There is some question about whether it was an inside job.

That will not be the cost of this house.

He absolutely became a jurist at the mention of the Carborne murder.

I would say he's ruthless.

It can become deadly given certain circumstances.

Only for the grace of God, he's meant to make it to the shore

and is somehow found out of all of our county police.

Welcome back to Shattered Souls, The Carborne Murderers.

I'm your host, Karen Smith.

This is Episode 8.

This podcast may contain graphic language and is not suitable for children.

Previously on The Carborne Murderers.

The investigators were running themselves ragged, pursuing suspect after suspect,

only to release everyone without any follow-up or explanation.

Lawrence Pettit, George Bruffy, Walter Oliver, Arthur Waw, Luke Johnson, Harry Simon, Tony the Stinger Cogino,

William Clark, Bill Cleary, the list went on and on, and the Carborne case was getting ice cold.

A year went by.

Detective Theodore Voulton received a letter on his desk from Horace Davis, an inmate of the DC jail.

Detective Voulton and Sergeant Lee Roy Rogers interviewed Horace Davis in January of 1936.

Davis implicated his friend, Walter Oliver, after Oliver confessed to being involved in the Carborne murders.

Two years later, in April of 1938, Horace Davis was taken to the U.S. District Attorney's Office

and he gave a sworn affidavit regarding his claims.

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