True Detective Mysteries
Mutual
Mutual · 1937–1944
Broadcasts
10
Cadence
Fortnightly
Rated
PG
Since
1937
The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1937–1944
- Surviving broadcasts
- 10
- Genre
- docudrama
True Detective Mysteries dramatised cases taken from True Detective magazine, broadcast on Mutual from 1937 and later sponsored by Listerine and Oh Henry. Each week presented the case history of a real crime, often narrated from the offender's point of view, and several broadcasts closed with an appeal for information on a fugitive still at large. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
5 dated broadcasts across 8 years on the air, with 7 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1937, in original transmission order.
- 1. Rattlesnake Barefoot Bride · 8 Mar 1937
- 2. Horror In A Hospital Ward · 25 Mar 1937
- 3. Black Legion Secrets Never Told Before · 1 Apr 1937
- 01
Rattlesnake Barefoot Bride
8 Mar 1937 · 26 min
- 02
Horror In A Hospital Ward
25 Mar 1937 · 24 min
- 03
Black Legion Secrets Never Told Before
1 Apr 1937 · 25 min
- 04
Buddha Man Mystery
8 Apr 1937 · 26 min
- 05
Helen Clevenger Case
22 Apr 1937 · 24 min
- 06
Trailing Red Ryan
29 Apr 1937 · 26 min
- 07
Death In Step Ins
6 May 1937 · 26 min
- 08
Black Legion
12 Jun 1937 · 25 min
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1937–1944
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