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Big tent engulfed in flames

Clown Emmett Kelly with burning tent in background

1944 The Hartford Courant front page reporting Hartford circus fire disaster

Circus Fire Memorial, Hartford, Connecticut

Karen:

The Hartford circus fire

Episode sources:

1. “The Hartford Circus Fire ~ July 6, 1944” Official Website

2. Wikipedia “Hartford Circus Fire”

3. Associated Press (The Day) “Mystery of Dead Girl in Hartford Circus Fire Solved After 47 Years”

4. The Paris Review article by William Browning “Tears of a Clown”

5. Wikipedia “Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus”

6. Wikipedia “Charles Nelson Reilly”

7. NY Times Archive, Associated Press “Youth Confesses Fatal Circus Fire”

8. The Hartford Courant article by Tom Condon

9. Morning Edition, NPR, “Remembering the Horrors and Heroes of a Circus Fire”

10. ACS Chem History article by Brendan Rimetz “The Great Hartford Circus Fire”

11. Circus Smirkus “Seven Circusy Superstitions”

Georgia:

The murders of Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis

Episode sources:

1. NBC News article by Keith Morrison

2. Paradise Post article by Valerie Lum

3. ThoughtCo article by Charles Montaldo

4. CBS News article by Brian Dakss

5. Portland Tribune article by Jim Redden “Confronting a Killer”

6. ABC News staff article “Miranda Gaddis' Mother Speaks Out”

7. Oregon Live article by Michael Bamesberger

8. KVAL News article by Anna Canzano, KATU News and KATU.com Staff

9. KATU News Staff article “Gaddis' Sister Protests Plans To Build On Site Where Bodies Were Found”

10. GrayDays TV Youtube Channel

11. “The Missing Girls: A Shocking True Story of Abduction and Murder” by Linda O'Neal, Philip Tennyson, Rick Watson

Ashley Pond

Miranda Gaddis

Ward Weaver III mugshot

Blossom Kilgariff