Aimee Semple McPherson

Angelus Temple

People praying and searching the beach for Aimee

Media Coverage of Aimee’s disappearance

Thousands showed up to welcome the train carrying Aimee home

Georgia:

The disappearance of Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson

Episode sources:

1. Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson By Claire Hoffman (2025)

2. "American Experience: Sister Aimee" (PBS, 2007)

3. "Aimee Semple McPherson: Farm girl, ‘kidnapped’ preacher, indicted celeb" by Madeleine Brand (KCRW, 2025)

4. Claire Hoffman on Aimee Semple McPherson, in conversation with Debby Applegate (Leon Levy Center for Biography, 2025)

5. Aimee Semple McPherson: Everybody’s Sister by Edith Blumhofer (1993)

6. Sister Aimee: The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson by Daniel Mark Epstein (1994)

Karen:

Ed Newcomer’s investigation into butterfly trafficker Yoshi Kojima

Episode sources:

1. "The Butterfly Smuggler" (Criminal, 2025)

2. "Winged Obsession: The Pursuit of the World's Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler" by Jessica Speart (2011)

3. "Episode 13 - Season Finale!" (Nature's Secret Service, 2025)

4. "A Wildlife Agent Goes Undercover" (The MeatEater Podcast, 2025)

5. "Jaguar thrives in Sanctuary after Surviving Wildlife Trafficking" by Bree Steffen (Spectrum News 1, 2022)

6. "Woman Who Sold Jaguar Cub in Riverside Sentenced to Probation and Fine" (LA Times, 2025)

7. "Rescuers reveal tragic background of trafficked jaguar cub abandoned in Alpine" (NBC 7, 2025)

8. "A jaguar named Eddie trades horror for hope at California sanctuary" (CBS 8 San Diego, 2025)

9. "OnlyFans, trafficking and drug dealers: How a jaguar cub wound up in a California suburb" By Brittny Mejia (L.A. Times, 2024)

10. "A jaguar's journey from Onlyfans prop, to a drug dealer's pet, to a sanctuary" (L.A. Times, 2025)

11. “Book Review: Winged Obsession: The Pursuit of the World's Most Notorious Butterfly Thief”  (Environmental News Networks, 2011)

12. “Undercover Agent Nets Butterfly Smuggler” (NPR Weekend Edition, 2007)

13. “How a world-class butterfly smuggler got pinned” by Helen O’Neill (AP, 2007)

Ed Newcomer

Yoshi Kojima

European Rhinoceros Beetle

Eddie the Jaguar