We're back Baddies and this time, we are covering the famous Bermuda Triangle. Spoiler… It’s Literally Just Water (or is it?).The Bermuda Triangle refers to a region in the Western North Atlantic where several ships and aircrafts famously disappeared under puzzling circumstances. Among the most well-known cases are the USS Cyclops, a U.S. Navy ship that vanished without a trace in 1918, and Flight 19, a group of five U.S. Navy bombers that disappeared during a training mission in 1945. While theories range from navigational errors to unusual weather patterns, (and even aliens and other dimensions), the Triangle remains one of the most talked-about maritime mysteries in modern history.

Dive in as we unpack one of the world’s most dramatic 2 million square miles of ocean. Yes, planes disappeared. Yes, ships vanished. No, it’s probably not a portal to another dimension (but we’re not ruling out the ocean being petty). We break down the science, roast the myths, and try very hard not to get lost ourselves.

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Case Sources:

Brittanica.com The Bermuda Triangle

The US naval institute.com The mysterious disappearance of flight 19

Boaterexam.com: 6 prevailing theories on the Bermuda Triangle

Art19.com “Did you know? The USS cyclops Disappearance(1918)”

Marinalife.com: The mystery of the Bermuda Triangle

Johnny Harris Youtube Channel: What's really happening in the Bermuda Triangle?

Reddit and Wikipedia – step daddy resources

https://www.britannica.com/place/Bermuda-Triangle

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2021/october/mysterious-disappearance-flight-19

https://www.boaterexam.com/blog/bermuda-triangle-theories/

https://art19.com/shows/did-you-know/episodes/ae9d691c-f9cb-4a3b-8ac9-72cca1e3d0d0

https://www.marinalife.com/articles/the-mystery-of-the-bermuda-triangle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=112H-vY4Wdo

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When a fire broke out at a farm in LaPorte, Indiana, in 1908. a disgruntled farmhand was immediately suspected of arson and the murders of Belle Gunness and her three children. But when investigators were forced to look deeper by a desperate man searching for his missing brother, they discovered a chilling web of disappearances and a trail of dead bodies leading to the identification of one of the most notorious female serial killers in American history. Join Carly and Tab as they unpack the dark secrets of the Black Widow of LaPorte/ the Mistress of Murder Farms and how she was able to operate undetected for years, hiding in plain sight.

This episode includes discussions of violence and murder, including violence against children. Please listen with care.

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Case Sources:

“Come prepared to stay forever”: The tale of a murderess in turn-of-the-century America - PhD Thesis by Paula Hinton from Miami University in Ohio

Hinton, Paula K. "Just Like One of the Family: An Immigrant Murderess in Turn-of-the-Century America." Ohio Valley History 6.4 (2006): 27-47.

Anne H. Lorentzen (2010) On the Performativity of Murder: The Female

Offender Revisited, NORA—Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 18:4, 246-265,

DOI: 10.1080/08038740.2010.521133

https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-belle-gunness-murder-farm/selected-articles

https://www.biography.com/crime/belle-gunness

https://laportecountyhistory.org/exhibits/belle-gunness/

https://murderpedia.org/female.G/g/gunness-belle.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Gunness

Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 people died at the settlement in a mass poisoning and group suicide at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma; and at a Temple-run building close to Georgetown, Guyana's capital city. The name ofthe settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations. During this massacre, a significant number of people died of cyanide poisoning and were injected against their will. In fact, all but two people died via poisoning withapproximately one third of the victims being children. Jones and some Peoples Temple members’ referred to the act as a "revolutionary suicide". The poisonings in Jonestown followed the murder of five other individuals,including U. S Congressman Leo Ryan with the murder-suicide committed by Four other Temple members inGeorgetown at Jones' command. To this day, the Jonestown massacre is known as the largest group suicide mission to have ever taken place and prior to the terrorist attacks of 911, Jonestown marked the single greatest loss of Americanlives in one day due to a non-natural disaster.

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Case Sources:

https://listverse.com/2024/03/10/top-10-most-heartbreaking-facts-about-jonestown/

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/03/15/archives/excerpts-from-transcript-of-tape-describing-the-final-moments-at.html

https://time.com/6989360/cult-massacre-jonestown-hulu-doc/Bbc.co.uk“Jonestown: the world’s biggest mass suicide”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones

The documentary Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle (2018).

Right answers mostly “Jonestown… don’t drink thekool-aid”

The docuseries “Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown”

H. H. Holmes was an American serial killer and con artist who operated in the early 1890’s and is most well known for luring victims to his “Murder Castle”, a hotel that he built to accommodate guests during the Chicago World’s Fair 1893. A published floor plan of the “Murder Castle” revealed secret torture chambers, trapdoors, gas chambers, and a crematorium in the basement. Though the “Beast of Chicago” only confessed to 27 murders, some reports attribute up to 200 deaths to him between 1886-1894. But how much of what we know about H. H. Holmes was true? Did this so called “Murder Castle” even exist? Today on historically bad we will deep dive into the story of America’s very first serial killer, and how his reign of terror was sensationalized by the media following a shoddy police investigation that left room for speculation by tabloids.

