55. I'd Kill For a Piece of Chocolate
Manage episode 411722139 series 3418817
The seaside town of Brighton, England had a string of poisonings in the late 1870's. The victims became severely sick after eating chocolate cream candies from a local sweet shop owned by J. G. Maynard. Mr. Maynard rid his shop of the chocolate inventory, but townsfolk continued getting sick and one young boy died after eating a piece of the offending candy. Investigators were stumped until the town doctor reluctantly came forward with information that helped shed light on the possible culprit.
Narrator: Curtis Hildreth
Intro and Outro Music: Isaiah Hildreth
Sources:
https://jvc.oup.com/2021/03/04/hysteria-and-victorian-women-in-art/#:~:text=Victorian%20women%20were%20expected%20to,France%2C%20England%2C%20and%20America.
https://murderpedia.org/female.E/images/edmunds_christiana/christiana-edmunds.pdf
Perrin, Lisa. The League of Lady Poisoners. 2023, San Francisco, Chronicle Books.
hardtimesandtruecrimes.com buymeacoffee.com/hardtimesTC
79 эпизодов