Unscrupulous

This week Adam (he/him) takes us to sunny California to experience everyone's biggest fear: being buried alive. But this has the added horror of 26 small students and their kindly bus driver being kidnapped and again I say, BURIED ALIVE! oof. I can't breathe just typing it.

Next, Bec (they/them) tells us the story of the Hollywood Con Queen, a con artist so good they swindled hundreds of people from all over the world. All the while pretending to be some of the biggest women in Hollywood.

Adam's resources:
The ballad of the Cowchilla bus kidnapping by Kaleb Horton (https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22570738/chowchilla-school-bus-kidnapping)

1976 Bus Kidnapping (https://www.cityofchowchilla.org/300/1976-Bus-Kidnapping)

Cowchilla bus kidnapping: Rare photos from one of the largest abductions in U.S. history (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/chowchilla-bus-kidnapping-frederick-woods-rare-photos-from-one-of-the-largest-kidnappings-in-u-s-history)

Bec's resources:
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/11/how-we-unmasked-the-hollywood-con-queen-suspect

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

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Three might be company but for us it's a dream come true!

This week Bec (they/them) starts us off with a story of one mother's over zealous attempts to get her daughter on the cheerleading team. And find out, do we ever answer if the daughter even likes cheerleading to begin with? Wanda Holloway does everything she can to get her daughter on the squad, including considering the ultimate crime.

Then Adam finally tells us a story without death! We meet Forrest Tucker, the coolest classiest criminal. We don't deserve him, but boy are we thankful for him. Forest lived such a wild life and we go through the ins and outs of it together.

Bec's resources:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/the-cheerleader-murder-plot/

Adam's resources:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/01/27/the-old-man-and-the-gun

https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/old-man-and-the-gun/

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We are back for another episode! Don't mind us as we nerd out over our creative dreams coming true.

Join us this week when Adam (he/him) takes us in his way back machine to Massachusetts on the brink of the witch trials in Salem, so basically, real tense. Poor Mary Webster (not of Dictionary fame) is mistreated by everyone in town, even going so far as to beating her to "distract her" from magically making other citizens sick. Eventually the town goes too far, but they learn Mary Webster is a badass who can't be stopped.

Next, Bec (they/them) tells us of the Transy Book Heist, where four students try and steal priceless books from their University library. Big fans of classic caper flicks, the four hatch a plan to get rich quick by cooking up an elaborate scheme of their own. Let's just say, chaos and hi-jinx ensue.

Adam's Resources:

https://www.massreview.org/node/7575

https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/mary-webster-witch-hadley-survives-hanging/

http://newenglandfolklore.blogspot.com/2020/12/mary-webster-half-hanged-witch-of-hadley.html?m=1

https://faculty.uml.edu//bmarshall/Mary%20Webster.htm

https://loadedliteraturepodcast.wordpress.com/2018/08/08/half-hanged-mary-by-margaret-atwood/ - full text of the poem "Half-Hanged Mary"

 Bec's Sources:

https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/02/transy-book-heist

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It's happening! These two weirdos finally made a podcast and are hoping more than just their friends/family/chosen families will listen.

In episode 1 Bec (they/them) tells the sordid story of Lisa Nowak - or as the media chose to remember her, that lady astronaut who drove across the country wearing diapers. Hear all the details of this story and realize it's so much more than space diapers, but not much more than a love triangle with a man named Billy O.

Next Adam (he/him) takes us to France in the 1500s to a small town where a dude named Martin Guerre decides he's too cool for fatherhood and leaves town. A few years later he returns with his tail between his legs ready to start a new life. It's like a totally new Martin ... or maybe it's not Martin at all.

Sources:

Bec's sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/us/06cnd-astronaut.html

https://www.biography.com/news/lisa-nowak-lucy-in-the-sky

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2007-03-06-mnowak06-story.html

https://people.com/crime/astronaut-love-triangle-colleen-shipman-revisits-2007-attack-by-romantic-rival/

A peppering of Wikipedia 

Adam's sources:

"The Return of Martin Guerre" by Natalie Zemon Davis

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