Do crime books give murderers ideas…? 🧐 #QI #iPlayer

I the Christie’s book The Pale Horse has anybody read that 1961 wonderful book the murderer uses something called thalium sulfate it’s a colorless odorless tasteless chemical you find it in rat poison and in 1988 a Florida woman died and the police suspected that the Agatha Christie method of murder had taken place her

Neighbor was known to have openly despised her a man called George James Trel and he made the mistake of holding a murder mystery party okay F and the police sent a detective along undercover and she found thalium sulfate in his garage no as well as a copy of the Pale

Horse the book I left the book in the G just feel maybe people shouldn’t like crime because it gives people ideas does it give people ideas do you think like well it obviously do well it does yeah it’s Absolut sorry it is in fact the whole point of what I’ve just been telling

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  2. The murderer was a member of Mensa, the genius club. He put thallium in coke (soda) bottles that the woman's children also drank. The children also got sick but survived.

  6. A similar thing happened in the 90's I believe. A mother murdered her children. A copy of a book by Ann Rule called Small Sacrifices based on a real life murder was found in her home. She had told the cops the story of how her kids were killed almost word for word from the book

  8. Being veerrrryy generous to Tom, there, maybe he was thinking that books won't give you the * initial * push to want to kill someone…..but they can give you tips on how to bump someone off, once you are already so inclined.

  11. Just remember folks, the book gave them an idea on HOW to murder it didn't make them WANT to murder. 😂
    If a book compelled people to do something then surely an Agatha Christie would make you want to solve crimes?

  13. Agatha Christie also "disappeared" once when she found out her husband was going to try and divorce her for his lover.
    Murder mystery author left her car mysteriously on the side of the road and went to hang out at a posh hotel under the mistresses name lololol LIKE A FRIGGIN QUEEN

  16. If I remember correctly, there are also cases where someone has been saved from an attempted murder by repeated poisoning because somebody recognised the symptoms from an Agatha Christie novel.

  18. I assumed this was going to be the UK tea poisoning case inspired by Agatha.

    Also read a nurse had been reading one of her books and because they had been described so well, recognised certain poisoning symptoms in a patient.

  20. I just had an argument with someone the other week, fgorln saying why she watches these crime shows "to learn hoento avoid them" narrative, i argued, it's creepy, didn't have this exact argument, but dam either helped

  22. Never mind the classics, the kids have free access to & are watching all kinds of violent crap these days & have no trouble finding operating instructions for the weapon at hand to role play if the mood takes them. It is not funny.

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