The Inheritance Powder: How Frederick Seddon Poisoned for Profit
A quiet London boarding house. A trusting lodger with a small fortune. And a landlord who saw dollar signs in every dose of arsenic.
In 1911, insurance superintendent Frederick Seddon convinced eccentric spinster Eliza Barrow to hand over her life savings in exchange for a modest annuity and a place to live. Months later she was dead — her body laced with poison, her money safely in his pocket, and a cheap funeral already arranged.
Join host Alexander Lawson as he unravels the cold, calculated case of one of Edwardian England’s most notorious poisoners: the flypapers, the forged will, the…
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