Broadway's My Beat: The Ricardo Miguel Murder Case (EP4938)

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Episode: Broadway’s My Beat – "The Ricardo Miguel Murder Case" (EP4938)
Air Date: March 25, 2026
Host: Adam Graham

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Episode Overview

This episode features a full broadcast of the classic 1951 radio drama “Broadway’s My Beat: The Ricardo Miguel Murder Case,” starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. The episode unfolds a suspenseful murder investigation set in New York’s Spanish Harlem, marked by atmosphere, complex relationships, and jealousy-fueled violence. After the drama, host Adam Graham offers commentary, context, and listener feedback.

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Key Discussion Points & Plot Breakdown

1. Setting the Scene & The Murder Discovery

(02:40 – 04:28)

• Detective Danny Clover introduces Broadway with characteristic noir narration, highlighting the chilly October atmosphere.
• Clover is called to a Spanish Harlem nightclub, La Cantina, where Ricardo Miguel’s body has been found in the cellar by Luis, a club worker.
  • Quote: “Through here, senorius. Down these steps. He’s in the cellar.” – Luis (03:58)
• They determine Ricardo was stabbed in an alley and pushed through a cellar window.

2. Initial Investigation & Suspects

(04:29 – 08:21)

• Detective Clover’s inquiries reveal:
  • Ricardo worked at Lorca’s bakery and was in love with Reina Martinez, a local woman.
  • Reina confirms Ricardo’s affection, admitting, “He loved me. He worked with me ... he baked little cakes, little pastries. And in between he spoke love.” (07:38)
• Introduction of Donald Jordan (college student, Reina’s current date) who provides an alibi for Reina, saying they were together at Central Park.

3. Exploring Motives at Lorca’s Bakery

(10:14 – 12:23)

• Detective Clover visits Senor Lorca’s bakery.
  • Lorca laments the loss of Ricardo but claims ignorance of a motive.
  • He admits to being enamored with Reina himself, planning to one day marry her, highlighting how many men desire Reina.

4. Police Legwork & More Suspects

(12:24 – 14:56)

• Gino, a police associate, provides background on Donald Jordan (a good student with time to provide an alibi) and Reina (a woman with a history of violent altercations involving knives).
• Police nab Bobby Garfield, a McKay College football player, as he flees the scene of a new murder: Reina Martinez has been shot dead.

5. Reina’s Murder & Interrogation

(15:39 – 18:09)

• Clover and Gomez interrogate Bobby, who frantically claims innocence. He says Reina was shot through an open window while they were dancing.
  • “We were dancing, see? … All of a sudden, there was a shot … she just dropped out of my arms.” – Bobby Garfield (17:44)

6. The Circle Tightens

(18:27 – 22:46)

• John Douglas, Bobby’s coach, is called in but is bewildered by the murder accusations.
• Detective Clover revisits Lorca, suspecting he could be the killer due to his jealousy, but Lorca denies any connection, claiming he "has not the what it needs" to kill (22:08).

7. Crucial School Revelations

(23:31 – 25:21)

• At McKay College, Dean Crawford reveals Donald Jordan did Bobby’s schoolwork in exchange for Bobby’s time being free for football, exposing close ties between Bobby and Donald.
• Donald’s father had complained about his son’s excessive spending, hinting at Donald’s desperate financial state.

8. Confrontation & Confession

(26:10 – 29:24)

• Detective Clover brings Bobby to Donald’s fraternity room.
• Under Clover’s questioning, it unravels that Donald, out of jealous fixation on Reina, murdered both Ricardo and Reina.
  • “You killed one of Reina’s boyfriends, Ricardo Miguel. To prove something to her. That she couldn’t have anyone but you.” – Detective Clover (28:25)
  • Donald ultimately confesses: “I wanted to kill her. And I did. What’d she do to me? The things she made me do for the things I got for her. And she laughed. She laughed.” (29:24)

9. Closing Reflections

(29:59–30:43)

