Rita Curran

Karen:

The tragic murder of Rita Curran

Episode sources:

1. “Unsolved” by Elizabeth Murray (Burlington Free Press) 2021

2. “Cigarette Butt Leads to Teacher’s Killer Over 50 Years Later” by Pilar Melendez (The Daily Beast) 2023

3. “Her Murder Was Tied to Ted Bundy. Then the Case Went Cold.” By Pilar Melendez (The Daily Beast) 2021

4. “Rita Curran” (Cold Case New England)

5. “Unsolved Murders in Vermont Haunt, Frustrate Investigators” by Jane Smith (Burlington Free Press) 1976

6. “Lid of Secrecy Clamped on Murder Investigation” by Eric Loring (The Burlington Free Press) 1971

7. “Suspect identified in 1971 Vermont murder case” (NBC News) 2023

8. “A 24-year-old teacher was murdered in 1971. DNA on a cigarette butt just solved the case.” By Lilly St. Angelo (USA Today) 2023

9. “Cigarette butt left at 1971 crime scene solves cold case murder of Vermont woman: Police” by Marisa Sarnoff (Law & Crime) 2023

10. “Rita Curran Murder Case Still Open” (The Burlington Free Press) 1972

11. Murder of Rita Curran (Wikipedia)

Georgia:

Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, "The man who fell from space"

Episode sources:

1. “Inside The Brutal Death Of Vladimir Komarov, The Cosmonaut Whose Space Capsule Smashed Into Earth” by Marco Margaritoff (All That’s Interesting)

2. “Cosmonaut Crashed into Earth ‘Crying in Rage’” by Robert Krulwich (NPR)

3. “A Cosmonaut’s Fiery Death Retold” by Robert Krulwich (NPR)

4. “1967: Russian Cosmonaut Dies in Space Crash” (BBC)

5. “Vladimir Komarov” (Wikipedia)

6. “Gagarin Revelations Only a Beginning” by Piers Bizony (Space News)

7. “Extraordinary Claims Without Evidence” by Robert Z. Pearlman (Space News)

8. “Space Race” (Wikipedia)

9. “Cold War” (Wikipedia)

10. “The Space Race” by History.com editors (History)

11. “Space Race Timeline” (Royal Museums Greenwich)

12. “Soyuz 1” (Wikipedia) 

Vladimir Komarov