This episode was our very first microdose made available to our patrons. Florence Maybrick was accused of fatally poisoning her husband, James Maybrick, with arsenic in 1899. She was tried and found guilty, but was justice served?
In this season 2 finale episode, Kayla relates the drama of the mysterious death of Jane Stanford by strychnine to Venus. Did she die from natural causes, or was our Mr. Body killed in the hotel room with the bottle of poison? 1. Christie, A., The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Project Gutenberg: gutenberg.org, 1997. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/863/863-h/863-h.htm#chap03 (accessed 16 Nov 2021). 2. Cutler, R. W. P., The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford . Stanford University Press: Stanford, 20...
Wash your damn hands! Kayla and Venus talk with Bryce Cherven of Pastry Unicorn to discuss a slew of salmonella typhi poisonings at the hands of Mary Mallon in the late 1910's. 1. Typhoid Fever. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/diseases/typhoid . 2. Typhoid fever. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/typhoid-fever/symptoms-causes/syc-20378661 . 3. Goldman, B. Scientists get a handle on what made Typhoid Mary's infectious microbes tick Stanford Medicine Magazine [Online], 2013. https://med....
Happy Halloween! This episode, we discuss one of the few instances of poisoned candy at Halloween with the 1858 Bradford Sweets Poisoning. 1. Arsenic Trioxide; ThermoFisher Scientific: fishersci.pt, 2020. 2. Ratnaike, R. N., Acute and chronic arsenic toxicity. Postgrad Med J 2003, 79, 391-396. 3. Parascandola, J., King of Poisons. Potomac Books: Washington, D.C., 2012. 4. Kang, L.; Pedersen, N., Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Workman Publishing Co., Inc.: New Yor...
Don't believe everything you see in the movies. Spiking someone's drink with eye drops containing tetrahydrozoline won't get you more face time with Rachel McAdams, but it might kill Bradley Cooper. On this episode, Kayla and Venus discuss how Lana Clayton murdered her husband Steve Clayton in 2018. 1. Hagwood, R. S. Philanthropist Steven D. Clayton laid to rest, a year after his death South Florida Sun Sentinel [Online], 2019. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/obituaries/fl-ne-steven-clayton-ob...
The times are changing, but not fast enough. Venus and Kayla discuss the use of ketamine by emergency medical personnel under the direction of police forces in the United States and how the drug contributed to the death of James Britt, Jr. in 2019. 1. James Claude Britt Jr. https://obits.postandcourier.com/us/obituaries/charleston/name/james-britt-obituary?id=2084215 (accessed 24 Aug 2021). 2. Wiggins, L. In-Custody Death Britt, Jr., James C. ; South Carolina Law Enforcement Division: Columbia, ...
Do you know what the worst manmade medical disaster in history was? It wasn't all that long ago! Venus and Kayla discuss the poison that caused thousands of severe birth defects worldwide and has still yet to be fully addressed. 1. Ballentine, C. Sulfanilamide Disaster FDA Consumer [Online], 1981. (accessed 12 Aug 2021). 2. Ruthenberg, K., Chapter 6: About the Futile Dream of an Entirely Riskless and Fully Effective Remedy: Thalidomide. In Ethics of Chemistry, Schummer, J.; Børsen, T., Eds. Aalb...
On this season 2 premiere episode, Kayla and Venus talk with model and actress Saucy Stassi about the fentanyl-related death of Bailey Henke and the DEA operation that it inspired. Content warning for brief mention of sexual assault in the introduction. 1. Kolpack, D. Portland man says he will plead guilty to dealing fentanyl KATU2ABC [Online], 2015. https://katu.com/news/local/portland-man-says-he-will-plead-guilty-to-dealing-fentanyl (accessed 02 Aug 2021). 2. Painkiller: America's Fentanyl Cr...
In this follow-up Patreon exclusive video to our main channel Birth Control Pill episode, Venus and Kayla discuss hormones, sexism, and genocide. Get ready to get mad. Trigger warnings for body talk including numbers and BMI, and for talk of incarceration and racism.
The history of the first hormonal birth control pill is a sordid tale of ethical violations committed against Puerto Rican women in the late 1950's by Harvard researchers, Proctor & Gamble, and funded by the founder of Planned Parenthood. 1. A Timeline of Contraception. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-timeline/ (accessed 03 May 2021). 2. Burnette, B. R. Comstock Act of 1873 (1873). https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1038/comstock-act-of-1873 (accessed 03 M...
From famous Reddit posts and teenage suicides that result in homicide trials to Texan winters and haunted houses, we cover it all on this episode. Content warning: abuse, suicide, self-harm, and eating disorders in teenagers. 1. Johnson, B. B., Something Wicked. In Endless Thread, Kelly, M. B., Ed. WBUR: wbur.org, 2018. 2. RBradbury1920 [MA] Post-it notes left in apartment. https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/34l7vo/ma_postit_notes_left_in_apartment/ (accessed 29 Mar 2021). 3. RBradbur...
