Tin Soldiers: The Murder of Carole Garton

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to stuff, I really feel like counterfeit can be just as good as the real thing. Give me a lab-created diamond any day; I can show off some sparkle without robbing a bank. Same goes for shoes and bags and perfume dupes—I’m happy to sport a convincing knockoff. Fake isn’t always bad. But when it comes to people, it’s a whole different story. Especially when we’re talking fake doctor, or fake financial advisor…or as we’ll see in today’s story, fake assassin. Join us for a story of counterfeit clout, astounding gullibility, and greed, that when mixed all together, led to a deadly conclusion.

This is a wild one, folks.

Sources:
Kill or be Killed by Robert Scott
Oxygen's "Mastermind of Murder," S2E10, “Under Covers”
The Investigators, S1E8, “Toy Soldier”
Court papers: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ca-supreme-court/1891091.html

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0:00.0	Hello, campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.
0:05.0	We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney.
0:08.0	And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.
0:12.0	We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the true crime
0:14.2	campfire.
0:17.0	When it comes to stuff, I really feel like counterfeit can be just as good as the real thing.
0:25.0	Give me a lab created diamond any day. I can show off some sparkle without robbing a bank.
0:30.0	Same goes for shoes and bags and perfume dupes. I'm happy to sport a convincing knockoff.
0:36.7	Fake isn't always bad, but when it comes to people it's a whole different story.
0:41.6	Especially when we're talking fake doctor or fake financial advisor or as we'll see in today's
0:46.8	story, fake assassin.
0:49.6	Join us for a story of counterfeit clout, astounding gullibility, and greed that when mixed altogether led to a deadly
0:56.8	conclusion. This is Tin Soldiers, the murder of Carol Garden. So, for this one, we're in the little country town of Cottonwood in Northern California, May 16, 1998.
1:22.0	Sometime in the late afternoon, a man named Dale Gordon made a call to 911.
1:27.0	He was pretty calm.
1:29.0	We have a pregnant woman and she's on the floor bleeding.
1:32.0	Maybe somebody shot somebody here. I don't know what's going on. We just got home, just noticed her. It's my roommate's wife.
1:39.0	Dale sublet a room in the house of his friends Todd and Carol Garten.
1:44.0	It was Carol bleeding on the floor.
1:46.7	When Todd got on the phone with the dispatcher, things suddenly got really weird.
1:50.6	He seemed to be having some kind of flashback to his days in the Marine Corps.
1:54.0	I have a place, zone, get the airstrip on link with the paramedics. I need revival and oxygen on Stat.
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