Death in Dakota

On this bonus true crime companion episode, Bryce travels to Denver, Colorado, where the crash of another airplane, along the same route as flight 409, raises suspicions about what really happened. The case would go on to live in infamy as the second of its kind to ever occur in the United States, and the first in which cameras would be allowed into a court of law. Audiences should listen to Episode 9: Mystery on Medicine Bow before diving in. 

Sources: 

https://web.archive.org/web/20100623145747/http://uwlib5.uwyo.edu/omeka/archive/files/03autumnannals_09ddebde6b.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20040301155939/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/mass/jack_graham/

https://law.jrank.org/pages/541/Assassination-Assassination-law.html

https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/33539Civil 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaGuardia_Airport

https://books.google.com/books?id=s1QEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/80-years-later-plane-bombing-remains-a-mystery/1964534/

https://web.archive.org/web/20150215232408/http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/jack-gilbert-graham

On this week's disaster episode, Bryce travels to Medicine Bow Peak in Wyoming to investigate the crash of United flight 409. The flight killed 66 passengers and tied two other crashes as the deadliest aviation incidents of 1955. 

Sources: 

https://gettotext.com/all-good-things-come-in-threes-origin-and-meaning/

https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19550322-0

https://web.archive.org/web/20081215065525/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,807756,00.html

https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/33537

https://web.archive.org/web/20100623145747/http://uwlib5.uwyo.edu/omeka/archive/files/03autumnannals_09ddebde6b.pdf

https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/united-flight-409-1955-crash-killed-66-people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_Altensteig_mid-air_collision 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mdedicine_Bow_Peak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_airliners_in_the_United_States#Deadliest_incidents 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_International_Airport 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_409 

On this week's true crime episode, Bryce travels to Genoa, Nebraska to cover the Genoa Indian School as well as some of the history of residential boarding schools across North America. As mentioned in the episode, you can text 907-312-5085 with your zip code or city and state to find out what nations and people lived on your land prior to you. (Data or text rates may apply). You can also visit https://native-land.ca for an interactive world map.

Sources: 

https://genoaindianschool.org/about-genoa-indian-boarding-schools

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misconceptions_about_HIV/AIDS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawnee_people

https://www.avert.org/professionals/history-hiv-aids/origin

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/child-labor

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/05/world/canada/Indigenous-residential-schools-photos.html

https://history.nebraska.gov/blog/flashback-friday-tragedies-and-successes-genoa-indian-school

https://aspe.hhs.gov/topics/poverty-economic-mobility/poverty-guidelines

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/trachoma

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan

http://nativeamericannetroots.net/diary/1448

https://www.doi.gov/about

https://www.doi.gov/secretary-deb-haaland 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/us/indigenous-children-indian-civilization-act-1819.html

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/a-century-of-trauma-at-boarding-schools-for-native-american-children-in-the-united-states 

On this week's disaster episode, Bryce travels to Kansas, and across the Great Plains region, to report on the disgusting summer in which billons of locusts overtook the region and ruined pretty much everything. 

Sources: 

1874: The Year of the Locusts by Chuck Lyons 

The US Treasury 

CNN 

National Geographic 

On this week's true crime episode, Bryce travels to Wichita, Kansas to discuss the turbulent life of Dr. George Tiller, an abolition provider who was assassinated by an anti-abortion extremist while attending church. He also discusses a brief history of abortion rights in the United States and the similar assassinations of Drs. David Gunn, John Baynard Britton, and Barnet Slepian. 

Surprise! We weren't done with this week's disaster story. Listeners are strongly encouraged to listen to Episode 5: They Won't Stop Coming before listening to this one.  

On this surprise bonus true crime companion episode, Bryce travels far outside our jurisdiction to Juneau, Alaska where Special Forces Army Captain William James Clark is shopping for ATVs at a gun show in 2010. An unexpected connection to the I-40 bridge collapse complicates the disaster response and changes our understanding of the aftermath of that May day.

Selected Source: 

The Curious Cases of William James Clark by Austin Baird for Anchorage Daily News. 

Full sources can be found at brycevanvleet.com/deathindakota  

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On this week's disaster episode, Bryce covers the I-40 Bridge Collapse in Webbers Falls Oklahoma. This disaster led to the deaths of 14 people and changed the way Oklahoma thought about its infrastructure forever.  

Selected Sources: 

NTSB Accident Report

Tulsa World

A full list of sources can be found at brycevanvleet.com Bryce's book can be purchased here. 

We all have to die. Just try not to die in Dakota. 

In this week's true crime episode, Bryce takes us to Crestone, Colorado where the leader of a New Age religious movement, or a cult, is found dead and mummified. 

A full list of sources can be found at brycevanvleet.com/deathindakota. 

We all have to die. Just try not to die in Dakota. 

On this week's disaster episode, Bryce takes us to Cheyenne, Wyoming to cover the tragic 1996 plane crash that killed child pilot Jessica Dubroff, her father Lloyd, and pilot instructor Joe Reid. The crash led to the Child Pilot Safety Act being passed in the United States Congress.

Selected Sources: 

Final Adventure by Rob Howe for People Magazine 

NTSB Aircraft Accident Report 

There's no such thing as a 'Child Pilot': The tragedy of Jessica Dubroff by Andrew Chamings for SF Gate. 

Full sources and show notes can be found at brycevanvleet.com/deathindakota. 

 We all have to die. Just try not to die in Dakota. 

On this week's true crime episode, Bryce takes us to Spearfish, South Dakota to investigate the brutal torture and murder of Chester Poage at the hands of three killers. This case led to South Dakota's first death penalty execution in over sixty years. 

Selected Sources: 

Murderpedia 

Rapid City Journal articles by Kevin Woster,  Bill Cissell, Bill Harlan, and Andrea Cook. 

Full sources and links can be found by visiting brycevanvleet.com/deathindakota   

We all have to die. Just try not to die in Dakota.