Episode 148 - The Strack Family & Cave Explorer, Floyd Collins

First, Naomi covers the tragic murder-suicide of an entire family for what can only be reasons of religious delusions.

Then Amber tells the story of cave explorer, Floyd Collins. On January 30, 1925, while working in  Sand Cave, Floyd Collins became trapped in a narrow crawlway 55 feet  below ground.

Naomi pulled her sources from:
https://medium.com/p/4e3229686d96

https://www.washingtonpost.com/utah-family-of-five-died-in-gruesome-murder-suicide/

https://kutv.com/killer-dan-lafferty-says-his-ideas-influenced-strack-family-suicide

https://www.fox13now.com/2014/09/30/relative-speaks-after-mysterious-strack-family-deaths

https://www.deseret.comfear-of-pending-apocalypse-led-to-murder-suicides

https://www.jacksonsun.com/troubling-signs-utah-family-found-dead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Banner_of_Heaven

https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/lafferty-murders

Amber pulled her sources from:
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/tragedy-at-sand-cave.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Collins

https://ky.ng.mil/News/Article/2648067/the-kentucky-national-guard-and-the-william-floyd-collins-tragedy-at-sand-cave/

This week, Amber was drinking Chateau Franc Cardinal, Frances Cotes de Bordeaux, France.
 
 

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