EPISODE 42: Off to the Races

In this episode, Paul and Kate travel to 1840s England where a man with a winning ticket at the racetrack dies suddenly under very suspicious circumstances.  When the detectives follow the money, a horrifying realization leads them in the right direction.  

Sources:

“The trial of William Palmer for the Rugeley poisonings [electronic resource]”  

https://archive.org/details/b20444199/page/n5/mode/2up 

“Stoke & Staffordshire” (BBC) 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2006/04/11/local_heroes_doctor_william_palmer_feature.shtml 

“William Palmer the Rugeley Poisoner – A Very Victorian Morality Tale” by Rose Staveley-Wadham (The British Newspaper Archive) https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2020/03/25/william-palmer-the-rugeley-poisoner/ 

“Dr. William Palmer” (Murderpedia) 

https://murderpedia.org/male.P/p/palmer-william.htm 

“William Palmer: The Infamous Rugeley Poisoner”  

http://palmer.staffspasttrack.org.uk/ 

“Palmer the Poisoner” by  James R. Voelkel  (Distillations/Science History Institute)  

https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/palmer-the-poisoner 

“The Poisoner review – anatomy of a bourgeois murderer” by Katie Colquhoun (The Guardian) 2015. 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/12/the-poisoner-review-dr-william-palmer-victorian-murderer 

Toxicology in the dock: Alfred Swaine Taylor and the William Palmer murder trial (Visible Proofs) 

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/visibleproofs/galleries/cases/taylor_image_2.html 

CPI Inflation Calculator  

https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/1855?amount=3000 

“Illustrated and unabridged edition of The Times report of the trial of William Palmer for poisoning John Parsons Cook,” item no. 3 in volume 8250.d.26. (University of Cambridge Digital Library)  

https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-08250-D-00026-00003/1 

“Evidence in Palmer’s Case”  

https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1708&context=penn_law_review 

“A few twitchings and then his limbs hung motionless in death” by Adam Gratton (Stoke Sentinel) 2020. 

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/history/stafford-gaol-murder-execution-3805108 

“A need to pay gambling debts drove doctor to mass murder” by Adam Gratton (Stoke Sentinel) 2018.  

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/history/need-pay-gambling-debts-drove-2133380