The Arsenic Affair
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In 1840s France, a young woman with aristocratic dreams married a man she didn’t want… and he didn’t live long enough to fix it. When Charles LaFarge fell violently ill, his symptoms made no sense — until a dead dog, a suspicious cake, and a trail of arsenic pointed straight at his new bride.
This episode dives into the life and crime of Marie LaFarge, the woman whose scandalous trial became France’s first forensic murder case. From the toxic marriage to the groundbreaking Marsh test, we unravel how a desperate wife, a bottle of arsenic, and one determined toxicologist…
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