Who Hath Dunnit?
Who Hath Dunnit?
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Mortal Chocolate
59 minutes Posted May 30, 2022 at 11:00 am.
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Episode 6: Mortal Chocolate. Margaret Denham was so convinced her hot chocolate was being poisoned that she requested an autopsy, an innovation in Renaissance science. Our true crime series gets forensic, exploring what a seventeenth century autopsy could - or could not - reveal, and what we can learn from our victim’s autopsy. Finally, we consider one last suspect, Margaret Denham’s politically unstable uncle, the Earl of Bristol. Did he poison his niece to further his own machinations?