I would say he's ruthless. It can become deadly given certain circumstances.

Throwing her off the path to the bridge, I mean that's just, you know, do that because you're having an argument.

You know, you do that to find her. That was an incredible part of that. I'm sorry, but I don't know where else would you find that?

He's got a family, he's got a girlfriend, he's got her. There had to be a strong motivation. You pay me up or else.

Welcome back to Shattered Souls, the Car Barn Murders. On your host Karen Smith, this is episode 10.

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

Previously on the Car Barn Murders. A pending U.S. District Attorney's case against Car Barn's suspect Walter Oliver seemingly disappeared without explanation.

And by January of 1936, Oliver's friend and multiple felon, Robert Janney was back in the Maryland State Penitentiary, this time serving eight years for armed robbery.

Robert Janney's wife, Lillian, had linked him with William Clark and James Weir, who were named as suspects on the Car Barn case very early on in the investigation, but their mutual alibi defense through the investigators off their trail.

It seemed like a whitewash, since the detectives put a lot more shoe leather down chasing several other potential suspects who had more legitimate stories.

A breakdown of the statements of William Clark, James Weir, and Clark's girlfriend, Mary Branch, showed that none of them could have possibly alibi the others.

Clark made two trips to the Chevy Chase Lake office on Saturday, two days before the murders, using a story about getting a change carrier back as an excuse.

On the day of the murders, William Clark failed to keep an appointment with Mr. Stevens, the superintendent of transportation for Capitol Transit, to get his job back, and instead, he went to the DC Police Headquarters to offer himself up for an interview.

In December of 1934, one month prior to the murders of my uncle Emory Smith and James Mitchell, William Clark, Mary Branch, and James Weir took a road trip to see Francis Gregory.

The man who said he was asleep in the trainman's room during the shooting of James Mitchell.

They picked Gregory up at the Jesse Theater and took him home so that Gregory could give William Clark some cash to purchase his Capitol Transit Company uniform.

William Clark wanted his job back so badly that he missed a pre-scheduled appointment with Mr. Stevens on January 21st.

He went to the Chevy Chase Lake office two times on Saturday the 19th, on the pretense of getting a change carrier, and just a month before the murders, he sold his uniform to Francis Gregory.

That seemed like an awful lot of flip-flopping for a man who was superficially adamant about going back to work for Capitol Transit.

Robert Janney, William Clark, and Walter Oliver all jumped straight to the top of my suspect list.

My job transitioned from finding viable suspects to putting the pieces together to link these three men and explain why none of them were ever taken to trial for my uncles and James Mitchell's murders.

Robert Janney confessed to being involved to his wife, Lillian.

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