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The Poisoner's Handbook
2014 · Film · documentary · 112 min
Directed by Rob Rapley
In 1918, New York City hired its first scientifically trained medical examiner, Charles Norris. Over the course of a decade and a half, Norris and his extraordinarily driven and talented chief toxicologist, Alexander Gettler, would turn forensic chemistry into a formidable science, sending many a murderer to the electric chair and setting the standards that the rest of the country would ultimately adopt.
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The Poisoner's Handbook on PBS is a great documentary it mentions lead in gas but also showed police forensic science was developed.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/poisoners/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/poisoners/
The Poisoner's Handbook
The radium portion was especially sad, but fit in quite well with the lead section in american societies willingness to poison people to improve profit.