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Arsenic and the Forgotten Serial Killer

By Deborah Blum
Posted: February 10, 2012
Category: arsenic, poison, science history, Speakeasy Science | Tagged arsenic, Belle Gunness, David Wilson, Frederick Seddon, Herbert Rowse Armstrong, Jane Toppan, Mary Ann Cotton, Rudolph Witthaus | 7 Comments
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