A 1932 Stockholm murder becomes one of Sweden’s strangest cold cases. When 32-year-old Lilly Lindeström is found dead in her apartment, unusual details spark rumorsof a “vampire” killer. What’s fact, what’s myth, and why was the case never solved?

Source Materials
https://gizmodo.com/swedens-most-bizarre-unsolved-murder-was-maybe-commit-1706115395
https://londonpress.wordpress.com/2016/08/24/the-disturbing-unsolved-case-of-the-atlas-vampire

https://medium.com/@marvelinemerab/she-was-killed-in-broad-daylight-and-drained-like-a-horror-story-de41701dd6bf

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A woman posing as Andrew Carnegie’s secret daughter scammed banks out of today’s equivalent of $20 million—armed with nothing but forged notes and absolute confidence. This is the rise and unraveling of Cassie Chadwick, one of the boldest fraudsters of the Gilded Age.

Source Materials

Crosbie, John. The Incredible Mrs. Chadwick. 1975.

Hazelgrove, William Elliott. Greed in the Gilded Age: TheBrilliant Con of Cassie Chadwick. Lyons Press, 2021.

Wade, Carlson. Great Hoaxes & Famous Impostors. 1976.

Hayek, Caroline C.; Gates, Sandra; Rankin, Robert J. “TheSocial Construction of Fraudulent Identity.”

“Cassie Chadwick: The Female Wizard of Finance.” Ohio History Connection, June 22, 2022.

“The High Priestess of Fraudulent Finance.” SmithsonianMagazine.

Newspaper coverage quoted from: Cleveland Plain Dealer;Clinton Republican; Oberlin Review.

A young woman in rural Tipperary falls suddenly ill in 1895—and within days, fear, folklore, and family pressure spiral into one of Ireland’s most disturbing murder cases. This episode unravels the death of Bridget Cleary, the beliefs that shaped it, and the legacy she never asked for.

Source Materials

Bourke, Angela. The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story. Penguin, 2000.

The Tipperary Witch Case (1895 court and newspaper reporting).

McGrath, Thomas. “Fairy Faith and Changelings: The Burning of Bridget Cleary in 1895.”

Ruxton, Dean. “The Story of the Last ‘Witch’ Burned Alive in Ireland.” The Irish Times, 2016.

“The Charred Remains of Bridget Cleary Were Found in a Bog…” History Collection.

“The Murder of Bridget Cleary: Ireland’s Last Witch and the Fire of Superstition.” Secret Ireland.

National Archives of Ireland images and records related to the Cleary case.