
334 - 2,000 Pounds of Soap
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
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Ye Yesm Some Mapiotypes
Adolfh buys arsenic and potash, which is a highly caustic, potassium rich salt. They usually use it in making soap and liquefying fat. A month after he makes that purchase, on april 20 fourth eight, tells a factory employee named frank dorsky to help him pour the potash into a steam vat with water. He has never known potash to be used in any sort of sausage making process. But he does as he's told because he's dealing with the sausage king. No one knows exactly what went on in the boiler room that night, but it ends with adolp placing his wife's dead and fully clothed body into the vat
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