Shattered Souls
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Shattered Souls
What happens when a double homicide case lands in your lap? What if it is the oldest active cold case in the history of American true crime? What if your father held a family secret for fifty years before he confided in you that one of the victims was your great-great uncle and that your grandfather...
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336 EpisodenEpisode 17: "Fait Accompli"
Karen wraps up this part of the Car Barn Murders series with her assessment of accomplices Walter Oliver and Robert Janney along with a breakdown of t...
Episode Sixteen: "DC Unconfidential"
After handing off her findings on William Clarke to you, the public jury, Karen details every factor and Clarke's criminal intent to put the final pie...
Episode Fifteen: "We, the Jury..."
Karen makes her opening argument against her primary suspect, William Clarke, based on the information provided in the 1935 reports and from Captain V...
Episode Fourteen: "The Greene Nexus"
Karen's friend, Stephanie White, cracked the identity of DC Metro Police 'ex-Sergeant Greene", named numerous times in Captain Vollten's 1954 Addendu...
Episode Thirteen: "Confidential Squared"
The 1954 Addendum report written by Captain Vollten provided all of the details needed to crack the case, but there were still unidentified persons in...
Episode Twelve: "Beauty School Dropout"
As Karen continues putting the pieces together, she finds out about an addendum report that was not included in the original files. She also discovers...
Episode Eleven: "Cloak and Swagger"
Prison letters between William Clarke and Mary Branch tell a sordid story of love and hate. Clarke also wrote to several other people from his prison...
Episode Ten: "The Patapsco Incident"
The lid finally blows off of the case when Karen discovers a related crime that was not mentioned anywhere in the case file. Dead men tell no tales. D...
Episode Nine: "Matinees and Madness"
Karen delves into the police interviews of William Clarke and Mary Branch and finds marked discrepancies, an unnamed DC cop, as well as a direct link...
Episode Eight: "Dear Lil"
As the political machine churned in the background, Detectives Vollten and Rodgers follow up on the information from DC Jail inmate Horace Davis and h...
Episode Seven: "Pants on Fire"
DC Jail inmate Horace Davis provided the first solid lead to investigate, but was he telling the truth? Karen has more names to investigate and finds...
Episode Six: "Burlesques and BS"
Detective Vollten kept interviewing suspects after breaking away from the investigation of Tony The Stinger Cugino, but nothing was panning out. Almos...
Episode Five: "Undercover Blue"
A wormhole in Philadelphia? Gangsters are on the forefront of Detective Vollten's investigation and Karen follows their leads down a rabbit hole to fi...
Episode Four: "Den of Duplicity"
The District of Columbia was dealing with rampant illegal rackets and Karen finds out just how much corruption was going on. The detectives start work...
Episode Three: "Distraction and Discombobulation"
As the detectives followed lead after lead, nothing seemed to be panning out. Karen starts following leads of her own, including an attempted robbery...
Episode Two: "Seeing Can Be Deceiving"
Karen begins reconstructing the moments of the murders of James Mitchell and her great uncle, Emory Smith, which leads to difficult questions. Was it...
Episode One: "The Oldest Cold Case"
Retired detective Karen Smith discovers that her father kept a family secret for decades. In 2002, her father revealed that Karen's great uncle, Emory...
Introducing Shattered Souls: The Car Barn Murders
'Shattered Souls: The Car Barn Murders' premieres March 22nd! What happens when a double homicide case lands in your lap? What if it is the oldest act...
Shattered Souls BONUS: Tips for the Surfer
Karen shares two fun, strange, and lighthearted cases from Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, including an encounter with a "Jeff Spicoli in the flesh" su...
Shattered Souls BONUS: "Play along with me."
In this surprise lighthearted bonus episode, Karen recounts one of the more straightforward cases in which a perp discovers the hard way that she isn'...
Shattered Souls BONUS with Nancy Grace: Broken Glass
Karen talks with longtime friend and former prosecutor Nancy Grace about the most emotional moments from her career. Nancy is now the host of the podc...
Shattered Souls: Kim Dorsey
Who killed Kim Dorsey? As Karen and her co-workers forensically reconstructed the crime scene, the homicide detectives ran down lead after lead until...
Shattered Souls: Breakdown
Kim Dorsey was found bludgeoned, stabbed and sexually assaulted in her own bedroom. The crime scene had been assigned to two new crime scene investiga...
Shattered Souls: Jessie Bracelett
Jessie Bracelett was brutally murdered in the pre-dawn hours of December 17, 2012. As Karen and other detectives investigated the crime scene and rela...
Shattered Souls: Pain
Twenty two-year-old Jessie Bracelett was stabbed and left for dead in a dark parking lot in 2012. His friend, Maurice Johnson, also suffered a stab wo...
Shattered Souls: Trina Joseph
Aubrey Joseph turned himself in after murdering his wife — but he told a much different story than the one told by evidence he left behind. It’s up to...
Shattered Souls BONUS: The Prosecution Speaks
Karen speaks with prosecutor Janeen Kirch who details her experiences in the State Attorney's Office and her most heartbreaking moment while working t...
Shattered Souls: Anger
Trina Joseph’s tragic murder revealed a history of domestic abuse at the hands of her husband Aubrey. It’s not a whodunit, but the evidence from the c...
Shattered Souls BONUS: Det. Eileen Simpson
Karen speaks with one of her mentors, Detective Eileen Simpson, about her method for dealing with the emotional aftermath, along with more background...
Shattered Souls: Moussa Maida
After teenager Moussa Maida was gunned down in the cashier’s booth of his family’s store, his mother’s cries haunted Karen. The case languished for tw...
Shattered Souls: Scratches
Who killed 19 year-old Moussa Maida in his family’s small shop? The killer left behind ample physical evidence. The entire crime was captured on video...
Shattered Souls: Roy Andrews
Roy Andrews spent his law enforcement career helping others but after his murder he needed the help of an adrenaline-fueled team of detectives to find...
Shattered Souls (BONUS): Interview with retired JSO detective Kim Long
Shattered Souls is about understanding the emotional toll that investigative work takes on those in the trenches. Karen chats with her "work wife," re...
Shattered Souls: Pressure
Motive is the name of the game after the brutal and baffling murder of a long-serving police officer. Karen relives the crime scene, sifts through the...
Shattered Souls (BONUS): On the record with Susan Addison
Karen speaks with Stacy Replogle’s mother to learn more about her daughter and what life has been like since her brutal murder.
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Shattered Souls: Stacy Replogle
After Stacy Replogle's nearly decapitated body was found at a remote construction site in Jacksonville, Florida, Karen and her team set out to identif...
Shattered Souls: Nightmare
On a cold and rainy morning in February of 2005, Jacksonville, Florida forensic detective Karen Smith responded to a troubling report of a body discov...
A Note From Thinking Sideways: Introducing "Shattered Souls"
Devin from Thinking Sideways explains why they've partnered with CrimeCon to launch Shattered Souls: A Forensic Detective's Diary from retired detecti...
Thinking Sideways: The Shocking Details!
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Thinking Sideways: Joe's New Podcast
The Arkansas Ghost Trial: When a drifter came to a tiny town in Arkansas, murder followed. Then things got kinda weird.
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