In New York, a wealthy medical student prescribed his young wife morphine to help with her chronic headaches. Only, the pills contained a lethal dose. When 19-year-old Helen Potts died, her husband’s secrets and scandals were finally exposed.
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Nov 2022
Thanksgiving Special: Just Add Arsenic
Over the ages, arsenic has had many lives — beauty fad, household product, medical prescription… and weapon of choice wielded by killers everywhere from Alabama to ancient Rome. Brine your turkey, knead your dough, and listen to our Thanksgiving Special on the regime-changing, as ... Show More
42m 41s
Nov 2022
Thanksgiving Special: Just Add Arsenic
Over the ages, arsenic has had many lives — beauty fad, household product, medical prescription… and weapon of choice wielded by killers everywhere from Alabama to ancient Rome. Brine your turkey, knead your dough, and listen to our Thanksgiving Special on the regime-changing, as ... Show More
42m 41s
Dec 2022
Best of 2022: Tony Wakeford
In the small, sleepy village of Effingham, Surrey, Tony Wakeford confessed on his deathbed to a dark secret that would destroy both himself and his wife, Patricia. He admitted to having had an affair with her best friend during their 50-year marriage. But when he didn't die, the ... Show More
50m 4s
Jul 2022
Murder Made Me Famous: Ken & Barbie Killers Karla Homolka
The Canadian serial killer, alongside her husband Paul Bernardo, drugged, raped and murdered three women, including her own younger sister. While the world watched in shock as her sentencing unfolded, Karla struck a deal claiming that she had been an unwilling accomplice to her h ... Show More
44m 3s
Dec 2024
L'INTÉGRALE - Affaire Monique Bertaud : la grand-mère devenue assassin
Le docteur Monique Bertaud était une femme de caractère, déterminée, volontaire, intransigeante. Toute sa vie, elle avait voulu démontrer qu'elle existait. A la quarantaine, la simple vendeuse était devenue une neurologue réputée. Le docteur Bertaud ne voulait que rien ne lui éch ... Show More
40m 23s
Sep 2021
Deathbed Survivor: Jeffrey Gafoor
In 1988, British police found the remains of a gruesomely murdered woman in a flat in Cardiff, UK. The woman had over 50 stab wounds on her body. The murder went unsolved until 2003, when a man named Jeffrey Gafoor confessed after taking a lethal dose of paracetemol tablets…
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51m 45s