Empire State Building after the plane crash

(Everett Collection Inc / Alamy)

Betty Lou Oliver with her husband

(Bettman / Getty)

Karen:

1945 Empire State Building plane crash

Episode sources:

1. “Investigations: Empire State Building Plane Crash Piece” (PBS/History Detectives Special Investigations)

2. “Empire State Building Collision” (B-25 History)

3. “Division 7 Training and Safety Newsletter, July/August 2020: The Empire State Building Crash”

4. “This Woman Cheated Death Twice on the Same Day After a 1945 Disaster” by Patrick Lynch (History Collection)

5. “Crash of a North American B-25D-20 Mitchell in New York: 14 Killed” (Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives)

6. “Revised List of Casualties” (Daily News) July 30, 1945

7. “ IFR vs. VFR: What’s the Difference between these Two Flying Methods?” (Inflight Pilot Training)

8. “North American B-25 Mitchell” (Wikipedia)

9. “Instrument flight rules” (Wikipedia)

Georgia:

New York Assistant District Attorney Eunice Carter

Episode sources:

1. “Eunice Carter: Key Player in Luciano Conviction” no author listed (The Mob Museum)

2. “Eunice Carter: The Trailblazing Prosecutor Who Helped Take Down Lucky Luciano” National District Attorneys Association (Medium)

3. “Eunice Carter” (Wikipedia)

4. “Lucky Luciano” (Wikipedia)

5. “Eunice Carter” (Fordham Law)

6. “Daughter of the Black Elite Who Brought Down a Gangster” by Cinque Henderson (Washington Post)

7. “The Hunton Family: A Narrative of Faith through Generations” by Johanna Selles (Emmanuel College, U. of Toronto)

8. “Eunice Hunton Carter (1899-1970)” by Christi M. Smith (Black Past)

Eunice Carter

Charles “Lucky” Luciano mugshot