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July 5th.

1965.

Lexington, Kentucky.

After a night of heavy drinking with her husband and another couple, Mary Mars Kewain returns home. When morning hits, Mary is

discovered dead in her bedroom chair and it turns out she was murdered after ingesting

carbolic acid.

Suspicion falls upon Mary's husband, Dr. Madison Caywine, who had conducted affairs with two other women during their marriage.

However, strange actions from Madison's first mistress and the jealous husband of his second mistress also caused them to become potential suspects, but the carballic-acid cocktail murder is never solved.

After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah.

Oh, uh, and uh, and uh, I'm not.

Oh, uh, and uh, uh, Hello. Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of The Trail went cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder and we've got one heck of a case for you today, the 1965 murder of Mary Mars Kewine.

This is a request from a listener named Wes, a big supporter of the show who also happens to

hail from Kentucky where this story takes place.

I had never heard of this case before he sent it to me, but once I delved into it, I fell into a very deep rabbit hole, so thanks the suggestion Wes. Quite simply out of all the cases I've covered on this podcast

this is the one which probably most resembles a soap opera. Like I said in the intro, this has been dubbed the

carballic acid cocktail murder and the story pretty much has everything. We have a

wife who is murdered in the most unusual fashion imaginable, a physician husband who has cheated on her with

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