Spontaneous Human Combustion

This podcast consists primarily of FBI internal memos and correspondence related to the bizarre 1951 death of Mrs. Mary Hardy Reeser in St. Petersburg, Florida, where her body was almost entirely consumed by fire with minimal damage to the surrounding apartment. These sources include FBI Laboratory reports sent to the St. Petersburg Chief of Police, requests for information from journalists, students, and authors over a period of decades, and the FBI's standard responses affirming that the investigation details were confidential and handled by local police.