Welcome to episode 16, where we take you to London in 1978... Here Bulgarian BBC-broadcaster Georgi Markov died an innocent, natural death (... it was totally an assassination...). Spies? Secret Services? We have it all! Sit back and enjoy another case about what is clearly Julia's favourite murder weapon to talk about: poison!

Story starts at 02:20.

Sources used for today's story:

• ‌The Sinister Plot: KGBs Role In The Assassination Of Georgi Markov - bnnbreaking.com
• How Cold War Dissident Georgi Markov Was Murdered With An Umbrella - The Daily Mail UK
• The Astonishing True Story Of The Poisoned Umbrella Assassination
• Legacy Of A Dissident's Assassination Lingers In Bulgaria Forty Years Later - Balkan Insight
• Septicemia - Johns Hopkins Medicine
• The Astonishing True Story Of The Poisoned Umbrella Assassination - IFLScience
• Who Was The Cold War Umbrella Assassin - Deutsche Welle
• Giftanschlag: Der Fall Skripal und der Regenschirmmord 1978 - DER SPIEGEL
• Regenschirmattentat Georgi Markow - Sammlung Deutsches Spionagemuseum

Further Recommendations:

• Deutsches Spionagemuseum

Intro music:

"Magic Escape Room" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech – Music and also Graph Paper)

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