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Image: Wellcome Images via Wikimedia CommonsNeator...  ...Cellania presents us with this historical look at arsenic as a murder weapon; specifically, how women used the substanc...  ...to be poisonings were subject to it. So who used arsenic to get rid of their human problems?"...

Tillie Klimek spent a large part of her life cooki...  ...iary of life insurance, the recipe often included arsenic . By the time Klimek was arrested in 1922, she had...  ...d three dead husbands and one in the hospital for arsenic poisoning, two dead children, one dead grandchild...  ...Koulik, also a widow, wa...

Before we had the many tools of forensic science w...  ...vestigation today, it was easier to get away with murder . At the same time, it was easier to be convicted...  ...ome time, the body might become contaminated with arsenic from the ground. The accused might then be execut...  ...he body had been exhumed,...

Arsenic was, at one time, a very popular way to murder someone. It was the most common poison to factor...  ...t common poison to factor in 19th century British murder trials, but it is also a particularly difficult c...  ...se of death to determine. In fact, most deaths by...

The barracks chief had taken a liking to the stra...  ...otage, and plotting, and espionage, and rape, and murder , and thieving, and breeding of more Inta all for...

I've been roaming across the States the past few w...  ...is secretary, Hugh Plunkett. It was apparently a murder -suicide orchestrated by Plunkett.The Winchester M...