Dr. Kate Lister
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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A poisoning syndicate.
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That's where there would be a central poisoner like Giuliana Tufana who would sell poison for women to kill their husbands.
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Yeah, it's like, yeah, basically a weird poisoning pyramid scheme.
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And it was big in Hungary and you've got them cropping up well into the 20th century and they were known as angel makers.
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But like that, not that I would advocate poisoning anybody.
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Please don't do that.
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It's a bad idea.
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But you can kind of see how that would happen in a system where women have to get married.
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Their security and financial security is dependent on them getting married.
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And there's no way of getting divorced.
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And you're going to lose all of your rights, all of your money, your access to your children, everything as soon as that's happened.
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There is no way out.
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Or if he dies, I would get all of the money.
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I would get everything and then I would be a widow and I don't have to deal with this.
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So you can see how that rather horrendous trade in poisons arose.
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And there is a really long history of women poisoning their husbands.
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Then you've got the fact that poison is quite an intimate...
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method of killing.
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And it's put in food, which is historically read as being a feminine thing, the preparing of food, the cooking of food, the serving of food.
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And there's something particularly nasty about like the weapon is striking right at that place where you should feel the most comfortable and the most trusting because we eat food from people that we trust.
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