• Noir narration returns, reflecting on the loneliness and violence of Broadway.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “[Ricardo] worked with me at Lorca’s Pastel Area. He baked little cakes, little pastries. And in between he spoke love. Talking my ear.” – Reina Martinez (07:38)
• “Why should Ricardo be Donald. Mona. Little monkey.” – Reina Martinez, conveying her cynicism about romantic violence (08:10)
• “You gave me a thought, you know. I’ll go ask her.” – Detective Clover, as a knife is tied to Reina’s history (13:26)
• “You act like ... What’d you do with a gun, Bobby? Throw it away?” – Detective Clover raising pressure on Bobby (17:25)
• “Bobby told me a lot about you on the way over here.” – Clover, beginning the confrontation that leads to Donald’s unraveling (26:46)
• “You killed one of Reina’s boyfriends, Ricardo Miguel ... You killed her.” – Clover, breaking the case open (28:25)
• “I wanted to kill her. And I did... And she laughed.” – Donald Jordan’s chilling confession (29:24)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 02:40 – Introduction to the La Cantina murder scene
• 06:30 – Reina Martinez interview
• 10:14 – Senor Lorca’s bakery discussion
• 13:53 – Discovery of Reina Martinez’s murder
• 17:30 – Bobby Garfield’s version of events
• 18:47 – Conversation with Bobby’s coach
• 23:31 – Interview with Dean Crawford at McKay College
• 26:24 – Confrontation at Donald Jordan’s room
• 28:25 – Donald Jordan exposed as the murderer
• 29:59 – Noir closing narration

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Host Commentary & Listener Feedback

(32:50–35:08)

• Adam Graham highlights cast members, including Richard Crenna (Bobby Garfield) and Sam Edwards (Donald Jordan), noting their fame and ongoing careers.
• Graham reads enthusiastic listener feedback, especially about frequent guest star Herb Butterfield.
• Thanks are extended to longtime Patreon supporter Lisa.
• Graham invites listeners to follow, rate, and review the show, previews tomorrow’s Dragnet episode.

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Conclusion

This episode delivers a classic Golden Age radio mystery filled with sharp dialogue, atmospheric detail, and a tangle of jealousy and obsession. Detective Danny Clover skillfully navigates a web of suspects, ultimately exposing love-driven violence lurking beneath the surface of urban nightlife.

Perfect for fans of old-school radio drama, detective fiction, and classic noir atmosphere.

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[Adam Graham]

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 the podcast, to please follow us using your favorite podcast software. 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 using the Zell app to box [e-mail] but now, from October 27, 1951, here is the Ricardo Miguel murder case.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Broadway's My Beat From Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world,

[Narrator]

Broadway's my beat with larry thor as detective danny clover.

[Detective Danny Clover]

When October dies and the river wind takes over, Broadway is arranged in clots of crowd and coldness. There's a new quality on Broadway shrill, having to do with top coats and early darkness and frosty sounds. And twilight is brief, a darting ebb of light in the sudden autumn chill. And hurry, hurry, hurry to this place or that home or to a hot dog stand or to the neon that winks. Hurry, kid, make a phone call. Find somebody. It's night already. And it seems the night comes sooner in the tenement district, or somehow it never quite leaves. In the barrio in Spanish Harlem. That's why the people gather together sooner and start their music earlier. In a small nightclub like La Cantina. Where I was and Detective Gomez was. And the man who led us across the floor.

[Luis]

Through here, senorius. Down these steps. He's in the cellar.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You were the one who found him.

[Luis]

See, I went down here to my stove Inn to replenish the beer for my customers. Well, you will see.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Is there any other entrance to this cellar than those steps we just came down?

[Luis]

You will see, senor.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Look, don't make a drama out of it, Luis. Just take it easy. Gomez.

[Luis]

There. And the big cases stretched out. Wetted, dead.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Now tell us, Luis, how did it get in here?

[Luis]

Perfume, senor. You see a window through which deliveries are made from the alley mirror. The window is broken through.

[Detective Danny Clover]

So take a look in the alley, Gomez. Okay. You know who he is, Luis.

[Luis]

You see? He's Ricardo Miguel, a boy who lives near the boy who works at the pastel area. Arsenio Loca. The bakery shop, also not far.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Stamped four places than I can.

[Luis]

Is the floor show, senor.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Begone. Yeah.

[Luis]

The sad you cannot take the time to see, senor. It is exciting. The sad you are not the time.

[Detective Danny Clover]

And beating against the cellar tomb containing a boy's death. The ribboned plaque of a woman's high heels dancing in measured frenzy to a nimble passion plucked from the guitar. To the percussion of men's applause. To the olay's hoarsely whispered deep in the throat. The light bulb sways to it. The shadows dance. The huddled boy shrieks his stillness. And into it. After a while, Gomez with information. There were blood stains in the alley outside. The boy had been knifed there, had fallen or was pushed through the cellar window. Leave Gomez to the official gathering of the dead. Walk a barrio street to the bakery of Senor Lorca. Try it. Find it closed. Then walk some more. Scavenge the barrio night for scraps about the murdered boy, about Ricardo Miguel. From an alley wall moist with autumn's night mist, a form detaches itself, whispers into your ear that Ricardo loved a girl much. Reina Martinez lives alone in a room on 110th. Alone. Try her, senor. Go there to a numbered room in a tenement hall. Try.

