Speaker 1: Prohibition.
Speaker 2: It's an era synonymous with speakeasies, jazz flappers, and failure.
Speaker 2: In fact, it's one of the biggest lawmaking snaffoos of
Speaker 2: all time. Well within that snaffo is another story, one
Speaker 2: you probably haven't heard about. How people started dying mysteriously
Speaker 2: and the unlikely duo who tried to save them.
Speaker 1: It's the nineteen tens.
Speaker 2: Meet New York City's first medical examiner, Charles Norris.
Speaker 3: He had a big, booming voice and a Yale football
Speaker 3: player's presence.
Speaker 1: And his partner, Alexander Gettler, chomping on a cigar all
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 2: From what I understand, every death in the city was
Speaker 2: their responsibility. As they cataloged the city's dead, they pioneered
Speaker 2: the new field of forensic toxicology.
Speaker 3: Like a Buddy cop movie of like these two scientists
Speaker 3: in the trenches together and.
Speaker 2: Their work gave them a look into the sinister side
Speaker 2: of the speakeasy. Turns out something or someone was poisoning
Speaker 2: people through the twenties. The two of them rolled gurneys
Speaker 2: into the city. Morgue pulled samples of deadly poisons from
Speaker 2: dead bodies and connected the.
Speaker 1: Dots, unraveling a terrifying story.
Speaker 3: Did people die? They died daily.
Speaker 2: As the evidence mounted all across the country. All signs
Speaker 2: pointed to a big player behind the poisoned liquor.
Speaker 1: That was killing Americans, the US government.
Speaker 2: On the third season of Snapfoo, the story of Formula six.
Speaker 3: The last thing you want is for your people to
Speaker 3: be called murdering chemas in a congressional heroine.
Speaker 2: How prohibitions war on alcohol went so off the rails
Speaker 2: the government wound up poisoning its own people, and then
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