Blanche Lamont

(Collection PJ / Alamy Stock Photo)

Minnie Williams

(The Reading Room / Alamy)

Theodore Durrant

(The Reading Room / Alamy)

Karen:

Theodore Durrant, aka the "Demon of the Belfry"

Episode sources:

1. “The Story of Theodore Durrant - The Demon of the Belfry” by Thomas S. Duke (The Great Crimes of San Francisco)

2. “The tale of the 'Demon of the Belfry,' San Francisco's forgotten Jack the Ripper” by Katie Dowd (SF Gate) 2016

3. “Theo Durrant – The Demon of the Belfry” (Murder by Gaslight) 2009

4. “Why Blanche Lamont Was Enticed From School and Led to Her Death” (San Francisco Examiner) 1889

5. “American Murder: Criminals, Crimes, and the Media” by Mike Mayo

6. “Theo Durrant Trial: 1895” by Stephen G. Christianson (Encyclopedia.com)

7. “The Murder of Minnie Elora Williams; What is Known And What is a Mystery” (San Francisco Examiner) 1898

8. San Francisco Call, Volume 77, Number 129, 18 April 1895

9. “1895 murders - was Mission District church cursed?” by Gary Kamiya (SF Gate) 2013

10. “THE CURSED HISTORY OF SAN FRANCISCO'S EMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH” by Bob Calhoun

11. “William Henry Theodore Durrant” (Murderpedia)

12. United States Army Signal Corps (Wikipedia)

Georgia:

The ghost ship, Mary Celeste

1. “Abandoned Ship: The Mary Celeste” by Jess Blumberg (Smithsonian Magazine)

2.  “About Waterspouts” (National Weather Service)

3.  “Cephalopod attack” (Wikipedia)

4. “Ghost ship: the mysterious true story of the Mary Celeste and her missing crew” by Brian Hicks (2004, First edition, Ballantine Books)

5.  “Giant Squid” (Wikipedia)

6.  “Mary Celeste” by Amy Tikkanen (Britannica)

7. “Mary Celeste” (Wikipedia)

8. “Solved: The Mystery of the Mary Celeste” by Adrian Lee (UCL News)

9. “The Chilling Mystery Of The Mary Celeste, The Ghost Ship Found Empty In The Atlantic In 1872” edited by Cara Johnson (All That’s Interesting)

10. “What Happened to the Mary Celeste?” by Sarah Pruitt

11. “What Really Happened to the Mary Celeste?” by Alex Johnson (Museum Hack)

The Mary Celeste

(The History Collection / Alamy)

Benjamin Briggs, captain of the Mary Celeste

Sarah Briggs