The Arsenic Wife (Part 1)
09/19/23 • 37 min
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In 1840, the trial of Marie Lafarge scandalized France. Marie was a woman from noble birth, raised in all of the right social circles in Paris, who ended up married to an iron-master, heavily in debt. When he died less than a year later, his family suspected his new bride of sprinkling arsenic into his food.
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In 1840, the trial of Marie Lafarge scandalized France. Marie was a woman from noble birth, raised in all of the right social circles in Paris, who ended up married to an iron-master, heavily in debt. When he died less than a year later, his family suspected his new bride of sprinkling arsenic into his food.
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The Arsenic Wife (Part 2)
Marie Lafarge's trial was a sensation. But when chemists begin to disagree on their conclusions, who's to say what the real story is? NOTE: This is the second part of our discussion of the trail of Marie Lafarge. If you haven't listened to last week's episode, begin there.
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Noble Blood - The Arsenic Wife (Part 1)
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Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of iHeartRadio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky Listener discretion advised. In the early eighteen hundreds, the specter of arsenic poisoning was everywhere. Arsenic was scary, and for good reason. It was a deadly poison that could odorlessly be dissolved into food or drink, and it was something with a number of legitimate uses like rat poison, agriculture, even some medical treatments, which meant that arse
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