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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