invited in for a little nightcap. You walk in, and there's Mrs. Baker lying on the floor, her head all twisted like that.
She was strangled.
Yeah, yeah. That's how I figured it, too. When we walked in and saw her, I said, look, Charlie boy, look at your missus. And Charlie kind of yelped like a dog or something. Tried to make it to her, but he passed out on the way. I never touched the missus. Honestly, I didn't... You and Mr. Baker were out together, then you came home? Yeah, but not like you think. We were to the office party. Charlie and me, we got adjoining desks. Big deal, office party. Booze and paper cups, dance a little with the steno you've been wanting to touch all year.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the Lucille Baker murder case about?
0:00–1:00
2
Who are the key characters involved in the investigation?
1:00–3:47
3
What leads to the discovery of Lucille Baker's body?
3:47–5:37
4
How does Lieutenant Danny Clover gather evidence?
5:37–7:38
5
What are the suspects' alibis during the murder?
7:38–9:56
6
What motives do the suspects have in the murder case?
9:56–11:40
7
How does the investigation unfold with new revelations?
11:40–12:58
8
What is the conclusion of the Lucille Baker murder case?
12:58–40:28