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+ True Detective Mysteries radio series was based on the True Detective magazine. Later it was sponsored by Listerine and Oh Henry Candy, but kept the same name. Each week the show presented the case history of an actual crime. Many were told from the criminals point of view. True Detective Mystery Magazine ran from 1929 to 1930 and was the original idea like Unsolved Mysteries. The show would present case histories of actual crimes and offered rewards to the listening audience for information or clues that would lead to an arrest. Click here to read more about True Detective Mysteries

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Please enjoy these 22 old time radio episodes:

Air Date	Title	Synopsis
08.12.1937	who killed bonnie collins
10.07.1959	wedding night murder	+ After six years of marriage to her drunken cruel husband she knew it had to end but she never knew...
07.10.1937	trailing red ryan	+ Red Ryan was the most dangerous and misleading criminal in Canada who escaped from prison in 1923 ...
04.29.1937	trailing red ryan
03.18.1937	the rattlesnake and the barefoot bride	+ The story taken from True Detectives Magazine begins on the night of August 5th 1935 out side of L...
08.26.1937	shipboard beauty
09.02.1937	reprocessed bride
08.19.1937	murder in horror house
01.01.1950	inhuman monster in europe
03.25.1937	horror in a hospital ward	+ Horror In The Hospital Ward is a true story of love and jealousy leading to a murder in a ward of ...
06.08.1958	hitchhiking psycho	The case history you are about to hear is the actual report of an actual crime.Mary Anne Webster tel...
07.03.1937	helen clevenger case
04.22.1937	helen clevenger case	+ Helen Clevenger is travelling with her uncle, professor Clevenger when she is discovered murdered ...
06.26.1937	girl in the iron mask
04.15.1937	girl in the iron mask	+ The true inside crime story New Jersey Girl In The Iron Mask as revealed personally by the honoura...
07.24.1937	farmer shot 12 times	+ An honest young farmer is found murdered, shot 12 times. His wife of only one-month seems to take ...
12.28.1937	dream of richard lauber	+ Richard Lauber under the name of Joseph Stratter wined and dined Gertrude Schmidt in New York’s ...
05.06.1937	death in step ins	+ And now the true inside story Death In Step-Ins who killed the girl on the rock, from the pages of...
08.31.1937	check forgery
06.19.1937	buddha man mystery
04.08.1937	buddha man mystery	+ In March 1929 Frank Waldo Anderson died from an accidental overdose of chloroform, which he took a...
06.12.1937	black legion	+ From the pages of the October True Detective Mysteries the Black Legion, secrets never told before...

True Detective Mysteries presented the “case history of an actual crime, ” and the radio series was based on the magazine by the same name, which featured true cases. In the beginning, the magazine sponsored the series, later Listerine, Oh Henry Candy and multi sponsors picked up the bills. The series was broadcast by CBS and Mutual from 1929 to 1959.

TRUE DETECTIVE MYSTERIES

It lasted through June 1958- and was one of the last of Mutual's radio dramas to be scheduled. As Slip Mahoney used to say in The Bowery Boys: "Troot is stranger than friction." Sometimes the crimes are not so famous and the truth is fictionalized on True Detective. It ran a few different times through the years. There's even one from 1958 that's in circulation.

Joe

I like this show. It delivers all the great themes and mood of the era. I am really hooked on detective and crime OTR. I missed it the first time around, but I am making up for it now. I just wish it were possible to have it all in perfect audio quality.

Jess