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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09/19/23 • 37 min
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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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