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Shattered Souls

Episode Six: "Burlesques and BS"

Shattered Souls

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Education

4.34.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Detective Vollten kept interviewing suspects after breaking away from the investigation of Tony The Stinger Cugino, but nothing was panning out. Almost a year to the day after the Car Barn Murders, Vollten got a letter on his desk from a con who said he had intel. 

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0:00.0

The

0:06.4

drone are off the path to the bridge. I mean that's just, you know, do that because you're

0:11.6

having an argument.

0:12.9

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

0:18.5

Because some prostitutes told him that the car could be found in a garage owned by a former

0:26.5

D.C.O.L.F.S. for no reason. It was a huge deal. It was headline news. I don't want a

0:34.4

thing gold war just with a bad state. You understand? There's a possibility it could be sold

0:42.2

one day.

0:46.9

Welcome back to Shattered Souls. The car barn murders. I'm your host, Karen Smith.

0:51.7

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

1:02.2

Previously on the car barn murders.

1:07.2

It was closing in on April 1935 and two months had passed with no solid leads to follow.

1:15.6

The forensic ballistic information on the 32-hellibers semi-automatic was helpful,

1:20.4

but without a weapon to compare the casings and projectiles to, it was of little use.

1:27.5

No fingerprint evidence was recovered on anything, including the cage door to the ticket office.

1:32.9

Until the detectives found the gun had a witness come forward with credible information or

1:38.5

an informant started running his mouth, they seemed to be at an impasse.

1:43.9

A trip to Philadelphia in pursuit of gangster and multiple murderer Tony the Stinger

1:48.5

Cogino and his crime family was a bust and the detectives were back to square one on any potentials

1:55.2

on the car barn case. They had rounded up the usual suspects in Maryland, Virginia and DC

2:01.8

and everyone seemed to either have an alibi for the night of the murders or they were unable to

2:06.8

be placed in the area at the time. After his return from Philadelphia, detective Vulton found a

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