#59: Disaster, Death, and Diamonds— the Birthday 3D episode!

This week, each sister takes a look at a dark moment in history that just happens to share her birthday.Nettie heads to South Korea for the devastating Daegu Subway Disaster— a deliberate act of arson that turned an ordinary morning commute into one of the deadliest subway disasters in history.Emily dives into the baffling case of Robert William Fisher, the Arizona father accused of murdering his wife and two children before blowing up their home and disappearing. More than two decades later, exactly what happened to Fisher remains a mystery.Hayley takes us inside the infamous Lufthansa Heist, when millions of dollars in cash and high-value goods were stolen from JFK Airport in a meticulously planned mob robbery. But pulling off the heist was only the beginning—the bloody aftermath would become almost as notorious as the robbery itself.Three sisters. Three birthdays. Three dark moments in history. Sources:Daegu subway fire — Wikipedia (sourced reference/background)Arsonist sets fire in South Korean subway — HISTORY.comS. Korea Subway Arsonist Gets Life Sentence — VOA NewsSubway arsonist gets life sentence — Al JazeeraPluto discovered — HISTORY.com Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — HISTORY.comFebruary 18: Facts & Historical Events On This Day — The Fact Sitehttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2003-02-19/dying-korean-subway-passengers-phoned-for-help/2688468https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/20/world/final-calls-add-to-anguish-over-korean-subway-fire.htmlhttps://prezi.com/ttz4yhh0xq7f/daegu-safety-theme-park/https://english.visitkorea.or.kr/svc/contents/contentsView.do?vcontsId=87885https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_William_Fisherhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Heisthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i_vPOVvpOkhttps://www.usinflationcalculator.com/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucchese_crime_familyMessage us!Thanks for listening to The Spooky Darlings! If you have a creepy, strange, or cool story you would like to share email us at [email protected] us on instagram and TikTok @thespookydarlingspodcast for more!Peruse our merch store at https://thespookydarlings.printful.me/