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The Great Sheedy Murder Trial 

Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes

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Morphine in the Coffee

Toxicology was available in the late 1800s. There were a number of symptoms as we talked about that. Just lay doctors looked and said, this looks like morphine to us. They brought in toxicologists. And months after the murder, when they exhumed his body, a well-regarded toxicologist whose name was Professor Haynes came from Chicago and he tested Sheedy's organs and he found no traces of morphine.

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