S36 Ep1: Serial Killers in History – Locusta of Gaul: Rome’s Imperial Poisoner

Poison seeped through the marble corridors of ancient Rome—and one woman mixed every drop. In the Season 36 opener of Serial Killers in History , we track Locusta of Gaul , the herbalist-turned-assassin who helped Emperor Nero carve a blood-stained path to power.

What you’ll hear:

• How a captive chemist became the world’s first documented serial killer
• Deadly dinners: the mushroom that felled Emperor Claudius and the draught that doomed Britannicus
• The Senate’s panic and the birth of Rome’s anti-poison laws
• Modern forensic insights that finally decode Locusta’s toxic recipes

Stay to the end for a teaser of Episode 2—Paris’s infamous Affair of the Poisons.

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