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Poisoned History

Suzanne

Poisoned History is about poisons and how they have been used for nefarious purposes throughout history. Cover art was generated using the Imagine.ai app

Episode list

8

  • April 1, 2025

    55 min

    Graham Young, the Teacup Poisoner

    Graham 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 po...

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  • March 1, 2025

    57 min

    Marie LaFarge, Ruining it for Everyone

    Marie 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 inconclusive,...

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  • February 1, 2025

    47 min

    Amy Archer, the Inspiration for "Arsenic and Old Lace" Part Two

    Part 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 in ...

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  • January 1, 2025

    53 min

    Amy Archer, the Inspiration for "Arsenic and Old Lace" Part One

    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 in a nursing home an...

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  • December 1, 2024

    49 min

    Rasputin, Lover of the Russian Queen?

    Rasputin 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, and ...

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  • September 15, 2024

    43 min

    Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie, Part Two

    Fiction Episode! This episode contains spoilers. In the novel Sparkling Cyanide, a young heiress dies unexpectedly from cyanide poisoning during a birthday dinner. Although the off...

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