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Case Sources:

https://www.biography.com/crime/hh-holmes

https://www.britannica.com/biography/H-H-Holmes

https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/serial-killers/hh-holmes/#google_vignette

https://www.history.com/news/murder-castle-h-h-holmes-chicago

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/enduring-mystery-hh-holmes-americas-first-serial-killer-180977646/

https://thewestendmuseum.org/history/era/immigrant-neighborhood/h-h-holmes/

https://ew.com/tv/devil-in-the-white-city-is-officially-dead-at-hulu/

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a26340920/leonardo-dicaprio-martin-scorsese-devil-in-the-white-city-series-hulu/

Crighton, J. D., & Mudgett, H. W. (2016). Holmes' Own Story: Confessed 27 Murders, Lied Then Died. Aerobear Classics.

Avery, R. (1997). City of Brotherly Mayhem. DIANE Publishing Inc..

Larsen, E. (2003). The Devil in the White City. New York: Vintage.

Selzer, A. (2017). HH Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil. Simon and Schuster.

Generation Why Podcast episode 164: H. H. Holmes

Josef Mengele is one of the most infamous figures of the Holocaust. Despite being trained as a doctor, Josef spent little time preserving life and instead brought a sadistic cruelty to experiments that ended the lives of many, mainly children. His service at Auschwitz and the medical experiments he conducted there have made him the most widely recognized perpetrator of the crimes committed during the reign of Nazi Germany with his postwar life in hiding represents the international failure to bring Nazi criminals to justice. Mengele has been the subject of numerous popular books, films, and television shows however, many of these portrayals distort the real facts of Mengele’s crimes and take him out of his historical context. Despite the portrayal of him as a mad scientist who conducted sadistic experiments with no scientific basis, the truth about Mengele is even more disturbing earning him the title the "angel of death". Join Carly and Tab this week as they discuss the depraved life of one of the most evil men in history; Josef Mengele.

Content Warning: explicit discussions of human experimentation and casualties, violence, genocide and racism.

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Episode Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Josef-Mengele

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7ssLE3FddY

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/josef-mengele

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/auschwitz-gets-a-new-doctor-the-angel-of-death

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/21/magazine/what-made-this-man-mengele.html

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/11/josef-mengele-bones-brazil-forensic-medicine#:~:text=Nazi%20doctor%20Josef%20Mengele's%20bones%20used%20in%20Brazil%20forensic%20medicine%20courses,-This%20article%20is&text=For%20more%20than%2030%20years,S%C3%A3o%20Paulo's%20Legal%20Medical%20Institute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele

This weeks story takes us back to the late 1870’s in Manhattan, New York, where a seasoned criminal was planning his most daring heist yet – a robbery of The Manhattan Savings Institution on Broadway and Bleecker. Despite several hiccups in over three years of planning, including two actual murders, the team of crooks led by George Leonidas Leslie successfully pulled off what was at the time the highest value criminal heist in history. Join Carly and Tab as they unpack the first ever historically bad bank heist.

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Case Sources:

https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/2009/10/07/fact-tops-fiction-in-story/47310025007/

Conway, J. North. (2009) King of Heists: The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 That Shocked America. ISBN 978-1-49-304053-7

Walling, George W. (1887) Recollections of a New York Chief of Police. Caxton book concern, limited. ISBN 978-0-60-835831-4

https://www.villagepreservation.org/2022/04/28/the-big-bank-heist-at-broadway-and-bleecker/

https://crimereads.com/the-heist-of-the-century-who-cracked-the-manhattan-savings-and-loan-safe/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-manhattan-savings-bank/27936506/

https://www.nytimes.com/1878/10/28/archives/a-great-bank-robbery-the-manhattan-savings-institution-robbed-three.html

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2021/11/historic-heist-the-great-bank-robbery-of-1878.html

The Bowery Boys: New York City History Podcast episode #375: The Great Bank Robbery of 1878

https://thehustle.co/the-architect-who-became-the-king-of-bank-robberies

https://history.hsbc.com/collections/global-archives/manhattan-savings-institution

https://history.hsbc.com/collections/global-archives/manhattan-savings-institution/records-relating-to-financial-crime/notice-issued-by-the-manhattan-savings-institution-to-alert-the-public-about-a-robbery-at-their-head-office-at-644-646-broadway-new-york-city-usa-0

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/12/george-leslie-bank-robber-heist-history.html

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1927/12/31/when-new-york-was-really-wicked-king-of-the-bank-robbers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Era

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Savings_Institution_robbery#cite_note-33

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Leonidas_Leslie