This episode includes discussions of murder, child and infant loss, and poisoning.

Consider this when deciding how and when you'll listen.

Walk into any room and you'll probably find someone in deep, deep debt.

Maybe they're young and saddled with student loans,

successful enough to take out a mortgage, or just love online shopping. Others have a car

loan or had to finance a medical emergency. It all has the same end result. A giant, scary number,

four figures, five figures, six figures. To pay it off, you need to make a plan and stick with it.

Today's subject, William Palmer, had a plan, and he stuck with it, to the tune of possibly 10 murders.

Welcome to Serial Killers, a Spotify podcast.

I'm Janice Morgan.

You might recognize me as the voice behind

the investigative docu series Broken

and the True Crime podcast, Fear Thy Neighbor.

I'll be your host for the next few weeks,

and I'm thrilled to be here.

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This is our second episode on Dr. William Palmer, a man whose gambling problem spiraled into at least one murder.

Palmer became infamous in the Victorian era, but was he a serial killer?

Today we'll continue looking into the suspicious deaths that surrounded Palmer, especially his own friends and family,

and see how they compare to his known crime,

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