Poisoned History Podcast
1) Columbo: Murder Under Glass
Time 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 suspects the writer from the s...Show More
2) Robert Buchanan, Perfecting the Method
Robert 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, it seemed like it had ...Show More
3) Jane Toppan, Very Jolly
Jane 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 them die and her deeds we...Show More
4) Georgi Markov and the Umbrella (Pen?) Killing
Georgi 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 targeting for assassin...Show More
5) 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 poisoning co-workers w...Show More
6) 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, and murderers could...Show More
7) 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 a nursing home and s...Show More
8) 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 and systematically kil...Show More
9) 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 wanted him gone. He ...Show More
10) 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 official verdict of an ...Show More