About this episode

The episode explores the dark turn in a long-standing friendship when one friend allegedly attempts to poison the other.

Janie Lynn Ridd and her roommate Rachel Booth had been best friends for 25 years, but when Rachel began getting mysteriously sick leading to multiple hospitalizations, she discovered that Janie allegedly tried to purchase an extremely dangerous strain of anti-biotic resistant bacteria to poison her with. And even worse, that wouldn’t have been Janie’s first attempt at Rachel’s life over the past year.

People in this episode

Host: Not Today

Topics covered

• friendship
• betrayal
• mystery
• crime
• health

Keywords

• anti-biotic resistant bacteria
• poison
• hospitalizations
• friendship
• betrayal

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