[Reina Martinez]

Good to me. The night is good to me.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I'm from the police.

[Reina Martinez]

You bring yourself to the wrong girl, senor. Police. Go skin your knuckles. In another place, Llorena Martinez, the barrio woman spit my name at you. Because her man looked at me, boy was stabbed.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Ricardo Miguel murdered.

[Reina Martinez]

Because he loved Reina.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Let's talk about it inside, Ms. Martinez.

[Reina Martinez]

In a little while, a boy comes for me to buy me wine, to take me dancing. Have not combed my hair, have not painted my mouth. Another time we will talk inside.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Now, Ms. Martinez, tell me about Ricardo.

[Reina Martinez]

I told what there is. He loved me.

[Detective Danny Clover]

He was knifed in an alley. We found him in a cellar. Maybe you can tell me why something like that had happened to him.

[Reina Martinez]

You will not mind if I make myself ready for the boy who comes for me, huh? I fixed my hair for the flower he always brings for him.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Ricardo Miguel. Let's get back to him.

[Reina Martinez]

Pobrecito. Poor boy. Poor dead boy.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You like my hair so it won't matter at headquarters.

[Reina Martinez]

So impatient, senor. Police. All right, I tell you. Reina will tell you.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Ricardo, tell me.

[Reina Martinez]

He worked with me at Lorcas Pastel Area. He baked little cakes, little pastries. And in between he spoke love. Talking my ear. Sometimes I listened. Often when he bought for me little things, I listened. You know, Jewelry, silk blouse. This that I wear now, he gave to me. I made a promise when he brought it to me. No, I cannot keep it. Poor Recito. Poor boy.

[Detective Danny Clover]

That's all there is about Ricardo. He worked with you, loved you.

[Reina Martinez]

And now he's dead. Sometimes he's the pattern in the barrio. Senor. Police. Why should Ricardo be Donald. Mona. Little monkey.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Where is Irena?

[Reina Martinez]

Oh, the police. Mona. I have finished with him. You like Reyna. How she looks for you?

[Detective Danny Clover]

What does he want here?

[Reina Martinez]

A boy was murdered with a knife. A boy who loved me. Ricardo, the pastries.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What do you want with her, mister?

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What's Reina got to do with it?

[Detective Danny Clover]

She just told you.

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When was he killed?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Maybe three hours ago, more or less. Who are you?

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Donald Jordan. College boy with an alibi for Reyna. Three hours ago, in a sack full of hours. Before that, Raina was with me. It took that long to shore the ducks in Central Park Lake.

[Detective Danny Clover]

That's where you were, Ms. Martinez.

[Reina Martinez]

Donald told you. My Monotoria.

[Detective Danny Clover]

In other words, you're each other's alibi.

[Senor Lorca]

Mm, each other's.

[Reina Martinez]

Come to Reina, Donna. Come on, little monkey. Ben Venaki.

[Senor Lorca]

Come on.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Then watch him move toward her. Stop. And the girl considering him. And the gesture. Her hand sleeking her black hair. Before she went into his arms and see a thing. Her eyes open, looking over his shoulder and out into the night. Turning to the boy, smiling to him, kissing him. Her Hands smoothing her hair again. And her eyes watching me as I left. The next morning. Back to the barrio, Back to the front. Footage devoted to tenements and window watchers and the people of the doorsteps and the chalk talk. Back to the place that had been closed the night before. The pastry shop of Senor Lorca.

[Senor Lorca]

Buenas dias, senor.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Good morning.

[Senor Lorca]

I am sorry, senor.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Sorry about what?

[Senor Lorca]

This morning. My stock.

[Detective Danny Clover]

It is scarce, however, because Ricardo didn't

[Senor Lorca]

show up for my baker. Ricardo is Muerte dead. So for the next few days.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I know. I'm from the police, see? You know that Ricardo was murdered, don't you?

[Senor Lorca]

Siguramente? Of course. Of his dying I know all about.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Oh, see?

[Senor Lorca]

It has been told all around the barrio.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I see. I need some information. I want you to help me.

