The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

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FSIS Compliance Officer Jean Hillery

FSIS Compliance Officer Tom Quadros

California Senior Investigator Bill Shaline

California Food Inspector Earl Willis

Karen:

Stuart Alexander, murderous "Sausage King"

Episode sources:

1. San Francisco Magazine article by Bud Hazelkorn  “The Sausage King”

2. KCBS Radio podcast by Natalia Gurevich,  “The Sausage King” podcast

3. Food Safety and Inspection Service / U.S. Department of Agriculture “Our History”

4. Associated Press, “’Sausage King’s’ Own Surveillance tapes in His Factory Prove His Guilt in Murders”

5. Washington Post article by Nicols Fox “Watching What You Eat”

6. Associated Press article by Mary Ann Lickteig, “3 Shot Dead at Calif. Sausage Site”

7. Associated Press article by Jessie Seyfer, “Sausage Maker Held in Killings”

8. Los Angeles Times article by Rone Tempest “’Sausage King’ Dies in Prison”

9. East Bay Times article by Jason Sweeney “Where San Leandro’s ‘Sausage King’ Snapped”

10. United States Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service, “Remarks of Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Richard Rominger, Memorial Service and Tree Dedication, August 8, 2000, Washington, DC”

11. SF Gate article by Tilde Herrera, “Sausage Maker Thrives on Link to Portugal / An old home recipe grew into a factory in San Leandro”

12. East Bay Times article by Glenn Chapman, “Alexander’s past will be on display”

13. Associated Press, “Sausage Plant Killer Phoned Police Beforehand”

14. Associated Press article by Kim Curtis, “Surveillance tape shows San Leandro sausage factory shootings”

15. San Leandro Bytes, “Santos Linguisa Factory – Scene of Triple Homicide”

16. San Francisco Chronicle article by Jaxon Van Derbeken, Mark Martin, Benjamin Pimentel, “East Bay Factory Rampage – 3 Slain”

17. Food Safety News article by Dan Flynn, “Ceremonies Honor Meat Inspectors Killed in 2000”

18. Mashed article by Amy Hamblen, “What is Linguica and What Does it Takes Like?”

19. Food Safety News, “Jack in the Box E. coli Outbreak – 25th Anniversary”

20. Retro Report, “E. Coli Outbreaks Changed Food Production, But How Safe Are We?”

21. The Seattle Times article by David Holbrook, Scott Marshall, “Suspect held grudge on rules, some say Factory owner often battled regulations”

22. Bay Area News Group article by Glenn Chapman, “Victims’ loved ones testify in Alexander’s sentencing”

23. CNN Library, “Scott Peterson Trial Fast Facts”

24. Shouse California Law Group, “Special Circumstances in California Murder Cases”

25. United States Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service, “In Memoriam”

Georgia:

The disappearance of the Death Valley Germans

Episode sources:

1. National Park Service, “Death Valley National Park”

2. U.S. Depart of Interior Blog, “12 Things You Didn’t Know about Death Valley”

3. Strange Outdoors, “The Disturbing Disappearance and Death of the German Tourists in Death Valley”

4. OtherHand Blog by Tom Mahood “The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans”

5. Pahrump Valley Times article by Robin Flinchum, “Twentieth Anniversary Of One Of Death Valley’s Baffling Mysteries”

6. Pahrump Valley Times article by Robin Flinchum, “Interest continues in 20-year Death Valley mystery”

7. Associated Press, “Death Valley bones linked to German tourists”

8. Associated Press, “Remains May Be Tourists Missing 13 Years”

9. The Local, “Death Valley skeletons solve riddle of missing German tourists”

10. Los Angeles Times, “Van of Missing German Tourists Found in Death Valley Park”

11. Los Angeles Times, “Search Ends for 4 Missing German Tourists”

12. Los Angeles Times article by Teresa Watanabe “California: Bones May Solve Mystery: Death Valley Hikers Find What May Be Tourists’ Remains”

13. Sierra Wave Media article by Tom Woods “Children Still Missing in 1996 German Tourist Case”

14. Wikipedia, “Death Valley Germans”

Overlook of Panamint Valley in Death Valley National Park

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Badwater Basin Sign, Death Valley National Park

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Photo of found minivan.

(Death Valley National Park Report)