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It was the winter of 1919, and the folks at the Purity Distilling Company were working their asses off. Prohibition was right around the corner, and they wanted to make as much rum as they could -- while it was still legal. They received shipment after shipment of a key ingredient: Molasses. All of it went in a tank in Boston\\u2019s North End. The tank was 50 feet tall and 90 feet in diameter. It held up to 2.3 million gallons of molasses. But the tank had problems. It leaked constantly, and it made strange groaning sounds. It had been poorly constructed. On January 15, 1919, the tank collapsed.

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Then Brandi tells us about pedofile Jeff Doucet. Jeff ran a karate studio in the 80s, and that\\u2019s how he gained the trust of 11 year old Jody Plauche. Over time, Jeff groomed Jody. For a year, he sexually abused the boy. Then, in February of 1984, he kidnapped Jody. Investigators tracked Jeff down to a motel in California, and returned Jody to his parents. Jody\\u2019s parents were devastated to hear what had happened to their son. And Jody\\u2019s father Gary decided to get revenge.

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And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

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The book, \\u201cDark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919\\u201d by Stephen Puleo

\\u201cThe Great Molasses Flood,\\u201d by Robert Stanly for New England Today

\\u201cWhy the Great Molasses Flood Was So Deadly\\u201d by Emily Sohn for history.com\\n

\\u201cGreat Molasses Flood\\u201d entry on Britannica

\\u201cGreat Molasses Flood\\u201d entry on Wikipedia

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\\u201cSurvivors Perspective with Jody Plauch\\xe9\\u201d episode, Criminal Perspective podcast

\\u201cMolested, abducted as a child in infamous Baton Rouge case, Jody Plauch\\xe9 wants his story to help others\\u201d by George Morris, The Advocate

\\u201cA Father\\u2019s Justice\\u201d by Rick Reilly, ESPN

\\u201cMan Who Shot Son\\u2019s Alleged Kidnapper Pleads Innocent\\u201d by Guy Coates, AP

\\u201cPlauche Pleads No Contest To Manslaughter Charges\\u201d by Ray Formaker Jr., AP

\\u201cFather Who Killed Alleged Abuser on TV Avoids Jail\\u201d Los Angeles Times

\\u201cGary Plauch\\xe9\\u201d wikipedia.org\\n