Joanne Ratcliffe

Kirste Gordon

Police sketch of man seen with Joanne and Kirste

Georgia:

The Adelaide Oval abductions

Episode sources:

1. “Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon” (Casefile Podcast)

2. “Missing Persons Week: Kirste Gordon's parents recall day she disappeared from Adelaide Oval” by Nicola Gage (ABC, July 29, 2017)

3. “Caller demands $25,000 ransom for missing girls — police widen manhunt” by Ben Hills (The Age, August 28, 1973)

4. “Police seek man who spoke to girls” (The Sydney Morning Herald, August 29, 1973) 

5. “Suzie Ratcliffe Won’t Rest Until She Finds Her Sister” by Susan Chenery (Australian Women’s Weekly, June 11, 2024)

6. “Joanne Ratcliffe” (Australian Missing Persons Register)

7. “Sister of Adelaide Oval abduction victim knows in 'heart of hearts' the perpetrator“ by Ben Avery and Savannah Meacham (9 News, August 23, 2023)

8. “SOLVE the Adelaide Oval Abduction forensic tests” (GoFundMe) 

Karen:

The Schoolhouse Blizzard of 1888

Episode sources:

1. “The Children’s Blizzard” by David Laskin

2. “The Children’s Blizzard (1888)” (This Day in Esoteric Political History/Radiotopia)

3. “Who Miss Freeman Is” (Omaha Daily Bee) January 1888 

4. “A Heroine in the Blasts” (The Omaha Evening Bee) 1888 

5. “The Children's Blizzard in the Black Hills Country” (National Weather Service) 

6. “Overlooked No More: Minnie Mae Freeman Penney, Nebraska’s ‘Fearless Maid’” by Alexandra Levine (New York Times) 2018 

7. “Blizzard! The 1888 White Out” by Jacqueline Ball (2005) 

8. “The Legend of Minnie Freeman” by Tom Isern (Prairie Republic NewsRoom) 2024

9. “Sod Houses – Humble Homes of the Prairie” (Notes from the Frontier) 2020 

10. “125 years ago, deadly ‘Children’s Blizzard’ blasted Minnesota” by Alyssa Ford (MinnPost) 2013 

11. “The Blizzard of 1888: America’s Greatest Snow Disaster” by Christopher C. Burt (Weather Underground) 2020 

12. “Great Blizzard of 1888” (Wikipedia)

13. “The Children's Blizzard” by Bruce Boyce (ITakeHistory) 2022 

14. “’New artifact has ties to “The School Children’s Blizzard of 1888’” (Nebraska State Historical Society) 

15. “’The Little Old Shanty on the Claim’: Creating a Home on the Frontier, Part 1” by Christopher W. Czajka (PBS)

16. “The Schoolchildren's Blizzard of 1888” by Joseph Meyer (3NewsNow) 2023 

17. “Thankful to the Settlers” by George F. Will (The Washington Post)

18. “The Schoolhouse Blizzard” (Great Disasters) 2021 

Minnie Freeman

Example of a sod house (Nebraska)

Image accompanying the sheet music for “Thirteen Were Saved”

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