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Secrets hide in plain sight. Poison Secrets peels back the quiet cruelty and calculated science behind the most chilling acts of poisoning, exposing motives, methods, and the fallout that follows.

Each episode blends forensic detail, case reconstruction, and psychological insight to reveal how ordinary lives are turned lethal. Expect clear explanations of toxins, step-by-step timelines, legal outcomes, and the subtle red flags investigators look for—delivered with measured narration and meticulous research that separates rumor from evidence.

New episodes drop every day: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday at 4:00 AM, so you can follow unfolding threads and compare patterns across cases. Episodes vary between concise case briefs and deeper investigative episodes, always focused on what the poison reveals about motive and opportunity.

Poison Secrets is for true crime listeners who want more than headlines: forensic aficionados, armchair detectives, legal professionals, and curious minds who crave accuracy about toxicology, method, and motive. If you’re drawn to the intersection of chemistry and criminal intent, this show gives you the context and detail you won’t find in casual summaries.

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  • The Teacup in the Grass: How a Neighbor's Brew Killed Emily

    The Teacup in the Grass: How a Neighbor's Brew Killed Emily
    Oct 18 2026
    The Teacup in the Grass: How a Neighbor's Brew Killed Emily

    A dry white teacup with a narrow blue rim sat upright in overgrown grass after 1.5 inches of rain - and inside was a brownish dried residue that would later be linked to Emily Christensen's death. How did that cup, dry despite recent rain, become the physical clue to a method that had left no other trace?

    In this episode, we present the timeline and discoveries around Emily Christensen's final weeks, the teacup found by a county surveyor, the neighbors who shared rituals with her, and the medical notes that misattributed early symptoms - could a neighbor’s tea have been the lethal instrument?

    Person: Emily Christensen
    Date: July 11, 2019
    Location: 42 Fennimore Street
    Person: Gail Underwood
    Person: Wayne Vickers

    - The teacup was found on July 11, 2019, sitting upright in an alley strip nine feet from Bob Kimura’s back gate.
    - It had a white porcelain body with a narrow blue band at the rim and a bone-dry interior despite 1.5 inches of rain two days earlier.
    - Emily Christensen was thirty-eight and had been dead for four days when the cup was discovered.
    - Emily kept a health journal replaced every January first and noted tingling in her hands and fatigue in late May through June.
    - Dr. Harold Foss documented low ferritin and borderline B12 on July 3 and prescribed a B-complex supplement two days before Emily was admitted to the hospital.

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    This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.
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    21 min
  • The Dropper Bottle That Unmasked a Daughter's Poison Trail

    The Dropper Bottle That Unmasked a Daughter's Poison Trail
    Oct 17 2026
    The Dropper Bottle That Unmasked a Daughter's Poison Trail

    The smell of damp behind an access panel led a pump technician to a brown glass dropper bottle that did not belong - and that single bottle would redirect months of medical certainty and end with an unexpected confession in open court. How did a compound so rarely prescribed appear in a small-town pharmacy ledger, and whose hands reached for it?

    In this episode, we follow the timeline from routine maintenance to a pharmacy compliance review and a sheriff’s call that reopened a certified death. The episode covers the medical notes, the pharmacy records for thallium acetate, and the people closest to the deceased - and asks who obtained and administered the compound.

    Person: Frances Fleming
    Date: June 22, 2019 (date of death)
    Location: 14 Alderman Court, Calverton Memorial area, Tate County
    Event: Pharmacy dispensing records showing two dispenses of thallium acetate
    Person: Vicki Simmons (pump technician who found the bottle)

    - The bottle was found inside the well pump housing at 14 Alderman Court on June 26, 2019, four days after Frances Fleming was buried.
    - Frances Fleming’s decline began in late 2018 with tremor, cognitive slowing, and gastrointestinal instability documented by Dr. Alan Reese and specialist Dr. Marcus Cho.
    - Pharmacy quarterly compliance review at Hartley Drug revealed two dispensing events for thallium acetate tied to Frances Fleming.
    - The dispensing record included a DEA registration number that traced to an out-of-state physician who had reported stolen credentials 14 months earlier.
    - Dr. Alan Reese had no record of ordering thallium acetate for Frances Fleming or for any patient and contacted the Tate County Sheriff’s Office the same day.

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  • The Mason Jar, the Pump, and the Arsenic That Never Left

    The Mason Jar, the Pump, and the Arsenic That Never Left
    Oct 16 2026
    The Mason Jar, the Pump, and the Arsenic That Never Left

    A mason jar with a faint white residue sat beside a hand-pump well on a Tennessee farm for months while a 26-year-old woman drank from that water and then died of acute liver failure on September 3, 2008-her death certified as idiopathic hepatitis and closed without toxicology. Who noticed the tubing and residue later, and how did those discoveries connect purchases and a visitor to the farm into a case that would eventually link two unexplained deaths?

    In this episode, we follow the timeline from the farm well and the mason jar to the exhumation request and the investigations that followed, tracing what the episode covers and asking how arsenic moved through a hand-pump well and who put it there.

    Person: Brenda Dempsey
    Date: September 3, 2008
    Location: Callum, Tennessee
    Event: Death certified as acute liver failure (idiopathic hepatitis)
    Person: Bruce Berry

    - Brenda Dempsey was 26 years old when she died on September 3, 2008.
    - A mason jar with faint white residue was found on the stone apron beside the hand-pump well used by Brenda.
    - Bruce Berry purchased an agricultural clarifying compound and rodenticides including arsenic trioxide on May 19, 2008.
    - Brenda first reported symptoms in late June 2008 and saw Dr. Pete Calloway multiple times that summer.
    - Dr. Jerry Whitley requested an exhumation in February 2009, prompting reopening of the case.

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