Our first listener request! Earle Nelson, a nomadic American murderer who brutally murdered and raped at least 22 people across the US and in Canada in 1926-27. Orphaned before he was 2 years old, he was raised by his Grandmother. While she likely did her best, he was very odd from a very young age.

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"Bestial" by Harold Schechter

"The Dark Strangler: Serial Killer Earle Leonard Nelson (Crimes Canada: True Crimes That Shocked the Nation Book 9)" by Michael Newton

Wikipedia

In honor of the Halloween Season, the history of how/when/why black cats came to be unlucky.

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Special thanks to Midnight Facts for Insomniacs and Scary Stories To Tell On The Pod for giving me info to research

other sources include

https://medium.com/chilled-cat/10-fascinating-facts-about-black-cats-f950c06eb237

https://www.ancient.eu/Bastet/

http://www.catmuseumsf.org/egyptcats.html

https://www.arce.org/resource/cats-bastet-and-worship-feline-gods

https://www.catster.com/lifestyle/cat-gods-cat-goddesses-worshipped-in-ancient-cultures

What with the Western states being on fire we felt it would be interesting to discuss what happens to a body/cadaver when exposed to flames and/or heat. This is a discussion of the burning of human bodies and details what happens to a deceased individual. There is mention of sorting out if the person was alive or not but does not go into detail about that. We do go into fairly graphic detail of what happens to a cadaver. 

This episode was recorded on Sept 13 but uploaded on Sept 19. 

To end on a pleasant note, at about min 45 we get to hear about some heroic cats who saved their families, both human and their own babies.

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Sources

http://www.forensicmed.co.uk/pathology/fire-deaths/was-deceased-alive-or-dead-at-the-time-of-the-fire-/

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/forensic-archaeology-and-anthropology/3/steps/825315

https://www.dovepress.com/forensic-investigation-of-burnt-human-remains-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-RRFMS

https://www.whitemountainforensic.com/expert-opinion-why-autopsy-badly-burned-or-charred-remains/

Identification of traumatic injury in burned cranial bone: an experimental approach: Elayne Pope, O’Brian C. Smith

https://wyomingpeaceofficers.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Identification-of-traumatic-injury-in-burned-cranial-bone.pdf

https://www.chicagotribune.com/investigations/chi-0410180222oct18-story.html

Macoveciuc, Ioana & Grant, Nicholas & Horsfall, Ian & Zioupos, Peter. (2017). Sharp and blunt force trauma concealment by thermal alteration in homicides: An in-vitro experiment for methodology and protocol development in forensic anthropological analysis of burnt bones. Forensic Science International. 275. 10.1016/j.forsciint.2017.03.014.

Forensic files - up in smoke - 2005

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/cat-saves-couple-from-crock-pot-1.5547669

https://www.burnedbone.com/burned-bone

https://www.reshareworthy.com/cat-saves-kittens-from-fire/ 

Today we discuss the unsolved serial killings of 6 women in 1964-65 London and the suspects including our vote for 'most likely' 

The cat section starts at 30:30 for anyone who doesn't want to listen to the crime story

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sources

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4840262/Jack-Stripper-killer-unmasked-boxer-Freddie-Mills.html

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8402525/jack-stripper-murdered-six-women-london/

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/new-theory-identity-1960s-serial-13986450

https://www.mylondon.news/news/local-news/author-solves-hammersmith-nudes-murder-5991798

https://www.swordandscale.com/the-tale-of-jack-the-stripper/

https://jackthestripper.weebly.com/the-victims.html

https://www.unsolvedcasebook.com/jack-the-stripper/

The legendary and mysterious D. B. (Dan) Cooper, the only uncaptured skyjacking in US commercial aviation history, who escaped with the equivalent of $1.26 million. Here are the resources, and as always please feel free to email me at [email protected] and to like/follow me on Facebook.com/murdersmysteriesandmeows

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https://vault.fbi.gov/D-B-Cooper%20

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/db-cooper-hijacking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper

https://citizensleuths.com/

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hijacker-parachutes-into-thunderstorm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_727#Specifications

Generation why podcast ep 111 skydivers analysis

https://martinandrade.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/dbcooperfinalupdated.pdf

This episode is a little bit different, more a mystery than a murder, but does still have deaths. We discuss the eerie disappearance of 21 year old Elisa Lam from the creepy, possibly haunted Cecil Hotel. Email me at [email protected] or find me on Facebook!

Herbert Mullin, the other serial killer active in Santa Cruz, CA in 1972-3. Any comments or suggestions are welcome! [email protected]

Sources

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

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/santa-cruz-kemper-mullin-frazier-murders-12841990.php#photo-15409996

Rosewood, Jack: Herbert Mullin: The True Story of the Psychopath of Santa Cruz

Vronsky, Peter: The Method and Madness of Monsters

Edmund Kemper III, one of the most famous  serial killers due to his ability and willingness to discuss his darkest thoughts and feelings with psychologists. He murdered his grandparents at 15, then was released and killed 8 more people. Sources include Vronsky, Peter. Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters; Rosewood, Jack. Edmund Kemper: The True Story of The Co-ed Killer: Historical Serial Killers and Murderers (True Crime by Evil Killers Book 2); https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/santa-cruz-kemper-mullin-frazier-murders-12841990.php#photo-15409996; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8IfslxOmF0; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Kemper#References

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