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Usually told by the person who committed the crime, the person who solved it, or both.

Gone South not only sheds fascinating insights into the criminal mind, but also into human nature.

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In the 1990s, the most popular way to manufacture methamphetamine was the pseudo-affedrin reduction method.

Basically, this involved getting your hands on a lot of over-the-counter cold medicine like Sudafed, crushing up the pills and mixing the

powder with a solvent to isolate the Sudafedrin inside. You then reduced it with chemicals

like iodine or red phosphorus. In just a few hours you had methamphetamine. But before

Sudafedron came into fashion meth cooks were limited to what's known as the

P2P method. P2P

P2P stands for Fennel 2 propinone. It was the main precursor chemical used to

manufacture meth. Meth cooks, whether they were making it in a lab or a bathtub,

mixed P2P with other precursor chemicals to make the drug.

As meth game popularity in the late 70s, though, Fennel 2 proppinone was classified as a controlled

substance and the common precursors like

ether were tightly restricted. Chemical companies started reporting

suspicious orders to the DEA. So in 1983 when a chemical manufacturer in New Jersey learned that an individual in Atlanta,

with no apparent connection to a laboratory or institution, had just placed an order for

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