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The Poisoner

The Poisoner

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A whisper in the tea, a wrong prescription, the quiet science behind a deadly intent — The Poisoner peels back the layers of motive, method and aftermath in cases where toxin meets opportunity. Each episode examines how poison has been chosen, cultivated and concealed, focusing on the forensic detail and the human stories that make these crimes chillingly plausible.

Expect forensic breakdowns, cultural context and courtroom consequences delivered with measured curiosity and precise research. The Poisoner stands apart by combining chemical explanation, investigative reporting and survivor perspectives so listeners understand not just who did it, but how and why a poison worked — or failed — in real life.

New episodes drop every day: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday at 7:00 PM. Episodes vary between concise case studies and deeper investigative narratives, all designed to fit into your evening listening with clear takeaways about detection, deception and justice.

This podcast is for true crime listeners who crave technical clarity, armchair investigators fascinated by toxicology, and anyone curious about the legal and moral fallout when harm is distilled into a bottle, a bite or a vial. If you want forensic detail without sensationalism, The Poisoner is your nightly briefing.

Subscribe now to follow meticulous reconstructions, forensic insights and the awkward, intimate realities of crimes by poison.

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  • The Honey Jar Between His Feet: How Arsenic Hid in Plain Sight

    The Honey Jar Between His Feet: How Arsenic Hid in Plain Sight
    2026/07/25
    The Honey Jar Between His Feet: How Arsenic Hid in Plain Sight

    A man in dress slacks was found on a frozen embankment at 6:22 AM with no coat, no shoes, and a sealed jar of honey standing upright between his feet-details that turned an apparent natural death into a mystery about something sweet and invisible. What was in the honey that turned months of liver failure into a case that would not be closed?

    In this episode, we follow the timeline from the first symptoms through the discovery on the Mineral Creek towpath and the early autopsy findings, tracing how one persistent detail kept the death from remaining ruled natural causes: what role did that jar of honey play?

    Person: Jerry Jones
    Date: December (third Tuesday), 2019
    Location: Mineral Creek towpath, half-mile marker
    Medical Examiner: Dr. Frank Ibarra
    Consulting Pathologist: Donald Gallagher

    - Jerry Jones was 47 years old and had managed commercial properties for two decades.
    - Jerry moved into an in-law suite on his brother Thomas's property in Sable Crossing four years before his death.
    - Jerry reported fatigue, nausea, tingling hands, and yellowish skin over eight months and saw Dr. Sandra Muth six times.
    - The runner who found the body, George Morgan, called 9-1-1 at 6:22 AM after discovering the scene.
    - The jar of honey at the scene contained about two inches of amber liquid and had its lid screwed tight.

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  • The Garden Pot That Poisoned a Mother-How Laura Killed Slowly

    The Garden Pot That Poisoned a Mother-How Laura Killed Slowly
    2026/07/24
    The Garden Pot That Poisoned a Mother-How Laura Killed Slowly

    The ordinary backyard became a killing ground: a ceramic pot sat on a gas meter for eleven days and a homemade herb bed fed a woman food she trusted until her body collapsed. Toxicology, garden soil and a detective with agricultural experience point to a slow, domestic poison-how did a caregiver’s kitchen harvest turn into a fatal exposure?

    In this episode, we lay out the timeline from first fatigue to death, the people who noticed what changed, and the medical clues that didn’t add up, closing on the question that haunts every neighbor and clinician: was Sharon poisoned by what she ate at home?

    Person: Sharon Olson
    Date: November 14, 2019
    Location: Dearing General Hospital neurological unit
    Person: Laura Fitzgerald
    Event: Ceramic pot left on gas meter for eleven days

    - Sharon Olson was 31 years old at the time of death.
    - The ceramic pot had been sitting on the north wall gas meter for eleven days.
    - Sharon died on November 14, 2019 after eleven days in hospital.
    - Laura Fitzgerald began caregiving for the Olsons in February 2018 and worked up to four days a week by July 2019.
    - By late August 2019 Sharon reported persistent fatigue, and by October had anemia and elevated liver enzymes.

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    This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.
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    19 分
  • Breakfast for the Dead: How a Bowl Exposed an Arsenic Killer

    Breakfast for the Dead: How a Bowl Exposed an Arsenic Killer
    2026/07/23
    Breakfast for the Dead: How a Bowl Exposed an Arsenic Killer

    A steaming bowl of oatmeal sat precisely at the head of an otherwise empty kitchen table-spoon across the rim, folded napkin, a glass of apple juice with fresh condensation-though the man who always occupied that chair had been dead for eleven hours. The forensic detail of a prepared breakfast would later point a toxicologist to Pallister, Pennsylvania, and unravel months of low-level arsenic exposure; but who had been dosing the meals, and why did the pattern go unnoticed until a lodger collapsed in an ER with symptoms he'd seen someone else die from?

    In this episode, we follow the timeline from the unattended death and the untouched evidence bag to the hospital lab that flagged inorganic arsenic and a patient who described watching similar symptoms in another man. We cover the boarding house routines, medical visits, and the sequence of events that raised the question: how did chronic arsenic accumulation happen inside a house where no one cooked for themselves?

    Person: Gordon Johnson
    Age: 53
    Location: Pallister, Pennsylvania
    Date of death (approximate): October 10, 2011
    Toxicology finding: Inorganic arsenic (chronic, low-level exposure)

    - The oatmeal bowl was discovered steaming at the head of the table eleven hours after Gordon Johnson's death.
    - Gordon Johnson had been a machinist and lived in the Creekside Lane boarding house for four years and three months.
    - The boarding house owner, Eric Campbell, was 48 years old and cooked all meals for lodgers for six years.
    - Barbara Stills kept a handwritten health diary logging blood pressure, symptoms, and food, and had been a lodger for eight months.
    - Forty-one days after Johnson's death, on November 18, 2011, lodger Ted Sorrento (age 41) arrived at Pallister General with acute nausea and was found to have chronic inorganic arsenic exposure.

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    19 分
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