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She Had the Key: The Forgotten Aconite That Killed "Lucky"
She Had the Key: The Forgotten Aconite That Killed "Lucky"
A quiet West London kitchen hid a lethal secret: a jar of curry laced with Aconitum ferox, a plant whose active compound pseudoaconitina is described as the most virulent aconite known. The first attack in December 2008 left both victims hospitalized and undiagnosed; weeks later the same jar proved fatal - who used the key and why was the poison almost forgotten by modern toxicology?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the unexplained December illness to the fatal call on January 28, 2009, follow the forensic work…
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