Official Detective - Murder in Butcher Shop, Gay Sailor Suspected

Official Detective ran from 1950 to 1956 and was a classic old
time radio police drama starring Craig McDonnell as Detective
Lieutenant Dan Britt and Tommy Evans as Sergeant Al Bowen....


The show features a crime from the start to the end from a drunk
accused of murder to bride that murders her groom after
discovering that he married her for her money. Even spinsters are
unsafe at the hands of madmen and murderers. Plots in this police
melodrama offer great twists and an unusual lineup of the usual
suspects including a "gay sailor" as a suspect in murder in a
butcher shop.