Resources

Articles, Blogs, and Podcasts

• Brice, Anne. “How a Botched Train Robbery Led to the Birth of Modern American Criminology.” Berkely News. April 29, 2019.  https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/04/30/heinrich-collection-at-the-bancroft-library/. Accessed September 23, 2023. [with podcast episode]
• “CSI: Southern Pacific.” Sidedoor, podcast, Smithsonian. October 11, 2023, https://www.si.edu/sidedoor/csi-southern-pacific. [with podcast episode]
• Holland, Alisha, Josh McCullough, and Emily Rowney. “Episode 96: A Long Run in the Shadows.” Murder in the Rain. July 11, 2022. https://www.murderintherain.com/post/96-a-long-run-in-the-shadows. Accessed September 23, 2023. [with podcast episode]
• Kozicki, Tom. “Flags in Canceling Devices (1920-1929), The West's Last Great Train Robbery.” The International Machine Cancel Society. http://machinecancel.org/forum/forum1999/mc_wreck.html. Accessed September 23, 2023.
• LaLande, Jeff. "DeAutremont Brothers Train Hold-up at Tunnel 13." The Oregon Encyclopedia. https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/deautremont-brothers-train-hold-up-at-tunnel-13/. Accessed October 4, 2023.
• LaLande, Jeff. "Siskiyou Pass." The Oregon Encyclopedia. https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/siskiyou_pass/. Accessed September 23, 2023.
• Murphy, Gordon K. “Tragedy at Tunnel 13: The d'Autremont Brothers and ‘The Edison of Crime Detection.’” The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology 7-8 (1986-1987): 71-74.
• Rose, Chelsea. “Unearthing Oregon History: Tragedy at Tunnel 13.” The Oregon Historical Society. October 10, 2023. https://www.ohs.org/blog/tragedy-at-tunnel-13.cfm. [with video]
• The Jefferson Exchange Team. “Underground History focuses on The Tragedy at Tunnel 13 near Ashland.” Underground History, Jefferson Public Radio. September 28, 2023, https://www.ijpr.org/show/the-jefferson-exchange/2023-09-28/fri-9-25-underground-history-focuses-on-the-tragedy-at-tunnel-13-near-ashland. [with podcast episode]
• The Jefferson Exchange Team. “How the post office got so involved in a murder investigation in the Siskiyous.” Underground History, podcast, Jefferson Public Radio. October 6, 2023, https://www.ijpr.org/show/the-jefferson-exchange/2023-10-06/mon-9-am-how-the-post-office-got-so-involved-in-a-murder-investigation-in-the-siskiyous. [with podcast episode]
• Trail, Pepper and Edgard Espinoza. “Tunnel 13: How Forensic Science Helped Solve America's Last Great Train Robbery.” Jefferson Public Radio. December 31, 2013. https://www.ijpr.org/history/2013-12-31/tunnel-13-how-forensic-science-helped-solve-americas-last-great-train-robbery. Accessed September 23, 2023.

Books

• Block, Eugene. Great Train Robberies of the West. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1959. [“The Case of the Abandoned Overalls” chapter]
• Chipman, Art. Tunnel 13: The Story of the DeAutremont Brothers and the West's Last Great Train Hold Up. Medford, OR: Pine Cone Publishers, 1977.
• Dawson, Kate Winkler. American Sherlock: Murder Forensics and the Birth of American CSI. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2020. [“Double 13: The Case of the Great Train Heist” chapter]
• Mangold, Scott. Tragedy at Southern Oregon Tunnel 13: DeAutremonts Hold Up the Southern Pacific. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2013.
• Sturholm, Larry and John Howard. All for Nothing; The True Story of the Last Great American Train Robbery. Portland, OR: BLS Publishing Co., 1976.
• Webber, Burt. Oregon's Great Train Holdup: The DeAutremont Case No. 57893-D. Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1974.

Collections in Museums and Archives

Multiple repositories with primary sources include:

• National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 28 – Records of the Post Office Department: https://www.archives.gov/findingaid/stat/discovery/28 and https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/028.html
• National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution: https://postalmuseum.si.edu/search-the-collection
• The Oregon Historical Society: https://www.ohs.org/research-and-library/ and https://museumcollection.ohs.org/argus/ohs/portal.aspx
• Southern Oregon Historical Society: https://sohs.catalogaccess.com
• University of California Berkley, Bancroft Library, University Archives, Edward Oscar Heinrich Papers, 1888-1953: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8n303k9/
• University of California Berkley, Bancroft Library, University Archives, Southern Pacific Company Train Robbery Records, 1892-1940: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf0h4n97nt/

Comic Books

• “Brother Rats.” Crime Does Not Pay 49 (Jan 1947): 25-33.
• “The D'Autremont Brothers and ‘The Siskayu Tunnel Murders.’” Murder Incorporated 6 (Nov 1948): 1-9.
• “Justice Has a Million Eyes!” Magazine Village: True Crime Comics 1:6 (Jun-Jul 1949): 31-34.
• “The Twin Killers: The DeAutremont Brothers.” Wanted 11 (Jan 1948): 2-10.

Documentaries and Films

• Horton, Kami and Jim Cissell, dirs. 2015. Murder on the Southern Pacific. Oregon Public Broadcasting. [Summary and video available at: Horton, Kami. “Murder on the Southern Pacific.” Oregon Public Broadcasting. May 5, 2015. https://www.opb.org/television/programs/oregonexperience/article/murder-on-the-southern-pacific/]
• KTLV 10. “Medford’s Most Wanted Back in Time: Train Robber Tells All.” May 30, 2013. News clip with interview, 5:06. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=HosbufZ7P_I. [Includes interview with Ray DeAutremont]

Newspaper Databases

Multiple contemporary news articles about the case can be located by searching newspaper databases, two free access databases include:

• “Historic Oregon Newspapers,” University of Oregon, https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu.
• “Chronicling America,” Library of Congress, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.

Oral History Interviews

• “Oral history with Noreen Saltveit McGraw.” McGraw, Noreen Saltveit. May 24, 2000 – July 31, 2000. Audiocassettes. Oregon Historical Society, Library.  https://digitalcollections.ohs.org/sr-1277-oral-history-interview-with-noreen-saltveit-mcgraw. Accessed September 23, 2023. [Includes discussion of court cases and paroles for the DeAutremonts; Stroman, Sarah. “Tales from the Oral History Collections: Noreen Saltveit McGraw.” The Oregon Historical Society. May 3, 2022. https://www.ohs.org/blog/noreen-saltveit-mcgraw.cfm. Accessed September 23, 2023.]
• SFC Audio Open Reel 12658: Interview with Ray DeAutremont, 27 November 1973: Side 1 in the Ed Kahn Collection #20360. Southern Folklife Collection,The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. https://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/sfc/id/48771/rec/1.