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Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

Deborah Blum: Poison as an Accomplice

Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

True Crime

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Poisons are excellent accomplices, says author Deborah Blum. She offers us the fascinating story of America’s first medical investigators and how they caught criminals in some of the most complicated poisoning cases in history.  

Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/mixer Ryo Baum/sound designer Andrew Eapen/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink 

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0:00.0

It's hard to imagine losing a loved one, a wife, a husband, a child.

0:04.4

For many, it's their biggest fear.

0:06.4

Amarissa Jones, host of The Vanished.

0:09.0

A podcast that tells the stories of often overlooked and unsolved missing persons' cases,

0:13.6

in an effort to uncover the truth.

0:15.8

Follow The Vanished on Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:20.2

Hi, I'm Bridger Weinerger, and I host I said no gifts, on exactly right.

0:24.0

Each week I invite my favorite people in comedy over for conversation, and I tell them no gifts.

0:28.8

But every time they bring me a gift, and then we have to talk about the gift.

0:32.4

It's infuriating.

0:33.7

You'll love it.

0:35.0

Listen to I said no gifts on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:40.0

This story contains adult content and language.

0:42.9

Listener discretion is advised.

0:47.6

So, whysins are wonderfully devious chemical compounds.

0:51.4

They trick our bodies.

0:53.1

If you take an element like radio, it's structurally like calcium.

0:57.2

So, it literally, the body takes radium and sends it to the bones, where it wreaks all kinds of harm,

1:03.4

because it looks to the body like calcium.

1:05.6

That was really what I was thinking about when I first started thinking about this book,

1:09.8

The Deviousness of Chemical Compounds, matched by The Deviousness of Poisons.

1:18.0

I'm Kate Linkler Dawson, an on-fiction author and journalism professor in Austin, Texas.

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