This special episode of Thinking Sideways is not brought to you by your wife who's trying to kill you.

Instead, it's brought to you by TNT's new limited series The Alienest.

When a series of gruesome murders grips New York in 1896, Dr. Lazlo Chrysler and his team must investigate, analyze, and capture the killer.

Inspired by The Alienest, this week we're going to delve into the death of Thomas Edwin Bartlett, who was discovered dead at 4 o'clock in the morning on January 1st, 1886 of apparent chloroform poisoning.

The general consensus was that his wife, Adelaide Blanche Bartlett, was the one who administered the poison, but to be honest, we don't know for sure who did it.

So that is our mystery. And just a quick little years warning, there is going to be some talk about sex in this episode.

So if you don't want the little ones here or little years here in that, save us for later.

Do we want to introduce ourselves?

Oh, we probably should because that would be great since I just gave away the story. Who are the players? Well, I am Steve.

I am Devon. And I am Joe. And this is Thicking Sideways. The podcast.

Good job. It's like we do that all the time.

We like that. We're enthusiastic, Devon.

So let's dive right into the story. Give a little background on the players that we've got. So there's really there's three main players in this story.

First off, there is Edwin and Edwin the husband. He was a successful brochure.

I think he actually owns several stores, right? Like a chain or something? Right. Well, he was a gross ride. I guess I meant that as in the business owner, not the guy who was behind the counter.

He was a successful bag checker or bag or bag boy, yeah, checker. Either of the two.

But their business was in London. He was 29 years old when he married Adelaide in 1875.

At the time of their marriage, she was just 19 years old. And she'd had a bit of a tragic past. Both of her parents had died by the time she was 11.

Wow. She was taken in by a family and they raised an educator. And not some. Yeah, it was. And that plays into part of the marriage terms or the dowry terms.

Because it wasn't a arranged marriage. Not surprisingly, they weren't in love, which wasn't really a thing at the time marrying for love. Well, not for some people. Yeah, not all of them.

But one of those stipulations of her dowry was that Edwin had to pay to complete her education. And he almost immediately sent her away to school for about two years.

So happy romantic newlyweds. Go to school, honey. I'll see you later.

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