[Senor Lorca]

Why not?

[Detective Danny Clover]

I want you to tell me all you can about Ricardo and about Reina.

[Senor Lorca]

Of Ricardo, A boy who bakes pasteles. Who lived alone and baked between the hours of 9 and 5. Excellently. Who I will miss.

[Detective Danny Clover]

How come Reina isn't here this morning?

[Senor Lorca]

I will ask her the identical question when she will come in.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Was she here yesterday?

[Senor Lorca]

For a time. Then a young man took her to look at ducks. Such a girl as she. To look at ducks. Loco. If you would see her, you would.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I have seen her.

[Senor Lorca]

But then you understand. Is there another such one as she? Senor, I ask you this because in your profession you must go about the city and see women sometimes of exquisiteness. Yet I do not believe you have seen such a one as Reina. The face of her deformed.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You are married, Lorca.

[Senor Lorca]

In truth, senor. And because you are of the police who enjoy to listen to truth. I wait for Reina to grow up to enjoy me. Then I will be married.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Quite a few men seem to be in love with her, Larka. Ricardo, for instance.

[Senor Lorca]

See? For instance, Ricardo.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Why should anyone want to kill him, Larka?

[Senor Lorca]

I shrug. Shrug to denote I do not know. I do not know why indeed. Another question, senor. Police?

[Detective Danny Clover]

No, no. That's all for now.

[Senor Lorca]

Gracias, senor. Adios mio, Migo.

[Gino]

Hail, fellow, and well met. Top of the morning, Danny.

[Detective Danny Clover]

We said good morning to each other a couple of hours ago. Gino, off the dime. What have you got?

[Gino]

What I've got is what you're going to get. To wit, a report on the college youth, Donald Jordan, even as you requested.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Okay, okay.

[Gino]

Detective Gomez told me that this Jordan youth is a student at McKay College. That the dean of men whom he Questioned. Told the good detective that this Jordan youth is indeed bright, a gold star student. And found out that this Jordan youth was indeed free to watch ducks yesterday afternoon. Because he had only morning classes.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I see. What have we got on Reyna Martinez?

[Gino]

Reyna Martinez to witness. According to our files, it seems this Reina Martinez has been a caller at our pokey on various occasions. Once on the occasion of clawing the eyes of a fellow female. Once for waving a knife under the nose of a brush salesman. And another time for carving her initials with a like knife into the epidermis of a friendly barfly.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Knife, huh?

[Gino]

From what you told me of her, Danny, from this reign of Martinez, nobody would mind. What's a knife prick from a girl like that?

[Detective Danny Clover]

You gave me a thought, you know. I'll go ask her. What does this girl look like, Danny? You'll see. Come on to this house.

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One side, friend.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Take it easy, buster. It's a hurry.

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I said one side.

[Detective Danny Clover]

He's a big one, Danny. Okay, friend.

[Senor Lorca]

You asked.

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Yeah.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Come on, come on. Settle down. It's a lot better.

[Luis]

Young fella, ask you something?

[Detective Danny Clover]

What's the hurry?

[Bobby Garfield]

You guys crazy? Take your hands.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Why were you running in a hurry?

[Senor Lorca]

I run.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Police. Huh?

[Luis]

Police officers.

[Bobby Garfield]

Look, I didn't have anything to do with it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

To do with what?

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Look.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Bring him along, Gomez. Come on.

[Luis]

K.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Did you come out of this room all right? We'll see inside. You heard him in,

[Paul]

Danny.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah, I see.

[Bobby Garfield]

I didn't do it. I swear. I swear I didn't do it. I didn't kill him. I didn't kill Ray. I didn't kill him.

[Narrator]

You were listening to Broadway Is My Beat. Written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. And starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. Say, that was some night the gang gave Jack Benny last week. When the spendthrift squire surprised them all by inviting him out to a nightclub on him and the surprise finish. The gang will be waiting for Jack for sure tomorrow night.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yes.

[Narrator]

Jack Benny. Mary Livingston, Dennis. Phil Rochester, Don. And tomorrow night, Mr. And Mrs. Ronald Coleman. Listen for them all on CBS radio. There's fun every minute.

