The Dragnet Radio Podcast #145- The Big Whiff

About this episode

The episode discusses a murder investigation involving chloroform and explores the phenomenon of false murder confessions.

Friday investigates an unidentified woman who is found chloroformed to death! Commentary on real deaths by chloroform. Plus, why people make false murder confessions.

People in this episode

Host: Radio Retropolis

Topics covered

• murder investigation
• chloroform
• false confessions
• crime commentary

Keywords

• Dragnet
• chloroform
• murder
• investigation
• false confessions
• crime
• podcast

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