The Poisoning of George Wythe

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Episode 490 takes place in Richmond, Virginia, 1806. George Wythe signs the Declaration of Independence, teaches Jefferson how to think, and frees his slaves. His grandnephew thanks him with arsenic in the coffeepot. The cook sees everything. The law says her eyes don't count. A Founding Father's murder, and the legal code he built becomes the instrument of his killer's escape.

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