A ring of poisoners: Hungary’s most notorious murders
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The History of Arsenic in Hungary
It wasn't only Auntie Susie in this village, or for that matter, any village picking on Hungary. But I don't know when she started. It's quite a little trickster arsenic is because you can't really taste it. You could have water sitting out for a little bit and it tastes like a little bit of metal. The earliest case that was tried was tried for 1911. Right. So there is this history of it. And why is arsenic poisoning such an effective method of killing? It's really hard to detect. And it can also mask and pretend like it's something else. As you say, she's not the only person in on this. For instance,
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