In this episode of Totally Awesome History: The Dark Side, we take a look one of the most famous criminal cases of the 19th Century – the murder of Charles Lafarge by his wife, Marie Lafarge. Although Marie was convicted of poisoning him with arsenic, as we’ll see, all is not what it seems in this case. Was Marie Lafarge a victim or a killer? Watch and decide.

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Sources used:

Borowitz, Albert. Blood and Ink: An International Guide to Fact-Based Crime Literature. Kent State University Press, 2002.

Bowen, Marjorie (writing as Joseph Shearing). The Lady and the Arsenic. First published by Heinemann, London, 1937. Accessed from Project Gutenberg of Australia.

Downing, Lisa. “Murder in the Feminine: Marie Lafarge and the Sexualization of the Nineteenth-Century Criminal Woman.” Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 18, No. 1, Feminine Sexual Pathologies in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Europe, January 2009, pp. 121-137.

Hartman, Mary S. “Crime and the Respectable Woman: Toward a Pattern of Middle-Class Female Criminality in Nineteenth-Century France and England.” Feminist Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1974, pp.38-56.

Hempel, Sandra. The Inheritor’s Powder. Norton, 2013.

Lynch, Martin H. "Analysis of Madame Lafarge’s Trial." Provincial Medical & Surgical Journal, edited by Dr. Hennis Green and Dr. Streeten, No. 2, Vol. I, October 10 1840, London.

McDermid, Val. Forensics. Grove Press, 2014.

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