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The Arsenic Wife (Part 1)

Noble Blood

English - September 19, 2023 04:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 12.8K ratings
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In 1840, the trial of Marie Lafarge scandalized France. Marie was a woman from noble birth, raised in all of the right social circles in Paris, who ended up married to an iron-master, heavily in debt. When he died less than a year later, his family suspected his new bride of sprinkling arsenic into his food.


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