episode 25 season 1

a group of podcasters brought this story back to life

Welcome back to Valerie's Variety Podcast with your host me, Valerie Moss...todays show I wanted to share with you the making of the Shelever case a behind the scenes episode of Calgary History: William Shelever from the previous episode. If you haven't listened to this episode please do so before you listen to the makings of...

Screenshot of the editing that went into the Shelever Episode

I recently did an episode investigating in Calgary, i spent some, well many hours at the Calgary public Library looking for something interesting to podcast about that is Calgary driven and from the 1970's in the past, not a currently discussed topic . I first came upon the Local History room at the library and got comfortable....upon further inspection I came across many articles that have been clipped out of the newspaper and categorized into envelopes one marked crime and criminals. I opened these envelopes up and came upon several clippings about this one case in 1977.

Rookie Cop Shot,

for my first Calgary History episode about two girls found dead under the happy valley overpass, I found it interesting to combine the stores and actually write a column on this story...moving into the William Bill Shelver case I wanted to push myself and step this up another notch. I find it very interesting listing to the podcast serial with Sara Kanik as she a) is a great story teller and b) includes actual clips from the people she's talking about. I asked Jeff my hubby if he'd be up for helping me out as he has in the past but he waste' into it for the quantity of lines I required...when I thought about who I could get, I had a great idea to reach out to my fellow podcasters and ask if anyone would be interested in contributing to this story as a voice over. I'm not quote at the investigative journalism point where I can spend more hours of personal time finding, sourcing and interviewing these people from my stories....YET! so I first went through all of  the articles and research I came upon and created my list of "quotes" that people within these stories said then I reached out to my Facebook communities for podcasters and asked who might be interested in reading some lines male and females...well that was easier than I thought - thank you! (p.s. if you're interesting in doing voice work for me in an upcoming episode, please touch base with me as I'd be so gracious) I immediately had so many people offering to assist with my 14 lines that I had extra entries.

Due to the graphic and sensitive nature of the story and wanting to pay tribute and highly respect the Calgary Police Service I made sure that I was true to what these people said and in the context that they said it within.

I placed these characters in Alphabetical order for ease of layout and organizing but they were within the episode in possibly more than one appearance as well. Some even had two different people to quote.

The criteria was simple, here's the line in "quotes" please say the line 2-3 times I would provide descriptive words and possibly a setting. In exchange for this unpaid position I requested a snippet of their podcast or a promo clip to insert.

Said with purpose and directiveness

, "from what I've seen he has the makings of a good police officer" This was a line from Zone Sergeant Shaw

Starting with

Andy Ace as Deputy Howard Leary here's his entry and his promotion clip.

for Pardon my Fork ironically this was the first entry I received, I listened to his lines and the promo wihile texting live with Andy, and I was so distracted by how good his promo was - really good, take a listen, that I didn't listen to his entry lol

Austin Kirk as Police chief Brian Sawyer

I didn't receive a promo clip for Austin but thank you for helping me with my show.

bridget frank quoting amazing grace