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Feb 2024
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65: Tricked Into Poisoning Her Own Fathe...

Eleanor Neale
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In today's episode we uncover the case of Mary Blandy, who was sent to the hangman in 1754 for murdering her own father with a “love potion…”

How far would you go, for the bad boy your dad disapproved of?

Trigger Warning: poison
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