We are doing a giveaway for a free year-long Patreon subscription before season 1 ends and we go on summer break.
Insulin is a life-saving cure for diabetic patients, but was used to kill at least nine people at a VA hospital in West Virginia around 2018. 1. Principles of Pharmacology, Second Ed. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins: Baltimore, 2008. 2. 100 Years Ago, a Miracle Drug Saved Millions of Children—and Created a Powerful Myth. In Dr. Banting's Miracle Drug, Bolt, A.; Harrop, J.; Kirschner, E., Eds. Slate: slate.com, 2018. 3. Bliss, M., The Discovery of Insulin. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, ...
Homicide by nicotine. This episode describes the murder of Linda Curry by her husband, Paul Curry. Kayla and Venus also discuss nicotine-contaminated ground beef and how the analytical method for extracting alkaloid drugs was done out of spite. Audio clip is from the movie Thank You for Smoking. 1. Mishra, A.; Chaturvedi, P.; Datta, S.; Sinukumar, S.; Joshi, P.; Garg, A., Harmful effects of nicotine. Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol. 2015, 36 (1), 24-31. 2. Baselt, R. C., Nicotine. In Disposition of ...
In the second half of our two-part series on the chemical warfare agents in the Vietnam War, we discuss arsenic-containing Agent Blue, and Agent White. 1. Studdard, T. Rainbow Herbicides, Agent Orange, and VA Benefits. https://veterans.perkinslawtalk.com/post/agent-orange-rainbow-herbicides-and-va-benefits/ (accessed 13 Jan 2021). 2. Lavallard, M.-H., A Chemical War Without End: Agent Orange in Vietnam. Agent Orange Action Group 2012, p 15. 3. Hoylman, L. Agent Blue: Arsenic-Laced Rainbow The VV...
In the first of a two part series, Kayla and Venus discuss the use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War and the absolutely devastating effects that this chemical had on the environment and people of Vietnam, as well as the U.S. servicemen who dispersed it, potentially without knowing what it could or would do. 1. Frederickson, L., From ecocide to eco-ally: Picloram, herbicidal warfare, and invasive species, 1963-2005. Global Environment 2014, 7 (1), 172-217. 2. Frey, R. S., Agent Orange and Am...
Kayla tells Venus about the murder of James Baker III by his wife, Jamie Baker, using antifreeze-spiked anabolic steroids. We also talk about animal poisonings, suicide, and whether or not we're all just in our antemortem phase. 1. Buttner, J. Jamie L. Baker Pleads Guilty to Murdering Weightlifter James Baker Regal Tribune [Online], 2017. https://www.regaltribune.com/jamie-l-baker/28204/ (accessed 16 Dec 2020). 2. Jamie Baker, who killed husband by putting antifreeze into steroid injections, get...
Kayla and Venus discuss table salt, which Lacey Spears used to kill her son, Garnett, in 2014. This episode contains discussion of child abuse and death. 1. Roberts, T., A Mother Accused. 48 Hours: cbsnews.com, 2016. 2. Grant, H., Nissen's Fundoplication. In The Children's Hospital, Hospitals, O. R., Ed. NHS Trust: Oxford, 2014. 3. Pt. 1: Camera Catches Mom Poisoning Son at Hospital - Crime Watch Daily with Chris Hansen. True Crime Daily: youtube.com, 2018. 4. Blumm, K. C. Police Investigating D...
Kayla and Venus discuss arsenic as a drug and a poison beginning in Antiquity with descriptions from Hippocrates and ending in the 1800s with the implementation of the Marsh test. 1. Baselt, R. C., Arsenic. In Disposition of Toxic Drugs and Chemicals in Man, Second Edition , Biomedical Publications: Davis, California, 1982. 2. Goldfrank's Toxicologic Emergencies . Tenth ed.; McGraw-Hill Education: New York, 2015. 3. Ratnaike, R. N., Acute and chronic arsenic toxicity. Postgrad Med J 2003, 79 , 3...
Kayla nerds out on Venus with some toxicology concepts and terms in order to tell you that botulinum toxins could be used in war, assassination attempts, and to poison the food supply. Don't freak out. 1. National Botulism Surveillance Summary 2017 ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Atlanta, Georgia, 2019. 2. Dhaked, R. K.; Singh, M. K.; Singh, P.; Gupta, P., Botulinum toxin: Bioweapon & magic drug. Indian J Med Res 2010, 132 (5), 489-503. 3. Burian, M.; Knížek, A.; Rajlich, J.; S...
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