Introducing Shattered Souls: The Car Barn Murders

'Shattered Souls: The Car Barn Murders' premieres March 22nd! What happens when a double homicide case lands in your lap? What if it is the oldest active cold case in the history of American true crime? What if your father held a family secret for fifty years before he confided in you that one of the victims was your great-great uncle and that your grandfather had been held as a suspect? What if the murders happened during the most corrupt era our nation has ever known? And what if you are a retired detective, like me, with the unique skill set needed to figure out an 87-year-old family mystery? Well, you put everything else on hold and set out to solve it. This is my story.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's not like a detective story drown her off the bridge.
I mean, that's just you don't do that because you're
have an argument. There is some question about whether it
was an inside job. I don't want a single word
written about that case. Do you understand it wouldn't surprise

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me at all? Incompetence or corruption, there were things that
were just best left buried. What happens when a cold
case lands in your lap? What if you're a retired detective.
What if that cold case is the oldest one on
the shelf and your dad is the one who told

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you about it. What if the reason your dad told
you is because one of the victims was your great uncle.
And what if your dad told you that your grandfather
was named as a suspect. And what if the murders
happened during the most corrupt era our nation him has
ever known. I'm Karen Smith. I'm a retired forensic detective,

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and this is the story of my journey to try
and solve the oldest cold case in United States history.
Those investigative skills will be tested as I work through
the leads left by the detectives and try to find
out who killed my great uncle and another man on
the same morning, but in two separate locations. Follow the

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twists and turns, the dirty deals, the corrupt cops, the
secret meetings, other notorious unsolved murders that are connected, and
my journey to put the pieces together and get this
case solved. Listen to Shattered Souls starting on March twenty
two on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or

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wherever you get your podcasts.