55. I'd Kill For a Piece of Chocolate: Christiana Edmunds
The seaside town of Brighton, England had a string of poisonings in the late 1870's. The victims became severely sick after eating chocolate cream candies from a local sweet shop owned by J. G. Maynard. Mr. Maynard rid his shop of the chocolate inventory, but townsfolk continued getting sick and one young boy died after eating a piece of the offending candy. Investigators were stumped until the town doctor reluctantly came forward with information that helped shed light on the po...
The seaside town of Brighton, England had a string of poisonings in the late 1870's. The victims became severely sick after eating chocolate cream candies from a local sweet shop owned by J. G. Maynard. Mr. Maynard rid his shop of the chocolate inventory, but townsfolk continued getting sick and one young boy died after eating a piece of the offending candy. Investigators were stumped until the town doctor reluctantly came forward with information that helped shed light on the possible culprit.
Narrator: Curtis Hildreth
Intro and Outro Music: Isaiah Hildreth
Sources:
https://jvc.oup.com/2021/03/04/hysteria-and-victorian-women-in-art/#:~:text=Victorian%20women%20were%20expected%20to,France%2C%20England%2C%20and%20America.
https://murderpedia.org/female.E/images/edmunds_christiana/christiana-edmunds.pdf
Perrin, Lisa. The League of Lady Poisoners. 2023, San Francisco, Chronicle Books.
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