The Soup That Steamed Over a Poisoned Life: The Arsenic Trail
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The Soup That Steamed Over a Poisoned Life: The Arsenic Trail
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The morning Susan Peterson was found, a pot of soup on the stove was still warm enough to steam while her body lay on the kitchen floor; three people intimately connected to her died in February with gastrointestinal causes and metallic taste was noted in her chart. What linked the warm soup, the repeated February deaths, and the missing toxicology that a pathologist later spotted?
In this episode, we follow the paperwork trail and the small, concrete details that turned routine file review into a homicide inquiry, and we ask how routine medical notes and a single cremation decision could hide a lethal pattern.
Person: Susan Peterson
Date: February 9, 2019
Location: 414 Osler Road, Kellum, Denton County
Person: Dennis Oakes
Person: Phil Brent
- Susan Peterson was 52 years old when she died on February 9, 2019.
- A pot of soup on the stove at 414 Osler Road was warm and steaming when Frank Boyd entered the house at 5:40 a.m.
- The county medical examiner estimated Susan had been dead between 8 and 12 hours.
- Susan's medical chart three weeks earlier recorded nausea, fatigue, and a metallic taste noted by Dr. Roy Sims.
- Gail Padgett, a state forensic pathologist, discovered that Dennis Oakes (died February 2008) was buried, providing tissue for testing, while Susan had been cremated.
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