EP 85: The Demon of the Belfry
In this week's episode Kate and Paul head to 1895 San Francisco where a woman boards a rail car but is never heard from again. After another woman goes missing, investigators hope to find ties between the two cases.
Sources:
“Missing from Home: Blanche Lamont Cannot Be Found” (The San Francisco Chronicle, April 10, 1895)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/27331863/?terms=Blanche%20Lamont&match=1
“The Mystery of a Girl” (The San Francisco Call and Post, April 10, 1895)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/46373724/?terms=Blanche%20Lamont&match=1
“Blanche Lamont’s Double” (The San Francisco Examiner, April 11, 1895)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/459338033/?terms=Blanche%20Lamont&match=1
“She Has Not Returned” (The San Francisco Chronicle, April 11, 1895)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/27332099/?terms=Blanche%20Lamont&match=1
“Missing Blanche Lamont” (The San Francisco Examiner, April 13th, 1895)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/459338920/?terms=Blanche%20Lamont&match=1
“A Horrible Tragedy in a Church” (The San Francisco Chronicle, April 14, 1895)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/27335162/?terms=Blanche%20Lamont&match=1
“Her Rings Were Returned” (The San Francisco Examiner, April 14, 1895)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/459339830/?terms=Blanche%20Lamont&match=1
“Blacker Grows the Cloud Over Emanuel Baptist Church” (The San Francisco Call and Post, April 15, 1895)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/46375341/?terms=purse&match=1
“Blanche Lamont Found Dead in Emanuel’s Belfry” (The San Francisco Chronicle, April 15, 1895)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/27335532/?terms=strangled&match=1
Blanche Lamont Dead in the Belfry (The San Francisco Chronicle, April 15, 1895)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/27335688/?terms=Blanche%20Lamont&match=1
“Durrant Again Accused” (The San Francisco Call and Post, May 2, 1895)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/46380709/?terms=blanche%20lamont&match=1
“Opening of the Durrant Murder Trial” (The San Francisco Examiner, July 23, 1895)
https://sfexaminer.newspapers.com/image/457751571/?terms=annie%20laurie%20durrant
“Blanche Lamont’s Aunt Identifies Clothing of Her Murdered Niece” (The San Francisco Chronicle, September 11, 1895)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/27363104/?terms=blanche%20lamont&match=1
“Attorneys for Durrant Introduce a Mysterious Strap at the Trial” (The San Francisco Chronicle, September 12, 1895)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/27363609/?terms=strap&match=1
“Murder in the Belfry: How the Story of Theodore Durrant Captivated Victorian San Francisco” by Carly Severn (KQED, October 26, 2023)