Death in Dakota

On this bonus true crime companion episode, Bryce travels to Denver, Colorado, where the crash of another airplane, along the same route as flight 409, raises suspicions about what really happened. The case would go on to live in infamy as the second of its kind to ever occur in the United States, and the first in which cameras would be allowed into a court of law. Audiences should listen to Episode 9: Mystery on Medicine Bow before diving in. 

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On this week's disaster episode, Bryce travels to Medicine Bow Peak in Wyoming to investigate the crash of United flight 409. The flight killed 66 passengers and tied two other crashes as the deadliest aviation incidents of 1955. 

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On this week's disaster episode, Bryce travels to Kansas, and across the Great Plains region, to report on the disgusting summer in which billons of locusts overtook the region and ruined pretty much everything. 

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Surprise! We weren't done with this week's disaster story. Listeners are strongly encouraged to listen to Episode 5: They Won't Stop Coming before listening to this one.  

On this surprise bonus true crime companion episode, Bryce travels far outside our jurisdiction to Juneau, Alaska where Special Forces Army Captain William James Clark is shopping for ATVs at a gun show in 2010. An unexpected connection to the I-40 bridge collapse complicates the disaster response and changes our understanding of the aftermath of that May day.

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On this week's disaster episode, Bryce covers the I-40 Bridge Collapse in Webbers Falls Oklahoma. This disaster led to the deaths of 14 people and changed the way Oklahoma thought about its infrastructure forever.  

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On this week's true crime episode, Bryce takes us to Spearfish, South Dakota to investigate the brutal torture and murder of Chester Poage at the hands of three killers. This case led to South Dakota's first death penalty execution in over sixty years. 

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Murderpedia 

Rapid City Journal articles by Kevin Woster,  Bill Cissell, Bill Harlan, and Andrea Cook. 

On this week's disaster episode, Bryce covers the 1888 Schoolhouse Blizzard that affected states across the Great Plains region. He tells the story of several survivors and victims of the blizzard, many of whom were teachers and schoolchildren. 

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In All Its Fury: A History of the Blizzard of January 12, 1888, With Stories and Reminiscences compiled by W.H. O’Gara and edited by Ora A. Clement, The Children’s Blizzard written by David Laskin, “125 years ago, deadly ‘Children’s Blizzard blasted Minnesota’” written by Alyssa Ford.