America is known for multiple things: apple pie, Mr. T, and school massacres. But the worst massacre of all time is likely one you've never heard of before. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about the 1927 bombing of Bath Consolidated Schools that resulted in the deaths of 43 people, mainly children. Just your ever-so-often reminder that while it seems like things are extra terrible now, we've always been pretty shitty.

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands.

Cite your sources:

Bernstein, Arnie. Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing. University of Michigan Press, 2009.

"Deepening Farms with Dynamite." Farms.com, 2 Nov. 2017, www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/historical-articles-archive/deepening-farms-with-dynamite. Originally published in The Farmer's Advocate, 29 Aug. 1912.

Gulliver, Katrina. "Why We Have Forgotten the Worst School Attack in U.S. History." Time, 12 December 2023, https://time.com/4492872/kehoe-attack-history/.

Haddad, Ken. "96 years later: Michigan's Bath School disaster remains deadliest in US history." ClickOnDetroit, 18 May 2023, https://www.clickondetroit.com/features/2023/05/16/96-years-later-michigans-bath-school-disaster-remains-deadliest-in-us-history/. Accessed 22 April 2026.

"Survivors Recall 1927 Michigan School Massacre." NPR, 17 April 2009, https://www.npr.org/2009/04/17/103186662/survivors-recall-1927-michigan-school-massacre. Accessed 22 April 2026.

In 1982, seven people died after taking doses of Extra Strength Tylenol, leading to a full-blown and safety standards for over-the-counter meds. To this day, the murders remain unsolved. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss this 1982 mystery and its possible suspects while Beth mispronounces "business ethics" because that's not really a thing.

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands.

Cite your sources:

Bergmann, Joy. "A Bitter Pill." Chicago Reader, 2 Nov. 2000, https://chicagoreader.com/news/a-bitter-pill/. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.

Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders. Directed by Yotam Guendelman and Ari Pines, Netflix, 2025. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.

Harris, Gardiner. No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson. Random House, 2025.

Locke, Taylor. "Tylenol Orders in Pregnant People Plummeted after Trump Falsely Linked the Drug to Autism." Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2026, www.scientificamerican.com/article/tylenol-orders-in-pregnant-people-plummeted-after-trump-falsely-linked-the/. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.

"Searching for Tylenol Murder Suspects." Thirteen / PBS, https://www.thirteen.org/programs/chicago-stories/searching-for-tylenol-murder-suspects-iamsis/. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.

Waxman, Olivia B. "The True Story Behind Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders." Time, 26 May 2025, https://time.com/7287680/tylenol-murders-documentary-netflix/. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.

"Who Committed the Tylenol Murders? After More Than 40 Years, the Case Remains Unsolved." WTTW Chicago, https://www.wttw.com/chicago-stories/inside-the-tylenol-murders/who-committed-the-tylenol-murders. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.

Winny, Annalies. "The Evidence on Tylenol and Autism." Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 7 October 2025, https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-evidence-on-tylenol-and-autism. Accessed 23 March 2026.

Hey dear Dash Hounds, we are back this week in a regular kind of way talking about a woman you probably have never heard of—unless you are a folk art phenom like Beth. Learn about a woman and artist whose life may have gone unnoticed except for her self-taught crayon portraits. They go for about $3K on Antiques Roadshow, which is so close to our going rate for Patreon. Inez Nathaniel-Walker's life was not easy, but somewhere, someone with an easier life is looking at her work and likely wondering who was she? Well you have come to the right place. Thanks for listening; it is an act of love.

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Cite your sources:

https://www.inezwalker.com/, 2024, https://www.inezwalker.com/. Accessed 28 February 2026.

"American Folk Art Museum." Women's Studies, https://folkartmuseum.org/exhibitions/womens-studies/. Accessed 28 February 2026.

Bellows, Sierra. "Tales From and Attic." The American Scholar, Phi Betta Kappa, 4 March 2024, https://theamericanscholar.org/tales-from-an-attic/. Accessed 4 March 2026.

Brown, Chris. "Her ex-husband cut off her hands. Now she is trying to help other Russian victims of domestic violence." CBC, 26 March 2021, https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/margarita-gracheva-tv-show-1.5949790. Accessed 4 March 2026.

D'Ambrosio, Paul. "Bad Girls." American Folk Art, 31 March 2010, https://folkartcooperstown.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html. Accessed 27 Febrauary 2026.

Kippert, Amanda. "Women Serve Longer Prison Sentences After Killing Abusers." Domestic Shelters, 22 June 2020, https://www.domesticshelters.org/articles/in-the-news/women-serve-longer-prison-sentences-after-killing-abusers. Accessed 4 March 2026.

"Memorial Service for Pat Parsons." https://www.essexonlakechamplain.com/pat-parsons/.

Rhodes, Adam. "New York Women's Prison with a hostory of Violencehired a high ranking officialknown for abuse." https://prismreports.org/2026/02/25/bedford-hills-michael-blot-transgender/.