Episode 68

Sword and Scale

Incongruity

History, Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.0 • 63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Cara Marie Holley from Roanoke Virginia was just 18 years old when she went missing from her home on July 7, 2010. Two days later her body was found in shallow grave several miles away. The killer was arrested almost immediately because he was using her credit card and driving her car around the very town where he killed her. The worst part of this story is that Cara knew her killer Carey Shane Padgett. They went to high school together and were friends, but there was something very wrong with Padgett. It seems he was interested in killing someone for the sole purpose of becoming famous. A volley of experts would be dispatched in court to try and explain away what he did, but sometimes there just is no acceptable explanation for the evil of man. We speak to both Cara's friend and schoolmate Victoria Johnson, and her mother Lisa Cowling, to attempt to tell this heartbreaking story of insurmountable loss, heartbreak and suffering.

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0:00.0	Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence.
0:03.0	It is not intended for all audiences.
0:05.2	Listener discretion is advised.
0:11.3	Why do people do things like this?
0:13.3	I don't know.
0:14.1	I think he did it for...
0:15.9	to try and be famous.
0:17.8	He thought he was going to be, you know, on the news, which he was on the news.
0:27.6	Welcome to Sword and Scale, Season 3, Episode 68, a show that reveals that the worst monsters
0:33.6	are real.
0:50.1	Yeah. are real. In this episode, a real.
0:50.7	In this episode, a young woman's murder, the emptiness left behind, the search for answers,
0:56.1	and the realization of how meaningless a horrible act such as murder can be.
1:01.2	We're going to speak to Victoria Johnson, the friend, and Lisa Cowling, the mother of a young
1:07.2	woman named Kara Marie Holly, who was taken from this world when she was just 18 years old.
1:13.6	The Lisa, thank you so much for joining me. I very much appreciate it. Absolutely. Last time we spoke,
1:40.1	which was, it was just a few days ago we spoke, and I was telling you about what this podcast was about,
1:47.5	and I think you might have maybe looked at our website or something.
1:50.8	And you said something to me that kind of struck me.
1:53.8	You said,
1:54.2	murder isn't entertainment.
1:58.5	Right.
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