The Wolf Among Us: Prussic Acid
Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson
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🗓️ 29 May 2023
⏱️ 41 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?
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| 0:46.9 | Nice bit of sound. |
| 0:51.4 | So this station, I would rather even have often trains would run here. |
| 0:56.1 | Yeah, it's not going to be like today where you have, you know, |
| 0:59.7 | one every every ten minutes. |
| 1:00.8 | Exactly. It's not like that. |
| 1:02.8 | And it would have taken, I think the train was over 40 minutes from here to London. |
| 1:08.4 | Now it's 15 minutes. |
| 1:10.4 | Mega Edwards and I have just stepped off the train in Slough, England, |
| 1:15.0 | a town about 20 miles west of London. |
| 1:18.0 | Back in 1845, Slough was small and sleepy. |
| 1:21.7 | It was the perfect spot for John Tall to hide his mistress Sarah Hart and their two children. |
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