Episode 2 - The Spontaneously Combusting Woman

More than 70 years later, the circumstances behind Mary Reeser's death still remain fuzzy. Police say the crime scene is unlike anything they've ever seen before and the rumors that swirl around St. Petersburg, Florida don't help.

So, how did Mary Reeser's death become associated with spontaneous human combustion? What a massive federal investigation finds will certainly justify Mary's death as being one of the most bizarre unsolved mysteries in true crime history.

This week, we are drinking Kim Crawford's rosé.

Listen to Episode 2: The Spontaneously Combusting Woman

SOURCES:

• Did spontaneous combustion kill St. Pete widow Mary Reeser?

• The Curious Case of Mary Hardy Reeser

• Did This Woman Die From Human Combustion?

• The Spontaneous Human Combustion Of Mary Reeser

• The Black Vault

• Smoke Alarm History - MySmokeAlarm

• Taking a Look at the Surprising History of Fire Alarms

• Spontaneous human combustion is REAL and burns you like 'incendiary bomb'

• The mysterious cases of people who burst into flames for no reason

• Determining Volumetric Shrinkage Trends of Burnt Bone Using Micro-CT

• Irishman’s Death Ruled Spontaneous Combustion

• Cause of woman’s ‘disintegration’ in 1951 St. Pete fire still unknown