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He Cooked the Broth - How Arsenic Hid in the Boarding House

He Cooked the Broth - How Arsenic Hid in the Boarding House

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He Cooked the Broth - How Arsenic Hid in the Boarding House

The smell of beef broth was the first thing you noticed at fourteen Creel Street - and the last ordinary thing anyone would remember. A frozen jug labelled "BEEF TEA - LODGERS," a galvanized tub with forty pounds of rice, and hospital equipment stamped Harwick General turned up on a Tuesday in October, months after a nursing student died of unexplained toxic exposure; who had been drinking the broth, and how did arsenic slip through a boarding house unnoticed?

In this episode, we lay out the timeline and the people connected to the case, from a land surveyor who found the tub to physicians filing toxicology referrals, and follow how routine meals, clinical tests, and delayed public health analysis intersected with a deadly mystery. What did the tests and the daily routines at the house reveal about exposure, and why did the investigation stall?

Person: Tracy Long
Date: September 9, 2011 (date of death)
Location: 14 Creel Street, Harwick
Person: Russell Clark, age 51
Lab result: Ed Novak arsenic 68 micrograms per liter (normal upper boundary 20)

- A land surveyor found a galvanized tub outside the east fence line on a Tuesday morning in October 2011.
- The tub contained roughly forty pounds of dry rice, a half-empty bottle of vinegar, and a plastic jug labeled "BEEF TEA - LODGERS," frozen at 31 degrees.
- Tracy Long, age 22, died eleven days after admission to Harwick General; death certificate listed multi-organ failure secondary to unspecified toxic exposure.
- Russell Clark, 51, had operated the boarding house for nine years and made beef broth twice a week in a twelve-quart stockpot.
- Ed Novak, age 44, was admitted in early October with severe nausea and disorientation and had arsenic in his blood measured at 68 μg/L (normal upper boundary 20).

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