Paula Jean Welden (Alamy)

Georgia:

The disappearance of Paula Jean Welden

Episode sources:

1. “After 60 years, student's fate remains a legendary mystery” by Rebecca Robinson (Bennington Banner)

2. “Bennington Triangle” (Wikipedia)

3. “Hangsaman” (Wikipedia)

4. “In 1946, College Student Paula Jean Welden Went For A Walk And Was Never Seen Again” by Patrick Thornton (Ranker)

5. “Missing Person / NamUs #MP40143, Paula Jean Welden, Female, White / Caucasian” (National Missing and Unidentified Persons System)

6. “Paula Jean Welden” by Meaghan Good (The Charley Project)

7. “Paula Jean Welden” (Wikipedia)

8. “PAULA JEAN WELDEN DISAPPEARS AND THE VERMONT STATE POLICE ARE BORN” (New England Historical Society)

9. “Paula Jean Welden -- Real-life Little Red Riding Hood Missing Since 1946” by Shane Lambert (Missing Person Commentary)

10. “Paula Welden: Little Lost Girl” by Mary Baillie (Bennington Banner)

11. “Paula Welden, Where Are You?” by Helen Stock (Bennington Banner)

12. “Shirley Jackson's Second Horror Novel Was Inspired By A Real-Life Disappearance” by Sadie Trombetta (Bustle)

13. “The 1946 Disappearance of Paula Welden on Vermont’s Long Trail” by Editorial Staff (New York Almanack)

14. “THE BIGGEST THEORIES ABOUT PAULA JEAN WELDEN'S DISAPPEARANCE: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?” by Jennifer Deutschmann (Grunge)

15. “The Mysterious Disappearance of Paula Jean Welden” by Ted Rice (Rice’s Home Page)

16. “The Strange Disappearance of Paula Jean Welden in the Bennington Triangle” (Strange Outdoors)

17. “Vermont State Police commemorates 75th anniversary” by Michael Cusanelli (NBC 5)

18. “Seventy Years after the ‘Bennington Triangle’” by James Saunders (Barre Montpelier Times Argus)

Karen:

Frances Glessner Lee, the "mother of modern forensic science"

Episode sources:

1. “18 Tiny Deaths” By Bruce Goldfarb

2. “The Fascinating History Behind A Set Of Miniature Murder Scenes” by Kenneth Bachor and Drusilla Moorhouse (Buzzfeed) 2022

3. “Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death” by American Artifacts (C-SPAN) 2020

4. “Heiress Plotted 19 Grisly Crimes. Investigation Underway.” By William L. Hamilton (New York Times) 2018

5. “Frances Glessner Lee” by Laura J. Miller (Harvard Magazine) 2005

6. “The Tiny, Murderous World Of Frances Glessner Lee” by Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi (NPR) 2017

7. “Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death” (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

8. “The tiny murder scenes of forensic scientist Frances Glessner Lee” by Nicole Johnson (Al Jazeera) 2022

9. “75 YEARS AGO, FRANCES GLESSNER LEE APPOINTED STATE POLICE CAPTAIN” (Glessner House) 2018

10. “A gift from and for the Glessners” (CSO Archives) 2013

11. “Forensic pathologist” (Cleveland Clinic)

12. “Forensic Science” (NIST)

Frances Glessner Lee

(Glessner House)

Miniature orchestra created by Frances Glessner Lee in 1913

(Glessner House)

Part of the “Sitting Room and Woodshed” Nutshell

(Spencer Grant / Alamy)