It wouldn't surprise me at all in competence or corruption, especially in B.C. there was a lot of activity going on.

The case was forgotten while I opened up this can of worms. There were things that were just vets left buried.

Welcome back to Shattered Souls, the Car Barn murders. On your host, Karen Smith. This is episode 14.

This podcast contains graphic language and is not suitable for children.

Previously on the Car Barn murders.

As I was approaching what I thought was the end of my investigation, retired Montgomery County Detective Jack Toomey.

Asked me if I was in possession of an Addendum report written by Captain Theodore Vulton in 1954.

That report was not included in the file on my original Freedom of Information Act request. I don't know why, since I have evidence that the 1954 report was inside the file in 2016 when NBC Washington did their story on the Car Barn case.

That very frustrating fact aside. Jack Toomey, very kindly, emailed me a copy that he happened to have in his files.

The 1954 report was filled with new information from two of Captain Vulton's confidential informants and it gave me the links I needed to put all of the pieces together and cross the threshold from probable cause to be on to reasonable doubt, at least in my mind.

The Addendum had some new names to find in research. First on my list was to find out the identity of ex-Sargent Green from the DC Metro Police Force.

Green's name was mentioned 12 times in this new report and Vulton's female informant directly implicated ex-Sargent Green in the planning of the robbery and murders along with my primary suspect, William Clark.

Detailed historical information on Washington DC residents is really hard to find. There are no lists of former DC police officers in historical archives, no congressional records with specific names other than the politicians of the time and the name Green, it might as well have been Smith, Jones, or Williams.

Luckily for me, I have a friend who is a crack researcher and she's incredibly adept at finding needles in a haystack. I gave her a call and asked for help because I was at a loss regarding where to begin to find the identity of ex-Sargent Green.

My friend is a miracle worker and without her help on this next element, I'd likely still be sitting on my duff with no hair left on my head trying to figure this out.

Stephanie White, I owe you a huge debt of gratitude for digging into the historical records like a piranha with a tea bone from the bottom of my heart. Thank you. You're an angel on earth. Top shelf de Kiela's and dinner on me the next time we get together, sister.

After Stephanie and I talked and traded a few emails, we knew that finding ex-Sargent Green was going to be a big hurdle. We knew he was an ex-Sargent, that he had to have left the DC Metropolitan Police Force before 1940 and his last name, no first name, no initials.

That wasn't a lot of information to work with, but there was one small clue in the 1954 report that gave both of us a jumping off point. That was the mention that ex-Sargent Green died in 1950.

With that we went to work and in short order, I got an email in all caps. Stephanie found him. His name was Jonas Willard Green.

Once I had his full name, I was able to find a whole lot more than I bargained for. Jonas Willard Green was the nexus for the entire case, the major link I'd been missing.

I'm going to parse everything down and try to keep the majority of the information on Jonas Willard Green focused on the car barn case, but there were historical details that spoke to what I consider to be his contemptible character that I need to include.

So first, who was this man?

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