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In 1886, a baffling death in London’s Pimlico district stunned doctors, detectives, and the courts alike. Thomas Edwin Bartlett was found dead—with a fatal quantity of chloroform in his stomach. Yet there was no damage to his throat or windpipe, and no clear way the poison could have been administered.

Suspicion quickly fell on his wife, Adelaide Blanche Bartlett, who was charged with murder in one of the most sensational trials of Victorian England. The prosecution believed she was responsible—but faced an impossible problem: they could not explain how the crime was physically carried out.

Despite intense public scrutiny and dramatic courtroom testimony, Adelaide Bartlett was acquitted. Even the jury admitted their verdict hinged not on innocence, but on the prosecution’s failure to prove how the poisoning occurred.

Was this a perfect crime? A tragic accident? Or one of history’s most ingenious murders?

This video explores the evidence, the trial, and the enduring mystery of The Pimlico Poisoning—a case that still confounds forensic science more than a century later.

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