Macabre for Mortals

Macabre for Mortals

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  • Episode 59 - Sugar
    Hello and Welcome to another episode of Macabre for Mortals. This week we will be discussing insulin and it’s used as toxin and tonic. My main references are “A Taste for Poison” by Neil Bradbury. If you have any suggestions or questions please email me at [email protected]
    39 min
  • Episode 58 - Castor oil
    Hello and welcome to this weeks episode of Macabre for Mortals. I will be covering the deadly toxin ricin in this weeks episode, and two very different true crime cases. If you have any suggestions, questions or comments please contact me at [email protected]
    42 min
  • Episode 56 - Prussian Blue
    Hello and welcome to another episode of Macabre for Mortals. In this episode I will be covering the Poison Cyanide. This is one of my favourite episodes and I have had so much joy putting this series together. If you have any suggestions or additions please email me at [email protected]
    37 min
  • Episode 55 - An Introduction to Poison
    Hello and welcome to another episode of Macabre for mortals. This week I will be giving a brief introduction to poisons. The next few episodes I will be covering cases of poisonings and the poisons in question. My main point of reference is “A Taste for Poison” by Neil Bradbury, which influenced my decision to complete the next few episodes. If you have any questions or any cases you would like me to cover in future please send me and email at [email protected]
    22 min
  • Episode 54 - Missing Helen

    Hello and

    welcome to Macabre for Mortals, thank you for joining me for this true crime
    episode. This is another cold case that was lost in mystery for a long time
    until it suddenly heated up again. There are very few cases that become so cold
    and then suddenly become solved as quickly as this one. My intrigue into cold
    cases always fuels my passion, and I wonder if at some point I will be able to
    help a victim and their families.

     

    The case of

    Helen Brach, the heiress who mysteriously disappeared in 1977, is still one fo
    the most surprising cases in the United States legal history. No witnesses, no
    body and no leads for the police to follow up on, the case went cold very
    quickly after her death, even though clearly someone had been killed for her
    money. Then in a surprise twist, the case warmed up many years later, and the
    man who was responsible for her death was finally brought to justice.

    My main reference for this episode is "Criminal Cold Cases - fugitives finally brought to justice" By Charlotte Greig

    Thank you for listening to another episode of Macabre for

    Mortals. I hope you found  this case
    interesting, I have not found many places who have covered this case but I found
    it so fascinating and I felt like I had so many similarities to Helen and I
    wish I could have known her.

    If you have any cases that you would like me to cover or

    have any feedback for me in  regards to
    this case or any of my other episodes, please give me an email at [email protected].

    21 min
  • Episode 53 - Medusa - Victim or Villain?

    Hello and thank you for Listening to Macabre for mortals.


    My references this week were :-


    1.    

     Probably the feminine present
    participle of medein, "to protect, rule over" (American Heritage Dictionary; compare Medon, Medea, Diomedes, etc.). If not, it is from the same root, and is formed
    after the participle. OED 2001 revision, s.v.; medein in LSJ.

    2.     ^ as in Hesiod, Theogony 270, and Pseudo-Apollodorus Bibliotheke,

    1.10.

    3.     ^ "From Gorgon and Ceto, Sthenno, Euryale, Medusa".

    4.     ^ Bullfinch, Thomas. "Bulfinch

    Mythology – Age of Fable – Stories of Gods & Heroes". Retrieved 2007-09-07. ...and
    turning his face away, he held up the Gorgon's head. Atlas, with all his bulk,
    was changed into stone.

    5.     ^ Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 793–799; Edited and Translated by Alan H. Sommerstein.

    "Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Suppliants, Prometheus Bound", (Loeb
    Classical Library) Harvard University Press, 2008, p. 531.

    6.     ^ (Pythian Ode 12). Noted by Marjorie J. Milne in discussing

    a red-figured vase in
    the style of Polygnotos,
    ca. 450–30 BC, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Milne noted that "It is one of the earliest illustrations
    of the story to show the Gorgon not as a hideous monster but as a beautiful
    woman. Art in this respect lagged behind poetry." (Marjorie J. Milne,
    "Perseus and Medusa on an Attic Vase" The Metropolitan Museum of
    Art Bulletin New Series, 4.5 (January 1946, pp. 126–130)
    126.p.)

    7.     ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.798:

    "the Sovereign of the Sea attained her love in chaste Minerva's
    temple" (Brookes
    More translation) or
    "in Minerva’s temple Neptune, lord of the Ocean, ravished her" (Frank
    Justus Miller translation, as revised by G. P. Goold) Whether Ovid means that Medusa was a willing participant is
    unclear. Hard, p. 61, says she was "seduced"; Grimal, s.v. Gorgons, p.
    174, says she was "ravished"; Tripp, s.v. Medusa, p. 363 says she
    "yielded". In the original Latin text, Ovid uses the verb
    "vitiasse" which is translated to mean "violate" or
    "corrupt" line 798.

    Thank you for joining me for this episode of Macabre for

    Mortals. I hope this has given you some insight into Medusa and the myth and
    how it related to current times. Next time I will be covering a true crime
    subject – the case of the missing Heiress.

    If you have any questions or any suggestions then please

    send me an email at Macabrefor[email protected].

    22 min
  • Episode 52 - Carol Smith
    Hello
    and Welcome to another epsidoe of Macabre for mortals. Thank you for joining me
    for this true crime episode. The case that I am covering today is one that
    always baffles me slightly and also shows humans true resilience.
    This is the case of Carole smith, the woman in the box.
    Carole Smith is not her real name since the traumatic events that happened to
    her, she has been kept anonymous  by the
    media to protect her from further trauma.
    Thank you for listening to another episode of Macabre for
    Mortals. I hope this case was interesting to see how different vicimology can
    be shown. If you have any questions please send me an email on [email protected].
    Sources - Criminal cold cases - Charlotte Greig
    25 min

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