Lethal Dose

This is the survival story Aimo Koivunen, where snow, meth, and a dash of Finnish spirit make for an arctic adventure that no one expected. Listen to the whole story and watch the accompanying video only on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/lethaldosepod --- Follow us on social media: Instagram:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/lethaldosepod/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@lethaldosepod⁠...

Larry McNabney was a Las Vegas lawyer and horse lover who was poisoned with horse tranquilizer by his wife and her best friend in 2001. --- Follow us on social media: Instagram:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/lethaldosepod/⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@lethaldosepod⁠⁠⁠⁠ YouTube:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQd4E_g4mt9G-rg7vT8nwvw⁠⁠⁠⁠ Tumblr:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tumblr.com/lethal...

Two siblings were found dead in their Colorado home in 2002, but was their death an accident from misreading a cold syrup label, or was it homicide? Mistakes with the toxicology made interpreting the situation much more difficult in this case. --- Follow us on social media: Instagram:  ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/lethaldosepod/⁠⁠⁠ TikTok:  ⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@lethaldosepod⁠⁠⁠ YouTube:  ⁠⁠⁠...

After the Manhattan Project ended, its legacy continued. Plutonium production at the Hanford Nuclear Site increased, as did work at Los Alamos and Oak Ridge, so that more nuclear bombs could be dropped at the Nevada Test Site and on the Marshall Islands in the name of science and "supremacy." --- Follow us on social media: Instagram:  ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/lethaldosepod/⁠⁠ TikTok: ...

This story goes beyond the work of Oppenheimer, Groves, and all the other Nobel laureate scientists and uncovers the injuries inflicted upon Americans across the country and hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians in the 1940s. And it's only the beginning. --- Follow us on social media: Instagram:  ⁠https://www.instagram.com/lethaldosepod/⁠ TikTok:  ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@lethaldosepod⁠...

Digoxin is a heart medication that can be used to save the life of a patient in heart failure. In the hands of the wrong nurse, however, it can be a terrible weapon used to kill dozens of people. --- Follow us on social media: Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/lethaldosepod/ TikTok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@lethaldosepod YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQd4E_g4mt9G-rg7vT8nwvw Tumblr...

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. --- Follow us on social media: Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/lethaldosepod/ TikTok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@lethaldosepod YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQd4E_g4mt9G-rg7vT8nwvw Tumblr:  https://www.tumblr.com/lethaldosepod ---...

There are only two recorded cases of homicidal poisoning in the UK using aconitine. Venus and Kayla discuss both of them and think about how little has changed in over 100 years. --- Follow us on social media: Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/lethaldosepod/ TikTok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@lethaldosepod YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQd4E_g4mt9G-rg7vT8nwvw Tumblr:  https://www.tu...

In the 1950s, the citizens of Minamata, Japan began experiencing strange symptoms from a disease that authorities struggled to identify and the government failed to properly protect them from. --- Follow us on social media: Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/lethaldosepod/ TikTok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@lethaldosepod YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQd4E_g4mt9G-rg7vT8nwvw Tumblr: ...

Venus and Kayla describe the return of a heavy hitter in this classic drama! Content warning: mentions of rape and incest Find the full episode on our Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/lethaldosepod You can also support the show by becoming a Paid Subscriber and get ad-free content on Spotify for $0.99:  https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lethaldosepod/subscribe

This microdose talks about the poisons in one of Kayla and Venus' favorite movies, and we also do some myth busting! Find the full episode on our Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/lethaldosepod You can also support the show by becoming a Paid Subscriber and get ad-free content on Spotify for $0.99:  https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lethaldosepod/subscribe

For the first summer movie night of 2023, we watched The Wizard of Oz. This microdose covers the poisons used in the plot and on the set of the Hollywood classic. Find the full episode on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lethaldosepod You can also support the show by becoming a Paid Subscriber and get ad-free content on Spotify for $0.99: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lethaldosepod/s...

This season finale episode concludes the story of Charles Sobhraj and his accomplices Marie-Andree Leclerc and Ajay Chowdury, who helped him poison, rob, and murder an untold number of tourists in Southeast Asia in 1975 and 1976. Get out your globes for this one! --- Rate us for an entry into our summer giveaway for the chance to win a $50 Visa gift card! --- Follow us on social media: Instagram: ...

