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Not Another True Crime Podcast

C.L. Blood & The Laughing Gas Scam

Not Another True Crime Podcast

Betches

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

3.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week, Sara and Danny are going back to the 1800s to cover C.L. Blood, a con man who posed as a doctor, and claimed that oxygenized air (aka nitrous oxide) could cure a whole slew of medical ailments. They get into all of Blood's shady associates, his trouble with the law, and how it all led to a botched blackmailing and a gruesome murder. RESOURCES: “A Wily Doctor: The Career of Charles L. Blood, Once of Boston” - The Boston Weekly Guide “A Man of Ominous Name”: The Inter Ocean “The Crime of Cain” San Francisco Call Check out our latest promo codes here: https://betches.com/promo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to not another True Crime podcast. I'm Sarah Levine and I'm Danny Murphy. You know,

0:08.8

where your partners in wine, crime and time and Sarah, we are we're going back in time again.

0:13.5

Way back. We haven't we haven't taken our time traveling machine in a minute, but I feel this

0:22.0

one really made it worth worth the journey. I feel like we're in AP US history right now.

0:27.7

I mean, yes, you're class in this. You should honestly, I feel if AP US history was just like they

0:34.8

just admit like just had everything from a scammer's story, I would have done much better on that

0:40.2

exam. Oh, totally. I want to tell the story of how I found this topic because I think it's kind

0:45.3

of funny. So I was googling like famous crimes 20th century and I was like, no, that's too recent.

0:51.6

And then I was like 19th century hit wake a pdf and just going through like they just give you a

0:55.3

list of names and I see C L blood and I was like, who is this? So I clicked and the story. I was

1:03.8

like, oh my god, this is amazing. You see C blood. You got to talk about it. Yeah. Exactly. I mean,

1:11.8

he had a name for like for what this is. So it almost was like one of those things where you're like,

1:18.5

oh, you were like when someone's like like how like Madonna and Beyonce were named that when they

1:23.4

were like, you were born to be a star. If you're named a C L blood, you're born to end up being a

1:29.5

little scamming and up being implicated in a murder. You know, it's the name. It's also like I

1:36.6

feel like he's living up to it. And trials back then, I feel he could do the whole. What was it?

1:41.5

The Crucible John Proctor was like, what's in a name or like what? Like my name, he just shouts

1:46.0

that's okay. Yes, I'm like Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet. But then there's John Proctor. He goes

1:51.1

my name or something. And I feel that was Seattle Blanc's turn. He could totally do this. So

1:57.6

let's talk about this gentleman. Amazing name. C L stands for Charles Lewis Blood by the way.

2:06.4

We're taking this to New England too, which I'm kind of like a New England slash mid-Atlantic

2:11.8

moment. He's truly like, I mean, we'll get into it, but he's really like the girl he's with

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