[Detective Danny Clover]

The winds of October begin their departure from Broadway. And departing leave in their wake the gutters choked with regret. The corridors echoing lament. And Broadway picks through the leaving searches for lost treasures. For images misplaced left behind in that movie palace. Forgotten in the sudden realization that this was your subway stop. There was the girl with the soft fur held close to her throat. Covering her face right up to her eyes. The way she looked at you. It Was one you'll remember, kid, Right through the fall season. There was that late time on Broadway when the bar was closing. The guys with convention buttons on their lapels bought you a drink, Said, whenever you're out my way, look me up. That was October. The image and the farewell. So why look for anything else, kid? That's all there is. Except a girl dead in a room you've been in before. Accept a sobbing protest, except the scream of a radio. Shut that thing off. Go mess. Yeah, nothing I can do about that. Danny is down the street somewhere.

[Bobby Garfield]

Look, I told you I had nothing to do with it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah, you told us. What's your name, kid? Garfield.

[Bobby Garfield]

Bobby Garfield. Raina and me, we were just.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What do you do, Bobby?

[Bobby Garfield]

I play football. Let me tell you, huh? Rayna and me were just.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You're a football player, huh, Bobby? I like football.

[Bobby Garfield]

I play for McKay College. I'm a sophomore.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Gay college, huh? You know a boy named Donald Jordan, Bobby?

[Bobby Garfield]

Yeah, I know him. Same fraternity. Look, what is it with you guys? You gonna let me tell you how it was?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Sure, Bobby. Go ahead, Tell us how it was.

[Bobby Garfield]

Rain and me just kind of good friends, you know what I mean?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Uh, tell us.

[Bobby Garfield]

What are you guys twisting it into me for? I didn't kill her. You act like.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What'd you do with a gun, Bobby? Throw it away?

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Let me tell you, huh?

[Bobby Garfield]

Rayna and me. I met her right after I came to New York to play football. She saw me play once. Came up to me after the game, said I played so good, why not celebrate?

[Detective Danny Clover]

You're telling us how you didn't kill her. That's why you tried to run away, huh? Because you didn't.

[Bobby Garfield]

We were dancing, see? Kind of dancing to that music you turned off. You can still hear it. We were dancing to that. All of a sudden, there was a shot, I guess somewhere. That window's open to the alley. All of a sudden, Raina just dropped out of my arms. And there was blood on my shirt from where she see it. Look, I got to call somebody. I got to call somebody on the telephone, sir.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Sure you do. We got a phone at headquarters. You can make your call from there. Put the cuffs away, Gomez. We won't need them.

[Gino]

You've got a gentleman caller, Danny.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Huh? Who?

[Gino]

A gentleman who comes and answers to Bobby Garcia's phone call.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Oh, sure, man.

[Gino]

Gino, this way to see Danny Clover.

[Reina Martinez]

Now.

[Detective Danny Clover]

That'll be all, Gino. How do you do, sir? Very well, thank you. Sit down. My name's Clover Douglas, sir.

[Luis]

John Douglas.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Bobby Garfield called you. Bobby's in a lot of trouble.

[Luis]

Trouble, Mr. Clover, is a thing youth is prone to generate for itself. You and I understand that the trouble is murder.

[Detective Danny Clover]

May I ask, Mr. Douglas, why Bobby called you?

[Luis]

Of course you may. Didn't you know I'm a football coach?

[Detective Danny Clover]

No, I didn't know.

[Luis]

Bobby comes under my tutelage as an end. An Excellent one. McKay College's pride. Offensive end, of course.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Of course. What else about Bobby?

[Luis]

What else about him? I found him in New Mexico. Prevailed upon the McKay regions to make his way to New York easy. They certainly agreed with me. He's very fast. Is Bobby at his speed, racing the Super Chief across the New Mexico deserts? I tell sports reporters for color.

[Detective Danny Clover]

He was found running out of a room where a girl was shot to death.

[Luis]

This, sir, is confounding. I told my squad, I keep telling them no dates until after the season. So surely there must be a mistake. Bobby listens to me.

[Detective Danny Clover]

There's no mistake, Mr. Douglas.

[Luis]

Who is the girl? One of those flirts from Greenberry School across the river.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Our Lady Reina Martinez. A barrio girl.

[Luis]

Of course, if there's anything. Well, what am I expected to do?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Answer another question. Do you know a McKay student named Donald Jordan?

[Luis]

No, he's not football.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I wouldn't know him.

[Luis]

I still don't know what I'm expected to do about this. This altercation that Bobby has gotten himself into.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Just talk to him, Mr. Douglas. He's under suspicion of murder. He asked for you. Of course.

[Luis]

You'll pardon me, sir.

[Narrator]

Thank you.

