Christiana Edmunds: The Chocolate Cream Killer

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

History

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In 1871, the seaside town of Brighton, England saw one of the more bizarre cases of the Victorian age play out when a lady of the town, Miss Christiana Edmunds, found her romantic feelings for a local doctor knocked back. As the pain of the unrequited love affair became too much, Christiana attempted and failed to commit murder and then in a perverse effort to clear her name, decided to carry out a mass poisoning campaign. SOURCES Wohl, Anthony S. (1983) Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain. Cambridge: Harvard UP Jones, Kaye (2016) The Case of The Chocolate Cream Killer: The Poisonous Passion of Christiana Edmunds. Pen & Sword History, Barnsley, UK Brighton Gazette (1871) Borough of Brighton, £20 Reward. 17 Aug, 1871. p.4. Brighton Gazette (1871) Alleged Wilful Poisoning. 24 Aug, 1871. p.6. Brighton Gazette (1871) The Alleged Poisoning By Sweets. 29 June, 1871. p.7. Brighton Gazette (1871) Mysterious Death Of A Child - Suspected Poisoning. 15 June, 1871. p.5. (1871) Poisonous Sweets. Clerkenwell News, 24 June, 1871. p.3 (1871) Summary Of This Mornings News. Pall Mall Gazette, 23 June, 1871. p.4. ------ For extended show notes, including maps, links and scripts, head over to darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or via voicemail on: (415) 286-5072 or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/6f7e2pt Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:39.8	In 1871, the seaside town of Brighton, England, saw one of the more bizarre cases of the Victorian age play out when a lady of the town, Miss Christina Edmonds, found her romantic feelings for a local doctor knocked back.
0:57.0	As the pain of the unrequited love affair became too much,
1:00.0	Christina attempted and failed to commit murder and then in a perverse effort to clear her name
1:08.0	decided to carry out a mass poisoning campaign.
1:11.6	The stark histories where the facts are worse than fiction.
1:21.5	Hello and welcome to season 4 episode 10 of Dark Histories. I hope you're all doing very well.
1:28.0	Today's episode is a really fun one or I found it really fun because it was set in my city which is great I think
1:36.8	it's the first dark histories that I've done that's actually been set entirely in my city there's
1:42.3	definitely we've done episodes that have been
1:44.1	sort of around the city and had like elements to do with the city but this one is
1:49.7	fully like immersed in you know where I grew up. It was really interesting for me, like,
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