Mad Science: The Murder of Paul Maasland

Published: Jan. 29, 2021, 8:30 a.m.

b'Michel de Montaigne once wrote that obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness. If today\\u2019s story isn\\u2019t a flawless example of that, then I don\\u2019t think there\\u2019s ever been one. It\\u2019s almost a clich\\xe9 that genius is often tinged with something dark. Geniuses do tend to be obsessive people, and surely by now we true crime fans have seen what obsession can do to human morality. It can squash it like a bug, more or less. In the story we\\u2019re about to tell you, obsessive genius crashes head-on into na\\xefve idealism, and eleven years later, the people who witnessed it are still picking the shrapnel out of their hair.

Sources:
https://torontolife.com/city/todd-howley-the-killer-inside-muskoka/
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/algae-at-centre-of-mysterious-crime/article29578436/
ID\\u2019s \\u201cA Lie to Die For,\\u201d episode \\u201cKiller Inventor\\u201d

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