[Detective Danny Clover]

And watch the leader of men go talk to one of his boys. Not knowing what to say. Not knowing how to pep talk a boy out of a grief the coach had never played against before. And imagine it. The pat on the shoulder, the voice modulated to the acoustics of a cell. Then the curiosity taking over. Finally, gentle, insinuating. Tell me about it, son. Tell me about the girl. Tell me what there was about her that made you. Then wipe the smirk off your mouth. Because you've asked these questions, too. We'll go on asking them. And because you're a policeman, ask them with the official stamp of approval of anyone of an employer. Of the girl now dead. Of Senor Lorca, for instance.

[Senor Lorca]

I told you, senor. I told you of the exquisiteness of Reyna. That she is dead does not change my philosophy about her. With the race such as Reyna, there is such as this.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You kill her. Larka.

[Senor Lorca]

Listen to me, senor. Listen very closely. How could I lift my hand? I Accept

[Detective Danny Clover]

how this way with a gun in it. Then shoot her through a window while she was dancing with Bobby Garfield. That's how.

[Senor Lorca]

Explain me. Explain me something. Why should I do this when I don't even notice this Garfield.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Bobby Garfield. He knew Reyna. Loved her like Ricardo Miguel did. Someone found an alley where Ricardo was, stabbed him to death. Then saw Reina in the arms of Bobby Garfield shot Reyna, killed her. Watched Garfield being taken to prison. It all worked out real good for a man like you. A man who says he loved Reyna. A man who Reyna didn't love.

[Senor Lorca]

I tell you something, senor. All this that you said. I could wish it. Wish it deep inside here. But I could not do it. I'm only a seller of pastries. I have not the what it needs.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Then you didn't know about Garfield?

[Senor Lorca]

About dead Ricardo, my pastry boy. I knew about the college boy who took Reina from me to show her dogs.

[Narrator]

Quack, quack.

[Senor Lorca]

Only these rivals I knew till now. I regret you told me about this Garfield.

[Detective Danny Clover]

One more thing.

[Senor Lorca]

They told me I may speak to the phone.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Go ahead,

[Senor Lorca]

Lorcas. Pasteleria, huh? Ah, Detective.

[Reina Martinez]

See?

[Senor Lorca]

There is a detective here. This is what you want. Of Lord Momento. For you, senor.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Thanks. Danny Clover speaking.

[Gino]

Danny, I disturb you only because Dean Crawford of McKay College phoned in. Wants you to come to his office right away.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Will he tell you why?

[Gino]

He said he's got a shocker for you. But an immediate shocker. Those were his very.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Thanks, Gino. Maybe I'll have to get back to you, Larka, so don't go away. Did I say something funny, Dean Crawford?

[Dean Crawford]

No, not you, Mr. Clover. I said something funny. I made the remark to myself. How this week, Mr. Clover, just this week I sent in my resignation to the Board of Regents. A thing unheard of. No dean ever quits at McKay. We get fired. I quit effective the new year.

[Detective Danny Clover]

And that's funny.

[Dean Crawford]

Scandalous, to use a McKay term that's hardly ever used. Then think about it, Mr. Clover. One of the students is involved in a murder all in the same week. This is a Black Week for McKay. I wonder about something. Abandon what statistics. How many McKay boys have gone out into the world and committed murder? As still Dean of McKay, I'll match my boys against anybody.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Look, Dean Crawford, you called me, said it was urgent. Suppose you tell me something urgent.

[Dean Crawford]

I got a letter a while ago from a daddy. A daddy who is sending his son through McKay. He's a worried man.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What are you talking about?

[Dean Crawford]

The daddy Of Donald Jordan worried about the bills his son has run up. No wonder. Menagerie, jewelry, baubles for a sex we only mention in psychology. Too female. The letter came after your Detective Gomez had left.

[Detective Danny Clover]

How close was Donald Jordan to Bobby Garfield?

[Dean Crawford]

I'll tell you how close. We have an arrangement here. Assign a football player to a scholar. Arrangement? Garfield was coached in his studies by Donald Jordan. This is known as intellectual freedom. Donald writes Bobby's themes, does his assignments. Which leaves Bobby free to think about nothing. Admirable.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What else can you tell me about them?

[Dean Crawford]

Which one of those rascals do you

[Senor Lorca]

think killed that girl?

[Detective Danny Clover]

I asked you a question.

