Season 2 Episode 5: Smoking Gun. Jean Servais Stas, Belgian chemist extraordinaire, finds a way to prove a murder featuring an unusual poison.
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Sources:
Nigel McCrery. Silent Witnesses: The Often Gruesome but Always Fascinating History of Forensic Science.
David E. Newton. Forensic Chemistry.
"Types of Poison." Britannica.
"Jean Servais Stas." Wikipedia.
D. Thorbun Burns, Henrik Deelstra. "Some aspects of the rise of analytical chemistry in Belgium." Analytical Bioanalytical Chemistry.
Deborah Blum. "Nicotine and the Chemistry of Murder." Wired.
Nene Adams. "Hippolyte Visart de Bocarme." Murderpedia.
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