Sarah wraps up season 1 with the classic Christmas cold case of JonBenet Ramsey.

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Sources:
https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/JonBen%C3%A9t_Ramsey

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_JonBen%C3%A9t_Ramsey#Parents

https://www.biography.com/news/jonbenet-ramsey-murder-investigation-timeline

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/jonbenet-ramsey

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/who-killed-jonbenet-ramsey-8-possible-suspects-129125/the-housekeeper-129416/\

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Marisa gets into the Christmas Spirit this episode with Santa's weird dark companions and a local Philly ghost story.

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Sources:
https://christmaspast.media/episode-2-santa-claus-part-2/

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/06/world/saint-nicholas-day-santa-trnd/index.html

https://www.1sttheworld.com/blogs/news/what-is-the-krampuslauf

https://www.facebook.com/paradeofspiritsll/

https://whyy.org/articles/krampus-brings-dark-winter-magic-to-northern-liberties/

https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/article/20151026/OPINION/310269850

https://mikeslickster.wordpress.com/2015/12/24/haunting-at-pen-ryn-the-ghosts-from-christmas-eve-past-the-conclusion/

https://bucks.happeningmag.com/prestige-disrepair-story-pen-ryn/

https://www.penrynestate.com/history/

https://www.pennlive.com/life/2018/12/what_is_the_belsnickel_why_is.html

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-christmas-chronicles-2-what-is-the-belsnickel/

Sarah covers one of her favorite subjects: The Salem Witch Trials, otherwise known as "Puritan Wrongful Convictions".

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Sources:
https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/salem-witch-trials

https://www.britannica.com/event/Salem-witch-trials/The-trials

https://study.com/academy/lesson/puritans-in-america-beliefs-religion-history.html#:~:text=The%20Puritans%20believed%20that%20they,was%20dissent%20within%20the%20colonies.

https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2007/10/puritan-laws-and-customs.html

https://www.ushistory.org/us/3d.asp

https://law.jrank.org/pages/11881/Colonial-Period-Criminal-law.html

https://history.hanover.edu/texts/masslib.html

https://allthatsinteresting.com/salem-witch-trials-causes

Inspired by a visit to West Virginia, Marisa looks into the mysterious circumstances surrounding the fire that may or may not have claimed the lives of members of the Sodder Family.

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Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-children-who-went-up-in-smoke-172429802/

https://thetruecrimefiles.com/sodder-children-disappearance/

https://medium.com/the-true-crime-times/the-sodder-family-a-christmas-inferno-f39f60843412

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

Sarah's passion for the wrongfully convicted continues with this week's episode detailing what happens when physical evidence is overlooked and a witch hunt rules over common sense.

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Sources:
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/memphis3/WestMemphis3Account.html

https://www.eonline.com/news/1135012/inside-the-unknown-story-of-the-forgotten-west-memphis-three

https://meaww.com/west-memphis-three-brutal-murders-three-8-year-old-boys-roots-to-satanism

https://www.britannica.com/event/West-Memphis-Three

https://allthatsinteresting.com/west-memphis-three

https://famous-trials.com/westmemphis/2247-whokilled

Marisa scrutinizes the Watcher of Westfield and how a creepy anonymous letter writer could scare a family away from their dream home.

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Sources:
https://www.nj.com/data/2019/06/the-wealthiest-towns-in-nj-ranked.html

https://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/creative-business/13-best-skillshare-classes-for-designers-artists/

https://www.thefoundrycast.com/single-post/2020/01/24/The-Watcher-of-Westfield-NJ

https://patch.com/new-jersey/westfield/infamous-westfield-watcher-house-has-new-owners

https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/upscale-suburb-westfield-nj-scariest-place-to-live/

Sarah's love for American Horror Story continues as she dives into the history of Madame Delphine LaLaurie, the New Orleans Socialite and serial killer with a penchant for murdering and torturing her own slaves.

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Sources:
https://ghostcitytours.com/new-orleans/haunted-places/lalaurie-mansion/madame-lalaurie/https://allthatsinteresting.com/madame-lalauriehttps://historycollection.com/12-secrets-revealed-about-historys-brutal-mistress-madame-lalaurie/9/

If Halloween looks different now than it did when you were a kid, Marisa is here to explain how and why that happened; with the fall of Trick or Treating and the rise of the dreaded Trunk or Treat.

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Sources:
http://www.fourpoundsflour.com/the-razor-blade-in-the-apple-a-modern-history-of-trick-or-treating/

https://www.history.com/news/how-americans-became-convinced-their-halloween-candy-was-poisoned

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Clark_O%27Bryan

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/10/is-trick-or-treating-on-the-decline/574459/

https://www.womansworld.com/posts/entertainment/history-of-trick-or-treating-145611

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

Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween - By Lisa Morton

Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life - edited by Jack Santino

Inspired by American Horror Story Season 5, Sarah dives into the curious and disturbing history surrounding the notorious Cecil Hotel

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Sources:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/cecil-hotel-los-angeles

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/richard-ramirez

https://allthatsinteresting.com/jack-unterweger

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1867198_1867170_1867291,00.html

https://filmdaily.co/news/elisa-lam/

https://filmdaily.co/news/haunted-hotel-cecil/

A (sort of) lighthearted episode on Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow and that time Orson Welles tricked people into thinking aliens had come to annihilate us.

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Sources:
https://www.lohud.com/story/entertainment/2019/10/09/sleepy-hollow-halloween-events-food/3920210002/

https://www.history.com/news/legend-sleepy-hollow-headless-horseman

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41/41-h/41-h.htm

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2009/10/ready-martian-invasion/

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/10/30/241797346/75-years-ago-war-of-the-worlds-started-a-panic-or-did-it

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/infamous-war-worlds-radio-broadcast-was-magnificent-fluke-180955180/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g&t=144s

https://skepticalinquirer.org/newsletter/shootout-with-martians-in-the-wake-of-the-1938-broadcast-panic/

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2749