Kristy, Scott, and Amber talk about Marie Lafarge and the landmark poison trial that made arsenic enthusiasts start to think twice. 

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Sources:

Blood & Ink: An International Guide to Fact-based Crime Literature by Albert Borowitz

Memoirs of Madame Lafarge, by Marie Lafarge.

Encyclopedia.com. “Lafarge, Marie.”

Wikipedia. “Marie Lafarge.” “Gum Arabic.” “Cholera.” “Le Glandier.”

Tabea Tietz on SciHi Blog. “Madame Marie Lafarge – The first “Victim” of the Marsh Test.”

Joan Acocella on The New Yorker. “Murder by Poison.”

Victorian Murderesses: A True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable Crimes by Mary S. Hartman. 2014.

An Introduction to Forensic Geoscience by Elisa Bergslien.

Jess Romeo on JStor daily. “The Arsenic Cake of Madame Lafarge.” https://daily.jstor.org/the-arsenic-cake-of-madame-lafarge/

Jose Ramon Bertomeu-Sanchez. Isis: a journal of the history of science society. “Managing Uncertainty in the Academy and the Courtroom: Normal Arsenic and 19th-Century Toxicology.”

Jose Ramon Bertomeu-Sanchez. “Popularizing Controversial Science: A Popular Treatise on Poisons by Mateu Orfila (1818).” Medical History.

Joan Acocella on The New Yorker. “Murder by Poison.”

Martin Lynch. Provincial Medical & Surgical Journal. “Analysis of Madame Lafarge's Trial, with Remarks on the Medical Evidence.”  

France Info.fr “The Chartreuse du Glandier in Beyssac in Corrèze is for sale.”

 

https://artoftoxicology.weebly.com/marie-lafarge.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Lafarge

https://murderpedia.org/female.L/l/lafarge-marie.htm

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/01/09/marie-lafarge-a-frenchwoman-who-poisoned-her-husband-with-arsenic-and-was-put-on-the-most-popular-trial/

 

Music: 

Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-plan
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