Imagine your former detective when a double homicide case lands in your lap, not just

any double homicide, but the oldest active co-case in the history of American tree crime.

And as a case where a family member was once held as a suspect, that's exactly what happened

to our friend Karen Smith, forensic expert, and host of Shattered Souls podcast.

Karen spends the next two years digging into the car-born murders.

But has she finally cracked the case and found the killer?

Follow the investigation now in the Shattered Souls podcast, all new episodes available

now if you want a binge.

Listen to Shattered Souls on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your

podcasts.

On January 21, 1935, two men were brutally murdered.

The case went cold and it became my family's secret, a secret that my father revealed to

me over 20 years ago, that one of the victims was my great uncle and my grandfather was

questioned about the crime.

I'm retired detective Karen Smith.

My podcast Shattered Souls, The Car-Bard Murder's, Delves Deep into my great uncle's case

file to find the answers that eluded the detectives in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s.

For 87 years, nobody has cracked this case, the coldest case in American history.

She knew too much, she knew everything.

There were things that were just best left buried.

Shattered Souls, The Car-Bard Murder's, details my journey to finally find the answers

and write my family's legacy.

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