Robin Duska is a volunteer at the National Museum...  ...there were questions about Hall's death. Was Hall murdered ? Dr. Bessels had declared the cause of death a st...  ...an autopsy in 1969 showed that Hall had ingested arsenic . Did Hall have any enemies aboard ship? Yes, many...  ...museum? Read about the l...

It wasn't until 1840 that James Marsh developed a...  ...a test to determine if someone had been killed by arsenic , changing forensic science forever. But the idea...  ...an autopsy, and Moyle was eventually charged with murder . But there was no Marsh test at the time. Read ab...

In the Dutch city of Leiden in the 19th century, i...  ...t in the investigation. She was constantly buying arsenic , and had a history of buying life insurance on pe...  ...killing 23 people, but is suspected of up to 100 murders . There were also victims who didn't die, but suff...

People used to get rid of inconvenient family memb...  ...convenient family members quite easily by putting arsenic in food until a reliable chemical test for the po...  ...wife, Marie Lefarge, was arrested on suspicion of murder . It was a sensational trial, with plenty of evide...  ...g. She even took samples,...

In 1898, Mrs. Ida Deane of Dover, Delaware, threw...  ...mination of the candy revealed it was loaded with arsenic . Mrs. Dunning didn't make or buy the chocolates;...  ...ad an alibi. Read about the investigation and the murder trial that ensued at Murder by Gaslight. -via S...

Nature has given us a wide variety of substances t...  ...can act as a medicine, a recreational drug, or a murder weapon, depending on the dosage. There are also a...  ...as a long history of the being the easiest way to murder someone. Arsenic was once the easiest way to get r...

Rear Admiral Joseph Giles Eaton had a distinguishe...  ...knowledge of poisons.After an enormous amount of arsenic was discovered in the dead man’s body&mdash...  ...kill—Mrs. Eaton found herself arrested for murder .It sounds like an open-and-shut case, yet it was...

Neatorama is proud to bring you a guest post from...  ...t year in the Roaring Twenties was 1928, when 333 murders are known to have been committed with the TSMG.Th...  ...Face Nelson, for each had made the fatal error of murdering FBI agents and police with the TSMG or other auto...

Reverend Jacob S. Harden was only 22 years old and...  ...ort illness. An autopsy revealed she had ingested arsenic , and suspicion turned to the young pastor. So he...  ...oroner’s jury indicted Jacob Harden for the murder of his wife, but he was still at large. A month l...  ...whether Jacob S. Harden ha...

Arsenic has been the go-to poison for people wanting to g...  ...etect after the fact. When divorce was difficult, arsenic was easy. Tests were eventually developed to dete...  ...s easy. Tests were eventually developed to detect arsenic in a human body, but they weren't reliabl...