Sealed With Poison: How a Warm Lantern Exposed a Murder
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Sealed With Poison: How a Warm Lantern Exposed a Murder
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A warm lantern burning in an otherwise frozen cellar pointed to a visitor who had been there minutes before-while a corked, wax-sealed green bottle beside a shallow grave was nearly empty. How did a bottle that had never been opened end up drained, and who had motive and opportunity in a drought-ravaged Kansas county where death certificates for “gastric collapse” had become routine?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of discoveries and the physical evidence that redirected a supposed drought death into a criminal inquiry. Follow the lantern, the boot print, and the sealed bottle to see how small forensic details raised a single question: was Megan Olson killed, and if so, by whom?
Person: Megan Olson
Date: March 7, 1933 (date of death)
Location: Dumont, Haskell County, Kansas
Investigator: Norman Wells, KBI investigator
Suspect: Wade Walker
- The bottle was green apothecary glass with a cork sealed in green wax and a paper label dated February 1931.
- Megan Olson farmed 160 acres of dryland wheat and her land was assessed at roughly $2,200 with $41 in her bank account.
- Wade Walker delivered water every four to five days in two 50-gallon drums and had begun bringing a bottle of iron tonic in January 1933.
- Emily Burns found a warm lantern in the cellar on the morning of March 9, 1933, and a rectangular hole roughly 12 inches by 14 inches in the dirt floor.
- A crescent-shaped heel wear on a boot print at the cellar matched a paper tracing of resoled right boot belonging to Wade Walker.
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