Poisoned History
by Suzanne
True CrimeE · Explicit
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Agatha Christie's The Chocolate Box
Agatha Christie's The Chocolate Box
About this podcast
Poisoned History is about poisons and how they have been used for nefarious purposes throughout history. Listen to true crime with commentary from a chemist's perspective. Don't worry, we don't nerd out *all* the time...
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 34 episodes
- Agatha Christie's The Chocolate Box · 49 min · Season 3 Episode 9Today we are doing our annual Fake Crime show, this time it’s a short story by Agatha Christie called the Chocolate Box. We are switching roles for this episode; our resident…
- Mary Ann Geering, Strung Out and Strung Up · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 8Mary Ann Geering was a British woman who poisoned her husband and three of her adult children, seemingly out of nowhere. But as the case progressed, some details came out that…
- Mary Blandy, Philtre to Phantom · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 7Mary Blandy was a fine young lady who got involved with the wrong man, who despite his title was quite ignoble. Her attempt to convince her father he was a great guy ended in…
- Sarah Ann French, Arsenic Pie · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 6Sarah Ann French was a young wife with an older husband who took a fancy to a younger man, with disastrous results. Sources and resources: Teresa Geering, The Guestling…
- Martha Place, Acid and Anarchy · 45 min · Season 3 Episode 5Martha Place was a middle-aged woman with a tragic life story and a fearful temper. One day her husband brought out the Jersey girl in her, leading to more tragedy. Sources and…
- Mary Alice Livingston, the Clam Chowder Killer? · 52 min · Season 3 Episode 4Mary Alice Livingston Fleming was a single mom from a wealthy family who allegedly killed her own mother in 1895 but denied having anything to do with it. Her family and this…
- Adelaide Bartlett, Threesome or Love Triangle? · 1 h 1 min · Season 3 Episode 3Adelaide Bartlett was a young French woman living in England, who got into a love triangle with her husband and another man. When her husband turned up dead one day though, the…
- Edward Pritchard, the Human Crocodile · 51 min · Season 3 Episode 2Dr. Edward Pritchard was a doctor (of sorts), viewed as a quack by many of his contemporaries, who decided that killing would solve all his problems most efficiently. He was…
- Thomas Neill Cream, the Lambeth Poisoner · 52 min · Season 3 Episode 1Thomas Neill Cream was a good-looking man about town in the late 1800s, who was poisoning many of the people he treated and blackmailing anyone he thought could afford to pay. He…
- Columbo: Murder Under Glass, Part Two · 43 min · Season 2 Episode 10Time for another fake crime episode! In this episode of Columbo, a restaurant owner is murdered by a restaurant critic who had been charging him for good reviews. Columbo…
- Columbo: Murder Under Glass, Part One · 46 min · Season 2 Episode 9Time for another fake crime episode! In this episode of Columbo, a restaurant owner is murdered by a restaurant critic who had been charging him for good reviews. Columbo…
- Robert Buchanan, Perfecting the Method · 53 min · Season 2 Episode 8Robert Buchanan was a doctor in New York in the late 1800s who divorced his first wife in order to marry a brothel-owning woman from Newark, New Jersey. When she turned up dead…
- Jane Toppan, Very Jolly · 1 h 7 min · Season 2 Episode 7Jane Toppan, aka Jolly Jane, was a nurse in the late 19th century who cared for the elderly and also murdered at least 31 of them. She admitted to taking pleasure in watching…
- Georgi Markov and the Umbrella (Pen?) Killing · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 6Georgi Markov was a Bulgarian writer (and chemist!) in the 1960s and 70s whose writings against the Soviet Union and Bulgaria got the attention of that government and led to his…
- Graham Young, the Teacup Poisoner · 56 min · Season 2 Episode 5Graham Young was a psychopath chemist who killed or injured many people who he came in contact with. He was fascinated with chemistry, poisons, and the Nazis, and had a habit of…
- Marie LaFarge, Ruining it for Everyone · 57 min · Season 2 Episode 4Marie Lafarge was a reluctant bride who was accused of murdering her husband in the late 1830s by poisoning him with arsenic. At the time the arsenic tests were often…
- Amy Archer, the Inspiration for "Arsenic and Old Lace" Part Two · 48 min · Season 2 Episode 3Part Two of two: Amy Archer’s reign of terror inside a nursing home in the early 1900s was the basis for the play and later the movie Arsenic and Old Lace. Amy took in boarders…
- Amy Archer, the Inspiration for "Arsenic and Old Lace" Part One · 53 min · Season 2 Episode 2Amy Archer’s reign of terror inside a nursing home in the early 1900s was the basis for the play and later the movie Arsenic and Old Lace. Amy took in boarders in a nursing home…
- Rasputin, Lover of the Russian Queen? · 49 min · Season 2 Episode 1Rasputin was a prominent figure in the Russian royal family just before the Russian revolution of 1917. The nobility felt that he had too much power over the czar and czarina…
- Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie, Part Two · 44 min · Season 1 Episode 16Fiction Episode! This episode contains spoilers. In the novel Sparkling Cyanide, a young heiress dies unexpectedly from cyanide poisoning during a birthday dinner. Although the…
