Hi, listeners, Amber here. I'm still out, but I couldn't resist sharing this one again.

It's an encore of an episode I keep coming back to, and I wanted you to have it while I'm away.

I'll be back next week. Until then, enjoy.

Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they change laws, change society, or even

earn the label, Crime of the Century.

But the stories that made headlines in decades past aren't necessarily remembered today.

I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author, and in each episode of this show, I'll examine a case that's maybe lesser known today, but was huge when it happened. This is Crimes of the the centuries. The delicate script of the letter's handwriting belied its sinister topic.

Directed to a coroner, the message talked of suspected murder.

Want Dan Stott's body taken up? The letter read. Post-mortem examination made,

content stomach analyzed, inquest held, find-out cause of death, take-charge medicine purchased

for Stott last Saturday.

The note signature, a doctor cram, suggested a man of medicine was its author.

At first, the coroner on the receiving end of this message thought it was ridiculous.

Dan Stott had died during an epileptic fit, one of the countless fits he'd

had in his lifetime. Usually the fit subsided, but this one didn't. While the death was unfortunate,

it was by no means mysterious. But the letters didn't stop. This doctor, whose name turned out to be

cream, not cram, the misspelling of which

eventually served as a clue for investigators, was adamant that Stott died of strychnine

poisoning and that the pharmacy which filled his most recent prescription was to blame.

Investigators finally acquiesced and did some digging.

It turned out that Dan Stott indeed had stricline in his system,

and the pharmacist who'd provided his meds had received letters threatening to expose him as a callous killer.

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