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New episode out NOW! We\u2019re shaking things up for the month of December! For the next four weeks you\u2019ll get a brand new episode along the same theme: the game Crack the Case. It\u2019s Casemas 2: Electric Boogaloo!

Crack the Case is a Milton Bradley party game that came out in 1993, where players ask yes or no questions in order to solve a mystery. We\u2019re putting our detective skills to the test!

Katy hosts week one, where we talk about how time works, a weird crime show trope, and the glories of American insurance systems. Katy shares mostly correct information about Houdini\u2019s death, Carrie brings up Murder She Wrote again, Maddy comes up with a new post-confession penance task, and Mack starts right away with the Christmas rum.

Give it a listen! Let us know if YOU solve it before we do!

TW: Death by suicide, unspecified terminal illness, blasphemy

Show Notes:

Most of Katy\u2019s/Maddy\u2019s/Carrie\u2019s Houdini death info was correct but here it is fully corrected and in more detail (sourced from Wikipedia):

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• October 22nd, 1926, Montreal: In his dressing room at the Princess Theater, Houdini was punched repeatedly in the stomach by Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead after saying his stomach could endure a lot of punches. Houdini performed his show that night in some pain.
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• October 22nd-24th, traveling from Montreal to Detroit: He got worse when traveling and after finally seeing a doctor, he had a fever of 102\xb0 and was told he had acute appendicitis. It was advised he should have surgery right away. He did not and kept going.
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• October 24th, 1926, Detroit: Despite feeling terrible with a fever now at 104\xb0, Houdini took the stage at the Garrick Theater. He reportedly collapsed, but was revived and continued the show. He finished and was then immediately hospitalized at Grace Hospital in Detroit.
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• October 31, 1926, Detroit: Harry Houdini died of peritonitis, secondary to a ruptured appendix, at 1:26 p.m. in Room 401 at Grace Hospital, aged 52.
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It is technically unclear if the stomach punch caused the death - he could have already been suffering from appendicitis or it could have been agitated by the punches - but ultimately his insurance company concluded his death was due to the dressing-room incident.