WILLIAM PALMER: The Notorious Crimes and Prosecution of the Prince of Poisoners

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WILLIAM PALMER: The Notorious Crimes and Trial of the Prince of Poisoners 14 May 2024 --- #truecrimestories #crime #doctor Charles Dickens described William Palmer as “the greatest villain that ever stood in the Old Bailey dock.” Other writers and journalists of the day awarded Palmer other monikers such as “the Rugeley Poisoner” and the almost-complimentary epithet “the Prince of Poisoners.” And then, when William Palmer was due to hang, over 35,000 people crowded the streets of Stafford to witness the grisly event, with some even camping overnight to find good spots as if they were attending a festival or waiting for the new pair of Jordans to drop. So what did Palmer do to earn such a fearsome reputation? The crime that earned him a trip to the gallows was the murder of his friend John Cook with strychnine. However, looking back at his history, it was hard not to notice that so many other people in Palmer’s life died in suspicious circumstances, often with him profiting from their deaths. → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out our other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Eric's Stuff: Storyrant: OEI analog horror experiment: https://www.youtube.com/@UCsz5l0hY67TGoJR0CZiWVnA Storyrant: https://www.youtube.com/@UC6Sk2h2WsYMxnGERAH_FbGg Free cosmic horror ebook: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/1cw07o2uyb Link Tree to Books and Socials: https://linktr.ee/EricMalikyte Karl's Socials: Fact Fiend: https://www.youtube.com/ @FactFiend Wiki Weekends: https://www.youtube.com/ @wikiweekends Untitled Side Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @untitledsidechannel Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarlSmallwood Further Reading: - Stephen Bates - The Poisoner - Charles Dickens - Old Lamps for New Ones - https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/visibleproofs/galleries/cases/taylor_image_2.html - https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2020/03/25/william-palmer-the-rugeley-poisoner/ - https://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2006/04/11/local_heroes_doctor_william_palmer_feature.shtml - https://www.staffordshire-live.co.uk/news/history/tale-rugeley-poisoner-described-dickens-6908677 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Elmer McCurdy: The Wild West Outlaw Who Became a Mummy

In the lead-up to the Christmas of 1976, the cast and crew of the hit television show The Six Million Dollar Man was in Long Beach, California, shooting an episode at The Pike amusement park. One scene involved a shootout in a funhouse between the bionic hero of the show and an evil German spy. The art director, wanting to create a spookier atmosphere for the shoot, started rearranging some of the props, including an old spray-painted dummy with a noose around its head. For the previous four years, the dummy had been hidden away in a dark corner, swinging from the gallows, barely noticed by the carts full of scared passengers that rushed past him. As the art director picked up the dummy, one of its arms snapped off. Not surprising, really. It was old and crummy and made of brittle wax…Except that it wasn’t. As the crewmember got a closer look at the fallen appendage, he noticed a real human bone surrounded by tissue poking out. The dummy wasn’t a dummy at all, but a mummified person. This might sound like an urban legend, but it is absolutely true. The police were called in and the discovery was initially treated as a possible prank. Things only got weirder as the corpse made its way to the Los Angeles County coroner’s office. It had sustained numerous injuries and mistreatments over the years, unsurprisingly, and it had shriveled down to a lean fifty pounds. But the cause of death was likely the copper-jacket bullet still lodged in its chest, dating to the early 20th century. After about a week of unusual leads and bizarre questions, detectives uncovered the true identity of the body - he was Elmer McCurdy, a turn-of-the-century criminal who got killed in a shootout with the law after robbing a train in 1911. But that still begged the question - how exactly did a Wild West outlaw get mummified and end up as a prop in an amusement park funhouse? → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1] Love content? 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