Thanksgiving Special: Just Add Arsenic

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, assassination-aiding King of Poisons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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"The Flower of the Andes" Blanca Errázuriz

"The Flower of the Andes" Blanca Errázuriz

When they met in 1911, she was a teenage beauty from a wealthy Chilean family, and he was an American businessman twice her age who dazzled her. But while Blanca Errázuriz was known as “the flower of ...

16 Nov 202240min

Thomas Gilbert Jr. Pt. 2

Thomas Gilbert Jr. Pt. 2

For years, Tommy Gilbert Jr. felt like his friends, his parents, and even his doctors were conspiring against him. So in the spring of 2014, he illegally obtained a gun. And months later, he would use...

9 Nov 202243min

Thomas Gilbert Jr. Pt. 1

Thomas Gilbert Jr. Pt. 1

Thomas Gilbert Jr was a young socialite who was used to getting what he wanted. But somewhere along the way, his mind began to betray him. All of his personal and professional failures weighed on him....

2 Nov 202245min

Susan Polk Pt. 4: Slaying the Monster

Susan Polk Pt. 4: Slaying the Monster

Between the relentless accusations and physical assaults, the early 2000s were a dangerous time to be living in the Polk household. No one knew that more than their three kids, all caught in the middl...

26 Okt 202237min

Susan Polk Pt. 3: Recovered Memories

Susan Polk Pt. 3: Recovered Memories

In the 1990s, the Polk marriage descended into a slow-motion implosion. Susan’s resentment of her husband was growing, and it only intensified after he introduced her to a new therapeutic technique: R...

19 Okt 202242min

Susan Polk Pt. 2: Dangerous Delusions

Susan Polk Pt. 2: Dangerous Delusions

Dr. Polk decides once and for all how far he’ll go to manipulate Susan into staying with him. They marry in the winter of 1981. As the decade progresses, their joy over the birth of their first son, A...

12 Okt 202245min

Susan Polk Pt. 1: Meeting the Therapist

Susan Polk Pt. 1: Meeting the Therapist

Twenty years ago, a heinous crime unfolded in a California pool house. The seeds of it were planted in the 1970s, when the Bay Area’s rising star in adolescent therapy, Dr. Felix Polk, met a new patie...

5 Okt 202246min

Joy Davis Aylor Pt. 2

Joy Davis Aylor Pt. 2

For years, detectives were unable to solve the murder of Rozanne Gailiunas. Then police were given a tip that the murderer was her lover’s ex-wife. After a thorough investigation, Joy Aylor was arrest...

14 Sep 202242min

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