This week Beth and Wendy discuss the case of Lloyd Gomez, aka The Phantom Hobo Killer, a Native American/Latinx serial killer who murdered nine homeless men across California between 1950 and 1951.
This episode was researched & scripted by Wendy & Beth Williams and edited by Minnie Williams.
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Footnotes
Articles/Websites
Wikipedia. (01/28/2024). Lloyd Gomez. Retrieved 03/20/2024 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Gomez
Madera Tribune. (01/25/1952). Murdered Nine Men For $62, Vagrant Admits. Retrieved 03/23/2024 from https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19520125.2.7
Wilson, Stanley I. (10/16/1953). Gomez Goes Calmly to Death in Gas Chamber. The Sacramento Bee. Retrieved 03/23/2024 from https://www.newspapers.com/image/617584441/
Morrow, Jason Lucky. (05/05/2020). Serial Killer’s Anonymous: Chapter 4 ‒ The Mystery of the Hobo Jungles, 1950-51. Historical Crime Detective. Retrieved 03/29/2024 from https://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/serial-killers-anonymous-ch-4-%E2%80%92-hobocidal-maniac-lloyd-gomez-1950-51/
History
Lenz, Christopher Wylie. (2013). The Railroad Tramp And The American Cultural Imaginary. The University of Florida. Retrieved 03/23/2024 from https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/UF/E0/04/52/50/00001/LENZ_C.pdf
Britt Hobo Days. (n.d.). Retrieved 03/23/2024 from https://www.britthobodays.com/
The Black Prisoners Project. (n.d.). Road Camps. Retrieved 03/30/2024 from https://blackprisonersproject.omeka.net/exhibits/show/road-camps
Goluboff, Risa; Sorenson, Adam. (2019). United States Vagrancy Laws. University of Virginia. Retrieved 03/30/2024 from https://www.law.virginia.edu/scholarship/publication/risa-goluboff/640716
O’Brassill-Kulfan, Kristin. (2016). Vagrancy. Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. Retrieved 03/30/2024 from https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/vagrancy/
O’Brien, Cynthia; Kiffel-Alcheh, Jamie. (n.d.). Native People of California. National Geographic Kids. Retrieved 03/30/2024 from https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/native-people-of-california
Library of Congress. (n.d.). California as I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California’s Early Years, 1849 to 1900. Retrieved 03/30/2024 from https://www.loc.gov/collections/california-first-person-narratives/articles-and-essays/early-california-history/
Books
Kulczyk, David. (2018). Forgotten Sacramento Murders 1940-1976. Charleston, South Carolina. Published: CreateSpace.
How Not to Get Murdered
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“All Units Respond” by Marlene Miller. Used with permission. Find her Facebook and Instagram under SEMNCHY or marlenemiller138@gmail.com
“Furious Freak” by Kevin MacLeod
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