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271: The Acid Bath Murderer w/ Gordon Lowe - A True Crime History Podcast

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

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A Case Study of a Forensic Pathologist

This was, I won't say unusual, but this would, you know, in these early days of forensic science, he took enormous care. Obviously it was Mrs Durand deacon's red plastic handbag that had not dissolved. They found a bone, a human bone, which actually turned out to be one of Dr Henderson's feet - nothing to do with Olive. He also found a couple of minute pea-sized gallstones in all those boxes of earth. Because of his training and because this man was really very expert, he recognised these minute pieces of whatever as human gallstones. And again, the net closed even tighter on this case.

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