[Dean Crawford]

I've told you everything I can, Mr. Clover. Well, McKay. Semper Fidelio, as we always say. Don't you always say no, I don't blame you. Bye, Mr. Clover.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Bobby. Come on, Bobby. On your feet.

[Senor Lorca]

What?

[Detective Danny Clover]

What do you want? Let's go, Bobby. We're going for a visit.

[Senor Lorca]

Visit?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah, we're going back to school.

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There's rooms on this floor, Mr. Clover, right across the hall from mine. He never goes to the bonfire rallies.

[Detective Danny Clover]

He's probably in this one.

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The most studious room in the fraternity house.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Who is it?

[Paul]

You.

[Chumba Casino Announcer / Liberty Mutual Announcer]

Bobby, it's me, Bobby Garfield. Bobby, I thought.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Oh. Let's go inside, Donald.

[Luis]

Sure.

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Gee, I'm glad to see you're out, Bobby. Yeah, I knew you would be. That's why I came right to you. So you could be glad.

[Detective Danny Clover]

That's right, Donald. Bobby told me a lot about you on the way over here.

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I don't understand what you're doing here.

[Detective Danny Clover]

We'll get around to it.

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I got bad news for you, kid. Bad news? You remember something? The day we were inducted into this fraternity.

[Luis]

What are you talking about?

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The day we put four fingers up in the air and gave the secret hand clasp and said the words the second finger meant loyalty. You haven't been true blue. What did they do to you in jail, Bobby? You talk crazy. Yeah, crazy, frat boy crazy.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Cut it out.

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Yeah, I'll cut it out. Pardon. I didn't have a paddle. Fraternity brother. Is this how you police act? Bring a crazy man into my room and have him beat me up?

[Detective Danny Clover]

I'm sorry, Donald. I told him a few things on our way here. I didn't know it would upset him this way.

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Look, I don't know what this is all about. Why don't we all go down to the bonfire? Sure. Sure, let's do that. It'll make a big impression, Bobby. You being out of jail gonna play Tomorrow. Come on, guys, we're going.

[Detective Danny Clover]

All right, but not to a football rally. You're under arrest, Donald.

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What? Two crazy men. The policeman and me. What do you mean I'm under arrest? For what? Well, what reason?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Murder. Ricardo Miguel Reina Martinez.

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You're kidding. Especially Reyna Martinez. Now there was a dame. Take my word for it, fraternity brother. There really was a dame. You talked about me, didn't you? You and Reyna. We had a few chuckles whenever your name came up.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You ready to go, Donald?

[Chumba Casino Announcer / Liberty Mutual Announcer]

What did you say about me? You know what we said. What you say to yourself?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Leave him alone, Bobby.

[Chumba Casino Announcer / Liberty Mutual Announcer]

I didn't kill anybody. Mr. Clover.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You killed one of Reyna's boyfriends, Ricardo Miguel. To prove something to her. That she couldn't have anyone but you. That you wouldn't let her have anyone but you.

[Chumba Casino Announcer / Liberty Mutual Announcer]

You don't know what you're talking about. Believe me, he knows. Four fingers in the air.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Ricardo Miguel was killed. You had an alibi for that. You were with Raina.

[Chumba Casino Announcer / Liberty Mutual Announcer]

That's right. She told you I was with her.

[Detective Danny Clover]

She lied for you. She alibi'd for you because for an instant she admired you.

[Chumba Casino Announcer / Liberty Mutual Announcer]

She did. She did. What are you laughing at? Nothing. Nothing at all. What are you laughing at? I laugh because I remember something. A couple of Saturdays ago, right after a football game, when Raina waited until I came out of the stadium, came up and told me who she was. We celebrated the occasion. You took her to that game, didn't you, Donald? I'm only sorry I didn't kill you two.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You almost did. At that time.

[Chumba Casino Announcer / Liberty Mutual Announcer]

Who were you aiming at, Donald? Reina or me? While you were peeking at us from the alley. While you were. Who were you aiming at?

[Bobby Garfield]

Reina.

[Chumba Casino Announcer / Liberty Mutual Announcer]

I wanted to kill her. And I did. What'd she do to me? The things she made me do for the things I got for her. And she laughed. She laughed.

[Detective Danny Clover]

The neon spins and Broadway blares out an eight beat rhythm. The tempo of hunger in dance time. Grab yourself a dream and get with it. Close your eyes and pretend you're holding something special. Keep them closed. Dreams last longer that way. It's Broadway. The gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway, My beat.

