The Lambeth Poisoner: Dr. Thomas Neill Cream’s Deadly Prescriptions
A trusted doctor. A bottle of pills. And a trail of agonizing deaths that stretched from Canada to Chicago to the fog-choked streets of Victorian London.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson tells the chilling story of Thomas Neill Cream—the medical man who used strychnine to murder vulnerable women, then brazenly blackmailed the police and prominent doctors while the bodies were still warm.
From suspicious “abortions” and a poisoned husband in Illinois to the calculated killings of sex workers in Lambeth, Cream’s arrogance ultimately led to his downfall… and a hangman’s…
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