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The Perfect Poison

The Perfect Poison

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Secrets hide in plain sight. Poison Secrets peels back the quiet cruelty and calculated science behind the most chilling acts of poisoning, exposing motives, methods, and the fallout that follows.

Each episode blends forensic detail, case reconstruction, and psychological insight to reveal how ordinary lives are turned lethal. Expect clear explanations of toxins, step-by-step timelines, legal outcomes, and the subtle red flags investigators look for—delivered with measured narration and meticulous research that separates rumor from evidence.

New episodes drop every day: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday at 4:00 AM, so you can follow unfolding threads and compare patterns across cases. Episodes vary between concise case briefs and deeper investigative episodes, always focused on what the poison reveals about motive and opportunity.

Poison Secrets is for true crime listeners who want more than headlines: forensic aficionados, armchair detectives, legal professionals, and curious minds who crave accuracy about toxicology, method, and motive. If you’re drawn to the intersection of chemistry and criminal intent, this show gives you the context and detail you won’t find in casual summaries.

Subscribe now to get daily doses of forensic insight and uncover the techniques and secrets behind poisoning cases.© 2026 OBOMEDIA Creators
Episodes
  • The Soup That Steamed Over a Poisoned Life: The Arsenic Trail

    The Soup That Steamed Over a Poisoned Life: The Arsenic Trail
    13 Oct 2026
    The Soup That Steamed Over a Poisoned Life: The Arsenic Trail

    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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    20 min
  • The Caregiver Who Quietly Taught Victims to Take Their Last Dose

    The Caregiver Who Quietly Taught Victims to Take Their Last Dose
    12 Oct 2026
    The Caregiver Who Quietly Taught Victims to Take Their Last Dose

    A loaded ceramic pill organizer was left on a dead woman's front step six days after she died - each compartment freshly filled, as if someone expected her to take the doses she never would. The same pattern links a second unexplained death two months earlier: similar symptoms, similar timelines, and a caregiver who brought supplements and weekly pill-filling - but who was nobody's suspect, until one clinician noticed the match. What was being delivered inside those blue-lidded compartments?

    In this episode, we walk through the timeline of events, the people involved, and the clinical records that forced a second look at both deaths. We trace how routine caregiving blurred into something far more sinister and ask whether these were isolated tragedies or part of a pattern that had gone unnoticed.

    Person: Nancy Ward
    Date: January 3, 2014 (found dead)
    Location: Birchwood Lane, Sutter Falls
    Person: Walter Pruitt
    Date: November 2013 (death)

    - Nancy Ward was 44 years old and worked as a paralegal in Sutter Falls, where she had lived for 11 years.
    - A jogger named Connie Long found a white ceramic pill organizer with blue lids on Nancy’s front step on the morning of January 9, 2014.
    - Michael Hamilton began visiting Nancy twice a week in October 2013 and brought the pill organizer on his second visit, offering to fill it each week.
    - Nancy’s symptoms progressed from fatigue in summer 2013 to intermittent nausea and tingling by November 2013; bloodwork was mildly abnormal but no referral was made.
    - Walter Pruitt, age 61, died in November 2013 with a medical examiner’s finding of idiopathic neuropathy; his symptom curve closely matched Nancy’s when compared by Wendy Henderson in January 2014.

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    22 min
  • He Climbed the Back Fence: How a Stepfather Slow-Poisoned Philip

    He Climbed the Back Fence: How a Stepfather Slow-Poisoned Philip
    11 Oct 2026
    He Climbed the Back Fence: How a Stepfather Slow-Poisoned Philip

    The first sign was a smell through a back window: coffee gone stale and a wrong, sweet note beneath it - and a twenty-eight-year-old man face-down on his kitchen floor for three days. A red infant glove in a blue speckled bowl, a padlocked back door with a secret code, and a pattern of Tuesday and Thursday visits that coincide with a steady decline in Philip's health - who had the access and motive to turn home-cooked food into a weapon?

    In this episode, we recount the timeline from early fatigue and neuropathy to the discovery of Philip Meyer’s death, following medical tests, cell tower records, and testimony that tie a pesticide found in his meals to a stepfather’s routine visits. How did routine care become a calculated poisoning, and what evidence finally linked the compound to those nightly meals?

    Person: Philip Meyer
    Date: December 11, 2019 (body discovered)
    Location: 4 Birchmont Drive
    Person: Kevin Keller
    Expert: Mike Ostrander, testified January 17, 2020

    - Philip Meyer was 28 years old and had lived alone at 4 Birchmont Drive for three years.
    - Philip lost 22 pounds between fall 2018 and January 2019 while showing fatigue, nausea, and peripheral neuropathy.
    - Cell tower records place Kevin Keller’s phone within half a mile of Birchmont Drive on 12 separate Tuesday and Thursday evenings from August 2018 to December 2019.
    - The padlocked back door at 4 Birchmont Drive was accessible via a combination Keller had received from Sandra Meyer years earlier.
    - Chemist Mike Ostrander testified that the arsenic-based pesticide Keller kept dissolves under heat and binds to fat and salt, consistent with contamination of soups or stews.

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    18 min
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