💀 Strychnine, highly toxic, colourless…bitter…and often purchased in a powdered form. Can be mixed into liquids, and even breathed in if one isn’t too careful. Simply a nut from the nux vomica tree, discovered by a French scientist, Joseph Caventou, and Pierre Pelletier in 1818. 💀
And today’s True Crime classic will demonstrates it potency, when coupled with a much more insidious poison…greed. Welcome listeners, and your tale is The Hangman and the William Palmer, Who Won, enjoy. 📻
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