Frank Tassone

(Ed Betz / AP Photo)

Pam Gluckin

(Kirk Condyles / NYTimes)

Bad Education Poster

(Bad Education / HBO / 2019)

Georgia:

The Roslyn School Embezzlement Scandal

Episode sources:

1. “The Bad Superintendent” by Robert Kolker (New York Magazine) 2004

2. “A Suspicious Clerk and a School Scandal” by Paul Vitello (The New York Times) 2005

3. “At Sentencing in Roslyn Schools Case, an Angry Community’s Chance to Vent” by Paul Vitello (The New York Times) 2006

4. “On Top of the News at Roslyn High” by Rebekah Rombom (The New York Times) 2004

5. “Auditor Suddenly Finds $7 Million in Questionable Transactions in Long Island; Three People Now are Removed” by Stacy Albin and Michelle O’Donnell (The New York Times) 2004

6. “Keeping Secrets Has its Price” by Paul Vitello (Newsday) 2004

7. “More Funds Missing” by Victor Manuel Ramos and Karla Schuster (Newsday) 2004

8. “Schools Chief Resigns” by Karla Schuster (Newsday) 2004

Karen:

Elizabeth Bigley, the scamming “Queen of Ohio”

Episode sources:

1. “The Imposter Heiress” by Annie Reed

2. “The High Priestess of Fraudulent Finance” by Abbott Kahler (Smithsonian Magazine) 2012

3. “Cassie Chadwick: The Female Wizard of Finance” by Quincy Balius (Ohio History Collection) 2022

4. “Chadwick, Cassie L.” (Encyclopedia of Cleveland History)

5. “Cassie L. Chadwick” (EBSCO) 2022

6. “Nerves of Steal: Cassie Chadwick, ‘Patron Saint of Confidence Women’” by Brian Benoit (Readex) 2021

7. “Strange Acquisitions: How We Got The Carnegie Building” by Isabelle Smith (The Oberlin Review) 2019

Elizabeth Bigley as “Cassie Chadwick”

Dr. Leroy Chadwick, newspaper illustration from 1905

Andrew Carnegie

1904 write-up in the Tampa Morning Tribune suggesting hypnotism might be behind Bigley’s con artistry

Two of Bigley’s mugshots, dates unclear