WEBVTT - Introducing Criminalia Season 1: Lady Poisoners

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to The Criminal Podcast. I'm Holly Fry and I'm

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<v Speaker 1>Maria trum Marquis, and together we're exploring the margins of

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<v Speaker 1>history and specifically at the intersection of history and true crime.

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<v Speaker 1>Our first season of the show is all about lady poisoners,

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<v Speaker 1>and history has not been kind to ladies. Women have

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<v Speaker 1>been marginalized, they've been vilified, they're falsely accused and often

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<v Speaker 1>just playing misunderstood time and time again. But sometimes women

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<v Speaker 1>take power for themselves and they make their voices heard,

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<v Speaker 1>and sometimes they do it through murder. So poison has

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<v Speaker 1>often been called a woman's weapon, and that's despite the

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<v Speaker 1>fact that roughly two thirds of the poisonings committed throughout

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<v Speaker 1>history have been the work of men. So Maria and

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted to get our hands dirty and dig in

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<v Speaker 1>and start looking at these women accused of using poison

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<v Speaker 1>for nefarious means and trying to figure out their motivations

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<v Speaker 1>and see what patterns develop. So we're going to cover

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<v Speaker 1>everything from Colligulus sister Agrippina. Was she a killer or

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<v Speaker 1>was she just ambitious enough to seem automatically suspicious to

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<v Speaker 1>a lawmate in nineteenth century England, making it illegal for

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<v Speaker 1>women to buy arsenic, which was just rat poison, even

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<v Speaker 1>though it was men doing most of the killing through

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<v Speaker 1>poison at the time to Chicago case where Tilly Clinic

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<v Speaker 1>was given a much harsher sentence than prettier women with

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<v Speaker 1>similar rap sheets. So the takeaway is, if you're going

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<v Speaker 1>to commit crime, be cute about it. Yes, some of

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<v Speaker 1>these women absolutely were guilty, but some of them were

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<v Speaker 1>probably labeled as criminals when that was not the case,

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<v Speaker 1>and all of them were viewed through society's lens as

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<v Speaker 1>sitting at this often sensationalized intersection of being both killers

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<v Speaker 1>and the fairer sex. But how many were truly villains

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<v Speaker 1>and how many were just misunderstood. Join us on Criminalia

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<v Speaker 1>as we untangle their stories on the I Heart radio app,

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