The Big Story: Reporter Risks Life to Avenge a Friend's Murder (EP5047)

Today's Mystery: When a Butte service-station attendant disappears under mysterious circumstances, his lifelong friend, Helena Independent Record reporter Alan Copperthwaite, refuses to let the story fade away. Following a slender trail of clues across Montana, Copperthwaite risks his own safety in a deeply personal search for the truth.

Original Radio Broadcast:March 19, 1952.

Originating in New YorkCast:
• Bill Lipton as Alan Copperthwaite
• Jane Robbin
• Joe DeSantis
• Phil Sterling
• Owen Jordan
• Joe Helgesen
• Jim Stevens
• Bob Sloane as Narrator
• Adapted by Abraham S. Ginnes
• Original music composed and conducted by Vladimir Selinsky
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