We all know that governments across the world are fighting a seemingly uphill battle to prevent our ever increasing drug importation and its subsequent social problems, but it’s interesting to note that the first International Drug Treaty was signed 100 years ago in 1912.

This article is about two female murderers in Sweden in the 19th century, one of them became the last woman to be executed in Sweden after committing one murder, the other killed 2, one of them her own father yet received life in prison. One seemingly an act of jealousy toward her daughter in law, the other upset over her fathers refusal to allow her to marry.

Arsenic is very widely distributed.

Law, Order and Politics.

It now seems likely that none of these illnesses caused his death, and there is no evidence that anybody did, or tried to, kill him. In 1982, however, more than 160 years after Napoleon’s death, a respected British chemist unearthed evidence that the great man was indeed poisoned – but by a thing, not a person. And that thing may well have been the wallpaper in his house on St. Helena, where the British had exiled Napoleon in 1815.

Another true Victorian murder story from rural England – The tale of Sarah Dazley.