Heriberto Seda being led by police (1996)

(AP Photo/Chris Kasson)

One of Seda’s Letters

Georgia:

New York Zodiac Killer

Episode sources:

1. “3 Weeks Later, A Victim Shot By 'Zodiac' Dies” by Jack Curry (The New York Times, June 25, 1990)

2. "The Trail of the Zodiac: Tracking a Killer" by David Stout (The New York Times, June 20, 1996)

3. “The Trail of the ‘Zodiac’: The Overview; Police Say Zodiac Suspect Admits Attacks That Killed 3 and Hurt 5” by N.R. Kleinfeld (The New York Times, June 20, 1996)

4. “Murder charges on docket in Queens” by Pete Donohue, Rafael Olmeda and Jane Furse (The Daily News, June 21, 1996)

5. “Man Said to be Zodiac Killer Becomes Enraged at Trial” by Vivian S. Toy (The New York Times, March 15, 1998)

6. “Zodiac Man: I shot 3” by Larry Celona and Bob Kappstatter (The Daily News, June 1990)

7. “Zodiac Suspect Obtained Gun-Making Materials Via Mail Order, Detectives Say“ by Lizette Alvarez (The New York Times, June 21, 1996)

8. “Zodiac Cops Seek Pattern Match” by Peg Tyre (Newsday, June 28, 1990)

9. “Zodiac Shooter Isn’t Calif’s” by Larry Celona and Joseph McNamara (The Daily News, June 21, 1990)

10. “Why ‘Stop-and-Frisk’ Inflamed Black and Hispanic Neighborhoods” by Ashley Southall and Michael Gold (The New York Times, November 17, 2019)

11. “A copycat Zodiac Killer terrorised New York years after the California original. This is how he got caught” by Sheila Flynn (The Independent, July 3, 2023)

Karen:

Pioneering investigative reporter Nellie Bly

Episode sources:

1. “Ten Days in a Mad-House” by Nellie Bly

2. “Around the World in 72 Days” (PBS) 1997

3. “Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad and Criminal in 19th Century New York” (Stacy Horn)

4. “Nellie Bly & Stunt Journalism” (Stuff You Missed in History Class) 2010

5. “Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist” by Brooke Kroeger

6. “Nellie Bly” by Arlisha R. Norwood (National Women’s History Museum)

7. “Nellie Bly” (Britannica) 2023

8. “Nellie Bly” (National Park Service)

9. “Nellie Bly’s Record-Breaking Trip Around the World Was, To Her Surprise, A Race” by Maris Fessenden (Smithsonian Magazine) 2016

10. “Blackwell’s Island (Roosevelt Island), New York City” (National Park Service)

11. “The Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island and the New York Press” by Drs. Samantha Boardman and George Makari (The American Journal of Psychiatry) 2007

12. “The Girl Puzzle” by Nellie Bly (via David Blixt’s Medium)

13. “New York’s Notorious Blackwell’s Island w/ Stacy Horn” (Most Notorious! Podcast) 2018

14. “What Girls Are Good For: 20-Year-Old Nellie Bly’s 1885 Response to a Patronizing Chauvinist” by Maria Popova (The Marginalian) 2014

15. “Blackwell’s Almanac” (Roosevelt Island Historical Society) 2016

16. “Lunatics, Inmates, and Homeowners: The History of Roosevelt Island” (Museum of the city of New York) 2015

17. “The Lost Legacy of the Girl Stunt Reporter” by Katy Waldman (New Yorker)

18. “The Nellie Bly Song” (PBS)

19. “Nelly Bly” (New York Public Library) 1999

20. “Life Story: Elizabeth Cochrane, aka Nellie Bly (1864-1922)” (WAMS New York Historical Society)

21. “Nellie Bly, Journalist, Dies of Pneumonia” (New York Times) 1922

22. “The Incredible Story of Nelly Bly, Investigative Reporter” (1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast)

23. “Stunt Girl” (Wikipedia)

24. “The Girl Puzzle”

25. “The pioneering narrative work of ‘girl stunt reporters’” by Kim Todd (Nieman Storyboard)

Nellie Bly

Bly in a publicity photo for her around-the-world voyage

Cover of Round the World with Nellie Bly