Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California (Ivo Roospold / Alamy)

Karen:

Body snatching victim, Clara Loeper

Episode sources:

1. “The Unfortunately Action Packed Afterlife of a California Grave-Robbing Victim” by Erika Mailman (Atlas Obscura) 2021.

2. “Ghastly Reminiscence” (Oakland Daily Evening Tribune) 1883.

3. “Grave Robbery at Oakland” (The Sacramento Union) 1883.

4. “The Grave Robbery” (Oakland Tribune) 1883.

5. “The Golden Age of Grave Robbing” (Stuff You Should Know podcast) 2016.

6. “Grave Robbery” (Oakland Daily Evening Tribune) 1883.

7. “Mrs. Loeper’s Agony” (San Francisco Examiner) 1883.

8. “Grave Robbing, Black Cemeteries, and the American Medical School” (JSTOR Daily)

9. “In Need of Cadavers, 19th-Century Medical Students Raided Baltimore’s Graves” by Antero Pietila (Smithsonian) 2018.

10. “The first American medical school: the formative years” by Elizabeth Fee (The Lancet) 2015.

11. “Body snatching” (Britannica)

12. “Body Snatching Around the World” (PBS)

13. “Oakland Strangers’ Plot full of Mystery” by Carolyn Jones (SFGate) 2011.

14. “From the Black Dahlia to Mac Dre: The bodies of Mountain View” by Andrew Chamings (SFGate) 2020.

Georgia:

Notorious con man, Victor Lustig

Episode sources:

1. “The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice.” by Jeff Maysh (Smithsonian Magazine, March 9, 2016)

2. “The Smoothest Con Man Who Ever Lived” by Gilbert King (Smithsonian Magazine, August 22, 2012)

3. “Head of Counterfeit Ring Gets 20 Years” (Associated Press, December 10, 1935)

4. “The Pay-Off” by Stewart C. Donnelly, as told to Lowell Parker (The Indianapolis Star, April 11, 1948)

5. “Arnold Rothstein: New York’s First Criminal Genius” by Michael Mayo (CrimeReads, September 14, 2022)

6. “R. Paul Wilson On: The Greatest Con Artist of All Time” (Casino.org, November 11, 2019)

7. “Nicky Arnstein” (Wikipedia)

8. Archival Currency Converter (University of Melbourne)

Victor Lustig (Alamy)