Christiana Edmunds, the Chocolate Cream Killer

Christiana Edmunds was a woman who poisoned or attempted to poison multiple people using strychnine added to chocolates. Was her behavior due to jealousy of her crush’s wife or just a love of mayhem? This story has some similarities to the Tylenol poisonings of the 1980s. Sources and resources: Wikipedia Francisco, S-V; Reina, G. The chemistry of Marchand’s test for strychnine identification, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348205298_The_chemistry_of_Marchand's_test_for_strychnine_identification/fulltext/5ff46a44a6fdccdcb8314194/The-chemistry-of-Marchands-test-for-strychnine-identification.pdf The CrimeWire: https://thecrimewire.com/multifarious/christiana-edmunds-the-chocolate-cream-killer Genealogy Reviews – Family Tree Magazine, https://www.genealogyreviews.co.uk/reviews/article/the-chocolate-cream-killer/ The Gale Review: A blog from Gale International: https://review.gale.com/2017/01/18/a-genteel-murderess-christiana-edmunds-and-the-chocolate-box-poisoning/ Legal and Police News: 20 January 1872. Cover art photo: Christiana Edmunds photo, public domain.