Podcasts True Crime Let's Go To Court! 137: A Poisoner & A True Douche Canoe

137: A Poisoner & A True Douche Canoe

Published: Aug. 26, 2020, 11:30 a.m.

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Audrey Marie Frazier defies true crime labels. Was she a black widow? Was she a master of disguise? An escape artist? We like to think she was all three! See, ladies? We really can have it all. Audrey was a chronic spender. She never had enough money to support her expensive tastes. So she got creative. She bought life insurance policies, and umm\\u2026. All of a sudden, the people around her got sick. Super sick.
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Then Kristin tells us about John Darwin. This man is a douche canoe if we\\u2019ve ever heard of one. On March 21, 2002, John hopped in his handmade canoe and set out into the North Sea. The waters were calm and he was an experienced canoeist, but John didn\\u2019t show up for work that evening. His wife, Anne, panicked. She called the authorities. Rescue crews worked tirelessly to find John, but all they found was his paddle and the wreckage of his canoe. Don\\u2019t worry about John, though. He was just fine.
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And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
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In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
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An episode of the podcast Redhanded, \\u201cHow Not To Fake Your Death: John Darwin - Canoe Man\\u201d
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\\u201c\\u2018Canoe man\\u2019 John Darwin who faked his own death has extraordinary new life,\\u201d by Emily Retter for The Mirror
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\\u201cCanoe pair lose jail term appeals,\\u201d BBC News
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\\u201cCanoe man\\u2019s \\u2018lover\\u2019: Darwin the Druid is psychotic - and I was terrified of him,\\u201d the London Evening Standard
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\\u201cCanoeist sons \\u2018put through hell,\\u201d BBC News
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\\u201cSea search for missing canoeist,\\u201d BBC News
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\\u201cMissing canoeist admits deception,\\u201d BBC News
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\\u201cAnne Darwin\\u2019s week in court: \\u2018A woman able to lie and deceive at length,\\u201d by David Randall for the Independent
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\\u201cJohn Darwin disappearance case\\u201d entry on Wikipedia
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\\u201cCanoe man and wife jailed for six years,\\u201d by Tom Wilkinson for The Independent
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In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
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\\u201cMarie Hilley: Inscrutable Black Widow\\u201d by Marlee MacLeod, The Crime Library
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\\u201cThe Great Escape Artist\\u201d by Mark Gribben, The Malefactors Register
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\\u201cAlabama Woman Who Poisoned Her Husband And Daughter Dies After Escaping Prison\\u201d by Benjamin H. Smith, oxygen.com\\n
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