Ruth Snyder

(Everett Collection Inc / Alamy)

Judd Gray

Georgia:

The murder of Albert Snyder

Episode sources:

1. "Girl Finds Mother Bound" (The New York TImes, March 21, 1927)

2. "Gray Under Guard on Train" (The New York Times, March 22, 1927)

3. "Gray Describes Murder; Spares No Detail of Crime; Insists Woman Led Him On" (The New York Times, May 5, 1927)

4. "Ruthless Ruth" (The Daily News, March 3, 2008)

5. "How a New York Tabloid Captured the First Photograph of an Execution by the Electric Chair" by Robert Klara (Smithsonian Magazine, January 12, 2023)

6. "The 1927 Murder That Became a Media Circus—And a Famous Movie" by Becky Little (History Channel, January 12, 2023)

7. "Murder, Madness and Mayhem" by William Grimes (The New York Times, January 26, 1996)

8. "Tom Howard" (Wikipedia) 

Karen:

The 1985 SunValley Mall disaster

Episode sources:

1. “SunValley Mall the day after the crash” by Janet Ghent (Oakland Tribune) 1985

2. “Sunvalley mall crash victim carries on” by Tom Barnidge (Oakland Tribune) 2010

3. “SunValley crash suits go to trial” by Annie Nakao (The San Francisco Examiner) 1988

4. “Burn victims helped by new treatment” by Amanda Covarrubias (Oakland Tribune) 1985

5. “Families schedule funerals for four plane crash victims” by David Alcott (Oakland Tribune) 1985

6. “Survivor of SunValley horror pays tribune to dead” by Andy Jokelson (Oakland Tribune) 1988

7. “From Disaster, a spark of joy and a reunion” by Marsha Ginsburg (The San Francisco Examiner) 1985

8. “New mall-crash theory: Pilot made wrong turn” by Andrew Ross and Walt Gibbs (The San Francisco Examiner) 1985

9. “Psychological help urged for survivors of Sunvalley shopping mall plane crash” (Associated Press) 1985

10. “No holiday from grief for parent of children burned in mall crash” by Clark Brooks (The Sacramento Bee) 1985

11. “In the aftermath of the Concord tragedy” (Times Tribune News services) 1985

12. “Post-mortem on mysterious Concord crash” by Ivan Sharpe (The San Francisco Examiner) 1985

13. “For county emergency crews, practice made nearly perfect” by Jayne Garrison (The San Francisco Examiner) 1985

14. “County offers free counseling for witnesses” (The San Francisco Examiner) 1985

15. “$777 million in claims filed over mall plane crash” by Patricia Porter (San Francisco Examiner) 1986

16. “Horror and panic, then people helping one another” (Oakland Tribune) 1985

17. “Holiday plane crash at mall still a bitter memory” by Bill Walker (The Daily Herald) 1986

18. “Santa split quick after plane hit” by Herb Michelson (The Sacramento Bee) 1985

19. “In the aftermath of Concord Tragedy: Guard Finds Lost Sister After Crash” (The Peninsula Times Tribune) 1985

20. “Lawsuit opens in Christmastime mall air crash” (Santa Cruz Sentinel) 1988

21. “Plane Hits Mall; 3 Die, 50 Injured: Bay Area Shoppers Panic as Wreckage Spills Flaming Fuel” by Mark A. Stein and Jerry Belcher  (Los Angeles Times) 1985

22. “How many of SunValley Mall's original stores do you remember?” by Katie Dowd (SF Gate) 2019

23. “Officials give high marks to rescuers” by Andy Jokelson (Oakland Tribune) 1985

24. “Information Hotline” (Oakland Tribune) 1985

25. “SunValley Survivors – where to turn for help” by Louise Douglas and Andy Jokelson (Oakland Tribune) 1985

26. “Anh Oh obituary” (Legacy)

27. “Today – The 37th Anniversary Of The Tragic Plane Crash At The Sunvalley Mall In Concord (VIDEO)” (Claycord Newstalk925) 2022

28. “The Sunvalley mall crash: 20 years later” by Ryan Huff (East Bay Times) 2016

29. “Season evokes specter of tragic mall incident” by Bill Walker (McClatchy News Service) 1986

30. “Missing propeller possible cause of deadly mall crash” by Andrew Ross and Walt Gibbs (The San Francisco Examiner) 1985

31. “Heroes of mall disaster” by Paul Avery and Marsha Ginsburg (The San Francisco Examiner) 1985

32. “Chance led to death of two in plane” by Elizabeth Fernandez (The San Francisco Examiner) 1985

33. “Shopping mall plane crash claims 7th victim” by Kelly Gust (Oakland Tribune) 1986

34. “Mall survivors will need counseling” (Associated Press) 1985

35. “Sunvalley Mall reopens for business after crash” (Associated Press) 1985

SunValley Mall

(Gado Images / Alamy)

Plane similar to the one that crashed into SunValley Mall on December 23, 1985

(San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives)

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