Sunday, March 15, 2009

Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - In The Name Of The Law "Red Ryan's Prison Break" (06-21-36)


Red Ryan's Prison Break (Aired June 21, 1936)


In the Name of the Law was a True Crime radio show from 1936. It says "In the name of the law, we bring you another of the thrilling stories in this exciting series, taken from actual police case files. "In the name of the Law, we bring you another of the thrilling stories in this exciting series, taken from actual police case files."Two home invaders pick the wrong house and force the home owner (John Snyder) to take them to the targeted neighbors, two elderly brothers who were rumored to have cash and bonds. During the hold up, one of the brothers was shot to death. An angry town insisted on immediate results. The State Police joined the local Sherif and the search was on.


THIS EPISODE:

1936. Syndicated. Commercials added locally. Red Ryan and his fellow convicts break out of Portsmouth prison. Bank robberies in Canada soon follow. Essentially the same program was heard as "True Detective Mysteries" 28:11.

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