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The Line Up — 1952

47 episodes broadcast in 1952.

January 8, 1952 Title Unknown
January 15, 1952 Title Unknown
January 22, 1952 Title Unknown
January 29, 1952 Title Unknown
February 5, 1952 The Potting Peter Case Listen (MP3)
February 12, 1952 Title Unknown
February 19, 1952 Title Unknown
February 26, 1952 Title Unknown
March 4, 1952 Murdering Mercer's Malingering Case Listen (MP3)
March 11, 1952 Title Unknown
March 18, 1952 The Mirthless Moonshiner's Methyl Murders Listen (MP3)
March 25, 1952 The Bakery Bandit's Bad Blooper Listen (MP3)
April 1, 1952 Kastro's Kop Killing Karnage Kase Listen (MP3)
April 8, 1952 The Cornered Cop Killer Case Listen (MP3)
April 15, 1952 Nancy's Nauseating Naivete Case Listen (MP3)
April 22, 1952 The Corny Complainant's Case Listen (MP3)
April 29, 1952 The Big Boy's Brutish Back Bending Case Listen (MP3)
May 6, 1952 Babs the Baggy Bungling Brunette Bombshell Listen (MP3)
May 13, 1952 Yudo in Ypsilanti Listen (MP3)
May 20, 1952 Wacky Williams' Wooftop Wrangle Listen (MP3)
May 27, 1952 Title Unknown
June 3, 1952 The Aching Arthritics Anxious Antic Listen (MP3)
June 10, 1952 Lobdell's Poodle Cut Tomato Case Listen (MP3)
Mrs. Lobdell is run down and killed -- and the reason behind the hit-and-run proves a strange one.
June 17, 1952 The Pitiful Patricide Case Listen (MP3)
The canonical log records this one only as the case of a 'bad boy.'
June 24, 1952 The Cutie Calling Culprit Case Listen (MP3)
Beautiful models are being terrorized by a string of obscene, threatening phone calls.
July 1, 1952 The Guided Gang Case Listen (MP3)
Singer Beth Lennard's estranged husband is robbed, beaten, and dumped from a car after a late-night talk about their divorce -- and she was the last to see him alive.
July 8, 1952 The Lugar Lugging Laddie Case Listen (MP3)
Two tellers are gunned down and a guard badly wounded in a bank robbery that smells like an inside job.
July 15, 1952 The Twitching Twist's Twenty Two Tweaking Case Listen (MP3)
A witness sees young Mary Jane Cummings abducted; her body soon turns up beside a lake.
July 22, 1952 The Drinkler Kidnapping Case Listen (MP3)
July 29, 1952 The Charles Crocked Clobbering Case Listen (MP3)
Albert Brown is found shot dead with a shotgun in his own basement.
August 5, 1952 The Karger Kops a Klinker Case Listen (MP3)
A burglar working a single neighborhood shoots a policeman and takes a bullet himself, and Guthrie sets a drugstore stakeout to end the spree.
September 10, 1952 The Jane Doe Case Listen (MP3)
A prowler who preys on women with recognizable faces -- phoning each one first -- attacks Mrs. Kramer.
September 17, 1952 The Fresno Break Case Listen (MP3)
A widow identifies the liquor-store robbers who shot her husband; one confesses that his partner Earl Bentley pulled the trigger, and Guthrie sets out to run Bentley down.
September 24, 1952 Title Unknown
October 1, 1952 The Poker Party Killings Listen (MP3)
The canonical log lists this broadcast as a missing-girl kidnapping.
October 8, 1952 The Teacher's Pet Listen (MP3)
A murdered narcotics dealer turns out to have been living, under a false name, with a respectable schoolteacher.
October 15, 1952 Bentley's Boo Boo Case Listen (MP3)
A liquor-store hold-up ends with the owner dead.
October 22, 1952 The Green Cap Case Listen (MP3)
Someone guns down a gas-station attendant.
October 29, 1952 The Sobbing Singer Saga Listen (MP3)
A robbery leaves the husband of a nightclub singer dead.
November 5, 1952 The Be Bop Bandits Bungling Bang Bang Listen (MP3)
Mid-line-up, word arrives that a bank has been hit -- two tellers cut down by a submachine gun.
November 12, 1952 The Buggered Bunco Boys Listen (MP3)
Two con men prey on the grieving families of war dead, bilking one widow of $200 on a fake debt for toys her husband supposedly ordered before shipping out.
November 19, 1952 The Modern Sounds Case Listen (MP3)
Jean Bellamy is murdered after leaving her job as a car-hop.
November 26, 1952 The Matthews Murray Mish Mosh Case Listen (MP3)
A day after Mrs. Matthews vanishes, the line-up turns up a door-to-door greeting-card salesman worth a hard look.
December 12, 1952 The Gasoline Bandit Case Listen (MP3)
A run of filling-station hold-ups.
December 19, 1952 The Two Tough Thugs Thing Listen (MP3)
The canonical log records this case as the killing of a Mrs. Conway in a parking lot.
December 24, 1952 Dorothy Shelton [Rehearsal]
On a cold night the detectives recall a girl found a year earlier in a snowdrift with her throat cut -- and then Dorothy Shelton turns up murdered the same way, nearby, raising the fear of a killer who repeats.
December 26, 1952 Dorothy Shelton
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