Episode 40 aired April 22, 1951 on NBC Radio. Tales of the Texas Rangers is a 20th century Western old-time radio and television police procedural drama which originally aired on NBC Radio from 1950 to 1952 starring Joel McCrea as Ranger Jayce Pearson. When a young family all die a post mortem shows that they had died of botulism from contaminated canned sausage meat.  Their deaths are believed to be an accident until an insurance man turns up with news of policies worth over $20,000 and the main beneficiary is the father’s partner Sid Mack.