The Poisoners' Cabinet

Ep 245 is loose! And there's a strange smell coming from a rented room in a New York apartment...What on earth happened to Father Casper? What was in his secret pouch? And could we drink this week's cocktail?The secret ingredient is...a priest!Get cocktails, poisoning stories and historical true crime tales every week by following and subscribing to The Poisoners' Cabinet wherever you get your podcasts. Find us and our cocktails at www.thepoisonerscabinet.com  Join us Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepoisonerscabinet Find us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thepoisonerscabinet Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepoisonerscabinet/ Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePoisonersCabinet Listen on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoisonersCabinet Sources this week include Famous Crimes the World Forgot: Ten Vintage True Crime Stories Rescued from Obscurity, and various newspaper archives includinghttps://newspaperarchive.com/saint-regis-falls-adirondack-news-jun-01-1907-p-8/

Ep 244 is loose and we're back with the Borgias for another dive into this famous family's secrets - particularly the death of one sibling...Who would want Juan/Giovanni Borgia dead? Who was sleeping with who? And what did the donkey know?The secret ingredient is...a masked man!Get cocktails, poisoning stories and historical true crime tales every week by following and subscribing to The Poisoners' Cabinet wherever you get your podcasts. Find us and our cocktails at www.thepoisonerscabinet.com  Join us Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepoisonerscabinet Find us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thepoisonerscabinet Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepoisonerscabinet/ Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePoisonersCabinet Listen on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoisonersCabinet  Sources this week include Peter Strathern's The Borgias: Power & Fortune, Professor Catherine Fletcher & Not Just The Tudors, CrimeReads, The Guardian, and various Wiki rabbit holes.

Episode 243 is loose, and we have the little-known tale of Luther Jones, a career criminal! And a bad one at that.Why did Luther turn to a life of crime? Why did he keep making mistakes? And how do you serve your bean beverages?The secret ingredient is...poker!Get cocktails, poisoning stories and historical true crime tales every week by following and subscribing to The Poisoners' Cabinet wherever you get your podcasts. Find us and our cocktails at www.thepoisonerscabinet.com  Join us Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepoisonerscabinet Find us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thepoisonerscabinet Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepoisonerscabinet/ Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePoisonersCabinet Listen on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoisonersCabinet

Ep 242 is loose! And we're taking a look at some of the worst popes in history - criminals, plotters, and madmen.Why did so many Popes live debauched lives? Why was a dead pope put on trial at Cadaver Synod? And who was plotting to poison Pope Leo X in an...unusual way?The secret ingredient is...a pope!Get cocktails, poisoning stories and historical true crime tales every week by following and subscribing to The Poisoners' Cabinet wherever you get your podcasts. Find us and our cocktails at www.thepoisonerscabinet.com Join us Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepoisonerscabinetFind us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thepoisonerscabinetFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepoisonerscabinet/Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePoisonersCabinetListen on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoisonersCabinetSources this week include:https://medium.com/@mwfraser/the-cadaver-synod-when-the-corpse-of-a-dead-pope-was-put-on-trial-and-executed-1c9f3b82b11fhttps://daily.jstor.org/the-cadaver-synod-putting-a-dead-pope-on-trial/https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/dead-pope-put-on-trial.htmhttps://www.businessinsider.com/crazy-popes-in-history-2017-1#julius-ii-had-a-bad-case-of-syphilis-8https://www.thesmartset.com/article05111001/https://theconversation.com/the-ostentatious-story-of-the-young-pope-leo-x-his-pet-elephant-the-cardinal-he-killed-and-his-anal-fistula-171499https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-cadaver-synodhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/theres-elephant-buried-beneath-vatican-180957013/https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/murder-vaticanhttps://reformation500.csl.edu/pope-leo-x/Guicciardini, The Historie of Guicciardin

Ep 241 is loose and we're off to China for one of Nick's famous episodes from the Far East. And it's a brutal tale of murder and mystery this time...Who was Pamela Werner? Who would want her dead? And where would you definitely not go cycling?The secret ingredient is...Beijing! Get cocktails, poisoning stories and historical true crime tales every week by following and subscribing to The Poisoners' Cabinet wherever you get your podcasts. Find us and our cocktails at www.thepoisonerscabinet.com  Join us Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepoisonerscabinet Find us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thepoisonerscabinet Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepoisonerscabinet/ Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePoisonersCabinet Listen on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoisonersCabinet

Ep 240 is loose! And this week we look at the multitude of men who seemingly tried to get rid of Queen Victoria.Who were the seven assailants? Did they really want the queen dead? And how do YOU walk around the park?The secret ingredient is...assassins!Get cocktails, poisoning stories and historical true crime tales every week by following and subscribing to The Poisoners' Cabinet wherever you get your podcasts. Find us and our cocktails at www.thepoisonerscabinet.com Join us Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepoisonerscabinet Find us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thepoisonerscabinet Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepoisonerscabinet/ Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePoisonersCabinet Listen on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoisonersCabinet Sources this week include:https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20230519-how-assassins-revealed-a-hidden-side-to-queen-victoriahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Oxford#Historiographyhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5m5zjvDYrBMBGFJCFNmWgcY/the-seven-men-who-tried-to-kill-queen-victoriahttps://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Queen-Victoria-Eight-Assassination-Attempts/https://www.history.com/news/eight-times-queen-victoria-survived-attempted-assassinationshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderick_MacleanShooting Victoria by Paul Thomas MurphyHow To Be A Victorian by Ruth Goodman