In 2017, a convicted war criminal stood in a courtroom in The Hague, heard his appeal denied, declared "I am not a war criminal" — and drank poison. Live. In front of the judges.

This week, Chelsea covers the case of Slobodan Praljak (yes, we're going to try to say it): a Bosnian Croat general convicted of war crimes during the brutal Croat-Bosniak War of the 1990s — a man who was, before all of that, a philosophy professor, a theatre director, and an engineer. The crimes he was found responsible for included the persecution and murder of Bosnian Muslims, and the destruction of the famous Old Bridge of Mostar — a 16th-century Ottoman landmark that had survived four centuries before he came along.

We also get into what happened in the former Yugoslavia, why it matters, and why the kind of tribunal that convicted him is both rarer and more important than most people realize.

Britain's deadliest secret lived in a quiet pit village in County Durham — and for nearly two decades, she was hiding in plain sight.

In this episode, we're diving into the chilling true story of Mary Ann Cotton: Victorian nurse, four-time widow, and the woman believed to have poisoned up to 21 people — including three husbands, a lover, her own mother, and eleven of her thirteen children. Her weapon of choice? Arsenic. Cheap, tasteless, odorless, and in the 1860s, available at your local shop with zero questions asked.

We'll take you inside the coal mining villages of industrial northern England and ask the question that haunts this whole case: how does someone kill for twenty years without anyone connecting the dots? Plus — the one careless sentence that finally gave her away, a trial with its own controversies, and an execution that was, to put it mildly, not clean.

This is the story of one woman, a Victorian world full of blind spots, and a crime spree that should have been impossible — and almost wasn't.

A boy genius with a chemistry set and absolutely no boundaries.

At just 14 years old, Graham Frederick Young began slipping poison into his family's tea — methodically, patiently, and with detailed notes. He was caught, committed to Broadmoor Hospital, and eventually released as reformed. He was not reformed.

In this episode, Chelsea covers the deeply unsettling case of Graham Frederick Young — the Teacup Poisoner — a self-taught toxicologist who turned every workplace tea round into a deadly experiment, and whose meticulous diary of doses and symptoms became the evidence that finally put him away for life.

A gift-wrapped package. A note that read "With love, Happy Easter." A family who had no idea what was inside.

In this special Easter episode, Chelsea covers the case of Jordélia Barbosa — a Brazilian woman who allegedly traveled hundreds of miles in disguise, spiked a box of chocolate eggs, and had them couriered to her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend. What followed was one of the most disturbing acts of jealousy-fueled violence in recent memory.

A cup of coffee. A sudden illness. A body buried in Arctic ice.
Charles Francis Hall was an obsessive, self-taught explorer who made not one but three expeditions to the Arctic in the late 1800s — a man so consumed by the North Pole that he left his family behind and bet everything on a dream. But it's how he died that still haunts historians today.
In this episode of the Death & Gardening Podcast, Jenny and Chelsea dig into the strange and suspicious death of Charles Francis Hall — a tale of Arctic obsession, a crew on the edge of mutiny, and a decades-later discovery that changed everything we thought we knew about what happened aboard the Polaris.
Was it a stroke? Or was it something far more sinister?

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A missing couple. A quiet English neighborhood. A garden hiding a deadly secret.
When William and Patricia Wycherley vanished from their home in Mansfield, investigators uncovered a chilling truth buried just steps away.

In this episode, we examine the shocking murders of William and Patricia Wycherley, the investigation that exposed the truth, and the disturbing role a backyard garden played in one of Britain’s most unsettling true crime cases.

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What does an infamous Victorian-era murder have to do with Sir David Attenborough? More than you’d expect.

In this episode of the Death & Gardening Podcast, Jenny and Chelsea dive into the Richmond Murder of 1879 and the disturbing case of Kate Webster — a habitual liar, impersonator, and killer whose story resurfaces more than a century later in an unexpected connection to a modern broadcasting legend.

From a missing skull and a local pub to identity theft and Victorian London crime, this episode explores how one of Britain’s most infamous historical murders still echoes today.

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This week we take a dive deep back into Egyptian history and revisit the incestuous and often violent familial line of the seven Cleopatras, culminating with the most famous (and poison obsessed) Cleopatra VII.

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