My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

Author Merrick Cohn argues in his book, Dope Girls, that there's a chance after a night of taking a lot of stimulants, she wanted a downer, it's like a classic story, to help her fall asleep.

So in the story today is a book called The Deadly Soapmaker of Correggio, the true story of Leonardo Cianciulli and that was written by Genoviva Ortiz and the rest of the sources are in our show notes.

According to writer Genevieve Ortiz, quote, she did what she needed to do. She had no regrets, no remorse. Her mission in life was complete. What did she care if Giuseppe did not love her so long as he survived the war? Wow. End quote.

This reminds me of one of my favorite childhood books, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, except the meatballs are fucking balloons.

The main sources used for this story, there's a book by historian Jan Bondeson called Queen Victoria and the Stalker, The Strange Story of the Boy Jones.

Jan Bondeson is kind of like the premier expert on this kid and this book was used a lot.

In 2010, historian and boy Edward Jones expert Jan Bondeson publishes a biography on Edward Jones in which he says, 'the way Edward Jones was treated is something you can imagine under the rule of a tyrant.'

But in 2020, author Terry Neal brings this assumption into question in his book, The True Story of the 1966 Henderson Triple Murders.

And I chat with author Amit Katwala about Tremors in the Blood, Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector about a summer evening in 1922 when the San Francisco police turned to a new technology to solve a murder.

He unravels the incredible truth behind the polygraph and he gives us a warning from history about what we believe to be true.

So they're like, we're going to come out with the facts now.

When Vladimir is first assigned the Soyuz 1 program, he allegedly blabs a little too much about the program during a conference in Japan in July, 1966.

They constantly are fighting with the engineers about the Soyuz 1's design flaws.

Vlad gives one of his buddies, a KGB officer named Vyamin Ruzaev, this like list to give to the higher ups, which is Brezhnev.

this devil ship, nothing I lay my hands on works properly.

He's covered The Bloody Century and Wicked Victorian Boston.

Oh my God. These two people, like they should be your best friends, these two authors. For real.

He's covered The Bloody Century and Wicked Victorian Boston.

And if you're looking to read some historical true crime, he's got five books on Amazon.

The tombstone has actually been featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not, multiple books and travel guides.

full of lots of love and a lot of music too.

a rambling, obscene and often hilarious account of Popcorn's life in the trade.

These are people who don't usually have their lives documented in art.

Frances felt like every death is important and every death deserves a thorough scientific investigation.

Frances knew she was dealing with hard-boiled homicide detectives, so there couldn't be anything remotely doll-like about them.

It's a psychological thriller about a fictional version of Bennington College in which a student is murdered by her friends.

It's called The Ghost Club. It is out now.

For more than a century, some of the world's most important thinkers and leaders, men like Arthur Conan Doyle and William Butler Yeats, gathered once a month and discussed the supernatural at The Ghost Club in London.

He and other members like Harry Houdini sought to debunk the charlatans who preyed upon vulnerable people with fake seances, tarot readings, and spiritual encounters.

I like so many white kids growing up in rural Texas have never heard of Bessie Coleman before and was awestruck by her perseverance and Karen's storytelling abilities.

All the girls rushed to this section on Amelia Earhart and we quickly ran out of her biographies.

Luckily, inspired by your episode, I'd recently purchased several books on Bessie Coleman and I redirected some of the students to her section.

By the end, Bessie Coleman was the new it girl in second grade.

Please keep telling stories, especially stories about women of color and other people whose histories are often ignored.

It's a during and post-apocalyptic-y book, but not like end of the world, more like COVID times 10.

And it takes place in the not too distant future. There's another global pandemic. And each chapter is someone's story during, and it takes you through the whole 10 years, 100 years after.

So this book is really beautiful. It's like everything's falling apart, but it's just this beautiful book about grief and individuals and how they deal with it and what they've lost and that we're all kind of together. It's just really, really lovely. It's called How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu.

And it's just, it's one of those books I don't want to keep listening because I don't want to finish it.

I'm just really in love with it.