Drowner off the bridge, I mean that's just, you know, do that because we're having arguments.

Great depression, not long after prohibition, they're worrying about bootlegging gangs.

I don't want a single word just written about that case. You understand?

There's a possibility it could be solved one day.

Welcome back to Shattered Souls, The Car Barn Murders. I'm Karen Smith. This is episode 4.

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

Previously on The Car Barn Murders.

Montgomery County lead detective Theodore Voulton ran down lead after lead on The Car Barn Case.

Detective Voulton tracked down every car that had been stolen around the night of The Murders,

except for a green Buick that was taken from the area of 15th and Irving Streets on Sunday night.

I witness Ernest Carter recalled seeing a green Buick,

flea the Chevy Chase Lake ticket office northbound on Connecticut Avenue, with three white men inside.

As the detectives tracked down suspects, they went back to an attempted robbery of the Brightwood ticket office

that happened a few months before The Car Barn Case, and they used a description given by the overnight

account to run down some potentials.

Edwin O'Connell was arrested based on that vague description.

Then he was released when O'Connell's father called in and said that his son had been a patient at St. Elizabeth's Psychiatric Hospital.

O'Connell's handcuffs were removed, and he was placed back into St. Elizabeth's.

The detectives found out that O'Connell had befriended Paul Berry and George Riddle Hoover,

while he was being treated for an unknown mental health issue.

Paul Berry had been committed in 1920 after a successful insanity defense for killing a trolley conductor,

and he escaped from St. Elizabeth's in 1934.

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