Sources and archives

The newspapers. The Arizona Republic carried the story on its front page on July 24, 1937, and a volunteer transcription of that story is freely readable at Genealogy Trails. The Coconino Sun’s local coverage from July 1937 is not online: it lives on microfilm at Northern Arizona University’s Cline Library, which fills scan requests. Subscription services hold clippings of the Republic coverage.

The graves. Marie and the four children rest at Citizens Cemetery, maintained by the City of Flagstaff. Their Find a Grave memorial pages, linked below, carry dates and community-contributed histories; we link them rather than reproduce them, since memorial photographs belong to the people who took them.

The television record. Susan Johnson brought the case to the producers of Travel Channel’s The Dead Files for the 2022 special about Flagstaff. Her involvement is documented on the Freaky Foot Tours blog; the case history in that episode is the book’s research.

The book. Everything above is fragments. The book is the only full-length account, built additionally on court documents and interviews with descendants of the era’s families.