Lethal Dose

Episode 45: Phenazepam


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In 2016, a beauty stylist accused a client of attempting to kill her with poisoned cheesecake, but that's just the tip of the iceberg in this story.

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Russian gets 21 years for cheesecake-poisoning of US doppelganger. (2023). The Guardian. Retrieved 03 Sep 2023, from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/19/russian-cheesecake-poisoning-doppelganger-21-years-viktoria-nasyrova

Treisman, R. (2023). A woman gets 21 years for trying to kill her doppelganger with poisoned cheesecake. NPR. Retrieved 03 Sep 2023, from https://www.npr.org/2023/04/21/1171083112/russian-cheesecake-poisoning-doppelganger-nyc

A woman is poisoned with a piece of cheesecake. Her lookalike is convicted of attempted murder. (2023). CBS News. Retrieved

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