[Narrator]

Broadway is My Beat Stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. With Charles Calvert as Tartaglia and Jack Crucian as Mugavan. The program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. In tonight's story, Dick Krena was heard as Bobby Garfio. And Sam Edwards as Donald Jordan. Featured in the cast were Harry Bartel, Marvin Miller, Lillian Byeff, Herb Butterfield and Edgar Barrier. Looking for a lively date for tomorrow night. She's on the younger side, but her appeal is to all interested. Then meet Cortis Archer, CBS Radio's Atomic Teenager, with her fun making gang on most of these same stations. Tomorrow night, Bill Anders speaking. And remember, the Frankie Lane show is your date with Slick Syncopation every Sunday afternoon on the CBS Radio network.

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[Adam Graham]

Welcome back. This episode featured not only Richard Krena, who we talked about earlier, but also Sam Edwards. While Crenna at this point was mainly known for being the voice of Walter Denton on Ormis Brooks, Sam Edwards most famous radio role at this point was as Corliss Archer's boyfriend Dexter on the series Meet Corliss Archer. He also voiced the adult Thumper in the Bambi films for the rest of his career. He really settled into the role of character actor with a lot of appearances on a lot of programs up until the 1980s. What I found cited as his most famous role was Bill Anderson on Little House on the Prairie. Now if you're not familiar with that character, you could be forgiven as he was in a total of six episodes in season six, eight and nine. All right, listener comments and feedback now. Over on Spotify, Elwood writes regarding the Ed Coster murder case. So Herb Butterfield got to play the killer and the victim without doubling. That man was talented. Indeed he was. Been standing out for me over the last few years. He really was in a lot of demand then. A comment from our listener survey. I listen daily in the morning. Thank you so much. Appreciate your kind comments. Well, now it is time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day. Thank you to Lisa, patreon Supporter since April 2016. Currently supporting the podcast at the shamus level of $4 or more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Lisa. And that will do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite Podcast software. And be sure to rate and review the podcast wherever you download it from. We'll be back next Wednesday with another episode of Broadway's Mobbeat, but join us back here tomorrow for Dragnet Ware.

[Paul]

Yeah, I hear you got some H to unload, huh?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Hmm. I wonder what you're talking about.

[Paul]

What is this, Jack? You giving me a bump steer here? Relax, huh?

[Detective Danny Clover]

It's all right. He's solid, Red.

[Luis]

You can talk.

[Detective Danny Clover]

No, he talks too fast and too much.

[Paul]

I'm here to do business if you're ready.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I am.

[Paul]

If you're not, say so. I haven't got the time to play cozy with you.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Now take it easy with. You get along a lot better.

[Paul]

What do you want? Jack vouched for me. Isn't that enough for you?

[Detective Danny Clover]

The guy who vouched for Jack's in the county jail. We haven't been able to talk to him. Where have you done business before?

[Paul]

Well, I could ask you the same thing. Now, look, mister, we got one thing in common here. You got something to sell, Maybe I want to buy it if we can. We can't get together. Let's forget the whole thing right now. You're not the only pusher in town.

[Detective Danny Clover]

There's a chair over there. Why don't you sit down? I'll fix a couple of drinks.

[Paul]

Jack can fix them. Let's find out if you and I

[Detective Danny Clover]

can get together, all right? Same, Paul. Bourbon and water.

[Paul]

Yeah. Well, how about it? How much you got to sell?

[Senor Lorca]

Take it easy, huh?

[Detective Danny Clover]

There's no rush. We could talk better over a couple of drinks.

[Paul]

Well, maybe you got the time, mister. I haven't. How much can you furnish me with?

[Detective Danny Clover]

More than you can buy from the looks of it. Hey, Red, you got any lemons? Uh, no. No lemon twist in it.

[Paul]

Paul.

[Detective Danny Clover]

That all right? Yeah, it's all right.

[Paul]

Make it light, will you? Now, this junk you got, what's it test?

[Detective Danny Clover]

It's the best this town's seen in a long time. It's 50% or better.

[Paul]

Who you trying to con? My tester used your sample this afternoon. He says it won't go 40%. Okay.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You know where you can get better?

[Adam Graham]

I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, send your comments to box13greatdetectives.net Follow us on Twitter at radiodetectives and check us out on Instagram. Instagram.com greatdetectives from Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Graham, signing off.

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[Reina Martinez]

Yeah, the bird looks out of your league anyways.

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[Detective Danny Clover]

Liberty.

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[Detective Danny Clover]

Liberty.