In 1906, the mutilated body of young sales clerk James Logan was discovered on Southern California’s grandest resort hotel, The Raymond. When an African American tailor was accused of the crime, the city’s allegiances split. Half of the city of Pasadena wanted the man condemned to death, but the other half fought to save him, believing he had been framed.

Sources:

Biery, Bryan. “The Princes: Pasadena’s Regal Family.” Colorado Boulevard Newspaper. 12 March, 2024. https://www.coloradoboulevard.net/the-princes-pasadenas-regal-family/

Lindquist, Heather. “‘Exploring Pasadena’s Past’- The Heart of Pasadena’s Communities of Color.” Pasadena Museum of History. 18 June, 2022. https://pasadenahistory.org/exploring-pasadenas-past-the-heart-of-pasadenas-communities-of-color/

Liu, Yan. “A full moon in another land: The Moon Bridge in the Japanese garden of the Huntington Library.” Frontiers of Architectural Research Vol. 9 Iss. 3, September 2020. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095263520300182#abs0010

Most of this episode consists of original research, drawn from the newspapers listed below.

Newspapers:

California Eagle

Liberator (Los Angeles)

Long Beach Tribune

Los Angeles Evening Express

Los Angeles Evening Post Record

Los Angeles Herald

Los Angeles Times

Pasadena Star News

Pasadena Post

Sacramento Daily Union

San Francisco Daily Call

South Pasadenan

South Pasadena Record

Music: Edvard Grieg's 1906 'Butterfly' is this episode's background music. Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston.

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A sexy death mystery unfolded in 1931 New York City, when a socialite washed up on the shores of Long Island. Was her death an accident, a suicide, or foul play at the hands of the many prominent men she knew?

Sources:

Allhoff, Fred. “The Starr Faithfull Enigma.” Liberty. June 12, 1939. Pp. 20-23.

“Five Starr Faithfull.” TIME. June 29, 1931. https://time.com/archive/6747467/the-press-five-starr-faithfull/

Goodman, Jonathan. The Passing of Starr Faithfull (Kent: The Kent State University Press, 1996).

Kennedy, Helen. “Dangerous Game: Starr Faithfull, 1931” New York Daily News, 1999.

Markey, Morris. “The Mysterious Death of Starr Faithfull” in The Aspirin Age: 1919-1941. Ed. Isabel Leighton (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949).

Nash, Jay Robert. Open Files: A narrative encyclopedia of the world’s greatest unsolved crimes (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983).

“Starr Crossed.” Strange Company. March 14, 2016. https://strangeco.blogspot.com/2016/03/starr-crossed.html

Verdict Press. Crimes of Passion (London: Verdict Press, 1975).

Newspapers:

Brooklyn Standard-Union

Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)

Indianapolis Times

Nassau Daily Review

New York Times

Washington Times

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The first ‘Murder by Mail’ was sent to Mrs. Josephine Barnaby in 1891 in the form of an arsenic-laced whiskey bottle. When she and a friend drank the whiskey, both fell violently ill. The resulting murder trial would tear families apart for decades to come.

Sources:

Conrad, Barnaby. A Revolting Transaction (New York: Arbor House, 1983).

Day, Martin C. Death in the Mail (Providence: The Journal Print, 1892).

Galpern, Jennifer L. “Happy New Year…in April?” The Rhode Island Historical Society. 13 April, 2017. https://www.rihs.org/happy-new-year-in-april/

Newspapers:

Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)

Fort Worth Gazette

Morning Journal and Courier (New Haven)

Narragansett Herald

New York Times

Pawtucket Tribune

Providence News

Portland Daily Press

Rock Island Daily Argus

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