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November 20, 2025November 20, 2025 legalhistorymiscellany

The Body by the Canal: The Abduction and Murder of Henriette Barbey in 1882

September 23, 2025December 10, 2025 Cassie Watson

Poisoning Crimes and the ‘Mushroom Murderer’: Patterns and Precedents

December 19, 2023January 3, 2024 Cassie Watson

Serial Poisoners and the Psychology of Crime

November 29, 2023November 29, 2023 Sara M. Butler

Who Gets to Keep the Child? A Thirteenth-Century Wardship Dispute Turns Ugly

July 20, 2023July 20, 2023 Krista Kesselring

John Cotta: An Early, Failed Forensic Toxicologist?

June 22, 2023June 23, 2023 Cassie Watson

Toxic Masculinity? Nineteenth-Century Criminal Poisoning by English Fathers

March 26, 2023 Cassie Watson

“Barbarous Determination”: The Criminal Career of John Orrell

December 16, 2021 Cassie Watson

Serial Homicide before ‘Serial Killers’: British Poisoners

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