The Cook Who Poisoned the Soup: Hélène Jégado’s Quiet Reign of Death
In 19th-century Brittany, a simple bowl of soup could be a death sentence. Hélène Jégado, a seemingly devoted cook and servant, is believed to have poisoned as many as 36 people — priests, children, entire households — while sitting at their bedsides and praying over them as they died in agony.
Between 1833 and 1851 she moved from rectory to manor, leaving a trail of arsenic deaths that were long mistaken for cholera. In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson uncovers the chilling story of France’s most prolific female serial killer: the woman who turned the kitchen into…
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