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335 - Leopold and Loeb: The Perfect Murder

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

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The Perfect Crime

There are currently over 200,000 unsolved murder cases in just the US. Yvonne Gladys Fletcher was convicted of poisoning not one, but two of her husbands with phthalium. Phthalium is an odorless, tasteless chemical and when absorbed by the body, it evidently results in symptoms that look a lot like dying from natural causes. An Australian woman would almost get away with this kind of perfect crime.

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