The serial killer Charles Sobhraj, later known as The Serpent or the Bikini Killer, started out with petty crimes and poisonings during a fractured adolescence divided between Vietnam and France and quickly escalated, leaving a trail of people who liked and trusted him reeling in his wake. --- Follow us on social media! Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/lethaldosepod/ TikTok:  https://www.tikt...

In 1985, bottles of Oronamin C containing the herbicide paraquat poisoned 35 people in Japan and killed 12, but that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the paraquat problem. --- Follow us on social media! Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/lethaldosepod/ TikTok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@lethaldosepod YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQd4E_g4mt9G-rg7vT8nwvw Tumblr:  htt...

The happy chemical might not be the happy chemical after all, and it could actually kill you. Libby Zion probably didn't know this back in 1984, but her doctors should have. --- Albert, P. R., Benkelfat, C., & Descarries. (2012). The neurobiology of depression—revisiting the serotonin hypothesis. I. Cellular and molecular mechanisms. Phil Trans R Soc B, 367, 2378-2381. Classen, D. C., Resa...

The Teacup Poisoner was a chemistry bro/edge lord serial killer (aren't they all?) responsible for the murder of at least three people with thallium, but that wasn't his only poison of choice. ---- Attack on schistosomiasis. (1966). BMJ, 1(5482), 249-250. Emsley, J. (2005). The Elements of Murder. Oxford University Press. Genchi, G., Carocci, A., Lauria, G., Sinicropi, M. S., & Catalan...

In this conclusion to our series on PFAS chemicals, Venus and Kayla discuss the current status of PFAS regulations around the world, where they have been detected, and how they impact all of us. Find references for this episode over at patreon.com/lethaldosepod (for free!) and at Kayla's blog, writerkaylawoods.wordpress.com . You can also support us by subscribing to ad-free content on Spotify for...

We continue the story of PFAS by examining the fallout from the 1999 lawsuit brought against DuPont by Wilbur Tennant and lawyer Rob Bilott. Both 3M and DuPont knew that their chemicals were dangerous for far longer than they ever have admitted, and regular people have paid the price with their health and their lives. Find references for this episode over at patreon.com/lethaldosepod (for free!) a...

The history of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances stretches back to the Manhattan Project. In this episode, we cover discovery of PFAS and their use at major companies like 3M and DuPont up to their contamination of a cattle pasture in West Virginia that brought their toxicity into the eyes of the public. Find references for this episode over at patreon.com/lethaldosepod (for free!) and at Kayla'...

This is a Patreon re-released episode that can be found ad free at patreon.com/lethaldosepod. In this microdose, Venus and Kayla discuss the portrayal of the case between Pacific Gas and Electric and the city of Hinkley, CA as portrayed in the 2000 film.

Season 5 opens with the case of trial by media in the suspected murder of Cora Crippen in 1910. In the end, there are more questions than answers, and an innocent man stands accused. Ask Crippen's Reprieve. (1910, 18 Nov 1910). The New York Times . Burney, I., & Pemberton, N. (2010). The rise and fall of celebrity pathology. BMJ , 341 (7786), 1319-1321. Corallo, C. E., Whitfield, A., & Wu,...

The story of Aum Shinrikyo culminates in the infamous attack on the Tokyo subway with sarin gas and then weeks of raiding Aum facilities and years of trials. This is also our last episode of season 4; we will return in 2023 with season 5! Check us out on social media until then, or find us on Patreon! Fackler, M. (2012). Tokyo Gas Attack Arrest Reawakens National Trauma. The New York Times. Retrie...

The story of the doomsday cult continues, beginning with their first experiments with sarin and other chemical warfare agents in 1993. (1) Tucker, J. B. War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda ; Pantheon Books, 2006. (2) Medical Management of Chemical Casualties. Office, C. C. C., Ed.; U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense: Aberdeen Proving Ground Maryland 2...

Before the sarin gas attacks in 1995, the cult members of Aum Shinrikyo were busy experimenting with biochemical warfare agents at the direction of their leader, Shoko Asahara. (1) Kaplan, D. E.; Marshall, A. The Cult at the End of the World ; Crown Publishers, Inc., 1996. (2) Gunaratna, R. Aum Shinrikyo's Rise, Fall and Revival. Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses 2018 , 10 (8), 1-6. (3) Metrau...