Episode 17: "Fait Accompli"

Shattered Souls

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🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Karen wraps up this part of the Car Barn Murders series with her assessment of accomplices Walter Oliver and Robert Janney along with a breakdown of the statement of Francis Gregory. Please go to the Shattered Souls Facebook page for insider details and to render your verdicts on the case. Stay tuned for future episodes and a few surprises! Thank you for listening!

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Shattered Souls, The Car Barn Murders. I'm your host, Karen Smith. This is episode 17.
0:13.3	This podcast contains graphic language and is not suitable for children.
0:19.6	Here we are, episode 17. The end of the road for this part of the Car Barn Murders series.
0:25.8	I left off last week by offering my opinion and evidence that Captain Bolton's confidential
0:32.6	informants were James Weir and his sister, Neva Barard and Ellie. I believe they're the ones that
0:38.5	gave the details about the planning of the Car Barn Murders in 1940, and then James Weir came forward
0:44.0	again in 1954. I've also placed the information about my primary suspect William Clark into your hands,
0:51.7	along with the requirements to make a finding of guilty or not guilty regarding the robbery and
0:56.8	murders of Emory Smith and James Mitchell. If you'd like to participate in that, you can render your
1:03.2	verdict on the Shattered Souls Facebook page. I've set up a poll and I would truly appreciate your
1:09.8	objective consideration. That said, William Clark didn't act alone. I believe his accomplices were
1:17.3	Walter Oliver and Robert Janney and that Francis Gregory was an unwitting accessory before the fact.
1:24.0	I had a lot of information to work with regarding William Clark since he was interviewed by the
1:28.5	detectives along with his girlfriend Mary Branch. Neither Walter Oliver nor Robert Janney were
1:34.2	interviewed about their possible involvement. So any information I have was provided through
1:39.4	letters, third parties, official documents in the file, and a newspaper reports and ancestral records.
1:45.3	Even though I don't have Oliver and Janney's own words regarding the car barn case, and I need
1:51.2	to rely on what they confess to other people, the information is still compelling. Let me begin with
1:57.4	Walter Oliver. He was born in Washington, D.C. in 1905. He lived in Prince George's county,
2:03.7	Maryland as a child, and his father, Walter Oliver Senior, was an electrician. His mother Mini was a
2:09.4	homemaker. The Oliver's owned their home by 1910 and they had a servant, so apparently they were
2:15.7	pretty well off financially. By 1920, the family moved southeast of D.C. into Sutland, Maryland,
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