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Episode #376

That’s a Good Bean!

#376 That’s a Good Bean!
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Georgia:

Japan's Monster with 21 Faces and the Vending Machine Murders

Episode sources:

  1. “Case Summary Overview” by The Darq (Themonsterwith21faces.com)

  2. “Glico Morinaga And The Mystery of the “Monster With 21 Faces” by Ex Cathedra (Medium)

  3. “Glico Morinaga case” (Wikipedia)

  4. “Head of cyanide-candy investigation commits suicide” (United Press International)

  5. “How ‘The Monster With 21 Faces’ Terrorized Japan During The Harrowing Glico Morinaga Incident” by Bernadette Giacomazzo (All That’s Interesting)

  6. “Japan's "Economic Miracle": What Happened?” (Every CRS Report)

  7. “Japanese Puzzle: The Vending Machine Murders” by Clyde Haberman (New York Times)

  8. “Japanese warned against poisoned soft drinks” by Marie Okabe (United Press International)

  9. “Killer Vending Machines: The Paraquat Killings | Crime Beyond Belief Ep. #2” (Stupid Beyond Belief)

  10. “Monster With 21 Faces” by Doug MacGowan

  11. “Paraquat murders” (Wikipedia)

  12. “Paraquat Murders and Suicides: Rates of Intentional Poisoning” by Erica Davies (Drug Watcher)

  13. “Paraquat Poisoning: Survival after Oral Ingestion” by Sarah Allen, MD, Mario Gomez, MD, Alice M. Boylan, MD, Kristin B. Highland, MD, Anthony Germinario, MD, Michelle McCauley, MD, and Michael Malone, MD (ClinMed)

  14. “Rising Inequality in Japan: A Challenge Caused by Population Ageing and Drastic Changes in Employment” by Miki Kohara and Fumio Ohtake (Changing Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries: Thirty Countries' Experiences, Oxford Academic)

  15. “The 1980s Crime Ring That Poisoned Japan’s Candy And Never Got Caught” by Cara Giaimo (Atlas Obscura)

  16. “The Menacing Case of the Monster with 21 Faces” (BuzzFeed Unsolved Network)

  17. “The Monster with 21 Faces” (Wikipedia)

  18. “THE UNTOLD TRUTH OF THE VENDING MACHINE KILLER” by Nicholas Vrchoticky (Grunge)

  19. “The Vending Machine Murders” by Martina Petkova (Medium)

  20. “This small Japanese town is a vintage vending machine paradise” by Dean Irvine (CNN)

  21. “Wine scandal spreads to Japan” by Mark Kuramitsu (United Press International)

Karen:

Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton

Episode sources:

  1. “The Last One” (PBS) 2008

  2. “Popcorn Sutton: The Last Moonshiner” by Sky Sutton (Twisted South/Appalachian History) 2014

  3. “"Daddy Moonshine- The Story of Marvin 'Popcorn' Sutton" by Sky Sutton” (Facebook)

  4. “Tales of the Last Moonshiner” by Tim Murphy (Mother Jones) 2010

  5. “United States of America V. Marvin ‘Popcorn’ Sutton”

  6. “Popcorn Sutton and his moonshine: 6 surprising facts (with pictures)” by Morgan Overholt (The Smokies) 2022

  7. “The Last Hillbilly Hero” by David Kushner (Maxim) 2012

  8. “THE MOONSHINER POPCORN SUTTON” (Sucker Punch Pictures)

  9. “Popcorn Sutton: The Most Famous Moonshiner” (Smoky Mtn Opry)

  10. “Golden Moment” by D’Lyn Ford (NC State University) 2009

  11. “Moonshiner Dead in Apparent Suicide” by Becky Johnson (Smoky Mountain News) 2009

  12. “Yesterday’s Moonshiner, Today’s Microdistiller” by Campbell Robertson (New York Times) 2012

  13. “The Whiskey Rebellion” (American Experience/PBS)

  14. “As long as water runs downhill: The story of Popcorn Sutton”  by Cory Vaillancourt (Smoky Mountain News) 2021

  15. “About the Appalachian Region” (Appalachian Regional Commission)

  16. “Widow: Moonshiner took his life to avoid jail” (Associated Press)  2008

  17. “Daughter says independence likely led to moonshiner's suicide” (Knox News) 2009

  18. “Popcorn Died as he lived, daughter says” by Jim Balloch (Knoxville News Sentinel) 2009

  19. “Moonshine: From No Business to Big Business” by Keith Roysdon (The Daily Yonder) 2023

  20. “Popcorn Sutton Interview with actor Johnny Knoxville”

  21. “The Story of Popcorn Sutton: A Famous Appalachian Moonshiner” by Jasmin Diaz (Smoky Mountains) 2023

  22. “Legendary Tennessee Moonshiner Plied His Trade to the End” by Stephen Miller (Wall Street Journal) 2009

  23. “Notorious moonshiner "Popcorn" Sutton gets prison term after fed bust” by J.J. Stambaugh (KnoxNews) 2009

  24. “Whiskey Rebellion” (History) 2022

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