The Rugeley Poisoner: William Palmer and the Doctor Who Killed for Cash
In Victorian England, a respected country doctor walked the streets of Rugeley by day. By night, he kept a darker ledger — life insurance policies, mounting debts, and bottles of poison that never quite emptied.
One by one, the people closest to him began dying in convulsions: his infants, his wife, his brother, and a friend who had just won a fortune at the races. When the law finally closed in, more than 30,000 people gathered outside Stafford Gaol to watch him hang. Charles Dickens called him the greatest villain who ever stood in the Old Bailey.
This is the story of William Palmer — the…
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