Bonnie Bickwit and Mitchel Weiser

Georgia:

The disappearance of Bonnie Bickwit and Mitchel Weiser

Episode sources:

1. “Two Teens Hitchhiked to a Concert. 50 Years Later, They Haven’t Come Home” by Eric J. Greenberg (Rolling Stone)

2. “A Website in Memory of Mitchel Weiser and Bonnie Bickwit” operated by Stuart Karten

3. “Without A TRACE: Investigators trying last push to solve 25-year mystery of two Brooklyn teens who vanished from Jewish camp; heartbroken families grieve without closure” by Eric J. Greenberg (Jewish Weekly)

4. “Oil Embargo, 1973-1974” (U.S. Dept. of State, Office of the Historian)

5. “Vietnam War” (Wikipedia)

6. “Summer Jam at Watkins Glen” (Wikipedia)

Karen:

The story of Marina Raskova and the Night Witches

Episode sources:

1. “The Little-Known Story of the Night Witches, an All-Female Force in WWII” by Eric Grundhauser (Vanity Fair) 2015

2. “Marina Raskova and the Night Witches” by Rachele Momi (Grey Dynamics) 2022

3. “Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky” by Jessie-Lee Smith (The Collector) 2023

4. “Who Were The Soviet Night Witches?” by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi (Discover Magazine) 2022

5. “The Soviet Night Witches” blog post, no author listed (Wright Museum of WWII) 2020

6. “Marina Raskova” (Wikipedia)

7. “Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union” no author listed (Imperial War Museums)

8. “Nadezhda Popova, WWII ‘Night Witch,’ Dies at 91” by Douglas Martin (New York Times) 2013

Marina Raskova

(History and Art Collection / Alamy)

The Night Witches

(Nikolai Ignatiev / Alamy)