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

Tenfold More Wicked - The Wolf Among Us: Prussic Acid

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

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True Crime

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In 1845, John Tawell is frantic because the mother of two of his children is demanding more child support. He leaves London on New Year’s Day with a choice in his pockets: in one was money, in the other was a bottle of deadly prussic acid. What will happen to Sarah Hart that cold January night? Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4dsqzI1 Buy my books: katewinklerdawson.com  If you have suggestions for historical crimes that could use some attention, particularly in your own family, email me: [email protected] Follow me on social: @tenfoldmore (Twitter) / @tenfoldmorewicked (Facebook and Instagram) 2023 All Rights Reserved Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:06.0

This story contains adult content and language.

0:09.0

Listener discretion is advised. Nice bit of sound.

0:24.0

So this station, I wonder even how often trains would run here.

0:32.0

Yeah, it's not going to be like today where you have, you know...

0:35.0

One every 10 minutes.

0:37.0

Exactly, it's not like that.

0:39.0

And it would have taken...

0:40.0

I think the train was over 40 minutes from here to London. Now it's 15 minutes.

0:46.0

Meg Edwards and I have just stepped off the train in Slough, England, a town about 20 miles west of London. Back in 1845, Slo was small and

0:57.0

sleepy. It was the perfect spot for John Tall to hide his mistress Sarah Hart and their two children. His new wife,

1:05.0

Sarah Appleby, seemed to have no idea that he had a second family, another life.

1:18.0

Tall would take the same train route we just took whenever he came to visit them. How far do you know, is it from Berkenstead to... Birkenstead to here? Yeah. It's about a 40 minute drive now. So it's not easy to get to it. Yeah. And he would have had to go back into London, presumably.

1:35.0

So from here, back into London, then back out to Birkhamstead.

1:38.0

Oh, really?

1:40.0

Slough is much busier on this day than it was in 1845.

1:44.0

Okay now which way do I look?

1:46.0

Left or right?

1:47.0

This way.

1:48.0

Yeah? See, you look both ways also.

1:50.0

I look both ways, but that's because someone said to me recently that I'm over cautious with crossing roads

1:54.4

But I just don't trust people. I don't always trust people either. Do you know anything

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