The Poisoners' Cabinet

Ep 196 is loose and we have a juicy crime story from a small town Indiana, where a preacher's home lies in ruin after a mystery attack.What happened to William Hinsaw's wife? Who was Miss F? And is there a sexier detective than the one we encountered this week?The secret ingredient is...a pistol!Get cocktails, poisoning stories and historic true crime tales every week with The Poisoners' Cabinet. Listen to the Podcast on iTunes, Spotify and find us on Acast: https://shows.acast.com/thepoisonerscabinet Join us Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepoisonerscabinet Find us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thepoisonerscabinet Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepoisonerscabinet/ Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePoisonersCabinet Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

22 Mar 202457min

How do you turn true crime into compelling fiction?In this installment of Expert Witness Sinead speaks to Tonya Mitchell, author of The Arsenic Eaters Wife, a new gothic crime novel inspired by the famous story of Florence Maybrick. In Liverpool in 1889, Constance Sullivan stands accused of poisoning her husband, but William was no innocent victim and a web of deception envelopes their home and the people closest to them. Gloriously gothic and alarmingly good! The Arsenic Eater's Wife is available now in bookshops and online: https://amzn.to/3IE6xvV And join the Poisoners Cabinet Belladonna Bookclub here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/belladonnabookclub Expert Witness are bonus episodes we interview different experts from a variety of backgrounds about cases on our show and about the world of true crime, Victorians, and poison.Get cocktails and historic true crime tales every week with The Poisoners' CabinetJoin us Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepoisonerscabinetFind us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thepoisonerscabinetFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepoisonerscabinet/Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePoisonersCabinet Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

18 Mar 202436min

Ep 195 is loose! And we have two good old fasioned poisoning cases for you to devour, both featuring our good friend rat poison.What happened in the Biggadike household? Why did Josephine Bouvier want her daddy dead? And what colour do you like your rodents?The secret ingredient is...rats!!Get cocktails, poisoning stories and historic true crime tales every week with The Poisoners' Cabinet. Listen to the Podcast on iTunes, Spotify and find us on Acast: https://shows.acast.com/thepoisonerscabinet Join us Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepoisonerscabinet Find us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thepoisonerscabinet Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepoisonerscabinet/ Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePoisonersCabinet Sources this week include Linda Stratmann's The Secret Poisoner, Capital Punishment, Murder UK and The Boston Guardian. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

15 Mar 20241h 2min

Ep 194 is loose! And we're off to fair Scotland to tell the tale of Deacon Brodie, an upstanding member of Edinburgh society with a lot of secrets.Who was this man of cabinets? What did he do after dark? And are shoemakers the best gang members?The secret ingredient is...taxes! Get cocktails, poisoning stories and historic true crime tales every week with The Poisoners' Cabinet. Listen to the Podcast on iTunes, Spotify and find us on Acast: https://shows.acast.com/thepoisonerscabinet Join us Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepoisonerscabinet Find us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thepoisonerscabinet Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepoisonerscabinet/ Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePoisonersCabinet Sources this week include www.edinburghexpert.com/blog/edinburghs-infamous-deacon-brodie-the-original-split-personalityen.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brodiewww.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/Deacon-William-Brodie/headstuff.org/culture/history/william-brodie-the-man-with-two-lives/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

8 Mar 202457min

Ep 193 is loose and we're off to Manhattan to tell the tale of the delicious Josie Mansfield, whose beauty drove men to kill...Who was Josie? How did she end up as one of the most lavish ladies of New York? And what would YOUR price be to marry for money?The secret ingredient is...New York City!Get cocktails, poisoning stories and historic true crime tales every week with The Poisoners' Cabinet. Listen to the Podcast on iTunes, Spotify and find us on Acast: https://shows.acast.com/thepoisonerscabinet Join us Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepoisonerscabinet Find us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thepoisonerscabinet Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepoisonerscabinet/ Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePoisonersCabinet Sources include Village Preservation.org, Library of Congress Blog, Fascinate, The Life and Times of Col Jim Fisk by Robert McAlpine, The New York Times, Murder by Gaslight, and this 1872 pamphlet with a very long name: https://www.loc.gov/item/ca17002160/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

1 Mar 202454min

When you try to keep a King alive, could you be killing him with kindness?In this installment of Expert Witness, we speak to historian and Patreon regular Tim Cloke about the gruesome death of Charles II. How did poison play apart in his demise and was his medicine a cocktail in the making???This episode was originally recorded in August 2020 for Patreon, and the sound quality is a little different due to remote recording so please excuse minor glitches.About Expert Witness: In these bonus episodes we interview different experts from a variety of backgrounds about cases on our show and about the world of true crime, Victorians, literature, and poison.Get cocktails and historic true crime tales every week with The Poisoners' CabinetJoin us Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepoisonerscabinetFind us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thepoisonerscabinetFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepoisonerscabinet/Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePoisonersCabinet Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

27 Feb 202449min

It's time for another cult story, and this week we're looking into the prophecies of the (big breath) The Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the Great Eleven, also known as the Blackburn Cult. Who were leaders May and Ruth? What secrets did they hold? And what happened to people who got sick in their commune?The secret ingredient is...an angel!Get cocktails, poisoning stories and historic true crime tales every week with The Poisoners' Cabinet. Listen to the Podcast on iTunes, Spotify and find us on Acast: https://shows.acast.com/thepoisonerscabinetJoin us Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepoisonerscabinetFind us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thepoisonerscabinetFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepoisonerscabinet/Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePoisonersCabinetSources include www.ghosttownpod.com/blog/the-blackburn-cult/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Otis_Blackburnhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_Culthttps://medium.com/internet-archaeology/the-divine-order-of-death-e72cec2060c3https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-may-23-me-40217-story.html Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

23 Feb 20241h 7min

It's a special episode from our Patreon files - as Nick has been unwell at the time of normal recording, we have decided to release a Patreon episode for free to keep you full of joy.This episode was originally recorded in Sept 2020, and is possibly the most famous mass poisoning case in living memory: the massacre of the Peoples Temple followers at Jonestown. Sinead tells the tale of Jim Jones' infamous church / cult, and how a once happy plan to bring social equality to the world ended with nearly 1,000 people lying dead in the Guyanese jungle. This gets pretty heavy, chaps, with content that some people may find disturbing. Get cocktails, poisoning stories and historic true crime tales every week with The Poisoners' Cabinet. Listen to the Podcast on iTunes, Spotify and find us on Acast: https://shows.acast.com/thepoisonerscabinet Join us Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepoisonerscabinet Find us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thepoisonerscabinet Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepoisonerscabinet/ Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePoisonersCabinet One source well worth reading this Jeff Guinn's The Road To Jonestown. Multiple newspaper articles, audio recordings and survivor accounts were used for this episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

18 Feb 20241h 4min