Periodic Table of Death and Mystery

Lead, Lead Poisoning the Cowboy Way, and the Periodic Table of Death and Mystery


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Sometimes the Periodic Table of Death and Mystery comes very close to home.

She was from a prominent family in her small, insular town, and he worked as the manager at a brothel. She was eighteen when they met and he was thirty-six and married. She became pregnant with his child before he was shot, dead from the

lead of a bullet fired in anger.

His name was José Ramirez, but everyone called him Joe.

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Periodic Table of Death and MysteryBy Carol Potenza's monthly podcast, hosted by Laura Haas